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The Original Sea Monster
If an extra terrestrial civilization were to study the history of Earth, they would most likely conclude that this is the planet of the dinosaurs, giant reptiles who ruled the world for hundreds of millions of years. Humans, currently the dominant species, have not even existed for one percent of that time. The iconic species that people associate with dinosaurs are usually the land-based ones: Tyrannosaurus Rex, Brontosaurus, Velociraptor. Equally important were the dinosaurs of the sea. A new study from the University of Bristol examines one of them, a deadly marine predator known as Icthyosaurs. This original sea monster met its demise in a mass extinction event 200 million years ago.
Its fossils were first discovered 200 years ago by Mary Anning on the Jurassic coast of Dorset at Lyme Regis in Southern Great Britain. They were an abundant predator in the Jurassic Era (145-200 million years ago). However, the Jurassic Icthyosaurs were shrunken remnants of their ancestors. The first Icthyosaurs originated in the early Triassic Era (250 million years ago).
The Triassic Icthyosaurs grew up to 20 meters long (60 feet), a dolphin-like predator, the size of a whale. They thrived in their environment as the top predator, and gradually branched off into a large variety of species with many shapes and forms. Their long fish-like bodies were ideally built for speed. Their enormous mouths could gulp down entire schools of prey such as squid.
The mass extinction event at the end of the Triassic put an end to the great Icthyosaur. The event devastated all life on the planet, on land and sea. It was triggered by massive volcanic eruptions from the splitting of North America and Europe to create the Atlantic Ocean. The gases released from under the earth's crust caused flash heating and a loss of oxygen in the oceans. The ichthyosaur survived the event but at a huge price. Its range of shapes and sizes was only one tenth of its former glory.
Research was done by Philippa Thorne, Master in Paleobiology, of the University of Bristol, along with Dr. Marcello Ruta and Professor Michael Benton. "We applied a set of demanding numerical approaches to a data set that contained character codings for all major Triassic and Jurassic ichthyosaurs," said Philippa. "These methods allow us to explore rates of character change through time, and to compare the amount of variation in all aspects of the body shape and adaptations of different groups and different times. We were amazed at the result."
Prior research had already shown that the Early Jurassic period was the heyday for the Icthyosaur. They bounced back from the mass extinction event to become the dominant marine reptile. However, their evolutionary breadth of form had been drastically cut. This shows how a catastrophic environmental event can unexpectedly alter the course of evolution.
This research has been published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Link to published article: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/04/27/1018959108.full.pdf+html


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NEWARK – The Worcester County Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to oppose a request to the state by the County Commissioners to allocate less funding to the local school system.
"I thought that they might have a change of heart," said County Commission President Louise Gulyas. "I thought they might see the economic strain on our county and support us, but that's not going to happen."
Worcester County is facing at least a $12.5 million shortfall in fiscal year 2010.
"Last Friday we were hit by the [Maryland] House [of Representatives]. They want $1.9 million of our income tax money. They're doing that statewide," said Gulyas.
The commissioners applied for a waiver of Maryland's Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requirements this week, allowing them to reduce the county education allocation to 97 percent of last year's school budget request, as mandated by the county in the fall. The county needs a waiver from the state board of education in order to fund the local schools at the lower level and retain all state funding. A less than MOE budget could reduce the state education contribution by hundreds of thousands.
The school board prefers the MOE budget it approved just this week, which reduces the allocation less.
"The only way we can get the budget we just approved is for them not to get a waiver," said Hulburd. "We think the maintenance of effort budget is not where we want to be; we feel legally it's where we have to be."
Gulyas was disappointed at the school board's opposition to the waiver. "It would have sent a message to the commissioners and taxpayers of our county," Gulyas said.
According to school board attorney James Almand, the state requires a statement of support or opposition to the waiver request from the local board by April 10.
A public hearing will be held on the all waiver requests on April 27 in Baltimore. A decision will be made by May 15.
"The burden will be on the county to show by the preponderance of evidence they deserve a waiver," said Almand.
The county could show evidence on tax revenue, rate of inflation and any loss of industry to prove that funding is not available for MOE levels.
Almand suggested notifying parents and teacher associations about the waiver to solicit their testimony in support of MOE level funding.
The letter of opposition should be sure to state the MOE budget still shows a $660,000 reduction in funding, including no cost-of-living raises and no step increases for employees, said board member Jonathan Cook.
The county has other options to deal with revenue decreases, Rothermel said.
Arbitrarily deciding to cut the schools budget by 3 percent does not make a lot of sense, according to Hulburd.
"Some [county] departments should be cut maybe more than 3 percent," Hulburd said. "There's some questionable thinking in just taking a knife and cutting 3 percent."
If the Worcester County waiver request is approved, the county schools will be funded at the lower county-requested level.
Worcester funds three-quarters of the local school budget, more than any other county, because the state funding formula for local jurisdictions looks at tax income, which is high, and school enrollment, which is relatively low.
Few seem optimistic over the chance of success of MOE waiver requests, but Gulyas felt the number of waiver requests made could show the state that counties need the help.
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OCEAN CITY – As the town continues to trim the low hanging fruit, and nears the end of its budget cuts, the hope remains that fee increases will be kept to a minimum.
City Manager Dennis Dare said that the town is "almost through all the cuts that we can make to the budget" and told the Mayor and City Council last week that the savings gained in the citywide "belt-tightening process" has grown to almost $2.5 million.
Dare's first round of cuts saved the town upwards of $1.4 million and with additional cuts in recent months the total has snowballed to the current number.
Approximately $589,000 alone was potentially saved by temporarily revoking the annual 3-percent Cost Of Living Adjustment for non-union town employees for this year and reduction of tram services, city bus service from four buses per shift to three buses and trash pick-up have all gone into increasing the savings for this budget year from the original $1.4 million figure.
"These aren't really cuts per say, this is a new way of thinking at how we operate our town," said Dare.
Increasing efficiency in order to be fiscally responsible seems to be the obvious strategy from City Hall, and Dare even proposed to the council that the total budget might need to cut.
"It seems that everything is down about 10 percent", said Dare, "and I have no idea if it is realistic to expect that we are going to hold the same numbers as last year. If the consensus is that visitor-ship is going to be down this year, then perhaps we should consider reducing the budget."
Public Works Director Hal Adkins described the cuts recently as a three-phase process, that first took care of immediate and "no-brainer" cost savings items, like town vehicle car wash contracts and holiday gift cards given to town employees. The second category, said Adkins while explaining the cuts during the recent ADA bus service reduction public hearing, was to trim the "low hanging fruit."
The final phase, according to Adkins, was to address possible service reduction or revenue enhancement measures that has been seen recently in issues ranging from further cuts to the bus service, which was denied by the council, and Inlet parking lot and off-street fee increases, which is an issue that has been temporarily tabled by the town's elected team of seven.
Councilman Jim Hall's stance for the past several weeks has been to "make all the cuts first, and then increase fees if we have to," and that stance has been supported by several council members and the mayor, most recently, during the debate on whether to add 2 percent to the license fees charged to area businesses.
"I do agree with Jim Hall's notion to make cuts first and then deal with revenue enhancements. That would be a good order of a way to address things," said Meehan.
Pending items on the "budget cuts" list, according to Dare, is the potential alteration to the town's "take home vehicle" policy, and combining the Chamber of Commerce Visitor's Guide with the Sea For Yourself Guide which cost the town more than $92,000 this year despite printing 75,000 less copies and scaling back the number of pages.
Dare said that a "memo of understanding" is in the works to join the two publications and called the move a "win-win" for the town and the chamber.
If the raise in parking rates is in fact passed, the town will see a revenue enhancement of approximately $900,000, a move that Council President Joe Mitrecic hopes to see happen.
"I've always seen parking as a user fee, as in the user pays. You don't have to use that service, but you most certainly can. Is an extra quarter an hour too much to ask for someone to come to a clean beach, swim in an ocean that is well guarded, use all the amenities of the Boardwalk, and know their car will be safe? I personally don't think so," he said.
Dare told the council that he fears the downturn in the economy could stretch at least three budgets years, and perhaps more, and that unknown seems to be driving the council to make all the cuts they can, wherever they can.
Still, some on the council fear that too many fee increases will scare off perhaps an already dwindling number of visitors to the resort, referring to the perception some have that Ocean City is too expensive already.
"I just feel like we are once again pricing ourselves out. Ocean City is just too expensive," said Jim Hall.
