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Hello. I am posting this message for the Liberty Emergency Service Agencies. We are a group that actively plays the LCPD:FR police mod in GTA IV.
We are run by actual law enforcement personal who bring even more realism into the game play.
We are not like most LCPD:FR groups that pride themselves in strict recruitment processes and power hungry supervisors. Members who join are not required to do any training, unless they want to, and are treated with the upmost respect. We will work with you to install our mods and teach you everything you need to know.
We are a medium sized group with 50+ members. All of these members pride them selves to be mature, respectful and most importantly of all, fun! Whether you are a very active player or a player that is on once a week, we cater to everyone. We do not remove you if you are not active. We understand that people have lives, work, college etc. You can say that we are a laid back group of people! We also have an age requirement of 14+, although most of our members are 20+.
We have patrols every night and we are looking for more people to join in on the fun!
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This article has corn listed as the most important crop produced in the world. For some reason I feel like rice, or wheat is the more logical choice. So what were the conditions, and events, that led to the widespread production of corn?
The big difference is geographic diversity. Wheat doesn't do very well in the tropics. Rice requires tropical and semi-tropical areas where lots and lots of water are available. However, corn can be grown nearly anywhere.
Corn kind of had a tough row to hoe (pardon the pun) in the Americas. It was first domesticated from the grass Tseosine in tropical areas of Mexico. However, the geographic axis in that part of the Americas is north-south rather than east-west like in Eurasia. This means that, unlike Eurasian crops, in order to spread to new areas of cultivation, corn had to be bred for new varieties capable of thriving in different lattitudes than it was originally domesticated in.
This process took 8 millenia (more if you count in the original Tseosene domstication) to reach up to the lower Mississippi valley. However, once it was completed, Corn became one of the world's only staple grains that can be cultivated both in temperate and tropical climates.
Corn is the most versatile of crops.
Rice needs a nearly tropical climate in which to grow, and also lots of water for paddies. These conditions are present mostly in Southeast Asia.
Wheat is a northern crop that does better in dry land. It grows best in Kansas, and areas to the north, and areas to the west of that state.
Corn can be grown in "subtropical" areas such as parts of Mexico, but without needing as much water as rice, and grows well fairly far north, up to parts of Nebraska and basically the Great Lakes region as long as there is enough water (more than is needed for wheat). Thus, it is the crop that is most representative of "growing" climates.
Wheat and rice are food that humans eat but humans also eat chicken, pork, beef, turkey, eggs, cheese, milk and many other animal products. So what do you think animals in cages and feedlots eat? Corn and more corn. Animals like cattle eat the whole corn plant. Also, the yield of corn plants is much higher and has more nutrients than wheat and rice.


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The Painful Paradoxes of Race
"In the jewelry store, they lock the case when I walk in," the young African-American man wrote. "In the shoe store, they help the white man who walks in after me. In the shopping mall they follow me. ... Black male: Guilty until proven innocent."
"I have lost control of my emotions," he declared. "Rage, Frustration, Anguish, Despondency, Fatigue, Bitterness, Animosity, Exasperation, Sadness. Emotions once suppressed, emotions once channeled, now are let loose. Why?"
The words came not in response to the George Zimmerman verdict in the Trayvon Martin killing but rather to the acquittal of the police officers in the Rodney King case. The author of the May 6, 1992, column in the Stanford University student newspaper: Cory Booker, now the nationally celebrated mayor of Newark and the front-runner to be the next senator from New Jersey.
Booker pointed me toward his angry essay while on a visit to Washington last week. We spoke over a late breakfast the day before President Obama went to the White House briefing room to issue his powerful reminder to Americans that "Trayvon Martin could have been me thirty-five years ago."
It tells us something important about America in 2013 that two exceptionally successful African American men, both of them widely acclaimed across the lines of race, chose independently to underscore the same truth about the Martin killing: that, in the president's words, "the African American community is looking at this issue though a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away."
And both focused resolutely on how to make things better. My interview with Booker didn't start with the Zimmerman trial. Instead, the practically-minded mayor spoke enthusiastically about a program he had established in cooperation with the libertarian-conservative Manhattan Institute to help men released from prison become better fathers. "The right intervention," he said, "can create radically different outcomes."
Booker knows about crime. He described his experience of holding a young man who had just been shot, trying and failing to keep him from dying in his arms. He returned home disconsolate and washed off the young man's blood.
His account, and Obama's later words, put the lie to outrageous claims by right-wing talk jocks and provocateurs that those upset by the outcome in the Zimmerman trial are willfully ignoring the affliction of crime committed by African Americans against each other. On the contrary: African American leaders, particularly mayors such as Booker, were struggling to stem violence in their own communities long before it became a convenient topic for those trying to sweep aside the profound problems raised by the Martin case.
Booker fully accepts that there is a right to self-defense. "One of the things I learned from the good cops is that there were some times when they were completely justified in pulling their weapons and killing somebody," he said. But those good cops, he insisted, also understood that their first obligation was "to defuse a situation," to try to prevent violence. Zimmerman, Booker added, "having been told by the police to back away, had so many opportunities to defuse the situation." And, as the president suggested, "stand your ground" laws have exactly the opposite effect: They encourage, rather than discourage, confrontation, particularly on the part of a person with a gun.
Why, Booker wonders, do we have our famous conversations about race only "when things go terribly wrong"?
As we neared the end of our chat, he offered a thought you are more likely to hear from a preacher than a politician. "Fear is a toxic state of being," Booker said. "You've got to lead with love."
Talking to Booker was a reminder of the bundle of contradictions that is the story of race in America, precisely what Obama was underscoring when he spoke of our progress as well as our difficulties. Booker -- again, like the president -- was concerned above all with the practical things government and society can do to battle child poverty and reverse rising inequality. One of the central problems of our time, Booker said, is "the decoupling between wage growth and economic growth," a development that creates so many other social challenges.
The dignity and grace of Trayvon Martin's family should inspire us all to keep our eyes on the future. We should not blind ourselves either to the persistence of racism or to our triumphs in pushing it back. That is the message of Booker's old column, and it harmonizes with the candid words from our first black president. We have come a long way and have a long way to go.
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Even the Tampa area police departments would not hire that wannabe Zimmerman as a police officer.That's the only sign of progress.Ive' seen in the last 30 years. .
"Fear is a toxic state of being," Booker said. "You've got to lead with love."
Well said Mr. Booker and doing that is a challenge for all of us but is an important meditation and reminder.
The #1 problem in urban areas such as the one in which I reside is black crime, the reason why shop owners and everyone else, black as well as whites, hispanics and asians, are on their guard all the time when in the presence of those regarded for abundant repeated reasons as predators. Unless and until African Americans address this cancer within their own community, then there will be no progress, just business as usual.
"Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.", only in his imagination and an unquestioning, gullible liberal media. At seventeen Obama was being raised by white grandparents, attended an exclusive private high school, associated with white students and the only thing he had in common with Trayvon is they were both 'pot' heads. Trayvon was not living with his parents or at his home, had been found,itis reported, with stolen property and burglar tools which was quashed by the police and referred to the school for discipline action and had been suspended by the school.
The Presidemt, Mayor Booker and Mr.Dionne all claim that the situation must be should be viewed through Trayvon's eyes and experience as a young black man while ignoring the view through Mr.Zimmerman's eyes and expereinces as a neighboorhood watch volunteer in a community that had been plagued by breakins and thefts by young black men.
Trayvon Martin attracted attention not just because he was black, but also because he was young and male. And those 3 characteristics, young, black, and male, point disproportionately to crime. When even Jesse Jackson expresses fear of young, black males the issue cannot be primarily about race. It becomes about a subset of people with those characteristics who are negatively impacting others, particularly those with similar characteristics. Only after that group behaves differently will others attitudes change.
But no one said anything about white on white crime when a young white man walked into a school and shot down 26 young children. There was not analysis of him based on his race even though almost all serial and spree killers are white and male.


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Today I was working with the Tab Container control from Ajax tool kit and I had this requirement of preventing the user from navigating off to a different tab without completing the required fields on the active tab he was in. There is no direct feature in the toolkit that provides this feature. Googling around did not help me much. So, I sat down to write it. And here is code that I came up with that helps us to achive this feature. Not sure if this is the right way, but it does the job.
Using Javascript to add functionality to the Ajax toolkit TabControl to prevent user from navigating off to a different tab.
The code
Add the below code to your page and call the necessary validation function at the place where I have called doYourValidations();. It should return true on success and false on a failure.
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var ref_set_activeTab = null;
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Norah's Knits: Knitted Christmas Ornaments
Some of my fondest childhood memories are of making Christmas decorations with my mom and my brother. Glue, glitter, felt, paint and suttache cord somehow came together to make truly charming ornaments for our tree. A few (ok, four) decades later, Mom still uses the best of these gems.
These days, my craft of choice is knitting. I'm going to continue our family tradition and make a few knit ornaments this holiday season. I find designer Melba Clapp's miniature knits irresistible. Each of these three ornament collections contains 12 adorable patterns: Minutia, Minutia '08, Minutia '09. A few of my favorite miniature knits are shown above and here:
I'll hang mine on the tree with miniature hangers made of wire or crocheted loops. I haven't decided which yet. These sweaters will make the perfect whimsical addition to my tree, but when it comes to gift knitting, I may go for something more substantial. A dodecahedron star (named Celestine) is fun on the tree and will serve double duty as a great children's toy, not to mention being great for the science or math geeks among us (that's most of my family). The beauty of this gift is that I can knit or crochet them, too!
Oh, and this little cutie designed by Marnie Ann Joyce looks like a perfect choice for my Mom. It's name is Bluebird, but I can use a couple shades of grey and make it look like a Phoebe (my Mom's name).
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We did the same at our house! Scraps of ribbon and braid, remnants of shiny fabrics and velvets and calicos, beads and pearls, rick-rack. I still have a few of the resulting ornaments, too. Love this collection of knit-and-crochet patterns and ideas. And in time to actually accomplish some of these. Thanks!November 19, 2012
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Some of my happiest memories involve joining my very creative children making Christmas ornaments. They always improved on my original concept. I cherish both the items and memories of sharing.November 19, 2012
So nice to see you and your mom "speaking" on the same blog post. (I should note I also just found your mom's one pattern on Ravelry.) Maybe your mom could work up a little ornament illustration for the blog? That, along with the photos, would be a great holiday blog post!November 19, 2012
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Maybe your mom should start thinking about a ceramic ornament for next Christmas?November 20, 2012
WOW — pretty please — let me chime in with the others. I came here looking for MORE ornie patterns. the ones Berrocco put out in the past few years are marvelous — but I'm slightly addicted to them and want to knit more, More, MORE!! PLEASE ask the Creative Powers that Be to consider giving us more delightful new ornie patterns,December 1, 2012


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I got Ubuntu 10.4 LTS to install and run OK on an old Dell Inspiron, after overcoming an initial command line prompt and then foolishly upgraded to 12.x beta and that didn't see my home wireless network. So, I reinstalled back to 10.4 LTS, but now don't boot to GUI (as in first case) but get a "grub>" prompt in a command window. I have no idea of how to get the GUI to boot up. Help please. The initial installation booted to GUI OK, after an initial boot to command window. I overcame that with test install and then reinstall, though I got some out of disk space errors.
When the grub command prompt is shown, the grub config seems to be incorrect. You now could either try to boot manually by using the grub shell or you could boot into a rescue system and repair the grub config.
Please view this page for more information: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4622?page=0,1
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The setup I'd like to support would be a Canon 5D / 16-35mm f2.8L (version I). I'm considering purchasing a NN4, but can't find the relevant maximum Upper Rail Setting / URS / setting B - what is this length? The data on the website seems to be incomplete except for the NN3/NN5.
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A male who ass rapes another male with some type of trumpet or other instrument.
PMAN3418 around all of the marching band guys in the locker room.
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One who steals goods from another's ass.
The ass burglar just stole all my shit!
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Unanswered: SUBMIT method of a form not sent null parameters
Submitting a form using the SUBMIT method of a form not sent null parameters. If not I select a combobox value, this field does not send by SUBMIT method.
Attached is an example that you can found in ExtJS demos: http://dev.sencha.com/deploy/ext-4.1.../xml-form.html
And also a screenshot where you can see combobox field is not sent at Chrome console.
How I can force form submit sent all fields?
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Make sure you do not have submitEmptyText set to false.
Also, have a look at:
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submitEmptyText is used to send emptyText value, in this case "Select a state...".
I have submitEmptyText to true and empty combobox (without emptyText attribute assigned) value is not send as param of POST/PUT submit.
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Set a default value of '' for your combo to overcome this: value: ''
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Setter default value is useful if you submit the form without having edited the field, but if user selects a value and then deletes it, the value is not default value.
Moreover, I want to send null to the server, not '', because empty value is different from null.
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I'am facing the same problem. It works with textfield and other but not combobox


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Exodus 38:8 says that the bronze basin of the Tabernacle and its bronze stand was made from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Why do those women need mirrors? So they look pretty? Are they entertainers?
Exodus 38:8 says that the bronze basin of the Tabernacle and its bronze stand was made from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Why do those women need mirrors? So they look pretty? Are they entertainers?
An alternate translation is "assembling" rather than "ministering"; the relevant root is צבא, see, e.g., Wiktionary. Try this translation on for size:
The translation of "ministering" is somewhat suspect anyhow; no rôle for women in the Tabernacle is ever mentioned.
