text: The 42nd-annual Herald-Star/Weirton Daily Times holiday cookbook contest was judged Thursday at St. Florian Hall in Wintersville. The cookbook, including all the prize-winning recipes, will be available in the Nov. 20 editions of both papers. The judges included, front, from left, Rikki Kamarados of the Downtown Bakery, appetizers and breads; Todd Piergallini of Piergallini Catering, main dishes and casseroles; and Dragana Lazic, Schiappa branch of the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County cooking instructor, cookies and candies; and, back, Linda Chivers, Wintersville Kroger head baker, cakes and pies; and Cindy Houk, 2011 grand champion, side dishes and salads. - Summer Wallace-Minger


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Suppose I wish to make my website automatically become unavailable every week during Shabbat, or at least for a time period that roughly corresponds to Shabbat for a large group of people. Can you give me any specific technical advice on how to go about this? Bonus points for any suggestion that allows this behavior to be dependent on the probable location of the user, based on their ip address for example.
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Fair Warning
While I don't see the point of doing so, I would highly suggest that instead of making it completely unavailable, put up a page with something along the lines of: "it's Shabbos so we're closed. Check back soon". I would additionally suggest that you give the user an option to "continue anyways" at their own risk (In OP's case it may not matter, but in most other websites' cases it will make a difference.
Indeed, while visiting a website to research information for a question posted on JL&L, I came across a learning-oriented website which automatically redirected me to a "sorry, we're closed for Shabbos page" --- except it was not Shabbos yet for me! Without any other option, I was forced to leave the site. (For the record it was late Friday afternoon, but still over an hour before sunset)
While that particular website was indeed preventing Chilul Shabbos, they were at the same time preventing me from learning about an interesting Jewish topic. Moral of the story: Be absolutely sure your technical implementation is airtight before killing the website for users...
Technical Implementation
With the fair warning in mind, it's hard to give a one-size fits all approach. Essentially there are three problems:
The most elegant solution would be to do the redirect server-side. So the first thing we can try to do is get the users location for the timezone by using IP Geo-location: Except...
IP Geo-location is a mess: it may seem to work right many times, but that only holds true if an IP always reflects a user's location. Which it doesn't (proxy server, dial-up, bad info, etc.).
Just from my own personal experience, I punched my IP into http://www.ip2location.com/, and it told me I was in Massachusetts. Sorry, but a simple reading of my profile on this site will tell you I'm in NY.
So without an accurate way to identify the user's precise location, we can only go for tackling problem #2. By using Javascript (again, less elegant), we can get a client's timezone.
The only thing that remains is what time Shabbos is. Once again, if IP Geolocation was accurate we could get it from there. A possible solution to this problem is to be lenient. In other words, in a given timezone (which we know the user is in), what's the latest possible sunset? If the user's time is past that, then redirect, otherwise keep him here.
Finally, as for problem #3: you can actually output the server's GMT time [I would sincerely hope it's accurate!] directly into the Javascript code, and do the evaluation on the client side using that value.
Bottom Line
If you absolutely must implement such a system, be very careful with your technical implementation. The best route would probably be along the lines of some combination of client and server side detections, but you still have a small risk of locking out some users.
But is it really worth the hassle? [if you're going with the third-party service route, I would highly suggest finding out how they handle the issues I raised - especially what the probability of a false-positive is]
There is actually a company in Israel that offers this as a service. Their website is here.
The technical implementation belongs on StackOverflow. I would suggest (as stated elsewhere here) to use the user's time zone. However, I would not use geolocation, I'd rather use JavaScript or something to get local time from the computers clock and use geolocation for calculating the zmanim.
Drupal plug-in exists here: http://drupal.org/project/shabbat
A more recent solution to this problem can be found here.
After inserting their code snippet into your webpage it blocks access to your website on Shabbos depending on your location, and instead transfers you to a page which tells the visitor what is happening. The service is completely free, but there is also a premium plan which allows you to control how much time before and after Shabbos your website closes, hide their logo, and also allows you to make a customized closing page. Also, if your website is SSL you will need a premium plan. The premium plan is very reasonably priced.
I am currently using their service on my websites.
SaturdayGuard has a system to do prevent people from going on your site when THEY (the readers) have Shabbos, and they have Rabbinical Approval from the Chief Rabbi of Israel (as well as others)
If you work with WordPress, you have a plugin for this.

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What impact will the coming Baby Boomer retirement wave have on public service organizations?
On Tuesday, September 21, NYU Wagner will host a discussion of a national survey demonstrating the huge demands that Baby Boomers – intent on working and volunteering in their so-called golden years – are likely to exert on institutions, agencies, and federations of the Jewish community across North America in the years to come.
The one-and-a-half-hour dialogue will focus on the sweeping implications of the findings included in Baby Boomers, Public Service, and Minority Communities: a Case Study of the Jewish Community in the United States. The event begins at 4:00 p.m. in The Puck Building, 2nd Floor, 295 Lafayette Street (@ Houston Street), New York, N.Y.
The event is free and open to the public. Media coverage is invited.
Speakers will include: David M. Elcott, Henry and Marilyn Taub Professor of Practice in Public Service and Leadership at NYU Wagner and the author of the study; Roberta Leiner, managing director of the Caring Commission, UJA-Federation of New York; Stuart Himmelfarb, chief marketing officer, UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey, and Board co-chair, The Jewish Week; and Gary Rosenblatt, editor and chief of The Jewish Week (moderator).
Based on a survey of 34 metropolitan Jewish communities and more than 6,500 people, the study shows that public service organizations of all kinds share an unprecedented opportunity to harness the expertise and talents of Baby Boomers as they age, since it's a generation that wants to keep working to volunteer in public service. The study finds that as Baby Boomers invigorate and redefine the 60-to-80 year old stage of life, there is relatively little understanding of how record numbers of engaged older worker and volunteers will affect America's labor force, or what ethnic and religious communities and voluntary institutions could do to mobilize, train, and absorb them. Given national efforts to engage Baby Boomers, minority communities may suffer a loss of leadership, talent, and funding as older adults increasingly look outside their religious or ethnic communities for meaningful work and volunteer opportunities.
The September 21 event is organized by the Berman Jewish Policy Archive at NYU Wagner, (BJPA) and the Research Center for Leadership in Action (RCLA) at NYU Wagner, in conjunction with the Jewish Federations of North America, UJA-Federation of New York, UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey, and the United Jewish Communities of MetroWest NJ.
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If you are a free to play user of TF2 and you purchase the Orange Box, do you get premium status and the Proof of Purchase in TF2?
Yes, it does. Buying (or being gifted) the Orange Box is one of the ways to get "premium status" and the "Proof of Purchase" hat in TF2. In fact, this is one of the original ways to do so.
