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Verrilli & Janklow Receive Medal for Excellence
Literary agent Morton L. Janklow '53 and U.S. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. '83 received the Columbia Law School Medal for Excellence, the Law School's highest honor, at the 2013 Winter Luncheon. More than 300 graduates, faculty, and friends—including U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. '76 and Judge Jack B. Weinstein '48, both past recipients of the award—gathered at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City for the ceremony.
The Medal for Excellence is given annually to graduates and faculty members who embody the qualities of character, intellect, and professional responsibility that the Law School strives to instill in its students. David M. Schizer, Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law; Harvey R. Miller Professor of Law and Economics, praised this year's honorees for being powerful examples of the Law School's influence on the world.
Janklow co-founded the literary agency Janklow & Nesbit Associates in 1977. He also endowed the Morton L. Janklow Chair in Literary and Artistic Property Law at Columbia Law School and founded the Morton L. Janklow Program for Advocacy in the Arts at Columbia University. Upon accepting his award, Janklow discussed how the Law School prepared him for his future career.
"I quickly learned the lessons of self-discipline and hard work, and the joy of achievement derived there from," he said. "And I have never lost that sensibility, which has served me so well."
Medal for Excellence co-honoree Donald Verrilli is the 46th Solicitor General of the United States. He serves as the federal government's chief litigator. Before joining the Obama administration, Verrilli led the Supreme Court practice at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C. His time at the Law School, he said, greatly influenced his career. "The most important thing Columbia Law School has given to me," he noted, "was an enduring inspiration—the belief that I could live a life in the law that means something, and that I could be happy and fulfilled doing it."


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Hundreds of people have gathered for a candlelight vigil for two Topeka police officers who were shot to death while investigating a suspicious car outside a grocery store. The crowd at Monday night's event included dozens of uniformed law enforcement officers, as well as Gov. Sam Brownback and Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt. Family members of the slain 50-year-old police Cpl. David Gogian (GOH'-ghee-uhn) and 29-year-old officer Jeff Atherly also were present. The officers died Sunday night after being shot by a passenger in the car they were investigating. The 22-year-old suspect died Monday morning after being shot in a confrontation with officers. Topeka resident Janet Rice rode a shift with Atherly in May after finishing a 13-week citizens' course on policing and described him as polite and patient.
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May 13, 2014
Cape Town Tourism Cares: Grannies make a difference with Gugulethu garden
At Cape Town Tourism, we're big on giving back to the Mother City's residents in need , so when we recently had the pleasure of meeting up with Rob Small of Abalimi Bezekhaya ( Farmers of Home) at one of the community vegetable gardens in Gugulethu, we just had to tell you about it.
Rob was conducting a fact finding tour with a group of Climate Change students, Lead SA representatives, Biomimicry undergraduates (yes, we had to look THAT one up) and a Bio-dynamic agriculturist from France!
Working in the Cape Flats Area where a large proportion of the population is unemployed and living in informal settlements, the organization targets these communities and empowers them through urban agriculture and environmental programmes.
We met the Mamas (mothers) and Gogos (grannies) of the garden and chatted to a young man who is part of the Gugulethu Magistrate's Young Offender programme. Wearing a T shirt "I will not Quit", this young man is doing his community service in the garden and was clearly reaping the benefits of rehabilitation rather than hours behind bars.
There are 100 community gardens in the area and over 1,000 home gardens. Produce from a number of the gardens is distributed by Harvest of Hope through a weekly distribution programme. Rob's vision and enthusiasm is contagious – he talks about a micro farming movement like the activist that he is and how food security would not be an issue if there was a total rethink of how we feed our cities utilising micro farming to a much greater extent. It was really exciting to learn that all their gardens are organic and that the micro farmers are given a lot of training and support. Regular sustainability assessments of some of the gardens, gives Abalimi Bezekhaya valuable insight into the kind of ongoing support and training that is required.
Cape Town Tourism encourages our Industry members and residents to support Harvest of Hope, their distribution channel – a weekly delivery of a basket of delicious home grown organic veg from the gardens of the Cape Flats to your table. There are other ways to support as well – have a look at www.abalimi.org.za - Cape Town Tourism has decided to donate R1,500.00 which will set up a Micro-farmer with everything he/she needs to get a veg garden going.
It's heart-warming to see how small beginnings from a handful of seeds, can grow into something bountiful! Harvest of Hope sums it up perfectly!
Keen to come to Cape Town for a Voluntourism stay? Find out more here.


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- What are badge name's requirements?
- Why didn't I get badge name?
- Which badges can I earn multiple times?
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Recently I've been reading some blog posts regarding MVC and how it doesn't fit the web. I've learned about alternative patterns like the RMR Architecture.
I'm curious what other patterns people are using on the web besides MVC? Also, if there is a framework that implements the pattern, please post a link to it.


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17 Jun 2009 11:17 AM #1
ExtJS grid save cookies for show/hide columns
I have a gridPanel object and I need to save the column configuration in cookies.
This is my source:
var cp = new Ext.state.CookieProvider({
expires: new Date(new Date().getTime()+(1000*60*60*24*30)) //30 days
// create the Grid
var m_grid = new Ext.grid.GridPanel({
stateful: true,
stateEvents: ['columnresize', 'columnmove', 'show', 'hide']
Every state event cookie is saved fine except for data about hidden/shown columns. What events should I use? Any help appreciated.Lilit
17 Jun 2009 11:22 AM #2
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The default stateEvents are ["columnmove", "columnresize", "sortchange"] and initStateEvents also adds a saveState to the colModel 'hiddenchange' event. Also, getState returns hidden state for columns and applyState applies the hidden state correctly.
So the grid should store the column hidden states!
ps. Any reason you changed the stateEvents?
17 Jun 2009 11:57 AM #3
Thanks for the quick reply Condor.
The reason for changing state events was trying to add hidden columns information to the cookies.
