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I always feel like a culinary failure when I use stuff out of a bottle. But this dish is tasty enough that I don't care.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Quick and Easy Fried Noodles and Tofu
I always feel like a culinary failure when I use stuff out of a bottle. But this dish is tasty enough that I don't care.
7 comments:
- Binx said...
for something "quick and easy" it's almost impossible to not use a jarred something-or-other. no worries, we all know you are far from a culinary failure!
- August 15, 2008 at 9:48 AM
- Jessica said...
In my humble opinion, anyone who makes his own puff pastry shouldn't feel guilty for using a bottled sauce every once in awhile! ;-)
- August 15, 2008 at 10:00 AM
- Sarena Shasteen said...
I was just thinking that same thing this morning...about using stuff out of a bottle. Sometimes, though, for ease and taste...I think it is ok! Your dish looks great! Thanks for making me feel better about "cheating" sometimes!
- August 15, 2008 at 10:08 AM
- Bianca said...
As much as you create delicious meals from scratch, your totally allowed to "cheat" sometimes. Don't feel bad. I'd do the same.
- August 15, 2008 at 1:35 PM
- mom said...
To infinity and beyond!
- August 16, 2008 at 6:39 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
I assume you meant to leave this comment on the post about the Buzz Lightyear cake, or you reeeeally like fried noodles.
- August 16, 2008 at 8:07 AM
- Anonymous said...
Homemade "teriyaki" sauce is easy (though technically the yaki is the form of cooking)
It is
3 parts - Soy sauce
1 part - Mirin (sweet cooking sake)
1 part - sugar (organic pure cane if you please)
put it into a pan and heat it up to a boil and take it as thick or thin as you want it the main thing is too make sure that all the sugar is dissolved! Adjust everything to your tastes the recipe is not exact
Also just wanted to say you blog is awesome have been checking it out in between making a sweet 'tater pie and your vegan lunch meat turkey yummmmm!
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COURTLANDT, NY-- Mr. Purvis Walker, 85, of 108 Leilia Street, Peekskill, NY, departed this life on Saturday February 16, 2013, at Courtlandt Healthcare Facility. A native of Spartanburg, SC, he was the husband of Mrs. Doris S. Bivings Walker and the son of the late Fred and Bertha Reed Walker. Mr. Walker was a U.S. Army Veteran and a member of the F.A.M. of PA. He worked in construction and paving, and was a member of Union #57.
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No matter what time of year you come to my house, you'll often find leftover grilled chicken or rotisserie chicken in the fridge, and this salad is one of my favorite ways to use it. There are endless ingredients that work in a chopped salad with chicken and Cafe Rio Style Creamy Tomatillo Dressing, but I'm partial to radishes in this salad, and for me, cilantro is also a must. I ate the salad you see in the photo sitting on my new deck looking out over the garden, and thinking to myself that leftovers don't really get any better than this!
Tomatoes are definitely optional, but they're very good in the salad if you happen to have some on hand. I eat this salad year round, but I rarely use tomatoes in the winter.
Leftover Chicken Chopped Salad with Cafe Rio Creamy Tomatillo Dressing
(Makes 2 salads as written; adjust amounts and ingredients for the number of salads you want to make.)
Ingredients for the salad in the photos:
1 head romaine lettuce, chopped and washed in salad spinner
1/2 bunch cilantro, chopped and washed in salad spinner
6 radishes, cut in half moon slices
10 cherry tomatoes, cut in half
1 cup diced cooked chicken (1 grilled chicken breast is perfect for two salads)
about 1/4 cup Cafe Rio Style Creamy Tomatillo Dressing
black beans,
chopped red bell pepper
sliced green onion
chopped red or green cabbage
black olives, cut in half
chopped jicama
South Beach Suggestions:
More Salad Ideas for Leftover Chicken:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Leftover Chicken Pesto Salad from Kalyn's Kitchen
Cilantro-Lover's Leftover Chicken Salad from Kalyn's Kitchen
Chicken Salad with Fresh Tarragon and Peas from Kalyn's Kitchen
Chicken Salad with Apples and Chives from Daily Unadventures in Cooking
Asian Chicken Salad from Cafe Lynnylu
Gluten-Free Chinese Chicken Salad from Elana's Pantry
Minty Moroccan Chicken Salad from The Leftover Queen
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The day started cloudy as you can see by the great view of Fölzalm
Actually, it was more fog down low. Just getting above the fog to see the valley between Fölzstein and Mitteralpenturm. The end of my loop will come out between these features.
Now I am finally getting above the fog
Almost to the top of Windgrube. There is a ski area here.
At the top of Windgrube. The views were great up here. The light was also good for photos.
Viedo on top
The peak in the distance is Hochschwab. The highest in this range.
The route goes along this ridge
The clouds were blowing up from the valley
Close up of Gr. Feistringstein
This trail heads down to the valley.
I continued across the ridge
Looking back at the way I just came. Windgrube is on the right side.
Unterstandshütterl. Basically just a place to sleep.
On my way to Kampl. The wind was starting to blow hard up here.
Kampl is off to the right. There was a large plateau up here.
View from the top of Kampl (1990 meters). I did not stay long becuase the wind was blowing hard.
Hochschwab sitting high within all the other peaks.
Fölzstein. You can see the lower section of trail to the top in the snow on the right of the peak.
Looking down into the valley
I crossed paths with these guys on the way down
Another group
On the way down
There was a lot of them.
Going down the ridge to the Fölzsattel
Looking down another valley
The Voisthaler Hutte. I hopefully will be back to visit this place when I come to do Hochschwab
Looking back at what I just came down.
The huts at Föltzalm
On the way back to the car
Last view of Föltzstein
About to enter the Fölz Klamm
It was really short. There is a lot of water running under the elevated walk way
Looking back up the Klamm. From here it was a few minutes back to the car. Windy but nice day for a hike.
Elevation Profile. The hike was 14.25 miles long with an elevation gain of 4,450 feet.


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SharePoint 2010 UI Customization
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SharePoint 2010 has new improvements for customizing the SharePoint user interface. The new Ribbon interface is fully extensible, allowing you to add or remove pieces to easily customize the experience. Also, new user interface controls such as the dialog framework and the status and notification area allow you to inform or interact with the user without taking them out of the context of their task or the look and feel of SharePoint. This talk will show you how to use and interact with these new user interface controls, using Visual Studio 2010.
This session is presented by Marianne van Wanrooij during SharePoint Connections 2010 in Amsterdam.
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How could we prove that if the sum of the squares of two numbers is a constant, then the sum of the numbers would have its maximum value when the numbers are equal?
This result is also true for more than two numbers. I tested the results by taking various values and brute-force-ish approach. However I am interested to know a formal proof of the same.
This is probably an mild extention to this problem. I encountered this result while searching for a easy solution for the same.


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Treatment, Patient and Tumor Characteristics Impact Quality of Life (QOL) in Patients with Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer: Report of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) Trial 90-03
Heather Jones, MD
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Last Modified: November 7, 2001
Presenter: J. Fisher
Presenter's Affiliation: Bon Secours Cottage Health Services, Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
Type of Session: Scientific
The RTOG 90-03 was a four-arm trial that enrolled patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer. This study evaluated the factors that could potentially affect the QOL for patients randomized to standard fractionation radiotherapy (SFX), hyperfractionation (HFX), Accelerated Fractionation with Split (AFX-S) and Accelerated Fractionation with Concomitant Boost (AFX-C).
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A pretreatment patient and tumor characteristic such as marital status, the need for oral supplements or feeding tube affects QOL before the initiation of therapy. Intensification of radiotherapy, marital status, tumor site, and nutritional support all effect QOL during the first year post therapy.
Clinical/Scientific Implications
The concept of quality of life continues to create struggles for clinicians and researchers, in that it is difficult to acquire a consensus concerning its definition, as well as techniques with which to measure it. One major advantage to this RTOG analysis is the repeat measurements of quality of life over time. This enabled providers to examine this concept within a short-term timeframes. Consequently, recall biases are avoided and the effect of personality traits can be ascertained. These data suggest that interventions (such as before the start of therapy) may improve QOL in long-term survivors.
