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Kawasaki unveiled its latest-cruiser, the new 2011 Vulcan 1700 Vaquero: long, low, wide and packed with high-end custom touches. A 1700c liquid-cooled V-twin engine powers the Vaquero and the power is transmitted from the engine's six-speed transmission via a carbon fiber-reinforced drive belt to the rear wheel. Check out the wallpapers after the jump.


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I am playing a Demonhunter and can kite a lot of the champion combos. Shielded Wallers however, are my gordian knot. I have no idea how to kill them and usually just try to walk around them. What is the most effective Skill combo to kill them? Kiting seems to be impossible...
Using the Templar companion will have the champions focusing on him while you kill at range. Even if the shields are up, you can wait it out at range while the Templar sits there and takes a beating.
As far as a skill set, kiting is possible.
Hungering arrow is your friend because you don't really need to aim, but if you do have better aim, then bola shot can be more beneficial because it will damage more targets at a time.
Elemental Arrow + Frost rune will slow them down a lot as well. (This pairs really well if you have the Cull the Weak skill). You can also use rapid fire or chakrams here as well, depending on skill level.
Caltrops with either Torturous Ground (stun), or Hooked spines (increased slow) will keep them at a distance from you so you have more time to kite. An alternative would be to use shadow power (self heal on damage done) and pop that when you do get trapped for the few seconds the wall is up. Pump out as many shots as you can to keep your health up and drink a potion if you have to.
Vault is also very useful, not to get away after the walls have been casted, but through them. Yes, you'll take a hit or two, but it's better than dying. If you have elective mode on, you can also take smoke screen to help you not take this damage while jumping through them.
Sentry or spike trap will help as a third skill as they will do damage to them when the shields are down and you're busy kiting.
Rain of vengance + stampede is a very nice combo to use when their shields are down, you don't have to focus on running away, but to just stand there and fire away.
After a bit more playing around, smoke screen is also a very useful tool to make use of. You can use it in place of vault to run through the enemies after you've been trapped.
Smoke screen is your weapon of choice in all champion/elite encounters act 3 nightmare and above. as a demon hunter the game is relatively easy mode up to this point with your incredible snares and stuns, but against enemies such as you mention im sure youre finding it just doesnt cut it. (i actually found by the way that most enemies -excluding story bosses- up until late hell difficulty were succeptable to your 40% fear chance on elemental arrow for a bit of fun watching non shielded enemies flee in terror) equip your SS with the lingering fog rune and get prepareation with the focussed mind rune, this will allow you to go invisble roughly 6 times, for 3 seconds at a time, with 1 second cd interals - usually sufficient to extend your kiting distance as they will stop running after you and engage your templar while you are invisible (i use elemental ball lightining as something i dont have to aim particularly well and effectively dmaages whichever of the champions arent shielded, but any weapon would technically work with this) this strat is tried and tested to inferno difficulty, im currently farming nightmare because im sure no matter the strat im just gonna need better gear to survive.
Here is my aproach, it is somewhat an abuse but it works fine so far.
Assuming you have a kiting path that is long and free of other mobs. You use the following abilities:
As passive abilities I use Tactical Advantage, Sharpshooter, Archery. It is important to use something similar because you cannot switch your abilities otherwise you loose your buff. These allow you to kill a huge variant of Elites.
Here is my strategy:
Buy boots that increase your walking / running speed at least by 10%.
This strategy relies on you being faster than usual so you can outrun or at least keep the Elites on distance without shooting. Furthermore you keep on having enough Dicipline all the time, so you do not run out of juice.
Wallers do not wall full screen, this ability has a range (about 2/3 of the screen). So if you stay out of range running away to regenerate you should have no problem.
Should you run out of space invest in SS to change direction and run towards and past the Elites, this way you have about the same kiting path again. Usually the wallers will place walls behind you as you run towards them.


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What do we call it when water flowing through a flexible hose causes it to act like snake movements if the hose were disturbed? Can this movement be explained by the Coriolis force?
Here is my hypothesis. Consider a hose that is shaped like the diagram below, with two straight sections linked by a section of constant curvature:
The thick black arrows indicate the velocity of the flow. The flow in the second straight section has been deflected, so a force must have acted on it. The fluid dynamics of the situation might be complicated depending on how turbulent the flow is, but this force must ultimately come from the hose walls, since they're what constrains the fluid to flow in this particular direction.
By Newton's second law, there must have been an equal and opposite force on the hose walls during the curved section, as indicated by the thin red arrows. This force isn't to do with the Coriolis force, it's just the reaction force that must exist in order for the flow to be deflected. This force must cause the hose walls, and the liquid within them, to move. Note that there is a more or less constant force on the curved section of the hose, but no force at all on the straight sections - so the curved part is being pulled outwards to the left, but the straight parts aren't being pulled at all. After a little while, it must look something like this:
The original curved part has moved outwards (and is still moving), but this has created two new curved sections, which are now experiencing reaction forces in the opposite direction. These will then start to move as well, pulling yet more of the straight parts into curved configurations. The hose will begin to chaotically wriggle about with dynamics quite similar to the meandering of a river, although the details of their cause are quite different.
Whether this happens or not must depend on the speed of the flow (because a faster flow requires a larger reaction force to deflect it) and on the extend to which the hose resists these induced changes in its curvature. The latter is probably quite complicated, depending on the stiffness and elasticity of the hose walls, how much friction there is, and probably also on the viscosity and density of the fluid inside, and on whether the flow is turbulent. If the flow is fast, the hose is very flexible, and there is not much friction then I would expect it to wiggle a lot.
To answer the question in the title, I don't think there is an accepted term for this phenomenon, oddly enough. For example, this scholarly paper refers to it as "The fluidelastic instability behaviour of flexible tubes subjected to internal single-phase ... flows" - but I think you could probably get away with calling it "the flexible tube instability".
I've seen the video images of a firehose that is out of control. It struck me that it's a runaway effect; once it starts it gets out of hand in a split second.
My guess is that elasticity of the wall of the hose plays a part. Once the hose is wriggling you get turbulence in the flow, and I guess that turbulence reduces the water pressure along some sections of the wall, allowing elastic force to change the bending of the hose. The more the hose wriggles the more turbulence is induced.
I think self-reinforcing turbulence and elastic force of the hose wall are the main factors.
When the nozzle sweeps from side to side there will also be some coriolis effect along the length of the nozzle. If anything I would expect that coriolis effect to dampen the wriggling, but as we know any dampening effects are clearly swamped.
I am going to go with buckling playing a major role. A hose is a long slender column, and the jet of water is producing a compression force on it. So for a sufficiently strong jet, the straight hose shape will become unstable and there will be lateral bending.
But when the bending moves the end of the hose to one side, the angle of the jet also turns to that side, which means there is a restoring force and moment, that will send the hose bending to the other side, only much more strongly, since now there actually is lateral force due to the jet.
Lather, rinse, repeat, and you eventually have your out of control hose.
It is called "firehose instability" (http://books.google.com/books?id=9wmgYl49YQ0C&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&dq=garden-hose+instability&source=bl&ots=12gCyXYlsR&sig=fYqTxiNg0mHlCg_My39fBjcZ0q0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bqvdUN6DPYi6iQey4oGoAQ&ved=0CGYQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=garden-hose%20instability&f=false ), "garden-hose instability", or just "hose instability".


