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Can I install Ubuntu without formatting any partitions on my hard drive?
I am already running Windows 7 and I want to install Ubuntu as well without formatting any of the partitions I have already created.
Can I install Ubuntu without formatting any partitions on my hard drive?
I am already running Windows 7 and I want to install Ubuntu as well without formatting any of the partitions I have already created.
Of course you can. You just have to select the
However you'll have to create at least an empty
Ubuntu will also install
Good luck!
I'm assuming you want to install Ubuntu on a physical disk (as opposed to the Wubi installation, which installs Ubuntu like a Windows software)
It depends on whether you have suitable Linux partitions (ext4, ext3, btrfs ..) on your computer already. If you have such partitions, you don't need to format that partition again. But also note, If the partition doesn't have enough free space, you have to delete some files from that partition to create room for Ubuntu installation.
But, if you want to install Ubuntu as like a Windows program, called Wubi method you don't need to format anything. But still you need to have enough room on the partition, you are going to install Ubuntu in.
But there are some limitations of this method, such as hibernation is not supported and slow disk performance etc.
Yes, you can install the Wubi version of Ubuntu, or you can install Ubuntu to a USB drive and boot off that instead.
yes sure, use wubi from ubuntu official site at the following link and that's a good tutorial step by step guide
The best option here would be to go with the Windows installer for Ubuntu Desktop (WUBI).
Here's a link where you can find the download and instructions:
Then you can go with WUBI..
Pls find the following guides below,
You can install it with VMPlayer within windows 7.
WUBI is a good method. First download from the links provided in above replies.
Then you can either ask WUBI to download an .iso for you or you can download an Ubuntu .iso of your choice (this is if you want to test an older version of Ubuntu, cuz WUBI when prompted will download the latest version.)
After that run WUBI, and all steps are simple. Allocate space for Ubuntu as you want and according to what you will use it for.
Careful, at one step it will ask if you want to install Ubuntu "alongside" Windows or as an application.
Alongside option will install Ubuntu as a complete separate OS, it will reset MBR to call GRUB at boot-up and will result in a dual-boot.
Install as application will just install Ubuntu as any normal software inside Windows which can be deleted later.


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Stranger Than Paradise
Will the Philippine government's ambitious plan to attract luxury tourism threaten the environmental wonders that have made the country one of the last unspoiled tropical destinations in Asia? Two islands—one pristine, the other overpopulated—sound a cautionary note.
ASK THE AVERAGE WESTERNER what he knows about the Philippines and the reply will likely touch on Imelda Marcos's shoe collection, or Manny Pacquiao's knock-out record, or the Bataan Death March, or other things that don't necessarily scream "paradise."
For this, I am grateful. Arcing down toward El Nido, 260 air miles southwest of Manila, I gaze upon spectrums of seawater rarely observed in nature—Scope mouthwash deepening to Edge Shave Gel—and, in my experience, never before observed without American accents and steel-drum tunes ringing in my ears. The breathless reports I've heard of Bacuit Bay's gob-stopping natural beauty seem, if anything, to have under-hyped the vista passing beneath the plane.
Bacuit Bay, home to an archipelago of 45 islands bordering the South China Sea, occupies a place in the Filipino psychogeography like Alaska's in the American imagination: an unspoiled national Eden that few citizens ever get around to visiting. The bay sits at the northernmost tip of Palawan, the Philippines's most sparsely populated, westernmost province, which brands itself "the last frontier." The 19-seat turbo-prop charter to the bay's lone village, El Nido, is reportedly the most expensive domestic airfare in the Philippines. (An informal survey of my plane mates turns up zero Philippine passport holders and a predominance of Japanese and South Koreans.) But the view would seem to justify the ticket price: The bosky little ingots of land studding the bay seem to bear no trace of human settlement, and the blue-green tides are wholly unscarred by cruise ship or Jet Ski wakes.
The bay's welcome lack of development is partly an effect of environmental progressivism (in 1998, the government declared northern Palawan a protected area) and partly an emblem of the country's late-blooming tourism industry. Public perceptions, shaped by headline-grabbing earthquakes, typhoons and periodic kidnappings—mostly by Muslim extremists around the contested southern island of Mindanao—have helped chill leisure travelers' enthusiasm for the island nation. And, until recently, its roadways, airports and hotels simply couldn't support large numbers of visitors accustomed to first-world amenities. But in the hopes of winning a wedge of a market long dominated by Thailand and Bali, the Philippines has committed unprecedented sums to its infrastructure budgets—$9.6 billion in 2013—and undertaken an ambitious media campaign to help assuage its image problem.
The efforts appear to be bearing fruit. Fueled in part by the growing tourism industry, the nation's GDP swelled by 7.1 percent in the third quarter of last year, Asia's second-fastest growth rate, bested only by China. "There is no better time to be in the Philippines than now," says Robbie Antonio, managing director of Century Properties, a Manila real estate firm whose array of luxury construction projects includes Trump Tower, Makati City. "In our industry, demand for real estate has never been higher." In 2012, the Philippines received 4.3 million foreign visitors—more than twice its intake of travelers just a decade ago—inspiring a rash of media speculation that the nation's beach towns may soon go the way of Acapulco. In places like the Philippine island of Boracay, the transformation is well under way, so I head first to Bacuit Bay, to check out a diminishing rarity: a self-proclaimed tropical paradise that contains no go-kart tracks or daiquiri stands or much of anything but wild animals, water and sand.
'As I climb off the boat, a pair of long-tailed macaques, whom I assume are on the payroll, rove the cliff face, sampling white flowers.'
If, like me, you are not categorically keen on Southeast Asian beach resorts, it is probably because you have been to Thailand's Phuket or Krabi, where you sat on heel-hammered sands drinking a warm gin and tonic from a literal bucket, wishing you'd discovered the place before the invention of fire-spinning, Katy Perry and laser shows. But the Lagen Island Resort, where I fetch up after a 40-minute boat cruise, is not that sort of place. Situated on a remote and otherwise deserted island distinguished by serous limestone cliffs, Lagen has 50 private rooms, including a crescent of eight hip-roofed cottages poised on stilts in an oval of placid water that's the color of molten Coke bottles. Admission to this world of ecofriendly ease—the resort has its own desalination and power plants, and wastewater-processing technology—does come at a comparative premium. Cabanas here range from $400 to $650 per night, a relative fortune in a land where clean and comfortable beachfront accommodations abound at a tenth or so the price. As I climb off the boat, a pair of long-tailed macaques, whom I assume are on the payroll, rove the cliff face, sampling white flowers. In the perfect absence of thundering house music, the call of a lone, coarse-throated bird thunders like a foghorn.
Under the unwalled reception pagoda, frozen towels and glasses of gelid melon puree are put into our hands. We are gently instructed to set our mobile devices to vibrate for the duration of our stay. We are shown the beach, the slate-tiled saltwater pool and the al fresco cocktail shanty—phenomena my fellow travelers quietly moan over and photograph with reverent diligence. The temptation is strong to take to a lounger and lapse into basking-iguana consciousness. Instead, I submit to the activities director's recommendation to head out on a tour of Bacuit Bay's astonishments.