Mitrecic said that there is no concrete figure or magic number that will indicate the breaking point for the residents and the visitors of Ocean City.
"I don't know what dollar amount will put visitors over the edge to make them say that they can't afford to come to Ocean City anymore, but I assure you, we are looking at everything and we will take into consideration how it affects our residents and our visitors for years to come," he said.


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New York Fed Chief Sees Mystery in Bond Buying
PHILADELPHIA—Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said on Saturday that some key aspects of how the central bank's bond-buying stimulus effort works remain mysterious.
For over a year, the Fed has been engaged in purchasing Treasury and mortgage bonds in a bid to drive up growth and lower unemployment. Citing an improving economy, the Fed cut the pace of those purchases last month, and many market participants expect a steady reduction to happen over the course of this year.
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I was just wondering if anyone had any insight into the budget web hosting world. I'm currently on a Comcast consumer Internet plan (no static IP) otherwise I'd host my own, but looking at the costs, most of the budget options are pretty reasonable, and would be cost effective in the short term anyways.
My main plan is to host owncloud (http://owncloud.org/) and expand it into a website for myself, but I'll probably try to do most of the web design for the site before making any purchases.
A quick Bing search shows that webhostinghub.com, ipage.com and bluehost.com are all pretty good, but I wanted to see if the TR community had any recommendations one way or another.


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Organizing tip: The "dry run"
Getting out the vote (GOTV) state by state is how we'll win this election. We don't have the luxury of early vote here in Pennsylvania, so we only have 13 hours while polls are open on Election Day to make sure all of our supporters go out and vote.
To make sure we're ready for the big day, we're having nationwide "dry runs" this weekend and next. What does that mean? You can think of a dry run like a dress rehearsal for November 6th. We'll spend the day simulating what we will do on Election Day while talking to key voters across the country.
With hundreds of phone banks and canvasses going on, it's an essential chance to practice our systems and support our volunteers as they take full control of our voter contact programs. Basically, it's the time for our volunteer leaders to test and troubleshoot to make sure those 13 hours are perfect.
If you're volunteering during the dry run this weekend, here are a few things to keep in mind:
Everyone should keep notes and debrief thoroughly with your teams. What worked? What didn't? What do we need to change to be perfect for Election Day?
Never forget that dry runs are one of our last chances to build our teams before the real thing on Election Day. Ask every supporter, every volunteer, and every single person you see to join us for GOTV.


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Uncertainty has increased as Quebec officials ordered Hermon, Maine-based MM&A and two fuel service companies, World Fuel Services Corp. and Western Petroleum Co., to pay for cleanup costs incurred following the disaster. Estimates have placed a cost of at least US$4 million. "The citizens of Quebec are not the ones that will have to pay for this," Quebec Environment Minister Yves-François Blanchet said Monday in a televised news conference.
Maine transportation officials acknowledge that alternatives are being weighed in case MM&A ceases operation. "We're discussing it. I wouldn't be straight with you if I said we were not," Nathan Moulton, director of rail for the Maine Department of Transportation, told Canadian media. "We're preparing. We've talked with our lawyers so that we're prepared, and we're doing our background."
One option is for alternate movement by rail. But at least one MM&A customer, Tafisa Canada, reportedly is considering substituting truck haulage.
But Moulton said Maine officials are already in discussion with other rail operators about shifting traffic, even if only on an emergency basis. A barge-to-rail detour via Albany, N.Y., also is being considered.
MM&A's crude-by-rail service has been delivering product from North Dakota's Bakken formation to a refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick, provided a much-needed financial boost to the short line prior to the Lac-Megantic derailment.


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Nations, Development, and Democracy, 1800-2005 (ICPSR 20440)
Principal Investigator(s): Wejnert, Barbara, University at Buffalo-SUNY
To serve the scholarly community's growing interest in the process of democratization in the world over the past 200 years, this data collection consists of a compiled database that assesses 187 (20 historical and 167 contemporary) sovereign countries from 1800-2005. The database was constructed by merging variables derived from these existing datasets: (1) POLITY III: REGIME TYPE AND POLITICAL AUTHORITY 1800-1994 (Jagger and Gurr 1995) [ICPSR 6695], (2) CROSS-NATIONAL TIME SERIES, 1815-1973 (Banks 1993) [ICPSR 7412], (3) Polity IV (Jagger and Gurr 2005), (4) Political Freedom Indicators (Freedom House 2000), (5) World Development Indicators 1960-1998 (World Bank 1999), and (6) World Development Indicators 1960-2005 (World Bank 2006). In addition, missing variables were coded from the Statesman's Yearbook (2000), the World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators (Taylor and Jodice 1983), Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Relations (Osmanczyk 1982), and the journal, "Freedom Review," published by Freedom House. A sovereign country was defined as an independent member of the international system, which had a population greater than 500,000. In the database, for each sovereign country there are over 120 indicators, annually recorded, that represent: (1) the level of democratic growth, (2) the countries' development depicted by socioeconomic, demographic, and geographical characteristics, and (3) diffusion indicators. In addition, to add precision to the measurement, modifications of the core indicators were also recorded. The database is complimented by an index of variables.
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Wejnert, Barbara. NATIONS, DEVELOPMENT, AND DEMOCRACY, 1800-2005. ICPSR20440-v1. Buffalo, NY: Barbara Wejnert, University at Buffalo-SUNY [producer], 2007. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-12-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20440.v1
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Geographic Coverage: Global
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Universe: The 187 sovereign countries (20 historical and 167 contemporary) that were independent members of the international system and had populations greater than 500,000 from the years 1800 to 2005.
(1) Blank value labels are considered missing. Exceptions involve the variables XRREG, XRCOMP, XCONST, PARREG, PARCOMP, AUTONOMY, FREPRESS, FRDEMNST, EQUALAW, FRCORRUP, and FRPERSON. These were weighted to compare the Freedom House and Jagger and Gurr's scales. These variables were reformated to match the data. (2) The following values are unknown: 0 in PREMIER, 0 in MONO, and .. in IT_TVS_C. (3) The data contain too many values to test the Stata setup file. Variables with several thousand values may need to have the values recoded into groups for testing.
Sample: All sovereign, historical, and contemporary countries in the world with populations greater than 500,000.
Weight: To complement and to test the derived data of Polity III and Polity IV and the World Bank and Banks data, data derived from two different sources on overlapping years were correlated. The obtained correlations' scores were above 0.9. The most complex was testing used to assess Polity III and Polity IV data. For testing of Polity data, the principal investigator rendered the Freedom House scale scores of democracy compatible with Jagger and Gurr's Polity III scale. Accordingly, the 13-point democracy scale used by Freedom House was modified to the 11-point scale used in Polity III. To assess the comparability of the Polity III data with the rescaled Freedom House indicator, the Freedom House indicators were derived for 161 countries for the years 1990-1994, and then correlated with the Polity index for the same years. The correlation was r = 0.97 (p less than 0.01). Each component was weighted 0-3 or 0-4 based on the presence of 2-7 variables per component, and a total democratization score was the sum of the five component weights. The comparability of Polity III with Freedom House data was assessed by correlating the two sets of data, and the obtained correlation score was above 0.90 (p less than 0.01).
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Lady Gaga's Holiday 2011 Workshop at Barneys [Pictures]
Lady Gaga Opens Her Holiday Workshop at Barneys With Cartoons and Couture
>> The long-awaited Gaga's Workshop is now officially open at Barneys in New York.
Lady Gaga was on hand last night — in a custom Chanel couture dress, specially designed by Karl Lagerfeld for the occasion — to cut the ribbon and welcome inside the likes of Prabal Gurung, Carolyn Murphy, and Alexander Wang.
The store's fifth floor is completely transformed until Jan. 2, filled with chocolate Alexander McQueen armadillo shoes, studded press-on nails, and candle replicas of Gaga's head that cry when lit. Inflatable cartoonish sculptures and taxicab wraps promoted the opening around the city, and Barneys's windows, too, have been Gaga-fied. "My favorite window I think is [the] one window that looks like my boudoir and it's covered in blonde hair," Gaga told WWD. "It's gorgeous."
Despite all the expenditure, Barneys expects to break even on the promotion, its chief executive Mark Lee said. Twenty-five percent of the workshop's sales will go to Gaga's new Born This Way Foundation, which focuses on youth empowerment; Lee added that the store hopes to raise over $1 million for the cause.
