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"What do you need?" I asked the Sassy Saint about the marching band's upcoming performance at the Veterans Day ceremony.
I always ask them what they need. It's my most cherished fantasy that I will someday receive the complete list before we are en route to our destination.
"Oh, just my black band T-shirt and black pants," she said.
"Are you wearing your uniform over it?" (This was not, on first glance, a dumb question, because they usually do.)
The ceremony was scheduled at 11 a.m., and she was to be there at 10 a.m. We were actually running on time, something that happens so rarely that I feel compelled to note it here.
"Is Uncle Davy going to be there?" Sass asked.
My brother, Davy Crockett, and his new wife, Glinda the Good, had arrived from Kentucky for an extended visit the evening before. I was almost 100 percent certain that Davy had not anticipated being asked to attend this event, and he had a list of invitations longer than his arm. (Which is quite long, considering Davy is unusually tall.) Davy is well-liked, and his many friends here at home always ask him to come visit when he makes his biannual pilgrimage back home.
"He said he was coming." I think he was coming because my mother, Grandmama, had promised to come, and she acts like driving to Weirton is akin to driving to Pittsburgh during rush hour. (Grandmama will not drive to Pittsburgh. I drive, and she covers her eyes and prays we won't die, despite my having made the trip so often I don't even have a second thought about it anymore.) Davy was actually coming to bring our mother, but we weren't telling her that.
"Oh, good," said Sass. "He and Grampy Grumpy are my favorite veterans."
I had a dust mote in my eye and needed a tissue.
Of course, when we got there, it was quickly apparent that the marching band wasn't wearing their uniforms. I have a black turtleneck sweater for Sass to wear under her band shirt if they're marching in the cold. Like I said, some day I'm going to get the entire list in time to do some good. I stuck a sweater on her and hoped no one would notice or, if they did, would take pity on poor Sass and let her wear it. It was relatively mild for November, but that's still cold.
Grandmama called me at least four times: to find out where she should park; to check on the traffic (normal); to find out whether the event was crowded (a little bit); and to check again on the parking situation.
And that was before she even got there. Once she did, I gave her careful instructions on how to find us. We shouldn't have been hard to find; the band was warming up, and you could have heard them from a block away the way that place echoed.
She ignored me. Of course she did. I finally had to go hunt her down.
Glinda hadn't dressed for the cold. I'm not sure if Kentucky gets cold in the winter. I'd guess it was more Appalachia than Deep South, but I've never been to Kentucky in the winter. So, we all huddled around her in an effort to keep her warm.
The ceremony was nice, despite the wind's insistence on trying to knock over half of the wreaths. And my having to hush Grandmama every five seconds.
And her poking me every time the band played, as if I couldn't hear for myself.
My Little Professor was especially interested in the speaker, who talked about America's military history. When he mentioned the Battle of Bunker Hill didn't actually take place on Bunker Hill, the Little Professor nodded enthusiastically.
"He knew that?" Davy asked. "Never mind. Of course he knew that."
"I knew that, Uncle Davy." He would have launched into an accounting of the battle, but Grandmama hushed them.
Glinda strained for a glimpse of Sass, but it was crowded.
Afterward, Sass was all smiles. "How did we do?"
"You kids did great."
"I saw all of you."
We were as far away from the marching band as you could get and still be at the event.
"Oh, yes, Uncle Davy is easy to spot, even in a crowd."
(Wallace-Minger, a resident of Weirton, is community editor for The Weirton Daily Times.)


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This Week's Liturgy
"Make the preparations"
March 29th, 2015 (see other dates)
Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion
Discussion Questions for Reading 1God's Servant speaks with a well-trained tongue that teaches, comforts, and inspires people to change their lives. Who among God's people has helped you in one or more of these ways? What lines in this reading might you pray if you were suffering an injustice? Why?
How might you "speak to the weary" during these closing weeks of Lent? What about fellow students who are depressed? Parents who are exhausted? The elderly in nursing homes? Those who are in prison?
Reading 1 Isaiah 50:4-7
Reading 1 ReflectionIf you have ever experienced injustice or rejection, you understand the feelings expressed in this first reading. The one who is speaking is the Suffering Servant of God. It is easy for us as Christians to identify this servant with Jesus. When he was made to suffer, despite his innocence he did not rebel or seek revenge against his enemies. He trusted that God was at his side and knew that he would "not be put to shame."
On this Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion, we honor the Suffering Servant who laid down his life for us.
Discussion Questions for Reading 2Describe how you think a humble person might respond to an insult or a lie told about him or her. What might it mean to "humble yourself" as Jesus did? Why is that so hard to do? How might we show that we have emptied ourselves of the desire to be more important than others?
How do you honor the name of Jesus? What new way of doing so will you practice this week?
Reading 2 Philippians 2:6-11
Reading 2 ReflectionThis reading is a hymn to Jesus Christ that serves as a preview of the events of Holy Week. It describes how the Son of God "emptied himself" of divine glory and became human like all of us. Out of love and obedience, he accepted his own death on a cross.
Because Jesus humbled himself and did not cling to any of his special privileges as God's Son, he was glorified by his heavenly Father. We are called to have the same attitude of humility and obedience as Christ had.
Discussion Questions for GospelImagine that you are one of the following people: Pilate, Barabbas, a Roman soldier, Simon of Cyrene, a member of the crowd, or the centurion. Describe your thoughts and feelings about Jesus as he endures his Passion and Crucifixion. Why do you think people sometimes ridicule and mock others? What does the example of Jesus teach us about seeking revenge against others?
Why do you think people in crowds sometimes act in ways that they as individuals would never do? What insights into human behavior does the Passion of Jesus give you? How will you show this week that you honor Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God?
Gospel Mark 15:1-39
Gospel ReflectionThis Palm Sunday reading of the Passion of the Lord is taken from Mark's Gospel. It was the first written account of how Jesus suffered and died. It is also the shortest version of the Passion and is written almost like a newspaper story that presents "just the facts."
The most important truth Mark wants to communicate is that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, whose suffering leads to glory. When Jesus cries out from the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Psalm 22:1), he is praying in the words of the psalmist who continues to trust God even when all seems hopeless.
As we read or listen to the Passion, we try to unite ourselves with Jesus and all those who suffer injustice in today's world.
Proclaiming Faith Activities for Primary Grades
PalmsProvide each child with a piece of green construction paper and a pattern for a leaf. Have them trace the pattern on their construction paper and cut it out. Then have the children cut slits along the lines toward the center of the leaves to make palm branches. Use the palm branchess for the dramatization below.
Palm Sunday—a DramatizationRead the gospel to the children. Then select one child to be Jesus and two children for his disciples. Provide a stick horse as a prop for the child portraying Jesus. (A broom may also be used.) Then have the children act out the gospel as you read it again, using the palms made earlier.
Proclaiming Faith Activities
Honoring the NameIn the past, Catholics often honored the name of Jesus by making a slight bow of the head each time his name was mentioned.
In the space below, list at least three possible ways young Catholics might honor Jesus' name during Holy Week. Consider ways that use body language, art and crafts, music, photography, or the Internet.
Praying With JesusLook again at Mark's version of the Passion of the Lord. As you accompany Jesus through each of the following sufferings, write a one-line prayer expressing your thoughts or feelings.
- Pilate offers to release Jesus but the crowd demands that Barabbas be released instead. My prayer: ___________________________________
- The soldiers ridicule and mock Jesus as the King of the Jews. My prayer: ___________________________________
- Jesus is crucified and the crowd taunts him. My prayer: ___________________________________
- Jesus cries out his last prayer and breathes his last breath. My prayer: ___________________________________
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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) – A Kansas State University architecture professor charged in a nearly five-year-old rape case has entered a not guilty plea and wants his case to be heard by a jury.
William Yankey, 28, was arraigned in Riley County District Court Monday and requested a jury trial which has been set for February 27th and 28th at the Riley County courthouse.
Yankey was arrested at his home on Colorado Street in Manhattan on Tuesday, September 11, 2012.
He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture and Product Design at K-State. K-State officials could not provide details on Yankey's tenure with the university at the time of his arrest.
Police say the alleged sexual assault took place in the northwest part of Manhattan on December 8, 2007. The victim is now a 26-year-old woman.
Officials say a warrant was issued for Yankey's arrest but authorities have not said what new information or evidence resulted in his arrest several years after the crime.
Police say Yankey knew the victim. He would have been 23 at the time and the victim would have been 21.
Assistant Riley County Attorney Barry Disney would only say that the victim was an "acquaintance."
Court documents indicate that it is alleged that the she was "unconscious or physically powerless" during the sexual assault.
Yankey is out of jail on bond as he awaits trial.


