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Hopefully the question isn't too broad or off.
Basically, are there any practical, and by practical I mean secure enough that a ciphertext only attack is infeasible, key-less cryptosystems? For example, there's the Caesar Cipher (I'm aware of the fact that it can pass as a special case of the shift cipher with the key = 3, but let's assume that there is no general case of the hypothetical cipher), however, it's very impractical according to the aforementioned definition of practicality.


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We were two families with children who rented an Elviria (Marbella) property from Interhome through Wimdu. The Wimdu process was quite simple and quick. The follow up with Interhome started poorly, they kept asking for payment, when it had already been sent, and would not give the property address until payment logged by them. When that was sorted it was a bit of a shock to arrive there from the airport, and not be able to get in for an hour because the number Interhome gave went to a voicemail, eventually rang Interhome Germany and got them to get us into the property. The complex is very nice, secure and well serviced. The property was lovely and clean, and would have been ideal for our families, had it not been for one issue, it was NOT the property we had booked on Wimdu, The Wimdu photos were of a sunny top floor apartment, which was decorated and furnished beautifully. This was a ground floor, not sunny, apartment, which was furnished ok. To compound matters we had no hot water till almost 10pm that night, running after various agents, night guards etc. Then no running water on third day, all of which was conveyed to Interhome. After a polite but lengthy investigation, they basically said no issues as far as they were concerned and they would offer 10% off our next booking, REALLY...would you book with them after that?? poor customer service, very keen to take your hard earned money, not very keen to take responsibility or compensate genuine complaints. Do not assume the property you are looking at is what Interhome will give you, by then its too late you have paid and you have travelled there and they refused to compensate or take responsibility.
Very comfortable nice apartment.
Very good orieted appartment in the centre of Chamonix. Exxellent on the minute service from Interhome when the bathtub was clogged.
The apartment was clean, well equipped, in a great location with allocated parking. It was in need of some TLC.It could do with the walls redecorating and the patio area tidying up.
Great place with very nice hostess, great public transport from there you can get everywhere. Everything was nice and clean, great base to explore austria!
No contact with the host prior to the visit. Typical Tyrolean apartment, close to the slopes, clean and warm. I recommend
We were only 2 nights in Porto Cristo N(u)ovo with 2 parents and 4 children ( 12, 14, 14, 16). We had a good time there, for the apartment is quite clean, there are 3 bedrooms, all quite big enough, a large sitting space, 2 bathrooms and 2 balconys. A very well kept garden.So the apartment on itself, we would recommend to everybody.
We were with larger children, so they wanted to go to the sea. The sea is very close, but you can't get to there. You have to take the car and go to Porto Cristo or somewhere else. The neighbourhood is very quiet, which is not so exciting for children our age.
The WIFI didn't work at first, but the woman who is very very friendly and willing to help and inform you, managed to repare it. So for next geusts Wifi won't be a problem. When we came, the heater was on, so allthough it was not so warm outside, it was nice inside. We are sure, (elder??) people with a car will enjoy this appartment.
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we were in this apartment it was really very nice comfortable very clean . The atmosphere was also good. unfortunatly we could not meet Host of this house because we did not have enough time . but everything was perfect . The price was excellent
thank you so much for tip.
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I have a simple question, but being a JavaScript newbie, I have no idea how to implement my findings.
I found a little snippit that uses JavaScript to pull in the current URL, and load that value to a variable:


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I am running Windows 7 under VMware Fusion on my Macintosh. What can I be doing to optimize the performance of the games I run under such an environment?
Suggested Settings
The remaining VM settings offer no significant performance improvements.
You will want to close as many applications as possible that are running in OS X. This includes all dock applications, and ones in the tray. This is particularly important when you are using the maximum recommended RAM sizes for your virtual machine.
My advice would be to not use a VM and use Boot Camp instead.
Virtual Machines are inherently a software solution and games are one of the most stressful applications on your hardware. This extra layer between the hardware and the game will certainly degrade your gaming performance.
Using Boot Camp, whilst not being as convenient as a VM, will give you much better gaming performance.
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The Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA) has set the method for schools to qualify for its first Dual Wrestling Championships set for Feb. 23, 2013 in Kearney.
The NSAA's Dual Wrestling Committee decided (with approval of the NSAA Board of Directors) that the winning teams from the NSAA Wrestling District Wrestling Championships (Feb. 8-9) will automatically qualify for the inaugural championships hosted by the University of Nebraska-Kearney.
Along with the four NSAA district champions from each class, the remaining four teams in Classes A, B, C and D, will be chosen via a wildcard point system based on each school's performance at the district wresting tournament.
Each of the four wildcard teams must have a minimum of 10 wrestlers to qualify for the NSAA Dual Championships. From there, the NSAA will use a formula combining a school's district championship team points with 10 points for each wrestler entered into the district tournament, and give five bonus points for each wrestler who qualifies for the NSAA's Individual Wrestling Championships on Feb. 14-16.
