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I've been making cheesecakes for a while and they always end up cracking on the top. I was told to try putting a pan of water in the oven with it to keep the humidity up, which might help a little, but then it tends to crack when it's cooling. Am I overcooking? Or baking at the wrong temperature? Whipped cream can only cover up so much.
To make a good baked cheesecake, I was taught the following, and it has ALWAYS worked:
My first pastry chef taught me this, and it always works.
Also, over-baking will definitely lead to cracking (due to the loss of moisture), and, as stated, over-mixing will as well.
Similarly to what was said by @mrwienerdog, temperature and cooling are the key providing your mix is robust.
Whenever I bake a cheesecake I tend to do the following:
Using this method I've never had any cracks, the cheesecake stays very moist due to a quick "sear" at the start, then slow cooking and a slow cool-down to avoid cracks.
Another method to avoid cracking is the following: A couple of minutes after you take the cheesecake out of the oven, run a thin-bladed paring knife all round between the outside edge of the cheesecake and the inside edge of the springform pan, always with light pressure against the inside of the pan (i.e., away from the cake) so as not to damage the cake. This reduces tension forces inside the cake as the cake tries to pull away from the pan wall as it cools, thereby reducing the risk of cracking.
I bake cheesecake using the same first two steps as @Orbling, but I've always used the knife method, as I hadn't thought of slow cooling in the oven as another way to prevent cracking.
I have been making cheesecakes with cracks for years and I have finally found the answer thanks to a lot of people and a lot of reading. I bought a Lueke silicone spring-form pan and a 10" and 12" fat daddy pie pan. I sprayed the spring-form pan with Pam, put in the 10" pie pan, then into the 12" pan and added hot water to 12" pan and cooked according. I ran a sharp knife around the edge of the spring-form pan and let cool with the rack pulled out and oven off. Sounds like a lot of work but I did not have even a hairline crack and it is the most beautiful cheesecake ever and I know it will be delicious. Thanks to all who helped.

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I think on a bike it would be harder to reach max HR, but in running it is easy. Find a hill (say 1/2 KM long) that is reasonably steep. Warm up for 20 minutes of running, and start doing hill repeats. Aim for a pace where you can do about 6 repeats.
Do the first three at increasing paces, and then for 4 and 5 start pushing to the max you can handle. As jensgram said in his answer, push till you are about to faint, or vomit, or whatever your body uses to tell you to stop.
This is pretty darn close to your max HR. At least functionally, before your body ups and quits on you.
Here's a link with several methods for calculating max heart rate. The original "220 - Age" method came about in a very 'off the cuff' manner, and others have developed new calculations. On the site I linked the HR calculations are cited and the site includes calculators to punch in numbers. Regardless, these calculations are an estimate, as individuals can go above the estimated max or never reach it.
You can also get an accurate appraisal in a sports lab, but it's spendy.
As a rule of thumb you're right about the "220-minus-age" thing. I've found this to be pretty accurate over the last 3-4 years.
Empirical way you say? Keep a moderate speed for a good while and then pace yourself until you're about to faint. That should give an accurate indication of your maximum HR :)
I.e., the max HR is individual so you can only find your own by achieving it. No model or calculation can be anything but a "best guess".


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I've been told that I don't have much power behind my punches and that push-ups are a good way to improve this. Is there a good push-up route that could be done at the beginning or the end of the day that involved more than just the standard push-ups?
For all the talk about kinetic linking (like it's something we didn't already know for centuries), the truth is really rather simple: pushups, while good for developing muscle and overall personal health, are really ancillary to the development of raw punching power. Further, the tendency to isolate the arms by maintaining rigidity in the rest of the body can lead to a loss of dynamic motion in the whole body, which can be detrimental to the dynamic movement required by a strike.
Consider for a moment the pushup (in any format; it's really irrelevant):
This seems, logically, to put an emphasis on extending the arm, which is correct. This builds "push" muscles, which allow you to extend your arm with force, allowing you to push heavier objects. Unfortunately, a side effect of this is that you're also pushing with only the arm.
Again, pushups are good. Please don't misunderstand this point. But consider now this formula1 2:
This states that Average Power is equal to a change in work over a period (change) in time.
If we take this further:
∆W = (m • a) • ∆s
Or the change in Work is a function of a change in displacement times the combined mass times acceleration.
So, in terms of a strike, we can understand this much:
I don't want to discourage strength training; you can develop explosive energy with clapping pushups and the right kind of training. Pushups in general, however, are only minimally useful, and I would hate for your expectations to be greater than your output from the time invested.
There are actually a lot of different pushup variations that can help build the base muscle. Convict Conditioning (ignore the marketing) has an excellent one that goes from wall pushups through a ten-step progression to one-armed pushups, with standards at each level for when you should advance to the next more difficult pushup variety.
There are also other pushup variations such as decline pushups that can help target specific muscles that might help here.
Once you have a good base of strength–and you will definitely want to take the time to build a good base–for punches specifically you are probably going to want to move into plyometric pushups, e.g., clapping pushups, other variations, etc. These are useful for the development of what's called "explosive strength" and some coordination around these movements.
Also don't forget to balance these out with pullup variations of some sort, since you don't want to just work on one set of muscles.
Other ideas that work some of the same muscles are handstand pushups (also in CC) and a variety of gymnastic exercises (generally involving parallel bars and/or rings) that you can do that can help.
If you are finding them hard from a plank position, do them from your knees. The plank is a good one to re-enforce your core which you will use when you punch. Pull ups and chin ups will help as well. A pull up bar can help you do push up and dips, plus they are not that expensive. Make sure you do triceps and biceps as well -- do not do just one. Note that a good door frame should take a normal person. If you are very overweight or muscular, you might find the door frame starts to peel off the wall. If the wood is of poor quality, you will see the frame digging in. As with any equipment, do inspect it before and after use.
There is push up challenge on the net somewhere but the number increase do get silly after week 3/4.
Zuzana Light or Rudy Reyes sites should have some interesting exercises. Do be careful when you do then not to hurt yourself. Remember, little by little does the trick. Remember to have days off to let your muscles recover. Eat well (proteins) and hydrate yourself. Eggs are good and filled with goodness.
In all of those boring exercises, you need to find some way to motivate you: goals are great! Set yourself some goals (do X push ups in Y or do X+1 today where X was yesterday or keep doing them for length of favourite song). They have to be small goals that you can do again and again.
You generate more power in your punches via Kinetic Chaining or Kinetic Linking of your legs through your torso/core into your arms then just raw arm strength. Some good Kinetic Chaining exercises are push ups, pull up and chin ups. Not because they work on your arm or arm strength but because they can build up all the muscles that link the chain (i.e. your core) between your arms and your legs.
My personal routine for push-ups is that I do sets of 10, throughout the day. Wake up, do 10, before I leave for work, another 10, at lunch, another 10, when I get home another 10, before I go to bed a final 10. As Sardathrion said in his answer if you can't do them from the toes (plank) do them on your knees, your still working the muscles. Don't cheat yourself, go all the way down (hovering your chest above the ground), hold for a second and push back up. Try doing 50 a day, either on your knees or normal, then start doing more reps per batch.
A good core and stance will lead to more powerful punches then someone with big arms. My friend has much smaller arms then I, but a ripped core and perfect stance (bent kness, toes, forward, ball of foot, good extension, rotation, etc) and throw those punches like cannons.
