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The Environmental Protection Agency has had a partnership with Bennington College and Professor Susan Sgorbati for the past two years. Susan teaches a class called "Solving the Impossible", where students look at intractable problems and develop skills to work towards solutions. The 22 students in last year's class decided to tackle the issue of climate change and energy efficiency.
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Thriving in the Green Mountains and awash with trees, Bennington already looks pretty green to the casual observer. But the efforts it's making to become a "green campus"—which includes the ambitious long-term goal of achieving complete carbon neutrality—are changing the way it uses resources from the inside out.
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Environmental Studies Director Valerie Imbruce was interviewed on WBAI Pacifica Radio in New York City for a segment on the City's plans to make its food system more locally sourced and accessible to low-income and immigrant communities. Imbruce's expertise on the subject stems from her extensive research on the global expansion of Chinatown's food system, which examines the demand for ethnic produce from Asian immigrants in New York City, and maps the distinct agricultural networks that have formed as a result.
Get to know the flora, fine-art trellises, and dedicated keepers of the Bennington Student Garden, a two-year-old initiative powered by the student-run Bennington Sustainable Food Project.
Since filming, this project has grown to 50 active members and moved to a bigger, permanent garden plot. Among the many garden projects are a student-run food coop cart (called "Coop"), a wood-fired oven, and an herb labyrinth.
From garden to lunch in 90 seconds with Sofie Sherman-Burton '12 and Bryan Markhart '13 of the Bennington Sustainable Food Project, which aims to bring enriched, locally-sourced food to campus.
Courses | Faculty | Sustainability Committee
The program on the environment at Bennington, like all areas of study, draws upon the College's faculty to provide an interdisciplinary perspective at how environmental issues impact the natural and social worlds. How do ethics, politics, and economics overlap with environmental issues? How do aesthetic and artistic perspectives shape our relationship with nature? The core environmental questions are not only or even necessarily scientific—they are social and policy-driven and are integrated across the entire College.
Beyond the classroom, the environmental studies program supports student research and Field Work Term internships, facilitates campus-based sustainability initiatives, and works to expand relationships with local environmental consortia and other institutions. The campus Sustainability Committee, which accepts and reviews proposals for projects like the organic Student Garden, allows students to tackle environmental problems on a local scale.
A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2009 has supported Bennington's program on the environment. The College's longstanding commitment to sustainability and conservation has earned Bennington a place in the Princeton Review's first ever Guide to 286 Green Colleges, which was compiled and published in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council.


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If knowledge is power, education is the
key that unlocks that power. The more education you have, whether it is
taught in school or learned on your own through reading or studying, the
more powerful you are. Only when you know all the details of a particular
topic can you really argue a good point or teach others. While we may only
think of schools and text books as education, other areas such as books we
simply enjoy, websites, education coloring pages and friends or family who
are very knowledgeable about a particular topic can help us continue
gaining knowledge as well. Education doesn't end with graduation. It is a
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It is surprising how much detail is already present in your baby's body. This closeup of an ear shows that its helical pattern of folds is nearly fully developed, although it is still too soon for your baby to hear anything.
By week 14, if you stand in your underwear in front of the mirror, you will see a change in your body shape, but to the outside world you may not look very different. Women who have previously been pregnant tend to show earlier than those who are pregnant for the first time, because their stomach muscles have already been stretched once and so stretch much more quickly. Women often say that this is the time when they look as though they have put on weight and feel fat, not pregnant! But it won't be long before your belly will be visible for the world to see.
If you're feeling uncomfortable and heavy, make sure you choose the right clothes. See the section Become a clothes cheat! for some tips on how to adapt your wardrobe without having to spend any money yet.
Check with your doctor before opting for complementary and alternative medicine. This umbrella term covers medical practices and products that are not considered part of conventional medicine, and studies of their effects on pregnancy may not have been done. "Natural" doesn't mean "safe."
Now that you're in the second trimester, you may be sleeping better, since the urge to go to the bathroom frequently may have subsided, allowing you to stay in bed all night long once again. Or maybe not, since sleep-related problems can affect women during the entire pregnancy. Here are some common problems and solutions:
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Good day to all.
I would like to ask assistant on the issue I am having with my site which I could not get fixed. http://inview.wpengine.com/home (don't mind its homepage - its just a temporary html landing page) It's a 2-column template (Left: Content ; Right: Sidebar) which I customized from the TwentyEleven WP theme. As you can see, there is a white space between the content on the left column which supposed to be have same bg as the ones with contents. Both sides have same Issues everytime one of the column has lesser content compared to the other side.
I know this question has been answered a few times on other posts but I can't seem to get it work and I am hoping somebody can help me fix it. Thank you so much.


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What's New
Help Ticket System
Continuing our commitment to provide excellent technical support to faculty and staff using instructional technologies, the e-Learning Center has implemented a new support-tracking system. This system will allow ELC staff to ensure prompt, thorough responses to support requests while allowing instructors to view the status of their support tickets. To access this system, choose the Faculty Support tab on the e-Learning Center web site.
Configure Your Bb Vista Course
Instructors may now request various configuration changes to their Bb Vista sections from one convenient site. On the e-Learning Center web site, select "Configure Your Bb Vista Course Section" (located in the Bb Vista section). You can request that students be enrolled to finish incompletes, that two or more Bb Vista sections be combined, that your Bb Vista sections not be used at all, and other options. More configuration choices will be added soon, so check back often!
What's Happening
e-Learning Institute
May 21-24, 2007
The e-Learning Center is hosting the annual 4-day conference featuring keynote speakers and several program tracks with a focus on Learning in a Mobile and Collaborative World. Our web site will have conference updates, registration information, and you can join our mailing list to stay updated on speakers, sessions, and how to register for the event.
e-LEARNING SHOWCASE
The e-Learning Center hosts the Spring 2007 e-Learning Showcase on March 9th from 10:00am - 3:00pm at the Cline Library, Room 200. This e-Learning Showcase will highlight recent curricular innovations designed to involve and engage students in active learning environments using new or existing technology.
- Jean Boreen, Associate Dean of Arts and Letters, Laura Rose Taylor, Interim Coordinator of the Cline Library, Georgia Michalicek, Distance Education Consultant for ITS, and Don Carter, Director of the e-Learning Center, attendees at this year's annual Educause Learning Initiative conference, Creating a Successful Learning Culture: Connecting Learners, Communities, and Information, will host a panel session to discuss topics from the conference.
- Dr. Andrea A. Hunter and Clint Humphrey of the Anthropology Department will present Preparing Students for a Study Abroad Cultural Immersion Experience and reveal how hybrid and web courses help prepare students for life altering experiences traveling abroad, studying, and engaging with indigenous cultures worldwide.
- Wolf Gumerman, Anthropology Department, will present on Evolving Human Evolution: A Hybrid Course. The goal of this project was to increase retention and student success in ANT 101 by creating a web enhanced course that actively engages students through interactive modules. Wolf will discuss the processes he used in this project.
- Dawn Hawley, Geography - Planning and Recreation, will present on Enhancing Public Participation with Technology. This course on public participation techniques was enhanced with technological tools including chat, blogs, and tablet PCs to better ready students for the evolving planning profession and its work with the public.
- Taylor Joyal, Environmental Sciences, will discuss Integrating GIS Technology into the Environmental Sciences Core Curriculum to Engage Students. Environmental Sciences faculty have integrated field and lab based projects throughout their core curriculum that are designed to build a "tool box" of skills that students can apply to natural systems analyses.
- Chris S. Johnson, Associate Professor in the School of Communication, will be presenting on Media Enhanced Applied Learning System, the process and transformation of basic learning aspects of an introductory class into highly interactive and participatory lessons. By conducting a brief pre-class survey, looking at the technology the students are using, and the expectation of engaging education, Chris developed written, audio and visual snippets of content that students can easily digest and successfully master.
All faculty and staff are welcome at the event. Lunch is provided. Please visit the event section of our web site to register for this free event.
We have embarked into the second major term with all online courses in Bb Vista, and all courses at the university with a Bb Vista shell. Areas of future focus for ELC are interactive environments such as formal classrooms, informal physical spaces, virtual learning and collaborative environments, as well as emerging tools from the so-called Web 2.0 and social software sphere. Examples of Web 2.0 tools are wikis, blogs, Flickr, del.icio.us, MySpace, FaceBook, and Second Life. All of these tools share a high degree of interaction and user-created content. Look for opportunities to learn about these tools and how to use them for interactive engagement with students for learning.
The e-Learning Center offers a variety of training to meet your instructional needs, including training in Bb Vista, technical tools, and instructional planning and design. The full training schedule is located on our web site.
If your schedule or location does not allow you to attend our workshops in person, do not despair! We offer Bb Vista labs and workshops online. To view our scheduled online workshops search our schedule by the System field and select Online.
|Bb Vista Basics - Learn the basics that you need to know to start building courses in Bb Vista. This workshop is a prerequisite for the other Bb Vista workshops.
| Feb 21, 9:00am - 12:00pm
Feb 26, 1:00pm - 4:30pm
|Bb Vista Upgrade: Application Pack 1 - This workshop will tour the new features and highlight the changes to the current tools with the latest upgrade to Bb Vista.
|Feb 20, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Feb 21, 9:00am - 10:00am
|Create Web Pages with Word - Build accessible, clean, and easy web pages by using
Microsoft Word. Learn how to format your pages, create links, add graphics, and save your Word documents as web pages.
|Feb 23, 9:30am - 11:30am
Feb 28, 10:00am - 12:00pm
|Resources Toolbox - This workshop will introduce the library's Resources Toolbox, an interactive guide to adding library resources and search tools to your Bb Vista courses or web pages.
|Mar 7, 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Apr 4, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Bb VISTA UPGRADE: APPLICATION PACK 1
The latest upgrade to Bb Vista, installed this February, improves the stability of the older features in Bb Vista and offers a variety of exciting new features.
The Discussion tool has been updated. The Calendar tool now includes clearly marked tabs for easier switching of day, week, or month views. The Assessments tool has also been improved. Designers and instructors can now add their own custom quiz instructions to each assessment.
New features include the Class Roster tool in the Course Menu that allows users enrolled in a course section to view personal profiles of instructors, teaching assistants, and students enrolled in their class. Class Blogs give instructors the ability to create new ways for students to express themselves and collaborate with other students. Journals provide students a private space to reflect on their experiences, chronicle their learning, or record their reactions to a class lecture/discussion. Peer Review in Discussions and Class Blogs allows students to rate each others' posts based on criteria set by the instructor. Grading Forms (rubrics) allow an instructor to specify multiple grading criteria for a learning activity. Using the new Goals tool, designers can now provide learning goals to students.
Visit our web site for more detailed information about these and many more new Bb Vista features.
Lorraine Elder, Assistant Director of the
e-Learning Center for the past four years, has accepted a position as AZUN Project Director at Distance Learning Services.
Lorraine's contributions to the e-Learning Center include refining work processes to improve production of online and web-enhanced courses, successfully managing the transition from WebCT Campus Edition to Bb Vista, and implementing continuous improvement processes. Lorraine's humor, enthusiasm, attention to detail, and focus on results will be greatly missed.


