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1. Identify mechanisms that mediate anti-diabetic effects of serviceberry extracts.
2. Isolate and identify the anti-diabetic constituent(s) from serviceberry.
3. Develop a robust micropropagation system for rapid germplasm multiplication, maintenance and storage.
4. Develop efficient organic production systems for serviceberry cultivation.
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15 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
Welcome to the fifth installment in our never-ending quest to bring you the craziest, realest images on the web (see Part One, Part Two, Part Three and Part Four).
We know some of you folks out there are going to scream "Fake" no matter what anyway, but we figured we'd stress one more time that these images are, unfortunately, completely real.
#15. On the Set of 2 Ark, 2 Furious: Noah's Revenge
Everyone's reaction to this one can be summed up as, "What's the big deal? It's just two pics, one of a giant oil tanker and one of a peaceful little town--OH HOLY FUCK THOSE PEOPLE ARE ABOUT TO BE CRUSHED."
That is in fact one photo, of the The Pasha Bulker, a ship that famously ran aground in 2007 within spitting distance of that little Australian community there. The accident was due to bad weather while the captain was "eating breakfast." Apparently it became quite a tourist attraction, with people traveling from all over to see the massive stuck ship and perhaps hoping it was about to spill several million gallons of Fosters.
#14. It's the Tasmanian Devil, Get in the Car
This spontaneous tornado photo looks like the kind of CGI you see in made-for-TV movies. But if it's fake, then National Geographic is lying to us. They say it's a 4,000-foot tall twister in Kansas. We think it looks like that bank of clouds ate a bit of bad Mexican last night. In which case, we're really glad not to be that Weather Tracker guy. Cracked meteorology tip: When you're within sighting distance of a bout of meteorological diarrhea, it's good not to wear your Sunday Best.
#13. Mom, Dad, I'd Like You to Meet my New Girlfriend
This is one of those in the "not just fake but a bad fake" category, looking like something from some magazine ad selling ... bear insurance or something. But in fact it's one of several pics of Brutus the Bear and the family who's keeping him as a pet.
Brutus was raised in captivity and serves as a pet/family friend to Casey Anderson, star of Expedition Grizzly. One of Casey's major goals is to use Brutus to show that giant bears aren't the dangerous man-eating monsters that we think they are. That's a brave mission he's on, considering the previous attempt to prove that resulted in the guy getting eaten.
#12. Prostitution in the Deep-Sea World
While this picture looks like some harebrained lipstick ad, it's actually the aptly-named "rosy-lipped batfish." Though it would probably could have been even more aptly-named "the scowling old lady at the DMV." Its expression is just perfect.
Also, it uses those legs/fins to crawl around on the sea floor, because it's apparently too lazy to swim.
#11. Winner of the "Turn Your Neighborhood into Mordor" Photoshop Contest
The Internet is lousy with mind bending images of street art that turns a few panels of sidewalk into a swimming hole, or a terrifying pedestrian hazard. But Edgar Mueller's neighborhood swallowing painting makes that shit look like hopscotch.
With most sidewalk art, you can wrap your head around the illusion if you look at it long enough. But this one just gets more insane the longer you think about it. Especially when you take into account his contingency plan for rain is " leave and paint a new picture tomorrow." So while the dog perched precariously out on the ledge of the literal floating buttress might look like it's in danger of starring in the Disney version of Drag Me to Hell, it could actually ruin the whole week long project with a territory marking stream of piss.
#10. Why Buy a New Camera When You Can Strap the Hubble Telescope to the Front of Your Handheld?
What looks like someone pasted the business end of a bazooka onto a handheld camera is an actual lens from manufacturer Sigma. For the low price of $29,000, wedding photographers no longer have to actually be at the wedding, and paparazzo can steal shots of celebrity vaginas from 30 blocks away.
While the guy in the above picture jokingly posed with the camera sans tripod, we have to think that anyone who actually owns this thing will mostly be pointing it down at their lap, finally able to offer photographic evidence of the tiny equipment they're clearly compensating for.
#9. Gundam It, Japan
Proving that global economic crises mean nothing to the Japanese, they've built a full scale Gundam statue, just for the hell of it.
Oh, and by the way, it's motorized, so the damn thing moves. And we thought North Korea's nuclear weapons were the biggest threat to global safety from that part of the world.
#8. Dogaroos!
This looks like the kind of shitty crop-and-paste job you'd see on the Photoshop Disasters site. In fact these dogs live in the Philippines, and were born without front legs.
Despite the fact that it looks like the poor guys would topple over the moment they tried to wag their tails, it is apparently possible for dogs to live normal lives this way, using their strong hind legs to perfectly straddle the line between cute and terrifying.

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Santos Carrera-Morales, Eric James, Drew Wade escaped Ottawa County Jail early Wednesday morning. (4/18/2012)
MINNEAPOLIS, Kan. (WIBW) -- Minneapolis USD 239 schools and activities are cancelled until further notice while authorities search for three inmates that escaped in the area Wednesday morning.
According to the Kansas Department of Corrections, four people broke out of the Ottawa County Jail at about 5 a.m. They were state prisoners being held at the county jail.
Authorities say one escapee was caught, but they're still looking for the other three.
Santos Carrera, 22, is a Hispanic male, 5'9", weighing 169 lbs, brown eyes, with a shaved head and goatee. He was jailed for a 2008 conviction of two counts of First-Degree Murder in Sedgwick County.
Eric James, 22, is a light-skinned black male, 5'7", 180 lbs, brown eyes, with cornrows. He was jailed for a 2009 conviction of three counts of aggravated burglary and one count of kidnapping in Anderson County.
Drew Wade, 21, is a white male, 176 lbs, blue eyes, with a shaved head and "785" tattooed across his neck. He was jailed for a 2008 conviction of one count attempted robbery and one count aggravated battery in Shawnee County.
KAKE in Wichita reported Wednesday morning that the Kansas Highway Patrol was looking for a brown or gold 2002 Nissan Altima with Kansas license 649-CII, as well as a silver Chevy Impala with an unknown tag number.
Anyone who recognizes the vehicle or the inmates is asked to call 911.


text: Walter De Maria was born in 1935 in Albany, California, and studied history and art at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1960 he moved to New York City, where he continued to live and work. With Robert Whitman, De Maria cofounded a gallery at 9 Great Jones Street, Manhattan, in 1963, and held a show of his sculptures there that year. His work was included in the "Primary Structures" exhibition at the Jewish Museum, New York, in 1966. De Maria has had numerous international shows, at venues including the Kunsthaus Zürich (1999), the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (1991), the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1987), and the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1984). Walter De Maria died on July 25, 2013.


