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Alabama drills LSU, 38-17
|Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall (14) tries to get away from Tennessee linebacker Brent Brewer (17) in the third quarter of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — AJ McCarron threw three touchdown passes, T.J. Yeldon ran for 133 yards and two scores and No. 1 Alabama overwhelmed No. 10 LSU 38-17 Saturday night.
The Crimson Tide (9-0, 6-0 Southeastern Conference) turned to power football to take control of a game that was tied early in the third quarter. Yeldon carried 18 times in the second half, 25 overall, after catching the game-winning touchdown pass in last season's meeting with the Tigers (7-3, 3-3).
Alabama scored the final 21 points to brush aside its first challenge since Game 2 against Texas A&M.
McCarron was a workmanlike 14-of-20 passing for 179 yards, letting Yeldon, Kenyan Drake and their blockers assert control.
Zach Mettenberger completed 16 of 23 passes for 241 yards and a touchdown but was also sacked four times.
It was the most points Alabama has scored against LSU since a 41-12 victory in 1947.
Auburn 55, Tennessee 23: In Knoxville, Tenn., Auburn doesn't have to worry about passing to remain in the running for a Southeastern Conference title.
Nick Marshall rushed for 214 of Auburn's 444 yards Saturday as the seventh-ranked Tigers needed just nine pass attempts to roll to a 55-23 victory over Tennessee. Auburn also scored on a kickoff return and a punt return - the first time the Tigers have ever done both in the same game — and set an NCAA single-game record by averaging 44.85 yards on seven combined kickoff and punt returns.
"I still believe we can throw the football," Auburn coach Gus Malzahn said. "There's no doubt in my mind we can, but when you don't have to, you don't."
Auburn had attempted just nine passes last week in a 35-17 victory over Arkansas. Marshall's third and final pass completion Saturday was a 25-yard touchdown pass to C.J. Uzomah with 6:36 remaining in the first quarter as the Tigers (9-1, 5-1 SEC) earned their sixth straight win to remain in control of their destiny in the SEC Western Division race.
Marshall ran for two touchdowns on just 14 carries and threw for a third score. Tre Mason rushed for 117 yards and three touchdowns as Auburn averaged 8.4 yards per carry and had the most yards rushing by a Tennessee opponent since Alabama ran for 457 in a 56-28 victory over the Volunteers in 1986.
No. 3 Florida State 59, Wake Forest 3: In Winston-Salem, N.C., Jameis Winston threw two touchdown passes, and Florida State tied a school record with six interceptions as it clinched ACC a championship game berth.
Nate Andrews took an interception 56 yards for a touchdown and Jalen Ramsey returned a fumble 23 yards for a score on consecutive plays.
The Seminoles (9-0, 7-0) claimed the inside track to a BCS title game berth with No. 2 Oregon's loss Thursday. They kept firm grasp of it by forcing seven turnovers and breaking the stadium record of 56 points they set in 1994.
Florida State outgained Wake Forest (4-6, 2-5) 296-166 and turned those turnovers into five TDs and a field goal.
No. 11 Texas A&M 51, Mississippi State 41: In College Station, Texas, Johnny Manziel threw for 446 yards and tied a career-high with five touchdown passes to lead Texas A&M to a win in what could be the Heisman Trophy winner's last home game.
Mississippi State cut the lead to 10 points early in the fourth quarter, but Manziel threw his fifth touchdown pass to make it 44-27 for A&M (8-2, 4-2 Southeastern Conference). The defense grabbed an interception and Ben Malena's 2-yard TD run extended the lead to 51-27.
Dax Prescott threw for 149 yards and two scores and ran for 154 yards for Mississippi State (4-5, 1-4).
No. 9 Missouri 48, Kentucky 17: In Lesington, Ky., Maty Mauk threw five touchdown passes, four to Dorial Green-Beckham, and No. 9 Missouri cruised past Kentucky.
Making his fourth consecutive start in place of the injured James Franklin, the Tigers' redshirt freshman completed 17 of 28 attempts for 203 yards and took full advantage of 6-foot-6 sophomore Green-Beckham, whose TD receptions set a school record.
Mauk added a 6-yard scoring pass to Henry Josey, who also rushed for two TDs, including an 86-yarder.
Missouri (9-1, 5-1 Southeastern Conference) allowed Kentucky (2-7, 0-5) two touchdowns in the third quarter but the Mauk-to-Green-Beckham connection answered both scores with TDs.
The victory helped the Tigers stay a half-game ahead of idle South Carolina (5-2) atop the East division heading into their second bye and gave coach Gary Pinkel his fourth nine-win season in 13 years with Missouri.
No. 15 Oklahoma State 42, Kansas 6: In Stillwater, Okla., Clint Chelf completed 19 of 37 passes for 265 yards and three touchdowns to lead No. 15 Oklahoma State to a 42-6 victory over Kansas Saturday.
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23 Apr 2010 4:02 PM #1
Ext Designer - qt environment - open source?
Hi guys,
I must say that the EXT designer looks great. I can see that QT framework has been used in the built and it just looks great. I was wondering if the toolbar that is dockable and contains the accordion style controls is something that you guys have created from scratch or was it part of some QT widgets?
Also is there an open source version of Ext Designer so we can maybe have a look at some of the components and learn something nice. Its is a greatly designed application.
23 Apr 2010 5:27 PM #2
All of the components you see are Ext JS controls and built with Ext, HTML & CSS.
There is no intent to publish an open source version at this time.Aaron Conran
2 May 2010 3:31 AM #3
i see
the reason i asked was because i liked the way it was written
i was hoping i could learn a bit more from it for the QT side. Not really related to ext
24 Apr 2012 8:26 AM #4
I agree. Since Titanium stopped supporting desktops it would be great to be able to get the QT shell you used so we could create our own Ext JS apps for the desktop. Any possibility of getting our hands just on the QT portion? i think it would help Ext JS programmers a lot.
24 Apr 2012 4:28 PM #5
There is no intent to open source the Qt version, though we may show customers how we are building future desktop versions of software in the coming months.Aaron Conran

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Both teams had their opportunities in an expectedly tight, chippy contest between Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference soccer rivals.
Each team took advantage of one such opportunity.
No. 22 Fort Lewis College and the men�s soccer team from Colorado School of Mines scored 30 seconds apart in the second half en route to a 1-1 draw on Sunday afternoon at Dirks Field.
Fort Lewis, playing without key cogs Kosta Kordistos, Stephen Engeln and Grant Duke, got on top in the 57th minute.
Alberto Capdepon�s long ball from the left side of the pitch found a streaking Casey Dean, who flicked the ball past a charging Manville Strand for a 1-0 lead.
�Casey�s been immense this season with his goals, chipping in on his assists and stuff, so I�m really happy with what he�s doing on the offensive end,� Fort Lewis men�s head coach Oige Kennedy said.
Just moments later, a Colorado Mines player was taken down in the penalty area and awarded a penalty kick.
Tesho Akindele, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference�s leading scorer, buried it to square the game.
Kennedy vehemently argued the call, claiming the Fort Lewis defender actually beat the Mines attacker to the ball and won it before the foul was committed, a view he still held afterward.
�From my view, I�ll have to look at it again on the video ... looked like our defender won the ball,� Kennedy said.
The two overtimes posited a couple of chances for Fort Lewis. Derek Freeman couldn�t quite get the right angle on a volley attempt in the first overtime, and a blocked shot off the foot of Dean in the second extra period had the FLC bench clamoring for a hand ball call that never came.
The Skyhawks, however, were less disappointed with the two calls than they were with their own ability in the attacking third.
The Fort Lewis men (4-1-1, 1-0-1 RMAC) had plenty of chances, especially in a long stretch in the first half when the Skyhawks dominated possession, but couldn�t make the necessary runs, crosses or passes to get the best opportunity to score, while Strand racked up seven saves for the Orediggers, none of them particularly difficult.
�It�s always frustrating when you come out hard and strong, and you�re not able to capitalize on the opportunities that you do have. ... We came out with intensity, but it just wasn�t there in front of goal,� midfielder Aaron Kloer said.
Colorado Mines (3-1-2, 0-0-2 RMAC) had several opportunities, forcing Ryan Schaul to make five saves for Fort Lewis.
The best perhaps came in the first half, when Akindele made a nice run down the left side, only to fire his shot over the crossbar.
The Fort Lewis men now must regroup physically after a taxing weekend that included two double-overtime games. The Skyhawks lost both Daniel Wilson and Maik Brandt to injuries Sunday and will lose Yannis Becker for the next game after he received a soft red card.
�It�s been absolutely stressful on the body, but we�ve got good staff,� Kloer said.


