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A former Waukesha man and a registered sex offender was indicted Tuesday on two counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Milwaukee.
The indictment alleges Jermaine L. Johnson, 36, produced child pornography in July 2009 and August 2011 and possessed it in March 2012.
If Johnson is convicted on the production count, he faces a minimum of 25 years in prison and 15 years on the possession count. He faces a maximum of life in prison. »Read Full Article(2)
Madison-formed Garbage to play first Milwaukee show since 2005
Garbage, the Madison-born band behind such '90s alt-rock hits "Push It," "Stupid Girl" and "Only Happy When It Rains," is playing the Rave April 6, its first Milwaukee show since 2005.
The band was founded in 1993 by famed rock producer and Viroqua native Butch Vig (Nirvana's "Nevermind," Foo Fighter's "Wasting Light"); Stever Marker, who established the late Madison-based Smart Studios with Vig; and Duke Erikson, who played with Vig in Garbage precursor Spooner. They recruited Scottish singer Shirley Manson in 1994, and by bringing pop-leaning songwriting to an edgy alt-rock sound, the group quickly found success with its multi-platinum-selling, self-titled debut album the following year.
Garbage released three more full-length studio albums through 2005 (including Grammy Album of the Year nominee "Version 2.0" in 1998) and the title track from the 1999 James Bond movie "The World is Not Enough." But following touring in 2005, the band went on an extended hiatus until officially reuniting in 2010. It returned in earnest last year to tour behind a new album, "Not Your Kind of People," and played its first Madison show in seven years last August.
Tickets for Garbage's return to Milwaukee are $30 to $40 and are available for purchase beginning at 10 a.m. Friday at the Rave box office (2401 W. Wisconsin Ave.), by calling (414) 342-7283 or visiting therave.com.
Underdog Ravens withstand furious surge
New Orleans - The Baltimore Ravens, an afterthought as the AFC's unheralded fourth-seeded team when the playoffs started, are National Football League champions.
Not even a 34-minute power outage when they had established a 22-point lead could stop the Ravens from defeating the San Francisco 49ers, 34-31, Sunday night at the Superdome in another Super Bowl that went down to the bitter end.
The 49ers, a 3½-point favorite as the second seeded-team in the NFC, drove from their 20 to the Baltimore 5 needing a touchdown to win. »Read Full Article(198)
In Packer Nation, these fans dare to be different
Muskego - It was Joe Kooping's house, his beer and his snacks, but it still didn't get him much respect on Super Bowl Sunday.
Kooping grew up in Milwaukee, graduated from Pius XI High School, married one of his classmates and just adopted a rescue dog, a sweet German shepherd named Dakota. With such Wisconsin roots, you'd think Kooping was a die-hard Packers fan.
Nope. 49ers all the way, baby. »Read Full Article(7)
Secretive paper ballots regaining hold in Wisconsin Legislature
Madison - When Assembly leaders last week wanted to hire an attorney and add new costs to the $1.9 million already spent on a legal fight over legislative districts, they didn't call an open committee meeting.
Instead, GOP leaders circulated a paper ballot with bare-bones public notice and cast the party-line 5-3 committee vote quietly, ignoring an amendment that would have capped the fees for attorneys. Basic details such as the law firm's hourly rate will be left up to Republican leaders with no further vote.
Paper ballots have arrived in the Assembly, completing a legislative comeback they started in the Senate four years ago. Last week alone, eight separate votes were taken by paper ballot in the Legislature. Last session, the Senate took 320 committee votes that way, including some on controversial bills such as limiting liability lawsuits, putting new restrictions on abortions and removing the enrollment cap on a long-term care program for the needy. »Read Full Article(126)
Two are killed in Dunn County crash
Town of Lucas - Two men have died in a two-vehicle crash in the Town of Lucas in Dunn County.
The Dunn County Sheriff's Office said the accident happened late Saturday night on Highway 29. Investigators said it appeared a westbound passenger car crossed the centerline and was struck on the passenger side by an eastbound SUV shortly before midnight.
Both men in the car died at the scene. Their names have not been released pending notification of relatives.
The driver of the SUV was taken to a Menomonie hospital with unknown injuries.
Teen drowns while cutting pond ice in Vernon County
Town of Clinton - A 17-year-old Amish youth drowned while cutting ice on a spring-fed pond in the Town of Clinton in Vernon County.
Sheriff John Spears said the youth and other boys were cutting ice Saturday. The others delivered a load of blocks to the family's farm, and upon returning to the pond noticed the boy was missing. A 911 call was placed from a neighbor's phone around noon.
Emergency crews were dispatched along with two dive teams. The La Crosse Tribune reported they used ATVs and Amish sleds to reach the pond. They found his hat near a break in the ice.
Divers recovered his body after he had been in the water more than two hours. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His name has not been released.
UW rides unlikely scoring trio to victory over Illinois
Champaign, Ill. - Predicting where Wisconsin will find points or whether the Badgers will hit the 50-point mark has been a thankless chore in recent games.
Sunday offered another example, though likely not in the way UW's players and coaches envisioned.
After failing to hit the 50-point mark in each of their last three games, the Badgers surpassed the mark with 11 minutes 15 seconds left against Illinois. »Read Full Article(19)
Live blog: 49ers vs. Ravens in Super Bowl XLVII
Our live blog today from Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans is underway and can be found on its own page at jsonline.com/superbowl47live.
Kickoff is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on CBS.
Tom Silverstein will provide live analysis and answer questions before and throughout the game between the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens, starting shortly before game time. Super Bowl and Packers questions are welcome.
Be sure to check back afterward and in the morning for all of the Journal Sentinel's coverage at jsonline.com/packers. (11)
Golden Eagles fall apart after fast start
Louisville, Ky. - With a chance to build on their overnight Big East lead, the Marquette Golden Eagles came to the KFC Center on Sunday and laid an egg.
OK, so that might be a harsh way to frame the 70-51 loss to No. 12 Louisville for a team that has far outgrown preseason expectations. But in a year in which the conference is as predictable as Corey Hart's health, Marquette played its worst game since losing by 33 points to Florida in November.
The bad news: The No. 25 Golden Eagles (15-5, 6-2) whiffed on a chance to be alone in first place with the loss to the No. 12 Cardinals (18-4, 6-3) after Syracuse lost Saturday to Pittsburgh to give Marquette a half-game lead. »Read Full Article
Danceworks program explores delights of 'Serendipity'
"Serendipity" is high on the list of great words we don't seem to use often enough.
Exploring the word's dictionary definition of "happy accident" or "pleasant surprise" with modern dance, the Danceworks Performance Company and a handful of guest artists built a delightful evening of dance around the word. "Serendipity" opened this weekend in the company's studio theater.
A six-work program that runs a bit shy of 90 minutes (no intermission), "Serendipity" features the work of five choreographers. The program is built of a communicative, engaging vocabulary of movement that ranged from choreographic improvisation and bits of pantomime to tight ensemble work. »Read Full Article
Next Act's 'Clockmaker' has strong acting, too many gears
We can't turn back the clock. But can we mend what's broken, reconstructing the past's shattered pieces so that we might keep on ticking into the future?
That's the question - or one of them - in Stephen Massicotte's "The Clockmaker," the 100-minute play that Next Act Theatre unveiled over the weekend, under Mary MacDonald Kerr's direction.
True to its title, Massicotte's play revolves around a clockmaker. Heinrich Mann (Drew Brhel) is a lonely German shopkeeper who has failed to achieve his life's great ambition: to be the greatest clockmaker in history. »Read Full Article
Mayors Against Illegal Guns to run Super Bowl ad in D.C. market
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the national group co-founded by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, is running an ad during the Super Bowl in the Washington, D.C. area.
The ad reminds viewers that the National Rifle Association once supported background checks on all gun sales. The organization has since reversed its position.
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PolitiFact: Testing claim from Mayors Against Illegal Guns on lack of prosecutions
New today from PolitiFact Wisconsin:
A group co-founded by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says that in 2009, the FBI "referred more than 71,000" cases of people failing background checks when trying to buy a gun to another federal agency, "but U.S. attorneys ultimately prosecuted only 77 of them."