I own the Orange Box, which I bought a long time ago, and I have both of these things, even though I've never made a purchase via the Mann Co. store. Others on the Steam Forums have reported that even after the game went F2P, this is still the case.
Yes, it grants you premium status. This is why TF2 is still listed as being part of the Orange Box.
However, from what I've heard, it no longer grants the Proof of Purchase if purchased after the date TF2 went Free to Play. People who bought it before that date and have a giftable copy can still gift it to someone to give them the hat.
In my case I have been granted with Proof of Purchase, however haven't got the premium abilities, like trading, more slots etc.


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A cord can easily become wrapped around a baby's neck, causing strangulation. Toys with a pull string should be kept away from your infant or toddler. Check all windows for blinds or shades with potentially hazardous hanging cords, and keep your baby's crib away from any window with a cord. Cord shorteners should be purchased for any blinds or shades that have a long cord.
Also, do not hang any toys or pacifiers on strings, ribbons, cords, or loops around your baby's neck or in his crib.
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text: More from SI Virginia Tech plans to break ground on $18 million extr... Virginia Tech plans to break ground on $18 million extr... Mississippi State shows off new football uniforms to ce... Mississippi State shows off new football uniforms to ce... Washington Huskies unveil revamped football uniforms Washington Huskies unveil revamped football uniforms Photos: Florida State releases new-look football unifor... Photos: Florida State releases new-look football unifor... Notre Dame expanding, modernizing Notre Dame Stadium in... Notre Dame expanding, modernizing Notre Dame Stadium in... Fresh comfort coming in complete overhaul of Sun Devil... Fresh comfort coming in complete overhaul of Sun Devil... Keeping up with Oregon: USC starts L.A. Coliseum modern... Keeping up with Oregon: USC starts L.A. Coliseum modern... Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Campus Union Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl: Frequently Asked Questions by hollyandersonsi Email Posted: Sat Dec. 29, 2012 Three years into this shindig and we're still not producing football-shaped macaroni for the occasion? I'm sorry; I thought this was AMERICA.The 2012 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl is just hours away. We're sure you have so many questions. We're here to help. You might also be hungry, which unfortunately we cannot help you with. Maybe try Kraft. (For an X's and O's breakdown, click through to Matt Dollinger's game preview.)• What's all this, then? The 11th edition of That Bowl That's Played in San Francisco, which began life in 2002 as the San Francisco Bowl and then spent a few years as the Emerald Bowl before acquiring its Kraft sponsorship (and hunger-fightin' powers) in 2010.• Where will this game be played? AT&T Park in San Francisco, Calif., home of your reigning World Series champion San Francisco Giants. That's not a football team. No, it is not. So this game is held in a baseball stadium? Yup, with the south end zone along the first base line and both teams gathered on the same sideline. There's a barrier separating them at the 50, presumably to prevent any signal-stealing, intersquad "I'm not touching you" battles or other unsportsmanlike conduct. Why are both these baseball-based football games occupying a single midday timeslot? So even when ESPN is on commercial break, you can see linebackers churning up basepaths on ESPN2? Seriously, we got nothing.• When is it on television? Coverage begins at 4 p.m. ET. Dave Pasch and Brian Griese will be in the booth, with Jenn Brown on the sideline, presumably the one occupied by people.• Whom does it feature? The KFHB pairs a Pac-12 team against a rotation of choices including everyone from service academies to BYU to the MAC.• What about this year? This year's Pac-12 representative is 7-5 Arizona State, which finished third in the league's South Division, squaring off against 8-4 Navy.• Does the bowl have a social media presence? A relentlessly earnest and enthusiastic one:Did that Pep Rally pump you up?! Send us a great fan photo of yourself for a chance to win 2 tickets/food vouchers to the 2012 #KraftBowl!— KraftFightHungerBowl (@KraftBowl) December 28, 2012• What wacky activities will be on offer during bowl week? Among other entertainments, teams enjoy a trip to scenic Alcatraz Island:.@navyathletics and @footballasu players taking in the beautiful evening view of San Francisco from Alcatraz. twitter.com/KraftBowl/stat…— KraftFightHungerBowl (@KraftBowl) December 28, 2012• What shiny baubles will be showered on the players? No snacks in the gift bags, ironically enough. Not even a few helpings of blue-box mac 'n' cheese, Kraft?• What's the pick? In predicting a 35-17 ASU victory, Stewart Mandel doubts the Midshipmen's triple-option attack will faze the Sun Devils: "Given extra time to prepare, a more athletic foe like Arizona State can usually handle the Midshipmen's flexbone offense, which ranked 58th nationally in yards per play (5.8) this year." • Please impart any miscellaneous knowledge you might have concerning the 2012 Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. It seems only fair, before we go, to point out how the bowl actually works on that hunger-fighting front. More Campus Union


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Dolphins Earth-Bound, Brady Gets Blanked
The Indianapolis Colts cemented their status as legitimate championship contenders on Sunday by beating the Seattle Seahawks, 34-28, in a wild game that sent Seattle to its first loss since Nov. 25 of last year. Delano Howell had the unlikely play of the game for the Colts—a 61-yard return of a blocked field goal for a touchdown. The Colts are now 4-1.
Elsewhere, the back-to-Earth Miami Dolphins lost their second straight game, falling 26-23 at home to the Baltimore Ravens and giving the defending Super Bowl champions new life. The Ravens' defense held Miami to just 22 rushing yards (16 if you don't count quarterback Ryan Tannehill's six) in improving to 3-2.
In Cincinnati, the 3-2 Bengals handed the New England Patriots their first loss of the season, 13-6, holding Tom Brady (above) and his young receiving corps to 197 yards through the air.
And in Green Bay, the Packers evened their record at 2-2 and extended their home winning streak over the Lions (3-2) to 23 games. Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford completed passes to eight different receivers, but it wasn't enough to make up for the absence of All-Pro receiver Calvin Johnson.
—Kevin Clark
Joeckel Done for Season
Jacksonville rookie offensive tackle Luke Joeckel will miss the rest of the season because of a broken right ankle.
Joeckel was injured in the first quarter of a 34-20 loss to the Rams on Sunday. He got his leg rolled up as he was blocking on a running play. Joeckel was selected by the Jaguars with the second pick in this year's draft.
—Associated Press
Donovon Ties MLS Record for Career Goals
Landon Donovan tied Jeff Cunningham's career goals record in Major League Soccer on Sunday with two first-half scores for the L.A. Galaxy.
Donovan scored twice in the first 41 minutes against Chivas USA, giving him 134 career MLS regular-season goals. He passed second-place Jaime Moreno (133) and pulled even with Cunningham, who played for five MLS teams in a 14-year career.
Midfielder Gyasi Zardes made a sharp run down the left side to put a pass on Donovan's foot in the 23rd minute. Donovan then used his speed in the 41st and put a beautiful chip shot over Chivas goalie Dan Kennedy.