All eight teams qualifying for the NSAA Dual Championships will be seeded on an eight-team bracket according to the wildcard point system. Each school will wrestle three dual matches in the one-day event with winning and losing teams advancing to first-, third-, fifth- and seventh-place matches.
"This is an exciting year for wrestling in Nebraska," said NSAA Assistant Director Ron Higdon, who oversees wrestling. "Dual wrestling marks the first time that a state championship has been introduced to the NSAA's postseason events since 2007-08 when the Class B baseball championship was added."
On top of the basic qualifying criteria, the Dual Wrestling Committee also set up a tie-breaking system to help seed the teams and determine which team will qualify for the event should two or more schools tie for the final qualifying spot. The NSAA will use an eight-step process based on a school's performance at the district wrestling championships to separate the schools.
"A dual tournament is considerably different than our individual tournament" explained Higdon. "The NSAA Individual State Championship can be won by a team with five or six quality individuals. A dual tournament requires a team to have quality and numbers throughout the 14 weight classes in order to win. A dual tournament showcases a total team concept where every wrestler on the team has an opportunity to contribute. Even with a loss, an individual can inspire the rest of their team and that can factor into the final team score."
Starting with the 2014-15 season, the qualifying criteria will take into consideration the regular season dual competition. Teams will then qualify for the NSAA Dual Wrestling Championships by a wildcard system based on regular season dual competition.
"The initial criteria were set so that teams would not have to adjust their regular season schedules for two years," explained Higdon. "However, the Dual Wrestling Committee believes that adding a win-loss component based on team-to-team competition would be better for 2014-15. Two years will give the schools adequate time to honor their existing wrestling contracts and adjust their schedules to create more duals."
Page 2 of 2 - The 2012-13 NSAA Dual Wrestling Championships will feature two sessions with two classes of competition wrestling on eight mats. Two classes, yet to be determined, will start with first round action at 8 a.m. at UNK's Health & Sports Center. Semifinal and consolation duals are set for 9:30 a.m. with the championship finals, third-, fifth- and seventh-place matches at 11 a.m. The second session with the other two classes of competition will start with first-round dual action at 3 p.m. Semifinals and consolation matches are set for 4:30 p.m., while the place-winning matches are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
NSAA Dual Wrestling Qualifying Criteria
The team champions from each respective district will be the four automatic qualifiers from each Class. The remaining four teams from each class will be determined by the following wildcard point system:
1. Total district team points
2. 10 points per wrestler entered in the district tournament (minimum of 10)
3. 5 points per state qualifier
The total points from 1, 2 and 3 will be totaled to determine the remaining team qualifiers for the Dual Championships.
If a tie exists for the final qualifying spot or higher seed, the following criteria will be used to break those ties:
The team with the most team points from the district tournament shall earn the qualifying spot or higher seed.
If still tied:
The team with the most wrestlers entered in the district tournament shall earn the qualifying spot or higher seed.
If still tied:
The team with the most state individual qualifiers shall earn the qualifying spot or higher seed.
The team with the most District Champions shall earn the qualifying spot or higher seed.
The team with the most District Runner-ups shall earn the qualifying spot or higher seed.
The team with the most District Third-place finishers shall earn the qualifying spot or higher seed.
The team with the most District Consolation Semifinalists shall earn the qualifying spot or higher seed.
The team with the Higher District Team Place shall earn the qualifying spot or higher seed.
Flip a coin.
All 8 teams that qualify for the Dual championships from each class will be seeded in an eight team bracket according to the wildcard point system.
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Columbia College will confer undergraduate and graduate degrees upon graduates at the Aurora campus commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 1. The ceremony will take place at 2:30 p.m. at the Red Lion Hotel, 3200 South Parker Road, Aurora, Colo.
Dr. Gary Massey, dean for adult higher education, will confer the degrees.
"Graduation is the culmination of students' efforts to improve their lives through education," said Massey. "We are proud to honor their accomplishments."
Columbia College, a private, nonprofit institution, was founded in Missouri in 1851 as Christian Female College, the first women's college west of the Mississippi River to be chartered by a state legislature. The college changed its name to Columbia College in 1970 when it became coeducational.
Established in Denver in 1975, the campus moved to Aurora in 1979 after enrollments outpaced available space. In the early years, the campus served active-duty military personnel at Lowry Air Force Base, Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center, retired military and corporate students from major companies in the area. Today, it continues to serve adult learners in the Denver area.
Columbia College-Aurora is part of the college's extended network of more than 30 Nationwide Campuses across the country. Columbia College in Columbia, Mo., educates more than 26,000 students each year and has more than 64,000 alumni worldwide. For more information, visit www.ccis.edu.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Gov. Sam Brownback has announced a new executive director of the Kansas Lottery.
Dennis Taylor, who is currently the Secretary of Administration, will take over the Lottery position January 11th.
Taylor will replace Dennis Wilson, who resigned in November because of health reasons.
Taylor has worked at local, state and international levels for 35 years, including as a Shawnee County Commissioner.
