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Prep Football: Top Polk Players Team Up for IMG 7v7 National Championship
Published: Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 10:51 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, June 19, 2014 at 10:51 p.m.
The Polk County Dream Team is hoping to become a nightmare for 29 other teams this weekend.
The Polk County Dream Team seven-on-seven roster.
Tre Jordan, WR, Bartow
Devon McCoy, WR/S Bartow
Tyler King, HB/WR Fort Meade
Kaleel Gaines, CB, Frostproof
Devyn Lewis, WR, Frostproof
Derwin James, WR/S, Haines City
Branson Brown, LB, Lakeland
Trevor Campbell, CB, Lakeland
LeRoy DeShazor, WR, Lakeland
Larenz DeShazor, WR/DB, LCS
Derrien Bomar, DB, Lake Gibson
Demetrius Brown, LB, Lake Gibson
Sammy Carter, HB/WR, Lake Gibson
Chris Clarke, WR, Lake Gibson
Al DeShazor, LB, Lake Gibson
Josh Dunn, DB, Lake Wales
Xavier Gaines, QB, Lake Wales
Justin Henderson, HB, Lake Wales
Stanley Smith, WR, Lake Wales
Darion Staten, CB/WR Lake Wales
Marcus Walker, WR/S, Lake Wales
Cecil Cherry, LB, Victory Christian
Caleb Lewis, QB, Victory Christian
Darius James, WR, Winter Haven
The Dream Team, a seven-on-seven football team assembled by Gary Lewis and Keith McCloud, features 24 of the best high school football players in the county. They'll compete for the IMG 7v7 National Championship at IMG Academy in Bradenton beginning Saturday with pool rounds and ending with Sunday's championship game.
The squad features Haines City defensive back Derwin James, ranked the No. 1 strong safety in the country by ESPN 300; Victory Christian quarterback Caleb Lewis, who led the Storm to the Class 2A state championship game and is not related to the Dream Team coach; 2013 Polkpreps.com offensive player of the year Justin Henderson; and highly recruited Lake Wales defensive back and wide receiver Marcus Walker.
"We are awful scary. I think we are going to be a tough out," said head coach Lewis, a former Florida A&M quarterback. "The team is made up of all the top Division-I prospects in the county.
"When you have a receiving corps with Walker and Trey Jordan (Lake Gibson) on one side of the ball and LeRoy DeShazor from Lakeland on the other side and Justin Henderson, it makes it real difficult for defenses. Then we have Cecil Cherry (Victory Christian) at middle backer, and he is our team leader."
The National 7v7 Football Association will host the event, which also will be filmed by FOX College Sports for an hourlong feature telecast.
The Dream Team qualified for the event by winning the AIRO 7v7 North Florida National Championship qualifier at Leon County Apalachee Regional Park on April 13, where Walker was named tournament MVP.
"We started off rough in the morning, and then in the afternoon we started winning games," said Walker, who caught six touchdown passes and four interceptions. "This week, we just need to step up to the challenge, play, win and go home."
Gary Lewis, who also played quarterback at Frostproof, said Caleb Lewis is the smartest high school quarterback he has ever coached, and quick-thinking is essential in the fast-paced seven-on-seven tournaments.
"I have been a private quarterbacks coach for a long time, and I have never met a kid as smart as Caleb," Lewis said. "He recognizes coverages and makes the right throws. He is a cerebral guy, and he is going to do everything to put you in to a position to win. And that is what happened in Tallahassee; he lit them up and was making just unbelievable throws."
The quarterback will have the luxury of utilizing Walker at one wide out while James, a Maxpreps.com All-American, lines up on the other side.
"Derwin plays a lot of wide receiver for us. I know he is one of the top safeties in the country. But in my opinion, he is also one of the top receivers in the country," the coach said. "In Tallahassee, Walker was just a beast in that tournament."
Star-studded teams like the Cam Newton All-Stars out of Atlanta and others from clubs from Chicago, Detroit, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and Tampa will compete.
Pool play begins at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and the double-elimination tournament starts at 8 a.m. Sunday.
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Vote for the Lakeland Automall Player of the Week
|Trey Congdon, Lake Gibson:234 yards, 5 TD passing
|Kaleel Gaines, Frostproof:258 yds, 4TDs rushing, 1 TD passing
|Katelin Lawson, Ridge Comm.: won county girls golf title
|Sam Horsfiled, Ridge Comm.: won county boys golf title
|Kareem Smith, Ridge Comm.: 136 yds, 3 TDs rushing
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When somone is there at Yitzias Neshomah (time of death) there is a requirement to rip Kriyah what happens if this situation occurs on Shabbos? Do you rip Kriyah or do the laws of Shabbos prevent you from doing so?
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As far as I can tell, definitely not - both on Shabbos and Yom Tov.
The Mishna and Gemara in Shabbos are discussing whether the one did it is exempt from bringing a Korbon (after the fact). The Gemara ends up saying that it depends on whether there's an obligation to tear for that relative. If there's an obligation, then the one who tore is חייב, if not the one who tore is פטור.
However, one should definitely not do it Lechatchilah. (confirmed source: here page 9)
Interesting aside: you specifically asked about death. But the same would also apply to tearing for the Kosel. Which is one of the ways to avoid having to tear for the Kosel (i.e. by having the first visit done on Shabbos or Friday Afternoon) [see here for source].
Two things I'm not sure of though, which I would hope someone could cover in the comments:

