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At Grand Central, a Century of Connections
It was the ribbed seam on the back of a stocking that inspired Leo Ackerman to tap a young woman on the shoulder in the main concourse of Grand Central Terminal in 1948 and ask her what she was doing later that evening.
Mollie Zessin, then 24 years old, replied that she would be attending a Jewish dance at the Metropolitan Club and coyly told him he could join her. Mr. Ackerman, the dashing owner of a male modeling agency and an occasional hat model himself, kept the date. Three months later, they were married.
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Below Grand Central, Digging for the Future
Grand Central Terminal, a birthplace of modern commuting celebrating its 100th birthday on Friday, stands as a symbol of the comings and goings of the city and the nation—the scene of more boisterous hellos and tearful goodbyes than can be counted.
Ten decades of meetings and greetings have inspired generations of photographers and writers who have immortalized the station in works ranging from Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" to the TV show "Gossip Girl." The building has become enmeshed in the emotional memories of the masses who pass through it.
Mr. Ackerman retold the story of his life-changing encounter at the landmark station so many times that the tale has become the stuff of family lore.
"The last time I saw my grandfather before he died, he told me again about meeting my grandmother in Grand Central," said Ruthie Ackerman, his granddaughter. "I love the idea that a bold young man and a stylish woman in ribbed stockings can meet and fall in love in the same place I pass through every day to get to work."
"It's such a transient space with people coming and going," she added, "it still amazes me that people slow down long enough to fall in love."
Katherine Oliver, commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment, describes the terminal as one of the more sought-after locations for filming in New York City. Last year, officials said, approximately 500 permits were issued for filming and photography inside Grand Central.
"It creates the backdrop for an emotional scene for someone anxiously awaiting a loved one or bidding farewell," Ms. Oliver said.
From 1915 until the 1990s, the Beaux Arts building even contained a special place apart from the hustle and bustle of the main floor that was designated for loved ones in the throes of an extra special hello. An area adjacent to the arriving long-distance trains—officially dubbed the Incoming Train Room—hosted reunions between sweethearts and military men returning from war.
"Everyone was greeting people from around the country, so obviously there was a lot of kissing going on there," said Metro-North spokeswoman Marjorie Anders, explaining how the room acquired its more famous moniker: "The Kissing Room."
Transit officials are hoping to bring back more of the kissing in 2019, when a massive expansion to the station in the $8.2 billion East Side Access megaproject adds a pair of escalators that will once again make it a meeting spot.
When Cynthia MacGregor's parents took her to Grand Central before summer camp each July from 1954 to 1959, the last thing she wanted was a kiss. "I totally ignored my parents the second we got into Grand Central," she recalled.
Instead, she was busy looking for her bunkmates—and she can still recite their names: Terry, Rosemary, Janet, Myra and Sherry. From the Midtown terminal, the girls would head off each summer to the Berkshire mountains in Massachusetts. And they wanted nothing more than to be loose from their parents and to board the train, where they would sing for hours.
"The parents had separation anxiety," remembered Ms. MacGregor, now 69. "But most of the kids were eager to get to camp and ignored our parents."
Lindsey Green felt a different kind of separation anxiety last November as she visited the main room of Grand Central three times in a three-week span. Ms. Green, a public relations and communications consultant, was evacuated from her apartment near Peck Slip in Lower Manhattan after superstorm Sandy. The lobby took in eight feet of water, forcing Ms. Green and her boyfriend to decamp to Brooklyn's Cobble Hill neighborhood. Frequent post-storm visits to Grand Central were her way of saying goodbye to the borough she'd called home for nearly a decade.
"Grand Central has always been my zen place. It is the place that says New York to me," she said.
Growing up in Florida, Ms. Green kept old photographs of Grand Central in notebooks, which ultimately inspired her to move to New York. On her first day in the city, she spent hours just watching people come and go from inside the old station's hallowed halls.
"When I knew evacuation would mean leaving Manhattan for Brooklyn, the only place I felt the need to spend time in was Grand Central," she said. "It gives me clarity when things are incredibly out of sorts."


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A trivial UI guideline question - Is it ok to have MessageBox without caption ? I have a Winforms GUI with 3 confirmation boxes at different scenarios. Can anybody provide me some formal UI guidelines information on whether it is mandatory to have Captions on MessageBoxes ?
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There's certainly no rule against it, but you aren't helping the user out without a title. Even a simple title such as "Warning" or "Confirm" is helpful to the user.
The title should describe what the message is about, where as a message icon helps distinguish the type of message.
But you should try to keep MessageBoxes to a minimum. They are usually disruptive to the end user.
A window without a title does no favours for your accessibility users. Windows should always have a title.
You mentioned a warning icon, but unfortunately that's not helpful for people who use a screen reader. Screen readers typically look for a title in dialogs to give context.
Firstly the point of the title is to provide a context within which the message box is appearing. It helps relate the cause, the action, and the response to it.
Secondly, user are so used to titles, that a blank title makes you think there's an error or missing text that was meant to be there. It's why pages in printed media say 'this page intentionally left blank' instead of leaving the reader wondering if it was actually supposed to be blank.
So whilst there's not exactly a written rule for every ui toolkit that says thou shalt always title a message box, it kind of doesn't make sense not to - when you can perfectly easily. It just feels a bit lazy...?
From MSDN:
It will show a default caption, and if the caption is not correct (when it is not about an error), it will confuse the user. I wouldn't do that.
There is much to do with the message boxes, and its often used for providing some kind of information(an error, or information, warning etc.)
.NEt itself provides a number of overloaded methods when you use MessageBox, which simply added that you are not bound to specific detail, If your message(than caption) can only capable of what you actually wants to tell, that's enough, else there is Caption, MessageBoxIcon, MessageBoxButton, which further can be added to your functionality, helps user to get it the way you want.

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DENVER � Fall behind by 20. Mount a furious comeback. Lose by six.
The ugly interceptions didn�t play into Peyton Manning�s second consecutive defeat, but so much of the rest of it sounded like a broken record � the likes of which the Broncos quarterback doesn�t want to hear anymore.
Matt Schaub lost a small chunk of his ear after a brutal hit but still outplayed Manning, throwing for four touchdowns against a confused Broncos defense Sunday to stake the Houston Texans to a big lead on the way to a 31-25 victory.
�We have to learn from this game, address it, be honest, everybody needs to be accountable and try to improve forward,� Manning said.
�It�s not the ideal situation. Everybody would love to be 3-0. That�s not the way it is right now.�
It is for Houston, which won its first three games for the first time in the franchise�s 11-season history and beat Manning for only the third time in 19 tries � and for the first time ever in a road game.
Manning finished 26 of 52 for 330 yards with no interceptions and two touchdowns.
This was his 64th career 300-yard passing game, breaking a tie for the record with Dan Marino. But both of Manning�s touchdown passes and 100 of his yards came after the Broncos (1-2) had fallen behind by 20, the way they did in Atlanta last Monday when their rally came up short in a 27-21 loss.
�It�s hard to think about anything, really, besides losing two games in a row in a tough fashion,� Manning said.
In the Atlanta game, the Denver defense couldn�t get the ball back for Manning at the end.
This time, it did, but the drive started at the Denver 14-yard line with 20 seconds left and ended with a lost fumble after Broncos receivers tried lateraling at midfield on the last play.
Manning threw three interceptions in the first quarter of the Atlanta game to match his worst quarter in 15 years in the NFL. This time, it was the defense�s mistakes, not his own, that put him in the hole.
�Second week in a row we lost by six points,� Denver coach John Fox said. �It�s the second week in a row we started very slowly. Different side of the ball this time.�
Schaub threw for 290 yards. He took advantage of blown coverages to connect with Andre Johnson for a 60-yard score and Kevin Walter for a 52-yard touchdown en route to a 21-5 lead in the second quarter.
After the second score, starting cornerback Tracy Porter was not seen on the field again.
Porter, who returned an interception for a touchdown in Denver�s only win this year � the season opener against Pittsburgh � spent the rest of the game guarding the Gatorade table on the sideline. Fox said he had a knee injury.
Porter�s clothes still were hanging in his locker when reporters were asked to leave the locker room.
�We knew that we had to try to get the ball downfield because they had a lot of people committed to the run,� said Texans coach Gary Kubiak, the longtime Denver quarterback and assistant coach, who got his 50th career win.
�We did what we had to do to win, convinced them that we had to make some big plays, and they did.�
Schaub�s final touchdown was a 14-yard pass to tight end Owen Daniels, who was locked in one-on-one coverage against a slower defender, linebacker Von Miller.
It gave the Texans a 31-11 lead with 1:33 left in the third quarter � placing the Houston defense in the prevent and Manning into desperation mode.
That touchdown pass came about 10 minutes after Schaub was leveled by Joe Mays, which resulted in Denver�s second consecutive roughing-the-passer penalty and, eventually, a Texans field goal for a 24-11 lead. Schaub came out for a play and had a big, bloody mark on his left ear.
�I felt fine,� Schaub said. �I just lost a piece of my ear. I was bleeding, and my helmet came off. So, I had to come out for a play, but I was fine.�
Manning had his ups and downs � making some throws to prove the arm strength is certainly there, but also coming up short on a couple of those 18-yard out patterns that are as routine for NFL quarterbacks as making the bed.
His best downfield throw was the 38-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley that pulled the Broncos within 31-18 with 9:49 left.
His second score was a 6-yard touchdown that ricocheted into former CSU star Joel Dreessen�s hands with 3 minutes left.
There were no interceptions, but that�s not to say Houston didn�t have its way with the 36-year-old quarterback, who came into the game with 42 career touchdowns against the team he started beating when it was in its expansion season, back in 2002.
Manning�s biggest headache in this matchup was second-year defensive end J.J. Watt, who finished with 2� sacks and forced a holding call in the third quarter that nullified a 36-yard gain.
�I don�t see those numbers of defensive linemen as much. You are looking downfield,� Manning said. �I�m probably the wrong guy to ask how he played.�
Arian Foster finished with 105 yards on 25 carries for Houston.
The Texans converted on four third downs and went 97 yards to take a 14-5 lead when Schaub hit Foster, being covered by defensive lineman Kevin Vickerson.


