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Join veteran journalist Shaka Ssali on Straight Talk Africa every Wednesday as he and his guests discuss topics of special interest to Africans, including politics, economic development, press freedom, health, social issues and conflict resolution.
Join veteran journalist Shaka Ssali on Straight Talk Africa every Wednesday as he and his guests discuss topics of special interest to Africans, including politics, economic development, press freedom, health, social issues and conflict resolution.
July 30, 2014
Host Shaka Ssali will introduce you to some extraordinary young Africans to share their experiences in U.S. President Barack Obama's 2014 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders program.
Washington Studio Guests: Isaac Mwanza, YALI Governance Advisor Zambia; Abella Bateyunga, BBC Media Action Tanzania, and Safiya Ahmad Nuhu, Public Law Lecturer at Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria
PreTaped Interview: Rumbidzai Dube, Research and Advocacy Unit Kadoma, Zimbabwe
July 23, 2014
Host Shaka Ssali and his guests discuss the African Diaspora's contributions to the continent.
Washington Studio Guests, Edouard Haba, City Councilman of Hyattsville, Maryland; Sylvester Okere, Maryland-Nigeria Sister State Executive Committee Chair and Ngozi Nmezi, Director of the Washington DC Mayor's Office on African Affairs
July 16, 2014
Host Shaka Ssali and his guests discuss the political landscape of South Sudan and how the East African nation is fairing three years after declaring independence.
VOA Reporter: John Tanza Mabusa, Host and Managing Editor, VOA's South Sudan In Focus via SKYPE: Nairobi, Kenya Guests: Moun Deng Ajuet, South Sudan Charge D 'Affairs to the U.S.; Nabeel Mohamed Biajo, Atlas Corps Fellows, & David S. Bassiouni, Ph.D., Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Bassiouni Group via UN Remote Studio
July 09, 2014
Shaka Ssali and his guests take a closer look at the lead up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals and examine why no African team has made it past the semi-finals.
VOA Correspondents: Scott Bobb, Regional Correspondent *Rio de Janeiro and Nicolas Pinault, French to Africa Correspondent *Belo Horizonte
Washington Studio Guests: Sonny Young, Host, VOA English to Africa's "Sonnyside of Sports" and Phillip Gyau, former U.S. Soccer Forward and Howard University Men's Soccer Head Coach
July 02, 2014
Host Shaka Ssali and his guests discuss the latest developments from the African Union Summit.
Guests: Fred Oladeinde, President of the Foundation for Democracy in Africa; Nii Akuetteh, International Policy Analyst and Founder of the Democracy & Conflict Research Institute; and Erastus Mwencha, African Union Deputy Chairperson via phone: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Join us every Wednesday for Straight Talk Africa - an international call-in talk show hosted by Shaka Ssali. Shaka and his guests discuss topics of special interest to Africans, including politics, economic development, press freedom, health, social issues and conflict resolution.
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Shaka, a Ugandan-born American journalist, holds a doctorate in cross-cultural communication and history from UCLA in California. He is a former Ford Foundation Fellow and has received numerous honors, including a United Nations Peacekeeping Special Achievement Award in International Journalism. Other awards include VOA's Best Journalist Award and Kigezi College Butobere's first ever Highest Achievement Award in International Human Communication. Butobere is located in Kabale, southwestern Uganda, and is Shaka's alma mater.
During his career, Shaka has interviewed and hosted many presidents and prime ministers. Among them: General Olusegun Obasanjo, Former President, Nigeria; Levy Patrick Mwanawasa; Former President, Zambia; Tony Blair, Former Prime Minister, United Kingdom; Botswana President Seretse Khama Ian Khama; Ghana President John Evans Atta Mills; Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President, Liberia; Hifikepunye Pohamba, President, Namibia; Uganda President Yoweri Museveni; Joseph Kabila, President, DRC; Rwanda President Paul Kagame; and General Salva Kiir, First Vice President, and president of the government of Southern Sudan.
He has also hosted newsmakers and policy makers who interact with Africa, including: Norbert Mao, President, Uganda Democratic Party; Johnnie Carson, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Donald Yamamoto, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Donald Kaberuka, President, African Development Bank; South African jazz legend Hugh Masekela; Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai; Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Court; Mo Ibrahim, Chairman Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Nobel Literature laureate Wole Soyinka; Professor Muna Ndulo, Cornell Law School; Professor Ali Mazrui, SUNY; Professor George Ayittey, American University; Professor Sulayman Nyang, Howard University; Uganda Supreme Court Justice George Kanyeihamba; Dr. Rebecca Nyandeing de Mabior, a Southern Sudan government official and widow of former SPLA leader Dr. John Garang; Jeff Sharlet, author, The Family; Bob Hunter, Associate, Fellowship Foundation; Mbulelo Rakwena, former South African Ambassador to Brazil; Baffour Ankomah, Editor, New African magazine.


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Spider Phobia: Brain Scan Shows Cure in 1 Session
May 21, 2012 -- Before receiving treatment for her lifelong fear of spiders, one Chicago college student would flee her dorm for days if she merely suspected one's presence. She worried that her phobia would keep her from living on her own after graduation.
Another woman did not travel because she was terrified of spiders, even though she had long dreamed of going to Europe.
But after a single, two-hour therapy session in which they confronted their fear in the form of a tarantula named Florence, both women showed remarkable improvement in their actions -- and in their brains -- according to a new imaging study.
The therapy was so successful that people who previously could not be in the same room with the tarantula were able to touch and even hold the spider immediately after the session -- and they still showed little fear of Florence when reunited with her six months later.
Confronting Phobias Head On
About 1 in 10 Americans have phobias -- excessive fears of an object or situation that can have a profound impact on life.
Arachnophobia, or the fear of spiders, is among the most common, along with fear of snakes (ophidiophobia), heights (acrophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), and enclosed spaces (claustrophobia).
Exposure therapy, which involves planned confrontation with the feared object, is among the most successful treatments for phobias and other anxiety disorders, such as social anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
The treatment is thought to train the brain to stop sending unwelcome "fight or flight" fear signals, and a new brain imaging study from Chicago's Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine suggests that this is exactly what happens.


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For the last couple of years, all of the serious projects I have worked on have been either web based, or had a non graphical user interface (services, command line scripts etc...). I can throw together a WinForms app or do some simple WPF when needed, but I've never really delved into some of the lower level API's like MFC or QT.
I understand that this depends on the situation but in general is it still worth taking the time to learn desktop development well or are applications moving to the web and mobile devices at a pace which makes this knowledge less relevant? Also, do you expect developers you work with to have desktop gui expertise?


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I'd like to build a simple desk; just a single plank of wood (or a few side-by-side) with solid supports on each end of the desk. What I'm trying to figure out is how thick a plank I want to use for the surface. Ideally, the desk will be able to support my weight (since sometimes I stand on my desk to change lights, etc), plus the weight of my computer stuff, plus some amount of safety margin.
So, supposing I have a desk surface that's eight feet wide, what equation do I need to use to figure out how thick it needs to be to support, e.g., 300lbs, placed in the middle? What properties of the wood type that I'm using do I need to determine? Is this an issue of tensile strength, or something entirely different?
This is obviously more a structural engineering problem than a physics one, but I didn't see a structuralengineering.stackexchange.com. Sorry if I posted to the wrong place.


