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I have read about research evidence that biphasic sleep (i.e. sleeping 2 times every 24 hours instead of once) is probably closer to the normal human rhythm.
Typically two approaches are mentioned:
- A 1-sleep cycle nap late in the afternoon or early in the evening followed by a 3 or 4-sleep cycle core sleep which will end around 7AM in the morning
- Two 2 or 3-sleep cycle periods with 1 or 2 hours in between
Given that the latter will fit more easily to my current schedule (with 5 sleep-cycles of monophasic sleep) I am interested to try that.
My main question is: how do I switch from my current rhythm to the biphasic sleep rhythm? Do I have to set an alarm in the middle of the night? I guess so in the beginning, but do I have to keep doing that or will I at some point wake up by myself? Or is there a different way of getting to the biphasic rhythm?
A side question is: I know that sleep cycles are about 75-90 minutes, but how do I figure out how much it is. Especially if I'm going to start doing only 2 after each other I can imagine that it matters quite a bit whether I adjust to 75 or to 90 min.


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Q: I am a mother of a 15-month-old son. He is addicted to his bottle( bottle of water/milk/juice, that is.) He only receives this treat when he is in crib, ready to take a nap, but now he will not settle down unless he has his bottle.
What is a good way to break a young person of such a distressing habit? More distressing for his parents I'm afraid,and his doctor ,who warns bottle sucking can lead to future dental problems!
We have tried the gradual approach-giving him less and less water in each bottle -but he catches on and screams for more!
Help!!! Thank you in advance for any assistance you can provide.
A: Well let's take care of your pediatrician's fear about future orthodontics right now! Seriously, you hit the nail on the head when you talk of this as an unfortunate habit that needs to be broken. You don't say whether you have the same problem with putting your son down at night, so I'll comment on naptime techniques which can also be used for nighttime sleep as well.
As long as your son is well nourished and hydrated when he is going to nap, there should be no concern that the bottle contains any food his body needs at that time. So we can assume that this"treat" is clearly a sensory"extra "as well as a well established psychological,transitional object that signals his nap response.
First,let's be clear that the objective is to have him self-calm without his bottle. I would transition him gradually by giving him his last bottle feeding well before his nap. I would locate his favorite comfort object (blanket, safe bed toy, etc.) and make a big deal of going for a nap with it. I might also introduce some quiet, soothing music or a "sound machine" that makes the sounds of rainfall, a river, wind through the trees just before you put him down and keep it playing throughout his nap. When he screams for his bottle, as I expect he will, you can let him cry for about 5 minutes, then go in and pat him, talk soothingly to him for a few minutes and leave the room. Your second visit in response to continued crying should come after 10 minutes of crying, go in and do what you did before, encouraging him to go to sleep. Don't ever pick him up or stay there until he falls back asleep. The goal here is to let him learn to self-calm while he is awake in the crib. The third time and all successive times you go in to respond to crying will be after you let him re for 15 minutes. Add 5 minutes to each wait period over the next three days so by day three you'll be waiting 15 minutes before you check him the first time, 20 minutes before the second and 25 before the third and all subsequent checks.
I know as you hear him screaming it will be painful and you will feel guilty. Unfortunately, you have to take firm steps to reverse this habit and this means sticking to a plan. There are variations on this plan which you can play with. I guarantee you things will be better soon. Good luck.
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I have taken some hard cheeses onto backpacking trips quite successfully without spoilage, but I have not dared taking more than I can eat in about 3 days. Eggs I have not dared to take. I am interested in how long people have gone in arid climates before their cheese/eggs became inedible. I don't mind sweaty cheese or even some mold, but I do not care much about food poisoning in the backcountry.
Long time. Especially hard cheeses. You can just cut any mold off the edge that might creep up. Cheeses sealed in cheese wax (gouda) are a good bet.
I've had extra-sharp cheddar un-refrigerated in the AZ desert for 8+ days, in the rocky mountains for 15+ days with no issues (aside from sweat.)
Blocks last longer than a pile of shredded cheese.
Be smart. Keep an eye on it. If it smells foul, don't eat it.
With shells intact, raw eggs last surprisingly long.
In the Borneo rain forest (just below the equator = hot) we would get pallets of 300+ raw eggs shipped up to camp that we would store, un-refrigerated in the shade, for 30 days at a time. (This was after however long un-refrigerated in the truck, the shop, and the supply boat...)
Sure, there was some spoilage - but a very small percentage. Just crack them into a separate container first before tossing them in your dish.
Or use an old farmers test: put your raw eggs in a bucket of water, "If they sink, they're safe. If they float, they fail."
Other people suggest cracking the eggs into a sterilized lexan bottle (rinse with bleach first) and then freezing (or not). These reportedly last for several days. (<-I have not tried this).
As a distant last option -- they are doing some pretty decent things with powdered eggs these days...
Caveat: These are my personal experiences. I am sure there are some official FDA guidelines and other related official paranoia. Possibly even tails of death and disease from eating day old cheese. Fine. Follow those if you choose. Or step outside of commercial convention and open a world of gourmet back-country dining.
Related: How long does mayonnaise last unrefrigerated in the back-country?
I've never tried it myself, but I met people trekking (sorry, tramping) in New Zealand who had pre-scrambled eggs with them, on the 5 day Heaphy track. They were cooked quite hard, and so could be easily carried in a freezer bag without worrying about breaking them, and then warmed up, or eaten as is.
It was only day 2, so perhaps they didn't expect to keep them for long, but I remember them looking a lot nicer than all dried nonsense I was eating at the time! I guess their shelf life would be down to the weather at the time.
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To carry raw eggs, leave 'em in their shells, put them in an old peanut-butter jar (plastic, watertight, wide mouthed). FILL the rest of the jar with water and close the lid. The water keeps the eggs from breaking, as long as there isn't any air space, and they will last at least a week in good weather. That's less than 90° greater than freezin'.
This method is For Sure worth the weight and the size - specially if the choice is powdered....Fine for baking, BUT...,'sides the jar is great for water or collecting when the eggs are gone!
Fresh Un-Refrigerated Egg Storage: On many wilderness excursions I've backpacked with store bought eggs (in crush-resistant container) for 7-10 days (or longer when coated with mineral oil) with no problem as long as the shell is intact. You can water-test the eggs - Sink's is Good / floats it's Bad.
More info can be found here: www.preparednesspro.com/safely-preserving-eggs
The problem with raw eggs seems to be mainly that they dry out. As long as the shell is not cracked, no bacteria can get in
Some recipes from old books:
The last two are said to preserve the eggs for many months. Luckily I was in no need to try. The slaked lime solution sounds best to me. The solution keeps the eggs moist and kills any bacteria
I've gone 3 days with eggs in the backcountry but I live in the Rockies where it stays cool in the shade and night. I've been told if you keep a few eggs in a tin of flour that they'll keep for a week.


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I've read an article recently about the M 2013 core set and it states that:
Well, everyone knows creature enchantments aren't playable...
Why exactly creature enchantments aren't playable? I'm talking about the context of Constructed games.
I've read an article recently about the M 2013 core set and it states that:
Why exactly creature enchantments aren't playable? I'm talking about the context of Constructed games.
The simple, no-frills answer: creature enchantments aren't generally playable because they offer your opponent an easy 2-for-1 (or better, if you're the sort of person who likes to load creatures up with multiple Auras...)
