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Mooresville, N.C.-based Lowe's announced it will makeover 16 USO centers across the country in time for troops returning home for the holidays.
The company said that it will provide the products and volunteers to complete the projects to revitalized the centers where troops spend time and relax while off duty.
USO centers were visited more than 5.3 million times by military personnel and their families in 2009 where they could enjoy free internet and e-mail access, libraries and reading rooms, housing assistance, family crisis counseling, support groups, game rooms and nursery facilities.
"What a great way to say thank you to our troops and their families," said Sloan Gibson, president of the USO. "We continue to salute Lowe's for the company's commitment to helping our men and women in uniform who served and continue to serve our nation."
The makeover projects will include painting, installing carpet and updating lighting, among other repairs. They will be lead by Lowe's Heroes volunteers, a company-wide volunteer initiative that offers Lowe's employees the opportunity to work on projects in their own neighborhoods.
Lowe's also credited vendors like Valspar, Mohawk, 3M, Graco, Harper and Wooster for donating their products.
The makeovers are in addition to additional Veterans Day discounts being offered by Lowe's.
The following USOs will receive makeovers from Lowe's:
USO Airport Georgia – Savannah, Ga. USO Fort Bliss – El Paso, Texas USO Fort Hood – Killeen, Texas USO Fort Drum – New York, N.Y. USO Great Lakes – Great Lakes, Ill. USO Hampton Roads – Norfolk, Va. USO Houston – Houston, Texas USO Los Angeles – Los Angeles, Calif. USO Missouri – St. Louis, Mo. USO Naval Air Station – Pensacola, Fla. USO New York – New York, N.Y. USO North Carolina – Jacksonville, N.C. USO Pensacola Airport Center – Pensacola, Fla. USO Puget Sound – Seattle, Wash. USO Rocky Mountain – Denver, Colo. USO San Diego – San Diego, Calif.


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- Fits perfectly into commercial water bottles
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- Provides safe drinking water in less than a minute
- Powered by 4 AA batteries: Lithium or nickel metal hydride are strongly recommended. Alkaline batteries are NOT recommended.
- Weight: 5.7 oz with batteries
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12 Dec 2011 9:23 AM #1
Answered: nested model associations cleared after initial load?
I've created a custom proxy type for retrieving data from a javascript remoting method that returns an array of objects. The issue is that during autoLoad, the ListStore shows values in the "Contacts" array. However, once I click on a List component bound to this store, the Contacts array for each record is cleared. I suspect is has something to do with
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{"records":[{"Name":"test5","RecordTypeId":"012U0000000KLkCIAW","Type":"first","Id":"001U00000071eXtIAI","Industry":"first"},{"Name":"GenePoint","Phone":"(650) 867-3450","AccountNumber":"CC978213","Type":"second","Contacts":[{"Name":"Edna Frank","AccountId":"001U0000002KPCDIA4","Id":"003U0000001XpgCIAS"}],"Id":"001U0000002KPCDIA4","AnnualRevenue":30000000,"Industry":"Biotechnology"}]}
{"Name":"GenePoint","Phone":"(650) 867-3450","AccountNumber":"CC978213","Type":"second","Contacts":[],"Id":"001U0000002KPCDIA4","AnnualRevenue":30000000,"Industry":"Biotechnology"}
Yes, the association is then made so the field is then not there.
12 Dec 2011 9:27 AM #2
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Yes, the association is then made so the field is then not there.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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association not needed?
Success. Apparently the Account's association to Contact is not needed when not using the reader?
Thanks much
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Emergency response
Life can change for millions of families in an instant: natural disasters take loved ones and the outbreak of war drives families from their homes. When the unthinkable happens, Mercy Corps delivers rapid, lifesaving aid to hard-hit communities and then teams up with them to build back stronger.
We have responded to almost every global natural disaster in the last 20 years, including the Nepal earthquake, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the Japan tsunami, the Haiti earthquake, the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa, and the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Our seasoned emergency responders work through conflict in Gaza and are on the ground in Ukraine, Iraq, South Sudan and the Central African Republic distributing critical supplies and protecting families uprooted by ongoing violence.
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In Chile, hard work and messages of hope
Hector Reyes —a staff member for Educacion Popular en Salud (EPES), Mercy Corps' local partner here in Chile — and I returned from the earthquake-shattered city of Concepción late last night.
Haiti: Haiti, nine weeks after the earthquake — what happens next
Week 9 post-earthquake: Mercy Corps, like our partners and peers, has been focused on emergency response. We've been busy with distributions, Comfort for Kids, water and sanitation provision, and more.
Haiti: Unleashing the Haitian enterprising spirit
On my recent trip to Haiti, I was filled first with despair and then hope. Despair for the overwhelming human and physical destruction. Hope because of the quiet strength, resilience, and determination of the Haitian people.
Haiti: The Next Steps to Haiti's Recovery
In the devastated but proud neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince, thousands of people have organized into local committees to help manage, guide and pitch in for what needs to be done in their communities. They are Mercy Corps' partners in the critical work of recovery and rebuilding.
Haiti: How we'll help transform Haiti
In the late afternoon of January 12, 2010, Haiti had a heart attack when an earthquake struck Port-au-Prince — the country's political, cultural and financial capital.
Haiti: Protecting survivors from the rain
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The recent remake of "We Are the World" — released to raise money for survivors of the Haiti earthquake — got me thinking about when poverty, hunger and the need for international humanitarian assistance really entered my co
Haiti: Pay day
Last Friday was pay day. After putting in five days of work clearing debris and repairing basic infrastructure, 119 participants in Mercy Corps' cash-for-work program here in Port-au-Prince patiently lined up at Impasse Dorcé and waited their turn to get paid.
Haiti: Video: Helping Haiti's children laugh, play and sing again
Today I visited a daycare where Mercy Corps' Comfort for Kids program is helping dozens of young earthquake survivors to celebrate their lives and friends again. Here's a video I took that shows just how amazing the spirit of these games and this music really is.
Haiti: The Haitian Mr. Bean
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Dear Editor, I read with interest the front page story on the Shadyside School levy that will be on the ballot this November....
People will pay over a $100 a month to talk on cell phones, but are not willing to contribute an extra $30 a month for education when Columbus (Kasich) has butchered school budgets. Truly sad.
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6 Of Your Favorite Things That Are Secretly Making You Fat
#3. Your Friends
It's no secret that your friends secretly hate you. They're probably making fun of you behind your back, and having sex with your girlfriend right now. But could they be subliminally influencing your eating habits, to make you less attractive than they are? Just so they'll look thinner by comparison?
Yes. You should confront them about this immediately.
After all, science has your back. Okay, maybe they aren't actively conspiring to shove food down your unwilling gullet (though we wouldn't rule it out completely). However, in a study that the Psychological Bulletin briefly titled "Effects of the Presence of Others on Food Intake: A Normative Interpretation," it was discovered that each additional person at the dinner table means another 20% or so consumed by all present.
Think about it: assuming you actually like the people you're eating with, chances are you're going to engage in some form of pleasant conversation over the meal. A happy mind is a distracted mind, one that pays less attention to food intake and feelings of fullness.
Of course there's also the way people reinforce each others' bad behavior ("No desert for me. Unless you wanted something... okay, waiter, we're both having the bacon ice cream cake").
Since these folks are your pals, you're probably going to want to linger over your meal, get a dessert or some booze, or coffee. Three slices of stale cheesecake, a bottle of vinegary red, and 90 minutes later and you find yourself wishing for larger pants (when you should probably just wish for healthier friends.)
#2. Your Mom
Remember when your mother told you to clean your plate? You know, because of those starving kids in Africa? Most of us are programmed to eat until we see the bottom of the dish.
But why are we still following Mom's advice well into adulthood? Well, basically your stomach is an idiot. It has absolutely no way of quantifying exactly how hungry you are. Your brain is the smart one, it handles the numbers and shit. Except for the little fact that your brain has no idea how hungry you are either, because your stomach, the stupid one, is pretty much completely in charge of the whole diet operation.
It takes your stomach about twenty minutes to even signal to your brain that it has received food. Having no other information to work with, your brain takes one look at the food you've piled on your plate and thinks to itself "Shit, I guess that looks about right."
Just ask Cornell Food and Brand Lab, who performed a study/prank involving bottomless soup bowls and unsuspecting restaurant patrons (the best kind!). Some diners were given regular bowls of tomato soup, while others were given bowls connected to tanks of soup which was piped invisibly into the bottom of the dish.
The diners eating from the regular bowls consumed an average of nine ounces per person, about the equivalent of a regular can of soup. Diners eating from the bottomless bowls wolfed down at least twice as much, some devouring more than a quart.
The study stops at this point, but we assume that these patrons didn't actually stop eating until soup was pouring so readily from every one of their orifices that no more could be forced in, at which point the researchers giggled and prepared to upload a video to YouTube.
#1. Using the Internet
Yeah, yeah, we know, we can hear you now: "Holy smokes! You mean that sitting nearly motionless for hours on end isn't very good for me?! Be sure to let me know when you work out the whole 'water wet, sky blue' thing, assholes." It's more complicated than that. So quit it with the sass.
There are these neat little communiques between your stomach and your brain called "orosensory signals of satiation." They're the signals your stomach sends off when it's full to let the brain know when it's time to stop shovelling Cheetos down.
Unfortunately, orosensory signals are like anemic little schoolgirls when pitted against all the other things that constantly vie for your brain's attention, and have a nasty habit of getting shoved aside by bigger, stronger signals. Distracting signals like these clog up your brain all the time when you're doing something fun, like surfing the net.
Imagine that the cameraman is your brain. Your stomach is the guy with his hands in the air.
So you're sitting there, eating chips with one hand and moving the mouse with the other. Have you had four handfuls, or five? How full was the bag when you started? Don't ask your stomach, it's retarded. And your brain is too busy handling the sensory information provided by that .gif of the dramatic hamster to care.
So that pretty much leaves... well, no one. According to a study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the damage works out to eating about fifteen percent more of your snack while distracted. You might as well have a monitor that fires little sausages into your mouth.
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This approval follows the successful completion of the project's preliminary engineering study to produce butadiene from a variety of sources. TPC Group said it anticipates that its engineering design optimization will be complete by the end of the third quarter of 2013.
The board of directors for US-based TPC Group has approved
capital for the next phase of engineering to produce on-purpose
butadiene and expand production capacity to meet market demand,
the company said on Monday.
This approval follows the successful completion of the project's preliminary engineering
study to produce butadiene from a variety of sources.
The US shale gas revolution offers an abundance of natural gas
liquids for feedstocks to produce butadiene,
according to the company. It has also had an impact on
by-product butadiene production, creating a shortage of
butadiene to meet customer needs.
TPC Group anticipates that its engineering design optimization
will be complete by the end of the third quarter of 2013.
"TPC Group is committed to maintaining its position as the
leading supplier of butadiene in North America," said CEO
Michael McDonnell. "As the leading independent marketer of
butadiene, we are focused on meeting our customers' needs for
high quality products, delivered through our extensive
aggregation and logistics network.
"The commitment we make to our customers is backed by the
security of having multiple production units and multiple
sources of feedstock supply, including our
plans to add our own on-purpose butadiene production unit
targeted for startup in 2016."
TPC Group first entered the butadiene market in 1943.
Utilization of TPC's OXO-DTM technology, which began in 1965,
allows for a highly efficient on-purpose butadiene production
process, according to the company.
TPC Group said it aims to address the structural shortage of
supply due to the shift from heavier to lighter feedslates by
ethylene producers. The need for a capacity expansion is driven by the growing
demand for butadiene and the reduced by-product of crude
butadiene available as North American ethylene producers
utilize more ethane as a primary feedstock.
TPC supplies the market with butadiene from its Houston and
Port Neches production facilities in Texas.
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I am making risotto for a Christmas dinner, serving 20 people. I plan to multiple the recipe by 3 or 4x. Since risotto is a challenging dish at the normal scale, how can I ensure getting good results when multiplying the recipe?
If you haven't done it before don't do this for Xmas day, it's not worth the risk. Always practise on less important occasions
You need a wider, rather than taller pot. Nearly a paella style pan. And a strong arm
Ingredients wise, I don't know of any magic scaling tricks for risotto
The hardest part is stirring enough, but not too much, and doing an even job of it
Probably easier to have two pots going at the same time, rather the one large pot. Then you can have two different flavours going!
You don't multiply the recipe. You have to make it multiple times.
Risotto isn't as hard to do as its fame suggests, but it requires a very even heating. If you pile your rice deep, you won't get it right even with constant stirring. You always want a thin layer of rice in the pan. The good news: if you do it correctly, you can leave it there without the constant stirring.
Still, if you haven't cooked it before, I support TFD: Don't try it for the first time with your guests, it has a somewhat high failure rate if you are inexperienced. If you insist on it, make it 1-2 times before as a test.
For best results and easiest preparation, make it Food lab style.
Perhaps the restaurant trick of preparing risotto in advance would be helpful for you?
See this ChowHound thread http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/300522 where the risotto is cooked only halfways, then put into the fridge on sheet pans. This leaves less work with the guest there.
I would be afraid of making risotto for more than 8, perhaps 10 people. In the few attempts at large risotto I have seen, it was frequent that the violent stirring required by such a large mass of rice tended to break the grains (and make glue). Another frequent occurrence was rice forming a burnt layer on the bottom of the pot. If that happens, keep stirring with a light hand, lower the gas and avoid at any cost to scrape the burnt crust into the risotto. It will taste bitter and spoil the whole thing.
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I remember watching a movie a few times about a group of kids with a paper route. The main kid is a teenager that just moved to the area.
The main scene I remember is the main kid trying to deliver a paper to an old war vet and having to use some strategy tactics to deliver it and "win" the old man's war, gaining him respect.
I remember seeing the movie somewhere between mid 90's to early 00's. Does anyone recognize this movie?


