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Bathrooms' Long Trek
City in Slow-Pace Race to Replace Sandy-Wrecked Facilities
Before New Yorkers can answer the call of summer at city beaches on Memorial Day weekend, they will need somewhere to answer nature's call.
Bathrooms and other beach infrastructure along the public sand on Staten Island, Coney Island and the Rockaways, like most other coastal structures, became wrecks under superstorm Sandy's floodwaters. With beach season now just a month away, city officials are racing to restore restrooms, lifeguard towers and maintenance sheds in time for the beaches to reopen.
The solution: bring prefabricated facilities to the boardwalks for about $2 million each.
But the unwieldy dimensions of these new buildings will turn their migration into a slow-motion race in which nearly three-dozen units will lumber to the city from a factory in Berwick, Pa. In total, the process will require three weeks of multi-state trips at speeds as low as 5 miles per hour, weaving through traffic, negotiating bridges and weaving around red tape.
"It's just going to take a long time," said Cristin Burtis, head of the Office of Citywide Event Coordination and Management.
The procession is set to begin Monday, she said, with heavy-duty trucks hauling the first two modular pods of steel, black locust and tile. The largest units measure 15 feet by 60 feet long and weigh up to 50 tons.
The cost of the entire project, including associated rebuilding of boardwalk and ramps to connect to the elevated new bathrooms, is projected to run $105 million, according to a spokesman for the Department of Design and Construction. The modular units will also house lifeguard stations and maintenance offices.
Ms. Burtis plans massive celebrations such as New Year's Eve, but coordinating the intricate movement of the imported beach buildings proved so complicated that city officials handed the task to her team.
A good deal of the difficulty comes from the mismatched state and municipal rules governing the movement of large structures over roadways.
To get to the city, state rules in New Jersey and New York mandate that travel only occur during daytime hours, Ms. Burtis said. Those rules are reversed at the city limits, where oversize hauls must move at night.
"I think the most challenging part is probably going to be the timing," she said. "And that's based on the complexity of how big these things are and how slow they are going to have to travel."
The traveling buildings will also be required to avoid some of the most direct routes, including the Belt Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike.
If all goes to plan, the first two buildings will begin moving over the Goethals Bridge just after 10 p.m. Monday. From there, they will snake across surface streets to reach the West 8th Street beach at Coney Island.
"The thing I think is important to know is these buildings are not related to mobile homes, except...that they come by truck," said Jim Garrison, the architect whose firm designed them. "They're heavy steel buildings that are as good as—if not better than—what you'd get from ground-up construction."
To deliver completed structures in such a short time, he said, the only option was to go indoors. In the factory, where the buildings are still being assembled around the clock by DeLuxe Building Systems Inc., toilets and tiles can be put into place before reaching the beaches.
"This was purely based on time," said David Burney, commissioner of the city Department of Design and Construction. "We didn't do it because we thought it was cheaper, even if it is."
City officials decided late last year to use modular construction to replace the destroyed buildings at the beaches, in part to avoid building outside in the heart of winter. But getting the units into position has proved nearly as vexing.
The prefabricated buildings are leaving Pennsylvania on "low boy" tractor trailers, with extra axles and lowered beds designed to handle big loads. Those trailers, in turn, can only cross from New Jersey to Staten Island by completely closing the westbound lanes of the Goethals Bridge, moving one at a time over the span at a maximum speed of 5 mph, Ms. Burtis said.
After crossing into Brooklyn, each trailer will join with its own six-vehicle supporting caravan, including bucket trucks, tow trucks and police cruisers.
The first two bathrooms and their escorts will take a circuitous route through the borough to Brighton Beach, where plans call for using a military vehicle to tow the trailers out along fortified stretches of sand to the concrete pilings that will be their permanent homes. The tow trucks are included to move parked cars from the convoys' path, as well as helping the trailers maneuver tight turns.
The bucket trucks will be on hand to move traffic signals or power lines out of the way if they hang too low for the buildings to clear. That is a challenge that could grow larger in coming weeks, said Ms. Burtis, when further deliveries require the trucks to make their way over onto the Rockaway Peninsula.
Once in place, the buildings are intended to be permanent, and an upgrade over the aging restrooms they will replace.
Mr. Garrison, the architect, said each one features skylights and extensive natural ventilation, with solar panels on their roofs to generate power.
"The mayor wanted the beaches open by Memorial Day," Mr. Garrison said. "It's a herculean effort. It's wonderful that the city has moved so quickly."
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Hi folks...i am using for a year NN3 with my Nikon D300 and Tokina 12-24 for shooting panoramas mostly in 360 degree..
Now I have 10.5mm fish eye and I am trying to shoot 360 x 180 degree panorama but there is a huge problem.
I do 6 shoots in horizontal, then I tilt the lens up for zenit but for nadir, I remove the Nikon from NN3 and shoot straight down for Nadir...and that is a problem.
I see my legs...and I can not stiitch panorama? It is Ok if I am on the grass or something like that - I do cloning in photoshop and that is perfectly stitched using the Autopano Giga....but it is mission imposible if I am in a church or anywhere where there are a tiles with texture on the floor...and ad to the problem my legs, besides tiles..and I can not clone that picture for nadir....and I can not stitch
What to do..how to shoot nadir in flor covered with tiles or textures and to avoid my legs?
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Do you shop at Aldi?
With the price of groceries predicted to continue to rise, I'm looking for an alternative. My grocery bill for 2 normal healthy people (excluding beer) is close to exceeding $300 a month now, it's getting hard to stomach. We have a couple of Aldi stores in my area and from what I've heard I can save some money if I shop there instead. Can any wootizens give me some feedback? How is the food quality compared to the major food brands out there? I'd like to give it a shot once the one down the road reopens after renovations, but I don't want to sacrifice quality for savings.
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i shopped at aldi back in college in illinois. if there was an aldi near me now (seattle), i'd still shop there. good prices, good quality. for some of the basics like chips, bread, milk etc., i never noticed a difference.
however, i'd never buy their peanut butter again. it was nasty and oily. other than that, never had a problem. my parents still shop there as well.
on a side note, back in the day, i was always impressed that the cashiers had the code for every item in the store memorized. now they've gotten all lazy and just scan the items. i swear the old school cashiers were much faster than the scanners.
This is the store @wootfast only shops at. He won't stop raving about his weekly purchases. You should ask him for advice.
Aldi is actually pretty good. The quality of some of their products is surprisingly very good. I've had some great dubliner cheese from there and I actually prefer their brand of Drumsticks over Nestlé's. Just make sure you have your own shopping bags because they charge about $0.10 for each one.
You won't sacrifice a thing. Maybe avoid canned vegetables. Aldi today is nothing like the Aldi of 20 years ago. Fresh produce arrives daily - at prices you can't beat anywhere most of the time.
They have a lot of gourmet foods and generally a good selection of really good quality food.
There are some misses, but I can't name any.
Here are just a few things we regularly buy there: Tortilla chips, milk, eggs, butter, greek yogurt, spinach, cheese, pepperoni, onions, carrots, celery, broccoli, bread, fresh take-n-bake pizzas.
And they have some great specialty items from time to time. Arrancini bites, lamb roast, whole duck, goat milk cheddar, cheesecake. This past Christmas, they had dark chocolate covered soft gingerbread cookies and they were really good.
There's always something new to see if you only go once a week or so.
I shop at Aldi all the time. More now that I live in Germany but still. Before I moved here I shopped at Aldi. When I move back to the States I'll shop there again. They have fresh bread dispensers that have the best pretzels I've had over here. No lie. There's two different Aldis and one of them owns Trader Joe's. But if you go into any Aldi, Nord or Sud, they're pretty much the same over here.
The produce is great at Aldi's! Plus it's reasonably priced compared to other grocery stores. They have some nice bacon wrapped filet for around $1.88 each. And frozen cream puffs, yum! So far the only thing I didn't like was the store brand Cheetos. They were flavorless, and ended up in the bird feeder.
We shop there from time to time. Most of their prices are great, quality is good. Check their flyer on your way in for some extra savings. Read your labels though, if you're into trying to eat less processed food, you'll need to be careful.
@questionsanswered: You must have had a bad bag of Cheetos as I found them to be quite good.
All great comments and advice here (from what I skimmed).
We stop by ours weekly. We don't do the bulk of our shopping there as it is not nearby, but we get what we can when we can. This usually includes at least fresh fruits, cereal, sometimes our dairy, and chocolate. :)
I forgot about diapers.
No, but I do shop at Trader Joe's.
Chips, any style are quite good
Milk although the one near me doesn't carry 1% which is they type we like most
Ice Cream, limited selection but what they carry is decent
Almond milk, although I prefer Chocolate which they rarely have
Hot fudge
Bread, how they can do bread wrong is beyond me but IMO Lovin' Fresh is just awful and tastes more like sawdust than flour!
Salsa, the brand they use to sell was a hit(fresh) but their new brand(last couple years) is just mushy and glorified Pace.
Yes! The produce is the best especially for the price. The bread products are always fresh. I can't tell a difference in any of the dairy from any other grocery store. Be selective in the frozen foods section, simple vegies are fine but dinners or ice cream may not be the best if it's not name brand (which they sometimes have). The meat is okay, if you're picky you may not care for it.
+1 for the fresh produce and prices. Really hard to beat. If it werent for them being really far from my house I would shop there regularly. The "off brand" stuff is decent quality too. Just dont forget to bring your own bags
I remember going there as a kid with my Grandparents. I stopped in one the last time I was up there and wasn't really impressed. They use to have way more and better items than they do now. Some decent deals here and there, but nothing great.
This was all a few years ago. I don't have any in this area.
Like others have said, it's hit and miss for me. The produce has really improved since I first went there (which is probably 15 or so years ago). I also didn't like the canned tomato products back then and have to admit I haven't tried them since. I've tried their brand of coffee and didn't like it, but I'm picky about that.
Things I like to get include granola bars, spiral-sliced ham (everyone in my extended family gets their Christmas ham there), chocolates (always a great selection at Christmas), eggs, butter, cartons of butternut squash soup.
I would say give it a try and you'll find out which things you like and which you don't. The savings are definitely worth it.
