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A warning about possible measles exposure has been issued for the North Attleborough CVS, our media partner WCVB reported.
A person believed to have measles was seen at the Minute Clinic Friday.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island health officials are in the process of contacting people who were there between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. that day.
If you were there and you're not contacted by Monday, state health officials ask that you get in touch with them.
The patient also visited Rhode Island Hospital on Friday, right after the CVS visit, and Roger Williams Medical Center on Feb. 25.
Those hospitals are also notifying patients who may have been exposed.
Anyone who begins to develop symptoms should call their health care provider before visiting an office or emergency room.
Early symptoms occur 10 days to two weeks after exposure and may resemble a cold with fever, cough, runny nose and red eyes.
There is no indication that the North Attleborough incident is related to two cases of measles in the Framingham area.
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well, if it's dida you have in goal, then that's your problem.
well, if it's dida you have in goal, then that's your problem.
Check the last line of the news item...
I might have had a good start to the Blue Square North season, but favourites?
What the feck is an ocker room?
I thought the funny part was the word "soccer".
Are you using an American language set? Maybe this is why, it explains why it refers to it as soccer anyway.
Though, "Ocker room" is not an Americanization of the English "locker room". In fact, if anyone is to drop opening consonants, it might be one of our friends from the British Isles.
...and another misspelling, see if you can spot it!
As it's the option that you've got selected that has the spelling error, it isn't that hard to spot.
I've reported them for you, hopefully they won't be around next time!
That's what you get from calling Football soccer, ...
http://data.fuskbugg.se/skalman01/nicename.jpg best name ever
Got this message after storming out of the screenshot, genius title, how the game worked it out is brilliant.
One of my defenders can't control himself. I'm not letting him play another match.
What's his aggression?
Yes Gianluca, there are not many players in North America for you to scout, but I'm sure you can find new ones every week:
Would you scout other clubs if you could spend all your time in Miami? (On a side note, buy Agbossoumonde, he was a beast in my game)
He has been reborn!
Glad I dont have to play them, I wouldnt stand a chance.
I'm not one for stereotypes, but..
I was going to say a joke here but decided not to.
not really funny just class...
I have shown this one in a thread I started for the best newgen names on FM10 but I may as well add him here.
sounds portuguese :confused: lol well spotted
Dual National.
yeah i guessed as much
Curious... Gary appears to have forgotten how to speak English. A bit alarming, given he's my captain!
Couldn't believe this when I saw it...my scouts looked at him on my Leicester/EKFC game.
Has Sturridge played AMR at all IRL?
I have an eastonian in my current save called Ant Hurt.
There is more than one Everton in the world.
Can anyone name a team that plays in red and gets lucky goals deep into injury time? Hint: It begins with M...
Damn you Tsar Alexei Ferguson!
He sure likes a lot of people, considering he's only 18 and never even met anyone but the first two.
@ morsy: Who is he?
@ x42nb6: No, they're all managers. The first is for his national team, the second is me. The rest are managers from teams in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Slovenia and Swiss
@ Koki: He's a regen from Reunion
Were they praising him in the past trying to lure him into signing for them? Often all it takes it's to praise a player once and you're their favoured personnel.
maybe they were trying to lure him into other things XD
@ Bhoy!: Could be, I really don't remember. At least that would be an explanation
Not as great as the performance by KSVK on the first page, but Stuttgart II were pretty amazing as well
@ morsy: good achievement with Hürth there! Did you start in the Verbandsliga with them?
Yeah, I finally want to see Hürth in the Champions League
I have seen "Gay is in awe of Dick" or something like that. Unfortunately I didn't think to take a screenshot.
I think we need to work on our penalty taking in training...
Sengen Salli has been sacked 7 times at one club...
I read that somebody saw this but didn't screen it...so I found out..
Wait? What? I can't score against 10 men with 11, so I get three sent off and manage to score 3 goals? :confused:
Good job I was Derby, I'd have had a fit if I was Porto
How come all 3 got sent off at the same time?
The first guy hacked someone down with 2 feet so he got a straight red, the other 2 guys were on a yellow and complained to the ref....who had more balls than most and gave them their second yellows for that :o
Capello and Rehhagel discover time travel:
Italian teams are so bad on British soil, its getting embarrasing for them.
Is this the most biggest upset in European history??
I wouldn't mind playing for that club
Hell, they should be attracting all types of superstars lol
fan on the pitch?
Opposition goalkeeper would be my guess
Nope, actually its one of my players... when he got injured, he changed his shirt, never seen this bug before...
Nor have I, thats a bizarre bug indeed lol
Perhaps he thought the "injured" sign wasn't obvious enough to show he was hurting, so changed his shirt to be "a bit different" lol
Maybe his shirt turned red, because he has a really bad injury and is bleeding.
A personal favourite of mine:
47 dead-ball situations for me alone... Those corner animations got boring reaaaaaly fast!
And, no... I haven't scored once from corners or free-kicks. It boggles the mind, I tell you.
Results between teams is the first method used to separate level teams in the Champions League, rather than Goal Difference.

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On Wednesday and Friday, Valve Corp. unveiled some of its plans for living room
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I. The (Non)Launch of Steam Boxes Adds to Mystery
On Wednesday, Valve teased Steam Boxes and announced a beta testing program, which
will give away 300 free consoles
to testers who complete a basic set of requirements involving the Steam game distribution network and assorted paperwork:
Notably Valve did not show off any actual hardware on Wednesday, despite being rumored to be working with 15 to 20 top PC makers on Steam Boxes. This is not entirely surprising, given that Valve's intention for some time now has been to ship the Steam Boxes sometime in 2014. Valve writes:
Entertainment is not a one-size-fits-all world. We want you to be able to choose the hardware that makes sense for you, so we are working with multiple partners to bring a variety of Steam gaming machines to market during 2014, all of them running
The biggest mystery is what exactly is
the some 15 to 20 Steam Box designs Valve has commissioned. Quasi-CEO Gabe Newell had previously
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Regardless, we should get solid information on the spec shortly as units trickle out to beta testers at the end of next month.
II. A Gamepad for RTS? Valve Thinks So!
On Friday Valve showed off something a bit more substantial -- the Steam controller. Rumored for months via Valve's patent filings, the new controller toes the line between a Microsoft Corp. (
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One highlight of the controller is its twin "trackpads", circular thumb areas which are clickable.
Valve claims the trackpads rival the resolution of a gaming mouse -- a pretty impressive feat for a gamepad, if true. The trackpads also feature a unique form of force feedback. Valve explains:
Trackpads, by their nature, are less physical than thumbsticks. By themselves, they are "light touch" devices and don't offer the kind of visceral feedback that players get from pushing joysticks around. As we investigated trackpad-based input devices, it became clear through testing that we had to find ways to add more physicality to the experience. It also became clear that "rumble", as it has been traditionally implemented (a lopsided weight spun around a single axis), was not going to be enough. Not even close.
The Steam Controller is built around a new generation of super-precise haptic feedback, employing dual linear resonant actuators. These small, strong, weighted electro-magnets are attached to each of the dual trackpads. They are capable of delivering a wide range of force and vibration, allowing precise control over frequency, amplitude, and direction of movemen
Valve claims that the controllers are so responsive they can even act as tiny speakers.
The controller also features, as hinted at above, a central touchscreen, which Steam says will allow unique functions via an API it's offering developers (think hotkeys). The controller has four other hardware buttons on the front face, and two "portal" buttons on the shoulders, which typically execute a mouse click action.
Valve is seeking beta testers for early wired versions of the controllers. Later versions will be wireless.
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Developers who tested the controller seemed relatively pleased with its design in interviews compiled by
. Fredrik Wester, CEO and president of Paradox Interactive, said in his brief time with the controller, he found it very easy to learn, relating, "I have used the controller for about 20 minutes for a third-person game and it took me about five minutes to learn, and then it felt natural."
And Ichiro Lambe, Dejobaan Games president, comments, "It feels comfortable, yet different from anything I've used before...Within five minutes of picking it up, I went from newbie to controlling an FPS camera better than I'd ever done with a gamepad."
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One minor gripe he has is the lack of hard physical limits to your motion. He remarks, "I think analog sticks are better at defining boundaries -- for instance, I can mash a stick forward as far as I physically can, and I know I'm going to walk forward as quickly as I can. I just can't push it forward any further. The trackpads require more finesse; my thumbs will have to learn where to stop."
Valve is claiming that the controller with open up gamepad real-time strategy (RTS) -- an ambitious target that's never been fully achieved on the PC. Sega (Sammy Holdings Inc. (
)) VP John Clark, has perhaps the best advice of all, reminding the masses not to get too worked up and judge the controller prematurely -- be it good or bad. He comments, "[Remember], it's a prototype and the purpose of the beta is for the developers to experiment."
Valve -- who gets most of its revenue from PC gamers -- has indeed stoked the interest of
the anti-Windows 8 crowd
who are eyeing this Linux as a possible alternative. But there are still more question than answers -- "Where's
Half Life 3
?", "What's the hardware in the boxes?" "How many premium game developers will use Valve's Steam Controller API?"
Wed. and Friday brought no
Half Life 3
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Unless it has access to a more broad-based streaming service than netflix--at a similar price...
Unless it is offering me the option to sell used games to other players using this device...
Unless it is going to provide all software updates/patches for ALL games bought/sold via steam, not just certain ones or newer ones (i.e. Fallout 3 GOTYE is no longer FAIL)...
Then no, no I'm not interested. I was gung-ho over Virtual Console on the Wii, but came to be sorely disappointed because of developers hoarding their content and not releasing it. I've been sorely disappointed with Netflix for similar reasons. I still have both, and still use both--but I'm not happy. Steam having a boatload of content doesn't do jack-squat for me if I have to track down obscure fixes for software to make it work.
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2 teaspoons minced fresh oregano

