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I am excited to share a fabulous cookbook with you – Quick Meals: More Than 100 Great-Tasting Recipes for Good Food Fast was created and photographed by Carol Kicinski (the super woman behind the blog and now the magazine).
Quick Meals is Carol's second cookbook – her first one is a dessert cookbook – Simply . . . Gluten-free Desserts: 150 Delicious Recipes for Cupcakes, Cookies, Pies, and More Old and New Favorites. A must-have for the gluten-free bakers in your life.
First of all, if you know Carol's blog Simply Gluten-Free , then you know how incredible her photography is – her recipes are the same. I'm always amazed when I pop over to her blog to check out her latest recipe.
Quick Meals is a great cookbook for anyone on a gluten-free diet. It would even be a great gift for those who are curious about eating gluten-free. Most of the recipes are naturally gluten-free.
Quick Meals is cookbook full of simple, delicious, and quick meals for all occasions. The book is divided into 6 main sections: Quick Mixes, Simple Suppers, Easy Entertaining, Get Up and Go, Pantry Raid, and Slow, Slow, Quick, Quick.
One of my favorite sections is the Easy Entertaining section, Carol's created great menus for certain occasions (i.e. In-Laws for Dinner, I love that one). Two of our favorite recipes from the cookbook come from the Easy Entertaining section: Roasted Sweet Potato Wedges and Quick Black Beans.
As a vegetarian, I love finding new and simple bean recipes. Quick Black Beans is a perfect recipe for a night when I need a nutritious dinner on the table fast. We like to eat our Quick Black Beans in tortillas with all the fixins (Callum's favorite), with brown basmati rice and greens, or with quinoa and avocado slices. Recently I made the Roasted Sweet Potato Wedges and served them with the black bean dish. It was super easy and super delish.
A few other recipes we've enjoyed:
- Vegan Breakfast Bars
- Banana Date Muffins (easily made egg-free)
- Whole Grain Pancakes (easily made egg-free)
- Pear and Arugula Salad
Next up I'm going to try Carol's Vegetable Curry recipe!
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. Winner has been contacted by email.
Want to win a copy of Quick Meals: More Than 100 Great-Tasting Recipes for Good Food Fast?
All you have to do to enter is leave a comment below telling me what your go-to quick meal is.
Contest rules: Contest will be open until Sunday, October 20th at 11:59 pm CST.
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WACO (October 25, 2012)--Two men were held Thursday in the McLennan County Jail in connection with a robbery in early October and police were looking for a woman they believe also was involved.
Adrian Don Hamilton was ordered held on a $30,000 bond charged with aggravated robbery and was being held without bond on a state prison parole violation.
Willis Wayne Slaughter was ordered held on $75,000 bond charged with aggravated robbery.
Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton said a warrant also has been issued for Pamela Ware, 36, but she has not yet been located.
Swanton said affidavits indicate Ware went to her boyfriend's home at around 2 a.m. on Oct. 13, and as she entered the house, Hamilton and Slaughter also went inside.
The affidavit says the 54-year-old resident of the home was beaten, knocked to the floor and kicked.
The victim reported his wallet was stolen and his attackers left the house.
Swanton said the police report indicates the victim was taken by ambulance to Hillcrest Baptist Medical for treatment.
Slaughter and Hamilton both were arrested Tuesday and charged on Wednesday, according to jail records.

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It has a kidney-shaped swimming pool (open from April to September) with loungers, a sun terrace and a small lawn with beach chairs. Outdoor Bar by the pool (open from May to September) is open daily from 18.30 pm and is accessible to the general public. The Residence includes restaurant (open from May to September) and bar with lakeview terrace and a private parking lot unguarded. Guests can select optionally breakfast.
Final Cleaning Euro 35,00 per apartment.
City tax euro 0,50 per person per day to pay on site (exception children 1-14 years old)
Pets: We allow only small size animals Euro 5,00 per day.
Baby bed euro 6,00 per day.
Air Conditioning euro 6,00 per day.
Change of Bed linen euro 6,00 per person.
Change of Bath linen euro 6,00 per person.
Breakfast euro 10,00 per person.
before 72 hrs no fee will be charged.
From 72 hrs to 24 hrs, the first night will be charged.
If cancelled or modified later or in case of no-show, the total price of the reservation will be charged.
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Check-in time: from 14.00 to 18.00 (call or write an e-mail for late arrivals).
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"John Smith arrives in Paradise Ohio and hopes that this will finally be the place where he settle down and be a normal teenager. This isn't so easy considering he's an alien developing supernatural powers on the run from the Mogadorians who have destroyed his home planet and are hunting him down along with the eight other surviving Loriens. A novel that hits the ground running and doesn't let up until the very end, this first book in the Lorien Legacies will cause readers to stop and think: do they really live among us?"
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Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books but we are real.
Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing.
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They caught Number One in Malaysia.Number Two in England.And Number Three in Kenya.They killed them all.
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Pittacus Lore is Lorien's ruling Elder. He has been on Earth preparing for the war that will decide Earth's fate. His whereabouts are unknown.
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I'm looking to view/edit OPML files on the iPhone/iPad. Is there an app that can do this?
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Take a look at CarbonFin and the website https://cfoutliner.appspot.com/ (accessible on any iOS device)
Depends on what you want to do exactly but since OPML is just another Markup Language you can use any text editor or maybe one that's also able to highlight XML. You could also try online tools such as google docs, tho I couldn't myself. Here's another way to read only OPML using iGoogle.
I'll also give a shot and guess what kind of OPML you'd be using and suggest this app.
Lots of iOS apps support OPML in different ways. All depends on what you want to do with it.
For editing the actual code, you could use Textastic with its super-nice syntax highlighting. Use the built-in XML syntax definition or easily add your own customized for OPML.
For editing it as a mind-map, check out iThoughts or MindNode.
For working with it in outline form, hey! There's OmniOutliner, CarbonFin or MagicalPad.
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Roe Ann Cushenbery was born February 19, 1935, to Artemus and Leona (Lindsey) Hayse in Greensburg, Kansas. She graduated from Mullinville High School in Mullinville, Kansas. She was married three times and had four children. Roe Ann was a woman of many talents and worked hard to support her family. She worked at Cross Manufacturing, was an operator for "Ma Bell" and a cook at the Kansan Motel in Greensburg, KS. She worked for several years for Medicine Lodge, KS school district as a cook in the school cafeteria and also cooked at a restaurant in Medicine Lodge.
She liked to craft and crochet, making things for people. Mainly, she loved raising kids and helped with raising several grandchildren. She loved old time country music and bluegrass, and spent many an hour watching RFDTV (especially Hee Haw).
Roe Ann passed away peacefully on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at Homestead Nursing Home in Sherman, TX. She is preceded in death by her parents, Artemus and Leona Hayse and one brother, Charles (Bub) Hayse. She is survived by three brothers, Frank Hayse and his wife Merlyn of Wellington, KS , John Hayse and his lady Kelly of Abilene, TX, and Merlin Hayse and his wife Brenda of Poplar Bluff, MO, one sister, Jean Shuck and her husband Ed of Wichita, KS, two sons, Steve Zimmerman of Billings, Montana, Randy Decker and his wife, Gina, of Whitewright, Texas, two daughters, Cynthia Anderson of Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and Debra Boyett of Seattle, Washington, thirteen grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
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CHEBOYGAN – The Cheboygan Lumber Company and the Rivertown Do-it Center will remain open for business despite notices of foreclosure on both properties, totalling $2.58 million, by Citizens National Bank published in Tuesday's Daily Tribune legals classified section.
