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The Struggle and Triumph of Debra, Darren, and Rebecca Mullen
Julia Draznin Maltzman, MD
The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: August 13, 2004
On October 1, 2004 a team of twenty cyclists led by six time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, will depart Los Angeles California and cycle across country to Washington DC, in the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope. These amazing twenty were selected from over 1,200 applicants to raise awareness and share their passion for cancer therapy and cancer clinical trials. All of these men and women have intimate stories to share about how cancer has affected them personally. Each one of these cyclists has had to overcome this disease in one way or another.
Once such cyclist is a truly an exceptional man, Darren Mullen. Not only does he hold one of the most dangerous jobs there is – a US firefighter, but he also helped his wife fight breast cancer; a battle that she ultimately lost. He is now raising their seven-year old daughter and is riding in the Tour of Hope for both of them. "In memory of Deb and for Rebecca's future" he said. I had the privilege of speaking with Darren about his experiences.
OncoLink: Thank you for agreeing to speak with me. Most of our readers are patients looking for information and help in making very difficult decisions in their lives. I wanted to interview you in the hope that you might encourage and motivate some of our readers who may be going through a similar experience. Could you tell me a bit about your wife and how she was diagnosed and what she went through?
DM: Deb and I met in college. We dated for four years until she finally talked me into getting married. I distinctly remember, it was the night of September 11, 2001. We were watching this nightmare unfold on the TV and stayed up late talking about it. It was 1:30am and Deb finally told me that she found a lump in her left breast in the shower that day. She was not looking for it, she just happened to feel it in the shower. Because of the events of the day, she did not want to tell me earlier.
I went to work the next day, totally overwhelmed with everything. Not only were we going through this in the country, you know, I am a fireman, but my own wife found this lump. I should mention that Deb's mom died of breast cancer when Deb was only 7 years old.
Deb called me and told me she made an appointment with the doctor. She had been getting yearly mammograms from her early 20's because of her family history. The last mammogram was Jan 2001 and it was totally fine. At any rate, by September 29, 2001 we knew that it was a 5 cm – walnut sized – infiltrating ductal cell carcinoma of the left breast. Deb did some digging and found out that her mom had died of the exact same type of cancer, in the same breast, at the age of 37 back in 1974.
Within three weeks she had a mastectomy on the left with a lymph node dissection. Only one lymph node had what they called microscopic involvement. Given her family history, we decided that Deb should get a simple mastectomy on the right as a prophylactic measure. Then she started the chemotherapy. She was immediately enrolled in a clinical trial. She received Adriamycin, Cytoxan, and Taxotere. The arm that she was randomized to was to receive all this chemotherapy that would ordinarily take six months, into a three-month treatment course.
It was so hard on her, but she never complained. The therapy was very intense, she was extremely tired, nauseated, and achy. They gave her GCSF shots to boost her white blood cells and they gave her lots of bone pain. Deb was always upbeat and optimistic through all of this. I was the only who thought why do we need a clinical trial? If something is really better it would be the standard therapy. But Deb believed in it and was the model patient. In fact, her doctors would send the newly diagnosed women to talk with Deb for support and encouragement.
Everything was fine for about 6 months or so. She looked great and had even gone back to work. Until October 2, 2002 when Deb was visiting a friend she made at the cancer center while the friend was getting her treatment, Deb noticed a lump under her left clavicle. She asked the nurse what this may be. The nurse made her an appointment with the doctor the next day. Sure enough, it was cancer.
Even with this devastating news Deb was upbeat. She began weekly chemotherapy and daily radiation. In February 2003, Deb was due for restaging. Although, her lump under her clavicle was gone, her disease had spread to her chest wall and abdomen. The local doctors here in Wichita said that there was nothing more we could do to "buy you some time". This was the first time we had heard or thought of "time". They said that things were not looking good. Deb did not take this as an option and announced that we are going to Houston to see what MD Anderson may offer. When the doctors tried to tell us that they think MD Anderson docs will say pretty much the same as what they were saying, Deb just said "I'm going to Houston and I am taking my chart with me".
At MD Anderson she enrolled in another clinical trial where she got a study drug that we knew by number only. She lived in a small rented apartment from March to July 2003. We kept Rebecca in school here in Wichita and I flew down as much as I could. Various family members would come and stay with her. She really needed to be there as she was getting weekly therapy. As I look back at that time, some of the greatest moments Deb and I had, were just being together in Texas. We spent a day in Galveston and just enjoyed and treasured being together.
At first the study medication was working but the second restaging CAT scans came in July 2003 and they showed that the disease had spread. We wanted to go on another trial but the rules were such that you had to be off any other study for a certain period of time before beginning another trial. So we returned home.
At home Deb was placed on a drug called Capecitabinebut I could tell that things were not going well. She would complain of dizzy spells and say odd things that were out of context. When I mentioned this to her doctors they immediately ordered a CAT scan of the head which confirmed our worst fear. By the end of July 2003, Deb had developed metastasis to her brain.
At this point our doctor told us that it was time to get hospice involved. We did home hospice for a while but then, Deb's pain was too difficult to control so for the last 2 weeks of her life she was in an in-patient hospice facility. Deb passed away Aug 31, 2003.
OncoLink: How much of this did your daughter understand and how did it affect family dynamics?
DM: Rebecca understood much more than I gave her credit for. She was only 4 when all this began. We informed her as much as we could given how young she was. She was so good about getting shuttled back and forth from and to the two grandmothers and aunts and cousins.
In the beginning, she would go with Deb to her treatments and sit on her lap. She wanted to help the nurses flush her port. She lifted Deb's spirits. I remember when we got the news that Deb had brain mets, I sat down with Rebecca and told her that Mommy may not be OK anymore. She said "No, Mommy will be OK." I thought, oh boy, she really does not get it. Then Rebecca said "If Mommy's cancer goes away then she will be OK and if Mommy goes to heaven then she'll be OK too". And I thought, OK, when I need to talk to someone I'll just talk to my daughter.
OncoLink: Before this happened did you ever even think of cancer? Had you known anyone affected by the disease or was it always something you hear about but does not happen to you?
DM: Unfortunately, yes. My grandfather died of melanoma in 1970. My father died of liver cancer in 1990. My mom remarried in 1998 and three months after their wedding her new husband died of kidney cancer. And, of course, Deb's mom.
Honestly, I expected something to happen to me and no t Deb. Given my family history and my job, I thought for sure something would happen to me. After all, Deb was being followed with yearly mammograms. She was being vigilant and careful with her follow up.
OncoLink: Why do you think you were chosen for this Tour of Hope over the other 1,200 applicants? I am sure their stories were also as heart wrenching and their struggle as difficult?
DM: Good question. When I met my teammates, I was blown away with what these people went through and how they survived and thrived afterwards. It is really an amazing group of people. I guess I am just lucky to be chosen to be among these individuals. You know, my story is not particularly uplifting or happy. And, certainly, there are other cyclists much better than me. I don't know why they chose me but I am excited and glad to be part of this team. In fact, I'll be sad on October 9 th when it's all over.
OncoLink: What does this Tour mean to you? What do you hope to accomplish?
DM: Personally, I want to continue Deb's fight. She was always so positive and upbeat, I need to carry this on to other people. Deb would calm and support all the other patients in the treatment facility. Even the day after we got the news at MD Anderson that the study drug was no longer effective and that the disease has spread, Deb talked to a lymphoma patient for about four hours reassuring her that things will work out. I want to carry on her fight. And I want to fight for my daughter. Given Rebecca's family history she may be faced with this disease in the future. I am riding in Deb's memory and for Rebecca's future.
