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ROBINSON (November 22, 2012)—A third man was in custody Thursday in the McLennan County Jail after his arrest Wednesday night in connection with the July beating death of a Robinson man.
Joe Orlando Gutierrez, 29, was booked into the jail overnight after his arrest on a murder warrant.
A spokesman for police said Gutierrez was arrested at about 9 p.m. by Waco police, then turned over to Robinson officers to be taken to the county jail.
A booking clerk at the jail Thursday morning said Gutierrez had not yet had a bond set but the jail magistrate would likely formally arraign him and set a bond later in the day.
Gutierrez is the third man arrested in connection with the July beating death of Matthew Ray Easley, 56, who was attacked in his home in Robinson.
Shane Tyler Sims, 28, was arrested October 10 on a warrant charging murder and was being held Thursday on a $250,000 bond, charged with murder.
On July 13, Clinton Douglas Mills, 30, of Hewitt, was arrested on an aggravated assault warrant stemming from the attack and the charge later was upgraded to murder.
He posted a $500,000 bond and was released but Thursday was listed on the jail log as having had his bond revoked on the murder charge and is being held without bond following
his return to jail on Oct. 4 on a driving while intoxicated charge out of Travis County.
Relatives found Easley unconscious in his home just before noon on July 11.
He died several days later at a local hospital after he was taken off life support.
Easley was the victim of an earlier attack in August 2010.
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Members of the Class of 2013 from Lake Wales and Bartow High Schools will reach a major milestone when they walk across the stage to accept their diplomas, signaling they are ready to step into the adult world.
In addition to receiving diplomas, they will also receive congratulations from school officials, businesses, family and friends. We, too, are proud of the graduates and anxious to extend our best wishes and our prayers as these future leaders step into the adult world.
Most of this year's crop of graduates have gained a certain degree of maturity — some more than others — but the next few months will see a big change in their sense of responsibility, thoughtfulness, unselfishness, truthfulness and ambition. All of these attributes are praiseworthy and admirable.
We've reported about many of these young people in the pages of this newspaper. We've enjoyed watching them progress toward the new beginning that will come with the milestone that is high school graduation.
As the graduates in the Class of 2013 take the final steps toward the next phase of their lives we find glory in their achievements, admire their energy, and applaud what we perceive to be an upswing toward dependability, morality, good humor, courtesy, and yes, good manners.
This year's graduates have a lot of promise. Many plan to further their education at college. Some plan to enter military service. Some want to get married in the next few months. Several will be seeking their place in the workforce.
Many of this year's grads have their goals and dreams set and will follow them without wavering. Others, will adjust their goals and dreams as the next few months and years roll by and they adapt to life's challenges and changes.
If history is an indication, more than a few will move away from Polk County to "seek their fortunes" and some will return, drawn back to here when they realize that our area is a wholesome place to raise their children.
Our wish for all the new graduates is that they find happiness in their life choices, whatever those choices may be.
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4 Jan 2011 6:49 AM #1
Working with LiveGridView + EditorGrid
Is it possible to use LiveGridView with an editorGrid ? I've a grid with huge data. That's why i'm using LiveGridView, but i would like to edit my data too.
When i'm using LiveGridView + Grid => There is no problem.
When i'm using EditorGrid => There is no problem.
But when i'm using EditorGrid + LiveGridView it's seams incompatible.
So my question is : Can i use EditorGrid with LiveGridView or not ? If not, will I be able to with the next release ?
Thx a lot.
4 Jan 2011 11:27 AM #2
Its partly compatible, some things are fixed. The main problem will be as soon as you scroll, the changes get lost. LiveGridView is a "live" streaming view which was not designed for client modifications.
5 Jan 2011 1:24 AM #3
Thank for your fast answer.
That's what i thought. Thus, there is no good solution to edit a large amount of data without pagination ?
When you saidIts partly compatible, some things are fixed.
5 Jan 2011 12:43 PM #4
Not completly. Scrolling a model out will still make the changes get lost if not persisted somewhere else.
20 Feb 2013 8:00 PM #5
In my use case the reason for using LiveGridView is UI rendering performance. This means I can keep all data on the client. In this case EditorGrid with LiveGridView is working fine.
You have to have a wrapping store, which loads through loader/proxy from a local underlying data structure. You have to ensure that any insertions or deletions are done on that underlying data structure and then store is reloaded via loader.load(). If you keep ModelData instances in the underlying structure, then any edits are stored in them just like with a regular EditorGrid.
Hope that helps
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The online application for North Dakota's 2015 tundra swan license lottery is available on the State Game and Fish Department's website, gf.nd.gov. The deadline for applying is Aug. 19.
Paper applications will be available the end of July from Game and Fish offices, county auditors and license vendors. Hunters can also apply by calling 800-406-6409. A service fee is added for license applications made by phone.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has scheduled an examination to select candidates for the position of game warden pilot. The test is scheduled for Aug. 21 at 10 a.m., at the department's main office in Bismarck.
Applicants must register to take the exam no later than Aug. 19, by submitting an online application through the North Dakota State Job Openings website.
North Dakota's early Canada goose season is set, and bag limits and licensing requirements are the same as last year.
The season will open Aug. 15 and continue through Sept. 15, except in the Missouri River Zone where the season ends Sept. 7. The early Canada goose season has a limit of 15 daily and 45 in possession.
Limits and shooting hours for the early season are different from the regular season. Shooting hours during the early season are one-half hour before sunrise to sunset daily.
North Dakota's 2015 small game and furbearer regulations are set and most season structures are similar to last year.
Prairie chicken and sage grouse seasons will remain closed due to low populations.
Recent hunter education graduates and their families are invited to attend the Brownells/National Rifle Association Day Camp at the Moffit Gun Range on Saturday, July 25.
The shooting sports activity runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and includes rifle, shotgun, pistol, muzzleloading and archery target shooting, hunting and safety information and demonstrations.
Adults and children looking to take a hunter education class in 2015 are reminded to enroll at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department's website, gf.nd.gov.
Hunter education coordinator John Mazur said the majority of classes were held by the end of May. However, he said classes will still be added throughout the year as they become finalized.
"Our volunteer instructors will be adding classes, but not nearly as many as we move toward the fall," Mazur said. "That's why it is important to monitor our website and to act quickly when a class suits your needs."
North Dakota's 2015 pronghorn hunting season is set, with 410 licenses available in three open units, according to Jeb Williams, wildlife chief for the State Game and Fish Department.
Along with unit 4-A, which was the only open unit in 2014, units 3B and 4C will hold a limited number of licenses. A total of 250 licenses are available in 4-A, 100 in 3B and 60 in 4C. All licenses are valid for any pronghorn.
Similar to last year, the three units will have a season that is split into an early "bow-only" portion, and a later gun/bow season.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department's annual spring breeding duck survey conducted in May showed an index of 3.6 million birds, down 25 percent from last year, primarily due to weather conditions that resulted in an early migration.
Migratory game bird supervisor Mike Szymanski said the spring migration was well ahead of normal due to open fields and warm temperatures. "Early migrants such as mallards, pintails and northern shovelers didn't stay long due to the dry conditions," Szymanski said.
North Dakota's spring ruffed grouse survey indicated a 44 percent population increase statewide compared to 2014, according to Stan Kohn, upland game bird supervisor for the State Game and Fish Department.
The number of male grouse heard drumming in the Pembina Hills was up 86 percent from last year, while the Turtle Mountains had a 35 percent increase. No drumming males were heard in McHenry County (J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge), where they have not been heard since 2006.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has confirmed that an adult zebra mussel was found on an intake screen at the city water plant in Fargo, according to Fred Ryckman, aquatic nuisance species coordinator for the agency.
Fargo city employees discovered the mussel while inspecting some of their Red River intake structures Thursday afternoon, said Troy Hall, water utility director for the city of Fargo. The species was confirmed as a zebra mussel early Friday afternoon.
Numerous zebra mussel veligers have been discovered at several locations along the Red River between North Dakota and Minnesota, according to North Dakota Game and Fish Department aquatic nuisance species coordinator Fred Ryckman.
The next guide and outfitter written examination is Aug. 15 at 1 p.m. at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department office in Bismarck. The test is given periodically to anyone interested in becoming a hunting guide or outfitter in the state.
In addition to passing a written exam, qualifications for becoming a guide include a background check for criminal and game and fish violations; certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and standard first aid; and employment by or contract with a licensed hunting outfitter.