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Published: Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
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The Curtis R. Harley Art Gallery at the University of South Carolina Upstate is displaying a collection of movie posters from Eastern European countries that have been loaned to the gallery for display through May 10. They are a part of a larger movie poster collection owned by Dr. Matthew Johnston, an avid collector.
Titled "Film Art from Behind the Iron Curtain," the exhibition features posters from Poland, the former Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania and Russia and will be on the second floor of the Humanities and Performing Arts Center. The movies that are featured in the posters date from post-World War II to 1991.
Johnston will give a free lecture at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in the Recital Hall of the performing arts center. A reception will follow.
Western audiences may at first not recognize the movies from these posters.
"Film marketing packages produced by Western movie studios were not allowed in these Eastern European countries, so the graphic designers behind the curtain had complete leeway to design their own movie posters based on their interpretation of the movies," said Michael Dickins, gallery manager.
Dickins is excited to have this collection on display because the university offers both film and graphic design classes. "The posters are a great jumping-off point for discussing both," he said.
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PETERSON, Edna V., 96, of Mechanicstown, died Sunday evening, February 10, 2013, in the Carroll Healthcare Center following an extended illness.
Born October 17, 1916, in Amsterdam, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Sherman and Emma Bott Dillon.
Edna was a member of the Bergholz Church of Christ and the Bergholz Ladies Aide Society.
She is survived by three sons, Robert Louis (Nova) Patterson, of North Canton, Ohio, David (Eileen) Peterson, of Deland, Fla., Gary (Pat) Peterson, of St. Louis, Mo.; two daughters, Shelva (Dave) Miller, of Bergholz, Sandra (Charles) Warner, of Carrollton; 17 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren, five great- great-grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews and extended family.
She is preceded in death by husband, Lewis in 1983; five brothers; five sisters; one grandson; one great-greatgrandson.
Funeral services will be at noon Wednesday, February 13, 2013, in the Bergholz Church of Christ with Pastor David Miller officiating. Burial will follow in the Greenbriar Cemetery near Bergholz. Visitation will be one hour prior to service time at the Church of Christ.
Memorial donations in Edna's name may be made to the Bergholz Church of Christ, 1000 Jefferson St., Bergholz, OH 43908.
Edna's services are under the care of the Sweeney-Dodds Funeral Home of Amsterdam.


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Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department (212) 998-2564
Bobst Library's special collections and archives house significant resources, rare books, personal papers, University history, and more. Additionally, they sponsor numerous events throughout the year, and contribute widely to many publications.
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The primary purpose of the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation Department is to preserve, protect and thereby extend the usable life of the NYU Libraries' collections. The department pursues this objective in accordance with the mission and goals of the Libraries, and in conjunction with the University's research mission. All preservation activities are followed in accordance with nationally recognized standards for preservation and conservation of library and archival materials.
The NYU Libraries Preservation Department is located on the Lower Level 2 (LL2) of NYU Libraries' Elmer Holmes Bobst Library and is responsible for the following activities: commercial binding, conservation treatment, reformatting, disaster preparedness, staff and patron education, and a program to monitor climate control in the Library. In addition, two new components have been added to the program: moving image and sound preservation, as well as digital conversion. Commercial Binding includes first-time binding and rebinding. One full-time supervisor and four students staff this unit. In the Barbara Goldsmith Conservation Laboratory, one conservator, two full-time conservation technicians, and 1-2 FTE graduate student assistants provide conservation treatments for general collections and special collections. The conservation treatments used in the lab include rebinding, recasing, rebacking, boxing, deacidification, paper cleaning, washing and, mending, as well as other minor repair work. In the department's newly renovated lab, contract conservators are also engaged to work on short-term, grant-funded projects. When physical treatment is impossible due to advanced chemical deterioration within the paper, books and archives materials are reformatted to retain the intellectual content that resides in the book or document. Reformatting techniques are used for books and archive materials that cannot be physically repaired because the paper is too brittle to sustain conservation treatment. These techniques include preservation microfilming and preservation photocopying. Both methods adhere strictly to nationally accepted standards. In addition, special grant-funded preservation projects are conducted on an ongoing basis within the department to preserve damaged and deteriorating non-book materials, such as, photographs, music scores and audio/visual materials. Moving Image and Sound preservation are new initiatives in the department designed to provide collections care, such as proper housing, and reformatting for these rapidly deteriorating collections. Three media labs provide workspace and equipment for motion picture film, video and audio materials. A routine workflow is in place for digitizing audio and video materials from the Libraries' special collections and archives. An Archives Preservation Program was established in 2008 and provides a dedicated preservation archivist to administer ongoing preservation efforts for the archives and special collections materials. The Preservation Archivist also assists in condition assessments of incoming collections. The Barbara Goldsmith Preservation Department also manages Digital Conversion projects for still images and text that include a preservation component.
The majority of circulating books from the Library's general collections are identified for preservation after they return from circulation. The Circulation and Preservation departments collaborate to identify damaged and deteriorated items in need of treatment. A preservation librarian sorts these books according to treatment needs, such as, commercial binding, conservation, or reformatting, and routes them to the appropriate section within the department. Titles to be preservation photocopied or microfilmed await further in-house, in-print and microform searching by bibliographic assistants and are reviewed by subject specialists before a final decision is made to reformat the item.
Education and training for both staff and users are very much a part of the department's mission. The preservation librarian conducts training sessions for all levels of library staff to promote preservation awareness through lectures and documentary videos relating to both national and local preservation efforts. More intensive training for library departments, such as circulation and stacks, is conducted to train staff in proper book handling procedures and to teach them methods of identifying damaged and brittle books that should be routed to the preservation department. NYU students developed and produced a book handling video for the department entitled, "Handle With Care," which is used for staff training purposes at NYU, as well as other libraries around the country. Plastic rain bags, distributed at the circulation desk, carry a preservation message and protect circulating books during inclement weather. A web exhibit illustrating the scope and purpose of the preservation program was established on the department's web page last year.
NYU Libraries employs mass deacidification to neutralize acidic paper in general collections books. Selection of books for mass deacidification is done on a collection basis. Currently, collections of foreign publications are targeted for this process. NYU has chosen to concentrate on the Slavic Studies and Near and Middle Eastern Studies collections for the next few years. Preservation Technologies, in Pittsburgh, PA, provides this service for us.
Hygrothermographs and dataloggers are used to monitor the Library's environmental control system. Conditions are analyzed, reported and discussed with building management personnel as needed.
The Libraries' preservation program also includes a disaster plan component. Every six months the Disaster Plan Workbook is updated with new telephone numbers, floor maps, and other emergency information. A generic version of the disaster plan appears on the department's web page to assist other libraries and repositories to develop their own plans. An NYU Libraries Disaster Preparedness Committee meets semi-annually to review and update the plan.For more information, please contact Paula De Stefano, the Barbara Goldsmith Curator for Preservation, at 212/998-2563; or via email at: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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My boss wants to buy a certificate for his SBS so external connection can be made. they access on an IP number. What should he spend on the certificate? Where should he buy from?
Verisign seems like overkill as its not an ecommerce site, just needs some security. Ive seen some cheap ones at $20 / yr - are there any problems with getting cheap certificates?


