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Watch Nicki Minaj Swear Her Allegiance to A1 Steak Sauce at Boa
The diva sent an underling to fetch the commercial sauce in the middle of her meal.
The diva sent an underling to fetch the commercial sauce in the middle of her meal.
Our mortal minds can hardly comprehend this $17 million, 25,000-square-foot dining option.
"it looked like a bomb went off in here," one manager claims.
A local community development advocate cites the brand's bad record as an employer.
A boardwalk brawl sweeps up patrons and staff.
The restaurant will also get a new chef and menu, along with its new "Hollywood glamor" look.
Hey, it worked for The Artist, so why not?
The company plans to release its "June Gloom" Belgian witbier this May.
The chef takes ample inspiration from Glenn Roberts who grows his own grits and grain.
The director of Jiro Dreams of Sushi first made a test film with the recently retired Studio City sushi legend.
The chef commits her answers to posterity in a new video series for Serious Eats.
A big eatin' rap animal named Conor Knighton has been busy digging through menus for this track.
Spurred by the hospitality workers union, the characters urge the chef not to work with Hyatt.
Sample lyric: "Tell the health department to stop hatin'/Cuz a B Rating just stands for better tastin'."
The writer could famously hold his liquor, but we have no idea whether these actors would make him puke or perk up.
The owner currently has a rendering and video that tries to placate the angry mob.
Finally, we can make that edible version of Epcot Center we've always dreamed of!
And in the process, they teach you exactly what is being yelled when you enter a sushi restaurant.
Let's hope these three Hollywood actors took a break from craft services for some authentic Mexican food.
Instead of waiting all day for Tyler Florence to call, the banh mi truck starts its own web series.


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Manhunt for Ex-Cop Over, Officials Say
A massive manhunt for a suspected cop killer is over, Southern California authorities said Wednesday, though they had yet to confirm that a body found in a burned-out mountain cabin near the Big Bear ski area east of Los Angeles was that of fugitive Christopher Dorner.
"We are not currently involved in a manhunt any longer," San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said at an afternoon news conference.
Sheriff McMahon added: "I cannot absolutely, positively confirm it's him." However, the sheriff said, the suspect's description matched Mr. Dorner's and his behavior "was consistent with Mr. Dorner's activity." The body will undergo forensic tests to determine if it is Mr. Dorner's.
A standoff in the cabin in the woods Tuesday afternoon followed a firefight between the man believed to be Mr. Dorner and several San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies, which Sheriff McMahon described as "like a war zone." Two deputies were hit during that shootout, one fatally.
Sheriff McMahon lamented the loss of that officer, Jeremiah MacKay, 35, on Wednesday, calling it "truly another sad day for law enforcement."
If the man in the cabin was Mr. Dorner, a former Los Angeles police officer who was fired in 2008, the killing of Mr. MacKay, a 15-year veteran of the sheriff's department, would mark the fourth death in which he is suspected. An online rant posted under Mr. Dorner's name in late January had accused Los Angeles police officials of corruption, blamed them for the loss of Mr. Dorner's job and promised retribution.
The sheriff said the fire that engulfed the cabin where the suspect holed up after the shootout wasn't deliberately set by law-enforcement officers. Deputies "introduced" pyrotechnic canisters of tear gas into the cabin "and a fire erupted," the sheriff told reporters Wednesday afternoon. Canisters of that type of tear gas, one of two types used in the standoff, are commonly referred to as "burners," he said.
It remained unclear where authorities think Mr. Dorner had been hiding during the five-day search of the area. Deputy Chief Steve Kovensky said Wednesday that after the vehicle Mr. Dorner had been driving was found burning last Thursday, investigators conducted "an extensive search" of the vicinity.
He said teams of deputies went to each cabin. "If there were no signs of break-in or no open doors, we then noted it and moved on to the next cabin," he said.
A man matching Mr. Dorner's description was spotted driving along Highway 38 a few miles away Tuesday afternoon by law-enforcement officers, who were on the lookout for a purple Nissan after a 911 call came in reporting the vehicle stolen from a residence near the town of Big Bear Lake. That residence was in an area that authorities searched during the manhunt.
"It was later discovered that he crashed that vehicle and hijacked another vehicle," Sheriff McMahon said Wednesday.
Three wildlife wardens, in two trucks, encountered the second vehicle, a white pickup, driving fast in the opposite direction. Before the lead warden could warn the two wardens in the patrol truck behind him, the suspect opened fire. Law-enforcement officials responded to radio reports of the encounter, descending on the area.
The suspect engaged in a shootout with sheriff's deputies after crashing the white pickup, and then took refuge in the cabin where he is believed to have died.
Authorities had been searching the forest for Mr. Dorner since Thursday, when they discovered his abandoned truck on fire and followed footprints in the snow until they disappeared.
After a fruitless search of 400 homes, officers suspended their search Friday amid heavy snowfall. On Sunday, the Los Angeles Police Department announced a $1 million reward for information leading to Mr. Dorner's capture.
The events began Feb. 3, when two people were found dead of gunshot wounds in a parking lot in Irvine, Calif. Authorities later named Mr. Dorner as a suspect, saying one of the dead was the daughter of an LAPD officer who represented Mr. Dorner in a disciplinary-review proceeding in 2008. Mr. Dorner was fired that year after that proceeding determined he had falsely accused another officer of using excessive violence. Mr. Dorner denied doing so.
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News and Events Archives
Monday, July 11, 2005
(SYRACUSE, N.Y.)-Columbia College-Hancock Field awarded $500 scholarships to Jeanne Susan McKee of Cicero and Maureen Tricase of North Syracuse in honor of Frank S. Westling. Westling was a former dean of the college's Extended Studies Division, which serves adult learners and military personnel nationwide.
McKee is a sophomore general studies major and preschool teacher at Little Lamb. She served on the Syracuse Insurance Women's Association and has participated in events and fundraisers for many organizations, including the American Cancer Society.
Tricase is a senior history major and junior high teaching assistant at the North Syracuse School District. She has volunteered as a sign language instructor and developed a program for children that incorporates sign language and phonics.
The scholarship was awarded to one student at most of Columbia College's 30 nationwide campuses. To qualify for the Westling scholarship, applicants had to:
- Complete a scholarship application
- Pursue degree completion with Columbia College
- Have a minimum Columbia College GPA of 3.0
- Have residency of at least 15 hours with Columbia College
- Have a history of leadership and service to their community, school or country
- Write a 400-500 word essay on their achievements and career goals
"Columbia College is proud to offer this scholarship to students at our extended campuses," said Mike Randerson, Columbia College vice president for Adult Higher Education. "Frank Westling was instrumental in establishing the Extended Studies Division to serve working adults and military personnel, and he would be pleased to know the scholarship is helping fulfill the educational goals of students around the country."
Prior to joining the college, Westling served in the U.S. Army for 31 years and retired as a colonel. He was a highly decorated infantry soldier and was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal and Silver Star.
The Westling Scholarship is a nonrenewable scholarship and will be awarded to a new student each year.
Columbia College was founded in Missouri in 1851. Today, the college serves 20,000 students at its Day Campus, Evening Campus, Graduate Program, 30 nationwide campuses and Online Campus.