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I have tried to search through the internet about the definition of solar storm or what this term mean but i could found what it means. Also, what is the difference between the geomagnetic storm
I think "solar storm" is a term more likely to be used by a newspaper than a helioseismologist. As far as the term has any strict meaning, it means the same as the rather better defined term "geomagnetic storm". This is a disturbance to the Earth's magnetic field caused when charged particles from the sun hit the Earth's magnetic field. As usual, Wikipedia has an excellent article on this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_storm. Incidentally, I note that if you search for "solar storm" on Wikipedia it redirects you to the "geomagnetic storm" article.


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6 Huge Movie Plot Twists That Caused Even Bigger Plot Holes
A good twist ending makes you look back on the entire movie while shitting your pants. For example, remember at the end of The Sixth Sense where Bruce Willis is dead and no one saw it coming? It was so damn unexpected! Of course, who the hell would expect that the hero of a film wouldn't notice that his only speaking companion for months was a small, unsupervised child?
That kind of trickery is not a fluke, people. It turns out that sometimes in order for a film to really shock us with its ending it has to fudge the facts a little bit, and a twist is only a twist because it retrospectively makes no goddamn sense. Want proof?
(Cracked can't promise all the twists in our new Star Wars mini-series will make sense. But we can promise...something?)
#6. Skyfall -- The Bad Guy's Plan Depends on Events He Has No Control Over
The Plot Twist
In Skyfall, James Bond tracks his villain through a series of expert spy techniques such as attacking a train with a backhoe, getting shot, fucking feeding a dude to a komodo dragon, and just plain fucking. In the end, he is able to catch his man, a sinisterly foreign yet creepily Aryan ex-agent named Silva (Javier Bardem).
"Hey, Javier, we want you to play a villain."
"Sure, what kind of terrible hairdo will he have?"
But in a twist no one had seen since The Avengers (and before that, The Dark Knight), it then turns out that the villain intentionally got himself captured! It was all a plan to get to Bond's boss, M (Judi Dench), who was on trial thanks to Silva's machinations. Silva manages to upload a virus into MI6's system, escapes his cell, disguises himself as a police officer, and meets up with his henchmen to take out M at her hearing ... but not before crashing an expertly timed train right on a pursuing Bond's dome.
"Usually I'm the one railing people."
Hold On, Now ...
Before we go any further, yes, this is universally considered to be an awesome movie. It's just that any time a movie has the villain do the, "Surprise! Every action you've taken has actually played perfectly into my hands!" bit with the hero, it never really makes sense. And this is a great example -- when you walk through it from the bad guy's point of view, you realize that either Silva is an incredibly lucky bastard, or he's literally God.
The entire point of Silva's scheme is to kill M during her hearing -- he has two guys waiting for him with a cop uniform after he breaks out of MI6 specifically so that he can sneak into the courthouse and shoot her. Presumably he allowed himself to get captured (as opposed to just going straight to the courthouse) because he wanted to upload the virus into MI6's computers to distract everyone.
It was all a cunning scheme to show off his Hannibal Lecter impression.
Here's the thing: Silva's master plan began the moment he got captured, timing it so that he'd be in custody right when M was testifying. But he didn't turn himself in -- he was captured by Bond. So how could he have known when that would happen? Bond tracks a bullet shard in his shoulder to an assassin guy who has a casino chip from a casino where he sticks it to some lady who happens to know where Silva is. That's literally how it happens -- Silva had no control over that. How many days were those two fake cops standing there, waiting for Silva?
And then, when Bond corners him, Silva blows the tunnel at just the right time for a train to come crashing through it. How did he even know to set explosives in the specific time and place where James Bond would catch him? How did he know a train would be coming along at just that moment? He utters a little catchphrase in the split second the train crashes through -- imagine if the train had gotten delayed and they'd had to stand there in silence for 20 minutes until it finally came along.
#5. The Dark Knight Rises -- Bruce Wayne Magically Adjusts His Will Retroactively
The Plot Twist
We've all seen The Dark Knight Rises by now, right? Then you know that at the end of the movie, Batman appears to die when he sacrifices himself to save the city, going out in a nuclear explosion in the middle of the ocean (and that's the only realistic way Batman could ever die). The first twist is when we find out that he isn't really dead -- he just fucked off to Italy to stick it in Anne Hathaway.
Pictured with one of the two pearl necklaces she got from him.
But there's one more surprise before the credits: In his will, it is revealed that Batman left a little map to the Batcave to hero cop John "Robin" Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), strongly hinting that Blake will become the next person to don the black cowl. Or at least a thong and pixie boots.
Hold On, Now ...
At what point did Bruce Wayne leave that will? When Bruce's will is being read, the lawyer dude specifically states that it "was not amended to reflect his more modest estate." That means he hadn't touched it since he lost all his money, which happened right at the start of the action in the film, when he barely knew Blake. He hadn't even seen the guy throw a punch at that point.
"What are you like, a 38 ... 40 tall? Yeah, good enough."
But let's say that Bruce secretly added that part later in the movie and simply forgot he was bankrupt -- when do you suppose he had the time to do it? When the big dude with the funny voice was breaking him in half and throwing him in a pit on the other side of the world? By the time Bruce makes it back to Gotham, it's like Escape from New York in there: The city is ruled by criminals, so Wayne's lawyer probably had better shit to do than amend a will. After that, Batman only had one day to get his shit in order before his "death."
Most of which was spent preparing for this.
He certainly couldn't have done it after faking his death -- we know that the will reading happened right after that, since it's established that Bruce had fixed the autopilot only six months prior. Seriously, what kind of superhero entrusts his entire legacy to a dude he just met?
"Say, you wouldn't happen to have years of ninja training and millions in disposable income, would you?"
"N-- no."
#4. The Empire Strikes Back -- If Vader Knew That Luke Was His Son, What Was He Waiting For?
The Plot Twist
It's maybe the most famous plot twist of all time: In what was the series' biggest Maury moment, Darth Vader is revealed to be Luke Skywalker's father, Anakin, after Luke had spent the entire first film thinking that Vader was his father's murderer. The touching reunion includes Vader cutting his son's hand off and Luke jumping into a void rather than spending more time with his dad.
In the end, Luke gets a killer hand stump and some light incest out of the deal; it turns out that love interest Princess Leia is Vader's kid as well.
OK, maybe the father thing wasn't the biggest Maury moment after all.
Hold On, Now ...
The "I am your father" twist is one of the greatest movie moments ever, so it's easy to forget that it makes no fucking sense.
For starters, when exactly did Vader find out that Luke even existed? This is an incredibly important moment the movies never show us. Remember, the idea was that Luke was stashed on Tatooine as an infant specifically to keep the Empire from finding out about him. Luke is still living in peaceful anonymity in A New Hope, so clearly Vader doesn't realize that Luke is there.
But why? You'd think he would have noticed at some point in the first movie that this kid with a passing resemblance to his own younger self happened to share his last name. The first mention of him as the "son of Skywalker" is in the second movie, when Vader suggests to the Emperor that Luke could be turned. So did they just now put this all together? For real?
"You should have followed the Rule of Two: condoms and a vasectomy."
Vader and the Emperor were about as smart as their Spaceballs counterparts if they somehow missed the fact that for 20 years, there was a kid living on Vader's own home planet, with Vader's own family, openly telling everyone that he was "the son of Anakin Skywalker." And it's not like Vader is too far away to visit home, after all -- he has no problem visiting in the first film, right?
Which went about as well as any family reunion has ever gone.
Let's say that Vader's secret good side just didn't want to get his son involved; what about the Emperor? Or how about the fact that if Luke is down there, surely that pesky Obi-Wan (aka the dude who put Vader in that breathing suit) can't be far?
Vader must be the least-attentive father ever ... which isn't exactly a stretch, considering that his keen sense of the Force didn't pick up on his own daughter being tortured right in front of him. Jesus, Vader, you could have warned her.
"Listen, don't make out with any dudes named Skywalker. Just ... just trust me on this one."


