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Alyssa Sotomayor joined the Coker sports medicine staff as an athletic trainer in July of 2013.
Sotomayor came to Coker after serving as the head athletic trainer at Fort White High School in Fort White, FL for two years. In addition to working at Fort White, Sotomayor was an athletic trainer for the University of Florida soccer, tennis and volleyball camps, and she worked at the Gainsville Soccer Alliance Showcase Tournaments and Sunshine State Games.
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After a few months pause, I am using Workbench again and I cannot determine where is WB sending (deploying) my built package. WB does not ask for a destination folder, so I guess it must use some preference I set before... only I do not remember it! So, can someone please tell me how to find/set the destination folder for deployed applications? (Searching on my HDDs takes a long time.)
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The No. 40 will once again compete on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series circuit when Landon Cassill pilots the joint effort for team owners Joe Falk and Mike Hillman.
Jeb Burton will be behind the wheel of the No. 32 at Pocono Raceway. He also ran for this team in the June Axalta We Paint Winners 400 and finished 29th after starting 39th, which added 10 place-differential points to his total.
Matt Kenseth has finished seventh or better in all but one of this year's flat track races. Last year, he recorded top-10s in all but two events on this course type.
Ryan Newman finished 39th and 23rd in last year's pair of Pocono Raceway events. That came on the heels of six straight seasons in which he swept the top 15 at least and two years of consecutive top-10s. He rebounded this spring and finished 12th in the Axalta We Paint Winners 400.
Aric Almirola finished 18th in this race last year and followed that up with a 20th this spring in the Axalta We Paint Winners 400, which gives him a two-race streak of Pocono Raceway top-20s.
Landon Cassill has finished better than he started in 15 of the last 17 races this season. He also finished exactly where he started once.
Matt DiBenedetto will make his fourth Pocono Raceway start this week, and he has been uneven in the first three attempts. He finished 32nd last spring, 29th last summer, and was 40th this spring.
Elliott Sadler has 11 NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) starts at Iowa Speedway and has finished in the top 10 every time.
Carl Edwards has gotten progressively stronger in the past three Pocono Raceway events. He was 15th in his first start there with Joe Gibbs Racing last year, 10th in the summer race, and eighth this spring.
The June Axalta We Paint Winners 400 was the worst finish for Greg Biffle in his last 10 races at Pocono Raceway. He finished 26th. In the previous nine events, he finished 24th once but had an average result of 10.8.
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Bonus question: If this is possible, and I have multiple internet facing sites on the same SharePoint install, is it possible for them to have a limited amount of content shared? What I'm asking is can you very tightly control what's shared between them, or would it be better to keep them as independent silos?


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I recently took an intro class for MySQL from www.oreillyschool.com and it was very helpful. The next class they offer is administering MySQL but I currently work with SQL Server. The first class was centered around writing queries and for the most part everything transferred over to SQL Server. I don't think the Admin class is going to be beneficial for me.
Does anyone have any recommendation for an online/self-paced class that has actual assignments to do? The O'Reilly school actually has a teacher that gives you a pass or fail for each assignment which I really liked. Their classes are about $500 so something in that price range would be great.
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WPBF 25, the ABC affiliate serving the West Palm Beach TV market, announced Wednesday that Todd McDermott is the new co-anchor of WPBF 25 News at 5, 6 and 11 p.m. He will join WPBF 25 veterans Tiffany Kenney and Mike Lyons on weekdays.
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McDermott has a son, Max, and a daughter, Madissen. He will be joining his daughter who currently lives in West Palm Beach. He earned a Political Science degree from Canisius College. McDermott will debut during WPBF 25's live team coverage of the presidential debate at Lynn University on Oct. 22.
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I reviewed the Option 3 law information and it was very helpful - thanks!
It just occurred to me that the core requirements (not surprisingly) do not include physical education or the arts. However, if I'm counting hours of schooling - do I / can I count any hours he is doing a sport or music lesson? Or is that seen as not counting toward the 4 hours? as another example - what if he's attending tutoring for a foreign language - that is not a requirement for elementary school but if he does it does that "count"? Just trying to think through my record keeping, etc.
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'Commonweal' in 'America'
In case you missed it, be sure to check out Cathleen Kaveny's article "Catholics as Citizens: Today's Ethical Challenges Call for New Moral Thinking" over at America, along with Lisa Fullam's response (other responses here).
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A couple of years ago, I published a paper called "Responding to Evil." In it, among other things, I drew on Karl Jaspers' concept of "political evils" as one often overlooked sort of moral evil. Political evils are moral evils the effects of which have become institutionalized in some community or society. Racial segregation in our society was one such evil, the effects of which are by no means all in the past. These are evils perpetrated by people in positions of authority or power that establish practices or policies that wrongly favor or disfavor some group or class of people. Members of favored groups that profit from such a legacy of injustice bear some responsibility for remedying these harms regardless of their own individual acts or their degree of acquiescence in these practices. They are morally obligated to somehow redress these evils that continue to benefit them.If we reflect about such institutionalized evils we'll see that they occur not only within the realm of politics but can also occur in other groups, e.g., religious congregations, professional associations, etc. For example, there can be discriminatory practices within lawyers' bar associations, or within church congregations. Given our history, we can rightly say that there are patterns of institutional evils in which many, if not most, of us are enmeshed that are so complicated that it is a practical impossibility either to disentangle one of these evils from all the others or to formulate a generally applicable program for addressing them. An example of such a tangle are the institutionalized evils that beset our social safety net and inflict such harm on so many poor people. I concluded that for any of us "acting effectively against some institutional evils ordinarily requires leaving some others unaddressed, at least for the time being. Furthermore, though some institutional evils are worse than others, there is no general formula for determining how any particular individual ought to attack these evils.We can only make prudential judgments about priorities. And prudential judgments are always subject to reasonable challenge."The applicability of all this to the recent national health care debate ought to be obvious.
