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18-Volt Cordless Recip Saws Tool Test
The adjustable shoe of the Metabo locks in place with two set screws and a hex wrench, which can be stored in an onboard slot. A lever lifts to operate the blade clamp.
2. Large fold-out hooks on the Makita and Milwaukee Fuel allow you to hang the saws from rafters, ladders, or scaffolding. The hooks click into position or stow flat against the tool.
The multiposition shoes of both DeWalt saws and the Makita (shown here) lock in place with a sliding button mechanism.
The blade clamp on both DeWalt saws can hold a blade in four different cutting positions. An additional slot holds the blade perpendicular to the handle, and when the saw is held upside down, this position allows for closer flush cuts without having to bend the blade very far to get it flat to the cutting surface.
The Metabo and Panasonic (shown here) saws have a spring-loaded trigger lock-off switch that must be pushed while pulling the trigger before the tool will turn on. These switches are a nuisance and require you to reposition your grip every time you start up the saw.
The Bosch has fixed-position shoes and a metal blade-clamp collar. The clamp ejects the blade when you twist it and remains open until another blade is inserted, making it possible to change a blade with one hand.
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The Hitachis tiny spring-loaded lever pivots to release or lock the blade. Its wise to lock the lever manually, a two-hands operation, rather than rely on the small spring to secure the blade.
The multiposition shoes of the Milwaukee Fuel (shown here) and the Ridgid lock in place with a lever clamp.
LED headlights are found on the Makita, Milwaukee Fuel (shown here), and Ridgid saws. The Ridgids light has a separate switch, built into the handle, for flashlight use without running the saw motor, while the other two have a built-in delay that keeps the light on for a short while after a tap on the trigger.
Battery-charge gauges mounted on the battery itself allow you to check power without having to slide the battery into the tool. A tool-mounted gauge, such as on the Hitachi saw, allows checking the charge of any battery once it is inserted.
Five years ago, our test of the first generation of lithium-ion (Li) powered reciprocating saws determined that for getting the job done quickly, 36-volt tools were the ones to buy—most 18-volt models weren't up to jobsite challenges. But I'm happy to report that advancements in motor and battery technology make some of the newer 18-volt models capable of serious work. They're worth considering to add cordless convenience to your demolition and other recip-saw jobs.
I tested the tools in kit form with a battery, charger, and carrying case (where available). Keep in mind that these saws are also sold without batteries or chargers (referred to as bare tools) for users who already have batteries and chargers from the same manufacturer.
If that's your situation, you might decide not to buy the tool that we thought was the best. Instead, you might just need to know whether your brand is good enough to get the job done. I included performance details and provided complete information on each saw we tested.
During my time with these tools, I evaluated and tested each one. I used 6-inch-long, 6 TPI Lenox blades (B656R) to cut through blade-wrecking test planks similar to the ones I used for my reciprocating-saw-blade test in the Winter 2012 issue of TOOLS OF THE TRADE.
The planks are made from a piece of OSB sandwiched between 2x6s and capped with a layer of 5/8-inch drywall and more OSB. The central piece of OSB is flanked by 12 rows of nails glued rigidly into grooves—10 rows of 16d commons, one of 16d sinkers, and one of 8d sinkers. The result is that each pass of a saw blade though these planks cuts 12 nails.
I clamped the planks into a waist-height vise so I could really lean into the cuts. All the tools could cut through these test planks, but while some sprinted, others made it only at a crawl. When I really pushed the tools, the important performance differences became evident.
My tests enabled me to classify the saws as light-, medium-, or heavy-duty tools. I also categorized them by how much they vibrate in use: low, medium, medium high, or high.
And after making hundreds of cuts with these saws, I made comments about all of them, some that you can read below. You can also see the saws' complete specifications and comments on them.
When testing the saws, I rated their performance in two ways (see charts at right). To rate power, I timed how long it took each saw to cut through a doubled 2x6. And to rate runtime, I counted the number of times each saw cut through a doubled 2x6 on a single battery charge. (Before every test, I put a new blade in each saw.)
While using the saws, I discovered a few basic tendencies they displayed while under load. Power is the main takeaway here, but a reciprocating saw needs more than just that to excel. The saws' ability to cut aggressively and for long periods of time relies on several factors: keeping the battery from overheating, longer stroke lengths that clear sawdust faster, and vibration control that keeps the blade firmly in the bottom of the kerf.
I pushed the tools hard because that's the way they are used in the field. No one babies a reciprocating saw. Plus real-world use allowed me to separate them into three performance categories:
1. Heavy-duty saws could take as much force as I could apply, without stalling or bogging down dramatically, so pushing harder generally resulted in faster cutting. These tools cut the quickest and were the least temperamental and therefore shaped the category I preferred overall. The dogged performance of the four Milwaukee and DeWalt tools earned them each a place in this category.
2. Medium-duty saws had a limiting pace that they couldn't be coaxed out of, but at least they acted predictably. Pushing harder didn't make them cut faster, but it didn't slow them down much, either. Though they make you wait longer for the results, they get the job done, so one of these saws may be all that's needed for average tasks. Saws by Bosch, Hitachi, and Panasonic made the cut for this category.
3. Light-duty saws are more trying to use because when you push harder, motor speeds (and already conservative cutting speed) drop dramatically, and they stall frequently. These tools actually perform better if you let up on the pressure, but I find it difficult to use a saw that I have to baby while trying get the job done. The Makita, Metabo, and Ridgid saws fell into this category.
It's not surprising that a battery with higher amp-hour ratings will run a saw for a longer stretch of time than one with a lower rating. As such, runtime tests are often a test of a battery, not of the saw.
So, instead of measuring the time a tool ran on a battery charge, I measured how much work each tool could do on a charge. Consequently, if a tool is a slow performer, it may actually run longer than a fast-cutting tool, but what's important is the work that results from the operating time. When fully loaded in 3-inch-thick cuts, even the best saws may only cut for five minutes before needing to be recharged.
The trade-off between a powerful and a gentle tool is usually how fast it cuts. For the sake of my carpal tunnel syndrome and bouts of tendonitis, I wish there were a fast-cutting tool that didn't vibrate a lot, but the fastest-cutting tools are all a bit on the brutal side.
That being said, because the most comfortable tools are on the slow side, I'd rather endure a reasonable amount of vibration to get the job done faster instead of losing time waiting on a gentle tool to make the cut. Here's how the tested tools "shook out" in terms of overall felt vibration during many types of cuts:
Low: Hitachi, Metabo, and Ridgid
Medium: Makita, Milwaukee Fuel
Medium-high: Bosch, Milwaukee
High: both DeWalts and Panasonic
The easiest ways to reduce vibration are to secure your work as firmly as possible and to use a lot of force to push the shoe of the saw against the material being cut. Another technique is to reduce your feed speed or motor speed. Often, you can find a sweet spot where the vibrations cancel each other out, and reducing your feed pressure usually keeps the blade from pushing back toward you with so much force.
The Panasonic saw has a feature that causes uncontrollable vibration. Instead of having a rigid shoe to hold firmly against the work surface, this saw actually has little springs inside that provide shock absorber–type suspension to the shoe. This means that whenever the blade teeth bite into the wood and pull back toward the saw, instead of pulling firmly against the shoe's resistance to rip out the wood, the firmly anchored blade actually jerks the entire saw forward as the flex of the springs allows the shoe to move freely.
This action also makes it very difficult to slowly and carefully start cuts in wood or metal, because once the saw teeth get the slightest bite, the saw just bounces back and forth instead of moving the blade through the material.
Other than possibly replacing the springs with steel pins to negate this ill-conceived suspension design, there is no way around this excessive and needless vibration. Either you have to push forward incredibly hard in an attempt to bottom out the springs, or you must hold the tool back with the minimum amount of force against the shoe. Both ways, at times this saw will practically shake the earplugs out of your head.
Besides vibration, a few other considerations affect the comfort of using these saws. The Metabo and Panasonic saws have a spring-loaded trigger lock-switch that must be pushed in before you pull the trigger. Pushing the switch in before every cut requires you to move your hand from its ideal grip position constantly, which causes grip strain and wastes time.
Another consideration is the shape of the top of the tool's trigger handle. Tools with a rounded-over profile are much friendlier to your hand and easier to grip than those with a pronounced ridge above the handgrip. When I use a recip saw for extended periods, I push on the top of the tool with my left hand; saws with a ridged-top grip handle are uncomfortable and fatiguing. The Milwaukee and both DeWalt saws provide great examples of this grip surface done right.
Adjustable shoes allow you to control the saw's cutting depth, which is important for plunge-cutting safely into walls, floors, ceilings, or roofs. But just as important, an adjustable shoe allows you to use all the teeth on a blade. When one section of a blade's teeth get dull, you can adjust the depth of cut and then use a previously unused section with sharp teeth.
This isn't just a matter of blade economy in dollars and cents, but truly an underused timesaver on the job. When making repetitive cuts, the same teeth are being used (and dulled) constantly, but by moving the blade so that even just a few fresh teeth are put into action, cutting times and therefore practical blade life can improve dramatically.
The overall winner is the Milwaukee Fuel model. It cut the fastest, ran the longest, and managed vibration better than the other heavy-duty saws. It features a sturdy adjustable shoe, a quick-acting blade clamp, a useful hanging hook, and LED headlight.
The second-place tools are the Milwaukee and 20V Max DeWalt saws—both strong and capable where it counts in performance. The Milwaukee lacks an adjustable shoe, but the DeWalt has much more vibration, so their exact placement is a toss-up.
Like its brandmate, the DC5385L DeWalt is a strong performer, but it misses the mark with its low runtime.
Next in order come Bosch and Hitachi—both quality saws that work diligently but more slowly than the top-tier saws. The Metabo saw follows. And low or troublesome performance issues have the Makita, Panasonic, and Ridgid trailing the others.
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Yesterday, I downloaded and installed a Ubuntu 13.04 (using the minimised CD) on a Revo. Everything worked fine, I quited liked it (pretty new to Linux), and I thought I'd add it to my PC as a dual boot with Windows 8.
So, I put the same CD in my PC, ran through the install, selecting exactly the same options (except for the dual boot), but it's different. When I booted (selecting Ubuntu from the GRUB menu), I was presented with a screen saying
From what I understand it is designed primarily for machines that do not have the recommended specs for Ubuntu, but not only is my PC considerably more powerful than the Revo, I was never offered a choice.
First and foremost, can anyone explain why this would have been installed and not the proper version of Ubuntu? And I'd like to reiterate - until I started booting, Xubuntu had not been mentioned, and and was certainly not asked if I'd like to install that instead.
Next, I wonder how I can safely remove it? I'd like to not have to faff about fixing my MBR, so is there a way to safely remove Xununtu without affecting it? Thanks.

