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An Opening Day Surprise: Verlander Wins
Detroit's Justin Verlander has a Cy Young Award, an MVP and even a new $180 million contract going for him. He's generally considered the best pitcher in baseball. But when the spotlight is on for a marquee game such as opening day, the All-Star game or the postseason, Verlander hasn't flashed his best stuff.
But perhaps the tide is shifting. On Monday, the Tigers ace threw five shutout innings and struck out seven Minnesota batters to pick up his first career opening-day win, after failing in his previous five attempts. Still, his track record in bigger-than-normal games has been abysmal. In opening day games, Verlander carries a 5.08 earned-run average, compared with his career 3.39 ERA. In All-Star games, it's even worse, with a 18.00 earned-run average, and a WHIP (walks+hits/innings pitched) of 3.33.
Meanwhile, in the postseason, Verlander's numbers haven't been great, either. In 70.33 innings he's had a 4.22 earned-run average and a 6-4 record. In fairness to Verlander, he did pitched well during the first two rounds of the playoffs last year, leading Detroit to the World Series. Although in his lone World Series start against the Giants, he allowed five runs in four innings. San Francisco swept Verlander's Tigers.
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Raising Children Free of Prejudiceby Alvin Poussaint, M.D. and Susan Linn, Ed.D.
Raising our children and understanding racial diversity in our society can't be seen as separate tasks -- they're both part of our job as good parents. So how do we go about it?
Our children learn their attitudes from us -- the adults around them. We all have ways of thinking and acting that may seem natural to us but aren't necessarily what we want to pass along to our children. In fact, if we don't examine these attitudes carefully, they can be harmful to our children's understanding of their world.
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Children don't come pre-equipped with reactions to each new experience in their lives. For instance, all young children instinctively put things they want to explore into their mouths. But an Inuit child of the Arctic who put a grub into his or her mouth would learn from a pleased parent that grubs are a delicious springtime snack. A suburban American child learns from a horrified parent that grubs are too disgusting to be touched, let alone eaten. Now, do you often feel that you need to learn how to eat unusual insects in this country? Probably not. But we do need to understand our own learned prejudices about people in order to avoid teaching them to our children. We need to make sure that we are showing our children the most positive ways to interact with the world in which they live.
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Trinidad Sevillano
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seems like she's retired. there was an article, in spanish, on line, from august of this year. i don't speak spanish but i ran it through babelfish. i can't give the link because it was only in google's cached version, when i went to the periodical's home page it wasn't there any more.
How amazing! I saw her in Teatro Albéniz in Madrid, this autumn, when Victor Ullate´s company was performing. And I wondered the same, what is she doing now? I will try to find the article and give you notice.
Posted 07 February 2006 - 07:38 AM
After leaving Boston, she went to dance with RB. But after a difficult relationship she decided to return to Spain. In Madrid, José Antonio Ruiz choreographed two solos for her, she danced with a contemporary dance group, Metros, and finally joined Víctor Ullate's company. She is actually retired and teaching in Centro Andaluz de Danza in Seville.
Posted 07 August 2011 - 09:24 AM
This tiny fragment was part of a broadcast for Boston Ballet in 1992 and is about Fernando Bujones, Trinidad and Patrick and has some seconds of footage of Trinidad and Patrick in Allegro Brillante, which I think I remember was the first part of a program ending with Giselle.
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Review/Ballet; New Cast in London Company's 'Romeo'
By ANNA KISSELGOFF
Published: July 28, 1989
If the London Festival Ballet's revival of Sir Frederick Ashton's 1955 ''Romeo and Juliet'' is the surprise success of the season, Wednesday night's debut by the second of the company's three casts was an outright revelation.
Trinidad Sevillano, a 20-year-old Spanish-trained prodigy, was only 16 when Ashton directed her as Juliet in this superb 1985 reconstruction by Niels Bjorn Larsen, a former director of the Royal Danish Ballet.
She had only to step onstage now at the Metropolitan Opera House to demonstrate why her fabulous talent has attracted so much notice in Europe. She acts with profundity, dances flawlessly and exudes an unusual feminine power, an onrush of energy.
Thanks to her clarity and technique - in every passionate plunge into arabesque, every detailed small step, every phrased gesture - she made it possible to see how much more there was in Ashton's choreography than at first apparent.
Posted 07 August 2011 - 05:12 PM
Cristian, I don't know the answers to those questions. But here is a NY Times review of Sevillano (at 20) dancing in the Ashton Romeo and Juliet, referred to by Alexandra and others on another thread. It gives us an idea of what members who saw her dance, including Alexandra, Simon, Mme. Hermine, and JMcN, have been talking about:
Words can't describe how beautiful and phenomenal Sevillano was in the flesh. It's the reason why live performance is absolutely vital, visceral and important, however many bad or mediocre performances one has to sit through to get to a Sevillano, it's all worthwhile and why film is such a bad representation of a live performer of genius. And Sevillano really was a dance genius, you had to be there.
