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I require google to index the entirety of my site: 10 or so basic sections with 80,000+ individual job offer pages. However, to date, only 2,900 pages have been indexed by google.
I'd like to know why... only 2,900 but not 80,000+. I figure, if there were something wrong with my job offer pages, then there wouldn't be those 2,900 values indexed but rather 0...
I have a 'page' sitemap which, link by link, leads to each and every ad (paginated) My XML sitemap is lacking though. So does this mean you absolutely need an XML sitemap when you're dealing with tens of thousands of unique pages?
http://haytrabajo.mx is the URL
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Three WMU Athletic Teams Earn APR Award
KALAMAZOO, Mich. - Women's tennis leads a group of three Western Michigan teams to earn an APR Award representing the Top 10 percent in the nation according to the Academic Progress Rate.
Men's tennis and women's soccer joined WMU women's tennis as the three teams to earn the award based on their most recent multi-year Academic Progress Rate. These awards are given each year to teams with APRs in the top 10 percent plus ties in each sport.
For the Bronco women's tennis program, this is the second-straight year to land in the top 10 percent and the fourth time since the APR Award began in 2004-05. This is the first such acknowledgement for both the WMU men's tennis and women's soccer programs. This past semester, women's tennis (3.65) and women's soccer (3.59) boasted the second and third highest team GPAs, respectively, at Western Michigan.
The 976 teams publicly recognized for high achievement represent 594 women's teams and 382 men's or mixed squads.
Top performing APRs this year ranged from 978 to a perfect 1,000, with the majority of teams earning a perfect APR.
"The NCAA's quintessential student-athlete exhibits dedication and commitment both on the playing field and in the classroom," said NCAA President Mark Emmert. "These teams and programs truly embody the overall values of the NCAA, and have exceeded standards to post fantastic academic scores. We are delighted by such a clear example of our membership's commitment to providing well-rounded experiences to student-athletes."A total of 268 schools, out of 346 Division I colleges and universities, placed at least one team on the top APR list.


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2012 Summer Nature Day Camps At The Living Coast Discovery Center
- When Multiple dates from Jun 4 - Jul 27, 2012 [days & times]
- Where Living Coast Discovery Center, 1000 Gunpowder Point Dr., Chula Vista, CA Map | Website
- Age limit All ages
- Categories Camps, Family
- Cost $43 - $200
Above: Graphical logo for Living Coast Discovery Center's Summer Camps from June 4th- July 27th.
The Living Coast Discovery Center, a non-profit zoo and aquarium located on the southern rim of San Diego Bay, will hold fall day camp programs, which will run from June 4th through July 27th during the summer break for the area's year-round schools.
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Today we announced General Availability of Pentaho Data Integration 4.0 and Pentaho BI Suite 3.6. This marks a major step forward on our mission to empower users with the most comprehensive, easy-to-use, and integrated Business Intelligence suite on the market today. All too often, new BI projects end up on IT's cutting room floor due a variety of factors:
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I teach a course on non-Euclidean geometry to high schoolers. I'm looking for an article or book that gives a thorough and interesting history of spherical geometry and trigonometry. I'm looking for it for my own learning and possibly to distribute to my students. I'd like something that has some substance to it--not just a couple of facts tossed off for color. A treatment that gives an overview of spherical geometry through the ages would be great, as would a "zoomed in" treatment of some particular episode.
Edit: Some good resources have been suggested below, especially the book suggested by unclejamil. I still haven't found quite what I'm looking for, though. I'd like something that focuses just on the history of the study of the geometry and trigonometry of the sphere, from ancient times to modernity, focusing on major advances and motivations. Any thoughts?
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if missing?
In line 203 (in onDestroy) there is an if missing. Comparing the Ext JS 3.2.1 version of the RowExpander with yours I think the onDestroy function should look like this:
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It might have been deliberate, but I'll look into it. Thanks for the heads up.
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Wondered if you have an 4.x compatible version of this updated UX?
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I haven't had time to upgrade yet...
Maybe someone could help if you post some code snippets and/or whatever errors you were seeing...
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Hi Anybody please post the upgraded version of Rowexpander plugin . The one which is there in Sencha docs have some issue. Please post the upgraded for ext4.0