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As REST continues to grow in popularity, it's important to stop and ask yourself why REST? REST is by no means a silver bullet but it does offer some advantages over traditional SOAP and WS-* architectures when it fits well into your scenario. There are
also times when SOAP makes more sense because it offers features and capabilities that REST cannot provide. In the end, REST and SOAP are different architectural styles, each with their own pros and cons. Come and learn when to choose one over the other and
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This session is presented by Aaron Skonnard during Microsoft DevDays 2010 in The Hague in The Netherlands.
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Want to ask some questions about REST.
REST specifies that the URI must be understandable and must use resources as endpoints.
Below is the scenario. Suppose i need to search data by company name and company name contains characters like & or /. These are restricted characters in terms of URl. / specifies subpath and & specifies the queriy parameter collection
How can we implement this in REST
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The 6 Creepiest Comic Book Characters of All Time
#3. Inner Child (Dorothy's Doll) from Doom Patrol
Creepy Because: Holy shit, get that thing away from us!
If the DC superhero teams were islands in the Pacific, the Justice League would be the Big Island of Hawaii, with its majestic beaches and luxurious resorts, while the Doom Patrol would be one of those islands with lepers. The Doom Patrol embrace all those superheroes who are too ugly to team up with anyone else.
We don't know how something that looks like Inner Child can exist in the same planet as Superman without Superman tossing him into the sun just on general principle. Anyway, he was found by Doom Patrol member Dorothy inside a Haunted House the team was using as headquarters at the time. We guess demoniacally-possessed property is very cheap in today's market. He befriended Dorothy who, as a very hairy 16-year-old girl with the face of a chimpanzee, could use all the friends she could find.
Wait, what the fuck is going on up there? Do you people remember that scene in The Shining where the ghost of a guy in a dog suit is giving a blow job to an old guy? Well, if Dog-suit-man ever walked into a room and found this scene, he'd go, "Hey, guys! What are you doing--SHIT! SHIT! OH MY GOD!" and then he'd run away to Amityville or some other haunted house where such things are frowned on.
Yes, it appears that two naked fat ghosts, one with a house plant tied to his face, want to "play" with Dorothy. We are not exactly sure what Dorothy would gain by following Inner Child's advice besides a sore ass and memories that will haunt her forever, but it looks like Inner Child wants to stay and watch.
Seriously, there aren't even words for all the fetishes at play here.
OK, how about we never find out what happened after that right there.
#2. Proty from Legion of Superheroes
Creepy Because: He's a sentient spunk blob.
Proty is a small alien being that looks like something between a pile of dried-up bird crap and some form of gelatin made of semen. He was rescued by Chameleon Boy from a space zoo and quickly adopted as a pet. He carried him around everywhere on his shoulder like a parrot, except that parrots don't make you look like you have just been the star of a Japanese porn flick.
By his looks alone Proty, would normally deserve a spot in any list of creepy things, but like the rest of the characters in this list he had to make that extra effort and tapped some ass he shouldn't have tapped.
Again, like most of the guys in this list, Proty fell for blond jailbait, in his case the Legionnaire Saturn Girl (yes, all of the Legion of Superheroes had retarded names). Sadly for Proty, Saturn Girl was out of his league because of her higher status, and by that we mean that she had the status of "human being" and Proty was a talking lump of mashed potatoes.
But, one day fellow Legion member, Lighting Lad (yesh), got himself killed while saving the universe. Through an extremely convoluted set of circumstances we cannot begin to recount here, Proty resurrected Lightning Lad by transferring his own soul into his body.
The thing is, Proty never told anybody. He just walked around pretending to be Lightning Lad. And why not? He can now eat at the table and date Saturn Girl instead of just squishily humping her leg while she slept on the couch.
Years later they even married, had three kids, and lived happily ever after. Well, not really, because she didn't really marry the man she loved and never found out she had given birth to the children of a pile of sentient bird shit who used to live in a zoo.
#1. Terry Long from Teen Titans
Creepy Because: Look at him.
Terry Long from Teen Titans is a cross between a member of the Bee Gees and a Dutch porn star. He is the fist of the '70s hitting you in the face forever. Why is this jackass in the comic? Easy, he became the steady boyfriend and later husband of Wonder Girl.
Wonder Girl, if you didn't know, grew up on an island full of Amazonian women where no man could visit. These are the only circumstances we can think of where a girl (and remember these are the "teen" Titans) could think this divorced ex-college professor was the man of her dreams. Most people who dream about Terry Long end up rocking in a fetal position on the floor of their bedrooms, holding a knife and downing pots of coffee in a quest to never sleep again.
Who is the greatest hero in the DC universe? Superman, you say? No, it's the anonymous blond man in the above picture who blocks the terrifying view of Terry Long's polka dotted banana hammock.
Terry Long stained every page of Teen Titans when he appeared with his downright palpable, reptilian sleaziness. When Terry wasn't trying to blend in with the Teen Titans like a creepy uninvited uncle, he was openly hitting on Wonder Girl's female teammates.
Several issues later, after Terry managed to brainwash Wonder Girl into marriage, our suspicions were proven true. A team of Teen Titans from the future went back in time to kill the son of Terry and Wonder Girl. Why? Because he was going to grow up into pure evil, that's why! If the superpowered Hitler from the future had to come from somewhere, Terry Long's haunted testicles were one of the more likely places.
Finally in 1997 Terry Long died in a car crash, leaving the universe a substantially less sleazy place.
If you enjoyed that, you might like our rundown of The 5 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Comic Strips. Or check out the T Shirt designs you'll be wearing tomorrow and submit your own in the Photoshop contest in the forum. And be sure to get the Cracked Hit List delivered in your electronic mailbox every Thursday.


