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When I want to open an application via Dash, I just hit Super, type the first letters, and hit Enter. For instance: Super, "drop", Enter to start Dropbox. However, if I want to start an application again, Dash remembers it, but I cannot start it by hitting ENTER although "drop" is still in there, and Dropbox is in the first position. Why?
How can I (without using the mouse) start an application again?
better example (hopefully):
- Super ... type "ged" ... Enter to start Gedit
- close Gedit
- Super ... and now? "ged" is remembered, Gedit is still in pole position ready to be started. However, hitting Enter does not work.
How can I start an application again? - Without using the mouse or retyping?
If I have to retype, it makes no sense that Dash remembers the application and my typed letters. I assume there is a way to open the application again by just: Super + Enter (or something similar). Thanks!


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The Department is currently writing an ESA handbook to offer guidance and put forth programmatic rules based on two years of best practices. While it has been a long time coming, the Department in the interim has created a policy site to address parents' most frequent questions and policy changes adopted by The Department moving forward.
12th Grade ESA Eligibility
Previous Policy
To be eligible for an ESA scholarship beyond 12th grade a special needs student is required to have a current IEP that shows a transition service plan funded by their last attended district or charter school.
Current Policy
To be considered a qualified student and eligible for the ESA scholarship, the applicant student may not be a student in the 12th grade during the applicant year.
Policy Rationale
By signing an ESA agreement the applicant parent or qualified student has: "release[d] the school district from all obligations to educate the qualified student." (A.R.S. 15-2402(2)(B)). Essentially, assuming the responsibilities to educate their child/children under ESA contract allowing The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) the authority to "…adopt rules and policies necessary for the administration of empowerment scholarship accounts." (A.R.S. 15-2403(G)). With the qualified child/children out of the public school system, ADE no longer has current IEP records to assure the ESA students' continuance beyond 12th grade.
Late Expense Reports
Previous Policy
ADE allowed late expense reports within the contract year and did not terminate contracts for non-compliance.
Current Policy
An ESA contract may be terminated by ADE if:
- The applicant parent or qualified student fails to submit two or more complete and timely expense reports in a contract year.
- The applicant parent or qualified student fails to submit one complete and accurate expense report beyond thirty days of its required submission date.
The Department shall attempt to contact the applicant parent or qualified student twice, either in writing or by phone before considering termination.
Policy Rationale
Pursuant to A.R.S. 15-2402(B)(1) the applicant parent or qualified student is required to, "Provide an education for the qualified student in at least the subjects of reading, grammar, mathematics, social studies and science." By not submitting timely expense reports ESA funding is withheld; halting the education of the qualified student and violates the terms of the ESA agreement.
Insurance & other Co-Pays
Previous Policy
Because some co-pays could be used for the approved expense of Education Therapy ESA staff
1. Did not require itemized records and
2. Allowed parents to use co-pays to offset cost.
Current Policy
1. Insurance and other co-pays are NOT an approved expense of the program and ESA funds may not be used for their purpose.
2. Itemized invoices or records must be submitted.
Policy Rationale
Therapies provided to students must be "Educational Therapies" under the law. The vast majority of insurance co-pays goes to cover basic medical costs (i.e. eye exams, sports physicals, psychological therapy etc.) and are associated with private medical care, not education.
Misspending Policy
Previous Policy
The Department dealt with small ESA misspending on a strike system and deducted the amount of misspent funds from the holder's next disbursement. The Department held a tiered system for misspending with higher amounts being tracked more closely.
Current Policy
The Department is assuming a zero tolerance policy on misspending. Any amount not spent in the allowable categories pursuant to the ESA contract will:
1) Cause the ESA card to be temporarily frozen and the holder contacted through the mail detailing the violation and;
2) Requesting the holder contact The Department to:
A) Repay the misspent amount within the requested time frame (10 business days) or;
B) Provide additional documentation for the expenditure that will unfreeze the card and reinstate the account.
3) If the parent cannot provide additional documentation or refuses to repay the amount, The Department will begin the removal process pursuant to statute and shall seek administrative measures to recover the misspent funds which may include referral to collections, seeking a civil judgment or referral to the Attorney General's Office.
4) If the holder repays the amount within the requested time frame then "one strike" will be recorded and held in the holder's file. Depending on the type and amount of misspending a cardholder may be removed on the first offense. A card holder may have no more than "two strikes" before The Department begins the removal process.
Policy Rationale
In the first year of the program, basic rules were established to verify spending and, due to a lack of funding, administrative time was spent following up on larger amounts of misspending. Today, The Department has fully staffed the ESA program and, to safeguard taxpayer money, is now fully enforcing and pursing any and all misspending with equal attention.
Additionally, parents, in good faith misspent ESA monies because of a lack of understanding of the program rules. The ESA program will, in January, have clarifying rules posted to supplement the ESA contract. Parents are still responsible to review their contract, read the available literature on the website and, if in doubt, contact their case manager with questions.

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Just starting Mass Effect. Given how much I've read about 'John Shepard', I'm wondering if it is worth creating a custom character (which I would normally do), or if it is best to go with the standard male character?
Shepard is your character's name, if you don't really care about how he looks, then you don't really have to customize him at all.
Most of the story and interactions have little to do with your character origin. There are a few lines here and there that refer to your past, but nothing game changing in the grand scheme of the plot.
What does change the story are driven by the choices you make throughout the game.


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My grandmother has given me a few bottles of vintage whiskey that I know nothing about. I have no idea if these have any value or not. I would greatly appreciate any help on these.
I have 5 items. All are unopened and in their original boxes. all bottles and boxes are in great shape.
I have an old bottle of Bol's Ballerina Gold Creme De Menthe. Unbroken seal and ballerina still works. Bottle is full and in original box. Only the seal on the box was broken.
I have an bottle of Desmond & Duff Delux Scotch. Aged 12 years. Gold Medal Award London 1976. bottle is unopened, great shape and in original box.
I have a metal tin with a bottle of Dewers White label. tin and insert in fantastic shape. bottle unopened and label is in excellent shape.
I have a bottle of Canadian Masterpiece whiskey dated 1964. bottle is in original box with insert. Funny part about this is that the bottle has whiskey missing but labels on the cap seem untouched not like they were carefully removed and stuck back on. Seems like they were never broken.
Last thing is a tin from Jack daniels with two unopened nippers inside.


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When an atenna transmits radiowaves isn't it true that the electromagnetic pulse is radiated away from the accelerating electron as a spherical wave in all directions simultaneously, and if so how can the associated photon be "everywhere" on this rapidly expanding sphere?
First of all, note that any realistic antenna emits a gigantic amount of photons at the radio frequencies. The energy of a single photon is $E=hf$ where $h=6.626\times 10^{-34}$ Js which is tiny, so if you have frequencies of order "just a few Hertz", the energy of one photon will be a tiny fraction of one Joule. Antennas consume much more energy than that.
So in reality, you emit trillions of photons that fly in all the directions more or less uniformly - well, vertical dipole antennas emit mostly in the horizontal directions etc. The number of photons is so huge that it makes no sense to talk about individual photons: classical electromagnetism described by Maxwell's equations is a totally satisfactory approximation for all practical purposes (and even many impractical ones).
But if you designed a similar experiment where you would only emit one photon, there would be one photon going away and its position i.e. direction would be undetermined. A photon is a particle that always respects the laws of quantum mechanics, including the uncertainty principle. If the frequency and angular momentum of the photon is known, its position - direction in which it propagates - is completely unknown.