Complete news release from the Governor's office:
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback announced today the appointment of Kansas Secretary of Administration Dennis Taylor as Executive Director of the Kansas Lottery. The appointment is effective January 11, 2013.
"During the last two years, my administration has worked to change how state government operates - made it more efficient with a focus on its core responsibilities and balanced the state budget without a tax increase," Governor Brownback said. "Among other initiatives, Dennis has been instrumental in the consolidation of the management of state human resources services, the establishment of the Office of Repealer, and in reducing the Department of Administration workforce by 12% without reducing services. He played a key role in the implementation of the state-wide voluntary retirement incentive program that has lowered state expenses without reducing services."
Governor Brownback continued, "Dennis' 35 years of public management experience will ensure the Kansas Lottery continues its path of growth and success."
Sec. Taylor has worked at the local, state and international levels of government, including serving twice as a cabinet secretary during the Hayden Administration and as Shawnee County Commissioner.
"The Department of Administration has made substantial progress during the past two years in lowering its costs and improving its services. While it has been my pleasure to have helped build the framework for future progress, I am always looking for new arenas in which to apply my planning and organizational skills," Taylor said. "I appreciate the Governor's continuing confidence in asking me to undertake this important assignment at the Kansas Lottery."
The mission of the Kansas Lottery is to produce the maximum amount of revenue possible for the State of Kansas while ensuring the integrity of all games.
Sec. Taylor replaces Dennis Wilson as the lottery's executive director. Wilson resigned last month because of health reasons.


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Home > Academics > Office of Academic Affairs > Registrar
The Office of the Registrar is located on the Floyd Campus in the Enrollment Management suite of the Administration Building.
Our office staff maintains records for all students who have been admitted to the college. Staff members are committed to providing customer-centered administrative support for registration, maintenance of student records, and graduation services that assist students in meeting their educational goals.
Students are encouraged to contact the Office of the Registrar with any questions they may have regarding their records.
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There are four types of projects that can be requested within Facilities Management & Campus Services. Please read the descriptions below to see how your project should be categorized.
Initiate a maintenance work order
Maintenance is the work required to keep a space or item functioning as it was originally intended to do. Keeping existing facilities in proper condition requires services to offset the effects of normal "wear and tear" as well as equipment and materials failure.
Any Capital Improvement Project that can be defined as minor and simple in scope and typically costs less than $7,500. Such modifications may involve additions, deletions, rearrangements, or replacements of one or more components in the space. A GAP may include minor remodeling of an existing space, ADA compliance work, or maintenance that results in an element of upgrade (adds value to the structure versus strict direct replacement).
Initiate a capital improvement project
Any renovation or remodeling of an existing facility that results in a permanent improvement. Landscape improvements, street and sidewalk renovations, utility modifications or additions, and the purchases of fixed equipment that require modifications to a facility are all considered Capital Improvements as well. Projects initiated for the purpose of ADA compliance or that necessitate a permanent improvement to maintain or improve the health and safety of the university's students, faculty, staff, and visitors are Capital Improvement projects. All new construction projects are Capital Improvement projects.
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Special services can be requested that are unrelated to a work order, Gray Area Project (GAP), or Capital Improvement. These may include services such as furniture layout, color selection, mapping or GIS, graphic design, ergonomic assessments, etc. In order to cover costs to perform the services, departments will be charged $20 per hour.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- With little more than a month left of 2011, police are searching harder than ever for clues in the growing list of unsolved homicides. Among the killed, a two-year-old girl, and a woman killed in her Southwest Topeka home, in what investigators called a difficult crime scene, and months later, no identified suspects.
Residents of the neighborhood near 3520 SW Belle in Topeka are wondering what's taking so long.
"It seems like it's just at a standstill," resident Mary Valdivia said. "Have they given up or is it just going to stay a cold case or are they just keeping stuff under their belts?"
Valdivia says she and her husband have used extra security since September, when Sheila Hachmeister, 58, was murdered just across the street. Topeka Police were here for days collecting evidence, but two months later, they still won't comment on any leads, or possible suspects, saying it could harm the investigation.
In fact, at least seven Topeka homicides are still unsolved, including the death of a toddler almost three months ago, Gabrielle Thompson, who died at 3141 SE Dupont.
Topeka Police say they're still waiting on a coroner's report in the child abuse case. 13 News called the Shawnee County Coroner's Office on Monday, they said they couldn't comment on an open investigation.
A spokesman for the Shawnee County District Attorney says his office still doesn't have reports on any of the cases, meaning they're still waiting for investigations to be completed, and for reports to be forwarded for review, leaving neighbors with more questions than answers.
"It does make you uneasy because you think well there's murderers out there and who's to say we're not going to be the next one?" Valdivia said.
Topeka Police say they're still taking tips on open cases, just call Crimestoppers at (785) 234-0007.