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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – December 31, 2010 – Antioch College today announced the receipt of a $50,000 gift from an anonymous donor. When making the gift, the donor offered best wishes... › MORE
YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – December 31, 2010 – For property tax assessment purposes, the Greene County Auditor has instructed Antioch College to place boundary markers around the perimeter... › MORE
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CHICAGO – December 14, 2010 – Antioch College Interim President Matthew A. Derr today accepted the CASE V Chief Executive Leadership Award for the role he played in negotiating for... › MORE
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Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] Migrate the OpenMPI to VxWorks
From: Ralph Castain (rhc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-15 23:35:37
I have not personally tried, but I am pretty sure that you can install the autotools under VxWorks - have you tried to download the latest autotool tarballs and build them?
On Apr 15, 2010, at 9:30 PM, Õž§ wrote:
> Hello everyone ,
> For the purpose to migrate the OpenMPI to VxWorks ,I have set up a VxWorks development environment with WorkBench 3.0. It is really a good news that the WorkBench supports gnu building tools, bash and some frequently used command like sed ,awd and so on but not the Autotools (Autoconf/Automake) .Once I wonder the configure script file generated under the linux may work well under the workbench shell environment . But it is a frustrate to find when I launch the configure ,it just hang without any prompt .I look into the problem and found maybe the version of the bash in the VxWorks is too low to parse the configure file .
> Then I come across the cmake which is used to as building tools under windows for the openmpi. Because of the feature of ¡°cross-platform¡± ,I think it is possible to use cmake to migrate .Also I found boostcmake project which supports the vxworks gnu compile tools using cmake .
> But considering my poor knowledge about the building system (Autotools,cmake,etc),I need some guide and advice to review what I plan to do is a possible .
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"I have a passion for working with children and with college students who are interested in working with children," explains Beverly King.
Beverly is Assistant Professor in the Keene State College Physical Education Department with an emphasis on teaching children at the elementary school level about "learning to move and moving to learn," as she says.
Degrees and Credentials:
EdD, Human Movement, Boston University, 1982
MSEd, Physical Education, SUNY Cortland, 1974
BSEd, Physical Education, SUNY Cortland, 1969, (cum laude)
New Hampshire Experienced Educator Certificate (Physical Education)
New York Permanent Certificate (Physical Education)
Professional Background:
Assistant Professor, Physical Education, Keene State College, Keene, NH, since 1982;
Administrative Appointment (50%): Assistant Dean, Professional and Graduate Studies, Keene State College, Keene, NH, 2010-present (still hold faculty rank);
Administrative Appointment (100%): Director of Academic Advising, Keene State College, Keene, NH, 1986-88 (still held faculty rank);
Instructor, Physical Education, Keene State College, Keene, NH, 1976-82;
Instructor, Physical Education (1-8), Swetman Learning Center, SUNY Oswego (NY), 1973-76;
Teacher, Physical Education (1-6), Clinton Central School, Clinton, NY, 1970-73;
Teacher, Physical Education (K-6), Beverly Public Schools, Beverly, MA, 1969-70
Awards & Accolades:
NHAHPERD Meritorious Achievement Award presented at the NH Excellence in Education Awards Dinner, June 2007;
NHAHPERD Outstanding Professional Award for College Teaching - November 1999;
EDA Acknowledgment Award - February 1998;
NHAHPERD Merit Award - November 1996
Selected Professional Work:
NCATE/NASPE Certified Reader, Initial Physical Education Programs, 2003-present; Committee Member, NH Physical Education K-12 Assessment Document, 2005-2007; Committee Member, NH K-12 Physical Education Curriculum Guidelines, 2002-2005;
Endorsed by the NH State Board of Education, 2005


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I have heard or read something that the LDS church teaches that there will be marriage and even polygamy in the after life for people who are good Mormons. Is this available for all people are just a few? And what are the specific teachings about this?
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Preparing for Exaltation Teachers Manual - Lesson 41: Eternal Marriage
If you are married in an LDS temple, for time and all eternity, and you reach the highest of the three degrees of glory after death, the celestial kingdom, and your wife and children reach the celestial kingdom, your marriage and your family is yours forever.
So no, eternal marriage and family are not for everybody.
If a man marries more than one woman while on earth, because of the first wife's death, then he will be married to both women in the celestial kingdom.
Women who make it to the celestial kingdom because of their faithfulness, and whose husbands don't make it to the celestial kingdom, because of unfaithfulness, are eligible to marry a different, faithful husband in the celestial kingdom.
Edited to add answers to the questions in Narnian's comment:
The woman would be the wife of the earliest celestially worthy husband.
No. There would be men who don't have celestial wives.
In the instance of a woman being married to several husbands in this life, she can only be sealed or "Eternally married to one while living. Assuming all of the husbands were worthy she would have been sealed to the first,for eternity, and the others just for this life. Incidentally, there are more righteous women than men, so there will be fewer men available in the highest kingdom. Hope this helps, Peter.


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10 Ideas to Naturally Bring on Labor
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Prolonged nipple stimulation that mimics a nursing baby releases oxytocin. Oxytocin is the hormone that causes contractions. Gently rolling or rubbing your nipples might be the nudge your body needs for the big event.
For the best chance at results, some sources say you need to rub the whole areola, not just the nipple, three times a day for around an hour at a time. If you've got three hours a day to devote solely to nipple stimulation, it's worth giving it a try!
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Plow, plant and harvest on the go 24/7! FarmVille, the most popular game on the web, is now available on your iPhone. Current FarmVille players can access their existing Facebook farm, and new users can create a farm.
Choose from a variety of seeds to grow beautiful fruits and vegetables. Earn coins and XP to decorate your farm or expand your acreage. Work faster with vehicles like tractors and seeders, and rear livestock including cows, sheep, and pigs. The more you help your neighbors, the faster you'll level up. Exclusive iPhone/iPod items available!
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first comment FTW! ;)
@perkalicious11: ummmmm congrats? you win nothing.. in fact everyone will probably yell at you so .. you kinda lose.
Anyway Farmvile FARMVILE the new game is frontiervile!
@perkalicious11: I won't yell at you. I will cheer for you: Yeah!!!!
I don't have an iPhone but I am addicted to this foolish game on fb. I used to make fun of my friends, now I'm one of them.
@st2439: I tried Frontierville: my crops kept dying right away.
@st2439: :-P
when you don't comment on deals, they may not go popular, so I got the ball rolling with the first comment. and look at that, it spawned more comments. don't try harassing me because you don't understand how the system works. I'm just trying to help out @unclefrog with his legitimate share that happens to cost $0.
@mtrlgrl: yay for breaking up comments into two. ;)
@st2439: I won't be yelling @perkalicious11... we're just testing a theory. However, I don't think this deal is going to get enough votes to accurately test. No harm in trying. :-)
@perkalicious11: I do my best.
I have a neighbor who keeps singing to herself, "scooby, dooby doo", all the time. This has nothing to do with this deal. Just wanted an excuse to write another comment.
Ok, I'll tie it in: if she were busy playing Farmville she probably wouldn't sing.
@mtrlgrl: LOL! I have a neighbor who I've met several times since I moved in, and every time she asks my name and says "HI! I'm Janet! Your dog reminds me so much of my first dog..." then launches into the same story.
How does that tie in? Ummm, maybe if I played Farmville my neighbor would remember me! :-P
I don't play farmville, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...
@perkalicious11: She might be happier playing Petville. Hey, @unclefrog any free app for Petville on the iPhone?
@perkalicious11: Im not harassing you im waring you that shouting FIRST isn't really a good way to start a comment thread.. not a nice one anyway.
@mtrlgrl: Yea but you can kill snakes beat up gophers and yell at bears!
@mtrlgrl: I think that might exist in Dogbook, Catbook, and the like. Which makes me think: my dog's Dogbook page really doesn't get much love because I can't get to it from my phone.
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We have pay-as-you-go regular cell phones (no data plan or contract, no smartphones or tablets or land line). Diablo will not allow us to use our phone numbers when we try to sign up to be able to use the RMAH. Is there anything we can do to legitimately participate in that part of the game without having to change phones and carriers?
There are two ways to use the RMAH, once via PayPal (which needs SMS Authentication) or via Battle.net Balance which only works if you have an authenticator attached to your account. So since you can't use your mobile to use SMS authentication you are left with Battle.net balance and an authenticator attached to your account. Here you have 2 options:
I just want to offer a suggestion to use winauth. It's a very useful application. I can also attest that it works fine for people without a smartphone. I passed this website to my friend who like you has a dumb phone and has no problem using it for his account.
The other thing that I find useful.I have the authenticator on my android smart phone, but sometimes I'll leave my phone upstairs in my house or charging somewhere in another room. Once I changed the serial and authenticator code to match my phone. I now can always pull it up on my computer if needed. Also includes a handy send to clipboard function if you are logging in via a browser. There are also options to encode the serial and put a password on the application if you would like as well. Overall a very useful program.
The other useful thing I want to comment on as well is you can write down your serial code for your authenticator and if you are ever in a spot where you don't have you authenticator on you, you can download the application and get your key as long as you have that serial code (saved somewhere securely I hope).


