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WIMBLEDON, England—The strangest Wimbledon in memory delivered another surprise Monday: Serena Williams, the defending champion, is gone.
Williams lost in the fourth round to Sabine Lisicki, a German with a broad smile, booming serve and powerful forehand—and, apparently, the nerves of a tightrope walker. Trailing late in the third set, Lisicki continued to smile and fight. She won the last four games of the match to win 6-2, 1-6, 6-4.
"I'm still shaking," a tearful Lisicki said moments after she walked off Centre Court. "I'm so happy."
Williams was a heavy favorite to defend her title. She had won three of the last four major tournaments, including last month's French Open. She won a gold medal at last year's Olympics and was on a 34-match winning streak—and she was winning convincingly: She had won 35 of the last 36 sets she'd played heading into the match. Williams was 77-3 since losing in the first round at the French Open last year.
After a slow start against Lisicki, Williams picked up the pace and at one point won nine straight games. But an uncharacteristic miscue—a missed overhead, her second of the match—gave Lisicki a chance to serve for the match at 5-4. When she won, she fell facedown to the grass. She cried and blew kisses to the crowd as they stood on their feet and cheered.
"I just felt she was on today," Williams said. "She's always on against big players."
Williams said fellow American Sloane Stephens now had as good a chance as anyone to win Wimbledon.
"She has a great draw," Williams said. "I think she can take it. It would be really nice to see her win."
How wide open is the women's singles competition without Williams? Li Na and Petra Kvitova, who advanced to the quarterfinals with wins earlier Monday, are the only remaining Grand Slam champions left in the draw. No one still in contention has been ranked No. 1.
Lisicki is just as strong of a contender. At last year's Wimbledon, she beat the top seed, Maria Sharapova, in the fourth round. Injuries and inconsistency have held her back, but she proved Monday that she's among the most dangerous women in tennis, especially at Wimbledon. She is 17-4 in her career on the lawns here and has won six of her last nine matches at Wimbledon against top 10 players.
Her victory also continued a strange streak of her own: She has beaten the reigning French Open champion in each of her last four appearances at Wimbledon.
Williams won three more points than Lisicki in the match, but Lisicki was better in crucial moments. She took five of her eight break-point chances, compared to five of 16 for Williams. She broke Williams at love to take the first set, sealing it with a forehand winner. Lisicki also fell behind, 0-40, when serving at 3-4 in the third set but managed to hold off Williams and then break in the next game.
"I didn't play the big points good enough. I didn't do what I do best," Williams said. "I had a little hesitation, and that explains it."
"It was amazing," Lisicki said. "I love this court so much."


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I have searched many sites but couldn't find a solution to my problem. Basically my requirement is a bit tricky and some times I myself feel that it is not possible. Can anyone help me?
My requirement is I have 3 classes which are inherited from an interface. I now want to create a JSON array which has the following structure:
interface i {
class A implements i {
field l;
field 2;
First of all thanks for ur interest in solving my problem, All the objects which i mentioned in my questions a database persistence objects. I have contact object, communication object and address object, all are db persistence objects A single contact has multiple communications and multiple address. so, contact persists in a table and communications and addresses in 2 different tables, with reference to the unique identifier of the contact some thing like
contact table:
id firstname lastname
3 xyz abc
communication table:
id contactid number
1 3 999999999
adress table:
id contactid place 1 3 india
after persisting in database i want to create json array which i want to send in request to server.
final Collection<Syncable> collection = new ArrayList<Syncable>();
result = HttpRestUtil.post(url,*** new Gson().toJson(collection)***,JSON,header );
Gson().toJson(collection) returns a json in string, which i want to send in server side. the string looks is as follows
[{"firstname":"xyz","lastname":"abc"}, //contact
{"number":"99999999"}, //communication
{"place":"india"} //address
but my server is implemented which takes a json of the format
[ {"firstname":"xyz",
server is coded as such the entire json is deserialized to objects of contact, communication, address
I hope i am clear in my question this time alteast once again thanks a lot
class B implements i {
field 3;
field 4;
class C implements i {
field 5;
field 6;
Now I want a JSON array which is of the following format, this JSON is of type A
"field1": "value",
"field2": "value",
"objectB": "{ 'field3':'value','field4':'value'}",
"objectC": "{ 'field5':'value','field6':'value'}"
My requirment is the B, C classes should be fields of the A class.
One method which can give me the solution is making B and C classes inner classes of A, but my object structure wont permit that. Help with this highly appreciated.
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Under Ubuntu 10 I could easily open as many Terminal instances as I needed, and I often need 6 or more. How can I do that in Ubuntu 12? When are they going to fix the bug that restricts me to only one?
There is absolutely nothing in Ubuntu that restricts you to opening only one terminal window. At the moment I have anout 30 terminal windows open :)
Difference between Gnome 2 and the "new" Unity
I think you are referring to the behavior of the panel on the left side of screen which is now similar to a mac. When you click on an icon, the application is started. If, however, the application is running already, you will switch to its window.
For users of good old Gnome 2, this may be irritating. There, starters were for starting applications. No matter how often you click them and no matter what is already running, they start a new window. Switching between windows was done via a separate panel which lists all running application.
In Unity, the panel takes over both tasks. Launching and switching to applications. It assumes that the typical use case is to have one instance of an application open and maybe use its built-in tab support.
Multiple Windows in Unity
However, there is a possibility to open multiple windows by using just the mouse. Just right click on the element and select
Choose what you like most.
As you can see, its not a bug, its just a big change on the user interface.
bash is just the shell. You can open as many as you like. Terminal on the other hand is the application that emulates a terminal.
So there are several ways.
The text way:
Ctrl+Alt+F1 -Ctrl+Alt+F6 (by deafult)
The old school way
Using screen or bashes background job support More info
Or in gnome
Which is what I suspect you want. Just lauch gnome terminal several times. There's the File-> New Terminal option, and if all else fails you can always start several terminals from terminal.
which will spawn 6 new terminal windows.
I do not know of a bug that restricts you to one terminal. I frequently use 4 or more for rails development.
If you need a more in depth example my autotest script runs (please excuse the poor formating the site did):
This applies to Unity
sumpfomat mentioned Ctrl+Alt+T will open a new terminal window. You can repeat that as many times as you like and open new terminals. But there is another possibilty: in an already open terminal Ctrl+Shift+T will add a new tab to the already open terminal. From the terminals menu this is File -> Open Tab.
You can open as many tabs as you like. To navigate between them you can use Alt+[1,2,3,..]
This is really handy if you need to run processes in the foreground that don't need much direct input (watchers for things like sass, continuous testing etc). Everything is contained in one terminal process so Alt+Tabing is not a mess, but you can easily switch between your tabs as well.


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STEUBENVILLE - A piece of Polish Hill history came tumbling down Tuesday as a demolition crew from Wellsville knocked down the walls of the original Pointer's Grocery store on North Eighth Street.
X-Treme Clean will be paid $12,100 by the city's Urban Projects office for demolishing the former grocery store that served as home of the Safari Lounge in recent years.
A dark brown brick two-story apartment building next door is set for demolition at a cost of $15,900 in the next several days.