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This has been an exciting year at Pentaho. We have built some revolutionary products, expanded our international presence, pioneered the way in Big Data Analytics, and seen unprecedented growth month over month. As a reflection of Pentaho's continued momentum into 2011, the theme of this year's Global Partner Summit is 'Rising Above'.
This turnkey event will equip your team with the knowledge, inspiration, and resources necessary to drive revenue with your Pentaho partnership. There are countless reasons to attend the Pentaho Global Partner Summit this January, here are our top 10:
10. San Francisco is rated in the Top 5 of US News & World Report's 'World's Best Places to Visit'. What are you waiting for?
9. Gain an insider's view on the future direction of Pentaho in 2011, both as a company and as a product.
8. Learn how to improve your market development with sessions such as "Lead Generation 2.0" and first-hand how-to success stories from some of Pentaho's top parters.
7. The man that CNNMoney.com declares has the #35 Best Job in America will be serving up a number of educational sessions on topics such as "Extending Pentaho's Capabilities" and "Agile BI Methodology".
6. You have the opportunity to do a 5 minute presentation on your own success with Pentaho for the Global Partner Network during an exciting "Lightening Round" session.
5. The 2011 Partner Awards will be announced!
4. Jos van Dongen, co-author of the Amazon best-selling books Pentaho Solutions and Pentaho Kettle Solutions, will be delivering a candid and informative Keynote speech on the business intelligence space and where Pentaho falls on the map.
3. Connect with Pentaho partners from around the world to share best practices on driving revenue with open source business intelligence.
2. Meet one-on-one with Pentaho's top executive team, including Richard Daley, CEO, James Dixon, Chief Geek, Lars Nordwall, VP Worldwide Sales, and many more.
1. Now is the time to take your company to the next level and this is the turnkey event to help your BI practice to 'Rise Above' in 2011!
Find out more about Rising Above: Pentaho Global Partner Summit 2011 here, and be sure to join the conversation with us on Twitter with the hashtag #PGPS.


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Major in Biology
Offered by the Saint Louis University College of Arts and Sciences
Download a fact sheet about SLU's undergraduate biology degree.
Saint Louis University Biology Program OverviewSaint Louis University offers both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. You can further customize your degree by choosing from up to five tracks of study, including biological science; plant science; ecology, evolutionary and organismal biology; cell biology and physiology and molecular biology.
SLU biology students take their studies beyond the limits of the classroom, with experiences at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, as well as nearby Missouri Botanical Garden, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the Saint Louis Zoo.
What You'll Learn in SLU's Biology ProgramSLU's department of biology has a field station for research and teaching that provides unique opportunities for you to explore ecology and conservation biology through hands-on experiments and undergraduate research.
Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology choose from tracks in biological science, plant science or the ecology, evolutionary or organismal biology.
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Please share some high PR forum sites where I can Make my back links from the posts.
Good forums to promote your site ?
Go4Expert.com is one of them
Self promotion
Self promotion
Here are some of those forums:
4 http://www.go4expert.com/ 3 http://www.geekpoint.net/ 4 http://www.webmastershelp.com/ 3 http://www.webmasterforums.com/ 3 http://www.webmasterforums.net
I cannot suggest you the sites as the PR oif the sites keeps on changing from time to change.
I think it depends on what type of site you are trying to promote as well. The best thing is to find relevant blogs to post on!
I think that user's of the forums will be most interested if your site is relevant to there interests. Try searching in google for your site's keywords/primary topic plus the word "forum". You'll often find a few of the best forums for that niche very quickly.
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Curious about text alignment on websites. For a blog, for example, is it better to have left-aligned or justified text? I like the look of justified text but I'm not sure if there's any downsides to it.
In general, left-aligned text is the way to go. We read from left-to-right (at least in the western world anyway), so anything that strays from this will necessarily decrease readability. Sometimes, using variants can be good - especially when you want to draw attention to something by way of contrast. However, for the most part, you'll probably want to stick with boring, old left-aligned.
There are studies out there that support this, but I don't usually bother with them. Instead, I look at blogs and community forums (like this one or any in the Stack Exchange family) and the most popular sites out there. Try looking at the reviews on Amazon.com, postings to your facebook wall, tweets from your favorite celebrities, and search engine listing results from Google. That's enough to tell me that left-aligned seems to be the way to go. If that's not enough evidence, grab a few books from the best-sellers list or a few dozen magazines and see what they are doing. I'll bet you see a pretty consistent pattern.
There are downsides to fully-justified text. Here's what the W3C had to say in the Techniques and Failures for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0:
This is especially true if hyphenation is not done properly. I would avoid fully-justified text and stick to left justified in most, if not all situations.
Regarding alignment of text you should read this article, it tells a lot :) http://uxmovement.com/content/why-you-should-never-center-align-paragraph-text
IMHO you should use center aligning mainly for menus, tab titles, some cases even for H1 if it suits your site.
I've always found justified text to be overrated. Unless you're very careful, justified text can cause artifacts such as lines with large spaces between words. I suggest that:
Ofcourse, justified text has a rigit and box alike feeling. But, as far as I've read various articles about that, using left-aligned and 13-16 words per line for readability is adviced.