I'm going to go ahead and sidestep the pushups part specifically and answer the question about strength training for punching power instead.
If you check out http://punchingpower.org/the-falling-step/ and go through all the videos, you'll come across a hook punch one that involves doing a swinging motion with medicine balls. That's a very specific resistance training exercise that's applicable to punching. The entire series also goes into detail about the technical aspects of throwing a punch for increased power.
Also, when you break down the technical aspects of the punch you'll see there's a lot more to punching than the pushing motion of a pushup. Of course it certainly wouldn't hurt to do pushups, but you'd have to balance it off with a pulling motion (chin ups or pull ups). You'd also want a twisting motion (the aforementioned medicine ball exercise for example) and a stepping or lunging motion (unsurprisingly, lunges, bulgarian squats could work too).
Push-ups are not the concern here. Instead, you are looking at a deficit of one or more of the following: strength, power, conditioning, strength-endurance, and technique. First, let's define those terms.
Strength is the ability of the body to produce force. Power is the ability of the body to produce a given force quickly, and is a derivative of strength. The human body moves through the use of muscles, so although technique is important, one must remember that the muscles are a major prerequisite of strength and power. Someone who is strong and powerful might have poor technique and therefore not punch hard, but someone who is weak will be limited in absolute terms in how hard they can punch, because their body simply cannot produce the force.
Conditioning is how in-shape you are, or how well you can maintain a given level of exertion in a particular activity. Someone in poor boxing condition will quickly tire during pad or bag work, or during sparring or a fight. Strength-endurance is related, being the ability to continue producing force over a stretch of time. For instance, someone with poor strength-endurance may be able to punch hard and quickly for a minute before their punches become slow and weak. This attribute is a derivative of strength, and is affected by one's conditioning.
Technique is the maximally efficient harnessing of these attributes to produce results.
Adding Power to Punches
Any or all of these might be the concern in someone whose punches lack power. Push-ups could help a little with some of these attributes, but aren't really the optimal solution.
You need to evaluate which of these aspects is lacking in yourself, and develop it. If you're weak, then basic resistance training the necessary first, even if your technique needs work too, because your strength puts an upper limit on what your technique can maximize. Basic resistance training would include barbell and dumbbell exercises such as presses and bench presses, as well as squats, chin-ups, and deadlifts.
If you're strong but not powerful--if you have a big and slow bench press, but you push your punches--then speed work with resistance is called for. Push presses, throwing heavy implements, power cleans, and jumping are good training in this area. So are clapping push-ups, though only if you already have a good strength base.
If you're throwing awesome punches at the beginning of class, but later they're plodding push-punches later, then strength-endurance work might help. High-rep sets of push-ups could be called for, again, only if you have a good base of strength and power. More drilling and long rounds of working your punches might help. This is one area where I'm a little bit at a loss--I'm less familiar with the ideal training for this attribute.
Technique and conditioning can always use work, so keep training hard, keep refining your punches and your footwork, keep getting feedback from your instructor, and do tons of activity-specific conditioning like hitting the heavy bag, hitting pads, sparring and drilling with gusto.
I found that push-up with fist (rather than palm) helps me a lot in fixing my wrist and getting my punch in correct forms.
A punch should hit target with the knuckles of the index finger and middle finger. (straight punch in taekwondo and karate) While doing push-up, You should roll your fist forward so that only these 2 knuckles (and the first part of these fingers) touch the ground. No weight should be pushed onto the ring finger and small finger.
The elbow, the wrist and the first 2 knuckles should form a straight line, both while doing push-up and during punch. Through practising push-up with fists I learnt the feeling of the force of impact of hitting target.
The force should be delivered from core. The arms and fist should be strong enough to delivered that force.
Yes push ups are good depending on the push up. The two i find to work are handstand pushups and pushups on your knuckles, with your hands by your hips instead of shoulders.
Once you can manage to rapidly do a set of handstand pushups, you will have the shoulder strength to take someone of their feet with a cross or uppercut.
Some explosive knuckle pushups will make your jabs better. Many fighters can put power into their slow heavy punches but a lot of them have no power in their jab. If you can jab as hard as someone can cross, you win as a jab is so much faster.
Note for knuckle pushups, start with your fists at position for a normal pushup and slowly work them down until you can do it with thumbs brushing against your hips. For handstand pushups, do handstands against a wall with slightly bent arms until you can stay their for about 5 minutes. Then start doing pushups.
This routine every morning and night has done as much for me as a solid hour a day punching a heavy bag.
If pushups will dramatically improve the power of your punches, you are doing it wrong. All techniques start from the legs and flow through the hips and abdominals. To improve the power of your punches, you need to work on your abs. And not just the sixpack, also the obliques. Get a video of a boxer throwing a couple of punches and watch it in slow-mo. The entire body is behind a punch. Even the jab is one continuous movement.
That being said, I found that alternating pushups between having my hands close together, isolation the triceps, and having my hands very far apart with elbows turned out, isolating my pectorals, worked best. Otherwise your just doing endurance training.
You could also try and get access to a set of rubber bands (I don't know what you call them) attached to a wall with which you can practice punching. You'll soon realise that you're using your entire body to throw those punches.


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"We talked to the girls after an overtime loss to Meadowbrook (last week) about how to close out games," said Buckeye Local head coach Willy Luther. "We almost gave one away tonight, but I think they drew back on that experience and every time things got tough, it seemed like we had an answer."
The Lady Panthers (6-17) will continue sectional tourney play against Minerva at 8 p.m. on Thursday. Tri-Valley and Indian Creek will clash in the opener that evening. Edison, meanwhile, finishes its campaign with a 4-19 record.
"I think this is the first time in 13 years we've won a sectional game, so this was one of our big goals," Luther said. "Our season didn't go how we wanted, obviously. I kept telling the girls that they're a lot better than their record, but they had to go out and keep believing. We'll go to work and prepare for Minerva. I know they've got some quick guards. We have to defend, take care of the basketball and convert in transition."
After building the 13-point lead in the third quarter on buckets by Amy Balk and Kayla Fillipovich, it looked as if the Lady Panthers' attention had already shifted to Minerva.
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"Scratch and claw is a good way of putting this game and this team," said first-year Edison coach Jason Ensinger. "These girls played hard all season, worked hard every day, but we just couldn't get out of the hole we dug for ourselves early tonight."
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"When the game went to overtime, I told the girls to relax and believe," Luther said. "We just had to play and continue to focus. I thought we did a nice job in overtime even when we got down. They just battled to the end."
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7 Terrible Early Versions of Great Movies
Hollywood is full of screenwriters moaning about how the studio ruined their original vision. But what we never hear about is the opposite side of the tale, where some truly horrific piece of writing gets turned into an awesome film.
In fact, it turns out some of your favorite movies started out as truly awful screenplays that somebody had the good taste to rewrite before the cameras started rolling.
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In 1976, screenwriters Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett expanded on an unfinished O'Bannon screenplay called Memory (about a spaceship crew answering a distress call on a desolate planetoid), adding an alien monster to the story and calling the new script Starbeast. Then, they immediately realized that Starbeast was a fucking terrible title and re-named it Alien.
