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I was just looking at the moderator history page on RPG, and noticed that one of the moderator's stats are red? Is that because they haven't done anything recently, or is there some other meaning to the coloration?
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I think this feature should be removed, or at the very least it should be smarter about which values are highlighted - a mod last seen "4 hours ago" is still obviously very active, but obviously there's a problem if the mod was last seen, say over a month ago.
See: Can moderator shame coloring be less sensitive?
Mods that have not been around for a week are "hot", a month are "supernova"
Mods that have 10% or less in a stat from the stat leader (in monthly view only for stats with a higher max than 30) are "hot". Mods that have 2.5% or less are "supernova"
The moderator with the least amount of activity for the column gets the privilege of having it bolded and colored red. The column for the moderator with the second least amount of activity is colored orange.
To paraphrase some of the discussion in Teachers' Lounge, it's to give some indication to the person with the least amount of activity that they might want to take on more of the routine moderator work, and as an indication to all moderators and SE staff what the effects of one of the moderators taking some time off might do.
That is, if one of the least active moderators takes some time off, it's not a big deal. But if there are only red or orange highlighted moderators left, the site could use another moderator.
All that said, the coloring seems to be a bit naive: if you happen to be in last place, you get the red badge of shame even if you're only one point (one comment, one closure, one vote) lower than the next moderator. And if you all happen to be tied (like at the start of the new day where everyone's totals are zero), everyone gets the red!


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How can I watch a question in Stack Overflow?
Is there an ability to watch a post that you wish to see the answers to at a later point, but cannot contribute?
(Other than adding to browser favourites?)
I have tried searching for an answer to this with no luck sadly.

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I know I said I won't semi-duplicate this question, but for now my comment was ignored, so I post it here.
My question is what happens when a user has < 50rep but wants to participate in a question? She/He maybe has something interesting to say/suggest but don't have enough rep, so, She/He decides to post an "answer" that it's clearly a comment.
It happened here, where I down-voted an answer for that reason and the user came with the valid point that he can't comment because his low rep, so he answered with the intention to get some clarification to the question.


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Before They Were Famous: The 10 Most Regrettable Celebrity Commercials
Shed a tear for the commercial actor. It's a rough life when your career-defining role is "Extremely Satisfied Tampon User No. 3." Few escape this unique hell; even fewer climb to such fame that their early days as corporate shills are all but forgotten. Thankfully, though, Al Gore recognized this deficiency in embarrassing celebrity video/porn presentation technology and invented the Internet. Without it, we might never have seen these early performances from stars at their product-hawking finest.
Role: Person Who Is Way Too Physically Attractive to Actually Use This Product
Synopsis: There's a vague narrative about broken-down cars and white people dancing, but it's lost in the quasi-Japanese bizarreness of the whole spot. Also, "Pringles: The Fever Reliever?" We're wary of any product that could share a tagline with Junior Strength MOTRIN.
Bottom Line: Sex sells, and if sexy people like the soon-to-be Brad Pitt use a product, why shouldn't we? If only we lived in advertising land, where eating greasy chips led to slow-motion gyrations with sun-kissed members of the opposite sex. Instead, all we got was this damned deep-seated self-loathing.
Bonus Moment: The high-pitched screeching of "We've got the fever for the Pringles!" halfway through will haunt your dreams for weeks to come.
#9. Matt LeBlanc for Heinz Ketchup
Role: Joey Tribbiani
Synopsis: A young, struggling actor with limited range and no visible means of support tries to impress women by dripping condiments off his apartment roof.
Bottom Line: Besides providing further evidence that Joey Tribbiani is a real person and "Matt LeBlanc" is merely an elaborate tax shelter, this commercial proves another theory of ours: Glass ketchup bottles are the worst, most outdated invention, ever. Should it really take five stories of gravity to get a single drop of ketchup?
Bonus Moment: The flirtatious/creepy wink at the end, soon to develop into a catchphrase that we refuse to repeat here.
#8. Elijah Wood for Pizza Hut
Role: One-Fifth of the Implausibly, Clumsy Suburban Family
Synopsis: No matter how hard lil' Elijah's dad tries, he just can't cook those hamburgers! They just come out small, shriveled and unsatisfying! Oh man, I bet that's coming up in the divorce hearings! If only they'd tried this exotic "peet-zah" instead.
Bottom Line: This ad resorts to a tactic typically seen in infomercials: Make your product's alternative/competition look so inhumanly hard, that to not buy your product would border on heresy. However, since most Americans know how to take a shower or how to cook a burger without losing a limb, Wood and his family just end up seeming criminally incompetent.
Bonus Moment: The family dog's bizarre, fang-baring cameo at about 16 seconds.
#7. Sarah Michelle Gellar for Burger King
Role: Cute Little Girl Who Fucking Hates McDonald's
Synopsis: A cute Sarah Michelle Gellar discovers that McDonald's uses a pennyweight's less meat in its burgers than Burger King. Outraged, she sets out to inform the world, armed with only her crayons and a national, multiplatform marketing campaign.
Bottom Line: We have no idea why advertisers think a lisp and pigtails equals credibility. It's great that, between naptime and recess, kids like Gellar find time for consumer activism. But, do we really trust the market research of someone who just recently learned full-bladder control?
Bonus Moment: The burger comparison chart's adorably informative backwards "e."
#6. Keanu Reeves for Corn Flakes
Role: Mischievous Caterer (the best kind)
Synopsis: A young Keanu Reeves is stuck in a dead-end job, catering banquets for the leisure class. Only two things sustain him: His love of interpretive dance and how pissed those bourgeoisie cocksuckers will be when they find their caviar replaced with corn flakes.
Bottom Line: We're sorry Keanu is a wage slave whose only joy is mischievously stealing bites of cereal, but it still doesn't make us want to buy Kellogg's bland crap flakes. We refuse to eat anything that can't hold its own in milk for more than 10 seconds.
Bonus Moment: Keanu's last-minute check to make sure the coast is clear before guiltily indulging in a spoonful of dry cereal.


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[OPEN-35] Designer doesn't work on closed/secure networks
Due to the requirement that users have to connect to the internet in order to register/activate the product, Designer will not run beyond the trial period on closed/secure networks where there is no possibility to connect--even once--to the internet. I consider this a bug--not a feature request--since this problem prevents me from using the product on these networks.
I'm not aware of any other software that has this requirement. There needs to be an option that allows users to just enter the key that they receive after purchasing the product.
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Is it possible to effectively train in two (or perhaps even more) martial arts/combat sports at the same time? What are ways to minimize concerns like technique and muscle memory confusion? Does it help to have varying experiences in the various arts?
It's possible, and the dangers are entirely dependent on which two arts and which two teachers.
I study Isshinryu Karate. I also studied iaido for a few years while in my pre-black belt years. After about a year of the cross-training, I noticed that the iaido training had affected my empty-hand training in subtle but negative ways, such as the way my weight was shifted in stances, and it took me a while to fix it and create a proper mental separation between the skills I was learning that were specific to the purpose of handling a sword, and the skills I was learning that were specific to the purpose of working empty-handed.
As far as techniques to avoid confusion, try to create as many memory markers as possible, like the smell of the school, the equipment you wear, the way you bow (or don't). These, of course, would become Bad Things(tm) if you intended on using your skills outside for self-defense, because it creates a layer of separation between you and the skills, but by the time you're ready to use them, you should be properly aware of that anyway.
Yes it is possible without causing any problems and it is very good if the styles complement each other because they would fill in gaps you might have from one style.
For instance a striking are will be a very useful addition to a grappling art. If you are a beginner it may be a bit hard at first because there is a lot of information to take in especially if you are training both during the same day.
I'm actually doing this (Kalari and Wushu).
Yes of course. In my experience it takes about 2 months to get used to it mentally and physically. You can get over the psychical exhaustion in a about two weeks. The mental part (muscle memory) takes longer.