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6 Famous Figures You Only Know By Their Insulting Nicknames
#3. Billy the Kid
Real Name: Henry McCarty? Nobody knows for sure.
Nickname Means: Baby goat, or just a dainty little man-child
Not pictured: Neckbeard.
The legend of Billy the Kid has done so much to make "the Kid" seem like a cool nickname that you kind of lose track of how much it sucks.
And we barely know the man's real name. Virtually nothing is known about Billy the Kid's lineage or early life -- he simply exploded into history, guns blazing, around the year 1870. However, historians have pieced this much together: Billy the Kid was one of the baddest dudes of the American Old West. He was an outlaw, a horse thief and a killer of at least a few men. He was also the most hardcore guy to come out of New Mexico that side of Val Kilmer.
And poor Val ain't looking so hot these days.
The Nickname:
So where does the name "Billy" come from? History offers two versions, neither of them good.
One story suggests that a bartender with a death wish insulted him, saying that he looked like a scared little billy goat (a young goat is called a "kid," as you surely know). Also, he used to have a wispy little goatee beard that, as you can imagine, lent itself to that nickname. We have no way of knowing whether it's true (the "Billy" part would have been there with or without the goat -- William was one of his aliases).
He was also very baaah-shful.
Historian Robert M. Utley offers another explanation in his book Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life. Billy had been stealing horses from soldiers and he became known as "Kid Antrim." The "Antrim" bit is one of the last names he went by, and it may or may not have been his real name, but the "kid" part was reportedly because he was a shrimpy, beardless guy.
So history may never know whether Billy the Kid got his nickname from having a babyface or from his resemblance to the garbage-eating barnyard animal. Either way, he got burned so bad that his real name was scalded right out of history.
Wouldn't it be nice if that happened again?
#2. Plato
Real Name: Aristocles
Nickname Means: Fatass (possibly)
Moments earlier, that hand held a churro.
The most famous student of Socrates, Plato is virtually synonymous with ancient Greek philosophy. If you've ever taken a class in logic, your professor probably mentioned him at least once. And if you've ever gotten into an argument with a freshman know-it-all, you probably heard his name at least 1,000 times.
The Nickname:
Our first guess was that he thought "Aristocles" sounded too Greek, but that proved to be false. As it turns out, the nickname "Plato" was bestowed by his wrestling coach, Ariston of Argos. It's meaning? "Broad."
"You're getting Plato as shit, Mitch."
There are several theories about how he got this nickname. Some suggest that it was because of his wide forehead (more like a fivehead, right, guys?), or his, ah, robust physique. It has also been suggested that it refers to the breadth of his eloquence, though that sounds a lot like it was made up by Plato himself to try to convince people that he wasn't a weird shape.
What makes this nickname especially strange is that somebody's width is an odd thing to comment on. We get making fun of unusual height or weight, but calling them broad? Either the ancient Greeks had totally different ideas about nicknames, or Aristocles must have been reeeeally broad.
Via Wikipedia Commons
Crazy broad.
#1. Caligula
Real Name: Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus
Nickname Means: Tiny boots
He wore the largest helmet possible to compensate.
History remembers Caligula as being absolutely fucking insane, even when compared with other ancient Roman emperors. That's like getting a gold medal at the crazy illness Olympics. Maybe it had to do with his mother's exile while he was still young. Maybe it had to do with all of the lead-flavored water he was drinking. Whatever the cause, he is said to have proclaimed himself a god, tried to appoint his horse as a senator and declared war on the ocean.
"Look at it out there, plotting against me. SEND IN THE LEGIONS!"
The Nickname:
Or maybe the crazy came from carrying around his childhood nickname his whole life.
"Caligula" means "little boots." You see, when Caligula was a young boy, he accompanied his father and the soldiers under his command on their military campaigns. Somewhere along the line, he had been given his own miniature soldier costume, complete with tiny booties. The elite killing team that he was accompanying had nothing better to do than watch a child play make-believe, and when they did, they were greatly amused by boots that Gaius was marching around in. They nicknamed him "little boots," and the name stuck, even when that child grew up to control the most powerful empire in the world.
Via Louis le Grand
He manifested his insecurity through ridiculous hats.
Caligula grew to hate his nickname as he got older. And yeah, he was said to be an unhinged psychopath, but maybe he deserves a little bit of slack. Imagine the havoc you would wreak if a country full of people were calling you "footie pajamas" behind your back ... and then history only remembered you by that name.
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I understand that it primarily enters the body through the nose by by "feeding on the olfactory neurons in the nose" as answered here in a different question. Would the nerve cells in the eyes present a similar entryway?
In a 1987 article "Nonenteric Infections Acquired through Contact with Water", the author mentioned that "Infection of the ears, throat, respiratory tract, and cornea are also encountered" by virulent strains of Acanthamoeba and Naegleria fowleri. The only reference that implicates Naegleria fowleri is this one, but it doesn't mention modes of infection.
The long and the short of it is that Acanthamoeba infections can be acquired through contact with the cornea, but it's not clear whether Naegleria infections can also be acquired in this way.
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- Are You Experienced
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- May This Be Love
- Purple Haze
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Other songs by this artist
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We don't mind having many irons in the fire at once. At the same time we were working on the lag bug, we've also been experimenting with an infrastructure change to speed up our websites.¹ Yesterday, we rolled it out for Lists of Bests, All Consuming, and 43 Places. Today, we just flipped the switch for 43 Things.
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The new venture, Three Rivers Midstream, has signed a long-term fee-based dedicated gathering and processing agreement for Shell's production in the Pennsylvania area. The joint venture also plans to pursue gathering and processing agreements with other producers in the liquids-rich region.
Williams Partners has agreed to launch a new midstream joint
venture with Shell to provide gas gathering and gas processing
services for production located in Northwest Pennsylvania, the
company announced on Tuesday.
The venture will invest in both wet-gas handling infrastructure
and dry gas infrastructure serving Marcellus and Utica Shale
wells in the area.
The new venture, Three Rivers Midstream, has signed a
long-term fee-based dedicated gathering and processing
agreement for Shell's production in the area, including
approximately 275,000 dedicated acres.
The joint venture said it also plans to pursue gathering and
processing agreements with other producers in the liquids-rich
areas of Northeast Ohio in addition to Northwest
Three Rivers plans to construct a 200 million cubic feet per
day (MMcf/d) cryogenic gas processing plant and related facilities, with the location to be
determined at a later date.
The planned large-scale gas processing complex would be
expandable as Three Rivers' business grows. The initial plant
is expected to be placed into service by second quarter
"This new joint venture builds on our strategy of creating
large-scale infrastructure solutions that will provide Shell
and other producers with access to the best markets for their
natural gas and natural gas liquids, whether they be in the
Northeast or the Gulf Coast," said Alan Armstrong, CEO of
Williams Partners' general partner.
"The system is expected to be connected to two major
proposed developments in Pennsylvania -- Shell's proposed
ethylene cracker (feasibility still being studied) in Beaver
County and the proposed Williams-Boardwalk joint venture to
develop the Bluegrass Pipeline system that would deliver
Marcellus and Utica liquids to the rapidly expanding Gulf Coast
and export markets," he continued." The proposed Bluegrass
pipeline is targeting a late 2015 in-service date.
"Similar to our strategy of creating a significant supply
hub in the dry gas area of northeast Pennsylvania, Three Rivers
will create a major supply hub in northwest Pennsylvania, but
with the added benefit of large-scale NGL pipeline
infrastructure and expanded market options to support wet-gas
production in this area."
Williams Partners will initially own substantially all of Three
Rivers Midstream and operate the assets. Shell has the right to
invest capital and increase its ownership prior to
Williams Partners' portion of initial capital expenditures
on the Three Rivers plant, not including the gathering system,
is expected to be approximately $150 million. Subsequent
capital investment is expected as the joint venture's business
and scale increases
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"Civil War 150" Exhibit Opens
Civil War 150: Exploring the War and Its Meaning through the Words of Those Who Lived It is a national traveling panel exhibition organized by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in partnership with The Library of America. The project has been made possible in part through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Created to commemorate the Civil War Sesquicentennial, our Library was selected as one of only 50 sites to host the exhibit during the 150th anniversary period. Explore the bloodiest war in United States history through the eyes of major political figures, soldiers, families, and freedmen. By virtue of letters, personal accounts, and images, learn how people grappled with the end of slavery, the nature of democracy and citizenship, the human toll of civil war, and the role of a president in wartime. The exhibit will be available for viewing in the Beaufort District Collection, 311 Scott St., 2d floor in Beaufort, Mondays through Fridays, 10:00am until 5:00pm, beginning Monday, September 9th through Monday, September 30th, with evening hours, 5:00-7:30 pm on the following evenings: September 12th, 19th, and 24th. The exhibit is free. Be sure to pick up an "I Visited Civil War 150" voucher in the Beaufort District Collection Research Room to receive discounts on select museum and tour admission prices.


