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David Beckham has sold a lot of Galaxy jerseys. He's made a lot of headlines, particularly with his flirting and playing with AC Milan while under contract in Los Angeles. He has become part of the celebrity culture in the city, often seen courtside at Lakers games. He's made a lot of money.
The soccer… six months ago the word everyone was using was "disaster."
But on Sunday Beckham can rewrite that part of the equation. The Galaxy, led by himself and Major League Soccer MVP Landon Donovan, will play a one-game championship match against Real Salt Lake.
Back in July — when Beckham returned to the Galaxy from a loan to Madrid — things were not pretty. He was greeted by many fans who saw him as a traitor that would rather be playing in Europe. Beckham nearly got into an altercation with a fan at one home game. And a new book came out where Donovan called out Beckham's leadership qualities.
But if there is one constant in Beckham's career, it's that when he looks washed up and done, he plays his best soccer. It was the case in 2006 when he was booted off the English national team, only to be welcomed back and is now expected to be on the 2010 World Cup roster for his country.
The Galaxy turned it around with Beckham being more of a teammate off the pitch, if not always a huge force on it (he has just two goals this season). However, his presence in the midfield and his great crossing passes have made his teammates look good.
Ironically, Beckham and Donovan will not be the key to this game for the Galaxy. Sure, they will be involved and likely part of Los Angeles' scoring, but it will be the team's defense that will get the test. Real Salt Lake is an attacking team with a lot of speed, a recipe that has given the Galaxy trouble in the past.
But if the defense can hold up, Beckham can finally earn some headlines in America for what he has done on the pitch. Which will be a welcome change of pace.


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I am amazed! This was my first ever Rally, and quite frankly, Sue and all of the MOA folks did an AWESOME job! Every rally goer I met , every seminar I attended, every vendor I visited, every voulenteer was willing to help and happy to do so.
The $35 fee ... what a joke. Site rental, huge tents, a bazillion porta johns, 3 shower trailers, top notch entertainment, golf carts for workers, free coffee daily, liquor licensing, alcohol liability insurance, general liability insurance...I can go on and on. How did they do all of that for ONLY $35 ?
To everyone involved THANK YOU! I may not be able to attend the rally every year, but you will see me again.

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I'm quite new to C/C++ programming, and I'm having some problems when trying to create variables of type string.
Here's a little example code:
Now, previously I've been using Dev-C++ 5 beta as my IDE, but after numerous problems I decided to roll back to version 4, and all my previous problems have gone. I've also tried MS Visual C++ (Express), but it wasn't right for the relatively small progs I'm making at the moment.Code:
#include <iostream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
string myString = "This is my string."
cout << myString
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With version 4, the only problem I've encountered so far is that the compiler doesn't seem to want to accept "string" as a data type. Any ideas of what I can do or what the problem may be?
I'm using Bloodshed Dev-C++ as my IDE, which comes with Mingw as the compiler.
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In Washington, the nations leadership is working to resolve a destructive clash between required defense and nondefense program reductions and higher taxes that could turn the nations already painfully slow economic growth in the other direction.
In Colorado, the state is drifting toward the point that K-12 and Medicaid funding consume all of its budget, without a persuasive argument to correct the way residential property owners are favored over commercial property owners in their taxes.
As confrontational as people are in Washington, the deep clash at the national level must be substantially resolved by the end of the year. Both parties in Congress, and the president, structured it that way.
Colorado, which can predict the trajectory of its increasingly restricted budget, has no such deadline.
TBD Colorado, the governors initiative to involve Coloradans in reviewing the restraints on the states otherwise promising future, delivered no surprises in its report issued last week: Gallagher has so protected residential property from taxation that the state now is providing two-thirds of local school funding; Amendment 23, meanwhile, requires that school funding remain significantly high. And the Taxpayers Bill of Rights, which requires a vote to raise taxes, has eliminated representative governments ability to reshape the tax environment. All three Gallagher, Amendment 23 and TABOR are in the states constitution, in concrete to a large degree.
Not significantly included in TBD Colorados findings is that Medicare costs to the state will take a jump under the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act. Higher family income thresholds, plus some of the 40 million nationally to be newly insured, will add to every states Medicaid rolls. The federal government will pick up all of the first year or two of the increases, but after that the states will have to fully cover their share. Fifteen percent, for example, is a lot of money in Medicaid health care.
In Washington, representative government will shape the fiscal solutions; direct democracy has no role. In Colorado, it will be the voters who will have to agree to raise their residential property taxes and to decide the amount to be spent on public schools, which could be less than it might be. If Coloradans do not agree to provide more state tax revenue (in Colorado local taxes rather than state taxes are paramount), then everything else, including higher education and highways, will suffer.
We bet that Washington, even with its ability to print money, will be largely successful in resolving the year-end fiscal cliff. Americans of both parties have indicated their concern about the federal deficit and recognize how tenuous the economic recovery is proving to be. As to Colorado and its dilemma, were not so sure.
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Recently, the Fermi team announced that the spacecraft dodged a very large bullet in the form of a defunct Soviet spy satellite: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/bullet-dodge.html. The close encounter with Cosmos 1805 was reminder that even though space is very large, there are some real threats to our invaluable telescopes that are in orbit.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
While Chandra's orbit keeps it far away from most orbital debris like the Cosmos 1805 satellite, it doesn't protect it from other hazards including meteors.
Every year, as the Earth passes through the wreckage of comets that have long been destroyed, we experience the wonders of annual meteor showers here on the ground. In space, however, these relatively tiny bits of rock can pose real threats to spacecraft like Chandra. In order to minimize this possibility, the staff at Chandra's Operation Control Center undertakes major preparations. You can read about these efforts in this Chandra Chronicle article: http://chandra.harvard.edu/chronicle/0104/leonidhit/
We are thankful that Fermi remains safe and healthy after its recent near miss. We hope that the rest of telescopes in space that help us better understand the Universe can stay out of harm's way as well – no matter what the danger.
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Kamp plans to propose DCTA's Denton center to be named for Brock
Mayor Pro Tem Pete Kamp told fellow City Council members this week that she plans to propose that the DCTA's Downtown Denton Transit Center be named for former Denton Mayor Euline Brock.
The announcement came at the end of a briefing during the council's workshop Tuesday, outlining when Denton will convey the property, located at 604 E. Hickory St., to the Denton County Transportation Authority.
"She was very instrumental in this project happening," Kamp said. "She started talking about transit and public transportation and rail-to-trail in the early 1990s."
Denton built the transit center with federal grant funds and will turn the property over to the transportation authority sometime this fall.
Before DCTA was formed, Denton operated a public transportation system known as LINK. In 2005, Denton transferred all those public transportation system assets to DCTA. In the meantime, however, the city received a federal grant of $3.1 million to build a transit center for the system. The city and DCTA entered into an interlocal agreement for the city to manage the building's construction, with DCTA paying the match for the grant.
The building was opened two years ago.
Last month, the city received word that the grant was officially closed out, clearing the way for the property's conveyance, according to Mark Nelson, the city's transportation director.
Both the city staff and representatives from the transportation authority told the City Council that, should the city want to see the building named, they should name it before transferring the property.
In an interview Wednesday, Brock said that Kamp spoke with her briefly about the naming possibility. Brock served as the city's mayor from 2000 to 2006.
"Naturally, it would be thrilling for me if it came to pass," Brock said.
City Manager George Campbell told the council that the staff would prepare a resolution for a future council meeting.
PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE can be reached at 940-566-6881 and via Twitter at @phwolfeDRC.