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Health Careers EducationProgram that helps students gain insight into the health care industry, explore health-related areas, and prepare for career entry/postsecondary education.
The Health Careers Education (HCE) program is based on the comprehensive needs assessment of vocational education programs in the state plan submitted under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998. The health careers program presents information to students early in their education program that will cause them to consider a career in health care; to integrate the health careers curriculum across the disciplines; and to design cumulative, articulated content across the levels of education.
Health careers education programs operate at the high school and adult levels to achieve the goals and purposes as follows:
- Implementation of standards-based curriculum
- Use of standards-based assessment systems
- Continuing integration and sequencing of core academics and health careers context
- Incorporation of instruction in all aspects of the industry
- Curriculum and program strategies reflecting workplace needs
- Instructional and support services responsive to the needs of students
- Expansion of program articulation efforts with postsecondary options
- Improvement of guidance services
- Use of technology
Program Goal
The goal of the HCE program is to establish a rich, rigorous, integrated health careers path, kindergarten through employment, to serve students from every school in California. Establishing quality integrated programs that are accessible to all students will enable them to fulfill their individual career goals and will help meet the health care industry's human resource demands.
Benefits for Students
- Enables students to make career decisions consistent with their aptitudes, interests, abilities, and academic achievement.
- Provides a program of instruction that prepares students for postsecondary education and for employment.
- Enables more students to achieve higher levels of academic and career preparation.
- Provides added relevancy and meaning to the students' educational learning from kindergarten through employment.
- Eliminates the need for remediation for students in the health careers program who wish to enter postsecondary education or employment.
2015–16 Grant Awards
Provides a list of schools awarded continued funding for the Health Science Capacity Building Project for the 2016–17 program year.
Health Careers Resource Consortium
A statewide resource center that supports health careers education through technical assistance, professional development opportunities, resource documents, career path marketing materials, and summer Educator Internship Institutes. Resources for educators, students and health care industry partners are available through the Health Careers Resource Consortium Web site.
Health Occupations Students of America (Cal-HOSA)
A student organization whose mission is to promote career opportunities in health care and to enhance the delivery of quality health care to all people. Cal-HOSA provides a unique program of leadership development, motivation, and recognition exclusively for secondary, postsecondary, adult, and collegiate students enrolled in health occupations education programs. Membership in HOSA is restricted to health occupations students.
Career Pathways Consortia (CCPC)
Five individual consortia/projects have been involved in Career Technical Education and Tech Prep for a number of years: the Agriculture Project at Modesto Jr. College; the Business Project at Allan Hancock Community College District; the Health Services Project at Kern High School District; Engineering Project at American River College; and the Industrial and Technology Project at State Center Consortium. The mission of the CCPC is to offer a variety of services, products, and technical assistance to providers of career opportunities and education.
Care Foundation Standards
The standards reflect the skills and knowledge, both academic and technical, necessary to pursue a full range of opportunities within the health careers cluster from entry level to management, including technical and professional specialties.
Health Care Foundation Standards Assessment
A Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) is available at National Consortium on Health Science and Technology Education .This assessment will provide a certificate for students who pass both academic and technical skills necessary to pursue a full range of career opportunities within the health care cluster, including technical and professional career specialties.
The Health Careers Education Program is administered by:
Cindy Beck, Health Careers Education Programs Consultant
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Online parenting classes bring personalized knowledge home
SEATTLE — When she was young, Kathy Slattengren took care of abused kids, nurturing an interest in the amazing impact parenting has. Throughout college, she studied counseling and worked with runaway teens. And somewhere, in the back of her mind, she was sure that when she had kids, she'd know exactly what to do.
Her children were a surprise, because she figured out pretty fast that this thing called parenting was not as easy as it looked. So she did what she had always done when she wanted to know about a topic: She took classes, read books and talked to other parents.
Heather Ouida had a similar dose of reality when her children were born: "I promised myself that when I had children, my kids would never watch TV, stay up too late, eat junk food, scream in the supermarket, be fresh or throw sand in the sandbox," said the New York City mom. "I was so judgmental that I didn't realize I was even being so — until I had my first child."
These days, Slattengren and Ouida teach the classes. Slattengren conducts both in-person and online seminars on parenting through the business she founded, pricelessparenting.com. Ouida is co-founder and owner of mommybites.com, along with Laura Deutsch.
These mothers are all part of an increasingly popular stop on the cyber superhighway: Online parenting classes that help folks figure out what to do as they face the challenges that grow along with the kids. Parents are connecting to experts and other parents by the thousands, usually by computer but sometimes by telephone. Technology has made help and research available to pretty much anyone who wants it, in a format that matches schedules and how people learn.
Expanding bases
People who take online classes are as varied as the classes themselves. Slattengren is working with one mom who was raised in India by parents who told her what she should do. She did it.
Now that she's a mom herself, but in the United States, she finds what worked for her mom is not working for her or her 6-year-old. Recently, they've been talking about getting the results they want. The daughter has meltdowns when play dates are over.
"I talk about setting expectations beforehand," Slattengren said.
The woman is learning to tell her daughter how she expects the play date to end: The little girl will help clean up and say thanks to whomever invited her. Then they'll leave. It's that simple and that complex.
Debbie Godfrey of Ojai, Calif., started teaching parenting classes in 1995. When her oldest child was 6, she took a parenting class, not knowing it would not only give her skills to deal with her children, but awaken a desire to help others as it helped her. Eventually, she trained to teach a class and has been honing what works and why ever since. Her online classes reach a broad audience through her website, positiveparenting.com.
Godfrey also instructs, in person, some classes sponsored by different agencies. Ventura County, for example, offers her class to its employees. She teaches online, focusing on topics rather than age groups. When people sign up, they think they want a class as parents of a child who's 2 or 5 or 10.
"But it goes by so fast," she said. "I found in classes that in a nice rounded group of parents with toddlers and teens, they all benefit. Parents of young children see what's coming up. Parents of teens remember what it felt like to feel big and love their kids that way."
Some parents of teens are miserable in the moment, but tools like solid communication span age brackets. That is probably one of the most common questions Godfrey gets, she said: How do you get your kids to listen? There's a surprise in the answer.
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Was an ok episode. Liked the new evil people but glad they got put in jail.I could tell that the green haired person was Officer Jenny and liked the idea of the Pokemon hustle game as well
Was an ok episode. Liked the new evil people but glad they got put in jail.I could tell that the green haired person was Officer Jenny and liked the idea of the Pokemon hustle game as well
This episode wasnt all that good but it was ok.
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This Pokemon Hustle reminds me of Tekashi's Castle.
Also reminds me of something else similer like this in UK but I forgot what it was.
Hah, the best part of this episode has to be Team Rocket getting beaten at their own game. It's interesting when Team Rocket find competition from other people, like Butch and Cassidy, or Ken and Mary (the PMC guys, remember them?). It made me hope we see these two thieves in a future episode, they don't seem like the dead-end characters that the PMC seem to have become after just two appearances. I thought it was odd to see Jessie and James suddenly interested in adding to the ranks of Team Rocket, but I hear it had something to do with a previous episode that I missed.
The competition in this episode was great too. It reminded me of Wipeout, or that Extreme Elimination program on SpikeTV. Ovreall, a fun episode to watch.
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Great filler episode. Did anyone else think that the theives looked like Eldes and Ardos from XD?
I had no clue that was Officer Jenny until she took off her disguise XD
Overall this was an alright episode, nothing special.
Team Rocket rules! just another one of their bumper plans.... and the same result in the end
This episode was ok... It was cool to see the Gang participate in the Pokemon Hustle competition. TR's reactions to finding out that the Gang joined the competition that was supposed to be for recruiting new TR members. Odd to see Buizel get defeated so easily by Zigzagoon. It was funny how Brock could tell that the Officer Jenny was fake through his own dectector. It was funny when Pikachu and Piplup dragged Brock away from Jenny instead of Croagunk for a change. It was cool to see Drowsee for the 1st time in awhile.
I realized, from the few times it was shown (at least I think it was in the show), the move Flame Wheel makes more sense the way it's depicted in this episode. I think it's been shown used in a similar way to Flamethrower, where it starts off as a stream of flame that forms in to a flaming wheel.
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i liked this episode alot it was like the pokemon version of Wipeout
The two new villains had potential but sadly it was wasted and they didn't end up being threats. I liked Pokemon Hustle though. 6.5/10


text: I Watched Al Hilal El Saudi vs. Man Utd yesterday and I'm in awe of arabian football but why can't I manage arabian teams? I choose Asia but then only few countries pop up like Malasia, Hong Kong, China, South Korea etc. But my question is. I can manage Icelandic leagues, but their premier league is rated 3 worst in the world, so why can i manage 3 worst league in the world but not arabian leagues?


