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Is Your Family Ready for a Dog?by Linday Hutton
The idea of a little ball of fur makes most people's hearts melt, and having a dog can be a wonderful and fulfilling experience. After all, who else will shower you with unconditional love and affection, in good times and in bad? However, owning a dog also comes with many responsibilities. Before you take the plunge, check out this list of things to consider before making the commitment.
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Do you have the time?
Sure, having a furry, four-legged friend greet you at the door after a long day of work sounds wonderful, but having a pet requires a lot of time, too. Do you have the time to walk him at least two or three times a day? Do you have time to play with him? How about training him? Also consider how often you need to feed your new dog. According to the ASPCA, puppies 8-12 weeks old need to eat four times a day, and puppies 3-6 months old need to eat three times a day. Only when your dog reaches his first birthday is it okay to feed him once a day.
All of these things will require a fair amount of time from you. If you have a demanding job, travel a lot, or aren't generally home very often, you may want to reconsider this commitment before making your decision. After all, your dog deserves proper care.
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Fri, 11/09/2012 - 15:48
Cool. How about a short list which functions/parts should be tested especially? You know changes in MLT/Timeline ...
Wed, 11/14/2012 - 09:21
I thought a little bit about how regression testing could look like for a multimedia framework. So far, my only idea is to still do this manually, but at least to write down the individual tests, so thast there is a clear checklist what to check for.
Maybe the kdenlive wiki could be a support tool for the list of regression tests?
Alas, big thanks for your continuing work on kdenlive ... it introduced me to the world of video editing. I'm using kdenlive for all my dive video and dive instruction videos. Really big thanks for the software.
Fri, 11/09/2012 - 23:43
Dude, what you and everyone working on KDENlive do is absolutely awesome! I've used it for my interviews for the openSUSE Conference (a few weeks ago) and darn, kdenlive is just perfect for that. Every improvement just makes it better than perfect ;-)
Keep on hacking, this rocks!
Mon, 11/12/2012 - 18:29
This is really good news! I really appreciate what you do for video editing under Linux.
Thu, 11/15/2012 - 01:01
Thank you very much ! Your work is really great ! You are opening a lot of doors for GNU/Linux users ! Thank you again !
Wed, 11/21/2012 - 10:49
Still waiting for the new version :)
Thu, 11/22/2012 - 15:56
A general plan for future versions support blu-ray?
Sat, 12/01/2012 - 09:35
First, I am very excited for the motion tracking! The potential for enhancing some of the techniques I have developed in Kdenlive for stop motion and timelapse is immense!
Second, Will the 'speed' effect be available on Slideshow clips in this next version?
And finally... Bump to all those previous props! KDENLIVE IS AWESOME! It's tough around the edges, but it's worth it many times over in the end. Thanks to all of you!
Wed, 12/12/2012 - 00:43
Thank you for the work to develop Kdenlive!
There is a new date for the next release of Kdenlive?
Good job
Wed, 12/19/2012 - 04:04
Hats off to JBM and the fellow devs!!
I've been camping out here and building from commit to commit for the last 2 weeks and it is SO great to see so many long running usability issues being solved one by one especially surrounding fades and clunky transport issues, If you guys continue like this I think the next release will be head and shoulders above all previous ones. Thanks for all the attention to the bug reports and keep up the great work!
All hail JBM!!!
Tue, 01/01/2013 - 14:33
"Improved motion tracking: Kdenlive can also now analyse an object's motion, and the result of this can be used as keyframes for a transition or an effect. For example, you can now have a title clip that follows an object"
How do you use this feature?
Tue, 01/08/2013 - 12:07
I am Mageia user and there games Versions freeze for Mageia 3 (this 2013 year release) and it will very disappointing for kdenlive users in Mageia to use one more year 0.9.2 release. :)
Wed, 01/16/2013 - 17:44
hey guys,
any news for the next release? and how about the refactoring?
Mon, 03/18/2013 - 15:43
Kden is the best open source software....!!!
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 08:07
Your work is really great ! You are opening a lot of doors for GNU/Linux users

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I understand this is a may be a very premature question given that the current build is for testing Ubuntu Core, but I have just bought a Nexus7 to join in with this Ubuntu on mobile adventure and can't help wanting to start writing some apps!
I haven't really dabbled with either GTK or QT for touch apps yet and, having seen that Ubuntu TV is using Nux, I wondered what people on AskUbuntu-land would recommend.
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I completely agree, jsmu. I am one of the seeming few who still doesn't get what all the Mearns hoopla is about, and I think Reichlen is one of City Ballet's best (and most underrated). I would love to see Reichlen do Diamonds.