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How do I switch the keyboard layout for an external USB keyboard on Android 2.1? I've connected a German USB keyboard to my Android Tablet (Easypix 1000). Altough the language is set to German, the external keyboard is wrongly read as an english keyboard. Thanks!
There is hope.
I coded a proof-of-concept app that does exactly this (and using it as my everyday keyboard).
Starting from cupcake, the system has a
The source-code is available here (for the most curious only)
If you are rooted, you may be able to modify the keyboard layout files defined here: http://source.android.com/porting/keymaps_keyboard_input.html
WARNING: I have not tried this myself, so I don't know if it will work. Modifying system files may brick your Android.
With desktop OS's keyboard layouts are held in the software of the OS, and I can't imagine Android is much different. Since the only devices that are designed for Android and that have a physical keyboard (that I can think of) are phones I doubt there's even an option in the Android stack to change the keyboard layout since you obviously can't just pull the keyboard off your Droid and swap it with another one.
There might be some way of intercepting the input from the keyboard before it hits your device and remapping the data, but it would require a specialized app (if the option does in fact exist in the Android stack) or for you to plug something in between your keyboard and tablet.
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Congrats there Mr Randy. There's a whole bunch of good eating there. Sure do miss my hunting days. Good luck.
Got this one this morning coming back in to bed up for the day (the deer, not me LOL). I had only saw one doe and a couple bobcats by 7:30am when I saw this one coming towards me on an angle. There is some water (a shallow ditch) in front of me at about 150 yards and he had just about made it to that when I saw him. I got into shooting position in my tripod and set the 3-12x Burris on 9x. When he got to the water he had to go left or right and that was when I had planed to take the shot. He stood facing me for awhile after he reached the water and I thought he never would decide which way to go. He finally turned to his right and started walking down the edge of the water. when he hit a good opening I blatted with my mouth to stop him and squeezed the triger on the ol' XP100R .260 and heard the impact at the shot. He jump straight up and ran about 20 yards downd the waters edge and stopped. I was getting set up for another shot when I saw the "death stagger" and then down!! I waited a few minutes to be sure he was through and went to him. Lasered it back to the tripod at 155 yards. Definatly not my longest shot but still very enjoyable............
I will say it again..........the 260rem loaded with the 129gr Hornady SST's is deadly!!! My XP loves them!!!
Congrats there Mr Randy. There's a whole bunch of good eating there. Sure do miss my hunting days. Good luck.
Very nice... congrats... thats good eatn
Good show! Congrats. I envy you - I should be in Arkansas with my uncles right now, on the family hunting plot.
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but what did you do that a rifle couldn't have done, hmm? See, the point of handgun hunting is using a sidearm to achieve what most men need a rifle to do. Since you didn't use a sidearm, it's like cutting short a marathon. You want the "prestige" of being a handgun hunter, without having what it takes to really be one.
Is this "sidearm" enough for you!! I have many more where this came from. I choose to hunt with all types of weapons and none of which have to be to your "strict standards" only mine!! So pi$$ off!!!!!!
Hello Buckler. Perhaps digging up a 3 1/2 year old post and criticizing the hunter isn't the best way to make an introduction. Just a suggestion.
Enjoy the board...


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resume: libgcrypt version: 1.5.0
fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
fsck from util-linux 2.19.1
/dev/sda5: clean, 668102/3276800 files, 4449436/13107200 blocks
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uhome: recovering journal
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uhome: clean, 282203/2621440 files, 8705593/10485760 blocks (check after next mount)
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=d30f09f8-9580-4a6b-ac31-f69116793f9f / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /boot was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=28309a48-2171-4784-8093-d0e5ca40e6de /boot ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=4d7ee3e9-bf26-483d-af6e-efcd883126d0 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda10 during installation
UUID=f1a123f0-c81d-4f0a-9d5c-6780cbf8b9dc none swap sw 0 0
Here's dmesg log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/826319/'
The dmesg log shows quite a bit bump after 6 seconds, it waits too much before starting again at 24th second.
Output of
fdisk -l and
mount : http://paste.ubuntu.com/826397/
I have disabled almost all services which I can, but it still takes 50 seconds to boot. While booting with Live USB, it hardly takes 25 seconds.
The boot process stops for about 20 seconds at "resume libcrypt version" line. And those fscks are performed at every boot. Are those fscks necessary?
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WHEELING - After attending a seminar about how to deal with an active shooter in a hospital, nurse Cheryl Bee looks forward to participating in more training.
Bee, a nurse at Wheeling Hospital, described the stories relayed Thursday about past shootings as interesting and informative.
''What sticks out in my mind is that there's a lot of planning involved. We need more hands-on training,'' Bee said.
She was among the many health care workers and first responders who attended the session conducted by Spokane, Wash.-based Center for Personal Protection and Safety. Held at Oglebay's Wilson Lodge, the event was sponsored by the West Virginia Hospital Association.
In addition to emergency managers, firefighters and law enforcement, participating hospitals included Wheeling Hospital, Wetzel County Hospital, Reynolds Memorial Hospital, Ohio Valley Medical Center and Weirton Medical Center.
During the lunch break, Carol Gallaher, a nurse at Wetzel County Hospital, said the seminar was informative.
''It was interesting and very helpful, I believe,'' Gallaher said. ''I think we need a little bit more protection for our facility. I think everybody could benefit from this. Every workplace could benefit from this.''
Lena Palmer, a lab technician at Wetzel County Hospital, said she used to think if such a situation arose she would be ready, ''but actually we're probably really not.'' Palmer said now she will be more alert and thinking ahead about what could happen.
Dave Benson, executive vice president and principal of CPPS' Global Security Operations, said the purpose of the session is to teach hospitals how to be aware of pending shooting situations, how to respond during a shooting and how to recover afterward. Planning and practicing scenarios with local law enforcement, he noted, is essential.
''Is it likely or probable that this will happen in your area? Honestly? Not really. The probabilities are higher than they have been in the past. But active shooter events still remain an improbable, extremely high impact event,'' Benson said.
''That means it may not happen, but you better darn well think about it. Because if you don't and it happens, it will rock your world like nothing else ever has," he added. "And you will lose a portion of your building, a portion of your ER and lose your entire campus for a period of time. ... The sooner you all understand that by working together we can get our arms around some of these dynamics, the better the circumstances will be.''
Jeff Ewing, senior adviser for CPPS, said the best advice he has for visitors or patients during a shooting is to listen to the hospital workers, who should be guiding people to safer areas with doors that lock or barricading rooms to keep the shooter out.


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Consider an alchemist that has many ($N$) sorts of ingredients in his possession. Initial amounts of each of the ingredients is expressed by vector $C^0=(C_1, C_2, \dots, C_N)$.
Alchemist knows several ($M$) recipes of ingredient transmutation, expressed as a set of recipes: $R=\{ R^1, R^2, \dots, R^M\}$. Each recipe $R^i$ is a vector that describes the reagents and the products: $R^i=(R^i_1, R^i_2, \dots, R^i_N)$ such that if $R^i_j, i \in [1 \dots M], j \in [1 \dots N]$ is zero, that means $j'th$ ingredient is not used in mutation, if it is positive, than the ingredient appears in that quantity as a product of a mutation, and if it is negative, than it's quantity is consumed in mutation.
Thus, a single mutation can be expressed as a vector sum: $C^1=C^0+R^i$, where $C^0$ are ingredients before mutation, $C^1$ - after mutation, $R^i$ - mutation recipe.
Consider that we have a market where ingredients are traded. Market prices are fixed and are described by a value vector $v=(v_1, v_2, \dots, v_N)$. Thus, a value of the alchemist's supplies on the $k$-th step can be expressed as a dot product: $V^k=(C^k \cdot v)$.
Question: having the initial supply of ingredients $C^0$, book of recipes $R$ and market prices $v$, how can the alchemist derive such sequence of $L$ mutations $S=(S^0, S^1, S^2, \dots, S^L), \forall t : S^t \in R$ that the price $V^L=(C^L \cdot v)$ of the final set of products $C^L=C^0+S^1+S^2+\dots + S^L$ would be maximal?