But why does the text make such a point of the fact that the women assembled? Here the Midrash expands on the story, as quoted by Rashi:
(My free translation.)
The text does not say what the women did when they were ministering. Possibly they were greeting people as they entered the temple? Possibly helped direct visitors or provided a cup of water to thirsty visitors? Maybe they just kept things clean and organized?
Regarding the mirrors, it seems that the women were not very vain for otherwise they would not be willing to give them up for making of the bronze basin. Those women who were ministers upon hearing the needs of the bronze material for the basin brought from their homes their own bronze mirrors and gave them sacrificially. I do not think we are to associate their mirrors kept at home with their service at the temple, for there is no purpose anywhere recorded in the use of mirrors in the religious ceremonies in the temple.
Some commentators mention that Egyptians often took mirrors into temples but I am not sure what for exactly. From this they think possibly Moses was forbidding the practice by forcing the women to give up their mirrors. However, it seems more natural just to assume that the women volunteered to give up their personal possessions due to the high quality of the bronze used in mirror making. These materials would be suitable for the crafting of the basin and may have appeared to have the same shiny and reflective appearance.
This is an article on the topic: https://www.academia.edu/4303429/The_Ministering_Women_and_their_Mirrors There are no Hebrew words for prostitute in Exodus 38:8 so they are probably not prostitutes. These women are also mentioned in 1 Sam 2:22. I think the Hebrew word tsaba is key to working out what the women were doing as the article explains.


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In Marion, Kentucky there were cheers and a few tears of joy as 70 National Guard troops celebrated their homecoming, 11 months to the day after Sept. 11.
The soldiers weren't involved in a combat situation, but that didn't make their mission any less dangerous. They protected the base in Germany and helped the troops already stationed there.
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How can a computer restart itself? After it's off, how does it tell itself to come back on again? What kind of software is it that can do this?
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tl;dr: power states in your computer are controlled by an implementation of ACPI (advanced configuration and power interface). At the end of a shutdown process, your operating system sets an ACPI command indicating that the computer should reboot. In response, the motherboard resets all components using their respective reset commands or lines, and then follows the bootstrap process. The motherboard never actually turns off, it only resets various components and then behaves as if the power button has just been pressed.
Long and rambling but (in my opinion) more interesting answer:
Soft Power and how it works
In the olden days (well, okay, to a college student like me the '90s was a long time ago), we had AT (Advanced Technology) motherboards with AT power management. The AT power system was very, very simple. The power button on your computer was a hardware toggle (probably in the back of the case) and your 120vac input went right through it. It physically turned the power to your power supply on and off, and when this switch was in the Off position everything in your computer was completely dead (this made the CMOS battery very important, because without it there was no power supply to keep the hardware clock ticking). Because the power switch was a physical mechanism, there was no software way to turn power on and off. Windows would show the famous "It is now safe to turn off your computer" message because, although everything was parked and ready to turn off, it was not possible for the OS to actually flip the power switch. This configuration was sometimes referred to as hard power, because it's all hardware.
Nowadays things are different, because of the wonders of ATX motherboards and ATX power (that's Advanced Technology eXtended if you're keeping track). Along with a number of other advances (mini-DIN PS/2, anyone?), ATX brought soft power. Soft power means that power to the computer can be controlled by software. This brought a few import changes:
So, your power switch no longer "turns on" the computer. Instead, it's connected to your motherboard's basic controllers, which detect that the button has been pressed and execute a number of steps to ready the system, including lighting up PS_ON so that power will be available. The power button isn't the only way to trigger the startup process, devices on your expansion bus can also do so. This is important because your ethernet network adapters actually stay on when your computer is off and look for a very specific packet often referred to as the "Magic packet." If they detect this packet addressed to their MAC address, they will trigger the startup process. This is how "Wake-on-LAN" (WoL) works. The clock can also initiate a boot (most BIOS allow you to set a time that the computer should boot each day), and USB and FireWire devices can trigger a boot, although I'm not aware of any implementation of this.
Understanding Power Control
Well, I explain the Soft Power thing both because I think it's interesting (always a key reason that I explain things) and because it allows you to understand how the power and running/off state of your computer are all controlled by software. In most current computers, this software system is an implementation of the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, or ACPI. ACPI is a standardized, unified system allowing software to control your computer's power system. You may have heard of the ACPI power states. The basic mechanism of power control is these "power states", your operating system switches through power modes by preparing for the switch (the shutdown/hibernate processes that occur prior to power actually flipping off), and then commanding the motherboard to switch power states. The power states look like this:
How reset actually happens
You'll notice that reboot is not one of these states. So what actually happens when your computer when it reboots? The answer may be surprising, because from a power management perspective it's almost nothing. There is an ACPI reset command. When you tell your operating system to reboot, it follows its normal shutdown process (stops all your processes, performs a bit of maintenance, dismounts your file systems, etc), and then as a final step, instead of sending the machine to power state G2 (as it would if you had simply told it to Shut Down) it sets the Reset command. This is generally referred to as the "Reset register", because like most of the ACPI interface it's just an address that a specific value should be written to in order to request a reset. I'll quote the 2.0 specification on what it does:
So, when the reset register is set, a few things happen in sequence.
The end effect of these two steps (which actually break down in to a lot more steps) is that it looks to everything just like the computer just booted, but the power was actually on the whole time. This means less time required to shut down and start up (since you don't have to wait for the power supply to become ready), and importantly allows the bootup to be initiated by the operating system shutting down. This means that another startup trigger doesn't need to be used (WoL etc), and allows you to use Reboot as an effective way to reset the system remotely, when you don't have a way to trigger boot.
That was a long answer. But hey, hopefully you know more about computer power management now. I certainly learned some things researching this.
Here's a starting point:
Chips usually don't turn off and then turn on. Instead, there's a reset line which will bring processor in so-called reset state when usually all memory is cleared and processor looks like it's just been powered on. While that pin is held high (or low, depending on the processor), the processor is in reset. Once the pin is released, it will continue booting normally, just as if it was turned on for the first time. The point of this is that there's no power cut itself.
So how does this scale to larger systems like modern PCs? Well modern computers are made out of computers which are sometimes made out of computers themselves. So when you set computer to reset, "computers" which make the computer will start saving their states (if the reset is controlled), or just have their reset pins pulled.
Some processors and microcontrollers (which are miniature self-contained computers, usually 20 years behind the modern desktop computers) can reset themselves using internal switches. As I said, once the signal which generates reset is gone, the computer will start up. So the premise in the question isn't completely right. Computer doesn't know when to turn on. In know when it needs to be "off" or in reset and when the signal which keeps it there is gone, it will turn on.
