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9 Disturbing Christmas Ads You Won't Believe Are Real
#4. "Hang Another Revolver Here, Honey, There's an Empty Spot."
Yes, these were the old days when you'd hang your Iver Johnson revolvers right on the tree, as the danger was apparently outweighed by the awesomeness of a tree covered in guns. With all of the talk about gun control we're going to hear over the next few months, it's borderline surreal to see these old-timey ads that brought to mind a husband and wife toasting some eggnog around a tree drooping under the weight of a dozen gleaming instruments of death. Guns than are hanging by the goddamned trigger. Do you have any doubt at all that shit is loaded?
#3. Our Love Will Survive This Avalanche of Spoons
Soooo, this is an ad for spoons that really needs to get some perspective on how important cutlery actually is. We like cereal and spoon-related activities as much as your average man-child, but we're not willing to let someone grope us in exchange for some awesome utensils, as is clearly happening in this ad.
Just look at the wife's complete lack of expression -- that's not joy or excitement or even gratitude. That's just numbness, which leads us to believe that this isn't a spoon ad at all ... wait a second, isn't heroin cooked using spoons? Yeah, that lady is riding the H-train. Tell us she's not.
#2. Santa Has Strangled a Goose
It's not that Santa is selling beer that bugs us about this ad -- he actually used to market alcohol and cigarettes all the time -- but what is slightly unsettling is that Santa Claus obviously strangled that goose to death like seconds before this photo was taken. Don't tell us it's part of the meal -- everything else on the table is steaming hot and ready to eat, and that goose is just lying there in its death pose, feathers and all, killed so recently that Santa had clearly just dropped it as the cameraman walked in the door, one wing extended in a desperate last bid to survive before Santa watched the life fade from its pleading eyes.
That is what happens when you swoop down and try to eat one of Santa's grapes, kids. You become part of the goddamned meal.
#1. Note the Severed Heads at the Bottom
This 1865 ad is actually just Harper's Weekly thanking its customers for their business. But studying it closely, we've developed a theory that the artist started drawing at the top and slowly went insane as he worked his way down.
Because at a quick glance, this seems pretty standard issue old-timey Christmas, but our creep-ometer started going off when we saw Santa winking lustfully from the center, being all "Ladies ... I mean ... children." But keep going down to the bottom and you'll see that the town has gathered for the annual Christmas decapitations of their giant-headed residents, as is tradition, which has incorporated the usual Christmas tropes: swords, dwarfs, kung-fu fighting and exactly one clown. Also, the set appears to have caught fire, leaving no hope of escape for anyone in that crowded building.
Which is somehow less terrifying than the thought of anyone here escaping alive.
Merry Christmas, fuckers!
D. McCallum has more inappropriate Christmas humor, but with superheroes, on her website, Texts from Superheroes, on Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter.
For more holly jolly terror, check out The 6 Most Horrific Ways Pop Culture Has Misused Santa Claus and The 11 Most Unintentionally Creepy Christmas Ornaments.


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5 Ridiculous Attempts at Crime Fighting (That Worked)
Admit it: at some point you've imagined yourself in a hostage situation or bank robbery, knowing that you'd be the one to kick the crap out of the bad guys the moment they let their guard down.
Believe it or not, that kind of thing does happen. All it takes is a crazy enough crime fighter, and hopefully a really dumb criminal.
#5. Should Have Used Rosetta Stone
Ahmedou Mohamed Lemine was the captain and pilot of an Air Mauritania Boeing 737 jet, and he was rather put out: His perfect safety record was in jeopardy. This is all because, a few minutes prior, Mr. Mohamed Abderraman had rushed into his cockpit armed to the teeth and announced that he was hijacking this plane. He demanded to go to somewhere devoid of man's laws; a feral, savage place where a terrorist like him could blend in: Paris, France.
The problem being that the flight was traveling from Nouakchott, Mauritania to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands: A relatively short jump. So they weren't carrying a full tank of fuel, and certainly not enough to reach Paris. Lemine turned around in his seat and told the hijacker this in French. He was met by a blank stare.
Now, it's important to note that, though Mauritania's official language is Arabic, it's still located in "French West Africa." Nearly everybody speaks French, except, of course, for this particular hijacker. And hey, that's understandable: Some of us barely speak the one language goodly. But remember his destination was Paris. France. He boarded a plane in a country where he did not speak the language, in order to hijack it to another country where he still did not speak the language. So just keep in mind that Abderraman is not exactly Lex Luthor here.
When the pilot realized this, he clicked on the intercom and told the plane the hijacker couldn't understand them, so they were going to make a hard landing at Las Palmas. If everybody braced themselves, the captain suggested, they might be able to use that opportunity to overpower the hijacker. When the plane touched down, Lemine immediately slammed on the brakes, the would-be hijacker was bowled over, and a flight attendant swooped into action, grabbing a pot of boiling water and hurling it into the off-balance criminal's face. Ten other passengers took the opportunity to beat the man to a pulp, and held him down until they came to a stop.
In Las Palmas.
That's right: Despite being hijacked partway through it, Ahmedou Mohamed Lemine completed his flight as scheduled, his record wholly intact.
#4. The Saddest Bank Robbery Ever Foiled
Andrew Stewart was relaxing at a Royal Bank of Scotland in Exeter, reading his newspaper (apparently they don't have coffee shops in the UK) when a bank robber burst in, his hand clutched around a "gun" inside his backpack. He threatened the tellers, stated plainly that he had a weapon and demanded money. Even though our dim cultural understanding and ill-informed stereotypes tell us guns don't exist in the UK, and all crimes are instead settled by a rousing, but closely monitored debate, the tellers still bought his story and started handing over the cash.
That's when Stewart felt he had to step in. He happened to notice the date on his paper, April 1, and though he loved a good April Fool's prank as much as the next chap, he thought that perhaps "feigning death threats and armed robbery" might be a touch too far.
He folded his paper, stood up, crossed over to the robber and suggested that the joke had gone on long enough. The robber threatened to shoot Stewart, which Stewart mistook as simply "keeping character." So to set the teller's mind at ease, he reached over and pulled open the robber's gun-bag.
That is a serious, often fatal mistake in that kind of situation. The lives of Stewart and everyone in the bank were put in danger. Or they would have been, had the robber, Brian Davison, actually had a gun. The bag was empty, and he had been bluffing. Davison, no longer armed with the dangerous power of imagination, fled the scene to be apprehended later. Stewart, in his mind simply having spoiled a joke, sat back down without a word and continued reading his paper.
The real bank robbery he had mistaken for fake had in fact been fake, but in a different way, the whole thing a multilayered web of misdirection and illusion. Hey, it's like Inception! That, or one of the "wacky misunderstanding" episodes of Frasier.
#3. The King Declares War on Drugs
You probably think Elvis Presley and drugs go together like Maury Povich and staged paternity tests. That's the popular conception, after all. But that might come as news to Elvis: He didn't consider himself a drug user at all. He never touched a drug that wasn't first prescribed to him by a doctor. Or several doctors. All at once. But he wasn't a drug user. No, in fact, Elvis hated illegal drugs and the dirty hippies who used them so much that he even volunteered to help the government fight them.
He started his personal war on drugs by writing a six-page letter to then-serving President Nixon. In it, he requested that he be named a "Federal Agent at Large," a position Elvis was sure would enable him to bust every junkie he came across despite the fact that, by all accounts, Elvis made up the position of "Federal Agent at Large" while writing the letter.
The transcript of the letter can be found here, and reveals some interesting thinking on Elvis' part. He points out that "The drug culture, the hippie elements, the SDS, Black Panthers, etc. do not consider me as their enemy." Yes, Elvis was offering to be Richard Nixon's undercover hippie hunter.
Historians generally agree that what happened next is one of the three awesomest things to happen since God killed all the giants in the Old Testament. Nixon received Elvis' rambling, barely coherent letter that ended "I have a personal gift for you which I would like to present to you and you can accept it or I will keep it for you until you can take it." If that's the closing sentence in a letter from an ex-girlfriend, you're going to want to make sure to never see her again, ever. Proving Nixon either had a way better sense of humor, or a way bigger crush on Elvis than history gives him credit for, Nixon agreed to the meeting with Elvis.