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I have an InfoPath 2010 form that is pulling data from a web service.
For example, I have a text box, a button, and a drop down list. The button submits the text box value to the web service. The drop down list has the values of the queried results from the web service.
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Which is better, a bigger TV at 720 or smaller TV ar 1080?
I have size/price budget. I found the TV I want and the deal and all that. But all things equal (brand, etc) which is better. A 32" TV at 1080, or 37" at 720? I don't pay for HD, so I am not sure the difference in 720 and 1080 would matter all that much to me. I also do not have blu-ray. I do game, but none of the intense games that I need awesome resolution. Basically Xbox live/Kinect and Wii...
I'm sorry if this Q has been asked. I did see one similar, but it was about the same size TV, and just compared 720 and 1080...
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Post the makes and models that you're considering - it's really hard to make a qualitative assessment on just the resolution and size.
I personally would always go with the larger set, and I'd be really surprised if it didn't have 1080i at least - many sets advertised as "720p" can also do "1080i", which is not as good as "1080p".
Base the size on a) your budget and b) how far away you're going to sit from the TV. Amazon has this lovely web page with good information: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000021501
Crutchfield has another wonderful guide here: http://www.crutchfield.com/S-pJ9beqAIKI3/learn/learningcenter/home/TV_placement.html
Thanks for your input... this is the set I'm leaning on.
It's for my bedroom, and I do sit a good ways away from the TV. That's why I'm deciding to get a new TV. My eyes are not as good as they once were, and I can't read the guide now.. and the picture is a little fuzzy. I'm leaning toward the 37"/720... but I just wanted some opinions on it. Especially since I don't pay for all those special HD channels...
The bigger the set, the more important higher resolution is. The number of pixels is set, so the bigger the screen, the more likely you would be to notice. Imagine a TV 20 feet wide- at 1920x1080 a pixel would be about .12 of an inch- noticable.
That being said, "High Def" programming, a la cable and satelite, is (currently) broadcast in 1080i, not 1080p. The only time you would use 1080p is for blue-ray DVDs or a computer hook-up. Playstation 3 is blue-ray (I'm not positive about XBox or Wii.)
Just food for thought...
@tcayer: xbox does not do bluray and I'm pretty sure Wii will only do 480p. I think some xbox games may be 720p.
None of the inputs you listed are higher-def than 720p
(An XBox 360 can theoretically be 1080p, but most (maybe all) HD games top out at 720p... and all HD games must have a native 720p or worse mode).
Therefore, based just on size/resolution, 720p at 37" in clearly superior to 1080p at 32" (Unless the 37" is too big in your bedroom.)
I would recommend going to a store like Best Buy and actually looking at the TVs you're interested in, or at least something similar.
All things being equal, if you're going to sit farther away, I would go with the bigger one, especially if you're not going to upgrade to HD cable service.
But if they're different in factors other than size & resolution, there's no real way to know without actually seeing them in use. For example, there are differences in viewing angles and contrast ratios between LCD, LED-LCD, and plasma, some models are better for situations with high glare, some have better built-in speakers, etc.
According to Wikipedia, Xbox 360 supports up to 1080p, but most games are designed at 720p.
Thanks! You all have been a HUGE help!
@tcayer: 360 had the addon for a (now pretty useless) HD DVD
I've never heard a single person say they wish they had gone with a smaller set. I have a 37" 1080i and the resolution is great. You could have it at the foot of your bed and it would still look really good (because your head would be 6' away). Also, remember that a 32" flat panel is still measured on the diagonal and because it's wide screen, it will be a shorter TV. I believe a 37" widescreen is about the same height as a 32" standard (4:3).
All of that being said, some sets just don't look as good as others. I don't trust in store displays as their settings aren't always optimal, but that means that if it looks good in the store, it will look good (or better at home).
FWIW, a 32" Widescreen tv image is slightly less tall than a 27" old style tv (if they made 33" widescreens, they would be as tall as a 27" old style.) I had a chance recently to get a nice deal on a 32" for the bedroom, and passed for that reason - I would still need my glasses to see anything meaningful on the tv while in bed. I would definitely go for the larger tv, especially since you're not doing hdtv anyway - you don't really gain anything with the higher resolution in that case. Oh, and a 37" widescreen, btw, is slightly less tall than a 31" old style tv.
Just fwiw, I bought a 50inch 720p plasma for my bedroom. This is the perfect size for me in the bedroom, and there are certain parts that look better on it than my 52in Sony 1080p. My only complaint: Burn in. It still exsist, atleast on this tv.
Low technology plasmas can still suffer burn in. LCDs don't.
The geek in me says to go for the 1080 set, but if you really don't ever see yourself using any hi-def inputs, then it doesn't matter. Go for the size.
Based on your needs I would recommend the 720p set. Viewing distance is the main variable that people ignore and then end up not seeing the greatness of HD.
use that chart to tell you if a 32" 1080p set would even be noticeable from your sitting distance.
If you have no HD source except xbox360/ps3 games 720p is all you will need.
However! I will warn you that the SD channels that you receive now will probably look even worse on your new TV. Don't expect a new HDTV to make your non-HD viewing experience better, unless it's a DVD.
@bbruin66: You know, I hadn't thought about that- when I first got a big widescreen, I strecthed the image so it filled the screen, as I couldn't see having a 65" TV and only using the middle. More and more shows are shot in widescreen now, and I don't notice much distortion any more...
@jdenn: I remember that. A good lesson why NOT to be an early adopter. Just ask any Sony BetaMax owners! All the fanboys out there will scream that it's better, but now you can't buy anything in the format.
Watch HDNATION on revision3.com. Let those guys school you on the True vs. BS hype about tv. It worked for me. 42" 1080p non-name brand.
i work at best buy, but dont know much about tvs. i do know that the tv settings are intentionally changed so that the tvs we make the highest profit on, look better. they purposefully make the tvs with a lower profit margin look worse so you are less likely to buy them.
@shanktheshazbot: Ooooh I hope you transmitted that info over a secure signal... the Best Buy Gestapo will be in route to "take care of this problem"... lol
nowadays, i wouldn't even take a free tv at 720p (except to resell). as flippant as that may sound, there is a huge difference between 1080 and 720p. the quality of HD programming nowadays is excellent and you will definitely want to take full advantage of it. sometimes i feel like i can reach out and actually touch the face of the person on the screen; it's so clear. you will not get that feeling with 720p.
unless you are going to lose more than a foot of screen real estate, it's a no-brainer. go with the 1080p.
i just noticed that you say you don't pay for HD. that is a mistake if you plan to buy an hd tv. if you insist on staying without HD, then it doesn't matter what you get -- money can be your bottom line. standard definition broadcasts suffer on HD tv's. in fact a SD broadcast will look far better on a SD tv than it ever will on an HD tv. An HD tv will stretch a SD picture to fit. when an image is stretched, it loses clarity... quickly.
@derek123: that's not necessarily true. it depends on several factors. Does the TV do any sort of noise reduction? If so, how good is it?
That can make a huge difference in image quality, but the biggest difference will be, are the SD channels analog or digital? Analog channels may look worse (see noise reduction question above), but if the SD channels are digital, then they will look better.
Also, how the signal makes it into the TV can make a huge difference as well. if it is analog, then there's not much to it. Coax it is. But if a cable box is used at all, then the quality chain from worst to best would be: composite (yellow) -> coax -> s-video -> component (red/green/blue) or VGA (d-sub) -> HDMI or DVI
I work for a home theater design company an I can tell you 1080p is imperative for larger sets smaller sets are compressed so the detail is greater I've seen 32inch lcds at 720p look better than a large set say 52inches that is 1080p because of the larger pixels an also the average person probably wouldn't notice the difference between a 32inch tv at 720p an a 32inch tv at 1080p.
Don't waste your time with 720 if you want to watch anything that looks awesome. Especially with Blueray!


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I am currently reading Vickers' text "topology via logic" and Peter Johnstone's "stone spaces", and I understand the material in both of these texts to pertain directly to constructions in elementary topos theory (by which I do not mean 'the theory of elementary topoi). However, these things do not seem to be mentioned explicitly in these texts, at least not to great extent. Where might I avail myself of material which really 'brings home' the notion of topoi as 'generalized spaces' in the context of stone spaces and locales as alluded to in Vickers and Johnstone? I understand that Borceaux's third volume in the 'handbook of categorical algebra' is probably a good place to start...
Many good books have already been mentioned; I like MacLane+Moerdijk as an introduction, and after that both books by Johnstone (in particular, Part C of the Elephant does a good job of connecting locale theory with topos theory). But I also wanted to mention Vickers' paper "Locales and Toposes as Spaces," which I think does a good job of connecting up the topology with the toposes and the logic in a way that isn't directly evident in many other introductions.
I cannot praise MacLane and Moerdijk's book "Sheaves in geometry and logic" highly enough.
The book by Robert Goldblatt: "Topoi, the Categorial Analysis of Logic" (1984) is quite simple to follow and have the nicely consulted at this address: http://historical.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cul.math/docviewer?did=Gold010&id=3
The texts by Vickers and Johnstone are rather different, and certainly are different in intention. I was struck by a remark made to me by a leading computer scientist, to the effect that Stone Spaces was a "treatise on extensionality". Mostly mathematicians, apart from some logicians, don't have much use for extensionality as a concept, and when they find out what it is, that is in the "speaking prose all my life" sense of "is that all?" But it is potentially a useful concept for understanding Grothendieck's approach in the large: not just topos theory, but also the "Yoneda lemma" approach to points and having enough of them for geometry, and the derived category approach in which spectral sequences ("intensionality") have disappeared or at least been submerged into computational undergrowth.
Naturally understanding topos theory depends on the "geometric morphism" concept. All preparatory works can do is make the consequences of this concept clearer in the more familiar context of topological spaces.
My first "Topos Theory" book was Johnstone (some title), was hard but page after page I assimilated this (I'm still alive more or less), but it was the only book in argument.
For me opinion the Borceaux's third volume is very good
I indicate these text in progressive difficulty and depth :
S. Mac Lane, I. Moerdijk, Sheaves in Geometry and Logic. A First Introduction to. Topos (a large part (localic topos) about locales and topos.
If you want Peter T. Johnstone (1977) Topos Theory Cap.7 (about a taste of spatial topos)
Peter T. Johnstone (1977) Topos Theory Sketches of an Elephant: A Topos Theory Compendium 2 (Cap. C1)
The last is the better for your request (but a bit heavy).