The following cases are still under investigation:
Sheila Hachmeister, 58, 3520 SW Belle
Gabrielle Thompson, 2, 3141 SE Dupont
Corey Nance, 21, 635 SE Lawrence
James Trice, 64, 617 SW Taylor
Robin Nicholson, 52, 1500 Block of SE 22nd
Ricardo Dowd Jr., 23, 2000 Block of SE California
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22 Oct 2009 3:13 AM #1
Chart title
Is it possible to add a title to a chart?
I've looked through the examples and the titles there appear in the container that contains the graph. This is OK, however I would like it to appear in the chart itself.
If this is possible, could I see an example, because I've tried a few things and have had no luck so far.
Thanks for your help,
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I've customized the hell out of charts but have not seen a way to do this. The closest i could come was adding X and Y axis labels. :-\https://moduscreate.com/wp-content/t...es/favicon.png
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I have been trying to figure this out for months. Finally came up with this workaround. The only downside is the added black axis line. If anyone can come up with a fix for that, let me know
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Is there any way to customise/change the way that combat logs in eve are displayed?
At the moment, I tend to miss all of the details of combat in large battles.. eg, when I'm fighting a group of 10 NPCs, I have 5 drones deployed and am firing 4 weapon groups, you can't see any of the relevant combat details.
Best case scenario, I'd like to be able to view all those details in a list with a scrollbar.


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23 Dec 2010 2:26 AM #1
Select combobox item with Selenium
Does anybody know how to select a combo box item using Selenium?
I managed to find the div where the items are defined but clicking on the div, what I would expect, doesn't work. Nothing is selected
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Are you sure that your selector is correct?
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The selector is correct. If I use the mousedown it seems to select the one but the binding is not done for some reason
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5 Classic Movies Made by People Who Wanted Them to Fail
Sometimes things don't work out despite our best efforts. Ed Wood is widely known as the worst director of all time, but the man loved filmmaking -- he always poured his heart and soul into every single failed project. Could the opposite also be true? Can a movie succeed if the very people behind it are doing everything in their power (short of burying the film in the desert or phoning in bomb threats to the theater) to make sure that it fails? Actually, it turns out that even pre-emptive burial and attempted terrorism aren't enough to keep a good flick down. Just take ...
#5. Three Kings
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The 1999 comedy-drama Three Kings stars George Clooney, Marky Mark, Ice Cube, and the co-creator of Jackass orchestrating a gold heist during the Iraqi uprising against Saddam Hussein. A contentious setting, to be sure, but the studio had other issues with the movie -- like the budget, the graphic violence, and the strangely light amount of action for an absurdly violent war flick. All the executive input created a very tense atmosphere on set, which of course was being shot by professional egomaniacs in the middle of a real, scorching desert.
One day director David Russell allegedly started assaulting an extra to show the actors how they should bring him down during an action scene. After a substantial directorial mauling, Clooney decided that the director had gone too far and yelled "I'm gonna fuck you up!" at Russell, who then head-butted the actor. Clooney responded by trying to choke Russell with his bare hands, and friggin' nobody standing there holding a camera thought to film what may have been the best fight scene of the movie. It was around that time that the second assistant director, Paul Bernard, quit the production by putting his camera down and walking off the set, presumably to roam the earth like Caine in Kung Fu, assistant-directing for those in need.
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Thankfully, everyone knew better than to fuck with '90s-era Ice Cube.
But all the petty squabbling had to take a back seat to some real-life drama when terrorists attacked a Planet Hollywood restaurant in South Africa, claiming that they were protesting U.S. action in Iraq (and wildly overpriced hamburgers). The studio realized that, holy shit, their wacky Iraq War movie might piss off some Iraqis, seeing as it includes a scene where the Americans retrieve a map from an Iraqi's ass (to say nothing of the movie's rampant use of racial epithets like "dune coon," "sand nigger," "towelhead," and "camel jockey"). Sure, it was all satire, but terrorists are generally not "down" with the subtleties of biting social commentary delivered via American comedy.
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At least they lent the ass-map scene the dramatic gravity it deserved.
But with the film's production already set in stone, they couldn't just shelve it. What they could do, however, was get rid of Clooney, whose personal contract said he could take off and still get paid in full. These fucking Hollywood guys, right? They bail if somebody gets their mocha wrong. So, the studio tried to gently persuade Clooney to pack his bags and leave by implying that if he didn't, angry terrorists would come to his house and murder his balls off. That's a pretty solid argument!
One that didn't convince Clooney in the slightest.
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"I survived Batman & Robin. I fear no man. I fear no God."
Clooney shrugged off the terrorist threats, which we remind you were actually delivered by proxy from his own studio, and finished the movie. It went on to make $150 million at the box office (today's money), score a 94 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, get named "some kind of weird masterpiece" by Roger Ebert, and as best we can tell, everybody's balls went perfectly unmurdered.