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We have upgraded our SQL Server instance with buckets of RAM, so it can now much more effectively cache . The issue is that it takes time (days) to populate the cache. As far as I understand this is something internally managed by the engine, based on user queries. Is there value in pre-empting this process by running a series of select * statements on big / frequently used tables to cache all this data on service start up? Any particularly clever way to do it?
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There isn't normally any added value in doing this: you may cache data that isn't needed that requires eviction when your real load occurs.
How much time do you think this will save too? Have you done some measurements to see if running a SELECT * on some table improves response after server start up?


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Weber: Der Freischütz – Christine Brewer, Sally Matthews, Simon O'Neill, Lars Woldt, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Weber's eerily fantastical Der Freischütz is hailed as one of the cornerstones of romantic opera, being the first in operatic history to draw on traditional German folk tunes and elements of romanticism. The evocative and colourful orchestration of the 'Wolf's Glen' scene, the most gruesomely expressive rendering of evil ever found in a musical score, is particularly impressive. Much of the music is instantly familiar: several of the melodies have been adapted as hymn tunes, and the Overture is regularly heard in the concert hall.
'One of the marvels of [Davis's] old age was the vitality he continued to bring to his music-making, combined with the wisdom of experience. Both are in evidence here, reinforcing Der Freischütz's reputation as one of the most tuneful and psychologically profound operas in the repertoire.'
***** The Financial Times
In this his last opera recording, the late Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and a stellar cast of soloists in a concert performance of Weber's eerily fantastical opera, Der Freischütz.
*** (Good)
Roberto Brusotti - Musica magazine - October 2013
**** (Excellent Disc)
Sylvain Fort - Classica magazine (France) - September 2013
Music ***½ (Good/Very Good) Sound ****
Gerhard Persché - Fono Forum magazine - August 2013
"...Weber's beguiling score is full of rustic energy and vivid evocations of the natural world. The winning cast is headed by the tenor Simon O'Neill, who brings both heroic heft and Mozartean lyricism to Max. The luminous soprano Christine Brewer is wonderful as Agathe ... The astonishing Wolf's Glen scene, when Max enters a haunted realm of the Forest, is Weber at his most ingenious and Davis's performance captures the music's ominous and magical allure."
Anthony Tommasini - The New York Times - 21 June 2013
Performance **** Recording *****
"...This is a sincere reading of the work ... The orchestral textures are pristine, the tempos and colours bracing and plaintive, with faultless work from clarinettist Chris Richards ..."
Anna Picard - BBC Music magazine - August 2013
"There is no sign of failing powers in Sir Colin Davis's last opera recording taken from live performances at the Barbican: his account of Weber's score captures both its folkish ebullince and the Gothic horrors of the Wolf's Glen scene ... Christine Brewer and SallyMatthews give glowing accounts of their arias."
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I have a blog on blogspot.com - mentioning this so you may know I don't really have a lot of font options! Anyway - In my blog, I want the body font to be Georgia. What should be the Header font with it? I like georgia so much that I could very well choose it for the headers as well; but I want a sans font for that purpose. I have tried Verdana, but that looks somewhat boring along with Georgia. Any suggestions?
It's all a matter of exercising some taste but some good combinations with Georgia in my experience are Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, Arial (purists will tell you no, but you've got to be pragmatic sometimes), and Lucida Grande. I don't know what the exact font limitations are on Blogspot, but I'm sure you'll be able to find something in there to finish a tasteful design.
I too am hosted by Blogger. I too use Georgia as my preferred serif font. I too have a taste for Helvetica-like sans-serif fonts. My companion sans-serif font stack, which includes the Google font Arimo (illustrated above), is
except for large non-italic headings, for which I insert "Microsoft Sans Serif" ahead of "Liberation Sans". I give my reasons in "A multiplatform Helvetica-like font stack that suppresses Arial".


