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5 Musicians Who Need to Find Something New to Sing About
In general, musicians tend to keep their subject matter limited to just a few different topics. And that's fine, we love songs about chicks and drugs as much as anyone else. But sometimes, a musician will latch onto one pet subject and hang on for dear life no matter how bad it makes them look. For example...
#5. Eminem
Lyrical Fixation:
Eminem hates his wife and his mother.
Example Lyric:
"I love my daughter more than life n' itself
But I got a wife that's determined to make my life livin' hell
But I handle it well, given the circumstances I'm dealt"
Take my wife, please.
How It All Started:
Eminem has had mommy issues, be it with his mommy or his kid's mommy, since his major label debut, The Slim Shady LP. That album's first single, "My Name Is," was chock full of lyrics about his mom's unfortunate drug habit, but the real kicker was "97 Bonnie and Clyde" (we're not completely sure if that title refers to the year it was recorded or the number of times that goddamned title has been used in rap songs). It was some pretty harrowing shit; Eminem drives to the beach to dispose of the freshly murdered corpse of his ex-wife, Kim. And her new boyfriend. And her boyfriend's kid. All while Kim's daughter, who also happened to be his daughter, was in the car with him.
Kind of hard to top that. But boy, has he tried. And tried, and tried...
Why It Needs to Stop:
It's one thing to call your mom out for being a junkie and threatening your ex-wife on your first album. Antics like those can generally be chalked up to a publicity stunt. But when you follow that up by littering your next three albums with songs about raping your mom ("Kill You") and killing your wife some more ("Kim"), then you're turning into the rap version of Marilyn Manson: a cartoonish figure trying to convert shock value into free advertising.
Like a hip-hop Boo Berry.
When the shock wore off, we kind of just started wishing he'd develop a crippling substance abuse problem like regular folks, rather than rhyming his way through his emotional issues on MTV. Thankfully, that's exactly what he did and the world was blissfully "mommy was mean to me" song-free. For a few years.
Then in 2009, Eminem reemerged with the aptly titled album Relapse. With that album, not only did the world get to hear the innermost turmoil of a man wealthy enough to delve into a four-year drug binge while suffering little to no financial ramifications before being welcomed back to work with open arms, but we also got a whole new round of mommy rhymes.
What rhymes with "ALF shirt"?
On the album's second track (third if you count the intro, which only retards do) Em was back to his old tricks with a song called, what else, "My Mom." She did valium, you know. And lots of drugs. That's why he is how he is. Because of his mom. Fascinating stuff, Mathers. We didn't catch that the first dozen times.
#4. Bon Jovi
Lyrical Fixation:
Being a cowboy.
Example Lyric:
"I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I'm wanted, dead or alive"
How It All Started:
Jon Bon Jovi has been singing about being a cowboy since his days of big hair and songs about Tommy and Gina. Your mom's favorite album, 1986's Slippery When Wet, featured the massive hit "Wanted Dead or Alive," a song that used cowboys as a metaphor for traveling musicians that people wanted to murder. Or something like that.
Maybe it was about robotic, fire-breathing horses.
Then, after Emilio Estevez suggested that "Wanted Dead of Alive" would make a great theme song for Young Guns II, Jon Bon Jovi decided that an entire album of New Jersey cowboy shtick was in order and he recorded Blaze of Glory, his first solo album.
Surely, this would be the last time a band of hair spray abusing New Jersey rockers would drink from that well, right?
Why It Needs to Stop:
Wrong. The band would revisit the cowboy theme several times throughout their career, most notably on the totally-not-innuendo "Ride, Cowboy, Ride" from the New Jersey album. But with 2007's Lost Highway, Bon Jovi stopped singing about cowboys and just decided they were cowboys. JBJ (that's what we call him) described the album as "a Bon Jovi album inspired by Nashville." This is basically a less pathetic way of saying, "Hey, remember that cowboy album we made? Wouldn't you guys love it if we did that again?"
Alternate title: 2 Cowboy 2 Furious
We suppose it makes good business sense. Bon Jovi scored a huge comeback hit in the early part of the decade with "It's My Life," which was basically a cover version of "Livin' On a Prayer," complete with that obnoxious voice box contraption and more lyrics about Tommy and Gina. But you can't rely on those same old tricks forever. Sometimes, a band has to resort to their other set of same old tricks. Nobody knows that better than Bon Jovi.
#3. KoRn
Lyrical Fixation:
Getting picked on in high school
Example Lyric:
"Scream at me again, if you like
Throw your hate at me, with all your might
Hit me 'cause I'm strange, hit me
Tell me I'm a pussy and you're harder than me"
How It All Started:
Those lyrics, with their trademark Korn subtlety, are from one of their earliest singles, "Clown." While the song itself isn't technically about being bullied in high school, the video featured lead singer Jonathan Davis curled up in the fetal position in a high school locker room, so that's pretty metal.
"Faget," another expertly spelled song from their debut album, did directly speak on the subject of Jonathan Davis being bullied in high school. According to Davis himself, "Everyone thinks I'm bashing gay people in this song, and I'm not. It's really about me going through high school being called 'pussy,' 'queer,' and all that stuff, about getting picked on by all these jocks."
Future rock star.
Basically, Korn's entire first album was about how their lead singer is a total pussy. Somewhere, James Hetfield is rolling in his grave. That guy's dead, right?
Why It Needs to Stop:
Really, there's nothing wrong with writing a song about how high school sucked five years after leaving high school. You gotta let that shit out sometime. Some people go to therapists, others write albums and help kick start horrific music trends. To each his own, you know? But when Davis said in "Faget" that he's "got something to say," nobody expected him to go on and say that exact same thing on every album for the next 10 years.
As late as 2002's Untouchables, arguably the last Korn album anyone gave a shit about, Davis was still whining about his glory days as a high school bullying victim. On the album's first single, "Thoughtless," Davis was still spouting "woe is me" lyrics like these:
"Why are you trying to make fun of me?
You think it's funny
What the fuck you think it's doing to me?
You take your turn lashing out at me
I want you crying, when you're dirty in the front of me"
Somewhere, a 15-year-old LiveJournal user is probably contemplating a plagiarism lawsuit right now. Naturally, the general public's interest in Korn waned after five consecutive albums of teenage angst as expressed by 30-year-old dudes. But the band is still at it and is reportedly working on a new album. School shooters of the world, rejoice!


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Chesa Veglia
In 1936 Badrutt's Palace Hotel had this historic farmhouse in the centre of St. Moritz converted into a unique meeting point for gourmets and night owls which can be enjoyed by day or by night. The rustic and cosy ambience of the «Chesa Veglia» has always attracted VIPs who like to frequent one of the three restaurants or two bars, to indulge in international specialties or refreshing drinks. The diversity of the menus has made «Chesa Veglia» a popular destination for locals and visitors.
The cosy «Polo Bar» is situated in the farmhouse's former smoke room and invites guests to aperitifs and after-dinner cocktails following a dinner in one of «Chesa Veglia's» restaurants. The fabulous drawings and fairy tale pictures of the Engadin artist, Carigiet, decorate the walls of the eponymous «Bar Carigiet» and add an authenticity and charm of the magical world of the Engadin mountains.
The «Pizzeria Heuboden» offers its guests original Italian classics. In the «Patrizier Stuben» Swiss and international specialties await sophisticated connoisseurs and in the «Grill Chadafö», which like the «Carigiet Bar» is only open in the winter season, you can enjoy an elegant dinner after an eventful day. The «Chesa Veglia» offers first class service and exquisite delicacies in the ambience of a former Engadin farmhouse.
