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World professional Golfers from 20 countries will compete at the Enjoy Jakarta Indonesia PGA Championship 2013 that will play at the Emeralda Golf Club, from 28 – 31 March 2013.
Held under OneAsia Tour and jointly sanctioned by the Japan Golf Tour Organization (JGTO) the event is organized by the World Sports Group (WSG) appointed by the Indonesian Golf Professionals Association (PGPI), and has the full support of Jakarta provincial government, The Enjoy Jakarta Indonesia PGA Champion\ship 2013 has a total of US$ 1 million prizes.
Already 16 professionals have confirmed participation including Shingo Kataya from Japan, KT Kim from Korea, Simon Dyson from England, Liang Weng Chong from China and Jeev M Singh from India. Also competing will be Indonesia's own popular Rory Hie, who finished runner-up in the event in 2011.
Participants are from Japan, China, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, the United States, South Korea, India, Indonesia and more.
The tournament, which has the Jakarta administration as the main sponsor, is the second series scheduled for this year, organized by OneAsia Tour and the Japan Golf Tour Organization (JGTO), with Thailand hosting the opening series on March 14-17.
"This championship helps raise the curtain on our 2013 season in spectacular fashion and we are extremely grateful to Enjoy Jakarta for their support," said Sang Y Chun, OneAsia's chairman and commissioner, in a press release.
"This is OneAsia's fifth season and we have been thrilled with the incredible pace at which we are growing thanks to events like this and outstanding venues like Emeralda," added Chun. Located at Tapos, Depok, the Emeralda Golf Course is one of Jakarta's best golf courses, which offers challenging greens and beautiful scenery. (For detailed information on the Emeralda golf course, please log on to: www. emeralda-golfclub.com)
The Champtionship will be broadcast worldwide, with 60- minutes live reports during the 4 days over Fox Sports/Stars Sports, Jupiter Golf Network and MetroTV, as well as reruns played over these stations.
(Sources: Jakarta Tourism and Culture Office, Jakarta Post)
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Patricia E. "Pat" Carter, 71, died Sunday, December 16, 2012 at her home in Ulysses. Memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012 at the First Baptist Church in Ulysses with Pastor Steve Swann Jr. officiating. Inurnment will be at a later date. Garnand Funeral Home, Ulysses, is in charge of arrangements.
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Each year, Alabama's public schools release an adequate yearly progress report, better known as AYP.
It's part of the of requirements initiated under the no child left behind act, which requires every student in America to be on grade level in reading and math by the year 2014.
Last year, the Houston County School System did not make AYP because of special education. Now they are trying to bounce back.
Ashford Elementary, Ashford High School, Rehoboth Middle School, and Wicksburg High School all failed to meet the standards in special education. Students scored too low on tests like the Alabama Graduation Exam or the Alabama Alternate Assessment.
Because all schools did not reach AYP, the system didn't either.
"We formed a team, literally, immediately here at the central office, and just tried to figure out what is it that we can do better," says Assistant Special Education Coordinator, Denise Whitfield.
In addition, individual schools formed leadership teams and selected an AYP leader.
A new assessment program was also purchased. It features frequent benchmark testing for all students, not just special education.
"That makes all the difference in the world, and you can see it on paper. You can literally see a data chart where a child is mastering concepts or they're not. If they're not then you know you have to back up right then and re-teach," says Whitfield.
And research shows children with special needs require a tremendous amount of repetition.
Now they are tackling that with a team approach using regular and special education teachers.
Whitfield says, "They're all working together to provide children with special needs additional opportunities for exposure to the material. We're exposing them, and then we're testing them. If they master it, great we move on. If not, then we have to go back."
They are already seeing results. Whitfield says the graduation exam results are in for all students, and they look great.
"One school had 65% percent of tenth graders pass the grad exam. Are other schools had 50% percent of their 10th graders pass the grad exam. That's incredible. That tells us what we're doing is working."
School leaders will find out if they reached AYP for this year, sometime in late July or early August. If they didn't, the federal government could step in.


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Maybe I am being daft but can you replace all the characters from where the cursor is to the end of line by one command? Then use . to do the same replace on the next line and so on.
If I understood your question properly, try this:
C will delete everything from the cursor to the end of the line and put you in INSERT mode, then you write your replacement, leave INSERT mode, use . to repeat the process somewhere else.
Adding to sr_'s answer:
If your cursor starts at the same position on each line, you might be interested in the Visual Block feature.
Type the following in order, with your cursor in the initial position:
This should create a rectangular selection going from your cursor on the first line to the end of the line [X] lines below.
You can then replace your whole selection:
I use visual block whenever I can, I thought I'd share
C or c$ is for "change" and R is for "replace".
Two almost similar behavior. The former would get the line deleted before you start typing; while the latter would let you type over the characters and possibly go beyond the limit of the old line's characters displayed.
Just press 'C' i.e. Capital C in the command mode, and type the replacement text.
The other answers missed these, they don't enter insert mode.
Then of course use .


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The following websites have updated lists of funding opportunities for programs, projects and organizations working to end violence against women and children:
VAWnet.org: National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Many funding opportunities are also available from The Office on Violence Against Women. These opportunities are listed on their Grant Programs webpage.
This page provides information on currently available grant programs and how to apply. The actual grant application process will direct you towards the grants.gov website, but the OVW site contains a more manageable list of programs specific to the prevention of violence against women to get you started.
Grants 101 - http://www.ojp.gov/grants101/index.htm
This online guide provides: An overview of the OJP grant process for competitive and non-competitive programs; Tips on how to find funding opportunities and write strong applications; A description of the application review process and; Links to other resources, including the OJP Financial Guide and sample application materials.
Proposal Writing Short Course - http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/shortcourse/index.html
From the Foundation Center, this short online grant proposal writing lesson will walk the user through all steps of the grant writing process.


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MORRISTOWN - Down eight to a hot-shooting Union Local team Monday, visiting Indian Creek needed someone to step up and take control of the offense.
Junior Brooke Mains took it upon herself to be that someone, scoring six quick points off steals to close the half and bring her team within four at 26-22.
Later in the fourth, it was Mains again who answered the bell, scoring seven points down the stretch to lead her team to a 50-43 win against the Jets, securing the Buckeye 8 team championship in the process.
Mains finished with 16 points and sevens steals as Creek improved to 13-5 with back-to-back home dates against Cambridge and Wheeling Park waiting later in the week.
"I told her during a timeout that was what I liked to see out of my point guard," Indian Creek coach Erin DeSantis said. "She played with guts and didn't back down."
Mains played nearly the entire fourth quarter with three fouls and yet her tenacity on either end of the court never slacked off.
She slipped right, taking advantage of a screen and canned a triple with 4:17 left in the fourth, giving the visitors their first lead since starting off up 2-0 in the first.
That bucket was the midway point of a 12-0 run that saw Creek rally from down five to up seven.
Bri Berryman led the Redskins with 19 points but was battling through the flu virus. So when a big bucket was needed, it was Mains who answered the bell.
Defensively, the visitors made a few adjustments at halftime and finally managed to get a handle on the Jets' patient attack that was earlier effortlessly working the ball around the perimeter and producing open looks at the basket.
The Jets' trio of Dallas Montag, Kayla Doty and Cori Medley were on fire early, combing for 22 points at halftime.
Their inside game was relatively non-existent, what with the 6-foot-5 Berryman and 6-2 Kiarra Kamarec erecting a virtual no-fly zone within 10-feet, swatting anything that crossed their paths.
The Jets were content to shoot from the outside and they were getting open looks.
The problem came when Creek started fighting through screens and forcing quick shots in the second half. Now rushed, UL wasn't having quite the success. And when the home team deliberately slowed the tempo to run time off the clock, turnovers ensued.
"We were able to control the ball for the most part, but when we were deliberate and over emphasized being patient, we lost our composure and had turnovers," a disappointed Union Local coach Drew Greenwood said. "We know we can't beat good teams without good ball control. We were able to create with screen and get the mismatches we wanted early. But when you make bad plays against good teams it goes badly."
Union Local only committed 14 turnovers, but Creek, and Mains in particular, seemed to make the Jets pay for each and every one. Of her 16 points, eight were a direct result of steals she converted into a layup or a short jumper.
"I think in the fourth we wore them down a bit," DeSantis said. "No one was able to slack off. They have some many good shooters that you can't slack off. If you leave one open to help out with another, they will burn you."
Indian Creek 50, Union Local 43
Indian Creek 10 12 12 16 - 50
Union Local 17 9 10 7 - 43
INDIAN CREEK: Berryman 9 1-2 19; Kamarec 3 0-4 6; Mains 7 0-2 16; Davis 1 3-4 5; Shumko 1 3-4 5; Ruckman 0 0-0 0; Durbin 1 0-0 2; Totals: 22-45 4-12 50. 3-pointers: Mains 2.
UNION LOCAL: Doty 4 4-4 14; Stiles 1 0-2 2; Medley 6 0-0 14; Collins 1 0-0 2; Montag 3 0-0 9; Delaney 0 0-0 0; Patton 1 0-0 2; Totals: 16-46 4-6 43. 3-pointers: Doty 2, Medley 2, Montag 3.


