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mvcConf 2 - Brandon Satrom: BDD in ASP.NET MVC using SpecFlow, WatiN and WatiN Test Helpers
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In recent years, the friction of creating scenarios in BDD, and in using those scenarios to author tests, has been reduced greatly. Developers now have tools that enable specifications to be written using a structured, English syntax, and to use those specifications as the tests that prove out the code. These domain-specific languages now enable us to create executable specifications first in the process, followed by building out only that functionality which meets the specification, resulting in fewer, more value-focused tests. This presentation will introduce Gherkin, SpecFlow and WatiN, and provide examples of how these three tools can be used to create BDD-style in ASP.NET MVC applications. Gherkin and SpecFlow provide the framework for writing and executing specifications within Visual Studio, while WatiN allows us to write tests that drive a web browser automatically, giving us automated, end-to-end testing of the public features system.
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These are two of my most recent "unique finds". The first is an antique carved Bible box with a Jane Seymour's portrait centered atop the lid. The original painting dates back to the 1500's….. I'm still working on finding out the actual age of the box and when the portrait was reproduced. I have had two experts tell me that the box is an antique and not a reproduction. So beautiful!
The second 'unique find" is this firescreen from the 30's. It's perfect example of the Art Deco era. The screen is made of solid brass and each piece of glass was individually leaded in place. The smooth lines of this piece make it perfect for any design style.


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I've got a pretty bad cold and one of my friends gave me some Herbalife FloraFibre and told me that it would help. Is it likely to make a difference?
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Considering your digestive tract makes up a huge portion of your immune system, it might since active cultures help promote better intestinal health. The problem with this supplement is that it provides a tiny amount of active cultures.
From Amazon:
Home made kefir or yogurt products can contain trillions of cfu (colony forming units) per cup. Here's an actual paper on the topic.
So bottom line: even if active cultures do help improve immune system function then those tablets are pretty much 'homeopathic' in their dosing -a million to 1 compared to fresh kefir. So save your money and eat some fresh fermented diary products instead.


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I get most of my exercise through cycling. Does cycling without cross-training cause injuries? If so, are there specific injuries to which cyclists are susceptible (knee, hip, etc.), and is it possible to prevent them?
Assume that the bike is well fitted, since bike fit and knee pain is discussed in the question: How to adjust seat saddle and saddle position for knee pain? Other related questions include: How to avoid knee pain when cycling, Should cyclists use weight training to strengthen underutilized muscles?, and How can I get rid of I.T. Band pain caused by cycling?


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About the TV series 666 Park Avenue:
At 666 Park Avenue, all of your dreams and burning desires can come true: wealth, sex, love, power, even revenge. But just be careful what you wish for, because the price you pay... could be your soul.
Welcome to The Drake, the premiere apartment building on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Owned by the mysterious Gavin Doran and his sexy wife Olivia, The Drake is home to dozens of residents who are unaware they're living in the dark embrace of supernatural forces.
I'm wondering if the "666" is supposed to be a hint that the Devil is at play, or if it's just meant as a general reference for "evil"?
Is the rich, powerful and ruthless Gavin Doran supposed to be the Devil?


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Wake up to the smell of...Animosity...
Connects via WiFi to your online bank account, and donates YOUR real money to an organization you HATE when you decide to snooze!
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Wasn't this an old april fool's item?
oh, this is NUTS!! I love it!! But with my sleeping habits, there is NO WAY I'm getting one of these...I would be broke in a week!!
it is...and its not a real item...click on buy one and it tells you so...
Most awesome product EVAR!!1! Voting it up!
Extra points for funny!
Actually the most surprising bit is that the GOP is a non-profit organization; they seem insanely profitable from my perspective. That said, I'd rather buy the alarm clock that runs away from you to make you get out of bed to hit the snooze.
@lparsons42: we have one of those. it works exactly as advertised.
The RNC is $23M in debt. I guess every penny helps.
@lparsons42: "Non-Profit." It's for tax breaks. Those rich, selfish slugs...
Uh, this isn't real.
@stave177: you have to go deeper
@stave177: you have to go deeper
I'm cool with assault rifles, lingere, bags of crap and the like...
But, this item has [and will] never exist :)
It's like posting an idea...
It's like posting "World Peace for $1.00 + free shipping" heh...
(although, as guess it's not as bad as all of the DOA deals that make it through :D...)
Oh and not to mention this is an APRIL FOOLS JOKE.
Premature e-joke-ulation. Heyyoooo!
Bottom of item description:
"Really Fine Print: ThinkGeek reserves the right to take up to a 50% commision on all donations made through the SnūzNLūz. In fact the software supplied with the clock ensures such is the case. Yay!. However, we promise to only use the money for rockets and beach front property."
lol, I had a feeling this would make it to popular deal. In a way I find that very amusing. (Still voted for it myself because of the previously stated lulz.)
@adshahs: what a bunch of crooks.
They had a bunch of funny stuff that made it to popular last APEFOOL's... 'twas a good year for fake technology.
I liked the e-ink tattoo :)
(and the iPad arcade/iCade seemed like it actually should have been real heh... I think it actually is, now)
Yup. 3 seconds and Google popped this out for me...
Wtf? Posting april fools item not on april fools?
Someone is truly a fool...
At least post the good tattoo e-ink one.
I love the fine print "Really Fine Print: ThinkGeek reserves the right to take up to a 50% commision on all donations made through the SnūzNLūz. In fact the software supplied with the clock ensures such is the case. Yay!. However, we promise to only use the money for rockets and beach front property."
I thought to myself when I saw this "Don't most people use eir cell phones instead?", saw it was fake, and now think someone should make a real cell phone app out of it. But send the 50% my was since I thought it up.
@shyguy91284: Cool spelling
Psychologist by profession, I used such a technique to get a severe procrasitnator to finish her dissertation. Honor system, not tech involved, but it worked. Deets? Very liberal, no work on dissertation in 15 min, a $1 bill went into an envelope mailed to the KKK once/month. Took about $15 to get her moving forward regularly. Yep, she finished.
original poster of this deal is an april TOOL.
@kamikazeken: The OP of this deal got his stats up, however. ho ho ho.


