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Looks like WD-40 can be used for lubricating just about any metal parts.
Are there non-obvious cases where using WD-40 will be harmful to the stuff lubricated?
Looks like WD-40 can be used for lubricating just about any metal parts.
Are there non-obvious cases where using WD-40 will be harmful to the stuff lubricated?
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WD-40 isn't actually a true lubricant. WD stands for water displacing. The main use for WD-40 is as a solvent and a rust dissolver. The lubricant-like properties of WD-40 are from rapidly evaporating components. It won't last. True lubricants include things like silicone, grease, Teflon, graphite, etc. WD-40 can be good as a first go at things, it can help clean up rust or other grime and then you can apply your lubricant.
WD-40 does a lot of things, unfortunately this means that it does not do any one thing well.
As a lubricant WD-40 is very thin and runny. WD-40 will lubricate for a short time, but will quickly run off. This is a side effect from it being a penetrant. If it was thicker for better lubrication it would not penetrate well.
WD-40 is a GREAT quick-fix and one-can option. I use it in that role, it gets things going long enough to let me finish the current task and get back to the shop. Once there I can get to my real penetrants (Kroil, PB Blaster) and my real lubricants (oil, white lithium) and repair the problem.
Bonus tip: wrap your WD-40 can with several turns of duct-tape. You now have two of the best quick-fix wonders in one package.
Never use WD 40 on door hinges or anything you want to keep clean. It attracts dirt and dust. It will turn your hinge pins black.
It doesn't move and it should = WD40
WD40 is only used as an immediate lubricant, eg. for a stuck bolt, or a s water dispersant. Don't use it where you need longer term lubrication, like a bike chain.
Rubik's cubes. Serious cubers will lube their cubes with Jigaloo, CRC silicone, or even vaseline. But, will point and laugh at noobs who use WD-40, as it melts the cube, likely seizing it. Yet people keep doing it.
Bicycle chains!
WD40 will ruin a bike chain and the gears wear out quicker. It washes the dirt in, the dirt acts as an abrasive and not a lubricant.
Musical Instruments.
My sister works at a music store, and a father ruined an $800 clarinet by using WD-40 on "the squeaky part".
Personal experience: An electrician told me never to squirt WD40 into an electric motor (bathroom exhaust fan) as it can be ignited.
Lock cylinders. Never in lock cylinders. Doorknobs, padlocks, etc. - the residue left will just attract dirt & grit, and prematurely wear down the works.
This was given me by a college friend whose dad worked on the maintenance staff - so they did a lot of locks!! It probably took years to see the pattern, but any lock they had shot with WD-40 eventually failed before un-WD'ed locks.
It never should be used on AirSoft or PaintBall weapons as it melts the seals.
I read an article once by a clock repairman who described how bad WD-40 is for precision clockworks. The main reason has been given already: it attracts dirt, which acts as an abrasive and eventually gums up the action.
For something where you need longer lasting lubrication, consider Silicone-based spray. Comes in a can just like WD-40, but it "sticks" better.
It attacks polycarbonate windows such as Tufak or Lexan too. Shooting through a bullet proof window after applying is NOT recommended.
Don't ever use WD-40 on something that has already been lubricated (like with white lithium grease, etc). The WD-40 will break down the grease and make a real mess.
Any electric motor, even if the rotor is stuck from filthy dried-up lubricant! Think squeaky furnace blower motors, fans that won't start up, lawn mower engines, etc.
The solvent not only removes any remaining lube, but it can melt coil wires (the lightly-coated copper wires twisted up in electric motors) and cause an electrical short. New fan motor! $200!
I did use it to help start a snowblower, which worked well for 1 use, then never ran again (likely due to WD-40's hygroscopic nature). There ARE, apparently, OTHER WD-#'s
For the same reason you wouldn't use it on door hinges, it should never be used for chair and sofa mechanisms. Because WD-40 attracts dust and turns things black, over time that dirt accumulation within the moving parts will build up and eventually start to fall off onto carpeting creating a terrible black mess that is nearly impossible to remove.
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Is it correct to say "I fancy your photos"? If yes, what would that phrase mean? How different would the meaning be from "I like your photos"? In what context would "I fancy your photos" sound natural?
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"I fancy your photos" would be appropriate to say if you were saying it to a photographer, who will take it as a compliment. It would sound natural in that context only.
In any other context, it would be best to say "I like your photos" or "You look nice in your photos"
If you fancy something, it means you desire it, you want to have it.
Either this is used in terms of physical attraction, if you fancy a person, it means you desire them and find them attractive. If you fancy doing something, it means you desire to do it. If you fancy an object, then it means you would like to acquire it.
If you say "I fancy your photos", that could either mean you find the people in them attractive; or you wish to keep them. Either way it would be very strange phrasing. Best to stick with "I like your photos".
"Fancy," used as a verb CAN mean to desire. It can also be used as a synonym for "like."
A quick trip to the dictionary reveals this definition: "to have a fancy for : like."
And the noun's definition, just to check the verb's: "a liking formed by caprice rather than reason : inclination "
(Note: There are other definitions for both the noun and the verb.)
So, in the sentence "I fancy your photos" I would say that it is equivalent to "I like your photos (for no reason that I can think of.)"
Generally speaking, the word fancy isn't used in this sense much any more, at least in the US. It's a little old-fashioned, and some would say rustic. That said, I think the only place it would sound natural used like this would be in a work of fiction.
Also beware that @Orbling's answer details a completely legitimate meaning of the word fancy, which can make the meaning of a sentence like "I fancy your photos" ambiguous, especially without context.

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Burke and Carrie Sullivan to Melanie Carver, lot 68, Moon Valley Estates.
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Larry L. Graham (deceased) to Larry T. Graham, 0.321 acre, Steubenville Township.
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Julie Fillippi and others to Larry T. Graham, 0.321 acre, Steubenville Township.
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MINNEAPOLIS � A Minnesota woman at the center of a long-running court fight over the unauthorized downloading of copyrighted music said there�s still no way she can pay record companies the $222,000 judgment she owes after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal Monday.