Opening hours
|Patrizier Stuben
|12.00pm – 10.30pm
|12.00pm – 10.30pm
|Pizzeria Heuboden
|6.30pm – 11.30pm
|6.30pm – 11.30pm
|Grill Chadafö
|7.30pm – 11.00pm
|Bar Carigiet
|6.00pm – midnight
|Polo Bar
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Just found Neil Brock on my game. He's a scout at Crawley Town and with scouting attributes of 6 for both potential and actual, my guess is he's not very good....
Sorry, Neil.
Just found Neil Brock on my game. He's a scout at Crawley Town and with scouting attributes of 6 for both potential and actual, my guess is he's not very good....
Sorry, Neil.
Added myself and a couple of my friends to the game but haven't seen any of those newgens. Loaded new game 4 times but there is always only one russian regen Pavel Sirotkin.
There is how my file looks like (named it newgens.edt and put it into /data/db/1100/edt):
Last one if my father actually but added him too since year of birth doesn't really matter.Code:"DETAILED_FUTURE_REGEN" "Ivan" "" "Scherbina" "26/03/1979" "Russia" "Valencia" "0" "5" "3" "188" "80" "3" "" "26" "Taganrog" "DETAILED_FUTURE_REGEN" "Ilja" "" "Scherbina" "18/04/1986" "Russia" "Lokomotiv Moscow" "0" "5" "2" "187" "76" "2" "" "" "Taganrog" "DETAILED_FUTURE_REGEN" "Alexandr" "" "Popov" "18/06/1982" "Russia" "Barcelona" "0" "4" "3" "182" "76" "1" "" "" "Taganrog" "DETAILED_FUTURE_REGEN" "Oleg" "" "Chesnokov" "12/02/1983" "Russia" "Kuban" "1" "6" "5" "174" "72" "4" "" "" "Kransodar" "DETAILED_FUTURE_REGEN" "Nikolay" "" "Scherbina" "14/04/1956" "Russia" "R. Madrid" "0" "4" "6" "184" "78" "3" "" "" "Taganrog"
What am I doing wrong?
The future regens are loaded up into the game from the config file but they are not necessarily used with the very first newgens that are created in the game. So you might have to wait for the first full intake of newgens after the first season before seeing more of the "future_regen" players.
To test it just create multiple entries of the same thing then there should be a few of them at the start of the game at least. I did that with a rather rude name repeated thousands of times and ran the game for a number of years and the Scotland squad was half full of those players.
This is what the entry for me is in the config file we used for the game which seems to work apart from the footed part which you should probably replace with the numbers Riz listed before
Code:"DETAILED_FUTURE_REGEN" "Craig" "" "Hunter" "09-04-1989" "Scotland" "Rangers" "1" "5" "25" "191" "95" "Both" "ATTACKER_CENTRAL" "7" "5202271"
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I have never know this
No, it's the ID of the city of birthIs that your unique ID Ter on end ? im taking i dont need to add 1
FM10 doesn't seem to have a "FUTURE_REGEN" config file. Are the future regens hard-coded in this game?
Right ive got this working but for some reason im a scout not a player is that because i put my real date of birth ?
Got this working fine now besides my hair which is shaved but ive got hair in the game despite using the currect field for no hair and for some reason my birth place wont show up propley again ive used the correct unique ID
So if you want to make sure your future regen appears as a player, put his birth year late enough for him to be around 16 years old at the start of the game.
Look on page one where it is explained in detail.
"DETAILED_FUTURE_REGEN" "Neil" "" "Huntington" "07.11.1993" "England" "Leeds" "0" "7" "1" "177" "82" "0" "ATTACKER_CENTRAL" "10" "8601486"
Remember your not forced to be in at start of game and put a diffrent date of birth if you want to be a player otherwise like i did 1st time i put my correct d.o.b and i was made a scout
I still dont understand what file to create and where to put it, i can make a notepad file with the line about future regen etc but do i save as config file? .edt file? and where do i put it in FM2011? Thanks
New game only? Or can I use this with a current game?
Can i have my name in the game too, pleeeaaaase!! :d
This is bloody brilliant.
If I put the unique ID number for favorite club and nationality, will it still work?
many times the regen is not a promising one
Well I thought it was a fair price


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I want to use the open source Radeon driver for Ubuntu, but currently I'm using fglrx.
So, I went ahead and purged fglrx using
sudo apt-get remove --purge fglrx* and when I rebooted and ran
sudo lshw -c video, I still see
driver=fglrx_pci. I've followed the instructions here.
I'm not sure why I can't completely purge fglrx, is anyone else experiencing this? I also checked Synaptic Package Manager and Additional Drivers and it says I'm not using fglrx at all. I'm not sure if I'm really using fglrx now.
Have anyone else encountered this? Thanks.


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Classic Parts Of America - Classic LifeWritten by on January 1, 2010 Deep In The Truck Belt's Heart
There's no two ways about it, the Kansas City, Kansas, and Missouri area is smack dab, deep in the middle of America's truck belt. All it took for us to reaffirm this notion was a weekend visit to the Midwest All-Truck Nationals in Riverside, Missouri. In its 10th year, the Midwest All-Truck Nats is definitely on Custom Classic Trucks' list of must-see shows for anyone with a passion for old and new trucks and has the means to get there.
The first night we were in town, even before we located the show grounds, we spotted Classic Parts of America's building from the highway in Riverside. You can't miss it. It's a behemoth building brightly illuminated with GMC and Chevrolet neon lights shining through from the showroom.
The story of Classic Parts of America (formerly known as Chevy Duty) began a little over 26 years ago when Mark Jansen started the business specializing in classic Chevrolet and GMC trucks out of his two-car garage. Mark soon discovered his special knack for tracking down hard-to-find and obsolete parts was going take a lot more than a two-car garage to house. Of course no one builds a business to the immenseness Classic Parts of America has achieved today without a solid core of good folks to make up a team. Thanks to a crew that has been with Mark since the early days, the company continues to be a thriving business with a great reputation.
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From left to right: Carrie Clancy, Brad Steward, Jeff Stuart, and Robert Mata. Carrie has been with the company 16 years, Brad 3, Jeff 20, and Robert 14. Life is good when your job is all about your lifestyle. Barely visible behind them is a fully loaded '87 Chevy K10 (4x4) with only 89 original miles.This box is just a minute fraction of the N.O.S. parts Classic Parts has tucked away upstairs on row after row of 10-foot tall shelving. These hard-to-find parts are not listed in their catalog, so give them call with your needs and there's a chance they may have it!
Because it's pretty darn hard to describe the exact condition of a used part, Classic Parts doesn't like to get real involved shipping used body parts, but welcomes anyone in the area to swing by and see if what they have meets their expectations.


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24 Jul 2013 3:07 AM #1
Unanswered: window.open not working?
Is there a way to get "window.open" working in javascript running in a packaged app?
I know there are possibilities like "Ion.util.openUrl(...)" for Default-Browser-Windows and "Ion.ui.Window({url: _url, title: 'Second Window'})" for Application-Windows. But I have some old views running in my app which use "window.open".
2 Aug 2013 11:59 AM #2
Wrap window.open?
I'm brand new to packager so forgive me if this is ignorant but couldn't you wrap the window.open [1] command?
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9172505/how-to-override-the-window-open-functionality
5 Aug 2013 1:00 AM #3
Seems like a good and simple solution - Thank you.
Gonna try it as soon as we focus on this project.
23 Aug 2013 5:42 AM #4
Just implemented this for my app:
//only apply if running in packaged app if(window.Ion){ window.open = function (open) { return function (url, name, features) { //call ion function instead return Ion.util.openUrl(url); }; }(window.open); }
- Ion package returns boolean, normal javascript will return a window object. In my case I didn't care, but if you expect to do anything with the return, this solution won't work
- The only reason I do "if window.Ion" is because I'm continuing to support the standard webapp as well. If you're doing packaged only, this is not necessary (but doesn't hurt).
