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Wright Words: From the tragedy of sexual assault to Auburn's Miss Homecoming (+video)
AUBURN, Ala. — Twenty years ago a young married woman was sexually assaulted in California. The attack resulted in a pregnancy that the woman refused to terminate, despite her husband's threats of divorce.
Two weeks ago, the beautiful result of that unplanned pregnancy, Auburn senior Molly Anne Dutton, was voted the university's 100th Miss Homecoming by her classmates. It was the culmination of a weeklong campaign in an election ritual rich with tradition and prestige.
A life worth saving
Dutton's long journey to the field for the historic announcement during halftime of the Auburn-Western Carolina game at Jordan-Hare Stadium began when her pregnant birth mother fled California for the South. She settled in Alabama and found an attorney willing to assist with the adoption. But as the pregnancy progressed, the mother began to feel uncomfortable with the lawyer and soon discovered Lifeline Children's Services, a Birmingham-based Christian adoption ministry.
There she sought and received counseling, support and what she really needed most — hope. As the woman was nearing full-term pregnancy, a couple serving on the nonprofit board decided to adopt the baby. Never mind the fact they had five children already — three of them adopted.
Just three years later, adoptive mother Peggy Dutton was on her own raising the children as best she could as a single parent. It wasn't always a perfect life, but it would turn out to be a beautiful life for Molly Anne.
Last week, I had the honor of conducting a long and wide-ranging telephone interview with Molly Anne. Since winning the title, her story has grown like a Southern weeping willow in every direction. She's been mentioned in newspapers large and small, seen her headline top Glenn Beck's "The Blaze" website and been interviewed live on "Fox & Friends."
As she shared with me exclusive elements of her story, I found the word "light" appearing in her quotes and in my notes on almost every line. I circled each occurrence and underlined my phrase, "She lives a life of light."
An inspired adoption
Because Dutton's mother was Caucasian and three of her siblings were like her — biracial — Dutton always knew she was adopted. But it wasn't until after high school that she unearthed adoption papers in their dark, dusty attic.
It took time, but when the moment felt right, Dutton finally broached the subject with her mother. As they decorated the Christmas tree one year, carefully hanging ornaments and stringing lights, Molly Anne posed a question that could have been lifted from a movie script. "Mom, guess what I found in the attic?"
Among other things, Molly Anne learned that the processes and laws of adoption have changed in the two decades since her birth mother made the choice to let her live. Back then, most adoptions were closed, and Molly Anne has not uncovered additional details about her beginnings.
To mother, daughter and siblings, nothing really changed. They understood that adoptive mother Peggy was no less Molly Anne's mother that day standing around the Christmas tree than the day she brought her home as a two-day-old infant.
"God knew I would come here in her womb," she said. "And he knew I would be raised by another mother." For Molly Anne, that's all she needs to know.
Peggy Dutton certainly agrees their relationship has divine roots. "Twenty-two years ago, God so shined a bright star on my life with a bundle of joy I named Molly Anne," Peggy told me via email. "I could never know the blessings that would come from this!"
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I'm building a site with PHP and a MySQL backend. But, I am currently not using any type of framework. Should I be using Model View Controller?
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My rule of thumb:
any page that hits a database or requires any form of user input will be easier to manage with an MVC structure.
You don't necessarily need to go with a whole framework, if the site is fairly simple, you can use a simple Page Controller class for each page that requires it (see above). This isn't a scalable solution mind you - so bear in mind the long term aims of the project.
Here's a rough sketch of a (quickly hacked together) PageController setup:
I would say that it would be good if there is a chance that the site may grow beyond a non-trivial size. The main reason is you gain better ability to change and maintain the site in the future and maintenance is most of the work on most projects. It gives you a nice separation of concerns, site organization, and helps avoid repetitive and messy code.
MVC is a pattern that is well-known and accepted for websites and that will help if you bring other people onto the project. To that end you would probably want to pick an established framework to start.
You didn't provide any details that might help answering the question, but my default recommendation in such case is "yes, use a MVC framework". Go with a custom solution only when you are really sure that you need it.
As an architecture, MVC focuses on splitting your project/webpage into multiple parts. This can make your life easier when you'll have to change something in the code or the user interface.
Rule of thumb, if you expect changes in specifications about your project especially when those changes affect the entire code, then go with the architecture that forces you to break up the code into tiny lego pieces.
Not at this point. Wait until your site gets bigger and messier. You'll ask yourself - what can I do to make things less messy? You'll read an article on MVC and you will love it. You won't be questioning whether to use it or not anymore. You will know. That would be the moment to start using it.


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Brought Down by Ambition
Un Ballo in Maschera
Metropolitan Opera
Through Dec. 14
New York
For an opera about illicit passion and revenge, David Alden's new production of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" at the Metropolitan Opera is an oddly bloodless affair. The Italian censors forced Verdi to change the setting of his 1859 opera from Sweden to colonial Boston because a regicide—the story is based on the murder of Sweden's King Gustav III—was an unpalatable subject. Mr. Alden has ostensibly moved it back to Sweden, and set it in the early 20th century, but his production's real location is the land of modern European opera staging, with its uneven geometric shapes, black-and-white palette, random details and automaton choruses, where singers emote uncomfortably into the void.
"Ballo" is one of Verdi's most tuneful operas, in which lighthearted numbers puncture the gloom of the increasingly tragic tale. Gustavo is in love with Amelia, the wife of Anckarström, his chief adviser and best friend. Amelia is torn between love and fidelity. Anckarström discovers the nascent attraction, joins up with a conspiracy to murder the king, and wields the knife himself at a masked ball. The dying king insists that nothing happened with Amelia, and everyone is very sorry.
With the aid of Paul Steinberg, the set designer, Mr. Alden equates Gustavo's reach and fall with the story of Icarus. A gigantic painting of that high flier's tumble looms over the set and Oscar, the king's page, occasionally sports large white wings. Otherwise, the set mostly consists of tall, irregularly shaped walls papered in a particularly bland gray-and-white pattern, a strategically placed leather club chair, and assorted metal desks or wooden chairs, depending on the location. Brigitte Reiffenstuel has costumed the blank-faced chorus in gray suits and uniforms, and black and glitter for the ball; and no Alden production would be complete without one of his tired trademarks, a scene featuring raincoats and umbrellas.
The atmosphere is supposed to recall Ingmar Bergman or August Strindberg, but the attempt at a nightmarish, disconnected landscape is at odds with Verdi's tumultuous, very direct score. For example, the fortune-teller Madame Ulrica Arvidsson, who advises Amelia to cure her love by picking an herb at the foot of the gallows at midnight, is supposed to be spooky and supernatural. Mr. Alden makes her a fake—akin to Madame Flora in Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Medium"—with ropes of pearls and a capacious patent-leather handbag, who reapplies her lipstick in between the verses of her invocation to the devil. We can only laugh at the credulous housewives who twitch and moan as she sings. At the beginning of Act II, when Amelia goes hunting for the magic plant and sings about the horrible field where crimes are atoned for with death, we see only those gray-and-white walls, a broken-off post (the gallows?) and that club chair, all blandly lighted by Adam Silverman.
It was left to the singers to fill the vacuum, and they tried. Marcelo Álvarez brought a forceful, steely tenor to the role of Gustavo. He captured the fun-loving part of the king, but not his romantic soul. His protestations of passion for Amelia were all on the surface, with no emotional core—they were all about Gustavo. In Act I particularly, Fabio Luisi's conducting matched that superficiality. It was light and fast, almost perfunctory.
In Act II, matters improved somewhat. Sondra Radvanovsky (Amelia) has a lustrous, throbbing soprano that is never dull, and she seemed to inspire Mr. Alvarez to greater commitment in their love duet. Even the conducting felt gutsier. Mr. Alden's by-the-numbers directing (Amelia declares "I love you" and removes her coat) was beside the point here; Ms. Radvanovsky worked hard to fill the emptiness with her warmth and passion.
As Anckarström, Dmitri Hvorostovsky fell prey to directorial stiffness at first, and there was no sense of the depth of his feeling for Gustavo. But he poured out the sound in the opera's hit tune "Eri tu," in which he resolves to take revenge on his friend, and woke up the audience. One could almost forget that Mr. Alden had staged the beginning of that scene—in which Anckarström tells Amelia that he's going to kill her—as a preliminary to make-up sex.