Any removal spell that would have previously just taken out your creature now takes out all enchantments on that creature too, giving your opponent an easy route to significant card advantage. Not a situation you want to enter into lightly.
EDIT: The OP asked in the comments about Totem Armor. See this article by Mark Rosewater, in which he says:
Straight from the horse's mouth there!
The line you quote was, in that review, actually parodying the 'groupthink' that says that enchantments are never playable because of the risk of two-for-ones that thesunneversets's answer describes. While this is a good perspective to have in general, every card has to be evaluated on its own merits, and it's not uncommon for specific enchantments to offer so much power (or, notably, for the hexproof creatures available to be good enough) that they override this rule. Rancor itself is an exception because it mitigates the card-disadvantage problem by going back to hand for the next creature, making it more like an equipment than an enchantment in many ways; Moldervine Cloak served a similar role in a few decks from the original Ravnica-era standard; and just a year ago Angelic Destiny was a regular player in Blue-White aggro decks, as the perfect way of suiting up a Geist of St. Traft.


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New York University Psychology Professor Gary Marcus, author of the newly released Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning (Penguin), will present "What Does it Take to Become Musical?"—a mixture of science and memoir that explores the art of becoming musical at any age—on Thurs., Jan. 19, 7-8:45 p.m. at 19 W. 4th St., Room 101 (at Mercer Street) on the NYU campus.
The evening will also include a performance by Terre Roche of the bands Afro-Jersey and the Roches.
Just about every human being knows how to listen to music, but what does it take to make music? Is musicality something we are born with? Or a skill that anyone can develop at any time? Is skill learning best left to children or can anyone reinvent himself or herself at any time?
Marcus, an NYU scientist born with no discernible musical talent, became his own guinea pig to examine how human beings become musical—and how anyone of any age can master something new. Guitar Zero traces his journey, what he learned, and how others can, too. The work provides a ground-breaking look at the origins and allure of music while offering an empowering tale of the mind's plasticity.
In Guitar Zero, Marcus investigates the most effective ways to train your brain and body to learn to play an instrument. How can you make your practice more deliberate and effective? How can you find the best music teacher for you or your child? Does talent really exist? Or is hard work all you need? The book debunks the popular theory of an innate musical instinct and many other commonly held fallacies.
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You can use diff to compare some or all of the files in two directory trees. When both file name arguments to diff are directories, it compares each file that is contained in both directories, examining file names in alphabetical order as specified by the LC_COLLATE locale category. Normally diff is silent about pairs of files that contain no differences, but if you use the --report-identical-files (-s) option, it reports pairs of identical files. Normally diff reports subdirectories common to both directories without comparing subdirectories' files, but if you use the -r or --recursive option, it compares every corresponding pair of files in the directory trees, as many levels deep as they go.
If only one file exists, diff normally does not show its contents; it merely reports that one file exists but the other does not. You can make diff act as though the missing file is empty, so that it outputs the entire contents of the file that actually exists. (It is output as either an insertion or a deletion, depending on whether the missing file is in the first or the second position.) To do this, use the --new-file (-N) option. This option affects command-line arguments as well as files found via directory traversal; for example, 'diff -N a b' treats a as empty if a does not exist but b does, and similarly 'diff -N - b' treats standard input as empty if it is closed but b exists.
If the older directory contains large files that are not in the newer directory, you can make the patch smaller by using the --unidirectional-new-file option instead of -N. This option is like -N except that it inserts the contents only of files that appear in the second directory but not the first (that is, files that were added). At the top of the patch, write instructions for the user applying the patch to remove the files that were deleted before applying the patch. See Making Patches, for more discussion of making patches for distribution.
To ignore some files while comparing directories, use the --exclude=pattern (-x pattern) option. This option ignores any files or subdirectories whose base names match the shell pattern pattern. Unlike in the shell, a period at the start of the base of a file name matches a wildcard at the start of a pattern. You should enclose pattern in quotes so that the shell does not expand it. For example, the option -x '*.[ao]' ignores any file whose name ends with '.a' or '.o'.
This option accumulates if you specify it more than once. For example, using the options -x 'RCS' -x '*,v' ignores any file or subdirectory whose base name is 'RCS' or ends with ',v'.
If you need to give this option many times, you can instead put the patterns in a file, one pattern per line, and use the --exclude-from=file (-X file) option. Trailing white space and empty lines are ignored in the pattern file.
If you have been comparing two directories and stopped partway through, later you might want to continue where you left off. You can do this by using the --starting-file=file (-S file) option. This compares only the file file and all alphabetically later files in the topmost directory level.
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Let $X$ be a non-empty set. Consider $\mathcal{P}(X)$, the power-set of $X$. We say that $a,b \in \mathcal{P}(X)$ form an edge if and only if their symmetric difference is a singleton, i.e. $\textrm{card}((a\setminus b) \cup (b\setminus a)) = 1$.
It is clear that for a finite set $X$ the resulting graph has chromatic number 2: color those subsets of $X$ with an even number of members with color 1, and the rest with color 2.
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At 100, the Tour de France Is Quite Happy to Forget
PARIS—As Tour de France organizers gear up this weekend to launch the 100th installment of cycling's most glamorous race, they are doing their best to avoid a delicate topic: the doping epidemic that has forced them to strip titles from the winners of nine of the last 15 tours.
In a bid to change the subject, they're turning away from the personalities of riders to focus on two assets the tour also enjoys in abundance: breathtaking landscapes and nostalgia.
Out now: a promotional video that shows more billowy fields and mountaintops than actual humans on bikes. This year's starting line was moved to the postcard-ready Mediterranean island of Corsica. This year's marketing campaign is also notable for what's missing: The tour's website—once a flowing repository of historical data for enthusiasts—no longer has extensive archives.
"The Tour de France is a sporting event which, indisputably, has a lyrical dimension," says Paul Giacobbi, president of Corsica's Executive Council.
It remains to be seen if this will be enough to disperse the clouds left by a decade of doping. It's only been a few months since the tour's most prolific winner, Lance Armstrong, admitted doping and was stripped of his seven victories. Earlier this week, Jan Ullrich, the only German to win the Tour, also confessed to having used illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
Now, a special French Parliamentary commission looking into the efficiency of anti-doping policies says it will publish information it has obtained about cyclists who allegedly doped during the Tour in the late 1990s. The data, which may incriminate about 20 riders, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter, could be disclosed on July 18—on the day of the grueling Alpe d'Huez stage, one of the Tour's most-famous mountain legs. Members of the parliamentary commission said their objective isn't to harm the Tour's reputation, but to help restore the sport's ethics.
"The message is that nobody can sneak through the cracks," said French senator Alain Néri, who is vice president of the special commission. "If you doped, sooner or later you'll get caught by the patrol."
Some former riders are fuming. "Someone wants to kill the Tour," five-time winner Bernard Hinault told French radio.
The commission found out about the allegedly doped riders by comparing the analysis of about 60 urine samples collected on the 1998 and 1999 Tours and identified by code numbers with lists of corresponding riders kept at the French Sports Ministry, the people familiar with the matter said. The samples were analyzed in 2004 as part of an experiment to detect the erythropoietin drug, more widely known as EPO. Results were never made public.
One name has already leaked. According to the French daily L'Equipe, French rider Laurent Jalabert's sample tested positive for EPO from the 1998 Tour. On Monday, Jalabert told France 2, a channel on which he was scheduled to comment on the Tour: "I can't say it's wrong and I can't say it's true. Samples from 1998 analyzed in 2004... We're in 2013." Jalabert, who couldn't be reached for comment, later issued a statement saying he would not be a Tour commentator this year.