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Dick Harmon: BYU football: Faith, hard work boost quarterback Taysom Hill's recovery from injury
PROVO — Call this the Thanksgiving recovery story of Taysom Hill.
If a guy could be grateful and somehow find blessings after getting unnecessarily seriously hurt, this BYU freshman quarterback is your man.
In the closing seconds of BYU's 6-3 win over Utah State in LaVell Edwards Stadium the night of Oct. 5, Hill inexplicably ran a needless play in carrying the ball through the line of scrimmage. In a collision with an Aggie defender, Hill hyper-extended his left knee, ending his season.
In the hours following the game, after a manual examination by doctors, the diagnosis was grim. The next day, an MRI confirmed that early diagnosis, that he had serious lateral knee damage. Specifically, the MRI report said he had a torn anterior cruciate ligament, had torn a lateral and a collateral ligament right off the bone and had torn one of the hamstring tendons off its seating on the leg bone with a deep ligament complex also detaching off bone.
"It looked like it had come off the bone in a sleeve altogether, and we had a couple of orthopedic surgeons look at the MRI and they all concurred, diagnosing the exact same thing," according to BYU football head trainer Jeff Hurst.
Doctors then told Hill the news that he'd have surgery; they explained the recovery time would be 6-to-8 months and this serious injury would take "an extensive recovery," and long rehab.
Hurst describes Hill as devastated at the news. His dreams and hard work vaporized with a few words and seconds in a game. It was Hurst's job to keep him positive and engaged.
With most knee injuries, when there is swelling and fluid involved, nobody can be exact in a diagnosis until the joint is actually opened up and inspected with human eyes. MRI revelations have been known to be inconclusive evidence of actual damage inside a body.
Needless to say, Hill, a faithful, God-fearing athlete, who'd just spent two years serving a mission to Sydney, filled his prayers with hope. Those around him did likewise, rallying to his side with love, support, and unfettered faith.
As Idaho's 5A Player of the Year out of Pocatello, and one of the top 30 quarterbacks in the country out of high school, Hill committed to Jim Harbaugh at Stanford but decided to enroll at BYU after his return from mission service last January. Hill had worked hard all winter, spring and summer to find a role on BYU's team.
His efforts brought him to the point that he got his chance this fall. Hill almost led BYU to a comeback win at Boise State. He then directed the Cougars to wins over WAC champion and now ranked Utah State and Hawaii. He was 2-0 as a starter, relieving senior Riley Nelson, who hurt his back.
Things looked bright for Hill that night against the Aggies. He'd completed 24 of 36 passes for 235 yards and the game's only touchdown. He carried the ball 19 times for 80 yards with a long run of 17 yards. He'd averaged 4.2 yards per carry. It was his 19th ill-fated run that everyone in the program wanted back.
When doctors opened up Hill's knee days after his injury, they were pleased to find many aspects of the manual examination and MRI wrong.
Hill's lateral collateral ligament and ACL were intact and were not torn away from the bone, said Hurst.
"So that did not need to be repaired and reattached. They also found the deep ligament complex was still attached but was inflamed and sore. As they got in there and inspected all the structural ligaments in the knee, they found his ACL and PCL were both intact and there was no internal de-arrangement of those major ligaments of the knee, which was really good news."
What doctors did find, which was his major issue, was a detachment of the hamstring muscle head from the fibular bone.
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In this photo released by Cubadebate and taken by Estudios Revolucion, Cuba's Fidel Castro, left, speaks to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez at a hospital in Havana, Cuba, March 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Estudios Revolucion)
CARACAS (CNN) -- Medical treatment in Cuba will keep Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez from being sworn in for a new term this week, a top official said Tuesday.
At the same time, supporters and opponents of Chavez are bracing for a legal battle over whether the inauguration can be postponed.
Venezuela's vice president said in a statement Tuesday that the inauguration would occur before the country's Supreme Court at a "later date," hours after an opposition leader called on the nation's top court to decide whether that's possible.
The 58-year-old Venezuelan president has been undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba for the past month, most recently battling respiratory complications. Officials have been hinting for weeks that Chavez might not be well enough to attend a January 10 inauguration before the National Assembly.
Tuesday's formal announcement sparked a fierce debate in the assembly, intensifying a political battle that has been playing out for weeks in press conferences, on the country's airwaves and in social media posts.
The constitution says Chavez can be sworn in before the Supreme Court, but the wording is not clear about whether that swearing in must occur on Thursday or who should run Venezuela in the meantime.
Supporters and critics of Chavez both point to the country's constitution but offer wildly different interpretations of what it says.
Chavez absence sparks succession talk
A statement from Venezuela's vice president read before lawmakers Tuesday said that the constitution authorizes "at a later date, the swearing-in before the Supreme Court."
"The process of post-surgical recuperation must continue past January 10 of this year, so he will not be able to appear on that date before the National Assembly," the statement said.
Opposition lawmakers said in Tuesday's debate that Chavez should be declared temporarily absent from his presidential post to avoid a power vacuum.
They argued that Diosdado Cabello, the head of the National Assembly, should temporarily assume the presidency while Chavez recovers. But Cabello, a close Chavez ally and member of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, said that would be unconstitutional.
"There is no way to interpret (the constitution). It is extremely clear," he said. "Everything else is a wish."
Julio Borges, an opposition lawmaker, said that Chavez's supporters were fighting among themselves and putting the country's future in jeopardy.
"You are denying the application of the constitution ... and what is unjust is that the Venezuelan people are paying the price of your internal fight while the (country's) problems are still alive and kicking," he said.
Tuesday's debate became so heated that one member of the opposition accused Chavez's supporters of hurling a copy of the constitution at him.
Supporters of Chavez pumped their fists in the air and gave a standing ovation after passing a measure affirming that Chavez could remain president and be away from the country for as long as necessary to deal with his illness.
But earlier Tuesday, a leading member of the opposition said Venezuela's Supreme Court must clarify the confusion.
Henrique Capriles, the man Chavez defeated at the polls in October, said earlier Tuesday that the Supreme Court must clarify the confusion.
"There is a conflict here," Capriles said. "What is the Supreme Court waiting on?"
As far as the opposition is concerned, Capriles said, the constitution is clear that the president's term ends on January 10 and a new period begins. If Chavez is unable to be sworn in, it creates a leadership vacuum that must be filled by the National Assembly president, and the possibility of new elections arise, Capriles said.
Cabello has said that he has no intention of assuming power if Chavez is not sworn in.
"When (the opposition) talks about a power vacuum, they are proposing a coup," Cabello said, the state-run AVN news agency reported.
The government contends that Chavez's new term begins automatically because he was re-elected and that the inauguration could be held later. In remarks broadcast on national television Tuesday night, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said the inauguration date "is a formality."
Speaking to Venezuela's military leaders, he said declaring Chavez temporarily absent from his post "would be crazy because the popular will is what prevails."
Voters have re-elected Chavez, he said, calling on the military to help continue Chavez's revolution.
There is no such automatic continuity of power, Capriles said, arguing that "the only thing that has continuity are the country's problems."
"If the constitution is not followed, or there is a conflict of interpretation, the Supreme Court has to take a position," he said.
Capriles expressed concern about unrest or political crisis in the absence of a decision by the high court.
Chavez has not been seen in public and officials have not released any photographs of him since he arrived in Havana for his fourth cancer operation in early December, fueling speculation that his health is worse than the government is letting on.
Last week, a government spokesman said Chavez was battling a severe lung infection that has caused respiratory failure. Ernesto Villegas said the president was following a strict treatment regimen for "respiratory insufficiency" caused by the infection.
His condition remained unchanged as of Monday, the government said in a statement.
"Treatment has been administered permanently and rigorously, and the patient is supporting it," the statement said.
The president of Venezuela's Supreme Court is scheduled to speak to reporters on Wednesday.