The justices did not comment on their decision. Attorneys for Jammie Thomas-Rasset, of Brainerd, argued the amount was excessive.
The music industry filed thousands of lawsuits in the early to mid-2000s against people it accused of downloading music without permission and without paying for it. Almost all the cases settled for about $3,500 apiece. Thomas-Rasset is one of only two defendants who refused to pay and went to trial. The other was former Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum, who also lost and was ordered to pay $675,000.
The industry initially sued Thomas-Rasset in 2006. Since then, her case has gone through three trials and several appeals. The industry presented evidence that Thomas-Rasset made available more than 1,700 songs to other computer uses via the file-sharing service Kazaa, though the lawsuit targeted only 24 songs.
�I�m assuming that since they declined to hear the case it�s probably done at this point,� she said. But she also said she needed to consult with her attorneys to determine what happens next.
Thomas-Rasset, 35, who works for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe tribal government, maintained � as she has all along � that she can�t afford to pay.
�There�s no way that they can collect,� she said. �Right now, I get energy assistance because I have four kids. It�s just the one income. My husband isn�t working. It�s not possible for them to collect even if they wanted to. I have no assets.�
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�We appreciate the Court�s decision and are pleased that the legal case is finally over,� the trade group said in a statement. �We�ve been willing to settle this case from day one and remain willing to do so.�
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What qualities should I look for in educational iPad apps for children?
I think the most important thing not to do is to choose an app for the child and then expect that they like it. If they don't wanna use it, don't act disappointed or even offended.
I can think of a few things that you should not look for:
Unfortunately, when people talk about "educational" apps, they usually mean one of the above. In that sense, I find that very few "educational" apps have educational value.
That said, I think the best way to find a good app for your child is to get lots of them and let the child try them all. The only reasonable arbiter for what suits your child is your child.
If/when the child settles on a favourite app, it will almost certainly not be what you envisaged. This shouldn't alarm you. Do not act worried that the child is doing "the wrong thing". Instead, use the opportunity to get to know your child better :)
Since you've already specified that the app should be educational, I would say the next important quality should be entertaining.
Gabriel Weinberg, has some good guidelines & app recommendations in his very detailed 'Toddler app user interface guidelines' aticle.
The most important quality is that your child likes it. If they do not like it, playing will be a chore and no kids want to do chores.
I have two young children (1.5 and 3) and I occasionally let them play on my iPhone. My older girl seems to really like games that reward her. For instance, we have a Dora game that she never plays. Yet we have shape guessing game, which awards her with "stickers" when she gets so many right in a row. She loves that game.
My son was around 2 years old when he loved Tozzle. (Even my wife allowed him to play ;-) )
Sadly, iPad apps rarely have trial versions. You really have to do your homework on them to make sure they will not merely satisfy what you are looking for; but also provide good modeling for the kids.
More and more of the edutational games are providing free/lite versions. This will give you a chance to evaluate them for yourself.
Apps are so cheap that if you can afford it... keep buying them. The value of the iPad is not the technology but the variety. Kids love variety.
Our iPad has Madden an Mystery Mansion on it and my kid would sneak off and play mystery mansion ahead of madden (and he loves sports).
The onl problem wih the variety is that it is easy to switch if the game gets too challenging. But don't get frustrated if it happens... more than likel what they do is go back and try again later (just like we do).


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I am replacing all my electicial outlets and only one has wires that are too big to put into the back of the new outlet. Any suggestions?
As long as you are going through the trouble to replace your receptacles, I have some recommendations:
As others have noted, it sounds like you're trying to insert 12ga wire in to a hole that only fits 14ga (for a 15A circuit). Don't use that feature; see #3.
You probably have 12 gauge wire on that part of the circuit, which won't fit into the push-in connector on the back of a 15A receptacle (it's only good for 14 gauge). Is that the only receptacle on that branch circuit? If so, it might be a 20A circuit, so you'd need a 20A receptacle (otherwise you risk overloading the receptacle and damaging it, which could lead to a fire):
But as @DA01 says in his comment above, always use the screw terminals. They give a much more secure connection.


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To hyphenate or not?
What is the proper way to spell "side dish"? Is it: "side dish" or "side-dish"?
Also, Is it "ham-fried" or "ham fried"?
Basically, when do you use hyphens?
What is the proper way to spell "side dish"? Is it: "side dish" or "side-dish"?
Also, Is it "ham-fried" or "ham fried"?
Basically, when do you use hyphens?
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There's no single answer to this: various conventions exist depending on personal preference and/or the in-house (or "in house", or "inhouse") style guide for the particular publication you're writing for. That said, I think that in general, using hyphens between the elements of compound nouns is less common nowadays (so people would tend to write "side dish", "ticket office" etc, not "side-dish", "ticket-office"). I also get the impression (with no hard statistics to back it up) that US usage favours the hyphen still a bit more than UK usage.
I think a common modern convention is to use hyphens mainly for cases of ambiguity or where a compound functions as an adjective (or perhaps more specifically, compounds "in attributive position"[*]). The hyphen is maybe a bit more common with compound verbs as well.
[*] Bauer, L. (2006), "Compounds and Minor Word-formation Types" in The Handbook of English Linguistics, Blackwell, pp. 483-506.
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Reinventing customer service -- with a global jam session
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42 St. James Pl.
Our last facialists sour mood rubbed off on us. Not so with Clay, who was full of compliments ("You, 31? What?!") and good-natured chatter. While we'd scheduled the most intense facial on the menu, she actually advised a milder one. The treatment included a gentle glycolic acid solution to remove dead skin, a lemon-scented mask to clean our pores, and some quick microdermabrasion on our chin to lighten dark spots. With glowing skin, not even a downpour could rain on our good mood.
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We've always considered ourselves thick-skinned, but as Taggart raked a microdermabrasion wand over our face, neck, and chest, we winced—and reevaluated. "Your skin will absorb much more product after this," she promised, and brushed on a stinging pore cleanser before a few quick extractions. Relief came in the form of a hydrating mask, a vitamin B₆ mist, and long strokes over our face and shoulders. One hour and one look in the mirror later, we'd forgotten the discomfort and saw only an incredible glow. The gain was real, but next time we'll ask for a bit less pain.
