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7 Badass Animals Presidents Have Kept As Pets
#3. Old Ike the Ram
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The 28th President of the United States was narrowly re-elected to a second term in 1916, running on a campaign of, "Hey, I kept us out of the war!" Of course, he never actually promised to stay out of the war and in April of 1917, American boys were headed overseas to fight the Kaiser.
In order to do his part for the war effort at home, Wilson brought in a flock sheep to graze the White House lawn which allowed the administration to do away with the groundskeeper and his crew, quite possibly the first migrant workers who were actually removed from a menial job no one else wanted to do.
Cheaper labor.
Among the flock was Old Ike, an ornery ol' ram with a penchant for tobacco. Who exactly supplied the ram with the cigarette butts and black lumps of chewing tobacco is up for discussion, but at a time when the stuff was being handed out to kids on Halloween, it couldn't have been too hard to come by.
Anyway, he went about his business on the White House lawn, boinking the sheep until there were 18 of 'em, munching away at the grass and supplying wool which was auctioned off to help the Salvation Army, a group whose beliefs prevented members from drinking and smoking. Old Ike was not a member.
And so, Old Ike kept watch over his flock and swallowed copious amounts of tobacco. Finally he had the mother of all a nicotine fits which ultimately claimed his life. Now we're not promoting either tobacco use or promiscuous sex, but you have to admit that Ike the Ram was cool before the country even knew what cool was.
#2. Jefferson's Grizzly Bears
Thomas Jefferson
The grizzly bear, now affectionately known as nature's surprisingly agile killing machine, was discovered by the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark; two men with balls of steel, who were ordered by then president, Thomas Jefferson, to head west to find out just what the hell was out there.
In a grammatically incorrect expedition journal entry, Clark described the first encounter:
"In the evening we saw a Brown or Grisley beare on a sand beech, I went out with one man Geo Drewyer & Killed the bear, which was verry large and a turrible looking animal, which we found verry hard to kill... This animal is the largest of the carnivorous kind I ever saw..."
A keen observation from a serious explorer who can't spell worth shit: This was an animal not to be trifled with. The memo, however, was not sent to Captain Zebulon Pike who headed his own expedition later. The Brent Spiner lookalike...
... was able to acquire a couple of grizzly bear cubs which he promptly sent to President Jefferson as either a gift or an assassination attempt.
Well aware of the animal's temperament, Jefferson decided to keep the cubs anyway, describing them as "perfectly gentle" with a taste for "Indian bread" and possibly Indians, too. As all good bear cubs do, they grew too big and Jefferson decided to have them shipped to a museum in Philadelphia, storing them in cages on the White House lawn for several months until all the arrangements could be made.
Needless to say, the bears were good and pissed off upon arrival. One broke free and managed to corner the museum owner in the kitchen, upon which the animal was promptly shot dead. They shot the other one dead, too, since once you get into the bear-shooting groove it's actually really hard to stop. They then stuffed both corpses and threw them up for display, probably to serve as an example and a warning to all other bears.
#1. The Adams Alligators
John Quincy Adams
Marquis de Lafayette, the famous French military officer who served as a general for the colonies during the Revolutionary War, returned to America later in life to pay a visit to President John Quincy Adams. Adams was a surly man that few in Congress admired and who enjoyed swimming naked in the Potomac in the wee hours of the morning, earning him the nickname "shrinky-dink" [citation needed].
Lafayette brought with him that day a gift for President Adams: two alligators. It's unknown what possessed Lafayette to hand deliver the gators but it can be surmised there was a lost in translation moment somewhere along the way, resulting in a pair of real alligators instead of, say, alligator shoes.
Whatever the case, Adams certainly knew just what to do with the reptiles: He put them in the White House bathtub, then invited government officials to his place. Hilarity ensued when members of Congress and others asked to be excused to use the lavatory.
We like to imagine Adams leaning to a trusted adviser and asking, "Why do you suppose I am so despised in the Congress?" only to have the adviser's answer cut off by a Congressman running from the bathroom, his pants around his knees and shrieking, "AAAAHHHRRRGGHH!! AN ALLIGATOR HAS JUST TRIED TO EAT MY NOBLE SCROTUM!"
At which point, Adams leaned back with a nice, hearty laugh.
If that wasn't enough to convince you we've put some pretty great men in the White House, then check out The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All-Time. Or find out about some adorable animals that can totally kick your ass in The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You.
And visit Cracked.com's Top Picks because we have pet alligators, too.


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The 5 Stupidest Looking Superpowers in the Animal Kingdom
We've told you about animals with real superpowers straight out of a comic book, but it turns out that, just like in the human world, not everyone who is a badass necessarily looks like a badass -- and some just look like butts. It's like nature has intentionally gone out of its way to make these animals look ridiculous so they'll be able to kill us faster while we're busy laughing at them.
Here's to the Toxic Avengers of the Animal Kingdom, like ...
#5. The Naked Mole Rat Can Eat Through Concrete
The naked mole rat looks like a cartoon character specifically designed to convey stupidity, and the more you watch it, the stupider it gets. First you notice those Goofy-like front teeth, and then you realize the thing under them isn't the rat's mouth -- it's more teeth. Like an awkward kid in his yearbook photo, it's trying to smile and failing horribly.
""How long was I asleep in the bathtub, exactly?"
That pasty, wrinkly skin also gives the naked mole rat the appearance of someone who hasn't been outside since, well, ever -- which is actually pretty accurate, since they only live in underground tunnels they make themselves. How do they pull that off? Well ...
The Superpower:
The same cartoonishly oversized teeth that give the naked mole rat that idiotic grin are also its secret weapon -- those things can chew through solid concrete. No, we're not speaking figuratively:
"All right, time for your snack."
That's the "before" picture. Here's the "after":
Flossing is complicated.
The mole rats hollowed out the block of concrete. By biting it.
This is possible because those teeth are hard as hell, and also 25 percent of the animal's muscles are concentrated in its jaw (in humans, it's only 1 percent). Also, one-third of their brain cortex is devoted to processing information from the mouth area alone. It's like evolution completely gave up on the rest of their bodies and focused on making their mouths as badass as possible. If all their organs were as deadly, they would be ruling the planet by now.
If they secretly aren't already, from underneath.
They can even move the top teeth independently, like chopsticks, which they use to dig vast underground tunnels and retrieve buried food. Sure, they still look like morons, but we wouldn't say that to their faces.
#4. Destroy an Axolotl's Brain and It'll Grow a New One
Below is not the poster for a Pixar movie, it's a real thing. The albino axolotl looks like it was cobbled together from the spare parts of other animals -- it has the body of a fish, the legs of a frog and the face of a Pokemon.
And the tassels of a decorative throw pillow.