As Madame Arvidsson, the usually hurricane-force Dolora Zajick seemed diminished by her Madame Flora persona, with surprisingly uncavernous low notes. Kathleen Kim brought brightness and verve to the trouser role of Oscar, though her white suit and goatee felt dangerously close to the racist film noir caricature of the Asian sidekick. Mr. Alden attempted to underline the frothy bits of the score with dancing and mime, but Maxine Braham's choreography stressed the grotesque, with much floor-rolling and angular, marionettelike movement; there was also a can-can moment with canes, hats and jazz hands for Act I's "Ogni cura." And at the masked ball, apart from some carrying around of the club chair, Mr. Alden cleared the chorus off the stage for the stabbing of Gustavo, which is supposed to happen in the middle of the crowd.
Gustavo is a fool, but we are supposed to regret the mess he made. Neither the Icarus idea nor the other directorial tropes had much to say about the heart of this opera. Indeed, most of them worked against it. Rethinking classics is worth doing, but this effort felt like a rote collection of images grafted onto a text. The production could have been anything, anywhere, and it sucked the life out of Verdi's vigorous score.
Ms. Waleson writes about opera for the Journal.
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I just got my new working notebook with Windows 8 pre-installed. After installing Ubuntu 12.10 the grub menu says that there is an "invalid EFI file path" and it won't boot Windows. Ubuntu works fine...
Is there anything I can do about this?
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you should try to add windows as workaround manually to grub.
At first run
Here you should see the UUID from your windows partition
open /etc/grub.d/40_custom and paste/edit following code but replace UUID_FROM_WIN8 with your UUID mentioned above.
The chainloader should look the same for all windows versions, as far as i know..
After editing grub files you have to run
Please test it first and give me some feedback because it could be possible that the efi file won't be found.. but i don't want to give multiple advice in one answer..
hope this helps!
From the grub.cfg you posted it looks like you've done a lot of messing with grub to try to get this working, I recommend that you start by cleaning all of this up and going back to a default grub configuration (which will probably have no entry for Windows at all in the grub.cfg) and then create a file /boot/grub/custom.cfg with this for contents:
In the long term, hopefully os-prober and grub-mkconfig will gain support for detecting UEFI based Windows installations (at which point this entry will become redundant, and you can simply delete /boot/grub/custom.cfg)
Boot Repair solved it for me.
Go to your boot options (F12 or etc) and boot your liveCD or liveUSB. Make sure that you boot in UEFI (Ex. "UEFI: CD/DVD" or "UEFI: [USBname]"). Select "Try Ubuntu." Get Boot Repair and select "recommended repair."
Link: Ubuntu Boot Repair
Note: Make sure that you boot the CD or USB in UEFI. I ran Boot Repair without being in UEFI mode and I got Grub, but Windows 8 would not boot.
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Boys hoop: Woodland topples Watertown
WATERTOWN — Clad in green and white T-shirts, the Woodland boys sat in their locker room Monday night at Watertown High and listened as captains David Uhl, Steve Baeder and Tanner Kingsley defined three characteristics they needed to honor the victims of the tragedy in Newtown.
"Honor, courage and heart," said Woodland coach Tom Hunt, whose Hawks donned Sandy Hook Elementary School's colors as their warm-up shirts. "We wanted to make sure that if we wore those colors, we honored those children and teachers who died by playing with honor, courage and heart."
Not only did their effort pay a small yet proper tribute, but it also fueled the Hawks to a 60-48 upset victory over the Indians, the defending Naugatuck Valley League champions.
Woodland (2-0) hustled to grab loose balls, force steals, snatch offensive rebounds and apply stifling defensive pressure that allowed Watertown (1-1) just 20 field goals all night.
"We're like that in practice," said Woodland swingman Rahmi Rountree, who led the way with 19 points. "Everyone's on the ground for loose balls, everyone's hustling all the time. We have a desire to win always. That's our main goal."
The Hawks took control of the game with a 16-2 run in the second quarter to make it a 26-17 game. That streak started with a pair of 3-pointers by Uhl and ended when 5-foot-8 junior Shane Classey grabbed an offensive rebound and banged in a layup.
"Shane proved tonight that he was going to outwork anybody who came around and get to any loose ball," Hunt said of Classey, who often fulfilled the duties of the 6-foot-4 Kirk Chamenko after he was saddled with foul trouble.
Classey grabbed another offensive board off his own missed jumper early in the third, then dished to Rountree for a 12-footer that made it a 33-24 game.
"Shane does a really good job," Rountree said. "He knows he's undersized but he plays his heart out."
Classey's recipe for hanging with the big boys is simple.
"Box out," he said. "Just find a body and push them back as far as I can. If I can't get the rebound, hopefully Tanner will fly in to grab it."
Kingsley added 14 points while Uhl had 13. Woodland's lead reached a game-high 19 points late in the fourth when Kenny Koch hit a 3-pointer.
The Hawks cruised the rest of the way to an important early-season win.
"We can't make it too big but we can't overlook how hard we worked to get it, either," Hunt said. "We've talked about this since the beginning of the preseason, that we could set the tone for our season and slingshot us to what we need to do."
Eddie Hill led the Indians with 18 points. Jonathan Mitchell added 13.
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The 7 Stupidest Criminal Excuses of All Time
As cops love to tell us, they've heard 'em all. They even have standard issue cop cliches to tell you they know you're full of shit, such as "Tell that to the judge, pal" and "Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law."
And then there are those excuses that leave cops unable to muster even a slightly grizzled retort, where the only proper response is uncontrollable laughter. We're talking about excuses like:
#7. Secret Agent Hobo
The day started like any other day for the Saratoga Police Department: Some transient was drinking in the street and was soundly arrested. Things took a turn, however, when the man claimed to be part of a top secret Australian covert ops unit. We're not sure which secret agency requires you to drink in public and tell the first people you meet all about it, but suspect it's not a very good one. (Also, we would like to humbly submit our resumes for consideration.)
Agent Marshall Cartwright's secret espionage gear included a beer keg, hallucinogenic mushrooms and a wetsuit, perhaps under the assumption that, to catch a drunk, delusional international terrorist, you needed to think like a drunk, delusional international terrorist. He also had a harmonica, because seriously, who doesn't get the blues every once in a while?
Better Excuse:
"Dude, I'm a bum and I've got a keg of beer. What else do you expect me to be doing?"
What Would Be Required for This to Work:
Since Marshall was trying to sell his hobo-beer to passersby, measured out in a jar he happened to have on his person, this would imply that Australia's intelligence community are terribly, terribly underfunded. And crap.
#6. "She Looks Like the Man Who Turned My Cat Gay"
Jose Correia's cat escaped on October the 27th, and you're about to find out why even an animal that cares for nothing but food and licking its own balls would want to run from the crazy bastard. For his search party, Correia recruited the help of local schoolteacher Anabela Cruz but declined the help of another neighbor, Jose Macedo, on the grounds that the latter was homosexual. And therefore useless at finding pussy.
Can YOU spot the cat? If not, you are a homosexual.
Once he found the cat, to thank everyone for their help, Jose went home, got his Browning 6.35 mm pistol and shot Anabela. If that seems odd, you have to understand that, in fairness to Jose, he thought Anabela, (the schoolteacher), was actually Macedo the (homosexual). Again, in fairness, he also believed that Macedo had buggered his cat thereby converting it to the ways of Sodom, and since he was waving a gun at the time probably managed to make it sound even crazier. When you look at it that way, Macedo's actions don't seem too unreason- What's that? They still do? Even more unreasonable, you say? Huh. Alright then.
Better Excuse:
"Look, I just hate gays, okay? I thought I could somehow spin this whole 'cat thing' into a reasonable excuse, but it sort of got away from me." It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong; the police would have to respect that kind of honesty.
Though, that is, like, the gayest cat we've ever seen.
