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- Release Date: Jun 23, 2004
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Moore stays "on message" here from first shot to last. There is no debate, no analysis of facts or search for historical context. Moore simply wants to blame one man and his family for the situation in Iraq the United States now finds itself in So the real question is not how good a film is Fahrenheit 9/11 -- it is undoubtedly Moore's weakest -- but will a film help to get a president fired?
That's the real problem with Fahrenheit 9/11: not the message, but the method Moores default mode is overkill: he even notes that on the night before the attacks Bush slept on "fine French linen." Surely scratchy muslin wouldn't have stopped the evildoers.
Fahrenheit 9/11 offers the thrill of a coherent explanation for everything, but parts of the movie are no better than a wild, lunging grab at a supposed master plan. [28 June 2004, p. 108]

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A Kansas meat processing plant recently recalled about 23,000 pounds of potentially-contaminated ground beef, which was shipped to 12 states. Thankfully, no serious illnesses have been reported yet. That doesn't mean that no one has suffered, though. Hundreds of cows were cruelly killed to make the meat, which is now just being tossed out. We mustn't overlook their needless deaths.
When cows are very young, they're branded with hot irons, their horns are cut or burned off, and males are castrated – all without painkillers. They're confined to filthy feedlots and fattened for slaughter. Then they're crowded onto transport trucks and shipped hundreds of miles, often without food and water. At the slaughterhouse, they're hung upside-down, their throats are slit, and they are skinned and gutted.
It's no wonder these gentle giants go to great lengths to escape from slaughterhouses. They value their lives, just as you and I value ours. You can help stop their suffering by choosing tasty vegan foods.
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Dana Mansuri Sworn In As Mission Director to Morocco
USAID and Morocco sign a new Country Development Cooperation Strategy
USAID helps create political town halls in Morocco, promoting inclusive dialogue between citizens and officials.
USAID provides training and equipment for farmer cooperatives to sort and process locally grown capers. Sorted capers increase market value of quality products.
USAID trained almost 2000 teachers in new teaching methods to improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools throughout the country.
As a result of USAID support in training and equipment, Moroccan dairy farmers now use modern on-farm dairy production and processing techniques for increased yield and higher value dairy products.
About Morocco
Morocco is one of America's oldest friends in the Middle East and North Africa and is recognized today as a major non-NATO ally. Since 1957, the U.S. Government and the Government of Morocco have worked together to make real and substantial improvements in the lives of Moroccan citizens.
In the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring, Morocco continues to make positive strides in pursuit of political and economic reforms and remains a strong U.S. ally. Despite continued political tensions focused on corruption and political marginalization, the Government of Morocco remains committed to the implementation of its new constitution and the realization of ambitious plans for job creation, improved educational opportunities, and social inclusivity.
USAID's current strategy concentrates on increasing agricultural growth and productivity; enhancing teacher training; building the capacity of local governments to respond to citizen demands; addressing the needs of the most at-risk youth through engagement in productive social, economic and civic activities; and assisting Moroccan businesses in meeting the requirements of the US-Moroccan Trade Agreement.
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20 Mar 2011 7:03 PM #1
Grdpanel focusRow doesn't work
Hi all,
My application will add a new record in resources. Then I want to focus on the row which has been added. My code is like below:
this.grid.store.loadData(newResource, true); this.grid.store.groupBy("Category", true); this.grid.getView().focusRow(this.resourceStore.indexOfId(staffid));
Anyone knows this issue? Pleas help me thanks very much.
20 Mar 2011 7:37 PM #2
Grdpanel focusRow doesn't work
Look like it goes to that added row already but the grid is refresh and it goes to the first row again.
20 Mar 2011 11:24 PM #3
Grdpanel focusRow doesn't work
I know the reason. The loadData method will fire an event "load" so the grid will be loaded again so it goes to the first row instead of my focused row.
Do you know how to solve this issue?
29 Mar 2011 9:15 PM #4
Similar problem with focusRow()
I have a similar problem.
My `store` was reloaded. Before that I add a listener for store.on('load',...)
Handler function has got parameters with desired row number and looks as this:
agrid.store.on('load', function (s,r,o){ agrid.getView().focusRow( this.row ); agrid.getSelectionModel().selectRow( this.row ); }, {row: somerow} , {single:true}); myStore.reload();
I'm at a loss.
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Can we do it without using delay?
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Roma legend Francesco Totti has revealed that he is on the verge of signing a new contract with the Serie A club.
Totti's contract was due to expire at the end of the season but Roma have moved to secure the future of the 36-year-old veteran.
The striker, who joined Roma in 1989, has remained at the club ever since, scoring over 200 goals in more than 500 appearances.
And the club captain is set to extend his stay in the Italian capital.
Totti said after Monday's 3-1 Serie A win over Parma, in which he scored: "We are sorting out the final details.
"There isn't a lot to do. We'll watch for the president now to make a decision on when to put pen to paper."
Roma general director Mauro Baldissoni confirmed that Totti's new deal would be confirmed shortly.
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Bullock Begins Service as Montana Governor
Columbia Law School graduate Steve Bullock '94 was sworn in as Montana's 24th governor earlier this year after serving four years as the state's attorney general. During his campaign, Bullock, who was born and raised in Montana, ran on a platform urging educational innovation, the resurgence of the agricultural industry, and clean energy initiatives. As the state's top lawyer, Bullock established stricter laws against drunk driving and prescription drug abuse. Earlier in his career, he represented labor unions, consumer organizations, and small-business owners as a practicing attorney in Montana.


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Ideally, I would like to be able to perform spatially enabled queries and receive the results back (e.g. spatial and non-spatial joins, filtering etc.) rather than just dumping the contents of a table.
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I have some tasks to complete everyday (the same task every day) or on a weekly basis (e.g. every Saturday) and during a particular period (e.g. January 10 to April 20). Are there any applications that can display the tasks each day? This will help motivate me to do the work.
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Over the objections of some preservationists, an apartment tower is planned for the site of the Renaissance Theater and Casino, once a hot spot for sports and cultural events.
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The scheduled opening of a new restaurant on West 116th Street highlights the potential impact on development in a gentrifying area of a restriction on the sale of spirits near churches.
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Seemingly everyone who passed a lot on Park Avenue and 126th Street knew Baruba I. Dahomey, who lived there in a trailer, but nobody really knew him.
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BOSTON - Traffic will be restricted on the Massachusetts Turnpike during four weekends as crews work to replace the Prudential Tunnel ceiling, according to the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority.