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Syracuse-Dunbar-Avoca picked up a second place finish at it's home invitational meet on Wednesday at the Syracuse Country Club.
The Rockets shot 353, while Elmwood-Murdock claimed first place by shooting 326 at the 18-hole and 10-team tournament.
Jake Kuhlman of the Elmwood-Murdock team shot first place, while S-D-A's Harrsion Agena was second in the final individual results.
Blayne Roberts of S-D-A also finished in the top 10.
Nebraska City's reserve squad finished in 10th place with the top shooter on the squad being Nick Shawhan.
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text: Now you will begin another fun filled lesson that is going to be on "how to draw a bird for kids", step by step. Besides the wolf I submitted, this is probably one of my favorite because it really is cute, simple, and a very easy lesson to follow. I have plenty of bird tutorials submitted here on Dragoart, but none of them are as easy as this one here. If you have been saying that you want to make a bird but you never found the right lesson, look no further because you have just found the tutorial of your dreams. If you are a kid, or a beginning artist, you will have fun teaching yourself "how to draw a bird for kids". Thanks for joining me with this lesson guys, and be sure to keep those requests coming in.


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I am starting with spherical panorama's, i am using the following ;
nikon d200
tokina 12-24
Nodal ninja mk3 + rd8 rotator.
I have some questions,,,,
1. Must i use the AF mode, or do manual focus ?
2. if i use manual focus, where to focus ? (close or far away)
3. What diafragma to use ?
4. sometimes I see examples of a spherical panorma, with people on it ! How do they do that ? (or do i just need a more fisheye lens ?)
I saw a sigma 4.5 mm for sale, is this a good lens for making spherical panorama's ?


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Currently search and replace dialogs work great, and they look like in Windows Notepad.
Which is not very handy nowadays, many IDEs provide search capabilities using toolbars and many has "Wrap around" feature, which is simply jumping from last search result to first. And nowadays IDEs even don't have that "up/down" option, they just have "next/previous" instead. I will try to implement it, using same search engine. My code is not very good, of course you could make it much better, but I understand that you are busy and will try to make it on my own.


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The diminutive forward had a big game, setting up both goals as his team condemned Vancouver to another game without a win.Real Salt Lake defeated the Vancouver Whitecaps 2-0 at Rio Tinto Stadium. Forward Joao Plata was instrumental for the home side, picking up assists on both goals.
The Royals grabbed a lead just after after halftime. Plata collected Nick Rimando's long goal kick and played a fantastic cross right onto the head of Luis Gil for the youngster to head home.
The home side doubled its advantage in the 71st minute, Plata feeding Javier Morales to apply the finish following a flowing RSL counterattack.
Vancouver has now failed to win in seven straight league games and sits on a 2-4-3 record. RSL moves up to third in the West with a 4-4-2 showing on the year.


text: Edwin Guarin is an Academic Developer Evangelist with Microsoft based in Boston. In 2000, he graduated with a B.A. in Computer Science from Boston Univesrity and joined Microsoft as a Support Engineer for Exchange Server. Prior to being an ADE, Edwin was a Rapid Response Engineer - Northeast Regional Team Lead. In his current role he educates, excites and empowers students and faculty about technology and its career possibilities, and he loves his job!


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Most people have heard of whey protein, but not everyone knows exactly what it is. But, once you are introduced to this supplement, you will never look back. Essentially, it is the protein particles that are extracted from whey. Whey is the liquid material that is left over during the cheese making process. The proteins are extracted simply by drying the whey. It is then ground into a powder and sold as is, or in pill form.
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The logout screen in Lubuntu 12.04 has several options. I'd like to remove or inactivate the "suspend" and "hibernate" options. Is that possible?
As far I as know you cannot remove/change them (unless you edit the source code and recompile).
To disable suspend / hibernate, you can edit
After this the suspend / hibernate are still in the Lubuntu logout window, but if you click them they do nothing (other than lock you out and you need to re-enter the password).
The content that need to be edited is between
It should be noted that these changes could be nullified by subsequent updates. A way to work around that is to set up a policy as described by the answers here.