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I used to use unix computers in the 90's for building GIS systems. There used to be a screen saver which consited of a maze that filled the screen. Then the computer would logically solve the maze with a shaded path, a lighter shade for the wrong decisions and a darker shade for the correct decisions, and eventually showing the completed solution.
I would love to see this screen saver again, and even get it for my windows computer.
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I'm interested to buy a NN3, and I'm trying to find out if a Canon EOS 7D with EF-S 15-85 can be used on the NN3.
I've found the distance A and B (definition according to the image of http://www.nodalninja.com/support/camerasettings.html) for this kit, so my questions are :
- what is the biggest value that can be set on the lower rail of the NN3 (distance A) ?
- what is the biggest value that can be set on the upper rail of the NN3 (distance B) with an arca style quick release (ASQRC-2) ?
- is it correct that the ASQRC-2 + plate add 13mm to the distance A compared to CP-1/CP-2 ?
I assume that the ASQRC-2 can be mounted vertically (to insert the camera vertically ; for a RRS or Acratech camera plate). This isn't a problem for the clamp lever, right?
I'm aware that I should better use a NN5 for this camera, but I can't afford the weight difference on multi-days hikes... Would the use of the NN3 pose a serious problem?
Thanks in advance for your answers,


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BGRK 111 New Testament Greek for Beginners I (3-0-3), fall. Beginner's grammar of Greek of the New Testament with emphasis on inflections and vocabulary. Meets MTWR.
BGRK 112 New Testament Greek for Beginners II (3-0-3), spring. Continuation of BGRK 111. Simple readings in the Greek New Testament. Meets MTWR. Prerequisite: BGRK 111.
BGRK 211 Elementary Greek Readings I (3-0-3), fall. Reading and interpreting the gospel of John. Using Greek in ministry. Grammatical review with an emphasis on syntax. Prerequisite: BGRK 112.
BGRK 212 Elementary Greek Readings II (3-0-3), spring. Reading select passages from the New Testament. Intermediate grammar with an emphasis on the use of the Greek text in exegesis. Beginning textual criticism. Prerequisite: BGRK 211.
BGRK 311 Exegetical Greek Seminar I (3-0-3), fall. Reading and interpretation of intermediate and advanced book(s) of the Greek New Testament, to be chosen by the instructor. Principles of exegesis. Detailed exegesis of select passages. Background and critical issues. Prerequisite: BGRK 212.
BGRK 312 Exegetical Greek Seminar II (3-0-3), spring. Continuation of BGRK 311. Prerequisite: BGRK 311.
BGRK 611 Elementary New Testament Greek I (3-0-3), fall. An introduction to the vocabulary, grammar and syntax of the Greek New Testament; readings in the history and literature of the classical Greek period.
BGRK 612 Elementary New Testament Greek II (3-0-3), spring. Continuation of BGRK 611; the Hellenistic period. Prerequisite: BGRK 611.
BGRK 621 Intermediate New Testament Greek (3-0-3), fall. Intermediate Greek vocabulary, grammar, and syntax; introduction to New Testament textual criticism.
BGRK 623 Seminar in the Synoptic Gospels (3-0-3), fall, odd years. For advanced students; issues of synoptic research and methodology; relationship of the synoptics to John and to non-canonical gospels; message and theology of the individual evangelists; directed research in selected periscope. Prerequisite: BGRK 621, and consent of professor.
BGRK 624 Exegetical Seminar in Acts (3-0-3), fall, even years. An exegetical seminar for advanced students; intensive study of the Greek text with special attention to literary and historical method; directed research in selected passages and topics. Prerequisite: BGRK 621 and consent of professor.
BGRK 625 Exegetical Seminar in the Epistles (3-0-3), spring. Seminar for advanced students; directed research in selected passages and topics. Prerequisite: BGRK 621 and consent of professor.
BGRK 628 Seminar in New Testament Textual Criticism (3-0-3), on demand. A seminar for advanced students; sources of textual data; history of the printed Greek New Testament; principles of textual criticism; problems of canon; analysis of selected units of variation; exercises in paleography. Prerequisite: BGRK 621 and consent of professor.
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My new Canon EF 75-300mm telephoto lens and the zoom ring is quite stiff. Is the lens faulty or is there a way to loosen it up?
I had similar sounding problem with an ef 75-300 I bought about a year ago,
It felt almost as if the outer casing of the barrel was rubbing or catching in places against the inner making the movement feel a bit jerky!
Background: This might seem more a non-answer, but I am recounting from personal experience. Faced with a fogged lens due to continued shooting in extremely muggy Florida weather in summer, I took it upon myself that as a mechanical engineer, I could fix anything, especially as I was quite impatient.
I disassembled the lens and could never put it back. Relenting to buy a new lens at Naples I was told by the store people very clearly that LASER is used to assemble lenses, so they told me never to try that again!
After a while I looked and the damaged lens's fogging had gone away by itself. Patience would have been the best fix in that case.
Pay attention to what "mattdm" has suggested and simply call the store/dealer that sold you the lens, find out if you have warranty and try to get it fixed.
Another reason why you may want to stay away from fixing things yourself is, there wasn't a particular incident that caused your lens ring to tighten, so it might be a manufacturing defect from the get go.
I recently had the same problem, as the lens was stiff and felt like it was scratching. I took it back to the store where it was purchased (Currys) and they immediately sent it off to Canon to be repaired. Apparently it is an easy fix, but I didn't want to try myself in case it invalidated my warranty or screwed up the lens.


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If it was possible to place a single gas molecule in a cell and freeze it to near absolute zero. What would the molecule do as it thawed out?
Would it translate the heat energy into it's electrons and nucleus into vibrations and remain where it was? Would these vibrations cause it to start bouncing off the floor until it gets enough speed to convert the heat into kinetic energy?
Do gas molecules need convection to start speeding them up ( like the atmosphere), or do they translate heat into kinetic energy straight away all by themselves?