Despite the doping backdrop, the 2013 race could still produce its share of drama. Christopher Froome, a Kenyan-Briton who was a loyal lieutenant to 2012 tour winner Bradley Wiggins, has a golden opportunity: his Sky team leader is recovering from injuries and won't ride this year. Two years after being suspended for doping and stripped of his 2010 tour title by the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration for Sport, Spaniard Alberto Contador is seen as a solid contender for the yellow jersey.
"Froome is the strongest man this year but Contador has served his sentence and is in good shape," longtime cycling team manager Eric Boyer said. "I hope there's a fight."
Since it was first held 110 years ago (it was suspended during the war years), Le Tour has maintained its grip on fans. Even Pierre Bordry, former head of France's anti-doping agency, said that come Saturday, he'll be watching the race on television. "I may even go down to follow one or two stages," he said.
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Hugs Are Better Than Kisses! Revisiting Red Velvet Peanut Butter Blossoms
Peanut Butter Blossoms have been a staple in our family Christmas for as long as I can remember. Last year I decided to put a little twist on them and holiday them up. By that I mean making them red (aka red velvet) and using Hershey's Hugs instead of Kisses because, they look prettier and well I just think they are better.


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2008: The Year the Geeks Took Over
The Geek shall inherit the earth.
Is there any arguing it? You guys who are technology and gadget-obsessed, who have a huge capacity for memorizing bits of information and an infinite hunger for the Next Cool Thing... it's looking like the future will fit you like a glove. One that shoots lasers.
Wait, did we say "the future"? Because looking back on 2008, it seems like that geek-dominated future is already here. Consider...
#7. The Internet Subculture Oozed Into the Real World
How many of you had a secret club when you were in school? Maybe you didn't have an actual tree house to meet in or a secret handshake, but at the very least you had a series of inside jokes and references that absolutely nobody else would get in a thousand years. But what if one day you heard the football team borrowing those jokes? Or worse, the teachers? What would that say about your club?
Now imagine what the first few message board friends who started "Rickrolling" each other a couple of years ago must have felt like when they saw Rick Astley interrupt the 2008 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with "Never Gonna Give You Up"...
... to universal laughter and applause by the crowd. "Ah, yes," said countless middle aged housewives and Armani-wearing stockbrokers, "I do believe we have been Rickrolled!"
It was just the latest in a long line of the Internet subculture's invasions into the mainstream. The guys who remember that thread on Something Awful a few years ago, where everybody chipped in wacky facts about Vin Diesel (and later, Chuck Norris) saw that inside forum joke get mentioned in the 2008 presidential campaign. Oh and you can buy the bound version of it in book stores. While you're there, pick up the LOLcats hardback.
Then we have the Anonymous protests against Scientology, where members of the 4chan boards and others formed the world's largest flash mob to take on the cult while wearing V for Vendetta masks, making international news in the process.
Many thought this would stand as their largest accomplishment, but it turned out to be a distant second. The first was when, after invading her message boards, they induced Oprah Winfrey to repeat about three different 4chan memes at once on national television, culminating with the phrase "over 9000 penises."
We guess you have to take the good with the bad from Anonymous. And to be honest we're not even sure which one that was.
#6. Your Grandma Became a Gamer
For the first 20 years or so of video gaming, it was a kid's pastime. Then, starting in the mid-90s, it branched into a geek pastime.
That was the perception, anyway. As recently as a few years ago, if you saw a grown-up in a movie playing video games, it was the filmmaker's way of signaling that he was an immature man-child (in The 40 Year Old Virgin they demonstrate Steve Carell's lack of a love life via his elaborate gaming setup; in The Break-Up Vince Vaughn's video game addiction proves to his girl he's not ready for an adult relationship).
It was either "video games" or "put him in a diaper."
But Nintendo had an idea. They'd make the control pad for their new machine look like something every non-gamer is familiar with: a TV remote. They'd build a nonthreatening, cheap little console that looked like a device almost every non-gamer owns: an iPod. They'd ship it with games that would be utterly familiar even to someone who had never seen a video game in their life: boxing, tennis, baseball.
In Wii Sports you find no aliens, no blood and guts, no bald-headed space marines, no cutscenes with androgynous heroes casting magic spells. Simple games, with tutorials that would walk you through the even simpler controls.
The result? In 2008, we found rooms full of elderly types playing video games. As we watched them flail around with their Wiimotes, we realized this was gaming doing what gaming does best: taking our minds off of the encroaching black maw of death.
On gaming message boards, the hardcore gamers screamed about how the Wii had ruined their hobby, as if the oldsters and soccer moms had crashed the video game party, clearing out the bongs to put down a shuffleboard court. But it was the opposite. Gaming had finally broken out of the niche, its sprawling roots finally invading every last demographic.
Yes, the Wii is a toy, but don't underestimate gaming's role in the future of the culture. Playing is the brain's way of training itself, and what you are seeing up there are the last non-geek holdouts learning to function in a digital, virtual world, in a way that will define how humans interact with computers in the future. First the Wii, then World of Warcraft, then the neural implants. Right on schedule.
#5. The Final Geekification of the Music Industry
The music industry has been clashing with Internet culture for about as long as the latter has existed. The feud started when the industry heads turned their backs on the geeks years ago by not capitalizing on file-sharing super site Napster.
Napster exploded onto the scene before any other major file-sharing source and said, "Look, this is how we're going to do things from now on." They even offered a piece of the action to all of the major labels (the way the TV networks now have deals with Hulu). They could have gotten on board with Napster, to at least keep all of the file-sharing in one place, before all of the imitators emerged and spread P2P filesharing like wildfire. Of course, that would require the music industry to look ahead instead of clinging for dear life to the old way that bought them those mountains of cocaine and bling.
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So the music industry plugged its fingers into its ears and said "Blah blah blah, I can't hear you, blah blah blah." Instead of figuring out how to make money off file sharing, they invested their time and money into suing Napster and, worse, the downloaders themselves. Did it stop illegal file trading? Ask pretty much all of the music on your iPod.
And now, we have Girl Talk (aka, Greg Gillis), the guy who symbolizes the Wild West that is copyright in the file sharing era. He released Feed the Animals, which is a 55-minute remix/mashup of over 300 pirated tracks that spans decades as well as genres. Listen to a track to hear Lil' Wayne, Cheap Trick, Eminem and Yail Naim all cleverly broken down and mashed together into a stew. Of all of the songs he's sampled, he hasn't asked for permission to use a single one and, somewhat miraculously, hasn't been sued yet.
Then, Gillis released Animals on his label's website on a pay-what-you-want basis, even if what you want to pay happens to be nothing. And it worked.
Sure, Radiohead pulled the same pay-what-you-want stunt last year, but they're Radiohead. They have contracts, the support of a label, a team of lawyers and a loyal fan base they've built over years and years. In Girl Talk we have a guy building a career with pirated music, free downloads and live shows that basically involve him on stage with a series of computers. Look up "geek music" on Wikipedia and it should redirect you to Girl Talk.
But it's the way he's burst out of the geek pigeonhole that earns him a spot in this article. Google "Top Albums of 2008," and no matter what article you find, Girl Talk's Animals will almost definitely be on there, whether it's Pitchfork, RollingStone, Stephen King, or Time Magazine.
Seriously, look at the guy.