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I saw it last night. Four quick comments.1. The movie is about the clothes. The people are essentially minor characters, who wear the clothes.2. There is a sense of humor about the clothes. Carrie's first wedding dress (from Vogue) had a turquoise bird on the veil, which, conjoined with her upswept hair style, made her look like Elsa Lanchester in the Bride of Frankenstein. Since Mr. Big looks like a little like Dracula (widow's peak, black hair, white skin, white shirt, black suit), it really worked. In the end, Carrie got married in a no-label dress, a welcome signifier, after two and a half hours of clothes, that life is not about the clothes, after all.3. The theater was totally segregated. There wasn't a Y chromosome in the room.4. The movie isn't going to win any academy award, but it does deal with a taboo subject in Hollywood ---growing older.
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Cathleen Kaveny is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor in the Theology Department and Law School at Boston College.
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1)In a movie about clothes, the sub-theme was getting rid of accessories in the end, you have to face the truth of your life without the bird on your head (too bad I loved that bird!), or in Samanthas case, a gaudy ring on your finger.2)Samanthas speech to Smith in breaking up with him was the disappointing nadir of the movie I love myself more didnt capture the I was meant to be single direction that the movie could have taken. Maybe in some ways this was the creators refusal to be pinned down to seriousness, instead choosing to revel in the narcissism that after all, was the shows guilty pleasure.3)It was very disappointing that the movie set up the premise that one of the problems with the characters relationships was that they just werent listening to the men in their lives, but then never really represented the moment of true attentive connection that ostensibly was going to repair those relationships. In a franchise whose core pleasure was the dialogue and deep knowledge the women had with each other, there remains no representation of the same rapport being possible within a heterosexual relationship.4)The movie is not a representation of modern feminism. It does not speak for feminism or exemplify whats wrong with feminism. I just had to say that because Ive seen so many tiresome commentaries that confuse a single tv show/ movie run by a handful of people in the American entertainment industry for a complicated and contradictory strain of thinking espoused by huge numbers of people around the world. 5)I loved that Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon LOOKED LIKE they were in their forties. That rocked.
Well, now that the secrets have been revealed, we don't have to drop $10 a head to go see this bit of fluff.
It's not a bad way to spend two hours or so. But then, I like some silly movies. I probably will go to see "Don't Mess with the Zolan" just to get my head out of virtue theory and rights.
"4) The movie is not a representation of modern feminism. It does not speak for feminism or exemplify whats wrong with feminism. I just had to say that because Ive seen so many tiresome commentaries that confuse a single tv show/ movie run by a handful of people in the American entertainment industry for a complicated and contradictory strain of thinking espoused by huge numbers of people around the world. "I did see the movie with my wife. Other than one man alone, there were very few men. If you "suspend your disbelief" it is a fun movie. Other than that this is sick stuff as was the HBO series. It hits a nerve in that it touches on meeting someone and all the disappointments and vicissitudes. Otherwise....Judtih Warner gets it about right.http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/woman-in-charge-women-who-cha...
And on to more important women. The Sex and the City antithesis, Hillary is a woman who was into service from her college days. If she had not made the "cookies" remark she would have won this nomination. It does go deeper than that. Her vigor, courage, endurance, fortitude shone fiercely in the face of an openly derisive male opposition. The shameful male anchors will sadly find out that it is all on tape. Shirley Chisolm warned about it forty years ago. Most women showed up and history will tell us why some chose to stay at home or even oppose this historic woman. She was good because she was a great candidate not because she is a woman. Take that Chris Matthews. She has her faults but there she is equal to any man or woman out there. And certainly more credibility, experience, and history of service than the two remaining candidates. History will be better to her. Her quest and story continues.In defeat, some are beginning to give her due credit. She will survive this "damning with faint praise." I believe she taught all of us about our gender boundaries. Gail Collins does the "faint praise" bit. History will be better. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/opinion/07collins.html?_r=1&ref=opinio...
I went with my 16 year old daughter, mostly so that I could see her responses firsthand and mediate her experience, if necessary. I asked what she thought of the opening lines, something like: "Women come to New York for labels and love.""Ridiculous," my daughter said. "No one goes to New York for love. Work, maybe, but not love." She GOT the cartoon the franchise has become, understood its value as fantasy, and dismissed some of the gals' concerns as frivolous, shallow, and narcissistic. WHEW!Generally, we laughed longer and harder over the antics of the group of women in front of us in the theatre than over any of the gags in the movie. Their responses were over the top!
Okay, if you're going to see the movie that Sex and the City is, in the end, merely an entertaining knockoff of:Breakfast at Tiffany's.Audrey Hepburn --in Givenchy. Patricia Neal in Pauline Trigere.Sartorial perfection abhors excess.
No No Nanette, I mean Cathleen. How could you compare Sabrina to these imposters? And everyone knows that Audrey Hepburn never had sex.
"Sartorial perfection abhors excess."Ah, yes, the only article of clothing I never gave away cheerfully was a black sleeveless crepe de chine sheath I bought when I was 28. I wore it for nearly 20 years, dressed up with a long fluttery pink and black silk scarf a la Isadora Duncan, or rhinestone pin. Alas, the over-50 figure is not designed for sleeveless anything, and I finally sent the sheath on its way to St. Vincent de Paul. I have not felt like Audrey Hepburn since.
"I did see the movie with my wife. Other than one man alone, there were very few men."A couple of evenings ago I took the kids to see "Kung Fu Panda" (which turned out to be a celebration of the spirituality of dueling - a theme curiously undertreated in the Christian tradition, for some reason). On our way to our theatre in the cineplex, we walked past a line of patrons (perhaps "matrons" would be more apposite) waiting to get into the theatre showing "Sex and the City". My unofficial tally: Thirty women. One man (with his wife).
There seems to be deep male hatred for this movie if my students are any indication. I asked them how they weathered the weekend storms. One said she went to see S&C and the men started groaning and saying they were boycotting the movie, refusing to see it with girlfriends, etc. etc. blah blah. I should have suggested they go see "Kung Fu Panda."
"There seems to be deep male hatred for this movie if my students are any indication. I asked them how they weathered the weekend storms. One said she went to see S&C and the men started groaning and saying they were boycotting the movie, refusing to see it with girlfriends, etc. etc. blah blah. "It seems a little over the top, doesn't it? Sometimes I wonder what (a lot of) American males see as the core of their identity? "I'm not a woman", "I'm not into fashion", "I'm not gay", "I don't like chick lit" ... okay, we know what you're not, but what *are* you?I once asked a group of deacons how they minister to the men in their parish. The suggestions all revolved around golf leagues and activities involving power tools and pickups. Isn't there more to manhood than that?
Over the top?I dunno.Most of the men indicated that they believe that the movie might feed among their girlfriends unhealthy preoccupation with fashion and male entrapment schemes. It didn't seem to have anything to do with power tools, golf or chick lit. But I never saw the show and I don't plan to see the movie, so maybe Cathleen can explain what's raising male hackles.
I guess . . . I think Midwestmind has it right. The men in the movie, Mr. Big, etc. weren't actually people. The people were the women. The men were, well, kind of like accessories, or pets. More gratifying than shoes, but much more trouble than shoes too.I could see how a man might not find this a particularly enjoyable way to spend 4 hours.
Men: Accessories or Pets?While my 12-year-old son has never seen "S&C" on TV and is not going to see the movie on DVD anytime soon, he reports that that's pretty much how girls his age view boys. They even have nicknames for the boys (like Mr. Big?), and spend a lot of time asking boys to do things for them--carry their trays back to the cafeteria, run out to the playground and save them a special swing, and generally yank their chains around.Perhaps the men in my class feel that the "S&C" girls had never really grown beyond the emotional age of 12 year olds. This speaks well of them, in my view. If that's really why they are resisting the movie.I should add that the women who saw the movie weren't all that enthusiastic about it.OK, enough from me. Don't you love it when people who haven't even seen the movie under discussion hog the thread?
I don't think that in the case of this movie, not having seen it is quite the disadvantage it would be in other cases.
The Great Chain of Being (Sex and the City style)1. Clothes2. Shoes3. Women4. Dogs5. Men