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5 Ridiculous Myths Everyone Believes About the Wild West
#2. Cowboys Wore Cowboy Hats
The Myth:
The ultimate item of the cowboy outfit is of course the Stetson hat, which most of us just call a cowboy hat. There's always the boots, too, but they kind of go together as a pair.
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We're not entirely sure why the Texas license plate is there.
The hats were practical, lightweight, and made with utility in mind. They had curved edges that could defend you from both sun and rain, and they made you look incredibly stylish while doing what amounted to staring at cows for weeks at a time. The curved brim, those dips in the crown, the band -- the Stetson is about as iconic as clothing gets. So if you get in your time machine and set it for 1870, you'd damn well better be packing one of these:
Worn by John Wayne, and also people you don't want to talk to at bars.
The Reality:
Lots of people wore hats back then, that part's true. But they seemed to wear everything but what we think of as "cowboy" hats. Here's Billy the Kid wearing some kind of fucked-up top hat:
Here, enjoy this theme music.
Here's Wild Bill Hickok wearing a woman's flat pancake hat:
"Women's panties, too. They make me feel dainty."
But what you would have seen mostly back then were bowler hats:
"My, my, chap, shall we go forth for some train robberies?"
They were more popular because they were a little more versatile in various social situations, especially in a time when all men wore hats all the damn time. In fact, famed Western historian Lucius "Clearly a Fake Name" Beebe went so far as to call it "the hat that won the West." Looking back on most portraits from the time, you can find that almost every single major name in the West owned a bowler hat, at least if they had class.
This dude could be gut-stabbing toddlers and we'd still shake his hand.
Even the cowboy hats that Stetson was making in the late 1800s didn't look like the Stetson hats we call "cowboy hats" today. Originally known as "the Boss of the Plains," it looked more like modern Amish hats, and may have been just a modified sombrero.
All of the curling and ornamentation came later, but this hat is the granddaddy of every cowboy hat in the world today. And that's not exactly what your mind jumps to when you think of cowboy hats, is it?
#1. Guns Were Rampant in the Old West
The Myth:
Well, even if cowboys didn't have cowboy hats, we sure as hell know they had six-shooters on their hip. Back then, every man, woman, and child came pre-equipped with an old-timey revolver, which was used for everything from personal defense and hunting to celebrating.
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If you're extremely careful, they even work as vibrators.
The Reality:
Regardless of the public's perception, gun control laws may have actually been stricter back in the 19th and early 20th century than they are now, especially in the West. In the beginning, there was definitely gun violence, as there was neither standardized law nor a good way to enforce it, but the Wild West didn't stay wild forever.
As towns formed and communities grew, the need for and tolerance of handguns started to fall. Starting in 1878, some 25 years into the westward expansion, action was finally taken -- even places as wild as Dodge City started posting signs like this:
Fabius Maximus
Man, we could go for some prickly ash bitters right about now.
In fact, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral was caused by one gang being unwilling to abide by the anti-firearm rule of Tombstone.
But it's not like the six-shooter of the time was very dangerous anyway. They didn't even use regular bullets like they currently do, instead opting for the so-called "cap-and-ball" system that was little more than a marble launched by black powder. It had an effective range of maybe 50 feet. The Adams, one of the first revolvers introduced at the time and a hallmark weapon of the era, would burn the living hell out of your hand while launching the bullet. So you had to be really sure you wanted to shoot that dude.
"You're lucky I'm out of burn salve, hombre."
That's why, even among those who used guns, six-shooters weren't the favorite. They were little more than a weapon of last resort. Shotguns and rifles were the preferred weapons, having both the power and the range to put down a mountain lion or a card-cheating son of a bitch. But who would ever want to watch a Western where cowboys were meeting at high noon to shoot each other in the face with huge shotguns?
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Imagine you were elected coroner of IEEE or somesuch governing body and you had to pronounce a programming language as dead. What signs would you look for? Are there any zombie languages out there that don't know they're already dead?
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Computer languages never die; they only turn from overhyped to underused. Someone will always re-discover an old language and learn it, just for the fun of it.
Addendum: Those people who like older languages sometimes write a new language inspired by it. So even if the original language is dead by some people's terms, its spirit continues to live on in its descendants. Some examples include:
In linguistics, a dead language is defined as one which has no native or fluent speakers. I think this definition translates quite well in the programming sphere. A dead programming language is one that no programmer uses as their main language, or no system supports natively.
A language is dead when no one in their right mind would ever do a greenfield project in it. Just like dead human languages aren't completely irrelevant (because we study history), dead programming languages aren't completely irrelevant (because we maintain all that crufty historical code).
If I were the IEEE coroner, I'd look for the same signs linguists use to determine whether a natural language is dying/dead, viz.
Based on these criteria, I'd guess COBOL is moribund. Despite 220 bazilion LOC written in COBOL, according to this 2006 article in CW, the average age of COBOL programmers has got to be over 50 by now. While I couldn't find exact statistics, I'd guess the average Java programmer is in his/her 20s, by comparison. COBOL apologists point out that some 5B LOC are still written in COBOL annually, but I don't think this is a reliable measure: I could probably re-write 10 lines of COBOL in 1 line of Perl or a few keystrokes in J--COBOL is a fairly verbose language.
A programming language is not dead as long as you can find some sort of specification of it, from which you can create a compiler or an interpreter able to run programs on a working computer.
As someone pointed out, there's always a sect of people, either historians or crazies, that will go out and study dead languages for the hell of it. Dead languages are easier to find by raising this bar.
To me, there is a difference whether a committee has decided something is dead or something is dead to me.
For example, Forth per se is dead to me: there are not many current Forth projects I can learn from, there are not many active mailing lists or forums where I could ask for help, and there are not too many libraries available.
The Forth-like language, Factor, on the other hand seems to be a lot more alive. I would not call it dead even though it is not much less obscure than Forth.
People opinions determine the deadiness
p.s. I was tempted to use 'woman' or person' instead of man but I don't want to imply that the [female] gender was related to it, was tempted to use 'person' but sounded weird given our history of "man walks into a bar" style jokes. Well anyway, at least I'm thinking about the stuff.