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Darlene V. Eason, a longtime resident of Kettle Falls, passed away on June 23, 2011 in Kettle Falls at the age of 79. She was born in Janesville, WI, the daughter of Bert and Cynthia (Blackman) McCaslin.Darlene moved from Wisconsin to Walla Walla with her family when she was five and then to Pleasant Valley (Rice) when she was 12. She married Sam Eason on March 17, 1979 and they enjoyed 32 wonderful years together. Darlene was one of the most pleasant people anyone could ever know.Darlene was preceded in death by her twin sister, Arlene McCaslin, in 1949; by her son, Ivan Yake, 1995, and by her sister, Delilliamn "Dee" Legas, in 2005. She is survived by her husband of 32 years, Sam Eason; her sons, Richard Yake, Tom Yake and Corey Yake; her daughter, Christina Bryant; 19 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandson.The graveside service for Darlene will be held at 2 p.m., Friday, July 1 at the Highland Cemetery in Colville. A memorial service will follow at 5 p.m. at the Kettle Falls Senior Center. The Danekas Funeral Chapel and Crematory in Colville has been entrusted with arrangements.


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An administrator at an Oregon community college will be the new president of Cowley College in Arkansas City.
The college's board voted Thursday to hire Clark Williams to lead the college. He will replace Patrick McAttee, who retired at the end of 2012 after serving as Cowley's president for 25 years.
The Arkansas City Traveler reports Williams currently is the vice president and chief operating officer for Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Ore.
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The Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network (KCAAEN) is a coalition of statewide not-for-profit Alliances for Arts Education working in partnership with the Kennedy Center to support policies, practices, and partnerships that ensure the arts are an essential part of K-12 education in the United States.
The mission of the KCAAEN is to advance learning in and through the arts for all students.
KCAAEN member organizations:
- Build Collaborations: Develop and support innovative collaborations among schools, community partners, and cultural institutions that sustain arts education.
- Position the Arts: Speak out on behalf of arts education to citizens, policy makers, state agencies, and others about the value and benefits of arts education.
- Generate Resources: Develop, publish, and/or disseminate resources for arts education leaders and practitioners.
- Provide Professional Development: Implement professional development through educational programs, training, and resources.
- Recognize Innovation and Achievement: Provide awards and acknowledgments to individuals, organizations, and schools that demonstrate outstanding support for arts education.
The Kennedy Center supports the growth and development of the network and the efforts of participating State Alliances through staff consultation, professional development, and other resources.
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Types of Learning Disabilities continued...
Auditory Processing Disorder. This is a problem with the way the brain processes the sounds a person takes in. It is not caused by hearing impairment. People with this disorder may have trouble:
- Learning to read
- Distinguishing sounds from background noise
- Following spoken directions
- Telling the difference between similar-sounding words
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Visual Processing Disorder. Someone with a visual processing disorder has trouble interpreting visual information. He or she may have a hard time with reading or telling the difference between two objects that look similar. People with a visual processing disorder often have trouble with hand-eye coordination.
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Learning disabilities can be hard to diagnose, because there is no definitive list of symptoms that fits every child. Also, many children try to hide the problem. You may not notice anything more obvious than frequent complaints about homework or a child who doesn't want to go to school.
However, the following may be signs of a learning disorder:
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If you suspect a learning disorder, talk to your child's pediatrician or teacher about having your child evaluated. It may be necessary to see several specialists before you get a definitive diagnosis. These specialists might include a clinical psychologist, a school psychologist, a developmental psychologist, an occupational therapist, or a speech and language therapist, depending on the problems your child is having. They will perform a variety of tests and assessments to get to the bottom of the problem.
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Knowing the early signs of a possible learning disability can help parents get their child the help he or she needs as soon as possible. That's why it is important to pay attention to your child's developmental milestones. Delays such as late walking or talking or trouble with socialization can be signs of a learning disorder in toddlers and preschoolers.