I added this code, which does not produce expected result:
var m_grid = new Ext.grid.GridPanel({
stateful: true,
stateEvents: ['columnresize', 'columnmove', 'headermousedown', 'show', 'hide'],
initStateEvents : function(){
this.colModel.on('hiddenchange', function(){ this.saveState; });
Could you please add the code for initStateEvents call? I searched ExtJS Api and wasn't able to find the definition for initStateEvents.
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The default stateEvents and initStateEvents are already correct! What happens if you simply remove stateEvents and initStateEvents from your config?
ps. You did know that you need to specify unique column ids to make state handling work correctly?
18 Jun 2009 6:56 AM #5
Thanks for the tip about id-s.
Now that I have the unique id-s set up the default stateEvents namely - columnresize, columnmove and sortchange work correctly. However, the hiddenchange state handling - saving information about hidden/showed columns, isn't working.Lilit
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Your code to register a hiddenchange event is missing a scope. But you should remove it anyway, because the hiddenchange event handler is already registered in initStateEvents (with a delay of 100ms).
18 Jun 2009 7:48 AM #7
Sorry, I didn't put it clearly in my previous post. I am getting the result of hide/show information not being saved with stateEvents and initStateEvents declaration removed.Lilit
24 Jun 2009 7:09 AM #8
Hi Condor,
I fingered what my mistake was.
The application I am developing has several grid objects, and one function for creating a grid. For every grid I was passing the distinct GridPanel parameters, such as columns, store, etc.. but initializing with same stateId. So the cookies were being saved not for each grid but for the mixed up structure. I kept wandering why my changes in one of the grid would propogate to all others.
Setting the stateId property unique for each grid solved my problem - hidden columns information is being saved in cookies for each grid.
Thank you very much for your help.Lilit
15 Sep 2009 3:15 AM #9
Restore stateful Grid Columns on click of a button
In a grid Panel, i would like to have a button "Restore Default" clicking on which it should remove columns which are hided and saved in the cookies and refresh the Grid back to the original state. Can anyone tell me how can i do this?
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its sitting here, on my desk ready to go. and i've still got to wait another 12 hours 25 minutes before i can play it
why do you torture me like this? This is even worse than the wait in previous years on the posty. i have it and cant use it
its sitting here, on my desk ready to go. and i've still got to wait another 12 hours 25 minutes before i can play it
why do you torture me like this? This is even worse than the wait in previous years on the posty. i have it and cant use it
Just out of curiosity...did it say where you purchased it that you wouldn't be able to play it until 21st October...does it say it on the packaging?
your keyboard is ugly
no and no,
i fully understand why Si are doing the steam activation and the lack of dodgy versions doing the rounds (ie none atm) is testament that it should reduce piracy.
but this is tortuer, have game have beer, have to resort to playing the demo for another 12 hours if i had any hair i'd be pulling it out lol
You can't play the game until the 21st as it's Steam activated. It isn't actually SI's/Steam's or Sega's fault and infact it is the online retailers for giving you/distributing the game early.
whats the betting steam goes down at midnight now
the gods of fate dont like me very much
Im jealous mine has not arrived today better bloody come tomorrow. Hope you lose your internet connection at 11.59
Great news, at least that's 1 step forward after 5 steps back.
"So when I go to purchase the game tomorrow I'm hoping it says in big clear letters on the box that online activation required. Otherwise...it's a bit off isn't it."
Hang on a sec. I'm guessing that you do already know there is on-line activation. Not sure why the labelling should be an issue for you. Everybody just chill out.
Whilst you are there compare the size of the PC game selection and your local video store to the size of the
selection on steam. If it wasn't for Steam I would find it really hard to buy PC games and might have to buy a console..... (I've just been sick in my mouth)
And by the way if you pick up a coffee on the way. IT WILL BE HOT.
If you note, most online retailers have a guarantee that you'll receive your pre-orders on their release date. First Class post isn't guaranteed next day delivery, in fact on Royal Mail's website they have the estimated delivery time for first class post down as 1-2 days (some sites will say 1-3 days), but they aim to get it to you within one day. If all online retailers sent their pre-orders on a Thursday you'd have about 10% not turn up until the day after release, meaning the retailers would have to compensate possibly hundreds of people (for big releases, perhaps even thousands if it was a huge release) costing them money. Therefore, by following the Royal Mail guidelines and posting early, usually Wednesdays, they aren't breaking the release date, just merely making sure everyone gets their games on the release date and thus aren't doing anything wrong. Would you rather have a lot of people getting it late?
OP be lucky. At least you have it already!
www.fmbosnia.com - The game starts here
I'm actually quite excited about this years FM. I've not felt excitement about the release of an FM game for a few years, but after playing the FM12 demo, I can't wait to get stuck into the full game and push FC United to the Premiership. I think this years game is a vast improvement on last years, even though I still enjoyed FM11. Bring on midnight!
It is only me that seems to be the one thinking this is actually an amazing idea. It means if you are like me and want a physical version of the game you get to start playing the same time as the internet version. One of the mega positives I have seen about the Steam system actually.
Quite frankly its pathetic, I have a game that I have bought, sat in front of me, yet I am unable to play because SI chose to go down Steam activation.
I own my copy of the game, I shouldn't be told that I can't play it till tomorrow.
If I'd known you couldn't play this till the 21st, nowhere on the box does it mention anything about dates. I'd have not bothered buying the disc version. Seems like its nothing more then a coaster. FM2012 the last version I get conned into buying.
Off topic slightly (well a lot really!), GlasgowRob, how does the 3D run on your Mac, it seems a bit jerky on mine, which the demo said was rated 5*.
Wonder how many more threads/ posts like this there will be until tmrw/midnight??
I wish it was like the street date being broken where it ends up being released a day early and playable.
I too have recieved my copy today yet cannot play the damn thing tonight which is utter torture.
