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Troy D. Butts, 48, a resident of El Dorado, loving husband and father, went home to his heavenly father Feb. 8, 2013 as the result of long-term health complications associated with a spinal injury in 1986. Troy was born in Goodland on July 29, 1964, the son of Neil and Barbara Butts. He started working early on his family farm until he was 18, then went to work side by side with his mom and brother Tony, sacking groceries at Bogarts in Goodland where he moved up in the ranks to become a meat market manager in El Dorado. He went on to earn an Associate's Degree in Applied Science from Butler Community College, become a design draftsman, and later, a CAD professor at his alma mater. He married his high school sweetheart, Pam (Beem), in 1982 and she cared for him in sickness and in health, especially when he was no longer able to work. He was preceded in death by his father, Neil in 1999; his grandparents (Butts) and grandparents (Carl); and sister-in-law, Dee (Wisby) Butts. Survivors are his loving wife, Pam Butts; son, Timothy and his wife, Sara; and dog, Sophie of El Dorado; mother, Barbara Butts of Goodland; siblings, Mike and Becky Butts of Stella, Mo., Rod and Suzie Butts of Goodland, Patty Mills of Colorado, and Tony and Michelle Butts of Colby; and their families. Viewing will be available to family only on Friday evening and to family and friends on Saturday afternoon from 1:30-2:30 p.m. preceding the funeral, which will take place at Koons Funeral Home of Goodland at 2:30 p.m. MST followed by internment at Goodland Cemetery. A Troy Butts memorial fund has been set up at Koons Funeral Home.
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5 Stupid Get-Rich Quick Scams (People Still Fall For)
#2. 4X Made Easy (Wizetrade)
Quite simply, this is God-like software that will make you rich. It seems there is something called the foreign exchange market (Forex) where people can trade currencies. The average daily trading on this market is $4 trillion dollars, which is about as big a number as you can have before you have to start using made up stuff like bajillionmillion.
The Forex is a complicated market that involves a lot of analysis. Lucky for you 4X Made Easy makes it...uh...easy. For just $4,000! And a monthly fee!
4x's spokeswoman. She wants to take all your money and be sexy.
You also get access to hilarious Jay Leno type skits like this one from their spokespeople, where they make fun of people who don't know anything about trading. Haha...what? Wait.
It doesn't matter if you really know anything about trading yourself though. You are supposed to be able to make the right trades just by following the simple instructions, buying on green and selling on red. If you are color blind that's ok too because they also have arrows pointing up and down. Hell, a monkey could do it!
Not this one, though. He just doesn't want it bad enough.
What You Will Really Get:
A software program that will give you chance to go bankrupt, really fast.
Remember that part where we said this was fucking complicated? Well those banks and trading companies that you will competing against employ hundreds of people whose only job is to research the market. You're going to be like the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi, minus the help from Luke and Han and your arms and legs. Sure you may get lucky, but at the end of the day you're going to have your furry ass handed to you.
Experts say this kind of trading is somewhere between retarded and illegal.
Even better, you can actually lose more money than you have if you make enough bad trades, because you can trade on borrowed money. So all in all simply feeding your $4,000 to a goat would be a better investment.
#1. John Beck's Free & Clear Real Estate System
This bunch of books will cost you $40 and will teach you how to find and buy houses for just few hundred dollars. Apparently there are homes out there where the owners are just desperate to sell, due to tax trouble or whatever. You'll pay almost nothing, then sell them yourself at full price. It's turning another person's misery and bad fortune into cash money in your pocket! That's what America is all about, baby!
Somehow very few people know about this little gimmick and it seems John Beck is totally not interested in becoming a billionaire by keeping this secret to himself and cornering the market on high profit desperation sales. Probably because he wants us to join in on his dream!
His website has a page of testimonials from people who claim success, including one guy who tells us he bought a unit of property for $10. He may have been confusing reality with a game of Monopoly he once played.
Don't get excited, the car is an extra $5.
What You Will Really Get:
The company of a lot of people who found out this scam was worthless.
While all these ripoffs have their share of unhappy people, John Beck's system has an impressive 44 pages of complaints on just one scam review site. It turns out that most of the information on the included DVDs is simply a repeat of the stuff you probably just finished watching in the advertisement for it, which is like having to pay for sex with your wife.
The company has been fined by the state of Utah and the Better Business Bureau has given this company its lowest rating.
Not the actual rating.
Customers have found that, amazingly, it's actually really hard to find houses being sold for pocket change. Hey! This may be why Beck went into the bullshit book business instead!
If you're really that desperate for money, check out The 6 Most Horrifying Ways Anyone Ever Got Rich.


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I wonder what is the best practice to recompile Oracle 10g programmable objects that become invalid due to changes in one of them.
To be more specific, I have a few packages, that use schema level types. I also have triggers in the system that call functions/procedures from packages. From what I understand, changes in package body don't require any further actions (except recompiling the body). However, if I change package , I have to recompile bunch of triggers that use this package and other packages that have dependencies on it.
So far I just grabbed list of invalid objects and recompiled them or used DBMS_UTILITY.compile_schema.
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As Jose Lambiet's Gossip Extra is reporting, a South Florida firehouse is, well, under fire today after officials discovered rolls of toilet paper bearing the picture of President Barack Obama in use there.
Administrators in Pompano Beach are investigating how the offending toilet paper — which sells for $5 per roll on various websites — ended up in a building ultimately owned by taxpayers.
And it's not the first political incident at the firehouse, located on Northeast 16th Street near Sample Road.
Earlier this month, a firefighter was ordered to remove anti-Obama stickers from his locker.
"If you have an opinion you're certainly entitled to it, everyone has their opinion," City spokeswoman Sandra King told WSVN-Channel 7.
"Put it on your own personal vehicle or your own personal things. But you don't display it on city property, on city grounds that maybe someone else doesn't agree with that's politically motivated and its inappropriate."


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Well Fring is blocked. I'm located in China. I neeeeed to make free skype calls to my family around the world. Skype Lite is not an option, has anybody cracked this cookie?
You could try out Nimbuzz.
At the time this question was originally asked, Skype Lite was the only official Skype client and it was locked into the Verizon Network and it locked voice calling to wifi only (so as not to compete with their cell minute plans). As of early October, Skype released it to the Market for phones on other carriers. It was still crippled from making SkypeOut calls over the 3G connection, until a Hacker over at Droid Forums came up with a solution and as I was typing this I realize that it was only for phones in the US, so it looks like it's still a no go. Sebastiaan's answer, Nimbuzz is your best bet.
What you could do is uninstall the latest version of Skype and install an older version. I recently had to do this as I found the most recent versions of Skype were just bloatware and couldn't even do basic stuff (like voice chat) anymore.
Now I have to warn you that you are taking a risk installing a non-Market app, but I believe that Freewarelovers is a reputable site.
Try version 18.104.22.1684 for starters. If that doesn't work keep trying earlier versions!