Is that the place that makes you bring your own bags/boxes and they force you to bag your own purchases? Walmart FTW!
@bsmith1: That's a small price to pay. They do absolutely everything to bring costs down and you complain about this? It's good for the environment if you buy reusable shopping bags and you don't have people putting a loaf of bread in a bag with two bowling balls.
All the cost-cutting and minimal staff means the staff they do have are treated and paid well, too.
@thepenrod: I think it's a matter of preference. Theirs is less greasy than name brand. To some that's a plus, to others not.
@hizzo87 told me she hates Aldi and thinks all the food is poison.
I have shopped at Aldi. I didn't care for their hamburger buns. Their super-lean ground beef is good, though, and a great bargain vs other grocers.
They also have really good wine for great prices...gives woot.wine a run for the money!
Thanks for asking this question @eraten. And thanks for all the answers from others. I've been watching this w/interest. Haven't been there...yet. Know that you byob(ags).
Did want to ask if they accept debit/credit cards? There's another store here where you bag your own & that one does not. Just wondering...it's easier to debit than write a check.
They're hit and miss, in my opinion. I'm a vegetarian so I don't expect them to have nearly the same options as somewhere like Stop & Shop, but it's not bad. I don't typically carry much cash and they don't take credit cards, so make sure you have enough cash when you go in. Some of the stuff isn't that good, but it really depends on the item. If nothing else, it's worth a try to get their brand and see how you like it.
You might want to try Trader Joe's, if you have one reasonably nearby. It won't be as cheap as Aldi's, but it's close, IMO. At least for some things. Veggie bacon, for instance is $3.79 at TJ and $4.99 basically everywhere else. Since they produce like 90% of what they sell, there's significantly less of a brand name mark up.
I used to shop at Aldi in Germany (or Hofer, depending on how far south I was) and would totally shop there again if we had one here...
I'd shop at Lidl before I shopped at Aldi though...
Aldi's is great! Their brand of Velveeta is icky (doesn't melt right - gets sort of grainy), but everything else I've had there is fab! Great prices, great quality and availability of some great things you don't see in normal grocery stores. I'm told some also sell wine (my folks are a huge fan of Aldi wine), but our local store doesn't, so I can't speak to it for myself.
The not taking credit cards things is kinda annoying, but I generally shop based on actual cash in my account, so paying with debit is fine for me. If I'm really in a financial bind and we need food, I can always do the Walmart credit card thing there instead, but I'd rather shop at Aldi's.
Side note: If you're willing to take the time to coupon, Target is a great place for it. They will take both a Target and a manufacturer's coupon on the same item, which is fantastic. As long as you know enough about grocery pricing to be able to judge if it really is a good deal, you can do pretty darn good at Target.
I love Aldi. You get some really neat European brands there, too. They also carry some really good table wines for under $10.
I shop there regularly. They have the best prices on milk, eggs, hummus and carrots (staples in my house). A lot of their other products are very good. Maybe not top of the line but often better than or equal to other store brands and for the price it's well worth it.
I have found that you do have to be a little careful of some of their produce (berries might be overripe at times, bags of oranges sometime have a mushy/molding one in them, bananas are often so green that they may never really ripen). But if you're careful about picking out those items, you can do well.
They have some great seasonal items. Stoopwaffles/caramel waffles come in the late fall. Their jarred pestos and refrigerated pastas are available every few months. They had some great imported cheeses this Christmas season.
And, perhaps most importantly, Aldi is the best place to get reasonably priced real European chocolate.
@gmwhit: They accept debit, but not credit cards. And no manufacturer coupons, which rarely matters since they carry mostly private label goods.
@gmwhit: At least here (Illinois), Aldi accepts debit. And yes, bring your own bags. I buy staples like shredded cheese, yogurt, kefir, eggs, canned tomatoes/tomato paste, frozen veg there, and it's all fine. Some items arent cheaper than my usual grocery store, but that just means that I dont get those items when I stop at Aldi.
One thing, though, here at least, the cow milk smells (or tastes? not totally sure) like lettuce. Iceburg lettuce. Other people have mentioned it over the years, and I thought it sounded ridiculous, so I went ahead and purchased their milk when I started shopping there. Turns out they were right. So maybe dont count on their milk being the greatest. All their other dairy seems great. Ive had their almond milk, though, and it was fine.
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@togle: At least where I am, southern Illinois, the milk is produced by Prairie Farms - a name brand you see in other stores, but sold under the private label of Friendly Farms.
I shop at Aldi's at least once a week.. its more of a treasure hunt than a grocery shop visit.. just something to do after eating at my favorite Mexican restaurant. ...
Last week I bought (4) Dr. Seuss books for $1.99/ea clearanced off.. I have also bought Nerf guns there (The Retaliator) at I think $14.99/ea which is a helluva good deal for them..
I also bought a SD-card red-cherry wood picture frame there for $24.99 -- and i've had it for years now. Works perfectly (With auto-shut-off, etc).
I do like shopping at Aldi because of the low prices. At my local store, the cashiers are also very fast! Since there's pretty limited selection between brands, of course some of it is going to be hit or miss, but that's a matter of personal preference anyway. I say go and try out some of the foods. If you don't like them, don't buy them again. I get most of my staples from there though (milk, orange juice, eggs, etc.). I also love their sales on produce. Pineapples can be 99 cents!
I shopped there nearly every other day while living in Germany too and once I returned to the states I continue to do so when I get a chance. The ones here aren't as nice as the one's across the pond. But still great selection and great prices. For the sweet tooth check out their candy section. I love the racers. Kinda like a snickers but not a sweet.
Aldi it's a definite stop when you get a chance. Also don't let others opinions put you off of food products. Everyone has different taste buds so give stuff a shot its cheap enough.
Sadly I only get to go to one about once every other month or so. Closest one is about an hour to an hour and a half away. But hands down better than kroger & walmart. We are just now getting something called Cash Saver about 10 or 15 mins away from my house. Supposedly you see the price they pay from the supplier then you + 10% & that's what you pay. No idea if they are any good though.
PS: Bring your own bags! and a $0.25 for the cart. (you get it back)
baked potato chips, tortilla chips, and actually some of the cheese is good (for in recipes, not cubed and eaten by itself) along with some other staples. you have to be careful with some of the veggies/fruit and I stay away from most of the meat. I save at least $50 a month there, while buying my more selective items at a "big name" place.
My wife and I frequent a discount grocery store here. They have a lot of frozen restaurant supply type stuff (burgers, chicken strips, etc) for dirt cheap. I will admit I was a little worried the first time I went there but I've never gotten anything that was even questionable.
You can get dented canned goods and bread that expires that day too, but we normally don't bother. It'll just go bad before we eat it anyway.
Our household grocery bill runs about $700 a month right now (my kids drink about 5 gallons of milk a week) so we do about everything that we can to cut back on cost.
The rising prices of groceries is astonishing these days. Everything has nearly doubled (at least 50% in my area) in the past 5 years. Honestly, You can put a little fault on fuel prices, but they've been static for the past 3 years. Personally, I blame Congress for increasing minimum wage. Oddly enough, they gave exactly a 50% pay increase and that's about what you see in food cost increases
I loved Aldi's when I lived near one. I wish they would expand out here (Pac NW). Like any other place with private labels, they are hit and miss. But most at Aldi's are a hit, and at really great prices. Go and save some money!
I love Aldi's now! I used to be skeptical about them & really thought they were some low quality discount grocery surplus store! But then they opened up a new store in our city & I found out that they are owned by the same parent company that owns Trader Joes! I looove TJ's and we drive 4 hours every few months to the closest one in St Louis to stock up! But in between Aldi's is where we do 50% of our shopping with the other half split between the local healthfood store & Walmart! One thing I do is PM their produce at Walmart! .19 for tiny rough looking avocados at Aldi's but pm'd for big fat ones at Walmart is awesome!
Our local Walmart is sooo competitive with the new Aldis here that they pretty much will price match whatever produce item & for whatever price I say it is, no questions asked! We usually go first to Aldi's and then fill in the blanks at the other two stores! Like Quorn vegetarian products only sold at the healthfood store & brand name goods like Pepsi One or vitamin water & Captain Crunch cereal stuff like that at Walmart! But Aldi's has the best prices on the basics & like Trader Joes always has some neat European/German imported specialty items on special that we love to try! Also if U aren't happy with something, u bring it in & they not only refund ur money but replace the item for free! Best satisfaction guarantee ever!
Really appreciate Aldi stores. You can pick up a lot of staples and produce there reasonably and is a good point to use for Price Matching at other stores. Puny lettuce at Aldi = $1.29, Fat head of lettuce at WallyWorld for $1.29.
Lots of Aldi products are the same as the comparable 'brand name' but just re-branded for non-american audiences. Do watch for their (and everyone else's) prepackaged food, as much of it has WAY too much sodium for a healthy diet...this includes can goods.
Many good deals on merchandise as well. Often times very cheap SD ram cards, Cameras, GPS's, just remember that these deals are often limited to a few per store and it's best to catch them when they come out.
Trader Joe's and Aldi's are two of my favorite placed to get good merch inexpensively and often with a little extra variety and change up from everyday national brands and typical grocery offerings.
I miss having an Aldi as close as we did before we moved. They're great. There's some things that might be a miss occasionally, but they have such a fantastic guarantee on their products that it is always worth the risk to me. We bought some ground turkey we didn't like at all and returned it (well, the wrapper, we didn't bring in the cooked turkey), and it was a no hassle return, refund, and go pick out another item for free in said department (got ground sausage instead). Done the same with anything that didn't meet expectations, but that's only been maybe 3 things out of the year we'd shopped there before we moved.
Never heard of the place i reckon its an northern store? i live in Louisiana deep south. Sounds interesting though.
Surprised no one has mentioned Trader Joe's. It's a super-Aldi that's not in all the Aldis markets, and it's either the same company or a brother company or something like that.
Almost all the food is organic, higher quality everything, and the prices are still awesome. You can get heat and eat rack of lamb for $15. Srsly. This is where "three buck chuck" comes from that you always hear about.
tried a couple of times , ended up throwing most things away, it may be cheaper but 8t tastes that way as well
Where I live in GA Aldi usually beats walmart but what
Aldi does best is Candy.


