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Barbara J. James, 76, of Nebraska City, died Feb. 15, 2013 at Duff's Friendship Villa in Nebraska City. She born on Aug. 9, 1936 in Onawa, Iowa, to Merritt Earl and Irene Frances (Belcher) James. She graduated from Nebraska City High School in 1956.
She is survived by brothers Merritt James and wife Mary of Lincoln and Donald "Dee Dee" James of Nebraska City; sister-in-law Diane James of Nebraska City and her sons Randy DeVorss of Lincoln, Danny DeVorss of Nebraska City, Bryan DeVorss of Julian and Matt Tillman of Nebraska City; special niece Rena Miller and husband Todd of Meridian, Idaho; great-nephews Randy and Hayden Miller; and numerous cousins, other family and friends
She was preceded by brother Richard James.
Funeral services will be Monday, Feb. 18, at 10:30 a.m. at Gude Mortuary in Nebraska City with Fr. Michael McCabe officiating. Burial will follow the services at Wyuka Cemetery in Nebraska City.
Pallbearers will be Bill Balfour, BJ Reid, John Gawart, Don Kingery, Steve Vogel and Wes Royal.
The family will greet friends from 9:30-10:30 a.m., prior to the services on Monday.
Memorials may be given to the family.
Remembrances may be left at www.gudefuneralhomes.com.
Gude Mortuary is in charge of the arrangements.
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5 Famous People You Won't Believe Didn't Exist
Have you ever heard a speaker or boss quote some profound saying from Sun Tzu's The Art of War? Did you know there's a good chance that the wise philosopher who wrote that book never actually existed?
He's hardly alone -- lots of figures from history and pop culture are the product of either some marketing campaign or just bad record keeping. Either way, centuries from now, people will probably still think that at one time there was a person named ...
#5. Betty Crocker
Why She's Famous
When you buy Betty Crocker cake mix, or one of the dozens of other products bearing that name, you obviously don't assume that the company is still run by her, any more than Wendy's is still owned by Wendy. But it's logical to assume that, way back when the company got started, there was some actual lady named Betty Crocker just selling her cookies or whatever, in the same way that at one time Ferrari was just Enzo Ferrari making cars in his garage.
And in fact, Betty Crocker first became famous in the 1920s when she started personally responding to customer questions for the Washburn Crosby Company (which later became General Mills). Her popularity grew so much that in 1924 she got her own radio show and cooking school, and by 1945, she was the second best known woman in America, after the first lady. She also loved sitting for portraits, apparently:
Via Bettycrocker.com
"You're allowed one outfit. Make it a good one."
But It Turns Out ...
Betty Crocker is a crock of shit. It's not that she no longer exists, as some of you may assume -- it's that she never did. The name was created in 1921 to "personalize responses to consumer inquiries," and her famous signature was chosen from samples submitted by female employees. She was invented by Sam Gale, Washburn Crosby's advertising director, because he didn't think women would take cooking advice from a man.
Via YouTube
"Betty Crocker cake mix: vagina certified!"
The made-up name gained so much respect and credibility that the company just went along with it. For the radio show, each station had a different woman to be the voice of "Betty," but all read from a script developed by the home office. As for the portraits, well, this explains how she could look like a 30-something housewife in the '40s and a still-30-something yuppie in the '80s, short of her being Doctor Who.
Via Bettycrocker.com
So that brownie mix doesn't grant immortality? This is bullshit.
And people of all ages still believe in her today. The writer of Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food did a little survey and says that about half the people she talked to believed that Betty Crocker was a real person, or that she existed at some point. Hell, just do a Google search and you'll find plenty of disheartening evidence.
Via Yahoo Answers
If they tell us Count Chocula isn't real either, we're going to lose our shit.
Hey, speaking of great female entrepreneurs who are actually just fictional characters created by some dudes in an office ...
#4. Mavis Beacon (of "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" Fame)
Why She's Famous
If you can type a full sentence without looking down after every letter, there's a good chance you know who Mavis Beacon is. For 25 years, Beacon has been teaching kids how to make words with a keyboard with her popular "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" software. Today she operates her very own website and Twitter account (which describes her as "smart, classy, and a little bit sassy," and accordingly follows Sarah Silverman). She also has a charity called Mavis Cares, which "donates software to nonprofit organizations specializing in job-skills training."
Via Amazon
And other high-risk sectors, like YouTube commenters.
So she's a great lady, all in all. Hopefully we won't find out she's fake in the next paragraph.
But It Turns Out ...
The best typing teacher ever really was too good to be true. Mavis Beacon started out as little more than a random face on the box of the program, but she became an instant success: The guy who created her says that in the year the program launched, competitors were asking him how he got the Mavis Beacon to endorse his product and telling him they'd "been after her endorsement for years."
Via Kateva.org
"More the 'early '90s Halle Berry from Boomerang' era Mavis, but we're not too picky."
Beacon's original face was discovered working at a department store (she's since been replaced with computer-generated images, as will we all eventually), while her voice was provided by an assistant at the company. As her popularity grew, Beacon went from a glorified logo to an interactive onscreen instructor who is known for telling students to "call it a day" when she senses they're screwing around.
When the story broke, people were shocked to learn of Mavis' origins. Apparently, the news hasn't reached everyone, because people are still finding out about this. "Ms. Beacon's" public relations representative (yep, that's a thing) says she gets inquiries about speaking engagements and fields questions about where, exactly, the woman is teaching currently. Some fans find Beacon's non-existence difficult to stomach: "There was one man who kept calling back. He could not believe it. He kept asking questions, and saying 'Are you sure?'"
Via Reddit
"Mavis, NO! She was to be my wife."
#3. Carolyn Keene (Writer of the Nancy Drew Books)
Why She's Famous
She's one of the most popular authors in history, having sold more than 100 million copies of her Nancy Drew books. In fact, a whole bunch of you out there only started reading books at all because somewhere around middle school you stumbled across some Nancy Drew paperbacks.
Each of the over 300 books in the series starring the titular teenage Sherlock Holmes was written by Carolyn Keene. When the series first started, Keene was profiled by magazines and invited to join the Authors Guild, and she continues to crank out bestsellers despite the fact that she has to be, what, over 100 years old now?
Jupiterimages/Polka Dot/Getty Images
Here she is at age 24.
But It Turns Out ...
Actually, she's zero years old, because she never existed. Nancy Drew (along with The Hardy Boys and other series in the "unattended teenagers solve mysteries" genre) was invented by publisher Edward Stratemeyer, then handed off to numerous ghostwriters and credited as "Carolyn Keene." This would be fine and good if the company hadn't then started lying and threatening people to protect its "business secrets."
Via Lib.umd.edu
Nancy Drew books are like sausages: shadily made, but delicious with mustard.
For instance, in the 1930s, one Walter Karig wrote to the Library of Congress asking to be credited as the writer of three Nancy Drew books because, well, he fucking was. In response, the Stratemeyer Syndicate claimed they'd never heard of such a man. Most of the early books were actually written by Mildred Wirt Benson, but she signed a "secrecy contract" that forbid her from claiming credit for them. It didn't say anything about TV shows, though, so when her stories were adapted in the '70s, she asked for some recognition. The Stratemeyers threatened to sue her if she didn't cut that shit out.
Via Lib.umd.edu
"If we can't fuck over the people who create the content that makes us money, I don't even know why we're in business."
Obviously, at some point Nancy Drew fans started getting curious about all the mystery surrounding the author, so in the '70s the publisher put out publicity materials hinting that Keene was Harriet Stratemeyer all along (she did write many of the books, but not all). However, in 1980, the company was involved in a lawsuit and Mildred Benson was called to testify -- as a result, they had to admit her contribution. That didn't extend to putting her name on the covers of the books she wrote, of course. That would be crazy.

