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22 Sep 2010 4:56 AM #1
Why is ManagedIframe such a mystery?
I almost spent a week in attempt to make a demonstration of iframe work with ExtJS (3.x). Sometimes I ran into circles. I noticed that Doug Hendricks had posted solutions to many frustrated users. However, I am still failing to make a demo page work. I took the samples from http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...el-%281.2.7%29 and I tried everything.
When I run adviframes.html (in the sample advDemo22.zip in the above link) and I get uncaught exception that border layout does not have center region. But adviframes.js does have center region defined as tabpanel.
Why isn't there one sample that someone can just use? If I cannot use iframe, the chances of using ExtJS in our new project is zero, because all our applications have navigation menu (as tree) on left and iframe in the center right.
Any pointers to a working example that does not need too many tweaks?
23 Sep 2010 4:24 AM #2
try contacting the author of that component.https://moduscreate.com/wp-content/t...es/favicon.png
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23 Sep 2010 4:44 AM #3
are you include all files needed by sample ?
23 Sep 2010 4:49 AM #4
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Are you sure you need the complexity of a ManagedIframe?
Couldn't you just use an iframe DOM element?
And are you even sure you need to use iframes at all? I can't see very much good use for them.Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
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23 Sep 2010 10:52 AM #6
I'm currently working on a prototype app that requires iframes. I tried using the ManagedIframe component, but ran into problems and ultimately decided against using it. A portion of the problems that I experienced were due to the documentation for the component not being up-to-date. Also, example code that I found in various forum posts didn't always work (I think because some examples were for older versions of the component than what I was using (?)). Then again - it could have just been me (I've only been using Ext JS for a little over 2 weeks :-). When trying to use the ManagedIframe though, I quickly felt like I was spinning my wheels and was spending too much time trying to learn the component relative to the amount of time allocated for the task.
What I finally decided upon was a simple, custom IFrameComponent (based on a posting by jack.slocum in the thread at http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthre...ithin-TabPanel). This has worked quite well for me so far.
As an FYI, I found that when I tried to use the ManagedIframe component in a portal type application (based on the Ext JS portal example), I would have exceptions thrown whenever I dragged-and-dropped portlets containing ManagedIframe's on the portal panel. The exceptions wouldn't get thrown immediately upon the first drag-and-drop; if I move a portlet back-and-forth between two positions on the portal, eventually after somewhere between 11 - 20 moves, I would start to get exceptions being thrown. I did a search at the time and found a posting by the author of the control that stated that similar exceptions were caused by some sort of change that had been made to the Ext "caching" mechanism in a recent version. Unfortunately, I didn't bookmark the URL and can't find it any longer.
24 Sep 2010 3:45 AM #7
There were minor issues that I did not notice, otherwise example provided by Doug Hendricks really works. If one is using Ext3.x then the Portal, PortalColumn and Portlet are under ux.
<script type="text/javascript" src="../ux/Portal.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../ux/PortalColumn.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../ux/Portlet.js"></script>
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What I'm getting at, is that if all you need is an iframe containing an HTML document, then configure your Panel (or subclass thereof) with
bodyCfg: { tag: 'iframe', src: 'http://foo', style: { border: '0 none', margin: '0' } }Search the forum: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=01...%3Az7of1ufqccu
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I'm unsure what the issue is? You just include miframe.js or miframe-debug.js and create an Ext.ux.ManagedIFramePanel and voila. Oh and here's the docs:
http://uxdocs.theactivegroup.com/- Lloyd K
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WINTERSVILLE - Phil Bender figures the air charter service he and his business partner, Dale Risker, are starting at the Jefferson County Airpark is an opportunity as much as it is a risk.
Bender, a former Ohio Highway Patrol aviations operations supervisor and airpark manager, sees their start-up, Air Bleu Aviation Services, as a chance to repay area residents for their help over the years.
The risk part? That's starting a capital intensive business like an air charter service in a community that, until now, hasn't had such a thing and in a local economy that, until recently, couldn't hope to support it.
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HEY, AIR TAXI – Dale Risker, left, and Phillip Bender pose with the Cessna Caravan single engine turbo prop they'll use for their new air charter service, Air Bleu Aviation Services, based at the Jefferson County Airpark. The plane is versatile and reliable, seating passengers or carrying cargo. The pair hope to make Air Bleu a regional enterprise. - Linda Harris
AT THE CONTROLS – Air Bleu Aviation Services owners Phillip Bender, left, and Dale Risker in the cockpit of the Cessna Caravan they'll be using in their new charter business, housed at the Jefferson County Airpark. -Linda Harris
But the influx of jobs and investment dollars following the oil and gas industry into the Upper Ohio Valley has them betting the time is right to launch the service.
"We've been given such a gift, the things people have been kind enough to pass on to us," he said. "This is our opportunity to pay it back, but you still have to be able to make a go of it, you have to be able to make a profit to do (that)."
Akron/Canton-based Castle Aviation is supplying the planes they'll use. They're starting with a Cessna Caravan, a sleek, single-engine turbo prop capable of carrying passengers or cargo, though they'll have access to a number of other aircraft - among them, six other Caravans, an Aerostar and a Merlin - when the occasion warrants.
The service will operate out of Hangar A.
"We can provide any type of aircraft needed, from a single engine to corporate jet," said Risker, who makes his home in the Burgettstown area.
Along with the job creating potential of their business, Risker said there's also the possibility that having an aviation-based business operating out of the airpark could help bring more state and federal dollars to Jefferson County to help with things like runway upgrades or the acquisition of the much-needed automated weather observation station.
"Having a charter company here will help the oil and gas people," Risker adds. "And with that service, smaller businesses that are already here will have an opportunity to use a local charter company."
But at the same time, Bender said they won't overlook the regional opportunities: They're looking to develop a clientele in the Pittsburgh area as well as throughout the Northern Panhandle. He sees the charter service as a way to link the area business community "to other areas, other resources they need."
"That's key to what we're trying to do," he said.
Risker has been in aviation for more than three decades. He's a commercial pilot, licensed for single and multi-engines, and at one time owned his own air ambulance and executive charter services. More recently, he's done corporate aircraft management.
Bender, who spent more than 25 years with Ohio State Highway Patrol, is commercial license rated as well in both single and multi-engines planes. He's also a helicopter pilot and operates his own flight training school at the airpark.
Risker figures that as they get more and bigger planes into the airpark, they'll branch out into corporate aircraft management, his specialty, as well as aerial photographic services and air tours. He said Bender's flight training opportunities should grow as well.
Bender said it wasn't all that long ago that the airpark's runway "was as wide as the taxiway and the runway light fixtures were fixtures with mason jar covers with the wires running across the ground." The airport authority is currently focused on a 500-foot runway extension, which, when it's done, will allow larger planes to land there safely in all kinds of weather.
The AWOS, however, is going to be driven by numbers - and Bender doesn't mind admitting he hopes Air Bleu's operations give the powers-that-be an added incentive to find funding for the equipment.
For now, though, Bender said his focus is on trying to give back to his community.
"With any business there's some risk attached," Bender said. "But I've been involved with the community and I'm trying to build things. Both of us have a passion for aviation, both of us see the value of investing in the community that made this airpark and made it basically themselves."
He said they know going into it that, as with any business, "there's going to be some risks associated" with the opportunity.
"We've been given such a gift, the things people have been kind enough to pass on to us," he said. "This is our opportunity to pay it back, but you still have to be able to make a go of it, you have to be able to make a profit to do it.
"People helped me along the way to get where I am today. I'd like to think I can repay some of that, maybe hire some young pilots or help people interested in aviation. It would be nice to retain our young people."
The business community, meanwhile, will have a chance to learn first-hand about the charter opportunities Air Bleu Aviation offers at 5 p.m. Tuesday at Hangar A.

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5 Ingenious Ways Hackers Are Improving Famous Video Games
Hackers have been modifying video games for about as long as video games have existed. But while most of them are content to muck about -- adding Nicolas Cage's face to everything or making sure Skyrim has 60 percent more cat-person titties -- some sat down with a gallon of Rockstar and a 12-pack of Pringles and ended up producing a better product than the developers themselves. So hats off to these, the dedicated, talented hackers who have contributed more to the gaming world than entire offices full of professionals.
#5. The Most Hilarious Fighting Game Crossovers
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Anyone who owned action figures as a kid inevitably got into a silly playground argument about who would win in a fight between the Hulk and Batman, when the obvious answer was Optimus Prime. Now you can use video games to solve such timeless debates: Guile versus Cyclops? Sure thing. Geese versus Goku? The fuck not? Just fire up Top Fighter 2000: MK VIII, a Street Fighter II mod, and conduct some entirely scientifical beatdowns.