- I put this in the launch() of my app, but it can be anywhere as long as it's executed before you try to call window.open.
24 Aug 2013 8:53 AM #5
To avoid circular calls, you need to stash away the original window.open function in variable.
A nice way (that doesn't pollute the global namespace) is to use a closure. Pass the original window.open function to an anonymous function as an argument (called open below). This anonymous function is a factory for your hook function. Your hook function is permanently bound to the original window.open function via the open argument:
window.open = function (open) {
return function (url, name, features) {
// set name if missing here
name = name || "default_window_name";
return open.call(window, url, name, features);
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27 Aug 2013 10:58 AM #6
Break it up a little:
var openWrapper = function (originalOpen) { console.debug('original open exists here:' + originalOpen); var newOpen = function (url, name, features) { console.debug('original open STILL exists here:' + open);//<-- open is passed in by scope // set name if missing here name = name || "default_window_name"; return originalOpen.call(window, url, name, features); }; return newOpen; };
Then tell it to wrap something:
var openWrapped = openWrapper(window.open);


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I have a few questions about nonplanar "stick circuits" (or hexagons and higher $n$-gons) that you might be able to help with:
(I know that $n=6$ is the minimum number of points to form a stick knot.)
Given $n=6$ points in $\mathbb{R}^3$ in general position connected by a specific "stick circuit" (nonplanar hexagon), what test can be done to see if it forms a stick knot vs. an unknot?
Given $n=6$ points in $\mathbb{R}^3$ in general position, there are 60 different stick circuits connecting them. True or false, at least one forms a knot?
Given $n=6$ points in $\mathbb{R}^3$ in general position, does the minimum-length stick circuit on these $n$ points ever form a knot? ("knotted 6-point traveling salesman problem with return)
All these can be generalized to $n > 6$.
These questions occurred to me over the last few days. I suspect (1) has a known answer but I have no idea about (2) or (3).


text: What's up, Docs? Today I will be fulfilling my first ever tutorial request!!! After this I will have one more to do, as well. Both requests were made by mkbprincess14, a lover of Care Bears and Cheese from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends! XD I had a lot of fun doing this drawing of Grumpy Bear, even though the coloring didn't exactly come out my way. I would think that anyone could relate to him, because we all sometimes let ourselves get into a down mood. When we do, all we can do is do something, anything that brings us joy, because nothing gets done for anyone in a bad mood. Eh, enough with the philosophy, let's get started!


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Some of Hawaii's most fashion-forward audiences gathered at Ward Centers for a red carpet kick-off event in honor of Hawaii Fashion Month. Guests mingled while listening to live music and dining on tasty bites and delicious drinks. The main event of the evening was a fashion show featuring Kyoto-based and world-renowned artist Izukura.


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Practical Welding Today®March/April 2009
Practical Welding Today® was created to fill a void in the industry for hands-on information, real-world applications, and down-to-earth advice for welders. No other welding magazine fills the need for this kind of practical information. Subscriptions are free to qualified welding professionals in North America.
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Q: What is the procedure qualification test for manufacturing pipe using submerged arc welding?Sandesh P. A: Pipe is manufactured by one of these four methods: electric resistance welding (ERW)/high-frequency induction (HFI) welding, seamless (plug/mandrel mill and extrusion), spiral welding, and...
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Performing GTAW on anodized aluminum poses a unique set of challenges, even to the most experienced welder. To address these challenges, welders must be aware of the special equipment and consumables required, properly prepare materials, and employ the correct technique to lay the bead.
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Q: I am confused about the various specifications for seismic applications. How can I know if I have the right filler metal for the job?A: Your confusion is understandable. The documents overseeing seismic applications are ongoing and constantly revised. To fully understand this issue, we need to...
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BP Pleads Guilty, Will Pay $4 Billion In Criminal Penalties For Gulf Oil Spill
Update at 11:30 a.m. ET: Oil giant BP has agreed to plead guilty to criminal misconduct related to the 2010 Gulf Oil spill and will pay a record $4 billion in criminal penalties, the company just confirmed. And it will pay $525 million in civil penalties in a resolution with the Securities and Exchanges Commission. BP will make the payments over six years.
About $2.4 billion of the criminal fine, BP says, will "be paid to the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) over a period of five years. In addition, $350 million will be paid to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) over a period of five years."
The company also says that:
"As part of the resolution, BP has agreed to plead guilty to 11 felony counts of Misconduct or Neglect of Ships Officers relating to the loss of 11 lives; one misdemeanor count under the Clean Water Act; one misdemeanor count under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act; and one felony count of obstruction of Congress. This resolution is subject to U.S. federal court approval."
Our original post: "BP Expected To Plead Guilty, Pay Record Fine In Gulf Oil Spill Criminal Case."
Oil giant BP is preparing to plead guilty to criminal misconduct related to the 2010 Gulf Oil spill later today, according to two sources familiar with the case. The sources said the settlement deal will also include the largest-ever penalty in a criminal case, topping the more than $1 billion payment by pharmaceutical maker Pfizer in a drug marketing prosecution (Pfizer also paid about $1 billion in civil penalties).
London-based BP confirmed it is in "advanced discussions" with the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission to put an end to the long-running criminal investigation. The agreement will not cover civil environmental damages under the Clean Water Act, BP said.
Eleven people died in an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon mobile rig in April 2010, touching off one of the largest environmental disasters in history. The damage to fish, birds, and water in the Gulf and along the borders of four states is still being studied by scientists.
The two sources close to the case said a formal announcement is likely later today in New Orleans. One said that individual executives could face prosecution as well. To date, only one person, former BP engineer Kurt Mix, has been charged with a crime. Mix is fighting allegations he obstructed justice by deleting messages that reflected how much oil was gushing out of the Macondo well after the disaster.
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Cerebral palsy is a disorder of movement, muscle tone or posture that is caused by an insult to the immature, developing brain, most often before birth.
Signs and symptoms appear during infancy or preschool years. In general, cerebral palsy causes impaired movement associated with exaggerated reflexes, floppiness or rigidity of the limbs and trunk, abnormal posture, involuntary movements, unsteadiness of walking, or some combination of these.
People with cerebral palsy may have difficulty with swallowing and commonly have eye muscle imbalance. People with cerebral palsy may have reduced range of motion at various joints of their bodies due to muscle stiffness.
The effect of cerebral palsy on functional abilities varies greatly. Some people are able to walk while others aren't able to walk. Some people show normal to near normal intellectual function, but others may have intellectual disabilities. Epilepsy, blindness or deafness also may be present.
People with cerebral palsy often have underlying developmental brain abnormalities.
Signs and symptoms can vary greatly. Movement and coordination problems associated with cerebral palsy may include:
The disability associated with cerebral palsy may be limited primarily to one limb or one side of the body, or it may affect the whole body. The brain disorder causing cerebral palsy doesn't change with time, so the symptoms usually don't worsen with age, although the shortening of muscles and muscle rigidity may worsen if not treated aggressively.
Brain abnormalities associated with cerebral palsy also may contribute to other neurological problems. People with cerebral palsy may also have:
It's important to get a prompt diagnosis for any movement disorder or possible delays in your child's development. See your child's doctor if you have any questions or concerns about muscle tone, muscle movement, coordination or other developmental issues.
Cerebral palsy is caused by an abnormality or disruption in brain development, usually before a child is born. In many cases, the exact trigger of this abnormality isn't known. Factors that may lead to problems with brain development include:
A number of factors are associated with an increased risk of cerebral palsy.