Thanks to the spread of Internet and Geek culture, a barely-known artist like Gillis, on a small, obscure label like IllegalArt can explode onto the scene and reach every single top ten list of note, while Guns n' Roses' thirteen-year-in-the-making Chinese Democracy can come out and no one will give a shit.
That was always the true promise of Napster: Instead of being a method of stealing a product, it could circumvent the corporations that stand between the artists and the fans. Direct digital distribution, done in a way that the artist can still make a living off of. The geeks didn't kill the music industry in 2008. They just cut out the middleman.
#4. A Comic Movie Got Serious Oscar Consideration
To the untrained (read "non-geek") eye, comic books, and the movies based off of them, are loud, brightly-colored, fun bits of eye candy; a temporary distraction from real movies that are somber and serious, movies that talk about big issues and feature Meryl Streep.
The popular comic movies of the last decade or so have done very little to argue this idea: The Spider-man franchise was bright and exciting, Superman Returns was colorful and old fashioned, and Fantastic Four was childlike and retarded.
"I dare you to make the sequel even worse. I fucking dare you."
They all had respectable box offices, (Spider-man I and II each broke opening day records), but no notable critic ever included any of them in serious Oscar conversations because they were, after all, just superhero movies. It's the same stigma that keeps out even the most excellent of porn films.
Then along came The Dark Knight, a record-breaking, critically and commercially successful, bona fide phenomenon. If you didn't see it opening weekend, you were most likely in the minority of your office. If you didn't see it by the next weekend, everyone in your office hated you.
It was directed by a real director and written by a real writer (both had Academy Award nominations to their name). Gone were the bright colors and goofy villains, replaced by moral ambiguity and the startling death of a major character. We watched a tense interrogation between a guy in clown makeup and another guy in a bat-themed costume complete with cape, and it didn't come off as frivolous or childish.
For the first time, the creators acted like they weren't ashamed of the material. They didn't make it campy or self-referential, to let their cool friends know they were above it all. For once, they were treating the material as seriously as the fans did.
The result was a comic book movie that will get serious Oscar consideration, and we're not just talking about the geeks campaigning for it on the Internet. Already there are two Golden Globe nominations for Heath Ledger, to go with nominations for awards from the Screen Actors Guild, and both the Chicago and LA Film Critics.
As with video games, it wasn't five years ago that both comics and the movies based on them were aimed strictly at teenagers with the understanding that adult fans embodied the Simpsons Comic Book Guy stereotype and lived in their parents' basements. Now a comic book movie might be placed, rightfully so, among the year's best in motion picture achievement. Five years from now, could we wind up with a video game movie up there?


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Nutritional Health for Women
Proteins are essential for the body to build and repair muscle and tissues and produce enzymes and hormones, which keep the body regulated. Proteins are made up of combinations of several of the 20 types of amino acids. Some of these amino acids can be reused by the body, but almost half of them must be eaten on a regular basis; these are called "essential amino acids." Although proteins are best used by the body as building blocks for muscle tissue and hormones, they can also serve as an energy source if glycogen levels are low. They provide four calories per gram.
Vegetarians, especially vegans (who do not eat dairy, eggs, or fish) tend to have lower protein in their diets, sometimes lacking essential amino acids. In order to fully meet their protein needs, they can obtain complete proteins by combining grains (corn and wheat) and legumes (nuts, beans, and seeds) in their diet. These foods have additional benefits of having cancer- and disease-fighting properties. Vegetarian diets are quite healthy if followed intelligently to make sure protein (and calcium) needs are not neglected. Vegetarians who do not eat fish, dairy, or eggs should eat at least two servings daily from each of these food groups: legumes, grains, and nuts and seeds.
Vegans Must Eat at Least Two Servings Daily of Each of the Following
- Legumesdried beans and peas, soybeans, tofu, peanuts, peanut butter
- Grainscereals, breads, pasta, corn, rice, wheat
- Nuts and seedscashews, almonds, sunflower seeds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds
Good Sources of Protein
- Red meat
- Eggs
- Poultry
- Legumes, tofu
- Fish
- Nuts and seeds
- Dairy products
- Certain whole grains
Fish, although one of the healthiest proteins, can also be harmful especially to women planning pregnancy. Certain types of large fish, including swordfish, tilefish, large tuna steaks, and mackerel should not eaten more than once monthly due to their higher mercury content, which interferes with brain development in unborn and young children. These fish should be avoided for the first year prior to planning a pregnancy. Raw fish and shellfish can also transmit parasites and hepatitis A.
Food preparation is another concern. Fully cooking meats is recommended to kill any potential bacteria or diseases and is always recommended when preparing poultry. Eating blackened food is not recommended, as the charring has been linked to stomach and intestinal cancer.
Most girls and women actually eat enough protein, as it is found in many sources other than meat or fish. Tofu, nuts, peanut butter, cheese, milk, yogurt, and dried peas and beans are good sources of proteins. Some whole-grain breads and pastas also have protein. Many food and energy bars now contain protein as well. Athletic and active women require 1.4g to 1.8g/kg/day (.7 to .9 g/lb/day) to make up 20 to 25 percent of the diet. For an average 140-pound woman, this equals 100 to 126 grams of protein daily. (A three ounce serving of chicken contains 30 grams.)
Because most women's protein needs are easily met, there is no need for protein or amino acid supplements. These are expensive, put a strain on the kidneys, and cause dehydration and bone loss. They are also often combined with other chemicals, which can be dangerous.
The Pitfalls of Protein and Amino Acid Supplements
- Overload kidneys
- Cause dehydration
- Cause calcium loss
- Are expensive
- Are ineffective
- Are often combined with other unhealthy ingredients
More on: Planning Healthy Meals for Families
From The Active Woman's Health and Fitness Handbook by Nadya Swedan. Copyright © 2003 by Nadya Swedan. Used by arrangement with Perigee, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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Chiropractors are IN BUSINESS; and yet – ironically – they spend little to no time training to be business people. It has been determined that one of the most leverageable activities that a chiropractor can engage in, is the effective acquisition of business skills. We believe that the only way to increase the volume of long-term chiropractic patient penetration, is to scale the profession through proven, Foundational Principles of Business. Tune in to learn how other chiropractors have doubled the top-line revenue of their practices, by implementing these proven strategies.


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Mentors have the ability to provide you with a perspective that you could sometimes overlook, especially in times of adversity.
I graduated from Penn State University with a double major in International Politics and Russian.
When I started at Goldman Sachs, I was very intimidated because I felt like I did not know anything and could not contribute as much as others around me. So whenever my team needed a volunteer to take the lead on a task, I would jump at the opportunity. It did not matter to me if the work was completely unrelated to my role, because I knew that it was something I was capable of doing and contributing to my team. My willingness to do the "small things" has helped me build relationships, taught me how to be resourceful and allowed me to gain the trust of my managers and colleagues.
Having a mentor has been instrumental in developing my career at Goldman Sachs. The mentor/mentee relationship provides me with a forum where I feel comfortable asking questions and seeking career advice. It's reassuring to have someone at the firm who can share her experiences and provide advice. Also, mentors have the ability to provide you with a perspective that you could sometimes overlook, especially in times of adversity.
My mentor has been the most influential person in my career. She has taught me to always accept challenges, even when they are intimidating, because hard work and dedication will always lead to success.