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Guillen to work Series as analyst for FOX
Colorful skipper will take part in pre- and postgame coverage
By Scott Merkin / MLB.com
So alert the censors and prepare to be highly entertained.
The gregarious and always-outspoken manager of the White Sox has agreed to serve as an analyst during FOX's pre- and postgame coverage of the World Series. This will be the first such national work Guillen has done.
Although Guillen has received a great deal of notoriety for his continuously colorful depictions of his team, and, often, his analysis of individual players, the leader of the South Siders certainly has impeccable baseball credentials and the vast knowledge of the game's intricacies necessary to handle this new role. He played 16 seasons in the Majors and took part in six playoff series, including a 1999 World Series loss to the Yankees when he played for the Braves.
A talented shortstop, Guillen was a three-time All-Star and received an American League Rawlings Gold Glove in 1990. But his fame and fortune have come more from his highly acclaimed six-year stint as the White Sox manager than his production on the field.
Guillen lead the White Sox to a World Series title in 2005. Chicago beat the Astros in four games, completing an 11-1 postseason run to the championship, a lofty mark that the Yankees could equal this year with five more consecutive victories.
It was Guillen who picked the Yankees to win it all this season when asked for his prediction during the final week of the 2009 campaign, as the White Sox were finishing their schedule in Detroit.
"I have to go with New York because of their pitching staff, and they're hungry. They want to be there," Guillen said. "The ballclub is very solid. But you never know. I remember going to the playoffs when St. Louis was the worst team in baseball, and they won the championship.
"When you get in, you don't know what's going to happen. [On] paper, I think New York looks better. They got three guys who are pretty good pitchers, their bullpen is pretty strong and their lineup is pretty strong. You don't win that many games just because."
The eldest of Guillen's three sons, Ozzie Jr., recently completed his fifth season as one of the Spanish-language broadcasters for White Sox games. He begins similar work with the Chicago Bulls on Nov. 13.
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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By Jon Wiederhorn
Rap legend Missy Elliott has returned with the new song and video "I'm better," and if you asked her she'd say she's "better than ever." The video for the song features Lamb and an eccentric cast of dancers dangling from strings like puppets, collapsing on the ground and transforming into puddles of water and dancing in a deep pool.
Related: Missy Elliott Pens Tribute to Aaliyah 20 Years after 'One in a Million'
The dynamic song features a sparse, ominous percussive keyboard passage, spare, well-placed beats, deep-groove bass lines and autotune-inflected vocals full of sass.
"Yeah he got bands in the Bando/ Missy got dudes in Orlando/ Plus I got cars that he paying for/ Man, I be too much to handle," Elliott raps.
"It's another day another chance/ I wake up I wanna dance/ So as long as I got my friends I'm better, I'm better, I'm better," responds Lamb in the chorus.
"I'm Better" was directed by Elliott and Dave Myers and the special effects, choreography and staging are stunning.
Elliott last appeared alongside Kelly Clarkson, Janelle Monáe and Zendaya in the song "This is For My Girls," which was written to accompany Michelle Obama's educational program for third world children, "Let Girls Learn.
The rapper's last album, The Cookbook, came out in 2005 and hit number two on the Billboard 200.


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Myers Gets Caught In The D-Backs Webb
Brandon Webb spun a frightening game together today, allowing only 2 earned runs in a full nine inning complete game. This really left Brett Myers and the Phillies with no room for error, yet err they did. Myers walked 3 and gave up 6 earned runs while an Utley error and overall sloppy play in the field added to the surmounting chaos. The bats came alive towards the end of the game, but not soon enough to untangle the mess. Although, Victorino and Bruntlett did end the game with 2 hits each, continuing their hot streaks.
Speaking of Victorino, I must give Kudos to Shane for have a head of steel after yesterday's horrible collision at first base! Shane smacked heads with D-Backs first baseman Conor Jackson trying to run out a wild pitch strike out. The collision nearly knocked both men unconscious and Jackson, on his birthday no less, wound up leaving the game. But Shane, the Man Of Steel, got up, and on the very next play, ran all the way home from first base on a Bruntlett hit to score. Well, apparently Shane's hard head has been in "training" since childhood… I actually met his parents last year at a game and had a chance to talk to them for a few minutes. They were just the nicest people you'd ever want to meet, by the way. They were telling stories about his childhood to his agent who was having a nice laugh over all the times Shane had fallen on his head or run into something and all the trips to the hospital they had taken. So, I am supposing he is used to getting smacked around :o) Although, I assume he'd rather avoid it in the future. I know I'd like to see less of it. Anyway, Kudos to Shane, our hero and resident tough guy!
So, the Phillies walk away from the best team in the NL with a split. Guess we can live with that. On to San Francisco where the Giants have not won a game since they saw us last weekend. Uh oh. They are really going to be fired up for this series I would think, so our guys had better get ready! Don't underestimate this team…they did not go down easily the last time. It'll be a late night tomorrow! Go Phillies!


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Venue TV TIME Toyota Center, Houston, TX MSG 8:00 PM EST
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New York Knicks
Houston Rockets Metta World Peace - Sore Left Knee (OUT) Omer Asik - Right thigh/knee Pablo Prigioni - Hairline fracture of right great toe (OUT) Patrick Beverley - Fractured right hand Raymond Felton - Strained Right Groin (DOUBT) Greg Smith - Sprained right knee
Today in Knicks history
January 3, 1991 Knicks defeat the Denver Nuggets 135-108 at the Garden. Gerald Wilkins led New York with 25 points with Patrick Ewing scoring 20 and adding 10 boards. On a connection note, Anthony Mason scored 7 points for the Nuggets while Kiki Vandeweghe contributed with 17 for the Knickerbockers.
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November 14, 2013 In an old fashion-type shootout, New York fell short as the Houston Rockets outlasted the Knicks 109-106 at Madison Square Garden. Carmelo Anthony led the way with 45 points-the most ever scored by a Knick versus the Houston Rockets- and 10 rebounds over 44 minutes for a doubledouble. Andrea Bargnani posted 24 points on 9-12 shooting over 33 minutes. J.R. Smith added 15 points, eight rebounds and four assists over 39 minutes. Houston was paced by James Hardens 36 points and nine rebounds over 42 minutes. Chandler Parsons recorded 22 points and Jeremy Lin off the bench added 21 points. December 17, 2012 Without the services of Carmelo Anthony (sprained left foot), Amar's Stoudemire (left knee debridement), Iman Shumpert (torn ACL and meniscus), Rasheed Wallace (sore left foot) and Marcus Camby (sore left foot), Houston took advantage of New York's injuries as they took complete control of the game and handed the Knicks their first loss of the season in the Garden defeating New York 109-96 at the Garden. New York was led by Chris Copeland's career high 29 points on 11-19 shooting, five rebounds and two steals over 28 minutes. J.R. Smith posted 17 points on 7-13 from the field. Pablo Prigioni and Raymond Felton each added 14 points. Houston was lead by James Harden's 28 points and 10 rebounds over 38 minutes. Jeremy Lin in his first game back at Madison Square Garden recorded 22 points, eight assists and four rebounds over 39 minutes