Oh my God, yes.
So what's the story? Why are such vastly different characters in the same universe, and why are they fighting? Top Fighter 2000 would like to answer your questions with another question: Who friggin' cares? Why are you asking questions when you should be jump-kicking explosions? Here, while you're shutting the hell up, take a gander at Michael Jordan hurling exploding basketballs at Muhammad Ali, who counters with a fireball punch.
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Float like a butterfly, sting like Chun-Li.
While a proper video game developer would be tied down by licensing and copyright issues, the folks behind Top Fighter 2000 had no such concerns and were free to deliver up the most ridiculous fights we didn't know we wanted to see. And that's just the tip of the crazyberg: A free game engine called M.U.G.E.N lets people make customized fighters from scratch. Users immediately created crossovers that are usually reserved for the filthiest corners of fan fiction. Have you always wanted to see Tom Hanks attain his Omega Form and beat the tar out of Michael Jackson using multicolored movie posters? First off: That's weird. You should probably get some counseling. Second: Here you go!
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In the follow-up match, he nails Godzilla with a big sack full of Oscars.
Always wanted to see Tiger Woods catch a 999 hit combo from Akuma, which lands him on the Planet of the Akumas (unfortunately devoid of atmosphere)? M.U.G.E.N's got your back. Assuming you're not thrown into a seizure by the epilepsy-inducing colors, the dancing anime girls, or the random appearance of the occasional roving giant David Hasselhoff, M.U.G.E.N will deliver upon your every twisted, violent fantasy until your brain dissolves into a pop-culture-flavored flan.
#4. Keeping Old Games Alive With New Content
Even the longest game gets beaten eventually -- there's only so much content a developer can pack in there before it needs to be sent out into the big wide world. But thanks to obsessive fans with massive amounts of talent and creativity (which are absolutely dwarfed by the mind-boggling amounts of free time and wildly skewed priorities), countless new adventures can be added to every beloved classic until you never have to leave the house.
Pop corks, ladies and gentlemen. We've done it. We've finally done it: We never have to engage with another human being ever again!
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It's a magical wonderland of pizza delivery and games from the '90s!
Take the BiG World Project -- a collection of mods for the beloved RPG Baldur's Gate. The creators combed through over a decade's worth of mods, picked out the best ones, tweaked them so everything was compatible with everything else (no mean feat, we assure you), and even brought the game into widescreen. The result is over 50 hours of new content -- everything from new, fully voice-acted characters to minor visual touch-ups. That's equivalent to an entirely new (and long) game. They basically made a sequel.
This is by no means an isolated example -- we only picked Baldur's Gate because it comes early in the alphabet and there are only so many hours in the day to get lost in the expanded universe. You'd be astonished by the many massive additions fans have made to their favorite games. Let's move up a letter to "C" -- hey, look, it's Crimson Echoes, an unofficial expansion of Chrono Trigger. Crimson Echoes adds a new story, 35 hours of gameplay, and 10 different endings (or at least it did until the project received a cease and desist letter). But a playable version still found its way onto the Internet, because that's literally what the Internet is for, and it was well received by gamers and critics alike.
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Good to know.
Hey, we're sure the company had its reasons for crapping all over the indie project: They wouldn't want the fan-made game to compete with their official sequel to Chrono Trigger ... you know, the one that Square Enix has been steadfastly refusing to even consider for the past two decades. (And no, Chrono Cross doesn't count. You're a monster for even bringing it up.)
#3. Remakes That Are Actually Faithful to the Original
Games are remade nearly as often as movies, because gamers love the chance to replay classics with new additions or enhanced graphics, while publishers like money and hate creativity. But a few famous games are still running after the remake train, often for silly reasons. Square Enix has said that it won't remake its popular spiky hair and giant sword simulator Final Fantasy VII until they make a better game than the original. Now, putting aside the fact that Final Fantasy Tactics came out after FFVII and the "better game" criterion has already been met, it's not like Square Enix are trying to beat their former glory with every release. They made a Final Fantasy rhythm game, for chrissakes. And of course "no remakes" does not prevent "endless rereleases" (see the money bit, above). So if you really want to see Aeris die in glorious high definition, you'll have to make do with this fan remake, where the characters look like actual people instead of angular blobs.
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Although it still doesn't excuse the impracticality of a machine gun arm.
If you're less about incomprehensible metaphysics and tween-level romance and more about blowing up space monsters with missiles, you're probably more interested in the Metroid series. Have you played Metroid 2? No? We don't blame you: It was an old Game Boy title that wasn't successful enough to merit an official remake. But thanks to one serious fan who's in the midst of adding color, enhanced graphics, and gameplay elements from later Metroid games, that might change. He's not quite done, but you can play what he's completed until he gets there.
We're holding out for a remake on virtual Virtual Boy.
Then there's Chrono Resurrection, which was going to be yet another remake of Chrono Trigger, this time in 3D. It's weird how all these people keep trying to remake your games, isn't it, Square Enix? It's almost as if there's some sort of demand for it ...
And with actual industry professionals working on the game in their spare time, Resurrection had the potential to be the greatest fan remake ever. Until, of course, the black mages at Square Enix cast their devastating cease and desist spell, wiping out the entire project.
Fans launched petitions to have the legal order rescinded (because they were apparently too busy playing Chrono Trigger to notice how fruitless Internet petitions are). Square Enix's response was essentially "Buy more games and maybe we'll remake it," which is the first case we've ever heard of emotional blackmail on the part of a video game.


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Mounting Solutions For Ford Engines - Tru BlueWritten by on August 9, 2011
The Ford crowd gets a bad rap when it comes to powerplant options in their classic trucks. Let's face it, while the Flathead is a very en vogue engine in the hot rod circle, it's not exactly at the top of the list for many of us truck guys, save for a few purists out there. And the Y-block engine of the '50s? Forget it. One look at the intake ports and any gearhead worth his salt could realize that the power to weight ratio was skewed in a direction not in his favor. But what of the later small-block family like the 289 and the 302? Those motors make pretty good power and with all things considered, they should be just as popular as their Chevy brethren; but they're not.
So why are so many Ford trucks Chevy powered? Well, the answer's not so simple, but I think I've scratched the surface.
You see, it seems that Ford in all their infinite wisdom decided it was necessary to make certain changes time and again to various engine components throughout the years. Timing covers differed, water pumps varied, pulleys grew and shrank, and accessories swapped positions enough times to make any blue oval fan red in the face with frustration. Unlike a small-block Chevy which only has two basic differences when it comes to mounting brackets and pulleys (long or short water pump), Ford seemed to be in a constant state of evolution, even going as far as moving the water pump inlet from the passenger side to the driver side in 1970!
The other thing I found is that many Ford engines just don't accommodate themselves well to a modified chassis due to the large number of front sump oil pan-equipped engines. My '52 Ford F-1 has a Heidts front IFS kit installed between the framerails and a front sump Ford small-block simply won't clear the front crossmember.
But in the big picture, all these differences and problems are pretty insignificant after all. The oil pan issue for example is easily remedied using a kit from Speedway Motors that relocates the oil pump pickup and utilizes a rear sump pan. Problem solved.
The pulley, bracket, and accessory issue however is slightly more involved but equally easy to overcome thanks to Billet Specialties and their all encompassing Tru Trac Serpentine system. Beginning with a redesigned billet aluminum timing cover that allows all the components to be bolted directly to it, the Tru Trac system ships complete with a polished Powermaster 105-amp alternator, Ford Racing reverse-rotation aluminum water pump, polished Sanden SD-7 A/C compressor, Maval power steering pump, ARP fasteners, and all the billet pulleys and bracketry needed for a compact, clean, and aligned serpentine belt-driven system. Gone is the guessing game of matching up the proper pulleys and brackets to complete the accessory drive on a small-block Ford engine. And the use of a single serpentine belt with a proprietary billet aluminum tensioner driving the entire kit and caboodle, instead of a handful of V-belts, is just icing on the cake.
We recently ran across the perfect storm of Ford small-block accessory problems when we began to put the finishing touches on a 302 crate engine from Speedway Motors. Based off the common '70s era 302 components, the guessing game of what brackets and pulleys to use to get the job done proved to be a question no one had all the answers to. We were simply faced with a trial and error situation. Short of bolting on stock, outdated components, we were going to have to do some figuring out of our own if we wanted to use updated accessories such as a smaller Sanden A/C compressor, one-wire alternator, or a remote reservoir power steering pump.
I was ready to hit the junkyards to start putting the front drive components together when a chance meeting with the guys at Billet Specialties solved our problems with a single fluid motion. They recommended trying their Tru Trac setup on our Ford and now having done so, I can honestly tell you that it's hands down the nicest and most concise accessory drive components install I've ever seen.