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I'd like to use my Dropbox account to backup my "Documents" folder, without running the risk of deleting something on Dropbox and my files being deleted on my computer. Is there any way to do this?
First off, you should be aware that you can recover deleted files from Dropbox. Also, Dropbox keeps a version history of your files. So you don't need to worry about accidentally deleting files from your Dropbox folder.
Backing up to your Dropbox folder is easy. Just use any back up tool, and set the destination to your Dropbox folder.
Here's how to do it with Ubuntu's Backup tool that comes with Ubuntu by default:
You can also use other backup tools like rsync .
Another method to back up files automatically is to create a symlink in your Dropbox directory, pointing to directories you want to back up.
For example, this will include your Documents folder in your Dropbox storage automatically:
You could turn Documents into a symbolic link that points to Dropbox, or use a 'backup' program like rsync to mirror the files.


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The Antique Linen color is a nice true cream color. The Ranger dye ink colors are very strong and beautiful. The re-inkers have very concentrated pigments. The glass bottle is very sturdy and the dropper is an easy leak proof way to extract the ink.
Always try to buy the reinker for any ink pad I have. Pads have a bad habit of running dry at exactly the wrong time! Reinkers save a lot of stress.
Made a well used distress ink pad new again!
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Basically my knowledge in passwords consist of setting up a Diceware master password back then, and I know hashes are not convertible back to the original password.
Some basic question I want to know the answer for is how can a password be predicted from the hash? Like it can be known how many characters long it is exactly or at least roughly?
A newbie friendly crypto guide would be helpful. The beginner's guide was an issue on the Bitcoin S. E. board as well.


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Rest Now, Play Soccer Later
Last November, the San Antonio Spurs elected to sit four starters— Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Danny Green—for a game in Miami against the Heat. Not only did they not dress for tipoff, they weren't even in Florida, electing instead to travel home and rest up for a game two days later.
The fallout wasn't pretty. The National Basketball Association fined the Spurs $250,000. A Florida attorney filed a lawsuit against San Antonio, claiming paying customers, who expected to see the big stars, had been deceived. (The suit was voluntarily dismissed last week.)
Soccer looks at things entirely differently. If you have a big game coming up—and can afford to do so—giving your best players a day off isn't just accepted but expected. We saw this again this past weekend with the eight Champions League quarterfinalists, who play on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Chelsea and Manchester United, who face off Monday in the FA Cup with a spot in the semifinals at stake.
Whether it makes sense or not might be a different matter.
In some ways, this week is a "triple-witching" as far as resting starters was concerned. Not only are there big games coming up, but we are also coming off an international week, meaning that many players were off with their national teams and only returned to their club sides on Wednesday (and for some, traveling back to Europe from South America, Friday). There is a third factor, too. Spain, England, Germany and Italy all have a runaway league leaders, meaning there are no tight domestic races and, therefore, getting a result this past weekend was less of an imperative.
So things played out rather predictably. Barcelona and Chelsea left out six players you'd expect to start during the week, Manchester United and Real Madrid five, Bayern four and even little Malaga three. Results were somewhat mixed. Chelsea was defeated at Southampton, Barcelona and Real Madrid held to away draws by Celta Vigo and Zaragoza, two clubs fighting to avoid relegation.
But it wasn't all bad. United won at Sunderland, though that may have had more to do with the home team's abject futility and, unsurprisingly perhaps, manager Martin O'Neill was let go a few hours after the final whistle. Malaga did get a big win at midtable Rayo Vallecano, while Bayern Munich stomped all over Hamburg by an eye-popping 9-2 margin.
And those who didn't rotate much? Juventus left out two regulars and got a big away win at perennial rival Inter. Borussia Dortmund went with roughly the best available team and snatched a tough victory at Stuttgart. Paris Saint-Germain and Galatasaray—table-toppers in France and Turkey, respectively, but still locked in title races—didn't take any chances: Neither rested regulars and both came away winners.
One weekend's games obviously isn't a large enough statistical sample to draw major conclusions over whether you can rotate your squad without missing a beat. But it does offer some clues about the mind-set of certain managers. And it also reignites the debate about whether it makes sense.
Clearly, neither Juventus boss Antonio Conte nor his Borussia Dortmund counterpart, Jurgen Klopp, felt it was worth doing, despite the fact that they could have chosen to rotate their squads without any real downside. Juve's lead in Serie A stood at nine points. And while it is true that Inter had already beaten the Bianconeri this season, it is equally true that injuries and travel difficulties had forced it to field a severely weakened team. Dortmund needed to win to stop Bayern from clinching the Bundesliga title mathematically, but with the Bavarians sporting a 20-point lead and just seven games to go, it is pretty much a foregone conclusion, like a baseball team with a "magic number" of one in August.
Both managers insist the benefits in terms of chemistry and momentum outweigh the pros of a game off or giving some of the marginal squad members playing time. It does tend to go against conventional wisdom somewhat, not least because there is also the risk of injury.
Then again, a number of the teams who rested players still included them on the bench in their matchday squad. Which meant that while they may have played fewer minutes at the weekend, but still had to prepare and go through the usual routine as if they were going to start. Physically it isn't as taxing, yet mentally it is about the same.
Some managers—most notably Sir Alex Ferguson, who has been doing it for years—rotate their team throughout the season, no matter which games are coming up. They believe it keeps players fresher over time, generates competition for places and mitigates the effects of injuries, suspensions and perhaps even individual players feeling indispensable. Indeed, it is tough to identify more than five United players who, if fit, are sure to start a big game.
But most teams aren't like that. There is a hierarchy to the squad and a rhythm to their workweek. And sitting out en masse, when they aren't accustomed to it, might not bring much benefit at all, as we may find out this week.