My guide, a friendly and knowledgeable young man named Angelo Gustillo, ferries me across the bay to a small lagoon, known locally as "the small lagoon," which you get to by kayaking through a narrow fissure in a limestone breaker. Here, I swim through a canyon filled with green water of such violent luminosity that it's like breaststroking through a radioactive Midori cocktail. Green waverings play on the high gray stone. Plashings and gaspings of a sparse pack of astounded tourists echo off canyon walls. I suffer a vague despair that I am neither Brooke Shields nor 13 years old.
Gustillo takes me snorkeling in a coral grove, going so far as to summon a crowd of gorgeous fish by chumming the water with hacked-up bits of less gorgeous ones. I see clown fish being gleefully tickled by anemones. I see schools of Day-Glo creatures that look like they were designed by Wes Anderson. I hear the snicky-snacky sound of coral breakfasting. He takes me spelunking through a Neolithic cave that is both prettier and tidier than my house. He brings me to the summit of a little mountain to take in a panorama of the bay and, with any luck, to spot some of Palawan's celebrity fauna: green sea turtles, dugongs, sharks, whale sharks and the world's most adorable ungulate, the Chihuahua-size Philippine mouse deer. At this point, I'm so surfeited on natural spectacles, it's faintly disappointing not to see a troupe of all these things executing Busby Berkeley maneuvers for my personal delectation.
Among Palawan's deep trove of wildlife, the most precious to the local economy, Gustillo explains, is the swiftlet, a small darting bird whose nests, built largely of its own spittle, are the essential ingredient in bird's nest soup. A swiftlet nest (nido in Spanish, hence El Nido's name) sells for upward of 200 Philippine pesos per gram ($2,265 a pound). A few years back, Gustillo eked out a dangerous living retrieving the nests from crevices high in the cliff faces. "So many of my friends died doing that kind of work," he says, explaining that nido hunters disdain safety harnesses. "That's how it is with many Philippine people. They do what they have to live." But in the name of social and ecological responsibility, Lagen's resort manager tells me later, the El Nido Resorts have made a point of hiring nido hunters away from the cliffs and into careers less hazardous for the swiftlets and for the hunters themselves.
LATE IN THE AFTERNOON, I return to Lagen Island. I laze around my handsome cabin. I laze some more on my private bayside veranda, gnawing a mango of life-altering excellence. I watch silvery small-fry dance and play across the water's surface. Then I reflect that they're not dancing and playing at all. A bigger fish is down there trying to murder them. But such is the weird, solipsistic derangement that starts to takes hold when you're in a place where the chief anxiety is the slowness with which the shadows grow on the shore-front chaises. When the light begins to fail, a staffer announces that the sun will soon be going down. My fellow guests and I get excited about the rotation of the planet as though it were an impromptu performance by Tom Jones. We board a sunset-watching vessel and stare at the big Clingstone peach in the western sky. The fiery lacuna the sun burns into my field of vision somehow feels like a valuable memento.
Sumptuous though Lagen Island is, it seems a poor relation compared to Pangulasian, westward across the bay. After a fire razed the property a few years back, Pangulasian underwent a ground-up restoration, completed in October 2012. The result is a property nearly unsettling in its opulence. Accommodations at Pangulasian range from $800 per night for a beachfront cabana, to $3,300 per night for an eight-person suite of villas equipped with a private infinity pool. During my visit, the staff is still making refinements. One of these is a plan to query guests in advance as to their music and fragrance preferences, and moments before arrival, to flood the cabana with, for example, gardenia and Metallica.
At sunset, I sit on a balcony with Pangulasian's manager, Lei Policarpio, dining on sea bass and foie gras–whipped potatoes, watching the sun perform. I mention to Policarpio my strange new understanding of the sun—Sol the product, Mister Tom Jones.
She nods. "Yes, the sun is a product," noting that the island's east-west orientation treats the guest to two solar recitals per day. "The beach is a product, too." Then she frowns, looking down on the glowing strand. In her opinion, the product could be handsomer. Too many bits of shell and coral litter the sand.
"You could have it sieved," I suggest unseriously.
"We're going to try with rakes," but if the rakes don't do the trick, says Policarpio, she will have the beach sieved.
IF BACUIT BAY FEELS like the Philippines's best-kept travel secret, its worst-kept secret is the island of Boracay, in the region of Visayas, a 40-minute flight south from Manila. Seen from above, such a profusion of windsurfers and parasails mob the limeade-tone shallows that the island looks besieged by moths. The flourlike beaches of Boracay, a narrow oddment of land a brief boat ride from the mainland town of Caticlan, have drawn throngs of foreigners since the '80s. Its years of hard use aren't difficult to detect. Not many acres of this 10-square mile island remain unclaimed by hotels or houses and golf courses. The few remaining postage-stamp size wildernesses are staked with "for sale" signs. Boracay's main attraction is the White Beach, a 2.5-mile stretch of bright sand along the island's west coast. When I first arrive, I have some difficulty finding it. The beach, as it turns out, is hiding behind a long bulwark of commercial establishments, including but not limited to: the Obama Grill (slogan: "You want good food? Yes we can!"); a shooters bar inviting patrons to accept its "still standing after 15 [shots]" challenge; the Facebook FB -0.85 % Resort; a shopping mall; and an uncountable number of T-shirt vendors, massage touts and diving tour agencies.
Visiting Boracay after Palawan admittedly subjects the place to an unfair comparison. Still, I'm pleased that Palawan's enviro-protected status has prevented people from erecting shooter bars on the hawksbill turtles' nesting beds. Shouldering through the White Beach's Times Square–density throngs, it's hard to greet happily those elements of tourist culture that have already dimmed the appeal of places like Phuket: pedicurists plucking at your sleeves; Russian tourists dancing Gangnam-style at a beachfront club; restaurants lit with so much neon they look like rides at the state fair; Wilford Brimley lookalikes dining wordlessly with young Filipinas whom one can only optimistically suppose are mail-order brides.
According to press reports, the island is beginning to suffer serious ill-effects of its own popularity. The relentless foot traffic notwithstanding, hotels and seawalls built too close to the beach are contributing to the quickening erosion of Boracay's beaches. In recent years, boat anchors and heedless divers have helped kill off much of the surrounding hard coral. Leakage from below-code septic systems has been known to taint the beach sands. Among Boracay's service-sector workers, nervous rumors circulate that the environmental authorities plan to shutter the island for a season or two to let its ecosystem convalesce.
Down by D Mall, the White Beach's retail epicenter, I pause to chat with boat tour operators Rene Plemones and Reynald Bernardo, who fret that the island and their livelihood may fall victim to its own success. "The development is a problem here in Boracay," Plemones says. "There are so many tourists, and so many hotels doing violations to the environment. How long will the tourists want to come here? We don't know."