Passenger killed, two others hurt when car hits tree in Milwaukee
A single-car crash about 2:20 a.m. Sunday in the 6000 block of N. Sherman Blvd. killed a passenger and injured two others in the vehicle, Milwaukee police said.
The circumstances of why the vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree are under investigation.
One is killed, another is wounded in south side Milwaukee shooting
A male was shot in the head and killed and another male was shot in the abdomen about 2:15 a.m. Sunday near S. 18th St. and W. Greenfield Ave., Milwaukee police said.
The investigation into the circumstances surrounding the shootings is continuing, police said. No arrests have been made.
Forecast: A few rounds of fluffy snow are on the way
A winter weather advisory will go into effect at 10 p.m. Sunday for southeastern Wisconsin, and WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) meteorologist Jesse Ritka is predicting a challenging commute for Monday morning.
Light snow showers will begin Sunday night, leading to accumulations of two to four inches in the Milwaukee area, although some areas could receive five inches, especially south and west of Milwaukee and Waukesha, Ritka says.
Areas north of Milwaukee including Ozaukee and Washington counties are not under the advisory but may still see one to two inches of snow. Because the snow will again be fluffy, it will be easily blown around, dropping visibilities for the morning commute on Monday, Ritka says. Plan to add some extra time into your drive with the falling and blowing snow. »Read Full Article


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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—World leaders gathering for a summit remained divided over whether to back punitive military strikes on the Syrian regime, reflecting the domestic political concerns many of their leaders are facing.
President Barack Obama hopes to use the two-day Group of 20 gathering in St. Petersburg to shape an international consensus behind his call for a military assault aimed at deterring Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad from deploying chemical weapons in the future. But just as Congress is divided over authorizing a strike, the global community seems equally uncertain about what action to take.
Italy's leader cautioned that a strike might lead to wider conflict. The head of the European Council ruled out a military solution. Germany is pushing to act through the International Criminal Court. Russia remains protective of a Syrian regime that is its longtime ally and weapons client.
And from Rome, Pope Francis urged leaders of the G-20 nations, the world's largest economies, to avoid the "futile pursuit" of military action.
France is one of the few Western allies supporting a possible strike. President François Hollande hopes to get European leaders to coalesce around a summit statement Friday denouncing the Assad regime over chemical weapons.
"It's really important that the Europeans present at the G-20 are on the same page in condemning the use of chemical arms and condemning the regime that used them," Mr. Hollande said.
For Mr. Obama, the summit represents a fateful diplomatic moment. Should he fall short of assembling broad international backing and strike Mr. Assad with limited support, it could prove to be a setback for a president who won the Nobel Peace Prize in part for his commitment to multilateral action.
To win international support, U.S. officials will be arguing their case on Syria before a summit focused on global economic issues, said Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser.
"We believe it's important for people to raise their voices on behalf of international norms that countries around the world have signed onto for many years," Mr. Rhodes said.
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said some world leaders doubted Mr. Obama would be able to limit military engagement to his stated aim of carrying out punitive strikes against the Assad regime for what the U.S. says is its use of chemical weapons in a massacre outside Damascus on Aug. 21.
"There are some who interpret this as the start of something of which we don't know the end," Mr. Letta said. "These are obviously two very different scenarios, and I'm sure that's part of what's blocking things and creating so much difficulty."
Mr. Obama's toughest obstacle is the summit host, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Frustrated by Russia's lack of cooperation on Syria, as well as Moscow's decision to grant former NSA contractor Edward Snowden temporary asylum, Mr. Obama canceled a meeting with Mr. Putin that had been scheduled in advance of the G-20.
The two men traded pleasantries at an arrival ceremony Thursday, shaking hands and smiling before cameras for a few seconds. It was a warmer display than the one at a summit in Northern Ireland in June, when Mr. Obama's attempt to break the ice fell flat.
In a sign that the chill persists, Mr. Obama is privately meeting with Chinese, Japanese and French leaders but hasn't scheduled an official meeting with Mr. Putin. But aides to both men said they may wind up talking on the summit's sidelines.
Russia remains dubious of the Obama administration's contention that the Assad regime gassed civilians in the prolonged Syrian civil war. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, speaking at a news briefing Thursday, reiterated Moscow's doubts about the evidence presented by the U.S.
"We cannot accept evidence that in our opinion, such as it is, is far from being conclusive," Mr. Peskov said. "We all are in need of conclusive and legitimate evidence."
European Union officials strongly cautioned against military action in Syria at the outset of the summit.
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"There is no military solution to the Syrian conflict," European Council President Herman Van Rompuy told reporters. "Only a political solution can end the terrible bloodshed."
Mr. Van Rompuy said he respected "calls for action" but said the response to the Syrian crisis had to move through the United Nations.
Efforts to do just that have failed, U.S. officials said. Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., declared in New York on Thursday that the world body was unable to act because of its "paralysis" and blamed Mr. Putin.
"There is no viable path forward in this Security Council," she said.
The administration is planning alternative ways to win international backing. Secretary of State John Kerry will attend an EU meeting in Lithuania this weekend.
The State Department said Thursday that Australia, Albania, Kosovo, Canada, Denmark, France, Poland, Romania and Turkey have endorsed a military strike. In all, 30 countries have concluded the Assad regime was behind the Aug. 21 chemical attack, State Department spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki said.
—Stacy Meichtry, Natasha Brereton-Fukui and Joe Lauria contributed to this article.
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There are weasel words that tell you when pernicious ideas are at work. For example, if experts tell us matters must be "organised rationally", "integrated" or "co-ordinated" they only mean authority must coerce the rest of us.
We celebrate this month the 20th anniversary of the late great Nicholas Ridley's 1985 Transport Act that liberalised so much of our wheeled traffic. It is difficult to recall the seedy ineptitude of the nationalised railways, buses and lorries.
When a writer really knows his subject he cannot fail to surprise. I had vaguely assumed that bureaucratic control of transport was born in 1945 after the Labour landslide. However, John Hibbs, main author of the forthcoming The Dangers of Bus Re-Regulation, reveals a landscape of absurdity that would be comedy but for the decades of distortion and waste. Fatuous rules are almost as old as the wheel itself.
Buses seem to invite bureaucrats to feast as a carcass does flies. Whether it was horse-drawn carts, stage coaches, horse-drawn omnibuses, trolleys, trams, local bus services or inter-city services, the regulators were there impeding the market "discovering" what people may prefer. The Stage Coach Act of 1832 was devised to impede the impertinent arrival of steam trains. The Town Police Act of 1847 stopped horses hauling people to destinations without thickets of permissions.
The philosophy of intervention was fully developed and articulated after the First World War by Sir Eric Geddes and constraints on entry and competition were gradually introduced throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Cartels were reinforced and economic rationality in pricing and management was jettisoned.
Railways were favoured while in most parts of the country bus travel is far more important. The lack of marginal cost pricing led to route closures and the industry lost all incentive to control costs. With a very few noble exceptions (such as Stagecoach's brave and brilliant Brian Souter) most of the men in suits of the bus industry have sought regulation to bar competitors entering the market. What is urged now is a local monopoly. Competition in prices or routes or timing would only confuse the public, they argue.
John Hibbs' historical sweep of urban transport confirms what I suppose I knew intuitively - that people were as foolish in the past as they are today. As matters stand, the 2000 Transport Act is poised to neuter the remaining vestiges of competition and leave all real powers to local authorities.
A new threat emerges too. The European Commission wants to regulate buses to deter the "chaos" of the marketplace and "unfettered competition". The principle of subsidiarity does not apparently stop Brussels from regulating buses in Milton Keynes, Cardiff or Stirling.
This arresting little book took my imagination to unexpected places. Do roads need to be public property? Could they not be run by companies either owning them or on long-term leases? Should roads not be priced? The Inner London experiment from Ken Livingstone is but a blunt instrument compared to digital devices that can read each vehicle journey.
Could we not scrap vehicle taxes and fuel duty too? Are buses really what we want? It may be that a hybrid, half taxi, half coach may evolve. So much of new building assumes ever more cars but with real, not just token, pricing would car demand stall?