½ cup coarsely chopped fresh basil

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I have been working as a maintenance programmer for a couple of years and am wondering if there is such a thing as a raise for maintenance programmer? I ask because responsibilities don't get wider, you're still doing almost the same things, maybe a little faster as time passes. If it's possible, then what would be the path to get it?
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It's difficult to answer this question because a lot depends on:
Essentially, you should be able to expect cost of living/inflation increases. Despite the name, they usually increase more slowly than inflation.
Assuming your company has merit increases or bonuses, which is what the three bullet points are about, increasing your odds of getting a slice of the merit pie will boil down to the following:
Bottom line, if your company doesn't or can't do merit increases or spot bonuses for good work, it doesn't matter what you do at that company. However, when you do change jobs (an inevitability, not advice for the situation), the other company usually will have preference for people who add value and can get inside the head of their clients. That will influence the starting pay they will consider giving you.
I think it is reasonable to expect raises in line with inflation at least. It is also more than reasonable to expect raises reflecting your increased experience and knowledge of the products you are maintaining. However without changing job roles (and this is true for anyone I feel), be it to a new company, or with the same one, you are not going to get large raises.
In any case, in any vocation, the way to pursue a raise is to pursue excellence in your craft, and to strive to provide the greatest value to your employer.
For the maintenance programmer this means that you strive to makes things better, whatever things are within your control. Even when no new functionality is required, you can make the code better, more readable, more maintainable.
Of course, your manager won't look at your code, but the goal is to reduce the cost of change, and reduce the defects introduced with changes.
Look at the worst part of the system, get tests that cover all of the desired behavior, and then refactor until it's understandable and easily modifiable.
For more details, check out the following:
Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers
In a lot of companies, the only way is to leave and go somewhere else. This will either a) result in a higher salary elsewhere or b) a counter offer in recognition of your value.
Assuming that you are getting better at your job - finding problems more quickly, implementing fixes that don't cause additional problems, and generally making the application better then you have a good argument for a raise above and beyond "cost of living".
If you can point to any specific things you've done that will help. These could include (for example):
Show where you've added value to the company.
Accepting a role at a company should never mean that you agree to never get a raise. Who on earth would ever accept a position like that but the least qualified or most needy? Certainly an employer would prefer to get maximum output from their employee and never provide any raise; the opposite is also true: the employee would like to get as much money as possible while giving as little time and energy as possible - this gives rise to economic terms such as equilibreum, etc.
In the end, if an employer is interested in keeping an employee, they will provide incentives to stay. Ask for the raise. If your employer does not feel that you deserve it, they will deny your request. If they don't value you enough, then you move on, and find some better use for your time.
Innocent question. In these days of competitiveness, if you do what is expected, you are at the mercy of your superiors. Think it is wrong. Think again. It really isn't bad. Your urge to 'whatever', be it a pay rise or better recognition will force you do something different constantly, thus bettering yourself continuously. It is this that changed my life for better and frankly I'm not satisfied with what I'm today. There are miles and miles to go, before I sleep :)
Heck, how can I be different? First thing, measure your current delivery metrics in terms of speed, volume and quality (that can be measured or experienced). See how better you can improve your delivery metrics. This alone can be the differentiator. Wish you good luck!
The rule is the same for all jobs: you'll always get a bigger raise by moving to another company.
Why? In part, because you can keep turning down offers that are 2% over your current salary, or 4% over your current salary. In part, because the incentives are different for the two employers--one wants to pay the least that will keep you from leaving, the other who wants to pay you enough to make you switch.
I would say yes it is possible. You have to sell yourself to your employer and show them your value to the company.
Because you are maintaining their software, you have a knowledge of the codebase that someone new doesn't have. If something were to go wrong, you have the experience and expertise to fix the issue. You as you gain more experience, you get faster at fixing issues which will affect the company's bottom line.
This sort of knowledge and experience they can't just get from a new hire, it's something you've gained from working with the system and knowing the software.
You just need to sit down with your boss/manager and discuss the issue and sell yourself.
You're only going to get a raise depending on what is going on at your company and the surrounding job market. Maintenance contacts can be very profitable for a company or you may be working on a project the company intends to cancel.
An application will barely exceed in complexity with your ability to manage it.
Don't ask for a raise. Ask for more responsibility. The raise will follow.
Your rate is what you negotiate when you first interview for a job. Speaking from personal experience, raises have not netted more money in the same way that new jobs have.
You need to start thinking in terms of labor economics (supply and demand).
When you believe your labor (your education, experience, skills,
While you are trying to assess the labor market for your particular skill-set, you will observe that other skill-sets (experience with particular software packages, programming paradigms, etc) are "in demand". By "in demand", I mean that there are a lot of jobs posted for those skill sets with rates considerably higher than what you're getting.
This is called doing a labor market survey.
You need to find what the most "in demand" skill sets are. Make a spreadsheet with the skill sets you encounter on job boards (indeed.com, dice.com, monster.com)
Next to each skill set, list the count of jobs currently advertised (in your local area radius if you're not willing to move).
Go down the list and research each skill set. You may find that a lot of the skill sets that are "in demand" happen to require proprietary software that you have no access to (i.e. costs lots of money, you need to enroll in an expensive training course). Write down the investment required (time and money) for you to acquire each skill set in your skill-set "market survey" spreadsheet.
You may want to avoid skill sets requiring an unreasonable investment.
Find the best skill sets (most jobs, best rates, least investment on your part) and go about learning these on your own while keeping your current job.
Then apply for jobs and interview. You can schedule multiple interviews during vacation days. Be prepared to drive a lot, be prepared to be thoroughly grilled on the newly learned skill set and be prepared for rejection. Don't give up.
If you do get a new job after interviewing, you will have a good bargaining position with your current employer.
You can start thinking of your current employer as your "client #2" and your new employer as your "client #1"
Ask for a raise at your current job to match the hourly rate you negotiated for at the new job. Be polite but strong. If they nix the raise (the rule, not the exception) politely give 2 weeks' notice. You may get called in for an exit interview. Explain your position and let them know that you are happy to do maintenance work on the side/part-time, at your new hourly rate.
If they ask you back full time for more money than your new job, politely refuse their offer. More often than not, this is their ploy to get you to stay long enough to train your replacement.
Again, be polite but strong. Do not explode. Do not burn bridges. Client #2 may still need you and you can make some nice money forking for them part time or telecommuting for a while.
Keep repeating the above recipe until you feel that you have "topped out". You "top out" when you no longer have more money to gain from learning a new skill set.
Be prepared to work long hours and to negotiate a lot. Your clients (#2,#3,#4,#5,...) will have a lot of work for you to do.
P.S.: Never train your replacement.
What it boils down to is that you need to apply market rules to your situation.