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I REALLY wanted to like this show. I'm all for wonder and beauty and sweet and stuff that gets me all misty, but this show just takes WAY too long to get to the point of it. I watched 8 1/2 episode and halfway through the 9th episode I just said, "UGH! That's IT! I can't do it anymore." I think 8 1/2 episodes is extremely patient. I kept feeling there is a main point or story arc it was getting to but it's stretching that out WAY too long. Not enough interesting things happen in each episode to make me want to continue to try to get to the main point. Numbers are not that interesting a subject to most people, in and of themselves. The idea of interconnectedness is cool, but so far since it's been different people in almost every episode, it doesn't show enough of these people for long enough for you to build a relationship with them to care. I have to be able to empathize with someone and I think Kiefer Sutherland's character is supposed to be that person, but the frustration he has to deal with on a daily basis would drive me insane and at the end of the day, he doesn't really get any answers. His son seems intelligent but is either unwilling or unable to alieve his frustration and just adds to it more and more. I feel he's just stumbling through the dark every moment of his life. Read more
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- "Super reinforced shocks - perfect for cushioning when you are jumping sand dunes and landing with such ferocity that you bite your tongue in two."
- ―Southern San Andreas Super Autos description.
The BF Injection is a dune buggy and off-road coupe that appears in the 3D Universe and Grand Theft Auto V. The buggy is absent in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, as most novelty and such unique vehicles were omitted. Following the release of Grand Theft Auto V, the car was renamed simply as Injection, as BF becomes its manufacturer.
3D Universe
In all its appearances, the BF Injection generally resembles a slightly enlarged Meyers Manx, a kit car made from a Volkswagen Beetle. It was designed by Bruce F. "BF" Meyers and was at one point manufactured by his company, B.F. Meyers & Co.
In Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto Advance, Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the design remains the same. It possessed a generally exaggerated design, an open air occupant compartment, no doors, curvy shells and a large rear-mounted engine, making the vehicle particularly distinctive. It is seen with a wide array of body color combinations encompassing the body and its trims. Through each title, the BF Injection has minor alterations as listed below.
The GTA III rendition does not have headlamps, despite emitting light beams from its front fenders. In GTA: Vice City, the vehicle has received cosmetic improvements, such as the addition of front lights (its headlights are moved towards the center, and additional hi-beam lights are mounted on the roll bars), and improved detailing (including minor variations of the fittings) on the engine. The Vice City edition also features golden trims as well as silver ones. In GTA Advance, the BF Injection retains its curvy profile and rear engine, but has a closed top and doors. For GTA: Liberty City Stories and GTA: Vice City Stories, both models had minor changes over their respective versions, except that the LCS rendition rectifies the GTA III vehicle's lack of headlights (two are now attached to the front fenders).
The BF Injection differs significantly in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where it has a slightly sleeker and more angular look, as well as a tighter, narrower rear end. The GTA San Andreas rendition may feature two-tone body colors, in addition to the body-and-trim color schemes seen in the earlier games.
HD Universe
In Grand Theft Auto V, the buggy features a short wheelbase body, based on a 1963 VW Fusca Buggy (however, it has a rear split window much like the early model Beetles), which has been modified to cope with off-road use (into a Baja Bug). The front of the car features modified, lightweight arches. The most distinct feature of the front end is the central section, with dune buggy-style under-body protection. Along with the protective sheeting, push bars that are as wide as the arches are mounted and at the top of the sheeting are the headlights. The sides of the car's body lack any extra formations aside from the large, flared arches that have been fitted to the car. The buggy does however feature chrome wing mirrors. The rear of the car's body features a large removed area to house a rear-mounted engine. The rear windscreen is ovular and vertically split into two equal halves. Although many elements have been removed from the rear, the engine is sat on a tube frame with a chrome finish. This tube frame may have a long antenna mounted towards the right, at the top. To make the vehicle road legal, it features two circular tail lamps and a central area to mount a license plate.
In the enhanced version, despite the fact that the Injection is made by BF, the steering wheel shows the Declasse logo; this is most likely a designer oversight, as the BF Injection has a similar interior to the beater Tornado.
Current Design Gallery
Version History Gallery
3D Universe
In GTA III, the BF Injection's performance is generally above average. The vehicle fares well in speed, but cannot match the speed of sports cars. Handling is adequate, with a wide wheelbase and a light weight. Despite its off-road design, the GTA III rendition features stiff suspension and a high center of gravity, leaving the vehicle prone to rollovers. In GTA Vice City, the BF Injection's suspension is improved for better off-road driving, but it may still flip forward and land on its roof. In GTA Liberty City Stories, it exhibits poor handling on sand, though the version in GTA Vice City Stories is the opposite as it's the chosen vehicle for the Beach Patrol side-mission.
While the GTA San Andreas rendition retains a powerful engine, its redesigned form has a shorter wheelbase, increasing the risk of spinouts. It is extremely bottom-heavy, like the Bandito, which severely reduces the risk of rollovers. Its grippy MMT dual-purpose tyres also boost its off-road capabilities. It has a very powerful rear-drive, along with a much stronger engine, just slightly behind the Bandito. All renditions of the BF Injection are powered by a small turbocharged V8 engine, except the GTA San Andreas rendition, which is powered by a flat 4-cylinder engine. The BF Injection in Liberty City Stories is the only car to have a rear-mounted engine.
Grand Theft Auto V
In Grand Theft Auto V, the BF Injection still performs generally well. It has decent acceleration and an average top speed, and is generally stable while turning. Being a purpose-built offroad vehicle, it does perform very well off the asphalt, with its acceleration and speed much more noteworthy. The addition of a covered roof helps in recovery from rollovers. While the rear-mounted engine does generally keep it safe, the rest of the vehicle is very susceptible to deformation damage, and can only take one or two hard crashes before any wheels become stuck. The Bug features a rear-mounted, air-cooled engine powering the rear wheels in an RR drivetrain layout. It may feature a central exhaust tip that points upwards. The car uses standard tires at the front and very large, high profile sand dune tires at the rear. Bulletproof tires are highly recommended for it to withstand gunshots.
GTA V Overview
(0 - 60mph / 0 - 100km/h)
|Top Speed
(mph / km/h)
|Engine Details
(Cubic Capacity/Layout/Type)
Number + Type
(Kg / lb)
|84 / 135 (Handling.dat)
1800 / 3968
|7.2 Seconds
|100 / 161
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Grand Theft Auto V
|Cost (Story)
|Cost (Online)
|Armor Upgrade 20%
|Armor Upgrade 40%
|Armor Upgrade 60%
|Armor Upgrade 80%
|Armor Upgrade 100%
|Street Brakes
|Sport Brakes
|Race Brakes
|EMS Upgrade, Level 1
|EMS Upgrade, Level 2
|EMS Upgrade, Level 3
|EMS Upgrade, Level 4
|Xenon Lights
|Loss/Theft Prevention
|Full Coverage
|Crew Emblem
|Sell Vehicle
|Lowered Suspension
|Street Suspension
|Sport Suspension
|Competition Suspension
|Street Transmission
|Sports Transmission
|Race Transmission
|Turbo Tuning
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In the mission "Cut Throat Business" (GTA San Andreas), a unique black and red BF injection is used to transport Carl Johnson and Madd Dogg to meet OG Loc. Because the player is unable to store this BF Injection in any garage during the mission (as it simply disappears after), it can only be acquired by killing Madd Dogg, thereby failing the mission, and taking the buggy to a safehouse garage. Its performance is no different to the standard BF Injection.
Prominent Appearances in Missions
Grand Theft Auto III
- Drive Misty for Me - In the ending cutscene, a BF Injection is seen inside Joey's Garage along with a Mafia Sentinel, an Idaho and a Stallion.
- Joey's blue BF Injection appears in the opening cutscenes of the all six missions that he is the boss: (Mike Lips Last Lunch, Farewell "Chunky" Lee Chong, Van Heist, Cipriani's Chauffeur, Dead Skunk in the Trunk and The Getaway), and after, Salvatore's Called a Meeting too.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- The Chase - The Sharks' leader will flee on a BF Injection to Prawn Island.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Body Harvest - After finishing the mission, a BF Injection will spawn at The Truth's farm, possibly to allow the player to quickly leave the place.
- Interdiction - The buggy spawns in front of the ranch's garage after the opening cutscene.
Notable Owners
- Alan McClean
- Joey Leone
- Madd Dogg (possibly)
- Mike Toreno
- Misty (possibly)
- Sharks' Leader
Grand Theft Auto III
- Apartments near El Burro's telephone point in Hepburn Heights, Portland, after completing the mission Sayonara Salvatore. It only spawns at night, from 18:30 until 05:00.
- Can be imported from the Shoreside Vale Import/Export garage once their list of wanted vehicles has been completed.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- On the beach behind the Standing Vice Point building in Vice Point.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- The Truth's farm. Only after the mission Body Harvest.
- On the beach in Whetstone, south of Angel Pine.