It would be like learning two new musical instruments. If you have had experience with music before it can be a lot easier to do it.
If you want to learn more than two fighting arts however I think you should consider MMA.
I think motor memory has two phases of learning - short term but fast learning phase where neural processes (or motor maps) are formed to perform a set of motor actions. Followed by a longer term (slow learning phase) where new modifications are made on specific motor modules to improve efficiency.
What helped me is understanding common patterns in your fighting skill. This involves breaking up a sequence to understand the basics of a move (e.g How to perform a certain block) and then perform it over and over till you get the hang of it. Once you've got it internalized, including that move in an elaborate sequence will be a lot easy.
This will entirely depend on what you want to get out of it. Are you in it competitively? Is it just for self defense? Your choice in the martial arts you learn depends on what you fancy really.
Learning to wield different kinds of weapons and the attaining the skills associated with it motivates me. I've never had interest in sparring or actual combat.
This is similar to choosing courses at college. Will they help you in real life? Is it worth your investment in time/money?. How much time are you willing to put into it? Are your choices dissimilar (eg some grappling art like jodo - combined with style changquan or some soft taichi combined with hard style muay thai)
PS: It is better you tell both instructors that you are training in another discipline at the same time. Some of them are competitive and don't like that.
I have done multiple martial arts at the same time and it just takes a bit longer to achieve the same skill level if you learning dissimilar arts at the same time.
Too be honest I believe the best progression is made when your arts are similar or very dissimilar. Lets say you do boxing and grappling then the chances of your boxing being influenced by grappling is less than say doing boxing and Shaolin Kung Fu, since you are learning completely different techniques - punching vs grappling. The same if you are doing wrestling and BJJ for instance you might also have less of an issue than say doing Wing Chun and Boxing as they teach the same concepts but in very different ways.
I know in this modern world of MMA and instant gratification we do not dedicate ourselves to one thing anymore, but my advice is; Start with one art and work on it until you are comfortable with it and then move on to a 2nd art.
In the good old days before the fragmentation of the 'original' martial arts ways into all the 'different schools' There was really not this style or that - it wasn't stand and be counted - or lay down in your pyjamas and hug people. The martial 'arts' were complete systems in and of themselves. The old masters took on very few students. They were very carefully chosen. They were trained upright AND laying down. They were living in a world of constant war and danger (sounds like about now 'eh) "Know you enemy" was a simple but profound edict. Your enemy may be a pugilist, a grappler, an oarsman, a farmer, brigand, mad monk, etc, etc. He may have a sword, a spear, a halberd, an oar, a club, etc, etc.
The fragmentation came about when old masters passed away and families fractured and members went their separate ways. We became aware of this in Australia. In 1958 we had the Polish man Slagowski in Blacktown roughing it out with many pugilists, wrestlers,bouncers,policemen, prison guards, and brawlers. In the early 1960's We had little Merv Oakly return from Japan with Go Ju Kai (came from the Go Ju Ryu systems of Okinowa to Japan. In 1966 we had Tino Ceberano in Melbourne doing Go Ju Kai. We had many people of kyu grades leave these schools and start up there own way. We then had Richard Bradford (founded Goshin Ryu). We also had Dan grades like Bob Jones (created Zen Do Kai) - then came Go Shin Kan and Go Kan Ryu (Door Knocker Karate). Many styles many ways - some very effective others not so.
An old Okinowa master asked of prospective students (masters of other schools, ways,countries) What they did for a living - what was their profession. If they answered that their school was their profession he would dump them. You must have a separate means of funding your life and household. If you get money solely from your school you will be sorely tempted to adopt more students so that you could prosper and survive. This seems to be the modern institutional system, or way where you are guaranteed a black belt within 12-15 months !!!! More students - bigger school - bigger school - bigger reputation - bigger rep - more schools ad infinitum. Hence we have the stand ups versus the grapplers. The kickboxers versus the boxers. etc. etc. Now we have UFC, MMA, ABC etc. etc. Where EVERYONE is yearning for the COMPLETE system. You may indeed have to train in 2 or more separate martial arts these days to find a completeness - a wholeness in your martial arts. People nowadays even want to belittle, cheapen, or even negate the 'ART' part of Martial arts. The 'martial' is the fighting for survival part of it. The 'art' part is the ability to heal what has been damaged or redress the balance.
In the 'pure' Tai Chi (supreme ultimate pole - modern day is Chuan or fist) the practitioner is an observer of all that is. When other 'martial artists' see a conflict or an enemy approaching they adopt the force to force principles or right is might!!!! Sadly a mistaken assumption - they will have already lost because they have enmeshed themselves with 'the opponents' inner demons. The Tai Chi practitioner does not see a 'confrontation' they see only that the other person is out of balance - they are unwell - or are beset by some inner demons. The Tai Chi person then activates the 'art' system of healing and rebalancing. They become smoke to the other persons mirror. They do not become the mirror THEY BECOME THE OTHER PERSON (borrow their congested and/ or leaking energy) they return to their own source and then release that 'borrowed' energy back into the unbalanced or imbalanced person. This puts congested energy and leaking energy through the yin - yang tumbler and restores it to a balanced flow. The person then no longer seeks a 'confrontation' with themselves by the use of LATERAL VIOLENCE !!!!! (taking it out on your fellows - family - friends etc.). The future comes soon where all 'ways' - 'schools' 'styles' and 'systems will blend once more into the one true way of the MARTIAL ARTS !!!!


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The Brasserie at Vaudeville: Cheeky fantasy, food and fun
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Dressing up for a night at The Brasserie is encouraged… after all, you are attending a show like no other. So embrace your inner performer with braces, ruffles and corsets. If, however, you're fresh out of these flamboyant items, the cute costume stand, The Little Hattery, is fully stocked with masks, hats and boas to assist in your transformation from drab and dreary to sexy and fabulous.
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Mango Jump Start (12): Selling a Windows Phone Application
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Microsoft MVPs Rob Miles and Andy Wigley are back! The "Building Applications for Windows Phone "Mango" Jump Start" was hosted by Microsoft Learning as a follow-up to last year's Windows Phone 7 Jump Start sessions. Mobile application developers rave about the fast-paced, demo-rich, real-world and often-times humorous approach Rob and Andy use to deliver this timely content. Now that "Mango" has made such a huge splash in the industry, we've asked them to put together another great course.
In the final module of the course, module twelve, Rob covers the all-important topic of how to successfully generate revenue by selling a Windows Phone application. In this essential session, developers will learn how to find and use data from the Performance Analysis, how to create an Application for sale and how to use the Marketplace Testing Tool. Next, Rob will provide a valuable overview of the Windows Phone Marketplace, discuss advertising-supported applications and how to optimize sales.
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I'd like a webcast of successful app sellers for WP7, those people work for microsoft...
is someone making money in the wp7 marketplace?
Thank you guys!!!!
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the county where I live put in the "check valve" or backflow device. Not sure, but I know they said you need to get a thermal expansion tank or the pressure could blow up the water heater.
I spoke to a plumber, talked to other pros, and they said it wouldn't immediately make my water heater go bad. One of the plumbers even said the pressure valve may or may not work and is something the State has done to get more money by people spending cash to get valves, new water heaters, etc. One guy said it depends on the psi to my tank, but I have no idea what the psi to my house is.
I just want to know if my water heater is going to die immediately or if I might have a little time to get the money together.
Thanks. I know no one can tell me for sure, just getting advice.
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I watch a lot of food programs and the chefs would advocate using soy sauce instead of salt for making a dish salty. The question is what makes soy sauce salty? Does it actually contain salt?
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Yes, salt is one of the primary ingredients of soy sauce, along with soybeans, wheat, and water. It's used as an ingredient or condiment to add saltiness, just like plain salt generally is in Western cuisines. (Soy sauce additionally adds umami flavor.)