Was quiet prepared to wiat till Friday till the damn thing dropped through my letterbox and was sat their all shiny saying come on play me, you know you want too.
Sorry haven't lived on these boards endlessly waiting for the release. All I've done as in previous years is pay for my copy of the game and wait for it to be delivered so I can play it. Now I can't play it because of this stupid timed activation crap. That ain't right, I want my money back then until I can pay it. Why should SI be earning interest out of me when I can't use the product?
Well here's what SI can do with the game this year:
People don't read.. every site that sells the game clearly states it needs activation. and it says it on the box as well.
All new games come with a release date, this year for the first time everybody has to stick to that date, that's it, period!
a have it as well and a cant play it how crap is that
God, some people on here are ridiculous. The release/steam activation date was made clear a bunch of times.
I shall now be burning all my old Football Manager games in protest
I have no problem with the activate through Steam thing, that's not the issue. The thing that I think is ****, is I've been to a store bought a copy of the game, come home and can't friggin play it because of some timed activation crap. Nowhere was that listed with the announcement of Steam activation.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- Topeka Police arrested a woman Monday night in connection with a stabbing after she fled police in the victim's car.
Topeka Police officers were called to the 1400 block of SW Lane at 8:11 p.m. in reference to a possible stabbing. When they arrived, officers say they found a man with a stab wound. He was taken to a local hospital and treated.
Police received information that the suspect had taken the man's vehicle. At 8:18 p.m., officers spotted the vehicle in the neighborhood.
According to authorities, the suspect driving the victim's vehicle initiated a pursuit with officers. Police dispatch told 13 News Monday night that officials used stop sticks near the 2100 block of Topeka Boulevard to stop the chase.
That's when, officials said, the vehicle crossed two medians and hit a parked truck at Laird Noller.
The driver was taken into custody. Shabree Lee, 21, was booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections for aggravated battery (in connection with the stabbing on Lane), felony eluding and driving under the influence of alcohol.
Police continue to investigate and are asking anyone with information in the case to call detectives at (785) 368-9400, or Crime Stoppers at (785) 234-0007.


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7 Incredible Scientific Innovations Held Back by Petty Feuds
Unless you're Isaac Newton, scientific advances are usually the product of many minds working together in mutual, friendly collaboration. Unfortunately, even geniuses can get bogged down in petty arguments, and we would probably all be flying to work on rocket motorcycles by now if history's greatest geniuses hadn't spent their entire careers arguing over who had the biggest Bunsen burner.
#7. The Fight Over Who Discovered HIV
What Their Feud Cost Us:
Years of AIDS research.
AIDS was first discovered in 1981, prompting a race to find the virus that caused it. We'd like to be able to say that the appeal was in saving a lot of lives, but it probably also had a lot to do with the fact that whoever found it stood to become as famous and wealthy as a scientist can get, all walking around the lab in a pimp hat and fat gold chains.
Working around the clock, a French research team identified the HIV virus in 1983, but they weren't absolutely certain about their discovery, so they decided to send their samples to an American team for a second opinion. The Americans didn't return the phone call for a full year, after which point they declared that they had mysteriously discovered HIV.
America: Stealing Europe's diseases since 1776.
What followed were years of debates and arguments between the two research teams that continued until 1987, when Ronald Reagan and Jacques Chirac finally decided to step in and force the teams to share the credit for the discovery so that we could go on and actually start doing something about, you know, curing AIDS.
The Aftermath:
It would probably have been to our benefit to have been able to start treating HIV before it spread around the globe and became one of the worst pandemics ever known to mankind.
"What's that now?"
Besides slowing down work on a viable blood test and seriously slowing down research on a potential vaccine, the debate over who discovered HIV also resulted in confusion among the general population.
Not knowing who to believe, the public put the whole AIDS issue in the collective "too hard to understand" basket and went right on engaging in outrageous, risky sex with strangers until somebody definitively told them to stop. The issue was such a scientific clusterfuck that even today there are confused researchers out there still trying to find out what really causes AIDS, because the research surrounding HIV is all laced with subtle anti-French insults.
"This can't be a French sample. It's not surrendering enough."
#6. Edison Versus Tesla: War of the Currents
What Their Feud Cost Us:
Decades of progress in energy infrastructure.
In addition to his Hugh Jackman teleportation device, Nikola Tesla's most famous invention was alternating current (AC), which is the kind of electricity we all use now because of its high voltage and ability to be transported long distances.
Afterwards, he read a book by the glow of his motherfucking lightning machine.
Tesla's discoveries annoyed the other mad scientist of the time, Thomas Edison, because he'd already invested millions of dollars in designing and promoting a direct current (DC) system. DC is comparatively shitty because it's not only weaker, but also it can only be transported for short distances. Basically, DC can only give you enough power for a handful of street lamps, and even then you have to build another power plant on every single block.
Instead of congratulating Tesla for his discoveries or actually trying to improve his product, Edison did what any reasonable businessman would: He invested thousands of dollars in a widespread slander campaign against Tesla and alternating current.
"Anyone who uses AC loves old balls." - Thomas Edison
The basis of Edison's smear campaign was to convince the public that AC was simply going to kill everybody, because it was too powerful to ever be safely harnessed by mortal man. He then proved this by publicly electrocuting the shit out of every life form he could run faster than, including a goddamn elephant.
The Aftermath:
It took until around 1960 for the last of the DC networks to be replaced. Thomas Edison had a habit of getting his way about absolutely every issue he set his mind to, and if this meant that parts of the world had to suffer from a crappy power infrastructure for more than half a century, then so be it.
The more we think about it, Thomas Edison was a lot like Mr. Burns.
To add insult to injury, even though Tesla consistently proved himself better than Edison in almost every way imaginable, his rivalry against the man who also didn't really invent the light bulb ended up ruining him. After the "war of the currents," Tesla couldn't find someone to support his experiments fulltime and had a hard time funding his inventions.