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25 Nov 2013 12:10 AM #1
Wrong calculation of scrollbars and margins
i want to have a panel with a fixed width in a centerlayoutcontainer. And the centerlayoutcontainer should have scrollbars so, that the panel is always completely visible. Around the panel there should be 20px margins, so that there is a little space around the fixed panel. I can't get this work because the scrollbars aren't calculated correctly. Look at my example. If you change the height of the dialog so that the fixed panel is bigger than the dialog, the left side of the fixed panel ist gone and not visible anymore.
Is this a bug? Can you give me an advise how i can get this work?
I am using gwt 2.5.1 and gxt 3.0.6. The issue is reproduceable in every browser.
final Dialog dialog = new Dialog(); dialog.setMaximizable(true); final BorderLayoutData eastData = new BorderLayoutData(170); eastData.setMargins(new Margins(0, 0, 0, 5)); eastData.setCollapsible(true); final MarginData centerData = new MarginData(); final BorderLayoutContainer blcContent = new BorderLayoutContainer(); blcContent.setBorders(true); final VerticalLayoutContainer vlcCenter = new VerticalLayoutContainer(); vlcCenter.setScrollMode(ScrollMode.AUTO); final CenterLayoutContainer clcCenter = new CenterLayoutContainer(); final SimpleContainer con = new SimpleContainer(); con.setPixelSize(1322, 762); final ContentPanel cpCenter = new ContentPanel(); cpCenter.setHeadingHtml("Center"); cpCenter.setPixelSize(1282, 722); con.add(cpCenter, new MarginData(20)); clcCenter.add(con); vlcCenter.add(clcCenter, new VerticalLayoutData(1, 1)); final ContentPanel cpEast = new ContentPanel(); cpEast.setHeadingHtml("East"); blcContent.setEastWidget(cpEast, eastData); blcContent.setCenterWidget(vlcCenter, centerData); dialog.add(blcContent); dialog.setPixelSize(Window.getClientWidth() - 100, Window.getClientHeight() - 100); dialog.show(); Window.addResizeHandler(new ResizeHandler() { @Override public void onResize(ResizeEvent event) { if (dialog.isMaximized()) { dialog.setPixelSize(Window.getClientWidth(), Window.getClientHeight()); } else { dialog.setPixelSize(Window.getClientWidth() - 100, Window.getClientHeight() - 100); } } });
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I haven't run this yet, but this code confuses me (so it probably really confuses gxt):
final CenterLayoutContainer clcCenter = new CenterLayoutContainer(); final SimpleContainer con = new SimpleContainer(); con.setPixelSize(1322, 762); final ContentPanel cpCenter = new ContentPanel(); cpCenter.setHeadingHtml("Center"); cpCenter.setPixelSize(1282, 722); con.add(cpCenter, new MarginData(20)); clcCenter.add(con);
- SimpleContainer (1322 x 762)
- - ContentPanel (1282 x 722) (margindata:20px)
From that, the ContentPanel is all of the space in the SimpleContainer, which itself is floating inside the CenterLayoutContainer if there is room. Nothing about scrolling.
The job of the CenterLayoutContainer is to a) take the size given from its parent (vlc, layout data says 100% of width and height), b) assume that the child is sized, and c) based on available space and size of child, center the child by setting its position. If the child is too big to fit, then it doesn't fit - we can't center something that doesn't fit. Actually, that's a lie...
...we can center something that doesn't fit, and we do, but it doesnt *make* it fit any better. A 400x400 object centered in a 200x200 space skips the first and last 100px of each dimension. That doesn't *really* make sense in terms of layouts though. I'm not entirely yet sure why CenterLayoutContainer is behaving the way that it is (i.e. drawing a scrollbar, etc), but I'm also not sure that it is behaving inconsistently.
Setting the overflow on the VLC doesn't do a lot, since the VLC is being told to given *its* child (here the CenterLC) exactly the same size as the VLC has. If the VLC has 100x100, the CenterLC will have 100x100, and no amount of configuration can center an object that is 1322x762 in that space (nor will scrolling or other positioning make that centering make sense, so CenterLC doesnt do it).
Can you describe or diagram the layout you are trying to achieve? The assembly of objects *seems* to draw what you've asked it to - draw a dialog slightly smaller than the browser window, make a big panel in that, and if space is available center it, otherwise Bad Things happen. The 20px margin should have no real effect here, except to make the space that the ContentPanel live in be larger and thus the "can't center if there isn't enough space" issue occur sooner.


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In an transitioning agile environment, if there was no Test Driven Development (no unit tests created), should you create unit tests to catch up on technical debt? And to what extent? Should they cover every little feature, or more of a happy path style?
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I would suggest that you go back and do those unit tests when you are required to refactor that area of legacy code. The approach for do this is described in this question.
When you are working with legacy code with no unit tests, its the same principle and techniques to add them regardless if you are doing TDD or not.
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No. It's too late for the tests to affect the design, so you can't get the major benefit of TDD.
What you can do, however, is to write tests as you work on the code. Say you've got a method that's too long. Write a test of a little piece of it, assuming that little piece had been extracted into a new method. Now extract that method. Or say a bug report comes in; this is an opportunity to improve your design (and incidentally your test coverage). Write a regression test that demonstrates the bug. Study your code to understand the root cause of the bug. Now write a good unit test that expresses how that root cause should be behaving. Make that test pass, and if you did it right, the regression test will be passing, too.
TDD tests really need to happen (a) in advance of; and (b) very close in time to the code that they are testing. So accept that it's too late to retrofit your code "for the sake of TDD"; just get into the habit. With the practices outlined above, the code that needs the tests will get them.
Covering the existing code with unit tests might be worthwhile if you target the area of the code that have higher probability of being changed in upcoming releases.
That way you will build a safety net around the code that likely will be changed (new features, refactoring, bug fixes etc).
Targeting the code that has higher logical complexity and covering it with unit tests will provide potentially higher ROI as possible mistakes introduced in that code are more likely to be discovered (faster/easier) with unit tests than during system or integration testing.
The key question is can you afford for it to go wrong?
And the answer to this quite often is dependent on how quickly you can fix the problem if it occurs - debug it until it works in production. While not a nice place to be, for some things that once done, should never need to be revisited you can get away with having no tests.
If your business / lives depend on it working or if it goes wrong it would be hard to fix (pentium bug) then definatly anything you touch should have a safety net of a test put in it's place.
If it doesn't really matter if it goes wrong, don't worry about it. Concentrate on the parts that really do matter.