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TAKING DOWN LANDMARK — The former Pointer's Grocery store on North Eighth Street was demolished Tuesday removing one of the landmark businesses that once served the residents of the Polish Hill neighborhood. Dan Galeoti, owner of the X-Treme Clean demolition company of Wellsville, operated his backhoe to pull the two-story building to the ground. Demolition crews will return to the street in the next several days to demolish an adjacent apartment building. -- Dave Gossett
Dan Galeoti, owner of X-Treme Clean, carefully maneuvered a backhoe during a driving cold rain for approximately four hours to tear down the former grocery store while Walt and Joe Beatty sprayed water on the building and falling debris.
"We have to be very careful because there are electrical lines on the side and front of this building. Dan has to get the walls to fall into the middle of the structure," explained Walt Beatty.
"Its ready to come down now," announced Walt a short time later as the front wall of the building was all that remained standing.
Richard "Gub" Davison visited his former home last May after learning his grandfather's store was listed for demolition.
The brown brick structure that housed Pointer's Grocery Store also was home for Davison and his parents who lived in a second floor apartment above the business.
"My grandfather came over from Poland and started this business. I don't know if he built the store but I know he owned the building. The front of this building was all glass at that time so people could look into the store," the 80 -year-old Davison recalled.
"This was a very busy place. My uncles, Joe and Walter, and my mother, Helen, worked in the store. And my cousins and I worked in the store," he added.
"A lot of people didn't have cars back then and there were four grocery stores on Polish Hill. My grandfather's store offered credit and made deliveries. The store had a little brown truck that we would use for deliveries. People would call in a list of items and my mother and the other women would pack the orders into cardboard boxes. When we were still kids we would go out with an adult to deliver the groceries. When we got older we would drive the truck and make deliveries," Davison said.
"I remember the ladies calling on a Friday for a Saturday deliver. It was usually a long list for the weekend and if they had empty beer or pop bottles or milk bottles we had to take those back to the store," said Davison.
"This neighborhood also had Babicz store next door to Pointer's. Afec's was the next block over and there was another Babicz store up on Highland Avenue behind St. Stanislaus School," he continued.
"A customer might walk in and ask for steaks. The butcher would walk back, throw a large piece of meat over his shoulder and then toss it on the cutting block. He would look at the customer and ask how thick and then cut the steaks right on the spot," recalled Davison.
"If someone wanted a fresh chicken, the butcher would tell an older store hand who would go down into the basement, open the chicken coop and grab one of the chickens. After he cut off the chicken's head he would wrap the chicken up in newspaper and the customer would take it home, clean it and then cook it," recalled Davison.
"Lard was in a barrel. So were the pickles and herring. I know the store didn't handle ice cream because there were no freezers. No one bought frozen foods in those days, so there really wasn't a need for a freezer. But I do remember the penny candy," laughed Davison.
"Given the condition of the neighborhood these days it is probably a good thing to take the building down. Hopefully it will lead to an improvement there. It was once a bustling neighborhood. And everyone came to the store. It was where you heard about births, baptisms, marriages and deaths. It is sad to see that all gone now, but life goes on," stated Davison.
"I also remember the people who lived in the apartment building next door to the store. There were two families who lived upstairs and the owner of the building lived in a downstairs apartment," said Davison.


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All Rise...
The Charge
Every house has a story to tell. This one will kill you.
Opening Statement
"Shirley Jackson was right—some houses are born bad," says the lead character in author Stephen King's homage to Jackson's classic tale The Haunting of Hill House (filmed as The Haunting in 1963 by director Robert Wise, and remade 36 years later by action specialist Jan de Bont). Rose Red is one such "bad house."
In this miniseries King penned for ABC-TV, the horror master blends Jackson's fiction with a true-life oddity (the so-called Winchester Mystery House), stirs in liberal dollops of his own Carrie and The Shining, seasons with dashes of Poltergeist and Ghostbusters, and serves up a steaming plate of ghoulish goulash laced with gory goodness. King's stated goal: "to create the ultimate haunted-house story." Does the Maniac from Maine succeed?
Facts of the Case
Dr. Joyce Reardon (Nancy Travis, previously the title sociopath in So I Married an Axe Murderer) resides at the bottom of the faculty barrel in the psychology department at a university in the Pacific Northwest. Joyce is a lecturer on parapsychology working under a department head (David Dukes, Gods And Monsters) who thinks Joyce's research is smoke and mirrors, and would terminate her if she didn't have tenure. Joyce believes her express ticket to academic stardom is a century-old mansion in downtown Seattle known as Rose Red, which, according to local legend, has devoured 23 people since World War One. Six years have passed since Rose Red's last supernatural manifestation, but Joyce has convinced the present owner—her boyfriend Steven Rimbauer (Matt Keeslar, Leslie Neilsen's nephew in Mr. Magoo)—that she can "awaken" Rose Red and document its haunted status. Strapped for cash and ready to let developers plow the old homestead under, Steven agrees to allow Joyce and a hand-picked team of psychics spend Memorial Day weekend in Rose Red before the wrecking ball reduces the decaying monstrosity to haunted rubble.
Joyce puts together her crew of ESP-enabled shadow-chasers like Jim Phelps assembling Rollin, Cinnamon, Barney, and Willie for Mission: Impossible (Jim Phelps—that's the guy who helmed the IMF before pretty-boy Ethan Hunt came along). These rejects from Psi Factor include:
• Emery Waterman (Matt Ross, looking creepily like the illegitimate twin brother of a certain Seattle-based megabillionaire), a milquetoast "postcognate" (he has visions of events that have already occurred) who needs cash to fuel his domineering mother's compulsive shopping addiction;
• Vic Kandinsky (Kevin Tighe, in between residual checks from Emergency!), a genial old duffer who's a "precognate" (he has visions of events that haven't yet…but then, you know already, don't you?);
• Pam Asbury (Emily Deschanel, daughter of four-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer Caleb Deschanel), a "touch-know" who picks up emotional vibrations from objects—though apparently her power doesn't work on film scripts;
• Cathy Kramer (Judith Ivey, Keanu Reeves's Bible-toting mother in The Devil's Advocate), an "automatic writer" (think of a human Ouija board, only with pen and paper);
• Nick Hardaway (Julian Sands, the mad amputator in Boxing Helena, taking a half-step up in class here), a Jack-of-all-psychic-trades who's seen way too many British spy thrillers;
• And the "key" (as Joyce scribbles in her journal) to the mission, a 15-year-old autistic girl named Annie Wheaton (Kimberly J. Brown, Tumbleweeds) with astonishing telekinetic abilities. In her spare time, Annie enjoys raining boulders on neighbors' houses (Les Nessman lives across the street, apparently having retired to Seattle from WKRP in Cincinnati) and playing such big band standards as "A Summer Place" and "In the Mood" on her phonograph at eardrum-rupturing volume.
The Rose Red expedition also includes two non-paranormal invitees. Annie's older sister Rachel, who likes to be called—not coincidentally—"Sister" (Melanie Lynskey, the girl who didn't grow up to be a famous mystery writer after the events depicted in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) comes along to watch out for her odd sibling. Steven Rimbauer comes along to protect his family's interests and to play Eskimo-noses with Dr. Joyce.
Joyce and her team haven't even stepped across the threshold of the titanic house (which has been adding rooms, hallways and entire wings to itself since the lady of the manse, Ellen Rimbauer, vanished into its bowels in 1950) before it becomes clear that things are not quite right at the old Rimbauer place. Before the final embers on the Memorial Day barbecues around Puget Sound have grown cold, several new ghosts will have been added to the unhappy haunts inhabiting Rose Red.