The photon is described by a probabilistic wave whose dependence on the space is pretty much the same as the dependence of $E+iB$ of a classical electromagnetic wave that you obtain if you emit lots of photons in the same state. The probability that the photon will be found at a point is proportional to the energy density $(E^2+B^2)/2$ of the classical electromagnetic wave that you emit by the same antenna if the number of photons is very large.
But for a single photon, you can't predict in what direction it will go. That's a basic feature of quantum mechanics that the evolution is not deterministic and outcomes of experiments can only be predicted probabilistically. If you know that you have only emitted one photon, the distant detectors will only detect one photon in one particular direction - but you can't be sure in which direction it will be. Again, for a dipole antenna, the nearly-horizontal directions will be preferred - the ratios of probabilities in different directions will follow the energy density of the corresponding classical electromagnetic wave.
What follows is not a proper answer to your question, but the statement of a fact worth knowing. There is no way to create a (perfectly) spherical wave: "A spherically symmetric vacuum solution to Maxwell's equations is always static." (Pappas, Am. J. Phys., 52 (255), 1984.) Also: H.F. Mathis: "A short proof that an isotropic antenna is impossible", Proc. IRE, 59 (979), 1951. It's an amusing application of Brouwer's "hairy ball" theorem.
One of the lessons quantum mechanics supposedly teaches us is that we should be cautious about asking questions that cannot be answered experimentally. Not that we should never do it, just that we should be careful. I think this question and the subsequent answers are a good example of this principle being disregarded.
How can a "photon" be everywhere at once on an expanding spherical surface? First of all, I would dismiss those people who make a major point of the issue of spherical symmetry. Everyone knows that an e-m wave is not spherically symmetrical. It is so obvious that those who deal with the subject will use the term "spherical" to describe the next best thing, the familiar donut shape of a dipole radiator. S-wave or p-wave, the question stands: how can the photon be everywhere at once?
Second, I disagree with those who say the question is wrong because an antenna emits billions of photons. There are in fact antennas which regularly emit light in quantities similar to one photon's worth of energy; these antennas are called "atoms" and they are everywhere. The question stands: how can a photon emitted by an atom be everywhere at once on a spherical surface? In fact, this is very close to the original form of the EPR paradox.
When Einstein posed the question in 1935, no one at first seriously considered that it might be tested experimentally. The EPR paradox went through a number of transformations before it dawned on people that it might be put testable. Among these transformations we can list Bohm, who recast it in the form of two electrons in the spin singlet state; and Feynmann, who analyzed the two-photon decay of positronium. Neither of these models were, then or now, amenable to experimental testing. After Bell's analysis in 1964, people were motivated afresh to look for experimental manifestations, and found something workable in parametric down-conversion. But that's another story.
The basic problem with the question as posed here is: how would you measure it? The theory tells us that the photon spreads out as a "spherical" wave. But Copenhagen, in one form or another, tells us that the photon is detected at a single point. How do we know? Many, notably Feynmann, would say that the click in a photomultiplier tube tells us when a photon has been detected. But the detailed physics of a detector event can be interpreted in different ways; all we can say with relative certainty is that the probability of a detector going off is proportional to the square of the incident field. And this is entirely conisistent with the photon's energy being spread over a spherical surface. It is very difficult to establish that a click in the photodetector is necessarily associated with the abosorption of one full photon's worth of energy.
Some will undoubtedly say it is obvious that when a photomultiplier tube clicks, it must have absorbed a photon. To those people, I would ask: what experiment can you propose to demonstrate that a photomultiplier tube will never click when exposed to less than one photon's worth of energy? Others will object that once a detector clicks, a second detector will never go off at the same time; this shows that the whole photon "collapsed" into the first detector. But experimentally, this hypothesis is notoriously difficult to demonstrate. The reason is simply that we still do not have a working pea-shooter for photons that reliably produces one photon at a time.
To answer the original question, I would say that the wave from an antenna, even at "atomic" antenna, spreads out "spherically"; and that there is no experiment which can conclusively show that the emitted "photon" ever appears concentrated at a single point.
Whether or not photons should be taken into account when calculating antenna parameters is irrelevant to the natural wish to get a picture of what is going on with the photons when an antennais tranmitting or receiving. Unfortunately, experiments involving photons and antennas are presumably difficult. Nevertheless, if we can look for gravity waves, we should be able to figure out how to observe low-energy photons coming out of a wire.


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SPECTRO Analytical Instruments has introduced a
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A cell for testing valves and other pressure-containing
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Is your normal pew taken? Could be a Mass mob
The AP's Carolyn Thompson reports on "Mass mobs," conceived and organized by some folks in Buffalo, NY, as a way for local Catholics to experience and support some of the city's beautiful and struggling parish churches.
It works this way: On a given Sunday, participants attend Mass en masse at a church they've picked in an online vote and promoted through Facebook and Twitter. Visitors experience the architecture, heritage and spirit of the aging houses of worship and the churches once again see the numbers they were built for, along with a helpful bump in donations when the collection baskets are passed.
There are other potential benefits, such as fostering a sense of connectedness across the diocese -- the priest whose parish hosted the last "mob" told Thompson, "It just shows that we are not just one parish, that it's the whole family of the diocese. We take care of each other." Whether the scheme could make a long-term difference in the fate of Buffalo's underattended parishes is an open question. But I love visiting new churches, both historic and ordinary, and I love a well-attended Sunday Mass, so I love this idea.
Apparently people in other cities have been inspired to start up Mass mobs of their own. Could it work where you live? Would you go?
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly is an editor at large and columnist at Commonweal.
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is that a flash Mass? Or does the pubic pre-planning disqualify it from the designation?
For every church that has a sudden influx of Catholics with money for the collection, there must be several churches whose pastors are looking at diminished returns. I wonder, too, just who is the star of one of these shows? Or am I just being churlish?
To answer your implied question, I don't think this scheme, however well intended, will make a long-term difference in the fate of the city's underattended churches. Thanks to JPII and B16, the church has a bastardized liturgical translation that, according to reports, already bothers a good number of *regular* churchgoers and clergy alike. Unless and until people decide to live *in town* and not in the suburbs, the proverbial "doughnut hole" will prevail, thereby leaving these parishes with insufficient funds to remain financially viable. I would not be surprised if the local bishop is already contemplating the next round of parish closures that would include some of these old churches.
Afterthought: Good liturgy, preaching, and music might enable one old parish in an area to survive, but there are only so many prospective attendees to go around.
This well-intentioned idea is only likely to work if (1) the mobbers invite other Catholics, who have not been attending Mass regularly, to go with them, or if they themselves go to more than one Mass on a Sunday; and (2) everybody puts a little extra in the baskets. Otherwise, it's zero-sum. What one parish gains on any Sunday, others lose.
It may also be a distraction from the hard questions: Why has the support of ordinary Catholics fallen off so precipitously in the last fifty years? And is there any effective way to turn that decline around? I suspect that many Catholics would rather mob a parish on Mars than have that depressing discussion.
If there were flash masses in NYC I would go. And re: contributions, I don't think it would hurt the home parish. I always miss a few Masses at home during the year through vacation, work travel; my year end total donations always seem to be about the same. And when I'm visiting another church that seems to be struggling, I always write a bigger check for the collection than I would normally.