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Howard Johnson Dalton
Dalton, GA 30720
706-281-1880 | 800-526-3766
At Howard Johnson Inn Dalton, guests experience the conveniences of a contemporary hotel with the charm of a country inn. Along with our legendary service, guests also can enjoy a complimentary breakfast with Belgian waffles, an Internet computer kiosk in the lobby, complimentary weekday newspaper, an on-site fitness center, and a sparkling swimming pool.
All of our spacious rooms include comfortable beds, work area with free wireless Internet access, 25-inch television with cable or satellite TV and a premium movie channel, hairdryer, free local calls, and alarm clock radio. Our premium guest rooms offer a microwave, refrigerator and coffee maker.
Whether you are visiting for leisure or business, you will have a perfect stay every time at Howard Johnson Inn.
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Hours of Operation
Sunday: All Day
Monday: All Day
Tuesday: All Day
Wednesday: All Day
Thursday: All Day
Friday: All Day
Saturday: All Day
Average Nightly Rate
Facility Amenities
Complimentary Breakfast, Complimentary Local Shuttle, Free Parking, Outdoor Pool, Parking on Site, Restaurant Nearby
General Information
Miles from Convention Center: .5
Miles from Downtown: 2
Group Amenities
Group-friendly, Motorcoach-friendly
Internet Connectivity
Free Wi-Fi
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Grilled Treviso Salad
Walnut Bread Croutons, Goat Cheese and Pancetta
Treviso is a type of radicchio lettuce that is shaped like a head of cabbage. Grilling the Treviso provides an exciting smoky char that really elevates this salad.
Serves 6, total time:
- ½ loaf walnut bread, torn into bite size pieces
- ½ cup olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 ounces pancetta, diced small
- 3 heads of Treviso or radicchio, cut in half
- ¼ cup aged (15-20 year) balsamic vinegar
- 4 ounces goat cheese, with ash rind, crumbled
- ¼ cup chives, sliced thin
- Preheat the oven to 300°F and the barbecue grill to high.
- Toss the walnut bread with the olive oil, salt and pepper. Toast in the oven for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
- Place the pancetta onto a cookie tray and bake in the oven for 20 minutes or until crispy.
- Put the Treviso in a large mixing bowl and coat with the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper. Place on the grill and cook for 1-2 minutes per side. Once all sides are charred remove from the grill and place onto a plate to cool for 3 minutes.
- Cut the Treviso into bite size pieces and re-toss in the same mixing bowl as before to use up any of the oil and balsamic left in the bowl.
- Place the Treviso on a platter and garnish with the walnut croutons, pancetta, goat cheese and chives. Serve immediately.
Chef's Note:
High quality aged balsamic vinegar is the best dressing to use with bitter lettuces like Treviso and radicchio. The sweetness of the balsamic counters the spicy bitterness to create a wonderful sweet and sour flavor; the Italians call this "Agro-Dolce."
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City Government easier and more responsive to the needs of residents,
its business owners and visitors. The City of Little Rock 3-1-1 system
is a part of the 2004 Bond Project approved by the voters.
9-1-1 service is for emergencies, such as house fires and violent
crimes, which require an immediate response by police, fire crews or an
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From Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" to Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman," poetry moves, inspires, and strengthens us. In honor of National Poetry Month, the Auburn Montgomery Department of English and Philosophy will present "4 Mondays of Poetry," for the community's enjoyment. Mark your calendar for the following free public events:
Local Poets Reading April 7, 7:30 p.m. Cloverdale Playhouse Jeanie Thompson, Tony Crunk, Jessica Cornelson, and Kimberly Wright will read from their work at the lovely Cloverdale Playhouse.
Open Mic for High School and College Students April 14, 4 p.m. Booker T. Washington Magnet High School
Emceed by BTW faculty member and AUM alumnus Foster Dickson, this event will give area high school and college students the opportunity to take the stage and share their rhymes with the world. All local college and high school students are encouraged to attend and/or participate.
Poetry Writing Workshop April 21, 7:30 p.m. AUM campus
Limited to ten participants, this workshop will help budding poets perfect their craft. Barbara Wiedemann, AUM professor of English and director of creative writing, will lead the event. Wiedemann has authored three chapbooks, Half-Life of Love, Sometime in October, and Death of a Pope and Other Poems. For more information on the workshop, contact Wiedemann at email@example.com.
Poetry Reading with Denise Duhamel April 28, 7:30 p.m. AUM, Goodwyn Hall 109
Denise Duhamel, a 2013 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, will read from her work. Duhamel is the author of 12 poetry books and 11 chapbooks, including Blowout, Ka-Ching, and Two and Two. More than 300 of her poems have appeared in poetry magazines including American Poetry Review, and she was guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2013. A professor at Florida International University in Miami, she is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
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Minister of Higher Education Dr. Khalid Al-Anqari has approved the establishment of four new faculties at Jeddah's Dar Al-Hekma College.
The decision means that Dar Al-Hekma, the Kingdom's first private college for women, will become a university.
The new Faculty of Health Sciences and Humanities will specialize in special education, nursing, as well as speech, hearing and occupational therapy. The Faculty of Law and International Relations will specialize in law and diplomatic and international relations, while the Faculty of Business and Economy will specialize in administrative information system, banking, financing, marketing, human resources and accounting. The Faculty of Design and Architecture will specialize in areas such as graphic design, interior design, dress design and architecture.
Established in 1999, Dar Al-Hekma is a private college for women located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It offers English-language degree programs in six majors.
The school also has a joint program in diplomacy and international relations with The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. The program is designed to prepare future women diplomats and experts in international relations.


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History of Hall Green
Hall Green has evolved from a rural backwater into one of the most desirable places to live in Birmingham, offering affordable status in still pleasant surroundings. Local attention to the quality of residential life and to conservation issues have played an important part in this process.
Survival of traces of the past can often be in name only, and there are some examples of medieval names still used. Bromhale, Greet Mill, and Six Weyes are examples going back to the fourteenth century and beyond. Sixteenth century documents mentioned Sarehole Mill, Four Ways, Busmere, Shartmore Laine, Hawes House and Hawe Green and other locations. This House became the Hall, and Hawe Green became Hall Green. Just across from the Hall, Marston Chappell (now the Church of the Ascension) was built in 1703. This was the old centre of Hall Green, supplemented in late Victorian times by a collection of houses known as the Hamlet. Hall Green has lost this centre, and does not have one, unless the Stratford Road is seen as a very elongated one!
In Hall Green, the process of urbanisation was rather special. There was a high proportion of private housing constructed, which tended to be built without the grand sweeping planning characteristic of inter-war municipal estates, and many green spaces were left enclosed behind the new roads. The Residents Association of 1925, the first in the country, sought to minimise the loss of mature trees during the urbanisation process, and has continued to address this and other conservation issues vigorously. A lot of money was indeed spent on infrastructure, which contributed to the creation of a high quality of life in Hall Green. However, since the Second World War, further more intensive development has been a constant threat to this greenest of suburbs. Large houses have been pulled down and replaced by groups of small 'townhouses' or flats, and nurseries, sports grounds, unused areas behind gardens, and even long gardens themselves, have been targets of developers.
One of the most attractive areas in the whole City is on the edge of Hall Green: the River Cole valley. The City has kept faith with early plans to retain the valley as a green corridor, and the River Cole and Chinn Brook Conservation Group pursues this aim very effectively today. There is now a continuous walkway from Solihull Lodge to the Ackers and beyond. The Group argues for nature conservation, and also seeks the preservation of old hedgerows, fragments of ancient woodland, and other remnants of historic landscape. These 'time-slips' are present in surprising places, and the Group tries to make local people and the City authorities aware of them, and also to value them.
Industrial Past
Hall Green's history is not just a question of rural to suburban, however: there is an interesting industrial past. This is not just a matter of smithies and of mills, some of which ground blades or rolled metal. Some of the more recent industrial activity was also there before the houses. Early Ordnance Survey maps show a small building in the fields, known as the Robin Hood Works. This became Newey Goodman, manufactures of 'smallwares', employing over a thousand people. A small chocolate factory appeared before the First World War at Webb Lane, which later made electric vehicles and fork lift trucks in particular. Aldis Brothers built a factory on a green field site in 1914 at Sarehole Road, and made world famous signalling lamps. York Road was home to one of the great names in British motorcycling: Velocette. Although a residential area will seek to minimise the presence and effect of industry, it is time to honour this industrial heritage. Most of the sites have been replaced by housing. Nowadays there are a few rows of workshops left, and York Road still has a factory, but Hedges' 'L260' snuff factory, a local curiosity, has also gone.
There are other famous names associated with Hall Green. Comedian Tony Hancock was born on Southam Road, the world famous author J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, lived near Sarehole Mill as a young boy, and Nigel Mansell, one of Britain's greatest racing drivers, spent most of his childhood and early adult years in Hall Green.
The Library
The Library acts as the focus for local history activity in Hall Green. The Local History Society meets in the library once a month, and has its own archive of local history materials. The library has a collection of photographs, maps, and news cuttings as well as a selection of books about Birmingham and the surrounding area.
The Library Service and Tempus Publishing have jointly published a book about Hall Green, compiled by Michael Byrne, which contains over 200 old photographs of Hall Green. It costs £9.99 and is available from bookshops, the Library Service or direct from Tempus (01453 883300). The ISBN is 0752406787.
The library is seeking to expand its collection of local history materials. If you can help with information, if you have any old photographs, or if you have an enquiry about the history of Hall Green, you can get in touch by e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
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I want to
import std; and do some
std.syslog. However, when I restart varnish, the VCC compiler fails:
$ sudo service varnish restart
* Stopping HTTP accelerator varnishd [ OK ]
* Starting HTTP accelerator varnishd [fail]
SMA.s0: max size 2048 MB.
Message from VCC-compiler:
Could not load module std
/usr/lib/varnish/vmods/libvmod_std.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
('input' Line 15 Pos 8)
import std;
Running VCC-compiler failed, exit 1
VCL compilation failed
I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 and my varnish version:
$ varnishd -V
varnishd (varnish-3.0.0 revision cbf1284)
Copyright (c) 2006 Verdens Gang AS
Copyright (c) 2006-2011 Varnish Software AS
std a built-in VMOD? How can I solve this? Thanks.
UPDATE: I managed to upgrade Varnish to 3.0.3 by following the instructions on their official website. However, I still don't understand why
std is not there in 3.0.0.