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Homestead boys basketball team falls just short of Hamilton, 46-39
Somewhere, the late Homestead Hall of Fame basketball coach John Chekouras is showing pride, if not exactly smiling.
The pride would have come from the grit, effort and sweat the Highlanders showed Friday night in falling to unbeaten and fifth-ranked in the state Milwaukee Hamilton, 46-39, in the final of Homestead's tournament that is named for Chekouras.
After the game, his widow and his daughter presented the championship plaque to Hamilton coach Tom Diener.
And then maybe Chekouras would have forced a small smile at what his old rival Diener said in honor of him.
"He was one of the finest teachers and coaches that I've ever met in my life," said Diener. "...This is a great event to honor an outstanding coach and an even better person."» Read Full Article
Looking for something to do this winter? Check out WhatNOW
Winter can feel pretty long in Wisconsin, especially once all the holiday hoopla is over.
In that spirit, MyCommunityNOW invites you to check out our special WhatNOW? section for some tips on how to stay busy this winter. You'll find a list of stories on interesting winter activities, a map of some great places to spend time this winter and more.
We also invite you to share your own ideas on what you like to do during the winter. Your comments may appear in a future issue of NOW newspapers.
Top Line Gym honors beloved dog with pet supply drive
Top Line Gym in Glendale is holding a pet supply drive to benefit the Humane Animal Welfare Society through Dec. 31.
Top Line owner Brett Summers is hosting the drive to honor his recently deceased dog and best friend Champ, who ran away in 2007 and was found in a busy intersection by a kind couple who took him to HAWS. Without HAWS, Summers said, their family would not have been able to enjoy the last five years with Champ.
The HAWS list of dog supplies includes: new or lightly used towels and blankets; Pup-eroni dog treats; Nature's Variety Instinct canned dog food and other high quality canned dog foods; Natural Balance Roll; Zuke's dog treats; large, American-made rawhide bones; limited slip/martingale collars; Kong dog toys; jars of meat based baby food; and general supplies like Q-tips, laundry detergent, hand soap, etc.
Donors can call (262) 309-5566 to arrange a drop-off, or can make a check out to HAWS and mail to: Top Line Gym, 2012 West Bender Road, Glendale WI 53209.
Mequon woman pleads guilty to tax evasion
A Mequon woman who ripped off her grandmother and her sister has pleaded guilty to tax evasion and filing a false claim against the IRS, according to court documents.
Leah M. Kuchta, 42, who worked as a certified public accountant, pleaded guilty earlier this month. Each of the counts carries up to five years in prison, but she is likely to get much less time under federal sentencing guidelines when she is sentenced in March.
In the plea agreement, the prosecutor agrees not to recommend a sentence of more than 30 months.
According to the plea agreement:
In 2005, Kuchta's grandmother received an inheritance of more than $1 million and it was held in trust. Kuchta persuaded her grandmother to grant her access. She told her grandmother she would invest the money in low-risk investments.» Read Full Article
Whitefish Bay boys basketball team outlasts Falls, 55-46
Sticking like gum to the bottom of their shoes, the winless Menomonee Falls boys basketball team just wouldn't leave Whitefish Bay alone in the Al McGuire Classic Tournament in the Al McGuire Center Saturday night.
It took some doing, even rallying from an early 7-0 deficit, but the Blue Dukes were finally able to rid themselves of the pesky Indians with a 55-46 decision.
"It was good that we started responding better," said Blue Duke coach Kevin Lazovik. "We would have liked a better start, but I like our perseverance. That we can fall down seven, 10 or 12 points and still bring ourselves back."
With the win, the Blue Dukes improved to 7-2 overall, while Falls, even though game-after-game it remains competitive, fell to 0-8.
Bay pulled off the win a day after a tough 60-55 North Shore win over Grafton, a useful exercise in the eyes of Lazovik.» Read Full Article
Cedarburg girls gain separation
The Cedarburg girls basketball team successfully created some separation in the North Shore Conference standings with a 50-45 win over host Nicolet on Friday night.
The Bulldogs improved to 4-1 in conference play and 5-2 overall to sit atop the conference with Whitefish Bay. The Knights dropped to 4-4 overall and 3-2 in conference play. All three were tied entering Friday's contests.
The Knights overcame a shaky start and early 7-2 deficit to tie the game at 13 after the first quarter. Senior guard Michelle Peltz put the Knights ahead 15-13 in the second, and the Knights appeared to be gaining momentum. Nicolet senior guard Sara Travia scored 10 of Nicolet's 17 second-quarter points, including a long two-point jumper from the baseline with just seconds left in the half on a textbook drive-and-dish from senior forward Briana Gray. The Knights led 30-23 at the break.
"I thought we played a good first half," Bulldogs head coach David Ross said. "They made some incredible shots. Instead of being down by seven, I thought it was a pretty even game. It's hard to duplicate the shooting that they were doing."» Read Full Article
UWM professor selected as Shorewood School board member
The Shorewood School Board on Thursday selected University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor Paru Shah to fill the vacant School Board seat until the April election.
Shah, who moved to Shorewood in July 2011, is a political-science professor at UWM with research focused on the impact of racial/ethnic inequalities on politics in urban settings. Most recently, her research has examined when and where racial and ethnic minorities gain elected office, and what policy effect their presence has, according to her application to the School Board.
Because the majority of her research focuses on local elected offices - both school boards and city governments - she said in her application that she is familiar with the structures and institutions.
In addition to her academic interests, Shah said she had a desire to serve the community.
Before attending school for her PhD, Shah worked for an AmeriCorps program. She also served on the board of directors at Rape Victims Advocates.
Social media users share images of today's snowfall
Snow. It's here, whether you're ready for it or not. And social media users shared a bunch of photos as it began to fall Tuesday.
Read the story and see the photos of snowfall today.
Visit Today's TMJ4 for more on today's snowfall and a winter storm watch later this week.
Nicolet Superintendent Monroe announces retirement
Nicolet Superintendent Rick Monroe will retire at the end of this school year, the district announced in a news release this morning.
Monroe, who has been Nicolet's Superintendent since 2007, announced his retirement at a special faculty and staff meeting today.
"I've been thinking about it since August, and over Thanksgiving break I had time to think and reflect on it," Monroe said. "I said 'yes, the time is right.'"
Monroe began his education career in 1976 in the Milwaukee Public Schools system as a special education teacher. He served in MPS for 19 years before becoming Principal of St. Francis High School and later Shorewood High School.
At this point, Monroe said he isn't considering any other employment options after retirement, and timed his announcement to allow the school board to find a suitable replacement by the beginnning of the 2013-14 school year.» Read Full Article
Fox Point's West to head MMSD commission again
Fox Point Village President Michael West has been re-elected chairman of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's 11-member commission.
West, a registered architect and professional engineer, will serve a second consecutive one-year term as chairman.
The commission on Monday also re-elected Michal Ann Dawson of Milwaukee to a second consecutive one-year term as vice-chair.
Dawson is a former deputy commissioner of the Department of City Development and a former special assistant to Mayor John Norquist.
NOW bloggers talk about Newtown shooting
There have been a lot of national gun-related shootings this year, but Friday's in Newtown, Conn., took the country by surprise perhaps more than any other.
And several of the NOW bloggers took up their virtual pens to share their thoughts on the latest tragedy.
- Tom Ceparski of Oak Creek writes of the conflict he feels being a father of a young girl and a gun owner.
- Tom Gaertner of Wauwatosa writes that he spent time cleaning his firearms after his hunting season.
- Lester Schultz of the North Shore believes it is time to do something about gun control.
- Karen Waldkirch of Wauwatosa says we need to look at ourselves in order to change the culture in America.
- Robin Zdroik of Greenfield thinks we should look inward to do the best that we can.
- Kevin Fischer of Franklin wonders what would happen if shooter Adam Lanza were alive.
- TJ Meyers-Jansky of West Allis reminds us that the shooting occurred because of human choices.