Sevillano just had to enter and stand there and you took notice, some people just have that X quality that demands you look at them no matter what else is going on around them and her dance was just crazy beautiful, she was probably the most musical ballerina I've ever seen, she was intense, brutal, every movement had a logic and purpose that wasn't contrived or forced - she was a one off. Like I said, genius is bandied around so often it's become pretty crass especially given some of the second rate talent it's proscribed to, but I truly believe Sevillano was the real deal, a true genius.
Posted 08 August 2011 - 05:46 AM
At the beginning I found myself engaged in what were essentially cognitive evaluations: body type ("pocket Venus," as the Edwardians called it), her evident conscientiousness about detail. Then there there came a shot of Sevillano looking in the direction of the camera. Not into the camera. But captured in a very private instant of time. Strands of hair had broken loose from the tight hairdo, making her look like a beautiful, fragile teenager. (The young Odette under the super-sophisticated Odile???) With that image and feeling in mind, the rest of the rehearsal took on a magical quality me.
Not all dancers can evoke such feelings. It's clear from your posts and those of others that Sevillano was one of them.
This was a rehearsal film, and what I thought I saw was the kind of detail that most carefully edited ballet performance films try to edit out. But it's what happens countless times when you watch live performance and when you follow the careers of dancers who have captured you in one way or other.
I'll copy some of the links from that other thread, so that those who may not have read the posts there can see what we are talking about.
While I'm at it, here's the other thread I've been talking about. Although the topic is not focused on Sevillano, there are many posts that evoke the impression that she made during her career.
Posted 08 August 2011 - 01:07 PM
In 1988 she was in a video for T'Pau's power ballade Valentine, it's poodle perms and shoulder pads at dawn. The male dancer is Koen Onzia. You might want to turn the sound down. It was filmed in the Old Sadlers Wells and I'm fairly certain the choreography is by Denzel Bailey who was one of the first black dancers to enter a mainstream company, English National Ballet:
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It's a bit overwraught and cheesy in that 80s way. You keep expecting Crockett & Tubbs to burst in and start making arrests. It wasn't just the women of ENB who were incredible at that time, while the Royal was really in the doldrums with their underwhelming male roster ENB had Koen Onzia, Matz Skoog, Patrick Armand, Alessandro Molin, Peter Schaufuss, Martin James, Schaufuss also brought Julio Bocca to the West on his first engagements before ABT or the Royal. It was quite a company.
And I remember Trini dancing Julio Bocca off the stage in Tchaikowsky pdd in a mixed programme at Sadler's Wells!
LFB was seriously strong on all counts in those days!
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FAIRMONT - For the first time since soccer split into two classes five seasons ago, the Weir boys' team won't be making the trip to Beckley for the West Virginia High School State Soccer Tournament.
Instead, it will be Fairmont Senior earning a spot in the annual tournament in its first season after dropping down to Class AA/A with a 2-1 victory against the Red Riders.
"It's a little bit tough but when we played them the first time it was 5-1 and they said we wouldn't be a factor," Weir coach Joe Pepe said. "We gave them a game. They are a big Double-A school that dropped down and our kids fought with them. You can't take anything away from our kids. We had a good season.
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KEEP AWAY — Weir's Alex Hannah tries to keep the ball away from Fairmont's Brent Pascoe during the first half of Tuesday's 2-1 win by the Polar Bears, which ended the Red Riders' season at 16-4-2.
-- Josh Strope
"The sun will come up tomorrow, and Weir soccer will be back."
After a back-and-forth first half, Weir (16-4-2) thought it was heading into halftime with a 1-0 lead, but Fairmont Senior (14-5-3) executed a perfect corner kick as time was expiring.
Ryan Rosier's kick found the head of Fletcher Devaul, who buried it past Weir goalkeeper Matt Tenaglio with 1 second left on the clock.
"We didn't mark a man and the kid climbed up and got it," Pepe said. "It was a little bit of miscommunication."
Added Fairmont Senior coach Jim Denardi: "It was tremendous. To get the game tied, that changed the whole second half. When you get a goal late like that, it really propels you. But it didn't seem like it hurt Weir cause they came out in the second half determined."
Maybe, but the Polar Bears carried that late momentum and controlled play in the second half.
Fairmont Senior outshot Weir, 7-1, in the final 40 minutes.
Weir's best chance come on a shot from Shane Davis from 30 yards out that went over Polar Bears goalie Matt Bartrug, but hit the crossbar and went safely back into the field of play.
The Polar Bears scored the game-winner in the 72nd minute as Logan Demyon's shot was deflected by a Weir defender and landed right in front of Brent Pacoe.
The junior forward buried the ball past a diving Tenaglio.
Fairmont Senior didn't allow a Weir shot on goal in the final eight minutes to clinch its first trip to the state tournament since 2009.
"It feels good to get back down to states and this group of guys is a group that has overachieved all year," Denardi said. "We are probably not individually the most talented team, but everybody plays hard and everybody plays for each other and that's how you win games."
Alex Hannah was credited with the Weir goal that put the Red Riders up 1-0 in the 19th minute when his corner kick glanced off a Fairmont Senior defender and into the net.
