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Did you know they made a Christmas Story 2?
The original is a classic. A perfect story, narrated wonderfully by Jean Shepherd.
I understand reboots of films. I get it. But, making a sequel to a movie that had no reason to be continued...
This movie looks like an abomination and is an insult to the fans of the original (yes I'm speaking for all of us).
What do you think?
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Hey, they can't all be Grease 2.
Didn't know that. I hope it's as good as the original.
Did you know they also made a summer-time sequel called "It Runs in the Family" aka "My Summer Story?" Which was pretty awful and of course included no one from the original cast.
nooooooooooooooo!!!!!! (.com)
@eraten: And they made Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss which had at least has Jean Shepherd.
Caddyshack 2, that maybe one of the worst ever...
that's abominable (snowman)
Christmas Story 2:
Ralphie embraces the pink bunny suit and creates the fury culture
@ryanwb: Please no.
Nope, just wrong.
@ryanwb: sounds about right
The sad thing is, people actually buy this kind of trash. Otherwise they wouldn't make such an obviously horrible movie.
Maybe it'll be a Troll 2. So bad it's good.
Oh who am I kidding, this just looks plain old bad
This makes me sick... It's like they didn't even try! Wrong Higbees. Wrong House. Wrong Father! Wrong Everything!
Not interested, but thanks anyway. I am afraid it would tarnish all my memories of the original.
Yes, I did know.
Oh fuuuuuuuuudddggggggge.
@coondogg97: Well, except for maybe Staying Alive. I mean, who doesn't enjoy that John Travolta-BeeGees combo?
It looks terrible, why ruin a good thing?
"You'll crash you're arm off, You'll crash you're arm off" - New instant classic
I heard that this time Ralphie does shoot his eye out this time because the movie is so bad, he did it on purpose.
A crummy SEQUEL!
They probably spent 10 x's the budget of the original "A Christmas Story", and from the looks of the trailer...it's not even close to being in the same league.
Will families be watching this stinker almost 30 years later? I don't think so, everyone involved should have to have a bar of soap shoved in their mouth.
And for the director...I can think of a better spot I'd like to shove the soap!
"My summer story" was also based off of the same book that "A christmas story" was based off of. it's kind of a funny read
I'll be eating soap, so that I'll go blind and wont have to see this.
@107bear: Amen! Its a classic that they are destroying. I'd hate to think in 10 years that I'd reference A Christmas Story and they would think of the second one! UGH!
@wingnutzero: No, for the sequel you'll get to use the real word.
Them making a Christmas Story 2: terrible.
You sharing it with us so our minds can be plagued, as well, with the knowledge of it's existence: also terrible.
I saw this a few years ago.
Well, I tried to see this a few years ago.
It made my eyes want to commit seppuku, and they wanted to do it badly enough that I honestly feared they might find katanas and carry through with it.
Not wanting to be blind, I turned it off.
Sequels are supposed to be bad. It's tradition. But never has there been such a great quality gap between a first movie and its sequel.
It killed Christmas. And then it slapped Christmas's body around just to show some extra disrespect.


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Is it possible, you wonder, I wonder, everyone wonders, that this season could be as remarkable as the last? That answer would be in the affirmative.
My crystal ball, which has malfunctioned since the day it came out out of the box, is clear about this: The 2012-2013 boys high school basketball season will be even better.
In the NVL, five teams have a legitimate shot to win the 2013 title. Yes, some shots are longer than others, but after what we saw last season, with the stunning triumph of the Watertown High boys, and their subsequent run to the Class M state final game, I'll believe in anything.
In the BL, Northwestern is the defender and a favorite to repeat. But need we remind you that Gilbert beat the Highlanders three times last season; that the sun rises in the morning, the moon comes out at night, and Nonnewaug is a contender; that Terryville is back in the BL conversation, with something important to say.
Starting in the NVL, it is pertinent to mention that the Indians' championship in 2012 was the first by a non-city school since Ansonia in 1983. The last the league had a non-city champ in back-to-back years was more than half a century ago, 1959 and 1960, when Naugatuck won consecutive titles.
It could happen again. The Indians return three starters, in Anthony Chacho, Jon Mitchell, and Eddie Hill, and in Mitchell and Hill, Watertown have two of the NVL's best. And if it could happen in Watertown then why not Naugy? The Greyhounds are for real, big across the front, and quick and creative in the backcourt.
Ah, but we must always return to the city, where talent is bountiful, and it all begins with Crosby and Wilby. Each is led by a certified star. The Bulldog's Tyshon Rogers is an explosive scorer. Wilby's Walter Wright will dominate at guard. He simply does everything to perfection.
Kennedy is the other long shot. The Eagles have talent at every position, and talent off he bench. If a legitimate star emerges, look out.
Sacred Heart coach Jon Carroll nailed it when he analyzed the NVL: "There are several teams that can contend. I think the group with the most cohesiveness, not necessarily the most talent, will separate itself from the pack."
The crystal ball says that Crosby may have the best chance of doing that. The Bulldogs' eight-year title run ended last season. After the jamboree victory last Saturday they talked of nothing but reclaiming what was lost. Wilby, which came a free throw or two from a state final last season, hasn't won since 1993.
Crosby and Wilby play Friday night.
In the BL, Northwestern returns virtually everyone, led by one of the league's best in John Stevens. Gilbert has the top BL returning scorer in Robert Skinner, and he can fill a highlight reel nightly. Nonnewaug has outstanding balance, and it's time to get excited about basketball in Terryville again.
The pick here is Northwestern, but it should be a four-way free-for-all.
Northwestern plays Nonnewaug Saturday night.
We must have been good girls and boys because the pre-holiday schedule is amazing.
And we haven't even mentioned Kaynor Tech. Could the Panthers be the best of them all? They are big, athletic, and with Tre-Kel Douglas and Terrance Thompson, they can match of any team in the skill department.
We'll leave the final word to Woodland coach Tom Hunt, whose Hawks, by the way, are Brass contenders, with Wolcott, St. Paul, and everyone else.?
"The NVL should be competitive every night you tie the laces," Hunt said.
Ditto the BL. It all starts Wednesday.
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Is this the same John Hall who had a sexual harassment suit filed against him while he was superintendent of Barberton City Schools?
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Congratulations joemayo, you know how to do a google search. Do you know anything about the suit? Do you know that anyone can sue anyone else whether there is merit to the case or not? Do you know that there was no merit to the suit? Do you know that Mr. Hall is a good hard working Christian? Give the guy a chance, you need to grow up.
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joemayo, the more I think about your comment the more upset I become. you should be absolutely ashamed at yourself. you post this comment as if you "know something" about that situation. you hide behind the computer and throw stones without the facts. you are a coward.
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Is WOOT! trying to hide the WOOT! OFF?
I have a good idea....let's put the WOOT! OFF in the sellout section....
Who expected that?
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If I buy stuff to help make room, will I be invited to the game room?
We can't make any promises...but...how good are you at playing pool, air hockey or ping pong?!
@rogetray: ohhh...i'll buy stuff if i get invited for ping pong.
@rogetray: Pool?! hmmmmm....
Will you teach me? I will bring some money....
@rogetray: And I'll buy if I can play some air hockey -- I'm house champ around here.
Great. The deal is...it must be a Star Wars related item in the Woot Off...AND...the secret password into the Game Room is "Greedo Shot First".
Why do I get the feeling I've lost money to both of you before?! hehehe
Holy CRAP...The WOOT! Off is timed? 1/2 hour per item?
This is truly BRILLIANT. I hope it all is like that. The 1st 2 items have a timer on them. I LOVE it. Kudos to the brilliant person that decided to save my F5 key!
Awesomesauce. Yeah it seems like a very cool idea. I'll definitely forward it on to the right peeps and let them know.
Hopefully everyone else likes hitting the F5 key a lot less too ;)
So if I buy there is a possibility of friendship??
This whole timed thing is a good idea. Except, of course, that I wanted to sleep tonight.
Set an alarm for 30 min intervals ?
I have to wonder--Is this really about a game room ? Or are they clearing out to raise money for a field trip to South Dakota ?
@ceagee: This is a guess.
Since it is timed, there may be plenty of most of the items. I would think they will be for sale again later (after I sleep some?).
@morriea: good strategy !
@ceagee: If you subscribe to the daily emails, you would have been notified by Monte and Mortimer's conversation:
@ceagee: Oops, my bad. Don't know why I tagged you in that last message. Please excuse me.
In the voice of Gordon Ramsey:
NEVER before.....(lifts up on toes and points) in the HISTORY of WOOT-OFFS.... (looks down to floor) have we EVER.....(looks around dramatically)....had a WOOT-OFF on SELLOUT! (smile)
@rogetray: Never! As we all know Han Shot First. I own multiple woot shirts confirming this and am old enough to remember. You happy, you made me say I am old.
Gredo shot first, find an origional copy that has not been remastered!
@rodgetray is correct with his password! p.s. I see you in the game room later and you guys can show me this pool game I keep hearing about. (as he sneaks in his own stick)
@conanthelibrarian: now i will be thinking about this all day!
Hmmm, I guess @rogetray didn't forward the great idea on to the right peeps, because we are back to the percentage left rather than the timer. Darn those wrong peeps! Oh well...
@philosopherott: Not sure if you're confused or just trolling... Han smoked that fool, yo.
Yes, they are trying to hide it....they must be making TOO MUCH money this month.....
I think it's a great idea....well played woot!
@philosopherott: i see what you did there. on all official video releases, greedo shoots and misses. in the theater (and per the original script, which lucas tried to re-release with the supporting edits lol) han's shot was the only one fired.
@pitamuffin: OH! I forwarded to the right people! (They just sometimes refuse to listen to me)
But I know they're certainly reading all the responses about the "Timed Woot Off"
@rogetray: UGH! There are very few responses there. Either people do not care or missed the timed portion and think the OP (me) is a bit off kilter (likely?).
@morriea: FWIW, I know you're not crazy. We were all there. I SEENS IT!
I honestly feel like they'll test it out again. It might be a new thing for future Woot-Offs. I dunno.
We'll just have to wait and see.
I saw it. There wasn't anything interesting going on so I left. I did buy two pairs of shoes from a different category (sports?) before I left.
I am not the person Woot cares about. I don't buy that much anymore and I don't contribute to the deals pages.