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Minka Lavery 1498-357 Iron Oxide 3 Light Semi-Flush Ceiling Fixture from the Nanti Collection
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|Instruction Manual
|Specification Sheet - NCS
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|Base Color
|Brown, Silver
|Bulb Base
|Medium (E26)
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|Bulb Type
|Compact Fluorescent, Incandescent
|Canopy Height
|Canopy Width
|Energy Star
|12, 12.25
|Light Direction
|Down Lighting
|Location Rating
|Dry Location
|Number of Bulbs
|Product Weight
|Shade Color
|Shade Material
|Shade Shape
|Shade Type
|Drum, Etched
|Suggested Room Fit
|Bedroom, Dining Room, Foyer, Living Room
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Three Light Semi-Flush Ceiling Fixture from the Nanti Collection
- Etched Vanilla glass drum shade
- Drum shades offer a simple, elegant design for any room
- Etched glass shades offer creative patterns and designs
- Designed to cast light in a downward direction
- Suitable for dry locations
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- Bulb Base - Medium (E26): The E26 (Edison 26mm), Medium Edison Screw, is the standard bulb used in 120-Volt applications in North America. E26 is the most common bulb type and is generally interchangeable with E27 bulbs.
- Compatible Bulb Types: Nearly all bulb types can be found for the E26 Medium Base, options include Incandescent, Fluorescent, LED, Halogen, and Xenon / Krypton.
- Bulb Base: Medium (E26)
- Bulb Included: No
- Bulb Type: Compact Fluorescent, Incandescent
- Canopy Height: 0.75"
- Canopy Width: 5"
- Dimmable: No
- Energy Star: No
- Height: 12" (measured from ceiling to bottom most point of fixture), 12.25" (measured from ceiling to bottom most point of fixture)
- Location Rating: Dry Location
- Number of Bulbs: 3
- Product Weight: 8.14 lbs
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- Shade Type: Drum, Etched
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- Wattage: 180
- Watts Per Bulb: 60
- Width: 14" (measured from furthest point left to furthest point right on fixture)
- UL Listed - Indicates whether a product meets standards and compliance guidelines set by Underwriters Laboratories. This listing determines what types of rooms or environments a product can be used in safely.
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As part of the Minka Group, Minka Lavery has created a reputation of being a trendsetter in developing creative, innovative, and decorative lighting for the discerning designer or homeowner. Pleasing collections of modern, traditional, and transitional lights that will provide inspiration and options in creating your idea of the perfect living space throughout the home. Find the style and size of Minka Lavery indoor ceiling fixture, as a flush mount or a semi-flush mount, that will give your home the best combination of form and function possible.
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Yes, this item is UL listed for wet locations.
Can this light be used in a bathroom over a tub? the shower is right next to the tub.
A. Yes, this item is UL listed for wet locations.
The Minka Lavery 1498 does not come with any other stems to add length to it.
Do you have an extension bar or is that the only length to hang from the ceiling
A. The Minka Lavery 1498 does not come with any other stems to add length to it.
The Minka Lavery 1498 is closed at the bottom and open at the top.
Is the glass shade open or closed at the bottom? Is it open at the top?
A. The Minka Lavery 1498 is closed at the bottom and open at the top.
The Minka Lavery 1498 Iron Oxide is more of a dark brown (espresso) color.
What color is Iron Oxide? It is listed in the Black finishes category but appears to be more of a brown in the picture.
A. The Minka Lavery 1498 Iron Oxide is more of a dark brown (espresso) color.
The Minka Lavery 1498 has a glass shade that is 14 inches wide, and 6-1/8 inches tall. I hope this helps!
What is the height of the shade?
A. The Minka Lavery 1498 has a glass shade that is 14 inches wide, and 6-1/8 inches tall. I hope this helps!
The canopy measures 5"w
What is the width of the base?
A. The canopy measures 5"w
The Minka Lavery 1498 total height measurement from the ceiling to the bottom of the fixture is 12.13".
what is the total height ceiling to bottom of fixture?
A. The Minka Lavery 1498 total height measurement from the ceiling to the bottom of the fixture is 12.13".
The metalwork on the 1498 does cast shadows.
Does the metal work cast shadows on nearby walls?
The metalwork on the 1498 does cast shadows.
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I have a unit with 85 aim, if I give them a light plasma rifle with a scope that would be +20. What would an aim of 105 mean? Is there a reason to ever go over 100 on any stat except Hit Points?
The maximum hit chance you are gonna get is 100%, even if you theoretically have more that that.
Having a 100 Aim does not mean a 100% chance to hit - enemy's defense bonuses will lower it. To have a 100% chance to hit against a sectoid in high cover (-40% to hit), you'd need an unattainable 140 aim, not to mention enemies with defense bonuses. The same principle applies to other stats - it is almost always beneficial to to have more than a 100 in a stat.


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Thanks to this question I am compelled to ask:
What is the source for not eating Matzah prior to פסח?
Is there a source for not eating it for 30 days prior?
Thanks to this question I am compelled to ask:
What is the source for not eating Matzah prior to פסח?
Is there a source for not eating it for 30 days prior?
An original source of this custom is the Sheyare Knesses HaGedola Siman 471:3 where he writes that the custom in Kushta (Istanbul) is to avoid eating matza as of Rosh Chodesh Nissan.
The Mishna Berura (471:12) brings that the custom is not to eat Matzah from Rosh Chodesh. One of the sources he brings in the Shaar HaTzion is the Chok Yaakov. The relevant Chok Yaakov is here.
There (471:7), he quotes Sharei Knesset Hagedola brought in this answer. Interestingly, he quotes it as saying from "Rosh Hashanah", which I'm assuming in this case refers to Rosh Chodesh Nissan.
With regards to not eating Matzah 30 days prior to Pesach, there is a letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe (published in Likutei Sichot volume 11 page 293) to a person who was told that he must remove some of his teeth for health reasons.
In the end of the letter (dated the 4th of Nissan 1954), the Rebbe writes:
See here, where HaRav Yosef Nemes posits that this is connected to the statement of the Baal HaTanya (quoted in Hayom Yom for the first day of Pesach):
We have an obligation to start learning about the holiday 30 days before, and since the faith must proceed the healing, we spend the 30 days prior to the holiday studying the holiday but not eating the matzah, so that when we finally eat the Matzah we have made sure that we have preceded the healing with faith.
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In Minecraft, if you place two blocks touching diagonally, does that form a real wall/barrier?
Put another way, is there anything (water, lava sparks, skeleton arrows, monster spawning, etc) that can get through a diagonal joint like that?
Example house:
XXX <-- can anything get through the diagonal gaps in the corners?
X X or do I need to fill in the corner pieces?


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I think I have auto updates enabled, but I'm not sure.
Today, I lost my wireless connection icon I had in the panel and also lost my wireless network connect capabilities.
I have Windows as a back up but have found it is way too unreliable to use anymore and would love to get this working again.
Not sure why it would disappear but it is no longer auto connecting to the wireless network.


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In Lorentzian AdS space there are both normalizable and non normalizable solutions and we also know (at least for scalar fields in bulk) what do they correspond to in the boundary. But I saw the calculation only for scalar fields. Can someone please give me a reference where people have calculated these modes for a gauge fields, say for a graviton field? McGreevy's lecture note says the relation $\Delta(\Delta-D)=m^2L^2$ gets modified to $(\Delta+j)(\Delta+j-D)=m^2L^2$ for form $j$ fields. Does this mean for other fields too the normalizable and non normalizable behavior remains the same: namely $Z_0^{\Delta_+}$ and $Z_0^{\Delta_-}$, as $z_0\rightarrow 0$ ($\Delta_{\pm}$ are two solutions of course)? How can that be?
At the end of Sec 3.3.1 of the MAGOO review (hep-th/9905111) you will find a useful list of the relationship between conformal dimension $\Delta$ and masses $m$ for scalars, spinors, vectors, p-forms, first order (d/2)-forms, spin $3/2$ and massless spin $2$ fields along with a list of references to the literature where these various cases were analyzed.
As Jeff Harvey points out, you can find all of the original calculations for the various form fields in the references of the MAGOO article. But you are better off working the result out for yourself, and it's not a difficult calculation.
You are only concerned with the asymptotics of the fields, so you can make some simplifications. Start with the Poincaré patch of AdS (where the metric is especially easy to work with) $$ ds^2 = \frac{\ell^2}{z^2}\,(dz^2 + \eta_{ab} dx^a dx^b) ~.$$ Now focus on the $z$ dependence of the field, ignoring any dependence on the boundary coordinates. Assume the field scales like $z^{\Delta}$ as $z \to 0$. Evaluate the equation of motion with this ansatz, and the condition for $\Delta$ follows. For a scalar field this calculation takes just a few lines. Working it out for massive p-forms is a bit more involved: you will need to expand the covariant derivative of a (p+1)-form field strength and then work out the z dependence of the terms involving Christoffel symbols. But the simple form of the metric in the Poincaré patch keeps this from getting too complicated, and eventually you'll get the result you quoted for $\Delta$.
Notice that this calculation works equally well for Euclidean and Lorentzian AdS. For a discussion of the differences between the two, see hep-th/9805171.