"The ceiling remains safe and secure, but has deteriorated beyond the point of repair and must be removed," according to a statement.
The work will be done on weekends starting with the westbound side of the Prudential Tunnel, followed by the eastbound side. When a side of the tunnel is being worked on it will be completely closed to traffic. To maintain two-way traffic during construction traffic will be shifted to a "contra-flow" lane on the opposite side of the highway.
The current work schedule is:
-March 21-23, westbound
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-April 25-27, eastbound
During the weekends when the eastbound side is closed, the Arlington Street, Clarendon Street, and Dartmouth Street on-ramps, and the Huntington Avenue off-ramp, will be closed.
"MassDOT and MCCA strongly encourage motorists planning travel along the Massachusetts Turnpike through Boston to consider using public transportation, seeking alternate routes and allowing additional time to travel through the work zone during these weekends," the statement said.
For more information about this project and to view printable detour maps and directions, visit prutunnelproject.info
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For example, some people believe they are excellent human lie detectors. But, research shows that the average person is only able to detect deception about 54% of the time. What techniques could be used to influence perceived expertise?
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Expertise – defined by Hovland, Janis and Kelley (1953) as "the extent to which a communicator is percieved to be the source of valid assertions" – is the second dimension of source credibility besides trustworthiness and attractiveness in their source-credibility model. The perceived expertise is, of course, not independent of these other dimensions: attractive people are considered more knowledgeable, and trustworthiness has a similar effect.
Leaving aside obvious objective cues for expertise (e.g. proven success with identical problems, the university degree of a medical doctor, or years of practical experience in a relevant field) I want to focus on irrelevant and subjective cues.
What constitutes expertise would most certainly depend on the field and the expertise of the person judging the expertise of another. For example, Golbeck and Fleischmann (2010) found that in online Q&A sites such as cogsci.stackexchange.com, photo cues such as smiles or showing the person egaged in a relevant activity only improve trust in a poster's knowledgeability among non-experts. And while the expertise of a person producing tangible goods can be easily discerned even by a layman user ("Do these shoes fit?"), intangible services such as child care or a physician's diagnosis and the relevant expertise are very difficult to measure, sometimes even for experts. (Zeithaml, 1981)
In a study on the social communication of political expertise, Huckfeldt (2001) found the most important factors to influence perceived political knowledge to be interest (influencing perceived expertise with a probability of .74), objectively defined knowledge (.36), agreement of discussion partner (.31), agreement between discussion partners (.29), partisan extremity (.14) and education (.11).
As you can see, apart from objective knowledge, perceived expertise is in part influenced by wether other people agree with a speaker, how strongly he favors one standpoint (neutrality and scepticism, both signs of healthy scientific reasoning, seem to substract from apparent expertise), and how educated he appears in general (i.e. a well-groomed person with a PhD will appear more of an expert, no matter if he indeed has any knowledge of the field he expands about or not).
Following a dual processing model such as the elaboration likelihood model, source factors such as expertise, likability, attractiveness and consensus serve as heuristic cues when recipients lack the ability or motivation to scrutinize a message effortfully. But not all recipients use the same cues. Low self-monitors (whose attitudes are based on values) elaborate an expert source's message more effortfully than the same message delivered by an attractive source, while high self-monitors (whose attitudes are based on sochial adjustment concerns) process messages from an attractive source more effortfully. (Ziegler, von Schwichow & Diehl, 2005)
In other words: When a message is unambiguous, strong arguments lead to more agreement than weak arguments (not source characteristics such as expertise). But when the message is ambiguous, it leads to more favorable reactions (aggreement, attitude change) when it is delivered by a source whose characteristics match the personality of the message's recipient.
I am sure there is more, but this is what I can come up with at the moment. If you want to find more, look at research on persuasion.
A note on lie detectors:
In a study on "Police officers' ability to detect suspects' lies" (Mann, Vrij & Bull, 2004), the ability to detect lies strongly correlated with (self-)percieved experience in interviewing suspects. Participants where UK police officers of differing ages (22 to 52), length of service (1 to 30 years) and work areas (e.g. criminal investigation, trainers, traffic officers etc.) Average self-reported experience in interviewing suspects was 3.75 (on a scale from 1 = totally inexperienced to 5 = highly experienced).
For the whole sample accuracy in detecting lies was 66%, which is significantly higher than the level of chance. Experience was somewhat correlated (around .20), while length of service was uncorrelated (-.07) to accuracy.
It seems like your question is tapping into a number of different questions. First, you might ask about what causes people to perceive expertise in others verus what causes people to perceive expertise in themselves. Second, there is the question of when are expertise perceptions inflated and if so what individuals are prone to this and what tasks are more likely to induce this.
What makes someone be perceived as an expert?
I imagine the question can be answered somewhat by casual observation. Having appropriate qualifications, having a known track record of behaviour indicative of expertise, dressing and behaving like other experts, presenting ideas and acting with confidence, an so on are presumably related to perceptions of expertise. Of course, some people exploit these signs to demonstrate expertise that they don't possess (e.g., using technical jargon to intimidate; exaggerating stories of past successes).
What tasks lead to inflated sense of expertise?
You use the example of detecting deception. This suggests you are interested in why people would think that they are "experts" at detecting deception, even when they are actually relatively poor at the task.
There are many similar tasks which are renowned for involving inflated perceptions of expertise. These include driving a car, speculating on the stock market, lie detection, evaluating employees from job interviews, and so on. For many of these tasks, there is a literature on why people tend to have an inflated opinion of their own expertise (e.g., see this previous question on self-perceptions of driving ability.
As for causes of inflated expertise, you might look at as interaction between task and person features.
Task features include:
Person features:
There are wide range of psychological processes that can lead people to have inflated perceptions of their own expertise (for instance see this list). Take two examples, first self-serving bias reflects one general bias. People may wish to see themselves as experts and thus they may rationalise their experience so as to justify inflated self perception. Second, people often don't know what they don't know.
Concluding thoughts
A lot more could be said about all this, but I imagine more interesting answers could be provided by a more focused question. If interest lies in a particular domain of inflated expertise such as lie detection, then there is a dedicated literature on that. Or if interest is focused on the most effective way to demonstrate expertise in some context such as leadership or advertising or ongoing relationships, there will also be a specific literature on that.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- Thousands came out in Manhattan Friday for the annual Veterans Day Honor Parade. Fort Riley soldiers joined the Flint Hills community for the celebration down Poyntz Avenue. People lined the downtown strip, from the mall to the city park, for the procession.