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How do you deal with tragedy?
In the wake of the Boston Bombings many people are struggling to make sense of what happened. As of the last news conference I heard, there are three dead and more than 100 wounded from the two bombs that exploded on the sidewalks of Boston near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. And just about everyone involved from the Mayor to the President is saying the same thing, we will discover who did this and why.
We want to know. We need to know. Who could have committed this crime against innocent civilians? The aged and the very young, men and women, runners and by-standers injured and killed and maimed with no regard for who or what. We want a face. We need an identity. We seek a villan. But we also want to know why they did what they did. How could they have planned and carried out this act, knowing all along, that it would inflict incredible damage and loss of life? What brings a person to a place where they could kill those they don't know for reasons that they are uninvolved in?
Let me suggest to you that knowing who and why will not stop events like this from happening in the future, nor will it bring us any real closure or peace. We will simply know. But we will not have peace.
We need to know who was behind this because that is the only way we can, "bring them to justice." Which is really just another way of saying that they will get what's coming to them. And that really is about vengeance Retaliation. Retribution for their crimes. And we want to know why because that is how we process things like this. If the person or people involved are crazy we can dissmis them and this act as desperate and we can relax knowing that there are only a few crazy people in the world - the sane would never do anything like this. If the perpetrators were seeking to terrorize then we will blame religion or fanaticism and lump whole nations of people together as those who should be feared.
But reality is, whether crazy or terrorists or opportunists or carrying out some agenda the root of this act is firmly embedded in evil. Evil. Not religion. Not marginalized individuals. Not the desperate act of the insane. Evil. No matter what the "reason" the reason is, evil. And where evil exists, as it does in this world, there will always be people who carry it out.
So what is our response then? If the who, only allows us vengeance and the why is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things how do we respond to what we've seen?
First, do not fear.
Fear seeks to control by force. When we react in fear we succumb to the terror of the event even if we were not directly involved in it. Those who would attack anyone, from a bully to a nation rely on fear. Where there is fear there is control. Most acts of terror whether on the playground or the world-stage are committed first to instill fear and second to inflict damage.
Psalm 37:1
Do not fret because of those who are evil...
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear...
Second, trust.
When actions like this happen it rallys people, but often around the wrong things. We become united in our stand against terror. We come together to seek justice. We are bound together by our disgust. But as we saw after 9/11, rallying to these banners quickly dissipates. Once a villain is found, once the why is discovered the ties that bound us begin to lose their grip. So we must rally together for something that will last beyond the event - trust. We can trust that God is involved and watching over the events and that His heart is grieved by evil as is ours. And we can trust that He will exact vengeance where it is needed and that His punishment is forever harsher than anything we could come up with.
Psalm 34:16
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth.
Third, refrain from retaliation.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't pursue justice. We have laws and will enforce them and have many people in the FBI, ATF, Homeland security and other organizations who will work diligently to discover who did this and bring them to justice. But you and I should refrain from retaliation. Much like the days and weeks following 9/11 there will be increased violence against anyone of Middle Eastern decent. I heard that a plane was rerouted and landed today because two men, not sitting together were speaking in Arabic Now, it could have something to with the evens of yesterday, but they could have also simply been talking with someone else who happened to speak their language. I guarantee that if you were on a plane full of people in a country foreign to you, you would talk to the other person who appeared to speak your language. Too often anger and retaliation only inflame the situation and do not bring peace.
Psalm 37:8
Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret�it leads only to evil.
Finally realize that evil exists in this world. Evil is the reason terror exists. Evil is the incubator for crimes against the innocent. Evil always seeks to steal, kill and destroy. It was evil that brought about the events of 9/11. Evil was behind the massacre at SandyHook. Evil was the seed that led to yesterday's attack and evil will be at the heart of every act of terror that has yet to be perpetrated wether on U.S. soil or elsewhere. The other option?
Psalm 34:14
Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
Jesus came because evil existed. He died at the hands of the evil, for the purpose of evil and the perpetuation of evil. But He rose again to defeat evil and offer hope. Evil could not keep Him in the ground. That is why good will always overcome evil. Peace will always overcome hate. Love will always be a more powerful emotion than fear. Trust that God sees it all and will keep an account of all those who pursue and perpetuate evil. Trust that, in Jesus, death no longer brings fear but hope. That Jesus, if He is lifted up as the reason we pursue peace instead of hate, good instead of evil, love instead of fear, will draw all men to Himself. And remember that Jesus went to the cross at the hands of evil men to pay the price for your sin so that there is no longer any retaliation for the evil that you and I have committed. Let the law of the land bring justice to those involved, but seek repentance and ultimate salvation for those who both killed and were killed.
Luke 6:27, 28
But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.


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Just curious... Some people say
8 glasses of water but some say that is too much and can result in overhydration. How many liters of water should a 16-years-old teenager (boy) drink a day?
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Let me start by saying that no amount of water will keep the doctor away. There're still many things that can go wrong.
The 8 glasses of water is not backed up by any meaningful scientific evidence, it's just a rule of thumb. But it includes water from all sources including food.
There're two different things that are referred to as dehydration. Acute and Cronic.
You asked about overhydration. It's not the total volume/day that can cause problems but the volume/hour. Healthy kidneys can deal with about a liter of water in an hour. The bottom line is that your body can easily deal with processing 6 liters of water if spread throughout the day but could struggle with 2 liters of consumed in an hour.
It would be a good idea to monitor salt intake. You see the body requires only 3 to 5 grams of salt a day to stay healthy, but most people gobble up 12 to 15 grams of the stuff daily. To rid itself of the overload, the body requires copious amounts of liquid.