The Evidence
As befits its subject matter, Rose Red had a storied production history. Originally proposed to Stephen King by Steven Spielberg as a feature film idea, King had no sooner begun work on the project than he suffered the vehicular accident that almost cost him his life. During King's recovery, Spielberg's production company moved on to another haunted-house project, which eventually took shape as the 1999 remake of The Haunting. King, however, was so taken with the notion of reworking Shirley Jackson's story that he pitched his alternative concept, loosely based on firearms heiress Sarah Remington and her legendary "mystery house" in San Jose, California, to his friends at ABC Television as a miniseries. Then, during the filming of Rose Red, one of its primary actors, David Dukes, died of cardiac arrest while playing tennis. But weird stuff happens: this is, after all, a Stephen King movie we're talking about.
In the production documentary that accompanies the film on DVD, King comments that he likes working in the miniseries format rather than feature films because, as he puts it, "I can write a whole novel." That philosophy doubtless is part of the problem with Rose Red: it's a two-hour movie padded to more than four hours of running time. (On television, the show ran in two-hour increments over three nights, with commercials filling up the remainder of the six hours.) To be fair, King and director Craig R. Baxley (who helmed a previous King-scripted miniseries, Storm of the Century) move the four hours along pretty effectively, as attested by the fact that I sat down intending to watch Rose Red in two sittings and ended up viewing the whole film in one shot. (Okay, I'll admit it—my thumb was getting twitchy on the fast-forward button by the time the third installment rolled around. But I gutted it out.) But we have to wade through two hours' worth of needless exposition (not all of which adds up, by the way) and repetitious spookhouse sequences to get where King wants to take us. Editing Rose Red to feature length could have easily been accomplished with no one missing any of the detritus on the cutting room floor. But you take your bucks where you can get them, and if ABC was willing to shell out for three nights' worth, then by cracky King and Baxley were going to fill three nights.
Even at its present length, Rose Red provides satisfactory entertainment. The story keeps up the pace—though it takes a while to get cooking—and the large number of characters in the ensemble means ample places to bounce around even when the narrative isn't really going anywhere (most of the first installment and the opening chapters of the third episode especially). Baxley and his production team created some remarkably strong effects on a television budget: the puppetry is cheesier than a Chicago-style pizza and the ghost makeup isn't much better, but the CGI work is close to feature-quality, and the composite exterior shots (an actual mansion in Tacoma, Washington was merged with miniatures and computer graphics to create the illusion of a Hearst Castle-sized domicile smack in the middle of downtown Seattle) work well for the most part. The photography by David Connell (also behind the camera for Baxley on Storm of the Century) is suitably atmospheric and makes full use of the clever production design by Craig Stearns, whose previous King collaborations include Children Of The Corn and the TV rehash of The Shining.
It's too bad, though, that King's usually boundless imagination couldn't come up with a less derivative take on the haunted-house saga. In addition to borrowing whole swatches from Shirley Jackson's novel, King pastes in concepts from his own books, especially The Shining and Carrie and numerous films and TV shows (more than a decade ago, for example, a series called Unsub employed the device of a psychic who could experience postcognitive images by handling objects at a crime scene). Several scenes (Joyce Reardon and her team setting up their ghost-detecting gear; Annie Wheaton being beckoned into a blinding light by the specter of one of the Rimbauer children) reminded me so much of Poltergeist that I kept waiting for Zelda Rubinstein to pop up, seize Nancy Travis by the hand, and whisper, "Let's go get your daughter." I guess King's been ripped off by enough lesser novelists and screenwriters than he's not above ripping off a little in return.
The cast tackles this stuff with game determination and mostly straight faces, and with a couple of exceptions they turn in worthy performances despite the fact that most of their characters are sketched out with a #2 pencil. Kimberly J. Brown has some of that young Christina Ricci energy happening (I know, Christina Ricci is still young, but I'm talking Wednesday Addams here)—I'd like to see her in something where she has more speaking lines, but she already knows how to use her face and physical presence. Matt Ross inches just beyond over-the-top occasionally as the most colorful of the psychics, but manages not to slide completely down the other side. Melanie Lynskey projects just the right balance of naïvete and resourcefulness as the tagalong big sister. Julian Sands, Emily Deschanel, Kevin Tighe, and Judith Ivey are all fine in their underwritten roles—Sands especially gives us an intriguing enough mystique that we wish his character, rather than Ross's, had been better developed.
Nancy Travis, on the other hand, is a fish out of water as the primary lead; she's acceptable in the early scenes when her character is firmly in command, but once things start to unravel she appears lost at sea. (It doesn't help that her character makes a hard-right on the personality freeway midway through the picture.) Travis has done good work in other vehicles, so I'm guessing horror just isn't her bag of Doritos. Matt Keeslar as the Rimbauer heir is flat and weak (he's also eleven years younger than the actress playing his lover and no one ever mentions this, which may be a Hollywood first). And while I'm reluctant to speak ill of the departed—hey, I don't want my house haunted—David Dukes's cliché professor is farcical and cartoonish. It's what the script gave him, but he was unabashedly gnawing scenery here.
The bottom line, though, is that Rose Red, while not a complete theft of four hours by any means, isn't very scary. I'd even go so far as to say it isn't scary at all—a serious indictment for an original screenplay by the Titan of Terror. I understood going in that, given the limitations of broadcast standards and practices, this wasn't likely to be an all-out gorefest, but that's fine by me. "Gore" and "frightening" aren't necessarily synonymous (except perhaps in Presidential politics), as anyone who's seen Psycho (the Hitchcock original, of course) knows. But that word "original" cuts right to the chase: there's nothing in Rose Red we haven't seen before, ad nauseum. For a project with the ambition of delivering the "ultimate" in spookhouse stories, Rose Red feels content to rehash all of the old haunted-house conventions without offering anything revolutionary or innovative. The only halfway-unanticipated twists involve the shuffling of the characters: at least one person I presumed would survive until the end didn't, and another character I was fairly certain would make a timely exit was still standing for the end credits. But overall, this ghost story's too comfortable, too familiar to be scary—after all, we only truly fear the unknown. Rose Red is a house we knew all too well before the opening credits.
Lions Gate Home Entertainment brings you Rose Red as a two-disc DVD set. Disc One includes the first two installments of the miniseries; Disc Two contains the third episode and the supplemental features. Each of the episodes is subdivided into twelve chapters—not all that many, really, when you figure the entire production clocks in at four-and-a-quarter hours. The full-frame transfer (hey, this was a TV show, people) is excellent: rich in color, crisp in clarity, and grain and artifact free. Blacks are deep and consistent—no small feat given that this is a very dark film. The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is even better than the picture, providing a discrete, immersive soundfield and packing enough bass to wake the dead (I'll be here all week—have you tried the buffet?). The surrounds are extremely active throughout the production, with subtle background noises going on almost all the time. Dialogue is sharp, and the ethereal score fills the speakers with ambience. I'm quite (pleasantly) surprised to find this detailed and dynamic a soundtrack on a picture originally intended for network TV.