ADMIT ONE: The White House
Elvis promptly donned his Formal Rhinestone Cape and his most subdued and tasteful Giant Golden Cummerbund, then set off for the White House. Handshakes were given, pictures were taken and even gifts were exchanged: Nixon gave Elvis an honorary badge and title (that's right, that badge up there? That's not a Photoshop), while Elvis revealed his "personal gift" for the President of the United States: a gold-plated Colt .45.
Although he had to leave it at the gate initially, and it was later "presented" by Secret Service Agents, that act still cements the King as the single most prominent pop culture icon in history. If Lady Gaga showed up to the white house today carrying a hand grenade and a samurai sword as "gifts for the President" we highly doubt they'd be shaking hand afterwards.
Tragically, the two men--Elvis Presley, Federal Agent at Large, and a golden Colt .45-wielding Richard Nixon--parted ways after that, never to meet again. Though we have to imagine that Elvis' handlers had to get used to every trip to the bathroom being referred to as a "top secret mission to the men's room."
Also tragically, our pilot for The King and I, a wacky buddy cop series based on the events, still has yet to be picked up.

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I have a Linux 2.6 box that uses ifplugd to bring up the network. While initialising, the logs say,
"Initialisation complete. Link beat not detected." and then it goes into releasing the present address and obtaining lease all over again.
My question therefore would be:
- What is link beat?
- What does it mean if a link beat is not detected?
- Why is this so critical? What determines if a link beat is present or not?


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I installed Ubuntu on my PC. To log in, I use the username and password I created during installation. Does this mean I am a root user? If yes, then how do I become non-root? It looks like non-root user is more secure than admin user.
You are an administrator, but not
Ubuntu asks for your password when you try to do stuff as
User Accounts: Human, and Otherwise
Real human users have user accounts to represent them. You created one such account when you installed Ubuntu. But not all user accounts represent real human users.
Real human users are granted (and denied) abilities through their user accounts. They must use their user accounts to use the system; therefore, their user accounts' abilities and limitations apply to them.
User accounts are also used to codify sets of abilities and limitations. Some user accounts--most, actually, unless you have many human users of the machine--exist so that certain programs or commands can be run with their identity, an identity with the right abilities and limitations for the job.
For example, the
The Most Important Non-Human User Account
The superuser, whose username is
Many important system processes, like
Can I log in as
@EliahKagan-another dumb one :) I will make an analogy - Root is like a parent and any user is like a child. Elder children (admins) have more privileges. A child(user) can never be THE Parent(Root). The 12 year old child can do non-dangerous things in the house (OS/Ubuntu) like use the fridge and stuff. He is not allowed to touch the money in safe. But, the 18 year old (admin) can, using 'sudo' or permission of parent to access that money. But, both are not allowed to touch the gun in another safe. Only root(parent) can do that. Makes sense ? – FirstName LastName Jan 21 '13 at 9:44
@FirstNameLastName Administrator accounts represent real human users who, in the real world, have all the power. Admins can "make
root do anything" with
sudo and PolicyKit. An admin could even enable the
root account and log in. If you abstract a user account as a combination of mechanistic and conscious actions, human users have both and non-human users including
root act purely mechanistically. If you understand how it all works, then if your analogy reinforces that, great! But I don't think it really captures the root-admin relationship.
– Eliah Kagan
Jan 21 '13 at 11:07
@FirstNameLastName It seems to me a better analogy is: administrators are like Bruce Wayne, and
root like Batman. The difference is entirely a matter of constructed identity. Bruce Wayne can become Batman whenever he wants and do almost anything, but he will always be Bruce Wayne under the mask. Still, Batman is more who he really is--the Bruce Wayne persona is a contrivance that shields him from the consequences of being Batman. By presenting as Wayne in everyday life, he can often protect himself and his loved ones from his own mistakes, flaws in the system, and the malware of Gotham City.
– Eliah Kagan
Jan 21 '13 at 11:30
No such thing as a dumb question ;)
I hope this clarifies things a bit:
In Ubuntu, two different types of user accounts may be made: standard accounts and administrator accounts. The difference between the two: a standard account is not allowed to make any important changes to your system by attaining root access, whereas an administrator account may use their password to make changes as the root user. The Root user itself is one of the many users that the system has created and that you do not normally see or notice, and you can't login as it (by default, anyway). If you are logged into an administrator type account, you can become this Root user with the
The account created during installation is an administrator account.
In Ubuntu, root account has no password and as a consequence, you can not login as the
An Administrator account in Ubuntu means that the user is added to the group
To confirm that these are true:
Here is how you check if your account is administrator or not:
the user you log in to Ubuntu with, is not the admin user (the admin user in Linux terminology is called root)
In All Linux systems To do any changes to the system we need to be authenticated as root user and as well as to apply all changes we need to be root user.
Normal users cant apply the changes system wide.This is the advantage with Linux as compare with the windows.
If any attack done then that will stem up to only that area in Linux/Unix system because to attack or to modify remaining areas It need root permissions but in Windows if one place got attacked means the whole system will get affected.
That's why only in many questions if any user placed for no prompt for root password, then we will warn him as this is not recommended under security circumstances and leave choice upto them.
If you want to turn into a root user ,sudo can help you.
If you would like launch application as root user then you can sudo .
It always a Better to run the system as non-root user.


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6 Cheap Acting Tricks That Fool The Critics Every Time
There comes a time in every major actor's career when they attempt to put the lighthearted comedies and inane chick flicks behind them and tackle a more serious role. The kind of role that will get them the one thing that every Hollywood actor craves: free cocaine. And also an Academy Award nomination.
The award is made entirely of golden cocaine [citation needed]
Sometimes, it works. Other times, not so much.
#6. The Biopic
There is a famous Hollywood rule that we made up for this article that goes like this- if it worked for Gary Busey, there is no reason it won't work for you.
How effective is the biopic in earning Hollywood credibility? Busey actually scored a Best Actor nomination for playing Buddy Holly in the aptly titled The Buddy Holly Story.
Yeah, this guy
This simple formula rarely fails. Pick a deceased (or soon to be deceased) musician, artist or mathematician, make sure they're the sort of person the New York media could conceivably refer to as brilliant, insert a big name actor (or Gary Busey) to play the role; watch movie critics and audiences far and wide go apeshit.
The best thing about the biopic is that Hollywood is free to embellish the back story as much as they would like. How do you know Ray Charles didn't really walk on the moon? Were you there? No, so shut up and watch the movie. Speaking of Ray Charles, Jamie Foxx took home a Best Actor trophy also for his heroic portrayal of a young Stevie Wonder playing Ray Charles.
Seriously, this fucking guy
For Example:
Prior to 2005, Reese Witherspoon was best known for playing the ditzy lawyer in Legally Blonde or for playing the ditzy ______ in _______. Then came Walk the Line. By simply adopting a southern accent, dying her hair black and not cringing as Joaquin Phoenix spent two hours making Johnny Cash look like the victim of severe head trauma, Witherspoon walked away with her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Other Famous Examples Include:
Robert Downey, Jr. in Chaplin
Bill Paxton in Apollo 13
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth
Hell, Phoenix got nominated for Best Actor also. Seriously, this shit cannot fail. Unless you make one crucial mistake (foreshadowing alert!).
The Exception That Proves the Rule:
As insane as he may be, you have to admit Russell Crowe is also a pretty shitty musician. Fortunately for him, he's an actor. Up to a few years ago, Crowe got nominated every time he managed to leave the house without hurling a phone at somebody. Hell, it almost seemed like cheating when he took the starring role in the biopic Cinderella Man, in which he played a blue collar boxer who gave America something to root for during the Great Depression.