"We won our division in the OVAC, are sectional champs, and were one goal away from tying it up so this was a good season," Pepe said. "The coaching staff and I will take this back and rebuild and hopefully we will do what we can do get things ready for next year."


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Send a holiday card, Toys For Tots gets a toy for $0
Lego is offering free holiday e-cards, and when you send one they donate a Lego toy to Toys For Tots.
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Thanks! good deal
+100 woots
Sent out a few and shared on FB :)
I want the Yoda in the thumbnail!
This needs to be one of the highest voted ever!
Glad to see this one didn't get deleted.
@arrsea The Yoda is part of the Star Wars Advent Calendar. http://shop.lego.com/en-US/LEGO-Star-Wars-Advent-Calendar-7958
If you downvote this, you have no soul.
Well good to see it didn't get deleted this time! I originally posted it yesterday and it got deleted for some reason. Worthy cause, and it's quick and painless!
:) nice and so easy way to give.
Good find. They're so close to their halfway point to a million. Let's get them there!
Someone actually voted this down? What a grinch. YOU HAVE NO SOUL, WHO EVER YOU ARE!
@angelsgirl2002: Maybe it was Don Simmons?
Sent, tweeted, and posted to Facebook. Great cause! Thanks for sharing :)
Okay, well if nobody else is going to, I will:
@rubberduckythug: Hopefully since this is insanely popular, you may get your answer.
I've had this happen more than once myself, it hurts. It's okay to cry.
@drchops: It's one of those things where all I could do was laugh. I logged onto woot this morning to this deal sitting at the top of the perch. I'm just happy it's gotten all the attention it deserves as it's for a great cause! It seems like mine was deleted in error, so at least with this being popular and not yanked that kind of answers the question on whether or not it is allowed. Now, knowing my luck next month the ever benevolent @jumbowoot will give away a 100" 3D plasma TV for the top lego-related deal of the day on 12/10 and THEN I'll cry.
Again, all's well that ends well!
@drchops: I saw that thread, but never got around to reading it until now. If I had, I wouldn't have posted this deal (so @rubberduckythug could repost it). Excellent find @rubberduckythug. I guess you got the same email I did c:
Shared on facebook as well :)
@rubberduckythug: Haha.. yup. That's really about all you can do.
Like you said though, the only thing that matters in the end, is the fact that it was shared.
Getting credit is nice, and having your [absolutely meaningless] reputation added to is good - but in the end the only thing that actually counts for anything is the deal itself.
Great! spread the word.
There is nothing but win in this deal.


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When it comes to disinfecting water, it seems there is a different ratio and percentage for all kinds of different purifying agents and it can get really confusing. It can be hard to keep these ratios and solutions straight but it is very important that we do. All of the liters, quarts, drops, gallons, mL, cups and percentages are very easy to loose track of. I have a very simple memory phrase when it comes to disinfecting water with bleach. Once you read this phrase, you will never forget how to disinfect water with bleach again. The phrase is:
You must be 21 to drink.
How simple is that? It is a simple reminder that you need 2 drops of bleach per 1 liter or quart of water – hence 21. And, that just happens to be the legal drinking age in the US so it's very easy to remember.
There's quite a bit more, but I thought this was worth highlighting.
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Small on the Wall III" Small Works Group Show Opens at Artplace Gallery.
DENISON, TX --An exciting small works exhibit by an eclectic group of local and regional artists will be held at Artplace Gallery, 413 West Main Street, Denison, Texas from July 15th to August 31st. Gallery hours are 9:30 to 3:00 Tuesday and Wednesday and 9:30 to 6:00 Thursday through Saturday.
"Small on the Wall" is by no means a small show with 118 works by forty-six different artists to its credit. The show is an "open call" , so many artists featured in the exhibit are new to the local art scene and range from amateur hobbyists to professional artists. With mediums from photography to oils, and styles from traditional to abstract this show is nothing, if not diverse.
Artist represented include Donna Niemann, Eric Chance Mobbs, Sarah Duran, Carrie Chambers, Steve O. Black, Brenda Loveless, Sean Hunt, Jeanne Cacace, Marie Van Arsdale, Deeya Bain, Jose Oscar Guierrez, Mary Karam, Mark Yearwood, Dianne Smith, Shea Archer, Mort Hamilton, D.L. Durland, S. Lloyd Durland, Lydia Pine, Amber Allenbaugh, Michael Uhl, John E. Brewer, Jaci Leeper, John Robinson, Pam Straus, Sherry Hudson Bynum, Reba Browning, Alice Queen Waterman, Kathy Sturch, Ceil Snoddy, Dianne Bennett, Scott Payne, Melody Burton, Elizabeth Padgett, Sharon Burris, Michelle LaPlant, Shelley Tate Garner, Doug Simpson, Jerry Tate, Jack Ousey, Kimber Bosse, Lindy Davenport, Beverly Combs, Rita Turner, Arlene Cason, and Deborah Hill.