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This Wiki page will provide links and other pertinent info for all the Grado/Alessandro mods discussed in the SR60-Mod page. The Grado/Alessandro prestige series headphones are open, entry to mid-level headphones popular especially for Rock music, but also for genres such as jazz. They are known for their sparkle and lifelike highs, but are often noted as lacking in bass. This is where modification comes in.
Most popular mods for the Grado/Alessandro headphones (links will be added as other wiki pages are created)
Basic Mods:
"Quarter Mod" of the C-Cush pads and discussion of alternate headphone pads: http://www.head-fi.org/wiki/grado-pad-choices-and-mods
Silk Veil Removal
Bowls vs. Comfies vs. Flats vs. Gs1000 pads
Mods which require opening the cups:
These modifications involve removing the drivers from their cups. The process is fairly simple and easily reversible because the only glue holding the front and pack half of the cups together is hotglue. A tutorial on opening the cups is found here: http://www.head-fi.org/wiki/how-to-open-your-grado-headphones
"Hole Punch" mod - Generally only suggested if you have plastic cups and you are looking for more low end response. You should punch holes one at a time.
If you wish to reverse the hole punch mods, Muslin is a good cloth of choice to cover up the holes. It is much easier to poke holes than cover them up so take your time and make sure you want to punch the holes.
Blu-tack mod/Dynamat/felt - A small pea sized amount of dynamat on the back of the drivers, avoiding covering the vent holes is the suggested amount of dynamat to use. Dynamat is typically the preferred material.
Replace/Remove grille & Button - You can replace the grille and button with a more open mesh or craft felt, or simply leave it off. The goal is to improve air flow to the driver.
Re-cable - Some members claim to see improvement with nicer cables, especially silver.
Mods pertaining to alternative cup materials:
Basic wooden cups
Slip-ons - Allow you to replace the outer plastic shell without recabling the headphones. The easiest shell mod.
Full shells - requires partial liberation of the driver from its plastic housing. The driver fits in a full shell and the cable must be routed through a hole and soldered on.
Benefits of cup shape on acoustics
Generally more massive is known to give a bigger bass presence.
Benefits of wood type on acoustics
Other cup materials
Carbon Fiber
"Liberations" of the driver:
Partial - Removing the driver from the inner and outer plastic shells
Full - removing the driver from the inner and outer plastic shells along with removing the plastic wave guide that covers the front of the drivers.
Grado Headphones Overview
The Grado series headphones are very similar in many respects. All use a similar design and the driver sizes are all the same. The drivers actually look identical in some cases, but small differences set the various models apart. Here is a frequency response graph of the 4 plastic-body prestige headphones:
It's clear they are all related, but not exactly the same.
Differences (Subject to Revision):
- New "i" classification: The new 'i" Grado's are similar to their predecessors. of notable difference, the sound-chamber is larger in its outer diameter, and the cup has a "mushroom" look to it. The SR-80 used to come with Bowl pads, as used on higher models, but the new SR-80i uses the same C-cush "comfies" as the SR-60 & SR-60i. Also, It has been discussed that the soldering pads on the drivers of the SR-60i's might be less prone to coming detached while doing re-cables as the SR-60's.
- SR-60/i: C-Cush Comfie pads, 3.5mm plug
- SR-80: Bowl pads, 3.5mm plug
- SR-80i: C-Cush Comfie pads, 3.5mm plug
- SR-125i: C-Cush Comfie pads, UHPLC (Ultra-high purity, long crystal) copper voice coil wire, 8 conductor cable
- SR-225i: Bowl pads, UHPLC (Ultra-high purity, long crystal) copper voice coil wire, 8 conductor cable, Metal mesh rear-screen, drivers matched to .05db as opposed to .1db, drivers "de-stressed". Some believe the SR-225i drivers are the same as the drivers used in the Reference series RS-1, but this has never been confirmed


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January Wedding
The Avett Brothers
Last Played
AlbumI and Love and You
Average rating
4 star rating.
Other songs on this album
- And It Spread
- Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise
- I and Love and You
- Ill With Want
- Kick Drum Heart
- Laundry Room
Other songs by this artist
- 89.3 In-Studio Performance
- Aint No Man
- Distraction #74
- Part From Me
- Paul Newman Vs. The Demons
- Pretty Girl at the Airport
- Talk on Indolence
- The Lowering
- True Sadness
- Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine
- Spanish Pipedream
- Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine
- Spanish Pipedream
- Spanish Pipedream
- Emotionalism
- Die Die Die
- Paranoia In B Flat Major
- Pretty Girl From San Diego
- Shame
- Four Thieves Gone: The Robbinsville Sessions
- Colorshow
- Dancing Daze
- Distraction #74
- Four Thieves Gone
- The Fall
- The Lowering (A Sad Day In Greenvilletown)
- Live Current Vol. 10
- Distraction #74
- Live, Volume 3
- Ballad of Love and Hate
- Murder In The City
- Paranoia in B Flat Major
- Shame
- Magpie and the Dandelion
- Another Is Waiting
- Morning Song
- Never Been Alive
- Open-Ended Life
- The Carpenter
- A Father's First Spring
- Down With The Shine
- February Seven
- I Never Knew You
- Live and Die
- Paul Newman Vs. The Demons
- The Once and Future Carpenter
- Winter In My Heart
- True Sadness
- Ain't No Man
- Mama, I Don't Believe
- True Sadness
Please note that our catalog only lists songs that we've set up within our system; not every track from an album is displayed. You may request a song that's not in our catalog by using our request form. You may also suggest a song be added to our catalog by contacting The Current.
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text: Currently I have 2 images with the same size and I would like to equally let them share the screen. The img a on left handside and img b at right. The problem is if I set it as class, the two images is overlapped even I use inline - block. The restriction is I can not use relative. Therefore, is there any way to achieve this? Do I need to set a id for each image to do this? Thanks


text: Back again with another Thundercats tutorial. This time we're doing Slithe. In the current series, he's just a Lizard warrior and henchman of Mumm-Ra. In the old series, he was leader of the Mutants and was a pretty interesting character. We'll be tackling the modern design, but there are very few differences with the original 80's design.


