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5 Things We Are Making Fatter (In Addition to Ourselves)
The fattest woman in the world wants to get fatter. And when you hear that, you kind of want her to don't you? You're sitting there mentally cheering her on thinking, Yes, push the human body to the limit lady, like a world class athlete competing in the sport of cheese-appreciation. The world we live in has become not only extremely fat, but extremely OK with the general idea of being fat. Unfortunately, while size would ideally just be a personal issue, it turns out that this overwhelming expansion is actually contagious in ways you wouldn't think possible. Here are some of the ways your beer belly is changing the world (literally) for the worse.
#5. You're Making Your Pets Fat
You know how they say pets look like their owners?
"Hey, your dog looks like Michael McDonald too!"
Well, pets are getting just as chubalicious as their owners now too. Not content to push the boundaries of physics with our own expanding waistlines, we project our insecurities onto our animals; and as a result, they're bigger than ever. The expanding girth of our beloved pets is the number one health threat facing them right now. In America alone, over 50 percent of cats and dogs are overweight. And there is a good reason for this: It's because fat animals are totally fucking adorable.
The main problem is that our culture is so in love with sugar that we have actually started adding huge amounts of it to stuff we don't even eat, namely dog and cat treats. There is absolutely no need for this. I don't know if you've noticed but there is not exactly a lot of natural sugar in the mice, birds and fish that our pets would eat in the wild. By adding ingredients they have never experienced as a species we are actually "rewiring our pets' behavioral responses" and "creating cravings" that have literally never existed in dogs and cats before. We're taking animals that have never had a desire for sweet things and making them beg for peanut butter because it's so adorable when they try to lick it off and then they use their little paws like tiny furry people and...
Ahem, sorry. My point is: Screw you, thousands of years of evolution, I want a 30-pound kitty.
"I can haz heart problems down the line?"
It's actually gotten to the point where the average pet owner sees an overweight animal as "normal." We're so used to seeing super-sized bundles of fur running around (or just sort of laying there having minor heart attacks) that our perspective on what size a dog or cat should be has changed. Forty percent of owners with obese cats, not just overweight but obese, think their cats are at a healthy weight. It's this bizarre change in perspective that affects almost every aspect of the world-fattening (or Chubpocolyps. Or Fat-Assmageddon.)
#4. You're Making Your Friends Fat
Are you concerned you might be the Fat Albert in your gang? Don't worry, you won't be for long; you'll make them fat right along with you eventually. According to a recent decades long study, behaviors both good and bad are actually contagious. If you and your friends decide to give up smoking at the same time, you are all more likely to quit. If you take up running with friends, you're more likely to make it a lifelong habit. And if you start gaining weight with friends, you are all more likely to end up hilariously overweight sooner.
It's something we can't escape: According to studies, your college roommate's GPA dragged yours down or up. If your sibling has a child, you are 15 percent more likely to have one in the next two years. If a person has friends that are in better shape than them to start with, just having them around keeps them alive longer. Of course, less and less people are staying really healthy these days, meaning you're much more likely to be experiencing the down side of this discovery.
If just one of your friends becomes obese, you are 57 percent more likely to follow in their footsteps. If a friend of a friend gains weight you are still 20 percent more likely to gain weight. That's right: You're getting second-hand fat. The pattern stretches on and on, just like those marks on your ass. So think about it when you're reaching for that eighth handful of Doritos; you're not just eating for you, you're eating for your friend, and your friend's friends, and your friend's cousin's boyfriend's sister's husband, and so on and so on, until Kevin Bacon eventually just dies of a coronary.
RIP Fatty McBacon.
#3. You're Letting Actors Get Fat
But fuck Kevin Bacon's theoretical secondhand fatass; you've already done it for real. You've made Russell Crowe fat. And John Travolta. And Denzel Washington. Three men who were once ubuer-sex symbols are now nothing more than chubby leading men and it's because we decided it was OK.
Crowe started out as a muscular everyman; woman wanted to sleep with him and men wanted to have quick enough reflexes to dodge the phones he threw at them. Over the last few years Crowe started piling on the pounds, but still always managed to lose them in time for his next big role. Then he got cast in Robin Hood, directed by Ridley Scott, thus recreating the same team that brought us the eye candy-fest that was Gladiator.
"Are you not inexplicably aroused?"
Now, it's been 10 years since Gladiator; he can't realistically be in the same shape. But surely Russell got back into some kind of fighting form for Robin Hood. After all he's only 46, he had plenty of time to prepare and...
Recently, audiences have been accepting sex symbols that have gone to seed, in roles they are no longer physically accurate for, presumably because even having that little tubbiness still makes Crowe look like a sex-god compared to the veritable truckstop diner that the rest of the Earth is becoming. Oh, but still: No fat chicks. Sorry, ladies.


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So in May, infighting in Mali reached an impasse and an independent state (mostly unrecognised by outsiders) was claimed - Azawad. Naturally it's more complicated than that, but the point is, it encompasses several cities that I'm very interested in visiting next year, including Timbuktu.
So as it stands, how does one get there now? Would a visa to Mali still be recognised in that area (obvious safety concerns aside)?

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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A Topeka Police officer says he felt in immediate danger when a dog ran toward him in a Topeka neighborhood earlier this month.
Topeka Police on Tuesday released the officer's report on the May 7th incident. Names and addresses of those involved, including the officer's name, are blacked out.
In the report, the officer recounts how he was called to the 1100 block of SW Plass on complaints of a dog barking and another dog at large. The officer says he was in the driveway of a home when a dog who was tethered that he had seen previously and another dog came through the home's fence at the same time.
"The dog was barking, growling and baring its teeth," the report states. "The German Shepherd crossed the yard very quickly and continued to be aggressive. I was in fear of immediate bodily harm if I did not react quickly to the dog's aggressive actions."
The officer says he fired one shot at the dog, but it kept growling and running toward him. He says he fired two more shots and the dog flinched, but kept running and growling, so he fired a fourth shot and the animal fell.
Neighbors had expressed concern, noting children outside playing at the time. In the report, the officer describes the backdrop as a barren yard surrounded by a wooden fence with a large tree in the middle and an alley behind it. The officers states he aimed in a downward direction, two feet from the ground, so any shots that missed the dog would go into the ground.
Topeka Police said shortly after the incident that officials were investigating, but the officer resumed normal duty.


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Opioids, which include OxyContin and Vicodin, were the biggest problem, contributing to 3 out of 4 medication overdose deaths.
Anti-anxiety drugs including Valium were also among common causes of medication-related deaths.
Among the medication-related deaths, 17 percent were suicides.
The information is for the year 2010.
The CDC reported that there were more than 38,000 drug overdose deaths nationwide that year.
Medicines, mostly prescription drugs, were involved in nearly 60 percent of those deaths, overshadowing those from illicit narcotics.
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Norwich in the Prem
Glad Utd and Pool are going down though!