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The CrockPot as a Foot Bath
Day 217.
I ran a half-marathon yesterday. 13.1 miles. All by myself. Well, myself and 20 thousand people.
I had a huge writing project due June 1, and instead of being happy that it was done and over with, I found myself in a funk. I didn't have anything to work towards, and was feeling antsy. Our friends Carol and Joey are long-distance runners, and they were going to run the San Francisco marathon---Carol the half, and Joey the full. Adam signed up--and without thinking twice I told him to sign me up too.
Except for that I have never really run. And Adam has. Lots.
and lots.
Being a die-hard optimist, I figured I could do it.
So I did.
We met Regan for a pasta feed and I got a good night's sleep and powered through.
I'm pretty sure that they were picking up the cones right behind me and sweeping up the Cytomax dixie cups, but I still did it.
And I'm so very glad it's over.
The Ingredients.
--a finished long run
--bubble bath (and yes, Disney Vapor Bath is the only bubble bath in our house...)
The Directions.
Make margarita.
Fill crockpot with nice warm water from the tap and some bubble bath.
Agitate water with your hand to make bubbles.
Convince the kids that this is for mommy and mommy only, and to go play outside. Or in the garage. Or in the playroom. Just stay away from mommy.
Plug in crockpot with an extension cord right in front of the TV.
Turn to warm.
Drink margarita.
The Verdict.
Adam: Hey Steph? Did you only run a half-marathon so you could soak your feet in a crockpot and post it on the Internet?
Steph: Yes. I absolutely did.
DISCLAIMER: psst. don't do this. you could get burnt. or electrocuted. or something really bad.
don't do this.
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The Grand National Roadster Show - Of Trucks And Topless TrendsettersWritten by on May 2, 2011 The Grand National Roadster Show Hauls In Another Year
The Grand National Roadster Show has been one of the most prestigious indoor car shows since its inception back in 1950. Since then, it's undergone a few name changes, changed locales a handful of times, but never has it wavered from that original esteem and pedigree that it had established way back in the day. And yet today, with all the pomp and circumstance that comes with any indoor show, there also seems to be bit of the opposite happening. With the addition of the outdoor drive-in a few years back as well as the spontaneous atmosphere in the Suede Palace all weekend long, the GNRS has become as much of a social gathering as it has an indoor car show, albeit one that covets one of the most respected awards in the hot rodding world, America's Most Beautiful Roadster.
But among all the glitz and glamour of the tens of thousands of dollars in displays and the TV crews and the media blitz, there still exists a down-home feel throughout the show thanks in large part to the balancing presence of custom cars, motorcycles, and of course our favorite, trucks. This year's show was surprisingly truck heavy, with nary a row of cars in each building that didn't have two or three trucks in it; quite a feat considering the show spread out amongst eight buildings in addition to the drive-in portion outside, which was a car show in and of itself!
The Grand National Roadster Show has been a favorite amongst die-hard gearheads and hot rodders for sixty-plus years and it's no wonder. For whether your taste is died in the wool traditional hot rods, over carbureted muscle cars, chopped and channeled customs, or sleek and slammed trucks, the GNRS has a little something for you. Oh, and did we mention there was also live music throughout the weekend, a historic gathering of custom cars in the Customs, Then and Now hall, a Pinstriper's Reunion, and an art auction on Saturday? Yup, and they also gave out a couple awards on Sunday. But let's get to what you're all waiting forthe trucks! CCT
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It's always fun to see a full-fendered early Ford. Robert Larson, from Apply Valley, California, brought out his Ford and it's a '34 to be exact.Norman Carrera had his cool '55 Chevy panel parked just outside the Suede Palace on Saturday, participating in the drive-in portion of the event.This righthand drive-converted '50 Chevy pickup built by Brizio Street Rods belongs to a guy from ol' Blighty who goes by the moniker 'Slowhand'. Yup, that Slowhand.Jack Foye's '26 Model T pickup shouldn't have any problem burning off the rear skins thanks to a blown dual-quad Hemi.
Jim Ramirez went one step further when he altered the stock layout of his '36 Ford. Channeled, chopped, and Nailhead powered, Jim's pickup is pure cool.On the other side of the coin is Gerry Reynolds' channeled yet unchopped '29 from San Juan Capistrano…Similar to Norman's panel, except with windows, is Ron Medina's '63 Suburban. The orange and white custom cruised in from Whittier, California.Dana Hinkle's Gold Rush '32 Ford was given the full indoor car show treatment, and it looked the part to boot!"Tranny" John Saltsman's '50 Studebaker pickup "Atomitron" is sure neat with more mods than you could shake a lead stick at!Steve Frisbee brought out Ramrod, a custom '33 Dodge pickup 97 percent handformed from steel, aluminum, and stainless steel built by his Portland, Oregon-based shop, Steve's Auto Restoration.
Tom and T.J. Pagano restored Mountain Pearl, a Hot Rod magazine Milestone pickup from 1959, which looks as cool today as I'm sure it did back then.


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Working Through A Room Making Idea Fail.
We all have them. Game changing (or should I say room changing) ideas that send your current decor into a tailspin that even Iceman cant pull out of. You want EVERYTHING different.
About a year ago this happened to me. I announced that I was redoing my living room and my main inspiration was Southwest.
This is what my living room looked like at that moment…not a bit of southwest to be found. I needed a change.
I had some pretty set ideas on what I wanted. The biggest thing that started the entire ball rolling was the plan to stencil my main wall with an awesome native triangle pattern. (Actually I dont know if stencil is technically the right word. I was going to stencil gold leaf adhesive to the wall and then gold leaf the pattern.) In my mind this was SUCH a brilliant idea. I had THE BEST stencil company in the world Royal Design Studios custom make a stencil for my wall. (if you are thinking about stenciling you will 100% want to use theirs. I PROMISE. My current fave is their Rattan stencil)
It took me a while to get around to doing it and to make a long story short, it was not awesome. It was imopssible to tell where the adhesive was, the edges were far from a clean line and it took for.ev.ur. to do it. I even ordered some gold stencil creme to stencil the pattern on, but by that time I had come to love the plain white walls and wasnt quite sure I wanted to give them up. (I cant seem to find the pictures of the stencil but you can see it on the wall during this video)
So now that you are caught up, here is where I am today. I LOVE the way my living room is coming together. But I am sad that there isnt more tribal southwesty goodness going on. In fact all I have right now the is even remotely ethnic is my Aztec Chevron rug (made that name up, thankyousomuch), this awesome pillow that I scored at Homegoods in AZ when I was working on Kelsey's room, and the leather and sisal woven rug underneath the desk that goes against everything I believe in.
They are all graphic (which is the whole reason I chose southwest, not because I am obsessed with peach, sea foam green and howling cartoon coyotes.) The problem is that there is just not ENOUGH.
So this week that is all changing.
I think I have figured out a way to rock the animal hide canoe a little… can't wait to show you guys! Make sure you follow me on Instagram so that you can stay updated!!
So here are my tips to working through an idea fail.
1. Failure is not an option. Ever. Just because something isnt working out the way that it should doesnt mean that you should paint the wall and give up on it forever.
2. Step away for a bit. We all know the feeling. You have stared at that DANG wall/dresser/room for waaaaay to long, its like when you have to keep writing the same word over and over and over and it gets to the point where you are asking yourself if those are in fact english letters and if it is still spelled correctly. Dont try to figure it out if you are frustrated, just give yourself a break.
3. Remember what inspired you in the first place. For me it was the graphic pattern that I loved. What was it that inspired you to get so excited you couldnt sleep? Make a list if you need to. Sometimes putting things on paper helps you narrow your focus.
4. Talk it through with someone that you trust. For me its my amazing Mother in Law. She is a perfect sounding board because she has great taste and really gets my need to push the envelope. Utilize your friends on Social Media, listen to the ones that you trust and dont discount the ones that arent your cup of tea, it might trigger your inspiration somewhere down the line.
5. Get back on the horse!! Sometimes the only way to figure it out is through trial and error. So try try again!
Do you have any triumphant ends that you want to share with the world?! Leave the link in the comments so we can all check them out!