Working with a global team makes my experience at Goldman Sachs very unique and rewarding. Collaborating with colleagues from varying backgrounds and experiences creates a dynamic learning environment and enables us to deliver innovative business solutions.
I am part of the Firmwide Women's Network and co-chair the Global Compliance People Development Committee Junior Advisory Board. Being part of these groups has given me the opportunity to meet and work with individuals of all backgrounds and roles within the firm. The networks provide the opportunity for employees in various stages of their careers to interact in a more casual setting. This invites the more junior people in the firm, like myself, to expand their networks and build relationships.


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If you were thinking it would be a good idea to get drunk and let your friend tee off your face, this "golf fail" video might convince you otherwise.
Then again, if you seriously needed a fail video to convince you not to let someone swing a golf club inches from your face while you hold a tee in your mouth, you might as well go ahead and do that.
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This is a related question to:
How to change font size in verse environment?
Although this answer works very well, it does create a new
Verse environment without the inherent functions of the
verse package. In the case of LyX, it will be cumbersome to implement.
I wondered, if there is a way to define the font styles in the Preamble—font size, leading, style etc—with all the inherent proprieties of
verse? It will keep the LyX interface clean and still modifiable through the Preamble.
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Ethics and museum professionals' exemplary practices are essential for ICOM.
ICOM Code of Ethics for museums was adopted in 1986 and revised in 2004. It establishes the values and principles shared by ICOM and the international museum community. It is a reference tool translated to 38 languages and it sets minimum standards of professional practice and performance for museums and their staff.
By joining ICOM, each member commits to respect this code.
The Statutes are the foundations of the organisation and its functioning. They specify the objectives, the mission and the organisation of the structure.
The new version of this essential document was adopted by the 22nd General Assembly of ICOM in Vienna (Austria), held on 24 August 2007.
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Using a Parasite to Fight Cancer
Geisel researchers use Toxoplasma gondii to stimulate the body's own immune system to attack melanoma
The idea of using the body's immune system to fight cancer is not a new one, but researchers are just now beginning to see the fruits of this idea in the lab—and hopefully soon in the clinic. "As tumor immunologists, we recognize that there is a revolution underway," says Steven Fiering, PhD, an immunologist at The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. "Historically, there have been three main approaches to treating cancer: radiation, surgery, and chemotherapy. Immunotherapy is becoming the fourth leg."
Toxoplasma gondii attaches to cancer cells and stimulates the immune system's attack function
In a recent study published in the Journal of Immunology, Fiering and a number of colleagues in Geisel School of Medicine's Department of Microbiology and Immunology used a weakened strain of Toxoplasma gondii, a parasitic protozoan responsible for the disease toxoplasmosis, as an adjuvant to increase the effectiveness of a melanoma tumor vaccine.
The study used a safe strain of T. gondii developed by Barbara Fox and David Bzik, Geisel immunologists and coauthors of the study. Like normal T. gondii, this strain enters host cells and stimulates a strong immune response, but it is unable to replicate once inside the body and, after about a week, the nonreplicating parasites were eliminated by the immune system.
Lab research could be used in the clinic to treat melanoma cancer that returns after surgery
Fiering says it's possible the approach they used in the lab could be used directly in the clinic for melanoma. If a tumor recurs after it has been removed surgically it can be very difficult to eradicate. "Our idea would be, instead of surgically removing the tumor, to inject an immunostimulatory set of agents, one of which could be the T. gondii strain, thus stimulating the immune system to attack the tumor," Fiering says.
Toxoplasma gondii could be used for personalized approach to other cancers
In collaboration with Fiering, Bzik led a related study in which the research team examined the use of T. gondii as an ovarian cancer vaccine treatment. Fiering says the current treatment for ovarian cancer is to surgically debulk the tumor, and then use chemotherapy. This usually results in a remission for one to two years, at which point the tumor often recurs but is much more difficult to successfully treat.
The researchers are working on approaches that could perhaps take the tumor at the time of surgery and make it into a tumor vaccine by including the T. gondii to help stimulate the immune system to attack the tumor when it shows up again. This is a very personalized approach, because it uses each individual's tumor cells, and thus it is less convenient than a drug that can be used off the shelf. However, say Fiering and Bzik, it's a promising possibility because it can work very powerfully against tumors and may be effective in the clinic.
"Everything in the immune system is in a balance," says Fiering. "If we can upset the balance in the tumor that is immunosuppressive and make it immunostimulatory—once that release has happened, system-wide immunity can develop. We get a response in the lymph nodes and throughout the system." Bzik adds, "In laboratory tests this Toxoplasma treatment has the ability to completely cure established tumors and to then prevent their recurrence."
By Lauren Arcuri Ware
This article appears in the Fall 2013 issue of Dartmouth Medicine,
November 04, 2013
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You're a bit of the way into the semester now, so some of you may feel you're a bit behind on the schoolwork and need to catch up on that this weekend. Midterms are coming soon, so by all means do so, but don't forget to enjoy yourself a little bit as a reward for all your hard work. Here are some of the happenings this weekend –
Saturday (All Day, 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM) – Pagan Pride Day in Riverside Park. Enjoy vendors, workshops, and performances for free, rain or shine.
Saturday (All Day, 10:00 AM to 11:55 PM) – Puerto Rican Fesitval at Jacksonville Landing. For more info, check out the Council for Hispanic Affairs.
Saturday (Evening, 7:00 PM) – Check out the home opener of the Jacksonville Bullies (Professional Lacrosse League), as they host the Charlotte Copperheads at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.
Sunday (Kickoff at 1:00 PM; Tailgating before, Celebrating after) – The Jacksonville Jaguars look to rebound from a heartbreaking loss on the road in Week 1 and treat the hometown fans to a win against the division rival Houston Texans. Kickoff is at 1:00 PM and tickets are still available.


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Video Game Piracy
I would assume that most people here are against video game piracy, as they want to be in the industry themselves, and must have an appreciation and respect for the people who make games, but whenever there is a article about piracy on Gamasutra, many people defend it rather aggressively. (In many cases, I suspect the people leaving comments are not in the industry, as you are required to be, to join the site.) I, myself, have a large dislike for people who pirate software. I find the reason for this to be self-evident. Software companies create software for purchase by the consumer. Having no other source of income, they charge the consumer for the software, thus insuring that they make money. If a consumer does not purchase the software, they do not make money. From the consumer's standpoint, they want a service provided by the software (a few hours of enjoyment), and they are willing to pay for this service. If the consumer does not find the product worth the money that they are charged for it or do not possess the money, they do not buy it. This brings us to piracy. Some consumers do not find a product worth the asking price, and so they acquire the product for no money. As pointed out before, the company that created the software makes no money, but the consumer gets the hours of entertainment. If the consumer has pirated the software because the do not feel that it was worth the money the producer thought it was worth, or if they did not have the money the producer thought it was worth, they acquire it as what they feel it is worth, and they now feel that the producer is worth nothing. I find this sickening. Now, advocates of piracy often bring the quality of the game into consideration. This has no place in piracy discussions. For one thing, in discussion based in logic, all possibilities must be taken into account. A person could pirate a game for any reason at all. The producer could be charging 100 USD for a 'hello world' program, or 1 USD for the greatest game ever made. Why someone does something does not affect the fact that it was done. On the most basic level, piracy is a insult of the highest degree: the consumer does not feel that the game is worth what is asked to receive it. (I just realized that if I substitute 'what is asked by the producer to receive the product' for money, I can cover non-money reasons for piracy, such as DMM or pre-release piracy.) They then acquire it in another way, which may benefit another party, but feel that the producer's work is worth nothing. On the most basic level, I can see no excuse for piracy. Moving on, with the reality of piracy, I do not know what kind of future business strategy will be able to profit the producers. I, myself, don't have the money to play every game that I want to, and so rent games through GameFly. What I don't believe is that Gamefly and similar services prevent piracy. If one is willing to pay an insult like that to software producers, I don't feel that having prices in accordance with one's wishes is enough to stop one from piracy. iTunes introduced 1 USD songs, but piracy still prevails, even though I doubt anyone feels that 1 dollar is too much to pay for a song. I see piracy as a fundamental disregard for other people, and doubt that anything 'other people' could do would change this.
