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Stray and feral cats are at home outside, but they can always use some extra help in cold or severe weather. Follow these tips to help them stay even safer, warmer, and healthier during severe storms and winter months.
Shelters keep feral cat colonies comfortable in cold and other harsh or severe weather conditions. Placing discreet shelters in quiet locations away from foot traffic helps keep cats from taking shelter in places where they are in danger or not welcome.
There are endless variations of cat shelters. Check out our list of shelter ideas sorted by ease of set up, or learn how to build one yourself. Dog houses also do the trick with a few modifications (read on.) Here's a few tips to help you get started:
That's a start – read more about constructing feral cat shelters in our Colony Care Guide.
A simple feeding station with a roof and sides will protect food and cats from precipitation and icy breezes during meal times. Building a feeding station also establishes a specific area where the cats know to come for food, so they spend as little time exposed to the elements as possible. As with shelters, elevating the floor of the feeding station off the ground keeps food and paws warmer. Feeding stations also offer many year-round benefits for your colony, including deterring insects and making colony management easier. The moderate time and effort it takes to build one this winter will be well worth it all year round!
Find out how to build your own feeding station in our Colony Care Guide.
When temperatures drop, the colony will need extra calories to maintain energy levels. Provide extra food and water during the winter, and do your best to keep it from freezing. (See above to learn about building feeding stations to protect food and hungry cats from the cold.)
In addition to providing food, water, and shelter for cats in your neighborhood, observe these winter precautions to keep cats safe:
Cats have a 63-day gestation period and usually mate in the winter. Trap-Neuter-Return can be done during the winter months, as long as you take precautions to make sure the cats are not exposed to extreme weather. Cats are very vulnerable when in traps and can't move around much to generate warmth, so be sure to keep trapped cats covered and secured in a temperature-controlled vehicle or holding area while you trap. Use your judgment when deciding if it's too cold to trap. Learn more in our Trap-Neuter-Return Guide.
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G&K Services to close industrial laundry facility in Waterbury
|An employee of G&K Services loads a washing machine in its facility in Waterbury in this file photo. G&K said Friday it will close its Waterbury facility by the end of the month. Photo courtesy of the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
WATERBURY -- G&K Services Inc., which employs 65 people at an industrial laundry service plant at 15 Boyden St., plans to close the facility by the end of the month, a company official confirmed Friday.
The facility, located at the corner of Boyden Street and Thomaston Avenue in the Waterville section of the city, is operated by G&K Services Inc. of Minnetonka, Minn.
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alan wrote on Apr 20, 2013 10:14 AM:
" even this type of company is closing in Conn? I always thought as a last resort you could work at this modern day sweatshop but even that may be too much to ask in Waterbury "
Bob wrote on Apr 21, 2013 11:57 PM:
" Alan, I temped there. The problem is they supply uniforms to people who work in oily industries. As you would notice they are shrinking because all the brass, copper and other factories are gone. Most of the other oily jobs are non-union and people end up using their street clothes or are not paid the luxury laundered uniforms and shop rags. Maybe that would be a great start up in China, where the valley jobs are. "
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - The Ohio Valley Regional Oil & Gas Expo will be held April 24 at the James E. Carnes Center in St. Clairsville.
Sponsored by the Belmont County commissioners and the Belmont County Port Authority, the one-day business-to-business event is designed to promote the growth and stability of the oil and gas industry in the Ohio Valley.
An exhibitors-only reception will be held the evening of April 23, giving sponsors and exhibitors an opportunity to network in a relaxed, casual atmosphere prior to the main event.
Last year the number of available booths had to be doubled to accommodate exhibitor interest.
"The response last year was so overwhelmingly positive and the event was greeted with such enthusiasm, there was no question that we would host another expo in 2013," Belmont County Commissioner Ginny Favede said.
Port Authority Director Larry Merry said he was intrigued at how many nonshale companies wanted to be part of last year's expo.
"It was encouraging to walk through the event last year and see that not only did we have oil and gas companies meeting and generating business, but also banks, insurance companies, marketing firms and other companies exhibiting their services," Merry said. "It shows that the oil and gas industry has the breadth and the reach to impact the local economy in more ways than just leasing and drilling."
They plan to make the expo an annual event.
"Last year the oil and natural gas drilling industry was new to Belmont County," Favede said. "Now that we've seen more of what the industry has to offer, we're also seeing significant growth in industry overall. It's an exciting time for Belmont County."
For information about the Ohio Valley Regional Oil and Gas Expo, visit www.ohiovalleyoilgasexpo.com or call the expo office at (304) 777-2648.


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Why are tags on posts being changed and removed?
I mostly post kindle ebooks and no post has the tag of kindle on it anymore and the word book was added as a tag. Also any descriptive tag of what kind of ebook it is was removed. Are there new rules on what we can tag our posts and less than 5 allowed anymore?
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Well...let's see.
We can start here.
All told.
@jumbowoot: You forgot all told. I am sad
@lichme: Thanks for the reminder.
See above. Since they seem to dance around the answer, let me give it to you.
The nominal reason: SEO (search engine optimization). I remain unconvinced, as the search function on this beast is, ah, NTG.
The real reason: Gives the mods something to do that they can show their bosses so they continue to get paid.
The reason we suspect: They enjoy being mean. Or get jealous that you thought up the cool tag first.
That's been going on forever. Half the time I don;t bother with tags at all as they are going to change/add their own anyway.
@jumbowoot: I went to the link you posted and continued from there to other links and to responses from mods on this subject.
Questions from many wooters was why isn't it consistent?
I gained the most information from this link from 2 years ago:
I also went to specific mods posts and saw tags of music, cleaning, cooking, furniture, android, computers, holidays, games, clothing, shopping, education, children, health, relationships, fun, problem-solving, frustrating (which this is), office, challenge, playtime, ideas, tv, dance, ipad, electronics, apple, baby, facebook, outdoors, cookie, kitchen, home, photography, travel, shoes, toys, wedding, fish, pets, and many more.
Many of those tags would have described my posts so why weren't any of those tagged on them? A generic clean sweep of 18 days of my posts tags were removed and only say books, ebooks.
I researched as told to.
It appears that the general consensus is no one knows. We simply strive to gain information and want to post deals for the Woot community with a consistent set of guidelines.
@jylissia: I cannot speak for the mods, however I went and looked at your deals. Most of them have kindle right in the title, so tagging it with kindle seems redundant. Now if I want to see a list of books (including yours), it makes sense to add that in the tags as a broader group to search by.
Because it's always been that way. :) I think @wilfbrim has it right though.
Stockholm syndrome. Mods, sysops, and pretty much anyone put into positions of control always let it go to their heads. Some outgrow it eventually, though not all.
@jylissia: I understand your frustration, as you want your deals to be easily found/accessible. Not to worry, though....
It didn't take me long at all to figure out to just go to your name and click on deals you've posted, as it's MUCH faster than scrolling through the first several pages OR doing a search by tags. I do that every day now (go straight to your name to see your deals posted.) :-)
Once someone sees that you consistently post good, free, ebooks on such a regular basis, I'm sure they'll figure that out, too.
I went to the posts I had made to buy all the books I posted and had to click on every single one to figure out if it was horror or not because I don't want to read horror books. That was when I saw they had changed the tags.
@jylissia: If it makes you feel any better, I made a post late last night/early this am about the transit of Venus event. I thought I chose good tags: science, astronomy, venus.
Now it's just "chat, space".
Hmmmm.....I don't mind them adding the chat one (since I simply forgot it), but my other tags seemed more appropriate/searchable than just the obtuse tag of "space". Go figure.
But back to your books, what I do is hover the cursor over the title/link of your post without actually clicking on it, and what you've typed in the description pops up in a white box so I can see if I'd be interested before clicking on it.
I do agree that a descriptive tag of "horror" "comedy" "children's" "cooking" etc. would be useful on your ebook posts, and don't understand why they remove those. It's a basic classification of genre thing.
But even if you don't read them yourself, I sure hope you keep posting the free horror ebooks, as I love that genre!
And what's even funnier (in a funny strange way, not a funny ha-ha way).....
I don't post much in the questions area (although I do read and answer here a good bit), and it's partly because I was left with a bad taste in my mouth from being chastised for not putting ANY tags on a couple of them (I thought it was "optional"....and just didn't think it impt to add any.)
Well, if they're going to change them all anyway, I don't see why any of us should bother. Gives them more to do.
(Even though I'd always thought of this as a community-driven place, with some pretty excellent members doing most of the driving.)