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5 Supposedly Brilliant Movie Doctors Who Suck at Their Job
Everyone who has ever watched a movie knows that reality gets tweaked to allow for more car chases and emotional epiphanies. Unfortunately for the medical profession, this means that movies are full of doctors who are terrible at being doctors. Don't know what we mean? Well, consider ...
#5. Dr. Malcolm Crowe in The Sixth Sense Is Fine With Talking to No One
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In The Sixth Sense, Bruce Willis plays Dr. Malcolm Crowe, who is supposed to be one of the best child psychologists in Philadelphia. He won an award from the mayor and (spoiler alert, in case you waited 14 years to see this movie) even the obstacle of being dead doesn't stop him from trying to help kids.
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"Immortality really helps you focus on your long-term goals."
In the movie's prologue, Crowe is shot and killed by a deranged former patient. Thinking he survived the gunshot, the ghost of the doctor just goes on with his normal life. He meets an especially troubled kid named Cole (Haley Joel Osment), the product of a broken home whose favorite hobby is hiding in churches and whispering Latin to board game pieces. Cole has mysterious cuts and bruises all over, and claims to see dead people (which, unbeknownst to Crowe, is the only reason the two of them can communicate).
The movie then shows us what a great, empathetic psychiatrist Crowe is, even in spirit form. Making a strong connection with Cole almost immediately, Crowe becomes Cole's voice of reason and sanity, going far beyond the call of duty to provide him with stability and advice and help him come to terms with his gift (or curse, as the case may be).
But Wait a Minute ...
The fact that Crowe can't talk to anyone but Cole is ... a fairly big problem here.
Perhaps he has always communicated by writing on fogged glass.
If you've forgotten, the key plot twist is that only the kid can see Crowe's ghost -- Crowe talks to Cole and no one else. Which means that one thing Crowe, genius child psychologist and literal child savior, doesn't do in his ardent mission to help this poor kid is talk to the kid's mother. Or teachers. Or anyone else that an actual child psychologist would be interested in talking to in order to gain some much-needed context and perspective on his patient.
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Although after the Munchausen-by-proxy mom, can you really blame him?
Now, the movie excuses Crowe's lack of interaction with the world in general because he's deluded about the fact that he's dead -- his wife doesn't speak to him, but he assumes it's because their marriage has grown cold and distant. He doesn't have any friends because he has withdrawn from society since the shooting. But how in the hell could he think he was doing an awesome job at child psychology without talking to the people in the kid's life?
Because this is key information he's missing here -- did he not think Cole's mother might have something to say about the clearly visible injuries running up and down her child's arms? This means Crowe is apparently getting his entire case history exclusively from Cole, a kid whom he believes to be delusional. And it's not like a bunch of events conspire to prevent these conversations, either -- he's in the same room as Cole's mother several times, and instead of talking to her, he apparently just ... quietly stares at her.
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Words won't tell you half as much about a person as a long, silent stare.
For example, eventually Cole gets hospitalized, and when the doctors in the ER see all of his cuts and bruises, they suspect Cole's mother might be abusive. They bring a social worker in to ask her some questions. As this is happening, Crowe is sitting right there, visibly disagreeing with what the ER doctor is saying. But rather than sharing his expert opinion and making sure Cole's mother doesn't go to jail, he just sits there. Does Crowe not understand that the mother is the one good thing in Cole's shitty life full of bullies and poltergeists? Why does it never occur to him to do anything but shun her?
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"Note to self: I should probably get around to exonerating Cole's mom sometime."
We're kind of siding with the kid who shot him at this point.
#4. Dr. Rosen in A Beautiful Mind Stages a Terrifying Kidnapping
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We've written before about how the "based on a true story" film A Beautiful Mind was about as true to the real life of John Nash as Space Jam was to the real life of Michael Jordan. To raise the dramatic stakes, the filmmakers twisted the truth like a balloon animal, and in so doing, they accidentally made the fictional version of John Nash's psychiatrist seem like kind of a sadist.
Halfway through the film, Nash's mental illness has spiraled out of control. His co-workers have seen him carrying around folders of "classified documents" and dropping them off at abandoned houses. He's been talking to himself and anxiously peering out of closed blinds at night. He's the poster boy for paranoia, and he needs serious help.
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We're talking, like, Dr. Phil serious.
Fortunately, it's at this point that Nash gets admitted to a hospital by Dr. Rosen, and some emergency treatment starts him on the road to recovery.
But Wait a Minute ...
So how do they go about getting Nash into the hospital?
Concerned about Nash's well-being and sensitive to his extremely fragile emotional and mental state, his doctor devises a professional and well-considered plan: He decides to publicly abduct Nash with the help of three menacing men in dark suits.
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"It's reverse psychology! By confirming that all his worst fears are true, it will ... you know ... cure him?"
Nash is visiting a college at the time, and in the middle of giving a guest lecture, Rosen and his menacing entourage of suits barge in from the back of the hall and slowly advance toward Nash. Nash runs away (even someone who isn't paranoid might do the same in that situation), leading his pursuers on a Benny Hill chase around the campus before they ultimately sedate him and drag him into an unmarked black car.
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"Wait ... if you were really kidnapping me, you'd put a bag over my head. You guys had me going there for a minute!"
Needless to say, attempting to subdue a paranoid schizophrenic by making it seem like one of his very worst fears is coming true is the psychiatric equivalent of treating a severe burn with a can of hair spray and a lighter. For starters, paranoid schizophrenics are significantly more likely than healthy people to commit suicide. The doctor and his assistants were insanely lucky that Nash didn't get so overwhelmed by the chase that he threw himself out of a window. Next up, paranoid personality treatments are strongly focused on the goal of reducing stress. Let's say that one more time: reducing stress. Not amping it up to 11 with an abduction by the Men in Black.
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"Calm down before I shoot you in the face!"
We understand that it was never going to be easy to get Nash into treatment. But they could have given him an intervention in the privacy of his own home, with his wife and friends there. Instead, Rosen opted to nab the man in an unfamiliar place, getting himself punched and embarrassing Nash in front of dozens of colleagues and students. Why exactly did Rosen even want to be a doctor? The thrill of the chase?
#3. Dr. Patel in Silver Linings Playbook Does a Dangerous Experiment for No Reason
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Silver Linings Playbook is about a man named Pat (Bradley Cooper) who is suffering from bipolar disorder and his romance with the equally screwed-up Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence). Guiding Pat through his recovery is his court-ordered psychiatrist, Dr. Patel, who, true to Hollywood doctor tradition, likes to use methods that are a little outside the box.
Early in the film, Pat has just gotten out of a mental hospital and goes to see the psychiatrist. When he gets to the waiting room, he hears Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amour" playing over the sound system. He frantically searches for where the music is coming from, knocking over some furniture and scaring the living hell out of the other people in the waiting room.
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"I can't change it! I've already used my skips for this hour!"
Why would that song freak him out? It was the song that was playing when he discovered that his wife was having an affair, triggering a mental breakdown that prompted him to beat the other man nearly to death. That's when he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and the court ordered him to stay in a psych ward for eight months. Since then, "My Cherie Amour" has become his personal trigger for anger and anxiety. Sometimes he even hears it when it's not actually playing.
We then find out that Pat's doctor actually arranged for that song to be playing when Pat walked in. Patel explains, "I just wanted to see if it was still a trigger for you."
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Mission accomplished.
But Wait a Minute ...
You know what would've been another way to find out if that song was still a trigger for Pat? He could've said, "Hey, Pat, is that one Stevie Wonder song still a trigger for you?" What reason would Pat have to not tell him the truth? At the very least Patel could've waited until Pat got into his office and given him a heads up that he was going to play the song to gauge his reaction.
Instead, Patel turned this into some kind of weird, informal psych experiment. In a profession where establishing trust with your patient is key, he forced Pat to question his grip on reality (since he's had auditory hallucinations of this song in the past) without Pat's consent, in front of strangers. Moreover, Patel subjected his other patients in the waiting room to the volatile reaction that he forced out of an ill, unmedicated, extremely dangerous guy whose previous violent behavior nearly killed a man.
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"My patients sign one fuckbeast of a waiver."


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If you have been checking out the PPK blog you will have noticed that Isa posted her answers to the Vegan MoFo Survey. I almost fell out of my chair when I read her reponse to the question 23, "Food blog you read the most." She writes, and I quote, "Right now I've been liking Vegan Dad (even though he kinda disses me)."
It was a moment of great elation, followed by shame/remorse, then elation/shame. Let me say now that no dissing was intended. I am a professional historian and professor, so I guess criticism runs in my blood (especially when it comes to reviewing books!). I just wanted to provide helpful and honest (albeit personal) assessments of your recipes for those out in vegan bloggerdom (for whatever that is worth).
On a personal note, Vegan With A Vengeance is the cookbook that helped me transition to veganism. Its well worn pages and cover attest to its importance. Thank you for everything you have done for vegan cooking, and how you have helped me and my family.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
A Note to Isa: No Dissing Intended!
If you have been checking out the PPK blog you will have noticed that Isa posted her answers to the Vegan MoFo Survey. I almost fell out of my chair when I read her reponse to the question 23, "Food blog you read the most." She writes, and I quote, "Right now I've been liking Vegan Dad (even though he kinda disses me)."
Posted by Vegan Dad at 11:13 PM
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- Isa said...
Aww. Well, I don't mind the criticism. Now I'm embarrassed! I was just being playful about the dissing. I'm going to put up a few tips for the chickpea cutlets to make sure everyone likes them. Unless you hate chickpeas and cutlets.
- November 27, 2007 at 11:55 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
I have haboured latent resentment for cutlets from time to time, but chickpeas have always been a favourite. I look forward to your tips.
- November 28, 2007 at 6:58 AM
- Lynn / vigilant20 said...
I feel special for reading a blog that famous people like.
- November 28, 2007 at 12:26 PM
- Happy Herbivore said...
you were in my answer to number 23!
- November 28, 2007 at 12:33 PM
- Nurse Veggie said...
This has nothing to do with the above posting, but I just wanted to say a big thanks to both vegan dad and Isa and all the other vegan bloggers out there. I'm a very very new vegan (like 3 days and counting). I just wanted everyone who has vegan blogs and cookbooks to know how thankful I am.
They are all great resources and are tremendously inspiring. I've just moved from Ottawa, Canada to Seattle, Washington which is a vegan haven let me tell you! I know that this is going to be the best decision I've ever made.
So please keep up the good work and know that your ideas and words mean a great deal to many people.
wow, this comment is a little emotional for 9:55am!
- November 28, 2007 at 12:57 PM
- Canned Veg said...
I was wondering if you'd make a statement when I read PPK. Personally, I appreciated the criticism in regards to the complicated nature of the dish. I know that is something I cannot try on weeknights--once I get my copy of Veganomicon that is (checks Amazon order status and sees it has been 12 days since the order was placed and still not shipped).
- November 28, 2007 at 1:55 PM
- forthebirds said...
Vegan Dad, you Rock!
That was my way of incorporating the two blogs. I came across your blog via PPK and I wanted to say that with a bustling family life and a career I applaud your dedication and insight. I value what you have to say and have come back to visit many times as a source of inspiration.
Thank you.
- November 28, 2007 at 1:58 PM
- Alexis said...
I really appreciated your commentary on the Chickpea Cutlets. My boyfriend and I made them last night and followed your suggestion to use a food processor and bake rather than pan-fry, and they came out great.
- November 28, 2007 at 5:05 PM
- VeggieGirl said...
aww, I'm sure there's no hard feelings - I love this blog, and Isa's cookbooks, so I hope everyone can live in peace! :0)
- November 28, 2007 at 8:49 PM