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The feel: Small, intimate, and full of antique furniture.
The treatment: We spoke briefly with our aesthetician before she painted on an enzyme mask that left our touchy skin burning. We spoke up, and she wiped it away but then proceeded to try not one but two equally stinging formulas. When she finally switched to plan B—extractions, LED lights, and gentle masks—our traumatized skin ended up feeling relatively calm.
Bottom line: Yes, our skin glowed the next day, but being ignored left us red in the face.
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To treat our sensitive, breakout-prone skin, Bruskof combined organic products with high-tech treatments. She used an exfoliating lemongrass cleanser on our dry areas, swiped a salicylic-acid-and-rose toner over our T-zone, and zapped our pimply chin with high-frequency waves to reduce the bacteria there. When the facial was over, our skin had a dewy glow. A week later, our blemishes had disappeared.
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The Sanctuary for Families' Associates Committee recently recognized seven Columbia Law School alumni for their outstanding contributions to pro bono legal work on behalf of the Sanctuary's Center for Battered Women's Legal Services.
The alumni honored at the Sanctuary's annual benefit were: Harris Cohen '07, Qian Allison Gao '06, Violetta Guberman Watson '06, Geoffrey G. Hu '06, Jennifer L. Murray '03, Randi W. Singer '98, and Jennifer M. Westerfield '07. The recipients work at some of New York City's largest law firms, and they have volunteered hundreds of hours on cases involving immigration, child custody, trafficking, contested and uncontested divorces, orders of protection, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.
Sanctuary for Families is the largest nonprofit organization in New York State dedicated exclusively to serving domestic violence victims and their children. Pro bono attorneys work closely with Sanctuary's staff attorneys to provide a range of legal services that can include everything from divorce and child custody representation to protective orders.


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A note from Scott Thompson Re: Darryl Reuben Hall's Project
Dear ONE FOR MY BABY backers:
I wanted to take a moment to point out to you another VERY worthy project. Darryl Reuben Hall is an extremely dedicated Director, Writer,... Read more
ONE FOR MY BABY- Announces FULL CAST and DEADLINES for SEEING THE WORKSHOP
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Very exciting news! ONE FOR MY BABY is fully cast and preparing its workshop in New York City on October 10, 11, 12!
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"ONE FOR MY BABY" - WORKSHOP AT LAST! Oct. 11 and 12 NEW YORK CITY!
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After a rather long delay - our sincere apologies for that - we are thrilled to announce that "ONE FOR MY BABY" will be showcased in a full... Read more
Hey Backers! Just checking in!
Hey there guys!
Just a quick note to tell you that I'm working in Texas and finishing a project here then I will be back to New York on July... Read more
Hey Backers!
Home stretch here! Just a reminder that ALL CREDIT CARDS/PLEDGES will be debited and Charged tomorrow AM. Please make arrangements for that to all happen smoothly!
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At this late date- we just got a $2500 pledge!
Hi Everyone,
Well the title says it all! I guess there's still fundraising life in this project yet!
We're now at $63,800 thanks to a VERY generous BACKER. $65,000 anyone?... Read more
What has happened is a MIRACLE. Thank you ALL!
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UNDER $2000 to go before we hit $60,000....FOUR MORE DAYS!
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We're ALMOST there....Just FOUR MORE DAYS to get to $60K!
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Too much success can be a bad thing!:)
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Hey ya'll - Bad couple of days after a GREAT ONE!
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Workshops ARE VERY EXPENSIVE- and we will now be able to DO a presentation which is... Read more
GUESS WE NEED A NEW GOAL! Here Comes $60K
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And now we're at $57K. But that's such an ODD number isn't it?
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The HEADLINE SAYS it all folks!
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We don't HAVE them yet- that's what we NEED!:)
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Well it's been a SLOW couple of days after we reached our goal. It was to be expected obviously- but we knew it wouldn't last! Backer DON RUSS... Read more
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5 Horribly Misguided Attempts at Teaching Lessons Creatively
God bless the schools that try new things. Lining kids up in rows and making them listen to monotone math is a horrible way to teach, and if you want to really engage today's kids, you need to mix things up. Unfortunately, the line between "fun new learning experience" and "lifelong trauma" is razor thin. Especially when the staff is batshit insane.
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#5. Students Forced to Make Out With Their Parents at a Pep Rally
In order to spice up their homecoming pep fest, Rosemont High School in Minnesota decided to corral the captains of their various sports teams and blindfold them in front of the entire school to be kissed by a "special someone." When you're a teenager, 90 percent of your daily brain activity is devoted to thinking about putting your mouth on other people in one way or another, so the students happily agreed. What's the worst that could happen from getting a mystery kiss while an assembled crowd of your peers cheers you on?
So, so many things, too numerous to list.
The "special someones" in question turned out to be the students' own parents, who weren't blindfolded, were in on the joke, and willingly made out with their own children. In front of the entire school. On purpose. Go back and read that again, we'll wait.
Back? OK good, because here's a video of the pep rally that will make each and every one of you horribly uncomfortable for the rest of the day. There is groping, tongue-sucking, and rolling around on the floor in amorous embraces, which is excusable for the clueless students, but terrifying for the adults when you consider that they're deliberately dry humping their own children. There's something deeply unsettling about a 40-year-old man striding across a basketball court in front of a ringing chorus of people to grab his blindfolded teenage daughter by the head and begin tenderly kissing her on the mouth.
To say nothing of the three or four times he tries to cop a feel.
One woman actually takes her son's hand, as they're making out, and puts it on her own ass, like they're filming a John Waters movie.
We need to invent a new type of prison for whatever the hell this woman just did.
After the video went viral, the principal of the school issued a formal apology, admitting that the event may have been poorly conceived. He was quick to mention that no complaints had been received from the students or the parents involved in the incest pep rally, which, considering how willingly the parents in question participated, probably just means that there isn't a phone in the windowless basement those students are chained up in.