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The Cove School Board met behind closed doors for about an hour Friday to discuss security measures in the wake of the bomb threats. (Photo by Rachel Cox)
The Cove ISD is offering off-campus tutorials from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday and Friday at Grace United Methodist Church at 101 W. Ave F:
· Lunch will be provided.
· Core teachers will be available for tutorials.
· Students in Dual Credit or AP courses with Mrs. Stalder will need to attend tutorials on Friday only.
· Counselors will be available from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
· Bring any assignments or supplies you have with you. Computers will be available for use.
· Students are encouraged to check their Project Share account for correspondence from their teachers
· Finals for Online Dual Credit courses can be taken either at CTC in the Testing Center on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. or they can be taken at Grace United Methodist Church during the above listed tutorial times.
Copperas Cove High School will be open during the following times for students and teachers to retrieve items left in classrooms during Tuesday's evacuation:
Thursday, December 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Friday, December 14 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
All students and faculty will need to enter through the front entrance.
Saturday detention has been cancelled.
The Boys and Girls Club of Central Texas is offering services including transportation for parents who do not have a childcare plan. For information call Bobby Krei at (254) 547-7758.
Childcare was available Wednesday at the YMCA building on Clara Drive and the YMCA building at 1204 Ave. B, Doreen Vasseur of the Copperas Cove YMCA said. For information, parents should call (254) 542-2851.
COPPERAS COVE (December 14, 2012)--After an hour-long executive session Friday morning, Copperas Cove School Board members announced that security would be upgraded on Monday at all campuses when students return to class after an unscheduled three-day holiday in the wake of a series of school bomb threats.
Board members did not provide specifics, which somewhat outraged parents who attended the meeting, but offered assurances that security measures and personnel would be upgraded as students returned to class.
School district officials said more details would be released later Friday, but said specifics of the upgrades would not be disclosed.
Meanwhile Friday the district was offering a second day of off-campus tutorials at Grace United Methodist Church.
The tutorials are important for students enrolled in dual-credit classes because of a Friday testing deadline and because they have to have certain assignments and tests completed by then in order to get the college credit for the courses.
Finals for dual-credit courses make be taken at the church.
The district announced Wednesday it was cancelling classes at all of its schools through the end of the week after the threats, in connection with which police have now arrested eight juveniles.
Police confirmed they're also investigating an early-morning break-in Wednesday at the district's athletic annex, but it's not clear whether it has any connection to the threats.
Police said the break-in was reported at around 6:15 a.m. Wednesday at the annex at 400 South 25th St.
Electronics, computers, TVs and other items were taken from the building.
The estimated value of the items taken is $6,515, police said.
The move to close schools for the rest of the week came after the district received the ninth threat Tuesday night, the third of the day.
Just after 2:30 p.m. Tuesday a threat was reported at Copperas Cove High School and 20 minutes later a second was reported at S. C. Lee Junior High School in connection with which a 14-year-old girl was arrested and charged with terroristic threat.
Then at around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday the ninth threat was reported at Copperas Cove Junior High School.
Meanwhile Tuesday afternoon police arrested a 13-year-old boy in connection with a threat on Dec. 7 at S. C. Lee Junior High. He was charged with terroristic threat.
Authorities have now made eight arrests in connection with earlier threats and the reward for information leading to arrests and prosecutions has been increased to $3,000.
District officials say they plan to sue to recoup the tens of thousands of dollars the threats have cost in direct expenses and lost instructional time.
"Each of these incidents costs about $22,000," Copperas Cove Superintendent told more than 250 parents and residents during a public meeting on the threats Monday night.
"When they prosecute and convict people for this we do intend to sue," he said.
Officials acknowledged that police were investigating a threat that was found on Facebook that Copperas Cove High School will be "shot up and bombed" on Dec. 21, and said that while no truth has been found to the rumor, the district and police are making plans to heighten security on that day.
Six other juveniles were arrested last Friday and Monday in connection with the threats.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested Monday and charged with terroristic threat in connection with the bomb threat at Copperas Cove Junior High School, which was evacuated Monday morning.
The boy was later released to his parents pending a hearing, police said.
It was the third bomb threat at the school in less than a week.
Parents were notified that students were being dismissed at 10 a.m. and that classes were canceled for the remainder of the day.
And police arrested three boys, ages 13, 14, and 15, Monday in connection with a bomb threat on Dec. 7 at S. C. Lee Junior High School.
The teenagers were all charged with terroristic threat and were taken to the Bell County Juvenile Detention Facility pending a hearing.
Earlier Monday Copperas Cove police announced that two juveniles, one 13 and one 16, were in custody in the Bell County Juvenile Detention Facility in connection with the threats.
The 16-year-old was detained in connection with a threat Dec. 7 at Copperas Cove High School and was charged with terroristic threat.
The 13-year-old was detained in connection with the threat Dec. 7 at S. C. Lee Junior High School and was also charged with terroristic threat.
The first threat was found on Dec. 4, written on a wall in a restroom at Copperas Cove Junior High.
A student found the threat on the restroom wall in the 200 wing of the building following dismissal of classes.
The district didn't disclose the full content of the message, but said it indicated there would be a bomb in the school on Dec. 5.
Officers and a police K-9 unit searched the school until around 11:15 p.m. on Dec. 4, found no evidence of any threatening device and cleared the building for classes Dec. 5, although security was tightened.
On Dec. 5 Copperas Cove High School students were released at 11:30 a.m. after the discovery of a bomb threat written on a bathroom wall that led to the evacuation of the building.
Officials described the threat as non-specific.
A police K-9 unit was brought in to help search the school.
Copperas Cove Junior High School was evacuated Dec. 6 after a written bomb threat was discovered on the wall of a girl's restroom.
Students were taken to Bulldawg Stadium while five bomb-sniffing dogs from Fort Hood swept the building
Classes resumed at around 11:30 a.m.
Copperas Cove High School was evacuated again on Dec. 7 because of a bomb threat, but classes later resumed, and a threat was also reported at S.C. Lee Junior High.
No explosives were found in any of the incidents.
Investigators are asking anyone with information about the incidents to call Copperas Cove Crime Stoppers at (254) 547-1111.
Tips may also be submitted online.
The reward for information leading to an arrest and prosecution the threats was increased last week to $3,000.


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When learning with Jews of the Syrian community, I noticed that they pronounced מרדכי (the name of the halachic commentary on the g'mara) as "mord'chi", as if the final vowel were a chirik. Why is this? (They pronounce the name in Ester with a patach at the end.)
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I had a Yemenite Jew (who had learned in Ezras Torah in Israel) in my Daf Yomi shiur many years ago. His name is Nagar, a highly respected name of ancient provenance in their community. I said something from the Mordechai, a rishon that is printed in back of the Vilna Shas. Mr. Nagar said that nobody calls him Mordechai. The Teimanim call him "Mord'chee," because that was the name he was given at his Bris. The Ashkenazi yeshiva people call him "Mordcheh." But nobody calls it "The Mordechai."
It's just because Arabic has fewer vowels than Hebrew. It doesn't have segol or patah, it only has fatha, which is pronounced halfway in between.