Certain infections or health problems during pregnancy can significantly increase the risk of giving birth to a baby with cerebral palsy. Infections of particular concern include:
Illnesses in a newborn baby that can greatly increase the risk of cerebral palsy include:
Other factors of pregnancy or birth that are associated with an increased risk of cerebral palsy include:
Muscle weakness, muscle spasticity and coordination problems can contribute to a number of complications either during childhood or later during adulthood, including:
If your child has cerebral palsy, how you learn about your child's condition may depend on the severity of the disabilities, when problems first appeared, and whether there were any risk factors during the pregnancy or delivery.
It's important to take your child to all regularly scheduled well-baby visits and annual appointments during childhood. These visits are an opportunity for your child's doctor to monitor your child's development in key areas, including:
Your doctor may ask you several questions during appointments, including:
If your family doctor or pediatrician believes that your child exhibits signs of cerebral palsy, you may want to discuss the following questions:
If your family doctor or pediatrician suspects that your child has cerebral palsy, he or she will evaluate your child's signs and symptoms, review your child's medical history, and conduct a physical evaluation. Your doctor may refer you to a doctor trained in treating children with brain and nervous system conditions (pediatric neurologist).
Your doctor will also order a series of tests to make a diagnosis and rule out other possible causes.
Brain-imaging technologies can reveal areas of damage or abnormal development in the brain. These tests may include the following:
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). An MRI uses radio waves and a magnetic field to produce detailed 3-D or cross-sectional images of your child's brain. An MRI can often identify any lesions or abnormalities in your child's brain.
This test is painless, but it's noisy and can take up to an hour to complete. Your child will likely receive a mild sedative before the test. An MRI is usually the preferred imaging test.
Computerized tomography (CT) scan. A CT scan uses X-rays to obtain cross-sectional images of your child's brain. A CT scan may be used to identify abnormalities in your child's brain.
Scanning is painless and takes about 20 minutes. Because your child will need to be very still during the test, he or she will likely receive a mild sedative.
If your child has had seizures, your doctor may order an electroencephalogram (EEG) to determine if he or she has epilepsy, which often occurs in people with cerebral palsy. In an EEG test, a series of electrodes are affixed to your child's scalp.
The EEG records the electrical activity of your child's brain. If he or she has epilepsy, it's common for there to be changes in normal patterns of brain waves.
Your child's blood may need to be checked to rule out other conditions, such as blood-clotting disorders that can cause strokes, which may mimic cerebral palsy signs and symptoms. Laboratory tests may also screen for genetic or metabolic problems.
If your child is diagnosed with cerebral palsy, you'll likely be referred to specialists for assessments of other conditions that are often associated with the disorder. These tests may identify:
Children and adults with cerebral palsy require long-term care with a medical care team. This team may include:
Medications that can lessen the tightness of muscles may be used to improve functional abilities, treat pain and manage complications related to spasticity or other cerebral palsy symptoms.
It's important to talk about the risk of drug treatments with your doctor and discuss whether medical treatment is appropriate for your child's needs. The selection of medications depends on whether the problem affects only certain muscles (isolated) or the whole body (generalized). Drug treatments may include the following:
Isolated spasticity. When spasticity is isolated to one muscle group, your doctor may recommend injections of onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox) directly into the muscle, nerve or both. Botox injections may help to improve drooling. Your child will need injections about every three months.
Side effects may include pain, bruising or severe weakness. Other more-serious side effects include difficulty breathing and swallowing.
Generalized spasticity. If the whole body is affected, oral muscle relaxants may relax stiff, contracted muscles. These drugs include diazepam (Valium), dantrolene (Dantrium) and baclofen (Gablofen).
There is some risk of dependency with diazepam, so it's not recommended for long-term use. Its side effects include drowsiness, weakness and drooling.
Side effects of dantrolene include sleepiness, nausea and or diarrhea.
Side effects of baclofen include sleepiness, confusion and nausea. Baclofen may also be pumped directly into the spinal cord with a tube. The pump is surgically implanted under the skin of the abdomen.
Your child also may be prescribed medications to reduce drooling. Medications such as trihexyphenidyl, scopolamine (Scopace) or glycopyrrolate (Robinul, Robinul Forte) may be helpful.
A variety of nondrug therapies can help a person with cerebral palsy to enhance functional abilities. These include the following:
Physical therapy. Muscle training and exercises may help your child's strength, flexibility, balance, motor development and mobility. You will also learn how to safely care for your child's everyday needs at home, such as bathing and feeding your child.
Braces or splints may be recommended for your child. Some of these supports are used to help with function, such as improved walking. Others may stretch stiff muscles to help prevent rigid muscles (contractures).
Occupational therapy. Using alternative strategies and adaptive equipment, occupational therapists work to promote your child's independent participation in daily activities and routines in the home, the school and the community.
Adaptive equipment may include walkers, quadrupedal canes, seating systems or electric wheelchairs.
Speech and language therapy. Speech-language pathologists can help improve your child's ability to speak clearly or to communicate using sign language.
Speech-language pathologists can also teach your child to use communication devices, such as a computer and voice synthesizer, if communication is difficult.
Another communication device may be a board covered with pictures of items and activities your child may see in daily life. Sentences can be constructed by pointing to the pictures.
Speech therapists may also address difficulties with muscles used in eating and swallowing.
Surgery may be needed to lessen muscle tightness or correct bone abnormalities caused by spasticity. These treatments include:
Orthopedic surgery. Children with severe contractures or deformities may need surgery on bones or joints to place their arms, hips or legs in their correct positions.
Surgical procedures can also lengthen muscles and tendons that are proportionally too short because of severe contractures. These corrections can lessen pain and improve mobility. These procedures may also make it easier to use a walker, braces or crutches.
When a child is diagnosed with a disabling condition, the whole family faces new challenges. Here are a few tips for caring for your child and yourself:
Find support. A circle of support can make a big difference in helping you cope with cerebral palsy and its effects. As a parent, you may feel grief and guilt over your child's disability.
Your doctor can help you locate support groups, organizations and counseling services in your community. Your child may benefit from family support programs, school programs and counseling.
Most cases of cerebral palsy can't be prevented, but you can lessen risks. If you're pregnant or planning to become pregnant, you can take these steps to keep healthy and minimize pregnancy complications:
Babies and infants diagnosed with cerebral palsy may have weakness, stiff muscles or unusual movements. They may not meet their developmental milestones on time. Your doctor may see signs of cerebral palsy soon after your baby's birth or sometime in the first two years.
To ensure the best possible health and development outcome, your child with cerebral palsy is likely to need coordinated care by a number of doctors in various specialties during the growing years. As your child grows to adulthood, Mayo Clinic can provide a smooth transition from pediatric care to coordinated medical care with adult care doctors.
A team can include doctors trained in many areas, including brain and nervous system conditions (neurologists), treatment of children with brain and nervous system conditions (pediatric neurologists), brain and nervous system surgery (neurosurgeons), conditions of the bones and skeletal surgery (orthopedic surgeons), physical medicine and rehabilitation, and other areas.
Doctors collaborate with therapists, nurses, dietitians, physical and occupational therapists, nurses, social workers, and others trained to help people overcome limitations and make the most of their capabilities.
Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., is ranked among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery and for orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report. Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., is ranked among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery and for orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report. Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., is ranked among the Best Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery and high performing for orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report. Mayo Clinic also ranks among the Best Children's Hospitals for neurology and neurosurgery and for orthopedics.
Mayo Clinic works with hundreds of insurance companies and is an in-network provider for millions of people. In most cases, Mayo Clinic doesn't require a physician referral. Some insurers require referrals or may have additional requirements for certain medical care. All appointments are prioritized on the basis of medical need.
