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Gingerbread Cookies
Categories: Christmas, Cookies, Cooking with Kids, Hanukkah, Kid-friendly, Kwanzaa
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Without the egg white glaze and nuts, you can use this dough to roll out and cut into shapes for holiday cookies
Prep Time: 30M, plus cooling
Cooking Time: 8M-10M
Serves: makes about 45 cookies
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling
- 2 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp pumpkin-pie spice
- 1 cup almond flour
- 3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar
- 9 tbsp butter, at room temperature
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 large egg, separated
- 4 tsp milk
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- chopped skinned hazelnuts or almonds, to decorate
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- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Sift the flour, ginger, baking powder, and pumpkin-pie spice together. Stir in the almond flour. Beat the sugar and butter together in another bowl with an electric mixer until pale. Beat in the honey, egg yolk, milk, and vanilla. Stir in the flour mixture to make a stiff dough. Gather into a thick disk, wrap in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface to a thickness of about 1/4in (5mm). Cut out the cookies. Place on baking sheets 1in (2.5cm) apart. Gather up and re-roll the scraps as needed. Beat the egg white. Brush the cookies with the egg white and sprinkle with the hazelnuts. Bake for about 10 minutes, or until lightly browned.
- Let cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes. Transfer to wire racks and cool completely.
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As reported here (SCOTUS blog), here (PrawfsBlawg), here (Volokh), here (Crime & Federalism), and here (Althouse), the US Supreme Court today ruled, in a 5-4 decision (pdf) authored by Justice Stevens, that states are not immune from bankruptcy preference actions. Central Virginia Community College v. Katz, No. 04-885, 2006 WL 151985. Here, I'll try and expand upon, not repeat, the above posts.
I think most would agree that the result in this case is a surprising one given the ample precedent that pointed to a contrary result. As noted here, the oral argument left many believing that the Court had again "dodged a bullet" and would not tackle the question directly, but instead would decide on the "lesser ground" of waiver (as suggested at oral argument by Justice Ginsburg, who ultimately sided with the majority). Indeed, Justice Souter, who also sided with the majority, himself signaled his deep reservation with the bankruptcy trustee's entire abrogation argument when he told the trustee's counsel at oral argument:
I'm not a big fan of sovereign immunity in these circumstances, but I'm not quite sure how to get around it, based on the fact that there is no alternative remedy here.... [B]asically, you're making the argument from the uniformity phrase - uniform bankruptcy laws.... And you're saying, in this case, that that trumps the sovereign immunity, and that gets you out of Seminole Tribe.
Looking back at the oral argument, we find the kernel of today's opinion in the following seemingly innocuous penultimate question posed by Justice Stevens himself, when he asked the state's counsel about "this argument out there" that had not yet been discussed during the entire preceding 59 minutes of argument:
May I ask if you think, within the text of the question presented, we could decide whether the sovereign immunity was abrogated by the convention itself, not by Congress? There is that argument out there, you know.
In response, the petitioner's counsel perhaps sealed his client's fate by conceding that "if you decided that the convention itself had intended for the States not to have sovereign immunity in bankruptcy, then you would conclude that the Article I Bankruptcy Clause includes the abrogation power." [Practice reminder: Be careful about those last couple of seemingly innocuous questions thrown at you at the end of oral argument; they're often not as simple as they sound.]
Well, to the sure chagrin of petitioner's counsel (and many Supreme Court watchers), that's exactly what the majority decided! Indeed, virtually the entire opinion focuses on this historical argument as to whether sovereign immunity was both considered and abrogated at the Constitutional Convention. As noted here, Professor Bruce Mann believed it had been, and Justice Stevens significantly amplified upon Professor Mann's historical review with an impressive, though selective, array of supporting historical sources, all pointing to a final, "ineluctable conclusion":
[T]ext aside, the Framers, in adopting the Bankruptcy Clause, plainly intended to give Congress the power to redress the rampant injustice resulting from States' refusal to respect one another's discharge orders. As demonstrated by the First Congress' immediate consideration and the Sixth Congress' enactment of a provision granting federal courts the authority to release debtors from state prisons, the power to enact bankruptcy legislation was understood to carry with it the power to subordinate state sovereignty, albeit within a limited sphere.
The ineluctable conclusion, then, is that States agreed in the plan of the Convention not to assert any sovereign immunity defense they might have had in proceedings brought pursuant to "Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies." See Blatchford, 501 U.S. at 779 (observing that a State is not "subject to suit in federal court unless it has consented to suit, either expressly or in the 'plan of the convention' "); Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. at 713 (same). The scope of this consent was limited; the jurisdiction exercised in bankruptcy proceedings was chiefly in rem--a narrow jurisdiction that does not implicate state sovereignty to nearly the same degree as other kinds of jurisdiction. But while the principal focus of the bankruptcy proceedings is and was always the res, some exercises of bankruptcy courts' powers--issuance of writs of habeas corpus included--unquestionably involved more than mere adjudication of rights in a res. In ratifying the Bankruptcy Clause, the States acquiesced in a subordination of whatever sovereign immunity they might otherwise have asserted in proceedings necessary to effectuate the in rem jurisdiction of the bankruptcy courts. (Emphasis added)
In the end, the legacy of this opinion for future lower court cases grappling with this momentous decision may well be found in the last bolded sentence quoted above. States defending themselves in bankruptcy litigation are sure to question whether the suit against them involves "proceedings necessary to effectuate the in rem jurisdiction of the bankruptcy courts." In applying this murky test, perhaps these lower courts will frame the question in the more traditional manner in which they're used to speaking: that is, whether -- for sovereign immunity purposes -- the proceeding is "core" or "non-core." The Supreme Court first posed this question regarding the "core" jurisdiction of federal bankruptcy courts in Northern Pipeline Const. Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co., 458 U.S. 50 (1982), when it turned the bankruptcy world upside-down by deciding that the broad statutory grant of jurisdiction to bankruptcy courts over "related to" (i.e., "non-core") proceedings violates Article III of the Constitution.