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The 6 Most Baffling Marketing Disasters by Famous Companies
The line between roaring success and humiliating disaster is so, so thin in the world of advertising. These companies are trying to grab attention without grabbing the wrong kind of attention, and trying to jump on societal trends without accidentally, say, referencing the 9/11 attacks in a beverage ad.
It's even harder than it sounds, and as we've covered before (and before before), when it goes wrong, it can be amazing to behold.
#6. The World's Largest Popsicle (Predictably) Melts
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In 2005, Snapple decided to expand its product line to include ice pops -- because when developing a whole new product line is a matter of freezing your existing product and jamming a stick in it, why not? Then, in a true masterstroke of marketing prowess, they thought up a grandiose way to introduce their new frozen treat to the world: crush the Guinness Record for the World's Largest Popsicle by erecting a gigantic, 17.5-ton ice pop in the middle of New York City! On the first day of summer, on a sunny day, surrounded by miles of hot asphalt!
Surely there were no kinks in Snapple's well-laid plan, right?
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"Who ordered the Evil Dead II scene?"
Displaying a truly profound misunderstanding of the physics associated with frozen summer treats, Snapple loaded their monstercicle into a freezer trailer and trucked it from Edison, New Jersey, to Manhattan, where a giant crane waited to majestically erect the multi-ton treat to its full upright position. And that's when things got mushy. When the truck was opened, waves upon waves of kiwi-strawberry Snapple came rushing out, covering the streets like someone had just opened that elevator from The Shining right in the middle of Union Square.
Fearing massive slushy-related traffic pileups and mobs of pedestrians juice-glued to the sidewalks, the streets were closed off and firefighters were called in to anticlimactically hose the remains of the once mighty Snapple-pop into the sewers. We're not entirely sure what Snapple had planned for the giant pop had they actually managed to raise it, since its inevitable fate was to melt in the hot sun sooner or later, unless Godzilla came along and ate the thing. Perhaps they were planning to start up a new "Straws for the Homeless" campaign?
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"It's running parallel to our new 'fruit flies for all of Manhattan' campaign."
#5. Pepsi Tells Half of the Philippines That They've Struck It Rich, Riots Ensue
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In the early '90s, Pepsi was lagging behind Coca-Cola in foreign markets. So, in an attempt to make headway in Southeast Asia, Pepsi's Filipino executives put their heads together and came up with an ingenious marketing plan: give away millions of pesos. Their brainchild was dubbed "Number Fever," and Filipinos were encouraged to contract the disease by purchasing shit-tons of Pepsi in hopes of finding a bottle cap with the winning three-digit code. One lucky winner would receive 1 million pesos (about $40,000 U.S.), with countless others winning second prizes, such as free drinks. Certainly it's not the sort of thing that could spark widespread rioting.
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Unless they were rioting over Pepsi's flavor, which is understandable.
And in fact, the campaign was an instant smash: Pepsi's sales shot up nearly 40 percent, and its executives, now drunk with that sweet, sweet marketing power, expanded the number of prizes to over 1,500 and kept the contest rolling for an extra five weeks. Filipinos drank Pepsi "with every meal and snack" and hoarded the possibly precious bottle caps. When the contest was over, it was estimated that more than half of the Philippines' population of 63 million people had participated. Number Fever was an enormous success, and all that was left was for Pepsi to announce the winner.
So how could such a successful marketing campaign backfire, you ask? Well, certain numbers were not to be selected as the winner; specifically, the number 349, seeing as how it happened to be printed on 800,000 bottle caps. But the consulting firm hired to draw the winning number apparently didn't get the memo, and when their computer chose the winning number, it selected ... wait for it ... 349. Unsurprisingly, Pepsi executives quickly went from "wet dreams about next year's bonus check" to "bathing in a tub full of whiskey with a hair dryer nearby" when thousands upon thousands of elated Filipinos came forward to claim their million pesos.
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"We'll take half in motorcycle jumps, and half in liquor waterfalls."
Knowing they had made a huge mistake and for some reason unwilling to pay out the billions of dollars in prize money they technically owed, Pepsi covered its ass by telling the winners that the caps didn't contain the correct security code. Then, amazingly, hordes of almost millionaires politely responded "Oh, that's OK, we understand!" and contentedly went on with their lives. Just kidding -- the Philippines went absolutely apeshit.
Rioters threw bombs and Molotov cocktails at Pepsi bottling plants (while drinking Coke), overturned and set fire to Pepsi delivery trucks (while drinking 7UP), and sent troves of Pepsi executives hightailing it out of the country. Pepsi was slapped with thousands of lawsuits. Amid the chaos, the best solution Pepsi could come up with was to toss a cushy 20 bucks at those with winning caps. That's a good way to calm down a riot, right?
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The money bought them T-shirts to block out the tear gas.
In the end, Pepsi's budgeted $2 million in prize payouts quickly sprouted into over $10 million in restitution and legal fees -- an expensive lesson that Pepsi wouldn't have had to learn if only they'd learned it the first time, when an earlier Number Fever promotion in Chile ended in a similar public outcry after a shitty fax resulted in the wrong winning number being released to the public.
#4. Italian Car Maker's Gimmick Scares Spanish Women Shitless
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In 1992, Italian car company Fiat tried to put a creative new spin on direct-mail advertising -- otherwise known as the junk mail that most people toss directly into the trash. To market their new Cinquecento hatchbacks, Fiat decided to mail out some love letters. So they typed up a few of them (50,000, to be exact) on pink paper and sent them out to "independent, modern working women" in Spain.
Now, you may be thinking that these "love letters" contained cute anecdotes about similar women "falling in love" with their Fiat hatchbacks because they easily accommodated gaggles of kids for family soccer games and other stereotypical womanly ad copy. But no, Fiat took a different route: These love letters contained realistic romantic musings from an anonymous author admiring the recipient from afar. And when we say "romantic musings," we mean "borderline stalker speak."
The letters used phrases like "We met again on the street yesterday and I noticed how you glanced interestedly in my direction," and asked the befuddled reader to join the author for "a little adventure." You know, because nothing says "buy our cars" like some good ol' creeping.
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"I'm almost ready for our 'little adventure' to Chloroformistan."
To make matters worse, each letter was personally addressed, was completely anonymous, and contained no indication whatsoever that it was all just a promotional stunt from Fiat. Unsurprisingly, women freaked out. Spanish newspapers reported instances of women being unwilling to leave their homes alone or cowering behind their locked doors in fear of being attacked by a stalker. In some cases, the love letters even sparked bouts of jealous fighting between couples.
Social advocates and consumer protection groups condemned Fiat's scheme, and the campaign was hastily cut short. Fiat defended themselves, explaining that the love letters were the first installment of a series in which the second would reveal that it was all just a gimmick -- presumably via a postcard reading "JK, no rapes. Buy our cars, K? XOXO, Fiat."
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Ophthalmic ketorolac comes as a solution (liquid) to instill in the eyes. For allergy symptoms, one drop is usually instilled in the affected eyes four times a day. For inflammation after cataract surgery, one drop is usually instilled in the affected eye four times a day for 2 weeks beginning 24 hours after surgery. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. Use ketorolac ophthalmic exactly as directed. Do not use more or less of it or use it more than prescribed by your doctor.
Your allergy symptom (itchy eyes) should improve when you instill the eye drops. If your symptoms do not improve or if they worsen, call your doctor.
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I have one of these; it's pretty decent. In theory, the base can be used for searing, it's non stick. I've never done it, though, prefer cast iron skillets. Sear, salt, pepper, plop a 3-4 pound roast in it, plug it in, go to work, come home, boom. Food. Probably not as good for stew-type stuff, as it only heats the bottom, but for big honkin' hunks of meat, it's great.
Have 2 of these, 4 Qt. & 6 Qt., love them. Can use on stove top or put in the oven and they last for years.
I have had this slow cooker for about 20 years and love it! It's great for any recipe you would use with a traditional slow cooker but much easier to clean! I even made a cake last week-end in it! And my family stew recipe is delicious in it!!
you can make pancakes on the non stick flat top!!!!!
Was almost there on pulling the trigger and then backed out. Purchased something else on Woot today and if this had been free shipping because of that, I would have done it. I really did not need one of these (I think) but if shipping had been included, I would have had to lunge.
I've had one since 1977. Not very sexy, just reliable and always ready to get turned on. Handles any hunk of meat you can shove into it.
So many benefits for only $35. And so much more reliable than that other thing I got in 1977.


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During certain times of the year, some of the hiking trails near where I live wind through herds of elk standing on or near the trails. What precautions should you take when hiking among elk?
If you are being given threatening looks or are in an encounter with an elk:
The rule of thumb in Banff National Park is to keep three bus lengths away from elk. Having said that it's easy to accidentally be within a few feet an an elk. Don't panic if it happens, it's very unlikely the elk will charge you (in Banff we see elk every day but there hasn't been a contact incident in 3 years). Elk are easily startled but most of the time they are ambivalent, and more rarely either walking away or flee outright. The rare time when an elk might charge unprovoked is if you are between a cow and its calves (spring time) or near bulls or their harem during rutting season (fall).


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Brooke County Board of Education members were warned Monday they may be hearing from students' parents about a blunt reminder of the state's ability to enforce school attendance requirements.
School district Attendance Director Valerie Smith told board members she has sent letters on the subject to parents of about 135 students. She already has heard from some of them, who may follow up by contacting board members, Smith said.
If that happens, board members discussing the issue with parents who may be upset about local and state policy should simply remind the adults that if they comply with the law, they and their children have nothing about which to worry.
Smith's letters warn parents state law requires that students under 17 years of age who have driver's licenses can lose them if they are absent from school too frequently. The rule is not terribly strict; loss of a license results only if a student has more than 15 unexcused absences during a school year, or 10 of them in a row.
More needs to be done to address truancy in Mountain State schools. In Brooke County, for example, the average attendance rate was 99.6 percent during the 2005-06 school year. But by 2010-11, the most recent year for which the state Department of Education had released statistics, the rate had dropped to 96.1 percent.
And Brooke County is not unusual. Truancy is a concern throughout the state, so much so that new initiatives - including some spearheaded by circuit court judges - have sprung up to address it.
Coincidentally, on the same day Smith talked to Brooke County school board members, a state official told legislators some success has been experienced against truancy. State Assistant Superintendent of Schools Amelia Courts said truancy statewide has been declining since the 2008-09 school year.
Initiatives to get tough on truancy seem to be working, then. Rest assured, however, the numbers will grow worse if deterrents against absenteeism are not enforced strictly. Attendance directors such as Smith should be given all the support possible by county school administrators and board of education members.