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There is no standard adjuvant therapy for completely resected, intermediate thickness, node-negative melanoma patients. Both external beam radiation treatment and cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents have thus far demonstrated limited efficacy at best, prompting interest for novel adjuvant treatment modalities. Because of multiple case study reports of spontaneous regression of melanoma lesions, the disease was felt to be susceptible to attack by the immune system. To date, both autologous and allogeneic melanoma cancer vaccines have been used in the settings of either documented metastatic disease or in patients at high risk of harboring microscopic residual disease following resection. It stands to reason that vaccination might be more efficacious in the setting of minimal tumor burden due to issues of decreased tumor antigen heterogeneity and less tumor-induced immunosuppression. In 1990, the Southwest Oncology Group initiated development of a phase III clinical trial of allogeneic melanoma cell lysate for use as vaccine therapy in patients with completely resected, node negative melanoma. The vaccine chosen had shown an objective response rate in 7% of 81 patients in multicenter phase I and II trials in advanced melanoma, and was known to contain tumor antigens potentially able to induce a significant immune response.
Cancer vaccine therapy, while novel, is not a new treatment approach, as significant amounts of pre-clinical and phase I and II trials have been reported. However, the lack of encouraging phase III trials relegates the approach to one of experimental status with poor results to date. Though this trial was the largest of its kind, even larger patient populations will be required in the future should investigators wish to evaluate smaller but clinically significant differences. In addition, an allogeneic vaccine strategy, while much less expensive and time-consuming versus autologous preparations, has shown little activity in phase I and II trials, most probably due to the fact that the majority of effectively immunogenic tumor antigens are as of yet undiscovered. While an autologous vaccine approach seems to make better sense at the level of immune recognition and response, the cost and time implications involved render this largely impractical. Nevertheless, the field of vaccine therapy continues to garner much attention, and hope persists that significant advances will soon be reported.
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Is the Contraception Mandate Constitutional?
Churches that preach the immorality of contraception are excused from federally imposed obligations to promote the practice. But federal law will soon require that the employees of hospitals and other charitable institutions run by such churches—notably, the Catholic Church—have the option of adding coverage for contraception to the health insurance offered by their employer. Whether or not the cost of such coverage is passed to insurers, the question remains, does the requirement violate the First Amendment guarantee of "free exercise" of religion by such churches?
Let us suppose the formation of a new religious sect centered in, say, Florida. Seeking novel forms of worship, the sect, misunderstanding Exodus 32:1–6, elects to pray to a golden calf, made of melted jewelry donated by the faithful.
Like Moses descending from Mount Sinai, the state legislature is appalled. A statute is passed making it a felony to melt gold for this purpose. Leaders of the sect persist, and an indictment is brought against them. The leaders move to dismiss the indictment as a violation of the free-exercise clause. The result, surely, is dismissal of the indictment. That is the constitutional law received from the Supreme Court in Lukumi Babalu (1993), in which the practice of animal sacrifice by the Santeria religion, a Cuban synthesis of African and Catholic rituals, was protected from the prohibition of the statute.
Now suppose that the gold reserves of the United States are suddenly depleted (as happened in the 1960s). To strengthen gold holdings, Congress enacts a statute mandating the prompt sale by citizens to the Treasury of all gold objects for a fair price. An incidental effect of the statute is to prevent the melting of gold by the new sect. An indictment of violators follows. Again, the accused move to dismiss on the strength of the free-exercise clause. What would the outcome be?
In Employment Division v. Smith (1990), the Supreme Court decided that Oregon state employees who used peyote, a hallucinogen, for religious purposes, could be dismissed and denied unemployment compensation for violating a general prohibition on the use of such drugs. Justice Scalia, speaking for the Court, approved the denial of compensation. "We have never held," he said, "that an individual's religious beliefs excuse him from compliance with an otherwise valid law prohibiting conduct that the state is free to regulate." That is, a lawful, generalized prohibition is not rendered unconstitutional when incidentally applied to a particular religious practice. (In 1993, Congress, displeased with the result in Smith, attempted to impose a stricter standard—42 U.S.C. § 2000bb-1. It was held unauthorized by the Fourteenth Amendment.)
Let us assume that the Affordable Care Act is a valid exercise by Congress of the commerce or taxing-power authorizing insurance coverage for general health care (an issue shortly to be decided by the Supreme Court). The new health-care law would then, as in Smith, involve "conduct that the state is free to regulate." That would seem to legitimate the obligation of Church-run institutions to make available to their employees insurance with coverage for contraception.
That the new requirement imposed on church-related institutions would not violate the free-exercise clause will not stop opponents from asserting the opposite. We are passing through an intensely political moment in our history, and opponents of the requirement may be expected to try to beat down the government's proposal, aided by the complexity of the issue. The outcome is uncertain.
Related: Contraception Cudgel, by E. J. Dionne Jr.
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Joseph D. Becker, a founding partner of Becker, Glynn, Melamed and Muffly, a Manhattan law firm, is author of The American Law of Nations (Judis).
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One wonders whether this analogy might be carried to this end: Might Churches themselves be compelled to pay for such coverage, as their payment neither implies consent nor is necessarily rendering formal aid -- the onus being only on the adherent, (the Catholic employee herself) not to request the contraception or the abortion? Catholic employers in secular enterprises don't seem to be held in formal complicity by offering these provisions in their healthcare plans.
The Constitution is vague and malleable. It is interpreted according to the climate of the times. I suppose it's quite possible that a decision would go against the conscience and religious-freedom position. Then, the ball would clearly be in Congress's court. If Congress failed to act, a lot of people would be in a serious moral and legal pickle. I imagine a lot of religious authorities are busily thinking the unthinkable.
When American liberal politicians take the stand that traditional Catholicism must bow to the state, we've had a sea change. It looks as though this can only get worse.
Your magazine gets more and more outrageous the more I read it. You seem to be most desperate to commit sin, to justify that sin and to even draw others into it.s You claim to be a "Catholic" (and I use the term loosely) publication and as such you must realize that this claim makes your primary responsibility "allegiance to the Church" which would trump any "allegiance to the State." Once you would start to use your citizenship as a weapon against the Church and its teachings you will have "ipso facto" excommunicated yourselves as you would have betrayed your calling and played the Judas. It would seem to me that it is your desire to make your participation in the State your religion with politicians as your priests and abortion, I would speculate, as the Sacrifice you would offer with free-sex as a "rite" that must be protected. Any interference with that would be heresy which of course must be punished. As you have cast a state legislature in the role of "Moses," who, then, would be the "worshippers of the Calf...?" I would maintain that "they" could be YOU! You certainly don't like Moses (any State government) because he could interfere with your "new" religion. Hence, the President becomes your "rescuer," your "champion of Centralized Government" versus States' rights. He will undo the "oppression" and free you to pursue the lifestyle which you covet!