Donovan, 31 has won three of his five MLS Cup titles with the Galaxy.
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Vettel Tightens Grip on Historic Fourth Title
Sebastian Vettel of the Red Bull racing team could clinch his fourth straight Formula One title as early as next week after his victory Sunday at the Korean Grand Prix. If the German wins next week in Japan and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso finishes no better than ninth, Vettel would become only the third man to take four successive championships, joining all-time greats Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher.
"There's still a chance for Fernando, I think, so we have to stay on top of our game," said Vettel, who has taken the checkered flag in eight of 14 races this season. "The car is working... It's on the edge, to be honest, more so than you would probably think from the outside. But it's obviously nice when you get the results like Singapore or this weekend."
Vettel started on pole position and survived two stints behind the safety car to hold off the Lotus duo behind him. Kimi Raikkonen finished second ahead of his teammate, Romain Grosjean.
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GATESVILLE (November 27, 2012)--Vacant property along E. Main Street could soon be developed into county offices after an agreement was made between the county and Waco-based architectural company RBDR.
In April, the Coryell County Commissioners wanted to get rid of the county's activities complex and Gatesville City Council wanted to find a use for some vacant property near the courthouse, so, they swapped.
The two governmental bodies have been discussing the land swap for years.
Commissioners said the deal benefits the county because the complex building is in need of repair and the county didn't have the reserve funds to pay to repair the air conditioning system and fix other problems.
The city, on the other hand, had no real use for the former Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co. property but because it sits just about a block from the courthouse, the county could more easily put it to use.
The old lumber company building was torn down years ago and the property has been vacant, except for weekly use as a farmer's market.
County commissioners plan to work together with RBDR to develop a master plan for more county offices and courtrooms.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- The Florida Supreme Court is asking the Legislature to create 63 more trial-level judgeships.
The justices on Thursday cited high workloads due to prior budget cuts that have reduced staffing.
They acknowledged that a falling crime rate has taken some of the pressure off the courts but wrote that judges still are dealing with a backlog of mortgage foreclosure cases.
The high court has made similar requests in each of the past six years, but lawmakers have authorized no additional judgeships in that span.
The request is for 47 new county judges, whose duties include misdemeanor and traffic cases, including 11 in Miami-Dade County and six in Broward County.
The justices are seeking 16 additional circuit judges, who handle felony cases as well as foreclosures and large lawsuits.


text: Okay, I don't know if many of you are familiar with this character from an online game that seems to becoming the latest craze. I can remember watching my brother play this game one time and he was laughing his ace off because of the stupid ways that the guy on the bike falls with his kid in the back seat just coming completely out of the seat. I don't even know how you would describe this type of game. All I remember seeing is this dude on a bike with his kid in the back riding on some sort of roller coaster track. The whole concept of the game is to make it through each board without getting killed. Anyways, this might be a tedious lesson to follow because you have three objects to draw; a bike, a person, and a kid. If you take your time you should succeed. That's all I have to say for this tut, please stick around because there is more on the way. Peace out people.


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Trying to install Ubuntu-11.10-64bit-MAC on a Macbook Pro.
But I cannot get the live CD to load.
'C' does not work
'CMD' does not work
'OPT' no opt key
CD is not corrupt and burnt using the correct iso, all checked.
Installed perfectly on my Acer PC....
God I hate Apple Macs!
Mac currently has Ubuntu 10.10 32bit, but i get issues with the touchpad, I read Ubuntu 11.10-mac version resolves these issues, hence the attempted re-installation...
I do not have any MAC OS installed in this PC only Ubuntu 10.10.
When I press 'alt' the CD does not appear in the list only my HDD, yes my CD is working fine.


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We were elated to announce the largest private award ever to the University of Hawaiʻi, at a news conference at Snug Harbor on July 16, 2014. The Simons Foundation awarded UH Mānoa professors Edward DeLong and David Karl, both from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, $40 million to lead the Simons Collaboration on Ocean Processes and Ecology (SCOPE). Again, this is the largest private gift UH has ever received.
SCOPE is among the Simons Foundation's programs in the division of Life Sciences. It aims to further our understanding of the microscopic organisms that inhabit every drop of seawater and how those creatures control the movement and exchange of energy and nutrients, from the surface waters to the deep sea.
Both Ed and David have worked long and hard with the foundation to make this happen. This really demonstrates what is possible when we work together.
This is also an incredible affirmation of the potential of the Hawaiʻi Innovation Initiative.
A lot of people have wondered can we really be serious about building a billion dollar research industry in the state. I think this is an example of how we'll do it. It isn't just going to the federal government and cranking out more proposals, but it's captivating the interests of philanthropists and partners around the country and around the world to build this investment in a research and innovation economy for Hawaiʻi that advances the frontiers of human knowledge.
This award is a vote of confidence in Ed and Dave and in the University of Hawaiʻi. It is not a coincidence that UH is leading a consortium with some of the best research institutions in the country. We're not just tagging along for the ride. So thank you Ed and Dave, thank you to the Simons organization and to all who have been a part of this.
UH News Video: Largest ever private award to UH funds microbial oceanography research
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Associate Professor William McGinley is no stranger to innovative outreach projects that significantly impact communities, K-12 students and teachers. His latest project, Tell Your Story: Composing a Life, integrates storytelling, creative writing and visual arts in teaching a diverse group of middle school students to memorialize important life experiences.
"The telling of our own life story is the one creative work of art in which we are all engaged," McGinley said. "This program provides young people with art-based opportunities to imagine and tell their stories."
An expert in young adult literature, memoir and literacy from CU-Boulder's School of Education, McGinley co-founded the project with three teachers from Casey Middle School and involved collaboration from faculty and students in the School of Education and the Department of Art and Art History with teachers from the Boulder Valley School District.
During the school year, middle school students engage in a series of memoir-making and portrait-making workshops that are a hybrid of language and visual arts courses. The project gives young people an opportunity to create, discover and make sense of themselves at a pivotal time in their lives. Students produce written memoirs, audiorecorded performances, self-portraits and sculptural art works. Visual and audio projects are shared with classmates and the school community.
Each summer more than 50 local students participate in a two-week exploration of personal storytelling through memoir, ceramics, portraiture, bookmaking, poetry writing and creative performance in the new Visual Arts Complex on the CU-Boulder campus.
In both of these programs, students are provided with instruction to develop poetic and visual works of art that highlight reflective and life-informing experiences. One teacher remarked, "they're telling such vastly different stories, yet all stories of young lives—Bosnian stories, border stories, Boulder stories—using vivid details that help them to put together a life for themselves and others."


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What should you do, if a co-worker is editing your code?
Without the purpose of adding functionality or fixing bugs, just to change how it looks...
What should you do, if a co-worker is editing your code?
Without the purpose of adding functionality or fixing bugs, just to change how it looks...