This behavior may look strange on modern computer which can be set to turn on at specific time or over network and so on. As I said computers are made of computers. So while the main processor may be off, there could be numerous other chips and microcontrollers inside which are on. The most obvious case is the real-time clock which is often battery powered. It can then turn on other chips which will turn on other chips and the chain reaction goes until the whole computer is on. On today's computers, there's a PSU line called +5 VDC Standby Voltage. It provides around 50 mW power to various devices that are on when computer is "off".
A little bit of trivia: Reset pin on Intel 386 EX processor is pin number 110.
On Intel i7-900 it's land number AL39.
I hope that someone will be able to provide an answer which will explain how things work from the high level point of view, since it's quite complicated system.
This blog post describes how Linux triggers a reboot.
It frobs an I/O location which pulls a data line low which tells the CPU that it should stop whatever it's doing and start running code from a certain location in the BIOS.
Back in the old days before power management, computers could still restart themselves, of course. (Anybody remember when a frozen program meant you had to use Ctrl+Alt+Delete to reboot the computer?)
On my old 486, the assembly language command
A Google search for JMP FFFF:0000 reveals many interesting pages about this.
There is also a thing named the watchdog. This device serves as a dead-man's switch. The computer has to signal to the watchdog every say minute that it is still alive. When the computer crashes, e.g. by running into an endless loop, it will fail to signal to the watchdog it is still running as intended, on which occasion the watchdog will perform a hardware reset. This was demonstrated in the popular tv series of the terminator, where a robot was knocked out by a high voltage power surge. it would reset itself in 2 minutes.
Back on the old IBM PC-1 the keyboard controller, oddly enough, handled reboot. IBM embedded a small microprocessor to handle the keyboard, and it had some spare I/O lines, so they used one of the lines to drive the reset line of the main CPU. A command sent to the keyboard controller would result in the CPU being reset as if power had just been switched on.
I'm guessing this tradition continued well into the "AT" era, and there may be vestiges of it remaining in ACPI today.
Added: There's an interesting detail about the above reset scheme. During the early boot sequence the code looked for a particular pattern in RAM that might have been set by the previously executing code. If this code was present some of the POST (power-on self-test) diagnostics were skipped. The pattern would only be present on a "warm" boot.
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As Kansas teachers returned to work this week, they grieved for their colleagues in Connecticut, for the children – much like their own students – whose lives were tragically cut short, for the families of victims and for all of the Newtown community that will be forever marked by these tragic events.
As we pause to reflect on that horrific day and its aftermath, let us ask ourselves as a society the tough questions. Speaking in Newtown, President Obama posed the very questions we must all now consider.
These are questions not just for the president or Congress or Connecticut. In light of such repeated tragedies; in light of the experiences at Columbine High School, at Virginia Tech University, in a supermarket parking lot in Tucson, Arizona, at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, a temple in Wisconsin, a mall in Oregon and so many other places across this nation, these are questions for all of us. Because there but for the grace of God go we.
Do we care enough for our children that we protect them from harm, keep them safe, provide them opportunities, and care for their needs?
Do we care enough for our neighbors that we watch over them and provide them the help and services to cope with mental illnesses, domestic crises, and even the stresses of everyday life?
Kansas is not immune to acts such as we saw in Newtown. We have been spared so far but are we so different from Connecticut or Virginia or Colorado that we can rest easy?
Let us all reflect on these events; let us pray, let us talk, let us challenge ourselves to do better by each other.
Let us not rest easy until we can send our children off to school, our loved ones to their worksites, knowing that at the end of each day we will be together once again embraced in the love of family and community.
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Is America Becoming a 'Football' Paradise?
Major League Soccer is throwing a farewell party for David Beckham in Los Angeles this weekend.
There is also the small matter Saturday of the MLS Cup, a rematch of last year's final between Beckham's L.A. Galaxy and the Houston Dynamo (4:30 p.m., ESPN). But the transcendent Beckham recently announced his retirement from the Galaxy and MLS after six seasons. The match has become less a sporting event than a sold-out valedictory for the megastar whose presence legitimized the league and helped turn the U.S. into perhaps the world's most unappreciated soccer paradise.
That's essentially the pitch MLS officials will be making in earnest to the sport's biggest stars in the coming years as they try to recruit another crew of Beckhamesque figures to sell soccer in the U.S.
Go ahead. Mock the tradition-free Colorado Rapids, or an MLS schedule that runs through summer—which doesn't sync with the world's soccer calendar—or the occasionally sloppy, choppy play.
Perhaps you'd prefer joining Samuel Eto'o and FC Anzhi Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan. Be careful though. Violence in Dagestan has made it too dangerous for the players to live or train there. Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua and its stars Dider Drogba and Nicolas Anelka travel to such hot spots as Guizhou, Changchun, and Dalian. Donetsk, Ukraine is also lovely this time of year. Surely the Brazilian stars Fernandinho and Adriano of Shakhtar Donetsk are having more fun there than in Newport Beach, Calif., just down the road from the L.A. Galaxy's home.
"It's North America, so you have the cultural diversity, the access to great schools, restaurants, museums, and a very high quality of life," said Todd Durbin, executive vice president for player relations and competition at MLS. "We feel like we can offer a great place to live day-to-day, good training and now a real level of competition."
Soccer aficionados will debate the competition argument. But MLS is far better than it was when Beckham arrived in 2007. Back then he joined a team with Landon Donovan and a roster slightly above the Long Beach Poly High School junior varsity. Beckham kick-started the MLS's evolution into a decent destination.
Don Garber, the MLS Commissioner, said Beckham was the ultimate go-to guy. Last summer he was secretly rehearsing for the opening ceremony for the London Olympics when Garber called to say he needed him for the all-star game, which occurred 48 hours before the start of the Olympics. All Beckham asked for was transportation. While practicing for the game, he hopped in a car in his practice kit to do an hour-long visit with sick children at a local hospital. Every time he showed up at a mall or a Lakers game it served as a reminder to the public that one of the sport's biggest stars plays in the U.S. "I always knew we could go to him on a big ask and he would come through," Garber said.
The MLS has grown to 19 teams from 12 in 2006. Expansion franchise fees climbed from $10 million to $40 million. Average attendance is now nearly 19,000, more than in some of the not-so-sleepy outposts in the Italian league.
"The position we're in at the moment, the interest that is around and surrounds this league, is pretty good," Beckham said in a news conference Thursday. "When this league is talked about in Europe, people are starting to take it very seriously and that's an amazing thing to see."
There are now 14 soccer specific stadiums in the MLS, compared with four before Beckham arrived. But beyond the numbers, there is a genuine buzz in many of those venues. Seattle and Portland are zoos. Kansas City's Livestrong Sporting Park is a mini-masterpiece. In Philadelphia, the Sons of Ben supporters group hits all the right notes.