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I currently upload videos directly from iPhone to you tube... Is there a way to push the videos from YouTube to my facebook status when they are uploaded?
I believe the upload sharing activity works the same whether it is from a mobile device or a computer.
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Then include the actions you want to share in your feed under
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I'd like install liquid 2.2.2 for jekyll. However, the latest version of jekyll is 2.3.0. How to install a older version of package like liquid 2.2.2 in Ubuntu 12.10?
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Whenever I take a SG reading with my hydrometer I have a hard time getting an accurate reading because of a few mm of foam at the surface. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get rid of the foam?
You can try filling the tube up to (or at least close to) the top, so that when you lower the hydrometer, most of the foam spills over the edge. Once it's that high up, it's not too hard to blow most of the remaining foam off.
Don't forget though to give the hydro a dunk and spin to dislodge any bubbles stuck to the bottom of the hydrometer from an excessively carbonated sample.
While @tallie's overflow answer is excellent, you can also just wait. I take my sample into a footed hydrometer test jar. Set it aside and do other brewery things while the foam settles.
Patience helps. I give the hydrometer a spin in the wort which helps it settle without influence from the bubbles/foam. Depending on how dark the beer is I can usually read it from underneath the foam through the beer.
Get a refractometer. The advantages are many, and include the fact the foam and carbonation are irrelevant to the reading. Lots of cheap ones available on eBay.
I'm using a turkey baster to extract my wort/beer, I always slowly drain the beer out into the plastic hydrometer cylinder to decrease the amount of foam. I always like to give it time to sit and get to room temp, this should give it time to de-gas. I also like to take a test sample when it's warmer for a better idea of the flavor.
I just pour the sample between two containers a few times and the gas dissipates. Its not like the beer is really carbonated, so it goes flat with a little disturbance.
Make sure you taste it too:D!
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The excesses of partisan sniping, negative campaigning and pandering skullduggery are the comic equivalent of fish in a barrel, and every last minnow gets picked off in "The Campaign," in which Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis play North Carolina candidates going head-to-head in a farcically conniving congressional election.
If only because of the actors involved, "The Campaign" has its share of laughs, which in a script penned by Chris Henchy and Shawn Harwell tends toward the broadest possible takes on slapstick, sophomoric sexuality and post-"Hangover" raunch. The film even possesses a whiff of topicality, in the form of Dan Aykroyd and John Lithgow playing two super-wealthy, sweatshop-owning brothers who try to rig the election by infusing a Super PAC with scads of money. Their name: Motch, rhymes with Koch, when Koch rhymes with "scotch," which they imbibe like so much Coke.
But with the exception of that timely echo -- and Ferrell's flawless John Edwards impersonation as a handsome, compulsively promiscuous Democratic politician -- genuinely scathing satire is largely missing in "The Campaign," which prefers silly, outre jokes and sight gags to a truly penetrating critique of partisan politics that has gone hopelessly off the rails.
As "The Campaign" opens, Ferrell's character, a vapid smoothie named Cam Brady, is preparing to address yet one more adoring crowd of fans. What will he talk about? "America, Jesus, freedom," his three-word answer to every question.
The Christian right comes in for even more skewering when a local tourism board director named Marty Huggins (Galifianakis) arrives on the scene, having been hand picked by the Motches to challenge Cam in the upcoming election. His suggestively mincing gait, love of pugs and high-pitched lisp notwithstanding, Marty is happily married with two kids, and the Huggins's devout family dinner hour provides the setting for one of the film's most over-the-top set pieces, wherein the boys confess anything they might have done that could compromise their father's run for office. Later, in a debate, he announces his fealty to "the greatest American who ever lived: Jesus Christ." (You've already seen "The Campaign's" other standout moment, when Cam takes baby-kissing to unexpectedly pugilistic extremes, since that scene has been replayed to death in ads, trailers and clips on the actors' publicity tour.)
Such are the cheap 'n' easy shots that comprise most of "The Campaign," which escalates into an increasingly absurdist war of mutually assured character assassination on the part of Cam and Marty, the latter of whom is being advised by a sharky eminence grise played by Dylan McDermott.
It's not that there's no fun to be had in "The Campaign," and the film can't be accused of partisan bias: Democrats are as likely to take partisan glee in the film's depiction of the amoral Motches as Republicans are in Cam's feckless, self-righteous hypocrisy.
Ferrell -- adding a dash of his beloved George W. Bush imitation when Cam announces, "Schools is this nation's backbone" -- develops a simpatico rhythm with Galifianakis, as well as with Sarah Baker and Katherine LaNasa, who play the candidates' wives with appropriate wide-eyed sweetness and snake-eyed ambition, respectively.
Still, there's no escaping the sense that "The Campaign" missed a chance to be swifter, smarter and more stinging, especially considering that the director, Jay Roach, is the man behind the far more alert and adroitly executed "Recount" and "Game Change" on HBO.
In a way, "The Campaign" is the comic side of the same coin occupied by last year's "The Ides of March" -- a respectable piece of mainstream entertainment but one that fell short of the insight and ambition required to be a movie that singularly captured its time. Like so many of the seasonal rituals that inspired its title, "The Campaign" could have used some tough reforms before asking filmgoers for their votes.