The powers that be over at Mirror of Justice thought it wiser to close down the discussion of this topic over there rather than to let it continue in the direction it was headed. I haven't read all of the pieces in America yet, but I will definitely do so later today.
Cathleen, great questions. I look forward to Part II of the article, in which you provide all the answers :-)Your point about the intersection of individuals and larger movements/aggregated agency is interesting. During the Civil Rights struggles, some white people actively worked for racial justice, but of course many others declined to take part, even though doing so would not have represented a tremendous burden. (And of course all white people benefitted in some way from the unjust social structures of racial prejudice and segregation). Is it a sin of omission to decline to work for justice when the opportunity presents itself? (Or does the remote-material-cooperation calculus take over here?) If it is a sin of omission, does that same logic extend to pro-life justice?
I'll close this one down too if it gets ugly.
It is true that the Internet makes us average people better-informed and more well-connected. It also provides the opportunity for us to expand our spheres of influence. Posters and commenters here have the opportunity (risk?) of influencing however many people read our contributions. My act of voting is inarguably an individual act - I'm a drop in an ocean of voters. When I advocate for my favored candidates here, or slam the ones I don't like, I might be influencing a number of others people. I am exercising a sort of power and authority (in this case, whatever persuasive power is to be found in my comment) that can help to build, or tear down, God's kingdom.
Can a person, in good conscience, eat a Hershey bar? Can a person, in good conscience, vote for a politician who is not determined to stop the imporation of goods produced/harvested by children? http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/article_fe0505b4-55a2-5f8c-b28b-efb... that:"After a decade of negotiations with industry, Tulane University and Global Exchange reported in September that Hershey, Mars and other American chocolatemakers have made little progress toward promised reforms to address the worst forms of child labor in their cocoa supply chains."At least 2 million children currently are involved in the production of cocoa in Ghana and the Ivory Cost. Children as young as 5 work instead of attending school, and they handle dangerous agrochemicals, wield machetes to hack open cocoa pods and carry backbreaking loads. Even worse, there is evidence that children from Mali and Togo are trafficked into forced labor to work on the cocoa farms of the Ivory Coast."
Jim,though you didn't ask me, let me say that the upshot of what I have tried to say is that often we can only take modest steps to rectify injustices and that there is always more left over for us, and others, to do. Hence most, if not all, of us are never finished with the work of rectifying some injustice from which we still derive some benefit. For example, as a white male I have had a lifetime of advantages that I have not earned and that have accrued to me by way of the racial policies in place when i was young. Because of my limitations, I have an excuse for not having done more thus far to rectify the injustice, but I still have an outstanding obligation to do so. Again, because of my limitations it is a near certainty that I will die without discharging all of them.So I can never believe that I can rightfully conclude that I am a sheep and I know how to divide the human family into sheep and goats. The approach that Abp. Burke has taken about voting in these last few days exemplifies exactly the kind of approach that presupposes that he knows just how to divide sheep from goats. This is just one example of the kind of excessive claim to righteousness that I have argued is intellectually unsustainable.
I think it's unfortunate that Ms. Fullams response went in the direction of "pilgrims > prophets," which it seems to me Prof. Kaveny's original piece was straining to avoid.One think I want to note is that the defining characteristic of pilgrims is not their humility, or their willingness to bend the rules, but that they are *on a journey to a destination.* They are moving forward, not standing still.Movement and progress do not seem to be hallmarks of the conversations about voting for politicians who support abortion. We are having the same arguments we had in 2004.It may be acceptable to vote for politicians who do not share our views about abortion, but it should not be comfortable, nor should it be considered the new "normal" way we do things, where every two or four years we scour for "proportionate reasons" to support the politicians we are inclined to support.If we are pilgrims, then we should be in pilgrimage to a place where these questions are irrelevant. And if the choices we are making aren't getting us there, and we truly are engaged in reality, then we need to reconsider those choices.
Bernard, thanks for your comment to me. Very thought-provoking, the notion that our steps our modest, but that there is still an obligation for each of us to try to do more in the time we have left.
Can a person, in good conscience, eat a Hershey bar? Can a person, in good conscience, vote for a politician who is not determined to stop the imporation of goods produced/harvested by children?--If one were starving, I think one could eat a Hershey bar.If one knows about Hershey's labor practices, it would be wrong to build one's diet around Hershey bars (or a more nutritious product from a company with similar labor practices).I think that's a fundamental difference -- material cooperation with evil may be acceptable in some circumstances, but it should not be comfortable for us, should not become a habit, and our lifestyles should not depend on it.When we are at the point where we see the need to construct new theological scaffolding to support cooperation with evil, I think we are getting close to that point.
Lisa, your comments about the danger of prophets setting up a sort of collateral scandal are well-noted.Istm that for Catholics in the US, the tradition of prophecy is most closely associated with holy orders and religious orders: that becoming a priest or a religious sister is to reject what is unholy and impure in our daily lives, and embrace of a way of life that is holier and more pure. It is not simply the words of those who have chosen this way of life - it is the totality of the life itself: a holier way of living, that provides prophetic witness.(This is, to my mind, the great loss suffered by the American church of the last generations: the terrible dwindling of religious vocations means a loss of that prophetic witness, that holy way of life).The 'opposite scandal', I suppose that this prophetic way of life set up in traditional American Catholicism is the notion that it is *only* through the calling to a holy order or religious vocation that one could achieve this holiness.