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Northern Ballet Theatre celebrates its 40th anniversary in November 2009 and much of the year consists of a back catalogue of favourites. They have started their Spring Season with a triple bill that climaxes with the seminal work A Simple Man, based on the life of LS Lowry. The programme starts with two works new to NBT.
NBT have become known over the past 20 years for developing full length narrative ballets, often based on literature, and producing their own take on the classics. How would they fare with a very traditional production of The Kingdom of the Shades (Act 2 from La Bayadere)? Ballet mistress Yoko Ichino has given us a terrific and very traditional production and the performance I saw was exquisite.
The shivers were running down my spine from the second the first Shade set foot on the ramp and the shivers continued to the end. The Shades were immaculate in perfect harmony and with all their arabesques and arms uniform. The lines on the stage were dead straight. John Hull and Keiko Amemori led the cast. Keiko was delicate and fragile as Nikiya. John has got a wonderful soft leap, and seems to hang in the air forever. They were a very well matched partnership. The three variations were danced by Pippa Moore, Georgina May and Dreda Blow and they were all super.
After the interval we were treated to Angels in the Architecture by American choreographer Mark Godden. It is based on the every-day lives of the Shakers and heavily featured brooms and chairs. It is performed to Apalachian Spring by Aaron Copeland. The choreography is fluid and elegant, containing a mix of ensemble pieces and duets for the six men and six women. Some of the movements were reminiscent of every day tasks in the fields and home and others of birds flying over the fields. I feel this is a work that will bear repeated viewing and I am very much looking forward to seeing it again later in the season.
A Simple Man completed the programme. This work was commissioned by the BBC to celebrate a Lowry anniversary in the late 1980s. It was the start of the late Christopher Gables association with the Company as he created the role of Lowry for choreographer Gillian Lynne. The work is based on his tense relationship with his mother and his painting everyday scenes all around him. The cast evoke a number of paintings (many of which can be seen at the Lowry Arts Centre in Salford) and occasionally the actual paintings are projected onto the back-cloth. The choreography for the corps is quite stylised and features much use of clogs, which would have been the standard footwear for many of the people portrayed by the artist. Darren Goldsmith was magnificent as Lowry. Nathalie Leger gave a luminous performance as his elegant and cold mother. It was a very poignant performance for many long-time fans of the company.
Overall, I found this to be a very well balanced programme that allows the talent of the dancers to shine through in a variety of styles. It was a terrific evening.
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Many thanks for your review!
I hope to see the Company on a future trip to Europe.
I hope to see the Company on a future trip to Europe.
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If a voter does not have a permanent disability exemption (addressed below) indicated on his or her voter registration certificate OR the voter does not have any of the photo identifications indicated above at the time of voting, the voter may cast a provisional ballot at the polls. However, in order to have the provisional ballot counted, the voter will be required to visit the voter registrar's office within six (6) calendar days after the date of the election to either present one of the above forms of photo ID OR submit one of the temporary affidavits addressed below (e.g., religious objection or natural disaster) in the presence of the county voter registrar while attesting to the fact that he or she does not have any of the required photo IDs.
A permanent exemption is available for voters with documented disabilities. Voters with a disability may apply with the county voter registrar for a permanent exemption. The application must contain written documentation from either the U.S. Social Security Administration evidencing the applicant's disability, or from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs evidencing a disability rating of at least 50 percent. In addition, the applicant must state that he or she has no valid form of photo identification. Those who obtain a disability exemption will be allowed to vote by presenting a voter registration certificate reflecting the exemption. The exemption is evidenced by a capital "E" appearing next to the Voter Unique Identifier (VUID) on the voter's voter registration certificate.
Temporary exemptions are available for voters who have a consistent religious objection to being photographed and for voters who do not have any photo identification as a result of certain natural disasters as declared by the President of the United States or the Texas Governor within 45 days of the day the ballot was cast. A voter must present themselves to the voter registrar and execute the affidavit with the 6th day (sixth day) after election day in order to have their provisional ballot counted.
What does "substantially similar" mean?
A voter's name is considered substantially similar if one or more of the following circumstances applies:
- The name on the ID is slightly different from one or more of the name fields on the official list of registered voters.
- The name on the voter's ID or on the list of registered voters is a customary variation of the voter's formal name. For example, Bill for William, or Beto for Alberto.
- The voter's name contains an initial, middle name, or former name but it is either not on the official list of registered voters or on the voter's ID or is different on those documents.
- A first name, middle name, former name or initial of the voter's name occupies a different field on the presented ID document than it does on the list of registered voters.
In considering whether a name is substantially similar, election officials will also look at whether information on the presented ID matches elements of the voter's information on the official list of registered voters such as the voter's residence address or date of birth.
How can I be sure that I'm still on the voter rolls in the county where I reside?
You can check the status of your voter registration, where you will select one of three methods for conducting your search. You can base your search on: 1. your Voter Unique Identifier (VUID), which appears on your voter registration certificate; 2. your Texas driver's license number, if you provided it when you applied for voter registration; or 3. your first and last name. Or, you can call the voter registrar's office in the county where you reside.
Who is eligible to vote early? What are the dates for voting early in person?
Any registered voter may vote early by personal appearance (in person). Early voting by personal appearance for the November 8, 2016 Election begins on October 24, 2016 and ends on November 4, 2016. You may vote at any early voting location in your county of registration.
Where do I go to vote?
You will be able to find early voting locations by using our search site Am I Registered?, which will be populated with voting sites a few days before early voting begins. Or, you may want to contact the Early Voting Clerk for State and County Elections in your county. Also, many newspapers publish early voting and election day polling locations, so you might be able to find the information there.
Can anybody vote early by mail (also referred to as "absentee voting")?
- will be away from your county on Election Day and during the hours that early voting is conducted;
- are sick or disabled;
- are 65 years of age or older on Election Day; or
- are confined in jail.
I fall under one of the 4 reasons above. What do I do now? Are there deadlines connected with this procedure?
First, request an Application for Ballot by Mail (ABBM) from the Early Voting Clerk in the political subdivision conducting your election, or from our office. You may also print an ABBM directly from our website (PDF), (Spanish version (PDF). Once received, read the instructions carefully, complete the ABBM form and return it to the Early Voting Clerk. For the November 8, 2016 Election date, the last day to apply for an ABBM to the early voting clerk is October 28, 2016; in order for you to receive a ballot by mail; the last day (or deadline) to submit an ABBM (not a postmark date) must be received in the office of the early voting clerk by November 8, Election Day.
- Learn more about the ABBM process and to request an ABBM from our office (or print one directly from the web)
It's election day, November 8, 2016, and I'm registered and ready to vote and have my identification. Where do I go? What are the hours for voting on election day?
You will be able to find election day voting locations by using our search site Am I Registered?, which will be populated with voting sites a few days before election day. Or, you may want to contact the Early Voting Clerk for State and County Elections in your county. Also, many newspapers publish election day polling locations. The hours of voting on election day are 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Does a voter have to vote in the main election in order to vote in a runoff-election?
When does the new photo identification law go into effect?
Do I still need to bring my voter certificate/card? Will I be able to vote without it?
While you do not need to bring your voter registration certificate with you to vote, we highly recommend that you have it with you at the polling place. In some situations, having your voter registration certificate will allow you to vote a regular ballot instead of a provisional ballot. For example, if your name does not appear on the official list of registered voters in the precinct, you may be able to cast a regular ballot by presenting your voter registration certificate along with an acceptable form of photo identification.
Please note that you may contact your county voter registrar's office to obtain a replacement registration certificate.
What kind of identification will be required to qualify to vote in person under the new program?
- Texas driver license issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)
- Texas Election Identification Certificate issued by DPS
- Texas personal identification card issued by DPS
- Texas license to carry a handgun issued by DPS
- United States military identification card containing the person's photograph
- United States citizenship certificate containing the person's photograph
- United States passport
My ID is expired. Will it still work?
What if I forget to bring my photo identification with me when I vote in person? Will I be turned away?
If you do not have any of the forms of photo identification listed above at the time of voting, you may cast a "provisional ballot" at the polling location instead of a normal ballot. In order to have the provisional ballot counted in the election, you will have to visit the county voter registrar's office by the sixth calendar day after Election Day. At the county voter registrar's office, you will have to show one of the forms of photo identification listed above. If you present a proper form of identification, the provisional ballot will be counted.
If I have a government-issued ID that contains my photo and it is not on the list above, may I use it?
My name on my approved photo ID does not exactly match my name on my voter registration card. Can I still vote?
Does the new photo ID requirement apply to voting by mail?
Does the address on my photo identification have to match my address on the official list of registered voters at the time of voting?
When is the DPS Election Identification Certificate going to be available?
What happens if I refuse to show proof of identity?
Can anyone vote early, or only those people who are going to be out of town on Election Day? What are the dates for voting early in person?
Provisional Voting
Provisional voting is designed to allow a voter whose name does not appear on the list of registered voters due to an administrative error to vote. The provisional voting process involves an affidavit that (1) the voter must complete stating the reasons he or she is qualified to vote; and (2) is used if the voter's registration cannot be verified by the polling place election officials OR does not present one of the acceptable forms of photo ID.
As noted, provisional voting may be used to allow voters who do not have a permanent exemption or photo identification with them at the polling place to vote. This process requires the voter to visit the voter registrar's office within six (6) calendar days of the date of the election to either present one of the above forms of photo ID OR submit one of the temporary affidavits (e.g., religious objection or natural disaster) in the presence of the county voter registrar while attesting to the fact that he or she does not have any of the required photo IDs.
The voter-marked provisional ballots are kept separately from the regular ballots, and the voter's records will be reviewed by the provisional voting ballot board (the early voting ballot board), to determine if the ballot is to be counted or rejected. If applicable, the voter registrar will conduct whatever research is necessary to determine whether the voter is or should have been registered in the precinct in which the voter cast the provisional ballot and will pass this information on to the ballot board to assist it in making the decision of whether the provisional ballot must be counted. Provisional voters will receive a notice in the mail by the 10th day after the local canvass advising them if their provisional ballots were counted, and if they were not counted, the reason why.
Military & Overseas Voters
Please note that registering with a federal post card application (typically used by the military and overseas voters) is now treated as a request for permanent registration. There are also special provisions for military and overseas voters that are available on our website. However, military and overseas voters are welcome to use the regular registration and early voting by mail process available to all voters away from their home county on Election Day.
Voters with Special Needs
Rather than providing sample questions & answers, we are directing you to special needs information on our website to ensure that you are fully informed on the services available to you.
Student Voters
Student voters often seek advice regarding residency issues for voter registration purposes. Information regarding student residency issues is available on this website.
Convicted Felons and Voting
In Texas, a convicted felon regains the right to vote after completing his or her sentence. Therefore, once you have completed the punishment phase (including any term of incarceration, parole, or supervision, or completed a period of probation ordered by the court), you would be eligible to register and vote in the state of Texas.
Liquor Elections
For information on the local option liquor petition and election process in Texas, you may review our office's educational materials that are posted on our website.
Political Parties
For information on registered political parties in Texas, please contact those organizations directly:
Additional Information
We have information located in various sections of our website – "Candidates" and "Conducting Your Elections" (for election officers) just to name a few. We have moved voter specific information to our website, votetexas.gov. You will notice that some materials are repeated in different places–our hope is to gear each section to the audience for easier bookmarking and future use.
Thank you. Should you need additional information, please e-mail or call us at 1-800-252-VOTE(8683).