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SXSW Has Lost Its Balance
Marketing, often graceless and banal, seemed the priority.
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If the annual South by Southwest Music Festival was once a highly prized opportunity for developing artists to win needed attention from music-industry personnel, it's now a hydra-headed corporate carnival that employs some 2,200 musical acts to attract marketers and advertisers. Music is still its saving grace, but a question lingered here last week: Is it worth it for emerging artists to perform at an event that seems less about their art and more about branding, networking and deal-making?
The five-day event must find the balance between a celebration of music and an opportunity to pitch just about anything to people who identify with rock, pop and related fields. This year, marketing, often graceless and banal, seemed the priority.
At SXSW '14, much of the hype was dedicated to those who don't need it: among others, Jay Z and Kanye West, who for a night revived their "Watch the Throne" tour; Coldplay, performing some songs from their new album "Ghost Stories," out in mid-May; and Lady Gaga, the poster child for what happens when spectacle is treated as a cultural imperative. Appearing Thursday at a venue behind a barbecue restaurant, Lady Gaga appeared tied to a rotisserie and later brought out a friend who vomited on demand. If it was her commentary on how musicians at SXSW can be perceived as meat to be chewed up and spit out, the point was lost to absurdity.
Now only naïve and ill-informed musicians travel to South By, as it is known colloquially, expecting a rocket-launch to stardom. Once upon a time, said Seattle-based singer-songwriter Noah Gundersen during an interview here, "South By was a mysterious thing. There was a lot of sparkle around it. Bands could come here and get discovered. But it's a myth."
Lugging their equipment, most musicians at SXSW play multiple venues, almost always without a proper sound check, for crowds that may include chatty, inattentive industry insiders in attendance to fulfill professional obligations. Kelela Mizanekristos, an R&B singer based in Los Angeles who performs under her first name, said playing SXSW "is part of paying your dues." She appeared at the festival in 2012 as a backing vocalist and last year as a solo artist, before arriving this year to promote her album, "Cut 4 Me" (Fade to Mind). "The point of South By is to plow through whatever is in the way and still connect with an audience," she said prior to one of her six shows here.
Artists insist it's crucial to enter SXSW with a strategy in place. "There's so much damned music now that if you don't have your act together, there's a thousand other bands people can go listen to," said Mr. Gundersen, who played four sets in support of his new album, "Ledges" (Dualtone). "You have to be on your game. You have to be the best version of yourself."
The Calgary, Alberta-based Reuben and the Dark saw SXSW '14 not as a make-or-break event, but as just part of the lead-up to the May 27 release of its debut album, "Funeral Sky" (Arts & Crafts). In a phone interview before the festival, the band's leader, Reuben Bullock, said: "You can advance your career in all sorts of ways. There's no one map to having a sustainable career. We're not looking to be a flash in the pan. When you're a buzz band, people can forget about you just as quickly."
For dedicated fans of rock and pop, SXSW '14 was rescued by transcendent moments provided by musicians applying their talents.
On Wednesday, before a sparse audience a short walk from the meandering mob on Sixth Street, Lawrence Rothman lifted his baritone above an electronica blend in a set that was less creepy, but no less compelling, than his dark, haunting videos. Before an attentive crowd on Thursday night, Perfume Genius delivered his fragile ballads in a church that, at the same time, hosted in another room the exquisite experimental chamber-folk group Thus Owls. On Friday morning, Damon Albarn played a luscious set of songs from his album "Everyday Robots," due out at the end of April, backed by a string quartet, six voices from a local choir, and his band in an unplugged setting. Five hours later, the Strypes, a quartet from Ireland whose members are in their teens, rattled a delighted midday audience with highly charged boogie, rockabilly and pub rock. And on Saturday night, in a program at Russian House that included bands from Argentina, Canada, Israel and the Netherlands, TriBeCaStan, a group of downtown New York musicians, paid tribute to the late jazz trumpeter Don Cherry with a West African-influenced number that featured the hulusi, a Chinese flute.
These performances relieved, at least temporarily, the unavoidable conclusion that most musicians might have invested their time more fruitfully in a place where music was the primary focus of attention.
Mr. Fusilli is the Journal's rock and pop music critic. Email him at email@example.com and follow him on Twitter @wsjrock.


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6 Popular Songs You Didn't Know Have Dark Hidden Messages
#3. "Do You Hear What I Hear?" by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne
What You Think It's About
Most of the audience will recognize this song as one of about 20 or so Christmas standards that dominate department store and elevator airwaves starting immediately after Halloween and continuing until we're all too buried in credit card debt to even think about what song is playing overhead.
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" was originally written by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne, but it's been covered by hundreds of different artists, most famously by Christmas crooner Bing Crosby. The song seems to be a simple ditty about the baby Jesus' birth, because those are the kinds of lyrics we're all into during the holiday season. But a close inspection reveals that there's something else in the sky with Jesus in this famous Christmas anthem.
Not even close, jerkface.
What It's Really About
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" was written in response to the Cuban missile crisis. If you're unfamiliar with that harrowing moment from history, track down the first person who actually remembers when this song was released and ask them to regale you with tales of the time when the U.S. and Russia nearly obliterated each other with nuclear weapons in 1962 before the Beatles even had a chance to swoop in and calm us all down.
"We're going to have to change the chorus of 'I saw her nuclear shadow standing there.'"
The song was written as a plea for peace by people who thought they could be minutes away from complete nuclear annihilation. Lyricist Noel Regney was living in New York City at the time, a place that pretty much always expects to be the target of terror and destruction. He was inspired to write the song after watching babies being pushed in strollers on the sidewalks of New York City, and then most likely imagining them exploding in a fiery inferno (Merry Christmas!). That probably explains these now-terrifying lines:
Do you see what I see
A star, a star
Dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite
With a tail as big as a kite
They removed 22 references to shitting their pants from the first draft.
Both songwriters later admitted to not being able to personally perform the song, as it brought up too many traumatic emotions from the time when it was written. We've heard rumors that Sisqo stopped performing "The Thong Song" for the exact same reason.
#2. "Hook" by Blues Traveler
What You Think It's About
You might (or more likely, might not) recognize "Hook" as Blues Traveler's big hit that isn't their other hit. With a cursory listen, it sounds like a fairly average song. Save its crazy harmonica solo, there isn't really anything that makes it stand out from its late '90s pop contemporaries. The chord progression of the song is the exact same as the infamous classical piece "Canon in D" by Pachelbel, which is an incredibly commonly used chord structure in pop music. And it's being played exactly as it was played back then. Most artists at least have the decency to mess around with the formula and make it work for them.
For comparison, here's the original.
Blues Traveler didn't change a damn thing. What kind of cookie cutter bullshit is this?
What It's Really About
Blues Traveler's brief descent into formulaic pop music was meant to protest ... formulaic pop music. When analyzed musically, "Hook" comes off as lazy, but when paired with the lyrics, its genius begins to reveal itself. Singer John Popper opens the song with the line "It doesn't matter what I say/So long as I sing with inflection," and then he proceeds to sing an entire song about how he has nothing to say, but it doesn't matter because no one's paying attention anyway. We can't help but notice that he's singing with tons of inflection, though, so that's a nice touch.
To make it even more blatant, Popper sings the line "When I'm feeling stuck and need a buck, I don't rely on luck, because the hook brings you back." That's pretty ballsy. He's not only admitting that if he needs some extra cash to add a few more harmonicas to his arsenal, all he has to do is whip out the old "Canon in D" formula that we all know so well and slap some lyrics on top, and the mindless masses will gobble it up.
And he was right. Maybe almost too right.
Despite the fact that the joke was on them, the general public loved it. Even though Blues Traveler put mocking lyrics on top of the oldest, most overused cliche there was, the song was the biggest selling single the band ever had.
#1. "99 Luftballons" by Nena
What You Think It's About
In case you're young enough to think that "Gangnam Style" was the first foreign-language song to go huge in the West, there is actually a long tradition of hits in the "Who cares what the lyrics are saying, this song is catchy as shit!" category. In the 1980s, that song was the upbeat "99 Luftballons" from German band Nena:
The "entirely in German except for the word 'balloons'" hit was first played in the United States as almost a novelty song that you could dance your ass off to (even without a chubby Korean guy in a tux). But things took a markedly darker turn when the song was tweaked for the American audience.
What It's Really About
When "99 Luftballons" became a hit, the band went into the studio and recorded an English version called "99 Red Balloons" to capitalize on their newfound fame. Records scratched and dogs did that thing they do in movie trailers where they go "aroo??" as everyone realized that they were dancing and singing along to a bleak song about total nuclear annihilation. This was in 1983, mind you, when total nuclear annihilation was still a very real threat.
Even the balloons are bad times, as the lyrics reveal that the 99 balloons in question set off a false alarm that triggers a full-scale nuclear war. (Ha! No way would something like that happen in real life.) So what, now we have to go look up the lyrics of all of these fluffy non-English songs to find out if they're trying to slip some nightmarish shit into our brains? Is "Gangnam Style" about the last day before an asteroid hits the Earth? Does "Numa Numa" translate to "Pedophiles Pedophiles"? We're not sure we want to know.
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During maintenance, which started in March, SAMREF boosted the reliability of the fluid catalytic cracker, which helps turn crude oil into gasoline, and upgraded the refinery to produce cleaner fuels.
By SUMMER SAID
DUBAI -- Saudi Aramco has restarted its Red Sea Yanbu
refinery, which it owns with ExxonMobil, after nearly two
months of maintenance.
With the restart, the refinery is bringing a new clean
fuels project online. The plant will
reach its full capacity this week, two people familiar with the
matter said.
The refinery, which is operated by
SAMREF, has a capacity of about 400,000 bpd of Saudi Arabian
crude oil, half of which is consumed domestically, but will
only reach that level in a few days, the people told Dow
Jones Newswires.
During maintenance, which started in March,
SAMREF boosted the reliability of the fluid catalytic
cracker, which helps turn crude oil into gasoline, and upgraded
the refinery to produce cleaner fuels.
The clean
fuels project is expected to reduce sulfur
levels by more than 98% in gasoline in 2013 and in diesel by
SAMREF is the supplier of gasoline in the western region of
the kingdom, according to the Saudi Aramco website.
Saudi Arabia is expanding its refining capacity to produce more
gasoline and diesel to meet rising domestic demand.
Saudi Aramco owns and operates four refineries serving the
local market, with a combined refining capacity of 1 million bpd.
The firm also has a 50% interest in SAMREF and in SATORP, a
joint venture with Total, which will also produce cleaner
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What is the current strigent sulfur residual in gasoline and diesel fuels. It seems we are getting closer to 0-10ppm residual across the world refining network.
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WELLSBURG - While sheets of ice have been plentiful throughout the Ohio Valley over the past month, none of them have been large enough to accommodate would-be hockey stars looking for a quick game or a place to practice.
Luckily, the free outdoor skating rink on the basketball court of the Betty Carr Park at the bottom of 16th Street in Wellsburg is proving to be a popular place for skaters from not only the city of Wellsburg, but other communities as well.
The rink was first set up three years ago at the urging of City Councilman Paul Billiard, who thought a free outdoor rink would give local youth something to do during the winter other than sit in front of a TV or video screen. At the time, he told council if some funds could be allocated to purchase the rink he would get everything else that was needed.
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FACING OFF — Michael Jones, 15, Cross Billiard, 13, and Bode Billiard, 9, all of Wellsburg, face off on the Wellsburg outdoor skating rink. -- Staff photo
WINTER FUN — Wellsburg City Councilman Paul Billiard watches as Cross Billiard skates toward the net. -- Staff photo
Since then, he has secured hockey nets and a variety of other needed items, including burn barrels and a hockey stick rack donated for the project.
"This year we finally brought it all together," Billiard said. "It's taken some time but it's turned out very nice. It's not just for hockey. It's a place for kids to skate."
The 40-by-80 foot outdoor rink has attracted skaters from New Manchester, Moundsville, St. Clairsville, Wheeling and as far away as Washington, Pa. The side boards are about 22 inches high. The rink is equipped with lights and is open to the public every day from 9 a.m. until 11 p.m. at no cost.
Other items which have been put on the site include benches and rubber mats for skaters to walk on.
Billiard said at night he also uses an electric torpedo heater and has hot chocolate available.
Maintenance is done regularly by a group of volunteers. Special snow plow shovels are used to keep the ice clean and smooth about every 90 minutes.
"The biggest problem we've had was keeping people off it until it was completely frozen," Billiard said. "If someone goes through the ice before it's frozen they could cut the rubber liner. Now we have to keep tweaking it. We're trying different things to make it more appealing. We want to make it for everyone."
Billiard said in the future, the city would like to make the area a multi-use facility and use it year round for basketball, roller skating and ice skating.
"We need to get the right kind of surface. The key is having it level," he said.
The main goal, Billiard said, is exposing youngsters to ice skating, as there are few rinks and opportunities for them to skate in the area. He said thus far, that goal has been achieved.
"There are some kids using the rink now that would never have owned a pair of ice skates," he said. "For some of these kids it's as close as they will ever get to skating on a frozen pond. It's giving kids exposure to something they never had before."
Billiard said the rink is also attracting adults who are taking part in the fun. The rink is self-regulated, and he said everyone is mindful of the rules and makes an effort to keep the area safe.
He said that is indicative of the effort that has gone into making the rink successful.
"It has taken endless hours to get ready, but nobody I have asked to help has said no," Billiard said.