But the axolotl is none of those things: It's a type of salamander that can only be found in a specific lake in Mexico, and its name translates to "water monster" ... for reasons that become more apparent when you look at the ugly as hell non-albino variant.
Stan Shebs
If you stare into its eyes for too long, it swaps souls with your body.
The Superpower:
Extreme regeneration. Lots of animals can regrow parts of their bodies, but the axolotl trumps them all: It can grow back full limbs, eyes, jaws and even hearts. Not impressive enough for you? It's also the only vertebrate that can regrow parts of its brain. Sometimes they'll even lose a leg and grow back two. You know, while they're at it.
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It possesses not only the regenerative powers of Wolverine, but his sideburns as well.
As for their cobbled-together look, that's actually pretty appropriate, because they can literally rebuild themselves by accepting spare parts from others axolotls -- including their heads. Basically, if you had a bunch of disembodied axolotl parts lying around, you could squish them all together and it would get up and walk away (probably).
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Don't try that at home. Or in Mexico.
What we said before about axolotls only being found in Mexico wasn't accurate: By now a lot of them are scattered in labs all over the world, with scientists continuously slicing them up and putting them back together in order to figure out how they regrow limbs and help mankind conquer the ultimate dream: having two dicks.
#3. The Elephantnose Fish Has X-Ray Vision (or at Least Smell)
The elephantnose fish is actually misnamed: The appendage that gives it its name is actually coming out of its chin, not its nose, and it actually looks like a dick, not an elephant trunk. The dickchin fish (that's better) spends most of its life in complete darkness, only venturing out at night -- would you come out in broad daylight looking like you've been growing a zit for the past six months?
Or like you're a few thousand years too late to the Egyptian chin-piece fad.
However, there's actually a far cooler reason for their nocturnal habits ...
The Superpower:
That unsightly thing on its face is actually wired with electricity, and it serves as the fish's own highly advanced metal detector. The elephantnose fish uses its face-phallus to find its prey, even if it's buried in mud or hiding in the dark, by generating an electric field that becomes distorted by nearby objects, giving the fish an accurate reading of its surroundings. It's like if Daredevil was part cyborg, and awesome.
And if he sprouted chinitals.
The electrical charge is generated on a special organ on the fish's tail, then measured by receptors in its chin-wang. These receptors are so advanced that they can differentiate exact shapes, materials, sizes, volumes and distances (within millimeters). As it sweeps the ocean floor, the fish can even "sense" if the buried microscopic insects it detects are dead or alive -- dead things store electrical charges differently than live things, and the appendage can measure that sort of thing. Which is fortunate, because dickchin feeds on the carcasses of dead larvae.
Joachim S. Mueller
It's like in that movie where the kid sensed dead people, then ate their corpses.
The schnauzenorgan, as some scientists call it, is also used for mating: Each elephantnose subspecies has a slightly different electrical charge, and the females can actually tell them apart and are more attracted to the ones emitted by their own kind. What they do with that thing after that, we'd rather not know.


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Bad Medicine for America
Prescription drugs and their costs are high on political agendas this campaign season. Unfortunately, many candidates are seeking to score cheap points by attacking the nation's pharmaceutical industry, the most innovative in the world. We've heard the industry accused of free-riding off taxpayers, earning 'huge profits' by manipulating patents, marketing 'me too' drugs instead of finding new cures, and falsifying the results of safety tests.
The not-so-secret agenda of those making these misleading charges is to create a new prescription drug entitlement for seniors (and perhaps for everyone) that won't bankrupt the country's taxpayers. By demonizing the drug industry, they hope to build public and political support for draconian price controls on prescription drugs.
Price controls have never worked, and they won't work this time on prescription drugs. Instead, they would cripple drug research and limit access to life-saving drugs, with terrible consequences for the health of all Americans.
A frequently made accusation is that the pharmaceutical industry puts 'profits before patients.' According to Fortune magazine's annual ranking of the top 500 companies, the 14 companies that make up the 'pharmaceuticals' category had a median profit (as a percent of revenue) of 18 percent, which indeed is more than any other industry's median.
The most profitable drug company on the Fortune list is Amgen (28 percent). Three other companies came in at 24 percent. Pharmacia and Abbott both report 7 percent, according to Fortune, and Gemzyne was at negative 9 percent.
But compare these numbers to Coca-Cola's 20 percent profit; Bank of New York (19 percent); Mellon Financial (33 percent--more than any drug company); Microsoft (29 percent); Oracle (24 percent); Gannett (publisher of USA Today--13 percent); Knight-Ridder (15 percent); AT&T (13 percent), and SBC Communications (16 percent).
Yes, most drug companies are profitable, but no more so than many other companies in other fields. There are companies in other industries that are even more profitable--and a Coca-Cola never saved a life.
The principal reason profits tend to be high in the pharmaceutical industry is because it is willing to take risks that other industries avoid. Pharmaceutical companies invest about 17 percent of sales in research and development, more than nearly any other industry and well above the average for all industries of 3.9 percent.
Industry critics claim drug companies get a free ride from spending on basic research by the National Institutes of Health. But according to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association, the trade association for the manufacturers of innovative drugs, industry outspent NIH $26 billion to $18 billion in 2000. According to NIH itself, only four out of the 47 best-selling drugs were developed in part with NIH funding.
According to PhRMA, 78 percent of the industry's spending on R&D goes toward finding new drugs. At the current time more than 400 new medicines for cancer, 122 for heart disease and stroke, and 24 for Alzheimer's are undergoing testing. The number of new drugs being produced is rising over time: Twenty new drugs were approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1988 and 23 in 1989, compared with 27 in 2000 and 24 in 2001.
According to a study from a managed care advocacy organization, 80 percent of 'new' drugs are not 'significantly different' or 'proven to be more effective' than drugs already on the market. We can understand why cost-cutters at HMOs might wish to tell their patients this, but it is impossible even for experts to characterize changes to prescription drugs as being medically 'insignificant.'
Doctors have different opinions about the best drugs and therapies available. That's not greed or conspiracy; it's medicine. No two patients are exactly alike, and no two doctors have past experiences so similar that they will always make the same diagnoses or prescribe the same medicine. In cases such as depression, where symptoms can change over time and are often elusive, the only way to determine the best drug for a patient is by trial and error.
Critics say changes that allow a drug to be taken less frequently is unimportant, but such a change is known to actually save lives. Getting patients, particularly those who are elderly, to take their medication on a prescribed schedule can be very difficult. Moving from two pills a day to one, or one a day to one a week, improves patient compliance and can prevent serious medical complications.
Critics allege that drug manufacturers are allowed to market new drugs that haven't been proven to be better than those already on the market. This is true. But why should a product have to be proven superior to all other products currently available before it can be sold? Such a requirement is not imposed on any other industry because competition among producers, even of very similar or even identical goods and services, benefits consumers. It is by allowing producers to advertise the prices of competing products that markets ensure consumers get the best products at the lowest prices.