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Antibiotic-associated diarrhea describes frequent, watery bowel movements (diarrhea) that occur in response to medications used to treat bacterial infections (antibiotics).
Most often, antibiotic-associated diarrhea is mild and clears up shortly after you stop taking the antibiotic. But in some cases, antibiotic-associated diarrhea leads to colitis, an inflammation of your colon, or a more serious form of colitis called pseudomembranous colitis. Both can cause abdominal pain, fever and bloody diarrhea.
Mild antibiotic-associated diarrhea may not require treatment. More serious antibiotic-associated diarrhea may require stopping or switching antibiotic medications.
Antibiotic-associated diarrhea can cause signs and symptoms that range from mild to severe.
For most people, antibiotic-associated diarrhea causes mild signs and symptoms, such as:
Antibiotic-associated diarrhea is likely to begin about a week after you start the antibiotic therapy. Sometimes, however, diarrhea and other symptoms may not appear for days or even weeks after you've finished antibiotic treatment.
Some people experience a more serious form of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. When the overgrowth of harmful bacteria is severe, you may have signs and symptoms of colitis or pseudomembranous colitis, such as:
Call your doctor right away if you experience signs and symptoms of serious antibiotic-associated diarrhea. These signs and symptoms are common to a number of conditions, so your doctor may recommend tests to determine the cause.
Antibiotic-associated diarrhea occurs when antibacterial medications (antibiotics) upset the balance of good and bad bacteria in your gastrointestinal tract.
Nearly all antibiotics can cause antibiotic-associated diarrhea, colitis or pseudomembranous colitis. The antibiotics most commonly linked to antibiotic-associated diarrhea include:
Your digestive tract is a complex ecosystem that's home to millions of microorganisms (intestinal flora), including hundreds of species of bacteria. Many of these bacteria are beneficial, performing essential functions.
But some of the bacteria that normally inhabit your intestinal tract are potentially dangerous. These harmful bacteria are usually kept in check by beneficial bacteria unless the delicate balance between the two is disturbed by illness, medications or other factors.
Antibiotics can be especially disruptive to intestinal flora because they destroy beneficial bacteria along with harmful ones. Sometimes, without enough "good" microorganisms, "bad" bacteria that are resistant to the antibiotic you received grow out of control, producing toxins that can damage the bowel wall and trigger inflammation.
The bacterium responsible for almost all cases of pseudomembranous colitis and many instances of severe antibiotic-associated diarrhea is C. difficile. Most people acquire a C. difficile infection during a stay in a hospital or nursing home after they've received antibiotics.
Antibiotic-associated diarrhea can occur in anyone who undergoes antibiotic therapy. But you're more likely to develop antibiotic-associated diarrhea if you:
The most severe form of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, pseudomembranous colitis, can rarely lead to life-threatening complications, including:
Start by seeing your family doctor or a general practitioner if you have signs or symptoms of antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Your doctor will investigate the potential causes of your signs and symptoms.
Because appointments can be brief, and because there's often a lot of ground to cover, it's a good idea to be well prepared. Here's some information to help you get ready, and what to expect from your doctor.
Your time with your doctor is limited, so preparing a list of questions can help you make the most of your time together. List your questions from most important to least important in case time runs out. For antibiotic-associated diarrhea, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
In addition to the questions that you've prepared to ask your doctor, don't hesitate to ask questions that occur to you during your appointment.
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions. Being ready to answer them may allow more time to cover other points you want to address. Your doctor may ask:
Continue taking your antibiotics as directed by your doctor.
To cope with diarrhea until your appointment, you can:
To diagnose antibiotic-associated diarrhea, your doctor may:
Treatment for antibiotic-associated diarrhea depends on the severity of your signs and symptoms.
If you have mild diarrhea, your symptoms may clear up within a few days after your antibiotic treatment ends. In some cases your doctor may advise you to stop your antibiotic therapy until your diarrhea subsides. In the meantime, your doctor may recommend home care techniques to help you cope with diarrhea until it resolves on its own.
If you experience colitis or pseudomembranous colitis, your doctor may prescribed antibiotics to kill the harmful bacteria causing your antibiotic-associated diarrhea. For many people, this approach will clear up signs and symptoms. For those with pseudomembranous colitis, diarrhea symptoms may return and require repeated treatment.
To cope with diarrhea, try to:
Take probiotics. Probiotics are organisms, such as bacteria and yeast, that can help restore a healthy balance to the intestinal tract by boosting the level of good bacteria to help defeat the harmful bacteria. Probiotics are available in capsule or liquid form and are also added to some foods, such as certain brands of yogurt.
Studies confirm that some probiotics, including Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Saccharomyces boulardii, used in conjunction with antibiotics may be helpful as a treatment for antibiotic-associated diarrhea. However, further research is needed to better understand which strains of bacteria are most helpful or what doses are needed.
To help prevent antibiotic-associated diarrhea, try to:
Consider probiotics if you've had antibiotic-associated diarrhea in the past. Probiotics are concentrated supplements of beneficial organisms, such as bacteria and yeast, that you take in capsule or liquid form. Some yogurts and other foods also contain probiotics.
Some evidence suggests that taking probiotics during antibiotic treatment may reduce the risk of diarrhea in people who've had antibiotic-associated diarrhea caused by C. difficile in the past. Some studies haven't found probiotics to be useful. Ask your doctor about whether probiotics could help you.
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Honoring the Legacy, 2010
A Tribute to the Dominican Sisters, founders of Mount
Saint Mary College
February 9, 2010
A lecture by Fr. William Byron, SJ
Dominican Charism in
Health Care
March 16, 2011
A lecture by Br. Ignatius Perkins
The Messiah Lecture
April 7, 2011
A lecture by Patrick Doering, PhD and David Berger, PhD
Inaugural Philosophy Workshop: Thomas
Aquinas and Contemporary Philosophy
June 2011
October 5, 2011
A lecture by William Carroll, PhD
My So-Called
October 12, 2011
A film screening at the Mount with the Emmy award-winning director
Lisa Gossels
Spirituality in
Patient Care
March 8, 2012
A lecture by Dr. Jo Ann Middleton, Drew University
The Second Annual Messiah
Lecture: The Messianic Idea in the Dead Sea
March 29, 2012
A lecture by Dr. Lawrence Schiffman, Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Education, and Professor of Judaic Studies at Yeshiva
University, New York, NY
Second Annual Philosophy Workshop: Thomas
Aquinas & the Mind/Body Problem
June 2012
Church of
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September 27, 2012
A lecture by Fr. Robert Christian, OP
St. Catherine of
Siena, A Woman for Our Times
October 11, 2012
Sr. Nancy Murray, OP presented her one-woman show in which she
depicts the life of St. Catherine of Siena
The Abacus and the
November 19, 2012
Author Nancy Marie Brown gave a presentation on her new book, The
Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light
of Science to the Dark Ages
The Anticipatory Corpse: Medical Power and the Care of the
March 26, 2013
Lecture by Jeffrey Bishop, PhD
Third Annual Thomas
Aquinas Philosophy Workshop
June 13-16, 2013
Founders Day Reception
October 7, 2013
Lincoln's Battle with
October 8, 2013
A lecture by New York Times bestselling author Stephen
Awakening to Faith: We are Made of Stardust
October 14, 2013
A lecture by Fr. George Coyne, SJ
New Hires Reception
October 17, 2013
Ralph and Aquinas Reception
October 24, 2013
Keynote Speaker: Sister Diane Kennedy
The Dominican
Charism & The Arts
February 25, 2014
Keynote Speaker: Sister Jo-Ann Iannotti
In My Bones: Biblical Foundations of the Dominican
March 5, 2014
Keynote Speaker: Sister Laurie Brink, OP, PhD
Teaching as a
Contemplative Act
March 6, 2014
Keynote Speaker: Sister Laurie Brink, OP, PhD
Book Lecture:
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March 26, 2014
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Mansfield
Relations Since Vatican II
April 3, 2014
Keynote Speaker: Rabbi Alan Brill, PhD
Fourth Annual
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June 5-8, 2014
The Menorah & The
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October 1, 2014 at 7 pm
Contemplation in
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October 6, 2014 at 7 pm
Founders Day
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Nurturing the
Global Citizen Within
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Water into
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A faculty luncheon with Dr. Kevin Vost
November 3, 2014 at Noon
St. Martin de
Porres: Thinker, Doer, Lover
A lecture by Dr. Kevin Vost
November 3, 2014 at 7 pm
How do Bishops and the Laity teach the Catholic
A lecture by Fr. Robert Christian
November 13, 2014 at 7 pm
St. Thomas Fest
February 4, 2015 | A special reception for faculty
Preparing for a Good
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February 17, 2015 | A lecture by Sister Ann Willits, OP
Spirituality in the Lenten Season
February 18, 2015 | A lecture by Sister Ann Willits, OP
This Lent, are we coming
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Pursuing Happiness: Jane Austen & Aquinas in Dialogue on Life's
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Seder Meal
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Siena Fest
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Fifth Annual Philosophy
June 4-7, 2015
Accidental Theologians: Four Women who Shaped
September 29, 2015 | A lecture by Dr. Elizabeth Dreyer
Does a Biologist Need a
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Founders Day
October 7, 2015
Spirit of the Mount Week
October 11-17, 2015
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The spokeswoman for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Saturday condemned the e-mail hacking and disclosure of private messages exchanged between members of the Bush family.
"This is an outrageous breach of privacy that is the matter of a criminal investigation, so we will not be commenting further," she said in a statement to CNN.
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Suppose we have some function $f(x)$ with local extrema at $x_1, x_2, \dots$, and a second function $g(x)$ which is continuous, strictly increasing and non-zero everywhere over the range of the $x_i$. Will $g(f(x))$ have its local extrema at the same $x_i$ and no others?
If so, are there any obvious loosenings of the constraints on $g$ for which this will remain true?
(I'm really thinking of this in the context of signal processing, looking at transformations that preserve the visual structure of an image, but it seems like a general question that must have been trivially proved by someone 250 years ago...)