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To submit a report, you must obtain the project number and code and be a registered user of MySARE to claim your project. MySARE is an online reporting system that allows SARE project coordinators to submit project reports, events, and resources to SARE and the public.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sen. Ron Johnson on Thursday said he went a bit too far in speculating about why Hillary Clinton choked up during her Senate testimony on the U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya.
"I did not accuse her of crying," Johnson said on CNN's "Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien." "I was responding to a question, Soledad. I probably speculated and I shouldn't of."
The senator from Wisconsin, who was elected with tea party support in 2010, questioned Wednesday whether Clinton's emotional moments on Capitol Hill Wednesday were nothing but an aversion strategy.
"I think she just decided before she was going to describe emotionally the four dead Americans, the heroes, and use that as her trump card to get out of the questions. It was a good way of getting out of really having to respond to me," Johnson said in an interview with BuzzFeed.
While Clinton did tear up in her comments-talking about those killed and their families–she also erupted in anger at one point when Johnson grilled her about the erroneous, initial talking points used to explain the cause of the attack to the public. While it was first said to have been spurred by a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islam film, the administration later defined the violence as a planned terrorist attack.
"With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans," Clinton said in response to Johnson's repeated questions. "Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night decided they'd go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator."
Her quote–"What difference does it make?"–quickly went viral, with some conservatives using it as an attack line on Twitter.
Speaking Thursday, Johnson stood by his questions, saying it was "important that we should have obtained those answers right away" and accusing the administration of "playing election politics, no doubt about it."
"I really think the American people do have an expectation that this president, this administration is honest with them, so I think it makes a great deal of difference," he added, arguing the State Department and intelligence community should have had a clearer picture of the events that unfolded.
Further pressed about Clinton's answers to his questions, Johnson said he did agree with Clinton on one point.
"The bottom line is I agree with Secretary Clinton that we need to understand what happened so we can prevent it in the future," he said.
Following her appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Clinton gave testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee later in the day Wednesday.


text: This is one exciting and easy lesson that is going to be fun to tackle. Anyone of all ages and skill levels will enjoy learning "how to draw Batman for kids", step by step. I have so many ways to remake superheroes, but I find the best way is to do it in a very easy and childish form. Drawing Batman for kids will prove that you don't have to make a sketch with so many details to look good, all you need to simplicity. Have fun people, I want to upload the last Mega Pokemon but I have something to do real quick so we'll see.


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Hi everyone, first post here...
I've been trying to get my head around why a likelihood isn't a probability density function. My understanding says that for an event X and a model parameter m:
P(X|m) is a probability density function
P(m|X) is not
It feels like it should be, and I can't find a clear explanation of why it's not. Does it also mean that a Likelihood can take a value greater than 1?
Sorry if this is a stupid question!


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7 Inventors You Didn't Know You Wanted to Punch In the Face
Throughout the course of an average day, you're probably faced with 10 to 20 different things that make you say, "Man, if I knew who came up with that idea, I'd punch them clean in the face." But where do you place that absolutely understandable rage? You place it on these people. With your fist, if possible.
#7. Mitch Bainwol, Head of the RIAA
The Man
Mitch Bainwol is the current CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Christ, do we even need to finish this entry? You've probably heard all you need to hear.
The Crime
The following scenario is brought to you by Mitch Bainwol:
After receiving an email from that unofficial Miley Cyrus fanclub message board that you're way too old to be signed up for, you find out that her new album has leaked to the Internet a month early. You can barely sit still as you joyfully count the seconds away to torrent download completion and pure unadulterated teen-pop magic. A few days later, you get another email that goes something like this:
Dear Anonymous Internet User,
Please give us $3,000 for that Miley Cyrus album you downloaded or we will end your shit.
The RIAA
Prior to 2003, the RIAA was still not winning any popularity awards among the American public. However their hate crimes against music and teenagers had been limited to dismantling Internet file-sharing services and creating copy-protected CDs that nobody could use. Then in 2003, the board of directors decided to fuck Public Relations all together and summoned Mitch Bainwol from the deepest pits of Litigation Hell.
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh M'tch B'nwol R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!"
Bainwol (equipped with his legions of lawyer minions) set to work in ravaging the bank accounts of their own customers who were, in many cases, downloading a couple of tracks from an album to see if they wanted to buy it. His victims of choice include any student with a college fund, any parent with a school kid and any house with a computer. Usually, defendants pay a settlement fee (that ranges anywhere from $3,000-$12,000) but in the instances where the cases went to court... let's just say Christmas came early at the Bainwol household. In the case against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the RIAA was awarded $80,000 per song, or $1.92 million after she was found guilty of sharing the most embarrassing 24 song playlist imaginable with countless Internet users.
Moments before a SWAT team busted in.
Of course if Bainwol had stopped there, he probably wouldn't have made this list. But, feeling that the RIAA coffers weren't filled quite enough with gold and tears, his lawyers later claimed that you are violating copyright law if you rip a CD you own to your own computer.
They claim this to be because the user is transferring the music into a medium "not of the artist's choosing." By that logic, even singing in the shower could be considered a felony as you are using an unauthorized medium of atmospheric vibrations.
#6. John Langley, Inventor of Reality TV
The Man
John Langley is an American television director. Among his credits are documentaries like American Vice: The Doping of a Nation, Who Murdered J.F.K. and Terrorism: Target U.S.A. Oh, he's also the creator of the FOX television mainstay Cops, which lit the fuse on the Reality Television turd bomb.
The Crime
During the infamous Writers Guild Strike of 1988, television networks suddenly found themselves at a loss for badly-thought out teleplays. Without the writers to tell them exactly when to bring coma patients back to life, soap operas suffered immensely. The season finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation was composed almost entirely of footage from previous episodes. To this day, just the thought of that debacle sends fanboys into nerdtastic convulsions.
Above: Seething nerd rage
Meanwhile, inspired by the natural eloquence of the stoners he filmed being locked up on his documentary American Vice, Langley approached FOX with the idea for an unscripted reality show where the cameras just follow a bunch of cops around and watch them arrest people and chase them through alleys. Realizing he had just pitched a show where they would not have to pay writers or actors, the network jumped at the proposal and Cops, America's first reality TV show, was born.
With the creation of Cops, Langley earned himself a whole new title: "The Father of Reality TV." Yeah, MTV took the format to dastardly new heights with The Real World, but the fact remains, when it comes to shit you could sit on your front porch and see (depending on your neighborhood) being passed off as good television, Cops did it first.
We promise, we don't put the lyrics down h- BAD BOYS BAD BOYS WHATCHA GONNA DO!
And now, you get to spend your Tuesday nights watching obese people cry about how their mommies never loved them and dudes with washboard abs trying to pick a future ex-wife from a bevy of fake breasted skanks, all thanks to one guy who figured out that you don't need to spend a bunch of money on creative people because, after all, the viewers will watch anything.
#5. Ronald A. Katz, Inventor of the Automated Call Center
The Man
Ronald A. Katz is an innovator in the field of automated call center technology. That sentence alone should be hint enough that he's worthy of a shot to the grill, but we'll go on. His inventions are varied, ranging from moderately useful (toll free numbers, computer telephone integration units) to mostly ineffective (voice recognition systems).
"Since we can't legally show you a photo of Katz,
we've had an artist create this rough depiction of how he might look today."
But he also invented something else, something so nefarious that, if he happened to be in the room while you were using it, you'd very likely throttle his windpipe without so much as a second thought about the possible consequences.
The Crime
Do these words sound familiar to you?
"Hello, you've reached the Asshole Company That Doesn't Give a Shit About You customer helpline. For assistance in paying bills, press one; to receive product information, press two; if you have a problem with our product, press three; if none of these options apply, press four and your call will be disconnected leaving you to aimlessly wander around our website in a desperate last ditch effort to resolve your issue..."
By the looks of the blood rushing to your ears, we're guessing you've already been acquainted with automated customer service representatives. When it comes to those lifeless, automated agents of uselessness and frustration, Katz is their god. During his years spent transforming your life into an automated Hell on Earth, Katz has obtained more than 50 U.S. patents. With an estimated 150 companies having purchased licenses to use his patience eroding creations, Ronald Katz is estimated to be the wealthiest patent holder ever. Meanwhile, the check you're trying to write for a 12 pack of Steel Reserve won't go through because Katz's other invention, Telecredit, verified that your account just happens to be $206.38 in the hole. Just one more reason to let one fly on this dude's dome.
#4. Alvin Eicoff, Inventor of the Infomercial
The Man
In the field of advertising, Alvin Eicoff is a legend. In fact, he's so much of a legend that he was elected to the Direct Marketing Association (yes, that really exists). Hell, it was his idea to use toll free phone numbers for television orders. Without this dude, that Snuggie you bought would have included long distance charges. Why would you possibly want to punch this guy in the face?
The Crime
Along with the 800-number thing, Alvin Eicoff also came up with Direct Response Television. What's that, we just pretended you asked? Think "Billy Mays."
Yes, Direct Response Television is that heinous method of product pitching that centers around beating the same message into the bleary eyed customer's subconscious until the only words remaining in their vocabulary are "call now." The products are mostly useless, they pressurize you with time bound offers and the actors pretend to wet themselves with excitement over an orange peeler.
And you fall for that shit because, yeah, now that they mention it some 75 times in 30 seconds, maybe they're right. You do need a carrot juicer! And while you're on the horn, you might as well pick up an Awesome Auger and a pair of scissors that will cut through a penny. That deal only lasts for 10 minutes!
If not for Alvin Eicoff, Mr. T would have never gotten to spread the good news about the FlavorWave.
Every time Billy Mays worked himself into a cocaine fueled lather and screamed at you about the miracle of Magic Putty, he was doing Alvin Eicoff's dirty work. Eicoff later compounded this already dastardly deed by demanding that every ad must end with the words "or your money back." If it hadn't taken you 78 days to get around to using that Showtime Rotisserie that came with the 30 day money back guarantee, you'd maybe be able to thank him for that. But it did, so you can't. Also, he's totally dead. That's what you get for not acting now!