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The work of photography faculty member Liz Deschenes is part of Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960, an exhibition on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through October 19, 2008.
The exhibition spans four decades of photographers who used photography itself as their subject, reflecting on the evolution and status of the medium. "With many more works by younger artists, this installation also provides more of a snapshot of where photography is at the moment," said Malcolm Daniel, curator in charge of the department of photographs.
In Photography on Photography, Deschenes' work is among the photography of other artists from the Met's permanent collections, including Vito Acconci, William Anastasi, Lutz Bacher, Roe Ethridge, Kota Ezawa, Janice Guy, Robert Heinecken, Sherrie Levine, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Prince, Josephine Pryde, Thomas Ruff, Allen Ruppersberg, Karin Sander, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Andy Warhol.
A faculty member at the College since 2006, Deschenes' work has been exhibited both internationally and throughout the U.S., most recently in Color Chart: Reinventing Color 1950 to Today at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.


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Lupe Fiasco And Sean Paul To Headline 25th Annual JazzReggae Festival At UCLA
Lupe Fiasco And Sean Paul To Headline 25th Annual JazzReggae Festival
The 25th Annual JazzReggae Festival at UCLA announced today that rapper Lupe Fiasco will be headlining their Jam Day on May 29th and Sean Paul will be the main act for their Reggae Day on May 30th.
Right on the heels of his third album Lasers topping the charts, Chicago-bred emcee Lupe Fiasco will take over the stage bringing his insightful lyrics and spirited delivery to the JazzReggae Festival's Jam Day.
The Grammy nominee and number one spot holder on the Billboard album charts isn't the only star on the bill.
Reggae singer and dancehall veteran, Sean Paul will be the featured performer for Reggae Day.
The multi-platinum Grammy winner is full of energy and will surely captivate the crowd with his party-starting records.
Tickets will go on sale April 1st on ticketmaster.com and at the UCLA Central Ticket Office; prices are $29 for single day tickets and $50 for a two-day pass.
Full line ups will be announced in a few days.
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I would like to know if anyone can help me with installing Ubuntu on VirtualBox 4.1.12. I'm really having trouble installing ubuntu on there. I am a first time user but always wanted to give it a try, but just need a bit of help.
Follow this guide:
Open Virtualbox and click at New button.
Setup Wizard will appear and click at Next button.
Enter your Virtual Machine name, and choose your guest OS and architecture (32- vs. 64-bit) from the dropdown menu and click Next button.
Enter memory (RAM) to reserve for your virtual machine and click Next button.
Tick at Startup Disk and Create New Hard disk and click at Next button.
Choose the type of file that you want to use for virtual disk and click Next button.
Choose your storage detail and click Next button.
Enter the size of your virtual disk (in MB) and click Next button.
You will see the detail of your input here. Click Create button to continue.
The "New Virtual Machine Wizard" will close and back to VirtualBox Manager. Select your Virtual Machine and click Start button.
"First Run Wizard" will appear and click Next button.
Click at 'folder' icon and choose your Ubuntu iso directory.
Select your Ubuntu iso file and click Next button.
In 'Summery' box, click Start button.
This screen will appear when it start boot.
After a successful installation we have to remove our installation .iso image from the virtual optical drive before we reboot. This can be done from the "Devices" menu or by removing the .iso from the VM settings:
For smooth graphics, and to be able to use shared folders it is recommended to install the guest additions.
Installing Ubuntu under virtual box
Go to the home page on Ubuntu's website and then go to the download section, and get Ubuntu if you haven`t done so already. You can burn the image to a CD or use it as is ISO image. Install VirtualBox if not installed already.
To install Virtualbox you can download it from VirtualBox
Once downloaded, navigate to where the file was downloaded, and then double click on it to install.
Once you have done the previous steps go here for a complete tutorial on how to install Ubuntu inside a virtual box.


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11 Oct 2012 11:34 AM #1
Have Dialog Resize by content
I create a dialog and display it. I close the dialog and before opening again the content changes (so it needs a larger window to display it). However, I can not get the dialog to resize, I must explicitly size it.
I try doing dialog.forceLayout(), dialog.setPixelSize(-1,-1)/dialog.forceLayout(), etc. Nothing seems to work for me.
The dialog sizing is as desired the first time, but not the following times.
What am I missing with the GXT Dialog widget?
11 Dec 2013 2:13 PM #2
Did you ever get a response? I am having similar issues with my Dialog.
12 Dec 2013 9:31 AM #3
This has been fixed in version GXT 3.0.6.
After the layout changes call:
finalDialog autoSize = newDialog(); autoSize.setBodyBorder(false); autoSize.setHeadingText("Auto Size Dialog"); autoSize.setHideOnButtonClick(true); autoSize.setWidget(flc); autoSize.addButton(new TextButton("Add", new SelectHandler() { @Override public void onSelect(SelectEvent event) { int widgetCount = flc.getWidgetCount(); StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder(widgetCount); for (int i = 0; i < widgetCount; i++) { s.append(" *"); } flc.add(new HTML(new Date().toString() + s)); autoSize.forceLayout(); } })); autoSize.addButton(new TextButton("Remove", new SelectHandler() { @Override public void onSelect(SelectEvent event) { int lastWidget = flc.getWidgetCount() - 1; if (lastWidget > 0) { flc.remove(lastWidget); autoSize.forceLayout(); } } })); autoSize.setPixelSize(-1, -1); autoSize.setMinWidth(0); autoSize.setMinHeight(0); autoSize.setResizable(false); autoSize.setShadow(false);
15 Dec 2013 1:06 PM #4
Thank you, that seems to mostly work.
Couple of things:
- The docs for setShadow() say that it defaults to false, however, if I omit that line, the shadow is there.
- setMinWidth() and setMinHeight() say they only apply when resizable is true. So why do we have to set them? Or do the docs need improving?
- The dialog buttons no longer are right aligned for me. I even added the call to align them to the end and still they are left aligned. What is going on there? setButtonAlign(BoxLayoutPack.END);
15 Dec 2013 5:38 PM #5
I'll have to look into the docs and defaults. Although the dialog right alignment for 3.0.6 when autosize is on has an issue and a bug is filed for that.


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The Global Automotive Conference is an annual event for professional development in the automotive industry for middle and senior management.
Mark Hogan, President of magna International says: "It's very important for Magna and for the industry at large, the manufacturers."
Representatives with automotive companies from around the world are in Bowling Green for the event.
Hogan says: "Bowling Green has essentially gone global with everybody else in the industry."
Warren County Judge Executive Mike Buchanon: "We have some of the "big hitters" of the automotive industry here in town who are communicating with us and also with each other talking about opportunities and challenges for the automotive industry."
The event is organized by the Gordon Ford College of Business and Western Kentucky University.
Buchanon says: "Western Kentucky University has played an important part in the Global Automotive Conference for us. They have really brought a great many talented people together to network and communicate about the global business of the automotive industry."
Judge Buchanon says this is an opportunity for people from all over the world to see what our community is capable of accomplishing.
Buchanon says: "This is exciting, for me, to be able to meet some of the people who are here. And have an opportunity to sell Bowling Green, Warren County, and South Central Kentucky."


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Oracle's StorageTek SL150 in the Spotlight
By Kristin Rose on Feb 07, 2013
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Minister of Interior Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz has directed the Saudi Popular Campaign for the Relief of the Lebanese People to provide medicines and medical supplies to the Nahr Al-Bared and Beddawi refugee camps in Lebanon.
The relief aid, worth $1 million (SR 3.75 million), is in line with Saudi Arabia's ongoing humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians living in the refugee camps. In 2007, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz donated $10 million for distribution to the residents of the camps.


text: These next few days will be my last days drawing any more Halloween related stuff, so if you wanted a lesson that falls in the Halloween section but haven't seen it yet, now is the time to make your requests before it's too late. Today I will start the day by uploading "how to draw a scarecrow face", step by step. This scarecrow came out pretty cool. I love the scary expression on the face made by using simple shapes. Of course you can always choose to tweak the concept you see before you now, the choice is yours. Anyways, have fun and remember to keep up the great work. Adios people!


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Before I start, yes, I am aware that many people before me have managed in Africa and have undoubtedly had great success. However, what Ill be attempting to do here is something that I (personally) have never seen before.
The database Im using is one I found in the Editors Hideaway (I cant seem to find it now though) which contains at least one league from every country that comes under the African continent. Yes, it may have a few mistakes, but its still got a lot of detail and Ive very thankful to whoever it was that made it (Ill also be grateful to anyone who can find the topic). Im also using the Middle East leagues included in Unknown Hackers huge database, to whom I am also incredibly grateful.
Anyway, the aim of this career is...well, Im not quite sure. Winning leagues and continental competitions would be great, but Im hardly a tactical genius so my main aim is to have fun and give some small teams a short glimpse of success. I highly doubt Ill be staying at any club for more than a couple of seasons but, of course, if things are looking promising I might stay a bit longer.
The club I shall be starting at is The Lions in the Seychelles. This is because they are predicted bottom of the league, with not much money, and because theyre amateur Im expecting a lot of my best players to be taken off my hands. Oh, and the reason for the Seychelles is because its the smallest African country in terms of area. The squad itself is not great and with finances and facilties like that, it looks like Im in for a pretty bumpy ride. However, Im hoping that good performances from players like Jules Jeanne and Paul Labiche will cement us a good position in the league.
Updates will most likely be once a month, and that should be once every couple of days, assuming I havent got too much else to do. Processing time doesnt appear to be too bad, either. Unfortunately, due to a mess up on my part, the league wont actually start for a few months but Ill try and do monthly pre-season updates.
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4-bytes = word; 8-bytes = 2x word
Then why doesn't the heap just go with 4-byte alignment (because it will be grabbing a word at a time anyway, right?)
If we went with 8-byte alignments, why not 12? 16?
Efficiency and CPU architecture. I remember when the Alpha chips came out, they could only read memory on 32 bit boundaries. If you wanted to read byte 3, you'd load a 32-bit number then have to rotate the result to isolate the byte you want. A traditional byte-by-byte string compare was quite inefficient in this architecture.
That being said, I'm not sure what modern processors do. It's been a while since I had to deal with this.
Short answer is "It doesn't". The alignment is associated with the implementation details of the heap manager, nothing more. Your heap manager may have an alignment requirement for various reasons, such as efficiency, architecture, whim of the writer or what ever. If you have a reason to care, please share it with us.
This is an assumption, is incorrect, and has lead to many varied, sometimes expensive and always inexcusable software porting problems. The size of a word depends on the hardware architecture, OS, language and compiler being used.


