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I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up—many people feel small, because they're small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write.
- Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine
The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.
- Richard Burton
Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself 'pro-life.'
- John Fugelsang
[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.
- Sam Harris, The End of Faith
It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.
- Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
- Carl Sagan
Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy.
- Carl Sagan
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
- Christopher Hitchens
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
- Christopher Hitchens
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
- Douglas Adams
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
- Marcus Aurelius
Faith does not give you the answers, it only stops you from asking the questions.
- Frater Ravus
Fundamentalists believe the problem is eating from the Tree of Knowledge. Atheists believe the problem is cutting it down.
- Arthur Shuey
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Yes but did they suffer and die?
"The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today." -Lawrence M. Krauss
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
-Douglas Adams
Faith is a glass pillar, forged over thousands of years, such mastery has been put into its creation that it refracts light in beautiful ways, making it appear solid, but in reality it is paper thin, the smallest force; logic, reason, could easily destroy it.
But people fear that the glass pillar that lifts them so high, may break, so they build concrete walls of illogic, blindness (darkness may conceal, but light blinds forever) and thoughtlessness to protect this core of their existence.
They become sheep.
Logic and reason are marble pillars, beautiful, solid, and while they may be cold and hard, they will support any weight and hold up to even the strongest of forces.
Timmy - Internet.
Emo Philips: "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
Marie: "Man created God in his image : intolerant, sexist, homophobic and violent."
Carl Sagan: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
Gustaf Lindborg: "The sailor does not pray for wind, he learns to sail"
Annie Dillard: "Eskimo: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
Chapman Cohen: "Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense"
Pat Condell: "Prove God doesn't exist...... That's a tough one. Show me how it's done by proving Zeus and Apollo don't exist, and I'll use your method.
Alan Harvey: "The Beatles might not be bigger than Jesus... but at least we know they really existed."
and lastly:
God: "Silence"
Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself 'pro-life.'
- John Fugelsang
thanks, i just borrowed that one for my Facebook page.
"You are not sheep. You, my brothers and sisters in atheism, are a fierce, coordinated hunting pack — men and women working together, and those other bastards have cause to fear us. So let's do it: make them tremble as we demolish the city of god."
~ P.Z. Myers
Bigfoot, giganticus humungus, will survive despite ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
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Simon Turner, product manager of Land Rover Range Rover, talks to the Wall Street Journal's Lee Hawkins at the 2013 New York International Auto Show about the 2014 Range Rover.
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BOSTON (AP) Craig Breslow's two-year contract with the Boston Red Sox calls for the left-hander to receive at least $6.25 million.
The 32-year-old will get salaries of $2,325,000 this year and $3,825,000 in 2014 under Thursday's agreement. The Red Sox have a $4 million option for 2015 with a $100,000 buyout.
Breslow made $1,795,000 last year, when he was 3-0 with a 2.70 ERA in 63 games for Arizona and Boston, which acquired him July 31.
He had asked for $2,375,000 in salary arbitration and had been offered $2,325,000, the smallest gap among the 41 players who swapped figures with their clubs Jan. 18.


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Microsoft has released a beta version of its App-V 4.6 application virtualization technology. Although it's not the major upgrade seen in version 4.5, with which Microsoft deeply integrated its System Center configuration management products, this release adds another key piece to Redmond's evolving app-virt picture: 64-bit support.
According to a recent Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) Product Management Team blog post, version 4.6 will be the first release to support both x64 and x86 Windows platforms. The aim, according to Microsoft, is to provide a version that can take advantage of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Virtualization in the app layer is about isolating applications from the hardware and operating systems running them, explained Neil Macehiter, former research director at industry analyst firm Macehiter Ward-Dutton. The process encapsulates applications as independent, moveable objects that can be relocated without disturbing other systems, he said, minimizing the need for app-related alterations to the OS and mitigating compatibility challenges with other programs.
Perhaps just as important, according to Gartner senior analyst Terry Cosgrove, is the technology's ability to separate the apps from each other. "The primary reason that companies are using this technology is to avoid application conflicts, which has been the bane of system administrators for many years," Cosgrove said. "It's a big pain point of desktop management today."
App-V 4.6 also comes with improvements in the sequencer, Cosgrove pointed out, including simplified workflow for creating virtual applications and a new ability to sequence true 64-bit applications.
"This is what I'd call a table-stakes release," he commented. "The 64-bit support, which will help them support Window 7, and the Windows Server support are things that were needed. I've seen companies that are using competitive solutions because App-V lacked 64-bit support, so it matters. And clearly, it makes the technology useable for a broader set of applications. But it's an evolutionary step, not a release that moves the market."
Version 4.5 of App-V, released last October, was the first Microsoft-branded version of the SoftGrid application virtualization platform acquired with the company's 2006 purchase of Softricity.
"That integration with the System Center products was a major improvement," Cosgrove said. "It's their core desktop management suite, which we believe accounts for more than half of the installed based in the market. There are lots and lots of organizations out there with System Center in their environments. This integration allows them to manage App-V packages with System Center so they don't have these two redundant infrastructures in their environment."
The slow evolution of App-V, though often criticized, is unlikely to mitigate its impact on the application virtualization market, Cosgrove commented, thanks to Microsoft's eternal ace in the hole: a massive installed user base.
"Microsoft's acquisition of Softricity back in 2006 was really a visionary move," he commented. "But then we didn't start seeing the benefits of that acquisition until the middle of last year. In that time, other vendors developed and matured competitive solutions, and it's still a competitive market. That said, Microsoft has the luxury of being able to come late to a market and still be very successful."
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Minnesota police have released more logs of 911 calls about Prince, including a 2011 tip from a woman who said she was concerned about his "cocaine habits," NBC News reports. According to the log, Prince advised the woman "last year in Germany that he cannot control his habit and she was advised to report it."
The name of the caller was not released and the Carver County Sheriff's Office noted since the information was a year old and there was no indication the singer was "in immediate danger," the incident was marked as closed.
Federal law enforcement officials told NBC News that prescription painkillers were found on Prince and and in his home at the time of his death on April 21, though it's unknown if they played a role in his death.