This is meant to be a thread of discussion, not me ranting, so I encourage you to post any thoughts on the issue as a whole.
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I think the main discussion today is not for or against piracy (I think most people are against it) but about open source and freeware VS paid products.
Taking music as an example - many beleive that music today should be free to download, and the bands should make their profit from tours and sponspors. Some bands already allow free downloads of their new albums (Radiohead for exmaple).
I know that some of the sessions at AGDC were about free MMOs and how they make a profit (Sadly I didn't attend those sessions ).
Generally speaking, I am against piracy, and since games (or movies or music) is a luxury and not a necessity, if someone can't afford or doesn't want to buy it, they shouldn't try and get it for free (that is plainly stealing).
I do get to talk to people who download cracked games and ask me why I buy games if I can get them for free, I think that becuase these downloads are so easy to do, many people just don't think that what they are doing is illegal.
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Games are an interesting one. I think most people here, myself included, will be against piracy. Artists deserve to be paid for their work, and that includes us programmers! However there are a few things that really annoy me about the way that the industry handles the piracy issue.
I don't buy games with SecuROM ever at all out of principle. There is a lot of contraversy surrounding it and I don't completely understand it all. However, the bottom line is that I can't trade them in at my local GameStation. That is how I finance most of my gaming habits, so I don't buy them; at least not the PC versions.
I am a big believer in LAN licencing and support for sharing LAN editions of games. It is inevitable at small LAN parties that people are going to pass games around to play multiplayer and I personally would prefer to make this easier and more legal. It's not as harmful as you might think since most people will go out and buy the game after the LAN anyway so they can practice and get better at it; usually through online play. It annoys me a lot that many games don't offer this type of support, especially when so many games used to release multiplayer-only disc-free demos that did everything we needed, except version patching (If only we could patch the demos!).
I like Steam's model in theory, but I hate the fact that my ISP blocks it. Purchasing games in store knowing that you could have got the exact same thing online for a fraction of the price really annoys me.
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Oh man, I thought piracy was declining, as evidenced by increased global warming. Now what am I supposed to believe?
There is little that any of us can do to affect software piracy on a global scale. We can, however, act locally. I encourage my acquaintances to purchase games rather than download cracks, and I dole out loads of grief when I hear them talk about whatever they just stole through bit-torrent (or wherever). If they persist, I disassociate myself from them.
Usually, I go my way and the pirates continue to steal, but I have had one "convert". It's a start.
I must find a more suitable host body....
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I'm trying to formulate this intelligently, but it's not working, as my philosophical software appears to get buggy when I do this at work, but...
Most people looking longingly at a Lamborghini but can't afford it would think it ridiculous to open the door and take it for a spin if they found the door unlocked and the key in the ignition. They know that that would be stealing.
However, since something intangible is easily accessible over the internet, they do not make that same connection.
Pirating games (or music) is no different in my mind...except that you don't typically find games in home computers that cost 100,000$+
I am not certain why, but I believe it has to do with the anonymity provided by the internet and the near certainty of not being caught. If people think there are no consequences for their actions, then they will be more likely to take them.
You do bring up an interesting point, though. Games typically sell at a given price range. I don't know how these are set, but there definitely seems to be a price range for a given type/quality of games. If producers were to knock their prices down, would they reduce the instances of piracy?
Somehow, I suspect not.
However, would they be able to reach the people that would want to pay for the game, aren't willing to pirate it, but can't afford to pay for the price as it currently stands? Could this increase revenues? I assume there's some kind of market analysis and economic examination that takes place to set these prices which takes into account these facts...
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I have a rather simple attitude to this. Those who are going to pirate won't pay for the game regardless whether the pirate version is available or not. Just don't make lives harder for the ones that are buying the games.
I am a fan of the Blizzard LAN solution and Introversion anti-piracy measures.
Blizzard (at least during Starcraft and Diablo I) had an option to install a cut down version of the game that could run without the CD and compatible with the full game's network games (IIRC). This was mainly for users who wanted to try the game.
Introversion used standard CD keys and Amiga style book codes to deal with copies but as an added measure to reduce the possibility of finding a pirated copy, they flooded the P2P networks of demos of the game that look/named like the full game. The idea was to frustrate pirates who were trying to find the game to download and as an added bonus, an 'innocent' user (one who doesn't know they are doing anything wrong) will be playing a demo instead which has details on where to get the full game from.
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Also, I just read over my topic-starting post. It's really weird, in some content, and in writing style. I can't think of the last time I used the word 'prevails.' Edit: It also had paragraphs at one point...
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Is there a way to convert a colored image to grayscale both for printing as well as screen viewing through pdfLaTeX?
I would suggest using a tool like "convert" of the ImageMagick package (which is usually installed if you're running Linux, but is also available for Windows).
Just a note on this, in respect to Linux tools:
So, basically there would be two approaches to generating a gray
Note that even if converting the whole PDF, the process will not necessarily be straightforward (for more, see Converting (any) PDF to black (K)-only CMYK).
For the second option, there is an example of a
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Intermodal paces rail volumes again, says AAR
August 27, 2010 - LM Editorial
Spurred by another record-breaking week for intermodal, volumes on United States railways were up year-over-year for the week ending August 21, according to the Association of American Railroads (AAR).
Intermodal traffic—at 236,404 trailers and containers was up 22.4 percent year-over-year and 2.6 compared to 2008 levels, marking a new record for 2010 for the second straight week. This output topped the previous record high from the week ending August 14, which hit 233,767 trailers and containers. Both these weeks eclipsed the week ending August 7 at 231,208, and the week ending July 31 at 232,985 trailers and containers.
Intermodal container volume—at 202,475— was up 24.2 percent compared to 2009 and up 11.5 percent compared to 2008. AAR officials said this is the highest weekly intermodal container tally on record for the second straight week. And trailer volume—at 33,929— was up 12.4 percent and down 30.5 percent compared to 2008.
Weekly carload volumes—at 296,634—were up 6.2 percent year-over-year and down 11 percent compared to 2008. The beat the week ending August 14 at 295,948 and the week ending August 7, which hit 284,507, and fell short of the week ending July 31, which hit 300,292 carloads, which is the best weekly carload output for all of 2010.
In October 2009, the AAR began reporting weekly rail traffic with year-over-year comparisons for the previous two years, due to the fact that the economic downturn was in full effect at this time a year ago, and global trade was bottoming and economic activity was below current levels.
Carload volume in the East was up 6.1 percent year-over-year and down 14 percent compared to 2008. And out West carloads were up 6.2 percent year-over-year and down 8.9 percent compared to 2008.