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Well done Scab! i thought i was the only Kingstonian!
Well done Scab! i thought i was the only Kingstonian!
This ending is more than exciting. im currently 8th im 3 points away from playoff spot, i have one game in hand and having no 19 home and 21 away for the last 2 games of the season!!!
I have not lost my last 6 games! fingers crossed that i reach the playoffs with this form!
Well we won promotion through the play off final as we comfortably beat Tamworth 3-1, we pretty much dominated from start to finish & they only posed a threat when switching to a 424 formation just before they scored, however they didn't create much else after they got there consolation goal. Really happy with my team and only feel I need to upgrade in 1 or 2 areas for next season, of course if some top quality players become available they will be approached.
Play off final
Player stats for the season
Transfer history for season
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I'm sturggling with finding staff, who did everyone get, I don't have any staff at all haha
Nice job scab
Smithers - Oxford City - Blue Square South - 2010/11
An encouraging first season, significantly dampened by our atrocious form in the spring/summer where we won just 3 of our last 18 games. At our best we were playing like Arsenal, producing fast, fluid counter-attacks which tore the opposition apart; at our worst we were getting embarrassed by our Under 18s. Even so a safe mid-table position was better than I expected, as we were predicted 22nd, and if it wasn't for an incredibly unlucky dip in form, we could quite easily have challenged for the play-offs, seeing as we were 3rd in mid-January.
League Table
Changing Positions
FA Cup run - a competition I severely underestimated, and should have put a lot more effort towards. Our replay against Hemel Hempstead was a result of me playing my reserves, and because of the shortness between each game we weren't fit enough to recover.
FA Trophy run - the same can be said for this competition. Although the board didn't care what we achieved in it, I still feel I should have tried much harder.
Transfers - pretty much our whole first team comprised of new signings, who in general did fairly well. Standouts were Solomon Shields, Rossi Jarvis and Pavol Suhaj. I was disappointed to lose Craig Faulconbridge but I just couldn't meet his high wage demands.
Squad - my player of the season would have to be Solomon Shields, who was an absolute phenonemon in midfield scoring a load of outrageous goals, and creating many good chances too. Lee Steele did well up front, establishing a decent partnership with Pavol Suhaj, but it was defensively where we fell down. Turley made far too many mistakes, and the 2 full-backs Andrew Thomas and Sacha Opinel were responsible for conceding an excessive amount of penalties. Our centre-backs were decent, as was our midfield where the combination of 3 central-midfielders proved to be extremely effective early on in the season. Special praise must be given to Jermaine McSporran for being the only original member of the squad to regularly hold down a first-team place, and Ryan Jarvis for being nominated for Player of the Season.
Finances - high wages brought us further in debt as the season progressed, but thankfully the board began to regularly inject more cash to add a sense of stability. Friendlies, cup runs and sales will have to be used more effectively next season to remain in the black.
Aims for next season:
- primarily challenge for the play-offs; we proved we could do it this season, we just need that extra bit of quality, consistency and depth to stay at the top
- sort out the tactics / stop conceding so many goals - from the table it's obvious our principal problem is at the back, as only Thurrock let in more goals than us. Either the solution to this lies in the tactics or new players, but it's definitely an area to focus on.
- focus more on the cups, especially the FA Cup than the league
- get a decent parent club - although we've got Oxford Utd, and they've been promoted to League 2, we need a better team to utilise the loan deals.
- sell all the unneeded players who are increasing the wage bill
have binned tooting and mitcham in favor of merthyr - they start with a better squad and my signings the first time around were simply awful. second time's a charm, right?
Getting promoted has helped me a great deal in signing a few players I have tracked all season, first in was goalkeeper Bo Antal who has been without a club all season since Watford released him. Also coming in was Troy Archibald-Henville who was also without a club all season after being released by Tottenham. I also snapped up French defender Vincent Fernandez just before the play offs after he became interested in signing for us, again he was without a club all season after being released by Blackpool. I have a couple of more targets but right now we are right upto our limit on wages so the board refuse anymore signings, a shame as a Bulgarian centre back who recently accepted a trial had also accepted a contract only for the board to cancel the deal, maybe next season ...
Started with Guiseley!
Will upload profile later... Strange thing is the bookies are saying i have a 6-1 bet to promote
Right hopefully, no crash dumps this time around
Went with Dartford this time:
6 in a row, anew club record, still at the top we have looked great on the road after I changed my tactic a bit after our struggles last season, best news is the squad is not even all the well gelled yet I can't wait to see what thats like.
Well so much for that..... Happen at 93:46, game was to go to 93...
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Right, new manager Spongebob Squarepants takes over at Eastwood. Wish me luck
Might be wrong but i dont think Eastwood fit the criteria
Nope Eastwood start in BSN so aren't available to play as
Does anyone make sure that all their players can play more than one position with accomplished for it?
I make sure I do to cover positions, and it can save money.
E.G one of my centre backs is a competent striker, so I am going to turn that into accomplished, as a defender/striker is decent to have.
getting seriously board of reloading might have to pick a team soon
So close
Last minute offside equaliser
On the positive side, at least it will give me a replay that might earn me some money. Still not as good as the win though which would have got us an away tie at Bolton.
Ahhh woops, I just figured they don't have a badge so they were eligible. Have to restart doh
You are doing pretty good Daf
I wont be able to play the playoff for the next couple of hours, but ill get it done tonight together with my season summary
Luckily I didn't save after I took over at Eastwood Have gone back and I'm gonna take control of Carshalton.
I've got an Asst Manager at Carshalton... does that mean I set it up wrong? =(
Well, here I am with Cambridge City. Gonna try to finish this year....
No m8, think a few people have had that problem. As for myself I'm installing as we speak and will be commencing my FM2010 endeavours asap
Stupid question but i have forgotten how to make a word clickible that sends you to a link, much like Carshalton in the post above
hmm considering going horsham just had them come up and not a team i have seen a lot of people playing, shame still above the 1000 rep mark but only just
Codes for the forums can be found here
You are looking for the bit that shows URL Hyperlinking
How to Add Links
At the top of the forum, go to 'quick links' then 'edit options'. At the bottom, select 'enhanced interface' and save the changes. This will give you access to the extra posting tools that make it easier to post links. Once you've done this, highlight the word you wish to turn into a link, then use the link button (looks like a little globe) to paste in the direct Url to your screenshot.
awsome been to long since i used it and totally fotrgot what to do
Thinking I'll try this with Burscough or Boston Utd. Whichever comes up first.
Just won my first game with 1-0 againt Workington! Great game, had to win much more but its okish...
FA Cup 3rd round replay
We went out and attacked them and matched them during the first half. As the game went on though, they showed their class and exposed our non league defence from set pieces and simple attacks.
Made £200k though which has sorted our finances out
after a bad game at home in the Playoff semifinal where we only managed to draw 1-1 i was actually still confident that we would move on to the final Second leg as always we played much better away than home an we are in the finals!
The final will have to wait though, now i really need to get going :P
OK i have decided after 8 hours worth of reloads to go with Horsham so here is my new
If anyone is interested and tells me how i also have saves for the following teams
FC United
Tooting & Mitcham
And Canvey island
I still can't seem to get an assistant manager and its nearing end of July now :o and I have only made 1 signing