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I am very new to web development and in some weeks I start my own small gaming network.
Now I am doing everything alone and I struggle to find good resources about advertising networks. And I don't want to have ugly ads on my website. I searched for gaming advertisements and I found ad4games and gaming online advertising.
At the moment I don't even know if I can pay the server costs. This is really bugging me. I contacted several ad networks, but all of them don't want to do a contract with me before my site launches.
-> I have to wait and gather information about my visitors.
Now I was curious which ad network other sites are using, and I saw that stackoverflow is using adzerk as an adserver.
If I am correct I can get ads from different adnetworks and put them on my adserver.
But overall the whole topic is like a huge blackbox for me.
Could you recommend me some resources or give me some insights?
Edit: I am currently listening to http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/08/podcast-64/ and its really interesting.


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Pesticides and Food
Under the 1996 Food Quality and Protection Act, designed in part to protect children in particular from the toxic effects of pesticides, the EPA is required to review the safety of about nine thousand existing pesticides in food. As a result of the new law, the EPA recently banned the use of chlorpyrifos, a member of the organophosphate family, from all domestic consumer products. Farmers may still spray crops with chlorpyrifos, but its use will be significantly reduced. The ban won't make for safer imported produce, however. Foods including New Zealand apples, Chilean grapes, and Mexican tomatoes contained the highest chlorpyrifos residues when tested by the USDA between 1994 and 1998, and there's no reason to think that will change any time soon.
A Pesticide Primer
- Pesticide refers to herbicides, fungicides, insecticides, and other substances that prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate insects, rodents, weeds, fungi, and microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses. Pesticides also regulate plant growth, defoliate plants, and promote plant death.
- Since pesticides pose harm to pests, including animals and plants, they are, by definition, risky for humans, too.
- According to the EPA, about three hundred and fifty pesticides are used on our foods.
- Drinking water can contain pesticides when the chemicals make their way from nearby farmland to ground water or surface water systems that contribute to a drinking water supply.
In spite of their findings that certain foods harbor harmful pesticides, Consumers Union does not recommend banishing fruits and vegetables from the diet. Even with pesticide use, the organization says that the health benefits of produce outweigh the risks from the pesticides they contain. Take the following steps to reduce your child's pesticide exposure:
- Choose foods with the least risk for harmful pesticides. According to Consumers Union, they include: frozen and canned corn, milk, domestic orange juice and broccoli, bananas, and canned peaches. Avoid riskier foods such as domestic and imported fresh peaches; frozen and fresh domestic winter squash; domestic and imported apples, grapes, spinach, and pears; and domestic green beans.
- Wash or peel all fruits and vegetables. Remove the outer leaves of leafy vegetables such as lettuce. Use products such as Fit Fruit and Vegetable Wash (Procter and Gamble) and Wash Dem Veggies (Vermont Soapworks) to remove water-resistant pesticides from produce.
- Eat a wide variety of foods to limit regular consumption of the same pesticide.
- Buy organic produce, particularly peaches, apples, grapes, pears, green beans, winter squash, and spinach when you are able.
- Pesticides can be found in meat. When they are, they are most concentrated in the fatty part of the meat, so trim all visible fat and avoid eating poultry skin.
- Limit home pesticide use and never use products containing organophosphates and carbamates because they can interfere with your child's developing nervous system.
- Need an exterminator? Find one that practices integrated pest management (IPM) to tame unwanted pests.
- Check out pest control policies in your child's school or day care facility and urge them to use fewer pesticides.
Is your water safe to drink? Most likely, yes, unless your community is undergoing an outbreak because of contaminated water. Public water supplies contain the chemical chlorine, which, along with water filtration, reduces the levels of most harmful germs, with one exception: Cryptosporidium parvum, a chlorine-resistant organism, can make its way into tap water and cause illness in thousands of people at a time. Symptoms of cryptosporidosis include watery diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and fever. Children and pregnant women are among those at greater risk for cryptosporidosis. When outbreaks occur, boil your water for five minutes or purchase bottled water for drinking instead.
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Cost for continued coverage is 102% of the total premium. The COBRA enrollee is responsible for the premium. Wright State University makes no contribution towards the cost of coverage. Coverage may be purchased for any or all persons on your policy at the time of termination.
Depending on the reason for the loss of coverage, the maximum coverage continuation period may vary as outlined below:
• A terminated employee can purchase the coverage up to 18 months
• A dependent who loses coverage can purchase up to 36 months
If you or your dependents become eligible for COBRA enrollment, you will receive an enrollment application from United Medical Resources (UMR), our COBRA administrator. You will have 60 days to enroll in the coverage. If elected, coverage will begin the first day after coverage through Wright State was terminated. In the case of a dependent losing coverage, it is the employee's responsibility to inform Human Resources of the termination of the dependent's coverage.
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I was wondering if it is possible to download content like an mp3 or movieclip from the internet and directly having it added to the itunes library. So you wont have to connect to the computer to have files sync with your iDevice. Or you can download a movie trailer and automatically have it show up between all your movies.
Is this possible, and if so, how?


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Brain & Nervous System Health Center
Memory Loss
In this article
It's the stuff movies are made of: After a blow to the head, a person wanders aimlessly, unable to remember who he is or where he came from. While such sudden, profound loss of memory is rare, memory loss is a problem that affects most people, to a degree.
Whether it's occasional forgetfulness or loss of short-term memory that interferes with daily life, there are many causes of memory loss.
Recommended Related to Brain & Nervous System
Many people at some point experience spasm-like movements of particular muscles. These movements, known as tics and twitches, often affect the eyelids or face. They can, though, occur anywhere in the body. In most instances, tics and twitches are harmless and temporary. In some cases, though, they may be caused by a tic disorder. Tic disorders generally can be managed with treatment and lifestyle changes.
Read the Tic Disorders and Twitches article > >
Causes of Memory Loss
Here are some of the more common things that can cause memory loss:
Medications. A number of prescription and over-the-counter medications can interfere with or cause loss of memory. Possible culprits include: antidepressants, antihistamines, anti-anxiety medications, muscle relaxants, tranquilizers, sleeping pills, and pain medications given after surgery.
Alcohol, tobacco, or drug use. Excessive alcohol use has long been recognized as a cause of memory loss.
Smoking harms memory by reducing the amount of oxygen that gets to the brain. Studies have shown that people who smoke find it more difficult to put faces with names than do nonsmokers. Illicit drugs can change chemicals in the brain that can make it hard to recall memories.
Sleep deprivation. Both quantity and quality of sleep are important to memory. Getting too little sleep or waking frequently in the night can lead to fatigue, which interferes with the ability to consolidate and retrieve information.
Depression and stress. Being depressed can make it difficult to pay attention and focus, which can affect memory. Stress and anxiety can also get in the way of concentration. When you are tense and your mind is overstimulated or distracted, your ability to remember can suffer. Stress caused by an emotional trauma can also lead to memory loss.
Nutritional deficiency. Good nutrition -- including high-quality proteins and fats -- is important to proper brain function. Deficiencies in vitamin B1 and B12 specifically can affect memory.
Head injury. A severe hit to the head -- from a fall or automobile accident, for example -- can injure the brain and cause both short- and long-term memory loss. Memory may gradually improve over time.
Stroke. A stroke occurs when the blood supply to the brain is stopped due to the blockage of a blood vessel to the brain or leakage of a vessel into the brain. Strokes often cause short-term memory loss. A person who has had a stroke may have vivid memories of childhood events but be unable to recall what he or she had for lunch.


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20 Sep 2012 1:17 AM #1
Unanswered: Sencha List is not loading in Android 4.1 Jellybean - Nexus
We have a strange bug in our sencha 1.1 app: We have screens having lists. So far so good. We already have this screen since a long time in our app, but now we have a problem on android 4.1 or rather the galaxy nexus: the list is not fully rendered and because of that the list is not loaded. When we change the scroll property of the list to false the list is loading. The strange thing is on our other android devices and the iPhone it works without any problems, and in the browser and android emulator it works also.
Did anyone can help ?
22 Sep 2012 5:06 AM #2
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What do you mean it's not fully rendered? Is it the height just not full height?Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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26 Sep 2012 3:05 AM #3
I am also facing the same problem. My application working fine in android 2.3 but in 4.1 it's showing blank white screen. Any idea why this is happening?How to solve this?
23 Oct 2012 2:28 AM #4
What do you mean it's not fully rendered? Is it the height just not full height?
Hi Mitchell,
The list is not fully rendered means we can't scroll the list, if we make the scroll property of the list to true. Also we found that in date picker fields we can't scroll the values.
The scroll on panels its working fine. But in lists and pickers the scrolling is not working.
16 Nov 2012 4:26 PM #5
Jelly Bean not loading the application
I have my sencha touch application which was working with older android devices. Now its not loading on jelly bean devices, all it shows is a white screen.
This is the application - https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...van.tamilflash
16 Feb 2013 4:10 AM #6
In my case date picker is not scrolling in android 4.1.1


