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The 6 Most Gratuitously Cleavaged Women on TV
#3. Melinda the Ghost Whisperer (Ghost Whisperer)
Job Description
You can't go to school to be a ghost whisperer: it's in the genes. The kid from The Sixth Sense and Melinda the "ghost whisperer" both have the gift of seeing freaky dead people and being able to talk to them. Melinda, though, seems to have doubled up in the "gift" department.
The Cleavage
Unlike the kid from the Sixth Sense, Melinda does not spend her time being scared shitless, huddled under a mountain of blankets and dressed in conventional sleeping attire. Neither does she go with the Shaggy technique of cowering inside a suit of armor with a talking dog and self-medicating with a huge bag of weed.
No, that would hinder Melinda's work as a ghost whisperer and would deprive the world of her spectacular rack.
Does it seem all that strange that Melinda is constantly encountering spirits of the hostile variety? After all, she seems intent on reminding them that they have passed from the world of flesh and that there are no boobies in the afterlife.
#2. Catherine Willows, CSI Supervisor & Forensic Scientist (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
Job Description
Among other amusing activities, CSI's often get to crawl around a dead chick's apartment on all fours looking for blood, semen or blood and semen. That last one is known as the CSI spritzer, which is the correct technical term for a drink we just made up whose ingredients include Bailey's, milk and grenadine.
The Cleavage
Yes, the CSI franchise makes its second appearance on our list. Seriously, what the hell? Why in the CSI universe, where every day is spent pouring over the grim details of some schlub's death, would you wake up every day and squeeze into a low-cut, come-hither top?
Yes, we know that in the show Catherine Willows used to be a stripper. But you don't see lawyers wearing hairnets just because they once worked a few shifts at McDonald's, do you?
#1. Mrs. Garrett, Chaperon/Maid/Dietitian (Diff'rent Strokes, Facts of Life)
Job Description
A staple of many '80s sitcoms, the live-in maid is a jack of many trades, including cooking and cleaning. None of these trades, however, is more important than serving as the role-model and moral center for the children on the show. The job requires integrity, common sense and a willingness to impart bits of wisdom that will be ignored at first with humorous consequences.
The Cleavage
Also, a huge rack helps.
Mrs. Garrett's rack spanned two sitcoms from 1978 to 1986, Diff'rent Strokes and the Facts of Life. with Natalie, Jo and Tootie, Mrs Garrett's boobs taught the early '80s about the dangers of drug use and plagiarism. In fact, Mrs. Garrett's cleavage is so legendary that it got referenced in a Family Guy episode.
There was an air of desperation about Mrs. Garrett, still trying to turn heads by showing off the goods even in her golden years. Yet, every male teenager in the Facts of Life audience knew the strange feeling they got when Mrs. G and her low-cut blouse entered the room. Facts of life, indeed.
"I may have some wrinkles," her look seemed to say, "But when the lights go out, I know tricks you've not had time to learn."
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In grade school classrooms across the country, students have been hard at work this semester trying to figure out how to smash a virtual frog with a virtual truck.
They're building their own video games—inspired by the 1980s classic Frogger—and there are a thousand details to work out: Should the truck kill the frog or just knock it unconscious? How may trucks should there be and how fast should they drive? How do you make the frog move and how many lives should it have? What happens when the frog finally makes it across the road without getting hit?
In the end, the students will have built a video game. But more important, the students will have learned how to code—whether they knew it at the time or not.
The strategy, hook kids with video games and then slip them some computer science skills on the sly, is the product of two decades of research by University of Colorado Boulder computer science Professor Alexander Repenning, whose goal is to attack computer science's image problem and get more kids, especially girls and minorities, interested in going into the field.
"Programming should be easy and exciting," Repenning said. "But that's not where we are. The perception of students is that it's hard and boring. Our goal is to expose a much larger as well as broader audience to programming by reinventing computer science education in public schools."
For the first time, the video game-building tools Repenning and his team have been using with school kids are now available online. Anyone with an hour to spare and a curiosity about code can build their own 3-D video game using CU-Boulder-created AgentCubes online at http://hourofcode.com/ac. The tutorial is part of the global Hour of Code initiative happening now during Computer Science Education Week. The idea? Just try it; you might actually like it.
The threshold of understanding
The stakes for increasing students' interest in computer science are high. By 2020, there will be 1 million more computer science jobs available than students who are studying computer science, according to the computer science education nonprofit Code.org. And even for those who don't plan to major in computer science, coding is becoming an increasingly important skill across a wide range of disciplines.
Repenning sees the problem of interest as an issue of relevance. Coding skills should be taught when students need them to build something they want to create, not just for the sake of learning to program.
Repenning and his collaborators, including Kris Gutierrez and David Webb, both professors in CU-Boulder's School of Education, have built an entire curriculum, called Scalable Game Design, that's based on this principle of just-in-time skills. First, they get the kids excited about making their own game—a task that's not terribly difficult, as it turns out—and then they dole out the computer science lessons when they're needed.
"The notion is that people learn best if you push them to the threshold of their own understanding," Repenning said. "You want to make something, but you can't quite make it because you're missing at least one important piece. You're at that threshold. If I were to give you one more piece of information, you could do it. That's exactly where we want to have them."
Some of the missing pieces are technical. But others are a matter of learning a different way to think about solving problems.
"It's not just programming; it's thinking about the problem and developing a meaningful solution," said Ian Her Many Horses, a doctoral student in computer science education working with Repenning and Gutierrez. "Computer science is just solving problems, and everyone has problems."
Expanding across the nation
Repenning first rolled out Scalable Game Design at local schools, but the program was a voluntary after-school activity and it attracted the usual suspects: boys. In subsequent years, the project was introduced into computer literacy classes that were already being taught during the school day, exposing all kinds of kids who might not normally be inclined to try computer programming, especially girls and minority students, to code.
"We asked them after, 'Did you enjoy the activity?' And they said, 'Yeah. We love it and we want to do more of it,' " Repenning said.
The program is now ubiquitous in Boulder-area middle schools, and beginning about five years ago, Repenning received a $1.5 million grant from NSF to expand the program to schools outside the local district, especially districts with widely varying demographics, from inner-city schools to extremely rural schools and Native American communities. To implement the expansion, CU-Boulder hosted trainings on campus each summer to prepare teachers to deliver the program.
During the first expansion, Repenning and his colleagues also discovered a theory of broadening participation suggesting that the just-in-time teaching approach was especially important to getting girls, who are vastly underrepresented in computer science, excited about programming their own games. By contrast, direct instruction seemed to turn girls off. (Boys, on the other hand, remained generally excited regardless of teaching technique.)
Repenning has since received two more NSF grants. The first, for $1.5 million, is being used to follow up on how pedagogy affects girls studying computer science. The second and most recent grant—$2 million awarded in August—recognizes the achievements of the initial expansion effort and is being used to further spread Scalable Game Design across the country by offering teacher training online through collaboration with the eMINTs National Center at the University of Missouri.
Computer science is for everyone
Once students have begun to master the drag-and-drop programming environment created for use with the Scalable Game Design curriculum to actually build a game, the sky's the limit. For example, the same type of code that dictates how a truck collides with a frog can be used to dictate other types of collisions—including two molecules combining in a chemical reaction—which allows students to build science simulations as easily as video games.
And the ability to design all the characters used in the video game as well as the land in which the characters live allows the students to make an infinite variation of games well beyond the Frogger example.
"Computer science is like real-world magic," Her Many Horses said. "Anything you can think of, you can make happen in this virtual environment."
At Sanchez Elementary School in Lafayette, Colo., students as young as second-graders use Scalable Game Design in an after school program run by CU-Boulder called El Pueblo Magico. This semester, fifth-grader Isabel Esquibel and her partner are building a game about a student who is trying to safely travel from school to his home. On the way, the student has to dodge cars, duck wrecking balls and avoid trucks to make it to his front door—and to victory.
"It's fun because you're making your own video game," said Isabel, who now wants to try more coding in the future. "It's kind of easy, but at some points, it gets harder before going back to easy again."
Isabel and her classmates at Sanchez are just the kind of students that Repenning and his colleagues hope will stay interested in computers and bring a greater diversity to the field. At Sanchez Elementary, 67 percent of the students are Hispanic and 65 percent qualify for free lunch.
Her Many Horses, who works with the kids in the Sanchez Elementary after school program, says exposing these kids to coding will open doors for them. "It offers so many more options for the future that they might not think are available to them," he said. "They may think that computer science is just for those students over there because they like math and science, but computer science is for everyone."