Istm that for Catholics in the US, the tradition of prophecy is most closely associated with holy orders/...The opposite scandal, I suppose that this prophetic way of life set up in traditional American Catholicism is the notion that it is *only* through the calling to a holy order or religious vocation that one could achieve this holiness.--Weren't we all anointed "priest, prophet, and king" at our Baptisms?
"Werent we all anointed priest, prophet, and king at our Baptisms?"Yep. I'm not sure how well-appropriated this teaching is now among American Catholics, but I don't think I'm mistaken in my belief that priests and religious sisters have been, in traditional American Catholicsm, perceived as holier than laypersons.I'm not even saying it's wrong - those ways of life *should* entail a call to holiness. But we're all called to holiness according to our circumstances and modes of life. And we should all be living lives of prophetic witness. Surely it is the laity, rather than a bishop, who should be helping Catholics and others discern the right way to think about contentious political issues, whether it be abortion or immigration or health care.
Jim P. --It seems to me that the bishops do have some expertise in administering hospitals, so they have something to contribute to the community. But they should give their views *as individuals*, not as theologians speaking in the name of te Church. And, yes, they should also be expert in ethics if they are going to talk in the name of the Church about general ethical principles and arguments. True, they don't all always agree among each other, but that is probably just as well. That's the way clarity in philosophy (including ethics) is achieved -- by communal consideration and criticism of both old and new views.
Thanks for the comments, everyone. I'm coming to the tail end of a couple of months of heavy traveling. Just a couple of points.1. I LIKE the manualists in moral theology, and I like reading the manuals. I have a lot of respect for them. I'd like to meet Fr. Zalba, even if he wouldn't like to meet me! What I see in them is people trying very hard to bring the light of the Gospel to the hard, day-to-day reality of people's lives. But the line is a bottom line: Is this a sin or not?2. The principle of cooperation with evil was meant to do just that. I think of it as operating, very frequently, at the intersection of morality and exigency in very interesting ways. Does a man who's a janitor in a munitions factory have to quit his job if it makes counterpopulation weapons? Suppose he has a lot of kids to feed and a sick wife? IF you take seriously the idea that there are wrongful acts (and I do), then the question how one acts in the general vicinity of those wrongful acts becomes very important. But it's not the only question.3. My point in the America article was this: The principle of cooperation wasn't meant to handle questions of how to resist big systematic evil like abortion--or other issues. Pretty much every individual contribution to a big systematic evil is going to end up in the catch-all category of remote material cooperation. It also focuses on avoiding individual sin. That doesn't help a whole lot in addressing big systemic problems. To say it's not (or even that it is) a sin for a custodian to clean the floor of a nuclear plant isn't to say much at all about how to coordinate broad program of social reform against counterpopulation weapons. To say it is not (or even that it is) a sin for a person to vote for a pro-choice candidate doesn't tell us anything about how to coordinate political action in a positive, ethically responsible manner.The principle of cooperation with evil was never MEANT to do that. SO we moralists need to do more work on thinking about individual responsibility in the face not only of conspiracy (a coordinated action) but in the face of informal currents of action--networked action. It's to show a place that the tradition needs more work and development. How do we think about the ethics of organizing and contributing to political movements? When should we think of the church as a political movement? Ever?
Jim, the "Munus Triplex" is extremely interesting. I gave a paper on that at Emory a while ago, and reflections on it will be part of the book that I hope to get back to soon.Here's the bottom line. The term "prophet" has many meanings, even going back to the Hebrew terms for the word (there are four,I'm told) In lumen gentium the prophetic function of the magisterium is associated largely with its teaching function--and its ability to address hard questions of natural law, too. That understanding of prophetic as associated with the unravelling of hard questions is rather different, in my view, from the use largely made in the American Protestant tradition--the prophetic indictment-- more of a forensic use.
"Does a man whos a janitor in a munitions factory have to quit his job if it makes counterpopulation weapons? "Cathy --Once again the ubiquitous, over-simple principle "the end does not justify the means" rears its ugly-beautiful head. Please, ethicists, qualify it!!!
". . . in the face not only of conspiracy (a coordinated action) but in the face of informal currents of actionnetworked action"Thanks for these fine distinctions, Professor -- individual action, conspiratorial action, networked action, plus systemic action. What I admire about the manualists are their very finely-honed distinctions that make it easier to comprehend and deal with the complexity of things. But people hate complexity, especially in moral matters, so we resist using fine distinctions that make it easier to spot-light just where our culpabilities lie. True, the automatic application of the distinctions in the old days was bad. But that was mainly a problem, I think, of a lack of a decision procedure for determining which moral principles should apply in a given situation -- the problem of how we ought to analyze what we ought to do. But that's a whole other topic.
With all due respect to the "manualists", what I don't admire about some manualists, is their attempt to remove themselves from any responsibility, in this case the gruesome act of abortion, in an attempt to justify that which can never be justified nor should have been sanctified by our system of Justice to begin with, by claiming that a Human Individual is not a Person, that Science has not answered the question as to when the life of a Human Being exists, that Personhood depends on location, that there exists a separation between Church and State and thus Religion has no voice in protecting our fundamental Right to Life that has been endowed to us from God, and that one can be protecting this fundamental Right to Life, while destroying a Human Life, simultaneously.
that should read sanctioned by our system of Justice.
"With all due respect to the manualists, what I dont admire about some manualists, is their attempt to remove themselves from any responsibility,"Nancy,Just who are you talking about here????


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I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 64b.