Joseph Becker and John Plick offer two imaginative scenarios in re the much discussed contraception mandate. The differences between them are, among other things, that Becker sticks to the realm of legal precedent, while Plick ignores not only that but the responsibility and relative autonomy of government to construct a legal order that serves the common good as much as may be possible in a state governed by the consent of its free citizens. Among the rights the latter enjoy is freedom of religion. Here the state cannot simply take directions from a Church, especially, I may note, when, as is the present case, the Church in question cannot come to a consensus within itself.
Mr. Becker,
Is this really what your brief for the government would look like in such a case? Where is yourresponse to the argument that the mandate is not generally applicable law because of the various other exceptions and exemptions granted for secular purposes, which were not present in Smith? Where is your analysis of the implications of RFRA, which applies pre-Smith jurisprudence to federal regulatory action that impairs religious exercise? I really expected more from this article when I clicked on the link in my e-mail. Could Commonweal not find an attorney with a better understanding of the relevant issues or law professor like Professor Kaveny to write this article?
Though portions of the HHS Mandate may be written in a constitutional manner, First Amendment scholar, and Bishop, Thomas J. Curry, notes that the unconstitutional portion of the mandate concerns the narrowness of the exemptions which violate the First Amendment by defining the term 'religious organization' according to government standards.
More on Bishop Curry's thoughts may be found at Guess What? Parts of the HHS Mandate Aren't Constitutional.
One is left to wonder how, a hierarchy as far removed from the collective sense of its communicants on an issue that in any practical world, and at any time in history, has been one preeminantly of individual conscience, can decide it will launch a "burn the fields" (ours not theirs by the way) resistance movement?
While perhaps clever, the example of the golden calf is telling more for its datedness than its legitimate correlation to present events. There is a reason that our currency is no longer linked to a gold standard and it is basically the same reason that our constitution incorporates the First Amendment.
Important personal freedoms cannot be guaranteed by linkage to non-negotiable positions such as that taken by the Bishops. Clearly the USCCB "Just doesn't get this freedom of religion thing."
"Don't expect legal protection for taking an illegal substance though it is used in religious rituals." vs. "You must pay for birth control, though you have a long-standing religious doctrine and moral stance against it and even though in the vast majority of cases it has nothing to do with health care but only with an optional activity."Hmmm.... doesn't seem like a really good parallel to me.
This is a seriously misleading article because the author does not address what will surely be the central legal issue: not whether the HHS mandate violates the Constitution, but rather whether it violates the Restoration of Religious Freedom Act, which was enacted precisely to counteract the Supreme Court Smith decision Mr. Becker relies upon. Under RFRA the government must show that there is a "compelling need" for the mandate and that there is no less burdensome method available to meet that need. Smith rejected those tests; Congress restored them. Of what possible interest is it to discuss Smith when the case will certainly be decided on the basis of RFRA, not Smith?
Mr. Becker, your views address an issue that has received little attention from dotCommonweal's critics. It is true that current federal regulations will deny Catholic hospitals and other charitable institutions a choice of health insurance policies that deny women contraceptive coverage.
However, our Catholic Bishops object: they challenge the exemption for "religious employer" as too narrow — they want to expand it by a definition broad enough that voids contraceptive insurance coverage for every employer that rejects it. The objection is not defensible; regulations cannot nullify provisions of the Affordable Care Act that call for such general coverage.
Others argue that the existing regulation violates the rights of employers under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 by creating an exemption that is too narrow. This argument is refuted by the Act itself: the law states, "As used in this section, the term "granting", used with respect to government funding, benefits, or exemptions, does not include the denial of government funding, benefits, or exemptions." 42 USC § 2000bb-4.
This article is seriously deficient. I cant imagine any reason why it was published unless its supposed to be a letter to the editor.
I don't think any of the examples provide a very good parallel. At the heart of the issue here is that unlike the peyote case, religious people are being forced to participate in a sin, not being denied protection for a religious actuivity which is otherwise illegal.
I think another valid test to see if something violates the free exercise of religion is the one by the RFRA. Was the policy enacted in a way that infringes on free exercise of religion when it could have been enacted in a way that does not? The fact that this mandate was crafted in a way that seems to specifically target Catholic institutions, that seems to specifically to force Catholic institutions to choose sides, the state or the Church, when the same result could have been achieved without targetting Catholic religious liberty so directly certainly does not seem to meet that test.
For me, that is the critical fact. This was done in a way that seemed to specifically create a wedge in the Catholic population: accept state teaching about contraception or accept Catholic teaching .. or offer just one pinch of incense if you like. This targetted employers, not insurance plans, not insurers (although the as-of-yet-unenacted accommodation would have targetted insurers), but employers. It targetted the link in the insurance chain that was the most likely to have a religious objection. The administration that came up with that was either utterly tone-deaf to the religious, especially the Cathlic, faithful or was taking aim at the Church.
No doubt, there is much more to the contraception mandate than the Smith Case, as there is a difference between a religious practice and a Religious Doctrine which is infallibly taught.
" -- religious people are being forced to participate in a sin -- "
And exactly what sin would that be? No one is forcing them to practice or purchase contraception.
What if the church decided that the current or next war does not meet the test of the Just War theory and, as such, is immoral. Will religious people be allowed to pay taxes that support said war? As members of the military, would they be obligated to refuse to serve?
Or would that fall under the great theocon copout of "prudential judgement?"
I believe that for the Bishops the issue isn't contraception per se; it is abortion. If one's religion dictates a belief that a death will result in the use of a religious organization's money then it is a violation of the Constitution. The argument in the Catholic Church itself of whether the drugs are ultimately contraceptives or abortifacients. Persident Obama's compromise is based on the opinion nearly all scientists hold that Plan B is contraceptive not abortifacient. It was approved in most countries as a contraceptive because it forestalls or interrupts ovulation. Thus the drug does not act on a fertilized egg, so there is no conception. The original committee that made the recommendation to Pope Paul operated with this belief and felt the control of ovulation was not contraceptive any more than the rhythm method. The Pope (heavily influenced by the future Pope John Paul II) disagreed with the committee and believed that if there was even the remotest chance that The Pill worked to abort a fertilized egg then it should be prohibited by the Church. The American bishops believe that the Morning After pill is a potential abortifacient and thus are taking a hard line against Plan B contraceptives. I would speculate that they may have been more open to Obama's compromise if they believed the Morning After pill was not abortifacient, just as many Catholic hospitals and organizations have.
There are many complex issues involved. The one that I believe all Catholics should rally behind to oppose is the assumption that a secular government has the right to define "the ministry of a Church" to suit the government's purposes, contrary to tradition, societal norms and common sense. Using far-fetched, cult-like examples to represent an equivalent to the Church is misleading. The Catholic Church's ministry has extended to healthcare, charity and eductation for millenia. To have the government now try to narrow that ministry to only the worship sphere and to services to professed Catholics is an outrageous over reach of government power and should be disallowed as a clear breach of The First Amendment.
This was perhaps the most obtuse argument I've ever heard. Is this meant to be a real debate or some journalist trying to sound clever. Silly, yet stupid. score up common wheel and start forming cogent thoughts those of use who are college educated wont laugh at.