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Reports tell us that the Boston Bomber sought to rationalize and justify his role in the murder and injury of innocent Americans claiming he was motivated by the murder of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Though a few may hear that two American soldiers and four contractors were killed by terrorists in Afghanistan last Thursday, very few will hear that in addition nine Afghan civilians were killed and 30 more civilians were injured.
The sad truth is that far more Muslim civilians have been killed through the terrorism of Muslim extremists than by American soldiers.
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Marvel Assembles an Official Title for Third "Avengers" Movie
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The name Drew Struzan might not be a household one, but if you saw an American movie in the last few decades then you're probably very familiar with the work of Drew Struzan. Star Wars, Back to the Future, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner, Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing… the list goes on an on.
As a film poster artist in the '70's and '80's, Struzan's work subliminally informed everything many of us would grow to associate with adventure and excitement in movies. Without even realizing that we were seeing the world through his eyes, his ubiquitous movie posters embodied the most exhilarating films we grew up with. His style is intrinsically associated to a specific type and quality of movie. Today Struzan's skills continue to be utilized by savvy film makers like George Lucas and Guillermo Del Toro to brand and market their films, lending them a language of fun and daring which is synonymous with Struzan's work. Continue Reading »
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COLUMBIA, Mo.- Columbia College will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its Adult Higher Education program Aug. 29, which coincides with the anniversary of the college's first Nationwide Campus location, based in St. Louis. Established in 1973, the St. Louis campus is one of 35 Adult Higher Education campuses across the country.
"This is a great day for the College," said Dr. Terry Smith, interim president of Columbia College. "Serving adult learners is woven into the fabric of our institution, and our mission is to provide students with a one-of-a-kind liberal arts education, as the foundation for their careers and personal lives."
Columbia College's Adult Higher Education program began as response to requests from Army recruiters in the St. Louis area for flexible education opportunities, and in 1973, the college established the Extended Studies Division. Today, the program serves more than 30,000 students annually and has been recognized as a leader in adult education.
Columbia College-St. Louis was established in 1973 and was located for a short time at the Army Reserve Personnel Center. The campus moved to its current location on Woodson Road in 1989.
Founded in 1851 in Columbia, Mo., Columbia College has been helping students advance their lives through higher education for more than 160 years. As a private, nonprofit, liberal arts and sciences institution, the college takes pride in its small classes, experienced faculty and quality educational programs. With more than 30 campuses across the country, 18 of which are on military installations, students may enroll in day, evening or online classes. The college is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Columbia College educates more than 31,000 students each year and has more than 74,000 alumni worldwide. For more information, visit www.ccis.edu.