Crowe's depiction of former heavyweight boxing champ James J. Braddock was almost universally praised. After SAG and Golden Globe nominations, he put on his Oscar crapping diapers and got ready for an Academy Award nomination ... that never came.
Crowe forgot that to get your biopic performance lauded as ingenious, you have to pretend to be someone the Academy has heard associated with the word genius, or at the very least someone they've heard of in the first place. Braddock was a blue collar boxer and a family man. Hell, the guy didn't even have a heroin problem. Crowe might as well have been playing Gandhi.
Astute readers will point out that Ben Kingsley took home an Oscar for playing Gandhi, and that Robert De Niro took home an Oscar for playing a decidedly non-brilliant boxer. But astute readers are about to get served by trick number five ...
#5. Physical Transformation (a.k.a. Hot Chick Goes Ugly, Hot Dude Starves Himself/Gets Fat)
Yes, Kingsley and De Niro both utilized the Christian Bale principle of "dropping and gaining weight like a high school wrestler = extraordinary acting ability."
By comparison, the ladies have it easy. Many actresses who have built their careers on being pleasant to look at finally decide the only way to be taken seriously is to ugly it up for a role. "See? I intentionally ruined my beauty, yet still enthralled audiences! I'm not just a pretty face and pair of perfect boobies!"
For Example:
If there was a Mt. Rushmore for hot chicks who uglied it up for respect, all four faces would be Charlize Theron. In Monster, she didn't just apply a little extra facial hair or gain a few pounds. That wouldn't do the trick. Instead, she went from this...
To this...
The woman found the forest where the wood for ugly sticks is grown, then went crashing through it while strapped to the grill of a semi. That's dedication to the craft if we've ever seen it.
Would Monster have been an awesome flick if she still looked her normal, outrageously fuckable self? Absolutely. But Charlize went the extra mile, and Hollywood noticed.
Up to that point, Theron could be found slumming it in horseshit like Reindeer Games and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.
Other Famous Examples Include:
Salma Hayek in Frida
Cameron Diaz in Being John Malkovich
Nicole Kidman in The Hours
Christian Bale in The Machinist
Robert De Niro in Raging Bull
Ben Kingsley in Gandhi
The Exception That Proves the Rule :
You may have noticed that women can get away with wearing a less attractive Halloween mask, but we expect our men to actually undergo physical transformations. Mel Gibson found out the hard way that it doesn't work both ways when he made his directorial debut with The Man Without a Face, a film that asked audiences to imagine a world in which women didn't want to fuck Mel Gibson.
Despite turning in a strong performance in a movie that Roger Ebert was gay for, the only recognition the film got were a couple of acting nods from The Young Artist awards, and even they went to the kids in the movie. Having learned his lesson, Gibson went on to sweep the Oscars a few years later with a historical biopic that climaxed with Gibson getting disemboweled for 15 minutes.
#4. The Comedic Actor Turned Serious
Much like the beautiful woman who learns to hate the fact that people find her beautiful, so does every comic actor eventually grow to hate the sound of laughter. "If the audience REALLY loved me," they think while making cocaine snow angels on their floor, "then they wouldn't CARE if I made them laugh or not!"
Thus, they take on their obligatory serious role. Some make the transition easier than others. Robin Williams, for example, seamlessly morphed from obnoxious "funny" guy to creepy weirdo while remarkably never breaking character. Could it be that Robin Williams has been creepy and off putting his entire career? (Yes.)
For Example:
Bill Murray briefly flirted with dramatic acting in 1984's The Razor's Edge, a film that damn near nobody saw because they were busy seeing Ghostbusters for the 15th time. After that brief dabbling in drama, Murray took on an endless array of comedic roles, some of them were classics in Groundhog Day, What About Bob), some of them were Space Jam. But he finally hit dramatic gold with 2003's Lost In Translation.
His role as jaded actor Bob Harris earned him a Best Actor nomination. The film itself was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Murray would subsequently chuck his new found serious actor cred right out the goddamn window by taking on the lead voice role in Garfield. But hey, how many times has Will Ferrell been nominated for an Oscar?
Other Famous Examples Include:
Will Smith in 6 Degrees of Seperation
Tom Hanks in Philadelphia (His previous credits included sitcoms, Big and Splash)
Eddie Murphy in Dream Girls
Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love
Jamie Foxx in Any Given Sunday (The role that put him on the map, thus allowing him to exploit rule #6)
The Exception That Proves the Rule :
We're not sure why it is, but "Being Jim Carrey" seems to be the only exception to this rule. As laughable as the thought may be today, we can say with complete sincerity that Jim Carrey should be an Academy Award Best Actor winner. After 1998's The Truman Show cleaned up at the Golden Globes, including a Best Actor win for Carrey, it was all but certain that he would at least get a Best Actor nod at the Academy Awards later that year. Inexplicably, he did not.
Instead, the award went to the clearly insane Roberto Benigni who proceeded to give the most obnoxious acceptance speech in Hollywood history. Carrey didn't give up on his serious actor dream though. He played the brilliant comedian Andy Kaufman in the biopic Man on the Moon, doing his damnedest to not be funny the entire time. In 2001, he played the lead role in The Majestic, a film that would have garnered a mountain of awards if the Academy recognized outstanding achievement in the field of making audiences want to punch a film projector until it explodes.


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I have asked this question before on other forums, but only got the classical answer of the impossibility of the probability interpretation for single particle in QFT. Now, there seems to be also doubt in multi particle interpretation of the Dirac "sea". while in QFT the multi particle seems to be the result of promoting the wavefunction to an operator. And some people claimed it is a multi picture of a single particle. So, is there any clearer explanation?
The Dirac equation has no bounded energy operator, so it does not qualify for a single-psrticle description without a restriction to the positive energy subspace. The latter restriction is ill-defined in case of a time-dependent external field, which implies that there is no fully consistent single-particle interpretation of the interacting Dirac equation.
In relativistic QFT, the need for cluster decomposition requires that the fields used are local, hence (for fermions) satisfy canonical anticommutation relations. The CAR for the free Dirac field leads to the need for antiparticles, hence for pair creation and annihilation, hence a multiparticle picture. This is spelled out in quite some detail in Volume I, Chapters 4 and 5 of Weinbergs book ''The QT of fields''.
You can get non-relatavistic QFT's which are used to model condensed matter systems. It is not relativity that forces or allows QFT's to describe multi-particle states. QFT's are a natural formalism for multi-particle states as the Fourier modes of the field are quantized and so represent the number of particles with momentum corresponding to the Fourier wavelength. Relativity does however require the existence of anti-particles. One way to see this as those modes of the field that do not satisfy the energy momentum relation, $E^2=p^2+m^2$ would change the casual sequence of events depending on what frame they were viewed in,unless in some frames a particle can be viewed as an anti particle.


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Ouya-exclusive Towerfall ascends to PS4 and PC in MarchWritten by: / / 2 Comments
The game that has in the past been hailed as the sole (very good) reason to own the diminutive Ouya console, Towerfall, will be arriving on PlayStation 4 and PC in March, developer Matt Thorson recently announced, only this time in the form of the enhanced Towerfall Ascension.
The four-player competitive multiplayer game will become available on PC on March 11th and on the North American PlayStation Store starting on the same date, with a European release window to be announced soon. But what, exactly, is Towerfall Ascension?
Described simply, Thorson explains that Towerfall Ascension is "a 4-player archery combat platformer" and is strictly a local multiplayer game only, which means you'll need to gather three friends together on your couch to play on a single screen. "You'll get plenty of chaos, close calls, and comebacks," promises Thorson, and from what we've heard of the game since its debut on Ouya, this claim definitely checks out.
In Ascension on PS4 and PC, however, there will be fifty new Versus arenas, with a total of 120 levels along with "a bunch of new variants to customize your matches with," with new power-ups included, too. Thorson's favourite power-up? "[Drill] arrows that burrow through walls." Sounds devious.