Norwich in the Prem
Glad Utd and Pool are going down though!
On my game, they are inseparable.
As in: Manchester United 12th in the Championship, and Liverpool 13th.
Epic fail by De Graafschap:
i know next to nothing about the dutch league so I assume that TOP OSS are pretty poor in comparison to De Graffschap
I think he means that De Graddschap managed to thow away a 4-1 lead in the 2nd half and lost 6-4
Ah ok my eyes aint what they used to be - did not spot that.
Epic fail by me
Got another for you English lovers though then:
Charlton Athletic in the future...??
Nah, Charlton will never be that good, it is impossible
Did they lose the final by any chance?
Also what skin is that?
The skin is Klassa, look in the Skinning Hideout for download link
Charlton just aren't meant to win the cup are they?
What a comeback from Schalke
Just take the bloody hint, Sheffield. You're not getting my staff.
I don't think he is too pleased at Arsene's decision
He has obviously nicknamed the coaches and staff so he knows which one is which
Saw that in dafuges challenge Gypsum, it was incredibly funny
The Championship never looked so....good?
Evidently there is something more satisfying than getting one over your rivals.
Don't get my goalie angry
This was an FA cup 2nd qualifying round match
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Think that pretty much explains it.
How do you swap positions with yourself?
David Silva i put in from the start but he was the only professional player that was part of my team. I can honestly say that i have not cheated to sign any players i.e haven't put in another manager to get players.
It's part of an experiment to see whether they will stay with a club that has a high rep but low standing or whether they will leave as soon as offers come in.
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Last week I started an experiment to see what would happen if I started a save as a female manager, to see if it would make any difference. I couldn't think of a name, so thank God for MTV! (you'll see what I mean).
Anyway that's beside the point. Have a close look at the options at the bottom and you will see the result of starting as a female manager:
Someone is obviously a closet AFC Hornchurch fan
Cmon Ref are you kidding me 9 mins of injury time!!!!!!! Q.P.R have bribed you havn't they
By the way I still won the match
Had a lot of injuries in the game?
not that I can remenber no more than 1 though
Bit hot for the beginning of January and it's BREEZY
You could have been a lot more perceptive than that .
For example,
a) Your team don't have a name
b) Why didn't you get loads of penalties considering the referee is a Friend?
c) What's your club's youth sytem like, because looking at the breadcrumbs on the bottom, your team is called Paedo XI
Is it just me or should i be £8m down so far this month as opposed to £800k as expenditure usually relates to a cost rather than income?
Im man city.
And i just played Blackburn.
Net transfer spend is negative - ie. Overall you have less money from transfers than you have had before, therefore, you have spent more than you have received.
I see many issues with that screenie;
The Profit/loss figure is derived from expenditure minus net transfer spend in this screenie. Clearly incorrect, since net transfer spend is a relative figure which has parts in turnover and expenditure (ie. buys and sells)
The figure should be simply calculated by turnover (money in) minus expenditure (money out).
Net transfer spend is just a guide to what you have been doing on the market. The other issue with is that it hasn't updated for the new month. Its the same as the previous month which seems highly unlikely.
Basically - its all just a mess. Hope to be proven wrong and have a laugh - otherwise
Income was £0
Expenditure was £4,714,446
Net Transfer Spend was (£3,887, 763)
Profit was (£826,683)
Profit = Income - (Expenditure + Net Transfer Spend)
Income was £0, or £3,887, 763 if you include transfers.
£3,887,763 subtract £4,714,446 equals -£826,683 (work it out on a calculator if you think I'm wrong).
This obviously isn't the case. £4,714,446 minus -£3,887,763 is £8,602,209 which isn't the value given.The Profit/loss figure is derived from expenditure minus net transfer spend in this screenie. Clearly incorrect, since net transfer spend is a relative figure which has parts in turnover and expenditure (ie. buys and sells)
Naughty Referee.
I won the Conference South with ease 42 wins from 42 only conceding 1 and scoring 337. I won the Conference League Cup, FA Trophy and FA cup.
The board are hard to please with 54% job security. The big teams are coming in for my players and because some didn't play much they want to leave and so i have sold 3 players for £50 million. Robbie Blake rejected Rangers.
I have agreed to sell a defender to Man Utd for £7 million but i made it so that the transfer will go through in a years time. I signed Vieri on a free after Atlanta didn't renew his contract and Davide Santon for £8 million after he requested a transfer and another Italian veteran, Panucci.
I'm going to play in the Blue square premier and Euro cup and after this season i doubt i will have many original players left as the interest in them is immense.
Thats is the most ridiculous fixture list i have ever seen. good luck with that
Any ideas on why the net transfer spend hasn't updated for the new month?
Why is it so convoluted when it can be simple. Income is said to be 0 when as you say, it should be 3,887,763. It says 'Income', it doesn't say 'Income less transfers profit'.
I find it amusing you get so defensive over Toni when you still put the best midfielder in the game in your side!
pretty obvious hes talking about silva (who isnt) because Aquino is pants! (so fair play)
In all honesty i did an experiment like yours a few years ago, it is great fun to trounce the lower divisions and see how you do in cups against real competition
Don't know if it's funny but it sure is tight
Good name
made me chuckle
Suprising coaching role for Dwight Yorke
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Obviously has some confidence in his ability.
I have a slightly hot headed midfield regen called Johnny Daley.
Mr Daley sees strange zebra like object trying to escape
Mr Daley takes evasive action
Mr Daley seems pleased with his work
Mr Daley shows dominance with staring out policy
Mr Daley
Former woman named as manager..
Albert Cartier
Although, after doing a search, he has always been a man...
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after i struggled to beat Belgium in the qualifying play offs...
beat Brazil in the second round 3-1, Colombia 2-2 (won on penalties) in the quarter final then beat Germany 1-1 (won on penalties) after Germany missed a penalty in the 120th minute
Oh, England, only you could do this:
England had already qualified, though - although it is the sort of result which would result in Wembley being burnt down and Capello charged with murder.
Okay so picture this. I'm 3-0 up and it's the 90th minute with three minutes of extra time to play, we get a corner and my goalkeeper decides to go up for the corner? I mean what? I'm winning 3-0 why does he need to do this;
Not impressed. 0_o
Not sure how to post pictures on this board so here's the link to a screenshot of when I attempted to sign Hatem Ben Arfa for my Man City squad...looking at the drop in wages if he moved clubs, who says players only want big wages?
I thought this was funny: An error by Nemanja Vidic allowed striker Samuel Eto'o to score a powerful effort. It came up when i was playing a couple of days after the champions league final irl.
I don't know whats worse. Cech being the oldest player to play for chelsea despite him not even being the oldest player in my first team, or the previous record holder being only 14.
I've seen that bug before, but only ever with Chelsea :confused:.