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Q: At what age do you think a teen should start dating? I'm 14 and my parents let me date. But I was just wondering if dating at such an early age will hurt me in any way.
A: Your question leads me to think that you are not comfortable with dating at 14. I am presuming you are going out by yourself with one other person. Do your parents have rules about the dating? Have you talked with them about the whole idea and how you feel? Maybe you should consider hanging out with a mixed group (boys and girls) of friends and going to movies, swimming, sporting events, bike rides, etc. so that you can develop skills in relating to all kinds of people.
Can dating hurt you? Possibly. If you do not feel comfortable talking with someone you don't know well, you may come to feel inadequate. If you have to deal with situations that are filled with sexual pressure, you could either give in to your partner's wishes -- or feel guilty or withdraw from feeling anything -- and that can be just as bad. At 14, dating activities are pretty limited to movies or riding around in a car (if your date is old enough to drive). For this and a lot of other reasons, I usually encourage teens to wait until at least 16 or older until they feel really comfortable and meet someone they want to know better as a friend and a romantic partner.
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from NRA-ILA: http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=3593Friday, February 29, 2008
Governor Tim Kaine (D) is currently considering two critically important self-defense bills (Senate Bill 476 and Senate Bill 436) that recently passed both chambers of the General Assembly.
SB476, authored by State Senator Emmett Hanger (R-24), allows restaurant owners to decide whether or not they will allow concealed carry permit holders to carry a firearm for self-defense while dining in their restaurants. SB436, authored by State Senator Jill Vogel (R-27), allows law-abiding citizens who do not possess a permit to carry to store a handgun in a locked compartment or container in their vehicle or boat.
Please contact Governor Kaine today at (804) 786-2211 and strongly encourage him to protect your right to self-defense by signing SB476 and SB436!
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Please take notice that plaintiff Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") respectfully dismisses all of its claims, without prejudice, against John Does 1-10 a/k/a "viodentia." Microsoft was unable to locate these defendants through discovery and therefore could not serve them with process.
quote: You and I may dislike DRM, RIAA, DCMA, etc., but breaking copyright laws doesn't solve anything. Withholding purchase - now that has the power to change the market.
quote: right and wrong have nothing to do with law, they are just moral concepts


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I have installed ApacheTomcat6.0 and when i am trying to access http:\\localhost:8080 using my IE its is asking for username and password.I have tried many combinations but no result.can u help me...
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Use // instead of \\
Originally Posted by shabbirUse // instead of \\
I tried it..but again it is asking for usename and password!!!
I know thats its default port for Tomcat......but are you sure about the port which is assigned in your installation....


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Myths about assault weapons
An otherwise intelligent friend of mine launched a recent Facebook rant against "weapons that automatically feed bullets and can fire 100 rounds per second. I just don't get why the Average Joe needs one. Can you explain it to me?" I couldn't, I admitted. But I could explain that there is no hand-held gun in the world that fires that fast.


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Saudi Arabia's ports handled 141 tons of incoming and outgoing cargo in 2007, excluding crude oil, according to a report by the Saudi Ports Authority.
Exports in 2007 amounted to 83.5 tons, or 59 percent of the total. The majority of the exports were refined petroleum products, petrochemicals and industrial materials.
Imports made up some 57.5 tons of the total cargo, or 41 percent. The most significant imports were foodstuffs, construction, raw materials and consumer goods.
Saudi ports moved around 4.2 million standard containers in 2007, a major increase over the 1.49 million moved in 2006.
As of the end of FY 2007, Saudi Arabia has invested $10.1 billion [SR 38 billion] in its port system, establishing eight ports with 184 quays that can accommodate the largest ships in the world. The total private sector investment in the Saudi port system has reached more than $1 billion [SR 4 billion].
More than half of Saudi Arabia's sea traffic passes through the Islamic Port of Jeddah, one of the main ports in the Middle East. Other major commercial ports are located in Dammam, Jizan, Jubail, Dhiba, as well as the industrial cities in Yanbu and Jubail. A ninth port planned for Ras Al-Zour is expected to facilitate the mining industry.


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What kind of apples do you use for an apple pie?
I use a combination of Macintosh and Granny Smith. Tried Jonagold and Granny Smith and it was too tart. Also do a crumb topping.
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I use a combination of McIntosh, Rome, Granny Smith, and Golden Delicious with an added touch of grated lemon zest, a hint of vanilla, grated nutmeg, ginger, and cinnamon, sugar, and with a healthy few tablespoons of melted salted butter poured over the filling right before the top goes on.
@lavikinga: that sounds good. I use sugar and cinnamon on the apples; flour, butter and sugar on the topping.
Mrs. Smith's. I'm lazy.
@lavikinga: Do you deliver to Kansas?
@barnabee: For the price of a plane ticket, I'll come bake a pair of pies in your own little oven. Seriously, there is something about the combination of those spices, lemon zest, and butter that pulls the apples, sugar (and a tablespoon of flour) all together. If the apples aren't very tart, I'll squeeze some lemon juice in there too.
@lavikinga: I think I can smell the pies baking :)
My son's cooking specialty is deep dish apple pie. He makes it from scratch, crust and all, and it is excellent (he makes way better pie crust than I ever made). He is making two pies for Thanksgiving as I type. We use Braeburn apples picked fresh from the tree in our yard. Crisp, juicy and tart-sweet - just right for pie.
I'm going to make my pies with mostly granny smiths and a few jonagolds. I like a good tart pie. Thankfully, I had my mom give me pie lessons before I moved to Seattle.
I used cortlad and Macs this year - it worked out well.
When I don't feel like a total slacker, I use this painfully simple and heavenly delicious all-butter crust recipe from SimplyRecipes.com. It goes together like magic and only needs a few hours to chill in your refrigerator.
It can be used for sweet pies or for your savory recipes. I stumbled across it last year and it's now my go-to crust recipe.
I like to use macintosh. They cook down a little soft almost chunky applesauce sometimes. They are my favorite for eating and I test all the apples as I slice them. I go heavy on the cinnamon and a sprinkle of fructose sugar.
I do my own crust with flour, crisco, salt and water. It is close to the all-butter one posted above to make but I do not use a machine and I use mine as soon as it is mixed. Unless I over knead it, I get nice flaky crust.
Now I want to go make one. Pie is one of my favorites both making and eating. I am not cooking for tommorow. I am visiting and will make a turkey in a week or so. I did do an apple pie last weekend but it did not last long.
@maggie3052: I have to agree. I'm more of a Mrs. Smith > Granny Smith kind of guy. @lavikinga: I'm on your way to Kansas...can you bring one to go and drop it off? (•‿•)
@jsimsace: Sure, but you'll have to deal with eating something that TSA might have stuck their nasty little fingers into to check for exploding apples.
The @lavikinga combination sounds good; I try to get a mix of at least five, with two traditional baking apple varieties, Rome and another as a base.
Have any of you tried Honeycrisps in pie? Last few years they were super sweet and crisp. This year, the crops have been so poor.