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Is it possible to specify multiple source directories in a
duply configuration file? If not is there any simple workaround?
Make the source your system root
At this article there is a good example of exclude file: http://aguslr.github.com/blog/2012/04/18/backups-with-duply/
Also, you should not backup /dev, /proc and other system folders in a Unix system. Just add them to the exclude file.
If you mean multiple remote directories, you must create a profile for each machine:
actually the above does merely achieve a backup everything while excluding some files/folders. the correct answer would be.
use the highest common root folder that contains all folder you want to back up. using
now modify your
+ /folder1 + /folder2 - **
Note: there is a space between the plus/minus symbol and the path entry
this is because duply uses the globbing exclude list duplicity feature, where an exclude list merely treats each entry with a default '-' if not defined otherwise. see section 'File Selection' in the duplicity man page


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Friday, May 10, 2002
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Broward Sheriff's Office District 4 deputies will conduct a traffic checkpoint operation per the above listed times and location. Vehicles will also be inspected for defective safety equipment and motorists will be asked to show their drivers license, registration, and proof of insurance.
This news release is being issued in compliance with a Supreme Court ruling mandating prior announcement of selective enforcement activities.
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I'm in need of an application that can do something like Marked for OS X does.
The function I need is a bit more specific: I want the app to export Markdown to PDF, but using CSS - I've achieved this using BBEdit (using
<link rel="stylesheet" href="file.css" /> and exporting, and with Marked, I can just select the CSS file.
I'm using ReText for Markdown editing, but said method doesn't work - the PDF exportation is posible, but without styling.
Any way to achieve this? I don't mind using the Terminal or any library lying around - if I can achieve the desired results.


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Employees get laid off, do stupid things (like peek at a porn site), talk about personally offensive/suggestive subjects on IM & email. As IT Manager, I am tasked to lock user accounts, change passwords, and compile IM and email summaries for management.
Don't get me wrong, I don't have monitors on every machine. I am usually triggered by management to perform these tasks as I don't have enough time already (not enough time to waste on poking through browser caches or history).
I am sometime rattled or very upset by the things I am asked to do or find and have to report and act on. How do you handle it?


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Ford F-100 ididit Tilt Steering Column Install - A Colossal ColumnWritten by on June 1, 2006 Installing An Ididit Tilt Steering Column
No Limit Engineering's latest work on the 28th Annual F-100 Supernationals giveaway truck focuses on the cab. No Limit recently fashioned a center hump dashboard, dubbed Cyclops, out of the BeBop's fiberglass dash. In last month's issue of CCT, No Limit fabricated a custom trans hump from raw sheetmetal to cover the Tremec manual transmission.
At the same time, Rob MacGregor, No Limit's fearless leader, installed the truck's steering column. Instead of opting for a pure off-the-shelf item, No Limit contacted the steering column specialists, ididit. Given the F-100's Ford Racing theme, No Limit wondered if ididit could provide a brushed-aluminum, black-anodized tilt steering column. Knowing ididit, we would have been surprised if they had said no. Thanks to No Limit's idea, hobbyists can now custom-order a black-anodized, brushed-aluminum column for their truck. Everyone at ididit liked the racing-oriented, blacked-out look so much they added the item to their special-request product list.
Rather than describing how cool the custom column looks, why don't you see for yourself? Watch over No Limit's shoulder to see how to install an ididit tilt column in a custom classic pickup. By doing so, you're bound to get some stylishly smart ideas.
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Rather than a brushed aluminum or polished aluminum tilt steering column, No Limit asked ididit if they could provide a black-anodized column. Creating a new product and a great look for the Ford Racing-themed F-100 giveaway truck, ididit's tilt column was installed in two hours. You'll find out how by following along.After making a reference mark on the center of the toeboard, Rob drilled out an opening 10 inches on center from the mark. The bottom portion of the ididit column will mount here.Using the gray-primered dashboard as a whiteboard, he wrote the applicable measurements there for easy reference.Since the column drop is 2 5/8 inches wide, No Limit marked where to drill the holes 1 5/16 inches on either side of the column's center point.Rob measured from an inner metal reinforcement brace to the dash's bottom lip to determine the metal column drop reinforcement bracket's dimensions.
He marked where the column drop holes should be in the bracket and punched 31/48-inch holes with the Ironworker.Using another station on the Ironworker turret, the corners of the column drop reinforcement bracket were swiftly rounded. Making the bracket took one minute with the Ironworker. It would have taken 30 minutes with hand tools.After sanding the brace on the belt sander, it was ready to be welded to the underdash reinforcement bracket.The best way to hold the brace in place when welding is to drill the dash lip holes for the column drop and the bracket.With the bracket and column drop fastened, the bracket is ready to be welded to the inner reinforcement brace.
The steering column hole in the toeboard was a bit too snug, as it was originally cut to accommodate a 2-inch-diameter stainless steel column.With an air die grinder and a sanding wheel attachment, he made the hole bigger to fit the ididit 2 1/4-inch black-anodized aluminum tilt column.To prevent aluminum-to-aluminum galling from the column to the column drop and achieve a snug fit, Rob wrapped the steering column with black electrical tape. The yellow tape indicates where the electrical tape should go.Now that the steering column is in its new home, the engine side of the steering equation must be addressed.After attaching the universal joint steering coupler to the column on the engine-bay side, No Limit could determine the steering shaft's length.
While Mike manipulated the steering column from inside the cab, Rob nestled the steering shaft between the header tubes.Although there's clearance between the steering shaft and the rearmost header tube, more space is needed. Rob will move the header tube back a bit and reweld it for sufficient clearance.Before drilling holes in the toeboard to locate the bottom steering column retaining clamp, No Limit secured the column within the column drop.
Concluding the two-hour job, the steering wheel adaptor ring found its rightful place atop the black-anodized, brushed-aluminum ididit tilt column.


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I recently found an old family cream pie recipe that called for scalding the milk. Is there any reason to do this other than to kill bacteria? If not, isn't this an unnecessary step if using pasteurized milk?
If you've found a very old recipe that calls for scalding for food safety reasons, then yes, it is probably unnecessary. However, there are places where it is called for.
In particular, when making Béchamel (which is made by combining milk and roux), it is important to scald or at least warm the milk, otherwise you can and most likely will end up with lumps. The reason to actually scald as oppose to simply warming the milk tends to be one of cooking time; the hotter the milk is, the less time you have to spend whisking.
In general, any recipe that calls for milk and needs to thicken tends to benefit from scalding for the latter reason - it just takes less time to thicken that way.
Wikipedia has also other uses for Scalded milk besides killing bacteria:
There's different types of pasteurization -- you can heat it up a lot, for a short period time, or hold it at a lower temperature for longer. Scalding the milk makes sure you denature the proteins, no matter the type of pasteurization used, which can affect how some breads rise, so in baking, if it calls for scalded milk, I still scald the milk.
In a cream pie recipe ... I'm not so sure if it was just a process to pasteurize, or if it might've served some other purpose. You could always try making two pies, one scalded, one not, and compare the differences.
(and, as I've said before -- I don't warm the milk for bechamel -- I just add the milk in small amounts at the beginning, stirring well after each addition, and I've never had problems with lumps ... it's the way my great grandmother taught me, and it keeps me from washing another pot ... I also use a wooden spatula, not a whisk, both because that's how I was taught, I can get into the corners, and I really hate cleaning whisks)
The reason I now scald my milk when making pies, custard and quiches: (I hope I can express this correctly) It isn't just about thickening the liquid or a jump start. I now scald my milk 20 to 30 minutes at 185 degrees F. I use a candy thermometer gently stirring all the while. This scalding process has made all the difference in my pies, custard and quiches. Something molecularly changes and binds... the proteins... I believe. It adds strength and stretchiness to the milk. Now I never have puddles of liquid in the bottom or on the top of my pies, custard and quiches. It isn't about evaporation or thickening. It is about changing its nature.