My favourite quote from this study is from FA Hayek's Nobel Prize lecture of 1974. This is very illuminating: "It is indeed the source of the superiority of the market order... that in the resulting allocation of resources more of the knowledge of particular facts will be utilised which exists only dispersed among uncounted persons, than any one person can possess. But because we, the observing scientists, can thus never know all the determinants of such an order, and in consequence also cannot know at which particular structure of prices demand would everywhere equal supply, we also cannot measure the deviations from that order."
In other words, the diffused, pluralistic, seemingly muddled market allows us all to collaborate far better than any command and control policies. It is counter intuitive and the clever sillies just cannot get it.
Nicholas Ridley was bold but the instinct to regulate and direct is still alive and active. The argument over buses is only a cameo of the wider fight for liberty over compulsion. Regulation, even the most benignly intended, expropriates choices. It also distorts the price system and prices are signals that carry information.
Markets need several qualities. A crucial one is freedom of entry. The instinct of every local authority seems to be to create a municipal monopoly and bar new services.
We may regard the iconic London red buses as a badge of the capital known around the world but what would be wrong with a multiple patchwork of different colours and liveries and different sizes?
It is possible that the public transport evolving in Cairo, Istanbul and Manila may have more to teach us than both the T&GWU or the EU Commission. The only way to find out is via the market process of discovery.
The 1985 Act was a victorious skirmish but the battle continues.
John Blundell is director-general of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
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Is reading Jech's text on Set Theory too little, just enough, or overkill to prepare oneself to do independent research in set theory? This would be my first attempt at doing independent research after taking 5 graduate level math courses and doing well. If I think I'm interested in Set Theory, and want to get a feel for research, is this the way to proceed?
I believe that Jech's book is a solid part of any graduate student's preparation for independent research in set theory. He covers most or even all of the main topics of set-theoretic research, and he does so at quite a high level, including some extremely advanced material. For further study of large cardinals, however, the book should probably be supplemented by Kanamori's book The Higher Infinite (see my review), and for learning forcing, I always encourage my graduate students to read both Jech and also Kunen's book, as well as some others, especially Bell's book on forcing via Boolean-valued models (and my own article on the Boolean ultrapower), and to play all these texts off of one another, as each has some strengths the others lack.
Jech's book is extremely thorough, and I suppose that if you mastered every last bit of it, then indeed I think it would position you for independent research in set theory. But of course, the more typical pattern is to read at first only the easier parts of it, while also learning from other books, and gradually bring oneself to the research level that way.
During and after your study of Jech, you will need someone to guide you to research topics and problems, to suggest problems or areas that might be fruitful for your independent work or which may interest you.


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PERKINS, Clara Z., 83, of Paris, PA, passed away Monday, June 30, 2014, at the Weirton Medical Center.
She was born Nov. 13, 1930, in Elm Grove, WV, the daughter of the late William Mozingo and Lavina Palmer Mozingo Nickerson.
She was also preceded in death by a daughter, Linda K. Schayes; son, David Schayes; three sisters; two brothers.
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Clara was a member of Paris Nazarene Church, Steel Valley Antique Car Club, and AACA. She dedicated her life to being a wonderful homemaker to her family and friends. Surviving are her husband, Dallas Perkins; daughters, Gwen Evans (Tom), Cathy Lonchar, Cinthia Steineman, Jean Trujillo, Della Perkins Iarossi (Andrew) all of Weirton, WV; four grandchildren; two great grandchildren; two step grandchildren.
Visitation will be Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at Steel & Wolfe Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Inc., 380 Penco Road, Weirton, WV.
The funeral will be Thursday at Paris Nazarene Church, Long Street, Paris, PA at 11 a.m. preceded by an hour of visitation.
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Recommended ages: 5 and up
It's 1939, and young Cassie Louise Lightfoot is picnicking with her family and friends on "tar beach" — the hot, black rooftop of her family's Harlem apartment. Cassie lays down and dreams that she is soaring above New York City — finding beauty in the views of the George Washington Bridge (which her father helped build) while also noting the signs of social injustice in the crowded city below.
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Thousands of criminal cases have been wiped off the state's books as if they never existed. This is because of an expungement law that went into effect in the early nineties.
While some argue criminal history, no matter the severity should stay on record, others say they shouldn't be handcuffed by their past.
Bowling Green resident, Stephen Anderson is a court reporter at the Warren County Justice Center, but recently he saw himself on the other side of the bench.
Anderson says he lives in a subdivision where each family had an opportunity to name the road they live on, after a while no family came forth with a name, that's when Anderson decided to name the road himself, which he called Anderson Road.
Anderson says after that decision is when his troubles began.
"Three of the families got extremely mad at me, so one lady filed a charge against me of trying to run her off the road."
Which Anderson says never happened and that's one of the reasons why he's trying to wipe away the charge.
Expungement is a law designed to help people wipe out minor convictions or more serious charges that end in acquittals or dismissals.
The 1992 Statue says judges, upon request, must expunge misdemeanor convictions five years after completion of the person' sentence if the applicant has no other criminal violations within that time.
Advocates of expungement, like Anderson says erasing criminal histories is one way to help people have a second chance and an opportunity to find decent jobs, support their families and be a productive member of society.
Most states have some form of expungement laws. Kentucky allows only misdemeanor convictions to be expunged; they do not expunge felony convictions.


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This question might belong elsewhere but I figured if I posted it here I might come across someone that deals behind the scenes of LaTeX. I'm an assistant Linux Admin at my school and we install LaTeX for our professors that obviously need it. Why is it, though, that doing a "yum install" of LaTeX results in installation of nearly 2500 different packages? I realize we may be installing more than the "average joe" might, but doesn't this seem like over-modularization of an application?
The obvious answer is: because it can. Most systems are less flexible and die at a much younger age than TeX. Look at other successful systems and you will find the same traits: Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, C, and Unix - to name a few.
However, it's actually quite surprising that LaTeX developed such a strong eco system of packages because TeX's DNA isn't really wired for it. TeX lacks proper modules, scopes and abstraction mechanisms that we are taking today as granted in programming languages. This means that modularity in TeX and LaTeX is based mostly on conventions and therefore is quite fragile (much like modularity in C).
So, while I understand that the many packages (and sometimes their incompatibilities) can be inconvenient, especially for less experienced users, it's actually a sign of strength. I'd suggest to play to TeX's strengths rather than fighting its weaknesses.
The last sentence might suggest that I see no point in improving TeX or LaTeX in particular with respect to modularity. Quite the opposite indeed, as I consider projects like LaTeX3 or LuaTeX as very important to carry TeX and LaTeX forward. I said it more in the sense that one should embrace the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX rather than trying to restrict it to make it simpler. With respect to the installation, projects like TeX Live already do the heavy lifting for users and administrators.
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I think that's the best thing about LaTeX: you can customize it as you wish and add your own bits and pieces :D
You never know when you might need something specific, so you have a lot to choose from...
I think this is a bit of a problem that arises with package managers and shared environments in general. In your Linux administrated systems you have the problem that only authorised people may install software – and more or less only software that has been packaged into the distribution may be installed.
In many cases it would be favourable that each user decides on their own which Tex packages they need to install – and in the best case, this package would virtually install itself. (I think Miktex on Windows made this possible.)
The tex structure makes the local installation a bit complicated though, because of its pretty special directory structure and therefore a it is rather impractical to have anybody install a package locally. The only way out for these systems seems to be the global installation routine – which means that 2500 packages need to be shipped to satisfy all needs.
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Pets of the week: Seeking a laid-back dog or cat?
Published: Friday, April 12, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 12:28 p.m.
This week's Pets of the Week from the Spartanburg Humane Society are Deak and Contra.
Age: About 3 years old
Sex: Male
Breed: Lab mix
Deak is a delightful 3-year-old Lab mix who was brought to the SHS after his owner passed away unexpectedly. Deak was very special to his owner and has already stolen the hearts of many of the staff and volunteers at the SHS.
He is a laid-back guy who is comfortable in most situations. He has lived and interacted with children of all ages whom he was friendly toward. Deak has even been known to sit patiently and quietly in a crowded waiting room without bothering the other dogs and people around him.