Not even his band could raise the money.
Also it's commonly believed that Tesla would have received a Nobel Prize for his contributions to physics had Edison not sabotaged him at every turn.
#5. The Controversial Practice of Hand Washing
What Their Feud Cost Us:
20-plus years of germ research and thousands of deaths.
In 19th century Vienna, it was probably safer to give birth in the street than in a hospital. Almost one in five births assisted by a male doctor ended with the mother, the child or both dying for mysterious reasons. The best explanation anyone had was that babies are naturally shy and will spontaneously die when seeing a male doctor.
Pictured: Safer than a hospital.
Ignaz Semmelweis didn't buy that load of crap, and instead embarked upon a large scale study, discovering that doctors often went to assist births immediately after doing autopsies. Apparently the least stupid scientist in all of Vienna, he concluded that the problem probably had something to do with the practice of handling a rotting corpse and a freshly born baby one after the other.
His recommendation was simply that doctors should take 30 seconds to wash their hands somewhere between the morgue and the maternity ward, a habit which was shown to cut mortality down to a comparatively astonishing one percent.
Unfortunately, the scientific community violently rejected the idea of hand washing, because it offended their status as gentlemen. One fellow by the name of Charles Meigs went as far as declaring that doctors should never have to wash their hands because doctors are gentlemen and "gentlemen's hands are always clean."
Likewise, a gentleman's hat is always "top."
Charles was joined in his attack by Johann Klein, the head of the Vienna maternity hospital, and together they managed to get Semmelweis kicked out of his position and assured he would never work in this town again.
The Aftermath:
The backlash against this not-exactly-radical healthcare reform was so severe that doctors who had already practiced some form of personal hygiene stopped doing so, and went on compensating for their threatened manhood with ever longer probes. Over the next three years, childbirth mortalities almost tripled.
It's like they weren't even trying to stay alive.
In the meantime, Semmelweis continued to attempt to spread the word about his findings, but without the support of the Vienna medical community no one really considered him a serious researcher. It wasn't for another 21 years, when Pasteur proved the existence of germs, that doctors finally took the blow to their masculinity and started washing their hands. In that time, around 14,518 mothers and children died in Vienna hospitals because of puerperal fever, a disease easily avoidable if doctors had used regular old soap and water.
#4. The Nautical Navigation Pissing Match
What Their Feud Cost Us:
Countless advances in navigation.
John Harrison was the kind of man that would put Leonardo Da Vinci to shame. By the age of 20, he was making incredibly precise wooden clocks which are still functioning today, almost 300 years later. However, his greatest invention was the marine chronometer, a device that actually let a boat figure out where the hell they were in the ocean.
"Yep, we're in the ocean."
Back in the 1700s, this was a huge problem. They had ways to calculate the latitude, i.e. how far north or south they were, but had no idea how to calculate the longitude, i.e. how far across the ocean they were. They presumably just sailed until they ran into land and said, "We're here!"
Which explains why anyone would live on Australia.
The British Empire decided to offer the equivalent of about five million dollars in today's currency to anyone who could figure out a way to fix this. John Harrison, surely imagining the team of solid-gold pantaloons he could buy with that kind of cash, spent three years creating a clock that could do the job. He figured that since you're sailing across what are now time zones, all you'd have to do is compare the position of the sun where you were with the time on your clock, and you know how far around the globe you had traveled.
Unfortunately, the board in charge of awarding the five million dollar prize was formed almost entirely of astronomers who considered clock-making to be the profession of assholes. Therefore, instead of declaring Harrison a genius and awarding him the prize, they demanded a better model of the clock.
Yeah, it's nice. But can it be a little... clocky-er?
Harrison built two more models, dedicating almost 30 years to improving the machines. However, when the board tested the clocks and found them almost flawless, they concluded that no machine could be so precise and that Harrison must have cheated using, presumably, voodoo. They then went ahead and hid the clock so that nobody could test it and prove them wrong.
Because you can't keep a good prodigy down, Harrison, who by now had spent about 60 years on this project, built another clock which was even more obscenely accurate than the others. When the board ignored him, Harrison complained to the fucking King of England who had to personally step in and tell the board to stop being a bunch of shits.
You'd listen to him, too.
Even still, scrambling desperately to save face, they gave Harrison less than half of the promised amount and declared that no one won.
The Aftermath:
The marine chronometer turned out to be the absolute best way of measuring longitude, but the adoption of the technology was slowed down by 60 freaking years because a bunch of astronomers couldn't believe a clock could be so accurate.
Thanks a lot, you dicks.
More depressing, though, is that John Harrison was one of history's most promising supergeniuses, and might have outshone everybody else on this list in terms of his total output of incredible discoveries, if not for the fact that the British government forced him to spend his entire life rebuilding the same clock over and over again.


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WHEELING - There was no photo finish when it came to the Ogden Classic 5K on Saturday in Wheeling.
Heath Piper of Eighty Four, Pa., won by a margin of nearly 70 seconds with a time of 17:54.5
''After about a half mile, I surged into the lead and I just tried to keep the pace steady,'' Piper said. ''I prefer running with a pack of guys to help me pull through and run a better time at the end of the race, but I'll take it. It's fun to win.''
The win is the first for the 31-year-old.
''This is my first time running the 5K,'' he said. ''I ran what used to be the 20K ... but this is my first time running the 5K here.''
Kevin Simpson, 14, of Bridgeport finished second with a time of 19:18.4, while Wayne McCracken, 54 of Rayland placed third with a time of 19:26.3.
This year's women's winner was Martins Ferry's Christine Lewis, 36, with a winning time of 20:06.9. Sherri Martin, 51 of West Alexander, Pa., was second with a 20:34.7 while 12-year-old Ireland Wayt of Wheeling finished third at 20:42.6
Donna Graham of Lowell, Ohio, saw her string of consecutive 5K walk victories continue as she finished the race first overall.