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Edited by Joseph W. Bastien and John M. Donahue, Health in the Andes was first published by the American Anthropological Association in 1981. The book includes chapters on Andean ethnomedicine and the metaphorical relations between sickness societies and land.
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One of my new 2016 presentations is called "How To Be A Better Performance Specialist" - though I really could use a snappier title. Here's the abstract: I've spent 30 years doing Performance and Capacity. You'd think it'd seem stale and repetitive by now. Not a bit of it. It's still fresh and interesting. More to the point I think I'm... [More]
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I would like current technology to solve a problem for me.
I hate the process of trading files with people through e-mail. Particularly I hate the fact that I, a Gmail user, have to download any files that I need to work from. As a writer and editor, this process is done quite a few times in a workday. Most documents I only have to use as a reference, which seems wasteful of my precious disk space.
What I need is an online office system that saves files to the cloud, where I can share the files with my clients and editors.
I think you know where I'm going with this.
I can't say I have any complaints with Office. It does what it's done for the past 20 years. I know it inside and out, even the confusing Mac versions. But just because I'm happily married doesn't mean I can't look around. As I tell my wife, how do you know the value of the merchandise you have if you don't know what else is on the market?
She doesn't like that analogy.
So I've decided to try and go Office-less, using Google Docs and Google's new Drive system. Drive is like Dropbox or any other cloud-based file system, except that it seamlessly integrates into the Google ecosystem.
So I upload most of my client files into Drive and start working in the cloud. How hard can it be?
Well, first, if you want to open and work on an existing .docx file in Google Docs, it will have to transform it into a .gdoc. That's fine, I guess, if you're willing to divorce Word. Since I'm just browsing (or "swinging", as I've taken to calling it this week), I wish I could still work in the native format. That, and 99 percent of the world still works in .doc or .docx.
So I'm typing and typing, doing a little formatting here, accepting a correction for my fat fingers there. Most of my projects aren't very complicated. A couple of different styles and headings. Maybe the occasional outline. Google Docs does great with these. If I were doing a technical manual or something more complicated, I would probably find some features missing. But for my purposes, as a small-time freelance writer and editor, it works fine.
In my head, I've already saved myself whatever license fee Microsoft wants to extract from me for the next version of Office. Which is good because I'll probably need it for alimony after the "shopping around" analogy.
Then it comes time to send this masterpiece to the client. Google Docs has no problem with sending documents to established Google contacts. It will even convert it to more palatable file formats, like .doc, before it goes.
But what if your document needs to be attached to a previous conversation string in Gmail? You would think the two would work seamlessly, considering they live right next to each other. There's no option for that. No "Attach Google Doc" button in Gmail. And God help you if you want to use Outlook.
So you do the old Attach File. Your Google Drive shows up just where it should, and you browse to the file you were working on.
It's still in .gdoc. And there are no conversion options.
Well, actually, there are. All you have to do is go back into Google Docs and download your file, specifying that you want a .doc format. Of course, it's no longer in the cloud and you still get a build-up of files in your computer, but now you can attach the file to your e-mail string. But as you go through the process, you just have the nagging feeling that this was a lot more complicated than it had to be. And it was definitely more complicated than working in Word.
All because the market has been segmented into different file types.
Another consideration I need to make is how well whatever solution I adopt plays with future hardware. If my office applications can operate on an iPad without loss of functionality, I could move the majority of my computing to the tablet, saving quite a bit of money (and weight) over a new laptop. In my research, Google has been non-committal about Google Docs functionality on tablets in general and the iPad in particular. There are some third-party solutions, but so far none of them are integrated with Drive, so I might not be able to get my documents.
This is where the Office 2013, and in particular Office 365 (the cloud-based variant), needs to step up to the plate. Microsoft needs to do what it has done for 30 years now. Take someone else's idea (Google Docs), make it proprietary (the new, online Office 365), and make it work with various hardware manufacturers (Apple).
The ability to work on Office files is the last hurdle for tablets to become full-service computing solutions. If the new Office is as seamless and robust as Microsoft's marketing materials claim, the last barrier to the world of cloud-based tablet computing would finally fall for a lot of lightweight users.
Of course, I don't have a way to check out Office 2013 preview myself. The demo doesn't work on a Mac.
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This three-day-only exhibit will be at the Scottish Rite Temple of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, May 15-17, 2015. This exhibit coincides with the Handworks 2 gathering of hand-tool aficionados and makers, which will be only a few minutes away in nearby Amana, Iowa.
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Only 1,200 tickets are available. In keeping with the generosity of the ensemble's owner – he requests only anonymity, which we will certainly respect and I hope you will too - the ticket price reflects the actual costs of the event.
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July 12, 2013, GSTAAD, Switzerland (ISN) – Ben Saxton of Calgary and Chaim Schalk of Red Deer, Alta., are clearly showing last week's fifth place finish at the world championships was no fluke as they completed round robin play undefeated Friday at the fifth stop on the FIVB World Tour Grand Slam beach volleyball circuit.
Saxton and Schalk completed the round robin with a perfect 3-0 mark defeating Ruslans Sorokins and Toms Smedins of Latvia 13-21, 21-17, 15-11. The Canadians placed first in Pool G and got a bye to the round of 16 which starts Saturday.
The second and third place teams in each of the pools played an extra playoff match on Friday with the winners joining the eighth pool winners in the next round.
The first playoff opponents for Saxton and Schalk are ninth seeds Jonathan Erdmann and Kay Matysik of Germany. The round of 16, quarterfinals and semifinals are all scheduled for Saturday.
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The problem is, on the first if, else statement it seems like my method is completely ignoring it. I tried to test it by printing some guff in both the if and else and I got nothing back, but check is always true no matter what. catalogItems is an <CatalogItem>ArrayList and the CatalogItem object is (int, String, double) if that helps.public void add(int newID, String newDesc, double newCost) { catalogItems.trimToSize(); CatalogItem copy = new CatalogItem(newID, newDesc, newCost); for(int i = 0; i < catalogItems.size();) if(catalogItems.get(i).getItemID() == newID) { i = catalogItems.size(); check = true; } else { i++; check = false; } if(check = true) System.err.println("Error, that item ID already exists."); else catalogItems.add(copy); }