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Oh, and one appeal of my own, Jeffrey Gouweleeuw from Holland...
Oh, and one appeal of my own, Jeffrey Gouweleeuw from Holland...
Is Asamoah Gyan - Ass-a-mow-a Ge-Arn?
Jeffrey Gouweleeuw
Je-frei/y Gou-we-lou
Is Asamoah Gyan - Ass-a-mow-a Ge-Arn?
Asa-moa (because is french h will never be head in french ) Gi-an
This is a funny read lol.
I have a couple in my team.
Bosko Milcic Doesn't look hard but I've never been certain if I was saying it right lol I go for 'Bos-co - Mill-chitch' but have been known to say 'Mill-chick' as he's from Montenegro (not like I know if that makes a difference or not lol).
Tsvetomir Todorov This chap is from Bulgaria, I usually go for 'Vet-omeer - Tod-o-rov' Assuming the the 'Ts' is silent.
David Swärdh Swedish Right Back... Not a clue how to say this guys name.... I stick with David lol. At a guess I'd have to go with 'Sw-aar-d' though.
Andrija Vrhovski I'm pretty certain I've got this one right with 'And-ria - Ver-hov-ski'
Ercan Atilgan This guy is from Turkey.. Think i'm spot on with how to say it right. I go with 'Er-can - Atil-gan'
Bosko Milcic - Bos-kho Mil-chi-c
Tsvetomir Todorov -Zvetomir Todorov
David Swärdh- I cannot tell here i am from eastern europe and i ussually hate nordic names hard to pronounce.
Andrija Vrhovski - And-ria - Ver-hov-ski' correct
Ercan Atilgan - Ercian Atil-gian , when you have turkish players it's and "i" that you ussually put to pronounce their name .
Ahh thanks lol... they might actually listen to me now!
The swedish word 'svärd' means sword, by the way.
Guy Gbo?
Nationality is Belgium/DR Congo, if that helps.
Having trouble with pronouncing the name of my spanish regen.
Alberto Guillén
We seem to be past the Polish stage and I may have missed this one, but Przemyslaw Kazmierczak is one I seem to remember from a while back.
Is Aleksandar Prijovic Alexander Pree-yo-vich?
Serbian with Swiss as a second nationality
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Should Hugo Lloris not be pronounced U-go Lor-ee?
Razvan Rat is actually Razvan Raț
In Romanian ț is ts in English or Ц in Russian, so his name would be pronounced as Raz-vahn Rats (Like the Soviet footballer from the 1980's)
The Russian Club is ЦCKA (CSKA Moscow) so its actually ts-ess-kay-ah, whereby the Ц acually stands for tsentralny.
Ć is Serbo-Croat is what makes Modric sound like Mod-Rich
Gornik Zabrze is pronounced goor-neek za-bz-uh. Zabrze is said quickly and in one syllable.
In Polish the z is the same as English but its combined with other letters it changes its sound (a dipthong):
cz - ch
sz - sh
dz - j
The best way to make the 'll' sound in Welsh I told is to put your tongue on your top two teeth and blow lightly. I think when English people immitate Welsh they make a throat sound (glottal) whereas the actual sound is within the mouth (plosive)
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Can anyone tell me how to pronounce Alan Dzagoev's surname??
I've got a Spanish international called Sergio Asenjo - how's the surname pronounced?
How about the Far Eastern surname "Ng"
Anyone got any ideas how to pronounce that?
I've got one.
Nediljko Parlov - This croatian regen's first name has boggled my mind since I first signed him! Since he's my best striker, I'd like to show him some respect by pronouncing his name correctly.
I think Cillian is pron. Kill-i-an
Gregoire Langlois (French)
Not only a quality goalkeeping prospect but a top bloke to.
How do I pronounce "Phil Jagielka". I can pronounce Phil but have no idea about the last name
Always thought it was ka/car sound at the end.
how about Sofiane Feghouli?
i would guess it's kinda so-fee-anne feg-oo-lee
So-fee-en Feg-goo-lee.
Jean 'Deux' Makoun ??
Jean " IL" Makoun ?
Allessandro Tuia?
how about a turkish player I have, may not be a regen, but I think so:
Cihan Gokce
(the o has the two dots above - umlaut (sp?) in german,)
I've never see him IRL, only in FM. And in FM he kicks ass, to put it in an Eric Cartman kinda way.
Now screw you guys, I'ma going home.
Okay, here's one for you. My Utrecht loanee Simon Cziommer. At the moment I'm going with Chee-o-mer, with perhaps a little bit of 'z' on the Ch part.
Any ideas?
CashAmath, welcome to the forums. How would you pronounce Tsjom?
Welcome to BlochMcParty too.
Victor Irineu, anyone ?
Any opinions on Szabolcs Hustzi??
I've been going with Zaaa-bolks Hooos-tzeee so far
How would I say Kirill Kurochkin - he's a Russian regen?
Szabolcs Hustzi - Shab-blosh Hoos-tzee (at least according to German TV)
Victor Irineu ?
ee-ri-new or ai-ree-new ?
Is it guard-a-doe?
I LOVE this thread. It's important to note that people with different mother tongues will pronounce things differently. If Hugo Lloris moves to Spain he won't be Loree anymore he'll be Yo-rees. But it's nice to know what the original intention is.
Also some players maybe from a certain country but their names will originate elsewhere which means even they may not pronounce it "correctly" - like Jag-ee-el-ka...
He-reth but don't roll the r. The r is only rolled if there are two like perro (dog) and pero (but).
Canabary explains it perfectly:
Ow-re (with a rolling r if you can manage it and re as in red not reach) -ko (like collect) -e (like education not email) -che -a (like apple, not abraham)
Love the Pleat-quotes!! When he says Chimbomba I cry like a schoolgirl with laughter. I nearly wet myself reading this:
Alan Dzagoev
Georgie Chiellini
Alan Jag-oi-yev
Gee-org-io Kee-ill-ee-nee
where's the second "r" coming from?I tend to say: Gward-ar-doe
It's just Gwar-dahd-oh
I bought him from Bilbao, then sold him to Celtic who in turn sold him on to Inter. Tbh i just always called him Jon
Generally u's in Spanish are silent when they're in front of an e (ue, Miguel is pronounced Meegel, with emphasis on gel and a soft g like in great) or an i (ui, Guillermo is pronounced Geeyermo, again with a soft g and with emphasis on yer).
And about Lloris/Paris and the s in the end, it is only pronounced in some names, never in words that end with s. And the final s is only pronounced in names that originate from Latin, Greek and Catalan amongst others. Lloris is originally Catalan but in French you just say Loris.
i remember playing CM2 when it was first released and i always signed Thierry Henry, it wasnt untill he transfered to Juventus that i knew how to say his name i used to prounce him as Theory Henry, Henry as in first name
Ido Shitrit
Israeli regen.
Just made me chuckle thinking of his first day's training...
ME: "So what's you're name then son?"
Ido: "Ido Shitrit"
ME: "Well I'm obviously pleased you've been potty trained, but seriously... what's your name?"
A dutch player named 'Ties Meijer' is that TEES MIA-AR?
Also this could help some people, only common languages. Prob not exactly correct though, top right hand corner changes the pronunciation.
How do i Prounounce Salgaocar
How do you pronounce Grafite and Dzeko?
Who'd be a commentator....
Grafite is pronounced "Gra-feet".
Dzeko is pronounced "Dz-ecko". The "Dz" is pronounced like the "G" in "Ginola". It's a soft sound.
I just watched some youtube videos and the commentators appear to all call him "Grafitsch", I don't really know why but I'm not too great on Portuguese prounciation.
Jean Il Makoun is Jean 2 Makoun, so probably said Jean Makoun Deux.
Anyway... any hints on Axpilicueta
sergio AGUERO
DAVID silva
jeremy TOULALAN (sp)
giorgio CHILLINI (sp) plays for juventus
mamadou SAKHO
sergio AGG-WHERE-OH
DAV-EE silva
jeremy TWO-LAH-LAN
giorgio KEY-EH-LEEN-EE
mamadou SACK-OH
Toulalan = Two-La-Laun.
Sakho = Sak-ho.
So i signed 3 Argentinians and a Spaniard
Ok thanks, will look at some YouTube vid's later
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Frejlach is fray-lakh, more or less. "Ch" in Czech is a digraph representing the [x] sound in IPA. Think Bach the composer, loch as in a Scottish lake... a soft sound between "h" as in 'ah!' and "kh" with a silent k.