Talk to them about it. Go into the conversation with the attitude of "They're not doing this to annoy me or because they have some form of obsessive-compulsive disorder; they're trying to make my code better."
Because you could be wrong. That could be a subtle bug fix and you just didn't spot it.
Or, it could be that there's a coding standard you don't know about that you're violating, and they're just correcting it.
Or, it could be that they're trying to annoy you, or they have some form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. If that's the case, ask them nicely to stop, and if that doesn't work, take it up with your boss.
But you'll never know unless you ask.
I'm not so married to how my code looks for it to bother me. :) I try to learn from the changes. Did my coworker adjust variable names? Write a more efficient loop? Make the code more readable?
If I can't see how the changes improved what was already there, I usually ask the coworker who made the changes what the motivation behind them was. It's possible that the advantage is just not obvious to me. And if I'm right and they're wrong, then perhaps I can explain why I wrote it the way I did.
If all else fails, revert the check-in. ;)
Edit: All bets are off if the desire to make cosmetic changes introduced a bug, though.
IMO you and your team should be using a coding standard anyway. If this is the case, then the questions becomes 'did your original code conform to the standard?' If 'yes' then your colleague should not be touching your code unless to change it functionally. If 'no' then I'm afraid your colleague has every right to tidy up your code. As a project lead I find myself doing it all the time.
If you're not using a coding standard then the whole argument of what constitutes 'good code' becomes way too subjective. Hence why you should be using a coding standard :)
As one of those people (the people who occasionally reformat other people's code), the main reason I do it is readability. Some people are just extremely sloppy with their indentation or with mixing tabs and spaces.
The main thing I have a habit of changing is reducing long lines so that I can read the whole thing without horizontal scrolling. I'll break complex statements up into separate statements or reformat method calls/declarations to list one parameter per line if it doesn't all fit comfortably on a single line. I'll also edit comments, either to fix English errors or just to make things clearer.
Yes, I could leave it alone, but I'd rather reduce the mental effort required to read the code.
What should you do about it? Firstly, consider that maybe this person is making your code better. Also, you should ensure that you have some consensus in your team about how code should be formatted. If each person has different habits it will slow everybody down. If they are not making your code better and they are going against the grain, then you need to confront them about it. If that doesn't work then you might need to get others involved.
Ask them why they are doing it; a valid explanation may diminish your frustration, but you should let them know how much it bothers you. Who knows, maybe they thought they were doing you a favor and will stop when they learn it offends you. Or you may be dealing with someone who is truely suffering from a medical condition.
Is s/he allowed to? Do the changes improve the code? If so, swallow your pride. If you feel the code quality is worsened, take it up with the co-worker and ask them why they felt the need to change your code with no obvious benefit. If it's being done out of spite or because the person mistakenly feels they're better than you, and you can't work it out with them, take it up with your boss.
IDE's like Visual Studio have an option called
Incidentally, I will often re-format code of co-workers if it is obviously not following some kind of formatting scheme (i.e. it is all over the place). It's a hopefully subtle way of making them notice. (However, I wouldn't reformat it if it was neat, but not to my liking).
If he's changing it so that it meets your team's coding standards, you should follow the standards next time.
If he changes it such that it no longer follows your team's coding standards, inform him what he's doing wrong and have him change it back.
...Your team does have a set of code formatting standards that are used by everyone, right?
I occasionally reorder code written by messy coworkers (or fix typos in comments). They know that I'm obsessive in code formatting and order and therefore they let me do that without complaining too much. Sometimes they also give me a free soda or cookie.
Of course this is occasional work, as it broke the "blame" functionality in SVN.
This is also a very basic way to do some kind of code review (I usually read most of the code committed by my coworkers in the modules I'm working on).
Code conventions is the answer. You should have one at work. If you don't, start right now (a good starting point is google style guide) . When there are written (or at least commonly known) rules the answer to your question is trivial.
I feel you are thinking it is offensive to do so... ? For example, I myself would immediately fix this code
to become
so... should I be punished because of my action? In real life, I actually have tons of SVN logs read 'Formatting'. ;-)
Use a style checking tool
Start using StyleCop or similar and enforce code style rules and also make it an obligation for all developers to use it. All code will look the same without exception. And get together with wiseheads to discuss most appropriate rules for your organisation. Even though default rules are very similar to .net framework code itself already.
It's the easiest way of doing it. I found myself correcting someone else's code at one of my previous employers because this other guy was writing code with excessive amounts of empty lines and no indentation rules whatsoever. Code was actually unreadable by an average developer. If StyleCop would exist back then it would make many of us really happy.
this is a thought I saw on internet talking about refactoring and maybe explain why would someone touch your code to make it better:
There are two main reasons to refactor:
You just have to let him do his best, if it would be great for both and save your time in future!
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5 Reasons It's Still Not Cool to Admit You're a Gamer
Let's get this out of the way right now: The only reason I don't have more game consoles hooked to my TV is because I'm out of ports on the back for cables to plug into, and I don't want to have to get off the sofa to switch over. I've been playing video games since the Carter administration. So do not compare me to Roger "I never play video games yet dismiss them as worthless" Ebert here. Just... don't. I would have taken my SNES as my date to senior prom if they had let me.
But the thing is, I grew up. Gaming didn't.
Why? Why is it that of all my many hobbies--reading, motocross, Gun Kata--only gaming lowers my sense of self worth? Maybe it's because...
#5. We Can't Shake the "Lonely, Anti-Social Virgin" Stereotype
Oh, look. Somebody has launched a goddamned service where you pay women to play video games with you. Eight bucks for 10 minutes.
Creepily ogling girls should be free, like air. Or porn.
For that amount, she'll chat with you, or even let you look at her on webcam while you play games and awkwardly flirt. Afterward you get to rate the girl on her, "hotness, gaming skill, and flirtiness."
On the scale of awkward social interactions, I'm going to guess these sessions rank right up there with a men's room conversation with a stranger at the very next urinal, while the stranger is pooping in it. There isn't an industrial disinfectant on the market that could make a woman feel clean again after a day of doing this. So, here's what I can't wrap my mind around:
Everybody plays video games now, right? My mom plays them. Yet, there is still a "if you have touched a video game controller, you have never touched a boob" stigma attached. It's so universally believed that somebody put up a whole lot of capital to start a business cashing in on it. And damn, do us gamers ever play the part. Get us on chat or an Xbox Live headset with a female and suddenly we're drunk on puberty juices.
Here's something I bet you didn't know: Two thirds of online gamers are women, according to one study. If you're thinking that doesn't match your experience at all, it's because they either avoid male-dominated games or they go undercover--70 percent of them intentionally choose male avatars so they don't have to put up with our "TITS OR GTFO" bullshit. That's just sad.