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"Different writers face different advantages and drawbacks in forming
good writing habits. The circumstances of your personal life may make
it easy or hard to find writing time, but time itself is not the real
issue–it's habit. Writing must be something you do regularly, like
brushing your teeth. The writer who waits for inspiration will wait
even longer for a complete, published novel.
Writing habits flourish best in routine, but the efficient writer also
exploits opportunity.
Routine: Set aside some time every day when you can work undisturbed
for an hour or two–first thing in the morning, during lunch, after
dinner, whenever you can set aside other demands. Ideally, it's the
same time of day. Your family and friends will soon build their
routines around yours. With luck, they will resent your unscheduled
appearances during your writing time, and will send you packing back
to your desk.
Keep your writing equipment (paper, pens, software manuals, etc.) in
your writing place, close at hand. Minimize distractions like
interesting new magazines and books. Try to find a writing time when
few people phone or visit. If a cup of coffee and some background
music make you feel less lonely, by all means enjoy them.
Use household chores as thinking time: a chance to review what you've
done so far and to consider where your writing should go next. Walking
the dog or vacuuming the carpet can provide more ideas than you
expect. This is really just "controlled daydreaming," letting your
mind freewheel in a particular direction: What the heroine should do
in the next chapter, how the hero would respond to escaping a car
bomb, how the villain developed his evil character. But the process
doesn't seem to work if you just sit and stare at the wall. You need
to be up and moving in some automatic pattern."


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by Tom Utescher
A Baldwin School team that has picked up some new talent took Penn Charter right down to the wire on December 11, when PC won 43-41, but in Springside Chestnut Hill Academy's girls basketball league opener last Tuesday, the Lions found those same Baldwin Bears somewhat less imposing.
Repeatedly forcing the ball out of visiting Baldwin's paws, the Lions built a double-digit lead in the first quarter and went on to win, 66-23.
SCH had three guards score in double figures. Junior Julia Schumacher recorded a game-high 16 points, while senior Gianna Pownall put up 14 points and her freshman sister, Marissa, had an even dozen. The Lions owned an overall record of 3-5 after besting the Bears.
"My assistant went out and saw them and felt that we should pressure the ball," revealed Steve Purcell, the second-year head coach for Springside Chestnut Hill. "That was to our advantage, because we have a guard-heavy roster this year. The half-court trap is the thing that got to them."
It was the second win in a row for the local franchise following a 1-5 start to the season.
"The main thing that changed is that in these last couple games we've been making shots," Purcell said. "Before that we shot eight-for-44 in one game, and 10-for-55 in another.
"If we're open, we're going to fire it," the coach continued. "Hopefully, they're good shots and we've got our feet set, but with the [relatively small] size of our team, that's going to be our thing. We're not going to be pounding the ball inside."
Schumacher, who came out of the St. Philip Neri CYO program in Lafayette Hill, opened the scoring with a 15-footer, then the elder Pownall popped a three-pointer from the right wing for the Lions, who never trailed.
After falling behind 15-5 in the first period, the Bears turned in their best offensive quarter in the second round, scoring nine points. SCH still increased its lead as Schumacher, Marissa Pownall, and senior Maddi Hinchey all found the hoop from the three-point loop. Hinchey is a product of Norwood Fontbonne Academy, as is junior forward Madi Sehn, who added a free throw during the second stanza to help the hosts take a 31-14 advantage into the locker room.
The second half began with a Gianna Pownall "three" from the left flank, and a 20-6 quarter for SCH pretty much quashed Baldwin's comeback hopes. Schumacher finished her night with three lay-ups in the final round.
Hinchey had eight points for the game and freshman forward Lindsay Hiner added a midrange jumper and hauled in 11 rebounds. The Lions got four points apiece from junior Katie Shields and sophomore Olivia Byron, three from sophomore Caroline Henry, and two from freshman Essence Walden.
Hiner is not a skyscraper at 5'10", but she's strong and savvy.
"Lindsay pretty much has to play as our big girl and she's been rebounding well," Purcell said. "I also thought Marissa Pownall had a nice game for us today. She had her feet set and we got her the ball where she could score. The key for her and all our other young players is to learn to do that under pressure."
UPDATE: On Wednesday, SCH defeated Hill School, the runner-up in the Pa. Independent Schools tournament last spring, 48-41.