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AL All-Star starting spots going down to wire
Avila challenging Martin, Ellsbury gains on Hamilton
By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com
The Yankees' Russell Martin vs. the Tigers' Alex Avila for the nod behind the plate.
The Rangers' Josh Hamilton vs. Boston's Jacoby Ellsbury for the final spot in the outfield.
With in-stadium voting completed, leaving the online ballot as the only remaining way to vote, Tuesday's final AL voting update revealed quite a bit of separation and AL East dominance.
Four members of the Yankees (second baseman Robinson Cano, third baseman Alex Rodriguez, shortstop Derek Jeter and center fielder Curtis Granderson), two Red Sox (first baseman Adrian Gonzalez and designated hitter David Ortiz) and one Blue Jay (outfielder Jose Bautista) all increased their leads and look to be in prime positition to take the field together on July 12 at Chase Field in Phoenix.
But in a week in which those seven improved their margins and no turnover took place at any of the top spots, the situation at catcher and the third outfield spot only grew tighter.
Hamilton and Ellsbury have stood respectively at Nos. 3 and 4 since the June 12 update. Over the past two weeks, the distance separating them has gone from 351,624 to 151,085 to 121,325.
Hamilton, last season's AL Most Valuable Player who lost five weeks to a shoulder injury, has started the All-Star Game each of the past three years and entered Tuesday hitting .293 with seven homers and 35 RBIs after missing time on the disabled list. Ellsbury, meanwhile, sports a .365 on-base percentage with nine homers and an AL-leading 25 steals in hopes of making his first All-Star Game appearance.
Heading into the year, many might have thought that Boston's outfield representative would be a guy named Carl Crawford, not Jacoby Ellsbury.
And few would've predicted that Martin would be on the cusp of officially returning to All-Star form.
But with the Twins' Joe Mauer missing most of the first half due to leg issues, Martin -- an All-Star with the Dodgers from 2007-08 before injury and inconsistency hampered him -- has led behind the plate despite a .230 batting average in 58 games. Avila, though, is younger, is putting up better numbers and is right on Martin's tracks thanks to a .304 batting average and 10 homers in his second full season.
Martin's lead over Avila was 619,086 two weeks ago and 496,286 last week. It is now 434,527.
If Martin holds on and Ellsbury passes Hamilton, there's a good chance the Yankees and Red Sox will possess eight of the nine starting-lineup spots.
For that to happen, though, Jeter would have to hold on at shortstop and be healthy.
Though the Yankees' captain leads the Indians' Asdrubal Cabrera by 506,350 votes, his cushion has steadily grown in recent weeks. The bigger question may be Jeter's recovery from a strained right calf. He has started running but his return schedule is rather foggy.
Very little fogginess exists with the rest of the AL lineup.
Gonzalez's lead over the Yankees' Mark Teixeira now sits at nearly 1 million votes. Cano's over the Red Sox's Dustin Pedroia is at roughly 1.8 million. A-Rod's cushion over the Rangers' Adrian Beltre went from about 570,000 to 800,000 in a week. Ortiz's advantage is at about 2 million over the Rangers' Michael Young. Granderson's cushion over the fourth-place outfielder, Ellsbury, is at approximately 1.5 million.
And Bautista is simply untouchable.
After a stunning 54-homer season, he leads all of baseball in fan votes and is destined to start his first All-Star Game thanks to some gaudy, reaffirming numbers -- a .328 batting average, 23 homers and a Major League-leading 1.125 OPS.
The game's best hitter?
"I would argue that," Blue Jays second baseman Aaron Hill said earlier this year about Bautista, who's expected to move back to third base soon. "But I get to see him on a day-to-day basis, so I'm a little biased. ... It's not necessarily the homers or the hits that he gets, but his whole game, the whole way he approaches baseball, or the hitting side of it. It's by far the best I've seen."
Fans can cast their votes for starters up to 25 times at MLB.com and all 30 club sites -- online or via a mobile device -- using the 2011 All-Star Game MLB.com Ballot Sponsored by Sprint until Thursday at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Rosters will be announced during the 2011 All-Star Game Selection Show on TBS on Sunday. Baseball fans around the world will then be able to select the final player on each team via the 2011 All-Star Game Final Vote Sponsored by Sprint.
Fans will also have the opportunity to participate in the official voting for the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet at the Midsummer Classic via the 2011 All-Star Game MVP Vote Sponsored by Sprint.
The All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX and around the world by Major League Baseball International. ESPN Radio will provide exclusive national radio play-by-play, while MLB.com will offer extensive online coverage.
2011 AMERICAN LEAGUE ALL-STAR BALLOTING (as of June 28)
Russell Martin, Yankees: 2,779,592
Alex Avila, Tigers: 2,345,065
Joe Mauer, Twins: 1,699,604
Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Red Sox: 1,505,143
Yorvit Torrealba, Rangers: 1,309,802
Adrian Gonzalez, Red Sox: 4,014,722
Mark Teixeira, Yankees: 3,077,242
Miguel Cabrera, Tigers: 2,184,480
Mitch Moreland, Rangers: 1,209,258
Paul Konerko, White Sox: 932,422
Robinson Cano, Yankees: 4,724,816
Dustin Pedroia, Red Sox: 2,979,181
Ian Kinsler, Rangers: 1,896,259
Orlando Cabrera, Indians: 1,127,840
Ben Zobrist, Rays: 963,481
Alex Rodriguez, Yankees: 3,735,406
Adrian Beltre, Rangers: 2,935,373
Kevin Youkilis, Red Sox: 2,724,286
Evan Longoria, Rays: 2,000,379
Brandon Inge, Tigers: 633,519
Derek Jeter, Yankees: 3,392,128
Asdrubal Cabrera, Indians: 2,885,778
Elvis Andrus, Rangers: 1,971,514
Jhonny Peralta, Tigers: 1,178,114
Marco Scutaro, Red Sox: 1,099,744
David Ortiz, Red Sox: 4,237,014
Michael Young, Rangers: 2,235,504
Jorge Posada, Yankees: 1,453,385
Victor Martinez, Tigers: 1,234,879
Johnny Damon, Rays: 1,028,366
Jose Bautista, Blue Jays: 5,263,840
Curtis Granderson, Yankees: 4,582,419
Josh Hamilton, Rangers: 3,173,000
Jacoby Ellsbury, Red Sox: 3,051,675
Carl Crawford, Red Sox: 2,294,337
Nelson Cruz, Rangers: 1,912,783
Ichiro Suzuki, Mariners: 1,912,062
Nick Swisher, Yankees: 1,648,599
Brett Gardner, Yankees: 1,499,367
J.D. Drew, Red Sox: 1,428,367
Matt Joyce, Rays: 1,226,439
Jeff Francoeur, Royals: 1,061,445
David Murphy, Rangers: 1,057,887
Grady Sizemore, Indians: 1,033,014
Shin-Soo Choo, Indians: 924,326
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his columns and his blog, listen to his podcast and follow him on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by Snowlilly, Aug 21, 2012.
Astronomy magazine.
So the book I started for easy reading has become Peter V. Brett's The Desert Spear. Loved the first part, this one's not as great yet (am only 100/500ish pages in) but has promise. Not bad either.
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. I originally read it back in High School in the 80s, and recently watched both the 1931 Ricardo Cortez version and the 1941 Bogart version in the same weekend and decided it was time for a re-read.
Just finsihed reading
Abandon: Love and Communism in Central Asia - David Gallagher
Short novel set in Kyrgyzstan during the transistion from communism to democracy. The author spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English in small villages in this country.
The novel is about a boy called Tashtan and a girl called Kerez. Both were abandoned as babies. Tashtan was adopted into a poor family, Kerez into a rich one. They are drawn together because they were both foundlings but Kerez's father is against any relationship between the two because he wants a good brideprice for his daughter.
Though the story was rather predictable, the novel was an interesting look at everyday village life in a country I knew next to nothing about.
I just finished Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America by Jeff Speck, and next up is Antifragile: How Some Things Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Finished The Maltese Falcon last night. Great book!
Moving on to the Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson.
That last book I read was Asimov's Robots of Dawn
George R.R. Martin's "A Game of Thrones". Haven't read any of them and I'm eagerly awaiting the 3rd season.
While I did enjoy the TV-series it's not the kind of stories I read.
But I did give a box-set of the novels (5 or 6 volumes) to the teen son of my best friend this x-mas. Many of his friends (and his dad), so he told me, have been trying to entice him into reading them.
Apparently all it took was a box-set in original language.
I'm reading The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. It's a fascinating hypothesis, if somewhat outlandish. The text is a little dated, as far as the neurological literature is concerned, but so far only minor pieces of evidence are made moot by modern research, and I can't think of any good reason why the theory couldn't hold up.
That sounds interesting. Without spoiling the entire book can you give a quick condensation of what the book is about and its primary points? What's the overriding theory that the authors are trying to convey to readers?
^It is a single theory, and admittedly, it sounds damned crazy, but the author (Julian Jaynes) makes his case, and I'm only a third of the way through. His theory is that consciousness in humans evolved only around 3000 years ago, and that prior to this we functioned with bicameral minds, with one hemisphere of the brain issuing commands in the form of auditory and sometimes visual hallucinations, and the other hemisphere acting out those commands without any question. He posits that this is the origin of religion, and that illnesses like schizophrenia are linked to this recent past. He uses sound neurological and psychological evidence, as well as literary evidence from ancient texts to support his theory, demonstrating how non-conscious people could develop functioning societies. Yes, it sounds wild, but a lot about the brain is wild. The book is a little technical, and a background in either neuroscience or psychology is beneficial in reading it, but I think a layperson would get through it fine. It is a fascinating idea!
Wow indeed, that ^there would explain all that we call religion.
Thanks. I might have to pick that up at a local library if they have it. I'm always in the market for an interesting read even if I don't necessarily agree with many of the tenets being espoused.
^Tenets? It's a theory, not a philosophy!
Exactly, and that's a big part of his theory. Part of his literary evidence involves comparisons of gods in text 3000 years and older, such as Greek gods and Old Testament Yahweh, to gods in religious texts newer than 3000 years, showing how our understanding of and relationship to gods have changed.
You know what I mean.
But yeah, now I'm going to have to pick this up so thanks for popping in here and mentioning it. It wasn't all that long ago I read a book on Freud and I haven't picked up a tome on psychological or neurochemical theory in a while. I used to be an even bigger science nerd than I am now.
^I know
It was actually on Rob Maxwell's recommendation I started reading it, definitely second his rec!
My tastes in books aren't quite that deep. Here is the next one I plan to read...
Robert J. Sawyer used that book a lot in developing the story for his WWW trilogy (Wake, Watch and Wonder), in which the Internet gains sentience. I've considered finding a copy and checking it out, but my "to read" list is still way too long as it is.
My taste in books is all over the place, ranging from science, religion and politics all the way over to graphic novels and humor/joke books. I own about twenty years' worth of the Almanac of American Politics with dogeared pages if that tells you anything about me.
I've also watched a lot of C-SPAN Booknotes and always rushed to see Christopher Hitchens whenever he was on the program. I'm not an atheist but Hitch's books are some of the most interesting and even fun reads I've had in recent years and I miss the man. We won't be able to enjoy more of his writings and that's a real loss.
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I just read this in another thread:"Hi!
just a side note, latest versions of ZA do not work anymore in SAFE MODE.
Must be due to some changes in KAV drivers (I guess).
So, if a check in SAFE MODE is needed than an alternative scanner should be used.
Hope this helps.
My thread below this one talks about trying to do old sods uninstall/new install but y keyboard wont work in safe mode and/or the changes I need to make in the ZA Uninstall Zonealarm/Properties/Target etc are not allowed. Since I upgraded fro an old to the newest, is this part of the problem?
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By Melonie Menefee
The presence of a strong and dedicated school library media specialist is crucial to the ability of a school to meet the challenges of No Child Left Behind as well as individual state-level accountability programs. In addition, a well-trained and devoted support staff and a school library media center powerful in both technology and collections are essential to high academic achievement.
Since the early 1950s, nearly 30,000 new school libraries have been established, and thousands of federally funded development and collection expansion projects have enhanced existing libraries in public elementary and secondary schools. At the same time, school libraries have evolved from having a primary focus on books to providing a rich selection of digital resources.
Problems arise, though, when there is a lack of educated staff to continue to oversee and enhance the growth of these libraries. Evidence continues to develop indicating that, when schools have neglected the library media centers, they have lost valuable potential in educating the students the school serves.
The school library media center has one purpose: to support the curriculum of the school. Despite the accumulation of data showing the importance of libraries and librarians, many schools have no trained school library media specialists and limited and noncurrent collections. One quarter of all schools have no librarian. Also, a shortage of librarians could be looming: The average age of a librarian is 45, with 50 percent of working school librarians planning to retire within the next 12 years.
This is discouraging, considering students who score highest on norm-referenced tests tend to come from schools with larger library staff and larger school library media collections. High academic performance also was associated with school library media centers where librarians served in an instructional and collaborative role. According to researchers Keith Curry Lance, Lynda Welborn, and Christine Hamilton-Pennell, the size of the school library staff and the collection are the best indicators of academic performance.
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The LA Galaxy Academy announced their roster for Dallas Cup XXXIV on Tuesday.
The Galaxy squad is headlined by Homegrown player Oscar Sorto, U.S. U-20 defender Javan Torre, U.S. U-18 midfielder Paul Arriola, midfielder Raul Mendiola and a host of others.
LA will begin Gordon Jago Under-19 Super Group play on Sunday, March 25 against Eintracht Frankfurt of Germany. LA continue group play on March 25 against Fulham FC before closing the opening stage against defending Dallas Cup champions Coritiba FC of Brazil on March 27.
A complete schedule of the games can be found here.
The complete roster is below…
GOALKEEPERS (3): Juan Cervantes, Josh McNeely, Daniel Slepukhin.
DEFENDERS (8): Cameron Marlow, Vincent Reyes, Juan Reyna, Nathan Smith, Oscar Sorto, Matt Tilley, Javan Torre, Ivan Velasquez.
MIDFIELDERS (6): Paul Arriola, Bryan Guzman, Grady Howe, Raul Mendiola, Drew Murphy, William Raygoza,
FORWARDS (5): Justin Dhillon, Lucas Da Silva, Aaron Lombardi, Sebastian Velasquez, Jaime Villarreal.
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What is the one item in your sewing room/area you couldn't live without?
I'm a material girl....Want to see my fabric collection?
Only one? And I'm guessing you don't mean the machine & basics (scissors, pins, ripper)? It would have to be my Purple Thang. I use mine ALL the time! I even had to get a second one because I thought mine was long gone.
Chicagoland, Illinois
My Reliable brand stem iron, I love that thing, best present I have gotten in a while!! 2nd place. Would be Nikita my long arm machine! Have to mention her, superstitious, she might break down if I don't.
Most definitely my longarm! I like to make large quilts and I like to do the whole thing myself. So if I didn't have the longarm, I probably wouldn't be making very many quilts.
What longarm do you have. I am in the market to buy one and I am so confused as to what I want.
I usually don't make my quilts larger than a queen.
Lansdale, PA
since i learned to quilt in the dark ages, i know what i don't need. just give me fabric, needle, thread and scissors. as long as i can sew i don't need anything else.
gini in north idaho
Now that I have one, I can't live without my Barnett's Lap Top Hoop. I don't think I could go back to the old oval hand-held now that I am spoiled.
Sewing machine. I don't like to do hand sewing, so if I didn't have a sewing machine I would not be quilting.
Carmel :
What longarm do you have. I am in the market to buy one and I am so confused as to what I want.
I usually don't make my quilts larger than a queen.
Carmel, I have a Gammill with Statler Stitcher. I love it! About the size of the quilts, I can easily get a king size on my 12' table. The best way to find a machine you like is to attend a quilt show and try out a few. The vendors are all very helpful. Also, a lot of LQS have longarms that you can use in the store.
I am going with the notion that you aren't talking about basics. The one thing I couldn't live without at this time in my quilting would be my Ott lights. Don't see as good as I used too...LOL>
Vinton, Virginia
needle threader.
Chiliwist Valley
Design wall. Although I really love the pre-wound bobbins too, I'd hate to go back to winding all my bobbins again.
Where do you get your pre-wound bobbins?
Bonner Springs, Kansas
Rotary cutter, mat and 8x24" ruler.
Where do you get your pre-wound bobbins?
I order them from superiorthreads.com. They have several kinds, I use the masterpiece ones. They can wind way more thread on them than you ever could, so you can sew longer without changing your bobbin. I order several neutrals grey, tan, cream and I use them for just about everything.