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The 5 Worst Marketing Ideas Ever Put into Action
Marketing isn't complicated: Use a lot of bright colors, commission a catchy jingle, slap some breasts up there right next to the blandly inoffensive product name and then collect your paycheck and go home to cry in the dark about the ultimate meaninglessness of your career and life in general. It's not rocket science. In fact, as long as your product doesn't share a name with a horrible disease and you don't hand over complete creative control to people who actively hate your company, you should be all set. Unfortunately, sometimes the marketing people just show up to work drunk and do exactly that.
#5. Ayds
During the 1970s and '80s, Ayds diet candy was riding high: The butterscotch, chocolate and various other flavored diet candies somehow fooled the public into thinking they actually worked, and the owners had enough of that sweet sugar money rolling in to choke a whole squadron of Oompa Loompas. But just as the CEOs mounted a pile of tiny dead orange strippers to proclaim the invincibility of their confectionery empire to the world, the AIDS epidemic hit, and shit stopped being funny in a hurry.
Then, 30 years later, it got kind of funny again:
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"How about we change the name to Cancer?"
But despite the product now sharing a name with a modern-day plague, the manufacturer of Ayds decided to stick it out, operating on Michael Bolton of Office Space's principle of "AIDS is the one that sucks, so they're the one that should change." The company so obstinately refused to acknowledge the problem that they didn't even alter their now seriously questionable tagline: "Ayds helps you take off weight and helps you keep it off." And the candy company kept this up as AIDS ravaged the modern world around them, all the while quietly insisting that this whole pandemic thing would blow over and history would only remember the real Ayds. For evidence of how well that plan worked, take a look at this commercial, and count how many blackly hilarious double-entendres you catch in its roughly 30-second run time:
The Ayds candy survived all the way up to the 1980s until eventually, after losing over 50 percent of their profits, the company conceded that a name change was necessary. They needed something cool; something fresh; something that made it sound peppy and healthy and, most importantly, something that separated it from that horrid disease as completely as possible. So Ayds conducted some extensive research, carefully considered all the options, and finally changed its name to ...
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"Diet Ayds: Not the disease."
The brand went out of business not long after.
#4. Red Lobster -- Endless Snow Crabs
In the early 2000s, the restaurant chain Red Lobster decided to hold a promotion offering all-you-can-eat snow crab legs. It seemed like a winning idea: Crab is delicious, but there's only so much you can stomach of the stuff at a time before you run out and barf briny white paste in the parking lot. It's like the definition of an "eyes bigger than your stomach" food. After weighing the potential pros and cons carefully (by which we mean throwing all the budget reports in the trash while saying, "Nah, it'll be fine!"), Red Lobster launched the promo in 2003.
And then this happened.
Unfortunately for Red Lobster, they'd never met America before, and foolishly thought that customers would either be full or just completely sick of salty, rubbery, restaurant-chain-quality sea meat after a plate or so. A few scant weeks later, Red Lobster was already seeing a loss in profits. This was compounded by the simple fact that, in 2003, snow crab leg prices were at an all-time high. Meaning that Red Lobster actually lost money on every customer ordering more than a half dozen, which was a problem, seeing as how the average customer ate at least 2 dozen.
Jesus. Why would you even want to eat that much crab? That shifts the Motive Needle officially beyond "hungry" and into "misplaced revenge against the sea for taking my father."
"I want to be there when you cook that motherfucker."
Even worse, the all-you-can-eat promotion meant that people were sitting for hours on end while paying one flat price, thus leaving the other, still-profitable customers who were inexplicably not interested in personally devouring a species to extinction with longer wait times. They often left before being seated. And so for a short time in the early 2000s, Red Lobster abandoned the normal restaurant business altogether to cater exclusively to masochistic gluttons who had a bone to pick with the sea. In doing so, they lost over $3 million in that quarter alone. The president of the company stepped down shortly after, though she vehemently denied that the idiotic $3 million crustacean bet that she put up against America's metabolism was the deciding factor for the resignation.
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"They asked me to leave because I was just too good for their tiny little business."
#3. McInsensitive
It can be kind of a big deal when a fast-food restaurant launches a new menu item (we're pretty sure the McRib qualifies as a religion now in some parts of the world). So expectations were high when McDonald's released the new McAfrika burger in Norway, one of the world's richest countries. Surely, if anybody had tons of money to spend on something that, factoring in health care costs, was probably actually worth negative dollars, it was those notoriously frivolous Norsemen. It's just too bad that they launched the McAfrika during an actual famine in Africa that left 12 million people starving.
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"We were thinking of naming it 'Hahaha! We have food, assholes!'"
In a fine example of the revolting type of doublespeak that only PR reps and children born without souls can muster, McDonald's went on record as agreeing that "to a certain extent this was bad timing."
The hamburger mocking a lethal famine was "bad timing," but only "to a certain extent."
"We didn't even know there was a place called Africa until you people made a big deal out of it."
To combat this moral disaster, McDonald's came to their customers, hat in hand, and humbly agreed to maybe probably consider thinking about donating some of the proceeds to starving people. They may not have shown much enthusiasm for the idea of charitable donation themselves, but in the interim, they did let a few charities put collection boxes in the restaurants -- but only in the ones that still carried the burger.
"Did we offend your country? No? Then here's your meal -- fuck off."


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TEMPLE (November 2, 2012)--Scott & White Hospital has released plans for the exterior reconstruction of the Center for Advanced Medicine facility.
Work could begin as early as February of next year as it was discovered there are "wide-ranging and systematic defects."
The construction process is expected to take about 18 months but hospital officials say the work will be done without disturbing patient care.
The cost of the construction is projected at $20 million.
Among other repairs crews will replace the entire exterior of the building and will replace the copper façade with a new masonry exterior.
"It is anticipated that construction will occur in enclosed 30-foot sections in multiple locations around the building in order to maintain quality control and limit the impact on patients and building operations," a spokesperson said.
Most of the discoveries were made when building forensic experts were brought in to examine known leaks. Those areas were completely disassembled and numerous defects were then discovered.
Tests have been completed and the building does meet building codes that require that hospital air systems maintain positive pressure to the outside, a spokesperson said.
"The problems are being corrected and we will continue to pursue our goal of being the most trusted and valued name in American health care," Scott & White Healthcare President and CEO Robert W. Pryor, MD, MBA said.


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What can I do avoid fringes around a subject in my pictures?
My camera is a bridge camera (namely a fujifilm hsr20).
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What can I do avoid fringes around a subject in my pictures?
My camera is a bridge camera (namely a fujifilm hsr20).
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Some fringing is a result of overexposure. What happens is that the light shining on the sensor builds up a charge, and the charge sort of leaks to neighboring sensor elements. This produces a fringing around bright objects, for example, a picture of an egret standing in front of a dark background. The solution in this case is to lower the exposure.
Some fringing is the result of chromatic aberration in the lens used. In that case, the solutions are using a different lens or using software (such as Lightroom or Photoshop) that can correct chromatic aberration.
Fringing generally is an artifact of the lens you are using. So here are a few approaches to reduction of fringing:


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See title. When a user never modified their "about me" section the API doesn't return that, which then causes my parser to go wild returning errors. However, when a user has modified their "about me" section, then later on deleted it, the "about_me" shows up with nothing in it, but it can at least still be parsed. I would like to have the about me show up for every user, registered, unregistered, edited and unedited.
There are a great many fields on objects returned by the API that will be omitted if they are not set.
... and many more.
We do this because omitting a field clearly indicates that it has no value, and isn't just populated with the "default". It also makes (human) reading returned values much easier, as you don't have to slog through a bunch of
Yeah, just displaying blank string will be great.
And also same for
too (may be there is even some more)
Note: Personally, I don't have any problem with existence of those field or not though
There are lots more.
The problem is that having something blank doesn't convey that the user hasn't filled it in... just that it's blank.
I think it should stay the way it is.