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Thanks again!Turns out (i think) they are accusing us of not paying certain taxes and receiving money we never received. They tried to take some of it out of mom's account, couldn't and I guess decided to take out the accused taxes from my mom's paycheck amounting to a total of about 99% of her paycheck...Whats worse, is she is the one that makes most of the money for us, as my father is a minister (non-Orthodox) and doesn't make a lot. She's had to support them, me, and my brother (including helping with his bills and sometimes his debt) who is living with us while he's recovering from his divorce...Thank you once again for your prayers! She hasn't seemed too depressed lately but I know it's still bugging her. She visits her psychologist tomorrow so hopefully that will help.
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Hi guys,
I have a Jetboil Sol Ti and to be honest i'm extremely disappointed with it, so i'm looking for another solution.
I'm after a gas cannister stove that will allow me to easily simmer to cook pasta, beans etc, i have no real budget but i will be using it for backpacking so it does need to be fairly light.
Any ideas please?
Thanks guys.Had problems cooking a tin of beans with the Sol Ti, even on the lowest setting and stiring constantly it melted the heat exchanger ring.
Looked as much as i can on-line but it's tough as it seems 1 persons simmer is anothers flame thrower.
I did short list the Crux stove, but i've read a few reports that it has poor simmering abilities.
What about something like the OmniLite Ti, have you any experience with this stove on gas canisters?
The Jetboil does what it says on the tin "boils water" but my problem is that, it will not heat up even very moist food like Heinz beans without melting the heat exchanger on the lowest possible flame.
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Again that was on a flame THAT low i had to relight it 3 times.
I have just started to use the Primus Express. It can simmer. Coupled with a windshield it's all good.
Simmering was the main requirement when I started to look to gas,
Also have started to use Eddie Mechan (from TGO) idea of pour and store bags coupled with the bubble wrap tin foil, This is another form of simmering, it really does work
So before ditching the jetboil have a go with dehydrated food and a pot cosy
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Omnilite ti - £160 just so you can simmer some beans...?! The Flyti stove sold under various company names simmers well. I used a remote stove with the same burner head throughout the winter and was very impressed with it. Using a pot cosy eliminates the need to simmer with food like rice, pasta etc and saves you fuel.
I don't mind paying for quality goods, £160 on a stove that's light and does everything i need is a bargain compared to the £100 odd i spent on my Jetboil that made 4 cups of tea then melted.
I'll take a look at the FlyTi, thanks.
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this one has a following. this looks interesting tooMy wide burner head cylinder top stove cost £7 some years ago.just found this one73 grammes and under £21
this one has a following. this looks interesting too
My wide burner head cylinder top stove cost £7 some years ago.
just found this one73 grammes and under £21
Great thanks, can you confirm that they all simmer please?
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I have just started to use the Primus Express. It can simmer. Coupled with a windshield it's all good.Simmering was the main requirement when I started to look to gas,Also have started to use Eddie Mechan (from TGO) idea of pour and store bags coupled with the bubble wrap tin foil, This is another form of simmering, it really does workSo before ditching the jetboil have a go with dehydrated food and a pot cosy
Also have started to use Eddie Mechan (from TGO) idea of pour and store bags coupled with the bubble wrap tin foil, This is another form of simmering, it really does work
Another one to add to the list, thanks.
The pot cosy system is great, the problem with the Sol Ti though is getting enough heat in it to warm the food through without melting the heat exchanger, and/or burning the food to the bottom of the pan/cup.
It's a pretty useless system in that it's a one race pony, it only boils water nothing else.
The instructions say to use a food with a high moisture content only, IMO beans are a pretty high moisture content food, yet Jetboil still refused to exchange the melted cup.
Their choice, but lesson learnt i'll not be recommending Jetboil again or purchasing any of their products, plus it means i'll be a lot more careful with my next stove purchase, that will have to be ability to simmer well.
Maybe i'll only simmer a tin of beans and sausages once a year, but i still want that option.
Plenty of stoves to look at so far though, thank you.
Please keep them coming.
Another quick question please.
For those that are recommending stoves they have been able to simmer with, what pans were/are you using please?
Why not only use dehydrated food, use the jetboil at it's best and only boil water, then add the boiling water to the dried food and let it reconstitute
I know this is not the answer to the your question, but have a think about your overall system before wasting the jetboil
I ended up using a 500mls trangia 27 kettle, and I was looking at everything, the kettle even beat a very curvy evernew 900mls pan with lid
...sure isnt working on your system half the craic !
Don't know if this would work with a JetBoil, a way of cooking I've used to cook Pasta and Rice.
Heat water to boiling, add P/R and bring back to boil.
Take off stove and let stand, if covered with a lid or the like, it should cook by it's self.
If not, a 'wee' blast on stove to boiling should do the job.
If adding to something and needs warmed, quick blast on cooker.
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I hate dehydrated food with a passion.
Sometimes it's a necessity due to space and weight constraints, if i can help it though i'll avoid it.
Great advice thanks
As i say the problem with the Sol Ti is, unless it's 100% you simply can't get enough heat into the mug.
Even on the lowest burner setting it welds the beans to the mug even before you get a chance to stir it.
If i could heat my tin of beans up to a boil, i'd happily stick the mug in a cosy to cook the sausages through.
Problem is though i end up with cremated beans at the bottom of the mug and stone cold beans in the middle and at the top.
When i used gas i never had trouble simmering with the pocket rocket, didn't like it as a general stove though so got rid.
If i simmer at all these days it's with a simmer ring on a home made meths burner.
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sounds like what you need is a stove that can heat food slowly.
that way you won't burn the like of beans to bottom of pot.
the crux you mentioned will do so, (needs a windshield if cooking outside tent), others from Prmius, MSR, or Chinese "copys", will 'simmer' and will cook with out burning pot/food if used right.
As for cooking tins of food, the best way I've seen/used is to:-
boil water in pot, open tin slightly, put tin in the water and let heat.
done that way food cooks in tin, no mess to clean in pot and have hot water to use for something else, cup of something, washing, for example.
that's how I was shown in Cadets, many years ago when "rat packs" came mostly in tins.
I use an Optimus Terra HE 1lt pot with lid, at the moment, cooking with either a crux or omni-mf stove, (omni can also simmer).
As mentioned a cosy is a good alternative to a simmer.
You could also try a diffuser plate between your pan & stove. At it's simplest it could be a lid from a large tin of beans or somesuch with a few holes drilled it in & smoothed off.
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None in PA. Do they make a good burger?
Ours in La Jolla is great and reasonably priced as well
Smash Sauce is awesome on the burger! Even as fry dip. The sauce may make the burger, but if you have a 5 guys they would be a better burger for the meat comparison.
My hubby loves their Chicago style burger. It comes on a pretzel bun with lots of mustard. :)
@coondogg97: The burgers themselves are pretty boring, but the appeal comes from all the toppings you can put on. A bit gimicky in my opinion, but worth checking out.
Better than 5 guys. Both their burgers AND fries.
I love their mushroom swiss burger. The burger's are boring but so is vanilla ice cream just add a ton of fun toppings. Their chicken salad's are yummy too.
@justagigilo85: Five guys makes mc donalds look good.
Unfortunately there aren't any in a reasonable driving distance for me (hoping that changes soon.... or maybe not). Honestly some of the best chain restaurant burgers I've ever had. I like them better than 5 guys as well. And they blow away any of the national fast food places.
Worth a try if you can find one.
Now I want a burger... dang it.
@justagigilo85: In what world? Fries, maybe. But the 5 guys burgers are much better.
Smashfries are delicious! Only burger place I have been to where I can get olive oil and rosemary french fries.
@justagigilo85: ive never had smashburger, but that doesn't seem hard to do.
ive never understood the fascination with 5guys. the burgers are....burgers. i guess throwing peanut shells on the floor makes some people think their food tastes better than it actually does
Yum. There's a Smashburger literally about a mile down the road from me, and it's outstanding. I will be making use of this deal.
@jethroop369: I agree. I love Smashfries!
I think their burger more juicy & delicious than 5-guys...and the smash fries are incredible. The BBQ burger comes with sauce, bacon & haystack onions and cheese. You can change up the toppings and sauces, like aioli or chipotle. It's a great burger place, and the salads are great, too.
@jethroop369: Amen. I swear there is something we don't know about in those fries because I can't help myself when I get them. We've made them at home and can come close, but their smashfries are just crazy good.
@pinchecat: I think 5 guys is decent. The big draw for a lot of people around here is the ridiculous amount of fries you get. The fries are a bit different compares to places in my area and I like them on occasion.
Its a straight no nonsense burger and you can put a LOT of toppings on it without getting charged more. There is however a place a bit out of the way that makes a tasty, juice dripping, artery clogging burger that people just go nuts over. Feast your eyes here - http://bit.ly/STs73K
Being a bit meta:
I just ate at Smashburger tonight. I've never heard of 5 Guys---we sure don't have them here in Kansas. Anyway, the mushroom/swiss burgers are great, with lots of mushrooms :) And I really enjoy the haystack onions and the sauce they come with. Also, the service was great.
I've never been, any thought on the fried pickles?
@dmstrom: I've been to 4-5 different 5 guys in my area and 2 different smashburgers and smashburger wins, hand down.
That's not to say 5 guys is crap. If my choices are wendy's, burger king, & 5 guys, I know where I'm going every time.
I would rate Smashburger over 5 Guys, but I like them both.
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DID YOU KNOW? You can double coupon at smashburger? it has to be different coupons and you can only use two. I got BOGO burgers and free fries for about $5. amazing. Plus It was the guy behind the counter that told me. I was trying to decide what coupon to use and informed me of the deal.