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I am not sure if this question is appropriate for this section, but I just want to know what these type of questions are called and when do physics majors learn them?
These problems have to do with pulleys and constant lengths. I found the problem in an engineering dynamics course.


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When you want to connect two closely related sentences, you can use a semicolon or a dash. (You can also use a dash for other kinds of non-sentential relations). How would you choose whether to use a semicolon or dash?
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I don't think I was ever taught a clear-cut rule, and as a non-native speaker, I am probably spoiled to some extent by the usage of dashes in other languages. That being said, following nothing but my intuition I would use:
I will try to demonstrate my point by rewording the notorious examples from The Oatmeal accordingly.
Again, this is just my two cents, and I'm only putting them in because the other answers so far seem to miss the point of your question by focusing on non-sentential relations and sometimes not even mentioning semicolons at all. I don't know whether my answer comes close to being correct or not, but I hope it will at least serve as a turning point for getting the discussion back on topic.
Semicolon is used to join sentences that can stand alone, but are joined to emphasize their relationship.
En dashes are used to indicate periods of time or other numerical ranges.
Hyphens are used to combine open compounds.
Em dashes are used to disrupt the flow of a sentence and bring emphasis to the coming point. It is a more informal and stronger version of the colon. It can also act as a stronger version of the comma.
Typically, if I'm connecting two closely related sentences, I use a semicolon; I use dashes in instances where commas would also be acceptable—usually where commas would be confusing—or where parentheses would also be acceptable.
Firstly, you should be aware that there are two different kinds of dashes: the en dash and the em dash.
The em dash (—; historically, an em is precisely the width of the letter "M", but now defined by the height of the font) is generally used to add a passage into the middle or end of a sentence. This is similar to using parenthesis, but should be read without adding a pause. Moreover, the em dash in fact interrupts the sentence, so no pause should be used at all; an interruption should be emphasized.
This dash is also often used as a de facto interruption; for example in dialog when the speaker for some reason cannot continue.
In use, the em dash is not surrounded by spaces. This is done—like this—because it otherwise uses excessive spacing.
Some publishers or style guidelines may instead prefer the narrower en dash (–; an en half the width of an em). This character is usually – as in this example – surrounded by spaces.
Suggestions on the use of semicolons can be found as answers to this question.
In Comma Sense (Richard Lederer and John Shore — ISBN 0-312-34255-1) it's reported that the dash is used:
In the other cases, a different punctation should be used.
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At last! I am very pleased to introduce you to the newest member of my mutant-animal-rug family... say hello to "Oscar."
I've been holding off on posting photos of this commission until he was delivered to none other than Otavio of the incredibly talented and renowned Brazilian street-art twins "Os Gêmeos." The brothers are here in Los Angeles for the next couple of months preparing for their upcoming show at Prism Gallery in West Hollywood which opens February 25th. I can't wait!
Without further adieu: "Oscar"
He's got two regular "friendly" eyes and one little gimp-eye on the right side of his face. Also note his grin which I accentuated with dark red velvet... the goal was to make him look friendly but weird, and as requested, he is red/pink.
And here are process shots from sketch to completion:
Foamform on left, inside-out "pelt" on right... to show stitching...
The detail on this rug in the stripes and fur patterns was super involved, each stripe took an hour or so to hand-sew in from the back... but the result was definitely worth the effort...
Closer detail to show how small and numerous the stitches were for each stripe...
Well! That's Oscar... I'm so happy he'll be living with Otavio now!
Here are links to previous mutant-animal-rugs:
Buddy the Budding-Off Bear: 1 2 3 4
Randal the Riddled Bear: 1 2 3 4
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Garfield High teacher Kit McCormick was supposed to bring her ninth-graders to the school's computer lab Wednesday so they could take a district-required reading test.
Instead, they stayed put, joining a schoolwide protest against that test and others that are known as the Measures of Academic Progress, or MAP.
MAP testing was scheduled to start at Garfield before the December holiday break, but so far not a single class has shown up at the lab to take it.
On Thursday, the teachers publicly announced their unhappiness with the test at an after-school news conference, saying it's a waste of time that doesn't help students or teachers.
Monty Neill, the executive director of FairTest, a national organization opposed to high-stakes uses of standardized tests, said he could remember only one other time that so many teachers at one school boycotted a test, and that was in Chicago more than a decade ago.
With about 20 teachers standing in support behind her, McCormick was one of three teachers who explained that Garfield's faculty has no problem with state testing, or testing in general. But they say this particular test has a number of problems, everything from what it covers to how well it measures achievement.
Nearly the entire faculty and staff at Garfield have signed a letter listing those concerns and others. Even teachers who don't give the exam, because they don't teach the tested subjects, signed the letter.
McCormick said she was particularly dismayed when a district staff member told her that the test's margin of error is greater than the gains her students are expected to make.
In a statement, district administrators defended MAP, saying it helps the district analyze student achievement and measure how much students improve over time. They said they expect all teachers to give all required tests and will determine on a case-by-case basis what to do with those who refuse.
In the past, the district has disciplined at least three teachers who declined to give other, state-required tests, including former Eckstein Middle School teacher Carl Chew in 2008.
But administrators also stressed that they're in the middle of a review of all tests that Seattle Public Schools students take, including MAP, with a report due to the School Board this spring.
"We want to examine whether or not there are legitimate concerns about any test that we have here in Seattle Public Schools," said Bob Boesche, the district's interim deputy superintendent.
"We want to do that, however, together, and we want to do that with the right expertise in the room, including those who have designed our tests and those who are using them," Boesche said.
Garfield teachers, he said, will be invited to participate.
Seattle schools give MAP exams two or three times each year to students in grades one through nine and to some older students. The district uses the results as one way to measure the progress of students and schools, and, starting this year, the performance of teachers.
Does the fact that the test will play a part in their evaluations worry the teachers?
"Very," said Mario Shaunette, head of Garfield's math department.
"Ditto," said McCormick.
Jesse Hagopian, a history teacher, said he hopes Superintendent Jose Banda will work with teachers rather than discipline them, given that Banda is new to the district and wasn't the one to bring in the MAP test.


