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Would you allow your baby to teethe on wood? (Read inside, I'm not crazy)
I was roaming around Etsy looking at Triforce items when I came across something that I found to be quite odd. The title of the item is "Legend of Zelda Triforce - Wooden Teether - Baby Toy" And the description is as follows "Show the world your little cutie's (or your) love for classic video games with a triforce teething toy from the Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda! This teething toy measures 3 3/4 inches tall by 4 1/4 inches wide by 3/4 inches thick."
Later on in the description it states "Please don't give small toys to children who are still placing objects in their mouths. Paint may run if toys get wet or drooled on."
Is it just me, or does having your baby teethe on wood seem like a less-than-stellar idea?
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I don't have a baby, so I can't offer what I would do.
I did have a friend who told me he met someone who let his baby teethe on beef jerky. And, while I can understand that, it still kind of scares me.
All I can think of with a baby teething on wood is splinters! If it doesn't splinter, why not? They chew on everything anyway! I know more than one kid that has chewed on wood blocks.
@baybei: Since I know I added this part right as you replied, they put this disclaimer farther down in the description " Please don't give small toys to children who are still placing objects in their mouths. Paint may run if toys get wet or drooled on."
All I can imagine is either splinters, or a piece coming off after having been chewed on for a while. I also wonder about the germs getting into the wood. :-/
I'm still wondering why it's called a "teether" when it advises against giving small toys to children who may put things in their mouth.
@jsimsace: I know, I'm SO confused. I wonder if Etsy pays attention to these sorts of things. I mean, there is no other use for a teether other than to put it in your mouth... >_<
@jsimsace: They may be referring to the smaller sized wood toys they sell? I noticed they had some itsy bitsy toys listed.
Germs is a valid point, I failed to think of that! I guess it depends on the wood, isn't stuff like bamboo naturally germ resistant? I really wouldn't know for sure though!
I certainly wouldn't buy this for any of my friends babies though, I prefer the traditional teethers.
Maybe I'm just old, but you do know that plastic didn't always exist right? Way back when they use to not worry about kids eating mud pies, and chewing on whatever was around. They didn't worry about BPA and other chemicals leaching into their kids immune systems. It was "it will make them stronger".
And now you know part of why it's a good thing I'm not a parent.
Back in the 1930's my mother had a sister who chewed a splinter of wood off of her homemade playpen (they lived on a farm out in the country). She must have been about 18 months old, I assume, when she died because the splinter perforated her stomach or intestines. My grandmother was still grieving the loss of her child when she passed away 40 years later. I definitely would not allow a child to teeth on wood.
Babies will teethe on anything they can get into their slobbery little mouths including the family dog and cat, remote control, telephone, and metal bar stools. I can totally understand the bar stool--cool and firm and soothing to sore gums. What ever happened to silver teething rings/rattles and zwieback crackers?
That particular teether sounds really sketchy, but I know that several Etsy sellers offer wooden ones. Little Sapling Toys is quite popular, for one, with thousands of sales. The reputable sellers are using wood varieties that don't splinter, and they sand the heck out of them. They also don't coat them in anything toxic. There are many commercially available wood teethers as well, such as one made by Waldorf.
Etsy operates as a seller facilitator rather than a seller so, like Ebay, it's largely buyer beware. They do, however, remove items they deem to be dangerous or illegal. I'd report the item and move on.
Actually, I'm going to change my answer a little bit. I went and looked up the item you're talking about. The paint/choking warning, while not as clear as it could be, is almost certainly referencing their toys, not their teethers. The teethers are not painted and they are large enough for baby's mouth. They are sealed (to increase safety) with beeswax. .
When I was young, oh so long ago, we used to string empty spools (from thread) on a shoelace, or piece of twine, and considered it a baby toy. We also handed the little ones a wooden spoon, and a couple of metal pans from the cupboard, to bang on. Not all wood will splinter, or is easily chewed up.
@lavikinga, you made me smile with the comment about zwieback crackers. I have a recipe for them somewhere. Nothing like being handed a nice, gummy cracker, from someone who loves you, and just wants to share.
Nowadays they put thread on styrofoam looking things, and the empty wooden spools are sold in antique stores. I still have a lot of thread on those old spools. I'll be sad when it's used up.
I went to see what the fuss was about, and although I'm sure the wood's safe, I wouldn't recommend this toy for a baby because of the corners, and because I could see a little hand getting stuck in the middle.
Just get some nice crackers instead.
I can remember my wooden blocks from childhood had teethmarks all over them. I can only assume they were my teethmarks. Wood is fine to chew on depending on species of tree. Some splinter quite easily and some will not.
Thought my little sister was part beaver. She rounded off the legs of the piano bench when she was teething. We lived for a while with everything up off the floor. If it was in her reach it was gnawed!
One of my boys continued teething* until about 3 or 4. I finally got him some rawhide chews after I found him with his head nearly stuck in the banister gnawing on a baluster. He didn't like the beef flavored ones, but the plain were OK.
*Chewing up things just to see if he could - books, clothes, sticks from the yard, etc.
I work for a company that sells beads and jewelry-making supplies and we've noticed a trend lately in making teething rings out of beads, especially out of amber or wooden round beads.
We get customers asking for recommendations on what type of beads to use and we say NO WAY NO HOW DO NOT USE BEADS! Seriously, super choking hazard if the beads come loose.
Despite this, there are still plenty of people who sell and buy them. To cover their asses, a lot of sellers will put silly things like "For decorative purposes only! Not for chewing" despite the fact that the item title says "Teether" or "Teething Ring"


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I am studying the article at the following link,
Which applies Monte Carlo analysis to a decryption problem. The math is admittedly over my head at this point but I believe I understand the basics.