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My impression is that 町 tends to be used for smaller cities and 街 tends to be used for larger ones. Is this correct? If not, what is the difference?
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That is correct. According to 文化庁, 町 is similar to
For example, you can say センター街 (center-gai), but not センター町 (center-cho). This is because センター街 refers to "streets with small businesses". If there was a センター町, hypothetically speaking, a Japanese would imagine some area where small businesses are scattered here and there, rather than an area with a few streets with small businesses packed together.
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Yankees Facing Multiple-Choice Test
Yankee spring training typically features about as much true competition as elections in a banana republic. Any races are mostly an illusion, the incumbents return time and again, and only one or two fringe spots are actually up for grabs. For the past decade or more, Yankee managers have usually written the names of the future Hall of Famers and established veterans on the lineup cards, and then decided on one or two trivial spots on the bench or in the bullpen before the Yankees break camp.
Not so this spring.
With a week to go in spring training, as many as six roster spots could still be up for grabs, and even more specific roles remain unsettled. This is a camp full of uncertainty and competition, in a way few Yankee camps have been in years.
Often, what passes for Yankee camp competition amounts to a situation where it's obvious that both players will make the roster, but in different roles, as in the case of catchers Francisco Cervelli and Chris Stewart this year.
This March, the competition is real. For most of these jobs, one player will make the team, and the losers will head off to the minor leagues or to other clubs.
Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson have long-term injuries that will keep them out through at least the first month, and on Friday Yankee brass said that lefty specialist Clay Rapada will join them on the DL. Starter Phil Hughes is likely to start the season on the shelf as well, while Derek Jeter's status for the first week is up in the air.
Coupled with the large number of players the Yankees brought in on one-year contracts or to fight for bench jobs, that leaves 10 men fighting over six spots in the final week of the season, with many decisions perhaps coming down to the weekend before opening day, a weekend when the Yankees play Army at West Point, said manager Joe Girardi.
"These are things that we have to evaluate," Girardi said. "We have a week to evaluate it. It could be as late as the Army game that you make your decision."
The decisions are complicated by the fact that they all overlap; the number of lefty or righty batters playing the outfield affects the number of such batters chosen to play infield positions, for instance, while who makes the rotation will have an impact on the composition of the bullpen.
"Let's just say, hypothetically, you were going to take six infielders," Girardi said. "Well, you're not going to take all left-handed bats, so you have to figure out how it fits. You got to think about it as a platoon situation. There's a lot of things you have to think about."
Six position players are fighting over four spots in the infield and outfield, with major league vets Brennan Boesch and Ben Francisco likely having the best chance at landing outfield spots, and Jayson Nix and Dan Johnson the best possibilities for infield jobs. But minor leaguers Ronnier Mustelier and Melky Mesa are right there with that group, with Mustelier challenging Johnson in the infield and Mesa competing hard to push Francisco aside in the outfield.
On the pitching side, fourth starter Hughes is likely to miss the first days of spring, meaning David Phelps and Ivan Nova should slide into the fourth and fifth spots in the rotation, postponing their battle over the final rotation spot, for the time being. Coupled with Rapada's absence, that leaves two spots open in the Yankee bullpen, one for a long man, another for a second lefty alongside Boone Logan.
Those positions will likely be filled from among the group of major league righties with big league time in 2012. They are Shawn Kelley, Cody Eppley, Jim Miller and minor league lefty Vidal Nuno, a heretofore unknown pitcher out of the independent leagues who has impressed this spring.
"Nuno has opened everybody's eyes and taken a run at it, still trying to force his way on," general manager Brian Cashman said.
It has all made for an unusually uncertain roster, and a crowded locker room, with less than a week until the Yankees leave Florida. And it may get more complicated. Cashman said he still expects to add a piece or two from other teams' castoffs in the final week, making a cloudy picture even murkier in spring training's final days.
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Listen to Matt's interview with Hosts Eric Kavanagh and Jim Ericson along with panelist Nimitt Desai of Deloitte, Geoff Malafsky of Phasic Systems and Josh Rogers of Syncsort.
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Bitches love when the subwoofers light up like a sketcher
That's some serious biznassssssssss!
I'll post a pic of my dope ass headset when I get home.
Oh ye forgat da hedfones
Damn you got a white hand.
Had to put the flash on I was practically invisible in that poorly lit room
He got a case of the whiteness.
I should be buying a decent set of cans within the next month or two, looking at dt770 pro with a fiio headphone amp. Also about to buy a Sansa Clip+ and Some RHA MA-350's on thursday so i don't have to take my s3 to work again and break it more.
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Just received my velour ear pads for the Superlux 668b i ordered to keep me happy until i can afford something better. They so comfy and sound better than my brothers MDR-V6 for less than half the price.
Some big ass headphones dude
They're actually a lot smaller than they look, in pictures they look massive. Wouldn't matter if they were as i have my Modded JVC marshmallow IEM and on ear Sony xb300 for wearing in public.
Only headphones that have lasted for more than a year!
Hey I said serious entries only, a stock photo from some online store isn't very serious
Why must you spit in my face so
I don't have them with me to take a photo. My saliva is my own! ;_;
Where have all the serious entries gone.
If I remember I can snap a photo or two.
Axiom VP150 Center, Axiom QS8 Rears, Fluance ES1 Towers, Pioneer VSX1017 Receiver, and a 12" Velodyne sub that I can't remember anything else about......she works good, real good.
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I usually have the sub off completely when watching movies and have to really watch the volume as I live in a Townhouse. I cannot WAIT to move! I have wires galore showing but she works.
I am also big into car audio but have damn near stopped as it was a big ol money pit. I just want to get these speakers in that have been sitting in my room for almost a year and then call her quits!


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February 18, 2011
Cape Town rocks to U2 concert
Photos and videos by Mary Schultz
Tens of thousands of Capetonians flocked to see popular Irish band U2 on Friday, 18 February, at the Cape Town Stadium.
The fans seemed to thoroughly enjoy the show, with glowing comments on social networking sites abounding. "It's fantastic!" said Kerry Macdonald from inside Cape Town Stadium, before the concert actually began. "It's well organised and there are 70-odd-thousand fans waiting in anticipation. Lots of refreshments available and no loo queues (very NB!). Awesome Fan Walk too!"
"It was mind-blowing! #U2", said Lyla Willow on Twitter. "That concert was phenomenal… even more of a fan than before," said Tim Vieyra.
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Fans gathering in Cape Town for the U2 concert, 18 February, 2011
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U2 concert-goers raved that the concert was "spectacular"
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I have a matrix created with either
orthoM or
frustumM GL function, where the near plane is logically the surface of the tablet. I would like to translate touch locations to their location on the near plane (that is, from device coordinates to the world coordinates).
I assume this is a common enough activity so I'm wondering if a standard API function exists (or simple sequence) which can provide me with this data?


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Here are my problems:
Find an entire function $f(z)$ such that $|f(z)| < e^{\operatorname{Im} f(z)}$ for all $z \in \mathbb{C}$ and $f(0)=2$. I am trying to guess $2\cos(z), 2e^z$, etc, but they are all failed in the end.
Let $f(z)$ be analytic in the punctured disk $0<|z|<1$,and $f(1/n)=\sqrt{n}$ for every integer $n>1$. Prove that $f(z)$ has an essential singularity at $z=0$. I am trying to use the definition of essential singularity to prove. But I don't know how to express the $f(z)$
I am sorry that I wrote wrong condition for problem #1. The condition should be $|f(z)| > e^{\operatorname{Im} f(z)}$