Sendik's grocery store in Bayside to remodel, change operator
The Sendik's grocery store in Bayside will be remodeled, and is changing operators.
The branch of the Balistreri family which operates 10 Sendik's Food Markets throughout the Milwaukee area announced Thursday that its newest store will open next spring at 340 W. Brown Deer Road.
That's the address of a small Sendik's store operated by another branch of the extended Sendik-Balistreri family, which also operates the Sendik's grocery store at 2643 N. Downer Ave., and a Piggly Wiggly/Sendik's supermarket at 2315 N. 124th St., Brookfield.
"Our new store in Bayside will give us a chance to better serve our customers in Bayside and
the surrounding communities," said Ted Balistreri, one of the family co-owners of Sendik's Food Markets, in a statement.
John Sendik said his family's decision to sell the business and real estate to their cousins was amicable, and beneficial to both sides. The current Sendik's grocery, which opened in 2003, will close at the end of business on Dec. 31, he said.» Read Full Article
Four Points hotel in Brown Deer completes $4 million renovation
The Four Points by Sheraton Milwaukee North hotel, in Brown Deer, recently completed a $4 million renovation.
Improvements were made to the hotel's lobby, restaurant and bar areas, as well as to the meeting spaces and guest rooms. The renovations include upgraded carpeting, bathrooms, furniture, lighting and artwork.
"This investment and renovation reflects our desire to meet consumer demand as this area of the city undergoes a revitalization," said Jim Koen, general manager.
The 149-room hotel is at 8900 N. Kildeer Court, north of W. Brown Deer Road and east of N. Green Bay Road.
Boy hurt in Brown Deer hit-and-run incident
An 11-year-old boy was recovering Wednesday after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in Brown Deer, police said.
According to Brown Deer police, the boy was struck about 2:30 p.m. on N. Carlotta Lane at W. Radcliffe Drive.
After striking the boy the vehicle, described as a large, red truck or SUV, continued south on Carlotta.
The boy was taken to a hospital for evaluation and police are asking anyone with information on the crash to call (414) 371-2900.
Brown Deer police seek information on hit-and-run driver
Brown Deer police are looking for the driver of a vehicle that struck an 11-year-old boy at the intersection of Carlotta Lane and Radcliffe Drive at 2:36 p.m. today.
According to the department's news release, the boy was struck by a vehicle driving south on North Carlotta Lane. After striking the boy, the vehicle continued to travel southbound on Carlotta without stopping. The boy who was struck was transported to an area hospital to be evaluated.
The boy described the vehicle as a large red vehicle, possibly a truck or a sport utility vehicle.
If there was any damage to the vehicle, it would likely be on the front, driver's side. No other witnesses came forward on scene. The incident remains under investigation.
Any additional witnesses or anyone with further information regarding the hit and run crash is encouraged to call the Brown Deer Police Department at (414) 371-2900.
Concordia University plans new 274-bed residence hall
Concordia University in Mequon is planning to build a 274-bed residence hall adjacent to Coburg Hall, south of the athletic fields.
The Mequon Plan Commission approved plans Monday night for the five-story residence hall that will connect to Ausberg Hall, west of Coburg Hall, on the campus at 12800 N. Lakeshore Drive.
The proposed brick and glass panel building will have little to no public visibility, according to a report by the the city's Department of Community Development:
Plans call for eight parking stalls and a turnaround area for emergency vehicles to be added between Coburg and Augsberg Halls. No additional surface parking will be needed because a new parking structure recently was completed on campus.
Germantown, Hamilton the top-ranked teams in NOW's Roundball Rankings
The Hamilton Chargers are the top-ranked girls team and are coming off a 64-10 victory over West Allis Central in the Greater Metro Conference opener.
In addition to the top five boys and girls teams in the area, Roundball Rankings includes a player of the week, poll, area scoring leaders and more.
Horizon to expand hospice at Columbia St. Mary's in Mequon
Horizon Home Care & Hospice said it plans to expand and renovate its inpatient hospice unit at Columbia St. Mary's Hospital Ozaukee in Mequon and extend its lease with the hospital for an additional 20 years.
The project will add 400 square feet to the hospice unit, bringing the total space to 13,400 square feet. Construction is scheduled to begin in January and be completed by May.
The expansion was made possible by a $1 million gift from the Lawlis Family Fund through the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
The inpatient hospice was moved to Mequon when Columbia St. Mary's Health System built a new hospital and consolidated its two Milwaukee hospitals. Horizon, which is owned by Columbia St. Mary's and Froedtert Health, initially planned to build a free-standing hospice.
"Through extensive research and our own experience, we discovered that an inpatient unit is the best approach from both a business and patient/family care perspective," Mary Haynor, president and chief executive of Horizon, said in a statement. "Most hospice patients come from a hospital, so if a patient can't go home, it's much easier for all involved, physically and as well as emotionally, to move only a few floors than transporting patients to a separate facility."
Mequon police warn of phone scam targeting elderly residents
Mequon police are warning residents about phone scammers who are targeted elderly citizens by claiming their son or grandson had been in a drunken-driving accident out of state and needed to be bailed out.
At least seven people reported getting the calls and two people forwarded more than $10,000 to the scammers via Western Union, Mequon police said in a news release.
"The perpetrators of these scams clearly have used different resources to obtain detailed information regarding the victims' families and use this information in the scam to manipulate the victims into sending money via Western Union to different locations," police said in the release. "The perpetrators of these scams are very good at what they do and are very convincing to the subjects that they are contacting in order to obtain money."
Police said the scammers target residents over the age of 60 who have children and grandchildren. Police urged residents to be very careful about calls requesting cash be forwarded via Western Union, and said not to provide any personal information or bank account information via phone or online.» Read Full Article
View photos, videos of tree lightings in southeast Wisconsin
Tree lightings are one sure sign of the holiday season, even if snow has yet to come out.
Get in the festive mood with photos and videos from social media users from tree lighting ceremonies in southeast Wisconsin.
View the story here. Do you have photos from tree lightings in southeast Wisconsin that you would like to add to the story? Contact Dan Polley at email@example.com.
Can you identify this Brown Deer theft suspect?
The Brown Deer Police Department is looking for help identifying a suspect in at least seven entries to autos and thefts from autos.
According to a BDPD news release:
At 1:10 a.m. on Nov. 20 the suspect gained entry into the Northpointe Apartments, 9418 N. Green Bay Road in Brown Deer. He rang multiple doorbells until he was let into the secured lobby. The suspect then went into the underground parking area and let in a second subject in a vehicle. Multiple cars were entered, damaged, and items were stolen. The two left in the vehicle together.
The first suspect is described as: Black male late teens to early 20s, 5'8" to 5'11" with a slim build and short black hair, wearing a black hooded Adidas zipper sweatshirt with white stripes on the sleeves, tan pants, and bright pink Adidas tennis shoes.
The second suspect was not described.» Read Full Article
Brown Deer boys basketball team ralies for 85-70 victory over Greendale
It was a personal challenge from Brown Deer coach Kelly Appleby to senior forward Donte Harmon and to the Falcon team in general.
Their unbeaten start to the season was serious jeopardy Tuesday night in Greendale, as Panther guards Jordan Perez (17 points in the first half) and Nick Dalton (15 points in the same session) ran around and through the Falcon defense to the tune of a 31-17 second quarter outburst that put Brown Deer in a 49-36 hole at the break.
"We struggled big time in the first half defensively," said Appleby. "Perez is a very fine player, but we were letting him get to the basket much too easily. We had to go out there and make a bit more uncomfortable."
"We were going to put Donte (Harmon) on him in the first half, but he (Harmon) picked up two fouls, but once we did it in the second half, he (Harmon) was spectacular. We took away the main focus to their offense and then we found a little rhythm ourselves."