As marching bands and soldiers marched past Ray Thompson, he couldn't help but reminisce about those who served beside him and sacrificed everything. A veteran of the Korean War, the Berlin Crisis and Vietnam, he served 26 years in the Army and is one of the original members of the Flint Hills Veterans Coalition.
"Today is a day to remember all of our deceased veterans. I have a lot of friends that were killed in Korea and in Vietnam and today, to me, is a day that we honor all the veterans but we honor those people especially. I miss them all. I miss them," Thompson told 13 News.
Schools and local organizations as well as state and local officials joined Thompson in remembering veterans both past and present.
"I remember coming back from Vietnam, communities didn't want anything to do with the military but here in Manhattan and even in Junction City, I've seen a close knit togetherness of support and it's outstanding. I'm really happy to be here. Soldiers have sacrificed so much and especially their family members. They go through just as much as the soldiers do but the community showing their support for the soldiers, the family members, the kids, it's a good thing. It shows patriotism and American unity," said Colonel Ed Ahl, the Installation Chaplain for Fort Riley.
At a ceremony after the parade, Fort Riley's Commanding General, Major General William C. Mayville Jr. was the keynote speaker. He described the different programs in place on Fort Riley that help soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan transition back to life here at home.
"We honor veterans not just on Fort Riley but throughout Kansas. Today, there are over 225,000 veterans in the state of Kansas and over 5,000 of them are here in Riley County... Many of the soldiers that are veterans today, still wearing the uniform, have collectively served in combat over these 10 years longer than any other veteran in our nation's history, longer than World War II, Korea and Vietnam," he told the crowd.
Major General Mayville told the audience that all veterans carry sadness in their hearts because of what they've seen and been through but it is a sadness without bitterness because they were serving their country honorably.
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It seems like you could a second bucket for the secondary fermentation. Is there any drawback to not using a carboy for this purpose?
You want to reduce/eliminate oxygen in your beer once it's past fermentation.
Plastic buckets let in an extraordinary amount of oxygen, over time, so you should avoid them if you can.
There's more information here, http://homebrew.stackexchange.com/questions/68/whats-the-point-of-secondary-fermentation, and elsewhere in the site.
Just as a note, I never transfer to secondary, and many others here believe the same. I don't think it gives any benefit to most beers.
You want less head space on your secondary to reduce the amount of oxygen that comes in contact with your beer. Once the initial fermentation is done in your bucket there is a nice thick layer of CO2 that sits in the 1.5 gallons of head space in your 6.5 gallon bucket. But, once you move it to your secondary the fermentation process is already done, so your beer won't make another thick CO2 layer to protect itself. Therefore you want to put a 5 gallon batch into a 5 gallon carboy to eliminate that head space while it clears itself up in your secondary. You want to eliminate any chance of oxidation at this point before you bottle and enjoy.
If all you can afford or if all a brewer has is a second bucket it will be fine for doing a secondary. You do want to use a smaller bucket if possible to minimize head space if you are using it for storage while aging or clarifying.
If you are doing a true second ferment due to the addition of fruit or sugary syrups, then a plastic bucket is indeed the right choice as there will be some fresh fermentation. And its easier to clean that out later especially if fruit was used.
If the beer is done fermenting there really is no reason to do any secondary at all. Just let the beer sit in primary for at least 14 days in general and you'll get beer just as clear as if you used a "secondary" (plastic or glass). Without the hassle of another step, more cleaning and sanitizing and less oxygen pickup in the final product.
I can't see anything wrong with a brew bucket myself. They come with airtight lids and airlocks these days. and some have a tap at the bottom. Ideal for beer.
I believe that along with the other answers here, many times people simply trust Glass to be less likely to leach undesirables into their beer. This may be a matter of superstition more than science, but it is a fact that plastic is porous where glass is not. Also your typical Carboy and airlock (or just a simple stopper) leaves less chance for nasties to enter your precious beer than a bucket lid might.
As long as you don't oxidize your beer while racking, transferring to another plastic bucket shouldn't have a negative impact on your beer. The lingering C02 blanket concept is a myth.
C02 will seek equilibrium and dissipate in a plastic bucket primary fermenter. It is just as much susceptible to oxidation there after primary is complete as it would be in a "secondary" plastic bucket.
This is not to say that it isn't worth it to use a carboy with a narrow neck. Here, over time, less of the surface of the beer will be in direct contact with oxygen. You might be able to get a tighter seal resulting in less air flow. You can see what's happening to the beer through the clear container. It's easier to pop open and add adjuncts, or pull a sample.


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2 Feb 2010 6:41 PM #1
Firefox slow rendering complex forms
I have a reasonably complex ContentPanel with about 50 widgets on it.
When the panel is opened via dialog box then there is no problem. Firefox renders the widgets off-screen and then shows the whole dialog box at once. Its fast.
However, when I dynamically create TabItem and add this panel to it then Firefox renders everything on the screen. This shows down opening the TabItem and does not look good.
Other browsers (IE, Chrome, Opera, Safari) don't do it.
Here is the slow-motion capture of what happening.
Is it possible to do anything in code to force Firefox to render the content off-screen like other browsers?
17 Jan 2013 10:51 AM #2
I would also like to know the answer to this.
17 Jan 2013 3:27 PM #3
Sorry, answer to what? The original post is almost three years old, no code was provided, and the sample doesn't exist anymore. Do you have your own sample you can share? And how does the dialog '[render] the widgets off-screen'? GXT supports lazy rendering, hideMode=OFFSETS, but any way that does a render and can measure things must be more expensive than rendering without displaying content.
TabPanel in 2.x has setDeferredRender to ask the content to render as much as possible before drawing anything on the screen - was that tried, or did it not work?
17 Jan 2013 3:45 PM #4
I take back my comment, it turns out my issue is related to something else. Thank you.


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Great hotel at a perfect location, right beside the lake with a great starting point to travel to the north or south of the lake. That of course after you will finish to eat a wonderful breakfast with great view of the lake. The Cipani family treat you like a family member and doing everything with a big smile with all of their heart. Me and my wife had a great week at our suite and we will surely return.