Huge FA Cup first round match coming, playing rival L2 Cambridge Untied, after I had to beat rival Histon to get here, these would be two epic wins for sure.
Stands are packed.
Bah back up striker just got hurt, going to the back ups back up now...and he of course comes on and scores. , wow hes just scored again!
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Quite dissapointing that my board still don't see any point in a parent club, shame as any financial help is greatly needed at this level
Most people won't be able to help you with staff members Tugsafc as I imagine they can only find regens for the most part, my ass man is pretty rubbish in all honesty, infact the 2 coaches I have are dreadfull but nevermind when you get to league 2 things can really start to be sorted out
Going to good to be true here
1-0 vs Workington
2-0 vs Harrogate
4-1 vs Chester
Reading all this makes me want mine.. Will get this started as soon as mine came.. Never tried the challenge before, but I've taken Newport County and AFC Wimbledon into the Championship before moving on to other clubs, so hopefully this will go as well as them..
Simply amazing result here, in front of a record sized crowd we destroy rivals Cambridge!
3 Goals coming from the third string, who will be third string no longer, striker.
Surprised i haven't been sacked with Nuneaton yet, struggling to win games and now look very likely to fail to reach the playoffs, which is what the board expected. Am currently in 15th, 5 points above the relegation zone
Hendon are 33/1 and rated as an outside chance for promotion, in reality my only aim this season is to avoid going back down again & I believe I have the quality to come mid table and possibly be near the play offs if everything goes well. If I could just find a real class defensive midfielder I'd be more confident but unfortunately the ones of ability I like just aren't interested in signing for Hendon just yet.
Started this with Hednesford Town
Just won again to move to the thrid round in the FA cup, safe to say I am really enjoying FM10 and this save.
Hey Spurs that is exactly what I have been looking for being new to posting. Cheers
Ok - I'm all loaded up and ready to go with Nuneaton. I simply got sick of reloading it ... said to myself "OK last reload I take whoevers there in Northen prem..." Nuneaton it is.
Where do I put all the files if I have windows 7?
Never seem to get too far in the cups, which means that I am still in debt. No one wants to buy my players either, so I have to just carry on winning (at least trying to)
Ok that's weird; for some reason this season Oxford City will be playing in the BSN instead of the BSS.
My poor away supporters All seven of them.
Good luck with them Michael, both were superb for me in gaining promotion & remain first team players for me in this second season in the BSP
Third attempt and I think I finally have the right set-up.
In other news I have organised 2 mental friendlies in pre-season:
- 27 07 11 - Leverkusen (Home)
- 01 08 11 - Man Utd Reserves (Home)
Will be earning about £24k in total, which should sort the wages out for a few months
Two games gone & we have beaten Mansfield 2-0 at there place and Wrexham 2-0 at home to leave us in 3rd place, have only made 3 transfers who were all strikers (my least needed upgrade position but they looked real class) with Zoltan Harsanyi(released by Bolton) scoring 3 of the goals for us so far. Also coming in were Davide Enrico Somma who is a South African player that can play on the right wing or up front, he was released by Leeds. The last signing Scottish striker Christiano Kisuka who was released by Rangers. Unfortunately I've not been able to find a defensive midfielder yet and there really seems to be a lack of good ones willing to sign for Hendon, will continue to look though.
i hope that makes sense
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If I get relegated, its happening right now. Can I use a team that gets promoted that same season? Keep going with the same save?
If anyone has a save file (for 25th june 2010) for Kingstonian then please upload it
Would like to start as them but they dont seem to ever come up =/
Hi could someone let me know how to enable the Past Positions graph? I am on the Blue Square North league table and only Stages, Schedule and Rules are available. Help is appreciated.
Click on your position (i.e 1st, 2nd, 3rd.)
If I were to use Super Bladesman's English National League System Update to add level 7 to the game, would the dafuges_challenge10.ddt file retain the players in level 7?
I'm aware that I can't take part in this challenge if I play the game this way, I just feel that this is the best place to get my question answered.
Been on Holiday for a year... oh to dream and my local club Boston Utd have been promoted so i am now in charge of them, made a few signings and none of them have cost a penny.
Marlon Beresford
Malcolm Christie
Tommy Jaszcun
Sos Yao
Gary Holt
So far so good in BSN.... Played 6, Won 3, Drew 2, Lost 1
Will keep you all posted, hows everyone else doin??
FC United of Manchester - Blue Square North - 2010/11
A season in which I was predicted to be going straight back down showed this team needed a major shake up.
League Table
Past Positions
We started off with some draws but slowly the wins started to come in, and FC United built their way up the table. Up until around January time, Chester led the table by some margin however they slumped towards the end of January into February and March with an impending takeover, and with FC United seeing a great run of form at this time, they brought the fight to Chester and eventually managed to overtake them.
FA Cup - An unlucky game against Bradford saw us knocked out in the first round
FA Trophy - Really just wasn't good enough, we should have progressed further.
Transfers - Some excellent signings and some right rubbish players chucked out. Introduced a couple of new players in the final few games of the season in build for next season's tough challenge.
Squad 1 + Squad 2
Key Players
Craig McShea - Incredible player snapped up after Rangers released him, can play everywhere up front, but after the first couple of months established himself as my star striker. Never missed a game. Top scorer in the BSN with 30 goals in 42, fantastic really.
Sam Barnes - Captain, snapped up from Stockport for 2.5k, inspirational play at the back all season long.
James Keatings - Released from Celtic, 14 goals in 33, was excellent at the start of the season, scoring most of our goals but he acted as more of an attacking midfielder as time went by, and he was excellent.
Tom Miller - Released from Rangers, phenomenal midfielder.
Adam Hunter - Released from Rangers, excellent defender, partnered with Barnes was brilliant all season.
Next SeasonCode:Season Division Position Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010/11 BSN 1st League Winners
Staying up is all I am concered about next season, fingers crossed.
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Beat Dover who are top of the BSS 4-3. 93rd minute Delap style throw from my backup left back, and Jamie Garry gets the ball and scores.
Last edited by Cerneo; 01-11-2009 at 19:10. Reason: Working fine now
The transfers screen where you can see players that have been released on frees is awsome, either i didnt find that on FM08 or it wasnt there
I do find it is pretty slow tho, once clicking on a player and then clicking back to the list and a shame their doesnt seem to be any kind of filtering system to to it.
The links were internal instead of the link given to the photo, so instead of being taken to the photo you are taken to the page that holds the photo
It's been there for a while Jsar, I've often used it as a method to find players in league one and the championship, simply scroll through the top European sides & see who they released. Another method I sometimes use is check certain teams, I tend to check the top Scandanavian sides and who they released in hope one of them is a potential good player. Infact remember in FM08 I signed a Danish MC regen on a free transfer when in league 2 and ended up selling him for around £6m when I was in the championship.
Ahh thanks Spurs, I'll know better for next season
Offered a bunch of new contracts to players, and thankfully all but 2 are willing to take pay cuts, seeing as I am 450k in debt. One wants a £5 increase, and one staying the same, so hopefully that saves he a whole bunch of money. Am £567 over the wage budget atm, hopefully this takes me into the white in terms of wage budget.
time for another holiday run - fingers crossed kingstonian comes up!
arg crash dump error gotta do my entire pre-season again
think weekly saves might be the name of the game from now on
Brilliant, from being £567 over the budget, I am now £232 under the budget. Saving over £700 p/w is nicer.
and the holiday begins - took 1.5hrs last time to run for a year =/ (im running on 0.5 stars for both but changing computer soon)
I think so, as long as they weren't in the BSN/S to begin with in 09/10.
Should be able to, I would check with Daf before though
Tyler's 2010/11 - Dartford
How come you are head coach rather than manager?