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I feel this is somehow a stupid question, but I don't know the true answer. What happens to an astronaut who's floating in a spaceship in space when it begins to move? Will the astronaut not move until he smashes onto a wall in the spaceship? Or will he move with the spaceship due to gravity? Or does it depend on the speed/acceleration of the spaceship; if it's too fast, the astronaut will smash onto a wall and if it's enough slow, he'll move with the spaceship?
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WELLSBURG - Those interested in doing some low-stress Christmas shopping might try stopping by the office of A Child's Place Court-Appointed Special Advocate at 720 Charles St. Thursday.
Visitors will find assorted jewelry, purses, cosmetics, kitchen supplies and other items for sale and can help support the efforts during an open house for the group from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Rhonda Stubbs, executive director for A Child's Place CASA, said there also will be drawings for various gift baskets containing large assortments of food, beauty supplies and other items supplied by Jenna Boley of Advantage Sales and Marketing.
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SPECIAL ATTENTION — Robert Campbell of Weirton, with his grandson Aiden Mercil, is among volunteers with A Child's Place Court-Appointed Special Advocate program who have had pinwheels placed in their yards in recognition of their efforts for the group. -- Contributed
Stubbs said the annual event has been a fairly successfully fundraiser, netting about $374 last year, while also raising awareness of the group's purpose.
Visitors also may bring Christmas gifts for children aided by the group.
As the sole staff members for A Child's Place CASA, Stubbs and Jennifer Reitter prepare and guide volunteers to represent the interests of children involved in abuse and neglect cases in Brooke and Hancock counties.
Stubbs said it's a need that has grown dramatically this year. The group currently serves 113 children, the largest number since it was formed in 2000, and 52 other children haven't been assigned advocates because there aren't enough volunteers.
Stubbs explained courts may call for such children to be removed from their homes, but they also may order parents to undergo various types of counseling in an effort to keep families together, with the children's safety an overriding factor.
CASA volunteers visit the families at their homes to determine if the parents are following the court's orders and the environment is safe. They deliver written reports on their findings to a judge who must determine what's best for the children.
Stubbs said a rise in drug abuse, particularly of heroin, is largely to blame for the rise in child abuse and neglect cases. She said more family members and friends of drug users are turning to local police because they are concerned about the users' children.
Stubbs said it takes patience and dedication to be a CASA volunteer and the group's 16 advocates and other volunteers are being recognized in a unique way. Over the years the group has placed pinwheels outside the Mary H. Weir Public Library during Child Abuse Prevention Month.
This month pinwheels are being placed outside the homes of various volunteers to recognize them for their hard work and compassion. The pinwheels turn up overnight, without warning, and also may help to spark curiosity about A Child's Place CASA itself, Stubbs said.
Robert Campbell of Weirton, A Child's Place CASA's Volunteer of the Year, was a recent recipient of the pinwheels. Campbell has been assigned to 14 children since he became involved in the program two years ago.
The pinwheels were moved this weekend to the home of Dale Moore, also of Weirton. Moore has aided 10 children for the group over the last two years and helped to raise funds by collecting assorted Major League and Minor League baseball items for drawings benefiting the group.
Stubbs said on Thursday she will continue the tradition of presenting the Stick Your Neck Out award to a volunteer or volunteers who have gone above and beyond in their support of the program.
Fundraising always has been a major concern for the program, which has depended on federal grants and business sponsors among other donations.
But it's become even more of a concern because it and other court-appointed special advocate programs have been cut from federal grants issued through the West Virginia Juvenile Accountability Grant program.
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Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon Series
The Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathons generated considerable interest and engagement, but there's more work to be done!
The Second Worldwide Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of Nov. 8. Our official page is here but this wiki is for coordinating projects.
We are also using #aaronswhack on irc.oftc.net and can be reached on the list email@example.com
"We were part of an inchoate, ad-hoc community of collaborators who helped each other learn how to code. No, not how to write code ‒ how to write code for the purpose of changing the world." - Zooko, on memories of Aaron (full post here)
Structure of the event (condensed from meeting notes):
- In advance at each location, (at least) one presenter is chosen to "pitch" what they consider a vital project. This project should be eminently hackable -- the presenter or another volunteer who knows the project well should be prepared to help interested parties get involved, at many skill levels.
- The event starts like a hybrid (un-)conference, with introductions and short presentations. The pre-announced presenter(s) do these presentations, and during the introductions people can offer or request talks, which are added as time permits on the spot. Total presentation time should be ~1.5-2hrs. Presentations are recorded and immediately posted online (or streamed), for remote participants or people at other hackathons to see.
- Then there's open time to work.
- Finally, at the end of the event, there are 1.5-2hrs of demonstrations of results. Anyone can sign up on the site with info about project status to get a demo slot. Demos are also recorded and posted online, cross-referenced with individuals and projects.
Proposed Dates
- Set up a event webpage - Done (Sept.)
- Recruit hacklabs (as hosts) and activists (as PMs) - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
- Get signal-boosting web coverage - Ongoing (Sept./Oct.)
- Run events - Nov. 8 weekend
Projects to Work on
- tor2web and jot2tor (virgil, SF)(oliver, BOS) : Tor2web makes it possible for internet users to view content from Tor hidden services. It's online in a (mostly) functioning form at http://tor2web.org . Jot2tor is an extension of this allowing users to use Aaron's jottit.com framework to easily create pages hosted on hidden services. Naturally, pages created via jot2tor are accessible from tor2web. Aaron and I actually worked on both of these projects until his death.
- Fork the Law (Christie (talk), SF) Fork the Law has spent the last few months working out what ordinary people need to know in order to effect legislative change. We're now working on condensing this down to a set of technical design requirements. We'd like to dig into turning the requirements into code, integrating existing open source applications and other services wherever possible. The repository for the development effort is https://github.com/fork-the-law/hancock.
- Archiving Aaron's writings (psawaya, SF). I think it'd be helpful to produce an archive of Aaron's writings, as the formatting on his blog isn't well-organized or good for reading on mobile devices. Some projects might include producing ePub and MOBI versions, organizing and tagging his writing, making it searchable, and perhaps even making it annotatable. It may be possible to build off of this project. I recall not finding a Creative Commons declaration on Aaron's blog, though this project certainly seems to be in alignment with his ideals. Yan suggested talking about it with Noah Swartz.
- Mailpile (brennan, Berlin): https://github.com/pagekite/mailpile
- SecureDrop (yan/micah/garrett?/james?, SF): a platform for whistleblowers to transfer documents to newspapers directly. See https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop.
- Prosecutorial Overreach/Underreach: The DOJ turns a blind eye to war criminals and Wall St crooks yet throws the book at activists like Aaron. I've registered 14 domains that are variations of the three main prosecutors in Aaron's trail (i.e. carmenortiz.org, stephenheymann.org, etc.) The names Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann are already synonymous with abuse of power. Let's cement that while drawing attention to other activists/whistleblowers who are being prosecuted for non-crimes. While we're at it, let's give prosecutors something useful to do by highlighting well documented but unprosecuted crimes (I'm looking at you John Yoo/Jamie Dimon/James Clapper).
- Transparency Toolkit (shidash, ?): Unfortunately Shidash is unavailable, but maybe someone else could do it?
- Restore the Fourth placeholder. We'll know more closer to the date about which of our projects would benefit the most from this. Options include the various encrpytion/meshnet/other coding aspects, blog posts and other content development, or drafting policy documents and researching for coalition-building.
- Indie Box: Set up our own web applications on cheap Linux devices (like the Raspberry Pi) in our own homes: http://indieboxproject.org/
Activists/Groups to reach out to
Feel free to add to the list or contact someone you know at one of these!
- Praveen (SF) - California prison reform/hunger strike stuff (contacted)
- Willow (Cambridge?) - Hackers Without Borders (contacted)
- EFF - pgpbot, other tech projects? (contacted)
- Internet Archive - (will host reception in SF)
- Mozilla - (contacted)
- Tor - NEED CONTACT
- Freedom of the Press Foundation - (contacted)
- OpenITP - (contacted)
- Mailpile - (contacted)
- Wikimedia - (contacted)
- Maplight - Contacted
- Restore the Fourth - (contacted)
- Demand Progress
- Digital Right Northwest (Seattle - Contacted)
Please include the main organizer name and email.
- Nosebridge, SF - CONFIRMED, yan (yan at mit dot edu)
- Boston, MA - CONFIRMED, willow leading (Media Lab)
- Chicago, IL - CONFIRMED, brian (brianhray at gmail dot com)
- Seattle, WA - CONFIRMED, Jigsaw Renaissance, Noah leading
- Austin - IN PROGRESS, samantha mahool
- Netz39, Germany - IN PROGRESS, katharina holstein
- NYC - IN PROGRESS, location TDB, rmo (rmo at numm . org)
- Zagreb - IN PROGRESS, david (david at numm . org)
- Hacklab Barracas, Buenos Aires Event Site - CONFIRMED, nicolás reynolds
- Bangalore - contacted & interested, in progress
- Berlin - CONFIRMED, samuel carlisle
- Talk to samthetechie at the c-base for more info
- Paris
- London
- Zagreb (+ other balkan)
- Tokyo
San Francisco
The SF event is being organized by Yan. It will kick off at the Internet Archive on Nov. 8 with a ceremony in honor of Aaron's birthday, then move to Noisebridge for hacking the rest of the weekend.
Nov. 8 (at the Internet Archive)
- 5 pm: The Internet Archive opens for early hacking! Yan and possibly others will be around to help people find projects to work on.
- 6:30 pm: Reception starts at the Internet Archive. Come mingle.
- 7:30 pm: The event kicks off at the Internet Archive on Friday evening with talks from Cindy Cohn (legal director of the EFF), Kevin Poulsen (editor of Wired), Brewster Kahle (founder of the Internet Archive), and others TBA.
- 9 pm: Let's start hacking! (Until we get kicked out of the Internet Archive around 10 pm, at which point we might move to Noisebridge?)
Nov. 9 (at Noisebridge)
- 11 am - sleepytime: Hackathon starts up again at Noisebridge! We'll start with more project presentations and then spend the rest of the day working. Come by any time.
Nov. 10 (at Noisebridge)
- 11 am: More hacking at Noisebridge!
- 4 pm: DEMO TIME. Come demo what you've done over the weekend. Afterwards we'll head to the Sycamore for celebration.
Who's going
- Yan
- Oliver