The goal is to compute a 'plausibility' (scalar) value, I think, that represents how close a decoded message is to making sense in English. The benchmark is defined by a 2-dimensional matrix that represents the frequency that characters occur together in a string of english language.
Is there a method using the dot-product of two matrices that produces a measurement of similarity between those two matrices on a scale of 0 - 1?
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Since our hearing range is said to be 20Hz to 20,000Hz. So, how can we possibly hear something at 44.1Khz? Or do we hear only half of the sound produced at 44.1Khz by any audio CDs? What is going on?
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The 44.1kHz it's the sampling frequency, i.e. the frequency at wich the encoder samples the audio data. It has nothing to do to the frequency of the audio data.
You can generate a 1000Hz sine wave, sample it at 44kHz and play it back: what you hear is still the 1000Hz sound. Take a look here.
Actually there is a reason to why CD audio data is sampled at 44kHz, that is slightly more than double the maximum frequency humans can hear.
It's because of the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem which states that:
In layman terms, just sample at double the maximum frequency of the audio to get an "accurate" reproduction of the original signal.
Good answer Mr Shunz.
The Wikipedia article you included has this passage:
For an explanation of Intermodulation Distortion (IMD), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodulation#Intermodulation_in_audio_applications
In the top-right figure there, the signal at the lowest frequency could fall in the hearable range (< 20 kHz). This peak could be lost in an ADC-process (analogue to digital conversion) if the sampling rate is too low. That is one of the reason hard-core audio-enthusiasts cherish all-analogue audio; from the recording studio, via the LP and to the speakers.


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Only one player currently has a games-played streak longer than the one Griffin just ended: Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook, who played his 360th straight game in Monday's win over the Dallas Mavericks. Omer Asik of the Houston Rockets entered Tuesday's game against Golden State with 197 consecutive games played as well. All told, only eight NBA players now have active streaks of at least 150 consecutive games played, including Westbrook's teammate, Kevin Durant (176).
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As a digital security consultant when is it 'ok' to use tools someone else made (dumb to reinvent the wheel, right?) and when should I make my own?
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Making bad tools is easy, especially in the security arena. Making good tools is actually quite difficult and requires a deep understanding of the problem at hand.
I would say stick with the pre-made tools until you know enough to actually improve them or replace them with something better. I've been in computing for almost 40 years, and I know that my understanding of most security threats is not good enough to "go it alone."
If it ain't broke, why fix it?
If it's broke, contribute to the project and help fix it for everyone else too.
The best security tools are the ones which are transparent, open source and used and reviewed by lots of experts.
So for example PGP encryption is used by lots of people and hs been reviewed by lots of experts. It would be a bad decision to use some home encryption algorithm that you wrote yourself simply because they would not be reviewed and tested by a wide viriety of independent experts.
If I were hiring a consultant, I'd like to see someone who actively contributes to the open source tools. This goes for security, test frameworks, whatever. If someone were using their own tools, I'd see this more as a high value add enterprise sale rather than pure consulting, which means a lot more money in the long run.
As every expert independent of the area of expertise security expert should be able to use both:
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My memory might be playing tricks on me, but I swear I've had chocolate chip waffles (or maybe pancakes) where the chocolate chips were still somewhat hard - in other words, not completely melted. Every time I try, even if waiting for the batter to start cooking before adding the chips, they always seem to melt completely. Waiting for the chips to harden would also mean the waffles get cold. Any solution?
Although I can't fathom why you would want unmelted chocolate chips in your waffle or pancakes, some things you can try is:
You can use the tips Jay gave you, or you could try to put in modelling chocolate 'chips' instead of chocolate chips. Modelling chocolate is a paste, so those chips won't be hard, but I've heard it doesn't melt, so it wouldn't be as soft as melted real chocolate chips. Since it's just (light corn) syrup and chocolate, I guess the flavour would be fine in waffles.
Freezing the chips before adding them may slow the melting process while they are inside the waffle batter that has already been poured into the iron. Thermal trip from frozen to melted is longer than room temp to melted. Although 3-5 minutes inside a waffle iron will most likely melt regular chocolate chips from any temperature.
Bigger chips might partially solve the problem, they'll take longer to melt since they have more mass for the heat to work through. In the US, Ghirardelli chocolate chips are a little bigger than, say, Nestlé chocolate chips. Chocolate chunks would also function as "bigger chips."
The chocolate chips you see inside a pancake are added after the pancake has cooked fully on one side and just before flipping to finish off by browning the other side so the chocolate chips have spend much less time in contact with heat.


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(This is a cross-post from MathSE, as someone remarked that the question would be more appropriate on MO)
Fiore and Leinster have proved that if $\mathcal{A}$ is a monoidal category freely generated by one object $A$ and an isomorphism $\alpha: A \otimes A \to A$, then for every object $X \in \mathcal{A}, Aut(X)$ is isomorphic to the Thompson group $F$.
My question is the following: if we assume instead that $\alpha: A \otimes A \to A$ is not necessarily an isomorphism, and that there exist a morphism $\beta: A \to A \otimes A$ such that $\alpha \circ \beta = id$, is the result of Fiore and Leinster still true ?
I have a feeling we at least have $F \subset Aut(X)$. Loosely speaking, my approach is that since every element of $F$ can be represented as a pair $(R,S)$ of forests, we can always represent $R$ by a suitable composition of $\beta$ maps, then $S$ by a composition of $\alpha$ maps, the identity $\alpha \circ \beta = id$ ensuring that every facing caret gets cancelled to form a reduced forest diagram, i.e a unique element of $F$.


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Strickland said the coal industry in the state "has done pretty well" under Obama, and he noted Republican challenger Mitt Romney had a pro-environmental record when Romney was governor of Massachusetts.
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Today on the Screwattack, I witnessed the posting of a video that Pro Jared did for Nintendo's Wii U Challenge. I found it humorous and remembered the times when Jared did Newsroom and such.