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This means server/framework developers will need to upgrade their WebSocket support (if they haven't already). The trouble is, the spec is unnecessarily difficult to read. And I'm not the only one who thinks so:
The specification document is just not readable unless you want to go completely insane. [1]
it's both over engineered and absolutely badly documented via those "specs" [2]
If you want a quick and understandable overview of the changes, I'd recommend this page.
But if you're looking for a good quality example, with step-by-step instructions (or maybe just a unit test as you're implementing the code), you'll find them few and far in-between. So I thought I would provide one.
The example comes from the spec, but I'll break down the steps one-by-one:
Incoming Request:
Upgrade: WebSocket
Connection: Upgrade
Host: example.com
Origin: http://example.com
Sec-WebSocket-Key1: 18x 6]8vM;54 *(5: { U1]8 z [ 8
Sec-WebSocket-Key2: 1_ tx7X d < nw 334J702) 7]o}` 0
Tm[K T2u
Outgoing Response:
HTTP/1.1 101 WebSocket Protocol Handshake
Upgrade: WebSocket
Connection: Upgrade
Sec-WebSocket-Origin: http://example.com
Sec-WebSocket-Location: ws://example.com/
So how do we calculate the response body? (The fQJ,fN... part) Very carefully.
The first thing to note is that the request body is exactly 8 bytes. We are displaying it here as if each byte were interpreted as ASCII text. Similarly, the response body is exactly 16 bytes, again displayed as if each byte were ASCII text.
An overview of the steps we need to perform are:
- Extract each digit from Sec-WebSocket-Key1 and concatenate them
- Count the number of spaces in Sec-WebSocket-Key1
- Divide #1 by #2
- Convert #3 to a 32 bit big-endian integer (network byte order)
- Repeat steps 1-4 for Sec-WebSocket-Key2
- Concatenate #4, #5, and the request body
- Perform MD5 digest of #6
Sec-WebSocket-Key1 was given as
18x 6]8vM;54 *(5: { U1]8 z [ 8
So this gives us the number 1868545188 for step 1. And there are 12 spaces (step 2).
1868545188 / 12 = 155712099 (step 3)
To covert this value to big-endian (network byte order) you might use something like this, or a similar language dependent function. The end result, if printed in hexadecimal, is <0947fa63>.
Repeating these steps for Sec-WebSocket-Key2:
1733470270 / 10 = 173347027 (<0a5510d3>)
At this point you have a 4 byte value from steps 1-4 (<0947fa63>), and a 4 byte value from step 5 (<0a5510d3>). We are now supposed to concatenate these with the request body.
Are we concatenating strings? No.
Are we concatenating numbers? No.
We are concatenating raw bytes. Think 0's and 1's.
If we print these raw bytes in hexadecimal we get:
Part 1: 0947fa63
Part 2: 0a5510d3
Part 3: 546d5b4b20543275
Part 3 came from "Tm[K T2u" in the response body. This is the 8 bytes you read from the socket. If you took those 8 bytes, and printed them as a series of 8 ascii characters you would get "Tm[K T2u". If you printed those 8 bytes as hexadecimal you would get "546d5b4b20543275".
So if we concatenate these parts we get <0947fa630a5510d3546d5b4b20543275>. Notice this is 16 bytes total.
We're almost done. The last step is to calculate the MD5 hash of <0947fa630a5510d3546d5b4b20543275>. Remember, you are passing this data to the MD5 routine as raw bytes. Don't convert it to a string, or anything like that.
You should get <66514a2c664e2f344634217e4b7e4d48> as the result. This is the result printed in hexadecimal. If we instead interpreted the 16 bytes as 16 ascii characters, we would get:
You are to send these raw 16 bytes immediately after the HTTP response headers.
Hope this helps someone.


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STEUBENVILLE - Kim Clifford was spot on when he described Saturday's Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Class 4A championship game as a "heavyweight fight."
His St. Clairsville Red Devils scored the knockout thanks to a string of fourth quarter jabs (also known as foul shots) to earn their second straight title in the event, sponsored by Wheeling Hospital.
Held without a field goal during the final stanza, St. Clairsville knocked down 14 of 16 foul shots to claim a thrilling 62-58 victory over Big Red before a full house inside the Health and Physical Education Building at Ohio University's Eastern Campus.
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WITHIN REACH — Steubenville Big Red's Periogn West battles for a rebound while teammates Mylik Young (20) and John Linn look on during Saturday's Wheeling Hospital Ohio Valley Athletic Conference Class 4A championship game against St. Clairsville.
"It was like a heavyweight fight," Clifford said. "Guys were arm in arm at the end - let the judges decide. And it was our turn today. Either team could have folded during the last three minutes, but they didn't. Both teams just kept fighting."
Thanks to a huge third quarter by Dan Monteroso (he registered 12 of his game-high 28 during the period); the state-ranked Red Devils carried a 48-41 lead into the final eight minutes.
Big Red's Periogn West scored quickly to make it 48-43. Riley Carlton drained both ends of a one and one before Tajuan Lawson went one of two from the stripe. Lawson's free toss was Big Red's first since the opening frame.
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St. Clairsville 62, Big Red 58
Big Red 20 10 11 17 - 58
St. Clairsville 22 9 17 14 - 62
BIG RED (15-6): West 10 4-4 26; Linn 2 0-0 4; Herring-Hill 0 0-0 0; Lawson 3 1-2 7; Young 4 2-3 10; Sterling 3 0-1 7; Smith 2 0-0 4; Perdue 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 24 7-10 58. 3-pointers: West (2), Sterling; Rebounds 28 (West 11); Turnovers 19.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE (19-2): Marhefka 3 1-2 8; Jeffries 1 3-4 5; Giffin 1 1-2 3; Monteroso 10 7-10 28; Burghy 0 0-0 0; Carlton 1 7-8 10; Campbell 2 2-2 8. TOTALS: 18 21-28 62. 3-pointers: Marhefka, Monteroso, Carlton, Campbell (2); Rebounds: 22 (Monteroso 8); Turnovers 18.
West grabbed the rebound off Lawson's miss and brought Big Red to within four at 50-46. Two more Carlton free throws followed, then Adam Sterling drilled a triple to make it a three-point game (52-49).
Mike Haney's club knotted the count at 55 when John Linn scored following a Sterling steal (Big Red recorded 15 steals). St. Clairsville grabbed the lead for good thanks to free tosses by Dylan Campbell and Adam Jeffries, making it 58-55.
Points from West and Mylik Young, sandwiched around two additional Carlton connections (he was a perfect six for six during the deciding stanza) put the score at 60-58 with four ticks left. Monteroso sealed the deal with his only points of the quarter.
"Nothing surprises me anymore in the game of basketball," Clifford said in describing his team's fourth quarter performance. "Our emphasis at halftime was to get to the basket. The kids executed well, got fouled and knocked the free throws.
"It was a hard fought game. Our kids really focused in the last three minutes. They gutted it out and make a couple of big stops. Give Steubenville credit. They hit some big shots and had some big steals."
As Haney noted, his Big Red had "no reason to hang our heads."
"Our guys played hard and we had a nice comeback in the fourth," he added. "We played good defense and we talked about not fouling. When you are aggressive, sometimes you are going to foul. They shoot the ball so well at the free throw line. That makes it tough."
During the first quarter, it appeared the 4A affair would be the track meet most people expected. Both teams shot better than 50 percent as St. Clairsville, the tournament's top seed, took a 22-20 lead. Down 14-11, Big Red reeled off seven straight and led 18-14. A three-ball from Sterling capped the scoring burst. Joel Giffin's only hoop of the day put the Red Devils back in control.
The defenses went to work in the second as just 19 total points were scored. Monteroso had six of his team's nine. The second-seeded Big Red went cold early, missing six of its first seven shots. A late Chris Smith hoop pulled Haney's crew to within one (31-30) at the intermission.
The Devils canned six of 12 from the floor during the third quarter to build their advantage. At one point, Monteroso scored seven in a row. Big Red was whistled for eight fouls, resulting in seven trips to the line for St. Clairsville.
"One of our goals was to avoid them having a big run (St. Clairsville used an 18-3 burst earlier the season to hand Big Red a 69-43 defeat)," Haney pointed. "We were able to achieve that goal. It seemed like we had some opportunities but we didn't capitalize on them. They are a great team and it was a great game.
"It looked like a track meet early then the fouls we were called for slowed down the game. We like the fast pace."
Carlton finished with 10 points to support Monteroso's outstanding effort. Jerrid Marhefka and Campbell both had eight. Monteroso also grabbed eight of his team's 22 rebounds and blocked four shots. The Devils, now 19-2, hit 18 of 50 field goal tries.
"Experience is what won us the game," said Clifford, who has eight seniors on his roster. "We've played eight games in the last 15 days and this team needs some rest. Our seniors have been in some big games and fatigued or not, they fought threw it, there was no giving in."
West scored 26 for Big Red and recorded a double-double by collecting 11 rebounds (Big Red has 28 as a team). He also dished out three assists. Young, who was saddled with some early fouls (his first coming on an unusual call off the opening tip), had 10 points, nine rebounds and seven steals.
"Periogn had a strong game for us," Haney noted. "He plays hard from baseline to baseline, sideline to sideline. He is part of our senior leadership and really gets after it on both ends of the floor."
Big Red was 24 (six more than St. Clairsville) of 60 from the floor and just three for 16 from behind the arc. The losers, however, shot just 10 free throws compared to 28 for the winners.
"St. Clairsville is a good team that likes to put a lot of points on the board," Haney added. "We held them to 62 so our defense was there. We had a couple of turnovers at inopportune times. We'll have to get back at it, keep working and keep playing.
Big Red, which won the Class 4A title in 2007 before the tournament was launched, was making its first appearance in the OVAC championship game.
"It was a great atmosphere and a class act," Haney pointed out. "I told our guys not many people get to play for a championship. We enjoyed the opportunity and enjoyed the day. Obviously, we would have enjoyed it more had we won."
Both teams now turn their attention to the Division II sectional, which will be played at OUE. St. Clairsville will meet Edison on Feb. 27. Big Red, 15-6, opens Saturday against East Liverpool.
"It would be nice to see them again," Haney said of St. Clairsville. "Right now, we'll worry about East Liverpool next Saturday.
"Our goal is to see them one more time."