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25 Jan 2013 1:51 AM #1
Combobox with remote loading but local filtering
Is it possible to have a combobox with mode: 'remote' to load data (and show the load mask), but use local filtering when the user type something in the box ?
I load all useful data, and I don't what any request every time the user type something in the combobox.
Or, is it possible to use mode local, with a store AND show the loading text when expanding the combobox ?
Couldn't figure the way to do that alone
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Police blotter: Woman says shots fired into her Spartanburg home on Sunday
Published: Monday, November 26, 2012 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 12:48 a.m.
Spartanburg Public Safety Department
A resident on James H. Young Street told police that someone fired shots into her home on Sunday.
The woman said she was sitting in her living room holding her 19-month-old daughter when a man ran into her house about 7:15 p.m. and she heard gunshots, according to an incident report.
The woman said she fell to the floor when she heard the shots. The man who ran into the apartment told officers that he was standing outside and he saw two men who he thought were going to try to break into the woman's apartment, so he ran inside, the report states.
The man said when he ran inside, the two men fired shots. Officers noted in the report that the front door had seven bullet holes or dents. Two bullets went through the screen door and ricocheted off the main door, almost hitting the people inside, according to the report.
A witness reported seeing three men in dark jumpsuits near the apartment at the time. One was wearing what looked like a white shirt on his head, the report states.
No arrests have been made.
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Is it worth it to grow my own hops or should I just buy them somewhere?
Growing and using your own hops exclusively presents two definite setbacks in brewing: variety and proportions.
When you grow your own, you're generally limited to a single variety of hops which limits the hop flavors in the beers you make. Some hops contain a lot of alpha acids are are great as bittering hops (e.g. magnum), while others impart things such as citrus notes, spiciness, and great floral aromas. Buying hops gives you the ability to perfect your hop schedule by choosing additions that add different things to the beer.
Growing your own hops also means you'll be adding whole hops cones or whole leave to your beer rather than pelletized hops. This isn't necessarily a bad thing; whole-leaf hops are great for dry-hopping, but pelletized hops are much easier to measure and give you greater control of your beer's bitterness and the other flavor/aroma notes mentioned above.
Of course, if you've got the space and are considering growing some hops, then by all means, do it! You can always brew a nice IPA with them, and if you end up using more than you intended to, just let the beer mellow a bit over time. There's nothing preventing you from growing some hops and buying hops for other beers as well. If I had the space, I'd certainly grow some myself, but I'd still buy pellets from my LHBS for many of my beers.
There is satisfaction, and frustration, in growing hops. I personally have 6 hop varieties growing.
Unknown: Economics. Is it cheaper to grow your own? That depends. How much watering will you have to do? How much does water cost you? How much is your time worth? They don't require meticulous care, just watering and occasional checking for pests, and some early pruning work at the beginning of the season.
If you enjoy gardening and have a good climate for hops, it is definitely worth it. There is something extra special about having a homebrew made with homehops.
That said, you will probably not have enough to supply yourself throughout the year, unless you have a much bigger yard than I do. My general habit is to make a wet hop beer once a year around harvest time (late August/early September for me) using the fresh hops right off the vine for late/finishing hops. I'll use store bought for bittering. If I have enough, I'll dry and use remaining hops for later batches.


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I want to share some photos with friends of one friend or just a few friends. One example why I'm asking this: there are some kind of party photos, I want to share them with certain friends and only their friends! I want them to appear for friends of friends in the pub I was last night, but I don't want them to appear for other people who maybe are my teachers, or people whose one friend is the boss of a the local business I'm working for because in this case, my teacher is a friend of my too and a friend of my friend is actually my boss in the "Facebook language".
Actually, you can. You need to tag that friend on every picture (just tag the lower left or right corner of the photos). Then, when sharing the album, share it only to friends and there is a check box to share to friends of friends who are tagged.
Facebook does not allow you to limit the visibility of a photo (or any other item) in the way that you are asking.
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In Snoopy's Street Fair, there is a quest where you have to obtain 4 garden ornaments.
What counts as a garden ornament? I apparently have 1 (the quest is 25% complete), but I have a lot of scenery objects, so I am not sure which one it is.
I know that it isn't lawnmowers or tricycles or the chessboard table, seeing as I have bought a few of these items with no change in the quest completion.
I am also hoping that I will be able to finish this quest without buying any Snoopy dollars to buy things, as I would rather not spend real world money on this game.
What do I need to finish this quest?


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Small touches mean a lot in finishing up a room. Rugs and curtains can help pull a space together and accent the overall room. At west elm, we offer a wide variety of curtains and rugs in a number of designs to give your rooms that polished design you're looking for.
Rugs help to define the space in a large room. Create an intimate seating area by a fireplace with a solid rug that highlights the colors on the cozy chairs. Distinguish between lounging and eating areas in the same room with different colored rugs. In a room with monochrome furniture, use a patterned rug to add some color to the space. Moroccan rugs feature intricate patterns and come in multiple sizes that make them great for large and small spaces.
Accent a large feature window with dramatic floor-to-ceiling curtains in a bold color or pattern that captures attention as soon as guests enter the room. Use sheer curtains to gently diffuse light from a window that catches the afternoon sun or blackout panels in a bedroom to keep it dark on sunny mornings. Fabrics like velvet have vintage appeal, while Roman shades complement a contemporary design.
Use window hardware to accent curtains and drapes. Curtain rods in metal finishes sparkle when the sun catches on them, while metallic and glass sphere finials provide a decorative touch at the end of wooden rods. For an unusual take on curtain hangers, choose rectangular curtain rings with clips on the end that make it easy to switch out curtains with the seasons. Accent every room in the house with little touches that go a long way.


