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ANDERSON, S.C. – With the goal of remaining in the upper echelon of the South Atlantic Conference and the Southeast Region, Anderson University head men's and women's cross country coach Randy Greer unveiled the Trojans' 2014 schedule on Wednesday.
"I think it is a very well-balanced schedule," said Greer. "We have a couple of races where we are going to see some big Division-I competition and we have a couple of meets that are going to be more low key. I feel really good about this schedule. We have one more meet than last year and (the schedule) is spaced out well throughout the season."
After opening their schedule at USC Upstate's Eye Opener each season since 2009, the Trojans are scheduled to open their slate on Saturday, Sept. 6 by competing in a familiar city, but at a different venue and at a meet with a distinctive format, as Queens University of Charlotte is hosting the Queens Twilight meet, which will feature running under the lights in the evening.
"It will be at Freedom Park in Charlotte," added Greer. "It will be on a flat course, under the lights and late at night during a very hot part of the year. It will be a nice event – a 5K and a nice nudge into collegiate running (for our freshmen)."
Anderson has competed in the Queen City at least twice in each of the last five seasons, including three times in both the 2012 and 2013 campaigns.
A week later, AU travels to Greenville for another relatively new event, but another familiar course, as the Trojans will compete in the second Furman Cross Country Classic, slated to be held on the Furman University Golf Course. Last season's inaugural classic drew 32 men's and 34 women's college teams and 31 high school teams to the event and featured the South Carolina Intercollegiate Championships, the Southeast Independent School Cross Country Championships, and "The Border Battle at Furman," pitting schools from South Carolina versus teams from North Carolina and Georgia.
"Last year's Classic was extremely fast," noted Greer. "There were a lot of fast times recorded and good competition, so we are looking forward to it."
Following a layoff of nearly two weeks, the Trojans will compete in the Charlotte Invitational for the fourth consecutive season on Friday, Sept. 26. Last season, Olivia Gardner captured the 20th spot to pace the AU women's team to a 10th-place finish at the event, while another newcomer, Ben Boerma, claimed 37th en route to leading the men's squad to a ninth-place finish.
"Unlike the past, this will be the only time that we will be on the McAlpine Park course this year," said Greer. "I think our kids are excited about going to some different places. It is a very good course and it is fast."
After a one-year absence, AU returns to Greenville for the 42nd annual Gene Mullin Furman Cross Country Invitational on Oct. 11. The Trojan men's squad boasts just one current runner on its roster that competed at the meet in 2012, as then-sophomore Joshua Visi-Clark finished 23rd.
"It'll be a 5K on both sides, so there some be some good times," said Greer. "It will be a nice lower-key meet for us."
The women's squad has a pair of runners that competed two years ago, with Sydney Hazel posting a season-best to that date and crossed the line in 15th, while then-freshman Devan Fisher improved her then-personal best by nearly 40 seconds to finish 32nd.
With the South Atlantic Conference Championships being pushed back nearly two weeks, AU will travel to Hickory, N.C., on Oct. 25 to compete in the Lenoir-Rhyne Invitational and return to the Tar Heel State on Nov. 8 for the SAC Championships in Salisbury, N.C. Hazel posted an 11th-place finish en route to garnering Second-Team All-SAC honors at last season's championships, while newcomer Bari Robinson narrowly missed all-conference and all-freshman accolades with her 15th-place finish a year ago, as AU claimed fourth as a team.
"This is the first year for the meet, so we do not know anything about the course," concluded Greer. "But it will be exciting and we will get a preview of the conference meet."
On the men's side, departed senior Parks Edwards paced the Trojans to third place, while Boerma was less than three seconds from earning the fifth and final spot for all-freshman accolades, as he finished 20th overall.
Two weeks later, the Trojans will make an appearance in the NCAA Southeast Regionals, which will be hosted in Montevallo, Ala., marking the first time since 2009 that the regional championships will not be held in Charlotte, N.C. Gardner paced the Trojan women's team to a 14th-place finish a year ago, with Edwards leading the men's squad to a 17th-place finish.
The NCAA Championships will be hosted by Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky., on Dec. 6.


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I would like to debug a loaded kernel module I don't have the source code to; I suspect it's a virus. Is there a way to feed it into GDB for analysis?
From a debugging perspective, the kernel is a special "process", distinct from the user space processes, which communicate with the kernel via a sort of rpc mechanism (syscalls) or mapped memory..
I don't think you can see the kernel's data structure simply by inspecting some random user process.
Another problem is, that every user space process (including the debugger) needs the kernel to run and to communicate with the users; I don't think you can just stop the kernel and believe that the debugger will continue to run.
So you need to run GDB on a second machine, and that is what is called Kernel debugging.
The other options other then KGDB would be debugging the kernel using the QEMU and GDB. Unlike the KGDB, the QEMU-GDB combine requires only a single machine.

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A guide to use your premium membership.
The main difference between standard and premium memberships:
Standard members cannot animate dolls, while premium members can. Also, premium members have access to more items. Pretty simple
So you are a new premium member and are learning your way through the premium membership. Some things that you can now access are:
Personal dollmakers-where you use dollmakers other users have created, which supplies you with items such as guns, cars, iPods, and the "peace sign arm".
Pixeditor-where you can change your doll pixel by pixel and make it any way you want. Build your own items, or change existing ones.
Filemanager-where you store all of your dolls that you want to animate. When you use the pixeditor, it is best to save the finished doll here.
Animator-changing the delay, number of frames (number of dolls being animated together), and sometimes adding special effects, you can make your dolls animated, to impress other dollers or for your website.
So now let's go through each one to learn how to use them.
Personal dollmakers- To access these, click on any dollmaker below "Make Dolls". Then, find at the top, following "General","Dollz", and "Thematic", click on "Personal". It should bring up another page, and if you have created your own personal dollmaker (which we will discuss later on), it will have your categories and the number of items. Above that, though, it says:
"Personal dollmaker allows you to create your own dollmaker with different categories that you complete with your own items (props). You can always create new maker and categories by pressing 'Create/Edit Maker' button below or click 'Show Popular Makers' to find best personal makers created by other Doll Palace Members. "
This is the basic explanation of Personal dollmakers. Then, below it, it says, "Edit Personal Maker", for if you have your own and would like to add or remove anything, and "Show popular makers", where you can view the best personal makers created by other users. For example, when I am making my signature for these forums, I always use a doll made by a personal maker. Click on "Show popular makers" now. It brings up a list, the top one usually "Maker of 2006", although that may change now that it is '07. There are many more, and you can also type a key word in the box below "Personal Maker Finder" to the right and search for any. Some good keywords are:
Usually these keywords will bring up a few dollmakers with that name. There is usually always a dollmaker that will fit the doll you want.
Now, what about my dollmaker?
If you have your own personal maker or would like to create one, simply create one. Pick a name (mine is called Jessi's Maker) which you will always be able to change any time you want. Then, start with a category. For example, shirts. Once you have saved some shirts from other makers, the space around them so it fits (Usually 50 width and whatever height fits best), upload them into the corresponding category. Also, don't add too much to one category. Sometimes, if you reach a high amount of items in one category, use the same one for another but adding 2, or 3, 4, 5, whatever is next. You will be able to add or delete items from categories as you wish. Also, make a catching title, that will make people want to use it. Sure, "Jessi's Maker" won't attract a lot of people, but it would be good to have one that fits.
Personal dollmaker examples:
Pixeditor-Pixeditor is a tricky thing if you aren't good with pixels and knowing what pixel is part of what. For example, if you change only a couple spots on the skin tone, the doll may not look as good. Also, if you accidentaly erase and save, unless you know what colour went where, you will have a not-so-good-looking doll, with a chunck out of their leg or whatever. Also, you have to make sure to use the same difference in tones if you are say changing the shirt colour on the doll shown above from orange to green. You can't just make everything orange green, but you have to shade it. If there are too many colours in that area, you may not have the correct differences in the provided colours, and your best bet may be to just stick with orange or change the colour automatically on the dollmaker. I have no advice on finding the right shades to change the colour, except if you are using the laptop, tilt the screen back aways, which lets you see the difference better.
Also make sure that if you are going to animate a doll, when it is right out of the doll maker, don't save it to filemanager. Go straight to pixeditor, and then save it once it has been loaded. At least for me, pixeditor changes the base location a bit when you save it, which will make the doll bounce.
Pixeditor is a tricky thing, and there isn't much to explain about it, except practice with it. Your first couple of dolls may be bad, but they will get better.
Pixeditor doll examples: Each location of the line had to be drawn and the last one erased. If you are doing a complex doll, like this one, it could take some time, but don't give up.
Filemanager-Again, not much to explain about filemanager. You can upgrade your size for a little bit of dollpoints, from 12 cells to 24, which helps if you are doing complex dolls like the pixeditor doll example. Once you have created a doll you are going to animate later, when it is saved, click "Save to Filemanager". Click the dot in the first open cell, and then scroll to the bottom of the screen and save. If you click a dot of a cell that has a doll in it, the old one will be overwritten.
Filemanager examples:Notice how the middle doll, Ashley, is winking. No, I didn't draw that. Pixeditor would make it so the "Happy New Year" at the bottom wasn't glittery. I saved it so on one frame she was winking, the other she was not. You must make sure the heads are in the same place, and as far as I know, this is the only one that you can make wink using a personal maker and filemanager. You have to find a personal maker that has the same head twice, but one is winking, the other not. I advise putting one on top of the other, and saving it, and then deleting the top head, and saving it that way in your filemanager. Then you use animator, which is the next topic.