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According to the DMG (187), NPCs in 4e seem to be run as a weird sort of template halfway between a monster and a PC - you don't generate an actual character with a full array of powers and feats. Is there a particular reason why I shouldn't create a fully-fledged character with PC levels to face off against the party, other than that this would make the encounter more challenging? The one issue I can see is that with more than one surge, depending on class the NPC's heals might make the battle drag on too long. Also, I can't seem to find the XP reward for an NPC as per the DMG - would it be the same as a standard monster of its level?
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There are many reasons why NPCs built as PCs work differently than those built as monsters. 4e is carefully balanced and designed to make encounters interesting, and PC-class NPCs disrupt this design. Some reasons:
If you want to build an NPC like a PC despite all of this, there's no game-breaking reason why not to. Just be aware of the tradeoffs.
PCs don't have nearly enough HP to deal with a group of PCs attacking them. A L2 rogue can one shot a L2 or even L3 PC of nearly any build.
L2 charger thief (vanguard weapon, Light Blade Expertise, Surprising Charge) can do 2d8+3d6+7 dmg (1d8+41 on a crit) with a to hit of +14 (assuming CA)
considering that the best L2 PC has an AC of 22 (Knight with +1 Plate and a heavy shield) and 42 HP (16 CON,toughness as their L1 feat, whatever they want as their L2). You're talking about A PC doing 1/2 of a monster's damage on average per round and killing them ouright on a crit. PCs are not designed to fighter other PCs. PC targets need a lot more HP than other PCs have.
The thief is doing (9+10.5+7).60 + .05(41+4.5) = 15.9+2.28 = 18.75 means that your PC knight (optimized for AC not damage or movement or anything) lasts a bit more than 2 rounds. The average monster should stand up to about 4 rounds of average PC damage.
Consider that your L2 PC should be a significant enemy, you'd think he'd be a solo, or at least an Elite right? The only L2 solo I can find has 185 HP and an AC of 22. At best your L2 PC Knight is a brute, with about the right HP (a randomly pulled L2 brute had 43 HP, with an AC of just 14 (meaning that your Rogue takes him out in much less than 2 rounds). An Elite on the other hand has ~70 HP and defenses that are between the solo and the brute (~18 AC, high for L2).
Suffice to say, PC vs PC combat is a tricky business, a lot of PCs of various levels are perfectly capable of one-shotting the most durable PC of their level on a crit (the rogue takes out the Knight with a crit), and doing better than /2 damage on an average turn, these are odds you do not want your monsters/NPCs facing.
As noted in the comments, the converse of this concept is true as well. A well optimized thief (or other PC at higher levels) can one shot a party member. While this might be desirable on very rare occasions, it's not really a pleasant play experience.
Largely, it comes down to complexity and balance.
I want to start by arguing that you CAN effectively use full PC builds as NPC enemies. I ran a very effective and memorable encounter pitting 5 level 9 heroes against 4 level 10 PC enemies, who became memorable allies later on and one player took over one of them after his character meet a tragic and irreversible end.
That said, I spent over a month working on and fine-tuning the encounter. Each PC foe was fully built, with powers, feats, backgrounds, themes, and items. The group of four were painstakingly tuned for teamwork. I play-tested the battle several times to make sure the numbers matched up. I memorized each power for each player and built cheat-sheets with the hit and damage numbers for quick reference. It worked and my players were amazed, but it was tough to mentally keep track of 4 players whilst also adjudicating the rest of the fight.
I would, however, recommend against this in general. It's extremely demanding on the DM. Also, the encounter has to be very carefully tuned for this, because players fight in remarkably different ways than monsters. At-will damage is generally MUCH lower: level 10 defender doing 1d10+6 is nothing compared to a level 10 monster hitting for 2d10+10 or higher. The fight tends to last a lot longer too, especially if you have a leader PC enemy.
Ultimately, monster builds and NPC templates are designed as tools to facilitate your job as DM. You don't have to restrict yourself to those tools, but make sure you recognize the extra work involved in foregoing them. I would caution against randomly throwing a PC build in with other monsters without proper planning and expecting it to work as seamlessly as tossing in another monster, even a custom one.
I don't think there's any reason why you couldn't, but plenty of reasons why you shouldn't.
Ultimately it comes down to time; that is your time. It takes a while to build a PC, and if you fling that creature into combat with the party they're almost certainly going to lose. Depending on the level, they will probably have failed to use most of their encounter powers and probably most of their daily powers too during that combat.
Instead of building a PC for them to fight, you'd be better off thinking of ways to make the fight end in something other than a one-sided defeat, and having the resulting NPC be beneficial in the future.
If you are building the NPC to be versatile over several encounters, then I think you'd be better off just planning out the NPC for each combat as it comes, with abilities as appropriate; it's entirely possible that later combats might not even take place.
To address one of your points, rebuilding a monster as a PC won't make it more dangerous - monsters are mostly limited by their actions (one per average five of the PCs), not the variety of their abilities. If the whole encounter is "PC" monsters, you won't be able to run it very well since you'll forget most of the synergies and abilities and just end up doing basic melee attacks or similar anyway.
My suggestion, think about how the NPC is supposed to act, and build one or two powers that exemplify this nature.


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From a previous FB SO question, I worked out that the Create New App button is probably missing because I created the fan page without a proper FB account and I think they want something more concrete to verify me or something. So I created a proper FB account, as me, and now I'm stuck.
I can't join the developer community. The first time I clicked to join, it said "Cancel Request" for a few hours before reverting to Join, so I clicked it again and its been pending ever since - there's no email confirmation, it's all a bit mysterious.
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I went over some FHE schemes like DGHV, it seems they don't support that.