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Is the idea of single-sourced documentation dead?
I do not know, why it should be dead. Writing and updating several sources with the same content is tedious, error-prone and will cost a lot of money.
The idea is to separate content and design. You write the content one time and you generate with different designs/formats websites, PDFs, books, eBooks, whatever.
The main approach is to store the content with its meta-information (e.g. paragraph begins here, paragraph ends there) into an XML file, the design information into a different file (style sheet) and let a computer program combining them. (You will have different style sheets for different formats.)
DocBook is a semantic markup language designed exactly for this purpose. You use it to define the content and the logical structure and generate the final product (book, webpage, ...) with different style sheets.
Joining John Smithers, single-sourcing is not only not dead, but increasingly vivid. There are new standards under revision right now. Darwin Information Type Architecture 1.2, for instance, was so anxiously expected that the OASIS team voluntarily leaked the working specification for users to implement, August 2010. Every single, serious, content site is based on single-sourcing: Newspapers, radios, TV stations. Not to mention the bulk of government agencies. Checkout the OASIS site and XML.org. You will find plenty of action there.
Single sourcing is definitely not dead. Its best application is within some kind of content management system so that the content not only has a variety of output options, but can be remixed and recycled for other uses. As another answer pointed out, you must separate content from formatting for single-sourcing and content management to work.
Software developers have been using a similar model for ages. If you're going to be doing the same procedure in multiple places, use a function call instead of rewriting the code every time. Put your especially useful functions into a module that you can use in other programs. Keep your source code in a source control repository so you can revert if needed, and prevent conflicting edits to the same bit of code.


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What is the meaning of SQL injection? I am not able to understand the term. And what problems may be caused by SQL injection?
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This question came from our site for software developers, mathematicians and others interested in cryptography.
SQL injection most commonly happens when a programmer builds an SQL command by appending together (or interpolating) strings, using user-supplied input.
e.g. Imagine this extract from a vulnerable piece of user authentication (login) pseudocode from a fictional web application.
At first glance you may think this looks sensible, but the problem is that it makes no distinction between the user-supplied data and the SQL code; data can be treated as code. This means that a malicous user can change the logic of the SQL statement.
A malicous user could completely bypass the login protection if he could change the logic of the SQL command to produce an answer that guarantees at least one row is always returned.
For example, if he entered a real username
Then this would grant him access to someone else's account. This is because the resultant SQL would look like this:
Note that the logical expression
which is logically the same as
which is logically the same as
Thus, all the users in the database will be returned, and he will be logged in as the first one in the list - which is usually the administrator.
Also SQL injection can be used to read the all data out of the database. Entering the username as follows (SQL Server syntax) will list the user-defined table names
because this produces
because our injected data has an
Some combinations of programming language database libraries and DBMSs also allow query-stacking. This is a technique where a whole new SQL command is appended on the end. The database will then execute both queries. Username:
Now your application doesn't have any users (and requires SQL injection to log in). See mandatory XKCD comic.
See this SQLi cheat sheet if you are interested in more techniques commonly used by attackers and vulnerability testers.
So how do I avoid this?
Actually, in many common scenarios, it is so easy.
in pseudocode:
As always this isn't the whole story...
Don't forget to defend in depth and always do input validation too, as you always would (should). WHERE clauses need extra attention as special characters such as
SQL Injection is a technique of using valid SQL commands to tamper with, delete or inject data into a back end database directly through weaknesses in the validation of code input to a web application which calls that database.
It is one of the OWASP Top Ten most commonly used attack routes as it is very simple to exploit.
It can be used to compromise entire databases of customer data, credit card data, financial records etc., or to get a copy of this data. Generally quite a major impact!
The good thing is it is very easy to mitigate through Input Validation - most frameworks provide modules to do this.


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I want to update from Windows 7 32-bit to 64-bit. How do I protect my Steam games?
Most, if not all, of the Steam games I have are 32 bit, and the client is only 32-bit, so they're all run with WoW64. If you're going to be reformatting your hard drive, you can back up the game files to avoid redownloading fairly easily.
Steam only has a 32-bit version, so it's quite easy to transfer between Windows 7 versions. Here's what I did:
Steam's pretty good at detecting anomalies and fixing them or updating, so I wouldn't be too worried about having conflicts after you copy the folder over. I certainly didn't have any problems.
(By "protect" I assumed you meant you want to keep your downloads, so you don't have to download them again. Steam will let you re-download/re-install your games, of course, so you don't need to de-register them or anything. You might want to de-register games that also use a third-party activation like EA's or Games for Windows Live, if you can, but that's a different question.)
I keep steam in a games folder on a seperate drive. Once windows finishes installing, I then install steam on top of itself on the second drive and it picks up everything when it launches perfectly as it was, even when I changed from XP 32 to windows 7 64. Some games may come in 64bit flavor and you'll want to re-download those.


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$D$ is the matrix given by $$D = \begin{pmatrix} h & 0 \\ 0 & k \end{pmatrix},$$ where $h = 36$ and $k = -3$. What is the lower-right entry in the matrix $D^n$, where $n = 6$?
This is my attempt, but I am stuck half-way as it just doesn't seem right