Company president Roy Schryer said Tuesday the company is reorganizing, taking preliminary steps and moving forward with the business plan it has in place to serve Cheboygan and surrounding areas with both stores. He said the company is in negotiations with the bank and is working through financial issues. Schryer declined further comment.
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I'm in China trying to jump the GFW (great firewall) using a program called Ultrasurf (proxy).
I can access the Facebook homepage - no problem. But as soon as I try logging in, it directs me to an https login site and then gets blocked. I have the same problem with Twitter and other (usually) blocked sites that use https.
I was just wondering if there was anyway to force these sites to use http instead of https. I'm not worried about security, because my traffic is already encrypted through the SSL that Ultrasurf uses.
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Please include where I can buy the dataset and how much it costs?
In the future you should be able to use the LLPG (local Land and Property Gazetteer), which would return a British National Grid coordinate. This can be easily converted to Lat/Long and I would argue it is probably more up to date than the OS AddressPoint data, given that it is updated by the councils who create the address and updated daily in most cases. However I am not sure if this is available yet, it has been hampered due to licensing restrictions from OS and Royal Mail.
The most accurate way to do this is to use the Ordnance Survey AddressPoint dataset. Their price list seems to suggest that for use on just one terminal costs around £16,000.
However, if you are willing to sacrifice some accuracy you can do this for free at http://www.nearby.org.uk/coord.cgi using the postcode part of the address. They also have an API which would allow you to automate this. If you have an address without a postcode then you can obtain the postcode from Royal Mail (see http://postcode.royalmail.com/), although I think they only let you lookup a limited number of addresses per day. Also, the Ordnance Survey have released their CodePoint dataset as part of the OS OpenData initiative - available to download from https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html. Of course, if you want to represent an address as a point then all the postcode method will provide you with is the location of the centre of the postcode area.
OpenAddresses.org provides a free (beta) service where users can create/edit/upload addresses. Unfortunately, the coverage in the UK still appears to be pretty spotty.
Don't forget that in the UK Post Codes are generally small (25-50 houses) so a post code based system may be acceptably accurate.


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The house at 3424 Forrester Lane where the shooting occurred Friday was the scene of a violent double murder in 2001.
Orville Loving, 89, and his wife Ruby, 86, were beaten to death in the house they shared on May 12, 2001.
The murders have never been solved.
Some items were found missing from the home, but it's not clear whether their killer broke in or perhaps asked to use the phone and was invited in.
The Lovings called 911 twice, just hours before they were killed to report that strangers were knocking on the door of their home.
Officers responded and searched the area both times, but found no one.
WACO (January 14, 2013)—Waco police Monday identified a man whom an officer shot after responding to a report of a domestic disturbance Friday as Michael Ray Hall, 46, of Waco and said the two officers involved in the incident are both department veterans.
Police spokesman Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton identified the officers Monday as Hans Fitting, a 23-year veteran, and Don Patterson, a 14-year veteran.
They remain on administrative leave pending completion of an investigation.
Hall was shot in the lower jaw Friday as he moved toward one of the officers in what police said was a threatening manner after a woman involved in the incident told Fitting and Hall the man was armed and had fired a shot inside the house.
Police did not identify the officer who fired the shot.
Hall was conscious, walking and talking after the shooting.
He was taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center.
Hall was on parole at the time of the shooting after serving 21 years for aggravated assault on a police officer, according to online records.
The officers were sent to 3424 Forrester Lane just after 11 a.m. Friday in response to a report of a disturbance and a screaming woman, Swanton said Friday.
When the officers arrived the woman told them a man who was armed was inside the home.
As they tried to make contact with the man he "confronted officers in a threatening manner," Swanton said.
"One of the officers, believing the suspect was armed, shot the suspect," Swanton said.
Officers later discovered the man wasn't armed, but had left the weapon in a bedroom where investigators later determined he had fired it just before officers arrived.
Earlier police said the man had a gun when he confronted the officers.
More than a dozen marked units and several unmarked cars flooded the neighborhood near Forrester Lane and Laguna Vista Drive about two-and-a-half blocks off of Lake Shore Drive after the shooting.


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The behavior I am creating is that a OAS ad appears and if it fails then an iAd appears and if it also fails an AdMob ad appears. It should cycle through the three choices on a rotation. At the moment, I am seeing iAd only or direct ad only. I have not seen any AdMob ads appear. Do anyone has a way of setting this up so that the three ad networks rotate?
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Role Playing Ukraine
Professor Mark Katz at George Mason University organized his 79 undergraduate students in teams to play out the current situation in Ukraine. Here he describes their moves and the tentative outcome: LobeLog Sound plausible? possible? unlikely?
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, a former editor of Commonweal, writes frequently in these pages and blogs at dotCommonweal.
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Plausible. The question is: Is this another de facto Munich, a fateful appeasement of Russia which will lead to more annexations?
Ann, Or were Abkhazia and South Ossetia Munich, and Crimea Poland and now we are up to France and Belgium? In which case, Obama is worse than Chamberlain. Or are we only up to Ukraine is Poland? In which case, Obama has a chance to be Churchill. Or would that be David Cameron while OIbama would be FDR?
The point being, historical analogies go only so far, and after they have gone that short distance, the conclusions one draws are the conclusions he went in with.
Tom B. --
No, we don't know -- yet. But we'd be foolish not to think ahead to the possibilities.
Today (Wednesday, May 7), Putin says that Russian troops have pulled back from the border with Ukraine. Also reported: he asked separatists to postpone a referendum scheduled for Sunday.
Hmmm! I am going to assume that Putin has achieved what he wanted, chaos and uncertainty in Ukraine, and is now stepping back to see what will happen.
I was just saying that if we want to think ahead to the possibilities, it is better to start by acknowledging that our problem is Vladimir Putin, not Adolf Hitler. Putin seems to want to restore Russia's pre-Gorbachev (or even pre-Brezhnev) clout in the world. Russia's rulers have always coveted Ukraine when they didn't have it, although they had it a lot of the time. A lot of Ukrainians grew up as subjects of the powerful Soviet Union (whereas the Germans in Czechoslovakia had only Wilhelmine Germany to look back on) and feel in a position to choose their future from Russia or Ukraine.
Thinking further, Russia can mass troops on the Ukranian border, but there is no France to mass troops on Russia's border to create at least the possibility of a standoff. As in 1940, Russia is ready for war (at least with Ukraine) and Europe is ready for peace. That is a point of comparison. But neither France nor Britain were ever reliant on Germany for their natural gas as our European friends rely on Russia. And so on. And, of course, nobody had the Bomb in 1940, but now both we and the Russians do. That limits our options in ways no one's options were limited back then.
The comparisons are thinner than the differences.
While it is popular to view every leader we don't like as the next Adoph Hitler, I don't know that such an analysis is likely to lead to sensible policy. But the other thing is, even if Putin has some vaguely Hitlerian scheme of European domination, (unlikely in most people's view) what should we do about it now? The europeans seem only marginally concerned. And in an odd way, isn't the west in a bit of an uncomfortable position of backing a coup, while the Russians make the case that they are concerned because a pro-Russian President, who was duly elected was unconstitutionally overthrown.
At moments it looks like the U.S. cares more about the situation in Ukraine than does Western Europe. See this op ed piece by the foreign affairs editor of Die Welt. Why Germans Love Russia.
Of course, Poland is nervous as are the Baltic countries.
I read and hear many comments about doing "something" about this, but very few about what exactly the US can or even for that matter should do. And the things we are doing, to the extent they work at all, are extremely long range in their impact. One need look only at Cuba and Iran to see that the effects of embargos and such take over 50 years (Cuba) to bring about the change we want. Short of a military confrontation, which as you pointed out would be a case of Europe holding our coat while we do the fighting, what real solution is out there?
