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Quesadilla with Spiced Beef and Tomato
Categories: Comfort Foods, Kid-friendly, Party Snacks, Quick to fix
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Quesadillas taste great when they are filled with spiced beef and tomatoes.
Prep Time: 5M
Cooking Time: 20M
Serves: Makes 1
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 41/2oz (125g) lean ground beef
- cayenne pepper, to taste
- small handful of very finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
- 2 flour or corn tortillas
- 1 tomato, diced
- 1/2 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
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- Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a frying pan, then add the beef and season with cayenne. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, stirring, breaking up any large pieces, until the meat is no longer pink. Turn down the heat and moisten with a little hot water. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper. Cook for 5-10 minutes, until the beef is cooked through. Stir in the parsley.
- Heat the remaining oil in a nonstick frying pan, and cook one tortilla for 1 minute or until lightly golden. Spoon the beef mixture over the tortilla, leaving a little border around the edge, then scatter on the tomato and cheese. Top with the other tortilla, pressing it down with the back of a spatula to sandwich the two together. Scoop up the quesadilla with the spatula, carefully turn it over, and cook the other side for another minute or until it is golden. Slice in half or in quarters and serve.
- Scatter some grated cheese, like Gruyère or Emmentaler over the beef mixture.
- If you are only using a couple of tortillas from a package, either wrap the remaining tightly in plastic wrap and keep in the refrigerator, or wrap and freeze for up to 1 month.
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Who started the first official spy agency in the world? By spy agency, I mean a dedicated team under the control of a ruler, who specialize in intelligence gathering and counter espionage. Something similar to the French Secret or the Shinobi or MI6.
An early military writer to discuss the use of spies for military purposes was Sun Tzu in the "Art of War." So it's fair to say that Chinese governments were using spies on an organized basis as early as the 5th to 6th century B.C.
Pre-dating the usage of spies by the Persians is (perhaps unsurprisingly) the Ancient Egyptian use of spies and military intelligence, from at least the New Kingdom period (late 2nd milleniunm B.C.) onwards, but quite possibly even from the Old Kingdom. period (early 3rd millenium B.C.), as suggested by the reference to "early Pharaohs" in the following source.
This source describes the ancient usage of spies by the Egyptians, and lists evidence as hieroglyphs discovered in Egypt.
The same article also mentions employment of spies by in ~500 B.C. by the Ancient Chinese, and by Greek and Roman leaders, all of which post-date the Egyptian use by many centuries. The first paragraph of the article does in fact allude to even earlier spies in written history: "Espionage is one of the oldest, and most well documented, political and military arts. The rise of the great ancient civilizations, beginning 6,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, begat institutions and persons devoted to the security and preservation of their ruling regimes.", though it does not provide any direct evidence.
Darius I "the Great" (549-486 BC), one of the early kings of the ancient Achaemenid (Persian) Empire was well-known for employing many spies (known as the "king's ears") in his service.
This well-documented usage of spies by the early Persian king is at least as early, if not earlier than Sun Tzu's mention of spies in the Chinese histories. I would also consider it quite likely that Darius I inherited this practice from even earlier Persian kings, and perhaps even other cultures he conquered.
From this source on the Acaemenid Empire
I cannot recall the exact verse but in the Bible there are refrences to roman spies, if that helps.
Edit by somebody without a login: Joshua 2:1 explicitly refers to spies
(Source, quote is from King James version)
and Numbers 13 may refer to spies or to scouts:
(Source, quote is from King James version)
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Yes, brain power is eroded via a lack of practice. This occurs through the processes called synaptic pruning and brain plasticity.
I will leave you with a very basic answer as I am unsure of your level of understanding of cognitive processes. First, you must understand neurons. Then, you can begin to understand synaptic pruning and brain plasticity. Finally, here is a link to a bunch more information and brain plasticity exercises.
Not using your brain might well be deleterious, but it's impossible not to use your brain unless you're in a coma or something. There are some cool studies on plasticity (see Shayna's answer above) in amputees, where the parts of the brain that control the amputated limb go unused but are taken up by other functions instead.
However, "perpetual brain exercises" like the brain training games/puzzles you see have shown no efficacy in actually increasing cognitive performance on any task, besides the specific game/puzzle you're playing. Playing a lot of chess does not make your brain any more powerful, it just makes you better at chess. See the following:
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My question was migrated from SO, I linked my SO account to Meta-SO, but I can't edit or mark my question as answered. Is it [closed], and therefore should I just forget about it?
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So the answer is probably forget about it in this case.
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(1) You could trying to sell them on webmaster auction sites, but normally webmasters are not the in market for site templates. Examples of webmaster auction sites would be: forums.digitalpoint.com and marketplace.sitepoint.com
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New studies less firm on calcium for women
In January, the National Institutes of Health reported that women whose bones are found to be normal at 65 can safely wait 15 years before having their next bone density test. Previously, women were urged to get bone density scans every 10 years, beginning when they were 50.
But this spring, the American Academy of Family Physicians listed bone density scans as among five tests performed unnecessarily that may lead to overtreatment among patients.
"Bone density testing has been oversold," Steven Cummings, the study's principal investigator, told The New York Times.
Then, in May, the Food and Drug Administration published a review urging caution on the use of long-term bone-building drugs, known as bisphosophonates. The FDA expressed concern the drugs, sold under the names Fosamax, Boniva, Actonel and Reclast, could eventually, if rarely, lead to weaker bones in women that could result in femur fractures, esophageal cancer and crumbling of the jawbone, called osteonecrosis.