Now, I'm not going to reiterate what everyone has said about his departure, but I find myself at a loss for proper expression. If anyone here has read a single sentence from my blogs, you'll know I'm a terribly depressed man. That said, I'm beginning to feel like my own time with Screwattack is coming to an end.
Sadly, I've already expressed this on Destructoid. One of my blogs dealt with how I felt out of place within the community and these recent events just bring the emotions front and center again. Obviously I'm not a happy man, but I also have no true idea of how to connect with anyone here.
What I'm mainly asking for help with, though, is finding a new gaming site. Are there any places you guys frequent other than Destructoid? Do you do some blogging on other sites that gives you joy?
I'm stricken with guilt over the fact that I mainly blog to grab attentions and hits, but I really want to achieve my dream of being a games blogger. I love writing about this hobby and sharing my emotions with people, but I want to do more than that. I'm just at a loss for what that more is.
More importantly, I'm at a loss for where I should be doing this. While I used to be able to communicate properly with you guys, something changed over the years. Maybe my writing got worse or my ideas were too similar, but I lost the attention of you guys and I even caused pain to a few.
Destructoid is a great site. I love it. Hell, Screwattack is amazing and I love them for reawakening the love I had with games. But, I just don't know if they are still the sites for me. Maybe I just need a change? Maybe these places are for me and I'm fretting over nothing. Regardless, I'd just like some help in discovering what truly makes me happy.


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stackoverflow and superuser can also have some sticky threads equivalent or something like a two day sticky.
The concept: Suppose I roll out my new funky browser and junta goes crazy about it. You can make a thread containing all the discussions regarding it a "time limited sticky". This time can be based on the popularity, like some 1000 views = x days etc. What this will do is any user visiting the site can know of the current happenings in fields that might as well interest him/her. And as these are tie limited, they will not unnecessarily clutter the main page.
May be try it out in testing, if it works you can probably use it in the main website.
I think you guys might have thought this before. Then, why did you reject the idea? I would love to hear from you on this.


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There is Solaris 10 OS on our server, and I would like to make test on this server. For this test memory usage should be high.
So I wonder if there is an easy way to increase memory usage manually ?
The simplest way is to fill /tmp, assuming it is using tmpfs which is the default. Run
To increase your (virtual) memory usage by 1 GB, run
release it with
This page should help you. Just small program in c:
Keep in mind that without giving the program a maximum amount of memory it'll allocate until it exhausts the amount it can (may be limited by ulimit, amount of memory, or size of address space).
The easiest way I know to fill memory is to make a program that allocates an array of strings (or arrays of any other type), if you need to keep the data in memory and not paged, you should scan the allocated memory periodically.
I would add a long (perhaps controlled by a command line argument) sleep interval after the allocation.
I would run several instances of the above program until I fill the desired amount of memory.
I have no idea if this works with Solaris, too - but since it is designed to run on Posix compliant systems you could give it a try: stress is a very "simple" stress-test generator, that can do all sorts of stress - creating memory hogs is part of it.
I compiled/tested it so far on some Linux distributions (CentOS, SLES) without problems.


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5 Reasons 'Big' Had The Most Depressing Happy Ending Ever
#2. The Zoltar Machine is Still Out There and Must be Destroyed
Josh, being a good-hearted kid, would presumably hear about all of this (especially once police bring him in to point out Susan in a lineup). His only choice for getting the heat off her would be to just come clean about the Zoltar machine. They might doubt him, but he can easily prove it by showing them it works.
And then, shit gets real.
We don't know much about the Zoltar machine but we do know that if you can get a quarter in its mouth, it will give you whatever you wish for (or some dick loose interpretation that causes your own mother to come at you with a knife). It's difficult to say exactly what would happen if Josh told the police about the machine and the government got it hands on a device that gave them literally anything imaginable for 25 cents, but we're pretty sure everything would go to shit, fast. Most likely, it would become a dictatorship run by the first corrupt person to come in contact with the machine.
As long as they had the physical dexterity of a small boy.
Then again, perhaps Josh comes up with a great explanation for everything and keeps the Zoltar to himself. Then we're dealing with a 13-year-old, who probably doesn't even know what "ethics" means, who has carte blanche on whatever, and that sounds just as bad.
But hey, maybe Josh would be too freaked out by what happened last time to try making anymore wishes. Maybe he covers it up, and tells the cops the machine was lost or destroyed. That still leaves the world open to a shitstorm. Remember, all it takes is one psychopath with a quarter, to stumble upon the machine and blow up the universe.
The only power he respects is the mighty quarter.
No, the only truly safe, responsible thing for Josh to do is to actually destroy the machine, before it has a chance to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting populous. And we're guessing a machine that can turn you into Tom Hanks at a whim, won't go down without a fight.
#1. Josh's Childhood -- and Life -- is ruined
But even if he does destroy the Zoltar, he's still facing an awful life. Josh has already had a killer job, an adult relationship, and his own place. He knows for a fact that he can do just fine in the real world -- better than his parents in fact. What motivation does he have to every listen to anything any adult ever says to him again? What does he have to learn from his parents? Or school, for that matter?
He's going to resent them every time they tell him what to do and all his adolescent relationships will be unfulfilling. When he finally gets back to adulthood he'll be so jaded, he won't have the child-like edge that got him ahead the first time around. It's likely he'll find himself so disillusioned with life that he'll see a psychiatrist who will then diagnose him with delusions when he tells her about the time an arcade game turned him into an adult overnight and he spent six weeks as the vice-president of a toy company. He'll grow into an incredibly dysfunctional human being (who now matches the physical description of an at-large kidnapper who apparently doesn't age).
Thanks, plastic surgery!