MLS won't ever be Old Trafford or Anfield, or even Paris Saint-Germain. But Thierry Henry of the New York Red Bulls samples SoHo's top eateries with the bliss of anonymity. His Australian teammate, Tim Cahill, who spent 15 years playing professionally in England for Everton and Millwall, raved Friday afternoon about his quiet spread in the country, peacefully bringing his kids to their own practices, and all those kooky American soccer-heads who tailgate for hours before midseason games.
"I haven't seen Premier League teams coming here and winning four or five-nil," Cahill said. "I think it's a league to be proud of."
Clearly, MLS still isn't the place for Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo in their primes. They are the best players in the world and should be playing for the top clubs, earning the gargantuan salaries MLS can't afford. Also, if the U.S. is ever going to make the final four of the World Cup, it will probably need a few of its internationals to cut their teeth with the top European clubs. That said, even U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann acknowledges actually playing in MLS is better than riding the pine abroad. (Isn't that right Eddie Johnson?)
So come on home Clint Dempsey, who has struggled lately at Tottenham. Zlatan Ibrahimovic, there must be a Bosnian-Swedish bar you'll enjoy. And, Samuel Eto'o, the U.S. is nearly 150 years removed from its last civil war.
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Muskego schools name business manager
Muskego - The Muskego-Norway School Board has appointed Julie Kelly, business manager with the St. Francis School District, to be director of business services beginning Jan. 10.
Kelly succeeds Scot Ecker, who resigned - effective at the end of 2012 - to become associate vice president and controller of Carthage College in Kenosha.
In addition to serving as the St. Francis Schools business director for seven years, Kelly is a certified school risk manager and a certified administrator of school finance and operations.
Two blood drives coming up in New Berlin
New Berlin - During winter, blood donations are especially needed because many regular donors have trouble getting to donation sites or have seasonal illnesses.
So, the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 18 at Schroeder Solutions, 1920 S. Calhoun Road, New Berlin.
To donate, call (800) RED CROSS (800-733-2767) or visit redcrossblood.org to make an appointment or obtain more information. A blood donor card or driver's license or two other forms of identification are required at check-in.
Donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in generally good health.
Another blood drive will be held from 7 to 11 a.m. Jan. 17 in the Common Council chambers of the New Berlin City Hall, 3805 S. Casper Drive. Appointments are encouraged by calling Melody at (262) 797-2441, but walk-ins will be welcome. A photo ID is needed.
Three schools go dark for 70 minutes
New Berlin - The power went out at three New Berlin Schools and about 8,400 homes and businesses in New Berlin and Brookfield about 11:15 a.m. Friday, as some equipment on a We Energies power line failed causing the line to fail, eventually affecting equipment at a substation, Cathy Schulze, We Energies spokeswoman said.
The power line is at Lincoln Avenue and Calhoun Road in New Berlin, she said.
The schools and about 2,000 other customers had power again by 12:25 p.m. All 8,400 customers had power back by 12:40 p.m.
The New Berlin schools affected were New Berlin West Middle/High School, Ronald Reagan and Poplar Creek elementary schools.
The fact that the outage came at lunchtime and recess was a help, Superintendent Joe Garza said.
"With the sunshine and flashlights and professional staff, we did what we needed to do," he said.
Junior Women top $100,000 for splash pad
New Berlin - The New Berlin Junior Woman's Club has exceeded the $100,000 mark in its fundraising effort to create a splash pad at Malone Park.
Youngsters run through splash pads and are squirted or doused with water from various colorful structures. The estimated cost is $425,000.
The club is continuing its fundraising efforts. The latest donation that pushed the total above the $100,000 mark was from Modern Woodmen company.
ACT prep classes offered to improve scores
New Berlin - New Berlin students who want to bone up for the ACT college entrance exams have until Jan. 14 to get in on the New Berlin School District's first opportunities to do that.
The New Berlin School District is offering several ACT preparation classes to all New Berlin students regardless of whether they attend public school. Each three-Saturday session is $75.
Sessions will be held in two locations - at New Berlin West Middle/High School, 18695 W. Cleveland Ave., and at Eisenhower Middle/High School, 4333 S. Sunny Slope Road.
New Berlin West ACT Prep Session 1 meets from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 19 and 26 and 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 2.
New Berlin West ACT Prep Session 2 meets from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 9 and 16 and 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. March 23. Eisenhower ACT Prep Session 1 meets 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Jan. 19 and 26 and 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 2.
Eisenhower ACT Prep Session 2 meets from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. March 9 and 16 and 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. March 23.
The ACTs are given in February and in April.
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Art gallery opens in Muskego
Muskego - With the redevelopment of the Tudor Oaks community, W12929 McShane Drive, Muskego, a new art gallery has been created enabling local artists and photographers to showcase their work.
The first show features work by Jeff Malecki who does fine art and illustrations watercolors, acrylics, charcoal pencils and pen and ink. His eye-catching graphics are on display from Jan. 21 through Feb. 28 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Admission is free.
Future shows include works by L. Lynn Ellery, Barbara Beier and the Lifetime Art Exhibit sponsored by Interfaith.
Businesses invited to career, job fair
New Berlin - Local businesses are invited to participate in the second New Berlin Career and Job Fair to be held by Moving New Berlin Forward and the School District of New Berlin for businesses, students and the community on Feb. 20.
Local businesses are invited to participate to speak with students about career fields and even recruit employees for open positions.
The fair will be held in the New Berlin West High School field house with the job fair section for high school students from 8 to 11 a.m. and career fair for high school students from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and the job fair for the community at large from 5:30 to 8 p.m.
Businesses are invited to participate in some or all the sessions and a complimentary luncheon will be provided.
Moving New Berlin Forward is a cooperative effort to align resources with the needs of the community, businesses and students. The organization is supported by the School District of New Berlin, the city of New Berlin, the Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau, the New Berlin Rotary Club, civic and faith-based organizations, and local businesses.
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Two Muskego students take top essay honors
Muskego - Anna Aiuppa won the Voice of Democracy essay competition of the Muskego Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8171 and her essay on this year's theme, "Is Our Constitution Still Relevant?" will go on to the district competition.
Anna Li also was a winner in the competition. Both girls attend Muskego High School.
They each submitted an audio essay. The Voice of Democracy essay contest is open to students in grades nine through 12 in public or private schools or even home-schooled students. The top scholarship at the national level is $30,000.
Dale Kuss, chairman of the Patriots Pen and Voice of Democracy competition for the VFW, and Chris Stamborski, commander for Muskego VFW, Post 8171, presented certificates and monetary awards to the two Muskego students.
People think summer already booking parks
Muskego - As soon as the new year started, the Waukesha County Park System started taking reservations for park facilities for those holding special events such as family reunions, company picnics or outdoor weddings.
Reservations should be made at the County Administration Building, 515 W. Moreland Boulevard, Room AC230, in Waukesha. Payment is due at time of booking.