- Just off the northernmost track in the woodland area of Whetstone, south of the Angel Pine Junkyard.
- In front of the Blackfield Stadium after completing Dirt Track.
- On the beach in San Fierro.
- Around Missionary Hill.
- Next to the gym on the Verona Beach/Santa Maria Beach border. (Only when wanted for export).
- At the Snake Farm next to the Verdant Meadows.
- In north-west area of Shady Creeks.
- Occasionally spawns around Verdant Bluffs.
- Spawns around the beach areas of Los Santos.
- Spawns around Mulholland.
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
- On the beach in Portland Beach, near Marco's Bistro. Use the Perfect Handling cheat to make it easy to get the vehicle off the beach, or drive straight forward from it's current position, go up the part of the hill that is angled towards the southwest, and into the Portland Harbor area in order to obtain it without the use of cheats.
- In GTA Liberty City Stories, one can acquire it by going to Capital Autos and doing the Car Salesman side-mission. The player can acquire it by killing a customer, then, sports cars like Stinger, Banshee, and Cheetah will disappear, except for the BF Injection or selecting the BF Injection's test drive and failing it, keeping the car.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- Parked at one of the lifeguard houses, starts "Beach Patrol". The vehicle is always painted red with black trims, matching the lifeguards' red swimsuits.
- Randomly spawns around the streets of Ocean Beach.
- A bullet-proof version can be purchased from Sunshine Autos after completion of "Beach Patrol".
Grand Theft Auto V
- Commonly seen driven and parked in Sandy Shores.
- Seen in traffic throughout Blaine County.
- Can be purchased from Southern San Andreas Super Autos for $16,000.
- Found parked at the McKenzie Field Hangar.
- Can be obtained during and after the Eco Friendly offroad race if the player starts the race on foot.
- Always spawns in the parking lot of Sonar Collections Dock after purchasing it.
- In front of a house in Tatavian Mountains.
- The "BF" in the BF Injection's name may refer to the real world manufacturer of the Meyers Manx (which its design is based on), B.F. Meyers & Co or the Meyers Manx's original designer, Bruce F. "BF" Meyer.
- Alternatively the BF Injection's name may also be a play on "beef injection", a slang term for sexual intercourse.
- The default radio stations of the BF Injection are:
- GTA Vice City: Espantoso
- GTA San Andreas: Radio Los Santos
- GTA V: Channel X
3D Universe
- The BF Injection may have been manufactured by BF Motors, a company advertised in GTA San Andreas.
- In GTA III, Joey Leone is frequently seen working on a BF Injection in cutscenes, and, after the completion of the Portland missions, the vehicle spawns outside the home of Joey's girlfriend, Misty, in Hepburn Heights (presumably a gift to Misty).
- The BF Injection is the only vehicle prior to the HD Universe with the manufacturer in its name.
Grand Theft Auto V
- In the Southern San Andreas Super Autos site, there is an image that displays a clean version of the Injection. When bought, however, it will always be delivered in a rusted, dirty state.
See Also
- Bandito - Another dune buggy, featured in GTA San Andreas.
- Bifta - A dune buggy based on the GTA III era's BF Injection. This is the similar design of GTA San Andreas' design.


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Decoding Ferran Adria DVD: Hosted by Anthony Bourdain (Hardcover)
New York City chef/author Anthony Bourdain is invited to film the research laboratory of Ferran Adria, the most controversial and imitated chef in the world—chef/owner of El Bulli, voted "World's Best" by Restaurant Magazine and the most visited by chefs on sabbatical. The lab, an ultra modern, Dr. No-like facility with sliding walls, backlit ingredients, latest equipment and a full staff of devotees is tucked away inside a vast, renaissance-era palace in the old section of Barcelona, Spain. Adria and his chefs close the El Bulli restaurant for six months out of ever year to work on new concepts. Bourdain tracks Ferran's process from lab to a once-in-a-lifetime meal at El Bulli restaurant, enjoying a high-concept, surrealist, haute cuisine meal of unparalleled creativity and striking visual appearance.
About the Author
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The Department of Fine Arts at Loyola University Maryland offers Majors (or equivalent degree programs) in Art History, Music, Theatre, and the Visual Arts (with a concentration in either Studio Art or Photography). Minors and interdisciplinary majors are also offered in all of these areas. Each one of the programs in the department provides its students with a rigorous and comprehensive curriculum designed to first introduce students to the discipline and then develop increasing levels of mastery of the knowledge, skills, and habits of the field. Introductory level courses present the basic foundation in each discipline with no previous experience necessary. Upper division courses offer more specialized studies, ordinarily building upon the experiences of the introductory classes. Advanced students may apply for an internship or undertake a senior project in their specific discipline. Additionally, all Loyola undergraduates choose one Fine Arts course as an integral part of the Core Curriculum.
All Fine Arts programs are located in the Julio Fine Arts Wing of the DeChiaro College Center, which houses not only the University's McManus theatre and Julio Fine Arts Gallery, but also rehearsal rooms for the performing arts, specialized classrooms for art history, and fully-equipped studios for clay, drawing, and photography. Specialized spaces such as sound-proof practice and piano rooms, a clay green room, black-and-white and alternative-process darkrooms, digital laboratories, an electronic music studio, and a "black box" theatre are also a part of the facilities. Other on-campus spaces include both painting and printmaking studios. Department-sponsored field trips to museums, galleries, and professional performances in Baltimore and other cities expose Fine Arts students to creative works by practicing artists, performers, critics, and curators. Each semester students will find performance opportunities in any of a number of performing ensembles including: the Evergreen Players, the Poisoned Cup Players, the Spotlight Players, Jazz Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, the University Singers, and the Repertory Singers. Students in the visual arts can avail themselves of on- and off-campus exhibition venues, while art history students benefit from internship opportunities in Baltimore's museums. The department has also received a generous gift to fund a wide range of artistic and intellectually enriching experiences for students in art history and studio art. This gift has enabled the department to support a series of guest lecturers and visiting artists and has also funded student attendance at the College Art Association annual conference in Washington, DC.
In addition to the major, the following are a few options for students interested in Fine Arts:
Double major possibilities:
--Any of the Fine Arts Majors with any Humanities Major
--Any of the Fine Arts Majors with Writing, Modern Languages, Communication
--Any of the Fine Arts Majors with any Social Science Major
(The above can generally be completed with no additional courses above the required 40 for graduation. This, of course, takes planning, but it is possible to fit a double major in without taking a 6th course in any given semester.)
--Any Fine Arts Major with a Secondary Education Minor – leading to certification to teach in middle and high schools. There may be a need for an extra course or two depending on Math and Foreign Language Placement; planning is critical, but it is very doable.
--Any of the Fine Arts Majors with Biology, Chemistry, or Physics would necessitate somewhere between 4 and 6 extra courses over the 8 semesters. This is a variable number, as it does not take into account AP credit, math placement, and foreign language placement – all of which may reduce the number of courses needed to fulfill any particular major.
--Any Fine Arts Major with Business – students would have from 4 to 6 available free slots for the Fine Arts Major, meaning that for approximately 6 semesters, a 6th course would be necessary; again, this is not taking into account placements.


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I have got a dbf file and i want make it to raster file but shor way,
Look at my long way,
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How can i do dbf to raster with short way,
i dont want create tin file,
Just dbf to raster,
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We aren't exactly sure what the word Deore originally meant, but everyone associated with mountain biking knows what it means now. It means quality. From the very first component, Deore XT has been Shimano's workhorse gruppo. Nothing has changed. Deore XT isn't Shimano's lightest. Nor is it Shimano's most expensive. It is, however, Shimano's best all-around component group, and its reputation as the toughest in Shimano's lineup without significant weight sacrifices has stood the test of time. For the mountain biker about to take the leap into the 650B category of bikes, we can't think of a better wheelset on which to base that leap than the Shimano Deore XT WH-M785 27.5-inch wheelset.
Starting from the inside out, Shimano uses its Deore XT hubs for the WH-M785's. The hubs feature sealed bearings for virtually maintenance-free operation in any riding conditions. The hubs are Center Lock-compatible. Shimano uses butted (2.0-1.5-2.0) round straight-pull spokes. The rims, optimized for durability and light weight, are 19mm deep and 23.4mm wide. Shimano recommends tire widths of 1.5 to 2.25 inches. The rims are, of course, UST-compatible.
The Shimano Deore XT WH-M785 27.5 Wheelset is available in two configurations. Both come with a 15 x 100mm thru-axle front hub and you have the choice of 10 x 135mm quick-release or 12 x 142mm thru-axle rear wheels.