The retired Fort Frye high school teacher finished with a winning time of 31:59.
''I've been here every year since 2006 except the one year there wasn't a walk division,'' she said. ''I've won it every time, so that's why I come back. I didn't think I'd do it this year because I was a little slow, but I put everything I had into it. This is one of my favorite races.''
The race served in preparation for the 63-year-old's upcoming trip to South America.
''I usually do 30" races a year,'' she said. ''I'm going to Brazil in October to compete for the U.S.A. team in the World Masters."
The men's winner was Ryan Hudak-Hill, 29 of Bethesda with a time of 32:26, while Wheeling's Tony Purpura (33:18.2), 63, was second.
Wheeling's Kathy Shapell was the second woman to finish as she walked the 5K in 33:54.2
During the Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon Classic Walk Kathy Ervin got back to her winning ways.
''This is the fifth time (I won it),'' she said. ''I won three in a row, then I got third last year and now I'm back to first this year. I'm excited.''
Ervin won this year's race with a time of 2:23:14, ''three or four minutes'' faster than she did a year ago.
Those watching the race may have thought that Ervin finished twice as her twin sister, Kim Hartle of Hilliard, Ohio, also competed in the race.
The two turn 46 today and use the Ogden Classic as a way of celebrating.
''We make it an annual event because it's around our birthdays and Memorial Day weekend,'' Ervin said. ''We live two hours apart. Hopefully, when we do marathons, we get to see each other."
A year ago, the pair actually celebrated their birthday on the same day as the race.
Annette White, 30, of Wheeling finished second with a time of 2:23:48, while Hartle was third at 2:25:46.
Lee Stough (1:59:38), 31, of Glassport, Pa. was the men's winner, while Barnesville's Carl Kondrach, 41, was second at 2:10:57.


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Last week, hundreds of individuals converged on Tumbleweed on the River to jump into The Ohio all in the name of charity.
The annual Special Olympics Polar Plunge took place on a sunny Saturday and was a fun, festive event that left teeth chattering but hearts toasty warm.
I took part (dressing in '80s attire just for the heck of it) after Tumbleweed operators and brothers Matt and Mike Higgins offered to donate $1,000 to Special Olympics if I joined them. Then, several community members – including Terry Roy and James and Adele Murphy – kicked in more donations to a cause that's near and dear. I took the plunge this past weekend in honor of my sister, Steph, who continues to dispel stereotypes and defy limitations. Freezing for a reason never felt so good.
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Welcome to Black Dragon Martial Arts, LLC located at 40017 Hwy 42, Prairievillle, Louisiana. We teach Little Dragons — karate for kids ages 6-10, traditional and sport Taekwondo, Tactical Hapkido (a non-sport self defense system), and Conflict Continuum — a certified women's self defense program through the Tactical Hapkido Alliance. We also offer Black Dragon Special Forces, a program for Special Needs children and families.
To learn more, contact 225-571-2405
If you grew up in the 1970's with Kung Fu on TV like me, then you might remember the words of Master Kan to Cane, "From the crane we leard grace and self control, the snake teaches us suppleness and rhythmic endurance, the praying mantis teaches us speed and patience, and from the tiger we learn tenacity and power, from the dragon we learn to ride the wind. All creatures, the low and the high, are one with nature. If we have the wisdom to learn all may teach us their virtues."
For centuries animal behavior has been studied by martial artist and imitated in combat for survival. The crane, the snake, the praying mantis, the tiger and the dragon are common. However, throughout history other animal figures were also important. One can find the agile leopard, a wolf, a deer, a bear, and a host of others. It is the common five that is believed to have originated in the 13th century in the Shaolin Temple near the Yangtze River in China.
If one is to study a domestic animal such as a house cat, by its nature it knows how to defend itself. So, it is no wonder than that the monks of the Shaolin Temple studied nature and put together a system of self defense using what had already been created, that is ones own internal survival born out of nature. Notice your cat or dog, when caught off guard, they drop low to the ground. It is for safety. When martial artist square off, they drop into a fighting stance which is again for safety. Upon further study of other animals, the fighting systems were improved, redeveloped and sometimes rediscovered. Today, martial artists still seek this knowledge worldwide.
One can walk into almost any dojo or dojang in the world and find martial artists over the globe seeking this knowledge. Students study for a lifetime. Many drop out, but those who stay are enlightened by more than a fighting skill. They come to appreciate creation and the gifts offered.
Happy Training
Master Ken


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Does anyone know of research that shows users rate applications as more responsive or easier to use when paths within the application require fewer clicks? Is it more important to eliminate unnecessary clicks than to create an application that has a completely consistent user interface?
Number of clicks are much less important than users feeling that they are getting closer to their goal. http://www.arrowsandicons.com/articles/what-makes-a-good-wayfinding-system/ sets out the key principles. The key points are:
Number of clicks aren't important unless the user thinks that they're clicking too much. If a user says that they're clicking too much, this likely indicates that your user experience doesn't support their workflow appropriately.
Consistency and number of clicks aren't often at odds when creating a user experience. If you're unsure of whether you should focus on one or the other to make the best use of your time in addressing issues, you should conduct user research to understand where users have problems with your application.
I have one datapoint from just yesterday: I saw a user get pretty pissed at Word 2013 for adding a click to Save As for a document (now users have to choose whether to save to the local computer or MS's cloud service before specifying a folder). Two datapoints if you count myself as well.
Do clicks matter? Depends on what you're trying to accomplish.
How important are clicks? Well, what's the tradeoff? If the user spends 2 minutes trying to find the right thing to click on a cluttered page rather than 30 seconds clicking through two low-cluttered pages, then adding the click improves things. In a usability test, time to complete the task is a better metric than number of clicks. (Nonetheless, prior to testing, number of clicks plus other actions provides a decent estimate of time to complete a task.)