If I can help one person out there realize that as bad as things get there is always hope and some good can come out of the most miserable situations then I have done what I have set out to do.
OncoLink: Not all of us are able to bike across the county, what should we as good neighbors and citizens be doing to raise awareness?
DM: Best thing is to know your risk factors and be prepared for whatever life has in store. No one really expects it to happen to them, but you need to be prepared for anything.
Plus, people need to understand the value of clinical trials. Without clinical trials new therapies and drugs would never get out of the laboratory. I was educated through this entire ordeal. As I said, at first I was skeptical about clinical trials, and why should my wife undergo experimental therapy, I want her to have the best and the best must be known. I learned that clinical trials are the way to future therapy; either better treatments or less toxic therapies. I need there to be a cure for breast cancer if Rebecca should ever get it in the future.
OncoLink: What should the medical community be doing in order reach more people?
DM: Trial drugs need to be more available. What do I know, I am only a fireman, but some people may not be able to afford to go to Houston for treatment.
Insurance is a big issue too. Our insurance, although they did pay for what they were supposed to, did not do so willingly and we had to fight each step of the way. Pretty much as soon as we landed in Houston they said that they wouldn't pay for anything. While all this is going on the last thing you want to do is deal with your insurance carrier.
I guess medical professionals need to help newly diagnosed patients know that clinical trials exist, what they are, and how they can be beneficial to the patient.
OncoLink: What has your experience taught you? How have you changed through this?
DM: I appreciate every day more. I appreciate watching my daughter. Work is less important to me now. Work is now something I do to allow me to do the things that are really more important. I love sitting on the porch with my daughter and just laughing over nothing.
Our time is not guaranteed. We can not control the quantity of our lives but we can sure control the quality so we must make every day special.
OncoLink: How will you remember your wife to your daughter? How would you like the world to remember her?
DM: Deb was my best friend, my wife. She was not perfect, none of us are, but she was perfect for me. She worked in an eye doctors' office but she made her living by being a mom. She loved Rebecca more than anything and was terrified to have her grow up with out a mom as she did herself. She wanted Rebecca to laugh and enjoy life. I want and need Rebecca to know that – always.
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Subject: [OMPI users] Checkpoint/Restart in OpenMPI
From: Andreea m. \(Costea\) (doodlie_snew_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-30 04:51:35
I'm a newbie, and I want to test the checkpoint/restart mechanism included in OpenMPI v 1.3.3. I have tried to search for some documentation about how to install the OpenMPI implementation in order to support checkpoint/restart, and I found lots of links to
which seems not to work. Can you please advise me what to read or what steps to follow in order to have everything working?
I already installed OpenMPI but checkpoint/restart doesn't work. During installation, in installation log I found teh following lines (don't know if it's my software configuration fault or the way I installed OpenMPI):
--- MCA component pml:crcpw (m4 configuration macro)
checking for MCA component pml:crcpw compile mode... dso
checking if MCA component pml:crcpw can compile... no
+++ Configuring MCA framework crcp
checking for no configure components in framework crcp...
checking for m4 configure components in framework crcp... bkmrk
--- MCA component crcp:bkmrk (m4 configuration macro)
checking for MCA component crcp:bkmrk compile mode... dso
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I have a project with a lot of submodules and I want to delete all remote branches named foo in the submodules, if it exists.
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Im trying to dual boot win 7 and ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop(asus u47), ive tried creating unallocated space in win 7 and creating a partition in ubuntu but it wants to unmount a previous partition (im assuming its talking about the c: drive in win 7), not sure if i should unmount it or not but i do not have a recovery disk for win 7 (and i do need win 7) so i do not want to risk losing it. Right now ive increased the size of c: drive so there is no unallocated space anymore. And as a side note I have tried this with ubuntu 12.10, still no recognition of win 7. My hard drive setup in the disk mng in win 7 is just c: drive and system reserved. Oh and fyi my tech level is average so im not that great at this stuff. And sorry if this has been asked before, But i never saw anything. Thanks!!
First of all, I recommend using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (The LTS stands for Long Term Support), as you appear to be new to Ubuntu, and 12.04 LTS is the most stable version.
What I think you need to do is put in the Windows disk, and create three partitions, one for Windows, one for Ubuntu, and one small 4gb one called a "swap space". Install Windows on one of them (not the swap space), and when that's done, put in your Ubuntu disk, and install Ubuntu on the partition that you haven't yet used.
Installing Ubuntu last should ensure that GRUB sees Windows as it's going in, so it will add it to the boot menu.
If you have any more questions, just ask.
"Unmounting" a partition is non-destructive -- that term means that the partition is being made inaccessible to the currently-booted computer, but the partition won't be deleted or damaged in any way. Thus, if you're using the term correctly, you shouldn't be concerned about unmounting a partition.
That said, if you're using the term correctly, it's puzzling, since the Ubuntu installer does not, AFAIK, mount the Windows partition, much less unmount it, and it only unmounts the partition(s) it creates at the end of the installation process. Thus, I'm not sure what might be generating that message. I recommend you try again and report what happens with more precision. Describe everything you do in the step or two up to the message and take a screen shot, if necessary, so that you can report the exact wording of the message.


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I've recently become interested in the elementary theory of groups due to Sela and Myasnikov-Kharlampovich's work with free groups. I'd like a good introduction to the field of the elementary theory of groups, and in particular I'd like a reference to contain examples of group properties that cannot be read from a group's elementary theory. For example, it seems that the statements "G is vritually abelian" or "G is hopfian" could not be expressed with first-order sentences, but I don't have enough knowledge yet to determine if such things are true. Does anyone know such a reference? Or, specifically, does someone know a proof of the fact that being hopfian (or some other group property) can't be read from a group's elementary theory? Thanks!
I learned a lot from reading Bestvina and Feighn's article Notes on Sela's work: Limit groups and Makanin-Razborov diagrams. It's not a broad introduction to elementary theory, but it does express some of Sela's ideas quite succinctly. You may need a background in geometric group theory (specifically, in understanding laminations on 2-complexes or group actions on $\mathbb{R}$-trees) to get the most out of it.
Regarding the question of whether or not the Hopf property is elementary: the answer is obviously `no' if you allow infinitely generated examples. Indeed, consider the free group on countably many generators, $F_\infty$. The elementary theory is completely determined by the set of finitely generated subgroups, so $F_\infty$ is elementary equivalent to $F_2$. But $F_2$ is Hopfian and $F_\infty$ is not.
EDIT: I'm getting a little nervous about the claim that the elementary theory is determined by the list of finitely generated subgroups. However, Sela and Kharlampovich--Miasnikov proved that the natural inclusions $F_n\subseteq F_{n+1}$ are elementary embeddings, from which it does indeed follow that $F_\infty$ is elementarily equivalent to $F_2$.
I don't know a finitely generated example, although I agree that one must surely exist.
You might try Champetier and Guirardel's Limit groups as limits of free groups. It has a short section (section 5) on elementary and universal theory, though perhaps none of the "non-examples" you're looking for. It is, however, a pleasure to read and if you're interested in limit groups, Makanin-Razborov digrams, etc. I highly recommend it.