Add it all together and a hypothetical Big sequel could range from Leaving Las Vegas-depressing (featuring a traumatized Josh Baskin) to downright apocalyptic (with governments competing to get their hands on the Zoltar to use as a WMD).
Either way, this film has to be a candidate for worst ending in movie history. Was banging Elizabeth Perkins really worth it?
Okay, yes.
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6 "Non-Lethal" Weapons That'll Make You Wish You Were Dead
#3. Taser XREP (aka Electrified Shotgun Shells)
The problem with a Taser is that you've got to be pretty close to make it work, about 20 feet or so. A number of companies are racing to fix that problem, developing non-lethal bullets that can hit you with rib-shattering force from a distance, and then deliver an electric shock just to rub it in. Because you can never be to careful when it comes to hippies and protesters.
Once again leading the charge is Taser International, the company you may remember from such YouTube videos as Don't Tase Me Bro. They've developed their Taser XREP, a shotgun round that hits you, sticks to your body, and delivers a 20-second shock while you writhe on the ground.
Why It Won't Kill You:
It operates on the same principle as the supposedly-safe Taser (the XREP is basically just a Taser that can be fired from a further distance and without the need for a connecting wire). If used properly the Taser won't do any lasting damage (according to Taser International and the police anyway. Human rights groups have a slightly different view).
Why You'll Wish it Had:
Fun fact: Tasers are named after Tom Swift, the adolescent adventurer from the Tom Swift novels (it stands for "Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle ), which is something you can think on while you curl up in the fetus position, muscles convulsing and contracting involuntarily, nerve endings screaming out in pain.
And that's assuming you're capable of thought after being hit by an electric bullet, you may just be instinctively clutching at the electrode darts impaled in your lower back but which you can't quite reach because a cop's knee is on your arm and his foot's in your face.
Or, maybe you can console yourself with the fact that it didn't hit you in the eye.
#2. The Pulsed Energy Projectile (aka Magic Missile)
The Pulsed Energy Projectile (PEP) used to be called the Pulsed Impulsive Kill Laser, before they toned it down for PR reasons (and because the acronym is basically "pickle"). It's mounted on a truck, plane or helicopter and fires an invisible laser pulse at a target.
On impact the pulse creates exploding plasma, which is exactly as painful as it sounds. It's like having five flash grenades strapped to your head and then exploded at once.
Why It Won't Kill You:
The PEP sounds like it should kill you, what with the whole "expanding ball of plasma" thing. Also, according to a Department of Defense document, it can "literally chew through target material."
However, while the weapon can be modified to kill people, the developed version won't, assuming it's used responsibly. And there is, of course, no reason at all to assume soldiers in a war zone or police officers in the middle of a violent riot would ever use it any other way. Ever.
Why You'll Wish it Had:
A document obtained by an anti- biological weapons pressure group revealed that the weapons contract between the Office of Naval Research and the University of Florida (who apparently develop weapons now) called for researchers to find the "optimal pulse parameters to evoke peak nociceptor activation" or, in other words, the best way to inflict absolute maximum ball-crushing pain on a target's nervous system.
The expanding plasma created by the PEP triggers nerve cells and can create unpleasant stimuli, such as heat or cold. A fine tuned PEP could create the sensations of being burned, frozen or dipped in acid- all without causing any actual visible harm.
All this is on top of the fact that a 2003 US Naval Studies Board found the PEP produced temporary paralysis as well as pain. Or perhaps that's just the body trying to figure out what the fuck has just happened to it.
#1. The Vortex Ring Gun (aka The Fart Gun)
The vortex ring gun works by creating a cone-shaped pocket of supersonic pressurized air. When this hits the target (Read: hippie) it should knock him over.
Wait, that's not the best part.
A chemical, like an incapacitating agent or a malodorant (a bad, choking smell) is also injected into the air pocket. So it's basically a powerful, bad smelling wind that will knock you of your feet. Yes, it's like having Robocop fart you over.
Why It Won't Kill You:
In demonstrations the weapon has knocked down a 160-pound mannequin from a distance of 10 meters, and is believed to be effective from up to twice that range. Getting knocked over isn't going to kill anybody, right? Not unless you're standing on the edge of a building. And what's so bad about a little stench on the side?
Why You'll Wish it Had:
Malodorants are actually pretty freaking awful. It isn't just a bad smell, it's a chemical weapon that induces nausea, gagging and vomiting. It's also possible that Malodorant's violate current chemical weapons bans with many believing that "Malodorant's do have a physiological effect and toxicity is not limited to lethality."
We're not sure what that means exactly, but you should probably stay away from anything that has a "physiological effect" and "toxicity", regardless of what it's "limited to."
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But Nathan Marshall will have to miss the premiere of his first film "Let It Rip" at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Brooke High School because the short comedy has been selected to appear in the West Virginia Filmmakers Festival in Sutton this weekend.
Marshall said he's excited to have his first film, an hour-long mockumentary similar in style to "The Office" or "This is Spinal Tap," included in the festival.
But he's also happy the film is making its official debut at the school as several students and a few fellow teachers were among the many who helped to make it a reality.
Admission to the school's screening of the film is $5, with proceeds going to the drama club.
Marshall isn't a stranger to film. For the last three years he has been hosting the "Ohio Valley Tonite" segments of WTRF television's Friday night newscasts.
The segment features Marshall, a former standup comic and television news reporter, interviewing a variety of guests, from local Christian rap group Kalled Out to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin.
Often working behind the scenes are fellow Brooke High School teacher John Zumpetta and his video production class and students in Marshall's theater classes.
For his first attempt at moviemaking he involved friends, students, fellow faculty members and a variety of past guests from "Ohio Valley Tonite."