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The Guantanamo "suicides" expose
He joined the Marines as a 19-year-old, in 1983, inspired by the leadership of Ronald Reagan. He excelled as a soldier and served in the Presidential Guard detail. After the September 11 attacks he reenlisted, this time in the National Guard. He was assigned to Camp Delta at Guantanamo, and for his service there he received the Army Commendation Medal. In short, Sgt. Joseph Hickman is the kind of American who ought to be considered a hero by those who regard the military with reverent gratitude and prioritize the defense of the United States above all else. But now that Sgt. Hickman is making headlines, the right hasn't rallied to his side -- and the commanding officer who recommended him for the medal is claiming not to know who he is.That's because Hickman is one of the witnesses Scott Horton interviewed for his devastating Harper's article "The Guantanamo 'Suicides': A Camp Delta Sergeant Blows the Whistle." Here's the setup:
Late in the evening on June 9 [2006], three prisoners at Guantnamo died suddenly and violently. Salah Ahmed Al-Salami, from Yemen, was thirty-seven. Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi, from Saudi Arabia, was thirty. Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani, also from Saudi Arabia, was twenty-two, and had been imprisoned at Guantnamo since he was captured at the age of seventeen. None of the men had been charged with a crime, though all three had been engaged in hunger strikes to protest the conditions of their imprisonment. They were being held in a cell block, known as Alpha Block, reserved for particularly troublesome or high-value prisoners.As news of the deaths emerged the following day, the camp quickly went into lockdown. The authorities ordered nearly all the reporters at Guantnamo to leave and those en route to turn back. The commander at Guantnamo, Rear Admiral Harry Harris, then declared the deaths suicides. ...Now four members of the Military Intelligence unit assigned to guard Camp Delta, including a decorated non-commissioned Army officer who was on duty as sergeant of the guard the night of June 910, have furnished an account dramatically at odds with the NCIS reporta report for which they were neither interviewed nor approached.All four soldiers say they were ordered by their commanding officer not to speak out, and all four soldiers provide evidence that authorities initiated a cover-up within hours of the prisoners deaths. Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman and men under his supervision have disclosed evidence in interviews with Harpers Magazine that strongly suggests that the three prisoners who died on June 9 had been transported to another location prior to their deaths. The guards accounts also reveal the existence of a previously unreported black site at Guantnamo where the deaths, or at least the events that led directly to the deaths, most likely occurred.
You've heard lots about this already if you read certain blogs: Andrew Sullivan's commentary is by now half again as long (here, here, and here) as the article itself, and Glenn Greenwald is on the case too. But you should read the story for yourself -- it's clearly written and as gripping as it is horrifying. Then read Horton's follow-up post about the response so far -- which includes the transparently false "I don't know who Sgt. Hickman is" claim. (And watch his blog for more.)Will the discussion of torture and Guantanamo finally get past the lies about "the worst of the worst" and the fantasy that the only serious issue is whether terrorists have "rights"? After this article, it should; there are no excuses left for looking away. But on the other hand, a new season of 24 just started...
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Mollie Wilson O'Reilly is an editor at large and columnist at Commonweal.
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This little incident is totgeschwiegen in the US media and when it becomes better known will be treated as yesterday's news. What is needed is an outcry, investigations, tribunals etc., but the people of the US have no stomach for that.
But now that Sgt. Hickman is making headlines, the right hasnt rallied to his side . . . Thats because Hickman is one of the witnesses Scott Horton interviewed for his devastating Harpers article Assuming that some might brand me as being "on the right," thanks for explaining why I and others of my ilk haven't rallied to a guy we've never heard of.
Congratulations for missing the ugly story so far. Now that you've heard of it, maybe send the link around and get the rally started?
It seems that Camp No may have been a special place under control of the top-secret CIA -- no one even heard of it until a few days ago. The CIA are the sacred monster of America, above the law. American Presidents cower before it, as Obama is cowering now (somewhat like Schiller's picture of Philip II cowering before the Grand Inquisitor).
The CIA, soldiers, policemen and the like have always commanded deference because they are essentially the protectors of those in power. Further, no one wants anarchy. J.Edgar Hoover is a perfect example. No one could touch him. Caesar knew he had to keep his army happy or he was finished. This is why the pope defended the government over the slain Archbishop Romero. Even today the reason Romero is not beatified is fear of displeasing the powers in South America. We have to keep the spotlight on these injustices. Unfortunately, popes and bishops are not with us. Their tax exempt and favored status are more important.
Mollie:I'm weeping for these poor terrorists. If only we could have Mirandized them, got them O'Melvany & Meyers lawyers (taxpayer paid, of course), maybe some aroma therapy, some ..., well you get the picture. If only...But we'll get these bastards (our guys) in prison yet, see how they like being mistreated, given free bibles, chimes for Matins, etc. We could subject them to true torture, like being forced to listen to Bruce Springsteen, forced to watch the film Redacted, forced to listen to Mollie drone on about the terrible injustices perpetrated on the TTB's (tender terrorist babes). Oh well, we can dream can't we?
Read the article, Bob. We were going to release two of them.
Your point is? My point is, that I want them to be mistreated. I hate these SOB's so much I am willing to mistreat them myself, if only I could arrange it. If they die in the process, hey, it doesn't get any better!
So, just to be clear: even though the Bush administration planned to set these men free, you still think they deserved to die?
Yes. Any other questions Grant?
Yes. Read the article yet?
I find it hard to believe, given President Obama's strong stand against torture, that there isn't more to this story.
"If they die in the process, hey, it doesnt get any better!"Then you should approve of the current President's policy of assassinating these civilians abroad without trial instead of the more objectionable policy of detaining them.
Bob, I take it that you're too angry to read the article. Here is what the article says about one of the men. (I changed the names of men and countries to make it sound less alien.) I understand that you want terrorists mistreated. But you do not want someone who was in Guantanamo by mistake to also be mistreated and killed. Unfortunately, that's what seems to have happened. Returned to Canada was the body of Mike. Orphaned in his youth, Mike grew up in his uncles home in the small town of Saint-Constant. I spoke to one of the many cousins who shared that home, Charlie. Mike, said Charlie, had gone to Baluchistana rural, tribal area that straddles Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistanto do humanitarian work, and someone there had sold him to the Americans for $5,000. He said that Mike was a peaceful man who would harm no one. Indeed, U.S. authorities had decided to release Mike and return him to Canada. When he died, he was just a few weeks shy of his transfer.
Bob,Two Points. First these men, by all acounts, are innocent. Second, there is not hating in Christianity. Otherwise Jesus would have taken over the Roman government. You have said that you agree with the lesson of the Good Samaritan story. This is a perfect example where it can be applied. Love your enemies is a command. Not an option.
I have good news for Bob: as a free man and not an inmate in one of his imaginary prisons-for-patriots, he is not forced to listen to me or anyone else's inconvenient "facts." Bob, I hereby discharge you of any further duty to comment on this matter. We get it.
"Then you should approve of the current Presidents policy of assassinating these civilians abroad without trial instead of the more objectionable policy of detaining them."Perhaps I spoke too soon. I was out of the country last week and didn't notice that even the ACLU is starting to realize that they should perhaps think about dropping the pretense that "targeted killings" are not war crimes. http://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-requests-information-predator...
More commentary worth reading, from Conor Friedersdorf:
The Obama administration is to be commended for ending the torture of detainees. But President Obama is derelict in his oath to protect and defend the Constitution if he refrains from aggressively investigating cases like the Gitmo Three, and prosecuting any significant illegal acts. Equally bound by the Constitution of the United States are members of the Republican opposition. I happen to agree with them that the Democratic domestic agenda imprudently seeks to concentrate too much power in the federal government. But the GOP doesnt deserve to control any branch of government so long as its members defend or ignore illegal, immoral acts that weakened our armed forces and disgraced our intelligence agencies the last time they held power (including years long after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacksremember that the Gitmo Three did not die until 2006).
Mollie, I thought you'd probably want to know that the piece by Horton--"who happens to be human-rights attorney rather than a journalist"--should not be believed because it suggests a conspiracy that, wait for it, the government is too inept to pull off. Now that is small-government conservatism.http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/01/21/on-the-shamefu...
Thanks for the heads-up! Phew. And here I thought the government's motives to lie/conceal the truth, even across administrations, were utterly obvious. I'm especially glad to be alerted to the fact that Horton "happens to be a human-rights lawyer rather than a journalist." Here I was thinking that legal expertise made him more credible on the subject of the law. (And that the two were not mutually exclusive.)
I'd like to recommend Christianity to Bob Schwartz and anyone who agrees with his statements above about executing innocent people and hating our enemies. :) As Bill Mazzella mentions, Christians are taught by Jesus to love their enemies. It's a tough religion, not for the faint of heart. This teaching of Jesus on loving enemies is definitely hard. But the Spirit helps us in our weakness.To get you started, here is a wonderful essay by Chris Scharen about praying for our enemies. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share it with dotCommonweal readers.http://www.praytellblog.com/index.php/2010/01/18/on-praying-for-enemies/
" But the GOP doesnt deserve to control any branch of government so long as its members defend or ignore illegal, immoral acts that weakened our armed forces and disgraced our intelligence agencies the last time they held power (including years long after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacksremember that the Gitmo Three did not die until 2006)."I couldn't agree more. I will wait with baited breath while the non-partisan Mr. Friedersdorf pushes to end this President's actions in Yemen, Pakistan, and elsewhere, because surely he is not ignoring or defending the practice of intentional extrajudicial killings of alien civilians.
And also check out Dahlia Lithwick at Slate.
The fact that three Guantanamo prisonersnone of whom had any links to terrorism and two of whom had already been cleared for releasemay have been killed there and the deaths covered up, should be front-page news. That brand-new evidence of this possible atrocity from military guards was given only the most cursory investigation by the Obama administration should warrant some kind of blowback. But changing what we allow ourselves to believe about torture would change the way we have reconciled ourselves to torture. Nobody in this country is prepared to do that. So we have opted to ignore it.
What's the motive for the alleged killers to leave the prisoners' hands tied (just so as to make Horton's job easier?) And expound a bit more about why Obama would cover this up?