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We stayed in one of the superior rooms "I Limoni" – you would have to walk a number of steps down from the main hotel facilities, however, the rooms are on the same level as the pool which we highly appreciated. In front of the room you can sit under a pergola from where you can enjoy the lovely view over the lake Garda. The fairly spacious rooms are clean/well maintained, the safe is big enough to store a mid-sized DSLR. We have not used the kitchen facilities hence are not able to judge about these, however, we have appreciated to store some stuff in the fridge. As a "foodie" I was surprised about the variety/quality of food offered at breakfast which exceeded expectations (given the fact that expectations with regards to breakfast in Italy are generally very low…). The buffet included a variety of cheese and charcuterie, fresh tomatoes and olives, a selection of fruit juices, cheese&ham omelettes, breads and jams. What I particularly liked was the daily "fruit juice suprise" which ranged from melon, kiwi, strawberry, raspberry, banana, apple… and mixes thereof. Fairly delicious!
The pool area is very well maintained and the pool is a REAL pool – roughly 29 long and 5-6m wide and up to 2.4m deep…
The receptionists are very friendly and helpful and are able to give a wide range of tips with regards to activities around lake Garda / the region. Furthermore, I highly recommend to follow the restaurant-tips provided by Hotel Florida – superb!! (See further reviews from myself).
Overall, my fiancee and myself have really enjoyed to stay a the Residence Hotel Florida and I am pretty sure that we will be heading back when visiting the lake Garda region again.
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My family stayed at this lovely hotel in June for four nights. We have been talking about it ever since. The hotel is beautiful and clean to perfection. The rooms have breathtaking views of lake Garda the most beautiful lake in Italy. We have lived in Italy for 11 years now and this hotel is our new favorite place. One of the nicest things about the hotel is the service. This is a family owned hotel and it shows! Everyone there was polite and so helpful. The location, pool, beautiful rooms and kindness will bring us back again and again! We cannot wait to return to our home away from home!
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From the very start we were made to feel welcome and the hotel and room did not disappoint. Amazing views of the lake from our first floor balcony. The swimming pool was a good size and kept in immaculate condition. Breakfast on the terrace every morning was of the highest standard and our only complaint is that we had to come home! There is no restaurant at the hotel but many choices either down by the lakeside or up the hill by the Vittoriale both about 15 minutes walk. Another choice was the hotel ordering a pizza delivered to your room. A great alternative to eating out and we would recommend this at least once in your stay!
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Sometimes when a new version of a big piece of software is released (java, flash, etc), the developers will require that a license agreement be combed through and then ask you to type (yes/no) at the end.
Is there a way of forcing my package manager to accept the agreement?
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I've seen many people shy away when asked to do Hagbaha (הגבהה), thinking themselves too weak. I know for a fact that it doesn't take that much strength to do it correctly, so I'd love to see a writeup of proper technique.
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As I said in #6, I do feel there is a strength component too, but technique greatly helps. Therefore, as a rightie, I will not do Hagbaha on heavy sifrei torah until we get several parshiot into the book of B'reishit because a combination of the sheer weight on my left side along with the awkward imbalance of it, makes for a shaky hagbaha. This is one area I prefer not to test my limitations. I would advise anyone who has not had a lot of experience with Hagbaha to take the same into account.
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What tools do you use for collecting evidence, making disk images, inspecting live memory and so on?
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The majority of my forensics work is done after the fact in a lab environment, so by the time I get involved on-line work is too late, i.e. no memory analysis.
Historically I would use
Recently I have started moving away from that combination and on to
In both cases acquisitions are performed using whichever write-blocker is appropriate, most of the ones I use are made by Tableau. One reason I have moved to Autopsy is the support for hash databases, such as NSRL. Another is that it is free. EnCase is a great tool, but expensive.
I have not delved much into the topic, but perhaps this site might help you - http://www2.opensourceforensics.org/home.
Take a look at
I haven't seen FTK by access data mentioned. I've used both Encase and FTK a few years ago, they both have their pluses and minuses, but it's another commercially supported and court accepted forensics tool.
I'm partial to write blockers from weibetech, but don't have much experience with other vendors. You might look at the NIST verification for write blockers. There are also verification reports on additional software/hardware from NIST forensic tool testing as that web site.
I always used EnCase and the Coroner's Toolkit (these day's it's the Sleuthkit) along with dd. To be honest now the Helix and BackTrack LiveCDs are pretty much there for technical forensics, internally within an organisation, or if you have no intention of involving law enforcement or courts.
The problem you will have comes if you need to present in court.
At that point, depending on your jurisdiction, EnCase wins hands down - simpley because police forces tend to know about it so can vouch for it in court. If you can't get certified approval for your favourite toolkit, go with EnCase.
You can check this article from NIST http://www.cftt.nist.gov/, Although it is not toolbox but a way to perform tests.
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Unanswered: Ext.Viewport duplicate instance
How to avoid Ext.Viewport duplicate instance.
I have main menu.. from there I call respective view buy uisng
Ext.Viewport.setActiveItem({xtype: 'viewalias'});
This works fine. But in my veiw I have come ComponentQuery for identifying some panels and buttons.
This also works fine for first time.. if you go back to main menu and come back agian.. then this ComponentQuery is not fetching / not working.
Suspecting the Ext.Viewport is creating duplicate instances.. and hence there is conflict.
Let me know is there alternative for Ext.Viewport.setActiveItem({xtype:.....}) or best way to use it.
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The supercomputer I run my Analysis uses SGE to do the job management and requires each job duration not longer than 24 hours. And this feature is causing me quite a headache.
Sadly, I was asked to use checkpoint mechanism to output results and resubmit the script
qsub myJobScript. On program's part, it's not difficult for me to have it output a temporary file when the clock time hits 23:30:00 (I give the IO operation half of hour), let's say the output file name is called
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1.00137/p, etc.
Note: when you submit a job, you never know when it is going to start. but it does have a log file under my folder when it is started.
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All the news-articles say that it is expected to "eventually" explode. Which doesn't really tell me much. When is "eventually"? Also, considering this is the largest star in the known universe and 16k light-years away, will this be visible? Will it be dangerous?
There is little peer-reviewed information that gives a definitive time frame of when W26 would go supernova. The reason for this is that we have models of stellar lifecycles, and have found candidates at each 'age'.
With that in mind, according to a very recent article: The Ionized Nebula surrounding the Red Supergiant W26 in Westerlund 1 (Wright, 2013), (RSG = Red Super Giant)
Looking at the compared stars to W26 to see what theories, even timeframes are suggested:
According to the article Fundamental properties and atmospheric structure of the red supergiant VY CMa based on VLTI/AMBER spectro-interferometry (Wittkowski et al. 2012), the supergiant star VY CMa is
So, according to Wittkowski et al. rather than being close to supernova, could well be close to entering the next phase of stellar evolution.