An official I queried at the Philippines Department of Tourism claimed not to have heard of any plans to close the island, but the rumor is regrettably familiar to Plemones and Bernardo. "Maybe it's going to happen," says Bernardo. But even a rest-cure isn't likely to restore Boracay to its former preeminence, he says. "Boracay used to be number one, but now number one is Palawan. It's the best island because of the nature. Boracay cannot be Palawan."
Fair enough. But even here on Boracay, I ask, is there maybe someplace to, you know, dodge the tourists and get off the beaten track? Plemones muses, shakes his head. "I don't know about something like that."
But, the White Beach is not devoid of appeal. And at mealtimes, it's well worth wending your way to the fish market, or talipapa, at the center of the labyrinthine D Mall. Here, for a modest sum, you can snag a fresh-caught fish or a still-gesticulating crab, which you then take to one of the half-dozen or so "cooking service" restaurants surrounding the market. A capable chef will flay and cook your catch to order. Eating your weight at the talipapa plaza is a wise thing to do.
One afternoon, I ask my guide, a young man named Yeng, if he might help me track down some less tourist-friendly fare. He gives me an uncertain look. "Have you eaten balut?" Balut, for reasons that soon become clear, is a dish whose sale and consumption are forbidden on the White Beach. We head inland, and soon come across a plywood shelter full of local guys watching television, one of whom has a crate of it.
'Shouldering through the White Beach's Times Square—density throngs, it's hard to greet happily those elements of tourist culture that have already dimmed the appeal of places like Phuket.'
Balut is an unborn duckling scalded in its shell, apparently, before hatching. By way of instruction, Yeng eats one first. He peels the shell, douses the occupant with vinegar and knocks it back, unchewed, like an oyster shot. My turn. A tittering mob gathers. I peel my egg and see a beak, an eye and some matted black down. Steady on, down the hatch. Okay, a couple of problems: First of all, the notion of swallowing something with such an obvious face does not inspire my throat to open for business; second, "duckling" seriously understates the creature's weight class. Lodged halfway down my gullet, the thing feels like a condor. A boa constrictor would have a hard time managing.
About halfway past my tonsils, the bird makes a break for it and flies toward the light and into my palm. I give it an unceremonious burial behind the television shack. For the better part of a week, I will feel its ghost impression on my uvula, but it's hard to regret any experience that gives a dozen rubbernecking strangers the gift of helpless, tearful laughter.
My last full day on the island, I am still hung up on the idea of finding a spot less traveled by my fellow tourists. In my guidebook, I find mention of a local attraction that seems like it might be underattended: a bat cave near Ilig-Iligan Beach, on Boracay's less-populous eastern shore. Even Yeng has never ventured there, which seems a good sign. He arranges for us to double (or, more accurately, triple) helmetless on a stranger's wimpy-looking scooter. We rocket terrifyingly through traffic, swinging away from the hotel strip, through a simple village where the houses are sheet-metal shelters. The paving peters out, and the road dead-ends at a band of green ocean.
Yeng and I climb through a fence of rusted barbed wire, down to a beach of brilliant white, thrillingly free of humanity. At the north end, Yeng finds a pair of barefoot kids in a cabin enclosed by a driftwood fence. They're maybe eight and ten years old, but they know about the bat cave and agree to take us there. They lead us up an eroded bank, past a couple of "No Trespassing" signs, through a dense patch of woods to a forbidding hole in the ground. It is dusk, and my plan is to hang around by the mouth of the cave until the bats burst forth in a huge photogenic plume, but the children go in. I follow, down and down over guano-slicked rocks, the descent getting scarier and less hygienic by the instant. I try to tell the kids that I've gone deep enough, that really, I'm just waiting for the bats to fly out, you know, to perform, like Mister Tom Jones.
"No," one of the boys says.
"What? They don't fly out at sunset? All bats fly out at sunset."
"No," he says cryptically.
The unseen bats are shrieking, evidently enraged at the intrusion. They howl and wheel but stay hidden in the dark. The light at the cave's mouth begins to fail. My guide is right. These creatures, who've presumably been here since before the arrival of the first tourist boat, have no intention of putting on a show. I respectfully withdraw, climbing up into the twilight, down to the empty beach, where I wash my hands in the sea.

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When you first walk into the New Republic Brewery, it looks like an incredible science experiment with large cylinders, spigots and computer equipment.
But as it turns out, these locals are simply creating a tasty Brazos Valley brew called the Bellows Amber Ale.
"I moved out here from California in 2008 and noticed that there was no brewery," said New Republic Brewery founder Dean Brundage.
Brundage had an idea to start making a Brazos Valley beer and teamed up with fellow home brewer and friend John Januskey.
"He was the one stupid enough to commit and here we are," joked Brundage.
"It's seemed like a good time to do it. Dean and I get along really well and we have similar interests so it's been a lot of fun working together and getting this going," said Januskey.
The pair rented out a workspace to create their masterpiece and have been working on the right combination of water, malt, hops, and yeast since September. Now they have the perfect pint.
"Local beer is all about good beer. The best beer you're ever going to have is right after it has come out of the brewery, when it's fresh, it's going to taste great and it's local," said Januskey.
"I think a lot of people just like the fact that there is a local brewery and I'm happy about that," said Brundage.
The New Republic Brewery has only been selling its beer for a few months but it's already got an incredible following.
"We first got the beer in here two weeks ago and overnight, it's turned into our number one selling beer," said Alex Long owner of Church Street BBQ.
It turns out the ale happens to go perfect with a plate of BBQ.
"The taste of it is similar to a lot of the bigger name craft beers but the finish on it is a lot cleaner. There's no bitter after taste so people really enjoy it," said Long.
"It really does have a good flavor and College Station is already a fun town and to have a beer associated with it, that could bring more people out here," said patron Monika Morales.
The craft beer as they call it had a calling here in the Brazos Valley and these beer barons have answered.
"We have almost fewer craft breweries per capita then any other state in the nation but we have more beer drinkers per capita than most other states in the nation so we've got a big gap to fill," said Januskey.
"We're the first micro-brewery in town, there are a couple of brew pubs here which is good. We want to be a regional player, we want to serve all of Texas," said Brundage.
A Brazos Valley brew from the New Republic Beer Brewery. A nice way to toast the things we have to offer right here in the Brazos Valley.
You can find the beer that the New Republic Brewery makes at Church Street BBQ, the Brazos Valley Ballpark, O'Bannon's, Murphy's Law, Village Café, Revolution Cafe, and Good Time Charley's in Downtown Bryan.
The Republic Steakhouse in College Station is also in the beer business with three brews of their own that you can find exclusively at the restaurant.
You can find various links to the New Republic Brewery and The Republic Steakhouse below.


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Jacqueline C. Price, 67, of Crawford, formerly of Nebraska City, died Sept. 23, 2012 at Chadron Community Hospital, Chadron.
Graveside services will be held Thursday, Oct. 11, at 2 p.m. at Wyuka Cemetery in Nebraska City with Rev. Keith Hunt of the First Baptist Church officiating.
Inurnment will follow the services.