The days of using a big screwdriver to tighten an alternator belt just to have it continue to squeal are long gone. The Tru Trac system took away the guessing game plagued by Ford engines for years and saved us some serious time and money when it came to buying the right parts. Hell, I'd still be wandering around some junkyard collecting brackets and pulleys like a lunatic if it wasn't for them!
And did I mention how bitchin' the installed kit looks? Well, I think the results speak for themselves… it truly lives up to their claim of "cool, compact, complete." CCT
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The Tru Trac system requires the oil pan to be dropped so the timing cover can be replaced with Billet Specialties' piece. That said, I decided to take the opportunity to swap the front sump pan with a rear sump pan that will clear most IFS crossmember kits; two birds with one stone.Speedway Motors provided this Ford Motorsports rear sump pan conversion kit (p/n #91006675) to make the swap. Note the oil pickup will be relocated to the rear to accommodate the relocated sump.Though our block was recently machined, it's always a good idea to chase all the threaded holes to clean out any debris and to ease installation.The four 5/16"-18 studs included in the kit thread into the block near the two water outlets. The longer stud mounts near the water outlet on the lower driver's side. Two nuts are locked together on each stud to seat them firmly into the block. RTV silicone is applied to the threads before installation.
Now the timing cover can be slid over the studs into place against the block. A thin coating of motor oil is applied to the crank seal to protect it at startup.With the timing cover held loosely in place, the oil pan is then installed on the one-piece neoprene gasket provided with the Speedway kit.The four lower fasteners for the timing cover and all the oil pan bolts were ran in finger tight to ensure everything lined up nicely before everything was snugged up to the block. Anti-seize was used on all fasteners unless specified otherwise.Permatex Hylomar gasket dressing was applied to both sides of the water pump gasket before it was slid over the studs and against the timing cover.Four spacer nuts thread onto the water pump studs; a matching pair on the passenger side, the slightly shorter one on the driver's top, and the shortest spacer nut on the driver's bottom.The remaining 5/16" hardware is then installed and tightened, attaching the water pump to the timing cover.The first accessory to install is the power steering pump, which mounts using a bracket affixed to the timing cover using two 3/8" socket head cap screws.The pump then attaches to the bracket using two 5/16" socket head cap screws. Since we won't be getting around to installing the hoses this month, it's important to note that the power steering system must be filled with fluid and bled with all components installed before the engine is run to avoid damaging the pump.
A shoulder bolt is used to attach the back ear of the A/C compressor to the timing cover. Fastened finger tight, the bolt holds the A/C compressor in place as it rests on the power steering pulley for the time being.
To correctly align the alternator pulley, a spacer must be used between it and the timing cover on the lower mount.The alternator is then swung upwards and attached to the bridge bracket at the upper mount. At this point, the bridge bracket installation is complete and all hardware is tightened.…and the A/C compressor cover. Care must be taken to avoid over tightening the compressor cover and damaging the compressor clutch.
Luckily, this is a common occurrence on Ford engines due to variations in timing covers and water pumps. Different size spacers are available from Ford Racing that mount between the pulley and the damper to ensure everything lines up correctly.With that sorted, the tensioner pulley was installed, followed by the belt to conclude the installation.The Tru Trac kit comes with a neat A/C compressor manifold that I felt was important to show, though we wouldn't be installing it at this time due to the fact that the A/C system won't be installed and charged for some time.And there you have it! A decent day's work between pulling the pan, etc., but well worth it. Given the time it would have taken to find the correct pulleys and brackets at the junkyard, I'd say the time was very well spent; and the results speak for themselves.


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7 Creepy Urban Legends That Happen to be True (Part 4)
#3. The PCP Cannibal
The Legend:
The legend has been floating around for a while that the drug PCP doesn't merely inspire regular garden variety hallucinatory freak-outs, it actually has the ability to turn somebody into a flesh hungry maniac. Surely this is merely Reefer Madness-style propaganda though -- something dreamt up by Nancy Reagan in one of her more creative moods?
Not pictured: an appealing alternative to getting high.
The Truth:
The story of Antron Singleton, a rapper with the appropriately creepy sounding handle "Big Lurch" says otherwise. In 2002 Big Lurch was found, well, lurching around the streets of Los Angeles in the dead of night, naked, covered in blood and howling at the moon after going on a near week long PCP binge. Of course none of this is overly strange for a rapper -- Snoop Dogg considers drug-fuelled naked moon howling part of a regular Saturday night -- but things got much more sinister once they inspected Antron's apartment.
Rapper Big Lurch in his more innocent pre-human flesh ingesting days.
There they found his roommate brutally slain, with her lungs torn from her torso, and her body and face covered with...bite marks. An examination of Antron's stomach contents found it was full of human flesh, officially eliminating the "uh, I think the dog must have done that" defense. Turns out PCP can be a bit of a gateway drug -- a gateway towards becoming a goddamn zombie that is.
They moved a few words around when teenage focus groups called it "Awesome."
Of course we don't want to be alarmists -- we're sure there are plenty of fine upstanding PCP addicts out there. All we're saying is you might want to hit up the Burger King before you go on that PCP bender, as this clearly isn't the drug you want to be doing on an empty stomach.
#2. The Ice Woman
The Legend:
A person is brought into the hospital completely frozen and assumed to be dead. The doctor taps the body with his pen, declares, "Yup, that's dead" and the presumed corpse is taken to the morgue before any kids can accidentally get their tongue stuck to it. But that's not the end of the story -- as the body thaws it begins to stir, and eventually rises to its feet and walks out of the hospital as if nothing happened.
Sometimes things go further.
The Truth:
When a neighbor found Jean Hilliard in the snow she was frozen solid. That's not euphemism; she was literally frozen like a turkey in your grandma's deep freeze. Her body was too frozen to pierce with a needle, her temperature too low to register and when they took her to the hospital they loaded her into the car diagonally like a piece of lumber from Home Depot. She was, by nearly every measure, literally stone cold dead.
When the Jeansicle arrived at the hospital doctors tried to thaw her out, but nobody had much hope for a happy ending. Even if she wasn't dead, all medical evidence suggested she'd at least have severe frostbite and brain damage.
As Jean lay wrapped in an electric heating pad her eyelids began to flutter, and after some time she thawed completely, returning to life as if nothing had happened. She showed absolutely no ill effects from her little nap in the snowbank -- no frostbite, no brain damage, not even any freezer burn. The 19-year old woman from North Dakota had, essentially, come back from the dead completely unharmed. Had she been sipping on antifreeze cocktails earlier in the evening? Did Mr. Freeze secretly give her up for adoption as a baby? Dr. George Sather, who treated her, isn't ruling anything out. As he put it, "I can't explain why she's alive."
Nobody knows for sure, but she certainly has a hell of story to tell her kids if they ever try to go out in the cold without their hats and mittens on.
#1. The Killer in Cop's Clothing
The Legend:
Depending on the story a police officer approaches somebody in public, or knocks on their door, and tells them there's a dangerous criminal on the loose in the area, and that it's important that they let them inside or that the person comes with them. The person being an upstanding -- yet not particularly perceptive -- citizen, does what the officer tells them to. As they close the door behind them, sealing their fate, they ask the officer what this criminal looks like.
"Oh," the officer replies "a lot like me actually."
The Truth:
Carol DaRonch was browsing through a Utah city bookstore when she was approached by a police officer who informed her that her car had been broken into in the parking lot and that she should come with him down to the station to file a report. A perfectly reasonable sounding request, except for one rather important fact -- this police officer was, in reality, infamous serial killer Ted Bundy.
We're not sure that haircut is in compliance with police guidelines.
Carol started to suspect something was up when Bundy didn't pick her up in a shiny police issue Crown Victoria, but his shitty VW Bug. Granted she still got in the car, but hey, it was the 70s -- creepy looking guys driving Volkswagens made up 90% of the male population back then.
The other 10%.
Thankfully Carol finally caught on when Bundy pulled out a gun and a pair of handcuffs. She managed to kick him in the balls, escape the car and flag down another vehicle that drove her to the police station. After what she'd just been through we suspect she made sure every cop at the station showed her their badge about half a dozen times.
Bundy was hardly the first, or the last to try this kind of stunt, and unfortunately others have pulled it off with deadlier results. It may be a good idea to ask a few questions before you blindly do whatever the man tells you to do -- just don't tell the cops that advice came from us as you're laying face down on the pavement with a knee to the back of your head.
Pictured: someone who is not taking your shit.