What Would Be Required for This to Work:
Catching the guy in the act. Cat-rape is one of those cases where hearsay and conjecture just isn't enough. You come home and find some guy squatting on top of a squealing Mister Kittens, then by all means, empty your pistol. But if you want to kill someone you need a better reason than "I have no reason to suspect that he didn't rape my cat. Or, for that matter, that you didn't. And- hey, are you arresting me?"
#5. Extreme Bondage
There are a number of ways to hide your extramarital affairs: you can wait till your partner goes on a business trip, claim to be going out with some friends, or organize two dates at the same time in the same restaurant (if you live in a romantic comedy). Or, if you're Rebecca Bargy, you can tie your husband up with a blocked airway and leave him for twenty hours until he dies (this one doesn't work so well in romantic comedies).
On second thought, if they made a movie version of this with Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson, we'd probably watch it.
According to CBS News she "placed duct tape over James Bargy's mouth and eyes, put a ball gag in his mouth and then tied a bandage around his head", indicating that either CBS isn't particularly good at "event sequences" or Rebecca was strong enough to shove a ball through solid duct tape. She also tied his hands and feet behind his back and slipped into something sexy. Specifically, the sexy car taking her to a sexy motel room containing another sexy man. While her husband suffocated. She claimed that this bondage was entirely consensual, which police have the temerity to doubt.
"So, you're saying he begged you to tie him up, kill him and cheat on him? Huh."
Better Excuse:
"Oh gosh, did I leave the ropes on? Normally it's the oven!"
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::studio audience laughter::
What Would Be Required for This to Work:
Her central argument was that James Bargy enjoyed being tied up and left to stew in his own inevitable excrement for nearly a day, all the while thinking about another man banging his wife. If that actually worked, it would set a precedent allowing people to simultaneously murder and cheat on their spouses on the grounds that "they totally wanted it," and, come on, marriage is hard enough.
#4. Speeding Because She Doesn't Understand Metric
A California woman was fined $405 by Canadian police for speeding at almost a hundred miles an hour. Her excuse was that the speed limit signs were in kilometers per hour and she didn't understand metric.
The problem is that a hundred miles an hour is the same speed no matter what you measure it in - just because you cross the border doesn't make "pushing your foot all the way down" affect the engine differently. Did she think her engine was so patriotic it needed extra encouragement to drive on un-American soil? Did she think that time moves slower in Canada? Was she right? (We've never been.)
Better Excuse:
"But I thought Canadian laws didn't apply to Americans!"
What Would Be Required for This to Work:
For ignorance of the law to make you immune to it, and even in a country where one of the fundamental rights is "Any crazy bastard who wants can have a gun," we know that's a bad idea. The legal system has already proven that people are prepared to be as stupid as required in the hopes of making a claim - once it makes them immune to prosecution society will go straight to "Mad Max: Retard Edition."


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We instantly fell in love with this gnarly three-headed Green Day dog poster by Michael Hacker, which was made to celebrate an Austrian show back in 2013. Based in Vienna, Michael's an illustrator and comic artist who has been designing and printing limited gig posters for bands like Queens of the Stone Age, Kvelertak, Mastodon, The Melvins or Red Fang since 2007. He recently finished his second comic book "Steroid Max" – a homage to 80's and 90's action movies.
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Playwright Rolin Jones flew up to Oakland to meet with Billie Joe Armstrong about collaborating on a project together and as Jones was laying out the idea for a new play with music, fans kept interrupting, asking the Green Day frontman for an autograph. All the while, during the pitch, Jones says the rocker was mostly listening in silence.
"When I finished, he basically just stared at me," Jones recalls, "and said, 'Let me get this straight. You're going to rewrite Shakespeare, and I'm going to rewrite The Beatles.'"
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WACO (December 13, 2012)--Two men pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Waco to participating with others to print and pass counterfeit checks and U.S. Currency.
U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith, Jr., set Christopher Shwan Jobe and William Wade Koerth for sentencing on Feb. 13, 2013.
Documents presented in court Thursday show Waco police, along with U.S. Secret Service agents began an investigation in July during which evidence was recovered from Jobe's trashcan that indicated he was manufacturing counterfeit checks, currency and identification documents.
A search warrant served at Jobe's residence led to the recovery of computers, different types of computer media and counterfeit documents.
After interrogation, the document says, Jobe admitted he had printed counterfeit checks, currency and documents.
Further investigation led to similar discoveries at Koerth's residence.
Also in July police were sent to a Waco Walmart store where clerks said a man had tried to cash a fake $975.25 check that was drawn on an account that named the Waco Regional Airport.
Other checks recovered were drawn on Stanley Ford in McGregor.
Brandi Kaye Anderson, who also was named in the document, is set to plead guilty later this month.


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Longboat Key Club and Ritz win Conde Nast awards
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LONGBOAT KEY - The Resort at Longboat Key Club has earned the No. 12 spot on a list of Top 40 Florida Resorts released by the 2013 Conde Nast Travelers Readers' Choice Awards.
This year marks the first time the Longboat Key Club has attained the Top 40 list for Florida resorts. The Ritz-Carlton Sarasota also made the 2013 list, taking the No. 28 spot.
Conde Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards, which has been rating travel destinations for more than 25 years, is seen as a coveted seal of approval for the industry.
More than 80,000 resorts and other properties at tourism destinations worldwide — ranging from remote islands to small cities and new hotels — were rated by more than 1 million travelers this year.
The No. 1 resort in Florida is the Little Palm Island Resort and Spa at Little Torch Key, an island in the lower Florida Keys.
The Longboat Key Club is no stranger to awards.
The resort recently eared a AAA Four-Diamond Award for its 30th consecutive year and is one of six resorts in Florida to hold that honor.
"We just recently opened our newly renovated spa and newly upgraded golf course," said Jeff Mayers, general manager of The Resort at Longboat Key Club. "In a very competitive industry receiving this accolade is greatly appreciated."
In 2010 Longboat Key was named No. 2 out of the Top 5 island destinations in North America in the Top 50 island destinations worldwide by Conde Nast Traveler.
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Questions about abortions
May 5, 2013
To the editor: Will you or some of you readers show me the kindness to explain to me killing and murder when it comes to abortions? First, what is it if a person aborts her baby willingly for reason......
I just reread your ramblings and I missed a couple of things. SCOTUS has ruled on many things that we did not get over, as you so simply suggest. They ruled a certain way in fugitive slave laws as well as segregation laws. It's a really good thing that as humans we simply did not accept their rulings and "get over it." You also suggest that we cannot barge in on a woman's life and tell her what to do with her body. That baby is not her body, it is his or her own little body. I'm so glad your mother chose life for you, and that you chose life for your children. Hearing my children's hearts beat at merely three weeks of life were life changing moments for me.
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Perhaps you should research the Latin translation of fetus. This is not a religious issue. You are the only one who has insinuated that it is. It is however a legal issue which I have legally debased. As for those "unwanted" children, I have already addressed in a previous statement our extreme social problem with personal responsibility. In addition to that there are many parents who seek out of country adoptions because they can't have children of their own. Adoption is the humane option. Killing a child is as barbaric as Hitler who killed the mentally and physically disabled because of their imperfections. Also, the author never mentioned rape, incest, or risk of mother's life but since you also brought this issue up I will address it: These issues combined make up for less than one half of one percent of requested abortions. Finally, the slavery comparison is apt. If we can justify murder with a law, we can justify anything with a law; in fact, we have in our past.
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What is going to become of these unwanted children? Are those arguing for and end to abortion going to adopt or foster these children? Of course not. There are already hundred of thousands of children in this country who need a family, who need rescued. Why not help those children already here instead of trying to re-victimize a rape victim by making them carry their attackers child? The supreme court has already ruled on this, get over it there are far more important issues to address like extreme poverty, homelessness, Joblessness, rape, hunger, disease, and a myriad of other issues plaguing this country. Comparing slavery to abortion makes no sense therefore I can't take you seriously. I am a mom I know what its like to be pregnant but I also know the science behind pregnancy.