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WELLSBURG - Defending West Virginia Class A baseball champion Madonna got off to a strong start to the 2013 season with a 7-2 victory at Class AAA Brooke Saturday.
"It's awesome," said Madonna head coach T.J. Brancazio. "It's always good to come into Brooke, a big school and (Brooke head coach Ron) coach Ujcich runs a good program, and get win."
Luca Fuscardo and Tory Fuscardo combined to hold the Bruins to just four hits. Luca Fuscardo picked up the win, surrendering just one run on one hit over five frames. Tory Fuscardo finished the final two frames giving up an unearned run and three hits.
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SATURDAY BASEBALL — Madonna's Luca Fuscardo is tagged out by Brooke's Micahel Kurcina trying to stretch an RBI single into a double during the Blue Dons 7-2 win over the Bruins in Wellsburg Saturday. Fuscardo drove in Nick Ossman with the hit.
"I feel real good about the effort," said Brancazio. "This is the third time we've been outside all spring so the kids responded well. The pitching has been real good in the gym.
"We looked real good. We got some clutch hits today from some guys. I'm real happy today."
The Blue Dons opened the scoring with a pair in the second inning. Tory Fuscardo and Nick Mazur drew back-to-back one-out walks. Kaleb Baire picked up the first Madonna RBI of the season with a single that plated Tory Fuscardo. Mazur was put out on a Vinny Merico fielder's choice that put Baire at second. Baire went on to steal third and then score on a passed ball to make the game 2-0 Blue Dons.
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MADONNA (1-0): L. Fuscardo (WP, 3K, 3BB), T. Fuscardo (6th, 3K, 0BB) and Silvestri. Rogers 2-1B, RBI; Ossman 1B, 2RBI, 2R; L. Fuscardo 1B, 2B, RBI; Bowser 1B; T. Fuscardo R; Mazur R; Baire 1B, RBI, 2R; Merico R.
BROOKE (0-1): Walker (LP, 4K, 6BB), Sole (4th, 2K, 0BB), Lombardi (6th, 1K, 0BB) and Hardisty. Schwertfeger 1B, 2R; Schambach 1B; Hildreth 1B, RBI; Hardisty 1B.
"We've got to be able to get outside and work on some things," said Ujcich. "That's the bottom line. We've only been out to the field about one time, and I think it showed on a few defensive plays. Just communication was a big key.
"Being able to get to some ground balls and make some routine plays. A few of those, if we make them, turns the tide of the game. Maybe we don't give up as many runs."
Luca Fuscardo pushed the lead to 3-0 with a third inning single that scored Nick Ossman.
Madonna broke things open with a three-spot in the fourth. Ossman and Mike Rogers did the damage with run-scoring singles. Rogers drove in Mazur with his hit with Ossman follwing up by knocking in Baire and Merico to put the score at 6-0 visitors after four.
Heath Hildreth earned the only hit the Bruins got off Luca Fuscardo in the fifth with a single that sent home Russell Schwertfeger.
Ossman scored on an error in the sixth for Madonna and Schwertfeger on a passed ball in the seventh for Brooke to make the final 7-2 Blue Dons.
"I thought our pitchers threw well," said Ujcich. "They threw strikes. I thought for the most part we played good defense. We needed some timely hits, we didn't do that, and that comes with time and reps as the season goes on."
Both teams are scheduled for action Monday with Madonna (1-0) at city-rival Weir and Brooke headed to Linsly.


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I have an AudioSource AMP-100 audio amp, and I want to be able to turn it off and on remotely. I'm wondering how safe it is to just cut the power to the amp; it seems like this is what the power switch does already. I would use a relay or something similar to cut the power or restore it. The amp would be in standby (a state it goes into when there's no input signal) when it gets turned off.
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Depending on your amp, the on off switch may do many things, not just cut power. I would suggest your best course of action may be to look carefully at the circuitry- if it does just cut power at the mains side of the power supply circuitry you should be safe.
If it cuts power on the amp side then you could risk large spikes sent to the speakers, which could cause damage.
If it does something more complex, like running chilling fans on a timer, discharging or charging capacitors etc then you could destroy your amp.
Be careful.
Update - when you look at the circuitry, also check to see whether the on-off switch is just a single switch, or whether it switches multiple circuits (which is very common). If it is a single switch, you probably could replace it with a remote controlled relay, as per @FriendofGeorge's comment.
Really depends on the amp. If the amp is designed to cool itself after turning off, then it could be bad to simply cut the power, but if it doesn't have cooling needs, then cutting power should be fine.


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A kid thats quite kool, enjoys cake and a good laugh and is generally a nice person. Has a big smile and loves her style with the skinnies and curly hair. Pretty impressive personality aswell.
Man thats a kool girl, just like Meghane
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About the only thing I've watched at length this year is Seth McFarlane's opening. I'm not a fan of "Family Guy", but I thought he did OK. The jokes were funny, the music segments went well, there was a nice appearance by Shatner, and the audience seemed to like it. The "Boobs" song was good, though it reminded me of the far superior "Toobular Boobular Joy" from MST.
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The quality in food that will potentially make someone fatter. A high content of fats, calories, etc.
That butter cake is extremely fattening.
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When something happens that's basically annoying, but it goes beyond this..especially applies to when something unintentional or unusual happens. Also Related to Thinining.
Someone goes to work and its been cancelled; Thats extremely fattening.
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19 Mar 2013 7:38 AM #11
Can we get some feedback from the sencha team on what they plan to do about this?
It's not tough to replicate, just load up a 2.1.1 app in ios6 on a retina display iPad, and use the thing for a few minutes.
Seems incredibly frustrating to just have it labeled INFOREQ and cast to one side because it's not an issue that can be easily reduced to a simple test case.
19 Mar 2013 4:38 PM #12
It's quite easy to reproduce the problem once you observe how people tap on a button in a touch device. (I had a hard time understanding this problem since I tap without skidding on the touch surface most of the time so I rarely see this happening.) To reproduce the problem, all you need to do is to perform a "skid tap", i.e., tap on a button and skid a bit on the screen. On a retina display, due to the small size of the pixel, it's quite easy to skid a tap while tapping on the screen. This is also the reason why setting a throttle on the touch gesture help a lot. The unfortunate part about this work around is that it has cause those slide to action gesture like swiping, pinching, scrolling, etc. not looking smooth with "skipping frames".
20 Mar 2013 9:19 AM #13
I ran into a similar problem in an app. . .where if you tapped a button and didn't release on the same pixel, the tap event wasn't fired. After some research I found a kind soul that had a solution.
After adding the FixedButton.js to my project and changing the xtype on the button from button to fixedbutton, of course using the Ext.require{My.app.FixedButton}, the tap event was resolved. The only 'issue' after that was on the kindle there was a hidden slide bar on the left hand side and if I was dramatic in my button taping/sliding the side bar would show. That was not enough to stop my own tap event from happening.
Good Luck.
20 Mar 2013 9:38 AM #14
Yes, I knew about that extension but this should be a baseline feature of Sencha Touch as "Touch" means "touch" support.
21 Mar 2013 4:23 AM #15
+1 for a fix for this.I`m from Holland!
22 Mar 2013 11:43 AM #16
I think I read somewhere that touch 2.2 has a better button implementation.
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26 Mar 2013 2:38 AM #17
+1 on a fix of this
I just want to enforce the urgency of a fix of this. In our project this has almost killed the HTML5 approach. Dev defended Sencha, but it definitely has to be fixed soon (for 2.0 also!).
I also could identify, by observation of other users, that the problem is with skidding. Many, if not most, of the users do this.
26 Mar 2013 2:51 AM #18
It would be really nice if someone from sencha could acknowledge this issue and indicate where it fits on the road map.
I know I for one am not a premium support member, but the reason why I'm not is because sencha don't demonstrate they have the capacity to properly communicate on these issues. The kind of thing that would make me subscribe to support would be someone posting a message like, "yes, this is an issue we accept with the new ipads. It will be fixed in nightly builds by at the latest this date, and in general release at this other date".
Otherwise I feel like subscribing would be sending money into a void.
1 Apr 2013 8:58 AM #19
This is being addressed in 2.2 by having a moveDistance configuration in the Tap recognizer. The current RC has this set to a value of 4 pixels which seems to be a bit too sensitive so we will set the default a bit higher. You can always set this to your own preference.
Note that the Drag recognizer has a minDistance configuration as well which determines how far you need to travel before the touch even becomes a drag.
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1 Apr 2013 9:14 AM #20
This is awesome! I'll try this out.