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Just thought that there might be some interesting and amusing tales from this question.
I was bitten by a caterpillar once! One of the large hairy kinds. It was walking across my hand and apparently decided to stop for a snack. There was a slight picking sensation and, probably realising I was not a leaf, the creature carried on walking. There was a tiny red mark on the palm of my hand for weeks afterwards.
A lion (true - only a cub, but still a real lion, and born wild!).
Wow, that sounds exciting! Do tell us more! I assume the mother wasn't around or she'd have had you for breakfast.
Not very exciting... I was in a national park in Africa where three lion cubs had been taken care of as their mother had died. One of them took a bite at my leg - but "luckily" mainly caught my trousers. It was just a little larger than an ordinary domestic cat. But - it still counts! I have survived an attack of a lion - I'm one of the lucky few!
Yours must have been a caterpillar of the 'palm' tree moth..... apparently a new species evolved from the current trend of exotic gardening!!??....
Mine?.... difficult but I can only think of my Koi who nibble the ends of my fingers when I hand feed them.... Sorry not very exciting I'm afraid, much prefer your 'palm' tree moth caterpillar!!
Palm tree moths, LOL!!! Good one!!!
Re "Evolving into a new species", speciation is not the same as, and cannot lead to, evolution. That is: a caterpillar/moth cannot evolve into enything more than another species of caterpillar/moth. There is no evidence that caterpillars and cats, for example, could have had a common ancestor.
Mustn't go on though, this is supposed to be a fun thread.
I've been bitten by a 4.5 foot Iguana, an Eel, a Bat, and an ex Girlfriend.
Re the ex girlfriend, you know what Kipling said, "The female of the species is more deadly than the male".
Was bitten by a tiny (2mm) snail once. Had it on my palm like you did with your caterpillar, and the snail started rasping the skin -- it actually drew a spot of blood lol.
Also, was bitten on the ankle by an English bull terrier once, and seized on the right thumb by a massive mud crab (although the former isn't exactly unusual, and the latter, strictly speaking, wasn't a bite). Both dog and crab also drew blood.
Not me but my now ex-wife. I was peacefully reading when I heard her screaming coming from the bathroom. I hastened up stairs to find her in some pain clutching her hand which showed two distinct puncture marks on the palm below her thumb. She'd picked her towel up off the floor as she went to get out of the bath, felt the bite and saw a spider attached to her hand. She shook her hand and flung the spider away. In as little as 30 seconds the wound site was quite inflamed. She described the pain as worse than a wasp sting. I managed to find the spider alive and apparently unharmed. I then found a piece of software from a university website that helped me id it. Unfortunately, I have lost this in the 10 years since but I well remember feeling very pleased with myself identifying Scotophaeus Blackwalli The Mouse Spider. I very much like spiders so she was quickly released before any revenge could be sought.
coral snake when I was 8, I don't remember much of it, just that my mom thought I had tried to shave my legs.


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What is with this gimmick and putting a spaghetti monster on a Christmas tree? That is what spouted me off. Oh yes, people put their pets on as decorations now and now, a spaghetti monster for a tree topper? Say what? What is with the emails? What? You can't read?
I am mad. That is why statues of Mary weep. You don't know me from Adam, but where I come from the spaghetti monster on top of a tree is just WRONG. Anyhow, I pray for miracles like the Drew St. miracle.
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Troy Pearce is the CEO of Pearce Systems, a private security firm that is the best in the world at drone technologies. A former CIA SOG operative, Pearce used his intelligence and combat skills to hunt down America's sworn enemies in the War on Terror. But after a decade of clandestine special ops, Pearce opted out. Too many of his friends had been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency. Now Pearce and his team chose which battles he will take on by deploying his land, sea, and air drones with surgical precision.
Pearce thinks he's done with the U.S. government for good, until a pair of drug cartel hit men assault a group of American students on American soil. New U.S. president Margaret Meyers then secretly authorizes Pearce Systems to locate and destroy the killers sheltered in Mexico. Pearce and his team go to work, and they are soon thrust into a showdown with the hidden powers behind the El Paso attack - unleashing a host of unexpected repercussions.
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"average with good ideas"
As I said everything is there but unfortunately they character and writing isn't. Boyd are rushed that shouldn't be rushed and stuff that should be rushed is agonised over. Tom Clancy lite would be the comparison.
"Drone just seemed to Drone on and on and..."
I have listened to Jason Culp before. He is not in my top 10 favorite narrators but he is not the worst either.
I'm not sure. I found myself checking how much more time was left a little too often. I found my mind wandering but had to finish just because.
I purchased this book because I noticed that a second book in this series was just released and I have had this one in my wish list for a very long time but was hesitant based on some of the reviews I had read.
"Where is Maden's next novel?"
Having run out of books by my favorite authors (Griffin, Clancy, Flynn, Demille, etc) to read, I was looking for something new to spend my most recent credit on. I came across Mike Maden's Drone. In an age where a large bit of our military capability has been outsourced to private military contractors, this book seemed to be incredibly timely and indicative of the world we currently live in. The story was riveting and kept a nice pace all the way through. I felt that the end was a little weak, but not enough to take away from the overall story. It was good enough that I hope we will see more from Maden, and his character Troy Pierce.
"Clancy-like Story, New Action Character"
Mike Maden might be a successor to Tom Clancy. Drone is a terrific story with a great performance.
"Unsatisfying Ending but Good Story"
I had to mark this one down because I did not much care for the ending, but overall it was a good listen. I think in many respects when I listen to a novel of this variety I am thinking that there will likely be a sequel. I am almost certain, however, that there won't be one here. I don't think this one is set up that way. It's an interesting premise and there were only a few things that made me go "hmmmm." Definitely worth a listen, but likely not to be your favorite book.
"Very good in every respect."
So nice to listen to a story that grabs you at the first word and holds on to you through out.
"Too much editorializing"
Good story and excellent performance until the editorializing started about three quarters of the way through the book. However still enjoyed the book.
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Lebanese superstar Fadel Shaker has denied rumors that he was involved in a car accident while visiting Monoco, thus forcing him to cancel all singing performances for the remainder of the summer season.
According to the London daily Elaph, Fadel's manager announced that Fadel is doing well and also denied the accident, yet confirmed that Fadel had canceled some of his performances in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. He said that Fadel became ill in Monico while performing, and his doctors advised him to cancel his performances. Fadel will start his concert tour in Tunisia next week, where he will host four concerts, including the Carthage music festival. After finishing his summer tour Fadel will return to Beirut to work on his upcoming album to be released during the "Eid Al Fiter" (Muslim holiday after Ramadan) season.
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How to Have an Orgasm
Author: Claire Cavanah
Science tells us that orgasms are the involuntary muscle spasms that come with the release of sexual tension. This stark definition does not even hint at the variety of orgasmic experiences available to the willing pleasure seeker. With a little persistence and a lot of openness, each of us can tap into our own orgasmic potential.
Orgasms range in intensity from a sweet ripple of pleasure around the genitals to a roaring, curling wave of energy through the entire body. Every orgasm is a duet of tension and relaxation: a combination of striving and letting go, of making it happen and letting it happen.
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- Get turned on! Explore your erotic mind by reading sexy fiction, watching explicit movies or writing a fantasy of your own. If you're new to adult films, try one by a female director. Ask yourself, "What makes me wet?" Revel and indulge in the answer.
- Experiment. Try rubbing your clit using different motions: stop and start, left and right, around the clock. Pay attention to what feels good and do more of that.
- Breathe. Take deep breaths so you can move the sexual energy throughout your body. You can also help further your arousal by breathing deeply, rather than holding your breath as you get closer to coming.
- Add a vibrator. Sometimes a vibrator can carry on where a tired hand or tongue cannot. The steady buzz of a good vibrator on or around the clitoris can solve one common problem—insufficient clitoral stimulation. The Hitachi Magic Wand, Rabbit Habit, and Jimmyjane Form 2 are three of our favorites for powerful and varied stimulation.
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- Tease yourself. When you hit a plateau of sexual tension, back away from it, breathe deeply, then start again. The sexual energy can build in cycles, each more intense than the last. Take your time and remember to keep breathing. Consistent, deep breathing helps with relaxation—holding your breath can forestall coming.