#4. Teachers Trick Students into Eating Poop on a Camping Trip
An eighth grade class at Walter Whyte Elementary School in Manitoba organized a camping trip at the beginning of the year to build trust and camaraderie between students (instead of the meth-building exercises we all immediately imagined after reading that name). Their chaperones -- a teacher, the principal, the school counselor, and a parent volunteer -- decided that the best way to establish this trust would be to trick the children into eating moose shit ("establish" here meaning "catastrophically betray in exchange for top-shelf madcap fuckery").
Like having your wedding vows devolve into a Benny Hill skit.
As this is Canada, where you are never farther than 11 feet from a moose at any given time, it was only a matter of time before one of the responsible adults found a big pile of Bullwinkle doo, although it's possible that the chaperones simply brought the doo from home.
Either way, they placed it all in a plastic bag and offered it to the campers as chocolate-covered almonds, a description that we admit is not entirely false. One boy plopped (zing!) an "almond" into his mouth, only to be immediately told that it was the anal bullet of a forest creature. A female student messily chewed her moose nugget and got it stuck in her braces, causing her to throw up violently while the adults (remember, this includes the school principal and two teachers) had a ripping good laugh. One of them actually attempted to console her by saying that since moose eat grass, the poop was technically a healthy snack, which you may recognize as some of the most untrue words that have ever been spoken in the history of time.
"OK, look, just drink rubbing alcohol until you forget everything."
The two prank victims were taken to the hospital to be treated for possible bacterial infection, and the three faculty members were suspended, which is a word that puzzlingly looks nothing like "fired."
#3. A School Holds Segregated Elections to Promote Diversity
Class elections help firmly establish the inherent betterness of the popular students while simultaneously preparing children for the soul-crushing reality of just how little difference politics will make in their adult lives. Sure, Alex and Becky made some amazing promises on the way to their landslide victory over Ugly Ben and that foreign kid who is really good at computers, but when it came time to actually replace all homework with pizza parties and math class with chocolate-snowman-eating contests, a whole lot of nothing got done.
And if you happen to be a student at Nettleton Middle School in Mississippi, you have the additional privilege of only being allowed to elect fellow students of a specific race to each office, because desegregation hasn't quite sunk in yet in some areas of the country.
That's right -- each position had a specific race assigned to it, and only students of that race would be considered viable candidates.
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"As with all quality diversity efforts, we've specifically excluded Asians."
Please note that each office is appointed by the student body, rather than just having those interested in running try to campaign for the support of their peers, which is totally how it's done in every other school that isn't completely insane. The result is a sort of racial draft that not only chooses to reduce the children's ethnic and cultural backgrounds down to two embarrassingly generic terms (either "black" or "white"), but also completely ignores any students who don't necessarily fit into either group.
When a mother of four interracial children complained after learning that one of her daughters was unable to run for any office (as she was neither "black" nor "white"), she was informed that the school had done elections this way for over 30 years, which you may notice is less a justification and more just restating the problem. The baffling policy had been implemented as a way to ensure diversity and participation in school politics -- the old "fight racism with racism" angle, with some "force kids to do things they have no interest in" tacked on for good measure.
"Can we work some unwarranted condescension in here, too?"
The policy was quickly re-evaluated and then eliminated, which is good, because it was terrible and stupid. Although we're unsure if Nettleton school elections are still carried out via conscription, since expecting old-timey racist institutions to stop all the crazy bullshit they do is admittedly asking a bit much.


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Some 937,000 people brought here as children might immediately qualify for the program, which was outlined in a government memorandum in mid-June. Another 426,000 age 15 and under could, too, if the program remains in place, according to a recent analysis [1] by the Immigration Policy Center and a consulting firm. The states with the highest number of likely recipients are California, Texas, Florida, New York and Illinois.
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If $u=cx+dy$ and $v=cx-dy$ and $R$ is the co-efficient of correlation between variables $x$ and $y$ and variables $u$ and $v$ have 0 correlation, then how can I prove that $$s_us_v=2cds_xs_y\sqrt{1-R^2}$$.I do not think I made any progress at all and I request a solution so that I can study it.
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GENESEO, N.Y. - Three SUNY Geneseo organizations have passed resolutions calling for the implementation of a five-year rational tuition plan for SUNY with assurance that all tuition revenues stay on SUNY campuses without corresponding cuts.
The Geneseo Student Association, the College Senate and the College Council (a community advisory board) have sent their resolutions to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature in recent weeks to offset a $2 million Geneseo budget gap created in the governor's executive budget. In addition, 76 Geneseo students went to Albany March 1 to argue their case before state legislators. The Geneseo Alumni Association Board has also endorsed a similar resolution.
The resolutions call for a responsible and equitable five-year tuition plan so students and families can plan ahead for college finances instead of facing jolting, unpredictable tuition increases tailored to immediate financial considerations. The College Council resolution states that a $200 per semester tuition increase would enable Geneseo and other SUNY campuses to escape further cost-cutting measures such as the deactivation of three academic programs Geneseo implemented in December.
SUNY's current tuition is $4,970 per year and is among the lowest in the nation. The governor's office has "swept" a large percentage of revenues from recent SUNY tuition increases to pay for other gaps in the state budget.
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See "Soufeast".
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5 Inspiring True Stories For Anyone Feeling Cynical Today
#2. A Mugging Victim Treats His Attacker to Dinner
Social worker Julio Diaz was walking home from work one night when a teenager approached him, drew a knife and demanded his wallet. Diaz promptly handed the wallet right over, which is what they tell you to do, but everything after that was just insanely improvised. If you're already saying, "What did he do, hug the guy?" the answer is no -- he took it much, much further.
Wait, no. Back it up. So to speak.
The Crazy Solution:
Right as the kid started to leave (this being the moment that anyone being mugged spends the whole mugging looking forward to), Diaz stopped him and, as he tells it, said, "You forgot something. If you're going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm."
Diaz reasoned that his attacker must have fallen on some pretty hard times, which is a fairly complex thought to have while being threatened with a knife, a situation where most people abandon reasoned introspection for trying not to shit themselves. When the confused boy hesitated at the turning of the tables, Diaz upped the ante even further by offering to buy them both dinner. Which the boy accepted, probably after checking to see if he had some kind of magic knife.