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After first injecting himself at Oscorp, Curt created his own lab in the sewer system later in the movie. If he was the head of the lab at Oscorp, couldn't he have just kept everyone out of the lab (he had already done this previously) and done all of his testing there, instead of doing it in the sewer?
The Lizard often retreats to the sewers, lives in the sewers in his appearances in the comic "The Amazing Spider-Man".
One of the more famous Lizard storyline The Gauntlet has him trying to get humans to act like Lizards, turn them into lizards. He does this whilst hiding in the sewer.
Practically this is useful for a reptile who likes wet/humid conditions whilst also eliminating to some degree Spider-Man's main asset which is his agility given the cramped confines. It also allows him to navigate the city quickly without drawing attention to his form.
The current story arc in the Amazing Spider-Man, which start in issue 688 (I think) features the Lizard who is found living in the sewer.
So I think the film was trying to replicate the character from the comic for those comic fans out there, like myself.


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I have a bunch of requests coming through on my site which looks like the one below:
Is this hacking attempts or search engines?
EDIT: my question is regarding the request. The string at the end is used for an identifier which will load the appropriate page. Someone or something is passing the no-text-[0-9] string. I would like to know if it hacking attempts or search engines trying to index the site?


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I have a lot of garlic that is still fresh. How can I preserve it easily so that it can be used for a variety of uses later?
Peel the garlic bulbs and mince (or food-proccessorize) them. Then portion the minced garlic into usable units and freeze those on a cookie sheet. Once they're frozen, keep the lumps-o-garlic in a convenient vessel in the freezer. You can then pull one lump at a time out of the freezer and use it.
Generally, it's Braided and then hung to dry, but I'm not sure if you mean that it's as fresh as that.
It will keep several months in a cool, dry, dark place if you keep the bulbs whole, though. If you don't have a cellar, a seldom used interior closet would work well.
You could easily put it into the freezer, where it can stay for a long time.
Anyhow, if you are looking for a recipe to use it when it's still fresh, take a look at this. It's an italian recipe.
Put a layer of salt in a jar, then a layer of peeled cloves, then a layer of salt again and continue until the jar is full. Then close the lid and keep in the fridge. The preserved garlic can last up to several years.


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5 Insanely Huge Things You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
We're starting to get the feeling that every engineer's life goal is to make something really fucking huge. All the jaw-dropping objects on this list are surely quite useful, and some of them might even need to be this gigantic to do their jobs. But we think that mainly somebody just wanted to see how big they could make them:
#5. The Massive Ship That Carries Other Massive Ships
Here's a prime example: We suspect this giant ship that is carrying a bunch of other giant ships is the result of a drunken bet between millionaires who wanted to see just how many boats they could pile on top of each other without sinking them.
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Rich man's Jenga isn't for pussies.
Actually, this is the MV Blue Marlin, a "heavy lift ship" with a deck as long as two football fields, designed to transport all sorts of enormous objects over water -- not just other ships but entire gas refineries and ... whatever the hell this is.
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It's a doomsday device.
If you're still having trouble getting a sense of scale of this thing, let's look at it compared to a Navy warship. After the USS Cole was bombed in 2000, the hole in it made it unable to sail. The Marlin stepped in and was able to ship the whole destroyer back to the naval yard for repairs, and it looked like it had room to carry two more of them:
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They removed the giant red pegs first to make it easier to load.
But what if you need to need to lift something even bigger? Like, say, an oil rig? That's when you bring in The Claw:
Pronounced "The Cllaaaaaaawwwwww."
Designed by the American Versabar corporation, this immense device that they call The Bottom Feeder or simply The Claw is designed to retrieve immense objects from the ocean floor. To get some idea of how huge this contraption is, you can zoom in to the high-resolution image to see the tiny little people working on it:
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"You need a masters in vending machine engineering to work this rig."
Apparently, oil rigs getting knocked over by hurricanes is a considerable problem -- ironically partly due to climate changes caused by the oil industry. Since it's the responsibility of oil barons to retrieve their own sunken rigs from the sea floor, Versabar engineered a 122-foot tall grappling device that can reach deep into the ocean to retrieve the oil industry's immense assets.
Not as immense as the claw, but they're immense, trust us.
Versabar's claw can lift up to 10,000 tons, which is about 10 times what your average oil platform weighs, but it's there in case they ever need to lift, like, Cthulhu or something.
#4. Old-Timey Lumber Operations Were Insane
Museum of History & Industry, Seattle
This is either the world's biggest game of Jenga, or else it's the Seattle Cedar Mill, circa 1919. After cutting logs into planks, wood mills would stack the wood like this to dry it out for up to nine months, because that's just how wet and depressing it is in Seattle.
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"We'd also rent them out as noose holders."
Of course, to an amateur like yourself, this probably looks like an incredibly dangerous and/or insane way to stack wood. And you're right! In 1958, a single errant spark ignited the stacks in the mill and destroyed the whole lumber yard. The fire was so intense that hot up-currents of air carried 5-foot-long pieces of burning wood throughout the city, raining massive fiery chunks of death like the apocalyptic wrath of a vengeful god.