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I'm trying to create a T4 template to generate a class for a specific task I need. However, something is broken with its output.
The output file contains random garbage characters even when the .tt file is blank. I'm thinking it's something to do with the character encoding on the .tt file, maybe.
I can successfully add a code generation item to an edmx file and it will generate fine unless I make a change to the tt file, save, revert the change, resave. The output becomes garbage again.
Haven't been able to find anyone else experiencing this issue.
Example: TextTemplate.tt
<#@ template debug="false" hostspecific="false" language="C#" #>
Output file: TextTemplate.cs
Ideas, anyone?


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Welding novices might be confused by terminology commonly used by fellow welders but not found in standard glossaries. This article defines some of these terms used in shielded metal arc welding.
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Charlotte 49ers men's soccer senior midfielder Donnie Smith, who just participated in the MLS Player Combine, is expected to hear his name called at the Major League Soccer's SuperDraft in Indianapolis, Indiana, Thursday, January 17. The draft which consists of two rounds and 38 selections begins at 12 pm.
Most mock drafts have Smith being selected in either the late first round or early second round of the Draft.
Smith, who earned All-Atlantic 10 honors three times in his career, was named Atlantic 10 Midfielder of the Year this past season. He earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 honors in 2012 and 2010. He was a second-team All-Atlantic 10 selection in 2011. Smith scored four goals and recorded four assists this past season. Smith scored game-winning goals against South Carolina, Richmond and Saint Louis.
Last season, former 49ers standouts Charles Rodriguez and Evan James were picked in the MLS Supplemental Draft. This past season, James played for the Montreal Impact after being the first pick of the MLS Supplemental Draft. Rodriguez, who was drafted in the third round of last season's MLS Supplemental Draft by the DC United, played this past season for the USL Pro League's Wilmington Hammerheads.


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by Melissa Brunner
It was different to be sitting with friends, actually watching segments of this year's MDA Show of Strength (ok, so we were doing more visiting than watching!), but I still felt the same emotions, inspiration and gratitude during the Sunday night show - and that's what it's all about!
I hope you took time to listen to and be inspired by the children, adults and families who live with neuromuscular disease every day. I hope you felt the same gratitude toward businesses and organizations, like the Topeka firefighters and the Harley riders, who worked tirelessly to raise thousands of dollars to help the families and find a cure. I hope you gained a little insight and understanding into why the search for a cure is so important. And, if you could afford it, I hope you took time to "make a muscle" and make a donation. While the national office will compile an overall total from events across the country and phone calls made Sunday night, we are proud to say northeast Kansas events brought in more than $185,000 this year!
A few people didn't get the word that the show would be on Sunday night for a second year. No worries - you can view the national segments and make a donation at www.mda.org. The local segments will be posted at www.wibw.com.
Of course, airing the Show of Strength in prime time meant delaying regular CBS programming, much to the chagrin of some "Big Brother" fans. As a response, I offer you this response, posted on our Facebook page, from the mother of two boys living with Duchenne Dystrophy:
"A HUGE thank you to WIBW for once again supporting the MDA Telethon. Ralph and Melissa mere words cannot express our gratitude for all you do for our sons, Dylan and Dawson. Much love to you ♥. To those who think it was dumb stuff, I am


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I'm asking about this here because in the PostgreSQL mailing lists no one answered me. In one of my servers (Windows 2008 R2 Standard/PostgreSQL 9.0.5 64 bits) the logs are being flooded with the following message:
2012-03-26 00:00:11 BRT AVISO: pgstat wait timeout
2012-03-26 00:00:19 BRT AVISO: pgstat wait timeout
2012-03-26 00:00:31 BRT AVISO: pgstat wait timeout
I checked other threads in the PostgreSQL mailing lists that were answered, but there are no definitive answer. Some speculate about I/O overload, but I don't think it would cause this message to be logged almost all the time that the server is up. Do you, that use the combination of Windows+Postgresql, have ever had this problem? If yes, were you able to fix or identify the problem?


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I need to check vulnerability in my polling system. So I need to send GET requests but every time with different IPs. Can anyone suggest something?
How are you sending your GET requests?
Regardless of how you do it you'll need to change your IP somehow. If it is a program it'd be easier to change proxies on the fly, but if not you could just switch proxies every time in your browser.
You could also disconnect/reconnect your internet if you had a dynamic IP obviously, but that'd just be a hassle.
OR, if you are doing internal testing it'd be quite easy as you'd just need to change your statically set LAN IP each time.
Running as root with raw sockets will let you set whatever IP address you wish on your outgoing packets. Tools like hping3 include this functionality. You could write the binary GET request and feed it as an option to hping3, then specify the source address (or even --rand-source). That won't get you all the way, though.
Since we're talking about completing the full TCP connection, you'll need to take those lessons of raw sockets and write them into your own application (or find one that does this already). To be functional, your source machine's network card will need to be listening in promiscuous mode. You will also need to have your target's (the webserver) network route pumping all traffic directly to the network. The easiest way to to do that would be to make your source machine the default gateway.
Sockstress is one tool that sounds like it might fit the bill, but I'm not familiar with it.
Could you connect through Tor or a proxy?
Spoofing IP addresses over different subnets is not trivial as you have to establish a 3 way TCP handshake in order to make the HTTP connection.
If you have control of a machine on the same subnet you can probably make this work a lot easier. You simply script changing your IP, replay the HTTP request and repeat.
Other than that you could probably do one of the following:
IP addresses can't be spoofed with TCP unless you're in a position to intercept the return traffic.
But if you're using all IP addresses that are assigned to your computer, you can call
If instead you're on a router or other network choke-point, then your best bet is probably intercepting and re-writing your own traffic using either a virtual interface or through something like
If this sounds confusing, then you may be in a bit over your head, and perhaps this isn't the direction you should go.


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Some of my recent clients are asking for remote connections to the office server, for standalone work, etc, in winForm applications.
Since the concept of the web is remote connection to a server both of data and resources, it should be possible to place both of this in cloud and have the winForm apps connect to it as if web Apps.
As any one tested this, is working like this?
Is it fast enough?
Is it secure?
What is the best cloud host for this type of work ?