Adopting this approach, "proceedings necessary to effectuate the in rem jurisdiction of the bankruptcy courts" would be equated with those traditionally designated as "core" proceedings (like preference actions), whereas "proceedings [not] necessary to effectuate [such] in rem jurisdiction" would be equated with "non-core" proceedings (like breach of contract actions).
Either way, guess who benefits most from this decision?
Thanks for your insights, in particular with respect to the remarkable variance from what was said at oral argument, with the majority opinion.
As I expressed to a email group yesterday, I cannot help but wonder whether Katz's seeming expansion of a bankruptcy trustee's (and thus bankruptcy court's) power – perhaps in an effort to avoid a larger constitutional question - will later prove to restrict the bankruptcy judge's "core" jurisdiction.
Note how the Katz majority says that bankruptcy jurisdiction "is chiefly in rem" which is a " narrow jurisdiction" and so forth.
Recall we have a bankruptcy jurisdiction statute, namely 28 U.S.C. section 1334(e), which codifies this in rem aspect to bankruptcy jurisdiction, namely that the district court has exclusive jurisdiction of all property of the debtor and of the estate.
However, in practice, bankruptcy courts rarely premise their jurisdiction on section 1334(e). Far more often it is on section 1334(a) - the "arising in, under or related to" subject matter jurisdiction.
Yet under Katz, it might be argued that the "arising in, under or related to" jurisdiction of section 1334(a) – where we normally look for the source of jurisdiction - has been relegated to a "ancillary" (perhaps "non-core") status. The majority opinion refers to a preference case under Section 547 as a "mere declaration of avoidance" and thus an exercise of in rem jurisdiction. It is only when the trustee seeks to collect the preference under Section 550, that the "ancillary" jurisdiction in furtherance of the in rem jurisdiction comes in play.
Further according to footnote 10 of the majority opinion, it appears critical that the Katz trustee's request under Section 550 sought return of both the "value" of the preference and alternatively the return of the "actual property transferred." It appears that absent the demand for a return of the "actual property transferred" that the case at hand would have been considered in personam, rather than an in rem action against the State.
Yet, in your garden variety lawsuit, the plaintiff is not requesting a return of "actual property transferred" but rather is seeking money damages. It would seem that such money damage suits would invariably fail the in rem jurisdiction test.
And if such a traditional suit for money damages is not in rem, and therefore outside the "core" jurisdiction (i.e., it's non-core), the end result is that potentially more disputes in bankruptcy become subject to the more restrictive rules of 28 USC section 157(c) – i.e., bankruptcy judges may only make proposed findings of fact, subject to de novo district court review.
I certainly tend to agree that our core/non-core jurisprudence will now spill over to sovereign immunity disputes between a trustee or d-i-p and the States.
These are only my initial musings on this remarkable case that all should take a moment to read. I wonder if by the end of the term on June 30 (by which date presumably we will have a slightly different supreme court composition having decided the Anna Nicole Smith case), whether any of this will be clearer.
It isn't the bankrputcy lawyers who would benefit, so much as it is other lawyers with federal claims against states. If bankruptcy contains a limited waiver of sovereign immunity, why shouldn't copyright, e.g., so long as the recovery is limited to restitution and hence pseudo-in-rem.


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How can I farm tall jungle trees and cocoa?
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First, to grow a giant you must plant 2x2 square of saplings (and feed them bonemeal if you want it fast).
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(understand that the ivy that grows on the tree is "outside", that means it occupies 4x4 space outside the 2x2 trunk, so to grow the tree at the bottom of a pit you need a 4x4 pit.)
Next, the trees don't grow cocoa. They serve as soil for cocoa plants. Place a block of Jungle Wood, plant 4 cocoa seeds on its 4 sides and they will grow into mature cocoa plants.
And last but not least - it may be hard to make your farm self-sustainable. Supposedly one jungle giant drops less than 4 jungle tree saplings on the average...
To make a tall tree plant 4 saplings in a 2x2 square. Then place bone meal on one of them to get a tall tree. Here is a video on how to do it.
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- Date: Aug. 6, 2001
- Time: 3:50 p.m.
- Place of Occurrence: 2400 SW 30 Ave., Pembroke Park
- Paul Foster, 41, male, Fort Lauderdale (DECEASED)
- Brittany Foster, 12, female, Fort Lauderdale
- Gordon Foster, 9, male, Fort Lauderdale
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A 41-year-old father was killed and his two children were injured today in a Pembroke Park car crash.
BSO Traffic Homicide detectives are investigating but have not determined why the deadly crash occurred. The victim, Paul Foster, was driving his 1979 Dodge Aspen south bound on SW 30th Avenue. Foster was traveling through the industrial district, adjacent to I-95, when he apparently lost control of his car and crossed the entire roadway, plowing into a large truck parked beside the avenue, on the east side.
Foster was apparently killed instantly. His 12-year-old daughter, Brittany, climbed out of the back seat and ran for help. The man's nine-year-old son, Gordon, traveling as a right front seat passenger, was removed from the wreckage by responding rescue units. Both children were transported to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood for treatment.
- INVESTIGATORS: Det. B. Babcock, Det. L. Akers, Dep. S. Wagers, Jim Leljedal / PIO
Posted At: 08/06/2001 12:00 AM
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Home > Food > Recipes > Pumpkin-Orange Bread
Pumpkin-Orange Bread
Categories: Halloween, Thanksgiving
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Orange marmalade and golden raisins make this pumpkin-orange bread special. Wheat germ and pecans finish the deal.
Serves: 16 1 slice servings
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 cup mashed cooked or canned pumpkin
- 2/3 cup orange juice
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup orange marmalade
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped dates, golden raisins, or dried cranberries
- 1/3 cup honey crunch wheat germ or toasted chopped pecans
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- Place the flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda in a large bowl, and stir to mix well. Set aside.
- Place the pumpkin, orange juice, oil, marmalade, and vanilla extract in a small bowl, and stir to mix well. Add the pumpkin mixture to the flour mixture, and stir just until the dry ingredients are moistened. Fold in the dates, raisins, or cranberries and the wheat germ or pecans.
- Coat an 8-x-4-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Spread the batter evenly in the pan, and bake at 325°F for about 50 minutes, or just until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean. Be careful not to overbake.
