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I started researching the Wichita Wagonmasters Downtown Chili Cook-off a few weeks before this late September annual event. The first thing I noticed when I visited the event website was a link to "Become a Judge." Out of curiosity, I clicked, and quickly learned that anyone can sign up to be a judge at this International Chili Society (ICS)-sanctioned cook-off. I entered my information, and a few weeks later learned that I had made the cut!
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If I would have known how much 'customization' it takes to get LXDE and its default file manager,
pcmanfm, just working, I would probably have never chosen to try it.
I've got a problem. Lots of people have it. All of these people report the same problem with
pcmanfm. The people in the forums have about half a dozen magic recipes that get it to work finally. But I want to know what's actually causing
pcmanfm not to work, because I want to increase my understanding of the way Linux works, not just follow someone's instructions.
I am talking about the rather unhelpful "Not Authorized" window that pops up whenever I insert media.
Lots of people have this problem.
I managed to fix this before. I ended up doing some sort of magic with an xml file. (Was it udisks? Was it
polkit-gnome? I don't know, but they're both on the list of magic recipes for solving this issue.) I changed every entry that said something to say something else. And finally, I could see my media. (I couldn't even mount it manually I should add.)
I fixed it before and... What happened? I used
apt-get, installed a new package (
udev, because I was trying to fix other mounting issues that it seems people stopped having when
hal became deprecated), and bang, the problem's back.
So, I must like torment, because it's certainly in the cards.
This is not an easy answer question. If you didn't click any of the links above, you won't be able to tell what I'm talking about.
My question is, what's at the bottom of this? At a real, bare bones, we built these systems on top of Unix and sometimes they don't work as well as the original Unix level?


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When must we use
extern alias keyword in C#?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
Basically you only really need it when you want to use two types with the same fully qualified name (same namespace, same type name) from different assemblies. You declare a different alias for each assembly, so you can then reference them via that alias.
Needless to say, you should try to avoid getting into that situation to start with :)
Anson Horton has a good blog post about it.
It's there to help you hoist yourself out of a really deep hole dug by versioning. Say your first version of your program uses this class
And you've been serializing lots of bank accounts records with it. And an accountant starts complaining about the balance sheet being off by a billionth of a penny, so you change the class:
Problem solved, the next customer has happy balance sheets. Until you're asked to upgrade an existing customer with lots of serialized records in the old format. Big problem, you cannot deserialize the records anymore since the class has changed.
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I have a brand new Alienware, hardware is probably not an issue. My laptop freezes about 5 minutes into playing Battlefield 3 campaign. Is there a known fix for this issue? Is this even a known issue ?
This is basically "how do I determine if my hardware is stable?"
Warning: Battlefield 3 is known to be extremely GPU intensive and may cause more heat than most games.
edit: apparently there might be a possible RealTek sound driver conflict, too. Apparently there's a history of Realtek issues with DICE engine games, so this is not new. A lot of people are saying "use USB audio" as a workaround. Can you try that?
This is a very common issue. On the official EA forums (via http://battlelog.battlefield.com), there is a technical support thread with over 500 people reporting the same issue (myself included).
Not to dampen your spirits of getting it fixed, but I reformatted my PC, and the problem remained.
Having contacted EA support, their suggestions were as follows;
All of these suggestions screamed "Generic troubleshooting attempts", not specifically directed towards the problem.
As mentioned by Jeff, a lot of people have resolved the problem through playing with their sound drivers;
(Obviously, playing without sound is a bit of a b$%^£.)
But there are still a huge percentage of people who cannot resolve the issue.
I had the exact same problem. In the menu, I could stay for 10 minutes and nothing bad happened. When I played the campagin, I had a black screen after a few minutes of gameplay for an unknown reason.
I have a Geforce GTX 560 Ti OC version (but You said You have a laptop, still I hope You have the same issue with the different gpu).
I fixed it by upgrading the bios of the graphics card. The problem disappeared and I am playing BF3 happily for hours straight without any issues.