Deak loves to go for walks and enjoys a tasty chewy as a treat from time to time. Above all, his favorite thing is to spend time being petted and loved by his people friends.
Do you have some extra time in your heart and home for Deak?
Adoption fee: $85
Age: About 2½ years old
Sex: Female
Breed: Domestic shorthair
Contra is looking to lay down some permanent roots. She was found as a young kitten by a college student. Unable to find her owners, the student had her vaccinated and spayed and brought her home with him. After graduating, Contra's owner found a job far away and could not take her with him. For a year, Contra lived with the student's grandparents, and now she is looking for a home where she can live out the rest of her days as the queen she is.
Contra is a laid-back lap cat who is both gentle and sweet. She is accustomed to living indoors with limited opportunities to explore the outdoors. She loves her treats — especially Temptations. Contra's former owners caution that Contra prefers to be an "only child" and does not like other cats.
If Contra sounds like the cat for you, please come introduce yourself.
Adoption fee: $20 (via the Certified, Pre-owned Cat Sale, which lasts until Saturday. Fee will be $49 after Saturday.)
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Did you hear about that Meteorite that hit Russia?
I found some very good videos here. It is pretty amazing footage. Thankfully it seems half of Russian drivers have dash-cams now due to the insurance scam issues in that country, which lead to quite a few videos of the meteor(ite). According the news, the meteor(ite) caused a sonic boom or explosion which injured over 500 people.
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Wow that was amazing footage. Good thing for them it wasn't as big as Tunguska.
I was watching some footage this morning. The CCTV ones are great.
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I thought the dash cams were to record attempted police extortion/bribery.
There was a response from a left-wing Russian politician saying "it wasn't a meteor, it was Americans testing a new weapon" on the mirror link up there^
@j5: That too. This is a good explanation of why. Although I really don't care; the amunt of viral videos from Russia can keep me entertained for hours.
@okham: Yeah, that's pretty much like gold falling from the sky.
Wow - scary. I'd probably pee a little if I saw that while driving.
It's good to know the people recording it had the presence of mind not to immediately slam on the brakes, freak out and start violently crying.
I doubt I would have been able to stay that calm.
Already saw one Russian religious person say "It's a sign from god", sigh.
But on a more serious note, I did burn my toast this morning at 6 a.m. because I was watching the videos on my phone and not watching my breakfast :'(
@spikedknight: You probably didn't go to church last Sunday and now you get burnt toast. Coincidence? Our God is a vengeful one! :)
Hmmm...what a shame I didn't know there were 1100 people in Russia altogether, much less in one area. I bet the United States wishes it would have been much larger and not broke apart.
Meteorites don't fall from space, meteors (meteoroids) fall from space. They must land on earth and be found before they are "meteorites"
@troutwild: At the time I that posted this, no meteorite was found. However, given the size of the event it was safe for me to assume that the meteor had impacted Earth thus making it a meteorite; which is why I put meteor(ite) in parenthesis. I was hoping to cover all bases to prevent someone from giving me a lesson in astronomy, I guess I failed myself. I'm very aware of the stages of space-rocks, and Wikipedia has explained it to me very well!
@troutwild: Metroid is a video game.


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I was curious whether there were any local Stack Overflow meetups yet (in a similar vein to jQuery meetups). The idea is that Stack Overflow people within a geographical area would get together at a local bar or something and talk code, SO, or whatever other common interests are shared amongst the attendees.
This brings up a few questions:
- If there are already meetups happening, what's the "official site"?
- If not, I'd love to start a Stack Overflow Philly meetup and meet some of my fellow community members.
- What would be the best way to spread the word to the users in my geographical area? The first thing that comes to mind would be asking for a shout out on the podcast, but unfortunately at the time of writing the podcast is going dark for a little while and is to return with a new format.


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Phil Zimmerman released PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) on June 5, 1991. As we examine the legacy of that far-sighted and brave act 20 years later, what are the most widespread and helpful uses of PGP signatures, and of PGP encryption?
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Phil Zimmerman released PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) on June 5, 1991. As we examine the legacy of that far-sighted and brave act 20 years later, what are the most widespread and helpful uses of PGP signatures, and of PGP encryption?
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PGP signatures are used to sign software packages in some Linux distributions, including Debian and Ubuntu. This is quite widespread, although most Linux users are never aware of it.
PGP encryption, for what is was meant initially (i.e. emails), is commonly used in commercial situations, where some parties wish to exchange work documents. PGP keys are thus exchanged directly, not using the certificates (keys signed by other people) and the "web of trust". I often do it with customers. PGP benefits from very good integration and simple usage in many mailer softwares. PGP signatures are also used there, as an integrity check (but not in their "non-repudiation" role).
To sum up, the one feature of PGP which is almost never used is the web of trust.
For almost all communications between me and many of my global banking clients, PGP is the trust layer which allows us to pass very sensitive data to each other. Most of these clients run a PGP gateway which ensures all comms to me from them is encrypted (thus avoiding accidental cleartext emails) and allows for an escrow in order that the organisation can check for viruses, information leakage etc.
The ones without PGP Universal all use pgp or gpg desktop clients - either way, we validate pgp keys out of band and gain a strong assurance that our emails are secured between us, time stamped and signed.
Absolutely invaluable for comms about security vulnerabilities.
Retroshare is an acentered P2P/Friend2Friend network software using GPG primarily as a authentication mecanism, and use its own kind of web of trust way to add people to "your ring" which is primarily a contact list. They use the PGP signature if you want to sign some content on the Retroshare forum or you can just post anonymously. I don't know if they use it for actually transferring data, because I think they use more their Turtle transfer protocol which is some kind of anonymous VPN so you don't really know where the data comes from.
Personnaly, I don't use it that much because I'm really used to webmails. But that's something I'm looking forward to using more. My other usage of PGP is for signing package for ubuntu, and that's it. I don't have a lot of contacts using it


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Six Trojans Earn Track and Field All-Region HonorsMarch 10, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Six Anderson University women's indoor track and field athletes have been named all-region by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), as recently announced by the organization.
The top five individuals in each event from each region earned the All-Region distinction, in addition to each of the members of the regions' top three relay teams.
The women saw 525 separate competitors accumulate 776 total honors. Both Samantha Elliot of Johnson C. Smith and Stephanie Rhoden of Benedict topped the list with five All-Region awards apiece. Alabama-Huntsville's women also topped the list for team representation with 34 selections.
No. 1 Adams State and No. 3 Grand Valley State tied for the second-most honors with 27, followed by preseason favorite No. 2 Lincoln (Mo.) with 26. The Northeast-10 Conference men posted a Division II-leading 89 total selections, followed closely by the GLIAC women's 88.
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Football: Winless Pomperaug remains optimistic
The Pomperaug High football team may be winless, but that hasn't deterred second-year coach David Roach in the least.
Roach has heard talk that the perennially strong Panthers' program is on the decline.
Not so, says Roach.
"Our start is not because of a lack of effort," said Roach. "We are doing everything we can to turn this thing around. We're struggling, but I'm upbeat because we are getting better every day. That is my purpose. There are a lot of plusses. We're still a tight-knit team and we're still stressing teamwork. That's what high school sports is supposed to be about."
Last Friday, the Panthers led Weston, 21-14, in the fourth quarter, but saw Weston rally late in the fourth quarter.
The Panthers visit New Milford, also 0-3, Friday night.
The early schedule hasn't helped the Panthers, who faced Masuk, Newtown and Weston in succession. Those three opponents are a combined 9-0.
"Every team we played so far has more (offensive) weapons than us," said Roach. "We will struggle to score points until we have a go-to person. Against Weston, shame on us for being down 14-0, but we didn't roll over. I am proud of that."
During Sunday's game film session, Roach was direct with the players.
'We were stressing that there has to be an urgency to make that big play," said Roach. "They can't wonder and look around for someone else to make one. It has to be on both sides of the ball."
Roach credits second-year starting quarterback Eric Beatty for handling the adversity.
"Eric's got the weight of the world on his shoulders," said Roach. "He's also the place-kicker for extra points, field goals and also kicks off. He's the punter, and he's called upon to play defense when (opposing) teams go to the spread."