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5 Real Animal Friendships Straight Out of a Disney Movie
#2. The Kitten That Was Raised by a Crow
Via Earthlings.org
Although they don't fit into most of the tightest predator/prey relationship definitions, one wouldn't expect cats and crows to get along anywhere outside a Halloween mural. Cats are notoriously independent, while crows, as we have mentioned before, socialize in groups numbering up to hundreds of thousands. And, of course, there's the minor matter of cats killing anything flying and feathery they can get their claws on.
So Ann and Wallace Collito were somewhat confused when their backyard became the stomping grounds for a crow and cat tag-team that eventually inspired a children's book.
It all started when the Collitos discovered a sickly kitten in their backyard. Before they could lend any assistance of their own, an adult crow approached the kitten, with a meal of worms and bugs. Judging the kitten too weak to feed herself, the crow proceeded to stuff the food directly into her mouth, the exact same way a mother bird feeds her young. When the dumbfounded Collitos approached to get a closer look, the crow actually began taking defensive action, placing itself between the kitten and the humans and generally getting ready to kick some Homo sapiens ass.
"No, really, I don't ... OK, just a little. Thanks, I guess."
The strange coexistence between the Collitos, the paternal raven and the kitten that damn well ate her worms whether she liked it or not persisted for some time, until the strange animal pairing finally learned to trust the human couple. The crow (now nicknamed Moses) allowed the kitten (Cassie) to sleep indoors. During the day, Cassie would head outside to play with her surrogate parent, and if she took her time about it, Moses the crow would actually wander up to the Collitos' door to check out what gives.
"It can't rain all the time ..."
Scientists were completely baffled by this rare and unique display of animal affection, even taking into account the fact that crows are a species that surprises humans on a regular basis. Some speculated that Moses adopted Cassie as a surrogate child after losing his young, but if that were the case, Moses should have abandoned the kitten a few months later, as crows do with their young. Instead, the pair had daily meetings throughout the fall Cassie grew up and the five freaking years that followed, sharing meals and playing as if it was as natural as the scores of slack-jawed scientists that surrounded them.
This gives us an idea. Somebody fetch Israel, Palestine and a ball of string.
#1. Apartment-Raised Lion Cub Maintains His Human-Hugging Habit in the Wild
Let's say you're living in London, England. The year is 1969 and you have 250 guineas to spend -- approximately $4,600 in Today Money. What would you do with it? Well, if you're John Rendall and Anthony Bourke, you've just decided now is the perfect time to go to Harrods and fill the lion-shaped hole in your hearts.
Via Daily Mail
And it made damn sure nobody was going to steal that TV.
Harrods, if you didn't know, is an English department store. They totally rocked an exotic animal section back in the day -- a fact that no doubt helps you realize how much less awesome your shopping mall is. Rendall and Bourke were initially looking at camels, when they suddenly spotted a lion cub in a cage and said pretty much what we would have: "Yes. This is what's going to happen."
So they named the lion Christian and brought him to live in their London apartment. Christian was incredibly affectionate and friendly, known for giving lion hugs by jumping up and placing his front paws on people's shoulders. But soon, Rendall and Bourke came to terms with the cold facts: Adorable or not, Christian was still a freaking lion. And just like anybody who purchased a baby alligator or an infant Shoggoth will tell you, you either give up the pet before it gets too big or find a place to hide the bodies.
Via Daily Mail
Probably should have put it in a higher drawer.
After about a year, Christian was as friendly as ever, but his size was becoming such that Rendall and Bourke worried he might hurt someone by accident. And you don't have to be an expert in wild animals to know that one slip into instinct can leave somebody dead or maimed (see: Siegfried and Roy, and countless others).
So, they made an arrangement with wildlife conservationist George Adamson to reintegrate Christian into the wild. Most domesticated animals find heading back to the wild pretty difficult, but Christian exceeded everyone's expectations by immediately going full Mufasa in Kenya's Kora Reserve, to the point that he actually became the alpha lion of a pride.
Country chicks dig city boys, baby.
After a few years, Rendall and Bourke realized that they were missing their old pal and decided to come back to Kenya for a last visit, against a hefty stack of warnings that Christian was, you know, a lion. He was wild now, and he would not only have forgotten them, but also view them as a potential supper.
Yet there they stood, facing the king of all animals and the leader of its own pride, on his own turf. And the big cat formerly known as Christian, the proudest and most feared lion in all Kenya, took a glance at the two intruders, drew his lungs full, poised to leap ...
... and danced and ran to his old owners like a little kitten, to greet them with the most excited lion hugs he'd given in years.
NOTE: Do not go out and try that yourself.
For more interesting tid bits about the Animal Kingdom, check out 6 Animals That Just Don't Give A F#@k and Nature's 6 Most Diabolical Predators.


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On Monday, Kentucky State Police say the Larue County Grand Jury met to discuss the Larue County Sheriff's Deputy involved shooting that occurred on December 7th, 2012.
Sgt. Kevin Johnson, KSP Post 4 Detective Sergeant, presented KSP's investigation into the shooting involving Deputy James E. Williamson and suspect, Thomas E. Ferguson to the Larue County residents.
KSP says the Grand Jury returned with a "No True Bill" decision, which means that there was not sufficient evidence to bring forth criminal charges.
Therefore, Dpty. Williamson has been cleared of any criminal charges.
As of the date of this release, this investigation remains open.
ORIGINAL STORY: December 8, 2012
On Friday, December 7, 2012 at approximately 9:24 p.m. Larue County Dispatch received a call of a reckless driver.
A Larue County Deputy responded and located the vehicle in question.
The Deputy observed the vehicle driving recklessly and he attempted to initiate a traffic stop by engaging his emergency equipment.
KSP says the suspect ignored the Deputy's signals to stop and a vehicle pursuit ensued.
The pursuit continued on KY 1192 near the 5 mile post when the suspect's vehicle spun out and came to rest facing the Deputy.
KSP says as he approached the vehicle the suspect accelerated toward the him.
The Deputy fired shots into the vehicle striking the suspect in the head. The vehicle then exited the roadway and into a ditch.
Larue County EMS transported the suspect to Hardin Memorial Hospital. He was later transported to the University of Louisville Hospital, where he later died.


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I want to prove that a local ring $A$ is Cohen-Macaulay if and only if for every $A$-module $M$ we have $\mathrm{grade}\;M+\mathrm{dim}\;M=\mathrm{dim}\;A$.
If that equation holds we just take $M=k$ (the residue field) and we obtain $A$ is Cohen-Macaulay.
Now suppose that $A$ is CM. In general we have
Now the notes where I am studying conclude saying that the wanted equality follows from the fact that the spectrum of a Cohen-Macaulay ring is bi-dimensional (that I don't know what it means).
It seems to me that I have to use the property that in a CM ring $\mathrm{ht}\;I+\mathrm{dim}\;A/I=\mathrm{dim}\;A$, and apply the two formulas above, but the fact that is bothering me is that in one of them there is a sup and in the other an inf, so I really don't know how to conclude. Any help?