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Melvin A. Eaton, Jr., 62, formerly of Johnson, died Jan. 14, 2013 in Runge, Texas. He was born Oct. 19, 1950 in Nebraska City to Melvin A. and Lois Leibbrandt Eaton. He grew up in Union and Brock.
He was a member of the Christian Church where he was baptized. He graduated from Johnson Brock Schools in 1969.
He was then an apprentice at Cooper Nuclear Station. He moved to Lincoln and worked for Kawaski. In 1977 he attended Tulsa Welding School and developed a love for his new craft. He traveled the country extensively and was an accomplished journeyman welder.
He enjoyed the outdoors and nature and enjoyed spending time on the Ol' Nemaha River fishing and camping, especially with his nephew and niece, Nate and Nikki, teaching them the tricks of catching the "keepers."
He enjoyed bird hunting and bow hunting of deer and spending time with family playing cards.
He was preceded by his father in 1979 and brother Marvin A. Eaton in 2000.
He is survived by mother Lois J. Eaton of Johnson; sisters Brenda Grube of Johnson and Becky Jones and husband Dick of Monroe, Iowa; nephews Nathan Grube and wife Jenny of Waverly and Shawn Eaton of Jacksonville, Fla.; nieces Kimberly Wilson and husband Garrett of Jacksonville, Nikkie Grube of California, Mo., and Shannon Lawrence and husband Brian of Warner Robin, Ga.; 11 great nieces and nephews, Megan, Emma, Olivia, Broc, Bailey, Azalee, Nicolas, Croft, Grant, Brianna and Jamie; and other family and friends.
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TOPEKA – Women of all ages, income and education levels are invited to enroll in the Women & Money Series to be offered on Tuesday evenings from 6:00 to 8:30pm. The course begins next Tuesday, September 11th and continues through October 30th at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library Marvin Auditorium.
The series of classes is offered by Housing and Credit Counseling, Inc. (HCCI) in partnership with TSCPL. Presentations are designed for all women who want to know how to manage their personal finances well, build assets, and strategically plan ahead to make wise investments, develop a will and make informed decisions about other life choices.
Women enrolling in the series of seven classes may choose to pay the fee that best fits their budget; either $45 or $25. Fees cover the cost of two books and other handouts valued at $65. No one will be turned away if they cannot pay an enrollment fee.
The classes are sponsored in part by grants from the Office of the Kansas Securities Commissioner, The Women's Fund, the Office of the Kansas Bank Commissioner and by other local sponsors. To enroll contact HCCI at 1-800-383-0217 x 319 or go to www.hcci-ks.org
"The economic picture is very different now than it was ten years ago or even five years ago and that's why these classes are so important and timely for women who are most often paying the bills and making major decisions for the family about monthly finances, insurance, investments and savings," said Bob Mackey, President and CEO of Housing and Credit Counseling, Inc.
Social Security research shows that the average women will live to age 80 and many will live much longer. This series of classes give women the tools they need right now to make good financial decisions and the skills and confidence to manage their future assets too.
The Women & Money Series was developed by HCCI with recommendations from a Planning Committee of women and many of these women are also leading breakout discussion groups. Speakers are professional women who are experts in their fields of finance, education, law, social security, and family social services. Attorneys from the Kansas Securities Commissioner's Office have been invited to deliver a session titled "Investing and Creating Wealth," and they will give tips for choosing professionals who manage the sale of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
The Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library is providing the classes in Lawrence, Manhattan and Salina using Long Distance Learning Interactive-TV. Women in these communities participate fully in all seven sessions.


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I have a project running for which I'll need a blog (the site is coded in Rails). Now I'm not sure whether I should use WordPress or a custom (read: simple) blog, hacked in Rails. I could integrate disqus and "clean" titles, but not more from an SEO standpoint. I'm not interested in functionality but SEO-purposes only.
What should I go with?


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The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Ways Your Brain Can Malfunction
#3. Somatoparaphrenia
You sit down in the morning to a cup of coffee, and to work the maze on the back of the Lucky Charms box. Your nose itches, and suddenly somebody else reaches over to scratch it.
Then this person grabs your coffee mug and brings it to your lips. You're starting to wonder who this is and why he's being so helpful, considering that you live alone. It's then that you realize, to your horror, that you've actually had someone else's arm grafted onto your shoulder and the goddamn thing is acting all innocent about it.
And the thing is really good with kids, too!
The Condition:
People with somatoparaphrenia suffer damage to the brain's homunculus region or "body map." That's the part of your brain that catalogs all the parts of your body and keeps track of them so you know where all your limbs are without actually looking at them. If you have a stroke or something that messes with your brain, however, it can actually lose track of one of your limbs. And this really, really messes with your head. It makes it so that you can still move the limb and still register feeling -- you just don't recognize it as yours.
In one documented case, a man denied ownership of an arm and a foot, and while he didn't know where the foot came from (it was a "big foot only suited for work"), he figured for some reason that the arm belonged to a woman he knew named Maria.
She did have some guns, though.
In some cases, the experience of having someone else's body parts attached to you is so stressful that people will actually try to get the foreign limbs chopped off. In 1997, a man approached surgeon Robert Smith and asked him to amputate his left leg, which he believed wasn't his. Apparently shooting for the title of World's Most Unethical Surgeon, Smith granted the request, and was immediately swamped by people wanting him to cut off their alien limbs. He actually made a decent living cutting off people's healthy body parts until the hospital ordered him to stop, for some reason.
"Yeah, that feels much better. Thanks, Doc."
#2. Anosognosia
Imagine you're in an accident that lands you in the hospital. You're clearly fine, but you know how doctors are, it's all about precaution (or padding the bill). So, the doctor asks if you can move your legs. It's the tenth time he's asked you to do this today, even though you clearly can. This doctor, who is clearly the worst doctor in the world, just shakes his head sadly and tells you he doesn't think you'll ever walk again.
It's at this point when you start wondering if this is in fact a real doctor, or if a janitor is just impersonating one like in that episode of Scrubs.
Though we'd probably go to that hospital because he's awesome.
The Condition:
Anosognosia is a delusion suffered by paralyzed people that they are not, in fact, paralyzed. And it's incredibly common -- according to some studies, over half of people with hemiplegia (stroke-induced paralysis on one side) will have anosognosia for at least some amount of time. And to be clear, we're not talking about people who are in denial, or just too stubborn or proud to admit they're disabled. They have damage to their right parietal cortex, the area responsible for drawing conscious attention to body perception, movement and sensation.
Patients with anosognosia wind up with the bizarre delusion that their inability to move their limbs is not because they can't, but because they don't want to. When prompted to move a paralyzed limb, patients will make up excuses to convince the doctor (and themselves) that their noncompliance is actually a conscious choice, like their arm hurts from arthritis, or that they don't move their limb just because the man tells them to.
Incidentally, it's the same excuse used in many 3 a.m. sobriety tests.
However, some people, like neurologist Vilayanur Ramachandran, believe that, while the patients aren't lying per se, there might be some subconscious knowledge of their condition. When Ramachandran asked a woman to touch her nose with her paralyzed left hand, she didn't just make up excuses not to do so; eventually, she just grabbed her left arm with her working right arm and guided it to her nose, like, "Oh, yeah, I always do it this way."
"See, I can sit up on my own just fine."
#1. Prosopagnosia
Imagine you walk downstairs one morning to find someone cooking scrambled eggs. The person smiles at you, but you don't go in for a kiss because you're not sure if it's your wife, or your son, or your uncle Joe who is staying for the weekend. Later you're at work, and someone asks you to do something, but you don't know if it's your boss (in which case you should comply) or that jackass from two cubicles down trying to get you to do his work so he can go back to linking all of his paper clips together in one huge chain.
Every person you run into is a total stranger ... even though you've seen them every day, for years.
You must have a conversation with Criss Angel, REO Speedwagon or Carrot Top. Distinguish.
The Condition:
What we're describing is prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces. There are different levels of this -- whenever you hear someone say they are "bad with faces," chances are they suffer from some form of prosopagnosia. About 2 percent of the population has a mild case of it, and it's more pronounced in people with conditions along the autism spectrum.
But then you have the severe cases, the people who can't tell even their family and friends apart from total strangers. Sometimes, they can't even recognize themselves.
"Frankly, I don't see the resemblance."
To understand what it's like, imagine trying to distinguish one dolphin from another, or trying to pick one chicken out of a police lineup. You couldn't, unless one had some distinguishing feature, like say if the chicken was wearing a tiny beret or if the dolphin had a swastika tattoo. The only reason that humans can tell other humans apart is that we have a specially developed area of the brain just for that. Back in the Stone Age, it became evolutionarily advantageous to know your bros from the total douchebags who steal your scraps of meat. Being able to greet your favorite chicken by name before you kill and eat it? Slightly less important.
"I dub thee ... Beakface Squeakything!"
Granted, everyone has had that awkward moment when they're shaking hands with someone they know at a party but can't place their face and can't quite remember their name. For people with prosopagnosia, this is almost every encounter they have. Enjoying a movie? Impossible -- they can't tell who any of the characters are unless they say their names at the beginning of each line of dialogue.
However, people with prosopagnosia can become ingenious in their techniques for recognizing people, identifying them by memorizing their distinctive features. It works perfectly as long as nobody you know ever gets a haircut.
"OH, I recognize you! You're the guy who has the beer!"
People with brain disorders get by in much the same way as people with other illnesses or disabilities. For instance, Oliver Sacks, the neurologist we mentioned earlier, has prosopagnosia himself, and once preened his beard using what he thought was his reflection, but was in fact a stranger on the other side of a window. And he did well enough for himself that he got quoted as an expert in a Cracked article.
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I'm implementing the AES block cipher, which reads/writes data in 16 byte blocks. The implementation I'm working with usually read data in the little endian format. But in my platform the endianness I'm using is "network order" big endian. Can I use BE for the encryption algorithm? Does the endianness usually change the way the algorithm works? Does it matter at all? I assumed it does not, since it could have simply been different data that you are reading.
Firstly, let's make sure we get endianness:
If your system is little endian, you'll get DD CC BB AA as the output and big endian will give you the opposite. All we're doing here is allowing the processor the opportunity to represent an integer in whatever endianness it uses, then using a little C trick to output the bytes in the order they are represented in memory.
AES works on 128-bit blocks, which is kind of convenient, really, since if you multiply all the field sizes in that union by four, you'd get an AES input block.
So now your question boils down to:
Well, that depends on the output. Let's assume something naive, like reversing the order of the input produces a reversed ciphertext, so if the input is AABBCCDD that encrypts to 12345678 and DDCCBBAA encrypts to 78563412.
This is a problem for a certain class of cryptographic vulnerability called CCA2, or a chosen adaptive ciphertext attack. As a result of the fact that the ciphertext is malleable you can then request various decryption operations be performed and whilst you do not know the plaintext, you would be able to deduce something about it. You might like to read a little on ciphertext indistinguishability.
As such, a cryptographic scheme should not be affected by endianness. If it is, or is malleable, it has some security concerns which may need to be addressed (and are, in some implementations, for example, by not providing a decryption oracle).
The AES is defined as operating on 16-byte blocks. Such a block is an ordered sequence of bytes: there is a first byte, a second byte, and so on, until the sixteenth byte. We often say that the first byte is leftmost and the last byte rightmost because we are westerners who use a latin alphabet and write left-to-right, and we just blindly and implicitly assume that people who write right-to-left are just wrong.
Endianness is about interpreting a sequence of bytes as an integer value; for instance, a sequence of four bytes, interpreted as an integer between 0 and 4294967295. To do such an interpretation, we decide than one of the bytes is for the units (we multiply its numerical value by 1), another is to be multiplied by 256, another by 65536 (which is 256*256), and yet another by 16777216 (i.e. 256*256*256). Little-endian convention is when the byte for units comes first, followed by the byte of value 256, then the byte of value 65536, and finally the byte of value 16777216. Big-endian convention is when the bytes are in the opposite order.
Within AES, there is no interpretation of sequences of bytes into larger integers, so endianness does not apply. However, even for algorithms which do involve interpretation of byte sequences into integers, the algorithm specification defines the endianness to use. It is then up to the implementation to follow that defined convention, whether it matches what the CPU does best or not. For instance, in the hash function MD5, the input message (a sequence of bytes), after padding, is split into 64-byte blocks, and each block is split into 16 4-byte sequences, and each sequence is interpreted as an integer with little-endian convention. MD5 is MD5; it is deterministic and its output for a given input file should not depend on whether the computer uses a x86, ARM, PowerPC or Sparc CPU. Therefore, implementations which run on big-endian CPU must include the necessary byte-swapping steps to do the computation correctly.
Three additional points:
AES works on byte sequences. The first thing you should do is convert the bytes to the canonical byte order, then you can do the decryption. Cryptography should be done in the application, with the application data. In other words, you should correct for byte order at a lower layer of abstraction than the crypto.