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Yamaguchi University
Country: Japan
Web: www.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
Web: www.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp
Evolution of rankings for Yamaguchi University during the last years. The following university rankings are presented: Shanghai and Leiden.
Results of Global Rankings
Yamaguchi University
Overview of global rankings
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legit. but it expires faster that than discounted milk.
You all do realize Olive Garden is $h!t, right?
This is one of the companies that said, they will reduce hours and or fire people. Thus service is going to get worse.
Just avoid these places, Papa Johns is another. They would rather screw over people than pay a decent wage.
@lfseeney: You do realize that these companies have to make a profit to stay in business, right? Under the proposed mandates coming, in order for these companies to stay profitable and in business they are going to have to make a lot of hard choices.
Did you know that the founder/owner/president of Papa Johns has said that even with the cuts he has proposed, the price of his still pizza is going to increase by 10 to 15 cents each?
As you have your hours cut to part time status, or get laid off please enjoy your free food, housing, etc. that you are think you are entitled to. Also, remember that the health care plan that is proposed is not free. You will be required to pay for it even if you don't have a job or cannot otherwise afford it.
Please enjoy the next four years. I myself am scared, really scared.
@hottubrf: I guess one man's turd is another man's breadstick! :-)
@lfseeney: You are an idiot. Papa Johns, Applebees, Olive Garden, and MANY other businesses have said no such thing.
They HAVE said that the impending and UNFUNDED Obamacare may FORCE individual franchisees to limit their workers hours to under the 30-hour thresh hold so that the employer will not be required to pay a portion of the healthcare. What are you going to do? Boycot EVERY business that will not be able to afford this HORRIBLE legislation?? Then prepare to stay home, because no business will be able to afford it.
Enjoy eating overpriced garbage knowing a possibly sick person w/ no healthcare is wheezing and hacking over your meal while preparing it. Yummy.
I love the squabble over 10-15 cents for a pizza. So that the country can have medical insurance. If a pizza is 11.65 instead of 11.50, I'm still buying.
Not to mention of course that this is the most non-socialist, pro-capitalist policy in a long time. We're talking 45-50 million people now required to pay for insurance. Which, in case you didn't notice, is what people are required to do for auto insurance. I like how wrong it is that everyone should have health insurance. No, you're right, screw the poor. Let 'em suffer. Their fault.
How about the trillions we spend on war? I don't wanna spend that. But I'm not threatening revolt.
I love this argument that "the 47%" are lazy leeches. I work my ass off. Teacher/tutor/editor 60 hours a week. At school 9-6, then editing and tutor. I'm paying down my 50k in loans I took for college, for which I pay about 6-7% interest. Burst the bubble.
This is really just an Olive Garden coupon for 20% off a lunch order.
It's a damn shame that a simple coupon can inspire this much antagonism. On this forum lets just say thanks for the deal.
But there should be some reality checking for false statements. Sorry, but many businesses are cutting hours for people in relation to government regs; it is simply a fact. Check news stories on Darden.
So people that were busting their butts to make a living get a 25% pay cut. The government sure is helping them now, boy. But it will be OK, they will just tell the companies to give benefits at 20 hours; and then the employees will be taking home 50% instead of 75% or the 110% they really want.
I am so sorry it just sucks that this is so visceral. Lets just enjoy cheaper pasta; sometimes it's called "comfort food."
@petepapin1969: Any companies that think that they need to screw over their workers in order to buy castles for their CEO's deserve to go out of business.
enjoying eating a overprice garbage,
Also, keep in mind that the coupon says Mon-Thurs lunch, so no weekends!
"47%" counts elderly people on medicare and those on disability too, like soldiers returning missing limbs. But you're right, grandma and our vets are leaches. Have you actually met anyone on welfare at all? For those who are abusing the system what do you suggest? Forced labor camps?
No one is running the country into the ground. There are 3 branches of government to prevent that. Most are just mad a black man was elected twice and started to cry about it online. You're in your rights to do so, as am I to call you a racist idiot.
We're the only western nation without healthcare. Why? Canada has it, whats stopping us from having affordable healthcare. Oh noes Socialism! Corporate greed running the country unchecked is any better? You think the rich care about you? Explain to me how trickle down economics isn't a euphemism for the wealthy pissing on everyone.
Olive Garden is bleh, this coupon isn't going to make up for that.
@joshshaman: You can't help the poor by putting the entire country in so much debt that they can't get out. What a legacy you are leaving the children you teach. Your light bulb is obviously very dim.
We don't have universal health care, primarily because it doesn't work. And feel free to use Canada as an example. I have relatives in Canada, and they have been very very clear on how LONG they wait to get any major surgery or medical care.
And by all means use some european country, and then see that in some cases 50% of your salary goes to the common good.
Staying on topic - Olive garden does have some okay "italian". Last time I went to one of the independent local joints, the seafood was cooked until it was rubbery discs of shrimp and scallops. And the had the nerve to tell me that was correct. At least I know I get consistency from Olive Garden.
I love the glossing over the 10 trillion in debt Bush left us and the recession he left us. Obama's fault of course. I love that we can gloss over the trillions spent in the mid-east cause it's a "necessity" to fight for "freedom." And of course the personal attacks on my intelligence and my career.
I've had this debate about insurance. I pay a percentage of my income, 4.5%. My school pays 4.5% for my insurance as well (Korean law.) When people get sick or injured they go to the doctor. They don't worry about co-pays and insurmountable bills. My co-pay cost is usually around $5. My friend had knee surgery for 1k. I never "wait in line" or any of that garbage. It hasn't bankrupt this country. What a surprise.
Now, American doctors are personal doctors with whom you can have a relationship. You don't have that here. American doctors are the world's best for sure. But the argument is that I'm living in socialized hell. Wrong, it works here and could in the States.
All this political ranting is making me hungry.... oh look, breadsticks!
This is just ridiculous.
You either like the deal or you don't. No need to start a flame war because you don't like the company. Grow up people. This is what's bringing Deals.Woot! down.
Thank you to the OP for the coupon. I am using mine tomorrow.
When Bush left office and O$ama took office, the national debt was around 6 trillion. It is now around 16 trillion. What is it going to be in 4 more years? What has 10 trillion done to improve our nation? Nothing! Just lined the pockets of other "organizers"(union bosses, politicians, racial hate leaders....). Get the national government out of our lives and let the communites take care of their own. The government is supposed to protect our borders and make laws to keep the people safe from harm. Not tax everything it can until there is nothing left to tax. When the businesses go out of business becuase their prices are too expensive for people to buy(even with their government check), then what? The government does make money. Just collect taxes.
Oh yeah this is about a coupon, It sucks that it expires so quickly. I will have some soup and salad this week.
Actually the debt was $5.7 trillion when George Bush took office in January 2001 ($5.629 trillion.) When he left office it was $10.7 trillion ($10.626 trillion.) It is currently at $16 trillion (Give or take a few billion.) George Bush increased it by $4.997 trillion and currently President Obama has increased it by $5.374 trillion. There's plenty of reasons to dislike President Obama's politics, but lets at least keep the facts straight.
@mattfeldls: what businesses? The biggestest corporations don't pay taxes in the US. Show me a list of companies that are being taxed into the ground. Let the free market take care of itself you say? So another Enron or housing market collapse? Please continue to defend the richest 1%, I'll make popcorn and laugh at you.
@outdoorslife: wow so I have friends in Canada too. They love their health care. They actually wish Americans would stop crossing the boarder for cheap meds. I guess all the other nations that have had universal health care for years now must be wrong about it. Which country and tax bracket do you pay 50% of your income to "the common good"?
I dare you to try and convince me why universal health care works in those countries but not ours.