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Let us assume that the students haven't been exposed to these two rules: $a^{x+y} = a^{x}a^{y}$ and $\frac{a^x}{a^y} = a^{x-y}$. They have just been introduced to the generalization: $a^{-x} = \frac{1}{a^x}$ from the pattern method: $2^2 = 4, 2^1 = 2, 2^0 = 1, 2^{-1} = \frac{1}{2}$ etc. However, some students confuse $2^{-3}$ to be $(-2)(-2)(-2)$ since they are familiar with $2^{3} = 2 \cdot 2 \cdot 2$. This is a low-income urban school and most kids in this algebra class struggle with math dealing with exponents, fractions and decimals. What would be the best approach to reach all 32 students?
You could say that the minus sign means an opposite; for instance, subtraction is the opposite of addition, and it uses the - symbol. Similarly division is the opposite of multiplication, and the division symbol has a minus sign in it (this isn't where it comes from, but is only good for memorizing purposes).
So a minus in the exponent is the opposite of multiplying over and over again, namely dividing over and over again.
How about motivate them by using the familiar example of scientific number? For example, $1.23\times 10^{2}=123$ where the dot is moved to right by 2 place, and so it make sense that the other direction apply too, that is $1.23\times 10^{-2}=0.0123$. And the only way that is true is if $10^{-2}=\frac{1}{100}$. And once you got that worked out for 10 power it's easy to just generalize it.
Of course it's confusing to them.
In other words, you've made them memorize this thing that doesn't make any sense to them. If I didn't already know about exponents, I'd be confused too. A pattern is only useful if they can anticipate it. How is a normal kid supposed to go from positive exponents to a zero exponent, let alone a negative exponent, when you haven't even explained the basic rule of exponents?
You could use the rules that they already know.
Since $-n=0-n$, $$ x^{-n}=x^{0-n}=\frac{x^0}{x^n}=\frac{1}{x^n}. $$
You could make a table like this:
$$ \begin{array}{c | c} n & 2^n \\ \hline \cdot & \cdot \\ \cdot & \cdot \\ \cdot & \cdot \\ 1 & 2 \\ 2 & 4 \\ 3 & 8 \\ 4 & 16 \end{array} $$
on a blackboard and ask how the "natural" continuation upwards of each column looks like. So if you read from the bottom $4,3,2,1,\ldots$ what numbers follow? And in $16,8,4,2,\ldots$ what numbers come next in that sequence (the "rule" is to half each term, clearly).
I would teach them the general rules but starting with increments and decrements of only 1. I would motivate them something like this:
Once that's clear, you can try getting 2^9 by starting at 1024 and dividing by 2.
With that in place, you can go from 2^1 is 2 to 2^0 is 1 (and if you like anything^0 is 1) pretty easily. You still haven't taught the general rule about 2^(x+y) at this point. And now you can ask them to guess (figure out) what 2^-1 is. And from that, 2^-2.
General rules can follow, but if they get it moving one extra power up or down at a time, they get it.
(First of all, I'd echo @heropup's comment: there not one best way to explain things. Different explanations will work better for different students. That said, this is my personal favourite explanation.)
Start by asking (either rhetorically or Socratically): what is exponentiation meant to mean? It means multiplying by a number multiple times. 10^5 means: multiply 10 together 5 times. 10^9 means: multiply 10 together 9 times. And so on.
So, $10^{-2}$ (for instance) ought to mean: multiply 10 together $-2$ times. But how can we make sense of that? Well, doing something negative-many times should be the opposite of doing it that many times. Taking (-1) step forward means taking one step back. And the opposite of multiplying by something is dividing by it. So, $10^{-2}$ should be the same as dividing by 10 twice — but that's the same as multiplying by $\frac{1}{10}$ twice, so it's $\left( \frac{1}{10} \right)^2$, or $\frac{1}{100}$.
The key point which I find is helpful for many students,is emphasising that it's not just about trying to satisfy some identities, and it's certainly not an arbitrary convention (no matter what some teachers say). It's about defining it so that it means something useful, some coherent concept. The identities it satisfies express the ways in which the concept is more meaningful and coherent than (say) defining $a^{-b} := (-a)^b$ would be. But the meaning, the concept, is what underlies it all.
Tell them that they need to follow the $\frac{a^x}{a^y} = a^{x-y}$ rule, where $x=0$. This forces $\frac{1}{a^y} = a^{-y}$. This is a great opportunity to point out that their intuition is wrong, and that carefully following the existing rules is the way to enlightenment.
Simple, $(-2)(-2)(-2)$ means ${-2}^{3}$, that is the first thing you have to show when they make that mistake.
Edit: That is the number minus 2, not a 2 combined with the unarry (-) and a exponent. Or it probably is, you might want to write ${(-2)}^{3}$ if it confuses you, i'm not even sure which bind stronger.
Next, show the relation between $2^3$ and $2^2$. One equals $2\cdot2\cdot2$ and the other $2\cdot2$. So $2^3$ = $2^2\cdot2$ and $\frac{2^3}{2} = 2^2$. Also, ${2\cdot2\cdot2\over2}=2\cdot2$
We can then move forwards (well, backwards),
$\frac{2^2}{2} = 2^1$,
$\frac{2^1}{2} = 2^0$,
$\frac{2^0}{2} = 2^{-1}$
To a 9th grader, I would say "whenever you see a minus sign in the exponent, you always flip the number."
$$ 2^{-3} = \frac{1}{2^{3}} = \frac{1}{8} $$
I would simply do 10-20 examples on the board, and hammer the point until they start to get it.
You may have to review fractions with them here too.
I disagree with others saying that you need to teach the rule of 'flipping the number'. It may amount to this, but they need to know why first. Blindly learning rules puts a barrier in the place of deeper learning. Teach why then work through deducing the various rules with the students.
I think the answer from Jeppe was good - it builds on your existing answer, and using a physical example will help too. Just because the kids don't know some other 'rules' doesn't mean you can't teach this intuitively. In fact I think that this would be a good base for learning the two rules you quote.
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I think that there have been a couple of answers that touch on this concept, I am hoping that I can state it clearly enough.
the Negative symbol ($-$) specifies direction and so does the Positive Symbol ($+$)
negative means left on the number line and positive means right on the number line, so from that we can place the numbers on the line.
$$ \begin{array}{c c c c c} 2^{-2} & 2^{-1} & 2^0 & 2^1 & 2^2 \\ \hline \frac 1 4 & \frac 1 2 & 1 & 2 & 4 \end{array} $$
as you go right you multiply by 2 (positive direction)
as you go left you divide by 2 (negative direction)
that is how I remember negative exponents, along with $$ 2^{-2} = \frac 1 {2^2} \\ 2^{-1} = \frac 1 {2^1} $$
that the Negative sign means the reciprocal of the power.
In the end feel free to point out (for the ambitious students) that these rules will also work with crazy numbers like $$ 2^{1.45 - 2.45} =2^{-1} =\frac{1}{2} $$
It's great that you are so passionate about teaching your class.
Doing it with numbers may not reach all students because some people think better in other ways.
In addition to some of the stellar explanations here with numbers, I would do it visually for other students.
Plot 2^1, 2^2, 2^3 ... 2^5 on a graph for them:
Add on 2^0:
Then extend in to the negatives, and ask them where they think it will go:
I think there are two options for what they'll guess. They may guess that the pattern flips over:
The issue then though is that it flips at 1, so you'd have to think that 2^0 and 2^-0 would be different values (1 and -1 respectively). And that can't be. So that should lead them to guessing that it doesn't suddenly hop negative, but rather, it continues getting smaller and smaller:
As to what those numbers are, I suggest using one of the other explanations for the math, but to not confuse as to the direction, or the pattern, seeing it visually may help some students.
They are familiar with the concept that an integer exponent ($a^b$) can be represented by multiplying $a$ a $b$ number of times. You can try to explain in the following way:
$$ 2^{-3} = \frac{1}{2^3} = \frac{1}{2\times2\times2} = \frac{1}{8} $$
Multiplication of exponents:
$4^2 * 4^3 = 4^5$
The powers are added: $2 + 3 = 5$
Division of exponents:
$\dfrac{4^2}{4^3}\ = 4^{-1}$
The powers are subtracted: $2 - 3 = -1$
Now tell them to try and find the value of $4^{-1}$
Since $4^2 = 16$, and $4^3 = 64$
$\dfrac{16}{64}\ = 1/4 = 4^{-1}$
This is the way I would have wanted to have been taught it.