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5 Myths About Flying Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
Most of us take human flight for granted. We board a plane in one city, get off in another, and rarely think about the scientific laws and incredible technology that make the in-between possible. Flying through turbulence, or experiencing a bumpy landing is like getting caught off-guard by a pop quiz you didn't study for. Unfortunately, all you have to go off of are some vague statistics you heard about flight being the safest way to travel and terrifying plane crashes you see in movies and on the news. It turns out, there are a handful of pretty crucial things we've gotten just completely wrong about how people fly and get killed while doing so.
#5. Any Hole in an Aircraft Will Eventually Tear Open the Plane
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You Think:
Whether caused by gunfight or a violent bit of turbulence, a hole in the side of a plane will continue to grow and suck people out into the sky until it's closed or the plane has disintegrated. It's so reliable that in Iron Man 3, the bad guy says "Go Fish" before he blows off a plane's door because he knows the resulting hole is about to suck every person and chair out into the cold sunlight like it opened under the house in Poltergeist.
In Goldfinger, Bond shoots out a small plane window and holds tight while the villain is sucked out from clear across the room.
The hole in the side of the plane from Passenger 57 spends 2 minutes acting as a massive wind tunnel, before it sucks the plane's door clean off, leaving a bigger hole and an even suckier wind tunnel.
This is, of course, why airlines are so insistent that you wear a seatbelt and refrain from gunplay, even after the plane has reached a safe cruising altitude.
The Truth:
In 2011, a 5-square-foot hole (the size of most windows in your house assuming you don't live on a cruise ship) opened in the roof of a Southwest Airlines flight. It was cruising at 37,000 feet, meaning the pressure inside and outside of the plane were at what scientists refer to as peak explodiness. But when the explosive decompression occurred, the hole didn't suck anyone out, nor did it grow in size and ferocity as time went on. And it wasn't the first time such a dramatic action movie spectacle has failed to develop. That's just not how holes in airplanes behave.
We're not going to lie to you. Having a hole in the airplane you're inside of is, generally speaking, worse than not having that happen. When a hole opens in an airplane, the inside of that plane will experience something called explosive decompression. People who happen to be directly next to especially large holes when this occurs can be sucked out -- it's happened a handful of times throughout the history of commercial flight. It has to be a giant hole, the people need to be directly next to it when it opens, and they can't be wearing their seatbelt. So, close but no dice Final Destination. Turns out rows or airplane seats generally aren't designed to easily slide out like the drawers of a card catalogue.
In fact, if you aren't immediately sucked out, and you don't go stick your head out like a dog on the highway, you should be OK. Whether bowel movement or decompression, the modifier "explosive" means a whole lot of decompression is taking place in an extremely brief period of time. When the barrier between the pressurized air inside the plane and the low pressure air outside is removed, the air inside the plane is going to explode out of the hole in a matter of seconds. If the plane doesn't disintegrate when the initial hole opens, it's pretty safe to assume the hole will not grow any larger, because the decompression is over, and also because it turns out planes are made of metal and not wet tissue paper.
#4. Aircraft Are Quick to Start
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You Think:
Need to escape a bad situation quickly? According to movies like X-Men, Independence Day, and The A-Team, you might as well make your getaway in a plane or helicopter. In the movies, starting an aircraft, no matter the size, is only slightly more complex than starting a car. Flip a couple random switches, turn on some random lights, and push that big lever thing forward. See ya, bitches!
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"Now to waste 4,000 rounds of ammo, firing at people and not hitting them."
The Truth:
Here's a list of the checks that every 747 needs to go through before each flight. There are 79 steps before you get to the section labeled "before starting," and another 44 steps before takeoff. That's a total of 123 checks required to get your plane off the ground. Try to keep that in mind the next time you're annoyed at the flight attendants for running you through a five-step safety video.
The little Huey helicopter you see the A-Team cruising around in during their latest movie requires nine pages of checks before taking off, and that's assuming the pilot blows off all the silly stuff, like, pre-flighting the aircraft to make sure the mechanic didn't leave his stash of weed in one of the engine intakes.
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We're about to fly Colombian Airlines, baby. If you know what we mean.
Since they came up with the idea to make planes that can shoot at stuff, every military with an air force has been trying to increase the speed with which they're able to get fighter jets into the air. The U.S. Air Force keeps fighter jets on alert around the clock, ready to mobilize and deploy as fast as possible. The quickest time they're able to guarantee? Fifteen minutes. Fifteen freaking minutes? If a commercial airliner takes 15 minutes to depart from the gate, people start making exasperated faces to each other.
After the 9/11 attacks, conspiracy theorists suggested that something fishy was going on because the U.S. military didn't get fighter jets to the site of a highjacked plane in 10 minutes. It's unclear where they got that 10-minute figure from, but the 9/11 Commission revealed that there were only 14 fighter jets in the entire continental United States that were ready to be airborne on short notice. Due to crazy fast work, and the severity of the situation, those planes were able to get into the air in just eight minutes, at which point they would have had to travel across a state or two in order to do what the "truthers" claim was an inevitability.
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"Um, sir? Should we reconsider the name 'Operation Cover-Up'?"
The readiness of aircraft is a sliding scale determined by a number of different factors. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, America was able to get the time from call to "wheels up" down to just a few minutes, but to do that they had to leave the planes on the runway with the engines running, which meant constantly refueling them and cycling in fresh pilots. If it's completely shut down, with no auxiliary or electrical power applied, a complex aircraft will usually takes 20 minutes to even be ready to fly.
So the next time you're watching a movie where the good guy sneaks into a plane and takes off quickly before anyone notices, keep in mind that the entire U.S. Air Force working together under the most urgent circumstances they've ever faced weren't able to achieve such efficiency.
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"Scramble the fighters" is more of a relative term.
#3. In Emergencies, an Aircraft Cockpit is a Dramatic Place
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You Think:
There's a problem on the aircrafts in Battle: LA, The Aviator, Flight, Alive, and Cast Away. The cockpit looks like the inside of a bad acid trip. A cacophony of warning buzzers and lights accompany any problem. The survival of everyone aboard depends solely on how loud the pilots can yell at each other and possibly on how hard they can pull on the control column.
The Truth:
There are a limited number of problems where a buzzer or any other audio alarm will go off for any length of time -- usually those are things like the altitude or terrain warnings. Most aircraft will have a light accompanied by a voice, called "Bitching Betty," or a "bee-bonk" noise to get the pilot's attention, then another light or line of text on a screen saying what the problem is. Basically, the plane will give you a slap on the head saying, "Wake up, asshole!" and that's it.
The mechanical alarms can be so subtle that deadly crashes have often been blamed on dysfunctional communication between the flight crew -- a co-pilot who was too polite to warn his boss that he was confidently steering them into the side of the mountain. You need a living, breathing person in the cockpit who knows it's their job to scream, "Fuck, mountain!" because the automatic "Fuck, mountain!" alarm doesn't exist.
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That's pilot for, "I just stuck that alarm up a screaming passenger's ass."
For every plane crash caused by inexplicable politeness, there are hundreds where the pilot relied on their years of training to save the day, something that's way easier to do when you don't have an air horn going off in your ear telling them not to do it. Imagine your company installed an air horn to continuously blast in your ear to alert you every time your job became extremely difficult and important not to dick up. Landing a plane that's on fire is hard enough.
Pilots, especially professional pilots in military and commercial aviation, undergo incessant training on how to act calmly during an emergency, communicating with each other and using the entire crew to solve the problem. Once the most immediate tasks required to keep the aircraft flying are done, the next step is almost always to break out a checklist and read the steps out loud. That's right, during an emergency, the most important thing is for one of the pilots to start reading a book.
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Maybe have some tea to calm the nerves.
They try to methodically solve the problem in order to bring the aircraft safely to a landing. That's the reason Jim Lovell, the Navy pilot in command of Apollo 13, said "Houston, we have a problem," not "Holy fucking shit, Houston! We're all going to die!"