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The 7 Craziest Things Ever Done to Get Laid
#3. King Henry VIII Started a New Religion For His Penis
In the year 1525, King Henry VIII had a problem with Anne Boleyn's pants -- specifically, whether or not he could legally get in them. See, even though he was married to Catherine of Aragon, he wanted to nail Anne Boleyn. Although Boleyn initially resisted, eventually she came around thanks to the prospect of becoming queen. So all Henry had to do was divorce his wife ... but therein lies the rub.
Who would want to divorce a woman with such angular hair?
Thing is, divorce was not a legitimate answer to anything in 16th century England back in the day, since marriage was considered holy and indissoluble by the Catholic Church -- best case scenario was an annulment, which could only be procured if the marriage had been entered into improperly. So Henry called a council with the Pope where he claimed that Catherine had boned his older (subsequently deceased) brother Arthur before she married Henry, and thus their current marriage was null and void. The Pope turned the request down cold.
Pope Clement VII, here pictured giving exactly zero shits.
Henry, however, was kind of used to getting his own way and decided to just go ahead and marry Anne anyway. To legitimize the marriage, he passed a whole bunch of acts and proclamations giving himself more and more power over the Church of England, eventually breaking off all ties with the Pope and forming the Anglican Communion. In the process, he repossessed all the monasteries in England, Wales, and Ireland and executed a whole bunch of people who disagreed with his divorce.
Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII, hunting Irish Catholics on his private estate.
In short, Henry VIII made his own church, declared himself head of it and killed the fuck out of anyone who said different -- all because Anne Boleyn was young, hot and available. And theirs truly was a fairytale romance ... but only if that fairytale was Alice in Wonderland, with Henry playing the Queen of Hearts.
#2. A Kenyan Peace Was Brokered Over a Lack of Sex
Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki and prime minister Raila Odinga had formed a coalition government in 2007, and neither man was all that happy about it. The president and the prime minister agreed to govern together to stop the violence and death that their factions had caused, but the effort was moot since all they did was argue and bicker. The two men were seemingly doing everything in their power to fuck up their country beyond repair.
Odinga is the fat dude with an ugly hat, and Kibaki is the fat dude without an ugly hat.
After two years of this bullshit, Kenyan women decided they'd had enough and took matters into their own hands by withholding sex until everything was sorted out.
In 2009, women's activist groups in Kenya called for a week-long sex strike to force the president and the PM to meet and make peace. So, what? Big freaking deal. A week is nothing! That's half as long as Jedi Fantasy Camp, and there's certainly no sex going on there. Well, there must be some powerful aphrodisiac in the Kenyan water supply, because one BBC correspondent argued that men over there wouldn't last two days without sex.
Apparently, Lysistrata was pretty damn true to life.
No kidding. One man went so crazy without sex that he sued the women's groups for pain and suffering. The activist leaders thought of everything, too, even paying prostitutes to withhold their services so that men couldn't get illicit nookie.
Things went from bad to worse for one of the two men in charge when prime minister Odinga's wife, Ida, publicly endorsed the strike, and was even rumored to have joined it.
Via BBC News
He looks so pained.
Eventually, the president and the (presumably sexless) PM had had enough. The women rejoiced when the men in charge agreed to meet with them and said they would also hold talks to discuss their country's safety and future. After all the fighting and the killing and the pointless bickering, it was good old blue balls that brought these two longtime foes together.
"We're still wracked with poverty and disease, but at least everyone's getting off!"
The boycott was deemed such a success that to this day, the Kenyan women remember it fondly, one of them boasting that, thanks to their strike, a deal was done within a month. Peace and compromise was attained, at least for a while.
#1. Catherine the Great Governed Around Her Man-Whores
Catherine the Great may not have fucked a horse, but she did have an insatiable sexual appetite: She had 12 high-profile lovers (and an unknown number of, uh, "passing fancies") during her reign, and for 40 years she never had to endure a cold bed. But unlike most sexually promiscuous royalty, Catherine didn't adopt a love-em-and-leave-em or even a love-em-and-execute-em strategy; instead, she just made their dreams come true. Seriously, one tryst with Catherine and you were set for life.
Just ask Commodore Ed here.
Pretty much all of her favorites were rewarded with land, money and titles; Grigory Orlov, for example, was raised from an artillery officer to a count and so were his three brothers -- Catherine even made one of them a naval commander because, hey -- nepotism. Orlov, however, wasn't cut out for duties more complex than bed-warming, so she gave him loads of money and a palace where he could stay out of the way. Another beau, Grigory Potemkin (because everyone in Russia is a stereotype named Grigory) started off as a common guardsman and finished off as a general and city-builder. Unlike Orlov, Potemkin showed potential in a lot of jobs Catherine assigned him, most notably, his ability to organize threesomes for her. Seriously.
Ladies: Would you say no to this man?
Her finest moment in power-prostitution, however, came when she invaded Poland because the guy she was nailing wanted to be king. Keep in mind that Russia was by far the biggest kid on the Eastern European playground; she could have thrown her support behind literally any candidate for the Polish throne and she would have had a strong ally, so this was less about political expediency and more about paying for sex with control. Incidentally, if you're wondering how she picked, her mates, she may or may not have used attractive handmaids to "test" prospective suitors. We're guessing these test weren't terribly similar to the ones you took in school.
We're guessing this guy had a solid B-average.
So what did this Russian sex goddess look like? Must have been something special to keep all the men lined up, right? Let's just take a gander at this arctic fox ...
... who looks less fox-like and more exactly like your grandmother.
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Roasted Red Pepper Pimento CheeseI don't what it is about pimento cheese, but I sure love it. Yeah, I even like the stuff in the little containers in the refrigerator case at the market, though I admit, homemade is so much more delicious, and just super easy to throw together. A southern favorite, and of course, like most traditional and old fashioned recipes, every southern cook has their own way of making it too. I happen to have a couple of my own, but I love this one that replaces those little jars of chopped pimiento peppers with flavorful roasted red peppers.
Traditional in the contrasting bend of a celery stick, it's the perfect filling for little tea sandwiches for parties too, and it'd be rare to find any leftover. Makes a pretty darned good grilled cheese sandwich too. Be sure to grate your own cheddar though - there are fillers in the pre-shredded stuff, and freshly grated just makes for a much creamier spread.
Recipe: Roasted Red Pepper Pimento Cheese©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 15 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 4 cups of shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 1/4 cup of grated Vidalia or other sweet onion
- 4 ounces of roasted red peppers, chopped
- 1/2 cup of mayonnaise
- 1/4 cup of buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon of spicy mustard (like Emeril's)
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of Cajun seasoning (like Slap Ya Mama), or to taste, optional
- Couple dashes of hot sauce
- Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
In a large bowl, mix together the cheddar cheese, onion and red peppers. In a separate small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, buttermilk, mustard, Cajun seasoning, hot sauce, salt and pepper, until well blended. Add this mixture to the cheese and combine well. Serve immediately or refrigerate. Allow to come to room temperature before spreading.
Variation: Use 2-1/2 cups of sharp cheddar cheese with 1 cup of shredded Monterey Jack cheese and 1/2 cup of shredded Parmesan cheese.
Roasted Peppers: Place 2 medium sized red bell peppers under the broiler on your oven, or place over an open flame, turning until blistered. Transfer to a zippered bag or set on a plate covered with a clean dish towel to steam for at least 5 minutes. Halve, peeling off the skins, discarding any seeds and membrane, slice and dice.
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A pursuit with an all-terrain vehicle that begin inside Carmi Friday evening ended well outside town with the arrest of a 20-year-old Carmi man.
A Carmi Police Department incident report identified the man arrested as Logan D. Warren. He faces preliminary charges of aggravated attempted fleeing or eluding a police officer, reckless driving, illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor, speeding, disobeying a stop sign, operating an uninsured motor vehicle, no valid registration, failure to signal and operating an ATV on a roadway without a permit.
The incident began on Stewart Street after the ATV was allegedly observed by an officer on patrol traveling at a high rate of speed. The officer attempted to stop the vehicle but the vehicle failed to yield to the patrol car's emergency lights and siren and led the officer on a chase west of Carmi.
Other city units along with units from the White County Sheriff's Office responded and were able to box the vehicle in at a rural intersection west of Carmi. The alleged driver, Warren, allegedly was still not going to stop, however, a 20-year-old passenger on the vehicle reportedly grabbed the ATV's keys and threw them out of the vehicle, bringing an end to the pursuit.
Warren was booked at the City-County Jail in Carmi where he posted $1,500 cash bail. He will also likely face a driver' license suspension from the Illinois Secretary of State's Office under the state's zero tolerance law regarding those under 21 who drive after having consumed any amount of alcohol.
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MAZ611: AP Statistics (2012-2013)
CURRICULUM PROGRAM: Advanced Placement
COURSE TITLE: AP Statistics
COURSE LENGTH: 36 weeks
SUGGESTED PREPARATION: Algebra I, Algebra II
About the Program:
AP Statistics provides a systematic development of the concepts, principles, and tools of statistics with an emphasis on inquiry and critical-thinking skills associated with the collection, representation, analysis, and drawing conclusions from authentic data. Technology is a central component of the course and includes the use of graphing calculators, computers, and data analysis software. The College Board requires the use of graphing calculators for this course. Though our system has an open enrollment policy, students should understand that this course is designed to be a fourth-year mathematics course, and the equivalent of an introductory, one-semester, non-calculus-based, college-level statistics course. The course requires a working knowledge of Algebra II, and quantitative reasoning. Teaching strategies include collaborative small-group work, pairs engaged in data analysis, whole-group presentations, peer-to-peer discussions, and an integration of technology when appropriate. All aspects of progress in the course are measured using multiple methods such as authentic, performance, observational, and assessment for learning (formative); group and individual projects, student presentations, and assessment of learning (summative). Students are expected to take the AP Statistics Exam at the end of this course.
Major Concepts/Content: AP Statistics is a college-level course which differs from a high school statistics course in terms of depth of coverage and time commitments for study. The content is organized to emphasize major topics which include the following: (1) data investigation, (2) designing and conducting studies, (3) anticipating patterns using probability and simulations, and (4) statistical inference. These topics are detailed in the AP Statistics course description, which is available at AP Central ( (http://apcentral.collegeboard.com).
Course Objectives:
- Develop statistical thinking based on a conceptual understanding of major topics and tools of data collection, representation, analysis, inference, and conclusions.
- Analyze and interpret data from graphical displays and numerical distribution summaries, and justify conclusions.
- Employ the language and symbols of statistics, and effectively communicate the formulation of questions, data collection methods and displays, interpretation of statistical analysis, and evaluation of inferences and predictions based on the data.
- Use probability as a tool to predict how the distribution of data is related to an appropriate mathematical model.
- Develop an understanding of statistical inference through the use of confidence intervals and tests of significance.
- Use graphing calculators and computers in the exploration, statistical analysis, simulation, and modeling of data.
- Make sense of and evaluate the reasonableness of conclusions based on data.
- Develop an appreciation for an historical perspective of statistics.
Course Philosophy: Understanding statistics as the science of data is the basis of this course. Statistics is the formal study of data as numbers in a context. Students build an understanding of statistical concepts as they construct relationships and make connections among the various representations of data and how data is interpreted. Although the development of techniques and fluency with graphic and numeric representations to represent problems is important, it is not the only focus of the course. Rather, the course emphasizes a conceptual development of statistical thinking through the use of an exploratory analysis of real data often using technology, planning and implementing well-designed studies, and engaging students in active learning.


text: Chris Hemsworth (August 11, 1983) is an Australian actor best known for portraying Thor in the Marvel Studios films Thor (2011) and The Avengers (2012). Now he is making a huge mark on movie goers as The Huntsman in "Snow White and The Huntsman," which this tutorial is based. Did you know that Chris is also the older brother of Liam Hemsworth and the younger brother of Luke Hemsworth, both actors. (Notes by Wikipedia) I hope you enjoy this tutorial. Please fav, vote, and comment. Thank you all. Peace and love to you.