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My problem is that - at times - there is really no acceptable answer. I think there should be an option to say that the person who asked the question doesn't think that any answer is good enough to be marked as Accepted, in the same time, the user's percentage doesn't go down because he didn't just ask a question and disappear, he actually cared enough about giving feedback (it's actually better feedback than accepting a mediocre answer).


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If you want for example the finished equirectangular pano to be sharpened, colour adjusted,... how can you make sure there will not be a seam when projected into a flash VR for example?


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I've recently gotten past the first section of the Autumn Haven Mall, reaching the area which contains shops that you can trick-or-treat (as opposed to the initial "under construction" section).
In that very area, the one containing the bobbing for apples mini-game and the costume contest, there is a giant pumpkin with a coffin in its mouth located at the lower left corner (I'd take a screenshot if I could).
How am I supposed to reach that coffin? Do I need to make use of a costume I still do not have access to?


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- 1 1/4 cup water
Monday, January 14, 2008
Eggless, Milkless, Butterless Cake
- 1 1/4 cup water
10 comments:
- Friar Tuck said...
How did it taste?
- January 15, 2008 at 11:39 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
It tasted quite good, actually. And it tasted even better knowing I was helping our boys over in Europe.
- January 15, 2008 at 11:48 AM
- VeggieGirl said...
oh my goodness, this is absolutely fantastic - just goes to show that veganism isn't (and wasn't, back then) an abnormality!! :0)
- January 15, 2008 at 9:25 PM
- Elisabeth said...
I remember seeing recipes from this book when I was studying WWI in high school -- at least it was a similar, ration-based cook book. mock whipped cream and things-- I had completely forgotten! There was a biscuit recipe that was surprisingly fantastic!
- January 16, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- LizzyQ ~ Vegan Mother said...
Mmm... Wacky Cake!!! Lots of vegan cake recipes came out of the war, since milk & eggs were so expensive.. Our wedding cake recipe was a wacky cake recipe, and oh. so. good.
- January 17, 2008 at 11:37 AM
- quixoticmama said...
Ahhh, my mom used to make this all the time - she calls it 'Poor Man's Fruitcake'... :)
LOVE your blog, by the way!
- January 27, 2008 at 8:24 AM
- Lenea said...
I was just about to try this recipe... When I realized I did not know the amount of water I should put in to boil with the sugar and the fruit. Please let me know the proportion of water I should put in, thank you.
- March 11, 2009 at 12:01 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Whoops. I fixed the recipe--thanks!
- March 11, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- Lenea said...
So I tried it a few times, but for some reason, when I used 1 cup corn flour and 1 cup wheat flour, it always turned out to be crumbly. So I used 2 cups of wheat flour instead, and it turned out just fine.
I was wondering what flour did you use for yours?
- May 26, 2009 at 3:15 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
I really can't remember . . . . I think I used the corn, and judging from the pic it looks a little crumbly.
- May 31, 2009 at 7:45 AM


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I bought a property for relatively cheep, the one bedroom has about 8 holes or so ranging from about 2-3 inches and others 4-8 inches most of which are in a 4 foot square area. I don't know the exact paint but it's white so that shouldn't be hard to match.
I just want a relatively seamless patch. Advice or walk thru?


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I don't use Pastebot on this computer very often, but it has worked previously without difficulty. Today, the menu shows "Disabled..." in grey text, and Pastebot doesn't allow me to copy & paste between Mac and device.
I downloaded the Mac preference pane and installed it again. This seemed to work OK, although there were two messages about "... is from an unidentified developer", to which I said Open.
I followed the Pastebot process to pair my new iPad 4, and this seemed to work OK: the numeric password showed up on the Mac, and I typed it. But I still see Disabled in the Mac menu bar, and it doesn't seem to sync.
This was working previously with my iPhone 4S, but it doesn't now.
Pastebot is turned on in the Mac pref pane.
The Firewall is turned off on the Mac.
The Pastebot support site doesn't seem to mention this possibility.
I can't see any relevant messages in Console.app.
Everything else about the Mac, iPad, iPhone seems to be working OK.
Any ideas how I might get Pastebot working again?