To keep my annual parish contributions stable, I just signed up for Parish Pay; the parish automatically gets my regular offertory every month, whether I'm physically there or not. (Commonweal also gets a little contribution automatically each month, though not through Parish Pay).
I think we could do a lot more than we do with online fundraising.
When they visit these parishes, I hope they don't exhibit that Catholic behaviour of plunking down at the ends of pews, making people step over them to get to a seat. At my parish, there's a parking area with long parallel lines so that you are supposed to park sequentially in parallel lines. Danged if they don't park at the beginning and end of the line, blocking 60% of the parking. How would Jesus park?
Joseph J. --
Do not despair of the donut hole in the old city. Already here in New Orleans there seems to be a regentrifying process going on. There used to be a Whole Foods store near me, but it moved to a suburb. Yesterday, however, a new Whole Foods opened in a poor neighborhood nearby that is showing improvement. It seems that the cost of fuel is starting to be noticed by the folks in the burbs, and they're rediscovering the good old housing stock that their parents left behind. The old houses take some work, but lots of people think they're worth it.
So maybe those old parishes will see some new life. I've already seen two of my old parishes closed down, one with a beautiful old church. The good news is that the beautiful one isn't far from the new Whole Foods. We'll see :-)
Unfortunately, this isn't the best news for the people in the regentrifying areas, except that the value of their houses is going up. Maybe that will give them a bit of a headstart when they sell. Complexity, complexity.
Ann, there may be a similar trend in Louisville. Local govt is encouraging developers to rehab old buildings that do not merit demolition. Loft apartments, condos. Mixed housng. (But no groceries downtown, so far as I know.) Time will tell.
Stanley: a year after I moved to the US, my son had an assignment in catechism: "What is my favorite thing about my parish?", and he answered: "The parking lot, because it's designed in such a way that you can park many cars during Mass. It is really efficient."
He's the kind of person who takes questions at face value and answers them truthfully according to their actual wording, instead of asking himself what the question indicates about what people want to hear, and diplomatically feeding them back the answer they wish to get.
I was very amused, but the staff must have been disapointed to get that insulting answer to their efforts in music, activities, liturgy, preaching, ushering, catechism and what not.
I love this idea. Especially the sense of connectedness and one family throughout the diocese. More events should be planned to connect the parishes. Richer parishes should help poorer ones also. On the other hand there are a number of Catholics who prefer the so called elitist churches and would not be caught dead in a poor parish.
I'd like to know the demographic profile of the mobsters. Are they Xers and Millenials? A church full of them would be something that a lot of us would find pretty inspiring. Or does this provide further evidence that your grandmother uses Facebook and the young hipsters have moved on to the Next Big Social Media Thing?


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I recently released my app PomodoroApp to help me track my performance of applying Pomodoro Technique. The first feedback I got from the comments of this question is "Another one would be option to choose time interval different from 25 min." by multipole, a really nice user and early adapter.
I understand that less is more. Giving more options is actually bring more trouble to users. I've ever investigated that how much time should be in a Pomodoro, from the inventor's book, 25 minutes. I've using 25 minutes for months, and feel very comfortable.
So the question is: Do you always use 25 minutes work/5 minutes rest interval? If not, what's the interval you set and could you tell me more information about why you set your interval?
Thanks a bunch for reading. I just want to understand that how others play with Pomodoro Technique and make better software.


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Big Rapids, Mich. - A familiar face served as Ferris State University men's basketball head coach Andy Bronkema's top assistant coach for his first campaign at the Bulldog helm in 2013-14 when Jim Lake was appointed to FSU's full-time assistant coaching post.
The 37-year old Lake had served as a volunteer assistant coach for the Bulldogs in two different stints over the last decade. He filled the void created when Bronkema was elevated to head coach. Lake was chosen following a search process that yielded more than 50 applicants.
"I'm pleased to announce that Jim Lake will take over the role as our head assistant coach in the men's basketball program," said Bronkema. "He's a tireless recruiter and has a great basketball mind. In addition, his previous experience within the program will allow for a smooth transition."
Lake began his collegiate coaching career with the Bulldogs as a volunteer assistant under former head coach Bill Sall from 2003 to 2006. During that time, the Bulldogs claimed back-to-back Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) North Division Championships and made two-straight trips to the NCAA Tournament, including a NCAA-II Sweet Sixteen showing in 2004-05.
After leaving the Bulldog program to serve as a club coach for the Grand Rapids Storm, he returned to FSU in 2011-12 and helped the Bulldogs to a share of a second-straight GLIAC North Division crown in his first season back with the program.
"I'm extremely excited and have worked a long time for this opportunity," said Lake. "I'm appreciative of the faith Coach Bronkema has put in me moving forward as he begins his head coaching career and owe a great deal of thanks to Bill Sall as well for allowing me to be part of his staff.
"It's a tremendous opportunity for me with a special group of young men both coming back and coming into the program," he added. "I've been involved in the recruiting process for many of them and I believe they have great confidence in me as I do in them."
As a volunteer assistant coach, Lake was heavily involved with many phases of the program in the past such as recruiting, player development, game management and organizing summer camps. He'll also play a key role in administrative and fundraising duties as the top assistant.
"Jim will be very active in every area of the program and we'll work hard to continue the strong tradition of Ferris State Basketball," Bronkema said. "His teaching background and attention to detail are strong points that are needed in this role and he's someone that's extremely loyal, which is important to have on your staff."
In addition to his collegiate coaching background with the Bulldogs, Lake also brings nearly 17 years of coaching experience at the high school level, including nine seasons as a varsity basketball coach at both the Class B and D levels in Michigan. During the 1996-97 campaign at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Academy, he was the youngest (21) head coach for a Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) member school.
Besides serving as a coach with the Grand Rapids Storm organization, Lake has also been employed as a teacher in the Chippewa Hills school district and served as the school's varsity basketball coach. During his time with the Storm, as a 16 and under coach, he compiled a 123-32 mark while coaching 35 players who moved on to collegiate basketball, including 11 NCAA Division I players and several who have played in the GLIAC. Lake has also previously worked basketball camps at Ferris, CMU, and the University of Michigan.
A native of Spokane, Wash., Lake graduated from North Branch (Mich.) High School in 1994. As a prepster, he participated in both football and basketball. He also attained all-area and all-conference accolades on the gridiron for the Broncos.
The son of Thomas and Suzanne Hunter of North Branch, Mich., Lake graduated with a bachelor of science degree in education with an emphasis in social studies and a minor in history from Central Michigan University in 1999. He later earned a master's degree in sports and recreation with an emphasis in coaching from Ohio University. Jim and his wife, Kara, reside in Canadian Lakes, Mich., with their two children, Abigail and Peter.


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Examine your skin with a mirror or ask someone to help you. Pay special attention to areas of the skin that are often exposed to the sun, such as the hands, arms, chest, neck, face, and ears.
If a mole does not change over time, there is little reason for concern. If you see any signs of change in an existing mole, if you have a new mole, or if you want a mole to be removed for cosmetic reasons, talk to your dermatologist.
The following ABCDEs are important characteristics to consider when examining moles. If a mole displays any of the signs listed below, have it checked immediately by a dermatologist. It could be cancerous.
- Asymmetry. One half of the mole does not match the other half.
- Border. The border or edges of the mole are ragged, blurred, or irregular.