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A district judge has ruled that service as a member of a county historical society board does not disqualify Ellis County prosecutor Tom Drees or his office from handling a case involving the organization.
The Hays Daily News (http://bit.ly/Zv5Mwb) reports Connie Douglas is accused of using the Ellis County Historical Society's PayPal account to make nearly $3,000 in unauthorized purchases. Her attorney asked Judge Glenn Braun to disqualify the prosecutor's office from handling the case because of Drees' long involvement as a member of its board.
Braun ruled Friday that there's no evidence indicating Drees is handling the woman's felony theft count any differently than he deals with similar cases, so there's no conflict of interest that would require a different prosecutor.
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Officials identified country music star Kellie Pickler's drummer as one of the people in two crashes along interstate 65 yesterday.
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What are some camping breakfast options if I do not wish to carry eggs? (They break)
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Oatmeal. Before you leave, mix the oats with whatever you like: brown sugar, spices, a little salt, nuts, dried fruit, even powdered milk. Boil water and mix it in your bowl so that's all you have to wash; you can boil extra water and get tea or coffee at the same time. (Other fast-cooking hot cereals would work too - I know of instant grits and instant cream of wheat, though I can't vouch for quality.)
I'm not sure if you're trying to avoid ice chests too, but there's always yogurt, or milk and cereal (something more solid like granola). And of course, fresh fruit is also always good with any meal.
For hot meals, I think baka's suggestion of premade pancake mix is probably the next best. If you're a more do-it-yourself type, you can make the mix yourself (using powdered eggs and powdered milk), but storebought will probably serve you quite well - and again, you can premix with extra ingredients like nuts, or spices for gingerbread pancakes, if you want something more exciting.
Since most of the time, I carry a cooler (drive-up camping), my options are a little more open.
Though to be honest, generally we do take eggs and just make sure to pack them well.
just-add-water pancake mix worked well for us. especially when the blueberries and blackberries were in season.


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Any tips for adding an outdoor receptacle box onto a house with vinyl siding? Shouldn't the box be attached to a stud? How do I seal around it? J Channel? How can I accomplish this without tearing off large chunks of siding? I can handle the electrical.
You can probably get away with a weather proof box on top of the siding, but here's the full procedure to make it look nice.
Vinyl siding can be pulled off and later reattached. To remove it, you need a siding removal tool that has a flat blade with a small hook on the end. You shove it up the gap between two pieces of siding and then pull to separate them. Start with the top edge that you want to remove, expose the entire piece, and then unscrew it from the wall.
There should be tyvek or similar weather proofing material under the siding. Repair the screw holes and any tears with tyvek tape.
Locate your new outlet installation location. More than likely, you'll need to remove the drywall inside to feed the lines to this outlet, so find your stud there and drill a small test hole. Make sure the hole is near where you want to place the electrical box, cut back the tyvek in an X shape with the, and then cut your opening with a drill in the corners and a reciprocating saw.
Install the new junction box to the stud. You may find it easier to screw it in since hammering requires space to swing the hammer and the vibration could cause damage to the surrounding drywall. Caulk all gaps around the box and the outside sheathing. Cut back any excess tyvek and tape around all 4 sides to make it weather tight.
Run your wiring. Don't forget to staple it to the center of the stud. Install your outlet, making sure it's GFCI protected since your outside. Use a weather protective cover over the outlet.
Install J-channel around the outlet. Install from the bottom up and overlap the joints so any drips go outside of the J-channel. Begin reinstalling your siding from the bottom piece working your way up. Measure twice around the outlet and cut your siding with tin snips (it will go through like butter and leaves the best edge for small cuts). Remember to measure so the cut is inside of the J-channel and you have a 1/4" of play to each side (siding moves with temperature changes). Don't forget to account for the overlap with the adjacent pieces when measuring, and when reinstalling, the overlap should be such that you aren't looking into a gap from the predominant view of your home. When reinstalling the siding, give it a good shove against the track on the piece below until you hear or feel it click in all the way across.
When screwing back in, I'd use different screw holes and new screws. The screws should have a flange so the siding can't slip over the head, wide threads to bite the wood, and be relatively shallow so you aren't going completely through your sheathing (1/2", maybe 5/8"). When screwing in, put your screw in the middle of the slot at the top of the siding so the siding can move from side to side. And leave the gap of a fingernail under the screw head, don't tighten it all the way down. For the last piece, after you've screwed it in, pull down the siding above into the track, and snap it in with a firm shove. The siding removal tool can help you line this up.
The vinyl-siding manufacturers make special attachments for mounting receptacle boxes, with trim rings to seal against the siding. The attachments are the same or similar to what is used for railings and faucets:
For small fixtures, it is also possible to just cut a hole for it in the regular siding (and presumably seal with silicone), as shown in the following facsimile from the Vinyl Siding Installation Manual:
Do not simply screw the box through the siding as below; it will be very flimsy.
Arlington Fittings makes an electrical box and or special adapter for siding.
While the box picture makes the mounting self evident, here's a specification sheet and here's an installation video. I think to purchase you would have to get through an electrical wholesaler. Usually we are supposed to give you a good description of how to use the suggested products, but I think the links supplied does a better job.
They sell outdoor boxes that you could use
Which you could add different waterproof covers to
I would add silicon or some other sealant to the back of the box when you mount it. These can be secured right to the sheeting behind the siding.


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My grandparents last name is Reiss and I was wondering if they lived in Germany would this be spelled with the German ß (szett or sharp s)?
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Maybe it would be Reiß. My lastname ends with ß, but there are also varieties of my lastname ending with ss.
Some other examples, where both ways are common:
and so on.
In Germany, with a lastname like this, you always get asked, if it is written with double s or eszett.
In addition to Korinnas answer:
An eszett in the name may be changed in a legal way in Germany.
One possible precondition if you want to change your name is:
(Source: Landkreis Freising, Translation: You may change 'ss' or 'ß' if it is a source of frequent wrong spelling)
There is also a judgment from 1980 about this: You may change umlauts in your name, because computers can't handle umlauts.
One more information: Every German must carry a Personalausweis (ID-Card). This ID-Card has a machine readable zone inclusing the name. This name does not contain Umlauts, because it must be readable all over the world (there is worldwide agreement about this). So it can happen, that you carry an ID-card, with your name, written with two spellings.
Austria has a similar problem. In the passport, you can include an explanation about this. So you can avoid problems in foreign countries. -- Or you change your name ;)
The general rule is that names do not change when you change countries. If their name is Reiss now, it would also be Reiss if they moved to Germany (while that spelling would be uncommon). If your first name is "Heath" you don't become "Heide" when you move to Germany either ("Heide" would also be a female name - double punishment :-)).
The general rule is (in case you're in doubt whether to use
For example:
This rule was only established in 1996. Before that, the rule for voiceless s was as follows:
According to these rules it is possible to have a name that today would be spelt with
It is also possible that your grandparent's name used to be spelt Reiß but was changed to Reiss when they (or their ancestors) left Germany. If they came back now, it would not be changed.
I agree with Korinna, because after diphthons like "ei", "ai", "eu" and so on, the "double-s" is not common in names. In our grammar system, it is even wrong to write a word with a diphthon and a following double-s.
So, if your grandparent's name is pronounced with a sharp "s", it will be "Reiß". If it is a soft "s", it will be "Reis".
Anyway - it won't matter - like said before, you are free to chose your name and everyone will ask you anyway how your name is written. :-)