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Dr Z's grade of 1997 draft - 5 years late [11:34 PM]
CNN/SI reports: DE Marcellus Wiley in the second round was their best pick and he left via free agency. No one else remains, including their No. 1, RB Antowain Smith, who never quite cut it with the Bills, and a couple of linemen who were occasional starters but not very effective, Jamie Nails and Marcus Spriggs. Grade ... D
Jim Haslett likely to recommend Tom Modrak for the general manager of Saints [11:12 PM]
ESPN reports: To ensure that he has a shot at lasting beyond this season, look for Haslett to suggest Benson consider Buffalo director of football operations Tom Modrak for the GM post. Modrak is a friend of Haslett, and when he was in Philadelphia, recommended the Eagles hire him in 1999, before club officials decided on Andy Reid as the guy. Modrak is a terrific football man and he would bring instant respect to the seemingly directionless Saints.
Bills Backers Focus-Florida Style [4:32 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: The Space Coast Bills Backers recently held their 5th Annual Spring Fling Picnic in Kiwanis Park on Merritt Island, Florida. The picnic is held for club members every year, just before the "snow bird" friends return to the Buffalo area for the summer.
Bills partner with Bausch & Lomb for 2002 Training Camp [9:40 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: Bausch & Lomb and the Bills announced their partnership for 2002 Training Camp yesterday in Rochester, NY.
Training Camp Dates Announced [9:39 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: The Bills announced 2002 Training Camp Dates yesterday.
Sponsor to see Bills through camp [9:04 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'Bausch & Lomb, which markets products in 100 countries, already had a three-year business partnership with the Bills. But being the sponsor of training camp gives the company a chance to enhance its visibility, said Mark M. Sieczkarek, Bausch & Lomb's senior vice president and president of The Americas Region.'
Bills and B&L see eye-to-eye [5:06 AM]
D and C reports: 'Bausch & Lomb replaces Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., which dissolved its marketing partnership with the Bills earlier this year after its request to scale back and sponsor training camp only was rebuffed by the team. Tops Friendly Markets has since become the club's official supermarket but its contract didn't include naming rights to the camp like Wegmans had. That opened the door for Bausch & Lomb.'
B&L to sponsor Bills training camp [5:05 AM]
Rochester Business Journal reports: '�It�s an excellent way to bring the message of the importance of eye health to the many young people at the camp and the fans who follow the Bills,� he said.'
Bills announce new training camp sponsor [5:04 AM]
WHEC-TV reports: 'The third training camp at St. John Fisher begins July 24th when rookies are scheduled to report. The rest of the team will arrive on Friday July 26th. The Bills also be holding a scrimmage with the Cleveland Browns at Fisher August 3rd.'
Bausch and Lomb and Buffalo Bills Team Up for Training Camp [5:03 AM]
WROC-TV reports: 'Under the deal, the camp at St. John Fisher will be known as the Buffalo Bills Bausch and Lomb training camp. And they're adding a unique feature this year. B&L will provide vision screening to kids who attend.'
B&L And Bills Make It Official [5:02 AM]
WOKR-TV reports: 'Mark Sieczkarek, Bausch & Lomb Senior V.P., said, "[The partnership] reflects a commitment to our community. We haven't been as active in the community given the issues that we've been facing, and we want to get back out there and be seen and heard certainly by our employees and by the community itself."'
Introducing the Buffalo Bills Bausch & Lomb Summer Training Camp [5:01 AM]
Bausch & Lomb reports: 'Buffalo Bills President and General Manager Tom Donahoe said, �Bausch & Lomb is a name brand that is respected around the world. We are privileged to have the opportunity to work together as partners in training camp. In addition to the wonderful things we are planning on the marketing front, the opportunities we have to work within the community are equally exciting."'
Buffalo Bills Bausch & Lomb Training Camp: 2002 Important Dates [5:33 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: Key dates pertaining to the 2002 Buffalo Bills Bausch & Lomb Training Camp at St. John Fisher College have been announced.
Familiar Neighborhood For LB Eddie Robinson [10:05 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: When the Bills acquired the 10-year veteran this off-season, they got more than just an average NFL linebacker. The 6-1, 243-pound Robinson brings the Bills experience, leadership and a vast knowledge of the defensive philosophy that head coach Gregg Williams and defensive coordinator Jerry Gray brought from the Tennessee Titans.
Robinson, Moore answer age-old questions [9:05 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"There was a time when I first went to camp in Miami that I had an ashtray in my locker because they were coming off the old school where they used camp to get in shape," Moore said. "Now you have to be ready to go full steam when you come into camp."'
Bills' Irons investing in dream now [9:04 AM]
Nashville Tennessean reports: 'Irons passed up an offer to enter General Electric's Incoming Leadership Program, which would have directed him into management level at the company, to sign with the Bills. ''This guy is going to be a success no matter what he does, whether it's football or otherwise,'' Buffett said. ''He has a good attitude toward life. He handles himself well. You just feel good about him and his future.'''
His tackles really smart [5:07 AM]
D and C reports: 'Luring Robinson away from the Titans -- they made him a similar $750,000 base-salary offer to stay -- was a coup for Buffalo's coaches. In Robinson, they landed a cerebral player who knows the complicated "46" scheme as well as they do, someone who can explain things to others in the huddle where they can't be.'
Bausch & Lomb to sponsor Bills' camp [5:05 AM]
D and C reports: 'Rochester-based Bausch & Lomb Inc., will be the new title sponsor of Buffalo Bills training camp at St. John Fisher College.'
New Buffalo players use conditioning program to learn, get in shape [8:58 PM]
AP reports: '"When I was the player (representative) in Tampa, every year there was a big discussion about off-season workouts," Moore said. "It's really impressive how far it's gone. They are a 'voluntary if you want to win' kind of thing."''
Question: Which team's draft intrigued you the most? [7:31 PM]
profootballweekly.com reports: Andy Hanacek, Associate editor
Pick: Buffalo Bills
We all know that picking Texas OT Mike Williams was a safe call, and the fact that it also filled a major need makes it a great pick for the Bills in my book. Picking Williams (and signing free-agent Trey Teague) allows them to shift last year?s rookie surprise, Jonas Jennings, inside to guard.
Patriots' source batters Bledsoe, says he may bounce back [7:30 PM]
Pro Football Weekly reports: By the end of the Pete Carroll-era, Bledsoe seemed to be a 9-to-5 guy playing the game for the money and had no passion. He said Bledsoe was emotionless and a zombie at times. The source also said that very often in key situations, Bledsoe seemed to go almost brain dead.
Porter to sign one-year deal with Pats [7:29 PM]
ESPN reports: His longest stint was with the Buffalo Bills (1998-2000), where he played well for the Bills in "nickel" and "dime" situations. Many observers felt he was among the best of the defensive backs in the Miami camp last summer, but he was nonetheless released before the start of the regular season.
TE Dave Moore Talks About Upcoming Season [4:07 PM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: On two tight end sets: "The strong points of Coach Gilbride's offense is his ability to mold the offense to his personnel so we'll see how it goes. I would like to be a big part of it but we all have to try to win ball games so we'll see how it's going to unfold."
Former Bills Guard Reggie McKenzie Selected To College Football Hall of Fame [10:13 AM]
BuffaloBills.com reports: A member of two conference championship teams, McKenzie was drafted in the second round of the National Football League draft by the Buffalo Bills following graduation in 1972. He played a total of 12 seasons in the NFL, 11 of which were spent with the Bills.
European vacation [9:14 AM]
Buffalo News reports: '"I just wanted to come over here and play well," he said. "I'm just glad that the Buffalo Bills have given me the chance to do this with them signing me and sending me over here. I want to show them what I can do and what I have to offer."'