The only county park locally is Muskego County Park, W20370 Janesville Road.
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Self-Evident, the latest book of verses by award-winning poet Scott Hightower, commences with the Enlightenment, before moving to the Spanish Civil War, then concluding with works best described as self-portraiture.
Self-Evident, to be released by Barrow Street Press in April, moves through the centuries while invoking a range of real-life and fictional figures—Benjamin Franklin, Stanley Kowalski the Nobel prize-winning scientist Severo Ochoa, Spanish poet Aurora de Albornoz, and even Peter Pan, to name a few. Though Hightower's poems employ history as a vehicle, he aims to use the past to shed light on our contemporary inner selves.
Hightower, who teaches in NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, is the author of three previous books of poetry: Tin Can Tourist, Natural Trouble, and Part of the Bargain, which received Copper Canyon Press's Hayden Carruth Award. Hightower's poems have appeared in the Yale Review, Salmagundi, Ploughshares, and the Paris Review, among other publications. For more, go to: scotthightower.com.
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Death Valley National Park is the largest national park in the lower 48 states.
America's wild places offer oodles of opportunities to enjoy the beautiful outdoors. But there's one type of recreation for which it seems the rules are not quite clear.
Across the country the drive to drill is sending oil and gas development deeper into our wildest, most beloved public lands. But some lands are simply too wild to drill. Our new Too Wild to Drill report spotlights 12 such places - places that need protection today.
The Wilderness Society applauds Tennessee's Senators Lamar Alexander's and Bob Corker's for reintroducing the Tennessee Wilderness Act on July 15.
The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) will recognize 157 representatives for their parks-friendly voting record in the last Congress on July 17, 2013.
Oil and gas were responsible for 90 percent of Colorado's air pollution enforcement cases in the first quarter of 2013.
Colorado's Canyons of the Ancients National Monument protects an archaeologically-rich landscape of primarily Ancestral Puebloan ruins, as well as natural and geological resources.
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- Number of Pages: 208
- Subject: Reference
- Date Available: April 2011
This fourth edition of the venerable manual on square rigger sailing is the first revision in more than twenty years. It brings together the several changes in rigging and procedures that allow the 75-year-old Eagle to continue to sail. As America's emissary to the tall ship fleet, Eagle sails each summer to destinations in Europe, the Caribbean, and North America, with thousands following her journeys online.
The manual has long been the reference of choice for Eagle crewmembers, Coast Guard Academy cadets, and tall ship sailors throughout the world. Its extensive glossary of square rigger nomenclature, diagrams of rigging and sails, explanations of sailing theory, and updated procedures for handling the vessel will be welcomed by many.
Capt. Eric Jones is the commanding officer of Eagle. He lives in Pawcatuck, CT.
Lt. Christopher Nolan was Eagle's navigator and operations officer from 2008 to 2010 and currently commands the cutter Jefferson Island. He resides in South Portland, ME.
Praise for Eagle Seamanship, 4th Edition
"This is the manual on sailing EAGLE; the bark's commanding officer and former navigator take the reader through every step of sail handling."
— WoodenBoat Magazine, July/August 2011
"For those with a fascination with naval history, EAGLE Seamanship will prove an excellent and very highly recommended pick, not to be missed."
— The Midwest Book Review, June 2011
". . . .Concise and very well-written history of the [Eagle], from its beginnings as a German naval training ship through its transfer to the US government as a war prize from WWII, to its dual role today as both a training ship for Coast Guard caders and a goodwill ambassador of the United States."
— Sea History, Summer 2011


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A Pratt man received scrapes and bruises following a one-vehicle motorcycle accident Monday afternoon on west First Street.
Allan Briney, 29 of Pratt, was westbound on west First Street on the inside lane when he saw a pickup stopped in front of him waiting to make a left turn and go south on Mound Street, said Pratt Police Officer Nate Humble.
Briney realized he couldn't stop in time and to avoid hitting the pickup laid the motorcycle down and slid about 20 feet.
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It seems in all the pro replays videos that I've watched they don't have unit health bars displayed at all times and instead press Alt to see them. Why is that? I find it invaluable information to see at all times and having to press an extra button to see it takes extra mental energy to consciously think of doing it that could have been better spent keeping other things in mind. What disadvantage is there to having them displayed at all times?
Actually, I'd say it's the shoutcasters turning off the health bars. You never see replays of the gamer himself because that could cost him performance. Those games are either frapsed live through spectators or they just comment on the replay. So you never actually see the player's settings in a game.
Any pro-gamer worth his salt will tell you that you should have the health bars on at all times.
It makes it much easier to focus targets that are already low and makes it much easier for you to see what unit needs to be pulled back. And even in macro game the health bars still stick perfectly to the units, so you can still see very well (I'd argue that it's easier with bars on than without) what's going on on the battle field.
It can make it hard to see everything because they get in the way of viewing all of the units(more so when there are a lot of them).
Because if you have twenty units, your opponent has twenty units and those two mods clash: how well do you think you can still see the independent health bars? Since they will most likely overlap each other.
Also, most of the time they know which units will get killed, so they don't need the health bars to tell
Example from Ars Technica: I don't find this very useful... And the colors below already show me which unit is dying.
Side-note: It might actually be detrimental for your performance, since it would have to update a whole lot of health bars very very fast, so unless you have a low ping and a fast computer, I'd not use it with large groups
In some cases, the bars can get in the way of the action. This varies by the size of the unit. 20 ultralisks/thors/collusi with health bars will look fine. 50 zerglings/marines/zealots with health bars will look a lot more cluttered.
Not really an answer but I find this to be annoying too. In games like Heroes of Newerth, they managed to make the health bars clean and more or less clutter-free. No reason for SC2 not to, but they do anyway.
The stuff posters said about clutter is far more applicable in large-scale RTS games like SC2, though, and it makes this game way harder to micro for.
As far as I'm concerned this is a UI oversight that Blizzard needs to figure out.
Because it looks cooler to not have the UI in the way. But if you're playing to win, turn them on.


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Today the talented Sophie Oak joins the fun! Take a look at Sophie Oak's Hot new release from Siren Publishing, Pure Bliss!
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Contemporary, Menage, Cowboys
March 16, 2012
Bliss, Colorado gave Hope McLean a second chance at life but she is hiding a dark secret.
Raised as brothers, James Glen and Noah Bennett always dreamed of finding a woman to share their lives on the Circle G ranch. James would run the ranch, while Noah served the town of Bliss as the resident vet. But when a woman came between the brothers, Noah fled for New York City and James was left to struggle for the ranch's survival alone.
Now that Noah has returned, he will do anything to repay his debt to James. When he sees Hope, he knows she is the woman they both have been waiting for. But just as their love begins to bloom, a nightmare from Hope's past returns to claim her.