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On Thursday, February 21st, the Sherman High, Piner, and Dillingham PTAs and the Grayson County Council of PTA's will present Food & Fitness Matters: Raising Healthy, Active Kids at 7:00p.m. in the Little Theater at Sherman High School. The program will provide parents with the information and support they need to improve their children's health and wellness.
As parents we all want to be certain that we are doing the right things to ensure our children grow into healthy, happy adults. Sherman ISD wants to be certain they are doing the right things to ensure their students stay in school, graduate and become productive adults. The Texas PTA Food & Fitness Matter program can help!
Is it a fact that:
• Properly nourished children perform better in school—both academically and behaviorally.
• Physical activity strengthens children's bodies, minds, and self-esteem.
• Healthy habits are best formed during childhood.
Teaching children healthy habits for a lifetime is one of the best ways PTA can help families and children realize their dreams.
The program will begin at 7:00 p.m. with a short video entitled Food and Fitness Matter: Raising Healthy, Active Kids followed by a panel discussion lead by local health experts; Colleen Grafa, PT, DSc, PPI Owner/Director of Ability Physical Therapy & Pilates, Bill Tredennick, Director of SISD Nutrition Services and Kerri Thompson, RN. The audience will have the opportunity to submit questions for the panel to answer.
Refreshments will be served. And parents, you will have a chance to win one of these TERRIFIC door prizes; laptop with a printer; Dance, Dance, Revolution interactive game; bike and helmet; fitness gift basket with water bottle, pedometer, exercise video, soccer ball and $50 Academy gift card; nutrition basket with healthy food items and a $50 Albertson's gift card.
This is a must see event for the family! For more information, contact Julie Mitchell at 903-870-4599.
Organization: SISD PTAs
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"Media: Medium Study #9" Daniel A. Rolfe, Fuji Instant Color Film, 2014, 2014.43.1
The Art Gallery acquires artworks from students in the Art & Design Department and School of Communications to add to the collection whenever possible. The pieces on display in the Thornapple Room are examples of what has been acquired for inclusion in the new Science Laboratory Building, currently under construction across from The Padnos Hall of Science.
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I'd like to generate a report about MXD layers for a handful of MXDs. I want the report to display their name, workspace path and scale range settings.
I can get the first two with ArcPy but I didn't find a way to get the scale ranges. Can this be done with ArcPy? Or perhaps there's some other way to generate the type of report I'm looking for?
I found this but it doesn't give me scale range info: http://resources.arcgis.com/gallery/file/geoprocessing/details?entryID=A910AB18-1422-2418-3418-3885D388EF60
Here's the code I've started with:
import os, arcpy
directory = r"D:\MapTemplates\Map_Templates"
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(directory):
for myFile in files:
fileExt = os.path.splitext(myFile)[1]
if (fileExt == ".mxd"):
fullPath = os.path.join(root, myFile)
print myFile
myMap = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(fullPath)
layers = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(myMap)
for layer in layers:
wsPath = ""
wsPath = layer.workspacePath
if wsPath:
print " " + layer.name + " : " + wsPath