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Abortion is complex and can not easily be governed. A fetus is just that a fetus until further along in the pregnancy so let's not get confused about what is what. Any religious argument for or against has no place in this debate being we have a separation of church and state. I don't agree with women having multiple abortions, relying on abortion as a form of birth control but that's not for me to decide for them. No one has the right to barge into a woman's life and tell her she has to carry a child to term especially the government. I am a little shocked and taken aback by the author of this letter who is she to tell a rape or incest victim that she has to carry her attacker's child to term? There are times when medically speaking abortion is the best option. What is going to become of a baby that is born to a mother who died during childbirth?
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Ah yes abortion: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Murder's intent is to end a life. Abortion's intent is to end a life. How about we redefine slavery as swapping. Swapping is legal. We can now swap work for housing, food, and clothing. After all, the intent is still the same! I use my salary to pay my mortgage, purchase groceries, and buy food. I could just enslave myself to someone and do work for them, and they could take care of all of those other things! Also, there is no Constitutional right to abortion. That you would even bring that up is a perfect example of your grasping at straws here. In addition to the lack of Constitutionalality the Eighth Amendment expressly forbids cruel and unusual punishment, the Ninth Amendment guarantees rights not specifically stated in the Bill of Rights, and we all have equal protection under the law. Again, slavery used to be Constitutional but our ancestors corrected that horrible mistake. Thanks for playing! Go home.
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I never claimed that babies aren't sacs of cells, I merely pointed out that we all are. You did not disprove that we are all cellular organisms. Murder is certainly a legal term and I never stated otherwise; however, an issue's legality does not make it right. Once upon a time in our great country slavery, segregation, and disenfranchisement were all legal. That makes it right? I've heard all of my babies' heart's beat at five weeks gestation, and since that week count starts at the first day of the menstrual cycle, my babies had been alive for a mere three weeks. Life is beautiful, abortion is murder. For the record McCore, I'm so happy that your mother chose life. I may disagree with what you say and choose to ignore your assumptions and personal attacks, but I'm happy that you were born.
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I have not used a lot of assumptions, but I have used facts. It is now very obvious that you have no counterpoints as you're only retort is that I don't understand the issue. My knowledge of the issue has been made very clear. Would you feel more comfortable if I used a feminazi line on you? No uterus to opinion!
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McCore: It's anschutz, as in the brand of target rifle Anschutz. Your "typo" is not that clever. I can tell what word you are trying to call me. Now on to the crux of my statement: Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit, but wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. Yes humans start out as cells. Yes we are still made up of cells. The letter to the editor is about abortion. Regardless of how old the baby is, the term still applies. Calling an abortion an elimination of cells does not change the meaning. I notice that when you have nothing valid to add to an argument, you simply attempt to discredit people by challenging their persuasive style. Your tactics are silly at best and ineffective at worst. Ironically, these attempts only discredit you because they display how juvenile you are instead of actually providing a counterpoint. Just take your ball and go home.
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It's not a person? Then congratulations! You're not pregnant so abortion isn't even an issue! For those who are pregnant, those cells are arms and legs that are ripped off. Those cells are brains being vacuumed out of baby's skull. Those cells make up the spine that Planned Parenthood backed Dr. Gossnell snipped. The cries of the babies though, those are not cells. Those are sounds. So I guess you're correct about something. According to you the 22 week old baby kicking in my belly is just a life/death choice for me, but you would deny my choice to defend my life with a firearm. The culture of death sickens me. It's so frightening to think that the minds behind the cures for cancer, AIDS, or even the common cold were perhaps denied their choices to live.
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uNTIL ROE vs WADE IS OVERTURNED IT IS WHAT IT IS. RHETORIC CAN'T REWRITE THE LAW.
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Well Florence, it's murder regardless of how you justify it. My personal favorite is that "it's just a sack of cells." with that justification we can abort anybody at any age, because we are all sacks of cells regardless of whether or not we are in a mother's womb. Unfortunately we live in a society that does not understand personal responsibility. It is quite sad really. The are too many easy ways out of difficult situations instead of taking charge of our lives and making better decisions. It's quite frightening that people claim "woman's choice" yet don't take into account the baby's choice. I have found that the same people who cry "choice" when it comes to murder demand I have no choices when it comes to protecting myself, my family and my property.
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Florence, Although I can understand your view, please look at the opposite side of the coin. Unwanted, unloved, cold, hungry, neglected, burned, beaten, abused, dirty, afraid. Thinking finger prints come from having your hands placed on hot stove burners so many times.A 15 month old sexually abuse in Texas. They tossed this child back and forth so much that her skull cracked from hitting the ceiling so many times. Those are just a few of the tortures unwanted children go through. Graphic I know.But,I wonder which is worse? For the rest of you. You can be pro choice without being pro abortion. Think about it.
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Abortion - A Women's Right to Choose! The Supreme Court has so ruled that it is allowed by our constitution.
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In organic light emitting diodes, only singlet excitons contribute to the light emission (this is flouresence). Everything I read, say that triplet excitons cannot recombine on the same timescale as the singlets because spin selection rules forbid it.
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The lattice polytop $[0,n_1]\times[0,n_2]\times\dots\times[0,n_{d-1}]\times[0,1]$ contains $(n_1+1)(n_2+1)\cdots(n_{d-1}+1)2$ integral points on the boundary and no integral points in its interior. Its number of vertices, $2^d$, is however bounded by a function depending only on its dimension $d$. Does there exist a sequence of convex $d-$dimensional lattice-polytops without interior lattice points and more and more vertices?
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Good relations between employer and employee and among coworkers are significant factors in any job. You can't get your work done as promptly and efficiently with a cloud of resentment and anger hanging over your head. For some reason, a pregnant woman raises some people's hackles, especially the boss's, who sometimes feels that becoming pregnant somehow indicates a lack of devotion to the job. Announcing your condition must be approached, in many cases, with caution.
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Toilet training an older child is not just about productive conversation, determined self-mastery, and an eager desire to conform to big-kid behavior. Preschoolers' progress can be delayed, and their parents' frustration increased, by such typical behaviors as contrariness (frequently resisting direction, often by doing the opposite of what she is told) and increased negotiation—as well as the new fears and anxieties that often accompany their stage of development.
Contrariness springs from the same urge toward independence as the toddler's frequent "No!" As your child develops and her thinking grows more sophisticated, she naturally longs to control more of her environment and direct a greater portion of her life.
Just as she experimented with defiant behaviors a year or two ago, your preschooler may now want to find out what will happen if she "forgets" to use the potty as you reminded her to do or if she decides she wants to wear diapers again after you have agreed that it's time to move on. Such resistance is perfectly normal, but it can easily derail the toilet-training process.
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Highly verbal preschoolers may prefer making excuses, arguing, or negotiating to simply resisting through their actions. Your child may explain away constant accidents with "I forgot," refuse to visit the bathroom, or constantly bargain for bigger and better rewards when she succeeds. Again, the first step in overcoming this kind of resistance is to stop engaging. Your verbal child loves nothing more than an interesting discussion or argument; if you refuse to participate, she will soon lose interest in this game.
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How much are you willing to pay for a glass of wine that was paired for your food at a restaurant?
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Depends on the restaurant, the occasion and company. When dining in an 'upscale' (whatever that means) establishment, and 2 or more people are w/me, I would most likely order a bottle. Or 2 if there's a red/white pairing issue. Not a glass.
That said, in mid-price range restaurants, the house wine would probably suffice. Am not a connoisseur. Sorry I can't put a price on a glass. Couldn't do that w/a bottle either. :-/
Following the lead of @gmwhit I'll add my noncommittal 2¢ here....I can't really put a per-glass price on wine due to the many variables involved. I will start the low-ball at $1 (on a very good night).
@jsimsace: Noncommittal gmwhit here. Where in the world do you find wine (in a restaurant) at a $1 a glass?? Even house wine is more than that. Nor are we speaking of homemade wine...like my grandfather & mother used to make. ::slurp:: (Yes, they stomped the grapes. Wore rubber boots; not barefoot.)
@gmwhit: In the spirit of things I would suggest this place if you arrrrrgh thirsty.
Sorry, OP. :)
@jsimsace: I see. Niiiiccceee one. Think I'll tag along w/@morriea. Especially if s/he's buying. O.o
@lll0228 What's your price per glass?