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Sex negativity in our culture, especially toward women, can inhibit our growth as sexual beings and our understanding of our own sexual response. Fortunately, we have the freedom to question what we have been taught about sex, and to heal the wounds we uncover as we explore our desires. There are lots of places to go for encouragement on the road to sexual fulfillment. Betty Dodson's original masturbation manifesto Sex For One continues to school women in sexual self-awareness and satisfaction. Our own guide, Moregasm: Babeland's Guide to Mind-Blowing Sex can help lead you to orgasmic bliss by yourself, with a partner, and/or with the help of a sex toy. To help heal the wounds of sexual abuse, we strongly recommend Staci Haines' Healing Sex. When we choose to open up to our own sexuality throughout our lives, there is no limit to the growth we can experience and the pleasure we can find.


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Everyone team has that, you derp.
I just had a chance to watch Friday's game for the first time. We look absolutely atrocious in those paneled tops with the teletubby pouch. Sorry if this has already been discussed but I did not see it.
The more I watched, the more I realized it's not even worth my time to dig up screenshots and put a decent effort behind organizing my thoughts.
We look good in the matte part -- let's keep consistent and go all matte. Or, we look good in all mesh like last year's -- let's keep consistent and go all mesh.
You know what doesn't work?
Looking like a four-square court. Looking like every one of our players has an excessively sweaty midriff and armpits.
To the fan, we look like a complete fashion wreck. To the other team, we look un-intimidating, like a damn bunch of kangaroos or teletubbies. To our own team, we look excessively sweaty and out of shape.
I don't see how anyone benefits from this situation, aside from Nike who pitched some new hideous experimental design to the Jets, and Woody who was stupid enough to sign off on it.
Woody, WTF is this???
Everyone team has that, you derp.
Not watching the Seahawks game, huh?
I have not had a chance to watch football all weekend so I have not been watching other games closely. If every team does have it, then it certainly isn't the organization to blame then, I apologize.
From the highlights I've seen of other games it did not stand out to me, perhaps green on dark green is one of the worst combos to have it for. No idea what Nike is thinking making this a league wide mandate. But at least we're not the only ones looking terrible. Sorry for the misplaced ire.
Just wondering am I the only one that really doesn't care what the Unis look like? I have read so many comments on this. Honestly I barely noticed or cared.
Some teams don't have it as bad (Vikes, Broncos, etc), but then there are teams like us and the 49ers that it looks pretty terrible. The problem seems to only be with the home jerseys since the sweat doesn't darken the white away jerseys (from what I can tell).
Hopefully Nike and the NFL will do something about this next year, but you never know.
Those are just a few samples. We're not the only ones dealing with ugly jerseys. At least our design isn't crap.
What changed other than different materials were used by Nike to make the unis more comfortable?
Oh wait, how you perceive the unis to look on TV is much more important, what were we thinking.
Then again you're tag line calls for the ugly middle ages unis over our classic original unifrom.
Last edited by Jet Nut; 08-12-2012 at 01:50 AM.
It hit the Patriots too, we're not alone here.
Only team not affected by this is the Cowboys, who only wear their white uniforms. Nike has to figure out a way to match the colors on the different fabrics.
I like the hi-tech mismatched panel look.
Last edited by jetrider; 08-14-2012 at 01:50 AM.
I've never ignored anyone on these forums before (it's quite silly) but it's about to start with you my friend.
I wouldn't be opposed to a matte top and mesh all the way around the bottom. Creating four distinct squares of mesh is ridiculous, especially when sweat-dampened mesh is drastically darker than the dry mesh.
Really, I called you a moron?
Maybe you need to study a little harder?
I asked how and what Woody did to change the uniforms. And yes, I find it ridiculous that people are so wrapped up by the change in materials of the uniforms that we needed multiple threads dealing with this topic
You just called yourself a moron though, I didn't, congrats.
And trust me on this, in no way do I lead a sad life. That you get this worked up over a league wide uniform change that you had to start a thread and then accuse the owner of having a hand in this, then went after me for no reason says more for your existence than mine.
Last edited by Jet Nut; 08-12-2012 at 04:51 AM.
Im more interested in the persons wearing the unis than the unis.
No uni in NFL history was as ugly as those hideous electric disco green duds with the matching green helmets from the 80s that symbolized the rock bottom Kotite era for the Jets
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Final installment of 'Harry Potter' makes a fitting end to a decade-long series that even a Muggle can appreciate
ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor
There's a tonal shift in the final installment of the Harry Potter series, part 2 of The Deathly Hallows, that's almost arrestingly apart from what has preceded it. Maybe it's the sense of finality that the story is truly coming to an end, a sentimental summing up that resolves most of the plot threads, explains just why Harry is so important and how Voldemort will finally be defeated. That coda gives us a sense of closure.
That the film works so well is astonishing, considering that Part 1, which came out eight months ago, was so disastrously heavy and convoluted. This one, dark as pitch, benefits from well-conceived set pieces and a streamlined arc.
Still, this Potter is a good 20 minutes shorter than the average for the series, and includes an epilogue well after the slightly unsatisfying climax. Given how it serves as the grand capstone to a popular series, you'd think they could have found time to, for instance, remind us what the deathly hallows of the title are. (None of the films has ever recapped important plot points, the way the Lord of the Rings series did — and that was just three films, not eight spread over 10 years.)
So, prepare to go in either expecting to have to relearn some facts: Voldemort divided his soul into several "horcruxes" which Harry, Hermione and Ron are trying to find and destroy; meanwhile, the Death Eaters are ruling Hogwarts under the iron thumb of Snape.
There are still some nearly insurmountable incongruities that only the most devoted fans could heedlessly overlook (how is it Voldemort and Harry can see inside each others' brains, but never know where the other is? If they can fly instantly through space-time, how does a creaky metal fence act as such a devastating barrier? etc.). And Steven Kloves' script is problematic and cliché-filled (Snape actually delivers the line, "Some of you are probably wondering why I summoned you here at this hour").
But director David Yates has assembled some thrilling action sequences and added a Gothic flair that add weight and urgency. The siege of Hogwarts is a special effects extravaganza that evokes some real thrills and awesome moments, such as a phalanx of stone warriors defending the school against an onslaught of giants. It also affords some of the long-standing characters the opportunity to emerge from the shadows of the series, including a defiant Prof. McGonagall (Maggie Smith) and the dopey Neville Longbottom as a surprise hero.
The thrust of the film, though, is explaining just why Harry is so special, and Daniel Radcliffe, who literally grew up before our eyes in the role, shows a remarkable maturity amid all the hoo-ha. I still maintain that the movies border on incoherence, but you can't deny the sincerity with which Radcliffe has always tackled the material, often sharing screen-time with some of the preeminent British actors of their age. When all is said and done, you cannot help but care for Harry and be vested in what happens to him. On that score, The Deathly Hallows Part 2 does not disappoint.
On the inside with a wizard: Dallas' gay-friendly Harry Potter club
For some people, the Harry Potter series amounts to a good read, a franchise to criticize or a childish fantasy blown out of proportion. For others, though, it's a way of life, the basis of friendships, even a social necessity.
For me, Harry Potter was the cornerstone of my adolescence. Prior to reading the series, I was little more than a home-schooled recluse. A three-month trip to Australia left me without much to do but read, and during my banishment, I devoured the entire series within weeks.
After returning to the Dallas, I joined the Harry Potter Dallas-Fort Worth club (HP DFW), an LGBT-friendly group of like-minded fans who shared my passion for the series. The group meets twice a month to discuss aspects of the books and movies. I was soon absorbed in the family-like atmosphere of the club and the intricacies of the fandom.
Members get together to not only argue over the pros and cons of house elves, but also to dress up as our favorite characters, attend Potter conventions and hold our own Potter-related parties.
I'm now the co-organizer for the group ("Filch of the Forums" is my formal title), and one of the many LGBT-identified individuals who are active in it. Like the characters in the series itself, HP DFW is an open-minded and supportive family of accepting nerds. And even Muggles are welcome.
— Draconis von Trapp
For more information, visit Meetup.com/hp-dfw
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition July 15, 2011.