Credit the filmmakers for generating several praiseworthy extras for this DVD. Foremost of these is an audio commentary featuring director Craig Baxley, production designer and second unit director Craig Stearns, and visual effects supervisor Stuart Robertson. Executive producer Mark Carliner joins the group at the beginning of episode three. These guys manage to yak it up for the entire four-hours-plus, with only a few extended pauses here and there. This is a technically-weighted commentary, but the participants all express genuine affection for the project and are obviously proud of their offspring. It's an interesting listen. I was particularly drawn in by the discussion of the effects the sudden death of co-star David Dukes had on the production—Dukes had completed only about two-thirds of his scenes when he died, so King had to rewrite the last third of the script to adjust for the missing actor (most of his lines were reassigned to another character, whose role was expanded) and a body double was used to complete a couple of sequences that remained in the finished film.
Disc Two is home to a pair of behind-the-scenes documentaries. The real documentary (my meaning will become clear momentarily), Bad House: The Making of Rose Red, runs 50 minutes and showcases King and most of the production team and (surviving) cast. As with the commentary, much of the focus of this feature is on the technical side, though King is quite forthcoming about the origins of the script. A segment is devoted to the cast and crew's remembrances of the late Mr. Dukes. The second "documentary," Unlocking Rose Red: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, is in reality a promotional piece that ran on ABC in conjunction with the miniseries. The conceit in this piece is that the events and people in the film exist in the practical world; different actors are used to portray some of the film's characters (i.e. Joyce Reardon and Steven Rimbauer) as though these are the actual people on whose exploits the movie is based. It's an idea that doesn't really track if you've already seen the movie, but it's decently put together and well-done for the gimmick that it is.
Also on Disc Two, three storyboard comparison sequences can be viewed either individually or as a continuous presentation. Each offers a dual-frame view of the storyboard art and the scene from the completed film. There's a small gallery (maybe a dozen slides) of production art as well.
Disc One hosts a theatrical-style trailer for Rose Red. Disc Two reprises this same trailer as an ad for this DVD, and tacks on TV spots for King's Rose Red companion book The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer and the TV series The Dead Zone, plus trailers for Storm of the Century, Monster's Ball, and American Psycho 2.
The Rebuttal Witnesses
Two little things that annoyed me.
First, in the early scenes at the university, several of Joyce's students address her as "Ms. Reardon." Why not "Dr. Reardon" (she's established as a Ph.D.) or "Professor Reardon"? This isn't high school.
Second, if all Joyce is trying to obtain is verifiable evidence of psychic phenomena, why doesn't she focus on Annie Wheaton instead of Rose Red? Annie levitates people. She makes objects move with the power of her mind. She drops rocks the size of Volkswagens out of the sky, for crying out loud. What more tangible proof could you ask for?
And while I'm picking nits: why does Lions Gate list John Heard in the credits on the keep case back cover artwork when he isn't in this film?
Closing Statement
A nice production of a screenplay that doesn't represent Stephen King's best work. If you're a King completist or like your scare-fare on the mild side, buy this DVD somewhere cheap. For the rest of the world, rent it sometime when you have several hours to while away. It won't put you to sleep, but it won't keep you awake at night either, if you know what I mean.
The Verdict
The Court finds Stephen King guilty of running out of new ideas and sentences him to a blind date with the actress who plays Emery Waterman's mother. Rose Red is found guilty of being a bad house and a bloated miniseries, and is hereby sentenced to hosting a séance starring John Edward and Miss Cleo. We're adjourned.
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• Audio Commentary Featuring Director Craig R. Baxley, Production Designer Craig Stearns, Visual Effects Supervisor Stuart Robertson, and Executive Producer Mark Carliner
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I have mounted the USB and have successfully accessed it. On the USB are files and directories with files within them as well as .htaccess files.
I know that the terminal can't see the .htaccess files since everything in ubuntu starting with . is hidden. However, I can see them on the GUI if I enable Show Hidden Files.
Anyways, my question is, how do I copy EVERYTHING, including the .htaccess and directories while keeping the structure intact as it is on the USB to /var/www


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Thought, History and Critique: An Appreciation of Chinese Medical Canon Relative to Pulse Diagnosis
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Thought, History and Critique provides a critical analysis of Leon Hammer�s article, Tradition and Revision, republished as Discussion on Wang Shu He Pulse Classic, Parts One and Two). In this critique, I adopt three vectors of rhetoric. First, I discuss medical epistemology (how we think and build knowledge) relative to pulse diagnosis. Second is an exploration of canonical lore and traditions relative to medical knowledge. Thirdly I discuss contributions that Hammer has made to the field. He is a teacher with whom I taught and studied between 1993 and 2000. This paper continues a debate and provides a critique of commentary contained in what I will call Tradition and Revision for the rest of this article and where I address the two pulses that the author highlights, the tight pulse and the choppy pulse. The three points of view of knowledge, history and critique are woven throughout this piece.
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Jobless numbers below national average; Polk numbers rise
TALLAHASSEE — The unemployment rate in Florida held steady at 7.1 percent in June, Gov. Rick Scott said last week while in Polk County the figure was 8.4 percent. That figure is 0.06 percent higher than May, but down from 10.3 percent in the last 12 months.
The latest numbers show an additional 2,300 private sector jobs in the Sunshine State. In Polk County statistics show there are 1,459 more people unemployed in the June figures compared the May figures.
Polk had 4,200, or 2.2 percent, fewer jobs compared to May. The county dropped 0.3 percent in June, a loss of 600 jobs on an annual basis. The higher unemployment rate may not be unusual, according to Marybeth Soderstrom, a community outreach coordinator with Polk Works.
"Overall when you look at unemployment in Polk County you're getting a rate that is not seasonally adjusted. You have to look year to year and we went up a little."
She said during this time of year it's usual the unemployment rate rises.
A mark that jobs are not declining in the county one can look at he Race to Place event that started at the beginning of the year and ended June 30. In it, Polk Works was seeking to place 10,000 people into the work force. It placed 10,488.
"We met our goal for that," Soderstrom, who headed up the Race to Place said. "And, we have had a increase (in jobs) than we did last year."
The figures dropping statewide is positive news, Scott said last week.
"The creation of more than 2,000 private sector jobs last month is further evidence of the state's continuing economic recovery," Scott said.
The release of the monthly numbers came against a backdrop of protesters calling for the governor to return to the Capitol to address their concerns about the "stand your ground" law and Department of Children and Families Secretary David Wilkins' decision to resign.
Wilkins' agency is embroiled in a controversy about the deaths of four children since May 16 and a dispute with local child-welfare agencies.
The 7.1 percent unemployment rate is the lowest in Florida since September 2008 and remains below the national mark of 7.6 percent.
Florida has been below the national average for four months.
The monthly statewide number also comes as Scott has traveled for several new job announcements.
Last Wednesday, Scott was in the western Panhandle as CHCS Services, a California-owned information technology company announced plans to bring up to 385 jobs to Pensacola and West Fraser Timber Co.'s saw mill in McDavid introduced plans to hire 80.
On Thursday, Scott announced Bristol-Myers Squibb planned to locate a facility in Tampa that would create 579 life sciences jobs.
"Announcements like this from Bristol-Myers Squibb show that companies are taking notice of our economic turnaround and that it's working in Florida," Scott stated in a separate release.
The need for jobs has also been playing out in recent weeks as communities across the state cobble together financial packages intended to entice Internet giant Amazon to open one of the planned distribution "fulfillment" centers that would result in 3,000 jobs and more than $300 million in investments within Florida.