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5 Film Franchises Based on One Character's Stupid Decision
Remember that flashback scene in The Lord of the Rings when Elrond and Isildur are right at the center of Mount Doom, and all Elrond needs to do to save Middle-earth from centuries of war is elf-kick that dipshit and his ring-coveting ass into the boiling lava of oblivion? Had he just done what everyone in the audience was screaming at him to do, the movies would have just been 10 hours of hobbits getting drunk.
Well, this kind of thing happens all the time -- one poor decision leads to an entire film series worth of conflict. For instance ...
#5. Batman Exists Because Ra's al Ghul Doesn't Screen His Applicants
Christopher Nolan's Batman series begins in a Bhutanese prison, where Liam Neeson's Ra's Al Ghul (who apparently has a key) recruits Bruce Wayne to be trained as a member of the League of Shadows. Ra's takes Bruce under his wing, engaging in an array of standard training exercises, including hallucinogenic ninja hide-and-seek and ice dueling peppered with damning accusations about one's father. He becomes a mentor, teaching Bruce that in order to take on his enemies, he must transcend living as an ordinary man and become an incorruptible symbol (evidently Bruce hears this as "drive around in a car that explodes into a motorcycle").
Sadly, like anything good, there's always a catch -- and after Bruce's training is complete and he knows all of the League of Shadows' secrets, he finds himself being asked to execute a man in a show of loyalty.
"Come on, you're embarrassing me in front of my minions. I told them you were cool."
He also is told that Ra's is determined to use Bruce to facilitate the total destruction of Gotham City, something he waited until just now to mention. This doesn't sit well with Bruce, and because he's already balls-deep in the organization, he ends up having to explosion-stab his way out of the League of Shadows, destroying their headquarters in the process.
The best way to show your commitment to not killing your enemies is by blowing them up.
But hey -- free training, right? And now Bruce Wayne gets to be Batman, all thanks to Ra's' total inability to make sure Bruce is cool with murdering people before training him how to bleed out of the shadows and beat the screaming Jesus out of everything on the planet.
Seriously, Ra's -- it's called a job interview, and even the freaking Olive Garden does it. They're not going to start training someone before asking if they're cool with serving soup, salad and bread sticks. Ra's is planning to kill not only an entire city, but the city that Bruce Wayne was born and raised in and where everyone he cares about still lives. Why would he just assume that Bruce would be totally fine with it? This couldn't have been mentioned while they were making Bruce stutter-step on logs while beating him with sticks?
Apparently the League's motto was "Create unstoppable ninjas first, ask questions later."
#4. Jason Bourne Loses His Memory Because He Sucks at Planning
The entire Bourne series is all about Jason Bourne trying to remember his secret agent past. Rather than take any chances, he decides to play it safe and just punch every uniform he sees, whether they be out to kill him or not.
For example, these two were just Maytag repairmen.
It's why his former employers try to assassinate him, and why they end up having to shut down their brainwashing-dudes-to-jump-from-roofs-and-ride-mopeds-in-foreign-countries program -- Jason Bourne can't remember shit, and he is going to make everything around him pay until he does. It takes him three movies and a shitload of dead bodies to figure it out.
"If you don't want the magazine subscription, just say so."
So what is the source of his amnesia, which seems to have replaced every lost memory with assbeat coupons to be redeemed immediately? Well, as the first film reveals via flashbacks, Bourne had been assigned to kill an exiled African dictator named Wombosi (you can tell how African he is by his name). Bourne used an alias to infiltrate the dictator's yacht and hide out for several days, waiting for the perfect time to strike. Everything went according to plan, except that when it was time to pull the trigger, Bourne was surprised by the presence of Wombosi's kids, causing him to suddenly grow a conscience and abort at the last minute (because as we all know, only good people have children).
It's during this hasty change of heart that Bourne gets shot in the back and falls overboard, left to float in the middle of the ocean. This causes his amnesia, because he was shot in the part of the kidneys where memories are stored.
In reality, the most common symptom of this particular injury is shark attack.
So you can trace the events of every movie back to the moment Bourne discovers the kids ... and he was somehow surprised by them? How could he possibly not have known they were there? He planned the job out to the minute, then stowed away on the yacht for five goddamned days. Did he think all the Snack Packs and Hannah Montana CDs belonged to Wombosi and his bodyguards? For a globetrotting CIA-programmed murderbot, this seems like a massive oversight. Especially when you consider what the CIA boss man tells Bourne about the mission later in the film:
You put together a meeting with Wombosi. You found the security company. You broke into the office. You're the one who picked the yacht as the strike point. You picked the boat. You picked the day. You tracked the crew, the food, the fuel. You told us where, you told us when. You hid on that boat five days. You were in, Jason. You were in. It was over.
"Wow, I'm kind of an asshole."
So Bourne put this whole thing together down to every last detail, and just completely spaced on the kids. "Whoops, my bad, guys, I just totally forgot to check." As a result, he is completely thrown off and ends up shutting down the mission, all because it never occurred to him that a militant dictator might have working sperm.
#3. Back to the Future Part II & III Only Happen Because Doc Brown Can't Hide a Body
At the end of the first Back to the Future (and consequently the beginning of the second), Doc Brown comes hauling ass through Marty's neighborhood in broad daylight, insisting that Marty and his girlfriend Jennifer join him on another time-traveling adventure.
"Great Scott! I'm abducting two minors!"
After tearing through space-time and arriving in the year 2015, Doc is forced to knock Jennifer out with a gadget because she starts asking way too many questions about the future. He babbles out a barely coherent explanation about such questions potentially causing some sort of time paradox thing ... it makes about as much sense as it needs to.
"I just wanted her to shut the fuck up."
With Jennifer out cold, Doc lands the DeLorean in a nearby alleyway and briefs Marty on his plan: Marty is to impersonate his own son and keep him from committing a crime, while Doc intercepts the real son and keeps him from ruining his life. It's bulletproof.
For this plan to work, Doc finds it necessary to plop Jennifer's unconscious body in the alley (simply leaving her in the car would have made entirely too much sense). Marty briefly protests the idea of abandoning his girlfriend next to a row of trashcans, but Doc reassures him that they will only be gone for a couple of minutes.
"Trust me, it takes at least 10 minutes to rape someone, we'll be back way before then."
Unfortunately, the future police find Jennifer almost immediately, and after a fingerprint scan they bring her to her future self's home, potentially causing that whole paradox thing Doc Brown science-clubbed her for earlier. Doc and Marty now have to rescue Jennifer, and in doing so accidentally allow Biff to steal the time machine and change the past with the sports almanac. This of course leads to the entirety of the film's plotline, which ends with Doc getting lightninged back to 1885, thus setting the stage for the third movie.
In other words, Jennifer getting picked up in that alley was the direct cause of everything else that happens in the series.
"I tell ya, Marty ... women: Can't live with 'em, can't leave 'em unconscious in a future alley."
That kind of makes you wonder why they needed to dump her body in that alleyway in the first place, considering there were a hundred ways that could go horribly wrong. Doc didn't need the extra space in the DeLorean for groceries or anything -- he was just going to use his knockout wand on Marty Jr. That's it. Why the hell did he need to empty out the car to do it?
Hell, even if Doc was planning on kidnapping Marty's son, we already know he can fit three people and a dog in that damn thing. There's plenty of room -- why the hell did he leave Jennifer in an alley? You'd think a guy like Doc Brown would know how to properly hide a teenage girl's body.


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WINTERSVILLE -The local band Broken Arrow will perform a tribute to Neil Young, set to begin at 9 p.m. May 24 at Zalinski's Family Eatery and Pub, 547 Cadiz Road.
An evening of great and timeless music featuring the songs of Young will fill the venue and celebrate his legacy, according to bandleader Mike Styer.
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Broken Arrow will be performing a tribute to Neil Young, set to begin at 9 p.m. May 24 at Zalinski's Family Eatery and Pub, 547 Cadiz Road. Tickets in advance are $5 at the door; or call bandleader Mike Styer at (740) 535-1291. Tickets also are available from the band members. Tickets will be on sale at the door for $10. — Contributed
"In addition to Young's solo output, Broken Arrow also will pay tribute to Buffalo Springfield, Young's first band that included Stephen Stills, Ritchie Furay, fellow Canadian Bruce Palmer and Dewy Martin in 1966," said Styer.
Hailed as one of the greatest bands of the 1960s, Buffalo Springfield melded rock with folk, country and Latin influences.
OrPowered by the lead guitars of Stills and Young; great songwriting by Stills, Young and Furay; and vocals by three lead singers, the group broke new ground, according to Styer.
"During the show, Broken Arrow also will acknowledge Young's contemporaries, Crosby, Stills and Nash," Styer continued. "With influences from the Springfield Stills the Byrds Crosby and the Hollies Nash the group released a hugely successful first album. The trio soon added Young to the mix and released the classic album, 'Deja Vu.'"
Other musicians figured into Neil Young's music, but none quite as powerful as Crazy Horse, his backing band for decades, Styer said.
"They backed him up with a raw and ragged glory on songs such as 'Down by the River' and 'Cinnamon Girl.' Broken Arrow will perform many classic songs of Neil Young and Crazy Horse," he said.
Broken Arrow includes Ray Morgan on vocals and guitar; Styer on vocals, guitar and harmonica; Merv Eddy, pedal steel guitar; Jimmy George, bass guitar; and George Vein, drums. Augmenting the band that evening will be Styer's daughter, Shelby Styer, who will add vocals.
The band's latest album, "Brothers of the Six String," will be available at the concert. Tickets will be on sale at the door for $5. For information, call (740) 535-1291.