"But wait!" you say, "Everybody takes shit in online games! It's not just women!" Oh, I know. Our inability as a community to demonstrate any kind of human social skills extends in all directions.
Somehow that doesn't make me feel better.
I spent years putting up with the "gamers are pale loners crouched in the dark among Mountain Dew bottles and pizza boxes" stereotype--one that persists right up to the main character in Zombieland. Now that's transitioned to "gamers are all 17-year-old douchebags." That's not an improvement.
Of course, one problem is...
#4. The Industry Thinks We're All 17-Year-Old Douchebags
I'm no prude; I'm the guy who made my publisher use a font where all the T's look like uncircumcised dongs. But I'm also an adult, with a wife. A homeowner who works very hard to maintain something that looks like dignity to people who catch a glimpse of it from passing cars.
But it's hard for me to maintain my self-image as a mature, upstanding member of the community when I sit down to enjoy my favorite hobby and see stuff like this (WARNING: massively Not Safe for Work). That clip is from God of War 3, one of the best-reviewed titles of this generation. This "Rated 'M' for 'Mature'" title features a minigame where you, the God of War, come across Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and boning. You walk in on her in a giggling naked lesbian threesome:
She then casts aside her two female lovers to invite you to her bed. You crawl in and the camera pans away. We hear moans and ooh's and ah's as button prompts appear, walking you through the process of thrusting your gray and red erection in and out, bringing Aphrodite to orgasm. Meanwhile, the camera focuses on the two rejected topless females across the room, who are now watching and fondling each other's bodies while mewling admiring phrases like:
"Such power!"
"If it's this good watching, just imagine!"
"Is he going to...."
"By the gods!"
Eventually they get so aroused from the spectacle that they turn their lust on each other, and start having lesbian sex on the floor.
Again, "Mature" is the rating, and I've come to learn that "Mature" in video game land means "teenage male." So here we are again with the stereotype, the games themselves selling the kind of sex fantasy that appeals to specifically to males who have never actually had a relationship with a female.
When you're in your mid-teens, hormones thundering through your system, popping wheelies and doing donuts in your brain, you tend to think of women as giggling titty support systems who exist only to give you something to masturbate to. Then we actually get to know some real women and grow out of it.
Gaming has never grown out of it. I pop in Street Fighter IV and my very first match is against a grown woman in a Japanese schoolgirl fetish costume.
But hey, what about games where the female is the hero? You know, like Bayonetta, the woman who seductively sucks on a lollipop during cut-scenes, whose special moves require her to get naked.
This would be the game where the modeler boasts about how lovingly they crafted the character's ass.
Then you have Resident Evil 5, where you can control Sheva Alomar, a strong, heroic, capable African woman...
...and your reward for beating the game is you get to make her dress like this:
Again, I have no problem with putting sex or sexuality in entertainment. Sex is part of life, so it should naturally be part of our movies and TV shows and games. But these are the digital equivalent of inflatable sex dolls. It's embarrassing and insulting, not because I'm a staunch feminist, but because I don't like the assumption it's making about me (that I'm an emotionally stunted, sexually frustrated teenage male). It's like even award-winning video games have the sensibility of made-for-Cinemax B movies. Maybe that's because...
#3. Video Game Storytelling is Still at the Level of B Movies
Have a glance at a list of the best-selling Xbox 360 games ever. I can tell you I've played and enjoyed each of the top five. But here's the storyline for each of them:
Faceless Space Soldier Guns Down Many, Many Aliens.
Faceless Earth Soldier Guns Down Many, Many Foreigners.
Different Space Soldier Guns Down Many, Many Aliens.
Different Space Soldier Guns Down Many, Many Aliens Again.
Eastern European Man Bent on Revenge Kills Everyone in New York.
Successfully completing those five games required me to kill, oh, about 10 million people. There was a death on screen about every five seconds. Movies structured this way--two minutes of plot and 20 minutes of slaughter--would be considered grindhouse cheese, direct-to-DVD stuff starring Steven Seagal that we'd never admit to enjoying when talking to anyone we cared about impressing. Guilty pleasures.
The original title of Hard to Kill was, in fact, Guilty Pleasure.
With very, very few exceptions, video game plots are stuck at this level. It's storytelling at its most primitive: good guy with a gun, thousands of bad guys, the happy ending comes when you make enough of the bad guys dead. Characters are crude, cartoonish archetypes--grizzled soldier, grizzled gangster, femme fatale, cool hit man, bumbling fat guy, robot.
Pimp, etc.
Now, within five minutes of this article's posting, somebody in the comments will mention Bioshock. I've played that one, too. And loved it. Still, 90 percent of what transpired on screen was me mowing down room after room of faceless bad guys. If you make a movie where 90 of the 100 minutes of runtime is people getting their faces blown off--even if you fill the other 10 minutes with speeches about objectivism--every critic will use the same word to describe it:
Don't tell me it's unfair to compare games to movies, either. When even Mario games come with dialogue and cutscenes, it's crystal clear that gaming wants to be a storytelling medium. You can judge a culture by the stories it tells, and you can judge the maturity of video gaming and gamers the same way.
Cue suggestive lollipop
But damn, we're about to hit the 40-year mark on video games as a form of mass media. Forty years after movies were invented (the late 1930s), Hollywood was making The Wizard of Oz--a movie that people are still renting and buying 70 years later (they even re-released it back into theaters in 1998 and it made about $20 million--there were people still willing to leave the house and buy a ticket to see it).
Will people still be playing Bioshock 70 years from now? Hell, hardly anybody is playing it now. Sometimes I pop it in and it makes me feel really smart for five minutes, then I spend the next hour firing a flame thrower at a giant mutant with drill hands.
But that really has nothing to do with the game.
Forty years of evolution, and here we are. So why are games overwhelmingly mindless, when gamers aren't? Well...


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It is usually found when i finish a sort of work assigned to me i usually get over excited over stuffs and start asking for more work though forgetting what task is being assigned. I give a yes to everything in over excitement. I lose my control over me. Also i start talking all kinds of boastful stuffs(which i actually dont mean). Like as such i am handling the entire project where i actually mean for a particular task which brings in a strong attention of my peers. Please guide.
remember this tale?
it's all about state of mind; if you imagine yourself to be a 100-yrs old Patriarch of Software Development, you will approach all these projects and tasks in a much different way; next time you'll get a temptation to start throwing estimates around, ask yourself "do I play like a young bull or the old one?"
Ask yourself why you are acting like this. Is there something you are trying to prove? Core to sorting out this issue is relaxing more and accepting yourself for what you are.
Set yourself realistic goals and then stick to them- written goals make it easier to avoid getting over excited. Avoid mentally trying to up with the Joneses' and just do your own thing.
Working out the details of any assign task may work... evaluate yourself more realistically, get the significance of your impact, and in that proportion boosting is alright... Also it is said in sound body lies the sound mind....