On Thursday, the Hillsborough County Commission approved the second half of its offer, agreeing to pitch $6.4 million in property-tax exemptions over a seven year period. Last month, the commission agreed to offer up to $225,000 as a partial match needed for the state's Qualified Targeted Industries Tax Refund Program.
Hillsborough County hopes to get 450 higher-wage jobs and to see more when Amazon makes a $200 million capital investment in the county. Last week, Polk County commissioners approved 10 years worth of tax incentives worth up to $4.5 million for the Seattle-based company that is expected to create 100 high-paying jobs and spend at least $10 million on the new facility.
Commissioners hope this move will help Florida's economy. While it has been common for Polk to be ranked among the top 10 counties in unemployment, June's figures show Polk ranked 13th highest among the state's 67 counties.
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My house has aluminum wiring, which from what I understand isn't recommended any more. How do I replace a plug or switch since the new unit only takes copper wiring?
There are two ways to do it:
To quote from the ESA (Ontario Electrical Safety Authority)'s Notice on Aluminum wiring in residential installations:
In either case:
Here's what I did in my house, based on internet research and asking my Dad, a construction superintendent.
I am a licensed electrician in Connecticut. My own condo has aluminum wiring, I highly recommend the alum.con connectors because they are homeowner friendly. Two methods are presented:
These connectors are quickly becoming accepted by major insurance companies. Their downside is price: approximately $2.00 each, and figure three per outlet if you choose to do the grounds as well.
Also they are a bit larger than standard wire nuts adding a bit more difficulty for wire and device room in a existing device box. They appear to be code compliant in most cases for cubic inch capacity.
I have installed them in my home and neighbors. The biggest issue with aluminum wiring arc issues are exterior walls that are poorly insulated and major temperature changes occur over the years exaggerating the expansion/contraction issues. Hope this helps.
Do not use the Ideal purple wire nuts; I've seen too many melt downs; it's a bad product.
I discovered I have the same issue here. My research has found that aluminum wiring is UNSAFE, and you need to be very careful about what you do. The two options are:
I'll update when I actually get my sample AlumiConn connector to see if it's a viable option. The safest option would be to get a licensed electrician to rewire the house with copper, since the aluminum connections are inherently dangerous (and you will probably find other issues, such as bad breakers, 3-wire 240V instead of 4-wire, and a poorly labeled breaker box like I did). I've had receptacles in my house spark and connections melt because of the aluminum, so please take this seriously.
Edit 1: There's also more information about aluminum wiring from the CPSC (PDF) (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
My parent's house has aluminum wiring. You can either search for CO-ALR switches and plugs which take aluminum wires or get the paste as you said and wire them together. The paste is important, otherwise the wires corrode and start rubbing/sparking .... bad mojo from there.
Just buy the ALR rated outlets and switches. You can pigtail but I don't like that as you now have 2 connections instead of one and you bend the wire more stuffing all that into the box. I have 35 yr old alum wiring. My wiring is in great shape. Replaced several outlets that needed to be replaced. They had the classic alumnimum connection issues. Connected properly there is no problem with aluminum wire. I remember when it came out the industry was publishing all sorts of propaganda to sell ALR as the next big thing. Popular mechanics did a big piece saying we'd never use copper again. Now they are selling $50 "special" cold weld connectors. Its all a big friggin joke and a $ machine. A good connection will remain in place for decades no matter how many hot/cold cycles it goes thru. A bad connection may very well have problems.
/The aluminum to copper splice connector that I use is the AlumiConn 95104 which fits wire from #18 to #10. Remember that aluminum wire is larger than copper for the same capacity current. These connectors are available at Lowes for about $6.50 for a package of 2.
To my knowledge, this insulated 3 port splice connector is the safest product on the market right now. Unfortunately, I don't know who actually makes it or what it's called- just what it looks like. NSi Industries (Tork) makes something similar (their IPL series), but I'm not sure if they make really small ones like you need.


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My question relates to the proof of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem for families of elliptic operators, as presented in "The Index of Elliptic Operators: IV", M. F. Atiyah and I. M. Singer.
Let $A$ be a compact Hausdorff space and $q:A\times \mathbb{C}^n\rightarrow A$ be the projection, then we obtain the induced Thom isomorphism $q_!:K_{\text{cpt}}(A\times \mathbb{C}^n)\rightarrow K(A)$. The map $q_!$ and the analytic index $ind:K_{\text{cpt}}(A\times \mathbb{C}^n)\rightarrow K(A)$ coincide. According to Atiyah this follows from the case $Y$ is a point, and the fact that the analytical index is a homomorphism of $K(Y)$-modules. My question is why are these two properties enough to show the two maps coincide?


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The 8 Most Mind Blowing Disguises in Nature
#4. Leafy Sea Dragons Look Like Seaweed
Believe it or not, the image below is of an actual animal, not something that should be wrapped around your sushi. The leafy sea dragon is a close relative of the sea horse, and clear evidence that nature is a fan of Dr. Seuss. Dragon on the left, plant on the right:
Fastily, Tom Corser 2009
We still contend that something should either breathe fire or eat virgins to be considered a dragon.
To avoid all the soulless killing machines that inhabit its watery abode, the sea dragon's fins have evolved into leafy appendages that don't really do anything except look like seaweed, and so the fish just kind of floats around. The fins that do move are almost completely transparent, so they're very hard to see, giving the illusion that it's just drifting around aimlessly. So nothing is going to take a bite out of it unless it wants a mouthful of seaweed. So all it has to worry about is whatever does want a mouthful of seaweed. But hell, you can't think of everything.
"The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake."
#3. Orchid Mantises Are Fabulous
Praying mantises, in general, are goddamn freaky-looking monsters with giant scythes for arms that are apparently capable of even killing snakes. But then there are some that took a different route to fashion and traded fearsome for fabulous!
It's difficult to find, but in the middle of this picture is the orchid mantis, an African insect that evolved legs shaped like petals and coloring to match its preferred flower disguise. Each one has a unique outfit to hide in different orchids and pretend it's not going to rip your face off.
Francesco Tomasinelli, Isopoda.net
"No, seriously. Sniff me."
There is something fundamentally unsettling about a creature that wears a dress to trick its prey. We still don't know whether to scream or buy it a drink.
Francesco Tomasinelli, Isopoda.net
Above: The only corsage that attaches directly to your flesh.
#2. Cuttlefish Look Like Whatever They Want
A while back, we told you about the cuttlefish's amazing ability to instantly alter it's color and texture in a way that's on par with modern flat screen television technology. One of the best mimics in the animal kingdom, the cuttlefish can blend in with pretty much anything around it.
Nick Hobgood
Scientists are studying their skin to design the world's least effective underpants.
Well, researchers have now found that cuttlefish can also contort their bodies and limbs to further counterfeit just about anything you put in front of them, including photographs. Here it's copying the look of some cheap plastic aquarium decor:
National Geographic
You should see it do the diver.
They used plastic to make sure it wasn't operating off of some chemical cue from a real plant. When a biologist held up a picture of it, the cuttlefish did the same thing. Then when researchers plopped one into a tank with wallpaper made from two-dimensional stripes, this happened.
National Geographic
It's like somebody shone a prison-break searchlight on it!