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Do you need an adapter to run 6-bolt rotors?
Hey Patrick, yes you would need an adapter centerlock rotors for this wheelset. If you have any other questions, feel free to reach out to me directly.
Can the front wheel be converted to QR
They are 110x15mm QR up front and 146x12mm QR in the rear. The hubs are Center Lock-compatible. Shimano uses butted (2.0-1.5-2.0) round straight-pull spokes. So the front is QR compatible
Mark - what is a 146x12 QR?
110x15 is actually boost spacing, and I am sure that is an error as well, but at least that is a thing...
Do you use rim tape and sealant for xt...
Do you use rim tape and sealant for xt wheelset if you go tubeless and if it comes with tubeless valves?- thanks
The rims are UST certified, so if pair with a UST tire, they wouldn't need sealant. Not running sealant kind of defeats the puncture resistance advantage of running tubeless, so I would personally still use sealant with both a UST and a non UST or tubeless ready tire. The rim does not need a rim strip, but if using sealant, it's never a bad idea to have a layer of Stans tape down.


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And the time has come!
After 4 years preparation and sacrifices bloomed.
We are one week before preparing and packing our stuff for our crazy attempt.
Watching past videos of Paris - Brest and trying to figure the way that I will handle this unique ultra marathon race.
You don't race every day 1257 km straight and without any assistance.
Some say that it's insane; other dangerous for your life but for me is the ultimate challenge!
Fortunately for the same race qualified and one of my best friends from another part of Greece and we will be together!
The Greek team is assembled and starting to share stories and strategies.
Our Head Leader consults me to try with the first group and to have faith in me because I have great potentials.
My opinion is to share this unique experience with my best friend without caring so much for the result but for finishing as best as we could together!
Many people didn't believe that I would risk a good time for being with my friend but I had taken my decisions.
Me and Kostas against everyone! Sharing a dream, sharing something that will unite us forever!
Most of us were traveling alone because we were from different places of Greece!
Meeting Point France 3 days before the Big Race!
Day after day cyclists from all over the worlds were joining!
You could see them along the city touring!
6000 participants from all over the world! An amazing number and one of the biggest in history of this race!
And we were there writing history, and trying something unachievable as we thought!
Now everything is possible and we will fight to death to prove that if you want something badly you can do it, if you believe in yourself!
The days were passing really fast and it was time to face our fears!
To prove that our sacrifices were not for nothing!
Start line...500 cyclists every 1 hour and me ,Kostas and 3 more brave Greeks were in the first 500 group or as they call it the Bullet group!!!!
The Story Continues ...
MI Evangelos Kastamoulas
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FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) -- After decades of ministering to soldiers and their families, Fort Riley Garrison Chaplain Colonel Edwin Ahl is retiring.
A ceremony was held on post Thursday at Ware Parade Field.
Ahl leaves a group of only 24 active-duty soldiers in the Army who served in the Vietnam War. He also served in Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Ahl began his military career in April 1969, when he joined the U.S. Navy as an electronic warfare specialist during the Vietnam War. He served a year in Vietnam, just 20 miles off the coast of Haiphong Harbor.
Ahl left the military in 1972. He decided to go to college, and he received his bachelor's degree in geography from Humboldt State University. Ahl said he realized he missed the military, however, and decided to join the National Guard. It was during his time in the National Guard, he said, when he believed God called him to become a chaplain.
Ahl received his master's of divinity degree in theology from Oral Roberts University during his time in the National Guard. A few years later, in January 1988, Ahl returned to active duty as a chaplain for the U.S. Army. He also went on to receive his doctorate in theology from Andersonville Theological Seminary.
During Operation Desert Storm, Ahl served with the 87th Maintenance Battalion from December 1991 to May 1992.
"I've been aviation, I've been artillery, I've been engineer, I've been corps support, I've been heavy infantry, light infantry, airborne infantry so God put me where he waned me... From the jungles of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, from Germany to Korea and about 34 other countries, I've totally enjoyed my time as an Army Chaplain. It's been a blessing. You soldiers, you family members- you have a special place in God's heart and that's the truth," Ahl told the crowd gathered at his retirement ceremony.
Brigadier General Donald MacWillie, Fort Riley's Senior Commander, told Ahl during the ceremony: "The key is that you're loved and at the end of a magnificent career serving your nation, all we can do is say thank you. We're going to pin a medal on your chest but I know that means little to you because what matters to you is the care and the compassion that you've given to us and our families over the years. Thank you so very much for what you've done for us. Thank you for being here with us. Thank you for serving in uniform since 1969 and for never giving up on your nation and setting a standard that has led to a legacy for the thousands of soldiers and hundreds of chaplains that will continue to serve our soldiers."
"I'm blessed for having served my country and my God for so long. I look back at my wife and kids and all of the anniversaries and birthdays and Christmases that I missed because of being gone down range and then all of the support my family gives me and it's emotional. I look out and I see the troops and their families and they're the mainstay. I will always remember them because of what they do for our country and I will pray for them always. I'm going to miss them," Colonel Ahl told 13 News.
"I'm going to take away a lifetime of love, honor and service that hopefully others will take from as well, trying to be an example. In the military, leaders lead by example. They set the standard and I hope younger chaplains or even younger soldiers, because I spent fourteen years enlisted, other soldiers will have the same kind of enthusiasm to serve and better their country and themselves as they go through their careers," he added.
Ahl and his Family are planning on retiring in Fayetteville, N.C. He also said he is looking at teaching in the local area.


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Why does the trick of taking the binary representation of each digit and simply concatenating them work?
0x4E ==
0100 concatenated with
1110, making
Why does the trick of taking the binary representation of each digit and simply concatenating them work?
Let's define a notation for "base 1000" where the every "base 1000 digit" consist of a three-base10-digits group.
Thus, the base-10 number 123456789 would read 123 456 789 in base 1000.
As you can see, conversion between these is really, really simple. The reason is that a certain number of digits in the lower base exactly represent a digit in the higher base. This is true for all bases where the higher base is a power of the lower one. For example, base 3 and base 9 could be easily converted, while base 10 and base 20 could not.
For base 2 and base 16, the same applies, only that we decided to write "8" instead of 1000. It's just a different symbol, though...
This works not only for $16$, but also for any other power of $2$. Maybe an easy way to see it is to look at base $10$ instead of base $2$. Say I want to write the number $12345678$ in base $100$. Of course we don't have $100$ symbols to express single digits in base $100$, so we can write them using base $10$: $[0],[1],[2],\ldots,[99]$. Then $$ 12345678=[12][34][56][78]. $$
In more detail, \begin{align} 12345678&=1\times10^7+2\times10^6+3\times10^5+4\times10^4+5\times10^3+6\times10^2+7\times10^1+8\times10^0\\ \ \\ &=12\times10^6+34\times10^4+56\times10^2+78\\ \ \\ &=12\times100^3+34\times100^2+56\times100+78. \end{align} The key facts are that $$ 1\times10^7+2\times10^6=10\times10^6+2\times10^6=12\times10^6, $$ etc.
If we would do it in base $1000$, it would be $$ 12345678_{10}=[12][345][678]_{1000}. $$
Now, when the basis are $16$ and $2$, the game is the same: since $16=2^4$, groups of four binary digits (starting from the right) will form a single hexadecimal digit.
A preliminary observation: in base $10,$ multiplying a number by a power of $10$ amounts to shifting the digits leftward: $$ 10^3\cdot148=1000\cdot148=148000. $$ The analogous statement is true in any base. In what follows, numbers without a subscript are base-$10;$ otherwise, the subscript indicates the base: $$ \begin{aligned} 256\cdot A8_{16}&=16^2\cdot A8_{16}=10_{16}^2\cdot A8_{16}=100_{16}\cdot A8_{16}=A800_{16},\\ 16\cdot B_{16}&=16^1\cdot B_{16}=10_{16}B_{16}=B0_{16},\\ 16\cdot1011_2&=2^4\cdot1011_2=10000_2\cdot1011_2=10110000_2. \end{aligned} $$
Now let's look at your question. The second and third lines above represent the same multiplication, $16\cdot11.$ Multiplication by $16$ shifts hexadecimal numbers left by one digit and binary numbers left by four digits.