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I saw Hood too this last game. It's strange how he seemed to be having good games against bad teams and the star players had bad games against bad teams. Or at least not as noticable as Hood or is it when Hood finally does do something, it's more like, " Hood actually made a tackle or Hood actually looked like a football player that particular moment. "
I think we all fell in love with Hood's workout hype. And his physical transformation. He may still be a decent player in the long run. He at least seems more dedicated.
Ziggy may still be the best of the bunch, he's been getting better as the year has progressed, still not great, but improving in my mind. I'm not writing him off yet; it took Aaron Smith a few years to become the force he became. I realize Aaron wasn't a first round pick, but if Hood ultimately ends up being a force on the defensive line, I don't care where they drafted him.
I remember people complaining about Troy at the start but I seen something in him that told me he would eventually be good/great and I trusted Cowher when he evaluated talent. I never had that feeling of Hood or Tomlin.
The biggest problem is that he is miscast. He is not a 3-4 end.
He is a 4-3 under tackle. His best role would be on passing downs and letting him shoot the gaps to attack the quarterback.
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Mr. and Mrs. Alphonse Clement of Wolcott celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary with a dinner given by their family and a vow renewal by Archbishop Mansell at an anniversary Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral in Hartford. Mr. and Mrs. Clement were married Oct. 11, 1947, at St. Anne's Church in Waterbury. They have three children, Marie Le Gassy and Louise Pietrorazio of Oakville and Roger Clement of Wolcott, eight grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Charlotte track and field team wrapped up the first day of the Atlantic 10 Outdoor Championships by winning three conference titles at the Irwin Belk Track and Field Center on Saturday.
Charlotte's men are currently in second (61). Rhode Island is leading with a point total of 73, followed by Temple (31), St. Joseph's (22), and VCU (22) to round out the top five.
The women's team is in sixth place with 25.5 points. Dayton leads with 66 points, followed by Duquesne (43), Rhode Island (40), Massachusetts (36), and VCU (32) in the top five.
The 49ers shined in the field events as Coye Still stamped his name on Charlotte's first conference title of the meet. Still, who has been a standout for the 49ers, won the long jump with a personal record leap of 24'02.5.
Jake Deaton, who has racked up several A10 titles during his tenure, was the discus champion on Saturday with a toss of 181'03.
Trey McRae, who was the 2013 A10 Indoor high jump champion, repeated that feat with a season-best leap of 7'00.05 to win the event. Isaac McReynolds came in fifth (6'04.25).
Still, Deaton, and McRae were all named to the Atlantic 10 All-Conference first team.
In other field events, Kevin Calhoun received A-10 All-Confernce second team honors after finishing second and tabbing a PR in the pole vault (15'09). Robert Wilson finished in third (15'03).
Katrina Wright also earned a spot on the second team in the hammer throw. Wright set a PR of 171'06 to finish second. She also finished fifth in the discus (149'02).
Kenneth Pressley also made his way to the awards podium with a third place finish in the hammer and a PR of 168'07.John Celona followed in fifth with a PR of 162'08.
Osvaldo Hernandez (184'07) and Aubrey Dowding (123'01) both finished fifth in the men's and women's javelin. Hernandez finished with a season-best mark.
Charlotte advanced 18 athletes to Sunday's finals following preliminary races on Saturday. Athletes who finished in the top eight of their respective events qualified for finals.
Anthony Bynum finished with a staggering, season-best time of 20.67 to take the top spot in the 200m preliminaries en route to setting a new A-10 Conference Championship record. Khyran Shank (21.42) won his heat and John Osborne (21.58) took the seventh spot to qualify for the finals. Osborne also recorded a PR in the 200m. Bynum also finished first in the 400m dash prelims with a time of 47.58. Also advancing in the 400m dash is Brian Hamilton who had a PR of 48.42.
In the 100m dash, Shank (10.46) was the top performer. LeRoy Rouse (10.62) was second overall and first in his heat with a season-best time while Osbourne was sixth (10.73). Briauna Jones won her heat and finished fourth overall in the women's 100m (11.98)
T'Sheila Mungo led her heat in the 400m (53.87). Mungo turned in personal record time and was fourth in the 200m dash (24.23). LeAnna Morrison was first in the 400m hurdles with a PR time of 58.99
A trio of Niners qualified for the 100m hurdles. Alvonna Blakney led Charlotte and finished second overall with a PR time of 13.82. Morrison won her heat with a time of 14.11 and Juanita Leto took second in her heat (13.82) to advance. In the men's 110m hurdles, Isaac McReynolds will be Charlotte's lone representative. McReynolds finished second with a qualifying time of 14.30.
In the 800m, Maraya Slatter won her heat (2:10.70) and Taylor Carcella was second in her heat with a time of 2:09.75 to advance.
Sunday's events will kick-off at 8:30 a.m. with the decathlon and the heptathlon beginning at 8:45 a.m. Field and running events will begin at 10 a.m. and follow a rolling schedule. The championships will conclude with the awards ceremony in the afternoon.
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MacIntyre on Money
There's an interesting, if occasionally heady, piece on the website of the British journal Prospect: a feature on Aladair MacIntyre and a recent lecture he gave on globalization and capitalism at Cambridge University.
When it comes to the money-men, MacIntyre applies his metaphysical approach with unrelenting rigour. There are skills, he argues, like being a good burglar, that are inimical to the virtues. Those engaged in financeparticularly money tradingare, in MacIntyres view, like good burglars. Teaching ethics to traders is as pointless as reading Aristotle to your dog. The better the trader, the more morally despicable.
The article notes that MacIntyre is an important influence on Phillip Blond, the "Red Tory" adviser to Britain's PM David Cameron.Read the piece here.
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I can't say I disagree with most of what MacIntyre says here, most of which he's either said before or is embryonic in his earlier work. I was struck more by the cluelessness of the writer, who natters about the "evident creativity" of finance capital, "evident" in the "positive effects of money creation" and the "use of derivates to offset risk." First, the writer apparently hasn't noticed that the "creativity" of finance capital is enabled precisely by the vices MacIntyre notes. (Not to mention that the creation of money out of thin air, as well as the creation of debt, was both enabled and made necessary for the last forty years by the stagnation of real wages. MacIntyre the Marxist would have remarked on this.)As for Philip the Blond and "Red Toryism," what a lot of rot. I've seen Blond in action: he's got the erudite, name-dropping Brit schtick down pat, and it beguiles a certain kind of conservative intellectual. But when you look closely at "Red Toryism" -- advocated also by the increasingly loony John Milbank, defender of imperialism and Constantinianism -- it's just petty-bourgeois, nostalgic banality about small business and "community." And he's not an important adviser to David Cameron -- Blond's "impact" is almost entirely self-advertised. And besides, Blond's been pretty much kicked to the curb anyway in the last six months. (Cameron's budget cuts are already causing social unrest -- witness the student demonstrations last week, almost entirely unnoticed by our allegedly liberal media.) MacIntyre is just another name to drop.
Very interesting article, thanks for the link.In the case of burglars, it seems clear (to me) that the skill involved is not burgling. The skills that make a good burglar (audacity, cool-headedness and quick thinking in a crisis, knowledge of locks, alarms and house structure) are equally applicable to less detrimental professions.In the case of finance, the case is not so clear, but similar. How is finance different from sports? In each, the definitive skill is to assess risk better than the other guy and use your insight to get an advantage over him. And the article suggests MacIntyre believes a football player is acting virtuously if he plays for the sake of attaining and displaying excellence, rather than for the money. So what's the difference? Can't a financier be acting virtuously if his object is excellence in his "sport." Isn't this what we mean when we call a lawyer "good" if he wins cases even when his client deserves to lose?Of course, finance often involves grievous loss to the loser. In sports, the losers are almost never profoundly devastated by a loss. An example is the young fellow in a recent NYT video, who is declaring bankruptcy because of credit card debt. The credit cards had a clause that his interest would be very low as long as he never missed a payment but increase very steeply if he ever did. Obviously, it was unethical of him to apply for the card; but it was worse for the company to offer it to him. But how is this essentially different from one player jumping higher, getting the ball into the basket and winning points for it?
One can certainly act virtuously for the sake of attaining and displaying excellence, while earning a living, simultaneously. One could argue that the beginning of our current crisis was the dot.com mentality on Wall Street, which resulted in private companies going public that had yet to make a profit, and the beanie baby mentality on Main Street. A system of money creation through the use of a fair value market is possible.
In the case of burglars, it seems clear (to me) that the skill involved is not burgling. The skills that make a good burglar (audacity, cool-headedness and quick thinking in a crisis, knowledge of locks, alarms and house structure) are equally applicable to less detrimental professions.You omitted the most important skill (also applicable to other professions) -- avoiding apprehension and punishment.
Felapton,On MacIntyre's view, the difference between the football player and the financier is that, while some football players may play for the money, making money is a good external to the game of football, whereas it is the raison d'etre of the financial "industry." It is, as you say, possible for individual financiers to do what they do mainly because they enjoy the activity of "managing risk" (that is, managing it onto the other guy), irrespective of what profit they or their firm make as a result. But their excellence, such as it is, makes sense only in terms of profit. For them, winning just is making a profit. It's possible for a professional football team to win games without making any money, and it's possible to play football, and play it well, nonprofessionally. Nor is the relationship between playing high school football and playing pro football anything like the relationship between, say, playing Monopoly and being a real-estate developer.