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Manhattan --- One of the benefits of an hour and a half lightning delay, you get a chance to talk football with people who love the sport. I just had the pleasure of sitting down next to Norman Dugas, a representative of the Alamo Bowl (the only bowl represented in at K-State on Saturday). The Alamo Bowl will be played on Dec. 29th at 8pm in San Antonio, TX. Traditionally, the game has been between the Big 12 and Big 10, but starting last year, the Pac 12 took the Big 10's tie in.
Here are some quotes and observations from the conversation:
Dugas told me that the #1 goal for the Alamo Bowl is to get the "best game possible." No matter how much a team will travel, the attendance for the game will be over 1/2 local (fans from the San Antonio area), and a good match-up is easier to sell.
Various factors involved in picking a team: state/local connections, travel reputation and the teams' finish.
They would rather have a team "win it's way up" than "fall to us."
That being said, here are the candidates for the Alamo Bowl: Kansas State, the loser of bedlam (Oklahoma State vs Oklahoma) and the winner of Texas vs Baylor. Dugas said any of those 3 would be a good choice.
Choices from the Pac 12 include Washington, Cal, and Utah. All 3 are 7-5, Washington beat both Cal and Utah in the head-to-head and has a better conference record.
It's important to have a good "product to sell." He mentioned Kansas State this year as an easy sell. Bill Snyder turning a team with no expectations into a potential top 10 team.
According to the Alamo Bowl, Kansas State is the 2nd best in terms of traveling fans in the Big 12, and has a better bowl following than many "national reputation" programs (such as Ohio State and Michigan).
In Dugas' words; the best 3 schools in terms of traveling fans to the Alamo Bowl: Iowa, Oklahoma State and Kansas State.
He also added that it's important for the bowl to "manage expectations." He gave an example of the disappointment K-State fans felt back in 1998 after falling to Texas A&M in the Big 12 title game. The Cats weren't happy being in the Alamo Bowl, but the game vs Purdue (and Drew Brees) in which the Boilermakers won 37-34 was one of their best ever. Dugas said that the Alamo Bowl could have passed up K-State that year if they'd wanted to.
Rather than using the term "partners," Dugas prefers to call the conferences the "content suppliers."
Mr. Dugas made it clear to me that the above quotes are his opinion and not necessarily those of the Alamo Bowl ("no matter how right" [or wrong] "they were").
The Big 12 will get one automatic BCS bid and could get an at large this year. After the BCS, the Cotton Bowl gets its choice of the remaining Big 12 field, then the Alamo Bowl gets its choice. The Alamo Bowl has the 1st choice of teams from the Pac 12, following the BCS of course.


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My question is very simple and has been answered lots of times in Stackoverflow but in order to the changing of the Facebook API I want to make certain if a user who is using my app can post to their wall a message generated automatically by the app.
If the user is reading in my app a comment he/she likes, I want he/she can post to their wall a message like "I've been reading a very interesting comment about..." and I would like that tis text appears automatically in the window where Facebook requests permission to the user to post in their wall.
I've tried the JS API with "feed" method but the text in the field message is ignored. I'm going to try with PHP API but I think the result will be the same.
Thanks in advance!!


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Just installed Dual-Boot Ubuntu 13.04 on my self-built Windows 8 Pro PC, and after the installation I restarted, and once I was prompted with Grub 2.0 I tried to boot off of windows 8, and a few seconds after I selected the OS it would restart my computer entirely. I am clueless when it comes to Linux entirely as I am a gamer and video editor it is not the best option for my needs, but all of my friends have been telling me to dual-boot so I did. I am very afraid of loosing all of my data on my hard drive and such because a large portion of my job is done on that hard drive.
I installed Windows 8 first, and I installed Ubuntu on my 80 Gigabyte hard disk drive. I would just like to know how to either uninstall Ubuntu and Grub entirely or just boot with Windows 8 Normally.
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Persian/Iranian Barbari Bread
Greetings! I am a new member here, and this is my very first post. So, allow me to briefly introduce myself. My name is Omid, from Southern California. About two years ago, I brought my law career to an abrupt end after working for many years in the field of civil litigation. I just had to find a new undertaking, a new reason to seduce me to life, something "creative". So, I have been working as an aspiring pizzaiolo, not without some prior experience, in a Neapolitan pizzeria for the past two years. On the side, I try to bake breads at home as much as time allows me. I find it quite riveting when one can discipline one's own senses and hands, with all the hardship and sacrifice that it may entail, in order to transform raw materials (such as water, flour, salt, and a fermentative agent) into a work of art, in which one can find oneself, define oneself, overcome oneself, recreate oneself. In my assessment, the psychology of baking is just as important as the act of baking itself. In other words, baking is about transforming the raw materials as much as it is about transforming oneself, cultivating oneself, building artistic character. As German philosopher Karl Marx eloquently expressed, "As man works on nature outside himself and changes it, he changes at the same time his own nature."
Upon scanning this forum, I noticed that barbari bread has not been discussed in appreciable details here. I am by no means a professional barbari baker, but I will try to make contributions, if the members are interested, as much as time allows and as far as my knowledge can assist me in this matter. Once upon a time, I did one year of internship (six hours per week) at a traditional barbari bakery in Tehran, Iran. Unfortunately, back then I was too impatient and not entirely interested to absorb everything.
Last Monday, I baked some mini barbari breads, using the basic recipe hereunder. (In passing, allow me to interject by stating: Experience has taught me that, recipes make breads no more than sermons make saints! By analogy, I believe, a recipe is like a map, and as the great maxim has it, "The map is not the territory." I think what are more fundamental than recipes are the underlying principles of bread-making and, above all, the artistic character of the baker or aspiring baker.)
King Arthur all-purpose flour: 2200 gr. (datum point)
Water: 1518 gr. (69%)
Salt: 44 gr. (2%)
Sourdough culture: 176 gr. (8%)
Mixer: Santos Fork Mixer (84 RPM)
Straight Dough: Water (65.7˚F) → Sea Salt → Sourdough Culture (71˚F) → Flour (64.2˚F)
Mix Time: 5 Minutes & 33 Seconds
Rest Time (After Mixing): 20 Min
Duration of Mass fermentation: About 10 hours at room temperature
Duration of Ball fermentation: About 4 hours at room temperature
Weight of Each Ball: About 300 gr.
Oven: Forno Piccolo brick oven by Forno Classico
Floor temperature: 450 to 500˚F
Fuel: Propane Gas
Bake Mode: Interactive
Bake Time: About 8 to 12 minutes each
Barbari dough mass at the end of mixing
Barbari dough mass taken out of the mixer bowl after 20 minutes of rest
Barbari dough mass formed into a round shape
Barbari dough placed inside a container to undergo the initial fermentation
Barbari dough after about 10 hours of initial fermentation
Dough balls are formed
Dough balls reaching maturation after about 4 hours
Dough balls are placed on the worktable (dusted with whole wheat flour), resting for about 15 to 20 minutes while covered
Three dough balls are sauced, grooved, and topped with sesame seeds. They will be launched on the oven floor after they are hand-stretched.