#4. Psycho
Paramount Pictures
When Psycho came out in 1960, it changed everything. Not only was the movie unusually dark and violent for its time -- it dove right into the disturbed mind of a psychopathic killer living with the ghost of his murdered mother -- it also showed an unmarried couple sharing a bed (hey, that was more shocking than an Eli Roth movie to a 1960s audience). So it's no wonder that when Hitchcock first presented Paramount Pictures with the idea for the movie, they thought he had lost his goddamn mind.
Universal Studios
Clearly the man was the very essence of sanity.
Unfortunately for the studio, they were contractually obligated to let Hitchcock make a movie -- ANY movie -- for them (that we didn't get Alfred Hitchcock's Paramount Executives vs. The Rape Spiders is a testament to the man's restraint). But since the contract didn't say anything about studio heads not being unscrubbable ball sacks about it, they went ahead and did just that: They let Hitchcock film Psycho, but took absolutely every opportunity to screw with him while doing it.
Paramount Pictures
"Instead of a key grip, we decided to hire someone to stand around and scream at you all day. Make it work."
The first step on Paramount's bone list was giving Hitchcock a hilariously small budget, meaning no Technicolor at a time when a director could reasonably expect it and actors whose pay grades would need to triple for them to qualify as slaves. But that didn't stop Hitchcock for even a second: He simply shot the movie in black and white and used the crew from his television show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Things still looked grim, though, so Hitchcock ultimately agreed to shoot the movie for free, only taking a cut of the back end if the studio gave him enough cash to finish it, and then distributed it.
Paramount Pictures
We wouldn't be surprised if rough drafts of the script had this scene taking place in the Paramount CEO's office.
Moved by his artistic selflessness, Paramount's heart grew three sizes that day. Unfortunately, that still left it cold and microscopic -- they promptly kicked the director off their lot, telling him to go film his turd over at their rival's place, Universal Studios. They wouldn't even let him use their sets or equipment. Obviously, none of this deterred Hitchcock, who went on to film one of the most profitable films ever, and arguably the most famous suspense horror in history. It may have broken his mind, though, seeing as how he started stapling birds to Tippi Hedren not long after.
#3. The Wicker Man
EMI Films
The Wicker Man (the uh ... the original 1973 version, not the one where Nic Cage wears a bear suit and jump-kicks women in the throat) is generally considered one of the better cult horror films. In a remarkable display of subtlety, The Wicker Man eschews the slicing and dicing of young people in favor of a slowly unfolding mystery about an isolated pagan cult that might be performing human sacrifices. Of course, if you were a 1970s movie exec, that synopsis sounds like box office poison -- especially considering the downer ending where the hero gets burned alive.
EMI Films
This pagan sacrifice is one hit of Ecstasy and some electronic dance music away from Burning Man.
So when EMI acquired the rights to The Wicker Man, they didn't exactly have high hopes for it. Then again, EMI's initial lack of faith quickly turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy once they blocked the movie's director from accessing the final cut of the film and removed 15 minutes of footage from it, including key plot elements. When Christopher Lee saw the final product and demanded to know what in Saruman's glorious beard they did to his movie, the studio head told him that The Wicker Man was "one of the 10 worst films I've ever seen."
EMI Films
"I thought you said this was scary; I only had terrifying hybrid dog nightmares for five, maybe six nights."
Lee decided to prove him wrong and had his film critic buddies attend a screening of the movie. Even in its mangled form, the critics loved it. Suddenly, the movie that no one wanted was the hottest thing around and the studio was finally convinced to give the unbutchered version a proper release. There was a slight problem with that, though: The original cut of the movie was sent to another studio, where it was literally buried. The consensus says that the film cans with the director's cut were at some point loaded into a garbage truck and buried under the M3 somewhere in the southern U.K. Apparently it was standard practice for British filmmakers to treat potentially poor-quality movies like mummy's curses, lest they return from their entombment to bore the masses for all eternity.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Actually, that curse theory might have some merit.
Luckily, in 1979 an existing copy of the director's cut was discovered and finally saw a wide and hugely successful release, after which The Wicker Man came to be known as "the Citizen Kane of horror movies." And then somebody slapped Nic Cage in the remake, wired him up on gas station counter amphetamines, told him that every single cast member peed in his coffee, and filmed the results. And that's how most people know the movie today. Guard your legacy, kids -- there are villains about.


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When you buy a refurbished Macbook direct from Apple, is the battery in it new? I cannot seem to find a definitive answer on their website or on the internet. I am concerned that the savings from buying a refurb will be cancelled out by having to replace the battery in less than a year.
I called Apple's Sale Support, and I asked them what their policy was for batteries in a refurbished Macbook. Their answer is that the battery will be replaced if it has a defect, but if nothing is wrong with it, then the laptop will include the original battery which may or may not have many used cycles.
This is not answering your question, merely providing a data point, but my refurbished MacBook Air (purchased very late December 2011) currently has a single cycle on its battery. I didn't check the machine when it came out the box, but I'd imagine it was probably at zero cycles when I received it (as I've probably put that cycle on it myself in the month I've had it).
mine had 3 cycles when i received it. currently at 7% life left and have not yet charged it since I got it.