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MITCHELL, S.D. – Dakota Wesleyan University has been named an NAIA Champions of Character Five-Star Institution for the 2012-13 academic year, it was announced recently by the NAIA, the NAIA Character Advisory Committee and the National Office.
The Champions of Character program measures an institution's commitment to promoting the NAIA's Champions of Character motto. Points are given to each institution based on character training and development; conduct in competition; academic focus; character recognition and character promotion.
Dakota Wesleyan was one of 217 institutions recognized across the nation. Ten of the schools in the Great Plains Athletic Conference were also recognized as Champions of Character institutions.
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I'm a grad student in math, but I don't know as much about physics as I should. I've read a handful of pop expositions of string theory, and they often refer to "curled up dimensions" and I've always wondered what this means. Is this referring to any kind of standard mathematical object, e.g. a bundle of Calabi-Yaus? (Actually learning some physics is one of my long-term self-improvement projects, but for now I'd be happy to demystify this word!)
The basic idea doesn't have to be that complicated, and it isn't specific to string theory. We seem to live in a spacetime with four dimensions (three spacelike and one timelike). If there was a fifth dimension, say a spacelike one, you'd think we'd have noticed it. However, suppose that that extra dimension has the topology of a circle, i.e., spacetime is topologically a direct product of $\mathbb{R}^4$ with a circle. That circle has some circumference, which sets some length scale $\ell$. If $\ell$ was very small, we might not be able to detect the existence of the extra dimension.
If you like, you can add more than one extra dimension. (String theory requires 6 or 7.) Those extra dimensions can then have intrinsic curvature, which is another way of setting a distance scale $\ell$.
To a physicist, the next obvious question is what sets $\ell$. General relativity is completely invariant under any smooth change of coordinates, so the theory has absolutely no scale that is privileged over any other scale. For example, the spacetime at the surface of the earth has curvature that sets a certain length scale (which is how GR describes the gravitational field), but that scale isn't hard-coded into GR, it's due to the mass of the earth, which is an accident of the formation of the solar system.
The typical answer is that $\ell$ should probably be the Planck length, which is the scale at which you can't describe spacetime without using some theory of quantum gravity, which we don't yet possess. In most theories, the Planck length is $10^{-35}$ m. In some theories, known as theories with large extra dimensions, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_extra_dimensions , it's much larger, and therefore possibly accessible by experiment. In these theories, the $10^{-35}$ m value is only the false, apparent value of the Planck length when you do experiments at scales large enough so that only four dimensions seem to exist.
If you have more than one extra dimension, you can have nontrivial topologies. The Calabi-Yau stuff is one possibility, which is purely motivated by string theory. Since string theory is probably wrong (e.g., we don't see evidence for supersymmetry at the LHC), there is no really good reason to focus on Calabi-Yau manifolds. Furthermore, results from the LHC seem to show that large extra dimensions don't exist: http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.3375
I think they generally refer to the dimensions of the Fiber in a Fiber Bundle.


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These vegetarian pasta and grains recipes are filling, satisfying, and amazingly versatile.
Healthy Vegetarian Pasta and Grains
Pasta comes in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, but generally speaking, it can be divided into two broad categories (short and strand) that are usually paired with specific sauces and toppings. Both types of pasta come in whole-wheat versions, which offer a great way to add some whole grains to your diet.
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When you hear of a violent gas station robbery, it usually involves a gun.
The attempted robbery that happened at a Washington County, Virginia Scotchman on Sunday was much different. "He came in here with a big axe," the clerk told a 911 operator in a recording the sheriff's department shared with us. "He told me to open the drawer, [then] he just ran out the door."
As the clerk at the Scotchman convenience store on Lee Highway stayed on the phone with dispatchers, deputies rushed to the scene to begin investigating an attempted robbery where the suspect opted for quite an unusual weapon. "In my 30-plus years of law enforcement, I've never really encountered a situation where an individual has used an axe. They'll usually use a smaller weapon like a gun or knife," said Sheriff Fred Newman, with the Washington County, Virginia Sheriff's Office.
Investigators tell us the clerk refused and the robber left the store.
On his way out of the parking lot, deputies say he used his axe to bash the windshield and passenger-side window of the clerk's car.
The clerk described the suspect as a man wearing a camouflage jacket and black ski mask.
The suspect fled the scene on foot. The clerk was not hurt.
The Washington County, Virginia Sheriff's Office confirms they have a person of interest in the case and are continuing to investigate.


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I'm training for a January marathon but I've just moved across country for graduate school. My immediate neighborhood is not exactly set up for long distance runs (a luxury I left back home, it seems). Does anyone have a favorite way to find new routes?
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I travel a fair bit and always want to run in the places I visit, so I have the same problem. I usually try the following:
I have found that WalkJogRun.net is a great resource for finding new routes. The site lets you search for routes by city. Then you can filter the results by distance. You can see each of the routes from your search overlayed on google maps so that you can scroll to the area where you are or want to run to find the route you want to try. Also, each route can be exported to GPX which can be used on a Garmin Forerunner.
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned this, but if you have some sense of orientation, you can just give yourself a time limit, which will give you approximate distance to run and then just go out and run!
I usually do this when I want to go for a midnight run in the city. Just pick a landmark within a reasonable distance and run towards it. Don't set out a specific path, try to figure it out. That way you can get to places you would never get into otherwise.
Yes - what about a Garmin Foretrex 401.
It's the old-fashioned "military" Garmin you wear on your wrist - boxy looking. It includes a map-chart screen.
Note that the more modern, trendy wristgps are smaller, but have only data numbers, no map display.
(By "map" I mean not a carte, but a white screen with a black line showing your own trail, and also waypoints, lapmarkers etc you save.)
(I guess, you could go running with a garmin Dakota, which you hang around your neck (or just shove in your pocket I guess) and that has actual map maps. But it's not as good as a 401!)
BTW ..... other than the chart, another HUGE advantage of the old-fashioned 401 over the newer models, is that, you can click to an display of your heartrate (or indeed distance, time, speed, or whatever) that is shown in ENORMOUS, HUGE digits. The digits are much, much, much bigger than on any other wrist-instrument. Perfect for glancing at when pounding along.


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Break-in: Apartment building under renovation in the 100 block of North Fifth Street broken into and power saw and tool battery chargers taken between Saturday and Monday.
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Arrested: Timothy J. Samples, 49, 121 Vireo Drive, Wintersville, operating a vehicle under the influence, today.
Arrested: James Stewart, 28, 610 township Road 285A, Toronto, and Ryan Straker, 27, township Road 378, Steubenville, each charged with felony theft after a deputy reported the men stole a road grate covering a culvert on township Road 285A and sold it for scrap on Monday.
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Theft: A television and video player were taken from a home in the 500 block of Frederick Street on Hooverson Heights between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Friday.
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Given $S_n=3(2^n+1)$, find the fourth term.
I believe I can find the first term, $a$, assuming n=1 is the beginning. $3(2^1+1)=9$
To find the fourth term, I have tried to do it by subtracting $S_4$ and $S_3$. This gives me 24.
Is this mathematically sound? When I try to determine the common ratio from this, namely $24=ar^3$, $r=1.386722549$. However, when I try to find another term, say $t_3$, $S_3-S_2 \neq ar^2$. Therefore, I must be doing something wrong here; specifically, finding the common ratio from only one equation is probably incorrect.
So: 1) Is 24 the third term? 2) If so, how do I find the common ratio from this?