Finally, in June, another government agency recommended that healthy, postmenopausal women should not take low doses of calcium or vitamin D supplements to prevent fractures. Not only did they not prevent bone fractures, reported the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, but the use of such supplements comes with a "small but measurable risk of kidney stones."
The issue of bone density health is critical to the estimated 10 million Americans who have osteoporosis. One in every two women will fracture a bone after age 50, and breaking a hip can make a woman up to four times as likely to die within a year as she would be otherwise.
Osteoporosis, or a low bone mass that makes bones fragile and susceptible to fractures, especially of the hip, spine and wrist, cannot be felt. Nearly 2 million Americans annually break bones because of osteoporosis, according to the National Osteoporosis Foundation.
As baby boomers age, osteoporosis and its medical costs are expected to soar. The National Osteoporosis Foundation reports that in 2005, osteoporosis-related fractures were responsible for an estimated $19 billion. By 2025, experts predict these costs will rise to approximately $25 billion.
So what are women to do? That depends on whom you talk to.
"We are overtreating it," said Dr. Stefanie Durstin, a Torrington obstetrician/gynecologist, about osteoporosis. "There's no money in cures. There's money in treatment. That's what the health care system works with. Patients don't pay for tests and a lot of doctors make money from them, so that's part of the reason a lot of tests are being done."
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, agrees. "We don't really know whether screening is useful; we definitely know it is a big money making opportunity," he said via email. "Osteoporosis is real disease for some women, it's a pseudodisease for many others."
But Dr. Pam Taxel, an endocrinologist who works in the UConn Health Center osteoporosis clinic at the Musculoskeletal Institute, disagrees that osteoporosis is overtreated, noting the prevalence of fractures in postmenopausal women and the resulting health care costs that ensue.
The bigger problem, she says, is that "we are often not identifying patients with osteoporosis. Women around menopause need a bone density examination." She said it was particularly urgent for women in their 40s or 50s who have broken a bone to be screened for osteoporosis.
"An average healthy woman around the time of menopause" needs such screening, she said. "I know that's not an accepted opinion, but women can lose a significant amount of bone at the time of menopause."
As for the use of bisphosphonates, most ob/gyns say the decision to continue use should be based on the individual patient. "The bottom line is that you may decide after five years of bisphosphonates use, to take a year off depending on what your risks are," said Dr. Ian Cohen, a Waterbury ob/gyn, cautioning, "The risk of hip fracture is still many, many times more than the risk of pathologic femur fracture."
"You have to really individualize who you're going to get the scans on and at what age," said S. Mark Albini, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Saint Mary's Hospital.
In terms of calcium supplements, most ob/gyns agreed that women should aim for a calcium intake of 1,000 mg daily in their diet.
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The Auburn University at Montgomery Alumni Association recently awarded its annual Graduate Study Merit Scholarships to six outstanding AUM students. The $1,000 scholarships, funded by alumni memberships, are awarded by the AUM Alumni Board of Directors.
Recipients for 2013 are Stephen Bray, April Delchamps, Christina Ellis Garner, Tarsha Patterson, Ronald Snarr and Emily Witte.
Stephen Bray, who resides in Prattville, is earning his Master of Liberal Arts. He was awarded a Purple Heart and a Combat Action Ribbon while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps prior to earning his B.A. from AUM. He is also a recipient of the Ida Belle Young Graduate Research Assistant Award and works as a tutor in the AUM Learning Center April Delchamps is a resident of Montgomery, and earned a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of South Alabama. A graduate of LAMP High School, she is currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration and works for the City of Montgomery as a senior transportation planner. Christina Ellis Garner of Elmore plans to earn her Master of Liberal Arts in December 2013. As an undergraduate student at AUM, she was a recipient of both the AUM Academic Excellence Scholarship and the Guin A. Nance Endowed Scholarship, graduating with a bachelor's degree in English. She is active on campus as a graduate teaching assistant and has worked in the AUM Learning Center.
Mississippi native Tarsha Patterson earned a bachelor's degree in management and psychology from Jackson State University and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in clinical psychology at AUM. She works as a graduate teaching assistant and as the supervising graduate student coordinator of the Social Development Lab. Ronald Snarr, a native of Boothwyn, Penn., earned a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University in health policy and administration. He is pursuing a Master of Exercise Science and is a recipient of the Catherine Lowder Scholarship. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and a certified personal trainer. He works as a graduate research assistant in the AUM Human Performance Laboratory. Emily Witte is a native of Orleans, Neb., and earned her bachelor's degree in applied human and sport physiology from Wayne State College. She is pursuing a master's degree in secondary education at AUM. She works as a graduate research assistant in the AUM Human Performance Laboratory and volunteers in the Montgomery community.
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Election Results: LGBT Races to Watch
President Barack Obama
RESULTS: Reelected
President Obama's win over Mitt Romney on Tuesday might have changed the political calculus on LGBT rights forever. When the president announced his support for marriage equality during an interview with ABC News in May, pundits rattled off a list of reasons it could cost him reelection. They worried it would hurt Obama with voters in the conservative South, including in swing states such as Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. They sounded the alarm that it could hurt him with minority voters.
"While some pundits predicted the president's support for marriage equality would hinder his campaign, we know the opposite is true," said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign. "His reelection after expressing support for marriage equality is further proof that the momentum is on the side of marriage for all families."