Barbari breads in the process of baking inside the brick oven
Barbari breads in the process of baking inside the brick oven
Barbari breads are baked
The next three dough balls are sauced, grooved, and topped with sesame seeds. They will be launched on the oven floor after they are hand-stretched.
Barbari breads in the process of baking inside the brick oven
Barbari breads in the process of baking inside the brick oven
Barbari breads are baked


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KILLEEN (January 2, 2013) ---The private Vista College is enrolling students for classes that start Monday at the Killeen campus and online.
Vista College Campus Director Jeff Freeland said the programs that will be offered at the Killeen campus include medical assisting, medical insurance billing and coding, applied science, business administration network administration and cosmetology.
Currently the college in Killeen offers diploma and certificate programs and will eventually offer associates degrees.
The college is in a 32,000-square-foot building inside a shopping center at 1001 South Fort Hood St. in Killeen.
Some students said they were attracted to Vista College because it offered programs like cosmetology that are not offered anywhere else locally.
Freeland said more than forty students will start classes on-site at the college on Monday and dozens more have enrolled in the online classes.
"Vista College will also be partnering with some of the businesses in the local area to allow students to fulfill their externships and get real-world experience," Freeland said.
Freeland also said Vista College offers day and night classes that work well with the schedules of members of the military and military spouses.
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I want to make a game in cocos2d. I don't know too much about it.
My question is related to communication between two layers or more. For instance, let's say I want a layer with a scrolling road and another on top with scrolling clouds.
Is there anything built-in cocos2d for doing that, or any reference link?


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U.S.-China Ties Set for Recalibration
A re-elected President Barack Obama will quickly face the challenge of reworking the U.S.'s most important relationship after a campaign that made China a central issue, and as Beijing changes its own leaders.
Once Mr. Obama and Xi Jinping, to take over as head of China's Communist Party in the coming week and as president in the spring, meet as counterparts, thorny issues and strains await—from trade conflicts and disparities over human rights to the U.S. strategic pivot to build its military and diplomatic presence in Asia and China's increasing assertiveness vis-à-vis neighbors in disputed waters.
The Obama administration has angered China by supporting calls for a multilateral solution to competing territorial claims in the resource-rich South China Sea. It has also pledged to extend U.S. missile-defense systems to guard against potential actions from North Korea and said it will put 2,500 Marines on Australia's north coast, moves that have stirred concern in Beijing.
Mr. Obama took a tough rhetorical line with China during the campaign to blunt criticism from Republican challenger Mitt Romney, who vowed to formally label China a currency manipulator. The president said during a debate last month that his administration's increasing military focus on Asia was a response to China's growing might, contradicting the administration's assurances to Beijing.
Despite such strains, Chinese officials on Wednesday congratulated Mr. Obama for his victory in carefully planned statements. Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao congratulated Mr. Obama, while Mr. Xi congratulated U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
"China is willing to work together with the U.S. to focus on the future, to continue its efforts to promote the Sino-U.S. partnership to achieve new and greater development and to better benefit the two peoples and the people of the world," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei.
Mr. Obama could get an early chance to address his second-term plans at a summit of Asian leaders next week in Cambodia that he is expected to attend.
Mr. Obama's approach so far has relied in part on trade actions, including a complaint in September before the World Trade Organization that China was illegally subsidizing exports of autos and auto parts.
Trade tensions are likely to continue: On Wednesday, the U.S. International Trade Commission found that U.S. solar-panel makers had been hurt by Chinese dumping, setting up federal tariffs against the Chinese.
The administration's "pivot" to Asia is an overriding issue. Mr. Obama will need to decide just how far he wants to go in fortifying the U.S. military posture in the Pacific, especially in a dispute with U.S. ally and treaty partner Japan over an island chain.
"We will have to see what Xi Jinping will want to do once he takes power," said Dan Blumenthal, an Asia expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "China's dispute with Japan will probably be the biggest headache for all of us."
At home, Mr. Obama's emphasis on Asia is drawing fire both for doing too much and too little. Some conservatives, including Mr. Romney, argue that the administration's pivot is a rhetorical device without military substance. These critics say that a small U.S. Navy can't provide enough muscle in the Western Pacific to realistically deter China or to reassure allies.
At the same time, other analysts believe the U.S. shift is likely to exacerbate tensions and reinforce China's long-standing fears it is being encircled by hostile forces without directly buttressing U.S. national interests.
"We're doing two things: One, we're challenging Chinese security and second, we're stoking the fires of nationalism. No great power could be expected to sit there and benignly accept changes in the status quo that undermine its security," said Robert Ross, an expert on Chinese security at Boston College.
Nevertheless, Barclays Capital analyst Huang Yiping said deepened economic ties will give new players on both sides little reason to rock the boat. "We are in for a period of mutual accommodation; no one wants to damage the economic relationship," he said.
—Jay Solomon and Olivia Geng contributed to this article.
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Can a fragment shader make per-fragment decisions on whether the fragment updates the depth buffer or not, even if the fragment is not discarded and the color is written?
I don't think so. If you don't write into
And as a side note I'm also sure to have read, that if you write into
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I want to know the difference between GNome, XFCE, LXDE & KDE? Why there are so many versions of desktop for Linux? & is Apple Mac based on Gnome?
closed as too broad by Radu Rădeanu, Braiam, Warren Hill, Seth♦, BuZZ-dEE Dec 10 '13 at 17:10
There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
Wikipedia has a comparison so you can look it up there. And the arch wiki has another too. Just read them through.
these are all desktop environments, you can still launch the same applications but how you get there and what they look like is a bit different. With some desktop environments you can change the appereance a lot (like KDE) while others will hardly allow you to change anything.
an other big difference is how much resources they will take from your system. If you have problems running Unity (default for Ubuntu) or KDE, XFCE or LXDE might run just fine.
As far as I know there is no connection between Gnome and the Mac OS.


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Midnight finally struck for the Cinderella team in the NBC World Series on Friday night.
El Dorado dropped a 2-1 decision to defending champion Santa Barbara in the semifinals.
The Broncos, who finished fifth in the Jayhawk League and weren't given much of a chance in the NBC, wound up tied for third place with the Hays Larks. Hays lost in the semifinals to the Seattle Studs 6-2. Earlier in the tournament, El Dorado defeated Seattle 1-0.
Tied 1-1, the Broncos loaded the bases with no outs in the sixth. Chuck Duarte opened with a double. Daniel Baptista and Tyler Coughenour drew walks. Chris Godinez grounded to third and Duarte was forced at home, leaving the bases loaded.
David Harris struck out, and Tyler Buchanan grounded out to end the inning.
Trailing 1-0, El Dorado tied it in the fifth. Buchanan walked, was sacrificed to second by Anthony Perez. Buchanan moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on Arturo Corona's sacrifice fly to left.
Brandon Faulkner took the loss for El Dorado, going eight innings and striking out seven.