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6 Baffling Mistakes Every Movie Criminal Makes
According to the movies, those who choose a career in organized crime are genuine mental enigmas so puzzling they make John Nash look like Kevin Federline. These people have made a career out of evading law enforcement and bypassing high-level security systems, yet when it comes down to making some common sense decisions, they are utter morons.
If you are looking for a life of crime, here's a Hollywood guide on what not to do:
#6. Discussing Your Crime in a Diner
As Seen In:
Pulp Fiction, Thief, Heat, American Gangster, Goodfellas
In Hollywood productions, criminals do not mess around. If they're willing to steal, they're usually also willing to murder, torture, and blow up anything that can possibly be blown up (and probably some things that quite honestly can't be blown up). Most of civilized society, however, tends to frown upon such behavior, and as such it's really not prudent to discuss those plans in public. Doing so may lead to death at the hands of a wisecracking, world-weary cop.
So, when one is planning heists, murders, and mind-blowingly awesome explosions, it might be smart to do so in a secure, isolated location where other people are unlikely to be found.
Just a suggestion.
What you would not do is hold your conferences in, say, a diner, with a couple dozen potential eavesdroppers in the vicinity.
It isn't like they don't have a choice in the matter. Most movie criminals have access to everything from military grade machine guns and vault-cutting lasers to Joe freakin' Pesci. We're expected to believe that they can't find a private room somewhere to act as a hide-out? Why can't they just meet in the same old "Desolate Woods on the Outskirts of the City" where they are always dumping bodies? Surely the corpse of Billy Bats is unlikely to snitch on them.
This sort of thing happens so often that we're surprised anyone living in the Crime Thriller universe still eats out, for fear they'll get caught in a crossfire at some point.
Worst Offender:
We could have gone with Heat, where Robert Deniro nearly murders a man in the crowded parking lot of a diner (foiled only because the guy pretty much vanishes into thin air like David freaking Copperfield) or American Gangster, where Denzel Washington's character actually gets up, walks down the sidewalk, and blows a dude's head off before walking calmly back into the diner to finish his meal.
But no, the prize has to go to Pulp Fiction, where a couple of robbers discuss robbing while sitting a diner, before robbing the same diner. At which point the robbery is thwarted because a couple of hitmen happened to be a few tables over, openly discussing the business of being hitmen.
#5. Working With a Sociopath
As Seen In:
Heat, Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas, Casino, Panic Room
When accepting new members into their gang, Hollywood criminals definitely need to work on their screening process. Joining a "crew", as it turns out, is even easier than winning a Grammy. You don't really need to possess a single useful skill at all, because there's this role that always needs to be filled: that of the terrifying madman who no one in their right mind would ever associate with.
While most movie bank robbers and stick-up men will only kill when it's necessary to get the job done, it's the job of the sociopath to kill people, who like, "didn't need to die man", all the while giggling like a little kid at Build-A-Bear workshop.
The other characters in the movie get pretty angry about such things, but really, it's their own fault. Who on earth plans a perfect crime and then decides it'd be a good idea to bring along their insane friend? There's some serious stuff at stake here. Despite what you may have come to believe after hours of playing Grand Theft Auto, the consequences of a botched crime job are often quite a bit worse than waking up in a hospital with a little less money than you used to have.
Collective IQ=7
Worst Offender:
Goodfellas. In other crime films, the madman is usually used for one job. After making the mistake of inviting the crazy kid to the party once, the characters learn the lesson and the psychopath winds up dead (or everyone else does).
In this film, however, Joe Pesci's sociopath remains close friends with the main characters for decades, even though he uses every second of screen time to prove that he is the most violently impulsive human being on the planet. In real life, the mob would never ...
Wait, that was based on a true story?
Holy shit. Once again, it turns out real life is more retarded than fiction.
#4. Working With Far More People Than Necessary
As Seen In:
Oceans 11, 12, 13. The Departed, Panic Room, Bonnie & Clyde
You know those girls on Myspace who have 23,138 friends? It doesn't matter to them that no human being needs that many friends, or that no person could maintain a reasonable level of sanity with that many people bugging them to hang out. The large number makes them feel popular and validated. Well, Hollywood thinks that criminals are pretty much the same.
Sure, they might not need a lot of people to pull off a job, but won't the innocent bystanders be impressed to see a dozen dudes strolling into the bank in ski masks?
"Shit, there's an old lady. I knew we shoulda brought four guys."
Wrong. Absolutely freaking wrong. First of all, let's think of the motive that drives these characters. Greed. For them, it is indeed all about the Benjamins, and the fact of the matter is, the more people involved in the crime, the smaller the shares, and therefore less cash for everyone.
Second of all, with so many people in on the plan, the odds of getting caught rise exponentially. Hell, how many people would you trust with a secret that could send you to jail?
Worst Offender:
The Oceans 11 series. This only gets worse as the series goes on, and they have to keep inflating the roster and the size of the heist. By the fifth or sixth movie they'll have enough guys to rob an armored car by just gathering around it and carrying it way.


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I am still practicing with productivity methods, so I am not very familiar with terminology and techniques... maybe it's all already written in a technique I have not learned yet. My question is about "backlogs", "pending tasks" and new tasks.
Let me explain my situation by examples: I have some tasks due for next week.
I think each of this task could be completed in a day, so I plan to work half day on this, half day in that, and be done for next week.
I discover my technical background is not enough for task#1, such that I have to study an half day more than planned (this happens often because I am practicing in my work).
Task 2 is apparently simple, but there is something wrong in components installed in my IDE (or subversione of the project, or any other "logistic" problem), so I have to fix that. This happens often too.
Today I am asked to complete a new high priority task to be completed tomorrow.
I think I am almost done with task 3, but at last I notice a new bug, so I have work another day to fix it.
Yesterday I had to phone a person in the morning, but I was occupied by one of the tasks above or already on the phone with someone else, and I can call that person only between 10 am and 11 am, so I can complete this task on the due day.
I receive a request for something (example bug fix), I begin working on it if I think it will take only 30 minutes to complete, and I continue working on it if it takes longer (I hope to get at least a COMPLETED task in a day).
I am able to focus on one of the tasks I am working (for example studying to regain technical background, maybe going too much into the details), but doing so I let the other tasks be overdue.
I really don't see my tasks can be divided into subtasks, and I am avoiding to set deadlines because they are not a stimulus to complete tasks in time (unfortunately, deadlines are set by others). Ah, I am already working besides my working hours.
Can I adopt any strategy to avoid asking my boss to remove some of my duties? Should I force myself to respect deadlines (but I don't think my problem is a lack of motivation)? Should I learn to work under my exptectations, just to be able to give some result in the given time?