- Remove the loaf from the oven, and let sit for 15 minutes. Invert the loaf onto a wire rack, turn right side up, and cool to room temperature. Wrap the loaf in plastic wrap or aluminum foil, and allow to sit for several hours before slicing and serving. (This will give the loaf a softer, moister crust.) Refrigerate any leftovers not eaten within 24 hours.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Niners concluded the Hokie Invitational on a high note as several athletes produced season-best performances at Rector Field House in Blacksburg, Virginia, Saturday afternoon.
"We had another very good meet at Virginia Tech with another school record and numerous top ten all time performances and season's bests," said head coach Robert Olesen. "We've had three good competitive meets in the heart of our season and watching the meet this weekend it's clear that we need to progress our training into pre-championship mode with two meets remaining to identify and fine tune our conference championship travel squad."
T'Sheila Mungo won the 400m dash with a time of 54.52, setting a new personal record. Jake Deaton also won the shot put with a mark of 56'10.25.
The 49er men placed four in the 800m and were led by Sean Kluttz who won the event (1:54.18). Michael Tamayo was third (1:55.70), Christian Norbye followed in fifth (1:56.96), and Marcus Rinehardt placed ninth (1:59.71). On the women's side, Maraya Slatter was fourth (2:12.23) and Rachel Miller was eighth. (2:17.86). Slatter and Miller each turned in season-best times.
The distance medley team (Ben Sterett, Norbye, Carl Walton, and Getisso Dentamo) finished first with a time of 10:19.29.
Joann Blakney was third overall but finished as the second collegiate finisher in the 200m (24.62). Khryan Shank also placed second in the 200m with a time of 21.89. LeRoy Rouse was sixth (22.25) and Jamil-Muhammed Ray was ninth (22.53).
The men's 4x400m relay team (Anthony Bynum, Cordell Livingston, Christopher Boyd, and Chris Tate) finished third with a season-best time of 3:16.23
Trey McRae and Coye Still performed well in both the high jump and long jump. McRae was third in the high jump, clearing 6'10.25 to set a personal record and Still finished fifth with a leap of 6'4.25. In the long jump, McRae led Charlotte and took third (22'8), followed by Still in fourth (22'3.75).
David Eubanks set a PR in the 600m with his fifth place finish of 1:23.56 moving to fourth on the all-time top ten list. Christopher Muggler was sixth (1:24.23) and his time now ranks fifth all-time. Mike Cross was eight with a mark of 1:26.53 that is sixth all-time.
Charlotte performed well in both the men's and women's 5000m run. Ross Roberson finished third (15:08.67) and moved to seventh on the all-time list. Cody Hodgins was fifth with a time of 15:30.15. Hana Sutchar took third (17:48.07) moving to eighth all-time. Jen Molke was sixth (18:28.02) and Katie Holloway finished seventh (18:46.13).
The women's 4x400m team (LeAnna Morrison, Blakney, Jaleah Wilder, and Mungo) finished fifth with a time of 3:52.89.
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My problem: I can't keep focus on a few selected areas. Part of the problem is that I want to learn too many things simultaneously. But another, more serious problem is that I can't keep the same goals on my "radar" most of the time.
My interests are located mostly in several domains (software development, history of technology, politics, cognitive flaws of human mind, workings and failures inherent in complex organizations, economics). But within those, I can't keep focus especially in things I know I should master but somehow can't keep this for extended period of time: databases make me yawn (apart from NoSQL ones), Java is boring to me and even though I know I should learn those I can't keep working on it up. About the only subject I have maintained steady interest in and regular work on is Python programming language.
With other things, even if I'm interested enough in them, I can't bring them to completion because there's another hundred of things I start working on with energy, but soon something comes up that is a blocker or a problem and I switch to that and do not come back to original domain (it's often justified, like program or language X hiccups bc of say os kernel issues A and B so I need to resolve that too, but I have trouble even remembering that I should resume X).
How to keep working on things I know I should be working on without losing focus (and it's not like I'm completely uninterested in those other things)?
The problem is not that I'm bored in new subjects: on the contrary, I keep interest in old ones so much I have trouble selecting those I should work on and so I jump randomly between them! In paradoxical way, losing interest actually helps in focus: you lose interest in most stuff and work only on 1 or a few selected issues.
I found money can't motivate me to work on boring, tedious or futile problem. My trouble arises partly from thinking too far ahead. Example: at this meeting we're trying to shoehorn our growing model into SQL db schema. At the back of my head I have "this would be so neat to model using graph database! it would work so much better!", but that's not a solution we can choose (legacy, team skills), so I sigh and keep working on this. But this thought at the back of my head can't leave me so off I go and read on graph dbs for a few hrs. in the meantime, my deadline is closing by those several hrs. Aargh! And again, I need to get on with this SQL but this shoehorning is so silly I can't even motivate myself to do it, so I'm struggling to get anything done. Another task is say, data conversion. What would be the best tool? Ruby reportedly has some neat tricks that could help. So off I go and learn a bit of Ruby for a day. But I have to stop bc of deadline, or some other problem needs solving and off I go and do not get back to Ruby even though strategically speaking I'd want to!
Iterate this dozens of times and you get the idea about final result: I'm not very good at any subject, not SQL nor graph dbs nor Ruby nor hundreds of other subjects I dived into but did not master due to simple lack of time. I'm spending my scarce time budget way too thinly. I feel like informational hamster, biting way too much to chew something effectively. And it's not caused by lack of interest, on the contrary, by being interested in too many subjects at once. In kanban you have an idea of self-imposed WIP limit (Work In Progress): I can't keep myself from violating my personal WIP limit all the time.
Another example how long-term thinking can harm you: I never bothered learning how to optimize SQL queries, for a good reason: with volumes of data as big as they are now and data so diverse and complex it does not make much sense to heap everything on a single server, for reasons of both modelling flexibility and db scalability. Sharding! Great, but after thorough evaluation of replication solutions for certain db I concluded they all suck. So I rolled out my very own solution, using RabbitMQ as middleware for sharding + replication (data safety was important consideration). It works great, except I still don't know SQL optimisation.. Another day: web system with lotsa queries. A nifty ORM to the rescue! It paid off in the long run, shaving down the time of development for a single query to minimum. Great, except at last stage of job interview CTO of large and interesting (specialist niche) company asked me just such questions (optimisation). Oh s**. I failed to get that job, even though all the previous interviewers were reportedly very happy with me.