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I am just starting to learn about schemes and algebraic geometry in general, but I am finding it very hard to visualize things. For example, affine schemes that look like varieties are easily visualized. But how about infinite dimensional or nonproper things? Or fibre products of schemes? So just throwing out this question to all algebraic geometers: When you are doing your research, how much of your results come from the geometric intuition? If one were to start the research in algebraic geometry, what would you say the most important things is?
Well, you asked 10 different questions, and I am not sure what you mean by "nonproper" ($Spec A$ is not proper). But let's see.
A scheme is a very geometric object, with practice - or maybe just habit - one learns to visualize it quite well. If you already see geometrically $Spec$ of a finitely generated algebra over a field $k$ (including algebras with nilpotents which you visualize as "thickenings", including $k$ not algebraically closed which you visualize as Galois orbits; you looked at these, right? these are important steps) then you are almost there. Add some other standard examples such as $Spec(\mathbb Z)$, DVR, a double-headed snake (the first nonseparated scheme), and you already know plenty do start doing research.
Infinite-dimensional algebras? Well, I suppose it is just as hard or easy to imagine them as infinite-dimensional spaces.
The fiber product is a perfectly geometric notion as well, and fairly easy to visualize. You begin by looking at fiber products of sets and you progress from there through some standard examples. Isolating a fiber of a morphism is an important case. And then look at some examples where the residue fields of the scheme points change. Learn the simple way to compute the tensor product $A\otimes_R B$ by using generators and relations of $A$, and you will be up and running in no time.
As far as the balance of geometry vs algebra, I suppose that depends on a person and everybody is different. My advisor used to say that geometry comes first and then later algebra follows, and I tend to agree. I think you get nowhere without geometric intuition.
But if you are serious, at some point you will need a solid commutative algebra foundation. Fortunately these days there are plenty of nice books, starting with the very nice and elementary "Undergraduate commutative algebra" by Miles Reid.
I suggest looking at the illustrations in The Geometry of Schemes by Eisenbud and Harris and Algebraic Geometry by Hartshorne. Both books have many carefully drawn pictures of schemes that are not varieties. In general, I think it helps to compute, or at least have in mind, some relatively simple examples of a phenomenon. For example, if you want to view the graph of a morphism as a fiber product over the diagonal of the target, you can try the complex affine line first.
I don't think most people make much of an effort to visualize infinite dimensional schemes, or even complicated finite dimensional schemes.
One thing that the other answers haven't addressed yet is infinite-dimensionality. But every algebra over a noetherian ring is a filtered colimit of finitely generated algebras, which can be visualized individually. For example, $\mathbf{C}(z)$ is the colimit of the rings $\mathbf{C}[z][1/f(z)]$, as $f(z)$ runs over more and more highly divisible nonzero polynomials. So it is reasonable to view $\mathrm{Spec}\ \mathbf{C}(z)$ as the limit of the affine line punctured by an exhaustively increasing family of points (closed!).
In fact, if I remember the category of schemes [edit: quasi-compact and quasi-separated] is equivalent to the category of projective systems of schemes of finite type whose transition maps are affine. So, in some basic sense, the finite-dimensional case determines everything.
The main thing I've never been able to find a way to visualize is the Frobenius map in positive characteristic.
It depends on what you mean by "visualize"...
For things like properness, separatedness, finiteness, smoothness, fiber products, tangent vectors, etc., I usually found it helpful to first understand the analogous things for sets and/or (real, differentiable) manifolds. But if you do this, you have to also keep in mind that the situation for schemes is usually more subtle than the situation for sets and manifolds; while the situations are analogous, they are sometimes not exactly analogous. Another issue is that you might not always know what the appropriate differential geometry analogues of many algebraic geometry concepts are; they're not always spelled out in commonly used books like Hartshorne. For example, I spent a very long time being totally confused by the valuative criterion for properness and could never remember the statement --- until I realized that properness corresponds to compactness in differential geometry, and that the valuative criterion is roughly analogous to sequential compactness (which is equivalent to compactness, for metric spaces, e.g. manifolds) in general topology.
Another thing that I find helpful is to first understand things in the complex setting before moving to the general setting. For example, complex varieties are examples of complex manifolds; complex curves are just Riemann surfaces. The best way, in my opinion, to get a basic handle on for instance finite morphisms is to understand what they are in the case of complex curves: they are branched covers of Riemann surfaces.
Aside: Personally, I think that students of algebraic geometry should take a course on Riemann surfaces before (or while) taking a course on abstract algebraic geometry. Certainly I wish that I had done this. The theory of Riemann surfaces is very beautiful and I think it really helps to motivate some of the "big theorems" that you typically build up to in a first course in abstract algebraic geometry: for example Riemann-Roch and Riemann-Hurwitz.
Probably it is not hard to guess that I also think that students of algebraic geometry should have taken a course on differential geometry before taking a course on abstract algebraic geometry.
I decided to post this separately:
an excellent blog post by Lieven Le Bruyn.
In this post, he analyzes in detail Mumford's drawing (in the red book) of the "arithmetic surface".
Just wonderful!
I've found this set of notes http://math.mit.edu/~poonen/papers/Qpoints.pdf by Bjorn Poonen very helpful in learning arithmetic geometry. I'd read everything very carefully and do all the exercises there. Bjorn is a master of exposition.


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I read somewhere that a set is infinite if and only if it has a proper infinite subset. I also remember seeing someones name attached to this theorem on Wikipedia once, but I can't even find that now. I haven't been able to find a proof of this theorem, nor been able to generate one myself.
I can prove that if a set has a proper infinite subset then it is itself infinite by proving the contrapositive that if a set is finite then it does not have any proper infinite subsets (this is a simple contradiction proof).
But I can't figure out how to, given an arbitrary infinite set, construct a proper infinite subset. Does this require the Axiom of Choice? I can't really figure out how to do it with that either. A proof or reference to a proof would be much appreciated.