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2011 UCWDC Worlds - Recorded Friday, Jan 7. Couples Classic Silver, Crystal, and Crown Plus divisions.
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Lucy's Kitchen: Salmon Two Ways
Salmon is one of the easiest fish to make for effortless entertaining. It is simple to cook, versatile and a nutritional powerhouse. Because it is packed with Omega 3 fatty acids, eating salmon could help keep arteries clear and hearts and immune systems strong.
I like to roast salmon as it is quick, easy and yummy. To do this, measure the fish vertically at its thickest part and bake at 450°F for 10 minutes to the inch. I find most salmon takes about 12 minutes. I like it slightly pink in the centre but that is a personal choice. You can coat the salmon with pesto, tapenade, Indian or Thai curry paste. Add a little oil to a baking sheet (metal cooks more evenly) and bake, skin side down. Nothing can be quicker! Below, two recipes for perfect salmon, one for a dinner party the other is a burger for the family.
The recipes: Roasted Salmon with Hoisin Glaze and Salmon Burgers.
Lucy Waverman is the author of eight cookbooks, including the award-winning Home for Dinner, and is the recipient of Cuisine Canada's 2005 gold medal award for cookbooks for A Matter of Taste, which she co-wrote with James Chatto. Her latest release, A Year in Lucy's Kitchen, comes out in October. You can find Lucy at lucywaverman.com and follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/lucywaverman.


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Hansard Scholar Andrew Sauthoff '15 Asks the Right Question
In November, Bercow announced the creation of a Speaker's Commission on Digital Democracy in a lecture to the Hansard Society in the House of Commons. Following this announcement, Bercow—a co-president of the Hansard Society—invited the Scholars to meet with him after the event. During the Q&A, Sauthoff asked a question that Lisa George, Director of the Study and Scholars Programme, said, "was widely considered to be one of the best questions from a hugely distinguished group."
The question "was essentially asking how he felt about the increasing use of technology inside the chamber," Sauthoff said. "I wanted to know how he felt about MPs on their iPads and iPhones for research and email—whether he sees it as a distraction or a good resource to use."
Sauthoff noted that Bercow's response noted that it was unrealistic to ban phones and iPads from the chamber since they have a useful purpose, but added that they need to think of ways to encourage MPs to avoid being on their phones for long periods of time while visible on TV behind the Prime Minister or someone addressing the group.
The Hansard Scholars Programme is a 14-week full-time course (split equally between study and internship) which offers opportunities for students to gain academic and practical knowledge of the British political system and current debates in UK public policy. For more information, visit WC's Global Education Office page on the program.


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Slav, here's an American saying you should grab and hold onto with all your might: "It is better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt".
1080p Plasma
LCD manufactures have been hyping up their 1080p product for months now. Where is plasma in all this? Will plasma lovers (and/or LCD haters) be "stuck" at 720p? Not for much longer.
We'll skip over the fact that you don't need 1080p in screen sizes less than 60 inches and move on. After all, I don't think any of you care that you can't see the extra resolution in smaller screen sizes. Honestly, I know I don't.
At CEATEC this year several companies were showing off 1080p plasmas. In fact, you could have bought a 1080p plasma for months now. Could have, if you flew to Japan to pick it up and can read Japanese to navigate the menus. I'm sure at CES next week we'll see 1080p plasmas all over the place.
The question is: When can we see the real deal?" I'm going to sound like an actual journalist for a second and report that "undisclosed sources" inside two of the main plasma manufactures say we should see 1080p plasmas here mid-year. Ok, so it's not that much of a secret, but it is undeniably cool.
Oh, and it doesn't look like much, but the picture above is a 50-inch Panasonic 1080p plasma. Next to it was a 65. They looked very pretty...