Another way to store all that excess timber that lumberjacks were frantically cutting down in those days was to use it to build ad-hoc railway bridges like this one located near Columbia City, Oregon:
John Fletcher Ford
Made of 90 percent air!
The purpose of this bridge was to allow trains access to collect more logs. Holy shit, it was like a dick-measuring contest where the loser was nature.
And while it's striking to see that much lumber stacked haphazardly like that, some of these logs are pretty impressive on their own:
Humboldt State University Library
"Hey, Johnny! Check this out! Johnny? Johnny?"
Back before "environmentalism" was a word in the English vocabulary, people used to look at the giant redwood trees of California and see only dollar signs. These are the largest trees in the world by trunk diameter, so before the days of heavy industry, they had to be cut down by hand. Imagine that little guy hacking away at this mighty redwood with an axe. You'd be proud, too.
Humboldt State University Library
"We brought down more hardwood than your grandmother."
The logged trees of course had to be transported to the lumber yards, so they were hauled somehow onto a train that actually appears dwarfed by the immense logs it's carting away:
via Log Home Directory
We suddenly want tootsie rolls.
#3. Skyscrapers of the Sea
This one might not seem so spectacular until you realize that the things that look like people lying on beach towels are actually cars. This is a photograph of part of the Bullwinkle drilling rig being towed out to the Gulf of Mexico in 1988. Here's what it looks like dwarfing some houses:
via Time
It's Louisiana; the people in those houses are used to seeing weird shit.
Or to put things in a little more perspective, it's basically the Empire State Building that they're towing out there, lying on its side, looming over all of the huge ships that look like squirrels in comparison. That's the kind of structure it takes if you want to suck oil from under the ocean floor:
Not Pictured: The Peter North.
But really, everything about oil and gas platforms is insane -- they seem to be intentionally designed to be terrifying for the people working on them, just to make sure they filter all but the craziest of employees for the task. Check out this huge building just chilling on top of one massive concrete pillar.
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Cloud City after the icecaps melt.
That's the Draugen oil field platform, an oil rig set up in 1993 by the Norwegians to harvest that black gold somebody put under their ocean floor. With the constant threat of giant waves, stormy weather, icebergs, and killer whales, the Norwegians figured the best way to protect their investment was to build a huge concrete pylon up from the ocean floor and balance the rig on top, which also makes it the best place to hide during a zombie invasion.
Sadly, not a Left 4 Dead mod.
To get a sense of scale, take a look at the three-story apartment they put on it so that the workers had a place to hang up their pants:
So this is how The Jetsons begins ...
All of that, balanced precariously on a single concrete column, with the roaring fury of the ocean crashing into it 24 hours a day.


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The matinee game known as "Cool School Education Day," presented by the Children's Orthopaedic & Spine Center, combines a Rampage student workbook and in-game elements to provide students with educational support in an unforgettable way. The hockey field trip continues to grow every season, with a record 10,793 kids in attendance for last year's game against the Houston Aeros on Nov. 13.
In anticipation of Tuesday's game, the Rampage have invited students from Jordan Intermediate School, a Team Up Challenge semi-finalist, to the AT&T Center on Monday. The Rampage players will assist the students in packing meal bags for their fellow students at Jordan Elementary who will be leaving for Thanksgiving break without knowing where their next meal may come from. The Team Up Challenge is a youth-led service initiative that allows students to take what they are learning in the classroom and apply it to the real world, bringing education alive in powerful ways
The Rampage are encouraging fans to stop by the AT&T Center for lunch and hockey action at the Rampage day game on Tuesday. As a midweek game, the Rampage are featuring an All-You-Can-Eat Weekday Package, which includes a game ticket and unlimited hot dogs, nachos, soda, peanuts and popcorn all for $20. Tickets can be purchased by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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Today's Stack Overflow system message reads:
SOPA is a dangerous law. It breaks the Internet and threatens sites like Stack Overflow. Protect the Internet!
How is it a threat to Stack Overflow?
Today's Stack Overflow system message reads:
How is it a threat to Stack Overflow?
The American Censorship link includes a lot of information about what this US law would change and how it would affect user-generated content sites like Stack Overflow.
Currently, if someone posts copyright material to Stack Overflow, there is a well-established legal procedure (called the DMCA) that establishes how the copyright owner can get that material removed. That law, while imperfect, has done a great job of balancing the interests of copyright holders and websites that host user-generated content (like us).
So for example, right now we receive takedown notices from professors demanding that we remove technical information because they claim that students are using it to cheat, people who claim that we are posting questions that they use in job interviews, and so forth. If we took down everything somebody wanted us to take down, the Internet would be worse. Right now, under the DMCA, we require the person making the complaint to send us a complete DMCA take down notice. This must include, among other things:
This requirement deters an awful lot of people who are randomly trying to censor Stack Overflow for hosting answers that they don't find convenient.
We respond by notifying the person who posted the material, giving them a chance to make a case for why the material is non-infringing.