While scientists previously thought cuttlefish might be using touch and other senses to discern their surroundings, they've now discovered that the squidlike animal actually has incredible eyesight, which gives them the ability to mimic their surroundings with high-def precision. Something else they discovered? The cuttlefish is apparently blind to certain colors. When put in a tank with blue and white tiles, the thing just sat there looking like a douche.
Marine Biological Laboratory
Avatar was not wildly popular among cuttlefish.
#1. Treehoppers Wear Tiny Costumes
Treehoppers are the cosplayers of the insect world -- if insects held their own comic book conventions, these guys would show up to ruin everything. Mainly because their costumes are built in -- they have modified wings that they use as props to look like other insects. So on the left, you can see one "wearing" an ant costume, and on the right, you see the same appendages dressed up to look like a wasp.
Light Mediation
Their white Anglo-Saxon Protestant disguises are even more unsettling.
There are several species of treehopper, and they appear as things like tree thorns, leaves, gaping jaws and various insects. Then sometimes we don't know what the hell they're supposed to be.
Velo Steve, Light Mediation
Above: Treehoppers disguised as a thorn and ... the letter C?
These odd wing designs are called "helmets," and scientists have no idea what they're for. All we can figure out is that insects in the distant past had an extra set of wings on their heads, and these guys alone retained them to remodel into fancy hats. Insect researchers have helpfully drawn up a chart so that we can collect the whole set.
"Gotta catch 'em alllllllll!!"
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I've read various places that explicit sleep statements are a bad practice in automated tests, even if I've used them occasionally. They can be annoying (creating unnecessary waiting in tests) but I can't think of any examples of why they're actually harmful. What are some examples of sleep statements causing harm in automated tests?
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A hard coded sleep statement is generally supposed to represent some sort of mocked delay in the application that doesn't exist during testing.
The harmful aspect of this is that a hard coded value can't represent the complexity that actually exists in what its mocking.
Take for example a network delay. Your production system usually takes 4 seconds to go out over the network, take some data, and come back over the network with the result. So you simply mock up the data, toss in a 4 second delay, and give it back. Sounds simple.
Because it is simple - almost too simple. If something on your network changes, your test is now inaccurate. You can't see how the routine will react under abnormally heavy or abnormally light network load. In other words you're trying to test what you cannot control. You're make something repeatable (with the 4 second sleep) that really isn't repeatable (no run over the network will ever be the same twice).
And if the correctness of the test relies on an invalid and potentially often changing assumption, then what does that say about the reliability of the test?
The main harm occurs when the time value you use in your Sleep statement isn't appropriate for the current instance of the test.
Your script might Sleep for 4 seconds, because that's how long it took for some important object to appear when you created your script. Then the script moves on with actions using that new object.
But when you re-run the script, there's no guarantee that the object will appear within 4 seconds this time. Your script which depends on the object being present after 4 seconds might fail, or run amok, or report errors - all of which you must later analyze.
What you intended to script was "Sleep until the desired object appears". Sometimes "Sleep 4 seconds" doesn't represent that intent very well.
Hard-coded Sleeps make your script less tolerant of varying timings, more brittle, and less likely to carry out the actions you intended.
In software, there are a couple of ways to wait for an event to occur. One way is to cause the event to notify you. Sometimes that is possible, sometimes not. Another way is to poll: you wait a while, check whether the event has occurred, and if it hasn't, you do it again.
A variation of polling is to wait a while and then assume that the event has occurred. Of course, if you do that, you had better have waited long enough. Sometimes an explicit sleep represents a guess at a wait time. That guess might be fine in one circumstance but wrong in another. Your guess may be wrong as soon as you move to a slower machine, a slower network connection, or a server that has slowed down because it is having to work harder.
Well, when the test wastes your time – that is harmful I think. But, it depends. Example: you have several test environments. MachineA is hight performance real machine. MachineB – is slow virtual machine on remote server in the middle of Antarctica.
On MachineA you need 1 sec. sleep. On MachineB you need 10 sec. So, you make Sleep(10s) in the code which waste the MachineA performance.
So now your test time depends on the slowest machine in your lab. Let's say you have 100 tests with a single 10 seconds delay. 100*10 = 1000 sec = 17 minutes of wasted time per each run on high performance workstations.
On my previous project we have fight a lot with Sleeps and have reduced the test execution from 12 to 9 hours for 1200 tests. My colleagues that used came to the working place early were not waited additional 2-3 hours for the test suite before it finishes.
But anyway we left some sleeps that we were not able to fix fast.
I have a series of about 50 Selenium tests that take less than 10 minutes to run. I've been able to cut the execution time down by several minutes by writing the tests in such that no
I find that when I use


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Five people are being held at the St. Joseph County Jail after police raided a home Monday in Sturgis.
Members of the St. Joseph County Area Narcotics Unit executed a search warrant at a home in the 300 block of South Jefferson Street. According to police, the search revealed methamphetamine, meth waste and marijuana.
Police arrested five people, two men and three women, who will face a variety of charges, including operating/maintaining a meth lab, possession of meth, possession of marijuana, maintaining a drug house and felony firearms. One juvenile also was in the home and was put in custody Child Protective Services.
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Summer is the time to kick back, get outside, take a little drive, and see a great band (or four!)
This past Monday I had the pleasure of seeing "The Outlaw Roadshow" at the Iroquois Amphitheater. Headlined by Counting Crows, the tour also features Filligar, Foreign Fields, and Good Old War. It was such a fun show, all the bands really connected with the audience, the temperamental Louisville weather was nice for once, and everyone got out of their seat to dance at some point or another, and even the "non-dancers" were compelled to move around a little bit!
For most of the concerts that I've been to, the crowd comes to see the headlining group and one or two opening bands kick off the show. The crowd enjoys it, but then maybe forgets what their name was by the time the main band comes on. Or perhaps the bands are all on the same label, and thrown together haphazardly by executive managers.
Not at this show! Adam Duritz, the lead singer of Counting Crows, invited the bands to join him on tour because (guess what?) he likes them! In fact, he came out to do a heartfelt introduction before each group played. And not only that, after Counting Crows finished, everyone came back on stage for an encore. You could see how much fun they were having touring together, like a big happy family.
In fact, I came to the show to see Filligar, a quartet from Chicago with a rich southern-rock sound. If you like My Morning Jacket or The Black Keys, I recommend you check out their music. The first time I saw them play was last year in the tiny Cat's Den at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and although it was a small show it was easy to see that these talented guys were on their way to becoming a household name. And then this time, hearing them fill the whole park with their bluesy rock sound cemented my allegiance. Not only are they super talented, they're really nice guys who are cool to talk to after the show. I can assuredly say Filligar is on my list of "bands you should check out".
The Outlaw Roadshow is traveling around the country now, but they're not too far away. It would definitely make a good excuse for that summer road trip you've been talking about. For more information about the tour click here !
If you're not already familiar with Counting Crows, click here to listen to "Hanginaround" and "Colorblind".
"Robbery (Shocking Love)" and "Guilty Good Intentions" from Filligar.
"Names And Races" from Foreign Fields.
"Coney Island" from Good Old War.


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Short Question
Does a cost-effective tool / workflow exist to facilitate code reviews in a small team? More specifically, a small team that relies on post-commit code reviews.