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Babyproofing Basics: The Top Hazards in Your Homeby Lindsay Hutton
Let's face it - babies and toddlers have the uncanny ability to get into everything. Those curious hands and climbing legs may be cute, but they can also have dangerous consequences. Be aware of the most common household hazards, and follow these necessary babyproofing steps to ensure your home is safe and kid-friendly. For more tips, see babyproofing steps you may have missed.
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Electrical Outlets
Cover all electrical outlets with safety caps. Keep all electrical cords up and out of the way to keep your baby from pulling on, tripping over, or chewing on them, and cover all surge protectors and power strips with a protective cover to keep any plugs from being pulled out. Use wire guards on any exposed wires from computers, stereos, or other electronic equipment.
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Mall guard fired after altercation
May 22, 2013
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — A security guard involved in a physical altercation was fired Monday....
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why would a security guard take this kind of action. ?? This makes no sense.
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Well, for some reason this comment section redacts the YouTube URL. Just go to the YouTube website and search for "Ohio Valley Mall Security." You'll see the video, which is 3 minutes, 11 seconds long. Be prepared to laugh your head off!!!
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So are the rules posted at the entrance DOORS od the mall building? or on the entrance roads where people driving on the perimiter have to see them driving in? Anyway I saw the entire video on you tube and this guard was out of control. Obviously she doesn't understand her roll and the difference between a security guard that does not have law enforcement credentials and one who does. She should have asked them disperse and her only threat should have been to call the sheriff. If they didn't move when asked she should have called the sheriff for assistance.
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This is extremely informative to me as an aspiring teacher. It is my goal to contribute towards the development of effective readers in my country.
Differentiated Instruction for Reading
What Is differentiated instruction?
Differentiated instruction, also called differentiation, is a process through which teachers enhance learning by matching student characteristics to instruction and assessment. Differentiated instruction allows all students to access the same classroom curriculum by providing entry points, learning tasks, and outcomes that are tailored to students' needs (Hall, Strangman, & Meyer, 2003). Differentiated instruction is not a single strategy, but rather an approach to instruction that incorporates a variety of strategies.
Teachers can differentiate content, process, and/or product for students (Tomlinson, 1999). Differentiation of content refers to a change in the material being learned by a student. For example, if the classroom objective is for all students to subtract using renaming, some of the students may learn to subtract two-digit numbers, while others may learn to subtract larger numbers in the context of word problems. Differentiation of process refers to the way in which a student accesses material. One student may explore a learning center, while another student collects information from the web. Differentiation of product refers to the way in which a student shows what he or she has learned. For example, to demonstrate understanding of a geometric concept, one student may solve a problem set, while another builds a model.
When teachers differentiate, they do so in response to a student's readiness, interest, and/or learning profile. Readiness refers to the skill level and background knowledge of the child. Interest refers to topics that the student may want to explore or that will motivate the student. This can include interests relevant to the content area as well as outside interests of the student. Finally, a student's learning profile includes learning style (i.e., a visual, auditory, tactile, or kinesthetic learner), grouping preferences (i.e., individual, small group, or large group), and environmental preferences (i.e., lots of space or a quiet area to work). A teacher may differentiate based on any one of these factors or any combination of factors (Tomlinson, 1999).
How is it implemented?
Implementation looks different for each student and each assignment. Before beginning instruction, teachers should do three things:
- Use diagnostic assessments to determine student readiness. These assessments can be formal or informal. Teachers can give pre-tests, question students about their background knowledge, or use KWL charts (charts that ask students to identify what they already Know, what they Want to know, and what they have Learned about a topic).
- Determine student interest. This can be done by using interest inventories and/or including students in the planning process. Teachers can ask students to tell them what specific interests they have in a particular topic, and then teachers can try to incorporate these interests into their lessons.
- Identify student learning styles and environmental preferences. Learning styles can be measured using learning style inventories. Teachers can also get information about student learning styles by asking students how they learn best and by observing student activities. Identifying environmental preferences includes determining whether students work best in large or small groups and what environmental factors might contribute to or inhibit student learning. For example, a student might need to be free from distraction or have extra lighting while he or she works.
Teachers incorporate different instructional strategies based on the assessed needs of their students. Throughout a unit of study, teachers should assess students on a regular basis. This assessment can be formal, but is often informal and can include taking anecdotal notes on student progress, examining students' work, and asking the student questions about his or her understanding of the topic. The results of the assessment could then be used to drive further instruction.
What does it look like for reading?
Differentiation strategies applied to reading can be designed to help students learn a range of skills including, phonics, comprehension, fluency, word prediction, and story prediction. The chart below offers a variety of strategies that can be used.
Focus of Differentiation
Tiered Assignments
Tiered assignments are designed to instruct students on essential skills that are provided at different levels of complexity, abstractness, and open-endedness. The curricular content and objective(s) are the same, but the process and/or product are varied according to the student's level of readiness.