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And no need to be sorry. It is what it is. I have people who explain hell, God, afterlife, purpose for man, and why God allows suffering. You never brought those things to the table. So I just chalked it up to you not having the answers, or not wanting to share.
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He was born Sept. 25, 1953 at Russellville to J.L. "Smokey" and Mildred Cunningham. He attended the Plainview Church of Christ. He loved hunting, fishing, gardening and watching his grandkids play sports. He was preceded in death by his father and a nephew, Lance Cunningham.
Survivors include his daughter, Shanna Cunningham of Russellville; mother, Mildred Cunningham of Plainview; one brother, Jimmy Cunningham and wife Kerry; three sisters, Debbie Cunningham, Linda Spencer and husband, Gary, all of Plainview, Pam Dixon and husband Steve of Russellville; two grandchildren, Jacee Richards of Russellville, Carter Cunningham of Plainview and many other relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, Nov.16, 2012 at the Plainview Church of Christ with Bro. Butch Gossett officiating. Burial will be in Salem Cemetery in Plainview. Visitation will be held Thursday, 6:00P.M. to 8:00P.M. at Cornwell Chapel in Danville.
Pallbearers will be Todd Spencer, David Spencer, Cameron Spencer, Andrew Dixon, Terry Brown, Jimmy Cunningham, Steve Dixon, Gary Don Spencer, and Gary Slick Westlake.
In Lieu of Flowers, Memorial Donation may be made to Arkansas Children's Hospital Burn Unit, 1 Children's Way, Slot 661, Little Rock, Arkansas 72202.
Arrangements By Cornwell Funeral Home in Danville. Online Guest Book and Condolences at www.cornwellfuneralhomes.com


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*I begin by channelling my wind chakra into the air, and then manipulating the air above the clone; making it spiral in a circular fashion above my opponent; as I do this, I then begin to channel my suiton chakra into the air and the I clap my hand together causing the air to become dense and materialise above my opponent causing it to come crashing down on him!*
*I concentrate and channel my suiton chakra high into the air above my head and into my hands; after which I then perform the Bird → Rat → Ox → Monkey → Rat → Snake hand seals! As I do this, I then send a surge of suiton chakra into the air, causing the air to become more dense. As I do this, I focus on seperating the droplet of water formed causing the water to come down as rain drops! As the rain is linked to my senses, I can sense your clone which is away from me as its chakra interrupts the flows of chakra in the rain!*


text: The hardness of the Dunlop ball is exactly what that shock (& vibration) transmitted the arm is. What other explanation would you have for your ability to feel the hardness/stiffness of the ball? As for heaviness (static weight), the balls are within ITF specs (which are fairly narrow as I indicated previously). If the balls really are heavier, on average, that other balls that you use, the difference is, no doubt, extremely slight. It is doubtful that you would even be able to detect the difference with most commercial scales (like a food scale or a postal scale). A ball may give the illusion that it is heavier (weights more) because of its stiffness &, perhaps, due to it's dwell time on the stringbed. .


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Friday, June 17, 2011 - Marcel Juras
Latest Castings at WilliamHiggins.com
Olda Stocek is from Marianske Lanze, anda what a good looker he is too. He has a most handsome face and is very nicely built too. He certainly adopts some good poses in this casting and manages a very nice erection. I also like his nice hairy crack. I am sure he will be very good in a solo shoot and, hopefully, more.
Michal Adamus is from Louny. He looks very good in this casting. What a whopper he has, and it gets nicely hard. He also has a nice, hairy butt crack. We have already done a shoot with Michal and he came in for our latest wank party, where he was very good indeed.
Stefan Dolan lives in Ruzomberok. He is a handsome guy who looks good in this casting. Really he is quite slim, but with some good musculature. He is also extremely well endowed.
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my girlfriend and i had been planning a small get-a-way, and set our sights on the frank lloyd wright house south east of pittsburgh, falling water. we loaded my recently acquired 1988 R100RT and took off, with a rural route in mind. this would allow for some relaxation. it was to be her very first trip on a bike, and i am relatively new at "touring" also, so we were really looking forward to this adventure!
we headed up the mighty susquehanna river along 11/15 to 850 W and headed into the countryside. picking up rte 274 in western perry county, we flopped over a ridge and picked up rte 75W. this is amish country and the buggies were out in force! 75 gave out at u.s. rte 30. this was to be our main avenue to the wild western frontier. we turned right and began our adventure in earnest, heading up and over yet another ridge, on roads we had never before travelled.
we stayed on 30 for quite a spell, enjoying the verdant scenery, then picked up a lesser route, also running west, state rte 31, which we would eventually turn off to find our night's lodging, at polymath park resort. we had booked a room in the blum house there.
the polymath park resort is not so much a "resort" in the traditional sense. it is VERY beautiful. they have 3 frank lloyd wright houses on the property, which is located near the little burg of acme, pa. they are basically on top of a mountain, and deep into the woods. two of the homes were there, one was moved in from illinois. one of the houses was actually built be FLW, the other two were designed by him and built by others. they are a non profit organization and are slowly getting their act together, having only opened for business in june of '07.
we spent a lovely evening there and headed out somewhat early the next morning for our "in depth" tour of falling water, a very nice 20+ mile ride away. back east on 31, turning right on 711S to 381S. virtually nobody out on the sunday morning as we rode along in the nice cool air! this part of western pa. is very near the highest point in the state, mt. davis. the mountains and hills here are bigger than in other areas. the roads just roll with the flow.
we took the 2-3 hour tour of falling water, kissed the cool air goodbye, jumped on the bike and rode a short distance to another nearby FLW house, kentuck knob, where we intended to do a walking tour of the grounds, not having the time for more in depth adulation. unfortunately, walking tours aren't allowed, so we said goodbye, and made a plan to return in the fall. getting back on our trusty steed, we headed out to find mt. davis. back at the cafe at falling water, i got a very long verbal account, AND the impossibly small print map of just how to get there taking the small back roads. off we went, stopping along the way to admire the scenic vistas and take pictures.
picking up 281, over to confluence, and riding along 523 to listonburg, we turned uphill and began our ascent to the highest point in all of pennsylvania. mt. davis is 3,213 feet above sea level. when we finally arrived at the summit, we were delighted to find they have an old fire tower you can climb to gaze at the virtually untouched wilderness, atop the high plateau.
this was the last planned stop on our weekend tour, so we clambered back down the tower, jumped on the ol' R100 and took off, heading back to rte 281N, to 31E, to 30E and ALL the way home again! tho it was a VERY hot weekend, with temps in the high 90s, we had covered a little over 520 miles together. we were hot, tired AND happy.
pennsylvania is a mostly rural, very beautiful state, with unlimited country roads. very mountainous, in the old old blue ridge way, there are very few cars and many many motorcyclists! northern pa. is where the southern forests meet the northern forests. the mix of tree varieties can be found in no other deciduous woods anywhere on earth!
thanks for traveling along.
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I know it's not easy but people are taking this so out of proportion. We WILL match any offer for Lin, Jr Smith & Novak will most likely not get offers that exceed ours/we can't match. Jeffries is a lock to be back if he is healthy, if not we go after K Mart who is slipping through the cracks big time.
Kidd is now choosing between us and the Mavs, but if we don't get him we can grab Camby or Foye with the MLE.
My perfect offseason would be:
- give up on nash, let the raps over pay him and Fields
- Construct a sign & trade for OJ Mayo (who would have a cheaper salary than the one desgined for Nash) and is also falling through the cracks
- Sign Kidd to MLE or vets min - which he has stated may take
- Add a big man (K Mart - BAE)
- Resign Jr Smith, Novak, Lin, Jeffries
Everyone is just panicking because other teams are going crazy! The plan has always been:
1. Resign our players
2. Get a backup PG
3. Grab more depth a SG and a big man
Let's let the team do their work, it's still A WEEK till teams can actually sign players. Give Grunwald his time people.