Probably been posted a few times before, but still funny And even more funny considering the fact that "Holyday Manager" after 11 years unemployed got his first job in the "FM-world" 8 days before this rumour came out, shurley he must be waaaaay more experienced than those 'Football Manager' applications
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Talk about a two horse race.
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An explosion and subsequent fire rocked the Williams olefins plant on Thursday in Geismar, Louisiana, leading to evacuations, two deaths and numerous injuries. Ambulances and helicopters transported those injured facility to local hospitals and about 300 workers were evacuated from the scene.
By Ben DuBose
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An explosion and subsequent fire ripped through
the Williams olefins plant on Thursday in Geismar,
Louisiana, leaving behind two deaths, about
73 injuries and forcing others in the area to
shelter-in-place or evacuate.
explosion happened at 8:37 a.m. local time and forced local
police to shut down roads leading to the plant, Williams
spokesman Tom Droege said. Emergency shutdown valves were closed, and resultant
fire had been isolated and diminished by 10:30 a.m. local time,
the company said.
Ambulances and helicopters transported those injured facility
to local hospitals and about 300 workers were evacuated from
the scene after the explosion, said Jean Kelly, spokeswoman for
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Early tests didn't indicate dangerous levels of any
chemicals around the plant, Ms. Kelly said. The cause of the
explosion remains unknown.
"We are currently focused on the safety and well-being of our
employees, contractors and the local community who are
responding to the situation," said Mr. Droege.
Eight people were taken to Baton Rouge General Medical Center
and more than a dozen others were taken to St. Elizabeth
Hospital in nearby Gonzales, officials said. The number of
people with "significant injuries" appeared to be less than 10,
state police Sgt. J.B. Slaton said.
People within two miles of the Williams plant were
initially ordered to stay indoors, but were allowed to leave
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Ascension Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency
Preparedness official.
The Geismar plant produces 1.3 billion lb/year of ethylene
and 90 million lb/year of polymer-grade propylene,
though Williams was in the process of expanding the
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Geismar is located about 25 miles southeast of Baton
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Tray-Tec, Inc. owners, management and craftsmen send our condolences to the bereaved families and will keep them and the injured in our thoughts and prayers.
Francisco Elicer
All accidents can be prevented, this type of accident doesn't happen we permitted to.As a swiss cheese, many holes aligned allows this accident to occur.Sorry for people injured and workers at the plant
Hirak Dutta
Sad day once again for the people of Louisiana. One death & 73 injury is a big loss -those who work in HC sector must remain 24X7 alert.Would like to know the RCA.
Umesh Goel
My deepest condolences to the bereaved family and to those injured in this unfortunate incident. As a professional in the process safety and loss prevention domain, this type of incident comes as an eye opener, the task is cut out! we have to make our process and hazard review studies more and more robust, take time to meticulously identify hazards and provide more than adequate protection.Cutting corners on the pretext of meeting tight deadlines is just Not an option,Regards,Umesh Goel
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It appeared to be a big and painful dangerous explosion and fire. Our sympathies to everyone affected by the incident.
sankar prosad mitra
Such incidents are unfortunate.Loss of human life and property is regrettable. I pray for speedy recovery of the injured people.I hope the reason will be found out and lession learnt to avoid future recurrence.
Adriaan Venter
Dear All,My sincere sympathy with the families of the deceased and injured; also to the management Of the Geismar Plant. This again is a lagging indicator pointing to Underlying Causes, etc. Was this incident foreseen in risk assessment studies? was this plant of at least the identified critical parts / equipment on a rigorous preventive maintenance program; was this plant properly maintained during the yearly Best Practice shutdown for ROBUST maintenance?; are all process, maintenance,Supervisors and Management personnel appropriately and adequately experienced and specific Job / Task trained. I have to admit that I've also learned the hard and cruel way. Lessons Learnt must be applied rigorously without mercy. God Bless, Kind regards, Adriaan Venter
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The audio jack is busted so I want to stream the internal sound to my Android phone and use my headset on that phone instead. No, not just music files. I mean the whole internal sound coming from the laptop. That includes error sounds, clicking sounds (if any) the recycle bin being emptied, etc. Isn't there anything other than Airfoil that can do this?
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SoundWire Free appears to do this...but the free version has limitations:
Edit to add: That page has SpeakerShare in the "others viewed" links, which appears to be an open source app to do the same thing. The lone comment mentions it's delayed (likely due to buffering/network latency), but things like videos can be worked around (VLC offers an audio synchronization option, for example).


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David Yau Yau's rebel group appears to reject an amnesty offer from South Sudan President Salva Kiir and launches a deadly attack on Pibor town.
A mother whose daughter died in South Africa and the man who organized the attack that killed her bring their experiences to South Sudan.
Jonglei state in South Sudan runs out of free condoms after funding for a program dries up.
South Sudan's government has struggled to contain several insurgencies it claims are supported by Khartoum
One of the largest active rebel groups in South Sudan says it will lay down arms and surrender to the government
South Sudan's first ever high school exams get underway but are marred by a shortage of test papers and poorly set questions.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir vows to keep the country at peace and to return South Sudan to prosperity.
Security is stepped up on roads leading into and out of the South Sudanese capital, Juba, after five people are killed in attacks.
Hospital staff at Bor State Hospital end a days'-old strike over unpaid bonuses after three patients died at the weekend.
A U.S. report accuses South Sudan of serious rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings and arbitrary arrests by security forces.
Staff at the main hospital in the capital of Jonglei state, South Sudan, walk out on strike over bonuses they say haven't been paid for months.
Five South Sudanese women, including a widow with small children, are jailed for failing to pay a state household tax equivalent to $7 U.S.
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In D&D 4e can you target an area spell on an area that is not visible.
For example a rogue uses an ability to give total concealment over an area, can a wizard cast fireball centered in that area of darkness?
In D&D 4e can you target an area spell on an area that is not visible.
For example a rogue uses an ability to give total concealment over an area, can a wizard cast fireball centered in that area of darkness?
D&D Rules Compendium
p106 "Line Of Sight: Typically the user of a power doesn't have to be able to see the power's targets ... "
p107-8 "Line of Effect: When there is a clear line from one point to another in an encounter, there is line of effect ... Fog, darkness, and smiliarly obscured squares block vision, but they don't block line of effect. If Albanon the Wizard hurls a fireball into a pitch-black room, he doesn't have to see the creatures in the room for the fire to hit them."
Page 271 of the Player's Handbook, area attacks:
In other words, if the targeted square is blocked by something like fog, smoke, or the like you can still target it. If it's blocked by a solid wall, you can't.
Yes, the wizard can center the fireball on the center of the darkness
Area Powers are defined on page 104 of the Rules Compendium. There are only two conditions for the Origin Square (center of the effect)
If the rogue is hidden (as he should be!) and you don't know his exact location, then the DM must determine if the rogue is a valid target of the burst.
If those conditions are met, expect to hear a howl of pain from the rogue!