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Does it seem like people actively look for things to complain about/get offended by now?
this morning i dropped off mrs and baby carl669 at the airport. i went inside with her to help get the bag and car seat checked and to help her get organized before going through security. because it was the first time either of us had traveled with the baby, i hung around and watched while she was going through.
while waiting, one of the TSA folks came up and said 'namaste'. so, i said it back and the common thing to do when saying it is to place your hands together and give a little bow. he kind of chuckled and said, 'i can't actually do the hand gesture part or i might get in trouble.' of course, i wanted to know why.
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he told me last year, he learned how to say 'hello' in 26 different languages. it wasn't part of this job or anything; he just thought it would be cool to learn. one of the ways he learned was to say 'namaste' and he also learned the little gesture. so, he did it quite a few times and said most Indians he said it to we're pretty happy about it. so he kept doing it. one day though, he got called into the supervisor's office. it seems somebody (not someone he said namaste to) had complained because, apparently to them, it looked like he was praying.
now, i'm all for freedom of religion and freedom from religion...whatever floats your boat. but really, was someone standing there thinking, "oh science! it looked like he was praying for 500 milliseconds. THIS SHALL NOT STAND!!!!" what sort of petty d-bags are people turning into??
It's because we've become so 'tolerant' of other people that so many people think they have the right to never feel uncomfortable, awkward or even disagreed with. This increased level of tolerance has led to a majority of society forgetting the meaning of the word. If people actually practiced real tolerance instead of hiding from things they don't agree with or make them uncomfortable we would all live in a much less hostile world.
"Get Over It" from the Eagles always plays in my head when I hear or see this kind of stuff.
There are some people that use their opinions to make it up the ladder and get through life. To those people I say.....karma will come back to bite you.
As I said in the VW ad question, "Some people seem to seek out reasons to be offended."
Also, I think being politically correct has swung the pendulum in the opposite direction. In the past, it was acceptable/the norm to make fun of (read: demean) different ethnic groups, religions, etc.. This is no longer tolerated. And has led to another extreme.
Perhaps it will level out...though I'm doubtful. No matter what you say or do, you will offend some one.
Hands together, bowing slightly while saying Namaste
Forcing someone to be tolarant of everyone else and allowing people to choose to be offended at everything is the name of the game these days - both play off of each other. It's a fact that someone will do something you don't like. It's also a fact that you will do something someone else won't like.
And you do, in fact, choose to be offended by something.
It's very simple:
The statement of "__ offends me!! You must stop, NOW!" has become very powerful. It is even more powerful in places like Canada and parts of Western Europe where speech which can be deemed offensive, demeaning, racist is now criminalized.
This has been turned into a bludgeon in workplaces, schools, and anyplace public. Is there somebody you don't like at work? Find something they do and claim to the boss that you find it incredible offensive. You may have to stretch a bit, but I bet you can do it. The boss, rather than risk the potential ire of various government bureaucrats will tell your enemy they must stop that behavior (but without disclosing your name). Wait a few weeks, then repeat as necessary until they quit.
People watch TV just to find a naughty word broadcast in the clear so that they can fire off a letter to the FCC, Congress, and the Pope. I don't understand it, some people are only happy when they ruin things for everyone else.
People don't realize that the constitution doesn't guarantee their right to not ever be offended or hurt.
Seriously though, even if the guy did throw a little prayer out - what's the big deal? I really don't get people.
The person who tattled on him at the airport was probably just doing what they were told to do. You know, the whole "if you see something, say something" campaign. They tell you over the airport loudspeakers to report suspicious activity. The person may have found the head nod (prayer) thing to be suspicious. Especially if he was only doing it to people of a certain ethnicity. It may have appeared the TSA agent was "in on something". The person who reported it might have just been offended that he or she also didn't also get a little head nod. The supervisor probably told him to stop just so ignorant people wouldn't be confused and alarmed by his ethnicity-specific gestures. I don't see the problem with what the TSA agent was doing; probably just a misunderstanding.
I just think we need to keep religion out of state-ran agencies. (schools and politics) I don't care if the walmart greeter says Merry Christmas to me, but I don't really like it if my tax money goes to promote a certain religion. I don't like it when lawmakers (who are supposed to represent citizens of all faiths) push religious agendas. Since the TSA is a government entity, I can see how some would feel the same way in this situation. I mean, if he was saying "Jesus is lord" (or whatever the Christians say) to every passer-by then that might be cause for concern because my tax money is paying him to promote a certain religion. That didn't happen here, but that might be where the complaint stemmed from.
@bsmith1: I preemptively upvoted you because I'm certain many folks will come here and do the opposite. "Don't oppress my religion, man!!"
Anyway, I think your scenario was likely the case, which leads back to the OP's question. In matters religious, emotions run high and offense comes easy. There is a great divisiveness being fueled by nuts with loud voices...on all sides.
@carl669: The poor bastard, I can only imagine that job is insanely boring and connecting with the masses and learning about others would be a fun\ awesome experience.
Not a lot of diversity where I am. (OH and don't tell anyone but I am an atheist, one would think that what will happen to me after death would be enough for Christians, but it is not so I keep it quiet)
I tolerate religion, race, sex, age and all the other. To be honest I am prejudiced of people different then me, I assume they know things that are different from what I have learned and perhaps have something to teach me.
If your TSA guy learns other cultures the perhaps he will not fear them. Ignorance is for the racist.
Sexiest people make more work for me. If you do not let a woman help you then I have to. <---REALLY PISSES ME OFF
Hey Christians, the base Muslim religion is not taught to hate you. Hey Muslims, the base Christians are not taught to hate you. Despite the wars and the outspoken.
@nmchapma: "Get Over It" from the Eagles always plays in my head when I hear or see this kind of stuff."
I'm offended because I can't upvote that comment more than once! (Deserves at least 100 IMO)
I'm offended by your suggestion.
In the name of tolerance society has become equally intolerant of all things. That way people can put on an act of righteous indignation if, for example, they catch a person praying or sharing their faith with another person. Thanks to the lie that is "no one should ever be offended," notions of tolerance have become a form of society enforced speech control, without that messy business of trying to make a law. Why bother with a law when everyone under the sun lives with the false notion that they have a right to never-ever be offended in the slightest way possible?
If you are living, breathing human you had better brace yourself for some bad news: Someone, somewhere is doing something you would be offended over.
I blame (in this order) lawyers, politicians, and Academia.
When reason and logic fall prey to emotional intelligence, you have the recipe for disaster.
I hope you are suitably offended.
Namaste, thanks for sharing, didn't know that one..
Namaste (/ˈnɑːməsteɪ/NAH-məs-tay; Hindi: [nəməsteː] ( listen); Devanagari: नमस्ते; formal: Namaskar/Namaskaram) is a common spoken valediction or salutation originating from the Indian subcontinent. It is a customary greeting when individuals meet, and a valediction upon their parting. A non-contact form of salutation is traditionally preferred in India and Nepal; Namaste is the most common form of such a salutation.
When spoken to another person, it is commonly accompanied by a slight bow made with hands pressed together, palms touching and fingers pointed upwards, in front of the chest. This gesture, called Añjali Mudrā or Pranamasana,[1] can also be performed wordlessly and carries the same meaning.
Yep. I think the key is that now is permitted, if not encouraged to find times to be upset about something trivial. The funny thing is that the special interest groups typically only jump in for their problems, and don't necessarily get behind other ones. I find that to be the way it is going instead. Offend me,shame on you. Offend them...who cares!!!
@dogbountyhunter1: How ironic that you're too much of one to type it without being obfuscated with dollar signs!
Also, I'm not exactly sure who you're calling names, so you might want to provide some additional details so the correct parties can be offended.
See what I did there ' prejudice of people different then me, I assume they know things that are different from what I have learned and perhaps have something to teach me ' I used the technical definition of prejudice. I pre judge people different then me.
I accept the life lessons from people who are not me to be important to my growth as a human being. (sorry cut it short above I was a few letters over the limit so I cut it short.)
F'em if they can't take a joke. Feel free to use that thought at any time, at any place, and as often as you please. ; )
@ecriscit: Really? Academia?
Anti-intellectualism isn't a positive trait, but that's OT so I'm not gonna rant about it.
Narcissism abounds these days in our culture. People only seem sensitive to what they deem is important. Religious wingnuts who only believe that people who believe as they do should be given any consideration...Atheist wingnuts who believe that if anyone shows any religiosity around them should be crucified (pun intended) Various sub-group wingnuts that think anyone who is __(fill in the blank) should be made to stop whatever "offensive" speech, behavior, gesturing or whatever it is that so beyond the pale. Narcissism isn't necessarily the quality of "it's all about me" but is much more often a lack of empathy and the lack of ability to put oneself in another's place so that one can see that other folk have the same rights, privileges, freedoms and responsibilities as everyone else
@thumperchick: That's because so many people don't know what the constitution says, why it was created or believe it still holds true today.
@stryker4526: In a lot of academic circles, science is made into a religion of its own. It's not science's place to make truth claims on something that can be neither proven nor disproven scientifically. And yet it happens every day.
To say that academia has its faults isn't to say that one should be anti-intellectual. It's not the same thing.
@stryker4526: Yes Academia. I say this for several reasons, but my main reason for this is simple. Show me the volumes of research done proving that politcally Correct speech is dangerous to our society, show me the professors and universities that are aligned and have formed campaigns to fight this, show me the critical thinking classes required by universities that mandate you do not use politically correct speech while attending the class or course. IN fact, the language reform movement began on college campuses.
In comparison the number of universities that favor politically correct speech, and promote the same, are numerous. Here is a quick google link for you: http://thefire.org/torch/
Anti Intellectualism - you threw that out there. I am a huge fan of reason, logic, and critical thinking versus emotional decision making. It is the downfall of our civilization.
Now, don't get me started on lawyers......
@omnichad: "To say that academia has its faults isn't to say that one should be anti-intellectual. It's not the same thing."
Thank you for understanding that point.