- Color. The color of the mole is not the same throughout or has shades of tan, brown, black, blue, white, or red.
- Diameter. The diameter of a mole is larger than the eraser of a pencil.
- Evolution. The mole is changing in size, shape, or color.
Melanoma is a form of skin cancer. The most common location for melanoma in men is the chest and back and in women, it is the lower leg. Melanoma is the most common cancer in young women.
How Are Moles Treated?
If a dermatologist believes a mole needs to be evaluated further or removed entirely, he or she will either remove the entire mole, or first take just a small tissue sample of the mole to examine thin sections of the tissue under a microscope (a biopsy). This is a simple procedure. (If the dermatologist thinks the mole might be cancerous, cutting through the mole will not cause the cancer to spread.)
If the mole is found to be cancerous, and only a small section of tissue was taken, the dermatologist will remove the entire mole by cutting out the entire mole and a rim of normal skin around it, and stitching the wound closed.


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10 Everyday Ways to Keep Your Child Reading While Having Funby Erin Dower
Reading is one of the most important skills you should try to boost outside of school. Foster your child's bookworm habits with these simple activities and tips that make reading so fun, he'll fill up his book chart in no time.
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Mix up your routine and have kids read parents a bedtime story. Create a list of your favorite childhood reads and take them out of the library. This list of Caldecott Medal Winners from 1938 to present can refresh your memory with great picture books of the past, and this list of 40 classic books for younger teens will give you ideas for older children. Have your child read the stories aloud to you and then discuss whether the book will become one of her favorites and why.
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The fund seeks high current income.To pursue its goal, the fund normally allocates its assets across fixed-income investment strategies. The fund is designed to complement and diversify traditional bond portfolios. The fund normally allocates its assets among other investment companies (the underlying funds) that employ various fixed-income investment strategies, including those focusing on domestic and foreign corporate bonds, high yield securities ("junk" bonds), senior loans, emerging markets debt, municipal securities and Treasury and other inflation-protected securities (TIPS).
Underlying funds may include other funds in the Dreyfus Family of Funds and unaffiliated open-end funds, closed-end funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The fund generally will allocate its assets to other funds managed by The Dreyfus Corporation (Dreyfus), and will allocate its assets to unaffiliated funds generally when the desired economic exposure to a particular fixed-income investment strategy is not available through a fund managed by Dreyfus, the fund's investment adviser, or its affiliates or for diversification purposes.
The fund seeks to achieve its investment objective - high current income - by allocating its assets across fixed income investment strategies with the goal of enhancing yield. The fund uses a "fund of funds" approach by investing in underlying funds. The fund currently intends to allocate its assets among underlying funds that employ investment strategies that focus on investing in the following securities: corporate fixed-income securities; high yield securities; floating rate securities; emerging markets debt; municipal securities; or TIPS. With respect to each strategy, the fund currently intends to allocate up to 40% of its assets.
Dreyfus determines the fund's asset allocation to the fixed-income investment strategies and sets the investment ranges using fundamental and quantitative analysis, and its economic and financial markets outlook. Underlying funds are selected based on their investment objectives and management policies, investment strategies and portfolio holdings, risk/reward profiles, historical performance, and other factors, including the correlation and covariance among the underlying funds. Dreyfus has the discretion to change the fund's investment strategies and the investment ranges when Dreyfus deems it appropriate, based on its assessment of economic and financial markets, without prior notice to shareholders.
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I cant find this for that price on site
I bought this a while ago from them. The shipping can be weird, tracking didn't work and it took a little long but otherwise it was fine. The case itself is ok. If you use the camera a lot it can be annoying because of the way you have to hold the flap open, as with any other case like this. The prop up feature is great but for me not worth it. For $8, it is worth a try if you want to see for yourself. The main reason I don't use it is it adds a tremendous amount of bulk to a sleek and slim phone. Didn't fit well into jean pockets anymore.
Thanks! Bought one! $7.99 shipped. :)
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I am new to differential geometry and I am trying to understand Gaussian curvature. The definitions found at Wikipedia and Wolfram sites are too mathematical. Is there any intuitive way to understand Gaussian curvature?
For a intuitive understanding, imagine a flat sheet of paper (or just grab one in your hand). It has zero Gaussian curvature. If you take that sheet and bend it or roll it up into a tube or twist it into a cone, its Gaussian curvature stays zero.
Indeed, since paper isn't particularly elastic, pretty much anything you can do to the sheet that still lets you flatten it back into a flat sheet without wrinkles or tears will preserve its Gaussian curvature.
Now take that sheet and wrap it over a sphere. You'll notice that you have to wrinkle the sheet, especially around the edges, to make it conform to the sphere's surface. That's because a sphere has positive Gaussian curvature, and so the circumference of a circle drawn on a sphere is less than $\pi$ times its diameter. The wrinkles on the paper are where you have to fold it to get rid of that excess circumference.
Similarly, if you tried to wrap the sheet of paper over a saddle-shaped surface, you'd find that you would have to tear it (or crumple it in the middle) to make it lie on the surface. That's because, on a surface with negative Gaussian curvature, the circumference of a circle is longer than $\pi$ times its diameter, and so, to make a flat sheet lie along such a surface, you either have to tear it to increase the circumference, or wrinkle it in the middle to reduce the radius.
Indeed, in nature, plants can produce curved or wrinkled leaves simply by altering the rate at which the edges of the leaf grow as compared to the center, which alters the Gaussian curvature of the resulting surface, as in this picture of ornamental kale:
For more nice illustrations, see for example these two articles.
One way to view the Gaussian curvature $K$ is as an area deficit, a comparison between the area $\pi r^2$ of a flat disk of radius $r$, to the area of a geodesic disk on the surface with intrinsic radius $r$. Let $A(r)$ be this latter area centered on a point of the surface. Then $$K = \lim_{r \rightarrow 0} \frac {12 (\pi r^2 - A(r) )}{\pi r^4}$$ You can see in the numerator the term $\pi r^2 - A(r)$ is exactly the area deficit. So at a point where $A(r)$ is smaller than the flat area, $K$ is positive.
This formulation was discovered by Diquet. There is a similar formulation based on a circumference deficit, due to Bertrand and Puiseux.
I know you're looking for an intuitive explanation, but I've always believed that intuition ought to come from concrete mathematical facts, if possible. Otherwise, you have no way of knowing whether or not the intuition someone feeds you actually matches the formal mathematics. (On that note, +1 for Joseph O'Rourke's answer.)
The Gaussian curvature, $K$, is given by $$K = \kappa_1 \kappa_2,$$ where $\kappa_1$ and $\kappa_2$ are the principal curvatures. Just from this definition, we know a few things:
Now recall that $\kappa_1(p)$ and $\kappa_2(p)$ are the maximum and minimum normal curvatures of all curves passing through $p.$ So:
In fact, using Dupin's Indicatrix (which is really just a 2nd-order Taylor expansion) we can make rigorous the notion of being "locally like" an elliptic paraboloid, a cylinder, or a hyperbolic paraboloid.
The Gaussian curvature is the ratio of the solid angle subtended by the normal projection of a small patch divided by the area of that patch.
The fact that this ratio is based totally on the definition of distance within the surface (independent of the embedding of the surface; that is, bending and twisting, etc.) is Gauss' Theorema Egregium.