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Grilled Banana Upside-Down Cake
Categories: Entertaining, On the Grill, Snacks
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Grilled bananas bring a sweet flavor, and ground pecans add a little body to the cake's texture.
Serves: Serves 6 to 8
- 1/4 cup pecans
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Pinch ground cinnamon
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg white
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 6 tablespoons whole milk
The topping
- 3 ripe but firm bananas, unpeeled, halved lengthwise
- 1/2 cup firmly packed soft light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus 1 tablespoon for buttering the pan
- 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
- Pinch salt
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- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Generously butter a 9in (23cm) cake pan. Build a fire in your grill. When the coals are all ignited, the flames have died down, and the temperature is medium-hot (see Gauging the temperature), you're ready to cook.
- For the topping: Place the bananas on the grill over the coals, cut side down, and cook until golden brown and slightly charred (2-3 minutes). Set aside.
- Combine the rest of the topping ingredients in a small saucepan and, on the stove top, bring the mixture to a full boil over medium-high heat, stirring until melted and smooth. Cook for 1 minute, then pour into the buttered cake pan. Peel the bananas and arrange them, grilled side down, on the syrup. Set aside.
- Toast the pecans in a shallow baking pan in the oven for 5-10 minutes. Grind in a food processor or coffee grinder. Combine the ground pecans, flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl and mix well.
- Combine the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl and beat until creamy. Add the egg, egg white, and vanilla; beat until light and fluffy (about 1 minute), scraping down the bowl as necessary. Add half the dry ingredients; beat on medium speed until well blended. Add the milk and mix well, scraping down the sides of bowl. Add the remaining dry ingredients and beat until well blended. Spoon the batter over the bananas, smoothing the surface. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean (about 30 minutes).
- Run a knife around the sides of the pan to loosen. Set the pan on a wire rack and let the cake cool for 15 minutes. Invert the cake onto a serving plate and carefully lift off the pan. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Bummer. I just replaced my harddrive last week.
I've honestly had no luck with bare drives since about 2003. They just all fail after a year or two.
One thing I failed to notice in the details about the hard drive, either here or on the Newegg site, is that it does NOT tell you the speed of the hard drive. Sure, it gives you the transfer speed of "Interface SATA 6.0Gb/s" but most times when a hard drive says "green" in its title it means a speed of 5400RPM. NOT good if you're playing a graphic intensive game. Just saying....
@tehmark: It's $135 on Amazon right now.
@tehmark: They often do. It's because they are manufactured cheaply. They could manufacture near fault free drives, but nobody would order them because they would be thousands of dollars. There is a compromise in between, but it seems like manufacturers have opted to manufacture cheaply and then just give a limited warranty just in case.
Yeah, the "green" drives are slowwwww. 5400 RPM. Unless you have 3TB of music and documents, I'd pass.
thats why they are meant for storage as advertised however if you partition out the edge of the disc's you can significantly increase the read write speeds of the drive at least for that partition but fairly decent price for the 3tb but you might as well spend the extra 20-30 for a seagate goflex net drive or usb 3.0 becuase you can always take off the base and use it like a bare drive lol even though i prefer western digital by far over seagate
@kiltedbear @tehmark: The only difference between "bare" drives and retail drives are the price and the fancy box you get with the retail drive. They don't have a different plant that manufactures drive for the retail and OEM (bare) markets. I have a "bare" WD 2TB green that has been operating in my HTPC 24/7 for over 3 years without fault.
@daveofva: The WD green drives are by no means slow. WD doesn't specify the operating RPM. They use a what they call Intelliseek which varies the RPM of the drive based on the demand. When bought the 2TB Green for my HTPC, I benchmarked it against a 1TB black series drive, and the green drive was only 3MB/sec slower. IMO, the green drive is the better drive considering it cost the same (at the time), has twice the capacity, is quieter and performs the same.


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My brother in law was telling me the other day that he just sticks whole potatos into the microwave wrapped in wax paper for a quick snack. Is this ok/safe? If you do this, do you have other suggestions to make it tastier? I haven't tried it yet, but am tempted!
Before microwaving (or baking, for that matter) a potato, I always poke it deeply with a fork several times to let steam escape. I prefer the taste of a baked potato to a microwave potato, but will often speed up baking a potato by microwaving it for a few minutes first. You can definitely microwave until done.
After it is done, butter and salt and pepper are good, simple accompaniments. Shredded cheese melts nicely over the warm potato, but a crispy melted cheese poured over the potato is really amazing. Other good toppings would be sour cream, bacon, chives, green onions, and caramelized onions.
Seconding poking with a fork. Once you explode a potato in the microwave, you will never, ever do it again.
I actually like to do a hybrid for a quick snack. I'll preheat the toaster oven before microwaving. As soon as the potato is done in the microwave, I'll rub the outside with some olive oil, sprinkle kosher salt on it, then give it another 5-10 minutes in the oven/toaster oven to crisp up the skins. A lot of people will microwave-only cook them, but I don't really like a potato without a crispy skin. These don't get as properly crispy as a fully oven-baked potato would, but they're much closer than just microwaving, which tends to make skins a little soggy.
Another option for quick snacks: bake a bunch of potatoes at once, and turn them into twice-baked. These reheat really quickly and you can microwave or bake them (to reheat), both are quick reheat methods compared to baking an entire potato.
You can find recipes online, but the general idea is that you bake the potatoes, cut them in half, scoop out the insides, mash them with butter/milk/sour cream/bacon/salt/cheese/chives/onion (whatever you want, there's really no wrong way here), and then scoop that mix back into the hollowed out shells. Then, you bake them again for a short amount of time.
They're delicious, and they're quick to reheat - bonus, they also freeze very well, so I make a batch of 10 potatoes (which comes out to 20 twice-baked halves) at a time. Here is a recipe that is a great start as a guide for cooking times, but you'll find there is a ton of room for experimentation with ingredients here.
One thing to keep in mind is that some people believe nutrients will be destroyed in the microwave, so if that's a concern it might be worth baking them fully in the oven (I know, much less convenient, just throwing it out there). Caveat: some articles online not only refute that, but suggest that oven cooking may also destroy nutrients. It seems that it depends on the food item in question, along with cooking time and comparable method (boiling, steaming, baking). See related question about microwaves vs nutrients.
For a nicer texture, microwave the potato 3-4 minutes (more or less based on size of potato)(and after poking the potato well), until it is cooked enough that it gives slightly to a gentle squeeze.
Take it out of the microwave and wrap it tightly in aluminum foil and let it sit for 5-10 minutes before unwrapping and eating.
The alfoil holds in the steam from the potato and continues to cook it, producing a result much closer to oven-baking.
I microwave potatoes all the time. The cooking time in an oven is just too long (sometimes up to an hour). 1 potato gets 6-7 minutes and 3 potatoes gets 9 minutes. You might have to flip them over (carefully with a potholder). Obviously wash thoroughly and poke some holes in them first.
I have microwave the potatoes and added Birds Eye frozen veggies with the cheese sauce. it is great snack or side dish!
I will be one of the first people to say that it is not safe.
I have no idea what happened. It was three small potatoes, on a plate, in the microwave (before that, I had only done a single potato at a time). I put 'em in the microwave while I was taking a shower, as I was going to make a hash for breakfast.
When I came out of the shower, there were two charred remains of a potato, one of which was glowing. I have no idea what happened to the third potato. Maybe it was reduced to ashes.
The burning smell was bad ... it took me months of repeated cleanings trying to get the smell to go away, but it was nasty. And the tray in my microwave broke a few weeks after the incident (just randomly cracked in half) ... I have no idea if they were related, but I blame the potato.
Now, since that incident, I've learned that multiple round things near each other in the microwave is bad (might've been an episode of Mythbusters or Brainiac, I can't remember), so it might've been the fact that I had three potatoes in there at once. It might also have been an imperfect potato (you know how you sometimes get that odd black splotch or a void in the middle of a potato? I have no idea how that might affect microwaving).
Never again will I microwave a potato. Normally, I make a few extras when I'm baking some up, wrap 'em in foil, and stash 'em in the fridge, so I'm all ready for when I want to make a hash, I just didn't have any ready on that particular day.
update : So, in response to today's down-vote ... proof that I'm not crazy (at least not about this one) ... other people who have had flaming potatoes (some with pictures; the third one has an example of the glowing I was talking about):
I'm not going to claim it's a regular occurance, but it's not like I'm the only person to have it happen, either ... it happens often enough that if you're planning on microwaving potatoes, you should be prepared that you may end up with this outcome.
Last night, my flatmate popped whole scrubbed potatoes (4x) into a plastic shopping bag (like you get from the supermarket), along with perhaps 2cm of water. She tied the bag up and microwaved the whole lot for 3 minutes.
Perfectly cooked potatoes. I was amazed. She has been cooking potatoes like this for a couple of years with no incidents. But I have always been slightly wary about plastic in the microwave. Apparently in her experience, if you use coloured plastic bags, they leach colour onto the microwave plate...yikes.
This kind of disaster should not happen if you:
Make sure the potatoes have some sort of moisture (wrap in plastic, put on a plate with water in it, etc.)
Perforate the potatoes, or cut them in half
Start with less time and lower power, appropriate to the size of the potato. Small potatoes need less time and lower power.
I can make the same thing happen to potatoes in a standard oven. Crank the heat, leave them in way too long...
Unless you are taking a tiny spritz of a shower, that was waaaaaaay too long to leave potatoes in the microwave. Small potatoes -- even ten minutes at top power would likely be too much.