Griffin called Obama "the most pro-equality president ever" and "our Ally-in-Chief." His comments are further evidence that there is little political space between Obama and LGBT voters. So a win for him is being counted as a win for equality too. (Read More About The Race)
Tammy Baldwin — U.S. Senate (Wisconsin)
RESULTS: Baldwin Wins
Tammy Baldwin — who in 1998 became the first woman in Wisconsin's history to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first openly gay nonincumbent elected to Congress in American history — won her bid for the Senate Tuesday night. (Read More About the Race)
Jared Polis — U.S. House (Colorado 2)
RESULTS: Polis Wins
On Tuesday, out father Jared Polis handily won reelection to a third term in the U.S. House of Representatives, securing 55% of the vote in Colorado's second congressional district. His antigay opponent, Republican state senator Ken Lundberg, garnered just 40% of the vote, according to CNN.
The 37-year-old gay father told The Denver Post that he is ready to get back to work in Washington, D.C. "I look forward to rolling up my sleeves and working to get this country moving forward," Polis told the Post. (Read More About The Race)
David Cicilline — U.S. House (Rhode Island 1)
RESULTS: Cicilline Wins
Democrat David Cicilline won reelection in Rhode Island's first congressional district after a vicious race with challenger Brendan Doherty.
Cicilline, a former mayor of Providence, became the nation's fourth openly LGBT member of Congress when elected two years ago. He will now serve Rhode Island in the House of Representatives until at least early 2015.
"We're thrilled that David will return to Capitol Hill, where his voice will be vital in a growing caucus of openly LGBT lawmakers," said Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Victory Fund, which helped Cicilline's campaign, in a statement.
The 51-year-old was embroiled in a fiercely competitive contest to retain his seat against Doherty, the former head of the state police. (Read More About This Race)
Sean Patrick Maloney — U.S. House (New York 18)
RESULTS: Maloney Wins
Mark Pocan — U.S. House (Wisconsin)
RESULTS: Pocan Wins
Wisconsin's second congressional district has just elected its second openly gay representative, a first in the nation.
Democrat Mark Pocan won, succeeding Tammy Baldwin, who herself made history in 1998 as the first out lesbian and first openly gay nonincumbent elected to Congress. (Before that, all openly gay U.S. House members, such as Barney Frank, had come out while already in office.) Baldwin, also a Democrat, was elected as the first openly gay member of the U.S. Senate tonight.
Pocan's victory over Republican Chad Lee in the second district was largely expected. The reason for the district's LGBT-friendliness and liberalism in general can be summed up largely in one word: Madison. The biggest city in the district, it is the state capital and home to the University of Wisconsin's main campus. University towns are usually liberal, but Madison is intensely so. It was a center of student activism during the Vietnam War era, and one of those activists, Paul Soglin, has gone on to be elected mayor of the city seven times, most recently in 2011. Another carry-over from that era is Madison's annual marijuana festival, held since 1971, which mixes entertainment with demonstrations calling for legalization of the drug. (Read More About The Race)
Kyrsten Sinema — U.S. House (Arizona 9)
RESULTS: Sinema Wins
UPDATED, Nov. 12, 3:12 p.m. Eastern - Kyrsten Sinema has officially been elected as the nation's first openly bisexual congresswoman, the Associated Press reports. The race to represent Arizona's ninth district was too close to call until Monday morning, when the AP announced that Sinema's lead had risen to more than 6,000 votes — a margin too large for her opponent, Vernon Parker, to overcome.
The Victory Fund, which funds and trains LGBT political candidates, backed Sinema's campaign. "We're thrilled for Kyrsten," Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Victory Fund, said in a statement. "She's a dynamic leader and she'll be a strong voice for her community and for all LGBT Americans."
Sinema announced Sunday that she had gained votes against Parker.
"On Sunday, after additional votes were tallied by the Maricopa County Recorder's Office, Sinema increased her lead by an additional 1,079 votes. Sunday's total brings Sinema's lead to 5,789 over Parker, or 2.8%. We look forward to the remaining votes being counted and Kyrsten Sinema being sworn into Congress next year."
Kyrsten Sinema is nontheist and openly bisexual. Despite being an improbable Arizona candidate, she's risen through the ranks in the state legislature and is now poised to become a congresswoman in an historic election. She said the vote count has her "optimistic" on the possibility that she has won. (Read More About The Race)
Mark Takano — U.S. House (California 41)
RESULTS: Takano Wins
The Riverside, Calif., educator and GSA adviser Mark Takano won his race against Republican opponent John Tavaglione for the newly created 41st congressional district. Takano becomes the first openly LGBT person of color in Congress. (Read More About The Race)
Richard Tisei — U.S. House (Massachusetts 6)
RESULTS: Tisei Defeated
After a tight, contentious race, Democratic incumbent John Tierney defeated gay Republican Richard Tiesi in the battle to represent Massachusetts's sixth congressional district. Tisei lost with 47% of the vote, while Tierney scraped by with 48%. The race was one of the country's most expensive congressional races, as well as one of the nastiest, according to Politico.
Tisei's win would have made him the first openly gay nonincumbent Republican to win election. A supporter told The Boston Globe, "If this state won't elect a Republican like Richard Tisei, it will never elect a Republican." In his acceptance speech Tuesday evening, Tierney said, "In the end this was not about our family and it wasn't about his family. It was about your families. You owned this. This is your victory." (Read More About The Race)
Marriage Equality (Referendum 74) in Washington State
RESULTS: Referendum 74 Approved
Washington voters completed a clean sweep for marriage, joining Maine, Maryland, and Minnesota voters on Election Day in siding with LGBT rights. Because Washington votes entirely by mail-in ballot, the tally was slow in coming.
Votes were still being counted on Wednesday, but the Human Rights Campaign and others soon claimed a win. "This victory rounds out a landslide sweep of all four marriage ballot measures this November," said HRC president Chad Griffin. "This win is a sure sign that momentum is on our side, and with the growing majority of Americans supporting marriage equality, more states will soon join Washington in protecting all families."