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A Buffalo Soldier monument in Fort Leavenworth initiated our recent trek up the Glacial Hills Scenic Byway. The monument pays tribute to the 9th & 10th Cavalry Regiments. These groups of Black soldiers got their nickname in the Indian Wars. Native Americans said they were brave and fierce in battle - like the Buffalo. Since my son is a huge fan of the Civil War era Cavalry, this was a great way to start an historic and picturesque drive up the eastern edge of the state.
A Nice Drive in the Glacial Hills
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YORKVILLE - Day two of a seven-day tour of Ohio by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown brought the Democratic incumbent to the Yorkville Fire Station where 200 steelworkers, retirees and Democrats cheered for him and booed his Republican opponent.
"I just want to say thanks for what he has done for the steelworkers here. He helped save our plant so we can go back to work," said Jim Herman of Tiltonsville.
Brown is expected to make 25 stops during his final campaign swing across the state.
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A YORKVILLE WELCOME — Approximately 200 people welcomed Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio to the Yorkville Fire Station Saturday afternoon with signs and applause. Brown is on a seven- day tour of Ohio during the final stage of his re-election campaign. -- Dave Gossett
"We have a five vehicle caravan that includes three Chevy Cruzes and two Jeeps, all made in the United States and in Ohio. And the Cruze my wife is driving has an engine made in Defiance, plastic made in Akron, seats made in Warren, steel from Middletown and the Cruzes are put together by 4,500 autoworkers in Youngstown with Teamsters delivering the finished product across the United States," declared Brown.
"The good news is manufacturing is back. The bad news is there are people who don't want manufacturing back in this country. And there is now more money being spent against me than in any other senate race. There has been $29 million spent to defeat me and we think the money is coming from Wall Street and the oil industry," said Brown.
"But I would rather have steelworkers on my side than Exxon. I would rather have the building trades unions on my side than Wall Street. And I would rather have organized labor on my side than the companies who outsource jobs," added Brown.
"Just remember this state is where the governor and some members of the legislature put collective bargaining for public employees on the ballot. They thought they could divide public service employee unions and manufacturing unions. But they were wrong and we defeated that attempt with 61 percent of the vote," continued Brown.
"I know we will win this fall because you folks here in this fire hall know how to organize. You did it last fall. I want you to walk out of this hall and use your influence during the next nine days. You are the most organized group of people in Ohio so lets use that again," implored Brown.
Brown was introduced at the rally by Jack Baker of Tiltonsville who cited his 34 years as a steelworker at the Yorkville plant.
"And thanks to Sherrod Brown I still am a steelworker. We have had a bad couple of years and we thought we were on our last leg. But Sherrod Brown didn't turn his back on Ohio. And because of his support we are going back to work in Yorkville," Baker stated.
Jerry Connor, president of the United Steelworkers Local 1223 credited Brown and state Senator Lou Gentile, D-Steubenville for working to resolve an environmental issue to clear the sale of the plant to Esmark.
"We are so happy and pleased that we could make this happen because we care about steel jobs in Ohio. And we will do everything we can to keep steel jobs in Ohio in the future," Gentile said.
"We are still in contract negotiations. And we are getting closer to reaching an agreement that will see our maintenance workers back in the plant in November or December and limited production in January," Connor explained after the rally concluded.
"This is great for Yorkville and the Ohio Valley. Our village council was asked by the USW Local 1223 officials to write letters asking for help in getting the local plant back to work. We wrote to everyone Democrat and Republican and Sherrod Brown came through for us. We just wanted to get this this mill going again," declared Yorkville Council President Blair Closser.
Also attending the rally were former U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson who is seeking to return to his congressional seat and state Rep. Jack Cera, D-Bellaire.


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Has average intelligence started to decline?
Consistent with the observed world-wide increase in average intelligence - the Flynn Effect - the 25,000 young men assessed for military service in Denmark in 1999 performed significantly better, by about 2 IQ points, than the 33,000 tested in 1988. However, the 23,000 men tested in 2003/2004 performed significantly worse than the 1998 group, at a level almost equivalent to the 1988 cohort. This apparent decline in average intelligence matches a similar observation made in Norway among their conscripts.
So what's causing this reversal in braininess? Teasdale and Owen rule out any effect of diet - after all, there's been no change in average height, which would be expected to suffer if diet quality had deteriorated.
Prior research found that test performance was higher among those men with a negative attitude towards military service. On that basis, Teasdale and Owen also reject the suggestion that the decline could be due to malingering - that is, deliberate poor performance on the intelligence test to avoid military service.
Instead, the researchers surmise that the performance decline is due to "some qualitative change in the emphasis on abstract reasoning and problem-solving within the Danish educational system or a decreased emphasis on speed". They also cite a rising proportion of immigrants in the young population as another possible contributing factor.
Finally, Teasdale and Owen noted that with average intelligence test scores beginning to rise in developing countries, the decline observed here, if representative of a larger pattern, could mark the beginning of the end for any observed differences in average IQ test scores between nations.
TEASDALE, T., OWEN, D. (2008). Secular declines in cognitive test scores: A reversal of the Flynn Effect. Intelligence, 36(2), 121-126. DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2007.01.007
Post written by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
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Is that a random sample of male 18-year olds or are they in some way (self-) selected?ReplyDelete
It's all 18-year-olds in Denmark for a given year. Conscription is compulsory so they all have to go along to be assessed (unless they have medical exception). The numbers have declined over the years because of a falling birth-rate and more men being disqualified for medical reasons.ReplyDelete
"Prior research found that test performance was higher among those men with a negative attitude towards military service. On that basis, Teasdale and Owen also reject the suggestion that the decline could be due to malingering"ReplyDelete
at the same time it would be good to know the percentage of 18-year olds getting exemption on medical ground. It might be that brainier ones are better at getting exempted...
The paper was a good read though and it'll be interesting to see where things will go in the future.
The massive use of computer technologies doesn't allow young people's brain muscles to develop. Any media, according to McLuhan, is at the same time an extension and a castration. Google for instance is an extension and a castration concerning our research and answer-finding capabilities.ReplyDelete
This all presupposes, of course, that not only is there something called 'IQ', and that 'IQ' can be measured; but also that an 'IQ test' actually measures accurately that thing called 'IQ'.ReplyDelete
Most likely, all that is being demonstrated here is a difference in manner/mode/type of education over time that emphasises or trains or favours slightly differing aspects of human functioning ('intelligence'); leading to differing results when these tests are taken by different groups over time.
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It has been shown in a great many different studies that people of lower intelligence tend to have on average significantly more children than those of higher intelligence. Given than environmental challenges no longer cull less intelligent people from the populace it is a simple matter of survival of the fittest. Horny stupid people simply out breed smarter individuals that naturally reproduce less successfully. Expect to see a world populated by very attractive, horny and dim people in the centuries to come.ReplyDelete