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5 'Unspoiled' Locations That Are Actually Pretty Spoiled
Even if you're not the outdoorsy type, you don't have to listen to your neighbor's car alarm going off for very long before you imagine what life would be like in some beautiful, quiet place, unspoiled by humans. No crowds, no lines, no broken beer bottles anywhere.
After all, with corporations and reality shows getting their dirty fingers all over everything these days, it's comforting to know that there are some places on earth modern man still hasn't cheapened and ruined yet. Well, that's what you think until you get there, and see how long the line is to get in.
Yes, even at places like ...
#5. Mt. Everest
If you climb Mt. Everest, you're forever known as a badass. Impossibly high, impossibly cold and utterly inhospitable to humans, when you reach the peak you know you're one of a scant few members of the species to survive it.
Well ... that was true at one time. Now? the entirety of Mt. Everest has 3G coverage. Now when you're climbing one of the most legendary, inaccessible peaks in the world, five miles above sea level, you can make a video call! And download Angry Birds. And read Cracked.
Mind you that before this, anyone could make cell phone voice calls from anywhere on the mountain, but I guess there was a huge demand to be able to Twitter from the peak of Mt. Everest or something, because Everest is now better equipped for smart phone usage than most major music festivals.
After all, who can forget Sir Edmund Hillary's historic email from the summit of Everest?
But iPhone status updates aren't the only thing ruining the mystique of the Tallest Mountain In The World* (you have to put the asterisk or people will yell at you but explaining the asterisk is just a bunch of boring geography talk). Apparently it's also full of petty crime. Everest Base Camp on the Chinese side of the mountain is a pretty lawless place where money talks loudest, with brothels, bars, gambling and probably honky-tonk piano tunes.
Via destination360.com
Everest Base Camp, China.
Hucksters shake down rich visitors for cash by claiming to be charities picking up trash off the mountain -- which makes sense because there's a shit ton of trash on the mountain.
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Then they buy and empty a bunch of plastic bottles themselves and show their "donors" all the "work" they've done. If you're not charitably inclined, the scammers might sell you a faulty super-cheap "oxygen canister*" instead.
(*Oxygen not included.)
Even on the actual climb, there are assholes stealing supplies from people's caches, which has actually led to at least one death.
#4. Yosemite's Half Dome
If you're not familiar with Yosemite National Park, it's the place that Ansel Adams was famous for taking lots of black and white pictures of, and also the place Captain Kirk went camping in Star Trek V. If that doesn't ring a bell, you've probably at least heard of this cartoon character named after it:
While Yosemite Sam was too ungrateful to ever refer to the park that named him, similar real-life personality Teddy Roosevelt once raved about it, saying that camping there "was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the hand of man."
In the years since, many have heard the call of the outdoor sanctuary and headed out to climb Half Dome (the name is an unsolved mystery), a long, grueling, 17-mile scenic hike that brings you to the heights of solitude with nature.
Via brillidesign.com
Wait a second, that's not solitude. Are those ... cordons?
Via brillidesign.com
To be fair, they're actually not, they're permanently installed climbing ropes that they provide to help you walk up a nearly-vertical dome along with the line of people in front of and behind you. There's just something wrong with the whole one-with-nature idea when your mountaintop experience feels less like this ...
... and more like this:
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Not only does it ruin the pristine view, but climbing a steep ascent in the same manner as a Disneyland line has actually killed four people who got bumped by the crowd and slipped.
The park's solution has been to limit the number of climbers by requiring permits to ascend Half Dome. The first day the permits went up for sale, two months of permits sold out in 23 minutes. Weekend permits sold out in five minutes.
In the Star Trek future, apparently Half Dome will be so swarming with tourists that solitude-seeking hikers have to make do with the other big Yosemite landmark, El Capitan, instead.
That's probably not going to be an option for the casual tourist until they invent anti-gravity boots though:
#3. Antarctica
We tend to think of the frozen wasteland at the bottom of the world as a place mostly populated by penguins with maybe about two researchers doing science or something. But like pretty much everything else here, it has developed a garbage problem.
Via ASOC Pictures
And since it's a frozen wasteland, stuff doesn't decay there -- so all that garbage (including poo) is basically there forever. Almost everyone who goes there is a scientist or a bit of an eco-nut, so they try very hard to sort garbage properly and send it back to be disposed of. They do their best, and 70 percent of it goes back. But that means 30 percent of it doesn't.
Via calacademy.org
They call it Spoolhenge. Really.
And while we tend to think of it as a place that only science expeditions go, in the 2008 season, 45,000 tourists visited Antarctica, and that number just keeps going up. With so much traffic, ships are starting to have more accidents, to the point where politicians are like, "Hey, maybe we should make some laws about it." Remember, even if no ships crashed and everybody picked up every wrapper and bottle and took it home, that's still 45,000 people worth of poop frozen irrevocably to Antarctic landscape every year.
Via ASOC Pictures
Even weirder for an unspoiled wilderness, the South Pole itself already has ruins. Built in 1956 and abandoned in 1976, the Old South Pole Station is now a historical ruin being explored by curious visitors. It's kind of surreal to head down to one of the most inaccessible and wild places on the planet and have a sort of King Tut's Tomb experience.
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Javascript gurus, I need your help.
I need to compare two different arrays and check for different values. The values are coming from the same form multi select element. I tried getting a list of current values (cacheTermList) and checking for new value on change (newTermList). The idea is I want to pass an id to an ajax call if a new value was input, and return some data to the screen.
var cachedTermList = $('select#edit-categories').val();
if (cachedTermList == null) {
var cachedTermList = new Array();
$('select#edit-categories').chosen().change(function() {
var newTermList = $('select#edit-categories').val();
if (cachedTermList != null) {
for(var i = 0; i < newTermList.length; i++) {
if (!($.inArray(newTermList[i], cachedTermList))) {
type: "GET",
url: "/classifieds/js/term/" + newTermList[i],
success: function(data){
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Bear with me, I don't tend to work with Javascript too often. I was trying to get a current list of values by setting cachedTermList on load, then when the select changes, set a newTermList to the new value of the field, then loop it, and check for a value in that list that is not in the cached list.
While I could see things happen, and dump both term lists and see different values, for the life of me I could not get it to push the found value to the cached list so that the next time the element changes, it doesn't keep sending the same value to the ajax call again and again. After the .push() executes, it just adds ',,,' without values. Where am I going wrong?


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HI, I have a spare nvidia graphics card I would like to use towards a dual monitor set up but the GPU in my pc is an ATI, would it cause issues if these were installed side by side?
Also am I correct in assuming I need two cards for a dual set up?
I am using Pinguy 11.04.