To save Hope, and themselves, they will have to reforge the brotherhood that was shattered and fight for their future.
Ali: Is there an author that makes you go all "fangirl?"
Sophie: There are several. I love The Hunger Games so meeting Suzanne Collins would be amazing. On the romance end, I grew up reading Jayne Ann Krentz and Linda Howard. I was actually sitting in New York with Shayla Black eating breakfast at RWA Nationals last year and we looked over and two tables away sat Jayne Ann Krentz and Susan Elizabeth Phillips. I managed to maintain my professional demeanor and not attack her. JAK is my comfort food.
Ali: If you could co-write with another author who would it be and why?
Sophie: I have co-written a couple of times. I have a book with Chloe Lang and I co-wrote several books with Shayla Black under another pen name. I'll be honest, it's a deeply intimate thing to write a book with another author. I wouldn't write with someone I don't know. Shayla and I are best friends who are pretty much in each other's lives twenty-four seven. We like to say we're married – we certainly are financially.
Ali: What are you looking forward to most about AADNola?
Sophie: It's my first AAD and I'm looking forward to everything! I've never been in New Orleans. I really want to see the city.
Ali: The world is under attack and you are forced to run for your life. You only have room for one book in your survival kit, what book do you take?
Sophie: Can't I take my Kindle? I guess not. It would need a charge. One book. I would take a blank one and a pen because I couldn't choose and would probably find comfort in writing while the zombies attack.
Ali: Who are your favorite literary characters? (Yours or someone else's)
Sophie: I think my first favorite literary character was Sydney Carton from A Tale of Two Cities. He's the ultimate self-sacrificing reformed bad boy. From romance I would say I adore Dane Hollister from Linda Howard's Dream Man and Sam Stark from Trust Me by Jayne Ann Krentz.
Of my own characters, I would say I have a definite soft spot for Julian Lodge.
Ali: Are there any of your secondary characters you would like to give more life to?
Sophie: I've been building up this one character for six books. He's from my Nights in Bliss series. I was talking to a reviewer friend the other day and she asked me about Logan Green. He starts out in Three to Ride as this kind of goofy manchild deputy and over the course of the series something very tragic happens to him and he morphs into this tortured guy. So the reader gets to see his whole story arc played out over seven or eight books.
*Favorite color: Green
*Favorite food: Tex-Mex
*Boots or heels: heels
*eReader or Print: e-reader
*Beer, Liquor or Wine: Wine!
*Favorite place to get it on besides the bedroom: swimming pool
*Favorite TV Show: Spartacus or Ringer
*Favorite Book series (besides your own): Club Shadowlands by the magnificent Cherise Sinclair
*Pj's or Lingerie: sadly, PJs
*Vampires vs. Shifters: Vamps, vamps, vamps!
Sophie is giving the winner of today's daily contest a copy of Pure Bliss! Thank You Sophie!!
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What mod has the most patience?
Was looking through some comments on the many woot sites and noticed that thunderthighs seemed to be getting hammered with dumb stuff. Seemed to take it in stride. Got me thinking, what mod has the most patience? I know that brutherford seemed to take the critques of the moofi deals a little hard, but all in all didn't seem too phased. I remember Jumbo and a couple of other in the earlier days of deals jumping into quite a few threads.
Thought I'd get some input, kinda curious. I'm not on here all the time like some people so I may have a different perspective.
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All of them.
That's a job it takes a special kind of masochist to do. And we're glad to have them, regardless of our occasional grousing.
I have a new found respect for @inkycatz with that whole Chick-fil-a thing a few days ago...
I agree. They are all pretty patient with our shenanigans.
@dergage: But our shenanigans are cheeky and fun!
I mostly lurk occasionally and enjoy the cheeky fun of which @gideonfrost speaks immensely. There are days, when I think "I want me some of whatever they are piping through the ventilation to the mods cubicals, 'cause it's got to be good stuff!", andt hen there are the days when I think "There are not enought psychotropic pharmaceuticals in the world that could keep me sane doing that job!"
We are not worthy.
Most patience? Ponder. ...Maybe JumboGatzInkyThighs? Or not. Hard to say; hard job. And patience, IMO, is not always a virtue. Possible suicidal move to name just one, eh? :-\
Quietly sets table back on legs, pats Gatzby on the head & hands him a bottle of wine (to take home, of course). ;-)
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I do not envy the mods their job.
I can only imagine the amounts of patience it must take to put up with what some of us put out! I used to work in retail, and to think, I'd get aggravated at some of the stuff customers would say/do. These poor mods are dealing with a lot more people than I ever have!
Gratz to all of you for keeping your cool.
Forget the wine, if I'm ever in their neck of the woods, I'm taking them all out to the bar for a couple rounds on me! I'll even make sure they get home safe and sound (I'll call a taxi for everyone of them.)
1) To be quite frank.. I'm not even sure how many mods are out here. Can I get a headcount please?
2) I do agree with @okham is correct, all of them has the patience.
3) But I'd say @thunderthighs is most notable here, in my opinion.
4) I do know there are some mods out there who does all the editing/moderating like a ninja.
Howdy folks. This is a very nice thread to read. We all appreciate your kind words. =D
I think you're mostly talking here about the community moderators. We're the ones that monitor the threads and comments. The community mods are: @inkycatz, @pemberducky, @rogetray, me and the boss man, @gatzby.
There's a whole other team of Deals moderators that look after your deals as well as hunting up some of their own.
Again, thanks for the blushes.
Oh, and as for patience, I'm just always glad there's not a web cam or mic on me. I talk a lot to you guys. =P
@thunderthighs: LOL @ the no web cab/mic comment. ;-) Know what you mean there. What I yell at some comments/people is not always kind.
BTW: Is @rogetray the strong, silent type? Don't recall seeing him/her around. Sometimes the strong, silent type is stealthy. Quiet & deadly. Or maybe they're wealthy & just doing the job for laughs. But...wait! Maybe they're healthy and keeping their blood pressure down.
@thunderthighs: Oh, no web cam or mic? That's a shame, hate to see what you'd say about me. Though, I try to behave and not cause too much trouble anyway. I just remember how much I hated the crap when working in retail, and try to behave, even when I'm not happy! But, I'm sure I can be obnoxious at times....
And, to all the mods, you are welcome, you are deserving of praise and thanks for everything you do! It's not an easy job, I'm sure, and sometimes people aren't always thankful for what you do. Again...going to my retail days, you always hear about the complaints, never the good stuff. So keep up the good work! I, for one appreciate it!
Two thumbs up to all of the mods here. Way to go guys and gals!
@Rogetray is a community mod? I thought he just posts clever images/vids for sardonic effect.
Sneaky little Rogetrays! Wicked, tricksy, false!