It should depend on what is listed as the spell's target. If the spell can be cast on a location rather than a character/creature, then it can be done. That should hold true for fireball as well. It can be cast on a location.
While the rules allow the targeting (well established on PHB p.271), one would, as a good GM, be well within rights to ask how the character knows to target a specific square.
If the character would not know of the targeted area (such as a darkness cast in an unlight room outside the light radius of the character to hide a thief waiting to surprise the PC's), such a fireball might be disallowed, or might require a Notice check to hear something and give reason to target.
On the other hand, if the thief triggered the concealment while in line of sight, an immediate fireball at his specific square would be perfectly reasonable as the wizard's next action.
If the Character shouldn't know, the player should not be permitted to act as if the character does know.
I think the below excerpt from the "Area Attack" entry in the Compendium covers it all. The last line specifically says that you don't need line of sight to the Origin Square or target creatures, only line of effect. The document referenced in the Compendium is the Player's Handbook.
Consider the following: There's a dark room in front of you. It's too dark to see inside, but you just watched your enemy run into the room. A hand grenade on your belt is your only usable weapon at this time.


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The Central Florida Ballet's Studio Company is a program for preparatory to pre-professional dancers, beginning at age seven. The program is geared for the more serious dancer and offers performance opportunities year-round throughout the local community. A year-long commitment, acceptance is by audition only.
Each child is placed according to their abilities and where they will perform their best. Your child will be placed into one of the following classes: Apprentice, Juniors, or Seniors. The membership fee depends upon placement.
Audition Fee: $25 (cash, debit, credit, or check payable to CFB is accepted) or $10 if you are also auditioning for Nutcracker
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Monumental Mysteries, a new television program on the Travel Channel, scours the country for America's most extraordinary monuments and reveals the amazing mysteries hidden within. Hosted by Don Wildman, this series visits the statues, memorials, national parks, sculptures, and gravestones that commemorate our nation's most intriguing events, notorious crimes, scandals, disasters and triumphs. A new episode airs every Thursdays at 9 p.m. (Eastern Time).
In a new episode scheduled to air on Thursday, June 27, 2013, Don Wildman travels to Hopkinsville, Ky., to visit the grave site of a mysterious psychic, Edgar Cayce. He is joined by Sidney Kirkpatrick, the author of Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet considered the definitive biography of Edgar Cayce.
Edgar Cayce was born in Christian County, Ky., on March 18, 1877. It was there that he discovered his remarkable psychic talents and embarked upon a lifetime of service to God and mankind. A simple grave marker honors him: "Edgar Cayce-a psychic counselor and healer. A humble and religious man, Cayce never profited from his predictions. Used reputed gift of extrasensory perception, including medical diagnosis, to better man's understanding of God's purpose for him here on earth. Born near here, 1877. Died, Va., 1945. Buried here."
This episode also examines a bust of one of the greatest composers of all time, and explores a city park that is haunted by its sinister history. To learn more, visit TravelChannel.com/tv-shows/monumental-mysteries.
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick III is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and bestselling author. His book Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet—described by The New Yorker as "a codex for the New Age"—is considered the definitive biography of Edgar Cayce. The research and writing of this book took well over five years, and no other author was given such complete access to Edgar Cayce's correspondence, traveled as widely to research the subject, or uncovered such a wealth of new material on the man regarded as "the father" of the New Age movement. Kirkpatrick is well known for his depth of knowledge and lively and engaging style. His critically acclaimed non-fiction books include A Cast of Killers, Turning the Tide, Lords of Sipan, The Revenge of Thomas Eakins, and Hitler's Holy Relics. His documentary film, My Father the President, about Theodore Roosevelt as seen through the eyes of his daughter, Ethel Roosevelt Derby, was a winner at the American Film Festival. HBO, The History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and the A & E Television Network have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Playboy. He is a graduate of Hampshire College and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He and his wife Nancy regularly host events at their Portage Inn Bed & Breakfast (PortageInn.ca) in Muskoka, Ontario. Visit EdgarCayce.org/library for a new interview with Sidney discussing the fascinating Edgar Cayce Readings and latest discoveries.
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March 22, 2012
With love from Cape Town – A Joburger's experience
Joburger Colin Ford, a regular visitor to the Mother City, has been in Cape Town for the past few days and spent some time reflecting on his top five experiences this time round...
Camps Bay sunsets
I love sitting and watching the sun set from Camps Bay. Having spent a lot of my childhood in Durban, it's something of a novelty watching the sun going down over the sea. Specially since it sets so late.
But apart from that, it's really pretty, especially when there's a bit of weather moving in. The combination of the clouds, the sea and the sun make for some dramatic evening skies.
Heart 104.9 FM
Now this is a radio station you want to listen to. The presenters chat to listeners like they're old friends – which they often are – and the music is right up my street: a bit of R&B mixed in with some disco and classics from the late 80s and early 90s. There were many times this weekend when I said "Ah, remember this song?" and found myself taking a little trip down memory lane.
Harbour House
Ok, so the wasabi was a bit old and the waitress got our order wrong, but sitting on the edge of the ocean eating sushi with a glass of Brampton sauvignon blanc made up for all the shortcomings.
Harbour House is always worth a visit. I particularly enjoy watching the seals lolling about waiting for scraps from the fishermen in Kalk Bay harbour. The closest I get to this in Joburg is watching my labrador scratching his back on the lawn.
The wind
I'm told this is Cape Town's secret season, when the weather is splendid and the city starts getting a little quieter.
The first few days of our trip were remarkably (and most unusually) wind-free, which made al fresco dining exceptionally pleasant. But last night when the wind came up it was like a familiar lullaby guiding me sweetly to sleep. Cape Town is just not the same without the wind.
Another perfect day
After a bit of a dodgy start, it looks like we're in for another glorious day in the Mother City today. Three more days of this and I'll be ready for whatever Gauteng has to throw at me. Bring it on, I say!


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Mr. Vinocur came to the IHT from The New York Times, where he was metropolitan editor, in charge of The Times's local and regional coverage. Before that he served as The Times's bureau chief in France from 1982 until 1985 and in Germany from 1977 until 1982.
Most of Mr. Vincour's career has been outside the United States, starting in 1968 with The Associated Press, where he covered major events around the world, including wars in Biafra, Israel and Cambodia.
Since resuming the correspondent's life at the IHT, he has contributed articles to such publications as Foreign Affairs and The New York Times Magazine. In 1986, he won the Polk Award, one of America's leading journalistic distinctions, for magazine writing.
Mr. Vinocur was born in New York City and is a graduate of Oberlin College.
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August 1, 2013, Thursday
An Evolving Merkel Doctrine
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June 28, 2013, Friday
The Ambivalent Nation
American indecision on Syria has its allies pining for the days when the United States was still the indispensable nation.
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Clarity on the Line
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I'm writing a technical manual about creating database systems, and wondered what is the best verb tense for title names.
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-ing) form: (e.g. "Creating a Cluster", "Creating a Database", ...)