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Your Council Tenancy
This page contains information about your council tenancy. We have bought together some of the most frequent enquiries and questions that our tenants ask us. For more detailed information please consult your copy of the Conditions of Tenancy and your Tenant's Handbook. Both of these are available to download or view at the bottom of the page.
- Joint Tenancies
Please note that this policy is currently under review
Some council tenancies are held by a single person in their name only. However, some tenancies are held jointly, usually by two people, who are living together in the same property. Joint tenancies are held by civil partners/married couples and partners living together. Sometimes they are held jointly by a parent and adult child and, occasionally, they may be held by a carer and the person they are caring for.
If you have held a tenancy as a single-named person and wish to add another person's name - perhaps, because you are getting married or co-habiting with a new partner - a new tenancy agreement will have to be created.
If you are a joint tenant the whole tenancy will end if you or another joint tenant ends it. We will then decide whether to create a new tenancy for the remaining tenant or offer them another property. You may not have an automatic right to continue living in the property if a fellow joint tenant decides to end the tenancy or dies (See 'Succeeding to a Tenancy' in the section below).
- Succeeding to a tenancy
Please note that these policies are currently under review
There are two situations in which a person may be left in occupation of a council property. This can happen either if the tenant has died (succession), or if the tenant has given notice (left in occupation).
Succession (where a tenant dies)
The law is very clear about the Right of Succession. It can only occur once - for example, a partner or family member may be able to take over a tenancy if the tenant dies.
If you find yourself in these unfortunate circumstances, the council will consider each request on an individual basis. Providing there is supporting evidence, we will decide whether you are eligible for the tenancy or alternative accommodation according to the council's allocation policy.
However, whilst we are making this decision and if you are not eligible to succeed to the tenancy, we will charge you for the use and occupation of the property until the situation has been resolved either by possession proceedings through the county courts, or by moving you to alternative accommodation according to our allocations policy. These charges are not rent.
Left in occupation
A person "left in occupation" is someone who continues living in a property after the tenant has moved out, and who has not been granted a tenancy of that property.
You will be left in occupation if:
- the tenant or one of the joint tenants has terminated their tenancy (by serving the housing department a notice to vacate) and you carry on living there
- the tenant has moved out of the property and you carry on living there
- the tenant has died, no one in the household has a right to succeed and you carry on living there. If you find yourself in this situation you must notify us. We will look into your housing situation and decide whether you are eligible for this tenancy or alternative accommodation, according to the allocation scheme.
During this time we will charge you for the use and occupation of the property until the situation has been resolved either by possession proceedings through the county courts, or by moving you to alternative accommodation according to our allocations policy. These charges are not rent.
- Replacement or additional key fobs
A key fob is a security device which allows entry into blocks with secure or monitored access (CCTV).
Council tenants and leaseholders are issued with two fobs at the start of their tenancy or lease if their property is in a block with secure or monitored access.
Additional fobs are only issued in exceptional circumstances. If you want an additional key fob you must submit a request in writing . You can do this online or by post, and they will decide whether an additional key fob can be issued.
The ability to issue an additional key fob may be limited by the capability of the door entry system as some can only be programmed to deal with a set number of key fobs. You should also bear in mind that the more fobs issued for a door, the more chance there is that the building will be less secure.
If a fob has been lost or stolen, you must report this to a neighbourhood caretaker or security representative such as a night security officer. This is so that the fob can be cancelled on the system.
Lost fobs must be paid for. Stolen fobs may be replaced free of charge if you have a crime number.
Any fob which has become defective will be replaced free of charge, but any fob that has been damaged due to negligence will be charged for.
The charge for a key fob is £10 but this may change.
- Health and Safety Advice for Council Tenants
The council does a lot to make sure that its properties are in good condition and structurally sound. However there is a lot that tenants can do to protect themselves, their families and visitors to their home.
Here is some common sense advice to protect you and your family.
- Always make sure you know who callers are before you let them into your home and do not let strangers into shared areas. Remember that all council staff and employees of our repairs partners and gas contractors carry identification. Ask to see it before you let them into your home.
- Only oil filled radiators can be used in flats. Please do not use portable paraffin or gas cylinder heaters. We usually allow tenants to use these heaters in other types of property but you must get written permission first.
- Do not store gas or materials or furniture that burns easily in the property, garage or garden.
- Do not store or repair petrol, diesel or paraffin-powered vehicles in shared areas.
- Do not store petrol, diesel or paraffin appliances in the property except lawn mowers and garden strimmers.
- Do not interfere with health and safety equipment, for example, fire detectors and extinguishers, door entry systems and closed circuit television.
- Do not damage or overload lifts or do anything that may put people in the property or surrounding area in danger.
- Do not throw anything from the windows or balconies (this includes shaking mats or carpets). Please do not place objects on window ledges or balconies that could be a danger to passers-by.
- Do not feed wild pigeons or squirrels outside the property or on balconies.
- Keep corridors, paths and stairs clear of rubbish, material or old furniture or equipment.
- Keep areas set aside for emergency vehicles clear.
- Dispose of syringes safely.
- Do tell your local housing team immediately about any damage that has been done to the property. You may need to report it to the police.
- There is more information on fire safety at www.gov.uk/firekills
- Keeping a pet
Keeping a pet is important to many council tenants who want to enjoy the companionship and interest that an animal provides.
The council defines the type of animals you can keep in the Conditions of Tenancy booklet. In general, you cannot keep livestock such as pigs, sheep or goats on your property, or animals classified as dangerous - including dogs classed as dangerous by the Dangerous Dog Act 1991.
Please be aware that if you would like to keep more than 2 dogs, or if you would like to build a pigeon loft or aviary, you must get our written permission.
We have produced a leaflet 'Council Tenant's Guide to Keeping Dogs', attached below, which gives lots of information and a code of practice for dog owners.
If you are troubled by barking or stray dogs or are concerned about an animal's health, our Environmental and Consumer Services pages offer advice – see 'Related Links' on this page
Useful advice for pet owners in council properties
- Be a responsible owner and provide (and maintain) the right kind of fencing to keep your pet safe and secure.
- When choosing a pet, think about what is suitable for the type and size of your home, how big it will grow, access to the road and open space, and the number of people in your home.
- Do not allow your pet to make a mess in communal areas or excessive noise such as barking.
- Think carefully about the number of pets you keep. You must have written permission from your local housing office to keep more than two dogs.
- Council tenants can keep pigeons or birds in a loft or aviary but you must get written permission from your local housing office.
- Do not breed any animals or birds that cause a nuisance to neighbours or a risk to health.
- Keep your animal under proper control and do not allow it to become a nuisance. If your animal is unsuitable or causes a nuisance, we will ask you to remove it and will take court action if you do not comply.
- Energy and Energy Suppliers
When a council property becomes empty the energy supplier may be changed, to SSE PLC (formerly known as Scottish and Southern Energy). If the energy supplier is changed to SSE PLC they will become the energy supplier when the new tenant moves in to the property. Council tenants do not have to remain with SSE PLC and are free to make arrangements with other energy suppliers if they wish.
Not all council properties receive a gas supply and tenants are not allowed to have gas supplied to properties that come without such a supply.
- I would like to make some improvements to my Council property, am l allowed to do this?
Yes, you have the right to make your own improvements i.e. installing a new bathroom or kitchen.
Before you start, however, you must tell us what you are planning to do and get our written permission. We will only say no if there is a good reason, for example, if the work would make your home unsafe. Your Local Housing Team can tell you how to obtain this permission.
Any work you have done must be carried out by a competent and suitably experienced person. If the property is damaged by the work, we will ask you to put things right. If we have to put things right we will charge you.
- I'm having problems with Antisocial Behaviour, what can I do?
There are many different types of Antisocial Behaviour. Please visit our pages at www.birmingham.gov.uk/asb for further information and to make a report online.
- Can't find what you're looking for?
If you haven't been able to find the information that you need then the link below will take you to a form that you can use to ask us further questions.Service Specific Enquiry - Tenancy Estate Management