Learning from the best: Southington junior quarterback Stephen Barmore has a pretty good teacher in ex-Blue Knights' QB Matt Kelleher, the 2005 Connecticut state Gatorade Player of the Year, who threw for 6,172 yards, 54 TDs and had a 160.75 rating in 29 high school games played.
Kelleher also threw for a then-state record 3,558 yards and 33 touchdowns in his senior year in 2005. Kelleher played collegiately at Yale and graduated in 2010.
Last year, Southington offensive coordinator Chuck Drury, the former head coach at Pomperaug, guided Barmore, but when Kelleher joined the staff this summer, Drury handed over the QB duties.
"I don't have a giant ego," noted Drury. "As soon as Matt came on board, I went off to the side with Matt and asked him to do what is best for the kid (Barmore)."
Said Drury: "Stephen is probably the hardest worker we have on the team and one of the fastest, if not the fastest, and one of the strongest, if not the strongest player."
The 6-foot-2, 200-pound Barmore has led the Blue Knights to a 3-0 record, tossing for 430 yards and five touchdowns and only one interception and rushing for 164 yards and four touchdowns.
"Stephen's has had a lot of good success since his freshman year," said Kelelher. "He's very humble, which I think is important. He's being heavily recruited. He has a lot on his plate. He's high up there with his class (rank). He's a great student. He's got a lot of football and school ahead of him. The success has not gone to his head, which I think is impressive. He's a good leader. He definitely has the respect of his teammates."
Friday night lights: In the Naugatuck Valley League Brass Division, a pair of undefeated teams meet Friday. Wolcott (3-0, 1-0 Brass) visits Seymour (3-0, 0-0 Brass) at DeBarber Field.
Seymour has scored the second-most points (142) in the NVL and allowed the fewest (32). Last Saturday, the Wildcats beat Kennedy,42-14.
Wolcott shut out Kennedy, 34-0, in Week 1, rallied to beat Torrington, 39-34, in Week 2 and toppled Crosby, 47-26, last Saturday.
Quote of the Week: "The good news is that it's only Week 3. We still have a lot of season left." — Cheshire coach Don Drust after the Rams were defeated by Hand of Madison last Friday, 35-7. Cheshire is 2-1 and hosts Notre Dame of West Haven on Friday.
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I need to make a large set of tests in telnet. I am working on some ways to auto detect dictionary attacks on our email server, and then throttle them back, or blacklist them etc.
I am now ready to run some tests and see if my work pays off. I figured I would just download some script kiddy app to run the tests. I can not find any and those I can are bad or binary and non configurable.
I will have a list of addresses I generate in a loop.
I want to take $address as an argument and do this:
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Within that, I need to test a few things, such as, if I enable greylisting, I want to fail the script, as that is my first countermeasure. I suppose in that case, I would just have telnet timeout?
heloshould return a code string starting with 220, that is about as accurate as I need to make this test.
mail fromshould return 250, or looking for OK would suffice
rctp toshould return 250 or Ok sometimes, when I send in a valid user, but most of the time I will send in a bad address, so I look for the absence of 250 or OK.
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Some friends of ours taught us "Hand and Foot" but I have never seen any official rules for it. What I have seen varies from site to site quite a bit. I am curious if someone could tell me the history of Hand and Foot and if there are some official rules, or at least a recommended set of rules.
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Try http://www.hand8foot.com/rulesandscoring/ , might be helpful for you
Hand and foot, being subject mostly to oral transmission in a predominantly written culture, has suffered memory errors galore. Since it's origin is clouded by oral transmission, an "official" set of rules is a practical impossibility.
The basic idea is that it's "Tripled deck Canasta", and that you have the hand and the foot, you play from the hand until it's out, then play your foot until it's out. Where the original rules are, I've not seen. I know I've encountered three very similar versions, and Raja's post lead to a fourth, significantly different, version.
The important element is only to be clear in your play group what the rules are when you as a group play.


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I think we have a cultural problem. We have educators, for example, who tell students from kindergarten to college that placing third in a chess tournament still gets you a "Winner" trophy. We have politicians whose main purpose in life is to get re-elected. We have a government that wants to control from the top down instead of the bottom up, i.e., federal control instead of local control. We want to expand on the proposition, "From each according to his ability; to each according to his need."
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6 Psychotic Punishments Doled Out by Famous Superheroes
Comic book editors realized pretty early on that magazines aimed at kids shouldn't endorse things like, say, murder, so after a brief and misguided period of murderous heroes, all of our superheroes became strictly nonlethal. That remains largely true even today, but ironically, sometimes that unwavering moral code results in so-called heroes meting out far more cruel and unusual punishments than a quick, clean death. For instance ...
#6. Batman Captures an Immortal Villain, Blasts Him into Space
There's something about unkillable foes that gives superheroes license to be dicks. Green Lantern used to alternate between dumping Solomon Grundy on the moon and burying him miles underground. Maybe adhering to such rigid moral standards makes it really tempting to unload on people who can't die. That would explain why Batman has so much pent-up rage to unleash on Lord Death Man, a murderer who keeps resurrecting from fatal injuries like a Japanese Jason Voorhees.
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"I know you can't tell from my facial expression, but just assume that I'm pissed off."
This is where we see Batman's true colors. Clearly making up for every time the Joker escaped from Arkham five minutes after being incarcerated, Batman takes advantage of his foe's immortality by dropping him off a building (please note: In the frame preceding the building-toss, it's clear that Batman has already thrown darts into both of Lord Death Man's eyes) ...
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"Wait, I'm calling 'eternal life' a fate worse than death? That doesn't sound right. Anyway, I'm throwing you off a building."
... then letting Catwoman run him over with a truck, fold him up like a used napkin and lock him in a safe. Wile E. Coyote doesn't take that much abuse in your average Looney Toons short.
Batman Incorporated Vol 1 2
"I'm definitely wishing you guys had some sense of proportion."
To top it off, Batman arranges for Lord Death Man to be placed on a rocket and launched into space.
Why's That So Bad?
This guy is immortal, but has no other powers; there is no reason he can't be put in a regular jail. Also, it's not as if he can't feel pain and can't die; he can, he just resurrects after a little while, which means that he'll keep dying and resurrecting in an environment with no food, water or air. Forever. (Take that, due process of the law!) If you fancy the idea of returning to life every few minutes to find yourself instantly suffocating and freezing, with starvation pangs and a burning throat to boot, get on Batman's bad side.
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"Oh hey, before you seal that thing, let's dump some cayenne pepper in his jock strap."
#5. Spider-Man Protests Euthanasia
One of Spidey's lamer villains, robotics expert Mendel Stromm, found himself being assimilated by an artificial intelligence he'd created. Now existing only as a disembodied head suspended in machinery, Stromm managed to summon Spider-Man and let him know that he was just barely able to exert some influence over the AI, keeping it from overrunning every network on Earth and crashing things like hospital equipment and air traffic computers. In doing so, he was in constant agony and knew the AI would soon overwhelm him. So he asked one final mercy of his old foe: to please kill him, ending both his suffering and the threat.
Peter Parker: Spider-Man v2 #28
"But before you do, could you scratch right above my left eye? I can't take it anymore."
Unfortunately for Stromm, his archenemy was Spider-Man, rather than, say, Iron Man, who'd have yanked that plug faster than the cork on a bottle of 1975 Chateau Lafite. But Peter Parker wasn't bitten by a radioactive pair of testicles, so he first refused and then just promised to consider it. Later he posed it as a hypothetical question to his Aunt May ... who basically told him to sack up and do the deed. Rather than listening to the sweet, kindly old lady advocating euthanasia, Peter instead uploaded a computer program that would put Stromm and the AI to sleep until he could figure out a way to save one while shutting down the other.
Peter Parker: Spider-Man v2 #28
"Hey, buddy, can you make me some sort of prank loop program?" "Sure, here you go!"
Why's That So Bad?
Isn't that just the equivalent of a medically induced coma? Not quite, since the last page illustrates why you don't outsource saving the world: Spider-Man's friend fucked up the program. Stromm's mind is still conscious in some kind of desolate cyberworld, like being in the Matrix if you were literally the only person in it. Worse, though, is Spider-Man vowing he'll work nonstop to free this poor bastard. His exact words are "I won't rest until that happens. I'll come back for you, Stromm ... I promise." That's in 2001. The next time Stromm is mentioned? 2007, when he's rescued by the FBI. Meanwhile, Spider-Man handles such pressing matters as playing Trivial Pursuit ...