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What is your favorite form of exercise?
Ok people! Holidays are over, time to get serious! Dust off that treadmill! Get out the deranged ab machine! Dig through your wallet to find your gym membership card! It's time to get in shape!
I know all of the gyms start to get crowded shortly after the new year. Are you currently exercising, or, if not, do you simply have a favorite form of exercise that you engage in now and then?
I love actual rowing, but on a daily, practical standpoint, I like heavy weight lifting. How about you guys? There's so many kinds of ways to exercise, I wanna hear your favorite ("fap fap fap" is not an acceptable answer!)
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I try to get out and swim at lunch a few times a week. With the holidays it was tough, but getting back in the swing of things
Hiking and mountain bike riding are my favorite. I've tried DVD's, but just sat on the couch with a bowl of ice cream while watching. As for the gym... I don't like people that much.
I have been weight training 4 to 5 days a week for 25 years now. I certainly do not have an "Arnold" body but have structured my routine to get that athletic look. Over the years, my ego has matured enough and enabled me to stop lifting extremely heavy loads that make my eyes pop out. I really do enjoy lifting weights for all the health benefits...I am not a conversationalist at the gym.
That being said, I get my cardio workout now from walking and hiking with my 2 shelter rescue shepherd mix dogs. We change our routes frequently and enjoy the benefits of both the exercise and the companionship.
Running. I wish I did it more. I have all the usual excuses now...the parks are sketchy and I live where every direction is up a hill. Sigh.
Hopefully I will get back into hiking this summer.
@aksman44: That's great! :D In the future, when I settle down, I hope to get a rescue greyhound to go for light jogs with. Definitely great companionship!
Zumba - 4 times a week!
Walking with my dog. I set my pace to be fast enough that he has to trot to keep up. His legs are as long as mine (he's a Great Dane), so it turns out from participating in timed 5k's that we walk 4mph or a bit faster. I am being lazy right now as I hate even the moderate cold weather we have here in the southwest, but in the next couple of weeks I need to get back to it. We had been walking 20 miles a week, 2 miles on Mon-Th work days and 4 miles on Fri-Sun weekends.
I love weight lifting, circuit style. It's intense and at a great pace. I always leave worked, but energized and relaxed at the same. Now that my hubs got me a Sansa for Christmas, I can put the earbuds in and hopefully that will stop people from trying to converse with me in the middle of a lift.
I miss getting a good daily swim in followed by weightlifting. My two prefered methods for getting cardio in are a good bike ride (outdoors) or an elliptical machine.
I miss weightlifting, but due to an injury I've really curtailed it for a while now.
I bike 9 miles a day (to and from work).
When I can't do that, I swim or use the stationary bikes & machines at the Y.
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Trail running. I have completely slacked off since it got cold out because I hate exercising outside in the cold and it gets COLD where I live. We joined our local gym right before the new year to try to stay in shape over the winter. So far we are making very good use of it. I don't particularly like working out in a crowd, so I make a point to get there in the off-peak times. It is better than no exercise, but I'm really looking forward to spring when I can hit the trails again.
Sports, any sports. As far as lots of meaningful exercise goes ultimate frisbee is great. Lots of running, jumping, and agility when you play for a couple hours straight.
I hope to take up road biking and get to the point where I can do the annual Seattle-to-Portland ride in one day. Then maybe I can keep up, for awhile, with my pro bike racing little brother.
Power 90. Its like p90x for people who aren't in good enough shape to do p90x. I am certain that I could step up to the p90x but I have these memorized so I can watch TV while I exercise instead of watching the videos. Maybe once tax season is over and I'm not working as much, I'll graduate to the p90x. Although, I think it is more likely that I just add some more exercises to what I am already doing and just do my own routines. In the 3-4 months I have been doing it, I have definitely bulked up but have only lost a little bit of weight.
I enjoy bike riding, but I do not do enough of it.
I need to get back on my bike (either indoor or outdoor) and ride. With the current warm weather, none of my excuses is really acceptable (yet they seem to keep me from riding).
Playing volleyball is lots of fun, and gets the heart and lungs going pretty well, even more so in beach volleyball -- where the "scenery" can sometimes get the heart rate up there too....
Road cycling is where it's at. I took it up a couple of years ago - love seeing everything at a slower pace (slower than a car) on a nice day. This past weekend I got almost 80 miles in because temps were in the 50s.
@benyust2: Remember that muscle weighs three times as much as fat, so if you are bulking up you are losing inches instead of pounds. Don't let the scale be a tyrant, it's only one measure of success.
If you really want to send a "Please let me workout in peace" message you can try 2 of my favorite options. 1, I wear the yellow sound ear plugs while working out (thats kind of my stay away message) or 2, I wear ear buds but let the plug hang loose showing it is not connected to anything (firm, but not as strong). I am not rude, but my workout time is also a mindfulness therapeutic time for me.
hiking in the summer/fall and snowshoeing in the winter/spring. I don't mind seeing people when hiking but when I see more than a handful of people when I go snowshoeing, I want to know why it is so crowded.
My life has definitely been enriched by my rescue buddies; I have never regretted having them (although they have tested my patience many times). The right dog is a great addition to any family (in my humble opinion).
I like long walks on the beach with my mistress.
12oz curls are my exercise of choice.
Most of the exercise I "do" has been related to triathlons, although it has been a long time since I competed in one. I competed in 9 of them when I was in my teens and twenties and really enjoyed it. Since then I have fallen off the health bandwagon and my girth has increased. My New Year's resolution for this year is to run a half-marathon. I registered for one in May, hoping that having put out the money will encourage me to follow through. So far I am in my second week of training and have worked up to "running" 4-miles (with a lot of wheezing). I hope that the process of training will help me work off some of the pounds I have accumulated over the years and get me back in the habit of exercising more frequently.