ESPN Mother's Day special delivers a rose to Mama Bledsoe [9:13 AM]
Buffalo News reports: 'But in a Mother's Day special that aired Saturday and repeats at 3:30 p.m. Thursday on ESPN, Drew's mom, Barbara, describes her All-American oldest boy in adoring terms.'
Roth Returns To NFL With Kansas City [9:12 AM]
Jamestown Post Journal reports: 'Roth appeared to be on his way to a fullback job with the Bills under then-coach Wade Phillips, but Phillips was then fired and, after a training-camp injury, Roth was later cut by new Bills coach Gregg Williams prior to the 2001 season. ��Sure he was discouraged,�� Roth�s father said of being let go by the Bills. ��The other coaching staff almost promised him a fullback job. Then he went to training camp and got hurt, so they let him go.��'
McKenzie elected to college Hall [9:11 AM]
Detroit Free Press reports: 'McKenzie, a consensus All-America in 1971, later starred for the Buffalo Bills in the NFL, where he blocked for O. J. Simpson on a line called the Electric Company. He spent 11 of his 12 NFL seasons with Buffalo.'
Michigan's McKenzie will join Hall of Fame [9:11 AM]
Detroit News reports: 'Reggie McKenzie, who was an All-America guard at Michigan, will be among 13 players and two coaches inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame this year.'
Chiefs report [9:10 AM]
Kansas City Star reports: 'Fullback Josh Roth impressed the Chiefs enough in a tryout at the weekend minicamp that the club signed him to a two-year contract. Roth received plenty of work in practice Tuesday. He and fullback Paul Shields were the only healthy running backs.'
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I am thinking about buying a larger amount of Parmesan and freeze it for later use. Is this possible? How long can I keep it for? How is the taste/texture affected?
Yes, you can freeze parmesan cheese. Even without freezing, Parmesan is very durable since the low water and high salt content prevents mould from growing. The younger varieties may be more prone to mould growth (having a higher water content), but I've kept ripe Parmesan (30-36 months) for at least a year in the fridge without problems (and it would probably have stayed good much longer). Just remember to keep it wrapped in paper, not in a sealed plastic container to prevent a buildup of condensation.
I'm not going to add much as Tor-Einar Jarnbjo's answer was very thorough but just to note that you can also freeze parmesan rinds to add to soups and stews for an easy umami boost.
There is absolutely no need to freeze it. Keep it dry and cool and everything will be just fine.
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I have a tenure-track position at a research university (among top 20 in USA) in a decent city. This has been my fourth year as a tenure-track. I still have not heard from my department regarding the promotion. I do have very good publication record (over 20 published papers in top journals, including Annals and Inven. Math papers), and a decent teaching record. Is it advisable for me to apply for other jobs? I am happy with my current university, but I am very worried about the prospect of getting tenure. I would be very grateful for any comments and suggestions.
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I don't really think the question is appropriate, but anyhow: by applying for other jobs before the official tenure clock runs out you muddy the waters at your home university (they will wonder if there is some reason you hate them) and the other places (they might wonder if you have done some ax-murdering on the side, which would prevent you from getting tenure at your home university, who knows about it). If you are doing good work (it sounds like you are), you will do fine. A well known East Coast university failed to tenure several excellent people (including one future Fields medalist), none of whom missed any meals as a result. So, to put it bluntly, keep working and stop twitching.
First, this sounds like an accidental, potentially completely innocent, failure of standard procedure, e.g., at Univ of Minn (where I am) and many other places, either the department head or some functionary has a yearly discussion with tenure-track people, giving them formal advice on how they're doing in all relevant categories: research, teaching, service.
Second, unless there's something seriously amiss, no information is imparted... It's more of a confirmation that everything's on track.
Third, for a variety of reasons, these days the actual getting-tenure seems to be put off as long as possible by the institution(s). One easy reason is that, if the person will put up with it, the institution has a longer time to judge... There seems to be some positive resistance to "early" consideration for tenure. Yes, one can directly tell the dept chair that one wants to be considered... but departments are well aware, if only for HR purposes, of the "tenure clock" on all non-tenured tenure-track faculty.
As to whether it's worthwhile to take initiative about tenure consideration... hard to know. "Rocking the boat" is generally not helpful, but sometimes people are tooo apathetic.
No way to know for sure on any of this apart from asking someone in your dept who knows the standard procedures there.
If your publication record is good and your teaching is ok-or-better, and you are a good citizen, probably nothing to worry about.
I have my doubts about adding the third answer to this question, but here goes:
You should be in touch with your chair about whether you will get tenure. If the chair and various bigwigs in your department are remotely competent and there is even the slightest danger of you not getting tenure, they should be on your case about it; departments really do not want to have people go up for tenure and fail. It makes them look bad to both the administration and to job candidates.
So what you should do is talk to your chair and say "Hey, we haven't really talked about me going up for tenure. Do you have any concerns about my case? Is there anything I should be doing to prepare?" In all likelihood, your mind will be set at ease, and if not, well, then that's information you're in a better position for having.


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4 Apr 2008 4:45 AM #1
[REFLOW] IFrames, Flash, Movies, Audio
You all may have noticed a few threads here on the forums specifically about Firefox and "movies/audio restarting, iframes refreshing, etc" when switching tabs, etc.
I'd thought I'd share with you why this happens on FireFox (and not other Browsers).
FF has a long-standing issue with all embedded object tags (IFRAME, OBJECT, EMBED). Anytime their size (often left and top as well) changes (or that of their parent elements), FF reinitializes those objects during reflow, thus the problem.
Exts' layout engine (Panels) relies on display:none/block on one internal element (bwrap) for seamless reflow of child Containers within a layout.
That means any child Ext.Panel, Ext.Component, body, or content which contains one of the markup objects mentioned above (like ManagedIframe, mediapanel, SWFObject (careful here Jack with 2.1+), etc) will be re-initialized as soon as an up-stream bwrap elements' style:display is toggled with display:none/block.
The best you can do currently to work around the problem in Ext layouts is ensure that no upstream parent in a layout uses display:none/block to control visibility. That's the tricky part. You'll have some luck with tabPanels because of their card layout design (can be controlled with visibility:visible/hidden) but not as a deeply-nested child panel.
My current recommendation, would be to only use OBJECT,EMBED,IFRAMES in top level, stand-alone Panels or flat layouts/pages where style:visibility can be controlled.
I've put together a test case demonstrating the problem for Bugzilla, but I fear its too late for Mozilla to fix this in time for FF3 (exists in all releases 1-3.b5).
ux.MediaPanel has some trickery built in to try to control Visibility on your behalf, and the upcoming release of the ux.Media series addresses that further, but:
This FF bug severely hampers practical cross-browser media applications for all RIA frameworks like (and less than) Extjs.
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9 Apr 2008 10:58 AM #2
I originally discovered this bug last August and starting trying to determine the problem after much discussion with the Firefox development team the problem was somewhat determined and I have been tracking the ticket for this since then. (dozen's of tickets have been opened regarding this, but this is the main bugzilla ticket that they all get merged into).
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9 Apr 2008 1:07 PM #3
One thing I've noticed (while working on the new version of ux.Media) is all browsers do that except IE!
I have come up with a fix for it for the new ux.Media Components but, anyone hoping to do charting with Flash with frameworks like Ext (without a new visibility approach for object,embeds, iframes) is going to be really annoyed."be dom-ready..."