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Using ShapeShop you draw a silhouette and it converts the silhouette to a "blob", which gives a nice game character. Using 3DSMAX 2012 you draw a line and close the spine. How do you convert it to a "blob" there? Extrude gives sharp edges, BlobMesh only converts the lines to a blob, I want it to be the organic "blob" structure it is in ShapeShop.
Step by step as requested... (although this is from memory as I don't have the software to hand)
That should be it, but what I failed to mention is if you want to use this for a game it will be horribly high-poly and will generally be inefficient to use in a game. Therefore it would be good to use this blob as a high poly mesh to then bake a normal map onto a lower poly mesh - again google is your friend here too.
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Our new place has a few large windows facing west - this makes for a baking-hot house in the afternoons.
Curtains have been put up, but they are hot to the touch, and the rooms do feel hot (dark curtains). I'm figuring, while they give me privacy, they're not reflecting enough light away.
I figure I have the following options:
- Window Tint (dark or reflective)
- Blinds
My questions are:
- Are these my best options or are there any others?
- Which one of these is the most cost effective option? How do I calculate that?
- Within these options, what additional things do I do (reflective tint, white blinds, etc) to get the most advantage?


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I am interested in visiting Lake Baikal and exploring the areas around the lake. What is the best way of doing so and which nearby town should I use as my homebase? I'd expect using a boat to go from the west to the east side is much easier than traveling by land.
As russian, I should mention other firm, much more popular here in Russian:
They have a good set of offers, including Eco projects with volunteer work (linked above), and more traditional tours.
I think you should check the Active tours to Baikal - if they are offering the climbing tour, they definitely can provide a tour with boat :) Even if they don't, you can order the guided tour, and take the boat with you.
Another interesting site is about the ships across the Baikal, with schedule of department (only in Russian).
Good luck with your tours and welcome to Russia.
PS: All of my friends who have visited the Baikal were using their own initiative - order tickets to the Irkutsk, and after that move to the Baikal and camp there in open zones - outdoor tourism is allowed in Russia and very popular from the Soviet times.
If you have a friends inside Russia, try to use this option - its much more cheaper and fun :)
Not sure about the Lake Khövsgöl but Baikal is pretty easy to get to.
There is a lot of tours being operated in the area and there is a major city which you can fly, drive, train ride into to get started. And little did I know about this hotel which looks to be right on the lake.
Choose Irkutsk as home base. Travel to Olkhon island and rent a boat from there (cheaper) and/or join some group for a day boat trip. Using a boat to go from the west to the east coast is more exciting and quicker, but not cheaper. Public hydrofoil goes on every Monday in July and August. Departure Olkhon (Khuzir village) at 5pm; arrives Ust-Barguzin three and a half hours later.