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Her vital organs – liver, kidneys, intestines, brain and lungs – are fully formed and functional, while her head is almost half the length of her entire body. Her forehead temporarily bulges and sits high on her head, but later will change into a more baby-like feature. If you could take a look at your baby, you'd be able to see some exciting details, such as fingernails and peach-fuzzy hair. The outline of her spine is clear to see, too. Spinal nerves stretch out from the spinal cord.
And it's not just your baby who's growing. Your uterus (womb) is now the size of a grapefruit. You may even be able to feel it above the middle of your pubic bone.
Note: Every baby develops differently. This page is designed to give a general idea of how a fetus grows in the uterus.
Last reviewed: August 2009
ReferencesThis article was written using the following sources:
Hadlock FP, Yogesh PS, Kanon DJ, Lindsey JV. 1992. Fetal crown-rump length: Re-evaluation of relation to menstrual age (5-18 weeks) with high-resolution real-time US. Radiology 182(2):501-5
Hill M. 2009. Development week by week. University of New South Wales Embryology. embryology.med.unsw.edu.au [Accessed August 2009]
Medline. 2009. Fetal development. Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia. www.nlm.nih.gov [Accessed August 2009]
Visembryo. 2006. Pregnancy timeline. The Visible Embryo. www.visembryo.com [Accessed August 2009]


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Lots of desktop applications and websites add a border at the edges of the application area.
- Some are clearly made for a good reason. For example, a left and right side border on User Experience.SE actually serves as a tab and shows the current area of the website.
Other seem to bring nothing to UX, instead of wasting the space and makes it impossible to use Fitts's law by positioning critical controls on the edges of the window/page. For example, Windows Defender contains a large border, while:
The application is already in a window which has, as any window, a border displayed by the OS itself,
The content is moreover positioned in inner borders.
Is there a reason I ignore which explains the usefulness of those edge borders? Or is it just a designer's mistake?