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BA topic de jour, a great question for many reasons and worth taking a step back and considering – it may keep you sane….
Why I play at all…
Back when I was young, it was practically socially acceptable (here in Oz anyway) to (binge) drink and drive – even if not legally acceptable.
Times have changed and "all my friends are getting married, yeah they're all growing old. They all staying home on the weekends, they're all doing what their told…." (Skyhooks reference for the Aussies). Not only that but we all seem to have picked a compass point of Melbourne (or Australia in general) and moved – each move seems to put greater physical distance than the last.
So online games, particularly WoW, have enabled a continued social life with progressively more distant friends, without the risk of a run in with the pigs (not talking polymorph spell here).
Real Life commitments also effect the ability for regular catchups at "the local". Nearly all my friends are "married with children", two of them getting the first of their litter in the last month. Thus virtual encounters are much more likely.
My sales pitch to my wife…
I had to sell the concept of me playing WoW to my wife… she knew I was gaining a mistress in the form of the game, so I had to sell it… here's my sales pitch.
I could…
- Go to the pub with my mates every Friday for 6 hours.
- Spend $100 each night
- Get blind drunk and incapacitated for 2 days.
- Risk loosing my license
- Pick up chicks at the bar (or at least ogle them through my beer goggles)
- Stay at home on a Friday night with my family – while catching up with my mates online.
- Spend $20 a month on a subscription and $10 a week on a six-pack.
- Wake up a little tired on Saturday morning, but otherwise be ready for action.
- Only risk the computer chair.
- Pick up virtual chicks… who most likely will be my mates playing female toons.
That's the sales pitch that allowed me to play WoW.. but I think I had her at "Hoooonnnneeey…."
There are other diversions of course – TV etc… but I like the interactive, semi-scripted, progressive-yet never ending concept of WoW. I can achieve something while communicating with humans and interacting with bits & bytes.
I'm a one-game-man and that game is WoW. I don't have any slack in my RL schedule or finances to pick up additional side activities – the rest of my life is devoted to my family, or supporting them. So that's why I WoW vs the multitude of other options.
Looking a little deeper…
Why PvE and not PvP?
Pretty simple really. I know I suck at 1st person shooters and my BG escapades are a nice sideline – but I wouldn't want them to be the norm. This is a leisure activity and can be frustrating enough – why make it harder? Ohh and I guess my mates had not interest in PvP server… and I cam catching up with my mates remember…
Deeper Still…
Why I play the various content.
Arrgggh, well I don't if I can help it. Well maybe for the occasional recipe or Basilisk meat, but even that now I prefer to source off the AH. I hate rep & xp grinds but cope with them as an evil necessity.
Generally I enjoy quests. I think I miss most of the story line (err sorry, Lore) just because I tend to be cramming as much as possible. But I find they are a great device for exploring the world – well with the exception of those designed to make you explore the world – you know the ones – "take x item to y npc in z zone" – Yeah whatever, already been there…
I love, or at least used to love, 5 mans. The used to is because our group of 5 mates is now a group of 7.. so who sits out? My primary objective is to play with mates, so some of the shine has gone from instances. Still, I like the limitation of making do with the classes you have. You can just feel some instances are made for a different mix – but you just have to do it.
I love the Chaos – particularly in 25 mans. So much going on. Not knowing which way to duck or dive. Of course, there is also that feeling when the boss finally goes down.
I would like to say that loot is just another enabler and I am not a loot-whore, but I do love researching the best and hunting it down. I love the feeling of winning a piece with a roll of "7". I love looking at it offline, feeling proud that I got it and my spell damage has gone from 0 to 1,000.. and still counting. Of course I love imaging how I will one-shot Nightbane solo now that I have an extra +5 spell damage… never seems to happen though.
I love PvP, but I love having the choice of when to PvP and pick the location and form. Thus my preference for PvE servers and BGs. I like the BGs and their 1st person capture the x feel. There is a definite objective and it can be achieved. I don't mind i it lasts 10 minutes or 2 hours, it's all fun and afterwards I can go back to my carebear lifestyle.
So why I WoW…
- To be with my mates while staying legal and yet close to my family.
- To experience the whole gamut of the game – maybe not the deep (top) end, but definitely the breadth it has to offer.
So when I get itchy about not achieving x, y, z I remember why I WoW, and realize I have already and continue daily to experience my "end game" wishes.
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I'm a CS student and like many future software engineers, I have to learn a lot about data structures and algorithms (knowing them and also knowing how to implement them). I find that after I learn+implement an algorithms I tend to forget it rather quickly. This also goes for more complex data structures.
I find it frustrating having to re-read my notes every couple of weeks trying to fill the holes. I'd like some tips from people who were in my situation on how to better remember the things I learn.


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Man i heard that sonic was gonna be one of the characters and i think that this game is gonna be huge its gonna be even better than halo 3
Better, yes. But bigger than halo 3 no. Halo has a MUCH huger fanbase than smash.