"That old gypsy was right!"
After eating, Diaz reminded the boy that he wouldn't be able to buy dinner if, you know, he didn't have a wallet. While the mugger could have taken this opportunity to flip the middle finger and flee the diner with the wallet and a full stomach, amazingly, he handed the wallet back to his former victim. Not only did Diaz pay the bill, but he then bought the mugger's knife off him for $20.
Of course, it's possible that the mugger just went straight out and bought a bigger knife, but we choose not to know.
#1. Three Countries Achieved Independence (by Holding Hands)
In the mid-1900s, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (together known as the Baltic States) were in the process of being assimilated into the Soviet Union after a secret deal between Stalin and Hitler, which is kind of like having your home signed away in a pact between Darth Vader and ... well, Hitler. In an attempt to squash the local culture, the Soviet government placed a ban on singing national songs and waving national flags, and these new rules were enforced by some subtle hints that refusing to comply might result in a bloody military invasion.
"I made them a crushing military edict they couldn't refuse."
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That is, until 1989, when Estonians gathered to celebrate the Estonian Song Festival, which had been celebrated every five years since 1869. Only this time, instead of just singing songs, they joined hands and formed a human chain of 300,000 Estonians, 400,000 Lithuanians and 500,000 Latvians. All together, the chain stretched 360 miles from Tallinn at the north shore of Estonia all the way down to the city of Vilnius in Lithuania.
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"It's nearly impossible to tell who's washed their hands after using the bathroom."
If you're wondering what was stopping the USSR from rolling their tanks right over the squishy bodies of the singing protesters, the answer is absolutely nothing. The Russian army could've pulled a Tiananmen Square at any time, especially given that the protesters were standing in a convenient line. But after an apparent attack of the warm and fuzzies, the Russian government laid down and took it on the chin -- and all three Baltic States held free elections in February of 1990, effectively gaining their independence, without a shot fired. We're going to guess that even the people who participated were more than a little surprised.
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I have a vague memory of being told not to gaze at the moon through the glass of a window. I think it had something to do with kabbalah. I know it's permitted to say kiddush levanah by looking at the moon through the glass of a window if one has no other option, but I am wondering if anyone knows anything about a kabbalah-based minhag against gazing at the moon through a window?
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The Magen Avraham (OC 526 sk 8) quotes the Shelah (here) that one should not look at the moon during kiddush levana but rather glance at it in the beginning and look down. The Shelah referneces what he wrote earlier (here) where he quotes the book Shushan Sodot (bio?) that one should not look at the moon seemingly ever. The Shushan Sodot himself (here) quotes his teacher Rabbi Meir HaLevi as teaching a new law that has no source in Torah, Neviim or Midrash that compares looking at the moon to looking at a rainbow which is forbidden per the Gemara in Chagigah 16a and codified in Shulchan Aruch OC 225:1. He says that the moon represents the House of David and that when the moon is diminished it somehow represents a diminishing of some spiritual forces.
I admit I'm not really sure what's going on here, not being a kabbalist myself. It does at least seem that there is some kabbalistic reason for not looking at the moon even not during kiddush levana and even when not looking through windows.
For Kiddush Levana there is a special reason why one should not do it through a window, however there is no problem looking at the moon through a window at any other time.


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FOLLANSBEE - Children with special needs at Hooverson Heights Primary School have received a boost through a grant program established by a local bank.
Nicole Ennis, school principal, and Denise Spensky, president of its PTA, announced the Hancock County Savings Bank Charitable Foundation has awarded a $2,180 grant for 25 children at the school with autism and other special needs.
Jami Dantry, who with Amy Demi serve as occupational therapists for the pupils, said the money will pay for two iPods through which the children will alternate listening to classical music and sounds from nature.
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Catherine Ferrari, center, chairman of the Hancock County Savings Bank Charitable Foundation and president and chief executive officer of the bank, presented a $2,180 grant to Nicole Ennis, left, principal of Hooverson Heights Primary School; and Denise Spensky, president of the school's PTA and a member of its school improvement council. The grant will be used to purchase portable media players for children with autism and other disorders. -- Warren Scott
Dantry said the music and sounds, which are conveyed through the Listening Program, an Internet service, help children who suffer from high or low auditory sensitivity related to developmental disabilities to better process sound.
She said the pupils use headphones acquired by Meredith Hood, a first-grade teacher at the school, for her own classroom when using the Internet and the pupils with special needs through a donation by Hood's Pharmacy matched by the Brooke County Board of Education.
Dantry said she hopes to acquire funds for additional iPods and headphones for children with special needs at other schools.
She expressed thanks to Spensky, also a member of Hooverson Heights' school improvement council, who applied for the grant.
It was among $37,323 in grants awarded by the foundation to 26 schools, charities and other nonprofit groups in the Tri-State Area.
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FOLLANSBEE - Devan Marie Jackson and Casey Paul Young were united in marriage at 4:30 p.m. April 14 at the Serbian American Cultural Center in Weirton. The Rev. Dave Westphal of Wheeling officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Jeff and Diane Jackson of Follansbee.
The groom is the son of Sean and Kim Young of Wheeling and Anne Hollandsworth of West Liberty.
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The bride was escorted by her father. She wore a satin, strapless trumpet gown embellished with crystals and featuring a Tiffany train.
Diane Jackson, mother of the bride, was the matron of honor. Joan Simonton, aunt of the bride, of Deerfield Beach, Fla., was the maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Jessica Pugh of Weirton; Katy Romitti of Follansbee; Amanda Martindill of Wellsburg; Nicole Michaux of Wellsburg; and Hillary Seaman of Bethany.
Sean Young, father of the groom, was the best man. Groomsmen were Dave Kukura of Weirton, uncle of the bride; Sean Brown of Weirton; Nathan Cox of West Liberty; Matt O'Hara of Windsor Heights; and Jeremy Griffith of West Liberty.
Emma Palmer of Hudson, Ohio; and Madelon, Chelsea and Isabella Vido, cousins of the bride, all of Florida, were the flowergirls.
Chaise Griffith of West Liberty was the ringbearer.