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El33t's Question of the Day: Which games do you play that you wouldn't want your family to see?Written by: / / 30 Comments
Welcome to the latest Question of the Day!
If you have a Question of the Day that you would like to put to the community, mail it to oliver[@]el33tonline.com and we'll send it out, with credit of course!
There are guilty pleasure games that we all play that we would probably not want our gaming friends to see us enjoy – games surrounded in a general consensus that says that they're not particularly good, but we have fun with them anyway.
What about games that you would be embarrassed to let your family see you play? Which games have you played, and continue to play, that you wouldn't want your family to see?
If any of my family ever saw me playing Grand Theft Auto V or Saints Row, I would be a little more than uncomfortable if they were to sit in and watch over my shoulder for more than five minutes… but that's just me.
Are there games you're worried about your family seeing you play, or are your parents, siblings and extended family members accepting of more questionable content in videogames?


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6 Bizarrely Creepy Moments from the Mario Universe
#3. Super Mario Sunshine -- Bowser and the Princess's Love Affair
Here's one of the great unanswered questions in the Mario mythos: who is the mother of all of Bowser's children? There are eight of them in all, and Bowser bends over backwards to conquer random desert and water kingdoms for them to use as sandboxes. Yet, we've never seen a Queen Koopa.
Someone had to spawn these wretched abominations.
Super Mario Sunshine addresses this question head-on. In the game, Mario has to rescue Princess Peach (as usual), only this time the kidnapper turns out to be not Bowser, but his previously unrevealed eighth son: Bowser Jr. When asked why he was doing all this crap, he said the reason was because he wanted to protect his mother:
Princess Peach.
Bitch is straight-up kinky.
And in case you think the boy was just confused or misspoke or that we're taking it out of context, watch the cut-scene yourself:
There are plenty of appropriate reactions to a spiked turtle creature claiming you gave birth to him. Shock, revulsion, outright denial through shouting "inconceivable!" -- which would be an apt word choice in this case. Peach, however, chooses none of the above. Instead, she gets this expression on her face:
... and after a moment of shocked hesitation, says, "I'm your momma?"
The kid replies, "Yeah, papa told me all about it."
At this point she should say, "Well, your dad's confused, because I would remember banging a giant turtle" or "You have me mistaken for someone else -- someone with a much, much bigger vagina."
But, no -- instead, Peach says, "So you're Bowser's son?"
Oh, the perils of magic mushrooms!
That's right. When he called her "momma," it all made sense to her once she found out Bowser was the father. That is, she knew she had banged Bowser, gotten pregnant and abandoned a child at some point, but just needed to know that this was that kid.
"I can't remember most of the 80s, on account of all the coke."
If you're not understanding why this is creepy on a level with giant forest eyeballs, enjoy this video of giant turtles boning:
Now imagine Princess Peach is on the bottom.
The creepiest part is that this does sort of make sense: For every main character in the Mario series there is a female counterpart with the exception of Bowser, so it stands to reason that Peach birthed that monstrosity. We've already pointed out that she keeps allowing herself to be kidnapped, as if she and Bowser had some sort of weird fetish game going on. Add that to the fact that every special event Peach invites Mario to (eating cake, going on vacation, celebrating a festival) somehow turns out to be a death trap, and it's like Bowser and Peach are continually trying to get rid of Mario but he just can't take a hint.
Mario is the only thing standing in the way of a happy family.
And while we're on the subject of interspecies sex ...
#2. Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga -- Post-Op Bowser
Gender-bending is a strangely recurring concept in the Mario series. Birdo from Super Mario 2 was described in the instruction booklet as a boy who thought he was a girl, and a character in Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door had similar gender-identity issues (made more troubling by the fact that he/she has a crush on Mario).
All the fly ladies have a crush on Mario.
But the Game Boy Advance RPG Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga trumps them all. The game's two main villains are Bowser and some witch named Cackletta. The Mario brothers defeat them both in due time because that's how they roll. But the game doesn't end there, because that would make too much sense. No, instead what happens is that Cackletta's soul possesses Bowser's unconscious body.
There's no way this was consensual.
That's not the weird part, though. What happens is that Cackletta's soul in Bowser's body doesn't just mean Bowser's body has a new rider in the passenger seat, it means that Bowser becomes fused with whatever Cackletta was in the first place, creating something called ... Bowletta.
Which is basically Bowser, but with heaving bosoms.
Bowletta can also turn into Dark Bowletta -- which is basically Al Jolson, but with heaving bosoms.
Anyways, this new villain is so powerful that the Mario brothers are forced to come up with a zany scheme to defeat it that includes making Luigi dress up as Princess Peach -- you know, just in case you thought it was only the villains who had issues with gender identity.
Another disturbing thing here is that if you search "Bowletta" on Google Images, most of the results are fan arts. Apparently, Bowletta's one and only appearance was enough to capture the imagination of dozens of weirdos with DeviantArt accounts. Do not, for all that is holy, search with the filter off.
Just what we wanted to see.
#1. Super Mario Bros. -- The Minus World
The fact that this one was an unplanned glitch only makes it scarier. The Minus World is a hidden level in the original 1985 Super Mario Bros, game, but here's the thing: Nobody put it there. It's essentially a collection of raw game data which, through sheer coincidence, manifested itself in the form of a playable level.
A ghost in the Game Boy, if you will.
The way it works is this: You know the "warp zone" at the end of Level 1-2? When you reach it, there are three pipes that let you skip ahead to a different World, up to World 4.
And this is why nobody has ever seen the rest of world 1.
However, if you enter the warp zone through an alternative path, you can go into the first pipe before a destination level is assigned to it by the game.
Notice there's no "4" above the pipe.
As a result, the game doesn't know where to send you, and you end up in a "non-level." The reason the screen shows a "-1" is because the game always tries to read the symbol above the pipe to figure out where you're going, and in this case, the only symbol is "absolute nothingness." So instead of showing something like "7-2" (World 7, Level 2) it shows you " -1" (World nothing, Level 1).
What you'll find inside the Minus World goes against everything you know as a Mario player: In the U.S. version of the game, Mario is stuck in an underwater level that repeats itself in an endless loop, so it just goes on forever until an enemy kills him or the time runs out. The Japanese version, however, is several levels long, and you can see insane stuff such as underwater enemies on land, a sometimes decapitated flying Bowser and an underwater flagpole without the flag.
Like this game needed to be more insane.
Perhaps more troublingly, a couple times you can see Princess Peach just floating there, minding her own business -- which is pretty bizarre, because she's the rarest character in the game. You only see her at the end. If this is randomly generated, shouldn't that be a turtle or something?
The laws of probability do not apply to this place.
Some dudes have gone even further by hacking the game go beyond the American version of -1. Basically, if you use a level editor to add a flagpole in the middle of the "endless" level, you can force the game to send you to whatever's next. Others have used the same technique to find out what's after World 8 (the final world), and the answer is: even more freaky stuff.
Why would this happen?
It's that corruption of the familiar that makes this so unsettling. Chances are, most people reading this have played this game one or two or 97 times. Finding out all this stuff is hidden inside something so familiar is like accidentally stumbling across a secret room in your childhood home and walking in on your mother doing it with a clown.
Maxwell Yezpitelok lives in Chile and does stupid comics, some of which have recently been published in Informe Meteoro, a new independent comics anthology book that you can buy.
Peter File is a mild-mannered reporter by day, but by night, he is usually asleep.
For more games that went too far, check out The 10 Most Terrifying Video Game Enemies of All Time and 6 Baffling Old-School Video Game Commercials.