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I have written a Ruby script that I need to run every 12 hours. Is there an easy way to do this in OS X (specifically Lion)?
There are a couple of ways of doing this, but the details depend on a couple of questions: Does the script need to run as root (Admin) or a regular user? Does it need to run on any specific schedule, or just a 12-hour interval?
The OS X-ish option is to create a LaunchDaemon. Create a file named /Library/LaunchDaemons/local.scriptname.plist, with contents like this:
Notes: 43200 is 12 hours in seconds, meaning that this will every 12 hours starting at boot. You should replace scriptname with a more appropriate identifier in both the Label value and the filename (and if you're going to publish this, replace "local." prefix with your domain name in reverse order, e.g. "example.com.scriptname"). If it should run as someone other than root, add:
If you need it to run at particular times of day, replace the StartInterval key and value with something like this:
...replacing Hours 6 and 18 (6pm) with the hours you want it to run.
The other option is to use cron, which is more generic-unix (but works fine on OS X). Use the command
Note that there's no equivalent of StartInterval here, this always runs it at 6am and 6pm.
Great advice above. However, I'd have to say using cron is the best, most robust solution. Not only is it stable; it will also prepare you to work in other environments outside of OS X.


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Oral vs. Aural
Do you pronounce "oral" and "aural" differently? How then?
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um.. are you all americans :P
its really simple really. the or in oral is pronounced shorter than the au in aural.
the au in aural isn't "ow" or "are" its the same sound as "audible"... it all originates from latin.. like audit!
and oral is pronounced quicker, the sound of an "ore" say, or from latin oratario or something. get some of the english accent in there!!!!
Chance Likely is correct for not only West Michigan, but for the rest of the country as well. The two words, aural and oral, fall into a category of homonym referred to as a homophone; meaning two words which are pronounced the same, but spelled differently. The mistake in pronunciation is perpetuated by those who are attempting to draw a distinction between the words when spoken together; an example of this occurrence is when one is describing aural/oral communication within the context of hearing loss. However, a quick perusal of virtually any dictionary will illustrate that the proper pronunciation of both words is the same.
aural is sometimes pronounced "OW-ral" although as per speedwell's reply this is normally only used when wishing to make a specific distinction between the two terms, in most cases the intention is clear from the context
Oral should be pronounced as the first two letters dictate - "or," as in the sentence "trick OR treat."
The "au" in aural sounds like "are," as in the sentence "we ARE dead meat."
People like to use a dipthong (the sound two or more vowels make when pronounced together - the "oi" in "poison") when pronouncing "aural," resulting in something sounding like "oooaaarull." People from NY tend to speak like that (myself being from NY). This blending of pronunciations creates confusion between the two words.
Look at it this way - you don't drive an ooaaatomobile. You drive an automobile. Similarly, you can go nORth, not nAUth.
it's hard to explain, but usually if you deepen your voice on "aur" in "aural", people will get it.
I believe the "au" in "aural" should be pronounced like the "aw" in "awful," but not like the "a" in "are." "Oral" can, according to American Heritage, be pronounced the same as "aural," or you can make it longer and pronounce the "o" like in "odious."
I'm from West Michigan, and they are spoken exactly the same here. People usually avoid the word 'aural' and try to come up with some other way of saying 'pertaining to the ears or hearing'.
bkdoc is absolutely right, and they are pronounced exactly the same in British English as well. The pair regularly appear in lists of homophones, such as this one: http://www.bifroest.demon.co.uk/misc/homophones...
I somewhat self-consciously pronounce "oral" with a sound that tends toward a long O, and "aural" with a sound that tends toward AW. But I am aware of making a special effort in this respect.
I understand the difference is purely one of dialect. It is no less correct to pronounce the words differently than it is to pronounce them identically.
Karen, I'm from Texas. But you just excellently described what I was getting at in my previous post. Thanks for that. :)