A reception was held in the Grande Ballroom at the Serbian American Cultural Center.
The couple honeymooned in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
The bride is a 2011 graduate of Trinity School of Nursing in Steubenville. She is employed as a registered nurse at Wheeling Hospital.
The groom is a National Guard aircraft mechanic at the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport.
The couple live in Valley Grove, W.Va.


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Why AES based encryption is not recommended for encrypting images with high redundancy in their content? for example, the encryption of an image which shows a bird in the blue sky. Most of the pixels are blue in that case.
closed as not a real question by Paŭlo Ebermann Oct 22 '12 at 19:08
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What do you mean "AES is not recommended for highly-redundant images"?
Perhaps you're referring to "ECB mode is not recommended for highly-redundant images" (and yes, AES can be used for ECB mode).
Yes, AES in ECB mode is not recommended for highly-redundant images, because it doesn't disguise when two 128 bit plaintext blocks are exactly the same. Here is a famous example of a drawing of the Linux penguin encrypted using ECB mode:
As you can see, you can make out significant details of the original image.
AES in other modes (CBC, CFB, Ctr, GCM) doesn't have this weakness, and so are strongly preferred.


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David Beckham plays soccer with children in China
•June 19, 2013
David Beckham is back in China to resume his duties as the country's "global football ambassador" and it seems he's learned a few lessons from his past experiences in similar positions. For one thing, he isn't taking free kicks while wearing a suit anymore. And he's also figured out how to keep school kids from exposing his age-ravaged defending.
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the working boy's sweater
Berroco's Johnny Boy sweater in action:
In a clever multitasking move, Margery knit the original Johnny Boy sweater to fit her grandson, Noah. Reports have it that the sweater has seen heavy action ever since, has been washed (and dried) numerous times, and it still looks great. It's knit in Berroco Sox, our all wool sock yarn in an ever increasing array of multicolor patterns.
Photo credit: Olivia Sauerwein (Noah's mom)
Beautiful way of using Sox. Makes the pattern look like Fair Isle. Is the button placket opening designed to face the front? He looks like he is having fun! Sweaters are more toddler friendly, for movement, as they stretch more than a jacket. This brings back wonderful memories! I used shrunk sweaters for a jacket (before felting was in) for my son, as he didn't like the confinement of a jacket. Makes me want to knit sweaters, vests, mittens… with Sox!!April 22, 2008
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I can vouch for the hardiness of the Sox. On vacation last week I forgot to pack my padded biking gloves. I made due with the Sox Jacoby fingerless gloves from berroco.com. The gloves were champions. I expected to wear them out on the handle bars – but no – instead, after washing on my return, they look like new. That's the second best test next to the "kid" test.April 22, 2008
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Really adorable knit. I have a question – how did she do the sleeves? I notice the striping seems to be the same width on the sleeve as it is on the sweater, and I would think with self-striping yarn that the stripes would be wider down by th sleeve cuffs.
Will have to check out this yarn!April 22, 2008
Carol #
Yes, I have the same question as Iris–how did Margery get the sleeve striping to match the striping on the sweater body. When I knitted a sweater with self-striping yarn, the sleeve striping came out twice as wide as on the body.
And I'm impressed with anyone who can get a boy to wear something knitted–my son never would!April 22, 2008
The sweater is darling and so is the fella, but really makes me think how great it would be made up into an adult sweater!
You know on those office days when the air conditioning is too cool and you need a little covering. How comfy and cheerful it would be to slip on a 'sock sweater' Ha!April 24, 2008
margery #
I may have picked up an knit the sleeves down from the armhole in circular. I can't remember, but I will check tomorrow.April 26, 2008
Sarah #
I just love it. It's hard to find nice looking boy's sweaters. It's on my list of to do projects. I too would love to know how the sleeves were knit.May 4, 2008


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I've been playing Simcity Deluxe for iPhone.
I can't have more income than expenses. Ever.
I build all three zone types with proper transport services. There is energy and water alright. I immediately build all other services: health, security, education, garbage disposal, etc.
However, all of that is expensive. No matter how big my population and industry get, the expenses are always greater than the income - not even by drastically increasing the taxes or decreasing the funding for the services like education etc. (I can't do it anyway - they all get angry).
How exactly am I supposed to maintain a city without losing money? Well, that, without putting my Sims into utter misery?


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I am trying to compile a gnome application and I am curious what the output means when I run the
autogen.sh script:
~/Documents/Code/window-picker-applet $./autogen.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --install --copy
libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
data/Makefile.am:11: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension
data/Makefile.am:11: wildcard $(top_srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
data/Makefile.am:11: (probably a GNU make extension)
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
[Output trunkated...]
Why am I getting the info
configure.ac: not using Gettext? Is that a warning and should I change some of the configuration files to fix it? I know the application has a
po/ folder so I think it should be using Gettext, hence I am confused about this warning.
I also had a lot of warnings with the [Update] See comment below [/Update]
N_ macro not being defined, so this might be related?


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Is the Therapeutic Index Better with Gemcitabine-Based Chemoradiation
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Affiliation: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
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In patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, cure is often not feasible. Therefore, different endpoints (palliation, extension of life) are used. Given these facts, excessive morbidity from treatment should be avoided if possible. This study resulted in a 23% rate severe toxicity in the gemcitabine arm plus radiation therapy arm. This was seen without much improvement in OS or local control. Although some patients were able to undergo resection, the patient characteristics or outcomes after surgery were not revealed. Therefore, although the use of gemcitabine is a possible encouraging step forward in pancreatic cancer, it should be used with caution, under close observation, and only on a study protocol.
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New on homebrew.SE, great forum here. Just a quick question - why shouldn't we just use weight scales to determine the OG and FG? My Hydrometer has broken and I can't be stuffed really buying a new one - assuming the accuracy of the scales is very good, why shouldn't I just use that to determine the density (and therefore the SG)?