Indeed, Perez scored only one more point the rest of the game and Dalton was held scoreless in the second half as the Falcons turned up the team pressure, flipping the score with an impressive 28-7 third quarter run that eventually led to an 85-70 Brown Deer victory.» Read Full Article
Glendale lawyer reprimanded for professional misconduct
A Glendale lawyer was publicly reprimanded by the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday and ordered to pay more than $14,000 for the cost of the discipline action.
Acting on a 2010 complaint by the Office of Lawyer Regulation, a referee found that Vladimir Gorokhovsky committed eight violations in the course of filing a sentence modification motion that his client neither sought nor approved, without even consulting with the client but taking direction -- and payment -- from the defendant's former girlfriend, the victim in the case that landed him in jail.
Further, according to the court's ruling, Gorokhovsky ran up more than $1,800 in fees before he ever communicated with the client, and billed a total of more than $8,000.
To top it all off, once the OLR got involved, Gorokhovsky back-dated a letter to the client and supplied it to OLR investigators.
Gorokhovsky defended the OLR claims during a 2 1/2 day hearing, and appealed the referee's findings.The Supreme Court rejected all his challenges to the referee's findings, as well as Gorokhovsky's suggestion that he acted in good faith during a "learning curve" and should get only a private reprimand.» Read Full Article
Nordstrom looked at Bayshore, but focused on Mayfair
news that Nordstrom Inc. would open its Wisconsin department store at Mayfair mall, in Wauwatosa, some Land & Space readers were again asking about Bayshore Town Center, in Glendale, as a possible location for the upscale retailer.After last week's
Seattle-based Nordstrom did consider Bayshore several years ago, according to one industry source who was involved in those deliberations. Nordstrom would have taken the place of Sears, which anchors Bayshore's northern end.
But Sears executives wouldn't make a decision on whether to accept an offer to buy out the remaining years on the store's lease, the source said. So, Nordstrom instead focused on Mayfair.
Bayshore also isn't as centrally located as Mayfair. One example: Mayfair is roughly the same distance drive from the North Shore and Waukesha County's Lake Country--both affluent areas with the types of shoppers Nordstrom targets.
I asked Erik Nordstrom, the company's president of stores, about Bayshore.» Read Full Article


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Animal lifespans range widely, from several days to over a century, yet the underlying reasons for these vast differences remain poorly understood. Many cell types are terminally differentiated in adult organisms, and in some instances these individual cells may endure for the entire adult lifespan. The goal of my research program is to gain a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms permitting these long-lived cells to maintain their functional integrity throughout the lifespan. Currently, we are using two types of experimental models to explore this. We use mice harbouring gene mutations that confer increases in maximal lifespan of up to 50% (e.g. the Snell dwarf mouse). We also employ a broadly comparative approach, using naturally short- and long-lived animal species to identify characteristics that have been selected during the evolution of increased lifespans.
We hypothesize that longevity is associated with one or more of the following cellular properties: (1) improved reactive oxygen species (ROS) metabolism. ROS are produced by mitochondria during normal respiration and, though ROS have important biological functions, they can initiate reactions leading to cell death. We study differences in the expression of antioxidant enzymes that neutralize the lethal effects of ROS. (2) improved ability to handle proteotoxic stress. Protein damage due to both endogenous and exogenous stressors interrupts normal cellular functions and activities leading, in the worse case scenario, to cell death. We study differences in proteasome activity, protein repair and heat shock protein expression that are associated with longevity. (3) improved ability to handle genotoxic stress. DNA damage from endogenous and exogenous agents threatens cell viability. The enhancement of longevity may be achievable by maintaining robust DNA protection and repair activities. We study DNA base excision repair activities, in the nucleus and mitochondria of animal cells, and how these relate to lifespan. (4) improved capacity for dead cell replacement. We are interested in the role of tissue resident stem cells (progenitor cells) in longevity, as the ability of these cells to replace lost tissue cells may be critical to achieving longer lifespans.
We are also studying the biological activities of phytoestrogens, such as resveratrol. This molecule, found in red wine and a variety of fruit and vegetables, interacts with cellular signaling pathways and enhances cellular stress resistance. We have identified the mitochondrial superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) as an important target of resveratrol and are now studying the detailed molecular mechanisms by which resveratrol elicits the induction of MnSOD and developing ways to enhance resveratrol delivery in vivo.
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Vertebrate species maximum lifespans vary from several years to over two centuries, and this presents an opportunity to investigate the underlying biological traits that have co-evolved with longevity. We maintain a cell and tissue bank with brain, heart, liver, and kidney samples and skeletal muscle myoblasts from over 20 mammalian, avian and reptilian species. These collections provide a means to investigate the expression levels of various putative longevity traits in the context of longevity.
The Comparative Cellular and Molecular Biology of Longevity (CCMBL) database (http://genomics.brocku.ca/ccmbl/) contains the combined datasets from dozens of studies (including ours) in which cellular and molecular traits have been measured in the context of evolved species longevity. The purpose of the CCMBL database is simply to provide a convenient repository that brings together the accumulating wealth of species longevity data that is available but distributed widely in the scientific literature. We hope that this single-source collection of information will promote an integrative appreciation of the cellular and molecular biology of longevity by providing a broad comparative framework into which new data can be inserted as it becomes available.
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Recent Publications
Stuart, J.A. and Robb, E.L. Bioactive Polyphenols from Wine Grapes. Springer Press, New Jeresey. 2013. 77 pp.
Stuart, J.A., Editor, Mitochondrial DNA: Methods and Protocols, 2nd edition. Volume 197 In: Methods in Molecular Biology, Human Press, Totowa, New Jersey. 2009.
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Page, M.M. and Stuart, J.A. In vitro measurement of mitochondrial DNA base excision repair enzyme activities. In: Mitochondrial DNA: Methods and Protocols, 2nd edition. Methods in Molecular Biology Series, J.M. Walker, Human Press, Totowa, New Jersey. Published online June 2009.
Stuart, J.A. and Page, M.M. DNA oxidative damage and cancer. Oxidative Stress in Aging: From Model Systems to Human Diseases. Humana Press, May 2008.
Journal articles
Stuart, J.A., Maddalena, L.A., Merilovich, M., and Robb, E.L., 2014. A Midlife Crisis for the Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging. Healthspan and Longevity. In press.
Robb, E.L, Christoff, C.A., Maddalena, L.A., and Stuart, J.A., 2014. Mitochondrial reactive oxygen species in animal cells: relevance to aging and normal physiology. Can. J. Zool. In press.
Robb, E.L. and Stuart, J.A., 2014. The stilbenes resveratrol, pterostilbene and piceid affect growth and stress resistance in mammalian cells via a mechanism requiring estrogen receptor beta and the induction of Mn-superoxide dismutase. Phytochemistry, 98,164-173.
Robb, E.L. and Stuart, J.A., 2014. Multiple phytoestrogens inhibit cell growth and confer cytoprotection by inducing manganese superoxide dismutase expression. Phytother. Res. 28,120-131.
Stuart, J.A., Liang, P., Luo, X., Page, M.M., Gallagher, E.J., Christoff, C.A. and Robb, E.L., 2013. A Comparative Cellular and Molecular Biology of Longevity Database. Age. 35,1937-1947.
Robb, E.L., Maddalena,
Page, M.M. and Stuart, J.A., 2011. Activities of DNA base excision repair enzymes in liver and brain correlate with body mass, but not lifespan. Age. In press.
Kronenberg, G., Gertz, K., Overall, R.W., Harms, C., Klein, J., Page, M.M., Stuart, J.A., Endres, M., 2011. Folate deficiency increases mtDNA and D-1 mtDNA deletion in aged brain of mice lacking uracil-DNA glycosylase. Exptl. Neurol. In press.
Salway, K.D., Gallagher, E.J. and Stuart, J.A., 2011. Longer-lived mammals and birds have higher levels of heat shock proteins. Mech. Age. Devel. In press.