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At one point in time I suggested going up the ownerCt chain and add listeners to see when it might get unhidden, but the better solution was to set a timer and just keep trying until it didn't fail.
As for the flash restarting, you can put in an option for your flash panel to go up the ownerCt chain and change the default hiding method.
Another thing you will notice at some point, is when you have flash in a floating panel over a non-floating flash panel. FusionCharts shows this bug pretty well. Again, not in IE. If a parent is floating I push the flash inside an iframe. I have to look up the ownerCt chain to know if it is floating which is pretty easy.
I have lots of workarounds for stuff and I forget to post them, I know it can save other people some time, and I'll try and get better at that...
25 Oct 2008 4:15 PM #6
any solutions for this problem? I use the tabs and have an iframe for each tab with a flash page inside the iframe.
7 Jun 2009 9:58 PM #7
i show you how i put flash in desktop. do it to put on panel/Window
its work all Browsers
new Plugin.CalcWindow(),Code:
Ext.ux.FlashPlugin = function() { this.init = function(ct) { ct.flashTemplate = new Ext.XTemplate( '
', '<object id="flash-{id}" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/s...ersion=6,0,0,0" width="{swfWidth}" height="{swfHeight}">', '<param name="movie" value="{swf}" />', '<param name="quality" value="high" />', '<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />', '<param name="flashvars" value="{computedflashvars}" />', '<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="domain" />', '<param name="align" value="t" />', '<param name="salign" value="TL" />', '<param name="swliveconnect" value="true" />', '<param name="scale" value="noscale" />', '<embed name="flash-{id}" src="{swf}" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="{computedflashvars}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="{swfWidth}" height="{swfHeight}" wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="always" swliveconnect="true" align="t" salign="TL" scale="noscale"></embed>', '</object>', '
' ); ct.flashTemplate.compile(); ct.renderFlash = function() { if (this.flashvars && (typeof this.flashvars == 'object')) { var tempflashvars = Ext.apply({}, this.flashvars); for (var key in tempflashvars) { if (typeof tempflashvars[key] == 'function') { tempflashvars[key] = tempflashvars[key].call(this, true); } }; this.computedflashvars = Ext.urlEncode(tempflashvars); } this.swfHeight = this.body.getSize().height -2; this.swfWidth = this.body.getSize().width -2; if (this.body.first()) this.flashTemplate.overwrite(this.body.first(),this); else this.flashTemplate.insertFirst(this.body,this); }; ct.loadFlash = function(config) { Ext.apply(this,config); this.renderFlash(); }; ct.on('afterlayout',ct.renderFlash, ct); }; }; //-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /* ******************************************************************************* * Use Plugin Namespace */ var Plugin = Plugin || {}; Plugin.CalcWindow = Ext.extend(Ext.app.Module, { id : 'calc-win', init : function(){ this.launcher = { text: 'מחשבון ', iconCls:'kcalc_16',tooltip: 'מחשבון
מחשבון שימושי', handler : this.createWindow, scope: this } }, createWindow : function(){ var desktop = this.app.getDesktop(); var win = desktop.getWindow('calc-win'); if(!win){ var winWidth = desktop.getWinWidth() / 1.1; var winHeight = desktop.getWinHeight() / 1.1; win = desktop.createWindow({ id: 'calc-win', title:' מחשבון ', iconCls: 'kcalc_16', shim:false, animCollapse:false, constrainHeader:true, layout:'fit', width: 405, height:460, border: false, // constrain: true, closeAction:'close', // plain: true, modal : false, resizable: false, maximizable:false, items:[{ layoutConfig:{ border: false },items:[{ header: false, layout: 'fit', border: false, width: 400, height: 430, swf: 'http://www.edulink.co.il/images/Calculator.swf',flashvars: {dataUrl: 'accountPerformance.xml', chartHeight: function(){ return this.body.getSize().height -0; }, chartWidth: function(){ return this.body.getSize().width -0;}}, plugins: new Ext.ux.FlashPlugin() },{ }] },{ }] }); } win.show(); return win; } }); //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------my ext js site
6 Nov 2009 4:15 AM #8
Follow up...
There have been many Forum posts over the last two years concerning this issue. So, I've updated the first post of the thread with the ux.VisibilityMode plugin (already included, enabled, and applied in the ux.Media/Flash series, ux.Media.Chartpacks, and ux.ManagedIFrame extensions).
For those seeking relief, simply include the plugin souce in your project and add the plugin to an appropriate Container position in your layout (whatever that might be).
Generally, all you need do is something like this: (typical tabPanel example shown here)
var V = new Ext.ux.plugin.VisibilityMode({ elements:['bwrap']}) ; new Ext.TabPanel({ plugins : V, defaults :{ plugins: V }, items :[....] });
Because of the intensive position:absolute->relative transitions used in the Portal/Portlets Components, little can be done with a plugin to fix the problem. Until the Portal becomes a true absolute layout, your <OBJECT>,  content WILL continue to reload/break. (For any Flash charting and other objects, that usually means re-rendering the Flash object again after a portlet is moved.)
Good Luck"be dom-ready..."
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4 Mar 2012 9:02 PM #10
Iframes refreshing on Tab change in firefox
Iframes refreshing on Tab change in firefox.
I had a flex application in which i am loading html urls as iframes under each tab using flex iframe third party component.Its working fine in IE and chrome.But in FF, these iframes are refreshing on each tab change.How can I get rid of this iframe refresh.I tried to call your uxvismode.js from html but no luck.
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Literally, 死前 means before death while 生前 means before life. They seem to bear the opposite meaning. However, in most cases, they actually mean the same thing, i.e., when someone was still alive. What's more, in my experience, 生前 is being used more often than 死前. Any difference between them and when to use which?
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Yes, you are quite right that they both mean when someone was still alive. However, there is a clear distinction on the usage of the two words. 生前 is almost always used when someone is discussing about the life of a deceased. Example:
死前, or more properly 临死之前, is almost always used when someone is discussing about a person prior to his death. Example:
They mean differently.
when you use this word, the person you are talking about with this word was dead and you are referring to the time(a long period) or the consistent behavior when he was alive.
Since in general, you can't talk to a dead man.
From this sentence, the listener knows he(他) has died.
This word refers to the time( a short/specified period) just before one's death. In this case, that person could be alive, or could have died, so you could say
This sentence could happen when a prisoner is going to be executed.
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Where would you recommend a new author of technical books (operating systems, programming, networking, etc) to go to in order to get help in promoting his work?
Are there any good reviewing services or other types of promotion services?
I've never heard of any legit reviewing services for tech books.
All the proposals I've seen from people who do promotions want to charge an arm and a leg, and still expect you to tell them where to promote your work. Don't bother.
Some recommendations, off the top of my head:
Here is one (probably less traditional) approach, which covers the whole process:
The idea here is to couple audience discovery and promotion to the actual writing of the book in an iterative process.
I tend to find technical books through recommendations on Hacker News. You can also submit to other, similar venues - Reddit, Digg, Slashdot, etc.
If you feel like being a bit subversive, you can try Subvert and Profit, a site that sells advertising through social media sites.
I've never answered a question here before, but felt compelled to do so, if only to counter the rather uninformed opinion of "Dori" regarding AuthorsCast. In the interest of full disclosure, I will state right up front that I am actually the owner and administrator of AuthorsCast.
Dori states that AuthorsCast is useful "only if your book is about writing books." Nothing could be further from the truth -- which would be immediately evident to anyone who has actually listened to any of our content.