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Marvel Assembles an Official Title for Third "Avengers" Movie
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C. Tyler's graphic memoir (the first book of three), You'll Never Know (Book 1): A Good and Decent Man, has been getting a great deal of praise as of late. Our own, Chris Mautner, noted (in his review of Tyler's book) that it "certainly deserves any accolades it receives". The memoir (as described by Fantagraphics): "tells the story of the 50-something author's relationship with her World War II veteran father, and how his war experience shaped her childhood and affected her relationships in adulthood. 'You'll Never Know' refers not only to the title of her parents' courtship song from that era, but also to the many challenges the author encountered in uncovering the difficult and painful truths about her Dad's service — challenges exacerbated by her own tumultuous family life." Even though she's quite busy, she was generous enough to recently entertain a few of my questions via email.
C. Tyler: Before we get started, I have to say this first: Bill Murray, I love you and I'm ready to go on that date, so please call.
Now what were those questions?
Tim O'Shea: Are you annoyed, pleased or indifferent when reviewers of the book liken it on some level to Maus?
Tyler: Maus is such an important work. To be likened on some level to Maus: unbelievable. However, my answer comes more from a personal place.
When I first read the New York Times Review by Douglas Wolk, I was ready to bust out cryin' with joy. You see, Art Spiegelman was one of the first official cartoonists I met. I was part of the fan team that helped with the first Raw promotions, hanging up fliers all over Manhattan. This was 1982 maybe? It felt so cool to be part of his inner circle and close to the early excitement he was feeling about Maus. I remember we were in a cab once on the way back from a Raw party and I was thinking how my Dad was over there, too, as part of the armed effort that eventually liberated his Dad. And his Mother. But I never believed that I could ever produce a work that would be mentioned in the same sentence.


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Reading The Sunday Republican's Jan. 27 editorial, "An agenda for reliable energy," I was reminded of President Reagan's famous "There you go again" refrain.
The newspaper's long-standing concern for the financial impacts various state initiatives have on taxpayers and utility ratepayers is commendable. It is not conducive to positive public dialogue, however, when the newspaper paints with too broad a brush and unfairly puts a "wasteful" label on any new approach being considered.
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An this from our energy chief either he lies or does not know to much. "
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The problem occurs when I sync a task-list in SharePoint 2010 with Outlook 2007. Outlook asks for authentification, so use my Windows-domain username and password (that same as I use in SharePoint). Everthing works so far, the problem is that SharePoint logs me out at the same time. When I login into SharePoint, Oulooks logs me out and keeps asking for authentification the whole time (and so on)... This is kinda annoying (since Outlook is running the whole time), is there a way to use both, SharePoint and Outlook at the same time?
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The only M4/3 to NEX adapter I know of is reported to not allow focusing at infinity when using an M4/3 lens on a NEX (E-mount) camera. The Samyang 7.5mm M4/3 fisheye gives the most desirable cropped fisheye image. It seems to be a very good lens and it's cheap. But people have reported difficulties adapting the lens to get focus at infinity.
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Picture an ATM security system where, if the user types the PIN in reverse, the ATM alerts police, the customer's bank, or other parties.
Are there any ATM manufacturers that use this or a similar system? Is it secure?
Picture an ATM security system where, if the user types the PIN in reverse, the ATM alerts police, the customer's bank, or other parties.
Are there any ATM manufacturers that use this or a similar system? Is it secure?
This is an urban myth. The FTC looked into the whole thing in 2010 and could find no bank or manufacturer of ATMS in the US who had ever implemented such a system; they also concluded that it would be expensive to implement and probably not work very well.
Duress codes do exist in other areas - some home alarm systems have them, either in the PIN or in the code used over the phone to the alarm company to cancel an alarm.
There's an interesting paper from the University of Waterloo that points out some of the issues with such systems. For example, because of Kerchoff's principle, we must assume the bad guy knows there is a duress code, so she can demand the victim tell her that as well and improve her chances to 50%. And of course there's the old chestnut of attacking the password change process.
This type of senario is quite common in other applications. While I have never heard of it being implemented on an ATM, I don't see why I couldn't. This is often implemented in home security systems. If someone has you at gun point, you enter a "dummy pin" and the system disarms but a call is made to the authorities.
I have another idea in that issue, there may be two different pin, the first one is normal pin, second one is backup pin, when you are in danger, you enter that pin and it will show the amount of money you have as, let say, 10% of your money.
Consider you have 1000 usd in your account, somebody put a gun on your head, and you entered that pin and you lost 100 usd, and you are most likely be saved with 100 usd instead of 1000usd.
I dont know weaknesses of that story by the way.
If this were implemented, then if someone was going to rob you at an ATM, they would just wait for you to enter your PIN, then attack you afterwords. Since there are key-tones, its not like they cant hear you entering in your code, THEN grab you.
Actually never heard of this before. If this is possible it would be a good security measure to follow, but the problem is that it will not work with palindrome pins.
i think there's a drawback in each implementation.. for instance
in my opinion, when it is time for you to get robbed, you will be robbed, no matter how elaborate a duress scheme is in place.. you can try staying a step ahead of the criminals, but they soon catch up, always.. they adapt to the environment..
also, as pointed out in previous answers, the authorities would almost never be on time.. in my country, a lot of armed robberies take place.. a guy goes into the ATM room, forgets to lock the door, is drawing out cash and two armed men enter, rob him at gunpoint and flee in seconds.. in my country, the best rules are these..


