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(CNN)-- Two women, who were apparently dating, were shot in a small south Texas town over the weekend.
Authorities have not said whether the victims' sexual orientation played a part in the shooting, but the police chief of the town said the incident did not appear to be a random attack.
"This particular case, it does have some of the earmarks of a targeted attack," Chief Randy Wright of Portland told local station KZTV.
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One of the victims died, while the other is clinging to life.
"Well, at best we know they were really good friends. Some of their friends have stated that they were in a relationship," Wright told CNN on Monday night. "They were found by two visitors to the park Saturday morning."
Murders are not common in the town of about 16,000, just north of Corpus Christi. The last took place two years ago, Wright said.
In latest incident, the women were found in an observation platform of an overlook at a park, the police chief said.
Authorities believe they were shot sometime late Friday night or early Saturday morning.
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One of the victims, 19-year-old Mollie Olgin, was pronounced dead after the shooting.
The second, Mary Kristene Chapa, 18, was in serious condition at a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the head.
"We have not been able to take a formal statement from Chapa as she is receiving medical care," Wright said.
Witnesses told police they saw a dark-colored vehicle leaving the scene. But beyond that, detectives have little to go on.
Asked if police were looking at a hate crime, Wright said the case was being investigated "as a murder."
"I've been trying to think of anybody I know that would try and hurt them for any reason - especially them being a couple," Samantha Garrett, Olgin's roommate, told KZTV. "And not one person has ever come to mind."Texas


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14 May 2012 8:39 AM #11
14 May 2012 9:22 AM #12
Thanks, got it and the loop is reproducible. After playing around a bit I noticed that you are using a ExtJS 4.1 RC build in your project. Swapping this out with 4.0.7 eliminates the problem, and I am able to reproduce the looping with a simplistic A->B,B->A association in a fresh project if I use the 4.1 library.
It appears Ext's loader got a bug introduced somewhere between 4.0.7 and 4.1 -- we will work with the Ext team to find the cause and any potential workarounds.Jason Johnston
Sencha Architect Development Team
14 May 2012 9:26 AM #13
14 May 2012 9:50 AM #14
OK working with the Ext team the current best idea is to use the "uses" directive rather than "requires". I've tried this in the project you sent and it prevents the looping issue, but would you mind making that change in your local app files (all the app/model/*.js files, change "requires" to "uses") and make sure your app still functions properly with that change, i.e. all the associations function properly?
If this works for you then we'll make that change in Architect's code generation.Jason Johnston
Sencha Architect Development Team
14 May 2012 10:00 AM #15
Ok, I will make this change and report back in a few.
14 May 2012 10:09 AM #16
build process with SDK Tools.
14 May 2012 3:45 PM #17
I believe the update with the fix is pushed out.
Thanks for providing the project and reporting this.Bharat Nagwani
Sencha Designer Development Team
15 May 2012 9:36 AM #18
Thanks, Jason and Bharat, for your quick handling of this issue! I have upgraded to 442 and my application works just fine.

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The Court at a Crossroads
In an increasingly global, interconnected world where national borders seem to mean less with each passing day, the Supreme Court is grappling with what to do about foreign legal precedent. The justices differ starkly on whether the Court should look to foreign law to inform its decisions or ignore precedent from other countries when interpreting the Constitution. Is there light at the end of the tunnel for the Supreme Court when it comes to the use of foreign law?
On July 19, 2005, the same day that John G. Roberts, Jr. was nominated to the Supreme Court, Congress held a hearing on an issue that would prove to be a highlight of the future chief justice's confirmation hearings.
The House Judiciary Committee has, it turns out, a "Subcommittee on the Constitution," and it had invited four scholars to testify on a proposed resolution condemning the citation of foreign law by American courts. The subcommittee's former chairman, Steve Chabot, Republican of Ohio, set the tone in the opening minutes.
"By looking to and relying on the decisions of foreign courts in the interpretation of our Constitution of the United States," he said, "the judiciary is not only undermining the vision of our Founding Fathers but is chipping away at the core principles on which this country was founded, chipping away at our nation's sovereignty and independence."
The hearing was stacked in favor of that perspective, with three of the witnesses competing only in the vehemence of their denunciation of Supreme Court decisions that took into account the views of foreign courts in death penalty and gay rights cases. The exception was Sarah H. Cleveland, who is now the Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights at Columbia Law School and co-director of its Human Rights Institute. Her testimony was crisp and forthright, and it cannot have endeared her to Mr. Chabot.
"The resolution is contrary to over 200 years of American constitutional tradition," she told the subcommittee. "Since the founding of this country, the federal courts routinely have considered foreign sources of law in resolving constitutional questions."
Cleveland listed some towering figures in American law who had done just that—Chief Justices John Marshall, Roger Taney, and Earl Warren, along with Justices Joseph Story, Benjamin Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert Jackson—and noted that seven members of the Supreme Court sitting in 2005 had supported the practice. "Indeed," Cleveland said, "it is the critics of the practice who are the innovators now."
The resolution on citation of foreign precedent by U.S. courts died in committee, but the issue remains alive. In Congress, the press, the law reviews, and at the Law School, the question of when and how American courts should make use of international and foreign legal materials continues to reverberate.
The popular debate on the topic, as several Columbia Law School professors pointed out in interviews, is freighted with misconceptions. One, as Cleveland told the subcommittee, is that the phenomenon of citing to foreign law is new. A second misnomer is that to cite a decision is to be bound by it.
But there is something broader going on, says Matthew Waxman, an associate professor at the Law School. "The U.S. legal academy is overwhelmingly internationalist and cosmopolitan in outlook," he notes, "whereas a sizeable segment of the American polity is nationalist and even proud of American exceptionalism."
The current controversy arose in a limited set of quite well-publicized Supreme Court cases.
"It's mostly about the death penalty—that's where it started," says George P. Fletcher, the Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority in Roper v. Simmons, the 2005 decision striking down the death penalty for juvenile offenders, tried to use careful language.
"The opinion of the world community," he wrote, "while not controlling our outcome, does provide respected and significant confirmation for our own conclusions."
That wasn't careful enough for Justice Antonin Scalia, who dissented. "The basic premise of the Court's argument—that American law should conform to the laws of the rest of the world—ought to be rejected out of hand," he wrote.
There was a similar exchange in Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 decision striking down a Texas sodomy law that criminalized sexual intimacy by same-sex couples. In his decision for the majority, Kennedy cited a series of decisions from the European Court of Human Rights. "The right the petitioners seek in this case," Kennedy wrote, "has been accepted as an integral part of human freedom in many other countries."
Scalia, dissenting, said the discussion of foreign law in Lawrence was "dangerous dicta." The Supreme Court, he said, quoting from a concurrence Justice Clarence Thomas had filed a year before, "should not impose foreign moods, fads, or fashions on Americans."
Professor Cleveland notes that Scalia's role in creating and stoking the debate cannot be underestimated. "A lot of it has to do with the presence of Justice Scalia on the Court," she says. "His position has fed into hot-button social controversies in the United States—the death penalty, gay rights, abortion."
In addition to Thomas, Scalia can count Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. as allies in his opposition to the citation of foreign law. The Court's more liberal members—including Justices John Paul Stevens, David H. Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59, and Stephen G. Breyer—have endorsed Kennedy's view, as had Justice Sandra Day O'Connor before her retirement. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in 2005, made statements on both sides of the issue.
In academic circles, even some conservative scholars generally opposed to the
citation of foreign authority in constitutional cases have said they might make an exception for the provision at issue in Roper—the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Steven G. Calabresi, a founder of the Federalist Society and a law professor at Northwestern, is one example. "It would be odd to say," Professor Trevor W. Morrison '98 notes, "that it's categorically impermissible to take account of foreign law in considering evolving standards of decency."
Other provisions of the Constitution—its grant of power to Congress to punish "Offenses against the Law of Nations," for instance, or its references to making and enforcing treaties—also appear to require or contemplate looking abroad.
"For those who are committed to originalism," says Lori Fisler Damrosch, Columbia's Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization, "it should be understood that the framers wanted us to comply with international law."
Charles Fried '60, who is visiting the Law School from Harvard Law School this year, has said the citation of foreign law should be done sparingly, in part because it imposes a burden on courts and litigants. There are questions, too, about whether American judges know what they are doing in discussing materials from other legal systems.