- Descriptive form: (e.g. "Cluster creation", "Database creation", ...)
- Imperative form (e.g. "Create a Cluster", "Create a Database", ...)
- Any other ideas?
Which would be best for title names?
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As can be seen from my questions, I am struggling to make Mathematica do something useful. The amount of tutorials on the Wolfram web site is a bit overwhelming, especially that I don't have too much time to read them. However, I am commuting for about 90 minutes per day, and having the Mathematica documentation (even just the one that comes with the software) in Kindle-friendly format (I'd even accept pdf) would be a great thing for me. Can I find a downloadable version of Mma docs (in pdf, or even better, in epub/mobi) anywhere?
Mathematica's documentation is also available online in the pdf format, as a tutorial collection. The place to look for it is here. Also, some books on Mathematica are now available as kindle editions, from Amazon. Finally, for those books which have Mathematica notebook versions, you can probably make a pdf from those notebooks for a personal use, if that does not violate the book's license.


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I have heard both sides at many churches. Some churches believe that if you are saved and you commit suicide that you will go to hell b/c that is basically turning your back on God and not letting him help you.
But other churches say that if your are saved and commit suicide that you will still go to heaven.
So i was wondering what other christians/religious people thought??


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"(W)hy are we waiting for accurate, reliable data from state officials about the events of Dec. 14 as commissions and legislators are proposing serious, far-reaching changes in law and policy(?) Should we mandate mental health screening for school children? Should we ban all guns capable of firing more than 10 rounds? Should we spend millions of tax dollars retrofitting schools to make them more secure? Maybe the state police owe us some official details about what happened — before we change laws and spend a lot of the public's money."
— Rick Green, liberal columnist and blogger for The Hartford Courant, on the paper's Capitol Watch blog, March 19
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" Obviously Malloy doesn't need to know anything, especially the facts that the gun-control he so adamantly pushes has been show to be ineffective and counter productive. His attitude is the same type that got us Obamacare - sort of a let's pass it to see what's in it and if it might work...and if it doesn't we'll leave it in place anyway, because it would be admitting an error on his part to have passed it in the first place. YES, don't confuse him with the facts, his mind is already made up (especially that he want's to kiss up to Obama so he can get a position in Barry's administration). "
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STEUBENVILLE - April Ogden always knew she'd have to work harder than the guy next to her if she wanted to be accepted in her male-dominated workplace.
So Ogden made it a point to be on time for work and maintain a good work record, find things to do to keep busy when her regular work was done, even going so far as to eschew any reaction to off-color language or jokes.
"You have to act a certain way on the job," advises Ogden, a laborer. "You have to respect yourself or you won't get the respect of the men you work with. You have to conduct yourself in a certain manner."
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ON THE RISE — Rayland native April Ogden worked full-time while putting herself through college and raising two young sons on her own, just some of the reasons Hard Hatted Women selected her as one of their 2011 Women on the Rise. Ogden, regional apprenticeship coordinator for Laborers International Union of America Local 809 in Steubenville, was elected recording secretary in 2007, making her the first woman ever to serve on the union's District Committee. She currently is president of Local 809.
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Now in her 20th year with Laborers International Union of America, the divorced, mother of two enjoys the distinction of being the first woman ever to serve on Local 809's executive board. And last year she was elected president of Local 809, making her the first woman in Ohio ever to be elected president of a Laborers local and to serve as delegate to District Council.
"If you'd have told me 20 years ago I'd be in the position I'm in now, I would never have believed it," she said.
A 1985 graduate of Buckeye South High School, Ogden managed to earn her bachelor's degree in human resource management from Wheeling Jesuit University in 2002 while working full-time and raising her two young sons by herself.
"You can (do anything) as long as you're focused and determined," she said. "I tell everybody, and not just women, that you shouldn't let anyone tell you you can't do something, or don't feel like you can't do it, because you can."
She'd joined Local 809 in 1991 and after 13 years as a laborer in the field went into the office to work as secretary/dispatcher/apprenticeship coordinator. Three years later she was elected recording secretary of her Local, earning her a seat on its executive committee, and in 2010 was elected president.
As a laborer, she said, "You always have to work harder than everybody else because you're a woman, so they take you seriously ... I've worked on mills, on power plants and a couple heavy highway jobs. I had to prove myself every single job, all over again. But a lot of the guys I talk to say it's the same for them every time the job changes, you're working with a different crew and you feel like you have to prove yourself. This business in general is stressful."
Now that she's a union officer, she said the key is to "put your members first and do what's best for them, it's not hard. It's when you lose sight of that, that's when it's hard."
"I love people, I like helping people," she said. "I remember what it was like to be a laborer in the field, and if I can help out, I will. The big thing Wheeling Jesuit taught me was to be a person for others. I like to help others as much as I can. It's giving back, I guess."
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These Halloween recipes are quick & easy, but definitely ghoul-tastic! If you're looking for some Halloween food ideas for your Halloween party we've put together some tasty treats that are fun and easy to make like eyeball cupcakes, ghosts in the graveyard, goblin brownie bars and Halloweenies.
Goblin Bars
- 1 Package Brownie Mix
- 1 Bag Milk or Dark Baking Chocolates
- 1 Bag Small Size Candy Bars, Chopped
- 1 Bag Candy Coated Chocolate Candies for Halloween
Prepare the brownie mix according to the package directions for an 8 x 8 inch pan. Bake and cool slightly.
Melt the cooking chocolate per the instructions on the bag (usually by either using a double boiler or a microwave). Pour half of the chocolate over the top of the brownies and set aside the remaining half. Sprinkle with 3/4 cup chopped small size candy bars and 2 cups of candy coated chocolate candies. Drizzle remaining chocolate on top. Cool completely.
Ghost in the Graveyard
- 2 Pkg. (3.9 oz. each) Chocolate Instant Pudding
- 1 box Chocolate Brownie Mix
- 3 Cups Milk
- 12 oz. Whipped Topping (Divided)
- 1 1/2 Cups Crushed Cookies (Your Favorite)
- 3 Creme Sandwich Cookies
- Decorating Gel
- 5 Candy Pumpkins
- 10 Candy Corn Pieces
Make the brownies according to the instructions on the box. When the brownies are done, set them out to cool. Beat the pudding mix and milk in large bowl with a whisk for about 2 minutes. Let stand for 5 minutes. Stir in 3 cups whipped topping and half the cookie crumbs. Crumble up the brownies into the pudding mixture and spread the entire mixture into a 13″x9″ dish; sprinkle with remaining cookie crumbs. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
Now you have 2 choices. You can either decorate creme sandwich cookies with decorating gel to resemble tombstones or you can dunk the cookies into melted white chocolate to create ghosts. Insert the decorated cookies into top of the dessert just before serving. Add candy corn and/or pumpkin candies on top of your graveyard. If you're using the cookies as tombstones, then drop large spoonfuls of the remaining whipped topping onto the graveyard to resemble ghosts.