@jsimsace: Oh wow. But I can't imagine how a $1 glass would be drinkable. I can't even stand Charles Shaw... :)
Quite a bit compared to most. I'll easily pay $25/glass if the restaurant/food warrant that.
I don't go for the whole pairing thing. I drink whatever I'm feeling like at that moment, which is usually red. My price per glass? If it's a wine that you can buy by the glass, then I wouldn't go over $15.
I agree with Kyle. With Italian wine it is easy for me to do that. Been known to order the bottle to go with the meal. Of course having good company at the table that has my same palate helps.
When dining in the sorts of restaurants that pair glasses of wine by the course, I believe "willingness to pay" has already been answered. :)
(For context, I believe that the Tasting Menu at Per Se is now $295/person for food only; the paired wines are usually around $200/person, I believe. I've never eaten there, never will, never wanted to - but when I think of "wine paired by the glass," I think of Chef's Tasting Menus at the super-elitist-of-the-elite.)
In the past, I have purchased wine by the glass. At The Breakers in Palm Beach. (Name dropping little turds here.) It wasn't a 'chef' who recommended the wine, it was the sommelier. You know, that pretentious (okay, not really. It's their job) person who has the tasting cup hanging on a chain around their neck. It was quite an experience. A very expensive one at that. Stayed there several nights that time; never ordered 'by the glass' again.
Second memorable experience was in Rome. Will not go into great detail, unless begged mercilessly...had one of the best meals ever! Three of us. One glass of wine for each of the other 2. I opted out. Will say that the cost was worth every single euro. :-D
I usually won't pay more than 6 Euros. I can have excellent wine for 3.50 so why pay more for wine that's not that much better?
Meh, depends. I try to avoid wines by the glass: they tend to be even more overpriced than the wines by the bottle that you buy in restaurants. But, to answer the question: at anything above $15 I start getting unhappy. I start thinking about the much better wine that I have sitting in the chiller or stored in the basement that cost me (at most) 20-30 bucks a bottle.
I'm willing to pay about 30% more than what I'd spend for a bottle of wine at the liquor store.
A $10 bottle of wine at the Sto' becomes $13 at the Restaurant.
I only purchase wine by the bottle and never more than $45 per bottle. I've never found a wine thats worth more than that in a resturant. Before you call me cheap or decide that I just haven't had enough exposure to know what I'm talking about let me say this. I spent 6 yrs as a bartender and bar manager for one of the most prestigous catering companies in the US. I bought and tasted almost every wine that was served. I know what we paid for them and I know what normal restaurant markup looks like.
I'd rather just have a nice glass of burbon if I've going to have to over pay for wine.
Allergic to sulfur so I can't drink wine. But the friend with whom we travel likes the fine dining world, and if there is a paired wine he will pretty much pay whatever the asking price is. I find a lot of the upper end food places he likes to visit to have a wonderful ambiance, but I am often somewhat disappointed in the food. They often seem to be so interested in form, color, crossing genres and exploring unlikely combinations that they lose sight of making it taste good. To me the best food comes from restaurants where the owner seats you, the other owner is in the kitchen cooking, the oldest kids take the orders and the younger kids fill the water glasses and bus tables. These can be plain or fancy, of any ethnicity, and pretty reliably lay down the best food IME.


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I can not run the Terminal.app after rolling back my system from time machine.
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I'm trying to create a Sencha Touch prototype app for the first time. So far I have a skeleton app following the MVC pattern. I've managed to create a main view consisting of a Panel with a login button (that does nothing yet).
I want to implement a login feature that takes a set of user credentials and validates them against my REST/JSON web service. If the credentials are correct, the username/pass must be stored locally and then sent with every subsequent call to the web service for validation.
Bonus feature: If the credentials ever change on the server, rendering the credentials stored in LocalStorage invalid, the credentais saved in LocalStorage should be wiped and the user should be logged out and sent back to the login screen.
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I am writing to urge my fellow Westport voters to vote "no" on the upcoming ballot Question 3 that proposes to reduce the Community Preservation Act surcharge from 2 percent to 1 percent.
Three out of every four properties in Westport are valued at less than $400,000. The average CPA surcharge on these properties is $34 a year.
If the surcharge is reduced from 2 percent to 1 percent, the property owners on average would save only about $17 a year, but it would cause the town at least a $100,000 loss per year in matching funds from the state.
The CPA surcharge serves to preserve our heritage with open spaces, a healthy river and sea life, affordable housing and more protected farmland. CPA funds help to maintain historic town buildings, preserve centuries-old cemeteries, develop sports fields and playgrounds and pay for handicapped accessibility projects. The total list is remarkable.
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I have seen different Minhagim regarding lighting one or two candles on Motzei Shabbos. What is the source and why 1 or 2?
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I seem to recall that they are also "neshamah licht" (candles in memory of the departed) for King David, who died on Shabbos afternoon (and who is associated with the melaveh malkah meal).
Commenting on the Shulchan Aruch's "One should always set his table on motzae Shabas to escort Shabas", Mishna B'rura 300:3 writes:
My mother has the custom of leaving two candles lit, either which were the actual ones used for Havdalah or lit from the Havdalah candle. Her mother called them "Shulem Bayis Lichten". I do not yet know of a written source, but with minhagim I believe that a mimetic source should suffice. (Minhag Yisrael Torah)
As far as the reasons, I have theories. However, I think anyone else's guess is as good as mine.
My Rebbi told me it is because just as we escort shabbos in with light, so to do we escort it out with light. I've always seen the minhag with 2 candles.


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GREENEVILLE, Tenn. – Guards Chandler Hash and Myson Jones combined for 48 points, as the Anderson men's basketball team claimed its seventh consecutive win by outpacing Tusculum, 80-73, Wednesday night at Pioneer Arena.
Anderson (16-5, 11-4 SAC) maintained sole possession of second place in the league standings with its eighth straight win past the Pioneers, while recording its longest win streak of the season. The Trojans also improved to 10-1 away from the Abney Center with their seventh straight road win, while Tusculum fell to 3-18 overall and 2-13 in the conference with its second straight setback.
Tusculum finished the night shooting 47.5 percent from the field, while the Trojans overcame a slow start to finish the night shooting 42.1 percent, but compensated by connecting on their third-highest accuracy of the season from beyond the arc, at 52.2 percent (12-of-23). The Pioneers outscored AU, 36-22, in the paint, while the Trojans won the battle of the boards by six rebounds.
Hash moved into sixth-place all-time in Anderson's scoring record books with the game-high 28 points and was a perfect 10-of-10 from the free throw line. Jones added 20 points on the night, while DJ McGowan came off the bench to chip in eight points and equaled a career-best with a team-high eight rebounds. Redshirt junior Nick Jackson, who garnered his first start for the Black and Gold, finished with eight points and five boards.
Junior guard Darius Carter led the Pioneers with 20 points, with senior guard Addison Flynn netting 17. Sophomore forward Keith Jumper posted a double-double with 11 points and a game-high 12 rebounds.
"We were fortunate to win," said Anderson head coach Jason Taylor. "[Tusculum] is a good, well-coached team. Our guys made plays when we needed them. There are more positives than negatives when you win on the road in this league."
With the Trojans short-handed due to senior CJ Gleaton not making the trip to Greeneville because of an illness, Anderson opened sluggishly on the offensive end, connecting on just one of their first five field goal attempts. Tusculum was 3-of-4 on the other end to open the contest, including a pair of 3-pointers, as the Pioneers raced out to a quick 8-0 lead in the first two-plus minutes.
But Anderson countered with six unanswered points in the paint to trim to the early deficit to just two at the 16:17 mark of the opening half on a layup from senior Kyle Sledge. Following a basket by Tusculum's Chase Mounce, AU cut the Pioneers' advantage to 10-9 on the first of two straight 3-pointers from Jones and drew even for the first time of the night on Jones' second straight 3-pointer as part of a rare four-point play with 14:29 on the clock.