Critics charge that drug companies use patents to create monopolies on certain types of drugs so they can charge higher prices. However, there are 170 drugs available for high blood pressure. Many of those drugs have existing patents. So what do we really have? Monopoly or strong competition?
The country's Founding Fathers thought intellectual property rights were so important that patents and copyrights are the only property rights affirmatively protected in the U.S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 8). Patents reward innovation by protecting an inventor from competition during the 20 years following the granting of a patent, provided the inventor makes public details about his or her invention.
The patent system has worked well in the drug industry. U.S. drug companies are responsible for some 90 percent of all the world's new drug discoveries each year, and a growing number of foreign drug companies are relocating to the United States to enjoy our patent protections.
This has not occurred at the expense of consumers. Generic drugs--inexpensive copies of innovative drugs--have rapidly increased their market share and now account for nearly 50 percent by volume of prescription drugs. That's clear evidence that the nation's patent system is correctly balancing the interests of consumers and inventors.
Drug companies surrendered some of their patent protections a decade ago to allow generic manufacturers to begin selling products sooner than they otherwise could. This accommodation was made despite the fact that about nine of the 20 years of patent protection granted will be taken up with testing, trials, and FDA delays. This leaves the companies with only 11 years, on average, to recover their R&D expenses and earn a profit. And keep in mind that a patent doesn't mean no competition, only competition from marketers of exact duplicates of the patented medication.
Some critics complain that new drugs are tested against placebos rather than existing drugs. But there is a good reason for this: The FDA has set the rules this way. Drug companies have little control over the drug-approval process, so criticizing them when they are playing by the rules doesn't make much sense.
The FDA's drug-approval process requires new drugs to be safe and more effective than placebos, not more effective than existing drugs. Even achieving this level of quality assurance is astonishingly time-consuming and expensive: It requires nine years and costs more than $800 million to get a new drug approved in the United States. No one counts how many lives could be saved, or how much suffering would be avoided, if the approval process were shorter and less expensive.
Problems and side effects that might not show up in a sample of 3,000 people may show up when 100,000 or 1 million patients use the drug. When that happens, the drug companies may change the warnings on the labels or sometimes pull the drug off the market. No one can know all the possible side effects until a drug is distributed widely.
One of the more outrageous charges is that researchers cover up side effects and problems with new drugs because they make money off the research. However, research money from a drug company goes to the department of the medical school doing the research and does not enrich individual researchers. Moreover, researchers have to report back to the medical school's Institutional Review Board that oversees human research.
If anything looks suspicious, the IRB can request an explanation or stop the protocol. Sometimes the researchers stop it. But these trials typically involve 30 academic medical centers, 50 or 100 doctors, and perhaps hundreds of nurses and support staff. To imply that all of these scientists, administrators, doctors and nurses are in the pockets of drug companies, and that their IRBs are all asleep at the wheel, is both insulting and ludicrous.
Giving senior citizens greater access to prescription drugs is an important matter of public policy that ought to be widely discussed. But demonizing the prescription drug industry does not advance that discussion, and in fact turns our attention to false issues and policy proposals that simply wouldn't work.
Whether one drug is better than another is, and ought to be, decided by patients in consultation with their physicians. Only they can decide whether the trade-offs of benefits, costs and risk are worthwhile. The political campaign will be full of people attempting to second-guess patients and their doctors. We should not go down that road.
Joseph Bast is president of The Heartland Institute, a public policy institute based in Chicago, and Merrill Matthews is a contributing editor of Health Care News, a monthly publication of The Heartland Institute. This essay first appeared in the Sunday, September 22, 2002 issue of the Chicago Sun-Times.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama attended Easter services at an Episcopal church near the White House and heard a sermon that criticized "captains of the religious right" for holding some......
Instead of hearing of the Resurrected Christ and the power He has to change lives, Obama gets to hear how Conservatives want to put African Americans into the back of the bus. Seems like Obama has found another Jeremiah Wright. (Of course Obama said he never really listened while in church, anyhow).
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The southbound turn lane on Nashville Road for Storey Avenue will be closed from 7:00 am until 3:00 pm while this work is performed. The work is scheduled for completion that day, weather permitting.
WKU South Campus will still be accessible at this intersection while the work is being done. Motorists are advised to reduce their speed while traveling through this intersection.


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13 Nov 2012 7:52 AM #1
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touch docs not working either, same error
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If you look carefully, you'll notice that while they are now working, you cannot login or post comments. Based on the previous error message, I'm guessing someone at Sencha pulled this functionality as a workaround until they get it sorted out.
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Review: Spouses Gasping for Air in Twinned Ibsen and Strindberg Plays
Theater for a New Audience has paired "A Doll's House" and "The Father," with Maggie Lacey and John Douglas Thompson playing the leads in both, at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
May 28, 2016, Saturday
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Thomas Ostermeier's staging of Strindberg's 1888 tale about a socially forbidden love affair resets the story in the world of Russia's new billionaires.
July 29, 2015, Wednesday
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Liv Ullmann's version of Strindberg's "Miss Julie" features Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell as class-bound lovers repelled and attracted by each other in a battle of the sexes.
December 5, 2014, Friday
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Things That Didn't Happen in 'Miss Julie'
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September 6, 2014, Saturday
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It's easy to be fascinated by our own dreams. Yet when the dreams of others are recounted to us, so much gets lost in translation. Or, to put it more plainly: suffering through someone else's jump cuts and surreal metaphors can be...
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Sex and the Weight of National History
"Mies Julie," a South African adaptation of Strindberg's play and a critical hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is having its American premiere at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn.
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Five-minute films will be assembled into a larger work by Jenle Hallund, a Danish director who has worked with Mr. von Trier.
August 13, 2012, Monday
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A Sly Suggestion Is All It May Take to Kill a Marriage
The thrilling new interpretation of August Strindberg's "Creditors," a portrait of a fatal sexual triangle, is both coldly objective and scathingly passionate.
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Engine Tech - Oil System UpgradeWritten by on December 12, 2011 Quick tips for installing your oiling system so that it's leak free and provides a steady supply of oil to your racing engine.
Few things are more annoying than the constant slow drip of a leaking oil pan--except for maybe a damaged engine thanks to an unexpected drop in oil pressure. Improper installation of either your oil pump or wet sump oil pan can cause either of these problems.
At Circle Track, we've suffered through our fair share of these frustrations. Everything from the simple stuff like that mysterious puddle of oil that appears on the shop floor (the source is impossible to trace), all the way to the spray of oil coming from the failed rear main oil seal that hit the headers and created an impenetrable fog of smoke filling a dyno cell. Hey, it's a mistake the first time it happens; it only becomes a problem when it happens the second time.