Makes 18 servings.
Eyeball Cupcakes
- 1 Pkg. (2-Layer Size) Chocolate Cake Mix
- 8 oz. Cream Cheese (Softened)
- 1/4 Cup Butter (Softened)
- 1 Tsp. Vanilla
- 16 oz. Powdered Sugar (Sifted)
- 24 Ring-Shaped Chewy Fruit Snacks
- 24 Chocolate Chips
- 1 Tube Red Decorating Gel
Prepare cake batter as directed on package. Spoon evenly into 24 paper-lined medium muffin cups. Bake as directed on package for cupcakes. Cool completely.
Beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla in medium bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended. Gradually add sugar, beating well after each addition. Spread evenly onto tops of cupcakes.
Place 1 fruit snack on top of each cupcake. Add 1 chocolate chip to the center of each fruit snack for the eyeball. Draw squiggly lines with decorating gel from the eyeballs to outsides of the fruit snacks to resemble eyeball veins. Place your cupcake in a fun Halloween cupcake wrapper.
Makes 24 servings.
Halloweeenies with Mustard Dip
- 1 Can (8 oz) Refrigerated Flaky Dough Sheet
- 44 Cocktail Size Smoked Link Sausages
- 1/2 Cup Creamy Dijon Mustard
- 1 TBS Dried Oregano Leaves
Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Line (2) 15″ x 10″ x 1″ pans with cooking parchment paper. On your work surface, roll dough sheet out to 14″ x 11″ rectangle. Cut vertically to make (2) 11″ x 7″ rectangles. Cut crosswise into total of 44 (7″ x 1/2″) strips. Pat sausages dry with paper towels.
Wrap 1 strip of dough around each sausage to look like a little mummy; press firmly at each end to secure. Place on cookie sheet 2 inches apart for even browning.
Bake 15 to 20 minutes or until golden born. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix mustard and oregano. Once the Halloweenies have cooled, dab on a small amount of Mustard for eyes. Serve sausages warm with mustard dip.
Great Pumpkin Cake
- 1 Pkg. (2-layer) Cake Mix (Any Flavor)
- 8 oz. Cream Cheese (Softened)
- 1/4 cup Butter (Softened)
- 4 Cups Powdered Sugar
- Food Coloring (Green, Red & Yellow)
- 1 Ice Cream Cone
Prepare cake batter and bake in a 12-cup fluted tube pan as directed on package. Let cool for 10 minutes in pan. Invert cake onto wire rack; remove pan. Cool cake completely.
While cake is cooling, beat cream cheese and butter in medium bowl with mixer on medium speed until well blended. Gradually add sugar, beating until well blended after each addition. Remove 1/2 cup of the frosting; place in small bowl. Add a couple of drops of green food coloring; stir until well blended. Spread half of the green frosting onto outside of ice cream cone; set aside. Cover and reserve remaining green frosting for later use.
Add drops of red and yellow food coloring to remaining white frosting to tint it orange. Spread onto cake to resemble a pumpkin. Invert the ice cream cone into the hole of the cake for the pumpkin's stem. Pipe the reserved green frosting in vertical lines down side of cake. Note: in the picture above, we took the quick route and found green ice cream cones, which will work if you find yourself pressed for time.
Makes 24 servings.
Blood Punch
- Radishes
- Olives
- Favorite Punch
- Light Corn Syrup
- Red Food Coloring
Wash and peel the radishes. Then hollow out the middle of the radishes into the shape of a circle and set aside. Next, wash olives and cut them in half. Place a half of an olive inside the hollow part of the radish and freeze.
In a small mixing bowl, mix light corn syrup and red food coloring until you get the desired red, blood color. Apply the light corn syrup mixture to the edge of the rim of the serving pitcher and drip some of the corn syrup down the sides of the pitcher.
Once the "eyeballs" have frozen, drop them into the pitcher along with your favorite punch. Stick a creepy Halloween jar label on the pitcher and serve.
The Great Pumpkin Halloween Dinner
- 1 Pumpkin
- 1 Cup Chopped Onion
- 1 Chopped Green Pepper
- 1 (or more) Cloves Garlic
- Olive Oil
- 1 1/2 lbs Ground Beef
- 2 TBS Soy Sauce
- 2 TBS Brown Sugar
- 1 Can Cream of Chicken Soup
- 1 (4 oz) Can Sliced Mushrooms (or saute fresh)
- 2 Cups Cooked Rice
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Clean out the pumpkin and draw a face with a marker. In a skillet, cook onion, pepper and garlic until brown and set aside. In the same skillet, cook ground meat until done and drain excess water. Add onion, pepper and garlic to the meat. Add soy sauce, brown sugar and mix well. Add soup, rice, mushrooms and mix well. Put mixture into pumpkin, cover with lid and bake for 1 1/2 hours.
Fried Eggplant & Mozzarella Sandwich
- 1 lb Eggplant
- 1/2 lb Whole Milk Mozzarella
- 2 Large Eggs
- 2 Cups Plain Dried Bread Crumbs
- Olive Oil
- Salt
Peel & slice eggplant into 1/4″ rounds and place on large platter. Sprinkle eggplant with salt and let stand for about 30 minutes to allow the salt to draw out the bitter juices. Pat dry with paper towel. Cut mozzarella into 1/8″ slices and add 1 or 2 slices over the eggplant and add another piece of eggplant on top to form a sandwich. Repeat until all slices are used.
Lightly beat eggs in a small bowl and add a pinch of salt. Spread bread crumbs over sheet of aluminum foil. Dip the sandwiches into the eggs and coat with bread crumbs. Heat 1″ of oil in a medium skillet over medium/high heat. When oil is hot, fry the sandwiches until they are golden crisp on each side, about 2-3 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon and place on paper towel to drain. Serve hot. Yields 8 servings.
Witches' Brew
- 1 Quart Lime Sherbet (Slightly Softened)
- 1 Container (12 oz) Frozen Limeade (Thawed)
- 1 Bottle (1 Liter) Ginger Ale
- Gummy Worm Candies
- Lime Slices
In punch bowl, mix sherbet, limeade and ginger ale. Then pour into glasses. Garnish each glass with candy and lime slices. Stick some Halloween jar labels on your glasses and serve immediately. Swap the lime sherbet and frozen limeade with orange sherbet and frozen orange juice concentrate for a different flavor.
Crusty Mummy Fingers
- 2 Lb Sweet Potatoes (Peeled)
- 2 TBS Water
- 2 Egg Whites
- 2 Cup Italian Style Bread Crumbs
- 1/4 Cup Grated Parmesan Cheese
- 1/2 TSP Salt
- 1/2 TSP Pepper
- 1/4 TSP Ground Red Pepper (Cayenne)
- Cooking Spray
Heat oven to 450 degrees F. Spray 2 large cookie sheets with cooking spray. Cut potatoes into 1/2″ x 1/2″ strips.