"If the justices are going to do this more," says Morrison, "there is a question of expertise and competence. But that's not necessarily to say that the practice should be ruled out. It might instead mean that justices should invest more time and energy in the practice, to be sure they get it right."
Of course, a lack of facility with international relations and foreign authorities may also be a comment on the insular quality of the American legal culture and the homogeneity of the backgrounds of the current justices—all of whom are former federal appeals court judges.
"The justices of the current Supreme Court have had less real-world experience with diplomacy than many of their predecessors," Damrosch notes. Chief Justices John Jay, John Marshall, William Howard Taft, and Charles Evans Hughes, for instance, all had substantial international experience before joining the Court.
Cleveland makes a similar point.
"Nineteenth century judges were much more comfortable dealing with international and comparative materials than modern U.S. judges are," she says. "Many early judges spoke foreign languages, and they were familiar with using foreign legal materials. For example, the debates among the judges in the Dred Scott case regarding whether time spent by a slave in free territory should render a slave free included extensive consideration of the approach of French, English, and other foreign courts to this issue, as well as an analysis of the issue under international law."
Many defenders of the practice of consulting foreign law also stress that it is not binding on American judges.
"Foreign opinions are not authoritative," Ginsburg said in a speech to the Constitutional Court of South Africa in 2006. "They set no binding precedent for the U.S. judge. But they can add to the store of knowledge relevant to the solution of trying questions."
Morrison says there is a counterargument to this line of reasoning. "You're either saying it does no work at all," he says of citing foreign authorities, "or you're saying it's relevant." And if the cited materials do some work, he suggests, "There will be cases in which they will represent the dispositive factor." That should be acknowledged, Morrison says, though he does not categorically oppose foreign authorities being dispositive in appropriate cases.
In 2005, Scalia had a public conversation with Breyer about these questions and seemed to acknowledge that judges may learn something from reading the work of their counterparts abroad.
"I mean, just indulge your curiosity," Scalia told his colleagues. "Just don't put it in your opinions."
That comment captures an aspect of the current debate, according to Damrosch. "A number of members of the current judiciary have been chilled a little bit," she says. On the other hand, she adds, "It may not be so important what footnote they put in as it is a thought process."
At his confirmation hearing in 2005, a few months after the House subcommittee on the Constitution met, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. indicated that he was opposed to the citation of foreign law in constitutional cases.
"If we're relying on a decision from a German judge about what our Constitution means, no president accountable to the people appointed that judge and no Senate accountable to the people confirmed that judge," Roberts said. "And yet he's playing a role in shaping the law that binds the people in this country.
"[With f]oreign law," the chief justice added, "you can find anything you want. If you don't find it in the decisions of France or Italy, it's in the decisions of Somalia or Japan or Indonesia or wherever. As somebody said in another context, looking at foreign law for support is like looking out over a crowd and picking out your friends. You can find them. They're there."
Those "methodological concerns" are significant ones, according to Professor Waxman."There's an issue of survey bias," he says, "and concern that a lack of sufficient expertise about the national legal context from which one thread might be pulled could undermine the utility of drawing on a foreign source."
But several professors said they were disheartened by the way in which an important debate over subtle and varied distinctions has been turned into a political issue.
"You've never seen this kind of hostility to international and foreign authority [in the past]," Professor Cleveland notes.
Professor Damrosch points out that she has detected posturing in the debate.
"Those who are on the warpath against what seems to be a benign and non-threatening practice," she says, "have to appeal to certain constituencies to appear more American than anyone else."
But others, as Henry Paul Monaghan, the Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law, points out, are deeply troubled by what they see as threats to democracy and national sovereignty. Monaghan, in a 2007 article in the Columbia Law Review, cited one distinguished holder of that view, Professor Jed Rubenfeld at Yale Law School.
"The institutions and ideologies surrounding international law, at least in its present form, do in fact pose a significant threat to democracy—not by accident, but structurally and by design," Rubenfeld wrote.
Monaghan himself says the issues surrounding the citation of foreign law can
only be understood "as part of a much larger patchwork of issues," including the role of international institutions. There is a larger question, he says: "How do we fit into the emerging supranational legal order?" The answer, Monaghan says, is that more engagement with the world is inevitable. "The world," he says, "is going to get smaller."


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Travelling solo can be fun in Cape Town
There are many reasons why people chose solo travelling, and Cape Town is filled with tourists who come on their own. Be it a soul-searching journey, to be master of their itinerary, or to meet new people, the Mother City embraces solo travellers.
Solo travelling can be daunting for first-timers but it need not be if you stick to some basic safety rules, like not hiking, swimming or taking night walks alone, keeping your valuables locked up, not carrying a large amount of cash, and telling your hosts where you are going to be and what time to expect you back.
A good tip is to make a photocopy of your passport and any other important documentation you may need to carry with you, and leave your originals at your accommodation. Many places have lock-up safes for your convenience, where you can store valuable documents.
Cape Town is a relatively safe city, with visible security patrols and a network of CCTV cameras, but it is still advisable to keep your camera in your bag when you are not using it. If you are walking through the city centre on your own, a good companion is the walking tour of Cape Town app. Using the app, there is no way you will get lost – and you will get to know a whole lot more about the city.
It is easy to get around Cape Town: you could hire a car, hop on a bus, or catch a train during the day. As a solo traveller, the city is your oyster. Hiring a taxi for a few hours is a good way to familiarise yourself with the city, and taxi drivers are generally knowledegable when it comes to good places to explore, places to relax and where the best restaurants are.
Sitting at a sidewalk café on Greenmarket Square and enjoying a drink is the perfect place to watch the world go by and meet new people.
You may want to visit a township, and it is advisable to do so with a guide. Coffeebeans Routes, for example, offers a number of tours which promise to give you deeper insight into Cape Town.
Birding, a calming and restorative activity, is increasing in popularity and there are myriad bird species to be encountered in and around Cape Town.
While it is not advisable to hike up Table Mountain on your own, you can still experience the joys of being on the summit by taking the cable car.
The City's beaches are generally safe and many, like Blouberg beach, offer great activities such as kite- and windsurfing.
No matter what you choose to do on your solo holiday, Cape Town has it all!


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I am currently in a position where I will be in my office for a relatively long time and I am thinking of ways that I can alter my office to maximize my productivity for the different aspects of my job (university professor).
Are there any good books or online resources that discuss the factors to consider in designing the layout of an office under different conditions?
I realize that interior design is an entire profession but I am looking for something more specific/academic than the general guides I have been able to find (e.g., make sure you have good lighting, etc...)
EDIT Based on the answers and comments I am getting it seems that my question has been misunderstood. I am looking for references to help me understand how the design of a space affects the productivity of the people that work there. I want to go beyond simple issues of organization and flow and really begin to understand the connections between design and functionality. My job requires my office to be a lot of different things from a meeting space with collaborators to a sanctuary for thought and reflection. I would like to understand how altering the design of my space can affect my productivity in these different activities. I am asking for references because it seems like there has been work done in this area but a comprehensive answer would be outside the scale of a SE post.


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Authors: Franco Marinangeli, Alessandra Ciccozzi, Marco Leonardis, et al.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 27(5):409-416, 2004
The current article compares two strategies for pain management in patients with terminal cancer. Given that cancer pain has such a profound effect on the QOL in these patients, optimizing pain control should be a priority in their treatment. This study shows that treatment with first-line "strong" opioid results in decreased pain intensity and may have been better tolerated, as evidenced by the lower frequency of therapeutic changes seen in the first-line strong opioid group. Although the WHO ladder for pain management has been shown to be effective, a stepwise approach to pain management may not be the optimal approach to management in this particular group of patients who often have limited life expectancies. In this study, careful titration of strong opioids resulted in improved pain control without significantly worsened toxicity. First-line strong opioids should be considered in all patients with disease-related pain in patients with terminal cancer.


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GlassFish V2 sample using Memcached and MySQL
By pramodg on Apr 21, 2008
There are many users out there who have been using Memcached and MySQL to cache content as part of their web application. Please refer to my published article consisting of a simple web application hosted to GlassFish V2 application server.
Thanks to Rick Palkovic for his help in getting this article published.


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Investigators in Jonesboro, Arkansas say they are awaiting the results of an autopsy and toxicology reports to help determine what happened in a police cruiser where a young black man whose hands were cuffed behind his back was shot in the head.