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Are there any good Jewish Blogs about the Modern Hebrew language?
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Best is a matter of taste, but here are a few that you might enjoy:
http://blog.tapuz.co.il/einat3 - modern hebrew
http://www.thmrsite.com/?page_id=6 - Hebrew (and Farsi, linguistics, etc.)
http://hebrewlog.blogspot.com/ - modern hebrew
http://yitzhakavinery.wordpress.com/ - About Yitzchak Avinery who was a Hebrew language scholar and inventor of Hebrew words, an Avshalom Kor of his day
http://haharoni.wordpress.com/ - modern Hebrew (also other subjects)
http://www.dorbanot.com/ - modern Hebrew, slang
http://hasagot.wordpress.com/ - blog about mistakes, interesting findings in the classic Even Shoshan Hebrew dictionary (very niche audience!)
http://benyehuda.org/blog/ - blog discussing classic Hebrew literature
Other Resources:
http://www.icast.co.il/default.aspx?p=Podcast&id=363234 - podcast for Avraham Kor, a guru of the Hebrew language popular in Israel
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3270207030CC172E - YouTube videos of short clips explaining interesting aspects of the Hebrew language by Avraham Kor
** http://www.safa-ivrit.org/ **- not written in a blog format, rather an article format, but still very interesting insights into the Hebrew language, very popular among Hebrew enthusiasts
http://hebrew-academy.huji.ac.il/Pages/default.aspx - homepage for the National Academy for Hebrew Language
Unfortunately, balashon is the only serious blog about Hebrew written in English that I could find.
Not a blog as such, but a resource centre for those learning modern Hebrew: http://www.hebrew.ecott.ch


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Ceremonial Dance
Northern Plains Indians held ceremonial dances as a celebration, most often for the cure of disease, success in a hunt or battle, and good fortune in a family or tribe. An example of a Cheyenne powwow dance in Montana is pictured above.
Fun Fact: Probably the most well-known ceremonial dance, the powwow, is an Anglicized word of the Algonquian term "pau-wau," meaning a gathering of medicine men or spiritual leaders.
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The 6 Best Towns To Live in (If You Have a Death Wish)
#3. La Rinconada, Peru
Where is it?
Oh what an enviable joy it must be to toil in the merry gold mines of La Rinconada, high in the Andes Mountains in Peru. Actually, since you asked, it's a hellish nightmare life the likes of which you are powerless to imagine.
La Rinconada is, for starters, the highest-altitude permanent settlement on Earth. It's about 5400 meters above sea level, which means it can also be described as the lowest permanent settlement in space. The air is mighty thin up there, but at least the perpetual state of near-suffocation will take your mind off the sub-zero temperatures and the smell of human excrement. Did we mention there is no sewage system in La Rinconada? No running water, either. And no law enforcement of any kind. No wonder the population is dwindling at... oh shit, 30,000 people and growing.
In La Rinconada, you have two choices of occupation. (1) You can work the gold mines, or (2) Heh, just kidding. There is no second choice.
See, Peru is kind of a hell of unemployment, so a town with one employer is better than the average. The gold mine is what draws tens of thousands of men and their families out of the comparatively more comfortable cities and into one of the most pathetic makeshift shanty settlements this side of District 9.
Also, this is old school mining. There's no machinery and no safety precautions. You just turn up and they hand you one of those cartoony flashlight-hard-hats and a chisel.
The last possession you will ever own.
As Internet writers, we know less about mining than basically anyone else on the planet. But they tell us that there are different kinds of gold mines, and the mine in La Rinconada is, well, the undesirable kind. All the gold is locked up in tiny seams, so most of what you're actually mining is just ordinary rocks, which are probably still worth more than Peruvian currency, but not by much. Trying to mine gold here is like hitting the haystack with a hammer until the needle just flies out of it.
Better still are the employment contracts. In Peru, they don't have particularly sophisticated legislation in that area, so the miners work according to the traditional oral contract of cachorreo, probably Spanish for "bend over." Under cachorreo, everything you mine for 30 days is the property of the company. Then comes payday. The only catch is that you have to dig your paycheck out of the mine with your bare hands. That's right, on day 31, whatever you dig up is yours. Sometimes you actually find some gold, but more often than not you go home to the wife--and that hole you dug that is your toilet--empty handed. And then you still have to go out with your chisel and attack wildlife for your dinner. But shit, you earned that barrow full of rocks.
#2. Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Where is it?
Quick, you've got three million people who need a home and some kind of gainful employment, where is the best place to set them up? If you said "on an active volcano" then you're either an idiot, or you're from Yogyakarta.
"Honey, I'm home!"
Java is an island and 120 million Javanese people live on, or within instant obliteration distance from active volcanoes. Perhaps the most brazen are the citizens of Yogyakarta, the province around Mount Merapi, the most active volcano in Indonesia, and maybe the most fucking terrifying thing that God permits to exist on Earth. The Javanese call it the Fire Mountain. We call it Sir.
Yogyakarta is an unusual place because, while it's part of the Indonesian Republic, it's still its own little kingdom with its very own Sultan. For complicated political reasons, the Indonesian government agreed to let Yogyakarta keep its traditional Hindu monarchy. We like to think they just took one look at that goddamn volcano on which the people willingly lived and bid them good day. The people of Yogyakarta are mostly hard-working villagers who deal with the day to day stresses of family, farm life, and a giant volcano that regularly explodes and kills everyone.
Business as usual.
Mount Merapi can, at any moment, dump out a shitload of ash, fart out a cloud of searing hot poison gas, or it can fall back on that faithful but reliable trope, lava. All three have impressive body counts to their names, and all three hate you, personally. Oh, and the eruptions are usually followed by devastating earthquakes, like the one that demolished much of Yogyakarta in 2006. Oh, and tsunamis. Man, fuck you, Merapi.
Ironically, the mountain is the reason the Javanese stay. The traditional Hindu villagers worship Mt Merapi as a god, and what it taketh away with one hand, it giveth with the other. It turns out that the bullshit that the volcanoes spew over Java is also the best fertiliser in the world. The farming on Java is out of this world, and it's thanks to the incredible bounty of the people of Yogyakarta and other regions that Indonesia flourishes. The Javans actually look down on the neighboring island of Borneo, where farming is poor thanks to their one pitiful volcano that hasn't even killed anyone lately.
#1. San Pedro De Atacama, Chile
Where is it?
Here in our comfortable Western niche, we tend to take certain luxury items for granted. Water, for instance. It's something that organisms need for biological function. It seems not everybody got that memo, which is why some adventurous people decided to set up a town in the middle of the Atacama desert in Chile, the one place in the world where it never rains, ever. And that's not an exaggeration. An unusual combination of pressure systems and geological features makes cloud formation over the Atacama desert literally impossible. Some eggheads have done the math to confirm it. It's just not going to happen, ever.
The Atacama desert is actually where NASA conducts its test-runs for sending machines to Mars. The locations are virtually identical. There's no moisture and no life. If you die in the Atacama, you don't even rot. Scientists have found bodies, thousands of years old, that look as fresh as the day they keeled over. This is it. This is literally the most inhospitable place on the surface of the Earth. There are microbes in the calderas of volcanos, but there isn't a single one here.
There is, however, San Pedro de Atacama, tourist mecca of Northern Chile!
So happy! But so thirsty!
Life isn't very breezy in San Pedro. They do get their water somewhere, obviously, but the thing about Atacama water is, well, it's basically arsenic. Just another one of nature's cruel jokes, what little water there is to be found is naturally laced with up to 60 times the fatal dose of this poison. The locals just shrug their shoulders, though. It's okay - they're fucking immune. After centuries of living in the Atacama wasteland, the residents of this dustbowl nightmare have actually built up a tolerance to arsenic that makes them a medical oddity. In recent years, they've built filtration plants so that visitors can actually survive their vacation.
Oh, you didn't think people would vacation here? Well, as it turns out, the majority of San Pedro's real money comes from tourism. For some fucking reason.
If you look to your left, folks, you'll see... well...
Around 40,000 people venture into this town every year just to see the closest thing to the surface of the moon that can be found on Earth. There is so much tourism that the conservative residents have had to crack down on revellers - they have ordinances banning both binge drinking and "nocturnal dancing." Okay.
It's not Cancun. But you have to give some credit to a people who can take miles of literally nothing and turn that into a tourist empire.
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My first son, Michael, never questioned anything. He played happily with toys that were safe and avoided any area that was threatening. Then Brandon came along. Brandon, the more typical of the two, was the first one to notice, at an early seven months, that the cable cords behind the TV could be reached easiest by climbing straight through the bottom of the VCR shelf. And when I said, "No!" he would head in the other direction at about 90 miles an hour with a grin on his face that I can't describe without laughing. He knew he shouldn't be doing what he was doing!
I realized early on that I needed to come up with a strategic plan that would allow him to be safe while still encouraged to explore and be adventurous. It was exhausting, so I'm happy to share it with you in hopes it may make your life easier.
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Several manufacturers have announced their participation in Manufacturing Day, a nationwide event on Oct. 5, 2012, to highlight the importance of manufacturing to the nation's economy and draw attention to the many rewarding, high-skill jobs available in manufacturing fields.
The event sponsors — Rockford, Ill.-based Fabricators & Manufacturers Association Intl. (FMA), the U.S. Commerce Department's Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), Wisconsin MEP (WMEP); and Illinois Manufacturing Extension Center (IMEC). MEP is part of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) — have invited additional associations and organizations supporting the manufacturing industry to hold open houses, public tours, career workshops, and other events on Oct. 5 to introduce as many people as possible to the important role of manufacturing.
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Attempt two.
There are only two costs you could be referring to about this enchant:
- The cost of mats, or
- The cost of the tip to your enchanter.
It can't be the cost if the formula, as this is a BoP drop, so no grinding the AH for the formula.
So cost of mats.
This is all dependent on whether you have any in the bank, or have a friendly enchanter to DE drops or grind the AH for items to DE.
The cost of mats will vary per server, so log on with your calculator at your side. (On Aman'Thul it was about 220 gold worth, but since the shards have plummeted in price, this should be cheap)
Whatever the cost of the mats it is relatively cheap. Plus 40 to all your spell damage schools, no matter what your spell – can't fail.
You can read an older post of mine for more details.
The cost of the tip to your enchanter.
OK, let's set something straight from the beginning, tip is a misnomer. This is a payment for services rendered.
When you buy pots, bags etc from the AH you don't pay a tip, because the crafted has built the "tip" into the price you pay. An enchanter can't do that because the deal is face to face.
So what is a good amount to pay for the service?
Some suggest 10-20% of the may cost. I tend to give 5g for <300 enchants and 10-20g for higher level enchants.
Consider when counting your coppers what went into the enchanter doing your enchant.
- It's one of the most expensive professions to level (only beaten by blacksmithing).
- All those quest rewards you cashed in at the vendor, the enchanter blew on the next hopeful point in enchanting – no profit there.
- All that time spent grinding for recipes, no discoveries in enchanting. It took me 6-12 hours to grind this recipe (600g-1200g+ worth of daily time). It has taken me 10 months of running Kara (and one missing enchanter and one generous enchanter) for me to get the Sunfire enchant – 240 hours!)
- All that time spent knowing the enchants and mats you want.
- All that time waiting, traveling, spamming trade chat. Sure some of these people are often trying to get more points – but they aren't making a profit. If they wanted a profit they would drop enchanting and gather or do dailies.
- Which brings me to my final point, while soon your enchant, they aren't doing their thing – playing the fun part of the game and making money.
So when it comes to paying for enchants, pay well! Whether the enchanter is a stranger of guildy, pay well – it is appreciated!
Gnomer and Out!
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We took part in the german 99 fire Film award. Film edited with 0.9.2
The challenge of this award was to produce in 99 hours a 99 second short film to the topic "Wir machen es einfach" (Let's do it)
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i understand nothing (maybe worst with translated/subtitle) ..... but look nice ;-)
have your clip a ni(n)ce time in the festival...
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Ich hab nicht gedacht sowas hier zu sehn. Lustig.
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The actress played very well! Cool to see a 99FF entry made with Kdenlive. Last year we took part in with a film edited with Kdenlive, too and the unusual compositing system made it very hard to get finished in time ;)
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Oh, according to your answer in the thread you may have already seen it ;)