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Jerry O'Neal, who served as White County sheriff from 1990 until 2002, announced at this month's White County Democrats meeting he will once again seek election for the office of sheriff.
The election will be held in November 2014. The current sheriff, Republican Doug Maier, said earlier this week he would soon make an announcement on whether or not he will seek reelection.
O'Neal told his fellow Democrats at the meeting he enjoyed his time as sheriff and would once again like to have the opportunity to serve the people of White County.
Kari Starks, a long time employee in the White County Treasurer's Office, is expected to seek election to succeed current White County Treasurer Denise Burnett, who has said she will retire in 2014.
White County Clerk Paula Dozier, who has served since 1986, has said she will soon make an announcement concerning her plans concerning whether or not she will seek reelection.
The Democrats met at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the White County Courthouse. Present for the meeting were committeemen Tom Scates, Kari Starks, Kern Doerner, Razor Johnson, Mark Blake, Jim Taylor and Riley Matz.
Guests included Paula Dozier, Mike Knight, Mike Ray, Kelly Fulkerson and Jerry O'Neal.
The work schedule for the fair was given out and discussed. All committeemen were asked to meet at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 28, to help set up the booth. The Democrats will offer popcorn and sell soda and water again this year at the fair.
They also discussed the donation of prizes by the elected officials that will be given away at the fair. Ideas for upcoming fundraisers were discussed. The meeting was adjourned with plans to meet again at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 30, White County Fair.
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We know penalties from zones do not stack, but the rules appear to be silent about overlapping damaging effects.
If I'm in two zones that each do 15 fire damage, how much damage do I take?
Yes. Damage stacks. This has been clarified for overlapping auras and I don't see why it would not also apply for area effects.
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text: SF/F writers often write about geniuses, so this draft of an article soon going onto my Web site may be useful to you. Real Geniuses: What are they Like? Recently I had lunch with a former colleague from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. This is a large research and engineering facility built on a hillside in Pasadena, California, less than a mile from the Rose Bowl stadium and sports park. We fell to chatting about our favorite movies and TV programs, among them Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory. Both of which we find still funny the Nth time around, unusual among sitcoms and movies. Big Bang Theory follows four geniuses who work at CalTech, the California Institute of Technology. It manages JPL and thus we ourselves had shared the same rarefied intellectual and physical space of the four characters. We tried to recall examples of the brilliant scientists and engineers we'd known who were similar to the four. We had only small success, despite having known some fairly colorful characters. The reason is simple. Real geniuses usually don't resemble their stereotypes. What ARE they like? Here is the answer. Physical Bright and brilliant people come in all shapes and sizes and looks. A statistical diagram of most measures (such as height, strength, weight) would show the bell-shaped curve familiar to most of us. Most curves of geniuses lean slightly toward the right, associated with greater height, muscularity, and healthiness. In other words, geniuses are slightly more fit than the average population. The reason is obvious once you give it a bit of thought. The brain is one of several organs; it's part of a whole. If it works well, it's partly because it's (for example) well supplied with blood. Major advances in any art or science also require their creators to work hard and long, and that's helped by a strong, healthy body. Don't despair, however, if you cherish the belief that "nerds" and "geeks" look weird and scrawny and maybe downright ugly. Statistics ensures that your prejudice can find SOME examples. But beware using those epithets around brilliant people. Some of them are quite large and easy to offend! Emotional The principals of The Big Bang Theory are all emotionally stunted, childlike. Which is why so many of their antics are funny. (The same is true of A Modern Family; some of the children are more mature than the adults.) Again, this is unlike most geniuses, who show the same distribution of most emotional traits as the rest of us. But there are several ways the stereotype approaches truth. To achieve greatly in any field you have to be fairly optimistic, at least about the chances of success in your field. Where success might yield any of several rewards: money, fame and respect, sex, freedom. You have to be open to change and newness. Though like most of us geniuses often resist it at first. But if you suggest a change or a new idea, AND THEN LEAVE THEM ALONE, often after a time the suggestion will sink in and the next thing you know they are enthusiastically selling the idea to you. You have to be stubborn. Great success depends on Edison's "1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." You have to like or even need solitude. A genius needs a dearth of distractions to get their best thinking done. Social "Nerds" are stereotypically socially inept. Again, more often geniuses have a wide distribution of social skills. But here the bell-shaped curve leans more to the right, to great skill. Because bright people better understand the need for others to their success and happiness. And they better understand how to get it, whether "it" is funds for their work, permission to get and use equipment or aides or material, or any other resource. You will never meet a more charming con artist than a scientist who wants more time on a multi-million dollar particle accelerator! Geniuses can be social magnets. They are often powerful in their fields, witty, and able to bend their minds to understanding you. Which can be immensely attractive. But also dangerous, because they can be very manipulative. They also bore easily. Many a beautiful woman or gorgeous man have had their hearts broken by a suddenly cold lover. Mental Stereotypes of brilliant people assume they have perfect memory. Wrong. A perfect memory is a handicap. Someone with a perfect memory literally may not recognize their son in the evening because in that short time the son grew noticeable stubble. This made him look like a stranger. Geniuses instead have an excellent "forgetter." This improves their ability to see the shape of important matters because it suppresses unimportant details. This process is called abstraction, because it abstracts out the important matters. All good thinkers know this process. This is why smart people may put aside a problem overnight or longer, because the fading of memory often gives us a better perspective on the problem. A study of chess masters showed that they do not have superior raw memory. Instead they almost literally see patterns of pieces such as "forks": where a piece threatens two opponent pieces, forcing the opponent to sacrifice one of them. Chess masters also sense larger patterns, as when a match has gone from the begin-game to mid-game to end-game. Different tactics are required in those different phases of the game. This ability to find general patterns is crucial for anyone doing intellectual tasks. What bright people do have, rather than a superior memory for information, is a superior ability to FIND information. They are virtuosos in the library and on the internet - and when questioning people about some matter. Great detectives have this ability to great degree. The genius stereotype also credits them as super calculators. But true geniuses don't need to burden their minds with this ability when a $4 disposable calculator will do the job. Math geniuses also have the ability mentioned earlier to find patterns. They may thus be able to just glance at a page of numbers and say "Something doesn't look right" - though they can't say what until they can study the page better. Or more likely give that study to some lesser or less-experienced mind while they go on to more important matters. Madness and genius Madness and genius are sometimes said to be alike. Studies have shown there is some truth to this idea. But what the studies rarely show is that the two are also very un-alike. And how they are different. Both schizophrenics and creative people may have visual and auditory "hallucinations" and a feeling of disconnection from the present reality. The differences are two. One, the creative artist or scientist or engineer knows that their experience comes from within, rather than from God or other supernatural source which is giving them commands or esoteric knowledge. More important, the highly creative are in control. They learn to squelch or amplify their fantasies and direct them to suit their ends. An artist or writer "seeing" a scene that does not exist can paint or verbalize the scene. They can also use several scenes to make a larger whole, such as a tapestry or a story. They can increase the flow of imagery and sound using several techniques which artists and knowledge workers have invented over the years. Or suppress it if needed. Or re-direct it as needed. This means what? Stereotypes both capture and badly distort essential truths. Thus they make us believes that geniuses are somehow not human. The reverse is true. They are as much part of the human race as the rest of us. In fact, in the above descriptions chances are that any number of times you have recognized some of the traits of genius in you yourself.


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Alcohol use survey shows ups and downs
CSB/SJU Health Promotion, along with campus peer health groups, has been publicizing the effects alcohol consumption has on men and women. According to the 2013 Alcohol and Other Drug Use Survey, drinking rates at CSB/SJU have been trending down over the last decade.
Student jobs available for spring semester
The Student Employment Office has posted numerous job openings for spring semester. The upcoming spring work season offers students the chance to explore additional options and to experience life working at CSB/SJU. Working on campus is a responsibility, but the advantages that follow are worth it.
Career Services encourages students to make the most of winter break
Have you heard a Bennie or Johnnie talk about how strong the alum connection is for CSB/SJU? On Nov. 6 the CSB/SJU network was in action when 197 alums came back to campus for the sixth annual Career EXPO; the alums spent the day talking with students, sharing their expertise and providing advice. Our alums feel a strong connection and commitment to CSB/SJU and continue to be a resource and mentor to students as they engage in career exploration.
On Nov. 13, we came together and made something amazing happen for deserving young women. More than 780 donors contributed $240,539 to College of Saint Benedict during our $100K in a day challenge. That's a lot of scholarship help. We are grateful and extraordinarily impressed. It was the largest single-day of online giving in our 100-year history. From all of us at CSB, especially our students, thank you.
Holiday happenings at the CSB/SJU bookstores
Save on items throughout our stores at several events this holiday season. Visit our website this holiday season to see an updated listing of events and activities at the CSB/SJU Bookstores.
CSB culinary services gift packs
Any of our gift packs would make a delightful study break treat. Click the link above and celebrate your students' success by ordering today. CSB gift packs can be ordered any time throughout the year.


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People are always kissing me, and more often than not they've got garlic breath, which really gets my mood down. Is there any way of preventing people from kissing me?
You probably know this already, but those players are attempting to complete the early quest Spread the Garlic Love. There's currently no way to block these types of 'social' player to player interactions globally, and given the nature of the game I doubt there will be one any time soon.
Instead, since this is a relatively early quest, you might want to simply avoid areas where new players start, or move to less crowded areas. Other than changing your username to "Stop kissing me" I doubt there will be a better way to prevent this, so I suppose you should just take this as part of the game's humor and go along with it. The mood loss is fairly small anyway, and you won't suffer any penalty until your mood drops below the half way point.