Students with moderate comprehension skills are asked to create a story-web. Students with advanced comprehension skills are asked to re-tell a story from the point of view of the main character.
Compacting is the process of adjusting instruction to account for prior student mastery of learning objectives.
Compacting involves a three-step process:
A student who can decode words with short vowel sounds would not participate in a direct instruction lesson for that skill, but might be provided with small group or individualized instruction on a new phonics skill.
Interest Centers or Interest Groups
Interest centers (usually used with younger students) and interest groups (usually used with older students) are set up so that learning experiences are directed toward a specific learner interest. Allowing students to choose a topic can be motivating to them.
Interest Centers: Centers can focus on specific reading skills, such as phonics or vocabulary, and provide examples and activities that center on a theme of interest, such as outer space or students' favorite cartoon characters.
Interest Groups: For a book report, students can work in interest groups with other students who want to read the same book.
Flexible Grouping*
Readiness Interest Learning Profile
Students work as part of many different groups depending on the task and/or content. Sometimes students are placed in groups based on readiness, other times they are placed based on interest and/or learning profile.
Groups can either be assigned by the teacher or chosen by the students. Students can be assigned purposefully to a group or assigned randomly. This strategy allows students to work with a wide variety of peers and keeps them from being labeled as advanced or struggling.
The teacher may assign groups based on readiness for phonics instruction, while allowing other students to choose their own groups for book reports, based on the book topic.
Learning Contracts
Learning contracts begin with an agreement between the teacher and the student. The teacher specifies the necessary skills expected to be learned by the student and the required components of the assignment, while the student identifies methods for completing the tasks.
This strategy:
A student indicates that he or she wants to research a particular author. With support from the teacher, the student determines how the research will be conducted and how the information will be presented to the class.
For example, the student might decide to write a paper and present a poster to the class. The learning contract indicates the dates by which each step of the project will be completed.
Choice Boards
Readiness Interest Learning Profile
Choice boards are organizers that contain a variety of activities. Students can choose one or several activities to complete as they learn a skill or develop a product.
Choice boards can be organized so that students are required to choose options that focus on several different skills.
After students read Romeo and Juliet, they are given a choice board that contains a list of possible activities for each of the following learning styles: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile. Students must complete two activities from the board and must choose these activities from two different learning styles.
* More information about grouping strategies can be found in Strategies to Improve Access to the General Education Curriculum. Available at http://www.k8accesscenter.org/training_resources/curricular_materials.asp
The library can support differentiated instruction in many subject areas. Guiding struggling readers in selecting and using all forms of print and non-print materials of fiction, nonfiction, online, databases and books with particular attention to promoting literacy is an important part of an integrated approach to help students learn.
Fantastic experiment which we have taken for granted over the years. We keep complainning that the pupils are not doing well enough without assessing the methodology as well as the pupil`s needs. I am going to experiment this in Nigeria.
I found this article very informative. It gives a good explanation of what differentiation is and how it should be implemented in the classroom. I also liked the strategies it gave to help students learn a range of reading skills. I use differentiation in my classroom on a daily basis in my guided reading groups and in the learning centers. Anyone who thinks that every child learns the same way and at the same pace obviously doesn't know much about teaching.
I enjoyed reading this article. There were many great ideas on how to differentiate in reading. I differentiate daily in my co-teaching classroom. The students are doing the grade level work; however I have to sometimes pull out my students to work at a slower pace with them or to review and do more practice. I also provide modified assignments and/or test for some of my students.
This is a very informative article on differentiate instruction. I try my best to use differentiation in my classroom. I fill that I do this best in reading workstations and small groups. It is something though that is very challenging.
For me, using differentiated instruction is best done in stations. The suggestions in this article are great for allowing students some choice in their activities.
I am familiar with differentiated instruction; however, I had not heard of the strategy, Interest Centers or Interest Groups. I really found this interesting and plan to try it in the classroom. I think the students would like to engage in activities centered on a theme of interest.
Currently, I am a companion aide/paraprofessional at a school district. Recently, we had a teacher's meeting about the scores from the school's assessment. Every regular education classroom teacher's students had scored between 80% - 99% with the exception of very few students. My principal encouraged all the regular education classroom teachers to use differentiated instruction in their classroom. She strongly requests the teachers to help the students in the 80%-99% to continue striving for the next level and to provide more opportunities for the very few students to excel, too. I like how this article gives teachers ideas of ways to promote differentiated instruction, such as by using choice boards.
This article did a great job breaking down WHAT D.I. is, WHEN you should do it, and HOW you should do it. It also listed and explained some very successful strategies to try. For reading, I personally prefer 'flexible grouping.' We teach different skills all the time and so it is appropriate to adjust your groups based on what the students need. If the students are getting it then I like for them to do an extension. In reading, my favorite is 'choice boards.' Those students that aren't getting it will be regrouped and retaught using a new instructional strategy. D.I. is a very important tool that all teachers should be enforcing in their classrooms.