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In a world full of bullshit artists trying to sell us things and get elected to office, let's take a moment to celebrate the good ones. These are the Oskar Schindler types, the guys with a talent for hustling who, when circumstances called, used their powers for good.
#7. Raoul Wallenberg
In 1944, the only major Jewish population that hadn't been Hitlered yet was nervously holed up in Budapest. The Nazis sent a nasty little man named Adolf Eichmann to Hungary to flush them out, and already wary of guys named Adolf, the American War Refugee Board sent Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to Budapest to bat for the good guys.
Yeah, this is pretty much what we'd expect Sweden's greatest war hero to look like.
Wallenberg didn't actually have the authority to do much, since the Swedes were staying neutral at the time, but he wasn't going to let a little thing like inability to do anything stop him from doing something. During his tenure at the Swedish embassy, he started mocking up fake passport documents called "schultzpasses" that granted Jews a free ticket to Sweden. While this is kind of like infiltrating the Pentagon by writing the word "pass" on a napkin, the official-looking schultzpass papers went largely unquestioned.
And Wallenburg's heroic bullshit didn't stop there. He soon began renting apartment buildings all over Budapest, brazenly declaring them Swedish diplomatic territory and packing them full of Jews, again without any authority whatsoever. Apparently afraid of pissing off mighty Sweden, the Nazis couldn't set foot inside and were reduced to standing on the sidewalk and just shaking their fists at the buildings.
"Ten marks if you can hawk a loogie into the Oberleutnant's hat."
Thanks largely to Wallenburg's diplomatic con job, thousands of Jews held off a trip to the gas chambers before the Soviet army marched in to push out the Nazis. By that time, Adolf Eichmann tried to step up the extermination by just burning down some Jewish ghettos. Not on Raoul Wallenburg's watch. He directly confronted Eichmann and told him to his face that he would personally see him hanged. Eichmann, seeing the viking blood welling up behind Wallenburg's eyes, called off the massacre and fled Budapest, saving 70,000 lives. Who ever said diplomacy doesn't accomplish anything?
As a reward for his heroism, the Russians arrested Wallenburg and made him disappear forever.
Don't you just love happy endings?
And while we're on the Nazis...
#6. Joan Pujol Garcia
Juan Pujol Garcia fought in the Spanish Civil War and knew a thing or two about hating fascism. So when the Nazis waltzed into Spain, Garcia offered his services to the British as a spy. When the Brits said they weren't hiring, Garcia did it anyway, using his powers of pure bullshit.
And his mighty beard.
Contacting the Nazi authorities, Garcia spun a tall tale about his fanatically pro-fascist leanings and desire to spread Hitler's good word in Britain. The Germans hired him to spy on the British government, but Garcia took their money and moved to Portugal instead, sending his employees an occasional postcard with Big Ben on it and complaining about how rainy it was in England where he totally was.
Of course, Garcia's entire job was to feed the Nazis intelligence about Britain, which he knew nothing about. So he simply spent his days watching newsreels, reading about Britain in the library, and compiling reams of secondhand bullshit and useless information. As if this wasn't brazen enough, Garcia began recruiting imaginary sub-agents and building himself an imaginary spy network within a country he'd never been to. And he submitted their expense reports. We're wondering what Nazi auditors thought when they came across Hugh Jass's expense report for fifty crates of beer and one hundred tacos.
"Have you ever tried to undermine democracy without high-grade marijuana and dozens of call girls?"
When Britain caught word that this guy was playing the most hilarious and epic prank in history in their honor, they reconsidered his request to put him on the payroll. Now backed by the British government, Garcia and his new friends continued to expand their totally imaginary enterprise to leech an ever increasing salary from the German government, almost certainly writing their letters in the grip of hysterical laughter and high-fiving. In the end, Garcia had scammed over $4 million in today's dollars out of the Nazi government.
And they still didn't catch on. At the end of the war, Garcia was presented with the Iron Cross for his faithful and dedicated service to the Third Reich, making him one of only a small handful of people who won medals from both sides in World War II. When he got tired of it all, he faked his own death and ran a bookstore in Venezula for forty years. No, seriously.
"Thanks for the medal. I'll cherish it until the moment I find a trash can."
#5. Juan Carlos I
Spain is a peaceful land of giant hats and luchadores (or maybe we're getting that confused) but it was a horrible place as recently as 1969 when it was under the brutal rule of dictator Francisco Franco. Franco wasn't the rightful King of Spain, but for decades he procrastinated on restoring the monarchy for fear that whoever he promoted to the crown would be a filthy lefty who would undo all of his fascist hard work.
In all fairness, a man who looks like this doesn't have many career options other than "insane old dictator" or "crack addict".
Juan Carlos, grandson of the last true king, decided to schmooze his way back into the dictator's good graces. But he didn't do it by putting flowers in rifles and melting the old man's bitter, frozen heart. Carlos swore loyalty to Franco's far-right party, hobnobbed with him, and by all accounts was a complete ass-kissing toady. By the time the dying autocrat decided he needed an heir to his brutal fascist regime, he chose Carlos in the belief that he'd left his nation in good, evil hands.
Unbeknownst to Franco, Carlos was just the kind of scheming, clandestine liberal that Free Republic imagines exist under every couch cushion. He'd been secretly meeting with progressives and political reformists for years, right under the old man's nose. After Franco died and Carlos was crowned king, he immediately backflipped, stripped himself of all but ceremonial power, and turned Spain into a constitutional democracy within three years.
He's like a jowly George Washington who somehow managed to establish a strong democracy, and become king.
Franco still had some old buddies who weren't about to stand for this democracy shit, and in 1981, 200 of Franco's loyal guards attempted a coup to restore fascist rule. In response, Juan Carlos went on television and calmly asked the rebels to stand down, which they did, with no one hurt.
He's only had ceremonial powers ever since, and enjoys the eternal love of the Spanish people. Oh, and fat stacks of cash, but really, that's the least they can do.
See kids? If you lie long enough and hard enough, you might just get a palace.
#4. Risto Ryti
Finland was neutral during World War II, but only because they couldn't figure out which side they hated more. For Finnish president Risto Ryti, the question of whether to ally with the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany was like asking whether he'd rather sleep in a bed full of spiders or eat a bowl of poop.
"The one on the right would make a cooler tattoo."
The Soviets had been trying to annex Finland ever since they decided Communism was awesome and they were going to share it whether they wanted it or not. Realistically, the only way Ryti could prevent a Soviet takeover was to buddy up with Hitler, a guy who nobody but crazy old Mussolini wanted to wind up in a photograph with. His ultimate solution was something akin to a Nigerian 419 scam, but with arms deals.
Has any country ever exchanged bullets for friendship without it biting them in the ass?
Ryti gave Germany what sounded like a firm commitment for anyone who doesn't bother to read between the lines -- he stated that, as long as he was President, Finland and Germany would have warm, cuddly, personal relations. Germany went all goopy at the idea of having just one friend in the world (who wasn't goddamn Mussolini) and sent them a giant shipment of guns and supplies as a loving affirmation of their union.
Once the guns showed up, Risto immediately resigned as President. His replacement, Carl Mannerheim, called off the allegiance under the condition that it was only valid so long as Risto Ryti was in charge, and told the Nazis to piss off while they stood around making confused spluttering sounds.
Above: Ryti, trying to choke back a maniacal laugh as he meets with Hitler.
Now armed to the teeth, Finland made a peace agreement with the Soviet Union, the Nazis were left broken-hearted and Finland remained independent. A happy ending for everybody, except Risto, who got 10 years hard labor for collaborating with Nazis. Way to make with the gratitude, Finland.


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Theft: Vehicle entered at Trinity Medical Center West and ring and wallet taken, Tuesday.
Arrested: James W. Linn, 40, 1411 Oak Grove Ave., bench warrant out of municipal court, obstructing official business, Tuesday.
Cited: Patrick E. McGraw, 26, 214 Ritchie Ave., Weirton, defective exhaust and no operator's license.
Arrested: Allison George, 30, 1617 Moreland Drive, two bench warrants out of municipal court, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of drug abuse instrument, Tuesday.
Arrested: Patricia Frazier, 23, 516 Maxwell Ave., petit theft and contempt of court warrant out of Belmont County, Tuesday.
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Cited: Nicholas R. Garber, 24, Waynesburg, Pa., failure to control.
Theft: House entered in the 1000 block of Two Ridge Road, Wintersville, and copper wiring taken, Monday.
Break-in: Brierwood Bar, Old State Route 7, Pottery Addition, broken into Monday and liquor and other drinks taken. Food from the freezer thrown on floor and refrigerators and freezer doors left open.
Arrested: Jerry Lee Miller, 53, 1157 Main St., Follansbee, public intoxication, disorderly conduct and possesion of marijuana, Saturday.
Arrested: Samuel Anthony Pellegrino, 52, 512 Frederick St., Follansbee, driving under the influence, Sunday.
Arrested: Cameron McCants, 3443 Elm St., Weirton, public intoxication and obstructing an officer, Monday.
Arrested: Kenneth Wayne Staats II, 3419 Zeta St., Weirton, counterfeiting, state warrant alleges he passed counterfeit bills at a gas station, Friday.