According to the article Rd Supergiants in the Local Group (Levesque 2013) and Spatially resolved dusty torus toward the red supergiant WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (Ohnaka et al. 2008), studies of WOH G64
TL:DR So, based on observations of W26 and comparable stars, there is no definitive timeframe, primarily due to these stars being close to the Hayashi forbidden region, which, according to the article Late-Type Red Supergiants: Too Cool for the Magellanic Clouds? (Levesque et al. 2007), results in them being
The Hayashi track/forbidden zones in relation to stellar masses and main sequence is shown below:
to which Levesque et al. state
Suggesting that this behaviour may be a phase (albeit one of the final phases) in their evolution. Also, at that distance, it is likely to put on a small light show, but not pose much danger to the Earth (except in the very unlikely event of a gamma ray burst).


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The Tim Timmerman StoryWritten by on July 1, 2011 Contributors: Steve Shaw
Tim Timmerman was one of the first employees to work at Blair's Speed Shop in Pasadena at Don's location on Arroyo Parkway before Blair moved to Foothill Boulevard and Daisy. Tim later became one of the premier racing engine builders in Southern California for over 60 years. Tim raced his hot rod wheel to wheel with some of the biggest names in auto racing in the '40s.
My father never owned or even drove a car, Darrell Tim Timmerman of Santa Ana, California, begins. He was a butcher by trade and wasn't interested in cars; he took the trolley to work. My dad was in his fifties when I was born in 1921. I was the last of nine children, growing up in Canton, Oregon, near Portland.
Even if Mr. Timmerman had an interest in an automobile, with the average wage of 22 cents an hour in the United States, the price tag for a new Ford in the first full year of production in 1909 was out of his reach at a hefty $825. It would be a while before there would be a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.
Tim purchased his first car, a Model T, during the depression. It was a running roadster that he bought for $7.50. He was too young to have a driver's license: I got it home and one of my buddies wanted to drive it. I let him take it and he came walking back. You know, they had three pedals; he hit the center pedal, which is reverse, going fast and screwed up the trans. And not knowing anything about cars, I finally took it to a blacksmith a block away from my folk's house. We took the engine out and I sold it to him for 50 cents.
I got my '29 Ford roadster when I was in high school. Jim Travers was from California and he drove up to Canton in his '29 Ford roadster and we became acquainted. Jim's dad had a foundry in town. I knew there was a lot of hot rodding going on in California; I knew it was the center of all the action. (Travers, along with Frank Coon, later formed Traco Engineering (TRAvers & COon), which became a major engine supplier to the Can-Am road racing series.)
Travers had a four-banger too, but it was warmed over with a Winfield head and cam. Mine was bone stock. He was going on about how exciting it was that he made it from L.A. in his four-cylinder. I asked him when he went back to L.A., if I'd send him money would he get me a cam and head for my Model A engine? He said, Don't do that, the guys down there are starting to put Ford V-8s in Model A's. That's the way to go.' He talked me into it.
I went and got a V-8 in a wrecking yard. I found a '35 Ford Flathead and put it in my roadster. It just bolted right up to the trans. I was young and didn't really know what I was doing. There weren't any speed shops in Oregon before the war, but I did it. I really and truly believe I was the first one in Oregon to put a V-8 in a Model A.
I was in high school at the time and taking wood shop. I asked the instructor to help my buddy and me make a mold for an intake manifold for the V-8. He said he would because he liked the idea that we were trying something challenging like that. We took it and had it cast. It had two carburetors and it worked, Tim laughs.
After Tim built his A-V8, one of his buddies built one too. They heard on the radio that Pearl Harbor was attacked. Tim continues, He said let's go out and volunteer. None of us wanted to go into the Army; we're going to go into the Navy. On Monday we went and volunteered. They took those two guys but when they found out I had asthma they wouldn't take me.
The Army guy right next to the Navy guy said, the Army will take you.' The Army guy gave me a dirty look and stamped a paper and told me to take it downstairs. I took it downstairs and asked, what do I do now? Go home, you're 4-F (not suitable for the military).' I went to a doctor and he told me there was no cure for asthma so he said I should move to some place where it didn't bother me.
Tim escaped the damp climate of Portland, Oregon (average rainfall 42.3 inches per year), heading south: I always wanted to come to California and as soon as I got here in 1944, the asthma went away. I moved to Highland Park and later to Pasadena.
Tim's first job when he got to California was working at a Burbank aircraft plant in the modification shop. But I wanted to start my own business down the road, so I started planning for it. A friend of mine traded me his stock engine for my race Flathead V-8 engine and $200. I went down and put that down on a Kwik Way Boring Bar. At that time I was boring engines nights and weekends for various shops and making payments on the machine.
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I first met Don Blair at the dry lakes. He was working down in L.A., at the time, for a machine shop that did engine work and sold parts. Blair worked on the counter and said to me, come down and see if they'll hire you.' They did.
Blair and I used to drive to work together. He had the lousiest car radio I ever heard. I asked him, where did you get that thing? Blair said, What difference does it make? I got a good buy on it!' (Blair was/is thrifty.)
I found out I was just a flunky tearing down engines and hot-tanking heads and blocks; I realized nothing was going on there. I told the owner I'd come in on weekends and work for nothing if he'd teach me to run the crank grinder. He wasn't receptive to it so I got hot and told Blair I was going to look for another job. Blair said he knew somebody who might hire me.
Jack McGrath
It was Jack McGrath. He called his shop Quality Motor Rebuilders. Jack built half the engines used by the Gophers, Sidewinders, and the Outriders. He really taught me how to run the equipment, stroke cranks, cylinder block machining, and assembling engines.
When I was working for McGrath, I built my '32 from scratch. I got a frame, frontend, and I found a straight roadster body at different wrecking yards. When I got that thing running with a bored and stroked engine, I don't think I had over $500 in it.
Jack and I really hit it off. He taught me how to do machine work. After I built my '32 Ford roadster, we'd go out street racing around 10 o'clock when most people were home from work and off the streets. We'd always go to a place where there was no intersection. You couldn't do that stuff today too much traffic. Of course we also went together to El Mirage and ran.