I can't believe adults are answering. I expected to see all answers about... "you know".
My all time favorite exercise is swimming. Virtually no impact, and the ONLY exercise I've ever done where I didn't keep looking at the clock to see how many more minutes of mindless tedium I had left. But unless you have your own pool, you have to deal with the dolts who blow their nose in the pool, not to mention other fluids.
Swimming hands-down beats all
Lately I prefer Workout of the Dragonborn...
Well, @dmaz, this question inspired me to motivate myself into getting on my indoor bike for a 22 minute (8 mile) hill program ride followed by some arm work with 10 lb weights. (I had to back the resistence level off from 7 to 6 (out of 12) for the end of the longest hill, but otherwise completed the ride as programmed.)
The endorphin rush was excellent and I just put up one of my woot calendars to start tracking what I've done.
The real question is whether or not I do the same tomorrow.
Thanks for posting this question.
I'm all about the indoor rock climbing. It is great exercise while meeting new people and strengthening relationships. (when you fall you really want to be able to TRUST the person at the other end of the rope)
My fingers get a pretty good workout with playing COD all the time on the xbox lol
Selections from (since I finished the standard program) P90x, and alternating running on the off days.
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What rules of the English language allow the first t in patient to make an sh sound?
Why is it
/ˈpeɪʃənt/ and not
/ˈpeɪtənt/? Are there any other words where t behaves in this way?
What rules of the English language allow the first t in patient to make an sh sound?
Why is it
For the second time today, I feel reminded of ghoti. There's an interesting essay linked from that Wikipedia page, and I humbly direct you to it: "Hou tu pranownse Inglish".
If you don't want to read the entire thing (but I recommend it!), the rule you are looking for is number 14 on that list:
In fact, the Wikipedia page itself has this linguistic analysis:
The reason something pronounced [ʃ] ("sh") would ever get the spelling "ti" is because of palatalization. Basically, the "io" diphthong contains a palatal consonant [j] ("y" sound), which, in certain cases, pulls the place of articulation of other consonants towards it (e.g. t->ʃ).
The palatalization process is no longer active in these words spelled with "ti" (nowadays it is just 100% /ʃ/), but palatalization is active in some British dialects, for pronunciations of words like "Tuesday": /tjuzdeɪ/ ("Tyoozday") comes out as [tʃuzdeɪ] ("Choozday").
(Note that in most dialects of American English, we just say [tuzdeɪ] ("toozday"), because we don't have a palatal consonant in that context at all.)
What makes you think it is a rule?
Languages are not designed to a set of rules laid down by a designer. That idea was tried with Esperanto, and it doesn't work.
Language is organic. It grows and shifts with the tides of time and change.
English is an evolving entity, and many of its seemingly strange rules, only exist in the wishful mind of non-native speakers.
I don't know of any native speaker who has ever thought much about Engiish spelling, other than "I am good at spelling", or "I am not very good at spelling".
Is English spelling hard for a non-native speaker? Yes, but that is just the way it is!
Is English spelling hard for a native speaker? Not especially, but it is a learnt art; learnt over many years.
Many of the quirky spellings come from the pronunciations of the French, German, Latin, Gaelic, etc. root languages... and believe it or not, there is an underlying rhythm; a series of patterns based somehow on the different root languages.
What is the rule? you ask... You have asked the wrong question.
Perhaps a better question is how do I deal with all the unusual spellings?
If you want to learn English, well that is how every native English speaker has learnt them; by memorizing them...
It is simply a parallel discipline! ... jus like speaking is discipline.
As as for all that utter nonsense about ghoti, it is an absolute waste of time! You are missing the point, and wasting your time with what non-native speakers see as conflicting spellings.
Slowly, slowly, the patterns reveal themselves.. (even if it is unconsciously)
PS: Mathew.. I hadn't noticed that you were in the US... I'm so used to dealing with non-native speakers in language-exchange environments, where many seem to think that Engish spelling is based on a few simple logical rules... Oh well, my answer may be more appropriate for ESL readers of this question..


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Cougars, cats and coyotes (and what does the fox REALLY say)
November 7, 2013 - Jordan Travis
Don't pet the cat backwards. Words of advice for any feline lover. Especially if it's a 100-pound cougar stalking through your hunting property.
The Department of Natural Resources recently verified yet another trail-cam photo of a cougar, this time sauntering along a two-track in Marquette County. News reports say the photo was taken in mid-October, and if you've seen it there's no mistaking this big cat for the neighbor's woods-romping tabby. (As an aside, there's a cat that spends most of its days in a vacant lot across from my place; I've dubbed him/her "Kitty Alone.")
There's no doubt we have more than a few of these animals prowling around our Upper Peninsula. The site MichiganCougar.com has a collection of trail-cam photos, including a beautiful shot of a puma in profile, also taken in Marquette County. Many have been confirmed by the DNR, others not. A few even insist we have cougars on our side of the bridge, including some in Northeast Michigan. It gives one pause to think about being followed through the forest by an apex predator that weighs up to 180 pounds and moves silently on padded feet. As if coyotes and defensive mama black bears weren't bad enough.
It brings me back to a camping trip in Pigeon River Country, two separate ones, actually. The first was an ill-conceived backpacking trek around the High Country Pathway, an 80-some-mile loop through everything from cedar swamps to planted forest to grasslands to wooded hills. My college roommate was there as well, and on our first night we had a visit from a group of coyotes. They ran yipping and yowling through our camp, and one paused by my roommate to have a sniff (he opted to sleep under the stars, a choice he would regret later that trip).