Arrested: Michael Alan Freeland, 200 Paul Ave., Weirton, warrant out of Hancock County for battery, Jan. 30.
Arrested: Jana Lee Morehead, 3155 1/2 Orchard St., Weirton, driving with a suspended license, Jan. 30.
Arrested: Melissa Dawn Sousa, 137 Church St., Weirton, possession of marijuana, Jan. 29.
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Home Theater System Control App
This Home Theater Controller app provides easy operation of select Yamaha Home Theater Systems using your iPhone®, iPod® touch or iPad®.
Key Features
- (1) Basic function control, such as volume up/down, input selection and setting mode selection
- (2) Auto/manual sound beam adjustment (for YSP-2500)
- (3) Precise sound beam adjustment (for YSP-1400 and SRT-1000)
- (4) Surround mode selection, offering expanded choices over the included remote control (for YAS-152, YAS-103, YAS-105, YAS-203, ATS-1520 and ATS-1030)
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I installed Ubuntu 13.04, but after the reboot theres only a black screen with the blinking bar on the top left. I found, that one possible solution is that the video drivers are not installed, so i tried it (the weird thing is that "try ubuntu without installing" works perfectly fine). So i downloaded the .run file, but it's always saying "seems like you're running a X Server" blahblah. I searched for maybe 2 hours for the solution, but none of the ones i found worked for me. Can anybody please help me? PS: I'm pretty new to Ubuntu...
nvidia has now different packages - so it happens, that certain graphics-card is only working best with a certain package. sometimes it lasts longer then, until one has found the proper package for the certain card.
e.g. optimus CUDA - they are not supported by included nvidia-packages of Debian/Ubuntu fully - instead they seem to be fully supported only by package:


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The 7 Most WTF Houses People Actually Live In
#3. The Australian Spinning Carousel House
This is one you really need to see in motion to appreciate.
One day, Luke and Debbie Everingham were visiting the new home of some friends, and the owners lamented how they wished they could reorient their house a smidge to the north. If they wanted to look in another direction, they had to turn their heads like a couple of chumps. The Everinghams were not chumps, so when it came time for them to build their own house in 2006, this went down:
Yup, they built a house that spins around like a carnival ride (without having to build a guest house for a small army of carnies).
The main floor of the octagonal house holds the bedrooms and bathrooms in the outer circle, with the kitchen toward the middle. Above on the second floor is an observation deck. The house rides on 32 wheels along a 60-meter track, can make a full revolution in half an hour, and runs on an engine "not much bigger than a washing machine motor."
Everingham Rotating House
It gets terrible gas mileage, though.
The cost of rotating amounts to a single Australian dollar a week. And while the house's price tag -- approximately $737,000 American -- might be a little too rich for some readers, that's only $40,000 more than the typical house in their neighborhood. And you can bet your sweet ass that none of those suckers turn.
#2. Japan's Foam Domes
While they may not be the most creative folks at naming their company, you have to admire the moxie of the International Dome House Co. for designing homes out of polystyrene, a material that's typically reserved for coffee cups, cheap beer coolers, and heavy-handed lectures about sustainability.
The good folks at IDHC aren't totally off their collective rockers on this, though. The thick walls of their "fairy" houses are fire-resistant and insulate well. To top it off, these ultra-mod igloos are also constructed to weather typhoons, earthquakes, rust, and termites. And from the looks of the promotional photography, this architectural integrity affords owners plenty of peace of mind for sexy parties.
Which are the only types of parties you can have inside a giant tit.
Each of the units is pretty small by itself, with only about 475 square feet of floor space. But you can link these homes together, or recruit your friends to be your neighbors and pretend you're living in a Smurf village. Just check out the city of Kumamoto's Aso Farm Village, which sports 480 of these weird domiciles.
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Or possibly Bedrock.
Considering that they'll probably never crumble from age or weather, we're pretty sure the only thing aliens will find on Earth a million years from now are the Great Pyramids and these Styrofoam tit-houses.
#1. The Luxury Caveman House
In 2004, Curt Sleeper purchased Caveland in Festus, Missouri -- a former mining site turned concert venue -- on eBay. Once the structural and property line inspections turned out aces, he and the family went about the enormous task of tossing a house into the Flintstones-like crevice you see below.
"We're gonna need bigger nails."
After four years (and numerous nights of sleeping in tents), the Sleepers' troglodytic dream home was finally complete. Because they left the interior sandstone walls more or less natural, the Sleepers added indoor coverings where crap was occasionally shedding off the walls. So while opening umbrellas indoors might be considered unlucky, they beat the hell out of sandy eggs.
They're only one lava pool from having a supervillain volcano lair.
On the plus side, the Sleepers pay precisely jack and shit for heating and air costs: Geothermal heating and the cool cave walls keep the temperature regulated. The place can get damp pretty fast, though, being a cave and all, so the Sleepers have to run three huge dehumidifiers, which produce about 300 gallons of water a day. Prehistoric man didn't have to put up with such annoying feats of engineering, but then again, the Sleepers don't have to worry about saber-toothed cats traipsing around their backyard.
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Hi everyone,
How is i18n handled within Sencha touch?
A more specific question: I have a form that contains a date picker, how do I make sure that the date will be displayed and picked in european format when I access the application using a french android phone?
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Check out that question on stack overflow it might help. My understanding is that ST does not provide i18n features (yet)


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Whats the difference between Ju-jutsu and Jiu-jitsu? In Sweden we only have Ju jutsu and i have notice that in USA thay have both Ju jutsu and Jiu-jitsu and it looks like the same thing.
They are the same thing. It's only a matter of romanization (spelling japanese words using roman letters).
As a reference point, here is how it is pronounced in japanese (found on wikipedia).
As to how it is written, it all comes down to how the names were romanized. The most popular systems used today are probably the Hepburn system, the Nihon-Shiki system or the Kunrei-Shiki system.
Of those, the Nihon-Shiki system is the oldest, created in 1885 by a japanese physicist hoping to get rid of the traditional kanji and kana system in the hopes that it would make exchanges easier between Japan and other countries. This system was developped with japanese-speaking users in mind and as such is probably closer to the japanese pronunciation.
In this system, the proper spelling would be "zyuzyutu".
The Kunrei-Shiki system is an evolution on the Nihon-Shiki made just before WWII to incorporate the phonetic changes that naturally occured in the japanese language since the Nihon-Shiki system was put in place. Since it's still made with native japanese speakers in mind, it can, like it's predecessor, induce non-native speakers to pronounce words in an awkward way. As such, even though the japanese government made it the officially recognized romanization system, most people, including some government agencies, prefers to use the Hepburn system.
In this system, the proper spelling would be "zyuzyutu" as well.
The most globally accepted romanization system is the Hepburn system. This system was made in 1908 with a focus on english and italian pronunciations. As such, non-native speakers using this system will generally pronounce words with more accuracy. This system is the most used by non-native speakers, as well as by the japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (for passports) and by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (for road signs). There were some reforms to this system over the years, but I do not believe it affected the spelling of this specific word.
In this system, the proper spelling would be "jujutsu".
It is important to note, however, that prior to these systems, there still existed a romanization system created around 1550 by a japanese catholic. Indeed, portuguese traders spread catholicism to Japan around these times and I guess a romanization system could prove useful when dealing with foreigners.
In this system, the proper spelling would be "iuiutçu" or "jujutçu", depending on the version you used.
As we can see, even in officially recognized systems (like Nihon-Shiki and Hepburn), there exist vast differences in spelling. Historically speaking, some systems have written jujutsu using an "i/y" sound in between the consonant "j/z" and the "u". When confronted with non-native japanese speakers that only learned spoken japanese and no written form, it is highly likely that some accuracy in the pronunciation has been lost when they had to write the name of their martial art in their own language. This could explain the many spelling variants of jujutsu we can encounter.
However, if I had to say that a specific one is the "best", I'd go with "jujutsu" (Hepburn), as it seems to be the closest english analog one could get.
If you are referring to 柔術, then we can look at the two kanji.
The first kanji is found in 柔道 -- judo. The second kanji is found in 剣術 -- Kenjutsu. Thus, I would opt for jujutsu as being the logical romanji form of 柔術. The other "spelling" maybe viewed as either incorrect or illogical based on this. Thus, I would translate 柔術 as the soft art which contracts nicely with weapon use -- aka hard.
Note: I am not fluent in Japanese and thus could have got the meaning/translation of the kanji wrong.
I believe these are spelling variations - wikipedia lists both of these as acceptable transliteration of the Japanese word. Of course I'm not fluent in Japanese, so I would defer to someone who is.
In Germany those two refer to different things but that is a special case: Jiu-Jitsu in Germany is usually used for the traditional japanese system and related styles while Ju-Jutsu is used for a system developed in the 1960s for German police forces. So in Germany those two are different but that does only hold for Germany because everywhere else the German Ju-Jutsu is called German Ju-Jutsu.
Otherwise I would say it is a question of transcription from Japanese.


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I'm currently running a Snow Leopard Server, and trying to get anything useful working with the v1.1 version of Dovecot bundled with it is as pleasant as banging my head against a brick wall.