Towerfall Ascension will also add a solo or two-player co-operative game type called 'Quest' mode. Thorson explains:
"It's an arena mode where monsters spawn from portals as you defend yourself using the same skills you've honed in Versus mode. Quest mode is an interesting new take on the same core mechanics, and adds a bunch of new content to explore even when you don't have three friends around."
You can see that mode in action in a new trailer for Towerfall Ascension below:
Towerfall Ascension – PS4 Quest Mode Co-op Gameplay
Do you like the look of Towerfall Ascension and do you generally enjoy competitive local multiplayer games like Super Smash Bros. and Bomberman?
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Find serenity at this beautiful 1700-acre wooded park situated along an old stagecoach route between Galena and Beardstown. Featuring 95-acre Argyle Lake, the park is home to countless beaver dams and more than 200 bird species and 5 miles of hiking and biking trails.
Spring Lake Park in Macomb, IL. has three different singletrack trails ranging in intermediate to difficult. At 10 miles in length this park has a nice smattering of everything an adrenaline junky would want. The trails here are tight in some spots with a few ladder bridges, log piles and even a teeter-totter, and the hills just keep coming with jumps that make you feel weightless.
Borders Spring Lake Park and is habitat for deer, turkey, fox, geese, beaver and coyotes. Trails and educational programs offered.
Offers a timbered nature trail, a small prairie plot, and a quiet fishing lake on its 148 acres.
Rustic setting available for retreats, picnics, camps, nature studies or a team course.
12 parks that offer diverse activities. Fishing, picnics, baseball diamonds, volleyball courts, hiking trails and playgrounds.
William Creek meanders through this park, providing habitat for an abundance of wildlife. Set in 770 acres of rolling terrain and steep hillsides, Weinberg-King is popular in winter for its cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.
This one hour musical play tells the story of life in the early 1840s, as immigrants came up the Mississippi River to Nauvoo on the Maid of Iowa, a beautiful little paddle-wheeler. You'll laugh at the antics of young Eli, thrill at the dancing and music, and feel the depth of devotion of these early settlers in Nauvoo as they face the martyrdom of their leader, and the violent and dangerous exodus from their homes in the middle of winter. Tickets are free but required for admission.
Ocean Farm is working to make a harmonious place where nature and agriculture complement each other. A contour strip rotation uses corn, soybeans, oats, alfalfa, and buckwheat. 56 acres are used in the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.
Ball Fore Family Entertainment Center
All types of family fun. Miniature golfing, driving range, batting cages, ice skating, in-line skating and archery.
This beautiful 18-hole course offers rental carts and a driving range.
Rolling hills make up this 18-hole golf course. Carts, a driving range and a putting green are available.
This nine-hole golf course offers cart rentals.
A breeder of World Champion quality Morgan horses for over 30 years, this site is also home to Big River Little Ponies Farm. Tours and visitors are welcome by appointment. The farm can accommodate groups up to 20.
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I am in need of a Flash swf that is capable of loading PCM WAV files via a url passed to it.
An example of the file can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff512405.aspx
The swf does not need a visible interface, as it is meant for audio playing only and not user interaction.
The swf should have a simple javascript interface for page-level interactions. These include:
load(url): loads a PCM WAV file over the internet using the url that is passed through it. play(): Should play the PCM WAV file that was loaded stop(): Should stop playing the current file.
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Windows 7 offers a new way of controlling your desktop, managing your windows, and launching applications. The Windows 7 Taskbar is a new application-launching and window-switching mechanism that consolidates the functionalities from previous Windows OS Desktop mechanisms such as Quick Launch, Recent Documents, Notification area icons, desktop shortcuts, and running application windows.
This is yet another video in the Windows 7 Taskbar series. This video focuses on the advanced functionalities that the Windows 7 Taskbar offers, such as Thumbnail Overview, AeroPeek, overriding the default Thumbnail icon, and surfacing tabs and documents from a Multi Tab or Documents Interface (such as IE8). Join Ben Betz and Robert Jarrett as they dive deep into the Taskbar API to explain exactly how to integrate your applications with the Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail and AeroPeek functionality.
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I really like the new features and can even almost get around the lack of multi monitor support by running it on the left side of my wide screen monitor, but I can't understand the lack of functionality to move the clock and start button. Why can't I just flip the thing around and put the start button on the bottom and the clock on the top when it is docked to either the left or the right? While I love the new stuff, it always seems like it is 80% of the way there.
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Shame Rob couldn't have hosted it, though; he actually knew what he was talking about and could at least speak coherently.
on emore great feature in windows 7 Pin individual folders on the Windows 7 taskbar. pin any running program to the taskbar for easy access. just check it: http://tinyurl.com/ylmqu7v
Wow I'm surprised you don't always provide a live real-time view of windows. In fact, I figured that under the new DWM, the windows were rendering all the time, minimized or not. That's why I never understood why animations in a website, for example, stop working in the thumbnail ... but only if the window is minimized. For example, my browser could be obscured (but not minimized) and the unseen animations on the website still show live (with animation) in the thumbnail. Why not Let me keep that even when minimized?
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Nutrition for Children and Teenagers
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Skipping Breakfast
One of the number-one mistakes college kids make is skipping breakfast. As we have discussed before, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. When you wake up in the morning, your body has gone for about eight hours with no food or fuel. Breakfast can be a bagel and juice in your room or on the way to class; whole-grain cereal, fat-free milk, and fruit in the dining hall; or even a hot meal. Breakfast can help get your brain and body ready for your hectic day, and make you less likely to snack on high-fat, high-calorie foods between classes due to midmorning hunger attacks. Breakfast can also keep you more awake and alert for those early morning classes!
Campus Dining Halls
Campus dining halls are filled with both healthy and not-so-healthy foods. The key is learning what to choose.
At breakfast, stick with whole-grain cereals, bagels, toast, and other starches with low-fat toppings. Top your cereal with fresh fruit and top it off with fat-free milk. Choose low-fat yogurts for added calcium and egg whites or hard-boiled eggs for added protein. Avoid sugary cereals and higher-fat breakfast foods like doughnuts, Danish, bacon, sausage, or eggs fried in fat. Some of those may be quicker to prepare but are full of fat, sugar, and extra calories. These types of food will put on the pounds and not keep you satisfied as long.
Essential: If you visit the salad bar, avoid too much fat and too many calories: use only a small amount of low-fat or fat-free salad dressing; avoid vegetable salads made with mayonnaise; use only a sprinkling of cheese, nuts, or seeds; use legumes such as garbanzo beans or kidney beans for added protein; and fill up your bowl with fresh, plain veggies.
At lunch, visit the deli section and choose a whole-wheat pita stuffed with plenty of veggies and some lean roast beef, turkey, or ham. Add some light mayonnaise or mustard. Tuna salad or chicken salad can be high in fat and calories because it's often made with too much mayonnaise and too little tuna or chicken. If you love tuna, try getting just half a scoop at the cafeteria, then add some dry tuna from the salad bar. If you love chicken, opt for a grilled chicken breast. Top lunch off with a low-fat yogurt and/or glass of fat-free milk.
Keep the amount of protein to about 6 ounces for the entire day. For dinner, stick to entrees that are grilled, baked, steamed, broiled, stir-fried, or poached. Eat plenty of lean meat, such as skinless chicken or turkey breast, fish, and even on occasion a small portion of lean red meat. Choose less often foods that are fried, breaded, pan-fried, or full of cheese. For side dishes, head to the salad bar again and heap that plate with a garden patch of veggies with light dressing. As for side dishes, choose a baked potato with salsa or steamed vegetables more often than French fries, onion rings, hash browns, or fried potato skins. Avoid creamy soups and sauces that are loaded with saturated fat and calories. Take some fruit for snacking later, or buy canned, single-serving fruit packed in juice for late-night snack attacks.