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Is there a smooth compact manifold with rational homology vanishing except in dimensions $0, 8, 16$ where it is $Q$? What would be a good strategy to find such a manifold?
The following paper might be of interest: Rational Analogs of Projective Planes by Zhixu Su.
It discusses the following question: For which $n$ is there a closed $2n$-manifold $M$ with rational cohomology $H^*(M; \mathbb{Q}) \cong \mathbb{Q}[x]/x^3$ with $x$ of degree $n$? Observe that the multiplicative structure is essentially implied by the additive one by Poincare duality.
There are, of course, the classical examples $\mathbb{CP}^2$, $\mathbb{HP}^2$ and $\mathbb{OP}^2$, but are there more $n$ possible? It is clear that $n$ has to be even for this, but actually $n$ has to be divisible by $4$. Beyond the classical examples, the next example occurs in dimension $32$, where there are already infinitely many (up to homeomorphism). This is, of course, a purely rational result - by the Hopf invariant 1 problem the examples above are the only examples for the integral analogue.
The methods are those sketched in Mark Grant's answer.
The Cayley plane $\mathbb{O}P^2$ is an example. See this question:
Here is a strategy in answer to your second question. Suppose you are given a graded vector space $H_\ast$, and you wish to realise this as $H_\ast(X;\mathbb{Q})$ for some smooth closed manifold $X$. First, you must check that the linear dual $H^\ast$ carries the structure of a finite dimensional Poincaré duality algebra. Then, assuming that $H^1=0$ (equivalently $H_1=0$) you can apply the Sullivan-Barge theorem, which essentially says that the necessary conditions that $H^\ast$ be the cohomology algebra of a smooth simply-connected closed manifold, are also sufficient.
You'll find a clean statement in Chapter 3 of this book, but let me try anyway. Suppose your Poincaré duality algebra $H^\ast$ has formal dimension $n$. Then it can be realised by a closed simply-connected manifold if, and only if, one of the following holds:
This is of course proved by surgery theory (I'm not sure how it relates to the reference given in Igor's answer).
A general (surgery based, surprise...) construction is give by Kalinin in:
REALIZATION OF QUADRATIC FORMS BY SMOOTH MANIFOLDS Math USSR Sbornik 62 (1989), n. 1, p 177, theorem 2.1.1


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The Sledding Hill (Library Binding)
Billy Bartholomew has an audacious soul, and he knows it. Why? Because it's all he has left. He's dead.
Eddie Proffit has an equally audacious soul, but he doesn't know it. He's still alive.
These days, Billy and Eddie meet on the sledding hill, where they used to spend countless hours -- until Billy kicked a stack of Sheetrock over on himself, breaking his neck and effectively hitting tilt on his Earthgame. The two were inseparable friends. They still are. And Billy is not about to let a little thing like death stop him from hanging in there with Eddie in his epic struggle to get his life back on track.
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Chris Crutcher has written nine critically acclaimed novels, an autobiography, and two collections of short stories. He has won three lifetime achievement awards for the body of his work: the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature for Young Adults, the ALAN Award for Significant Contribution to Adolescent Literature, and the NCTE National Intellectual Freedom Award. He has been a child and family therapist with the Spokane Community Mental Health Center and is currently chairperson for the Spokane Child Protection Team. Chris Crutcher lives in Spokane, Washington.


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4 Oct 2012 9:29 PM #1
Multiple views of the TreePanel
I want to use the same data store for rendering a TreePanel and an Accordion. Basically the tree data is very huge and the nodes are loaded dynamically on expansion of the nodes. I want to be able to share the same data between both the views and also want to keep both the views synchronized.
I can even style the TreePanel to make it work like an accordion (through JS and css) so even sharing on the data between two tree panels will be fine rather than a TreePanel and an accordion.
Please help on how I can achieve this.
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I am using ExtJs 3.4, the tree does not have an explicit TreeStore. Thats why I want to understand how can I have 2 views of the same tree data.


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During the title sequence of Game of Thrones, just after the camera pans up the frozen wall, there is a 'blinking' effect and a strange futuristic sound. Is this supposed to represent something important?
Its the sound made by the viewing lens changing. If you watch the intro carefully, you'll see that the "zoom" changes in conjunction with the sound. Apart from being a cool effect, I doubt it has any deeper meaning.
I think it goes with the mechanical theme for the intro - when they change zoom level they accompany it with a 'snick' sound and show the edge of the new lens crossing the screen. To zoom in more there are multiple lenses to slide in, so multiple 'snicks'.
This is similar to how you change magnification level with a microscope. It's very hard to smoothly change zoom at small scales, and I think they want to reinforce the effect of the intro being a mechanical map that's just about possible using the technology available in the series.
After the Season 6 Finale we also see that the orbs and rings we see in the opening are most likely an astrolabe (aka armillary sphere, armilla, or armil).
We see the same object hanging in the Citadel at Oldtown. This can be determined by seeing the same markings on the rings.
The meaning of this is still not fully known, but there is an interesting fan theory...
As for the "blinking effect" the fan theory is that this is literally a person blinking because that person is using the optical device we see the Maester at Oldtown using.
In fact, from what I have seen, that blinking effect comes from the globe that shows up between the map shots at the scene. It keeps spinning during the whole opening, and its rings move making that blinking sound. In the internet, they call it the Astrolabe (had to link because the image is too big):
It seems to not have importance at all, but if you look closely and pause at certain parts, its design shows the animals of the families they represent (such as the dragon of Targaryen, the lion of Lannister, the stag of Baratheon and the wolf of Stark).
The picture below is a close-up of the astrolabe and it seems to hint at Robert's Rebellion:
As of the dragon (Aerys Targaryen) is being attacked from both sides by the wolf (Eddard Stark) and the stag (Robert Baratheon), and surprisingly being also held up from behind by the lion (Jaime Lannister, who betrays and kills him).
If you look on the internet, more shots like this can be seen throughout the opening, with a few more hints of the show's backstory. Everything seems to have a meaning on this, it is pretty amazing.
I just got here, because I have to write an essay about this opening sequence. Here's what I wrote (hope it will be useful): The opening sequence was designed by Santa Monica based Elastic design studio director Angus Wall working along with The Rock Paper Scissors group. Wall is an acclaimed film editor and title designer that rose to prominence during the 90's when he worked for David Fincher as his lead editorial consultant. The main function of the title sequence was to help the audience orient themselves within complex plots that affect and intertwine each other in the giant fictional world of Westeros and Essos. Elastic team was to introduce the world's maps and geography to the viewer, but also to avoid standard tropes for fantasy maps - aged parchment with Medieval-like inscriptions presented in the candle light. And although Tolkien maps of Middle-Earth was their starting point inspiration, whey had to move away from this kind of depiction. The breakthrough happened when the design process moved from Middle Ages to more enlightened ones. Decorated initials and vignettes were exchanged for Da Vinci's sketches and models. The digitally created clockwork universe was born. To stay away from both – the archaic belief of flat earth and the illuminated spherical earth models – Angus Wall and his team created an inverted world that surfaces on the inside of a sphere. To marry helio- and geocentric models of the universe, the sun is placed in the centre of the world, within a celestial armillary sphere. What's surprising, the sun itself became a flat object – a disc constrained within the innermost ring of the astrolabe, rotating within the machine. Rings of the astrolabe are engraved with scenes from Westeros history that occurred prior to the action in the books and the tv series – three of those are shown – the Targaryen invasion of Westeros (burning city, dragon and an army), Robert's Rebellion (a wolf, a lion and a stag killing a three-headed dragon) and Robert's ride to power (a stag with a halo with other animals paying homage to it). "We cut to those three times in the title sequence, so you actually see a history of Westeros and Essos. The third time we see all the animals [representing] the different houses bowing down to the Baratheon stag, which brings us to the present, where there's a Baratheon king. We wanted to be very, very faithful to the book because we knew there would be a large fan base that will be looking at this very carefully," says Angus Wall. In the digitally-created environment, the camera (or rather illusion of it) swoops down from the sun towards the surface of the map (speeded up with few lens snicks – another invention for the mechanism-themed opening). At the surface, a single cogwheel with a crest starts to turn and the whole clockwork model of a city emerges from the ground. The camera travels from place to place, showing more cities and castles, each being erected in the like manner. This part represents the ruling houses with their machinations being the propelling force of "Game of Thrones" world. Also, it informs the viewer where the action of the episode will take place. This creates an unprecedented result, as the opening scores animation evolves from episode to episode as multiple plots develop. In the first season alone there is four varying openings, or "map paths". The rest of the map is a topographic representation in 3D, having distinct angular shapes (contour intervals are presented literally) and small amount of features, generalised only to main roads (lines), forests (green spiked pyramids) and rocks (grey polygons). Names of notable places are integral part of the map, the style of the font resembles quill and ink writing, similar one to the one used in Tolkien maps for "Lord of the Rings".