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A dinner and evening of songwriter/comedian Heywood Banks' "crazy antics" and opening act magician Dennis Regling will be held Feb. 17 at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Mingo Junction.
Doors open at 5 p.m. Tickets are $30.
"We would love to see the community come out to help support the health center while enjoying a great dinner and good, clean fun," said Barb Steitz, co-chair along with Jaye Lynn Needham.
"Both Heywood and Dennis put on a squeaky clean show sure to please everyone," Steitz added. "We chose to have the show early so that families can enjoy the show and not be out late on a Sunday night."
Steitz said Banks is "a songwriter-comic-singer-poet-musician with a show that appeals to businessmen, yuppies, rednecks, kids and grandma." He intersperses his humorous observations of life with twisted, inventive, bizarre songs, sung and played in a variety of styles, from folk, to country to rock to pop and beyond, she said.
"He has been featured on Rolling Stone Magazine and People Magazine. He has appeared on 'Evening at the Improv,' 'Entertainment Tonight' and is a frequent guest on the Bob and Tom radio show," she said.
Regling's comedy magic show "is full of laughter and audience participation," according to Steitz. He is a master magician and balloon artist who has performed at the Victoria Vaudeville Theater in Wheeling, the International Children's Festival, the International Hamburger Festival and the National Chicken Wing Festival.
Ohio Catering will provide a buffet dinner with dessert. A cash bar will be available.
Tickets are available by contacting Steitz at (740) 283-7028. No tickets will be sold after Feb. 10.
The Young Ambassadors committee members are Steitz and Needham. Advisers are Anne Misselwitz, Rick Patterson and Mary Lou Jones.
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FORT HOOD (October 22, 2012)--The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces issued another stay Monday in the court-martial of accused Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal M. Hasan, who's fighting an order from the trial judge that he shave his beard.
The stay was issued in anticipation of an appeal from Hasan's attorneys of a ruling last Thursday from the U.S. Army Court of Appeals that Hasan has no right to wear a beard in uniform during his court-martial for the deadly November 2009 shooting rampage on post.
There was no indication how long the stay will remain in effect.
The order said only that Hasan's motion for a stay "is hereby granted pending further order of the Court."
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces is the highest-level appellate court for the U.S. military.
Last week, the U.S. Army Court of Appeals upheld the finding of trial judge Col. Gregory Gross that Hasan failed to prove the beard is an expression of a sincerely held religious belief and said even if the beard were such an expression, "compelling government interests" also justified Gross' order that Hasan meet Army grooming standards.
Gross ordered Hasan to shave before the court-martial or said he would have him shaved forcibly.
The court also upheld previous contempt findings against Hasan in which he was fined $1,000 six times for appearing in court out of uniform because of his beard.
Two judges on the appeals court, in a partial dissent, said Gross' order requiring Hasan to appear in court clean-shaven compromised his impartiality.
Hasan's attorneys indicated they plan to appeal the decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
The defense had filed appeals seeking a ruling on whether the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act allowed Hasan to keep the beard.
The first sought to overturn contempt findings against Hasan in previous hearings and to bar any future contempt proceedings over the beard.
The second sought a ruling on whether the act allows Hasan to have a beard while in military uniform during his court-martial.
Hasan faces a possible death penalty if convicted in the Nov. 5, 2009 rampage that left 13 dead.


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The Kentucky Department of Highways is working on the fifth and final phase of a multi-million dollar road project in Glasgow.
The final piece to the Veterans Outer Loop will serve as a key section for economic boost for Glasgow.
"It's kind of like having a very important puzzle with one piece that was missing. And so we feel like once this last piece is in place that traffic will increase even more dramatically, and this piece is the part that goes to our industrial area," says Glasgow Mayor Rhonda Trautman.
"This project has been talked about for at least 20 years a lot of people were proponents for this project," Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Public Information Officer Keirsten Jaggers says.
When construction was started on the Glasgow Outer Loop more than a decade ago, town officials were looking for economic development, along with a quicker way to get through town.
Ten years, and more than $60 million later the bypass road is almost complete.
The Kentucky Department of Highways is currently working on the last two and half mile section.
"We're looking at being completed in the fall of 2014. If you drive through now you're going to see that they are working on the pier and the overpass for the interchange itself," Jaggers says.
"We're very pleased that they saw the need to go ahead and continue it and get the final phase in. This is the part where most of the traffic we feel will benefit our industry and our economic development," Mayor Trautman says.
The last section will connect to the parkway adding another exit point at the 8 mile-marker.
Once completed the Outer Loop will be nine miles.
"It's helping people get from point A to point B a little faster and it helps people with going to school and going to work. So it's benefiting a lot of people in the community," says Mayor Trautman.
Mayor Trautman says the Outer Loop has diverted industrial traffic from an already busy downtown Glasgow.
The last phase of the Veterans Outer Loop is the longest and most expensive project since construction began ten years ago.


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What are some of the spectacular applications of functional analysis to apparently unrelated problems.One that comes to my mind is Per Enflo's resolution of Hilbert's 5th problem.There are also reformulations of RH in Hilbert Space.I would be happly to hear about it's nice applications in geometry,number theory,topology,etc. specially in context to solving conjectures.
Here is one application, which may not seem spectacular to the modern mathematician, but it has many profound applications.
Suppose that $X$ is a reflexive Banach space $E: X\to (-\infty, \infty]$ a convex function such that
$$ \lim_{\Vert x\Vert\to\infty} E(X)=\infty, $$
$$ E(x)\leq \liminf_{y\to x} E(x). \;\;\forall x\in X. $$
Then there exists $x_0\in X$ such that
$$ E(x_0)\leq E(x),\;\;\forall x\in X. $$
For example, one can use this to settle the so called Dirichlet principle which generated many debates in the 19th century.
One should probably mention Gelfand's proof of Wiener's theorem that, if a nowhere zero periodic $f$ has absolutely convergent Fourier series, then so does $1/f$.
There is also Kantorovich's famous note "On a problem of Monge":
For every smooth function $g$ the linear partial differential equation with constant coefficients $P(D)f=g$ is solvable in convex sets. Although the statement has nothing to do with functional analysis Malgrange's proof heavily relied on Frechet space theory (and, of course, Fourier transformation).
The same holds if $g$ is a distribution (but one may object that distribution theory is part of functional analysis).