Dovecot's extremely sparse documentation has a lot of mentions of horribly-crippling bugs (specifically with public mailboxes and permissions) in 1.1 that were only fixed in 1.2. Which is not helpful for me since Apple has their own frustratingly-special blend of dovecot build (1.1.20apple0.5) for Snow Leopard Servers.
So, does the new Lion Server have enough Dovecot functionality to make it worth using?


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Somebody small will have less Resistance from the air but take smaller steps then somebody who is tall.
Are long people better at long distance runs,
small people better in short distance or does it even matter?
Somebody small will have less Resistance from the air but take smaller steps then somebody who is tall.
Are long people better at long distance runs,
I would say resistance to the air would be almost irrelevant here, what we will impact a lot it would be the longer steps for short (sprinting distances) where probably taller people are in an advantage but in the other side, tallness comes with a cost, a less economic run, so they will be much more difficult to keep up good paces in long distances.
Some interesting information here, where I extracted this quote:
Height may be a factor, but it is probably really only going to matter in the weight, as alluded to in the other answer. Apocryphal lore among runners is that every pound of body weight either gained or lost, will result in a time difference of +/- 3 to 5 seconds. So if you lose 5 pounds, theoretically you can gain 15-25 seconds per mile for the same effort. This is affected greatly by other factors, however, such as training history, running efficiency and economy, things like this. However, there is a point where any further weight loss also results in lost muscle, so there is no real "set" formula to determine an ideal weight.
What is going to matter much more is the composition of the muscle fibers and the proportions of fast twitch to slow twitch. Someone with a high percentage of fast twitch fibers is going to be much more suited to short burst, sprint type activities, and the more percentage that you get of slow twitch fibers the more suited you will be to distance events.
I had always believed and have been taught that the proportions of slowtwitch (Type I) and fast twitch (Type IIa and IIb) were set at birth, much like other body systems, however there have been more recent studies (2004) that are challenging this notion. I've linked one study for reference.


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I took the first 3 tutorials and played a game. It went fine until I tried to colonize a planet. A neutral and perfect planet. But I couldn't colonize it there was no button for that. It was possible in the tutorial. But I can't do it in this game. Do I have to research the ability?
The wikia wiki it just said some of the capital ships could colonize. I have a capital ship but the button isn't there.


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Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011
The public square has a gaping hole this morning, as the brilliant Christopher Hitchens has died. Here is a brief obituary in Vanity Fair that links to some of his most recent columns and essays, several of which reflect on the cancer that took his life. David Gibson excerpted one of them in this space about seven months ago:
To my writing classes I used later to open by saying that anybody who could talk could also write. Having cheered them up with this easy-to-grasp ladder, I then replaced it with a huge and loathsome snake: How many people in this class, would you say, can talk? I mean really talk? That had its duly woeful effect. I told them to read every composition aloud, preferably to a trusted friend. The rules are much the same: Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Dont say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, its very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice.
Hitchens's voice was, it should go without saying, one of the best of his generation, and we are all poorer for its absence. (David Castronovo reviewed his memoir in the magazine last year.) But it would be unfair to Hitchens, because out of the spirit of his own combative nature, not to mention how wrong that voice often was when it came to matters of religion. From Eugene McCarraher's lengthy review of his bestseller, God is Not Great, again in the pages of Commonweal:
All Hitchens claims to ask of his deluded religious friends is that they leave me alone. But for a public intellectual, what this innocent-seeming wish really implies is the privatization of religion, its eradication as a form of public discourse. Like the New York intellectuals of yesteryear, Hitchens turns to high culture as the new symposium of moral tutelageand specifically to literature. Well within the compass of the average person, the study of literature and poetry, he proposes, should now depose the scrutiny of sacred texts as the basis of ethical reflection. Of course, the arts and letters have long been modernitys citadel for paradise, a safehouse for idiosyncrasy, brotherly love, transcendence, and other utopian ideals battered by the power of the state and the market. Reminiscent of the democratic humanism espoused by his late friend Edward W. Said, Hitchenss expansive vision of cultural democracy should appeal to anyone serious about the moral imagination. But his insistence that we uncouple high culture from the sacred has its own insuperable problems. Aside from assigning a covert clerical status to writers and literary criticsthe divine literatus, as Whitman put itsupplanting sacred texts with literature would require the bowdlerization of at least nine-tenths of our literary canon. Our high culture simply owes too much to religion, Christian or otherwise, for anyone to suggest intelligibly that the two should be separated.
In any case, what we get from Hitchens in the end isnt culture but a gooey compound of boosterish bromides and liberal nationalism. Like so many disappointed radicals, Hitchens has elsewhere declared capitalism the only remaining revolutionary force, and for all his bad-boy press, he is a stalwart guardian of the bourgeois virtues, harrumphing like a sullen Rotarian at Christs injunction to take no thought for the morrow. Such gospel nonsense, Hitchens tells us, implies that things like thrift, innovation, family life, and so forth are a sheer waste of time. This former Trotskyite turns out to be a metropolitan burgher at heart, as well as a technological visionary, rhapsodizing over undreamed-of vistas, unfettered scientific inquiry, and the accessibility of scientific knowledge to masses of people by easy electronic meansall of which will revolutionize our concepts of research and development. Its a Brave New World, brought to you by Merck. Cue the studio orchestra.
In the end, Hitchens's brilliance as a journalist and rhetorician is inseparable from his shallowness as a critic of religion, not to mention the gross error of his support for the Iraq War. As Ross Douthat noted a while back, however, Hitchens took no offense at the thought of being prayed for by those who possessed the faith he lacked, and surely it's a good time to do that.
Update: Somehow I failed to link to Terry Eagleton's essay on "Culture and Barbarism" from March 2009, where he takes on Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. The essay was excerpted from Eagleton's Terry Lectures, published as Reason, Faith, and Revolution by Yale University Press. Matt Boudway noted Stanley Fish's sympathetic discussion of Eagleton's argument later on that year.
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R.I.P. Though I was never as much an admirer as were many, I do admire the courage with which he faced his end.
Ill add my R.I.P., as every Christian should do, but the following reader comment to the NYTs obit pretty much captures my view about Mr. Hitchenss present state of consciousness: Blaise Pascal's Great Wager came due. If Hitchens was correct, he does not have the satisfaction of knowing it. If incorrect, he has experienced ego deflation in depth. My personal bet is that God not only exists but that He is merciful and, accordingly, Hitchens rests in peace.As Eugene McCarraher and others (e.g., Terry Eagleton, John Haught) have argued, Hitchens, a skilled polemicist and rhetorician, knew little about theology. While I hope that he is with his Maker, I fear that his facile attacks on religion have influenced many who are even more uneducated about the substance of religion and theology than Hitchens was, and, in that regard at least, he has left a bitter legacy. Last year the U.K. Daily Mail had an article by Peter Hitchens, the younger brother of Christopher, that related Peters re-discovery of Christianity. The article details Peters journey in some depth, and it also sheds light on the oft-strained relationship between the two brothers, including their differences about religion. Worth a read:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1255983/How-I-God-peace-atheist-...
Christopher Hitchens was a witty and arrogant provocateur. He made people mad. But he made people think. Ironically, my mother's love of Hitchens and the articles she carefully exacto-knifed out of various magazines and sent to me with post-it notes saying, "What do you say about THAT?!!" allowed us to have some fairly good discussions about the nuances of what Catholics actually believe.Hitchens--who would be horrified to hear it--strengthened the faith of many of us by making us think, and gave us the opportunity to approach the teachings of the Church in a more faceted way. Perhaps he now stands among the rest of God's beloved devil's advocates.
Thanks to William Collier for the link to Peter Hitchens' article. As he said: well worth a read.
Bishop Sheen used to say that everyone pursues the absolute and finds it in one's preferred way. Hitchens seemed to find it in capitalism. His approval of the Iraq war was apparently because he saw Muslims as a threat to capitalism. It is hard to not conclude that his forays into opposite circles often on the same day was pure opportunism. His questioning of religion was surely not original. Many of us have the same problem with Christian leaders. It might be a plausible conclusion, therefore, that he might be more contrarian than a thoughtful critic. He did know how to write and was a person of letters. In making the literary realm almost a religion he does have company with many leaders in religion who make culture more important than the gospel.
"Perhaps he now stands among the rest of God's beloved devil's advocates."I dunno, Jean. I think "perhaps" is the operative word, especially after the hatchet job he did on Mother Teresa.To wit: From Hitchens in a 2003 Slate piece on the beatification of Mother Teresa:[W]e witnessed the elevation and consecration of extreme dogmatism, blinkered faith, and the cult of a mediocre human personality. Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/m... tells me that the legacy of that "mediocre human personality" and "fraud" will endure long beyond Mr. Hitchens's impact on the world.
I'm very familiar with that article, it having been one of those lovingly exacto-knifed by Mom. In any case, our experiences with and about Hitchens are very different. And I think it's better to consider that God has a place for all his beloved children, of which Hitchens was one whether he liked it or not--and whether we like it or not.Happy Xmas.
Hitchen's literary career and writings demonstrate that an active mind should never be confused with an accurate mind. He was about as helpful to society in solving moral and ethical questions as entertainers Lady GAGA and Madonna. Much bluster but little truth, and a complete deficiency of logic in his argumentation.
I have just sent this article and link to the comments to 4 friends who are atheists. I can't WAIT for their reactions, predicatably to be harshly negative.His disciples tend to go for the jugular rather than the intellect.