Griffin praised Gov. Christine Gregoire for her leadership in passing the bill that voters were then tasked with approving. "This win would not have been possible without Governor Gregoire's steadfast commitment and the leadership of the business community in the state, putting themselves squarely on the right side of history," Griffin said. (Read More About The Race)
Marriage Equality (Amendment 1) in Minnesota
RESULTS: Amendment 1 Defeated
Minnesotans rejected the constitutional amendment that would have banned same-sex couples from marrying, it was confirmed early Wednesday morning.
Upon learning that Amendment 1 was voted down, Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin said the results were a "prime example that we are experiencing a sea change in how Americans view their LGBT neighbors. With 30 states having voted to write discrimination into their constitutions, Minnesotans stood up and said, 'not us,' and more are sure to follow their lead. No amount of lies and deception funded by deep-pocketed donors could convince Minnesotans that loving and committed couples should be excluded from marriage."
Buzzfeed reports a statement from Thalia Zepatos of Freedom to Marry and Minnesotans United for all Families adviser: "Today Minnesotans affirmed that marriage matters for their gay and lesbian neighbors and friends, as for all of us, and refused to slam the door on marriage in the state constitution. Now loving and committed couples in Minnesota will be able to work to achieve their dream of crossing the threshold, respected equally under the law."
Minnesota was the only state deciding whether to ban marriage equality via its state constitution. It's been banned by law for years, but this vote made Minnesota the first state where voters rejected a constitutional ban, except for Arizona, which defeated one in 2006 (it would have banned domestic partnerships and civil unions too) only to accept one in 2008. (Read More About The Race)
Marriage Equality (Question 6) in Maryland
RESULTS: Question 6 Approved
Maryland voters made history on Tuesday by making the state one of the first in the nation's history to affirm marriage equality at the ballot box. Throughout the evening's election returns, Maryland's Question 6 maintained a strong lead, and the final tally saw Marylanders uphold the state's marriage equality law. (Read More About The Race)
Marriage Equality (Question 1) in Maine
RESULTS: Question 1 Approved
Maine voters made history by affirming same-sex marriage. The state reversed a 2009 ban on marriage equality by approving Question 1 on Tuesday. This will forever change the discussion on marriage equality and the public's response to it. (Read More About The Race)
Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins
RESULTS: Wiggins Retained
An Iowa judge who voted to establish marriage equality gets to keep his position on the bench. From HRC: "It appears that Iowans have made a strong statement for judicial independence and refused to let politics get in the way of judges doing their duty to uphold the law. Antigay groups trying to exact political retribution on judges should learn their lesson. Marriage equality remains the law of the land in Iowa and judges like Justice Wiggins will continue to do their jobs." (Read More About The Race)
Above: Sims, Dietz, and McEntee
Brian Sims—Pennsylvania House of Representatives - RESULTS: Sims Wins
Running uncontested, Brian Sims was elected to Pennsylvania's House of Representatives on Tuesday — making him the state's first openly gay legislator. Sims, 33, will represent the 182nd district in Harrisburg. The son of two retired Army lieutenant colonels, Sims is an attorney widely credited with turning around Equality Pennsylvania, a once-floundering LGBT group that has since pushed successfully for municipal LGBT protections around the state.
Christopher Dietz—Pennsylvania House of Representatives - RESULTS: Dietz Defeated
With all of the precincts reporting, Christopher Dietz lost his race with 45% of the vote. Republican incumbent Susan Helm won by 2,700 votes, with 55% of voters supporting her in Republican-leaning central Pennsylvania. Dietz was engaged in a heated race against Helm, whose campaign staff and supporters sent out vicious mailers slamming him.
Kelly Jean McEntee—Pennsylvania House of Representatives - RESULTS: McEntee Defeated
With all of the precincts reporting, Kelly McEntee lost her race with 35% of the vote. The 24-year Republican incumbent Ron Marsico won by about 10,000 votes, with 65% of the total. McEntee, an engineer, was actively campaigning against Marsico, with efforts including a seven-mile walk from Marsico's house to the capitol building to protest the fact that he was reimbursed for more than $7,000 in travel and meal expenses. Still, Harrisburg's Patriot-News endorsed Marsico, partly because of his seniority on the House Judiciary Committee.
Simone Bell — Georgia House of Representatives
RESULTS: Bell Wins
Simone Bell won her district with 87% of the vote, and all precincts but one reporting. In 2009, Bell, a Democrat, became the first African-American lesbian to serve in any state legislature, but now she faced a challenge from Republican Earl Cooper after the state redrew the district.
"The map itself is a challenge," she said in July. "There's a huge difference in economic, racial, and educational status."
While there were five openly gay candidates seeking state-level office, Georgia Equality's Cathy Woolard warns that the state legislature could emerge with a Republican supermajority, which could further impede progress on LGBT rights legislation.
Democrat Pat Steadman (Incumbent)—Colorado state senate
Republican Michael Carr—Colorado state senate
RESULTS: Votes Being Counted
City Council member Carl DeMaio conceded the election to his Democratic challenger Bob Filner in the race to become the next mayor of San Diego. DeMaio was in the running to become the first gay Republican mayor of a major city but was defeated with 48.5% of the vote.
DeMaio will also leave the City Council next month after one term in office, but he said he is confident the city will become a "great city" no matter what political party is at the helm.