The important thing about DMCA is that if we follow this fairly decent procedure, we, as a website, are legally protected from the claim that we contributed to the copyright violation.
The SOPA dramatically alters the careful balance in favor of "alleged" copyright holders. It makes it impossible for websites to find a reasonable safe harbor allowing them to continue to host user-generated content. And that is life-threatening for websites like Stack Exchange.
See also: Text of the bill - PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet on Vimeo - SOPA infographic
If someone posts copyrighted material, Stack Overflow can be shut down for hosting it. Therefore they would need to somehow censor their users.
In order to protect Stack Overflow, Super User, and Server Fault from a flood of "How do I use ssh to get around The Great Firewall of America" it is important this law does not pass.
The system message is the least intrusive method we could come up with (vs writing regexes and parsers to try to detect those questions once the law passes). I hope you understand that this was purely a technical decision.
SOPA is bad for anyone who uses & depends upon the Internet. Hyperbole? No.
Brad Feld, a former entrepreneur-turned VC, has written a letter to be sent to our (I live in Colorado also) senators and has, through the post below, asked other CO entrepreneurs to become co-signatories prior to sending it.
As stated by Joel, Brad and dozens of others, the DMCA supplies copyright-holders remedies while providing safe harbor to hosting entities. This is fair, reasonable and practical. SOPA, in contrast, is unbalanced, unfair and would make it practically impossible for a hosting entity, such as StackExchange, Freepository, GitHub, or even Brad's own feld.com to conduct business without undue vetting, filtering and policing of content. It would place enormous legal & technical risk upon hosters, so much so that many (most?) would be unable to start, or if already going, to survive such a takedown action.
While the letter Brad penned is intended for Colorado's senators, perhaps it could be used as a basis for other such letters by StackExchange readers.
Editing to include another open letter from over on the O'Reilly blog - jbminn
Editing once more to include this analysis by Lawrence Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard, who states SOPA violates the First Amendment - jbminn
This may be mostly opinion, I don't know, but it seems that many of the technology-affecting laws that find themselves under consideration at the national level in the U.S. are written, bought and paid for by the entertainment industry (MPAA and RIAA) and wind up trampling individual's rights as well as established fair-use doctrine.
This proposal is no different from that perspective.
It's probably not the politicians themselves more than it is intense lobbying from Big Media. My position is that major media companies like Viacom are pressuring politicians (with money, perhaps even political or legal threats) to the point where they have essentially no choice but to follow through. We the people are being silenced by Big Media, and they are responsible for throwing the copyright system out of balance. A major organization called CCIA, which represents major computer and telecom companies, opposes SOPA as well. We need to stand up and fight back.
SOPA would result in censorship and make every website potentially vulnerable to being blocked. There are better ways to handle piracy, and the DMCA is already a robust means of handling infringing material. The President and CEO of CCIA, Ed Black, said this after the House Judiciary Committee hearing on SOPA (emphasis added):
To answer this question, yes, Stack Exchange is affected, and just one suspicious question, answer, or comment on any Stack Exchange site can cause all of the Stack Exchange sites to become blocked. As noted by Ed Black, this bill is essentially useless on actual, bad-faith pirate sites:
So, given what has been stated above, would not a possible solution to SOPA be host applications like stackoverflow outside of the US and beyond the control of the US government? Or is the fact that the company behind those servers is still based in the US make this approach null and void?
In other words, does the proposed bill target the company hosting the information or the physical information itself?
I've posted this as comments, but it's really an answer to the question:
It empowers the Attorney General to take down sites that are infringing (section 102.b). However, the Attorney General must first send notice to the operators that s/he is going to proceed.
It empowers the Court System to take down sites that are infringing (section 102.c). Again, notice must be sent to the site operators giving them a chance to respond.
There are a few things to note:
The first is the laws stated purpose: to stop foreign internet sites whose primary purpose is engaging in trafficking of copyrighted material. Just search the document for terms "domestic" and "foreign" and see what it's talking about.
Second, this does not impact the DMCA.
Third, it does NOT mean that some random joe can simply complain and have a site taken completely off line. They are going to have to go through either the Attorney General or the Courts. Based on the language of the proposed law, both are going to look at whether the site in question derives its revenues primarily off of stolen copyrighted content.
The Stack Exchange sites obviously don't. Not only that they are DOMESTIC sites and pretty well excluded from the bill.
To sum up, the "internet" is not going to be broken by this.


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I am an EU citizen, and I don't need a visa for the United States. But there is an issue, as my visa is expired. If I continue to travel within the US, will they check my visa?
In general, no, your immigration status will not be checked whilst you are within the US.
However various organisations - most notably the Police - can check your immigration status at any time, and if they find your visa status is expired they can take steps up to and including detaining you and handing you to DHS (the Department of Homeland Security). This is very unlikely to occur unless you come to the attention of the police for other reasons, but it can happen.