As for consistency, consistency doesn't mean make everything the same. Consistency means make everything that looks the same be the same. If two things look the same, but one takes 3 clicks and the other takes 2 clicks, users are likely to make errors, especially once muscle memory starts to build for either the 2-click or 3-click response. However, it things look different –if it is immediately and obviously clear to the user that the 2-click vs. 3-click response is necessary in the current context, consistency won't be an issue.
Number of clicks aren't important, provided they are performing a useful purpose to the user.
For instance, if I want to read a user manual for the latest Acme Point and Click Camera called SureSnapz, then I will expect to select:
Thats a lot of clicks just to get a manual, but I don't care, because at all times I've felt totally in control and know exactly whats happening.
Compare that to when I want to track a package from Warble. I know they tried to deliver it, as they left two cards. I go onto their site, and all I have to do is enter the reference number on the card. I do that, and then I don't know where I am. There are tabs all over the place. hundreds of links to click, but what is missing is a big fat button saying: click to reschedule delivery. Its a mess and I end up going around and around in circles.
Worse still are the sites that have ads pretending to be links to the information you want. Nothing makes me less likely to want to buy or support a product than when the person selling it either wants to use me as a cash cow or doesn't care that their advertisers use unscrupulous means to get me to click their links.
Number of clicks are task-dependent too. If a user is engaged into task flow and task is divided on several steps (clicks) – it is ok.
But if you have boring repetitive task you will pray on clicks minimisation, watch type overload.


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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia strongly denounces and condemns the outrageous and heinous attempt to assassinate its Ambassador to the United States, a plot which is not consistent with normal humanitarian values and ethics or with international norms and traditions.
In a statement issued today, the Government of Saudi Arabia expressed its appreciation for the efforts undertaken by U.S. authorities – which were followed-up by the Kingdom – in the detection of the attempted assassination plot. The Kingdom will continue its contacts and coordination with the concerned U.S. authorities regarding this despicable plot and those behind it.
At the same time, the Kingdom is considering the critical procedures and steps that must be taken in this regard to stop these criminal acts and to firmly address any attempts to destabilize the Kingdom, threaten its security and spread sedition among its people, the statement added.
The Kingdom calls upon the Arab and Islamic nations and the international community to assume their responsibilities relating to these terrorist acts and the attempts to threaten not only the stability of countries, but international peace and security as well.
In a separate statement, Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), condemned the assassination attempt as a "flagrant and unacceptable violation of all laws, conventions and international norms, seriously harming the relations between the GCC member countries on the one hand and Iran on the other hand."
Dr. Al-Zayani also lauded the effective cooperation between the competent security bodies in both the United States and Mexico, which put an end to this heinous act.
The Secretary General called upon Iran to rebuild its relations with the GCC member countries on the basis of openness, transparency, constructive cooperation and good neighborliness and to move away from its current negative approach.


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SOLID man!Slack is pretty cool.I remember the distribution disk sets...do they still have those? It's been 3 years since I had slackware on my box. I had a SLOWlaris box on my old sunstation but it has since broken down.Bobby
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I am a programmer but this can apply to any field. There are many technologies that I want to know. So I start to read some book and then I jump to another book and so on. This makes me feel bad. Any advice of how to approach learning?
Try to apply what you learn by implementing a small project, don't just read. Have a project in mind and you read a book, you will internatilize the concepts better.
If you don't know what to develop, I can give you a few ideas, I am running out of time :)
You can't. There is simply too much knowledge to learn everything. But... it sounds like you want to learn how to learn, which can be done!
A good place to start would be the learning questions already asked here. The rest depends on what you want to learn.
You can find more sites like these on this article: top 40 useful sites to learn new skills.
Edit: I noticed I didn't really answer the question very well. Here are some points to focus on to improve your approach to learning:
Since you seem to want to jump from topic to topic prior to finishing the previous, create a First In, First Out queue of topics you want to research; meaning as you find new topics, add them to your list, and progress sequentially.
I have the same problem. I always read a different book every time I come across some interesting technology that I can't get enough of.
I realized that repeating this would not make me any better.
Right now, I try to focus myself on learning only one language since I wouldn't get anywhere if I try and learn all interesting and existing technologies. To get around my curiosity of other things, I read different blogs on different days, reading a thing or two about a new technology.
In that case, I only focus my attention to one language while still being up to date with other technologies that I am interested in. Just limit yourself to one or two posts as it will be the start of the cycle of trying to learn everything once again.
As a programmer, I struggle with the same problem. There's simply too much out there to learn. That's the first step, accepting that you can't learn everything. From there, I would recommend keeping a list of things you want to learn, along with why you want to learn it, and prioritizing it. Then, keep focused on the top choice until you feel satisfied that you got what you wanted from pursuing that topic. Maybe you just want a high level of concepts in a particular technology, maybe you want to be able to use it reasonably well for a specific task, maybe you want to be an expert in the particular field. It doesn't matter. You have to set targets for your learning, otherwise you'll end up meandering off and just reading a bunch of books with no concrete goal, and you can spend forever going down those rabbit holes without ever feeling satisfied, which is my guess as to why you feel bad.
I'd recommend looking into "The First 20 Hours" by Josh Kaufman. I recently listened to the audio book, and I was on this site looking for advice to deconstruct the task of learning a language into sub-skills.
Basically, the crux of the book's argument is that learning basic competence in a skill requires only about 20 hours of concentrated and well-prepared practice to overcome the initial difficulty and frustration that is inherent in learning most skills. This is a counterpoint to the "10,000-hour rule" popularized by Malcolm Gladwell in the book "Outliers". Essentially while mastery in a skill typically takes 10,000 hours of sustained practice, most of the key concepts are learned in the first 20 hours. This is particularly valuable to programmers and other technical professionals, as we often have to learn to be proficient in many different SDK's, protocols, programming languages, operating systems, etc.