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C. pepo 59 days. Considered a marrow type squash, Bush Baby's striking fruit sport light and dark green stripes and have a wonderfully delicate, satisfying flavor. Bred to produce smaller fruit, their prime size for picking is 2 by 6 inches, but the non-stop plants deliver a higher than average overall harvest. Compact, bush type plants are right at home in the garden or a large container.
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Cucurbita spp.: In the diverse family of squash are true nutritional powerhouses, encompassing a wide array of forms, flavors, colorations, and culinary applications. Squash are rich in the carotenoids necessary for vitamin A production and boast a wide complement of amino acids. While starchy, most of the carbohydrates in the fruit come from special polysaccharides, pectins, which have exhibited strong antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-diabetic, insulin-regulating properties. Summer squash are a typically prolific garden classic.
CULTURE: Squash and pumpkins prefer good fertile soil and plenty of sunshine. Start indoors or in a greenhouse 3-4 weeks prior to your last frost. Sow in a 3 inch Peat or Cow Pot for direct transplanting. For best results transplant prior to the second set of true leaves. Plant the entire Peat or Cow Pot with no part of the pot exposed to the air. Work 1/2 cup of our complete fertilizer into the soil around each plant. For direct sowing, plant after your last frost and when the soil has warmed to at least 60°F. Sow with 3-4 feet between bush varieties, and 4-5 feet between vining varieties. Distance between rows: 6-10 feet. Squash need just-barely-damp soil to germinate. Too much moisture causes the seed to rot. All squash are monoecious (bearing separate male and female flowers on the same plant), and most require bee and insect activity for successful pollination. Poor fruit set is often the result of poor pollination.
INSECTS/PESTS: The major insect pests are the spotted and striped cucumber beetles, vine borers and squash bugs. Use row covers and/or apply Pyrethrin to reduce and control damage. Butternut varieties have a solid stem and are resistant to vine borer damage.
DISEASES: Squash are susceptible to a number of fungal, bacterial, and viral diseases that vary between regions. Your local county extension agent can help you pinpoint your particular problem.
HARVEST: Pick baby summer squash as well as the more mature ones. In general, summer squash are most tender and flavorful when very young. Winter squash are best left on the vine until fully mature. It should require quite a bit of pressure before your fingernail pierces through the rind into the flesh. For the best sugar content, cut the stem an inch or so from the body after the first light frost, and if the weather is dry, let them cure in the field. If temperatures drop below 25°F, bring your harvest inside and store in a cool dry location.
SEED SPECS: Minimum germination standard: 75%. Usual seed life: 3-4 years. Days to maturity: from date of direct seeding; if transplanting, subtract 10 days.
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15 Animals You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
#7. Dumbo Octopus
Finally, something from the abyss that does not make us want to fire nukes into the deep blue, "just in case." Dumbo octopi are the deepest-living octopus known, showing that after miles of vertical water and untold horrors, deep sea creatures start turning into Disney cartoons.
Thank God, because we were beginning to believe nothing but fright could live in the deep dark ... oh, there it is.
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His favorite foods include small fish, shrimp and your face.
As with all things that appear sweet, hiding under the cuddly exterior is a vampire squid.
#6. Stalk-Eyed Fly
Stalk-eyed flies are what happens when logic takes a back seat to boners.
Hauke Koch
Imagine if only men like Ron Jeremy got to reproduce. On second thought, don't.
Because females are more likely to mate with dudes with long stalks, the male eye stalks keep getting longer and longer. And sex is the only reason, by the way -- the stalks are not beneficial tools against predators and are in fact detrimental to the fly's ability to fly, because its eyes are located so far away from its body.
Rob Knell
It's the only bug built to clothesline its fellow insects.
It's evolutionarily idiotic. It would be like if male humans found a way to make their dicks bigger, but every additional inch makes the guy slower, and fatter, and generally more terrible. Like greasier, and just useless, evolutionarily speaking.
Oh. Oooooh.
#5. Long-Necked Turtle
On the subject of retardedly long body parts, these things look like you could pick them up in a dollar store. Instead of toys that look like Stretch Armstrong mixed with a Transformer, in this case, it looks like someone threaded an eel through a turtle.
It's like a dick joke mated with a sea monster.
Their necks are so long that they are unable to pull their heads inside their shells like every other turtle on earth, which, yes, is the only good thing about being a turtle. They are forced to fold their giant freak necks alongside their bodies, the turtle equivalent of standing next to a guy wearing armor when something bad happens. On the other hand, they have skunk superpowers and can ooze horrible-smelling musk if agitated. So we guess it's more like standing next to a guy wearing armor who farts nerve gas.
And the rest of their personal hygiene leaves something to be desired.
#4. Frogfish
When humans mix up two animals names to name another animal, the results are usually disappointing: dragonflies are uglier than regular flies and nowhere near as cool as dragons, spider crabs can't spin webs and aren't delicious and the sharktopus isn't even a thing. So it's pretty surprising to see that frogfish are actually more interesting than the sum of their namesakes' parts.
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Frogfish are shallow-water anglerfish that swapped hideousness for leg fins and kick-ass fashion. They are so varied in appearance that sometimes two of the same species appear to be completely different types, because fashion fish would not be caught dead at the reef social wearing the same outfit as another frogfish.
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"Oh shit! We both came dressed as the rest of the ocean."
If you think we're exaggerating, run a Google image search on "frogfish." Just make sure you wear sunglasses.
#3. Rhino Mice
Sadly, rhino mice do not have tiny nose horns that they use to shank Tonka trucks. Rather, they're mutated mice afflicted with a range of skin and nail disorders and glandular problems. Their condition leaves them looking like a mouse bred with a raisin. Or if Master Splinter had a baby with Krang. Here's a picture of either two rhino mice from a scientific study or Edward James Olmos hanging out with Keith Richards.
Journal of Investigative Dermatology
Just one more: Rhino mice look like God said, "Sure, mice are OK, but what if I made them out of scrotum?"
#2. Marsupial Mole
Wait, you didn't think we would make a list of freak-ass animals and not include one exclusive to Australia, did you? Filling our Australia quota is the marsupial mole. They spend almost all of their time digging though the dirt, to the point that they no longer have ears and their eyes are reduced to lenses that serve no purpose. They also dig no permanent tunnels, allowing them to fill in behind them as they dig.
They resemble a mink-covered sock with claws, showing that nature went back to the same dealer she was seeing when she designed the platypus. We'd make a joke about this remarkable photograph of a marsupial mole eating a centipede, but we don't even know for sure that's what we're looking at. That could just as well be its butt. Does it poop or eat lobsters?
#1. Assassin Spiders
Along with "shotgun battleaxe" and "tyrannosaurus lion," "assassin spider" is one of the most kick-ass and terrifying combination of nouns on earth. The reality is appropriately freaky looking, and it's called "assassin" because it feeds exclusively on other spiders. Also it looks like a haunted staircase made of spiders.
No, you aren't seeing things -- that spider has jaws as long as its freaking neck. Oh, right, and it has a neck. That is a completely bizarre ancillary body part, much like having an extra eyebrow, but it apparently helps the little bastards murder other arachnids, and it successfully elevates them to the level of "more disturbing-looking than usual for a spider." And here is a piece of amber showing that they have been terrorizing other spiders since about 40 million years ago:
They live in Madagascar and Australia, which should come as a surprise to absolutely no one who has ever heard of either place.
David is a sometime editor and full time webmaster and contributor over at WordPlague.
For more things that look fake but aren't, check out 18 Old-Timey Photos You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped and 15 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped.