I'm a 9th grader myself and I learned this in 7th grade and 8th grade but wasn't satisfied with the explanation until 9th grade. I first understood $x^{a+b}$ and $x^{a-b}$ because they're obvious once you write out the exponentiation as a bunch of individual multiplications and then see the terms cancel or whatever. Then you prove $x^0=1$ by showing $x^0 = x^{n-n}=\frac {x^n} {x^n} = 1$. Then you do negatives with $x^{-n} = x^{0-n} = \frac{x^0}{x^n} = \frac{1}{x^n}$. Then you demonstrate rational exponents by showing that since ${(x^{\frac{1}{n}})}^n = x^1$, $x^{1/n} = \sqrt[n]{x}$.
Based on heropup's comment, draw the following pictures:
and so on. The upper ones are number lines; the lower ones are decimals. Of course, one usually writes the number line with positives on the right, but I had to reverse them because we also write numbers with the most significant digit on the left.
Negative exponents are similar to but different than positive exponents, but they fit together well because of their algebraic properties. In explaining exponents, you need to explain what they are ($2^{-3}=1/2^3$ by definition) but alo why they are defined the way they are.
If $a>0$ is the base and $m,n>0$ are integers, then
If you had already discovered the formula $(a^m)^n=a^{mn}$ for $m, n>0$, you can simplify the search for the definition $a^{-n}=1/a^n$ to extending the pattern from $a^{-1}=1/a$. However, I don't have strong feelings on when this formula should be presented.
Negetive exponents are different than positive exponents, and if you're coming from only having positive exponents, you need to make it clear that you're making a new definition and not just stating an obvious property, or else things will seem unnecessarily mysterious. The definition isn't just pulled from a hat, however, and they should know there are good reasons to have the new definition. Remember, even if the students are just going to memorize formulas, it's important that they know there are simple ideas behind the formulas or else they will view mathematics as either a dry manipulation of symbols or an arcane and impenetrable fortress not worth trying to enter.
The rule a ^(x+y) = a^x * a^y can easily be illustrated and explained for positive integers x,y (use several examples).
Then, e.g.
2^(3-3)= 2^0 = 1 =(rule) 2^3 * 2^(-3) = 8 * 2^(-3)
leads to
1 = 8 * 2^(-3) and therefore
2^(-3) = 1/8 as inverse to 8 = 2^3.
Of course you have to use several examples, but I think this makes it very easy.
I'd tell the students if you want to make the negative "go away", put it under a 1. Maybe that sounds redundant, but putting it in a context where they can take something confusing and convert it to something manageable sometimes makes the rule stick better.
In the context of the particular example, you could point out the addition of the exponents when the problem is broken out.
$2^{3}$ = $2^{1}$ x $2^{1}$ x $2^{1}$
$-2^{3}$ = $-2^{1}$ x $-2^{1}$ x $-2^{1}$
$2^{-3}$ = $2^{-1}$ x $2^{-1}$ x $2^{-1}$
$\frac{1}{2^3}$ = $\frac{1}{2^1}$ x $\frac{1}{2^1}$ x $\frac{1}{2^1}$
If they understand that $2^3=(2)\times(2)\times(2)$, then explain to them that this means $2^3 = (2^1)\times(2^1)\times(2^1) = 2^{(1+1+1)}$. Then tell them that this means that if $a = b + c +d$, then $X^a = (X^b)\times(X^c)\times(X^d)$. Simply tell them that if we if we multiply 2 to the power (a) by 2 to the power (b), we get $2^{(a+b)}$. Then tell them that if we divide instead of multiply, we add a minus sign instead. For example, $\frac{(2^5)}{(2^3)}=2^{(5-3)}$. This is a simple case of the general rule $\frac{(a^x)}{(a^y)}=a^{(x−y)}$. So $2^{-3}=2^{(0-3)}=\frac{(2^0)}{(2^3)}=\frac{1}{(2^3)}=\frac{1}{(2\times2\times2)}$
Ninth-graders are not naive. Avoid metaphors and demonstrate what happens when you decrease positive exponents by one, then suggest that the rule should continue to apply as we get to zero and negative exponents.
$2^4 = 16$
$2^3 = 8$
$2^2 = 4 = 8/2$
$2^1 = 2 = 4/2$
(Same with other bases if necessary, to see the general pattern.) So, now that we have the pattern we can continue applying it to smaller exponents:
$2^0 = 2/2 = 1$,
$2^{-1} = 1/2$,
$2^{-2} = 1/4 = 1/2^2$, etc.
During my middle school and high school education there were a couple things from mathematics that I just accepted 'as is'. This was my recourse when the teacher couldn't explain it in terms I could understand, they said that my questions would be answered in a higher grade or in college, or they themselves didn't understand it (although they never worded it that way).
However, once I got to those levels of mathematics to understand the rules of operations with the natural numbers, the integers, the rational numbers, the reals, and the complex numbers, I learned it was, essentially, all a sham. Quite literally, these number systems and associated binary operations are constructed to satisfy these nice properties. These systems and operations are supposed to represent intuitive, real-world results, but axiomatic mathematics has not (and perhaps cannot) capture this. So instead, they become definitions.
The reason that addition and multiplication on the natural numbers is associative and commutative is (almost) immediate from their definition. The reason that $0$ is the identity for $+$ and $1$ for $\times$ is by their definition. The reason that $a^{n+m}=a^n\cdot a^m$ is a quick corollary of the definition of exponentiation on the natural numbers.
The reason that $-n$ is the additive inverse of $n$ in the integers is because of the definition of $-$. The reason that $(-n)(-m)=nm$ is because of the definition of multiplication on the integers.
This pattern goes right on up to the complex numbers where $i^2=-1$ is true because of the definition of complex multiplication.
Again, these definitions are made to capture something we see to be intuitive and useful in real life. But to tell yourself that there are deep, lucid explanations for why things are, if you just wait, is a lie.
This also applies to your problem. How are you going to teach a 9th grader that $3^{-2}=\frac{1}{9}$? You have to remind them that $3^{-2}$ is the number $x$ such that $x\cdot 3^{2}=1$. This is because of the way exponentiation is defined on the rational numbers. Exponentation is defined on the rational numbers so as to satisfy these rules:
Recall that $\frac{1}{a}$ is also defined as the unique number such that $a\cdot\frac{1}{a}=1$. So, it is immediate from definitions that $a^{-1}=\frac{1}{a}$.
These laws determine exponentiation and give rise to the nice properties:
And the fact that $a^{-x}=\frac{1}{a^x}$ follows from the observation above that $a^{-1}=\frac{1}{a}$.
So in my opinion, there are two ways to teach exponentiation to high schoolers.
Option 1: just tell them this is how things are and they just need to memorize the rules. You can lighten this approach by showing them patterns, like the ones already mentioned, which hint at why this should be the way things are. But I know I always appreciated bluntness from the teacher, so that I could shift my brain into 'as is' mode.
Option 2: give them the 'real' definition at the risk of confusing most of them, intriguing a couple, but still telling them that this is how it is because a lot of people wanted those nice properties. In fact, instead of doing this in class, you could make this a hand-out for the interested student (this might help the most amount of students).
This may be somewhat disappointing as it is your job to teach these things and hopefully imbue understanding. And it also goes often unsaid that it is also your job to get them ready for 'the test' which will be one of the largest factors that determine their path in life. And that's a lot of pressure (especially for that demographic). However, there isn't much you can do for a student who does not see how this will be applicable anywhere else in life. And when so many kids are criticizing the same stuff the same way almost everywhere, we need to step back and consider that maybe the math curriculum in secondary schools is so flawed that even adolescents can point out the asinine.
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a) $\mathrm{ran}(AB) = \ker(B)$.
b) $\mathrm{ran}(AB) = \mathrm{ran}(A)$.
I was thinking that we know that $\mathrm{ran}(A)=0$ for the first one, but I do not see how one can proceed, I feel that I do not know enough about $A$ or $B$ to justify or falsify the statements. I guess for the second one the first step is to prove that $\mathrm{ran}(B)=0$, but I do not see why this is true either.
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Is it safe to leave butter at room temperature? If so, for how long is it safe to keep it out?
Try a butter crock. This will keep your butter fresh at room temperature for a fairly long time (weeks, not days).
It depends on the room temperature where you live. At 65F (18C) or below, butter is often barely spreadable and will last for weeks on the counter in a sealed container. At 80F (26C), it starts to get overly soft and doesn't last more than several days.
The question seems to have been more about food safety than whether it seems palatable.
When the fat in butter decomposes (i.e. when the butter becomes rancid), it produces an unhealthy acid that actually inhibits mold growth. So, don't wait for your butter to mold to determine if it's gone bad.
To follow strict food-safety guidelines, protect butter from heat, light, and air; store it up to two weeks in a refrigerator, below 40 degrees.
It can also be frozen for 6 to 9 months.