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With 25 contestants and nearly 50 matches, the "Rock Paper Scissors Tournament" sponsored by the Cornhusker Council Boys Scouts of America at the AppleJack Festival Sunday came down to 15-year-old Amy Ishigami of Omaha Burke High School and six-year-old Atticus Drinnin of Northside Elementary School.
Drinnin, a Tiger Cub with the Nebraska City scouts, delivered Ishigami her first loss of the day in the double-elimination tournament.
After the start of the final round, the judges agreed to turn the contestants back to back.
"That was key to defeating Atticus. He's got a sharp eye," said Ishigami's mother, Laura.
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8 Animals That Are Just Lazy Combinations of Other Animals
#4. Mouse + Anteater + Deer = Elephant Shrew
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Two blatant cut-and-paste jobs just aren't enough sometimes, as the elephant shrew requires THREE animals to give it life. And like any good rodent abomination with the body of a mouse, the nose of an anteater, and the legs of a deer, this has to be Australia's fault, right?
Nope. It's from South Africa, and isn't a rodent in the slightest. As its name implies, it's actually a very close cousin of Dumbo. It's also related to the tenrec and the hyrax, for no conceivable reason, until you learn that its alternate name is "sengi." Then you realize that Mother Nature just lumped all the animals with goofy Dr. Seuss names into one convenient category.
"Natural selection cannot explain this, Darwin, first name Chuck; for here is a creature that will make you gasp 'What the fuck?!'"
But don't get visions of an elephant shrew using its schnozz to lift twigs or squeak out tiny little trumpet tunes of adorableness. Its snout is mainly used for sniffing out bugs and invertebrates, which make up its diet. Also, they suck at family living. Couples live separately, and even their babies have their own private place. So lest you fret over our sky-high divorce rate, take comfort that, unless we achieve 100 percent splitsville, the elephant shrew has our asses beat.
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"99 problems, am I right?"
#3. Orangutan + Crab = Orangutan Crab
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If you saw this creature, you'd probably mistake it for a clump of hair that came out of a shower drain. But if you leaned in close, you'd see what appears to be a crab with the long, furry arms of an orangutan. This may possibly be why it's called the orangutan crab.
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And now for another mystery: How the hell did this one get EYEBROWS?
The reddish hair serves a legitimate purpose (other than satisfying its mate's ginger fetish) -- they use the unkempt tufts to gather plankton, one of its main sources of food. It also feasts on random tiny particles that fall from the sea-sky, gathering them with its front legs and then chewing away.
Luckily, when it starts to lose its hair like your typical old dude, its arms are still equipped with tiny follicles that are perfect for grabbing dinner. No word on whether they too comb their follicles over and overpay for useless shiny junk designed to attract the young she-crabs at the market.
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"Hey baby, want to come back to my place for some Werther's Originals and vaguely racist remarks?"
#2. Seal + Frog = Hooded Seal
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Yes, yes, we also wish that was a picture of a seal getting hit in the face with a dodgeball. It's not -- all of that is part of the hooded seal. They're basically normal fish-eating seals, until mating season. That's when they do their very best croaking-frog impression, inflating their nasal cavity into a big pink balloon structure in an effort to make the ladies as wet as can be.
We're serious about this; to a hooded she-seal, nothing says you're a badass, virile love machine like expanding your nostrils to the point of near-bursting.
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"Dammit, Jerry, quit stuffing a sock in your nose!"
There are two variations of this lusty pose. In the first, shown above, the handsome fellow pumps up his nose until it looks like a cancerous mole is consuming his face. In the second, shown below, he expands his septum and blows it out of his nose, so that it appears like he's coughed up a lung.
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It's easier than writing cheesy poetry, and almost as ridiculous.
Also, this nose-inflating business can serve to scare off rivals, provided it's big enough. So while meathead douchebros have dick-measuring contests, hooded seals have snot-inflating contests. Is that really any weirder?
Yes. Yes it is.
#1. Fish + Spider = Gurnard
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Why yes, that IS a fish with spider legs. And yes, it can walk on them. In case you were running short on reasons to never ever go into the water ever.
This is the gurnard. It's also named the sea robin, because when a sea creature develops the legs of a land creature, why not name it after a sky creature? It helps keep the birds of the world on notice, in case the gurnard decides to become them next.
Herb Segars via NJ Scuba
"Form of: Bearodactyl!"
Those long spidery nubs that you are loudly weeping over right this second are actually spines. Originally, they were a part of the pectoral fin, but they separated over time and are now hanging around outside the fish, helping it walk and feel for food.
And boy, do they like food. These little guys (most are only a foot long, on average) are secret garbage disposals that eat anything they can wrap their gaping Mick Jagger maws around. This includes shrimps, crabs, herrings, and goddamn squids. Since most squids are at least twice their size, we're just going to jump to conclusions and say that gurnards regularly feast on colossal squids, and that's why we've only found one.
Rich Galiano via NJ Scuba
"Kraken? Never *burp* heard of it."
Oh hey, did we mention that these things talk as well? Or more likely, they curse; they tend to make various angry noises, such as grunts, croaks, and knocks, when competing with other gurnards over food. And, if you catch them, they're liable to angrily grunt and croak at you, meaning they don't stop ranting, even as they're slowly suffocating. No wonder we cook and eat so many of them. We know what would happen if they were left alone for too long.
Rich Galiano via NJ Scuba
"The second we learn to breathe air, you become food."
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I have a blog that I write up entries for that sometimes has programming code as part of the text within my writing's. Normally I use the quote function to give it a bit of highlighting, but was wondering if there's a better way that anyone has come across in their travels. Something that could do this for example:
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Thought that this would have been asked before, but after searching didn't have any luck, so thought I'd ask. Thanks for anyone that can offer some help on this matter.