Peter Parker: Spider-Man v2 #30
"OK, the question is 'Who did you forget about leaving in a hellish limbo while you fucked off with your friends?'"
... going to baseball games ...
Peter Parker: Spider-Man v2 #33
"And batting third is most definitely not the guy you left in complete mental torture several months ago."
... and getting his mosh on at spring break.
Peter Parker: Spider-Man v2 #42
"Please welcome to the stage Stromm Headguy and the Not Suffering Robot Bodies!"
We're just saying, Iron Man would've killed him 20 times by now, or at the very least not left him in the waking nightmare that is a conscious semi-coma of paralysis.
#4. The Justice League Banishes the Crime Syndicate to Limbo Forever
The Crime Syndicate of America is basically the evil-twin version of every good superhero in the Justice League.
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It was the closest we'd ever get to seeing Wonder Woman make out with herself.
These jerks came from a universe where evil was good, American Christopher Columbus discovered Europe and Superman ate kryptonite (probably). Naturally the Justice League triumphed, because it was the '60s and comics literally would not be sold on newsstands if the good guys didn't win.
After the battle, the Justice League was faced with the decision of what to do with these chumps, because alternate universes are tricky and killing them might cause you to disappear yourself or turn into a dog or something. Eventually the League settled on the most humane solution, which was to encase them in a 15-inch-diameter bubble and chuck it into a limbo dimension between worlds. And put up a bunch of signs in various languages warning anyone who came near not to set them free.
Justice League of America #30
"Sir, our illustrators don't know any other languages."
"Just scribble. That'll look foreign enough for our readers."
Why's That So Bad?
It starts to get dicey when you realize that this wasn't a temporary holding cell but a permanent prison -- the CSA was put in there in 1964 and not seen again until 1978, still trapped in that damn bubble. Nor was there any kind of suspended animation at play, since later stories show them talking and moving around inside. Presumably there was something about how the dimension keeps them from needing to eat or drink. Or something about how there aren't any toilets in the bubble.
All-Star Squadron #14
"It's not a metaphor. If we don't get out soon, I'm going to literally fill this bubble with super shit."
Beyond bodily functions, however, there's the matter of mental stimulation. No books, no contact whatsoever with the outside world. There's sure as hell no room for exercise in that bubble. Think about it: Our most hardened criminals in solitary confinement, the worst degenerates society has to offer, usually get at least a little time and room to stretch their legs. Hell, even Hannibal Lecter got to walk around a gymnasium on a leash, and that dude ate fucking faces!
Of course, the CSA does have each other to talk to, so to approximate that, imagine being locked in a tiny room for years with the four biggest assholes you know. Also, you're a massive asshole, too. People have gone insane in better conditions than that.
Justice League of America #209
"What? Dude, I didn't even say anything to you. You're scaring us."
They could all take turns having sex with each other, but, Christ, one of them is named "Johnny Quick" and another has an owl on his head; it'd get old, not to mention really weird, pretty fast.


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NEW YORK � It appears that Wall Street really did prefer the more business-friendly Mitt Romney to manage the economy from a desk in the White House.
An Obama stock market �bounce� never materialized after his re-election. Stocks, instead, fell with a thunderous thud Wednesday on news that the president, who gets low grades from investors on his business acumen, will be in charge of USA Inc. for another four years.
�There was a general view in the market that a Romney win would be more favorable to stocks,� said John Praveen, chief investment strategist at Prudential International Investment Advisors. Many investors apparently had held out hope for a Mitt Romney victory.
With the ink barely dry on Obama�s upbeat acceptance speech, the mind-set of Wall Street investors took a quick, downbeat, bearish turn. It was as if investors all hit a button at the same time that switched the market into worry-only mode, erasing any positive market-related vibes that might have existed a day earlier.
Fear that the nation�s fiscal crisis would not be resolved in time to avoid falling off the edge of the so-called fiscal cliff intensified, as did fears that chronic uncertainty would infect the market through year�s end.
Worries that Obama�s plans to increase taxes on both capital gains and dividends would reduce investor appetite for stocks � and even spark selling before the tax bite kicks in � also took hold.
Stocks that would be hurt by Obama�s preference for stiff regulations, such as banks, sold off sharply. And to make matters worse Wednesday, worries about Europe�s debt crisis returned to the top of investors� what-to-worry-about list.
Add it all up and what you get is a �Molotov cocktail that created a pretty severe bout of selling,� said Andy Busch, a public policy strategist at BMO Capital Markets.
To say the negative mood hurt stocks would be an understatement, as Wall Street was awash in red ink all day Wednesday, when about $400 billion in stock market value vanished in the trading session, according to Wilshire Associates.
The Dow Jones industrial average suffered its worst point drop since last November, plunging 313 points, or 2.4 percent, to 12,933. It was the fifth-worst drop after an Election Day since 1900, Bespoke Investment Group said. The biggest loss after a presidential election was four years ago when the Dow tumbled 5 percent after Obama won his first term in office.
Despite the down session, the Dow remains up nearly 6 percent for the year. The gains have been powered by an easy-money policy from the Federal Reserve, a housing comeback and resilient consumers who are keeping the economy growing.
There were no shortage of theories on Wall Street as to why the market reaction was so violently negative.
Garnering the most blame was the belief that the status quo election result � with Obama holding on to his job and the Democrats retaining power in the Senate and the Republicans protecting their turf in the House of Representatives � will translate into legislative gridlock that could jeopardize a deal getting done in Congress by year�s end to avert the fiscal cliff.
�While both presidential candidates were silent about the fiscal cliff during the debates and the election season, it is now the No. 1 issue facing investors,� said Barbara Novick, head of government relations for money management firm BlackRock.
The fiscal cliff is the term to describe the growth-killing impact of more than $600 billion in coming tax increases and government spending cuts on Jan. 1 unless Congress acts to avert it.
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CWS will host this big fundraiser for the Mt Zion A.M.E Zion Church of Mt Gilead, NC.
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Sean Cruise will take on Kyndel Williams
CWS LEGACY champion "Instant Classic" Raymond Helms will defend his tile against the challenge of Scrapyard Dog!!
All this and more CWS stars live in action!!
Admission is just $8 for everyone 7 years old and up. Kids 6 and younger are in FREE!!
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6 Simple Products That Advertisers Pretend Are Complicated
Nobody is ever going to improve the fork. It does its job perfectly, they nailed it the first time around. But if you are a company that manufactures some rock-simple product, the fact that there is no room left for innovation makes advertising a nightmare. Soap is soap. What else is there to say about it? How do you make people buy yours instead of your competitor's?
With a torrent of technical-sounding bullshit, that's how.
#6. Toothbrushes and Toothpaste
Toothpaste commercials always like to make it sound like your teeth are ticking time bombs that could explode at any moment and take out you and everyone you love. Like this one, in which a fake scientist confronts a woman in a mall using the worst pickup line we've ever heard: "Good morning, did you know that your mouth is under attack right now?"
The scientist's high-tech mouth-scanning wand reveals her greatest fear -- her teeth are positively caked with maximum bacteria density, even though she brushes every morning. Her regular, non-super-powered toothpaste just doesn't do a damn thing.
"I'm afraid you have four weeks to live. I'm so sorry."
Colgate's mortal enemy, Crest, also provides a sciency demonstration showing that only their toothpaste can reach the deadly bacteria under your gums. You don't even have to brush! Just hold the toothbrush close to your mouth and a wave of white science will do the rest.
Everyone calm down! It's not real! It's only a dramatization!
This Oral-B ad avoids lame special effects, but it reminds you that choosing a toothbrush is literally the hardest thing you'll ever have to do, so it's lucky that virtually all dentists will tell you to pick up an Oral-B, otherwise you may as well be brushing with your own dick. But does it really have to be this hard?