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How is stuttering diagnosed?
A speech-language pathologist can usually diagnose stuttering by having the child read aloud. The pathologist may film or record the child talking or may check speech patterns in other ways. Your child may also need a physical exam and other tests to rule out health problems that affect speech development, such as hearing problems.
Talk with your child's doctor if you have any concerns about your child's speech, if stuttering lasts more than 6 to 12 months, or if stuttering runs in your family.
If you are an adult who has started to stutter, see your doctor. Stuttering that starts in an adult is most often linked to an injury, a health problem, or severe emotional trauma. To diagnose the problem, the doctor will do a physical exam, ask you some questions, and watch and listen to you speak.
How is it treated?
Treatment for stuttering often includes counseling for the parents and speech therapy for the child. The main goal of treatment is to help your child learn to speak as smoothly as possible.
Parent counseling can help you understand how speech develops and teach you how to relate to your child in a positive way. You'll also learn how to help your child at home by using proper eye contact and body language when your child is trying to talk to you.
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DALLAS – Twenty yards downfield, Trey Millard hurdled a Texas safety. While still in midair, he crushed the other safety. And then he kept going, rumbling 73 yards to set up another Oklahoma touchdown.
As much as anything, the play summed up the Sooners' 63-21 victory against their Red River Rivals. The final score is a bit deceptive. It was 36-2 at halftime – 30 minutes of hurdling and crushing and rumbling – at which point the old Cotton Bowl half-emptied.
"It was straight ... ." Sooners coach Bob Stoops did not finish the thought, so we will: It was straight dominance.
BOX SCORE: Oklahoma 63, Texas 21
As for the highlights, we could pick any number – Damien Williams' 95-yard touchdown run, backup quarterback Blake Bell "belldozing" to four more TDs, Landry Jones throwing for two more, the defense stuffing Texas until it didn't matter – but Millard, you should know, is a fullback. Along with 119 receiving yards, he had 45 rushing yards. And also, two hurdles of Texas defenders.
For sheer entertainment value – and for evidence of sheer domination – we'll go with the fullback. Or tight end. Or wide receiver. Or tailback. Depends on where he's lined up. A 6-2, 256-pound junior, Millard is versatile that way. And when he gets the ball?
SOONERS SHINE: Watch the Oklahoma's big plays vs. Texas
"You know he's either gonna jump over someone or run them over," Oklahoma junior center Gabe Ikard said. Then he laughed.
"Or both."
Which brings us to this: Never mind the loss to Kansas State, is Oklahoma the Big 12's best? And despite that blemish, could the Sooners be on their way back into the BCS picture?
Maybe both.
Saturday, fueled by an offense that combined big plays with grinding effectiveness and a defense that suffocated the 'Horns, the Sooners seemed capable of hurdling their remaining opponents, or bowling them over. Or yeah, both.
PHOTO GALLERY: Images from Week 7 of college football
They certainly didn't look much like the bunch that lost at home last month to Kansas State, or was underwhelming in wins against UTEP and Florida A&M. But in consecutive victories at Texas Tech and vs. Texas, the Sooners showcased something better. And about that loss to K-State:
The Sooners would like to remind everyone that Jones lost a fumble near his goal line – the Wildcats converted a defensive touchdown. And that Bell lost a fumble near the other goal line. And that the final margin was five points.
"There's different ways you lose," Stoops said. "If you didn't see how we lost that one, then you weren't paying attention. It wasn't because we got beat up."
Alternate narratives are not reality. But Texas coach Mack Brown pointed it out, too.
"That's a 14-point swing," he said. "I mean, Oklahoma may be as good as anybody in the league."
Or maybe Kansas State was simply the clunker the Sooners seem to be good for at least once a season. But perhaps we should pay attention to Brown's Swing Theory and watch the season play out, and see whether Oklahoma finds its way back into the BCS race. Although the Sooners are playing catch-up in the Big 12 standings, they're playing well. And in two weeks there's a decent non-conference game with Notre Dame in Norman that might mean something. Win out, and the Sooners might well be in a familiar position.
And Texas? After yet another humiliating loss to its chief rival, let's put this notion to rest: Texas is not "back." Last month, Brown said a three-game stretch against Oklahoma State, West Virginia and Oklahoma would define the Longhorns. They won the first, and were within a field goal of going to overtime with West Virginia last week, and then who knows? But the 'Horns also got a gift touchdown – replays showed it was a fumble – to beat Oklahoma State in the final minute.
But this? Bevo might as well have been dropped in a deep fryer over on the State Fair midway – which, by the way, is where many fans wearing burnt orange must have been after halftime. By then, Oklahoma had 407 yards (206 rushing), Texas had 65 (2 rushing). Millard's reception was the Sooners' longest pass in the history of the series; Williams' run was the longest run. They finished with 677 total yards.
"It is what it is," Brown said. "They hit us. I don't know how to define it with one word."
But he already had.
"It's just unacceptable," Brown said, "for Texas to lose like that to Oklahoma, much less to anybody – and especially two years in a row."
What's next for Texas is uncertain. Quarterback David Ash spent the second half on the sidelines. Asked whether Ash was injured, Brown said he hadn't spoken with doctors. Regardless, it's apparent the Longhorns have been defined by that three-game stretch, and that Texas' rebuilding project is far from complete.
Also, and this can't be overlooked, there's an even bigger picture: Oklahoma's performance wasn't all that unusual against Texas. The Sooners have won three in a row in the series; a year ago, it was 55-17. Stoops has now won nine of 14 against Brown, and it's not just the losses but how several have played out.
Brown's four worst losses at Texas have come to Stoops' Sooners. Afterward, Stoops, unbidden, compared Saturday's victory to lopsided wins in 2000 and 2003.
"This certainly ranks up there with 63-14 and 65-13," he said. "It's in the same ballpark."
There was also last season. Those are four of the five largest winning margins in the history of the rivalry.
"Isn't that great?" said Ikard, with a wide grin.
Depends on your perspective. If you're Texas, it's unacceptable.
So, it's both.


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I need to create lab contains Windows 2008R2 domain controller with Linux servers and workstations with different roles installed. Hence I need a hypervisor (type 2) for the same.
My laptop does not have VT enabled hence Type-1 hypervisors (like KVM or XEN) will not help me. :(
NOTE: I have already tried VirtualBox; downloaded from their website. However that (virtualbox) has become unresponsive and often bug checking in Windows guest. I have uninstalled that and installed it back again from Ubuntu Software Center. But it continues to blue screened on me.
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 x32.


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Making Windows Vista Reliable: Introduction to Windows Reliability with Mario Garzia
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One of the characteristics of a great general purpose operating system is simply being reliable - limiting user disruptions. Windows Vista is our most reliable OS to date. How can we say this? Well, this is Vista Week on Channel 9 and here we take this broad
question to the development manager for Windows Reliability, Mario Garzia.
Mario and team have done some amazing engineering (you will meet more of the Windows Reliability team in the coming days) and Vista is full of new components that work in concert to make Vista a highly reliable system. Listen in. Learn.
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Charles, why are you always defending Microsoft? Let the developers and PMs defend/sell their product. You end up making yourself sound like a marketing head, instead of an unbiased technical interviewer.
I believe the viewers want to associate with the interviewer in that we want to view a balanced dialog as we would have with the interviewee.
I've been watching channel 9 since the very beginning, and I've always sighed when I've heard you sort of dwell on the selling points of the product rather than probe the corner cases. I think Scobble did a good job of getting at those more interesting topics.
Of course, I've seen that you're pretty sensitive about "Scobble did his thing, and I do my thing", but I think you can still be your own person and still learn from others.
That's my constructive criticism for today.
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The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
Andalusian shepherd boy Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasure found within.
Since its first printing The Alchemist has been translated into seventy-one languages and sold forty million copies worldwide, establishing itself as a modern classic that will enchant and inspire readers for generations to come. Beautifully rendered, The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel is a must have for any collector's library.
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WACO (November 30, 2012)—Waco's 10th Court of Appeals on Thursday affirmed the robbery conviction of Delarontae Dontario Walker and his 50-year prison sentence.
In the court's affirmation, Justice Al Scoggins wrote: "We have reviewed the entire record and counsel's brief and have found nothing that would arguably support an appeal."
Walker, who was 23 at the time of his conviction in April of this year, was found guilty in 19th State District Court of robbing and pistol-whipping a man and eventually was sentenced to serve 50 years in state prison.
Then in October Walker pleaded guilty to two more robberies and was sentenced to two 30-year terms, which Judge Ralph Strother ordered served concurrently with his first sentence.
In the first case the jury found Walker used a firearm when he robbed Octavio Rivera after the two ran from the Coco Loco bar, at Grim Avenue and North 25th Street.
Walker claimed he couldn't have committed the robbery because he was selling drugs to a friend at the time.
Walker then pleaded guilty to robbing and carjacking a pregnant woman on one count and taking a man's wallet at gunpoint and threatening to kill him.


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Measuring a qubit and ending up with a bit feels a little like tossing out infinities in renormalization. Does neglecting the part of the wave function with a vanishing Hilbert space norm amount to renormalizing of Hilbert space?
No, those are two very different processes (as far as I understand).
I am maybe a bit uncertain what you are asking, but from what I understand the answer would be no. Renormalization is a procedure for absorbing infinities in an interacting field theory. A quantum bit is really just a state, but referred to in information theoretic terms. The two physics are not directly related as such. In a measurement if one considers it as a collapse there is a new normalization (renormalization?) of the system state, which is just the state vector which pertains to the measurement outcome.