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Does the Respect required by the children for their parents is equally true for the parents-in-law ? I'm sure a son has to obey his father above his father-in-law if there is any disagreement between them, but except these situations (or parents asking to not follow religious commandments) are they any differences in the relationship? Does a man has to look at his father-in-law as he looks at his father ?
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See Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 240:24 where it says that one is m'chuyav to honor his father in law. The passuk where it is learnt from is brought by the Prisha who says that Dovid Hamelech called Saul his father. Whether this is a mitzvah from the Torah is a dispute ,see the Shach who brings the Bach who seems to hold it is a d'Rabbanan .
Some hold that the obligation of honoring parents-in-law is equal to that of parents:
However others argue that the obligation is equal to that of other elderly people:
Source: ספר "הליכות בין אדם לחברו" פ"ה סעיף קיד
[Another answer suggested that this is dependent on the argument whether honoring parents-in-law is מדאורייתא or מדרבנן. While those who hold it is only דרבנן (the ב"ח etc.) could certainly not equate it with honoring parents which is דאורייתא, I don't see why it is necessarily true the other way round; just being דאורייתא doesn't mean it is equal to honoring parents.]


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I've noticed that Indians use the term would-be in place of fiancé/fiancée. Usages like "Meet my would-be" and "This is my would-be" are common in introductions. I used to wonder if this is just an Indian usage or if we got it from the British. I have never heard it being used in American movies or on TV. (I also used to wonder if people used "He/she is my would-have-been" if the wedding was called off after the engagement. :-))
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Yup, I believe the background to this is a plain translation of the Hindi "honewala pati / honewali patni" which means "husband-to-be/wife-to-be".
It's definitely not used in the UK or US (except by other Indians ;) - don't know of other nations though.
In England we use would-be as a pre-modifying adjective. Used as such, it means something that could have happened if conditions had been different. For example:
Jim claims that he designed the iPod but that Steve Jobs beat him to the patent office. These days, the would-be millionaire takes his 40 minute dinner break at the local MacDonalds.
Here we can see that Jim could have been a millionaire had he submitted his design sooner. As it is though, he missed out and lives a normal life.
With that in mind, we could say would-be husband/would-be wife but the meaning would shift. It would mean somebody that could have been your wife under different circumstances (perhaps they were all set to marry when the guy got drafted) but are not. It certainly is not the same as fiance.
Hope this helps.
As a point of interest, if you wanted to adapt the phrase to the meaning, grammatically it would have to be will-be wife, but that doesn't exist.
Would-be in the sense of fiance or fiancee is an Indianism. In UK English, would-be is used only before a noun to describe someone who is hoping to become the type of person mentioned: a would-be actor, advice for would-be parents.
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13 Dec 2012 11:28 PM #1
Wrong cursor over file upload button, using Firefox
There seem to be a bug while hovering the "Browse" button of a FileUploadField object : The wrong cursor is displayed. It's supposed to be a hand cursor ("cursor: pointer"), but it's a text-selection cursor ("cursor: text").
We can see this bug here : http://www.sencha.com/examples/#ExamplePlace:fileupload
I'm using Firefox 17.0.1 on Sencha GXT 3.0.1.
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Thanks for the report! I have opened a bug in our bug tracker.
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This bug exists also for other widgets. For example ComboBox, Datepicker, Spinnerfield, and maybe other widgets
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I think, it happens because the underlying html-input-field renders the textfield over the GXT-Button (Cursor). In GXT 2 the html-input-field renders the text-input-field over the textfield and the html-input-button over the button. So there is a cursor over the textfield and a pointer over the button.
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Behavior has changed in Firefox 23: now the cursor is correct, but the hover status is not properly applied to the button: the background changes only when hovering over the button border.
In IE9 both the cursor and hover status work only when hovering over the border.
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Thanks for your update TGI.
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Mopars In The MistWritten by on March 12, 2014 Project Car Overdose
If it is true that one man's trash is another man's treasure, then New York Mopar collector Larry Hauptman is drowning in a sea of riches. Hidden from sight beneath a serene canopy of trees, Larry's countryside stash of 70-plus vintage Dodge and Plymouth muscle cars has been gathered over the past quarter century from all over the nation. His taste leans toward the rare and exotic; he leaves chasing the more common stuff to others.
Instead, he has a fetish for cars originally built with Air Grabber hoods, four-speeds, kinky column-shift automatics, Six Packs, and ragtops. Another attraction is original paint and muscle graphics, regardless of condition. While some of his scores are rust-free, others bear the effects of repeated exposure to salted winter roads. In the beginning, Larry had plans to restore each purchase. But as the years rolled by, he focused on simply saving rarities from uncaring owners, gathering them one by one, and stashing them away for future salvation. Even though they're exposed to New England weather--not to mention the occasional black bear foraging for fallen nuts--each shell has a story to tell and is worthy of a brighter future.
Each has a story to tell and is worthy of a brighter future
Let's take a tour through this amazing stash of project cars waiting to happen. Though many are shown missing engines and miscellaneous body panels, more often than not, Larry has the matching-numbers drivetrains and sheetmetal in storage, to be reunited as they sell. Though he is actively restoring several cars on site, Larry realizes he'll never get to the majority of them. What you see is for sale. To learn more, contact Larry at firstname.lastname@example.com. Be persistent, you'll get through.
This 440 Six Pack '70 Challenger R/T is one of 1,640 six-barrel cars built and still wears most of its factory applied EK2 Go-Mango orange paint. A $249.55 upcharge over the R/T's base 383 Magnum, the 440 Six Pack got wide beam connecting rods and (in most instances) a cast iron intake manifold for 1970. Larry bought this car complete and still has the loose parts stashed away. An unfortunate wintertime shed collapse caused the roof damage.
Dodge's recently-reborn Scat Pack high-performance marketing program and fan club first lived between 1968 and 1971. Scat Pack magazine ads for the Charger R/T, Coronet R/T, Super Bee, and Dart Swinger 340/GTS called them "the cars with the bumble bee stripes." The worn tail stripe on this faded T5 Copper Poly '69 Charger R/T warned plenty of GTO, SS454 and Fairlane Cobra Jet drivers that there's a 440 Magnum on board. The dual chrome-tipped tailpipes have been silenced and the asymmetric leaf springs are sagging, but the new-for-'69 cone-type Sure Grip differential inside the 8¾ axlehousing is still ready for action.
Jutting through a layer of decaying maple leaves, the orange valve cover sits atop the original 440 Magnum's 906 cylinder heads and high-flow exhaust manifolds. The only parts missing are the air cleaner, Carter AVS carburetor, seven-blade fan, and drive pulleys. The 440 Magnum was factory rated at 375 hp and 480 lb-ft of torque, and it came standard in each of the 18,866 Charger R/Ts built for 1969. Another 432 Charger R/Ts were built with the optional 426 Street Hemi (figure includes Charger Daytona Hemi installations). Inside, this one has the automatic transmission shift handle mounted to the steering column, a seldom-seen option that allowed three-across front seating on cruise night.
An unfortunate wintertime shed collapse caused the roof damage
Another victim of falling objects, this '70 GTX was born with the standard 375hp 440 Super Commando four-barrel, 727 TorqueFlite automatic transmission, and 3.23-geared 8-3/4 Sure Grip axle. A spotty coat of light yellow paint covers the original Deep Burnt Orange metallic on this non-vinyl-roof relic.
Though Plymouth offered '70 GTX buyers a front bench seat for the first time, this example was ordered new with a column-mounted shift handle, high-back buckets, and the optional fold-down center armrest for occasional three-across seating. The upscale woodgrain dash (shared with Sport Satellite) bears H51 air conditioner controls (a $357.65 option), an AM radio, and the standard red GTX logo.
Years ago Jerry scored this '69 Hemi Road Runner, still wearing much of its original F3 Forest Green paint, with a 318 in place of the original 426 dome head. Out of 788 '69 Hemi Road Runners built, 162 were ordered with the 727 TorqueFlite automatic and RM21 pillar coupe body style as seen here. Motor Trend awarded its Car of the Year honors to the Road Runner in 1969 because it "started a whole new trend in Detroit, every major manufacturer is now producing a Road Runner–type car."
The letter J in the VIN tag's fifth spot ordains this Beeper as one of the greatest muscle cars of all time. Though Road Runner sales peaked with the '69 model, at 82,109 units, only 788 customers shelled out an extra $813.45 for the 426 Street Hemi. The rest (except for 1,432 midyear M-code 440 Six Barrel–equipped Road Runner coupes and hardtops) were powered by H-code 335hp 383s.
The puny two-barrel carb atop the visiting 318 looks ready to be sucked into the Air Grabber's oval mouth. Optional on 383 Road Runners for $65.55, the N96 Air Grabber hood came standard with the E74 Street Hemi. Lacking optional power brakes and power steering, this one was ordered strictly for action. Inside are bucket seats and a console-mounted shift handle to control the heavy-duty five-clutch, wide-band Hemi TorqueFlite automatic.
Often overlooked by muscle historians, the compact '69 Dart GTS was available with every Dodge high-performance V-8 except the 426 Street Hemi and 440 Six Pack. The latest data indicates that 640 440s (M-code, all automatics with single four-barrel carburetion), 1,272 383s (H-code), and 3,645 340s (P-code) were built. This '69 383 GTS is one of 784 built with a four-speed stick (another 488 cars were built with automatics).
The potent Dart was built for action with manual steering and manual front disc brakes. The interior and trunk are packed with most of the parts needed to make it whole again. Rust is prevalent, but with reproduction patch panels available, this one deserves a second chance. A member of our visiting team bought it from Larry for a bit under his $7,000 asking price and trucked it home to Georgia, where it will be restored.
Another Street Hemi body shell, this one's a '68 Coronet R/T with a console-shifted 727 TorqueFlite and a 3.23-geared 8-3/4 axle. It is one of 10,558 '68 Coronet R/Ts made (9,989 hardtops and 569 convertibles), but one of only 229 with the Street Hemi option (220 hardtops, 9 convertibles). The original QQ1 Bright Blue Poly is visible in the engine bay. Again, the original Hemi was lost years ago.
No collection of Mopars is complete without a wing car, and Larry has this original U-code 440-4/automatic Superbird in Alpine White. Though Plymouth barred availability of H51 air conditioning on Superbirds, somewhere along the line it has been added using all factory parts and looks like it has been there since day one. This rusty but savable example found a new home a week after our visit.
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Despite the crunched roof, this Six Pack Challenger's floors, trunk, and framerails are very solid. Luckily, outfits like Dynacorn International offer fix-it panels so revival isn't a pipe dream. Again, the column-mounted TorqueFlite shift handle is visible. Not shown are the car's manual 11-inch drum brakes and steering. This hairy brute must have been a real workout to drive … in a good way.Inside, the orange Challenger features a column-mounted automatic shift handle. While Dodge supplied a competition-minded, engine-saving, reverse-pattern column-shift quadrant on the '65 WO1 Race Hemi Super Stock package car (with a PRN12D pattern so drivers pulled the lever away from Neutral while upshifting), all subsequent Dodge column (and console) shift quadrants followed the normal PRND21 pattern seen here. Unless extreme control was exercised, it was easy to shift into Neutral and over-rev the engine. Most original owners of cars ordered this way were drag racers intent on the day-two installation of a B&M, Hurst, or other aftermarket ratchet shifter.The V in the fifth spot of the bleached VIN tag verifies 440 Six Pack status. Prior to its arrival, Dodge's biggest gun was the exotic 426 Street Hemi with 425 hp and 490 lb-ft. Priced $529.20 less than the $778.75 Street Hemi, the Six Pack, with triple Holley two-barrel carburetors, delivered 390 hp and 490 lb-ft of torque and gave Dodge dealers an affordable answer to top-tier pony car contenders.Even if the VIN tag were missing, the presence of torque boxes verifies Street Hemi status. Also installed on convertibles (regardless of engine size), these welded-on structures add strength to the forward leaf spring mounting bulkhead to resist distortion and metal fatigue under heavy load.The VIN tag says it all. WS23 means Coronet R/T hardtop, J 426 Street Hemi, 8 1968 model year, and A Lynch Road assembly plant. Mopar VIN tags never rust since they're made of stainless steel. But the satin-black paint and white Chrysler Corp. logo tend to fade with time. The six-side rivets are distinctive and hinder tampering.Inside the Hemi Coronet's gutted body shell, the factory floor shifter, Hemi-specific power brake booster, and power steering pump seek meager shelter from nature. With its $3,353 base sticker price, the Coronet R/T cost $350 more than the midyear Super Bee, which started at $3,027 and was only available as a pillar coupe. Although '68 Coronet R/T sales surpassed those of the Super Bee (10,558 versus 7,842), the economical but potent Bee would outsell the R/T by large margins in the '69 and '70 model years.