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I'm doing a series of smash beers all using the same yeast same temp same grain. I'm noticing a big variation in flocculation on the current batch (forgot the Irish moss oops) WLP001 by the way. Im assuming I'm going to get a bunch of "DUH" comments but I have always used the Irish moss to coagulate the trub in the kettle for clarity never thinking of it going on to the ferment and conditioning, anybody know?
Ideally when using irish moss, very little of it should end up in the fermentor. It's a good idea to let the boil settle for 10-15 minutes after flameout so that the moss and the proteins it's attracted have time to fall to the bottom of the kettle.
But even if it does make it to the fermentor, it won't have any significant affect on the yeast:
So, Irish moss has no affect on yeast flocculation. If you were to use a different fining that is positively charged, such as Polyclar, then this would cause the yeast to flocculate and sediment quicker.
Can you be sure it's yeast in suspension you're seeing and not protein haze?


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Posted: September 30, 2013
This month, groups across the country committed to stop bullying will release new resources, campaigns, and efforts aimed at bringing awareness to this important issue facing our youth.Continue ReadingPosted in Prevention
Posted: September 17, 2013
Back when MySpace was popular, almost every student at my high school had a profile. For us MySpace was an online-place where we could thoroughly express ourselves. We would post pictures from our latest and greatest adventures, update our status to our current mood, and choose backgrounds and music that represented who we were as a person. However, at one point during my high school MySpace became less of a space for self-expression and more a place of cyberbullying. ... Continue ReadingPosted in Cyberbullying
Posted: August 30, 2013
Tyler Pascavis wants us to talk about bullying. Tyler, 18, is a native of Illinois, a lifetime member of the 4-H, and an anti-bullying advocate who believes that the only way we can put a stop to bullying is to bring it out in the open. At the school Tyler attended most of his life, Tyler found that the administration was not willing to admit there was a problem with bullying. A high-level school administrator once stated that bullying was not a problem at ... Continue ReadingPosted in Profiles/Voices from the Field
Posted: August 23, 2013
As Secretary Duncan has noted, the Department of Education is committed to making sure that all of our young people grow up free of fear, violence, and bullying. Bullying not only threatens a student's physical and emotional safety at school, but fosters a climate of fear and disrespect, creating conditions that negatively impact learning—undermining students' ability to achieve to their full potential. Unfortunately, we know that children with disabilities are disproportionately affected by bullying.
Factors such as physical ... Continue ReadingPosted in Specific Groups
Posted: August 19, 2013
In the past year, the Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention has hosted several free webinars to bring attention to a variety of topic areas in bullying prevention and response. These webinars attracted parents, educators, as well as many other community members.
These webinar materials are still available for your use.Bullying and Suicide Prevention – This webinar provides the latest research and science ... Continue ReadingPosted in Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention


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I want buy an e-book (theleanstartup.com) and read on my tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab) . Ebook is available for kindle and nook. Also there is an Amazon link (probably kindle version). There isn't pdf download option, ofcourse.
Kindle and Nook's Android apps isn't downloadable for Turkey.
How can i buy and read this book? Any ideas?


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A driver swerving to avoid a parked vehicle on a county road south of Avoca Wednesday evening hit two hunters who had been standing in a roadside ditch.
Cass County Sheriff William Brueggemann reports that the car was parked below the crest of a hill on the edge of Van Dorn Street between 108th and 120th streets. Another vehicle traveling on Van Dorn Street came over the hill and the driver observed the parked vehicle in the roadway.
The 37-year-old driver took evasive action, steered to the right, driving into the ditch to pass the parked car on the right. The car struck a father and son who were standing outside of the parked vehicle.
One victim is a 28-year-old man from Bakersfield, Calif., the other victim is a 48-year-old man from Kansas. There were several other hunters from Otoe County, inside of the parked car, who were not injured.
One victim was transported by medical helicopter and the other victim was transported by Weeping Water Rescue, both to Creighton Medical Center in Omaha with undetermined injures.
The 37 year old driver took evasive action, steered to the right, driving into the ditch, attempting to pass the parked car on the right, and driver collided with two male individuals who were standing out-side of the parked vehicle.
Avoca fire and Weeping Water rescue were dispatched Nov. 14 at about 6 p.m., 52 minutes after sunset.
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Hosting an Event
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Here are some suggested guidelines for hosting an event at Noisebridge. If it's an hour or two long workshop with a dozen or so participants, just hold it. If it's bigger, such as an unconference or a full day of presentations or you expect a lot of new people to show up, please note the following:
- It's recommended that you have a Noisebridge member or several as part of your planning committee to see that you avoid common pitfalls when working with our organization
- publicize the event via the mailing list and the wiki, with enough lead time that the community can respond and give feedback
- be aware of the existing ongoing events and try to work around them
- show up for a while before finalizing your planning and get to know some of the denizens
- have a plan for setting up the space
- have a plan for cleaning up after yourself (and follow it)
- consider a monetary donation to Noisebridge


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5 Mundane Objects That Saved Important Lives
Sure, it's easy to look back and play "What if?" "What would have happened if JFK had screwed himself into a sex coma minutes before he was scheduled to get in that convertible in Dallas? Or if John Wilkes Booth had been accosted by an overzealous opium salesman on his way to Ford's Theatre? Or if Amelia Earhart had been a good cook?" We could play history games all day.
But you don't need a killer imagination to see how little, insignificant details have changed everything ...
#5. The Felt-Tip Pen That Won the Moon
The moon landing story we know is already pretty kickass: Apollo 11 rode a trail of fire to the moon, stabbed it in the heart with an American flag, won the universe for the USA and sailed home on rockets fueled by eagle blood. Every kindergartener knows that. But behind the scenes, things weren't quite so perfect. For example, did you know Buzz Aldrin nearly murdered all three of the astronauts with one misstep?
Sometimes trust is the same as insanity.
While bumbling around the Eagle, Aldrin stepped on a switch. Which switch? The circuit breaker that would power the ship off the moon in order to rendezvous with Michael Collins in the Columbia. That switch. In fact, we have the transcript documenting how the whole thing went down:
Aldrin: Houston, Tranquility. Do you have a way of showing the configuration of the engine arm circuit breaker? Over. (Pause) The reason I'm asking is because the end of it appears to be broken off. I think we can push it back in again. I'm not sure we could pull it out if we pushed it in, though. Over.
Don't let the tone fool you -- the conversation was the equivalent of the Titanic calmly asking if there was a way to repair an iceberg stab wound. Since the breaker for the engine was the only thing that could fire the engine to get them off the moon, Aldrin inadvertently Apollo Thirteened the whole mission. After telling mission control, they were advised to sleep a few hours while Houston came up with a plan to fire Eagle back up. As if pondering the implications of getting Gilligan's Islanded on the moon was good nap fuel.
The Tiny Thing That Saved the Day:
Instead of catching some shut eye, Aldrin weighed their options. He couldn't use his finger or anything with a metal tip because the circuit was electrical; he'd fry the ship. Ultimately, Aldrin MacGyvered the situation with a simple solution: a felt-tip pen. He found that an ordinary pen could fit in nicely where the breaker once was. And it was a good thing, because if it hadn't, the triumph of the American space program could have ended in a crippling tragedy. And we'd probably all be Soviets by now.
Speaking of ...
#4. The Forgettable B Movie That Saved President Reagan
Before Ronald Reagan got good at the '80s and forgetting things, he was really just good at one thing and one thing only: making shitty movies. Between 1937 and 1964, Ronald Reagan starred in millions of mostly forgettable movies, some of them about Gippers, and others about chimps.
In most cases, the movies were so bad that Hollywood struggled to find him something else to do: managing the Screen Actor's Guild. Little did they know that presiding over "the Guild" would be the perfect springboard for Reagan's political career. Little did he know that one of those crappy little movies he made years before would just about save his life.
Above: President Reagan confers with Henry Kissinger during a vacation to Camp David.
The Tiny Thing That Saved the Day:
In 1939 Ronald Reagan starred in a movie called Code of the Secret Service. Never heard of it? Probably because it was released the same year as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Mice and Men and Stagecoach. Not to mention a new Betty Boop flick. The movie was so bad that Reagan himself called it the worst movie he ever made, which is really saying something, all things considered.
It was just them reading the actual code verbatim for 90 minutes.
But one 9-year-old with the film taste of a, well, 9-year-old disagreed with the critics, the audiences, the studio and Reagan himself over the value of Code of the Secret Service. This kid loved the movie so much that he made his parents take him to see it over and over again. And in the same way that Elvis influenced the Beatles and the Beatles influenced boy hair, Code of the Secret Service inspired 9-year-old Jerry Parr to eventually become a Secret Service agent himself. The end.
Except, not really. Jerry Parr, the kid who was influenced by a Ronald Reagan movie to become a Secret Service agent, later became a Secret Service agent protecting President Ronald Reagan. And he was right there by Reagan's side on March 30, 1981 when a Jodie Foster-obsessed nutcase took at shot at the president. It was Parr who shoved Reagan into a limo, getting him away from the shooter and out of danger.
So what would have happened had Reagan used his better artistic judgment and not made Code of the Secret Service? Jerry Parr would never have seen the movie, and someone else would have been standing at Reagan's side. Maybe someone with duller instincts or a club foot. And imagine the 1980s without Ronald Reagan running the show. Imagine it!
#3. The Pocket Change That Saved a Senator from a Bullet
Via Dailycaller.com
Do you remember how in Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks shows up at momentous spots in history: meeting JFK, teaching Elvis how to dance, busting the Watergate burglary and showing the world how good the Chinese are at Ping-Pong? It was a triumph in cinema. In some ways, Hawaiian senator Daniel Inouye has lived that kind of life.
"Life is like a box of chocolates, only all of the chocolates are for me."
After all, not many people can claim that they've been a part of so many important moments in history, like the ratification of the statehood of Hawaii, delivering the keynote at the riotous 1968 Democratic Convention and serving on the committee that investigated the Watergate scandal. Even today, Inouye is the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee -- so he helps decide who gets what, tax-money-wise. He's also third in line to succeed the president, should something terrible happen to Biden and Boehner.
Not bad for a guy who should have died almost 70 years ago.
The Tiny Thing That Saved the Day:
While fighting during World War II in France, Inouye led a charge against a group of Germans and was shot in the heart for his trouble. Luckily, it didn't go through, because it hit two silver dollars he carried in his shirt pocket. Two little coins that he was probably saving to buy a steak when he got back to the States were all that stood between him and a shot to the heart.
Back then, two dollars was half of all the money on the entire planet.
Not that the senator made it through the war unscathed. He later lost his arm in a devastating attack in Italy, and he was eventually awarded the Purple Heart for his service. But it was those two little silver coins that allowed him to put his mark on the next 70 years of history.