Our team currently consists of 3 full time and 1 part time software engineers, with plans on hiring more in the near future. Due to our team size and volume of projects we all must juggle, the pre-commit workflow that major tools (such as Review Board and Code Collaborator) use is not obtainable for us right now. The best we can do at the moment is to perform post-commit reviews before major releases or as time permits. Nearly all of our projects are hosted on RepositoryHosting.com (which I highly recommend) and contain a mixture of SVN and GIT repositories.
Current Thoughts
Since I cannot find a tool that fits our needs right now, I am turning to TRAC that is built into our repository's site. At the moment we use TRAC to file tickets and track milestones, so to me this seems like a natural fit for code review results as well.
The direction I am heading in right now is to use a spread sheet(s) to log all of the bugs and comments. Do some macro magic to get it in a format that I can use TRAC's import ticket method and use TRAC's ticketing system to create the action items / bug reports automatically. The auto ticket generation is darn near a must have, adding in bugs and comments one at a time from a web-gui is really painful.
Secondary Question
If this workflow makes sense, is there a good / standard template to use as a code review log?


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Let $X$ be a nonsingular complex projective variety. Suppose $X$ is embedded as a nonsingular real subvariety of complex projective space ${\mathbb{CP}}^n$.
When can we embed ${\mathbb{CP}}^n$ in some larger complex projective space ${\mathbb{CP}}^N$ such that the image of $X$ is now a nonsingular complex subvariety of this larger ${\mathbb{CP}}^n$?


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I have two questions on Serre's "Galois cohomology", the section on profinite groups.
1) Proposition 1 on p.4 claims that if $K \subset H$ are two closed subgroups of a profinite group $G$, then there is a continuous section $G/H \to G/K$.
I have no intuition why this should be true: this seems to be so false to me, when I think about $\mathbb{Z}/4\mathbb{Z} \to \mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$. But this is Serre, so I suppose I must be stupid somewhere.
2) If $H$ is a closed subgroup of $G$, he defines the index of $H$ in $G$ to be the lcm of index of $H/H \cap U$ in $G/U$ as $U$ varies over all open normal subgroups of $G$. I don't see why the old notion of index doesn't work here - why do we need a special notion? Is it solely for the purpose of defining pro $p$-groups and make sense of the notion of Sylow subgroups?


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Worsley Arms Hotel
Please note that this is not official website of the hotel.
Built in 1841 as a Georgian Spa Hotel the Worsley Arms offers an exquisite, timeless country house setting with open log fires and stylish furnishings.
The restful and informal environment is perfect for a relaxing break in the North Yorkshire Countryside. Twenty minutes from York, a couple of miles from Castle Howard and close by the market towns of Helmley, Pickering and Malton.


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WACO (November 14, 2012)-- Keep Waco Beautiful and the City of Waco Solid Waste Services invite residents to pick up a new 95-gallon recycling cart or yard waste cart Saturday as part of America Recycles Day.
Humus, mulch, organic compost and other gardening supplies will be for sale.
The curbside carts can be picked up Saturday at the Solid Waste Office at 501 Shroeder Drive.
The carts will be available from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Residents will be able to choose from a blue recycling cart or a green yard waste cart, both hold 95 gallons.


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While designing for web, when should I use a light-box and when should I direct the user to a new page? For example, if the user clicks the "contact" link, should I open a small form in a light-box or send them to new page on the site?
Some broad guidelines for lightboxes:
I like to follow the rule that lightboxes should be used if after the task is completed the user will want to get back to the page they were viewing previously. Lightboxes keep the user in the context of what they were viewing and users expect to be returned to that page once their task is complete.
I think the context of the contact link is important when thinking about this question and could alter the answer.
Hope this helps but in this situation I always find that the answer "it depends" most often fits. Consider the context in which users will click the contact us button and whether they will want to return to their previous task and that should give you your answer.
Quick answer: It depends.
I (personally) like using lightboxes/tooltips for adding content. Depending on what's essential, important and not too relevant in your site, and also on how much js you are using already, think of it either as an add-on, or as a functional part of your structure.
I use light boxes when there really just isn't enough content for a new page, like a contact form or subscribing to a news letter, and when I don't need that content on the page
Not strictly speaking of lightbox (I personally grew tired of lightbox), but any sort of AJAX request is better than loading an entire new page if you're only replacing a bit of content on the screen; such as an image, a caption, or even a few images and a caption that go together.
The only time you'd really want to load an entirely new page is if the user would possibly want to bookmark or return to this specific set of content, or if you're changing UI elements in some way. For example, turning a five item slideshow into five sepparate pages would be unnecessary, and an annoyance to the user. However, if every page of a site were on the same HTML page, and simply requested new content with AJAX, users wouldn't be able to bookmark, or save in their history, or use the forward and back buttons, to navigate through your site.
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To Stay at Home or Return to Work?
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When I was single and ruled by my career, I thought it was ludicrous for my peers not to know, before their maternity leaves, whether they would come back to work. "How could a respectable woman not know her own mind? Could a baby turn a woman into complete mush?" I thought.
These days, I admire ambivalence in expectant mothers. These women grasp the enormity of emotion a child brings, and give themselves permission to feel what they feel, even if it is vastly different than what they expected.
Ultimately, according to several mom executives, women cannot "plan" the right mix of work and family life because life's many twists and turns require even the best plans to change. Take it from the president of Medalia Communications and the former vice president and group publisher of Working Woman Network, Delia Passi Smalter, who by thirty, had three daughters, divorced, and then functioned as a single mother. She says women shouldn't feel pressured to follow a prescribed path. "I never planned to have children so early, but when it happened my family took precedence and my career went into neutral for six or seven years."
Having adopted two children, an attorney and president of the New Ellis Group in Princeton, New Jersey, Karen Kaplowitz discourages women from thinking there's a certain method for combining career and children. "Having it all is always a goal, not a formula."
Start with a cursory review of what gives you energy and what you simply can't bear. My friends and I have spent many hours dissecting the mind and body of the fulfilled stay-at-home mom, since most of us consider her the "perfect mother." We've also isolated the factors and characteristics that buoy women in the other two roles that of full-time or part-time work outside the home. See which list best matches you and your situation:
Attributes of relatively happy stay-at-home moms
- A temperament suited to small children
- Financial means and a support network that works
- Faith- or value-driven desire to be at home
- Desire for major life change
- Easier hormonal/emotional adjustment
- Economic need
- High energy and good at handling stress
- Long-held desire to be a working mom
- Family-friendly job
- Need to restore herself, away from child
- Adaptable personality
- More flexible budget
- Husband who's willing to help or meet his wife halfway
- Independent-minded and comfortable with lack of firm identity
More on: Adjusting to New Motherhood
From What No One Tells the Mom by Marg Stark. Copyright © 2005. Used by arrangement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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I am looking to delve into the teachings of Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik (1903-1993). Any recommendations on a good starting point?
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Although I personally have not read his works, I have a number of friends who were inspired by The Lonely Man of Faith. Additionally, Halachic Man seems to be a must read. Although chronologically Halachic preceded Lonely by a couple of decades, Lonely is more fundamental.
I'm no scholar of the Rav, but I found the Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur Machzors and the Haggada based on his teachings to be eye-opening introductions to his oeuvre. They're full of references to his other published works, so if you see a passage you find particularly interesting, you can follow it up by studying the work it was excerpted from.
The Bergen County Beis Medrash has lots of Audio Shiurim from Rav Soloteitchik. That may be a good place to start.