To help you avoid these kinds of gaffes, we gathered a few tips while rebuilding our Chevy dyno mule for an upcoming test. This is not only applicable on a new engine build, but any time you have to remove the oil pan. You may have to replace the pan if your motor is going into a different chassis, or if it gets damaged in a race. Or you may need to temporarily remove the pan if you suspect a rod bearing problem and want to inspect it without tearing the engine completely down.
Regardless, these tips can help you ensure that the oil pump is working as efficiently as possible so that your expensive race engine is receiving a constant flow of oil at a sufficient pressure--and avoid that annoying puddle of oil on the shop floor.
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2 Especially with a pump that has been through a few engine rebuilds, any nicks at the mounting flange can allow oil to leak past and hurt your oil pressure. A good precaution is to apply a thin film of silicone here before installing it on the engine.3 The oil pump is fastened to the rear main cap with a single bolt. Use motor oil to lube the threads on this bolt and torque to 65 ft-lbs.4 Even with a new pump, it's a good idea to disassemble it and visually inspect the pump mechanism. The rotors should be undamaged without any large nicks or scratches. The cover plate should also be in good condition to ensure no leaks since no gasket is used here.5 To help the pump prime faster and get oil flowing to the engine more quickly, apply a liberal amount of grease to the rotors. We're using Joe Gibbs Driven assembly grease because it's super sticky and stays in place. It also melts completely in engine oil and won't affect performance once the engine is broken in. We've also seen engine builders pack this cavity with lighter weight lithium grease. If you do this, make sure to change the oil after the rebuilt engine has been broken in.7 Our oil pan is a racing pan from Champ Pans that has already been on the Dyno Mule. It comes with the pickup you see in the foreground that is matched to this pan's sump.8 Even with new pans—but especially with used ones—take a moment to inspect the pan rails to make sure they aren't bent or warped. Use light taps with a hammer to straighten if necessary. Also, remove the windage tray to make sure the innards are clean and no debris is left behind. Finally, inspect any trap doors if the pan is segmented to make sure they swing freely and aren't sticking either open or shut.9 We're using Cometic's Street Pro gaskets for this build. This is a traditional four-piece oil pan gasket that is reasonably priced and provides great sealing.
11 Then measure the height of the bottom of the oil pump pickup tube (after it has been installed on the pump) down to the oil pan rail on the engine block. The difference in these distances should be 1/4- to 3/8-inch if you already have the gasket in place. If you are measuring without the gasket, the difference should be 1/8- to 1/4-inch.12 This photo is from a different build, but if you have too much of a gap it can lead to the pickup not being sufficiently covered in oil which will introduce a damaging air bubble into the system. You can change the height of the pickup by placing washers between the pickup's flange and the oil pump.13 Place a dab of silicone at the edge between the rear main cap and the block's oil pan rail. The rear main seal has a tab that should fit into a notch in the block.14 After the gaskets have been fitted together, add another dab of silicone on top. This is an area prone to leaks, so a little bit of silicone here is good insurance.16 Before installing the pan, putting a thin film of clear silicone all the way around the gasket will help seal against any scratches or small gaps. We're only talking about a minimal amount here.17 Before bolting the pan down, make sure it fits evenly around the seals without sitting too high off the rail. With some gasket manufactures the front seal sits too high and must be shaped on a grinder or else it will twist once the pan is bolted down or cause the oil pan flange to warp.18 Don't apply too much torque to the bolts securing the pan. You want just enough to cinch the pan snugly to the gasket.


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A neighbour is trying to sell me some of his leftover styrofoam insulation. I need to insulate my attic. Is styrofoam a good insulator, or should I use another type of insulation?
That styrofoam insulation will work, but it is not cheap per R-value (however it gives you a great R-value per inch). Insulating an attic usually means you have a lot of room for insulation and you will need high R-value so that is why the cheaper options are more popular (blown cellulose or blown fiberglass).
Said another way, if you have a couple of feet of space in your attic, you can just fill that all up with loose insulation and get R-45 (or whatever you need). But if you have a smaller space, say it is a finished room and the only space for insulation is between the 2x6 or 2x8s ceiling joists you may want to pay extra to get a higher R-value in that limited space.
I'd opt for a different type of insulation. The styrofoam insulation that Home Depot carries is only rated for R-5 per inch. That means even a 2" thick piece will only give you R-10 for $0.96/sq. ft. I just insulated my attic this weekend with blown-in cellulose insulation, and achieved between R-30 to R-45 for about $0.42/sq. ft. (Note: I used 20 bags, which is the minimum purchase for a free 24 hour blower rental at both HD and Lowes.)
Be warned though, it is the messiest thing I've ever done. Be sure to wear a respirator with the appropriate filters. Don't skimp and use a cheap disposable dust mask. At one point it was so dusty in the attic that I couldn't see more than 10 ft. in front of me.
You could also go with the blown-in fiberglass insulation option, which is less dusty, but more expensive.
Or, as @B Mitch points out, you could go with R-30 fiberglass batts for $0.83/sq. ft.
There are two types of polystyrene (Styrofoam) insulation: expanded and extruded. The extruded type prevents the movement of moisture while the expanded type lets water through. The extruded type has better insulating properties (R-5/inch) versus expanded (R-4/inch). Both of these are going to give you more insulating ability per inch than a batt or loose-fill. However, they are likely more expensive per "R" than loose-fill insulation, and will be more difficult to install (since you'll need to seal their edges to either your rafters/studs or to each other.
You need to be very careful about how you engineer a vapor barrier into your walls/attic. You should only have one vapor barrier in your wall so that water cannot be trapped, causing mold to grow.
There are two different ways to insulate attics: vented and unvented. For vented, you ensure that air can move between your eves and the ridge or gables of your roof. You then put insulation at the floor of the attic. For most of the United States, you'll optionaly want to first put down a vapor barrier (such as plastic, kraft paper, or extruded polystyrene) between the ceiling joists, and then put a lot of vapor permeable insulation on top.
For an unvented roof, it's much more complicated. You first install a very large amount of non-permeable foam insulation it the rafters (above your head, in region 5, R-20 of insulation in order to prevent condensation), seal it with spray foam, and then attach an ignition barrier such as rock wool or drywall beneath the foam. And then, add enough vapor-permeable insulation to up the total R value to the required amount. This way, you don't need to provide any ventilation for that attic, and its temperature will be around the same temperature of your living space.
In summary, any foam board has a "good" R value per inch, but a "bad" R value per dollar, and with foam insulation it is tricky to install it in such a way that will not cause either moisture problems or cause your shingles to heat up and fail.
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Guns in the cross hairs
State ban on Bushmaster rifles, other changes likely
|Bill Berlinksi, owner of Northwest Sporting Goods and Supply, stands with employee Matt Hiller showcasing the firearms they sell. Berlinski and Hiller said the proposed federal assault weapon will do little to prevent tragedy like Sandy Hook. Bruno Matarazzo Jr. Republican-American
Yet, the .223 Bushmaster rifle that gunman Adam Lanza employed to deadly effect on Dec. 14 is not defined as an assault weapon under state law.