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A Website's Life: From Sketch to Publishing
WebMatrix is a new, free, fully featured, easy to install web development tool that helps you build ASP.NET and PHP websites, perform validation, SEO optimization and one-click publishing. My favorite feature however is a new script syntax for ASP.NET called *Razor* which will help you creating dynamic websites incredibly easy. We will spend some time sketching/wireframing our website, doing visual design work in Expression Design and then into experiencing the rich development toolset in WebMatrix.
- Sketching and Designing with Expression Design
- Introducing WebMatrix
- Web App Gallery, SEO Optimization, Publishing
- ASP.NET Razor Syntax
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After the boil I have been told to run the wort through a filter before adding yeast and letting it ferment. It seems like you would get more flavor leaving the hop leftovers in.
What is the advantage of filtering the wort before fermentation?
It would remove the break material and other such things, which may or may not have an effect on how long the beer would store if you're planning on aging it. You may also filter out nutrients that the yeast could use if you're doing that, though. Filtering after fermentation makes much more sense to me.
The hops that were in the kettle really have nothing left to give. There's no benefit to leaving them in.
As a matter of practicality, I'd be tempted to screen, not filter, and have in the past. I also use a wort-chiller of the counter-flow variety, and they do not work well with either the break material or floating bits of hops. A standard / fine stainless wire mesh strainer is plenty good enough to keep the chiller from getting clogged with solids of either sort. While the process of forcing wort through the clogged chiller in an effort to clear the jam can be entertaining, it's not recommended.
When I tried this, I found my beer got a soapy, almost rancid flavor. If you want a better, rounded flavor from your hops, you're better off using new and dry-hopping. It's the best way I've found to get a full hop flavor.


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2 Mar 2013 5:39 PM #1
Ext.grid.plugin.DivRenderer plugin with Grouping feature
Ext.grid.plugin.DivRenderer appears to be a new plugin that renders rows and columns as dl/dt nodes. It looks nice and more flexible when custom styling is concerned. Is there any hope that the Grouping feature will be compatible with this plugin?
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That class is experimental and currently not compatible with most other features. We are trying to determine if the approach has enough benefit to "round it out" so to speak.Don Griffin
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I would love to have this plugin fully supported. Currently I am using 'dataview' to achieve this.
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By Neha Goel on Jun 27, 2008
Here's a great news for all of us. Sun again has taken a great initiative for imparting technical education among students. Sun has been always taken part actively in all the ways to make students aware of the technologies and to learn them. This time Sun has Join hands with Amity University, the largest and one of the leading private university in India.
Sun Microsystems has entered into a partnership with Amity University to renowned curriculum to provide students access to Sun technologies. The partnership with Amity to leverage upon the company's long-standing proven expertise on Java and Solaris technologies as well as update their existing curriculum using it's extensive resource library.
As part of this partnership, the company will set up an Authorized Sun Education Center(ASEC) at the Amity University campus in Noida. This ASEC will offer training and certification to students across the university. A faculty development program will be conducted on a continuing basis to empower the university faculty. Further, Sun Learning Services Official Course material will form part of the recognized and recommended textbooks for all Computer Science and IT courses at the university.
This is a great initiative taken by Sun and Amity to impart high quality education among students. This collaboration will allow a numerous amount of students to access sun technologies. The initiative is part of Sun's endeavour to provide the educational institutions in the country the tools and resources they need to keep pace with technology and differentiate their academic programs by offering education in innovative technologies.
The partnership with Sun will facilitate Amity University to-
- Impart High quality education on Java and Solaris technologies
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- Train-the-trainer programs for the faculty will help ensure that Amity's faculty are trained on the latest technology.
- Enhanced visibility for the university on a global scale and enhanced placement and job opportunities
- Skilled and trained students
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"As the largest private university in India, the Amity University plays
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As a Sun Campus Ambassador of Amity University, I would like to congratulate all the authorities whose great efforts are the only cause for such a wonderful and beneficial collaboration. Hoping for great future with this collaboration.