Not according to this study, where dental health experts concluded that as long as your toothpaste contains fluoride and powdered calcium (and basically all of them do), your teeth are going to be just fine. And what about that claim that four out of five dentists think you should use an Oral-B toothbrush? When some researchers did a poll, they found that most dentists don't think there's any significant difference, with 62 percent saying that it's not about what you have, but how you use it.
... Ladies.
That's right -- there is no brush advanced enough that it will save you from learning proper brushing technique and then, most importantly, remembering to actually do it.
#5. Razors
Not so long ago, men removed their excess facial hair with a single-blade cutthroat razor, or if they were jungle commandos, a Bowie knife. Then safety razors became popular around World War I -- they had a simple handle with a small angled blade at the end that made it much harder to slice open an artery before breakfast.
"I can feel death's embrace ..."
It was a fantastic invention, and there wasn't much that could be improved upon in the design -- it's a razor blade attached to a stick, and it does what it's supposed to do. When it comes to innovation, razors are more like toothpicks than cars.
But that hasn't stopped Gillette from spending a century trying to find ways to convince consumers that each new version of the razor-on-a-stick is a game changer. For instance, in 1999, they punched the days of low-tech shaving right in the dick by inventing the Mach 3, a shaving experience so advanced that your clothing will literally explode off your body:
But there was no way they could stop there. For 21st century stubble, three blades isn't anywhere near enough. You might as well just try to slap that beard off. That's why Gillette spent eight years and earned 20 patents designing the Gillette Fusion, a five-blade razor that made the Mach 3 look like a giant piece of shit.
According to Gillette, their team of engineers engaged in "intensive laboratory and clinical research" and "thousands of test shaves" to bring us this Manhattan Project of razors. Apparently, the result was two more blades!
But this shit ain't done. In 2011, they introduced an "advanced, low-resistance coating," a "blade stabilizer," "lubricating polymers," and all sorts of other wonders, complete with a technical video that explains what all this stuff does. So why are these guys building razors and not working for NASA?
"Gillette -- for men who like to shave blind while creating extra crevices by smiling obliviously."
Because none of it does shit. According to consumer studies, not only is there no practical difference between the various Gillette razors, but people can't even spot the differences between brands, even if they come equipped with warp drives and flux capacitors. In 2005, a judge forced the company to retract some claims from their advertising, ruling that they ranged from "greatly exaggerated" to "literally false."
It's not that their razors don't work. They work great. They worked great in 1975. They just can't admit that they nailed the design back during the Wilson administration.
"Take it from me, Smoothcheek Wilson -- Gillette is sweet as a mothafucka."
#4. Shampoo
Unless you're bald (or a hippie), shampoo is a daily essential. But with a billion brands out there, how do you even enter the shampoo aisle without collapsing into a fetal position? After all, isn't that shit just soap for your hair? How can there be ten thousand meaningful variations on that concept?
Organic shampoo. Picked straight from the shampoo bushes of the local shampoo farms.
Well, advertisers have been taking advantage of the confusion since the '50s -- this early ad said that its shampoo cleaned your hair with "floating action" and came in a bottle designed by a doctor, as though that's important. It also bragged about how much lather it produced, a claim you may recognize from every shampoo ad ever. And no, lather actually has nothing to do with the cleansing process -- it's only there because we expect it.
Other shampoo ads have long claimed that their detergent will be gentle, while its competitors will violently tear through your follicles like wildfire and leave second-degree burns on your scalp. In reality, detergent is the active ingredient in every shampoo made since the 1930s, so unless you're trying to add some shine to your retinas, there's never going to be enough present to hurt.
As a last resort, shampoo makers started going wild with the razor strategy of pouring on the meaningless technobabble. Like in this commercial for shampoo with a "pro-vitamin formula that actually strengthens your hair from inside!" In 2011, Garnier Fructis bragged about its "antioxidant fruit extracts" that were "proven to be four times healthier." If you read the fine print that flashes by, you'll see that the claim was proven ... when compared to a shampoo that doesn't contain a conditioner, which nearly all shampoos do. That's like saying your car stereo is way better when compared to a bicycle.
A recent commercial from Head & Shoulders hit bullshit critical mass with its "high performance HydraZinc formula." That sounds like something you'd use to buff your Pokemon. Shockingly, this mythological element doesn't help -- a study found that expensive shampoos are no more effective than cheap drugstore brands. Unless you need a special shampoo for medical reasons, there's no need to pay more than a few bucks for a bottle. Unless it turns out 30 years from now that HydraZinc gives everyone mutant superpowers, which is entirely possible, we suppose.
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I'm at the point where I will completely avoid certain recipes simply because they require sifting and I find it incredibly tedious. Is there a better method? A better tool? A magic sifter?
Use a food processor to aerate the flour and mix other dry ingredients in.
As a bonus for me, the food processor bowl can go in the dishwasher. I have to hand-wash my sifter.
I just use a strainer. Slap something over the top so your flour doesn't fly all over the place, and shake it. It's got such a huge surface area, that it takes much less time than a lot of special purpose sifting tools (those stupid little cups with the trigger handles? What the hell is that about? The crank ones are no better. What am I? An organ grinder monkey?)
The other alternative is to throw the whole mess in a blender or food processor. That'll mix and aerate it.
I wonder if your sieve is too fine. When I sift flour I only need to pour the dry ingredient into the sieve and shake the sieve over a bowl. It takes a couple of minutes at most which I wouldn't call tedious. Are you doing something different?
You can probably just leave the sifting step out. I'm lazy when making food for my own consumption, and often just dump the flour on top of the wet mix in the bowl and sift the salt/soda/whatnot in by hand a bit.
Most recipes don't seem to mind, but some do (some also specify a volume of sifted flour, so that needs to be compensated for as well), so best to make an experimental batch ahead of time and see if it is acceptable.
i almost never "sift," per se -- i just whisk it really well to break up lumps and aerate it a bit.
I also used to find sifting a pain, but got a sifter from Tupperware last year that is fabulous - highly recommended! See http://www.tupperware.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/AUS/website/productgallery/productcollections/bakebasics/bake+2basics+sift+n+stor for details.
I've seen people use a food processor, just dump your dry ingredients in the bowl and pulse a couple of times.


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New Girl Talk - All Day Free Download
Best Mashup artist EVER.
If you don't know who he is, you're seriously doing yourself a disservice if you don't pick this up!
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Just in case the server is still pumped, here's another link.
Its a shame I can only woot once LOL
It's like a cross between Neil Sedaka and Nine Inch Nails.
@woothulhu thanks, the server must be flooded, the official link never opened :(
Download anything Girl Talk if you want the best workout music in the world. Or if you want to stay awake and bob your head at your desk. His music is like crack to the ears... bounce bounce
Takes a while to get started and download.. but should be fun to listen to when its done.
If you're into mashups...Girl Talk is supremo!!!
Girl Talk was performing nearby a couple of years ago and I had a chance to see him for free, but I never did :'{
He's awesome.
@woothulhu: Thank you
This is a legal download right, I dont know much about girl talk. The website doesn't look very official either. I just want to make sure since I'm on my University's network, and they are hardcore about illegal dl's
@ldeadeyesl yes, it's 100% legal, as are all of his albums. I don't think he's allowed to sell them, since he doesn't own the rights to the source material.
Thanks. I'm a fan a free Girl Talk.
if you guys like Girl Talk you should definitely check out White Noise. also very good.
Grabbed this last night and listened to the whole thing on my commute in this morning. Absolutely great as always. Must have.
greg's a really great guy. people should support him. I'm not really into mashups, but he's one of the best at doing it. I'm still waiting for the completely original music he was supposed to put out a while ago. I'm sure it'll be pretty awesome.
and yes, he released it officially: http://pitchfork.com/news/40704-download-the-new-girl-talk-album-for-free-now/
I have two things to say about Girl Talk: Eff off, and leave Zeppelin alone!
I have two things to say about lombrosis: Eff off, and nobody asked you.
I clicked on the gigasize.com link to try a different server, and, after being shown 4 ads got sent to the lyrics of the "The Bad Touch" by the Bloodhound Gang.
Good stuff.
I'm about a half hour into it and it's fantastic so far.
This is a fantastic album. Soooo good.