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PITTSFORD — The Wildcats and Comets kicked off their cross country seasons Tuesday at Pittsford's Early Bird Invitational.
Pittsford's girls had the strongest showing of any local team, finishing in second place with 48 points, just seven points behind Concord's winning team. The Jonesville girls finished in sixth out of seven with 140 points, ahead of North Central's 179.
On the boys' side, Concord won handily after grabbing the top four spots with 32 point. Jonesville came in second with 54, Adrian Madison took third with 76 and Pittsford earned fourth with 98 points.
Ruth Letherer, of Pittsford, won the girls' race in a time of 20:38.4. Her teammate Elyssa Kafer took fifth in 23:21, and Jonesville's Jensynn Jordan earned seventh in 23:34.
Pittsford's scoring was rounded out by Emily Poling in 11th (24:04), Amber Osborn in 15th (25:28), Cheyanne Pelfrey in 16th (25:37), Kristin Belcher in 17th (26:05) and Katlyn Belcher in 18th (26:10).
For Jonesville, Calin Deck finished 28th (31:56), Emillee Ray came in 30th (32:03) and Allison Earnest took 37th (41:21).
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When I run
top I see one line that doesn't look too good:
2475 www-data 20 0 0 0 0 Z 1 0.0 0:00.19 apache2 <defunct>
Why is this process
<defunct> and what should I do about it?
(sorry, I'm new to this)
When I run
Why is this process
(sorry, I'm new to this)
It is harmless. You can ignore it. It is a zombie process. The man page for
See also the Wikipedia page on Zombie process.
If you really want to get rid of it, restarting apache2 may do the trick. Rebooting the machine will certainly make it go away, but that is definitely not necessary.
This question is similar. - How can I kill a <defunct> process whose parent is init?
Defunct processes are zombie processes. The kill command has no effect on a zombie process. These can be killed by killing the parent process. You can find parent from the PPID value. If the PPID is 1(init) i.e. process is adapted by
You can send a


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I grew up in a conservative Christian home, and was taught that we do not 'take God's name in vain'.
Interestingly, among some churches I grew up in, the consensus was that the common usage of God or Jesus as an expletive offered 'proof' that there was 'power in the Name.' Meaning, no one took Satan's name in vain because there was no 'power' in it. (I'm sorry if this is not clear to those who don't have a Christian background)
Now I look back and find this reasoning rather self-serving; and that led me to wonder...what is the real reason people use God/Jesus/etc. as expletives? Was that always a common part of speech? Has it accelerated recently? Do other cultures use the name of their local Deity as handy profanity?


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Balanchine's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", which I had the misfortune to sit through twice at the Edinburgh Festival a couple of years ago. I nearly fell asleep!
Noooo! I like that ballet so much!I admit that for the first act It is almost all pantomime,and It can be boring.But the story,the costumes,all those fairies strolling around the stage...make me dream!And then It's Balanchine...If the Aestethic sense had a name,It would be Balanchine's.All those beautiful portraits of ensemble He makes with the dancers on stage....It's superb!In anything He does.


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I am a fan of sudoku and I was wondering if it is possible to randomly generate sudoku tables with their solutions in LaTeX. I see a few problems in the generation of numbers in the tables, but, sincerely, I wouldn't know where to start.
a package,
For typesetting Sudokus (well, LaTeX is mainly for typesetting, while calculations can be done for example with Lua, or pgf which provides a random number generator), Roberto Bonvallet has contributed a Sudoku example to the TikZ gallery.
For typesetting Sudokus, you can also use the logicpuzzle bundle [CTAN].
You can use the createlpsudoku bash script to transfer exported Sudokus from e.g. HoDoKu or QQwing into
With the lpsmag bash script, you can even produce your own Sudoku magazines with solutions! Whenever you run the script, you have a new magazine.