In shallow dish, mix water and egg whites with wire whisk or fork. In another shallow dish, mix bread crumbs, cheese, salt, pepper and red pepper.
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Say, I have a default Gentoo install with all the modules (e.g. device drivers) compiled. From this point, is there an easy way to exclude the unused modules the next time I recompile the kernel?
You can use "lsmod" to know the kernel modules
Show drivers/modules in use:
Note that this does not take into account modules that were loaded once, but are currently unloaded. ArchLinux has a modprobed_db thing that workarounds this, I don't know whether Gentoo has one as well.
if we were going to get into technicalities, i would say you could just unload those modules, and then you would not need to recompile. However, I think you meant "to include only drivers to my specific hardware". In that case, I would suggest:
look through that and see what hardware details you can extrapolate. Then, when you go to compile the kernel, look through all the components and see if it makes a mention to your hardware. After rebooting, check to make sure all the hardware works.
In archlinux, there is a bash script called
One some distributions there's also a nice nifty tool called hwinfo, which gives you lots of useful information about your hardware.
To get more to know about the kernel modules, lspci and lsmod always have done a good job for me.
I use the discover package in debian to figure out what kernel modules I could possibly load. Specifically:
For my amd dual core desktop with an nvidia chipset I get:
Here's a short essay on hardware detection in linux, including some text on using discover.
If you are recompiling the kernel. The best thing to do is to know your hardware well using the method presented by theman_on_osx. List all your components. You just have to uncheck / exclude the modules (that aren't needed) from the menu (i.e. if you are recompiling it via make menuconfig / make xconfig).
You can also unload modules that are loadable on the fly using "rmmod."
lspci should also help you.
There is a shellscript in "Linux Kernel in a nutshell" by GKH, which does this by approximation. The script is freely downloadable from the books website and hasn't got a copyright message, so I assume I can post it here.
The scripts output is a list of module your hardware needs to function. It does not list modules that are needed to make certain software work, like ipv6.so!
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As a mathematician, sometimes I meet across very embarrassing questions which were posted by who does not learn of mathematics, for example, my wife and so on. She or he always posted such questions: Well, you are majored in mathematics, do you know Gauss? Where did he come from? In which country? What did he study in mathematics? etc. Although I maybe answer the mathematical question on my major, I cannot answer such questions, and I always feel very ashamed.
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I'll be traveling to the UK (London) on a study abroad in the spring and will be bring my laptop for school and intern purposes. I was just curious what/if any rights UK customs has to search laptops at the border, and how common laptop seizure and search is when returning to the good old U.S.A.
From the US Customs and Border patrol website:
So, (if they are being truthful), having your laptop seized and searched is not at all common. I think it is very unlikely unless you either gave them some cause for suspicion, or if they were already tracking you before you entered the US (i.e. you were already on some kind of watchlist).
The UK can indeed take your laptop and search it (like any other country can), and can have you prosecuted if you fail to decrypt your encrypted files for them.
All countries demand the right to search possessions brought into the county, including electronic devices. Where encrypted storage devices are concerned many countries can also demand the owner provide customs with any necessary decryption keys.
Wikipedia has a great entry on these key disclosure laws which covers the differences between the UK, USA and other countries. To quote...
However, the article goes on to list many cases in the US where defendants have been forced to surrender decryption keys regardless of this lack of legislation.
In practise though, as others in this thread have attested, these issues are very rarely a problem; the vast majority of laptops are never searched. Plus, if one did need to securely move sensitive data into a country it would be trivial to download it though an encrypted channel after arrival.
I would say I've carried a laptop into the US at least 20 times in the last ~15 years. Never once has any customs official so much as laid eyes on the machine, let alone looked at what's on it.
However, I've never been coming in from a sex tourism country and I've always been with my wife at the time. My understanding is that if I were returning alone from places like Thailand that it might draw more scrutiny.
In theory you can be jailed for up to two years for failing to provide the key for an encrypted file on a laptop. However, as far as I know, this law has never been used.


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It asks me to verify my credit cart. How much $s I have to load to my credit cart from my bank account for that?
(Note: When I'm going to shop on internet, and lets say there is something for 3.90$ I load 4$ to my credit cart then I proceed to shopping. There lefts 0.10$ and I'm reloading 0.10$ from my credit to my bank account so that no one will be able to get that 0.10$ even if they know my credit cart information, coz you know it is emty now.)


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Does your company follow any software process e.g. Agile, OpenUP, RUP etc. If yes what tools do you use to enforce it or to facilitate it?


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Roommate Conflicts
The Department of Housing and Residence Life offers a number of resources to students facing roommate conflicts. Please read through the information below on Roommate Confrontation and Mediation. If you feel you need further advice on how to proceed with the situation, you should speak with your Resident Advisor.
Most roommate conflicts are the result of miscommunication or, in some cases, a total lack of communication. If you can communicate effectively, it will be much easier to develop a comfortable living environment for yourself and your roommates.
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Communication sometimes breaks down and you may have to confront your roommate with an issue that one of you has with the other. If this happens then it is helpful to have some idea how you are going to go about it.
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- Your roommate may not want to talk to you, may leave the room when you enter, or may be complaining to friends about you.
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Just hours after WWE superstar CM Punk beat down John Cena and won the heavyweight title on Sunday night, he grabbed the belt and hit the streets of Chicago to party with locals.
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Master Your Sysadmin One-Liners
By RickRamsey-Oracle on Mar 11, 2010
For those too young to remember him, Bob Hope was America's favorite comic during the more innocent time in America's history when you couldn't include profanity in the jokes you delivered over the airwaves.
He was particularly popular with US troops stationed overseas or in remote bases.
upon being introduced to a group of amputees...
"Please don't stand up on my account."
At least he could still be politically incorrect.
Thanks to Maxime Corbeau, who sent us the link below, you can be master of your own one-liners.
Photo courtesy of JerryPippin.com
One-Line Sysadmin Commands at Readylines.com
From their website:
"Welcome to readylines.com, the one-liner specialist.
You will find here plenty of one-liner commands that we hope will be useful to you. We currently have one-liners for various utilities such as openssl, grep, sed, tcpdump, ssldump and more. We'll try to add more in the future. The website has been designed to make reading one-liners easier for you."
Thanks, Maxime, for sharing the link with us.
BigAdmin's ShellMe Section
You can also find a large repository of both Solaris and Linux sysadmin commands in BigAdmin's ShellMe Section. It includes both collections of commands and individual command sequences for topics such as:
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Submit Your Command (or Link) to BigAdmin!
If you have a favorite command sequence, tell us about it and we'll add it to the list.
If you'd like to read more of Bob Hope's innocent one-liners, you can find them at www.theage.com.au. I got a special kick out of this one:
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."Bob Hope's one-liners won't give you the gut-busting laughs that some of today's comics will give you, but they'll take you back to another time.