Perez was chosen the Most Inspritional Player. While at Tabor College, he broke a thumb but still returned to play. Then, he broke his collarbone, and doctors said he would be out for six months. He returned to play for the Broncos in July and played the remainder of the season.
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$$\frac{(x+1)^2}{16} + \frac{(y-2)^2}{9} = 1.$$
I just started conics, but I thought you would multiply both sides by $16$ and then $9$ and then expand, which would get you $x^2 +y^2+2x-4y+5$.
Both signs are the same, but the foci is supposed to be: $(−1 \pm \sqrt{7},2)$, which I don't get.
I thought it was supposed to be a circle. both squared variables are multiplied by the same number and have the same signs.
I tried to identify it off of:
Are both variables squared?
No: It's a parabola.
Yes: Go to the next test....
Do the squared terms have opposite signs?
Yes: It's an hyperbola.
No: Go to the next test....
Are the squared terms multiplied by the same number?
Yes: It's a circle.
No: It's an ellipse.
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6 People Who Got Away With Living an (Implausible) Lie
You shouldn't lie, that's one of the first things they teach you in school. Work hard and you'll get ahead. Lie and you'll get caught and it will be bad.
We think, anyway. The following examples provide some pretty stark evidence to the contrary...
#6. Unknown Frenchman Pretends to Be Asian
In 1703, England received her first ever exotic traveler from Formosa (Now Taiwan): a charming man who enjoyed telling everyone all the crazy and foreign things he and his "people" did from the faraway land. One problem? That man was named George, he was white with blond hair. He was actually from France, had never been to Formosa and the people he was telling it to were thick as shit. (OK, that was actually several problems.)
He was about as Asian as Ryan Seacrest.
Bearing in mind, this was a time when general population saw light rain as a sign from God, they lapped up the stories from the "faraway traveler" and quizzed him about his fake home for years while he hung around and got high on opium.
How Did He Do It?
George Psalmanazar was no dumbass. He was top of his class, fluent in Latin by seven-years old and had a knack for philosophy. Born and raised in France, Psalmanazar decided to see the world but, more to the point, he decided he didn't want to pay for it. So, how do you get a bunch of strangers to let you into their homes for free? By posing as an exotic, otherworldly Japanese man.
Even Seacrest wouldn't do this.
He started off in Rome, pretending to be Japanese by eating strange foods and sleeping upright in a chair (like the Japanese) and talking in gibberish (like the Japanese). Sure enough, the Italians laughed at him.
Storming off and jumping ship to a more impressionable England, Psalmanazar switched to being Taiwanese. He talked in a made-up language, followed a foreign calendar and generally acted like a lunatic to seem more "exotic," and the English ate it up. He was so famous in England, he even wrote a hugely successful book about Formosa which of course was utter bullshit, complete with ridiculous claims about social behaviors, language and geography.
How Was He Caught?
You'd think it would have something to do with the fact that he looked nothing like other Formosans, but no, he sidestepped that tricky issue by explaining how upper-class Formosans rarely get sun because they sleep underground.
Instead, he just eventually confessed, and, oddly enough, there was never any major fallout. Psalmanazar was still basically liked and respected until his death, even when his stories became more transparently ridiculous and even when actual Formosans started poking holes in everything he'd ever said. Just goes to show you, there's nothing wrong with blatantly lying to people and taking their money.
#5. Marvin Hewitt (a.k.a. Julias Ashkin, a.k.a. Georg Hewitt, a.k.a. Kenneth Yates) Teaches Physics
What happens when a high school drop out, with no qualifications and no credentials, wants to be a university physics teacher? Well, he mostly gets told to fuck off.
But that didn't stop Marvin Hewitt, who decided the only way he'd get to be a teacher was to lie and fake his way into it, which is exactly what he did. Five goddamn times.
How Did He Do It?
A brilliant physicist at an early age, Hewitt had big dreams of becoming a teacher, but even bigger dreams of not going to school and devoting himself to a career in full-time bullshitting.
In 1945, he heard about a famous aerodynamics professor, stole the name and applied for a teaching position. He got the job, but colleagues soon found him out, probably because he took the name of a famous teacher.
"Hi there, my name is Professor Einstein Q. Science, and I'd like to teach you science."
Defeated, but not disheartened, Hewitt tried again, taking the name of a less well-known professor; Julias Ashkin. He was accepted into a teaching job in a Philadelphia college, and then another in Minnesota. He enjoyed years of fraudulent activity, and appeared to be successful, as he gained skills and fame. Eventually, he got too famous and the real Julias Ashkin wrote him telling him to knock that shit off, probably saying "No one gets to be a famous and respected Julias Ashkin except me, you understand? Also, I'm not going to be famous and respected."
Since then, Hewitt has taken on various identities in several colleges, each time eluding exposure for years at a time.
How Was He Caught?
As you read, he was caught several times throughout his career, but his final outing followed his fifth teaching job, where he assumed the identity of "Dr. Kenneth Yates" for a few years. As it turned out, the real Yates was working for an oil company, and when word got out, Fake Yates's colleagues demanded he be fired.
However, in the way that no one cared when Psalmanazar's secret was exposed, Hewitt received mostly positive recommendations from everyone he'd worked with and his last administrator went out of his way to emphasize that Hewitt was fired for "fraudulent qualifications," and not incompetence. He was even approached by The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the British Admiralty Office, but he turned them down.
So, again, for the kids reading at home, nothing bad ever happens when you drop out of school and lie.
#4. Margaret Bulkley Mans Up for Medicine
In 1865, world-renowned doctor James Barry died of dysentery. The man had been one of the first to successfully perform a Caesarean section, and had once been the personal doctor of Napoleon's son. His fame and skill had made him the top-ranked doctor in the British army. But when the nurses did an autopsy on his body, it looked like they'd have to award him with another title: first female doctor in Britain.
That's right, James Barry was a woman and she had spent her life fooling the world.
How Did She Do It?
Born Margaret Bulkley, she decided that she wanted to become a doctor, a dream that met a major roadblock in the form of her vagina. After years of damning her glorious curse, Buckley decided to take her uncle's name, masquerading as a man to study to be a surgeon.
She pulled it off too, by wearing a long overcoat to hide her curves and telling everyone her voice was just "high pitched," and that her penis was just "vagina-like in mannerisms and appearance." She quickly rose through the ranks in the British army, healing famous people and generally putting all the men to shame. Barry padded herself with towels to make herself look more genuine, and somewhat amazingly developed a reputation as a "ladies man."
How Was She Caught?
Well she was never caught in her lifetime. Even after she stated that she absolutely did NOT want anyone to inspect her body after she died, nurses thought "fuck it" and looked anyway, discovering that Barry had been a woman all along, even noticing faint stretch marks on her skin, indicating she had once given birth.
When high-ranking officials learned of the shocking revelation, they decided to keep it secret, and sealed all records for 100 years so no one would ever find out. We assumed that this, like most vows of secrecy, came with the typical "But it's OK if Cracked talks about it" clause, so we went ahead and wrote this article.