As a result, the eclectic cast includes former WTRF anchorman Jim Forbes, twin Christian musicians Brian and Shawn Chrisagis, Bethany College drama professor Luke Hardt, fellow Brooke teachers Jim Rowing, Emily Yost and Carla Stone; and former Brooke students Shannon Reardon, Katie O'Connell, Rachel Richard, Brandon Yost, Jess Smith, Lindsey Willis, Trent Radcliffe and Zac Morris.
A number of students also were involved behind the scenes, giving up a day of their Christmas break last year to join Marshall in shooting scenes at Bethany College just for the experience.
Marshall said college officials were very cooperative in allowing him to use the campus, and he was careful not to film anything that would confuse his alma mater with the fictional Wheeler College, where the film is set.
He said unlike Bethany, Wheeler has a history of failure and the film involves Mumford Hatfield, a senior hired to film a commercial aimed at reversing its ever declining enrollment while various forces work against that.
Marshall said the title for the film came from Zumpetta's tendency to utter the same words just before shooting an "Ohio Valley Tonite" segment.
Providing songs for the film were Brooke alumnus Brandon Heisler, who now performs with a Boston band; and Essential Machine, a band made up of R.J. and Karen Dietrich, who also will perform after the film on Friday.
Brooke High School junior Caleb Isinghood said working on the film gave him new respect for the various professionals involved.
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Marshall said it was a learning experience for him, too.
"The various aspects of editing took the most time. You don't even think about how much work goes into movie credits until you've done it," he said.
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The Nebraska City Board of Appeals granted Albert and Linda Zook an additional 60 days to finish work on their house at 420 First Corso.
City commissioners declared the house a life safety issue in October of 2012 and gave the Zooks 30 days to repair or demolish the house.
Linda Zook said she was disappointed with the new timeline.
The Zooks have removed the roof on a wrap-around porch, made interior repairs and removed clutter.
She said the new 60-day deadline is difficult for them to accomplish.
Building Inspector Alan Viox said the Zooks informed the board that they intend to build an addition on the house.
The board asked them to provide contractor blue prints before Viox would issue a building permit.
Viox said the exposed wood from removal of the porch roof should be waterproofed.
He said the Zooks also need to remove the porch decking and supports.
He said there has been some clean-up of the property, but should be finished as the decking is removed.
He said the Zooks have seven days to waterproof the siding and an additional seven days to clean up the property.
"If they fail to do any of this in the 60 days, they board of appeals will uphold the city council's earlier declaration to condemn," Viox said.
Albert Zook bought the property in 2008 and the city moved to condemn a garage north of the house in 2009.
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I have several terminal windows open and would like to make the terminal session on the production server look very different from my local machine and staging servers to reduce the chance that I type something on the production server by mistake.
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Charlotte, N.C. - Six members of the Charlotte 49ers nationally-ranked men's soccer team earned All-Atlantic 10 honors. Senior Donnie Smith (Matthews, N.C./Charlotte Catholic) was named Atlantic 10 Midfielder of the Year. Smith also earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 honors. Joining Smith on the All-Atlantic 10 first-team are juniors midfielder Tyler Gibson (Knoxville, Tenn. /Knoxville Catholic), defender Thomas Allen (Charlotte, N.C./Providence) and goalkeeper Klay Davis (Jacksonville, N.C./Jacksonville). Sophomore forward Giuseppe Gentile (Charlotte, N.C./Ardrey Kell) earned second-team All-Atlantic 10 honors. Freshman defender Biko Bradnock-Brennan (London, England) was named to the Atlantic 10 All-Rookie team. Gibson also was named to the Atlantic 10 All-Academic team.
Smith is the second Niner to earn A-10 Midfielder of the Year honors, since Gibson earned the award in 2010. Smith has earned All-Atlantic 10 honors three times in his career and he earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 honors in 2010 as well. Smith has scored four goals and recorded three assists this season. He scored game-winning goals against South Carolina, Richmond and Saint Louis.
Allen and Davis have both earned All-Atlantic 10 honors for the first time in their careers. Allen and Davis anchor a 49ers defense which has recorded nine shutouts and limited 15 foes to a goal or less this season. The 49ers defense has only allowed six goals in Atlantic 10 play. Charlotte has only allowed two penalty kick goals over their last eight games.
Allen, who earned National Team of the Week honors earlier this season, has scored two goals including the game-winning goal in the 49ers 1-0 win over #14 Coastal Carolina this season. He has also recorded an assist.
Davis was named to the TopDrawerSoccer.com's National Team of the Week earlier this season after helping the 49ers post road shutouts against Saint Louis and Butler. This season, Davis has a 0.69 goals against average with 43 saves and 8.5 shutouts.
Gibson, who was named to the Hermann Award watch list at the beginning of the season, is a three-time first-team All-Atlantic 10 selection. This season, Gibson has scored two goals and dished out five assists. He scored the game-winning goal in the 49ers 3-0 win over Stony Brook earlier this season.
Gibson, who has a 3.84 GPA in Marketing, earned A-10 Academic All-Conference team honors last season as well. Last week, he was named to the Capital One Academic All-District team.
Gentile, who was a second-team All-Atlantic 10 selection as well as being named A-10 Rookie of the Year last year, is tied for the team lead with eight goals. He also tied for second on the team with five assists. Gentile scored game-winning goals against Kentucky and George Washington. This season, he scored three goals and recorded two assists in the 49ers victories over Massachusetts and Rhode Island. For his performance in those two games, he was named TopDrawerSoccer.com's National Player of the Week as well as Atlantic 10 Player of the Week.
Bradnock-Brennan has played an integral role on a 49ers defense which has recorded nine shutouts and limited 15 foes to a goal or less this season. He is the tenth different Niner to earn A-10 All-Rookie team honors. The 49ers have now had at least one player named to the A-10 All-Rookie team in each of Charlotte's eight years in the league.