Doctors trained in neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, urology, and other areas may be involved in treating adults with cerebral palsy at Mayo Clinic in Arizona.
For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at 800-446-2279 (toll-free) 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, Monday through Friday or complete an online appointment request form.
Doctors trained in neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery (including hand surgery), and physical medicine and rehabilitation may be involved in treating adults with cerebral palsy at Mayo Clinic in Florida.
For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at 904-953-0853 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday or complete an online appointment request form.
Doctors trained in neurology, pediatric neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, urology, speech pathology, physical and occupational therapy, pediatrics, and other areas may be involved in treating children and adults with cerebral palsy at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
For appointments or more information, call the Central Appointment Office at 507-538-3270 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central time, Monday through Friday or complete an online appointment request form.
Doctors trained in pediatric neurology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, pediatric neurosurgery, pediatric orthopedics, pediatric urology, pediatric speech pathology, pediatric physical and occupational therapy, and developmental pediatrics may be involved in treating children at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
See information on patient services at the three Mayo Clinic locations, including transportation options and lodging.
Mayo Clinic researchers in many fields work together seeking new and improved treatments for cerebral palsy as well as methods to prevent the condition. Read more about research in neurology, orthopedic surgery, and biomechanics and motion analysis.
See a list of publications about cerebral palsy by Mayo Clinic doctors on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.
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WEST LIBERTY - West Liberty University Foundation officials have announced the appointment of new board members Thomas Reinbold, Cindy Stickley and Will Turani.
- Reinbold, a Pittsburgh native, graduated from West Liberty in 1970 with a bachelor of science in marketing. He was a member of the Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity and had a 31-year career with the consumer products division of Bristol-Myers Squibb, beginning as a sales representative in 1973 and rising to the position of director of sales, national accounts. During his career he earned awards, including sales representative of the year, division of the year and the president's award.
Reinbold was proactive in the hiring of women and minority candidates for employees and was recognized for his achievements in that field, according to officials. He retired from Bristol-Myers Squibb in 2002.
Reinbold and his college sweetheart, Eileen, married in 1971 and are the parents of two sons, Douglas and Matthew.
Avid supporters of WLU, the Reinbolds were donors for WLU's first graphics art scholarship and funded many improvements in the art department, as well as the Kelly Theatre and an endowment for future upgrades. They reside in Surprise, Ariz.
- A life-long educator, administrator and educational consultant, Stickley is a resident of Powell, Ohio. Originally from Urbana, she graduated from Bowling Green State University with a bachelor's degree in elementary education and specific learning disabilities and then earned her master's degree from Wright State University.
During her professional career she taught students with specific learning disabilities for 10 years in grades kindergarten through sixth in the Graham Local Schools in St. Paris, Ohio, and was a head teacher in an intermediate school. She continued her career as supervisor of special education programs and curriculum development for an additional five years in Ashland, Ohio, through the Ashland County Board of Education, serving Hillsdale and Mapleton Local school districts.
She was the specific learning disabilities consultant for the State of Ohio and worked at the Ohio Department of Education for 15 years.
Stickley developed a scholarship for music students in the name of her late husband, Donald L. Pahl Sr., a music professor and WLU alumnus.
Stickley has been active with Habitat for Humanity, homeless education, arts' council and farm preservation organizations.
- Turani, a resident of Wheeling, is director of global operations and sustainability at Orrick. He joined Orrick in December 2001 as director of operations and was a member of the management team that created the Wheeling Global Operations Center in 2002.
Turani is responsible for managing and sustaining internal GOC growth with specific responsibilities on leveraging success of the GOC by increasing employment possibilities in all functional areas of GOC operations. His duties include managing the firm's business process outsourcing contract with Williams Lea and managing several of the firm's operational relationships, such as, AMEX, FedEx, DHL, UPS and Staples.
Prior to joining Orrick, Turani was Wheeling's city manager for four years and the assistant city manager for four years prior to promotion to city manager. He also served as the county administrator for Hancock County from 1989 to 1993.
A graduate of West Liberty with a bachelor of science in political science, Turani also has his master's degree in public administration degree from West Virginia University.
He has served on the Regional Economic Development Partnership, the Community Foundation of the Upper Ohio Valley, the Belomar Regional Council and the Partners in Education program for Ohio County Schools. He and his wife Tracey have two children, Nicholas and Anna.
They join a board that includes by Chairman Les DeFelice '76 and : E. Marc Abraham '79 (treasurer), Glen Dale, W.Va.; Marty Adams '75, Salineville; Jason Blair '95, Arlington, Va.; John Bonassi '69, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Clyde D. Campbell '53, Wheeling; President Robin C. Capehart; Louis Cardamone '65, the Villages, Fla.; Joseph W. Carey '91, New York City; David R. Croft '89, Wheeling; Alfred R. de Jaager, West Liberty; John Dolan '78, Indiana, Pa.; Lynne Exley, Wheeling; James Frum '61, Wheeling; Susan Hogan, Wheeling; Dr. Daniel I. Joseph '75, Wheeling; Bob Kota '67, Wheeling; Richard A. Lucas '86 (secretary), Wheeling; R. Clark Morton '53, Wheeling; Norman B. Moyes '53, Brighton, Mass.; Judith Bartell Paesani '55, Wheeling; E. Alex Paris, III '82, Atlasburg, Pa.; Andrew Pasden '69, Cambridge, Md.; Gary West '58, Naples, Fla,; Kristina Williams '86; Gibsonia, Pa. and G. Randolph Worls, Wheeling. Emeritus members include: Roland L. Hobbs, Wheeling; Fred Horne, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Robert Joseph, MD '64, Wheeling; Peter Sontag '69, Clearwater, Fla. and Dr. Richard Stevenson, Morgantown.


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Cartoon Characters Influence Kids' Food Choices
March 7, 2011 -- Shrek and other cartoon characters influence the opinions of children about their eating preferences, a study shows.
The study is published in the March issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Because kids remember non-verbal representations more easily than they do verbal ones, a visual cue such as a logo or character like Shrek may help them remember what they see in advertisements.
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Is Cain able? (IV)
Sweet Marie, there's another GOP debate tonight. With Ceo-of-Self Herman Cain still leading the field, he's sure to receive lots of attention from the moderators--and his competitors. They're going to want to know why, for example, he doesn't think foreign-policy experience--or knowledge, really--matters much in this race.
Which reminds me.
InThis Is Herman Cain! by Herman Cain, the self-inspirer relates a watershed moment for his foreign-policy philosophy. After the second debate in New Hampshire,
People came up to me and said, "You know what I like most about what you said in the last debate? When you said you don't have all the information--that you didn't pretend to have a plan for Afghanistan."
As Cain explains in an Appendix A (there are five appendixes), "it is naive to think that someone running for president must have an answer for everything.... A real leader has the right questions for everything." When it comes to Afghanistan, Cain doesn't want to propose a "half-baked plan just to pretend to know everything" because "I do not have access to every piece of classified information." Or, apparently, a subscription to a major newspaper. But he does have enough information to be disappointed in President Barack Obama's June 22 statement proposing "an abrupt withdrawal of our troops." (In fact he proposed no such thing.)"In essence," Cain claims, "his statement was a stark reminder that while one might campaign in poetry, one must govern in prose."(Tune in next time for a sample of Cain's verse.)
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I don't see him as any worse, any stupider, any more revolting than those he's contending against. If you had to choose one of the Republicans to be our president, which one would you prefer? Bishop Romney?
1) Way too mnay Cain threads!2)Cain is inept as a political leader.3)But so are most if not all GOP candidates.