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Is there a simple way to parametrize the orthogonal group O(3) of 3 by 3 orthogonal matrices?
The general element is $\pm\exp(A)$ where $A$ is skew-symmetric. (This gives each element infinitely often). This trick essentially works for all compact Lie groups.
There is also the Cayley parameterization: $(I+A)(I-A)^{-1}$ for skew-symmetric $A$ is the general element of $SO(3)$ which lacks an eigenvalue $-1$ (so isn't a half-turn.) This parameterizes all such matrices once each.
First, if $A\in O(3)$ then either $A$ or $-A$ is in $SO(3)$ so you can just restrict attention to $SO(3)$. For that, one answer is the Cayley transform: let $so(3)$ denote the set of $3\times 3$ antisymmetric matrices (which is homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^3$) and put
$U=\{R\in SO(3) : \det(R+I)\neq 0\}$
Then $U$ is a dense open subset of $SO(3)$ and there is a homeomorphism $f:so(3)\to U$ given by $f(A)=(I+A)(I-A)^{-1}$.
Another answer is to use the double cover $g:S^3\to SO(3)$ given by the conjugation action unit quaternions on purely imaginary quaternions. There is an explicit formula here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotation#Conversion_to_and_from_the_matrix_representation
I assume that you are interested in the case of matrices with real entries. Perhaps one should reduce the problem to $SO(3)$, since $O(3)$ has two connected components, or we may use the determinant $\pm1$ as one parameter. A natural parametrization is unlikely, or will not be injective, because $SO(3)$ has a non-trivial topology: its fundamental group is $\mathbb Z/2\mathbb Z$. One possibility is to give a direction $\vec u$ (a unitary vector) of the axis of rotation, and the angle $\theta\in\mathbb R/2\pi\mathbb Z$ of this rotation. But then$(-\vec u,\theta+\pi)\sim(\vec u,\theta)$, and all pairs $(\vec u,0)$ yield the same element $I_3$.
If there were a really simple way we wouldn't need the concept of "gimbal lock" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock). In other words the manifold in question is compact but isn't the 3-torus, and pretending it is has to break down somewhere. The unit quaternions are the "slickest" surrogate, but "parametrize" implies charts and global charts aren't going to work out "simply".


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Fresh Faces: Colby Cohen
SAN ANTONIO (October 17, 2013) – San Antonio Rampage General Manager Mike Santos announced today that the American Hockey League (AHL) club signed defenseman Colby Cohen to a professional tryout contract. In conjunction, the Rampage have reassigned forwards John McFarland and Tony Turgeon to the club's ECHL affiliate, the Cincinnati Cyclones.
Cohen, 24, joins the Rampage after playing five games with Assat Pori of the Finnish Elite League. The second-round pick (45th overall) by the Colorado Avalanche in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft has played the majority of the last three seasons (2010-13) with the Providence Bruins and has tallied 42 points (five goals, 37 assists) in 147 games. Cohen made his NHL debut with the Colorado Avalanche on Nov. 6, 2010 and played three games with the big club. In addition, Cohen suited up in 17 games for the Lake Erie Monsters over the course of two seasons (2009-11). Prior to turning pro, Cohen played at Boston University for three seasons (2007-10), totaling 78 points (25 goals, 53 assists) in 118 games, in addition to winning the 2009 NCAA National Championship.
McFarland, 21, suited up in 43 games for the Rampage last season and recorded five goals and nine assists. The 6-foot-1, 205-pound winger also played 23 games in Cincinnati last year and recorded 12 goals and 13 assists. McFarland was with the Cyclones for their Clark Cup Playoff run, as well, and tallied four goals and five assists in 12 games. A second-round pick (33rd overall) of the Florida Panthers in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, McFarland spent the previous four seasons (2008-12) in the Ontario Hockey League, recording a total of 190 points on 90 goals and 100 assists in 220 games.
Turgeon, 23, enters the professional ranks after three years on the blueline at the University of Nebraska-Omaha where he totaled six assists in 62 games, along with 169 penalty minutes (2010-13). The 6-foot-4, 228-pound forward skated one season (2009-10) for the Waterloo Black Hawks and totaled 113 penalty minutes in 28 games. Turgeon also played two seasons (2007-09) for the Bismarck Bobcats of the NAHL and recorded eight goals, seven assists and 154 penalty minutes in 101 games.
The Silver and Black return to the AT&T Center on Friday for the first game in a home-and-home series with their instate rivals, the Texas Stars. The game will also mark the team's second-annual College Night and a KZEP / Bud Light Dollar Drink Night.
Individual and season tickets can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554, or online at sarampage.com.


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WINTERSVILLE - Bobbie Michelle Coffman of Dublin and Derick D. Doe of Findlay announce their engagement.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Robert and Betty Coffman of Wintersville. She is a graduate of Wintersville High School and received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Kent State University and a master's degree from Franklin University.
She is employed as a regional director of human resources for Sunrise Senior Living.
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Her fiance is the son of Donald and Barbara Doe of Findlay. He is a graduate of Findlay High School and received a bachelor's degree in financial services from Wright State University and a master's degree with a specialization in accounting from Bowling Green State University.
He is the director of treasury operations at Wendy's International in Dublin, Ohio.
A wedding is planned June 16 at White Oaks Resort and Spa, Niagara-On-The-Lake, Ontario, Canada.


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I created a hierarchical custom post type called "films." It is hierarchical so it can have children elements.
I am using a conditional statement in my single-films.php to show different content for the parent page from the children pages like so:
<?php if( $post->post_parent != 0 ) {
echo "Press Page";
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echo "Film Page";
} ?>
In the condition that the page is a child, I want to use a custom wordpress loop, that loops through it's parents content. I am guessing I will need to use a loop similar to this (for the children):
<?php $posts = query_posts('&post_parent=0'); ?>
<?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
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This isn't working correctly. I need it to pull any content I wish (custom field, title, featured image, etc) from it's parent. Any idea how I can modify this loop to pull content from it's parent?


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Across the top of my copy of Mass Effect 3 is a purple "Works better with Kinect" banner. This seems relatively out of place in a 3rd person shooter. However, I do own a Kinect sensor, and I'm tempted to hook it up.
What can I do with Kinect that I couldn't do otherwise?


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Heavy rains associated with Tropical Storm Isaac could pose a flooding threat to parts of the Wiregrass.
The National Weather Service office in Tallahassee has issued a Flash Flood Watch through tomorrow morning for nearly all of the WTVY viewing area including: Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry and Houston Counties in Alabama; Walton, Washington, Holmes, Bay, Jackson, Calhoun, Gulf, Liberty, Franklin Counties in the Florida panhandle; and Early County in Georgia.
Forecasters with the Weather Service note that these rain bands pose a threat of flash flooding throughout the overnight hours. Estimated rainfall totals for most are at 1 to 3 inches. However, they say that "isolated totals of up to 6 inches are possible if they heavy rain bands set up over the same location for multiple hours."
A Flash Flood Watch indicates that conditions are favorable for flash flooding. It is highly recommended to not step, ride, or drive into any water you can not clearly judge the depth of.
Stay with WTVY and WTVY.com for the latest on Tropical Storm Isaac.