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The State Of Short-Track - Which Way Are We Headed?Written by on November 1, 2008 Contributors: Lucas Oil Speedway Christopher Noble The State Of Short-Track Racing
$4.50 per gallon for diesel, $9.75 per gallon for race gas...where is all of this going and how is it affecting, and going to affect, short-track racing? To get a bead on the true state of the industry we talked to five major sanctions in the United States. We chose these groups based on their broad reach and direct involvement in local racing. In a departure from typical interview Q&A style, we asked the leaders of these respective sanctions to give us their opinion on how their business is doing given the current economy. The answers were in most cases somewhat surprising and even enlightening. Here's what they said:
World Racing Group is comprised of the two national tours (World of Outlaws Dirt Late Model Series and World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series), a regional tour (Super DIRTCar Series) and weekly racing in the form of the UMP DIRTCar Racing. World Racing Group also owns seven dirt tracks; 5 in New York, 1 in Pennsylvania, and 1 in Florida.
It seems like each year the weather becomes a convenient excuse for poor performance, but 2008 has been one of those years where it is legitimate. Weather has seriously impacted certain areas. Unfortunately, you can't get back the dates that you lose in this business. It's very frustrating. The Firecracker 100 (June 27 at Lernerville Speedway in Pennsylvania) heat races were incredible, but the Saturday night show got rained out and had to be rescheduled. For the tracks we own (such as Lerner-ville) the weather has been a very big factor in our success this year, in gaining the momentum that you need in operating a weekly short-track.
The good news is, even with the weather, the car count has been the biggest surprise for the weekly series. It has been very consistent in light of all the economic concern of our customers. However, while car counts have been on par with the last couple of years, the spectator attendance has been down a tick. A track I talked to last week said they were down 400 fans and that seems to be a consistent number, whether you were getting 2,000 and now you're getting 1,600, or you were getting 800 and now you're getting 400. It seems that those 400 fans are the ones who have disappeared and what, why, and how we get them back is something that we all have to discover.
Our sense is that group is not the vested fan. Maybe they used to go twice a month to their local track ,and now they are going just once a month. While gas prices might be part of it, I'm not sure we're to that point yet. I haven't seen it (fuel prices as a deterrent to racing) consistently enough. There are a lot of track operators that you'll talk to who remember the gas crunch of the '70s. The lesson that taught us is that we have to look back and focus on what we do in our little community, specifically the community that the racetrack is in. We also must foster and aid the entry-level classes. What really saved us in the '70s and early '80s was the participation level in the entry-level classes.
Now this is a little different economic concern that's out there right now. It's certainly nowhere near what it was then. We don't have 22 percent unemployment, gas lines, and all that. The concern that is in the pit of the stomach of the consumer right now seems to be what is affecting their decisions. It's not taking them out of the game, but they are being more careful and cautious about spending their dollar.
I've seen the first dip in the participation levels in our regional touring side of the business. The one or two or five guys that may have gone all the time either just don't go now or they may go just once a month or they may go to every other show. That seems to be the feeling that's out there.
Our national series are enjoying very robust car counts and great fan counts, so it again proves, at least in dirt racing where you have a significant special event that you can bring to a weekly short-track, it still has the appeal that it always had.
With more than 40 years of history, the American Speed Association is one of the leading sanctions in creating new and innovative programs for the weekly short-track fans, competitors, and promoters. In addition to a comprehensive insurance program, ASA sanctions a multitude of tracks, events, and series across the country culminating in its ASA Short Track National Championship.
I'm seeing pockets throughout the country where track operators are having different issues. Some tracks are doing very well, while other tracks are not having the greatest of years. If I were to give a "snapshot" of what I'm hearing from the majority I'd say that the general consensus is that the crowds are the same or slightly better than the last few years. However, people are staying closer to home given the economy/price of fuel. The upper division car counts are remaining stable or are just slightly under what they were in previous years. On the other hand, the lower divisions (Street Stock/Hobby Stock) are feeling the pinch more than others. These are the divisions populated by the blue collar worker who has to choose between putting food on the table or heading out to the racetrack. Where you might find a large segment of the racer population complaining about high fuel prices, the traveling series, only about 10 percent of that group, by our estimates, are really being impacted by the "high cost of travel."
But it goes deeper than just gas prices, weather, or the general state of the economy. Factors such as promotional styles of the track owner or the specific region of the country impact how well one track does versus another. The track owner that understands that we're all in this together will be one who flourishes in bad economic times.
The International Motor Contest Association, or IMCA, sanctions approximately 130 tracks in 27 states and boasts around 5,000 active members. Racing on dirt IMCA lists divisions covering Modified, Late Models, Hobby Stocks, Sprint Cars, Sport Mods, and more with both crate and open motor categories.
As widespread as we are we've always had bad weather to deal with, but this year the Midwest was hit really hard, harder than normal. In Nebraska, we haven't run but three or four shows. So the weather problem is a little more drastic this year, we're even seeing drought in some areas. Some tracks have gotten so much rain that the show gets canceled because they can't get the track to dry out. The dirt-track racing industry is extremely sensitive to weather. Weather is the number one issue that promoters seem to talk about these days.
Fuel prices are a big concern, too. In general it's having an effect, but our membership is very consistent to last year. Remember IMCA's primary focus is the local racer who travels less than 40 miles to the track. Where tracks are more spread out (90 miles or more to the track) we see (car counts) affected a little bit, but not enough to where the tracks can't put on a good show. For example, we just concluded the Wild West Modified Tour's Northern swing up into Nevada. Out there it is a healthy distance for the racers to travel but even so we had a strong car count of 51, 48, and 40 over three consecutive nights of racing.
Is racing in a desperate situation? No, those track promoters who understand what they're doing and what this market is are doing OK. The successful promoters are not trying to make it (Saturday night racing) into something that it is not, they focus on doing things the right way.
This industry gets into trouble when times change (good or bad) and they stray from the proven formula. This year, despite the economy, I'm seeing the same number of tracks saying they're having a good year and the same number saying their having a bad year.
The Automobile Race Club of America, better known as ARCA, sanctions full-bodied stock car racing, trucks, Late Models, Street Stocks, and four-cylinder cars across properties that include the ARCA RE/Max Series, Lincoln Welders Trucks Series, and two short-tracks, Flat Rock and Toledo Speedways.
You're going to have these economic cycles. ARCA has been doing this since 1953, and since 1981 I've seen us have both high car counts and low car counts. You have to be in it for the long haul. It's not fair to throw your hands up and say the economy is bad so that's why were doing bad.
We're getting a perspective from Michigan and Pocono (where ARCA runs with NASCAR) as well as Flat Rock and Toledo. The RE/Max Series is doing very well, we've got Jack Roush running every race and that's gratifying for us to have him in the sport. Yet it's challenging for the Andy Belmonts who have run our series for so many years to compete with Roush's financial assets.
Like the RE/Max Series ARCA's Lincoln Welders Truck Series is gaining both in truck count and in the quality of the events. I don't see that backtracking.
As far as our short-tracks, we are in this little geographic area very close to Motor City (Detroit). If we're holding our own, we're staying in the fight. Flat Rock and Toledo are two different tracks. Flat Rock has a good regular Friday night show. Toledo actually has two tracks, a 1/4-mile and a 1/2-mile. The quarter is healthy while the half-mile faces more challenges. It runs more specialized shows with bigger, more expensive Late Models.
Overall, 2008 would be a year where if you were budgeting for double digit growth you are going to be disappointed. Still I don't see anybody putting the for sale sign on the racecar. What we are seeing is guys and gals are getting more choosy. Some are choosing just to race the bigger shows with the bigger payouts while others are skipping the big shows all together and focusing their efforts more locally.
We've been fighting this for years and it won't get any easier. For consumers today there is a wider range of options of what to do on a Friday or Saturday night. To be a successful promoter the fans have to want to come and be with you. People are being more selective in terms of what they do with their money and it ratchets up the degree of difficulty to convince consumers that what you have is something compelling. You have to make your product, in our case cars going in circles, so compelling that they want to get up out of their easy chair.
NASCAR consists of three national series (the Sprint Cup Series, Nationwide Series, and Craftsman Truck Series), four regional series, and one local grassroots series, as well as two international series.
Let's acknowledge up front that even in the best of times it takes special people to run a racetrack. What we find is that the big stories of 2008 are weather and the general economy. We have had an inordinate amount of rainouts, making it hard to gauge the true nature of the market, but in talking with our promoters we've found that high fuel prices being detrimental to the industry is the minority opinion.
Despite the challenges, we believe there is an opportunity for short-track owners to cater to race fans who are now less likely to travel longer distances and less likely to pay for big ticket events. A number of promoters are seeing an upswing in ticket sales because of this. Of our roughly 60 NASCAR sanctioned local racetracks, 20 of them have seen an increase in car counts and attendance, 15 have seen a decrease, while the remainder are on par with what they did in 2007. The dramatic drop in car counts has not come.
Our traveling series hasn't seen an impact at all; the four US tours (Camping World Series and Whelan Northern and Southern Series) are very healthy right now.
The key is a philosophical change the sanction underwent in the last several years. In past times the focus was on quantity of tracks now it's on the quality of the track. The NASCAR sanction program is not for everyone. Part of our philosophy is to try to nurture...avoid telling the promoter how to run their business. We provide the tools for the local promoters to use if they choose.
All of our five sanction heads agree that the high fuel prices are having some affect on the racers, but not nearly to the degree we expected before the interviews. That is somewhat of a pleasant surprise given the seemingly endless string of bad economic reports when you turn on the TV to watch the six o'clock news.
Weather, of course, plays the biggest role in the current state of short-track racing, especially in the mid section of our country. But there was something more that came out in each conversation when we started talking about the future.
Listen to what ASA's Dennis Huth had to say: "Over the years the outside influences that impact the short-track owner have changed significantly, the competition for entertainment dollars has greatly increased, fuel prices have gone up, the economy has gone soft, more and more NASCAR and IndyCar races are being televised on Saturday night. When combined, these factors can present some pretty significant challenges for the short-track operator."
Given that, the important thing to note is that virtually all of the weekly racetracks operate solely with private funding. Each week, America's short-tracks total attendance can reach five times, or higher, than the attendance of a NASCAR Sprint Cup race and stacks-up favorably against the combined attendance of the NFL, MLB, and virtually all other professional sports. Yet from 1953 to 1970 a total of 30 professional sports stadiums were built with all but three receiving taxpayer support (to the tune of $450 million, nearly 70 percent of the total cost of the 30 facilities). The number is increasing today with several new stadiums under construction, renovation, or topics of discussion.
"If you sit back and think about it, what the weekly short-tracks across the country have done over their history is incredible, and all on their own dime so to speak," says Huth. "They open their gates week-in and week-out, upgrade their facilities, promote their show, and develop the heroes of tomorrow all without any support whatsoever other than what their own wallet allows. And even more of a travesty, most of the time they do this without any thanks. The short-tracks are an iconic part of the American sports landscape and have been the first introduction to racing for millions of fans and created their passion for the sport."
It would be interesting to see what a short-track racing world would be like if taxpayer subsidies could build or at least help build 30 short-tracks around the country that mirror the facilities of Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri (see the lead photo). But alas, in today's world that is nothing more than fantasy.
The reality is that the track operators are left to fend for themselves. So what exactly are they supposed to do?
IMCA's Brett Root says that in order for a promoter to excel in a down economy he/she must see "the complete picture." Everything must be addressed from conducting the show properly at the back gate to delivering a family friendly product at the front gate. Promoters must also consider special events and offering good community support. But it all starts in the tech shed.
"We do our best to stick to our philosophy of uniform and consistent rules and having good officials who can separate the emotion of the situation. Do you want 80 cars or eight cars? The only way you get 80 is to offer a fair program with rules that are strictly enforced. That way the competitors know that you're running an honest show."
Interestingly, the average IMCA racer only competes for three years. That translates into about a 20 percent annual membership loss that Root and his team have to replace. They've been successful at it. Root says that his membership is consistent and healthy, always staying within 50 people of their annual total of about 5,000 members.
The real key is to not let the long term racers run off the short termers, or worse yet put up road blocks to new racers coming into the sport.
Like Root, Ron Drager at ARCA believes that the complete picture is critical to success and it ties in directly to the product you deliver. "We focus on providing something you can't get at home. Step one, the person has to choose to leave the house. If our product is racecars going in a circle I'm not so sure that you need to leave your house to see that. We need to deliver a complete package, everything from clean restrooms to on track autograph sessions to the sensory perception when the cars hit the track. At Toledo, for example, we'll even bring the winning car and driver straight from the track into the main grandstand concourse for the fans to join in the victory celebration."
Drager subscribes to the notion that everybody (driver, car owner, crew, and fan) is a customer.
George Silberman at NASCAR says that the key to the future of the short-track racing industry is the promoters ability to transform. "The drive-in theatre morphed into the multi-plex, people didn't stop going to the movies and I think the successful tracks will follow that model."
While every one of our sanction heads was completely correct in their statements, the future growth of the short-track racing industry lies just a little bit beyond what was said.
"I've been driving for 34 years, I used to be able to go to the track and make money but nobody is making money now," says Texas Asphalt Modified racer Marc Madison.
"We're getting paid the same amount or less than we did in the 1980s. Back then we raced for $600 to $1,000 to win depending on the track. But it also cost just $7 to get in the pits. Today it cost $25 per person, plus a $50 car fee, then you have to rent the transponder, buy a Raceiver, and methanol is now $7.50 per gallon."
Madison says that the attitude of his fellows racers today is that we're going to the track to lose money.
"There's been a wall built between the promoters and the racer because the racer perceives the promoters are pocketing all the money," says Madison. "Many local racers don't believe that they are the show."
Throw the red flag says Huth. "That's exactly the problem," he says. "The wall between drivers/teams and promoters hurts our sport. For just one fan, or worse one journalist, to hear 'I ain't never going back to that so-and-so track because (insert driver complaint here)' is seriously detrimental to the sport as a whole. You may think that one comment like that isn't harmful, but if the fan or journalist who hears it forms an opinion about that track they will pass it on."
"The same holds true when track owners/promoters single out a racer or group of racers," says Huth. "As a promoter, you must without a doubt and without question treat each and every racer as your customer." There has been more than one example of a track with a robust car count changing management only to see that car count gradually dwindle when the promoter begins to favor racers with the local car dealer sponsorship, the local celebrity who races when his schedule permits, or the worst case, the promoter's own family member who races at that track. Left unchecked the track's fate becomes that of our cover photo this month.
In order for our sport to prosper we must eliminate that wall between the promoter and the racer.
"What we are seeing is in the weekly headliner division, the financial side of putting that car on the track continues to nudge up despite everyone's efforts to fight it," says Drager. "Where do the revenues come from to offset that? The answer is not to increase grandstand prices and certainly it's a self defeating practice to increase pit entry prices. Promoters must work hard to provide a better facility, better exposure for the team, and a better set of circumstances for the team to take to a marketing partner. On the flip side the teams have got to be prepared to use the tools the promoter gives them to help a sponsor achieve a goal."
"The primary focus is getting racers to the track," says Brett Root. Everybody agrees that good car counts translate into healthy competition. Healthy competition breeds exciting racing, exciting racing brings fans to the grandstands.
"Track operators as well as competitors are some of the most loyal and hardest working people in sports today," says Dennis Huth. "The trick is that we need them to be working together for the betterment of the sport. Everybody needs to be working in unison and change the process of thinking away from "open the gates and they will come."
If we don't, they won't.