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Wilson: Indians turn it around in rout of Bulldogs
It was getting to the point where only a licensed detective could find a bright spot in the Watertown football season. Three losses, including a stunning dumping at the hands of Wilby. A battlefield of injuries. The season was slipping and sliding away at an ugly pace.
Until Friday night that is. Suddenly, the Indians put the brakes on in a rather spectacular 42-6 fashion over Crosby.
Who would have guessed it, or at least the manner in which the Indians found themselves again.
"We have potential," said Watertown coach Mike Veronneau. "Sometimes all the pieces aren't working at the same time and you are unsuccessful. Tonight, all the pieces were together, it was a pretty dominating performance."
And none too soon.
"This is huge," said Rocco Guerrera who was a one-man gang for the Indians. "Without this our season would have been complete loss. Now the team has its confidence back and we can make a good season out of it."
The Indians shook off any possible post-Wilby loss cobwebs on the first series of the game when Dan Brodeur picked off a Michael Reyes pass on the Crosby 40-yard line and returned for a score and a 7-0 lead.
It was a great start for Brodeur on a night that would end with a possible broken ankle early in third quarter.
On their next possession, the Indians methodically rolled 63 yards on 11 plays before Guerrera bolted through the left side of the line from 12 yards out for a two-TD edge.
Early in the second quarter, Crosby running back Roshawn Gainey put a temporary damper on the Indians' good feelings when he exploded up the middle for a 72-yard touchdown run, cutting the deficit to 14-6.
But that was Crosby's highlight for the evening. The Bulldogs have been able to put up some points this season, including 49 in a loss to St. Paul.
But Watertown was having none of that.
Gainey managed just 17 yards on 12 carries the rest of the night. The Indians went on to pick off four passes and limit the Bulldogs to a total of 125 yards for the game.
Anthony Chacho would produce the second TD off an interception late in the game.
"Last week, we had enough (loss to Wilby) and we said that it is not going to happen again," said linebacker Jason Lombardo.
Veronneau praised the play of Lombardo, who seemed to be in on every play.
"Jason is five-foot nothing and weighs 100 nothing. He was all over the field. He must have made 10 tackles. And give our scout team credit. It mirrored Crosby's offense perfectly in practice all week.
While the Indian defense was in top form, the offense was also in the efficient mode.
Brodeur capped off a 77-yard drive with a 3-yard run to up the lead to 21-6 by halftime. After Brodeur was injured, AJ Cattaneo took over.
On fourth-and-10 from the Crosby 30-yard line, Cattaneo hooked up with a wide open Paulo Villanueva in the right flat for a game-ending scoring strike and a 28-6 lead on the final play of the third quarter.
The Indians would take advantage of another interception to add another score on Villanueva's 12-yard run with just over four minutes left in the game.
It was victory by committee for Watertown with Brodeur picking up 58 yards on the ground, Guerrera 60 and Villanueva 65. Guerrera kicked six extra points to add to his rushing totals and was a force on defense.
"Last week, we were down. Today, everybody seemed upbeat," said Guerrera. "Everything came together in practice."
"Hey, we've got injuries, but we've got fighters," added Veronneau.
The view was a bit different on the other side of the field.
"Our week of practice was not the best and it showed tonight,' said Crosby coach Dave Jurewicz. "The bottom line is that tonight is not what we wanted. Turnovers killed us. You can't win with four interceptions. Changes need to be made and will be. When our guys get down it is tough for them to keep their heads up."
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To authorize a user on Facebook for my app, I am sending them to:
The redirect_uri is set to http://mydomain.com/Page.aspx
Yet when it gets to the login and the user allows the application it redirects the page to:
Which then just redirects again straight to the main page of the application instead of the /Page.aspx input as the redirect_uri.
Could anyone please tell me what is going on?
Found out what was going on. I had incorrectly copied from an example.
So instead of https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?
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I am interested in the maximum width of a polygon, e.g. a lake, in the east-west direction. Bounding boxes will help only in simple polygons but not in complex concave polygons.
How to calculate the maximum distance within a polygon in x-direction (east-west direction) in PostGIS?
This likely requires some scripting in any GIS platform.
The most efficient method (asymptotically) is a vertical line sweep: it requires sorting the edges by their minimum y-coordinates and then processing the edges from bottom (minimum y) to top (maximum y), for a O(e * log(e)) algorithm when e edges are involved.
The procedure, although simple, is surprisingly tricky to get right in all cases. Polygons can be nasty: they can have dangles, slivers, holes, be disconnected, have duplicated vertices, runs of vertices along straight lines, and have undissolved boundaries between two adjacent components. Here's an example exhibiting many of these characteristics (and more):
We will specifically seek the maximum-length horizontal segment(s) lying entirely within the closure of the polygon. For instance, this eliminates the dangle between x=20 and x=40 emanating from the hole between x=10 and x=25. It is then straightforward to show that at least one of the maximum-length horizontal segments intersects at least one vertex. (If there are solutions intersecting no vertices, they will lie in the interior of some parallelogram bounded at the top and bottom by solutions which do intersect at least one vertex. This gives us a means to find all solutions.)
Accordingly, the line sweep must begin with the lowest vertices and then move upwards (that is, towards higher y values) to stop at each vertex. At each stop, we find any new edges emanating upwards from that elevation; eliminate any edges terminating from below at that elevation (this is one of the key ideas: it simplifies the algorithm and eliminates half of the potential processing); and carefully process any edges lying wholly at a constant elevation (the horizontal edges).
For example, consider the state when a level of y=10 is reached. From left to right, we find the following edges:
In this table, (x.min, y.min) are coordinates of the lower endpoint of the edge and (x.max, y.max) are coordinates of its upper endpoint. At this level (y=10), the first edge is intercepted within its interior, the second one is intercepted at its bottom, and so on. Some edges terminating at this level, such as from (10,0) to (10,10), are not included in the list.
To determine where the interior points are and the exterior ones are, imagine starting from the extreme left--which is outside the polygon, of course--and moving horizontally to the right. Each time we cross an edge which is not horizontal, we alternately switch from exterior to interior and back. (This is another key idea.) However, all the points within any horizontal edge are determined to be inside the polygon, no matter what. (The closure of a polygon always includes its edges.)
Continuing the example, here is the sorted list of x-coordinates where non-horizontal edges begin at or cross the y=10 line:
(Notice that x=40 is not in this list.) The values of the
Some of these intervals, such as the one from x=60 to x=63.3, do not intersect any vertices: a quick check against the x-coordinates of all vertices with y=10 eliminates such intervals.
During the scan we can monitor the lengths of these intervals, retaining the data concerning the maximum-length interval(s) found so far.
Notice some of the implications of this approach. A "v" shaped vertex, when encountered, is the origin of two edges. Therefore two switches occur when crossing it. Those switches cancel out. Any upside-down "v" is not even processed, because both of its edges are eliminated before starting the left-to-right scan. In both cases, such a vertex does not block off a horizontal segment.
More than two edges can share a vertex: this is illustrated at (10,0), (60,5), (25, 20), and--although it's hard to tell--at (20,10) and (40,10). (That's because the dangle goes (20,10) --> (40,10) --> (40,0) --> (40, -50) --> (40, 10) --> (20,10). Notice how the vertex at (40,0) is also in the interior of another edge...that's nasty.) This algorithm handles those situations just fine.
A tricky situation is illustrated at the very bottom: the x-coordinates of non-horizontal segments there are
This causes everything to the left of x=30 to be considered exterior, everything between 30 and 50 to be interior, and everything after 50 to be exterior again. The vertex at x=40 is never even considered in this algorithm.
Here is what the polygon looks like at the end of the scan. I show all the vertex-containing interior intervals in dark gray, any maximum-length intervals in red, and color the vertices according to their y-coordinates. The maximum interval is 64 units long.
The only geometric calculations involved are to compute where edges intersect horizontal lines: that is a simple linear interpolation. Calculations are also needed to determine which interior segments contain vertices: these are betweenness determinations, easily computed with a couple of inequalities. This simplicity makes the algorithm robust and appropriate both for integer and floating point coordinate representations.
If coordinates are geographic, then horizontal lines are really on circles of latitude. Their lengths are not difficult to compute: just multiply their Euclidean lengths by the cosine of their latitude (in a spherical model). Therefore this algorithm adapts nicely to geographic coordinates. (To handle wrapping around the +-180 meridian well, one might need first to find a curve from the south pole to the north pole that does not pass through the polygon. After re-expressing all x-coordinates as horizontal displacements relative to that curve, this algorithm will correctly find the maximum horizontal segment.)
The following is the
Here is a raster-based solution. It's fast (I did all the work from start to finish in 14 minutes), requires no scripting, takes only a few operations, and is reasonably accurate.
Start with a raster representation of the polygon. This one uses a grid of 550 rows and 1200 columns:
In this representation, the gray (inside) cells have the value 1 and all other cells are NoData.
Compute the flow accumulation in the west-to-east direction using the unit cell values for the weight grid (amount of "rainfall"):
Low accumulation is dark, increasing to highest accumulations in the bright yellow.
A zonal maximum (using the polygon for the grid and the flow accumulation for the values) identifies the cell(s) where the flow is greatest. To show these, I had to zoom in toward the bottom right:
The red cells mark the ends of the highest accumulations of flow: they are the rightmost endpoints of maximal-length interior segments of the polygon.
To find these segments, place all the weight at the red cells and run the flow backwards!
The red stripe near the bottom marks two rows of cells: within them lies the maximum-length horizontal segment. Use this representation as-is for further analysis or convert it to a polyline (or polygon) shape.
There is some discretization error made with a raster representation. It can be reduced by increasing the resolution, at some cost in computation time.
One really nice aspect of this approach is that typically we find extreme values of things as part of a larger workflow in which some objective needs to be attained: siting a pipeline or football field, creating ecological buffers, and so on. The process involves trade-offs. Thus, the very longest horizontal line might not be part of an optimal solution. We might care instead to know where almost longest lines would lie. This is simple: rather than selecting the zonal maximum flow, select all cells close to a zonal maximum. In this example, the zonal max equals 744 (the number of columns spanned by the longest interior segment). Instead, let's select all cells within 5% of that maximum:
Running the flow from east to west produces this collection of horizontal segments:
This is a map of locations where uninterrupted east-west extent is 95% or greater than the maximal east-west extent anywhere within the polygon.
I'm not sure that Fetzer's answer is what you want to do, but is so the st_box2d may do the job.
SS_Rebelious's idea N°1 will work in many cases but not for some concave polygons.
I think that you must create artificial lw-lines whom points follow edges when vertex-made lines cross the borders of the polygon if there is an east-west line possibility.
For this you could try to make a 4 nodes polygon where line length is high, make the polygon P* which is the preceding overlapping with you original polygon, and see if the min(y1) and max(y2) leave some x-line possibility. (where y1 is the set of point between top left cornet and top right corner and y2 the set of y between bottom left and bottom right corners of your 4 nodes polygon). This is not that easy I hope you will find psql tools to help you!
Ok. I've got another (better) idea (idea-№2). But I suppose that it is better to be realised as a python script, not as an SQL-querry. Again here is the common case, not only E-W.
You will need a bounding box for the polygon and an azimuth (A) as your measurement direction. Assume that the length of the BBox edges are LA and LB. Maximum possible distance (MD) within a polygon is:
I have an idea-№1 (Edit: for common case, not only E-W direction, and with some limitations that are described in comments). I will not provide the code, just a concept. The "x-direction" is actually an azimuth, which is calculated by ST_Azimuth. The proposed steps are:
Have a look at my question and the answer from Evil Genius.
Hopefully your lake polygon has a number of points, you can create lines on these points with a azimuth (aspect, geo direction). Choose the length of the lines big enough (ST_MakePoint part), so that you can calculate the shortest line between the two most distant lines.
Here is an example:
The example shows the maximum width of the polygon. I choose ST_ShortestLine (red line) for this approach. ST_MakeLine would increase the value (blue line) and the the endpoint of the line (bottom left) would hit the blue line of the polygon. You have to calculate the distance with the centroids of the created (help)lines.
An idea for irregular or concave polygons for this approach. May be you have to intersect the polygon with a raster.