As LM has reported, domestic intermodal performance continues to be strong, due, in part, to a tightening of truckload capacity, which has some shippers converting to intermodal. This is indicative, said the AAR, of a years-long trend of domestic freight converting from truck trailers to containers on rail; truck trailers can be double-stacked, which makes them more cost-efficient and effective.
The surge in intermodal has been reflected in recent notable developments, including:
-the Intermodal Association of North America's (IANA) second quarter Market Trends report, which noted second quarter intermodal loadings—at 2,829,971—were up 17.2 percent year-over-year;
-USA Truck's announcement that it inked a long-term contract with Class I railroad carrier BNSF Railway to move private 53-foot domestic intermodal containers; and
-The Greenbrier Companies' announcement this week that it has received orders for over 1,000 new double-stack intermodal platforms, along with orders for over 700 new covered hopper cars, along with Greenbrier re-engineering and modifying approximately 1,100 existing double-stack platforms to 53' from smaller dimensions.
While rail volumes are relatively healthy, current volumes are still below previous peak levels and are starting to face tougher year-over-year comparisons through the remainder of 2010, given the fact that 2009 was a down year for the rails in terms of volume growth.
Year-to-date, total U.S. carload volumes at 9,338,360 carloads are up 7.1 percent year-over-year and down 13 percent compared to 2008. Trailers or containers at 7,020,224 are up 14.2 percent year-over-year and down 5.4 percent compared to 2008.
Of the 19 carload commodities tracked by the AAR, 14 were up year-over-year. Metallic ores were up 54.6 percent and metals & products were up 43 percent. Nonmetallic minerals were down 8.3 percent.
Weekly rail volume was estimated at 32.6 billion ton-miles, a 7.9 percent year-over-year increase. And total volume year-to-date at 1,027.5 billion ton-miles was up 8.3 percent year-over-year.
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MILAN— David Rossi, the chief of media relations for Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena BMPS 6.28 % SpA died falling from a window of the bank's headquarters, police said on Wednesday evening.
An officer at the main police station in Siena, where the bank is based, said on the phone that Mr. Rossi had died after the fall. He said police officers were currently on the scene of the death. An official at the city's health emergency services said their center had received a call for help at 8:43 pm for a 51-year-old man who had fallen from the window of the bank.
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By Prakash Yamuna-Oracle on Dec 03, 2012
Just came across a nice blog post on how to do authorization in SOA using the OWSM permission based authorization policy.
One big caveat is in order: SOA does not support the concept of "Application Roles". So the grant is done to the enterprise role (i.e. ldap group). If I get sometime I will post more about the differences b/w doing grants for Application Roles vs. Enterprise Roles.
Update: So I added a big caveat while linking to the above blog post but did not add any explanation. This had folks confused - since the blog post explicitly talks about Application Roles!
Well if you look at the blog post - it talks about Application Roles in the "soa-infra" Application stripe. The "soa-infra" Application Stripe is the stripe of the SOA Suite container.
I would NOT recommend using the SOA Suite container's Application Stripe for SOA Composite Applications for a couple of reasons:
a) The lifecycle aspects become horrendously complicated when you mix Application Roles applicable for SOA Composite applications that a customer builds in the same stripe that is used by the SOA container. For ex: In a future release the SOA container might decide to use a different stripe for it's application roles - if a customer is using this stripe then all the authorizations for SOA Composite applications would start failing when they upgrade to the new release. You can potentially also cause the SOA container to stop working - if you delete or modify the Application Roles that it ships. Fundamentally - the soa-infra stripe is owned by the SOA container for it's working and customers should not be using it for their own composite apps.
The closest analogy to what is being done in the blog post would be a comparison b/w WLS Application Server and J2EE Apps. I would not recommend mixing the security artifacts that ship with the Application Server for it's own internal working with the security artifacts that is required for a customer developed J2EE application. Patching, Upgrade, T2P, etc are all very different.
b) The other reason of course is this is no really scalable. You can have hundreds of composite applications. If you use a single application stripe "soa-infra" - then there is impact when you move let's say one composite application from Test to Production. How do you move the corresponding application roles that are relevant for only that particular composite app. In addition there are performance implications - if you have hundreds of composite applications and each composite application defines it's own Application Role - then you end up defining hundreds of Application Roles.
So in order to avoid getting into the above type of issues - I recommend customers stick to enterprise roles (ldap groups).
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FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) -- It was a packed house at the 1st Infantry Division's Headquarters Thursday as Brigadier General Don MacWillie, the assistant division commander for support, addressed local officials and citizens about the future of the Army and Fort Riley.
"We're going back to pre-9/11 promotion rates... The Army is normalizing. We're not going backwards. We're just normalizing. It's normal to have normal promotion rates. It's normal to have normal selection rates. It's normal not to have everybody reenlist," MacWillie told the crowd.
The Budget Control Act of 2011 took center stage during the public forum. The Army is drawing down by 80,000 troops and cutting 8 brigade combat teams, two of which will come out of Europe.
Army officials are looking at 21 installations, including Fort Riley, to see where the other six remaining brigades will be inactivated
Community leaders do not want one of those brigades to come from Fort Riley and the big message they wanted to get across to the Army was the massive investment that places like Junction City and Manhattan have made at all levels to support Fort Riley. Millions have been spent on housing, infrastructure, education and healthcare.
"Everything we do economically, the driver is because of Fort Riley and you've got to help us. It's critically important the value we place on Fort Riley we can never forget because Fort Riley was here before Kansas was even a state," said former Manhattan mayor and city commissioner Loren Pepperd.
Officials stressed that losing soldiers would take a big toll on the entire area.
"We're an area that supports and loves our military and that's why we do what we do… We think that someplace around 500, 750, 1000 that as a partnership, we could remain strong. Certainly, it has some negative impacts. It will cause us to be stronger together. But we know if we get above those numbers, it starts to be very, very difficult," said John Armbrust, Executive Director with the Governor's Military Council.
"This is a real important economic thing for the state. It's a beautiful base. It's a real asset to the state. It's so much history and being a veteran myself, it's just something I feel I need to be involved in. I just hope that we can do what's right for the base and that they get everything they need. I'm here to support them," said Rep. Ray Merrick, Speaker of the House.
Listening in to everything that was said Thursday were Department of the Army staff members, what's known as the "Big Army." The input from the community listening session will be relayed back to the Secretary of the Army & Chief of Staff to help them make final decisions
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"In some way, every installation will probably be affected by this cut of 80,000 but I would follow that up by saying that you can see the investment we have made at Fort Riley. Fort Riley is considered one of our enduring installations It's one of our installations where we feel that we have an incredible capacity to train, a large capacity to take care of our soldiers and that will certainly be a large consideration as we go through this process. This is a place obviously that will continue to have a large contingency of army forces for a very long time to come," Gen. Odierno said.


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5 Horror Novels That Will Shrivel Your Balls This Halloween
Like you, I don't have time to read books. So to actually make room in my day to sit down and crack one open, it had better be a bona fide freaking flaming word volcano. I better have to wear a fucking blindfold just to stifle the sound of my eyeballs laughing.
So when I say these are the horror novels worth reading this Halloween, I'm not dicking around.
Strap in:
#5. John Dies at the End, by David Wong
Every once in a while you run into a porn video or website that you can't, in good conscience, recommend to your friends because it's simply too erotic. The actress's boobs were too perfect, the scenario too plausible, your erection too firm--almost to the level of exquisite pain.