When Barack Obama was running for President he had been a two term State Senator and was in his first term as US Senator. What foreign policy knowledge or expertise did he have? Well, he lived as a child in Singapore.....he took a trip to Europe as a presidential candidate.......The disdain, nay disgust, with Herman Cain is proof positive that self-styled liberals did not vote for President Obama because of the color of his skin; but simply because he was a fellow liberal. This will not spare them the accusations of being racist because of their dissing of Herman Cain. He's a conservative and that's all they need to know.
Jack Foley:He lived as a child in Indonesia.
Electrified fence on our border with Mexico! - a joke?He said if I have offended anyone, "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa." I would more convinced if he had said: "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea MAXIMA culpa."
What is Cain offering? A president with great self-confidnce and an apparently incurable optimism. What is this country losing? Self-confidence and its historical optimism. Hmmm.
The whole Republican menagerie is a farce. I long for a solid man like Bob Dole. Ronald Reagan? He was the model for these wanabees, with experience as a cowboy in Death Valley Days.
"I long for a solid man like Bob Dole."Hell, I told Raber the other day that I was thinking fondly of Richard Nixon. A pitfall of getting older is that we think everything is getting worse and people are getting dumber. As my baby brother reminds me, "Now you know why we die. We want to."Anyhow, I'm glad we're now advancing the Kingdom of God now.
I'm sure that my earlier comment was deleted in order to advance the Kingdom of God, but I just wanted to throw this link out there: http://www.redstate.com/thehermancain/2010/12/20/the-perfect-conservativ... for a moment and reflect upon the fact that this man is a front-runner for nomination for the presidency. The gist of what I said in my earlier anti-Kingdom-of-God comment was that, while American candidates for important offices often look nuts to people in other countries, this year seems to have had a bumper crop. If Palin had actually decided to throw in her hat, she'd have formed some sort of unholy trinity of absurdity with Bachmann and Cain that would have cause the earth to collapse in on itself. It's funny, but not really.
"American candidates for important offices often look nuts to people in other countries, this year seems to have had a bumper crop."Yes, I'm sure Herman Cain just seems downright outrageous to voters having to face Silvio Berlusconi...or maybe Putin, what with his ice cold swims and bear-hunting. And of course I'm sure the voters of France would have much preferred Dominique Strauss-Kahn, prostitution ring or not, to Cain's antics! And that's just Europe. But you're right, compared with those mild mannered, upstading politicos, Cain is downright offensive.
Jack Foley's "he's a conservative that's all we ned to know" is a clear example of the thoughtless palaver that permetes the GOP right these days.
"Jack Foleys hes a conservative thats all we ned to know is a clear example of the thoughtless palaver that permetes the GOP right these days."He actually said "that's all THEY need to know." Of course I'm not surprised to see you changing quotes to fit your as-always objective, fair and balanced attempts at dialoguing with those who dare to disagree with you.
Thanks Jeff for the correction/I still think the sense of defensivemess in that post is exemplary of the fair balanced approach we might find at Fox and its devotees.And many thanks for the as always fair and balanced appreciation of my participation - I guess you know how those Comonweal Catholics are.
Oh, Jack, I don't find Cain disgusting in the least. I actually find him winning--and also intermittently hilarious. Incidentally, there is a world of difference between not having foreign-policy expertise and pretending you don't really need any to be president.
"Yes, Im sure Herman Cain just seems downright outrageous to voters having to face Silvio Berlusconior maybe Putin, what with his ice cold swims and bear-hunting."Ouch! Thanks for putting that in perspective! hough it doesn't really make 999 any more palatable.
Not the point, I know, but is his pizza any good?
Well good, Jeff, you can rest easy knowing that you've risen to the standards of Russian and Italian politics.
Did any of y'all happen to watch the Nevada debate last night? Probably this is a function of the fact that I'm not put off by the prospect of seven or eight conservatives talking sorta substantively about politics for two hours, but -- as theater, it was pretty darned good. They're all getting better at performing on television. The guys who, despite being in the grip of presidential fever, are also there to promote their ideas - Gingrich, Paul, Santorum - make it highly watchable. There was also an element of raunchy reality TV in the air; pretty clearly, Perry wanted to put his fist in Mitt Romney's patrician, patronizing snoot when the latter put his hand on the former's shoulder.
Cain has been outed as pro-choice. His 9-9-9- raises taxes on 84% and lowers it for top 10% according to Wash Post 11-20... he a doornail now so no need for Cain-able V. Jim P..... Mormons are never patrician even when they move to Boston with money. (-:
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5 Mundane Objects That Saved Important Lives
#2. The Leonard Cohen Song That Saved Roger Ebert
[Updated to acknowledge Ebert's passing in 2013. RIP Roger. - ed.]
Roger Ebert was the most prominent movie critic ... ever, we think. Being the best at it helped. (He also read Cracked, and tended to say kind things about us. But it's that first one that earned him a spot here.)
Even a less than enamored/obsessed fan of Ebert is probably aware that he battled cancer for many years, bouncing back for a period before the end to do some of the most powerful writing of his career.
He probably wouldn't have been around to do any of that, if not for one song.
"You're welcome -- ain't no thing."
The Tiny Thing That Saved the Day:
According to this must-read Esquire piece, it was a Leonard Cohen song that did it (specifically, "I'm Your Man.")
In 2006 Ebert's cancer resurfaced, this time in the jaw, part of which needed to be removed to keep the nastiness from spreading. After a few weeks of recovery time, he was finally declared ready to return home from the hospital. He got his stuff packed up and let his doctors and nurses pay one last visit before he hit the road. The car was practically running at the hospital entrance, but Roger lingered for a few minutes to listen to Leonard Cohen.
"Shhhh ... the gangsta rap break is coming up."
And that was when it happened.
An artery in his neck burst, as in broke, as in exploded. Blood spewed from his mouth and pooled at his feet, and everyone looked around for Hugh Laurie and a hidden camera. Once it was confirmed that, no, this was not a surprise taping of House, the nurses and doctors got to work stopping the disaster bleeding. Now imagine if, instead of happening right there in the hospital room, the blood vessel had burst while he was sitting in city traffic.
Instead, the doctors were right there and, after even more surgery, more therapy and more hospital time, Ebert was finally declared well enough to get home and start living his life again.
A life saved by the one radio station that didn't spend 2006 playing "How to Save a Life" on repeat.
Now, think about if you were the one in that hospital room and you'd just been given the OK to go home. You would have bolted, right? Most of us can't stand hospital rooms longer than it takes to get our face moles removed, let alone long enough to sit through a whole song when we could be on our way home to our Xbox.
Such is the power of Leonard Cohen, we guess.
"I'd love to stay and chat, but my songs have an asteroid to deflect."
#1. The Pile of Manure That Caused Wars
If you're reading Cracked, or have any sense of history whatsoever, you already know that people from different religions tend to, uh, not always get along.
So it's probably no surprise that in 1600 Europe, a Catholic king named Ferdinand started shutting down Protestant churches like they were head lice and he was a fine-toothed comb. The Protestants called shenanigans (as usual) and said they could build chapels wherever they wanted. Things were so bad that a little get-together was set up at Prague Castle. And, as you can imagine, things quickly spiraled into ridiculous violence.
Via Wikipedia
Even attempted murder seems jovial when your hats are that hilarious.
The Protestants, led by the ominously named Count Thurn, argued with the Catholics so much that many just started walking out of the meeting. After several hours, only three Catholics remained, including two nobles, Count Slavata and Count Martinitz. While everyone else thought they were to be arrested, Thurn instead pushed them out a window. From 70 feet up. Bada-bing, problem solved, Sopranos style!