Maybe we have to count on Putin to step back. And then we have to hope that the Ukrainians don't start their own war with each other. Not impossible especially if the CIA and/or the State Department, etc., are fomenting trouble (don't know that they are, but wouldn't be surprised).
Jim Dunn,
I always get worried when people start calling for us to "do something." It reveals that the need for a sense of control has overwhelmed our ability to evaluate the relative merits of various courses of action.


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Given 4 points ( not all on the same plane ), what is the probability that a hemisphere exists that passes through all four of them ?
See J. G. Wendell, "A problem in geometric probability", Math. Scand. 11 (1962) 109-111. Available online here. The probability that $N$ random points lie in some hemisphere of the unit sphere in $n$-space is
$$p_{n,N} = 2^{-N+1} \sum_{k=0}^{n-1} {N-1 \choose k}$$
and in particular you want
$$p_{3,4} = 2^{-3} \sum_{k=0}^2 {3 \choose k} = {7 \over 8}$$.
A second solution: A solution from The Annals of Mathematics, 2 (1886) 133-143 (available from jstor), specific to the (3,4) case, is as follows. First take three points at random, A, B, C; they are all in the same hemisphere and form a spherical triangle. Find the antipodal points to those three, A', B', C'. Now either the fourth point is in the same hemisphere as the first three or it is in the triangle A'B'C'. The average area of this triangle is one-eighth the surface of the sphere.
This gets the right answer, but I'm not sure how I feel about it; why is the average area one-eighth the surface of the sphere? One can guess this from the fact that three great circles divide a sphere into eight spherical triangles, but that's hardly a proof. Generally this solution seems to assume more facility with spherical geometry than is common nowadays.
We chose n points on $S^{n-2}$ and want to show that the probability for them to be in one half-sphere is $1-2^{1-n}$. A simple way to solve this question is to notice that up to a linear transformation there exsits a unique collection of generic $n$ lines in $R^{n-1}$ through 0. This reduces whe problem to a combinatorial one. End of solution.
Here are details. Namely, Instead of chosing points on the whole shpere, it is sufficient to chose these points among $2n$ points of intersection of the sphere with generic lines $L1,...,L_n$. We just need to chose one point on one line. We call these $2n$ points $P_1, -P_1,...,P_n, -P_n$
Lemma. For generic $L_i$ there will be only two choices of n points $\pm P_i$, such that the obtained simplex is not contained in the demi-sphere.
Proof for n=4. It is sufficient to check this statement for the verticies of the regular cube. Indeed, for generic 4 lines in $R^3$ there is a linear transformation that takes these lines to the axes of the cube.
"Proof" for any n. For n generic lines in $R^{n-1}$ it is alway possible to send them to the lines generated by vectors $1,0,...,0$,... $0,0,...,1$ and $1,1,...,1$. It is sufficient to check the lemma for 2n points repersenting intersections of these lines with $S^{n-2}$.
From this lemma we get the answer. Number of all choices of $n$ points is $2^n$, two choices are bad, so we get $(2^n-2)2^{-n}$.
The probability is 7/8ths.
Consider throwing 3 darts at a sphere on average the darts will land with one on each of the ends of the Cartesian coordinates, i.e. (0,0,1), (0,1,0), (1,0,0). Or on average the SA of the spherical triangle made using the three darts as vertices will be 1/8th of the sphere volume.
This is easy to verify. The position the dart lands can be described using 2 coordinates and the equation for a sphere in Cartesian. Randomly choose an x value between -1 and 1, randomly choose a y value between -1 and 1 and the equation for a sphere will give you the z value.
On average x will be 0, y will be 0 and z will be 1.
Do this using the others and you can see why the triangle will on average have a SA of 1/8th of sphere volume.
Now consider placing a great circle around any 2 points. There are 3 ways this can be done. On average These 3 great circles will make up the x, y and z planes. Or better to describe as, on average these three great circles will be on orthogonal planes.
So there are 8 octant to choose from, Sa of 7 of these octants can be included in the same hemisphere as the 3 points by choosing different great circles. So only if the 4th dart lands in the 8th octant do we not have a great circle that can be used to split the sphere into 2 hemispheres encompassing all 4 darts.
The 8th octant will be the dipodal spherical triangle of the "average position of the darts landing. that is draw lines through the darts, through the centre of the sphere and make another spherical triangle using the intersection of the before mentioned lines on the opposite side of the sphere.
Think about it, that is the only octant that can not be encompassed using any of the three great circles.
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throw 3 darts, 3 great circle can be drawn, on average the planes these three great circles lie on will be orthogonal. The intersection of these three planes creates 8 octants. There can be a spherical triangle drawn around the three darts. If and only if the fourth dart lands on the antipodal spherical triangle of the first three darts will it not be in the same hemisphere.


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- Jump then hold jump for a little longer to climb that extra height
- Jump off the wall onto the left.
- Jump off the wall onto the right.
- Reach slightly above the first repulser
- Reach slightly above the second repulser
- End up on the wall below Bandage Girl.
From there I'm stuck. If I try to jump back on the second repulser, I don't gain enough altitude to reach the ledge.
Am I screwing up with the double-repulser jump? Am I supposed to end up on that wall?
I could try using Commander Video's longer jumping capabilities, but with him I can't clear the second repulser jump, as the first doesn't gain him enough height. The other character I have is Headcrab, but it doesn't seem to be particularly useful for anything.
The A+ time is 13.5 and by the time I reach the opposite wall 6.5 seconds have elapsed, so I guess I'm not supposed to reach that ledge straight away after all. I still can't manage to pull this off however.


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Chevron's refineries processed 1.61 MMbpd, down from 1.8 MMbpd in the second quarter of 2012. United States refining throughput increased 183 MMbpd after the company ratcheted up production at its Richmond refinery in California that had been damaged by a fire in August 2012.
SAN RAMON -- Chevron Corp said that its oil and gas business
activity is set for a year over year drop in the second quarter
as lower crude prices and equipment maintenance takes a toll.
In an interim earnings statement, Chevron, the second
largest United States oil company in market value after Exxon
Mobil Corp, reported steep drops in the average prices it gets
for its oil production. United States natural gas prices were
up, but Chevron's production is tilted towards crude.
Chevron's interim report, generally considered an earnings
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that Exxon and other producers might have been stung by the
steep drop in oil prices in April amid concerns about the slow
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Chevron and other big oil companies are slated to report
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Overall, Chevron produced 2.57 MMbpd of oil and natural gas
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Chevron's oil refining business results were
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As it is well known that QKD systems are prone to simple MITM attacks… what authentication techniques are being used in QKD to prevent those attacks in practice?
The standard answer in the research literature is to use information-theoretically secure message authentication codes, typically universal hashing (aka Carter-Wegman authenticators). Of course, you could use computationally-secure message authentication codes, like CMAC or HMAC, if you wanted, though that would partly defeat one of the reasons for using QKD.
That said, in practice QKD is a bit silly. QKD solves a problem that most people don't have, so it is basically a fancy useless toy (albeit a very expensive one). If you're considering using QKD in some practical deployment, my advice is: skip the QKD, and just use a TLS or IPSec VPN. There, I saved you $50,000; don't spend it all in one place!


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Police say a woman sneaked into a local hospital and tried to steal thousands of dollars of important medical equipment. We've learned this is not the first time this woman has been accused of doing this.
She said she was there to check out the ultrasound equipment, but officials say her intentions were much more sinister. "The statement she made was not what she should be here for," says Noah Roark, human resources director at Laughlin Memorial Hospital.
Police say Jenine Ellis followed a staff member through an employee door and then headed for the ultrasound department. Staff members spotted her as she made her way into the department and headed for an exam room.