Macintyre is being a good Aristotelean when he says that money is intrinsically a only a means to an end. When one has no purpose for one's money, it has no real value, and to pursue it is the ultimate in irrationality. Some businessmen do, however, see the accumulation of money as a way of keeping score, enabling them to declare themselves the winner in the business game. Is it moral to play this game? I wonder. Also, the derivatives financiers activities do not produce a real product. They produce only more money. Can this be a moral "game"? Some make money to give it away to the needy. This, of course, is entirely different.
Treating finance like sport was part of the problem. You can do it as 'sport' if you are just playing with your own money. But you should not be 'playing' with other people's money.I am a fan of sports. Nevertheless, I think what professional sports has evolved into is actually a travesty of what sports should be. This goes for the whole 'entertainment' sector I guess.
I think there might be two things going on here.Regarding individual virtues, MacIntyre acknowledges in the preface of Whose Justice? Which Rationality? that the virtues must be unified in order to be complete. This is a reversal of his position in After Virtue. Virtues support each other and this would seem to make sense. Otherwise what would we make of the brave concentration camp guard? A very common source of personal moral blindness come in the form of people concentrating on the one or two virtues they may have in abundance and ignoring the others. But the virtues are whole and organic. There is no partial credit given.Regarding the trading of derivatives, derivatives are actually a form of insurance. At least this is how they begin. They are means of fixing prices for things in the present against some kind of change in the future. Commodity prices are fixed; people exchange variable interest rates for fixed interest rates, etc. A small percentage of derivative transactions are made by people who are trying to insure some underlying thing. Maybe it's corn, or a loan or an exchange rate. The vast vast majority of transactions are by people gambling that these hedges are wrong or unnecessary and are made by people trying to profit from this. On one hand, in order for these transactions to take place at all, there do have to be people willing to put up money to support the transaction who do not own the original commodity or loan (or financial instrument or whatever). And as it happens, the more people who enter the derivatives market, the smaller the price fluctuations and the more stable the prices are over time. So derivatives trading does have a true social function within capitalism, since capitalism could not exist (and capital for large investments could not be accumulated) unless there were many means of mitigating and spreading risk.But I think that MacIntyre recognizes that there is a problem when risks are hidden from people who are taking them up. When I put someone's assets in danger by transferring a risk to the person without their knowledge I am, in effect, stealing from them. It is an odd sort of theft, because I am sort of borrowing their money from them without their knowledge and I may bring it back with a profit or I may lose all of it. But the important thing is that because derivatives are attached to tangible objects (commodities) or tangible transactions (working loans) the risk may be invisible to the person buying the commodity, buying the house, or investing in the mutual fund. This is aggravated in a bubble economy when values begin to inflate. The price of the underlying object becomes inflated. For those holding the tangible object or transaction, there is a greater demand for "insurance". This fuels the market further. In the end, everyone is highly leveraged, which means that there is a lot of cash being supported by a relatively small collection of real things. When this collapses, those who don't have a lot of extra cash on the side or those who don't understand the risks well enough to get out in time lose.Our social understanding of how risks are spread in capitalism is so very primitive that when people emerge from the wreckage of something like this, they STILL don't know how it happened. In fact, many of the traders who caused this didn't really know about the risks they were transmitting to the rest of the economy. (When they say that they didn't do anything wrong they are not lying; they literally didn't know what they were doing.) The problem here (and I think it is a sort of problem for MacIntyre's position) is that while he is correct about the proper role of money, at least in regards to the virtues of transparency in transactions (which probably have to be more transparent for people to be able to see the real role of money in them) he seems to me to underestimate how essential the spreading of risk through the capitalist system is for the system to even exist. We are way past (by 150 years) the point where the system can survive without these complicated cash flows that attract all of these cash rich parasites. We can't just regulate these people somehow and get back to something more ethical and basic. What happened with the financial meltdown has become intrinsic to the system. It is the system, in effect. And perhaps the best we can do (and it would be a great deal) would be to try to begin to understand even how it works.
Sunil --"I was about to say, "Point well made, Sunil", then realized that talking about "making points" is sports talk. Can it be that making points in philosophical discussions is just as much a competitoin as the business man's attempt to make points against his competitor? Hmm.So I'll just say, yes, Sunil, excellent observation.
"A very common source of personal moral blindness come in the form of people concentrating on the one or two virtues they may have in abundance and ignoring the others. But the virtues are whole and organic. There is no partial credit given."Unagidon --I think this is true of the objective, non-private aspects of virtuous behavior. It does not take into cnsideration the subjective parts of moral behavior -- the consideration and choice of ends and means, and the activity of causing oneself to act for the end in the objective world. For instance, before Thanksgiving I consider what to make for the family dinner -- a nice pate' or a shrimp remoulade. I choose the remoulade and choose to the means, then choose to go to the grocery to get the ingredients, and to prepare them and put them together. The objective part is the going to the grocery and making the stuff. Unfortunately, since Anscombe's "Intention" emphasis has been place on the morality of the objective, non-private aspects. (She is thoroughly Wittgensteinian in that -- she totally abandoned Aquias, or maybe just didn't know him well at that point.)Anyway, it is possible for someone whose internal intentions are good to fail to act for objectively good ends. Such a person might even be more virtuous to Thomas than one who does the objective good for non-virtuous reasons. For instance, if a mother in the Amazon basin gives her chhild polluted water not knowing that it is bad water, her intention is nevertheless good and she is a good mother even though her child dies of cholera. ISTM the difference between subjective good and objective good is clear in such cases, and virtue also has both aspects -- the objective and subjective. I agree, however, that there is such a thing as choosing to be lopsidedly moral, and such choices are themselves unvirtuous. The problem becomes most acute, I think, when voting -- shall I vote for X, who is an adulterer and liar, or Y who always seems to intend what is good but doesn't possess the non-moral virtues (understanding of human nature, political forces, etc.) necessary for governing to the same degree as X -- for the flawed statesman or the saintly dummy?About derivatives --Sure, spreading risks has a social and economic value. But it seems to me that derivatives can be too simply overdone simply because as there are more pools of pools of risks the real risks become blurred by becoming more distant from the real products. (Though I guess you can call derivatives some sort of meta-product. Hmm.) I see that even as I type, Bank of America is in terrible trouble because it didn't really know what was happening on the ground with some mortgages it bought.You also say, : The vast vast majority of transactions are by people gambling that these hedges are wrong or unnecessary and are made by people trying to profit from this."I have a problem with two things here -- first the gambling with other people's money, though I suppose all stock market transactions by retirement funds do it all the time. It's the sheer amount of the systems absolute amount of capital that was invested in these de facto scams that is scary. My second problem is: how much of a system's capital should can be safely diverted to gambling on risks? Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any solid way to measure risks. This, as I understand it, was a fundamental principle of Keynes' theorizing: ultimately, risk cannot be measure accurately because the world is too complex.Yeah -- complexity, complexity.
"We cant just regulate these people somehow and get back to something more ethical and basic. What happened with the financial meltdown has become intrinsic to the system. It is the system, in effect. And perhaps the best we can do (and it would be a great deal) would be to try to begin to understand even how it works."It's true, I think, that many people think that not only is money the roof of all evil, there are people think that money itself is somehow evil and to be avoided, so let's not even think about how it works. ISTM that large part of the problem is that money works in more than one systems -- in the economic system it is a pledge or guarantee of goods and services (or something vaguely like that), but it is also a huge factor in social systems as a producer of feelings of security and as sign of superiority (for some, anyway). These non-economic motives complicate the economic system, even work against its success in some ways. As globalization makes the economic system even more complex, and therefore more scary, we really must get ahold of the complexity involved. Rescher, in his "Complexity: A Philosophical Overview" takes a rather optimistic theoretical stance about the possibility of our dealing the complexity problem. He's convinced that the intensification of complexity has an even theoretical inevitability, but that the modern and post-modern analyses of the world were both wrong. The moderns were wrong in thinking that everything is predetermined and, therefore, there is nothing we can do about the inevitable failures programmed into the world. The post-moderns, on the other hand, saw "a universe viewed as anarchic, irrational, and totally unruly beyond the grasp of rational comprehensibility". He particularly disparages the post-modern culture theorists who "almost invariably dwell lovingly on disorder, disharmony, and anarhy". (Ouch!)But not to despair -- " . . . recent science in every branch has been discovering and elaborating the natural mechanisms of order formation. (To be sure the "order" at issue lacks all of the neat simplifications to whicih modernists were attached. It is always an order which grows out of complexity and proceeds to exhibit complexities in its own right".Rescher doesn't point it out, but this world-view is a total reversal of the classic Western let's-reduce-our thinking-to-the-simple, the view that has dominated the West since the Greeks. The appreciation of complexity is an appreciation of differences, and it's truly revolutionary. I hope the economists catch on soon. The philosophers are finally starting to see the importance of the topic. Keynes' was waaaaaay ahead of his time.