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Last spring, it became apparent that the Left had decided to create a distraction by demonizing Charles and David Koch and their company, Koch Industries. A series of crazed attacks on the Koch brothers appeared, most of them originating at ThinkProgress, an Obama administration mouthpiece headed by John Podesta, co-chairman of Obama's transition team. Several of these attacks by ThinkProgress–TP for short–were picked up by the New York Times, the Washington Post and other ostensibly mainstream outlets.
The Left's attacks on the brothers contained the merest kernel of truth–they are rich and they support a number of conservative and libertarian causes. Beyond that, pretty much everything that emanated from TP and its cohorts was a lie. In a series of posts, we undertook the Augean task of correcting some, at least, of the countless errors and lies propagated by TP and others. Other conservatives also joined in, and after a while the Left, apparently embarrassed by the hammering it was taking, quietly dropped the Kochs and went on to other diversions. To be sure, their names still pop up here and there, but it appears that the Left's concerted effort to demonize them is over, at least for now.
A reader undertook to compile some of TP's errors and lies, with links both to their original stories and to the refutations that appeared on this site, and others. The compilation, titled "CAP Error and Dishonesty Tracker," is interactive, and we have set up a Power Line page to host it. You can go here to check it out. This screen shot that shows what it looks like:
The compilation is not yet complete; for one thing, it doesn't include Contango Confusion, one of the most fun things I've ever written. It represents, I think, the moment when the Left decided that its obsession with the Koch brothers was making it look idiotic. We will have to fill in that gap and a few others over the coming weeks.
In the meantime, the Error and Dishonesty Tracker reveals how shameless TP and similar left-wing web sites are. Out of all of the blatant lies and errors in which we and others have caught TP, that site has made only a single correction. That is a testament to the sorry state of liberal "journalism" on the internet.


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"I don't like regen stats."
The solution here, from our POV, is not to take the regen stats off of gear, but to get you to care
about them. To us, that's the same argument as saying "I can get all of the hit I need through talents, so hit on gear is a waste for me. Please remove it." (source)
I understand the place that Regen/Base stats have in the game, and I think most players also understand their purpose and aren't asking for their elimination. However, I think it is reasonable to expect that Blizzard will itemize gear fairly across classes so that one class doesn't have an advantage over another simply because they have a better tier set.
Once again, I have asked blizzard for an explanation for the inequity in Tier set itemization. You can find the post here. Please contribute if you feel you have something to add. I don't really expect anything to happen, but it never hurts to ask.


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Mayor Chris Beutler today encouraged residents to take steps to keep themselves and their neighbors safe during the snowy, windy and cold weather the City is experiencing.
The low wind chill does pose an exposure threat to people and pets, so it's important to stay inside when possible and dress warmly if you have to go out," Mayor Beutler said. "At the same time, we can help our neighbors stay safe by clearing snow from fire hydrants and keeping our cars off the streets if possible to allow room for emergency vehicles to reach their destinations.
A parking ban is not in effect at this time, but the Mayor said keeping cars off the streets also is essential for efficient and effective snow removal. City crews have been out since early morning spreading materials on snow emergency routes and bus routes. A full plowing operation on arterial streets began shortly after noon today. The latest information on snow operations and parking bans is available on the City Web site, lincoln.ne.gov.
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We've gotten holiday cards, lots of holiday cards; holiday songs;, even a holiday video, but this is our first ever holiday cheat codes.
Electronic Arts sends along their well wishes for a bright new year and the codes to unlock most everything in their Steven Spielberg-backed Wii title Boom Blox.
At the BOOM BLOX title screen, hit up, right, down, left on the D-pad button
Type in the codes below using the keyboard
Pandoras Blox: Unlocks all levels in the game
Tool Pool: Unlocks all the toys in Create Mode
Nonstop Props: Unlocks all the props in Create Mode
Critter Litter: Unlocks all the characters in Create Mode


text: :confused: Me and the better half just joined the 21st century and got our 1st smart phones. When I looked up apps for geocaching there are pages and pages of them. I would like to use the phone as a backup to find cache listings when Heidi wants to do something else ( shopping) and I do not have any loaded up in the GPSr for where ever we are. Which apps would anyone recommend as being good for this type of use and it must be easy to use because us folks over the 1/2 century mark need it simple with this techy stuff. Oh and at the price I am paying for the phone plan I don't want to be paying a monthly fee to have a back up for my garmin so I am looking at the free apps. any suggestions will be appreciated. thanks.:confused::confused:


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2 Million Books in 20 Years
Children's Book Project Marks 2 Decades
San Francisco, 15 November 2012 - The San Francisco non-profit The Children's Book Project celebrates 20 years of giving away free books to the underserved. That's 2 MILLION BOOKS in two decades. A celebration will be held on Wednesday December 5th at the Latino/Hispanic Meeting Rooms at San Francisco Public Library from 5:30 pm.
Lisa Bishop is a teacher-librarian at Flynn Elementary School, part of the San Francisco Unified School District. She's been receiving books from Children's Book Project since it started twenty years ago and is passionate about the work that Pollack and others are doing to promote childhood literacy. "It's an overhwelming feelings for a child to have a new book. To have a book that they can choose for themselves and keep for themselves. Free books are like the greatest candy bar. Plus you're creating a society that is literate. A democratic society." says Bishop.
The Children's Book Project was founded by Vicky Pollack to help build literacy by providing free, new and gently used books to children who need them. Recipients of free books and educational materials include teachers, social workers, librarians and neighborhood drop-in centers.Some facts:
- Children who have not developed some basic literacy skills by the time they enter school are 3-4 times more likely to drop out in later years.
- 1 in 5 high school graduates cannot read their diplomas.
- 21 million Americans cannot read.
The Children's Book Project is a non-profit, 501c(3) that relies entirely on donations. It works to help disadvantaged children learn to read by providing children and their shelters, schools, daycare and community centers with books and other resources. Since its beginning in January 1992, the Children's Book Project has given over 2 million free books to hundreds of facilities serving thousands of children throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. CBP is part of the umbrella organization, First Book San Francisco, working together to provide literacy materials and books to the underserved in the SF Bay area.
For more information about The Children's Book Project, please contact Vicki Pollack or Kathy Katz at 415-401-6315 www.childrensbookproject.org.
For more information on the 20th Anniversary event, or First Book San Francisco please contact Michelle Smith, 415-900-6657.


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by Sarah Mower
So, Mommy's in the kitchen in L.A., and one of her boys runs in from baseball practice, and she looks at the collar and the stripes on his shirt, and his socks, and she thinks: "I'll put that in my next collection!" Score, Brooklyn Beckham! Victoria Beckham, to put it mildly, is a female designer with quite a few sporting influences in her house. What with her three sons and a soccer hero for a husband at home, there have to be a lot of uniforms making their way through her laundry room. Not that the Beckham fashion fixture held at the New York Public Library on Sunday morning read as a literal sport collection in the slightest. There's nothing one iota of casual about her superfitted multipaneled sheaths, her shirtdresses with flat, turned-down collars, or the band-box smart military-influenced coats—except, maybe, the ribbed socks poking out of the chunky-heeled Christian Louboutin ankle boots. But then again, Mrs. Beckham is a polished lady, and the clothes are truly about her, and her life. "There isn't one thing in the collection I wouldn't wear myself. I want to wear everything!" she exclaimed afterward. A proper, perfectionist job she's making of it, too.
It's always good to see a collection with an authentic, personal integrity about it. Victoria Beckham has schooled herself in the skills of cutting and fitting from scratch—and with the help of a top-notch team assembled in London. The way contrasting horizontal bands were set into dresses, dissecting the body at flattering points, was faultlessly done, and her control of the use of luxury signals, like the shiny python on a shirt-collar or in the lining of a khaki coat, is well-judged—there but not ostentatious. All this is being discreetly accomplished under the superdiscreet management of Simon Fuller of XIX Entertainment, who was at the show. Also in the front row, for the first time, was her husband David, taking pictures. "I don't think he realized I have a proper job till now," she joked backstage, as David juggled the new addition to team Beckham, baby Harper Seven.
In her insistence on developing slowly, and gradually earning respect, Mrs. Beckham has scarcely put a platformed-foot wrong. Still, now that the fashion world is showing her acceptance—she won the Designer Brand Award at the British Fashion Awards in 2011—perhaps she should dare advance her case further. Seeing a few evening looks would have been nice to round things off. But kudos to her: She has well-made clothes, and a strong identity already. Besides eagerly studying the properties of luxury fabrics, the even more fundamental lesson she's taken to heart is the kind of advice always given to aspiring authors: "Write what you know about." Victoria Beckham designs what she knows about—and only from that starting point can a coherent brand begin. Review: Vogue.Com
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Ferdinand criticised Hodgson's management at Euro 2012, claiming the England manager underused his younger players and was too defensive in his tactics.
The 33-year-old defender, who was overlooked by Hodgson for his squad for the tournament in Poland and Ukraine, wanted to see Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Phil Jones given more game time.
He also criticised Hodgson's choice of formation, and questioned whether Andrea Pirlo, the Italy playmaker who was instrumental in England's quarter-final exit, would even have been selected for the Three Lions squad.
He told The Sun: "I am a fan of The Ox and I wanted to see more of him but in the end he finished up as a spectator."
He went on: "Phil Jones is one of the most adaptable players we have in our country and where was he?
"When we need to take the ball from midfield, run 40 yards with it and put the other team on the back foot, he is the man for the job.
"Instead, we stayed cautious and Jordan Henderson was used instead.
"That's not a criticism of Jordan, he is a different player to Phil, but I thought it showed we were being too conservative."
Since England's exit, Hodgson has talked about getting more young players into the team for the forthcoming World Cup qualifying campaign.
Ferdinand said: "I'm reading a lot of stuff about how it's time to get the youngsters in and all of that but you only find out if they can do it when you throw them in there.
"What did we learn about Alex and Phil at this tournament?
"Do we know how much influence Alex can have on a game in a finals?
"He did fairly well against France, so why not persist with him and let him grow into it?
"As for Phil, we will now have to wait until the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, provided we qualify, to see how good he can be at the highest level. Expectations were low so the manager had a free shot to find out about our youngsters and I feel it was a missed opportunity."
Ferdinand was impressed by the performance of Pirlo, but added: "If Pirlo was English would he have made the squad let alone been on the pitch?
"I don't know as his qualities may have been overlooked ... not by just the current manager but maybe those before him too."
One England player who impressed Ferdinand was his Manchester United team-mate Danny Welbeck.
"The only time we really kept the ball properly was when Danny Welbeck dropped short to collect it and linked the play," he said.
"But, usually, he was having to stay up and wasn't allowed to drop too much because we had set out a certain way with a 4-4-2 which didn't offer a great deal of flexibility."
He added: "It's OK saying we were very good defensively and hard to beat but if you set out to be defensive then that's your first priority.
"I'd love to see us running at other teams. I want to see Alex and Theo and Adam Johnson, who I thought should have gone too, causing problems instead of worrying about covering back as the first thought."