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Part of my work involves visiting retail establishments during business hours. Often, when mistaken for an employee of the store, I am asked a question about where to find something in the store, to which I politely respond, "I'm sorry, I don't work here".
But I got to thinking, I am working, and I am "here". I know that I could be more precise with a more verbose reply, but is my quick, convenient response truthful? Conversely, it would not be true to say, "I work here", right?


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I was always taught that it should, but the Wikipedia article doesn't use the accent at all. I'm British — is it an American thing to ignore the accent? I am preparing some content for an American music site and I'd like to be accurate for as much of the world as possible.
The New Oxford American Dictionary says:
bar•ré |bäˈrā| noun Music
a method of playing a chord on the guitar or similar instrument with a finger laid across the strings at a particular fret, raising their pitch.
ORIGIN late 19th cent.: French, literally 'barred,' past participle of barrer.
I never realized that the "é" is supposed to have an accent and is supposed to be stressed. I've always pronounced it like the English "bar", which I now realize was not the original pronunciation.


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Is it possible to protect my site from HTTrack Website Copier or any similar program?
Without setting a max number of HTTP request from users.
Is it possible to protect my site from HTTrack Website Copier or any similar program?
No, there's no way to do it. Without setting connection parameter limits, there's even no way to make it relatively difficult. If a legitimate user can access your website, they can copy its contents, and if they can do it normally with a browser, then they can script it.
You might setup User-Agent restrictions, cookie validation, maximum connections, and many other techniques, but none will stop somebody determined to copy your website.
Protect the part of the site you want to protect with a username and password. Then only assign a username and password to people who sign an NDA, (or similar) that says they won't extract or copy information from your site.
Another trick is to make all your content load from AJAX... and make the AJAX data URL load from paths that change (such as ~/todays-date) and sync that with javascript. Then even if someone were to download your content, the data would be out of date within 24 hours.
Even then, nothing will prevent a determined skilled attacker from getting an offline copy, you can just make it harder so it's not worthwhile.
As has @Adnan already pointed out in his answer, there is really no way of stopping a determined person from copying snapshots of your website. I used the word snapshots here, because that's what such content scrapers (or harvesters) are really copying. They don't (or at least shouldn't) have access to your backend where your website contents are actually generated and displayed to the end user, so the best they can do is copy its output, one that you can generate in such a way to change in time or adjust according to its intended recipient (DRM schemes, watermarking,...), as has @makerofthings7 pointed out in his answer.
So this much about what's already been answered. But there is one thing about this threat that I feel haven't yet been well covered in mentioned answer. Namely, most of such content scraping is done by opportunistic and automated web crawlers, and we see targeted attacks a lot rarer. Well, at least in numbers - bear with me.
These automated crawlers can actually be blacklisted quite effectively through the use of various WAFs (some might even use honeypots to determine the threats in heuristic ways) that keep updated database of blacklisted domains (CBLs or Community Ban Lists, DBLs or Domain Block Lists, DNSBLs or DNS-based Blackhole Lists,...) where such automated content scrapers are operating from. These WAFs will deny or grant access to your content serving web application based on three main approaches:
Now, one thing needs to be said quite clearly - none of these methods can be considered bulletproof! They will remove the majority of offending web requests, which is valuable on its own and will let you focus better on those harder to detect offenders that somehow bypassed your protections.
There are of course countless techniques for both automated crawlers / content scrapers detection (and their own countermeasures - detection avoidance techniques) that I won't describe here, nor list all possible WAFs and their capabilities, not wanting test your patience or reach limits of the purpose of this Q&A. If you'd like to read more on what techniques can be employed to thwart against such unwanted visitors, then I recommend reading through the documentation on the OWASP Stinger and OWASP AppSensor projects.
Edit to add: Suggestions from HTTrack authors can be read in the HTTrack Website Copier FAQ: How to limit network abuse - Abuse FAQ for webmasters document, and the reasons why a single deterministic method of detection won't work (short of blacklisting offending IP addresses after the fact or through experience of other honeynets), if the adversary is set to obfuscate spider's
Everything the human user sees, he can record. As @Adnan points out, this is rather easy, and can be automated.
However, some sites still have some relative success at deterring mass slurping. Consider, for instance, Google Maps. Many people have, occasionally, tried to recover high-definition maps of large areas through scripting. Some have succeeded, but most were caught by Google's defences. It so happens that it is difficult to make an automatic downloader which acts, from the point of view of the server, as if it was under human control. Humans have all sorts of latencies and usage patterns which a shrewd sysadmin can notice and check on.
Similar tricks are done on, for instance, Stack Exchange. If you try to automate access to the site, you will soon be redirected to a page with a CAPTCHA.
Ultimately, this kind of security is not very satisfying because the defender and the attacker are on equal grounds: it is cunning against cunning. So, this is expensive: it requires thinking and maintenance. However, some sites do it nonetheless.
A generic way for attackers to defeat anti-automation safety measures is to "automate" the slurping with actual humans. Very cheap human workers can be hired in some countries.
First of all, the only way you can prevent your site from being copied is actually never make it public to no one but you.
One way you could try to persuade people from doing it is with legal means, I'm not a lawyer so I don't know what steps you should take, if your content is original you could restrict the copyright or something similar.
I think that if you fear your site may get copied It has to be a really really really great web site.
Short answer, no, if the user loads a page, then the user can copy HTML by viewing the source.
If the website copier has a particular user agent, you can block that. See Stack Exchange for details.
Another solution might be to make a Flash webpage; those are hard to copy by hand anyways.
Otherwise, I'd put everything into a directory that has restricted access that only server-side PHP scripts can retrieve. Then if the page is built with many includes (one for a nav bar, one for header, one for javascript, one for footer, one for body content) then make another directory of php files that read the protected directory with includes, then make an AJAX that dynamically loads those PHP files. It would make it hard for anything to copy it without rendering the JavaScript (though I don't know if that would stop the software or an individual with a live code inspection tool.
Or you can put some kind of human-verification on your site so a protected PHP directory include isn't called unless the user specifically clicks a non-link DOM object (like a line that says "enter here") that triggers the content to load.
First of all, as others have said - anything that you can see you can copy, using various methods. It depends why you want to prevent your website being copied, but the most effective method would probably be to add watermarks so that everyone knows where its come from. Perhaps even a polite notice asking people not to copy your website wouldn't go a miss.
However, going back to your original question and how to stop software from copying website, I believe CloudFlare has a web application firewall. I certainly know that Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner won't scan a website that uses CloudFlare. It's a free solution and it should also help speed your website up.
There is now foolproof solution though and anything can be circumvented. The best thing you can do is use a combination of the answers here, depending on how badly you need/want to protect your website. The best advice though, is if you don't want it copied, don't let people have it.
Disclaimer: this is an evil answer. I do not condone any of the following.
If you put all this together, and some more, you will find there are a number of layers of execution between the site's source code and the pixels that make up the letters and words that the user can read.
All these layers of execution can be obfuscated and/or exploited.
For example, you can generate markup that has little or no resemblance to the graphic output, to make looking at the HTML source of your website an exercise in futility. You could use one HTML tag per letter, reordering them with a creative use of
You can create a font that uses a custom mapping between character codes and glyphs, so that copy and pasting your content would yield utter garbage, or even swear words! You can split letters in two or more pieces and use Unicode combining characters to put them back together. You can do all this with a dynamic generator, creating a new random masterpiece of obfuscation for each HTTP request.
These are off the top of my head, there are (countably) infinite other ways to f*** with people's computers.
Now be a good boy/girl and take your blue pill :-)
Even AJAX with date parameters can be duplicated. I've scraped sites with heavy AJAX using GET/POST parameters. If I really need to emulate the browser I can just use selenium or something of that sort. I can always find a way to scrape a site if I really wanted to. Captcha is probably the most difficult thing to deal with. Even then there's the Captcha sniper and other modules to assist in these areas.
Look at this links you may get solution from this :)
Use robots.txt to prevent website from being ripped?
The simplest way is to identify the browser id who is browsing your page , if it is htttrack block it, ( you need to configure your server or use ur programming skill to load the different page accordingly )
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5 Ridiculous Secrets Only Two Living People Know: Part 2
#2. The Hapsburg Napkin Fold
What Is It?
A fancy napkin design that puts all cliche wedding place setting to shame, the imperial napkin fold is so important that it is actually an Austrian state secret.
This sure makes all our alien conspiracies and assassinations look like shit.