The fact is, our format is modeled very much after what you might hear in the mainstream media when authors do a book tour. We dedicate a portion of each episode specifically to the book, but we go well beyond that to discuss the book's topic (and other related topics) in general terms. We also like to have guests talk about their careers, other projects they have done or may be working on (non-writing ones included), and even will include some personal/lifestyle things about the guest like hobbies, family, and so forth if we think it is of interest to our audience. Our recent interview with Stephen Baker (Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything) is a great example of what we do.
It's true that we don't specifically target any one technological field; however, that is something we consider an advantage for our guests. You can be assured that your book will be exposed to a widely diverging audience, many of whom would be unlikely to ever learn of the existence of a particular book except through us.
We are actively seeking interesting and interested authors and books to feature on our show. There is a link in our site's footer at which you may express your interest in appearing as a guest.
We don't take everyone who asks, but we do promise to give every inquiry fair consideration.
@Dori To answer your points:
Thanks all for sharing your suggestions. :D
Contact the local users group of the technology you've written about. Ask them to read and review your book. Repeat for all users groups on this subject at the national level. check Meetup.com for relevant groups. You'll find like-minded people who are likely to help.


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I don't want to start a religious war or anything, but I do have questions about a few languages. I have a project that was originally done in Java and was about 75% complete, but now it has to be redone, the conditions are quite different than they were 4-5 years ago when the previous code was written.
While I've been doing research, I'd like to get some background on the different languages at this point so I have a good idea what I can focus on and what I can (likely) ignore.
I see, in the FAQ, that open ended questions like this are discouraged. But I don't know of other programming forums that aren't focused on a specific language.
So are there appropriate ways to ask such a question? (Actually it's several questions about C++, Python, Perl, Java and cross platform stuff.)


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The Shulchan Aruch (607:6) writes that on erev Yom Kipur, everyone gets whipped 39 lashes. However, I have not seen this done in practice. Is there any source who justifies the practice not to do this? (The Be'er Heitev notes that the Arizal would lash only four times, but I still haven't seen anyone do this either.)
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Nitey Gavriel (Yom Kippur Perek 20 Sif 19) writes that many have the custom not to whip on Erev Yom Kippur. He cites as a source Kaf HaChaim (O.C. 607:40) who claims that Erev Yom Kippur is considered a Yom Tov and we do not give lashes on Yom Tov. The Nitey Gavriel notes that this is the prevelant custom in Zitshov, Tshernobil, Gur and Amshinov.
I upvoted Michoel's answer. Still, there is a separate answer.
We practice minhagim because they are our minhagim, practices our community is accustomed to perform. Even if a halachic text happens to record details of a minhag, that does not promote that minhag to the status of halacha. It remains a minhag, and the reason for it is minhag, rather than halacha, and rather than that it was written in that halachic text.
Shulchan Aruch is a mix of Biblical law, Rabbinic law, and custom. It would be nice if these were each color coded, so that we could more readily distinguish between them, but they are not.
The Shulchan Aruch (and Rema) records this particular minhag, as it was practiced that slice of time and place. It is recorded in the Tur as the Minhag Ashkenaz and based on Beis Yosef there, is mentioned first by the Rosh. Presumably, it was a fairly prevalent custom, for it to be recorded so straightforwardly. But still, it has the status of minhag.
Either parallel to this, or subsequent to this, the practice in some communities was not to whip. You can ask, perhaps, whether this initial lack of practice was justified, or was a deviation from an initial practice. But regardless, the minhag developed not to whip. Minhagim often develop organically, as folk practice is wont to do, or for valid halachic reasons. This minhag then stands in its place in opposition to the minhag which happened to be recorded in Shulchan Aruch.
If so, we don't need a textual justification for a minhag, even if that minhag is the opposite of a minhag recorded in Shulchan Aruch.
Can we compare this to kitniyot? Sure. There is a prevalent custom not to eat kitniyot. If someone who was an Ashkenazi wanted to go against that custom, there might be a problem that אינו כדאי והגון לזה שיתיר דבר שאבותינו ואבות אבותינו נהגו איסור. And there are such precedents in the gemara. But nullifying a customary prohibition is different from nullifying an action, and keeping one's community's established nullification of said action is even more different.
I would need to see the Rosh inside, but this idea of punishing oneself in order to obtain kappara seems characteristic of the sorts of tortures the Chassidei Ashkenaz used to inflict upon themselves to atone for various sins. Rolling around naked in the snow, fasting, etcetera. This approach to life, in general, has fallen out of vogue. Do teshuva, regretting what you did and resolving not to repeat it, and Hashem will forgive you. You don't need to also undergo torture. (Of course, as the sources point out, this is not administered by bet din of semuchim, and so it is just a zecher to move someone to teshuva.)


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5 True Stories That Prove You Shouldn't Piss Off The IT Guy
In a company full of people who don't understand computers, the IT guy is like a wizard. If you get a weird error message, you're not getting any work done until he makes it all better. In some offices, these guys wield more power than the owner of the company.
And if you want proof, just look at what happens when they get pissed off ...
#5. Omar Ramos-Lopez Remotely Shuts Down 100 Cars
If we told you that a young computer whiz disabled more than 100 cars from his computer, you'd probably think "Man, this Hackers remake is gonna suck." That's the sort of wildly impossible feat that could only come from Hollywood's ridiculous conception of technology ("Oh no, the hackers have taken over our cars using their cache matrix nodes!") And yet, it happened. And here's the guy who did it:
Via Washingtonexaminer.com
The real-life Angelina Jolie.
Twenty-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez was an employee for an Austin-based car dealership until February of 2010, when he was let go from the company and his passwords were revoked. His former coworker's passwords, however, were not. This was a problem for the customers of the Texas Auto Center.
You see, part of Ramos-Lopez's job involved using a system a called WebTeckPlus to remotely turn off the cars whose owners were late on payments -- basically, there's a little box installed inside every car that, upon receiving a wireless signal, can disable the ignition system. You can see where this is going.
That is, nowhere.
Using someone else's password, Ramos-Lopez logged in to the system and shut down the cars of more than 100 random unsuspecting customers, who then proceeded to flood his former employer's office with angry calls since, you know, they weren't actually behind on their payments at all. Some of them even reported horns going off incessantly in the middle of the night, which was also within Ramos-Lopez's newfound powers and could only be stopped by going out and removing the car's battery. We're guessing that most of these people weren't even aware that something like this existed (we sure didn't) and assumed some sort of demonic possession was involved.
This caused a variety of problems. While the system can't shut down cars that are already in movement, anyone who was driving to work and stopped to buy a falafel suddenly found themselves stranded in the middle of the street. It took two days for Texas Auto Center to figure out what was causing this -- in the meantime, people missed work, missed school and had to spend money on tow trucks because of a jobless IT guy with too much time on his hands.
They should feel lucky that he didn't activate "self-destruct" mode.
Employees at the dealership first noticed something weird was going on earlier the same month, when they were billed for $130,000 in GPS equipment no one remembered ordering. Also, Tupac Shakur had apparently purchased a 2009 vehicle from them, which would require either a time machine or enormous forethought on his part. Turns out Ramos-Lopez had been going over the company's database, changing names and messing with the records like a common Wikipedia vandal.
Eventually, the police tracked down Ramos-Lopez's IP address and charged him with breach of computer security and with being a dick. Which would be a terrible injustice if it turned out Ramos-Lopez was innocent and that Tupac's ghost was responsible for everything.