The next morning he told me that as our canine friends closed in, he pictured a tightening noose in his mind. My second encounter was at Pine Grove State Forest Campground, when during a late-night campfire I heard a blood-curdling scream in the woods. By chance (and due in no small part to Ylvis' "What does the fox say?") I discovered this is known as the vixen's scream, one of a set of sounds the red fox makes. I didn't know it at the time, but suspected it was wildlife-related.
The point is, we're not alone in the woods. Sometimes on my hikes I see little more than chickadees, or get cussed out by a squirrel. Others, I scare up deer or the occasional grouse or Cooper's hawk. A few times I've been lucky and spotted something more unusual and reclusive, but I'm never alone.
Neither are you, fellow hiker.
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There really isn't any good looking cougars in this town. I have been looking.. They are all mostly over weight.
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The highway and the FM 2410 bridge will be closed from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. so that concrete beams can be placed.
Construction on the project which is designed to help traffic flow at FM 2410 and US 190 began in July.
The city hopes that the new bridge will cut down on traffic at the FM 2410 bridge, allowing people the option to more easily make a U-turn.
The cost of the project is estimated at more than $2 million and is slated for completion in March of next year.
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The Ramban on the story quotes the Rambam as saying that the inhabitants of Shechem were required to judge (the person) Shechem and did not. As such, they did not fulfill the obligation of the descendants of Noach to judge justly. A descendant of Noach that fails to fulfill one if his 7 obligations (namely 1. belief in the creator, 2. prohibition of incest, 3. prohibition of theft, 4. prohibition of murder 5. prohibition of eating livre animals, 6. prohibition of idolatry, 7. to judge justly) he is to be executed. The inhabitants of Shechem did't do #7 so were put to death. The Ramban debates this explanation for the city of Shechem, but that is at least what the Rambam says.


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Diners at the Center for Community with an interest in fresh food and sustainability might swallow easier knowing that some of the ingredients they're savoring were grown by CU-Boulder students just yards away.
As a new project this summer, a group of about 12 CU-Boulder student volunteers studying environmental design and environmental studies is cultivating herbs and vegetables in the courtyard garden just outside of the west doors of the C4C dining center. They're working in partnership with Housing & Dining Services.
The produce that the students researched, selected, planted and now maintain ranges from basil, mint and nasturtiums to tomatoes, Thai peppers and pumpkins.
Once the produce is harvested, it's delivered in seconds to C4C chefs for use in the day's fare, adding a flare of flavor to sauces, stir-fries, salads and more.
"This project is a great example of a successful collaboration between students, faculty and their campus environment," said Lauren Heising, CU-Boulder coordinator for sustainable dining. "We are so excited about the student support that has allowed this garden to grow. "
But there's more to the project than weeding, watering and picking. The student volunteers are gaining practical experience, not only in agriculture, but also in understanding food safety, blending their garden design with the campus's Tuscan vernacular architectural theme, and learning to troubleshoot landscape issues like soil heath and irrigation systems.
The students also see the project as an opportunity to draw the campus community into the idea of permaculture -- the development of sustainable gardening systems.
"I think the subtlety of the garden is what's great," said Mariah Hermsmeyer, one of the student volunteers and a sophomore studying architecture and fine arts. "It's just here for people if they want to come and learn about it. Maybe it'll start something -- it won't seem as strange to have vegetables growing on your campus that you're going to eat. It just becomes normal."
The students became involved when they were taking a variety of environmental design courses in the spring and earlier this summer on landscape design, urban agriculture and permaculture, as the garden idea was spurred and word spread about the opportunity to volunteer.
"In class, we were looking at so many examples of food movements across the country and the students really wanted to do something too," said Tori Derr, a senior instructor in environmental design who is leading the project. "I hope this project has empowered them to know their collective efforts make a difference and that they carry this forward into their future work."
Derr and the student volunteers including Tory Moore, a senior in environmental design, would like to see the garden become part of an official course and their efforts carried on.
"My hope is that they take from what we've done this year and learn from it and build on it," said Moore. "That could mean expanding the variety of plants, or expanding the amount of space dedicated to edible plants versus just aesthetically pleasing plants. I think both would be awesome goals."
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Officer Matt Droge is the Public Information Officer for the RCPD but he's also known by many as the "TwitterCop" for his constant interactions with the department's thousands of followers.
But on Friday, he had some help. Kansas State University junior Megan Thurlow was selected for a "Tweet Along," taking over RCPD's twitter account as she accompanied Droge on a patrol shift.
"I'm tweeting every clever thing that comes to my mind... I'm looking forward to catching some bad guys, definitely," Thurlow told 13 News.
The RCPD has participated in several of these "Tweet Along" events over the past several months and has received positive feedback from the community.
"The goal is to get someone else's opinion or perspective of the average day as a law enforcement officer. We've always tweeted and our twitter account is always done by police officers and we thought that it would be interesting to give the community another look at what we do from someone else's eyes," Officer Droge said.
Megan has followed the RCPD closely on Twitter and was excited to be chosen to get an inside look at what officers do each day and share her experience with other followers.
"They're great on the social media," Thurlow said of the agency's online efforts. "They really reach out to the community. They're up-to-date and constantly networking and marketing. They make cops look friendly."
"We are using social media to connect to the public and it is a goal of the Riley County Police Department to be transparent and friendly to the community. Community members have questions and comments and they can reach us on social media and I think that's a good avenue for it," Droge added.