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Let $G$ be an abelian group which does not have a maximal subgroup. Does it follow that $G$ is a $\mathbb{Q}$-algebra?
It is easy to see that $\mathbb{Q}$-algebras do not admit any maximal subgroups. I am looking for an example which is not of this kind. If such an example does not exist, it would be nice to see a proof that $\mathbb{Q}$-algebras are the only ones with this property.


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Holiday lights
We put up some holiday lights in the Mission Street windows. (We call them Holiday Lights both as a gesture of ecumenical goodwill and to annoy the "War on Christmas" wingnuts.)
Naturally, you can control them on the web using the bare-bones interface at URL: http://lights.netisland.net/
This is served by a pure Python webserver running on a Fit-PC Ubuntu micro-PC. Lights are switched with a 8-channel serial-controlled relay board. Each of the four windows has two strings of LEDs, white and colored. Facing Mission St, the white LEDs on the leftmost window are on channel 0, the colored ones on channel 1. The next window over has white on channel 2 and so forth.
We'll release the code on github it when it's a little more proven.
Basic info:
This is the script that runs forever, and does the Actual Work of switching the lights on and off. It reads the file /home/lights/sequence, which defines the light sequence, and then uses the RelayControl class to communicate with the external relay bank.
The text file read by filelooop.py that defines the light sequence currently active. The first line of this file defines how long (in milliseconds) we wait before advancing to the next state. The rest of the file is a list of states to iterate through. For example:
1000 10000000 01000000 00100000 00010000 00001000 00000100 00000010 00000001
We sleep for 1 second (1000 milliseconds) between states. Each line of 8 digits controls the relays, one char per channel. In the first state, the first light is on, and the rest are off. In the second state, the second light is on, and the rest are off. In the third state, the third light is on, and the rest are off. etc.
(There's code in place in filelooop.py to also support state lines in the syntax of "<state> <delay>", to sleep for an amount of time different than the "global delay", but I haven't actually tested this behavior yet.)
A list of pre-programed sequences.
A full webserver/framework implementation, currently configured to listen on port 8080. When you request "/", it returns a list of hyperlinks to each of the *.seq files in lights's home directory. If you click on one of those links, it copies the contents from the *.seq file to /home/lights/sequence, so filelooop.py will start processing it instead of whatever it was previously processing.
When you use webserver.py to request a *.seq file, it "
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You down with OOP? - Yeah you know me!
When: Every Friday night from 7:00PM — 8:45PM.
Teacher: Garrett Smith
Hearken to the days of
view-source:! In this course, I'll explore Object Oriented JavaScript as it pertains to client side web programming. And some DOM stuff.
Resources Web Development Resources
Browsers provide debuggers that can be launched from a breakpoint, the application's menu, or the debugger keyword in the script.
ClassName Swap
Event Delegation and the Cascade.
Functions are callable objects with an internal [[Scope]] property. Learn how to call functions and pass functions to other functions, where they can be later called.
Array Methods added to EcmaScript 5
Sort, map, filter, and more.
The prototype chain is used for reading property resolution.
User-defined functions can be used to construct new objects. Objects have, on their prototype chain, the constructor's prototype.
Prerequisite: Functions.
Custom Events
Fire custom events from your own user-defined objects.
Scope Chain and Identifier Resolution
This class covers closures.
Prerequisite: Functions.
Singleton with information hiding in function scope.
Prerequisite: Scope Chain and Identifier Resolution.
Interface-Based Design
Two interfaces with a similar signature. The Devil's in the details -- encapsulate them!
Event Notification System
An abstract system for event notification.
DOM Events Adapter
An system for DOM event notification, designed to handle delegation and specific event models.
The Factory pattern, the Decorator pattern, newApply, and the holy grail: Abstract Factory.
Prerequisite: Functions. Prerequisite: Scope Chain and Identifier Resolution.
Parameter Object
Passing around lists of parameters? Typechecking arguments? Stop doing that. Here's how to make your code clearer and less error-prone.
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Why does the butterfly have a cocoon stage in its life cycle? It could have simply grown up within the egg/cocoon, and emerged as a butterfly. Instead it is first an egg, then a worm, then a chrysalis, and finally after some time a butterfly.
Holometaboly is believed to have evolved only once (Labandeira, 2011), but is arguably the most successful mode of development we know of in terms of species richness (Kristensen, 1999 - PDF link). Insects which have adopted this method are far more diverse than their hemimetabolous counterparts. A conservative estimate by Hammond (1992) is that holometabolous insects comprise more than 60% of all living organisms.
The subclass Pterygota (winged insects) is divided into (super orders) endopterygota (wings develop interiorly) which are holometabolous, and the exopterygota (external wing development) which are hemimetabolous.
Hemimetabolous insects (usually) develop from an egg to an adult through a series of immature forms (known as nymphs or instars) which are slightly modified (and usually slightly larger) forms of the preceding form. There are exceptions to this mode within the exopterygota including asexual parthenogenesis which is common in aphids. The general life cycle is well illustrated in the Dermaptera (earwigs). All stages inhabit the same ecological niche and so maintain the same general body plan.
Image file from Wikimedia Commons here
Although hemimetaboly is a more gradual process than holometaboly, it happens in a small number (often four or five nymphal instars) of discrete steps rather than the more continuous development of other animals such as mammals. Although all insects fall into either the exopterygote or endopterygote categories (i.e. wings either develop externally or internally), there are examples of intermediate processes which lie somewhere between hemi- and holometaboly. A notable example are the Cicadas. Cicadas are Hemiperans (true bugs) which lie in the exopterygota and so are, by default hemimetabolous. However there is a considerable difference between their immature and mature stages:
Illustration by Debbie Hadley, using drawings from Insects - Their Ways and Means of Living by Robert Evans Snodgrass, U.S. Bureau of Entomology. These drawings are in the public domain. From here.
During the immature stages, the larva (or nymph) will burrow underground, sometimes for many years. This requires strong front appendages, which they also use when they surface to grip onto a surface whilst they shed their final skin to become an adult. This differential niche exploitation is likely to have given rise to the morphological differences between immature and mature life stages.
Exploiting different niches during different developmental stages not only reduces intra-specific competition between young and adult, it also enables the insect to be more specialised to fulfill their specific role, which changes as they develop. The role of the immature is to grow, they do not yet need to be able to reproduce or disperse; whereas the role of the adult is to find a mate and reproduce. Young often develop below ground where there are fewer predators, adults often fly to enhance dispersal (further reducing competition and also decreasing inbreeding). These two activities call for vastly different body designs.
Some other common holometabolous insect orders are Coleoptera (beetles), Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants), and Diptera (true flies), whereas hemimetabolous groups include Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets etc.), Mantodea (praying mantids), and Blattaria (cockroaches).
As for the chrysalis which Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) have evolved to surround their pupal stage, the main role is likely to be protection. Larvae (caterpillars) are a highly nutritious and energetic food source and thus have adapted defensive mechanisms such as mimicry, warning colours, and dropping to the ground when disturbed. This drop would damage the metamorphosing pupa (the most vulnerable stage as it is usually relatively immobile), as the cuticle softens to allow for cell-rearrangement.
The process of insect development is regulated by juvenile hormone (JH), see Konopova et al, (2011) for more on this.
The cocoon phase allows lepidopterans (and other holometabolous insects) to reorganize their body and undertake the dramatic metamorphosis from larvae to adult in a safe environment. Cocoons and pupae are typically attached to branches by silk (oftentimes after climbing high into the canopy), thereby removing them from many predatory interactions and providing a protected environment to breakdown the larval body and develop into the adult phase.
In my mind, the main adaptive significance of the cocoon/pupal phase is to provide an environment within which the animal can metamorphose while reducing exposure to both predators and any harsh elements.
The butterfly is the reproductive stage while the larvae all it does is eat an accumulates energy to be succesfull during the reproductive phase. In terms of adaptation this life cycle would be much more efficent.