Though we do think it's weird that his 2011 tour, I'm not Dead, Assholes, is doing so well.
#4. Walter Powell Turns a PowerPoint Presentation Into Porn
When Walter Powell, the former director of information management for the Baltimore Substance Abuse System, was fired from his job in 2009, he did not go quietly. And, where some of us might only leave a drunken message on the boss's voice mail, Powell used his computer expertise to remotely install password-stealing software on the company's computers. This gave him remote access to the work stations of several employees ... including his supervisor, BSAS CEO Greg Warren. Also known as the guy who fired him.
During the next month, Powell illegally accessed the BSAS network over 100 times and became their personal computer gremlin, "accidentally" forwarding confidential information to other people just for kicks, and sending out fake emails from the account of his former boss. We don't know what those emails said, but we can take a guess.
"What?! The email clearly stated ..."
And then came his master stroke: Powell learned that Warren was set to deliver a PowerPoint presentation in front of the BSAS board of directors -- which, by the way, includes the mayor of Baltimore, the commissioner of the police department and the president of the Baltimore city council, among others.
At some point during the presentation, Powell hacked into Warren's computer, rebooted it and replaced a slide with a picture of a naked woman, which was displayed on the 64-inch screen.
"The clitoris represents our year-over-year revenue growth."
Powell's pranks ended up costing BSAS $80,000 in security upgrades. For all of his antics, he was only sentenced to 100 hours of community service and a two-year suspended sentence, but he received the distinction of being the first person to be charged by the city of Baltimore for computer hacking.
Via Baltimore.cbslocal.com
You have to have goals, is what we're saying.
#3. Terry Childs Holds San Francisco Hostage
In July 2008, the mayor of San Francisco walked into a jail with the specific mission of talking with one man imprisoned there: Terry Childs.
This prisoner held something of vital importance to the city: the passwords to a system that controls every network in San Francisco, which only he knew. Why did Childs have access to that system? Because he's the one who created it ... and the one who locked everyone out.
Via Sfexaminer.com
"I could spring myself out of jail any time, but hey, free rape."
Childs had worked for the city as a computer engineer for about five years before he learned that he was about to get fired. So, he decided to take some insurance policies on his employment: He modified the networked system he had helped develop from the ground up, which controls everything from the mayor's email account to police records to inmate bookings, and changed it so that only he could access it.
When his employers asked him for the codes, he refused to give them up and was arrested. Even in jail, he would only give out fake codes, presumably just to mess with everyone since he was obviously beyond fired at this point.
Via Techworld.com
"That's E-A-T, space, S-H-I ..."
Officials could still access the network, but they couldn't modify it on an administrative level, since Childs was the only administrator. The city set a bail of $5 million (five times more than a murder defendant) because they feared that if Childs got hold of a computer, he would log in to the network and delete everything -- the mayor later admitted that San Francisco was "in peril" because they were locked out of the network. The city spent nearly $1.5 million desperately trying to regain access (and failing) and testing further vulnerabilities that could potentially make them look stupid.
Childs, who was sentenced to four years in prison and charged a $1.5 million fine, was so paranoid that when he first learned about his possible firing he created a tracing system that would let him know what his coworkers were saying about him.
"Paranoid? Me? We'll see how paranoid I am when they find child porn on your hard drive."
After 12 days of sitting in a jail cell, Childs finally agreed to give out the passwords ... but only if the mayor himself came to play Clarice Starling with him, saying he didn't trust other people with the passwords to "his" creation. We're surprised he didn't send the mayor all around the city solving clues to piece the password together like the goddamned Riddler.


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In Thursday's Names and Faces segment, News Three took a closer look at Judge Randy Sims. He serves as the Brazos County Judge, is a born athlete and is married to News Three's own Brenda Sims.
"Second date I had with her, I asked her to marry me, so I did know that she was it," Judge Randy Sims said.
Brenda said that she was surprised that Randy proposed so soon after their first date. He bought her bag of potato chips for dinner, but she says liked him and knew he was the one. They'll mark their 50 year anniversary this May.
Before their romance, Randy was an avid sportsman and loved the game of baseball.
"I had a great time growing up - as a matter of fact, I loved baseball and I loved football," Sims said. "I lived right across the street from one of the best second baseman that ever played pro baseball and that's Solly Hemus. We'd always flip to see who would go over and ask Solly Hemus if he'd come play with us and I'm going to tell you what, that man was so nice that he would get up and say, give me about 15 to 20 minutes so I can bathe and shave, brush my teeth and I'll be over there. Every time we asked him, he had no problem coming over and showing us how was the right way to do what we wanted to do."
Even though Randy could have gone on to play professional baseball, he chose to get an education instead and it was a football scholarship and one very well known coach that brought him to Texas A&M.
"I had a call one day, my dad said Coach Bryant called and I said who, coach who? I knew who he was, but why was he calling me? So, anyway I said okay and so I called him back and he said, 'We want you to come up and see A&M,' just like they do now, bring kids in and show them around and said 'We'd like for you to sign with us.' I was a receiver, running back and I was a place kicker and so I came up, looked at it and visited with him and signed a scholarship with him."
One of the best memories of playing for the Aggies is one very special moment on the field.
"Right before halftime and we were playing Texas out at Kyle Field and all of a sudden, here comes a holder for place kicks and I said, 'What are you doing out here?' I was 52 yards away from the uprights, I looked over at Jim Meyers who had replaced Coach Bryant and I looked over at him and I said, I looked at him and I mouthed, 'What are we doing?' They sent the holder out, he put it down and I kicked a 52 yard field goal that day. At the time, it was the record in the Southwest Conference."
When Brenda met Randy she said she had no idea that he was going to end up as Brazos County Judge.
As you can see, Randy has had a wonderful life. And while most people recognize him today as County Judge, Brenda says there's so much more to him.
Brenda says it's Randy's life as a public servant that fills him with joy and her with pride.
"I think it's exceptional that an old football player from Texas A&M University can become county judge and with the commissioners court, set the tone for what county government does."
One more thing about Randy, he's a great cook and for many years the Sims' owned and operated a restaurant, called Randy Sims Barbecue, and many of you may have eaten there.
It carried the recipes from Brenda's dad, Red Bryan and brother, Sonny Bryan's barbeque.


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I was wondering if anyone knew how to help me with changing the appearance of my tags. They look like oldschool links (underlined and blue) and it's very garish - it clashes very bladly with the rest of my theme. I'm unfamiliar with CSS coding, but all instruction helps! Here's a link to my blog to see what I'm talking about: http://spanz-spectral.tumblr.com/
I know how!
Look for {block:HasTags} in your theme HTML. Around the
I hope that helps!
Now I'm just trying to figure out how to automatically place a comma after each tag, but not when there is just one tag displayed. ;__;
I realize this post is old but maybe you or someone googling this thread will find this helpful. I also use that theme, Munich, and use this to display my tags:
It's just cobbled together with the little HTML I know but it works. Just put it in every "type" of post, look for the headers that look like {block:Link}, there should be 7. Put this at the end right before the
Thanks to building on what you guys already gave me (found via Google), I've finally gotten this to work exactly how I hoped with the Munich theme. So here's what I did: go into Customize → Edit HTML. Select the giant chunk of code you find into a Notepad .txt file to make it easier to work with. Right, now scrolling through the top of it, you'll find a bit that says
This will basically tell your theme how to handle your tags when you add them, so they don't end up bright blue and clashing with everything. Now, scroll down and you'll find lots of sections for formatting individual types of entries—the first one for me is
You need to go through and add this at the bottom of each type of entry, being careful to always put it before the last


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I'm wondering if there's any sort of Ramsey relation that allows for the tuples to be of arbitrary infinite size $\mu$? This $\mu$ is below some strongly compact cardinal, so I'm not worried about large cardinal hypotheses.