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Glad to make it here. Hope you'll welcome a noob here!
Glad to make it here. Hope you'll welcome a noob here!
We don't have a choice about welcoming them, but we gotta make it hard for you too. This intro is so damn lightweight I'm worried that it might get blown away in the wind. You gotta bulk it out. Tell us about yourself! Go into as much detail as you are willing to, and in particular talk about video games you like/play/want/fap to. Hell, eschew video games entirely and talk about better hobbies. We normally do on here. Go look at a few other intro threads if you need inspiration. If you want me to love you, you gotta open up.
Do tell us more about yourself, what's your favourite lyric in any song? What games do you like? If you could be reincarnated as any species, what would you like to become?
Most importantly, do you appreciate the music stylings of Erasure?
Come on, put some effort into it! Is this how you want to be remembered??
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We already did.
I feel he was more of a spoon.
Who you cuddle with is your business.
Please tell us more about yourself new guy.
Now now, let's not get onto forking.
I guess it depends on how frisky you're feeling.
This situation is quickly getting pizza cutter.
I can handle anything below spatula.
Colander bread maker, pan mustard coffee table!
Yeah, some shit like this would be 15,000. Fuck you.
Ok I'm not really good when it comes to introducing myself but I'll give it a try. I'm 30 and a big fan of rock music, love old school games (pacman,galaga,twin bee,etc...)...Favorite lyric in a song, maybe "I got something to say I killed your baby today..." by The Misfits. I love ios mobile games and I have rockband reloaded, GTA, Norm's big Escape,Fight Night, Dead Space on my iPhone...
Please quit trying to spam crap. You got one thread for your game. Anything else you want to tell us about regarding it you can say in there. I'm getting tired of having to delete it.
I am definately more of a spoon, a bad one at that. Welcome!
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| Kern, A.G., Consultant, Houston, Texas
The industry consultant believes auto-quench, excursion control and bed-outlet layers should join auto-depressure as industry-best practice for all hydrocrackers.
[engineering & design]
At present, hydrocarbon pricing pays strong dividends
for hydrocracking (HC), which leverages low-cost hydrogen
(H2), sourced from todays abundant natural gas
supply, into high-value liquid fuels. Among hydroprocessing
(HP) units, HC units have the greatest H2 uptake,
with a typical liquid volume swell of 10%. This earns in the
range of $100 million (MM) per year for a 30,000-barrel-per-day
(bpd) HC unit based on volume swell alone, in addition to the
usual value upgrade of HC conversion.
As a result, hydrocrackerswhich are already one of the
hydrocarbon processing industrys
most demanding process control challengesare being pushed
to greater limits. HC reactors operate at elevated temperatures
and pressures, making safety a constant concern. Recovering
from temperature upsets can take hours, and recovering from a
complete depressurization takes days. Reactions are exothermic,
meaning that even minor disturbances in feed, heater or quench
controls can rapidly escalate to an urgent situation. For these
reasons, HC controls have always demanded vigilant attention to
design detail, management of change, and operability. Any
oversights can result in, or fail to prevent, depressurization
events. Key improvements, on the other hand, can bring large
gains in refinery profitability and reliability.
For the past two decades, hydrocracker process control
strategy has focused on installing automatic depressurization
systems and multivariable predictive control (MPC). While this
equipment has brought important gains, experience shows that it
leaves many gaps in excursion control and depressure
prevention. This article presents an updated hydrocracker
control model that robustly addresses traditional hydrocracker
control challenges, overcomes outdated hydrocracker control
paradigms, and allows hydrocrackers to operate safely, reliably
and profitably under todays demanding conditions.
Fig. 1 shows a common hydrocracker
configuration. Heated oil and excess H2 enter a
vertical downflow reactor with multiple fixed catalyst beds.
The catalyst promotes cracking and hydrogenation of larger
hydrocarbon molecules, such as gasoils,
cycle oils and coker oils, into lighter, more valuable
molecules, such as diesel, jet fuel and naphtha. The overall
reaction is exothermic, so temperature increases as flow passes
through the bed.
Between beds, cold H2 quench gas is introduced to
cool the reaction mix. In this way, the reactor is a succession
of cracking beds followed by quenching (Fig. 1
depicts three beds, but often there are more). The overall
objective is to achieve the desired amount of cracking (or
conversion), which is borne out in the downstream
fractionation section product spreads.
Fig. 1. Simplified HC
reactor piping and
instrumentation diagram with
Maximizing conversion means operating at one or more of the
quench constraints. These include a maximum quench valve
position, chosen to ensure ample reserve quench should an
exothermic excursion occur, and a maximum bed temperature rise,
which indicates high cracking severity and increased risk of a
rapid onset excursion.
Recent price trends in crude oil and natural gas have
shifted HP economics. The price of natural gas has declined,
while the price of crude oil and liquid fuels has greatly
increased. H2 consumed through a hydroprocessing
complex swells the liquid yield, effectively converting a
low-cost feedstock into a high-value
Among HP units, HC has the greatest H2 uptake,
typically around 1,700 standard cubic feet (scf) of
H2 per barrel (bbl), with a resulting liquid volume
swell of 10%. Therefore, the gross profit margin from volume
swell alone is in the range of $100 million (MM) per year for a
30,000-bpd HC unit. This is based on H2 sourced from
natural gas at $4/thousand scf, and valuing product fuels at
Over the past 20 years, hydrocracker process control
strategy has focused on installing automatic depressurization
systems and MPC. While these are important, experience now
shows that they leave many gaps in excursion control and
depressure prevention.
Auto-depressure controls serve to vent reactor systems to
flare in the event of an uncontrolled exothermic excursion, to
halt the reaction and prevent vessel temperatures from
exceeding metallurgical limits. Temperatures during an
exothermic excursion sometimes increase tens of degrees in as
many seconds. Industry history shows that manual depressure
systems are often not used according to written procedures and
that personnel at all levelsmanagerial, supervisory and
operationalcan have difficulty balancing production goals
with safe use of manual depressure systems.1 This
illustrates why auto-depressuremade possible by more
reliable thermocouple-based temperature-measurement systems and
improved algorithms for excursion detection and
temperature-measurement quality handlinghas become
The difficulty with auto-depressure controls is that they
tend to act much sooner than traditional, manually initiated
systems, and depressuring is to be avoided whenever possible,
except as a final layer of safety. Depressuring a reactor
brings the unwelcome prospects of prolonged restart, impact on
other refinery units, large economic losses, thermal and
mechanical stresses to the reactor and associated equipment, environmental flaring violations,
and potential harm to the company image in the community and in
the industry. The necessary message that often fails to
accompany auto-depressure projects is the need for better
excursion control to avoid reaching auto-depressure conditions
in the first place.
MPC technology has brought improvements
in reactor bed temperature balancing, weighted average bed
temperature (WABT) control, and coordination between reactor
and fractionator sections (conversion control). However, MPC
lacks the speed, reliability and control features
necessary to adequately respond to most hydrocracker
disturbances before they result in an excursion, or to contain
an excursion before it leads to depressure, or to do so in a
manner that minimizes overall impact on reactor temperatures
and resulting lost production.
Hydrocracker operators are always aware of the many
potential excursion initiators. On the other hand, when
designing controls (and even during hazard analysis), there is
a common tendency to downplay the likelihood, severity and
actual history of many excursion scenarios.1 For a
hydrocracker (or for any critical process control), an
effective approach is for a multidisciplinary team to consider
each scenario and the most appropriate control system response.
Common excursion scenarios include:
Additional potential excursion triggers are listed in
Reference 1. Complex refineries with a variety of feed and
product types can be subject to these hazards on an essentially
continuous basis. Understanding these causes helps build better
controls; however, the control design must also provide
effective excursion control, regardless of the cause.
Fig. 2 is a hydrocracker reactor control
model that addresses safety, depressure prevention, and
excursion control, along with normal operating objectives and
optimization. The overlapping of layers indicates robust
reliability. For example, excursions may be contained and
controlled by Layer 4, 3 or 2 before ever reaching Layer 1
(depressure). In addition, Layers 4 and below are implemented
in the base-layer control system, thereby maximizing
responsiveness, reliability and operability.
Fig. 2. HC reactor control
showing layers of control.
The excursion control layer comprises a number of
traditional advanced regulatory control (ARC) techniques
applied to the bed inlet, bed outlet and heater controllers. An
important aspect is converting the Bed 1 quench valve
(TC-IN-1A in Fig. 1) to a bed
outlet temperature controller (TC-OUT-1A in
Fig. 3) and coordinating its action with
heater control. This critical valve is often configured
problematically (as in Fig. 1), so that it
does not respond to an excursion and, when used, can cause the
heater(s) to counter with increased firing.
Fig. 3. HC reactor piping
and instrumentation
diagram with upgraded controls.
Excursions are commonly quantified as the difference between
real-time reactor bed temperatures and recent (heavily
filtered) values. The excursion value reflects any short-term
temperature rise; i.e., the severity of an excursion. At
steady-state, this value will be zero, and at operating
conditions (if procedures are carefully followed and no
excursions occur), it will always be less than the prescribed
maximum hourly rate of change; e.g., less than around
Since modern hydrocracker reactors may have a dozen or more
thermocouples per bed, a common practice is to calculate the
highest temperature of each bed for monitoring and alarming,
for ease of operation, and to avoid alarm floods when
excursions occur. Fig. 4 is an example of the
long-term trend of the highest excursion temperatures for each
bed of a two-stage reactor. The vertical axis shows excursion
severity (for example, increments of 5°F).
Fig. 4. Improvement in
excursion control.
Fig. 4 provides a meaningful metric of
progress and of ongoing quality of operation. As controls are
upgraded, the frequency and severity of excursions decreases.
As with any safety metric, frequent, minor excursions indicate
the increased likelihood of a full-blown excursion and
potential depressure event. A graph like that shown in
Fig. 4 is a good candidate for visibility on a
large control-room screen, as a means of sustaining improvement
and awareness.
A guiding tenet in the evolution of these controls was to
utilize quench, heater and other controls as advantageously as
possible under all circumstances, to contain excursions and
avoid reaching auto-depressure conditions. This led to many
creative and sensible ideas. The main challenge was not in the
difficulty of designing new controls reflecting these ideas,
but in overcoming entrenched paradigms about the old controls,
even though they were outdated or not sensibly configured in
many cases, such as the conflict between the Bed 1 quench and
heater controls, and the lack of reliable bed outlet
Control layers 2 through 4 were implemented with standard
DCS functionality, bringing cost and engineering advantages.
Another practical benefit is operability, since these controls
present to the DCS console operator and behave as conventional
cascaded controls, requiring minimal new concepts and
MPC is often considered a comprehensive solution for the
types of control concerns raised here; however, none of the
critical excursion control, depressure prevention or
auto-quench functions are of the type provided by MPC. For
design or hazard and operability study (HAZOP) purposes, it is
usually better to view MPC as a gradual constraint pusher,
rather than as a reliable disturbance handler. This distinction
is important on any process, but especially for hydrocrackers,
where a robust response can make the difference between an
online reactor and a depressured reactor, in a matter of
Process control could benefit by borrowing from safety
system practice and convening a multidisciplinary team to
review critical process upset scenarios and arrive at the most
appropriate and advantageous automatic control response. While
many processes do not have the rapid downside potential of HC
reactors, the general principles of maximizing on-target
production and avoiding safety function thresholds under upset
conditions make this approach a good practice for any refinery
The traditional practice of operating high-pressure,
high-temperature, exothermic reactors without reliable,
nonlinear bed outlet temperature control is a paradigm that
industry should proactively remedy. The auto-quench, excursion
control and bed outlet layers should join auto-depressure as
industry best practice for all
hydrocrackers. HP
1 EPA Chemical Accident Investigation Report,
Tosco Avon Refinery, Martinez, California,
November 1998.
Allan Kern has over 35 years of
process control experience and has authored dozens of
papers on multivariable control, inferential control,
safety systems and distillation control, with a
focus on practical process control solutions and
effectiveness. He is a professional control systems and
chemical engineer, a senior member of ISA and a
graduate of the University of Wyoming. Mr. Kern is a
consultant, and he can be contacted at
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Innovations in Cancer Therapy, 1st International Symposium on Image-Guided Therapies for Cancer
Last Modified: October 15, 2004
Conference Dates: May 1-4, 2005
Conference Location: London, England
Sponsoring Group: PRRI
Conference Web Page URL: www.cancerinnovations.org
Topics Covered: Lung Cancer, Liver Tumors: Imaging, Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Liver Transplantation, Liver Metastases, Renal Cell Carcinoma, Central Venous Pathology and Interventions, Bone Tumors, Practice Development
Conference Objectives: cross-specialty educational experiences in the fields of interventional radiology, oncology and related sciences with an emphasis on innovative techniques and technologies using available imaging and image-guided procedures.
Who Should Attend: Interventional radiologists, medical and surgical oncologists, gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal surgeons, hepaticobiliary surgeons and technologists
Registration Information: Three ways to register: By mail or fax, using the enclosed form, or on-line at www.cancerinnovations.org.
Continuing Education: Yes
Miscellany: Course Directors: Jeffrey Geschwind, M.D. Johns Hopkins University, Philip Johnson. M.D. CR UK Institute for Cancer Studies