I keep my butter in a covered dish next to the toaster. When it gets hard on the outside I toss it. This doesn't happen very often as I am now using 1/8 pound sticks. Usually the sticks last about a month in the summer, longer in the winter. If it has been a while I'll smell it before using it or just toss it.
As long as you use salted butter it will keep in a covered container at room temperature for at least 2-3 weeks without getting mouldy or rancid, in my experience. If you use unsalted butter there are more microorganisms that can live on it so it spoils faster, but there aren't any common contaminants that can grow on salted butter other than moulds, and even they grow very slowly on it.
When I first got a microwave oven I tried to use it for warming the butter when I took it from the fridge. I found that the butter went rancid if you did it two or three times.
Although just microwaving a small portion to use was OK, it was difficult to time the warming so the stuff didn't melt. Now I just keep it in a butter dish at room temperature, except in high summer.
I have always kept my butter, 1/4 pound at a time, out on the counter in a covered, pottery-type butter dish (Fiestaware) or a covered glass dish. The latter is probably less desirable because of light exposure, but either way, I have never had a problem, and I am picky about food freshness. We use the 1/4 pound within about a week, I'd say.
The exception is in summer, when it sometimes gets hot enough to melt the butter in the dish. At those times, I put the butter dish in the wine refrigerator, which we keep at 55 degrees F. If you happen to have a wine refrigerator, it's a great compromise - the butter doesn't spread as easily, but it isn't rock-hard either, and it's better than having it melted.
My experience is that butter crocks just suck. I was all excited when I first had one (what a great idea!), only to find that the butter would get really yucky tasting and even moldy quite quickly.
Then maybe fifteen years later (last year) I decided to try again. Same experience.
I've also tried it without the water -- similar results.
A simple covered butter dish is much more effective, in my experience. Butter keeps and tastes good for quite a while -- a couple of weeks, anyway.
I have no scientific theories to explain this (though I'd be vaguely interested to hear some). Just the empirical facts, validated through repeated experiments with consistent results.
Room temperature is the best for maintaining the shelf life of food materials. We also have to maintain humidity. It should not be more humid because it can produce a favorable environment for bacterial growth. Lower the temperature more will be the safest.
I have left butter out on the counter uncovered for as long two or three weeks or more. It has never gone bad are tasted any different . We do eat butter everyday so we use it quickly. Sometimes I microwave it when I first take it out of the Frig. if I'm going to use it right away. I come from a family that has always left the butter out and we never noticed a difference in the taste or had butter go rancid. The only time I had mold on butter is when there was a hurricane and the electricity was out for weeks and we had to throw out every thing in the Frig. I use salted butter but occasionally unsalted with no problem.
With the increased corporate production of our food stuffs, we are seeing an uptick in foodborne illness and changing/mutations of infective bacteria. Listeria in butter is an area of concern that is increasing and it is controlled through time and temperature control. Cooking is not a control measure for Listeria. Refrigerate your butter people! This is not "the good old days" anymore in regards to foods.


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What JavaScript framework is best? Can anyone recommend books that are best? Etc...
Obviously these questions involve a lot of opinion but well-informed opinions from a large body of developers are still valuable.
What JavaScript framework is best? Can anyone recommend books that are best? Etc...
Obviously these questions involve a lot of opinion but well-informed opinions from a large body of developers are still valuable.
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Neither question has that though. They're broad, ill-defined, and duplicate topics already on the site - badly. Neither one has more than a single answer, and neither answer looks exceptionally well-informed - the ExtJS answer explicitly states that the question is poor!
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Those get closed because as per the FAQ, they don't belong on the site.
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They are getting closed because they are rather subjective, as what the best framework is depends from what you need it for.
This is not terribly different from Shark vs. Gorilla.
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Looping Classes
Q: My child is scheduled to go into a looping class. What is it?
A: Looping is when a teacher has a class of children for two consecutive years. For example, kids spend two years with the same teacher, first as third graders and then as fourth graders. Then the kids move on and that teacher returns to third grade and has a new group for another two years.
Looping can be very beneficial. The teacher gets to know the learning style of each child in the first year, and then continues to use that knowledge to teach the second year. This continuity also has a positive effect on the group dynamics among the kids. The idea is that the better the kids know each other, the better they will work together, and the stronger their sense of community in the classroom will be.
Finally, looping can bring about better communication between parents and teacher. Both have more time to get to know each other and find ways to work together. Ideally, communication builds from one year to the next.
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ANDALUSIA, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities have arrested three people suspected in a nearly 20-year-old killing of a Covington County business owner.
WSFA-TV reports that police have arrested Eugene Wallace Black, Sheila Clark Brooks and Sheila Williams. They face murder and robbery charges in the May 1994 death of James Nibby Barton, who was found dead behind the counter of his convenience store. It wasn't immediately clear if any of them had lawyers.
Authorities say they have not yet arrested a fourth person indicted in the case.
The cold case task force reopened the case in February. Officials declined to give many details but said they have physical evidence, eye witnesses and partial confessions.
Officials say others who may have been involved in the slaying have died.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities in Huntsville are searching for a child after he was discovered to be missing from his home.
Huntsville police tell WAFF-TV officers went to a home Saturday morning to check on a child who hadn't been to school in two days. They noticed smoke coming from the home, called firefighters and tried to get inside.
Firefighters responded and put the fire out. A woman was found in the house, but the child wasn't there and authorities haven't been able to find him.
Police are seeking the public's help to find 8-year-old Randle Barrow, who is autistic. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is urged to call Huntsville police at 256-722-7100
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (AP) -- Jackson County authorities have arrested an 18-year-old man in the death of his 9-week-old daughter who died of traumatic head injuries. Al.com reports Marcus Shane Anderson of Pisgah was arrested yesterday on a murder charge.
TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (AP) -- Authorities have charged a Colbert County woman with animal cruelty after removing more than 125 live and dead dogs from her home. Sheriff Ronnie May tells the TimesDaily Debra Jane Catledge was charged with 15 counts of second-degree cruelty. Many animals were removed from her home Wednesday, and Catledge was taken into custody Thursday.
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) -- A judge has sentenced a central Florida man to 20 years in prison in the beating death of his 3-month-old daughter.
Twenty-nine year-old Christopher Scott Ryon pleaded no contest Friday to aggravated child abuse and manslaughter
Winter Haven police charged Ryon with aggravated manslaughter of a child in 2012.
According to police, Ryon told investigators he punched Riley in the head because she was crying, and he wanted to take a nap.
The Ledger reports the little girl was found unresponsive when her mother came home from work. Ryon was allegedly asleep on the couch when she arrived.
A medical examiner said the girl died from blunt force-trauma to the head.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A 15-year-old foster boy who went to a St. Petersburg church to plead for a family earlier this year is getting to spend the holidays with his prospective adoptive parents.
When he heard his birth mother had died last spring, Davion Only decided to find someone to adopt him. He went to St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church and told a story that prompted a nationwide response with thousands of inquiries from potential families.
Jody Grutza, a vice president for the company that oversees foster care in southwest Florida, says Davion moved out of his group home and into a foster home where he is getting to know the family who hopes to adopt him.
She asked for privacy as Davion bonds with the family, saying it's a step by step process.
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- A southwest Florida community is rallying around a 72-year-old man this holiday season after authorities say a teenager kicked him while her friend videotaped it.
Lee County Sheriff's officials said a 15-year-old high school basketball player and several teammates were walking through a neighborhood when they spotted Robert Lerberg gardening last month.
Authorities say the teen kicked Lerberg from behind and laughed, while another videoed it. The assault outraged county residents. Authorities say the teen also allegedly knocked on another senior's door that day and slapped the victim in the face. She faces two felony battery charges. The Associated Press is not naming the suspect because she is a minor.
The News-Press reports several companies are donating gardening materials and labor; and one person bought Lerberg a Christmas tree.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) -- Police say a 12-year-old boy has died days after being struck by a car that was street racing through a South Florida neighborhood.
Miami Gardens police say Nicholas Murrell was playing football with his friends when he was struck Thursday.
WFOR-TV reports the boy went to retrieve the ball in the middle of the road when a black Mercedes raced by followed by a red Camaro. Police said the driver of the Camaro didn't stop.
The boy was airlifted to the hospital and was pronounced dead Friday.
Authorities are offering a $3,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. Tipsters should call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
ROCKLEDGE, Fla. (AP) -- Some lucky central Florida ospreys are getting a new home after their nesting platform recently caught fire.
The nest caught fire about a month ago when something fell into the electrical equipment lower down on the utility pole.
A concerned resident repeatedly called officials to build a new one. This week, Florida Power and Light workers installed a new metal nesting platform just down the road from the burned one.