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At the beach, lying in a lounge chair on the sand in our swimsuits, we often do well to remember our sunscreen, let alone a skincare regimen! You know it's true. . . .
However, even though the sun's rays are deadly in all seasons and weathers, we think about it more in the summer, when we're outdoors and often inactive and resting in the sun.
Oh, sure, we get vitamin D from the sun, but we can also get dangerous UV rays, and those are nothing to fool with.
Swimsuits expose a lot more of our bodies than any other garments – at least, the ones we wear in public – and those usually unexposed areas of skin are much more sensitive to those UV rays than many people realize. NEVER go outdoors, whether it's sunny or overcast, without sunscreen on all exposed skin.
As for your face and neck, your usual application of Nuglow Daytime Therapy contains an SPF of 15 and, with a hat and sunglasses to protect your eyes, should be sufficient to keep your face and neck safe. However, BE SURE TO REAPPLY OFTEN, as even if you don't go near the water, you'll sweat the protection off.
I suggest that you get some UV beads from Steve Spangler Science, make a little bracelet, and apply your sunscreen to the beads as well as to your body. When the beads start to turn colors, it's time to reapply your sunscreen.
The beads are cute with your new summer swimsuit, too.
Those, and sunscreen for all your exposed bare skin, and NuGlow DayTime Therapy for your face and neck, should keep you safe on the beach!


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Does there exist a two variable analogue of the Weil conjecture?
What I mean is that the usual Weil involves a one-variable zeta-function which you get by using numbers $V_n = V ( GF(p^n))$ of points of a smooth algebraic variety over finite fields of characteristic $p$. Is it possible to have a sensible two-parameter family of finite rings instead? Any references?
For instance, one can consider finite quotients of Witt vectors, and form a two-parameter family of numbers $V_{n,m} = V ( Witt(GF(p^n))/I^m)$ (where $I$ is the maximal ideal of the Witt vectors) from a variety $V$ (smooth, projective over $\mathbb Z$). Is there a sensible two variable zeta-function cooked with these numbers?


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Buckeye Local cheering routine sparks controversy
February 6, 2013
WHEELING — The champions of OVAC cheering were crowned last weekend at WesBanco Arena. However, it's a squad that didn't win that's been drawing the attention since the competition....
If you think they all don't come to win your a fool. And the girls feel the judges cheated them last year. and it sounds like there was some home cooking.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas --- The Texas A&M men's and women's swimming and diving teams dropped hard-fought dual meets to Auburn at the Student Recreation Center on Saturday.
The No. 2 Aggie women's team dropped a narrow 158-141 decision to the No. 11 Tigers, while the A&M men's squad fell to the No. 9 Auburn men 189-111. The Aggies combined to win 10 events against the Tigers, with the women's team posting six victories and the men taking four wins.
Leading the way with two individual wins each were Aggie Olympians Cammile Adams and Breeja Larson from the women's squad and sophomore transfer Ford McLiney for the men.
Adams, a junior from Cypress, Texas, won her specialty, the 200-yard butterfly, in 1:56.32, and the 500 freestyle in 4:46.35. Adams was fifth in the 200 fly at the London Olympics last summer, which is the highest individual finish by a current Aggie swimmer at the Olympic games.
Larson, a junior from Mesa, Ariz., swept the 100-and 200-yard breaststrokes, downing her Team USA teammate Micah Lawrence of Auburn twice in the process. Larson, the NCAA and American record holder at both distances, won the 100 breast in 59.23 and the 200 breast in 2:07.47.
McLiney, from Kansas City, Mo., via Florida State, shined in the diving well with a sweep of the men's one- and three-meter springboard dives. McLiney, the Atlantic Coast Conference runner-up on the 3m in 2012, won the 1m dive with 355.80 points and the 3m dive with 384.68.
Also grabbing individual wins were senior Maureen McLaine (Plano, Texas) in the women's 1,000 freestyle, junior Omar Enriquez (San Andrea Tuxtla, Mexico) in the men's 1,650 free, senior Tess Simpson (Ingleside, Ontario, Canada) in the women's 200 backstroke and freshman Mateo Muzek (Zagreb, Croatia) in the men's 200 back.
McLaine, also the runner-up in the 500 free (4:47.49), held off teammate Sarah Henry for the win the 1,000 free in a time of 9:45.45. Henry charged in the final 200 meters to separate from Auburn's Katie Gardocki and challenge McLaine in a time of 9:47.09. Simpson, also the runner-up in the 100 back (54.64), hit the wall first in the 200 back in a time of 1:57.95.
Enriquez trailed Auburn's Zane Grothe by nearly two seconds midway through the mile but steadily reeled in the All-American down the stretch. Enriquez touched the wall in 15:29.34, which was more than a second ahead of Grothe (15:30.34). Muzek threw down a strong final 50 meters (27.31 split) to rally past Auburn's Brandon Siemasko for the win in 1:49.53 to Siemasko's 1:49.98.
Other runner-up finishes from the women's team were junior Sammie Bosma in the 50 free (23.10) and 100 free (50.01), junior Caroline McElhany in the 100 fly (54.48) and 200 fly (1:57.92), and Henry in the 200 IM (2:02.01). The Aggies' 400 free relay of Bosma, freshmen Meredith Oliver and Claire Brandt and McElhany was second in 3:21.43.
Other runner-up finishes from the men's team were Enriquez in the 200 fly (1:49.38) and 500 free (4:32.57), senior John Dalton in the 50 free (20.29) and 100 free (44.48) and freshman Alexandros Theocharidis in the 100 back (50.51). The Aggies were second in the both relays with the 400 medley relay foursome of Theocharidis, senior John Wagner, junior Henrik Lindau and Dalton touching in 3:19.70, and the 400 free relay of junior Kyle Troskot, Lindau, Dalton and Muzek finishing in 2:59.41.