Tusculum took advantage of its hot shooting to quickly counter and snap the deadlock with a 14-3 outburst to take their largest lead of the game, at 27-16 midway through the half. The Pioneers were shooting 88.9 percent from the field midway through the run, but Anderson battled back with sophomore guard Myles Daniel fueling an 8-0 run with five straight points as part of a 16-5 run to knot the score for just the second time of the night. Jackson capped the surge by knocking down back-to-back 3-pointers to tie the score at 32 apiece.
The Pioneers again answered quickly, this time with another 8-0 surge and closed the half with a 10-5 run to claim a 42-37 lead heading to the locker rooms.
After falling behind by eight to open the second stanza, the Trojans battled back to take their first lead of the night, 51-49, on Hash's second 3-pointer of the game from the left side with 13:32 remaining in the contest. But the Trojans went cold over the next 4:42, as AU committed a pair of turnovers and misfired on four of their next five field goal attempts. The scoring drought enabled Tusculum to regain a 55-53 edge midway through the final half.
With the Pioneers clinging to a 59-54 lead, Hash sank back-to-back treys to give the Trojans a brief 60-59 advantage with less than seven minutes on the clock. But Tusculum outscored the Trojans 7-2 to take a four-point lead with just a little more than four minutes on the clock, before McGowan connected on one-of-two from the line and Jones sandwiched two 3-pointers around a Mounce jumper to regain a 69-68 lead for AU. McGowan followed with a tip-in to boost the cushion to three, but Carter answered on the other end with a traditional three-point play to knot the score for the eighth and final time of the night, at 71-71.
The Trojans then reeled off nine unanswered points, with Hash tallying seven in the final moments, to take an 80-71 lead with just nine seconds left. Carter added a basket at the buzzer to set the final score.
Anderson wraps up its three-game conference road swing by traveling to Wingate on Saturday in a rematch of the Dec. 4 game that saw the Bulldogs rally from a 17-point second-half deficit to claim the win at the Abney Athletic Center. Tip-off is set for 4 p.m. at Cuddy Arena.


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7 Movie Plot Holes You Didn't Notice Due to Editing (Pt. 2)
The magic of editing means that in just seconds, a movie character can go from attending a party in a tuxedo to being fully dressed in Batman gear by merely cutting from one shot to the next. Movies would suck without this -- nobody wants films to waste time showing Bruce Wayne tediously lacing up his boots and applying the talcum powder that lets him get the rubber mask over his cheeks.
But as we've shown you before, even great movies abuse this power by building key plot points around utterly impossible events hidden by clever edits. Once you start to notice this sort of thing, it's kind of hard to stop asking questions like ...
#7. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 -- How Did Nobody Find the Bride in Buck's Truck?
After being shot in the head by David Carradine, the Bride is left lying in a coma for four years, until she suddenly wakes up just in time to bite a rapist's face off.
She then uses a doorjamb to brain Buck, the skeezy orderly who had been pimping out her comatose body, and steals his keys. Because the muscles in her legs have atrophied from disuse, she has to ride a wheelchair to escape, and the Bride rolls around the parking garage until she finds Buck's truck, then crawls inside. He won't mind, since he's now dead and all.
She would have taken his shoes, too, but they were too small.
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As you can see, the Bride spends over half a day lying in the truck before her legs start working again and she is able to drive it the hell out of the garage.
So ... was Buck the only person working at the hospital that night? In the span of 13 hours, did nobody discover two fresh bodies lying in the middle of a suddenly missing coma patient's room? There must have been a shift change at some point -- at the very least, Buck's absence would have been noted, and we have to believe that a patient in the Bride's condition would be monitored pretty closely. When he didn't show up for roll call or respond to pages, and when they saw no updates on the Bride for the past half-day, hospital staff presumably would have sent someone to both look for him and check on her. Honestly, somebody should've tripped over those dead guys within 10 minutes of the Bride making it to the garage.
"Hey, this isn't where we store these."
With a murdered employee and a missing patient, that hospital would've locked down like the Thunderdome while the Bride was still lying in Buck's truck and staring at her feet. Regardless of whether they thought she was responsible (and they probably wouldn't have -- they'd find it way more likely that some lunatic had killed Buck and hauled her comatose ass off like a sack of potatoes), the cops would be covering all exits and combing the building looking for her.
"OK," you think, "but maybe it wouldn't occur to them to look in the parking garage. Maybe they'd be too worried about whether there was a killer loose in the building to go see if Buck's car was missing." Well, sure, we could buy that for an hour or two. But once they'd established that the killer and coma patient didn't seem to be in the building, they'd need to figure out how to track their asses down. And someone (either the cops or a super sleuth doctor) would definitely notice that Buck's keys were gone, because Buck's keys look like this:
And the vehicle they operate looks like this:
The cops don't even search it anymore. The Purell costs were breaking their budget.
Buck drives the gaudiest, most ostentatious truck in the hospital, probably in the entire state, and possibly in continental America. People notice when the Pussy Wagon comes and goes. With Buck dead, his keys stolen and a patient in his care missing, that truck would be the first thing everyone in the history of deductive reasoning would look for, and they would find it plenty fast if it was sitting in one place for 13 goddamned hours.
#6. Ocean's Eleven -- How Did the Fake Money Get into the Vault?
Danny Ocean assembles a crew of thieves to steal $150 million from one of casino owner Terry Benedict's seemingly impregnable vaults (they do such a bang-up job that Benedict catches every single one of them 10 minutes into the sequel). Their incredibly complicated scheme involves breaking into the vault, lacing it with explosives and telling Benedict that they are going to blow up all of his money unless he has it loaded in bags into a van they have parked outside.
Benedict caves in to their demands, but not without calling a SWAT team to secure the vault and having his men follow Ocean's van to the airport.
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Benedict's men intercept the van and discover that it's a decoy -- instead of money, each bag is stuffed with thousands of fliers for Las Vegas hookers (which they presumably found by sweeping up one 50-foot stretch of Vegas sidewalk).
"Guys, make sure you collect all of these for ... uh, evidence."
We then find out that the SWAT team is actually Ocean and his crew in disguise, having pulled a hilarious bait-and-switch to now sneak the real money out of the vault.
"Leaving the scene of a crime? Eh, no need to keep my face covered the whole time."
It's a fun, ingenious plan that leaves you guessing right to the end. But, uh ... at what point did they get all those X-rated fliers in there? You know, the bags that they trick Benedict and his men into following? They literally appear out of thin air, piled in the middle of the vault, ready to be picked up.
This isn't a trivial point here -- it's the crux of the entire plan. None of this works without the decoy money in the vault. And it's not a case where it could have been dropped in there between scenes -- only three of the thieves ever go into the vault, and none of them could have been carrying the fliers. First the Amazing Yen is smuggled in inside a cash cart, and there is absolutely no room for six huge duffel bags of titty paper in there.
Yet there is totally room for him to take an Amazing Dump.
Then Ocean and Linus Caldwell propel themselves down an elevator shaft filled with laser beams. Clearly they aren't carrying the fliers, either.
It's like a Mission: Impossible themed rave.
Maybe the rest of the crew brought the fliers with them in the SWAT truck ... except we see the decoy van, already containing the bags of fliers, leaving the casino before the SWAT truck arrives.
Nope, no chance a passing patrolman might radio in about this.
So where in the name of The Peacemaker did the decoy money bags come from? On the DVD commentary, the filmmakers admit that not even they know the answer (we're telling you this so that you don't ever find yourself listening to the Ocean's Eleven commentary track). In a movie focused entirely on the cleverness of a master thief, they never bother to explain how he accomplished the most crucial aspect of his plan. We suppose the only explanation is that Benedict stored the fliers in the vault himself to protect them from Julia Roberts.
#5. Superman II -- How Did Lois and Clark Get Back from the Fortress of Solitude?
Clark Kent finally reveals to Lois Lane that he is Superman and decides to take her to the Fortress of Solitude at the North Pole, because evidently she still needs some convincing. Superman realizes that he could never hope to maintain a relationship with Lois as long as he is a son of Krypton (and honestly, if you're considering giving up super alien powers for Margot Kidder, you don't deserve them anyway). He willingly steps into a crystal chamber to expose himself to Red Kryptonian sunlight, stripping himself of everything that makes him awesome and turning himself into a normal person.
"I hope he doesn't think that this means he gets to do butt stuff ..."