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Recall: Chesapeake Bay and Modern Light Tea Lights, Candles
On 2011-04-20, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published a recall regarding Chesapeake Bay and Modern Light Tea Lights, Candles due to a potential fire and burn hazard. This product sold new beginning in July 2009 for about $1 to $12.
About 600,000 units are involved in this Pacific Trade International tea light recall. Learn more and find out what to do if you own this product below.
This was the 3rd recall of products in the Candles, Holders, Firepots & Oil Lamps category in 2011.
Since 2005, there have been approximately 90 similar recalls,
involving about 12 million product units.
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Phone: (800) 331-8339
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What is the problem?
The candles have a clear, plastic cup that can melt or ignite, posing a fire and burn hazard to consumers.
How can I tell if I own this product?
The recall involves tea lights sold under the brand names Chesapeake Bay Candle and Modern Light. The candles are various colors. They were sold in sets or with tea light containers. Tea lights from the below sets are involved with this recall. Only tea lights that do not have any lettering imprinted on the bottom of the tea light cup are included in this recall.
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|Dates Sold
|Fred Meyer
|36-piece plastic tea light set
|August 2009 through February 2011
|About $12
|754870634000, 754870687846
|Home Scents 12-count tea light candles, various scents
|July 2009 through February 2011
|About $4
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|Sweet Delights 12-count tea light candles, various scents
|January 2010 through February 2011
|About $5
|754870658693, 754870658709
|Sentiments 12-count tea light candles, various scents
|February 2010 through June 2010
|About $5
|754870658334, 754870658341
|TJX / Marshall's / Homegoods
|Boo Flicker
|July 2010 thru Nov. 2010
|About $5
Modern Light Brand
|Dates Sold
|Super Value
|Halloween votive holder with tea light, various scents
|August 2010 through November 2010
|About $1
|754870668128, 754870668135, 754870668142
|Four-piece Treetop Tealights, various scents
|November 2010 through December 2010
|About $6
These items were sold new+ at Fred Meyer, Home Goods, Marshalls, Super Value, Target, TJ Maxx and Wegmans stores nationwide between July 2009 and February 2011 for between $1 and $12.
What should I do if I own this recalled product?
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Consumers should immediately stop using the candles and return them to the store where purchased for a store merchandise card equal to the purchase price.
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Pacific Trade has received one report of the plastic cup melting while in use. No injuries or property damage have been reported.
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Plasma Chani's advantures in PlasmaLand: http://chani.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/adventures-in-plasmaland-part-1/
The Python Hello World. Note: This may need work. I haven't tested the script and wrote/translated some code on the fly for this tutorial. There may very well be typos. Sorry.
Each scripted plasmoid shares the same layout. The base folder name is, your applet's name, like "hello world"
Base metadata.desktop Contents Code Ui
The base folder contains a metadata.desktop, which should look a little something like:
[Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Hello World Type=Service ServiceTypes=Plasma/Applet
X-Plasma-API=python X-Plasma-MainScript=code/main.py X-KDE-PluginInfo-Author=Matthew Adams X-KDE-PluginInfo-Email= X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name=myHelloWorld X-KDE-PluginInfo-Version=1.0 X-KDE-PluginInfo-Website=http://plasma.kde.org/ X-KDE-PluginInfo-Category=Examples X-KDE-PluginInfo-Depends= X-KDE-PluginInfo-License=GPL X-KDE-PluginInfo-EnabledByDefault=true X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=desktop_kdebase-workspace X-KDE-PluginInfo-EnabledByDefault=true
Notice the X-Plasma-API string. from there you can set it to ruby, python, whatever. Ruby is: ruby-script JavaScript: C#: Others:
In Base/contents/code you will have your main script file, named "main.py" This is your main script file. The main.py should have a function called "def CreateApplet(parent):" that returns an object that inherits plasma.Applet. in order to be able to inherit plasma.Applet you will need to include a couple specific headers. Here's the helloworld script:
(I haven't tested this script, just hacked up an already existing one on the fly, it might have typos, and as a note, there is a huge difference between plasma.Applet and Plasma.Applet.)
# Import all the headers for Qt and KDE
from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from PyKDE4.kdecore import *
from PyKDE4.kdeui import *
from PyKDE4.plasma import Plasma
import plasma
class HelloWorld(plasma.Applet):
def __init__(self, parent, args=None):
plasma.Applet.__init__(self, parent)
def init(self):
self.text = "Hello World"
self.svg = Plasma::Svg.new(@top.applet())
self.svg.imagePath = 'widgets/background'
# Yes the code for drawing the text directly on to the applet is fairly large
# and ugly. It can be done other ways however, add a layout to the applet,
# then a text label to the layout, then draw the text onto the text label
# Although I've never tried that method. This entire method was borrowed
# From one of the clock applets.
def paintInterface(self):
p.pen = Plasma.Theme.defaultTheme.color(Plasma.Theme.TextColor)
plainFont = KDE.GlobalSettings.generalFont
plainFont.pointSizeF = [rect.height, KDE::GlobalSettings.smallestReadableFont.pointSize].max
preparePainter(p, rect,@plainFont, self.text)
p.drawText(QRectF.new(rect), self.text, QTextOption(QAlignCenter))
self.svg.resize(rect.left+rect.right+1, rect.top+rect.bottom+1);
self.svg.paint(p, QRectF(rect), "widgets/background")
resize(rect.left+rect.right+1, rect.top+rect.bottom+1)
def preparePainter(p, rect, font, text)
tmpRect = QRect
tmpFont = font
# Starting with the given font, decrease its size until it'll fit in the
# given rect allowing wrapping where possible. Thx clock applet!
p.font = tmpFont
tmpFont.pointSize = [KDE/GlobolSettings.smallestReadableFont.pointSize, tmpFont.pointSize - 1].max
tmpRect = p.boundingRect(rect, QTextWordWrap, text)
while tmpFont.pointSize > KDE::GlobalSettings.smallestReadableFont.pointSize && (tmpRect.width > rect.width || tmpRect.height > rect.height)
return tmpRect
def CreateApplet(parent):
return HelloWorld(self)
The SVG, The Font, and the Applet have to be made. The SVG is basically the Plasma Theme system (I think) but can be used to draw images. The font is resized to fit inside the bounding rect of the applet (Which can change when the user resizes it), Then the text is drawn to the screen using the resized font. Fairly simple.
CreateApplet gets called at startup, and returns the applet we made. It's paintinterface function is called every so often to have the interface painted (text drawn to the screen), first __init__() gets called, but then the library calls "init(self)" on the object, which is where all the real setup happens.
Once you have it all setup, simply run: cd /path/to/BASE/ zip -r ../HelloWorld.plasmoid * plasmapkg -i ../HelloWorld.plasmoid
Once you have installed you can test with
plasmoidviewer myHelloWorld
Note the name, myHelloWorld. That's defined in the metadata.desktop as the Name= value.
On old kde 4.1.X plasmapkg didn't work with plasmapkg -r ../HelloWorld.plasmoid It does in 4.2X - use plasmapkg -r ../HelloWorld.plasmoid in 4.2X In 4.1.X do rm -r ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma/plasmoids/HelloWorld to remove
There should be example plasmoids for each scripting language available. You can find them from http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebindings/ (Example: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebindings/csharp/plasma/examples/ )
Once you complete a useful or fun plasmoids, you can put it on KDE-Look.org under the scripted plasmoids section, and have it show up in Get Hot New Stuff on peoples computers without them ever opening a web browser.
The differences between Plasma, KDE, and Qt are all very subtle. It is possible and advised to use Qt Designer for the creation of your gui's, and tying them in to your Plasmoid. You can use the output from Qt Designer directly after passing it through pyuic4 without any changes to the output from the .ui file - which means you can design applets so that the gui can be redone and replaced in Qt Designer without touching a single line of code. How is that bad for artists? That's a lesson for another day however. Peace.


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The Mouse Guard rules are unclear on whether -- during an extended conflict, a team's actions specifically address only a single other team on each phase of the turn. I think so, but not everyone in my group agrees.
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When multiple teams are involved teams should choose targets after actions have been declared.
Imagine the following three teams:
The following actions are declared:
After the actions are announced, the GM decides the Snake will target Team Kenzie with its Maneuver.
Everyone rolls dice.
These two posts cover some of this ground in detail:
The rules for Multiple Teams, Multiple Actions (pg. 114) contain this line:
With that in mind, I have to assume that your action only affects one enemy team. If the action affected all enemy teams, they wouldn't need the "two teams have the same target" clause because everyone would have the same targets.
Each action you target one team, but if that team is being helped or is helping, the other team takes the effect as well.
Anyone who shares your target with a vs must help you or you them.
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I am trying to find out how life could change for the middle-class today if we had a high-impact financial crisis. Please help-me / let me know if this question could be rephrased better.
Credible historic description of how the daily life was for the middle-class during the financial crisis of 1929 [closed]
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I would recommend reading the novel "City Boy," by Herman Wouk. It was set in 1928, just before the 1929 crisis, and gave a description of middle class life going into (but not after) the 1929 crisis.
For an account of life during the 1930s itself, the "classic" is John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," about how formerly middle class people fell into poverty.


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5 Jan 2013 6:14 PM #1
Model date json reset to minimum value
Hi Friends,
I did a form with a datefield, my model with date type field, with format 'time', form have format 'd-m-Y'.
When retrieved and show the value it shows properly. But when submitting the form the value on json reset to '310012e', for all my date fields.
herewith the screen attached with display field, console log and json trace.
Looking forward for help.
advance thanks
6 Jan 2013 7:21 AM #2
Do you have a dateFormat specified on your model's field definition?
8 Jan 2013 1:59 AM #3
model date json reset
Yes, the format is there in the document.
Why when submitting the value reset, and what is causing this, before submit the value is normal and logged. But when set record values, then resets.


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I was inspired to make vegan gluten free samosas after watching this Youtube video of Kittee Berns.
I followed the majority of her instructions, I happened to have raw cashews, and cooked them with oil and onion as she instructs, but my cashews never got the nice colour and I didn't really taste them in the finished product. Maybe I over cooked them? I'm not sure, but I don't plan on using them again.
Here's an over load of pictures I took while making the dish:
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My laptop is Lenovo T400, running Ubuntu 10.10.
- My problem: I just run jockey-gtk and installed ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver. But after reboot, there is a short period of graphical "Ubuntu" and then instead of starting X-window it completely changed to command line to ask me to login. Even after login and then issuing xinit, it still failed to start X.
To solve this problem: I followed this post, where one person suggested to
you can simply write
sudo apt-get remove fglrx
This worked for me. If it doesn't work, then try
sudo apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx
and restart.
I actually don't need the driver anyway, so I issued the first command after login under command line.
But after reboot, the situation is even worse, and there is now even no command-line interface to ask me login, instead the screen is completely blank with just some ambient light in the background and Ubuntu is hanging there probably forever. So I have no chance to try the second command the person suggested.
I was wondering what I can do now to solve my problem? Thanks and regards!