For breakfast, try any of these food combinations:
- Bowl of whole-grain cereal, fat-free milk, banana, and orange juice
- Toasted bagel with peanut butter
- Oatmeal with sliced peaches and grapefruit juice
- Pancakes or waffles topped with sliced strawberries and a small amount of syrup, and fat-free milk
- Hard-boiled egg, whole-wheat toast with jam, and a glass of tomato juice
- Vegetable omelet, fresh fruit salad, and fat-free milk
- Scrambled eggs and ham rolled in a flour tortilla, orange juice, and low-fat yogurt
- Turkey breast or lean ham sandwich on a whole-wheat bagel with mustard and baby carrots, and low-fat yogurt topped with granola
- Baked potato topped with broccoli and salsa, an apple, and fat-free milk
- Grilled chicken sandwich on whole-wheat pita bread with honey-mustard sauce and lettuce/tomato, low-fat yogurt, and tomato juice
- Large tossed salad topped with low-fat or fat-free dressing, chickpeas, assorted fresh veggies and sunflower seeds, bread stick, and fresh strawberries
- Grilled vegetables with low-fat cheese wrapped in a flour tortilla and fresh fruit cup
- Peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole-wheat bread, bowl of vegetable soup, and an orange
- Bean soup, pita bread, side salad, and fat-free milk
- Grilled boneless, skinless, chicken breast topped with salsa and low-fat cheddar cheese, brown rice, green beans, and a glass of fat-free milk
- Veggie burger on a whole-grain bun, side salad, and fresh fruit
- Chicken burrito with salsa, side of vegetables, and an orange
- Broiled fish, steamed vegetables, red potatoes, and angel food cake
- Chicken fajitas with salsa and frozen yogurt
- Vegetarian chili, side salad, and fresh fruit
- Vegetable pizza, side salad, and fresh fruit
- Pasta with marinara sauce and zucchini sprinkled with parmesan cheese and fruited Jell-0
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Regression testing is specifically looking for bugs in functionality that was previously working and has "regressed" to a non-working state. I've never heard "retesting" used except in a common-sense way: Retesting is simply testing something again after it has been previously tested, and is a more general term since retesting doesn't say anything about the state of the software before retesting.
You can retest functionality that has never worked by running tests on it again, but you can't regression test functionality that has never worked properly because only functionality that has worked previously can "regress" to a non-working state.
These definitions will vary from one organization to the next. In the testing jobs I've had, regression testing has meant testing that verifies that features that used to work still work. In that context, a regression is a bug that did not exist in an earlier version of the product. In the testing jobs I've had, regression testing occurs after all new features have been tested, although the timing of regression testing is not essential to its definition.
Re-testing is what it sounds like: testing something again. You could say that regression testing is re-testing with a particular goal (looking for bugs in things that used to work) in the specific context (in a product for which an earlier version exists).
Regression testing is testing if the existing functionality is not broken due to the implementation of new features. For example I would like to test if the existing security of the facebook application is not broken by the implementation of its new feature "X".
Re-testing is the testing done by the tester to check if the application works properly after a bug is fixed. The application should be re-tested after the issues are fixed or got resolved in the later builds.
Retesting is basically to execute the test cases which failed in last build. So in other words, Retesting is verifying the fix ONLY.
Regress means to go back to some last unstable or less developed state. When a CHANGE is made in a piece of software then we test the application to see what effect that CHANGE has brought in application. First we verify the fix, then see what areas this change has effected and test to see if that area is working fine i.e. there are no ripples.
Similarly, when a change is made in application then we have to update our test cases for regression testing: 1: Add test cases in test suite to verify the new functionality 2: Remove obsolete test cases which are no longer needed (some old functionality might be longer available after change in code) 3: Update currently existing to accommodate changed code. For instance, change in code might require some tweaking in steps of already existing test cases
Re-testing is just testing the bug fix and regression testing is something when a bug is fixed it doesn't affect the other functionalities in the application.When regression testing is done its like testing the whole application.
Re-testing is just testing whether the bug is fixed or not. Regression means after the bug fixing test the other areas also to see the impact of the change.
Retesting: Retesting is the process in which tester verify that defect reported by him is fixed by the development team or not.
Regression Testing: Regression Testing is the process in which tester verify that when the defect is fix by the developer by some code change ,then this code change does not impact the other functionality of the product.
Re-testing is used when you test something again - usually because there was a bug, so you have to re-test it again to check if the bug is fixed. Term is general.
Regression testing is used when you check whole application again in order to find a new bug in places or Test Cases you previously passed OK.
I like referring to ISTQB Glossary of Testing Terms :) Just because it allows to refer to already prepared definitions.
Retesting: we execute the one test case on bug fix to make sure that bug is resolved
regression testing: we re execute all or group of test cases on the application after many bug fixes src: http://www.time2ask.com/606/what_is_the_differences_between_retesting_and_regression_testing_.htm
This is the most frequently asked question by many interviewers. In addition to above answers you can better explain by providing a relevant example that differentiates both terms. For an eg., Say if i'm testing any shopping channel or An order & inventory system based application & after testing most of the relevant modules of orders,customers & products,
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5 Accidental Inventions That Changed The World
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.
Just ask the inventors of these products, each one having changed the way we live, and each one having come about either by serendipity or complete fuck-up. We're talking about...
#5. The Microwave Oven
The microwave oven, aka the "Popcorn and Hot Pockets Warmer," was a happy accident that came from, of all things, a weapons program.
Percy LeBaron Spencer was a self-educated engineer working on radar technology in the years following WWII. The technology in question was the sci-fi sounding magnetron, a piece of machinery capable of firing high intensity beams of radiation.
Above: a scientist, with robot.
Apparently, P.L.S., as some have called him, had a bit of a sweet tooth. Or a strange fetish. Either way, he had a candy bar in his pants while he was in the lab one day. The self-proclaimed engineer noticed that the chocolate bar had melted when he was working with the magnetron.
Spencer disregarded the simple idea that his body heat had melted the chocolate in favor of the less logical and therefore more scientific conclusion that invisible rays of radiation had "cooked it" somehow.
A sane man would stop at this point and realize these magical heat rays were landing just inches from his tender scrotum. Indeed, most of the military experts on hand probably dreamed of the battlefield applications of their new Dick-Melting Ray. But like all men of science, Spencer was fascinated and treated his discovery like a novelty. He used it to make eggs explode and pop kernels of corn ("Imagine, a future where a building full of workers in cubicles eat this all day!")
I proclaim myself to be awesome.
Spencer continued to experiment with the magnetron until he boxed it in and marketed it as a new way to cook food. The initial version of the microwave was roughly six feet tall, weighed in around 750 pounds and had to be cooled with water. But they got it down to size, and today we use it mostly to destroy random objects on YouTube.
#4. Krazy Glue and/or Super Glue
The story goes that in 1942, Dr. Harry Coover was working for Eastman Kodak, a company renowned for cameras and camera-related things. His job was to find a plastic that could be used as a clear gunsight, since this was smack in the middle of WWII and everybody knew where the money was.
Coover got frustrated because the material, called cyanoacrylate, was just too damned sticky. Rather than noticing he accidentally made one of the most versatile adhesives of all time, he threw it away in a huff and continued sweating over gunsights for a war that would be ended, ironically, by two bombs with blast radiuses so big that they didn't even require sights at all.
Aim optional.
Years later, Coover would re-discover his invention, we prefer to think due to him noticing that old container of cyanoacrylate was still stuck to the bottom of his trash can and couldn't be removed by any means.
In 1958, after finally convincing his bosses that at the very least, there was enormous comedic potential in the prospect of a man getting his hand permanently stuck to his junk; Kodak released the glue with the catchy name "Eastman 910."
Somebody then decided to actually pay the marketing guys to do something, and they decided the best way to convince people to buy this new product was to suspend a car over a public street with a crane, supposedly held up only with the ol' 910.
Reactions resulted in the product being coined "Krazy Glue"; a product so crazy that it requires intentional misspelling. The early slogan, "Remember, you can only use it once before it completely solidifies in the tube!" was quickly dropped and it remains a top-selling product to this day.
#3. Vulcanized Rubber
You probably won't be shocked to find out that the inventor of tire rubber is Charles Goodyear, as he's the first guy on the list to actually get his name attached to the end product (since "Coover Glue" sounds like a gruesome form of birth control).