One of the interesting things about the book is the time Kaufman devotes to explaining how he uses his technique to learn Go, yoga, programming in Ruby, windsurfing, playing the ukulele, and touch typing. The basic method is easily summarized in the first three chapters, but the application helps to highlight how to apply the technique to very different skills and the little pitfalls that might not be obvious in the beginning.
Like everyone is saying there are tons of knowledge out there which one can't learn all in one's lifetime..
Since you are beginner
Choose only one programming language and try to master that language...
1)First choose a best textbook on that language learn the theory
2)start working out some samples on that language.working out what you learned is more important because you'll come to know the difficulties and understand very well only when you work out.
3)Join a forum or some programming community ask questions answer some questions if you know.
4)work on real projects.
5)Contest on some code competitions.
6)Contribute to open source
After you mastered a language you could easily learn multiple languages in short span by comparing one language with other.


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If you already have a child in daycare, you know the expense can be staggering. Adding another child to the roster even from the same family rarely gets you a discount. The average cost of daycare for one child in the United States is around $11,500 a year, or just under $1,000 a month. Prices can be almost double the average if you live in a city or in an area of the country with a higher cost of living.
Look for creative ways to cut down on daycare costs. Ask a relative to watch your child one day a week, look into nannysharing with a neighbor, or talk to your employer about flexible hours so you can overlap childcare with your spouse. All of these options can mean big monthly savings.
For some people, having more than one child in daycare is more expensive than a second income provides, so you may want to look into whether having one stay-at-home parent is a better financial decision. Use our calculator to see if you can afford it.
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As a builder in the Washington, D.C., area, I spend a lot of time with a nailer in my hand and, of course, a lot of time dragging an air hose around the jobsite. It was an eye-opening experience for me to try out the current generation of hoseless (a.k.a. cordless) nail guns, both framing and finish; it's an impressive array of capable tools, whether they are powered by gas fuel cartridges or by rechargeable batteries. After a few months of testing, I came to the conclusion that we are inching closer to a time when air compressors will be a thing of the past. I'm convinced that we are already at that point with finish nailers and, hopefully, are on the threshold of a great leap forward with framing guns, too.
Overall, I tested a dozen tools. Framing nailers (all of which are gas-powered) include the Hitachi NR90GR (round-head), Hitachi NR90GC (clipped-head), Max GS683RH (round-head), Max GS683CH (clipped-head), Paslode 900420 (clipped-head), Powers W3-21FRH (round-head), and the Powers W3-34CDH (clipped-head).
The finish nailers include the battery-powered DeWalt DC618KA (16-gauge angled nail) and Senco CF41 (15-gauge angled nail) and the gas-powered Paslode 900600 (16-gauge angled nail), along with the gas-powered Paslode 901000 brad nailer (18-gauge straight brad) and the battery-powered Senco CF25 brad nailer (18-gauge straight brad).
The gas-powered nailers (all the framers and the two Paslode finish nailers) work much like any other internal combustion engine, relying on a controlled explosion to move a piston. When the nose is pressed onto the work, fuel is carefully metered out into the combustion chamber and mixed with air by an internal fan. When the trigger is pulled, a spark plug connected to the tool's battery ignites the mixture and the resulting rapid expansion of gas forces the piston and thus the driver blade downward. These separate steps are why bump-firing is not an option with gas-powered nailers. After the nail is shot, the fan continues to run as it removes exhaust gases from the combustion chamber. This cycle can be repeated a few times per second, but if the chamber gets too hot from rapid usage, combustion strength is affected and nails may be under-driven. When this happens, the nailer must be allowed to cool down before its next use. This is the basis of why gas-powered nailers are not considered true production tools and provides the challenge for their next generations.
Ongoing fuel expenses are another consideration with these tools; gas canisters cost between $5.50 and $8.50, depending on the brand, and are good for 1,100 to 1,200 shots. The nailers' small rechargeable batteries (6 volts to 7.2 volts) are good for 4,000 to 5,500 shots per charge, depending on the model.
The DeWalt and Senco battery-powered finish nailers operate with a flywheel and clutch system, and their larger batteries (14.4 volts to 18 volts) do all of the nailing work. A motor spins a flywheel as the trigger is pressed and when its speed is sufficient a solenoid briefly engages a mechanical linkage between the flywheel and the driver. This is why bump-firing works with battery-powered driving–the flywheel is just kept in motion.
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I have a problem. My database server isn't working right. On a wiki, it gives an error, and on my wordpress site, the pages don't show up. I am wondering if WordPress caches the DB data in any way, and if so, how do I clear it. I am hoping that will either totally break it or clear it. I am able to disable plugins and change settings, just the pages don't show up.
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Where can I find the information one would get in a favored soul handbook? My google fu has turned up no such page, so I'm curious.
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However, there are a number of useful divine resources out there.
Favored souls are best thought of as sorcerer clerics.
The most tricky aspect of the soul is the spell list. Their problem is the exact inverse of the archivist but can be selected for in the same way. They also share many commonalities with the spirit shaman.
Therefore, we look at the Spirit Shaman Handbook, the Cleric Handbook, and the Archivist handbook for inspiration. We also can dig around a few of the favored soul specific threads for advice (here, and here). As well as the official wizards discussion here.
As such, we can reconstruct a handbook of sorts in this answer.
The first question
Are you positive you want to play a favored soul?
The FS is considered to be a extremely "meh" class in direct competition with a Tier 1 class. There are some excellent reasons for being one, not least the fact that you can enjoy the company of a much lower tiered party than the cleric without needing to "dumb down" your optimization. It may also fit the flavour of your requirements better.
MAD MAD all the way. (Multiple Attribute Dependancy)
Charisma is your casting stat according to this OGL reproduction of the class. But wisdom is your DC basis. Plan your spells carefully to see which stat requires emphasis and which stat requires minor magical buffs.