Another guy in my place would never bother to look at all those interesting and productive tools, he'd just learn the damn plain vanilla O*a*c*l* SQL and get that job.
My problem is partially that I work in a truly big corp. People who think that issues are analyzed here in depth bc resources are available, are very much mistaken: the analysis is surprisingly short and shallow, modelling is ad hoc, planning is astoundingly primitive, and product design runs on shallow intuitions instead of being based on hard data, testing and knowing customer very well. As result, products are garbage (and don't tell me customers like them, they don't, they just put up with all the pain of using them, I'm ashamed to even be associated with those). This is also heavily demotivating for me. Paul Krugman was reportedly dumbstruck when working at US Treasury how incredibly primitive and inaccurate econ analysis was there (they did not even bother to account for inflation in analysis, for instance). I'm no Krugman of software but even I find this self-imposed lobotomization utterly demotivating. That contributes to lack of focus..
The other day I've done some work for a tiny startup. I felt in my element! In 1 hr we were covering ten times as much ground re analysis, planning, innovation, design and considering different scenarios as we are in Big Corp. It was like time machine! Guys who work there (as employers, not founders) are viciously smart and they could make literally 3-4 times as much money in a corp, but they prefer to work in that startup bc they can program in their favorite functional language and MongoDB (try to propose that in a corp, that would be like telling a nun she could be a temp stripper from time to time) instead of being bored out of their skulls by Java. But that's not an option for me, sadly: I'm too old and with child and wife to support I can't risk jumping ship..


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This is always a difficult topic because racial and ethnic identities are so complex, sensitive, and dynamic: what are the best (as in the most precise and neutral) terms for "White" people? I've heard terms like 老外, 洋人, and 鬼佬. Do Chinese also say 白人? More precisely, I'd like to know any terms that could be used for anyone that self-identifies as "White" (could have origins in Europe, North Africa, West Asia, or any of their former colonies like here in America). Many East Asians have skin that is as light as any European's; would they ever self-identify with a term that could be translated as "White"?
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老外 and 洋人 are the general terms for foreign people, not specific to white people. 老外 is more often heard in oral Chinese. In formal situations, 外国人is more likely used. 洋人 is a somehow out of date word, seldom used today. 鬼佬 has an implicit negative meaning, don't use it.
And yes, Chinese refers to white people as 白种人 or 白人. But the words are not often seen in self introduction. The Chinese are more interested in where people are coming from, like whether one is coming from France, India, or South Africa, etc. And I got to say this is not for foreign people only. When two Chinese met for the first time, the usual introduction often includes 我是山东人 or 我来自东北, etc.
My closer Chinese friends do use the terms 白人 and 白种人 neutrally in the same way we use "white people", but by and large I find Chinese people avoid these terms, and are set slightly on edge when I drop them casually into conversation. One friend told me she doesn't use 白人 because "听起来有种族歧视,不是吗?". Instead she and other Chinese usually use "美国人/法国人/英国人 etc." to indicate whiteness, but of course this can lead to some politically incorrect statements:
A: "你的朋友是华裔吗?" ("Is your friend ethnically Chinese?") B: "不,她是美国人." ("No, she's American.") [actually she's both]
Or this one:
B: "是不是美国人和黑人之间发生过很多冲突?" ("There have been many conflicts between Americans and black people, right?") [as if the two are separate groups]
In both examples, I'm fairly certain that the speaker is using "美国人" to mean "白人". Most Americans would take offense at this definition, because it subtly implies that non-whites are not true Americans, even if the speaker didn't mean it that way. Ironically, it is the avoidance of the term "白人", not its use, that causes the political incorrectness.
So, to answer your question, I think "白人" or "白种人" actually is the most neutral term possible for "white people", despite the fact that it seems to make most Chinese people slightly uncomfortable. Neutrality aside, 老外, 洋人, and 鬼佬 all refer to all Westerners, not just whites. And I don't think any Chinese people would self-identify as "白人" because of their skin color, except jokingly.
I can't speak to mainland usage, but in Taiwan 老外 doesn't actually mean "foreigner", it absolutely and definitely means "white person". You'll never hear anyone with a skin tone darker than light beige get called a 老外.
Of the many years I spent in Guangzhou I was always said to be 百人 in terms of the color of my skin.my Chinese friends called themselves 黄人 or yellow skin. No PC involved just strait facts.
In Mandarin,
the most proper and natural words are 白人,白种人,西方人. Other words like 白皮, 洋人 and 鬼佬 are more or less ironic or offensive. It would be a good idea not to use these words if you want to appear polite. In addition, 外国人 is an extensive word for foreigners, which is not necessarily negative but contains a sence of alienation. And 老外 is an emotional derived term for 外国人.
There is a term 黄种人 identifying Mongoloids but almost only used when making a comparison with Negroids or Europoids. Thus the short form 黄人 is a rather obesolete one.
I would say 白人 is more colloquial, and also quite neutral at the same time. 白人 doesn't necessarily translated to White people, it is also referred to Caucasian by some native speakers.
I think I sometimes heared people say 歐洲人 (European) vs 美國人 (American) which sounds very neutral to me as well. It would be kind of the same, here, as we refer to people from either China, Japan etc. (who we don't know for certain about where they're from, but somehow their appearance gives it away) as Asians,亞洲人.
With European vs American it would be an indication of how many oceans someone is away I think.
西方人 would be the most neutral term I can think of.


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What are the differences between Holmes, Moldvay, and Mentzer D&D? Also, which one came first?
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D&D started as a series of little booklets, now called "original D&D" (OD&D). These booklets were basically barely-edited versions of the house rules of Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.
In 1977, TSR hired J. Eric Holmes to develop a Basic D&D game. This was a dark blue, boxed set containing D&D in a single book, plus a module (B1 In Search of the Unknown), and some dice (or cardboard chits, when they ran out!).