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Pasco fire units are battling a structure fire that just broke out around 3 p.m.
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While setting up a home, you just cannot ignore comfort factor. More than cushy furniture, this job is well done by uber-comfy bed linen. Making their importance felt in every room of the house, the bed linen items offer much more than comfort. These items fill up a dull space with a vibrant factor or aid in raising the style quotient in a given room. Moreover, the bed linen items protect fillers and more from dust and harmful sunlight. Make a good use of cushions draped in unique cushion covers to add a comfy factor to your bed. Drape that mattress using a soft-at-touch bed sheet available in vibrant colours on Tezerac. Protect your quilts and blankets by wrapping the same using quilt covers. Not only this, you can add warmth to your bedroom or living room with comfy throws.
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Every piece on our collection goes through stringent quality checks before delivering the final product to the customer. We ensure that the product is made using quality material and has a specific thread count. Not only this, we ensure that our bed linen products are colour fast and shrink resistant. In case of printed products, the end product is checked for print defects and pattern sequence. Our team ensures that the customer is provided with a product that is high on quality.
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460: Paleontology
Title text: Dinosaurs totally jumped the ichthyosaur when they got rid of Brontosaurus.
This comic is essentially a set up for a pun: "Underground" can mean "under the ground" (buried in the dirt) or "non-mainstream." In this case, Ponytail is whining that she had been doing paleontology before Jurassic Park kicked paleontology into the mainstream with living reproductions of dinosaurs, thus apparently undermining the hard work paleontologists had done. In other words, this comic is also poking fun at hipsters.
Of note is the fact that Acrocanthosaurus is misspelled in the third panel as "arcocanthosaur." Assuming this isn't merely a spelling mistake on Randall's part, Ponytail's incorrect pronunciation further undermines her self-proclaimed superiority over all the Jurassic Park-inspired "bandwagon" paleontologists.
The title text refers to both the phenomenon called 'jumping the shark' and the controversy having the Brontosaurus's scientific name changed to Apatosaurus, despite that Brontosaurus had already made a name for itself in the mainstream. 636: Brontosaurus also references the Brontosaurus name change. An Apatosaurus also appears in 15: Just Alerting You, and 650: Nowhere. Ichthyosaurs are marine reptiles with bodies resembling sharks or dolphins, which lived alongside dinosaurs during the Mesozoic era.
Another interpretation: Both 'brats' have taken Jurassic Park literally and not as a fantasy story. So "under ground" refers to them, that the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park would have been there indeed and not only in fantasy.
- [Cueball and Ponytail in a museum, near a reconstructed dinosaur fossil and a display cabinet.]
- Ponytail: Man, paleontology sucks these days.
- Cueball: Why?
- Ponytail: Jurassic Park came out 15 years ago.
- Cueball: So?
- Ponytail: Today's grad students got into dinosaurs after seeing it as kids. They don't care about fossils. Brats.
- [A woman in a hat exploring a barren landscape.]
- Ponytail: Before they had living dinosaurs handed to them by Hollywood, I was out in Texas digging up Arcocanthosaur teeth.
- Cueball: So, you were into dinosaurs when they were still underground?
- Ponytail: Exactly!
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Gas truck ignites after crash; driver burned
Flaming fuel flows into stream, burns trees and other items in its path
HOOSICK — A tanker truck carrying 9,500 gallons of fuel ignited, set fire to a creek and charred a section of Tibbets State Forest after first veering off of Route 7 and plunging down a hillside, police and fire officials said.
The 11:50 a.m. accident occurred 1 mile west of Route 22 when the driver lost control of his vehicle as the road wrapped around a curve. As the truck smoldered – eventually reduced to little more than ashes and rubble – a passing motorist spotted the driver on the side of the road and took him to a nearby Stewart's Shop to wait for an ambulance, authorities said. Much of his body was covered in second degree burns.
The driver, whose identity has not been released, was taken to Albany Medical Center Hospital and later flown to the burn unit at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, Fire Chief Bill Rifenburg said.
Flaming gasoline poured into the Shingle Hollow Creek, sending a trail of flames downstream that burned trees in its path.
Authorities closed Route 7 for several miles and the road will remain closed for several more hours, officials said shortly before 3 p.m.
The driver, who police said was in his mid-30s, was heading east on Route 7 when he lost control on a curve, hit a guardrail and a utility pole and then rolled down the 30-foot embankment. The vehicle came to rest in Shingle Hollow, a tributary of the Hoosic River, and caught fire, Rifenburg said. Officials said the truck was carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline and 1,000 of diesel.
After the crash, the Department of Environmental Conservation worked to clean up fuel and assess the full environmental impact of the accident. Spill cleanup contractor Clean Harbors placed absorbent booms in the stream and vacuumed and collected spilled petroleum in the water and soil. The fire was put out within an hour.
Authorities said the truck was owned by a Massachusetts trucking company. A person who answered the phone at the firm declined to comment, telling a reporter to "call back tomorrow."
Officials briefly dammed the stream to keep the gasoline from spreading.
The heat melted the tanker, leaving a pile of blackened aluminum at the bottom of the hill.
"It was a crazy fire," a firefighter near the scene said.
The fire department closed Route 7 from Brick Church Road in Brunswick to Route 22. Drivers should detour on Route 278 to Route 2 and Route 22 before returning to Route 7