That impressively starched bread holder is remarkable in that it's made out of just one impossibly folded piece of cloth, and also because it sort of looks like a dong. How do you even get one napkin to do that? We're pretty sure some of those angles shouldn't exist. Stare at it long enough and it's like looking into an Escher painting. If you try to fold it yourself and take a wrong turn, you might unleash an elder god. Possibly one who looks like a dong.
Or maybe an Egyptian god with a silly hat.
Originally, the design was used at the dinner table of the emperor or empress of the Austro-Hungarian empire. The empire may have collapsed, but the timeless secret of the penis-napkin lived on, and it's still used at banquets when a foreign head of state is visiting. The fold is considered so important that an example of the royal bread holder appears in pretty much every museum in Austria and Hungary. With guards watching it at all times, apparently:
Who Knows?
Two anonymous government employees who hopefully have more to do in their day-to-day jobs than fold cloth into the shape of genitals.
How It Is Kept Secret:
Apparently, the two people who know how to do the fold will pass on the technique before they die (as long as they aren't killed at the same time in a bizarre napkin-folding accident).
Austria's leading cause of death among males between 30 and 45.
Even though the technique is described as a "closely guarded secret," there is no record of it being written down and held under lock and key somewhere. As far as we know, they don't do anything special to protect its secrecy. But that's the thing: they don't have to. It's that difficult. Now, we're sure some of you will look at that picture and think, "How hard can it be?" -- but keep in mind that these napkins are in public view every day of the year in Austria and anyone can take pictures or video of them. Yet nowhere on the Internet is there the solution for how to do it.
We're talking about the same Internet that can teach you how to fold an origami Batmobile.
Or maybe it's less about how hard it is and more about the fact that not a lot of people seem to be aware that such a thing as a secret imperial napkin even exists. Let's just hope nobody puts a video of the fold on one of the world's most popular comedy websites where millions of people can- OH NOOOO.
#1. The World's Greatest Card Trick
What Is It?
Called the Holy Grail of card tricks, this seemingly impossible illusion is known as "The Berglas Effect" or "Any Card at Any Number." Why? Because the magician is able to produce any card requested by the audience anywhere inside a deck without even touching it.
Invented by magician David Berglas in the 1970s, the trick is mind-blowingly simple. The magician shows a pack of cards to the audience and then gives it to a random person. Another random person is asked to name any card (let's say the ace of spades) and third one is asked to name any number between one and 52 (let's say 12). The 12th card in the deck, as counted off by the audience member who was holding the pack this whole time, will somehow be the ace of spades.
That's uncanny.
Obviously there are a lot of variants and ripoffs of this trick with varying degrees of hackery involved (even Criss Angel has done it), but in Berglas' version, he uses a perfectly normal, often borrowed deck of cards, and none of the people in the audience are working with him. So how does he do it?
Who Knows?
David Berglas and (apparently) his friend and apprentice Marc Paul, the guy in the video.
Magic Week
Seen here with obnoxious facial hair.
How It Is Kept Secret:
By refusing to tell anyone how to do it, no matter how many times they ask him. We should mention at this point that Berglas escaped Nazi Germany as a child, became a U.S. intelligence officer and acted as a consultant on several James Bond films, which probably means he let the screenwriters follow him around and take notes. If this man says, "No, I will not explain my card trick to you," you shut the fuck up and go hide under the nearest table.
"I got this medal for killing Stalin. I was 100 feet from the bedroom, with my hands tied."
Keep in mind that stealing magic tricks is rampant among magicians, as demonstrated by that time Wolverine stole Batman's greatest trick in the film The Prestige. Since intellectual property law doesn't cover magic tricks, once the secret of how to perform any trick is out, there's nothing a magician can do to stop others from performing it or even explaining it to regular people. So if you happen to come up with the most-impressive card trick of all time, the only thing you can do is keep your mouth shut.
We're on to you, man.
While Berglas eventually divulged most of his famous tricks, he still refuses to explain this one. According to rumors, he once told the secret to a reporter who will release it once he dies. As we mentioned, several other magicians have performed different versions of this trick, but the most convincing is the one by Marc Paul ... who happens to be a close friend of Berglas.
It's possible that Berglas told him, or that Paul figured it out on his own by studying his work, or maybe came up with his own version. Either way, Marc Paul ain't saying how he does it either, because he has dignity.
Something rare in modern magicians.
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The 7 Most Horrifying Cost Cutting Measures of All-Time
#3. Charging for Suicide Hotline Calls
It's comforting to know that when you're going through some kind of crisis, there are an assortment of free services just a phone call away to help you get the help you need. If you live in Australia, though, you should probably set some money aside for those unforeseen suicidal meltdowns, because Australian phone companies charge users for calls to crisis and suicide hotlines.
"If you can't afford the call, maybe you really don't have much to live for."
To be fair, Australian crisis organizations such as Lifeline and Kids Helpline are and always have been free to call ... from a landline. But this is the age of the cell phone, where ever-increasing numbers of people are opting for pay-as-you-use prepaid cells over those obsolete tied-to-the-wall things you can't even use to bother people at the movies.
The plus side is that more people have personal access to a phone no matter where they are, but if you're calling Lifeline on a cell from a trash bin with rags for blankets, prepare to be slugged a dollar per minute. Shit, for that price you might as well call a phone sex operator. At least they're actually prepared to do anything to make you happy.
Oh yeah, baby, nothing turns me on more than guys who decide to not kill themselves and discuss their problems with trained professionals.
Considering that the number of calls placed to crisis hotlines is expected to rise 50 percent by this time next year, and a typical session can last anywhere from 20 to 60 minutes, the phone sex option may even be a cheaper bet. Predictably, this policy often causes people to be disconnected mid-call, because (surprise) folks who spend their off-time swimming in money and cocaine don't usually call suicide hotlines.
#2. Locking Up the Mentally Handicapped for Cash
One thing can be said for New York state -- it really looks after its mentally disabled citizens. With Medicaid pumping several times more money into services for the disabled than the national average, the state might even look after you forever.
Sometimes nature makes our political cartoons for us.
At a reimbursement of $4,500 per person per day, compared with an average of $700 for other states, Medicaid brings about $1.2 billion into the New York economy, well exceeding the cost of caring for the people for whom it's generously provided. So it's always in the state's interest to have as many patients in its care as possible, even if it means never letting some of them out, basically turning state facilities into prisons.
And without McMurphy to liven up the place.
Now, obviously some of the people committed to New York's mental treatment centers desperately need to be there. But when just a single occupied bed is worth more than $1.6 million a year to the state, you can see how there would be room to outrageously abuse the system. Sure enough, one newspaper did a study and found that New York locks up as many as 700 percent more people for brain disorders than other states, regardless of population.
Crazy may be New York's greatest natural resource.
And mental health care isn't the same as going to prison, where you're at least given a clear sentence and know how long you'll be there, just as long as you don't stab anyone on the inside. A doctor only has to say "You're not ready to go back yet," and bam, another year of keeping you locked up from the world until you finally smash out a window with a water fountain.
#1. Letting a House Burn Down Because the Owners Didn't Pay
On Sept. 29, 2010, Gene Cranick's rural house in Obion County, Tenn., caught on fire. Without wasting a second, Gene called the nearest fire department, located in South Fulton, and begged them to hurry and save his home. The FD refused, and the building, together with all the family's possessions -- including four pets -- burned to the ground. Why? He hadn't paid his fire protection money.
That is, he forgot to pay the annual $75 fee that nearby South Fulton demands for emergency services coverage. Whoops!
Hey, water doesn't grow on trees, OK?!
Because Obion County doesn't have its own fire department, most of its residents rely on South Fulton services, which we'll assume are advertised with the slogan, "That's a nice house you've got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it."
When Gene heard that the firemen were not coming, he even offered to pay up-front on the spot. But the department responded that, if people were allowed to pay up-front, then everyone would withhold payment until their houses were on fire. Basically, the South Fulton Fire Department made an example of him, stopping just short of coming after his knees with a baseball bat.
Citizens of Obion County! You have been warned!
The kicker on this whole ordeal is that the firefighters actually did show up, but only when the fire spread to the home of Cranick's neighbors, who had paid the fee. We imagine they also employed giant fans to blow the water away from Cranick's burning house, because allowing the firemen to inadvertently put out the fire would be irresponsible.
"Hell no, we don't take checks."
Even then, when Cranick's son got pissed off and attacked the fire chief for watching his home burn, the South Fulton PD sent out officers to arrest him for aggravated assault. Because apparently, you can still get emergency services out there if you annoy the local government.
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Let us consider an infinite or finite number string which consists of $0,1,2$. Then, let us call an adjacent pair of repeating number(s) 'a refrain'.
For example, we have three refrains in the following string :
$$01\overline{2}\ \overline{2}01202\overline{12}\ \overline{12}10\overline{201}\ \overline{201}02$$
Question : Does there exist an infinite number string without any refrain?
Motivation : I've known that there exists an infinite number string which consists of $0,1,2,3$ without any refrain. This got me interested in the above expectation, but I'm facing difficutly. Can anyone help?