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What evidence is there to call the 1919-1920 conflict between Poland and the Soviet Union a "war of independence"? As for a definition of independence, I would say it is a full political, legal, and military independence from another state -- for example, a vassal becoming independent in a war. Note this is based on a comment on this answer.
If Germany decided to invade Poland to get back East Prussia that it lost to Poland after WWII - would it be a war of independence?
One needs a lot of fantasy to call the Polish–Soviet War (this seems to be the official name of the conflict) a war of independence. In 1919 Poland was already independent - it gained its independence with the Treaty of Versailles. The issue was rather that Poland wasn't satisfied with the territories it gained and would like to recover all the territories it lost in the partitions. This meant first suppressing the Ukrainian independence movement in the Western Ukraine (Polish-Ukrainian War). But given that Western Ukraine had a large Polish population one could still explain it with defending the newly born Polish state.
This explanation no longer works for the Polish invasion of East Ukraine and Belarus in the course of the Polish-Soviet War. While these territories historically belonged to Poland (they changed hands a number of times actually) they didn't have a significant Polish population. So this had nothing to do with independence. Instead, there were quite obvious strategical reasons:
And while time proved that Poland's fears weren't unfounded (Poland was once again occupied by Germany and Soviet Union in 1939) - it was a war over territory and power, not independence.
The Polish-Bolshevik war (as it is known in Poland, I believe rest of the world use term Polish-Soviet war) is not known as the war for independence. After all, Poland re-gained independence on November 11, 1918 - when I World War ended (which was later confirmed by the Treaty of Versailles).
As for causes of the war you are asking about, as always there are few. I strongly believe, on one hand it has something to do with distrust between Poland and Soviet Russia (Polish politicians simply thought the Russians want to gain some time and their peace treaty offer is not real.)
Personally, I don't think it was fight for Great Poland, or re-born of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, it was rather preventive war.
Although, I might be wrong - given the facts like annexation of Vilnius Region and annexation of Zaolzie, Second Polish Republic was fairly aggressive and who knows what Piłsudzki and his friends thought...
In my opinion, a "war of independence" is war where the very independence of a newly born country is at stake. There is no question that if Soviet Russia won the war with Poland in 1920, Poland would lose independence, which it barely gained a short while before. Therefore, from the Polish POV it was a "war of independence".
Going back in time a little, the Polish-Ukrainian offensive of early 1920 was meant to safeguard Polish independence by creating independent Ukraine under Petlura, and therefore it can also be considered a part of "war of independence".
It was indeed a war of independence that was played out within the larger context of the First World War, the 1917 Russian Revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War.
Poland had been conquered by Russia during the 19th century but Polish identity and nationalism never died. Recognizing this, the Germans hoped to win away the support of the Polish people from Russia during the First World War by aiding Polish aspirations for independence in 1916, albeit in a heavy-handed manner.
After the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin felt that a great revolution would sweep Europe and Germany was seen as the ideal epicenter. That drove the Bolshevik desire of advancing the revolution with its Red Army into Germany and to do so, it had to advance across Poland, both politically and militarily. Polish independence goals, captured in the ideas of Josef Pilsudski, envisioned a "Greater" Poland that included Vilnius and the western Ukraine. Those conflicting Soviet and Polish objectives made the conflict inevitable in 1919.
By the way, unpublished (secret) articles in the 1939 Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact dealt with the invasion and partition of Poland between Hitler and Stalin. According to the research of Dr. Stuart Goldman, The Red Army did not cross the Polish Frontier until 17 September 1939 because Stalin had to remove the threat of the two-front war by resolving the conflict with Japan over Nomonhan in Outer Mongolia, which was not completed until 16 September when a ceasefire went into effect.
When the Soviets invaded, the British and French seized on technicalities in the language of the military alliances with Poland to avoid going to war with Stalin, acts that may have been dishonorable, but in reality, they had no rational choice. Hitler then betrayed Stalin and attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, sealing the fate of Nazi Germany.


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I used to apply updates through the terminal without any care, since I don't use any ppa's or use any untrusted apps but lately I became interested in Ubuntu bugs, their fixes and most importantly the changes that would be made to my system. So, I found it easier to use the 'Update Manager' so I could use the link in the 'Changes' section to access the 'launchpad' page that discusses these issues.
Today when prompted for some specific updates, instead of being directed to a 'launchpad' page that I was accustomed to, I was directed to an unknown 'mitre.org' page.
I've searched the askubuntu site, as well as others, yet I've only found 1 thread that can come close to answering my questions. It was marked as [SOLVED], yet the OP's original question was never answered.
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What are CVE security updates and who issues them?
Why am I directed to an unknown website (to me anyways), that is funded by a government agency (look closely on the bottom of the 'Mitre' screenshot), when inquiring about the aforementioned updates?


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"not bad for being 60°. Surface was soft and slushy in places, but surprisingly firm in some areas. Tiger has moguls and Peter's Pride has some rails and a small jump to keep the park rats busy. Base was decent with only a few thin spots."
"Brought my kids went down there black diamonds were very childish usually a Colorado bunny sloap but very good grooming snow was well packed later it got pretty icy kids loved it"
"beautiful conditions tonight! All trails open...Surface was hard with just a little loose stuff on top. Tiger was fast and slick! Pride park had 3 features with a jump on Peter's Pride . North Bowl and Croyle were in great shape! .... probably the most fun I've had at Boston Mills!"


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I tried to do it like they do on video, however the light on the heart rate monitor is always blinking and it is not recognized.
I have tried to start the heart monitor(by pressing the on button). it has started blinking. Then I have pressed the connect button on the monitor. Than I have pressed the connect button on xbox. The xbox's ring has started to spin. After some time it has stopped. The blinking on the monitor has not stopped. The game does not see the monitor.
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I'll be the first to admit that I've had some… unhealthy obsessions with games over the years, some quirky (like the Flash PC port of LlamaSoft's GR++), some more mainstream in competitive multiplayer circles (like Counter-Strike and Quake 3) and some that I might go so far as to say would be classed as 'normal' (… Tetris.)
My shelves are full of games I've played once and put aside, but there are only a few I would ever consider going back to again, and fewer still that I've spent far more than 100 hours on.
Which games have you been obsessed with playing over the years and more recently, and for what reasons? World of Warcraft? DayZ or Minecraft? Dota 2 and other competitive games?
It's OK, we're not here to judge, especially not me. I played an inordinate amount of a free Spy Hunter clone, and Pac-Man CE DX has claimed more hours than I care to say.
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As contractors in New York City, my crew spends most of its time pouring, cutting, drilling, and anchoring in concrete. For some framing and all mechanical and electrical work, we use rotary hammers on a daily basis to attach virtually anything to concrete, and the tool we reach for most is a 1-inch rotary hammer with three operating modes: rotary hammer, hammer only, and rotation only. The lightweight, compact size and ability to shift from hammerdrilling to chipping to simple drilling, and even driving, makes it the most versatile tool on our jobsites.
Bosch's mode dial has clear graphics. We also liked the depth gauge, which adjusts independently of the handle.
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So we welcomed the opportunity to field-test this group of tools, five D-handle, in-line 1-inch corded rotary hammers, all of which feature three modes and accept SDS-Plus bits. The test comprised the Bosch 11255VSR Bulldog Xtreme, DeWalt D25203K, Hitachi DH24PF3, Makita HR2455X Pitbull, and Metabo KHE-D28. Given the fact that these are not the backbreaking big boys, we concentrated on drilling vertical and horizontal holes in concrete and stone within a 1/4- to 3/4-inch-diameter range (the 1-inch rating refers to the tool's practical maximum concrete hole-boring capacity). We also did plenty of light chipping and breaking and together used these tasks to evaluate the strength, ease of use, comfort, and helpful features of these tools.
When using these tools all day you find yourself constantly switching between rotary hammer mode for drilling and hammer mode for chipping and chiseling off high spots in concrete, so it's important to have controls that are easy to access. Throw on a pair of gloves and it becomes all the more crucial that the dials remain easy to operate and work with.
DeWalt's handle has plenty of room for your hand, even with gloves; the trigger was the most comfortable.
The Bosch, DeWalt, Makita, and Metabo tools all have well-designed and easy-to-grab side-mounted dials that turn easily to switch between modes, even with gloves on. We liked the Bosch and DeWalt dial markings, which feature clear symbols for the hammer-only mode bit-positioning setting, a nice feature to have when using larger chisels in small, awkward spaces because it allows you to position the chisel manually by twisting the bit. Makita's symbol was easy enough to decipher. The Metabo and Hitachi dials don't feature a symbol marking the chisel-positioning setting. We assumed they didn't have this feature until we looked closely at the manuals, which is not something you want your guys to have to do while on the clock.
We were not as impressed with the Hitachi's mode dial, which was located underneath the front housing of the tool. We found it hard to turn without gloves on and even more difficult with gloves on. Also, given its location, we found it prone to being whacked while drilling and chiseling in tight spaces, which seems like it could be a serious threat to its longevity.
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When a Gemara does not have a solution to a question why does it sometimes it end off with "Teiku" and sometimes with "Kashya"?
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My tradition from my rebbi is that kashye means there is an answer but it was not accepted by the gemara. This seems to be how Rashi differentiates a Kashye from a Teyuvta (Sanhedrin 72a).
Kashyes are usually on statements made by Chazal. A Teyku is a doubt in how to pasken an halacha.
You never find Teiku on a kasha only on a shealah. A shealah is a question which comes from too little information ie. "what do I do now?" or "is the law like this way or this way?" A kasha is a contradiction or a question which comes from too much knowledge for instance "how can you say this when yesterday, you said something else?" or "how can you say this when the mishna says something else?". A shealah can be answered in one of two ways A- this is the answer or this is the information you need or B- we don't know and the answer might be this way or this way--TEIKU! A kasha can be answered in one of three ways A- either statement one is true or statement two is correct or B- it is an argument between two opinions or C- we don't know--Kasha! It is important to know what type of question is being asked but you will never find kasha on a shealah and never find Teiku on a kasha. Yussi Abrams
The Mevo Hatalmud in the back of Masechet Brachos explains Teiku that the Talmud has a safek in what the halacha is and they are unable to paskin. If the matter is Mamonot then they will be lenient. If the matter is Isur then they will be stringent. The קיצור כּללי התלמוד which is the back of Masechet Brachos states that when the Gemara ends with קשׁיא it implies that matter is תלוי ועומד i.e. "still hanging" and not nullified by the difficulty that was asked.Rather it is viewed that we didn't yet find a solution. The Ritva in Baba Basra in the second perek that one of the chachamim resolved everywhere that ended with " קשׁיא ". The Radbaz in his work כּללי הגמרא states that as of now there is no terutz until the Gemara will state in the end what the Halacha is. The term קשׁיא is used only in the case where an Amora was asserting the reasoning for a Tanna or any matter and the Gemara asked a difficulty on his reasoning. The difficulty is not on the actual halacha of the Tanna himself.
The Zohar, Ra'aya M'hemnah, in Parshas Tzav says that Teiku means it will always stand as a question, as it stands for Tikun minus the nun sha'arei Binah (the 50 [=Nun] gates of understanding). This is used as a signal that this question comes from the klipos (shells) and could not have an answer because the halacha it is addressing has an element of gezeirah (divine decree) to it and not fully understandable by Man.
It goes on to say that Eliyahu will answer other ones that do not end in "Teiku". As usual, this Zohar needs a Rebbi to explain it.
רעיא מהימנא ספר ויקרא פרשת צו דף כז/ב and the Biur HaGra on it.