@gmwhit: Yes...lol stong AND silent. LOL. No, I moderate the sites and occasionally contribute conversations and discussions. I also mostly Spotlight during the day and catch the clever, clever quips your guys come up with :)
@j5: YES!! lol...I like the term "sardonic". I try to bring levity to discussions that get TOO serious and I enjoy making people laugh. I'm probably NOT as involved in the communities as much as the rest of the team, but I've been known to have my fair share of dealing with cranky users, confounding questions and irritable consumers. I'm also taking strides to contribute and connect with each community more and more.
Thank you all for your kind words and praise. We do our best to help and encourage your guys to have fun in the forums and talk about what's on your mind (except you Adder). The community discussions and camaraderie found among members is very important to us Mods, and we will always do our best making sure you're heard and helped everyday. :D
@rogetray: Be still my heart!. ::deep sigh:: Strong & silent. Often a delightful combo. Thanks so much for breaking the silence. :-D
i get paid to make stupid jokes and occasionally administer discipline.
it's a pretty sweet gig.
patience comes easy when you think of it that way.
@dergage: Thanks!
Also this is a really sweet thread and stuff.
There are some of us that don't even get paid to do it... we do it for..... wait for it....... Fun!
i'd say gatzby. all the mods have to deal with our rage, but gatz also has to deal with all the modrages!


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This is not a concern that I personally have,no! In my job environment I've heard from programmers and non programmers that PHP developers always put secret backdoors in PHP that no one has access to but themselves, so if a project goes live and become a big project they can do whatever they want with it, like stealing company assets and etc.
Although I do respect to all the PHP developers in php.net and others, I'd just like to know about your opinions.
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Where does the top's angular momentum get transferred to? Does it very slightly change the angular momentum of the table, and then the angular momentum of the Earth?
Conservation of Angular momentum applies only when you don't have any net torque on the system. For a spinning top, the frictional force between the top and the floor would give it enough torque in the opposite direction so as to make the top stop (this is much like how a block loses its linear momentum due to friction when it slides down a plank). As far as the energy goes, it gets converted into heat, sound etc. Of course if you took an atomic point of view, you'd see that the angular momentum of the top slightly changed the angular momentum of the molecules of the table. It would also have changed the angular momentum of the earth. But such effects are hardly noticeable. This xkcd comic is relevant:
Yes, it does.
Exactly the same amount but opposite direction of the momentum earth received when the top was accelerated first.


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My first batch is conditioning at room temp right now. I used brown bottles, but threw in a few greens and two cleat just for experimentation..... I have them in a fairly dark room but also covered them with a blanket to fully cut off all light! Good idea? Bad idea? Wast of time?
If you have green and clear glass, then you should cover them, yes. Otherwise, if they're brown glass in a fairly dark room, I wouldn't worry about it.
If you really want to do an experiment with brown vs. green and clear bottles, then you probably do want to expose them to some light, since presumably that would be the point of the experiment.
Not quite sure what sort of answer you're after, here. :/
I have never covered my beers and haven't had an issue with skunky beer. I do have a dark basement and have mostly covered shelves where I store all of my bottles.
As long as you keep your bottles out of direct sunlight they should be good, so if you want/need to use a blanket to help facilitate that, it's up to you. But it really is dependent on your situation.


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Radiation Versus Surgery
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I am 59 years old, and just diagnosed with prostate cancer (T1c, Gleason 6). The surgeon recommended a prostatectomy, partly because he says that with radiation treatment, a second cancer may occur in 15-25 years, perhaps due to exposure to the exposure to radiation. He stated that the success rate between surgery and radiation are about the same over 5-10 years, but the risk [of recurrence] after 15 years is more for radiation. Could you comment on this, please?
Richard Whittington, MD, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, responds:
There are no good, randomized clinical trials comparing surgery and radiation therapy for prostate cancer. This makes any comparison of these two treatments speculative, at best. We also do not have data using PSA as a measure at 15 to 25 years after treatment with modern techniques. For example, Dr. Patrick Walsh only described the nerve-sparing prostatectomy in 60 patients about 20 years go, and even then, this technique was not generally adopted until about 12-14 years ago. Similarly, 3-D conformal radiation has only been around for 15 years, and IMRT (intensity-modulated radiation therapy) for only 8 years. We know that radiation dose is an issue in prostate cancer, and the "adequate" dose of 78 Gy has only been used for 5 years in major centers, and still is not generally available in the community. There is also the problem that most men are biopsied by an urologist who likely operates on the men he/she wants to operate on, sending the rest of the patients to radiation. Which means comparisons of treatments are not likely to involve truly comparable patients. In the best hands, the results that can be achieved are probably very similar, if not equal. There is no data to suggest that radiation is better than surgery, while many surgeons assert that surgery is better than radiation, with no data to back it up.
It really comes down to two things: the skill of the practitioner and the patient's peace of mind. The surgical risk of incontinence varies from 1% to 50%, and the risk of impotence is anywhere from 35% to 100%. Some of this is surgical skill, and some is definition of the terms "incontinence" and "impotence". For instance, one study reports 50% of the men were wearing pads for incontinence all of the time. Of the other 50%, some may need pads occasionally, but were not considered by the study authors to be incontinent in the reported results. Similarly, some people say a man wearing 1 pad a day but not soaking it is still continent, while others say if you are wearing a pad at all, you are not continent by definition. Similarly, some surgeons say that men are not potent unless they can have an erection and complete intercourse with no mechanical or pharmacological aids, while others say that if you respond to medications, you are potent. You need to ask your doctor what the risks of incontinence and impotence are, and also what their definitions are for these specific complications. Another factor is that a doctor who does more than 200 radical prostatectomies a year is much less likely to experience complications than one who does 50 or fewer in a year.
As far as peace of mind is an issue:
As for the risk of secondary colon and rectal cancers years down the road, there is no good data to support this. We do not have long enough follow up with current techniques, such as 3D and IMRT. Some reviews have shown a higher risk of colorectal cancer, but the risk is equally high for tumors in the radiation field as it is for those out of the field, so this may just reflect an increased risk of colorectal cancer in men with prostate cancer, and not a radiation effect. Also, the older a person is, the more likely they are to get colorectal tumors, so age may also have a part in it.
As a 55-year-old man, I check my PSA regularly, and I have picked out a surgeon if it ever goes up. In his hands, the risk of incontinence is 1% and the risk of impotence is 35%, using the strictest of definitions. When I turn 60, the risk of incontinence rises to 4% and impotence is 50%, and at that point I would choose radiation. My surgeon says that when he is 70 and the risk of incontinence is 12% and impotence is 90% with surgery, he too would choose radiation. We both believe in what we do, and we think we do it well. I don't think there is a wrong answer from a medical standpoint, and would recommend you pick what you feel comfortable with. Talking to a radiation oncologist may be helpful, but if they start telling you the other guy doesn't know what he is doing, you need to find two new doctors.
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