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Hawpe: Pitching, youth are keys for Rox
Left-handed hitter is excited about rotation, young stars
This is my sixth season with Colorado, and this year's team is a lot different than last year's team. We're taking on a new identity.
That's the beautiful thing about the start of a new year -- there is change. We have a whole new coaching staff to complement Clint Hurdle, and we have a lot of new players after losing a few players during the winter.
I think the most important thing, though, is that we have the same attitude about trying to win every ballgame. That's something that doesn't change from year to year.
I feel especially good about our pitching. Those guys are going to keep us in ballgames. To be successful going forward, I think of lot of it's going to come down to our health. If our rotation stays healthy, and if the back end of our bullpen stays healthy -- and we get Taylor Buchholz back -- we'll be in good shape. If that happens, I think we can compete with the best of 'em.
Overall, we've had some good young players come in, and they continue to grow. Yeah, we're going to make some mistakes, but that's part of the game. Franklin Morales, for example, is a left-hander who is going to be a good pitcher for us for a long time. He's a competitor.
In center field, Dexter Folwer is going to be good for a long time. He is a great athlete, and he has the chance to be a very special ballplayer. And Chris Iannetta proved a lot last, year and he proved a lot this spring with Team USA at the World Baseball Classic. I think he'll contribute quite a bit, too.
Brad Hawpe has quickly become one of the senior members of the Rockies, who over the winter lost outfielder Matt Holliday in a trade with Oakland and closer Brian Fuentes, who signed with the Angels. Hawpe has hit at least 22 homers in each of the last three seasons, and in 2007 he drove in a career-high 116 runs.
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Ten PowerPoint 2004 Tips to Beat Tight Deadlinesby Franklin Tessler, author of Office 2004 for Mac: The Missing Manual
Whether you're pitching an idea to the boss or teaching geography to a class of fifth graders, you can't beat an electronic slideshow. PowerPoint 2004 lets you turn text, graphics, sounds, and movies into dazzling presentations that get your message across in high style. But what if you're on a short deadline? Relax, and I'll show you ten ways to use PowerPoint to put together slideshows that'll convince your audience that you spent days sweating over your mouse and keyboard.
1. Save and Use Design Templates
If you've already taken the time to craft a custom master slide that you like (showing your company's logo on an eye-catching background, for example), use it for your next presentation. In addition to saving time, you'll give your slideshows a consistent look people will notice.
The easiest way to reuse a PowerPoint presentation is to simply open and edit it, replacing old content with new. However, it's often preferable to start with an empty file that duplicates an existing presentation's color schemes and master slides. To save a presentation as a template, delete all of the slides, choose File -> Save As, and select Design Template from the Format pop-up menu. Give the template a descriptive name ("Annual Report," say) and save it in the Microsoft Office 2004/Templates/My Templates folder. When you're ready to use the template, open the Project Gallery and look for it under the My Templates group.
2. Don't Reinvent the Wheel
Instead of creating every frame from scratch, recycle slides from old presentations--the animated chart you prepared for last month's sales event will be just as impressive at your next meeting, as long as you make sure the information is up to date. PowerPoint gives you two ways to import slides into a presentation:
A) Insert - > "Slides from file" lets you choose a PowerPoint file to import. PowerPoint imports the entire presentation by default, but if you click the "Select slides to insert" button, a window appears that lets you select the slides you want to transfer. (Another button lets you retain the design of the imported slides;
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B) Although the above technique works well if you only have a few batches of
slides to import, I prefer the following method. Open both presentations in Slide
Sorter view (View.Slide Sorter). Select the slides that you want to transfer
Shift-click to select a range of slides;
Command-click to choose non-adjacent
slides) and drag them into the presentation to which you're copying. A thin vertical line
shows where the slides will go when you release the mouse button. If you have a
large monitor, you can keep several presentations open at once and copy slides as
3. Make Changes in the Slide Sorter
PowerPoint's Slide Sorter view also lets you make changes to any subset of slides in a jiffy. To change the transition for a group of slides, for example, select them in the Slide Sorter, choose Slide Show.Slide Transition, and apply the transition you want. You can also use this technique to change the background of one or more slides without having to edit each slide individually.
4. Use Master Slides
While you may be tempted to give every slide a unique layout, doing so takes time that you can't spare if it's 10 a.m. and you have to do a slide presentation at noon. Thankfully, master slides make it easy to tweak your presentation's design without having to edit every slide every time you make a change. Any modifications you make to the master slide are automatically reflected in the entire presentation.
Master slides also let you make global changes to slide animations. For example, say you want all your text to dissolve into view, one bullet at a time. Open the slide master (View -> Master -> Slide Master), click the placeholder for bulleted text, and set up the animation in the Custom Animation dialog (Slide Show -> Custom Animation). Close the master and voila--dissolving bullets. If a few minutes later you decide that you'd rather see the text fly in instead, go back to the master and make the change.
5. Work in Outline View
PowerPoint's slide view approximates what the audience
sees, but it's not a particularly efficient way to enter large amounts of text. If your
presentation consists mostly of words, enter them in normal view instead--you'll
work faster, and you'll still be able to keep an eye on the layouts in the slide pane
on the right. To save even more time, learn keyboard shortcuts. (To change a title
in the outline to a bullet point, for example, place the insertion point anywhere on
the line and type
Option-right arrow.)
Although PowerPoint's outliner is sufficient for most presentations, you may prefer to write your outline in Microsoft Word. To import a Word outline into PowerPoint, select Insert -> "Slides from Outline;" optionally, you can send an outline from Word to PowerPoint (File -> Send to -> Microsoft PowerPoint).
6. Don't Play the Slideshow
When you're working on a presentation, it's almost impossible not to sneak peeks at your budding masterpiece by clicking the Slide Show view button at the bottom left of PowerPoint's main window. Resist the urge. Instead, concentrate on your slides' content, and save slideshows for the end. (Slides that make use of intricate animation sequences are an important exception. I prefer to test and debug complex animations on the fly, because I find it easier to remember how I want to choreograph the animations when I'm working on the slide in the first place.)
7. Have All Your Images Ready to Go
Most of my lectures include plenty of medical images. Over the years, I've learned that I can work much faster if I choose them in advance, rather than sifting though my hard drive as I'm putting together a presentation. Begin by making copies of all of the pictures and drawings that you think you'll need and put them in a folder on your desktop. In the Finder, open the folder in icon view (View -> as Icons), and set the icon size to 128 by 128 pixels (View -> Show View Options) to make them easier to see.
You can drag images directly into the presentation by keeping the open folder visible as you're working on your slideshow. (Mac OS 10.4 Tiger's search function also lets you look for images based on various criteria.) If possible, crop, edit, and resize images before you import them. If you have Adobe Photoshop, you can use it to do all of the editing and then drag the images into PowerPoint directly from Photoshop's File Browser. Dedicated image cataloging programs also serve this purpose well.
8. Keep Toolbars Handy
Learn which PowerPoint tools you use most often and keep them at your fingertips. If you frequently have to center elements on your slides, for example, click and hold on the icon at the top of the drawing toolbar and mouse down to Align or Distribute in the pop-up menu. Highlight the bar above the Align or Distribute menu and release the mouse button (see Figure 1). You'll be left with a floating menu that lets you center or align objects with just a few mouse clicks.
9. Copy and Paste
To place a group of objects on a series of existing slides, select the objects, copy them, and paste them on all of the slides. PowerPoint automatically puts each copy in the same position on every slide. The Duplicate command (Edit -> Duplicate) makes it easy to make multiple copies of any object on a single slide. If you manually move the first copy immediately after you create it, PowerPoint places each subsequent duplicate in the same position relative to its original, so you end up with a series of evenly spaced objects.
10. Use Presenter Tools
Assuming that you actually have enough time left to practice before showtime, use PowerPoint 2004's Presenter Tools feature (Slide Show -> View Presenter Tools) instead of a full-screen presentation. That way, you'll be able to see how each slide looks in the context of the entire presentation, as well as keep an eye on timing and animation.
No matter what type of work you do or how carefully you plan ahead, chances are you'll eventually have to put together a PowerPoint presentation with not much time to spare. Although my tips won't guarantee a stress-free experience, you'll at least get the job done and look like a pro.
Franklin Tessler has been a writer for Macworld magazine since 1986.
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Exeter Aces stage cycle speedway international and it's a roaring success
PUBLISHED: 09:19 13 May 2014 | UPDATED: 09:19 13 May 2014
Over the Bank Holiday weekend spectators and riders descended on mass to the cycle speedway track on Cofton road, Exeter, to take part and watch the European Club Championships, writes Nick Cook.
Teams battled it out over the Saturday and Sunday to gain a place in the coveted final on the Monday, with hopes of taking home the European Cup. The standard of riding over the weekend was top level and although the 'Exeter Aces' put up a gallant fight they failed to hold off the competition and make it through to the final rounds.
Following the brilliant turnout and riding of the two qualifying days, Monday started with electricity in the air with four teams (eight in total) from the UK and Poland making it through to the semi-finals, consolation final and the final itself.
As the day unravelled and yet more top riding from all the riders the final was hotly contested with the Polish club 'Ostrow' taking the cup home!
Many compliments were passed around at the end of the day and the Exeter Aces were congratulated on a job well done in holding such a successful international event. Compliments were aired via twitter following the event, with polish riders stating: "It's the best quality track they have ridden" and spectator's describing the cycle sport as "Bonkers". This has been deemed a massive success for the club, and is true testament to the generosity of it club members, volunteers and sponsors. Conversations have already started regarding the last cycle speedway club in the Westcountry holding future national and international events. If you want to find out how you can get involved or get into cycle speedway, you can find out more by visiting the clubs website: http://loramski.wix.com/exeteracescsc