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I can't seem to find information on how to open share dialog box with parse sdk which includes fb 3.0. I am able to login with facebook and actually found a way to post with out the dialog box but still would like to have the dialog box so that people can add comments and it comes out with the image on facebook. This is what i have so far. @"publish_stream",@"publish_actions" allows me to publish with out the dialog box
logInController.facebookPermissions = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"user_about_me",@"friends_about_me",@"publish_stream",@"publish_actions", nil];
this is to publish
PF_FBRequest *request = [PF_FBRequest requestForPostStatusUpdate:[self.Excerpt objectForKey:@"text"]];
[request startWithCompletionHandler:^(PF_FBRequestConnection *connection, id result, NSError *error){
NSLog(@"error %@",error);
I found the code to open the dialog box from facebook website but i am not sure how to get an instance of the PF_Facebook object so i can open the dialog box. I can try to do
PF_Facebook *fb = [[PF_Facebook alloc]initWithAppId:<#(NSString *)#> andDelegate:<#(id<PF_FBSessionDelegate>)#>;
but that doesn't seem to be right because i already initialize this in the appdelegate
//Update I am able to get the dialog box using this code
NSMutableDictionary *params = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"Facebook SDK for iOS", @"name",
@"Build great social apps and get more installs.", @"caption",
@"The Facebook SDK for iOS makes it easier and faster to develop Facebook integrated iOS apps.", @"description",
@"https://developers.facebook.com/ios", @"link",
@"https://raw.github.com/fbsamples/ios-3.x-howtos/master/Images/iossdk_logo.png", @"picture",
//publishes text on facebook
PF_FBSession *session = [PFFacebookUtils session];
PF_Facebook *fb = [[PF_Facebook alloc]initWithAppId:session.appID andDelegate:nil];
[fb dialog:@"feed" andParams:params andDelegate:self];
But the problem is that the person gets the login page in the dialog box even though he is authenticated already in the app
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The changes, which take effect with the March 7 publication, will give SuperSaver "a whole new look."
"The advertising is going to expand to include just about all types of merchandise, and we're removing the monetary limit," said Denise Delatore, advertising director for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times, said. "Now, private parties can advertise items they would like to sell free of cost, regardless of the asking price. And we're going to a six-column format, which will be much easier for our readers to peruse. It will be much more reader-friendly."
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Once the changes are made, SuperSaver will no longer be included in our Friday edition. SuperSaver will be published every Thursday and will be available for convenient pickup at more than 100 area locations.
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I think it depends on the subject. If you're talking about one single entity then it should be "affordable price", but if you're talking about a market/ hotel/ cafe then you should use "affordable prices" since you're not speaking of a single price.
Neither. Items are affordable if they have a price you can afford to pay. A car with a price you can pay is an affordable car. Price = low; car = affordable. An "affordable price" would be a price with a price you can afford to pay. How can you buy a price? In the example of a café, its prices are fixed, not based on each customer's finances. So a meal there may be affordable for one person but not for another. Therefore you cannot generalize their prices as "affordable". You can however generalize them as "low", or "reasonable", or "good" (compared to other cafés or other food sources).
The lowest price is called affordable price.