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I have noticed that charms can determine if you win or lose when defending your Sacred Gate in Samurai vs Zombies Defense.
On the last selection screen before entering the match, list charms:
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- Wealth Charm
- Haste Charm
- Peace Charm
I seldomly ever get these and the drop almost seems random. How can I receive more charms?


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I am constantly stunned by how few people use keyboard shortcuts, because I've always felt that people who have internalized a core set realize a significant productivity boost.
- How do I get better at recognizing which of my own activities are best done via keyboard shortcuts
- How can I train myself to use them and make them unconscious habits?
- How can I replace frequently used actions by keyboard shortcuts (probably a combination of good resources for looking up existing shortcuts and tools to create my own).
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According to Why 140 characters and how to write more the limit on tweets was 140 because the SMS message limit is 160. They wanted tweets to be sent in one text (with space for username).
However, if a limit was not already in place, what would be a good limit?
Would 140 still be chosen? Have their been studies on the balance of enough space to get your point across and a short enough limit to keep updates quick and easy to read.
Would it be better for example to limit on number of words?


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August 12, 2010
It's All Happening at the V&A Waterfront – A Cape Town Tourism Photo Essay
As one of South Africa's top destinations, the V&A Waterfront offers visitors plenty to do and see, with a combination of nightspots, world-class hotels and restaurants, museums, shopping, and other attractions such as the Two Oceans Aquarium. Situated in a working harbour with Table Mountain as its backdrop, the Waterfront is a must-see for any visitor to Cape Town.
This historic harbour is always buzzing with activity and luxurious yachts.
After a long day touring and marvelling at the Waterfront's sights, there are plenty of hotels to choose from in the precinct for some rest and relaxation.
Good food and wine abound. Whether you stop by for a casual drink with friends, or for any meal of the day, the Waterfront always provides visitors with a great experience.
Capetonians are very creative and artistic and there's always an act ready to entertain the crowds.
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WACO (December 11, 2012)--A Waco man was held Tuesday in the McLennan County Jail after his arrest for sexual assault of a child and indecency with a child.
Jason Maltino Davis, 37, was arrested on warrants stemming from an investigation that started after a woman reported to police that her daughter had been sexually assaulted in October 2011, Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said.
The child also reported that a man touched her inappropriately in September 2011.
Swanton said the sexual assault resulted in the 15-year-old victim's pregnancy.
The incident happened at a North Waco residence while the victim was visiting from out of state, Swanton said.
Swanton said Davis learned he was named in the warrants and went to the Waco police station Monday afternoon where members of the U.S. Marshal's Task Force arrested him.


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Trojan Track and Field Readies for UCS InvitationalFebruary 13, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Following a 13-day layoff, the Anderson men's track and field team, along with the regionally fifth-ranked women's squad, will get back in action at the UCS Invitational, hosted by Wake Forest University, Friday and Saturday at the JDL Fast Track facility in Winston-Salem, N.C.
The two-day meet will be held at JDL Fast Track, which is a dedicated indoor track and field facility that opened two years ago. It houses a 200-meter oval track with a Mondotrack FTX surface, the same surface that was used at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Field event areas include two pole vault runways, two long/triple jump runways, one high jump apron and one throws area.
A trio of Trojans competed at the track shortly after it opened in 2012, with Matt Shaffer claiming third place in the men's 800 meter run at the NCRUNNERS Elite Last Chance Meet, while Whitney Bishoff brought home second place in the women's one-mile run. Lauren Sloan placed second in the women's shot put.
The Trojans are coming off appearances in Clemson's Bob Pollock Invitational, with junior Jill Baxter claiming seventh in the pentathlon. Sophomore Devan Fisher brought home fourth in the mile run, with freshman Mia Swiersz placing 12th in the 3000 meter. Newcomer Bari Robinson garnered 22nd in the 800 meter.
Junior Savanna Keese finished 18th in the weight throw, while sophomore D'Yandra Morris was 21st in the weight throw and took 20th in the shot put. Junior Brooklyn Watt earned 23rd in the shot put. Newcomer Megan Shahoud captured 25th in the long jump. Freshman Olivia Gardner captured ninth in the seeded 3,000 meter run, while junior Sydney Hazel captured 16th in the seeded mile run. The combination of Gardner, Hazel, Robinson and Sherin Malone finished fourth in the distance medley.
On the men's side, freshman Thomas Garrigan finished third in the mile run, while newcomer Jesse Patrick crossed the line in sixth. Westley Wilson placed sixth in the 5,000 meter, with freshman Ned Kennedy finishing eighth.
Newcomer Michael Burch placed second in the 3,000 meter, with freshman Caleb Knight earning 26th in the 400 meter dash and classmate Jonathan Shorter finishing 30th.
Sophomore Joshua Visi-Clark, Garrigan and Patrick each placed 29th, 34th and 35th, respectively in the 800 meter. Freshman Malik Brown and Shorter placed seventh and eighth, respectively in the 60 meter hurdles. Freshman Ben Boerma finished third in the men's seeded 3,000 meter, with senior Parks Edwards taking ninth.
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I found only one Mathematics Subject Classification, are there more?
Yes, there are more ways of classifying the subject areas of mathematics; classification schemes are merely human constructs that attempt to impose some sort of organization or structure to the domains of mathematics in a manner that is useful and that makes sense:
The MSC (*Mathematical Subject Classificatio*n) is a fairly standard scheme. Here is a little history and overview of the MSC.
$(1)$ See the Mathematical Atlas (www.math-atlas.org), for a "Math Map" of subject areas in mathematics which depicts the interconnections of the various branches in math.
The webpage with the "Math Map" is searchable, and you'll find the linked page "Subject Index". (Click here: "Browse: list of subject headings", or you can click that same link at the bottom Math Map* webpage linked above.)
Top-level subject areas in the MSC, each of which is "searchable" through the Mathematical Atlas, if you want to explore "sub-levels" encompassed by "top-level" subjects:
$(2)$ And for Alternate classifications of mathematical subjects, see:
Even if you consider only the MSC, you'll get more than one classification system if you wait long enough. The MSC gets updated every ten years or so.