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A friend of mine accidentally shot a load of photos with the white-balance on his camera set to "Tungsten". Is there an easy way to correct the resultant colour cast with Photoshop?
You can load jpegs into Adobe Camera Raw from bridge and have all the same options as processing a raw file. So you can choose the correct colour temperature and then convert several files with the same settings.
The level adjustment feature in Photoshop has the droppers for picking the white, black, and neutral points from the image. That would be quick approach, though you'd probably have to play with it a little from some images.
I do this quite often in Paint Shop Pro, using the Manual Color Correction feature. By consecutively right-clicking and left-clicking on the same patch of the picture that should be white or gray, you end up with "before" and "after" colors that are identical. Then you modify the "after" so that it has less saturation, taking it closer to pure white or gray. If you don't have anything in the picture in the white to gray range to sample from, you can sample from other colors and make them match one of the built-in samples or any other arbitrary color.
Sorry that I don't know how to do the same in Photoshop.
If you don't have Photoshop (some of us prefer to use the camera to create the art rather than the computer) then there are other options. I use Nikon's NX2 software for all post processing, it's very quick, clean and easy. You can download a trial that has no limitation other than a 60 day limit from Nikon's web site ... http://nikonimglib.com/cnx2/
To correct the white balance you need to find something on each image that is meant to be a shade of white and then use the Neutral Control Point and click on it. I have found this corrects over 90% of any white balance issues with a single click!
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They're called Generation Y--the growing numbers of young adults who promptly move back home after college, or perhaps never move out at all, in an effort to save money while searching for a perfect job. Living with your grown child can be a stressful tug of war for control: Your child makes his own decisions, but you still rule the roost. Read on to find some tips and suggestions to make living with your adult child a little easier on everyone in your household.
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Have a serious talk with your child about the situation. Make sure you both agree to the terms and conditions of the arrangement. Living together will take compromises on both parts, and it will be easier if you keep lines of communication open and set expectations beforehand.
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Is there anyway to get Rhythmbox to stop playing the current track when it closes without first pausing/stopping the song manually?
This is intentionally the default behaviour: allowing you to minimise ("close") Rhythmbox and control it from the Sound menu.
To work around this you need to "quit" Rhythmbox by selecting File->Quit in the menu, or using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Q.
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With some applications, typically media players, they run in the background unless you quit the application. Whenever it is open, use File > Quit or Ctrt+Q. They typically run in indicators on your panel. This is so that instead of closing when you want to clean your desktop, they keep playing.
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It seems that there is much disagreement and flip/flopping on how the close-window, (x) button, etc. does/should work in Rhythmbox. In fact both behaviors have been reported as bugs on several occasions for various reasons. This one claims
After reading around through bug reports, I think that's exactly how it's supposed to work. If you read this comment in the above-mentioned bug, the poster claims the behavior can be turned on/off by enabling/disabling the Status Icon plugin:
I tried this on my system (Ubuntu v10.10, Rhythmbox v0.13.1) and it did not work. Back wading through the bug reports it seems there was a patch applied to fix an indicator-application compatibly issue that broke the Status Icon plugin behavior. I am no longer 100% sure what the current status is on all this, but I think the above procedure should work.
Indeed, toggling this behavior in Banshee is a very similar process, which actually works.
I know that Clementine and Audacious stop playing when you hit the "x" button. Maybe you should try those players instead.
Go to the sound icon in the top bar and stop / pause from there (under volume control you have player control) , or close it while window visible from the file menu.
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I watched the movie I Know Who Killed Me and i didn't understand the significance of blue color in the movie. It shows the blue color flowers all the time and even killer use all the blue color weapons for killing, even victims house decoration is mostly blue. Movie poster have blue color flower on it.And most of the things are of same blue shade used in hospitals.
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I very much like the typesetting in Numdam's writeup of Éléments de géométrie algébrique. I find the font particularily pleasing, and the headers are nice as well. I've heard this is how it looked in the original release; I would like to snatch it. Does anyone know the name of the font, or does anyone have a general setup?
A Baskerville substitute that is freely available for TeX is Baskervald ADF.
Maybe you'll prefer ITC New Baskerville. There is TeX support via
A font was specially commissioned to look like the old EGA : the SMF Baskerville font. It is not, however, publicly available. You can see a description of the project (in french, I'm afraid) in the article Une police mathématique pour la Société mathématique de France : le SMF Baskerville (A mathematical font for the French Mathematical Society: the SMF Baskerville). There's a comparison of the font with the original on page 13.
Micropress sells a Baskerville-based font called BA Math, but you might find it quite different to what the EGA fonts look like (the most notable change is the width of the math italic letter, which have lost their characteristic Baskerville narrowness).


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Until now, I've seen that the $n$ could be filled with the set $\mathbb{N}_0$ and $-\infty$ but I still didn't see mentions on other sets of numbers. As I thought that having 0 and $-\infty$ as degrees of a polynomial were unusual, I started to think if it would be possible for other numbers to also fill the gap.
So far you are talking about polynomials. I assume the coefficients are in some field $k$ so you would denote them as $k[x]$. Here the degree is in $\mathbb N_0\cup\{-\infty\}$.
Common generalisations are:
The reason for this unusual $-\infty$ is the following:
Consider a non-zero polynomial in $x$. Then its degree is simply the highest power of $x$ which has a non-zero ceofficient. Now it turns out that if you multiply a polynomial of degree $m$ with a polynomial of degree $n$, you get a polynomial of degree $m+n$ (simply because $x^m\cdot x^n=x^{m+n}$). Moreover if we add a poynomial of degree $m$ and a polynomial of degree $n>m$ then the sum has degree $m$.
So far, so good. But now we have a problem: The zero polynomial clearly also is a polynomial, but it does not have a highest non-zero coefficient (because simply all coefficients are zero). Therefore the rule above doesn't tell us which degree we should assign to it. However we can look at the properties of the zero polynomial to figure out a good choice.
First, if we multiply the zero polynomial with any other polynomial, the result is, of course, the zero polynomial. That is, if $d$ is the degree of the zero polynomial, we want to have $d+n=d$ for all $n\in\mathbb N_0$. However there's no number which fulfils this identity. But if we look at the "numbers" $\infty$ and $-\infty$, we find that they have, according to common convention, exactly this property. Therefore it makes sense to use either $d=-\infty$ or $d=\infty$.
To determine which of them to use, we look at the second property, adding polynomials of different degree, and getting a polynomial of the larger degree. Now if we add the zero polynomial to a polynomial of degree $n$, we of course get that other polynomial, with degree $n$. Therefore we want to have $n>d$, which is the case for $d=-\infty$ but not for $d=\infty$. Therefore we assign, by convention, the degree $-\infty$ to the zero polynomial.
As for other values which could be meaningful, I could imagine to look at the space of all functions defined by their power series. In that case, the functions which are power series, but not polynomials, could be given the degree $\infty$.
Another obvious extension of polynomials would be to allow negative powers (such functions would, of course, not be defined at $0$). In that case, a generalized polynomial could have a negative integer degree.
Finally, if looking at functions which are sums of arbitrary (also non-integer) powers, such a generalized polynomial would have real degree.
However you should note that in all those cases, the functions are no longer polynomials, but a generalization which include the polynomials. For polynomials, the only degrees possible are from $\mathbb N_0\cup\{-\infty\}$.
The degree of a polynomial can only take the values that you've specified. For that, let's revisit the definition of a polynomial. Personally, I was taught that a polynomial (in one variable) is an algebraic expression which can be written in the form $$a_0 + a_1x + a_2x^2 + \cdots + a_nx^n$$ where $n$ is a non-negative integer. From this definition, as the degree is the same as $n$, therefore, the degree is also a non-negative integer (I'll not go into the degree of a zero polynomial, which is best left undefined).
On the other hand, Wikipedia says that
Clearly, there is no non-integer expenentiation, nor any division by a variable, so again it is clear that the degree is a non-negative integer.