An incident report obtained by BlackAmericaWeb.com lists the cause of 21-year-old Chavis Chacobie Carter's death as suicide. Police who were on the scene Saturday night said Carter fired a gun and struck his right temple.
But the young man's mother and father have said their son was not suicidal.
Jonesboro Police Chief Michael Yates said they still are trying to figure out how it happened.
"It is bizarre," Yates told BlackAmericaWeb.com. "After we get the reports, we'll be able to recreate the setting to determine how it happened or eliminate some theories."
Meanwhile, the two officers involved in Carter's arrest, both white, have been placed on administrative leave while the case is investigated, Yates said.
Initially police were called to a residential neighborhood around 11:15 p.m. on a report of a suspicious vehicle, according to the police report. Carter and two teens were in a Chevrolet pickup on West Washington Avenue.
Officers checked out the identification on all three, and initially Carter's information and vehicle registration didn't check out, Yates said.
Officers patted him down twice at one police car. Soon marijuana was discovered in the truck and police learned that Carter was wanted on warrants out of Mississippi, Yates said.
"He was handcuffed and placed in another police car. Some time passed before officers say they heard a thud," the chief said, and that is when they discovered a wounded and bloody Carter in the back seat.
Carter was taken to a local hospital where medical staff worked on him a while before he was pronounced dead, Yates said.
The incident was recorded on a dash camera and that, along with statements from witnesses, will be used to try to piece together the sequence of events.
Carter's family and friends say they don't believe the account given by police.
"I don't believe this was an accident. I know my son. He's not suicidal. He wouldn't have taken his own life," his father, Charles Douglas, told ABC24. "Under the circumstances they say this happened, it's impossible."
The story of Carter's death has spread this week on social media, including Twitter and Facebook.
A page launched Wednesday on Facebook labeled Justice for Chavis (ASAP) Carter, had almost 900 likes within about 24 hours.
And on Twitter the tweets have been almost constant, with most sharing the sentiments of someone Chris Johnson who tweeted around 8 p.m. CST: "The official version of this story is one of the most ridiculous things I have heard in a long time."
The Arkansas NAACP has received several calls from people who are concerned about the case. State President Dale Charles told BlackAmericaWeb.com the organization will release an official statement on Friday.
The chief said he hopes to have the case sorted out soon, but is limited to the information he can publicly release.
"Given the ongoing nature of the investigation we are unable to release further information at this time but hope to release more details soon," Yates said. "We have been conferring with the crime lab, medical examiner's office, coroner and FBI agents regarding the case."


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Quarriors is a like a deck-building game, but with dice: you draw 6 dice from your dice bag and roll them each round, and buy additional dice or take other actions depending on the results of your dice.
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Are spells mostly a dubious strategy in Quarriors?
Granted we only have the basic set, it seems every time we play the games don't last long enough for spells to be useful. I can see how it would be a good idea to ramp resources, provide yourself with ...
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How much strategic depth is there in Quarriors?
I've played Quarriors a few times and I love Dominion. The one game of Quarriors that I won, I just happened to roll my monsters attack side up many times in a row, I didn't make any coherent plans ...
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In Quarriors, can the Portal Dice be used multiple times?
Say I've culled most of my dice. I have 3 portals, 3 basic quiddity dice and 1 assistant. I draw all but 2 portals from my bag, and the one portal die I do draw I roll a "2 portal". I draw two portals ...
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Does the Quarriors "Shaping Charm" allow me to rotate creatures to same level but with a burst (*)?
The Shaping Charm rules state: Cast this Spell to rotate all Creatures in your Ready Area up 1 Level, if possible. Although the "level" of the creature is the number in the upper left hand ...


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5 Insane Barack Obama Comic Books You Won't Believe are Real
Comics featuring presidents are nothing new - even Nixon showed up in the Fantastic Four, and everyone hated the guy. But the comics industry's obsession with Barack Obama is a little more intense than usual, resulting in some bizarre, baffling and sometimes even disturbing stories. No one ever did a comic where George W. Bush battles zombies, or one where ... well, read on to find out.
#5. Barack the Barbarian: Obama the Epic Bodybuilding Warrior
Barack the Barbarian is exactly what it sounds like: a comic about a muscular, half-naked Obama fighting people with swords.
Back in 2008, The Telegraph published an article titled "Barack Obama: The 50 Things You Might Not Know" that mentioned Obama's childhood love of Conan the Barbarian comics. A few months later, someone published an actual comic inspired by that idea:
Slightly more inspiring than the Hope posters.
It was written by Larry Hama, the same guy who wrote the G.I. Joe comic in the 80s, who says he has no interest in doing a wacky parody and tries to think of this as a real "sword and sorcery" series. A serious sword and sorcery series featuring the president fighting evil wizards who just happens to look like this:
One is clearly George Bush, and the other is clearly Emperor Palpatine.
And they're not the only familiar faces here. The comic is packed with "subtle" cameos in the same vein, like Barack's enemy Red Sarah ...
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His valued ally Hilaria (wife of the cowardly Biil) ...
And a wisecracking sphinx shaped like David Letterman.
The stories are loosely based on the highlights of Obama's political career, meaning this is either the most bizarre piece of propaganda published or the most boring adventure comic ever, depending on who you ask.
Any 10-year-old who got this comic as a birthday present must be really pissed at his parents, we know that for sure.
It's really a disappointment for everyone. If you're a kid who likes action and adventure, you're in for a bunch of boring talk about health care reform and Red State vs. Blue State rhetoric. If you're one of those kids whose interests include presidential trivia, you'll be depressed to find out that this comic has absolutely nothing to do with being the president.
Also, your interests are stupid.
The plots are thin, the characters are two-dimensional and predictable, and the not-so-hidden message is that the author of this comic really likes Barack Obama. Basically, this comic is perfect for the "People Who Want to See the President Swing a Sword While Wearing a Loincloth" demographic and absolutely no one else.
But boy oh boy will that demographic be satisfied.
#4. AirGear: Japanese Girl Obama Goes to the Change
AirGear is a manga series about a group of young people who use mechanical flying shoes to compete with one another and fight. Like most Japanese comics, it makes no sense. In 2008, shortly after Obama's election, it introduced a character called "John Omaha," who happens to be president of the U.S. and happens to look like this:
"It's right over there!"
It's not just a cameo; this guy actually appears in several episodes. It turns out the U.S. government has an interest in the Air-Trek technology, as adolescent air-foot-sky-boxing is a valuable emerging market with a lot of international potential. Omaha is attempting to explain this to the characters when some guys show up out of nowhere and attack him.
It's Japanese, so you're supposed to read it from right to left, and as a lunatic.
The president is saved by a young Air-Trekker called Adachi, and as you can probably guess, this causes them to switch bodies. No explanation: It just happens. The president is now trapped inside the body of a busty Asian teenager, which hasn't happened since that time [insert your own obligatory Clinton joke here].
Fox News' top story that day was "OBAMA GROPES YOUNG GIRL."
But Omaha comes to terms with his (um ... "her") new condition disturbingly fast, declaring:
Well, OK then!
Later, U.S. soldiers come to retrieve the president, but she knocks them out with sleeping gas, using the flying shoes to escape into the city (with the help of the other kids). As she explains to them, Omaha never got to know Japan when she was a he and really wants to experience the country. Which goes about as well as you can imagine.
"Man, I was right -- this country really IS all stair-ghosts and nose-boners."
And that's not the only thing Omaha takes the time to get acquainted with: Another scene shows her coming out of the bathroom, looking strangely relaxed.
But it's not all fun, games and veiled implications of inter-body masturbation. The president opens up with the other kids, sharing his/her lifelong dream to become the next Maradona and his tragic past in Africa, where he had to witness his entire village being wiped out by a nuclear explosion.
Really didn't need to turn into a teenage girl to tell that story.
They also talk about the implications of the Air-Trek technology in human society and a vast conspiracy to take over the world. We'll spare you that part, mainly because we didn't understand any of it. Eventually the time comes for the president to give up his new body, which happens with as much explanation as the original switcheroo (or anything else in this comic).
That would be a reasonable assumption, yes.
This story would have been ridiculous enough if it had been told in a humor comic, but the fact that this is a series with real characters, real villains and a complex Robotech-like mythology makes it even more baffling. Then again, so are most things to come out of Japan.