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USA County Highpoints > U.S. State Highpoints > Panorama Point > Climber's Log
Panorama Point Climber's Log
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Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2012
|Drove right up to the summit. Nice, quiet area.
|Posted Jan 27, 2014 12:13 am
|2nd Highpoint of the Day
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2013
|Drove up from Mount Sunflower in Kansas through endless flat lands. Nice monument except the railing around it :( [with Pocket Rocks]
|Posted Jan 13, 2014 11:42 pm
Date Climbed: Nov 28, 2013
|Thanksgiving Day highpoint!
|Posted Dec 11, 2013 11:47 pm
|Panorama Point
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2005
|Nice country. I saw a bison.
|Posted Nov 24, 2013 8:40 am
|State High Point # 26
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2011
|After a successful trip up Mt. Elbert my friend and I stopped to summit Nebraska. Even though it may not be a mountain I still enjoy HP's like this. I love listening to silence out in the middle of nowhere. Watched the sun go down then continued on our way back to WI.
|Posted Jul 27, 2013 11:50 pm
|Jimmy Rivers
|Flat lands
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2013
|Didn't see a person for miles and miles. 1st HP on a 6 state trip. State HP #21
|Posted Jul 21, 2013 11:32 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2013
|Flew in to Denver and drove straight here. Views for miles, albeit flat views.
|Posted Jul 8, 2013 1:38 am
|Panorama Point
Date Climbed: May 28, 2013
|Interesting place. We visited on the Tuesday after Memorial Day. Several register entries from the weekend. Also visited the nearby NE, CO, WY state tri-point. Thanks to the landowners for allowing public access.
|Posted Jun 25, 2013 1:37 pm
Date Climbed: Mar 11, 2013
|made it just before dusk after an all day drive from central Kansas, also visited the KS-NE-CO and NE-CO-WY tri-points on the same day
|Posted Apr 11, 2013 1:07 am
|1st of two
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2013
|lovely drive
|Posted Mar 26, 2013 4:16 pm
Date Climbed: Dec 18, 2002
|After an all encompassing drive from my sister's house in Des Moines, Iowa, totaling 621 miles, I finally arrived at Panarama Point. I decided to stop off at an old abandoned school house just four or so miles down gravel roads from the actual high point. The land was so open, not a soul in sight. As I drove, throwing up dust in my past, I passed a farmhouse just like the directions said. The cattle guard was next. I stopped the car and took an envelope used to collect the two buck entrance fee, left an offering, then moved on through the rubber hose spring gate. I jumped out and snapped a picture of the roaming bison. Turning at the second cattle guard, I knew I was close. Just up the hill. It was a cold, 30's, and I wasn't dressed for the weather. After reaching the monument, I leapt out the Jeep. The register was interesting. It was comprised of two books, I wrote in the latter of the second. To read other people's comments was something different than expected. I never once thought of other people's experiences on the highpoint trail. One interesting note was written on 9.11.1 and opened with simply, "Sad Day". It then went on to talk about how the group was going to keep on with their highpoint trip. Written in bold letters were words from John Lennon's "Imagine". Another page revealed the last people there before I was four days previous. I'm sure you run into people sometimes. So I drank a Miller High Life and sailed off to snowy Frisco, Colorado.
|Posted Jan 19, 2013 8:12 pm
|with my Brother
Date Climbed: Apr 30, 2011
|cold and bitter
|Posted Dec 28, 2012 1:39 pm
|Highpoint #38
Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2012
|And it's now $3 per person to visit. Still, ...
|Posted Jul 11, 2012 11:18 am
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2012
|The anomalous terrain of Pine Bluffs was a tease, as it flattened back out, but still worth seeing. Where were the buffalo?
|Posted Jul 10, 2012 8:00 pm
|Buffalo On The Move
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2012
|Great look at the buffalo herd trotting by. The contrast between the open skies of this HP and Mount Elbert two days earlier ... well, that's highpointing. HP #20.
|Posted Jun 24, 2012 2:45 pm
|With my wife
Date Climbed: Jun 1, 2012
|My wife doesn't often get to chase a state highpoint since all the ones I've done pretty much are in the west but it was fun to be able to share this one with her. We had also planned to go get North and South Dakota but a bad wheel bearing in my truck made us head home so I could get the thing fixed.
Oh yes, we stopped at the rest area off exit 401 and got a map that really helped find the HP from the information center located there.
|Posted Jun 3, 2012 7:50 am
|Plus Tri - State Marker
Date Climbed: Nov 13, 2011
|After Panorama Point we visited the Tri-State marker. Note the Tri-State Marker sign is gone. Turn off where the dirt meets the pavement.
|Posted Nov 13, 2011 7:44 pm
Date Climbed: May 30, 2010
|This was a 2nd HP on a road trip after getting promoted to Capt in the USAF (Kansas was #1). did a detour into CO/WY before looping back into Nebraska. saw the triple point too. nice easy drive, great weather.
|Posted Sep 28, 2011 11:07 pm
Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2011
|This was a nice break for me. I met some other Highpointers there as well. I signed the log beneath their names and 2 days later I saw their names in the log at the Kansas HP!
|Posted Sep 5, 2011 11:31 am
|First of four
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2011
|Had a fun ride out from Denver to do this drive-thru high point as the first of four I just did on a fantastic 10-day vacation. Coming from Massachusetts, I actually enjoyed the farm and grassland landscape on the way, and saw a couple of herds of bison from the summit marker - cool stuff. HP #6
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A recent shortage of ADHD medications in the U.S. led to a lot of debate around whether all of those folks diagnosed with ADHD really do have the disorder.
Do you think everyone diagnosed with ADHD has it?
Why or why not?
(If you have ADHD or think you may have, you can get support and expert answers on our ADHD community here at WebMD.)
It just seems so odd that there has been such an increase in the number of folks diagnosed. Yes, you can say that we are just learning more about human behavior and identifying people who were slipping through the cracks, but how many kids act up in school because they just need a few minutes of the day to run around and be kids? Many of these kids also attend structured after school programs and are involved in sports with their siblings to the point where they don't have any time to play at home either.
I have no doubt some people really do suffer, but how many are just a product of an environment that teaches the 10 second attention span and doesn't teach people to focus or are a product of a learning environment that doesn't give them the tools to succeed.
I was diagnosed at age 19. It changed my life dramatically for the better. I currently do not take medications, but I know many people who need them to function at home, work and school.
So. the FDA and manufacturers need to get their act together and supply these legal medications to patients legitimately prescribed them!
That said, there needs to be a better system in place for drug manufacturing as a whole. There are a record number of drug shortages because so many of the off patent drugs out there are vital for treatment of various illnesses, but generics turn so little profit, the manufacturers don't feel pressured to ensure their supply.
For many ADHD/ADD patients it is only the generic that is in short supply. There is plenty of name brand, but how many patients can afford their copay jumping from $10 to $200?
For anonymous, true ADHD/ADD is a chemical imbalance in the brain. I don't know that the learning environment would have an effect on that. But honestly, giving elementary kids 2 15 minute recesses during the day would probably make things easier. When I was in school we had recess and then time after lunch to play before going back to class. Not to mention unstructured play is good for a child's mental development. Gym is great for exercise and will help, but so many schools are getting rid of gym or decreasing it's frequency. And of course kids aren't getting exercise at home in some cases, which makes things worse.
I was in the lobby of an elementary school a year ago, waiting on my then-4 yr old daughter to finish speech therapy. The kids in first grade were being herded into the gym at the time for a new program that involved learning while moving - wish I knew the name - but skills were practiced while the whole body engaged in the activity, (like climbing a ladder while naming the picture or concept on each rung, that kind of thing). The principal, standing near the entryway, said that previous "wisdom" was that letting kids run around first thing in the morning would make them hyper and unmanageable throughout the rest of the day - but she was amazed to find that the exercise actually contributed to their learning and settled them down to learn the rest of the day. I wanted to to say "duh"... we need more free play (unstructured learning) to better focus our kids for the structure of their school day.
If the former, yes, the epidemiological research has been exhaustive and conclusive. In fact, most experts quickly conced that the numbers are most likely conservative, especially the 4.1% figure for adults.
As I write in my book (Is It You, Me, or Adult A.D.D.?). that 4.1% figure is based on diagnostic criteria that was developed for children's ADHD symptoms, most specifically boys. That means many Adult ADHD-related challenges weren't even included in the criteria. The experts I interviewed put the more accurate figure at closer to 15% of adults having ADHD.
To me, it is extremely easy to see this likelihood. Just look at the percentage of the adult population in the U.S. who has dropped out of high school, is un- or under-employed, suffering substance abuse problems and obesity, in bankruptcy, and more. These are all risks of untreated ADHD. And the numbers are shockingly high.