Moldvay and Mentzer are game designers who took the old Basic D&D game (edited by Eric Holmes) and revised them. Both produced "red box" versions of the game. You'll find far more differences between Holmes and the later red boxes than you'll find between Moldvay and Mentzer.
Tom Moldvay revised the "Basic" D&D game in 1981. It came in a red box and featured the B2 Keep on the Borderlands module. It came with dice (and a marking crayon!). These rules handled levels 1-3. David "Zeb" Cook wrote the follow-on "Expert" rule book (another boxed set) that expanded the game to levels 4-14.
Frank Mentzer revised the game again in 1983 with another "red box" set featuring the art of Larry Elmore. This time, the Dungeon Master book was separated from the Player book. Mentzer would continue the Basic (1-3) and Expert (4-14) classifications but would go on to produce additional expansions: Companion (15-25), Master (26-36), and Immortal (characters too sexy for their levels, but you essentially get 36 more). These separate books would later be combined into the D&D Rules Cyclopedia.
Differences between Holmes and Moldvay
Moldvay made many changes to the Holmes version to streamline play and make it easier for players to understand the game. Both games cover levels 1-3, though.
Overall differences:
Rules differences:
Differences between Moldvay and Mentzer
In general, the Mentzer version was a repackaging and expansion of the Moldvay version. The differences are minor in the Basic ruleset.
Overall differences:
Rule differences:
All of them except Holmes use the simple stat mods; classic has the AD&D style mods in Supplement 1. All of them have variable weapon damage, some as an option; Classic, Moldvay, and Mentzer all have 1d6 damage for any weapon as standard. Alston and Denning use Variable Weapon Damage as a standard.
original or Classic D&D: levels 1-10+, Fighter, Mage, Cleric. All weapons do 1d6 hit points (at least one printing is missing that line). All hit dice in d6's with mods; completely reroll HP each level. Races are not classes.
Note: sometimes called "Little Brown Book" or "Little White Book" D&D.
CD&D with Supplement 1: add thief class and paladin sub-class of fighter, HD type by class and 1 HD per level, asymmetric stat bonuses tables (later used in AD&D), damage by weapon type instead of all doing 1d6, modifiers to to-hit rolls on weapon vs specific armor types...
CD&D Supplement 2: adds druids and assassins. Adds more stuff, too.
Holmes Basic: I don't have a copy; no details I can check. ISTR it used the supplement 1 stat effect tables.
Moldvay Basic: Introduces Race-based classes; Basic set levels 1-3, Fighter, Magic User, Cleric, Theif, Elf, Dwarf Halfling. Covers only dungeons.
Mentzer Basic: same classes and focus as Moldvay; different writing style, a few errata-ish changes.
Denning Basic: BIG black box (18x12x4 inches or so) Levels 1-5, 1st version without "All weapons do 1d6, but you have the option for polyhedrals," using only the damage by weapon type. Dungeon focused. Otherwise, very comparable to Moldvay or Mentzer editions.
Allston Cyclopedia: covers all the same as Mentzer through Master. Like Denning, no "1d6" option. Adds the General Skills from the Gazeteer and Hollow World series of modules.
Allston Wrath of the Immortals: complete rewrite of the immortals rules; works differently in many ways, includes a campaign adventure for both immortals and non-immortals (two sides of the same story!). Covers more details onthe multiverse and planes, covers levels I1 to I36, and on how to become immortal.
Advanced D&D just for clarity, Advanced D&D starts off with almost all of Supplements 1, 2, and 3 incorporated into the Player's Handbook and Dungeon Master's Guide. It uses the asymmetric stat modifier tables, variable damage by weapon, no racial classes, has Fighter, Cleric, Thief, Mage, Ranger, Paladin, Monk, Assassin and Druid, and a funky Bard class as well. It included the Supplement 3 psionics rules in an appendix, and was revised by Gygax from a base of Classic and Holmes.
Come on people...the dice!
Adam mentions that the Holmes version came with chits instead of dice after a while. When it came with chits, it also came with a coupon for a set of polyhedra. These were terrible, soft, twisted and awesome!
The white d20 would turn pretty spherical and roll forever after a year or so of play. The blue d12 was as soft as the others but it hardly ever got rolled, so they're the ones that we old-timers tend to still have around. ('Course, I still have all of them -- useless as they've become.) The green d8 seems like it was the second most used die -- it suffered the most damage after the 20. The red d6 -- my first one had this huge dent in one edge and it's still in pretty good shape. I think we maybe used dice from Yahtzee or something instead of the D&D die. And the yellow d4! Who could forget you? Ever leave this baby on the floor of the family room in the dark? Back then, no one had thought to flatten the points and they were like little caltrops.
By the time the red boxes came out, there were other, better, dice options in the glass cases of hobby and game stores and and TSR was shipping them with these little pastel dice. They were also soft plastic, but not as vulnerable as the originals, it seems. And they were littler than the originals and than the standard that has evolved. It seems like they were mostly blue, but maybe some beige or rose or something too. The set of dice in the box would be ALL THE SAME color though -- which was weird.
Just adding to the excellent answers, it appears Holmes D&D was really more a continuation of OD&D than any sort of intro to the emerging Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Holmes D&D is really almost a complete game in itself, separate from anything else ever published at TSR. Although continuations of Holmes' Blue book to higher levels can be found, Moldvay's version is really much more seamless in it's graduation to higher level play. To me that is the major difference between the two editions.
Moldvay's version in my experience is really a much better introduction into eventually playing AD&D, if you have the two books (Beginning and Expert) you have what is considered one of the most perfect contained RPGs ever published. The game Labyrinth Lord is based on the Moldvay version of D&D found in these two books.
The Mentzer version is the "Everything and the kitchen sink" approach....five box sets that take you from first level to, well, gods (immortals). I think this version was meant for the more "campaign" minded gamers who were immersed into the whole experience (gaining levels, setting up a kingdom, then becoming gods) than the first two versions, which seem to be more focused on low level and medium level play.
One stark difference between Moldvay and Holmes is that Holmes uses 1d6 for all weapons damage while Moldvay had each type of weapon roll different dice for damage.
Another difference between Moldvay Basic and Mentzer Basic - Moldvay came in a magenta box, not a red one. This is an oft-repeated misconception.