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Earlier this month Atlus revealed that its quirky RPG Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars would be out sometime in May on the European Nintendo eShop and PlayStation Store. Now the publisher has announced that the game will be released on May 14th in PAL territories and that a demo is now available to download from the PlayStation Store.
The sample weighs in at 615MB and will introduce players to Conception II's seven heroines, making Star Children and its "unique combat positioning system". Any progress you make in the demo can be transferred over to the full game and players will even receive a set of critical stat boosts as a reward for doing so.
Here's a new trailer for Conception II showing the game's intriguing blend of high school life and dungeon crawling:
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High school football season officially begins Wednesday and to get it all started, we've come up with 25 questions (and what can be construed as answers) about the upcoming season. We answered five Monday, five more today and then we'll post the remainder of them on the Red Zone blog.
Let's get started:
Can Crosby be this year's city sleeper team?
A few coaches around the NVL think so. One coach said that the Bulldogs have looked exceptional in 7-on-7 drills during the offseason with some fresh talent at wide receiver and rising sophomore Mike Marshall slinging it around.
Of course, 7-on-7 doesn't always add up to wins during the fall. Crosby will need to shore up its defense and find a consistent running game if it wants to press Holy Cross in the NVL Brass.
How beneficial will the Sacred Heart-Kaynor Tech co-op be?
It can't do anything but help the Hearts' program, which was probably not going to survive another season without bringing Kaynor Tech on board.
Sacred Heart had some solid offensive skill players last season, but lack of depth everywhere prevented the Hearts from being competitive in most games. That should be less of a problem this season.
What happened to Saturday morning football?
This is the one question to which we don't have an answer. We're doing to dive a little deeper into this topic in the near future because it's something that has to be addressed.
The way the NVL schedule currently stands, there is only one Saturday morning game: Torrington at Sacred Heart-Kaynor Tech on Oct. 4.
Maybe administrators feel some invisible pressure to use their schools' lights and fit in with the Friday Night Lights trend, but it has come time to step back and recognize the more startling trend.
Attendance at night games has been downright awful in recent years. Everyone wants a solution, but nobody wants to try a few Saturday morning games that drew so well for years and years.
How many playoff teams will come from the area?
About one-third of the 24 local teams could end up in position to make a run at the state playoffs, which will result in eight champions for this year only.
Defending Class LL champion Southington and defending Class S champ Ansonia lead the pack, and Naugatuck should have a very good opportunity at a Class L berth. Class S should see Holy Cross, Woodland, Seymour and Derby all fighting for a couple of berths (maybe two of the four will make it), while Wolcott should be in the Class M mix.
Which team will be the NVL favorite?
Conventional wisdom points to three-time defending champion Ansonia, and that's probably the smart way to go. By the end of the season, the Chargers will be much better than a relative lack of experience points toward right now.
But Naugy's passing game is going to be tremendous. Its line is among the biggest and most seasoned in the area. There's speed all over the defense. And the Greyhounds won't have to try to tackle Arkeel Newsome.
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- gba - Tuesday, Thursday & Friday Evenings. Saturday all day, Sunday all day.
- ladyfox14 - Tuesday-Saturday all day though I will be busy checking out apartments this month as well as covering extra work shifts
- rubin110 - Friday the 17th most likely.
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- Someone suggested bracelets, but why? nobody here to support
- Suggested that the invite, when written, will be to "A Member and a Guest"
- Suggested name for the open house: "Halloween Hack"
- Designated drivers or transportation would be nice for Mik.
- Suggested time for event: 7p - 11p
- For general meeting: We need volunteers for cleanup
- Suggested beer for the keg: Bass (NO ARGUMENTS HEARD ON THIS ONE)
- For general meeting: Can we use noisebridge funds for party supplies?
- For General Meeting: What projects would we like to show off at the open house?
- Suggested Projects
- Stein's Wii visuals
- Hacked Pumpkins
- Stanford laptop orchestra
- Suggested Projects
- For General meeting: Safety: People need to bring important shit home for the open house.
- Suggested time for costume contest: 9PM
- Need to know: how late can we go, and at what noise level?
- Suggestions for Music:
- Jukebox with controller
- Mix CD compiled by someone
- For general meeting: we would like people to RSVP by the tuesday before the open house
- We need to draft the invite
- we'd like to use disposable & environmentally friendly party supplies
- suggestion for decorations: j-pop theme, with UV lights
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- This means vegetarian friendly munchies.
- In parallel with "non-restricted" munchies? Michiexile 17:44, 15 October 2008 (PDT)
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- We should have cool visuals playing on the projector.
- It would be cool if we had face paint if anyone wanted to get creative. And anyone for glow sticks?
- We need to remember to get wrist bands to give out to the attendees.
Actually ... y'know .. chicken feet _would_ be cool.
- Homebrew candy - candycanes? (difficult, involves HOT sugar and preferably marble benches), candied stuff (violet, lavender, ginger, et.c. - involves MUCH less mess, but still hot sugar), chocolate, et.c.
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Websites with halloween-themed projects
- halloween projects at evilmadscientist.com -Endenizen 17:21, 15 October 2008 (PDT)
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5 Myths About Illegal Drugs You Probably Believe
As a kid, chances are you heard a wide range of "facts" about drug use from a variety of sources. Even as your parents were telling you that a single bong hit would land you directly in some disease-ridden Mexican prison, your stoner friend was pulling you aside to tell you that one hit off of his bong would make you at one with the universe and cure any potential cancers you might have. But as with many things on which opinions vary so widely, much of what you've been told is utter horseshit.
To be clear, we're not advocating the use of any of these drugs, and we're outright telling you not to break the law unless you want to risk ruining your life. But that said, there are a lot of myths out there in need of busting.
#5. LSD Makes You Insane
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The Myth:
Trip on LSD more than seven times and you'll be declared legally insane. The government will grab its official red Sharpie and scrawl "Total Nutjob" across your permanent record, and your family will probably desert you to some Cuckoo's Nest-esque psych ward. If you're lucky, you might start believing that the laws of physics don't apply to you, allowing you to escape from your self-induced hell (by attempting to "fly" off the roof of a building or dodge freeway traffic).
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The Reality:
The first problem with this myth is that "insane" isn't a real legal term, except in rare cases of pleading the insanity defense (the media love to latch onto such cases with their little lamprey mouths, but in actuality they don't occur very often). Plus, there's no scientifically accepted mental disorder that can be diagnosed simply based on past drug use.
The second problem with this myth is that LSD can't make you insane. In a 1960 study, LSD was given to 2,000 people, half of whom were known to be either mentally ill or genetically predisposed to mental illness. Only 0.13 percent of the test subjects exhibited any form of psychotic behavior, and nearly all of those who did were in the "already kind of crazy" bucket. Scientists hypothesized that LSD doesn't "cause" psychoses, it triggers them -- meaning that the people exhibiting psychotic behavior already had underlying mental problems. Even so, many of the horror stories you've heard about people jumping off the high dive at the Crazytown pool after tripping on acid are completely made up.
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That's not what crazy looks like. It's what we picture when we're doing our mandatory LSD at Cracked.
So, acting as an alarm clock to a user's hibernating psychotic tendencies is the closest LSD comes to "causing insanity." However, even drug-related psychosis isn't exactly "insanity" as it's popularly defined. For one thing, it's temporary, only occurring during use and withdrawal. The symptoms of such psychosis are delusions and hallucinations -- and do you know which other, totally legal drug can cause the exact same symptoms? We bet you can't guess. Go on, guess.
That's right: Alcohol actually causes psychotic behavior much more widely than LSD. A study found that in 2007 more patients (over 160,000 people) were diagnosed with alcohol-related psychosis than with alcohol-related liver damage (cirrhosis). As a matter of fact, you've sort of known about this since you were a kid, even though you may not realize it: Remember the scene in Dumbo where the titular elephant overdoes it on the bubbly, kicking off the "Pink Elephants on Parade" musical number? Yeah, "seeing pink elephants" is a euphemism for alcohol-related psychosis. Oh, that Walt Disney ... always using his kiddie pictures to poke fun at serious societal issues.
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"OK, that's a good start. Now, can we make the clouds rain blood that the castle is vomiting?"
#4. Natural Drugs Aren't as Bad for You
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This one you've heard from your hippie friends: "Don't believe 'The Man' when he says all recreational drugs are bad for you! What I'm giving you are but plants and mushrooms that grow from Mother Earth herself! It's far better to put something natural into your body than some chemical that came out of a factory!"
The Reality:
Let's start with the obvious: A substance being "natural" means precisely squat in terms of its potential risks and benefits. For example, opium, which is squirted straight out of a poppy, is a highly addictive narcotic that can easily kill you dead if you overdo it. Check out this chart comparing all the drugs the popular kids are doing nowadays:
Drugs on the lower left are safer, while ones to the upper right are dangerous-er. Note that everyone's favorite natural drug, marijuana, is just about on par with perhaps the very definition of a synthetic drug -- LSD -- in terms of lethality, while being higher up the dependence ladder. And hey, check out alcohol up there playing alongside cocaine and morphine and heroin like he thinks he's one of the big kids or something. At the risk of causing you to fall into a PowerPoint-induced catatonic state, here's another chart for you to take a gander at:
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Warning: Do no smoke these charts. They are only digital images. Dumbass.
This one's the result of a study led by neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt to rank drugs in terms of the harm they cause to their users and others. While the vegan-friendly mushroom is at the bottom of the list, it's not so far behind Ecstasy and acid, both puked out of some laboratory beaker somewhere. Pot and tobacco are up there near the top mingling with Walter White's favorite synthetic drug, and hey, look at that: Alcohol takes the very top spot. It probably seems like we're bullying poor little booze at this point, but we contend that he's asking for it.
So just because a drug is natural, that doesn't necessarily mean it's any safer -- sometimes, it's quite the opposite. We mentioned above that the poster child of synthetic drugs, LSD, can cause its users to go on psychotic rampages if they're predisposed to them. Do you know which other drug can do that? If you guessed the poster child of all-natural drugs, marijuana, give yourself one (Acapulco) gold star.
Of course, most people are too distracted with a bag of Chili Fritos to act on it.
#3. PCP Turns Normal People Violent ... and Grants Superhuman Strength!
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The Myth:
In the original Terminator film, when the cops see a man with superhuman strength punching through walls, they say, "He was probably on PCP." After all, everybody knows that PCP causes violent behavior, grants superhuman strength, and, oh yeah, makes you go crazy and cut off your own face. When rapper Big Lurch murdered his girlfriend -- and ate some of her -- a few years ago, he blamed PCP.
So a guy on PCP is a cop's worst nightmare, an instant psychopath who can swat off Tasers like flies, flip squad cars with his bare hands, and snap handcuffs in two like some kind of ball-tripping Superman.
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"We gave him some made out of soldering wire, just to fuck with him."
The Reality:
Actually, research shows that PCP does not in fact cause users to exhibit violent behavior or saw their own faces off ... unless those users are already predisposed to such behavior. So in other words, if you're already just about batshit enough to have face-mangling urges before you use PCP, guess what's going to happen after you take some?
As for giving you superhuman strength, no, PCP is not Captain America's Super Soldier Serum. It is true, however, that PCP fucks around with your perceptions -- so you could very well think you're Captain America -- and it anesthetizes you against feeling pain, so you might decide that your face is made of iron and you want to see what happens when you run it through a window. In that sense, it's much like everyone's favorite standby drug, alcohol ... which, in direct contrast to PCP, has in fact been shown to cause aggression.
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Do NOT mention his hair when he's on the Natty Light.
We're not saying that PCP is good for you, or to run out and do it (users have a way of finding themselves on the news the next day). We're just saying it's not magic.