Wow, other than Jean, has anyone actually read any of his work?
I've read some of his essays, the latest one at Vanity Fair just last night .... http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/01/hitchens-201201
I think Fr. Martin had the right take over at Amrica and some of us in our disgust with him would like to sub our judgement for Him who really jusges.
I think that Fr. Martin, kindly and cheerful man that he is, doesn't understand atheists like Hitchens, I mean the kind of atheists who are scandalized by the suffering of innocent creatures and who end up thinking that a God in the ordinary Western sense of the term isn't even possible. They do not reject believing in God for trivial reasons, out of a desire, say, to lead a wild or selfish life. For some people the argument against God's existence is overwhelming. There are many philosophers who are atheists for this reason. When they hate cruelty, as, apparently, did Hitchens, they can be passionate about it.So there is no question of people like Hitchens rejecting a loving father for the simple reason they think that there isn't any loving Father in the first place. Hitchens and those like him have the same problem as Job -- the apparent great injustices of God who claims to love His creatures. So I think that judging such people negatively makes no sense. They have not had the advantage of finding counter-evidence of God's existence. And unlike Dawkins (who is incredibly ignorant for such a smart man), apparently Hitchens did a great deal of serious thinking about the subject and came up an atheist. I
I suppose that it is a sin against charity as well as bseing impolite to speak ill of the dead. Not that, that stopped Hitchens. So here i go exhibiting poor Christian restraint. I am not a fan of sloppy hagiography. There was more critical analysis of a far more deserving man in Steve Jobs than in Hitchens whose contribution I don't think is really all that stellar. Hard smoking, cynical, alcoholics are rarely charming in real life. And even if he was, he did not have a Mattie Ross who could guide him in clarity of purpose and justice in his life to play off his Rooster Cogburn persona. Sad.
Looking at Hitchens' collection "Arguably" I see plenty of charm and brilliance. But I do not see much deep thought. Yes, no harm to dint the Mother Teresa myth, but why go over the top? Yes, religion has a mucky record, but why be so completely ignorant of its deepest power and truth? Yes, Islamic terrorists are a threat, but why go for hate speech about Islamo-fascism and warmongering at the expense of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis (never acknowledged by the smug Hitchens)?
I don't defend most of Hitchens' views, and though he seemed a very serious man, I don't think his thinking was very deep. Still, he was willing to debate all-comers, which is more than a lot of "intellectuals" will do, and it seems that those who debated him often ended up admiring his honesty and, yes, sometimes his kindness. So I admire his unblinking honesty about most everything including himself. It's a rare quality. This led to his sometimes taking a contrary view from those he generally agreed with -- even highly contrary views. For instance, he held that the fetus was a human being from conception, a most unpopular view among his friends, though he still maintained that choice was the only thing that would lead the poor out of poverty. And, yes, he had a great concern for the poor.Very contradictory man. Here's Christianity Today's reprint of his CT-sponsored debate with Doug Wilson for those who are unfamiliar with him..http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/mayweb-only/119-12.0.html
RIP to an adept, eloquent contrarian.I pray he has joy in his heart at the outset of the O antiphons. What a gift to "hear" the praises of joy from all creation during this season!O Wisdom, O Holy Word of GodO Sacred Lord of ancient IsraelO Flower of Jesse's stemO Key of David, O royal Power of IsraelO Radiant Dawn, splendor of eternal light, sun of justiceO King of all the nations, the only joy of every human heartO Emmanuel, king and lawgiverGod have mercy on Hitch and on us all!In Christ
Here's a bit of HItchens at his anti=fundamentalist, anti-anti-science best. It's from a transcription of a YouTube thing."If you havent noticed. Attack science to make yourself feel better about your unsubstantiated beliefs [i.e. religious belliefs] and I will explain thoroughly what I think about it and why. I think using such arguments is an incredibly petty act of desperation. If your belief is so convincing you need to rely on deriding other incredibly well substantiated ideas, your in trouble. And then the person is shocked when I firmly disagree. Really? And I must respect your anti-intellectual ideas as well? No thank you! I respect the person not the crazy idea he is presenting. To me respect is being honest, so I will be honest and say it how I see it." I dont think this is unreasonable. How would you like it if when you asked me a scientific question my answer was "well the bible isnt right!" Its a stupid argument, right? So try to see it the other way around too"http://exjehovahswitnessforum.yuku.com/topic/21957#.TuxP2mDI6lkI think Hitchens' defense of science was extremely important. It has been noticed that recently an anti-science bent has become a part of the bundle of fundamentalist prinicples. It's apparent in their irrational rejection of the consensus among the world's greatest scientists that global warming is a threat to mankind's continued existence on Earth.. Also otice how frequently the radical political right, which so often aligns itself with the anti-science radicals, reject out of hand the notion that the future of man on Earth is threatened by global warming. The "debates" of the Republican would-be candidates is full of such thinking.What I'm saying is that Hitchens wasn't just an anti-theist. He was anti- a lot of irrational nonsense that is important for our culture to look at.
He was anti- a lot of irrational nonsense that is important for our culture to look at.Well, except for all the irrational nonsense that led us to war in Iraq and whatnot. Oops!
I note lots of verbiage spiled at america about Fr. Martin's post . Seems he really roused the CCCers.It's clear to me that Hitchens had a simplistic view of religion (confabulated with fundamentalism.)I too think we need to beware of making judgements about the scientiists who see little in our faith and rely on their empirical world.America has another item on the web that global warming is a faith issue.
When you have close family members who think like Hitchens, it's harder to consign what seems on the outside like half-baked criticism, iconoclasm, and inebriation to the flames. Some people are hard to love, carry a lot of despair around, and try to self-medicate it away. In some ways, I see their constant punching at religion is an attempt to find a hole inside, where things make sense. So the whole "rest in peace, Hitchens, after I spit on your grave" tone of some of these posts I find very very sad. I thank God I had no such comforters as these after Dad died.Thanks, Ann Olivier (12/16, 8:50 p.m.), for your insight and kindness. You get another milagro! And thank you Laura for the heartfelt Antiphons. Who needs them more than Hitch?
Some posters at America are really mad at Christopher for not believing what no one can prove. But, as one poster (Vince K.) pointed out, no one seems to be able to rebut Christopher Hitchens' opinion of Mother Teresa. Plenty of people dislike the fact that he failed to join the chorus of adulation, but as to specific proof that he was wrong, they're unable to provide it.Someone sent me a copy of a book by an ex-nun who had been in Mother Teresa's order. I read a little of it, but had to stop. Too gruesome.http://www.amazon.com/Hope-Endures-Leaving-Searching-Meaning/dp/B003A02T...
Last night Anderson Cooper played a long interview with hitchens on his cancer anmd atheism.Cooper tried not to tip his hand on his own beliefs, but I think he was quite sympathetic.Again. I agree with Jean et al.What's relevant IMO is that we can opeate with lots of strong feelings about our own faith but hav ewe done a good job of really conveyiong the message to the broad community (see Cathy K."s recent threads.)
It's not surprising that the death of a man with outsized faults and virtues should elicit out-sized reactions. But fairness requires that his virtues not be confused with his vices. He excoriated with all the great power of his invective the irrationality of radical fundamentalists whether Christian or Islamist or whatever. Given then that radical fundamentalists *are* often irrational (that's why we call them radical) it is unfair to call his accusations simply mean-spirited tantrums. Perhaps they were tantrums, but, as with many angry adolescents, his criticisms were true and just. (Yes, I think he was a particularly angry adolescent with extraordinary verbal abilities. And now the psychologizing begins.)But it is more complicated than that. As an article in Salon points out, he not only faulted the irrationality of others, he also left no room for their simply being mistaken. For Hitchens (at least in public),"His enemies were not just wrong, they were stupid or mean or small-minded or liars or cheats or children or cowards."That characterizes the sometimes great unfairness of Hitchens. But he was not alone. Just look at the posts on most blogs -- accusations of meanness, small-mindedness, lying, cheating and childishness are the order of the day almost everywhere. So while we are casting stones at Hitchens we should lob a few our own way.http://gawker.com/5868761/christopher-hitchens-unforgivable-mistake
OOps -- that should have been "many of his criticisms were true and just".
Most. if not all posters here, used the Hitchens subject to foster their own theology of the church and salvation. So we sink back into arguing among ourselves without regard to what Hitchens shows us he believed in his own words. Whether he was right or wrong on Mother Theresa is not the point either. We all seem to agree that only God can judge Hitchens. At the same time there are some points where we can perhaps all agree. Hitchens clearly is contemptuous of believers and the God they believe in. I don't see how all of us cannot have problems with what Hitchens wrote. Hitchens certainly flies in the face of a statement we all make in the Our Father: "Hallowed be your name"Whether through invincible ignorance or not we can all agree that Hitchens outwardly did not revere the name of God. Whatever our differences we all agree on this mandate. On this point, on at least what we know of Hitchens, I don't see how any of us can support or agree with him. It is God who judges him. We can only comment on what Hitchens expressly told us.
So, what, holding the right view about Hitchens is now the Catholic litmus test? Guess I fail that one, too.Enough outta me. I'm repeating myself.
No litmus test. But some things are sacred.