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I just finished building a single speed bike and I think my chain line might be a little off. Is there a tool or trick to sighting the chain line?
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You should be able to "sight" this fairly well. Get close to the front sprocket and align your eye such that you're just looking down one side of the front sprocket towards the rear. Moving your head back and forth sideways very slightly the same side of the rear sprocket should flicker into and out of view.
Or you can use a long metal ruler, placed against the side of the sprockets. With perfect alignment (which isn't really necessary) the ruler will fit flat against both sprockets simultaneously.
Using a straight ruler (a small flat metal one is easiest), measure from the centerline of the rear hub to the center of the chain around the cog. Then measure from the center of the seat tube to the center of the chain around the chainring.
Voila, chainline measurements.
I've always just eyed up the alignment on single speeds. Look at the chain from behind and above. As with anything it took some practice to do right. If the alignment is too far off it will be noticeable.
My preferred method is the following:
With the bike upright (left handlebar end against a wall), with one hand apply some pedalling pressure to the right pedal, while it is pointing to the front.
With the other hand, press a straight ruler (with length preferrably around 1 foot or more) against the upper part of the chainring, making sure it touches the ring in two points of its outer circumference (one ahead of the bottom bracket, and other behind). This way you can be sure the ruler is aligned with the chainring plane.
With the chain tensioned by the pressure on the pedal and the ruler as described, look from above to the alignment between the chain and the ruler:
It is worth noting that a perfect alignment is not strict necessary if the error is, say, less than half the chain width (I am being arbitrary here).
Also, this procedure just assure alignment to the chainring plane, since the sprocket could be rotated. This happens if a badly dished wheel requires the rear axle to be SLIGHTLY vertically rotated in order to get the wheel aligned inside the frame, but I don't think this would matter much unless it is too extreme.
In my experience, this alignment is meant mostly to avoid premature/asymmetric wearing of the drivetrain, and also to prevent the chain from falling off if it stretches too much before being retightened. If you don't notice an abnormal wearing pattern even if the alignment is not perfect, I would think that's just fine.
Hope it helps.
The best way is to measure the chain line distance at the chain ring and then measure the chain line at the rear cog. You require to measure sizes on your bike as accurately as possible and do some calculations. This site explains how to do it for geared bikes but the same principals apply. http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/chain-line Hope that helps.


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There have been 3 bank robberies so far this year, and no arrests have been made in any of the cases. The latest one happened around 8a.m. Wednesday at the PBI Bank on Fairview Ave. Only one customer was inside the bank at the time, and police say the robber did not show a weapon.
"A man entered the bank and passed a note to the teller. Once the robbery was over, he left on foot, walking away behind the bank," said Bowling Green Police Public Information Officer Ronnie Ward.
The robber remains at large, and Ward says police have no suspects at this time.
The robber is described as a man with a scruffy face. He is about 5'7" to 5'9" and average build.
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Hot and Sour Beef Stir-fry with Green Beans
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Add an Asian-inspired flair to dinner with this hot and sour beef stir-fry.
Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 20M
Serves: Serves 4
- 1 tbsp honey
- generous splash of Asian fish sauce
- 675g (11/2lb) boneless sirloin (rump) steak, sliced into thin strips
- handful of small green beans, trimmed
- 1 tbsp Asian sesame oil
For the hot and sour sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, finely grated
- 1 tsp dark brown sugar
- 6 anchovy fillets, drained and chopped
- 3 red jalapeño chile peppers, seeded and finely chopped
- splash of Chinese rice wine
- juice of 1 lime
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- First, make the hot and sour sauce. Using a mortar and pestle, pound all the ingredients, except for the rice wine and lime juice, into a smooth paste. Then add the lime juice a little at a time, tasting as you go, and season with salt. Set aside.
- In a bowl, mix together the honey and fish sauce. Add the steak strips, stirring to coat. Blanch the beans in a pan of boiling water for a few minutes, then drain and refresh in cold water.
- Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the steak and stir-fry, tossing the meat constantly, for 3-5 minutes until it is nicely browned. Remove with a slotted spoon, and set aside.
- Add the hot and sour sauce to the wok, and stir for a couple of minutes. Return the meat to the pan, and stir in the beans. Increase the heat to high, add the rice wine, and let bubble for a minute or two. Serve immediately with noodles or rice.
- Cheat...Use a store-bought hot and sour sauce, or a sweet and sour sauce, and toss it with the meat and vegetables.
- Refreshing the beans in cold water will stop the cooking process and help the beans keep their vibrant green color.
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15 Feb 2013 1:28 PM #1
First, ExtJS, from a personal perspective, is a beautiful, rich, complex, and I've cut my teeth going from an intermediate to an advanced user with YOUR products. Kudos for the great work.
However, from a business owner, who has to make money, I'm appalled on so many levels. The jump from 3.x to 4.x was horrific and aborted after 2 months of work by myself. Our application was so monstrously complex and rich in 3.x, and this is not a bad thing, to make the jump to 4.x was so incredibly difficult. After 2 months I managed to get only a few of the major components of our app working. Then I got the e-mail from QA... "The app seems a little slower in IE"... I'm not even going there...
Now, on top of this you removed Pivot Tables from 4.x. Yeah, remember those??? Thought you would. Where are they? Did you think we wouldn't notice them being gone? We did, so did our customers. What were you thinking? Really? Here's the sales pitch, ready, "Upgrade to 4.x and have your customers lose functionality". It's perfect, you should air a commercial to that effect on next years Superbowl. Wait, was that the only item missing from 4.x ? I didn't even check because I couldn't even get that far in my work.
How you could ignore the business needs of your customers so much as to make a product so backwards incompatible is beyond me. I've heard the party line including:
- We document how to upgrade
- There are better ways to do things
- Try it this way
I am also bummed out on a personal level because I really do love ExtJS, the framework, the patterns, the code, it's a joy. You've taken that away from me. You've cost my customers, and myself money that we'll never reclaim.
On top of that we are stuck at 3.x, stuck, stuck, stuck. We refuse to upgrade, it would be a mistake.
If I could make one small unsolicited suggestion.
NEVER EVER AGAIN MAKE SUCH A GIANT UPGRADE LIKE WAS DONE WITH 3.x ==> 4.x
To further complicate matters your refusal to provide insight into your release schedule is well, polite language precludes me from expressing an accurate sentiment which resounds among these forums. Hello, we are not doing this stuff for fun--although it is fun--we are doing this at our customers' request? Let me explain again...
We use ExtJS in a business context at the request and need of our customers.
Wait, let me restate it one more time a little differently just so we're absolutely clear:
We use ExtJS to provide business with critical functionality.
I'm going to say it one more time, because I think someone up the chain of command is having trouble with this idea...
Our customers' lively hood, OUR lively hood depend on software not breaking. If we fail to achieve that then we will not make money, we will starve, have our houses foreclosed upon, our children taken away, and then we will turn to a life of crime so as to afford food, and then we will wind up in jail and be violated by the dregs of society.
When you keep us in the dark
When you don't post your release schedule concerning products that are failing
When you make upgrades a nightmare to implement
When you post performance results that are not true
When you remove widgets without warning
When your code is incompatible with every single plugin
We get upset. We don't want to use your product. We look for alternatives. We say bad and mean things about your company. We mock you.
Thank you,
15 Feb 2013 2:48 PM #2
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15 Feb 2013 3:08 PM #3
Thanks. We really do like your products, I like your products. We just can't move forward, I have to advise against it at the moment. This is a tough position for me.
I also know the vast majority of your development, and customer support staff or bar none, excellent. There is no doubt that you guys know JavaScript inside out and backwards. The problem is plainly on the business side.