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What happens when you ask 16 of the area's most renowned chefs to – collectively – create a seven-course meal? Attendees of the Friends of James Beard Benefit Dinner found out firsthand at the elegant event, Sept. 14 at The Brown Hotel.
The dinner, sponsored by The Voice-Tribune and other businesses, celebrated the 25th anniversary of the James Beard Foundation, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to nurturing and preserving America's diverse culinary heritage and future. Proceeds also benefited the scholarship fund for Sullivan University's National Center for Hospitality Studies.
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I must admit I'm a total noob in this.
I've been running ubuntu 11.10 in windows 7 using Wubi installation, and I love Ubuntu. I would like to make a full dual boot instalation of Ubuntu on my PC, because ,according to what I've read, Ubuntu on Wubi is a lot less efficient.
Can I run a full installation of Ubuntu in one partition of the hard drive and a full installation of windows 7 in another one, and still be able to run GRUB when I boot my pc? If it is possible, what is the best way to configure the hard drive partitions?
I have a 283.32 GB hard drive, I want to install windows in one partition and ubuntu in another, but also create a partition to share files between ubuntu and windows... like mp3, video, images...


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Cottage Grove Speedway Modified Nationals Format And Payout Announced
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Madman Photography)
Cottage Grove, Oregon- The annual Cottage Grove Speedway Modified Nationals will be returning to CGS on Friday June 27th and Saturday the 28th. In this release we will outline the format as well as discuss the pay structure for this great event.
On Friday a complete program will be ran with points awarded in qualifying, heat races, and the main event and will be a regular purse. Also Friday a Race Of Champions will be ran for drivers that have either won the Cottage Grove Speedway Modified Nationals, Modified Tribute To Clair at Willamette Speedway, the Bill Mills Memorial in Madras Speedway, Northwest Modified Nationals at Gray Harbor Raceway, or the Lon Skinner Memorial at Southern Oregon Speedway. You can also get into the race by being a former track champion at any track in any division but this is limited to the first twenty drivers that sign up.
The Race of Champions will be pay $400.00 to win, $250.00 for second, and $100.00 for third. The winner will also receive a perpetual trophy and a commerative jacket. The top two finishers in the prelim feature or the Race Of Champions will be locked into Saturday's scramble and will start no worse than tenth in the feature. The balance of the scramble will be made up of the top six drivers in Friday's points that did not finish in the top two in either the prelim feature or the ROC.
Saturday will be main events only and the payout for the feature will be based on car count but will at least be $1000.00 to win and $100.00 to start. The more the car count the more the payout. To compete for the weekend there is a registration fee of $100.00 for both days and to participate in the Race Of Champions is $25.00. For any other questions feel free to contact Cottage Grove Speedway General Manager Heather Boyce at (541) 729-8666. For the entire payout scale click on the link at http://www.cottagegrovespeedway.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=208246.
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Keycode Access
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*Numberpad on front door
*Numberpad on front door
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*Database of codes... on pony? With notes? Probably we need a basic schema for what info we do and don't want to log.
*Logging keycodes
*Logging keycodes
**keycodes not formally associated with individuals
**keycodes not formally associated with individuals
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Contact & Info
Feel free to add yourself here if you plan to work on the project. There will be some email-based discussion and record keeping for this project, and that info will be added here if you just want to lurk and complain.
Keycode System Features
- Numberpad on front door
- Database of codes... on pony? With notes? Probably we need a basic schema for what info we do and don't want to log.
- Tom wants it to be a text file with a pin or rfid code per line and comments delimited by hash marks
- Logging keycodes
- keycodes not formally associated with individuals
- member keycodes differentiable in some way
- keep logs for 7 days
- require 2 users to access logs (cryptographically)
- Keycode Generation
- Distribution
- how to distribute without leaving electronic records associating code with individual?
- Disabling keycodes
- presumably not a feature needed immediately.
There are 3 components to a doorlock system:
- A code entry box (physical hardware)
- Security controller (computer)
- Electronic doorlatch (i.e. buzzer [may be silent])
Commercial door control systems usually have a central controller which is physically located inside the building and cannot be accessed from the entry box. The code entry box is connected to the controller via hard wires (usually serial). The controller can activate the doorlatch via the existing Noisegate relay.
Potential Products
Implementation Considerations
- Should we buy or build the controller?
- Shannon wants to replace the current keypad system with something fancy
- we would need to talk to the landlord to do this
- at present, we plan to just add an additional keypad and only replace the button system if the keypad is successful


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The Electoral Map's States of Play
Just a few weeks ago, it was hard to find a battleground state where President Barack Obama wasn't leading in public-opinion polls. Now, after Mitt Romney's best stretch of the general-election campaign, the race has tightened in almost all the key states, and Mr. Romney has pulled ahead in a few.
Mr. Obama still leads in most of the swing states, though his margins have shrunk. Notably, the nation's two biggest battlegrounds, Florida and Ohio, have become more competitive.
But a question hangs over the race: With the Republican challenger now surging to a slim lead in national polls, can the president's lead in the swing states be sustained?
Mr. Obama's campaign argues the national polls don't tell the story of what is going on in battleground states, where voters are seeing ads and heavy news coverage of candidate visits. Battleground-state voters are experiencing a different campaign than are people elsewhere, the Obama camp says.
Mr. Romney's campaign points out that Mr. Obama has yet to take any of the swing states off the table. "If he hasn't closed the deal in nine states, that's not a good place for an incumbent to be," said Rich Beeson, Mr. Romney's political director.
Still, the map has inherent advantages for Mr. Obama. He has multiple ways to build an Electoral College majority, where Mr. Romney needs to win almost all the big prizes, and some small ones, too. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina noted that all of the paths to victory that the campaign laid out a year and a half ago remain viable for the president.
Here is a look at the electoral map as it now stands:
The Central Battlegrounds
No battlegrounds have more sway over who wins in November than Florida, Ohio and Virginia—the largest, second-largest and fourth-largest swing states by Electoral College clout.
Yet, after months of heavy campaigning and a combined $250 million in TV advertising, plus millions from outside groups, neither candidate can claim a decisive hold on any of them.
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Mr. Romney has pulled abreast of his rival in Florida and Virginia since his strong performance in the first presidential debate. Most of his gains have come by eating into Mr. Obama's margins in suburban neighborhoods and widening the Republican's support among white voters and independents.
Still, the GOP nominee faces perils in all three states. A Romney loss in Ohio would cripple his chances, and a loss in Florida likely would require him to flip a large state that hasn't voted Republican in years, such as Michigan or Pennsylvania, where there has been scant campaigning from either side.
For months, Ohio has presented the Romney campaign with its most stubborn challenge. Mr. Romney has lagged behind in Ohio by a wide margin until recently, when he has narrowed the gap with Mr. Obama in a running average of state polls. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Marist poll this week, though, found him behind by six percentage points.
The Obama camp has built on the positive ripple effect of the 2009 auto bailout, the relative strength of Ohio's economy and the aftermath of the GOP's push last year to curtail public workers' collective-bargaining rights.
Still, the Romney team remains optimistic. "We're doing a ton of work in Ohio," said Romney pollster Neil Newhouse in an interview on "DC Bureau," the Journal's online politics show. "I think we've closed the gap in Ohio. I think it's a dead heat."
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Intensifying Battlegrounds
A trio of states—Colorado, Iowa and Nevada—are drawing attention in part because Mr. Romney would need to win these and others, should he lose Florida or Ohio.