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What do you do with a wrinkled t-shirt?
I came home from some early morning emergency calls, and needed to change my shirt. You've probably been in a similar situation where you have some clean clothes laying in a pile. You pick one up, and it's wrinkled.. but clean! I grabbed a t-shirt (a shirt.woot shirt), and it's wrinkly. I just threw it on in the hopes the wrinkles will magically work themselves out.
What would you do? Would choose another shirt? Iron it? Maybe throw it in the dryer for a few minutes? Or, just throw the shirt on and go?
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If I'm wearing a T-shirt, I don't care how I look so I'll wear it wrinkled.
I usually wear a collared shirt. I wear the T-shirts when I'm mowing the lawn or working out at the gym. Who cares how I look then?
Washing and drying is the easy part of doing laundry. I'm pretty lazy about folding or hanging clothes up afterwards. Often times, the clothes will sit in the dryer until I need to do another load. I have to turn the dryer on again to get the wrinkles out. A waste of electricity and it's rougher than need be on the clothes, but I'm too lazy to be bother by such rational arguments for hanging the clothes up right away.
My answer, toss the shirt in the dryer for a while. Add a damp (not wet) towel in there if the wrinkles are really bad. (or use the steam feature if you have a really fancy dryer)
I would throw it in the dryer for a few minutes. I don't like leaving the house looking like I rolled out of the laundry pile.
If I am alone, I will wear the wrinkled shirt. If I am with my wife, I will find a new one (after trying to make it out with the wrinkled one). You'd think I'd of learned by now, but nope.
I like to wear my wrinkled T-shirts with my wrinkled jeans.
If I am wearing a t-shirt, I am probably wearing a pair of cargo shorts with it, and quite frankly I am probably not leaving the house, and if I am it is to drive to a family members house.
This being said a few wrinkles do not bother me, if it is very wrinkly I will toss it back in the dryer to fluff out some of the bigger wrinkles, but seeing as how I hang my shirts as soon as the drying cycle ends, the wrinkles are typically not so large as to bother me.
-sorry about the poor grammar, English was never my strongest subject in school.
I don't know. My clean clothes get folded and put away right out of the dryer to prevent this situation from ever happening.
For a quick dewrinkle of a t-shirt I toss it in the dryer for 2-5 mins. Works well.
I personally don't care my self if it's wrinkled or not. The GF on the other hand hates it. Since we have started dating she has brought over an iron and board to iron our stuff before we go out.
I tell her before I take her home, if you want me to wear ironed clothes this week when we go out, then iron them before you leave because they won't get touched.
If it is a Woot shirt, I would not recommend putting it anywhere near the dryer.
Your t-shirt wrinkles don't just work their way out? Mine seem to.
Of course, I also am pretty good about putting away my clothes the same day I wash and dry them, so I don't have a lot of wrinkly t-shirts.
@katblue: me too, but I don't like my wrinkled face!
I never iron tshirts. If the fabric is high quality, like woot shirts, the wrinkles will work themselves out :)
@gt0163c: They do as the day goes on. But, it can be a while if it's really really wrinkled. Like, topographic map of the Alps, wrinkled.
@klozitshoper: Nah, I don't let any kind of wrinkles bother me. I've learned it's not worth the time or effort.
Wear wrinkled or use this
I refuse to iron a t-shirt.
If I don't have another shirt at hand or I really want to wear that shirt I throw it on wrinkled, usually the wrinkles work themselves out pretty quickly.
Is it clean? It's wearable. If not, it's laundry.
I'm with @inkycatz. Wrinkles just give it character...or that's what I tell myself when I look in the mirror.
@kmeltzer: Oooo..that would be really cool if you had a shirt with a map of the Alps on it. It could be a topograhpical map without even meaning to be one! Of course, you'd have to make sure that the wrinkles were in the right place...or it could be a topographical map of bizzaro world where the Alps are really the low points and the oceans are up on top of the mountains!
Wear it!
I've heard you can spray some water on it and dry it -- and yeah, woot shirts are fine in the dryer on low heat. =P
I have also seen this stuff do neat things: http://www.amazon.com/Downy-Wrinkle-Releaser-33-8/dp/B001LFCS9Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341336825&sr=8-1&keywords=wrinkle+release
Those laundry steamer balls that look like under water contact mines work wonders on wrinkly clothes (especially t-shirts). They only take a few mins and they work well. Steam in general seems to work the best (either a steamer ball or a garment steamer). Pretty quick and efficient.
@gt0163c: I bet the wrinkles wouldn't have to match, since few would get close enough to check it.
But, maybe there is an idea here. Just a line of shirts that are of topographical maps of various places, real and fake. And, when they get wrinkled, it's simply a way to have them "textured". People would be encouraged to not fold them after laundering. I think it would be a hit with the college kids.
You have to take the small amount of discipline to hang them immediately after the dryer stops. Cutting the cycle even 1/4+ short is usually no big deal. They'll probably be dry, but if not, they'll finish drying in your closet on a hanger. Never a wrinkle and always ready to rock.
However, if you find yourself in this situation again, throwing them back in the dryer for ~10 minutes helps remove wrinkles.
Last ditch effort, or if you're traveling, Downy Wrinkle Release. Smells good and it actually works. I have a little 3oz bottle take with me when I fly. Use it on T-shirts and polos. Button down shirts and slacks must be ironed. Sorry, but they're dressy clothes. Do yourself some justice. :-)
@kmeltzer: Excellent idea, but why stop at just t-shirts? There could be a whole line of topo map clothing: dress shirts that you're supposed to leave wrinkled! Jackets that it doesn't matter if you just ball them up and toss them in the back seat of your car for three days, cause, woo-hoo! more topographicalness! Topo map pants and shorts wouldn't be quite my cup of tea. But I'm sure there are people out there who wouldn't mind if someone is staring at the area below their belt trying to figure out if the San Fernando Valley really is supposed to be more wavy than the area around Mt Saint Helens.
I think we may have the next big fashion trend on our hands here!
I usually throw them on a coat hanger & put them in the bathroom when I take my next shower. That is pretty easy on them & gets rid of most wrinkles.
Wow, am I really the only one who will iron any wrinkle out of any article of clothing? Heck, I'll even iron my socks if they're bad enough.
There must be something wrong with me...
There have been mornings in which it's get-up-and-go, whatever shirt I was sleeping in and all. Wrinkled? I don't care! Besides, the usual irony of a woot shirt helps out fine enough. ^_^
I don't know.... My wife always takes care of them. I guess she takes them to the cleaners or maybe she irons them. That's why I always shower her with gifts from Woot. So I don't have to do anything with a wrinkled shirt.
iron it
I bought a clothes steamer from home.woot a few months ago. BEST. THING. EVER. Wrinkles gone in just a couple minutes. So much easier than ironing.
Joke answer: Tell my wife she's slacking
Real Answer (Since I don't like getting punched in the face by my wife): sprinkle a little water on it and throw it in the dryer for like 3 minutes. It's fresh and wrinkle free.
I used to use Downy wrinkle releaser and could not live with out it.(my kids didn't know what an iron was until we stayed in a hotel) but found that regular water in a spray bottle will work just as well to remove the wrinkles. Trust me it really does work. The Downey stuff is nice because it has a nice smell but can be pricey. I have not ironed in years!
Our clean outerwear gets folded/hung up as soon as the wash/dry cycle is completed. No wrinkles that way. Occasionally an extra 10 minute trip through the dryer takes place immediately before wearing.
If no one is taking a shower in the next few minutes, I turn it inside out, slide it on a hanger, spritz it with the bottle of water I use on the kid's bed head, and the hit it with a hair dryer for a minute or two. The hanger allows you to help shake out the wrinkles as you dry it, and the inside out is to protect the printing on the Woot shirt. The resident 12 year old prefers Woot shirts, and has not quite grasped the whole putting away laundry bit, so this is a life skill we are working on for his college years.
What's an iron? I don't iron any of my clothes! Sometimes when I'm sewing something though I'll dig it out to iron out wrinkles before I make something (that has to look perfect, lol).
If it was really bad, I'd just not wear it out...otherwise, I'm putting it on, the wrinkles will work themselves out. :)
I throw it on, then add a jacket; the sweat from the jacket, shirt, and 1/2 mile to the bus stop steams the wrinkles out by the time I get where I'm going.


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Hello. Ive been playing this game fine for 2 days, when suddenly tonight its glitched out. When i enter a match, my character sort of drops from the ceiling on spawn and then floats mid air while other toons scatter around me. Not sure how to fix this problem i cleared all my chache's and uninstalled and reinstalled unity player and have gotten no change. Any suggestions would be appreciated, really enjoy the game.
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I'm trying to make facebook like functionality in Android WebView (project specification does not allow browser opening, or any out of application activity).
So, restrictions are that it has to be done in WebView. I've managed to make it a dialog, and apon user's click like button, it (the WebView) redirects successfully (in the same view) to facebooks login page. After successful authentication, the
WebView (in a dialog) is redirected to blank page with facebook header.
Interestingly enough, when user leaves the blank dialog and click again on the like button it works like perfectly (like and unlike) - it somehow keeps authentication active. To resolve the blank page, I've tried/used following:
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Breaking Into Acting For Dummies
Breaking into acting takes more than catching a lucky break. Take steps to show up prepared for your acting audition, like keeping your clothes measurements with you. Keep accurate records of your acting expenses so you can deduct them from your taxes. Learn to deal with the frustration of acting, and keep your hopes of becoming an actor alive.
How to Prepare for an Acting Audition
Being prepared for your acting audition can reduce the stress of the experience. These auditioning tips will minimize distractions and help you put together a knockout performance:
Prepare and pack plenty of head shots and resumes. Staple your head shot to the back of your resume, so you don't lose one or the other.
Pack a change of clothes in case your outfit gets dirty or torn, or so you can modify your appearance to match the role.
Take a copy of sides (the pages of a script that you'll be reading from) or the script to practice while you wait your turn to audition.
Do a final run-through of your monologues to make sure that you have them memorized and are comfortable performing them.
Confirm directions to the audition location. Also, plan to leave your residence in plenty of time to get to the audition location early.
Clear your personal calendar for the day of the audition, so you can arrive early and stay late with no worries.
Make a list of emergency telephone numbers, such as your agent's number and the audition location number.
Get a good night's sleep.
Taking Clothing Measurements to Your Acting Audition
A casting director may need your clothes measurements for costume fittings at your acting audition. Keep your measurements handy and take them to your audition.
|Height: _____
|Females: Bust: _____
|Males: Suit: _____
|Weight: _____
|Hips: _____
|Shirt: _____
|Shoe size: _____
|Dress: _____
|Inseam: _____
|Waist: _____
|Blouse: _____
|Blouse: _____
|Pants: _____
Tax Deductions for Acting Expenses
Since acting is a business, you're allowed to write off tax deductions for some acting expenses up to the acting income you've earned. Consult your tax advisor about tax deductions and keep accurate records of your acting expenses. Possible tax deductions include:
Travel expenses to and from auditions (including meals and lodging)
Admissions to movies and plays (save your ticket stubs)
Acting classes, workshops, and seminars
Acting books and magazines
Office supplies
Mailing expenses
Telephone bills, including the cost of an answering machine or service, a pager, or cellular phone
Union dues
Head shots (photographer's fees and duplication costs)
Resume (printing and duplication costs)
Videotape and DVD rentals
Television set, VCR, DVD player, and the cost of cable subscription service
Makeup and clothing specifically used for acting (including dry cleaning expenses)
Cost of creating and duplicating a demo tape
How to Deal with Frustration as an Actor
Don't give up on your dreams of being an actor when you're feeling frustrated. To relax and revive your acting aspirations, try some of these suggestions:
Meditate or practice yoga
Treat yourself to a spa, massage, or a hot bath
Take a class to overcome your weaknesses as an actor
Look for a day job that you may actually like
Participate in non-show business activities, such as sports, volunteering at a hospital or charity, or enjoying a hobby
Work off some steam — take a karate, boxing, or aerobic workout class
Start or join a support group with fellow actors
See a movie, go to a play, or read a good book
Read a positive-thinking book or listen to motivational tapes
Browse through one of the trade publications such as Variety or Hollywood Reporter
Pursue an additional show business career (writing, stand-up comedy, filmmaking, and so on)
Take a vacation (It can be as simple as a one day trip to the beach or a two week trip to Europe.)
Take time to develop a plan for advancing your acting career