I did try to make this thread a little on the humorous side so as to not have it go too dark, but unfortunately I think a little dark is appropriate.
I'm not sure there's anything that I can do at the moment. Even if we wanted to upgrade, even if you guys fixed all the issues, even if there was a complete turnaround in how the SDLC worked at Sencha, our business just can't afford the time to take a second round at an upgrade to 4.x... It would detract too much from our attention in providing features and stability for our current set of customers.
The only hope I do have is: You continue to support ExtJS 3 and have that as a well maintained fork. I shiver when I think of newer IE versions.
I hope this helps to improve ExtJS and Sencha.
Thank you...
15 Feb 2013 3:35 PM #4
Hi there -- thanks for the insightful and colorful :-) feedback. This is one of those conversations where I have to say there's no great answer. Let met start by saying you're right: we didn't make the Ext JS 3 to 4 upgrade easy. We shipped a compat.js that helped, but for many people it involved a rewrite of their application. Ext JS 4 has a ton of benefit on top of 3.x, and it took a while to mature in terms of features and in terms of performance, but I'll spare you the marketing fluff here. We've been diligent to keep the APIs the same between the versions of Ext JS 4.x, making minor tweaks here and there (the bufferedrenderer plugin for Ext JS 4.2 being a great example of the kind and scope of change we make). We've committed (communicated in the blog) that we'll continue to support Ext JS 3.x for 12 months after we ship Ext JS 5 (whenever that may be). We also plan to make updates to Ext JS 3.x to support IE10 as part of that commitment to supporting Ext JS 3.x.
The experience around the upgrade for our customers has taught us a lot on how we manage APIs and compatibility and its informed a lot of our thinking about how the future of our products needs to be better about managing that compat. I should also add in since you mention it, we don't publicly communicate our schedules and that's an intentional decision. Yes, it can be frustrating but we'd rather not be in a place where we commit something and have our customers build expectations around it and then let them down. We try to be open and honest in communicating in our forums, but release dates and the like probably won't be as transparent as you'd like.
Like I said, no great answers here, but hopefully you'll see some great improvements with Ext JS 4.2, Touch 2.2 and more that shows why sticking with Sencha frameworks make sense for your business.
16 Feb 2013 6:30 AM #5
I appreciate your response and keeping the fluff to a minimum, I do, it goes a long way for me.
I would say in terms of supporting IE 10, it's too late, it's already out. People have this as their browser. Yeah, we bypass a lot of issues by controlling the doc-type served up, but it's disconcerting. Also, as I understand, updates to JS 3.x will only be supported with bug-fixing, ticketed updates. Is this true?
In terms of communicating timelines and schedules. I hear you, I do. But, not on all release types, that's not how people do business. It's reasonable to say, "Yeah, we don't know when version 5 is coming out". But, this isn't about communicating when version 5 is coming out. This is about communicating when updates will be released which fix critical bugs.
We aren't busting your chops about when that release with the 3 dimensional super positronic spinning chart doohickey will be available. We're busting your chops because your code was riddled with bugs, performance problems, and was missing features.
I would dare say that it is your civic duty, your ethical and moral imperative, your purpose as human beings on this planet (apart from procreation), to communicate when you're fixing a bug that's messing up a customer. Are you guys gonna mess this up at first? Yeah, of course. But, predicting when software will flow out the door is paramount in this business. Join the team, learn from your mistakes. Try.
Have I seen improvements in 4.x, yeah, it's great, it's clean, love the dependency checks, love the new patterns, the new ways to "do stuff". But, it literally doesn't mean anything if it doesn't work. If I can't depend on the company behind the product. If our customers can't use it.
Ext JS is not for a flashy web site, it really is made for Business Intranet type applications. It is made to view data, it is made to administrate, it shines in this area. And, it does look flashy yes... In my limited experience, the majority of users at businesses use IE. Moreover, they don't have a choice, it is a mandate. Yes, this is changing, but not as fast as it should and besides, when and how that changes is not the point. The point is your stuff needs to work well with the major browsers. I would argue that IE is of extremely high importance, and equals that of FF and Chrome. Not because it's a good browser, we all now its gobe, but because that's what people use. Do I like writing applications for IE, do I like testing my code in IE, frankly I'd rather hang by my eyelids--I hear some people like this now, so to be clear, I am not one of them. But, do I sit with that pathetic debugger, rocking back and forth while that element selector churns and I try and use that excuse of a stylesheet modifier? Hells yeah, because it pays the godsdamned bills. Would I rather be scripting in Chrome all day long, on a linux box in VI or Emacs, you know it bro. But, that's just not my reality, and I suspect it's not the reality of others also. But, someday, one can hope.
IE is hear to stay. And yes, while that brings tears to my eyes and fills us all with homicidal rage it pays the bills. It pays for our goomahs and excursions to vegas.
Provide a date with regards to at least minor bug-fixing patches being released.
Thank you
18 Feb 2013 1:24 AM #6
As someone also stuck with a big codebase on 3.4, I'd like to add that I do think the ExtJS 4.x transition was necessary. Could it have been managed more smoothly? Yes. But it was in my opinion necessary to move to a proper MVC architecture. The 4.x line is structurally easier to develop on, even if it is a pain to migrate to.
However, I do feel the same way about the poorly handled transition. I have two major complaints that have existed since the 4.0 release:
- 3.4 support has been essentially non-existant, with releases coming so late we ended up having to do our own maintenance work to support new browser versions. I don't see the point in paying for 3.x support unless dedicated resources are put on it (in fact, we're currently letting our support subscription expire because of that reason).
- The communication about performance of 4.x has never been useful. I want to know one simple thing: how does it compare to 3.4 for common scenarios on the slowest browser (IE7)? Sencha does not tell me that, so I cannot know when 4.x is ready to migrate to without actually trying to migrate (we're waiting on 4.2 to give it a go).
20 Feb 2013 8:47 AM #7
Has it been forgotten that the requirement for performance on IE for v4 is to be faster than v3?
Or has this been achieved but not announced?
Or has the performance promise been quietly removed?
We are also still stuck with v3.4 and until the performance issues are fixed find *no* business value at all in v4+
20 Feb 2013 10:30 AM #8
I have already advised at least two clients to not adopt ExtJS and will continue to do so because:
- Too large a gap between 3.x and 4.x causing upgrade paths to be unacceptable in terms of effort
- Undelivered performance promises on 4.x on IE
- No transparency of critical patch update schedule
- Limited support on 3.x
- Removal of key feature sets in 4.x
In short, the software is great, but from a business perspective this just doesn't float. You have literally made it extremely difficult and risky to use your products. You go tell the boss that the last 3 months of dev work doesn't work on IE7.
My advice, change out the management and bring in a team focused on providing an SDLC that delivers products and support businesses can trust.
20 Feb 2013 11:12 AM #9
Hi folks --
As usual, thanks for all your input and the feedback you've given (and continue to give!) on the topic.
A couple of comments re: performance. First, Ext JS 4.1 fixed a lot of the layout performance issues that existed in 4.x. The layouts are drastically faster compared to 4.0. In some cases they will be slower than 3.x and in other cases faster. In Ext JS 4.2 the new grid improvements with the bufferedrenderer will make the grids much much faster (try the beta, it's pretty stunning). We text Ext JS on every browser combination (IE, FF, Chrome, Opera, Safari), in quirks and standard mode, on various operating systems, etc, so I want to be clear that we don't ignore IE. None of us love it, but we all have to live with it: our customers are your customers and they live on IE.
Now, for 3.x bug fixes. Ext JS 3.4.1 was the last release and it was -- admittedly -- a long time ago. We're due for an Ext JS 3.4.2, and I'm sorry, but I can't commit to when it'll happen. I can let you know that we'll start work on it once we wrap up Ext JS 4.2.0 so we can have some of the dev team go back and work on 3.4.2. That's the best answer I can give you right now.