"There is no Republican or Democrat way to do that, there is no gay or straight way to do that," DeMaio said Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Filner will follow pro-gay Republican Jerry Sanders, who was termed out of office. Sanders endorsed DeMaio but said Wednesday that he hopes Filner will continue the city' progress. DeMaio was also endorsed by The San Diego Union-Tribune, which is owned by Doug Manchester, a supporter of Proposition 8.
According to the San Diego Gay and Lesbian News, which is owned by DeMaio's partner, Jonathan Hale, Filner reportedly made a point to mention the fact that DeMaio was in a relationship with another man. During the media conference on Wednesday morning, a reporter asked the candidate why he had not appeared frequently with Hale on the campaign trail, unlike that morning, when Hale was by his side.
"I think you've missed a lot," DeMaio countered. "Jonathan and I have been together in my district and throughout the city for three years now."
While San Diego is one of California's more conservative cities, its exiting mayor, Jerry Sanders, is a Republican who has also been a vocal advocate for marriage equality, winning him support from LGBT residents. In the race to succeed him, the gay Republican DeMaio might have receives less support from LGBT voters who have backed Sanders, as many of them prefer his Democratic opponent, Bob Filner. DeMaio was not the Log Cabin Republicans' first choice for the mayoralty, and the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund did not endorse him. While Sanders played a prominent role in the campaign against Proposition 8 in 2008, DeMaio stayed quiet on the issue during his City Council race, the The New York Times notes. Still, DeMaio is running with the full support of the city's Republican Party, and his opponent says DeMaio is "beholden to these antigay financial interests."
Susan Wilson — North Carolina State House, District 115
RESULTS: Wilson Defeated
Last week, Asheville, N.C., state House challenger Susan Wilson was called "an ugly old dyke" on Twitter. This tweet wasn't from just any random person with an iPhone and a Twitter handle — it was from Michael F. Muller, a Republican operative who once managed a separate political campaign for Wilson's opponent, Nathan Ramsey. Unfortunately for Wilson, she was defeated on Tuesday. With all 32 precincts reporting, Ramsey had 54.5% of the vote.
Josh Boschee — North Dakota House of Representatives, District 44
RESULTS: Boschee Wins
Joshua Boschee was chosen to be North Dakota's first openly gay member of the state legislature. Boschee ran against two Republican incumbents, Blair Thoreson and Don Clark, as well as three other challengers to win 26.13% of the vote. The difference, according to the Valley News, was only 38 votes.
Boschee becomes one of the youngest state legislators anywhere. He did that despite being attacked in Internet ads declaring that he is promoting a "gay agenda." Boschee said that his campaign was not solely about him being a gay man, and his opponents have also condemned the ads. Fargo TV station WDAY reports that the ads originated with a right-wing group called Public Advocate, headed by a Virginia elected official, Eugene Delgaudio. Delgaudio is being investigated by the FBI over allegations that he used public employees to raise funds for his political campaigns.
Kate Brown — Oregon Secretary of State
RESULTS: Brown Wins
Marie Mayor — Delaware House
RESULTS: Mayor Defeated
Marie Mayor was vying to become the first out state legislator in Delaware. But she was defeated by Republican Stephen Smyk, who took 53% of the vote.
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Tim Brown — Ohio House of Representatives
RESULTS: Brown Wins
Brown became the only openly LGBT Republican state lawmaker in the United States, winning 51% of the vote.
Stephen Skinner — West Virginia House of Representatives
RESULTS: Skinner Wins
Skinner becomes the first openly LGBT state lawmaker in West Virginia.
Andy Staton — Delaware Senate
RESULTS: Staton Defeated
Staton was vying to become the first out state legislator in Delaware.
Justin Chenette — Maine
RESULTS: Chenette Wins
The Victory Fund reports that Maine candidate Justin Chenette becomes the youngest openly gay state legislator in the country at age 21.
Stacie Laughton — New Hampshire House of Representatives
RESULT: Laughton Wins
In another of many history-making victories in Tuesday's election, New Hampshire has voted in its first openly transgender legislator.
Stacie Laughton, a Democrat from Nashua, won a seat in the state House of Representatives, defeating two Republican opponents, that city's Telegraph newspaper reports.
"I believe that at this point, the LGBT community will hopefully be inspired," Laughton told the Telegraph. "My hope is that now maybe we'll see more people in the community running, maybe for alderman. Maybe in the next election, we'll have a senator."
Laughton said she plans to work on a variety of issues in the legislature. She will back measures making it easier for transgender people to change their gender on state-issued IDs and to use the restroom of their choice, but she will also be an advocate for the homeless and people with disabilities, the Telegraph notes. Strengthening public schools is another of her priorities.


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WASHINGTON — Yet another reason to revere Calvin Coolidge is that he thought the Chicago Bears were a circus act. In the 1920s, professional football was small beer compared with the already big business of college football. Which today prospers partly by selling beer: Watch the commercials that pay for the television contracts that recently have disordered many college football conferences and nullified what were solemnly called "traditional rivalries."
On the eve of the national championship game between Notre Dame and Alabama, which probably will have two-thirds as many viewers as will President Obama's inauguration, consider some curiosities of the sports-academia complex. According to Eric M. Leifer in "Making the Majors: The Transformation of Team Sports in America" (Harvard University Press, 1995), in the 1920s, the professional football Maroons of Pottsville, Pa., (population 23,000) drew such large crowds that the New York Giants chose to play them there rather than in Gotham. By the 1890s, Yale's football receipts "accounted for one-eighth of the institution's total income, an amount greater than its expenditures on law and medicine."