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Creamy Tarragon Chicken Salad
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For this elegant dish, boneless chicken breast and asparagus are smothered in a luxurious white-wine…View slide
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We have begun shipping the first batch of Pre-production M1L pano heads out to customers. Some however may still experience added delays as we are shipping in order received.
We understand customer concerns over product delays and would like offer free loaners to those waiting for their order and not opting for refund or cancellation.
If anyone purchased a M1 series pano head prior to the date of this post from our store in the US and needs a pano head please contact us. We will ship you a complete NN5x pkg (slightly used) to hold you over until you receive the new M1 pre-production series pano head.
US customers:
We will pay shipping cost to send you the unit and include prepaid shipping label to return.
International customers:
We will pay "Express" shipping cost to send you the loaner and refund cost to send back (standard ship) on the credit card used. In addition we will pay any VAT or taxes and also refund these fees back on your credit card - include all receipts with return.
And as an added bonus every person who purchased an M1 series pano head from our store prior to April 1st 2011 will receive absolutely free 1 EZ-Leveler-II with case (value $110).
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Animals are not oursto eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.
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Think About Bottle Feeding vs. Breastfeeding
The decision whether to breastfeed or bottle-feed might have been hanging over your head for a while. It's one of the most taboo topics of new motherhood, so try to tune out other people's judgments and do what works for you and your baby. Read up on both breastfeeding and bottle feeding so that you're prepared for both. If you're planning to breastfeed, sign up for a breastfeeding class and stock up on nursing bras (or sports bras, if you prefer them), nursing pads (to catch leaks), easy-access shirts (for more convenient feedings), and a breast pump and storage containers. Also, have some bottles on hand in case breastfeeding doesn't go as planned — and so your partner can help with some feedings. Whatever happens, try to stay positive — babies can thrive on both formula and breast milk.


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After some (minimal) research I found out that Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles has its own RPG book:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness.
Some parts of the system above appear good, such as character creation allowing for a variety of mutations, and other bits, but by and large I'm not keen on the mechanics. It's based on the Megaversal system, which looks a bit odd.
Were there alternative systems based on this franchise? Or even re-flavourings of other systems?
The system above (Megaversal1) seems to be suited more towards the original animated series(1987-1996) which is heavy in slapstick comedy, and as a whole is less serious. The latest series (2003-2009) has a much darker feel to it (evidenced by this line of artwork), is more serious and sticks to the Mirage comic line, whilst preserving a Rule of Cool.
I'm looking for a system that will let me emulate the TMNT style to my hearts content, as well as having a setting and character very similar to the 2003 cartoon, this would mean it having (roughly in this order):
- Animal-Mutations as seen in the cartoon
- Martial Arts Capabilities & Quick combat
- Dark Overtones
- Oriental feel (Samurai honour, etc)
- Some sort of Rule of Cool stunt system
- Some mysticism or magic accessible to the players
- The ability to use High-levels of technology


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Learn the basic functions of the Windows operating system. Learn how to navigate through the menu "trees", how to start up, log off, shut down, and how to open, close and save files. Students must attend both sessions.
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Pronounced: tos-IT-too-moe-mab
Classification: Radiolabeled Monoclonal Antibody
Tositumomab is a type of therapy known as radioimmunotherapy, a combination of a monoclonal antibody and radiation. The monoclonal antibody is directed against an antigen found on all mature B cells, called CD 20. Studies show that as the antibody binds to the B cells, it causes cell death. This is thought to be an immune-mediated response. The antibody also delivers a radioactive isotope (Iodine-131, I-131) to the targeted cells, which emits radiation to kill the cells. This can also kill cells in the surrounding vicinity, a phenomenon known as the "bystander effect".
There are a number of things you can do to manage the side effects of Tositumomab. Talk to your doctor or nurse about these recommendations. They can help you decide what will work best for you. These are some of the most common side effects:
Exposure of an unborn child to this medication could cause birth defects, so you should not become pregnant or father a child while on this medication. Effective birth control is necessary during treatment, even if your menstrual cycle stops or you believe your sperm is affected.
White blood cells (WBC) are important for fighting infection. While receiving treatment, your WBC count can drop, putting you at a higher risk of getting an infection. You should let your doctor or nurse know right away if you have a fever (temperature greater than 100.4°), sore throat or cold, shortness of breath, cough, burning with urination, or a sore that doesn't heal.
Tips to preventing infection:
For more suggestions, read the Neutropenia Tip Sheet.
Your red blood cells are responsible for carrying oxygen to the tissues in your body. When the red cell count is low, you may feel tired or weak. You should let your doctor or nurse know if you experience any shortness of breath, difficulty breathing or pain in your chest. If the count gets too low, you may receive a blood transfusion. Read the anemia tip sheet for more information.
Platelets help your blood clot, so when the count is low you are at a higher risk of bleeding. Let your doctor or nurse know if you have any excess bruising or bleeding, including nose bleeds, bleeding gums or blood in your urine or stool. If the count becomes too low, you may receive a transfusion of platelets.
Read the thrombocytopenia tip sheet for more information.
Take anti-nausea medications as prescribed. If you continue to have nausea or vomiting, notify your doctor or nurse so they can help you manage this side effect. In addition, dietary changes may help. Avoid things that may worsen the symptoms, such as heavy or greasy/fatty, spicy or acidic foods (lemons, tomatoes, oranges). Try antacids, (e.g. milk of magnesia, calcium tablets such as Tums), saltines, or ginger ale to lessen symptoms. Read the Nausea & Vomiting Tip Sheet for more suggestions.
Call your doctor or nurse if you are unable to keep fluids down for more than 12 hours or if you feel lightheaded or dizzy at any time.
The most common non-hematologic side effect of this agent is weakness. Some of the weakness may be due to "HAMA" formation. HAMA stands for Human Anti-Mouse Antibodies. This means that the patient has developed antibodies to a small section of the drug that is derived from mice.
While on cancer treatment you may need to adjust your schedule to manage fatigue. Plan times to rest during the day and conserve energy for more important activities. Exercise can help combat fatigue; a simple daily walk with a friend can help. Talk to your healthcare team and see OncoLink's section on fatigue for helpful tips on dealing with this side effect.
Although uncommon, people may have an allergic reaction to the medication during the infusion. The rate of infusion may be slowed, and the addition of antihistamines and steroids are usually helpful. As mentioned before, you will receive acetaminophen and diphenhydramine prior to each dose to help prevent reactions. If you experience any shortness of breath, cough, itching, rash, lightheadedness or any unusual symptoms, notify your nurse right away.
There is a small risk of developing leukemia or other type of cancer due to treatment with this medication, which can occur many years later. Discuss this risk with your healthcare provider.
There is a risk of damage to the thyroid gland resulting in hypothyroidism. This is why it is important to take the thyroid protective medications as directed during therapy. You should have your thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) level checked before treatment and once a year after treatment with tositumomab.
I-131 radiation remains in your system for up to a few weeks and excess not taken up by the thyroid is excreted in urine, stool, saliva and perspiration over the first 1-2 days following treatment. Studies have found the risk to family members to be minimal. However, your healthcare team will give you specific safety guidelines to follow and for how long after treatment to reduce the risk to those around you. These may include:
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I dont think so because google provide us very good services.And what about all of you?
Do we need new search engine better than Google?
As per my opinion Google is synonymous of internet. Actually it deserve to be king of whole internet word. And Google providing us best service and no one can comparable with Google.
For the time being nothing can outmatch Google. They are indeed the king of internet. But history has demonstrated that empires rise and fall. Why should Google be different?
No need new one. Google is the best Search Engine to use.
Google is best.
The results are trustworthy, accurate and convincing. There is no need of another.
The results are trustworthy, accurate and convincing. There is no need of another.
google is the best ."google is a man's best friend" i love google♥♥♥
Originally Posted by ApoorvaThere are strong and better search engines are existing in the internet world, but people are so use-to of Google that they don't want to switch to other one. Google is not only the combination of huge database and accurate results but it is having credibility and goodwill among the users and website owners which is not so easy to achieve.
Originally Posted by ozsubasiI am not so sure about the goodwill among website owners but I take your point that they would be hard to shift from the top spot. Either someone would have to come up with something different(and have huge financial resources) or Google will have to make mistakes that turn people away from them.