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I don't really understand what is so good about Protoss Motherships. They call them the "ultimate Protoss unit", but when I built one, it wasn't very good. I understand that they can teleport units, but other than that, what can they do?
The mothership has three abilities;
Mass Recall as you listed is probably the least interesting ability. It instantly transports a chunk of units to the mothership's position. This can be used offensively to reinforce your army from your production base or defensively to pull out units from a losing battle.
Vortex is the other active ability and is much more interesting. Akin to the "Stasis Field" from the Arbiter, a Starcraft 1 unit of which the mothership was derived from, this takes any group of units in the field out of the battle for a little while. This too can be used both offensively and defensively.
On the offensive this ability really shines, you can remove half of your opponents army from the battle, allowing your army to dominate the remaining forces by outnumbering them. When the vortex ends, the remaining army of your opponent's pops out and you can finish them off. This can also be used to remove problematic units from the battlefield such as sieged tanks.
Defensively, you can protect your own units from a losing battle while reinforcements arrive.
Cloak is the passive ability of the mothership. It renders all friendly (including allied) units and buildings invisible (and untargetable) unless detected with a detector. If your opponent did not expect you to bring cloaked units, it forces them to fall back or take heavy losses from your invisible army. Only the mothership remains visible, however the range of cloak is quite significant.
Overall, the mothership is an interesting option for late game protoss. However, you should only consider building one if your opponent is lacking detection or anti-air.
You can also do a mothership rush:
Finally, the "ultimate unit" is a disputable claim on the tooltip, as the mothership is being removed in the next expansion, Heart of the Swarm.
The Mothership is a very effective unit, however, it is rarely used due to being late-game unit and being very expensive (and time consuming) to produce. However, when it is produced, and when it is used correctly, it is an immensely powerful unit.
Cloak will cloak all your units within 5 units of the Mothership. This is a very useful ability for both offense, and defense, especially against Terran. Unlock Protoss and Zerg, which can rely on observers and overseers for detections, Terrans rely mostly on scans (Ravens can be used as well, but they in late game it's fairly easy for a Protoss player to pick them off).
Vortex allows you to remove units from the battlefield for a short period of time, which can be used to protect your own units against AOE attacks or when you're outnumbered and waiting for reinforcements.
Vortex also an be used to reduce the size of the enemies army, giving you an advantage in battle, and also remove key threats from your enemies forces until you can reduce the size of their army so they are easier to deal with. Both of these can also be accomplished by a Sentry's force field and a Phoenix's Graviaton beam, but has the advantage of being able to affect all units instead of just certain types of units.
Mass Recall allows you to teleport your army to your mothership. When used correctly it can be the the most useful ability offered by the Mothership. Although it can be used for defense, calling your army back to your base when under attack, it is most useful when used offensively. This is because Mass Recall will allow you to perform very effective hit and run attacks against your opponent, dealing considerable damage to their base at little cost and risk to yourself. Since you can pull your army away at a moments notice this allows you to quickly react to either your opponent attacking you at his base, or attacking you at your own base. In both cases you can simply teleport your army away to either avoid them taking damage, or defend your base before your opponent has time to deal any significant damage. If your enemy has a large base (very likely considering the MOthership is a late game unit), it can also allow you to attack one half of the enemies base and then mass recall your army to to the other half once your opponents army has been taken out of position.
This video shows some excellent Mothership play by Kiwikaki in Game 2 vs stephano at IPL 3:
Well first of all try not to get attached to it since it will be gone in HotS. I don't have time for a detailed analysis, but I see someone else already provided that. What I can say is that in very long games, as protoss you try to do one thing (besides winning). That thing is: get the absolute best unit composition possible.
Now how does this work. You start off with stalker, zealot, sentry. Maybe immortal or HT. Later you evolve to Colossus, and at some point around min 25 or so you're on 4-5 bases (even if the 5th is just a gass base).
You have to slowly transition out of tier 1 and 2 units. You will stop making zealots and stalkers, instead you want 5 Colossi (more than 5 is just a waste since 9 Colossi accomplish just as much as 5-6). You will want some immortals to soak up some damage and A LOT OF ARCHONS. maybe some blink stalkers, they are very good, but not too many unless your opponent is zerg and going for brood lords (void rays are better but mineral and gass requirements make it hard).
With this perfect army you can crush most of anything, but if cought out of position YOU CAN STILL LOSE. So you want a "Oh crap button" (note: can be used as a FU button also). That button is the vortex.
While yest the cloak field punishes any opponent that doesn't have enough detection, the vortex is what you want. Once you place a good vortex, just plop all archons inside (called an archon toilet) and position colossi in range of vortex.
When units come out of the vortex they are 100% clumped up (so any splash will hit all units) and the AI attacks the very moment they come out. Since both colossi AND archon have 100% splash (tanks for example do not) you will MURDER anything inside.
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I bought these 2 or 3 weeks ago & gave it a try before wrapping them back up for a stocking stuffer. The 4 gigs are in one cufflink only (which is fine) and my PC saw it like any other flash drive. The problem is taking it OUT. It required a pair of pliers--the drive is tiny and smooth w/ nothing to get ahold of--and I was very worried I'd scratch it. Still fun as a novelty, but otherwise quite impractical.
Too bad they're so big. Yes, big. these are quite a lot larger than an in-the-port micro sd card adapter like the one I bought recently. Something like this: www.memorybits.co.uk/blogbits/micro-sd-card-a-miniature-marvel-of-technology/ And yes they are a pain sometimes to remove. Something that small for a laptop though, you can just leave it in and it still will slip into the bag fine. Something that would otherwise be an interesting james-bond type data smuggler is given away by the "brick on your sleeve" that these appear to be.


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We are trying to create an AG Listener and it errors out on us:
It does however seem to create both the DNS entries and the virtual computer object in AD. However, because of this error message SQL backs out the creation of the Listener.
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- Pre-creating the DNS entries and computer object in AD
The only reference I have found to this is at the following connect article, but I can't figure out what the exact fix is from the broken english: http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/686548/denali-ctp3-incorrect-error-message-when-setting-up-listener-with-no-dns-access .