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WELLSBURG - The Brooke County Commission will receive about $2,000 for allowing a natural gas transmission line to be extended under the Brooke County Pioneer Trail about a half-mile south of the Wheeling Culvert Plant near Beech Bottom.
County Commissioner Jim Andreozzi said the commission agreed to enter into an agreement with MarkWest Midstream and Resources after consulting its legal counsel, County Prosecutor Joseph Barki III.
It was supported by County Commissioners Tim Ennis and Norma Tarr. Andreozzi abstained, saying it was because of personal dealings he has with MarkWest.
Andreozzi said the work isn't expected to affect the trail because it will be done many feet under it and the Ohio River nearby, but there are provisions in the agreement that hold the company responsible for restoring the site if it's damaged.
It's not been decided how money from the easement will be used.
Ruby Greathouse, president of the Brooke County Pioneer Trail Association, suggested it could be used as a match for a grant to purchase a tractor to maintain the trail.
In related business, Andreozzi and County Sheriff Chuck Jackson discussed a program held Tuesday in Wheeling by the Just Beneath the Surface Alliance.
The group was formed by the Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia and the West Virginia Petroleum Council, a division of the American Petroleum Institute, to encourage support for the natural gas industry and the use of hydraulic fracturing to release natural gas from underground geological formations known as the Marcellus and Utica shales.
Jackson said while natural gas wells have been drilled in various areas of Brooke County, there's been relatively little activity so far but that will change. He said he would like to establish a county task force, similar to one in Marshall County, that would meet with industry officials and share concerns.
A task force comprised of representatives of local fire and other emergency departments was formed by Bob Fowler, the county's director of emergency management, to prepare them for emergencies that may arise during drilling operations.
But Andreozzi said he'd like to see county and city leaders involved in a discussion that also could include how local government can help the natural gas industry. He said municipalities and public service districts might benefit from supplying water for drilling operations.
In many cases, drillers use water from the Ohio River, but Andreozzi said the cost to haul it to well sites must be expensive.
Andreozzi said local officials need to ensure that safe measures are followed.
"We want to hold their feet to the fire on that end of it, but we also want to make their job easier for them," he said.
Jackson agreed, saying through the program he learned the assessed property values in Marshall County have increased by almost 50 percent in the last two years and doubled since 2007.
"I would love to see that happen here," he said.
It's not the first time the county has received a boost from the natural gas industry.
The Brooke Hills Park board has received $750,000 for signing a lease with Appalachia Midstream Services allowing Chesapeake Energy to drill on nearly 100 acres at the rear of the park near Pearce Run Road. Crews finished hydraulic fracturing at the site last summer.
The park will receive 18 percent of royalties on about 90 acres, with other royalties going to descendants of the W.C. Gist family, who retained mineral rights to a portion of the land they donated to the county for the park.
The board also granted an easement allowing a pipeline to be extended through the same area, from Pearce Run Road to McAdoo Ridge.
Environmental concerns have been raised about hydraulic fracturing, which involves blasting the shale with a mixture of water, sand and chemicals, some of them toxic, to release the gas.
Opponents point to incidents in which wastewater from the process was spilled outside the wells; methane from abandoned coal mines was released, resulting in fires; or minor earthquakes that have occurred in areas near drilling sites.
Industry officials and others have said the process is safe when done properly and provides access to a vast natural resource that will reduce or eliminate the nation's dependency on foreign oil.
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[National Institute of Standards and Technology]
[Nanoscale titanium dioxide powder]
[standard reference materials]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new
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studies of industrial nanomaterials. The new NIST reference
material is a sample of commercial titanium dioxide powder
commonly known as P25.
NIST standard reference materials (SRMs) are typically
samples of industrially or clinically important materials that
have been carefully analyzed by NIST. They are provided with
certified values for certain key properties so that they can be
used in experiments as a known reference point.
Nanoscale titanium dioxide powder may well be the most
widely manufactured and used nanomaterial in the world, and,
not coincidentally, it is also one of the most widely studied
(Fig. 1). In the form of larger particles,
titanium dioxide is a common white pigment. As nanoscale
particles, the material is widely used as a photocatalyst, a
sterilizing agent and an ultraviolet blocker (in sunscreen
lotions, for example).
Titanium dioxide is not considered highly toxic and,
in fact, we dont certify its toxicity, said NIST
chemist Vincent Hackley. But its a representative
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The new titanium dioxide reference material is a mixed
phase, nanocrystalline form of the chemical in a dry powder. To
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properly preparing samples for environmental or toxicological
The new SRM also is particularly well suited for use in
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Trojans Split SAC Doubleheader with Mars HillMarch 20, 2014
MARS HILL, N.C. – Led by sophomore Molly Child's six-hit afternoon, Anderson recorded 28 hits, including five home runs, as the Trojans split a South Atlantic Conference softball doubleheader with Mars Hill, winning the opener, 14-11, and dropping the nightcap, 9-8, Thursday afternoon at Ponder Field.
Anderson moved to 21-7 overall and 1-3 in conference play, while Mars Hill (13-9, 1-3 SAC) improved to 7-1 at home on the season with the split.
"We fought real hard to come back and win the first game after never giving up," said Anderson head coach Tommy Hewitt. "In the second game, when your offense scores eight runs you should win."
Game #1
Anderson 14, Mars Hill 11
Junior Bri Cason was 3-for-4 in the opener, with a pair of singles and a double. She also scored once and drove in a run. Junior Rebecca Martin belted her sixth home run of the season and added two singles, while scoring three times and recording a pair of RBI. Molly Child was 2-for-4 with her seventh round-tripper of the season, while adding a walk and crossing the plate three times. Senior outfielder Charlotte Sieber posted a pair of singles in four trips to the plate, with senior Danielle Swygert notching a three-run home run in the third inning. Junior Jessica Neidigh ripped a two-run homer in the sixth inning – her sixth of the season. Freshman Courtney Czentnar chipped in a two-run single in the sixth inning.
Freshman Augie Pena (4-1) collected the win after tossing 4 2/3 innings of relief. The right-hander surrendered three earned runs on five hits, while striking out two Lions and walking five.
Anderson rallied twice for the win, as the Trojans outhit Mars Hill, 15-12, in the slugfest. After seeing the Lions score twice in the first inning and adding three more in the second inning to take a 5-0 lead, the Trojans evened the contest with five runs in the top of the third. Martin led off the inning with a shot over the left-field fence and Abby Child brought home Cason with a two-out single back up the middle. Swygert followed by adding her three-run homer with two outs to plate both Molly Child and Abby Child.
While neither team managed to push a run across in the fourth or fifth frames, the Trojans sent 13 batters to the plate in the top of the sixth and erupted for eight runs, taking a 13-8 advantage. Neidigh's two-run blast to center field highlighted the inning, while Molly Child added a solo homer beyond the fence in left-center. Czentnar also drove in a pair of runs with a two-out single.
Mars Hill countered with three runs in the bottom of the sixth to trim AU's lead to three, but the Trojans added another insurance run in the top of the seventh frame. The Lions' Jamie Booze led off the bottom of the final inning with a single, but Pena retired the next three batters, including two on strikeouts, to end the threat.
Game #2
Mars Hill 9, Anderson 8
Molly Child was a perfect 4-for-4 in the nightcap, with two doubles and a pair of singles. The center fielder also drove in two runs and scored twice. Senior Abby Child was 2-for-4 with a pair of singles and also reached on an error. Cason added a walk and a two-run home run, her third of the season, in the decisive seventh inning.
Freshman Lauren Rudesheim (9-4) suffered the loss after allowing nine runs (six earned) off 11 hits in 6 2/3 innings. She struck out four batters and walked 11.
Anderson took an early 1-0 lead with a run in the top of the first inning, but Mars Hill answered with two runs in each of the first two innings to claim a 4-1 lead. The Trojans trimmed the deficit to one with a pair of runs in the third inning and knotted the score at 4-4 with a solo run in the fifth.
The Trojans garnered a two-run lead with a pair of runs in the top of the sixth, but the Lions countered with two runs in the bottom of the inning and the two teams went to the seventh tied at 6-6. With two outs in the top of the seventh, pinch hitter Carly Hudson coaxed a walk and Cason followed with her homer over the fence in left-center, giving AU an 8-6 edge.
Mars Hill senior Shaundee Woosley led off the bottom of the seventh inning with a walk and moved into scoring position when freshman Cori Dew singled. One out later, senior Jamie Hockaday brought Woosley home with a single up the middle and junior Aieshia Peek followed with a walk to load the bases. After Rudesheim retired Booze on strikes, senior Brittany Gibson ripped a walk-off two-run double to center field.
Anderson returns home to host conference opponent Newberry on Saturday, with first-pitch versus the Wolves set for 2 p.m. As part of the AU Student-Athlete Advisory Committee's "Wish Week", a local Make-A-Wish recipient, Keiden Howard, will throw out the first pitch. Between games of the twin bill, the softball team will also host Military Appreciation Day, recognizing veterans who are in attendance.