Well, it could have been worse. It could have been an erotic manga.
#3. Tonari no Taro-kun: Obama Costars in Erotic Manga
Further proof that Rule 34 makes no exceptions. If the vaguely sexual tone of the last entry offended you, you might want to stop reading right now. There's nothing vague about this one.
My Neighbor Taro is an erotic manga starring former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso. Because that premise wasn't bizarre enough by itself, the authors decided to have Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain stop by the prime minister's house for some bizarre depravity:
OK, yes, we'd have sex with manga porn Hillary Clinton. God, you shouldn't make us say that.
This one actually uses their real names, despite being a trillion times more inflammatory than the "JoHn Omaha" manga. The plot starts innocently enough: Obama and Prime Minister Taro are making chitchat when the latter mentions how "formidable" he finds Mrs. Clinton. A little incredulous, Obama says he prefers "young and obedient women," like the prime minister's petite housemaid. This gives Taro a wicked idea.
"I want you to have sex with my maid," he expressed through a series of identical dots.
The story goes on to show Obama graphically getting it on with the maid ...
Sure are a lot of "oohs" and "ahs" for what looks like a miserable time.
... and Taro "seducing" Hillary in a way that only Japanese subway gropers could find arousing.
We said we wanted to have sex with her already, leave us alone.
The former first lady is hesitant to join the orgy, even though President Obama himself tries to persuade her using his famous oratory skills (for once, that's not a double entendre).
Remember, right-to-left reading order. We don't want you to miss any part of this fascinating plot.
Eventually she succumbs to Taro's charms, yelling, "It's been so long!" at the moment of climax. And that's when she hears the eight words every man involved in a threesome fears the most:
At one point in the middle of all this, Taro looks over at Obama and says, "With this, we're brothers in sex." A touching moment of true friendship and emotion that unfortunately we can't show you, because 90 percent of the image is filled with exploding genitals.
As they part ways, Taro says to Obama that they should do this again sometime soon, to which Obama replies:
That probably sounded hilarious in Japanese.
By the way, that's the first time McCain has appeared since the beginning of the comic ... which means that he spent the rest of the evening just standing there. Watching.


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Does Google Picasa store metadata in the picture files themselves? If so, what metadata is actually stored inside the files? (as opposed to Picasa's internal database)
Picasa writes tags and captions in the IPTC block (that is in the image file) if the file format supports it. http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=15055
Since version 3 or so there is also a function to display an iptc tag as album.
(I used that myself and verified that it is actually using iptc via irfanview)
I just tried this with Picasa 3.5.1, and the results were disturbing. In Picasa I changed the caption of a JPEG image from a Pentax K20D camera, then took a look at the file with a metadata utility to see what had been changed. Here is what I found:
So beware if you use Picasa to edit metadata.
The answers here that say that Picasa only stores metadata in its internal database and never in the image files are wrong.
Picasa stores some metadata in both its own internal database, and in the image files themselves. As others have pointed out, its handling of image metadata leaves much to be desired.
For example, Picasa 3.5 only supports IPTC metadata to the legacy IPTC-IIM standard. That standard was frozen in 1997. Picasa 3.5 does not yet support the preferred IPTC Core metadata standard, based on XMP. The IPTC Core standard was introduced in 2004. Five years on, and Picasa still hasn't caught up to the fact.
Picasa stores its Caption and tags in the IPTC metadata of the jpg, and the GPS location information in the EXIF metadata.
Try using Irfanview to look at the properties of any jpg that you have tagged and located.
No, Picasa stores all metadata information in a database. From the Google Picasa Help pages here:
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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz chaired the Cabinet session at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah today. At the outset, he was briefed on the services provided by government agencies for Umrah performers and visitors of the holy places, particularly during the last ten days of Ramadan, when visitor volume increases. The King directed officials to make every effort to enable visitors of the Kaaba and the Two Holy Mosques to perform Umrah comfortably.
The Cabinet listened to a report by Second Deputy Prime Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz on the outcome of the 17th meeting of Provincial Governors, which was held in Makkah yesterday. Then the Minister of Finance delivered a briefing on the 2010 Article IV Consultations between the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund and Saudi Arabia. The Fund praised Saudi fiscal and monetary policies, which have eased the effects of the global financial crisis on the Kingdom's economy. The Fund positively evaluated the durability and safety of the Saudi banking system, as well as the role of governmental specialized lending institutions in providing credit for small and medium enterprises. The Fund praised the government's strategy for enhancing the efficient use of resources and investment in renewable energy, as well as the Saudi Riyal exchange rate policy and the progress made by the Kingdom in the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing.
The Cabinet reviewed a number of reports on regional and international developments, including the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, Iraq and Somalia. The Cabinet reiterated Saudi Arabia's condemnation of Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people, including the ongoing arrests and violations of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the continued Judaization of Al-Quds [Jerusalem]. The Cabinet stressed that the continuation of such practices will affect direct negotiations and undermine efforts to bring about peace and stability in the region. The Cabinet also condemned the spate of bombings and terrorist attacks in Iraq, which have killed and wounded hundreds of people. The Cabinet called on everyone to renounce violence and to unite to face terrorist acts that aim at undermining security and stability in Iraq. The Cabinet also condemned the terrorist attack in Somalia that killed 15 Somali parliamentarians.
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Is there any risk of wort infection by not sanitizing hops before dry hopping?
There is an infection risk any time you open up your fermenter and especially when you throw stuff into it. If you dry hop at the right time you reduce that risk.
For these reasons, it is important to dry hop late in the fermentation. You need to allow alcohol and carbon dioxide to build up in solution to fight off invaders. Listen to the Dec 8, 2008 episode of Brew Strong for techniques and technicalities.
The same rules apply to many other fermentation additions. Other herbs and chips can be thrown right in. The more surface area the addition has - the more nooks & crannies - the larger risk of infection because there are more places for baddies to hide. I recommend soaking wood chips in alcohol of some sort, for example.
I've put hops for dry-hopping into a sterilized mesh bag (note* the bag was boiled in a pot of water and cooled with lid on to RT before adding the hops). I then squirt the outside of the bag with a squirt-bottle filled with grain alcohol. This kept things sterile and allowed for hop infusion without messy hop bits ending up in the final beer.


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5 Minor Screw-Ups That Created The Modern World
Today we continue our crusade to convince the world that most of the truly important events in history happened due to some kind of ridiculous accident.
It should be no surprise that some of the best examples of this have occurred during wartime. War, after all, combines mankind's most lofty ambitions with its deepest stupidity. That means that some of the most crucial moments in warfare have played out like ridiculous slapstick.
#5. The Colonies Were Saved by a Poker Game
Thomas Paine described December 1776 in his poorly-Xeroxed The American Crisis as "times that try men's souls" for a reason: It was the single suckiest month in the single shittiest year in American memory.
"It is a dark time for the Rebellion ..." - Thomas Paine
By Christmas Eve 1776, the city of New York had fallen, the Continental Congress had fled Philadelphia and General George Washington's ragtag Continental Army had just barely survived the single most hellish commute in New Jersey history. The rebellion was off to such a disastrous start that, hell, even the Canadians were schooling the U.S. in warfare.
Fortunately, we all know that Washington was able to stave off defeat by heroically crossing the Delaware to win key victories at Trenton and Princeton. The Colonies would live to see the new year.
"Wool stockings and typhus for everyone!"
Of course, for every heroic Hail Mary play, there's a defense that has screwed the pooch. What was regarded as a miracle for the Colonies was a disaster for the British.
What ruined it: A poker game.
While Washington's heroic crossing of the Delaware may be firmly implanted into the American psyche, the truth is actually a whole lot stupider than what we were taught in history class. It turns out a loyalist spy named Moses Doan observed Washington along the Delaware on Christmas Eve, along with what he described as "a boatload of soldiers." He immediately notified Col. Johann Rall of the Hessians about the impending attack but was turned away because the colonel was engaged in a heated game of chess -- or, depending on who you ask, a poker game.
Since the colonel had no wish to be disturbed, Doan left him with a note that read: "Washington is coming on you down the river, he will be here afore long." Rall, still deeply engrossed in his game, stuffed the note into his pocket without giving it a thought.
"I had a pair of threes. You never back down on a pair of threes."