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There was a review at PhoneDog by Taylor Martin on July 18th of the Droid 3 which uses a PenTile RGBW qHD display http://bit.ly/pP42xV. He said:
"…One of the key features of the DROID 3 is the qHD display. I'm no display expert, far from it, actually. But the display on the DROID 3 is disappointing. It's fairly bright, there is plenty of contrast and the color reproduction is spot on. That said, the "qHD" title of the display is more or less a gimmick. Motorola stuck with the same PenTile display as seen in previous devices, which is known for some gruesome pixellation…"
Mr. Martin's article calling PenTile technology a "gimmick" has compelled me to reply on behalf of Nouvoyance, the creator of this technology. [Mr. Martin corrected me to say that he did not call PenTile a gimmick, but rather called the qHD rating of the Droid 3 a gimmick. This is a fine line point since the Droid 3 uses a qHD resolution PenTile RGBW display. ] PenTile display technology is the result of a decade of R&D and more than 50 issued US patents. A lack of understanding of how we can use two-thirds the number of subpixels to achieve the same resolution as the equivalent RGB stripe has led this blogger to question the ability of PenTile technology to achieve the claimed resolution or in this case referring to it as a gimmick.
Perhaps the best way to understand PenTile methodology is to compare it to that which was done for CRTs in yesteryear when Gaussian distributions of energy mixed at the correct levels of chrominance gave rise to the right color at each and every pixel location http://bit.ly/lvIlsO. As many as 10 subpixels can be used to write to any given logical pixel. Through the use of subpixel rendering and PenTile algorithms it is possible to render details such as fine black and white text equally well to RGB stripe. You can see proof of this yourself at an earlier blog on this site http://pentileblog.com/?p=619 where tiny, single stroke fonts were compared between RGB stripe, PenTile RGBW LCD, and PenTile RGBG OLED.
PenTile resolution meets the only industry standard for resolution, developed by the top industry experts of the VESA committee who have defined resolution in terms of modulation contrast ratio for black and white line pairs, not based upon counting dots. Proof of this is can be seen at http://bit.ly/qLX9Xf . It is not, by any definition, a "gimmick" as the author suggests.
Gruesome pixellation? Well, for fully saturated solids like green on black, if you have the ability to view it from rather close, you will see the pattern that give an impression of a texture or graininess. Not everybody thinks this is so gruesome. Such pattern visibility or graininess is not visible for anything except for fully saturated green on black backgrounds or single stroke black text on fully saturated green. Pattern visibility is there for RGB stripe as well, but it has been many years since I have heard that called gruesome, since we are accustomed to seeing it.
So why does Motorola use PenTile? It saves nearly half of the power of an equivalent RGB stripe display for typical usage and more for black and white like ebook applications. Some like akronevan2, a commenter at Android Central, have already noticed this benefit and changed their minds about PenTile http://bit.ly/pXaftL. Displays are one of the major consumers of power in a handheld product. As the industry migrates toward higher and higher resolution where display transmissivity declines, in phones with more and more horsepower, saving power will become increasingly important to those wanting a slimmer, lighter, brighter and more powerful smartphone. The author did acknowledge that it looked very bright and with good color. PenTile is an engineering choice that is fit for use in this type of high performance handheld product.
Those who can see a panel from 3 inches away, and who expect to see an RGB stripe pattern, may be troubled to see something different, and if this describes you, then perhaps this technology is not for you. For those others who look at phones from 12 inches away and do not go looking for the pattern visibility in fully saturated colors, please consider PenTile displays for the total performance of a phone and display. With that in mind you may find that this very much fits the bill for you.
Today, 8/2, Mr. Taylor of PhoneDog went back to further clarify what a "gimmick" was and why the qHD rating of the DROID 3′s display is still a gimmick. http://bit.ly/pndwEK
There is one section of this blog to which I would to post further reply:
"…For starters, let's begin with the definition of a gimmick. From the online Merriam Webster dictionary, the term (marketing) gimmick in the context it was used is "a trick or device used to attract business or attention." The term qHD is an abbreviation of the term "quarter HD," implying that the resolution of the DROID 3′s display is higher than those of standard definition (WVGA or 800 by 480 pixels). Even though the qHD display found on the DROID 3 is technically a higher resolution, this particular display shows more pixelation and grain than that of a standard resolution display (i.e.: EVO 4G, DROID X, Nexus S, etc.), thanks to the PenTile subpixel layout. Any average consumer will see "qHD" in a long list of specifications and assume the display on that particular phone is better or more clear than that of its counterparts. This is not the case with the DROID 3, Atrix or DROID X2, plain and simple…"
My reason for reacting to the word gimmick was that it has many negative implications, varying from ways to gamble dishonestly to ingenious and novel devices (from Merriam Webster the rest of the definition below).
So is PenTile technology a "trick or device used to attract business or attention" as Mr. Taylor implies? He clarified his comment today to indicate that he was referring to the Merriam Webster marketing definition (2c) of gimmick, which implies it was (only) used to attract business or attention. Perhaps one could perhaps argue that a camera on a phone is a gimmick, but you might be less inclined to say, for example, that a touchpanel is a gimmick. I cannot deny that we sought to create new business. The fact is that in several of these designs PenTile has been an enabler. Smaller diagonal (<4.1") wVGA OLED, simply stated, would not have existed without PenTile. So if you don't think that 3.1-inch or 4.0-inch wVGA is a gimmick, then PenTile should also not be considered a gimmick.
For LCDs our goal has been to offer a way to get to far higher resolution without paying the penalty of power or brightness in order to enable designs that would otherwise have not been offered in the market. It has always been our intention to grow business for high resolution phones that would attract attention. An amazing number of OLED and LCD display phones have come to the market thanks to PenTile technology. For the better part of two years it attracted little if any attention since nobody even noticed it was PenTile or cared how we enabled those phones.
At this blog I have pointed out in several entries that pattern visibility is greater for PenTile for fully saturated colors like green on black, but also pointed out that for PenTile RGBW that whites are more brilliant with extraordinary punch. There are benefits and tradeoffs with every technology. Nobody associated with this product development ever said that PenTile displays looked better than or even the same as RGB stripe displays of any particular resolution. Mr. Taylor indicates that it is implied by the qHD label and is generally would be understood to look better by virtue of this spec. This qHD spec means nothing other than the resolution that display can be measured to show. No two display technologies look the same. We can even see the subtle differences between different backplane technologies or WVA technologies, so certain people who look for it can see difference between subpixel rendered displays and conventional RGB stripe. When Mr. Taylor says he likes the Nexus S display better than PenTile, he probably didn't realize that the Nexus S is also a PenTile design, so perhaps not all PenTile displays are created the same.
I do take issue with the term pixelated. For years in the display industry, pixelated has referred to having blocky lines and text due to having too large of a pixel. If anything, subpixel rendering reduces that jagged appearance of diagonal lines, much as is the case for Microsoft's ClearType where subpixels are also used to soften pixelation. We should not confuse the term pixelated as appearing grainy or showing pattern visibility. All displays have pattern visibility. The pattern visibility of a PenTile display is similar to the pattern visibility of an RGB stripe of one-third lower resolution. If you are not using in a high resolution display, pattern visibility can be noticeable for more people.
The world's leading experts in display metrology of the VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) have defined display resolution of black and white line pairs in terms of Michelson contrast modulation ratio measured through a moving aperture grill. Mr. Taylor seems to agree that we are "technically" higher resolution, but says that it is "implied" that a PenTile qHD resolution should look better than an RGB stripe wVGA. The fact is that nobody ever said anything of the sort, although some users have said on blogs that they think it does look better. I am not sure what people think that "resolution" means. We do claim it to have higher resolution, because, by the only Flat Panel Display Measurement Standard Ver. 2.0, Section 303-7, we measure and see more than 50% modulation of black and white lines, 540/2=270 line pairs by of 960/2=480 line pairs, whereas this cannot be done for a WVGA 800 x 480 RGB stripe display, plain and simple. Such a definition has nothing to say about any screen door effect of PenTile displays, or the stripiness of RGB stripe displays, or pixelation, or any other artifact that may be present in any display independent of resolution.
In the 1990s I can remember people being very upset with the pattern visibility of RGB stripe; they seriously missed the familiar look and feel of CRTs. For some percentage of people who have better than average visual acuity the checkerboard organization of PenTile jumps out at them because they are not accustomed to this. The texture of pattern visibility apparently bothers people like Mr. Taylor, a great deal. Others either don't see it or are not bothered by it and simply appreciate the benefits of power efficiency that PenTile has brought to the market. This is a very individual thing. Do not take the word of bloggers. Go look for yourself.