Infinite exponent partition relations are inconsistent with the axiom of choice, so in ZFC, this phenomenon does not exist, but nevertheless, in the context of $ZF+\neg AC$ there is a robust theory. See for example Andres Caicedo's discussion, this Kleinberg article, and the items in this Google search.
As emphasized in Joel Hamkins' answer, the generalization of Ramsey's theorem for infinite (unordered) tuples contradicts the axiom of choice [Erdős-Hajnal, 1966], and is a line of investigation that has close ties to large cardinals.
The classical Erdős-Hajnal proof uses the axiom of choice - in the guise of a well-ordering of the power set of $\Bbb {N}$ - to construct a "wild" coloring $C$ of infinite subsets $[\Bbb{N}]^\omega$ of $\Bbb{N}$ into two colors such that there is no infinite monochromatic set for $C$.
In contrast, Galvin and Prikry showed that for Borel colorings $C$ of $[\Bbb{N}]^\omega$, an infinite monochromatic subset for $C$ always exists. Silver then extended this result to analytic colorings. Note that $[\Bbb{N}]^\omega$ inherits a natural topology from $P(\Bbb{N})$, which is itself topologized via an identification with the product space $2^\Bbb{N}$.
The Galvin-Prikry paper appeared in 1973, but that of Silver appeared in 1970 (this is not a typo!). This work was simplified and extended by Ellentuck in 1974.
The metamathematics of Ramsey theory, including Galvin-Prikry type theorems, has been vigorously investigated in reverse mathematics.


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For growth and performance reasons, I need to distribute my Webs across several Site Collections.
Still, I want the URL of these Webs to appear as though they are in the same place. Here is an illustration.
I want:
- hxxp://sharepoint/mywebapp/customer1234
- hxxp://sharepoint/mywebapp/customer4324
- hxxp://sharepoint/mywebapp/customer5675
- hxxp://sharepoint/mywebapp/customer6535
I DON'T want:
- hxxp://sharepoint/mywebapp/sc4/customer1234
- hxxp://sharepoint/mywebapp/sc4/customer4324
- hxxp://sharepoint/mywebapp/sc5/customer5675
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I have a habit of talking "loudly" to myself. I get an immense satisfaction by doing so.
At the same time, I tend to do this in the market, while driving the scooter, working on a C program. Everywhere! I have no control over myself. I am causing a public embarrassment to myself.
Thanks to this habit, my mind is never calm, never on focus. I get physically tired frequently but this doesn't stop me from talking to myself.
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Many times I've seen a semicolon used after a function declaration, or after the anonymous "return" function of a Module Pattern script. When is it appropriate to use a semicolon after curly braces?
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Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
You use a semi-colon after a statement. This is a statement:
because it is a variable assignment (ie creating and assigning an anonymous function to a variable).
The two things that spring to mind that aren't statements are function declarations:
and blocks:
Note: that same block construct without semi-colon also applies to
It matters too when you intend to minify your code.
So I personally add one after every
I wrote a post about ASI in JavaScript.
Don't use a semicolon:
...if it's just your every-day function declaration:
Use a semicolon:
...if it's an assignment:
You never need to; you always can (except before
Unfortunately, Javascript semicolons are optional.
It is (very) good practice to terminate every statement with a semicolon.
Therefore, best practice is to put semicolons after the following two braces (only):
If we have a self-invoking function, we need to put a semicolon before it, otherwise it becomes part of the previous assignment statement. Consider the following:
What is happening is that
If we put a semicolon after the definition of
But I suggest that since the problem is due to the lack of a semicolon at the end of an assignment statement, we should perhaps make a habit of always putting a semicolon after defining functions in this way. i.e. all of my functions above should have a semicolon after the closing brace, because they are all assignments of anonymous functions.
You also should use a semicolon after a curly bracket after returning a function within a function in Javascript.
Semicolons go at the end of lines that do not end in a curly brace or to separate statements on the same line. It does no harm to use them after a closing brace, or to wear suspenders and a belt, but it does look a little nerdy.
I know this thread is old but couldn't resist to share this code:
Will return "Property of object [object Object] is not a function". Because it will actually be executed as:


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There's recently some voice about C++ renaissance, among which the most noteworthy one is from Herb Sutter, Chairman of the C++ Standard Committee. You can search for "C++ renaissance" on Google and you'd find a bunch of links including Herb's talk on "C++ and Beyond" and other talks on Channel9 from Microsoft.
The key argument here is that with the Cloud trend becoming clearer and more popular than ever, a lot of the dev work on the cloud side calls for high-performance native languages, which on some level, basically means C/C++. I don't mean to start again some flame war about C vs C++. But I do want to know to what extent does this trend affect the growing and expanding of C++ community and popularity.
How exactly are C++ used on the cloud side? high-perf backend? more? How large, exactly, is the Cloud dev market anyway?
P.S. I've been lucky to be able to use C++0x in my project recently, and it is *awesome* (VC++10). The most useful feature for everyday programming is of course lambda. And the second I would say is rvalue reference (I finally had the courage to return vector!!)
Below are Herb's words C++ and Beyond:
I've been asked to give the opening "Welcome, Everyone!" talk at C&B 2011, and it's time to cover an increasingly open secret: After a decade-long affair with managed languages where it became unfashionable to be interested in C++, C++'s power and efficiency are now getting very fashionable again. At the same time, C++ has been getting easier to use; key productivity features from the C++0x standard (aka C++11), like auto and lambdas, are increasingly widely available in commercial compilers and making using C++ easier than ever before without sacrificing its cornerstone — efficiency.
This opening 40-minute talk covers the reasons why C++ is now enjoying a major renaissance, and why that will continue to grow over the next few years because of industry trends from processor design to mobile computing to cloud and datacenter environments.
We already know that C++ is "the" language of choice for demanding applications. Here, we'll cover why "demanding applications" increasingly means "most applications" and will be the bread and butter of our industry for the foreseeable future. We'll see why and where other languages are still appropriate, but why C++'s applicability and demand is now again on an upswing more so than it has been for over a decade.


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Graveside services will be held on Friday, Oct. 12, at 11 a.m. at the Sidney Cemetery.
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They simply replace the central collumn of the tripod.
This transforms the tripod into a giant tripod up to 3.70 m height and, a very important aspect, the Fanotec tubes are closed into a strong collar, rock solid, and another aspect it is operable and extendable at full height even by not so tall (read short) people.
By its construction this tripod allows fluid rotation of the colar, so you not need the rotator in top, only R1/10 ring or needed NN parts to have the lens in correct position, and as you can very easy reproduce the height in case of the tripod it makes also suitable for multirow high resolution panos from up to 3.70 m height.
Even the avanced rotators can be used if you complete back the pole with the lower segments, still keeping the tripod on the upper ones (- Hey! Dorin! you need to provide photos about this. - Ok! I'll provide in another post)
As a bonus, the tripods collar allows the horisontal use of the poles, but here I would like Nick's recomendations and cautions about this.
As I said is a perfect match even from design POV except the lock-release direction which appear inverted (but as a matter of fact is not if you consider the legs like poles oriented downward)
- to be continued -