Assuming you're talking about weighing a small sample of a known, accurate volume, it seems like you'd be able to get a ballpark idea about the SG using that method. I have no idea what the margin of error would be though. Presumably you'd need to take temperature into account as you do when using a hydromenter and possibly the amount of alcohol. For the cost of buying an accurate measuring container and maintaining the calibration of the scales, I'd personally just get a new hydrometer.
You certainly can. This is, for example, how you use a pycnometer. But, it's a bit of work. Two major problems:
1) You need to find a way to measure volume very, very precisely. The scales are reasonably accurate, but it is unlikely that you own a volumetric device accurate enough. Your SG will be screwed by an entire point for every 0.1% margin of error.
2) You need to separate your liquid wort out from your suspended solids, including trub and hop solids. These have a nearly negligible effect on hydrometers but a significant effect on pycnometers. If you have a centrifuge, this is easy to do, but otherwise it's a bit of a pain.
So, it's doable, but you're probably better off just keeping a spare cheap-o hydrometer around.
If I well understood your question, you can surely wight a know volume of wort to get the gravity. It is what I do now, until I buy a refractometer.
As for error here are some calculation:
measuring 500ml in a graduated jar or something, may have an error of 5ml, if done with some care. That is 1% error.
I assume a 1g error for weighing scale, that is 0.2%
When making the ratio of the two the error gets added, so error will be 1.2%, that is more or less 12 gravity points. So I just figured out my method is not that precise :)


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The 6 Most Secretly Racist Classic Children's Books
#3. The Chronicles of Narnia
Narnia has gained a second life as an alternative to Harry Potter for unreasonably offended Christian people. Scholars have always pointed to the heroic lion, Aslan, as a pretty ham-fisted Christ metaphor. Aside from that, the first handful of Narnia books (the ones that have movies so far) steer clear of any real-world implications. They take place in the northern regions of a world comprised mostly of white people, talking animals, extremely white people, centaurs, the aforementioned Jesus lion and a special cameo by Guerrilla Santa Claus. The only things you might pick up from that is that old white women are evil and that lions are much friendlier than they really are.
"I know when you are sleeping ... and I've got a knife. Remember that."
But all of that changes when C.S. Lewis decided to take us to the southern realms of Narnia in the fifth book, The Horse and His Boy. The titular boy is Shasta, and when he finds out that his adoptive dad is planning to sell him into slavery, he packs his stuff and runs away.
The Racism:
The people of the south, including Shasta's adoptive father, are a dark-skinned people known as Calormenes. How do they differ from the cast of characters we meet up north? Well, the Calormenes live in the desert, have long beards, wear turbans and pointy slippers and are ruled by Tarkaans, which some have pointed out is vaguely similar to the Middle Eastern military rulers known as Tarkhans.
"Those filthy people plagiarized me. Arabs are notorious liars and ... this isn't helping, is it?"
While the Calormenes are very clear stand-ins for Middle Eastern people, their religion focuses on a Satanic figure named Tash who requires human sacrifices. Also, they are all assholes. The first Calormene we meet is trying to sell his own adopted son into slavery, and it doesn't get any better from there. They are all self-centered, traitorous, greedy, cruel and cowardly.
Some Lewis apologists like to point out that not all Calormenes are mustache-twirling psychopaths. The prime example, Aravis, is a princess who runs away from her family, culture and nation with a white boy she just met. The other one is Emmeth, a soldier in The Last Battle who is a firm believer of Tash until he meets him and sees he is really a demon. After that, he accepts Aslan in his heart and is granted entrance to Paradise.
"Woooah, that's my God? No wonder he won't let anyone draw him."
So basically, all the Middle Eastern characters are evil jerks except those who abandon their culture and faith. So the best case that can be made for Narnia is that Middle Eastern people aren't inherently evil, they just need to be converted to Christianity. It's the sort of thing that makes you wonder why Muslim people waste all their rage on Muhammad cartoons.
Also: Wizards make better Christ figures than lions. Lewis, deal with it.
#2. Noddy
Noddy is the main character in a series of children's books about a small wooden toy who lives in Toyland with other toys. His adventures were published from 1949 all the way to 1963. While relatively unknown in the U.S., Noddy books are a huge success in Europe and continue to be great sellers. It's even a multimedia empire, having spawned eight Noddy-based television shows since 1955, including Make Way for Noddy.
A horrible dystopian nightmare.
The Racism:
Just like the Toy Story series makes room for every different type of doll you might have grown up with, Noddy covered the bases of early 20th century toy boxes, featuring characters such as Mr. Tubby Bear (a Teddy bear), Dinah Doll (a china doll) and the Golliwogs (a family of racist monstrosities).
We're gonna have to invent a new kind of disbelieving whistle.
To be fair, Enid Blyton, the creator of Noddy, did not invent the idea of Golliwogs. They were based on real minstrel dolls that British children apparently used to pelt with rubber balls for being ugly. The dolls were even adapted into characters by an earlier children's book author, who apparently was also concerned that there might be some confusion about whether British children were racist.
Going back in time to punch children in the face might not be the worst use of a time machine.
In the Noddy books, the Golliwogs are portrayed as deceitful assholes who trick Noddy and steal his stuff. In Here Comes Noddy Again, the Golliwogs ask Noddy for help, only to take him into the woods and steal his car and clothes.
"This is for centuries of toy box repression!"
When a new entry in the Noddy saga was published in 2009, Blyton's granddaughter decided not to include the Golliwogs characters, explaining that "the toys themselves are symbols of an ugly racist period in our history. Suggesting that those toys would steal cars and clothing from white toys is just offensive. We obviously know that now."
Oh, sorry, that was actually the voice of reason we were quoting there. Blyton's granddaughter only reluctantly left the toys out because she thought including them would have been "too controversial."
#1. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
This book has been featured several times here, mostly because parts of it are nightmare fuel, and also because its writer, Roald Dahl, was some sort of nymphomaniac James Bond. But there are also aspects of the book that don't make Dahl seem like an awesome guy to party with.
You probably remember the Oompa Loompas -- they look like compact clowns and sing creepy songs while getting rid of the corpses of the victims of Willy Wonka's shoddy factory safety standards. If you are wondering what's so racist about them it's because you are only familiar with them from the movies.