There is now a push to ban this Bushmaster AR-15 type in Connecticut because of the deadly mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School — and it appears likely to happen.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants it. Democrats in the legislature are said to have the votes to do it. The expectation is that there will be some Republican votes, too.
The changes under consideration go beyond a Bushmaster ban. A more comprehensive redefinition of an assault weapon appears to be in the works.
This post-Sandy Hook push also is renewing the debate over the effectiveness of assault weapon bans in general and Connecticut's in particular.
At this time, six other states, plus the District of Columbia, have assault weapon bans —California, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, Maryland and Massachusetts.
The Council on State Governments reports that 18 states have introduced bans or expanded bans this year, including Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The chief challenge of crafting an assault weapons ban is trying to define what is an assault weapon.
"I'll know what an assault weapon is when I see it," Kehoe told the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission.
Malloy appointed the 16-member commission to recommend policy responses to the deadly school shooting in Newtown.
The subject of the assault weapons ban came up when Kehoe and several other police chiefs testified Friday during an information-gathering hearing.
"I don't know how you chase this idea of what an assault weapon is and write a statute that is going to outlaw everything that looks like, smells like, tastes like, sounds like an assault weapon. I think that is very challenging to do," said Matthew Reed, the police chief of South Windsor.
Rep. Robert C. Sampson, R-Wolcott, said broadening the state's assault weapons ban will only outlaw more long guns. He is a strong advocate of gun owner rights.
Sampson said an expanded ban does nothing about the much bigger problem of convicted criminals using handguns to commit crimes and gun violence in the state's cities.
Groups advocating on behalf of gun owners and the firearms industry are opposed to expanding the assault weapons ban. They include the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen, the Connecticut Citizens Defense League and the Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation.
The state's current assault weapons ban is a hodgepodge of definitions and prohibitions against specific semiautomatic firearms and military-style features.
GUN MANUFACTURERS regularly have been able to tweak designs to get around the ban since it took effect in 1994, said Michael Lawlor, Malloy's top adviser on criminal justice policy.
The ban prohibits the Colt AR-15, but does not include the .223 Bushmaster that Lanza used to murder 20 first-graders and six staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Malloy is now proposing to broaden the definition of an assault weapon to make it harder for manufacturers to circumvent the law.
"It would virtually ban all assault weapons," Lawlor said.
The governor is proposing to expand the list of additional military features and to outlaw any semiautomatic rifle, shotgun or pistol that has just one of the listed trappings.
Malloy is proposing a grandfather clause that would give owners until Oct. 1 to register the newly outlawed weapons with state police. These registered firearms would be subject to existing ownership laws concerning banned assault weapons
At this time, there are more than 8,800 assault weapons legally registered in Connecticut, according to the state police.
CURRENT LAW DEFINES ASSAULT WEAPONS as any selective-fire firearm capable of fully automatic, semiautomatic or burst fire at the option of the user.
The law also lists more than 60 specific makes and models of semiautomatic firearms that are illegal to possess, sell or transport in the state.
It lays out certain military-style features. It bans any rifles, shotguns or handguns that have a minimum of two prohibited characteristics.
The law additionally bans people from using a combination of parts to convert a firearm into an assault weapon.
With limited exceptions, it is illegal to possess assault weapons unless the owner possessed the weapon before Oct. 1, 1993, registered it with the state police before Oct. 1, 1994, and received a certificate to possess it.
A certificate from the state police is also required to sell, give, transfer, distribute or transport assault weapons
In most cases, it is a felony to illegally possess an assault weapon. The crime carries a five-year prison sentence.
First-time offenders may be charged with a misdemeanor if they present proof that they lawfully possessed the firearm before October 1993 and complied with all other requirements.
Some 101 criminal defendants have been convicted of felony possession of an illegal assault weapon between 2000 and 2012, according to court records. Another 47 were found guilty of misdemeanor possession.
Another 64 felony counts were dismissed and another 175 were not prosecuted. There were no acquittals, according to the records.
The statistics from the court system did not delve into the sentences and fines that judges imposed for illegal possession of assault weapons. This information was not readily available from the Department of Correction.
Lawlor cautioned that most of these court cases likely involved multiple charges and plea bargains that involved trade-offs.
There were nearly 1,430 arrests in 2010 for weapons violations, according to the latest uniform crime statistics. The violations were broken down by offense.
There were 30 felony and misdemeanor cases involving the assault weapons ban that year, according to the court statistics. That represents 2 percent of the weapons arrests.
There were nine convictions in 2010. Another half-dozen cases were dismissed and prosecutors chose not to pursue another 15.
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Below me wrote on Mar 3, 2013 6:27 AM:
Civilized Human wrote on Mar 3, 2013 8:06 AM:
Remember US wrote on Mar 3, 2013 9:10 AM:
Finally! "
American Mom wrote on Mar 3, 2013 9:47 AM:
Xanax, Valium, Oxycodone, mixed with antidepressants kill hundreds of people in CT each year. But I don't see any ban on those weapons of choice or accident. "
Joe Hill wrote on Mar 3, 2013 10:00 AM:
Shaun wrote on Mar 3, 2013 11:11 AM:
al.cap wrote on Mar 3, 2013 12:39 PM:
stopbushnow wrote on Mar 3, 2013 12:58 PM:
Hmmmm... Maybe it's not 20%, but it is clearly NOT 50%.
Attributing "ownership" to household members is a big mistake, right? Adam was not the owner of his mom's guns was he?
The bigger point is that gun ownership is clearly falling.
A study published in the Injury Prevention Journal, based on a 2004 National Firearms Survey, found that 20% of the gun owners with the most firearms possessed about 65% of the nation's guns. "
roy wrote on Mar 3, 2013 2:05 PM:
OR, Malloy pulled his puppet strings to say that. I did not know they allow Communists to be police chiefs. Only in Connecticut.
So, after reading the medical examiners report about the grandmother that shot her grandchildren and the 20 children, it is now very clear to me that IT'S NOT THE GUN STUPID!!!
She and Lanza had to be missing parts of their brain to have shot her two grandchilden multiple times and 20 kids, multiple times. If you can't conceive that a 6 month old baby is dead with one shot or a 5 year old is not dead with one shot, then you have to be missing most of your brains.
But "knee-jerk" anti-gunners want to take the quick and easy way out, take our guns and/or ban them.
I think I'll get my State of Connecticut flag, paint a swastika on it and burn it.