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2:11 a.m., Nov. 6 — By 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, county clerk staff and volunteers finished tallying up Grand County's votes. Funding for education measures failed on the state and local levels, while taxes on retail recreational marijuana passed in the state and in the town of Fraser. After a close race, the controversial Byers Peak annexation measures failed by a slim margin, and Grand County libraries weren't able to secure funding.
Byers Peak annexation
By a slim margin and a tight race, Fraser voters rejected annexation of the controversial Byers Peak development.
Referendums 300 and 301 — which failed by 12 votes and 17 votes respectively — would have added a 295-acre parcel to the town and brought two municipal water storage reservoirs. The town wanted to secure these reservoirs in case demand from senior water rights holders downstream increases.
A "no" vote on the annexation measures means the Byers Peak development will move forward as part of unincorporated Grand County, and Fraser will lose out on property taxes and water benefits, among other things.
The final tally showed 52 percent, or 159 of 306 voters casting a vote against Referendum 300, and 53 percent, or 164 of 311 voters against Referendum 301. For more information on the annexation, see story.
Grand County Library District mill levy
County residents rejected added property taxes to support local libraries.
The measure failed with 55 percent of voters against the proposed mill levy, listed on the ballot as Referred Measure 1A.
The funds would have been used to maintain normal library operations. Libraries may now be forced to cut staff and hours. For more information on the measure, see story.
East Grand Schools technology mill levy
East Grand Schools' technology budget won't be getting a boost after voters rejected Referred Measure 3A.
The measure would have created $1.2 million in technology funds over the course of three years through a temporary increase in property taxes. Schools would have used the funds to provide each student with an iPad tablet computer, for staff training and infrastructure improvements in technology. East Grand voters rejected the temporary mill levy increase with 56 percent voting against.
For more information on the measure, see story.
School board winners
Angel DeCicco prevailed in East Grand Schools District 3 with 37 percent of the vote, over Mike Lohman (34 percent) and Matt Friesen (29 percent). District 3 was the most highly contested district, and includes parts of Tabernash and neighborhoods east of Granby and Highway 34.
Mike McGinley won over incumbent Jerry Reed in District #5, which covers the town of Granby, with 54 percent support.
Incumbent Chip Besse was unchallenged for his position in District #4, which covers portions of Winter Park and Fraser east of Highway 40. Also unchallenged was Phyllis Price in District #6, which includes the Grand Lake area. For more on them, see candidates questionnaire.
In West Grand, school board incumbents Susan Ritschard, Brendan Gale, Jessica Smiley and Tim Thomson held heir positions. To read their views, see their questionnaires.
Amendment 66
Colorado voters overwhelmingly rejected the Amendment 66 ballot measure, with 66 percent for and 34 percent against.
The state constitutional amendment would have increased Colorado taxes and provided funding for preschool to high school education. In Grand County, voters shared the state's disapproval for the amendment, with about 70 percent casting their vote against it. For more information on the proposed state amendment, and the taxes that would have been associated with it, see story.
Marijuana state and local taxes
The county joined other Colorado voters in approving taxes on retail marijuana. The measure received overwhelming support in Grand County, with 64 percent voting in favor.
The retail taxes will fund regulation of Colorado's newly legalized recreational marijuana industry through a 15 percent excise tax and a 10 percent sales tax. The first $40 million raised from the taxes will go to construction and improvements at public schools.
Fraser proposed an additional tax measure of 5 percent on retail marijuana sales, which passed by 72 percent. Funds raised by the local tax will be used to promote town purposes.
For more: story.
State senate representation
After a 65 percent vote in favor, Grand County will be seeking more senatorial representation within the Colorado legislature.
Referred Measure 1B resulted after county commissioners explored the idea of seceding from the state of Colorado along with several eastern plains counties, including Weld. After much discussion and public comment, commissioners decided they'd seek greater representation in the legislature rather than forming a new state or annexing into Wyoming.
While county voters showed strong support for the action, they face an uphill battle in receiving the increased senatorial representation. In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that all state legislature districts had to have equal populations, based on the principle of "one person one vote." Still, commissioners argued that equal representation for counties could be issued through grassroots campaigns and lobbying efforts.
For more information on the measure, see story.
Fraser taxes
The town of Fraser had three tax questions on the ballot, of which only one passed.
Referred Measures 2A and 2B would have raised property taxes for the purpose of operations, maintenance and other expenses related to Fraser's public water and sewer systems. Both failed by 53 and 54 percent, respectively.
Fraser also proposed a 5 percent tax on recreational marijuana sales, which passed by a whopping 72 percent. The new tax will be in addition to state taxes passed under Proposition AA, which voters approved to help fund regulation of the newly legalized recreational marijuana industry in Colorado.
Blue Valley Metropolitan District tax
A tax measure for road improvements in Blue Valley Acres Unit No. 2 failed by 53 percent.
The measure only applies to a small community south of Kremmling, near the Summit County line. A total of 76 residents cast their vote. It would have increased property taxes by up to 5 mills from 2014 to 2018.
10:40 p.m., Nov. 5 — The Byers Peak annexation questions in Fraser are now becoming a toss-up, with 50.53% for Referendum 300 and 50.17% against Referendum 301. The county has now counted 4,328 ballots.
9:00 p.m., Nov. 5 — With 3,429 ballots now tallied, Grand County election results aren't showing much change. Support for the library district tax mill levy increase is lagging, with 56 percent of voters against Measure 1A. Around 65 percent of voters favor a measure that would ask Colorado for one senator per county, Measure 1B. Fraser voters are in favor of a town tax on retail marijuana sales, which would be in addition to the taxes Colorado voters just passed under Proposition AA. Fraser voters are also supporting Byers Peak annexation, with 56 percent in favor of Referendum 300 and 55 percent in favor of Referendum 301. Voters continue to reject East Grand Schools technology mill levy, with 58 percent against Measure 3A.
8:20 p.m., Nov. 5 — Colorado voters have rejected Amendment 66, which would have raised taxes for schools, and approved Proposition AA, which will create sales taxes for recreational retail marijuana. Preliminary election results show Grand County voters feel the same -- 72 percent have rejected Amendment 66 and 64 percent have supported Proposition AA so far.
7:40 p.m, Nov. 5 — In school board elections, East Grand Schools' most highly contested district 3, preliminary results show Angel DeCicco with about 38 percent of the votes, ahead of Mike Lohman (35 percent) and Matt Friesen (28 percent). In East Grand's District 5, Mike McGinely is ahead of incumbent Jerry Reed at 53 percent. West Grand School District preliminary results show Susan Ritschard with 21 percent, Brendan Gale with 20 percent, Jessica Smiley with 18 percent, Tim Thomson with 16 percent, Travis Hoesli with 12 percent and Jon Ewert with 12 percent.
Only 2,621 votes have been counted and there are plenty more to go. Keep watching our Facebook feed or check www.skyhidailynews.com for updates.
7:15 p.m., Nov. 5 — Preliminary unofficial results from the Grand County election are in. Referred Measure 1A, which would raise property taxes for libraries, has 43 percent for and 57 percent against. Grand County's question about seeking more senatorial representation for states (instead of pursuing secession), Referred Measure 1B, has 65 percent for and 35 percent against. The Byers Peak annexation questions are passing so far with Fraser voters, with about 58 percent for Referendum 300 and 56 percent for Referendum 301. East Grand School's technology mill levy, Referred Measure 3A, is at 42 percent for and 58 percent against.
With state measures, only 28 percent of Grand County residents have voted in favor of Amendment 66, which would raise taxes for preschool to high school education in Colorado. About 64 percent of county voters are in favor of Proposition AA so far, which would tax recreational retail marijuana sales to help the state fund regulation of the new industry. Voters are also showing support for an additional tax on retail marijuana sold in Fraser, Referred Measure 2C, which has so far received 66 percent in favor.


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Detecting a lie
POSTED: 12:25 PM Dec 27 2012 UPDATED: 5:49 PM Jan 18 2013
Lance Armstrong told the world Thursday evening that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win seven Tour de France. He said during the interview "I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times." Have you ever wondered how to detect a lie? Use these helpful tips to find out how.


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Some Ohio residents who are struggling to pay health care costs after losing their jobs as a result of RG Steel's bankruptcy are receiving some help from the other side of the Ohio River.
West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and Ohio Gov. John Kasich jointly announced a $1.2 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Labor that will help up to 500 displaced RG Steel employees pay for health benefits as they await acceptance into a federal program that pays for a large portion of those benefits - a process that often takes two months or more, according to United Steelworkers contract coordinator John Saunders.
Though this "gap filler" grant will aid Ohio residents only, it will be administered by WorkForce West Virginia, which has experience offering a similar program for displaced RG Steel workers in West Virginia.
The grant will assist displaced workers who opt to receive health care through the federal Health Coverage Tax Credit program, which is open to those who have lost their jobs due to outsourcing and retirees who receive pension payments from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. It pays for 72.5 percent of enrollee's monthly health insurance premiums in the form of a tax credit.
"It offers good benefits at a good price, at a time when people have lost their benefits," Saunders said of the program.
But, Saunders said, the application process takes time, and without this grant some families would have to come up with thousands of dollars per month to pay the premium while awaiting approval of their HCTC application.
"It was impossible for them to come up with that large amount of money," Saunders said, noting the grant allows applicants to immediately begin receiving the 72.5 percent benefit.
According to Saunders, the grant will affect those most recently laid off from the Wheeling Corrugating plant in Beech Bottom, the Mountain State Carbon coke plant in Follansbee and the administrative offices in Wheeling, in addition to workers from the Warren, Ohio, steel plant.
And United Steelworkers Local 1223 President Jerry Conners said it will help 50 to 60 of the workers he represents from the Yorkville cold rolling plant as they wait to be called back to work by Esmark, which bought the facility earlier this year.
"With workers in both West Virginia and Ohio being affected by recent layoffs at RG Steel, I know we have families in both states struggling to make ends meet. I'm truly grateful we have programs available to help our families afford their insurance premiums," said Tomblin.