Allen, Bradnock-Brennan, Davis, Gentile, Gibson, Smith and the rest of the 49ers nationally-ranked men's soccer team opens play in the A-10 Tournament against Duquesne, Thursday, November 8 at 8 pm. The 49ers are hosting the Atlantic 10 Tournament at Transamerica Field, November 8-11.


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Recent and archived news articles by Patricia Winters Lauro of The New York Times.
Bayer Goes Viral in Web Pitch for Painkiller
To attract a younger customer, Bayer HealthCare is starting an online game for Aleve Liquid Gels, a product that was introduced in March.
July 12, 2007, Thursday
An Emotional Connection Between Sleeper and Mattress
Tempur-Pedic's new ad campaign promotes the product not as a bed, but as a wellness brand, and sells the benefits of a good night's sleep.
July 5, 2007, Thursday
Fashion Paper Joins Bottom-of-the-Front-Page Club
Women's Wear Daily has become the latest newspaper to sell advertising space on its front page.
June 7, 2007, Thursday
With New Agency, Sony Tries to Focus Its Electronics Image
The company's new $20 million campaign emphasizes the high-tech features of Sony's camcorders and digital cameras.
April 10, 2007, Tuesday
Non-Celebrities on the Web, Seeming to Make Non-Pitches
Marketers are turning to unusual personalities who offer the kind of novelty and freshness that young people might blog about, link to and comment on in chats.
January 30, 2007, Tuesday
President Is Selected At Interactive Ad Bureau
The Interactive Advertising Bureau in New York, a trade association that represents 300 Internet companies, has named Randall Rothenberg as president and chief executive, beginning Jan. 8. Mr. Rothenberg succeeds Greg Stuart, who announced in August...
December 6, 2006, Wednesday
Yes, It's a Spoof, but It's Also Selling Something
Advertising agencies have turned to spoofing their own industry to attract viewers long enough to deliver a new message.
December 6, 2006, Wednesday
Videos in Lobby Help Nonprofit Theaters Keep Actors on Stage
Seven major regional theaters around the country have put video monitors in their lobbies to carry information and advertising.
November 8, 2006, Wednesday
Seeing Promotion Possibilities in the Tick of the Population Clock
Johnson & Johnson and Gerber Products are sponsoring campaigns celebrating the arrival of the 300 millionth American.
October 24, 2006, Tuesday
Mr. Peanut, You're Perfect. Now Change.
Companies lucky enough to have recognizable mascots are joining a makeover movement for the nation's advertising characters.
July 11, 2006, Tuesday
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Mount Brewer Climber's Log
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|NW Slopes
Date Climbed: Sep 13, 1981
|With Mark from Sphinx Lakes (good fishing).
Somewhat sketchy weather.
Beautiful area.
|Posted Oct 23, 2015 11:03 pm
|via east lake
Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2014
|found some fun class 3 action, made the actual summit as well.
|Posted Aug 24, 2014 11:39 pm
|Part of a loop
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2014
|Did this as a 3 day trip. Camped at Sphinx Lakes on Day 1, summited via NW slopes on Day 2. Took a class 3 route to the left of the snow covered center of the slope (scary with a backpack). Descended the South slope and went over Longley Pass.
My first Cl 3 peak!
|Posted Jul 9, 2014 5:54 pm
|Northwest Slope
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2014
|Climbed the Northwest Slope with Jessica and Tammy, staying left of the snow, from our camp at the third Sphinx Lake on day three of a four day backpack trip. Loose rock was a little unnerving. Spectacular views from the summit!
|Posted Jul 8, 2014 11:30 pm
|From North Guard
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2014
|An east cruise up the north slopes from North Guard. Nothing too tricky about the route and amazing views from the top!
|Posted Jul 7, 2014 1:53 pm
|East Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2014
|First of three this day including South Guard and Thunder from base camp at East Lake. The East Ridge is the way to climb this peak. Summited the center pinnacle (easy cl.3) because it's the "coolest". With Tommey Jo and Wes Tanner. Pictures and story
|Posted Jun 30, 2014 12:40 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2013
|Quick side trip on the way back to camp below the southwest ridge by the lakes after North Guard. Then off to South Guard and a long weekend on the Great Western Divide.
First climbed in August 2008... up from camp at Sphinx Lakes on Labor Day weekend. Summit block easier than anticipated, I think not really class 4.
|Posted Jul 9, 2013 6:52 pm
|From South Guard
Date Climbed: Sep 15, 2012
|Easy boulder hop after getting back to the saddle. Trip report.
|Posted Sep 16, 2012 12:10 pm
|Dayhike from Onion Valley
Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2012
|Absolutely grueling day! Left Onion Valley at midnight, returned 23.5 hours later. The return hike back over Kearsarge Pass was brutal. It was an absolutely gorgeous hike, though. Took a much better route back to East Lake (instead of going between the two creeks, we stayed to the North. Terrain was super mellow and less brushy.
|Posted Jul 3, 2012 2:00 pm
|Sphinx Lakes
Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2011
|Up to North Guard Ridge, then realized I should have decended moderately from Sphinx Pass to circumvent ridge. Will summit next time!
|Posted Sep 27, 2011 8:06 pm
|Dayhike of North Guard, Brewer, South Guard
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2010
|Dayhike of North Guard, Brewer, South Guard. Very impressive view of the peak on the approach-
|Posted Sep 6, 2010 2:06 pm
|Princess Buttercup
|From East Lake
Date Climbed: Aug 9, 2008
|East ridge on the slabs which connect all the way from East Lake. Gorgeous climb.
|Posted Nov 30, 2009 11:49 pm
|fun summit
Date Climbed: Jun 25, 1999
|Nice exposure, climb past the metal box.