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Hello, I have just bought a RD5 with fitting kit to use with my existing NN3 from Red-Door VR in Leeds.
I cannot find any information/user guide on the NN website relating to this equipment.
There is included with the RD5 a plastic plate which might fit on top of the rotator, but does not fit the bottom arm of the NN3 because of the existing brass bushing and brass pins.
Please see attached files for clarification.
Can anyone help with basic instructions on how to assemble a RD5 + NN3 combination?


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Belton (January 8, 2013) -- The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor men's basketball team almost let several double digit leads slip away, but the Cru came up big in crunch time, holding Concordia's late rally to post a 98-95 victory over the Tornados Tuesday night in Belton. UMHB improves to 10-3 overall and 7-1 in American Southwest Conference play with the victory. The Cru also breaks a three-way tie for first place in the ASC West Division with the win to take a half-game lead over Hardin-Simmons University. The loss snaps Concordia's eight-game winning streak and drops the Tornados to 10-3 overall and 6-2 in ASC play on the season.
UMHB opened the second half strong and opened up a 12-point lead at 59-47 in the early going. The lead would grow to as many as 18 before Concordia stormed back. Josh Sanchez hit a lay-up with 1:37 remaining to give the Tornados their first lead of the second half at 91-90. James Allen answered with a lay-in on the next possession to make it 92-91, but another Sanchez basket put Concordia up 93-92. Brian Todd's jumper with 37 seconds left gave UMHB a 94-93 lead and the Cru added four more free throws while getting stops at the defensive end. Sanchez hit a runner with 1.1 seconds left to cut it to the final margin and Thomas Orr pulled in a baseball pass and held the ball as time expired. The Cru led by as many as 15 points in the first half after trailing 8-0 to start the game. Concordia used another run to close to within 45-43 at halftime.
Todd finished with 25 points on 10-14 shooting and he added six rebounds and four assists. Orr also poured in 25 points and went 5-10 from three-point range. Kitrick Bell had 14 points and seven boards and Allen added 11 points, nine rebounds and eight assists for UMHB. The Cru shot 55 percent from the field and went 8-24 from three-point range. UMHB was 14-19 from the free-throw line in the second half after hitting just 2-8 from the stripe in the first half.
Dwayne Patterson topped Concordia with 25 points and a game-high 16 rebounds, while Sanchez also poured in 25 points and recorded six assists. Nick Haynes finished with 12 points, all of them coming in the second half for the Tornados. Concordia shot 53 percent from the field and 9-22 from beyond the arc. The Tornados also out rebounded UMHB 39-34 in the game.
The Cru will return to action with a 3:00 PM home game against Hardin-Simmons University on Saturday. That will be the final home game of the month for the UMHB men. The Cowboys play at Concordia on Thursday night.


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We took a trip to the Science Centre today--way too cold to go outside and we need to escape the clutches of winter cabin fever. That meant we got home at 5:30 and needed a quick supper that could be made in 30 mins. I went for the Cheez-A-Roni in The Ultimate UnCheese Cookbook. The kids loved it, and Vegan Mom and I thought it was pretty good, too.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
4 comments:
- Anke said...
this looks great. nice photo and I'm sure it was delicious :-)
- January 20, 2008 at 2:31 AM
- mustardseed said...
Oh I know...that book often calls for pimentos..which I can't find.
- January 20, 2008 at 9:40 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Just use a roasted red pepper, skinned and seeded, instead of pimentos.
- January 20, 2008 at 10:55 AM
- Carolann said...
I'm always so afraid to try a mac n' cheese because they always taste a bit odd, but yours looks delicious!
- January 21, 2008 at 2:10 AM
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Vitaly Balasanyan assures: President will invite Jirayr Sefilyan for a talk, after "Daredevils of Sasoun" put down arms and surrender
Democratic Party of Armenia comes out from political position, as standoff continues in Yerevan
Azerbaijan keeps violating ceasefire on Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact
Night at seized police patrol service station passed without incidents: Standoff in Yerevan enters day 8
"Daredevils of Sasoun" burn police car
Mass media: Activist Ani Navasardyan detained on charge of provoking mass unrest
Serviceman of NKR Defense Army killed from adversary's shot
Group of journalists arrives at seized building of the Police Patrol Service Regiment
Investigative Committee: Charges pressed against three citizens of Armenia for participation in mass disorders
"Sasna Tsrer" released the rest two hostages -Osipyan and Yeghiazaryan
Russian Foreign Ministry criticized EU's statement on events in Yerevan
Major General Vitaly Balasanyan provides details of his meeting with "Daredevils of Sasoun"
Armenian Foreign Ministry verifying if there were citizens of Armenia among Munich shooting casualties
National Security of Armenia confirms: Members of armed group voluntarily release two of four hostages
National Security Service of Armenia says two persons tied to armed group detained
Nikol Pashinyan: Levon Ter-Petrosyan and Serzh Sargsyan plot yielding territories around Nagorno Karabakh to Azerbaijan
"Daredevils of Sasoun" reportedly releases two of four hostages
NKR Defense Army soldier wounded, as Azerbaijan violates ceasefire
Armenia and UAE sign agreement to boost and protect investments
Sharmazanov: It is more likely that Kura River changes its course and falls into Black Sea than Karabakh becomes part of Azerbaijan with any status
Galust Sahakyan: Talks on possible resignation of Armenian government are rumors
Russian political scientist: Destabilization of situation and pressure on authorities prevail in "Sasna Tsrer" group's actions
Statements that five districts adjacent to Nagorno Karabakh will be passed to Azerbaijan exert pressure on the process, Bryza says
Levon Ter-Petrosyan: It is senseless to analyze the reasons that led to armed seizure of state building
President: In Armenia problems are not settled through brutal force and hostage taking - this situation continues longer than we can afford
Serzh Sargsyan: Punishment of those guilty inevitable
Newspaper: After talks with "Daredevils of Sasoun," Vitaly Balasanyan met with Serzh Sargsyan
Social media warn: physical attack prepared on Nikol Pashinyan
Views from Tel Aviv: Loss of control over country may push external powers to settle Karabakh conflict not in favor of Armenian people
Armenia's Defense Ministry confirms: Azerbaijani side targets school in near border village of Movses
Maria Zakharova slams Armenian and Azerbaijani journalists
Azerbaijan keeps intensively violating ceasefire on Line of Contact
Republican Party of Armenia for peaceful resolution of standoff and hostage situation in Yerevan
Night was calm near seized building of Patrol Police Station in Yerevan
Government of Armenia dismisses idea of creating "Aviation Code"
Cyber security specialists to be trained in Armenia with support of Kaspersky Lab
Zakharova: Moscow hopes process around Nagorno Karabakh will not lose its dynamics
Paul Goble says Moscow has lost its interest in Christian Armenia and is moving to increase its ties with majority Shia Islamic Azerbaijan, Armenia's longtime enemy, and now with Sunni Turkey
Vartan Oskanian sees the solution to the current situation in Yerevan in political field only
Meeting of Vitaly Balasanyan and armed loyalists of jailed oppositionist is over; no details are reported
Maria Zakharova: We support measures taken by Armenia's authorities over seized Patrol Service Regiment in Yerevan
EU Delegation in Armenia makes a statement on recent events in Armenia
Forecast: Russian policy's stagnant Armenian vector fraught with "Ukrainization" of Armenia
Authorities send Vitaly Balasanyan to rebels as negotiator
View from Moscow: Role of April war in current protests in Armenia should not be underestimated
Healthcare Minister: None of those suffered in clashes at Khorenatsi Street is in extremely critical condition
Ara Abrahamyan: Situation in Yerevan demonstrates that there is a need for dialog between society and authorities
Azerbaijani side did not lead OSCE mission to its frontlines during planned monitoring of Line of Contact
Armenia's Economy Minister calls for tolerance and reasonableness
Analyst: In negotiations with Zhirayr Sefilyan's supporters authorities should consider factor of weapons fallen in the rebels' hands
Arman Navasardyan: Shoemakers should make shoes, diplomats should be engaged in diplomacy and thieves should be in jail
Ruben Safrastyan: U.S. will keep its role of security guarantor in Europe with or without Britain
Batu Kutelia: Warsaw Summit will give definite political and military answers to Russia's attempted aggressive revisionism
Masis Mailyan : Baku intends to continue its "military diplomacy" with impunity
Paul Stronski: Yerevan's security alliance with Moscow will not impede Armenia's good ties with NATO
Alekper Aliyev: Nothing can justify our protracted fratricidal war
Giorgi Kanashvili: In case Karabakh conflict is settled, Armenia is able to make a U-turn and join NATO even sooner than Georgia will do
Sargis Hatspanyan: Our soldiers carried out their obligations and slapped not only the Azerbaijani but also Armenian authorities in the face
by Arthur Yernjakyan
Armenia has to join no "pyramid" unions, either the European Union nor the Customs Union, an expert Harutyun Mesropyan, told journalists today.
"In the context of management, if you join any similar union, you lose a part of sovereignty. You are promised any shady prospects, and you don't know what will happen, as you do not have a strong development concept, a strong diplomatic corps. Moreover, you are not a factor to be taken into consideration", - Mesropyan said when replying to ArmInfo correspondent's question.
Asked to compare the development prospects of Armenia and Georgia in the context of different integration vectors of the two states, the expert replied that the comparison is not in favor of Georgia, as the latter has already lost territories. "Georgia has serious losses in the person of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Moreover, Georgia has gained a headache because of the growth of the Turkish presence in business and other sectors. Our losses are - the migration and the fact that the liberated territories are not populated. So, we should not look at either the South or the North, but at ourselves and enhance our state", - Mesropyan said.