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THE BELMONT County Sheriff's Office is being hounded by an ongoing controversy. The sooner that lingering issue is removed, the smoother the office will be able to carry out its respective duties....
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I am planning to go to the Caribbean in January. I would like to be able to snorkel right off the beach, to avoid chartering a boat. Does anyone have suggestions on destinations (i.e. country, island, city, area)?
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Top Ten Places to Snorkel (away.com)
The top 10 Caribbean snorkeling parks (Active Travel on NBCNEWS.com)
Best Snorkeling Beaches in the Caribbean Islands (Caribbean Travel+Life)
World's Best Islands for Snorkeling (www.islands.com)
Top 5 Picks for Scuba Diving Off the Shore (About.com Adventure Travel)
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I've created a map of all these places using a web service I just discovered called batchgeo:
You are looking at Aruba; Montego Bay, Jamaica, Barbados and Tobago. Of course there are many other Caribbean islands, but these will give you what you are looking for. PS: Most Caribbean islands you can snorkel right off the beaches.


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Just found something strange after updating from 10.04 to 10.10. I've set up my screensaver to lock the account when activated.
When I log back in, I see my desktop for a second and then the screensaver starts again and I have to re-login. I checked my process list in gnome system monitor, and I have two gnome-screensaver processes(!?), one started as
/usr/bin/gnome-screensaver and other simply as
gnome-screensaver. And no, I did not start one manually.
Where do I look for a way to switch off one of those (supposing that's the problem)? I did not find anything in my startup applications.


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What a few weeks it's been! Vegan MoFo gave me a lot to do on top of keeping up with Vegan Bloggers Unite! (running the blog and planning for the conference). Plus being the host site as VBU! for Virtual Vegan Potluck, and the other things I do (Concept Branding), I've been run a bit ragged. Safe to say, I will not be participating in Vegan MoFo next year, I don't think I can keep up with it.
During the Canadian Thanksgiving I made a few things that I will be adding to my dinner table on an on-going basis. One of those lovely dishes is a recipe from Tasty-yummies.com. I made Beth's Lentil "meatloaf". Please do check out her site, she has many vegan/gluten free recipes. This is not a paid endorsement – I just think she is neat. I believe she is not completely vegan, but still a good resources for recipe that can be converted.
The first picture is the loaf uncooked. Here's how my loaf turned out:


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Some people like to forget their fears; others relive them, over and over again.
Such is the case in "Woman in Black," a thriller by Susan Hill and adapted for the stage by Stephen Mallatratt. The Dakota Wesleyan University production will be at 7:30 p.m., Dec. 11-13, in the Patten-Wing Theatre, Hughes Hall. Tickets are $5 each and sold at the door.
The play is directed by 2013 DWU graduate Chris Ferera, who has worked on and acted in numerous DWU theatre productions, as well as Mitchell Area Community Theatre.
"Woman in Black" begins with a lawyer, Arthur Kipps, played by Kurt Schwarzenbart, so haunted by the events of his past that he hires an actor to help him recount the experience to family and friends. What he saw was the "Woman in Black," a legendary ghost who terrifies the locals because supposedly all who see her dies – except Arthur.
"Just the fact that this ghost play takes place in the dark and in a theatre that's over 100 years old should be indicative enough that it's going to be eerie," said A.J. Miller, a DWU senior who plays the actor. "The audience, the whole time, should feel pretty tense and if done right, will be looking all around the theatre during the play, trying to catch a glimpse of 'the woman.' "


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My family is my life. I have two beautiful children – Tara and T.J. – a hardworking son-in-law – Ryan – a wonderful partner – Jay –and a sweet little dog – Brinkley. I have been in Louisville for eight years and grew up in Payneville, Kentucky with a full house – my mom, dad, seven sisters and four brothers. Yes that is correct, 11 siblings. Growing up, Mom made most of my clothes; I would get at least one new dress a year and always felt so pretty in it. Mom and several of my sisters are expert seamstresses – always fascinated by their talent and love seeing their finished products!
Fashion Heroes
Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis is my fashion hero. Her style was timeless, sophisticated and feminine. I am definitely a "girly girl," so (I) love fashion that is classic with a little flirty twist.
Favorite Places to Shop
I love to shop at Blink Boutique in St. Matthews. The ladies at Blink are wonderful. They always make sure you leave Blink with clothing that makes you look your best. If you haven't been to Blink, you should! Shoshanna and Chloe & Reese are two of my favorite designers. Their party dresses are fabulous!
My family is my passion. I love spending time with them and with the size of my family there is always someone willing to "hang out" with me! Love them ALL!


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Ext.MessageBox CSS inconsistency
When using the aero theme the content area of a MessageBox has a different background color depending on value of modal. When modal is set to true the background is set to #C4D2E3 because of an extra style, when modal is false it uses #CFE0F5 (which looks like the Ext Blue theme).
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This is by design. When the dialog is modal the mask behide the transparent regions alters how the color looks (makes it darker). The two colors are an attempt to match that color as closely as possible.Jack Slocum
Sencha Co-Founder, Ext JS Founder
Original author of Ext JS 1, 2 & 3.
Twitter: @jackslocum
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Extjs MessageBox CSS Inconsistency in IE8.
I have an urgent requirement of displaying Extjs Message box.
It works great in Firefox and IE9.
But In IE8,there is an inconsistency in IE8.
The message box looks very weird,missing all the alignments.
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I installed Apex Launcher on my S3. It takes some configuring before it is useful, so I didn't assign it to the default action of my home key. I then did accidently set the default action to use the standard launcher.
I can't find any way to now set the Apex shell/launcher/what ever it is to be the default when you press home.
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I have had X11 installed on my Mac for quite some time (as long as I have owned it I think) and have never used it. Do applications still use X11 or is out outdated at this point? Should I "learn" how to use it because I may use it in the future? The reason I ask is that I read that you can run X over SSH and I thought it might be useful to run a window manager to get some graphics from a remote machine. Then I realized I have never used X11 and launched it only to become confused. So should I use X11 and why?
Yes. X11 is very much still in use as it is a very powerful windowing system and there is nothing that Apple has released that replaces the core functionality of X11.
I wouldn't spend time learning X11 in the abstract until you have a need to produce code that runs on X11 or you need to run software that is written for X11.
In a nutshell - it is a very flexible client/server system. The server runs where the keyboard and mouse and display are. The client is the program running locally or remotely on a different computer. For example I can run protein folding engines on large servers that are in a university across the country (or world) and interact with the user interface in a cafe on my MacBook Pro.
I have a choice of a wide variety of window managers to use. The virtual and extended desktop concepts in X11 are very different than Mac's typical you only get a screen if something is physically connected or enable spaces.
There are several downsides in that the system is different and to use it, you have to do some learning. Also - it doesn't map perfectly to Apple - cut and paste can be disorienting, mouse buttons have different functions, keyboard mapping can be tricky, and the uniformity of the Mac interface is disturbed as most X11 programs come with a wide variety of widgets. Even the most die hard fan of X11 chrome has to admit that a lot of it is "quaint" and some of it is really hard to use for people that expect the Macintosh user interface experience. (This is more of a culture thing - some countries have delicacies that are off-putting to others - it's not right or wrong - just different heritages and long assumptions on how something is "supposed to be done".)
Cheers and good luck!
The following is a list of popular programs that require X11:
Basically, if you plan on using only commercial software, you don't need X11. If you plan on using open source software, you may want to keep X11 around just in case. Many open source projects used to require X11 but now have native Mac versions (OpenOffice, for example).
X11 is still used extensively for very expensive *nix-based CAD/CAE software packages.
I used it to run the free Gimp editor on Macs for which I couldn't justify installing Photoshop.
But unless you need some specific *nix software package that uses X11, there is much general need for it on a Mac.
X11 is used for most Unix GUI apps. All Linux GUI apps use X11 and it is often the easiest way to port them to run on OSX to keep using X11. the only Linux GUI apps which don't use X11 when under a simple port are some of those using Qt and Java apps where the underlying GUI has been ported to OSX aqua.
Command line apps like ssh and other Unix utilities don't use a GUI and so port directly.
You can use Macports, Fink and Homebrew without using a X11 app - it depends on what apps you port.
I personally don't use it because I have Linux installed beside Mac OS X. But many of my coworkers and fellow students use X11 in Mac OS X frequently. This is largely because we need to do plotting a lot, and so we use Gnuplot quite often. Gnuplot has a Mac native terminal (GUI) (I think), but it's no match for its X11 and wx (requires X11) terminals.
Also many other cool stuff (usually cross-platform programs) require X11, for example Wireshark, Audacity (a wave editor), and Inkscape (an awesome vector image editor), etc. Of course Audacity and Inkscape both have their Mac OS X native equivalent, but most of them are large and expansive.
Hm. It is interesting to see how much linux-users converted into OS X world. Here is my 0.02$. (as a heavy Linux user in past).
I do web-dev and media stuff and I personally think there's no use for X11 on a Mac as long as you're not a unix network administrator or something. There's still no native port of Wireshark, but beside that I don't use X11 at all. Beside Fink and MacPort there's also Homebrew, which is much easier than the other two and there's no X11 required.