|Posted Sep 28, 2009 2:35 am
|kevin trieu
|learned how to make fire with cottonball and vaseline
|Posted Aug 26, 2008 5:17 pm
|Michael Graupe
|Brewer - North Guard Dayhike
Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2008
|Started at 2:30am from Roads End and made it to the summit of Brewer via Sphinx Col in a little more than 8 hours. I could not find the register and spent some time searching and also climbed the pinnacle which I believe is the true highpoint. Then climbed North Guard and returned to Roads End at 7:30pm making for a long 17 hour day.
|Posted Jul 27, 2008 11:53 pm
|East Ridge/Sphinx Lakes loop, day hike, July 2004
|Always meant to write a TR for this hike but never got around to it; here's the summary version;
Left roads end at 4
East Lake by 8 - broke/dislocated a finger while getting water
Summit around 2 – kinda slow because of pain, surprised to meet a nice couple on summit, blew off plans to do North Guard and headed out via Sphinx Lakes
Picked up the Sphinx Creek Trail around 9, just after dark. Back to trailhead after midnight, but my ride (wife) had left two hours earlier. Hiked six more miles down the road back to camp at Cedar Grove. Ended up being a 32+ mile day hike
|Posted Aug 17, 2007 7:42 pm
|Route Climbed: South Slope
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2007
|Not that I think it too likely, but if you are approaching Brewer from the Roaring River area don't try to take the Brewer Creek drainage up from where it meets RR. It was a big pain due to steep loose dirt and rocks.
The summit on the other hand was fantastic. The climbing was okay but the view was great.
|Posted Jul 14, 2007 5:06 pm
|From Roaring River
|Brewer Creek Drainage is a nice approach from the Roaring River area if you hike up to Moraine Ridge on the trail first, instead of trying to scramble up from the bottom of Cloud Canyon.
|Posted Jul 21, 2012 10:52 am
|East ridge (solo)
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2007
|Great route, enjoyable terrain, straightforward routefinding. 3.5 hours from East Lake. Photos here.
|Posted Jun 23, 2007 12:01 pm
|Failed attempt
|It was July of 1995. We hiked in over Kearsarge Pass to Vidette Meadows. The mosquitos were far worse than anything I later experienced in the Alaskan interior during my honeymoon. It was a struggle to breathe! The next day we hiked to East Lake. The crossing of Bubbs Creek was quite dangerous--water to crotch level. I set out the following day by myself up the East Ridge. I took Secor's description a bit too literally and followed Ouzel Creek for way too long. The route I took was class three in many places, which was fine but it slowed me down. After the heavy winter, there was still too much snow to follow the correct route. I made it up to the last steep section before the summit ridge and had to turn around. If I hadn't turned around my partner would have started trying to find me in the dark. It was so frustrating! A bear tried to break into our tent at Kearsarge Lakes on the way out.
It was a very stressful trip which my partner didn't really want to be on.
I really want to go back to this area though!
|Posted Sep 23, 2006 4:15 am


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TEMPLE (November 13, 2012)--A Temple woman, charged with possession of child pornography after police found inappropriate pictures of an underage female on a roll of film that was processed at a local business, was released from the Bell County Jail after posting bond on Tuesday.
Jennifer M. Sodek, 31, was ordered held in lieu of $75,000 bond.
A police report indicates officers were contacted by a business after employees found images of the girl in various stages of undress on a roll of film that a woman brought in for processing.
With information from the film processing business, investigators established that the child in the photographs was younger than 18 and sought an arrest warrant.
Sodek was arrested Monday at her residence in the 900 block of North 2nd Street.


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What kind of accent is this? Is the speaker there speaking American English or Canadian? It is quite obvious it's not British or Australian accent. If it's American, can you, please, say what part of the USA it is?
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I am no expert, but it sounds to me like his first language is a European one. His pronunciation of some words is similar to people from the Balkans or other Eastern European nations. Spain is a wild card. There's a hint of Irish in there too, but it's not full-on. The clues for me are:
Most of his oks sound like how a Spanish person would say them.
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Apologies to the Spanish, Irish, Bosnians, Croatians and anyone from Eastern Europe if I've got it wrong.:-)
There are word choices that make me think the speaker's native language is not English. There are words that are not pluralized that should be and other words seem to be dropped.
The "para" in paragraph has hints of Russian as the speakers native language. Listen to the long O sound in the way he says story.


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Using any convenient browser (even the tiled version of IE), go to the Firefox website and follow the instructions to download and run the installer for the latest version of Firefox.
Depending on how you install Firefox, the first time you run it, you may be asked whether you want to import bookmarks from Internet Explorer. You may also be asked whether you want to make Firefox your default browser.
Firefox is a little different from IE in that it has a search bar in addition to the address bar. In fact, you can type search terms into the address bar or the search bar, and Firefox brings up your preferred search engine to look for them.
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I am new to Linux, never used it before. I can follow instructions but don't know much about it. Tried searching for a solution to this but couldn't find one. I installed Ubuntu 12.04. It was working fine. Now when I boot up, I get BIOS splash screen, brief purple screen, then a completely black screen that says:
"Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS [Ubuntu name] tty1
[ubuntu name] login:"
I can enter in my username and password, then it says:
"last login: Mon Sep 10 18:37:03 EDT 2012 on tty1
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64)
*Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
0 packages can be updated
0 updates are security updates"
I had this issue, did a fresh install, and then continued having this same problem. At some point I was also just getting a black screen with a cursor. I think sometimes all it said was [ok].
Please help - thanks!


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7 Classic Disney Movies That Taught Us Terrible Lessons
#3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame: The Ugly Dude Never Gets the Girl
Quasimodo is born with a hunched back and a face that only a mother could love. Too bad his mother gets killed by an asshole named Frollo.
Quasimodo moves into the bell tower of a cathedral and becomes the hunchback of Notre Dame. He then winds up in a love triangle with the lovely gypsy Esmeralda and the aforementioned Frollo.