With this in mind, consider the hexadecimal number, $$ \begin{aligned} A83_{16}&=16^2\cdot10+16^1\cdot8+16^0\cdot3\\ &=16^2\cdot1010_2+16^1\cdot1000_2+16^0\cdot0011_2\\ &=2^8\cdot1010_2+2^4\cdot1000_2+2^0\cdot0011_2. \end{aligned} $$ Write each of the three terms separately, using the shift idea: $$ \begin{aligned} 1010_2\cdot2^8&=1010\,0000\,0000_2\\ 1000_2\cdot2^4&=0000\,1000\,0000_2\\ 0011_2\cdot2^0&=0000\,0000\,0011_2.\\ \end{aligned} $$ The sum is the concatenation of the digits since in each block of four binary digits, only one of the three terms is non-zero.
If you look at the "column headings" for binary, they are $\dots 256, 128, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2, 1.$
Compare these with those for base $16$: $\dots, 256, 16, 1.$
The crucial thing is that all the base 16 headings are present in the base 2 case.
Similarly, converting between base 9 and base 3 would be really easy for the same reasons.
That works as $16 = 2^4$ is a power of $2$. We have for a number $n\in \mathbb N$ written in hexidecimal digits as $n = (s_k\ldots s_0)_{16}$, that is $$ n = \sum_{i=0}^n s_i 16^i $$ writing $s_i \in \{0,\ldots, 15\}$ in binary as $s_i = (b^i_3\ldots b^i_0)_2$ that is $$ s_i = \sum_{j=0}^3 b^i_j 2^j $$ that $$ n = \sum_{i=0}^n s_i 16^i = \sum_{i=0}^n \sum_{j=0}^3 b^i_j 2^j 2^{4i} = \sum_{i=0}^n \sum_{j=0}^3 b_i^j 2^{4i+j} $$ that $n = (b_n^3 \ldots b_n^0 \ldots b_0^3 \ldots b_0^0)_2$. So the binary represention of $n$ consists of the concatenation of the representations of the hexadecimal digits of $n$.
FACT ONE: Each position in positional number systems is an increment-by-one in power of the base. Take the decimal number "one-hundred and twenty-three":
Base-2 (binary), this same number would be:
FACT TWO: 16 is a power of 2. Or in other words, there is an integer that 2 can be raised to, to get 16.
FACT THREE: Four binary digits are needed per hexadecimal digit because four binary digits are required to move along the number-line the same distance as a single hexadecimal "F" (the maximum individual hexadecimal value).
Because of the above facts, you can take each of the digits in a hexadecimal number, convert them to their equivalent binary digits in a group-of-four and simply place them one after the other (i.e. concatenate them).
In other words: because sixteen is a power of two, base-two has all the positional powers that base 16 has. We can find the maximum number of digits in base-two required to represent a single digit in base-sixteen, convert to binary and then simply concatenate them. 7A16 can be represented as "01112 sixteens, plus 10112 ones", or 01111011.
Because each hex digit is exactly 4 binary digits. It is the exactly-ness that allows the trick to work.
(Yes, I know this has already been answered and accepted, but my answer is special: No equations, and all the words are plain English!) ;-)
Let's make the number in the binary representation step by step.
I start with
Let's try another number
4 Left shifts:
4 Left shifts:
The concatenation is equivalent to 4 left shifts and adding.
The Bins were a peaceful race, successfully categorizing their universe in terms of twos:
While waddling along on their single-toed feet, they counted things as one, two, or many.
One day, the evil Hexes invaded:
Due to their superior technology, they quickly dominated the peaceful bins and forced them to start doing their taxes. The Evil Hexes grew perplexed as they learned that when dealing with such basic concepts as "fourteen", the bins were completely unequipped to grasp the concept.
One day, the leading Bin Anthropologist realized that there was a huge cultural rift due to the amount of digits, and the inability of the bins to actually count beyond two (well, four if they used their feet, but that didn't get help them with the fourteen concept unfortunately).
So he set out to teach the bins how to count to Hex (that would be the Hex word for 16, which is an entire hand). He started them off easy.
What happens if a freak of nature with two limbs with 5-digits each pops in to the equation? How will he count to fourteen? How will the Bins easily count to ten?
This is a roundabout way of saying that it works because 2^4 = 16, but thinking about it in terms of fingers and how we count may add a unique angle. You never know.
In binary only two digits 1 & 0 are used to represent numbers. Since 16 (the base for hexadecimal numbers) is a quad of 2 (2^4 = 16), the conversion between the two doesn't lead to any errors. They're factors of each other.


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CTI401: GmeTech1 (2013-2014)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Career and Technical Education
COURSE TITLE: Gaming Technology I
COURSE LENGTH: 18 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: The Gaming Technology I course teaches high school students the concepts and requirements for intermediate development of computer games. Students progress at their own pace while studying and performing tasks independently and in small groups. Lessons are delivered in an atmosphere of differentiated learning using hands-on activities. Learning is supplemented with demonstrations, lectures, and guest visits which supplement the concepts and application of gaming technologies. Students will gain first-hand knowledge by creating games that tie directly to the industry. Students will be introduced to and evaluated on all thirteen (13) DoDEA workplace readiness skills as they progress through this class.
Major Instructional Activities: Within the parameters of this course student will be working in a cross curricular environment; performing and fine arts, computer programming, science, math, interactive multimedia, animation, technical writing, and audio engineering. Student centered learning will include problem solving, critical thinking, research, cooperative learning, through project based learning activities. It allows individual and group designed projects, software skill development, and culminates with a capstone project. The capstone project will be designed to simulate the industry work place by requiring the students to work in a team with a client and design a real world project. The content of these two courses will support STEM and Work Place Readiness Skills.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will demonstrate their knowledge through tests, hands-on demonstrations, technical reports, and projects.
CT1401: Gaming Technology I Course Description
CT1401: Gaming Technology I Student Competencies Record
Course Objectives: Upon completion of this course, students will: 1. Course Requirements and Student Expectations: a. Demonstrate DoDEA's Workplace Readiness Skills in course activities. b. Student will discuss and sign a computer usage agreement. c. Students will demonstrate appropriate behaviors and safe practices in a computer lab. d. Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards. 2. Fundamentals of the computer game industry a. Student will apply STEM to real world gaming scenarios. b. Student will explain the history of the gaming technology and it's impact on society. c. Identify issues relating to this field of study that affect the individual, society and local and global communities. d. Student will identify the social and ethical impact of the gaming technology. e. Student will identify key principals in gaming industry. 3. Introduction to Computer Game Design, Game Engines and Graphical User Interface (GUI) a. Student will successfully identify computer requirements for game engine software. b. Students will identify and differentiate between different types of game engines and the types of games created using that engine. c. Student will demonstrate proper use of the game engine interfaces and menus to be used in their project. d. Student will create and maintain file structures used throughout the game production process. 4. Creating Objects, Materials and Textures - Production a. Student will create Objects and demonstrate how to apply Materials and Textures. b. Student will demonstrate how Objects, Materials and Textures interact within the game environment. 5. Utilizing Objects, Collisions and Actions a. Student will create Collisions and Actions and apply them to an Object. b. Student will explain how Objects, Collisions and Actions interact within the game environment. 6. Introducing and Creating Animations and Armatures a. Student will create Animations using Armatures within the parameters of the game engine. b. Student will explain how Animations and Armatures interact within the game environment. 7. Introducing Sounds and Music a. Student will learn to insert Sounds and Music in their project. b. Student will explain how Sounds and Music affect their project 8. Introduction to Expressions and Variables a. Student will create Expressions and Variables within the parameters of the game engine to be used in their project. b. Student will demonstrate the use of Expressions and Variables within a computer game. c. Student will explain how Expressions and Variables interact within the game environment. 9. Pre-Production for Final Project a. Student will create a game story to be used as their project. b. Student will develop characters to be used in their first game. c. Student will develop storyboard to be used in their first game. d. Student will develop rules and regulations to be used in their first game. e. Student will develop the navigation process to be used in their first game. f. Student will develop world environment to be used in their first game. 10. Production for Final Project a. Students will create a computer game using all pre-production elements and design features. 11. Post-Production for Final Project a. Student will use peer to peer critique form to identify/recommend changes. b. Student will modify/address recommendations provided by the peer critique form. 12. Introduction to Game Distribution a. Students will identify their target audience. b. Students will identify how the game will be distributed. c. Students will create an advertisement campaign for game distribution. d. Students will identify the online gaming market that supports their product.
Course Notes: For Pilot Schools ONLY (Kinnick, Kubasaki, AFNORTH, Alconbury, Ansbach, Kaiserslautern, Ramstein and SHAPE ). Credit-computer or careers


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Consumers Union positions on antibiotics in meat and poultry production
(Excerpt from
Meat on Drugs
Consumer Reports
, June 2012)
Consumers Union, the public policy and advocacy arm of
Consumer Reports
, recommends the following actions for consumers, grocery retailers, the meat and pharmaceutical industries, Congress, and government agencies, to end the use of antibiotics in livestock production except for the treatment of sick animals.