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How can I tell linux to send directly from my microphone to my loudspeaker?
This depends on your audio system.
By default, your mic input should be already send to your speaker.
Please specify your problem a little bit more in detail.
A common problem is, that you will have to unmute your mic channel.
The major audio systems for linux since 2.6 is ALSA.
The default mixer application is curses based and can be opened on the terminal with
If you are using an older installation, maybe your audio system is OSS. The default mixing application for this one is
If you are using some other setup which could include JACK or PulseAudio, provide us with more details.


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Been on a few dates now with Clark Kent. I haven't written because I'm not really quite sure what to say. Strange from me, I know.
I don't have anything bad to say about him. He hasn't done anything awful or offensive. But something is clearly off or missing that I can't put my finger on. Putting that aside, we had a very candid conversation about how he is not looking for a relationship, doesn't have time to commit to someone at the moment and wouldn't be a good boyfriend to anyone. So….where do you go from there?
I told him, that I was in fact, looking for a relationship, but I appreciated his honesty and wasn't sure where that left us. Put that together with me being ambivalent and I was okay no matter how this thing pans out. He said he was ideally looking for a friend that he could hang out with, do things with and be sexually attracted to them (which I suppose is code for sleeping with them). Dating with no strings or friends with benefits…no matter what you call it, it's what a lot of men (I won't say most) want and it's bullshit. It's all the so-called good stuff and none of the committment or obligation. Nice try buddy.
Needless to say, of course I heard from him again days later. Checking in and saying hello, and then ultimately asking if I'd like to go out again. Hmmm…..
"Is this us going on a date or going out as friends?" I asked.
"How about friends going out on a date?!" he lamely offers up.
So what am I supposed to do with that now? Ah, fuck it, I'll go. I'm not feeling vulnerable like I'll get hurt because I'm so on the fence anyhow. But I need to at least kiss this guy to see if we have any sexual chemistry since our social chemistry is fair but a bit awkward in my opinion. Perhaps this will tip me over the fence one way or the other.
But here's the kicker…..he doesn't drink…..or smoke….or drink coffee….or eat sushi. I mean my entire social existence is based on those things! So I ask – if you go out to dinner on a date,and you don't drink, and there's a certain nervous awkwardness and questionable things in common…..what do you do when you're done eating???
Which was where we wrapped up date number two btw.
I don't know about him, but I needed to be a little buzzed in this scenario while I test the waters. So outside of me acquiring some kind of date rape drug, how am I supposed to loosen up, loosen him up and see if there is anything lying beneath the surface with Clark Kent? I should note that his texts throughout the week were consistently sexual in nature, despite us barely touching skin beyond a good-bye kiss on the cheek and then peck on the lips. He was giving definitive, wolf in sheep's clothing vibe and I've been down this road before.
The best looking, most charming, sexiest guys (The Pilot, The Greek, Still Married Guy etc.) all had a magical spell over me until we hit the sack. Then their mystical powers vanished and then what I was left with was a selfish or inadequate lover who clearly has never been told by, or asked a woman what actually works and what clearly doesn't. And I guarantee they all think they're spectacular in bed.
But I digress…..
The flip side to this coin is that the mild-mannered, somewhat nerdy, non-player, average Joes have always been amazing when it comes to pleasing a woman (namely me) and can't seem to do enough to make me happy and pleasantly surprised and left with a newfound respect and sense of wonder and delight.
So I just KNEW Clark Kent would be good. I just felt it. He has no vices he's got to be a sexual deviant or at the very least, damn good in bed.
He asked me to a museum and it was one of those days that I just felt like nesting in. Watching a movie, making dinner and wearing loose clothes or sweats if possible. He happily agreed and I knew I had to get him drunk, or at least tipsy and test these waters….
Since I don't like to describe my sexual exploits (simply hint to them), I'll say I made my famous sangria that just about any non-drinker will imbibe with delight. I threw in a pinch of rum, clearly disguised by the sugar and wham! We're good to go. Home cooked meal, a biz of booze and he's at my place. I'm no dummy.
Yadda yadda yadda….
We talked and cooked and dinner was fucking delicious if I must say so myself. Peruvian roasted chicken with brown rice, salad and cilantro dressing. Again questioning our chemistry and if we were on the same wave length, I was still stuck on the board and waiting to grab my get out of jail or you've won a beauty contest collect $200 to move this thing ahead or back two steps to get out of the holding pattern in my brain.
My so-called plan worked. He eventually leaned in and kissed me and I knew from that moment this was going to be good….And I was right.
So do I like him now? Still not sure. But it's nice to have options.


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April 19, 2013
Chelsea Flower Show 2013 – Kirstenbosch going for gold again
The Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden's exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society's 2013 Chelsea Flower Show will be an enclosed reconstruction of the Central Garden and the Dell, the oldest and most beautiful parts of the garden.
This year's competition is a very special one, as both Kirstenbosch and the Chelsea Flower Show celebrate their centenary.
The Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show will be held from May 21 to 25 in London, and the award-winning Kirstenbosch team will be aiming to win their 33rd gold medal.
The exhibition, once again conceptualised and designed by David Davidson and Raymond Hudson will be a circular, walk-through exhibition featuring the Dell and the Cycad Ampitheatre on one side, and the Protea Garden and mountain skyline on the other.
An overhead canopy will be reminiscent of the sky and will enhance the sense of quietude Kirstenbosch is renowned for.
One of the highlights of the exhibit will be the "Centenarians" – the oldest plants. These plants have been growing at Kirstenbosch for 100 years or more, or were introduced during the first five years, 1913-1917, and are still there today. Not all of the specimens are 100 years old. Some are cuttings, offshoots or seedlings of the original plants and have been propagated and grown at Kirstenbosch over the past 100 years. The ever-popular Protea family will provide a colourful and always fascinating display against the iconic Table Mountain backdrop.
Here's a sneak peek of what the exhibition will look like:
The external walls of the exhibit feature the history of the establishment and development of the Garden, and the two external corner displays feature another of the Garden's main seasonal attractions, the Mathews Rockery on one side, and a specimen display of Kirstenbosch Centenarian plants on the other.
A century ago the tract of land on which Kirstenbosch stands was a derelict farm, with roaming herds of pigs, thickets of weeds and plantations of alien plants. Now it is one of the most beautiful gardens in the world, and a tourist drawcard. It also forms part of UNESCO's Cape Floral Kingdom.
The development of Kirstenbosch began in 1913 in the natural amphitheatre embracing the Dell, in the heart of the Garden. The paths and steps leading up from the Dell were paved and cobbled in local stone by Kirstenbosch stonemasons.
By 1916 all but two of the species of cycads found in South Africa (at that time) had been planted and this Living Collection – the first to be established at Kirstenbosch – today contains 37 of approximately 40 Southern African cycad species and remains a world-class, living gene-bank of these ancient and remarkable plants.
The Dell was one of the earliest developments in Kirstenbosch. Colonel Bird's Bath, often erroneously referred to Lady Anne Barnard's Bath, was built in approximately 1811 by Colonel Christopher Bird, Deputy Colonial Secretary. He built this bird-shaped pool (a play on his name) to collect and purify springwater, before it was piped to the farmhouse nearby. It is built of Batavian bricks and fed by four crystal-clear, ice-cold perennial springs. Then, as now, this is the discreet focal point of the Garden, from which all else radiates.
Plants are sourced from all over the country for the Chelsea Flower Show, making this a combined effort from both farmers and landscapers who take pride in participating at this prestigious event. Community projects are also represented, to ensure that local programmes benefit from their inclusion.
The entry is being sponsored by the South African Gold Coin Exchange for the fourth year. Winning a 33rd gold medal is the goal and is the synergy that the Chairman of the SA Gold Coin Exchange and Scoin shops, Alan Demby, enjoys.
"As a sponsor for the past three years, we have seen the team win RHS gold medals annually. The Mandela's Gold Strelitzia at Kirstenbosch has been the inspiration for a limited edition Gold Mandela medallion. This features the portrait of Mandela on the obverse and the Strelitzia on the reverse. Our commitment and sponsorship to the Kirstenbosch attempt to win even more gold medals is reinforced with this medallion and in this, the Centenary year, we see even more synergies with our coin ranges." he says.
Dr Tanya Abrahamse, CEO of the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), will be there to cheer the team on.
"To celebrate the Centenary of Kirstenbosch and to exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show Centenary is a wonderful opportunity to show the value that we place on our botanical heritage. Biodiversity is our natural capital – it is the extraordinary variety of life, such as plants, animals and insects that are the foundation of ecosystems that provide people with sustainable benefits. From ecosystems we derive essential goods and services, such as food, water, grazing, pollination, fish and medicines. Our ecological infrastructure is an extremely valuable national asset, and we embrace the opportunity Chelsea affords us to highlight this," says Abrahamse.
Davidson and Hudson has led the winning design team for 19 years, winning 14 gold medals in that time.
"Our experience at Chelsea over the years has been exhilarating, and being part of two Centenaries is an added bonus. This exhibit shows the world the importance we place on our natural heritage and history, and Kirstenbosch's 'coming of age' gives the traveller yet another reason to visit South Africa and come into our Garden," says Davidson.
The good news for South Africans and visitors, is that the exhibit will be recreated at the V&A Waterfront from August 31 until September 24.