It wasn't easy coming up with a form of rubber tough enough to withstand the drag racing and car chases everyone envisioned the day the automobile was invented. In fact, if there was one man who should have given up his life dream, it was Goodyear. The man spent time in and out of prison, lost every friend he had and starved his children in his tireless pursuit of a stronger form of rubber.
"There's got to be a better way."
It was the 1830s, a period of time known for sucking. After his first two years of tinkering and failing with primitive rubber, Goodyear and his family were camping out in an abandoned factory and fishing for sustenance. This is when he made a huge breakthrough: He'd use acid to smooth out and toughen rubber! The government bought 150 mailbags made of the stuff and the rest is...
Oh, wait. They were all defective. The process didn't work and Goodyear was ruined. Again.
Finally in 1839, probably after being struck by lightning and/or being pissed on by a pack of stray dogs, Goodyear wandered into a general store with another failure of a formula. The crowd watched. Then they laughed at him. In a rage, he began to shake his fist, flinging a piece of his rubber onto the hot stove top.
After inspecting the charred remains, he realized that he had just found a way to make durable, weatherproof rubber. Despite what we're sure were numerous failed "now let's try setting this on fire to see if it improves it!" experiments, an empire was born.


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Nancy Gray, well-known watercolorist, is the featured artist at the Vine Wine Bar and Gallery from Oct. 26 to Nov. 20. An artist meet and greet will be held at the gallery on Saturday, Oct. 26, beginning at 6 p.m.
Gray has visited almost all of the United States National Parks and enjoys painting the spectacular scenery along the way, mostly in watercolors. She also enjoys using gouache as a medium when painting animals such as wolves, deer, etc., as it allows the effect of fur and realism.
As a S.C.U.B.A. diver, Gray has experienced firsthand the vivid and exciting realm of tropical fish in their natural habitat; that influence is seen in much of her work.
She has paintings in many homes, restaurants and offices throughout the country. She has won numerous awards and has several times been selected "Artist of the Year" by the Ozark Brush and Palette, Inc.
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WEIRTON - Six accidents at the intersection of Three Springs Drive and U.S. Route 22 West over the past 12 months prompted City Council Wednesday to ask the state Department of Highways to make the newly widened highway safer for motorists.
It was Ward Six Councilman David Dalrymple who brought the issue to council, saying there's been a spike in accidents at the confusingly configured intersection.
"It's dangerous," he said. "My father-in-law was actually involved in a car accident there a couple weeks ago. He's OK, but in talking to an officer (later), he told me there've been a lot of accidents in that area and a lot of near misses. I felt the safety needed to be addressed."
At the special meeting Wednesday, council adopted a resolution asking Gov. Earl Tomblin and Transportation Secretary Paul A. Mattox to "address the confusing and unsafe direction of the traffic flow" resulting from the new traffic patterns. They're going to send a copy of that resolution, along with copies of the accident reports, letters of concern from police Chief Bruce Marshall and City Manager Valerie Means, and the traffic commission's recommendations to both men.
"The problem is that a lot of people driving through there for the first time are very confused about which lane to be in," Mayor George Kondik said. "We appreciate their efforts to improve Three Springs Drive, but we just think (something) needs to be done to make it clearer for drivers."
Ward 3 Councilman Fred Marsh said the six accidents "probably shouldn't have happened."
"U.S. 22 West seems to be causing the big problem," he added. "(Drivers) coming from Wal-Mart and making the turn to go to Steubenville, that's where the problems are."
So far, Marsh said no one has been killed in that stretch, "but traffic is increasing, drivers are older."
"That area from St. Thomas Drive to U.S. 22, that's a problem," he said. "Something needs to be done there. Traffic in that intersection is increasing substantially."
Marsh said there's been talk of adding new signage or reconfiguring traffic signals, adding that "several different ideas have been floated - let's see what they come back with."
Dalrymple said the prior city administration had asked the state to take a second look at the traffic pattern "but nothing was done about it, so we decided to take another try."
"I fear somebody getting killed in that area or maimed in some way," Dalrymple added. "It really needs be taken care of before it gets that point. So far we've been lucky, there've been no fatalities in that area, but it's a matter of time before something that dreadful happens. We need to get them to do whatever they can to get the problems taken care of. It's very dangerous. Traffic has increased through there, that's the reason the road was widened in the first place.
"Hopefully, the evidence we're sending down ... will prod them," he said. "The sooner (it's fixed), the better."
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In the Prosperity rules it says "if you have 11 coppers in play and 2 Buys, you could buy a Mint, trash all of your played Treasures, and then buy a Grand Market." My question is: What are you going to buy the Grand Market with if you have trashed all your treasures?
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If I buy a Mint, do I still get to use the coins from the treasures I played that turn to buy a Grand Market?
Just because you trashed the coppers doesn't mean you haven't earned the coins for that turn (and can spend them). Their value to you is accrued when you play them.
Per the Prosperity rules you must play all treasures you want to use, before you buy cards. The rules for Mint state:
So the order would be:
The other answer here is incorrect. All your coppers are gone when you buy the Mint; you spent $11 to buy the $5 Mint card and the remaining $6 is squandered.
However, you still can buy a Grand Market if you have +$ from the actions you've played. For example, if you've played 3 Festivals for +$6, then you can buy a Grand Market after you buy the Mint and trash all the Coppers.


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Our numbers were down Sunday due to the weather. Bro. James' sermon was titled "Is Your Faith in God Strong?" taken from Luke 17. An example of faith was found on the wall of a concentration camp. A prisoner had carved the following words: "I believe in the sun, even though it doesn't shine, I believe in love, even when it isn't shown, I believe in God, even when he doesn't speak."
Bro. Emory's message Sunday was "The King and His Kingdom;" it came from Matthew 6:33. The Kingdom of God comes to us when we give God reign over our lives. We looked at the reality of the Kingdom, the rule of the Kingdom and the Righteousness of the Kingdom. We are not only to seek God's control over us but to seek God's character within us. We are to be completely sold out to the Kingdom of God and to our Lord Jesus, our King. Who is your King? Who wears the crown in your castle? Who sits on the throne of your life?
With pastor Brad Vincent's absence this past Sunday, the Rev. Rick Davidson of La Grange Baptist Church filled our pulpit. Bro. Davidson cited the 17th chapter of John as an example of the real "Lord's Prayer" since this chapter is Jesus himself praying. He first prays for Himself, next for His disciples and then for all believers. Jesus prayed that God would keep His chosen believers safe from Satan's power and set them apart to keep them pure and holy and united through His truth.
Those who attended our game night had a good time. Praise the Lord for His special blessings on these dear ones this week: Baby Jonathan McNay, Kenneth Wainscott, Wyatt Traylor, Baby Maci Walker, Brandon Loman, and Doris Dawson.
Meeting the Needs Ministry is in dire need of personal hygiene items. Boxes are located in the MBC back foyer for donated items. Our next night to work at Meeting the Needs is from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday.
The beautiful snow did not deter a good-sized crowd at First Christian Sunday.
The Rev. Masden's message was titled "Stepping Out" based on Matthew 14:22-33 and reminded us that Jesus is the calm to all kinds of storms, both inside and outside.
Pat Beverly talked with the children during Time for Young Disciples about forgiveness and how Jesus said that we must forgive as many times as we are asked. The choir, led by Berna Tanksley, presented special music titled "There Is a River. "
Bro. John's sermon was on John 10:1-5, "I Am the Good Shepherd." A sheepfold was an enclosure with a high wall and one door. The porter would open the door and the shepherd would come in. The sheep knew his voice and learned to depend on him.
Jesus is our shepherd, he comes through the door, not deceiving like a false prophet. We need to depend on Jesus. The Holy Spirit is our porter. We need to heed his voice.
Louise Johnson sang, "When the Blood Fell." The Sunday night sermon was on "Amazing Grace."