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Pretending to protect the environment, while making the rest of us suffer into paying higher taxes. And making sure our jobs are outsourced overseas mainly into China and India.
EPA, Employment Prevention Agency
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i need to go see Marquita in Epa.
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Juxtaposed to the affluent ignorance of Palo Alto, and permenantly located in the REAL WORLD, East Palo Alto is home to blunts, bitches, boughties, and biffs. Also the home of the greatest deal on earth, Two-fo-da-bideen ro. Kavanaugh,
I dont know about no president with no dog, ro. Goin to war n shit in Iraq ro. I dont know. I be Fightin my wo, every damn day, on the streets of EPA.
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The EPA sets safeguards to protect human health and the natural environment.
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My wife is gone for the weekend and I need to find me an E.P.A. to keep me company at night.
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The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz began the Cabinet session at Al-Yamamah palace in Riyadh today with a briefing on his latest contacts with foreign leaders, including meetings with Yemeni Prime Minister Mohammed Salim BaSindwah; British Prime Minister David Cameron; and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and messages exchanged with Spanish King Juan Carlos and U.S. President Barack Obama.
After reviewing a number of reports on regional events, the Cabinet condemned the continuation of racist Israeli practices against the Palestinian people. It specifically decried the construction of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, as well as the attacks that have taken place against mosques.
Next, the Cabinet expressed appreciation for the United Nations, which recently thanked the Kingdom for its partnership with the World Food Program (WFP) and its leading role in aiding the hungry in disaster-hit areas around the world. A photo exhibition was organized by the U.N. in Geneva reflecting five decades of partnership between Saudi Arabia and the WFP.
Turning to domestic events, the Cabinet reviewed the scientific, economic, environmental and cultural activities held over the past week in several Saudi cities. The ministers also hailed the signing of a 3.815 billion [$1.017 billion] contract for the implementation of the second phase of the Haramain High-Speed Train, one of the most important transportation projects in the Kingdom.
Addressing its remaining agenda items, the Cabinet instructed that Paragraph 1 of its decision No. 6 of 19/11/1401 H., regarding the cash allowances provided to officers, be amended; approved the restructuring of the Military Service Council; directed that the "Ministry of Defense, Aviation and General Inspection" be renamed the "Ministry of Defense;" mandated that the Presidency of Meteorology and Protection of the Environment report to the Prime Minister; and approved several appointments to the Board of Directors of the Saudi Development Fund (SDF).
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In 2010 the Pentaho EMEA channel revenue grew by 285%, the number of EMEA partners doubled and we held 114 events with EMEA Partners. Wow! You may be asking yourself, 'How is it possible to experience such growth and find time to hold 100+ events?' Two answers: first, this growth is a result of our hard working EMEA partners creating success with their impressive customers such as: BNOVA (Infocamere, Coopservice); PortaBI (Telefonica, Banco Santandar), Conduct (Aspiro Music, TV2), Millersoft (Air Menzies, Regenesis, Badoo), Linalis (Swissport). The second reason for success is the backbone of the EMEA Channels team, Pentaho EMEA Channels account manager, Sharmila Wijeyakumar (known to her friends as Sam).
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Let's say that I'm integrating a composite function, say $f(g(x))$, that is in a form to which I can apply the substitution rule. Is it true to say that both $f$ and $g$ must be differentiable?
I understand that the substitution rule requires $g$ to be differentiable and that the substitution rule relies on the chain rule, and the chain rule requires both f and g to be differentiable.


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Lewis Andrews: SmartTowns.org Helps Local Governments . . . and Residents
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A taxpayer group in Connecticut has created a great new Web site that presents practices that are helping school districts, cities, villages and other local governments around the country control spending while providing services. The taxpayer group's president and SmartTowns.org editor disusses the site and how it can help local officials and residents.


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6 Ironic Coincidences Behind the Scenes of Famous Movies
Some movies seem to be cursed, while others merely predict the future with creepy accuracy. But then you have the films below, which feature grossly unlikely yet hugely ironic coincidences. What do we mean by that? Well ...
#6. Troy -- Brad Pitt Injures His Achilles Tendon While Playing Achilles
If you didn't pay attention in biology class and don't follow sports injuries, the Achilles tendon is the thick tendon at the back of your ankle that connects your heel to your calf. It was named after the hero of Greek mythology, because according to legend, that spot was the only vulnerable part of Achilles' body. He eventually dies from taking a wound there (which of course is why we refer to a fatal weakness as somebody's "Achilles' heel").
Now, some of you who missed that whole story in school are still familiar with it, thanks to the movie Troy, where a well-oiled Brad Pitt played the role of Achilles.
His abs received an executive producer credit.
About three-quarters of the way through the film, Pitt's Achilles faces off against the noble Hector, played by Eric Bana, and kills him while his entire family watches, dragging Hector's corpse around the walls of the city just in case any of them missed it (Achilles was a bit of a dick). However, while filming the scene, the fight did not go nearly as well for Pitt: While performing a difficult jumping strike against Bana directly into his raised shield, Pitt landed awkwardly and injured his leg.
Pitt's most awkward scene not involving his accent.
Or, more specifically, he fucking tore his Achilles tendon.
The only area of Achilles' body that was vulnerable, according to myth, and consequently the only part of the human anatomy that bears his name, was the one area on Brad Pitt's entire body to sustain injury while playing Achilles in a movie. Yes, it turns out the Greek gods are real, and they mock us.
It wasn't a particularly light injury, either. The filming of some scenes in the movie had to be delayed for a couple of months because Pitt could only sort of hobble around, which greatly inhibited his ability to run around trolling the people of Troy. When filming did restart, they celebrated Pitt's recovery by shooting the scene where Legolas lances an arrow through Achilles' eponymous heel, in the precise location of Pitt's injury.
Jennifer Aniston has a voodoo doll exactly like this.
#5. Tropic Thunder -- Robert Downey Jr. Receives an Oscar Nomination by Playing an Oscar Winner
Tropic Thunder is one of those movies that on paper has the potential to be the worst thing ever made ("It has Tom Cruise in a fat suit, Robert Downey Jr. in blackface, Ben Stiller AND Jack Black!"), but somehow it all works. Indisputably, the best part of the movie is Robert Downey Jr.'s character, Kirk Lazarus, who is an actor who only takes movie roles that will get him an Oscar.
In other words, Bizarro-Cage.
In the film, Lazarus is an insufferable Method actor, famous for committing completely to whatever role he's currently undertaking. For Tropic Thunder (the film within the film), Lazarus undergoes pigment-darkening plastic surgery to play a black character, because as we have discussed before, physical transformations are Oscar gold (particularly for attractive women who either put on ugly makeup or have sex with Billy Bob Thornton). Kirk Lazarus' Oscar baiting is made so unbelievably self-indulgent and ridiculous that he is almost a cartoon character, a pretentious ball of buffoonery who doesn't realize how absurd he is. Hollywood, characteristically failing to get the joke, nominated Robert Downey Jr. for the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award in 2009 for his performance.
That's right, Robert Downey Jr. was given an Oscar nomination for playing an actor shamelessly trying to win an Oscar. He might have even had a chance at winning, too, if it hadn't been the year that Heath Ledger won every award ever for The Dark Knight.
"... and if he were here, Heath would tell you how honored he is to join such greats like Roberta Goldman and Andrea Grabowski!"
Downey Jr.'s nomination becomes even more impressive when you consider how infrequently comedies get nominated for Academy Awards. In fact, since 2000, there have been 55 nominees for Best Supporting Actor, and only one other was for an actor in a full-fledged comedy (Adaptation). To be fair, none of those movies had posters like this one:
We know some may find this poster offensive, but we couldn't find one where he wasn't smoking.
It may be that the academy was totally on board and was delivering the smartest meta-joke punchline in the history of the world, but Jack Palance's Best Supporting Actor award for City Slickers begs to differ.
#4. Singin' in the Rain -- A Lip-Syncing Scandal in the Film and Real Life
Although it was made in the 1950s, Singin' in the Rain is actually set in the 1920s, during the period when silent movies were transitioning into "talkies," i.e., movies with prerecorded sound. In the movie we find out that Lina Lamont, a famous silent film actress, has a speaking and singing voice so terrible, it ranks somewhere between Macy Gray strangling out an orgasm with autoerotic asphyxiation and Macy Gray having that same orgasm while killing RoboCop with a chainsaw.
Instead of giving their top actress the boot, the studio hires an unknown actress named Kathy Selden to dub Lina's voice. Lina refuses to let Kathy get any recognition and keeps her behind the scenes, taking all the singing credit for herself. As you may expect, the studio's ruse is eventually found out, Lina never makes movies again and Kathy becomes a star and happily hooks up with the leading man.
And Carrie Fisher is conceived in a tap-dancing three-way.
Those bastardly movie producers sure got what they deserved, you may be thinking. Who could actually take advantage of some poor struggling actress like that? The answer is the producers of Singin' in the Rain.
"Hey, y'know the whole cautionary tale behind the story we're telling? Let's ignore the shit out of that."
Despite the movie's message of "Do your own goddamn singing," Debbie Reynolds, who plays the heroine Kathy Selden, doesn't actually sing several of her own songs. At least two of them (perhaps more) were really performed by an actress named Betty Noyes. And, just like in the movie, the studio wasn't eager to fess up to the fact that they'd used an unknown singer to dub songs for the famous actress they'd hired to play an unknown singer who dubs songs for a famous actress. As a result, for a long time, Noyes went uncredited.
Pictured here in what's apparently the most pointless headshot of all time.
Unlike the movie character Kathy Selden, Noyes did not skyrocket to fame and fortune, but did lead an illustrious career performing in half a dozen big budget movies ... in which she was almost never credited.
Though hopefully the execution of their ruse was somewhat more subtle than this.