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ID Cards & Bear Bucks
The PolarExpress Card
The PolarExpress card is the permanent University Identification card for students, staff, and faculty of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This card includes your name, photograph, UA identification number, and library number. A central database contains the information needed to identify the buildings and rooms you may access, meal plan type, some account balances, library check-outs, computer lab access, and other activities. This information is electronically stored on the magnetic strip of the PolarExpress card.
The account balances on the card refer to monetary funds which may be added to the card for making copies, printing documents, purchasing food on campus inn dining facilities and vending machines. These declining balance funds are called Bear Bucks. Every PolarExpress card includes a Bear Bucks account so you can decide if you want to use that feature or not. Many meal plans include Munch Money, which may be used for food purchases.
All currently registered students and continuing employees should come in to our office located in Signers' Hall to obtain a PolarExpress card. Our office hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. We are closed 8 a.m to 10 a.m on Wednesday due to a staff meeting. To get your first PolarExpress card, come in to our office, fill out an application, bring in a government issued photo ID (driver's license, military ID, or passport,) we will make you a card for free!
The PolarExpress card is a permanent card, valid for two years after the holder's last affiliation with the University. All privileges expire upon departure from the University, with the exceptions of your Bear Bucks and Munch Money accounts. Holders who return to the University system within two years and no longer have their PolarExpress Card must purchase a replacement card.
Notify the PolarExpress office immediately if you lose your card, 474-7384 and select menu option #1. If you call after business hours, the card will be deactivated the following business day. Alternatively, you may deactivate your card immediately on Blackboard eAccounts. In all cases, your card will be deactivated, until you stop by our office to get a replacement or if you find your card, reactivate it on Blackboard eAccounts or bring it to the Bursar's Office to have it reinstated. We cannot reinstate ID cards over the phone.
Come by our office to replace a damaged, lost or stolen card. You will be charged $10 for a replacement. If you are replacing the card due to a name change, be sure to notify the UAF Office of the Registrar of your name change. We cannot print out a card with your new name until the change has been made in the Banner database.
Never surrender your PolarExpress card to anyone as a deposit or collateral for any reason. However, your PolarExpress card remains the property of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and must be presented or surrendered upon demand by any authorized personnel.
The UAF Courtesy Card
Our Courtesy Card is for use by individuals who do not have a direct affiliation with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who want access to library privileges or use of a Bear Bucks account.
Much like the PolarExpress card, a Courtesy Card includes a photo of the card holder, an ID and library card number. The cost for a Courtesy Card is $10.00, and is valid for one year from the date of purchase. For any additional accesses or privileges to be added to the card (as an example access to the Student Recreation Center) a written request from the department authorizing the access is necessary prior to adding to the card.
To obtain a Courtesy Card, come in to our office in Signers' Hall. Our office hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. We are closed 8 a.m to 10 a.m on Wednesday due to a staff meeting. To obtain your first courtesy Card card, come in to our office, fill out an application, bring in your government issued photo ID (driver's license, military ID, or passport,) and $10.00 in cash, check, or credit card. Please note that during peak times of the year, it may take a week or two for the information to be added to our database before our office is able to process a Courtesy Card.
The charge for renewing an expired Courtesy Card is $10.00. Please come by the PolarExpress office to renew your card.
Bear Bucks
The University of Alaska Fairbanks created the Bear Bucks program to be the ultimate compliment to your university experience.
Bear Bucks is an account linked to your PolarExpress card which allows you easy access to spending at a variety of locations on campus. This is a purchased value/declining balance program in which you deposit money into the account to be spent at a future time. You can deposit money into your Bear Bucks at any of the Account Management Centers on campus, at the PolarExpress System POS devices listed below, the UAF Office of the Bursar. We do not process refunds for any balances on your Bear Bucks account.
You can make a deposit in to your Bear Bucks account at the following locations:
AMC Locations
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- Arctic Health Research Building
- Rasmuson Library , next to reserve counter
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In my grammar book (English Grammar, HarperCollins Publishers), I read that none is occasionally treated as plural, but it is usually regarded as singular. Can you give me an example of sentence where none is used as plural pronoun?
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None is commonly used as a plural. You can find many examples in the Corpus of Contemporary American English. For example, I searched for
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This indicates to me that the "usually regarded as singular" traditional rule is in fact about half as common as the "occasionally treated as plural" exception.
None is indeed originally from not one or not a/an (since this happened before one and a/an became separate words, c.f. How French uses un/une for both the number one, and the indefinite article).
At the time that this happened though, it could be declined according to gender, number and case. King Alfred's translation of Boëthius' Consolatio Philosophiae (888CE) uses none not just plural but in a plural form.
So, even in very early use, while its origins may have been from not one, it had a meaning not any, and hence could be plural as well as singular.
It's also worth noting at this point, that no is also derived from not one in many senses (where used as a negative response, it has a different origin; no is a merging of two words), and it's use with both singular and plural use is less controversial (though not without differences of opinion as to just when it should be treated which way).
It would seem that the "logical" argument that none must be singular, because not one/not a/not an is singular is mistaking the word's etymology for the word itself.
Of course, in leaving a defence of none being used in both the singular and the plural at this point, I could be doing the same thing: After all, Old English had different forms, and we do not. Some forms have given us separate words and we now have why as a separate word from what rather than their being the same word with different declensions.
It's perfectly possible therefore, that by Modern English, none had become singular. However, it had not:
So was this a new strictness introduced in the 18th or 19th centuries, when some of the more notorious "rules" in English were introduced? Lindley Murray's English grammar: adapted to the different classes of learners, with an appendix, containing rules and observations for assisting the more advanced students to write with perspicuity and accuracy (1835) argues:
Interestingly, he cites the "not one" argument for singular-only use, and seems to suspect none was once singular-only for this reason, but is quick to reject it. One example quoted is from the KJV as given above, "Lowth's Introduction" mentioned above is Archbishop Lowth's A Short Introduction to English Grammar, so looking at this 19th Century grammarian gives us an 18th Century grammarian for free!