Christopher Hitchens on liturgical changes after Vatican II:"... well I say in my book that I think it was a great loss to the Church, I rather sympathize with Evelyn Waugh on this point...the abandonment, particular of the Latin Mass, the so-called Tridentine Mass, was an enormous blow to the morale of the Church, and the subsequent rituals appear to be extremely banal."http://www.hughhewitt.com/transcripts.aspx?id=4b2d1523-1663-4207-9c49-d8...
Hitchens, the mouth piece of the so-called new Atheism, embraced a belief system as intolerant, chauvinist and bigoted as Christian and Muslim Fundamentalists, only his proposed route to salvation and moral advancement was through science and reason. His utopian dream of a perfect society and a perfect human being, which he thinly cloaked as himself, called for the eradication of certain elements of human beings (i.e. through war on Arab states), who rejected his non-reality based world of self-exaltation, and an unquestioned acceptance of his form of American values. In Hitchens utopia, all humans have to become like him, a spiritless reasonoid holding his values, think as he did, or be banished from civilized (read that as western capitalist) society. All other values, which he never bothered to investigate more than superficially, were dismissed as those held by ignorant, superstitious people. He argued that one day, with enough belief in the god of reason, one can have all that is desired.Hitch (as his admirers loved to refer to hima slight to the true genius, Alfred Hitchcock) tended to turn his particular vision of good into an inflexible standard. His polemics proved blind to his own evil concepts as actually being for the common good; his greatest evil being the inability to separate the religious person from the religious institution. That would have been a commitment to too much actual intellectualism on which to base his prose. His ideas always seemed to come from the same boring starting point of dividing the world into superior and inferior beings: those enlightened by reason and knowledge (himself) and those guided by irrational beliefs, usually the religious. His tracts against theists tended to use language as racist, crude and intolerant against Muslims as the (un)Christian ravings of Pat Robertson and his cadre. Simply put, Hitchens was a secular version of the religio-political right wingnuts he condemned. Like them, he continually misused his sacred text, the writings of Charles Darwin and evolutionary biology, just as the (un)Christian and (un)Moslem Fundamentalists misuse the Bible and Koran, respectively. Like his Fundamental counterparts, Hitchens eschewed dialog with knowledgeable counterparts---he would never argue his position face-to-face with theologians of any faith; instead he only pontificated to television cameras, where the spineless host would not challenge the intellectual 800 pound gorilla, or write from the privacy of his computer.Hitchens sold a belief system in service of his career, which was centered on his ego, money and power. Ultimately Hitchens dismissed God because He stood in the way of Hitchens sense of his own god-like essence. He laughingly dismissed the ritual and symbols of religion, imposing his owna cigarette and a glass of whiskey in lieu of bread and wine for Christians, and eating five meals a day in lieu of prayer time for Moslems. Hitchens offered an old and dangerous faith seen last in the pre-Christian Roman Empire, where achievement of personal pleasures would be considered holy.
I don't disagree with Christopher Wood's assessment of Hitchens ideas in the main. But I think Mr. Wood paints a picture of an unhappy man badly in need of God's love, which, in my view, is the "Catholic thing" missing from all the nicely written rants against Hitchens that have been posted here.Can one sad little alcoholic bring down Christ's Church?
Hitchens was verbally pugnacious against Christianity, which endeared him to liberals and atheists. However, the shallowness of his thought and logic ensured that the effect of his presence in this world was extremely modest.
What has God got to do with religion? There have breen religions right through history that dispensed with the concept, from Greek monolotry to Buddhist religious atheism. Furthermore, many people claim to believe in God, but do not practise a religion. The monotheistic idea in the wider western world, appeared first among Greek philosophers who considered it a highly tendentious, "difficult" concept that would be securely beyond most people. They used it to explain such tendentious questions as the relation between the many and the One. (This last did not of itself refer to a being, but rather, in a world understood to be populated by rational causes and effects, some first principle that escaped them and therefore would not need to be caused. The more recent idea of a "First Cause" is indirectly thence derived).The modern idea of "God" has little to do with this notion, and still less with the tribal YHVH who broods over Genesis. This Jewish concept is abandoned, or rather, perhaps, situated by the Jews in that masterpiece of human thought, Kabbalah, in favour of a more powerful "Creator God." The Mayans and Aztecs possessed extremely exalted ideas of deity that are only very questionably comparable to Occidental ones.Meanwhile, Einstein, that modern Jewish master-teacher, believed in "the Old One and his fires", a religious concept enthusiastically endorsed by Dawkins in The God Delusion.The ancient Chinese believed in God. They called Him "the animic consciousness of Heaven" but felt no need to personify Him. Personification is clearly not a product of special revelation. It is an idiosyncracy of Western culture. Those who say that Orientals, Mayas and others need to acquire it, are therefore, by definition, cultural imperialists.The point is, that "God" belongs to the history of ideas. Furthermore, He is not a particularly brilliant one, even of His kind. Homo Sapiens' history is constantly being pushed back into deeper temporal roots, but the species has been around for at least 200,000 years. Being exceptionally generous, and ignoring much scholarship on the integration of biblical concepts in the creative process of the texts, "God" has been around for about 4000 years. Do it as a fraction. It's not a significant idea.I find it worrying that people insist so hard on the universal validity of their own pet ideas. Not only "God", but also capital, privilege, testable intelligence and a whole bunch of other things which we know damn well don't work and yet realize we will be judged if we question. I think it's totally wrong to judge beliefs, provided they are not directly hamful to others. I certainly wouldn't belittle anyone for believing in any of the things I've just said don't work. But my tolerance there quickly collapses, when those believers try to impose their pet beliefs on me. Such "invitations" are certainly an act of violence.The New Atheists make the same mistake as the Christians. They attach enormous importance to whether someone says they believe in "God" or not. It's not important. Objectively, the idea is not a significant one. Humanity evolved, survived and built civilization without it.


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Police consider Allan Smith a "person of interest" in the {A href="http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Medical-examiner-Bothell-mom-was-killed-by-injuries-to-the-head-191452901.html"}February murder of his estranged wife, Susann Smith.
Smith moved back into the house after the murder, and recently neighbors called police after they heard a woman screaming. When police arrived, they say they found Smith and another woman having sex in the yard.
The woman with Smith that night, Love Thai, said the story is pretty simple.
"The story is we were there in the corner making sweet love," she said. "I said, 'Hey, you came into our private yard. The cop let us know that a neighbor reported that they saw sexual activity and I looked through and I said, 'Ok we're really sorry.'"
Thai said it would have taken an effort for anyone to see the couple having sex.
"If you're going to look into someone's private property and get upset about it, take ownership of that," she said. "But for you to call police is not OK."
While Smith has not been charged with any crime in relation to his estranged wife's murder, Thai believes the suspicion that surrounds him is steering the neighborhood's reaction to the recent incident.
"I think they just want to see him for what they want to see him, which is out of fear that he murdered his wife. And he didn't, I'm sorry," she said.
She also said the attitude of residents in the area is taking its toll on the couple.
"What really breaks my heart is that his neighbors haven't come and just cooked him a home-cooked meal," Thai said. "Help him, he's hurting. He's lost his wife. He's lost his children - -he hasn't seen his children in four months."
No charges were filed for the sexual activity in the yard. Neighbors have also complained about nude sunbathing, which Thai said would also be very hard to see.
Thai said the couple has found threatening notes left on the property, but she doesn't know who put them there.


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I'm interested in working as an artist in the game industry. Many job postings contain the phrase "pixel art". What exactly is pixel art?
This is the kind of question that's better answered with google. Pixel art is game art that is very restricted - you are literally using pixels to draw something, so they end up having a very boxy look. (Though a lot of pixel art now is done on a much larger scale and then made to look like it's been edited pixel by pixel.)
You can see in the bottom right of this image the actual size of the art, and then the larger left portion what it looks like zoomed in. Lines and shading are implied by individual pixels put in a particular colour. (An outline, for example, is achieved by making all the pixels along the outside edge black.)
As a quick search will tell you, pixel art is digital artwork that is created by drawing individual pixels in an image rather than say, rendering a 3D model. It commonly refers to clean, cartoonish graphics reminiscent of old 2D video games.
This forum is a pretty good place to get a good idea, because they also have a forum for "low spec art", which you can compare to their "pixel art" forum and see the difference.
For loads of examples, links to resources and tutorials, a thriving, friendly, no-nonsense community, pixel-art-related news, and weekly challenges, check out PixelJoint and your perspective will be forever changed.


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6 Deleted Backstories That Totally Change Classic Movies
#3. There's Something About Mary -- Jeffrey Tambor's Character Gets Eaten by a Snake
In There's Something About Mary, Pat Healy (Matt Dillon) is a private investigator who is hired to track down the title character, but he winds up becoming infatuated with her. He gets assistance from a cop friend of his named Sully, played by Jeffrey Tambor, who also plays George Bluth Sr. in Arrested Development.
Or it might be the dude who plays his twin brother, Oscar ... we're not sure.
Sully seems to be the only major male character in the film who does not develop an unhealthy obsession with Mary. In fact, he just disappears from the movie at some point and never comes back. Late in the film, there's a scene that takes place in Sully's apartment, which is a huge mess for some reason, but this is never explained.
Then again, this is a Farrelly brothers movie, so we just assumed he got his dong stuck in something.
The Deleted Backstory
Sully's sudden disappearance is explained in the deleted scenes from the film, and it involves drug abuse and a massive man-eating snake.