20 Feb 2013 11:37 AM #10
Testing in multiple browsers is a great thing, thank you. However, approving a release despite the fact that several browsers fail important tests, well let's just say that's a paradigm I'm not sure I'm familiar with.
I really don't think you guys get it, or the ones that do are towing the party line. It's obvious that the those pulling the strings just do not understand what it means to have a product line that is "Ready for Prime Time".
This isn't a hatefest here, you guys really messed up.


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CHINA SPRING (October 9, 2012)-On Saturday and Sunday the Central Texas Rifle and Pistol Club will hold a Rifle Sight-In.
This event is designed to help hunters improve the accuracy of their firearms at the start of the hunting season.
Bore Sighting, spotting scopes, targets, rests, and professional help is provided on the premises.
Ammunition and other items will be available for sale at the range by Keith's Ace Hardware.
The Central Texas Rifle and Pistol Club has held the event for more than 50 years as a community service for Central Texas area hunters.
The event is open to the public and costs $5 per rifle.
All proceeds will be donated to Toys for Tots.
The Rifle Sight-In will take place on Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days.
Participants are asked to not bring any loaded rifles onto the range.
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My, What Lovely Flowers. Who Lobbied for Them?
Domestic flowers adorned a White House state dinner after a campaign that included a chat with President Obama on Air Force One.
May 3, 2014, Saturday
Pastry Chef to Obamas Hanging Up His Whisk
Bill Yosses, who was hired by Laura Bush in 2007, is now headed to New York with an aim to teach children and adults about eating better.
March 19, 2014, Wednesday
Lobster and Bison After Inauguration
Many items on the menu for the lunch after the presidential inaugural on Jan. 21 are from New York State.
January 9, 2013, Wednesday
Thomas Jefferson, 'Founding Foodie'
Thomas Jefferson's farming and diet were ahead of their time.
August 22, 2012, Wednesday
Not Just Spices on His Shelves
For José Andrés, his collection of some 1,500 books about food and cooking gave him both knowledge and perspective while enriching his culinary skills.
August 1, 2012, Wednesday
Diplomacy Travels on Its Stomach, Too
The State Department seizes an opportunity to showcase American cuisine, particularly local ingredients.
July 4, 2012, Wednesday
Michelle Obama Reveals How Her White House Garden Grows
The first lady's new book, "American Grown," details how her garden on the South Lawn inspired her anti-obesity campaign.
May 29, 2012, Tuesday
Michelle Obama Reveals How Her White House Garden Grows
The first lady's new book, "American Grown," details how her garden on the South Lawn inspired her anti-obesity campaign.
May 29, 2012, Tuesday
Healthful Food Takes No Holiday at the White House
The 20,000 people who are invited to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for holiday parties will be offered snacks and desserts that reflect a new paradigm: fresh, healthful and local food.
December 1, 2010, Wednesday
Promoting Healthy Eating, With 31 Other First Ladies
Michelle Obama and representatives from places as far-flung as Cameroon and Norway mingled with public school children on a Westchester County farm to encourage healthy habits.
September 25, 2010, Saturday
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I am in the process of designing a loudspeaker and have a question regarding the number of turns in the multilayered solenoidal coil and the speaker impedance of $8\:\Omega$. I understand that the Impedance is equal to the real part $R$ (resistance) added to the inductance and that the inductance is partly a function of the number of turn of the copper wire. I am having difficulty with understanding which equation describes this relationship between inductance and number of turns. Thanks.
The one that comes to mind:
$L= μN^2 A/s ∴N= \sqrt{\frac{Ls}{μA}}$
$\text {where A is the cross sectional area, s is the length, and μ is the permeability }(4\pi \times 10^{-7} \frac {H} {m} \text{of air}) $
a fairly nice read....wiki
In short, impedance $X$ is expressed as $$X=X_R+X_I+X_C$$ where the resistive load, $$X_R = R$$, the inductive load, $$X_I=j\omega L$$ the capacitive load, $$X_C=\frac{1}{j \omega C}$$
where, $L,C,R$ are inductance, capacitance and resistance.
Now since you have the complex impedance, find out the $|X|$ to get net impedance in Ohms.
So, to get $L$, we have a formula which as you correctly suspect is dependent on $N$, number of turns.
$$L=\frac{\mu_r \mu_0 N^2A}{l}$$ where, $A$ is circular cross section of solenoid, $l$ is length of solenoid (not of wire), $\mu_0$ permeability of air (a constant) and $\mu_r$ relative permability of core (iron, in your case; probabably; you can find the value here).
you can calculate it here itself.


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I apologize if this is supposed to be obvious, but ... . Libor spot rates are quoted up to a year, beyond that one can use Eurodollar futures to continue to build the curve. Let's say up to 3 years. Beyond that one can ... well that is what I don't know. Google says "benchmark swaps", but that is the "chicken or egg" problem. Presumbably swap rates can be derived from Libor forward rates and vice versa. But where are they coming from? It can't be Treasuries due to lack of AA credit risk. It can't be corporates. They're not quoted with the BBA (unless I'm wrong). So if you had to trade the first and only swap in the world, where would you get the swap rate for say 5 to 30 years?
The short answer is that Libor swap rates come from the market. They represent a series of cashflows in the future whose value is determined by the fixing, which the market participants have their own valuations of.
Since the actual cash flows are now discounted using a separate funding curve, the swap prices embed both a prediction of future fixings and a measure of counterparty risk.
Libor no longer represents the actual cost of funding in the market, so Libor instruments involve buying or selling exposure to this Libor fixing index, which is now only correlated to funding costs.
You are asking for the arbitrage path/replication basket, for which there is only a series of FRAs funded with your funding curve - nothing else will give you the Libor exposure you need in the resulting basket.
Swaps are the market's medium to long term interest rate instrument.


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I want to make a database that stores countries, their respective states, and cities. I am confused how to normalize these. Can anyone help?
My ideas:
Table 1 Countries (id pk, name , code)
Table 2 State (id pk, name, country_id fk, code)
table 3 Cities (id pk, name, state_id fk, pin_code)
I want to store hotels along with their address(es):
table 4 address (id pk, street_address, city_id fk, state_id fk, country_id fk)
table 4 Hotel (id pk, name, address_id)
Are there any changes for future proofing I should make, or any other mistakes I've made?


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The Pittsburgh Pirates were proud to welcome 50 children to PNC Park on July 22, 2014 for the Buses for Baseball program. The children were escorted into the ballpark to watch the Pirates take batting practice before anyone else was allowed in the park!
The Buses for Baseball program gives underprivileged kids throughout the United States and Canada the chance to attend a Major League baseball games and meet the players. The Players Trust (MLBPA) partners with local transit authorities and Major League teams, as well as charitable organizations in all Major League cities, to share the thrill of a big league game with kids who need more chances to smile.
At each ballpark, kids are welcomed by players who spend time signing autographs, giving away souvenirs and posing for photographs. Complimentary food and soft drinks during the game -- and often the chance to see their own faces on the scoreboard -- provide lasting memories before the bus heads home.
As all of Major League Baseball celebrated the life and community service legacy of the great Roberto Clemente on September 16, the Pirates took time that morning to visit a local elementary school as a way to give back to the community.
During the event, Pirates Charities and Pirates executives and staff joined several Pirates minor league players to hand deliver school supplies and meet with the students at Arsenal Elementary School.
The celebration of "The Great One" continued during a special pre-game ceremony at PNC Park, when the Pirates 2015 Roberto Clemente Award was presented to All-Star center fielder Andrew McCutchen in recognition of his outstanding skills on the baseball field and his devoted work in the community.