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I believe it is time for a third party that actually tries to resolve some of the problems facing this great country that the two current parties won't get together and try to resolve.
As I talk to people, they are against one candidate or the other, but I don't hear them talk for one or the other. If we meld the two platforms together, or at least have a compromise, I believe some of our problems could be resolved.
The economy in the valley - I'm using the valley as an example because that is where I live - comes down to two main industries - coal and steel, with gas and oil drilling being a third.
The coal industry is taking a hit because the EPA has overstepped the boundaries set forth when it was formed under the Nixon administration. I want our planet to be clean and livable for generations to come, but until our renewable energy resources are in place, we are killing large numbers of jobs.
The steel industry might be beating a dead horse, but it all comes down to an unfair playing field. Our government stood by and watched other countries subsidize and even own foreign steel companies that undercut our companies without doing the same for our steel companies. This too cost many jobs.
The oil and gas is still up in the air because we don't know the long-term effects this will have on the earth.
I have had the great unpleasure of shopping for health insurance for the hourly employees where I work. Presently our family plan costs approximately $1,600 per month. This is paid in part by both the company and myself. This is ridiculous. I know that Obamacare might not be the answer, but at least there was an effort made to get everyone on insurance and to lower costs. We need to keep working on finding a solution with both parties working toward a common goal that is good for the people. I could go on and on, but we're not going to solve the world's problems with a letter. The main problem is that our politicians are looking over their shoulders and seeing their political party instead of seeing their constituents.
Let's start a third party that works toward logical answers and for the people.
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The France international believes the veteran Paris Saint-Germain star still has the class he always possessed and will be a good addition to Ligue 1Olympique de Marseille midfielder Mathieu Valbuena has hailed England legend David Beckham after his first appearance for Paris Saint-Germain.
The veteran midfielder made a brief cameo during Sunday's Classique, and the France international was impressed with his technique and vision during Carlo Ancelotti's side's 2-0 win.
"Beckham is class. I think he has always kept his technique, his beautiful passes. He is a great player and he has not lost his technique. I think he will bring a lot to PSG," the 28-year-old told reporters.
"But I also think he will bring a lot humanely, whether on and off the pitch. I think this is important and good for the Ligue 1."
Carlo Ancelotti's side currently hold a three-point advantage over Olympique Lyonnais in the Ligue 1 title race.