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Where can I get more favourable exchange rate, in general?
This varies very much depending on your country of origin and your destination. Best exchange rate mean lowest spread, but keep in mind, that some banks apart of the spread, also charge extra commissions.
Keeping that in mind, there are some general tendencies. Exchange rates, from best, to worst:
The exception are countries, where the money is not fully and freely interchangeable. In that case most often black-market exchange will give you much more than the official ones at banks. However, using black-market you're exposing yourself to fraud.
My normal advice is in this answer, which is to get a card without foreign exchange fees and take the cash out while you're over there. You'll generally get the best rate by far with this, and you don't have the safety issues of carrying round a week's worth of money in cash.
If you are going to be somewhere without access to ATMs, so you need to take cash (either your own currency to change, or pre-change into the destination one), then there are some general tips. Firstly, airports will often give a poor rate, as they have a captive market and an expensive location. Next up, make sure you know the real rate, and shop around. Be aware that "commission free" normally means a worse rate (they still want to make a profit!), so normally only makes sense for small transactions. For large ones, a commission plus a great rate is often better, but get a calculator out and check!
Before you go, check what rate your bank will offer you (it may be good, or it may be shocking, so know what the real exchange rate is). See what you can get online, but don't forget that will involve a postage fee and a wait! Then check with the post office, and if you live somewhere touristy, try a bureau de change near you. (Where I live, we have lots of american tourists, so you can often get a good rate if you want to buy USD, but rarely if you want to sell them!). Finally, try and check (either online or on the phone) what rate you can get at your destination.
It depends not on which country is your home but which country offers the best exchange rates.
Since you have not listed either where you live or where you're planning to go we can't give you more specific advice.
But here's some general advice.
Usually the richer a country is, the more expensive money changing is.
Developing countries often want major foreign currencies like USD and EUR and will offer better rates for them than you'll get buying the foreign currency of a developing country in the US or Europe (or Australia or Japan etc).
Places with a black market can sometimes offer even better than official exchange rates for the big currencies so the dodgy money changers on the corner can give better rates than the banks or official money changers. But as they're dodgy know your numbers and don't get scammed!
Another thing to keep in mind is "How exotic is the currency of my destination?" If you're going somewhere with a stable world currency like USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, JPY, etc you can change those pretty easily. If you want something a little more interesting like Albanian leks or Armenian dram you might not be able to change them at home at all but you will certainly be able to when you get there. Especially if your destination country has an expat community in your departure country.
This all of course assumes that you definitely want to phsyically change money. If in fact you really want to know the best way to deal with money issues while travelling, then Gagravarr's answer deals with that more general problem
It is much better to exchange monies in the country of visit but make sure you go to forex bureau as they always offer better rates compared to border money changers. Or ask your tour guide in the place of visit, in most cases they always know the offers and good prices.
I would observe the trend of the currency of the home country versus the foreign country's currency before making a decision.
If the currency of my home country (the dollar in my case) were falling, I would try to exchange it as soon as possible, which is to say before I leave home, to get more foreign currency for my dollars.
If the dollar seemed to be rising, I would exchange it as late as possible, meaning when I arrive in the foreign country. The main exception would be if the "spreads" around the basic exchange in the foreign country were much larger than in the U.S. Then I might do the currency exchange at home,or in a third country, even if I expected the dollar to rise against the foreign currency.
I dont know if this thread is still topical (probably always will be ?) but I'll give you my example of a 2014 currency transaction.
I live in the UK and I am travelling to Thailand in September 2014. At the time of writing XE.com tell me that the current exchange rate is 500.00 GBP = 26,267.37 THB
2 A specialised Foreign Currency provider in the UK (in this case "Currency Exchange Corporation") can give me 25,520 THB for £500.05.
So taking into account that Thailand are keen to have foreign currency but not desparate it would appear that waiting until you reach the country is the best bet ?
An option not yet mentioned is to get a prepaid credit card in the destination currency before you travel.
You will not get hit by transfer rates as the card is billed in the same currency as the merchant bank plus as its a prepaid card were you to misplace it you are only risking what ever you put on the card.
The downside is some prepaid cards are not accepted everywhere. This depends on the type of card, and can be easily fixed by getting a secondary card from your current card network in a different currency.


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Panthers players Erik Gudbranson, Shawn Matthias, Mike Weaver and Joey Crabb visited the Center for the Intrepid and the Warrior and Family Support Center on Thursday afternoon. At the Center for the Intrepid, the players met with members of the Rampage sled hockey team, which was the first to form that consisted solely of Wounded Warriors. The sled hockey players showed the Panthers the state-of-the-art rehabilitation facility and shared the nuances of sled hockey. The four players then visited the Warrior and Family Support Center and signed autographs and took pictures with Wounded Warriors.
The Rampage, the top affiliate of the Panthers, are hosting the first-ever NHL game in the 11-year history of the AT&T Center on Friday at 7:30 p.m. on a Dollar Drink Night. Tickets for the NHL Preseason Game can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, online at sarampage.com or by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554.


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STARKVILLE, MISS—No. 16 Texas A&M (15-5, 5-1) was led by Senior Kristi Bellock with 18 points en route to a commanding 81-33 victory over Mississippi State (8-11, 0-6) at Humphrey Coliseum in Starkville, Miss. The Aggies held the Bulldogs to a season low 33 points in the game.
Bellock had a career night making nine of 10 shots from the floor for a career high 18 points to go along with six rebounds and two steals. Bellock started the game a perfect 8-for-8 from the floor. Joining Bellock in double figures were senior Adrienne Pratcher with 15 points and junior Kelsey Bone with 13 points on the night.
The Aggies raced out to a nine point lead in the first six minutes of the game behind an efficient offense shooting 8-for-12 from the floor, tallying an assist on seven of the first eight field goals made. Bellock made her first five shots of the game to pace the Aggie offense early on, scoring 10 points to lead all-scorers.
Mississippi State struggled from the floor to open the game, but the Bulldogs were effective on the offensive glass collecting six offensive rebounds in the first ten minutes of the game leading to eight second chance points. The Aggies forced three early turnovers leading to seven A&M points.
The Aggies took a then game-high 13 point lead into the under eight minute media timeout, leading 25-12 with 7:57 left in the opening period. Texas A&M outscored Mississippi State in the paint 10-6 in the early going.
The Aggies took a game-high 20 point lead into the locker room at the half behind a season best 65.4% shooting from the floor. The visitors were 17-for-26 from the floor at the break with 12 assists versus only two assists from the Bulldogs. The Aggies scored 13 points off 11 Mississippi State turnovers, but were outscored 8-2 in second chance points.
Bellock continued her hot shooting throughout the first half making all six of her attempts for a game-high 12 points. Pratcher had seven points after the opening frame with Bone adding six points of her own. Freshman Courtney Walker put together an efficient opening 20 minutes with four points, five rebounds and three assists in 16 minutes of play.
The Aggies used a 21-0 run over 6:39 of game play across halftime to increase the lead to a then game-high 35 points. Six points in the run came from back-to-back three point field goals from Pratcher, the second of which set a new single-game career high for Pratcher in made three pointers of three.
The Aggies prevented the Bulldogs from making a field goal in the second half until 11:37 remained in the game starting out 0-for-8 from the floor to begin the second half. The Bulldogs finished the half shooting 4-18 from the floor for 22.2 percent in the second half.
Freshman Courtney Walker played well in 23 minutes on the floor forcing several turnovers in addition to nine points, five rebounds and four assists. Freshman Chelsea Jennings had impressive night off the bench with six rebounds to tie for the team high. Freshman Rachel Mitchell contributed four points, three rebounds and a block in only eight minutes of play.
For the game Texas A&M scored 32 points off of 23 Bulldog turnovers and prevented Mississippi State from scoring any points off turnovers. The Aggies dished out 19 assists and ripped 17 steals.
Mississippi State was led by Martha Alwal with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
The Aggies return to Reed Arena on Sunday, Jan. 27 when they play host to Missouri at 2:30 p.m. on ESPNU.