This week, the main super PAC backing Mr. Obama bought TV ad time in Nevada for the first time in the general election, a signal of the state's status as an intensifying battleground. Housing and unemployment problems in Nevada have made many voters receptive to Mr. Romney's message of charting a new course to economic growth. The Obama campaign is hoping to gain a boost from its strong ground operation and support from unions and Latino voters.
Colorado is a rare swing state in which Republican voters outnumber Democrats. But the GOP lead is slight. Mr. Romney has made late strides in the state, spending parts of eight days there since the political conventions.
Mr. Obama has maintained a small lead in Iowa, a state where unemployment is well below the national average. "Iowa is a state that ought to be favorable toward Obama, because, if it's all about jobs, we don't have a problem with jobs," said Steffen Schmidt, a political scientist at Iowa State University.
At the same time, social issues are in the news there, with voters being asked whether to retain a state Supreme Court justice who voted to allow same-sex marriages. That fight could draw Republican-leaning voters to the polls.
In Iowa, the Obama campaign has made a strong push toward early voting, which began in late September. More than 101,000 Democrats have voted early, either by mail or in person, versus just more than 50,000 Republicans, as of Wednesday, according to data from the Iowa Secretary of State's office.
Receding Battlegrounds
North Carolina, which Mr. Obama barely won in 2008, appears to be moving into safe territory for Mr. Romney. Republicans appear to hold an advantage in absentee voting, with GOP voters requesting and returning about twice the number of ballots as Democrats as of Friday, according to state records.
Mr. Obama hasn't been there since his Charlotte convention, and Mr. Romney has visited just once since then.
If Mr. Obama has any chance in the state, it will be because of a superior ground operation, said Ferrel Guillory, of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina. "The best news for Obama is Romney hasn't been able to put North Carolina away," he said.
Two wild cards: Wisconsin, which wasn't seen as competitive before mid-September, but where the race is close, and New Hampshire. Mr. Obama had built up a strong lead in New Hampshire before the Oct. 3 debate, and super PACs have pulled their ads from the state. Since then, Mr. Romney appears to have made up some ground, and the president plans to visit on Thursday.
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27 November 2012. Perhaps no part of the mammalian nervous system has been pored over more thoroughly than the retina. Van Leeuwenhoek first observed its rods and cones using his microscopes in the early eighteenth century, and by the turn of the twentieth century, the Golgi stain allowed Ramón y Cajal to map out the retina's layered structure and circuitry in some detail. So it came as something of a scientific surprise in 2002 when researchers demonstrated that some cells in the retina's ganglion cell layer—generally thought of as a way station where signals from rod and cone photoreceptors were integrated and relayed to the brain—are themselves photosensitive and, rather than mediate vision, help establish circadian rhythms (Berson et al., 2002; Hattar et al., 2002).
These curiosities, called intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), also directly influence mood and learning, according to a new study published online November 14 in Nature. Led by Samer Hattar at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, the study reports that altering light schedules without disrupting circadian rhythms produced depression-like behavior and learning deficits in mice, though not in mice lacking ipRGCs.
Irregular light schedules and disrupted sleep are linked to impaired mood and learning, and sleep disturbances are commonly reported in psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia (Wulff et al., 2010; see also SRF related news story). Because of the importance of ipRGCs in setting the circadian clock via projections to the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) and other preoptic areas, there has been growing interest in their indirect role in regulating mood (McCarthy and Welsh, 2012) and learning and memory (Ruby et al., 2008) by affecting SCN function.
But ipRGCs also project to limbic regions such as the lateral habenula and medial amygdala, which suggested that these cells might exert effects on mood and cognition by acting directly in these regions. First authors Tara LeGates and Cara Altimus and colleagues present several lines of evidence that this is indeed the case.
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To alter light input to ipRGCs without affecting SCN function, the researchers made use of a certain schedule of light and dark that does not sway circadian rhythms. Typically, altering the circadian cycle—12 hours of darkness and 12 hours of light, which is known as a T24 cycle—causes disruption in sleep and in normal rhythmic patterns of body temperature, hormone levels, and gene expression. However, in previous work (Altimus et al., 2008), the Hopkins researchers had found that maintaining mice in a so-called T7 cycle of 3.5 hours of light and 3.5 hours of darkness caused no such changes—aside from a slight lengthening of the 24-hour circadian period, T7 mice were indistinguishable from those kept on a T24 regimen.
The group first confirmed that the T7 cycle has an impact in these regions by finding light-dependent expression of the c-fos transcription factor in the amygdala, lateral habenula, and subparaventricular nucleus. They next showed that, compared to T24 mice, T7 mice exhibited depression-like behaviors in the sucrose anhedonia and forced swim tests. T7 mice were also significantly different in cortisol measures: even though the circadian rhythmicity of cortisol secretion was indistinguishable from that in T24 mice, overall cortisol levels were higher—a common finding in animal models of depression and in depressed humans.
Interestingly, no significant differences were seen in the T7 mice in three standard tests of anxiety, which the authors take as evidence "that the T7 cycle does not globally influence behavior, but specifically elicits depression- and not anxiety-like behaviors."
Light on learning
Because both high cortisol levels and depression-like behaviors have been shown to disrupt performance on hippocampal-dependent spatial learning tasks, the researchers tested the ability of T7 mice to find the underwater platform in several versions of the Morris water maze. The T7 mice performed significantly worse than T24 mice, findings that were complemented by in-vitro assessments of long-term potentiation (LTP), which showed marked impairment of LTP in T7 mice. Finally, on a novel-object recognition task, another measure of hippocampal-dependent learning, the T7 mice performed poorly compared to T24 controls.
To investigate whether the differences between T7 and T24 mice were mediated by ipRGCs, the researchers used the same battery of tests and LTP experiments with mice lacking functional ipRGCs. None of the depression-like, learning, or LTP effects seen in wild-type T7 mice were observed.
The research group found that the impairments of T7 mice on the forced swim and novel-object recognition tests could be rescued, as well as their deficits in LTP, with chronic administration of the antidepressant fluoxetine. Though fluoxetine can alter circadian rhythms, it did not do so in T7 mice, including the rhythmicity of cortisol secretion; however, overall levels of cortisol were significantly lower in fluoxetine-treated T7 mice than in T7 controls, which "could lead to lower depression-like behavior and better learning," the authors write.
The authors say the T7-induced changes are unlikely to involve the SCN because when the SCN has been disabled genetically or through ablation in previous studies, animals exhibit reduced depression-like behavior (Tataroglu et al., 2004; see also SRF related news story). The team proposes that the T7 mouse may be a useful new animal model of depression, in that no genetic manipulation or aversive environments are required for these mice to exhibit depression-like behavior.—Pete Farley.
LeGates TA, Altimus CM, Wang H, Lee HK, Yang S, Zhao H, Kirkwood A, Weber ET, Hattar S. Aberrant light directly impairs mood and learning through melanopsin-expressing neurons. Nature. 2012 Nov 14. Abstract
PRIMARY PAPERSAberrant light directly impairs mood and learning through melanopsin-expressing neurons.
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Holiday shoppers prepare! That's what Donald Lichtenstein, a business professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, is urging holiday shoppers to do this year. He says, take the time to prepare yourself, including researching price, quality and brands, before you hit the stores or Internet.