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Pregnancy Nutrition
There's increasing evidence that a person's health may be affected by the mother's prenatal diet. Make sure you're eating balanced servings of the healthiest foods for your baby.
Dish Up Nutrition
A healthy prenatal diet with a balanced intake of protein, dairy, grains, fruits, vegetables, and vital nutrients, will help ensure your baby's health. Take a look at this portion guide.
Don't Eat That!
During your pregnancy, you'll need to avoid certain foods because they pose a risk to your unborn baby. Find out why lunch meat and some types of fish are on the dietary precautions list.
Supplement Your Health
Prenatal vitamins and folic acid support your health and your baby's early development. Find out what prenatal dietary supplements you should be taking.
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What is ERDF?
ERDF is a component of the European Union's Structural Funds. Structural Funds are monies allocated to regions to stimulate economic development. The West Midlands ERDF Programme will provide €400million of investment to create jobs and assist small and medium sized enterprises from now until 2015. For more information you can visit the AWM website at http://www.advantagewm.co.uk/working-with-us/erdf-programme.
Programme Objectives
- Achieve a significant increase in the productivity of the business base in the West Midlands.
- Reduce unemployment and inequalities.
- Ensure that the region's economic growth is achieved in a sustainable manor.
Priority 3 – Achieving Sustainable Urban Development
The regional programme funding is split to achieve a number of Priorities. The focus of Priority 3 is to stimulate renaissance in the key urban areas by encouraging job growth and by helping communities most in need.
ERDF Priority 3 Birmingham Package
Birmingham is one of 6 urban Local Authority areas in the region with a ring-fenced allocation ('Package') of funds to achieve the regional ERDF Priority 3 Objective: Sustainable Urban Development. The Package Plan was approved by Cabinet on 26 November 2008. BCC became 'Package Owner': responsible for local policy leadership and co-ordination of development of applications for submission. The funds are still held at regional level. Birmingham City Council supports and co-ordinates its own departments and partner organisations to apply for the funds.
The Package area selected (see map) comprises the wards of Aston, Nechells, Washwood Heath, Bordesley Green, Sparkbrook, and parts of Ladywood, Springfield and South Yardley.
The area was selected based on its economic character and profile including co-incidence of older industrial areas, deprivation indices and growing new sectors (e.g. creative, high tech, environmental).
The Steering Group that endorses applications to go forward includes senior representation from BCC, AWM, Business Link, Skills Funding Agency, Chamber of Commerce, and the Aston Pride and Enterprising Communities Partnerships. The Steering Group endorses projects as contributing to the Package Plan.
The guideline size of projects is at least £0.5million, 50% of funding can be ERDF. Any enquiries about accessing the funding please contact Tara Verrell, firstname.lastname@example.com or 0121 303 3200.


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Noisebridge contains several resources that are at the physical space and in virtual space. These are available to both members and the general public. Please add as appropriate. fixme
Project Spaces and Resources
- Electronics Lab
- Darkroom
- Library
- Craft Lab
- Sewing Machines
- Machine shop
- Laser Cutter (Current attempts to obtain one)
- Kitchen
- Anodization Equipment
- Noise-Bot
Computer Servers
- Our Tor server
- Noisebridge-Greet, our general public internet terminal
- Pony, a login and file server
- Zebra, a display unit for the Reverse Engineering Bar
- Donkey, former display unit for the REBar, now asking to be used
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I want access to two networks:
- a PPPoE network: for external computers (www, etc.)
- IP(dhcp), DNS, default route
- a LAN for access to other local computers (local file sharing)
- IP(dhcp), no DNS, only LAN route
Both networks are setup through the same Ethernet connection.
One way of accessing both networks at the same time is to connect to PPPoE from network-manager, and add the LAN info by hand:
- add an IP on eth0
- add a route for traffic to that network
I can configure two distinct connections in NetworkManager, but because both are on the same physical (Ethernet) network, selecting one of them makes the other one disconnect => can't have both of them at the same time.
Is there a way to have both of the active simultaneously?


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I have been trying google for this, but not so easy to search for. I have a custom hierarchical taxonomy, something along the lines of:
- Electric
- Petrol
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What I need to do is create an index page, retaining the hierarchical structure.
The closest I have come to doing it is with:
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But this just shows the ones in use, and loses it hierarchy :(
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Fujitsu Can't Get Enough of OpenWorld
By Oracle Staff on Oct 05, 2010
Highlights from Our Marquee Sponsor
If you attended Oracle OpenWorld this year, it's almost certain that you crossed paths with our Marquee sponsor Fujitsu.
On opening night, Fujitsu was announced as the "Oracle Global Industry Partner of the Year" and celebrated the award later that evening as a sponsor of the Oktoberfest-themed Welcome Reception. Bright and early the next morning, Fujitsu's Corporate SVP Noriyuki Toyoki gave a keynote to an enthusiastic crowd. The rest of the week Fujitsu presented sessions on everything from Oracle Fusion Midddleware to SPARC Enterprise servers. And they wrapped things up as a sponsor of the Appreciation Night festivities.
The Fujitsu folks had such a successful conference that they're trying to keep the good times going. Check out Fujitsu-Oracle Central for their recap of the big event. Along with the Fujitsu keynote, they have video interviews from the show floor with Fujitsu customers, product experts, and session presenters. Find out what Mr. Toyoki thought of his first visit to Oracle OpenWorld, why Debra Lilley is honored to be an Oracle ACE, and why Andy Seferta thinks it was a great experience to be a Marquee sponsor.


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Apr 10, 2009
Between April 10, 2009 – April 19, 2009 the Montpelier Police Department will be conducting an aggressive driving mobilization campaign.
Background: In 2007, aggressive driving was a contributing factor in 54% of all crashes and 108 fatalities in Idaho. The economic cost of crashes involving aggressive driving was $1.4 billion dollars. This represents 49% of the total cost of all crashes in Idaho. Aggressive driving is the highest single contributing factor in both injury and fatal crashes.
The behaviors that define aggressive driving and the violations we will be enforcing are: failure to yield the right-of-way, stop sign violation, exceeding posted speed, basic rule/too fast for conditions, reckless operation, tailgating, and disregarding traffic sign or signal.
The goal of this project is to reduce motor vehicle crashes, injuries and deaths caused by adult aggressive driving behaviors, through increasing law enforcement presence, increasing citations and arrests, and through local media outreach conducted by the Montpelier Police Department.
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