Florida Today (http://tinyurl.com/of3axxx) reports the birds were gone when their nest caught fire, but FPL employees said the birds will likely be back in the spring.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Several primates at a Tampa zoo got to open their presents early this year.
The Tampa Bay Times reports that workers threw presents including toys, children's books, pine cones, coconuts and dried fruit to the primates at Lowry Park Zoo on Friday.
Zoo employee Jane Lefave says enrichment exercises in the books and toys challenge the animals' minds and simulate activities they would do in the wild.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The Atlanta school system says it's investigating a Midtown high school's football team after a complaint was filed claiming that coaches knew many of the players lived outside the school district.
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution obtained the complaint through an open records request. The newspaper reports the anonymous complaint said parents and students used false utility bills or relatives' addresses to falsify records so they could attend Grady High School.
The complaint was dated Nov. 7. Atlanta public schools Superintendent Erroll Davis on Monday announced an investigation of about 20 Grady football players, their parents and their coaches.
Davis said parents who signed falsified documents could face criminal charges, and students could lose athletic eligibility and be forced to transfer to schools near their homes.


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La Nouvelle Veg
Haute-vegetarian menus are conquering Europe. Even a restaurant critic who's spent decades delighting in the Continent's foie gras and veal chops welcomes the revolution
ON THE FIRST WARM NIGHT of the year in Paris, the horse-chestnut trees along the Champs-Élysées are freshly veiled with new leaves. Just off the avenue, at Lasserre, a glamorous old luxury-liner of a restaurant, the elegant and habitually blasé crowd can't help grinning at the cancan moment this place is famous for. Late in the evening, as many diners are lingering over dessert, the roof overhead silently glides open to reveal the night sky.
The real revelation at Lasserre this spring isn't in the stars, however, but on the menu. For the first time, this establishment power-table—renowned for dishes like Pigeon André Malraux (pigeon stuffed with foie gras) and Poularde de Bresse en Demi-Deuil (capon with black truffles tucked under its skin)—is offering a vegetarian tasting menu.
"There's been a growing demand for vegetarian dishes from our clientele, which is very international," said chef Christophe Moret. The grandson of a truck farmer, Mr. Moret grew up in the Loire Valley, one of France's most famous vegetable patches. He came to Lasserre two years ago after working as head chef at Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée, also in Paris. "In France," Mr. Moret continued, "there's still this default idea of vegetarian food as some sort of punishment, and it's just not true. In fact, one of my first gastronomic memories is eating delicious first-of-the-season peas from my grandfather's garden."
Though I've known and admired Mr. Moret's cooking for many years, I'll confess I was expecting to be underwhelmed by his vegetarian menu. I anticipated feeling a little deprived in the midst of other diners eating lobster and lamb (you may have guessed I am not habitually a vegetarian). And yet, to my surprise, it was one of the best dinners I've eaten during the last year.
It wasn't the only meal among my recent favorites that was vegetarian from soup to nuts. During a trip to Zurich the week before, I'd noticed that most of the best restaurants in Switzerland's business capital, including the trendy Clouds, a Michelin one-star, are now offering vegetarian menus alongside their conventional ones. Tipped off by local friends, I'd had a superb vegetarian meal by chef Antonio Colaianni at Mesa. The elegance of his panna cotta with baby peas, finger lime "caviar" and crisp rice flakes was the prelude to a meal that included the best pasta dish I've ever had: maccheroncini, freshly made by the chef's mother, tossed with tomato water, morel mushrooms, sweet datterini tomatoes, fava beans and broccoli rabe. A few months earlier, at &Samhoud Places, Amsterdam's new Michelin two-star, I had a vegetarian menu so good I've returned twice to try different versions.
It was at Lasserre, though, that I finally got it: Europe is in the midst of a green revolution. After more than 25 years of dining professionally at the best restaurants in the old world, I thought I knew that the crucial building blocks of flavor are long-simmered meat or seafood stocks and deglazed pan juices. But Lasserre's vegetarian menu was seriously good, without relying on the flavor-builders I'd previously considered essential. A first course of baby vegetables dressed with a borscht vinaigrette, served in a pool of herb-steeped soy milk, was light years from the monks' fare I'd feared. Next up, a velouté of baby peas with gnocchi made of just-set cheese was sublime. But what really fascinated me was the menu's main course: spelt and citron garnished with a "primavera" that included asparagus, runner beans, radishes, baby leeks and carrots. If Mr. Moret's cooking draws on the tenets of la nouvelle cuisine—the movement launched in the 1970s that sought to make French cooking lighter and fresher—it was still grounded in the traditions of classical haute cuisine.
'The spectrum of tastes and textures was so complete, I did not notice the absence of anything bovine.'
In retrospect, the meal that heralded the new green cuisine now sprouting up in most major European cities was one I had 20 years ago, at chef Pietro Leemann's Joia, in Milan. Arriving for dinner on an autumn night, I'd been looking forward to tucking into a nice cotoletta alla Milanese, the breaded veal chop that's one of that city's classic dishes, and was crestfallen to see a menu emblazoned with the slogan "Alta Cucina Naturale" ("Natural Haute Cuisine"). Yet I ate an excellent risotto with radicchio, and a superbly earthy and fleshy wild mushroom ragù. When Mr. Leemann stopped by the table at the end of the meal, I learned he'd been vegetarian since 1985, because he believes in the "evolution of nutrition for ourselves and the planet." I also learned that he'd trained with the great Swiss chef Frédy Girardet. "I believe vegetarian cooking is inevitable," Mr. Leemann added. If I had my doubts, I had to admit his cooking was exceptional. Joia, which has a Michelin star, thrives to this day.
Two decades later, I am convinced we've left the hair-shirt brand of vegetarian gastronomy behind. What's more, thanks to chef-owner Moshik Roth, I'm confident that meat- and fish-free cooking can succeed in throwing off its deadly earnestness along with its puritanical baggage. Last year, the Israeli-Dutch chef closed his Michelin two-star, 't Brouwerskolkje, outside of Amsterdam, and moved to a duplex space in the city's Oosterdokseiland district. On my first visit to the cool, contemporary dining room at &Samhoud Places, I ordered the vegetarian tasting menu out of curiosity. Mr. Roth established his cosmopolitan compass points with a flight of very good hors d'oeuvres: shiitake-stuffed dim sum with bok choy wrappers; a mini riff on Alsatian tarte flambée made with cream, onions and Munster, served on a Chinese soup spoon; a Pisco-and-lime cocktail; and a Central European-inflected ice cream cone of beetroot and horseradish. But it was the tasting plate entitled "Tomato/Lasagne Bolognese/Chili Sin Carne/Cheeseburger" that fully conveyed Mr. Roth's galvanic talent and Falstaffian brio.
The spectrum of tastes and textures in these elegant miniatures was so complete that without being told, I might not have noticed the absence of anything bovine. The chef was clearly cocking a snook at me, and I loved it.
From this Pop Art plate, the meal became infinitely more sophisticated. A composition of multi-colored beets in a lemongrass and coconut-milk foam sprinkled with amber pearls of miso was technically fascinating. An artichoke sauced with a tofu Hollandaise laced with Rémy Martin XO laid to rest any lingering prejudices regarding vegetable-based cooking as penitential. "With my vegetarian menu, I wanted to prove that meat and seafood are completely optional in creating gastronomic pleasure," said Mr. Roth as we chatted after dinner. "Acidity in various tones can stand in for the umami of meat juices—although miso can be a rather brilliant joker in the vegetarian kitchen, too."
No one's ever going to wean me entirely off of langoustines and thick, juicy veal chops. But I now see the sense in something Lasserre's Mr. Moret told me: "Meat, fowl and fish taste even better when they're an occasional pleasure."
Baby Vegetable Salad With Herbed Soy Milk
At Lasserre, Christophe Moret makes this salad using whatever vegetables are freshest and best at that moment. Using the quantities listed below as a guide, feel free to substitute whatever looks good at the market now.
Active Time: 30 minutes Total Time: 2½ hours Serves: 4
For the herbed soy milk:
½ cup soy milk
Leaves from ½ small bunch fresh mint
½ small bunch fresh chervil
1 small bunch fresh sorrel
½ bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley
½ bunch borage
For the borscht vinaigrette:
1 cup beet juice
2 tablespoons Sherry vinegar
3 1/3 tablespoons fruity olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
For the cooked vegetables:
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/3 pound carrots, thinly sliced lengthwise
¼ pound fennel, thinly sliced lengthwise
¼ pound zucchini, thinly sliced lengthwise
For the salad:
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon lemon juice
Salt and freshly ground
black pepper, to taste
1/3 pound carrots, julienned
1 small fennel bulb, thinly sliced
¼ pound celery, thinly sliced
¼ pound baby zucchini, thinly sliced into rounds
10 whole baby radishes, thinly sliced into rounds
For the garnish:
Small head romaine lettuce,
separated into individual leaves
½ pound fresh baby fava beans, shelled
½ pound fresh baby peas, shelled
What To Do
1. Make the herbed soy milk: Purée soy milk and herbs in a blender at high speed. Let stand 2 hours at room temperature, then strain through a fine-mesh sieve and discard herb pulp. Divide herbed soy milk among four shallow soup bowls and chill in refrigerator until ready to serve.