Molvay, like Holmes, also had across-the-board 1d6 damage for weapons - the variable weapon damage was an optional rule, although apparently a popular one.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – The game notes for the Anderson University women's basketball team's road matchup with South Atlantic Conference opponent Brevard have been released.
The Trojans currently ride a two-game winning streak with back-to-back SAC wins over Mars Hill (78-71) and Lenoir-Rhyne (76-67). Overall, AU is 9-7 for the season and an carry even 5-5 record in conference play, slotting the Trojans in seventh place alongside Newberry.
Brevard has been on the losing end of its last two contests, falling to conference leader Carson-Newman (105-82) and preseason SAC favorite Newberry (61-58). Prior to their losing stretch, the Tornados captured back-to-back wins over Tusculum (91-68) and Catawba (71-66), as they enter Wednesday with a 4-10 overall record and a 3-7 mark in the league. Brevard sits alone in 10th place in the conference.
The game will be broadcast on FOX SPORTS Radio 1280 AM, WANS and will also be available on the internet at www.wrixfm.com and the Anderson web site at www.autrojans.com, along with video and live stats. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m.
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Game 8: Nov. 25 Lincoln Memorial
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Game 10: Dec. 4 Wingate
Game 11: Dec. 7 Newberry
Game 12: Dec. 12 Liberty
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Game 16: Jan. 11 Coker
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I am using Ubuntu 11.04 and current versions of Google Chrome and Chromium. But in both of them flash player is not working. I can watch youtube videos properly. In other sites; it says missing plugin. Also I have installed Adobe Flash Player from Ubuntu Software Centre. I have looked for solutions from internet. I found nothing. One of my friends has just installed Ubuntu and he says i can't watch, too. Is there a solution? Or it's because we use Ubuntu in Turkish? What should i do? It's becoming really annoying.
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The problem is that Google Chrome (but not Chromium, the basis, and almost an exact replica of Chrome) comes with it's own Flash plugin. I don't know if that stops it from using other plugins, but im guessing so, unless you edit the plugin path.
Try Chromium, which is available through the repos and is almost identical to Chrome, and test to see if that works OK. If not, reinstall the flashplugin-installer package, to reinstall the plugin
One fix that seemed to work for me is this. Go to the Adobe Flash Download page and download the appropriate one for your OS & version. That seemed to fix most of my issues and problems.
See YouTube Problems Mega Thread.
If you are not affected by the problems described there or if the solutions doesn't work, then you could disable the plugin bundled with Chrome. You can do that by typing about:plugins in the address bar, then clicking the Details. Additionally, you could try to use Flash-Aid on Firefox to install flash and fix some issues. As long as you disable the bundled plugin in Chrome it will pick up the one use by Firefox. Just make sure you disable the option to Override GPU validation in Flash-Aid Wizard, because YouTube currently has an issue with that.
This post has instructions for copying the flash plugin from firefox to chrome.


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Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal was received by French President Francois Hollande in Paris today. Their meeting focusing largely on the situation in Egypt.
In a statement, the Saudi Foreign Minister stressed the importance of maintaining security and stability in Egypt, while implementing the road map to new elections laid out by the current government. He insisted that any demonstrations must be nonviolent and expressed disappointment that many countries are ignoring the actions of terrorists in Egypt.
Prince Saud denied that a coup had taken place in Egypt. "What is happening in the sisterly Arab Republic of Egypt today reflects the will on 30 June of thirty million Egyptians who expressed their desires to conduct early presidential elections as an inevitable result of the deterioration of economic, political and social conditions, which led to the meeting of all political and social leaders and forces to announce a new road map leading Egypt to safety after the former presidency refused to respond to the wishes of millions of Egyptian people." He insisted, "The uprising of thirty million Egyptians cannot in any way be described as a military coup, as military coups take place under the cover of darkness. In addition, a civilian presidency took power in Egypt in line with the Egyptian constitution."
Prince Saud expressed the Kingdom's regret over what is currently happening in Egypt, noting the "war in the streets, the destruction of public and private property, terrorization of citizens, loss of innocent lives, [and] burning of whole governorates of Egypt by a movement that refuses to respond to the popular Egyptian will, as well as the rejection of all reconciliation initiatives."
The Saudi Foreign Minister denounced those in the international community who have ignored the violence carried out by the Egyptian government's opponents. "We see, unfortunately, today international positions which have taken a strange course to ignore these irrefutable facts and focus on general principles, as if they want to cover up [the crimes of the opponents], the burning of Egypt, and killing of its safe people, and even to encourage these parties to persist in such practices." He contrasted the concern for criminals in Egypt to the lack of attention given to innocents in Syria. "Where is the concern for human rights and the sanctity of blood and carnage that takes place every day in Syria, which led to the killing of more than 100,000 Syrians and the destruction of the whole of Syria without hearing whispering from the international community, which adheres to human rights as required by its interests and whims?" he asked.
Prince Saud concluded by reaffirming the Kingdom's commitment to Egypt's security and stability. "I assure everyone that the leadership, the government and the people of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have stood and will always stand with Egypt and that the Arab states will never accept manipulation of their fates or tampering with their security and stability by the international community," he said. "Concerning those who announced stopping their assistance to Egypt or threatening to stop them, the Arab and Islamic nation is rich with its people and capabilities and will provide a helping hand to Egypt. Our fate is one and our goal is one. As you enjoy security, calm and stability, do not consider them as too much for us."
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Over on mathoverflow, there is a popular CW question titled: Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics. I thought it would be nice to have a parallel question on this site to serve as a reference for false beliefs within less obscure mathematics. That said, it would be good not get bogged down with misconceptions that are generally assumed to be elementary such as: $(x + y)^{2} = x^{2} + y^{2}$.
False beliefs in mathematics (conceptual errors made despite, or because of, mathematical education)
Many well-educated people believe that a p-value is the probability that a study conclusion is wrong. For example, they believe that if you get a 0.05 p-value, there's a 95% chance that your conclusion is correct. In fact there may be less than a 50% chance that the conclusion is correct, depending on the context. Read more here.