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I got in a "heated" discussion with my wife this evening about a fried turkey recipe that I want to try for Thanksgiving. It calls for:
- 1 cup of Creole seasoning
- 1/2 cup of black pepper
- 1/2 cup of Cayenne pepper
all mixed with a bottle of a bottle of italian dressing, which I will admit sounds pretty damn spicy. But after readying the reviews it seems like everyone says the heat cooks off and the bird comes out delicious.
It it reasonable to expect that the spiciness will fry off during the cooking process or am I going to ruin (another) Thanksgiving?


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I am rather new to AJAX, and is currently learning how to implement jQuery Address on a demo site so that I could port it over to a personal project that I'm working on.
While I am able to load the desired content through hyperlinks as well as modify the URL hash, I am unable to navigate to a particular state if I enter the URL hash directly in the browser bar.
The current code goes something like this:
$("h2.entry-title a").live('click', function(event) {
$("#content").fadeOut("slow").load($(this).attr("href")+" #content > *", function() {
I tried looking for tutorials and demos about using jQuery Address to implement deep linking, but so far it yielded nothing fruitful.
Thanks for all your help :)
p/s: The reason why I used
.live() instead of
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Brooke to present comedy this weekend
WELLSBURG - The Brooke High School Theater Department will present the Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman comedy, "You Can't Take It With You," at 7 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday in the school's auditorium.
Directed by senior Jake Bryan, seniors Victoria Gerst and Jackson Boyce play the two leads, with Joe Douglas, Mackenzie Burns, Megan O'Donnell, Angela Casinelli, Amanda Milantoni, Alex Burdick, Max Hardt, Nick Caldwell, Zac Morris, Frankie Eggert, Alexis Defibaugh, Trent Radcliffe and Kaitlin Glasure rounding out the cast.
The production is being overseen by theater and English instructor Nathan Marshall. Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for students who present student IDs.
SRG will meet Monday
STEUBENVILLE - The Steubenville Revitalization Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday at Froehlich's Classic Corner restaurant. The meeting is open to the public.
Robbery reported at Bridgeport bank
BRIDGEPORT - The Citizens Bank at 325 Howard St. was robbed at gunpoint just after 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, sending law enforcement on a manhunt throughout the village.
The suspect was described as a male about 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet tall with a thin build. He was wearing a black, leather jacket, blue jeans, black shoes and a hooded sweatshirt pulled up over his head. He also may have been wearing a ski mask.
At the same time the bank robbery was reported, officials at Bridgeport High School were evacuating staff and students following a reported bomb threat. It was not clear whether the threat was related.
Law enforcement officers from the Bridgeport, Martins Ferry and Shadyside police departments, the Belmont County Sheriff's Department and Ohio State Highway Patrol were on the scene of the robbery within minutes of the alarm being sounded by a bank employee. At one point, officers stopped a man on Howard Street but had not made an arrest. Investigators were expected to review security tapes at the bank.
The bank was locked down as police combed the area for the suspect, who was believed to have fled on foot. Before officers roped off the building, customers not knowing what had happened were attempting to enter the bank only to find the front doors locked. Motorists attempting to use the drive-through also were turned away, apparently by a bank official.
The same bank was robbed twice in 2011.


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WELLSBURG - Despite rain that fell as nearly 100 cancer survivors took the first lap of the Brooke-Hancock American Cancer Society Relay for Life Saturday night, the event proved to be a great success, raising about $88,000 for cancer education, prevention, research and patient service programs provided by the organization, said event planners.
In its 15th year, the event also drew about 800 participants on 45 teams, including eight new ones, said co-chair Tammy Hornick.
"This is the biggest crowd we've had," said Hornick, who with fellow co-chairs, her husband Paul and Sandy Yankura, assisted chairman Dave Secrist with the fundraiser.
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REACHING THE GOAL — Members of the McKinleyville and Hooverson Heights volunteer fire departments entertained those attending the Brooke-Hancock American Cancer Society Relay Life early Sunday with their own relay — a competition in which they raced to don gear, carry a dummy and climb ladders propped up against a goal post of the Brooke Memorial Stadium. Also participating was the Follansbee Volunteer Fire Department. The McKinleyville department won the competition. -- Warren Scott
RELAY — Members of the Follansbee and Hooverson Heights volunteer fire departments entertained those attending the Brooke-Hancock American Cancer Society Relay Life early Sunday with their own relay — a competition in which they raced to don gear, carry a dummy, climb ladders propped up against a goal post of the Brooke Memorial Stadium. -- Warren Scott
The four expressed appreciation to the many who persevered when rain fell during the first lap.
Attendees were braced for a cold, wet night, "but after that, there was a rainbow over the trees. It was neat," said Tammy.
The organizers noted the rainfall and rainbow were fitting symbols of the battle fought by the cancer survivors and the hope they gave to others as they marched around the athletic track at Brooke Memorial Stadium.
Secrist said he and the Relay for Life committee already are making plans for next year's event as he gathered from the football field equipment used by local volunteer firefighters in a relay in which they donned gear, climbed ladders propped against a goal post and carried dummies.
The volunteer members of the McKinleyville, Follansbee and Hooverson Heights fire departments turned out at 4 a.m. for the event, with the McKinleyville department, led by Fire Chief John Williams, emerging the winner.
The event was one of several planned to occupy relay attendees when they weren't taking laps.
"It's the first time for this. We also had our first band - the Spinning Jennys," said Steve Lauck, who chairs the relay's entertainment committee.
Lauck said other events included the Ms. Relay competition, a mock beauty pageant featuring men in drag; a mystery auction in which various gift-wrapped household items were put up for bid and generated more than $300; and an auction for the right to clip the hair of Karen Simpson, a member of the Hancock County Savings Bank team.
The winner bid $1,000 to cut Simpson's hair, which will be donated to a group that provides wigs to cancer patients.
The event also had its serious moments as luminaria lining the track were again lit in memory or honor of many area cancer patients.
Following the ceremony, Makenzie Santoro, a freshman at Brooke High School, spoke about her efforts to raise money for the cause. The relay's top fundraiser, she also formed its top fundraising team, the Guardian Angels, which collectively raised about $14,000.
The daughter of Amy and Rob Santoro of Colliers, she said she became involved as a seventh grader at Follansbee Middle School, where she helped to coordinate mini relays, because the mother of her best friend, Maddie Carroll, was diagnosed with cancer.
Asked how the team raised the money, she replied, "a lot and lot of donation letters."
Santoro said in addition to soliciting donations by mail, she, family and friends sold T-shirts that she and Maddie's mother, Linda, designed.
But it was Santoro's first year to attend the Brooke-Hancock Relay. Asked what she thought of it, she said, "It's a long night but it's awesome."
Secrist, a teacher at Follansbee Middle School who organized the relays there, said an effort was made to involve more Brooke and Hancock county schools in events supporting the cause, and he's pleased with the participation.
He noted Burgettstown Junior-Senior High School also had a team at the relay. It was led by Madison Campa, an eighth grader at the school who raised $1,318 at the relay's kickoff dinner through an auction to have her hair cut.
A team led by Campa's mother, Debbie, and originating from the Burgettstown Curves team, won the award for Best Banner displayed at a campsite.
Elsewhere near the stadium a handful of members from the Pennies from Heaven Relay team were huddled around a campfire.
Donna Donohue of Wellsburg explained the team got its name because it consists of WesBanco employees, family and friends. This was the third year the team has won the award for Best Campsite, she noted with pride.
The red and white-striped tent was decorated with a clown, lion and other animals in keeping with the relay's circus theme this year.
Terri Cline of Weirton, a teammate, said the group participates because "We've all been affected by cancer" whether it was a family member, friend or themselves.
Team member Brenda Johnston of Follansbee, a 12-year cancer survivor, said of the relay, "I think it's awesome. It makes you see how much support you have."
She said of the survivors' lap, "It's amazing how some have survived lung cancer, brain cancer, so many different types. It's scary."
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Let $Y^2=f(X)$ be an Elliptic curve over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_p$ where $f(X)=X^3+aX+b$
In an undergraduate coursebook on an Applied Algebra course it states that "It is plausible to suggest that $f(X)$ will be a quadratic residue for approximately half of all the points $X \in \mathbb{F}_p$."
I know that exactly half of all non-zero elements of $\mathbb{F}_p$ are quadratic residues and hence only half will be of the form $Y^2 = f(X)$ for some quadratic residue $Y$. But how does this imply that $f(X)$ will be a quadratic residue for approximately half of all points $X$ in $\mathbb{F}_p$? Is it not possible to have more than 2 distinct elements (say $3$ elements in this example) $X$ in $\mathbb{F}_p$ such that for some $Y^2$ we have $Y^2 = f(s) = f(t) = f(u)$ for distinct $x,t,u \in \mathbb{F}_p$?