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FAYETTEVILLE — It wasn't the way quarterback Tyler Wilson and wide receiver Cobi Hamilton wanted to end their careers at Arkansas.
The record-setting duo wasn't able to upset No. 8 LSU as the Razorbacks lost 20-13 on Friday at Razorback Stadium in the final game for 22 seniors on the team.
Arkansas had a shot at tying the game on the final snap, but Wilson's final pass in an Arkansas uniform sailed over the outstretched hands of Mekale McKay in the back corner of the end zone.
"I thought we gave it our best shot, I really thought we had a shot to win it," Wilson said. "We didn't make those plays to win it, but we fought our tails off to the end. … Offensively, we gave them a lot to look at and executed pretty well."
Despite the final score, Hamilton said he enjoyed every minute of his final game in Fayetteville.
"It was my last game as a senior. We couldn't pull out a win like we wanted to, but it was fun," Hamilton said. "I played my butt off and I enjoy being out there with my teammates."
Hamilton injured an ankle in the fourth quarter. He missed a few plays, but said there was no way he'd miss the end of his final game as a Razorback. Especially after a loud "Cobi" chant by the fans rang through Razorback Stadium.
"Obviously, I wanted to come back in … why not go for it?" Hamilton said. "Even if I'm hurting pretty bad, I've got three minutes, I've got a lot of time to rest. That's what I was thinking about, going back out there and finishing my career as a Razorback. … (The chant) meant a lot, the support we had throughout the season showed so much. It was a great feeling."
Wilson and Hamilton are both expected to be taken in the NFL Draft in April 2013. Wilson said he'll now begin preparing for that.
"It's going to be a busy few weeks for me to kind of gather everything up here and kind of finalize some of the relationships I've built here," Wilson said. "And then try to move on with that next process, which is selecting an agent and prepping for the combine and everything else that'll be thrown at me."
Wilson and Hamilton will leave Arkansas with several records.
Wilson broke the career record for passing yards in the second quarter with a 9-yard toss to Javontee Herndon. The senior from Greenwood finished with 7,765 career passing yards, easily topping Ryan Mallett's old record of 7,493.
Wilson also holds the UA record for career 350-yard passing games with seven and holds the record for the most 350-yard plus games in a single season with five. With 31 completions, he finished with 593 — which is also a school record.
His final stat line as a Razorback was 593-of-948 for 7,765 yards with 52 touchdowns and 26 interceptions for a 140.70 career quarterback rating. He started 24 games the past two seasons and posted a 15-9 record as a starter.
Hamilton now tops the UA career receptions list with 175 catches, edging Jarius Wright's old record of 168 that was set last season. The senior from Texarkana finished with 90 catches this season for 1,335 yards — which are both school records.
His 1,335 receiving yards are good for fourth in Southeastern Conference history and his 90 catches are third all-time in the conference record book. Hamilton caught 175 catches for 2,854 yards and 18 TDs in his career.
While it was a disappointing season on the field, Hamilton said he'll remember the bonds of the players on the 2012 team more than the final 4-8 record.
"Togetherness, we stuck together through all the adversity," Hamilton said. "We're still brothers, we're still the same 2012 team that everybody had high expectations for. We stuck together."
With Arkansas out of a bowl contention, Wilson said he'd been able to prepare mentally for his final game in a Razorbacks jersey.
"It's been a fun ride. … We watched a PowerPoint (Thursday) night and you see a picture of me at 175 pounds walking in here (as a freshman)," Wilson said. "Then you go through the ups, the Sugar Bowl, the Cotton Bowl and everything you go through. It's been a life lesson for me, not only the records and that stuff, but it's been a wonderful time and I'm glad I got to spend it at Arkansas.
"I wouldn't trade it for anything."
The final game even made Wilson a little misty-eyed.
"I always thought it was funny to get choked up; I've never been one of those guys who just gets choked up about anything," Wilson said. "Last night, it hit me … it's tough, it's meant so much to me to grow up in this state and be a part of this."


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Is it possible to configure a SharePoint 2010 list to the default form for editing and viewing while displaying my custom InfoPath form only for new items?
In order to use mixed, i.e. both Infopath and default Sharepoint form templates, after creating Infopath form for and publishing to a list, you should remove association with Infopath form template and only then to choose again a specific as[x web part page...
Navigate to list > on ribbon List tab (under List Tools) > Settings > List settings > Form Settings > choose radiobutton "Use default Sharepoint form from the server" without checking "Delete the Infopath form from the server" > OK
Only then, in Sharepoint Designer 2010 Lists and Libraries > choose a List > in section Forms choose
and press on ribbon "Set as default"
Now, Infopath form web part page (linked eventually to infopath template) is used for new (aka create aka add) a list item while default sharepoint web parts (using default sharepoint lisr template) page for View and and Edit.
And you should repeat all the steps after each (quick) publish from Infopath Designer. No other choice, O am afraid...
Actually I posted in msdn forum about this user-unfriendliness:
You can change the default view for a form inside SharePoint Designer. Just edit the list forms to point to the .aspx page that uses your InfoPath form, then assign it to the New Form type.


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== The Hackernationale ==
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The Hackernationale
A D Arise, all hackers from your slumber, E7 A E7 Arise, all cyberpunks! A D For there are cables here to solder, E7 A We're making stuff from junk! E B7 E Let's jailbreak all of our devices, B7 E B7 Give root to everyone! E E7 A Connect our batteries in series, E B7 E E7 For do-ocratic fun! Chorus: A D So come all of the genders, E7 A E7 Learn and teach technology, A E7 F#m C#7 Put chocolate in the laser cutter, D B7 E E7 And make all software free! A D So comrades, come solder, E7 A A7 Shoot rockets into space! F#7 Bm7 By cleaning up the kitchen, A E7 A We celebrate our hackerspace!