BTW, Anti-gun politicians are missing most of their brains too!! "
conservative1 wrote on Mar 3, 2013 3:41 PM:
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conservative1 wrote on Mar 3, 2013 3:48 PM:
Murphy, Esty, Malloy, Larson, Blume, Delauro. All phonies. "
mike wrote on Mar 3, 2013 3:54 PM:
Reality Check wrote on Mar 3, 2013 5:50 PM:
Tyler Durden wrote on Mar 3, 2013 7:47 PM:
Mike Leone wrote on Mar 3, 2013 7:50 PM:
Schools are "gun free zones" How could this have happened in there?
If the shooters mother would have had liability iinsurance on the guns how would that have prevented this?
The police are there to protect us, why couldn't they on that day? "
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al.cap wrote on Mar 3, 2013 8:58 PM:
a) Web page: "Firearms Fact Card, 2010." National Rifle Association, January 20, 2010. http://www.nraila.org/Issues/FactSheets/Read.aspx?ID=83
"Gun owners in the U.S.: 70-80 million; 40-45 million own handguns"
"American households that have firearms: 40-45%"
- Although the NRA does not state that this data is derived from surveys, Just Facts found that it is consistent with a broad range of surveys.
- Just Facts requested data on firearm ownership from the U.S. Department of Justice on February 17, 2010. The Department of Justice responded that this information is "not maintained by this Agency."
this is a footnote from a graph on the page.
clearly more than 20%.
anyone interested in unbiased statistics should check this site....
@reality check- apparently, as long as we use emotionally charged buzz words, it does matter what we call a modern sporting rifle. if you have some proof of illegal activity, you should report it. otherwise don't insinuate. if i were a manufacturer, i'd sue the pants off you. "
al.cap wrote on Mar 3, 2013 9:02 PM:
manifesto wrote on Mar 3, 2013 9:19 PM:
I was race in the worst neighborhoods in Waterbury
And battle with all kinds of gang members with out a gun ..im living proof ..I made it with out a gun and got my respect ... "
Below me wrote on Mar 4, 2013 6:42 AM:
roy wrote on Mar 4, 2013 9:37 AM:
Then the governments conspiracy plan to confiscate or severely limit our guns will be initiated.
The article title "Guns in the Crosshairs" is the start of their conspiracy. But gun owners will have their gun confiscators in their crosshairs too.
If Conservative 1 feels that gun owners can overtake the government in 15 minutes, I will be happy to join him at a momments notice. If we synchronize, it could take 15 seconds !! "
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LiberalsAreDumb wrote on Mar 4, 2013 3:18 PM:
" If he Gov has "laser beams that could cut a whole wall of people in half" then what are you going to do with your archaic gun anyway? I'm tired of the irrational fears of people like you dictating this debate. The fact is that there is no reason to own weapons like this. They don't belong on the streets. You really think that the only reason that the government isn't goose stepping all over us is because some people might have some guns? Gun owners are the sole reason that we live in a free civilized society? If that's truly what you think, then you are part of the failings in our mental health system. "
Wow, what a load of jibberish and nonsense. Irrational fears? Learn some history. Go read a book and learn about the US Citizen Internment Program (Japanese Americans) in WW2, Tuskegee, Athens TN revolt, Ruby Ridge and Waco for examples of government intrusion and unConstituional violations. And then go learn World History for countless more examples.
There are indeed reasons for people to own weapons like this. You are just too biased and stubborn to accept the fact, the 2nd Amendment is not meant for hunting, its for protection from tyranny. Whether that tyranny is foreign or domestic, whether its form street criminals or our government, its for our protection, and protection of our Constitutional Rights and property. Ask the Koreans in LA during the riots whether they needed those AR's and AK's. Ask the doctor in Cheshire who had his home invaded by 2 large individuals who raped, murdered and burned alive his wife and 2 daughters and left him for dead.
No one is forcing you to buy or own a gun. YOU are being irrational due to YOUR fears of guns and wanting to disarm us. We have history on our side, and the statistics and facts on our side to prove we are not a threat to you. No gun or weapon is... the individual is the threat. Please get an education and stop posting jibberish and mythology on the net. "
GeorgeK wrote on Mar 4, 2013 4:01 PM:
I don't tell you what you need. Don't tell me what I need. Got it?
Personally, I am really with Roy on this one. Lets see the full, non-redacted police report before making any legislation. I've gotten some information from some relatively reliable sources that say things didn't go down quite the way the media portrayed it. The full report won't be complete until almost the summer time, so lets wait until then. I am in no hurry to ban a gun that might not have even been used in said tragedy. "
al.cap wrote on Mar 5, 2013 6:52 AM:
Frenzy wrote on Mar 8, 2013 12:09 PM:
blue star wrote on Mar 8, 2013 2:04 PM:
Pearl Harbor was partially facilitated by Japanese people that were living on the Island and spying for the Japanese.
The Japanese planned to split the U.S. with Germany after they won the war. The wanted the West Coast as far as the Rockies, and Herr Schicklgruber would take the rest.
If the Japanese had won the war, would those people who we placed in internment camps be Americans? Or would they be Japanese?
It was a nasty business, but so was the war. (Or rather so were the Japanese) "
Citizen 4 Fairness wrote on Mar 8, 2013 4:27 PM:
KITTY wrote on Mar 8, 2013 4:29 PM:
al.cap wrote on Mar 8, 2013 9:40 PM:
KITTY wrote on Mar 9, 2013 1:06 AM:
KITTY wrote on Mar 9, 2013 1:12 AM:
KITTY wrote on Mar 9, 2013 1:20 AM:
al.cap wrote on Mar 9, 2013 11:20 AM:
citizen4fairness wrote on Mar 9, 2013 5:21 PM:
al.cap wrote on Mar 9, 2013 6:25 PM:
i use the term lemmings because it's appropriate. it's possible that mr jones feels the same. "
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I love wearing jeans and a t-shirt. Would this be an issue if I want to play in a casino in Las Vegas, USA? Do some casinos have a dress code?
For the general area, there's no dress code - you even see people wandering through in their swimming gear after they've been in the pool! I've been in wearing tshirt and jeans, feeling underdressed until I saw the tourists in their tshirt and shorts with flip-flops.
However, you may wish to consider what else you want to do in Vegas, and dress accordingly. Many nightclubs have dress codes, as do some of the restaurants. Night clubs in fact often suggest business casual - leather shoes, collared shirts, and so on.
If you're seeing a show, people tend to dress up for those - smart long-sleeved shirt and trousers, although again it's not a strict rule.
And if you're just wandering the streets looking, it's handy to have light clothes in summer - it can get seriously hot!
Generally there is no strict dress code on the casino floors (within reason), so Jeans and T-Shirt would be just fine. There is a blog entry on the subject from Las Vegas Direct and also on TripAdvisor. There is also a somewhat decent FAQ regarding age restrictions.