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|Wedding anniversary, George L. and Sonia (Tumash) Rein, 1962
Mr. and Mrs. George L. Rein of Waterbury celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a dinner party hosted by their children at Juniper's Restaurant in Middlebury. Mr. and Mrs. Rein were married Oct. 13, 1962 at St. Mary Magdalen Church in Oakville. They have three children, Cathy Rein Tompkins of Milford, George M. Rein of Woodbury and Robert T. Rein of Winsted, and two grandchildren.
Mrs. Rein is the former Sonia Tumash.
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Redefining the Phrase Home-Run 'Trot'
In Era of Basking, the Nationals' Bryce Harper Bolts
For the modern power hitter, there are three elements to a successful home-run celebration. First there's the pose, during which the hitter admires his work from the batter's box. Next, the bat flip. Finally, at long last, the trot, a saunter around the bases that can drag on longer than a commercial break.
Bryce Harper has mastered none of this. When he hits a homer, the Washington Nationals outfielder runs as if to avoid being tagged out. Sometimes, it's a hurried jog. Other times, an all-out sprint. No other hitter of his pedigree rounds the bases with less panache and more urgency after popping one over the wall.
Since breaking into the majors just over a year ago, Harper has posted an average home-run trot of 18.5 seconds, according to Tater Trot Tracker, a website devoted to timing home-run trots. That is the fastest of any hitter with at least nine home runs since the start of 2012.
Last year, Harper's fastest home-run lap lasted 16.2 seconds. That was twice as fast as last year's slowest major-league home-run stroll, a 31.56-second crawl by Bobby Abreu, then of the Dodgers.
In 2012, the two fastest trots of the season belonged to Harper. "I don't need to stand in the box and watch what I do," he said. "I'll let other people watch."
The Harper home-run sprint has become a common sight. After finishing last year with 22 home runs and winning the National League Rookie of the Year Award, he entered Tuesday with nine home runs this year. That put him on pace to finish this season with more home runs (56) and a higher slugging percentage (.744) than any 20-year-old in major-league history.
At the plate, he draws comparisons to such luminaries as Ty Cobb and Mickey Mantle. But when rounding the bases, he runs more like a light-hitting utility player who can't quite believe what he just did.
This season, Harper has posted the sixth-fastest home-run trip around the bases. Consider the four players who have scampered around at a quicker pace than Harper since the start of 2010, when the writer Larry Granillo started Tater Trot Tracker: Adam Rosales, Chris Heisey, Scott Rolen and Orlando Hudson. Among them, only Rolen was a slugger of any renown.
Nationals manager Davey Johnson appreciates his young star's base running. "When he hits the ball hard, even though he knows it's probably out of the ballpark, he doesn't take it for granted that it is out of the ballpark," Johnson said. "Once he gets to going good, he's not speeding up, but he's not slowing down that much, either."
Harper's lack of showmanship stands out in an era of home-run pageantry. Most ballparks celebrate their teams' four-base blasts with horns, bells, sirens and/or fireworks. Antics once considered disrespectful are standard.
Though the average trot time is around 22 seconds, top sluggers routinely approach the half-minute mark. The slowest is David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox, who averages 26.76 seconds. And even his celebrations are tame compared with those of former teammate Manny Ramirez, who would often throw his hands skyward as the bat left his hand.
Pitcher tolerance has grown. "When I first came up in 2001, guys got hit for things like that," said Toronto Blue Jays pitcher R.A. Dickey. "Not so much now, unless it's over the top. It takes something pretty big."
Rather than anyone he grew up watching, Harper emulates players his father told him about, like Mantle or, when it comes to home-run trots, Pete Rose. "He always ran around the bases as fast as he could and got back to the dugout," Harper said.
Two years ago, the perception of Harper was much different. The most publicized moment of his brief minor-league career came during a 2011 game in which he blew a kiss at the opposing pitcher while slowly rounding the bases after a home run.
Harper declined to comment on that episode except to say it was misunderstood. When asked about it, Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said, "He's not here to show up anybody. And he never was."
In the majors, Harper's home-run hustle is a microcosm of his style of play, which is reminiscent of the hard-charging Rose. Washington third-base coach Trent Jewett described it as "a controlled recklessness."
Whether ongoing prodigious home-run production will temper his compulsion to sprint around the bases remains to be seen. After two home runs last week, it took Harper nearly 20 seconds to round the bases.
But that was still below the league average. And to Harper, slowing down doesn't sound very smart.
"The pitcher can make you look stupid so easily," Harper said. "When you hit a home run, it's great, but that next at-bat, he can strike you out with three pitches. It's just respecting the game, respecting the team in the other dugout. My dad has always preached to me, 'Play the game that way and never change.' "
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Reliving the battle
Gettysburg re-enactments take shape on eve of 150th anniversary
|Richard Baldino, right, accompanied by Dave Morris, both portraying army surgeons with the 2nd Division 11th Corps Army of Potomac, examines an amputation set at the George Spangler Farm that served as a field hospital during the Civil War, in Gettysburg, Pa. As gunshots ravaged the bodies of tens of thousands of soldiers at the Battle of Gettysburg, military doctors responded with a method of treatment that is still the foundation of combat medicine today. AP Photo
Gen. Robert E. Lee would have been proud, if not perplexed, in seeing how Brian Gesuero took charge of the preparations for recreating the Battle of Gettysburg.
This year's commemoration has even more significance, given that it's the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and Gettysburg will represent the pinnacle of the re-enactment careers of thousands of Civil War buffs.
"This will be special, different from the other ones. It's the turning point of the war," said Gesuero, 44, a firefighter from Federalsburg, Md. "This is our one chance to do it right."
The 150th anniversary of Gettysburg is so big that it's getting two separate re-enactments. A group called the Blue-Gray Alliance expects more than 10,000 re-enactors to take part in its event, June 28-30. This group has also held large-scale re-enactments, in honor of the Civil War's 150th anniversary, at Vicksburg, Shiloh, Twin Rivers and Wilson's Mill. The National Park Service's official events start June 30. The re-enactments themselves occur on private property, not the actual battlefield
The Gettysburg Anniversary Committee has more than 10,000 participants registered for the second gathering on July 4-7 on fields at the Redding Farm north of town. It's the group to which Gesuero, along with federal counterpart Allen Baldwin, methodically presented re-enactment preparations.
The groups had discussed holding just one re-enactment, similar to the 135th anniversary in 1998. Back then, two events were eventually combined into one large battle.
Not this time around. The topic's touchy to all sides, but essentially the groups couldn't reconcile differences over how to run the events.
The federal commander for the Blue-Gray Alliance event, Bob Minton, said his group is proud to have secured the Bushey Farm, the site of the 135th anniversary re-enactment. That piece of land contains a long sloping ridge that resembles the battleground for Pickett's Charge, the famous confrontation on the final day of the battle.
"It really gave us an opportunity for a wonderful piece of ground," said Minton, a Fostoria, Ohio, resident who works for an electrical supply company.
Pride is also evident in the voices of members of the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee.