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22 Nov 2012 12:53 AM #1
Sencha Touch 2 app with SAP Gateway
I've been working on a sencha app where I retrieve data using a SAP Gateway service. I used this tutorial: http://allthatjs.com/2012/02/19/buil...encha-touch-2/.
However, in this tutorial they only collect data, so the GET method. I also want to push data, so use the POST method.
Is there anyone who has got some experience with that? I noticed sencha released a SAP oData connector, but I can't find any tutorials, etc. about that.
23 Nov 2012 6:02 AM #2
The SAP oData connector download is here: https://market.sencha.com/users/46/extensions/49
The Flights Unlimited demo app in the download looks to be an excellent resource to learn from.
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Modus Create
Sencha Touch Screencasts
Vimeo - Sencha Touch Channel
Github Projects:
Sencha Cordova Builder enables the automatic creation, building, and running of PhoneGap (Cordova) projects with Sencha Touch.
Am I Sencha Touch Ready? checks your system to determine what you need to do to start Sencha Touch development. If you're having trouble getting up and running, try this out.
Sencha Tools Bridge allows Sencha SDK Tools to co-exist with Sencha Cmd on the same system.
23 Nov 2012 2:15 PM #3
The SAP OData connector works fine for Read operations, but currently only supports modifying operations (Create, Update, Delete) against a SAP Gateway service in SP02 compatibility mode. These have /sap/opu/sdata as part of their URL.
Here is an example of a create operation against the CRM Activity service on the SAP Gateway demo system:
Ext.define('ODataTest.model.Activity', { extend: 'Ext.data.Model', requires: ['Ext.data.proxy.OData'], config: { fields: [ { name: 'Description', type: 'string' }, { name: 'Owner', type: 'string' }, { name: 'ActivityLocation', type: 'string' }, { name: 'CategoryDescription', type: 'string' }, { name: 'PriorityDescription', type: 'string' }, { name: 'ContactPerson', type: 'string' }, { name: 'ActivityPartner', type: 'string' }, { name: 'SchemeID', type: 'string', defaultValue: 'IWCNT~OM_CRMACTIVITY' }, { name: 'ProcessType', type: 'string', defaultValue: 'ZKF5' }, { name: 'Value', type: 'string' } ], proxy: { type: 'odata', url: "HTTP://GW.ESWORKPLACE.SAP.COM:80/sap/opu/sdata/iwcnt/activity/ActivityCollection", withCredentials: true, useHeaderAuthentication: true, // this enforces authentication, otherwise we get an empty collection. username: 'GW@ESW', password: 'ESW4GW' } } }); var activity = Ext.create('ODataTest.model.Activity', { Description: 'Plan sales meeting', Owner: '12701' // this is the userid belonging to username GW@ESW }); activity.save(function (record) { console.log('Record saved'); });
Check out the following video for a demo of the OData connector:
I hope this helps. Let me know if you need further help.


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Back when I was learning Daf Yomi, I ran into an interesting lesson I'm finding difficult to find again. It was a teaching that one should learn halacha from your rebbe's teachings and not through the observation of pious people. The reason, as I recall, was that the observation can be misleading. Observing the tzaddik may not take into account that he is properly relying on a heter, or perhaps that he is relying on a chumra. Therefore, one should only learn the halacha from the lectures. I can recall this lesson vividly, but I can't remember where I learned it. I thought it might be in Moed Kattan, but I haven't found it there in my review. Can anyone help? I need the source for an article I'm working on. Thanks.
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WEST (August 12, 2011)- St. Mary's Catholic School has scheduled Back-To-School Night and Registration for 7p.m August 15th in the St. Mary's Gymnasium.
The event is for both students and parents, and will last an hour.
Teachers will be on hand to meet their students for the upcoming school year.


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Was reading here about this technique. From my POV it only works good with a distinct min-max text width. Columns in newspapers of a with of a few centimeters (5-6) seem quite good to me. I also like reading stackexchange sites or google groups with a limited text width/forced linebreaking. Old php, vbulletin boards adapt text width to screen width, which makes Speed Reading on widescreen displays impossible.
So what is the correct text min-max range. Are there tricks/addons like Stylish for Firefox www.userstyles.org that can adjust automatically the text width of main body text on websites, blogs,... via CSS to the optimal min-max width? On the stackexchange.com the textwidth is fixed and not changeable by decreasing window size. Imo 3/4 of current width would make it more optimal for speed reading.


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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) _ A Kansas military school embroiled in a lawsuit alleging abuse of cadets is denying it destroyed photos and videos on students' cellphones related to the case.
Families of former cadets who have sued St. John's Military School in Salina have asked a federal judge to issue an order protecting any remaining photos and videos.
The plaintiffs also want a computer forensics expert appointed as a ``special master'' at the school's expense to attempt to recreate material they say was deleted from student cellphones.
In its response Thursday, St. John's called the request a fishing expedition and an attempt to ``sling mud'' at the school. It says it has a longstanding policy barring students from taking pictures or videos on cellphones, but has recently modified the policy.


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I just wanted to take this time to remind everyone to please adhere to the guidelines set by BBC and also by myself and the other GOs we had when this board was first created.
Please give extra attention to the sections about disruptive behavior and personal attacks.
After careful consideration and talking with tptb I have decided that I will be choosing a GO to help me out with the board after I have taken some time to choose that member. I will be taking some time to get reacquainted with the members we have (which is why I created the thread count) and then proceed from there.
Any GO that I choose will be there to help me come up with creative ways to involve more members in daily posting, respond to questions when I'm away, and to update info as needed.
Thank you to those that sent me encouraging messages, those that sent suggestions, and to those that just had patience in the matter.
ETA: The new GO that I will be choosing will not be an inactive member, it will be someone that I am comfortable with and that you all interact with on a daily basis.
I am reading all comments here but will not be responding to those that just make me repeat this decision again and again. This was a decision made by TPTB and myself. It is an already agreed upon decision so please try to accept this as a compromise between all involved parties.
We as a group have VERY few reports made, very few board disruptions, and have no pressing need of GOs as new boards do. The additional GO will be support for me, a second opinion for me, someone that can be here to keep the board moving along if I'm not here, and they will also be helping with updating our featured photos and thread.
This solution offers a solution to what some of you said you wanted so hopefully you can accept it :)


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WACO (December 6, 2012)—A photograph of several women wearing sombreros, fake mustaches and holding signs that say "green card" and a second that shows four similarly costumed women scaling a "border wall" that were posted on a Baylor coed's Facebook page have gone viral and are stirring controversy nationwide.
Baylor University said Thursday it's investigating.
"We are fully aware of the situation and we are at present investigating it," university spokeswoman Lori Fogelman said.
"We have identified the students in the incident those who were involved in the incident and we are having ongoing conversations with them in the context of our student conduct process," she said.
"We also have learned the function was not organized by a student organization nor was it held on campus."
"Baylor university is an active and inclusive academic community with a very strong Christian tradition and as such we don't tolerate racism of any kind," she said.
The photos were apparently taken in October during a party at a house near the Baylor campus.
Meanwhile in a similar case Penn State President Rodney Erickson sent a campus-wide letter Thursday in which he admonished students who wore costumes and held offensive signs in photographs that were circulated on the Internet.
Erickson said in the letter the school won't pursue disciplinary action because the behavior was protected by free speech rights.
His letter didn't specifically reference the photos or name the Chi Omega sorority, but he said it became clear recently that some students "celebrated Halloween in costumes that offended others" and acted contrary to university values.
One sign in the photo of sorority sisters says "will mow lawn for weed + beer."
Two women holding signs were wearing fake mustaches and others in the photo were wearing sombreros.
The sorority has apologized and Chi Omega's national chapter says it is placing the sorority on probation.


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Big [WS] [Extended Cut] [Blu-ray] for $5 + free shipping
More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier fortunetelling machine. The next morning, Josh wakes up-only to discover that he's grown to manhood overnight! (At this point, the part is taken over by Tom Hanks). Still a 13-year-old mentally and emotionally, Josh decides to hide out in New York City until he can figure out what to do next. He lucks into a job with a major toy company run by kid-at-heart McMillan (Robert Loggia). By cannily bringing a child's eye view to McMillan's business, Josh rises to the top-and in process, he falls in love with fellow employee Susan (Elizabeth Perkins). But he's still a kid, and he'd like to go back to his own world and own body. Written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg, Big proved a crucial success for budding director Penny Marshall, who'd work harmoniously with Hanks again on the radically different A League of Their Own.
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Haven't seen this movie in a long time. Thanks to the recent addition of a PS3 in the house, I think this is a good purchase. In for 1
Raise your hand if you know the entire cast recording of the failed BIG musical by heart. C'mon, don't be shy. . . (cowers in corner with hand raised).