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I cannot take Calcium as it forms Kidney Stones, I have been told by my doctor that I have early signs of Osteoporosis. I was told that I could take Magnesium, the bottle states 3 tablets a day with meals. Can I take all 3 after Dinner or should I spread them out over the day?
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If you have been told by your doctor that you have early signs of osteoporosis you should discuss with your doctor exactly what and how you should take your supplements.
Here is a site about osteoporosis that will give you more information so that you can be informed when you talk to your doctor. The site mentions food sources of calcium and discusses vitamin D but does not mention magnesium other than to say:
You will also want to ask your doctor or healthcare provider about types of exercises that are appropriate for you at your stage of osteoporosis.
You should spread them out over the whole day. Too much magnesium at one time may result in diarrhea, and if you distribute it over the day your body will take up more of it.
Keep in mind though that magnesium comes in many different forms, and there are differences between those forms. Generally the organic compounds, such as magnesium citrate, are much more effective than the inorganic forms, such as magnesium oxide. The magnesium you can buy at the supermarket is often in oxide form, and won't help you much. If nothing is specified on the package, it's probably oxide.
One of the newer forms of magnesium is the time-released form, such as the one offered by Jigsaw Health. The advantage to this is that your body will take up a much greater share of it, and you have a lesser risk of diarrhea. It's also more expensive though.
As a final remark, I recommend having your magnesium levels tested, both serum levels and RBC levels, to check what your magnesium status is. If there is zero evidence of deficiency, it's quite pointless to take magnesium supplements in the first place.


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Prairie Creek Elementary School will be holding a 5K and 1 mile run on April 6, 2013. All proceeds will benefit Prairie Creek Elementary School, participating organizations of USD 385 and Andover Food Bank. For registration and additional information, please visit:http://andoveraprilfools5k.eventbrite.com/. Chris Cakes will be serving breakfast that is open to the entire community for $6 all you can eat pancake feed. Serving in the commons area inside Andover Central High School from 8:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Order of events – April 6:
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8:00 – 11:00 a.m. Chris Cakes Breakfast
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10:15 a.m. Awards Ceremony
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A Lansing Correctional Facility inmate allegedly walked away from a work site Friday afternoon only to turn himself in the following morning.
Zackary B. Conger, 32, was reported absent from a work site without authorization around 4 p.m. Friday. Conger was part of an inmate crew working at Laser Apparel in Overland Park, according to LCF spokesman Brett Peterson.
Conger reportedly turned himself in at a Lenexa police station around 9:45 a.m. Saturday.
"He just walked in," Peterson said.
Conger has been returned to LCF.
Prison officials had announced to the media Friday that Conger was missing, and reported the next day that he was back in custody.
He is serving a 78-month prison sentence for four counts of burglary as well as forgery and theft. The crimes occurred in 2009 and 2011 in Butler and Sedgwick counties, according to information posted on a Kansas Department of Corrections website.
His earliest possible release date is April 17, 2016, but this doesn't take into account additional time he could face for reportedly leaving the work site.
Conger had been a minimum custody inmate at the time he was reported missing Friday.
Peterson said Monday that Conger is now in segregation at the prison.
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congratulations on making women everywhere feel a little bit more like shit today, and reinforcing just a little bit more all the tired, depressing, unfair old sexual double-standards - as if we didn't already get enough of that shit from men. you'd think you could count on promising young female writers to elevate our sex, not drag it down into the mud and cat-fight their older, wiser sisters.I can't
WAIT til you turn 40, you dumb little shit.
Never Sell Fart Worms or, a loose interpretation of NSFW
Hi Neetzan,
Long time lurker, first time emailer.
I'm not so much offended or even shocked by videos like this, but Gawker isn't the place for it. When I see NSFW, I think nip slip, Brittany Spears beaver shot, something sexually explicit, but without much exposure. As Justice Stewart said about porn - I know it when I see it.
Pooled semen dripping from the mouth of a skull-fucked woman isn't provocative or artistic. I think we can all agree that's not a measured and reasonable response to a woman texting in a darkened theater. It's shocking for it's own sake. The only people who would find this entertaining are (thankfully) in prison.
Basically, when I see the letters NSFW, I expect to see something funny that won't be on television. Congratulations asshole. You've ruined porn for me.
Well, for the rest of the week anyway.
Cord more like bored
That's old news Cord!
I very rarely feel the need to comment on Gawker articles, instead I just prefer to troll around and read other readers vitriol, but I do love me some Seinfeld. So on that note, Jason Alexander wrote about his hair piece a while ago. He's not trying to fool anybody. His very honest rant/explanation is below.
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There are many reasons a student wisely chooses to make an appointment with one of our staff. Some students seek our help with specific concerns related to relationships, self-confidence, stress and anxiety, loneliness, sexuality, weight pre-occupation etc. Others bring less clearly defined problems such as low motivation or a feeling that things just aren't right. We also see students who are just looking for an objective person to talk things through with or have come in because they are worried about the behaviour of a friend, family member or roommate. Through their counselling contact, most students not only resolve their immediate concerns, but also learn useful skills for dealing with future issues. If something is bothering you, there is someone who can help. Our counsellor/therapists offer confidential, professional, counselling at no cost to you. Don't put off making an appointment until the issue escalates. There is no need for you to feel isolated and alone. We are here to help you sort things out for yourself.
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TWO_TASK is an environment variable. If you set TWO_TASK=foo, then "sqlplus scott/tiger" is equivalent to "sqlplus scott/tiger@foo". If TWO_TASK isn't set, then "sqlplus scott/tiger" will connect to the local database, and throw an error if there isn't one. That's all there is to it; it means you can do a TNS connection while thinking you're doing a local connection. You can think of it as a "default database alias" if you like, but probably best to think of it as what it is.
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Landscape with Prayer oil on canvas 38 x 30 inches 1992I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in August 1991, during which time I was going to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts having been a cardiology, post oncology nurse.
"Landscape with Prayer," done while awaiting evaluation for possible metastases, was a prayer for time, for help and survival; also for greater compassion in a spiritual sense from the caregivers. My oncologist came in to announce treatment options, and, in the same breath, announced how excited he was that his wife was due any day now with their first child. I was 32 years old and dealing with my mortality. My possibilities for motherhood had been removed only two days before. My painting became my support system, allowing me to visualize what I was feeling, helping me work out the anger, the pain, and loss.
Come Home oil on canvas 56 x 52 inches 1994I returned from a year's leave to study in Paris and North Africa. My boyfriend was dying and given two months to live. "Come Home" was a plea for his return. It took me over six months to paint, providing me with an outlet to stage my grieving.


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The New Baby by Mercer Mayer
This book from the classic Little Critter series focuses on life after the new baby has arrived. It relays the frustration of the new big brother, who wants to crack up his newborn sister with jokes, entertain her with stories, and make her smile - when all she does is cry. While the new baby is not an instant playmate, he learns she will grow into one with every passing week.