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Let's see. Premium orchestra seats at the Met can go for more than $200-300 depending on location.
Very true, but the Met hasn't collapsed their pricing scheme into a narrow range.
I just subscription brochure and the MEt is still selling Family Circle tickets for a subscription price of $25 (except on Saturdays) Single ticket sales may be a bit higher. But the MEt is giving their audience plenty of options from those who can afford the $350 seats and want a really good view and those with really tight budgets who have the choice of "cheap seat" or "no seat".
Shame on NYCB. If they didn't program so many substandard pieces, they might sell more tickets and not have hundred's of seats empty. How did the Balanchine black and white sell, huh? Maybe that should give a hint to the artistic administration.


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Dec. 17, 2008 -- The woman who recently got the first face transplant in the U.S. is "doing well," her doctors at the Cleveland Clinic said at a news conference today.
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, had 80% of her face replaced within the last two weeks with facial tissue from a deceased donor. The patient had suffered severe facial trauma several years ago, leaving her blind in one eye and without a nose or upper jaw.
The patient is recovering at the Cleveland Clinic and hasn't shown any signs of tissue rejection, says Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, director of plastic surgery and head of microsurgery training at the Cleveland Clinic.
The patient hasn't seen her still-swollen face yet, but she has run her hands over it and is "happy" that she now has a nose, jaw, and a "full face," Siemionow says.
About the Face Transplant Patient
The patient's doctors won't say what had caused the patient's facial trauma. She had already tried conventional reconstruction and suffered because of how people treated her.
"She was called names and children were afraid of her," says Siemionow, calling the woman "brave."
Few other details about her have been released, except that she's a U.S. citizen, and that she wanted the operation not only for herself but to pave the way for other people like her. No images of the patient are being released, in keeping with her and her family's wishes.
Few details are available about the donor, except that she's a woman. Donors have to match the patient's gender, race, approximate age, and blood type.
About the Face Transplant Operation
The operation took 22 hours and involved replacing most of the woman's face, except for her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip, and chin. That meant working with layers of tissue -- skin, muscles, bones, arteries, veins, and nerves.
It took four years to find the right patient and donor, and 20 years of work on techniques leading up to the surgery, Siemionow notes.
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The patient will need to take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of her life to help prevent her body from rejecting the donated tissue.


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Is there a simple translation of the English "range" as in the phrase "age range"? If not, how would "age range" best be translated?
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Hah, some people weren't fan of the sticks so I nixed those..... but don't worry, they're in my pack along with tons of sheet music.
dont get me wrong, i dont think you guys are slacking of or something what i mean is, why tie one self down to a schedule like that, all the c9 shows are relaxed and loose and creative and i personally find it hard to be creative on a tight schedule
some weeks it might be 2 weeks of material coming and the next week you got nothing to work with.. also, if you're really bogged down with other stuff, it'd be sad if you guys get extra stressed because you 'promise' a show every week :/
what i guess im trying to say is that i find the current model of weekly-ish pretty good but its kind of funny to call them 'weekly'
however that really not a serious issue at all,again its just nitpicking..
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Try these suggestions and strategies to find a new gig:
Make friends with Facebook.
Hone in on your career interest and hunker down in front of Facebook. The social networking behemoth has been a great, free tool for unemployed, aspiring fashion photographer Steve Squall. No matter what your specialty, you may find contacts, inspiration, and ideas.
"I've actually had days when I've spent 8 hours at the computer trying to find people I can network with on Facebook," Squall said. If you don't have your own computer, use the library.
Hit the library.
The Louisville Public Library Job Shop offers everything from resumé help to classes and computer access. The two locations featuring Job Shops are the Main Library, 301 York St., and Southwest Library, 10375 Dixie Highway. For more information, call 502.574.1723 or visit www.lfpl.org/jobshop.
Be enterprising.
Think of ways to use your professional skills in new ways and create a niche for yourself. "You have to just improvise and you have to change up what you've done in the past," said Louisville TV host Tara Bassett. "You can't always rely on being able to do what you've always done."
Have a ready to go resume.
Even if you're still employed, Rhonda Woody, branch manager for Manpower, strongly suggests having your resume ready to go. If you do lose your job, you'll be able to hit the ground running and not have to stress about getting your CV together.
Be two-faced.
Focus on seeking two types of jobs at once, like job-seeker Casey Turner. "I've got two categories; survival jobs, like making sandwiches at (a pizza place), and career jobs, things that I'd like to do until I drop dead."
You may want to make two different resumés; one highlighting your education and professional skills, and another emphasizing your retail and customer service experience.
Be a web-watcher.
There are numerous websites for local job-seekers, including louisvilleworks.com and lousvillehelpwanted.jobamatic.com. Create a profile and search for a wide variety of jobs. Find job fairs and more resources at http://louisville.jobnewsusa.com.


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I'm looking to improve my bench press and I'm having trouble about 1/4 way off my chest - can someone describe what muscles are primarily activated during each phase (break the movement down to 1/4's or 1/3's).
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This article might have what you are looking for. Since I can't get in, I can't be certain. There are a couple other articles that may be of interest, but not exactly what you wanted:
That said, you may need to try a process called deloading. Essentially, cutting back 10% on the weight so you can get your full set in. Then progressively load by adding 5lbs back on each bench press session. As the theory goes, you should be able to get past the plateau that way. In short, it's taking longer for your muscles to recover than the typical 48 hours or however much rest you normally give them.
Eventually you'll get to the point where even deloading won't get you past a plateau. With the StrongLifts program you compensate by going from 5x5 (5 sets/5 reps) to 3x5 on that lift. The threshold for that is when you deload twice and it doesn't help you improve. From there you go to 1x5, and eventually transition to another routine when you've maxed out that program. I think the takeaway is that eventually you have to reduce load to increase weight on the bar.


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If I am using this equation to figure out the energy of something, what units would I use? Would it be the metric system? I.e. kilograms for $m$, meters per second for $p$, kilometers per second for $c$? And what units of measurement are used for $E$?


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Allen County-Scottsville High School junior Katelyn Clark will serve as the Kentucky Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) Vice-President for STAR Events for the 2013-14 school year. Clark's election came at the Kentucky FCCLA state conference this week at the Galt House in Louisville.
"I will be coordinating the STAR events at the state conference next year," Clark explained. "That will involve getting judges, setting times, signing certificates and handing out medals."
At this year's conference, Clark also earned national recognition for a "Power of One" presentation. The project involved outlining five goals she set for herself including personal and family goals.
Clark along with juniors Lilli Berry and Shivani Patel also placed third in the state for their STAR event in the "Life Event Planning" category. FCCLA students Emily Key and Ashley King also took part in the STAR event "Illustrated Talk." Ashley Allen also represented AC-SH at the state conference.
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