There are also 164 of the Rav's shiurim available for download here. (linked to from here)
In my opinion the best place to start is Here:
The Rav Thinking Aloud on the Parsha
It is simpler then the other books that have some heavy philosophy and language. They are cross referenced to his other books so if you like an Idea you can find it and the person who wrote it was a close talmid. Plus it is on the Parsha so it makes it very usefull.If you want the Plain The Rav Thinking Aloud not on the Parsha it has most of his viewpoints on the important issues and it is an easy read
I think the first one I read was קול דודי דופק, both very deep and very readable at the same time, a nice introduction to his way of writing, and philosophical methodology.
@YDK's suggestions of Man of Faith and Halachic Man are also good to go with.
I recommend two books in particular:
Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (2 vols; ed. Joseph Epstein; Ktav Publishing House, 1999);
Reuven Ziegler, Majesty and Humility: The Thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik (Urim Publications, 2012).
There is a 16-part audio web series from Web Yeshiva given on the Lonely Man of Faith taught by Rabbi Jeffrey Saks. you can download it from here: http://www.yutorah.org/search/?s=lonely+man&series=4191 Give's a nice introduction to Rav Soloveitchik's teachings.
I strongly recommend Halakhic Man. (Some say to skip the first 40 pages. From what I have heard, people find them very tedious, as it is just a preface to the piece, and Rav Yoshe Ber uses very large words with which most people are unfamiliar, but after roughly the first 40 pages he actually gets to the premise of the essay.)
In it he describes and elaborates on the worldview and persona of the great halachists of the past. And how their approach and thought process differs from other personalities in their relation to G-d and the world he put us in.
Largely he sets down the philosophy of his family; the Soloveitchiks, and their approach to halacha and their mindset.


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The 7 Most Pointlessly Horrifying Plastic Surgery Procedures
Plastic surgery has blessed us with something our forefathers never had: huge boobs on skinny girls. But science--and shallow people with extra money to throw around--were not satisfied with that miracle.
No, they continued developing plastic surgery techniques that strayed out of the realm of the vain and image-obsessed and into the land of WTF.
#7. Ear Pointing
A small wedge of the ear is removed and the remaining ear is stitched together. The result is an ear that is pointed, much like that of an elf or an owl or Spock.
Wait, why do you want to look like any of those things?
The Price
Around $1,800.
The Side Effects
Side effect? Your ears will be fucking pointed! The side effect is what the main effect becomes 30 years after you've lost all interest in the things that made you want to get pointed ears. Are you picturing it? You're 50-years old, interviewing for a job at a car dealership? And you have fucking elf ears?
"And then your Grandpa's pal Jerry said 'It'll be awesome, you'll look just like Spock!' And that's why Grandpa can't get a job today."
People Actually Do This?
Not only do people do this, but here's the crazy thing: Some people are born with pointed ears and, because their parents actually love their child, the problem is surgically fixed while they are still infants and immune to Lord of the Rings jokes. So in the case of ear pointing, people are spending cash to have their local tattoo and piercing artist GIVE them what amounts to a rare birth defect.
That's right, a tattoo or piercing artist. Ear pointing is considered a "pseudo surgery," so it's not usually performed by doctors, but instead by "body modders" like Steve Haworth, who is generally credited with inventing the procedure. Basically, the same body-modification types who will stretch your lobes to the point that ear sex becomes feasible, will also point your ears so that ear sex also becomes a ridiculously creepy fetish.
#6. Voice Lift
We'll warn you in advance, this shit sounds delightful! During a voice lift, the neck is cut open, and implants are placed in the vocal chords. Sometimes, fat is injected into the vocal chords also. One doctor even takes ground up cadaver skin and injects it into your throat!
The idea is that if your voice has become old and scratchy with the years, this will have you sounding like a young man again! You'll look 20 years younger! On the phone!
"Wazzzaap? I'm looking forward to wrangling some bitches with you this evening."
Also, you might start speaking in the southern drawl of the deceased serial killer whose cadaver you just had injected into your neck.
The Price
$3,500 - $7,000.
The Side Effects
Your voice could become hoarse and raspy if the procedure is not done right. That would defeat the purpose, but the risk of sounding like Tom Waits certainly wouldn't deter us. If you could guarantee results like that, we'd be in surgery right now. But what if the doctor does the job too well? That flabby couch potato body of yours would just be all the more ridiculous if you had a voice like Fran Drescher.
People Actually Do This?
Damn straight they do. When it comes to the voice lift, the awesomely named Dr. Peak Woo makes it sound as normal as botox. And if you're the type who thinks injecting botulism into your furrowed forehead is normal, then we suppose it is.
That article that we linked to above claims that P-Woo performs one zombie skin injecting procedure per week. And that was in 2004. Five years later, it's a pretty safe bet that business is even more booming now. That, or the cadaver injection turned one patient into a ravenous zombie who then ate him. Pretty awesome either way.
#5. The Toe Tuck
Having your pinky toe "tucked" can involve something minor yet still absurd, like liposuction, or something more extreme, like removing the entire bone from the toe. That seems way more complex than just hacking the damn thing off, but our medical license was revoked years ago, so we could be wrong. But seriously, what happens to that toe when you take the bone out? Does it just flop around in the wind and shit? Really, we're asking.
So why do they do it? Brace yourselves:
It's so fashionable narrow shoes will fit better.
We really don't deserve to survive as a species.
The Price
Around $2,000 per toe.
The Side Effects
Undergoing this surgery requires full anesthesia, and carries along with it a high risk of nerve damage and infection. The procedure can take anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours depending on how complicated it gets. The recovery time can range from a few weeks to a few months. But that's the price you pay to look fierce on the catwalk (or stripper pole).
People Actually Do This?
Not only do people do it, but according to this article, sometimes it doesn't even stop with the little toe. Some women get the procedure done if their second toe is too long. Why? Because they don't like the way it looks.
Listen, ladies. If your guy is put off because your second toe is kind of long, you don't get surgery, you find another guy. That dude with his foot fetish is creepy as shit. You may not realize it right away, but when you come home one day and he's dancing around the living room to a Morrissey song with his junked tucked between his legs, you'll know it then. Do you really want to wait that long?
"I'd fuck me. Also I wish your toes were smaller."
#4. Micropigmentation
Micropigmentation is a tattoo that replaces makeup. Anything from eye liner to eye shadow to eyebrows can be permanently painted on your mug. Finally, a tattoo you won't live to regret! Until you do!
The Price
The Side Effects
There aren't really any more physical side effects than you would get with regular tattoos--remorse, humiliation, the potential for hepatitis--but there are some things to think about before you decide to have yourself permanently dolled up. The standard for beauty changes every few years, and makeup can change every day. Ladies, imagine if you had this procedure done in, say, 1984.
People Actually Do This?
Judging from the countless number of websites espousing the virtues of micropigmentation, they most certainly do. While it does have its benefits (in instances of pigmentation loss or alopecia), some of the other suggested uses are just ridiculous. Here are some prime examples from this list of The Top 10 Reasons for Micropigmentation:
Convenience: Saving up to 100 hours per year in makeup application!
No more smears!
The outdoors: It can be tough to manage makeup application if you spend a lot of time in the wilderness!
It offers the natural look!
Well now that they put it that way, we're sold!