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The article of today's (August 27) Washington Post titled, "Obama offers 2012 election supporters change they can believe in — next term" begins with the following sentence:
Three years after storming the White House with the "fierce urgency of now," President Obama has a new message for his reelection campaign: Be patient, democracy is big and tough and messy. "When I said, Change we can believe in,' I didn't say, 'Change we can believe in tomorrow,' " Obama told a crowd of 2,400 during a birthday celebration in Chicago this month.
For a foreign English student, it's difficult to comprehend and discern the difference between "Change we can believe in" and "Change we can believe in tomorrow.'" What was wrong with President Obama for Americans to make change they can believe in tomorrow,"? I think most people want to believe in tomorrow, not only living today.
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Is it OK to use my iPhone charger for charging other USB powered devices like the Kindle or a digital camera (with a rechargeable battery)? Can it cause any damage to the charger or to the device being charged?
Most standard USB charges for 0.5A. But not all USB are standardized - there are some that go for up to 1.8A and even the MacBook Pro is said to raise up to 1.1A when relevant. iPhone's charger do little more than 1.1A and it's pretty decent. That's why iPhone charging on regular USB usually take double the time to fully charge. iPad's charger are roughly 10W and 5V which translates to 2A.
There's nothing wrong that can happen with the charger because USB devices are made to work with the same standard voltage (about 5V). The USB hosts are only outputting the maximum energy it can provide up to what the client can receive. A 10W energy source will only give up to 10W and just 1W if the plugged device can only take 1W.
I'm no electrical specialist but...
Having bigger power supply (measured in watts) or bigger current (measured in amperes) on itself can't break any system because what puts them in movement is the difference of potential measured by volts.
Think of a light bulb and picture all USB devices are prepared to receive about 5V (actually little more). If you get a 220V and put in on a 110V nothing wrong happens, but it will be very weak. Apple's chargers only go up to 5V, which is within the USB standard. So yeah, it's all good and safe.
Yes, you can. It converts the AC power to the standard USB power, so anything that charges with USB will charge with the iPhone's adapter.
Regarding to USB charging, there are two kinds of USB devices:
Apple USB chargers (1000mA to 2100mA) are of the second type but doesn't follow the USB charging standard (1800mA) and aren't compatible with other smart devices that follow that standard. Only with dumb devices and other apple devices.
Usually you can use the charger for other devices. But check the power requirements of the device in question. For instance an iPhone charger can't charge an iPad that's not sleeping (because it requires 10W and your iPhone charger is probably rated for 5W).
This isn't always safe. I tried charging a Kindle Fire with my Apple iPhone chargers and ended up burning out 2 of them.
I have a Nuvi nav system with a mini-USB charging/sync port. It hangs when plugged into a generic charger. My theory is that the nuvi gets confused for some reason and tries to go into sync mode when it should just charge. I don't know how the nuvi charger or cable is different than a generic USB charger or cable.
So caveat emptor. But I would expect that it usually works across devices.
My brother charged his Blackberry just great using his USB cable and my iPhone prongs-to-USB wall cube.
My iPhone cube overheated when I used it to charge an external battery which wants 2.0 A. Using USB current meter the battery was pulling 1.5 A from the cube which caused it to quickly overheat. iPhone connected to cube pulled 0.7 A.
When the external battery was connected to USB port on an old XP computer it pulled only 0.7 A during initial charging and even dropped to 0.6 A when 75% charged.
It seems that connecting the iPhone cube to a non-Apple source which wants 10 W (2 A) rather than 5 W (1 A) can cause the cube to attempt to deliver too much current and cause it to overheat and fail.
Yes, you can and it is a very good charger. See: http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-apple-is.html and: http://www.righto.com/2012/05/apple-iphone-charger-teardown-quality.html
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There is no doubt that you can't because iPhone charger is not even the same as iPad charger. The full info about this you can read here
Actually, all technicalities, manufacturers systematic operating schedules, and voltage/ amps/mA/ohms or any other current measurement aside...ALL COMPANIES manufacture product specific hardware and accessories ESPECIALLY Apple!! Otherwise what would be the point in manufacturing, buying, or choosing between different brands. In general vocabulary terms, all brands are different and work different. Putting too much or not enough current through any device in any manner is detrimental to that equipment. Broken down even more, YOU WILL BURN UP YOUR DEVICE/ BREAK IT!! They're may be a few cases that it will simply hinder performance, but why risk it?? not to mention, if you can afford Apple products in the first place, why are you cutting corners on cost of regular upkeep accessories ;)


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A pure cubic field is an algebraic number field of the form $K = \mathbb{Q}(\theta)$ with $\theta^3 = m$, $m \neq \pm 1$.
What can be said about the parity (odd or even) of the class number of a pure cubic field? In particular, is there some theorem (or simple algorithm) that tells you when the class number will be odd?
I have found this paper http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~hb3/publ/pcub2.pdf of Lemmermeyer, but it doesn't seem to have what I'm looking for.
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Minnesota Book Award finalist Kirstin Cronn-Mills tells the story of Gabe, who for the last 18 years has been a girl named Elizabeth. Gabe has a job as a radio DJ and has plans to move up to Minneapolis after graduation. He also has a crush on his best friend, Paige, and hopes she will fall in love with him. While Gabe has high hopes for his future, he is learning to become a guy so he can leave the vestiges of Elizabeth behind. However, during his journey, he gets outed as transgender, threatened, and forced to protect himself against brutality. Chapters have fun titles, comparing big names to Elvis Presley ("Adam Lambert is the new Elvis but with eyeliner," "Katy Perry is the new Elvis because she likes kissing girls, too"), which is an entertaining addition to the book. A definite must-read for trans and genderqueer folks, especially teens going through similar issues as Gabe.
Now available in paperback, this acclaimed best seller illustrates the brutal love that connects a family that encompasses a white mother, a Puerto Rican father, and three brothers. Gay author Justin Torres, who had a difficult childhood, takes elements from his own life and portrays them in his novel. From the intense unity of the narrator's family to the escalating feelings of estrangement, this is a powerful story about a child's transition into an adult. This beautifully written novel will enchant a wide range of readers.
In this debut novel, author Marisa Calin tells a different story of first love in the form of a screenplay. Phyre as "ME" is a girl who starts to develop feelings for her new drama teacher, a woman named Mia. Phyre's best friend, addressed as "YOU," is always by her side although we are never clear if "YOU" is a male or female. As Mia is oblivious to Phyre's feelings, Phyre cannot comprehend the depth of her best friend's feelings. But while Phyre tries to get close to Mia, her relationship with her best friend starts to grow apart. This dynamic story about unrequited love, relationships and the complications they bring is an easy and fun read for young adults.
Vertigo by Kristina Dunker (AmazonCrossing, $14.95)
Sixteen-year-old Eva is in love. She has plans for a romantic getaway to a country house with her boyfriend, Julian. But her plans change drastically when her train is delayed and she is unable to pick up Julian. She is stranded alone late at night and witnesses a group of teenagers beating a young boy. Eva flees the scene unnoticed but ends up losing her diary, an extremely personal book of her deepest, darkest secrets that includes her visits to a psychotherapist. During her journey she meets a stranger who seems to know too much about her, which has her questioning if he is who she believes he is. This captivating new novel perfectly captures the intense range of emotions of adolescents.
Danny's Mom by Elaine Wolf (Arcade Publishing, $24.95)
Anguished mother Beth Maller has recently returned to her job as a high school guidance counselor following the loss of her teenage son Danny in a car accident. She blames her husband for his death, for he insisted the roads were safe that snowy night, when Beth strongly disagreed. She also blames herself for avoiding confrontation with her husband. This incident causes Beth to become a leader at Meadow Brook High, where she learns to speak out and fight against homophobia, bullying, and negligent administrators, risking her personal and professional life. Danny's Mom is an eye-opening novel about what really goes on in schools and with the people in charge. This is an excellent and essential read for mothers, adults who work in schools, and the LGBTQ community.
This is the first book in a planned series from debut author Steven Dos Santos, in which five teens over the age of 16 must viciously compete to become an agent of the Establishment, a totalitarian government that rules the futuristic world. In order for competitors to successfully participate and succeed, their family members are held as captives and killed if they should fail. Main character Lucian "Lucky" Sparks is betrayed by a close friend and becomes one of the five recruits for the Establishment, making his 4-year-old brother, Cole, the chosen family member to be killed. While Lucian fights to survive and forms edgy alliances with other recruits, he finds himself irresistably attracted to rebellious recruit Digory Tycho. But in the end, only one of them will survive, and Lucky will do whatever it takes to keep his brother and himself alive. This is an exciting read for all you adventure-seekers. It's like the Hunger Games, except with gay characters.
If you've always felt a deep connection with animals, this book is for you. Author Eliot Schrefer writes a story based on his experience at a bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he conducted extensive research on bonobos and their culture. This novel is about 15-year-old Sophie, who follows her mother to a bonobo sanctuary. Sophie is not excited to be there, since this is her mother's passion and not her own. She then meets Otto, an infant bonobo, and for the first time in her life feels a special connection with an animal. As things progress between Sophie and Otto, a revolution breaks out and their sanctuary is attacked. They must escape to the jungle and struggle to survive.
This original graphic novel is set at the end of the 19th century, during a time when inventors were recognized as wizards and corporations deemed their kingdoms. In this world is a group of gentlemen we know to be legendary: Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, J.P. Morgan, Guglielmo Marconi, Mark Twain, Lord Kelvin, Swami Vivekananda and others. There is a storm approaching, and at the eye of it stands inventor Nikola Tesla, who uses a mixture of magic and science. His ideas and inventions are so dynamic that he creates a second industrial revolution, bringing the forces of nature to humanity, which starts the secret war that will determine its future. Great graphics and perfect for comic book lovers.
I Heard the Pastor's Daughter Is Gay by Luana Reach Torres (Regal Crest, $15.95)
Ever wonder what it's like to be a gay Christian? If you already know, then this book will hit home for you. I Heard the Pastor's Daughter Is Gay tells the story of Katie North, a pastor's daughter and perfect high school student. Her whole world changes when she falls in love for the first time with Jay Miller, a girl. Because Katie has been brought up with conservative Christian beliefs, her feelings for Jay are confusing. However, she still decides to explore these new feelings. This book will take you on an adventure of self-recognition and acceptance.
Jeremy always thought he was an average gay kid from New York, caught between the worlds of adolescence and adulthood. One day he becomes the victim of a horrible act of homophobia. Luckily, he gets the help of Garth, a gargoyle who is trapped in stone and condemned to an immortal life. This is the magical story of human and monster coming together as friends to deal with the events of the past head on. This is sure to appeal to the young generation of fantasy lovers.