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Burnley's former Scotland Under-21 international MacDonald, 22, started a second loan stint with the Pilgrims at the end of August and will now stay at Home Park until the first week in December.
Aldershot striker Madjo, 28, will remain with the Pilgrims until mid-December. He has made seven appearances to date, four of which were starts.
Madjo's solitary strike came at the beginning of this month when his equaliser secured a 1-1 draw at Wycombe.
Pilgrims boss Carl Fletcher told the club's official website: "It's great that both Macca and Guy want to stay here so we have got it all signed, and they're now here for the next couple of months. They have settled in well and added something to the team and that's exactly what you want from loan players."


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Results from Lung Cancer Screening Trial
Last Modified: November 16, 2010
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
Results from Lung Cancer Screening Trial
I saw a news story last week about the lung cancer screening study. Does that mean those of us who are/were heavy smokers should be getting screened now?
Anil Vachani, MD, Attending Physician at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, responds:
The news story last week reported on initial findings from the National Lung Screening Trial. This study started in 2002 and was designed to compare annual Chest CT to chest x-ray in improving survival by detecting lung cancer earlier. A total of 53,000 people were included - indviduals in the study had to be between the ages of 55-74 and were current or previous heavy smokers (30 pack year history, pack year=#of packs per day x # of years smoked). The results show that Chest CT decreases deaths from lung cancer in this group by about 20%. This is the first time that a screening trial in lung cancer has shown a significant benefit. Although these results are quite encouraging, additional analyses of the results need to be performed before recommendations can made for the general population- those that have not smoked as much or never smoked. The final results will likely not be available until mid-2011. At this time, insurance companies and Medicare are not yet covering screening Chest CT for lung cancer, which can cost 300-400$. There is always a balance in screening tests between detecting cancer early versus finding things that turn out to not be cancer, but require invasive tests to do so. Read more about screening tests.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series, Lung Cancer Q&A Webchat. View the entire transcript Lung Cancer Q&A Webchat.


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River Fields hosted the annual "Dancing by the River" fundraiser Sept. 7 to celebrate the 2,200 acres of land it has worked steadfastly to preserve.
Event attendees enjoyed hors d'oeuvres, a delicious buffet dinner catered by Mark Stevens, Stevens & Stevens, Deserts by Helen and a silent auction with exclusive prize packages. The Robert Nickerson Band provided music throughout the evening while guests dined and danced.
Funds raised at "Dancing by the River" will support River Fields' work to protect, preserve and enhance the natural, historical and cultural resources near the Ohio River between Westport and West Point, Ky., on both sides of the river.
Photos by TIM VALENTINO | Contributing Photographer


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7 Aug 2012 9:25 AM #1
Can Sencha Animation for iBook appear full page size from the start?
Animator seems to be a terrific product and I look forward to digging in. I have a question (partially technical more 'Is this allowed in an iBook').
I often see examples of HTML5 animations in iBooks begin as small images on the page(like the Sencha example little boy in the boy. Then they are touched and expanded to full page. Can they be full page to begin with? I'd like to have a nice full page version of that type of animation on my pages in iBooks. Does Apple frown on this? Or is is simply to heavy and drag interactivity down to a crawl (even with properly optimized graphics).
If it is doable, is it simply a matter of dragging the size of the widget on each page? or is it based on the size of the Widget Image.
Thanks in advance, and look forward to sharing my work and experiences.
Brendan G.
7 Aug 2012 12:33 PM #2
So that is all iBooks Author territory. From what I understand, widgets will only run when clicked, so you
can only show a static image as a placeholder. I think the placeholder image could be any size. After you export the widget from Animator and put in iBooks Author I think you can drag any image on to it to replace the placeholder image without causing issues with sizing when the widget is playing.
9 Aug 2012 11:30 AM #3
Appreciate the reply. I figured that might be the case. I've built multiple interactive books as apps for the iPad, and was hoping to extend interactivity as far as I could for iBooks. I have another question, but I think I'll start a new thread as it may be of use to others and will be more easily seearched.
3 Sep 2012 10:15 PM #4
not realy
you can have a widget be full screen (well the image used to display the widget) but as stated it wont start until its clicked on and then it launches a pop up to what ever size you want which can also be full screen.
But if your after a smooth interaction from a ibooks page to the widget that seems seamless its not going to happen the way you expect. BUt if you know this restriction you can work around it in the design phase.
Check out "the color closet" by Sara Pinto, developer Twistframe. We achieved what we think is pretty interactive considering the iauthor restrictions


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After playing a fair amount of the PSP version of the game I think I know what I'm missing the most from the version I play on my Mac: the complete freedom on tactics.
As far as I can see on the PSP you're limited to the "stock" tactics. While this is fine for the pick-up and playability which I know SI was gunning for and have achieved I'd just like to have that little more control.
I know it's far too early to talk about future versions but I would say this would be the one thing I'd like to see improved for the next version if there is on.