The final 1979 shooting script was re-written by Walter Hill and David Giler, who added a subplot about an evil robot and tightened up some of the dialogue. They also fixed certain... uh...
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As you may remember, the finished film featured a subtle undercurrent of sexual tension between the characters played by Sigourney Weaver and Tom Skerritt. Well, that's one story element that survived from the O'Bannon/Shusett draft almost entirely intact. Oh, and did we mention that all of the characters in the older draft are dudes?
"Look out, Bradley! Aliens, oh my God!"
That would be just fine and dandy with us, but the gay subtext here seems to have found its way into the script without its writers knowing, almost as if there was a little gay gnome sneaking up to the typewriter every night and replacing perfectly innocent phrases either with vaguely homoerotic innuendo...
Or with absolute filth.
However, the Gay Gnome Theory doesn't explain everything, like why characters are walking around with names like Chaz Standard, Jay Faust, and Cleave Hunter. And, in case you're wondering, the Ripley character was just called Martin Roby. That's not so bad. It could almost be a real name. The spaceship wasn't so lucky, though.
Also, the planet Earth is called the planet Irth, for some reason. We're pretty sure it's pronounced the same, though, so they could have been saying "Irth" in the finished movie, and we still wouldn't know the difference.
From reading this draft of the script, it would seem that O'Bannon and Shusett didn't really have a clear idea of what they wanted the monster to look like, but you can tell that they sure as hell knew they wanted it to have a shitload of tentacles!
So, in the conceptual art peppered through the above-linked script, you can see that one artist took this description, threw it away, and drew some sort of cross between a grasshopper and a flying squirrel instead.
Martin Roby and the Alien hang precariously from the back of their mom's minivan.
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To be fair, some of the scenes that were dropped would have been completely fucking awesome. For instance, when the full-grown alien is first introduced, it immediately rips a man's head off and carries away the still-wiggling body, prompting "Martin Roby" to react with a line that we're sure would have been gleefully quoted out of context to this very day:
Other awesome moments include a sequence where the monster uses a still-living victim to shield itself from a flame thrower and a grand finale that involves the alien being impaled, burnt to a crisp, and cast out into the vacuum of space, at which point it fucking explodes!
Also, the plot is more or less the same as what ended up in the finished film, which is more than we can say for...
#6. Spider-Man
When James Cameron took over as writer/producer/director on the long-mooted Spider-Man project, his new bosses were worried that he was going to go way over-budget. So, they made a deal: He wouldn't get his $3 million writer's fee until he turned in a completed script that could be budgeted at $60 million or less. Cameron, who has been rumored to really like money a whole heck of a lot, almost immediately turned in a completed script that could indeed be budgeted at under $60 million. How did he get it done so quickly?
Well, earlier in the production, when a completely different film company was in charge, producer Menahem Golan had commisioned a script by John Brancato and Ted Newsom, which was then re-written by Barney Cohen, and then re-written again by Golan himself (under the pseudonym James Goldman), and then re-written some more by perhaps as many as six other screenwriters. All that was left for Cameron to do was make his own revisions and hand in the finished script.
By most accounts, his revisions consisted of adding his own name to the first page of the script and misspelling the names of two of the other credited writers.
What The Fuck Is This Shit?
Obviously, since Sam Raimi's 2002 movie wasn't based on any version of this script, there are significant differences in the story. For instance, the villain in this version is Doctor Octopus. And he's Peter Parker's college physics professor, so he's actually Professor Octopus. And Peter Parker and Professor Octopus are bitten by the same radioactive spider. And about 90% of the plot is about the villain trying to steal the hero's physics paper. And Professor Octopus keeps calling himself Spider-Man.
What we're saying is that all those rewrites were like dumping a script into a shredder and having a random hobo tape the pieces back together. Characters appear for a scene or two and then disappear, never to be heard from again, including Pete's Uncle Ben. Old Ben's grieving family gets over his death so easily that they forget he ever existed within a minute or two of his passing. They don't even bother with a funeral.
"I'm just saying, if we prop him up like this nobody'll notice."
Also, we may not know why a villain with six arms would need a sidekick in the first place, but we're downright bewildered that this sidekick has somehow been named Wiener.
Also in the bad names department, because of an obscure technical term, Professor Octopus's metal appendages end up saddled with the name Waldo.
Then, there's the dialogue. Fifteen times, Professor Octopus says "okey dokey," like it's supposed to be his catch phrase. Fifteen fucking times. You'd think that would be distracting, but it actually fits right in, seeing as how most of the Professor's lines are nigh-incomprehensible bullshit.
Other characters are written with the hip slang of 1993 in mind, as interpreted by clueless middle-aged men.
And every once in a while, the writers just completely lose their shit in the middle of describing something.
We're not sure which cartoon cat they're talking about, but we'd like to think it's Garfield.
Are his Waldos akimbo? We can't tell.
On the Other Hand...
Rumors at the time had Arnold Schwarzenegger as the director's first choice to play Doctor/Professor Octopus. That would have been fucking sweet.
#5. Back to the Future
When Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale first tried to sell this script, back at the start of the eighties, nobody wanted to touch it. Most sources point out that the production companies might have had reason to be a little hesitant to greenlight a movie about a kid who makes out with his own mom, but we think there may have been other considerations.
What The Fuck Is This Shit?
The 1981 draft is a decidedly more cynical take on the story, with almost none of the finished film's humor. For Zemeckis and Gale, modern life is like hell on earth, a bitter wasteland of broken dreams, boarded-up storefronts, and looming nuclear holocaust. If time travel hadn't entered into the plot, we think the story probably would have ended in mass suicide.
Take loveable old eccentric Doc Brown, or Professor Brown as this draft calls him. In this version, the only reason that Professor Brown is so loveably eccentric is that the last thirty years of failure and self-hatred have been slowly draining the life out of him, leaving him a pale shadow of the man he once was.
That's right, Marty and the Professor run a video bootlegging business together, selling illegally copied pornography to high school kids. Only Marty's unrelenting self-confidence keeps him from being crushed by the horror of the world that surrounds him. That, and his dream of one day seeing a nuclear explosion.
We know what you're thinking. "I will never feel joy again. Even Back to the fucking Future is depressing now. Nothing could possibly pull me out of this black pit of despair." Well, buck up, little camper, 'cause Coca-Cola is going to fix everything!
Yes, Marty pours Coke into one of the Professor's machines FOR NO FUCKING REASON, and it turns out to be the perfect chemical mixture to fuel some kind of energy converter. The converter, of course, is needed to turn atomic energy into even more energy and power the time machine. And when 1952's Professor Brown learns the secret of delicious, refreshing, electricity-generating Coca-Cola, he leads the world into a new Renaissance of Coke-powered sci-fi technologies.
When they do return to the future, thanks to Coke, the once-terrifying cesspool of the early 1980s is now somehow just like the early 1950s, only with robots and flying cars. Professor Brown is saved from ever having to become lovably eccentric. And, just like in the early 50s, there's no such thing as rock and roll.
How does that work, anyway? It's not like Marty went on some kind of killing spree, slaughtering Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Big Joe Turner all in one Coca-Cola-fueled rampage, unless we skipped over some pages without noticing. So, what happened to those guys?
Our guess is that Marty's performance at the "Springtime In Paris" Dance convinced the world at large that whatever the fuck this "rock and roll" shit is, they want no part of it.