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Must something be unprovable to permit faith in it? Is it possible to have faith in something which is certain provable fact? If something is proven beyond any doubt can you still have faith in it? How?
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The much used ode to faith in the NT book of Hebrews tells us a little bit about what faith is. Here are the first couple verses:
The passage goes on to give many examples, but this bit helps us scope out a definition of faith that is somewhere between the two extremes you suggest in your question. First of all we see that there is assurance. True faith is not blind, it is based on evidence and knowledge. It is a kind of trust. Trust between two parties is established in past encounters but looks forward to the future knowing what to expect from the other party. Secondly it is a conviction. This doesn't have to be without any doubt (in fact many of the people listed as examples in the passage experienced doubt) but it does have to come to a conclusion and really believe/trust.
Faith is built on evidence and knowledge as well as a trust that enables us to be sure the parts we don't fully understand will work out.
Faith and proof are not mutually exclusive -- faith projects evidence of past events into the future.
Something need not be unprovable for a person to have faith in it. For one thing, something might be provable but a person may not have access to the evidence. For example, if you flip a coin, I may have faith that it came up heads. This is certainly not unprovable -- someone can look at the coin. But if I haven't looked at the coin, then I can certainly have faith that it came up heads.
But even if something is provably true and a person has access to that proof, he could still believe the claim on the basis of faith as an independent source of belief. That is, the faith itself is not based on proof, but there is no reason the two sources of belief could not exist concurrently.
For example, if I have faith that a coin came up heads and then I look at it and see that it came up heads, nothing stops me from continuing to have that faith as well. Thus, if I found some error or defect in the proof, the belief would remain, sustained only by the faith.
When we say faith is "in the absence of evidence", we mean that evidence is not required for faith. But "independent of evidence" would perhaps be a more accurate term.
One can argue there is no need for faith if one has evidence. And it is true there is no need for faith to have the belief if one has evidence. But sometimes having the belief is not the only thing that's important. Sometimes the route is as important as the destination.
The New Testament people of Jesus' day did not think faith and proof were mutually exclusive. They used reason to lead them to faith or against it:
John 7:27
John 7:31
John 7:41-42
The people were not believing based on blind faith, but were comparing Jesus and His works against what the OT had to say about the Christ. God gave specific prophecies about the Messiah by which they could judge whether they should believe that He was the Christ or not. In other words, they used reason to seek proofs before faith.
Look at their reasoning: "When the Christ comes, will He do more signs than these which this Man has done?" That's pretty reasonable, since the Messiah will do certain kingdom-oriented miracles when He comes, and the Messiah could not do more or better miracles than were done by the hand of Jesus.
Also, "Will the Christ come out of Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David and from the town of Bethlehem, where David was?" Once again, they judged His life by the Scripture, not blind trust (faith is trust; the element of proofs is not part of its definition any more than "believe" is defined by proofs). They did not know that He was indeed born in Bethlehem (southern Israel),]1 for He had been living in Nazareth and Capernaum (northern Israel -- [Matt. 4:13) after His family moved back from Egypt.
Are faith and proof mutually exclusive?
Vines definition of "faith"
Faith [ 1,,G4102, pistis ] primarily, firm persuasion," a conviction based upon hearing (akin to peitho, "to persuade"), is used in the NT always of "faith in God or Christ, or things spiritual."
If the Greek definition is used, then faith is that in which we trust. Most of what we are persuaded to trust in comes from our experience as "proof". For example, a person may plop himself down in a chair that has held him many times in the past. His faith is demonstrated in that he does not examine it each time he sits in it.
If a person believes in God, he has experienced, received, or is persuaded that God not only exists but is worthy of his trust. One may criticize the person because you feel the person has faith with insufficient "proof", however, it is up to each person to decide how much "proof" is sufficient.
You are buying into atheist ideology if you think that there is no proof or evidence for God's existence
No I do not think so. When New Testament scholars decide on the validity of Jesus' resurrection they do so on the basis of historical facts.
What are these facts I can imagine someone ask?
Now we are left with an event that needs explaining.
How did the tomb become empty?
Many New Testament scholars posit then the idea that his bodily resurrection was the best explanation for this empty tomb. Now not everyone might believe this and it does not prove the resurrection to everyone, but it definitely gives sound and rational basis for a belief in Christ's divinity.
We are very privileged as Christians to have a religion that makes historical claims that are not ambiguous by nature but can be verified on a historical basis.
So in closing. No I do not think faith and proof are mutually exclusive. I think you need proof to have any conviction in the miraculous and I think we have that.
It depends what you mean by "faith".
When regarding religious matters, the most typical definition of "faith", used by religious and non-religious alike--and I'd argue this is the most useful definition in these cases--is: belief in the absence of evidence (and I mean the post-Enlightenment understanding of evidence: independently confirmed by high quality sources, objective, fits into a successful model of the way nature works, reproducible or repeatedly observed, stands up to testing, etc.)
Under this definition, then, the answers to your questions would be:
Either unprovable or as yet unproved.
With this definition, no; then it is no longer an act of holding faith, it is an act of knowing.
No, not with this definition.


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My name is Satchell (like a bag). I operate out of the NYC Metro area and work as a graphic designer and illustrator. I love video games, stand-up comedy, MMA, and I have a pet Betta fish named Gandalf. I graphically outline more about my interests on my landing page.
I'm currently playing Bastion, Fez, Scribblenauts Unlimited, and Dishonored.
Some of my favorite games are Chrono Cross, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Final Fantasy 8, Street Fighter Alpha 3, and WoW (Pre-Cataclysm).
Like everyone else, I blog and just started a gaming podcast with 2 best buddies on iTunes. I used to review music and started reviewing consumer electronics on an old YouTube channel, but recently I've been more and more interested in the development of games. For some reason I always assessed them from the scope of my childhood self; I guess I neglected the fact that I can be a lot more objective and discerning now as an adult. I started a new channel that will be geared more towards my findings there. For now, it's just hosting a nerdy art project =D.
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Real Madrid's match away at Rayo Vallecano on Sunday night was abandoned!
Officials claim that the lighting in the stadium was sabotaged with intruders allegedly cutting the cables!
They hope to play the game now on Monday night but as of yet no time has been arranged for the kick off.
Can anybody else shed some light on this matter?!


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In an ideal world, patients with chronic conditions could take a single pill once a year or undergo a one-time noninvasive treatment that is administered without the need for a hospital or doctor visit. Unfortunately, treatment regimens for many of today's most prevalent chronic conditions, such as cancer, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases, require multiple, repeated doses of drug at frequent and regular intervals.
Opportunities for improvement
There are, however, approved products intended for self-injection by patients, usually for autoimmune diseases like those previously mentioned. These include several TNF-α antibody products such as Johnson & Johnson's Simponi and Abbott Laboratories' Humira. These injections are typically designed for delivery into the subcutaneous space. Attributes of these products have allowed for self-administration, including a relatively low dose (< 100 mg) for efficacy and a reduced risk of life-threatening adverse reaction. Both Simponi and Humira are packaged in 1-mL in length prefilled syringes and dosed on a weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly basis, depending on the patient's particular indication.
In the case of most TNF-α therapies, the therapeutic target and properties of the antibodies used have allowed for relatively easy formulation and manufacturing because the final product viscosity is low (less than five centipoise) and because the product can be delivered through commonly available and well-characterized prefillable syringe systems. However, as pharmaceutical companies develop and test antibodies for new therapeutic products, often in the search for better efficacy and reduced side effects, challenges can arise. In cases where the dose required for efficacy is significantly higher than currently approved self-injected products, for example, one must choose between more frequent subcutaneous injections and clinically administered IV infusion.


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Dakota Wesleyan has once again been named a "Military Friendly School."
DWU is listed in the September 2014 issue of the "Guide to Military Friendly Schools," which Victory Media released today, Sept. 17, and which can also be accessed at www.militaryfriendlyschools.com/. The "2014 Guide to Military Friendly Schools" will publish later this month.
"Dakota Wesleyan has a long tradition of supporting American troops and welcoming them back to campus," said DWU President Amy Novak. "Their service to our country is appreciated and deserves to be rewarded with flexibility and understanding."
The 2014 list of Military Friendly Schools® was compiled through extensive research and a data driven survey of more than 12,000 schools nationwide. Methodology, criteria and weighting for the list were developed with the assistance of an Academic Advisory Board (AAB) consisting of educators from schools across the country. Being named a "Military Friendly School" places DWU in the top 15 percent of all colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide.
Jenna Schmaltz, a nursing major at DWU, has served in the Army Reserves since 2007 and was deployed from 2010 to 2011 to southern Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Schmaltz, originally from Charlottesville, Va., has been living in Mitchell for several years and has a family of her own.
"One of the reasons I chose DWU is because it is a military friendly school and the professors help to work with our continued military service schedule," she said. "Sometimes I am notified on a short notice by the military for training, and the professors are all very cooperative and understanding, especially in the nursing department.
"For the nontraditional students that might already have prior college and are coming back to finish it up, I feel like DWU opens their doors and makes us feel like we never left," Schmaltz added. "They treat us just like any other students and help us to make the transition back into the student state-of-mind; especially with the military, seeing things that are tough to process over in the Middle East, the instructors are great at opening their doors and discussing any topics or pointing you in the right direction."
Beau Byrd, an accounting major from White Lake, is retired Army, serving from 1991 to 2011. Originally from Houston, Texas, he said he chose Dakota Wesleyan primarily because of its faith-based education and location.
He said that he agrees that DWU is military friendly.
"The professors and staff have all been really helpful and patient. Transitioning out of the military can be trying and stressful even when we think things and situations are fine. I could have enrolled in a number of universities but would have had to do them exclusively online," Byrd added. "I believe and feel that being in a class environment helps with the learning process. This is another reason I choose DWU, it offers both. During the regular year I can get classroom time in and then during the summer I can get my gen eds done online."