According to the movie's original screenplay, Sully is a recovering cocaine addict who has been clean for 19 months. This lasts until the moment when his pal Healy, knowing full well that Sully is trying hard to stay sober, pressures him into drinking a beer.
"The cocaine-flavored brand? What could possibly go wrong?"
This sends Sully into a spiral of self-destruction -- later on, we discover that he has fallen completely off the wagon and is snorting cocaine like a vacuum cleaner. As in, from the floor.
They had to cut these scenes because he kept going "HEY NOW!"
Oh, and we also find out that Sully has a giant pet python who hasn't been fed in days. Healy then shows up at Sully's apartment and realizes that he was swallowed by the snake; that's what all the mess you saw in the movie was about.
"Hey, I just bumped into Jon Voight's character from Anaconda."
Now, There's Something About Mary wasn't exactly a Disney movie, but the idea of a reformed coke addict regressing back to his habit and dying a horrible death because of it was deemed slightly too dark, and the entire plotline was cut. Hey, speaking of cocaine ...
#2. Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- Charlie Sheen's Character Explains Ferris
Late in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris' sister, Jeanie, is brought into a police station and winds up sitting next to Charlie Sheen, who is playing a nameless washed-up stoner.
We don't even have to write a joke here -- Charlie Sheen's life already did.
Sheen's entire role consists of telling Jeanie not to be such a square and later making out with her. He was basically just making a cameo appearance in the movie before he was even famous.
The Deleted Backstory
In the original script, however, Sheen's character is named Garth Volbeck, and he has a full backstory that might change the way you think of this movie. More specifically, it might mean that Ferris isn't such a dick after all.
He just looks like one.
Early in the script, Ferris goes on a spiel about a kid he used to be friends with in the eighth grade, Garth Volbeck:
Internet Movie Script Database
Ferris explains that Garth came from a troubled family and even had a psycho older brother who once ate "a whole bowl of artificial fruit just so he could see what it was like to have his stomach pumped." Ferris was apparently the only person who ever tried to help Garth and be a friend to him, but Garth would eventually drop out of high school and get into even more trouble.
What kind of trouble, you might ask? The kind that leads to him sitting in the police station next to Jeanie. The scene with Charlie Sheen goes pretty much exactly like in the movie, except for this part:
Internet Movie Script Database
This backstory actually explains Ferris' whole character: Ferris claims that his entire motivation for skipping school that day is to help his troubled friend, Cameron, but we always assumed that it was just an excuse to take a joy ride in his dad's Ferrari. However, the fact that Ferris had previously tried to help another friend and failed miserably makes him seem a lot more sincere about wanting to help Cameron. Garth represents Cameron's possible future if Ferris doesn't do something.
And not just because they both ended up on Spin City.
Of course, for all of Ferris' good intentions, Cameron still ended up trashing his dad's Ferrari, so maybe Garth will soon be getting a new cellmate.
#1. American Beauty -- Kevin Spacey's Killer Frames Spacey's Daughter for the Murder
American Beauty starts with the main character, Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), carelessly spoiling the rest of the film by revealing that he dies at the end. However, the movie does keep you in suspense about who is responsible for Lester's death. The opening scenes seem to imply that Lester's teenage daughter, Jane, is planning to murder Lester with her boyfriend, Ricky, as he videotapes her.
This was the 1999 equivalent of typing "how to commit murder" into Google.
Of course, it turns out that Jane and Ricky were just kidding around, and at the end, it's revealed that Ricky's closeted gay father shot Lester in the head. Case closed.
The Deleted Backstory
Ricky's father originally had an even more important role in the movie -- he frames Jane and Ricky for the murder he committed. It turns out that keeping a tape of you and your boyfriend discussing a murder in the house where the actual murderer lives isn't such a good idea after all. In Alan Ball's first draft of the American Beauty screenplay, the story starts with Ricky and Jane going on trial for killing Lester.
The movie was originally supposed to have the framing device of the sensational trial of Jane and Ricky. We later find out that in order to take suspicion off himself, Ricky's father turned in the incriminating videotape where Ricky and Jane joked about killing Lester, and everyone ate it up.
But first he had to sift through 100 hours of footage of a plastic bag floating around.
After this tape is shown in court, Ricky and Jane do not have a chance. At the end, they are both found guilty and sent to prison. The movie would have ended with the still unbearably pretentious Ricky singing to himself in his cell as he admires the beauty of a dripping faucet. Yeah, OK, that kid deserved to go to jail.
According to Ball, all of these murder trial scenes were shot but ultimately cut out, since everyone felt that this ending was just too cynical. In the film, we never find out if Ricky's father is going to get away with the murder and ... hey, wait a minute, who's the actor who played him again?
Goddammit, Chris Cooper, you just can't help yourself when tapes are involved, can you?
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WEIRTON - A year has passed since the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center moved into its new building at 3149 Main St., and the number of historic artifacts it houses continues to grow.
Dennis Jones, president and executive director of the museum board, said the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center Committee formed in 1984 in an effort to keep memorabilia from the Weirton Steel Corp. The museum moved into its first building at 3393 Main St. in July 2006. Prior to that, he said, it kind of "floated."
The crew filming the movie "Super 8" in the city rented the current building, formerly owned by Home Furniture, for storage and a workshop during filming. When the movie crew moved out, the museum committee discovered the purchase price for the facility had come down to $30,000. So, in December 2010, the museum committee bought the building.
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FROM THE 1950S — Dennis Jones, president and executive director of the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center, stands beside a Sinclair Dino gasoline pump from the 1950s inside the facility. -- Art Limann
Following fundraising and obtaining grants, renovation work started in August 2011. Jones said the entire building was torn up. A new main floor was put in, as well as a new handicap-accessible restroom. Walls and ceilings were plastered and new air conditioning and electrical systems installed, which allowed the building to open in November.
"Everything kind of fell in place," Jones said. "Since we opened here, it just took off. We have had more than 100 people for every event we have had. We've had very successful events. This area is very community-minded."
According to Jones, the organization continues to raise money and apply for grants. Renovation of the building's exterior will be the next project. As funding becomes available, the roof and second and third floors will be renovated to allow for additional displays.
He said donations of artifacts and historic items continue to come in and will be displayed on the first floor on a rotating basis until the other floors are available. In the future he hopes to have displays featuring local churches and schools.
"Plans now are that we will continue to build displays as we go," Jones added. "Right now, things are temporary. We have had showcases donated by groups and individuals. We hope that catches on. It's a three-floor building. We have lots of space."
The museum features historic photographs, enlarged from negatives, obtained from Weirton Steel Employee Bulletins. Jones said the museum literally owns "hundreds of thousands of them."
"It's a documented history of the city," he said. "More than 100 have already been printed from the collection. It's amazing what you can see in these photographs when they are enlarged. They are very detailed."
Other historic items include memorabilia from local high schools and pieces related to the military, including 8-inch howitzer shells made at Weirton Steel.
"For right now, we want to get the outside finished up. The front of the building is the next major thing," Jones said. "Then we will start upstairs. We need to save money to do that, and we're hoping to get grants. We need to put in an elevator and more handicap accessibility. It's a lot more expense.
"For now we will rotate things on the first floor, make the front more presentable and have more events," he said. "We will soon be putting in a train display for Christmas."


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5 Great Careers Destroyed By The Post-Oscar Curse
#2. Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino's Deer Hunter cleaned house at the 1978 Academy Awards. The film scored Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor for, believe it or not, Christopher Walken. After winning this assload of adulation, Cimino's next step was to blow up a horse onscreen.
Uh, not quite...
Cimino's follow-up, the Western epic Heaven's Gate, infuriated animals' rights groups so much that the film is widely credited as the catalyst for the "NO ANIMALS WERE HARMED" disclaimer at the end of movies. But the dynamited horse wasn't the most famous thing to die on the set of Heaven's Gate. That honor goes to Cimino's career.
Cimino's conduct on set wasn't directorial, it was dictatorial. He blew $1.2 million rebuilding a set because he thought the houses looked to close together. Set construction then spewed a toxic slick onto a lake in Glacier National Park.
Cimino's 5.5 hour-long cut of Heaven's Gate purportedly had a battle scene as long as a normal movie, and he assigned an armed guard outside of the editing room to deter meddling United Artists execs.
And that guard was Christopher Walken.
In the end, Heaven's Gate bankrupted United Artists, and Cimino was blackballed in Tinseltown for years. Perhaps the most depressing part of Heaven's Gate is its legacy--despite being one of the biggest bombs in Hollywood history, no one remembers the film anymore. A cult of comet-loving castrati totally stole its thunder.
#1. David Lynch
It's unfair to say David Lynch has pissed away his career. After all, he's responsible for the neo-noir classic Mulholland Drive and the "Dennis Hopper high on poppers" flick Blue Velvet. But did you know there was once a crazy time when Lynch directed blockbusters? That wild time, dear readers, was 1984.
In 1980, Lynch's The Elephant Man was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Afterwards, Lynch had his pick of plush projects. George Lucas offered him Return of the Jedi, but Lynch instead chose an adaptation of Frank Herbert's best-selling sci-fi novel Dune.
Lynch had no idea what Dune was about at the time, which is generally not recommended when signing on to direct a $40 million space opera. Still, Dune had the pedigree of an 80s smash: a diehard fan base, a soundtrack by Toto and Sting in a shiny wingtip bikini.
Cruising, Part II: Dune.