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I have an existing installation with a swap partition, and I want to boot a Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop LiveCD without using the swap partition. I want to avoid using the swap partition so that I can resize it and other partitions.
If you're using an Ubuntu Live CD, you can disable the use of the swap partition trough the Partition Editor (GParted) by right-clicking the swap partition, and selecting swapoff.
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Taste Buds: The Grindhouse Coffee & Tea Co.
Business relocates to Wheeling, impresses Buds
September 26, 2013
Late last week, the Buds finally had a chance to drop in on owner A.J. Zambito and the Grindhouse Coffee & Tea Co. at their new location in Elm Grove....
Amen to the truth, Irishfan!!! You hit the nail on the head. The sad part is, probably no one even reads these comments.
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I am sick and tired of reading glowing reviews for EVERY SINGLE RESTAURANT YOU REVIEW. There are truly only a handful of great eateries in the Ohio Valley. I seriously hope the Editor of this newspaper realizes that his restaurant reviewers have NO credibility with their readers simply due to the fact that they are not providing TRUE reviews. This is one example of why this newspaper has no credibility and few readers. Typos gallore, poorly written articles, serious lack of investigative journalism and a fear of being downright honest.
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Just like the Times Leader reporters. Can't get the facts straight with the truth!!!
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CONT' I told the BUDS that if they cant be honest with the reviews, than they may want to stop what they are doing.Yeah, i tried a few of their so called good places to eat..Would have done better eating out of a garbage can.They told my friend they didnt want to give a BAD comment on the food the try, because they didnt want to hurt the OWNERS feelings.Gee, i have an idea,, GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS...
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I think the Buds need to sit down and think o some of the recent criticism they have encountered. You ar elosing credibility with your readers because you give a glowing report on every dish and establishment you review. Come on---service, food, and service is never always perfect. That sandwich picture clearly shows the bread to be burnt and yet that was never mentioned. No reveal was made of prices and in today's economy that is a large part of my decision to try a new place. I think if you want your opinions to be respected you need to start being more realistic and honest.
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P.S.. Did you ever notice that when they DONT put a price in the articles, that you better hold on to your wallet.
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UUUMMMM Nothing like a SOGGY tomato, lettuce sandwich.Cant wait to go there and WASTE my money..
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Their photos are jut like their reviews, stupid and unappealing.
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I am curious to know if the establishments that "The Buds" visit know they are there to be reviewed? Some of the pictures of the food are just not that appealing looking. The tomatoes in the pictures with this article look mushy and the bread to totally burnt on the other sandwich. Although I will admit the combos of some of the sandwiches sound tasty - if i was served that sandwich with bread that burnt it would be sent back.
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Total Safety, a global company focused on integrated industrial safety services, awards its Safety Innovation Award to companies that cutting-edge advancements in areas of safety.
Western Refining's 128,000 bpd refinery in El Paso, Texas, is
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CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Career and Technical Education
COURSE TITLE: Intro to Electron A
COURSE LENGTH: 9 weeks
Major Concepts/Content: The introduction to electronics course is designed to acquaint students with the types and levels of work in power and energy occupations. This course will assist students in making informed and meaningful occupation and educational choices. The content includes, but is not limited to, the history of electrical power, basic electrical theory and circuits, using tools and materials, energy sources and conversion methods, and career opportunities in the field of power and energy.
Major Instructional Activities: Instructional activities are provided in the laboratory setting, using hands-on experiences with tools, equipment, and materials related to course content. Students will construct projects and perform laboratory experiments related to creating electricity from heat, friction, light, pressure, and chemical action; identify electrical components, measuring electricity, utilizing magnetism, discovering how electrical devices work, and practicing electrical precautions. Students will investigate content-related occupations, make visits to information centers, museums, and electronic-related industries, present ideas and information orally and in writing, and assume leadership roles and work cooperatively within the classroom setting.
Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be required to pass laboratory safety, content, and process tests. Constructed projects will be compared to plans and evaluated. Written and oral reports will be evaluated for content and form. Class participation will be evaluated utilizing areas such as works conscientiously on projects, uses materials and tools properly, conscientiously assists others, works independently, offers solutions to problems, and completes projects.
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As the title says, do you know any effective ways of escaping the trap of thinking about a problem only in the terms of the first idea/solution that came up?
I have encountered this issue both in my research and programming work. I usually try to get beyond any first idea by further researching the topic I am working on, but I found that any next ideas are in someway still related to the first one, which biases my train of thought.


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Turkey Blames Syria for Deadly Car Bombs
Ankara Says Groups Tied to Damascus Killed 46 People, While Syria Denies Involvement; Erdogan to Visit Obama Over War
REYHANLI, Turkey—Turkey on Sunday blamed groups connected to Syria's intelligence service for two car bombings that killed at least 46 people in a Turkish border town a day earlier.
Turkish officials said Sunday that security services had arrested nine people, all Turkish citizens, including the alleged mastermind, after two car bombs ripped through Reyhanli, a small town close to Syria. Syria denied any involvement in the bombings.
Turkey's interior minister, Muammer Guler, said an investigation showed that the huge blasts—which damaged almost 500 shops, 300 homes and 60 vehicles—were carried out by a "terrorist organization in close contact with Syria's intelligence agency."
The government didn't immediately publish evidence that showed Syrian involvement, although Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said a number of the suspects had confessed links to Syrian intelligence services.
Ankara said the blasts were an attempt by Damascus to sow discord and destabilize Turkey.
Saturday's bombings marked one of the most deadly terror attacks ever in Turkey, a country whose conflict with Kurdish separatists has claimed 40,000 lives in the last two decades.
The incident came as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan prepares to meet President Barack Obama in Washington on Thursday for talks on Syria amid renewed hope for a diplomatic push to end its war after Moscow and Washington announced a joint effort to bring the government and rebels to an international conference.
The bombings, which caused an outpouring of grief across Turkey on Sunday, also spotlight the challenge Ankara faces as it seeks to bolster international action to topple President Bashar al-Assad's regime while avoiding a spillover that could destabilize the country's own delicate ethnic mix.
Amid calls to respond to the attacks, Turkey's leaders vowed to punish those responsible but also called for restraint. In comments that seemed to underline at the dangers of a unilateral military response and the potential for interethnic clashes inside Turkey, Mr. Erdogan warned against being sucked into Syria's civil war.
"We have to be extremely calm against all kinds of provocations that are trying to pull us into the swamp in Syria," Mr. Erdogan said in Istanbul.
In Damascus, Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi rejected Turkey's allegations, saying the bombs weren't the behavior of the Syrian government and that "no one has the right to make false accusations." Labeling Ankara a "terrorist Turkish government," he blamed it for bringing foreign fighters, weapons and funds into Syria across the countries' shared border.
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the news showed it was time for the international community to "define a joint stance" against Mr. Assad's regime, without elaborating on what such a stance would entail.
Analysts said the pressure for Ankara to respond militarily if a connection to Damascus was proved was tempered by a lack of compelling military options and the domestic unpopularity of Turkey's Syria policy.
Ankara has tried not to escalate tensions over the past year in response to events that have included the deaths of Turkish citizens in cross-border artillery fire, a car bomb in February that killed 14 people on the border and the shooting down of a Turkish jet by Syrian antiaircraft guns.
There was little sign on Sunday that Ankara was considering a military retaliation comparable to Israel's strikes on Syria in recent weeks.
"There is now an expectation that the government will be able to show that it is ready to retaliate, but that is obviously a very difficult path given that there is very little that the government can do that it is not doing already," said Sinan Ulgen, a former Turkish diplomat now at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Turkey, which shares a 565-mile border with Syria, has been a crucial supporter of the Syrian rebel cause and Ankara has allowed its territory to be used as a logistics base and staging center for Syrian insurgents.
The U.S. and other Western powers are reluctant to intervene directly and Turkey has sought to avoid a full conflict with Damascus, but many analysts have repeatedly warned that Syria's war could increasingly impact neighboring territory.
In the town of Reyhanli on Sunday, locals were struggling to come to terms with the scale of the attack. Groups of residents loitered around the detritus of the bombs, which ripped through buildings along the town's main thoroughfare and carved craters in the concrete. Officials said the death country may still rise.
Following the blast residents had attacked Syrian refugees and cars with Syrian number plates after the attacks, witnesses said. Additional security forces were brought from different parts of Turkey to keep the peace as groups of young men roamed the town's main thoroughfare looking for Syrian nationals.
As the town buried their dead on Sunday, anger against Syrian refugees who had moved to the town in thousands was palpable, with hundreds of residents gathering to protest and calling for Syrians to be ejected from the town.
One woman, who earlier Sunday buried a brother-in-law killed in the blast, blamed Turkey's prime minister for bringing Syrians to Reyhanli and demanded they leave the town. "I don't want this government, I don't want Syrians here. Why weren't they taken somewhere further? They're among us," said the woman, who identified herself as Figen. "We are tired of seeing Syrian fighters, it was the rebels who caused this," added a male relative, angrily.
Reyhanli is situated in a region of southern Turkey inhabited by both Turkish Sunnis and members of the Shiite-linked Alawite sect of Mr. Assad. The communities have cohabited peacefully for the last three decades, but the intensification of the Syrian civil war has put strains on that coexistence. Turkish officials have moved some Syrian refugees, most of them Sunni Muslims, away from Alawite-inhabited areas in Hatay. Syrians who opted to stay in the town on Sunday kept a low profile: one group of Syrian men said they would cross into Syria once Turkey reopened the border gate.
"For two, three days we will do our best to avoid Reyhanli residents and keep out of sight," said Bilal Abu Daher, a refugee from the outskirts of Damascus.
—Sam Dagher contributed to this article.
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If I buy a food-utensil from a gentile to give as a gift to a Jew, can I tovel it before giving it to him, or must he do it himself as the final intended owner? Is there a difference between glass and metal in this regard?
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Tevilath Kelim (by R. Zvi Cohen) 8:6 says that you shouldn't immerse it. In the footnote there he cites Mekor Chaim 14, who says that this is because the giver didn't buy the utensil with the intent to use it for food preparation.
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Since I used zucchini, green pepper, and chives from my garden, this seemed like a perfect entry for Grow Your Own, which is celebrating the one year anniversary this month! Grow Your Own is sponsored by Andrea's Recipes, and also hosted by Andrea for the Anniversary edition. I really enjoyed meeting Andrea at the BlogHer conference this July. If you'd like to help her celebrate the anniversary, here are details about how to enter.
Since I have a pan with a heat-proof handle, and a great gas broiler that seems made for this use, I always like to put the frittata under the broiler and brown the top, but this is completely optional.
Garden Veggie Frittata with Chives and Parmesan
(Makes 6 servings, recipe created by Kalyn)
8 eggs, well beaten
1 T olive oil (more or less, depending on your pan)
3 cups chopped garden veggies (I used zucchini, green bell pepper, and about 1/2 an onion)
1 tsp. Spike Seasoning (or use any seasoning mix that goes well with vegetables)
Fresh ground pepper to taste
2 T chopped chives, plus more for garnish if desired
1/2 cup (not packed) coarsely grated parmesan cheese
Preheat broiler if you're planning to brown the top of the frittata.
Serve hot, sprinkled with chopped chives if desired.
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More Delicious Frittatas with Vegetables:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Mushroom-Lover's Frittata with Spinach and Cheese
Artichoke Rosemary Frittata
Zucchini Ricotta Frittata from Simply Recipes
Roasted Vegetable Frittata from Karina's Kitchen
Asparagus Frittata from Rookie Cookery
Nan's Potato, Pepper, and Onion Frittata from Food Blogga
Zucchini Frittata from Swirling Notions
Frittata with Tuscan Kale from Lucullian Delights
Frittata Ring with Broccoli from The Perfect Pantry
Zucchini and Fennel Frittata from What's For Lunch Honey
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I am trying to do a UI that show a photo (or box) being selected and tagged. For example:
Original Url: http://www.webdesignserved.com/gallery/Canal-180/3012199
As you seem, the photos there were selected in green border with the triangle on top right. Here is the problem:
I want to show something in the triangle that is dynamic. Basically, I want to show numbers in that little triangle.
If the number is 0-9, it's OK. But if it goes larger to 2 digits such as 55, it doesn't fit the triangle.
I don't want to make smaller font for 2 digits number
I could make the triangle to be square or rectangle. But that kind of UI seems "weird". Is there any good suggestion? What have you seen in other websites?