Sure enough, Johann Rall was found dead the next morning, his little "Washington is coming on you down the river" note still unopened in his pocket.
... And that's why America exists.
Had things been different:
If the British had been ready for Washington's surprise attack, everything changes. Washington could have been killed or captured as he made his way across the Delaware, along with Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, James Monroe and a handful of other Founding Fathers who were freezing their balls off as well that worst Christmas ever.
"I swear to God, if there isn't a Kinect under the tree I am going to scream."
Also, to make matters worse, the timing of Washington's victories at Trenton and Princeton was just the buzzer beater the nation needed to keep the Revolution together. Had Washington failed at either battle, which is an occasional subject for scholars, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware "would have surrendered almost immediately." America would have just settled for forever being one more British colony.
#4. An Unlocked Door Dooms Constantinople
For a brief period in the Middle Ages, perhaps best described as "all of it," the city of Constantinople was one of the biggest deals on the planet, back when it was the citadel to the Eastern Roman Empire. The city survived barbarians and Attila the Hun, withstood siege after siege from Arabs, Bulgarians and Russians, and outlasted its Western Roman counterparts for a solid 1,000 years. When the city fell in 1204, they took it right back and held it for two centuries more.
And then ...
What ruined it: Some jackass who forgot to lock the door.
Shit got real for Constantinople -- and the entire Christian world -- in the form of Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire. Equipped with the best soldiers and technologies 1453 had to offer, Mehmed II rolled into town that April with as many as 200,000 troops, over 100 ships and some huge, huge cannons to crack through the city's legendary walls.
The Medieval Death Star.
For the next two months, shit went down like Disc 2 of the Kingdom of Heaven director's cut, but withstanding sieges was what Constantinople was best at, despite being hopelessly outnumbered. That's how you survive for 10 centuries.
But fortune smiled on Mehmed II on May 29, 1453, in the form of human stupidity: Some jackass had forgotten to lock Constantinople's Kerkoporta gate during the siege. No treason, no bribery; it was 100 percent accidental, "Pobody's Nerfect" territory.
As the Ottomans raised their flags over the Kerkoporta gate, the city fell into panic, and its defenses collapsed. The city was pillaged, its inhabitants massacred and enslaved, and Emperor Constantine XI killed. Thus passed the Byzantine Empire, the period known as the Middle Ages, and, at long last, the Roman Empire ... thanks to this unknown medieval fucktard.
Had things been different:
Although the Byzantines had clearly been taking a nosedive for some time, there's no reason to suggest that Constantinople could not have withstood Mehmed II. Sieges in general are expensive as hell and absolutely terrible for armies, and Mehmed's own Grand Vizier Candarli Halil Pasha protested the invasion from the beginning out of fear of crusades and/or Dracula.
Had the Kerkoporta gate actually been locked or at least gone unnoticed long enough for Mehmed to call it quits, there's a good chance this would have meant no Ottoman conquest of the Balkans, no "Istanbul," no Hagia Sophia mosque...
... and about 400 years of completely rewritten Russian history. After all, it was Russia's Ivan III who married Constantine XI's niece right before Constantinople fell. This lucky break is why Moscow to this day considers itself the Third Rome, right down to the seven hills. Why the hell else do you think they called themselves czars? For their health?
Hell no ...
#3. Hannibal's Army is Devastated by a Cane
One cannot underscore how enormous Hannibal's crossing of the Alps during the Second Punic War was for the ancient world. As far as Rome was concerned, crossing the Alps was damn near impossible. Today it would be like China launching an attack on Los Angeles by tunneling through the goddamned Earth. That is how outside the box Hannibal of Carthage liked to think.
Once Hannibal finally made it across the mountains, his campaign through Italy would become remembered as one of the most perfectly executed military operations in history. His victory at Cannae remains the archetype for military pwn3ge to this day, and his tactics were so revolutionary that the Romans had no choice but to study him all they could. It is for this reason that Hannibal has been called "the father of strategy."
Just seeing him was a war crime.
It's probably a testament to the man's genius that he tattooed his wang across the face of history in what was ultimately a losing effort. He gave the Roman Empire the fight of its life for sixteen insane years, but at the end of the day, Rome was standing, and they'd picked up a bunch of pretty sweet tricks.
What ruined it: A cane.
As we mentioned, Hannibal chose to sneak his army into Italy using the single most treacherous route on the planet, and crossing the Alps with fucking elephants ended up killing more of his men than the Romans ever did. Part of this was due to the Alps being coated with snow on snow, and rest of it because of a certain pass Hannibal took his men and beasts through called Certain Death.
There is an episode in the Roman epic poem Punica which details this odyssey where Hannibal tried to demonstrate to his men that a certain cliff was safe to pass along. He chose to do this by ramming his cane into the snow. This in turn triggered an avalanche, which wiped out one- to two-thirds of his invasion force, killing 18,000 of his 38,000 men, 2,000 of his 8,000 horses and a shitton of his precious pachyderms.
For a brief moment in Italy, it was literally raining elephants.
According to the story, he lost nearly one-half of his infantry and one-fourth of his cavalry before he was even ready to start getting his hands dirty. Since Hannibal happened to be one of the greatest generals who ever lived, he was able to work with a -67 percent handicap to give Rome hell for 16 years, but that brings us to one of history's great "What If's."
War was a lot more fun back before pants became standard issue.
Had things been different:
There is no doubt in the world that Hannibal would have conquered Rome, since the only thing holding him back was losing a big chunk of his army while coming over. Carthage would have completely supplanted Rome in history, and just about everything in the Western World, from its laws to its art and architecture to its genetic makeup, would probably look a lot more, um ... Tunisian?


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Olivier Theyskens: 10 Things Every Woman Should Have
Belgian designer Olivier Theyskens thinks women should keep things cool and simple with the perfect little black dress, eye-opening liner, and more.
His story is one for the fashion archives: Scruffy art-school dropout whips up a provocative first collection, catches Madonna's eye, cuts his teeth at two venerable French houses—Rochas and Nina Ricci—and lands in New York City, where his task is to bring European polish to some very American day clothes. As artistic director of Theory, Olivier Theyskens, 35, has introduced clothes that are, he says, "louche and elegant," such as the jackets with tuxedo-like lapels and the slouched-up trousers of his Theyskens' Theory line. The Belgian designer advises women not to get bogged down in decisions about color and ornamentation. "It's best to find a silhouette that looks good from afar," he says. "When you're up close, we'll see the details."
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Tonight while looking over the D/X stuff I noticed that D/X has a couple versions of the 880 clone. If you want the one with the best features ( U2 emitters, high output, 4-modes ( including press to hold strobe ),..) This "Nitefire" version is the one you want if you are buying from D/X. D/X has at least three other versions with different brand names. While less expensive most of those are only listing 580 lumen. I don't think you want one of those.
I also noticed that D/X is trying to be a little more honest about the output and battery listing...( sometimes ). The Nitefire version is listing the output around 1200 Lumen which is probably accurate. They also list the battery at 3000mAh, also probably accurate. This is a nice trend.
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The Cole-Bar can be opened and locked to different angles; here it is being used as an angled prybar.
With the handle opned to 180 degrees the tool becomes a straight prybar. The fellow performing the demonstration is holding onto the head.
The tool can be broken into two pieces by separating the claw side from the head side.
The butt end of the head side is equipped with a 1/2-inch ratcheting socket drive.
When split in two the tool can be used as a hammer and prybar (or catspaw).
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A later page from the patent application highlights the release mechanism (18) that allows the halves of the tool to be separated.
When fully extended the hammer becomes a crowbar.
Here's a good look at the ratchet end of the handle.
The Cole-Bar is an unusual tool with an equally unusual backstory.
I first saw this hammer last spring at the National Hardware Show (NHS) and was recently reminded of it by a post on the company's Facebook page—which said the tool will soon go into production.
The idea for the tool—which combines the functionality of a full-size hammer, pry bar, square, bevel gauge, ruler, and 1/2-inch ratchet—came from an 11 year old Indiana boy named Cole Hyde while he was helping his father, Lance Hyde, take down a pole-barn. Tired of handing tool after tool to his father, Cole laid a crow bar over a hammer and said "wouldn't it be nice if you had a hammer and crow bar together like that". Less than a year later Cole died in an accident and for the next 14 years Lance worked on and off to develop the tool—naming it the Cole-Bar in honor of his deceased son.