Jake Jeanette, of Swansboro, N.C., was assigned the distinction of depicting Confederate Gen. Lewis Armistead, who fixed his hat to the point of his sword in leading his brigade before being mortally wounded at a spot considered the Confederacy's northernmost advance in the war.
"If we can pull these things off ... it's going to be something to remember," said Jeanette, wearing a gray hat with a yellow "CS" insignia.
Beyond the competitive edge and political squabbles — much like many other hobby groups — are genuinely affable feelings. Members of each group wish the others well and share the same goals of educating the public and commemorating the bloody skirmish.
The re-enactors are mainly a friendly, chatty bunch, eager to indoctrinate anyone curious about the hobby — especially for the 150th anniversary.
Ken Janson is traveling all the way from Chiloquin, Ore., as captain of a group that portrays Hurt's Battery, light artillery from Alabama during the Civil War. But this re-enacting crew is based on the West Coast, and it's lugging two cannons and three horses with them, too, to take part in both Gettysburg events this year.
"I figured driving that far, we might as well do as much as we can," said Janson, a retired teacher who will turn 66 while at Gettysburg.
Janson said he has no emotional or political allegiance to the Confederacy any more than he does to the Union. He's simply fascinated about the period and the complex nature of the war and its aftermath.
"I admit it, I'm just a big kid and I love making big noises with cannons," he said in a phone interview.
But for him, re-enacting is more than just about faux battles. He especially enjoys the interactions with visitors to the re-enactor camps — and yes, the participants will stay in tents, too, as the real soldiers did.
"Just to get people to think that (the war) was way more complicated than what people believed," he said.
Minton, the federal commander, started getting involved around the time that the 1993 movie "Gettysburg" was released. The film, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Killer Angels," by Michael Shaara, inspired many others like Minton to get involved, too.
Minton looks forward to the camaraderie built up around campfires at night, exchanging stories and ideas about the war.
"We all have different areas that interest us. What an incredible learning tool," he said. "If you picture talking to these people constantly, it just grows into real, good friendships ... It really makes an event almost a reunion."
One in which most participants are wearing wool clothing, anyway, to match the authentic uniforms of the Civil War.
Patrick Davis, 57, of West Chester, will serve as one of the top Confederate officers under Gesuero in the second re-enactment, overseeing camps. The purpose of re-enacting, he said, is to help ensure others don't forget what happened 150 years ago at the crossroads town in south-central Pennsylvania.
"It's the one everyone wants to do. I mean, Gettysburg is the most studied battle in the history of the world," Davis said. "It's kind of the Holy Grail for re-enactors."
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I play piano. Sometimes, measures in pieces are separated by a double vertical line instead of a single one. What does this signify?
In addition to indicating the end of a distinct section of the piece, a change in key signature, time signature or major tempo change, the double bar is also used to mark the location of a Da Capo or Dal Segno (a notation system that marks the repeating of a certain section of music without requiring additional measures to be written/printed.)
It is also used when a "fine" (end) of the piece appears in the middle of the piece. These examples are described and illustrated on the following website:
Adding to what Stephen Hazel said, a double-line can also indicate an abrupt change in key, key signature, tempo, or time signature or metrical phrasing or a different rhythm. It is basically a cue to alert the musician that one section of the piece is ending and a new section that is substantially different is beginning.
end of a section of music usually (such as chorus, verse, bridge, etc).
sometimes of a lengthy "phrase" of music.


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The purpose of the Safe Zone program is to provide campus "safe zones" where students can safely go for support and assistance. By placing the Safe Zone symbol on their office door, desk, or backpack, Safe Zone allies signify that their space is a safe place for students who have been affected by any type of issue (examples: GLBT issues, hateful acts, sexual violence, veterans transition to college, disability, etc.).


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Yesterday, the campaign distributed emergency rations to displaced people affected by events in the Lebanese city of Tripoli, particularly the areas of Jabal Mohsen and Bab Al-Tabbanah.


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The Doha Declaration, which was read by Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, stated, "We commit to Arab solidarity and adhere to the noble Arab values and traditions." Furthermore, it stressed the importance of "constructive dialogue" in the effort to enhance inter-Arab relations.
Touching on specific issues, the Declaration strongly condemned the "barbaric Israeli aggression" against the Palestinians, demanded an end to the Israeli blockade of Gaza and called for the prosecution of Israeli war crimes. It encouraged Palestinian national unity and called for a just and comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace settlement.
The Declaration also rejected the International Criminal Court's issuance of an arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar Al-Basheer; reiterated the importance of respecting Iraq's sovereignty; called on Iran to resolve its territorial dispute with the U.A.E.; denounced all forms of terrorism; demanded that the world community work to make the Middle East free of all weapons of mass destruction; confirmed the right of Arab countries to possess peaceful nuclear technology; hailed Arab political and social reform efforts; called for an intensification of the dialogue between cultures; confirmed the intent to create an Arab Duty Free Zone; and demanded that the world community implement the millennium development goals.
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I would just like verification that the following implications are correct:
If $H$ and $K$ are normal subgroups of an arbitrary group $G$, then $H \cap K$ is a normal subgroup of $G$. But the fact that $H$ and $K$ are normal implies that $[H,K] \subset H \cap K$ (assume this was already proven - not a difficult proof). Then, (this is the key implication that I am questioning) this implies that $[H,K]$ is normal in G.


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I don't know if this question is more on-topic here or on SO, so if I've missed site, I apologize.
Anyway I was talking with a relative recently. She is working in a company which needed a website. They contracted another company which does web-apps and graphical design to make them a website, give source code and do maintenance. The site is supposed to give general economic propaganda about the company, to have a news section and to have a portal for associates where they will be able to get statistical information like amount of sales of their products and similar stuff. The last part was supposed to read data from the database used by the All-in-One program used by my relative's company.
The project was supposed to last three to six months and use LAMP (or WAMP) AJAX and Python. Unfortunately six months passed almost four times since the start of the project and the only results are couple of mock-up images. Furthermore they seem to be in a mess. They are avoiding contact and are always complaining how developers keep quitting after just couple of months of work and that they can't make a stable project team (on a side-note, they did websites for several other companies on time, so they were capable of producing the result at one time).
By now it is clear that the project will not be done any time soon and my relative's company is considering firing the contractors and taking whatever they did make and finding someone else to finish the work. Unfortunately, their IT guy didn't do any programming since PDP-11 era, so he won't be very helpful and it looks like it will be up to me to inspect whatever contractors did. I did some programming, but only a little bit of web programming, so my question is:
What should I expect to find in the code-base and resources? The thing is that they I have reasons to suspect that they share code across different projects and may attempt to weasel out parts of it.
I know that there will probably be a part with resources used by the site like images and so on and that there will probably be a database and some scripts.
Also, if you think that this should be turned into community-wiki or general "Failed Project: How to recover anything useful from it?" discussion, please comment.
Also, court is not a solution, because they are so efficient in my country that its decision would probably come in early 2020s.