We can kind of sympathize.
On the Other Hand...
The original version of Marty's return trip to the 1980s involved sneaking into a nuclear testing facility to use the force of a nuclear bomb to power the time machine. That would have kicked a whole lot of ass, in our opinion.
#4. Gladiator
After the success of Amistad, DreamWorks was ready to give screenwriter David Franzoni a three-picture deal to write whatever the hell he felt like, and what he felt like writing first was a script called Gladiator. It needed work.
What The Fuck Is This Shit?
One major difference is that the hero of the story, Maximus Decimus Meridius in the finished film, is called Narcissus Meridas in this draft. We can understand why they changed it. Narcissus is a surprisingly Greek name for a Spanish general in the Roman army, and it's a surprisingly wussy name for a fucking gladiator.
This is only made worse when he starts his gladiatorial career and is given the nickname "Narcissus the Good," which sounds about as manly and imposing as "Sissypants the Adequate."
In all fairness, the real Emperor Commodus really was killed by a man named Narcissus, and there's something to be said for historical accuracy. Then again, the real Commodus was strangled to death in his bathtub, and Narcissus was his wrestling coach, so historical accuracy probably wasn't what Franzoni was going for here.
And that's good, because the script is full of what-the-fuck moments in the descriptions:
By the way, would it be terribly immature of us to point out an innocent typo and make a dick joke out of it?
Yeah, it probably would.
There's also a weird part where the Emperor tries to get Narcissus to take a dive in his big gladiator fight, and another part where Narcissus actually does take a dive, and then tries to slit his own wrists. Finally we have a really fucking weird part where Commodus has the entire Senate, along with his own sister, cooked alive inside a giant brass bull.
Sort of like this, but with fire.
Oh, and this draft has a happy ending, with Narcissus living out his years in Africa with his very-much-not-dead family. You know, after killing the Emperor of Rome. In front of about ten thousand witnesses.
On the Other Hand...
Sequences in the Coliseum feature a clown jumping over a bear, a naked midget riding an ostrich, and a bunch of chimpanzees dressed up as the Roman Senate. We don't need to tell you how awesome that would have been.


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The missing capitalization bothers me a lot; it should be Possible.
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The missing capitalization bothers me a lot; it should be Possible.
down with capitalist pigs!
Obviously this is status-declined, so everyone should just accept the judgment passed down from on high, but to further elaborate a bit of why people might be bothered...
Bad punctuation/grammar/spelling is one thing when someone else does it, it's entirely another when it's attributed to you.
if jeff wants to rite liek this on his site thats his perogative.
If words are going to be automatically attributed to me, I don't want them to reflect badly on me.
If capitalizing a single letter is too hard, having the Community user be the comment owner would make this far less obnoxious.
Seriously, you don't even need to do anything other than add one CSS rule:
How is that such a big deal, from the Stack Exchange network that features, among others, 'English Language and Usage' and 'Writers' and was (at least partially) meant to 'trick [us] into becoming...better writers if that's what it takes1 (emphasis Jeff's)?
If you're going to attribute words to us, or put our names on auto-generated comments, then follow the technical specifications of the language in which you're writing, I don't care whether, or not, this comment meets the syntactic and grammatical requirements of a sentence, it really is close enough that capitalisation should be the default.
And, frankly, not-capitalising means I have to waste my time editing a wrongly-capitalised auto-generated comment; if I'm doing that I'd rather not have the auto-comment, since it saves me precisely no time and increases general irritation.
...this has, clearly, been bugging me for a while. Please reconsider the status-declined; I really don't see any significant cost attached to making this request, instead, status-completed.
This Is A Capital Idea!
Update: As balpha indicated in a comment, upper-case is far more common:
I posted this as suggestion / feature request on Meta.SO, yesterday.
So, as of those revisions, the feature request is status-completed!
It's not a complete sentence, so it doesn't need to be capitalized. We don't capitalize the tabs on the user page, or the homepage, for example.. or, heck, even here on the question page itself.


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Media coverage plays a large part in defining public perceptions toward alternative sexual expression. You and your organization can help shape media attitudes by speaking to the press about sexual issues that concern consenting adults.
The NCSF Resource Libray is filled with helpful information, documents and downloadable PDFs. We have helpful resources for individuals and organizations alike:
In 2007, NCSF organized a leather leadership round table at the Creating Change conference to discuss the goals of the BDSM-leather-fetish communities. The number one priority was determined to be the decriminalization of BDSM.
A subsequent town hall meeting at LLC was held to further discuss this goal and to establish an outline for a working plan for this 10-15 year project. This is a community-wide project with participation by national groups as well as activists to help determine the plan to accomplish this goal.
Earlier this year, it was determined that it would be in the best interest of this project for NCSF to take a leadership role. Since NCSF had already established the DSM project as a major area of focus, it made sense to also add the CONSENT COUNTS project as a major focus.
NCSF has an active media committee which provides interviews for print, radio, and television. We creates press releases, action alerts, and entertainment media updates. The Media committee also provides media training and coaching to coalition partners, advocacy groups and responds to hundreds of media related queries. With the action around the CDA lawsuit as well as other media events, this has been a busy year. This report details NCSF media activities over the last twelve months.
NCSF Media Activity Report - 2007
NCSF Media Activity Report - 2006
Prepared by NCSF with input from GBLT Activists
POLICING PUBLIC SEX; edited by Dangerous Bedfellows; South End Press: Boston, Massachusetts; 1996
PUBLIC SEX, GAY SPACE; Edited by William L. Leap; Columbus University Press; 1999
THE QUEER QUESTION, ESSAYS ON DESIRE AND DEMOCRACY; Scott Tucker; South End Press; Boston, Massachusetts; 1997
SEXUAL POLITICS, SEXUAL COMMUNITIES; John D'Emilio; University of Chicago Press; 1983
THE PIG FARMER'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER TALES OF AMERICAN JUSTICE; EPISODES OF RACISM AND SEXISM IN THE COURTS FROM 1865 TO THE PRESENT; Mary Francis Berry; New York; Knopf; 1999
KISS AND TELL: SURVEYING SEX IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; Julia Erickson, with Sally A. Steffen; Cambridge; Harvard University Press; 1999
SEX WARS: SEXUAL DISSENT AND POLITICAL CULTURE; Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter; New York; Routledge; 1995
OPPOSITE SEX; GAY MEN ON LESBIANS, LESBIANS ON GAY MEN; edited by Sara Miles and Eric Rofes; NYU Press; 1998
THE TROUBLE WITH NORMAL; SEX, POLITICS, AND THE ETHICS OF QUEER LIFE; Michael Warner; Harvard University Press; Cambridge; 1999
THE POLITICS OF SEXUALITY; SEXUALITY & CULTURE; VOLUME 3; edited by Barry M. Dank and Roberto Refinetti; Transaction Publishers; New Brunswick 1999
AMERICAN SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRENDS, SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC DIFFERENCES, AND RISK BEHAVIOR; Tom W. Smith; National Opinion Research Center; University of Chicago; GSS Topical Report No. 25; Updated December, 1998
THINKING SEX; NOTES FOR A RADICAL THEORY OF THE POLITICS OF SEXUALITY; essay by Gayle S. Rubin; 1992
GLOBAL SURVEY 2000; GLOBAL SURVEY INTO SEXUAL ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR; Durex; 2000
Our legislators work for us. They want to know what we think about issues on the local, state, and national level. You can always write letters and should but actually meeting with your elected official is easier than you think.