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25 Jun 2012 4:30 AM #1
Api.js is not created automatically in DirectJNgine
I am using ExtJs 4.1, DirectJNgine 2.1, Java 1.6, tomcat 6 and Eclipse Helius . We are facing a very abnormal problem. The problem is that Api.js is not being created automatically and the worse thing is that it is created automatically on one pc but failed on some another pc with same code. The path of directory of Api.js in web.xml is also right because if we create Api.js file manually on this path, its start working. Sometimes, it happens that when we set up project in Eclipse for the first time with DJN, Api.js is not created automatically and if we provide it manually and then start tomcat and after this if we delete this Api.js and again restart tomcat, the Api.js file is being created successfully.
I am not finding any solution or any reason for this absurd behaviour.
25 Jun 2012 9:57 AM #2
Looks a lot like a file creation permission thing.Pedro Agulló, Barcelona (Spain) - pagullo.soft.dev at gmail.com
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St. Paul tops Woodland on last-second 3
With St. Paul trailing by two, Brendan Carroll made a steal and dished to Kyle Dube, who sank a three-pointer from the left side of the key for the game-winner with six seconds left as the Falcons edged Woodland, 51-50, Saturday in a Naugatuck Valley League game in Bristol.
Dube finished with a team-high 22 points for the Falcons (8-7). David Uhl had a game-high 25 points for the Hawks (8-7).
O'Brien Tech 45, Wamogo 42: Chris Kelly's layup, off an assist from Nabil Tavarez, with 45 seconds left gave the visiting Condors the lead for good, 43-42, in the final of the Litchfield Hills Holiday Classic, which was a makeup game from December.
After a missed shot by Wamogo, Kelly converted two free throws to seal the win with two seconds left.
Shaquan Jackson scored a game-high 19 points and Tamaron Hargett added 13 points for O'Brien Tech (11-4).
Nick Nemergut had a team-high 17 points for the Warriors (7-7).
Sacred Heart 57, Housatonic 22: David Whitney scored a team-high 12 points for the Hearts in a nonleague game at Alumni Hall.
Malik Petteway added 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Hearts (6-9).
Jeremy Stiewing had a game-high 14 points for the Mountaineers (0-13).
Chase 60, Marvelwood 41: All 12 players scored for the Highlanders in Waterbury.
Ryan Shiel and Kyle Bonicki each scored 10 points for Chase (9-6).
Chance Davis had a game-high 13 for Marvelwood (8-2) and Tim Greller added 10.
Girls Basketball
Sacred Heart 24, Kaynor Tech 20: Elena Colaci scored a team-high nine points for the host Hearts in nonleague play.
Mahnue Sahn added seven points and eight rebounds for the Hearts (7-10) and Maryn Vaillancourt added nine rebounds.
Taleeha Green had six points for the Panthers (7-10).
Convent of Sacred Heart 62, Chase 39: Emily O'Sullivan scored a team-high 14 points to lead the host in Greenwich.
Natalie Fitzgerald scored a game-high 18 points with 10 rebounds for Chase (9-5) and Taylor Brady added 17 points.
Chase played without starter Idalis Miranda, who was sidelined with an ankle sprain sustained earlier this week.
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5 Things Nobody Tells You About Quitting Drinking
#2. The Urge to Murder
The first thing to go during detoxification is the mind. It starts to wander. Short-term memory misfires. The simplest tasks will require as much focus as defusing a time bomb.
Shit, where do you put the mustard?
There was a day in the first week of my own detoxification when I walked into the living room four times in a row to get my phone, but each time I forgot to pick it up. We've all done that before, right? The difference is that mine was ringing at the time.
Part of this lack of focus is because you're constantly tired from the insomnia/nightmare combination, part of it is the nervous system not having the security blanket of booze it's used to. And with that, came changes in mood.
The smallest things would irritate me into a full-blown rage. Little annoyances, like the person who was sitting at the same picnic table as me who wouldn't stop tapping his leg up and down, shaking the whole contraption. I wanted get a gun and murder him and all of the other people in the world who had failed to murder him up to that point.
If each of those guns held a billion bullets, it wouldn't be enough.
Some people in that situation may have a few people close to them who sympathize with what they're going through (assuming they connect the bad mood with the alcohol at all, and they may not if they've never tried to quit). But to everyone else, you're just being an unmanageable twat. Fortunately, I still had my friends to make me feel better.
Well, I would have, if it hadn't turned out that most of my friends were in fact just drinking partners. When I told them I was quitting, they'd sort of nervously laugh, waiting for the punch line. Then, they'd respond with a genuinely surprised, "Really? Why?" Then they'd reassure me that I didn't have a drinking problem (because if I had a drinking problem, it meant they had a drinking problem).
That's when I'd find out that drinking was all we had in common. Then they'd start slyly trying to get me to drink, and I'd have visions of punching all of the skin off of their faces. So, for the first couple of weeks I wound up just avoiding people when at all possible. It sounds like a chickenshit way out, but it got me through the first of the bad spots without hurting many people in the process, and I murdered almost nobody.
Once the irritability subsides, you're about to reap the rewards of ...
#1. The Blissful High
For a few days after a person becomes completely detoxed, his body will get an unexpected dose of oxygen, real food and natural chemicals that will put him on a natural high. It's just a symptom, just like the pooping, and likewise it won't last. Truthfully, you don't want it to.
You can't sustain this expression without being beaten constantly.
But in the mean time, rainbows will shoot out of your ass, and it will feel like the final scenes of Independence Day. You've overcome your addictions! The alien ships have been destroyed! You just did what they all said you couldn't do!
Except you haven't. There is no finish line with alcohol recovery. Ninety percent of alcoholics relapse within the first four years. There are still shitloads of ships up there, and each one of them requires Randy Quaid to improbably fly into it at the exact moment it attacks with its giant laser beam.
It turns out that drinking doesn't make a person an alcoholic. The part of a person's brain that makes him drink to excess is what makes him an alcoholic, and the mechanism for the addiction is still there. This is why people in 12-step programs say that you'll always be an alcoholic, even if you're not drinking. Alcohol isn't the disease; it's a symptom. Or rather, it's an attempt to self-medicate the disease.
It's hard for people to understand why I can't just downgrade from "alcoholic" to "moderate drinker." There are plenty of people out there who can drink in moderation. They can down a couple with their friends, shit on the hood of a cop car, go to sleep and forget all about booze the next day. I'm not one of them. Neither was my dad, who died at age 49 from this shit.
I think I'll find a better way to teach my kids the same lesson.
Perhaps some sort of terrifying puppet show ...
If you're a drunk and have started to realize that your story is going to end with a bunch of your friends telling hilarious drinking stories at your funeral, I promise you that quitting is totally worth it, despite all the bad stuff I described above. I'm one year sober as of last week, and I've never felt better or more proud of myself in my life. And in that year, I have not woken up even one time with a cock drawn on my face.
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25 Jul 2011 10:50 PM #1
Ext 3.4.0 tree strange Drag and Drop behavior.
I hope someone can explain this strange behavior about using Ext 3.4.0 and drag and drop in a tree or grid. It's not possible to drag a node or line, but when I'm using Ext 3.3.X everthing works fine.
The tree
var Tree = Ext.tree; var treeDraft = new Tree.TreePanel({ title: 'Rollenvorlagen', id: 'tree', width: 340, height: 260, rootVisible: false, animate:true, useArrows: true, enableDrag: true, loader: new Tree.TreeLoader({ dataUrl:'rr_role_manage_ext.php5', baseParams: { action: 'load_draft_roles' } }), }); var rootNode = new Tree.AsyncTreeNode({ text:'Rollenvorlagen', draggable: false }); treeDraft.setRootNode(rootNode); rootNode.expand(true, false);
4 Aug 2011 12:50 AM #2
I am experiencing the same issue with my grids. It seems to be working in FF but not in other browsers.
Has anyone solved this issue?
9 Jan 2013 3:13 PM #3
Any Solutions yet?
Sencha folks.. Any workarounds for this one? Looks like this is an issue with Ext JS 3.4. I tried enableDD, enableDrag and enableDrop - it doesn't seem to work.