And their social media push has paid off for the RCPD. Besides connecting with those they serve, officers have used it to solve several crimes.


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Posts on Stack Exchange sites have a Creative Commons license applied. However, on Writers, people will post snippets of their own writing for critique purposes. Does that mean that if I post a critique question, it CC's the selection of work I post?
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By posting a selection of previously written text here, are we waiving our copyrights to the excerpt?
Just to add to Fabian's correct answer: as he says, you remain the owner of the snippet, but by posting on a SE site, you grant the community the irrevocable right to use the snippet under the CC-Wiki license.
Note however that anybody re-using CC-Wiki content has to explicitly attribute both Stack Overflow and the author of the snippet. That greatly reduces the snippets' usefulness to copycats. I'm not a lawyer and know little about IP, but I can't see posting a snippet on writing.SE posing a problem for the author (except that they maybe should inform any future publishers that parts of the work are published under a CC license - if only to avoid inadvertently violating the "no previous publication" clause you mention.)
I created a scientific infographic on the issue once and added some more specific information:
However, the situation where you put something onto writing.SE, people suggest corrections, and you use them in your work, is different. Technically, if you copy & paste another user's work, that demands attribution no matter how small the snippet is. The only way to avoid that is for the user to grant you the permission to use it without attribution, which they can because they're the content's owner. I have no idea how to do that in a legally binding way though, you'd have to ask a lawyer.
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Doesn't mean to ripped off. I know how to create morphing between images but does anyone know how to make the animated wavy effects showcase here?
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To me, it looks like they've prepared the photos so the eyes, mouth and head shapes overlay as closely as possible. The animation looks like two main aspects are changing.
The alpha channel looks to have a soft diagonal pattern though it that's scrolling from top to bottom. This is what's giving it the "wavy" effect, because the different faces have different width features, like hair.
The morphing is a little harder to pin down. I'm not sure if there's anything special going on there.
And I also don't know how the triangles that you can see at some points relate. They seem to be strictly for the morphing. It's been a while since I've done any work with morphing, but there used to be some good software around for it. The name escapes me though.
Edit: The author says this in the comments.
Hi, this is a morphing + a set mask filters.
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Right now in the market you have to manually update each app, is there an app that automates this?
Users can update several apps at once using Android version 2.2. An answer in the Android support forum says:
Also, I don't see anything in the market would bring this out for pre-2.2 phones, but it could be out there.
I use AppBrain it automates the install procedure a bit.
If you're after apps that automatically update themselves when an update is available, as of Android 2.2 there is an option to mark an app to automatically update. Then you'll never be bothered by an update alert for that app again (unless the security profile changes).
On 2.2 (all I have access to) use the Marketplace app, open the menu, select My Apps. All your installed apps will be shown, any with available updates will be shown at the top.
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Recently I received a question from an instructor on how to become a strong teacher off the bike. Due to surgery his ankle would be in plaster for a longer period, therefore teaching on the bike was currently not possible.
First of all I think that he shows passion for his teaching, as he still wants to teach even though he is not able to ride. Compliments!
Proper preparation is key..for every class you teach. But even more when you know you will teach the complete class off bike. You have to know your profile, your music, the correct heart rates you want your students to work at. Decide on your Energy Zone and set goals.
When prepared correctly you already have many cues, tips and corrections you can provide to your participants. Provide your participant with a specific task right before you get off the bike. So you have specific checks you can do, to see if they perform your task in the right way.
Besides a decent class preparation there are a few other important factors.
Be able to use your Spinning® eye.
We talk about it in the Spinning® orientation, but do you really use it? The Spinning® eye is something you grow in to. Once you found your way in teaching Spinning® and you have become more relaxed in being in front of the class, the Spinning® eye will come naturally. You will see if some bodies shoe laces are loose, some ones water bottle is almost empty, some heart rates are too high (or too low), if the body and mind connection is there and so on. Again you will see, teaching off the bike is so much fun! So many things to say, to do when you walk around your group.
In addition note that every group has a different dynamic and energy.. this again provides you with new food for (off bike) teaching.
The last factor you might want to take a closer look at is an important one. Be sure of yourself! Don't be afraid to get off the bike. You have so much knowledge. Many instructors tell me they feel a bit clumsy as soon as they stop riding and start walking around. My advice is to just get off that bike and start doing it. Even if your ankle is not in plaster ;) You will really become a stronger and better coach, as you are able to guide your students more individually and you will really see what they are doing on that bike.
Conclusion: teaching off the bike is fun, much fun!
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5 Styles That Defined Entire Eras (Were Made Up by Movies)
It's not right to oversimplify, but it's just how our minds work. For instance, if you're going to the bar on 70s night, you don't have to be told to wear something ridiculous and covered in sequins. When you hear the word "Mafia," a very specific image pops into your head -- stroking his chin and whispering stoically, like a dapper mascot for everyone who's ever been involved with organized crime. And while those may be oversimplifications, it turns out we don't have to feel guilty. American history is dominated by groups who looked exactly like we think they did, but only because they totally ripped off their styles from fictional movies.
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Polyester-clad guys and gals tapping their boogie shoes and jive talking while stayin' alive and getting down tonight! Shimmering clubs filled with swirling lights cast off by the disco ball spinning in the center of the room like the Death Star's gay cousin! Also drugs. Gigantic mountains of drugs.
"About yay high should do it."
Totally Stolen From:
Saturday Night Fever.
Almost everything we associate today with "disco" comes directly from a John Travolta movie based on journalism so yellow that it can't even be compared to urine, since you would need lubricant to get that color out of your bladder.