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by Mary Celestia Parler
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Item 1
Jessie James
Perhaps you have heard of Frank and Jessie James,
And the Younger boys from the West;
They was driven from their homes, the world to oppose,
'Twas Frank and Jessie James.
Jessie and Frank robbed the Northfield bank,
They stopped the UP train;
They would fall upon their knees and deliver up the keys
To Frank and Jessie James.
Jessie had a wife, she was a lady all her life,
And the children they were brave.
'Twas the dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard
And laid Jessie James in his grave.
He was standing straight and tall, dusting pictures on the wall
No thought of danger nor fear;
When he went to turn his head, Robert Ford shot him dead,
And they laid Jessie James in his grave.
All the people held their breath, when they heard of Jessie's death
And they wondered how on earth he came to die.
It was the great reward that tempted Robert Ford
To kill Jessie James on the sly.
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Is it important to install chipset drivers on Ubuntu? I'm not using onboard graphics but in windows it is important I think, I got linux drivers for my chipset and never tried to install them (Hard way no .deb files, only manual installation) i'm not talking about installing VGA drivers but Lan and other motherboard drivers,except Audio
Chipset support and other drivers are part of the Linux kernel - you do not need to install a separate driver package for the majority of hardware. Intel hardware in particular is well supported. If your hardware works, you already have the best available support for your distribution (short of messing about with custom kernels).
do that in your terminal and it will show you what kind of drivers needed .
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Has anyone installed correctly Ubuntu 12.04 on HP ProBook 4530s (Radeon HD 6490 M + Intel HD Graphics)?I don't have much time to spend in configurating the system,I would most like to simply install a system that works on my machine.I was tried this 4 months ago but I gave up because of a lot of trouble that I encountered. :(
I have. The battery lasts about an hour and a half.
Video drivers should be installed by generating a ubuntu-specific package from the download from AMD (not by ubuntu's additional drivers).
Hibernation doesn't work (it works, see update).
Everything else works.
Update: The only thing I couldn't get to work were additional drivers for the Touchpad on/off led, and its multitouch features.
laptop-tools (package) and indicator-cpufreq increase your battery life, but not by much. I'm still working on that. https://launchpad.net/indicator-cpufreq
If battery life bothers you, you can read additional information here (there are great links in the answers and comments): Ubuntu 12.04 Battery problem and Is there ongoing work in the kernel team to improve battery life under linux?
indicator-cpufreq PPA (their instruction says not to use for Precise and above, but worked for me): https://launchpad.net/~artfwo/+archive/ppa
Also, hibernation works (it wasn't enabled by default or something).
To enable hibernation, type:
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According to this news , there is an official fix for secure boot. Will Ubuntu adapt it?
If so, how long should it take? And does it allow booting new computers from Wubi?
Ubuntu already supports secure boot, as mentioned in the real source of the news:
Wubi doesn't work on
The secure boot would be the second problem to solve since whatever solution provided would have to be signed to be useful (I would guess since I claim no expertise on this).
The third problem would be that someone should be working on it and - unless it's top secret - no information I have seen indicates that anyone is addressing the problem. The bug report has seen no change from
Not really. The Linux Foundation has released its fix in the form of the PreBootloader program. Ubuntu 12.10 and Fedora 18 both use another fix in the form of the shim program. (Fedora 18 uses a newer and more capable version of shim.) Neither solution has any more claim to being "official" than the other, except in the sense that certain organizations might support one solution or the other. In that sense, shim is "more official" than PreBootloader for Ubuntu, since shim is included in Ubuntu. FWIW, Matthew Garrett, the author of shim, has written this blog post that compares and contrasts the two programs. He says he's working on integrating the PreBootloader approach into shim, effectively combining the two programs into one.
In addition to the issues with GPT that bcbc has identified, a more fundamental problem with WUBI is that it doesn't support EFI-mode booting. To work on an EFI-based installation of Windows, WUBI would need to support an EFI-mode boot loader. Patching grub4dos to support GPT would be insufficient to this task. The LF PreBootloader also does nothing to help, since it requires the use of an EFI boot loader to follow itself -- hence the name *Pre*Bootloader.


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There are multiple free texture sites, like: texturemate.com or plaintextures.com. I am wondering how safe it is to use their content? I imagine that the texture could be withdrawed from the site, making it difficult to prove it was really there. Or: a file can origin from other, restricted source.
I am thinking about using wikipedia Commons, as there is the OTRS system. However most media requires attributing.


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What is the best net-book cooling mat?
I need to get a cooling mat for my net book any suggestions?
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I've not had need of one, but I've heard Targus' Cool/Chill mat have been recommended to me in the past. http://deals.woot.com/deals/search?q=chill+mat
I'd definitely peek at some reviews before buyin' though.
You using Verizon LTE? I heard it was hot....