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8 MLK Jr. Values to Instill in Your Kidsby Erin Dower
Martin Luther King Jr.'s monumental legacy and remarkable values can be hard to convey to children of any age. This guide can help you share quotes and facts about King, as well as the important values he emphasized and simple ways kids can help keep his dreams and wisdom alive.
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Quote: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Fact: Martin Luther King Jr. is most remembered for leading the African American Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and '60s to end segregation (the separation of black people from white people in schools, restaurants, and other public places in the U.S.). He fought for equal rights and fair treatment for people of all races or skin colors.
What kids can do: Treat all people the way you want to be treated — with kindness and fairness. Think about how we all are different from each other in some ways, but we are the same in so many ways: Inside we all have feelings and deserve to be happy.
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The 5 Most Hated Creatures on the Planet (Don't Deserve It)
We've always had a weird double standard toward non-humans. We'll build elaborate habitats for hamsters and dress them in tiny costumes, but will poison a rat without a second thought.
In the midst of those arbitrary rules it's easy to lose track of the fact that some of the most hated pests are also the ones that least deserve it. Well, we're here to ask you to reconsider...
#5. Cockroaches
The thing about cockroaches isn't just that they're incredibly gross and/or disease-ridden, but that they insist on living right in our kitchen. Most people would rather see a freaking ticking time bomb in their cabinet than a nest of these bastards.
But the reason why roaches survive so well around your boxes of twinkies is that for centuries they were like our tiny, industrious little roommates. Cockroaches specifically adapted to share the nests of larger mammals, getting access to a continuous stream of food scraps, mold, mildew and even the delicious eggs of more dangerous insects such as fleas, bedbugs or lice. In return, us larger vertebrates are supposed to enjoy the free janitorial service and snack on the ones that don't run fast enough.
For most of the animal kingdom, it's still a pretty sweet deal. But a few centuries back, we humans decided we could keep ourselves clean without an army of hungry bugs, and our former custodians became just another form of "filth" to our high and mighty standards.
And just how filthy are the little freeloaders? Well, that depends.
If you happen to live directly over an open sewer or keep decomposing corpses under your floorboards, it's entirely possible that your cockroaches might be tracking the occasional pathogen on their sticky little feet, but their habit of incessant, cat-like grooming tends to rid them of contaminants long before they might scuttle over your ham sandwich.
In fact, testing shows that germs don't even stick to them that easily in the first place, so they're really only as dirty as whatever they're standing on at the time.
So, we know that roaches just aren't very dangerous... but we would still be better off without them, right? Sure, if you don't mind the wafting diseases that'll build up when we lose a major player in the process of decomposition. Cockroaches are also the primary predators of bollworm and armyworm, two of the most destructive pests of cotton, soybean, corn, cabbage and tomato crops in the United States and Africa.
Really, it's just a PR problem at this point. Maybe Pixar just needs to make a movie starring one of these guys.
#4. Wasps
"I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars."
-Charles Goddamn Darwin
A huge wasp flying into an office full of people has about the same effect as a crazed gunman. "Aaaahhh! Wasp! Here he comes! Ruuuunnn!! Find out what he wants, and give it to him! "
"You want my daughter? You can have my fucking daughter!"
When wasps aren't pumping us full of excruciating venom, they're condemning other insects to some of the slowest, most grotesque deaths in the natural world. A parasite that devours its host from the inside out is known scientifically as a parasitoid, and the vast majority of parasitoids in nature just happen to be wasps. They are even believed to have assimilated a fucking virus to make their sting even nastier.
Cockroaches, caterpillars and even spiders fall victim to their insidiousness, becoming the walking dead; chemically enslaved incubators to ravenous wasp larvae.
Parasitic wasp cocoons attached to a caterpillar. Go ahead, try and count them. From Alex Popovkin on Flickr.
The thing is, this sort of devilry is precisely why the world would be worse off without these little sadists. Predatory arthropods such as spiders, dragonflies and ladybugs all have a hand in maintaining nature's delicate balance, but none are so geared towards grand-scale pest control as parasitoid wasps, who have not only evolved to track down and slaughter specific plant-destroying insects, but the rest of the natural world has evolved to help them.
For example, let's take a look at ordinary, everyday corn. When stalks of this staple crop find themselves infested by caterpillars of the species Spodoptera exigua, the plants release a chemical concoction that attracts the species of wasp designed to fuck up that particular caterpillar. If it's dealing with some other type of caterpillar, like Mythimna separata, corn sends out a modified signal designed just for a different wasp that will kill it.
Yes, fucking corn has evolved a means of saying "please inject brain-eating embryos into the worms that devour my precious tissues. No, not you, these are the other worms. Yeah, send those guys. Thx."
Scientists aren't sure just how many different wasps one plant can keep in its chemical rolodex, but many are believed to have a unique emergency broadcast for every local pest that may munch on its foliage.
And it's not just the vegetable kingdom that benefits; some wasps hang around large mammals to pick off biting horseflies and even the dreaded bot-flies.
Just as your immune system continually adapts to new strains of the common cold, wasps function as an ecosystem's own "antibodies" against all manner of infectious, invasive vermin. It really is one of the fundamental laws of all living things: You must tolerate douchebags if they're keeping out the bigger douchebags.
#3. Rats
The most widespread of all mammals that don't walk on two legs or drive cars (at least not yet), rodentia of the Rattus genus are most famous in Western culture as sewer-dwelling, corpse-nibbling cornucopias of contagion who gnaw their way into our homes and use our cereal boxes as toilets.
To be fair, a part of this monstrous reputation is firmly rooted in reality. Besides costing us billions of dollars a year in property damage, rats are one of the most widespread ecological pests in the world, feasting on defenseless native wildlife wherever they've been introduced and even driving other species to the brink of extinction.
On the other hand, the same can be said of a much larger, even more destructive species that happens to be reading this very article as we speak, and while your average person finds rats at least a little creepy, it's probably not because they eat endangered kiwi eggs. Filth, plague and pestilence are what rats are known best for in popular culture, and any extermination company will tell you that rat germs are an immediate, serious and costly threat to you and your entire family.
Oh, but not that costly. They have a very reasonable payment plan. Nothing's too good for your family, you know.
But if rats are really such a biohazard, one must wonder why we don't hear about it more often. If you're living in a city, chances are good you have thousands of the precocious imps breeding right under your feet at this very moment.
The truth is that while you certainly shouldn't pull one out of a storm drain and put it in your mouth, there isn't any scientific basis to assume that rats are exceptionally disease-prone animals. This stereotype primarily stems from the infamous Black Death, an outbreak of bubonic plague speculated to have killed over 75,000,000 people during the mid-1300s. But it was actually transmitted by the fleas of warm-blooded mammals in general. Rats appeared responsible for the plague only because they were so common.
This was also during an era when our most scientific explanation for disease was some sort of divine punishment or witchcraft, and mankind had neither the facilities nor interest in washing their damn hands. Now obviously bubonic plague isn't a problem these days, and you'll be hard pressed to find a rat-spread disease that is. According ot the Center for Disease Control, rats don't even spread rabies.
That's right, despite their absolutely staggering numbers, rats are one of the animals you're least likely to get sick from.


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If I have a file which name starting with single or several minus sign, for example
--1 it can't be used as a parameter of many commands. Even if I run
cat --1
instead of file content I get unrecognised option error message:
cat: unrecognized option '--1'
Same effect appears when I type
cat "--1"
cat '--1'
cat \-\-1
nothing works. Files starting with '-' is not illegal in file system, but it is quite hard to work with them in cli and scripts. OK, in case of
cat or
grep I can use
cat <--1
and this will work, but
rm --1
won't work either and it is quite hard to substitute this command with something else. Very uncomfortable after all. Is there any universal workaround different from not using such file names?
BTW, if name file is single
- and all most of commands will understand it as
stdin, wouldn't they?
And it would be hard not to use such file names since I can't rename them all in script using
mv command either.