2. Make the borscht vinaigrette: Heat beet juice in a small saucepan over medium-high heat until reduced by two-thirds. Add vinegar, oil, salt and pepper, and whisk to emulsify. Set aside.
3. Cook vegetables and dress salad: Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a sauté pan set over medium heat. Add carrots, fennel and zucchini, and sauté until slightly softened but still al dente, 3-5 minutes. Combine 2 tablespoons oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper in a large bowl, add cooked and salad vegetables and toss to coat.
4. To serve: Remove soup bowls from refrigerator. Arrange 3 or 4 romaine leaves in each bowl, then divide vegetable mixture among bowls. Sprinkle fava beans and peas over each bowl and drizzle with borscht vinaigrette.
Spelt Primavera with Herbed Yogurt Sauce
Christophe Moret of Lasserre, in Paris, uses nutty-tasting spelt in this recipe. You can find the grain at specialty and health food markets, or online at bobsredmill.com. Farro and pearl barley would work well in this dish, too.
Active Time: 1 hour Total Time: 8 hours (includes soaking spelt) Serves: 4
For the yogurt sauce:
1 cup Greek-style yogurt
1 bunch chives, chopped
1 tablespoon chopped fresh coriander
1 tablespoon chopped fresh chervil
3 tablespoons olive oil
Salt, to taste
Piment d'Espelette, to taste
For the spelt:
1 white onion, finely chopped
3 1/3 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup spelt, soaked in cold water overnight and drained
1 teaspoon garam masala
1 Meyer lemon, with peel, finely diced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
2 cups vegetable stock
For the vegetable primavera:
¼ pound snow peas
¼ pound haricots verts
¼ pound sugar snap peas
1 small head broccoli, cut into small florets and stalks discarded
½ small head romanesco or 1 small head cauliflower, cut into small florets
16 stalks green asparagus, trimmed and cut into 3-inch pieces
1 teaspoon olive oil
For the pea purée:
1 pound fresh baby peas, shelled
2 cups vegetable stock
What To Do
1. Make the yogurt sauce: Mix yogurt with herbs, oil, salt and piment d'Espelette. Consistency should be loose enough to drizzle.
2. Make the spelt: In a sauce pan over medium heat, sauté onion in oil until transparent, 5-7 minutes. Add spelt, garam masala and half of lemon. Sauté until spelt begins to become transparent around the edges, 2-3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper and add enough vegetable stock to cover spelt. Bring to a gentle boil and cook, stirring occasionally, over medium heat until grain is tender but still al dente, about 20 minutes. Cover with lid and set aside.
3. Meanwhile, make the vegetable primavera: Blanch each vegetable in boiling water, transferring to a bowl of ice water as you go. Drain vegetables and set aside.
4. Make the pea purée: Heat peas in a small non-stick sauté pan over medium-high heat, 1-2 minutes. Add vegetable stock and cook until peas are just tender, 5 minutes. Drain peas, transfer to a food processor or blender and purée until smooth, adding a little stock if necessary to make a slightly loose consistency.
5. To serve: Heat 1 teaspoon oil in a sauté pan set over low-medium heat, add vegetables and cook until warm, 2-3 minutes. Add pea purée and stir to lightly coat vegetables. Divide spelt among four warmed plates, top with vegetables, garnish with some of remaining diced lemon and lightly drizzle with yogurt sauce.


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Saturday, July 7, 2012
Strawberry Pie
Pie Dough (makes two crusts)
- 2.5 cups (400g) all purpose flour
- 2 tbsp sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup Earth Balance vegetable shortening
- 1/2 cup Earth Balance margarine
- 6-8 tbsp ice cold water
- scant 5 cups hulled and quartered strawberries
- 2 tbsp instant tapioca
- 2 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 cup sugar
1. Place shortening and margarine in the freezer for 30 mins.
2. Meanwhile, whisk together flour, sugar, and salt. Prepare the filling by whisking together tapioca, cornstarch, and sugar, and then gently tossing with the strawberries to coat.
3. Grate shortening and margarine into the flour. Gently work into the flour with your fingers until it resembles coarse bread crumbs (it should not take long).
4. Mix in enough water with a fork to bring together into a dough. Don't over mix.
5. Divide dough in half and shape into two discs. Immediately roll one out on a floured surface into at least a 12 inch circle and transfer into a 9" pie pan, trimming it to leave 3/4" of overhang. Add filling and shape into a dome.
6. Roll out top crust on a floured surface and lay over top, trimming to leave 1" overhang. Fold top crust overhang under bottom crust overhang and press to seal. Crimp or flute the edge as you see fit. Cut designs into the top crust to allow steam to escape, refrigerate the pie for about 30 mins, or until the crust has firmed up.
7. While pie is chilling, heat oven to 350 degrees with a rack in the bottom third of the oven. Bake for 55-65 minutes, or until crust is golden both top and bottom and the filling is bubbling. Let cool before serving.
Posted by Vegan Dad at 9:09 AM
Labels: baking, strawberry
10 comments:
- Nancee said...
This looks yummy. I've been wanting to bake something as soon as the temp drops below 90. This looks like the perfect recipe.
- July 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM
- Morgan said...
looks amazing!
- July 7, 2012 at 5:00 PM
- Amey said...
I've always made strawberry pies that are refridgerator pies - with no top crust. I've never made a truly baked strawberry pie. It looks so beautiful!
- July 8, 2012 at 1:54 AM
- Helena said...
Hi! I'm just "pregnant" of a new blog of veganism, and his name is "veganismfordummies". Would you mind if I post your recipes in my recipe section? Of course I will put your name and your blog link in the "bibliography/sources".
- July 8, 2012 at 6:13 PM
- Kathleen Richardson said...
Looks beautiful and sounds delicious. Welcome back and write when you can.
Keep writing...
- July 8, 2012 at 7:05 PM
- Angel Neill said...
That pie looks delicious! I am a new vegan and blogger and I just wanted to let you know how much I really enjoy your blog. I am always looking for new recipes and your blog is my go-to spot whenever I'm feeling bored with my meals! Thank you and I hope to see more posts soon!!!
- July 9, 2012 at 10:16 AM
- The Cheese Guru said...
Damnit! Now I have to make this! I love pie AND strawberries.
- July 9, 2012 at 8:40 PM
- Kristin said...
I'll be at the SHEAR Conference, too! Are you giving a paper or just attending?
I've been reading this blog for about a year & a half now, & everything always looks fantastic!
- July 13, 2012 at 8:39 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
I am presenting this year, Friday 10:30 to 11:45. My paper is called "His Connexions Are Highly Respectable": Manhood and the Militia in the War of 1812."
- July 16, 2012 at 10:53 AM
- Janna said...
Wondering if you have any suggestions/tips on freezing these pies? I'm attempting to bake about 15 pies for my wedding (no cake, just pies). I want to make them ahead of time and freeze them. Have you frozen these pies before? Should I freeze the pie before baking?
Any help would be appreciated!
- August 26, 2012 at 12:45 PM


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I marinated chicken five days ago in lemon juice, seasoned salt, and garlic powder, is it still safe to cook in the oven?
This would be a bad idea.
Chicken should be cooked 1-2 days after refrigeration according to the USDA and other food safety agencies, and will tend to get noticeably slimy and pungent after 3-4 days in my experience. 5 days is really pushing it.
I understand the rationale for the question - lemon juice can kill the surface bacteria - but that's just the problem, salmonella bacteria don't only exist on the surface of chicken, they're crawling around the interior as well.
In order for this to be considered safe, you would need to be absolutely sure of all the following:
If you had said 3 days, maybe 4, I would say, practically, that you'd probably be OK. But any more than that and you're playing with fire.
As the old chef's saying goes: When in doubt, throw it out.
If you are intent on eating it anyway then please, at least be responsible and don't serve it to any guests.
The marinade won't have caused any food safety issues of its own -- whether it has "overcooked" in the marinade is another matter.
If it's been in the fridge for the whole period, then I would go by the date on the chicken's packaging, just as if it had been the fridge that long without a marinade.