The tool's ongoing path to becoming a product is unusual too. With a prototype in hand Lance recruited his son Brandon (who I talked to at NHS) and daughter, Heather, to turn it into a product. They patented the Cole-Bar, entered it in a TV tool competition where it made the finals, and then used a Kickstarter campaign (crowdfunding) to fund production. They exceeded their goal; getting 1857 people to pledge (donate in return for the promise of receiving a tool) a total of $135,250. As with any crowdfunded project, if the product fails to be launched there is no guarantee anyone gets anything.
If this particular project succeeds, and the Cole-Bar goes into production, it's hard to see it becoming more than a niche product. The prototype I saw was cleverly designed and well-made, and yet I have a hard time figuring out who would benefit by having such a hammer. Yes, the Cole-Bar is a cool invention and the story of how it came to be inspiring, but I can't see a carpenter wanting to carry one of these things in his belt. When I think about who might benefit from having such a tool the best I can come up with is a contractor who wants a compact spare for multiple tools or someone in a survival situation who needs to travel light while carrying a hammer and crowbar.
Even if not many people buy this tool it's still worth a look because it's so very clever. I've included some patent photos at the end because they're kind of cool too.
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Raymond W. Kelly, Police Commissioner of the City of New York, will deliver the 2006 Paul S. Miller Distinguished Lecture at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, November 15, at Rutgers School of Law–Newark.
In keeping with the Miller Lecture theme since September 11, Commissioner Kelly will focus on the challenge of balancing security and civil liberties. In previous years, such other prominent figures as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff (at the time Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit) and former New Jersey Attorney General John J. Farmer, Jr. have considered this topic in their Miller Lecture.
Commissioner Kelly has had extensive experience in policing and security matters, including as senior managing director, global corporate security, at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.; Commissioner of the U.S. Customs Service; under secretary for enforcement at the U.S. Treasury Department; vice president for the Americas of Interpol; and director of the international police monitors in Haiti. He has spent 31 years in the New York City Police Department, including serving as Police Commissioner from 1992-1994. He is the first person to hold the post for a second, separate tenure.
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On November 10, 1998, police investigated the disappearance of 30-year-old Carol Marie Neal from her home on Shawnee Drive. Evidence in her home led police to believe Ms. Neal had been murdered.
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Woodbury group favors Israel, Hamas peace
|Robert Zwang, right, stands in Israel in 2009 alongside, from left, Daniel Atar, the Jewish mayor of the Gilboa region; and Qadoura Mousa Qadoura, the Palestinian governor of adjacent Jenin. The trio visited Greater Waterbury later that year to discuss their collaborative efforts. Mousa died of a heart attack in May after gunmen attacked his home. Contributed
Before a cease-fire was brokered last week, the fighting underscored the absolute necessity, Zwang and supporters said, to promote coexistence.
Zwang heads the Woodbury-based nonprofit Israeli-Palestinian Cooperative for Economic Expansion, a group he launched to expand on work he began at the Southbury-based Federation, Jewish Communities of Western Connecticut.
The IPCEE aims to foster "pragmatic collaboration" among Israelis and Palestinians through everything from health care partnerships to cultural initiatives intended to thwart prejudice and discrimination.
But do outbreaks in violence impact that work?
"Not at all," said Zwang, acknowledging such eruptions are apt to occur sporadically. "Things aren't going to change if people don't have a vision. ... Ultimately the key to this conflict is to move away from armament to negotiations. There are always going to be these incidents, so when is a good time?"
A Seeds of Peace camp that brought Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian campers to Northwest Connecticut a decade ago indelibly altered Zwang's perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"Until that point, the Arab community was demonized ... depersonalized. It makes (it) easy to characterize whole groups when they are viewed as a collective. But I got to know these kids and over the years they've been in my life," said Zwang, noting his organization's philosophy follows tenets similar to the camp's. "My thesis is, if you build a critical mass over time on the contiguous borders, over time it would seep throughout the community."
Heightened tensions and violence prompt concern, said Dr. Peter Jacoby, an IPCEE board member, especially because such incidents can inflame other people and areas in the "tinderbox"-like region. But Jacoby, who works with the local Jewish Federation and United Way, made a distinction between Gaza, where the latest fighting occurred, and the West Bank, where IPCEE intends to do its initial work.
Jacoby, who directs the emergency department at Saint Mary's Hospital in Waterbury, hoped the IPCEE's work fostering cooperation throughout the West Bank might eventually "give strength to the Palestinian Authority as truly a body that can (interact) effectively with Israel, and bring a peace that is not based on violence and rockets."
The idea is that small steps — the opening of a dental clinic the Federation and Zwang oversaw a few years ago, or the IPCEE's planned initiatives — move toward lasting peace and coexistence.
"It's a way to get the two sides to talk," said Jacoby, who has traveled to the West Bank as part of ongoing efforts. "I know it's a small step, but someone's got to take a small step."
Zwang and Jacoby lamented the loss of a "champion" in the recent death of Qadoura Mousa Qadoura, the governor of the Palestinian district of Jenin.
Mousa had been part of an unlikely assortment of Jewish and Arab leaders collaborating across a checkpoint separating his West Bank region from the adjacent Israeli area of Alfula/Gilboa. He died of a heart attack in May, hours after gunmen fired on his home.
The man Zwang had come to know as "Abu" or "Abba" Mousa — "father" in Arabic and Hebrew, respectively — was a partner in Zwang's efforts to cultivate peace among Palestinians and Israelis. Mousa visited Greater Waterbury with his Israeli counterparts in 2009 in a trip organized by the Federation, during which they met with American and Jewish community leaders.
Their collective efforts sought to uplift those struggling in the West Bank and Israel — Jews and Arabs.
"I was stunned," Zwang said of the death. He recalled a similarly "frozen" feeling when he heard about Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination.
"I wondered if the whole thing died with him," Jacoby added. "I don't think it does."
Earlier this fall, Zwang hosted Israeli and Palestinian officials at his Litchfield County home to chart a collaboration that would augment health services in the the West Bank. It would ease the load on an Israeli hospital while affording Palestinians better care closer to home.
In his living room a few weeks ago, Zwang overheard heated debate among his visitors. When he asked what it was about, the group explained: the governor didn't have to die. The clinic the ailing official walked into had cardiac equipment, but no one trained to operate it.
Zwang has since brokered an agreement to train 120 doctors and nurses from the West Bank in advanced cardiac life support, if he can raise $18,000. A major teaching hospital in Israel will expedite the training, with buy-in from the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Another proposal aims to have an even greater impact on health care delivery throughout the West Bank.
The first push by the Woodbury-based Israeli-Palestinian Cooperative for Economic Expansion aims train up to 120 doctors and nurses from the West Bank in advanced cardiac life support.
The training would promote better, easier-to-access health care for Palestinians who live there, while reducing the burden and reliance on a nearby Israeli hospital. The training aims to save lives while fostering "collaborative, institutional, cross-border relationships between health care professionals" in the West Bank and Israel.
To help the cause, visit globalgiving.org/projects/israel-palestinian-healthcare-fosters-peace, where a campaign is under way to raise the initial $18,000 to cover the training.
Another project hopes to raise $75,000 in a partnership with the Dallas, Texas-based nonprofit MediSend International and International SOS, which provides medical assistance and international health care to corporations and non-governmental organizations.
This project would train biomedical technicians to serve the West Bank region who could repair and maintain everything from blood pressure cuffs to more technical medical equipment.
The organizations would conduct a needs assessment with a goal of also establishing a fully equipped biomedical technology lab in the West Bank.
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4 Feb 2013 7:06 AM #1
Sencha Ad Issues when scrolling on mobile / desktop page
We built an animated banner with Sencha Animator 1.3 but it has a scrolling issue on mobile pages and even on a plain webpage with absolute zero javascript.
Whenever you scroll on a mobile page or a desktop page, the Sencha animated HTML starts showing weird display issues. It is fine as long as you don't scroll on the mobile/website page though.
Any thoughts on why this is happening?
See attached screen shot
View banner on ipad or tablet, scroll down on page to see issues.
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4 Feb 2013 3:17 PM #2
I have seen some issues on ios when zooming/scrolling. The first thing I'd try is to put a keyframe at 0 seconds for any object that is animated if it doesn't have one already. Animator should automatically copy the first keyframe if you create a keyframe before the first existing one, so it shouldn't change any behavior.