Recommended Ages: 4-8
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STEUBENVILLE - The Jefferson County children services agency is implementing a new response program to help parents in child abuse and neglect cases improve the condition of their homes.
John Rodesh, county Job and Family Services, Children Services Division administrator, said the state is starting the new response program in various counties, modeled after a program started in Minnesota.
The agency wants to become more of a partner in certain child abuse and neglect cases, instead of being an authoritative figure, Rodesh said.
The agency will continue to have a traditional response of determining a victim and perpetrator and doing a fact-finding investigation.
The alternative response will assume some type of neglect happened but will focus on making sure it doesn't happen again, Rodesh said.
Rodesh said 48 Ohio counties have implemented the alternative response program so far, with all 88 counties having it in place by July 2014.
"It is more of sitting beside people and not over them and helping to partner with families to come up with long-term solutions," he said.
Some child neglect cases involve dirty or unsanitary houses, he said. Caseworkers will try to determine why the home is dirty and work with the parents on developing a plan to make the home more liveable, he said.
Rodesh said both the traditional and alternative response plans will focus on the safety of the children. The agency will determine which approach to take based on a case-by-case basis, he said.
"We are taking a system-driven approach and making it more family driven. The parents have a say in how to remedy the problem," he said.
The alternative response will try to eliminate the adversarial relationship that comes from the traditional response, he said.
Caseworkers will spend a lot of time early in the alternative approach process to eliminate the problem in the home. The effort will focus on the first 30 to 60 days, he said.
He said the agency will keep the traditional response in sexual abuse and serious neglect cases and possible criminal investigations.
Rodesh said he sat down with local law enforcement and explained how the alternative response will work.
Making sure the family doesn't have a repeat problem is the main goal of the alternative response.
Rodesh added parents in other counties that have implemented the alternative response plan have stated there was a trust relationship established with children services and the adversarial barrier is broken down.
"There definitely will be challenges. We are giving families the option of which approach will work best," he said.
Rodesh noted there are seven caseworkers in the children services division, with each one having about 20 to 25 ongoing cases. He said the caseload is high but he hopes recidivism will decrease and so will the caseload with the alternative response.
"The alternative response initially will take more time (from the caseworkers), but hopefully it will result in improvements (in the home)," he said. "The hardest part will be getting past the authoritative approach. We need to develop a new mind-set," he said.
The agency will begin implementing the alternative approach in January, and he hopes more than half the cases will use the alternative response.
Rodesh said caseworkers and the agency know the community services that are available.
"Bringing parents into the picture hopefully will result in a two-way street of communication," he said.
The state has a pamphlet explaining the alternative response. In it is states the alternative response focuses on answering questions of what caused the family to experience the issue and how the agency and family to work together to address the concern.


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This out-of-this-world app was created by the Fred Rogers Center and a kindergarten teacher and received a five-star review from Common Sense Media. Kids join the loveable Gloop family of aliens in a problem-solving adventure to repair their space ship so they can return to their home planet.
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I need to convert a huge number of very dense (densified to 1m) 3D polylines to 3D points. I need each vertex along the line and no duplicates (two of the same XYZ coordinates) if possible. Is there a tool for that? Each feature class to be converted yields about 1 to 2 million points. I did write my own add-on for this and although I am using the insert cursor (as oppose to iFeature:Store) it's quite slow so I am hoping there is a better way.
Have you tried ET GeoWizards perhaps? I know it can do 2D polylines to points in the free version, but I'm not sure about 3D.
Here's an old VBA code that makes a 2D point shapefile out of 2D polyline vertices. I have no idea if it works on 3D features as well (why are you using 3D-points?), but it might work (but then it'll only be part of the solution):
I would try converting the 3D polylines into a lidar (LAS) file. Tools that manage lidar data are usually designed to handle large numbers of points.
if you have an arcinfo license you can just run the gp tool feature vertices to points. It takes line or poly feature class as input, and outputs the vertices as points, with their m & z.
as far as insuring no duplicate vertices are present, you may want to look at these two gp tools: integrate & repair geometry.
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Richard Ray Skarda
Richard Ray Skarda, 70, of Aledo, died on Saturday, February 16, 2013 at Trinity, Rock Island. Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at Bewley Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Aledo. Visitation was 4 – 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Private family burial will be in the Aledo Cemetery with Military Honors by the Mercer County VFW Post 1571. Memorials may be given to the Richard Skarda memorial fund.
Richard was born August 22, 1942 in San Francisco, California, the son of Robert Ray and Wilma Stallcup Skarda. He married Margaret Smith November 23, 1977 in Aledo.
Richard enlisted in the Army in Butte, Montana on September 22, 1960. He was an Aviation Mechanic in Korea. In September 1962 and 1963 Richard was an aviation mechanic Strat Command at Fort Lewis, Washington. Richard was on alert for the Bay of Pigs under President Kennedy.
Richard owned Skarda's Computer Service retiring on Nov. 1, 2011.
Richard enjoyed computers, reading science fiction and listening to country music.
Those left to cherish his memory include his wife, Margaret; mother, Wilma Riek, Billings, Montana; children, Martin (Doris) Smith, Burnsville, MN, Lou Ann (Rick) Smith-Johnson, Orion, Debra (Mark) Smith-Stewart, Gilbert, Ariz., Mary (Jeff) Smith- Rivers, Santan Valley, Ariz.; brothers, Gary Skarda, Davenport, Iowa, Jack Riek, Billings Montana; step-sister, Connie Sullivan, Billings Montana; 11 grandchildren ;one great-grandchild and mother-in-law, Edith Kelley, Meadows.
He was preceded in death by his father, Robert; daughter, Gina Katherine; step-brother, Monte Riek and father-in-law, William Leonard Kelley.
Online condolences may be expressed to Richard's family at www.bewleyfuneralhome.com.
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WACO (November 16, 2012)-A man was sentenced to federal prison Wednesday after he earlier pleaded guilty to theft of U.S. military property.
U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith, Jr., sentenced Daniel C. Alejandre to serve 18 months on each of two counts, the sentences to be served concurrently, ordered him to serve two terms of three years-each on supervised release, also to be served concurrently, assessed a $1,000 fine and $200 in special assessment to the court.
Court documents show Alejandre participated with Edward Russo, Angeligue McRae, Joel Robert Stone and Michael Bartch, Sr., to steal and conceal military property valued at more than $1,000, which they knew to be stolen.
Smith already has sentenced Russo to one year and one day in federal prison to be followed by three years on supervised release, ordered him to pay a $1,000 fine and a $100 special assessment to the court.
On November 7, Smith rejected McRae's guilty plea and ordered her to stand trial.