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SOLOMON, Joyce, 71, of Toronto, OH, passed away Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, in Trinity Medical Center West in Steubenville, OH
She was born May 17, 1942, in Wheeling, WV, daughter of the late Alfred and Charlotte Kaminski Sulek.
Joyce was a retired Registered Nurse having worked over the years at St. John's Hospital, Northern Ohio Speech and Hearing Assoc. and Red Cross. She also was a school nurse at St. Francis School in Toronto, Catholic Central High School and Aquinas Catholic School both in Steubenville.
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Joyce was a member of St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Toronto, a longtime member of the choir and the C.W.C.
Surviving is her husband, Jerome "Jerry" Solomon, whom she married June 27, 1964; her son, Joseph J. Solomon, of Toronto; her two daughters, Jacqueline Solomon of Wilmington, NC and Jeanine Solomon (Christian Corso) of Broadview Hights., OH; her brother, John (Molly) Sulek, of Cumberland, MD, and her sister, Charlene (Jon) Flickinger, of Sterling, VA. Joyce also touched the hearts of many other dear family members and friends.
Visitation for Joyce will be held on Monday, March 3, 2014, from 4-8 p.m. at the J.E. Foster Home, Inc., 701 Findley St. in Toronto, OH. Additional visitation will be held on Tuesday morning from 9- 9:30 a.m. at the funeral home. Her Funeral Liturgy with Mass will follow at 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church on North River Ave. in Toronto. Father Thomas Vennetti will celebrate the Mass and burial will follow in Toronto Union Cemetery. A vigil service will be held on Monday at 4 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorial donations may be made to: St. Francis and St. Joseph Church Educational Fund, 1225 N. River Ave., Toronto, OH 43964.
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The gun laws are for the one who BREAK the law. They will get one either way. The person who works and want protection are the one who can't get anything done. The old double edge sword cuts the honest person in the world.
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Vegetarian Moussaka
Categories: Big-Batch Meals, Casseroles, Comfort Foods, Entertaining, Low-fat, Quick to fix
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Vegetarian moussaka makes a hearty meal, and freezes well so you can make a big batch to have on hand.
Prep Time: 15M
Cooking Time: 30M
Serves: Serves 4
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tsp dried mint leaves
- 3 tsp dried oregano
- 1 Ã-- 15oz (425g) can aduki beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 Ã-- 28oz (800g) can ground tomatoes or tomato purée
- 3/4 cup pine nuts
- freshly ground black pepper
- 9oz (250g) Greek-style plain yogurt
- 1 large egg
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- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Heat the oil in a saucepan over low heat. Add the onion and a pinch of sea salt, and cook gently for about 5 minutes until soft. Stir in the mint and 1 teaspoon of the dried oregano.
- Add the beans, tomatoes, and pine nuts, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low, and simmer gently for 15-20 minutes until thickened. Season well with salt and pepper.
- Spoon the bean mixture into a baking dish. Mix together the yogurt, egg, and remaining 2 tsp oregano. Spoon evenly over the top of the bean mixture. Bake for 15-20 minutes until the top is golden, puffed, and set. Serve hot with a crisp green salad.
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The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All-Time
#4. John F Kennedy
Nowadays, John F. Kennedy is remembered mostly for getting shot in the head which, while admittedly badass, barely makes the top ten of badass things he's ever done. Plagued with a bad back his entire life, Kennedy was disqualified from service in the army. Instead of using this as an excuse to pursue the decidedly more sane strategy of staying the fuck away from explody things, Kennedy had his dad pull a few strings so he could sneak his way into the navy, where he eventually became a lieutenant. Just to get some perspective, Bill Clinton dodged the draft, Grover Cleveland paid someone else to go in his place when he was drafted, but Kennedy beat the system by forcing his way into the navy. Once there he handled himself like a gravel eating shit-miner, instead of the rich Boston pretty boy he actually was.
Today, he's got his own damned aircraft carrier named after him.
The USS John F Kennedy can launch 80 planes and can single-handedly win a war with most countries on Earth
Upon leaving the Navy, he took up boning on a near full-time basis. Sure, he dabbled in being a Senator and a President or whatever, but his full-time job was Pimping. In fact, if boning-your-girlfriend-right-in-front-of-you was a business, you can bet your cuckolded ass that Kennedy would have been its District Manager.
While almost no two sources are in agreement as to just how much tail Kennedy snagged, historian John Richard Stephens says that "Kennedy confided with friends that he could only be satisfied with three women a day." It's amazing that, with all this boning, Kennedy didn't lose focus and make any colossal screw-ups while in office, and-...What? Bay of what? Moving on.
JFK's sexual conquests allegedly include Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Jayne Mansfield, Angie Dickenson, Brazilian actress Florinda Bolkan, famous burlesque stripper, and rap name pioneer Blaze Starr. There are even rumors that he also had sex with his insanely hot wife once in a while too.
Greatest Display of Badassedry:
In August of 1943, while serving as skipper of the PT-109, Kennedy's boat was ripped in two by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri. Kennedy and his crew were tossed into the water and surrounded by flames. Kennedy, despite a chronic back injury and an even more chronic boning-induced-exhaustion, managed to swim four hours to safety while towing an injured crewman by the life jacket strap with his teeth. His fucking teeth!
Most Badass Quote:
"Jack could be shameless in his sexuality, simply pull girls' dresses up and so forth. He would corner them at White House dinner parties and ask them to step into the next room away from the noise, where they could hold a 'serious discussion.'"
That quote comes from Kennedy's closest friend, Lem Billings. For proof that you will never be as badass and pimpsational as Kennedy, go ahead and try that "Hey baby, let's go have a serious discussion" line on any girl and then come back and tell us how much sex you didn't have.


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I noticed the following behavior in AutoCompletion.java:
I have written Autocompletion for XPath expressions.
If the user enters an XPath like "Store/Items/Books", then presses "Ctrl-Space" while the cursor is at the end of the XPath, performing an autocomplete replaces the "Books" correctly.
If on the other hand, the cursor is between B and o while performing the autocomplete, the autocomplete only replaces the "B" with the new word and the "ooks" remains at the end, thus getting for example "Store/Items/Bananasooks".
I wonder if the current behavior is the behavior you have expected, since it does not behave like - for example - eclipse.
I have found the method AutoCompletion.insertCompletion(..) to be the source of this and changed the behavior for my implementation in a subclass of AutoCompletion. Unfortunately this implementation does not integrate with the framework very well, since it requires the use of the "isValidChar(char ch)" method from my custom completion implementation. If you are interested, I could provide you with a proposal for AutoCompletion which adds a "replaceTypedWord" option. However it would require an additional method in the "CompletionProvider" interface and changing all implementors would be out of scope for me.
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I'm using AdMob's mediation to display adds in my iPhone App.
On all versions of iOS 5, both AdMob ads and iAds display correctly at all times.
On iOS 6, AdMob ads still display correctly at all times, but below, you will see the issue I am having with iAds. Again, this is only on iOS 6. The iAd displays behind the NavBar and gets blocked/chopped off by the tab bar.
Here is the code I am using to setup my
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Suppose I have $n-1$ distinguishable labels for internal nodes $A=\{a_1, a_2,\dots, a_{n-1}\}$ and $n$ distinguishable labels for leaves $B=\{b_1,b_2,\dots, b_n\}$ with $A$ and $B$ disjoint. What is the best way to iterate over all possible binary trees if I label without replacement?
Disclaimer: I have no computer science background, this is probably not the fastest method of solving your problem.
It is easy to iterate over all unlabeled binary trees of a given size. (I hope you agree.)
If what you're doing is computing some sum over binary trees, then the easiest way to reduce to this situation might be to first iterate over all unlabeled trees, and then for each unlabeled tree add
1/|Aut(T)|*(sum over all (n-1)!*n! possible labelings of the tree T)
where Aut(T) is the group of automorphisms of the tree. The cardinality of the automorphism group can be computed recursively: one defines a function (in pseudocode)
When you compare whether T1 and T2 are equal, you can again use recursion.
If you're not computing a sum but you really want an iterator over all labeled trees, one way could be to implement something similar to this. First iterate over all unlabeled trees, then for each internal vertex of your tree check whether there exists an automorphism switching the left and right subtree. If so, rigidify the tree by imposing the condition that the root at the left subtree should be labeled by a smaller element than the root at the right subtree; sum only over these labelings.
Wait, you mean n+1 labels for the leaves and n labels for the internal nodes, right?
Note that such trees are counted by the multinomial coefficient {2n choose 2,2,2,2,...,2} (with n 2s), because their Prüfer codes are exactly the ones containing 2 of all but one of the bis and 1 of the last one. If you take such a Prüfer code and affix to its end the label of the root, then you're just counting anagrams of b1b1b2b2...bn-1bn-1bnbn. I'm not a computer scientist, but these are easy enough to loop through, right?
EDIT: Wait, sorry, this counts full binary trees where left and right children are indistinguishable. I suppose this isn't what you want, is it?
Not too hard to fix, fortunately, since the nodes are already labeled: just decide for each internal node whether the child with the higher label is on the right or left. There are 2n ways to pick that. We can incorporate this into our earlier counting method by looking at anagrams of the 2n distinct letters b1c1b2c2...bn-1cn-1bncn. (There are, of course, (2n)! of these). Given such an anagram, get a binary tree as follows:
First, chop off the last letter, treat the cis as bis, and find the tree with this new string as its Prüfer code. Choose the letter you chopped off to be the root, so every internal node now has two children. To decide which is on the left and which is on the right, ask whether bi came before ci in the original string. If so, the child with the smaller label is on the left; otherwise it's on the right.
The paper "Binary Tree Gray Codes" by Proskurowski and Ruskey, in the Journal of Algorithms http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0196-6774(85)90040-9 gives a method of generating all binary trees, so that the successive in the generation differ by a constant amount. It also gives references to previous such algorithms.
This seems naturally recursive. For each choice of root and each subset of the internal nodes, you have to generate all possible left subtrees using those internal nodes, and all possible right subtrees using the remaining nodes. For each pair of those, you have to generate all permutations of the leaves.
That's if the left and right branches are considered distinguishable, so if "r(L, R)" means the binary tree with root r, left subtree L, and right subtree R, then r(L, R) and r(R, L) are not the same. On the other hand, if the relation "r(L, R) = r(R, L)" holds, then you can avoid double-counting in the following way: for each choice of root, pair each subset S of the remaining internal nodes with its complement Sc, and out of each pair, pick one to use as the nodes for the left subtree; don't use both it and its complement. You still generate all permutations of the leaves for each pair of left and right subtree.