Basically, this will remove the reliance on the animation-delay css property which might help keep the timing more consistent.
4 Feb 2013 3:59 PM #3
test links
Try these on a tablet and when loaded, scroll the page to see issues
5 Feb 2013 10:01 AM #4
Did you try adding a keyframe at 0 seconds for any objects that is animated?
5 Feb 2013 10:19 AM #5
Yes, it worked perfectly. Thank you.
Do you if or when Sencha will support microsoft surface tablet?
5 Feb 2013 10:27 AM #6
Unfortunately, I can't comment on future releases/features.
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10 Dec 2013 9:22 AM #8
Zooming ad issue - sencha animator 1.5
I am also having issues with an ad I created in Animator 1.5 when zooming in and out on a mobile web page on any ios device. One image seems to disappear when I zoom in or out and then reappears when I stop zooming.
I have a keyframe at 0 on all layers and even the end of the animation.
Just wondering if anyone could help?
10 Dec 2013 3:40 PM #9
Hi pamela,
Are you having issues with all mobile devices or one platform / device specifically?
11 Dec 2013 2:10 AM #10
So far I have only tested it on my iphone 4s and ipad.


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Does anyone outside of HP and Lenovo give a toss which company sold more personal computers in the fourth quarter of 2012?
Well, Computerworld reporter Sharon Gaudin seems excited about the tussle for top spot. She writes: "In its battle for the top spot in the rocky PC industry, Hewlett-Packard has edged out rival Lenovo to take back its leadership position."
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LUIS SUAREZ! look at his stats and then look at his last match played for Liverpool. He deserves to be atleast stats wise like Torres if not better.
People forget that PA should be the absolute limit of how good a player should be. PA should not change after a player has reached a certain age but it doesn't always mean that their CA will reach it.
As for the argument that players can't be world class because they dont do anything internationally, that is a joke. There are any number of great or even world class players who have never done anything internationally because of either the country they play for or the way they are played in that team. Messi didnt do much at the world cup, lets lower his stats. phhh
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The big thing about Rooney is he has only played one season as the main goal geter at Man U, and he did very very well, the rest of the time he has played as a support striker, so infact for the role he plays his goal ratio is very very good. Also again ratings are based on last season, last season Rooney was unstoppable until he got injured and he was their main goal threat, hence why he is good at it in the game, play as your lead man and like he did last season he will get a lot of goals, play him as a support striker, like he has for every other season at united and he will do that job very well.
Reading this thread, I'm thankful none of you are researchers.
tbh you can whinge all about 'form' and 'class' all you want
but based on the precedent that was the Elano rating on FM08? (just after he joined city) then this is a totally valid argument (he was in a purple patch and was given god-like ratings for patch x.1 and then subsequently decreased in patch x.3)
as for Rooney, he ALWAYS has been overrated on FM (although this just might be a strikers issue in general) in that Rooney always scores over 25 per league season (even when he first moved to Man Utd and scored <15 goals in the previous season)
this issue just might be for strikers in general, but i think it's emphasised by the fact that Rooney scores >20 per season, when he never gets anywhere near that IRL (bar last season), he has since regressed (FM speak) into about a 15-20 goal per season striker (and is worthy of a decrease) but then i've been of the belief that ALL english researchers overrated the players anyways (compare Darren Bent [who has scored 10 goals this season] to Edinson Cavani)
@kkas - Messi was arguably argentina's best player at the world cup (and even got nominated for the golden ball)... which measn that he had a good world cup, rather than 'flopped' on the international stage
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As for Messi i'm not sure why there is an opinion that he flopped at the world cup. He was playing a different role and position to what he plays for Barca and he was unlucky not to get a few goals but all in all i thought he pulled most of the strings for Argentina and seemed to transition from amazing goalscorer to a world class playmaker which proved even more what a class act he is.
wilshere needs some attributes changing, his pa is fine. ramsey can be lowered as his is a bit ott anyway imo
as an arsenal fan i watch 99% of our games so i think it's fair to say
djourou needs a higher pa and some stats improved
wilshere needs to be a natural cm not amc and have improved tackling, strength and atnticipation
arshavin should be slightly downgraded on this seasons performances (recent turnaround?) especially passing and work rate
nasri could have his pace improved a little and some stats tweaked...
theo needs to have better technical stats which are lower than agbonlahors (LOL)
ryo needs to be created and added on loan to feyanord
fabianski and sneezy need to be upgraded also
lookinbg forward to the patch but i don't know if stats are changed?
Ibrahimovic: Mostly mentals. He has become an amazing team player and leader this year. Very good work rate and all that now.
Cassano: Mostly passing. Literally amazing at assists now.
Robinho: Mostly mentals. Also works very hard and is more determined and works for the team. If they had a stat for shooting power it should be moved down to 0 though.
Merkel: he has been a revelation really. Really looks a top top player in the making.
I'd definitely downgrade people like Rooney and Torres further. Ideally they'd be some sort of stat for long term form. I'm sure what length of time consistency relates to or whether it is just done on a game per game basis. But people like Torres and Rooney should have a 0 for a stat that determines how well they can maintain form in the long term. Someone like David Villa would have 20 because he always plays good.
But going on the current system, Torres and Rooney are both just not all that great. High flair maybe, but you know, its just not acceptable at all to be as poor as Rooney was at the World Cup for example.
let's look shall we
33apps, 6 goals
34apps, 9 goals
Man Utd:
29apps, 11 goals
36apps, 16 goals
35apps, 14 goals
27apps, 12 goals
30apps, 12 goals
32apps, 26 goals
17apps, 5 goals (this season)
he has only scored more than 20 league goals on 1 occasion throughout his career, whereas on FM he seems to score 20-25 goals per season (this has been going since at least FM08)
I was going to say tevez scores far too much in game too (far more annoying than rooney!) till I saw his scoring record for city too, the guy has something like 50 goals in 80 games, awesome!
There wont be any major PA/CA Changes for 11.3 i doubt there never is its hard to boost or downgrade any player too much based on half a season fm12 will see bigger changes in this area
Surely these issues people have with players should be posted in the Data forums? This thread seems to have totally gone off track
tiote, barton, best's finishiing is low at 12 imo, ranger's PA because if he is trained properly he will become a monster, matt phillips
Kyle Walker at Villa, seen him play a few times at QPR earlier in the year and has stepped up to the Premier league well.
As you will be able to tell from this post I am a Celtic fan and the players I think should be changed in the team are:
Mark Wilson
Thomas Rogne
Emilio Izaguirre
Beram Kayal
Anthony Stokes
Gary Hooper
Kris Commons (new signing)
Ki Sung Yeung
Joe Ledley
Glenn Loovens
Scott Brown
Efrain Juarez
Nial McGinn
Daryl Murphy
And the youth players that should be upgraded are
Patrik Twardzik
Filip Twardzik
James Keatings
Bahrudin Atajic
Coming from a dane i would think Christian Eriksen (Ajax) and Frederik Sørensen (Juventus) are among players that can be good in Europe...Its hard to say if they can reach the world class level, both of them are still young. But they are talented no doubt about that imo.
Since 95% of the people in this forum are English, I hope the researchers (or w/e they're called) are not being affected by the amount of people who want big boosts for EPL teams.
Jamie Ness, has looked the part since been put in the Rangers first team
La Masia is the best breeding ground for talent anywhere in world football but Barca's youngsters are ridiculously under-rated. Romeu, Gerard and Rafa Alcantara are -8's! Seriously! They can only ever have the same potential as Ivan Klasnic! And of course Chelsea, Liverpool, Man U and Arsenal's young players have better potential than Barca's
I no longer care about anyone but Gomes, somebody for the love of god downgrade him...!
Just been knocked out of the champions league by tottenham 1-0 over two legs with that.......... Whatever you want to call him, getting 9+ in both games! Grrrrr! I think ability wise he's a little underrated irl but he is easily the best goalkeeper I play against in game! Posted about him recently in the 'bogey players' thread too, seems I tempted fate!
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For Liverpool I'd say that Martin Kelly is the one most due an upgrade a PA of around 160-165 would be fitting imo.
Martin Kelly should be given a small boost, he's been excellent under Kenny so far.