Eh, not quite.
The Tiny Thing That Saved the Day:
Maybe we shouldn't call it minor, considering it saved two prominent lives, but a huge pile of shit just happened to be sitting right outside that window. Thurn had forgotten that this was the 1600s, and that the horse was the main method of transportation. And horses poop, like, all the time. You might as well assume that every window in the 1600s had a lifesaving man-high pile of manure under it.
We're pretty sure if they had been shot at, a horse would have farted Kevlar vests onto them.
Because the counts survived, they went on to inform their superiors of all that had happened (still covered in shit, remember), which would pretty much kick off the Bohemian Revolt AND the Thirty Years War. Had the manure not been there to cushion their fall, the two counts would have most likely died, which would have delayed both the revolt and the war for several months. This would have given both sides more time to prepare for war. This might have changed the outcome of the war (which was a victory for the Protestants) and started a chain reaction of events that could have radically changed history.
Thanks, assholes.
So if modern Europe has anyone to thank for the way things are today, they should start with a huge pile of shit.
For more tiny details that changed the world, check out 6 Tiny Things That Have Mind-Blowing Global Impacts and 6 Random Coincidences That Created The Modern World.


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Do you want to adopt a dog, or buy a puppy from a breeder? Both have advantages and disadvantages. Adopting a dog is a great way to give him another chance at life, but remember that many dogs who are up for adoption come from abusive pasts. Are you able and willing to nurture your adopted pet? Are you able to deal with any issues he may have, such as being skittish around strangers, or afraid of certain types of people? Make sure you think this through before adopting a pet, and be sure to talk to the adoption agency about any special treatment your dog may need. On the plus side, most adopted dogs are eternally grateful to you for adopting them, and many make amazing companions.
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Sales of new homes grew 25.4 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 444,000, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. That was the largest monthly percentage increase since May 1980.
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Grizzly bear Toklo, polar bear Kallik, black bear Lusa, and their shape-shifting guide Ujurak have finally reached the Last Great Wilderness, the legendary place they've been searching for. But is this really where they're meant to be? One by one the bears begin to grow apart: Toklo feels the urge to hunt and mark his territory, while Kallik feels the pull of the ice within her. Only Lusa fears the day when her friends will leave her to follow their own paths. When disaster strikes, the bears are forced to leave the sanctuary and enter flat-face territory or risk losing one of their own. Now their journey's end seems farther away than ever, as a new path spreads out before them.
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There is an old saying: "You can't really understand another person's experience until you've walked a mile in their shoes."
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes asks men, women, and their friends and family to literally walk one mile in women's high-heeled shoes. It's not easy walking in these shoes, but it's fun and it gets the community to talk about something that's really difficult to talk about: gender relations and sexual violence.
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Elise Amendola, Julio Cortez, Associated Press
BOSTON — As the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay hospitalized under heavy guard, the American Civil Liberties Union and a federal public defender raised concerns about investigators' plan to question 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights.
What Tsarnaev will say and when are unclear. He remained in serious condition Sunday and apparently in no shape for interrogation after being pulled bloodied and wounded from a tarp-covered boat in a Watertown backyard. The capture came at the end of a tense Friday that began with his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, dying in a gunbattle with police.
U.S. officials said an elite interrogation team would question the Massachusetts college student without reading him his Miranda rights, something that is allowed on a limited basis when the public may be in immediate danger, such as when bombs are planted and ready to go off.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said the legal exception applies only when there is a continued threat to public safety and is "not an open-ended exception" to the Miranda rule, which guarantees the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.
The federal public defender's office in Massachusetts said it has agreed to represent Tsarnaev once he is charged. Miriam Conrad, public defender for Massachusetts, said he should have a lawyer appointed as soon as possible because there are "serious issues regarding possible interrogation."
There was no immediate word on when Tsarnaev might be charged and what those charges would be. The twin bombings killed three people and wounded more than 180.
The most serious charge available to federal prosecutors would be the use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill people, which carries a possible death sentence. Massachusetts does not have the death penalty.
President Barack Obama said there are many unanswered questions about the bombing, including whether the Tsarnaev brothers — ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and lived in the Boston area — had help from others. The president urged people not to rush judgment about their motivations.
Gov. Deval Patrick said Saturday that Tsarnaev was probably unable to communicate. Tsarnaev was at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where 11 victims of the bombing were still being treated.
"I, and I think all of the law enforcement officials, are hoping for a host of reasons the suspect survives," the governor said after a ceremony at Fenway Park to honor the victims and survivors of the attack. "We have a million questions, and those questions need to be answered."
The all-day manhunt Friday brought the Boston area to a near standstill and put people on edge across the metropolitan area.
The break came around nightfall when a homeowner in Watertown saw blood on his boat, pulled back the tarp and saw a bloody Tsarnaev hiding inside, police said. After an exchange of gunfire, he was seized and taken away in an ambulance.
Raucous celebrations erupted in and around Boston, with chants of "USA! USA!" Residents flooded the streets in relief four days after the two pressure-cooker bombs packed with nails and other shrapnel went off.
Michael Spellman said he bought tickets to Saturday's Red Sox game at Fenway Park to help send a message to the bombers.
"They're not going to stop us from doing things we love to do," he said, sitting a few rows behind home plate. "We're not going to live in fear."
During the long night of violence leading up to the capture, the Tsarnaev brothers killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman and took part in a furious shootout and car chase in which they hurled explosives at police from a large homemade arsenal, authorities said.
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February 11, 1999-April 2, 2000
Feb 11, 1999
Dia Center for the Arts is currently presenting new installations by Stan Douglas and Douglas Gordon in an exhibition titled "Double Vision." The two works are on view on the second floor of Dia's galleries at 548 West 22nd Street through June 13, 1999. This exhibition will reopen in Fall 1999. Please note that Dia is now open to the public Wednesday through Sunday, 12 noon to 6 pm.
Stan Douglas presents a new video work entitled Win, Place, or Show, which is projected on a double screen and takes as its point of departure the fundamental transformation of civic space in North America during the postwar era, initiated at an institutional level under the rubric of "urban renewal." In Win, Place, or Show, two dock workers share a tenth-floor, one-bedroom apartment in Vancouver. The endlessly looping, six-minute work chronicles an antagonistic conversation that flares up on a wet day-off. After erupting into physical violence, it then lapses into weary irritation, only to be rekindled into a smoldering verbal friction.
Douglas shot the scene simultaneously from twelve different points of view. When installed, a computer cuts the takes together in real time, generating an almost endless series of montages; for each time the scene repeats, it repeats differently. As a result, the viewer's identification shifts from one antagonist to another, to both, to neither. "But the work is less concerned with the narration of the event than with the space of its unfolding," Douglas argues, "like the obsessive remembrance and reconsideration of a traumatic incident in one's life that cannot be resolved because its true cause was elsewhere, and remains unavailable to the space of memory."
While Stan Douglas uses time in the guise of history and historical memory, Douglas Gordon often shifts and manipulates time scales, starting with found material, such as a feature-length film. Gordon's new work, left is right and right is wrong and left is wrong and right is right, takes as its point of departure a little-known film made in 1949 by Hollywood director Otto Preminger titled Whirlpool. Gordon's editing separates all the odd-numbered frames onto one video disc, the even onto a second: black leader occupies the space of the missing frames in each. When the two are projected side by side as an installation the one on the left is reversed. The soundtrack of Preminger's film is treated similarly.