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Hospital to have ethics forum
Event will explain Catholic health care
The conference will feature guest speakers from the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia and include lectures for the staff about the Ethical and Religious Directives (ERDs). From 7 to 8:30 p.m., there will be a talk open to the public.
This is the first time the hospital has hosted an ethics symposium in recent memory, said Chad Wable, president and CEO of Saint Mary's. It comes on the heels of a failed joint venture between Saint Mary's, Waterbury Hospital and Plano, Tex.-based LHP Hospital Group.
Many considered overcoming the ERDs to be the primary obstacle in the venture's success, a conclusion with which Wable disagrees. He called it "short-sighted to blame any one issue for such a complex transaction."
Wable said LHP pulled out because the deal was no longer financially viable. Furthermore, Wable said the ethics conference was not in reaction to the joint venture that fell apart last fall.
For the past several years, Saint Mary's has marked St. Joseph's Day, which is Tuesday, with special events, Wable said. The hospital was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph in 1907. This year, having an ethics conference was a good time to "come out and make sure there is a solid understanding of Catholic health care and what we do," said Wable. "There are a lot of folks who don't understand the framework of the ERDs and it was important to provide in-depth training to our ethics committee and to answer any questions."
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote the ERDs, which include prohibitions against abortion, direct sterilization and contraceptive procedures and an obligation to provide food and water to "patients in chronic and presumably irreversible conditions."
Jim Tucker, Saint Mary's director of clinical quality and co-chairman of the hospital's ethics committee, described the ERDs not as constraints, but as a way to open doors to those in need.
The ERDs, Tucker said, address "the elimination of pain at end of life, the preservation of life and care for the least," he said, adding the conference will help articulate how Saint Mary's spiritual roots help fuel the care the hospital provides.
Established in 1972, the National Catholic Bioethics Center promotes human dignity in health care and life sciences through research, consultation, publishing and education.
Its president, John M. Haas, will be one of the speakers at the event.
"One of the biggest things we usually have to address is what's allowed and what is not allowed," Haas said. "We find that even Catholics working at Catholic hospitals have misunderstandings about the church's position so it's good to have these reviews."
For example, Haas pointed to a section of the ERDs that say there is no need for end-of-life medical intervention if the care does not have "reasonable hope of benefit or entail an excessive burden, or impose excessive expense on the family or the community."
If you go
Saint Mary's will host a talk, "The Mission of Catholic Healthcare in Our Community," from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the hospital's Medical-Dental Conference Center at the corner of South Elm and Union streets. Admission and parking are free. To reserve a seat, call 203-709-6210 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Snow date is March 26.
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In a Package I am writing, I'm trying to define a function with an
Optional parameter in it that is set to a global variable.
However, the
Optional value
IndexLoopPlot is not set until after the package is loaded and other functions are run. Therefore
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When I disable syncing apps with my iPad, iTunes uninstalls all apps. How can I make iTunes not mess with it and leave the apps on it, even if I disable synchronization?
I tried disconnecting immediately after applying, but this doesn't save the changes I made.
This also happens to my iPods and iPhones.


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Kids can take on their next challenge in comfort and style, whether it's on the playground or playing their favorite sport, in the Nike Free Huarache Light Running Shoes. This trendsetting hybrid of the Nike Free and the Nike Air Huarache Light from years ago is sure to offer your active kid plenty of support and a comfortable feel.
The lightweight and minimal design of these kicks shows off one of the quirkiest features of the Air Huarache Light: No Shoelaces! These slip-on shoes have Nike Free performance details, including deep flex groves on the outsole to enhance flexibility and stability and a Phylite midsole for lightweight cushioning and support.


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Devils Lake Police Chief Keith Schroeder wants area residents and visitors to know that the intent of stepped up DUI enforcement planned for this week is intended as a tool for increased education and awareness, not to target visitors here for ice fishing.
The organizers of the big tournament go above and beyond, according to Schroeder, to accommodate everyone and provide every opportunity to get rides, free of charge, even if they have had a few too many drinks during the evening's celebration.
When there are more people in town like for this big tournament, Schroeder says, it is a perfect opportunity to educate the public about the importance of having a designated driver, no matter when you might need one.
"This is the perfect opportunity to get the word out about being safe and making good decisions when it comes to drinking and driving," Schroeder says. "There are more people in town than normal and a big event is happening, so people can use it as an opportunity to increase their awareness of the issue."
If anyone is in doubt whether they should be driving, after consuming alcohol, the rule should be - when in doubt - don't.
How much is too much?
According to Schroeder it can vary with the individual, their physical size and tolerance. For some, more than one drink may be too much. The legal limit in North Dakota is a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 which translates to only a few drinks.
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Courtesy Vans will be available on Friday night from 5 p.m. until the bars close at 2 p.m. and again on Saturday from 5 p.m. until 2 p.m. to and from the Memorial Building.
The numbers to call are
The vans are furnished by Devils Lake Chrysler Center, Lake Chevy and Market Place Motors with drivers that know the community well, so they will be able to take you where you need to go, no matter where that is.
The important thing is being safe and making good decisions while enjoying your self after a couple of cold days on the ice.
"Our goal is to stop hundreds of cars and have no arrests - that would be a perfect enforcement," Shroeder said.
The enhanced enforcement runs from January 25 through February 3 for the entire Northeast region.
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Zynga is Amazon's big customer in public cloud. But, when I play CityVille, the URL is served from facebook's server. It looks confusing to me. Can anyone explain the architecture and share of work among Zynga, facebook and amazon? Thanks.
If CityVille is served by facebook servers, why would Zynga need to rent Amazon facilities? [closed]
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Only the URL you see is one of Facebook. The page contains a frame which is included from Amazon.
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There's nothing like being taken back into time and the folks at the Fanthorp Inn do just that.
Once a month, the historical landmark provides visitors with an incredible journey into Texas history.
"Fanthorp Inn was located along the La Bahia trail, one of the major settlement routes in Texas, and it played host to many of the significant characters in the development of The Republic," said Tom Scaggs, a park ranger at the Fanthorp Inn.
Built in 1834 by Englishman Henry Fanthorp, the 18 room inn has been restored to its original glory.
"It's a real treasure and it's a real step back in time to come visit the inn, experience what the accommodations were like in the 1850's as well as learn a little bit about transportation and communication during the period," said Scaggs.
Stagecoaches would routinely visit the inn with passengers and guests and that tradition carries on today with one of the most unique experiences in the Brazos Valley. You can actually ride a stagecoach through Anderson and back.
"There is no replacement of actually experiencing history. I would like to think that after traveling on the stage coach that when a child sees one on TV, they can say, I rode on one of those and let me tell you what it's like," said Scaggs.
"Definitely wasn't the minivan," joked Prem Pereira about the stagecoach ride.
Pereira is an Aggie who now lives in Houston and his family enjoyed their ride in the Concord stagecoach. Being able to show his children what the Lone Star State used to be like is a Texas treasure.
"It's important to let them know that everything isn't modern cars and were it came from. That a lot of people went through a lot of hardships to get to where we are now," said Pereira.
"It's a brief respite from our modern times and all the complications that live with us," said cowboy poet Kenny Lewis.
Lewis entertains guests with his own original poems and his rhymes and ballads honor everything from cattle ranching to the Alamo.
"It's important that we understand the sacrifices and hardships that our forefathers endured so that we could have the relative life of comfort that we have now," said Lewis.
The Fanthorp Inn is a significant stop on the Brazos Valley Bucket List providing the Brazos Valley with an incredible history written by the people who made Texas what it is today.
To find out more about the Fanthorp Inn and get a schedule of stagecoach rides, we've have a link to the inn below.


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Getting the Company "House" in Order, The Financial Manager, May/June 2008As TV broadcasters incorporate digital technology throughout their operations, they need to protect the new assets.
Sizzling Content, Legal Fires, The Financial Manager, January/February 2008Content is king, but it can be dethroned by costly litigation. Here are solutions that can help prevent devastating lawsuits.
Protecting the Revenue Streams, The Financial Manager, September/October 2007This article explains how new cable offerings, such as phone and Internet service, are creating new insurance needs.
Recipe for Disaster Relief, The Financial Manager, May/June 2007This article explains how business-interruption insurance can help broadcasters and cable operators stay afloat after a disaster.
True Value, The Financial Manager, January/February 2007This article emphasizes the importance of accurate property valuation to help protect businesses in case of a loss.
Staking a Claim, The Financial Manager, September/October 2006This article provides practical advice to broadcast and cable operators on handling and managing a claim, whether it's a major
disaster or an automobile accident.
Steering the Right Course, The Financial Manager, January/February 2006This article details how to keep automobile risks under control. It highlights numerous ways radio and television broadcasters
and cable TV companies can manage their transport risks.
People Peril , The Financial Manager, September/October 2005The article highlights the significant potential liabilities that employees pose and the need for employment practices liability
insurance protection.
Clicking into Danger, The Financial Manager, May/June 2005This article discusses the need for broadcasters to take a strategic approach to managing their Internet presence.
Special Events, Special Risks, The Financial Manager, January 2005This article focuses on the steps broadcasters can take to minimize exposures associated with special events.
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