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A lot of areas that are good for hiking or backpacking are also popular hunting grounds. I am an avid backpacker and hiker, but I do not know much about hunting. How do I find out what is the hunting season in a particular area, and when backpacking during hunting season, how do I avoid getting shot?
The most important thing is to know what is being hunted so you can know how the hunters should be approaching their prey. It's best to talk to several hunters to find out from them where they will be concentrating, but it's hard to control for any random person with their own ideas about how they will be approaching their hunting. The vast majority of hunters are extremely safety conscious and will go out of their way to educate anyone who is curious about safety and sharing the outdoors.
Turkey season is generally horrible since hunters are so camouflaged and hidden whereas deer season is better with everyone lit up in blaze orange for visibility.
In your case, you probably don't really care if you are scaring off the game so wear vibrant colors, make a lot of noise and avoid heavy brush and areas with limited sight lines. Wide open areas with a clear view are safest. Noise is really your best tool since you also should be concerned about ricochet, misfires and target practice as well as intentionally placed shots where you happen to be directly behind the target.
Your local DNR (Department of Natural Resources) website (example) will have the hunting season.
I'd like to say all hunters are safe, but there's a reason I don't hunt public land. Also the biggest threat is poachers, who are going to ignore all of the above, as well as season, legality, etc.
In short - be sensible. Make yourself easily seen and heard, don't walk near somewhere you hear gunfire, and where possible stick to open areas on clear, marked paths.
Of course, I'd also question the wisdom of hiking somewhere when hunting is happening; if there's a sensible alternative that seems like the logical option.
In terms of where to look for information, look up the local authority's website and from there you can usually find the various times that you need. If you can't find it then find an official contact and send an email, they should guide you to the right place or be able to provide the information needed. Preparation in due course is key here.
On a related note, if you're talking about army training / live fire then stay out of the area entirely when this is going on - it'd be stupid (and most probably illegal) to stray into such an area. North Dartmoor in the UK for instance is an area where this happens, but the information on times is easily available online, it's clearly marked on maps and there are clear posts on the moors to indicate the boundary markers for these areas too.
Your main problem will be people deer hunting, or other large game, with a rifle. My first bit of advise would be to not even bother going out for the gun season.
The dangers with large game and gun season are that the prey is takin at a much larger distance, and more confusion could take place.
If you "have" to go out hiking during the gun season I would suggest wearing all blaze orange. Better safe then sorry.
As far as being out during small game or bird seasons. One article of blaze orange should be more then sufficient. Most people will be using a bow or shotgun which have a pretty limited range compared to a rifle and should be able to see you.
All the other advice about what to wear and where to stay is also very good advice.
Hunting seasons and licenses are an issue handled by the states in the US. So check the website of the state you want to backpack/hike in to find out about their various seasons.
Honestly, in most areas this isn't a problem because hunting has to be kept to private land. I live on the East Coast and there are plenty of public land, like the Appalachian Trail, that does not have hunting on it, even in season.
It is always the hunters responsibility to correctly identify their targets and handle their weapons safely.
That said, you can always help them out by making it clear your are a human as others have noted. Bright colours, standing in the open, and human noise are all good. Trying to hide in a bush and trick the hunter with deer calls is a bad idea. It's better that we know you are there and that will likely cause us to move on anyway.
I bow hunt on public land in New Zealand, frequently in the same areas as trampers (hikers) though I don't actually see them all that often. We do not have any particular seasons on deer here, though you'll obviously find increased activity around the roar.
Usually we are using the same tracks you are to access areas and then hunting out away from them in certain areas. Most game animals don't like humans so the closer you are to huts, well used tracks and other people the less likely you are to be around people actively hunting.
Mostly, treat hunters just like other people you see out.
The better we all get along together in the wild the safer we'll all be. Most of us like to stop and have a chat, though we're often wary of upsetting people as we know some are not comfortable with weapons around. If you're nervous ask a few polite questions, it's easy for us to show when rifles are unloaded, explain where we are and aren't shooting etc.
My only caution would be to leave weapons alone unless specifically given permissions to go near them, this particularly applies to curious children. Generally this shouldn't be a problem as hunters will be guarding them closely, but it comes up sometimes when we are sharing huts etc.
Have fun out there :)


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What constitutes verbal abuse of one's child?
I am worried that my constant reminders and punishments are being taken as bullying. I might be over reacting but then again, I might not.
I imagine a youth reacts to bullying differently when its from an elder. Is there any research or experience on this matter? The last thing I want to do is mentally abuse a child.