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«Ἀνερρίφθω κύβος» (anerriphtho kybos, lit. Let the die be cast) was attributed by Suetonius to Caesar when it was reported that some legionaries cross the Rubicon. Why did Caesar move to the Rubicon and stop there? Was it because after that, a civil war would be unavoidable and Caesar wanted to avoid it? Was it just an excuse to start the war anyway?
The Rubicon river marked the boundary between the province of Cisalpine Gaul and Italy proper. Caesar, as a proconsul, held imperium (the right to command) within the provinces, but only a consul or praetor could hold imperium inside Italy. Generals were expected to lay down their command and re-enter Italy as private citizens; not doing so would be seen as a threat to Rome. According to Wikipedia, "Suetonius's account depicts Caesar as undecided as he approached the river, and attributes the crossing to a supernatural apparition", suggesting that he was unsure whether to provoke civil war at that time. His act of crossing the Rubicon leading fully armed soldiers immediately created a force in Italy in opposition to the Senate; thus, a civil war had begun.
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Seeds of regeneration
Patrick Jordans lovely remembrance of Dorothy Day in the latest issue of Commonweal includes these remarks:
It was very much as a realist that she had entered the church in 1927; and in 1933, when she and Maurin started the Catholic Worker, she had not sought approval for the venture from church officials. Instead, as she recounted some years later, she relied on the advice of three priests (all editors), who told her to launch out, but not to ask permission. It would not be given, it was implied.In 1968, when the Catholic sociologist and peace activist Gordon Zahn (who had brought the story of Franz Jgersttter to the attention of the English-speaking world) was having a serious crisis of faith over the institutional church, Dorothy reassured him that as a convert, I never expected much of the bishops. In all history, popes and bishops and father abbots seem to have been blind and power-loving and greedy. I never expected leadership from them. It is the saints who keep appearing throughout history who keep things going. However, she told Zahn, What I do expect is the bread of life and down through the ages there is that continuitythe sacraments and tradition. The gospel is hard, she continued. Loving your enemies, and the worst are of your own household, is hard. Still, as she was to instruct another coworker thinking of leaving the church, No matter how corrupt the church may become, it carries with it the seeds of its own regeneration. To read the lives of the saints has always helped me, she counseled.
The paragraph reminded me of the view that Jean Gerson maintained in the midst of the dark days of the Great Western Schism when first two and later three rivals claimed the papal throne, dogs quarreling over a bone, Wyclif called them. Gersons view has been summarized by Louis Pascoe:
...the church has within itself the resources for its own reformation. Gerson maintains that the church is endowed with a semen vivificum et reformativumwhich has both a conservative and a reformative role in its life. At times he calls the semen a vis insita spiritualis or an ars quaedam vivifica. This semen permeates the entire body of the church and guarantees the continued existence of its hierarchical order through successive generations. The reformative activity of the semen is manifested in the fact that it is capable of restoring proper order to the church whenever deformities occur in its hierarchical structure. Under its influence the church is restored to the unity that characterized the early days of its institution. He argues that this is the unity to which St. Paul refers in Eph 4:4-6, 15-16 when he speaks of one Lord, one faith, one baptism and one body under one head (Louis B. Pascoe, Jean Gerson: Principles of Church Reform, p. 45).
I notice the same metaphor: the seeds of its own regeneration (Day), a life-giving and reformative seed (Gerson). As Gerson thought that this seed permeates the entire body of the church, Day points to the lives of the saints, who are the ones who keep things going and who are the ones who best experience that "the Gospel is hard." Which reminds me of the distinction made by several twentieth-century Catholics between a hierarchy of authority and a hierarchy of holiness in the Church, with the two seldom coinciding.Im reminded too of the emphasis that, Enzo Bianchi, the founder and prior of the ecumenical Monastery of Bose, places on the conversion of individuals and small groups as the seeds of the reform and renewal of the Church.
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And in this Sunday's gospel, at the wedding Jesus acts with the help, not of the bridegroom or of the headwaiter who is the one in charge, but of the lowly servants.
"In all history, popes and bishops and father abbots seem to have been blind and power-loving and greedy. I never expected leadership from them. It is the saints who keep appearing throughout history who keep things going."Amen, Dorothy Day. And God bless Patrick Jordan, whose remembrances of her, I hope, will prevent her from being "hagiographized" however the canonization process turns out.
Claire:Interesting that it is His mother, who said to the servers, Do whatever he tells you.
Helen: and the headmaster, although he didn't do anything himself - and no one asked him for permission before tinkering with the purification containers -, was still able to recognize that something good happened!With a bit of practice, one can make a text from Scripture mean whatever we want it to mean...
Claire,There is a a free online course entitled "John - The Sacramental Gospel" that does some fine exegesis on the Wedding at Cana. It's presented by Scott Hahn who may not be popular with some Commonweal readers, but I find his work very helpful in understanding God's love for us. I won't provide the link, but you can easily find it on Google.
Here is Aquinas' take on Cana:
Mystically interpreted, the mother of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin, is present at the spiritual wedding as a marriage-counsellor (nuptiarum consiiatrix) because it is by her intercession that we are joined to Christ by grace: In me is every hope of life and virtue (Eccl 24:25). Christ is present as the souls true groom, as is said later: The one who has the bride is the groom (Jn 3:29). The disciples are present as paranymphs because they join the Church to Christ of whom alone it was said: I espoused you in order to present you as a chaste virgin to a single husband (2 Cor 11:2).
I like the insistence that Christ alone is the Bridegroom with the paranymphs arranging the marriage with the Church as Bride. Augustine also emphasized this: that "the friend of the Bridegroom" was not to put himself in the place of Christ. Augustine regularly stressed the two texts adduced here by Aquinas: Jn 3:29 and 2 Cor 11:2. Aquinas also speaks of the bishop as a paranymph.
The trouble with metaphors and similies is that there is no way of telling just what their messages are. Too often the likenesses are overstated because there is no way to tell whether a particular part of a metaphor's content is meant to be a part of its message or not. For instance, if you tell me, "My boss was out of control yesterday. He was a bull in the china shop", does that mean he was literally destructive of something physical? It is only by considering information other than the content of metaphor that we might -- just might -- interpret the metaphor correctly.
But the disciples at Cana do absolutely nothing. No joining, no arranging, no talking, no nothing. I don't see that that text suggests anything about paranymphs. It's a stretch.
Claire: You're right. Perhaps Aquinas was nodding, and meant the servants?But now that we've indulged in this digression enough, let's get back to Dorothy Day and Gerson, if we may.
It is unsurprising, when metaphorical-mystical language is so often employed in discussing articles of faith, that it should also be invoked to explain the Church's historical development. But seeds of its own regeneration and semen reformativum add little to our understanding of a process that every institution must undergo if it is to remain relevant and endure. Times and circumstances change, throwing up new challenges to seemingly settled views of the world and our place in it. Statecraft, art, science, literature, religion, everything must grow to accommodate a better understood reality.Dorothy Day recognized in the lives of the saints an important internal engine of renewal, but she would surely have acknowledged as well the part that many other people, in and out of the Church, have played in shaping its long history.And there is no denying that, like those of the Kentucky coffee tree, such seeds as the Church possesses often take a very long time to germinate.
From the excerpts given here the two viewpoints seem a bit different: Gerson thinks that the seeds of regeneration are "capable of restoring proper order to the church whenever deformities occur in its hierarchical structure." Day expects little good from the hierarchy, but alongside those, there are the saints who carry the seeds of regeneration. So Day seems to think that the hierarchy is deformed (greedy, blind etc), but that it doesn't matter because what matters is elsewhere, and Gerson seems to think that the hierarchy is deformed, but continually gets straightened out by the seeds.Gerson doesn't explain how those seeds affect the hierarchical structure. Day doesn't seem to think they do.
I don't like the metaphor as used to signify reformation because seeds don't re-form, they form, even in the strange biology of Gerson's middle ages. It's a real stretch.
Since the hierarchy is a closed system, I don't see how it can be expected to reform itself. The recent sex abuse scandal is a good example. In the U.S., no bishops resigned. I am not sure how the whole thing played out in Europe. But did the Pope ever acknowledge the complicity of the bishops? Deformities have occured. I am waiting for the appearance of the seeds of generation. My bishop will retire in two years. I don't have great hope about his successor.
William T. ==Three Irish bishops were allowed to resign. A couple of others offered to, but the Vatican wouldn't let them. Go figure. The Vatican seems to think that repentance turns men with bad judgment into men with good judgment. Until we have a pope who knows better. I don't think there is any hope for real reformation.
If I'm not mistaken, in the U. S. there also were several of bishops who themselves were guilty of abuse or other wrong-doing, admitted it and resigned. Carolyn Disco, are you there?
If I'm understanding this right, I think that dynamic tension- forces of reform and conservative forces- works pretty well and gets us eventually wto here we need to be. Can anybody more informed set out a specific, contemporary context where this is in play? I think womens' place in the Church might be one, maybe? The movement for women's ordination had momentum in recent decades (forces of reform?) then was more or less shut down by Pope John Paul II (forces of conservation?) but people are still talking about the issue, there are some ordained women out there; there is now some focus on women deacons (reform?). So the issue is still live and kicking between these opposing forces.I've run into quite a few everyday saints- people whose Catholic faith drives their heroic lives. These people would be beyond mortified to be characterized as saintly, but their example, certainly breathes life into my own faith and helps point towards a better way.
The sex abuse scandal is an example where the church institution is in the process of (slowly and painfully) learning from the world. William Taylor, I'm not so pessimistic: we'll get there! As in a Gaudium et Spes 44, which one future day will be quoted to back up the claim that "The Church has always said that she greatly profits from the sexual abuse trials for its purification, for which she is grateful":Since the Church has a visible and social structure as a sign of her unity in Christ, she can and ought to be enriched by the development of human social life Whoever promotes the human community at the family level [], according to God's design, is contributing greatly to the Church as well, to the extent that she depends on things outside herself. Indeed, the Church admits that she has greatly profited and still profits from the antagonism of those who oppose or who persecute her.
A comment that Jim Pauweis made above, in the "Pax Obama" thread, is pertinent here, I think:
From the Gopnik piece:Thanks to the efforts of MADD and the other groups, drunk driving became socially verboten, and then highly regulated,Note the progression, from the grass roots and mediating institutions, and then to legislation.For the futility of trying to change culture via legislation, cf the war on drugs.
When I was in Australia a decade ago, during a question and answer period, someone complained that all the new ecclesial movements were so conservative. I replied that if they wanted a less conservative ecclesial movement, they should start one. My somewhat testy remark (I was tired...) wasn't all that well received. But all these movements, and movements of renewal and reform in the Church's past, began very small--like Jesus' mustard seed--and that seed began to grow, most often, in and because of a very holy person or two. And haven't they all been movements from below, grassroots movements? I don't know when the hierarchy has been more of a "closed system" than in the last decade of the reign of Pope Pius XII, and yet that did not prevent the calling and the achievements of Vatican II, inspired and led by two octogenarians, John XXIII and Cardinal Bea.