For Consumers
Our findings show that consumers often have access to meat raised without antibiotics in many of their local supermarket chains, and those who don't would like the option. Consumers can make a significant contribution to ending use of antibiotics on animals by shopping at stores that carry meat without antibiotics and buying those products. If a store doesn't offer any of these products (or doesn't carry a preferred type or cut of meat) consumers should request that it do so. a quick conversation with the store manager, or even staff member in the meat department, can go a long way toward changing the store's practices.
Prices for these products are generally higher than conventional meat, especially if they are organic, but there are often more affordable cuts, such as chicken thighs, drumsticks, or whole birds, for shoppers on a budget. even replacing just one conventionally raised cut of meat with one that was raised without antibiotics on each shopping trip (or even once per month) will help start moving the production system in the right direction.
Consumers must also be diligent label readers. In particular, consumers can have a high level of trust that organic meat and poultry, and meat labeled "no antibiotics" backed by "USDA process Verified" or another independent certification, are products from animals that were not raised on these drugs. However, consumers should not rely on products with a "Natural" label—that term refers only to treatment of the end product and does not say anything about how an animal was raised. Help with deciphering the many other labels found in supermarkets appears in the "Reading the Labels" section of this report.
For Grocery Retailers
Supermarkets have an opportunity–indeed, an obligation–to be a part of the solution in the face of this growing public health crisis. as the link between livestock producers and consumers, grocery retailers have the capacity to turn the tide on the overuse of antibiotics by requiring that their suppliers avoid these drugs for both growth promotion and disease prevention in food animals. Supermarket chains should make "no antibiotic use on any meat and poultry sold in our stores" company policy.
Recognizing that this transition will not happen overnight, grocery retailers should begin to have conversations with meat suppliers to determine their policies for using antibiotics in raising livestock and urge them to begin phasing out this practice. Beginning with their store brands, retailers should set timetables for transitioning entirely to meat raised without antibiotics.
For Congress
While consumer pressure may be a more immediate catalyst for moving livestock producers away from using antibiotics, a long-term and more permanent legislative or regulatory solution would be ideal. a bill that has been introduced in Congress, the preservation of antibiotics for Medical Treatment act (paMTa), would prohibit the use of medically important antibiotics in livestock production (except when treating sick animals) and thereby protect the efficacy of these drugs for human use. In light of the public health implications of losing the efficacy for people of these critical drugs, Congress should pass this legislation immediately.
For the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The FDA recognized decades ago the inherent problem with the overuse of antibiotics in livestock production. after years of inaction, the agency in early 2012 issued new guidelines for the livestock and pharmaceutical industries requesting the "judicious use" of antibiotics in animals. However, these guidelines are merely voluntary, and while they attempt to discourage the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals, they continue to support the widespread use of these drugs for disease prevention (albeit under the guidance of a veterinarian, which is a step in the right direction). The FDA states it will review these guidelines again in three years to gauge progress and take additional action if needed.
The FDA should strengthen these guidelines and establish a mandatory ban on the use of antibiotics in animal production except to treat sick animals.
For the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Consumers who want to buy meat raised without antibiotics should be able to feel secure that the labels on those products are meaningful (i.e. that there is a definition for them) and that their truthfulness is verified by someone. Our shoppers found several instances of labels that could mislead consumers to believe they were buying meat from animals that were not given antibiotics, when in fact that is not necessarily the case. and although the USDA is supposed to approve all labels on meat and poultry packages prior to use, our shoppers and researchers found several unapproved labels in the marketplace.
The USDA should improve its supervision of labels related to antibiotic use in several ways.
The USDA/FSIS currently conducts its reviews behind closed doors and does not disclose what specific labels it has authorized or which companies have been authorized to use them. The USDA should post on its website all authorized labels, the products they are authorized for, and the label definition, to help consumers understand the labels.
The USDA should establish one approved phrasing for such labels, such as "no antibiotics ever used," and restrict all labels to that usage. That would significantly reduce consumer confusion.
The USDA should establish a formal standard defining this label (the USDA indicated to Consumer Reports that it does not allow use of ionophores and prohibits antibiotic use at any stage of an animal's life, if meat is to carry a "no antibiotics" label, but the full definition is not published on its website). This would help both companies and consumers understand label requirements and facilitate better enforcement.
The USDA should check up on "no antibiotics" labels to verify their truthfulness, and take action against labels that do not conform to its established definitions.
For the Meat and Poultry Industries
Giving cattle, pigs, turkeys, and chickens antibiotics in their food and water to improve their growth and prevent disease has become standard practice, especially at very large feedlots and mass-production facilities. For the sake of preserving these drugs for treatment of sick people, it is imperative for meat and poultry producers to stop treating animals with these drugs prophylactically and for growth promotion. In doing so, they will take a step toward solving the public health problem of antibiotic resistance and decrease the chance of "superbug" infection outbreaks.
The livestock industries in many other countries have already transitioned away from the use of antibiotics in food animals without detriment to production or sales. U.S. meat producers should follow suit.
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Binghamton, NY: This weekend while protesters at the G-20 are getting beaten by police and soaking their bandannas in vinegar to protect their lungs from tear gas, some folks in neighboring counties and states are putting spikes in roads to stop the drilling trucks. Others are documenting ecological devastation, and raising their voices in unison against the officials who purport to protect them.
In Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and New York folks struggle with local officials and corporate media, bringing national attention to the victims of peak-energy's destructive frenzy. Numerous incidents involving road accidents, water contamination, and unresponsive government officials have pushed Pittsburgh's neighbors in Wetzel County, West Virginia to place spike strips along RT 89, a road heavily trafficked by Chesapeake Energy's trucks traveling to drilling sites.
"They ruined my life and they've created a new world for you to deal with" said Ron Gulla, a rural resident who lives about 30 miles from Pittsburgh. Mr. Gulla has been speaking at meetings throughout the region, helping landowners make informed decisions before leasing their land to natural gas companies. "This is the defense of your life and property, we're fighting for our fucking lives!"
The Marcellus Shale is a fossil fuel rich rock bed that ranges from the middle of Ohio east to the Catskill Mountains, from upstate New York down south through Kentucky. Drilling waste water may contaminate the drinking water of New York City, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia. Officials in New York City have been pushing legislation to ban natural gas drilling in the Catskill Mountains, which feed the city's drinking water reservoirs. Washington DC gets its drinking water from the Potomac River, whose tributaries are threatened by the toxic liquid wastes produced during natural gas drilling.
The oil and gas industry calls the Marcellus Shale an "unconventional natural gas source"; mining this area was uneconomical until this decade, where the price of oil has been skyrocketing. The Marcellus Shale is the 3rd largest natural gas field in the world, expected to generate enough natural gas for 2 to 10 years of US consumption. The process is being advertised as a local clean energy source, bringing in jobs and economic growth. The mining of the Marcellus Shale is projected to continue to pollute the soil, streams and aquifers in the Northeastern United States for 5 to 30 years. After the Marcellus is depleted, oil companies will work on the Utica Shale, which rests thousands of feet beneath the Marcellus.
Natural gas drilling waste water — which includes radium, uranium, mercury, and lead — is suspected to be responsible for the deaths of the 161 species of life which were found killed along 38 miles of Dunkard Creek in Pennsylvania. The Natural Resource Defense Council has reported that livestock have been dying after drinking drilling waste water. The Oil and Natural Gas Industries are officially exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act, the Natural Resource Recovery Act and other federal regulations. These exemptions have made the federal government complicit in Coloradan Laura Amos's adrenal cancer, and Pennsylvanian Pat Farnelli and her children's violent stomach pains and diarrhea. Benzene and radioactive waste from a WWII military dumping site are suspected of having caused a childhood cancer cluster in Clyde, Ohio, torturing 20 children; these toxic contaminants are also produced as wastes during natural gas production and stored in open pits on drilling sites.
At the center of the struggle is the new process of natural gas drilling called horizontal hydrofracking, also known as "fracking."
Natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale involve two stages which each introduce toxic contaminants into our environment. Producers must first drill the well and then they "frack" the well. The first process, drilling, dredges uranium, radium, mercury, and lead laden shale rocks to the surface to make way for a pipe used in the fracking process. These toxic shale materials are stored in open pits on the site for long periods of time, and the liquid wastes are eventually brought to municipal water treatment plants for filtration. Municipal water treatment plants are already so overburdened and unable to filter out toxins from our drinking water that on September 12, the New York Times reported "the nation's water does not meet public health goals, and enforcement of water pollution laws is unacceptably low."