Unfortunately for Lynch, Dune had a reputation for being unfilmable ("Forget it, guys, you'll just wind up with Sting in a thong or something"). The film had been in development hell for 13 years (for example, a previous producer had cast Salvador Dali at the cost of $100,000 an hour).
Lynch suffered the same fate. Dune's financiers were pissed that the final cut was three hours long. Lynch was pissed that the studio pressured him to smush Herbert's 400+ page epic into a two-hour popcorn movie. Theaters were pissed that they had to hand out pamphlets explaining the film's futuristic vocabulary, and audiences were pissed that they had to read.
"I go to the movies to escape literacy!"
In the end, Dune was critically crucified, a commercial catastrophe and, more or less, disowned by Lynch, who credited himself as the infamous Hollywood pseudonym "Alan Smithee" on certain editions of the film.
Nowadays, Lynch makes his films with an eye towards the art house set. Who can blame the guy? He's doing what he wants these days, and so maybe this one has a happy ending.
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I was given extra virgin olive oil as a gift from Italy (picture below), and I wanted to see if that type of olive oil is treated like fruits and vegetables, or does it needs to have certification on the label.
I was given extra virgin olive oil as a gift from Italy (picture below), and I wanted to see if that type of olive oil is treated like fruits and vegetables, or does it needs to have certification on the label.
See this interesting article by Rabbi Yirmeyahu Kaganoff about the production of olive oil. He discusses the issues of fraud in the market and notes that different kashrut organizations have different views on the matter. He quotes the OU as not requiring certification on extra virgin olive oil only (virgin olive oil still needs). He also quotes the Eida Charedis which requires a mashgiach nichnas veyotzei for extra virgin olive oil during the year, and a masgiach temidi for pesach. CYLOR.
The OK has an article (archived link) on olive oil production and kashrut concerns.
In the article they explain the differences between the different levels of olive oil (i.e Extra Virgin, Virgin, Fino, olive oil, and light olive oil), both in processing and in the nature of oil itself.
The article say that:
The article concludes:
As an example, I once had a bottle of Vigo Imported Extra Virgin Olive Oil - Cold Pressed. The label says that it is a Product of Spain, Argentina, and Tunisia.
I contacted the company and asked them if that meant that the olives are pressed in those countries, and then the olive oil is transported to another location, where it is blended and bottled, or if it mean that the oil is pressed and bottled on site, but sometimes it may come from Spain, Argentina, or Tunisia?
They told me that the olives are pressed in those countries and then shipped to them where they blend them and then package the oil.
According to the article from the OK, this Extra Virgin Olive Oil would not be acceptable without a Hechsher.
Star-K's article explains its statement that
London Beth Din lists several unsupervised approved olive oils.
Olive oil fraud is rampant. Just because something claims to be virgin olive oil, that doesn't mean that it is. Therefore, all other possible issues aside, I would not automatically assume that it is kosher. [A quick test to help determine if you have genuine olive oil is that olive oil should harden in the fridge. If it doesn't, you know that it's not olive oil. The converse isn't true, since even if it hardens it can still be adulterated olive oil.]
Since there are a variety of opinions out there, I thought it would be worth including the metaphoric law of the land: the Italy Kosher Union. On their Kosher Food list, they write the following:
If the major koshering organization of Italy states that it can be permitted and doesn't require certification...well, that sounds pretty reliable, no?
The IKU's list of kosher foods was compiled by the Chief Rabbi of Rome, R. Shmuel Riccardo Di Segni. The organization is supervised by R. Yitzhak Belinow (rabbi of the Beth HaLevy synagogue in Milan). The IKU lists the other authorities outside Italy that it recognizes (found here), which include OU, Star K, Badatz, and the Israeli Rabbinate. The chief of IKU, Meyer Piha, produced the Italy Jewish Guide, an authoritative collection of every kosher food and certified restaurant in the country. The book was approved by all the major Italian rabbis (including Chief Rabbi of Milan R. Arbib and R. Di Segni) as well as Chief Rabbi of Israel R. Yonah Metzger.
Based on the following information, I trust the organization as a reputable guide to the Italian olive oil industry.


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I'd like to reset my tablet to factory settings. I used this option in my device but this was not complete. In the directory structure there are old application settings and I want to erase it to have fresh new installed operating system. I haven't found another reset or reinstall possibilities.
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MEDICATION GUIDE FOR AMPYRA® (am-PEER-ah)
(dalfampridine) Extended Release Tablets
Read this Medication Guide before you start taking AMPYRA.
Read this Medication Guide before you start taking AMPYRA and
each time you get a refill. There may be new information. This
information does not take the place of talking with your doctor
about your medical condition or your treatment.
What is the most important information
I should know about AMPYRA?
AMPYRA can cause seizures.
• Your chance of having a seizure is higher if you take too much
AMPYRA or if you have kidney problems.
•Do not take AMPYRA if you have ever had a seizure.
•Before taking AMPYRA tell your doctor if you have
kidney problems.
• Take AMPYRA exactly as prescribed by your doctor.
See "How do I take AMPYRA?"
Stop taking AMPYRA and call your doctor right away
if you have a seizure while taking AMPYRA.
What is AMPYRA?
AMPYRA is a prescription medicine used to help improve walking
in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). This was shown by an
increase in walking speed.
It is not known if AMPYRA is safe or e;ective in children less than
18 years of age.
Who should not take AMPYRA?
Do not take AMPYRA if you:
•have ever had a seizure
•have certain types of kidney problems
What should I tell my doctor before taking AMPYRA?
Before you take AMPYRA, tell your doctor if you:
•have any other medical conditions
•are taking compounded 4-aminopyridine (fampridine, 4-AP)
•are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if
AMPYRA will harm your unborn baby. You and your doctor will
decide if you should take AMPYRA while you are pregnant
•are breast-feeding or plan to breast-feed. It is not known if
AMPYRA passes into your breast milk. You and your doctor
should decide if you will take AMPYRA or breast-feed. You
should not do both.
Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take, including
prescription and non-prescription medicines, vitamins and herbal
supplements. Know the medicines you take.
Keep a list of them and show it to your doctor and pharmacist
when you get a new medicine.
How should I take AMPYRA?
• Take AMPYRA exactly as your doctor tells you to take it.
Do not change your dose of AMPYRA.
• Take one tablet of AMPYRA 2 times each day about 12 hours
apart. Do not take more than 2 tablets of AMPYRA in a
24-hour period.
• Take AMPYRA tablets whole. Do not break, crush, chew or
dissolve AMPYRA tablets before swallowing. If you cannot
swallow AMPYRA tablets whole, tell your doctor.
•AMPYRA is released slowly over time. If the tablet is broken,
the medicine may be released too fast. This can raise your
chance of having a seizure.
•AMPYRA can be taken with or without food.
•If you miss a dose of AMPYRA, do not make up the missed dose.
Do not take 2 doses at the same time. Take your next dose at
your regular scheduled time.
•If you take too much AMPYRA, call your doctor or go to the
nearest hospital emergency room right away.
•Do not take AMPYRA together with other aminopyridine
medications, including compounded 4-AP (sometimes called
4-aminopyridine, fampridine)
What are the possible side e;ects of AMPYRA?
AMPYRA may cause serious side e;ects, including:
•Kidney or bladder infections
See "What is the most important information
I should know about AMPYRA?"
The most common side e;ects of AMPYRA include:
•urinary tract infection
•trouble sleeping (insomnia)
• dizziness
• headache
• nausea
• weakness
•back pain
•problems with balance
•multiple sclerosis relapse
•burning, tingling or itching of your skin
•irritation in your nose and throat
• constipation
• indigestion
•pain in your throat
Tell your doctor if you have any side e;ect that bothers you
or that does not go away.
These are not all the possible side e;ects of AMPYRA. For more
information, ask your doctor or pharmacist.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side e;ects. You may
report side e;ects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
How should I store AMPYRA?
•Store AMPYRA at 59°F to 86°F ( 15°C to 30°C).
•Safely throw away AMPYRA that is out of date or
no longer needed.
Keep AMPYRA and all medicines out of the reach of children.
General Information about the safe and e;ective use of AMPYRA
Medicines are sometimes prescribed for purposes other than
those listed in a Medication Guide. Do not use AMPYRA for a
condition for which it was not prescribed. Do not give AMPYRA
to other people, even if they have the same symptoms that you
have. It may harm them.
This Medication Guide summarizes the most important information
about AMPYRA. If you would like more information, talk with your
doctor. You can ask your pharmacist or doctor for information
about AMPYRA that is written for health professionals.
For more information, go to www.AMPYRA.com or
call 1-800-367-5109.
What are the ingredients in AMPYRA?
Active ingredient: dalfampridine (previously called fampridine)
Inactive ingredients: colloidal silicon dioxide, hydroxypropyl
methylcellulose, magnesium stearate, microcrystalline cellulose,
polyethylene glycol, and titanium dioxide.
Distributed by: Acorda Therapeutics, Inc.
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This Medication Guide has been approved by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration.
AMPYRA® is a registered trademark of Acorda Therapeutics® , Inc.
AMPYRA® is marketed by Acorda Therapeutics® , Inc. and
manufactured under license from Elan Pharma International Ltd.
(EPIL), Ireland, utilizing EPIL's MatriX Drug Absorption System
(MXDAS® ) technology.
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