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FOLLANSBEE - Follansbee City Council on Monday discussed plans to renovate the Follansbee City Building and agreed to seek bids for new doors and radio equipment for the fire department.
City Manager John DeStefano told council he will seek estimates for renovations to the building to determine whether it's more cost-feasible to install new electrical wiring, plumbing and ductwork for the building only or to move forward with plans to gut the building and reconfigure the office space inside.
Also being considered is the addition of an elevator to the second floor, which would allow the city to move some offices into unused space there.
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SPECIAL RECOGNITION — Follansbee City Council recognized the Follansbee Middle School cheerleaders and their coach, Megan Harless, for winning the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference cheering competition's middle school division. Behind the squad is, from left, City Clerk David Kurcina, Councilwomen Iris Ferrell and Kathy Santoro, Mayor David Velegol Jr., City Manager John DeStefano and Councilmen Jim Andreozzi, Jim Miller and Tom Ludewig. -- Warren Scott
The floor currently is occupied only by City Attorney Michael Gaudio, who leases the office space there he uses for his private law office. The R.E.A.C.H. Program food pantry, which had occupied part of the floor at no cost, has since moved to the former St. Anthony School.
DeStefano said upgrades to the electrical wiring, plumbing and ductwork are much needed. But he questioned whether it will cost much more for the additional renovations.
Police Chief John Schwertfeger has said his department lacks space needed for equipment, evidence and records.
DeStefano said the city building has no real lobby and the area where city clerks wait on visitors becomes filled if there are more than two or three people.
The city has been awarded a $190,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the project and hired McKinley and Associates of Wheeling to plan the renovations.
In other business, council agreed to seek bids for the replacement of four doors at the city's fire station and for 27 stationary or mobile radios for the fire department.
Fire Chief Larry Rea, who made both requests, said the doors haven't been replaced in more than 30 years and have fallen into disrepair. He said new doors would cost between $13,000 and $22,000, depending on whether they are steel or aluminum.
Rea said the new radio equipment, which includes 17 portable radios, 12 handheld radios and two radios for the station, is needed to comply with federal regulations calling for emergency departments to switch to narrow band frequencies to reduce congestion in the radio spectrum.
He noted Brooke County emergency officials also will be switching to narrow band. Schwertfeger said his department has used a grant to replace its own radios.
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Recognized the Follansbee Middle School cheerleaders and their coach, Megan Harless, for winning the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference cheering competition's middle school division. The squad, which is comprised of seventh- and eighth-graders, defeated six other area squads for the title.
Its members are: Taylor Pannett, Olivia Welch, Markel Sponaugle, Leah Caparros, Lindsey King, Mariah Jeter, Jasmyne Hildreth, Krissa Lusk, Julia Donnell, Nikayla Croce, Kamryn Bedore, Shelby Adams, Abby Ciccolella and Raelee Snyder.
Heard from Mary Schwertfeger, a resident of East Street who said she and her husband, Bill, are very pleased with the new maple trees planted by the city along the street.
City crews and crews with Iannetti's Garden Center of Burgettstown, Pa. recently planted the 16 trees to replace 10 that were uprooted by strong winds on New Year's Day.
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Do you know any good reference on multilinear algebra?
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Linear Algebra by Hoffman and Kunze covers this in chapter 5, where the tensor and exterior algebras are introduced. Algebra by Serge Lang covers this in more detail in the later chapters, but this is a more difficult and in-depth treatment which also explains the universal properties of the symmetric, exterior, and tensor algebras along with other multilinear constructions.
Dear mingming, here are three excellent books.
1) Tensor Spaces and Exterior Algebra by Takeo Yokonuma. Translations of Mathematical Monographs, volume 108, AMS 1992
You can browse it in Google books here
2) Laurent Schwartz ( yes, the Fields medalist of distibutions fame) wrote a book, little-known even in France : Les Tenseurs, Hermann, 1998.
3) Finally there is an amazingly original free book by Sergei Winitzki , Linear Algebra via Exterior Products. Here is the link
For the tensor, exterior and symmetric algebras of a module over a commutative ring I suggest the notes by Murfet http://therisingsea.org/notes/TensorExteriorSymmetric.pdf
The standard reference is Greub's Multilinear algebra. There's also the book by Northcott.