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By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Ken O'Neil)
The Northwest Extreme Late Model Series were on tap for the annual Firecracker 100 at Sunset Speedway Park this year presented by Baseline Pawn of Cornelius. The Friday July 4th would feature fourteen entries at the "Banks Bullring". The race would mark the third time the series had visited SSP and the fifth total of the current campaign.
Rob Ireland from Banks would set the pace early in his Ireland and Ireland at Law/Privateer Racing/Klecker Knives/Applebee Aviation #8 entry. He would lose the lead briefly to Ryan Bothwell out of Aurora on lap four. Bothwell kept his Schram Brothers Excavating/Herz Precision Parts #51 MasterSbilt out front until Ireland would reclaim the lead on lap six.
Ireland would be the trail blazer for just one lap as another hometown driver, Greg Walters from Banks, would seize the lead on lap seven in his T&G Trucking/American Landscaping/Duncan Automotive/Warpaint Motorsports Graphix/Schram Brothers Excavating #97 Victory Circle. From there Walters would put on a clinic and cruise to victory to score his second consecutive Firecracker 100 triumph and his third win at SSP in 2014 with the Northwest Extreme Late Model Series.
Vancouver, Washington's Jerry Schram would win the multi-car battle for the runner up spot in his Schram Brothers Excavating/Century III Stables/Bodies By Steve-O #16 MasterSbilt followed by Rob Ireland in third. The balance of the top five would consist of Warren native Brad Martin in the Reser's Fine Foods/Wayne Martin Floor Covering/Competitive Edge Sign & Design #99 MasterSbilt in fourth and crossing the stripe behind him in fifth would be the Jackhammer Trucking/T&G Trucking #76 Rayburn of Jason Johnson hailing from Gresham.
Earlier in the evening Brad Martin was fast time of the night while heat races were won by Martin and Greg Walters. Picking up the victory in the trophy dash was also Martin.
The Northwest Extreme Late Model Series will be in action on Saturday July 5th for their second night of the doubleheader. Pit Gates will open at 2:00 PM, Front Gates open at 3:30, and racing starts at 6:00. Tickets are Adults $12.00, Seniors/Military/Juniors (13-17) $10.00, Youths (Ages 12-6) $5.00, and Children under the age of 5 are FREE and a Family Pass will be offered for two Adults and up to four Youths for just $35.00. For more information log on to www.sunsetspeedwaypark.com.
Race Summary:
Firecracker 100 presented by Baseline Pawn
Northwest Extreme Late Model Race #5
Friday July 4th, 2014
Sunset Speedway Park
Banks, Oregon
A Feature: 1. 97-Greg Walters; 2. 16-Jerry Schram; 3. 8-Rob Ireland; 4. 99-Brad Martin; 5. 76-Jason Johnson; 6. 9-Jacob Myers; 7. 67-Dave Walters; 8. 20-Josh Sim; 9. 88-John Gamell; 10. 18-Kristi Somers; 11. 8X-Daniel Modaff; 12. 56-Jack Marontate; 13. 51-Ryan Bothwell; 14. 79-Phil Johnson
Dash: 1. 99-Brad Martin; 2. 97-Greg Walters; 3. 9-Jacob Myers; 4. 67-Dave Walters
Heat 1: 1. 99-Brad Martin; 2. 67-Dave Walters; 3. 16-Jerry Schram; 4. 8X-Daniel Modaff; 5. 88-John Gamell; 6. 56-Jack Marontate; 7. 79-Phil Johnson
Heat 2: 1. 97-Greg Walters; 2. 8-Rob Ireland; 3. 9-Jacob Myers; 4. 51-Ryan Bothwell; 5. 76-Jason Johnson; 6. 18-Kristi Somers; 7. 20-Josh Sim
Qualifying: 1. 99-Brad Martin; 2. 9-Jacob Myers; 3. 67-Dave Walters; 4. 97-Greg Walters; 5. 16-Jerry Schram; 6. 51-Ryan Bothwell; 7. 88-John Gamell; 8. 8-Rob Ireland; 9. 79-Phil Johnson; 10. 76-Jason Johnson; 11. 56-Jack Marontate; 12. 18-Kristi Somers; 13. 8X-Daniel Modaff; 14. 20-Josh Sim
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I need to deal with sqlite db placed in asset folder in Android project. The issue is that usually we create a copy of asset db at runtime and all the queries are done on this copy, but the problem is that when I clear the cache it will remove all updates; so I need to update the asset file not the copy that has been created on runtime.
Can I insert update delete the asset sqlite file?
Actually I want to preserve modifications on DB, and I don't want to loose these changes when clearing application data from settings.
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A Cappella Singers, University Singers and Chamber Orchestra
A Cappella Singers, University Singers and Chamber Orchestra is in the past.
Collins Alumni Auditorium
Free and open to the public
The concert includes performances by Lipscomb University's A Cappella Singers, conducted by Dr. Gary P. Wilson, the University Singers, conducted by Mrs. Jean Miller, and the Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Steve Rhodes.
Performances are subject to change. For additional information, contact the Department of Music at 1-800-333-4358, ext. 5932 or (615) 966-5932.