The resulting stroboscopic flicker engenders a strong visual impact, mimicking the act of hypnosis on which Whirlpool's plot turns. Psychic disorder, the core theme of this narrative, is a subject of central importance in Gordon's art for it provides the occasion, in works based sometimes in fact, sometimes in fiction, for a study of fundamental existential dilemmas; between good and evil, freedom and necessity, or existence and nonexistence. Gordon instantiates this dialectical tension, drawing it out by slowing down the projection, or by doubling it, or through a mirror inversion, or repetition, or more complex techniques as found in this, his latest work. By means of such disarmingly simple means he gives incisive, aphoristic form to psychological trauma, moral predicament, and the passage from one mental state to its pathological contrary.
Stan Douglas was born in 1960 in Vancouver, where he currently lives and works. In 1995 Douglas was in the 1995 Carnegie International and the 1995 Whitney Biennial, and in 1997 he was included in Sculptur Projekte, Münster, as well as Documenta X in Kassel.
Douglas Gordon was born in Glasgow in 1966. He now lives and works in Glasgow and Cologne. Gordon was the 1996 recipient of Britain's Turner Prize and in 1997 was awarded Premio 2000 at the Venice Biennial. He was included in Sculptur Projekte, Münster, in 1997 and was the 1998 recipient of the Guggenheim Museum's Hugo Boss Prize.
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I am looking for programming methods to counter network latency for say a racing game or a FPS. What I specifically mean is what would I need to do to the physics engine and what information should I transmit so that the physics engine does it's job when the network information is not available?
If anyone has any pointer to articles or sites that have this type of information. It would be greatly appreciated.


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Today we heard about a sugar daddy meat market event that was described as, among other things, "classy." Hm. There's that word again. What is is with that word? One commenter explains.
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More proof that the denotation and the connotation of the word "classy" are equal and opposite.
Succinctly said.
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Here's another question we get asked - what software do people use. This is an important question that is based on many factors like price, type of panoramas, output etc. So I thought I would simply ask the public at large what they use for "stitching" software. We'll let this poll run for awhile and see how it pans out (no pun intended)
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5 Awesome Sci-Fi Inventions (That Would Actually Suck)
#2. Teleporters
As seen in:
Star Trek, The Fly, countless video games.
Why we thought we wanted it:
Here's a technology that'd make the flying car and the jetpack both look like that retarded Flintstones car you drive with your feet. We're talking instant transport to anywhere, any time. You can live on the beach in Hawaii and live in New York. Sit there in the morning and sip coffee until about five seconds before the meeting is set to start, then step into your transport and there you are, in the conference room.
Why we were wrong:
Many later science fiction writers have declared that a device that can disassemble and reassemble a human molecule-by-molecule would be patently unsafe (the most famous and grotesque portrayal of a teleporter accident came, of course, in the film Spaceballs). But, even if they get the bugs worked out (what method of transportation is perfectly safe, after all?) there is a much larger and much weirder issue.
A teleporter wouldn't actually break down your atoms and then shoot those same atoms thousands of miles through the air; even if it were possible, there'd be no reason to do it. It would instead just grab Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms from out of the air and assemble you out of those (one Hydrogen atom is the same as another, after all).
In other words, teleporters would work more like fax machines than mail. It transmits a signal and the machine on the other end spits out a copy. Only instead of a copy of a letter, it's a copy of a person, right down to all their thoughts and memories and here the original is destroyed. This was demonstrated in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Episode 250 ("Second Chances", aired May 24, 1993, Stardate 46915.2) where they failed to destroy the original Will Riker and were left with two of him.
Are you grasping the weirdness of this? The original is destroyed. That means when you step into a teleporter, you die. But, the rest of the world won't know you died, because a copy of you will step out of the other end of the machine. It won't be you, though, it'll be another you that happens to share your memories. To the outside observer the thing will always work fine, and the thing that steps out of the receiving end will think it worked fine. The one person who knows it didn't worked fine, can't tell anyone because they fucking died via total atomization the moment they stepped into the machine.
So, the first time Captain Kirk used the teleportation device to beam down to an alien planet, he was basically resigning himself to an immediate death and hoping that his twin would carry out the mission for him.
#1. Matter Replicators
As seen in:
Again, Star Trek
Why we thought we wanted it:
You're hungry, and you don't really feel like cooking or even going out to get something. Well no need to starve! This machine will replicate virtually any food that you can think of. Or, at least a series of foods that have previously been programmed into the machine.
Not just food, either. Anything. Need new batteries for your remote? Replicator. New pair of shoes? No problem. Forget your girlfriend's birthday? Punch a button on the replicator and it'll spit out a pair of flawless diamond earrings.
Why we were wrong:
Since it's just assembling molecules, presumably it would be cheaper for this thing to make you a pair of diamond earrings than a hot dog, since fewer molecules and less energy would be required. It could print perfect counterfeit money. Hell, punch a button, and it'll crank out a molecule-for-molecule replica of The Mona Lisa.
The bad news is, of course, it would eliminate your job. Your job, and all your friends' jobs, and, well, almost everyone else's. No need for farms or factories or stores. The only people who'd still be working are doctors and the people who make replicators. Oh, wait, you can just have a huge replicator that makes replicators. Nevermind.
It's just as well, even if there were jobs, there would be no way to pay you. You could make bars of gold in your replicator. Yes, we're talking about the utter collapse of the entire basis by which every society has ever existed on the planet.
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Don't ask why. Noticed a weird thing with the detente plates.
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If the detente plate doesn't fit flush, there is play on the axis of the rotator.
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A Pajama Party Story Hour will give local children and adults a chance to support local victims of domestic violence and replenish the libraries affected by Hurricane Sandy.
The Upper Ohio Valley Junior Women's Club will hold the benefit in the former Christopher and Banks store in the Fort Steuben Mall from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
According to event chairman Mitzi Probert, children through the sixth grade can dress in their pajamas and join the club members for a Christmas story hour.
"We want to bring to mind the idea of sitting by the fire on a cold night, enjoying cookies and milk and listening to stories, both old and new."
The featured stories include "Esther's Miracle at the Manger," written by Probert, along with "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and the traditional "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."
While the evening will be enjoyable for children, Probert stressed that the event also is intended to help those less fortunate.
"We're asking all of the children who attend to bring a new or gently used book that our club will forward to a New York/New Jersey Library Replenishment Fund sanctioned by the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the parent organization of the UOV Junior Women's Club," Probert explained. "We're asking all of the adults who attend to bring a new pair of kids or adult-sized pajamas to be donated to the local A.L.I.V.E Domestic Violence Shelter in Steubenville."
Fort Steuben Mall Marketing Manager Steph McVicker praised the club's efforts. "This is a great way to entertain the children, while teaching them that Christmas is also about giving, not just receiving," she said.
As a special thank-you gift, Probert will present a copy of "Esther's Miracle at the Manager" to each family attending the event.
UOV Junior Women's Club President Mary Lou Jones noted that the children who attend must be accompanied by an adult for the story hour. "We're also happy to be assisted by members of the Indian Creek High School Key Club," she said.
"And we're thankful to Country Crafts from the Heart for their decorations, and Aaron's for the big comfy chair for our story readers."
Seating is limited for the event, and those attending are encouraged to bring a blanket or pillow or a folding chair. To RSVP, contact the mall's customer service number at (740) 264-7781 or by call (740) 632-4169.
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Christmas caroling
Immaculate Heart of Mary Council of the Knights of Columbus will be caroling Thursday, at local nursing homes.
Members, their families and guests are asked to participate in this annual event. Anyone who enjoys caroling is invited to join the Knights and their families for this event, a council spokesman said.
The carolers will meet at 5 p.m. at the council home on Two Ridges Road, Wintersville. They will rehearse a few carols and leave for the nursing homes at approximately 5:30 p.m. The carolers will be provided sandwiches and refreshments afterwards at the hall.