Smith heard the guilty plea from McRae, also known as Angelique Cobbs-Nije, but rejected it and set a trial date.
Court documents indicate Stone and Bartch have pleaded guilty to the same charge are all are set for sentencing within the next few weeks.
The charges say the group exported at least three articles of defense equipment called AN/PEQ 15 Advanced Target Pointer Illuminator Aiming Lasers.
Prosecutors said the group planned to sell the lasers to foreign buyers.
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In every Ubuntu release, there's an initial import from Debian unstable for many packages in
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Actually it depends. For previous releases we have synced with Debian Unstable. However for 10.04 LTS we synced with Debian Testing.
Neither, but it resembles Unstable more of the two.
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Got it for XMAS...Only started playing a few days ago. This is a good game for sure. $9 is a steal
I like this game better than GT4 ... I know GT4 got a bunch of critics saying it was the best game ever and I know it's a few years older... but in SP the combat is better (unarmed & armed), the driving is better, only the mini games are worse if you ask me (karaoke? really?) haha ... lots of fun, got all the DLC
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It is not 9, it's 10 dollars.
@fourrayg: Thanks for the info on that. I don't remember my Steam password (saved on home computer), and I'm at work - so I bought on Amazon and will activate when I get home.
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When programming, what naming conventions do you use for your variables? I don't mean when the name of the variable should be obvious; ie. sum, total, first, last. But when you name variables that don't really fit into a category/obvious structure, what sort of names do you use? Is it, myVar1 or test1 or variable1, etc...?
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There always must be a purpose for a variable, otherwise you can leave it out and you don't need a name. So use it's name to identify the purpose for a variable.
e.g. I sometimes introduce variables for the sole purpose of keeping a value that needs to be returned. I might call that variable returnValue e.g. sometimes it is a temporary for a different variable, I might use tempUserName
hope this helps.
For me, these are the basic rules any convention should be based on:
The following are some specific conventions that I consider important. If I had to join a team or project where the conventions already settled upon explicitly violate any of these, I'd started to rebel and make a fuzz about it.
Whether you use
I use snake_case for all my variables.
I try to make them nice and specific and without unnecessary abbreviation. e.g. file_id rather than fid.
If I am just testing something, I usually use the first letter of the type. e.g. If I'm in the Python interpreter, I'll use l for a list, s for string, etc.
Otherwise I give it a descriptive name.
I'm going to steal jensgram's answer for avoiding conflicts though, good idea.
Two scenarios I can think of:
Every variable name should be "obvious" in the sense that it should convey the purpose of the variable in a way that's readable and understandable. Ask yourself "what does this variable represent in terms of the larger problem I'm trying to solve?" The answer to that question is the name of the variable.
Don't use names like "myVar" or "variable1"; those names tell you nothing about what the variable represents. And for the love of God, do not perpetuate the abuse of Hungarian notation that encodes primitive type information into the variable name (iCounter, szName, fRoot, etc.) if you can help it. That's not what it's meant for, and it just clutters up code and makes names hard to read.
If i really have to create variable which i do not need (because of language semantics), I use
Otherwise, as KeesDijk stated, every other variable has a purpose and should be named adequatly.
If you have a convention to follow (one very common is to use i, j, k for loops, others can include names such as
Personally I prefer not to use names like


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"Release candidate" is now with SEGA. Which means, if it passes, demo will be next weekend & release date stays October 21st.
Right as quoted on twitter
"Release candidate" is now with SEGA. Which means, if it passes, demo will be next weekend & release date stays October 21st.
Worth pointing out he also said if it fails then the demo wont be next week and the release date wont be the 21st so he hasn't said it will definitely next week (I know what some people are like on this forum, imagine the rage if it doesnt happen)
Well, people always moan about the game being released with bugs, what if they spot a game-breaker?
I was pretty sure the demo would have been released on Friday 14th .....
I am still quite inclined on that date ....
I used to find it quite funny with the amount of people speculating when the demo will come out and getting the message back of miles about the angels but honestly I just think its getting a bit childish now, and they just enjoy the power, its under 3 weeks till the game itself comes out and not even an announcement, I don't think they treat us with enough respect as they should considering. I am ranting cause I must be honest I am excited about it this years copy with Swansea being in the premiership, but honestly if it wasn't for that, it would practically be the same game with not enough things new in the game to tempt me into buying it, and I have been a huge fan since the start of the series, all the way back when it was 1st called championship manager. I know a lot of people might disagree with me and some might agree, but please just treat your fans with more respect and for next years copy see if it works in your favour, if not do what you always do every year, and please something new and innovative to the game next time, I know the saying why change something if its not broken, but its just getting a bit stale now with little tweaks to things like news and 3D graphics, that I don't think anyone cares about much, and if you did listen to the fans its the training and perhaps better ways of bringing youth through(which has been tweaked a little this year) is what we want more.
anyways thanks look forward to some more thoughts
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2-3 weeks before the release and 2 weeks before the demo release is mature to release a date. Keeping on adding mystery when we are so close to the demo release doesn't help to push the marketing, it helps only customers to become impatient instead. IMO.
They arent adding mystery deliberately, the fact is they dont know when they are going to release it, they could set a date but if they miss it, everyone is unhappy. Miles has said hopefully next weekend which is as close to a date as we are going to get for now
I agree 2 weeks before is a decent demo release date, but an announcement should come a week or 2 before that at the very least.
Miles has said that he is "queitly confident" about the RC's test. Until thursday/friday, game won't be gold. And we have to hold the fingers crossed because if SEGA call him, there will be bad, bad news. He also said that RC failed often.
SI have always said they have to keep up with deadlines so if the say the demo is out next weekend they mean it. The game will 110% be releasing on the 21st.
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Last year people might remember of mid week release of the demo so you never know what could happen in the coming week
as a rule i dont play the demos
he said that he is QUETLY confident, so i don't think that he will send to SEGA an RC that have a lot of problems.
SI please do not release the game with a load of bugs i just cant accept it any more im happy with fm11 i can wait,
you should release the demo even earlier so we the community can alert you to any bugs you guys might have missed,
i am sick of buying the game on release date to find bugs my 6 year old son would have found with in half hour of playin
the game
A release candidate is called that for a reason. I severely doubt they'd release a demo of that version.
Playing the demo is like taking a gorgeous girl to a restaurant and knowing you'll have to leave halfway through the starter.
Not for me.
for now we just need to be patient. yes we all want to play the game but many people who moan about waiting will also moan that the game got released too early because there is too many bugs!!!
RC = good enough to ship and relatively bug free.
Will still be bugs but nothing that is a show stopper.
Miles has said that he won't announce anything until manufacturing (of course there will be blogs this week as normal)
no announcements because there is nothing official to announce, stop whining
Ok, so as usual this is turning into a repeat of the same bits of information. Official announcements will be made when they are known.
For now. Thread Closed.