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Religion and the Anthropocene
I recently returned from an academic conference that examined conceptions of and responses to the Anthropocene. Many of you have heard this term already: it was coined over ten years ago by geologist Paul Crutzen to describe the impact that human beings are having on the deep structure of the globe. In geological time the Anthropocene is a mere eye-blink, a punctual supplement of maybe two hundred years. Human beings have altered the relative balance of the Holocene – the previous geological epoch, one that lasted ten to twelve millennia – in ways that we cannot foresee. The most we might expect is a future world of radical volatility.
My question and topic for discussion is deceptively straightforward: What is the proper Christian or even Catholic response to the Anthropocene? What does (our) religion tell us about a world that is fundamentally (and maybe even totally) dominated by human beings? Those of us on the religious left have already heard calls and exhortations to act. I'm not interested in hearing another exhortation. The Anthropocene emphasizes that we've already changed the globe. How does religion illuminate this particular past and its potential future? How does it shed light on a world without nature, a post-natural globe? How does it orient us in that speculative space?
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Although it is not exclusively Christian, it is part of our teaching, Psalm 24:
"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and all that dwell therein. For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods..."
We draw our fellowship with and commitmet to all men from the Creation story: we all are made in the image and likeness of God But that theology is part of the general theology of God's initial gift of not merely life for ourselves, but life as part of His bounteous Creation. For us to abuse God's Creation *because we can nd fr our, not His, purposes* is exactly the sort of usurption of power that we tradtionally associate with the Fall.
Mark L.
Mark - well said.
Professor Geroux,
Like Cruzen, I a a geologist. All credit to his term and his argument for it.
We should be careful to be clear that not all change to Earth have been deleterious. [I see no duty to protect and encourage viruses and bacteria that are dangerous to us and other creatures or plants.] We have come very close to eliminating smallpox; our abiliy to feed the world's population is greater than ever in the past; we have made great progress agaist scourges like childhood diarrheal diseases and maternal death in childbirth.
Additionally, I see no point in talking about a "post-natural" world. There is still a natural world, and there will be at least until the end of our Sun. It is not the natural world that existed before Man or even before Modern Man But the laws of chemistry and physics still apply; there are active tectonic forces; photosynthess will continue, and natural selection. Once there were dinosaurs, but they are gone, and yet we have a natural worlld. The world was not "natural" when Jesus walked the Holy Land, nor when Moses crossed the Red Sea.
Our departure point should be, What kind of natural world do we wish to live in? This is a question that can be illuminated by thinking not only scientifically, but also theogically. What is it we wish to accomplish? Once we can answer that, then we can think about what can be done to protect what needs protecting, in nature and in our societies. For the failures that Crutzen warns us of in our Anthropocene, we have the Usual Suspects: Firstly a lack of Love (for God and his Creation, including our neighbors and the bounty we have been given). Flowng for that, Wrath, Greed, and all the rest.
So, I must advise my client on a new mining project. I could begin by trying to ask myself: How can this contribute to a calculus of Love that reflects honor on God's Creation? I have spent a lifetime, boy and man, trying to learn answers to that. Perhaps it is not possile at every site; certainly not with every mine plan and community agreement. But still, there are possible, positive answers. That is how I see my answer to the Anthropocene.
Mark L.
The Amthropocene Age cannot be predicted with any specificity-- people's wills make it essentally non-predictable. If we do manage to invent some worthy goals, there will be a process of aesthetic intuitions instantiated with the help of science and whatever is to hand.
... Counter, original, spare strange
There is no doubt that the future of the climate and the ongoing mass extinction are totally dependent on human choices and lifestyle. However, some people seem to think this means "human control" of the earth. The tsunami in the Indian ocean and the 9.0 earthquake off the Japan coast shows we are far from in control. The meltdowns at Fukushima illustrate we even have only limited control of our own technologies. And how can a creature control anything that doesn't control itself? The increase in human population is no different mathematically from the exponential growth of a bacterial culture and shows no application of intelligence or awareness. Yet, I see no hope of change without religion. Science will only remain a source of problems unless augmented by religious interpretation and insight. Science, by itself, is not enough.
Perhaps we're too smart for our own good.We're not "perched lighlty on the earth" anymore.Jesus told us to look at the birds ...like that movie the birds, [i guess i have to say its my favorite movie since i remember it so well.especially the scene where the older woman reminds everyone of that saying of Jesus's.]We don't look to heaven as the reason for our existence and hence every endeavor is weighty ,of monmantal significance. Even though we all die we think and act like this is all there is.We'll keep advancing our knowledge, our quality of life even, but the more God recedes from our scientifc minset, the more we demand of ourselves.Where that leads ,i don't know.Not sure it leads anyplace good, Once while at the zoo i was looking out at a savannah like landscape [part of the'exhibit'], it was all green grasslands and there i suddenly noticed a big cat just walking about I imagined that the whole world was like that,all green grasslands with animals like this cat walking about,at home with humans,I longed for that earth.The big cat had presence,substance,being, walking about this earth because it belonged here it was just a few feet away from me,[a barrior was between us] and i felt the sad separation of partaking of and being outside the natural world.That this real animal ,walking on the peaceful green grass was present to me and perhaps me to it, in this peaceful green earth just filled me with a sense of separation from nature.Nature before the fall,i guess.
The readers of Commonweal DotCom get to decide to which topics they will respond, of course. But does it strike anyone else as remarkable that Dr. Geroux's quetsion has elictited such a limited response? It seems an exellent, even important question, not least for Lent.


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Dorman will sell advance tickets for its road football game at Byrnes from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday in the athletic office located on the back hallway of the arena.
Tickets will also be sold at the ninth grade and JV football games on Thursday night at Cavalier Stadium and in the cafeteria during all three lunches on Friday. The cost is $6.
3A GOLF: Pickens defeated Greenville 660-679 to capture the 3A girls golf state championship on Tuesday at Black Bear Golf Club. Wren's Cayla Smith was individual medalist with a 141. Chapman (810) placed 12th, while Union County (882) was 16th.
LIMESTONE: In St. Augustine, Fla., the No. 18 women's golf team finished seventh out of 14 teams at the Flagler Fall Slam, scoring 637 (+61) for the tournament. Freshman Brittany LaPadula finished eighth overall individually at 8-over 152.
... In Gaffney, the women's soccer team (4-8-3) lost 2-1 to Newberry (9-7). Tori Waddell scored for the Saints.
... Junior forward Jorge Mackenna (Santiago, Chile) of the men's soccer team was named the Conference Carolinas Player of the Week after scoring four goals in two road games.
... In Mount Olive, N.C., the volleyball team (9-13, 7-6) dropped a key Conference Carolinas contest at Mount Olive 3-1 (14-25, 25-23, 25-20, 25-16).
SMC: The men's soccer team (12-5) begins the Region X tournament today as the No. 1 seed, playing at home against Richard Bland.
USC UPSTATE: The volleyball team (4-18) beat visiting Presbyterian 3-2 (25-16, 14-25, 26-24, 22-25 and 15-12).
CLEMSON: In Clemson, the women's basketball team beat Truett-McConnell 92-49 in an exhibition game, the first under new head coach Audra Smith.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy Y, and I have an application that has a scrollable activity. I wanted to take a screenshot but the "Home button - Power button" combination only captures the contents that are visible on the screen. What I wanted is to capture the full activity of the app including the unscrolled parts... I hope I explained it well ...
You can check the scrollscreenshot tool: https://github.com/PGSSoft/scrollscreenshot
It makes multiple screenshots and simulates drag events to scroll content between each screenshot, then join all images into one.
Disclaimer: I'm author of this tool, it was published by my employer. Feature requests are welcome.
As was said - this cannot be done. I am just putting this in an answer form...
The reason being is that screenshots work by converting what is on the screen to an image - what is on the screen is pulled directly from the hardware.
Obviously, the screen doesn't know what is going to be displayed, a bit like we don't know exactly what is going to happen tomorrow (unless you're psychic, but we will ignore that for this analogy).
As such, there is no way to do this.
What you could do however, is to take many screenshots, scrolling down a bit, and then use a graphics package to stick the two screenshots together - may not look nice, but it will have to do I am afraid.
As said, a simple screenshot cannot do this for the mentioned reasons. What you could, however, do, is a ScreenCast -- which is easiest described as a video recording of your activities. AirDroid is one of the apps offering this for free (experimental, and root required). Searching the playstore for "screencast" will show you additional candidates. However, root will be required to operate them.
Aside from that, and not requiring root, is to make a series of screenshots, as suggested by t0mm13b already, and then using an image editor to connect them.