People don't realize it today, but McGrath and most of the guys started out racing regular roadsters and a lot got totaled. McGrath ran his '32 roadster and I ran mine, but after three races at Carrell Speedway I realized I couldn't race and work at the same time. If I crashed the roadster I'd have no way to get to work. As the competition got stiffer, McGrath and everyone else switched to the lighter T roadsters. McGrath was racing at Gilmore and Carrell Speedway, but there were tracks all over the place. That's when he closed his shop.
I went over to Blair and asked if he needed anybody. He said, You!' I went to work for Blair on Arroyo Parkway. I did all of his engines. There was only one other guy who worked there; he called himself Remarkable Art Herd. He worked on chassis and on Blair's race car.
How does a hot rodder who's enjoyed zipping through life for nine decades stay so young? Tim was quite an avid bicycle racer and unicycle rider and did so well into his eighties.
Blair would stand behind the counter selling new and used speed equipment by the hour. There was a lot of activity going on at Blair's all the time. Guys would come to him with used speed parts because they knew he'd buy them. If I'd ask him where a particular part was, he'd say, It's upstairs on the second shelf on the right.' Don knew right where everything was.
The late Robert Petersen would come in all the time and talk to the guys about what was new in the way of hot rodding. He was trying to figure out what to put in Hot Rod magazine. He'd end up selling a few of his magazines to the guys in the shop. I worked for Blair for five years.
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I decided to take a vacation and go back home and visit my folks. I drove my Deuce up to Canton. A bunch of guys wanted to street race me when they saw the California license plate. Then they told me about a race on a horse track in Yakima.
It was almost like a math equation: California license plate + hot rod = racer. That combo was a magnet for info-hungry Oregon hot rodders. Tim tracked down Travers because of his California plates on his '29 roadster when he showed up in Canton. Now, Tim was the hot dog from hot rod country and everyone was all ears about the latest. It was one thing to read about the lakes and the roaring roadsters, but another to see a '32 in the tin with a hint of Carrell Speedway clay and El Mirage dust still clinging to it. Naturally Tim and his Deuce roadster were real popular.
I kept making the payments on that boring bar all the time I was working for McGrath and until I quit working at Blair's. Then I started my own shop in Pasadena.
Tim later became an innovator when it came to blueprinting engines in his new business: I went up to Foothill when Don moved there but I didn't stay long. Don was very good to work for, but I just decided to start my own shop around 1953 and called it Tim's Precision Engines, on Hudson Avenue in Pasadena.
Motors And Mufflers
Parts that Don didn't machine or didn't do he'd send to me. I moved only a half-mile down the street from Blair's. Don would send me work because I had a balancer at the time; blue printing an engine was brand new then when I started.
Tim rented out half of his shop to Duffy Livingstone (Mr. Go Kart) and Roy Desbrow. Desbrow and I decided to go into business for ourselves. Livingstone begins. Tim had room in his shop, so we cut a deal with him and got half of the building. We called it Duff & Roy's Mufflers. We didn't stay too long; then we started to manufacture glasspack mufflers. We went to Monrovia and opened GP (glass packed) Mufflers. Vern Dad Taylor worked for Tim and was doing the porting and relieving.
Livingstone purchased a warranty Chevy engine for $25 that was purposely rendered useless by the dealer by cranking the pistons down, breaking each of the skirts, hammering the front of the crank, and punching a hole in the side of the block.
After Duffy breezed through those irritants, Tim balanced and bored the motor from 265 to 283 ci, put bigger valves in some truck heads that Duffy scrounged, and produced a Ferrari killer on the road race circuits of Southern California in Livingstone's '24 T roadster.
Tim's business was well known in the San Gabriel Valley and beyond for building quality engines for all forms of motorsports and of course for the street. Tim gravitated toward Chevy Corvette motors, which he knew well from a hands-on standpoint. Tim eventually moved his shop to Santa Ana and retired at the age of 81 after over 60 years in the field.
Tim, like all the hot rodders who grew up in hard times, never had his hand out except to shake yours. Tim worked nights, weekends, and during the day to achieve his goals.
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"I saw Tim's bitchin' black Deuce roadster with California plates blow by," Tom Medley says, fresh out of the Army. Tom lived in Salem, OR, and loaned his engine to a buddy who was racing this Model A roadster at the same horse track where Tim was racing.Tim (right) couldn't remember the details of that carefree day with two of his Oregon buddies in 1943. It's clear they were home on leave with one friend wearing a flight jacket and the other a military overcoat.The guy standing on the passenger side of Tim's Deuce roadster is Tom Medley. "There was a big garage where they let us work on our cars … tune them up or whatever you wanted to do to them before the Yakima race. Tom was in the garage and saw my California plate and started chatting with me. That's how we got acquainted."When Tim backed into the fence at the horse track, his racer came home with a badge of courage. Tim took his sweet time getting it fixed after telling a thousand stories on how it happened.Tim's '32 never cooled off: Race on the street, sideways at Carrell Speedway, and then straight to—and on—the lakes. He ran them all: Harper, Rosamond, and El Mirage. El Mirage Jan. 27, 1946, Tim ran 105.26 under a Russetta Timing Association meet. The following year he bumped it up to 124.13 with a little tweaking.Tim surveys the carnage on his '35 Ford convertible when it was sideswiped by a hit-and-run trucker. Tim was passing through Red Bluff, CA, in 1943 when it happened."Boy I wish I had that car today," Tim says. "I got that before the war; it had an automatic transmission in it from the factory. It didn't accelerate so we put a three-speed trans in it." Tim, if you owned that car today you would be a hit at Barrett-Jackson because that semi-automatic trans made your ragtop a rare bird. Ford wouldn't offer an automatic again until 1951.