If the latter question is what you mean -- do diagnosing professionals make mistakes? Well, of course. Especially with psychiatric syndromes, it can be difficult for the non-expert to distinguish one condition from another (for example, ADHD from bi-polar).
But this is not limited to psychiatric conditions. Modern medicine has become the domain of specialists who often do not understand physical systems beyond the one they have studied (e.g. cardiovascular). They often do not understand the intricate interplay of all physical systems, especially when it comes to the effect of going without exercise, proper nutrition, etc.
All that said, in my experience, most people who have read carefully about ADHD and developed a strong suspicion that they have it have usually been right. Sadly, this often comes after years of misdiagnosis and ensuing treatment that often exacerbated their condition. I am thinking primarily of adults with ADHD who were diagnosed and long treated for "depression" or "anxiety" and their ADHD symptoms completely missed.
That's not to say that homeschooling isn't a viable option for many. It's when it's used as an "escape" from dealing with ADHD-related challenges that it proves problematic, in my opinion. It simply prolongs the opportunity to receive real and lasting help.
Also, the newer, sustained-action formulations are delivered into the system in a much less disruptive way than the old formulations are, often with a jagged roller coaster throughout the day. Not to mention the inherent irony of asking forgetful people to take 2-3 doses throughout the day.
Actually, some research has shown children with ADHD experience more stress, not less with unstructured time. One study showed that these kids experience more stress on the weekends (unstructured time) than during the school week. And I can assure you many adults with ADHD are the same way.
What that teacher was doing sounds like a different thing entirely -- activating the body to activate the mind. That's very structured.
As for exercise in the morning, Dr. John Ratey documented the increased academic success that one Naperville, IL school enjoyed by implementing structured exercise each morning.
Thanks so much for coming over from the ADHD board and chiming in with your wisdom!
Phoenix, your post is so right on. My son has it and was properly diagnosed but this type of environment in his young years made it even more difficult to deal with.
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Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint Noise-Canceling Headphones
Lately, it seems like every manufacturer wants a piece of the market for high-end noise-canceling headphones, a business invented and more or less dominated by Bose. Last year, I reviewed that company's QuietComfort 3 headphones and was nearly breathtaken by their $349 price, but they proved so likeable I was hard-pressed to hammer them for being expensive. As I wrote in my review for Sound & Vision's Web site, the QC 3s, which boast a lightweight on-ear design, were extremely comfortable for lengthy listening sessions (for me, at least). And their sound was cannily balanced, providing just enough of a bump in the upper bass to give a sense of fullness (but not boominess) with most recordings and just enough of a rolloff in the highs to avoid sizzle that can become fatiguing. By year's end, I had probably logged several hundred hours with my QC 3s, and we honored Bose with one of our 2006 Editors' Choice Awards.
Recently, Audio-Technica and Sennheiser, two companies that know a thing or two about both headphones and good sound, introduced models that take square aim at the same customer. The subject of this review, the Audio-Technica ATH-ANC7 QuietPoint noise-canceling headphones, sell for $220 - about 35% less than the QC 3s - and, as you'll read, also proved highly recommendable. But whereas the Bose phones create a seductive sound that many listeners will find appealing, the A-Ts have a refreshing accuracy that speaks to a completely different experience. You might call these two headsets the yin and yang of noise-canceling phones.
FEATURES The ANC7 headphones feature a nice black-and-silver, sculpted earcup design made of an obviously high-impact molded plastic. A small slider switch with a blue LED on the left cup activates the noise-canceling circuit. A couple of small mesh screens on each cup protect the embedded microphones used to process the ambient noise. The phones have a nice solidity to them; the pivots for the earcups are thick and strong, and they gave the impression of being able to withstand a fall (although I didn't test this). The earpads are covered in faux leather and also appear to be made of top-grade materials.
Like the Bose phones, the ANC7s come in their own hard case with a velvet-covered, molded insert to protect them for storage and travel. Make no mistake: These are not compact phones, and they require a serious commitment of briefcase or backpack space to carry around. The ANC7s' case is well finished in black woven canvas, and there's a zippered web pocket that Velcros to the inside cover to hold the 1.6-meter (5.2-foot) headphone cord and the two plug adapters that come with the phones: a mini-to-dual-mini for airline use and a mini-to-quarter-inch for a receiver or preamp. As with the QC 3s, the cord is fully detachable so the phones can be used for noise canceling alone without a dangling wire. This cord has standard stereo mini-plugs on either side, but Audio-Technica has thoughtfully made one a right-angle plug; either works at the headphone end so you can reverse the cable as needed to accommodate your source.


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A federal judge earlier this month blocked the law's enforcement while it's being challenged in court.
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Currently the version of ASM bundled in Clojure is pretty old (circa 2005). There are some documented performance improvements in newer versions of ASM that should speed up some things in Clojure. We would like to move to the latest stable version of ASM (4.1); the current Clojure code uses 3.3.1.
Release notes for ASM 4.0 and 4.1.
It may not be the desired approach, but CLJ-713 has a patch related to this.
Open Questions to Resolve
Some open questions:
- Should we use ASM jar as is (make the dependency public) or use re-rooted versions that cannot conflict?
- Scala: 2.10+ uses ASM 4.1, subsetted, and rerooted to scala.tools.asm
- Groovy: 2.1 (latest stable) uses ASM 4.0 external, 2.2 (next) uses ASM 4.1 external
- JRuby: 1.7.4 (latest stable) uses ASM 4.1 (I think), subsetted, and rerooted to org.jruby.org.objectweb.asm
- Recommend: re-root to avoid conflicts
- What (if anything) needs to be done with computing stack frames to satisfy bytecode verification changes in JDK 7?
- If using a re-rooted version should that version be provided in a separate jar for separability in environments which do not need it?
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"We have 59,000 people in Pope County and almost 19 percent are living below the poverty line," president Lori Grace said. "We want to help someone realize the American dream of owning their own home."
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I think we are doing MUCH better than anyone had expected.
I think we are doing MUCH better than anyone had expected.
Its so great how we are demolishing teams without our backup center and PF healthy yet.
Pablo with 2 points!! Whoohoo!
lol all the money sheed has made guy cant get a decent haircut????
Stout defense 2 straight games. If Holliday wasn't going bonkers this could have been a 25 point win.
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I like the way we only allow 84 points!
Yay, I love winning.
Especially when it involves great defense.
I apologize guys, thank you Crazy for covering for me.
I got home late last night...public transportation is madness in NYC right now, everything is delayed, an hour commute becomes two hours and thirty minutes.
Great performance by the Knicks today.
But what do we expect?
Knicks are an A level defensive team.
It'll be very hard for NBA teams to score 90 against them.
It may be too early to say this, but Knicks have the talent and experienced players to preform this type of defense every night.
Especially with Carmelo Anthony committed to defense now, Knicks got the defense on lock.
To start with a 2-0 record is great (I believe Wonsson came up with an interesting stat that last time this happened was in the 99-00 season); that we achieved this stat playing against the heat and sixers is even better. There's something about this old school setup that inspires confidence in this team. I also think they are helping Woodson assert himself and embed his old school, hardcore defensive style of play that the NBA so dearly misses. So far so good.


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Wrong. There are plenty of published and peer reviewed studies that do show injury, such as adjuvant induced autoimmune diseases. There are also issues of ineffectiveness, bad batches, etc. and things like serotype replacement where bugs mutate into something even worse. We know of several events in history where vaccines HAVE directly caused harm, such as the polio outbreak in Nigeria that was directly caused by the oral polio vaccine and the swine flu vaccine that caused GBS. It's also a widely accepted fact that for a very small portion of population, there will be significant adverse reaction. It's not universal that all vaccines are good, safe and infallible; you can't lump them all together in one basket.
Now, I'm definitely not arguing that all vaccines are ineffective either and agree the anti-vax crew do have a lot of crazy theories that are unproven or anecdotal (including some comments made by the OP). But on both sides of the vaccine debate there is a lot of misinformation. And the problem IMO is that there should be NO area of science where we're not constantly evaluating, but for some reason, this is one of the only areas where questions do not seem to be allowed. Instead of people showing why you're wrong, they yell at you for even asking questions. I've experienced this firsthand on many occasions.