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Have you noticed a sticky substance on the floor beneath your ficus or philodendron? Are there little scabs on the underside of the leaves of your orchid? Maybe you have noticed that your plants just look a little lackluster. Well, we can blame some plant puniness on being a tropical houseplant indoors in Kentuckiana during the winter.
Chester Marston celebrated his 91st birthday Jan. 16, 2011, with lunch at the home of his granddaughter, Abby, and her husband, John Gray, of Georgetown.
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Chile-Fish Sauce Condiment
Categories: On the Grill, Spicy
Type: Condiments
Type: Condiments
This is a simple but versatile dipping sauce to accompany skewers of chicken, fish, shrimp, or pork.
Serves: Makes about 1 cup
- 1/3 cup Southeast Asian fish sauce
- Juice of 3 limes (about 6 tablespoons)
- 2 jalapeños or other fresh chile pepper of your choice, sliced into thin circles
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
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- Combine all the ingredients in a small bowl and mix until the sugar dissolves. This condiment will keep, covered and refrigerated, for 4-5 days.
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William W. Ratliff born March 17, 1923, passed away Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 10:30 PM.
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He is survived by brother, Walter; wife, Anne; sister, Gay McBride and husband Roy (deceased), Agnes Barnette and husband Albert (deceased), June White and husband Albert (deceased), Lola Mae Zimmerman and husband Lawrence (deceased); and many loving nieces, nephews, great-nieces and nephews.
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So the story is simple, early stage EU portal hired me to do some extra modules. I got all the source code for local testing, did my job, committed new code.
Now I am out of this project but client still haven't paid me yet and he is not even thinking about that. It has been couple of months and no contract was signed so I can't take any legal actions. What should I do with all the source code? Sell it? Run exact copy of that portal? Make all portal publicly available?


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Is there a difference between a sledge, a sleigh and a sled?
Dictionary definitions suggest they are synonymous, but it certainly sounds wrong to refer to Santa Claus on a sledge.
Is there a difference between a sledge, a sleigh and a sled?
Dictionary definitions suggest they are synonymous, but it certainly sounds wrong to refer to Santa Claus on a sledge.
A sledge is normally taken to mean 'a carriage mounted upon runners instead of wheels, and generally used for travelling over snow or ice'. It shares its etymology and meaning with sled, a form which the OED describes as being 'chiefly dialect and US'. It does, however, have some meanings that sledge does not have. They include 'any of various devices made to be towed along the sea bed' and 'a kind of river-boat used on the Ohio'. Sleigh has the same etymology, but generally describes a sledge which can be drawn by horses.
There is a difference among American, British and others; I'll give (my) AmE interpretation.
In the US, here would be images of how I define each sledge, sleigh, and sled, despite all of them having a similar definition in the dictionary.
However, snowmobilers often call their snowmobile a sled, as well:
Note: All images came from a Google image search and are presumably copyright of their respective picture takers.
I would be inclined to say that a sleigh or sled are pulled by animals - for example Reindeer in Santa's sleigh or a dog sled. A sledge is self-propelled, hence why children, at least in the UK, are referred to as sledging rather than sleighing or sledding (though I have heard sledding occasionally; I would not say that it is in common use however).
I believe that (like the various words for bread rolls, or the pronunciation of "scone"), the meanings of these three variations on the word vary widely by location, social class and social circle.
Most UK children will only get the opportunity to use a sled/sledge/sleigh every couple of years, when there's an unusually generous snowfall, so the words are not in frequent enough use for a true standard to emerge.
In parts of the English speaking world where snow is more guaranteed, I strongly suspect you'd find clusters of each word.
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Appealing to Modern Eyes
The Path of Nature: French Paintings From the Wheelock Whitney Collection 1785-1850
Metropolitan Museum of Art Through April 21.
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At the national academies of art that began to be established throughout western Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, students were trained to scrutinize posed models through the filter of antique sculpture and such approved old masters as Raphael. When the aspiring graduates of those academies went to Italy to advance their knowledge through first-hand encounters with revered works of art, they were also expected to work from local models and record, on the spot, Roman ruins, picturesque towns and the Italian landscape. But the small, broadly painted studies on paper that resulted were never intended for exhibition. They were meant as research for exotic genre scenes or for the backgrounds of ambitious paintings of episodes from mythology or Roman history—all idealized in the finished work.
In the early 19th century, artists dissatisfied with the Academy's sleek conventions began to insist on the value of unmediated realism, based on observation. But even as that century unfolded and adventurous artists increasingly emphasized the direct and the truthful at the expense of the ideal, others continued to make studies from nature only as preparation for carefully constructed studio paintings. From 1972 to 2000, the New York connoisseur Wheelock Whitney assembled more than 50 such studies; in 2003, they came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Now, "The Path of Nature: French Paintings From the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785-1850," the first exhibition drawn from the collection, celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Met's acquisition with a selection of compelling examples.
This delectable show, organized by assistant research curator Asher E. Miller, includes everything from luminous cloud studies to sunlit views of Roman ruins to preparations for genre and religious paintings. Most of the subjects are Italian, with a few images made in France and some in such exotic locales as Seville, Beirut and Luxor. All of the works on view are small and painted, apparently with speed, directly from the motif. Since most are on paper, which allows oil paint more physical autonomy than absorptive canvas, the results are distinguished by fresh color and light, a palpable sense of immediacy and spontaneity, and a suggestion of transient moments captured and prolonged. All of this combines to make these works, particularly the landscapes, specially appealing to eyes educated by modernism—eyes that have no difficulty accepting these modest paintings as complete, just as they are. Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny's "Edge of a Wood" (c. 1850), for example, a vivid image of nothing remarkable, demands our attention because it is of nothing remarkable, as well as because of its inventively orchestrated greens and the way trees and sky interpenetrate.
A few names are familiar—Louis-Léopold Boilly, Camille Corot, Hippolyte Flandrin, François-Marius Granet—but most of the included artists are obscure, although some, now known only to specialists, once enjoyed substantial reputations. The biggest surprise? Simon Denis (1755-1813), a Fleming born in Antwerp who moved to Paris and then spent almost 20 years in Italy. Denis's solidly constructed studies of clouds and hilly Italian landscapes washed in dusty light are irresistible, as are his "View on the Quirinal Hill, Rome" (1800) and "Fortified Wall, Italy" (c. 1786-1806), with their geometric architecture, bathed in afternoon sun, played against sky and foliage. Like almost everything in "The Path of Nature," such works bear witness to the rapture of northerners confronted by the south and Italian sun. Painter after painter capitulates to the allure of warm ochre-painted walls and ancient brick, umbrella pines and bare hills, revealed by low, diffused, golden light. And so do we.
The figure paintings, also done directly from the motif, without idealizing, are less instantly compelling. Sentimental narratives—a child's first steps on a picturesque terrace, a brigand and his pregnant wife kneeling at a roadside cross—sometimes make it difficult to appreciate the forthright paint-handling and assured drawing of these studies. But an unfinished, suave life study of a seated nude by one of Ingres's followers, Henri Lehmann, requires no special pleading. Neither does Boilly's head of an intense young woman or Corot's delightful cow, elegantly silhouetted against the freely painted stone wall of a barn. Corot, of course, was one of the first artists to convince us that directly painted works were complete. Next stop: Impressionism.
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Starring together on "Saturday Night Live" from 1986 to 1991, these three are largely credited with saving the iconic show which had sunk in the ratings to the point of being on the chopping block in 1985. Popular sketches such as "Pumping up with Hans and Franz," (Carvey and Nealon) "Wayne's World," (Carvey) and Miller and Nealon's work behind the "Weekend Update" anchor desk, played an integral role in the show's resurgence with the era of Carvey, Miller and Nealon being widely hailed by critics as among the show's best
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Wubi freezes when it's almost done copying files. The cursor still has the spinning animation, but everything becomes unresponsive to mouse clicks. Any idea how to fix this?
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On menu of boot up press F6. Check one or all of them. See what works for you. I was able to install after this.