I recently caught myself thinking that the formula for the determinant of a 2-by-2 matrix also works for a block matrix, i.e. $\det (A B; C D) = \det(A)\det(D) - \det(B)\det(C)$.
Every torsion-free Abelian group is free.
(This only holds for finitely generated Abelian groups.)
I have seen this one time too many $$\frac{a}{b}+\frac{c}{d}=\frac{a+c}{b+d}$$
To generalize a few of the answers, for pretty much any function, someone somewhere will make the mistake of treating it as if it is linear in all of its variables. Thus we get: $e^a + e^b = e^{a+b}$, $\sqrt{a + b} = \sqrt{a} + \sqrt{b}$, $a/(b+c) = a/b + a/c$, ...
The question I've heard on many levels (including the grad level): what is the square root of $a^2$? And everyone says: it's $a$!
In fact it is $|a|$.
These are 2 instances which i have seen to happen with my friends. If $A$ and $B$ are 2 matrices, then they believe that $(A+B)^{2}=A^{2}+ 2 \cdot A \cdot B +B^{2}$.
Another mistake is if one i asked to solve this equation, $ \displaystyle\frac{\sqrt{x}}{2}=-1$, people generally square both the sides and do get $x$ as $4$.
Both my students and some of my colleagues (!) believe that the graph of a function cannot cross a horizontal asymptote. Obviously this implies that they misunderstand the definition of an asymptote. More worryingly (in my eyes), it also seems to imply that they don't understand why we even care about asymptotes.
I have seen this many times:
$$a^2 + a^3 = a^5$$
Recently, a friend of mine pointed out the following to me:
The open unit disc $D\subset\mathbb{C}$ is not biholomorphic to all of $\mathbb{C}$.
Indeed they are diffeomorphic, but we can easily see that they are not biholomorphic since if there was a biholomorphism $\phi:\mathbb{C}\rightarrow D$, then consider the function $f:D\rightarrow\mathbb{C}$ given by $f(z)=z$. It is obviously holomorphic and non-constant. But then $f\circ\phi$ would be holomorphic, non-constant and bounded, which is a contradiction to Liouville's theorem.
(In fact, the same argument holds to prove that there is no surjective holomorphic function from the whole of $\mathbb{C}$ to any bounded domain.)
The null factor law is as follows: $$ab = 0 \Rightarrow (a = 0) \vee (b = 0).$$ This law applies for real numbers, as well as polynomials which is where the law is most commonly envoked. I have seen far too many instances of the following incorrect generalisation: $$ab = c \Rightarrow (a = c)\vee(b = c).$$
An error that I often see with my students, and that I made myself when I was a student :
Let $f$ be a function on $\mathbb R\mapsto \mathbb R$ and $f'$ its derivative.
Then if $\lim_{x\rightarrow\infty} f'(x)=0$ then $f$ is bounded ($\lim_{x\rightarrow\infty} f(x)<\infty$).


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The ability to branch and merge source code with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server can really enable a team to build software in a more agile and maintainable manner. But choosing the best branching strategy can be a bit overwhelming at first. In this interview we ask Doug Neumann, Group Program Manager for Team Foundation Server, to give us a Branching and Merging primer.
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Whoah, weird... I was drawing almost exactly the same diagrams for my co-workers when explaining VSTS's branch/merge capability.
VSTS is a great product. It really doesn't have a "1.0" feel to it at all, and the team is very helpful in explaining how to do stuff that's a bit off the rails.
CTPs don't go through the full release process that betas and final releases go through. We just take a build off the main branch that passes our basic automated tests and ship it. There's no real stabilization process or sustaining engineering after it
ships, so we don't need to create a branch.
I like your way of describing it: "Snap a label on the main branch when it starts to look good enough for a CTP." That pretty much captures it.
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We have just purchased TFS for our organization. I just read "The Build Master" by Vincent Maraia. I have many questions, and almost know where to start. Here are a few. I'd appreciate any response. Perhaps you can forward this to those that might be generating the guidance mentioned in the video.
1) I'm trying to create a recommendation for a standard folder and branching structure. It would be nice to have a common pattern to follow. Does it make sense to use a "Goldline", a mainline (e.g., VBL), and branch folders? How does this look?
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Gold (always ready for the client - FI/RI from main when good)
Main (branched from Gold - normal location for development)
Under Gold and Main would be the solutions required by the team for the project. Do BugFix branches come from one location (e.g., Main) or several? Is it redundant when branching releases and features?
2) If later a new project or solution is required, is it added at the lower level (e.g., Main or Feature) and then merged into the higher levels (e.g., Gold or Main)?
3) The P&P guide "Team Development with Visual Studio .Net and Visual SourceSafe" makes it clear that project references are "better" than file references. Project references insure the latest version is used without having to manually update the reference. If a file reference is used to load a library common to several projects, is it possible to automatically use the latest version? Will the references have to be manually maintained?
4) This is related to the last question, but more TFS specific. We have several teams working on diverse projects (e.g., mainframe conversion using cobol.net, property, courts, etc.). We plan to use a team project for each large application (e.g., a new court system). However, there will be some common code for several projects (e.g., CSLA, CAB, etc.). Is it a bad idea to place and maintain the common code a separate team project? Can the code from one team project be branched into another team project? If not, would defining a special workspace to get the code be a bad idea? I'm trying to use project references. Perhaps I should not?
5) The P&P guide "Team Development with Visual Studio .Net and Visual SourceSafe" also states the local working directory structure should match the structure in VSS. Does this apply to TFS?
6) Should only one workspace be defined per TFS? For example: $/ maps to "My Documents\TfsServerName\". This would let multiple users use multiple TFS instances on one client. Will TFS have the same issues as VSS if two users accidentally share a workspace?
And then there is the daily build....
I think these are hard questions. Unfortunately, I have to come up with answers. Perhaps you can point me in the right direction.
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Today, marked the 44th year Rev. Jackson has been in ministry.
It was a packed house this Sunday as friends, and family from all over the country came to honor Rev. Jackson's service.
"I feel elated. I'm overjoyed. I'm overjoyed because these folks are taking time out of their schedule to come congratulate my wife and I, and we are very appreciative," he said during his church service.