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This has been bugging me for a while, and despite googling around, I cannot seem to even find an explanation as to why the "Create Application Shortcut" is disabled.
Unfortunately, the answer to your question is "you can't," and the reason is "because Google says so.
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95710 says
but there is no real explanation as to why. Nor have I found one anywhere else. It seems like an oft-requested feature, but I've never seen Google even suggest that they are planning to add it (although I presume/hope that they will).
Alternative Solution: If you are interested in creating site-specific browsers on Mac OS X, Fluid.app works great, but (IIRC) it is based on Webkit, not Chrome.
2013-06-27: Turns out there is a way to make Chrome SSBs on the Mac, although it's a little convoluted.
The instructions are too long to replicate here, and there is a shell script and/or AppleScript involved. You can find both of them at http://www.lessannoyingsoftware.com/blog/2010/08/149/Create+application+shortcuts+in+Google+Chrome+on+a+Mac
LifeHacker covered this as well, and created a video to go along with it. You can find that at: http://lifehacker.com/5611711/create-application-shortcuts-in-google-chrome-for-mac-with-a-shell-script
An open-source, free service I built that replicates the "Create Application Shortcuts" behavior on Mac by generating a Chrome extension of your favorite website on-the-fly that opens in its own window with its own dock icon!
There have been google suppor threads where a "rep" does state that this feature is in the works. It once was pegged at 2 months, or perhaps 2 weeks, I can't remember. That was over a year ago.
I suspect it is not a very high priority with so few users even knowing what it would be good for. I had a PC/Windows using friend try it out, not only couldn't he figure out how to set it up, but couldn't think of a good reason why it would be a great idea.
All the while, he was clicking away and mousing away with his 1900 button mouse that he loves so much. :)
Fluid.app is a third-party app which provides this feature. It works great, and the free version has enough features. You can set global shortcuts, custom app icons, and lots of other stuff.
I think the idea is that the website author creates an "app" in the Chrome Web Store, and then you can install that app within Chrome, and then when you open it, it opens in it's own window, with it's own icon in the dock etc.


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I have been using the Elite Four to train my Pokemon while running through Kanto. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of defeating Blue in Viridian City without leveling up my Pokemon enough, so now the upgraded version of the Elite Four is very difficult (All their Pokemon are lvl 60-70). Where is a good place to train in order to quickly level up my Pokemon, which are around the mid to low 50s?
If you have a Sinnoh game from the 4th generation, the best method is actually to trade them to that game and train them up on the wild pokemon in the Battle Zone (the island containing the battle frontier), especially Route 227 and Stark Mountain.
The highest level wild Pokemon in the Johto remakes are the level 45-50 Pokemon in Mt. Silver and the lowest floor or Cerulean Cave.
If you don't have any Sinnoh games, your best option is to keep doing rematches with trainers, which can be found by the exclamation marks next to route names on your Pokegear map (some of those trainers just want to give you items, but most are rematches). or just keep attempting the Elite Four, even if you don't succeed (though this may drastically lower your Pokemon's happiness because of the repeated fainting).
Another option is to do Gym Leader rematches in the Fighting Dojo in Saffron City, but this is slow because you can only fight certain Gym Leaders each day, and you need to collect their phone numbers beforehand. A guide to getting the Gym Leader's phone numbers is available on Bulbapedia.After you get their phone number, call them at the correct time, and they will show up in the Fighting Dojo.
Their Pokemon are levelled up significantly. Most of the Gym leaders are in the 50-60 range, but some (Blue) go up to level 70.
One option is to battle wild Pokemon in Mt. Silver. You'll encounter Pokemon from levels 40 - 50 there.
Another option is re-battling Gym Leaders. Serebii has a page detailing how to obtain their phone numbers, and what Pokemon they have. I find this the most efficient way because during the timeframe that you can rematch them, you can battle them as many times as you want. Call them, battle them, leave the dojo, and repeat. As you are battling a trainer, you get 1.5x the experience you would obtain from battling a wild Pokemon of the same species + level.
If you don't care about your Pokemon's happiness, and have a Sinnoh game, you can trade them over and fight wild Pokemon there (I would suggest Stark Mountain). Trading over a Pokemon to another game will reset it's happiness, but they will gain 1.5x the experience they would in their native game.
The thing I do is trade over a level 100 from a previous game to the new game, get an exp share and put it on the the Pokemon (or Pokemons) you want to level up. Go through the elite four or just battle randomly. That should level up your Pokemon well!
Well, I have many tips:
Using these methods, I got my houndour level 15 to a houndoom level 100 in less than a week.
Hope I helped. Good luck!
Wild Pokemon in the Mt. Silver area are all levels 40-50. I've trained there for a bit, until ultimately you'll need to re-battle other trainers.
Just a tip for fast leveling. As been told already, rebattle the gym leaders. But instead of waiting for the right moment to call 'em, you can just change your Timeset on the DS menu. this allows you to arrange a rematch whenever you want! I did this for a while, I battled with erika over and over to train my lugia and Ninetales! Great way, just call the right gym leader for you kill quick and efficient.
Usually late in the game, trainers like School Kid Chad and Youngster Joey have tougher pokemon. Its better to fight them as if they have a level 50 you could get over 1000 XP. Though i have VERY tough pokemon (2 level 100s) and if you have over level 60 you might as well travel. If you think your training is bad, breed pokemon. You can have something crazy like 11 charizards and 65 Croconaws via breeding.
As you have heard, you can level your Pokémon in Mt. Silver. There are Pokémon level 40-50. After that, if you don't care about your Pokémon's happiness, you can deposit all your money to your mom and challenge the elite four. For each Pokémon defeated you usually gain over 3000+ exp.
I train at route 47 and get them to 40-50 and then take on the E4. the place is the grass next to the waterfall. get there by surf.
Put 2 pokemom in the day care at a time then go to Ecruteak gym and then get a heavy object put it on the up button and do it when you go to sleep then when you wake up check your game then go back to the day care you should see your pokemon gained levels Hopefully this helped coz it helped for me
Go to Mt. Silver. If you haven't beaten the Elite 4 yet, just go to victory road.
If you haven't already caught them: Go to pewter city get the rainbow/silver wing, go to Bell Tower (Soul-Silver) or Whirl Islands (Heart Gold), and kill Ho-Oh/Lugia who are at lvl 70. They will respawn after you defeat the Elite 4
Or use the daycare leave to pokemon there for a week and should be level a hundred also if you leave them in daycare keep your DS on but plugged in.
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I use WP SuperCache and W3 TotalCache to optimize the speed of my Wordpress website by caching. That really helps! But lately I have been building a website myself, basically from scratch. Is there any opensource program/code/api out there which can help me optimize (the speed of) this non-WP website (by caching) or so?
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Well Website speed is not entirely dependents upon the cache only, this is one aspect and there are lot of other factors which needs to be taken care of.
memcached is one of the popular distributed memory object caching system.Beside there are lots of other heck like the number of database hots your site requires , how you portal asking browser to do caching for it.
Yahoo has published a good Blog about generic methods which should be taken care while optimizing your website for speed.
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Beside this one of the core area of optimization is always your DB and application interaction with it.
memcached is extremely popular, but that only provides a key-value store in memory. It's a good starting point, and one you could use entirely on your own if you were so inclined.
The extra effort of adding proper HTML cache control tags and everything else depends largely on the environment. Tools such as
When building websites, there are multiple aspects that will affect the perceived speed of the website.
Some best practices you need to follow are available from Yahoo and Google:
Other aspects depend on the architecture of your application, wih or without a database, static content or different content per user, and myriad other things that might have their own best practices for better performance.