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I'm experiencing a bit of a problem with my Liteon 52x24x52 cdrw drive. It used to work quite well in my IDEQ.
Basically, drive powers up and spins up fine but wont read anything! And interesting thing is that in BIOS and Windows XP it's detected as LATE-GN LTR%52246 instead of LITE-ON LTR-52246. This is weird. I checked in device manager and all ID string for it are screwed up.
I thought this could be due to my overclock, so I clocked everything back to bone stock. Same story. The only time I was able to get the correct string out it was when I switched jumper on it from master to slave. Then when I rebooted (without putting the jumper back) it went back to LATE-GN string.
I can't update the firmware because updater won't recongize the drive.
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The city of Durango has canceled its annual Fourth of July fireworks display because of the recent statewide fire ban.
We have been monitoring this situation for several days, and we evaluated all the various factors and considered the governors recent executive order, City Manager Ron LeBlanc said.
Silverton on Tuesday announced it was canceling its fireworks show, which the town billed as the best Fourth of July display on the Western Slope.
Bayfield and Vallecito also have canceled their fireworks displays, said Dan Bender, spokesman for the La Plata County Sheriffs Office.
Bayfield is discussing delaying the fireworks until Labor Day, said Matt Coker, Upper Pine Fire River Protection District board commissioner.
LeBlanc said Durango will find another reason to shoot off the citys $15,000 worth of fireworks, which were donated by BP.
La Plata County has placed restrictions on open burning within the county, and Durango currently prohibits open burning within city limits. The use of open flames, charcoal grills and backyard fires are strongly discouraged, a news release said.
We were in those talks. We recommended it (the cancellation), and we fully support their decision, said Capt. Michael Krupa with Durango Fire & Rescue Authority.
Officials are concerned that people will shoot off their own fireworks, which is illegal in Colorado.
There is a concern that private parties will launch illegal fireworks, and I do know that Upper Pine and neighboring districts will be taking precautions to identify and respond as needed, Coker said.
Bender also said the Sheriffs Office will vigorously pursue those who shoot off fireworks.
Gov. John Hickenlooper on June 14 said municipal or professional displays are allowed with the written permission from the corresponding county sheriff.
The San Juan County Sheriffs Office and fire officials decided it was too risky, Gilbert Archuleta, chief of the Silverton Volunteer Fire Department, said Tuesday.
The parched conditions causing the elevated fire danger also prompted Bayfield to institute a restriction on outdoor water usage effective Sunday, which will remain in effect until Sept. 15 unless conditions change, according to a town news release.
Properties with even-numbered addresses can water on even-numbered days, and properties with odd-numbered addresses can water on odd-numbered days. All watering needs to be done between 6 p.m. and 9 a.m. The schedule will be enforced by the Bayfield Public Works Department and the Bayfield Marshals Office, the release said.
Penalties for violations include $50 for the first violation, $100 for the second and $500 for each additional violation.
Durango this week sent out a news release encouraging residents to conserve water, but the city has not imposed any restrictions.


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Bonsai wrote:Well, I have serious Anxiety and Depression issues which I take meds for, and I can definitely say (with my own experience) that they do cause carelessness. Now, maybe it's just me, but there have been many times that I haven't been 'careful' because of the way my mind works. I shouldn't have said that 'hearing voices and etc' were carelessness since you are right and the sick person isn't in control of them (outside of medications).They can definitely cause carelessness though.pink_trike wrote:Hi Laura,Bonsai wrote:
"I undertake the precept to refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs which lead to carelessness."
If the drugs prevent carelessness (seeing things, hearing voices, wild imaginations), then I don't see how they are against the 5th precept.
Moderation is key. And if you are mentally ill, and drugs can bring back some sense of sanity, then I think Buddha would have approved.
I just have to note here that seeing things, hearing voices, wild imagination, unmanageable levels of fear, etc...aren't "carelessness"...they are a medical disorder - sometimes genetic, sometimes due to environmental toxins, sometimes related to severely dysfunctional family situations, some due to unknown causes...many factors that can't be described as "carelessness". I only comment because someone reading this that is/has experience with any of the many serious mind/emotion medical disorders might feel blamed and responsible for their condition seeing it described as "carelessness".
I too think the Buddha would have approved of mindful medication use...what good are the precepts if there are shrieking voices in the mind, or if one believes that the CIA is following them and monitoring their communications? There are lots of problems associated with meds, but meds have also enabled countless thousands of people with mental dis-ease to function relatively normally. As a former psychotherapist I've met many of these people - their relief and gratitude for the meds is obvious.
Basically what I am saying is that you need mindfulness to practice Buddhism, and people with mental illnesses often lack mindfulness because of the way our minds work. If Drugs help you become mindful and sane, then I think Buddha would have approved (or at least not disagreed with). I think he was more concerned with people who abused intoxicants in his time and ours, not with people who took intoxicants in a modern world to keep them sane thousands of years down the line.
the only think I would really alter in this is (original underlined), I think the Buddha was concerned with the use of things which cause heedlesness (lack of mindfulness and or concern) and used in a recreational manner, not medication.
edit - and I'm not 100% sure if this is disagreeing in anyway (so to speak)


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In the ninth-grade Whirlwinds win, RJHS West edge ahead in the first quarter 17-11 and exploded in the second quarter, outscoring the Badgers 23-4 for a 40-15 halftime lead. RJHS West led 49-19 after three quarters.
Tony Jones led the way with 14 points. Andy Campbell finished with 11 and Kentrel Scott, Co-Chese Temple-Laws and Tyler Allen each had eight.
The eighth-grade Whirlwinds led 7-4 after the first and 18-7 at halftime. Beebe chipped away at the lead in the second half, trailing only 21-14 after three quarters.
Jake Vickers led the way with 10 points and Steven Baty added eight.
The West Lady Whirlwinds trailed 6-4 after the first, but dominated the second quarter to lead 22-7 at halftime. The Lady Badgers did a good job in the third quarter as they cut the RJHS West lead to 28-20 after three.
Nicole Phillips led the way with 12 points. Sydnee Stokes added 11 and Addy Hipps finished with six.
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Independents seek three-county House district
BRATTLEBORO -- Five towns, three counties, two independents and no incumbent.
That's the makeup of the only truly competitive state House campaign in the area as Emmett Dunbar of South Londonderry and Tim Goodwin of Weston vie to represent the Windham-Bennington-Windsor district.
Both men are making their first run for state office and acknowledge that they stepped into the fray only because Rep. Oliver Olsen, a Jamaica Republican, decided to not seek another term.
But both also say they've been contemplating a political run for some time.
"I've always been interested in getting involved," Dunbar said.
The district covers the towns of Jamaica, Londonderry, Stratton, Weston and Winhall, and the two candidates' lack of political affiliation makes the campaign unique.
Dunbar said he never has been involved with the Republican or Democratic parties and does not identify with either organization on the national level.
"I'm not sure who they are or what they're all about entirely," he said, adding that he believes many Vermonters would identify themselves as independents.
Goodwin said he has a "history" with the Republican Party, but he believes his centrist views justify an "independent" label for this campaign.
"Obviously, I want to represent the district. It seems the most up-front way to do that is as an independent," he said.
On the campaign trail, Goodwin added, it's an advantage to not be forced to justify affiliation with either party's often-polarizing national platforms.
"A lot of people just say 'good' when they hear 'independent,'" he said.
Both men claim bipartisan backing. But Olsen has endorsed and campaigned for Goodwin, who welcomes the assistance.
"He's certainly helped me by introducing people who he knows and I don't," Goodwin said. "He's very highly regarded."
Goodwin is a Vietnam veteran and retired federal employee who is a certified public accountant. He is no stranger to public service, having held multiple positions at the local level including 12 years on the Weston School Board and six years on the Flood Brook School Board.
Currently, he is a justice of the peace and a lister and holds positions with the Windham Regional Commission, Weston Fire Department and Weston Community Association.
Goodwin's experience with school issues leads him to list preserving school choice among his top priorities. He contends "various politicians, political action committees and lobbyists in Montpelier have been working hard to undermine our local decision-making authority" on where children can go to school.
Four of the five towns in the House district have school choice, he noted.
Economic development is another big issue for Goodwin. He acknowledges that there are a large number of service-industry jobs affiliated with recreation and tourism in the district.
"I'll do what I can to assure that we get our share of marketing dollars in this part of the state to keep those jobs," Goodwin said.
However, he also is concerned that there are "two economies" in Vermont. This part of the state, Goodwin said, lacks career-oriented jobs found more prevalently in more populous areas.
While there is no easy way to attract those types of jobs, Goodwin said tax incentives and college affordability are two paths toward economic development.
Economics also are on Dunbar's mind. He talks about the importance of agriculture in the state and local economy, and Dunbar has firsthand knowledge of that fact: He owns Anjali Farm in South Londonderry.
He also has been deeply involved in farming-related organizations. For example, Dunbar said he served as president of and helped expand the West River Farmers' Market in Londonderry, and he is a founder and a current director of Vermont Farm Trail, a marketing cooperative.
Additionally, Dunbar has served on the West River Montessori School board and has taught at Stratton Mountain School and at Four Winds Nature Institute.
"I certainly have done a lot regionally and locally," he said.
Dunbar said it is important to increase the district's population to address a lack of "human capital" in the area.
"I want to make sure we bring more young people here and young families here," he said.
Taxes can be an obstacle to that goal, he said. While the state's education funding system is not likely to change, Dunbar said legislators can address "fiscal accountability" and put a stop to the use of the education fund for other, unrelated expenses.
"I can focus on where and how the money right now is being spent," he said.
Beyond lower tax bills, Dunbar wants to provide incentives to bring more residents to the area. Increasing broadband and cell phone access is critical, he said.
He also floats the idea of providing tax holidays or tax breaks for first-time homeowners.
"It's a really complicated thing, and it's not going to happen overnight, but I think we really need to address it," he said. "And I think we need to address it because we are an aging population and we have a lot of challenges economically."
Neither candidate, however, sees much of a challenge in campaigning in or representing a district that touches three counties. Goodwin said those boundaries don't matter, and Dunbar sees the possibility of a political advantage for the district's representative.
"I feel that it's great, because I can bring together seven different senators," Dunbar said.
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I originally posted in the Spybot S&D forum because I was unable to add the SS&D Hosts list to the Hosts file. Another user verified my issue, and provided a temporary fix. Here is a link to that forum: http://forums.spybot.info/showthread...8933#post28933
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1993: Any questions? Cowboys route Bills for title
(This story originally appeared in the Feb. 1, 1993 edition of The Dallas Morning News)
PASADENA, Calif. — Ultimately, Michael Jackson's halftime fireworks were nothing compared to the explosions the Cowboys ignited in the Rose Bowl on Sunday night.
First they blew up Jim Kelly. Then they torched Frank Reich.
The result was a Super Bowl record nine turnovers as Dallas bombed the Buffalo Bills, 52-17, to record the franchise's third Super Bowl triumph and its first in 15 years.
"I felt like we had the best football team," said coach Jimmy Johnson. "When you turn the ball over as many times as they did, you'll have trouble. Sometimes it snowballs."
Even Buffalo has never seen snow like this. The Cowboys' scoring came in staccato bursts. Three times they scored a pair of touchdowns within a minute of each other.
Troy Aikman earned the MVP trophy with another spotless performance - 22-for-30, 273 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions. And no one suggested that he didn't deserve it.
But the Cowboys' defense, overlooked in the Pro Bowl voting by rival players and coaches despite a No. 1 ranking, rose another notch Sunday. They intercepted Kelly twice, intercepted Reich twice and recovered five fumbles.
Buffalo scored two touchdowns and a field goal, punted three times and had the ball when the clock expired. Nine other possessions ended with the ball in Cowboys' hands.
The defense scored two touchdowns on its own. Charles Haley caused a Kelly fumble that Jimmie Jones caught in mid-air and turned into a two-yard touchdown return. It came 15 seconds after Aikman's 23-yard pass to Jay Novacek had tied the score, 7-7.
Ken Norton Jr.'s nine-yard run with a fumble completed the scoring, coming just 41 seconds after Emmitt Smith had scored his only touchdown, on a 10-yard run. The Cowboys also got a pair of touchdowns from Michael Irvin (19 and 18 yards) just 18 seconds apart late in the first half. A Thurman Thomas fumble recovered by Jones in between made possible that quick repeat score.
"You never in a million years think about scoring 52 points,' said offensive coordinator Norv Turner. "But they turned the ball over nine times, so that's what can happen."
This was not the kind of defeat that left Bills fans thinking about "what ifs," but actually things started out in their favor. In the first 30 minutes, Buffalo's Andre Reed caught five passes for 124 yards, the Bills blocked a Mike Saxon punt deep in Dallas territory and Dallas committed penalties on three third-down plays to give Buffalo new life.
And still the Bills were all but dead by halftime.
Their early 7-0 lead, a product of Steve Tasker's blocked punt, was gone by the end of the first quarter after Dallas' first series of rapid-fire touchdowns.
But trailing, 14-7, the Bills moved quickly to the Dallas four after a 40-yard pass to Reed. Carwell Gardner picked up three yards on first down but Thurman Thomas (11 carries, 19 yards) was stopped for no gain on second down. On third, Kenneth Davis was about to lunge into the end zone when Norton stood him up inches short. On fourth down, Kelly threw an ill-advised pass into a crowd that Thomas Everett intercepted in the end zone.
The Bills did manage to get to the Dallas three on their next possession but had to settle for a 21-yard Steve Christie field goal. With 3:24 to go in the half, it was a 14-10 game. Anybody's game.
And then, in a big hurry, it became the Cowboys' game.
Smith, who had been held to 16 yards on eight carries, broke loose on a draw for 38 yards to the Bills' 19. After the two-minute warning, Irvin turned cornerback Nate Odomes completely around on a 19-yard slant for a touchdown and a 21-10 lead.
After Thomas fumbled on the Bills' next play, Aikman went to Irvin again. He beat cornerback James Williams in the right corner and dived into the end zone to make it 28-10.
Dallas added a field goal on the first possession of the third quarter and had the game in hand before Reich hit Don Beebe with a 40-yard touchdown on the last play of the third quarter. Replays showed that Reich had crossed the line of scrimmage when he threw, but officials missed the call, so it was up to Dallas to make amends.
The Cowboys did so quickly. Aikman hit Alvin Harper with a 45-yard touchdown pass down the right side to make it 38-17 with 10:04 to play. Harper's spike over the crossbar put the exclamation point on the victory, even though the Cowboys scored two more touchdowns thanks to Bills' mistakes.
"When it was 31-17, I was thinking about Buffalo's comeback (from 32 points down) against Houston," said Harper. "That was in the back of my mind."
The Cowboys may be from Texas, but they showed why they are not to be confused with the Oilers or any member of the AFC, which has now dropped nine straight Super Bowls by an average of 23 points.
"There was never any doubt we'd get to this point," said Johnson, the first head coach to win a Division I national championship and a Super Bowl. "The concern was how long it would take."
Just three years removed from a 1-15 embarrassment, Dallas scaled the summit Sunday night.
"In my wildest dreams, I never thought about winning a Super Bowl," said James Washington. "Where do you go from here? You try to repeat."
That has been the yardstick for measuring greatness in the NFL. Pittsburgh and San Francisco have repeated twice, while Green Bay and Miami have done it once. The Cowboys can seek that level next year.
Veteran Buffalo wide receiver James Lofton likes the Cowboys' chances. "An earthquake in Santa Monica tonight . . . that's the only thing that can stop the Cowboys."