The second stage of natural gas production, the "fracking" process, is very expensive: each fracking job requires 2-9 million of gallons of water to be extracted from local water sources and creates 1-4 million gallons of toxic liquid waste, which must be brought to a hazardous waste dump or extensively filtered before entering the public watersheds. This amount of waste is generated numerous times per well, as each well can be fracked up to 10 times. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection allows 800,000 gallons to be taken from Cross Creek Lake every day; Range Resources, a Texas based oil and natural gas company, is the recipient of that permit. This wednesday, Sept. 30 at 7pm, a public hearing in Williamsport , PA will be held for a waste water treatment facility requesting permission to dump 400,000 gallons of minimally treated drilling waste water *every day* into the Susquehanna River.
Throughout the nation State Parks and Public Schools have leased their mineral rights to oil and gas companies in an attempt to balance budgets. And this school year, kids at Elk Lake School in Dimock, PA may get to play in radioactive sludge during recess.
Residents throughout the nation have complained that their wells, soils and streams have been contaminated with the heavy metals and radioactive tailings dredged up with the gas. The numerous chemicals used in the fracking process are also a concern. As the natural gas is pumped away from the site through pipelines, the hazardous fracking waste fluids are usually stored on site in open pits for long periods of time. These open pits are often only 100 ft from a persons home or a creek or critical migration corridor, and are sometimes surrounded by a flimsy 3 foot high plastic fencing in a feeble attempt to protect the kids, dogs, livestock, wildlife, and downwind neighbors from the toxins.
Some citizens have been concerned that workers may be poking holes into the plastic sheets that line the bottom of the liquid waste pits, allowing the liquids to drain into the soil and saving the company the expense of disposal at expensive hazardous waste facilities. A landowner told Indymedia that he has watched the levels in waste water pits steadily decrease after they were filled up. In Garfield County, Colorado, a resident videotaped bulldozers burying hazardous liquid waste pits with soil, the videotaper reported that the natural gas company Encana owns that drilling pad. Hundreds of miles north of this contamination site, two of Encana's natural gas pipelines were bombed, distraught Canadian citizens are suspected to be responsible.
Recently, residents in Dimock, Pennsylvania were able to voice enough concern to get the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to temporarily stop fracking activities by Cabot, a natural gas producing company that has been spilling toxins into wetlands and a creek. Cabot's fracking activities will be halted for two weeks, but the company may still drill and bore holes for pipelines through wetland areas. Cabot's drilling activities underneath wetlands has been a source of contention for citizen groups due to documented footage of bentonite spills along Cabot's Cranberry Pipeline, a pipeline which currently is being horizontally drilled underneath a wetlands area in Susquehanna County.
Pennsylvania DEP's oil and gas investigation unit is understaffed, and individual citizens are having to monitor drilling activities. Craig Lobins, DEP Northwest Regional Manager for the Oil and Gas Program recently explained to citizens at a meeting in Forest City, PA how the department is unable to fully monitor all drilling sites:
"Lets be realistic about it, they drill 24-7, and I don't think anyone expects someone to stand on a rig 24 hours a day 7 days a week." Mr.Lobins explained to the crowd of over 100 concerned citizens who attended the meeting hosted by the group R.E.S.C.U.E. " And if we did expect them to stand there all day, imagine how expensive that would be."
At a meeting of the Oil and Gas Advisory Technical Board on October 30 of 2008, official minutes of the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board state that Mr. Lobins "expressed the need for more Oil and Gas Inspectors. He said even if there is no projected increase in permitting, DEP is still understaffed in this area."
But, when Mr. Lobins was asked at the recent Forest City meeting on Sept 16, if he supported a moratorium on drilling until the DEP had enough staff and local oversight of drilling activity, he responded "No." Instead of hiring more investigators, Lobins told the citizens at the Forest City meeting that local residents should be "the eyes of the DEP". Citizens who followed Mr. Lobins suggestion were subsequently told by agents of the DEP that they can't be trespassing onto gas leased land to monitor these sites for illegal activity.
Joanne Fiorito, acting as the eyes of the DEP, recently discovered a waste spill at a drilling site just off RT 29 and upon reporting the spill was warned not to trespass. "If the DEP can't monitor these sites on their own," said Ms.Joanne Fiorito "and then the DEP tells us that we cannot trespass after we found a spill on the Grimsley well pad site that wasn't reported to the DEP by Cabot, well then, where does this leave the citizens of PA who are dependent on the DEP doing its job? It has gotten to the point where I and others will have to do it ourselves, and I personally don't care if they arrest me for civil disobedience, because this land, air and water is what keeps us all alive."
Vera Scroggins, 58, a public broadcast reporter for Binghamton's Open2Everyone TV filmed the Grimsley well pad site discovery spill as well as Cabot's Cranberry Pipeline's bentonite spills with Ms. Fiorito. Her video will be broadcast in the Binghamton, NY region on Channel 4 on September 28 and October 5, 2009. You can request a copy for your local public broadcast channel by contacting Open 2 Everyone TV Binghamton << firstname.lastname@example.com >>.
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Bilenky did one or two of these fat cargo bikes. This link is the only photo I could find quickly, though fear not, the owner recovered their stolen rig.
It is definitely a beast, not the sexy, curvy example the OP was looking for. But, it does seem to be one's best hope when facing the apocalypse!
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I appreciate Dr. Yung's comments on our pharmacotherapeutic treatment trial in a sample of young persons with "prodromal" symptoms and high risk for becoming psychotic within a short period of time. It was her work with Pat McGorry that first demonstrated this population could be identified, thus opening up the potential for prospective study of the mechanisms of onset and the study of treatment as preventive as opposed to merely ameliorative. We were concerned about the high dropout rate for obvious reasons, but in retrospect we should not have been surprised. Our sample was young and perhaps more resistant for that reason, as Dr. Yung implies, but the fact is that 2 years is a very long clinical trail no matter what the age! In part we wanted to allow sufficient time to elapse to capture higher numbers of converting subjects, and that still seems to be a reasonable strategy insofar as the conversion rate in the placebo group had not clearly plateaued by 1 year. Nevertheless, in retrospect, a trial of 2 years was unrealistic.
The optimal design, clearly, would be larger samples treated for a shorter period, but recruiting larger samples proved to be very difficult, even with four sites, which gets to Dr. Yung's final point. The true positive prodromal person/patient emerges in the population at the incidence rate of schizophrenia which is not robust (one in 10,000 per year). Furthermore, the earliest symptoms are often negative in nature and hard to identify, especially if the person is no longer living at home with family, that is, with people who might be sensitive to nuance changes. The bottom line is that research in this field is an uphill battle vis-à-vis sampling and recruitment. Yet I feel strongly that such samples are extraordinarily valuable for studies of the pathophysiology and preventive treatment of schizophrenia because, unlike retrospective studies, predictions that are prospectively falsifiable can be made and tested.
Therefore, like Dr. Yung, I endorse current efforts to consolidate samples across sites and to plan studies that are multisite so that sufficient numbers of such potentially informative patients can be gathered and pooled. In North America, for example, eight sites have used a common prodromal assessment battery (the same assessment instruments used in the Lilly clinical trial) and have pooled their data with the help of supplemental funds from NIMH. This group, called the North American Prodromal Longitudinal Study (NAPLS), includes three of the sites from the Lilly trial (Yale, UNC, and Toronto) and five additional sites (Harvard, Hillside, Emory, UCLA, and UCSD). Together, the group has a consolidated sample of over 400 prodromal patients, thus demonstrating that the "prodromal recruitment problem" is not insurmountable.
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Unanswered: Will the next release be beta5, or GA?
Will there be a beta5 release, or is the next release the GA?
I am seeing some issues come up with testing with the latest from SVN. I will refrain from trying to report on them, if there will be a beta5. However, if the next release is a GA, then I will report on them now (and try to recreate them).
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SVN isn't always as stable as the last release, but if a bug persists for more than a day or so, it is probably worth reporting. We know about some issues as we introduce them (fixing big bugs sometimes introduces little ones) and others we hear about internally, but reporting them is generally helpful.
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I am a little bit uncomfortable to tell to much about what bothers me, but it has something to do with habitual sins and it is the ghosts in my closet from my old. Have let my priest know that i need to talk to him about this and getting some advices-help-hope.Trying to pray every day morning and eve, read the scriptures, praying the Jesus prayer and live as fully as possible. But sometimes i hit the ground so hard and one feel so guilty, shameful and sometimes even in despair.So please pray for me. I admit my problem and know i got a battle ahead of me, a daily one.