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My husband has just had stints put into his heart and is now on a fat/salt/sugar diet. I do all the cooking and enjoy making things from scratch. I am trying to adjust my recipes for his new diet. Shortening is used in rolls, biscuits, cakes, etc. (you get the idea) what can I use in place of shortening? I need something that will not be greasey or tasteless. I do not mind if I have to use a different ingredient for different applications (sweets, breads, etc.) I just need a way to make the food compliant with the prescribed diet without losing flavor.
If you can find a copy, Graham Kerr's "Minimax Cookbook" has guidance and several recipes for low-fat baking. He used to be the galloping gourmet, and produced recipes with outrageous amounts of fat, sugar, and so on. Then his wife had a stroke and he re-examined how he cooks in order to be able to meet her dietary requirements while not losing flavor, texture, and mouth-feel. It covers much more than baking, and is a good guide to low-fat cooking in general. Unfortunately it's out of print (published in 1992), but there seem to be lots of copies available from second-tier distributors.
In a word: Oil.
It is important to note that the conversion of a recipe from shortening/margarine/butter to oil is not a 1 to 1 conversion.
I use I can't believe it's not butter for everything. If it's different, I don't notice. Neither does my family.


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Teen After Hours: Winter Olympics
Location:Hilton Head Branch
Date & Time:Friday, February 21, 2014 - 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Unleash your competitive spirit as we host our own Teen Olympics with silly challenges and contests built around a Winter Games theme. Snow and ice aren't guarenteed but we will have plenty of junk food to keep you energized. For students in 6th-12th grades. You MUST have a signed permission slip for this after hours event!