"Oompa Loompa doompa dee doo, when you're buried in our backyard, no one'll find you!"
The Racism:
In the original book, the Oompa Loompas don't come from Loompaland -- they come from Central Africa, and they were described as just regular ol' black pygmies and not hippie clown dwarfs. They were relocated to Loompaland and their skin was changed from black to white in the illustrations thanks to growing controversy in the '70s. Get your hands on one of the versions printed before the world came to its goddamn senses, and you'll read about how Willy Wonka simply found a tribe of Africans, enslaved them and used them to replace his regular work force because they were willing to work for chocolate. And before you complain that they were not slaves because they got paid, we'd remind you that even the worst slave owners fed their slaves a more balanced diet than Mr. Wonka.
1964 Africans, and 1973 Scottish soccer hooligans.
Of course, the original treatment of the Oompa Loompas is reminiscent of colonial Europe, when white folks were still able to convince each other that they were doing all the other races a favor by enslaving them. Unfortunately for Dahl apologists, the book was published in 1964, right around the time that the "Hey, everyone thinks black people are funny little animals" argument became a hundred goddamn years too late.
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As we've pointed out before, Dahl even based some of the ideas from the book on actual events involving real chocolate companies. So Dahl was probably at least partially aware that a lot of the cacao plantation workers in Ivory Coast, the biggest producer of chocolate, were practically enslaved African children. It seems more than a little insensitive of Dahl to give Wonka a bunch of funny little African slaves who happily give away their freedom just to give white kids some chocolate. But then again, he's never been the most sympathetic guy when it comes to children.
"You tried to drink from my giant pool of delicious chocolate? Death by suffocation!"
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In Battlefield 3, (non-hardcore) I know that grenades can damage both enemies and teammates. Does this also apply to mortar fire? Am I hurting my own team with splash damage?
No, you aren't. Not physically, at least. If one of your mortar rounds lands close to a teammate (in non-hardcore), your teammate won't take any damage. It DOES cause their screen to shake horribly, which can be harmful if they're currently in a gunfight, as it throws off their accuracy and leaves them vulnerable to enemy fire without the ability to return fire easily. It only lasts for a couple of seconds though.
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STEWART, Ruth D., 79, of New Cumberland, WV, passed away Thursday, October 18, 2012, at her residence.
She was born April 3, 1933, in Indian Creek, WV, a daughter of the late Carl and Etta (Jones) Summers. She is also preceded in death by her husband Gerald L. Stewart, a grandson Shawn McAbee and a great-grandson Kyle McAbee.
Ruth was a retired bookkeeper from Bank One in Toronto, OH, and was a member of Kings Creek Union Chapel.
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Surviving are her children: Viola (Chris) Cochrane of New Cumberland, WV, Kay (Terry) Gajtka of Weirton, WV, and William (Dawn) Croninof Weirton, WV; seven grandchildren: Juanita (Gary) Gill, Troy McAbee, Terry (Danielle) Gajtka, Caitlin Cronin, Shelby Cronin, Brooke Cronin and Liam Cronin; five great-grandchildren: Kaeleen, Autumn, Sierra, Darlene and Garrett; and stepchildren and step- grandchildren.
Friends will be received Friday from 2-8 p.m. at the Turley Funeral Home.
Services will be there Saturday, October 20, 2012, at 11 a.m. with Chaplain George Romage from Valley Hospice officiating. Interment will follow in the New Cumberland Cemetery.
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I would like to password protect or encrypt a directory and all the files within it (for the whole directory tree below it). I do not want to bother the whole home directory, I want a specific directory with some files and folders in it. I would like to be able to encrypt the directory or decrypt it using a password. Command line would be nicest to use. I don't want to have to create a new file as an encrypted version and then, delete the previous ones which are the non-encrypted version.
Use encfs (available as a package on most distributions). To set up:
The initial call to
In other words, for files under
When you've finished working with your files for the time being, unmount the filesystem so that the data can't be accessed until you type your passphrase again:
After that point,
When you later want to work on these files again, mount the encrypted filesystem:
This, again, makes the encrypted files in
You can change the mount point
But that's exactly the scenario you've described...."be able to encrypt the directory or decrypt it"
I suspect the solution you're looking for is an encrypted FUSE or similar. The filesystem is stored in an encrypted file and when mounted (with a passphrase) there is transparent access via the VFS layer.
Note that there are no "contents of a directory", a directory simply associates names with inodes, the same inodes can have lots of other names pointing at them.
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I created a site with anonymous access and forms based authentication. Now I want to show the link to create a new user in the master page when ever no one is signed in. Can any one please help to achieve this process? Following are the screen shots for more details.
You could add a delegate control and user control to check to your master page, and check if the user is anonymous then show the link :)
Add a Delegate control to your master page:
Only thing to note here at this stage is the ControlId attribute - the Feature we create will use this to substitute the real user/server control.
Then we have the feature.xml file, where we specify the feature details (including scope):
the 'instructions' for the feature are in the element manifest:
In the COBPageHeader.ascx code-behind, add the logic of hiding link.
You can check if the CurrentUser has a LoginName which is not an empty string attached to the SPContext.Current.User object. If the LoginName is null or empty, then the user is anonymous.
Code here: http://spdailytips.blogspot.in/2011/09/programmatically-verify-if-current-user.html
You can write the code in a delegate control which will be attached to the Master Page. The Delegate Control will check If the user is anonymous, and if yes, push the link to the page.
I have recently made use of this feature, made use of a delegate control to accomplish this


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What considerations should be made for converting a downstem shifting system to barcons? Both the current system and the system that I would like are friction shifters.
The bike is a 1986 Peugeot Iseran 10-speed.
Thanks and be well.
If they are both friction shift sets, there is no conversion necessary. Just new cables, and placing the new shifters on the bar before routing the new cables.
Difficulty might be finding good quality friction shifters to begin with, but there's nothing complicated about the changeover.
According to the '86 Peugeot catalog you're dealing with stem shifters. You should have cable stops on the downtube. You will use those. Measure your handlebar inside diameter to ensure you can find barcons that will fit. If it's not standardized, get a new handlebar.