At the same time, it does point to when the edict against plural none may have arisen. We might suspect it came with modern style-guides choices being taken as overall edicts upon the language, but that Murray mentions the "not one" derivation could mean he is taken the effort to debunk advice found anywhere.
Still, with this bringing us close enough to the current age that we can take the very existence of questions like this on websites like this to bring us through to the home stretch, it's safe to conclude:
If nothing else, the form "Almost none…" would seem to forbid the singular, rather than the plural:
I wonder if it is talking about this:
The traditional answer is that 'none' should be construed with a singular verb (the rationalisation I remember being given is that it is a contraction of 'no one').
Ordinary people usually ignore this and construe 'none' with a plural.
So the answer is "plural is more common, but some people will criticise you for using it in formal contexts".
"None" should be plural. If the target of the word "none" was singular, it would be "it", rather than "none".
Wow, all wrong. "None," when used as an indefinite pronoun, can be either plural or singular.
"None are right," and "None is right" are both correct. However, the former is more widely used.


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I am not talking about phones or iPads or other "gadgets". I am talking about applications like kiosk systems (POI - Point of Information/Info Terminals) or HMI (Human Machine Interface). All UI books seem to deal with keyboard and mouse interfaces...
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Designing Gestural Interfaces by Dan Saffer is a nice start with some basics. I've been working on a largescale POI system for a postal company for over a year, and we've also done numerous user/usability tests and it is very different from your regular webapp or site. I think for me there were 3 or 4 major differences:
1) size and spacing (the tip of your finger is a lot bigger than your cursor)
2) blocking the down/right corner view. Most people are right handed and block a big part of the screen with their hand when beginning somewhere in the top left corner, but on a touchscreen app you often want to use all the space you have so that creates a problem for some important functions that get out of sight.
3) Regular scrolling often sucks. Sorry for the language, but the technology used for larger touschscreen displays combined with sweaty hands and dirty screens makes it annoying for people to put their finger on a screen and trying to drag down a scrollbar, so try to avoid that.
4) Contrast/reflection. The screens are often in places with direct sunlight or artificial lights pointed directly at them, so make sure you choose a colorscheme that is still readable in these situtions. We actually tested several color combinations in bad light situations to find out what worked best for most people. Remember with POI's, that some people will have to work with them from 9 - 5 5 days a week...
I looked around a bit and found the following articles/websites. Note that I'm not an expert on the field and do not know if these are valueable.
I'm not sure of any resources about this, but I think you can maybe modify a few best-practices according to what we know about touch screen interfaces.
for example, with a touch screen it's easier to target and click an icon with your finger than it is with a mouse (provided the icon is big enough to fit your finger in). It's also harder to type on a screen than it is with a keyboard. So you should probably prefer a grid of icons possibly under some large tabs over having to type anything in.
As easy as hitting a target with your finger is, using your finger to control a UI is also clumsier once you've got that target. Scrollbars, highlighting text, clicking very small items, etc are examples of this. So some things to keep in mind are that, while your users will be great at directing their finger to a point on the screen, it's difficult to manipulate the things under that finger, especially if they are much smaller than and are completely obscured by it.
I think just thinking about the ways that a touchscreen wins and loses over a mouse and keyboard could help you get pretty close to the mark. Alas, the details of perfecting a touch screen interface are lost on me.
You could always get in touch with some of the vendors that build and create those displays and ask them what resources they might point you to for this. There's a good chance that it will be hard to dig anything out of them, but there's also a good chance that if you dig enough you'll find some very invaluable insights.
A quick Google search turned these guys up: http://www.griffinchaseoliver.com/
You might shoot somebody over there an email, or even call them and just do some "info gathering."
I started asking that question myself about 4 years ago when I started a UX design job for a touchscreen kiosk. I couldn't find anything more than a passing reference in books and sites dedicated to website design. Since then I've interpolated, tested and used plain old commonsense to come up with my own best practices. I started a blog on the subject on my portfolio site. Please take a look and contact me if you have specific questions. Good luck to you!
Blog about touchscreen kiosk design
Update--I reviewed the maguire.pdf linked above. It has some useful information specific to kiosks but only about half of it relates to interface design. The rest is more about location and machine design. I would agree with most of the interface design suggestions but not the use of flags for language selection. I've gone through an internationalization project for a kiosk and believe me that is not a political can of worms you want to open. Stick with buttons that display the language in the native language. The users know what it means.
I highly recommend Brave NUI World: Designing Natural User Interfaces for Touch and Gesture by Daniel Wigdor and Dennis Nixon.
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I think the hardware specification/technology should also be considered when designing UI for touchscreen. Is the touchscreen responsive enough, is it sticky, does it work with gloves, etc.
Also, some technology is inherently not suitable for certain interaction. For instance, a resistive touchscreen registers touch via pressure, which means, it's probably best to avoid any dragging action because it might be hard for user to maintain consistent pressure.
I am curious if anyone knows which technology is the most responsive though. Hardware manufacturer seems to focus mostly on reliability, not so much on performance.
I've been recently involved in a industrial HMI interface that I've created as a proof of concept, and due to the nature of our customer's business, safety is critical. If you're providing a HMI interface to a vending machine, the risk is clearly not as great as you would find when creating HMI for heavy industrial applications, or a chemical/nuclear plant.