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#3. Dr. Lawrence Angelo from The Lawnmower Man
Why He's A Genius:
Dr. Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) invented Project 5, a virtual-reality program that transforms its users into telekinetic gods. Unfortunately, godhood isn't all that it's cracked up to be, since you end up looking like Max Headroom on angel dust.
Not that this would hinder your chances of getting laid. The film's portrayals of VR sex are so disturbing that a man's penis would invert itself.
Why He Should Not Have Been Allowed To Do Science:
The film opens with the good doctor unsuccessfully testing Project 5 on chimps. After failing to create psychic ape-messiahs, Dr. Angelo recruits Jobe (a.k.a. Frank Lapidus on Lost), the titular, mentally retarded groundskeeper, to test Project 5.
"My experiment will make you smarter..."
And when we say "Dr. Angelo recruits Jobe," we actually mean "Dr. Angelo hops the unwitting schmo up on IQ-boosting video games and smart drugs for laughs."
"...or an episode of ReBoot directed by David Cronenberg."
Dr. Angelo had good intentions but a miserable grasp of scientific ethics. The ability to read at a middle-school level would be mind-blowing enough for Jobe, but giving him the ability to blow up a middle school with his mind? Please. We'd be better off with the chimps. The worst they'd do is transmogrify reality into a giant banana.
#2. Dr. Herbert West from Re-Animator
Why He's A Genius:
Dr. West concocted the Re-Agent, a serum that resurrects the dead as mindless zombies. At first, the Re-Agent sounds like a truly awful idea. But think about it: Zombies are tireless, have no use for money and have crossed the unknowable chasm between life and death. In sum: They're the ultimate migrant laborers.
Sure, people would probably protest that these undead abominations are taking jobs away from living Americans, but that's simply because they don't have a zombie butler yet.
Why He Should Not Have Been Allowed To Do Science:
The Re-Agent raises some profound ethical questions, such as "Where's the dignity in dying if your rotting corpse is forced to work at Arby's?"
Regardless of a societally suitable answer (frankly, we'd only settle for nothing less than In-N-Out), Dr. West said, "Screw that noise!" and tested his serum in secret. This meant sneaking into morgues, reanimating disgruntled zombies and then reanimating any poor bastard unlucky enough to wander into the undead's path.
Needless to say, West racks up a sizable body count by the film's end. Had he just told someone what the fuck he invented, we're sure the N.I.H. would've provided him with a dump truck full of overripe old folks to un-birth. The movie would then be exactly like Cocoon if all the senior citizens ate each other.
Heck, West could've held a press conference to demonstrate the Re-Agent. Sure, there's the chance one of his test subjects would strangle an audience member with its zombie intestines, but that's the kind of stuff that gets your driveway paved in Nobel Prizes.
#1. The Ghostbusters
Why They're Geniuses:
For those two readers who have never seen Ghostbusters: drive to your nearest mall and buy it. Now. Drive in the left lane if it's quicker. And don't worry about fatalities, the cops will understand. They've seen Ghostbusters.
For the rest of humanity: In no time and for little cost, they slapped together the Psycho-Kinetic Energy Meter, the Proton Packs, ghost-capturing technology and had the foresight to buy up cheap downtown New York real estate during the pre-Giuliani years.
14 North Moore Street. Google Map it.
Why They Should Not Have Been Allowed To Do Science:
When faced with irrefutable proof of mankind's ultimate question--the existence of ghosts and thus life after death and the soul--the Ghostbusters did what absolutely no ethical scientist would do: declare war on the spirits and imprison them in tiny boxes.
The theological and philosophical ramifications of an afterlife? Poppycock. The fact that most apparitions are just looking for earthly closure? Bosh. What about the possibility of reconnecting with dead loved ones? Screw that noise! Treat those bastards like we're exterminators and they're a roach infestation!
So let's just that say that if Grandpa Jim materializes in your home, DON'T call the Ghostbusters. Otherwise Peter Venkman will show up stinking of Campari, bark a witticism to no one in particular and unceremoniously Proton Pack the shit out of your living room.
Once all your earthly possessions are charred and radioactive, Venkman will slap you with a $1,000 invoice and ship Gramps off to ghost jail, where he'll spend eternity getting buggered by poltergeists in a firehouse basement.
And about those Proton Packs? These "unlicensed nuclear accelerators" have a fairly important design flaw: If you cross the streams, you'll destroy the universe.
This means that, at any given moment, reality as we know it rests in the hands of three clumsy, out-of-shape scientists.
Say Venkman trips. End of the universe. Stantz sneezes. End of the universe. Egon prolapses. End of the universe.
Winston was not a scientist.
Holy crap, the dickless EPA guy was right!
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Theater Companies
The National Endowment for the Arts, in cooperation with Arts Midwest, selected the following theater companies from across the country through competitive review processes. The companies are all exemplary, professional, not-for-profit groups with substantial performing experience.
The selected companies for the 2015-2016 season of Shakespeare in American Communities are:


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Tonight I had a real hankering for scalloped potatoes--must be the cold weather and snow (it's going down to -17 degrees Celsius tonight (that's about 1 degree Fahrenheit for those outside the Commonwealth)). This recipe is modelled after a Betty Crocker recipe I used to make in my pre-vegan days, and they are, in my humble opinion, the best vegan scalloped potatoes I have ever had. The key is slicing the potatoes really thin, so you must use a food processor. The smooth creaminess of the potatoes is nicely complimented by the crispy and tangy tofu.
NOTE: You can play with some of the quantities here. If you like more "liquidy" scalloped potatoes, make the sauce as is. If you like them a little drier, add in an extra tbsp of flour for a thicker sauce. No matter how you like them, make sure you use thin layers of sauce between the potatoes. Depending on the size of the potatoes you use, you may need to slice more than I indicate here.


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I have a friend who wants to put Flaming and Shocking on a bow to get some extra damage. All the enchants say is upon command they activate. If the enchants have the same command would they both activate and grant +1d6 fire and +1d6 electric damage?
I have not been able to find anything in the rules that states this is not legal but it doesn't seem like something that is possible. Could anyone direct me to anything that would give a ruling on this?


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Ronald Weasley's wands may refer to:
- Ronald Weasley's first wand, the wand that once belonged to Charlie Weasley and was broken by the Whomping Willow in 1992.
- Ronald Weasley's second wand, the wand that Ron bought in 1993.
- Peter Pettigrew's wand, the wand that Ron took from Peter Pettigrew in 1998.