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I have a rather simple question, but I have not been able to figure out how to implement a solution in Mathematica. I would like to define a variable size square matrix, say an N x N matrix A, whose entries A_ij are of the form Kroneceker-delta_ij (N+1-2k)/2. (In fact, the matrices I want to deal with are N dimensional irreducible representations of SU(2)). Eventually, I would like to compute traces of products of certain matrices, but I can not even get tr(IdentityMatrix[N] = N) to work. How should I approach this problem?
For most matrix calculations you need to specify the dimension as a number. Exceptions are (in version 9)


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Being Lara (Paperback)
What other explanation could there be? With her dark complexion and kinky hair, so unlike her fair-skinned parents, Lara knew she was different. At eight she finally learned the word "adopted." Twenty-two years later, a stranger arrives as she blows out the candles on her thirtieth birthday cakea woman in a blue-and-black head tie who also claims the title "Laras mother."
Lara, always in control, now finds her life slipping free of the stranglehold she's had on it. Unexpected, dangerously unfamiliar emotions are turning Lara's life upside down, pulling her between Nigeria and London, forcing her to confront the truth about her past. But if she's brave enough to embrace the lives of her two mothers, she may discover once and for all what it truly means to be Lara.
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A Phase I/II Trial of Escalating Doses of Recombinant Human Keratinocyte Growth Factor (rHuKGF) in Head & Neck Cancer (HNC) Patients Receiving Radiotherapy (RT) with Concurrent Chemotherapy (CCT)
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Evidence from recent studies suggest that the combination of chemotherapy and radiation therapy improves outcome in advanced head and neck cancers, compared to single modality therapy. But these aggressive therapies frequently cause increases in treatment-related morbidity. Recombinant Human Keratinocyte Growth Factor (rHuKGF)stimulates the proliferation of epithelial tissues including the mucosa of the aerodigestive tract. Preclinical studies have shown that rHuKGF reduces the severity of RT and CT induced mucositis.
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Sam Jackson (1)
As Himself (Nyack Towing)
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good show. some of the recovery people need a lesson though. They never put the wheel lift down for stability while winching vehicle. The wheels of the tow truck should NEVER come off the ground. Thats how you damage your truck. Read more
Review posted on Thursday, November 15th 2012 at 8:51 pm
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Unfortunately, this show is over-produced, typical of reality shows. There is enough real drama on Donner Pass in the winter, why clutter it up with fake drama that wouldn't fool a five year old. From fake truck horns every few minutes to staged tows, to staged incidents, etc., just too much clutter from the producers, when the show could have been first quality by just following the reality of the severity of the weather on Donner, and the people that keep the road open. Read more
Review posted on Wednesday, January 23rd 2013 at 9:07 pm
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I watched the show for the first time last night. I'll not watch it again. Female drove her truck without a seat belt as did some of the guys. Dumb for the producers to allow a lack of safety. One driver was dressed all in black in the dead of night. Stealing another company's tow is dishonest. Several drivers lied about being waved down by vehicle owners. The guy from Running Bear with tattoos (body graffiti) up his neck and on his head make be barf. What garbage on TV. Read more
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After upgrading both sql server and management studio from 2008 to 2012, the management studio 2012 is very slow when new query windows and dialog boxes are opened. Even right click on tables is slow. There is typically at least a 5 second delay before I can start doing anything within a window. This happens every time, even if I open the same window twice in a row. What happens and how could I fix this?
I tried a hit on google where I'd need to modify my hosts file, but that didn't help.


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Titanfall post-release DLC confirmed, sales expectations are conservativeWritten by: / / No Comments
No modern-day game can be planned and developed without it, and we certainly expected it, but in a recent investor earnings call EA has confirmed that there will indeed be post-release downloadable content for Titanfall.
EA's CEO Andrew Wilson said that "We're planning extra content already for the product, but in the nature of the live service, I think that that will evolve over time as we see how the player base evolves through the year."
No details were provided on what kind of DLC is planned for Titanfall, but we can probably expect additional multiplayer maps and customisation options.
In addition, and despite Titanfall remaining one of the most anticipated games of 2014, EA is being conservative over sales of the game based on the fact that it will be limited to Xbox 360, Xbox One and PC.
Titanfall is out on Xbox One, PC and Xbox 360 on March 11th in North America, March 13th in Europe and March 14th in the UK.
A beta test for Xbox One and PC has also been announced.
Have you waded through El33tonline's already extensive current and continued coverage? You can find even more videos, screenshots and details. Also don't miss El33tonline's hands-on preview of Titanfall, as well as our impressions of the game from E3 2013.
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(WIBW) - A man allegedly involved in a Thursday shooting in Louisiana that killed two law enforcement officers was wanted in Marshall County, Kansas.
Kyle Joekel had a warrant for several felony charges stemming from an August 21, 2011 vehicle chase that started in Marysville. Police were on the lookout for him because the Nebraska man had reportedly made earlier comments that he was going to Kansas to kill law enforcement.
The chase ended when police say Joekel crashed his car into a home in Oketo. A manhunt followed, with police putting out public warnings, but Joekel was not found.
Now, though, he is in custody following a shoot-out ambush in Saint John Baptist Parish in Louisiana. Two deputies were killed and another two more were wounded. Joekel also reportedly was injured during the shootout.
He also faced drug and conspiracy charges in Nebraska and had failed to show up for a hearing in that state.


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Any one has the F4 version? I need to know the difference between F4 and F3.5. I have the F3.5 version.
Any one has the F4 version? I need to know the difference between F4 and F3.5. I have the F3.5 version.
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Hi Nick,
may be this can help you further
http://michel.thoby.free.fr/SIGMA8mm...20test%20300D/ Nodal%20point%20of%20SIGMA%208... - 8k - Im Cache
i found it with google: "sigma 8 mm" and it is the article about finding the nnp of this lens.
Geeze -- all ya gotta do is take some pictures of something close to the camera and look at the background to see how the foreground moves with respect to something in the middle distance back ground.
Start with a guesstimate on where the lens should go -- then move the camera back or forward 2mm each series of shots. Turn the camera so that your reference object is on the left of the viewfinder. Turn the camera so that the reference object is in the middle. Turn the camera so that the reference object is on the right of the viewfinder.
Move the camera over 1 or 2cm in 2mm steps and take the three shots and then look at the pictures.
It helps to write down the mm setting of the camera on the upper arm on a piece of paper and put that piece of paper in the field of view so you record the actual setting in the picture so you don't forget or have to figure it out. Below is an example. It aint that complicated. Takes about 20 minutes. Unless you like pining bank notes together with clothespins...