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Time has named Twitter feeds by New York University Professors Marion Nestle and Nouriel Roubini as two of the 140 Twitter feeds "that are shaping the conversation," the magazine announced. The list also includes Lady Gaga, Starbucks, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Boston Celtics Center Shaquille O'Neal, and comedian Conan O'Brien.
Nestle (@marionnestle), the Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, is the author of: Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (revised edition, 2007); Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety (revised edition, 2010); What to Eat (2006); Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine (2008); and Feed Your Pet Right (2010), co-authored with Malden Nesheim. Food Politics captured three prestigious awards after its publication in 2002: the James Beard Literary Award, the Association of American Publishers Award for Public Health, and the Harry Chapin Media Award for Best Book. Nestle is currently writing a book with Nesheim about calories for University of California Press.
Roubini (@Nouriel), a professor in NYU's Stern School of Business, received acclaim for his bearish forecast of the U.S. and world economies and for predicting the subprime crisis well in advance of many economists. His published works include: Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance (2010); Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies (2004); and Political Cycles and the Macroeconomy (1997), all of which were co-authored volumes. Under the Clinton Administration, Roubini served as senior economist for international affairs at the White House Council of Economic Advisors and senior advisor to the under secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department. Roubini has been a long-time consultant to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and other private and public institutions. Roubini is the co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an independent, global macroeconomic and market strategy research firm.
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I am going to South Korea and would like to go to a taping or studio where they film Starcraft/Starcraft2 matches. Could someone give me some insight in where I could make this happen? I have googled it but havent had any luck. Cheers
Wow, this is actually really hard to find and as soon as I read the question I knew exactly the link I was looking for. Strange.
Anyway, here you go: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=80483
SC2 matches are held here: http://www.gomtv.net/faq/view.gom?conid=60920, but if you want to see SC:BW you'll have to use the above link. MBCGame no longer exists so you'll want to look into OGN to watch SC1 matches.
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Simple Definition of interfere
: to become involved in the activities and concerns of other people when your involvement is not wanted
Full Definition of interfere
intransitive verb
1 : to interpose in a way that hinders or impedes : come into collision or be in opposition
2 : to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in walking or running —used especially of horses
3 : to enter into or take a part in the concerns of others
4 : to act reciprocally so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another —used of waves
Examples of interfere in a sentence
I tried to offer advice without interfering.
<a strong resentment of outsiders who attempted to interfere with their traditional ways of doing things>
Origin and Etymology of interfere
Middle English enterferen, from Anglo-French (s')entreferir to strike one another, from entre- inter- + ferir to strike, from Latin ferire — more at bore
First Known Use: 15th century
Synonym Discussion of interfere
Rhymes with interfere
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INTERFERE Defined for Kids
Definition of interfere for Students
1 : to get in the way of as an obstacle <Hills interfere with the radio signal.>
2 : to become involved in the concerns of others when such involvement is not wanted <Stop interfering in my private matters.>
Medical Dictionary
Medical Definition of interfere
1: to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in walking or running—used especially of horses
2: to act reciprocally so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another—used of waves
3: to be inconsistent with and disturb the performance of previously learned behavior
Law Dictionary
Legal Definition of interfere
1 : to act in a way that impedes or obstructs others
2 : to enter into the concerns of others
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Myra (Petrowsky) Lundgrin, 84, of Hooker, Okla., passed away Jan. 26, 2013 at Beaver County Nursing Home in Beaver, Okla. Funeral service will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, January 31, 2013 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Hooker. Roberts Brothers Funeral Home, Inc. in Hooker is in charge of arrangements.
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The Progressive Case For Elena Kagan
Predictably, the right reacted to Solicitor General Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court by competing to see who can say the most unhinged thing about her. (So far, the RNC is blowing away the competition by attacking Kagan for her opposition to slavery.) Yet, while conservatives have engaged in characteristic hyperbole, several voices on the left have raised legitimate concerns that Kagan will not go far enough in challenging the Court's right flank. In a lengthy piece, Glenn Greenwald lays out many of these left-ward concerns, noting that her career as a White House official, Harvard Law School Dean and as the United States' top litigator has not led to her produce a great deal of paper explaining her views on key issues:
[G]iven that there are so many excellent candidates who have a long, clear commitment to a progressive judicial philosophy, why would Obama possibly select someone who — at best — is a huge question mark . . . ? I believe Kagan's absolute silence over the past decade on the most intense Constitutional controversies speaks very poorly of her. Many progressives argued (and I certainly agree) that the Bush/Cheney governing template was not merely wrong, but a grave threat to our political system and the rule of law. It's not hyperbole to say that it spawned a profound Constitutional crisis.
Glenn is right to raise this issue. Simply put, the Bush Administration's views on executive power are so radical — so inconsistent with the fact that America is not ruled by a single, all-powerful monarch — that any person who holds them should be disqualified from any service on the federal bench. But Glenn is wrong to claim that Kagan was silent in the face of "radical theories of executive power the Bush administration invoked to commit grave crimes and other abuses." To the contrary, Kagan spoke out in the clearest possible terms against an amendment offered by Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) which would have stripped detainees of any meaningful access to judicial process:
"To put this most pointedly," the letter said, "were the Graham amendment to become law, a person suspected of being a member of al-Qaeda could be arrested, transferred to Guantanamo, detained indefinitely … subjected to inhumane treatment, tried before a military commission and sentenced to death without any express authorization from Congress and without review by any independent federal court. The American form of government was established precisely to prevent this kind of unreviewable exercise of power over the lives of individuals. "
"When dictatorships have passed" similar laws, said the deans, "our government has rightly challenged such acts as fundamentally lawless. The same standard should apply to our own government."
Glenn also notes an exchange between Senator Lindsay Graham and General Kagan (R-SC) regarding her views on indefinite detention. In that exchange, Kagan acknowledged that America may indefinitely detain a known terrorist, yet she was also very clear that such a detention could only occur after the detainee received "substantial due process" from an "independent judiciary" in a "transparent" process. In other words, Kagan embraces Justice Stevens' view of detainee rights, as Stevens has consistently voted to resist Bush's theory of detention-without-due-process.
A vaguely-related issue is Kagan's view of the White House's role within the Executive Branch. In her seminal article on "Presidential Administration," General Kagan touts the Clinton White House's supervision of executive branch agencies to ensure that those agencies achieved the "progressive goals" President Clinton was elected to achieve. There is a healthy debate in the progressive legal community regarding how aggressive a president should be in supervising the agencies, but it is also important to note what Kagan's article is not about. Kagan's article is about which part of the Executive Branch–the White House or the agencies–should take the lead in setting policy. It does not call for the kind of presidential seizure of power from the legislative and judicial branches that was so common under George W. Bush.
Kagan is also likely to be a much-needed voice against Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito's crusade to immunize wealthy corporations from accountability under the law. As an adviser to President Bill Clinton, Kagan spearheaded bipartisan legislation to prevent tobacco companies from marketing their products to children — only to watch the court's conservatives apply an implausible reading of the law and hold tobacco companies immune from such regulation. So Kagan knows what it is like to see years of effort to protect the American people's heath and safety destroyed by a Supreme Court more concerned with protecting corporations than with upholding the law. Kagan spent much of her career crafting laws intended to protect ordinary Americans–so she understands the terrible consequences of ignoring the law to suit a narrow interest group's agenda.
A particularly fraught issue for General Kagan is her strong stance on gay rights. Kagan famously described the antigay "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy as "a moral injustice of the first order" while serving as dean of Harvard Law School, and she supported litigation intended to undermine this discriminatory policy. Yet as Solicitor General, Kagan has scrupulously complied with her legal duty to defend federal laws that she personally disagrees with, including anti-gay policies like DADT and DOMA. For progressives, her unwillingness to cast aside these bigoted and inexcusable policies may be a disapointment, but her conduct as Solicitor General also reflects her understanding that a public official must first be loyal to the law. It will also be a welcome contrast to her conservative colleagues who believe in one set of laws for the powerful and another, less-favorable set for everyone else.
Most importantly, Kagan's life teaches her to understand that there are terrible consequences when a judge ignores laws intended to protect ordinary Americans. In praising her former boss and "hero," civil rights icon and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Kagan spoke of Marshall's understanding that "behind law there are stories" of people who depend on the law for health, safety, fairness and opportunity. She understands that it is profoundly cruel to rob ordinary Americans of the laws they depend on, and she has spent her career fighting to ensure that those laws will be there when they need them. At times this has led to bitter disappointment, as it did when she lost the inexcusible Citizens United case this year, or when she watched the Court sweep away her work on tobacco regulation by fiat. Yet General Kagan has not faltered in her dedication to this mission; and she will be an excellent Supreme Court justice.
Kagan has also emphasized the need for a "compassionate government":
"Where I grew up — on Manhattan's Upper West Side — nobody ever admitted to voting for Republicans," Ms. Kagan wrote, in a kind of Democrat's lament. She described the Manhattan of her childhood, where those who won office were "real Democrats — not the closet Republicans that one sees so often these days but men and women committed to liberal principles and motivated by the ideal of an affirmative and compassionate government."