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Selections of Our Readers' Mopar Rides!
In The Nines
Who: Michael Lamanna
Where: Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
What: '70 Plymouth 'Cuda hardtop
Back in 2009, Michael was looking for a Saturday Night Special dual-purpose race/street car. A meeting with a local mechanic and racer convinced him to go Mopar, and a few weeks later, Michael owned a 340/four-speed '70 'Cuda.
If a 340 was good, Michael figured a 440 would be even better—especially one built into a 540 with a bored-out stock block, Hughes girdle, Mahle 11.4:1 pistons, K-1 stroker connecting rods and crankshaft, Mopar Performance Max Wedge heads and intake, a 1050 Dominator by Pro Systems, a Comp Cams roller cam with Hughes 1.6 roller rockers, and a Mopar Performance distributor. The 833 was replaced by a 727 with a Turbo Action J torque converter.
Result: a flying Fish that's run a best of 9.91 seconds at 135.62 mph in the quarter-mile, while weighing 3,580 pounds (with Michael aboard).
Therapy 'Cuda
Who: Peter Clark
Where: Keene, New Hampshire
What: '74 Plymouth 'Cuda
A few years back, Peter, who's a cancer survivor, found this 'Cuda for sale near Toronto, then brought it back Stateside—after selling off two Blue Ovals and a baseball card collection. It's been his therapy car ever since.
It's now powered by a 360 stroker with a Hughes rotating assembly, Hedman headers, an MSD ignition, and a Powermaster alternator. Plus, he's added a 2,500 stall converter to the 'Cuda's TorqueFlite, and a set of Weld Draglite wheels.
Last year, at Keene's 2nd annual Kiwanis Car Show at the local American Legion post, Peter's E-Body won First Place.
One other prize he's earned: the number "1320" on his license plates, thanks to New Hampshire's motor vehicles department.
High Desert Duster
Who: Robert Goodfield
Where: Hemet, California
What: '73 Plymouth Duster 340
Robert bought his Duster as a rolling chassis about a decade ago, and then took the next two years to turn it into the sweet orange screamer seen here.
The 340 breathes in through a Six Barrel intake and carburetor setup, plus it also boasts 10.5:1 KB pistons, a Comp Cams camshaft, and dual exhaust with Flowmaster mufflers. There's an 518 overdrive automatic behind it (equipped with a TransGo shift kit), and an 83⁄4-inch rear end with Sure Grip and 3.55 gears.
Inside, the cabin is a straight-on reproduction, save for custom-embroidered headrests, a big tach, and an aftermarket stereo. Outside, the scooped hood covers the 340+6, Center Line wheels are on each corner, and the trunk has a custom tweed finish with an embroidered Mopar logo.
Jimmy's Joy
Who: Jimmy Findley
Where: Durbin, West Virginia
What: '73 Plymouth Duster
When Jimmy got this Duster back in 2005, it was a bare shell that was given to him. He knew it would be a lot of work, and at one point, he almost scrapped it, but he pressed on and this Twister clone is the result.
Jimmy followed our budget-build engine tech features in building his 318 with a Comp Cams XE camshaft, ported heads, Edelbrock Air Gap intake, and a Summit headers/exhaust system. He backed it with a 727, equipped with a Hughes 2,500 stall converter, and an 83⁄4 rear end with a 3.23-geared Sure Grip.
The chassis was rebuilt with heavy-duty torsion bars and rear leaf springs, front sway bar, and front disc brakes. Wheels are Cragar S/S's on BFGoodrich Radial TAs.
For the Duster's unibody, new quarters from YearOne went on, as did an AAR Fiberglass Six-Barrel hood, rear Go-Wing, Plum Crazy paint, and a white vinyl top and side stripe to match the interior.
Jimmy's work paid off with this A-Body that he says has lots of power, and is lots of fun to drive!
How To Be A Penta Star
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Students may earn a commission in the United States
Air Force or in the United States Army by completing
requirements of the Reserve Officer Training Corps
(ROTC) program as part of their studies at the university.
Students are able to take AFROTC classes at Yale University
and receive commissions as second lieutenants.
The AFROTC program is available to Southern Connecticut
State University students at Yale University's main campus in
New Haven. Through the AFROTC program, Southern Con-
necticut State University students, without paying extra tuition, can pursue a commission as an officer in the United States Air Force. The freshman and sophomore courses carry no military obligation and are open to all students. Scholarships are also available for qualified students. These scholarships pay up to full tuition and fees, as well as money for books and a monthly tax-free stipend.
Students enroll in a four-year or three-year (if joining in
their sophomore year) AFROTC sequence. Students commute to New Haven for AFROTC-specific classes and events. Up to 18 credits may be transferred to Southern and counted toward degree requirements as free electives.
Qualified students should contact the AFROTC office at
(203) 432-9431 or visit our website at www.afrotc.
ARF 113-114 - Air Force Studies I
Study of the role of the Air Force in the contemporary world:
the function of strategic offensive and defensive forces, general
purpose forces and related aerospace support forces.
The citizen-soldier concept, the relationship between war
and morality, and human rights. The improvement of student
communication skills. Lecture, 1 hour; laboratory, 1 hour.
1 credit each.
ARF 123-124 - Air Force Studies II
Development of air power from balloons and dirigibles
through the sophisticated weaponry used today. Air power
history including military and non-military developments,
especially post World War I and pre- and post-World War
II. Philosophy and nature of war. Lecture, 1 hour; laboratory,
1 hour. 1 credit each.
ARF 235-236 - Air Force Studies III
The individual as a manager in the Air Force. Motivational
and behavioral processes, leadership, communication, and
group dynamics as a foundation for the development of the
junior offi cer's professional skills. Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory,
1 hour. 3 credits each.
ARF 245-246 - Air Force Studies IV
The Armed Forces as an integral element of society. The broad
range of U.S. civil-military relations and the environmental
context in which defense policy is formulated and implemented.
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 1 hour. 3 credits each.
MSC 101 - Introduction to ROTC
An analysis of the national security structure, organization and branches of the Army in today's society, benefits and opportunities of an Army officer. 1 credit.
MSC 201 - Basic Military Skill
Introduction to basic first aid, orientation on the rights and
responsibilities of a soldier, and career opportunities. Prerequisite:
MSC 131. 1 credit.
MSC 301 - Leadership Techniques
An introduction to leadership and management emphasizing
types of leadership, management functions, principles
of leadership and leadership traits. 1 credit.
MSC 401 - Individual and Small Unit Skills
An introduction to map reading and land navigation, individual
and small unit tactics, and orientation on military
equipment. Prerequisite: MSC 131. 1 credit.