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Edna V. Reynolds, 99, died Monday, July 22, 2013 at Presbyterian
Manor of the Plains, Dodge City. She was born December 24, 1913 at Dodge City, the daughter of Charles "C.B." and Lena Merk Allen. A lifetime Dodge City area resident, she was a homemaker and as well as teaching school for 12 years in the community of Sears, west of Dodge City. She was very fond of her family, church and animals.
She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Howell Extension, Old Timers Club, the Methodist Quilters and numerous others all in Dodge City.
On September 6, 1942 she married Charles "Andy" Reynolds at Bellflower, California. He preceded her in death on August 20, 2005. Survivors include: her son, Dr. Allen Reynolds and wife Barbara, Dodge City; a brother, Dr. Donald Allen,San Jose, California; a sister, Pauline Irsik, Garden City; a son-in-law, David Clough, Hays; 5 grandchildren, Renae Ann Mercado and husband Anthony, Kimberly Kay Padget and husband Michael, Christopher Andrew Reynolds, Christina Lynn Lueth and David Andrew Clough; 10 great grandchildren, Scarlett Mercado, Schandon Mercado, Kaiton Faith Padget, Brecken Trace Padget, Marissa Reynolds, Garret Lueth, Chason Lueth, Dorian Lueth, Lawson Clough and Vincent Clough; and 1 great great grandchild, Wyatt Lueth.
She was also preceded in death by her daughter, Carol Lynn Clough, 2 brothers, Horace and Lester Allen, a sister, Eldred Johnson and a granddaughter-in-law, Tracey Renae Reynolds.
Memorial services will be 10:00 am Saturday, July 27, 2013 at Ziegler Funeral Chapel, Dodge City, with Mr. Barney Korbelik, CRE officiating. Friends may sign the register from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Friday at Ziegler Funeral Chapel. There will be no public viewing, cremation has taken place. Inurnment will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery, Dodge City.
The family suggests memorials to the First Presbyterian Church in care of Ziegler Funeral Chapel, 1901 N. 14th Ave., Dodge City, Kansas 67801. Condolences may be sent to www.zieglerfuneralchapel.com.
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I have data stored in a HashMap, which I want to access via multiple threads simultaneously, to split the work done on the items.
Normally (with a List for example) I would just give each thread an index to start with and could easily split the work like this:
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Of course this doesnt work with a HashMap, because I can't access it via an index.
Is there an easy way to iterate only over a part of the map? Should I rather use another data structure for this case?
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D'AURORA, Yolanda Violet (Lucci), 88, died at her residence, Dixon HealthCare Center, on Tuesday, October 30, 2012.
Yolanda was born December 5, 1923, in Oakfield, NY to Ricardo and Donata (Spagnoli) Lucci. At an early age she moved with her family to Steubenville, where she lived most of her life.
Yolanda was a homemaker who also worked in the health care industry after her children were grown. She was a wonderful Italian cook who enjoyed her family more than anything.
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Yolanda was a Catholic by faith. She married Vito D'Aurora on December 27, 1941 at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Steubenville. He predeceased her in 1983.
In addition to her husband, Vito, she was also predeceased by her parents, her brother, Rinaldo "Joe" Lucci and her sister, Cecilia Garcia.
Yolanda is survived by her four children, Joseph (Vicki) D'Aurora of New Albany, IN, Anna Marie (Paul) Stolic of Simpsonville, SC, Vito D'Aurora Jr. of Redding, CA and Anthony (Patti) D'Aurora of Wintersville, OH. She is also survived by her six grandchildren who meant the world to her: Alan D'Aurora of Columbus, OH, Katie D'Aurora Steffan of Venice, FL, Danette Stolic (Scott) Kabas of Greenville, SC, Janice Stolic of Redding, CA, Bryan (Amber) D'Aurora of Steubenville, OH and Shana D'Aurora of Martinsburg, WV. Yolanda also is survived by her two great- grandchildren Jackson and Alexa Kabas of Greenville, SC and many nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at Dunlope-Shorac Funeral Home, Wintersville on Thursday from 1 p.m. until the time of funeral service at 3 p.m. with Msgr. Kurt Kemo officiating. Burial Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
The family would like to thank the Dixon HealthCare Center family for their care, and ensuring Yolanda felt like it was truly her home. She thoroughly enjoyed her time spent there and the many friends she made. They would also like to thank Charity Hospice for their help in caring for Yolanda.
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorial contributions to be made to Dixon HealthCare Activity Fund, 135 Reichart Ave., Wintersville, OH 43953. Yolanda loved participating in all the fun activities that Dixon provided.
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5 Gender Stereotypes That Used To Be the Exact Opposite
#2. Gay Stereotypes Change More Often Than a Gay Man's Clothing
If there's one thing really bad sitcom writers have taught us, it's that making gay people and straight people interact will have waaaaacky consequences! The reason for this is clearly because gay men actually have a lot in common with straight women, and gay women who aren't "lipstick lesbians" are, of course, motorcycle-riding tattooed badasses.
Women can't even hold a wrench until they've been issued their Lesbian Card.
Of course, anyone who has actually met (or is) a gay person knows that these things aren't necessarily true, but it's hard to break stereotypes that are centuries old. That's why you still hear things like "I'm not homophobic, but, you gotta admit, that gay lisp and that feminist crap is just weird, right? I don't mind if they're gay, as long as they act straight."
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As this list is starting to show, "acting straight" has never been the same thing for very long ... and, surprise! It's the same for acting gay! Once again, trying to separate cultural influences from biology turns into a big mess.
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For instance, despite the current stereotype that gay men are effeminate, during the Renaissance a big part of being "manly" was being bisexual. As recently as the 1930s, "manly" women (that is, women who enjoyed sports and acted like tomboys) were seen as dangerously slutty straight chicks, the kind of crazy girls who show off their tramp-stamps by dancing on tables and refusing to get along with your mom, no matter how much effort she puts into her pie.
It's like our granddaddies said: If she'll shoot hoops, she likes it in her poop shoot.
A big part of this is the relatively recent idea that "gay" is a distinct class of individual, something that didn't actually come along until the 1860s. Don't get us wrong -- homosexual sex was widely considered to be immoral before that, but back then, anyone could have been doing it. And there was no way to spot them because, well, other than their sexual habits, they were just like anyone else.
#1. A "Man's Place" and a "Woman's Place" Is Whatever Makes the Most Economic Sense
Ask most anyone and they'll tell you that while women's liberation is a good thing now, the fact of the matter is that it flies in the face of millenniums of evolution. For as long as society has existed, men have been the hunter-gatherers and women have been the domestic homemakers. There's nothing sexist about this (they'll insist) -- it's just reality. In all of history, there's been a "man's world" and a "woman's world," and never the twain shall meet.
Unless people are "twaining," if you know what we mean (we mean sex).
But at One Time ...
Despite what the Flintstones may have taught you about caveman family values, the distinction between the "man's world" and the "woman's world" is actually fairly new, and by fairly new we mean the Industrial Revolution.
Running a house is no picnic even today, but as we mentioned at the beginning of this article, it was a freaking nightmare in the 1800s. While a contemporary father knowing how to change diapers and do dishes is considered a "catch" or "progressive" (or "whipped," depending on your perspective), back then it was just ... being a dad. Making sure a baby lived long enough to help out on the farm was a super important responsibility, and instead of arguing over whose job it was, people just did it.
"OK, Billy, we're all done here. Get back to the fields."
There are many reasons that things shifted, but it basically boils down to the rise of out-of-home labor. Working in factories meant not being in the house all day, and men got most of the factory jobs because ... you know, 19th century. It was then that the "cult of true womanhood" appeared, and the idea of motherhood as a full-time profession became popular and accepted. As the industrial world became more brutal and competitive, a stronger border between the two spheres became the norm, and before you knew it, BOOM: Mad Men happened.
It happened like a boss.
The more research we do, the more it seems like the only behavior consistently considered normal is the tendency to be way too strict about what normal behavior actually is -- and then being really shitty to the people who don't conform. So next time you hear someone criticized for not being "manly" or "feminine" enough, remember that, for the most part, the only things keeping it from being 180 degrees different are the numbers on the calendar.
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