@lombrosis: Your Zepp boys were the worse at stealing others works.
http://vimeo.com/14912890 - Everything is a Remix . Watch, learn.
Yay! I was just thinking that I needed some more Girl Talk. My brother burned a couple CDs for me a few years ago (I'm too old and uncool to have discovered him on my own). But just recently I've been wearing those CDs out. It's the music I listen to when I clean my apartment. It turns doing dishes into a dance party. My neighbors are probably going to be happy that I'll have something new to listen to.
I was also thinking, "I can't believe that he hasn't been sued yet." But that's a discussion for another day.
Another great Girl Talk album, always great for those cardio work outs!!!
Thanks, I just saw he is on tour right now, so it's not surprised he has a new album. I agree Girl Talk makes for great workout and party music.
I bet all of you are the type of people that think Ke$ha is a great artist. If this is what you consider to be fantastic music, then the state of music in this country is tumbling down a slippery slope into crap. I have seen Girl Talk live and this guy is nothing more then a glorified wedding DJ.
@spliffua and you're probably the type of person that only listens to Pink Floyd and The Beatles because no one will ever make music as good as classic rock artists can, right? Enjoy never hearing a new song. I really can't stand people like you. The way Girl Talk mixes music is interesting, and I bet it's something you couldn't figure out how to do. If you don't like it, don't download it!
@spliffua: Haters gonnna hate!
You wouldn't post if you weren't desperate for a reply. Call your mom, I bet she misses you.
I'm listening right now and it's sooooo good! Thank you for bring this to my attention. You made my day.
@kojo87: White Noise is a great group, but how do they fit in with Girl Talk?
@woothulhu: there is a mashup artist known as White Noise. sorry for the confusion. i didn't know there was another group. i think i will go check them out now.
@ber142: I contend that that video is all a hoax!!! The Zepp can do no wrong!
Alternate reply: I can't deny that, but at least they sounded good doing it!
@kmart559: But they put things on my internets!!!
I've always found Girl Talk to be a little too manic and ADD in comparison to, say, the Kleptones, but the price is right so I guess I'll give him another shot.
@ber142: Wow. Serious, serious ownage.
That video is incredibly interesting. Thanks for posting it.
Girl Talk samples broken down on this album:
@woothulhu: check this one out: http://www.mashupbreakdown.com/
DONT CLICK THE MEDIAFIRE LINK IT WILL ATTACK YOUR COMPUTER. I am good norton blocked it. xD
Goootttttttttttttttttttttt it!
When i heard the sample of 'Spacehog's' 'In the Meantime' I ran back to 1995 to finish up a mixtape.
@michellaneous413: Then it's not legal, right?
@aoviss: The reason he gets away with it is fair usage laws. He's protected because he uses short enough clips, and changes the material enough to be considered copywrite safe. Download away!


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Both should be really good I heard, the Glengoyne is around 43€ (sometimes you can get the liter bottle for 54) the Glendronach around 60, NAS, both presumably around 10 years old.
Could anyone tell me if the latter one is worth the extra money? I could get my hands on one of the last bottles of batch 1 or the newer batch 2.
I liked the Glendronach 15, once I tried two other Glengoyne in a supermarket and liked them but don't remember them well.
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I know I'm many years behind the times; but I just played Myst for the first time this weekend on the PS3. I was absolutely disappointed with the ending; I thought the entire point of the game was to 'figure stuff out' but I don't feel as though I understand any of it.
Was it explained in-game and I simply missed it? I did complete the game so I couldn't have missed too much. But
For starters: Who am I (the main character)? How did I get to Myst? Where am I from?
Do I need to continue playing/revisit all the worlds after completing the game to answer these questions? Or is it just left to the imagination?


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WHEELING - Planning Commission members want to see proof of state and federal approval before allowing GreenHunter Water to build its natural gas frack water recycling plant in Warwood, but company leaders believe the commission is just trying to prevent construction.
"There is no question in my mind that they are using this as a stall tactic," said John Jack, vice president of business development for GreenHunter. "I have done $400 million worth of construction over the past four years. I know what I am doing."
During the commission's July 8 meeting, members voted to delay considering GreenHunter's site plan until the 5 p.m. Aug. 12 meeting in Wheeling City Council Chambers. Commissioners also delayed considering the site plan during the June meeting.
"The only person who is stalling this project is Mr. Jack," said Commission Chairman Howard Monroe. "It is not unusual for the planning commission to ask for this information."
The main points of contention seem to involve the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and/or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. City officials want some sort of documentation from these agencies to certify that GreenHunter's project meets their requirements.
During the last meeting, Jack said, "West Virginia DEP has oversight over our operations," noting the agency would do a "walk-through" inspection once the plant is completed.
DEP spokeswoman Kathy Cosco said until the plant is up and running, her agency probably would not have any involvement with the GreenHunter project.
"As long as they are not drilling - and are not going to discharge anything into the air or into the water - they don't need any permit from us," she said. "Companies come up with new technologies all the time. Until the plant is running, we don't know what they are going to be doing."
Since GreenHunter is not seeking to drill or discharge anything from the Warwood site, Cosco is not sure the DEP will be involved with the project.
"All (Jack) has to do is verify that he does not need a permit," said Monroe. "We cannot just do something of this significance on just a, 'Trust us.' We need to see this is some formal way."
Jack also said he is not sure he will be able to get any sort of confirmation letter from the NRC concerning radioactivity at the site. Though radium, uranium and radon are considered radioactive, Jack has said these elements will be minuscule in volume at the Warwood plant. He also said the company's workers will wear radiation detectors while on the job.
"There is no way were are going to get that letter," Jack said, noting he might be able to provide certified letters to the city that state his company cannot get such documents from the DEP or NRC.
"We are going to do the best we can to meet the city's requirements," he said. "The problem now with these delays is that we are going to have to build in the fall when it is cool and rainy. That is what we were trying to avoid."


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Could a non-Jew run a Judaica store/business? Would this be kosher? What if it's online? Are there any restrictions on converts?
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In theory I see no reason per se that would prohibit a non-Jew from buying and selling books, menorahs, and the like, if s/he really wanted to do so. An item on which the seller's word is required that it is ritually okay would be more problematic, but these days your matza, myrtle-branches, and the like come shrink-wrapped and pre-certified, so it's really not about trusting the retailer. (Trusting the retailer with raw mezuzah parchments is an interesting question ...)
The concerns are more likely those of, well, Jews will prefer to do business with Jews all else being equal; Jews will assume a Judaica store is Jewish-owned (and could be off-put otherwise); and there are a whole lot of little things that you're likely to get wrong if you don't really, really know the lifestyle well.


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Dec. 1, I once again had the opportunity to work with the Beacon Falls Firehouse. We collected money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Thanks to all who stopped by and donated to "the boot."
What an outstanding group of dedicated volunteers this town is so lucky to have. In my eyes, the fundraiser was very successful with all money donated at 100 percent.
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If the time required to wait between eating meat and milk is based on the scientific definition of digestion, why don't we ask today's experts and set a defined time for everyone instead of different people following different customs?
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Waiting six hours is not based on the scientific definition of digestion. The Talmud (Chullin 105a) says that one must wait from one meal to the next. There is a disagreement among the Rishonim if that actually means from one meal to the next, or if it means the amount of time between the morning and evening meals, which would mean approximately six hours. See YD 89. The reason for the wait according to these Rishonim is either that fat/grease from the meat that is in one's throat emits a meat flavor into one's mouth for a long time (Rashi) or that for that amount of time we are concerned that small pieces of meat might be stuck between one's teeth (Rambam). Neither of these reasons say that these issues last exactly six hours, but rather that the Sages drew a line at six hours, and neither of them have to do with digestion per se.
For Ashkenazim at least, the halacha is like Tosafot, that once one finishes the meat meal, if he starts a new meal he may consume dairy. However, in the common case, people follow their minhag of how long to wait. See the Rama in Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 89:1, as I've seen it traditionally understood -- that he paskens like the יש אומרים that one needs not wait, but that it is a מנהג הפשוט במדינות אלו to wait, rather than a decided halacha -- such that in cases of great need, this minhag may be relaxed.
If so, the science won't help.