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Is there an "issur" regarding not putting up a mezuzzah? Is there such thing as having 30 days until the issue kicks in? Also, can you say the bracha each time you put one up? Or, if two different people hang them up, can they each say the bracha?
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I have information about everything but the theoretical "issur" question from Oholei Yeshurun, Vol. 2, Chapter 1: "Laws of Mezuzah", by R' Aaron Felder. Please note that while R' Felder is a talented and respected Posek who cites an impressive collection of sources, his is by no means the last word on the subject. If these questions come up practically, you should consult your Rabbi.
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Does the blessing of Asher Yatzar (normally said upon using the bathroom) apply in other situations. For example in passing a kidney or gallstone? A woman who's water breaks or passes her mucus plug? Would it be said after childbirth if a woman moves her bowels during labor, which is very common? Are there any other situations where this blessing should be said?
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The G'mara in B'rachos 60b says that the situation in which one says this blessing is upon leaving the bathroom. Although the text of the blessing mentions many natural/biological phenomena that God effects, the applicable context appears to be limited to that one. In fact, Dr. Beni Gezundheit (in Section ד Part 2 of this article) cites late sources that limit the situations warranting the blessing only to certain instances of "leaving the bathroom" - either those which provide some relief from discomfort or those which themselves are not a cause for discomfort.
It would appear that we do not apply this blessing outside of going to the bathroom. For instance the blessing is not recited after sneezing, vomiting or birthing a baby. The lack of obligation to say asher yatzar for those much more common occurrences would indicate that none should be necessary for rarer situations. Regarding a women who moved her bowels during labor, I believe that if someone has an accident, due to being inebriated or because of some medical condition, they do not recite the blessing as they are not cognizant of the benefit they received - similarly if one was about to be force-fed (chalilah) there would be no obligation to bless beforehand.
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The halacha is brought in the Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim Siman 4 that even if you do not go to the bathroom you must still say asher yatzar in the morning. The Bach explains that the reason (or one of the reasons [I did not see the Bach inside]) is because while sleeping one passes gas.


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Question: If M is a spin manifold. Condider the dirac operator on a spinor bundle. Can the eigenvalue of this operater tend to negative infinity? If it can, can we choose a riemann matrix such that under this matrix, the eigenvalue of dirac operator does not tend to negative infinity??
Given any first order, graded, self-adjoint, elliptic operator on a manifold the spectrum is unbounded in both the positive and negative directions. There are probably elementary ways to see this, but I'll give an argument which is overly sophisticated but a bit more quantitative.
Given $D$ as above, consider the eta function associated to $D$:
$$\eta(s) = \sum_{\lambda} sign(\lambda) |\lambda|^{-s}$$
(the sum ranges over the eigenvalues of $D$)
By a variation on Weyl's asymptotic formula for the eigenvalues of the Laplacian together with some basic complex analysis, this function extends to a meromorphic function on the complex plane. It is a very deep topological fact that the eta function is actually bounded at $0$; in the case of Dirac-type operators this follows from the sort of heat kernel analysis used in the local proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, and for general elliptic operators this follows from the Dirac case together with some cobordism theory.
In any event, $\eta(0)$ can be regarded as a sort of "renormalized difference" between the number of positive eigenvalues and the number of negative eigenvalues, and the fact that it is bounded means that there are infinitely many positive and negative eigenvalues.
As I said above this machinery is probably overkill as far as your actual question is concerned, but it proves something stronger: it makes precise the assertion that the cardinality of the positive part of the spectrum agrees with the cardinality of the negative part "up to a finite error".
Yes -- actually this question is closely tied to the physical origins of the Dirac operator. Very roughly speaking negative eigenvalues correspond to negative-energy eigenstates; the Dirac equation predicts that particles with positive energy (e.g. electrons, which can have arbitrarily large positive energy) there is an antiparticle "twin" with negative energy (positrons in this case).
For instance, if $M$ is the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$ then Dirac eigenfunctions give you the angular part of the electron wave function; the corresponding eigenvalues are simply all the integers $n \in \mathbb{Z}$ which show up with multiplicity $n+1$.


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"One of the best books ever"
My boss insisted I listen to this book IMMEDIATELY - she wanted to share it and discuss it. It is a book you loathe coming to an end because each character is fascinating and the story so rich in details, truth, and humor.
Even without the hinge of the character's hermaphroditism, this is a great story with unforgettable characters and scenes - from the grandparents falling in love and escaping from Turkey to the parents upward mobility to the true-to-life teen angst. The author captures exactly what it was like to be a girl in the 1970's - right down to the shampoo, bath powder, etc.
The reader is a likewise a true talent, he brings to life each character - I loved listening to him.
If the hinge of the story puts you off, don't let it. This is not an "issues" book, although by the end you will have a deep appreciation of intersexed individuals. And you will have enjoyed the most entertaining book I have listened to - EVER.
I love literary fiction and I occasionally delve into non-fiction. I love books that are suspenseful and am really into well-told stories.
"Read this book in print"
I absolutely LOVED this book. The characters are so human, gloriously flawed to perfection and unforgettable. I did not like the narration though. It is so overacted that it's ridiculous and I was distracted from the beauty of the words by Kristoffer Tabori. If another edition comes out, then maybe try it, but there are these strange musical interludes that cover up to words and don't fit in with the story at all. Sometimes, the music just pops up in the middle of a sentence for NO reason. It was highly distracting. With a different narrator and no music this audio book would have been a home run, 5 stars and so much more enjoyable. While there are some readers I would go to over and over again, I will avoid another book read by Tabori. In a few years, I intend to revisit this wonderful work by Jeffrey Eugenides in print to see if it is a better experience (I just don't see how it couldn't be!) and I will read everything this author writes. So, I had to take a star away for the terrible narration and production. Hopefully they won't try to make this book into a movie...because I get the feeling that it just wouldn't work. If you are at all interested in reading this Pulitzer prize winning novel I would urge you to get it in print!
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Pacquiao Arrival
Manny Pacquiao is back in LA and ready to finish up his camp at the Wildcard Gym for his showdown with Juan Manuel Marquez. read more »
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Juan Manuel Marquez hosted the final media day workout for his camp before his big fight with Manny Pacquiao on November 12. read more »
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How to reach 100% total destruction with the Mighty Eagle in Angry Birds?
Using a Space Eagle, the scoring on a level changes from points to a percentage of a feather. It's unclear to me exactly how the scoring mechanism changes. With the few Space Eagles I've received, I ran 5 tests and got varying results on Level 1-1.
- I destroyed everything: the bird, and the 3 pieces of wood, and received an 88%
- Again, I destroyed everything and received a 91%
- Next, I destroyed all but 1 piece of wood and received an 81%.
- Next, I destroyed everything and received a 92%
- Lastly, I circled the planet one time, then activated the power, and destroyed all but 2 pieces of wood, and received a 79%.
It seems that destroying more things will result in a higher percentage, but when you destroy everything, what is left to reach 100%? How is the percentage calculated, and what exactly is affecting the changes in percentage when destroying all items? Is there a consistent way to achieve 100% on levels?