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At dinner tonight we were discussing important matters. By "important matters" I mean completely random exchanges that make sense only to us.
Me: I went to JJ's for lunch today.
Joe: JJ Abrams?
The Peeshwank: I was thinking Abrams too!!!
Me: Really? YOU were thinking JJ Abrams. Tell me, what show did he write?
P: STEVEN SPIELBERG! I mean, Fringe. I don't know why I said Steven Spielberg.
Joe: Steven Spielberg is a play???
Me: Ooh! Spielberg: The Musical. I'm writing it. Let's see, there could be a song about ET… then a song about…
P: No! Even better… Michael Bay: The Musical!
Me: Oh my Buddha, yes!
P: (singing) An explosion here, an explosion there! (jazz hands)
Me: (singing along) I like to blow shit up!
Hey, hey, hey!
I'm Michael BAAAAAAYYYY! (jazz hands)
Joe: (leaves the table)
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If x is an element of a field K and n is a positive integer, we have both a symbol and a name for a root of the polynomial t^n - x = 0: we denote it by x^{1/n} and call it an nth root of x.
Of course nth roots play a vital role in field theory, e.g. in the characterization of solvable extensions in characteristic 0. However, in characteristic p > 0, the extraction of a p-power root is a much different business: it gives rise to purely inseparable extensions, not composition factors of solvable Galois extensions.
To repair the characterization of solvable extensions in characteristic p as those being attainable as a tower of "radical" extensions, one needs to include the operation of taking roots of Artin-Schreier polynomials: t^q - t - x = 0, for q = p^a a power of the characteristic.
Finally my question: do we have a name for an element t solving the equation t^q - t = x and/or a special notation for it? I do not know one. Similarly, whereas classically we often speak of x as being "an nth power", in this case I find myself writing "x is in the image of the Artin-Schreier isogeny \rho". Is there something better than this?


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Your editor has the extreme privilege of working this Saturday, and hasn't really any particular theme on which he wishes to write this evening, so I'll take the easy way out point out some of the other interesting articles I've seen.
First of all, from William Teach: Having Solved All Of America's Problems, Dem Senate To Hold Hearing On NFL Bounties. Yup, that's right: the United States Senate hasn't passed a budget in over three years now, the country is staring at a major long-term debt crisis, and the Distinguished Gentlemen think that they have time to investigate the "bounty" system discovered o the New Orleans Saints.
Also from Mr Teach: DOJ Argues No Severability With ObamaCare Mandate. The Obama Administration has made the (actually pretty reasonable) argument to the Supreme Court that the Affordable Care Act provision which prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage for a pre-existing condition cannot stand if the individual mandate is invalidated.
Several people have written about Rick Santorum's suggestion that we might be no worse off with Barack Obama than Mitt Romney as President:
You win by giving people a choice. You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who's just going to be a little different than the person in there. If you're going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future.
Sister Toldjah, Patterico, Allahpundit and Robert Stacy McCain have some discussion.
The Lonely Conservative noted President Obama's odd choice for head of the World Bank. It seems that Dr Jim Yong Kim's background is in academia and health, not economics or finance. Shouldn't someone with experience in, oh, banking, be a more logical choice?
Tina Korbe noted Mitt Romney's increasing support among registered Republicans:
Rick Santorum still leads in Louisiana, but the three-quarters of voters there who think Mitt Romney will still be the nominee might be right. According to Gallup's daily tracking poll, the former Massachusetts governor has the widest lead he's had in weeks:
Romney has the backing of 40% of registered Republicans nationwide, while Santorum comes in with 26%, according to Gallup's daily tracking poll.
The 40% threshold also marks the highest point ever for Romney (or any other candidate) since the daily survey began measuring support in early November.
The poll shows a six-point increase for Romney since Tuesday, the same day he won the Illinois primary. Meanwhile, Santorum dropped four points in the same time period.
So dies the myth that Mitt Romney can't attract more than 25 percent of the vote? Perhaps it wasn't a ceiling, but a floor, after all. That's the most positive part of this poll — that Republicans might rally after all to whoever becomes the nominee even if that nominee is Romney.
The Laughing Conservative sneaked (snuck?) into the White House and read the President's diary.
And finally, via Donald Douglas, a Katy Perry video:
The video was filmed at the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base in Oceanside, California, over three days, and all of the others in the video are real Marines; no actors, no dancers, just Marines.
It reminds me that I have to get to work on our version of Rule 5 Blogging for tomorrow!


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I was wondering if the any applications developed with Livecode (www.runrev.com) for a Desktop Linux platform would be able to run natively on Ubuntu Mobile devices (tablets).
Livecode can generate Android apps and Desktop Linux apps... my question is in reference to Desktop Linux apps as I have several that I would like to use on a tablet.
If true then this would save me a great deal of re-coding Livecode for Android.


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20 Feb 2012 4:57 AM #1
Nested List example.
I am having big problems with the Nested List view. Can anyone attach a working Nested List example?
20 Feb 2012 1:40 PM #2
See if this helps.Bharat Nagwani
Sencha Designer Development Team
20 Feb 2012 11:28 PM #3
Where I am having problems getting it to work in some combinations. So would like to know if it works in any combinations?
21 Feb 2012 6:38 PM #4
We will look into the other example you have provided.
THanksAaron Conran
22 Mar 2012 9:00 PM #5
Im having a problem too :
I have a local nested data json file. I provided the url to the file in the Ajax proxy I made for the model. Now I when I load data in designer, I get the error :
JSON.stringify cannot serialize cyclic structures.
23 Mar 2012 5:08 AM #6
Sasha -
What build of the designer are you using? Could you give us a sample JSON structure that throws this error?
Thanks,Aaron Conran
26 Mar 2012 10:12 AM #7
I downloaded this zip to check it out and I'm getting the JSON.stringify error from it. I'm using the latest build, 337.
Here is what the JSON looks like -
[ { "name": "foo", "id": "foo", "type": "FACTORY", "children": [ { "name": "job", "id": "job", "type": "JOB", "children": null, "execId": "job", "leaf": true, "execCount": 10, "factoryName": "foo", "parentId": "foo", "text": "job", "cls": "file" } ], "execId": "foo", "leaf": false, "execCount": 10, "factoryName": "boo", "parentId": "boo", "text": "foo", "cls": "folder" } ]
28 Mar 2012 6:00 AM #8
I am also getting the error:Code:
JSON.stringify cannot serialize cyclic structures.
28 Mar 2012 7:19 AM #9
To all those that are getting the
JSON.stringify cannot serialize cyclic structures.
We've been unable to reproduce it so if any of you are able to provide step by step instructions for always re-created this bug (that we know exists, but we cannot reproduce) that would be a huge help!Aaron Conran
18 Jul 2012 10:09 AM #10
the provided example does not run in architect 2.
the store throws the following error when attempting to load data: Unable to load data using the supplied configuration.