Nov. 14, 2011
Holiday shoppers prepare! That's what Donald Lichtenstein, a business professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, is urging holiday shoppers to do this year. He says, take the time to prepare yourself, including researching price, quality and brands, before you hit the stores or Internet.
CUT 1 "How do you get that information? Well you need to find an unbiased source, somebody who doesn't have anything to gain by what you decide. Not a sales person. (:10) Personally, I rely on consumer reports. This is not an add for Consumer Reports, they're not paying me or anything like that, but that's what I do. I go to Consumer Reports and look independently of price, what the quality rates are. It has served me very well over the years." (:28)
Being prepared can save consumers money, steer them away from overspending and even change their whole way of thinking about purchasing gifts during the holidays, says Lichtenstein, the chair of the marketing department at CU-Boulder's Leeds School of Business.
CUT 2 "There are some product categories when you pay a higher price you do get higher quality. And there are others ones where price and quality just don't relate to each other. It's random, the relationship. You're just as likely to get a high quality item by paying a low price as a high price. (:17) And then you've got, believe it or not, a third category of goods where the relationship between price and quality is actually negative, meaning that as you pay a higher price you get worse quality, so the notion of consumers going into the marketplace without independent quality information, that's a big mistake." (:38)
And Lichtenstein says do not rely on price or brand names as an indicator of quality.
CUT 3 "One mistake many consumers make is that they rely on price or brand names as an indicator of quality, they'll say you get what you pay for, the higher the price the higher the quality. (:09) Many consumers follow that and will go out and buy a higher priced item because they believe they are getting a higher quality item. Nothing can be further from the truth, in terms of a generalization." (:20)
Once you've researched quality, then do your price search. There are many ways to do this, but a good place to start is online.
CUT 4 "There is no substitute for going online and spending a little bit of time, when you've decided what it is you're looking for, using shopping bots, shopping.com, bisrate.com and also visiting particular merchants who you know carry the item and looking at the prices they charge." (:21)
Lichtenstein also advises shoppers to be aware that there is a multitude of advertising efforts at work that are geared toward getting them to spend more.
CUT 5 "I think it's two major things here. One is vigilance. Vigilance on quality, vigilance on price, vigilance on what merchants are doing, vigilance on 'am I actually going to use that product.' (:14) A the second thing I go back to is, during the holiday season, don't get caught up in the emotional shopping. Don't think I've got to buy the best gift for this person and how much they're spending on me, and getting into this social exchange." (:28)
Other shopping tips Lichtenstein offers for consumers:
- Shoppers should be wary of stores that offer price match guarantees because market research has shown that retailers offering these guarantees often charge higher prices.
- If shopping with coupons avoiding buying product just to "get a deal." Instead use them on products you usually purchase and plan to use in the relatively near future, if they have a limited shelf life.
- Shoppers should be cautious of reference price advertising – such as "was $79.95 now $49.95." In many cases, says Lichtenstein says, the starting prices are inflated or fictitious.
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Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport
100 Terminal Drive, Florida 33315, Fort Lauderdale, United States
Telefon: 1 866 435 9355
Website: www.fll.net
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is situated 5km (3 miles) south of Fort Lauderdale.
How to get there
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport connects to the Florida Turnpike, Interstate 95, Interstate 595 and Route 1. Take State Road 84 or Interstate 595 and follow Route 1 south to the airport's Perimeter Road for the economy car park.
Information about parking possibilities at the Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport
Access by public transport
BCT Mass Transit (tel: (954) 357 8400; www.broward.org/bct) operates daily services (bus 1) from stop 7 at the Rental Car Center. Shuttle: Tri County Airport Express passenger sedans and Go Shuttle (tel: (954) 561 8888; www.floridalimo.com) provide door-to-door shared ride services. Check with the Transportation Podium located on the lower level outside each terminal for further information.
Taxis and yellow cabs (tel: (954) 777 7777) are readily available, including wheelchair-accessible vans. Rail: Tri-Rail (tel: 1 800 874 7245; www.tri-rail.com) train services run to Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach County. Shuttle buses connect the airport to the nearby Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Station at Dania Beach.
Information desk
Help and information desks (tel: (954) 359 1200) are located in each terminal on the upper and lower levels.
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These delicious side dish recipes make it easy to eat healthfully and in line with the USDA's MyPlate Guidelines. These healthy recipes meet the MyPlate guidelines for calories, portion size, sodium, saturated fat and added sugars. To make these recipes part of a complete meal, please refer to our serving suggestions included with the recipe. Download a FREE Healthy Vegetable Side Dish Recipe Cookbook!


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Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, Classy Closets offers a variety of custom home storage solutions to fit your style and personality.
Are you in need of a pantry to help organize and store your food? Or maybe, you are in need of garage cabinets to store your tools, cords, and gadgets? No matter your needs, Classy Closets of El Paso, Texas can help you find what you are looking for.
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Project Ford F-1 - Quiet And ComfortableWritten by on February 1, 2005 Contributors: Altered Engineering Insulating The Project F-1
Our Project F-1 is a clean driver as well as a show-worthy truck. As a result we tried to take into account the creature comforts that would make it fun and comfortable to drive on a regular basis. The tilt column from ididit, the air conditioning/heating unit from Classic Auto Air, and the practical interior from RodDoors all make for one hospitable place to spend some windshield time. To help keep the road noise to a minimum and ease the job of the A/C unit, we decided to insulate the cab with a kit from Quiet Ride Solutions.
After discussing the project with Quiet Ride's owner, Tim Cox, a complete kit arrived tailor-made for our Ford F-1. The kit was impressive and included all the materials and informative instructions to make the job easy for an at-home installation.
There are two types of noises that we're trying to control. Airborne sounds are things like engine and wind noise that permeate the cab of any truck through holes in the firewall, seams in the floor, and window openings. Structure-borne noises come from the vibrations and harmonics of the engine, road noise, suspension movement, etc. that cause the annoying rattles, squeaks, and humming that the sheetmetal itself will make. The Quiet Ride kit has different components to control each of these types of noises along with superior heat control. With a camera in hand, we headed over to Altered Engineering to watch Peter and Don install the kit in an easy afternoon.
Three basic components make up the kit: Dynamat strips for structure-borne noise control, the Acoustishield for airborne noise and heat control, and the ABS plastic molded firewall insulator. The Dynamat strips are precut into various sizes for installation throughout the cab and doors. These are Styrene-Butyadine-rubber-based, and are pressure-sensitive, adhesive-backed, heat-bondable, and sheetmetal-vibration damper materials that deaden the vibrations and harmonics that the sheetmetal creates.
Careful thought has gone into the placement of these strips, and they are the first step of the installation. Tapping on the sheetmetal with our knuckles after we had installed these strips created a dead thud instead of the usual tinny metal sound. These little strips do an amazing job. Since they are damping the sound of the sheetmetal vibration, you don't have to cover the entire panel; mere well-thought-out placement of the strips does the job.
After we installed all the Dynamat strips, it was time for the Acoustishield. This material is 3/8-inch-thick fiber padding similar to a carpet pad with two layers of aluminum covering. These pieces come precut to fit the entire interior of the F-1. After checking for a perfect fit (they did), we sprayed the supplied glue to the backside of the material and the sheetmetal. After allowing the glue a few minutes to get tacky, we installed the pieces one at a time. Once we had installed all the pieces, our truck looked like it had been covered in tin foil. You can imagine how much this is going to change the interior environment. Quiet Ride also supplies a foil tape to cover the seams to complete the installation.