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Can someone explain the meaning and common usages of this phrase? I hear it often and am not entirely sure I always understand it. Does it mean something like English's "whatever" or "bullshit"? Is it said flippantly? Angrily? I would love to see some examples of situations or usages of the phrase so I can get a better grasp on it.
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N'importe quoi can mean Bullshit.
Could be translated in (without sounding as rude as in English in my opinion)
But you can also use it for all wrong
(Literally "You did whatever randonmly occurred to you")
Whatever / I don't mind
If you want to use it as whatever or I don't mind, you shall use peu importe or n'importe
What a nonsense
As suggested by RomainVALERI in the comments, n'importe quoi can also be used for pointing out how nonsensical / shameful something is.
which could be translated as
The "basic" translation is whatever.
For the more idiomatic use I guess almost literal translations like:
can give a hint. Moreover the expression is ueds in a negative way, meaning that someone is making almost all he/she can to achieve his/her worst :)
Some other translation could be
even if it is a bit too strong, since "N'importe quoi" can be used also in an ironic/joking context.


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Earlier this week we asked our Facebook fans to answer the following question; "What is your favorite cold weather food?" And told them their responses may be edited for content and clarity and used in an upcoming article in the Globe. Here are the responses we've received.
Dustin Da Fluffz Niles: "Homemade chili with sweet corn bread."
Larry Reimer: "Grilled cheese, cream of tomato soup and a few crackers with a hot cup o' Joe!"
Suzie Myers: "New England Clam Chowder with grilled cheese! Mmmmmmm."
Anglea Salazar: "I'm weird, I love to get a shake or ice cream."
Donald Steele: "Heated up potato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches."
Jeff Schnitker: "Good 'ole chicken noodle soup!"
Jennifer Mettlen Nolan: "The awesome noodle bowls from Saigon Bistro!"
Rebeca Chavez: "A nice caldo de pollo, that means a nice chicken soup with lots of veggies and some homemade salsa."
Veronica Gutierrez: "I love to eat Caldo de Albondigas, which is a meatball soup! Sounds real good about now :)"
Dawn Thompson Kazar: "Tomato soup and grilled cheese... yummmm."
Nick T. Harms: "Made from scratch chili, or homemade chicken noodle soup!"
Patricia Plotner: "A hot bowl of homemade chili or beef stew."
Shani Davidson Floyd: "Grilled cheese dipped in homemade soup of any kind, veggie, beef, chicken noodle, stews or chili's!"
John Black: "Mexican food!"
Mary Marquez: "Homemade chili."
Nancy Mata Jaquez: "Menudo!"
Thaddeus Laugisch: "T-Bone steak with mashed potatoes to get the body working and warm, and a glass of whiskey to warm the soul."
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How can you make a valuable contribution to human rights in only three days? By attending the 2010 AGM in April 9-11, 2010 in New Orleans! Educate yourself and others by attending panels of speakers consisting of prominent human rights activists, including Gloria Steinem, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and Alice Walker, and meet other Amnesty members and human rights activists from around the country.
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COPPERAS COVE (February 11, 2013)—Copperas Cove ISD students will have to make up two of the three days they missed after the district cancelled classes from Dec. 12 to Dec. 14 following a series of bomb threats that targeted certain campuses.
The Texas Education Agency refused to grant a waiver for all three days, the district announced Monday.
That means the district will hold classes on Feb. 18 and March 29, which were designated on the 2012-2013 calendar as bad weather make up days.
The threats before Christmas led to school evacuations and the cancellation of classes.
Nine teenagers have been charged in connection with six of the 11 threats, which started on Dec. 4 and targeted the high school, Copperas Cove Junior High School and S. C. Lee Junior High School.
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Hiii...i'm new on this sharepoint.
i have installed project server 2007 in my windows 2003 server. it works previously but yesterday after i installed some microsoft updates, i can't open sharepoint 3.0 central administration. FYI, i'm using IIS 6.0, .NET Framework 3.0 with IE7.
hope u guys can help me on this issue.
this is the error message that i received when i click sharepoint 3.0 central administration
Server Error in '/' Application.
Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.
Parser Error Message: Root element is missing.
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Source File: D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\7150\web.config Line: 0
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WACO (December 16, 2012) - The holiday season can bring crime, and headaches to anyone running a county jail. According to the McLennan County Sheriff's Office, inmate population has significantly increased this holiday season at McLennan County Jail on Hwy 6.
The crowded space, according to Chief Deputy Sheriff Randy Plemons, is unusual this time of year.
"It's surprising because this time of year, numbers are traditionally lower," Plemons said.
"But you know we don't get a 'say-so' when it comes to our numbers, we're kind of the only place in town you can bring inmates to."
Regardless, the McLennan County Sheriff's Office likes to stay prepared.
More jail staff was required after the total number of days inmates spent inside the jail spiked from 309,781 to 328,777 during 2007. Since then, jail staff has seen a 23.6% increase even though total prisoner days have fluctuated.
"You never know the entire circumstances surrounding an individual coming into the jail," Plemons said.
"Once they are in your jail, they are under your care and custody. You have to take care of those needs until they are out of your jail."
According to the 2011 McLennan County Annual Financial report, total prisoner days saw a sharp increase from the years 2010 to 2011. In 2010, there were 312,150 prisoner days. In 2011, 322,965 prisoner days.
Even though official numbers aren't available yet, Plemons expects the number of prisoner days to be high for the year 2012.
"The numbers have increased from this time last year so I would expect the official numbers to be somewhat higher than 2011," Plemons said.
So should taxpayers expect to pay for more jail staff in the future?
Plemons says 'no' unless the jail expands. But the decision, if made, lies in the hands of McLennan County commissioners and the newly elected sheriff.


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Cited: Christina Cerrato, no age listed, 162 township Road 202, Bloomingdale, following too closely.
Arrested: Rickey L. Noviski, 35, Apartment B, 613 Pine St., bench warrant out of municipal court, Tuesday.
Arrested: Jeremy F. Jones, 29, 318 S. Fourth St., menacing, Tuesday.
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Cited: Eric W. Conn, 30, 1402 township Road 375, Toronto, driving with suspended license and operating ATV on roadway.
Break-in: Garage in the area of 3000 state Route 43, Richmond, broken into and hand and power tools taken, Tuesday.
Cited: Heather N. Savage, 18, 14 Paul Ave., Weirton, speeding; Raymond Harris, 32, 415 Linden Ave., Steubenville, driving with suspended license; Daniel P. Roberts, 20, 2135 county Road 25, Bloomingdale, expired registration; Penelope M. Bornyak, 48, 381 Belvedere Drive, Bloomingdale, expired license; Roseann P. Davis, 58, 176 Woodvue Lane, Wintersville, expired license; Sharon M. Watson, 55, 102 E. Steubenville St., Bloomingdale, driving with suspended license and no insurance; Nicole R. King, 29, 405 Woodvue Lane, Wintersville, expired license and no insurance; Michelle L. Schaeffer, 43, 237 Sams Way, Wintersville, expired registration; Melissa A. Carahan, 34, Canonsburg, Pa., speeding; Chanel K. Biggs, 19, 140 Floyd St., Wintersville, speeding; Mavrick J. Decesare, 20, 194 Maple Ave., Smithfield, illegal left turn; Zachary L. O'Dell, 18, 109 Mary Ann Place, Mingo Junction, speeding and no insurance; Timothy S. Sinsel, 28, 110 Wabash Ave., Mingo Junction, red light; and Linda S. Williams, 58, 2 Lazears Lane, Wellsburg, speeding.


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Since the antiderivative of $\frac{1}{x}$ is $\ln(|x|)$, the surface under the graph of $\frac{1}{x}$ with $x>1$ is $\infty$.
However, the antiderivative of $\frac{1}{x^2}$ is $-\frac{1}{x}$, so the surface under the graph of $\frac{1}{x^2}$ with $x>1$ is $1$.
Although I understand how one can calculate this, I can't really imagine it. Both graphs have an asymptote, so how can the surface under $\frac{1}{x}$ be $\infty$, whilst the surface under $\frac{1}{x^2}$ is $1$? It doesn't look like the surface under $\frac{1}{x}$ is infinite.
Perhaps my question is a little argumentative but I'm looking for a way to imagine that this is true. So, is there any way to intuitively "see" that the surface under $\frac{1}{x}$ is $\infty$?