"My hill-climbing Harley was built at the factory specifically for hill climbing. It was called an FH for 'factory hillclimbing.' It was especially popular in Oregon because we had a lot of hills. The engine is further forward in the frame so when you're going uphill it put the weight on the front end. I usually got three-quarters up the hill, but I never went over," Tim laughs. "We had a sheriff who was a hill climber. He caught a guy speeding who had a tractor. The motorcycle cop said he'd forget the ticket if the speeder would cut a path up through the hill that we could race up on."Tim's employer and friend Jack McGrath was known by the press as "King of the Hot Rods". McGrath was a member of the SCTA Gophers and owned one of the fastest track roadsters in the California Roadster Association, winning its championship in 1946. But when McGrath and Manuel Ayulo graduated to the Champ Cars, Tim lost both friends tragically within months of one another. Ayulo died in practice for the '55 Indianapolis 500. McGrath died in the final race at Phoenix the following November.Where have all the roadsters gone, long time passing? Let's see, no telling how many were scrapped during the war effort. But the simple fact was, hot rodders were racers and hot rods were race cars that were burned, T-boned, nerfed, rolled, flipped, or worse on dirt tracks, the lakes, or on the street. According to Tim, McGrath's Deuce escaped being hit head-on in that race and that '34 survived unscathed to be ready for the next race.Tim's most cherished possession is this '46 CRA yearbook where promoter Bob Ware wrote: "This book is dedicated to the future greats in automobile racing of America." Among the future greats listed: Manuel Ayulo, Jack McGrath, Jim Rathmann, and Troy Ruttman. Two years before Petersen's mag debuted, the term "hot rod" was commonly coined used for cut-down Ford roadsters used for racing. Tim has cherished this yearbook since the day he got it. Rightfully so, since he is listed with some of the greatest names in American auto racing.Tim rubbed shoulders, and wheels, with some of the future stars in Champ Car racing back in 1946. His lap times at Carrell Speedway were more than respectable against his close friends Jack McGrath and Manuel Ayulo, and Jim Rathmann as well. Rathmann (his name was misspelled in the program) won the Indy 500 in 1960 and Troy Ruttman in 1952.


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Happy New Year! Time for this week's #MasterofCocktails. No #Dryathlon for us, thank you very much.
If though, like us, you've had an entire Christmas of rich stuff and beery nonsense, you'll be happy to learn that all through January we're going to be preparing some slightly lighter cocktails. All January's drinks will be *under* 2 units.
This is quite a challenge in itself – most cocktails contain at least a double-measure of strong booze, but nevertheless. We're not cheating and making small drinks either. These are all proper-sized, delicious cocktails.
So, without further ado – this week we made a 'Chrysanthemum'. If the combination of the name and low ABV are making you feel uncomfortable, don't worry. It's got absinthe in it. Mmm...
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text: News that GM would continue to extend its GMT-900 truck platform for a few additional years to save money seemed to send shock waves through the auto industry — despite the fact that the design just went into production in 2007. When did platforms get such a short shelf-life? We were able to come up with ten basic car platforms still in production that were originally developed more than a decade ago, including three more than half-a-century old, just to prove that new doesn't necessarily mean better — but it usually does. Behold: Ten car platforms that just won't die.


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Facilities include a bank and post office, bureaux de change and ATMs. Mobile telephones can be hired from Locaphone in the Arrivals hall. Internet, data ports for laptops and Wireless Internet connection are available at the Communications Center in the Arrivals hall.
Eating and drinking:
There are several bars, cafés, restaurants and vending machines available.
There is a wide variety of shops, including duty-free.
There are left-luggage lockers on level 0, plus some smaller ones in the shopping area of Pier A. Passengers should contact the airport authority (tel: (02) 753 6820) for lost property. There is a baggage wrapping service available on Level 3.
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5 Adorable Animals That Are Turning to the Dark Side
Let's face it, animals are bastards. With all of the ant slavery, ape war and duck rape in the world, it's easy to decide nature is something best left to the wild. But there are those animals that -- thanks to Disney and The Far Side -- we tend to think are more likely to dispense witty one liners than bite our face. But while we've been busy rooting for them, they've been quietly revealing their true colors ...
#5. Squirrels
The Good
Squirrels are Exhibit A in what a cute face and a bushy tail can do for your cred among humans. As a species, we risk bodily injury and spikes in insurance rates whenever one dashes in front of our cars, because it is impossible not to feel like an asshole if you crush one. Hell, in Ice Age, the cutest character was the squirrel, and he had fangs.
The Evil
The animal kingdom is like prison. If you don't try the softest guy on your cell-block, you become the softest guy on the cell-block. Unfortunately, this is a difficult lesson to teach children, because among the squirrels at Cuesta Park in Mount Park, Calif., word seems to be getting around that humans, unlike the Wu-Tang Clan, are something to fuck with.
"Come on, take the first swing. I don't even care."
Between May 2006 and March 2007, multiple squirrels attacked 13 people, mostly children. One four-year-old boy thought he was being hugged by his furry little woodland friend until it started digging its fingers into his scalp. At this point the boy started screaming and rolling in the grass, which we've found is usually enough to scare away anything within 20 feet of us. But in this case, the squirrel just dug in that much harder, playing scalp rodeo until a grown-up came over and broke things up.
Sure. Teach him to associate your fingers with food. Good plan.
Fish and Game declared the squirrels in the park a "threat to continued public safety" and began trapping and killing them. Not by using a cage with a bunch of nuts in it, but by using a decoy baby stroller. See, a number of the attacks had occurred when the squirrels jumped into baby carriages -- presumably to suck the infants' souls from their lips for some dark squirrel harvest. They'd been doing it so frequently that it was apparently the only way the park rangers knew to trap them. The day after the first squirrel was captured in a baby carriage, another squirrel jumped onto a four-year-old girl's face, leaving scratches to both cheeks and her forehead that likely would have spelled out "snitch" if squirrels knew how to spell.
This is not an isolated incident. A squirrel attacked six people in the U.K. before being captured, and the town of Bennington, VT, is currently being terrorized by a rogue gray squirrel. You might start thinking that our dogs and cats have the right idea, with their much more hostile stance toward inter-species relations, but that's just because you haven't heard what happened in a Russian park in 2005. A stray dog was barking at a gang of local squirrels, as dogs are wont to do. Likely former Spetsnaz agents, the squirrels became irritated and decided to shut the dog up in much the same way the Russian Mafia shuts people up: by killing it.
Not pictured: Baseball bats and a lot of lye soap.
According to eyewitness testimony, the squirrels descended and tore the dog to pieces. The linked BBC report notes that one Russian scientist questioned the authenticity of the report, and goes on to note that "squirrels without sources of protein might attack birds' nests," because Russian scientists are bad at being reassuring.
#4. Cows
The Good
Between Gary Larson and those California Cheese commercials, they generally come off as good-natured, friendly herbivores. We tend to assume cows are content to eat grass and wait around to get killed by the gun from No Country for Old Men.
"Won't you please help me become a plate of hamburgers?"
Sure, we think of bulls as being large, dangerous idiots that will kill you simply for not being grass or a cow, but cows are considered about as harmless as a 1,500-pound creature can be, which is good, since there are nearly 100 million of them in America alone.