text: Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Joe Landman wrote: > >> I took a simple GSL program I used to introduce students to GSL, that >> was a modified example from one of the GSL example files. Basically a >> little Hooke's law bit to use as input to an LU solver. Really short >> GSL program. > > Joe, > > Since you clearly have time on your hands and a mission (a GOOD thing, Time, ... no. I thought it could be done quickly based on discussions/past experience with other things. Mission? I dunno :) I have other projects of fairly high priority. When you have a business, priority always goes towards the things that put food on the table, everything else is icing. > mind you:-) you might try SWIG (link on the previous post). It looked > to be relatively easy to use, and MIGHT manage heavy lifting. If you > really want to try to hook the GSL into perl, that is (an interesting > proposition, actually, but I think a pretty major project and an > associated long-term maintenance problem unless you want to port it and > forget it). Someone did something like this with PDL, so it is possible that most of the work has been done. I am in the middle of a number of paying projects, so the non-paying ones take a back seat. >> What I discovered is that it doesn't take much to make this not work. >> :( Specifically passing arrays and vectors back and forth between >> C/Perl is hard (IMO). > > Well, remember that in the GSL arrays and vectors and so on are > themselves often, nay usually, structs and not just flat memory blocks > packed into standard **...pointer sets. I actual worked through them > all once upon a time when trying to develop and extension of the GSL > "matrix" type called "tensor" -- IIRC a matrix in the GSL is a block > (itself a structured type) with additional metadata, and is something of > an opaque data type where you have to (or rather, given that it is C, > are "supposed to") access components via get/set functions from the > OUTside. It wasn't terribly extensible to a generalized **..***tensor All OO (and GSL is OO in its interface) really want you to go through their accessors. Basically where I got stuck was that I had to write the retrieval dereferencer for a Perl object in C, and then store that in GSL. Thought I could do that quickly, 1/2 hour in and I punted :) > type of even moderate dimension, so I redid a lot of the basic pieces to > flatten them out and make them a bit less objectoid and end up with a > gsl-ish tensor type up to the 8th or 9th rank. Alas, the change would > have broken too many functions (I guess) and was not warmly embraced, so > the GSL still doesn't have a proper tensor beyond second rank. The beauty of OO is that you could in theory change the underlying basic types and not break the method. The danger is that it adds so much abstraction that data manipulation gets real slow. Like going through an accessor function. Something I was thinking about yesterday were ways to mitigate this. Basically for arrays, you can (carefully) construct a good C array, and layer metadata in a separate array, and create a "high speed" accessor interface to provide effectively the normal (*..*) array semantics. I think it is a solvable problem. > The real question about SWIG and friends is where one can draw the line. > Any decent library has an API and its own data structs and macros and > prototypes and so on. Most of these types are available to the end user > only via #include files -- the library itself is simply relocatable code > designed to pull those objects out of the right places when routines > within it are called. An encapsulation program has to be ALMOST as > smart as a compiler/linker, then -- it has to be able to parse out > arbitrary data types from C source and map them not-too-badly into perl > compatible memory constructs. This is NOT necessarily easy, since I > might well have something like: > > typedef struct { > int xdim; > int ydim; > int zdim; > double ***tensor; > } MyTensor; > > and might want to encapsulate: > > MyTensor *newtensor(int xdim; int ydim; int zdim) > { > int i,j; > MyTensor *tensor; > > tensor = (MyTensor *)malloc(sizeof(MyTensor)); > > tensor->xdim = xdim; > tensor->tensor = (double ***)malloc(xdim*sizeof(double **)); > for(i=0;i<xdim;i++){ > tensor->tensor[i] = (double **)malloc(ydim*sizeof(double *)); > for(j=0;j<ydim;j++){ > tensor->tensor[i][j] = (double *)malloc(zdim*sizeof(double)); > } > } > return(tensor); > } > > (with no error checking or initialization yet, of course). This is an > obviously useful construct, although I would generally allocate all the > actual memory for the tensor in a single block and do displacement > arithmetic to pack the pointers into tensor->tensor[i][j] instead of the > last malloc to ensure a contiguous block and retain the ability to pass > the entire array as a (void *) pointer to a block of data. > > What is SWIG/perl supposed to do with this? Well, you can create typemaps in perl which tell it what to do with it. This is where you would need some metadata magic on the SV/AV types to make sense of this in perl. And you are right, this might be where you could exploit SWIG to do the heavy lifting. > What would perl do if I > allocated a VECTOR of MyTensor **tensors so that dereferencing a > particular element would look like tensor[i]->tensor[j][k][l] with loops > that ran from 0 to tensor[i]->xdim etc.? If this isn't bad enough, what > would perl do with a linked list (another common enough construct), > especially a SPECIALIZED linked list whose members contained entire data > structs? Hmmm. Perl (and the other dynamic languages) are smart enough to deal with arrays/hashes of anything, including other arrays and hashes. So if you wanted to create what you are talking about there in pure perl package tensor; use base qw(Class::Accessor); 1; use tensor; $tensor = tensor->new( xdim => 10, ydim => 10, zdim => 10 ); $tensor->{tensor} = tensor->new; for($i=0;$i<$I_MAX;$i++) for($j=0;$j<$tensor->{xdim};$j++) for($k=0;$k<$tensor->{ydim};$k++) for($l=0;$l<$tensor->{zdim};$l++) { # this parses to something like # array reference of object tensor->{tensor}->{tensor} indexed by $i,$j,$k, is set to the result of calling epsilon on the arguments $i, $j, $k. @{$tensor->{tensor}->{tensor}} [$i][$j][$k] = &epsilon($i,$j,$k); } or something like that. Coding before coffee, always dangerous ... Probably some bugs in my tensor. > Could be it would do exactly the right thing, but even guessing what > that thing might be requires a bit of knowledge about perl's internals. > A really good encapsulation has to be as smart as most compilers, OR the > encapsulating programmer has to be even smarter. This doesn't mean that > it cannot be done and that some people aren't that smart. It's just > that one has to REALLY want to do it to make it worthwhile. Yeah, wanting to is part of it. The other part is that one must have the time. > >> >> Since I don't do this on a regular basis, this isn't so bad. Also there >> is this PDL thing >> (http://search.cpan.org/~csoe/PDL-2.4.3/Basic/Pod/Impatient.pod) which >> doesn't look so bad, but it still doesn't solve the issues I want solved. >> >>>> Only when you have some ... odd ... structures or objects passing back >>>> and forth which require a bit more work. >>> >>> What's an odd structure? >> >> As I have discovered ... odd structures are arrays ... and anything more >> complex :( >> >> [...] >> >>>> Python has similar facilities. Generally speaking the dynamic >>>> languanges (Perl, Python, Ruby) are pretty easy to wrap around things >>>> and link with other stuff, as long as the API/data structures are >>>> pretty >>>> clean. >>> >>> Ay, that's the rub...;-) That and what you consider "pretty easy"...:-) >> >> Less time than I spent on this so far ! > > <A_C_love_story> > > O-ohh say, can you C? > > One of the (many) things that I truly love about C is that one retains > precise control over how memory is used in a well-written C program. > Nothing opaque about it, really. I can close my eyes and visualize just > how the block of memory representing MyTensor above looks, for example. > I know just what the offsets are (in absolute void * terms) from the > starting address of a MyTensor object to any of its contents, and CAN > arrange for a MyTensor object and all its contents to definitely be > allocated as a single continguous block of memory to avoid > performance-sapping fragmentation without "hoping" that the compiler and > kernel will provide it for me. > > With that degree of control I can then do very specific things with loop > blocking relative to cache size or I can create data objects that are > like nothing any fortran programmer ever dreamed of but that perfectly > describe the actual optimal data objects of the task at hand. Using > void types I can move anonymous blocks of memory around as I need to and > defeat the well-meant but sometimes stultifying "rules" associated with > manipulating ordinary typed variables. > > Finally, I can (given all of this information and control) CHOOSE to > treat the resulting object as an opaque/protected data type and only > create, destroy, or access contents of the object via provided > functions, I can CHOOSE to create structs with members that are structs, > I can CHOOSE to closely emulate C++ programming style or even Fortran > programming style (if I want to treat the C compiler as if it had > recently had a lobotomy:-). This isn't intended to disrespect those > other compilers -- they are both have virtues that make them desireable > to at least certain kinds of programmers for certain kinds of programs. > They just don't generally give you the same degree of control, at least > if you use them the way God intended and don't defeat their strong > typing and error checking. > > With assembler I would have -- slightly -- more precise control. But > not much. Not much. Actually you have far more control over what gets emitted in the instruction sequence. Sometimes this is a very good thing. There are some loops in C that are really better off in SSE, though nothing you can do to the compilers will convince them of this. So you rewrite those loops in assembler. This is ... fun (e.g. best left to grad students who like the challenge, and arent focusing upon the drudgery of writing hand coded assembly). Unfortunately, my time to do R&D and pursue fun projects is bounded, as my time needs to be spent on those things that generate revenue. This is either a blessing or a curse, I prefer to think about it as the former. If we get enough revenue then we have time to "fund" research (e.g. spend time on things other than revenue projects and product R&D). -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 or +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Two dead in Thai protests
Police on Sunday fired tear gas to stop protesters at two locations in Bangkok, outside Government House that houses the prime minister's offices and outside the metropolitan police headquarters.