Skandalis, D.A., Stuart, J.A. and Tattersall, G.J., 2011. Responses of Drosophila melanogaster to atypical oxygen atmospheres. J. Insect Physiol. In press.
Robb, E.L. and Stuart, J.A., 2011. Resveratrol interacts with estrogen receptor-β to inhibit cell replicative growth and enhance stress resistance by upregulating mitochondrial superoxide dismutase. Free Radic. Biol. Med. In press.
Stuart, J.A. and Page, M.M., 2010. Plasma [IGF-1] is negatively correlated with body mass in a comparison of 36 mammalian species. Mech. Age. Devel. 131, 591-598.
Salway, K.D. and Stuart, J.A., 2010. Antioxidant enzymes and oxidative damage biomarkers in heart and selected other tissues of estivating and arousing land snails (Achatina fulica). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 157, 229-36.
Salway, K.D., Page, M. M., Faure, P.A., Burness, G. and Stuart, J.A., 2010. Enhanced protein repair and recycling are not correlated with longevity in 15 vertebrate endotherm species. AGE. Published online Jun 22.
Robb. E.L. and Stuart, J.A., 2010. trans-Resveratrol as a neuroprotectant. Molecules 15, 1196-1212.
Page, M.M., Robb, E.L., Salway, K.D., and Stuart, J.A., 2010. Mitochondrial redox metabolism: aging, longevity and dietary effects. Mech. Ageing and Devel. 131, 242-252.
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Page, M.M., Salway, K.D., Ip, Y.K., Chew, S.F., Warren, S.A., Ballantyne, J.S. and Stuart, J.A., 2010. Upregulation of intracellular antioxidant enzymes in brain and heart during estivation in the African lungfish Protopterus dolloi. J. Comp. Physiol. B 180, 361-369.
Page, M.M, Salmon, A.B., Leiser, S.F., Robb, E.L., Brown, M.F., Miller, R.A. and Stuart, J.A. 2009. Mechanisms of stress resistance in Snell dwarf mouse fibroblasts: enhanced antioxidant and DNA base excision repair capacity, but no differences in mitochondrial metabolism. Free Radic. Biol. Med. 46, 1109-1118.
Robb, E.L., Page, M.M. and Stuart, J.A., 2009. Mitochondria, cellular stress resistance, somatic cell depletion and lifespan. Current Aging Science 1, 12-27.
Page, M.M., Peters, C.W., Staples, J.F. and Stuart, J.A., 2009. Intracellular superoxide dismutases are not altered during hibernation in the 13-lined ground squirrel Spermophilus tridecemlineatus. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol. 152,115-22.
Robb, E.L., Winkelmolen, L., Visanji, N., Brotchie, J., Stuart, J.A., 2008. Dietary resveratrol administration increases MnSOD expression and activity in mouse brain. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 372, 254-9.
Robb, E.L., Page, M.M., Wiens, B.E. and Stuart, J.A., 2008. A specific, progressive and profound induction of mitochondrial superoxide dismutase in human cells exposed to trans-resveratrol. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 367, 406-412.
Brown, M.F. and Stuart, J.A., 2007. Correlation of mitochondrial superoxide dismutase and DNA polymerase β in mammalian dermal fibroblasts with species maximal lifespan. Mech. Age. Dev. 128, 696-705.
Brown, M.F., Gratton, T.P. and Stuart, J.A., 2007. Metabolic Rate does not scale with body mass in cultured mammalian cells. Am. J. Physiol. 292, R2115-2121.
Stuart, J.A. and M.F. Brown, 2006. Mitochondrial DNA maintenance and bioenergetics. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1757, 79-89.
Stuart, J.A. and M.F. Brown, 2006. Energy, quiescence and the cellular basis of animal life spans. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. A 143, 12-23.
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On Monday we announced our support for the EMC Greenplum distribution of Hadoop called EMC Greenplum HD. You can read about all the details in our press release, Pentaho Makes Hadoop Faster, More Affordable and Easier to Use with EMC.
This week we have been at EMC World in Las Vegas as a sponsor in booth 211 (if you are at the conference come visit us). We've had a great crowd and interest in Pentaho BI Suite for Hadoop, Pentaho Data Integration for Hadoop and our new native support for the Greenplum Database GPLoad high performance bulk loader. Two questions that attendees keep asking are: "How is Pentaho supporting EMC Greenplum HD," and "Why should I care?" You can read my answers below and more details about our announcement in the press release and Pentaho & EMC web page.
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Pentaho is the only EMC Greenplum partner to provide a complete BI solution from data integration through to reporting, analysis, dashboarding and data mining, from a single BI platform with shared metadata. Pentaho's support and certification complements the Greenplum distribution of Hadoop by providing an end-to-end data integration and BI suite with the cost advantages of open source that enables:
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By combining Pentaho's powerful BI suite with the strength of EMC Greenplum's storage and data management domain expertise, the industry benefits from maximum data throughput and significantly shorter implementation cycles for new Hadoop deployments.
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So for the formula $\dfrac {1}{x}$, If you were to add up all $y$ values from $x=1$ to $x=∞$, wouldn't the sum approach a number because even though you are always adding, aren't you just adding smaller and smaller numbers? Wouldn't this mean that it approached a certain number?
Ignoring the 1, if you group together the first term, then the next two terms, then the next four terms, and so on, you get:
$$(1/2) + (1/3 + 1/4) + (1/5 + 1/6 + 1/7 + 1/8) + \cdots$$
which is greater than
$$(1/2) + (1/4 + 1/4) + (1/8 + 1/8 + 1/8 + 1/8) + \cdots$$
where now each group is exactly equal to 1/2. This shows that the sum of the first $2^n$ terms is at least $1 + 1/2 \cdot n$, and so the sum of all the terms is unbounded.
If you know a little bit of calculus, $\int dx/x=\log x$, so $1+1/2+1/3+\cdots+1/n\ge\int_1^ndx/x=\log n-\log1$.
See http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/5035 which discusses precisely how fast the series diverges.
Your logic fails much more obviously for the series
Though each term is smaller than the last, it is clearly divergent (think of $1 + 1 + 1 + \cdots$)
Yes it is true that the numbers you are adding are getting smaller and smaller. The key is that they do not get small quick enough. There are many proofs that can be found easily online (search for proof that the harmonic series diverges) that show that you can add up enough terms of the harmonic series to make its sum as large as you wish. The key is that the rate of growth of the (partial sums of the) harmonic series is logarithmic. Even though $\ln(x)$ grows extremely slowly, it can still be made larger than any fixed value given sufficiently large $x$.
As others have explained, the series diverges. But the divergence is very slow, indeed. See below.
A recent related idea for a first year calculus exercise:
An intelligent robot named Marvin travelled back in time to the moment of the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago. He started calculating the partial sums of the harmonic series $$ \frac11+\frac12+\frac13+\frac14+\frac15+\cdots $$ He added one term to the partial sum per second. Using the estimates leading to the so called integral test answer the following question: As of today, has Marvin's sum reached the value 42?
Let's try a series that diverges more quickly. The sequence $b_n = \sqrt{n}$ clearly grows to infinity, but slowly. The sequence
$$a_n = b_{n+1} - b_n = \sqrt{n+1} - \sqrt{n} = \frac{1}{\sqrt{n+1} + \sqrt{n}}$$
goes to zero. Nevertheless, it is clear that the series $a_1 + a_2 + a_3 + ... $ diverges.


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The Salvation Army's School of Culinary Arts in Chattanooga, Tennessee is celebrating the first graduating class of its program! As of result of their training, three students have all successfully secured jobs in the local area, and two of them have transitioned from homelessness to permanent housing.
This culinary arts program is different than your average cooking school in that it is designed to equip local homeless and low income persons with the skills they need to thrive in the food service industry, empowering them to overcome homelessness and unemployment.