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In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.
Praise be to Allah, prayer and peace be upon the last of the Prophets and Messengers.
Your Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, the Emir of the State of Kuwait, Chairman of the Summit,
Honorable audience,
Peace and Allah's mercy and blessings be upon you.
We hope as do all the peoples of the Arab nation that this economic summit will result in clear-cut and promising outcomes that would ensure the security and prosperity of every Arab and Muslim across the world.
Despite the importance of the economy it pales beside life itself and human dignity without which life is not worth living. We have witnessed over the past days bloody, painful and brutal scenes and genocide being carried out by a criminal, inhuman, and merciless gang as the world listened and watched. The murderers and their supporters forgot that the Torah said "an eye for an eye"; the Torah did not say "an eye for the eyes of an entire city."
Israel must realize that the choice between peace and war will not be available all the time, and that the Arab Initiative on the table today will not be on the table for ever.
Dear brothers,
We do salute Gaza's martyrs, heroes, and steadfast resistance, and salute those who have exerted efforts and thoughts to stem the bloodshed, especially our brothers in Egypt under the leadership of President Hosni Mubarak.
Honesty entails that we say to our brothers in Palestine that discord among them is more threatening to their cause than the Israeli aggression, and I would like to remind them of the fact that Allah has linked victory to unity and defeat to dispute when he said "And hold fast all together by the Rope which Allah (stretches out for you), and be not divided among yourselves."
My brothers, leaders of the Arab states,
I have to be candid and honest with myself and you, and say that our political disputes have led us to discords and divisions and rendered our will shattered. These disputes have helped and are still helping our treacherous Israeli enemy and whoever seeks to sow discord within the Arab ranks and take full advantage of promoting their regional goals at the expense of our unity, dignity and aspirations.
We, leaders of Arab states, with no exception of any of us, are fully responsible for the current weakness in our position. I plead to you in the name of Allah and then in the name of the martyred of our children, women and the elderly in Gaza; in the name of the blood unjustly shed in Palestine, in the name of dignity, in the name of our peoples who have despaired; I plead to you, myself included, to overcome our wounds and divisions and to discredit our enemy's opinions about us and to take up a dignified position which history will not forget and of which our nation will be proud.
Allow me to announce on behalf of all of us that we have surmounted the era of division and that we have opened the door for an Arab fraternity and unity for all Arabs with no exception or reservation, and that we will face the future renouncing our differences as one solid cemented structure, holding fast to the Holy verse "Fall into no dispute, Lest ye lose heart and your power depart."
Dear brothers, before I conclude my speech, and on behalf of your brothers, the people of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I announce the contribution of $1 billion to the Gaza reconstruction program proposed by the summit, realizing at the same time that a single drop of Palestinian blood is far more precious than the treasures of the earth combined.
May God's peace and blessings be upon you all.


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A Fed Party: Burn Notice
You know you're going to watch it anyway... why not nerd out with people in eRepublik?
You know you're going to watch it anyway... why not nerd out with people in eRepublik?
... but the eUS had one of the greatest victories of ALL TIME.
I haven't really addressed this issue directly in public, although I've had this private conversation a number of times now. May as well just get it all out there. I've left the Federalists and am joining the Democratic Party. Allow me to explain...
Although most parties had elected strong, reasonable leaders and had begun to focus on self-improvement for the sake of the nation, some people have questioned whether the new atmosphere would be able to last. Could we possibly maintain the desire… read more »
After 2 and a half months, my time as the Federalist Party President has come to an end. I am incredibly proud of all we have accomplished since I took office and overjoyed that there are so many potential leaders coming up in the Feds. We have… read more »


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June 24, 2010
Cameroon vs Netherlands at Cape Town Stadium
Dutch supporters at Cape Town Stadium. Photo by Bronwen D'Oliveira
The Netherlands beat Cameroon 2 - 1 in their 2010 FIFA World Cup™ match at Cape Town Stadium in Green Point on Thursday evening.
Arsenal striker, Robin van Persie, opened the scoring in the 35th minute, when he pushed the ball between the legs of Cameroon's goalkeeper, Souleymanou Hamidou.
Cameroon striker and captain, Samuel Eto'o, slotted a penalty in the 65th minute to level the scores. The former Barcelona star was certainly one player that Cape Town football fans would have enjoyed watching.
In the 83rd minute, Dutch striker, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, stole the lead back for his team. The Netherlands won all three of their group matches and will now face Slovakia in the Round of 16 in Durban on Monday.
Earlier in the day, some 8 000 Netherlands supporters partied at the FIFA Fan Fest outside the Cape Town City Hall. The Dutch have so far been the liveliest and most colourful fans to visit Cape Town during the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ so far.
Cape Town resident, Bronwen D'Oliveira, who has attended three matches during the tournament so far, said this match had by far the best atmosphere so far.
The more popular players in the Netherlands side included van Persie and midfielder, Wesley Sneijder.
Cape Town Stadium will host three more matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, starting with a Round of 16 match on Tuesday, which is likely to be a colossal clash between Spain and Brazil, perhaps the two most exciting teams in world football. That match would include world superstars such as Kaka, Robhino, Fernando Torres, David Villa and Cesc Fabregas.
A trip to South Africa is not complete without seeing Cape Town, so check out our domestic flights and accommodation specials and get here as soon as you can, to support your team.
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Mutation to Guide Treatment in Lung Cancer
Last Modified: January 7, 2013
The surgeon who did my biopsy said they will look for "mutation" and my treatment will depend on the result. What does this mean?
Linda Miller, RN, BSN, Oncology Nurse Navigator at Penn Medicine responds:
Your physician is referring to the different molecular markers that your specific tumor may contain. Determining those "mutations" allow your physician to develop a more individualized treatment plan based on your specific tumor. This allows for the use of possible "targeted therapies".
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series. View the entire transcript from the Focus on Lung Cancer Webchat.
I wish u knew... Caring for people with advanced lung cancerby Timothy J. Hampshire
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Photo SpecialGolden Globe Moments
The Golden Globes, held in January, are often thought of as the appetizer to the main event – March's Oscars. But that doesn't mean the first big player in Hollywood's awards show season isn't just as scrumptious when it comes to head-turning moments. Whether it's Hilary Swank besting veterans like Meryl Streep, or Jodie Foster turning up with Russell Crowe on her arm, the stars always make the Golden Globes a memorable event.
Credit: Michael Ferguson/Globe
Updated: Monday Apr 05, 2004 | 01:00 AM EDT By: By Lucy Maher
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I have a pdf catalog that was given to me from a client in pdf format. They don't have the images but they're in the pdf.
Is there a way to extract all images from a pdf using a command line tool while preserving it's original file names?
I reviewed this thread ( Extract images from PDF with layer masks ) but this is for individual images.