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How can I tell if my Debian system is keeping the system time accurate by getting NTP updates? Basically I want to turn this on if it is currently off, but I don't know if it is on or off.
and checking that the output contains something like
will confirm that ntpd is running. If it's not running then you can start it with
If you get an error message
Once you have ntpd running you can talk to it with the ntpq command.
Which shows (offset) that my system is <1 second out of sync - I can live with that.
If you have peer statistics enabled in your
To see what the values are use
If you run Munin to monitor your system it can track you ntp statistcs for you. I believe the offset it records is the value relative to the currently synchronization source. That is the one on the line starting with an asterisk (*) in the
ntp_offset.delay.warning 40 ntp_offset.offset.warning -15:15
A cheap and dirty way to check the local clock vs another machine is this shell command sequence:
"somehost" has to run the RFC 867 "daytime" protocol, and that's not so common anymore. inetd can provide "daytime" by itself, and some hosts still have "daytime" enabled.
You can at get an independent check on the local clock, no use of NTP necessary.


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After a run (cross country, mixed terrain, ~4 miles) I sometimes get knee pain. The pain is located beneath the knee cap. It goes away after a while, but sometimes resurfaces if I'm walking. I've tried wearing a tubigrip around the joint when running, but it doesn't seem to help. Is this serious?
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Pain beneath the knee cap can have many causes. Most often, it's caused by your biomechanics being a bit off so your knee cap is tracking badly as your leg moves.
It can also be referred pain from some other problem in the area. (Referred pain: the nerves are shared so pain in one spot can feel like it's coming from somewhere else).
My advice is to see a physiotherapist and ask their opinion. I would expect some strengthening exercises, some co-ordination excercises and possibly some stretching.
From my own experience, I used to do trail running, and I tended to have knee pain after the 10k mark (6.2mi). My (partial) solution was to exercise the quadriceps in static weight machines before training on the treadmill or outdoors. This approach significantly reduced my knee pain (and calf pain) after training or after a race. I think that the impact is transferred more to the muscle than to the knee. Anyway, I recommend you see a physical therapist.
Knee and hip conditions are one of the main reasons why people turn to minimalist footwear. The theory there is that if you are wearing a normal shoe with a reasonable amount of padding and sole thickness than the cushioning and changed elevation causes you to strike with your heel transferring a lot of force to your knees and hips that eventually becomes painful and damaging.
Minimalist footwear helps with this problem by allowing you to adopt a fore-foot strike that uses the natural design of your foot and leg to absorb a lesser-impact more effectively.
Of course it could be other things. Maybe you just need to strengthen the knee?
You should also note that transitioning to minimalist footwear takes a while and you have to ease into it slowly. People can injure themselves doing it because you begin to need to develop all kinds of little muscles in the foot as well as your calves, the effort of which an ordinary shoe would mitigate. So when you suddenly start to need them, they don't have the strength or endurance to take on that work—at first.
A couple of possibilities from my own experience:
If it still doesn't get better, there's always the flat bouncy treadmill.