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Jewelry makers at Zale Corporation in Dallas now work in smaller teams as part of their new Lean manufacturing process. The new process has reduced the time to manufacture a pair of earrings from three weeks to three days.
North Lake College
Lean principles in manufacturing and management for line workers and leadership to increase jewelry production. Lean principles were first created by Toyota to reduce waste by defining, measuring, analyzing and improving processes in manufacturing. Lean management seeks to eliminate wastes of time and money through team-based problem solving.
Zale Corporation is a manufacturer and retailer of jewelry products with executive offices in Irving. Growing from a jewelry store founded by brothers Morris and William Zale in 1924 in Wichita Falls, the company posted $10 million in net earnings in 2013 and was acquired by Signet in 2014.
Zale had been through at least one reorganization and needed to increase manufacturing capacity while reducing costs to stay competitive. Company executives wanted to implement Lean principles within leadership and manufacturing divisions.
Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) awarded a Skills Development Fund grant in the amount of $331,128 for customized training courses in lean manufacturing processes. Funds for tuition and materials were included.
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The contract provided training for 93 Zale employees, with additional grant partners Sprint and Product Support Services, Inc., for a total of 9,841 hours of training to 281 individuals, including 41 new hires.
Factory line employees were at first skeptical of proposed training suggesting production line changes. A process for making earrings took approximately three weeks, and employees were used to building them a certain way. As training progressed, they not only spotted inefficiencies in the process but began to give unprecedented input. Along with their supervisors, the workers themselves came up with solutions that reduced manufacturing time from three weeks to three days.
An employee does some final cleaning of a diamond ring before it's ready to be packaged and shipped to a retail store for sale.
Regular and consistent communication with the business partner is essential, along with collaboration of subject experts, to create effective training. Instructors become the eyes and ears of the program, and are often the best judges of necessary training shifts as projects roll out.
As a result of the training in Lean manufacturing provided under this grant,
Agility is one of the most important attributes in serving business clients, since needs change frequently. Training initiatives must be ready and equipped to deal with changes in rapid response.
This process allowed us to understand our capacity and learn how to schedule the work and control production. There is a better sense of ownership and pride, and people feel more at ease to make comments and suggestions. It was culture shock for our team, but we have changed from an environment of isolated individuals to an environment of teamwork.
North Lake College
Workforce Education and Continuing Education


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I'm rolling my own 3D engine, in JavaScript, and using only canvas drawing, no WebGL. This is another Minecraft clone; I love boxes, don't judge me.
So far, everything works wonderfully, except for one thing: in 3D, when some vertices go behind the near clipping plane, their projection on the screen comes out weird (assuming other vertices used to trace a plane are in front).
I tried clipping these points but then I can see trough the surfaces that use these vertices. In WebGL/OpenGL the graphics card takes care of these points and the plane is rendered correctly, but I don't have access to hardware so I must code this myself.
I'm not quite sure what to make of it, currently the last thing that came to mind is to reverse the projection of points behind the player's near clipping plane, which seems logical since I must project a point to a screen which is in front of the vertex.
Here are my thoughts:
Here are some images to illustrate what happens:
From distance the blue box renders perfectly well.
When some of the vertices go behind the player's near clipping plane I do reverse projection, but it doesn't look right:
focalLength *= -1;
2d.x = x*focalLength/z;
2d.y = y*focalLength/z;
Note that the gray box behind is completely removed since all the vertices used to draw its faces are behind the player.
This is what happens when look up or down.
I don't know what to make of the math behind this, I'm hoping somebody has encountered the same problem already and can help me.


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A Collection of Online Couponing Images
Over the years, coupons have evolved along with technology. These days, printable coupons, digital coupons, and now mobile coupons are changing the way people shop. The Internet has become the place for deal seekers to gather together to share deals, find savings, search out coupons, and learn new tricks. This image gallery includes images from the eBook, Online Couponing In A Day For Dummies.