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Consider a real valued function g on an open interval $(a,b)$ which is the derivative of a function continuous on $[a,b]$ at each point of $(a,b)$. The function $g$ has the intermediate value property, so a monotone $g$ will have to be continuous, a general $g$ cannot have simple discontinuities, etc. With such constraints how badly can a derivative behave in terms of continuity, can it get much worse than the derivative of say, $x^2 \sin(1/x) $?
Talking about how bad may be the derivative of an everywhere derivable function on the interval [a,b], the natural example that occurs to my mind is: a Pompeiu derivative, that is, a derivative that vanishes in a dense set (these weird functions, however, constitue a closed linear space of $C^0[a,b]$, while it's not even obvious that they are closed wrto addition!). For an account on the subject you may refer e.g. to the above quoted book by Andrew M. Bruckner Differentiation of real functions: it's also in the CRM series now (here is a preview: http://books.google.it/books?id=fXfEG-F2zJUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_book_other_versions#v=onepage&q&f=false)
For a quick reference, you may also have a look to the wiki article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeiu_derivative (it's me who wrote it ;-) )
Of course every continuous function is a derivative, so your question seems like it could be reinterpreted as the characterization problem for derivatives: that is, give "nice" necessary and sufficient conditions on a function $f: [a,b] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ for it to be the derivative of some other function (one-sided, at the endpoints).
As others have pointed out, any derivative must be a Darboux function -- i.e., satisfy the conclusion of the Intermediate Value Theorem -- and also a Baire class one function -- i.e., a pointwise limit of continuous functions. The latter implies that the set of discontinuities is meager. A lot of work has been done seeking to understand "how much bigger" the class of Darboux, Baire Class 1 functions is than the class of derivatives.
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Derivatives are like continuous functions in that both have the intermediate value property, but they need not have the extreme value property. Gelbaum and Olmstead, Counterexamples in Analysis, gives as example 3.7 the function $$ f(x) = \begin{cases} x^4 e^{-\frac{1}{4}x^2}\sin\frac{8}{x^3}, & x \ne 0 \\ 0, & x=0 \end{cases} $$ for which $f'$ exists everywhere, but does not achieve its supremum on the compact interval $[-1,1]$.
On the other hand, a derivative cannot have too many discontinuities. Lars Olsen at http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=281579&tstart=0 points out that a derivative is a pointwise limit of the continuous functions and hence of Baire class at most 1, and therefore its set of discontinuities is meager (in particular, has dense complement).
I think it can. In particular, Wikipedia's antiderivative page seems to imply that, for any meagre $F_\sigma$ subset of an open interval, one can construct a function whose derivative is discontinuous on that subset. It also gives some examples.
In Y. Katznelson and K. Stromberg's paper "Everywhere differentiable, nowhere monotone, functions," Amer. Math. Monthly 81 (1974), no. 4, 349–354, there is a construction, based on somewhat similar ideas to those described in Majer's above mentioned article, whereby for any two disjoint countable sets $A, B \subset \mathbb{R}$ there exists a differentiable function whose derivative equals $1$ on $A$ and is less than $1$ on $B$. So if $A$ and $B$ are both dense in $\mathbb{R}$ then this derivative must be discontinuous at every point of $B$.