When spurned by the girl, Frollo tries to burn Esmeralda at the stake. Quasimodo rescues her and, after that, the twisted, malformed freak is able to freely go out in public without people pointing and shaking their fists at the sky in reaction to God's twisted design. Quasimodo and Esmeralda get married and... oh, wait, no. She winds up with some other dude.
"The order goes: handsome guy, then the goat and then you, Quasimodo."
The Supposed Message:
Don't judge a book by its cover!
The Actual Message:
Ugly guys don't get the girl, even if they're devoted and awesome. That's just how it works, sorry.
From the first moment Quasimodo laid his misshapen eyes on her, the poor dope was madly in love with Esmeralda. They seemed destined for each other. French society had given both of them the middle finger, and they both liked sticking it to Frollo.
But just as Quasimodo was starting to feel good about himself, Esmeralda meets another guy: the dashing and completely non-deformed Captain Phoebus. And who in their right mind would pass up tall, dark and handsome for short, pale and abominable?
Quasimodo ended up alone while Phoebus and Esmeralda made some sweet, sweet gypsy magic. So for you hideous guys out there, true love and heroism is great and all, but at the end of the day, we just can't have you infecting the gene pool.
#2. Sleeping Beauty: If a Guy Saves Your Ass, it Belongs to Him
There's always that one person who wasn't invited to the party for very good reasons, but feels they are entitled to show up anyway. The party crasher in this Disney movie happens to be a very powerful, very evil fairy named Maleficent who curses the birthday girl, Princess Aurora, to prick her finger on a spindle of all things and, well, die.
Suddenly, the music stops with a needle scratch and there's an awkward silence as the evil bitch makes her exit. However, a fellow party-going fairy counteracts the curse by blessing the princess, saying that the princess will instead merely fall asleep until a prince--and she means any prince--comes along and pretty much date rapes her.
"Man, if any of you were princes, I'd totally be giving it away for free, straight up. You don't even know."
Sure enough, Aurora falls asleep. But then Prince Philip (who has been stalking the princess) kills Maleficent, then kisses the princess and probably enjoys a grope fest, which will remain the prince's little secret and Aurora's repressed memory as they live happily ever after.
The Supposed Message:
True love will conquer all!
The Actual Message:
That guy who comes along and saves you from a crisis? Marry him! He's the one!
"Let's just skip to the vows, I'm in a hurry."
When a rational woman wakes up to find a man practically on top of her, their first instinct would be to reach for the mace. Not our princess; she basically didn't know his ass from Adam, but she went ahead and married the guy. One kiss at the right time, and she knew she had found Mr. Right.
You may notice that this winds up as the exact polar opposite of the Hunchback of Notre Dame lesson, taken so far in the other direction that it winds up being even more wrong. Never mind that "compatibility" stuff and the all the time it takes for most folks to find out if they have it. If you're in a tough spot and a handsome guy saves the day, you instantly belong to him. Forever and ever!
Though we guess it only works if you're not a hunchback.
#1. The Fox and the Hound: Sometimes People Are Different, and That's Awful
After his mother gets capped and is presumably turned into a tasteful wall ornament, a little fox named Tod is taken in by an old woman to be raised on a farm. Tod eventually meets a hunting dog named Copper and the two hit it off.
Tod thinks the two will be friends forever, but over the winter Copper leaves on a hunting trip, and when he returns he's a full fledged fox-killing machine. When Tod goes to see Copper, he is attacked by Chief, Copper's mentor. Chief gets injured, and Copper makes it his mission in life to see former friend Tod meat packaged.
Eliminate on sight.
Copper and his owner eventually find Tod and try to take him down. When a bear jumps into the fight, Tod saves Copper and his owner. So they decide to call a truce, and the two go their separate ways.
The Supposed Message:
Even though we're different, we can still get along.
The Actual Message:
And by "get along" we mean "don't kill each other." We certainly do not mean "live together." Don't be silly, you belong to different races!
Our fox and hound find their long friendship thoroughly obliterated and end up trying to kill each other. Only after the member of the pursued and persecuted race does a favor for his oppressor (when the hunted saves the hunter's life) does the hound grant the fox permission to continue living.
But not as equals; the hound returns to his home with the humans and the fox returns to the wild.
That is how we will heal our racial and socioeconomic differences: by separating ourselves. If only we could institute some kind of "segregation" where all of us could be with our own kind, none of this unpleasantness would happen.
Thanks for showing us the way, Mr. Disney!
For more horrifying messages Uncle Walt passed along check out The 9 Most Racist Disney Characters and The 7 Most Terrifying Disney Movie Deaths.


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GENESEO, N.Y. - SUNY Geneseo was ninth in the nation for the number of current students and recent alumni participating in Student Conservation Association (SCA) internships for the 2009-10 school year.
Fifteen from Geneseo were involved in SCA internships ranging from trail maintenance in Virginia's Jefferson National Forest to preserving and cataloging historic archive collections of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California. Geneseo joins much larger schools on the top-10 list, such as the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Clemson, Michigan State University and the University of Florida.
The SCA connects young people to the natural world by engaging them in hands-on service to the land, helping them to interpret and protect the country's vital natural, historical and cultural resource treasures.
"Geneseo appeals to so many students not only because of its reputation for high quality but for its mission 'to develop socially responsible citizens,'" said Robert Bonfiglio, vice president for student and campus life. "To have this many students involved as SCA interns is a testament to how our students embrace our mission, and how our graduates personally live our mission. This work also reflects our long-standing institutional commitment to sustainability and the many conservation programs we have implemented on our own campus to emphasize the importance of protecting the environment for future generations."
Among the latest campus conservation initiatives is the opening of EcoHouse at Putnam Hall, a residential house which opened this fall for students devoted to sustainability and social justice. Twice as many returning students applied to live at EcoHouse than the 85 spaces would allow.
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