Chef Terry Epps, a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu College, runs the 12-week program in which students get hands on training in environmentally friendly agriculture, meal preparation, and even resume and interview tips. The culinary schools wraps ups with a two-week internship in a local restaurant kitchen.
The Chattanoogan featured the following from the newspaper's conversation with Chef Epps and a program graduate named Jasmine:
"The students are learning the skills necessary to work in kitchens which prepare daily staples such as hamburgers, as well as, more formal kitchens where complex, multiple course meals are the norm" said Chef Terry Epps. Though the focus is on marketable skills, Chef Epps has noticed additional benefits. "When my students put on their uniforms I see a boost in their confidence. They are uplifted and excited to learn and change their lives."
"The School is proof that there is hope out there," said Jasmine, a formerly homeless mother of two small children. "I want to change my life for the better and this program has made that possible."
You can watch first hand interviews of Chef Epps and Jasmine HERE in a news story run by WDEF 12 about the life changing program.
Congratulations to the new graduates, and best wishes at your new jobs! We hope many others will be inspired to take advantage of this Salvation Army program. In fact, although the School of Culinary Arts is only able to take 5 students per class, there are already 20 applicants for the next class in July!
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I know that after "Black Friday" many online poker sites didn't allow U.S. Players to play for real money anymore. I've heard/seen that it's possible to play via bitcoins and/or other proxy methods. Other than those ways described, is it possible to play in the US for real money?
As of July 2012, the two biggest places for US players to play are currently on sites that are part of either the Merge Network (such as Carbon Poker and Black Chip Poker) or the Revolution Gaming Network (such as Lock Poker and Cake Poker). Both sets of sites get a reasonable amount of traffic, offer good rewards and rakeback, and most importantly still accept US players. I deposited with one of them using my credit card in early July.
It's also worth noting that Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware have passed laws to license and regulate intrastate online poker by the end of 2013. That should create new options for players residing in those states, but it might also make it so those players can't play on foreign sites (which includes every site in operation prior to 2013).
I believe plenty of sites offer ways (I am sure PokerStars does ) to play for real money. The trick is you are never "playing for cash".
You purchase some "gaming currency" with real money, then you can gamble with the "gaming currency" and eventually cash out the gaming currency for USD.
edit(1): It appears it's much easier than I thought... Looks like it's as simple as throwing down a little plastic. Links below:
Edit(2): I stand corrected. http://www.pokerstars.com/usaplayers/faq/
There's a hack that allow you to play online poker for real money in the US and anywhere in the world for that matter. You basically play in Seals with Clubs by using Bitcoins. Back when this question was first posted the site wasn't that big, but today it holds enough tables and player to make it an pretty nice site. Since bitcoins have no regulations yet you can play uninterrupted from anywhere worldwide.
The problem lies in how to obtain the Bitcoins, but there's a process that can easily let you by Bitcoins with Paypal or a credit card and after that you're good to go. You can check this post for the full explanation of the process.
To add to what Jeffrey said, you can play on the Merge Network. However, setting up an account that can be used to process deposits and withdrawals is kinda a pain. From what I remember there is some paper work you have to fill out, along with a scanned copy of your driver's license. To be honest with you it's really not worth it. It takes about 8 weeks to process checks and the player pools are somewhat small.
I play for real money almost every day on Bovada and enjoy it very much. It is legal to play online for US citizens/residents. Some states may specifically disallow it but most don't. There's no federal law against playing online poker. It's just not legal for US banks to make transfers to poker sites. This means you have to use Western Union to fund your account which is a pain but doable. When you withdraw you will get a non-descript check drawn on a foreign bank. Just deposit it in the atm and wait a couple of days. You'll get your money.
If you are looking to play poker online for real money.
go to that link, make your account and start playing
in december, i got accounts at bovada, bcp, and acr. tried at carbon, but they did not like the visa card that i used for the other 3 casinos.
see my answer to this question.
The easiest way to get back in the game is to play in freerolls and low buy-in added value tournaments.
This keeps your exposure low and abilities and training up. If you have a choice to play at a legal site give it a go but you should also keep an eye and dial on more established sites which bring in better and more regular players.
The style of a winning player can't be easily determined on a legal site which has less player tracking details.
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Where to find the cross
What does it mean: Let him take up his cross? Let him bear whatever trouble he encounters; thats how to follow me. For when a person begins to follow me in conformity to my life and precepts, he will encounter many to contradict him, many to hinder him, many to dissuade him, and this even from among people who are, as it were, Christ's companions. It was people who were walking with Christ who hindered the blind men from crying out to him. Whether it be threats or caresses, or any kind of hindrances, if you wish to follow Christ, turn them into your cross, bear it, carry it, do not give way beneath it. (Augustine, Sermon 96, 4; PL 38, 586)
This sermon was delivered shortly after one Easter. The point made above is made in several of Augustines Easter sermons when he warns the newly baptized about the sinners they will undoubtedly meet among their fellow Christians. For example:
Let me speak to those who were baptized today and were reborn in Christ Jesus.... Behold, you have become members of Christ. If you think about what you have become, all your bones will say, Lord, who is like you (Ps 24[25]? Its impossible to think worthily of that mercy of God, and all our speech and thought fails, that this gratuitous grace has come to you without any previous merits of yours. Thats why its called grace, because its given gratis. What grace? That you are members of Christ, the Son of God; that you are brothers and sisters of an only Son. If he is an only Son, how can you be his brothers and sisters unless he is the only Son by nature and you have become his brothers and sisters by grace.Now that you have become members of Christ, I tell you I am afraid for you, not so much because of pagans or Jews or heretics as because of bad Catholics. Choose those in the people of God whom you will imitate. If you wish to follow the crowd, you will not be among the few who walk the narrow path. Abstain from fornication, theft, fraud, perjury, illicit things, disputes. Let drunkenness be driven from you, and fear adultery like death, not the death that looses the soul from the body, but the death where the soul burns along with the body.
Then, after a lengthy indictment of adultery, he concludes:
Let people of this sort correct themselves while they still live, lest afterwards they want to and cant. Death comes sudden ly, and instead of correcting oneself, one is cast into hell. When the last hour is going to come is not known, and people say: Ill correct myself. When are you going to correct yourself? When are you going to change? Tomorrow [cras], you say. You say cras, cras so many times youve become a crow! I tell you, while youre cawing like a crow, ruin is coming upon you. That crow whose caw youre imitating left the ark and did not return (Gen 8:7). You, brother, return to the Church which that ark symbolized.And you who have just been baptized, listen to me, you who have been reborn through the blood of Christ: I beg you by the name that has been invoked upon you, by the altar to which you now have access, by the mysteries that you have received, by the future judgment of the living and the deadI beg you, I bind you by the name of Christ, do not imitate the people you know to be like that. May the sacrament remain in you of him who did not will to come down from the cross but willed to rise from the grave. (Augustine, Sermon 224, 1, 4; PL 38m, 1093-1095)
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" I tell you I am afraid for you, not so much because of pagans or Jews or heretics as because of bad Catholics."I can't tell you how delighted I am to see that this term has such an ancient and eminent lineage :-)
" Tomorrow [cras], you say. You say cras, cras so many times youve become a crow!"I am enjoying Augustine more and more. So much energy! Such vibrancy! He is delightful.
St. Augustine often contrasted the moaning or groaning of the dove to the raucous cawing of the crow. For an example, seehttp://books.google.com/books?id=DAn6876NIZYC&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=dove...
Crows and ravens get a bad rap in Biblical literary symbolism. Augustine forgets that a Raven fed Elijah (an image that recurs in countless hagiographies). And then there's Luke 12:24: Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feeds them.God loves both the doves who moan for Christ and the ravens, the troublemakers, the selfish, the ones who moan for themselves, no? If not, a lot of us are in deep trouble.
Jean: Augustine didn't forget the crow that fed Elijah; he refers to it in several sermons and works.