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Rhonda L. Gray, 63, of Omaha, formerly of Nebraska City, died Nov. 17 at Bergan Mercy Hospital in Omaha. She was born on Nov. 29, 1949 in Nebraska City to William Marion and Janice Beatrice (Lamb) Gray. She graduated from Nebraska City High School in 1968. She then attended Patricia Stephens School of Modeling in Omaha.
She was a member of the Lutheran Church and worked for over 30 years for Continental Airlines/United Airlines as an international service manager. During her time with the airlines, she traveled all over the world.
She is survived by her mother, Janice Gray of Nebraska City; siblings Robert Gray and wife Candy of Nebraska City, Candice Doherty and husband William of Chico, Calif., and John Gray and wife Lynn of Nebraska City; special friend Jerry Stoner of Omaha; her beloved dogs: Poochie, Brownie and Indie; her horse Miss Madison; seven nieces and nephews: Robert Gray, Jr. and wife Nicole of Lincoln, Kyleen Poulicek and husband Dan of Omaha, Lauren Doherty and fiance' Brett Isaacson of Boca Raton, Fla., Erynn Doherty of Chico, Calif., Jessica Gray of Dallas, Texas, Taylor Gray of Nebraska City and Jennifer Whipple of Los Gatos, Calif.; four great-nieces and nephews: Robi Gray, Nicolas Gray, Hailey Gray and Wylder Whipple; aunts uncles, other family and many friends.
She was preceded by her father, William M. "Bill" Gray on Dec. 27, 2006.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 22, at Gude Mortuary in Nebraska City with Rev. Randy Rasmussen of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church officiating.
A memorial fund is being established in her memory to aid abandoned pets.
Remembrances may be left at www.gudefuneralhomes.com.
Gude Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
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How do I add a favicon that only shows during viewing of my plugin's admin panel? I mean, what event do I intercept?
When you add your admin (sub)page, then you're (hopfully) using
Then you can simply add your callback (that adds the favicon) to the
Edit: To get better an insights and to "proof", that this hook actually exists, you can use my »current admin info« plugin, which you can download on GitHub. It shows you which globals are set, as well as which contextual hooks are available and what their names are, on the admin page you're currently viewing.
Here's how you'd do it in a procedural way. Inside an OOP architectured piece of code, you'd probably save it into a class var and then use this var to add your favicon action/callback.
You can add this to your functions.php file and or make a plugin out of it.


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – On the eve of the Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament, the Anderson University softball team remains steadfast at second in the Southeast Region in the NCAA's second Division II Southeast Region rankings, as released Wednesday afternoon.
Anderson (38-10), which claimed a share of the South Atlantic Conference regular-season title last weekend, while setting a school record for regular-season victories, held on to the second spot in the rankings, just behind nationally fifth-ranked North Georgia. Joining the Trojans in the regional rankings are fellow South Atlantic Conference members Lenoir-Rhyne, which dropped from third to fourth and Wingate, which jumped two spots from seventh to fifth.
Lincoln Memorial, which was not in the initial rankings a week ago, makes an appearance at No. 8 this week. Carson-Newman slipped one spot from ninth to 10th, while Catawba, which was eighth a week ago, dropped out of this week's rankings after suffering a five-game skid to close out the regular season.
The Saints held on to the top spot for the second consecutive week, while fellow Peach Belt Conference-member Armstrong Atlantic State, ranked 18th nationally in the latest NFCA Coaches' Poll, moved from fourth to third, swapping spots with L-R. The Bears were ranked 12th in the latest NFCA Poll. USC Aiken and Georgia College, both from the Peach Belt, each slipped one spot to sixth and seventh, respectively in the regional rankings.
Columbus State, which was unranked a week ago, rounds out the Southeast Region rankings at No. 9.
The NCAA's regional rankings are scheduled to be released weekly on Wednesdays through April 30, with the NCAA D-II Tournament selections scheduled to be unveiled on Monday, May 5 at 10 a.m.
In the Southeast Region, the tournament champions from the South Atlantic Conference, Peach Belt, and Conference Carolinas will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, with five more at-large selections.


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Where does this come from?
That is how it is.
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I'm tempted to agree with StoneyB's comment that that's just how it is: language works that way. The repetition serves to emphasise the finality of the statement.
There is an early example of similar repetition in the Bible's Gospel of John (John 19:22), which was originally written in Greek and translated into Latin before English:
It certainly has a finality in English that is presumably present in the other languages too (I haven't studied Biblical Greek). Consequently the structure is ancient and common to many languages, not just English; and it can easily be applied to simple constructions such as "It (or that) is how it is".


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5 Innovative Ways the Gaming Industry is Screwing You
With any exciting and new industry, there are all sorts of previously unheard-of ways to screw the customer. Video games are no different. As the technology changes, the rules start to get blurry, and publishers are eager to see just how much they can get away with.
These five brazen attempts to screw over gamers gives us a glimpse of what could be a very annoying future:
#5. Battlefield: Bad Company Sells Upgrades For Real-World Money
The Battlefield games have, for several years now, been known for the massive scale and depth of their multiplayer action. In non-nerdspeak: There are lots of people online, that have to use teamwork to get anything done.
Oh, one minor thing. There's a regular version of the game, and a "gold" version that isn't made of gold, but does have some extra guns available.
So what's the problem?
It shouldn't come as a surprise that people start to get angry when you can pay actual money to make yourself more powerful than your penniless opponents. Suddenly, our online fantasy world starts to look a whole lot like the real one.
But, hey, that's capitalism, right? And after all, on the regular version if you reach the highest level the new guns open up anyway.
Wait a second ... that means the guns you have to pay extra for are already on the disk. In other words, you paid for everything available in the game when you first bought it. You just aren't allowed to use everything you paid for unless you shell out even more money. Think about that for just one minute and see if your mind doesn't implode. Buying something. That you paid for. And own. That you can hold in your hand. And yes, early testers say that people who pay to unlock these guns will supposedly have a very distinct advantage over the people who use the default guns.
You pay more for the ridiculous box
To call this an ominous development is a huge understatement. EA has said this is a marketing experiment that they will continue, should they find it profitable. Fans aren't happy:
Real-life Equivalent:
Buying a car that comes with air conditioning, then finding out you have to pay extra to have it activated.
#4. Blizzard's Warden Client Is Watching
Blizzard Entertainment is well known for its nine-million-plus World of Warcraft gamers, along with millions still playing Starcraft and Diablo II. Unfortunately, there are always some bad apples in the bunch who want to cheat at a computer game and really, that's one of the most pathetic things a person can do in this life.
So in an attempt to end cheating, Blizzard Entertainment set up its servers so that online games would automatically download a client that scans your computer to ensure that you aren't using cheating programs.So what's the problem?
Take a look at this piece of the EULA agreement that was added after all the hype, complaining and lawsuit threats reached their peak. Basically it allows Blizzard to scan your computer and ...
"... COMMUNICATE INFORMATION BACK TO BLIZZARD, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION YOUR ACCOUNT NAME, DETAILS ABOUT THE UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM DETECTED, AND THE TIME AND DATE THE UNAUTHORIZED THIRD PARTY PROGRAM WAS DETECTED; AND/OR (b) EXERCISE ANY OR ALL OF ITS RIGHTS UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, WITH OR WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE TO THE USER ..."
In other words, the client can (and will) scan your entire computer looking for a program that seems "unauthorized," and reports back to Blizzard on what it finds. It is never stated whether the client considers your passwords, credit card numbers, web history or email addresses to be "unauthorized" so we're forced to assume that is does.
Although there is no "actual" evidence that Blizzard has done anything with our personal information, this is exactly the kind of thing people are pressing in courts to be considered illegal. Regardless of whether Blizzard is a "trustworthy" company, giving that sort of information-gathering power to a company is dangerous the moment an employee decides that he is underpaid and wants to make a few "changes" to the client that we are forced to keep on our computer.
Real-life Equivalent:
Hiring a maid to clean your house, and catching her snooping around your family photos and financial information in that drawer you told her not to touch.
#3. Activision Fakes Its Commercials
Before Call of Duty 4 came along, you may remember that the franchise--like approximately 83 percent of all games at the time--was about World War II. Call of Duty 2 in particular was gathering an increased amount of attention, because it would be the first in the series to be featured on Microsoft's (at the time) new Xbox 360.
Activision developed and released several commercials that displayed the new Call of Duty in all its high-resolution glory. And to make it look extra good, they created a pre-rendered sequence that, as it turned out, looked far better than the actual game. They showed this in the ads instead of the real gameplay.So what's the problem?
The visuals were set up specifically so that they appeared to be gameplay (playing out from a first-person perspective, just as the games do). Keep in mind that this was a time when hardly anyone knew what the Xbox 360 was capable of, so they would believe just about anything.
Angry Xbox 360 owners were rather upset to find that the graphics, while better than any previous Call of Duty game, were absolutely terrible in comparison to those shown in the TV commercial:
It's common for publishers to feature cutscenes instead of gameplay in their ads, but Activision admitted that the whole thing had been produced purely for the commercial. This created enough controversy in the UK that the Advertising Standards Authority forced Activision to pull these ads from British television entirely.
Real-life Equivalent:
Advertising this:
And selling you this:


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Eric Cantor Rails Against the EPA in Defense of His Biggest Oil and Gas Campaign Donors
by Adam Smith, in a cross-post from the Public Campaign Action Fund
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had an op-ed in the Washington Post Sunday attacking President Barack Obama's policy agenda.
If read with the Center for Responsive Politics website opened right next to you, the op-ed could also look like a defense of some of Cantor's biggest campaign contributors.
Some excerpts:
There is no other conclusion for policies such as the new Environmental Protection Agency regulations, including the "Transport Rule," which could eliminate thousands of jobs, or the ozone regulation that would cost upward of $1 trillion and millions of jobs in the construction industry over the next decade. The administration's new maximum achievable control technology standards for cement are expected to affect nearly 100 cement plants, setting over-the-top requirements resulting in increased costs and possibly thousands of jobs being offshored.
Cantor and his leadership political action committee, Every Republican is Crucial (ERIC) PAC, received $180,900 in campaign contributions from oil and gas companies and $243,098 from electric utilities in 2010 and $169,350 from the two industries so far in 2011. During his career in Congress, Cantor's campaign committee has received $355,00 from oil and gas interests and $426,404 from electric utilities.
These industries would benefit from a weak EPA, something Republicans in the House have repeatedly tried to achieve since they took power in January.
There is the president's silence as the National Labor Relations Board seeks to prevent Boeing from opening a plant in South Carolina that would create thousands of jobs.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released an opinion in April stating that Boeing broke federal labor law by retaliating against union workers when it decided to move its operations to South Carolina from Washington State, something that would move good paying jobs in one state to a state with lower wages, fewer benefits, and less ability for workers to organize.
Cantor and his leadership PAC received $21,565 in Boeing donations in 2010. He has received $5,000 from Boeing PAC so far this year.
Republicans passed a budget this spring, written by Rep. Paul Ryan, that would address our challenges head-on by putting in place common-sense reforms to manage our debt over the short and long term.
The president has acknowledged that without reform, spending on entitlement programs is unsustainable. But he has also made clear that he would never support the type of structural changes to Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security needed to make these programs solvent as envisioned in our budget — even if Republicans agree to his demand for tax increases.
To "address our challenges," the Ryan budget that Cantor voted for ended Medicare as we know it, which would be a boon to insurance companies. Cantor can count Blue Cross/Blue Shield as a top career donor, with its PAC and executives donating $94,750 to the Congressman's campaign committee during his time in Congress. In the 2010 cycle and through the first part of 2011, Cantor and his PAC have received $810,325 from insurance interests, including $55,000 from Blue Cross donors.
But the politics of division have reared up, fueled by efforts to incite class warfare. For example, though he often talks about millionaires, billionaires and corporate jet owners paying their "fair share," behind closed doors the president admits to wanting to raise taxes on individuals making $200,000 per year and families and small businesses earning $250,000 per year.
If anyone knows about people not paying their "fair share," it's Eric Cantor. In the 2010 election cycle, Cantor received at least $254,000 in campaign contributions from the PACs and executives of ten of the country's most egregious tax-dodging corporations. That's $103,150 from Goldman Sachs donors, a company that paid just 1.1% of its 2008 income of $2.3 billion in taxes. He got $20,300 from GE donors, who notoriously paid no taxes last year. The list goes on.
We well know that the Republican majority was not elected to raise taxes or take more money out of the pockets of hardworking families and business people. We were elected to change the way Washington does business and spends money.
In February 2010, Eric Cantor told the Wall Street Journal that Wall Street donors were having "buyer's remorse" for contributing so much money to Democrats. A few months later, a Public Campaign analysis found that this turned out to be one heck of a fundraising pitch. "Cantor received more than $460,000 from the financial sector during the second quarter of 2010. That total represents a '32 percent increase from the average of the previous five quarters.'"
Republicans may have come into office "to change the way Washington does business," but they did so funded by Wall Street billionaires and oil tycoons—and with any number of efforts to weaken or repeal financial reform, kill the EPA, and keep wasteful oil subsidies in place—it just seems like business as usual.
— Adam Smith, communications director for the Public Campaign Action Fund
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Eric Cantor seems to be a morally impaired person. Even more outrageous than the behavor here is that he wants "cuts" to offset any disaster relief given out for Irene or the recent east cost quake. That shows a person with no basic compassion, and thus no business being in a position representing anyone in a political way.