By overstaying the time you are allowed to be in the US you are putting your chances of being allowed back into the US at any time in the future at risk. Once you've overstayed at all you are no longer able to use the Visa Waiver Program to re-enter the US in future, and will be required to obtain a visa. Depending on the length of time you overstay, you will likely be denied a visa for several years - the longer you overstay, the longer until you will be allowed back into the US again.


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How to update the correct Network driver for a VMWare server configuration
By Andreea Vaduva on Apr 15, 2013
I have recently tried to "convert" my physical servers to virtual through the P2V converters for my own POCS, using VirtualBox or VMWare, but in the process I encountered some annoying issues with theses conversions such as the NetWork driver configuration, so here you can find the story and the solution:
I have converted my Win2003 64, physical server configuration to a VMWare virtual machine, and when I tried to boot it, I wasn't able to load the real Network driver, although the VMWare Tools were installed and configured without issues.
I was able to use the "shared folders" capability of the VMWare , and I created a shared folder "D", mapped on my D host drive, so at least I was able to copy files between the host and my VMWare server :)
The solution to my Network connectivity problem, was the following:
1. I got the Network driver PRO2K3XP_x64.exe from here.
2. Using WinRar I extracted the contents to my local server directory, then on my VMWare server; thought the VMWare network I copied this directory to my local VMWare driver.
3. Then on my VMWare server, I just "forced" a hardware discovery, the driver manager asked my the location of the Intel PRO/1000 driver files, and I pointed the hardware wizard to the my local repository et voila: the driver was recognized and correctly configured.
Now I can hook my VMWare to my network with all the Weblogic/OIM/OAM configuration :)
Here are some useful Oracle Server Virtualization courses :
- Oracle VM with Oracle VM Server for x86 Seminar
- Oracle VM Administration: Oracle VM Server for x86
- Oracle VM Server for SPARC: Installation and Configuration
About the Author:
Eugene Simos is based in France and joined Oracle through the BEA-Weblogic Acquisition, where he worked for the Professional Service, Support, end Education for major accounts across the EMEA Region. He worked in the banking sector, ATT, Telco companies giving him extensive experience on production environments. Eugene currently specializes in Oracle Fusion Middleware teaching an array of courses on Weblogic/Webcenter, Content,BPM /SOA/Identity-Security/GoldenGate/Virtualisation/Unified Comm Suite) throughout the EMEA region.


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The Question pages are not meeting my needs either as a question poster or as a question answerer. The problem is, when there's a long list of questions, my eyes go to the ones that have zero answers, and I see if I might be able to answer those first. That's fine, but once I do that, my eyes don't know where to go next. I just see a bunch of questions with one or more answer, and I have no way to prioritize.
What I want to know is: Which questions are still awaiting a correct answer. There is no way to tell this from the current Question page design. You either know that a question has been successfully answered (because it's marked as "answered") or you know that a question has some answers that may or may not be of any use.
- As a question answerer, this is not enough information to guide my search.
- As a question poster, this is frustrating because it means my question is likely to be ignored once someone answers it, whether the answer is of any use or not. The frustration is especially high when my question is urgent.
- Add a clickable graphic that lets me mark my question as "still seeking answer".
- Alter the graphics in the question list so that people can visually distinguish questions still awaiting an answer from those that are either not being actively followed by the question author or are being adequately attended to.
- The clickable graphic is only available for questions that have one or more answers, and only available for questions where no answer has been marked as "the answer".
- If a new answer comes in or the question poster marks an answer as "the answer", the question is immediately unmarked as "still seeking answer".
- If the question poster is actively checking the question, he/she can re-mark the question "still seeking answer" if the new answer is no better than the first one.
- If a comment is added to a question or to an answer (by anyone but the question author) "still seeking answer" is unmarked.
- If an answer is edited, "still seeking answer" is unmarked.
- If a bounty is issued for the question, the question has not yet been marked as "answered", and the bounty has not been accepted, "still seeking answer" is automatically turned on.
- After a certain amount of time has passed (an hour?), have the "still awaiting answer" expire. If the question poster is still actively pursuing the question, he/she can re-mark it.
- If a question poster marks an answer as "still seeking answer" after the question has fallen pretty far down the list, bump it back to the top (a limited number of times).


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A. The Bimonster and the Complex Lorentzian Leech Lattice involves a construction that extends Y555 from 16 to 26, and relates to Incidence(P^2/F3) among other things. (13 projective points + 13 projective lines), Complex Lorentzian Leech Lattice as Hyperbolic cell 2 + 24 dimensions, etc.
B. How does this relate to the 26 dimensions of Bosonic String Theory (Where 26 dimensions of the Lorentzian Leech Lattice (IIsub(25,1)) which is a torus in 24 dimensions orbifolded over a 2-point reflection group....and collapses from 26 to 10 dimensions using E8 X E8, one version of heterotic string theory...
The confusion lies in that this (B.) is 10 + 16 = 26 (or 26 dimensions collapsed down to 10), and the Bimonster situation (A.) is 16 nodes of the Dynkin diagram Y555 (or M666) of M X M wreath built up (with some difficulties) to 26 nodes of Inc(P2/F3) if I understand it right.