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Bologna G Marconi Airport
Via Triumvirato 84, 40132 Bologna, Italy
Telefon: (051) 647 9615 or 647 9688
Website: www.bologna-airport.it
The airport is situated 6km (3.5 miles) northeast of Bologna.
How to get there
From the Bologna bypass (tangenziale), passengers should take exit 4 and follow signs to the airport. From the A14, they should take the Bologna-San Lazzaro exit; once on the bypass road, they should then take exit 4 for the airport. From the A13, passengers should take the Bologna-Arcoveggio exit; then, once on the bypass road, they should take exit 4 for the airport. From the A1, passengers should take the Bologna-Casalecchio exit; then, once on the bypass, they should take exit 4 for the airport.
Information about parking possibilities at the Bologna G Marconi Airport
Access by public transport
The Aerobus (tel: (051) 290 290) departs every 15 minutes from outside Arrivals (Terminals A and B) and runs to Bologna central railway station and the city centre (journey time - 20 minutes). Tickets can be bought on the bus. There are also bus services to/from Modena Airport and Modena city centre (journey time - 60 minutes) and to/from Siena (journey time - 2 hours 30 minutes).
Taxi services are available outside Arrivals at both terminals. Companies include Cat (tel: (051) 534 141) and Cotabo (tel: (051) 372 727).
Information desk
There are two information desks located in the Departures area of Terminals A and B. In addition, there is a flight information board in Terminal A Departures and 96 screens, providing flight information, located throughout the airport. A telephone information service (tel: (051) 647 9615) is also available. A tourist information counter is located in Arrivals in Terminal A; staff can provide information on hotels, restaurants, events and city attractions.
Airport News:
Terminal 2, which previously served domestic passengers and was set for demolition following transfer of these services to Terminal 1, is now to be redeveloped for the use of low cost airlines.Ben Gurion also opened a nearly 2-mile long runway at the end of October 2007. Officials said it would accommodate the new Airbus A380.
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General Legal | Foreign/International | Interdisciplinary | Newspapers | E-Journal Finders | Journal Indexes | Library Catalogs
General Legal Databases
- Bloomberg Law [password required] Comprehensive legal and business resources.
- BNA Premier [off-campus] Access to over 100 BNA publications providing news and analysis on a wide range of legal topics
- CALI - Student lessons on various legal topics [first time users must create an account - see secure page for password information]
- CCH IntelliConnect [off-campus] Access to state and federal tax laws, reporters, news, and other related materials. Also covers additional commerce-related topics such as labor and employment, banking, and intellectual property law.
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- CQ Electronic Library [off-campus] Access to six CQ databases including CQ Weekly covering activity in the U.S. Congress
- ebrary [off-campus] eBooks on a variety of law-related subjects
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online [off-campus] Law subject group includes online versions of 18th century legal treatises, digests, law dictionaries, case summaries
- Gongwer Ohio News Service [Drinko Hall only] Ohio state government news and information
- Hein Online [off-campus] - This searchable archive contains law journals, the Federal Register, U.S. Treaties, classic legal treatises, U.S. Reports , and U.S. Attorney General Opinions
- Homeland Security Digital Library [free on the Web]- Selected U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as resources from universities, organizations and local and state agencies relating to homeland security
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- LexisNexis [password required] Comprehensive resource for legal research in primary and secondary sources
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- Loislaw [password required] Access to federal and state cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and secondary sources
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- ProQuest Congressional (formerly LexisNexis Congressional) [off-campus] Resource for federal legislative history research, including access to U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980.
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- Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online [Drinko Hall only] English translations of the constitutions of over 190 countries
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- Justis [off-campus] Full text and PDF formats of all Acts of Parliament, both In Force and Repealed, for England, Wales and Scotland, from 1235 to present. It also provides links to amendments
- JustCite [off-campus] Find citing references, reporter locations, and parallel citation for any UK citation.
- Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [off-campus] - Collection of articles by international law scholars.
- ODS-The Official Document Systems of the United Nations Full text access to official UN documents including General Assembly resolutions
- Oxford Reports on International Law [off-campus] Decisions on public international law from international and domestic courts.
- Treaties and International Agreements Online (TIARA) [Drinko Hall only] U.S. treaties, a U.S. treaties index, international agreements, and international tax treaties
- UN Treaties - United Nations Treaty Series, texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties, and the status of multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General.
- Westlaw China [off-campus] Full-text access to PRC laws and regulations. Chinese and English versions available.
- More databases at OSU Libraries organized by subject and alphabetically by database name.
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- Academic Search Complete [off-campus] Broad, multi-disciplinary article database with selected full-text
- African American Studies Center [off-campus] Primary source documents, biographies, images, maps, tables, timelines and more on the African American experience
- America: History and Life [off-campus] Article abstracts on history and culture of U.S. and Canada
- Criminal Justice Abstracts [off-campus] Article abstracts in criminology and related fields
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- ERIC [off-campus] Abstracts of documents and articles on education research and practice
- Google Scholar Abstracts, articles, theses, and books across numerous academic disciplines
- Historical Abstracts [off-campus] Article abstracts on world history excluding U.S. and Canada
- International Political Science Abstracts [off-campus] Article abstracts from world's leading political science journals
- ISI Citation Databases [off-campus] Includes science, social sciences, and arts & humanities citation databases
- JSTOR [off-campus] Multi-disciplinary journal article collection covering the humanities, sciences, and social sciences
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- The New York Review of Books [off-campus] Influential magazine covering literature, politics, and culture. Includes archive of issues since 1963.
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- Factiva [off-campus] Access to articles from numerous newspapers, magazines, wire services, and trade publications in html form.
- Proquest Historical Newspapers [off-campus] Access to Chicago Tribune, New York Times, and Washington Post from mid-nineteenth century to more recent decades in scanned-image PDF form.
- All newspaper databases provided by OSU Libraries
- List of U.S. Newspapers available in microform at OSU Libraries
- New York Times
- Factiva [off-campus], LexisNexis, and Westlaw (06/01/80-present); ProQuest Historical [off-campus] (1851-2008); Thompson Library (microform, 1851-recent months); Moritz Reserve Room (current week in print)
- Wall Street Journal
- Factiva [off-campus] and LexisNexis (06/13/79-present with selective coverage 06/13/79-01/01/85); Thompson Library (microform, 1960-recent months); OSU Depository (microform, 1920-1960); Moritz Reserve Room (current week in print)
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Electronic Journal Finders
- Moritz eJournal Finder - Browse or search a list of legal journals that are available in full-text online. (Includes journals in Hein Online, Legal Trac, LexisNexis Academic, LexisNexis Congressional, and the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center.)
- A-Z eJournals List (Ohio State University Libraries) Browse or search the list of full-text electronic journals available to The Ohio State University community.
Indexes to Periodicals and Books
- Criminal Justice Abstracts [off-campus] This index covers books, journals, reports (both governmental and non-governmental) on criminology and related fields.
- Index to Legal Periodicals and Books [off-campus] Index to over 600 legal periodicals published in the U.S. and elsewhere, and 2,500 books each year in banking, constitutional law, criminal law, environmental protection, labor law, landlord/tenant decisions, malpractice suits, multinational corporations, public law and politics, securities and antitrust legislation, tax law, and estate planning.
- Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals [off-campus] This index covers legal periodicals from countries other than the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia beginning in 1985.
- Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922) [off-campus] This is the online version of Jones & Chipman's index of legal literature from 1786-1922. It is part of the 19th Century Masterfile database.
- Legal Trac [Drinko Hall only] Index of articles in legal periodicals since 1980 including law reviews, legal newspapers, and bar association journals. Includes some full-text.
Library Catalogs
- OSU Libraries Catalog Search collections of all libraries in OSU system including Moritz Law Library
- OhioLINK Catalog Search collections of all OhioLINK member libraries
- WorldCat@OSU Search OSU Libraries, OhioLINK, and academic libraries worldwide
- WorldCat First Search [off-campus] Additional worldwide search tool with more detailed options


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The 30 Most Unsettling German Halloween Costumes
Here's Robin Hood, standing proudly with the weapon he's least famous for. What's wrong Germany, couldn't you find a boomerang to give him?
These two represent the two houses of German parliament, according to an update we just posted on Wikipedia.
Do you see this Hillary Clinton? Do you see?! Look into the true face of socialized medicine!
It's the neck trunks that make these costumes, since we're all picturing the guy chatting up another party guest while sucking down a nearby beer with his trunk (for the purposes of this scenario, we're assuming the guy just got a tracheotomy).
Hey, you know who would find this offensive? Cavemen. You know who else? Fucking everybody.
This costume relies on a well-known stereotype, the greedy Asian chef. In Germany, Asian chefs are routinely blamed for the country's ills.
Admittedly, we've grouped a bunch of the most racially tone-def costumes together; very few of the costumes we saw on German costume websites were this bad. But let's be honest: These costumes should never have been made in the first place. It's like they've never even seen a person in Germany who wasn't white.
Could it get any worse than this?
Holy fuck.
Well, that looks utterly impractical. At least it's kind of cute. Hey, we wonder what else could be done in this vein?