Our legislators work for us. They want to know what we think about issues on the local, state, and national level. You can always write letters and should but actually meeting with your elected official is easier than you think.
A lobby visit is a meeting where you tell your elected representative what you think about a certain issue or bill. Whether it is a City Council Member or your Congressional Representative, as one of their constituents you can ask them to take action on an issue or legislation.
You can find the office of your local and national elected officials in your area. Some Members of Congress have more than one office in their congressional district, and permanent staff members are usually available for you to meet with.
Make your request in writing and follow up with a call to the Appointment Secretary/Scheduler.
Suggest specific times and dates for your meeting
Let them know what issue or legislation you wish to discuss.
Make sure they know that you are a constituent.
Contact the NCSF to help you decide on your talking points, and get information that you can leave with your elected official.
Decide who will attend the meeting. Bringing more than four or five people can be hard to manage
Agree on talking points. Your goal is to make a strong case for your position, so don't disagree in the meeting. If a point is causing tension in the group, leave it out
Plan out your meeting keeping in mind that time is limited. Decide who will start the conversation, and which points each person will make
Decide what you want achieve. Do you want your elected official to vote for or against a bill? Do you want them to support your issue or oppose a restrictive ordinance? Ask them to do something specific.
Be prompt and patient. Elected officials run on very tight schedules.
Keep it short and focused. You will have twenty minutes or less with a staff person, and as little as ten minutes if you meet with your elected official. Stick to your talking points.
Know your elected official's record on similar issues or legislation. Begin by thanking them for voting in support of your issues, and for taking the time to meet with you.
Leave only a few pages of information that contain your main points. Include your contact information.
Provide concise personal and local examples of the impact of the legislation or issue. This is the most important thing you can do in a lobby visit.
You don't need all of the information on an issue. If you don't know the answer to a question, it is fine to tell the elected official that you will get that information. This gives you the chance to contact them again about the issue.
Set deadlines for a response. You sometimes won't get a definitive answer at the meeting. Ask when you should check back in to find out what your elected official intends to do about your request. If you need to get information to them, set a date for when this will happen.
Right after the meeting, compare notes with everyone in your group to confirm what the elected official committed to do and what follow up information you committed to send.
One of you should promptly send a thank you letter for meeting with you.
Follow up immediately with any requested materials and information.
If the elected official or staff member doesn't meet the deadline for action you agreed to during the meeting, ask him or her to set another deadline. Be persistent, polite, and flexible.
Meeting with your elected officials is the best way to demonstrate that there is a constituency for civil liberties in your district. It's easy to make a difference.
Guidelines intended to help law enforcement and social services professionals understand the difference between abusive relationships vs. SM. Drafted in 1998 at the second Leather Leadership Conference.
The following Principles and Guidelines are intended to help law enforcement and social services professionals understand the difference between abusive relationships vs. consensual sadomasochism (SM). SM includes a broad and complex group of behaviors between consenting adults involving the consensual exchange of power, and the giving and receiving of intense erotic sensation and/or mental discipline.
SM includes: "intimate activities within the scope of informed consent that is freely given."
Abuse is: "Physical, sexual or emotional acts inflicted on a person without their informed and freely given consent."
The SM-Leather-Fetish communities recognize the phrase "Safe, Sane, Consensual" as the best brief summary of principles guiding SM practices:
Safe is being knowledgeable about the techniques and safety concerns involved in what you are doing, and acting in accordance with that knowledge.
Sane is knowing the difference between fantasy and reality, and acting in accordance with that knowledge.
Consensual is respecting the limits imposed by each participant at all times. One of the recognized ways to maintain limits is through a "safeword" which ensures that each participant can end his/her participation with a word or gesture.
Informed consent must be judged by balancing the following criteria for each encounter at the time the acts occurred:
These guidelines were created by activists and leaders at the Leather Leadership Conference in 1998.
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Hi all,
I want to declare some variables which should be accessible through-out the controller. Right now I am using 'statics' section to declare such variable. Please let me know if there is a better or easier way to declare such variables?
Ext.define('MyController', { extend: 'Ext.app.Controller', statics: { variableOne: '', variableTwo: '' }, init: function () { this.control({ 'myView #my-grid': { select: this.onSelect }, ''myView #myRadio': { change: this.onRadioChange } }); }, onSelect: function (grid, record, index, eOpts) { this.self.variableOne = 10; }, onRadioChange: function (rdBtn, newValue, oldValue, eOpts) { //Accessing go var val = this.self.variableOne; } });
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Longitude goes up and down… right? The Longitude Festival Dublin which happens in Marley Park this July will be an event where, unlike latitude where you have to give some, you will indeed get some. And what a line up there is, including old timers Kraftwerk and newcomers such as Jake Bugg who we are…


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I am trying to connect with SQL Server Database using VB.Net. In Datasource of Binding Source, I selected 'Add project datasource' Clicked 'Database and New Connection in Choose Connection Wizard.
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I tried both but when Tested Connection, it failed to connect.
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ROSSVILLE, Kan. (WIBW)- A scam hitting residents in Shawnee County proves not every quick fix is as good as it may seem and a woman from Rossville is its latest victim
It's one that just about anyone could fall for and it's an offer for an easy fix to your computer, but in the end just leaves the customer high and dry.
It begins with a phone call, followed by a friendly and helpful offer.
Rossville resident Sallie Kelley says "They wanted to clean my computer and if I gave them money they would clean it. They wanted $250 and i've done that before and not been scammed.
This time was different, after sharing information the caller had control of her computer and logging information and when they began the process of withdrawing another $150 from Western Union, Sally knew she was the victim of a scam.
"I had to cancel my credit card and Western Union helped by not transferring the additional money and the credit card company has information on the scam so hopefully I'll get my credit back," said Sallie.
If you are thinking this is an isolated case preying on non-tech savvy customers, think again, Sallie's neighbor and daughter received several calls from the same scam company pretending to be from Microsoft and it doesn't look to be going away anytime soon.
The Better Business Bureau says the scam is back in the area so everyone please be careful of phone calls about your computer.
The Better Business Bureau says the best way to avoid scams is to avoid services over the phone that seem "too good to be true," and search first online for company information.
Microsoft also says they will never call you about repairing your computer.


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Mequon manufacturer adding new warehouse
Telsmith Inc. plans to build a 33,760-square-foot warehouse next to its 203,000-square-foot Mequon manufacturing facility and offices, and consolidate off-site storage operations from both Mequon and Brookfield.
That's according to a report filed with the Mequon Department of Community Development. The Plan Commission has approved the project, proposed for 10910 N. Industrial Drive.
That approval came after Telsmith worked with city staffers to place the building farther from Telsmith's south property line. As a result, 18 trees would be removed to make way for the new building, instead of 72 trees that would have been removed under the company's initial proposal.
Telsmith, with 300 employees, makes rock crushing equipment. It's a subsidiary of Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Astec Industries Inc.
Shorewood School District gets a handbook
Shorewood - After more than a year of back and forth between administrators, staff, and community members, the School Board approved an employee handbook and teacher appendix tonight.