Alex Chamberlain and Adam Lallana should be the ones to look out for though, both been great this season.
Cleverley, Welbeck, Kolbeinn Sigthorsson and Gylfi Sigurðsson...
Charlie Austin
thought i would add this here if thats ok since i will be wanting to get him if its true
will henrick larsson be a player in the new patch because in his wikipedia page it says he is now PLAYER-manager for landskrona bois ?
Okazaki, Eriksen, Ilicic should be better.
Ilicic will be improved im sure.
Nobody expected him to have the season he is having.
Commons too will be upgraded - big move tends to mean that in FM terms and his form for Derby was immense.
Agree with an earlier poster that Barca's world class youth academy seems to have been ignored in the game. They never produce anything they haven't bought.
Rather than upgrading or downgrading people on a few months of form, how about just upgrading those players that have proven they can reach levels IRL that simply cannot be achieved in the game because there levels are so low?
Martin Kelly for example had a stormer at right back against Lyon last season, which had every LFC fan saying that he should be upgraded. But since he got injured in the same game and couldnt play anymore, there wasnt enough evidence to support an upgrade for FM11. This season however, he has played quite a few games and consistently shown attributes well in excess of what is in the database - he has made storming runs, excellent crosses, shown pace and skill, yet his current and potential stats in the game mean there is no chance of him doing that in the game. That's a flaw IMO, and he should be changed.
Rooney and Torres meanwhile, while their form has been off for ages, have at least shown they can be brilliant. You would still want them to be able to reach those levels in the game, at least in theory.
Maybe a little downgrade to consistency is all thats required, rather than a wholesale attribute slashing?
these things DO happen, like with Dzeko last year 10.3 (deserved imo) and you want them to be abolished
based on your logic, why does Roberto Carlos not still have the CA of 180+, he CAN still play very well, just doesn't due to his age... your point and theory is rubbish
Roberto Carlos will never perform to a CA 180 player any more. Rooney and Torres may. That is the difference.
Adding Raheem Sterling to the database, as he is 16 now.
Gareth Bale. Just everywhere really.
I'm also curious as to how Aaron Lennon isn't remotely one of the fastest players on the planet. I'd be delighted to hear of anyone comprehensively faster.
Generally though it would be nice not to see some clubs entire squads potentially brilliant just because they are a big club.
You took my point too far, I wasnt suggesting a blanket rule, just that where specific players have achieved high levels of performance over reasonably long period and it is still unclear that they will never yet recapture them, they shouldnt have their stats slashed completely. Torres, even in his last two injury plagued seasons, has still scored nearly one ever other game, so it would be stupid to completely obliterate him. If the poor form continues, then it will be up to the researchers to re-evaluate.
Elano was very over-rated based on form shown for a very short of time. And Roberto Carlos was a great player but is ageing, thats the only reason his stats are reduced, so your comparison is void.
gareth bale is very very very good tho, the thing is, its a german who researches the german league not a british guy, so he can hardly be accused of being biased.
my problem was that bale's ca/pa is higher than müllers, in my opinion thats a little awkward.initially i was responding to this post:
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Interesting reading the Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain comments.
I wonder how many of you have actually seen him play? Same applies to all the players in this thread.
As for his CA/PA for 11.3, you'll have to wait and see.
Upgrade- David Luiz , Franco Jara , Gaitan , Sidnei , Salvio , Maxi Pereira. Downgrade- Hulk, Falcao and all of Sporting Lisbon Team.
have you not seen bale single handedly destroy last years champs cup winners?? im not syaing muller is poor at all btw but Bale has been one of the top players this year, unplayable at times so i would say its hilarious at all.
yes bale is a great player as is müller, in hindsight i have to admit that it is indeed not hilarious at all.could be that their ca/pa difference is justified.
Wojciech Szczesny - he is a good young GK
I don't think bale should be lowered at all IMO, in fact I think his PA should be raised, but I also agree with the comments about muller, he was one of the first players I went looking for on 11 and was really disappointed, think schweinsteiger is a little underrated too if I'm honest, but this may be a carry over from years previoous when he did disappoint for a while.
On a separate note, I've watched a lot of PSV over the past few seasons and really think afellay is one to watch who is also a bit low on the game. It's difficult to judge players in the eredivisie though so understand not wanting to overhype him, though I think he looked really good in the WC when he came on for the Netherlands too. Suppose the Barcelona researcher can change him now if he ever gets a game there (disappointed he didn't go somewhere he'd play more regularly!).
Shinji Kagawa
Cheick Tiote
Cieran Clark, Junior Stanilas, Fred Sears, Barry Bannan, Marc Albrighton, Jose Baxter, Andy Carroll, Danny Welback, Nathan Hanley, Nile Ranger, the stand in polish keeper at Arsenal Wo-something (ok i know the spelling is wrong but u get the idea)
Surely you mean Christian Eriksen yeah?cristian erikson
If Jack Wilshere is 'losing talent to poor sportsmanship' then please let the Barcelona midfield know to do this same, because they got dominated by Jack last night. I have seen every single minute of Jacks playing time for Arsenal and I haven't seen him dive once.
Jog on.
this thread is all based on posters coming in and saying players from teams they support are under-rated or basing things on media hype. the one player i will comment on is martin kelly, yes i am a liverpool fan but anyone who denys this kid needs a boost knows jack about football.
I'd be interested in seeing Dale Jennings, I know he already has reasonable potential, but has been turning in some excellent displays for Tranmere, scoring some wonderful goals in the process.
From what I've seen, I'd like to see some improvements to:
Connor Wickham (CA wise, needs a little boost I think, not a huge one)
David Luiz
Jerome Thomas
Luke Varney
Moussa Dembele (Just his finishing really, I think it's a little better than 7)
Other than that, I think SI have got it pretty spot on
Good shout about Jennings there, I've been impressed with what I've seen, also perhaps James Forrest at Celtic, he's looked great when I've seen him, and if you compare his stats to someone like John Fleck, they both seem about equal IRL to me but Forrest's stats are much lower
Roberto Martinez and Fergie both rate Tom cleverley highly but I've yet to see him turn out good in game...
Looked good when I've seen him irl but not seen him enough really, any wigan fans got an opinion?
Andy King for leicester he has been amazing so far scoring all the time from midfield.
Prem players I have seen who perform above their fm counterparts:
Cheick Tiote - has played well in his beginnings at Newcastle and certainly looks to be worthy of a few points extra so he really locks down that DM role.
Seamus Coleman - Could possibly do with a few points extra and certainly M/L adding to his positions
Magno Vieira - (Fleetwood Town) is a bit of a beast who deserves a higher rating than Donnelly
Danny Simpson - knocking on the england door (because we have 0 rightbacks in this country) was hampered by injury at the start of the season and just plain sucks on FM
Definitely would like to see some stats move round, i f for no other reason than to make starting a new game a bit more interesting.


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21 Mar 2011 2:57 AM #1
[FIXED-EXTJSIV-201] ServerProxt exception event
Assume this is related to the TODO comment a few lines down, but there is currently nothing useful in the exception event raised from processResponse.
me.fireEvent('exception', this, response, operation); //TODO: extract error message from reader operation.setException();
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All the info you need is in the response. If success is false it means the HTTP request failed for whatever reason, you can get response.status & response.statusText.
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21 Mar 2011 11:35 PM #3
I was seeing an undefined response for some reason.
My serverside at the time was throwing a not implemented exception.
Anyway, thanks for the fix Evan
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Still getting an undefined response passed through to processResponse with beta 1.
Will look into it more in a bit; got another issue to resolve first...
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I'm using TeXworks as my editor in writing an article, where the bibliography style has to be
vancouver. It has previously worked just fine, and if I set the style to
plain I have no problems, but as soon as I set it to
vancouver I encounter this problem.
I can open the package manager just fine manually, and I have also updated MikTeX
Here's the console output:
This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (MiKTeX 2.9)
The top-level auxiliary file: filename.aux
miktex-bibtex.exe: Cannot start MiKTeX package manager.
miktex-bibtex.exe: Data: Invalid syntax
I couldn't open style file vancouver.bst
---line 16 of file filename.aux
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I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
I found no style file---while reading file filename.aux
(There were 2 error messages)
Thankful for any suggestions and sorry if this question is badly defined, I've only just stated using LaTeX, and all of this is completely new to me!