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This morning as I staggered to my computer still waking up I clicked on yahoo and was startled to read that Paul Newman had passed away. Now normally I read about celebrity passings and I am sorry. But this morning was especially hard. I never had the chance to meet Mr. Newman but he was always and will continue to be my favorite actor. I wish that our paths would have crossed at some point, even if it was just to say hello. From Cool Hand Luke to The color of Money he has been amazing. But more than that he seemed to be a genuine person, a man that cared. I am sad to think that there will be no more opportunities for a chance meeting with the man. So we have lost another great one, I guess the upside is that when we all go to meet our maker there are going to be some great entertainers waiting to thrill us again.
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As part of my work, I am required to sit on pieces of furniture without any back support eg. Bar stool. My teacher reprimands me when I slouch saying that my focus will suffer if my spine isn't straight. Is this true? I'm not talking about ergonomics and chair design? I want to know if sitting straight genuinely has any concentration benefits.
If your work requires sitting on the stool for long then it does have an affect on your concentration. Bad posture causes poor breathing patterns, restricted circulation, muscular strain, repetitive strain injuries etc. Because negative patterns of muscular use use up more energy,this saps energy resulting in weaker reflexes and can also cause low-grade physical pain.
Its all for your good. Stay healthy and enjoy working!!
I've found that sitting on a exercise ball (= also with no back support) clearly improves focus. I need to maintain balance using the entire body and therefore I maintain correct posture as well. When sitting on a stool without back support, I eventually tend to slouch. On the ball this is not the case.
I've experimented with a standing desk and many other possible solutions (even a kneeling chair). But in terms of long-lasting focus, an exercise ball seems to work best.
(Plus, with this "method", you'll get six-pack abs in 6 months as well. I know what I'm talking about, seriously :-)
It is extremely beneficial for you, but for a reason very different than you or your teacher might imagine.
It pays off greatly to exercise the part of your brain that does self-monitoring. When this muscle is well-exercised and strong, not only will you catch yourself slouching, you will also be able to catch yourself before you finish a bag of potato chips, or spend hours watching tv, or surfing facebook instead doing your homework. This muscle will help you focus on achieving your goals and keep you from wasteful self destructive behaviours.
Like a muscle, this part of your brain can be strengthened and it can be fatigued. It will also be very beneficial to learn to manage your energy reserves for when you need them most or to recognise situations when you are at risk because your energy reserves are low.
Here is a short article with more background. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/07/why-willpower-matters
Baumeister's book mentioned in the article is very good. However, I think Kelly McGonigal's Willpower Instinct is even better in terms of having more practical advice and exercises.
I'll answer the opposite of everyone.
You're more likely to focus if you're comfortable and able to drill into whatever you're working on. If you're concentrating on your posture, that's energy you're not putting on task.
It's easy to focus on something like posture because it's visible and enforceable. The neural pathways in your brain don't work any better if you're sitting up straight or lying down in bed--they work the best when you're comfortable in your own body in the space you're in.
I believe that sitting with back straight really can improve focus and productivity when working. It is one of the most common way to gain focus rather than working without a back support. The tendency is you will be having some back issues that can distract you while working.
One thing that I've found is that slouching for a while makes my shoulders tense up, and if I'm typing, can sometimes leave my forearms in a position that predisposes me to carpal tunnel fatigue. After a point, it's not so much that slouching ruins my concentration as the discomfort is distracting. While DIRECT causation is likely folklore, good posture works well for me in terms of stamina during stationary tasks of a longer duration.
I've noticed that my productivity was lowest when I used my laptop on my bed, and highest when using it at an office table. After some effort on improving ergonomics, I find that a really good posture does not actually improve productivity much.
The reason I was unproductive while lying down is that it's the position I take when slacking off. It's not that a bad posture is unproductive, but because I was most unproductive while in a bad posture. In a sense, lying down was a subliminal cue to not do work and spend all day on forums.
On the other hand, sitting at a desk was a cue that I should be doing work. There are mixed cues as well... e.g., I can't do any work when sitting at the desk in my bedroom, because that's when I normally play games. But after shifting the desk to the other side of my bedroom, painting the room, and no longer playing games on that desk, I was extremely productive there.


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STEUBENVILLE - After less than four years in business and just 18 months after moving into their current location, Nino and Dawn Scaffidi have ticked another box on their "to do" list.
The couple, owners of Scaffidi's Pasta in the Hollywood Plaza, have renovated the bar and lounge so they can offer live entertainment while serving up a full line of domestic and imported beers and a full wine list.
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RENOVATIONS DONE — Enjoying the newly renovated bar and lounge at Scaffidi's Pasta in Steubenville are, from left, head bartender Larry Petrella, staff members Jessica Flanagan, Lanie Pulice and Audrey McKinney and owners Dawn and Nino Scaffidi. -- Linda Harris
"The bar itself was totally renovated, to give it a more modern look," Nino said. "We added murals, mood lighting, four flat screen TVs, and now we have a room dedicated to entertainment, live performers, that can accommodate a variety of (acts) ... including comedians, jazz musicians and even impersonators."
It's got the kind of big-city vibe now that should appeal to a grown-up crowd, he said.
"We thought by adding an entertainment section, a more modern-looking bar, we'd expand our clientele," Nino said. "There aren't a lot of places where a more mature crowd can go and see live entertainment. We're open to everybody, but we tend to get a business/professional crowd."
Not bad for a couple of restaurant newbies: He had majored in psychology at the University of Akron and logged 15 years of management experience in various industries from corrections to food distribution before opening the restaurant; she has a degree in business management from the Bradford School, with 10 years of experience in retail.
When they opened their original location, in a small house on Sunset Boulevard, "It was definitely a leap of faith, a labor of love," he said.
"We've put our heart into doing this," he said. "It's definitely a difficult business to be in. But ... it was always our passion to get into the restaurant business. We decided to start out small and grow our business, and we've been successful doing it."
Against all odds the business took off. Within a couple of years the restaurant was bursting at the seams.
"We needed parking, and we needed to expand so we could have more sit-down seating," Dawn said.
The restaurant currently seats about 130, and can seat anywhere from 30-40 people in each of its three private party rooms. The private rooms can be reconfigured into one big room that can hold 90 people, she said.
The new bar "lends itself to the restaurant and to the new entertainment area," Nino said. "And we have ample parking, the lot is well lit. It's definitely an improvement, a dream come true."
The secret, he said, "is that we don't stray too far from our roots."
"We put out a good product, first and foremost, with good service in a comfortable, clean environment. And we still make everything homemade - we have our 'pasta window,' where our customers can see Grandma or my aunt making pasta. Every night we're open we always have someone there making pasta."
Having family nearby and involved in Scaffidi's operation "makes the business easier, more fulfilling," he said.