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Freedom to Create: Female Empowerment Forum
Guests at the Female Empowerment Forum at The Fugard Theatre on 16 November were welcomed by the spokesperson of Freedom to Create, Priti Devi.
The forum was part of the Freedom to Create event and Devi said Cape Town was a fitting venue as it has an established history of the transformational power of art. Freedom to Create was then lauded by former first lady Graça Machel, the keynote speaker, who said that the combination of celebration, women, freedom and creativity was inspiring.
Aptly, moderator Gcina Mhlophe greeted the group with a beautiful rendition of Nkosi Sikeleli. Thereafter stories of female empowerment were shared by the panel which included Unity Dow, judge, human rights activist and writer from Botswana; Molly Melching, founder and executive director of the NGO Tostan; and Congolese journalist Chouchou Namegabe. Their stories ranged from the victory of Botswana's first female high court judge, the journey of the Tostan movement in getting communities in Senegal to discard harmful practices against women including child marriage, to the stories of atrocities performed against women in the Congo, including horrific mass rapes in the late 1990s – a story that bruises the soul.
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I know about rpm, but I am newbie about freebsd packaging system. I learnt about how to create package and know I want learn how to get some information about packages or files. Can somebody give me corresponding freebsd commands of below rpm commands?
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Many people, including myself, added or will add a candle on Friday night for each child that is born. Where and when did this custom originate?
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The oldest source I could find is the Likutei MaHarich - (c. 1900). I recall hearing that the custom started, since the Halacha is that if the lady forgot to light one week she has to add a candle in future weeks, often when a lady gave birth they were busy and forgot. (Childbirth was not as easy years ago). Due to this they added a candle and today it has become a common Minhag.
It is a new development, adopted mostly among Hassidim and Hungarian Jews. Seems to have become more widespread in past century.
Nowadays people are relatively affluent and can afford it more than in the past.
However, the old minhag is to light just two.
Lighting additional ones, especially many, can increase hazards of the flames, especially when there are children around, and also obscures the symbolism of two lights corresponding to Zachor and Shamor that the old codes of halachah cite. Therefore careful people stick to the tradition of the old minhag and reject this new development.
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The Walk begins at 10:00 a.m. at the Old Asheboro Cemetery, located on West Salisbury Street at White Oak Street. For the safety and enjoyment of all, we ask that you please DO NOT bring vehicles into the Cemetery property. There are a number of parking lots in the area in which space should available.


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I want to implement tooltips on product screens in a web application for Telecom. What should be the maximum tooltip text length?
The short answer: as few as possible and still communicating the message in a meaningful way.
The long answer: The reason to display a tooltip message varies a lot. But from a User Experience point of view a tooltip can't be the only way to inform a user. There are users that don't understand that there is a tooltip to begin with and much less understand how it works. I've seen users who get frustrated in test where the tooltip was the only communication way – and the task where not completed because of that. But you can use the tooltip as a reminder for those users who know what it is and how to activate them.
The point of the tooltip is to communicate a message. The more effective the message, the better it is. Maybe you should ask yourself what we are trying to communicate here, instead of the number of characters we could squeeze into the tooltip box.
As an example – imagine the second password textbox label in a registration form. The tooltip could say "You need to fill the second password textbox in the exact same way as the first one in order to complete your registration", which would be hard to read if you knew the tooltip would disappear in X seconds. Instead the tooltip could say "Retype your password". Then you've communicated the same message more effectively in fewer words and in a more useful way.
The time the tooltip should be visible depends on how your intended audience is able to get the message communicated by the tooltip.


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WEIRTON - Actor James Gandolfini, who died of an apparent heart attack in Rome Wednesday, was "a gentleman" in his dealings with the general public, local resident Ted Dragisich said.
Dragisich said he got to know the actor a decade ago when he was working at Mountaineer Racetrack, Casino and Resort and the cast of "The Sopranos," Gandolfini's hit HBO show, came in for a public appearance.
"I had to pick them up at the airport in a limousine," Dragisich said. "I remember sitting there waiting for him to come down the escalator ... people gathered around him. When he got to the bottom, I figured he'd come straight to me and get in the limo, but so many people were waiting, when he got to the bottom he stopped and signed autographs for everybody who wanted autographs and took pictures with everybody who wanted pictures. I'd (expected) he would be something he wasn't, he turned out to be one of the nicest human beings I had the privilege of meeting in my life."
He said he hit it off with Gandolfini as well as his co-star, Steven Schirripa, who played Bobby Baccalieri. The following year, he accompanied former MTR CEO Ted Arneault and Pittsburgh Penguins owner Mario Lemieux to Radio City Music Hall in New York City to watch the 2003 season premiere with an A-list crowd.
"I handed the usher the tickets and he escorted us all the way up to the seventh row," Dragisich said. "They were coded tickets - the usher told us we were the guests of James Gandolfini, and those were our seats. There I was sitting next to Peter Boyle, the actor. Behind us was Dennis Leary, the actor - he's a big hockey fan, so naturally he came over and started talking to Mario. Then they did introductions, and there were so many movie stars in the audience, but they were about 20 rows back from us. And afterward, we were invited to a party at Rockefeller Center."
He said Gandolfini invited them to several events in Atlantic City and Las Vegas, and always, "he was very outgoing, very nice. He couldn't have been nicer to people."
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Totally agree about The Hobbit...it was absolutely great and I am baffled by the negative reviews it has gotten.
None of the padding seemed superfluous, the movie was entertaining from start to finish. I already am sure i like it better than Fellowship of the Rings. I love that movie very much but I just the that The Hobbit was actually more entertaining.
The charges that the humor didn't work baffle me as well. They don't lay it on to thick and it totally works, in an English light humor type of way. (The goblin king is a good example).
I too, did not want the movie to end. The reviewers who said it was unbearably long must not have seen the same movie...I thought the racing from one adventure to another was exactly what the flow of the story is supposed to be: they engage some interesting characters, then mosey on to the next skirmish.
Loved it a lot ....and totally agree that it did not deserve the bad reviews....after all it captured the tone of the book maybe more for me than the Rings trilogy......can't wait for the next installment, but wish it was only two movies, not three.