The firewall cover is made from molded ABS plastic with a pebble-grain pattern that matches most original materials. The ABS is very durable and can be formed further with a little applied heat. The ABS can also be dyed to match an interior color with a vinyl plastic spray paint if you wish. It's backed with a fiberglass insulation material to keep down the heat from the engine compartment and the roar of our Smeding Performance 347ci stroker motor.
Quiet Ride has firewall insulators for some 600-plus vehicles. One for your application should be readily available. Tim told us the kits are offered with holes predrilled for restoration-type installations or smooth for custom vehicles like ours. We ordered it without holes and then trimmed it a little to clear the air-conditioning unit, as would be expected in a custom installation like ours. After drilling a couple of holes for the accelerator pedal and cable, the insulator snapped into place.
It only took the Altered Engineering guys a couple of hours to install the entire kit, and we can't wait to get this truck on the road and enjoy the quiet and comfortable environment that the cab has now become.
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It's not necessary to cover the entire sheetmetal for the desired noise control; 30- to 50-percent coverage will do the job. Here you can see all the strips in place in our F-1.There were strategically placed strips on the roof panel as well since that can be a huge source of unwanted noise.After every Acoustishield panel was glued in place, the seams were taped with this foil tape for a seamless installation. This tape prevents heat from entering the cab and helps hold the edges in place for a smooth one-piece look.With the entire cab covered and taped, our F-1 project looks like a giant TV dinner. This truck will be warm/cool, cozy, and quiet when we hit the road. Not bad for a couple hours of work.The ABS molded firewall insulator looks like a factory installation. You can see where we trimmed it for the Classic Auto Air bulkhead fitting and the Painless Performance fuse box on the driver-side. We're ready for our interior panels and seats, and it's almost a shame to cover up the great product from Quiet Ride Solutions.The Acoustishield panels were precut and were glued directly to the sheetmetal using the supplied spray glue. Peter then simply pressed them into place.There was also a piece of Acoustishield to go behind the kick panels, and here the glue was being sprayed in this location before the panel was slipped in place.


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How do I create multiple objects with the same code, but each with a unique name?
If I create an object in objective C something like:
MyClass *myObject = [[MyClass alloc] init];
I have an object named myObject that I can refer to, to do stuff like:
[myObject setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blueColor]];
But what if I want to create multiple objects with the same allocation code? For instance if I am using this code in an action so that every time a button is tapped a new object is created. Then I would have multiple objects named myObject. SO when I used the code to set the background color it would turn all of myObject's background color blue.
If each object created had a unique name this would not be an issue, but how to give each object created with the same code a unique name?
One way would be to rename the objects after creation and attach a number increment, but how can I rename an object? Or maybe I could set each object created with a unique name in the first place, but how can I insert a unique "string" for the name of each new object?
Thanks for reading!
I created an "init with tag method", but each time I create a new object the previously created object also receives the new tag, so each object has the same tag, not unique tags. Any help?
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I wasn't a vegan as an undergrad, a fact I am sometimes grateful for when I see the food offerings on campus these days (and when I think of how hard it was even to get a decent vegetarian option back then). While things are getting better these days, vegan options are still few and far between. To make matters worse, dorms have pretty much restricted cooking appliances to a microwave and a kettle (unless you want to use the communal kitchen at the end of the hall, which no one ever does). So, until you can get an off campus house with your own stove, what's a college vegan to do?
Saturday, May 23, 2009
PETA's Vegan College Cookbook: A Review
13 comments:
- Lizzzzzzzzzzz said...
I'm sure this is a perfectly decent cookbook. However, I find it extremely unnerving that you are willing to support anything made by PETA.
PETA constantly associates hyper-sexualized women with violence, letting people know that it's ok (by them) to be aroused by women in violent situations. This kind of thinking is despicable, and I would hope that you would not promote an organization that feels the need to present their (anti-violence?) message in such a way.
- May 23, 2009 at 2:29 PM
- Anonymous said...
how about all the animals they kill?
peta may have great ideas when it comes to publicity but they have no idea what it means to be vegan.
- May 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM
- Jain said...
A differing opinion on People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: I'm a woman who credits PETA with bringing veganism to the mainstream. Their ads are clever, attention-grabbing, and effective. As long as consenting adults are involved, I don't care how they present their message. If this book helps one student to eat more ethically, I support it, too.
Anonymous slipped in while I was typing. Huh?
- May 23, 2009 at 4:32 PM
- Karoumy said...
Microwaves are not for cooking.
- May 23, 2009 at 4:44 PM
- nick said...
Well said Jain.
I completely agree.
Anonymous, before blaming PETA of just killing animals, read in to it about why they do some of the things that do. Here's a nice article for you: http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/03/why_we_euthaniz.php?c=euthanasiag0309&gclid=CLHWloXhrZoCFQOuFQodCyldcw
- May 23, 2009 at 5:07 PM
- Alison said...
I am ambivalent about PETA (actually, I appreciate the extreme, because it makes us normal fools seem perfectly reasonable).
However, this is a great idea for college students. I actually was a vegan when I entered College. However, after a semester in the dorms I lost the Freshman 15 (vs. gaining the Freshman 10). My mom started sending me food and eventually reconsidered and started to eat dairy. Later I found out I was lactose intolerant and had to start eating some other animal products. Who knows what my path might have been if I'd had a swanky PETA cookbook?
- May 24, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- Mike said...
I'm on the side that finds PETA's ad campaigns despicable. I'm not sure why people think it's okay to promote the de-victimization of animals while re-victimizing women's bodies and sexuality... Are we really willing to continue to comodify female bodies and promote heterosexism in order to promote vegetarianism/veganism? Doesn't that simply redirect oppression and violence in a different direction?
- May 24, 2009 at 8:22 PM
- rob said...
This post isn't about PETA ads. It's about this particular cookbook. Personally I think PETA does some good things, and some things I disagree with. This particular item that they produce is positive, so yay!
- May 25, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- Mary said...
Like Alison, I was vegan when I began college, but fell off the wagon and began eating eggs and dairy because I didn't have a kitchen, regular access to a grocery store, or the time to plan meals and think about what I was eating. A book like this might have given me some ideas.
(Don't worry, though: now I'm an ass-kickin' vegan grown-up with a well-equipped kitchen and a natural foods store!)
- May 26, 2009 at 10:10 PM
- BellaTrixx said...
as a vegan graduate student, this sounds like a clever idea. sometimes you are just in such a rush that it is difficult to come up with something for lunch. and a veggie subway is not that exciting day in and day out. i say applaud them for doing something right. thanks Vegan Dad for the review. :)
- May 27, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
I like the idea of the cookbook. Not just for students but for cooking in motels in the middle of nowhere when vegan restaurants are just not an option.
- May 28, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- zerbert said...
I recently bought this cookbook for my sister who just finished her second year in college. She's vegetarian. Hopefully she'll find it useful next year!
- June 4, 2009 at 6:05 AM
- Tara said...
I know I am late to the game but I bought this cookbook a month ago and love it. I am not a college student but I am a busy professional who just can't find the time to take on more complicated meals all the time (plus the kitchen gets HOT with the oven in the summer).
I consider this cookbook and Veganomicon my go-to books. Sometimes, you just need quick, easy, and cheap. This fits the bill.
- July 14, 2009 at 8:52 AM