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I'm interested in packing the 3 space as dense as possible using equally sized tori whose major radius is much bigger than their minor radius in.
Do you have any idea how to attack this problem? I'm fairly new to this topic and I haven't found many papers for non-convex objects. (I think that the torus is somehow the easiest non convex object.)
I thought about writing some computer simulation to get a feeling for the problem. Also I think that the densest packing will be an irregular packing.
Any comments are appreciated.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] [ompi-1.4.2] Infiniband issue on smoky @ ornl
From: Samuel K. Gutierrez (samuel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-23 10:34:07
QP = Queue Pair
Here are a couple of nice FAQ entries that I find useful.
And videos:
Samuel K. Gutierrez
Los Alamos National Laboratory
On Jun 23, 2011, at 8:22 AM, Mathieu Gontier wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for your answer. It makes sense.
> Sorry if my question seems silly, but what does QP mean? It is difficult to read the FAQ without knowing that!
> Thanks.
> On 06/23/2011 04:00 PM, Ralph Castain wrote:
>> One possibility: if you increase the number of processes in the job, and they all interconnect, then the IB interface can (I believe) run out of memory at some point. IIRC, the answer was to reduce the size of the QPs so that you could support a larger number of them.
>> You should find info about controlling QP size in the IB FAQ area on the OMPI web site, I believe.
>> On Jun 23, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Mathieu Gontier wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> Thank for the answer.
>>> I am testing with OpenMPI-1.4.3: my computation is queuing. But I did not read anything obvious related to my issue. Have you read something which could solve it?
>>> I am going to submit my computation with --mca mpi_leave_pinned 0, but do you have any idea how it affect the performance? Compared to using Ethernet?
>>> Many thanks for your support.
>>> On 06/23/2011 03:01 PM, Josh Hursey wrote:
>>>> I wonder if this is related to memory pinning. Can you try turning off
>>>> the leave pinned, and see if the problem persists (this may affect
>>>> performance, but should avoid the crash):
>>>> mpirun ... --mca mpi_leave_pinned 0 ...
>>>> Also it looks like Smoky has a slightly newer version of the 1.4
>>>> branch that you should try to switch to if you can. The following
>>>> command will show you all of the available installs on that machine:
>>>> shell$ module avail ompi
>>>> For a list of supported compilers for that version try the 'show' option:
>>>> shell$ module show ompi/1.4.3
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> /sw/smoky/modulefiles-centos/ompi/1.4.3:
>>>> module-whatis This module configures your environment to make Open
>>>> MPI 1.4.3 available.
>>>> Supported Compilers:
>>>> pathscale/3.2.99
>>>> pathscale/3.2
>>>> pgi/10.9
>>>> pgi/10.4
>>>> intel/11.1.072
>>>> gcc/4.4.4
>>>> gcc/4.4.3
>>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Let me know if that helps.
>>>> Josh
>>>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Mathieu Gontier
>>>> <mathieu.gontier_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>> First of all, all my apologies because I post this message to both the bug
>>>>> and user mailing list. But for the moment, I do not know if it is a bug!
>>>>> I am running a CFD structured flow solver at ORNL, and I have an access to a
>>>>> small cluster (Smoky) using OpenMPI-1.4.2 with Infiniband by default.
>>>>> Recently we increased the size of our models, and since that time we have
>>>>> run into many infiniband related problems. The most serious problem is a
>>>>> hard crash with the following error message:
>>>>> [smoky45][[60998,1],32][/sw/sources/ompi/1.4.2/ompi/mca/btl/openib/connect/btl_openib_connect_oob.c:464:qp_create_one]
>>>>> error creating qp errno says Cannot allocate memory
>>>>> If we force the solver to use ethernet (mpirun -mca btl ^openib) the
>>>>> computations works correctly, although very slowly (a single iteration take
>>>>> ages). Do you have any idea what could be causing these problems?
>>>>> If it is due to a bug or a limitation into OpenMPI, do you think the version
>>>>> 1.4.3, the coming 1.4.4 or any 1.5 version could solve the problem? I read
>>>>> the release notes, but I did not read any obvious patch which could fix my
>>>>> problem. The system administrator is ready to compile a new package for us,
>>>>> but I do not want to ask to install to many of them.
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Mathieu Gontier
>>>>> skype: mathieu_gontier
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> users mailing list
>>>>> users_at_[hidden]
>>>>> http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
>>> --
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text: Moving onto a character from the Fairy Tail series I will be showing you "how to draw Juvia Lockser", step by step. This pretty faced female is considered to be one of the more popular supporting protagonists from the series. She is a Mage who used to be part of the Phantom Lord Guild. She has blue colored hair, catty looking eyes, and wears a black colored long sleeve dress with fluffy cuffs and collar. She wears brown colored flat heeled boots along with a hat decorated with a yellow butterfly. I remember when I first heard of Fairy Tail, I was so excited to read the manga and watch the anime series. I can't believe how much I was into manga and anime. Nowadays I watch movies, and do a lot of sketching off camera and on paper. I did have fun drawing Juvia so I'm pretty confident you will too. Take care folks and be sure to leave some feedback whether it be in the form of a comment, a fav, or a rating.


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I would suggest less bread crumbs (a little at a time and judge from there). Adding a little hot sauce is a nice touch, too. Definately no more than 10 mins in the oven!
Overall, they were yummy and a "make-again" recipe.
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I would suggest less bread crumbs (a little at a time and judge from there). Adding a little hot sauce is a nice touch, too. Definately no more than 10 mins in the oven!
I think that hot heat for that length of time would produce salmon cakes that were inedible. It's not raw salmon, so a bit of oil in a frying plan should do it. I substitute brown rice for the breadcrumbs. I will not try this recipe cooked this way, but I will use the suggested ingredients, except for the bread!
Really simple and flavorful -- even my young children loved these cakes. We'll be making and enjoying these again very soon. The recipe worked as specified, we didn't need to make any adjustments to the cooking time.
I make something similar to this based on my mom's recipe. Doesn't include the Dijon mustard, and adds a little evaporated milk (I use the skim variety these days), which helps keep the patties moist. The thai sweet chili sauce is a thought -- I love it on so many other dishes. But this recipe as written, with a reduction in bread crumb content, is great. As for the sodium in canned salmon, I rinse my canned salmon and let it "drip dry" in a large strainer to get some of the salt out of it. Then I replace the salt with other ingredients -- a little Mrs. Dash herb and garlic does a great job. Also, I don't use mayo in my dill sauce; Greek yogurt is a great base for this sauce, and it doesn't need any mayo to make it better. Gotta go buy some ingredients and make this dish for my dinner.
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I had a German exchange student in my class and he always used "schlagen" in a weird way and it was hard to understand him. I know "schlagen" means "to fight" in English but what does it mean in German slang?
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I'm going to mention all different usages of this verb I found in dictionary.
transitive verb
intransitive verb
Herz, Puls to beat (heftig) to pound
(auxiliary 'sein' or 'haben')(= auftreffen) mit dem Kopf auf/gegen
Regen to beat
(auxiliary 'sein' or 'haben')
reflexive verb
A few more non-trivial meanings of
There are some more context-dependent meanings which have not been addressed:
Yiddish has quite a few meanings depending on the prefix.
derschlagen sich zu... means to reach your destination with some effort.
derschlagen as an adjective means depressed or dejected.
vorschlagen (as in German) means to suggest or propose.
ausschlagen can mean to cover as in "to cover your expenses". It can also mean to knock out.
unterschlagen means to line a garment.
uberschlagen means to throw a cover on top of.
abschlagen means to repel or reflect; also, to dissuade. In the reflexive (with sich) it can mean to bounce off. An Abschalg can be a repercussion.
beschlagen can mean to upholster, to cover, or to break out in (a rash).
EDIT: I pulled these out of Weinreich's dictionary, but it seems Harkavey's earlier dictionary has many more expressions, which I'm going to try and list below. Here goes:
er schlagt ab seine taynos he refutes his arguments
sie schlagt ihm ab vun gehen she dissuades him from leaving
abshlagen wasser to urinate
men schlagt ihm ab die tueren they're beating his door down, he is in great demand
Ausschlag a breakout of pimples
ausschlagen to strike as a clock, to strike the hour in full
aufshclagen zwei brettlach to join two boards
aufschlagen a tur to break down a door
aufschlagen a wort to seek the right word
aufschlagen a summe to collect a sum
Umschlag envelope, wrapper
unterschlagen die augen to give someone a black eye
unterschlagen die parnosseh to ruin someone's business by undercutting him; to embezzle money
uberschlagen to interrupt someone
uberschlagen mit eier to mix with eggs
a dunner hat ihm eingeschlagen he was struck by a thunderbolt
anschlagen to give someone a licking; to secure something to
sich anschlagen to offer one's services
nehmen in beschlag to seize
durchschlagen to force one's way through
sich herausschlagen vun kop to forget about
heraufschlagen to fasten by beating; to fasten by nailing
sich heraufschlagen to get out of bed
sich herumschlagen to fight
herunterschlagen to beat down
hereinschlagen to drive in (a nail)
derschlagen to beat to death
verschlagen to fasten with nails
zerschlagen to break to pieces
zunaufschlagen, zusammenschlagen to fasten together