"We are legion. Also, moo."
The Evil
In England, where both zombies and cows are more aggressive, the giant bags of hamburger meat went on a creepy, The Happening-style killing spree that left four dead in June and July of 2009.
Now, this was not an outbreak of mad cow disease or the result of a single farm where a farmer treated his livestock badly; these were four separate incidents, in four separate towns, over the course of two months.
Beware the Ides of March. But mostly beware the Cows of Summer.
In all the cases, the victims of the attacks were walking their dogs near cow fields where there were calves, and like any mother animal, cows are wary of predators near their kids. The problem is that cows don't know that Nibbles the Pomeranian is not a tiny, furry wolf. That, or they're just looking for an excuse to kill us and figured they'd get by on a technicality with the dog thing.
It's worth noting that in every case, the cow had to come charging out of the field, abandoning its child to kill an animal that was minding its own business and likely tethered to a nonthreatening, fangless human.
That mustache and those chaps won't be enough to save you.
A fifth person, former British House Speaker David Blunkett, was attacked but not killed while he was out walking his guide dogs. This is sobering news, considering the fact that in America, we have 77.5 million dogs that need walking and 96.7 million cows just waiting for an excuse.
Last week, a Texas deputy was called to get a stray cow out of the street. He was directing traffic around the cow when it charged him and tossed him into the air and then continued attacking his unconscious body. So apparently, sometimes they slip up and kill us for no reason at all.
You'd think they'd be more honored that we use the skulls of their loved ones to decorate our living rooms.
#3. Deer
The Good
When we hear "deer," we automatically think Bambi.
We aren't talking moose here, just regular old deer. They are beautiful and graceful, with huge eyes (where do you think we get the term "doe-like?") and long, slender limbs. If there is any one forest creature that we as a race feel like we could walk up to and make friends with, it's deer. If Snow White can do it, why can't we?
No doubt there is a DIY site for seducing forest animals with song.
The Evil
If you have cable, there's a chance you caught the episode of Animal Planet's Fatal Attractions covering an incident between a deer and a prison guard named Ronald Donah. Donah kept deer as pets, raising them from fawns. The problem was that when rutting season started, the males saw him as competition.
This isn't altogether uncommon among deer, who are apparently the irrationally jealous boyfriend of the animal kingdom. In 2005, USA TODAY reported on a rash of attacks by horny male deer. According to one biologist they interviewed, "as suburban homes encroach on deer habitat, deer that are fed by admiring humans -- or that browse on lawns and garden vegetables -- lose their natural fear of people." Fortunately, since 2005, mankind has learned their lesson about suburban expansion ...
That lesson: keep doing it, but scream loudly and brandish a handgun at every wild animal you encounter.
You might view that as animals just being animals, and not inherently evil. Which is probably why scientists couldn't figure out who was to blame when baby birds started showing up decapitated and legless all over Scotland's Rum Island after every full moon. While they searched for the tiny, mentally disturbed werewolves responsible, someone witnessed a deer chewing on a baby bird.
Soon, it was determined that the deer were using the light of the full moon to treat the island's baby bird population like a spread of hors d'oeuvres. Deer need lots of calcium to grow their antlers (or head knives, if you've ever been attacked by one).
Since milkmen rarely deliver to the forest, the deer started raiding the nests of Manx shearwaters and eating the heads and legs of their babies. Now mind you, a herbivore eating a baby bird whole would have been awful enough, but what the Rum Island deer are doing makes Jigsaw look like Dr. Kevorkian.
They specifically target the heads and legs, and then only the bones, spitting out the meat and skin like watermelon seeds. That sounds less like a friendly Disney critter and more like some dire alien ruminant.
This right here is definitely not Disney material.


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PLYMOUTH – Candy that looked like drugs led to the real drug arrest of a late-night customer at a local restaurant early this morning.
The manager of the McDonald's restaurant on Samoset Street called police shortly after midnight to report a customer had a quantity of pills in his hand when he made a purchase.
Police responded, questioned the man and determined the suspected pills were actually just mint candies.
But police also determined the man was wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant. Police then found the man had a spring-loaded knife and cocaine.
Officers charged Thomas D. Murphy III, 27, of 305 Beech St., Rockland, with carrying a dangerous weapon and simple possession of a Class B substance. Murphy was also charged on the warrant with assault and battery.
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We don't use the second story of our home. Is it better to shut off the air conditioning completely upstairs to save money, or keep it set but at a higher temperature, such as 78-80 °F?
Almost certainly you should shut off the upstairs AC completely. Ideally you would also seal off the second floor as much as by shutting a door at the top or bottom of the stairs (or installing a curtain across it or something).
The only reasons I can think of to leave it on would be:
I don't know about closing off the second floor. Depending on your climate it could possibly get to over 100 degrees if it is totally closed off - and possibly well above that. It could also get really humid.
And I doubt you have insulation between the two floors. So not only with the temperature changes are you rolling the dice with drywall cracking, door/trim issues, hardwood floor issues if you have them, and issues with tile... but you could also have issues on the first floor in the ceiling area.
It really depends on the climate and what you have upstairs if you are willing to chance a couple of cracks in your drywall. I would leave it around 80.


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Whenever you copy something, then paste it, it will be pasted at the top of the layer stack in the same level as all of it's sibling layers. Is there a way to make Illustrator paste to the bottom of the stack?
If by "layer stack" you mean "everything on one layer, but I want my object pasted behind everything," there's Edit → Paste In Back.
If you have three layers, and you copy from the top layer and want it pasted on the bottom, in the Layers Palette, make sure "Paste Remembers Layers" is turned off. Copy, click on the layer you want to paste to, and paste.
Quick Keys to learn:
There is no automatic setting for you to paste to "Layer 2" when you're in "Layer 4".
Note: just as you paste an item, look at your Layers palette. That colored square you see represents the selected content of that layer (which in this case is the item you just pasted to the artboard)...drag the colored square to the layer you'd like your newly-pasted element to reside.
I find this method quicker than turning off "Paste remembers layers" <-- this is what I want 99% of the time.


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I am looking to buy a used manufactured Home and have already looked for one. Though I have checked it and am comfortable with it but I feel I need a specialists advice. Would some one be of help!
Specialist advice while choosing a Manufactured Home.
You should be checking in sites related to Real Estate and I guess you are wasting your time.
I thought it to be a post where I can report.