Father, good to know that St. Augustine elsewhere remembered the ravens. I have a special fondness for corvids. Extremely intelligent creatures!
The psalmist in Psalm 147 thought to mention ravens, a reference I've always thought curious:fII7Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving;with the lyre make music to our God,8Who covers the heavens with clouds,provides rain for the earth,makes grass sprout on the mountains,h9Who gives animals their foodand young ravens what they cry for.
Jim: Augustine allegorizes this to mean that the ravens are heathen idolators and their young are Christian converts who have learned to whom to cry for their food.
Non sequitur.Today I found a strange sentence about redemption in the Vatican document on redemption http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/cti_documents/rc_... "[According to Augustine,] the work of redemption must be worthy of both God and man, and thus God forgives and forgets sin only if the human person repents and atones for it. ""only if" was that really Augustine's view? That God won't forgive sin until after man has repented?
OK, this is a bit off topic, but I don't think St. Augustine would protest. Here's what Pope Francis is planning for the Holy Thursday service next week:http://news.yahoo.com/pope-hold-major-holy-week-youth-jail-102837255.htm... another act of humility and the breaking of barriers!
Claire: I notice that no footnote to a particular Augustinian text accompanies the sentence you cite. It could be taken to refer to the application of the redemption won by Christ to each individual, and I think it would be true that God can't save a person who does not repent. That God desires to save, and has saved in Christ, of course, can be what brings a person to repent and so to be able to appropriate the grace of salvation. Repentance would in fact be the grace of salvation as applied and appropriated. To be "worthy of both God and man," the freedom of both God and man has to be involved. That's my best guess as to what the sentence means.
I see. You replaced "forgives and forgets sin" by "saves", and then it makes sense. Probably, that's what was meant. Thank you!
Claire: You raised an interesting point: Can one forgive and forget the sin of a person who is not repentant for it? If this is possible in the sense that one is ready to forgive and repent, what has this readiness accomplished if the other person is not repentant? I think I would say that it is not because a person has repented that God forgives--God's love has no created cause and his forgiving grace is grace--that is, gratuitous--, but the effect of grace in the heart of the person is repentance and the return of love.
I guess that that was discussed several times already recently. Sometimes it even happens between two persons, that forgiveness causes repentance rather than the other way round.
"I think I would say that it is not because a person has repented that God forgivesGods love has no created cause and his forgiving grace is gracethat is, gratuitous, but the effect of grace in the heart of the person is repentance and the return of love."I think this is a wonderful insight. The person in need of repentance may have built "walls" around himself that prevent any repentance from being communicated - walls consisting of fear, or self-loathing, or stubbornness, or some other attitude or emotion that interferes with full reconciliation. The "creditor's" unilateral outreach of forgiveness and love may cause the "debtor's" walls to be lowered, such that reconciliation can take place.
I think I would say that it is not because a person has repented that God forgivesGods love has no created cause and his forgiving grace is gracethat is, gratuitous, but the effect of grace in the heart of the person is repentance and the return of love.I've been searching the gospels in my mind for examples of gratuitous forgiveness causing repentance. Unfortunately nothing comes to mind so far.
Perhaps I am using too much imagination, but ISTM that the Prodigal Son's repentance was based on the fact that he had failed in his efforts to succeed, i.e. he ended up living in a pig sty. When the Father sees him returning home in deplorable condition, His gratuitous forgiveness causes Him to rush forth to meet the Prodigal. Certainly such a welcome would prompt feelings of love to arise. We have to assume, of course, that the Prodigal had a conscience.
Certainly such a welcome would prompt feelings of love to arise. But we don't know. It's certainly not highlighted and it's possibly not there.You could hypothesize in the same way for the adulterous woman, but we don't know either.


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Back in December I visited the Worship Street Whistling Shop for a very special, two hour long 'multi-sensory experience': the final Diageo Whisky Theatre of the year. The project is the work of irrepressible Diageo brand ambassador Colin Dunn and the Fluid Movement duo of Tristan Stephenson and Tom Aske who have presented similar experiences in the past, for example with rum, but the mention of whisky certainly caught our attention immediately! I believe Tristan also has a whisky book coming out this year too – one to watch out for.
There is (just) room for nine people but I was joined by a fab four of Gin Monkey, Imbibe's Laura Foster (recent winner of the Alan Lodge Young International Spirits Writer of the Year), Siobhan Payne from Difford's Guide and London Cocktail Week and Alex Kratena off of The Artesian (named The World's Best Bar for the second year running in 2013).
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I'm running Mac OS X Snow Leopard server on a mac mini and was wondering what the best free FTP server was? I hear okay things about pure-ftpd but I'd like something with an easy to manage UI as well etc...
Unless you're planning on running an extremely heavy loaded ftp server (which the mini won't be able to handle anyway) the built in FTP Server should be enough.
Pure-ftpd is a classic in the unix world and I'm sure you can of course make that run under OSX, but it doesn't have a "UI", it's all command line. (But very easy to configure anyway).
The built in web server is great, and the Server Admin tools in Mac OS Server also make managing the machine awesome as well.
That is correct. The build in FTP is great.
But Symbolic Links show up as binaries as soon as the mapped driver is not on the system it self but an network share.
SO it's is not useable for me. And there is no alternative that has the same quality standards as OSX. I've been asking all over the place but the question is asked several times no one has an answer. That is a pitty.
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edit: sorry, speed read and missed the part about best free server. Rumpus is not free.
Hands down best FTP server for OS X is Rumpus. We use it at work to deliver content to clients and also to receive content from providers. Extremely easy to use, but is also very configurable. We have been using it for years & he dev has always replied to our emails within 24hrs.
Worth a try, it will not disappoint!


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We have a UI requirement, where users need to be able to create several ranges from 0-1000.
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I don't like a long list of 1000 numbers, where you disable already selected values, and allow them to pick all the values that are allowed. But it's not "range based", so I don't like it.


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More experiments suggest the possibility of identifying the compound that may be advantageous and beverage industries. Recent surveys have shown how the compound decomposes in an acid environment for this reason the proven theory that vinegar substantially cuts down on the muddy taste of most fresh water fishes. Other uses of the compound that are currently being studied fervently incorporate pharmacological interest, plant pollination, and even in fragrance manufacture.
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WHEELING - The Federal Building in Wheeling went into a full lockdown Wednesday after a man made what police termed a "terroristic threat" to shoot up the building.
A Wheeling police report said a medical assistant from a doctor's office at the Valley Professional Center notified police that Charles Edwin Coffman, 43, of Wheeling made the threat.
The report said police found Coffman in the company of a woman who told them that Coffman said, "if everything keeps going like this, I am going to do what the cop did to the Federal Building, and I can get the guns." Coffman was apparently referencing an October incident in which Thomas Piccard fired 26 shots into the Federal Building's facade and glass before being shot and killed by authorities.
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ARRESTED — Charles Edwin Coffman appears before Ohio County Magistrate Joe Roxby on Wednesday after being arrested for making threats against the Federal Building. -- Fred Connors
Police went to the Federal Building, where a full lockdown remained in place until Coffman had been located.
Wheeling Police Lt. Rob Marriner said Coffman had a disagreement Wednesday morning with personnel at Ohio Valley Medical Center concerning his medications. No further details were released Wednesday.
Coffman is charged with willfully threatening to commit a terrorist act, a felony carrying a penalty of one to three years in prison and a fine of not less than $5,000 nor more than $25,000. Ohio County Magistrate Joe Roxby set a full cash bond of $25,000.
U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II said following the October incident at the building, he and his staff were much more prepared for a threat, whether it be real or perceived.
"I advised the employees to find shelter within the office," he said. "It was a little different than October in that most of us had gone through it and I think we were a little better prepared and more calm."
Ihlenfeld said regardless of the seriousness or likelihood of a threat, all such instances must be taken seriously.
"You can't downplay anything like that," he said. "You can't underestimate what someone might be capable of."


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