Given how poor this class appears in performance, this article to the contrary, you may want to ask your DM to make the class based off one casting score. If he requires you to trade in your class features to do so, immediately take him up on his offer.
Other stats are less critical, and should be shaped with the rest of your build in mind.
I say it three times: Thou shalt not give up caster levels. Thou shalt not give up caster levels. Thou shalt not give up caster levels.
Level adjustments are nice, but if you want level adjustments, go find yourself a shiny stick and beat people with it. You need caster levels.
With that said, here are some of the more interesting races from the master race list. If you can get away with buying LA for experience, especially with level adjusted experience rewards, enjoy yourself here.
As per here:
I say it three times: grow your spell list, grow your spell list, grow your spell list. No, really.
However, if you're not going to focus on that, this summary works well:
Looking through here we get:
The "X theurge" (mystic, eldritch) route. One advantage of charisma as a casting stat is that it synergizes very very well with charisma based arcane classes. Using precocious apprentice, a Sorcerer 1/Favored Soul 4 will get you into mystic theurge early and will allow you to spam spells all day long.
Alienist/summoner/malconvoker/fiendbinder/Master of Shrouds: You can spam spells. Summoning is one of the better spam routes. Take advantage of it. The fiendbinder is fascinating because a number of cleric spells allow for insane skill buffs. Take advantage of them.
Fochlucan Lyrist: If you can jump through the hoops, the Cha of your class may reduce MAD slightly.
Shadowbane Stalker: some sneak attack to go with your casting.
Church Inquisitor, Contemplative, Divine Oracle, Singer of Concordance, Divine Disciple, Dracolyte all offer bonus domains and good PrCs to boot.
Seeker of the Misty Isle, for something different.
Dweomerkeeper requires special mention, as it grants arcane access. Spelldancer for the metamagic cheese.
Sapphire Heirarch for gishy builds.
Anima Mage, if you can adapt it for clerics synergizes well with your Cha.
See here for details on the shadowcraft mage.
Getting access to the spell domain and "anyspell" is also extremely worthwhile, as you can remarkably broaden your spell list with arcane spells.
Raptoran and skypledged (you'll need to dip something else to get the appropriate summon) for some interesting air flavour.
Any from here to expand your spell list.
Fiddly, but awesome: War Weaver (though the build cited there seems to be headache inducing), Spellguard of Silverymoon.
Getting access to domains should be fairly high on your priority list.
If you can get access to plant, Holt Warden is quite competitive. Access to war for ordained champion
As per cleric, really.
Build your spells as versatile as possible, as per here. Decide on your party role (and may the gods have mercy on your soul if that's heal battery.) Enjoy.


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The WHO Family of International Classifications
The WHO constitution mandates the production of international classifications on health so that there is a consensual, meaningful and useful framework which governments, providers and consumers can use as a common language.
Internationally endorsed classifications facilitate the storage, retrieval, analysis, and interpretation of data. They also permit the comparison of data within populations over time and between populations at the same point in time as well as the compilation of nationally and internationally consistent data.
The purpose of the WHO Family of International Classifications (WHO-FIC) is to provide an appropriate selection of classifications for a range of settings in the health field around the world.
The basis for the WHO-FIC and the principles governing the admission of classifications are set out in the paper on the "WHO Family of International Classifications: definition, scope and purpose". This paper also provides a protocol for those wishing to submit a classification for inclusion in the WHO-FIC.
Classifications and Clinical Terminologies
Classifications capture snapshot views of population health using such parameters as death, disease, functioning, disability, health and health interventions, which inform management and decision making process in the health system. Over time, they also provide insight on trends which informs the planning and decision making processes undertaken by health authorities. The multiplicity of potential perspectives on health mandates a variety of classifications. Their necessary evolution poses challenges for consistency. More recently, the varied applications in health information systems and the general availability of information and telecommunication technologies (ICT) has highlighted the need for increased interoperability.
The base line information that is aggregated for public health purposes is increasingly derived from health records which contain patient care related information as well as information that is crucial for management, health financing and general health system administration. Accuracy and consistency of the health records is crucial to ensure the quality of care and sound management of health systems resources. This calls for precise and consistent use of clinical terminologies and recognition of the particular importance of semantic interoperability.
Possible synergies between classifications and clinical terminologies have been identified as crucial for future work, particularly from the perspective of a growing automation of information processing. WHO and its network of Collaborating Centres are taking steps in that direction.
Types of Classifications
The WHO-FIC is comprised of the following three types of classifications:
1. Reference Classifications:
Reference classifications are the main classifications covering the essential and basic parameters of health. These classifications have been prepared by the World Health Organization and approved by the Organization's governing bodies for international use.
- International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
- International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)
- International Classification of Health Interventions (ICHI)
2. Derived classifications:
Derived classifications are based on the reference classifications (i.e. ICD and ICF). Derived classifications may be prepared either by building on the reference classification structure and categories to provide additional detail beyond that provided by the reference classification, or they may be prepared through rearrangement or aggregation of items from one or more reference classifications. Derived classifications in the WHO-FIC include:
- International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, 3rd Edition (ICD-O-3)
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- Application of the International Classification of Diseases to Neurology (ICD-10-NA)
- Application of the International Classification of Diseases to Dentistry and Stomatology, 3rd Edition (ICD-DA)
3. Related classifications:
Related classifications are those that connect to or overlap with reference classifications, or are otherwise associated with the reference classification at specific levels of structure only. Related classifications in the WHO-FIC include:
- International Classification of Primary Care, Second edition (ICPC-2)
- International Classification of External Causes of Injury (ICECI)
- Technical aids for persons with disabilities - Classification and terminology (ISO9999)
- The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System with Defined Daily Doses (ATC/DDD)
- International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP)
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