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Hi Folks: I am experiencing extreme frustration trying to hear AO-51 Let me describe my setup which, I realize is not great for satellite work (which is why I'm only trying to hear the blasted thing) Radio - IC706MKII Antenna 5/8 wave Bottom loaded groundplane at about 15 feet the only pre-amp I have is the one in the radio, and the COAX is basic RG -8 i think I have been trying off and on to hear AO51 -- even just a gradual slight silencing of the static would make me happy just to know I can hear it. I mean guys are working the thing with HT's and Rubber duckies without any trouble, and I used to use the same antenna to listen to UO 14 on my vx5R. Last Night about 9:30 or quarter to 10 -- I dont have my numbers in front of me, I was listening from 435.290 to 435.310 during a 69 degree pass here in the cleveland area and I heard nothing. My keps are only about 2 days old, I use nova and just had it do an automatic download from whereever it defaults to to get them (celestrack I think). I didnt see anything on the schedule page about the spacecraft being off. I really dont know where the problme is. I had just used the radio and antenna system earlier in the night for a net, so I know that its all good. Please throw some suggestions out here, I know I really dont have a prayer of making it into the spacecraft without el-az antennas and true full duplex, but I would think that I should be able to at least here some of the downlink from it. Thanks TIM W8TAH ---- Sent via firstname.lastname@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe amsat-bb" to email@example.com
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Just installed Ubuntu 11.10 yesterday (Feb19) and I have noticed that Banshee will not play MP3's at all.
The Ubuntu Restricted file will not install either.....something about not being in my software sources. A few people have recommended this file to me, however, it's not available to install.
Seems to me that it shouldn't be this difficult to get MP3's working in this age!


text: I'm with you on the saturated fat thing. I have read many of your posts all over these boards and I admire your style. You post a lot of information from published scientific studies that are relevent to each thread topic. I know there have been studies that show that saturated fat may not be so bad after all....yet somehow, people go overboard and start suggesting that saturated fat is all you should consume and all other fats are poison or a waste of time! For example, some say don't eat nuts because they contain deadly n-6 PUFA and will throw off the all important n-6/n-3 ratio. However, what they fail to realize is that the oil, as it naturally occurs in the nuts, is not the same as the canola, corn, and peanut oil you buy off the shelf at the grocery store! True, those oils are very bad for your health; they are extracted with harsh solvents, deodorized, bleached, and bottled...and already rancid before you even open the bottle. Even so-called healthy oils like walnut oil, almond oil, etc. that are processed and bottled in a healthy way are bad news because they are so delicate and go rancind so quickly when exposed to air and light. However, when you eat the nuts themselves, right out of the shell, they are very healthy. The nut shell and the meat of the nut itself protects it from rancidity. All of these studies showing ill effects from skewing the n-6/n-3 ratio are done using extacted and denatured oils, NOT by feeding nuts and seeds as they naturally occur! And most of the so-called deadly PUFA in the modern Western diet come from these nasty oils and hydrogenated vegetable fats. I used to work at a bakery and made cake frosting daily. It consisted of a 50 lb. bag of powdered sugar, flavoring, and a 50lb. block of hydrogenated soybean shortening...on the box it said "All natural, no cholesterol"....what a joke! It was a big gob of poison!


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My guess is that my homebrew will be done fermenting while I am out of town. Is there any harmful effects if I don't bottle it until a few days after the fermentation process stops?
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Most "conventional" homebrewing literature has you moving beer way to soon, IMO. You can almost never go wrong waiting longer. You can easily wait a month or more for beer in the fermenter without harm.
As long as your beer hasn't been contaminated with bacteria (which won't happen if it's sealed), there is absolutely no harm in bottling it late. In fact, some (specialty) beers are aged after fermentation and before bottling (e.g. in oak barrels). Nothing changes about bottling--you still add the same amount of priming sugar, for example, and it will still need just as long to age in the bottle before drinking.
UPDATE: After seeing the comment regarding contamination, and researching some more, I believe I agree that my off flavor must be due to wild yeast contamination. My downfall must have been a combination of weak yeast pitched directly from packet without starter and plastic PET carboys with liquid fermlocks that probably either went dry or sucked water back in, contaminating the brew.
There's a lot of information, and people discussing multiple factors regarding this, and I don't know enough of the science to speak to that.
In my experience of 3 years and roughly 30 all-grain brews, I have never, until my last 20 gallons, failed to bottle at about 2 weeks, give or take a few days. My last batch was bottled at a little over 4 weeks, and had a flavor my friends and I now refer to as band-aid flavor, and we've come to expect this from the 3 or so brews we have allowed to sit that long in primary fermentation.
This off flavor mellowed with time, but contributed to my two least favorite brews in my time brewing. The total was 10 gallons pale ale, 10 gallons Belgian strong, both recipes I had brewed before.
I can't defend all the reasons, but in my circle of brewers, we avoid going much more than 2 weeks in primary, all things being equal.