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Consider the system of linear ODEs $\dot{x}(t)=Ax(t)$, $x(0)=x_0\in\mathbb{R}^n$. Does anyone know a simple proof showing that the solutions are unique that does not require resorting to more general existence/uniqueness results (e.g., those relating to the Picard iteration) nor solving for the solutions explicitly?
If you just need uniqueness, use the Bellman-Gronwall lemma. Suppose $x,y$ are two solutions, then $x(0) = y(0) = x_0$, and both $x,y$ satisfy the ODE. In particular, if we let $\delta = x-y$, we have $\delta(t) = \int_0^t A \delta(\tau) d\tau$, and hence $\|\delta(t)\| \leq \int_0^t \|A\| |\delta(\tau)\| d\tau$, from which it follows (using the integral form of the Bellman-Gronwall lemma) that $\|\delta(t)\| = 0$ for all $t \geq 0$.
Since the students are engineers, why don't you want to show them explicit solutions, which surely they'd need to see anyway? If we knew about a matrix exponential $e^{At}$, then to show $x(t) = e^{At}x_0$ let's look at the $t$-derivative of $e^{-At}x(t)$, which is $$ e^{-At}x'(t) + (-Ae^{-At})x(t) = e^{-At}Ax(t) - Ae^{-At}x(t). $$ From the series definition of the matrix exponential, $A$ and $e^{Bt}$ commute if $A$ and $B$ commute, so $A$ and $e^{-At}$ commute. Thus $$ (e^{-At}x(t))' = e^{-At}Ax(t) - Ae^{-At}x(t) = Ae^{-At}x(t) - Ae^{-At}x(t) = 0. $$ Therefore $e^{-At}x(t)$ is a constant vector, and setting $t = 0$ tells us this constant vector has to be $x(0) = x_0$. Thus $e^{-At}x(t) = x_0$, so $x(t) = e^{At}x_0$ if we know that $e^{At}$ and $e^{-At}$ are inverses of each other.
Note that this solution can be thought of as a higher-dimensional version of the integration-free proof that the only solution of the 1-dim. ODE $y'(t) = ay(t)$ with $y(0) = y_0$ is $y_0e^{at}$: if $y(t)$ is a solution then the derivative of $e^{-at}y(t)$ is $$ e^{-at}y'(t) - ae^{-at}y(t) = e^{-at}(ay(t)) - ae^{-at}y(t) = 0. $$ Thus $e^{-at}y(t)$ is a constant function, and at $t = 0$ we see the value is $y(0) = y_0$, so $e^{-at}y(t) = y_0$. Thus $y(t) = y_0e^{at}$. In higher dimensions we just need to be more careful about the order of multiplication (e.g., the way the product rule is formulated for matrix-valued functions).
The general solution of the initial value problem $X'=AX$ with $X(0)=X_0$ is $$X(t)=e^{At}X_0$$ Let $Y(t)$ be an another solution satisfying $Y(0)=X_0$. I want to show that $X(t)=Y(t)$. Define $$Z(t)=exp(-tA)\cdot Y(t)$$ $$\qquad\frac{dZ} {dt}=-\exp(-tA)\cdot Y(t)+\exp(-tA)\cdot Y(t) =0$$ therefore $Z(t)$ is a constant. Setting $t=0$ we have $Z(t)=X_0$ so $Y(t)=\exp(At)X_0$ with $Y(0)=X_0$ this completes the proof.


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For Tate twists Z_p(2), which is defined by the projective limit of \mu_{p^m}(2) over all m>0, I would like to calculate H^1(Q_p, Z_p(2)).
I guess this is zero, but cannot prove it. Is it possible to calculate and prove H^1(Q_p, \mu_{p^m}(2)) = 0 for each m> 0?
Just teach me, please.
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Random postings like where you are, what you eat or your comments on your favorite show will grab attention in your personal social networks, however for your business you need more than that. Without goals, you can easily loose the direction you are heading in social media. Therefore, before you hit the road, have your map and pin the roads you want to pass through. Decide in which network you want to be and what you want to achieve with your social media marketing efforts.
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Once upon a time in history, we used to use desk and wall calendars to organize our weekly/ monthly schedule by taking small notes on them. Why not use that old method for social media? This time Excel, Google or any other spreadsheet. Start with simple steps. Write the date (determine the desired post frequency) on the first column and then the social media networks you want to be active in. It would be a good idea to fill in the boxes a month in advance, so you will have more time to engage with results rather than thinking about what to post.
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