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For many high school athletes, college is a time to hang up the jersey and begin a new chapter with the end of a playing career.
Logan Baumann believed he'd be one of those athletes. Despite receiving attention from Transylvania, Centre and Furman, the 6-foot Hartford, Ky., native chose to forfeit playing basketball to attend the University of Louisville and adopt the less-glorious role of student manager.
"I wanted to coach at the Division I level just like Coach (Rick) Pitino does here," said Baumann. "That was a big goal of mine, and I think the manager (position) was, to me, a bigger step up than playing at a smaller school versus being a manager (at Louisville) under a coach like we have."
In his first semester, Baumann, recipient of a Trustee's Scholarship (an award based on academic achievement), was focused on excelling in the classroom and his new responsibilities as manager. But, his high school teacher foresaw a different fate in the college freshman. "My teacher back home, he's like, 'Man, I just have this feeling that Coach is going to see you shooting in the gym, and he's going to ask you to walk on,'" said Baumann, who quickly shook off the idea at the time.
In October, Baumann suddenly found his teacher's prediction unfolding. During class one day, Baumann received a call from the head student manager to meet with him and Coach Pitino, and immediately began worrying he'd done something wrong. Yet, as Baumann drove closer to the Yum! Center for the meeting, he remembered something he'd read in Pitino's blog.
"I start piecing it together, and I'm like in his blog he said he wanted walk-ons (following Mike Marra's season-ending ACL injury). Could that be it?" Baumann explained. "And I'm thinking this while I'm driving over here, my max five-minute drive, and now I'm thinking, oh gosh, now he's asking me to be a walk-on? What could be bigger than this? Either I'm not going to be a manager or he's asking me to be a walk-on. Either way, we're extremes on both levels."
As Baumann entered Pitino's office, Coach told the Ohio County alum, who scored 69 three-pointers as a senior in high school, he'd have a 14-day trial period to earn a spot on the roster. Around day six, Pitino's verdict was made clear when Baumann was introduced first as a member of UofL's team during the university's basketball tip-off luncheon.
"Sometimes when I'm just sitting in my dorm, I think, man, I'm going to be on the floor for the UK game. I'm going to be on the floor!" Baumann exclaimed with pride about his new position. "Never in my life would I have thought about that until the last week or the last two weeks. So much has changed."
Though playing time may be little on a squad ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in most preseason polls, Baumann is excited about extending a playing career he once thought was over. And, he's ready to contribute whatever way he can to a team hungry for vengeance after losing to the 2012 NCAA National Champion Kentucky in last year's Final Four.
"I would do anything it takes to get a national championship," said Baumann, who will wear the No. 14 as a Card. "I think that's all of our goal. All the players throughout, the coaches, I think it's a dream for everyone, so anything I can do in practice, anything we can do to extra-prepare for a team, anything we can do in scouting … anything that possibly me, myself, or anybody as teammates can do together to enhance our group (to) just get closer (I'll do). And hopefully (the team will) eventually achieve some of our goals this year."
For more information on Baumann and the University of Louisville's 2012-13 roster, visit uoflsports.com.
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6 Companies That Make Money Solving Problems (They Made Up)
#3. Broadview Security
The Paranoia:
As we all know, a privileged white woman in a nice, warm suburban neighborhood is in more danger than an unbroken arm in a Steven Seagal film--at least, that's what Broadview Security would like you to believe, a company who sells alarm systems.
The Pitch:
Here's a typical Broadview ad. A woman, at home, vulnerable. Suddenly she sees a shady looking character at the door...
...he smashes his way in, clearly with some rape on his mind...
She screams...
And by the time she makes it up to her bedroom three seconds later, the handsome, strong protectors at Broadview are calling to make sure she's OK:
As easy as that. Just set the alarm whenever you're at your whitest and most femalest, and you're instantly protected from any would-be assaulters. Help is always just seconds away!
The Problem:
The commercial seen above can be best described as the "edited" version. The real-life scenario has a number of extra scenes, including:
The 45 to 60 seconds between when an alarm is tripped and when it's actually able to go off, during which time her intruder has free, alarm-less reign over the house; the 30 seconds between when the alarm went off and when Broadview calls, during which she tried to call 911 herself but her phone line was busy transmitting the alarm signal; and the eight minutes (on average) between when Broadview called the police and they actually arrived, during which time the bad guy could have carefully selected the knife he wanted to use to remove her kidneys.
Don't get us wrong, a security system has a number of advantages and benefits, but protecting a woman from a deranged rapist in her kitchen is not one of them by any means. That's why the ads show the attacker getting freaked out by the alarm and running away--if they actually showed Broadview stopping him in any way, it would be a lie.
He could potentially trip over the yard sign, we guess.
And while we joke about things like violent knife-wielding rapists in your kitchen, keep in mind that even that part is misleading. The rate of violent crimes is actually decreasing in America, and has been for several decades now. You wouldn't know it from watching Broadview's ads, obviously, because they've found that fear sells very very, well.
#2. Home Remodelers
The Paranoia:
Somewhere, right now, a homeowner is getting a knock on the door. It's a contractor who was passing by, and he just wanted to let them know that their house is crumbling down around them. Their roof has hail damage and is about to collapse. They have mold in their walls that is going to poison them and their children in their sleep.
"You see, this is a real problem."
The Pitch:
Mold is the big one right now. Ever since Hurricane Katrina, the problem of mold and moisture has become a favorite for these guys. They can test your air with their whatsits and doodads and find the amount of mold spores in it, or maybe they'll just point to the corner of your windowsill, and declare that you're giving your family emphysema or syphilis or whatever it is that you get from mold.
"Boom! Anal fissures."
The solution? Let them tear out your walls at tremendous expense.
And you're in luck, because now is the perfect time to let this totally trustworthy contractor take care of the repairs for you. Right now, they've got a really great deal on whatever it is you need, but if you don't bite, the price is going to seriously skyrocket. So what are you waiting for? Reach for your wallet and hire this man. BUY THE FUCKING SERVICE DO IT NOW NOW NOW BEFORE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY DIES
Pictured: Standard operating procedure.
The Problem:
Of course, there are straight scam artists who'll just take a deposit and then completely disappear. But even the guys who are doing the work are often playing off a false premise.
That mold that's wreaking havoc on your family's lungs? Actually, it isn't quite as dangerous as people think. The EPA says that the worst mold does to some people is irritate their throat or eyes a bit, or maybe cause some mild problems in people with allergies or asthma. So it's not much different from exposure to your pets or the general filth you keep around your house.
Comparatively, mold is nothing to worry about.
As far as cleaning it, you may want to consider just breaking out the sponge. According to the EPA, you shouldn't be that worried about mold unless it exceeds 10 square feet, which we're pretty sure is big enough for you to pay special property taxes on it. If you ever have that much mold on hand, then you've got a burst water or sewage pipe somewhere, in which case you've hopefully already called somebody.
Roof damage is another big one, because the contractor promises he can get your homeowner's insurance to pay for it. All he has to do is show the insurance guy the damage your roof has taken, and it will cost you nothing. Then, before the insurance guy gets there, the crew goes up and damages your roof. Just a tip, if you ever see a work crew on your roof slapping the shingles with socks full of golf balls, that is not a normal thing for them to be doing. Call the cops.
#1. LifeLock
The Paranoia:
Identity theft is all the rage these days, getting top billing in a number of movies as well as some cameo appearances on TV. If anyone gets their hands on your sensitive personal information, they could apply for credit cards, buy a bitchin' moped and go on a hilarious around-the-world adventure with their best friend, while your bank account is slowly drained, or your credit is ruined.
What an asshole.
The Pitch:
Lucky for you, LifeLock is there to make sure nobody steals your identity and ruins your finances. They're so confident that their methods work that the CEO, Todd Davis, is giving out his Social Security Number to anybody who wants to see it: It's 457-55-5462. They even paint it on the side of their trucks.
So a slightly more secure person like yourself should be safe, right?
The Problem:
Here's a real-life example that'll show you how safe you are with LifeLock: In 2007, someone did steal Todd Davis's identity and managed to get $500 out of it. LifeLock proceeded to track the man down, video cameras (and Rottweilers, we imagine) on hand, and basically forced him to sign a pre-typed confession from the company, which would have him performing community service to make up for his crime. Once the police got word of this, they immediately leapt into action by rubbing their foreheads with their thumb and forefinger, muttering obscenities, then throwing out the case because it had been tainted by LifeLock's cavalier actions.
"Dammit, Lifelock! You're a loose cannon! The mayor's gonna have my ass for this."
Essentially, LifeLock actually allowed this man to get away with identity theft because of their supreme idiocy. The kicker: The man who used the SSN was legally retarded. On the other hand, at least we know that God has a sense of humor.
If that's not bad enough, this March, LifeLock had to settle with the Federal Trade Commission for $12 million amidst charges that they were lying about what their services could do, mainly because they were. According to the chairman of the FTC, Jon Leibowitz, LifeLock's protection "left enough holes that you could drive a truck through it," which isn't really how holes work, but whatever.
The sort of thing LifeLock protects you from is mainly people opening up new credit accounts, which is only 17 percent of existing identity theft. If someone used your identity to get medical care, a new job or even if they just took your credit card for a joyride, you wouldn't hear a thing until the bank showed up to repossess your new car that you didn't know you bought.
But if LifeLock can't protect you, then what can you do to prevent identity theft? Well, your bank and credit card company already have some pretty strict identity theft protections in place already--they're the ones who usually wind up footing the bill, after all. But beyond that there are some pretty simple steps that you can take yourself, such as getting your annual credit report, regularly checking your bank statements for odd charges and not plastering your SSN on the side of a truck and driving it through major cities.
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The second week in August is a busy time for a member of the Herald-Star and Weirton Daily Times newsroom. We both take off to different ends of the Tri-State Area to cover a county fair.
Mine is the Jefferson County Fair, and Summer Wallace-Minger travels to the Washington County Agricultural Fair. You will notice hers has a longer title.
We have talked at the start of each of the several years that she has made the journey to the Pennsylvania-area fair about the food competition that goes on at her annual event, and I have spoken of mine as well.
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WINNER — Jessica Fortunato, granddaughter of Tom and Linda Miller of Avella, won first prize in the apple pie contest at the Washington County Agricultural Fair with her two-crust apple pie. She is the daughter of Frank and Marcy Fortunato of Canonsburg.
-- Summer Wallace-Minger
I have tried many times to change my schedule around a bit to attend her cooking contest, but time would never allow it to happen.
So she provided me with recipes from the event instead. And she might even be using the apple pie recipe when we learn the weight of her grand champion market steer.
We had a wager on which steer would have the highest weight. The steer weighing the least would cause that reporter to bake a pie to bring into the newsroom. Mine, the steer raised by Branden DeFrank of the Wildwood Critters, weighed 1,338 pounds. Now the ball is in her corner. She has to learn the weight of her county steer, and then the pie dough rolling begins.
Here is the apple pie that was a winner for Jessica Fortunato, granddaughter of Tom and Linda Miller of Avella and daughter of Frank and Marcy Fortunato of Canonsburg. She even gave the recipe for the pie crust that is very rich with butter.
Apple Pie
2 1/2 cups flour
1 cup butter
1 tablespoon sugar
2 to 3 tablespoons cold water
6 cups peeled, sliced cored apples, she suggested three Granny Smith and three McIntosh
3/4 cup sugar
3 tablespoons flour
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