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The American Typewriter comes by default on Mac machines, but not on Windows. If those in my agency who need to use this font on their PC, do they have to purchase a license for it, or could I just give them the font to use?
In terms of technology, likely no problem. Font file formats are mostly cross platform these days (OSX and Windows 7 can handle most font file formats). Legally, though, it's murky. The fonts that come with OSX are licensed with the purchase of the Operating system. Technically, you are allowed to use them with the operating system...but not on other machines.
You can't just give them the font to use. The OS X EULA doesn't allow that, so it would not be legal, but there is the practical point that the older TTC (TrueType Collection) format, which is how this particular font is store on the Mac, is both rare (although it's used on both platforms) and obsolescent.
There are so many advantages to OpenType, beside the simple fact of it being a truly system-agnostic wrapper for both Type 1 (developed by Adobe) and TrueType (developed by Apple and Microsoft) outlines, that I advise designers using any font in a production environment to upgrade. In your case, you would be best to use the OTF version in both environments so that you don't run into reflow issues moving documents from one platform to another. If you are likely to be creating documents in more languages than just English, or even if you have occasional need to set foreign words, you have even more reason to opt for OpenType.
Truetype or Postscript fonts are copyrighted works. You are not allowed to copy them without a license, and that obviously includes copying them to multiple PCs. The license coming with MacOS X actually says that you are not allowed to copy them, but even if it didn't specifically say that, as long as you don't find anything in writing that allows it, copying fonts is illegal.
The default Mac American Typewriter is a TrueType font. In most cases, TrueType and Postscript fonts are not compatible between the Mac OS and Windows. So the Mac TrueType font generally will not work on a Windows machine.
[Note: the Mac can use either a Mac version or a Windows version of almost any font. Windows is not that forgiving and can not use Mac versions of fonts.]
You'd be better off purchasing an OpenType version of the font for the number of seats you need. From here for example
The OpenType format will work on both the Mac and the PC and will be constructed much better than the default TrueType format which ships with the Mac OS.


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Are there any Nusach Ashkenaz Shuls that say Yotzros or Musaf on the weeks of the Four Parshios?
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Seems the Yekkis have
Yes, there are many who still do (though unfortunately a minority today). To name a few, Fifth Avenue Synagogue says the Musaf piyutim as does OZ on West Side (or at least they did last time I was there for Parshas Shkalim about 9 years ago), one or more of the Young Israels in the NY area do (I forgot which one but I know that at least one does it). In Brooklyn, there are a whole bunch of shuls that do so incl. nusach ashkenaz shuls (though the majority of those who say yotzros today daven sefard). Breure's in Washington Heights of course says all the piyutim as do a number of other shuls there. In Europe, many of the old shuls follow the minhagim as they were before the war and say yotzros (incl. the main shuls in London, Budapest, Strasbourg, Zurich, Basel...all of which daven ashkenaz)
An interesting example is the Yerushalmi shuls in Israel, who follow the customs of Tamidei HaGra. (I think the Tukachinsky luach mentions this custom.)
They don't say Yotzrot or Krovot during the brachot of Shma or Shmone Esrei, but after Shacharit (and before taking out the Torah) they say the piyyutim.
All the shules under Rav Teitz in Elizabeth, New Jersey have said all Yotzros for over seventy years
I have heard that Ner Yisrael says the Mussaf for Shkalim and Hachodesh as do many shuls that follow the yeshiva's minhagim. Anyone have first-hand experience?
I also heard from a number of people (but again, I have not been there to confirm) that Lakewood says many of the piyutim for Arba Parshios. Anyone know exactly which ones they say?
I know that Chofetz Chaim Adas Bnei Israel in Baltimore says the piyutim in Shachris and Mussaf for Arba Parshios.
Kesher Israel in Washington, DC says just the Mussaf on Parshas Hachodesh (and not Shkalim), a remnant of the original custom at the shul.
All these places daven Ashkenaz.
Also, GGBH (Golders Green Beis Hamedrash, also known as Munks) say most piyutim from the polin version of the roedolheim yotzros. Hendon Asas Yisroel say the piyutim that are in Chazoras HaShatz but not in Birkas Kriyas Shma.


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Q: My son speaks with a pronounced lisp, which was evaluated through the public-school system. I was told he would outgrow it within two years; he did not receive speech therapy through the district. He has continued to lisp at age seven and a half. Are there any good resources for homeschoolers to use to deal with this type of speech problem in the home?
A: Homeschoolers frequently recommend Straight Talk by Marisa Lapish. The book and accompanying videotape teach parents how to work with their child to improve difficulties with speech. This program can be used alone, or in conjunction with other speech classes or resources.
Private insurance will often pay for a limited number of speech classes or at the very least, an evaluation by a professional speech therapist. Ask your pediatrician to refer you to a speech pathologist. Have your child evaluated to see if the therapist concurs with the school's evaluation. Private speech therapy classes are prohibitively expensive (I was quoted $90 for a half hour), but the therapist should be able to offer suggestions for working with your child. If there is a serious problem, your insurance (or even the school) should provide the help she needs.
My daughter had a lisp, as well as pronunciation difficulties. At eight years old, the improvement has been dramatic. We did not pursue outside help. Although most books on speech development mention seven as the cutoff age, a friend who specializes in speech difficulties told me that eight or even nine may be more accurate. That has certainly been the case with my daughter. Good luck!
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Isabel Shaw is a freelance writer and homeschooling mom of 15 years. She and her husband Ray homeschool their two daughters, Jessica and Amanda. Besides being a contributor to FamilyEducation.com, Shaw has written for Home Education Magazine, The Link, Homeschooling Horizons Magazine, The Homeschool Gazette, and other publications.