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I cooked a boneless turkey breast yesterday in the crockpot (slowcooker). Only two ingredients - the turkey and organic vegetable broth. Turned out really delicious, moist and tender. 3 hours on high, then 5 hours on low. Oven roasted vege's, dinner rolls and pumpkin pie. Kept it simple this year.
There was only 3 of us eating on it so there's quite a bit left.
Thinking about making turkey and dumplings for supper. Kept quite a bit of the broth yesterday so will use that for the soup base. Add some carrots to it, dice up the turkey into bite size pieces. I will make the dumplings from low fat Bisquick.
When my youngest was about 7 or 8, he was helping me cook supper and we were using leftovers. He told everyone we were making supper from scraps! Can you tell his mother is a quilter!


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Aldermen voted to approve an ordinance to accept portions of State Highway 124 and State Highway 326 (Weir Road) into the city's street system once the improvement project is completed.
Proposed improvements include removing the T at Highway 124 and Weir Road and eliminating the sharp curve east of that intersection. The project was a proposed partnership with the city, which would contribute $3 million.
The Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) said after the September council meeting, during which aldermen declined to vote on the ordinance, that unless the city agreed to take over maintenance of those streets, the project would be on hold.
After an Oct. 8 meeting between AHTD, city and Chamber of Commerce officials, aldermen indicated a readiness to revisit the ordinance.
At Thursday's meeting, all aldermen present voted in favor of adoption of the ordinance.
Alderman Mark Tripp was absent.
Alderman Garland Steuber said he felt it would be appropriate for economic development funds be used for the city's portion of the project, and several other aldermen agreed.
Those funds, however, have certain guidelines that dictate how they can be spent and this project may not fit those requirements, Alderman Randy Horton said.
"That may or may not be able to happen," he said.
In other business Thursday, the City Council:
• Appointed Bryan Fisher and Chase Smith to the board of commissioners for the Russellville Housing Authority;
• Approved a resolution concerning dilapidated structures at 5010 W. Main St. and 2609 Windamere Lane; and
• Rezoned property located at 503 E. Third St. from C-2 to M-2.


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I have an interesting problem. I'll word this the best I can.
Ok... I have a class. Lets just say its called CPart. CPart has 3 variable members: M1, M2, M3. There are 5 CPart objects. We need a way to go through all 5 objects and compare M1 to a global variable - lets just call it I.
Here is an example that I tried that didn't work. Apparently, you can't create and array of user-defined objects.I hope you can understand my code. I really need some help. (I know I made this post before but I don't think I made it understandable so I decided to make another try).Code:
int I = 10;
void setVariables();
int numberOfParts;
class CPart{
int M1;
int M2;
int M3;
CPart p1
Cpart p2
Cpart p3
Cpart p4
Cpart p5
numberOfParts = 5;
void setVariables(){
(lets just pretend all three variables for each of the five objects is set to 5 in this function)
/*this is the part that I think is the problem*/
CPart listOfParts[numberOfParts];
listOfParts[1] = p1;
/*...and so on thru p5*/
for (i=0; i<numberOfParts; i++){
int i = 1;
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The fourth full-length from this Milwaukee quartet shows them continuing to move beyond their emo beginnings by building on their signature style and stretching it out big-time. A lot more mellow but still very powerful, the Promise Ring deliver once again. 3/15/2002 - John Richards
Other Promise Ring album reviews:
Very Emergency - 9/15/1999


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Endangered Species
NWF's Kostyack and NCPPR's Ridenour go head to head over House species legislation
As House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) moves forward with changes to the Endangered Species Act, two top experts debate his controversial bill. John Kostyack, senior counsel with the National Wildlife Federation, and David Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research, explain why the bill does away with critical habitat requirement and discuss financial incentives included for landowners. Kostyack and Ridenour also describe Democrats' response to the bill and look ahead to the timetable for action in the Senate.