4 tablespoons butter, cut into small pieces
To make the crust, mix sugar and flour. Then cut butter into the flour mixture with a pastry blender until the mixture looks crumbly. Add water, one tablespoon at a time, and stir with pastry blender or a fork until all the mixture is moist. Divide the dough into two equal parts. Roll each into a ball and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
For the filling: Combine all ingredients except butter. Mix well. Roll the dough into a circle and place into pie pan and trim hanging edges, leaving a little around the edge. Pour filling into lined pie pan. Dot the top of the filling with small pieces of butter. Roll out the other half of dough and place it on top of filling. Trim the edge and seal the bottom and top crusts by pinching them together and crimping the dough. Cut slits in the top crust to release steam. Brush milk over the top crust before baking. Cover the crust edges with foil and bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes. Remove the foil and bake for another 20-25 minutes or until crust is golden brown and the filling is bubbly.
There is an angel food recipe competition at the fair baking contest, and Kim R. Teichmann of Avella was the winner with a cake that is filled with a fluffy red raspberry mixture and iced with a Seven-Minute Frosting that is very difficult to make, in my opinion.
Raspberry Angel Food Cake
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup cake flour
12 egg whites
1 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 small box raspberry gelatin
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
Move oven rack to lowest point and heat oven to 375 degrees. Combine powdered sugar, cake flour and gelatin mix and set aside. Beat egg whites and cream of tartar until foamy. Beat in granulated sugar, two tablespoons at a time, adding vanilla, almond extract and salt with the last of the granulated sugar. Beat until stiff and glossy. Sprinkle flour mixture, 1/4 cup at a time, into egg mixture and fold in until flour mixture is completely absorbed. Pour batter into a 10-inch tube pan and draw a knife through the batter to release bubbles. Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until top is springy and the cracks feel dry. Immediately invert pan and allow to cool completely.
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup red raspberry jam or less to taste
Combine cream, sugar and vanilla. Beat until fluffy. Stir in jam.
2 unbeaten egg whites
1 1/2 cups sugar
5 tablespoons cold water
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Place egg whites, sugar, water and cream of tartar in bowl over rapidly boiling water, a double boiler if one is available. Beat for seven minutes with whisk or electric mixer. Remove from heat, add vanilla and beat until spreading consistency.
Cut two-inch layer off top of cake. Hollow out a tunnel and put filling inside. Replace top of cake and frost top and sides.
Spam was a popular protein back in the 1940s, for both the military and the folks back home. It was fried and served with eggs for breakfast, sliced and put on a cold sandwich or baked in a brown sugar sauce for dinner. Mike Sherman of Hickory, Pa., was a winner in making it the Hawaiian way, with pineapple, green pepper, apricot preserves and rice and putting it on the grill to simmer in aluminum foil. Sounds good to me.
Spam Oh Laui
1 medium green pepper
1 medium sliced onion
2 cups fresh cubed pineapple
Can of Spam
1/2 cup apricot preserves
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 tablespoon ginger
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 1/4 cups water
1 1/2 cups uncooked rice
Line a disposable pie pan with aluminum foil, leaving extra foil for wrapping it up completely. Combine all ingredients and toss lightly. Close foil and place on a grill for an hour at medium heat. Check for tenderness of vegetables and garnish with coconut before serving if desired.
Note: I would dissolve the cornstarch in the liquid of the soy sauce and vinegar before adding it to the ingredients.
Here is another Spam recipe that was won by an 11-year-old 4-H member, Carly Terensky of Hickory, Pa., in the youth contest. It includes mashed potatoes, cheddar cheese, lasagna noodles and of course Spam. I am not sure what Spam Classic is, but I am sure that any can of Spam would do the trick.
Spam-ashed Potato Perogie Casserole
3 pounds freshly made mashed potatoes, can be from your favorite recipe, instant or frozen
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
8 ounces sour cream
12-ounce can Spam Classic, cut into cubes
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 medium onion, sliced thin
1 box lasagna noodles, cooked and cooled
1 cup melted butter
Mix freshly made mashed potatoes with shredded cheese, Spam, sour cream, salt and pepper. Set aside. Pour small amount of butter into bottom of a glass dish and spread across entire bottom. Lay three lasagna noodles on bottom of pan, then spoon potato and Spam mixture on top. Place one-third of the onions on top of potato mixture, then cover with another three lasagna noodles. Repeat until there are three layers of noodles and potatoes. Pour remaining butter and onions on top. Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.
The winner of the youth Pennsylvania Preferred contest was 13-year-old Marrisa Gottschalk of Prosperity, Pa. These bars are quick to make as there is no mixing of ingredients, quite tasty and ideal for a small treat in the lunch box.
Seven Layer Bars
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup butterscotch chips
1 cup chopped walnuts
14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
1 1/3 cups shredded coconut
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place butter in 13-inch by 9-inch pan and melt in oven; coat bottom and sides. Spread crumbs evenly over bottom of pan. Layer chocolate chips, butterscotch chips and nuts over crumbs. Pour condensed milk over nuts. Sprinkle coconut over milk. Bake for 25 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Cool.
These are all of Summer's contributions for the fair winners, and each one is a real winner. I will likely try each recipe and maybe enter one or two in our Jefferson County Fair next year.
Now I would like to close with a best of show winner in our Jefferson County Fair pie category. It was made by Dawna Kale and purchased by the McCoy family for $35 in the food auction. She shared the recipe with me and here it is.
Custard Pie
3 large eggs
2 cups scalded whole milk
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/8 teaspoon salt
Nutmeg to sprinkle on top, to taste
9-inch pie crust
Beat eggs until light and foamy. Add sugar and salt. Blend well and add scalded milk and vanilla. Brush bottom of pie crust with melted butter, to prevent weeping of the pie filling after it is baked. Pour filling into shell and place desired amount of nutmeg on top, about 1/8 teaspoon should do it. Place on third rack from the bottom of the oven in a preheated 450 degree oven for 10 minutes and 325 degrees for 25 minutes or until a knife comes out clean when inserted into the center of the filling.
Note: My oven only has two racks, so I would put the pie on the rack closest to the bottom of the oven.
The county fairs are over for Summer and me. We only have the memories to last us through until next year. Then there will be more baking winners and more wagers on the weight of grand champion steers. Truthfully, I am looking forward to a piece of Summer's losers pie, not that her pie would be a loser, though.
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President Morsi Makes Concession but Stands by Saturday Constitutional Referendum, Fueling Tensions
CAIRO—President Mohammed Morsi made some concessions to his political opponents on Sunday but dismissed their demands to delay a referendum this week on an Islamist-leaning draft constitution, leading to fresh protests and setting up a dispute with the judiciary that has a long historic precedence.
The leaders of Mr. Morsi's recently united opponents rejected the president's announcement that he planned to lift a controversial constitutional decree that awarded him near-absolute power over the country's secular-minded judiciary.
The National Salvation Front, the lead dissident group opposed to Mr. Morsi and the referendum, on Sunday said it would support the judiciary's boycott of its customary vote-monitoring role. Saturday's vote will "lead to more sedition and division," said Front leader Sameh Ashour.
Thousands of opposition activists thronged the street in front of Mr. Morsi's presidential palace Sunday. They called for further demonstrations on Tuesday, as the president's Islamist backers planned rival protests, raising the threat of fresh violence after six demonstrators were killed in clashes last week.
Though Mr. Morsi's partial climb down gave dissident judges a tenuous window in which to shoot down the draft constitution before Saturday's referendum on it, he has left the Supreme Constitutional Court with few tools in its legal arsenal to scuttle its passage.
Instead, Mr. Morsi's maneuvers appear to have checkmated the judiciary, effectively suppressing the last remaining constraint on his presidency in a way that even Mr. Morsi's successor, ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, likely wouldn't have dared. If the Islamists' winning streak persists and voters pass the constitution on Saturday, it could give Islamists a nearly free hand to redraft the architecture of Egypt's nascent democracy.
"Morsi is paralyzing the Supreme Court on purpose until the referendum," said Mohammed Abdel Hadi, a spokesman for Egypt's Judges' Club—a professional organization that also takes policy positions on the part of its members. "It's too late for the Supreme Court to take any procedures now."
Though Mr. Morsi may be winning his fight for now, he joins a long line of Egyptian leaders whose challenges to the judges have failed.
Throughout the 1960s, President Gamal Abdel Nasser tried in vain to force judges to join the ruling party. He gave up in 1969, on the eve of his death, firing hundreds of judges in the so-called "judges massacre." Instead of breaking the judiciary, however, it became a rallying cry for judicial independence to this day. Nasser's successors, Anwar al-Sadat and Mr. Mubarak, were wary of openly defying the courts. They both wielded near-absolute power but were fastidious about renewing the law giving them that power every few years. Egypt's courts often took them to task.
The courts have repeatedly rendered elections invalid on the basis that the electoral system was unconstitutional. They struck down three-quarters of the legislative elections held during Mr. Mubarak's rule, forcing them to be fully or partially rerun.
After the parliamentary and presidential elections of 2005, more than 100 judges tasked with monitoring the vote spoke out publicly about vote-rigging they say they witnessed. Such public defiance from within government circles was virtually unheard of under Mr. Mubarak.
The Mubarak regime moved to quash judicial dissent after that. His regime censured judges and dispatched phalanxes of security forces to break up judges' meetings and surround courts.
The leaders of the Judges' Club, which led the outcry against the rigged elections in 2005, were pushed out of their leadership positions and replaced by more pliable justices.
Mr. Mubarak then changed the law that required elections to be overseen by judges. The next parliamentary elections, in November 2010, were widely seen as the most rigged election of Mr. Mubarak's tenure, and wiped out nearly all the opposition presence in Parliament. Three months later, he was ousted in a popular uprising.
The current two-week-long conflict with Mr. Morsi's secular opponents has cost the president and his backers in the Muslim Brotherhood a large part of their political capital and public prestige. If the constitution passes Saturday's up-or-down vote—as many politicians predict—the new constitution will effectively neutralize some of the Brothers' harshest critics on the Supreme Constitutional Court bench.
The draft constitution calls for shrinking the size of the court to 11 members from 18, removing the seven most junior judges whom Mr. Mubarak appointed because of their hostility to political Islam. Some of those judges, such as Tahani Al Gibali, have dispensed with judicial objectivity to express public hostility for the Brotherhood.
Mr. Abdel Hadi estimates that three-quarters of the judges will protest the referendum by boycotting the judiciary's traditional monitoring role over the vote. That is the only remaining way for justices to block the Islamist-backed constitution, he said.
The judges' boycott would deal a severe blow to the new document's legitimacy, because the judiciary still enjoys considerable respect among the Egyptian public as an impartial arbiter. "You're still dealing with an institution that has tremendous social prestige in the sense of being almost the last respected bastion of the Egyptian state," said Nathan Brown, an expert on Egyptian law at George Washington University.
The current extended political impasse also marks a judicial role reversal that shows the courts' split personality.
Many of the same judges who once led campaigns for judicial independence under Mr. Mubarak now hold prominent positions in Mr. Morsi's government, where they are working to bring the contrarian judiciary to heel.
Judges who once played a more quiescent role under Mr. Mubarak now find themselves raising the banner of judicial independence against Islamist domination.
"None of them thought before the revolution that the independence of the judiciary was important," said Hisham Raouf, a deputy justice minister in Mr. Morsi's administration, of the Judges' Club members now leading the boycott charge.
Mr. Raouf was once a staunch critic of Mr. Mubarak's efforts to rein in judges. "It's only now that they're talking like this," he said.
—Charles Levinson and Yosra Shohayeb contributed to this article.
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