Though the board needed to address two areas of the handbook text before it was approved, board members and teachers expressed their relief to finally have the handbook - required by Act 10 to replace teacher contracts - in place.
"The employee handbook has been worked on for months and months," Superintendent Martin Lexmond said. "I think it's been a very smart process here. It's been very collaborative, (looking back at) when we backtracked all the various meetings and players, and I think it's been done very well."
Though the handbook has been approved, the district isn't done with it yet. On the horizon is the district's "big idea" meeting in January 2012, at which teachers, administrators, community members, and the School Board will have the opportunity to examine any defects they may have found in the handbook.
"It's good to have a document, something to build on," Shorewood Education Association President Michael Halloran said before the board meeting. "Now we get to take it for a test drive."
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Nearly flat Nicolet levy approved
Glendale - The Nicolet School Board and a handful of residents approved a minimal reduction to the district's levy for the 2012-'13 school year at the annual district meeting Monday night.
The total levy comes in at approximately $17 million, down .06% from last year, and the overall budget is set to increase by about .9% to just over $19 million.
The decrease is so slight, said district Director of Business Services Jeff Dellutri, that a resident with a $300,000 home would see a tax decrease of 81 cents in the coming year -- though that estimate relies on a flat equalized value estimate of area properties, which likely won't be the case.
And, of course, a critical component of the budget presented by Dellutri to the board and attending residents was the five-year, $2.15 million referendum that offsets decreasing enrollment and state aid.
"Without a referendum," Dellutri said, "this would have been devastating for us."
Backyard animal-control effort results in firearm citation
A 73-year-old Whitefish Bay man was cited for illegal discharge of a firearm after a neighbor reported him shooting at birds and squirrels in the 100 block of W. Day Ave. at 11:30 a.m. last week.
According to the police report:
Police found a dead bird in his backyard last Monday and the man admitted he has been shooting "unwanted birds and squirrels" that were eating his "expensive bird food" — the food he put out for birds "he desires."
He also said that he didn't know it was illegal and that he was careful to shoot only at the ground so as not to hit anything else.
He had a .177-caliber pellet gun.
Man arrested in Shorewood bomb threat
Shorewood police said they took one man into custody after he allegedly threatened to bomb a courthouse and an assisted living facility Monday afternoon.
The man called police about 4 p.m. threatening to blow up the Shorewood municipal court and an unknown assisted living facility, later determined to be the River Park Apartments at 1600 and 1700 E. River Park Court. All buildings were evacuated and searched, with no evidence of a bomb. Residents were cleared to return to their homes about 6:30 p.m.
The man had been known to visit the apartments where police found him and arrested him without incident, police said. He is believed to have acted alone.
Milwaukee County buses were available to transport apartment residents after they were evacuated to Shorewood High School, but a police spokeswoman said all residents remained on the scene.
No one was injured.
Strong-armed robbery reported early Sunday in Whitefish Bay
An 18-year-old Whitefish Bay man called police to report that he and a friend were the victims of a strong-armed robbery, actual location not yet available, and were following the suspects near Wilson Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard at 12:42 a.m. Sunday.
According to the police report:
The victims were robbed by five teenage males who took their wallets, a $200 cellphone and about $70 cash.
They reported the plate number which came back as a stolen car. Milwaukee police stopped that car and arrested the occupants.
The investigation is on going.» Read Full Article
Anonymous caller tips police to balcony pot plants
A 45-year-old Brown Deer man was arrested for manufacturing of a controlled substance, and a 17-year-old Brown Deer girl for party to this crime after an anonymous caller reported a marijuana plant growing in Brown Deer.
According to the police report:
The caller reported what looked like a marijuana plant on a second-floor balcony in the 9000 block of North Park Plaza Court at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 9.
Police found marijuana plants growing in a pot, one 40-inches tall, on that balcony.
When police asked about the plants, the man said various things including it was a "mosquito plant," that he was only growing it because it "looked neat," that he found the seeds in someone else's ashtray and then said, "It's not like I was going to sell it to anyone."
Homestead gets its vengeance on Waterford
Homestead football coach Dave Keel said he was pleased with Homestead's season-opening success against Waterford.
"This was a good start," he noted after his team's 22-6 victory, one that avenged a nonconference loss to the same squad last year. "We didn't turn the ball over and we hit well. Waterford is a good football team, well-coached. Each year is a new year and we will see what we make of it."
Most of the offense came in the second half, none bigger than an 82-yard touchdown run from Shaquille Cole.
Waterford had just pulled within 7-6, and Homestead faced deep trouble when the quarterback Ryan Stendler was sacked by Jake Wirsching at the 18, creating a 3rd and 12.
But a missed assignment by the Waterford defense created a wide lane for Cole, who covered 82 yards for a game-changing score with 1:17 left in the third period. Waterford's safety was closing quickly, but a clean block by Jay Schneider at the 15 allowed Cole to make the end zone.» Read Full Article
Menomonee Falls cross country photos now online
grade level cross country invite in Menomonee Falls.We've just published a photo gallery of more than 15 images from yesterday's
Brookfield Central's Carl Hirsch won the boys junior/senior race in 15 minutes, 22.84 seconds on the 5,000-meter course. Lauren Cunningham of Nicolet won the girls competition on the 4,000-meter course in 15:14.79.
Brown Deer Middle School principal Lucey resigns
Brown Deer - The Brown Deer School Board accepted the resignation of Middle School Principal Marirose Lucey on Thursday night.
Questions have lingered after Lucey, who over the last seven years has served at Algonquin Elementary, Dean Elementary, and the middle school, went on leave approximately three weeks before the conclusion of the 2011-2012 school year.
The School Board approved a new middle school administrative team for the 2012-2013 school year, with three-year Assistant-Principal Ellis Turrentine taking over for Lucey.
Andy Bauschelt and Bruce Kramer will be Deans of Students.
Residents can meet the new administrators at a middle school open house on Aug. 29 from 5-7 p.m.
Bay rallies to edge GT, 2-1, in NSC soccer opener
The defending North Shore Conference champion Whitefish Bay boys soccer team had already caught the attention of area fans when it tied defending state champion Marquette last week.
And now, having done that, the Blue Dukes set out to take the first step towards defending their NSC title, which they did Tuesday night with a fine rally against a strong Germantown side.
Junior forward Paul Gwidt pounded into the net a close-in shot with an assist from senior midfielder Jack Comiskey at the 75:16 mark to give the Blue Dukes a 2-1 victory.
"This was an important win, a fact that was not lost on the players," said new Bay coach Andy Lee, "because Germantown is always a very good side and has some very good players."
With the win, Bay improved to 2-0-1 on the young season while the young Warhawks, who were also battling some injuries, fell in their season opener.» Read Full Article
Longtime municipal leader Henschel is sole contender in Waukesha
Waukesha - Former Elm Grove and Whitefish Bay village manager Edmund Henschel is the only contender under consideration as the next Waukesha city administrator and a job offer could be in the works, Mayor Jeff Scrima said Tuesday.
The city selection committee interviewed him last week before he headed out of state for the rest of the month. Then, after the committee reviewed additional semifinalists' applications with a consultant, the committee decided to pursue Henschel without interviewing anyone else, Scrima said.