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How do you tell a friend they might be getting scammed?
friends of mine recently posted a picture on facebook. it was a picture of their son in a book put out by the United States Acheivement Academy. basically, it seems like a re-vamp of the Who's Who books back from my high school days (the book seems to contain a pic and bio of all the people who pay to be in the book). i looked at their website and they seem legit, but something about this just screams scam (link)
to be fair, it does look like they do give some scholarships, but the amounts don't seem to be all that much (http://www.fcasd.edu/pages/Fox_Chapel_Area_SD/News/Student_Wins_US_Achievement_Ac)
the problem is, my friends are so proud of their son being in this book. i'm afraid they'll order multiple copies and spend even more money. so, do i tell them they are possibly being scammed? or just let it go?
or, if anyone had first hand knowledge, is this a reputable organization? i just hate seeing friends get ripped off.
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It depends on how you define "scam". I've seen these books and my children have brought home paperwork to order the books but I don't think any parent is going to believe that having their child in this book is going to help them achieve future success. It's a vanity book.
If the book publishers are claiming that inclusion in the book will bring you fame and fortune, etc. that would be a scam. But if they're just trying to sell you a book then it's no different then spending money on any other book.
Did they get the book they paid for? I would assume they did, hence the picture. If so, they have not been scammed.
Were they under the belief that this means jack squat? If so, then they have been scammed.
It would seem that it is too late now. But you could link to information about those types of schemes.
Show them this? http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?s=4411a5019c8b2de09de3ed19f4bf9733&p=7998127&postcount=9
Doesn't seem like they've done a whole lot since the mid 80s other than print books. While they state they give away scholarships up to $15,000.00, it's extremely hard to find out just how much (or little) the individual scholarship awards actually were.
You can also tell them if they have indeed bought into this "achievement," they should expect their mailbox soon to be stuffed full of crap solicitations from similar outfits as well as every bit of marketing aimed at their kids. Snail mail solicitations can be tossed into the trash, but getting of the telemarketing lists is gonna be a royal PITA.
let them enjoy their ignorance. They probably don't have much going for themselves anyway.
their domain name is usaa-academy.com. united states achievement academy academy dot com is recognizing their kid for academic excellence. meh
the hack photoshop job of their building front is enough in and of itself to convince me to never pony up coin for this:
i'm just not seein' that in their google streetview:
even if you don't tell your friends, at least you know who to go to when you have a trunkload of acai juice or ACN telephones to get rid of!
Like this: "Uh... dude, you're getting scammed."
Haha, I checked pinchecat's streetview. I'd say the building is definitely there. The Top corner of the building is visible and looks similar, but holy man, look at that shrubbery! They need to save some of that scholarship money and invest in a grounds keeper.
On http://www.usaa-academy.com/uhbookpreview.html
it says "The USAA Yearbook is acclaimed by featured honorees as one of the highest honors they could ever hope to achieve."
If so, I feel pretty sorry for those "honorees"
Heh. Anna Wang
Why do you think this might be a scam?
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Ask him for 20 bucks because you need to help pay for you grandma's surgery......
@carl669: Don't have an answer for your question. Probably would say "Let It Be." Knew someone many years ago who 'bought' into that w/'The Best Upcoming Business Owners, blah, blah' (I made the name up, but it's a true story.) You pay, in essence, to get your name in the book. Who cares, really?
Did want to ask you how baby carl669 is doing. Hope all's well w/you and yours.
I think I'm actually in one of these books... basically it's not really a scam, but it's also not a prestigious award or rigorous process to get listed. Pretty much it's a sole teacher's recognition printed on paper.
Here's what happens... teacher goes on there submits name of students she wants to recognize for outstanding work in her class / subject, etc.
Then they just send the students (usually through the teacher) a letter congratulating them for their hard work and ask if they would like to have their name published in the yearly national publication of all students "honored" you can chose to not be listed, to be listed, or to be listed with a picture and short bio (for a fee), and also if you want to purchase the book as well.
That's really it... it's like an expensive "good work certificate" the book is like $50 something if I remember. Not worth it in my opinion. I never bought one. It was just something extra to put in the resume when I was applying to college... lol
Seems semi-legit. From what I understand from what @lavikinga posted, this may be more of a business than a non-profit organization.
There are two ways they make money off of you.
1) You get nominated.
2) They'll publish whatever you write on their book.
3) You "voluntarily" buy the book for whatever the price is.
4) The money goes towards the scholarships in which you have to pay a $6 fee to apply (say whut?).
4a) They also have a "store" in which you can buy membership cards and certificates which would supposedly look good on your job application or school. Who knows, it might just work.
5) Let's say you get accepted, they'll probably most likely keep an unknown share of the sums of all sales in their pockets.
That's just my hunch of what does place does.
I wouldn't mind using a google maps image of my business, as long as it doesn't look to bad. But why not use your own camera or something.
Plus I would've used a .org domain for being an "official whatever" rather than a .com.
It's a vanity publication. All it takes to get in it is for you to pay money. They make it seem like an honor that's been bestowed upon you, because that's what will get you to pay them for the book. Nobody ever sees the book except for the people gullible enough to pay for a copy with their info in it.
As to whether you should tell them...no. Sounds like they are ecstatic that their son is in the book, and you telling them the truth would just ruin their fantasy. The time to tell them was before they fell for it hook, line and sinker. Seriously, how many more copies of the book can they buy? It's not like they're going to blow the family fortune on copies of the book. Just let them be proud of their son...that's more than worth the small amount of money that they're throwing away.
I don't know about a scam, but I don't like that they used the same name as my awesome bank: www.usaa.com
There's another one that's been spamming me for several years to include me in a who's who in American Non-Profits. Ridiculous
thanks for all the replies folks. i've decided to just let it go for now. it doesn't sound like my friend is going to be ordering multiple books. if they do decide to order multiple books, i'll bring it up then.
@ohcheri: they don't say fame and fortune, but from the research i've done, they seem to tell people their kid is part of an "elite group" for being in this book.
@lavikinga: yeah, i saw that forum as well. the main thing is that they already bought and have the book. so, i'm thinking bringing it up at this point might not be the best idea.
@gmwhit: baby carl669 is doing great! he's still a runt. doc said he's in the 3rd percentile for weight, but she also said preemies can also take 1-1.5 yrs to "catch up". so for now, we're just letting him be his happy, wiggly self.


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- Can I do this safely and economically by myself?
- What skills do I need to build using natural stone?
- What's better about doing it yourself? Why wouldn't I hire a contractor?
- What do I need to know before I start?
You can build your own steps using flagstone, some simple tools and your planning and labour.
While this is not a beginner project, with preparation you can have the satisfaction of doing a great safe job that a contractor would charge thousands of dollars for. Be prepared to invest some time in thinking before you start digging. Here are some of the issues to consider:
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Here is a "before" picture of the slope I had to deal with
I would also like to add that you need to consult your local planning laws.
For our local council they only allow a certain amount of cutting and filling before you need to apply.
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The Awful Truth About Emily Ruth!
Lucas Griffin has come to Port Gamble for one purpose: to get the Griffin family summer home out of the clutches of his evil ex-wife, Emily Ruth Griffin.
But before he can blink twice, she drops dead in the local grocery market. Now he's stuck with her ghost, and her little dog, too.
Not-So-Dearly Departed Lila Abbott has had her fill of rich summer people who crowd Port Gamble every year. Townie girls and summer boys just don't mix, and she's learned that the hard way.
But Lucas Griffin has a ghost problem that only Lila can solve, and she finds herself knee-deep in Cheez Whiz while Lucas and the deceased Emily Ruth duke it out.
Working together to clear his name and get rid of their pesky poltergeist, Lucas and Lila find themselves falling in love. Maybe this will finally be the forever summer for Lila Abbott.
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Dear Readers,
Sometimes when you write a special book, the characters move into your heart and take up residence. This was the case with the cast of Hysterical Blondeness. I enjoyed my time with each and every one of them and I hope you do, too.
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What does Mom really want for Mother's Day? Skip pricey gifts that you buy at the mall, and offer her one of these thoughtful homemade gifts or sweet and simple gestures that kids can get involved in. Even though these ideas cost little to nothing, they're things that Mom will remember and treasure for years to come!
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Some of you may have already noticed: We re-recorded all of our current screencasts for Ulysses, and also did minor updates to a couple of them in the process.
English versions are online *now*, with German and French to follow during the next few weeks. Recordings for these are already done, but we still need to localize the slides and such, so bear with us if you're a native speaker… (we hand picked nice voices for you, too)
Now… originally I had planned to do a serious rant against anonymous forum commenters and the like, who attacked us for having a German accent in our old videos. But there are more important things to write about, and these folks are not worth spending time on anyway.
Just one thing, though: We ship with a dozen or so FULL localizations of Ulysses. We'll be adding Japanese to the mix with 2.1, along with one or two more languages that I can't even remember. We're trying to make sure that native speakers have a fully integrated experience with Ulysses on their system, because we believe that a truly "distraction free writing environment" is impossible to achieve with a language barrier in place.
And these guys bitch about some accent in an explanatory video.
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I know it seems like いいな means "that's good" but in anime like Akagi and Kaiji, the narrator says いな and the subtitles translate it as "that's wrong". Is いな some kind of old phrase for "that's wrong"? What does it mean?
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いな is an archaic form of 'no' (sometimes written with kanji as 否). You can still hear it in modern Japanese in a few phrases, like ~か否か ('whether or not ~').
いいな is, of course, いい+な, i.e. 'that's good'.
Yes, like Sjiveru, I wasn't sure if you meant "良いな" or "否". I believe that "否" is used rather infrequently. Of course, as Sjiveru mentioned, "良いな" means, "that's good." But, of course, it embodies multiple meanings. It can also mean "That's good for you. And I'm envious." This is often used by women in a sort of whiney (and I mean that with all due respect :) voice that ends with falling intonation. It can also be used at the end of an informal meeting (like a high school club meeting) to close the meeting and confirm that all attendees agree on what's been decided in the meaning. It can also be used sarcastically.


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Let us say that a finite set $A$ in the plane is $1$-separated if:
1) it has an even number of points;
2) no open ball of diameter $1$ contains more than $|A|/2$ points.
For a $1$-separated set $A$ define $G(A)$ to be a graph where two points $x,y$ in $A$ are joined by an edge iff the distance between them is at least $1$.
Question: can one find a finite set of graphs $G _ 1,\dots,G _ n$ such that any $1$-separated set $A $ can be partitioned into non-empty $1$-separated sets $A _ 1,\dots,A _ k$ such that $G(A _ i)$ is isomorphic to one of the $G _ j$'s?
Comment: The definition makes sense on the real line (the ball of diameter $1$ is replaced by an interval of length $1$). In that case we can take $n=1$ and $G_1$ to be a graph on two vertices joined by an edge (that is, $G(A)$ contains a matching).


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