The Pirates also recognized one player from each of their Minor League affiliates as the recipients of the organization's eighth annual Pirates Community Commitment Program (PCCP) awards. This program encourages players throughout Pittsburgh's minor league system to emulate Clemente's legacy of community service.
On August 26, 2014, the Pirates and the YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh partnered for a Domestic Violence Awareness event at the YWCA. Additional partners included five local domestic violence shelters including Alle-Kiski Area Hope Center, Inc., Crisis Center North, Center for Victims, the YWCA Women's Resource Center and Living in Liberty, a shelter for human trafficking survivors. At the event, local domestic violence organizations were on hand with resource tables for guests to learn about programs, services, and resources available in the region.
In addition, 400 supply kits were stuffed for the shelters by Pirates Catchers Russell Martin and Chris Stewart, their wives, the Pirates Pierogies and other guests. Items included: soap, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, toothbrushes and dental floss.
Pirates partner organizations, for their amazing efforts throughout the community around domestic violence, were also given Pirates tickets to provide to those in which they serve.
The Pirates have introduced the Fantasy Baseball Math Program in classrooms within the Diocese of Pittsburgh. Fantasy Baseball is an integrated math program for students in grades 4-8 and is aligned with the Pennsylvania State Exams in the areas of mathematics, reading and physical education. Students learn mathematics skills through baseball statistics in a way that is fun and engaging. Students also create player cards and compete against one another in simulated baseball games. The program promotes higher order science, technology, engineering and math skills (STEM), in preparation for math-based careers.
Learn more about the Fantasy Baseball Math Program »
In 2014, Pirates Charities once again supported the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia with a donation to the annual "Kurt R. Weiss Scholarship for Wish Children" program, which was created in 1998 to help motivate wish children to pursue their post-high school educational ambitions.
In addition to financial support, Pirates Charities also hosted a group of scholarship recipients and their families and friends to a night at the ballpark on Friday, May 9. Before the game, the group of 160 gathered in the Pirates Press Conference Room to recognize the accomplishments of the 25 scholarship recipients in attendance. Attendees also enjoyed a ballpark buffet in Picnic Park. Then, the scholarship recipients who attended the event proceeded to the field where they were recognized for their accomplishments by Team President Frank Coonelly. Make-A-Wish President/CEO Judi Stone and Development Coordinator Andrea Ballas also joined the group on the field.
Learn more about the Make-A-Wish Foundation Scholarship Program »
The Pirates hosted five Miracle League Fantasy Camps in 2014 for children and adults with special needs. Pirates players, coaches, alumni and front office executives helped conduct the camps, including pitchers Charlie Morton, Tony Watson and Stolmy Pimentel, infielders Ike Davis and Clint Barmes and Pirates executives Bob Nutting and Frank Coonelly. The Pirate Parrot and Pirates Pierogies also were in attendance at several of the fantasy camps.
The purpose of the Miracle League Fantasy Camps is to provide children and adults with special needs the opportunity to learn and play the game of baseball while providing a similar experience to Major League Baseball camps and clinics. This season, 175 children and adults attended the Miracle League Fantasy Camps, which were held in Altoona, the South Hills and Murrysville in PA, and in Wheeling, WV. A fantasy camp was also held at the Miracle League of Manasota, which serves the residents of Manatee and Sarasota Counties near the Pirates Spring Training home of Bradenton, FL.
At these camps, both children and adults took part in five activity stations, led by Pirates celebrities, that taught hitting, throwing and catching skills. Each child and adult also received his or her own personalized Pirates jersey and were treated to a delicious lunch.
The event was sponsored by Pirates Charities and Baseball Fantasy Camp for Kids. Baseball Fantasy Camp for Kids is an organization, founded by Denver resident Jeremy Flug, which provides funding for Miracle League Fantasy Camps for kids throughout the United States. This is the fifth year that Pirates Charities has worked with Mr. Flug, who attended the Fantasy Camp at the Miracle League of Manasota. Pirates Charities would like to thank Jeremy Flug, Joe Knetzer and the whole Baseball Fantasy Camp for Kids organization for their tremendous dedication to improving the lives of children and adults with special needs.
For more information on the Baseball Fantasy Camp for Kids organization, please visit www.baseballfantasycampforkids.com.
Learn more about the Pirates Charities Miracle League Field »
Donating blood is important as each individual whole blood donor can make a difference by supporting up to three lives. Last year, more than 1,600 units were donated at Pirates Blood Drives, helping to save almost 5,000 lives in the Pittsburgh region. For more information, please call 1-866-DONORS-1 (1-866-366-6771), or visit centralbloodbank.org.
Blood drives run from 11AM-7:30PM each day, and are located in the Press Conference Room. Appointments can be made in advance by contacting Central Blood Bank.
The 2015 Pirates Charities CARE-a-van, presented by Highmark, took place from December 9-11, participating in private community events leading up to the 26th PirateFest, presented by Chick-fil-A.
The CARE-a-van made a total of 24 stops impacting 13 cities in the greater Pittsburgh area, including stops in Altoona, PA -- home of the Pirates Double-A affiliate the Altoona Curve -- and Morgantown, WV -- home of the Pirates Single-A affiliate the West Virginia Black Bears.
Learn more about the Pirates Charities CARE-a-van »
The Pirates and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh teamed up for another season of Pirates Tales, a program that encourages kids to set reading goals during the summer months and read their way all the way to PNC Park!
Just like going to Pirates games, students from the entire Greater Pittsburgh Area make reading part of their summer tradition. Pirates Tales, a community outreach program designed to promote literacy skills, is a great way for kids to strengthen their reading skills and have fun at the same time.
This year, the Pirate Parrot attended the Kickoff Party at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh on May 29, 2014. More than 200 students throughout Allegheny County participated in the program by reading books over the summer and completing a book report.
The Pirates hosted the "Pitch for Hope" Women's Baseball Clinic at PNC Park on May 25, 2014. Proceeds benefit Glimmer of Hope, a Pittsburgh area based organization funding the only under-40 breast cancer study in the country.
Women ages 14 and older were invited to learn hitting, pitching, and fielding from Pirates coaches and players on the playing field at PNC Park. There was also a catered brunch at the ballpark. All participants received a commemorative T-Shirt and there was a raffle featuring autographed memorabilia.
The Pirates, along with broadcasters Greg Brown and Steve Blass, hosted two 65 Roses Club nights at PNC Park during the 2014 baseball season. The events benefitted the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and took place before each game.
The 65 Roses Club is a group of Pirates fans who have joined together to raise funds to fight cystic fibrosis. By making a pledge to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for every home run the Pirates hit, these fans have the opportunity to meet Pirates players, including Jared Hughes, Tony Watson and Clint Barmes this season, at private pre-game receptions. After the receptions, everyone can enjoy the game to cheer on the Bucs!
The club gets its name from the way a child often learns to say "cystic fibrosis," which sounds like "sixty-five roses." It is a national sports program supported by teams in all areas of athletics, including baseball, football, basketball, hockey and soccer, to help raise funds to fight cystic fibrosis.
For complete information about the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the 65 Roses Club, contact Sarah Steele at 412-321-4422 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Pittsburgh Pirates partner with Major League Baseball umpires to offer memorable baseball game experiences for children awaiting adoption and at-risk youth in mentoring programs.
Children receive a VIP experience including great seats to see the Pirates at PNC Park, a goody bag of 'all things baseball', and the unique opportunity to step onto the field for a souvenir baseball and photo.
UMPS CARE Charities, a 501c3 non-profit organization founded by Major League Baseball umpires, created the BLUE Crew Tickets program to share the gift of baseball with children and strengthen relationships between children and the adults who aim to make a difference in their lives.