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I have been using LaTeX for five years now and have been using PDFLaTeX ever since. I find it hard to monitor the progress of LaTeX development. Recently there is a lot of talk about XeTeX. What is that exactly? Does it make sense to switch to it?
If you have trouble with fonts and character sets, it may be for you: lots of people have the experience that things just work with Xetex which require fiddling with Pdftex. Two capabilities:
If these aren't issues for you, then there's not much reason to consider moving to Xetex. Pdftex has more sophisticated microtypography.
Look at Joseph Wright's answer to the Differences between LuaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX question: Luatex is intended to be the successor project to Pdftex, and he is informative about what is ahead.
I've switched to XeLaTeX a couple of months ago in order to use Open Type Fonts. Although I find the system stable and easy to use with the excellent
These four issues (particularly the first one!) have convinced me to use LuaTeX instead of XeTeX as all of them are resolved in LuaTeX. I have yet to find any issues with it (apart from that it is a little slow with my fairly complicated templates). So if you want to change from pdfLaTeX you could also consider LuaTeX.
Here is a point that is implicit in the thorough comments and linked answers referenced above, but possibly not obvious.
Installing and managing fonts in traditional TeX systems can be daunting. For me, given that I want to focus on writing rather than software management, messing around with fonts was often not worth the trouble. XeTeX allows me to use lots of fonts easily while remaining ignorant (i.e. while allowing me to keep my time free for learning those things that are most important for me). On a Mac, at least, it's trivially easy to install fonts using a program like OS X's Font Book, and then XeTeX lets me pull those fonts into my LaTeX documents. Sounds like something similar is true for other popular operating systems.


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#3. Caligula
Let's start by noting that when it came time to make a movie about Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, nobody called Ridley Scott or Stanley Kubrick. No, for this particular Roman emperor, the only type of movie that would suffice was a 3-hour-long porno funded by Penthouse magazine.
That's because Caligula is mostly known for one thing: stark, raving depravity. Though some stories were most likely exaggerated and the sources can never be fully verified, the legacy he has left behind involves a lot of whores, adultery, incest and a horse that used to get invited to dinner and that he tried to get appointed as consul.
If the stories are to be believed, when not busy murdering people for fun or money or having people tossed in arenas with wild animals to amuse himself and his horse, Caligula was known for turning his palace into a brothel, something that just wouldn't fly in today's Buckingham Palace due to the Queen's poor hips.
Penthouse founder Bob Guccione on the naked set of Caligula
He also had a tendency to pick up any random women who interested him. Women at their own weddings, for instance, or pregnant women. Or one of his three sisters. Or the wives of people he was having dinner with, which he would inspect like mom looking for the best melon at the supermarket before taking them away, doing his business, then coming back and giving everyone else the highlights.
And being that variety is the spice of life, he was open to men as well. The son of a consular family "had buggered the Emperor, and quite worn himself out in the process," as one historian writes.
See, we would have paid more attention in history class if they hadn't kept leaving out stuff like this.
#2. Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade probably doesn't have a great reputation outside the whips and chain crowd, given that his major legacy is being the source of the word "sadism." If he was the Marquis de Fellatio or the Marquis de Philly Cheesesteak he might be more widely loved and respected, but oh well.
A French aristocrat and philosopher, Sade spent much of his life either incarcerated, both in prisons and nut houses, or doing things that would get him put in prisons and nut houses. A big fan of hookers, he was mostly known for engaging in nefarious and abusive acts that he probably had to pay extra for. What kind of acts? Things like poisoning them with Spanish Fly, or the scourge of polite society: sodomy. And, you know, the sadistic stuff that made him famous.
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Like Caligula, Sade was a go-getter who viewed an ass as an ass regardless of whether it was male or female. During his time out of prison, he had problems retaining any staff as few maids and servants responded well to his buggering and gerbiling or whatever it was he was doing for kicks. When not on the run, he was known to arrange orgies around town, and apparently had a thing for mixing sex and blasphemy in unique and uncomfortable ways, such as inserting communion hosts where no communion hosts have gone before, or wanking with crucifixes.
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Even bloating with old age, Sade never really grew out of his debauchery, even when he found a woman willing to stay with him despite his reputation and nefarious hobbies. He died in prison, while having an affair with a teenager who worked there. We're thinking the man wasn't sorry.
#1. Wilt Chamberlain
Not just an awesome Conan villain, Chamberlain was a monster on the court and is the only player to have ever scored 100 points in an NBA game. He was also the man who, like John Holmes, claimed to have banged 20,000 women. Though it was probably not the same 20,000 women because that would be an astonishing coincidence.
According to some people who know math, for Chamberlain's claim to be true he would have had to have sex with 1.14 women every day from the time he was 15 until he died. Factoring in things like sleep, work and his inability to score quite as often in his younger and later years, has him doing the deed with a different woman every three and a half hours. For 21 straight years.
Wilt's penis snags a rebound
While that makes it seem like most people doubt him, those who knew him said he easily arranged for threesomes and was known to have more than 23 women over the course of one 10 day road trip. Toss in a lot of charm, being rich and famous and the fact that the story is a lot cooler if it's true, and we see no reason to doubt it.
Wilt modestly hides his escaped penis with the ball; an opposing player averts his eyes
Chamberlain faced a lot of criticism for his claim, but always stuck by it and never said he was bragging, just laying it out there because people were curious, which is probably how at least a few of his sexual encounters started as well. And while Wilt seemed to feel like he had to constantly explain why he slept with enough women to populate a small city, we're pretty sure "Because he could" just about covers it.
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Marie Palladino Retired nurse
Born in Norwich on Nov. 29, 1932, Marie was the daughter of the late John and Celina McCann. She graduated from Norwich High School and received her nursing degree from Saint Mary's Hospital School of Nursing. She spent most of her dedicated years working as a registered nurse at Saint Mary's Hospital and later as a private nurse, caring for many families until she retired in 2009.
Marie was a very loving and generous person who had a smile for everyone. She enjoyed reading, angels, loved her Irish Heritage, going to the casino, trips to Florida, spending time with her family, and being with Frank and his family. Marie was a woman who did everything with independence and refinement. She will be missed greatly.
Marie is survived by her companion and love of 29 years, Frank LaMorte, and her best friend and daughter, Susan E. Palladino of Terryville. Marie's life was enriched by enjoying her granddaughters: Cara Martin and her husband, Steven, Jennifer Traver and her husband, Raymond, and Kaitlyn Holick and her fiancé, Zack Samela; her grandson, John Palladino; her great-grandsons (her little angels, who always lit her heart), Steven, Shea, Aidin, Ashtin and Arjay; and a dear friend, Maureen Taylor. Her extended family, Daniel LaMorte and his wife, Lorna, Laura Adams and her husband, Roger, Gina, Daniel, Anthony, Nicole and Rachel, Danny and Sharon Arciola, and friends, also survive her.
Susan and Frank's family would like to express their appreciation and gratitude to the VITAS Innovative Hospice Care Unit for the wonderful care and support, a special thanks to the incredible nurses who watched over Marie, and to Dr. Joseph Bowen and his staff for their remarkable attention given to Marie during this time. "Thank you all for your thoughtfulness and compassion."
In loving memory of Marie, a "Celebration of Life" will be held by her daughter, Susan, on Sunday, July 7, 2013. Please join us at 3 p.m. at the American Italian Civic Club, 476 Boyden St., Waterbury, to share stories, memories and laughter.
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With sincerest sympathy,
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What is the translation of はこう ? (from はこうやって)
I know that it would mean something like : This is how (I do) ... Yet, I cannot find the word in any dictionary. I just find the meaning of "wave height".
I think it should be parsed as the
If at the end of the sentence, I think it would most likely be "as for ..., do it in this way", but if in the middle or start of the sentence,