Reuters reported protesters stormed a police club where Ms Yingluck was due to hold a press conference.
But the prime minister was not there.
Her staff denied reports circulating on social media she was planning to leave the country for South Africa.
Protesters have also occupied the offices of at least one television station and were told to make arrangements for an afternoon national broadcast.
Large crowds of protesters were massing outside eight locations across Bangkok, including the public relations department.
After the violence overnight pro-government red shirt leaders called off their rally, telling supporters to go home but be prepared to come back out soon.
Two people were shot dead and more than 20 injured as mass opposition protests turned violent in the Thai capital and the government deployed troops to protect key government buildings early Sunday.
A 23 year-old soldier and supporter of the pro-government red-shirt movement was shot dead, the second death within a few hours as rival groups fought running street battles.
As eight days of mass protests entered a dangerous phase on Sunday, thousands of troops were arriving at government buildings that opposition leaders have declared will be stormed later in the day.
The incident occurred when a crowd of more than 1000 people opposed to the government tried to block people from entering the stadium, where the number of red shirts was swelling throughout Saturday.
Reporters from the Reuters news agency saw two people on a motorcycle badly beaten, with one left unconscious, and a mob reportedly using poles and sticks to attack a taxi and a packed bus, accusing the occupants of being red shirts.
As bottles, timber and other missiles were thrown between the rival groups, more than 100 police moved in and anti-government protesters, many of them students, retreated to a nearby university.
But they spotted a bus carrying red shirt supporters and chased after it, witnesses said.
Later, several news agencies reported gun shots after police had earlier said they had calmed the situation in the area 15 kilometres from the centre of the city.
It is a densely populated area where there are unlikely to be foreign tourists.
Protesters on Saturday removed barbed wire at three points near government house in preparation for what they said was a planned occupation.
Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban has also told supporters to surround the headquarters of the national and city police, the ministries of labor, foreign affairs and interior and even a zoo.
"We need to break the law to achieve our goals," said Mr Suthep, a former deputy prime minister in the previous government that was defeated by Ms Yingluck's party in 2011.
The protesters claim that Ms Yingluck is a puppet for her billionaire brother Thaksin Shinawatra, a divisive figure who is living in Dubai to escape a two-year jail sentence for corruption, which he claims was politically motivated.
They want to destroy the Shinawatra family network and the ruling Pheu Thai party that has mass support in many rural areas.
The protesters have been occupying government offices in Bangkok and provincial halls for more than a week in an attempt to cripple the workings of government.
After power was cut to the Telecommunications Authority of Thailand on Saturday, the internet was severely restricted or cut across large areas of Bangkok.
The protests are the biggest since an army crackdown in 2010 that left at least 90 people dead and more than 2000 injured.
It is the latest crisis in a cycle of destructive political upheaval that has gripped the South-East Asian nation for more than eight years.
Thailand's powerful military claims it will remain neutral in the crisis, with army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha telling protesters not to drag the military into politics.
But military commanders have signaled they will deploy troops to assist police protect key government facilities. The army has staged 18 coups or attempted coups since the 1930s.
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Nets and Knicks brass sat among each other yesterday, watching Vanderbilt shooting guard Derrick Byars. But it will be the Nets with first crack at Byars on NBA Draft night, June 28.More: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
Because of the shorter window for individual workouts, and because the cross-river rivals pick in a similar range of the first round, the Nets and Knicks are holding pre-draft workouts together in unprecedented fashion. The Nets select 17th, the Knicks 23rd. Yesterday was the first date teams were allowed to work out players.
Byars, who led the unsung Commodores to the NCAA tournament Sweet 16 before a controversial last-second loss to Georgetown, has been projected as a mid-first-round pick who may not reach No. 23. Byars, (6 feet, 7 inches) is not considered a great outside shooter, something Isiah Thomas has said the Knicks need.
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hey y'all ! well i finally got round to re-makin ma lex account! so im back, the name...well u can pm me if ya wanna know. why the username HotterThanHeidi? i have violet eyes for one - yes from contacts...my eyes are not naturally red they're a smokee blue/grey so it was easy to make violet. i also hang out with ma guy friens and they (read twilight! i made em! ) have agreed i could put heidi ta shame with my "beauty" (speshly ma bf!) hell im not vain or anythin...im no rosalie! but its a funny joke, no? k im gettin wayyy too into ma life here.
anyways my favourite character is heidi bcuz we're similar (haha) and i really luv me some volturi... and i hate to say it but in breaking dawn ending "battle of wits" (*snort*pathetic*snort*) i was sorta glad bcuz i would hate to have seen anyone from the volturi die. anyways i'll see y'alllll around the boards!


text: Something tells me that the Juubi is incomplete else It'd just be rediculous if Bee and Naruto can take it down. Something might happen to the summoning ritual that unlock a weakness that'll take the juubi down. Just to imagine Madara together with the Juubi vs the rest is just way too much for them unless something happens to them on the road.


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How is it?
I'm looking for a small case like it, and I was wondering if the small size of it was still quite usable.
The other option I'm looking at is the 800, which I know all about. So is this little guy (SX600) as nice as it's older brothers(The 800 and 1000)?


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It was a disturbing scene near the high school parking lot on Monday as students acted out an accident, the apparent result of distracted driving. Kudos to Michelle Kline for her portrayal of an accident victim. Boy can she scream. Also great job to everyone else. The corpse was particularly convincing and it was nice to see Cortez students join Dolores to help with the makeup and an EMT class from Cortez serve as the paramedics.
Let's just hope it wasn't too convincing and no area parents drove by and got concerned.
Let's also hope that the scene will steer teens away from distracted driving. Parents should note too. Distracted driving can be deadly.
It was also nice to see the area first responders help with this event and Belt Salvage donate cars. Way to work together!
A local restaurant even donated some ketchup to the crew when they ran out of fake blood for the scene.
Prom is this weekend, so it will be a busy one for many. Also, don't be surprised if you see a lot of students out to eat Saturday night as prom is not serving dinner the year.
Kindergarten registration was successful this year at Dolores Elementary School last week. It is reported that the most kindergartners registered ever this year. So it is going to be a big group of students.
Mindy Martinez's resignation was approved at the April 9 school board meeting, something I didn't mention in last week's story. She was a language arts teacher.
I also forgot to mention that Belinda Platts was recently appointed to the Dolores Public Library Board.
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KATY, Texas - A $5,000 reward was offered Monday for information leading to the arrest of two men who stole televisions from a Katy Walmart Supercenter and beat an employee.
According to Fort Bend County sheriff deputies, the two men placed two flat-screen televisions into a cart, covered them with a blanket and then walked out of the store in the 5600 block of State Highway 99 at Bellaire on Nov. 30.
After putting the televisions into a black Chevrolet vehicle, the suspects began to leave the parking lot, deputies said. A store associate tried to get the license plate and vehicle description, but the suspects drove up beside him. One of the suspects jumped out of the car and beat the employee, knocking him to the ground, officials said. The suspects then fled the scene.
Investigators said the suspect who attacked the Walmart associate was identified as Dytedric Fortune, 19, of Houston. He is believed to be in the Houston area.
The second suspect has not been identified. He is black, between 18 and 25 years old, 5 feet 9 inches to 6 feet tall and has long, braided hair. He was wearing an orange Texas Longhorn sweatshirt.
Anyone with information is asked to call Fort Bend Crime Stoppers at 281-342-TIPS (8477).
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I have the following in Overview:
"1 suspect email attachments quarantined"
I use Outlook Express and cannot find the email in question. Is there a way ZoneAlarm can point me to the email?
If not how do I examine/remove the email?
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Software Version:7.0
Product Name:ZoneAlarm Pro