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Is it possible to use a credit card with a foreign billing address to buy items from a local Play store? I have a Visa credit card from a German bank with a billing address in Germany registered in my Google Wallet. I have successfully used my Wallet to pay for online purchases from several online service providers in different foreign currencies so I am sure the credit card is correctly registered in my Wallet account. However, while physically located in the UK, I cannot complete any purchase from the UK Play store. At the point when I need to select my preferred payment method from my Wallet account, it shows my registered credit card greyed out with the text "Unsupported Payment method" next to it.
As far as I know Google doesn't allow the use of International cards (at the moment).
I also heard from some other people (and t0mm13b acknowledges it too apparently) that the Play Store looks at your current SIM card to know your home country. So maybe if you could get your hands on a German SIM card (maybe an old one that doesn't really work anymore), you can still pay for applications.
Or you can have a look for some cheap credit card in the UK.
From my own experiences, they do not allow this.
When I am in the US with my Australian google play account [and Australian credit card], I am unable to make any purchases from the play store. The reason being the US play store refuses my card details due to it's Australian address.
This may vary from region to region. But generally for the US and UK [not only Google Play], they enforce regional restrictions in a more strict manner due to licensing restrictions of the multimedia content, ie: music and movies.


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Consider the Laplace operator on a smooth bounded open set with Dirichlet boundary conditions. I need some result of the following type: if one perturbs the boundary in a suitable sense to be determined, say depending on a small parameter $\epsilon$, then it is possible to order eigenvalues and eigenfunctions so that they are smooth functions of $\epsilon$ and spatial variables. At first this seemed a very natural result, but the total scarcity of references suggests otherwise, and I am starting to think that this kind of result is rather difficult, if one wants to achieve some generality. Has anyone encountered any result in this direction?
This is true, as long as your domain depends smoothly upon one real parameter. Say that you are insterested in the $n$ first eigenvalues. Using a Lyapunov-Schmidt procedure, you may reduce to the situation of an $n\times n$ symmetric matrix $S(\epsilon)$. Then look at Kato's book in the Grundlehren series.
If instead your domain depends on two or more parameters, the matrix $S$ will depend on several variables, and the eigenvalues will not be smooth functions, unless they remain simple.
Look at ``Perturbation of the boundary in boundary-value problems in partial differential equations'' by Dan Henry, London Math Society Lecture Notes #318
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6 Hilariously Failed Attempts at Making Comics More Diverse
#3. Connor Hawke, the Mixed Race (and Possibly Gay) Green Arrow
Since the 1970s, the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow has had sex with pretty much every female he's been able to impress with arrow-based innuendo. So it wasn't much of a surprise when, in the early '90s, he discovered that he had a biracial son. He was named Connor Hawke, and he was meant to replace his father as Green Arrow to once again try to breathe new life into the character by adding some diversity. The problem was, they couldn't seem to agree on exactly what Connor's parentage was, so they decided to make him a golden-haired blackasian.
With dashes of Chippewa-Aztec.
According to the storyline, Connor's mother was half-black and half-Korean, and his dad was the Caucasian sperm cannon known as Green Arrow. However, most of the time he just looks like a photo negative of Aquaman:
Might want to get that jaundice looked at.
So, Connor was as diverse as they could possibly make him, right? Not quite. He was also gay (but not totally gay):
Despite being the son of a traveling penis salesman, Connor has no idea how to be around women and becomes uncomfortable when he has to deal with them. Rather than using it to explore the character, the sexual confusion is typically thrown away on hilarious misunderstandings and George McFly-esque awkwardness:
"Ma'am, I don't know what this is all about, but please put your clothes back on and stop fondling my junk."
So, the half-white, half-black/Korean and partially gay Green Arrow, intended to be a firm statement against the "socially acceptable" image of comic book superheroes, came off as a confused jumble, sort of like if several different Diversity Day parade floats broke down and everybody decided to just share one. What's worse is that they don't even stick to their own plan and abandon Connor's confused sexuality once his father reappears so he can develop a relationship with an HIV-positive teenage girl, because we all know that the missing ingredient of a struggling comic book is AIDS (more on that later).
"The perfect hetero cover! A girl I have a legitimate reason not to bang!"
#2. Dr. Fate, the Transgender Oedipal Pedophile
Dr. Fate, the resident sorcerer in the original Justice Society, was killed off in the 1980s and replaced with Eric and Linda Strauss, who merged together (sort of like Bones and Spock in Star Trek III) to become the new Dr. Fate. This gave DC Comics a wonderful opportunity to explore what happens when a male and a female psyche inhabit the same body. What they did instead was make Dr. Fate the creepiest superhero in the history of comics.
Also he liked to over-share.
You see, Linda Strauss is a woman in her 30s, and Eric is her 10-year-old stepson. When they encounter Nabu (the god who transforms them into Dr. Fate), Eric is changed into a grown man, and he and Linda immediately have sex. This is bad enough, but subsequent issues make it disturbingly clear that Linda was attracted to Eric even before all of that Dr. Fate nonsense.
"The soulful way he sat and watched Power Rangers sent shivers down my spine."
Eric was fully possessed by the Oedipus complex, because apparently incest sells a lot of comic books.
Wait, should we even have this on our hard drive?
None of this is even addressing the horror show that unfolds when they actually fight crime as Dr. Fate. Rather than displaying some sort of mental struggle with gender confusion, Dr. Fate physically alternates between being male and female, like Tyler Perry without the inexplicable popularity.
Complete with gender-appropriate powers: nagging as a woman, fireballs as a man.
Sometimes Dr. Fate would be depicted as a man flexing abdominal muscles in the middle of an explosion, and sometimes she would be a woman with boobs that everyone stared at.
"The breasts wouldn't draw so much attention if you made an effort to hide your erection."
Every aspect of this version of Dr. Fate seemed like DC Comics was trying to sexually assault us with word balloons.
#1. Extrano, the Openly Gay Sorcerer With HIV
In 1988, DC Comics introduced a superhero team called the New Guardians. The eight members were of different nationalities and were meant to represent the whole of the human race. Extrano (whose name translates as "Strange One," incidentally) was a gay Peruvian man who was given the power of magic. He was probably the first openly gay superhero, but unfortunately is more noteworthy for being one of the worst comic book stereotypes of all time.
The poor blue guy was just looking for his Marine Corps reunion.
He dresses like a mix between Nathan Lane in The Birdcage and a sofa, and refers to himself as a witch while constantly reminding people how "strange" he is:
And now you know what it's like to have Zooey Deschanel hit on you.
Extrano also took great pains to assert himself as teammate Harbinger's "gay best friend," using his magic powers to appear on her balcony and tell her that men are jerks. By the way, he does this by referring to his homosexuality at least once per sentence, including calling himself her "auntie" and assuring her that the two of them would not be having sex anytime soon.
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn about your vagina."
Extrano and the New Guardians soon face off against a psychic Nazi vampire, because this is a comic book and that is how they address social issues:
Extrano and the vampire get into a bitch-slapping contest, in which the vampire tries to claw his eyes out:
"Open palm, man, open palm!"
Extrano is able to defeat the monster, but it dies in captivity. Of AIDS. Which the entire team might now be infected with:
Fact-checking was a pain in the ass before the Internet.
Every member that came into direct contact with the Nazi AIDS vampire has to get tested for HIV. Except for Extrano, because he already has HIV.
"Posers, I was getting HIV before it was cool."
Yes, Extrano, unfairly burdened with virtually every stereotype of gay men that has ever existed, was additionally revealed to be HIV-positive, which sadly was still widely referred to as "the gay disease" even by this point in the 1980s.
In the writers' defense, their hands were largely tied by censorship, and they weren't allowed to explicitly identify any character as homosexual. But by trying to have Extrano's sexuality be implicit, they unfortunately drew upon every homophobic punchline of the past century and implemented them with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer made of hand grenades. And then they gave him HIV.
The adventures of Extrano and the New Guardians lasted only 12 issues before the series was cancelled. He and the entire team were later crushed into anti-energy by a galactic supervillain, because DC Comics would like us all to forget that he ever existed.
For more bad moves in comics, check out The 6 Creepiest Comic Book Characters of All Time and The 4 Most Homophobic Comics Ever Created.
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