He said a job offer "may be in process" by the city's human relations department and the search firm. An announcement could be made in early September after Henschel returns, Scrima said.
Henschel, a Waukesha resident, has 27 years of municipal management experience in Elm Grove, Whitefish Bay and Clio, Mich., and 12 years of municipal consulting experience, according to his application. He is executive director of the Wisconsin City/County Management Association.
Scrima said Henschel's experience in negotiating a settlement to the 1980s "sewer wars" between the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District and nine outlying suburbs called FLOW, for Fair Liquidation of Waste, would be particularly relevant to Waukesha "if he ends up joining our team."» Read Full Article
Fox Point trustees OK grant to Footbridge Friends
The Fox Point Village Board voted Monday night to grant local nonprofit Footbridge Friends $30,000 so the group can attempt to raise $625,000 for the controversial replacement of the Ravine Lane Bridge.
That money will go to In Progress Consulting, which will lead the fundraising effort, and its subcontractor Clear Verve Marketing.
Though the total cost of all the contracting work, as laid out by In Progress, could total more than $45,000, the Village Board opted to give enough for the first four months of fundraising - $30,000 - and potentially approve the rest at a later date.
Trustees Eric Fonstad and F.R. Dengel were adamant that any funds given to Footbridge Friends be reimbursed to the village, and a amendment to the resolution was made that Footbridge Friends be obligated to make that repayment.
The resolution passed, 4-1, with Trustee William Warner dissenting, saying that he would rather bring the footbridge issue to referendum.
Regional office moving from Mequon to downtown Milwaukee
Vacon Inc., which makes drives for electric motors, is moving its regional training office from Mequon to downtown Milwaukee.
Vacon is leasing 12,481 square feet at The Blue, 310 W. Wisconsin Ave., the office building also known as Reuss Federal Plaza, according to the Boerke Co. Vacon now leases 10,000 square feet at 6425 W. Executive Drive.
The lease was brokered by Andrew Jensen and David Pudlosky, of Boerke, who represented the building owner, RAIT Financial, and Jim Babiasz and Patrick Dedering, of Boerke, who represented Vacon. Dedering said less than 10 employees will be moving since the office mainly will be used for training workers from throughout North America.
Man arrested after trying to involve off-duty police officer in Quest scam
A 19-year-old Milwaukee man is under investigation for using a government assistance card to purchase items and then resell them.
According to the Thiensville police report:
The man approached an off-duty police officer to use his "Quest card" and sell the officer items for cash.
The man said he did nothing wrong, and the only reason he approached the officer is because he's homeless and needs money.
The card is being held as evidence and he will be referred to the District Attorney's office for theft by fraud charges, and the Milwaukee office of Wisconsin Department of Health Services will review his eligibility for the government program.
Mum's the word on Dr. Lucey
Brown Deer - School district administrative staff is tight-lipped when it comes to the continued absence of middle school Principal Marirose Lucey.
Lucey, who has reportedly been on leave since around three weeks before school let out, is the subject of much speculation in the Brown Deer community, with many wondering if and when she will be back.
Superintendent Deb Kerr said that the district isn't ready to divulge any information on Lucey at this point, maintaining that personnel issues are "private and confidential."
Information is on the way, according to Kerr, though she could not say when.
"I'm sure we'll have some resolution soon," said Kerr.
Van Gompel announces resignation
Brown Deer - Village Manager Russell Van Gompel turned in his letter of resignation earlier today, requesting that his tenure with the village end Nov. 9.
Van Gompel will take over as City Manger of Eau Claire shortly thereafter in early November.
The village's Personnel Committee met yesterday and will solicit hiring proposals from three consulting firms. Members of the Personnel Committee and the Village Board will discuss how to fill the Village Manger position at an Aug. 20 board meeting.
Once a consulting firm is selected in the coming weeks, said Van Gompel, the village will be able to create a timeline for his replacement.
Sandwich sampler cited for disorderly conduct
A 43-year-old Milwaukee man who took a bite out of a sandwich and then put it back at a Mequon gas station last week ended up with a citation for disorderly conduct.
The man was cited for disorderly conduct after causing a disturbance at the BP Station, 11147 N. Port Washington Road, at 10:20 a.m. Aug. 8.
The man took a cheddar cheese and brat sandwich from a display, took a bite and then put the sandwich back on the display.
An employee told him he couldn't do that and had to pay for the sandwich. The man became angry, saying he thought it was hot dog and didn't want it.
He then began to yell, using vulgar language, and left the store.» Read Full Article
Man, on work release, accused of using jail van to commit Mequon burglaries
An incarcerated 43-year-old Milwaukee man is suspected of using a van he drove as part of a work-release program to help commit at least four burglaries of Mequon businesses on North Port Washington Road in June and July.
The man was identified through surveillance video inside two of the businesses and another that revealed the license plate of the van he drove.
Police traced that plate and discovered the van belonged to the Department of Corrections and the suspect was then traced to a cell at the Marshall E. Sherrer Correction Center on North 14th Street, Milwaukee.
The man drove the van while on work release taking other inmates also on work release to their jobs.
After he dropped them off, he allegedly committed burglaries at Dark Side Tan, Signature Auto Detailing, Picardy Shoe Parlor and North Shore Auto Service. The van had a GPS tracking system, which also showed the van was at each of these locations at the time they were entered.» Read Full Article
Trio arrested for Whitefish Bay robberies
Three Milwaukee males, 16, 17 and 18, were arrested for two robberies last week in Whitefish Bay.
In the first robbery the two younger males, both with bandannas covering their faces, forced a woman to give them her two shopping bags as she walked in the 200 block of East Birch Avenue about 5 p.m. Aug 9. They fled in a van driven by the 18-year-old.
In the second robbery, the same two boys again covering their faces, forcibly took a purse from a woman in the 300 block of East Lake View Avenue at 6:45 p.m.
They again fled in the van but were stopped by Glendale police in the 3700 block of West Silver Spring Drive.
A pictorial look at Paul Ryan in the suburbs
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's running mate, has made a number of recent stops in suburban Milwaukee for listening sessions.U.S. Rep Paul Ryan, who was named this morning as
NOW photographer Peter Zuzga was there to cover Ryan's appearances, including a stop in Franklin in 2011 and Greendale in May.
Former Whitefish Bay official considered for Waukesha post
Waukesha - The selection committee looking for a new Waukesha city administrator is back at work, narrowing the list of semifinalists Monday with plans to interview finalists on a rolling basis, a change from its mid-September target for interviews.
One candidate will get an early interview.
Ed Henschel, executive secretary of the Wisconsin City/County Management Association and the former Whitefish Bay village manager, will be interviewed Monday because he will be out of the state for the rest of the month.
"The recruitment firm feels that Mr. Henschel would be a finalist in any event and that it is advantageous to both the city and Mr. Henschel to conduct his interview before he leaves," Human Resources Manager Donna Hylarides Whalen wrote in an email Friday.
Waukesha's former city administrator, Lori Curtis Luther, left in August 2011 for another job. After a search for her replacement, the preferred candidate - the only one the committee could agree on - withdrew from consideration so the city started from scratch, changing its recruiting firm as well.» Read Full Article
Brown Deer manager selected for Eau Claire job
Brown Deer - Village Manager Russell Van Gompel will take over as City Manger of Eau Claire with a tentative start date of Nov. 5, according to a city of Eau Claire news release.