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World Champion figure skater, Scott Hamilton, was diagnosed with testicular cancer in March of 1997. He underwent months of chemotherapy treatments and surgery, and today, is a cancer survivor. Scott's positive and upbeat attitude, along with the support of friends and family, got him through the difficult times. He has turned his experience with cancer into an opportunity to help others and is now a lifetime spokesperson for the Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center and the founder of the Scott Hamilton CARES (Cancer Alliance for Research, Education and Survivorship) Initiative. Scott firmly believes that education about the disease and its treatment is the key to overcoming the fear of screening and diagnosis. With this in mind, he has developed an educational website, in conjunction with The Cleveland Clinic doctors and nurses who cared for him during his battle. The website, www.chemocare.com, was launched on December 1, 2002. Scott sat down with OncoLink's Editor-in-Chief, Dr. James Metz, to talk about this project.
ONCOLINK: Thank you for taking time to talk with OncoLink today about your new website, www.chemocare.com, Scott
SCOTT HAMILTON: It's a pleasure to speak with you, thank you for taking time to help us with the launch of the website.
ONCOLINK: When did the web site chemocare.com launch?
SCOTT HAMILTON: It was launched on December 1st, just last night. Did you have a chance to look through it? What did you think?
ONCOLINK: I think it is great. I was going through the whole site, actually, this morning. I was pretty impressed. It has a lot of real good information. It is impressive how you put this all together so quickly.
SCOTT HAMILTON: Well that is good. We are doing this as a public service. We put a request for feedback on the site. We are going to take everyone's feedback and try to figure out how to improve the site and correct any imperfections, like grammar or spelling errors. We want this to be perfect and as good as it can be. We hope to get a lot of feedback, so we made that a part of the web site.
ONCOLINK: We try to do the same thing here at OncoLink, making sure we have complete and accurate information and incorporate feedback from our visitors. There are so many web sites on the internet that are not so great, providing poor or incomplete information, that it is nice to see a really good web site launched.
SCOTT HAMILTON: We really thought that this one was necessary. As you know, there is a lot of information on the Internet. Much of it is in language that very few people can understand. My chemotherapy experience has pushed me to want to make this information available in a way that people can really understand. To get people to understand that this is something that is therapy. It is chemical therapy. It is not always easy, but there are ways of handling the side effects of therapy. We are lucky to have Ortho Biotech as a sponsor of the site. They have done a great job of helping us put this together, and are working hard to help patients deal with treatment related side effects. It helps that people can log on and learn how Procrit can help improve quality of life by keeping your energy level up.
ONCOLINK: Yes, I think that is great. Ortho Biotech has been a big sponsor of ours, actually, for years. They have been really supportive in getting good, unbiased information on line. So I think this is a great extension of what they have been doing online to help patients get accurate information. I think it is wonderful you are working with them; they are a real good company to work with.
SCOTT HAMILTON: That is funny because we were talking last night, the team; it is kind of an interesting team or machine that we have become. We all have our roles, and mine is not technical or medical. It is more or less to raise awareness in people who need that information, and spread the word that www.chemocare.com is a good resource available to them. It is hard to explain exactly all the work that went into the site, how much thought and constant feedback, writing and more feedback and writing, so it has been a huge process. Dr. Bukowski has been looking over everything and sharing it with his colleagues at the Cleveland Clinic to look over everything to make sure that the wording is correct and everything is as it should be. Hopefully, a lot of people will use this web site as a good tool in researching their cancer and treatments, giving them what they need to understand and empower themselves to participate in their own chemotherapy treatment decisions. It is for families too! When I was diagnosed, I would talk about it, tell my friends and family what is going on, and they just wanted to know more. It is hard to get the information you need without it being frightening or intimidating. We want to make this user friendly.
ONCOLINK: Yes, absolutely, I think that is wonderful. I think it is important to bring information in for friends and family, as you said, because lots of them do not know what to do or what is going on.
SCOTT HAMILTON: They want to know how to help. So that is why I like some of these peripheral areas of our site, such as "eating well" and "living well" with cancer that help people to figure out exactly what they can do to help their family members who are going through this.
ONCOLINK: Is your target audience are really the patients and family members at this point?
SCOTT HAMILTON: Yes, we are targeting families and patients. However, we are hoping that anyone that wants to know a little bit more about chemotherapy or what it is about will also use the site. We want people to see this because there are a lot of people who are afraid of self-examination. They are afraid of chemotherapy. If we can put a face on this or take the veil off, so to speak, and let them know what this mysterious chemotherapy is and how it is difficult to get through-if we can kind of strip some of that away by humanizing it and showing how to deal with side effects to make it easier, I think people would be less fearful of it and they will think of how they can self examine and they are not going to think of chemotherapy as this horrible disastrous-worse-than-death experience. They will realize that it is part of being well and it is not easy, but it is part of getting well and it is better than the alternative.
ONCOLINK: I think it is great that you can bring in the human side of this because you have been through this process. You have the medical side of the experience covered well, through the help of the people at The Cleveland Clinic.
SCOTT HAMILTON: It is a wonderful thing to say, "I have been there-you can do it." "I have done it-you can do it too." I want to let people know they are not alone. A lot of people think when they are diagnosed with cancer that they have to go through chemotherapy by themselves, and that no one understands what they are going through. There is such a resource of survivors out there and this is another way of empowering survivors. We have, as part of the advocacy portion of the site, survivors' stories and experiences. That lets people know, OK, there is somebody out there that is sharing what he went through and this is very inspirational to understand that someone else has done it and that I can do. This is a very common feeling among patients.
ONCOLINK: The holidays are coming up and it can be a difficult time for cancer patients, family members, and friends. Having been through this experience, what would you suggest people do for cancer patients around the holidays?
SCOTT HAMILTON: That is really a wonderful question! You are making me think of this for the first time. I will try to be quick. A lot of my experience when I was going through chemotherapy was just time spent, time shared with people. There is nothing more valuable than the gift of sharing your time. I would say to just be there for somebody. Simple physical contact and interaction is a greater gift and a better joy than anything material you can give somebody. Simply time spent, whether it be sitting down and just talking or watching a movie together or even creating art. It is just something about being with people that you love when you are going through something like this. It is much more valuable than anything else.
ONCOLINK: I think that is a great suggestion for people. Thanks so much for spending this time with OncoLink, Scott. If there is anything we can do at OncoLink to help promote your site or working with you in the future, please let us know.
SCOTT HAMILTON: You are very kind and I appreciate everything you are doing for us, I really do.
ONCOLINK: Can you tell me a little bit about how you got involved with this development of this web site?
RUTH FRITSKEY: I got involved because, first of all, I saw a need, a big gap. Scott said, "There needs to be better information on the Internet," and I said, "Well, you know, I think we can do something like that, but we need a little help." So we struck up a partnership with Ortho Biotech, Scott, and The Cleveland Clinic, and set about to put it all together. With a concept Scott and I developed, we formed a team to develop the content, and put together ChemoCare.com. We have tried to be very comprehensive, including everything, drugs, side effects, and everything that a person might need to know when going through the chemotherapy experience.
ONCOLINK: I had a chance to review the site. I am really impressed. I think you have a lot of great information there. Just launching the first day and having all this good information up this quickly, is impressive. You have done a great job of putting this together.
RUTH FRITSKEY: Thank you very much. It has been a daunting project. I see so much potential. I am looking forward to hearing the feedback from patients to see how we might be meeting their needs and how we can better meet their needs. I think it is a real good start at addressing a big gap of information in an easy to navigate, user friendly way.
ONCOLINK: I told Scott that I think it is wonderful that you have hooked up with Ortho Biotech, too. They have been a great support of OncoLink for a number of years. I think they really understand the need for information on the Internet and are able to get good information out to people.
RUTH FRITSKEY: You know, it is very nice to have a corporation who is so motivated to help with patient resources and who is really interested in getting good quality information directly to the patients. It has been a real pleasure working with them to do this.
ONCOLINK: What do you really want to see accomplished looking back a year from now?
RUTH FRITSKEY: After one year, what I would like to see is chemocare.com being something that is a buzz in the cancer community. That any time that someone would be prescribed chemotherapy that they would be told, "Ah, there is this great site out there called chemocare.com." I want it to be recommended because it is a helpful service, not because someone is recommending it, but because someone who has been helped by it recommends it to someone else. I would like to see it be really, the premier resource for patients who are undergoing chemotherapy, something that they find so helpful that the word just spreads.
ONCOLINK: Can you tell me a little bit about your background?
RUTH FRITSKEY: Certainly, I am an oncology nurse. I have been an oncology nurse for the last ten years at the Cleveland Clinic and for probably my entire nursing career; I have a Master's degree in Oncology nursing as well. I really have spent my entire career focused on cancer nursing and the last ten years on cancer education, specifically.
ONCOLINK: How did you and Scott end up getting together to do this project?
RUTH FRITSKEY: Scott was a patient at the Cleveland Clinic. He went there when he was diagnosed with cancer. I was fortunate enough to be introduced to him when he was getting suggestions regarding what he wanted to do, becoming involved in the foundation called Scott Cares, he wanted to do things to help people and give back to the community. I was fortunate enough to be introduced and have an opportunity to brainstorm and sort out some ideas. We were a natural match for this project. Chemocare.com is the product of that relationship and I could not be more thrilled to have been involved in such a great project.
ONCOLINK: It looks as though you make a great team. I am certainly impressed with the launch and what it looks like today; you are doing a great job already. I have already asked this question of Scott, but wanted to hear your perspective on it, particularly from your experience as an oncology nurse. The holidays are coming up and can be a difficult time for a lot of patients' friends and families. Many people ask, "What can I do for a cancer patient at this time of year?" "What can I do as a gift?" What would you suggest to families and friends of cancer patients at this time?
RUTH FRITSKEY: Actually, some of this information exists on chemocare.com, in the FAQs section we ask about energy conservation and holidays and things you can delegate. Also, the article called, "Caring for chemotherapy," we specifically mention that people always want to help and they don't know what they can do to help. The patient, who can be overwhelmed by the whole process, never knows what to ask them to do. So we have actually come up with a list of things you can delegate that will make both the friends and the patient feel good, accomplishing two goals. Some of those things include childcare, helping with transportation, preparing some meals, keeping the patient company. There are a variety of things that other people can do to help.
ONCOLINK: The site looks wonderful. Good luck with everything. It is great to see a new web site that is high quality on the Internet. I think it is so important to get good, accurate information to patients and their families.
RUTH FRITSKEY: Thank you very much. We agree and thank you so much for taking the time this morning.
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ROME (CNN) -- James Gandolfini, best known for his role as an anxiety-ridden mob boss on HBO's "The Sopranos," died in Italy, possibly of a heart attack, an HBO spokeswoman and the actor's managers said Wednesday. He was 51.
Gandolfini was on holiday in Rome, said Mara Mikialian, HBO's vice president for program publicity.
The actor was scheduled to make an appearance at the Taormina Film Fest in Sicily this week, according to the festival.
Gandolfini won three Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Tony Soprano, the angst-ridden mob boss who visited a therapist and took Prozac while knocking off people. "The Sopranos" aired from 1999 to 2007.
"Jimmy was the spiritual core of our Sopranos family, and I am stunned at this devastating loss," said Chris Albrecht, the former president of HBO who gave the green light to "The Sopranos." "He was a great talent, but an even better man. My thoughts are with his family."
Gandolfini was born September 18, 1961, in Westwood, New Jersey, according to Biography.com.
He graduated from Rutgers University and, as the story goes, he worked as a bartender and a bouncer in New York City until he went with a friend to an acting class. He got his start on Broadway, with a role in the 1992 revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Jessica Lange and Alec Baldwin.
Gandolfini's big screen debut came in the role of a heavy in the bloody "True Romance" in 1993. His breakthrough came on the small screen in 1999 with the role of Tony Soprano.
"He was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that," David Chase, who developed "The Sopranos," said in a statement. "...A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes."
Gandolfini, who was notoriously press shy, had a reputation in the tabloids for being sometimes difficult.
"He wasn't easy sometimes. But he was my partner, he was my brother in ways I can't explain and never will be able to explain," Chase said.
While Gandolfini was known for sometimes ruthless, often imposing characters, those who worked with him described an actor who put his heart into a role.
"He was just so good at the emotion. A very passionate man and a very, very tender man," Matthew Warchus, who directed Gandolfini in the 2009 Broadway play "God of Carnage," told CNN. "I really loved him and admired him a great deal."
Gandolfini's acting credits included roles in "The Last Castle" with Robert Redford, "The Mexican" with Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts and "Surviving Christmas" with Ben Affleck.
In recent years, he had starred in several movies, including the Oscar-nominated "Zero Dark Thirty," "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" and "Killing Them Softly."
News of the actor's death spread quickly, drawing shock and sadness from those who had worked with him.
"James Gandolfini was a kind, funny, wonderful guy. I'm so lucky to have worked with him. Sending love to his family. Such a sad, sad day," Olivia Wilde, who starred with the actor in "The Incredible Burt Wonderstone," said in a post on Twitter.
Actor Steve Carrell, who also appeared in the movie, simply said on Twitter: "James Gandolfini. What a great loss."
Gandolfini is survived by his wife, Deborah, and their 9-month-old daughter, Liliana. He is also survived by a son, Michael, from another marriage.


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I am bringing in some data from a
JSON file and I want to change the font to
courier but when I try to do the following I get this error:
"Property 'font' not found on object NSString". Is there any way around this?
NSString *timePeriod = [diction objectForKey:@"Time Period"];
UIFont *changeFont = [UIFont fontWithName:@"Courier" size:12];
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When hovering over the footer links for the other SE sites, could the
title be used to display the name for the site.
When hovering over cooking for example, it could popup with "Seasoned Advice".
Could be useful for people who know the site by that name and not its SE name (or the reverse depending on how you interpret what I just wrote)...