"It's a lifestyle, it's 24 hours a day," he said. "It's from the moment we wake up until we go to bed. You've got to love it because if you don't, it would be a burden. We love doing it, it's a passion of ours. We're here most of the day - one of us is always here, basically. We just don't get tired of it. It's exciting, it's a challenge, and ultimately it's a blessing."
The lounge follows regular bar hours, Tuesdays through Saturdays. Last call is around 2:15 a.m. You can find out more about Scaffidi's at www.scaffidipasta.com. Information also is available via Facebook and Twitter, or by calling (740) 314-5233.
"We love this community and we want to raise our family here," Nino said. "We just felt like this was a good opportunity for us in a great location. This is a great community, it's got great people and there's a lot of opportunity here. You can grow a business here."


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Today it is known that $AD$ (the axiom of determinacy of games played with integers) is true in $L(\mathbb{R})$. Has it been proven that this is the only model in which $AD$ is true? Have other models been identified in which $AD$ is true? Of course, I am asking about genuine models, since we can force over $L(\mathbb{R})$ and still keep enough $AD$. A related question is the following: how different from $L(\mathbb{R})$ is the universe $V$? Thx.
I'm not sure what you mean by "genuine models", but let me comment on how different $L(\mathbb R)$ is from $V$. They look very different to me. Partly this is because the axiom of choice holds in $V$ and fails rather spectacularly in $L(\mathbb R)$. For example, AD implies that $\aleph_n$ is singular whenever $3\leq n\leq\omega$, so the cardinal structure of $L(\mathbb R)$ looks very different from that of $V$. Even where they agree, for example at $\aleph_1$ (which is the same in $L(\mathbb R)$ as in $V$), there's a big difference as to what subsets are present. AD implies that the club filter on $\aleph_1$ is an ultrafilter, so all of $V$'s stationary co-stationary subsets of $\aleph_1$ are missing from $L(\mathbb R)$.
A more philosophical (by which I mean imprecise and not mathematical) reason to think $L(\mathbb R)$ differs greatly from $V$ is that it seems entirely implausible to me that the whole universe should be constructible from any single set. I expect to see more and more complexity the higher up I go in the cumulative hierarchy --- and not just complexity of ordinals.
To answer the first question, like Andres mentioned, larger models $L(\Gamma,\mathbb{R})$ of AD can behave quite differently from $L(\mathbb{R})$. For example they can satisfy AD$_{\mathbb{R}}$, the axiom of determinacy for Gale-Stewart games played on $\mathbb{R}$, which fails in $L(\mathbb{R})$. (This is because it implies the Axiom of Uniformization, i.e., that every binary relation on $\mathbb{R}$ contains a function with the same domain, whereas in a model such as $L(\mathbb{R})$ where every set is ordinal-definable from a real, the set of pairs $(x,y)$ such that $y$ is not ordinal-definable from $x$ cannot be uniformized.)
To add to Andreas's answer to the second question, there is a $\Sigma_1$ statement in the parameter $\mathbb{R}$ that is true under ZFC but false under AD, namely the existence of an injection $\omega_1 \to \mathbb{R}$. (This is easily seen to be inconsistent with a countably complete nonprincipal ultrafilter on $\omega_1$.)


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16 Nov 2010 3:57 PM #1
Frames per second?
Maybe I'm missing something, but is there an option to set the frames per second in the animation?
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No, because amount of fps depends on performance of browser and hardware that you use to view your animation. Thats why you see only time units on timeline. In Flash theres a need for 'fps' setting, because of specific keyframe/frame system and age of this technology. 8-6 years ago it was impossible to play rich content with speed above 20 fps. Whole system was getting slow and unresponsive. So it was better if animator optimized his animation to play at 12-15 fps, so it wont get jerky on less powerful machines. Fps in Flash are like manual way of controlling how much data cpu have to work with in a second.
On a side note, Apple artificially limit maximal number of fps on it's devices to 60 fps, to save battery live and reduce processor load. It would make no sense to play iTunes cover flow or banner animation with 200 fps, if maximum that human can perceive is 60 fps.
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That's not really the issue we are facing. As a TV animation studio, we have an entire library of flash animation that we were hoping to easily port to the iPad. By exporting PNG sequences, we hoped Sencha would be the perfect fit, but without being able to control the fps, it's not going to work.
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So ask devs in Features Request for option (script?) for loading multiple images to timeline and automatically setting appropriate time for each (1/24th of second, right?).
Making image sequences of hundreds of png's isn't perfect way for content conversion...But thats just me thinking loud
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I would imagine that Adobe is going to come out with a product to ease the conversion of Flash animation to HTML5. Being a Flash user myself, I'm happy to see that Sencha has come out with a product that competes directly with Flash in this market.
The existence of Sencha will not only force Adobe's product to be better as a result of the competition. Sencha has a unique opportunity to sway developers like myself away from the platform, towards the HTML5 paradigm sooner than Adobe might be prepared for.
I like what I see coming from Sencha so far, but I'm not sure it makes sense to create tools specifically for converting FLA or SWF based content. That being said, whatever you can do to ease the transition for us would be very welcome.
Simulating FPS would be helpful. Playing looped movie content (animated sprites), sound triggering, and an Event Model tied into your JavaScript framework would all be great to see.
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Jannet Mwaniki has been trading on Greenmarket Square for six years, selling her pretty wire and bead range of baskets and bowls, hand-painted material and figurines from across Africa.
Mwaniki, who learnt to make arts and crafts at school in Kenya, is one of many people from across Africa who have set up shop in Cape Town, adding to the already rich cultural diversity that city has to offer. While African-themed restaurants have long been an established part of the city life, in recent years entrepreneurs have found niches in a range of trades.
Greenmarket Square is filled with goods from across the continent, such as wooden figurines from Kenya, drums from Senegal and Mozambique, masks and hand-painted material from practically every country.
Mwaniki says she settled in Cape Town because she knew business would be good in the city. She says: "Over the years I have built up a customer base and many tourists tell their friends and they come here to buy from me."
Many of the city's immigrants have fled their war-torn countries and found a new home in the Mother City but others, like Mwaniki, travelled all the way to the southern end of Africa to seek business opportunities.
Mame Cheikh, from Senegal, has also been in Cape Town for six years. Dressed in traditional African garb he sits on a chair in the shade, waiting for potential customers. Drums are his best sellers, followed by the different masks he has on display.
Cape Town has become a true melting pot of cultures. Somalian traders have set up shop in malls selling snacks and cold drinks, and there are little "hole in the wall" shops – but then there are bigger spaces, like the Pan African Market in Long Street, which sells everything from curios to African clothes.
There is also a Kenyan curio shop in Shortmarket Street, and directly opposite is Little Ethiopia, a tiny restaurant that serves authentic Ethiopian food.
More than a few tourists have also discovered the delights of visiting a traditional African hair salon, to have their hair shaped into intricated braids.