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What is the big deal with Instagram?
Not having used Instagram myself (or heard of it before yesterday), I hope someone out there in the deals.woot ether can help: what is Instagram and why does anybody care?
Also, why would Facebook spend a thousand million dollars to buy it?
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When you take pictures with it on your smartphone, it can make your pictures look like they were taken with a vintage camera, for purposes of pretentiousness.
No idea why Facebook bought it - possibly just because they like it.
It's for hipsters.
Facebook is buying it because there are a large number of users...as simple as that. Facebook makes advertising dollars for every user and amount of time spent using.
I doubt this purchase happens if not for the Facebook IPO....they will be awash in cash.
Just another internet fad that will get very old very quickly.
@wickedd365: It's way to mainstream for hipsters. It's for people who want hipsters to like them and want their online friends to think they're hip.
My wife tried it the other day but once you take or modify you're picture with the app, using several filters and frames, you have to share the picture on any number of social networking sites or upload it to the Instagram gallery. There didn't seem to be a way to save the altered photo's locally. A waste of time, and Facebook's money.
As to why Facebook would spend $1 B on what is surely a flash in the pan, I heard a report this morning that said it was because they saw them as competition in the online photo sharing sector.
Also, why didn't Facebook just download it? It's free.
I read the best comment on Twitter: Facebook, $1B for a sepia filter? C'mon.
@apocello42: On iPhone's, once you modify a photo it's saved automatically to your camera roll. It does for me anyway...
simple: they bought out one of their competitors
@morriea: Unlikely because there's probably a large overlap between the two users. Two theories:
1 - As stated by Zuck, FB's photo sharing sucks and wanted the tech. I doubt this is true cause you can create that for less.
2 - Instagram is 18 months and grew to 30M iPhone users and more will come with the recent Android launch. Basically, FB bought a potential future competitor. Systrom, Instagram's CEO, took the safe bet and sold instead of risk becoming the next Friendster.
@wootfast: That's why Amazon bought you guys?! :O
Disclaimer I do not use The Facebook
So Facebook has a *clunky (technical term) interface. Instagram is user friendly easy to use even grandma can use it. People love to share photos, and people love easy things.
@omnichad: They bought it so your mirror profile pic looks rustic and old-timey.
I love Instagram, I use it to upload all most of my pictures to Facebook. It make average pictures look nice and is easier to use to upload pictures to Facebook than using the Facebook iPhone app. The community is nice too to share photos with friends who are not on Facebook, although I don't use that part of it very much.
I salute the Instagram folks and wish them the best. Well played!
they bought it because it had the potential to replace facebook one day. Cheaper to buy it than fight it.
@josefresno: Absolutely. I'm guessing the new model for Silicon Valley is:
1) Develop iPhone application that has some social networking features and has appeal maninly to hipsters living in San Fransisco and New York City.
2) ????
3) Get popular with said hipsters.
4) Sell out to Facebook
5) Profit!!
But, really, well played to Instagram, and (for that matter) OMGPop, the folks that made Draw Something. They have 29 very mediocre games, one really good one, then have the sense to sell out to Zynga before Zynga completely copies their idea. Very well played, sirs.
@josefresno: I agree.
Instagram is great because it allows users to "see" things they were not able to see before. It gives the users a perspective that is not their own (by applying filters) and gives them a feeling that they have some new perspective of some everyday objects. They are inspired.
It was built by a team of people who understand human behaviors, feelings and had the gut and the resources/skills to tap into that and profit from it.
Well played, indeed. I love seeing the disparaging comments, and I always wonder what those who criticize have ever accomplished anything on even a much smaller scale.
Viva entrepreneurship!
@wilfbrim: If it were that simple, every one would have done it.
Obviously...it isn't.
@first2summit: You beat me to it.
I'd also predict this will be the new way of going about it. Facebook/Google/Apple will start picking off companies like this early in the game-ala the old dot-conomy-and more of these companies will take the easy money and run-UNLIKE the Zuck who told Yahoo where to go.
I am curious where Facebook got that kind of money from. They borrow money from every investor out there, their business model is poor, and their revenue stream is not at the place it should be.
Five years from now it will be just another dot.com bubble that burst.
@atd15: Zuckerberg probably just cut them a check.
@caffeine_dude: I figure that means that within 6 months the ease of use will disappear, advertising will magically start showing up, and the entire program will be magically transmogrified into something useless to the folks who value its ease of use.
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5 Creepy Ways Animal Societies Are Organizing
#2. Ants Can Farm
We've already made it extensively clear that the world will not end in fire or ice, but covered in ants.
But besides their colonies -- which oh by the way are ridiculously extensive underground labyrinths...
... what's so special about these insects?
Well, humans, with our big, fancy brains, have been around for 250,000 years or so but it took us until very recently (15,000 or so years ago) to "invent" the idea of growing our own food rather than just finding berries and nuts out in the wild. And while people like to say that art, or fire, or "love" is man's greatest invention, the Statue of David can suck it, because agriculture is the most important thing man has done. Farming allowed man to stay in one place, inadvertently giving rise to towns, cities, states -- shaping civilization as we know it.
Somewhere along the line, we replaced crude huts with 3D pornography and Bugles.
But if we'd been watching ants, we'd have figured it out a lot sooner. Long before we were even chasing wooly mammoths with spears or riding around in our crude, foot-powered cars, ants had mastered the art of sustainable agriculture.
And the art of buttsex.
Leaf cutter ants will take cut up bits of plant into their ant-hills. Then, instead of just eating them, they'll lay the bits down and shit on them so that a certain fungus will grow. They then cultivate the fungus, feeding it new plant material when necessary. They even have developed techniques to protect their fungus from other, non-edible molds -- so not only are they farming, they've made themselves a safe and effective pesticide.
And they did all of this 50 million years before we came along..
In another 50 million years, they could have Pong.
#1. Killer Whales and Crows Share Ideas
It's widely known among seagulls that if you wind up getting eaten by a whale, you sucked as a seagull. You can fly. A whale lives in the water and weighs several tons.
This is as high as they can fly.
But staff at MarineLand (a Canadian SeaWorld) saw one of their orca whales come up with an ingenious bird-catching method: He'd take some of the fish staff were feeding him, chew them up and spit them out on the surface of the water. Then a bird would dive down for the easy meal, and the whale would leap up and eat the bird while the victim's bird peers sighed and rolled their eyes. The whale was baiting them.
That's not the weird thing. Soon, the orca's younger half-brother started spitting fish and ambushing birds using the same technique. Later, two adult females started the activity. They were teaching the technique to one another.
Along with algebra and long division.
This is not the sort of thing animals should be able to do. That's why bears don't know how to ride unicycles unless we humans show them how. It's kind of creepy when they do it on their own.
Of course, where you find creepy behavior, you can be sure crows will be jumping on board.
Up yours, crows.
Crows, if you didn't know, have the ability to make and share tools better than most primates. But in a recent experiment, two crows were each given a vial of food and a length of wire. We'll call them Crow A and Crow B, since Crow Shadeslayer and Crow Knightsword might be too complicated. For Crow A, the wire was bent so that it could easily be used to access the food. For the other (Crow B), the wire was straight and unhelpful.
Crow A, recognizing the tool for what it was, easily used it to get at its meal and departed. Crow B, doing something that birds should not fucking be able to do, observed Crow A, then calmly bent its own wire into an identical hook. Keep in mind, that crow had never encountered metal wire before, and it had no idea what the properties of the stuff were. It figured it out. That's new crow technology happening right before our eyes.
Oh, and as a side note, researchers would routinely come into the habitat and find the fire alarms had been disassembled. BY THE GODDAMNED CROWS.
It's a small step from there to here.
Yeah that's the point where it crosses into "unsettling" for us.
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I was raped at 16, but I didn't tell my parents until I was 27. The case in Steubenville, Ohio, and stories like mine, are common in part because we keep quiet about them.
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NetBeans 7.4 Release Candidate, with Cordova support
By Petr Jiricka on Sep 19, 2013
NetBeans IDE 7.4 has reached an important milestone: Release Candidate 1. This means that it is pretty much usable for day to day development, and we expect only a handful of fixes before it hits the final release. You can download the RC1 build from netbeans.org.
Among other features and improvements, one notable feature included in NetBeans 7.4 is the new Cordova development support. This feature was not mentioned in this blog until now, because lately we have been busy updating NetBeans to the new Cordova 3.0 release. So, we are pleased to say that NetBeans 7.4 supports this new Cordova release.
Geertjan has a great screencast, whose first part covers getting started with Cordova in NetBeans, and whose sequels will explain all the features in depth. For the impatient, here is the list of features for Cordova development in NetBeans IDE 7.4:
- Cordova project wizard
- Building Cordova projects for Android and iOS targets
- Running on Android and iOS devices and emulators
- Quick testing on desktop browsers/emulators, such as Chrome with the Ripple emulator
- On-device visual CSS editing on iOS devices (and iOS Simulator)
- On-device JavaScript debugging on iOS devices (and iOS Simulator)
- Cordova sample project included