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Lois and Clark driving in a Chevy to a diner.
This is somewhat less cinematic than flying.
Clearly, they're enjoying their first few days together as a normal couple, and ... waitaminute, how the fuck did they get back from the Fortress of Solitude?
In case you are a relative novice of Superman mythology, the Fortress of Solitude is located at the North Pole. This is not an issue for the Man of Steel -- he just flies back and forth whenever the hell he feels like it.
"I'd secure you with both arms, but the fist-pointing is integral."
However, he gave up the ability to fly when he stepped into that red sunlight chamber. Which, as you may remember, is in the Fortress of Solitude. At the North Pole.
There is literally no way to get in or out of the North Pole that doesn't involve an ice freighter and years of survival training. There's certainly no way that Lois and Clark could have gotten back in such a short period of time unless they had that Narnia closet.
Later on, when Clark realizes that he has made a mistake and decides to go back to the Fortress to restore his powers, the movie just cuts to him already back in the North Pole, walking sadly along like the end credits of The Incredible Hulk. Remember, he still can't fly, and Clark Kent doesn't exactly have the capital to charter an arctic expedition at the drop of a hat. Maybe Bruce Wayne gave him a ride.
"He let me borrow the same teleporter he used to escape a midair nuclear explosion in three seconds."
#4. The Lost World: Jurassic Park -- How Did the Tyrannosaurus Kill Everyone on the Ship?
An expedition to another dinosaur-infested island, consisting of Jeff Goldblum's daughter and Vince Vaughn before he discovered cupcakes, results in a spectacular body count but ultimately sees Tyrannosaurus rex captured at the hands of a bushy-eyebrowed Englishman. They load the prehistoric superbeast onto a cargo ship and transport it to San Diego, because this is without question the greatest idea of all time.
"Great work, men! There is no conceivable aspect of this that could possibly fail!"
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Shockingly, the boat carrying the largest terrestrial predator in history crashes into the pier in San Diego because its entire crew has been eatmurdered.
Although the helmsman remained dutifully rooted to his post until the absolute last possible second.
One of the slain crewmen has a death grip on the controls for the ship's cargo hold:
And the hold door is stuck partially open, its motor loudly struggling against some obstruction:
Meanwhile, Jeff Goldblum stares at his script in wide-eyed disbelief.
One ill-advised decision to press the OPEN button in the dead crewman's hand later, T. rex busts loose and starts killing people:
The dinosaur's closest living relative is the Kool-Aid Man.
So ... what happened on the boat, exactly? The Tyrannosaurus broke out, killed everyone, then climbed back into the cargo hold? Maybe, but how could an animal that size have gotten to the people we see lying dead in the wheelhouse? His head wouldn't fit through the windows to bite anyone, let alone any of the doorways. And what about the dead crewman holding the cargo door controls? His body is several yards away from the hold. If they'd successfully lured the Tyrannosaurus back down in there and gotten the doors mostly shut again, how did T. rex manage to kill that guy? With a crossbow? Did the man succumb to some unrelated illness?
Apparently, the filmmakers originally intended to have a bunch of Velociraptors sneak aboard the ship and wipe out the crew. However, the idea was ultimately dropped, probably because they figured that after seeing one of the raptors get killed by a little girl doing gymnastics, the audience could no longer take them seriously. The dead crew angle was never rewritten, though, so we're left to assume that the Tyrannosaurus either has mutant powers or is a spirited practical joker.


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I have a MacBook and an iPad and see dirt and fingerprints all over it.
What kind of cleaner do the people in the Apple store use to clean all the Macs and iPads on display?
I figure that anything strong enough to handle that abuse (being in a store used by so many people) should be good enough for use at home.


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Before I take P-Chem I would like to understand how physicists view the same material. What Physics course(s) should I take and/or books should I read to learn the same material from a physicist's perspective? Would thermodynamics be equivalent?
Background: I have done the math: Calculus 1-3 and differential equations and have already taken general physics 1+2 and 2 semesters of modern physics (relativity, QM...).


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Parody of Northern English accent. Shortening of The Internet to "T'Internet, to Tinternet. Made popular by Peter Kay.
"You can look it up on tinternet."
מאת Miles Walkden 27 בנובמבר, 2003
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"The internet", cleverly merged with each other, to form a Northern slur....
Pupil: Can I go on t'internet?
Mr Humphrey the Computer Legend: No! Goodbye!
Mr Humphrey the Computer Legend: No! Goodbye!
מאת Bob 28 ביוני, 2004
'The Internet', in a stereotypical Northern English accent in which the word 'the' is shortened to 't'. Used normally in a tongue-in-cheek or self-parodying fashion. The word 'tinterweb' also exists, but is rarely used.
Research? Log onto tinternet and let's see what we can find.
מאת Blue Jack 9 באוקטובר, 2008
t'internet, short for 'the internet'.
"t'" can be used in conjuction with other words with the exception of "th'police"
"t'" can be used in conjuction with other words with the exception of "th'police"
It's amazing what you can find on t'internet
מאת James Frost 20 באפריל, 2004


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Worilds is better at this point. I still think Worilds becomes a good player this year. Woodley is the problem.
Worilds is better at this point. I still think Worilds becomes a good player this year. Woodley is the problem.
If Jarvis Jones is the man the Steelers thought he would be ... He should beat out Worilds. I think it would be a negative any way you look at it if Jones doesn't beat out Worilds at some point in 2013. Would Worilds be playing that good or Jones struggling? Take it from there where 2014 comes in.
I think he will push both Worilds and Woodley. Heck it would be great if Worilds could use the motivation and beat him out and become a great player. OLB is such an important position it would be great to have 3 really good guys at the position.
I will be the first one to say that he will be the week one starter. I believe that the team views Worilds much the same way as a guy like Foote or Gay. They would be fine with starting him if needed, but do not view him as the ROLB of the future. I see an open competition with the more talented player winning out.
In comparing them, Jones is seen as a top 10 talent who slid due to medical concerns. If those concerns don't come out in camp then they are not concerns for week one. Worilds is seen as a guy who the Steelers overdrafted in the second.
Worilds was a player who came in and had to learn the position. He has shown more on the other side than the right side. While Jones has never played under Lebeau, he was a big playmaker at 3-4 OLB. His transition should be easier than most rooks.
If Jones has no problems with the system then the more talented player should win out, and that is Jones.
If Foote got injured in training camp or preseason.....could Worilds or even Woodley play inside?
"He's a pretty good fit there in Pittsburgh. If you look at the Pittsburgh edge at linebackers, this kid fits from a body type and an explosion perspective. I think he'll get on the field and challenge Jason Worilds for the starting spot." -- Mike Mayock
We'll need Jones, Worilds, and Woodley to all play well to make the playoffs this year.


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Picnic Desserts
I made this for my husband & he absolutely raved about it! It is every bit as delicious as the recipe I used to make from my mom - I couldn't even tell the difference! The lattice top is easy to do & looks fabulous - just like store bought! This pie is a winner!
— Anonymous
06/01/2010 - 8:29pm
This has worked well for me both times I made it. I am a lousy cook who had never kneaded dough before! I followed the recipe as is (I am too clueless to modify it) except that could not find instant tapioca, so I used Quick Cooking Tapioca and ground it in a coffee grinder. The lattice crust was very easy and looked very showy.
Everyone loved it
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7 Vampires Around the World Worse Than The Ones In Twilight
True Blood, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, Larry King - Vampires are everywhere these days. Actually, they've always been everywhere. It seems like every culture on Earth has some version of the vampire.
And, as sad as it is to see what has happened to the vampire recently, what with the sparkling and the screeching teenage fans, it turns out that other cultures have a huge head start in making vampires ridiculous.
Just take a look at...
#7. The Loogaroo
Resembling a normal human woman by day, the Loogaroo only takes vampiric form at night. She does this by rubbing herself down with a special lotion, which is a totally hot set-up, and then slipping off her entire skin, which uh... quashes the sexiness just a bit.
It ain't like this.
She then performs a ritualistic dance that causes turkey wings to sprout out of her back, though this seems expressly designed to confuse, since what actually allows her to fly are the flames that shoot out of her armpits and ass.