Differentiation in reading instruction is geared to providing support to the individual needs of the learner so that they may have success. Using their own interest to plan instruction and gearing instruction at their level will create an environment for success. I have used interest inventories to help with selecting appropriate texts for intervention groups and choices for free reading time.
I like breaking down activities for my struggling readers so I really enjoyed reading about the interest groups / centers. I think about or during guided reading when I am working with groups this would be perfect to do in the classroom. I do similar stations, but liked what this article said about the centers. I have observed other teachers doing interventions, but becoming frustrated and it worries me whether or not they follow through on the students progress. I think having students interact in interest centers would really encourage learning reading skills.
Thanks for writing this article. It gives lots of really practical effective ideas for differentiating instruction for reading activities. I'm going to reread it and try a couple out on my year 2 kids.
This article provided useful information and specific strategies for differentiating reading instruction. I particularly liked the learning contracts and choice boards strategies. Both of these offer students choice and more control over the manner that they will learn and demonstrate mastery of objectives. Student responsibility and ownership are important elements that both of these strategies support. I observed a teacher who used a combination of these two strategies which she called menu learning. Students chose activities from a teacher created menu and signed contracts for completion of these activities in order to demonstrate mastery of the instructional objective. This approach was very successful, and the students enjoyed the freedom to choose activities that suited their personal learning styles.
The Choice Board and Flexible Grouping is very similiar to CAFE and the Daily 5 approach. I teach third grade and for my on grade level and higher readers, I am doing literature circles. The groups are based on book choices by the students.
I found the article very informative and interesting. I am very familiar with flexible grouping, especially using readiness as a guide. I would love to incorporate more choices in my centers. Allowing students to join reading groups based on interest is a great idea as well.
I thought this article gave the appropriate information for applying differentiated instruction to the classroom and reading instruction.
I am very thankful to writers of this article. it explains DI practically. According to my learning context, reading materials are predetermined, and so I choose reading strategies that focus on readiness and learning style more than interest, such as: flexible grouping, choice board, and tiered assignments. I am gonna apply this for first time, was really helpful.
Great strategies, and very clearly written. Thank you! I am using this to study for my Praxis II, and hopefully implement these strategies when I get my own classroom.


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Jeff Benedict: Once in honor code trouble, Van Noy almost didn't come to BYU
The only reason the star is a Cougar is because he desperately wanted to be one
Editor's note: This is the third of three excerpts taken from "THE SYSTEM: The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football," by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian.
At the same time it was recruiting Kyle Van Noy, BYU was in the hunt to land Manti Te'o, another Mormon who was the nation's top high school linebacker. The prospect of Te'o and Van Noy playing side by side had put BYU in position to have the best linebacking corps in the country. Although Van Noy didn't have as much fanfare as Te'o, Mendenhall had concluded he had just as much talent. Van Noy was a bit smaller — six feet three inches and 209 pounds. But in terms of raw athleticism, he was actually faster and quicker. He ran the forty in 4.5, and he started both ways. While leading his team to a state title and a perfect 14-0 record as a senior, he terrorized quarterbacks and caught thirty-five passes for 731 yards and eighteen touchdowns on offense. On defense he made seventy-nine tackles, fourteen sacks and forced six fumbles.
"With Kyle all you had to do was watch a couple series of film and you knew," said Mendenhall. "I thought very early on that there was no limit on how good he could be."
On January 10–11, 2009, Te'o and Van Noy both made their official visits to BYU. Every detail had been considered to persuade Te'o to join Van Noy by committing to BYU. Even his cousin Shiloah, already a member of the team, had been assigned to be Manti's host for the weekend. But things didn't quite turn out as planned.
At the end of the visit Van Noy reaffirmed his commitment to BYU, pledging to sign with the Cougars on National Signing Day. "I didn't want to go to a school where I knew I'd face challenges and temptations," he said. "I knew I needed an environment like BYU."
But before Te'o left Provo, he met with Mendenhall. The conversation was cordial and respectful. But BYU stopped recruiting Te'o after that weekend. Two weeks later, Te'o called Mendenhall a couple days before National Signing Day to say he was going to Notre Dame.
Later that day Mendenhall also got an unexpected call from Van Noy. "I messed up," Van Noy began, his voice cracking. Mendenhall took a deep breath. "I got arrested," Van Noy continued.
Mendenhall felt sick.
It happened the night before. Van Noy had been out and got arrested for drunk driving. He was underage. So the case would be disposed in juvenile court. But Mendenhall had a policy that prohibited him from offering scholarships to players who weren't living in compliance with the honor code. He didn't make exceptions— not even for the best recruits.
"You understand you can't come to BYU under these circumstances?" Mendenhall asked.
Van Noy was silent.
"Kyle, I love you just the same," Mendenhall told him. "I'll release you from your commitment to BYU."
More silence.
"You can choose any of the schools that were recruiting you," Mendenhall said. "My guess is that they will want you in a second."
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Mendenhall wasn't optimistic. But he told Van Noy to give him the rest of the day to explore options. They agreed to talk again later.
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