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The Black Male Achievement fellowship is an historic, first of its kind, initiative born of a partnership between the Open Society Foundations and Echoing Green, two organizations with long-standing histories of supporting crucial social justice causes and entrepreneurship. In its inaugural year, eight fellowships, which include a stipend of $70,000, were awarded to social entrepreneurs dedicated to changing the conditions for Black men and boys in America.
Among the fellows, as described on the Open Society's website, are "a community organizer and strategist whose vision is to build the self-sufficiency of young, queer, straight, and transgendered people of color to shape a radical new vision of masculinity for black males, and a 19-year-old social entrepreneur who wants to improve math literacy among urban youth by creating innovative, fun, and effective educational tools that harness the power of the NBA (National Basketball Association)."
EBONY spoke exclusively with Shawn Dove, campaign manager for the Campaign for Black Male Achievement, about how the initiative got its start and what it will mean for the fellows and the Black men and boys it aims to help.
EBONY: If you could, start by telling me how did the idea for the fellowship came about.
Shawn Dove: The Campaign for Black Male Achievement was launched here in the Open Society Foundation in June of 2008 to improve the life outcomes for Black men and boys in America. At that time it was the largest initiative. It was a 3 year, 15 million dollar campaign. About eighteen months into it, the campaign made a presentation to Open Society Foundations' U.S. programs board of directors. During that meeting our chairman and founder Mr. George Soros stated that he was so impressed and inspired by the campaign's early work that he was going to take off the three year term limit of the campaign and that he was going to scale up our budget. And so we went from a five million dollar a year philanthropic initiative to a 15 million dollar a year initiative. And we were charged with coming up with a scale up plan. Our core investment areas are in education, work, and family. We've been doing grant making in that area. We had six core cities we were invested in, plus some national work. But in the scale up plan, there were a couple of ideas we said we wanted to launch. One was a leadership and sustainability institute for the field to strengthen leaders and organizations for the field. Another innovation was to launch the first ever fellowship for Black male achievement where we would invest in social entrepreneurs to generate new ideas; invest in innovative strategies to advance Black male achievement.
The point of departure and launching point is Black men and boys. But that's the narrow angle lens. The wide angle lens is that this is a community building strategy which is inclusive of women, [and] the LGBT community.
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So that's how the idea originally came up. We have a really solid history in the philanthropic community and the social sector for running our own fellowships. We have something that's called Soros Justice Fellowship. We have an Open Society fellowship, and a few other fellowships. But what we wanted to do here with the campaign was get an innovative model to the field very quickly. We wanted to leverage a partnership that really focused on social entrepreneurship. We did some research and we looked at the model of Echoing Green, which had a 25 year history of investing and supporting and feeding social entrepreneurs. We did what I like to call innovation at the verge, [merging] the Echoing Green strengths and brand with the Open Society's campaign for Black male achievement brand and strength. And i believe we've come up with a really dynamic launch. It's early, obviously, but it has generated a lot of enthusiasm and interest; even more so than what we've done to this date in the field of Black male achievement.,
EBONY: This is the first fellowship that you've handed out. So what was the criteria you were looking for these social entrepreneurs?
Dove: New and innovative ideas to advance Black male achievement. We wanted fellows to have the potential to have their efforts be able to be scalable; to have a broader impact. We wanted fellows to be exclusively committed to their projects. It could not be a hobby or a weekend warrior vision. But most importantly, we wanted individuals that really were passionate about coming up with strategies to transform the conditions of Black men and boys in America. A lot of the resources and technical skills can be learned, but that passion and vision was at the top of the list of what we wanted to do.
EBONY: I see for some of the fellows, it's some of the kind of expected areas of Black male achievement, in terms of education and furthering math skills and things of that nature. But there's also the work with environmental justice and working with LGBT youth. Can you


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When someone says that a particular digital certificate (like an SSL cert) has been "signed with a key", what does that imply? Does that mean the certificate simply includes a key that should be used for further message exchanges? Does that mean that the cert itself is encrypted and can only be decrypted with that key? Does it imply something else? Thanks in advance.
Ideally, it means that someone looked at the certificate and decided that it is correct and legitimate. Once they've done that, they want to tell people "Hey, I've verified that this certificate is good. I trust it". To do this, they use their signing key to sign the certificate.
Now when someone gets the certificate they can see who signed the certificate. If they trust one of the signers, they can trust the certificate itself. This is the basis of Web Of Trust in PKI.
The actually signing probably depends on what kind of certificate it is. I think this is a useful read.
Typically the "one of more digital signatures" part is done by listing an set of encrypted hashes of the certificate. So when you want to sign a certificate, you would compute the hash of the certificate, encrypt it using your private signing key, and add it to the list of digital signatures.
Here is the structure of an X.509 certificate:
The data contained in the certificate itself is the
This is then combined with the signature to form a
Essentially, a digest of
Using RSA keys, the signing of the digest using the private key is mathematically very similar to what would be done for encryption using the public key. This is not the same conceptually, though, and DSA doesn't have that reciprocity, for example.
The principle is the same for other types of certificates, although the structure may differ. Considering that PGP public keys are in fact certificates, you may be interested in these questions too:
It implies that the entity owning that key has vouched for the accuracy of the information in the certificate and has attached information to the certificate that permits that vouching to be verified.
No. Certificates only prove identity.
No. There's no reason to encrypt certificates, they only contain public information.
It implies that the owner of that key has vouched for the information in the certificate. For a typical SSL certificate, the information in the certificate is a binding between a public key and a common name.
For example, when you point your browser at
So the purpose of the certificate signature is to put the signing agent's credibility behind the information in the certificate which is fundamentally "this guy owns this key".


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Hopefully a pretty straight forward one: I've been having trouble starting my bike. I checked the voltage on the battery when it was idling and got 12.9. Is this too low?
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Yes that is a little low, normal voltage should be about 14volts at idle and 12volts with the engine off. However you need to check this with a fully charged battery. That way you can isolate the problem to the battery or the charging system. I might be fine for a while but if you start taxing the electrical system with frequent starts and long term headlight use you might see issues.


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Thomas R. Farrell '52 was an accomplished attorney and political activist who served on Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign committee. He passed away on July 16, 2011, at the age of 83.
Born in Bay Shore, N.Y., Farrell earned his bachelor's degree at Colgate University before graduating from Columbia Law School, where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review staff. After serving as a U.S. Army officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, Farrell began his law career in the 1950s at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City.
In 1966, Farrell accepted an appointment to New York City Mayor John Lindsay's Civilian Review Board, which was created to field citizens' complaints against police. He also led community groups created to combat racial discrimination. Farrell's civil rights work helped him to secure a job as an advance man for Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign, and he was at the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel on the evening that the candidate was assassinated there.
During the late 1960s, Farrell joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, and in the 1970s, he co-founded the firm Gold, Farrell and Marks.
Farrell is survived by his wife, Diane; his six children, Thomas, Amanda, Joshua, Cordelia, Thaddeus, and Chloe; and seven grandchildren.


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Not until the 1950s would Volvo be a major supplier of heavy-duty trucks. From the very start up to WW II, Volvo was, however, a major producer of medium-duty trucks, which sometimes were used for heavy-duty purposes due to the rugged design.
The influence of international trends
Sweden is nowadays the base for two major truck producers of global scope. This was by no means the case in the late 1930s. By then, countries like the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany were major 'truck-producer countries'.
For this reason, the design of the Volvo trucks of the mid and late 1930s was very much influenced by major design trends of other countries, and also by Volvo cars, which were to a very great extent designed by engineers who had been trained and had been working in American automobile companies.
A major sales success
Typical of the late 1930s is the generation of Volvo trucks which have become known as the 'Sharpnose', which consisted mainly of light to medium-duty vehicles. They replaced the LV76-78 vehicles of 1934/35 and became a major sales success, especially considering that the total number of vehicles produced during WW II was fairly limited, and that very few civilian customers were permitted to obtain a new truck and new tyres for it.
The first presentation of these trucks took place in 1938, when the LV101 was introduced. This was a light truck, which bridged the gap between the light pickup vehicles (derived from the Volvo Taxicab chassis) and the heavier trucks like the LV79 and the LV8 series. A little later the slightly larger LV102 and LV103 trucks were introduced - these were vehicles which were to a true extent real 'trucks', but still being used mostly for distribution purposes.
Simple, but very well-designed
The mechanics of these trucks was rugged and simple, with a side valve engine of 75-86 bhp (running on petrol, but also available during WW II in a producer-gas version with an output of about 50 bhp). The transmission was a three-to-four-speed mechanical unsynchronised gearbox and the chassis components were in general simple but well-designed. The 'Sharpnose' trucks were loved by the customers, and the general design should (with design changes) be carried over to new generations of Volvo trucks.