This is the situation I find myself in with the horrortacular, John Dies at the End. A friend will say, "Hey, David, I see you have a copy of John Dies at the End. I like horror, and it's getting awesome reviews. Should I run down to Borders and... Jesus, what is that in your pants?"
What am I to say? Sure, my friend likes horror, but he "likes" beer, too. That doesn't mean he would enjoy being trapped inside a half million-gallon vat at the Anheuser-Busch brewery, forced to drink his way out or die trying. And he would like it even less if, instead of beer, the vat was full of horror.
John Dies at the End is like that, it's the porno you hesitate to recommend. My answer to such friends is always the same: "Are you sure you know what you're getting into? Because imagine an all-you-can-eat buffet. Only instead of food, it's crack cocaine. And instead of crack cocaine, it's horror. And the object in my pants? It is but my erection--an erection I've had ever since I purchased my copy of John Dies at the End... THREE WEEKS AGO. So sure, go right ahead and buy a copy if you dare. Just know that you won't be able to give out any hugs to family members at Thanksgiving."
We kicked through the slithering things and stomped up after the dog, just as the stairwell door banged shut on its own. I reached for the knob.
At the same moment it began to melt and transform, turning pink and finally taking the shape of a flaccid penis. It flopped softly against the door, like a man was cramming it through the knob hole from the other side.
I turned back to John and said, "That door cannot be opened."
John Dies at the End can be purchased in hardcover from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Borders, Indiebound and Powell's Books.
[EDITORIAL DISCLAIMER: The author of this review may very well also be the author of John Dies at the End.]
#4. Under the Dome, by Stephen King
In his 37th novel since he retired from writing in 2002, Stephen King offers this tale of a dome and the events that transpire under it.
I read Under the Dome just days after finishing John Dies at the End, so the comparison is kind of unfair. It's like your neighbor showing you how he taught his dog to catch a Frisbee and he's expecting you to be all impressed by it, but he doesn't realize you just got home from the zoo where a monkey threw shit on your infant son. You're in no mood.
The story is of a wealthy author who traps the population of a small town under an inescapable glass dome. He then forces the inmates to battle to the death for his amusement, using only the severed limbs of their loved ones as weapons.
It's a good read, though slow in parts (there is one 400-page flashback wherein narrator Bud Macintosh recalls the time he ate some wax and a string to see if he could shit a candle). Though the pacing is helped somewhat by the fact that the novel contains no commas.
Fun Fact:
Stephen King wrote Under the Dome to fulfill an obscure clause in a prior contract that required him to write the novelization of the 1996 Pauly Shore film Bio-Dome.
Falkner glanced at him with superiority gleaming in his eyes. "What do you guys want out of life?"
Bud considered. "To die and come back as a leotard."
Under the Dome will be released on November 10th and will be available for purchase at Costco and Casey's convenience stores.
#3. Relentless, by Dean Koontz
Relentless is the story of Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich, who brings home a rare book from an antique auction, but he soon realizes the book is haunted or even possessed by its murderous, long-dead author. About a third of the way through Relentless the main character finally makes the decision to get to the bottom of the supernatural evil that has ruined his life. At that point...
...a plastic, spring-loaded spider jumps out at the reader.
Basically the last 200 pages of Relentless are blank, with a square chamber from which the spider springs forth when you turn page 168. Critics have dismissed this as a "gimmick" on Koontz's part, but I rather enjoyed it. I reloaded the spider and showed the book to my 8-year-old niece, and she actually wet her pants when it sprung out at her.
The spring-loading mechanism is simple and I found it easy to modify it to launch other objects. There is an asshole in the cubicle next to me at work, and I left the book open for him with the spring rigged to launch a plastic bag full of drain cleaner at his face (it missed, but did ruin his shirt). I've used the book a dozen times since then and you know what I found works best? Dog turd.
(Though that prompted one observer to make the curious observation, "Oh, so it's just like John Dies at the End." What does that even mean?).
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Relentless is available at Wal-Mart and Barney's Books That Will Make You Shit Your Pants in Paducah, KY.
#2. Dracula : The Un-Dead, by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
Finally we get a return to real freaking vampires. Dracula: The Un-Dead is a direct sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula, written by one of Stoker's descendants. We've been so saturated by the bullshit vampires, from The Lost Boys to Twilight, that we forget how little they have in common with the original.
The vampires as Stoker imagined them could not transform into bats (they instead are carried from place to place by several dozen trained bats), they don't burst into flame when exposed to sunlight (but can shoot flames from their eyes), do not have superhuman strength (they instead are experts with throwing knives) and do not drink blood (but do have long, poisonous tails like scorpions).
Dracula: The Undead was pieced together from Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes, a choice that I think actually holds back this wonderful book (we wind up with an entire chapter on a character "remembering to get milk" at the grocery store, and another chapter made up of nothing but humorous doodles of large-breasted women).
The story takes place 200 years after the original, in 2097, when the earth has been overrun by zombies. Dracula rises from the grave, knowing he has to restore the race of vampires to the planet. However, he finds his bite has a strange effect on the zombies: They are immediately imbued with the ancient vampire martial art of Chainkata (a.k.a. fighting with chainsaws).
As Dracula's growing vampire zombie chainsaw army leaves a trail of hacked limbs across the land, he soon clashes with a new threat: A horde of human refugees who have survived the 70-year zombie war thanks to nothing more than their wits and gigantic mechanized battle suits.
"I guess you're not undead any more, asshole," said Dracula as he yanked his tail out of the zombie's pierced skull.
Dracula turned, the roar of the speeding train pounding his ears. It was Jameson, standing atop the car behind him, wind whipping through his cloak.
Dracula spun and saw that in fact the train was running out of track, the bridge ending in a tangled ruin jutting over a 500-foot drop into the lava below. Dracula and Jameson jumped from the train just as it flew off into the boiling expanse. As Dracula tumbled to a stop, he saw the face of the Zombie King frozen in the rear window of the plummeting train. It's mouth opened wide to scream, "SHIIIIIIIIIIT!!!"
Then, there was nothing. The zombie hordes had been defeated once and for all.
Dracula The Un-Dead is available now at Hot Topic stores near you.
#1. John Dies at the End, by David Wong
I've taken the unusual step of giving the same novel two spots on this list, since I wound up reading it twice and enjoying it nearly as much the second time (the second reading was what placed at #5 above, sorry if that was confusing).
As mesmerizing as the novel is, it's really the story behind the story that is even more interesting. The author, David Wong, put himself very deeply in debt to get the book written. You may not know this if you've never written a novel, but they can cost upwards of $15-20 million (once you factor in equipment, travel, research, jet skis and ghost writers). Wong was so passionate about getting JDatE off the ground he borrowed a large amount of money from the Russian mob to make it happen.
The real-life Wong thus finds himself in essentially the position of Denzel Washington in Training Day, desperately trying to recoup the money through whatever semi-criminal means necessary before the mob's hit men find him. After attempting to fake his death on four different occasions, Wong finally was forced to do the unthinkable: actually write a horror novel and convince a publisher to sell it for money.
On one hand it is difficult to sympathize with such a loathsome figure, but on the other, Wong insists the unfinished sequel to John Dies at the End contains a cure for cancer. It'd be a shame if he never got a chance to finish it.
"Dave, this is just retarded enough to work."
If you would like to have your life changed by horror, or are opposed to cancer, purchase this book at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Borders, Indiebound and Powell's Books or wherever books of this kind are sold.
David Wong is the Editor of Cracked.com and author of John Dies at the End.


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