- Is this 16 homomorphic (or related) to E8 X E8 in string theory?
- Is the 2-point reflection group in bosonic string theory the same as the hyperbolic cell discussed in the Bimonster construction? Z2 in E8 X E8 is apparently the identification of the common boundaries of E8 X E8... I am fascinated by both A and B and would like more clarification of their relationships.


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Your Baby's First Words
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Language Development: No More Baby Talk
Picture books and simple storybooks can also help increase your toddler's vocabulary and understanding of language.
If you want to help your one-year-old begin to master the nuances of a difficult language and learn to speak, you really have to do only two things: talk to your child and listen to him.
First, talk to your child one-on-one. He will learn much more from direct conversation than he will by trying to follow a conversation that doesn't include him.
Because your baby knows you best, he will learn language more quickly from you, his primary caretaker(s), than from anyone else. He's learned to recognize the way you speak: your tones, your inflections, and your facial expressions. So talk naturally and clearly around your child and to your child.
Your baby also will need your help as a translator. This means more than just telling others what he said; it means telling him what someone else is saying. Certainly you will understand his fledgling attempts to verbalize better than anyone else. But remember too, that your child will understand your speech much better than that of others. So help interpret what other people try to tell your child.
When you talk to your one-year-old, stick to the present as much as possible. Your baby's memory is not yet his strong suit. In fact, your one-year-old has little or no ability to understand the concept of either the past or the future. Talking about what's happening right now ("Wow! An airplane. Look up in the sky, Sam. It's an airplane.") allows your child to form meaningful connections between what he's seeing, hearing, or touching and what you're saying. Making connections between words and simultaneous perceptions or actions will give your baby a deeper understanding of language.
Make a point of referring to things by their names as often as possible. Use nouns (bottle, car, mama, daddy, doll, cup, nose) and try to avoid the use of pronouns. The indefinite and continually changing meaning of a pronoun confuses infants. "It" is probably one of the most used words in the English language, but think of what must be going through your one-year-old's brain as he struggles to understand what that pronoun means: Hmmm, "it" means a ball now; but a minute ago "it" meant the spoon; and two minutes ago, "it" meant a rattle. Or "they" are the books, but I thought "they" were grandma and grandpa.
Personal pronouns may be even more confusing. To a listener, hearing "you" means me and hearing "I" means you. But "I" also means your partner, who said it just a few minutes ago. And "you" also means your partner, because your child overheard you talking to your partner by that name earlier. (This confusion may become apparent when your child actually starts using these pronouns. Many toddlers reverse the two terms, speaking of their things as "yours" and your things as "my" or "mine.")
So use nouns and names instead of pronouns. "Mama's looking for Ian's spoon" will mean much more to your child than "Where is it?" or even "Where is your spoon?" Talk in full sentences and your child will pick out the sounds he hears again and again: "How's Mikey's diaper? Is the diaper wet?" "Oh, your diaper is smelly!" "Time to change Mikey's diaper." "Now Daddy will take off the diaper." "Here's a new diaper." "Let's put on your diaper." "Now your diaper is all clean and snug." If he hears a word often enough, your baby will associate these sounds with whatever the occasions had in common. Remember, your baby is listening carefully to you, trying to make connections.
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Let $M$ be a smooth oriented manifold. Does there exist a smooth measure $m$ on $M$ which is not induced by the volume form of some Riemannian metric $g$ on $M$? I would say that the set of volume forms induced by Riemannian metrics is strictly contained in the set of all smooth measures on $M$...My interest would be to have some criteria for deciding whether a given measure on $M$ is induced by a Riemannian metric or not
The only possible meaning for smoothness that comes to mind is the following: A measure on ${\mathbb R}^n$ is smooth, if it has a smooth density against the Lebesgue-measure. On a manifold, a measure is smooth if it transforms to smooth measures on every smooth chart. The question, whether a given smooth measure comes from a metric is equivalent to the question whether its density has a zero or not. If it has no zero, simply choose any Riemannian metric. Then your given measure has a nowhere vanishing density against the measure coming from the metric. Simply multiply the metric with a suitable power of the density to get a metric that induces the given measure. Since Radon-Nikodym densities are uniquely determined, this is an if and only if criterion.
I think the answer to your question is given at least within the class of k\"ahlerian manifolds. I would refer you to standard texts of complex geometry for the preliminaries. But in the case of k\"hlerian manifolds, any volume form, that is, a measure, whose Radon-Nikodym density with respect to a fixed reference metric $g$ is smooth enough, and has the same total volume as $d Vol_g$ can be realised as the volume form of a k\"ahlerian metric $g^{\phi}$ in the same cohomology class, ie. $g_{i \bar{j}}^{\phi} = g_{i \bar{j}} + \partial_{i} \partial_{\bar{j}}$. This was Calabi's volume conjecture.
Also, you can realise an -reasonably- arbitrary volume forms by conformal change of the metric. However, in the conformal case the total volume can change.


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