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America's Top Family-Friendly Water Parks
There's no better way for parents and kids to cool off on a hot summer's day than with a plunge down a water slide. Here are some of our favorite family water parks around the country.
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Schlitterbahn (New Braunfels, TX)
Schlitterbahn places at or near the top of almost every list of top water parks, and for good reason. Conveniently located outside of San Antonio, and only a short drive from Austin, Schlitterbahn features an amazing assortment of aquatic attractions for all ages. The biggest star: the "Master Blaster," a long, twisting water coaster with as many uphill sections as down. (Open May through mid-September)
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5 Insane True Facts About StarCraft: The Professional Sport
#2. Players Have Groupies
I already explained how pro StarCraft players get cash and fame, which is weird enough, but on top of that, they also get chicks. Throngs of girls seriously throw themselves at these scrawny game-playing nerds.
Don't get me wrong, I've got a thing for scrawny game-playing nerds myself. I'm just saying--and I'm sure you'll agree--that maybe they should show a little skin to earn that heartthrob status.
I mean, look at that. It's like every player has to be buttoned right up the neck every time they take a photo. Grrr on the right there is even wearing a damned parka. (Canadians.)
Despite all that, top players like Lim Yo-Hwan come back from matches to find their team van covered with messages from girls (hopefully) saying things like "Lim Yo-Hwan, I'm yours, I belong to you," and "Marry me, Lim Yo-Hwan."
This somewhat disturbing blog post about a player named Bisu (Kim Taek Yong) is probably not unique, and is likely a direct result of him showing a little skin as I advised:
I know, what is wrong with these girls, right?
Reach (Park Jung Suk) is clearly much more handsome.
#1. Sometimes Players Just Lose It
I've been referring to "pro gamers" but when I say "professional" I only mean they are paid to play. Many players are not, in any other sense of the word, "professional." Which from my point of view, is great.
My favorite is FireBatHero. FBH, as he would be called in a rap, was an ordinary mild-mannered Korean pro player...
...until one day, when he scored a surprise underdog victory against star player sAviOr, whom I will call Savior from here on out because come on.
The shock caused FBH to lose his mind.
And he began to dance.
Korean culture generally frowns on showboating and bad sportsmanship so this was a bit of an event. People were probably confused at first, since he seemed to be having involuntary muscle contractions and was in danger of falling over at one point, but eventually word spread that it was supposed to be a taunting victory dance.
To ward off public opinion, FBH wrote a sweet, apologetic public letter to Savior telling the big shot how much he admired him and if he'd maybe considering being friends with little old FBH.
Shortly after, he beat the superstar again, went backstage to grab a pair of sunglasses...
... and treated the audience to an orgy of pelvic thrusts. Love it or hate it, it was his thing. He had basically become the equivalent of a touchdown dancing NFL wide receiver. This kid was intent on putting the "Star" into StarCraft.
Although, alright, I get why they don't like to show skin now. 10+ hours of game practice doesn't leave a lot of room for push-ups, does it?
Not only does StarCraft now have taunting victory dances like a real sport, it even has devastating, steroids-like scandals. Many top players are under investigation for throwing games in a scandal being compared to the "say it ain't so" Black Sox, players including poor Savior, who first gets humiliated by FBH and then loses the rest of his career to this scandal.
And on a less depressing and more amusing note, a number of players are known for their "BM" (which apparently stands for "bad manners"--if you were expecting something else, you are a child, sir). One of them is IdrA, who as I mentioned above went to Korea at 18, and apparently is learning a great deal of maturity there. This is him in blue, his Zergs losing to a Terran player (red).
As you can see, even among low-ranked players, his classy behavior is well known.
Not only does he lash out when he loses, but even becomes angered at the beginning of a game just by seeing that his opponent has chosen to play the Terran race, which is one of the three races any player is supposed to be able to pick from. IdrA demands an apology for this heinous offense.
What a mouth. What does this cocky dude look like?
At this point I regret the gallon of ice cream I consumed because while I could never match these guys in actions-per-minute, I think I could probably, as a 5'4" woman, literally snap them in half.
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Don't Smoke! Essay 4
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Last Modified: November 1, 2001
Hi. I am Bryan and this is a story about my grandfather and smoking. My grandfather had been smoking and didn?t realize what effect it was having on him. When my grandfather went to the doctor, he told him that his lungs weren?t too good. He started taking the medicine the doctor told him to and it started to help. Meanwhile my grandfather stopped smoking! The second time my grandfather went to the doctor, they put him on oxygen And that helped a lot. Now he is doing fine, he doesn?t need to use the oxygen anymore. I hope that you can learn about what smoking can do to your life and to your body.


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�Coley, this spot here is for the truffles,� Rose says, pointing to a nifty folding bench on her Lego airplane.
�Yes. This is where you keep your truffles. When you�re flying.�
Rose decodes our blank faces, pauses and asks, �Truffles is what you sometimes call big suitcases, right?�
�Duffles, Rosie,� Col says, smiling benevolently at his sister. �They�re called duffles.�
Living with Rose is like hosting the new reality show: �My Thoughts, Uncensored.� �I�m skipping now,� Rose has been known to announce. Yesterday morning, Rose climbed in bed with me and whispered into my hair, �I�m wearing the smallest socks.� Communication is her currency, and she�s a big spender. �I yawned, and the gum fell out of my mouth,� she informed me last night.
On good days, the days where Rose is so happy she skips from the kitchen to the bathroom, enumerating, singingly, all the things she loves, I think, �She�s so articulate, so expressive!� On days where there�s already an ache in my head that feels a lot like small people who have no �off� button, it�s a little like listening to Roger Ebert flip through his rolodex of �thumbs-down moments.�
�Mama, I don�t like chard. Why do you always give me chard? Well, I only like it in macaroni and cheese. But I just like the eency pieces. I definitely don�t like the stem part. At all. Mama, are you listening?�
She straddles two worlds like no one else. She spends all morning making dramatic entrances in sparkly get-ups, and then climbs on her bike (in a poofy prom dress) to ride Dan�s backyard obstacle course, which includes: steering through a gauntlet of elk antlers, ducking under PVC pipe hoops, charging up the board-on-a-brick ramp, grabbing a spoon from Dan and tossing it into the hula hoop hanging from the tree. Record time: 23 seconds.
She reigns over Col�s cronies, pitting them against each other in �silence contests,� for which they sit completely mute piecing Legos together, for the prize of one measly sticker. Today, in the five minutes we ran into Col�s friend, Braden, at the veterinarian�s parking lot, she sold him a empty glass-cleaner bottle that had been malingering in our car for one dollar.
She skips up the hiking trail in a victorian gown, cheerfully attracting dirt and mud as if that�s what the lace pinafore was for anyway. Then she stops to give a short discourse on something or other: the state of her right foot, how she�s hungry for cheese (but not the yucky kind that I make, the other kind, in a wrapper) or how she�s soooooo excited to get to the creek.
When I reach down to hug her in bed at night, she pulls me to her and squeezes me, as if she were the mother and I the child.
Happy 5th birthday, darling Rose. May you always blossom.
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Start-up Schedules Launch Party
Editor's Note: ClusterFlunk is a student start-up located in the Bedell Entrepreneurial Learning Laboratory on the UI campus.
ClusterFlunk, an Iowa City-based startup that was named a finalist in the Dream Big Grow Here contest in November, has scheduled a launch party. ClusterFlunk hopes to differentiate itself from other educational platforms in one simple way: no teachers allowed. The company's online platform includes discussion boards for each class, where students can ask questions and up- or down-vote answers, which are then archived to form a searchable database of course materials.
Adam Nelson and his cofounder, Joe Dellago, are juniors at the University of Iowa, growing their company in the Bedell Entrepreneurship Learning Laboratory on the UI campus. They started about one year ago and are planning to open up their system for testing in three classes by final exam time.
The party starts at 7 p.m. Jan. 24 at The Summit in downtown Iowa City. There will be drink specials, no cover charge, and a live DJ. For more information, visit https://tikly.co/-/1064.


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I roasted a duck some days ago, and while eating, the meat on the carcass slowly turned a sharp red, much like an apple turns brown. I can't find any information on this anywhere, as all questions equal "is duck meat red meat?", so my question is: what happened? I've never seen this before.
I have seen the same phenomena with cooked hamburgers and steaks. My research led me back to part of your question having to do with duck meat being characterized as red meat.
What differentiates red meat from white meat is the amount of myoglobin in the meat which absorbs oxygen from the air. All red meat, when exposed to air, will turn bright red. I have only observed this with raw or relatively rare cooked red meat so if your duck was not cooked beyond medium, that could be the answer. Like you, however, I did not find any material that cited the exact scenario you described.
Here are my links to the articles on myoglobin in red meat:
So there is likely a few different things going on here. One, the method of cooking is important in answering this question because when roasting, especially something like a full duck carcass the innermost areas are going to obviously take the longest to reach a desired temperature. We have to also remember that the density of the bones mean they are likely to withhold heat much longer than the meat that was cut from it. Knowing what we know about myoglobin, it is likely that after the meat was carved from the carcass the remaining meat was then being initially exposed to oxygen and due to the continued carry-over heat of the bones was increasing in temperature and continuing to manipulate the color of the meat. Also, the PH of the meat has a lot to do with the color of meat so the seasonings and acidity of your cooking may have something to do with it as well.