Update: despite being ill, my priest contacted me today and will offer help. Glory to God (and His servant) in all things.
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This question mentions "
x := x = trickery".
What does defining a function as
f[x_] := f[x] = ... do and what is it good for?
This question mentions "
What does defining a function as
It is a simple way to implement Memoization. The trick is that if you define a function as
then when you for the first time call e.g.
which will evalulate the expensive function, and assign the result to
The next time you call
Memoization is perhaps the most common application, but it is not the meaning of that construct.
More generally it is a construct for a function that redefines itself. This has many uses beyond memoization. Consider this function:
It is used to remove duplicates in a list. When the function is first called with a particular argument (expression) it redefines itself, only for that argument, to
You can also write a function that changes its behavior after the first use.
This can even be nested deeper:
Syntax for memoization
When using this construct for memoization it is often nice to use a named pattern for the entire left-hand-side, e.g.:
This is equivalent to
If one adopts this convention seeing
As a contrived example:
Memoization is not the only application of a pattern that matches the entire left-hand-side and by using consistent pattern names for each application one can impart valuable metadata about the nature of the code to follow.
This is my first reply in this group. So please bear with me if I make any mistake, it would not be intentional, just lack of familiarity with the rules.
Although the replies above mention important aspects, I generally like to view things from alternative perspectives. I'd like to offer a few of those on this question. Understanding is enhanced by viewing the same thing from different angles.
The word "memoization" was already mentioned above by Leonid, you can also think of it as "caching". Consider it as an example of caching data to prevent re-computation. Using the Fibonacci numbers as a simple example, if you have a definition like
then every time you evaluate
Compare this with
where the intermediate values are not defined, but have to be computed and re-computed every time you evaluate
Another perspective is to liken this to (a particular implementation of) the proxy pattern in object-oriented design. For example, in Java or C# code you frequently find constructs such as
If the image doesn't exist, create it, then display it. If it does exist, skip the creation part, and display immediately what we have already in memory. The visitor pattern in OO design also oftentimes works like this. You check for existence, and you base your next decision on the answer to the existence question. This is the most efficient way to ensure that every unique object is only computed once ever.
Another perspective to think of this is as a combination of computation and data. When you compute something with a formula, you are performing a computation. But when you look up something from memory, you are not computing, you are pulling data and return data. This construction is a very convenient way to combine computation and data and let the system decide which one is to be done at execution time. That's actually a very important concept in software design: data vs. computation. We may not think about it this way because it's so easy in M.
tells us that the
Now it's easy to see what happens. Every time you call
It's ... oh, why not let the docs speak:
(in Doc center)
You may also find additional information by searching for "memoization" on this site. This has always been a great trick to avoid having to re-evaluate the result of a computationally intensive function call. In the above link, it is also used to do recursion.
I'll try to explain things without the added complication of recursion: The basic idea is that when you define a function using
you are using
To make Mathematica remember things, you can't assign a value to a pattern, so you would normally say
Now such definitions are found by Mathematica before it looks for matching pattern definitions such as
The memoization trick now combines the above lines, which would lead to
The right-hand side of
Whenever a new
It's best to play around with this yourself by defining a function along the lines above, and then periodically checking what Mathematica knows about your function by typing
It also has another practical side. If you have a random function, which
you can use the memoization trick:


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Note: When you're building a brand new course (rather than copying content forward from an existing class) you can either start with a completely empty course shell, where you will build everything from scratch, or our new Course Template, where some of the most popular course tools and resources are pre-installed. The Course Template is nice because it's less work for the designer and it provides a more consistent structure across classes for students. You can read more about the Course Template, or request one now, or continue below if you want a completely empty course shell that you will build from scratch.
The first time you enter a new course shell, all is blank, except for one hidden link on your course menu named "Getting Started for Instructors." Only instructors and course builders can see this link. You will want to create your own course content area that students can access.
Your empty course:
Create Content Area
In order to add content to your course, you'll first need to create a Content Area to add course materials to. Content Areas are essentially left-side menu items. Adding any content must begin from the course menu.
Use the PLUS symbol at the top of the course menu to add new Content Areas, or link to Tools, Web sites, and other areas of your course. Content Areas allow you to build and import your course materials.
CAUTION when DELETING! Keep in mind, when you delete a Content Area from the course menu, you are also deleting the contents contained within the Content Area!
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Use the Build Content menu at the top of the course Content Area to add course materials. Bb Learn allows you add quite a few different types of content to present a variety of course material.
TIP 1 -- The Text Editor enables you to format much of your content, which is helpful for adding formatted text to Items, Blank Pages, and any description fields.
TIP 2 -- Use Content Folders to organize your course materials within each Content Area.
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The suburb of Milnerton – with its lagoon, beach and golf course – is the perfect spot for some well-earned rest and recreation.
Milnerton (named after Lord Milner, Governor of the Cape Colony) is situated to the north of Cape Town's city centre. It's just a 10-15 minute drive into the city centre from this relaxed suburb.
Milnerton's beach, on the Atlantic Ocean seaboard, is known for its spectacular views of Cape Town, Robben Island, Signal Hill and of course Table Mountain.
One of the main attractions for visitors and locals alike is the scenic lagoon. It's popular with canoeists and bird-watchers. The local canoe club is very active and visitors are more than welcome to make contact (+27 76 848 9559; www.milnertoncanoeclub.co.za).
Milnerton Golf Course (+27 21 554 1047; http://www.milnertongolf.co.za/) is an 18-hole, par 72 seaside course surrounded by natural beauty. Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Rietvlei river, this lush links-type course is relatively flat with few trees. The ocean and the lagoon border most of the holes. The southeaster winds (known as the "Cape Doctor") make this course a major challenge during the summer months.
Milnerton has a fascinating marine history and it's definitely worthwhile to visit the 21m (69ft) high Milnerton lighthouse. It has been said that the coastline from Green Point to Milnerton has seen more ships wrecked than any other coastline in South Africa. (Apparently 150 ships have gone down along this coastline.)
The Rietvlei Nature Reserve is another highlight; it's an inland wetland boasting more than 112 bird species. Nature lovers will be pleased to note that whale watching in spring is a big drawcard to the area. The Paarden Eiland Wetlands are also nearby.
For those who are looking for some retail therapy, Canal Walk (+27 21 529 7200; http://www.canalwalk.co.za) with over 400 stores is just down the road. For the kids, there's always a trip to Ratanga Junction (+27 21 550 8504 www.ratanga.co.za), one of South Africa's most exciting theme parks.
Cango Caves
29km from Oudtshoorn, at the head of the picturesque Cango Valley, lies the spectacular underground wonder of the Klein Karoo - the Cango Caves. Situated in a limestone ridge parallel to the well-known Swartberg Mountains, you will find the finest dripstone caverns, with their vast halls and towering formations.
Southern Suburbs
The Southern Suburbs are a tourist's delight. The area, which stretches from the slopes of the Table Mountain range to the False Bay coast, offers natural attractions and a vibrant nightlife.
St James
Just a little further on from Cape Town's well-known Muizenberg beach is St James. Home to a cluster of well-known and oft-photographed bathing boxes on the beach, St James is a picturesque area that offers beachgoers respite from the westerly wind.
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The phrase 心の冷たい人 (which is given by Japanese-English dictionary on OS X) looks wrong to me, but given that it's an example in a respected dictionary and confirmed by tens of thousands of Google hits, I have to assume it's correct. It's a lot less clumsy than how I'd naïvely write it, 冷たい心がある人, but its word order still doesn't line up with anything else I've seen. Is this just an idiomatic saying that I should just accept as correct, or is this a pattern that shows up a lot?
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This doesn't strike me as the slightest bit unusual. Relative phrases such as this are very common in Japanese. You can easily substitute similar phrases for 心が冷たい, such as 背が高い:
背が高い, being a complete phrase, is perfectly legal as a modifier on a noun (although the が does often change to の depending on the emphasis).
The first point to note is that, to say "A's B is C", it is common to say "AはBがC", especially if B is an integral part of A. So to say "That person's heart is cold", you can say either of the below
Both are correct, but the former is more idiomatic in Japanese, probably because it makes more sense to make the person the topic of the sentence than his/her heart.
The second point to note is that Japanese is both lenient and inexplicit about the grammatical role that the modified noun has in a relative clause.
To put some color on that, 書く物 can mean
Now all you have to do is to combine the above two points:
So literally
Clumsy nonsense in English, idiomatic in Japanese.


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