When disco first emerged in New York in the 1970s, it was basically the pre-Wham! George Michael of its time: virtually unknown and mainly found in underground gay clubs. But then in 1977's Saturday Night Fever, Travolta brought disco to the masses, creating a worldwide phenomenon. The movie was based on the New York article "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night" by the U.K.-born Nik Cohn, detailing his personal experiences with disco culture. And when we say "experiences," we actually mean some shit he made up in order to meet a deadline. Cohn's entire article was almost all made up and had nothing to do with real disco.
Cohn knew absolutely nothing about underground discotheques, but he still had to write an article about them ... so he simply started inventing stuff, mostly using his knowledge of the British mods subculture and passing it off as part of the disco scene. The mods became, for example, the source of the Saturday Night Fever character's fondness for extravagant, custom-made clothing and innovative, complex dance moves. So, when the general public got its first taste of "disco" with the Travolta movie, it was actually more of a "fraudulent mix of some U.K. subculture and parts of obscure American music as understood by a lazy British guy."
Don't you feel silly now?
The only things Saturday Night Fever got at least half right were the rampant drug use and promiscuous sex (and even then it was mostly gay sex). The staples of "disco," such as the dance choreography, the fashion, even some of the music, could not be found at the time in real disco clubs (which resembled modern rave centers) and were pretty much pulled out of Cohn's ass by the movie producers.
#4. The Mafia
The Image:
Stylish mafiosi in expensive suits, sitting around, talking about family, respect and offers you're unable to refuse, like well-dressed, cool versions of mattress salesmen. These images come to us courtesy of all of those gangster movies, The Godfather in particular.
Or Mafia! in retarded.
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According to author Tim Adler's 2007 book, Hollywood and the Mob, The Godfather "changed the way the Mafia regarded itself and ... rehabilitated gangsters into men of honour instead of what they really were -- pig-ignorant, violent-sentimental goombahs." In case you think Adler was insulting the entire murder industry without cause -- according to police records, prior to the Coppola film, mobsters were more likely to be ignorant thugs who would rat out their friends if it got them a discount at the corner sandwich shop. But after sort of making out the words "honor" and "family" from Marlon Brando's badass mumbling, the mafiosi looked around and decided that his world looked way cooler than the universe of petty larceny and parking meter smashing they inhabited.
"And then I bludgeoned him to death. Only, you know ... something about respect."
Hell, the real Mafia didn't use the phrase "godfather" to describe a mob boss until Mario Puzo totally made it up. Ex-mob hit man Anthony Fiato described the movie's effect on the most badass Boston gangster he knew, who started out as "a 'dems and dose' kind of guy" and "after the movie came out, he starts to articulate. He starts philosophizing."
To the mob's credit, they didn't steal everything about their style from The Godfather. The more modern wise guy getup of a black shirt and white tie combo was popularized by mobster "Crazy Joe" Gallo after he saw the 1955 adaptation of Guys and Dolls, in which it was rocked by ... Marlon freaking Brando.
The mob and Brando, sitting in a tree, K- I...
Of course, the real tragedy here is that nobody ever took advantage of the mob's totally-not-gay-shut-up-or-I'll-shoot-you-in-the-face boner for Brando, and cast him as a tough guy prancing around in a frilly pink tutu.
Come on, Scorsese. You made The Age of Innocence, you can make this.
#3. Biker Gangs
The Image:
Loud and rowdy outlaws. Your typical biker cruises the American countryside on his chopper while boozing it up and looking for things to rebel against without a clear cause, like some causeless agent of rebellion.
Or a rebel without a specific purpose, if you will.
Totally Stolen From:The Wild One.
Bikers certainly existed before The Wild One, in the sense that motorcycles existed. But the men riding them weren't the law-defying, anti-establishment criminals the movie The Wild One (1953) made them out to be. They were mostly WWII veterans who hit the road because they couldn't bring themselves to work in offices after years of stabbing Nazis.
"Hold on a second, Cracked," you might be yelling if you don't understand how the Internet works, "The Wild One was based on the Hollister Riot, a real historical event that ripped through the town of Hollister, California all the way back in 1947." You would be right in that many associate that riot with the start of the trend of violent biker gangs. You, and most of American history, are just wrong in the sense that the riot never really happened.
So totally fucking wrong if you're keeping score at home.
"The Hollister riot" began with an American Motorcyclist Association-sponsored rally that started outside Hollister and eventually spilled over to the town itself. A few drunken assholes started racing on the streets, causing total mayhem that resulted in minor storefront damage and at least one misdemeanor arrest!
The American media, never one to allow the truth to get in the way of an outrageous lie, sprung into action. When Barney Peterson, of the San Francisco Chronicle, arrived in the town to write about "outlaw bikers terrorizing the city" and found out the story was shit, he decided to make up more shit of the nonboring variety. Peterson then wrote about bikers riding through restaurants and attacking people, and even staged what became an infamous photo of a drunken motor club member surrounded by broken beer bottles.
"Say fella, ya' drool on your collar a bit, and I'll let you and the boys get back to your chess game."
The fake story and pictures eventually got featured in a Life magazine article, which later influenced The Wild One, starring goddamn Marlon Brando, who we are now officially convinced was a wizard of some sort.
Combining Brando's magic powers of creating cultural icons and giving the real bikers a romantic "rebel outlaw" identity, The Wild One became a model for newly formed clubs, like the Hells Angels, bringing them tons of new members and even popularizing Triumph and Harley bikes. An entire group identity taken from a fictional movie based on a staged photograph. If one lie has ever been responsible for more body odor, we don't want to know what it is.