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I find many sites explaining how to use Newton's method, but none explaining why it works. Could someone give me the intuition behind it? Thanks.
The method is easiest to justify in one dimension. Say that I have some complicated function $f(x)$ whose root I want to find:
"I don't know how to find its root; it's complicated!" Thus, we use a general idea that has always been used in the design of numerical methods:
One of the simplest functions one can deal with is a linear function:
In particular, if you want the root of a linear function, it's quite easily figured:
Now, it is well-known (or at least, ought to be) that the tangent line of a function is the "best" linear approximation of a function in the vicinity of its point of tangency:
The first idea of the Newton-Raphson method is that, since it is easy to find the root of a linear function, we pretend that our complicated function is a line, and then find the root of a line, with the hope that the line's crossing is an excellent approximation to the root we actually need.
Mathematically, if we have the tangent line of $f(x)$ at $x=a$, where $a$ is the "starting point":
$$f(x)\approx f(a)+f^\prime(a)(x-a)=0$$
If we want $x$, then
Let's call this $x_1$.
As you can see, the blue point corresponding to the approximation is a bit far off, which brings us to the second idea of Newton-Raphson: if at first you don't succeed, try again:
As you can see, the new blue point is much nearer to the red point. Mathematically, this corresponds to finding the root of the new tangent line at $x=x_1$:
We can keep playing this game (with $x_2, x_3, \dots x_n$), up until the point that we find a value where the quantity $\dfrac{f(x_n)}{f^\prime(x_n)}$ is "tiny". We then say that we have converged to an approximation of the root. That is the essence of Newton-Raphson.
As an aside, the previous discussion should tip you on what might happen if the tangent line is nearly horizontal, which is one of the disastrous things that can happen while applying the method.
This animation from the Wikipedia page for Newton's Method might be useful:


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The first objective of the mission is to destroy the fuel pods with torpedoes, but the pods don't seem to receive any damage from torpedoes, rockets, or primary energy guns.
The objective icon is in between the fuel pods, right in the middle of a platform they are attached to, shooting at it or anything around doesn't help.
Is this a bug, or is there some other devious something I need to do?


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Soo is anyone else looking forward to escaping the snow and maybe enjoying some warmer weather? As I sit here in my yoga pants and sweatshirt, fireplace roaring... I just can't help but dream of warmer weather and beautiful Spring time colors. And so that brings me to this little post of mine. I wanted to do something a bit different today as I've been getting a lot of emails asking me for specific suggestions regarding color choices.
Now, these emails include color questions ranging from where to find a perfectly color coordinated pair of heels to what color nail polish they should have their bridesmaids wear. Yes, these are the sort of emails I get. And so today I thought I'd drill down deep and start answering your specific questions, one email at a time. Starting off with today's post where I've actually paired some of my favorite wedding bouquets with the nail polish colors I would recommend.
Dior Vernis Plaza 579 // floral design by amy lynne originals // photo by nancy ray photography via wedding chicks
Dior Vernis Riviera 537 // floral design by beehive events // photo by sweet tea photography via glamour and grace
So many beautiful bouquets and so many pretty polish colors. Wouldn't you agree? I simply cannot choose a favorite. But I'd love to hear yours! Which colors are calling your name? Most of these shades would look amazing for any Spring or Summer wedding and some of them would work for any season.
Now, admittedly, I didn't start off this post with the mindset that I would just be featuring Dior shades, but it just sort of worked out that they matched up perfectly to the bouquets I wanted to work with. I simply love how these shades coordinate so effortlessly. Plus it's nice that they offer both matte and shimmers. And although my wedding day has come and gone, I can't help but look forward to breaking out a few of these shades for Spring! Can you blame me?


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I am facing some problems with current installation of Ubuntu 12.04. I'd like to go for fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I don't have a separate partition of Home folder.
I have started doing simple jobs like package migration and PPA uploading etc with Ubuntu.
My request is, what are the files I have to backup to make sure my new installation is ready for development?


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COLORADO SPRINGS (CNN) -- Colorado Springs police have arrested a man whom authorities want to question in relation to the March shooting death of prison chief Tom Clements.
James Lohr, described by police as a member of a white supremacist prison gang, is an associate of Evan Ebel, the man suspected of killing Clements, Lt. Jeff Kramer of the El Paso County, Colorado, sheriff's office said.
Lohr had three outstanding arrest warrants unrelated to the Clements investigation, and it was not immediately clear whether he is facing new charges.
Lohr is scheduled to receive a court advisement via video in El Paso County on Monday afternoon. Arrested after a police chase, Lohr is facing accusations of felony vehicular eluding and three traffic offenses -- reckless driving, speeding and failing to obey a traffic control devise, the sheriff's office said.
Authorities on Friday said they were looking for two men believed to have walked off with a firearm thrown from Lohr's vehicle during the chase. A business surveillance video caught one of the men picking it up.
"Those who found the gun and have it in their possession are not in trouble, but it's important they notify the El Paso County Sheriff's Office so the gun can be placed into evidence as part of the ongoing investigation," the sheriff's department said in a statement.
In addition to Lohr, police were on the lookout for another Ebel associate, 31-year old Thomas Guolee.
Meanwhile, authorities were questioning another two people associated with Ebel, whom a source close to the investigation declined to name.
Police want to question Lohr and Guolee -- whom police described as associates of the white supremacist 211 Crew gang -- in relation to the death of Clements. Ebel, the man suspected of shooting the chief, was also a 211 Crew member. He died in a shootout with Texas deputies.
The other two men, brought in for questioning in recent days by El Paso County authorities, are also 211 Crew members, the source said. Both associated with Ebel in the days before Clements' death, the source said, and at least one is a parolee.
Authorities have also served a search warrant related to one of them, the source said. The source declined to say what the warrant named.
Investigators have said they were looking into whether Ebel might have conspired with other inmates to kill Clements.
Clements was widely recognized for cracking down on prison gangs, including the 211 Crew. Ebel also is suspected in the killing of part-time pizza deliveryman Nathan Leon.
Authorities have speculated Ebel might have killed Leon for his uniform so he could use it as a disguise in the killing of Clements, who was gunned down on March 19 after he opened his front door.
Due to a clerical error, Ebel had been released early on parole, which he later violated.
He had been sentenced to eight years in prison in 2005 for armed robbery. In 2008, he was sentenced to another four years -- to be served consecutively -- for punching a prison guard.
Two days after Clements was killed, Ebel died in northern Texas in a gun battle with authorities that left a sheriff's deputy wounded.


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I often hear the term 'Butterfly Lighting' used when discussing high-fashion and glamor photography. How do I set up Butterfly Lighting, and when do I use it?
What is Butterfly Lighting?
Butterfly Lighting is one of the 5 basic lighting setups commonly used in studio portrait photography. It is also variously referred to as 'Clamshell Lighting,''Glamor Lighting' 'Beauty Lighting,' or 'Paramount Lighting.' At its most basic, Butterfly consists of a single light pointed directly at the subject straight on, and raised high enough to create a downward shadow on the subject. This causes a little 'butterfly' shadow to appear directly underneath the subject's nose.
One-light Butterfly Lighting setup:
Often the Butterfly Lighting setup is augmented by a reflector or fill ight in front of the subject, underneath and just outside the frame of the shot to bounce some light up into the eyes because a light at such a high camera angle generally causes the eyes to go very dark without it.
One-light + reflector Butterfly Lighting setup:
When do I use Butterfly Lighting?
Butterfly lighting is considered the 'fashion' or 'glamor' lighting setup. Often times this is a flattering look for high-school and college aged girls. It is especially well suited to women with narrow faces and high cheekbones, but because there is very little shadow cast on the face it can add weight to the subject with a rounder face. Additionally, the lack of shadows means that it is unsuitable for subjects who have skin problems, facial scars, facial hair, etc.. Although it is occasionally used as a fashion setup for men, it is so commonly used in women's fashion photography that it has become 'synonymous' with women's glamor lighting. So much so that even people who don't pay much attention to such things may still feel like a portrait of a man with Butterfly Lighting looks 'funny' somehow, even if they can't articulate why. Additionally, the lack of facial shadow that is cast by the light is generally not especially flattering unless the man's features are somewhat feminine already.
@Jay Lance's lighting diagrams are nice, but they're top-down. That's what you want for most lighting diagrams (and hence that's how most software works). However, for butterfly lighting, the key is to position the lights vertically, "on top of" each other... and so a side-shot of the lighting setup is more illustrative.
This page on DIYPhotography has a perfect example of how it's done:
Here is an article on the subject from the digital-photography-school on butterfly lighting. And here is a nice video on the subject as well.
As a note butterfly lighting typically works best with thin faces and is called butterfly lighting because of the shape of the soft shadow under the persons nose is shaped like a butterfly.
I hope they help.