I don't know if you no longer have this problem, but I had it too and fixed it by using those command lines:
I also downloaded the 64bit Version (was using the 32 before), and removed my Wireless Network Adapter (though this propably did nothing).
Check MD5 and SHA1, i think you are using windows. You can use HashTab on Win & Mac. Here is download page. http://implbits.com/HashTab.aspx


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A Long Path Led to Offer on Chemical Arms
U.S. and Russia Had Discussed Idea, But Moscow Proposal Came as a Surprise
The idea that has upended President Barack Obama's push for a military attack on Syria—tossed out as an aside by his secretary of state at a news conference—had been discussed with Russia over the past year and more frequently in recent weeks, according to a U.S. account of the discussions.
Secretary of State John Kerry acted on his own, without White House direction, when he suggested on Monday that Syria could avert a U.S. attack if it gave up its chemical weapons.
The comment, in remarks his spokeswoman later described as "rhetorical" and "hypothetical," set off a chain reaction that could provide Mr. Obama away out of the crisis, or give him the political cover to say he exhausted his diplomatic options.
Though the development came as a surprise, one year ago Mr. Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at a Group of 20 summit in Mexico and talked about the idea of Syria turning over its chemical weapons supply to international control, an administration official said. The two leaders couldn't strike a deal.
Over the past year, Obama administration officials and their Russian counterparts have discussed ways to neutralize Syria's chemical weapons.
In April, Mr. Kerry made his first trip to Moscow as secretary of state and took part in a dinner with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, that lasted until 2:30 a.m.
They discussed a model for eliminating Syria's chemical weapons, much as Libya agreed to give up its nuclear program a decade ago, the administration official said.
In June, the U.S. concluded that Mr. Assad's forces had used chemical weapons on a small scale—and Mr. Obama authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to help arm moderate fighters battling the Assad regime. Russia continued to avow its support for Damascus.
Then came the attack on Aug. 21 in the outskirts of Damascus, which the U.S. concluded was carried out by the Assad regime and killed more than 1,400 people.
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After the attack, the talks between Messrs. Kerry and Lavrov picked up steam: They have talked nine times since Aug. 21, the administration official said. As Messrs. Obama and Kerry made forceful declarations that the attack deserved a strong, punitive response, Russia defended Damascus, and said that rebels, not the regime, were responsible.
Something of a breakthrough took place at the latest G-20 meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia last week.
Mr. Obama had no plans to meet with Mr. Putin at the two-day summit. But on the final day, they spoke privately for about 20 minutes.
Mr. Putin mentioned the plan to remove the weapons from Mr. Assad's control, and Mr. Obama agreed it could be an avenue for cooperation, both sides confirm.
They agreed to have Messrs. Kerry and Lavrov shape a proposal. But discussions about it were still preliminary—and the administration had doubts that it would work.
Mr. Kerry let the idea slip at a news conference in London on Monday.
Then the unexpected happened. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov publicly embraced the idea. Syria quickly endorsed it. U.S. lawmakers, keen to avoid a difficult vote or reluctant to endorse another military engagement in the Middle East, jumped on it.
And after a few hours, so did Mr. Obama. "We were struck by the seriousness of the [Russian] statement, which went farther than we anticipated," the senior administration official said.
Mr. Kerry spoke with National Security Adviser Susan Rice. The two agreed the proposal to remove chemical weapons from the Assad regime's control would be difficult to pull off but was a "positive step" and needed to be pursued, the administration official said.
A vote in Congress on authorizing a military strike has been delayed while the Obama administration plumbs the seriousness of Syrian pledges to cooperate.
Many diplomats said they expect the coming debate will call the Russian-Syrian bluff and kick the issue back to the U.S. and the Congress.
On Capitol Hill, some lawmakers have criticized what they describe as the administration's improvisational approach to Syria.
"I've never seen anything quite like it in all my years working here," said Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.).
The U.S. is waiting for a Russian proposal to flesh out how Mr. Assad might hand over his chemical weapons to international control, "but we're not waiting long," the administration official said.
"It has to be swift, it has to be real, and it has to be verifiable," the official added. "It can't be a delaying tactic, and if the U.N. Security Council seeks to be the vehicle to make it happen, well then it can't be a debating society."
For now, though, the path described by Mr. Kerry has been embraced by U.S. lawmakers and world leaders as perhaps the best chance to remove Syria's chemical weapons from the battlefield without a U.S. aerial assault.
Despite a breakdown in relations between the U.S. and Russia over a range of issues, including Syria and Russian protection offered to National Security Administration leaker Edward Snowden, the developments shows how the two countries are being forced together on the world stage.
The White House hopes for a positive outcome no matter how the plan fares. Either it works and Syria agrees to hand over its chemical-weapons stockpile, or it doesn't and the administration can go back to a balky Congress with the additional argument that it had exhausted all diplomatic avenues.
Congressional vote counters said opposition in the House in particular, but also in the Senate, would have made it hard for the president to prevail with his original plan.
As uncoordinated as it was, "the Kerry gambit might turn out to be what saved us." said James Jeffrey, who served as ambassador to Turkey and Iraq in the Obama administration and as a deputy national security adviser to George W. Bush.
Some U.S. officials said they remained skeptical that the plan would work.
They worry that Russia, Syria's main ally, may be pushing the idea as a stalling tactic, and that getting a proposal with teeth through the United National security council may be impossible.
Moreover, operating an inspection regime amid a violent civil war might be an unworkable idea.
U.S., French and British officials have started discussing how they should respond to Russia's offer.
A senior diplomat involved in the discussions said the goal was to either reach a real agreement or "call Russia's bluff."
—Colleen McCain Nelson and Gregory L. White contributed to this article.
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I foolishly upgraded my Firefox install on Ubuntu to the beta 4 release, I believe by adding the PPA repository -- is there an easy way to roll it back to the 3.6 version provided by Ubuntu?
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Yes, try these commands:
Which will remove the PPA,
If you want a GUI way then you can install Ubuntu Tweak (Download Link) then run it from Applications -> System Tools. Then navigate to "Package Cleaner" and click unlock and select Purge PPAs and select mozilla daily ppa
Then click cleanup and yes to the subsequent dialog
Now launch the software center and search for firefox-4.0 and remove it
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Is there a way to play the mafia party game online ?
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I have previously played on Epic Mafia (which is linked to from the Wikipedia page in the question). They have the largest set of player characters I have seen, some of which makes the game extremely complicated!
In addition to sites dedicated to mafia like those already described, a lot of forums that have a "Forum Games" section will be open to running mafia games if they aren't already - I play mafia regularly on http://forums.xkcd.com and have seen it being run on many other forums I frequent.
I'm playing right now at http://mafiacity.org the game is just amazing!
Gameplay is amazing. Probably the best mafia mmorpg game online I ever played!
Brainden.com is another great place to play for those just starting out in the online mafia party game world. The games are in the Forum section. Mafiamaniac.net runs games that are a little more advanced, but the membership is very active and helpful, even providing mentors for those who haven't played before. Here is a link to a mafia introduction/guide to playing that you may find helpful if you are new(ish) to the game.
You can play via IRC in #wolfgame on the Freenode network.
Anyhow, I wouldn't want to play on twitter, but if you search there are whole on-line sites dedicated to the likes of werewolf/mafia, so yes. Have fun.
This link is more useful than the wikipedia one:
The links at the end are what you're looking for.
There are also Mafia games played in forums like mafiascum.net.
http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/ hosts many games, abstract and social and otherwise, including Werewolf, via email.
You can play Mafia live, over webcams, at Daily Mafia.
Since no one else mentioned it: Mafia is, and has been, one of the top 10 Starcraft II Arcade maps for several years.
They added a lot of new features over the face-to-face game, including many that wouldn't be possible in-person. And since SC2 is so popular, it usually only takes a minute to find a full party of 12 people.
The game itself is $30 (sometimes you can find it on sale for $10), but you can play Mafia for free if you play with a friend who owns the game.
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