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In Perl, I'm learning how to dereference 'subroutine references'. But I can't seem to use a subroutine reference as a hash 'key'.
In the following sample code,
- I can create a reference to a subroutine ($subref) and then dereference it to run the subroutine (&$subref)
- I can use the reference as a hash 'value' and then easily dereference that
- But I cannot figure out how to use the reference as a hash 'key'. When I pull the key out of the hash, Perl interprets the key as a string value (not a reference) - which I now understand (thanks to this site!). So I've tried Hash::MultiKey, but that seems to turn it into an array reference. I want to treat it as a subroutine/code reference, assuming this is somehow possible?
Any other ideas?
use strict;
#use diagnostics;
use Hash::MultiKey;
my $subref = \&hello;
&$subref('bob','sue'); #okay
my %hash;
&{$hash{'sayhi'}}('bob','sue'); #okay
my %hash2;
tie %hash2, 'Hash::MultiKey';
foreach my $key (keys %hash2) {
print "Ref type is: ". ref($key)."\n";
&{$key}('bob','sue'); # Not okay
sub hello {
my $name=shift;
my $name2=shift;
print "hello $name and $name2\n";
This is what is returned:
hello bob and sue
hello bob and sue
Ref type is: ARRAY
Not a CODE reference at d:\temp\test.pl line 21.


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Qassem Aqlan, a longtime member of the embassy's security staff, was driving along a main road in the capital when he was attacked by several men, who fled unharmed. He died hours later.
The attack, coming a month after a U.S. ambassador was killed by militants in Benghazi, Libya, is likely to fan political debate over whether the Obama administration is doing enough to protect U.S. diplomatic staff and embassy employees overseas.
A Yemeni Interior Ministry official said the killing appeared to be the work of an organized terrorist group such as al Qaeda. "Al Qaeda has for long called for attacks on the U.S. embassy and its officials," the official said. He said that since last month the Yemeni government has intensified its security presence outside foreign embassies. "This attack took place about 10 kilometers away from the embassy," he added.
However, the State Department refused to speculate whether al Qaeda was behind the attack. "It is premature—this happened today—for us to be drawing conclusions about who did it, why it happened, all of those things," said spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, citing the Yemeni government investigation. "But obviously, it's of great concern, and it's of great concern given the larger issues in the region."
Ms. Nuland said it wasn't clear whether Mr. Aqlan's killing was related to his job at the embassy. "He could have been killed for reasons that had something to do with his job or reasons that had nothing to do with his job," she said. "We just don't know right now."
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S^3 can be seen as a U(1)-bundle over S^2 (Hopf fibration). It has first Chern number 1 or -1. Denoting with z_1,z_2 coordinates on C^2 and restricting to S^3 the natural connection form is \omega_1=\bar z_1 dz_1+\bar z_2 dz_2
Consider now the U(1) bundles over S^2 with Chern number n>1. They have total space S^3/Z_n where the Z_n action on C^2 is generated by (z_1,z_2)->(z_1\exp(i2\pi/n),z_2\exp(i2\pi/n)). I know that the appropriate connection form which generalises the one of the Hopf bundle is \omega_n=n(\bar z_1 dz_1+\bar z_2 dz_2) I do not understand where the factor of n comes from. In other terms how do I see, from the defining properties of a connection form (or otherwise), that a factor of n is needed and/or that any other factor would give a one-form which is not a connection form?


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Can i conduct nmap scanning from cloud services (i.e AWS)? i am looking to do external scanning for my company and want to set up something that will be quick, efficient, and cheap. I dont want to stand up my own external box on my own.the cloud services would be ideal. I need to have powerful boxes to handle the workload.
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You can do network scans from AWS services, but you need to fill out a request form; otherwise, you will breach their acceptable use policy. You can find more information about the actual request process here https://aws.amazon.com/security/penetration-testing/
NMAP is available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, Solaris, and other platforms as well. If the "cloud service" can provide one of these environments, you can use it to run nmap. You will also want your own public IP, not something behind a NAT.
A VPS (virtual private server) is probably what you are looking for. This would give you an actual VM to work from in a remote data center for a reasonably cheap price. A VPN could also work (which would allow you to tunnel to an external IP with your own local hardware).
You are probably going to need to ask permission from any cloud provider to do this. They generally ban this for obvious reasons and you need to get a waiver. I'm not sure they'd provide a waiver in this direction of scanning. Usually their customers want to scan the services running in the cloud and the IaaS provider will give them a narrow window to do it in.
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2001 Suzuki Katana. Here is the story, after winter it fired up fine, just had a lag on the throttle. Pulled out air filter bike sounded like it loaded up and just died. I left it for a week. I went to fire it up and it just turns over. It will backfire and then nothing, just keeps turning over. I just replaced plugs I am getting gas as the float bowls are full. Battery holds charge great, it's only a year old. I have spark on all plugs, just won't start. Please help
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Full float bowls don't necessarily mean a lot. Have you confirmed that you're getting gas to the plugs? Did you drain the float bowls before you laid the bike up for winter?
You need three things to get the engine running - fuel, spark and compression. Assuming that the timing isn't way off (which would also lead to backfiring), you've got a spark. Which leaves fuel or compression. It might be worth testing the compression but if you can feel the engine move air (ie, you can feel the pulses out the exhaust when cranking) I would assume the compression is still there, given that I assume the bike was running last year.
Which leaves the fuel. If you crank the engine for a little while, are the plugs wet afterwards? Or dry?
My guess is that the carbs are clogged from fuel deposits, especially if you haven't drained the bowls or run them dry. Here's what I'd do:
BTW, you did put the airfilter back in, didn't you? If the jetting is marginal already, the additional air from the lack of air filter might make the mixture too lean to fire properly on a cold engine.
The carb. has probably shielded over. The carburetor fuel wets the screen inside and if not used dries up creating a shield over the screen (It's kind of like a dry shellac) and will restrict air flow. You may need to remove this screen to clean it off.


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