Holy shit! Have they not made a movie about this?
This one's on us, Hollywood.
Leaving a neon trail of vampire farts, she rockets out through her roof and goes on the prowl for victims, which are usually infants and children. Apparently lacking even respectable fangs, the Loogaroo carries a comically oversized straw wherever she goes, and inserts it through the thatched walls of her victim's hut to drink blood from the sleeper's cheek. That's right: The Loogaroo subscribes to the Willy Wonka approach to horror.
#6. Alp (Germany)
One of the most well-known bogeymen of German folklore is the Alp. Meaning simply "elf" in German, the Alp opts not to bake mediocre cookies or build toys in an arctic sweatshop, but rather prefers to attack women in their sleep. These attacks cause horrible nightmares, and are often accompanied by a sensation called "alpdruck" or "elf pressure," which is what we know now as sleep paralysis.
Sitting on its victim's chest, the tiny demon would feed by sucking blood from the breasts, probably because it was a Thinking Man's vampire. Hey, you've got to get blood from somewhere, might as well get to second base while you're at it.
"Tee hee! I want to suck blood from your tits!"
Alps were notorious for their "amazing" shape-shifting powers, and were supposedly able to turn invisible or take on the form of any animal. That sounds fairly handy actually, except for the fact that they could only use these powers while wearing their beloved magic hat, which legends explicitly state remains visible regardless of their form.
"She suspects nussing!"
The presence of a hat-wearing animal is the most surefire means of identifying an Alp in its magical disguise, which was first dutifully recorded by the vampire slayer, Captain Obvious, in his field guide to the supernatural: Shit It Took Me Way Too Long To Figure Out: Vol. 1.
#5. The Loups Garou
When the French came to Louisiana, they brought with them their version of the vampire-slash-werewolf, the Loup Garou. Not literally, mind you. There was no booming monster import business in the New World; they just passed along the folklore.
The French apparently don't get super specialized with their mythical monsters, because the Loup Garou, in addition to being a bloodsucking werewolf creature, also had some properties of a warlock. They kind of just threw it all in there. You could find them soaring the night sky on the backs of gigantic bats, or dropping down into chimneys to feed on sleeping victims like a Death Metal Santa Claus.
Like this, except with... no. No, exactly like this.
All told, they sound pretty terrifying... save for one crippling flaw: An extreme, uncontrollable fear of frogs. That's right, the surest defense against an attack by this monster was to present to it any small, croaking amphibian and the magical wolf-pire would flee in horror like a little girl.
"Now you vill succumb to myyaAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
Admittedly, that's not much worse than the ridiculous aversion to garlic that other vampires possess (hint: Your monster kind of sucks when it can be defeated by flavor), but the key here is location: A fear of frogs might be relatively tough to exploit in say, the desert or the polar ice caps. But even with giant bat-flight at their disposal, the Loup Garou inexplicably continues to haunt the Louisiana bayou which, if poorly informed stereotypes are right, is home to literally nothing but frogs, bead necklaces and enthusiastic young sluts on Spring Break.


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Running (biking) up that hill
June 23, 2008
Wow, I haven't posted in months. Where did those months go? Well, it's a long story – I became very sick in the beginning of March with a couple of different issues going on. It's been such a nightmare and I basically haven't had the energy to do anything until just recently. However, I'll save the whole sickness business for another post. I don't feel up to writing about that right now.
In better news, I recently bought a good used bike with the hope of using it to finally begin exercising again. It's pretty comfortable, considering the pain and limitations I have with my wrists, ankles, and sometimes hips. I could write an entire post on the headache it is just trying to find a bike that works and is the least painful for this decrepit body. Admittedly, I really do envy people who can just purchase things like this (and shoes, for another matter) without having it turn into a huge ordeal. Yeah, don't get me going on shoes either. I can't find any tennis shoes that fit and don't hurt my feet. My former marathon coach is supposed to be helping me find some New Balance ones, but I think he's forgotten about it. I should bug him again, I suppose.
Back to the bike. I recently moved into a small house in NE Minneapolis which is only 3.2 miles from where my sister and her husband live. This is pretty cool, so today I decided to bike over there for the first time. Now, maybe this was a stupid idea since I've been lying on the couch for three months day after day (no exaggeration), but I'm happy to report that I survived. I did not fall off the bike, I didn't pass out in the midst of a heart attack, I didn't wuss out and go back home. GOOD JOB ME. Well, however I did have to walk the bike up part of a large hill, but that's understandable I think. Thankfully the ride back home was a breeze, zooming down that hill. So now I'm a tired, sweaty mess, but it feels really good. Back before I had RA, I was a pretty active, athletic person. I played softball, basketball, and tennis among other sports. I miss all of those things, but if I can handle this biking thing, I'll be happy and grateful for that.
Sorry if this isn't a very witty or clever post, but hey – I just biked over six miles! Give this couch potato a break. :)
Also, thank you so much to all of you who have left me comments over the last few months. I'm sorry I've been MIA. I have read every one of them and will work on responding to your comments as soon as I can.
Happy biking,
11 Responses to "Running (biking) up that hill"
June 24, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Hi Angela,
Glad to see a new post from you and hear you are doing ok. I just recently discovered your blog. That's great about the bike, and six miles is no small accomplishment. I bet it feels good to reclaim a little bit of your pre-ra life.
July 5, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Hi, just stumbled across your site. I know exactly what you mean about finding a bike that is kind to the joints. I was so sad when I'd see my hubby leave on a bikeride with my young son knowing I couldn't go with them because the pressure and ensuing pain in my wrists was too much to bear. I recently found a bike, though, that has made it possible for me to ride for miles without too much pain: it's a Raleigh Hybrid (http://www.raleighusa.com/bikes/hybrid/detour-35/) and it is just fantastic…but I still walk it up hills :-)
And about shoes? I started a blog about comfortable,stylish shoes last August, BarkingDogShoes.com. My absolute favorite is the Merrell Siren walking shoe–kind to my bunion-ridden, achy feet.
July 11, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Wow u've inspired me! I'm gona get my bike out tmrw. Sorry should of started with A Hello. I'm new to RA and been sat here (in london) feeling sorry for myself. Trying to find out more infomation can be upsetting. But also so Inspiring Need to get a grip and get out there. From A to A! x
July 17, 2008 at 6:52 pm
just came across your blog…you might like mine, i have RA too. lately the blog is more about my pregnancy, but earlier posts are VERY RA related! i'm going to read more of yours…
August 18, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Angela, just found your blog today. Glad to hear you are back in action! I have RA and have the darnedest time finding shoes that fit and don't hurt. I've found Saucony to be a good tennis shoe. They also seem to run a bit wider than your average sneaker and are fairly comfortable (until my feet swell up!). Anyway, let me know if you found something that works for you — I'm always looking for new options! Take care.
October 5, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I tried to start exercising by doing something very easy -tightening my stomach (abs?)
The physio said act as though someone is pointing a knife at your bellybutton. Pull in and then up with the muscles. You can do it lying in bed.
It is not something I would have kept on with but after 2 months I saw a rheumatologist as part of a trial so it was a brief examination but she did say I had strong abs. Amazing after so little work. So I kept it up and now do modified Pilates, lying down, every day for about 15 minutes. Any sustained feeling of success is good
February 24, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Hi. Just curious, since I've briefly read your blog are you single? I only ask because as a RA sufferer I find it difficult to be my painfilled self with anyone new. It's like a little secret between me and my delicious looking salad plate that's getting by barely touched because on that date I had so much pain in my wrists that I couldn't lift my fork. Whilst my date thinks ooh. isn't she dainty.
There once was the day when I had a long time boyfriend who understood my flare-ups and would feed me ect.. but he is gone .
How do you deal with the facade of being young and healthy in a new relationship?
April 30, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I can not even imagine getting on a bike. I have been walking but on the days I walk , in the evenings, I have a lot of pain in my ankles. Swimming seems to be my best bet for exercise I have no after affects from it. I am glad I found your blog and I hope your feeling better every day.
December 11, 2009 at 5:55 am
Wow… very amazing subject. I will write about it as well!