The Eau Claire City Council will vote on an employment contact at its Aug. 14 meeting, after which Van Gompel expects to turn in his resignation with the village.
Van Gompel said that the village will convene a personnel committee meeting on Aug. 14 to begin forming a timeline and process for his replacement, and that the Village Board would need to approve an early November start date, given that his resignation would occur slightly within the 90-day window prescribed by the village.
"I'm going to be asking the board to authorize that," said Van Gompel.
The personnel committee will likely make recommendations regarding Van Gompel's replacement to the Village Board, which will meet on Aug. 20 and potentially approve a hiring plan.» Read Full Article
Man arrested in sexual assault at bus stop
A 23-year-old West Allis man has been charged in connection with a July 27 sexual assault in which he is accused of grabbing a woman and touching her inappropriately at a bus stop in the 400 block of Lincoln Ave., Milwaukee police said.
Police are trying to determine whether Anthony H. Kodrich is linked to seven other similar assaults in Milwaukee, South Milwaukee and Shorewood.
Kodrich was charged Sunday with second-degree sexual assault in connection with the 5:30 p.m. July 27 incident.
Police said after the woman was attacked she later saw news reports about similar incidents in Bay View and South Milwaukee and reported the attack on her to police.
Police said they had bus video of the July 27 incident and that Detective Branko Stojsavljevic and Officer Amy Stolowski on July 30 went to the Lincoln Ave. area where the attack occurred and boarded buses to look for the suspect.» Read Full Article
Shorewood fireworks to fly with FAB on Aug. 11
Shorewood - The fireworks cancelled at Shorewood's Fourth of July celebration will light up the sky at Friends of Atwater Beach's fourth annual beach party on Aug. 11.
The beach party will run from 3-10 p.m. on the upper lawn of Atwater Park and will feature local bands Lil' Debbie & The Tone Gods, Fred Bliffert & the Atwater Beach Blues Band, and Dukster.
Admission will be free and food will be $6 per plate. All proceeds will go toward restoring the beach.
"The beach party celebrates this wonderful natural resource," said FAB co-founder Jay Urban in a news release, "and provides a way for people to support FAB's mission."
Mequon police use crime dog to catch baseball streaker
A 20-year-old Philadelphia man was arrested for disorderly conduct and underage drinking after a naked run around the bases at Kapco Park in Mequon last week.
According to the police report:
The man ran the bases naked after a baseball game at Concordia University, 12800 N. Lake Shore Drive, at 7:45 p.m. July 29.
Children were also running the bases at the same time. When police arrived, the man ran into a heavily wooded area but canine officer Vero found him.
He then said his shorts "fell off" and he was "too embarrassed" to pull them back up.» Read Full Article
Bay working out tax incremental financing details for Mandel luxury apartments
Whitefish Bay - Whitefish Bay officials are working with developer Mandel Group and financial advisory firm Ehlers Investment Partners to hash out details of a tax incremental district for the developer's proposed $28-30 million luxury apartment complex.
Ehlers Senior Financial Advisor Michael Harrigan presented a preliminary draft Monday night to the Community Development Authority, tentatively outlining a $1.8 million investment from the village in the form of general obligation bonds. An approximate amount of $2 million will go into a "developer TIF," which will allow Mandel Group to pay off a portion of its project debt with property taxes from the proposed development.
Nearly $1.1 million worth of air rights over the current municipal lots would be granted to Mandel as part of the project, rounding out an estimated $4.9 million in public investment.
An additional $14 million of property value is expected to be added to the proposed TID as a result of the 100-unit luxury apartment complex, according to the Ehlers report.
The CDA ultimately voted to take the proposed TID to a series of meetings on Sept. 6. A public hearing will take place at 6 p.m., followed by a joint-review board meeting with members from local taxing authorities, and a meeting during which the CDA may adopt an updated TID project plan.» Read Full Article
DOT to hold public info meetings for I-43 project on 8/7, 8/8
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation will be hosting informational meetings next week about an upcoming project which may result in the full reconstruction and redesign of the I-43 corridor, according to a DOT news release.
The first meeting will take place between 4-8 p.m. at Mequon City Hall on Aug. 7, and the second at Nicolet High School between 4-8 p.m. on Aug. 8.
The Federal Highway Administration and DOT will compile an Environmental Impact Statement after evaluating the 14 mile stretch of I-43 between Silver Spring Drive and Wisconsin Highway 60, as well as interchanges and arterial roads in Milwaukee and Ozaukee Counties.
The EIS is scheduled for release in 2014, and construction has a tentative start date of 2020 or beyond, according to DOT documentation.
For additional information, residents can contact Project Manager Steve Hoff at (262) 548-6718 or email@example.com.


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I've seen a number of questions and answers come up for review recently, that include links to the asker's/answerer's code or a picture.
Example: Very Slow MySQL Inserts
It seems a lot of people are editing these posts by following the links, grabbing the code/picture, and putting it into the post. (Let's see how long it takes for that to happen to the example!)
What's the policy on this practice? Good/bad?
To clarify: the links are to code that the asker him/her-self created, and chose not to include in the body of the post.


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LOL (LESSONS ON LAUGHTER)First-World Cat Problems
No species has had to face such harsh reality as the house cat. Revered for centuries in ancient Egypt and prized aboard ships of old as the resident rodent police,...Original post made by Sierra Rhodes on Nov. 18, 2013
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LOL (LESSONS ON LAUGHTER)If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate
Yesterday we did English, so I figure today we'll humor it up with some science. Be warned though, it's Friday brain science, and all the good jokes Argon....Original post made by Sierra Rhodes on Jul. 19, 2013
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LOL (LESSONS ON LAUGHTER)Curriculum for cracking up
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LOL (LESSONS ON LAUGHTER)My Funny Valentine
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LOL (LESSONS ON LAUGHTER)Ben Affleck cast as new Batman... Weirdly enough, not as a joke
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LOL (LESSONS ON LAUGHTER)Come on people, the NSA just want to be friends...
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LOL (LESSONS ON LAUGHTER)Insert 'Jaws' theme song here
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LOL (LESSONS ON LAUGHTER)Shall I compare work to a summer's day?
In high school, summers meant a break. Break meant gleefully emptying our brains of any academic information, letting our synapses run on television, trips to the...Original post made by Sierra Rhodes on Jun. 27, 2013
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LOL (LESSONS ON LAUGHTER)What I thought when I saw the preview for 'The Smurfs 2'
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I'm considering putting some of my spare time into writing detailed NPC profiles and making them available for a small price (around 50p or 75 cents each, with bundle deals) on DriveThruRPG. Releases would be put out on a regular schedule.
My current vision is to write about a thousand words of backstory for each NPC, flesh out about 2-3 of his goals with a break-down of what he needs (similar to the 5x5 method) and some notes on his reactions to common situations.
These aren't intended to help someone who thinks, "quick, I need someone to fill x role". Instead they are intended to be characters that the players create long term relationships with. Imagine the NPCs in White Wolf products or the major players in a D&D adventure.
When you answer, can you touch on the following points?
- What are the key indicators of quality in a small press product?
- What situations would a GM expect to find in a list of common reactions?
- Do pre-written NPCs (and other setting detail) even work well in a game like FATE where so much is player driven?