More than 4,000 guests have participated in BLUE Crew Tickets since 2006. Learn more at www.UmpsCare.com.
The Pittsburgh Pirates Winter Coaches Clinics are facilitated by former Pittsburgh Pirates players to educate local youth baseball and softball coaches on techniques and strategies to be effective on and off the field. Three clinics were featured this season, with Pirates alumnus and current broadcaster John Wehner hosting the baserunning clinic, Pirates alumnus Grant Jackson directing the throwing clinic and Pirates alumnus Chris Peters instructing the outfielding clinic. Over 100 youth baseball and softball coaches were in attendance at these clinics, learning the importance of these key components.
"Your hospitality and generosity are outstanding and deeply appreciated. The topics are on point and presenters are flexible so as to provide instructions suitable for all ages. I wish the clinics were longer than an hour each. Thank you."
"The overall information and coordination of the program was extremely well communicated and managed. Thank You."
"This was my first year for the clinic; I enjoyed the clinic, and thought it was pretty awesome especially the ticket incentive (otherwise, some city youth wouldn't have an opportunity to attend a game). Thanks again, looking forward to it again."
"I really enjoyed each talk. I am incorporating what I've learned and am hoping to come back for more next season."
"Overall, I was very pleased with the clinics. I learned a lot to show my team."


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Elmer L. Wagner, 61, of New Boston, died Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 at Genesis Senior Living in Aledo. Services are 1:30 p.m. Friday, Aug.15, 2014 at the Joy First Baptist Church. Burial is in the Greenmound Cemetery in Keithsburg. Visitation is 4-7 p.m. Thursday at Fippinger Funeral Home in Aledo where memorials may be made to Joy First Baptist Church or Mercer County Animal Shelter. Online condolences can be made at www.fippingerfuneralhome.com.
Elmer was born Feb. 2, 1953 in Aledo, to Johnny and Lois Scull Wagner. He graduated from Westmer High School in 1971 and never married.
He farmed with his dad and Uncle Dig, for many years. Elmer was a member of the Joy First Baptist Church where he served as deacon.
He enjoyed flowers, square dancing, taking care of animals, old cars and vintage trucks.
Survivors include his parents, Johnny and Lois Wagner of New Boston; two sisters, Brenda Wagner and Diane Dunn, both of Aledo; one niece, Amy Dunn of San Diego, California; one nephew, J.J. Dunn and his daughter, Mikayla Dunn, both of Aledo.
His grandparents preceded him in death.
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Thunder crashes could be heard throughout the street, while rain poured down. In a corner, a pair stood in the pouring rain: a Rodian and a female human. Kira Sadow, the female human, showed no sign of reaction to the rain. Kira's brunette hair, forest green eyes, commoner clothing and open jacket attracted little attention from anyone else on the street. The green Rodian, however, looked in every direction quickly before continuing their conversation.
"Is it safe; are they gone?" the Rodian asked Kira.
"They are gone, for now." Kira replied, after a quick glance around. "Now, complete your deal; The Hutt wants it delivered quickly."
"Very well, human. Here it is." the Rodian said, handing a small crystal to Kira.
She put it inside her jacket and turned to go to her ship.
"Wait, human;" the Rodian cried, blocking her path. "There's something else you need."
The Rodian extended a datapad in his hand toward her.
"What's this?"
"Information about what really happened to him."
"Is he alive, then?" she hastily asked.
"I've said too much already; just read the datapad. All will be explained."
Kira took the datapad with some hesitation, stashing it too inside her jacket, and sprinted to the landing pad. Reaching the landing pad, she quickly scanned the area. Finding herself alone, with her heart beating rapidly, she took out the datapad and eagerly read it.
After a typical week followed the conversation between the Rodian and Kira, she found herself unable to sleep. How could I sleep, especially after reading that datapad? She wondered. Just then, she thought she heard someone walking toward her door. Using only minimal movements, as to avoid being heard, she snatched her blaster from its holster lying beside the bed.
Just then, the footsteps stopped feet away from her door. She then saw a circle being sliced around the metal door. She closed her eyes. Not a Jedi; not now, please. Kira desperately thought to herself, while pretending to be asleep. The door was pushed open, but quiet enough only she and the intruder could hear it.
"Get up and drop the blaster." the intruder demanded, aiming a pair of heavy blasters at her.
She opened her eyes, though she was hesitant to drop the blaster.
"Do you wish to endanger yourself with the wrath of the Exchange?" Kira boldly asked.
"Smugglers are expendable to them; so, you are full of empty threats." the man corrected.
Kira almost responded, but stopped herself when she realized that this man had a point. With no other logical choice, she put her blaster on the ground slowly.
"I'm glad to see that you're smarter than most with whom I have to deal." the man said.
He put binders on her hands, and led her to his ship. After they boarded it, he punched in the hyperspace coordinates for Nar Shaddaa. With the ship en route, he decided it was time to check on his "passenger". He found her struggling to get her binders off.
"That won't do you any good, especially since the ship is in hyperspace currently." he informed Kira.
"Who are you? Where are you taking me, and why?" Kira demanded, disregarding the binders for the moment.
"All good questions; let's just say that you've attracted the wrong attention." he answered. "As for my name, if you must know, it is Junn Khan."
"I've heard that name before."
"With good reason." Khan replied. "Is there more I could do for you before we arrive?"
After no response, Khan left with the hood of his cloak lowered, revealing Mandalorian armor. Kira noted that quickly. Junn Khan: Why do I know that name? Wait a second; isn't he an ex-Jedi? Kira thought to herself. Yes, I am. Kira heard inside her head.
"I'm at the rendezvous point with the girl; when will you arrive?" Khan said into a comlink.
"Soon enough." came the reply, in Huttese.
Within minutes, a Hutt and his bodyguards arrived. He motioned one guard to grab Kira; Khan grabbed the guard's arm before he could.
"You said that she was to remain free. Do I need to inform the Jedi that you're breaking the law?" Khan questioned.
"I don't answer to Jedi or any ex-Jedi." the Hutt insisted.
Khan took his cyan lightsaber, after letting go of the guard. He held the blade against the Hutt's jaw.
"You were saying?" He sarcastically asked.
"Fine; Keep the girl, but know that the bounty is still live on her." The Hutt said.
Khan took Kira out of the guard's grip and glared at the Hutt, until the Hutt left.
"Care to explain what just happened?" Kira asked, as Khan put his lightsaber away.
"You weren't supposed to get that datapad. The Hutt already had the Rodian killed; you, however, were supposed to go free after I paid off the Hutt." Khan said, with a deep sigh.
"What happens now?" she hesitantly asked.
"I will accompany you where the Hutt won't find you. Before then, there's something I want to show you."
He walked her over to his ship, and motioned her to kneel on the ground. She, starting to trust him, complied. He used his connection to the Force, and showed Kira it in her head. She began to feel the Force inside her, while hearing all the voices on Nar Shaddaa.
"What…what are you doing?!" she cried.
"I am providing you protection from the Hutt." Khan said. "But, no one can know I taught you; especially the Jedi."


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NU: New hires reduces job cuts to 155
State officials claimed Monday that Northeast Utilities has eliminated 319 jobs in Connecticut since it merged with Massachusetts-based NStar in April, violating a merger settlement agreement that required NU to give advance notice of any cuts and to show they are "proportional."
In a letter sent Monday to the state Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, Attorney General George C. Jepsen and Consumer Counsel Elin Swanson Katz state that NU's response to questions from regulators about the post-merger job reductions "is completely inconsistent with the plain language" of the agreement and that regulators should not "permit NU's direct attempt" to sidestep the agreement.
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