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The Package Travel Regulations
By law you have the right to expect the holiday that you booked and paid for. So, look carefully at how the package holiday is described in the brochure or website.
If the holiday doesn't match the description, under the Package Travel Regulations you may have a claim against the tour operator for compensation.
The tour operator, if you've booked a package holiday, is liable for all the services - car hire, accommodation, flights, etc - as long as they were part of the package the tour operator arranged for you.
The Package Travel Regulations can be used to assist you in pursuing claims against tour operators. This information applies to England, Wales and Scotland.
If you were unhappy with your package holiday, take a look at our step-by-step guide to making a claim.
Is your holiday protected?
In relation to any claim, it's essential to establish whether your package holiday falls within the meaning of the Package Travel Regulations.
If your holiday contract falls within the definition, you'll benefit from the additional terms implied in the contract by the Regulations.
Regulation 2(1) of the Package Travel Regulations provides that a package means the pre-arranged combination of at least two of the following components:
- transport
- accommodation
- other tourist services not ancillary to transport or accommodation and accounting for a significant proportion of the package
The definition includes a wide range of travel arrangements. Clearly traditional package holidays described in brochures are covered, but it would also include tailor-made holidays where you have selected separate components.
When it's not a package
The Package Travel Regulations also apply to packages which are not holidays, for example, business travel arrangements, conference arrangements, educational weekends, school trips etc.
Package holidays could also include holidays where the accommodation and the flights are supplied by two different suppliers, but organised or put together by a separate person.
Today it's becoming more common to offer holidays that are not packages. They may seem to be the same, as they include flights and accommodation, but care must be taken by the agent as to how they're described.
A holiday will not necessarily be a package if it's made quite clear to you that there are two separate contracts, one with the airline and one with the accommodation provider.
If phrases are used such as 'dynamic packaging', 'tailor-made holiday' or 'flight plus hotel deal' these holidays may not be packages. Always check with your provider.
Your holiday must be as described
Regulation 4, states that no travel organisers can supply consumers with misleading information.
This is wider than just brochure information - none of the descriptive material should be misleading.
This could be the case where the swimming pool referred to in the brochure or website doesn't exist or the beach is considerably further away from the hotel than the five minutes walk suggested.
If it's misleading the organiser or retailer is in breach of the Regulations and may be liable to you for any loss.
Holiday brochure requirements
Regulation 5 sets out the requirements as to brochures.
In particular, the brochure must be 'legible, comprehensible and accurate' regarding the price and the information provided.
This states that the following information, in addition to the price, must be provided:
- the destination and the means, characteristics and categories of transport used
- the type of accommodation, its location, category or degree of comfort and its main features and, where the accommodation is to be provided in a Member State, its approval or tourist classification under the rules of that Member State
- the meals which are included in the package
- the itinerary
- general information about passport and visa requirements which apply for British citizens and health formalities required for the journey and the stay
- either the monetary amount or the percentages of the price which is to be paid on account and the timetable for payment of the balance
- whether a minimum number of persons is required for the package to take place and, if so, the deadline for informing the consumer in the event of cancellation
- the arrangements (if any) which apply if consumers are delayed at the outward or return points of departure
- the arrangements for security for money paid over and for the repatriation of the consumer in the event of insolvency
The regulation applies to both tour operators and travel agents and failure to comply is a criminal offence.
If you fall foul of a misleading brochure description, you can use our template letter to make a claim.
Holiday ruined by building work
If the tour operator is a member of Abta, The Travel Association, then the Abta Code of Conduct (20 Jan 2010 edition) will bind them.
This specifically makes reference to the situation of building works.
If the tour operator becomes aware of building works, which may reasonably be considered to seriously impair the enjoyment of travel arrangements, it must notify clients of the situation without undue delay.
The operator must provide the clients with accurate information about the extent of the building works and offer them the opportunity to transfer to alternative travel arrangements.
These days most tour operators will notify you of the existence of building works in the vicinity of the hotel/resort and most problems relate to the accuracy of the information provided relating to the extent of the building works.
Changes to a booked holiday
Regulations 12 and 13 of the Package Travel Regulations are concerned with pre-departure cancellation or alteration by the organiser:
If there are alterations to your package holiday or to departure times or location, the travel organiser must notify the consumer as quickly as possible in order to enable him to take appropriate decisions and in particular to withdraw from the contract without penalty or to accept the alterations.
The customer is then required to respond to the notification of the alteration.
You then have the option of withdrawing from the contract without penalty or accept a variation.
Withdrawal from a holiday contract
If you withdraw from the holiday contract, or where the organiser cancels the holiday for any reason other than the fault of the consumer, then Regulation 13 gives you the following implied rights:
- to take a substitute package (if available) of equivalent or superior quality
- to take a substitute package of lower quality (if available) and to recover from the organiser the difference in price between the price of the package purchased and that of the substitute package
- to have the purchase price repaid as soon as possible
You would also be entitled to compensation in addition, if appropriate.
For example, kennel fees, clothes bought for the holiday, suntan lotion etc. provided you can show that these costs were genuinely incurred, they could, in principle, be recovered.
Alteration to a holiday contract
In the context of a package holiday contract, an alteration to an 'essential term of the contract' is likely to include:
- the price
- the precise accommodation, standard of accommodation and accommodation facilities
- the type and standard of transport
- the place of departure and destination
- any facility or service advertised or promoted as forming a part of the package
- any term required by the Package Travel Regulations or the Abta Code of Conduct to be included as part of the contract
In practice, the problem is that the tour operator or travel agent may not inform you of any pre-departure changes until shortly before your planned departure date.
Many of you would have already have booked your holiday time off well in advance and find it difficult either to rearrange your holiday time or find an alternative holiday at the same price.
Invariably, you are left with little choice but to go ahead with the holiday, as the alternative will be no holiday at all.
It's important to note that, even if you do decide to cancel the holiday (and you do mange to find an alternative holiday), you may still be entitled to some compensation in addition.
There are two defences which may be relied on by the tour operator.
Firstly, Force Majeure (or 'act of god') and secondly, where the minimum number of customers required on the package has not been achieved. If either of these two defences can be raised, then the tour operator will not have to pay you any additional compensation.
Use our template letter to claim compensation if your package holiday was changed.
Post departure changes
Regulation 14 provides that where, after departure, a significant proportion of the services contracted for are not provided, or the organiser becomes aware that they will be unable to procure a significant proportion of them:
- the organiser must make suitable alternative arrangements, at no extra cost to you, for the continuation of the package and will, where appropriate, compensate you for the difference between the services to be supplied under the contract and those supplied
- if it is impossible to make arrangements, or these are rejected by you for good reason, the organiser will, where appropriate, provide you with equivalent transport back to the place of departure or to another place to which you have agreed and will, where appropriate, compensate you
Making a holiday compensation claim
If you want to claim compensation for a package holiday, damages in travel claims can usually be broken down into four headings, although your complaint may not fall into every category:
- Loss of value This is the difference between the value of the holiday you paid for and the one you actually got
- Out-of-pocket expenses Any reasonable expenses you incurred as a result of the breach of contract
- Loss of enjoyment Compensation for the disappointment and distress caused by things going wrong
- Personal injury Compensation for any personal injury incurred abroad. You'll need to seek specialist legal advice in relation to this
In the case of unsatisfactory quality complaints there are no set guidelines as to the assessment of damages.
In many of the reported cases, the judge does not separate the damages for loss of value and loss of enjoyment, but awards an aggregate amount.
The claims should, however, still be set out separately. Presenting the case in a detailed and logical format will facilitate an earlier settlement, and is likely to achieve a better settlement for you.
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I do all my grabbing using this command line:
dvgrab --autosplit --format hdv --timestamp capture-
I use the HDV30P setting normally on the camcorder.
Kdenlive 0.7 works great with footage captured. I have a dual-core which works okay, but editing this footage makes me want a better dual-core or quad-core computer. I'm also using Ubuntu 8.10.
Tue, 12/23/2008 - 21:24
Kdenlive 0.7.1 (today SVN) allows to acquire video transparently. This works great on my Canon HV20 camcorder. There was a little bug in Kdenlive 0.7, which was fixed lately. Kind regards, Jean-Michel
Sun, 01/04/2009 - 00:51
HV30 and HV20
Sometimes grabbing of the DV gets interupted and stops for no clear reason.
Grabbing of HDV seems to be fine. When the tape transitions to DV to HDV or HDV to DV there is an interuption. The best work flow is to keep different shooting settings on different tapes.


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Is there a way to visit http://m.google.com from a regular browser? It detects non-mobile browsers and forwards them, but I'd like to view this site from a regular PC.
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You need a "user agent" switcher, like this.
If you're using Google Chrome, go to the location of where the chrome.exe file was installed.
Create a shortcut of the chrome.exe file.
Right-click on the shortcut and select Properties.
In the Target field, enter the following:
The user-agent string tells the site that you're "using" an iPhone and should load up the mobile version of the site without redirecting you to the regular desktop version.


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I developed a plugin which allows people to download videos from YouTube. It's open-source if that matters. Is my plugin legal to distribute and use?
closed as off topic by John Conde♦ Jun 16 '12 at 16:28
Questions on Webmasters Stack Exchange are expected to relate to webmastering within the scope defined by the community. Consider editing the question or leaving comments for improvement if you believe the question can be reworded to fit within the scope. Read more about reopening questions here.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
YouTube is owned by Google. There are hundreds of plugins for Firefox and Chrome which can download videos from YouTube. I think it is not illegal but it's against YouTube's Terms of Use.


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Crown Prince Nayef chairs Cabinet session (10/31/11)
October 31, 2011
Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz began the Cabinet meeting in Riyadh today by expressing, on behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi people, and himself, profound sorrow over the death of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz. "With the death of Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, the Islamic and Arab nations have, in fact, lost one of the most prominent leaders, who put himself at the service of his religion, country, nation and all of humanity and played a leading role in the service of Islam and Muslims and exerted blessed efforts towards the regional, Arab and international issues of righteousness and justice," he said. Crown Prince Sultan thanked the numerous foreign leaders and officials who have offered their condolences over the past week.
For its part, the Cabinet congratulated Crown Prince Nayef on his new appointment, wishing him every success. The new Crown Prince thanked King Abdullah for the confidence bestowed upon him, characterizing his new position as both a great task and an honor and vowing to work towards maintaining the prosperity, security and stability of the Kingdom. The Cabinet also thanked God for the success of the back surgery King Abdullah recently underwent, congratulating the Saudi monarch on his discharge from the hospital.
After reviewing a report on the latest preparations for the Hajj season, Crown Prince Sultan welcomed the pilgrims who have already arrived in the Kingdom. On behalf of King Abdullah, he urged all sectors to redouble their efforts to serve the visitors and to ensure that Hajj rituals are performed with ease and comfort.
The Cabinet then expressed its deepest condolences to the government and people of Turkey on the death and destruction caused by the earthquake that hit eastern Turkey last week. The ministers praised the King's directive to provide $50 million in assistance to the Turkish government.
Addressing its remaining agenda items, the Cabinet authorized the Minister of Higher Education to sign a draft memorandum of scientific and educational cooperation with Bosnia and Herzegovina; authorized the Minister of Finance to sign a draft agreement with Turkey on cooperation and mutual assistance in customs-related issues; approved the enforcement of the decision issued by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit in Abu Dhabi in December 2010 giving Gulf companies the right to open branches in different member states and be treated equally; and approved the re-formation of the Board of Directors of the Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization.


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Ever consider volunteering for Farm Aid?
July 13, 2012 in Community Events, Community Resources, Community Support for PASA, Uncategorized
Farm Aid 2012 is taking place at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, PA on September 22nd!
The Farm Aid Staff have always been big fans of the annual PASA conference. Now it's your turn to check out their annual event in your own backyard and even get in on the action. Volunteers are used throughout concert weekend and play a huge role in Farm Aid's annual event- even the musicians volunteer their time! A limited number of volunteer positions still exist for this year's show. Volunteers receive great perks in exchange for their time including a T-shirt, a meal, and parking. Saturday volunteers will gain admission to the volunteer section and be able to watch the show before and after their volunteer shift. Please email Anna Miragliuolo at firstname.lastname@example.com for additional information and write "New Volunteer" in the subject line.