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Arizona eliminates health insurance for 357,000
The NYT reported last Thursday that Arizona--facing a large budget deficit--is the first state to completely eliminate its Children's Health Insurance Program, eliminating coverage for 47,000 low income children. The state will also roll back Medicaid coverage for childless adults, which will eliminate health insurance for 310,000.
State leaders said they were left with few choices because of a $2.6 billion projected shortfall next year. But hospital officials and advocates for low-income people said they were worried that emergency rooms would be overrun by patients who had few other options for care, and that children might suffer enduring developmental problems because of inadequate medical attention.
The cuts also mean the state will forgo hundreds of millions of dollars in federal matching aid, and could lose far more if Congress passes a health bill that requires states to maintain eligibility levels for the two programs.
Ms. Brewer, a Republican, has warned that more cuts will be needed if voters do not approve a referendum in May to raise the sales tax by a penny for three years, to 6.6 cents per dollar.
I don't think Arizona will be the last state to do this. The fiscal situation facing the states--including my home state of California--is dire.
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FLASH -- CNN reports that the Democrats in the House will vote straight up and down on the Health Care Bill. Deem and pass is out the window.
The for eligibility for CHIP was raised when Michigan fell on hard times, and I presume it keeps getting raised as more people lose their insurance to unemployment and the COBRA runs out. One of the provisions of current health bill that I understand will kick in pretty quickly if the bill passes is that companies can't turn down kids with pre-existing conditions.That's good news, sorta. However, in the current landscape, insurance for your child alone is just about impossible to procure; you have to add your child as a rider on an adult policy. (The YMCA in Grand Rapids offers a city-wide policy based on need, but that's a local exception.) There's nothing in the bill to require companies to offer child-only policies. Moreover, whether insurance companies will offer insurance for kids at any kind of reasonable rate is a wild card. In my worst-case scenarios, I envision a kind of donut hole for the middle class in which those of us at the bottom end of the income range will be ineligible for Medicare/CHIP and priced out of insurance from private sources, even with government subsidies.
As I understand it, pre-exist exclusions for adults will not be eliminated for about 4 years --- correct?Ditto on caps on premium increases.That leaves a lot of time for folks to continue to be ripped off and for people who can't get coverage for their pre-exist to suffer and quite possibly die.In many respects, passing something tomorrow will be a hollow victory.
Let them inject cake.
Jimmy, that's correct. This is a poor bill. I believe rejecting it will simply feeds the notion that nothing needs to be done. Even as I type this, the "no's" are up two, 214 to 212.
Man, you guys are a tough crowd. I'm certainly willing to describe the bill as less than perfect, but it's hard for me to describe a bill that extends health insurance coverage to 30 million people--the largest expansion of social provision in the United States since the Johnson Administration--as a "poor bill." Everyone's entitled to their opinion, of course...:-)
CNN says that the bill still allows denial of coverage if you have a pre-existing condition for 5 more years. Not good.
If Medicaid is not picking up the medical expenses for poor people, who is? Will hospitals just have to absorb the costs of treatment? How will that play out exactly? It's a terrible sign of how bad things are.
JeanYou don't understand - you can't be "priced out" of coverage. It's mandatory. If you don't get "qualifying" coverage as defined by Uncle Sam, you get fined. You see, all the government has to do is say it's so and it's so. Everyone who thinks this is a hunky dorry idea really should look at the Massachusetts model. The governor announced a $300 million shortfall in health case, a must pay item, so they are cutting everything else. This after raising the sales tax by 25% a year and a half ago and getting enormous subsidies from the feds to prop up this "model" system.Oh, they can raise taxes again, and drive more and more business out of the state, and have a smaller and smaller tax base and increased unemployment.As I keep trying to say, the only way to address health care is to lower costs, and this bill does not do that.
What no one is talking about enough is the fat must be cut from other Muninicipa, State and Federal perks. Policeman and fireman are retiring with a pension of $150,000 a year. Other civil servants are getting pensions that are not comparable anywhere in business. Except in Wall St.If Arizonal cut health care for its civil service employees there would be a riot. As usual no one to advocate for the children.
Sean H., if I'm reading your tone correctly, I think we agree to some extent. Requiring people to purchase health care is hardly the same thing as making it affordable. Where we would disagree, I suspect, is how to rectify that. IMO, a single payer system with greater focus on wellness and controlled access to unnecessary procedures strikes me as a better deal. Howevever, that's even more "socialistic" than the current bill, and it just won't fly, not no way, not no how.Peter N., if you were a 55-year-old woman who cannot now afford health care, you would essentially be looking at another four years without it to see whether or how much the government will kick in toward your premiums is such a great deal.
Sorry, got lost in my own sentence: Peter N., if you were a 55-year-old woman who cannot now afford health care, you would essentially be looking at another four years without it, and waiting to to see whether or how much the government will kick in toward your premiums. Would that seem like such a great deal?
Bill, I don't know where you get that nonsense. I'm a senior public service administrator. I make less after 20 years service than new grads in my profession make starting out in the private sector. I'm a taxpayer, too, and at the same rate as everyone else in my income bracket. And after about 20 years in government, (much of it advocating for children, and for health care, btw) I'm looking at a possible pension of about $1600/mo - IF my state doesn't go broke before I'm ready to draw down. While there are a few who may do well at the public trough when it's time to retire, the vast majority of us just hope to get by.And I remind you, that the problem there would not be that public employees may have pension funds, but that the Reaganites managed to make it ok for private employers to drop them, in favor of the fully employee funded 401k if anything. So when it comes my time to retire from the workforce, I'll be grateful for my medicare. Or is that too socialisticky foryou?
Mary K Kennedy/Blue Summer Daze,I understand the disparity in pay. The problem is your private equal has little work or it is outsourced to India. So you are getting $1600 more than most private sector employees. I might have to modify my numbers. Certainly someone in your grade should do better.
No, Bill, I'm no fan of outsourcing for the sake of lowering the cost of wages, but not everything is, or can be, outsourced. Many things are, but what folks in my line of work, whether public or private, do requires a physical presence in the states. And again, the problem is not that public employees may have pensions, but that private employers have been made free to get rid of them, primarily by the weakening of labor laws.
My husband turned 55 this year and now receives a $3200 a month pension check from the Transit Authority. It's a joint/survivor annuity so we'll get it as long as either one of us is alive. My husband contributed to this fund for 30 years and his employers matched the contribution. The contribution was only a few % of salary, nothing to raise any eyebrows. The fund did so well at one point, the employer stopped contributing entirely for several years (the workers went to court to successfully win back a share of the savings). I don't feel that my husband is receiving some unearned benefit, he paid for it for thirty years; I think every worker in America should have a pension like this. I'm very grateful my husband has these pension benefits, since, I, working in the non-profit sector, will have none at all.In addition, he has free retiree health insurance (also funded through worker contributions and employer matches). It is pretty good insurance, with prescription coverage and a medicare wrap-around. The cost to the benefits fund to cover our family of four is about $850 a month. I won't go into the great childcare benefits we also received before he retired.I, too, think public employees are not the problem; our problem is that every worker in America doesn't also have these same benefits.
Peter - will the Federal gov't CHIP program pick up the slack for this AZ decision?
Jim:No. AZ's CHIP program uses federal funds authorized under the federal CHIP program. Like Medicaid, CHIP is designed to be a shared federal/state responsibility. By shutting down its CHIP program, AZ would forfeit available federal matching funds.
Peter, thanks for that explanation. So next question: does the new health care reform act provide any options to fill the hole left by AZ's unconscionable decision?


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COLLEGE STATION, Texas –Texas A&M Junior forward Kelsey Bone added two more player of the week honors for her stellar play last week in the World Vision Classic held in Las Vegas, Nev. Bone set a new career high in points against Old Dominion with 33 and was the leading scorer in each game in the tournament.
Bone was honored by espnw.com as the National Player of the Week, the award is voted on by multiple writers and awarded weekly throughout the season. Additionally Bone was named the Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of the Week by the US Basketball Writers Association. As the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week, Bone was nominated for the weekly award, which was chosen by a representative of the USBWA board of directors from a list of Division I conference players of the week.
On the week Bone missed only seven shots as she was 39-of-46 (.848) from the floor and averaged 27.7 points per game and 10.3 rebounds in the three contests. The Houston native scored 20-plus points in each of the three contests and had two double-doubles (against Kansas State and Old Dominion).
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How do you tell unity to startup in 2d and compatibility mode? If you have to run a UNITY --replace after startup it doesn't kill the currently running unity and you end-up with two toolbars. One superimposed over the other. I would assume the best way to fix this is to have unity 2d start off in compatibility mode right off the bat.
You did not make mention of what version you are running so....
How to configure 2D http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1748671
Another installation guide http://www.linoob.com/2011/04/unity-2d-on-ubuntu/
If you have Ubuntu 11.10 or later installed you should be able to log into unity 2D easily enough.
You might log into Ubuntu in failsafe graphics mode, then activated proprietary video driver. You activate driver by going into system settings > Hardware > additional drivers.
Can't you simply choose Unity2d in the login screen, then log in? It should remember your last choice automatically.
Log out from your current session. Then, in the drop-down menu next to the password prompt, choose "Unity2d". Log in again and you should have the desktop you want. The next time it should log you in to that by default.


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In SML, the following is possible for modelling lazy programming,
// Have a datatype to wrap a computation
datatype 'a susp = Susp of (unit -> 'a)
// A function to hold the computation
fun delay(f ) = Susp(f)
I know that closures can be written using Blocks,
int multiplier = 7;
int (^myBlock)(int) = ^(int num) {
return num * multiplier;
So I think I can use it as a function argument. The next step would be how to use functions with no real arguments ( unit value e.g. in SML
fn () =>) and creating lazy datatypes as the one above.
Is this possible or should I be pursuing a different more obvious way ?
The end goal would be to emulate the suspended computation behaviour from SML,
let val x = Susp(fn () => horribleComp(345))
force(x) + force(x)
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fun force (Susp(f)) = f ()