From my experience, if you're working on the latter, you will need to perform a detailed risk assessment and analysis of the operators environment and investigate all possible failure avenues.
If it helps, here is a brief overview of some of the key areas we investigated:


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It isn't really causing a problem but it is annoying me... Does anyone know how to refresh the locations for your user config in Visual Studio? When I click synchronize in the Project Properties --> Settings. I get the error message: No user.config files were found in any of the following locations. Those paths no longer exist so I know why the error message is coming up.
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What are the standards methods to test the quality of an encryption algorithms. Secondly if i am trying to implement an encryption algorithm then what practices should i adopt?
Yes, it is called writing research papers and getting them peer reviewed.
There is no reason you should ever write your own encryption algorithm unless you are in the field of academic research, and then you will still not "use" your algorithm for at least 4 years (that's how long it took to choose SHA-3 between the time when the algorithm was submitted to when it it was selected as the official standard) while other people look at it.
You will make mistakes that you will not even know are mistakes (do you know what a timing attack is? does your algorithm protect against it?). If someone with resources ever wanted to attack your algorithm do you think something you came up with could stand up to a team of PhD Crypto Analysts looking at it with a fine tooth comb for a week, a month, a year?
Use a existing library, please don't make your own.
I agree that do not go for a new encryption algorithm if you want to use it for practical purpose. Since you have not mention what type of cipher you are developing i.e stream cipher, block cipher as there are different classes of attacks. For a research prospective there are number of attacks through which you can evaluate the security of your encryption algorithm.
As you see there different variation of attacks which not actually test your algorithms but actually test the its physical implementation i.e. power analysis


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This summer, NYU Information Technology Services (ITS) added NYU Drive as an enhancement to NYU Docs. Now known as "NYU Docs/Drive," you can still create and collaborate using this service in the same way you did before. In fact, organizing your documents is even easier and storage has increased to 5GB.
If you are unfamiliar with this service, NYU Docs/Drive is one of the "Core Apps" of NYU Google Apps for Education. Its primary purpose is to serve as a way to store and share documents with colleagues, students, or yourself (between multiple locations). It is secure enough to be used for private documents, such as tenure committee discussions, personal papers, class notes, and scholarly materials. (Note, however, that there are important restrictions on storing certain types of sensitive data, as described in NYU's Data Classification Table.)
The collaborative features of NYU Docs/Drive make it a great tool for academic, business, and personal use. When you create a document, spreadsheet, or presentation in NYU Docs/Drive, it is saved in "the cloud." This allows you to view and make changes to files simultaneously with up to 50 other individuals in multiple locations, with confidence that changes are continuously saved. Once you share a document, the collaborators can access and edit that document at any time, unless you take their access away.
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With the addition of NYU Drive, the biggest difference that those familiar with NYU Docs will recognize is how documents are organized. The new NYU Docs/Drive interface is now easier to use and more similar to NYU E-mail. You can create folders to organize your documents, add documents to more than one folder, or just file them away in "All Items" (similar to NYU E-mail's "All Mail" folder). When getting started with NYU Docs/Drive, take some time to organize your documents as you would for documents that you store on your computer.
When using NYU Docs/Drive, there is an important distinction to note between files created within the web interface and those you have uploaded from your computer. NYU Docs/Drive has its own web-based document, spreadsheet, and presentation editor. Files created in this way do not count against your 5 GB storage quota. However, NYU Docs/Drive also allows you to upload files from your computer to store and share.
When you upload a file (e.g., a Microsoft Word document) you may be prompted to either convert the file into an NYU Docs/Drive document or upload the file as is. If you upload the file as is through the web interface or the desktop application, those files will count against your 5GB of storage. If you convert the file – for example, an Excel spreadsheet to an NYU Docs/Drive spreadsheet – it will not count toward your 5GB limit. If you upload the file as is, you can convert it to an NYU Docs/Drive document and then delete the original (with no change towards your storage limit).
You can access NYU Docs/Drive via the NYU Google channel in NYUHome (home.nyu.edu), or directly at docs.nyu.edu or drive.nyu.edu. More information about NYU Docs/Drive can be found at www.nyu.edu/its/docs and in the Ask ITS knowledgebase, including best practices, common issues, setup instructions, and training opportunities.
Devin Nix is an ITS Academic Technology Specialist and Service Lead for the NYU Google Apps support team.
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Can I purchase a Major Improvement card that is underneath another Major Improvement without first having to buy the top improvement?
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No, you have to buy the Major improvement that is above first. This isn't explicitly defined, but it is implied on p.2 of the rules:
There are also Minor Improvements which change the order of the stacking, again implying that the order is significant. For example, the Pastoral Letter (p.30):
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Are there any color scheme generators that can simulate color blindness and export these results to a color palette file or generate a css stylesheet ? I've used Gpick and was recently introduced to this website but I'm really after a desktop application (for when I'm not connected to the Internet) that can generate color schemes.
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Thanks Nick. Perhaps you're right about PTgui. Nevertheless I prefer having the manual control I get with the NN5 upper rotator.
Paid another visit to your NN5 accessories page and found the RP1-38 rail plate. I see in the last two thumbnail images on that page that it's shown attached to a RRS lever clamp with a 3/8" threaded hole but it's hard to tell how the plate & clamp are being held together. Is there a 1/4" screw passing through the RRS clamp and being torqued down against the threads inside the brass insert, or is the brass insert holding them together by screwing into the RRS clamp's threads? The latter doesn't seem likely, but the insert appears longer than the plate is thick where they're pictured together, that's the reason I asked.
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