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Racing Seat Custom Install - The Safest SeatWritten by on May 1, 2009 Follow Along As We Build And Install A Brand-New Custom Seat In Our Asphalt Project Car
Fifteen years ago, real safety innovations were just beginning in the racing world. Unfortunately, it took the losses of four drivers (Tony Roper, Kenny Irwin Jr., Adam Petty, and Dale Earnhardt) before we really started paying attention to how safe our cars really were. The most important piece of safety equipment in your car is your seat. It's supposed to be designed to protect you from any type of impact. However, simple mistakes during the building or installation of the seat will prevent that from happening.
Hopefully, you never have to test out the strength of your seat, but you have to be prepared for the worst. Having the mindset of Well I've been in a few accidents and nothing bad has happened yet, is setting yourself up for a major problem. It's your obligation not only to yourself but to your fellow competitors that your seat be as safe as possible.
Innovative Safety Products (ISP) located in Harrisburg, NC, has recently come out with its new Car of Tomorrow seat. This groundbreaking aluminum seat recently passed NASCAR's tough safety tests, during which they hit the seat with unbelievable amounts of force from all directions. It passed with flying colors.
ISP's Kris VanGilder builds these custom seats for a wide range of racers, from NASCAR to NHRA to boat racers. The C.O.T. seat is fabricated in three sections; the main body, the headrest, and then the bolt-on shoulder struts. These three sections are then assembled once the main body has been properly mounted in the car. The goal is to not only keep the driver comfort-able but also keep him protected in the right way.
The guys at ISP custom build the main body conforming to the driver's body, they measure and cut the pieces to fit each individual person. I came in to its shop, was measured and within a week was able to pick up my seat.
Installation is the main key when it comes to how safe your seat is. We've all heard those war stories about how someone had bolted their seat to the floorpan. It's amazing to me that this still happens. Always bolt the seat to the frame. We mounted the seat at Leavitt Racing Components' shop in Mooresville NC. Many of the mounting brackets seen in the pictures can be fabricated, but if you're not accustomed to fabricating steel, I'd suggest purchasing them, preferably from ISP, since it built the seat.
With the season fast approaching, if your seat is a few years old, take a look at it. You may not necessarily need a new one, but double-check all of your mounting points. And check the seat for any type of cracks or broken welds. Remember, this piece of equipment is designed to protect your life. Don't rush putting the seat in. Take your time and install it correctly.
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Here the seat is connected to the headrest. Notice the four grade eight bolts on the back of the seat.The padding in the headrest is soft to the touch, but what separates ISP is its staged padding. This ensures that during a wreck your head can compress into the headrest but the rebound won't throw your head back to the other side. The blue is the softest of the three pads with the yellow being the stiffest.Here is where we need to install the seat. Notice the floorpan; we will not be bolting the seat to this. Instead, the seat will be bolted to the crossmember and the chassis.Andy Maylish of Leavitt Racing Components is drilling into the crossmember to attach our seat post. It's vital that the seat be mounted in three mounting points. Some teams will only do two mounting points. But the problem is the seat will bow during an accident. And after every accident the seat will weaken.OK. Now we have the seat where I feel it's comfortable. The important thing here is not only height, and side to side, but a lot of teams forget about the angle. I want my seat with the back tilted down just a few inches so that the seat props my legs up. This way during the course of a race, I don't have to hold my legs up, the seat is doing it for me. Also, don't forget about the angle of the seat from side to side. We put a small amount of angle in the seat, where the right side is higher than the left so that I would be pushed down into the seat while cornering and not feel like I was being thrown out of the seat.Andy has fabricated our mounting points, you can buy these parts from Steve or from ISP. Any fabricator can make these pieces.Here is our front mounting point, underneath the seat. Notice that there's no gap or bend between the bar and the seat.
And finally this is our top mounting point. Notice how the seat and the headrest are both connected to this mount.Like I said before, these mounts weren't that difficult to make. But you can save some time by purchasing them from Leavitt Racing Components or from ISP.Like I said before, these mounts weren't that difficult to make. But you can save some time by purchasing them from Leavitt Racing Components or from ISP.There is our 'cage for the bottom of the seat. We put some plywood down so we wouldn't damage the floorpan while we were installing the seat.


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For international flights of 12-15+ hours, do the planes usually have AC power available in Economy? If not, is there a standard "airplane power adaptor" that can convert the DC into AC to power a laptop or other electronic item? Is this the same type of adaptor that you can use in cars, or is it a different plug type on an airplane?
When power outlets were first installed on airliners, they used a special adapter called EmPower, which looked like this:
The airlines obviously thought that frequent flyers would be happy to buy a new kind of adapter for all their gizmos. This turned out not to be entirely true... nobody wanted to buy these new stupid adapters, and the airlines eventually realized that it wasn't going to work.
So they are now installing "normal" power outlets... often special receptacles with all kinds of holes that can handle just about any kind of plug, US, European, or British. If they already installed the EmPower thing, they're regretting it and replacing it with standard receptacles as fast as they can.
There is no standard rule to decide if your flight is going to have power, except for the following vague rules of thumb:
The canonical way to find out is by finding out the exact aircraft you'll be flying on, and looking it up on SeatGuru to see where the power outlets are and whether they are EmPower or AC. Most airline websites will also have details on where power is available.
Air Canada has power in economy. It is a standard North American plug. There was a brief time when in-air power required a special airline-only adapter, similar to the way headphones had that strange two-prong plug. But I think these days if there's power it will be a "normal" plug for that airline. The only adapter you are likely to need is one you would use anyway in the country you're heading to.
After reading Joel's answer I realized that the plug is a little more complicated than a North American plug (though my stuff fits in it fine) and found this picture:
Perhaps most European devices could also use this plug.
I haven't flown an airline offering power in economy, but Apple offers an Apple MagSafe Airline Adapter, so I guess that the answer to that part of your question is yes, otherwise apple is lying. Seatguru.com offers insight which airline offers in flight power, but I could not find one that offers power in economy.


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Campaign advertising between Kentucky's gubernatorial candidates is heating up with Election Day less than a month away. Democrat Ben Chandler and Republican Ernie Fletcher are accusing each other of negative campaigning.
The most recent flap came Monday, when the Chandler campaign sent a letter to every TV station in Kentucky, asking that they pull an ad entitled "Brags," sponsored by the Republican Governors' Association. WBKO, on the advice of its' corporate attorney, has decided to continue to run the ad.
WKU political science professor Scott Lasley says voters often confuse negative ads with contrasting ads. The main difference between the two is focus. Contrast ads focus on highlighting the differences between candidates; negative ads focus almost exclusively on the opponent.
Lasley believes contrasting ads can be helpful to voters who may be confused about candidates' positions on key issues.
Election research indicates a majority of American voters dislike negative campaign ads, but remember their messages better than any other form of political advertising.


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Designers, builders, manufacturers, and other players in the kitchen and bath arena showed up for this year's Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (KBIS) in Las Vegas, looking to be impressed, inspired, and maybe even a little bit shocked.
From the outlandish and over-the-top products to the practical and pretty, KBIS is the place to introduce the newest and coolest items for the kitchen and bath. Company booths get larger each year, showcasing not only new products, but also trends and conceptual predictions. We take you to the show floor for a closer look at this year's hot items.
More KBIS Videos:
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Will Installing Lion on a MacBook5,2 with 4GB or ram, currently running Snow Leopard, improve or decrease its performance?
Many have tried to do some benchmarking see e.g.
and looks like differences are small. One remarkable exception is FileVault 2
In my (not very extensive) experience with Lion I noted no difference (but Lion is definitely more buggy and less dependable than Snow Leopard)
I was going to add only a comment, but it was too long. The truth is that Speed/Performance is almost always relative when the difference is not too big. The question is, would Lion be a better option for you? I certainly find some of the Lion "new features" almost a must-have for my daily workflow. The overall OS improvement makes it better for me.
The truth is, that the first releases have proven to be more disk intensive/CPU intensive in a few tasks, presumably because there are more services (autosave, resume, etc.) running in the background. This alone may be the culprit of most of its "performance" problems. It has slightly improved, but I've seen very fast Snow Leopard installs. To be fair, SL have had a few point releases already, and Lion only 2, so one can assume that it will get faster over time as things are optimized (at least this is what has been happening with Apple for the past eight years).
All in all, evaluate wether you find Lion a good addition to your OS rather than the raw performance. Some people really like the SL "Spaces", Dashboard, Exposé, etc. on the other hand, Launchbar, Mission Control, AutoSave, etc. are features that some people hate, and most of the time, there's no way to revert to the "previous" behavior.
In the end, you get used to it, but it takes some time.
I don't have figures to back it up, but my impression is that Lion doesn't do anything faster (on my 8GB MacBookPro6,2) than Snow Leopard did, and it does some things slower and/or requires more memory to do them. From a recent straw poll around my workplace, most of the other upgraders there are in general agreement.


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Let $X$ be a smooth projective variety (over an algebraically closed field; it could be the field of complex numbers); $Z$ is its hyperplane section. When there exists an etale $U/X$ such that:
$Z$ can be lifted to $U$.
There exists a morphism from $U$ to a curve $C$ such that $Z$ is the preimage of some point of $C$.


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A St. Joseph County Sheriff's deputy, who authorities say stole a prescription pain reliever from the jail while on duty, has pleaded guilty.
Stephen Morris, 39, pleaded to two misdemeanor counts of larceny of more than $200, but less than $1,000.
Sentencing is set for April 8 in Van Buren County Circuit Court.
Morris was originally charged with felony larceny counts after the Jan. 9 Tramadol theft.
The case was handled by prosecutors from Cass County following a request by the state attorney general's office.
Assistant Prosecutor Kirk Metzger said he'll ask that Morris no longer be able to work in law enforcement or as a corrections officer.
Morris, a 12-year veteran, is on administrative leave without pay. He remains free on bond.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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