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- White Glove Service and Inside Delivery items are delivered into your home by appointment (Mon – Sat) in most metropolitan areas.
- A representative will call to arrange a delivery date and confirm an appointment timeframe (typically a 4-hour window).
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White Glove Service: White Glove is a premium service required on oversized furniture items and has an associated fee (standard shipping + processing costs still apply). With White Glove, your order is safely brought into your home by a skilled delivery team on a pre-scheduled date, unpacked in the room of your choice and fully assembled. All packaging materials are removed upon completion. Does not include installation (i.e. wall mounting of shelving units).
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Trustees for the union representing Vermont state employees have voted to fire the labor group's executive director, its president said Thursday.
Vermont State Employees' Association President John Reese said trustees voted 10-6 on Wednesday to fire Mark Mitchell as executive director after allegations — which Reese would not disclose — were raised about Mitchell. Reese said he disagreed with the firing and voted against it.
"I hope that in the near future we can reverse (Mitchell's firing) or at least conduct a formal investigation so we make sure we have all the facts and he's not being deprived of his due-process rights," Reese said.
He said the trustees have scheduled an emergency meeting for Monday and that the union council, which has about 130 members and is scheduled to meet Tuesday, could reverse the trustees' action if two-thirds of those voting support doing so.
Reached on his cellphone Thursday as he traveled to Quebec City, Mitchell said he had not been told specifically what the allegations against him were. He said the trustees excluded him and other staff from a nearly daylong executive session on Wednesday, and that's when the action was taken.
"I can tell you I haven't done anything wrong," Mitchell said.
Mitchell said that during the executive session, a member of the board, Thomas Hango, came into his office and asked for his resignation, which he declined to offer. Hango then told him the board had voted to terminate him, Mitchell said.
He asked for an explanation, and was later given a letter "saying I was in breach of my employment contract. I asked what was the nature of the breach and he (Hango) said he couldn't say," Mitchell said.
Mitchell said the union representing state workers would not accept such a summary dismissal by the state of one of its members.
"A state worker would never be treated with so little due process and in such a dismissive manner, Mitchell said. "It's an unfortunate irony."
Union spokesman Doug Gibson said the union was "not going to comment on a confidential personnel matter," adding, "I can confirm he (Mitchell) is no longer employed at VSEA."
Reese said the union had been trying to become more aggressive about organizing and meeting with workers, as well as more democratic, since his election as president two years ago. Mitchell joined VSEA in December 2011 after working as a senior negotiator in San Francisco with the California Nurses' Association.
"There is a faction — I guess that's a fair way to put it — that's not necessarily on board with the changing direction of the organization itself," Reese said.

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M2M is about devices which communicate with each other over the Internet, independent of direct human control. Smart meters are an example, as are many vending machines and industrial control systems. We wrote about M2M at the CTIA conference last spring as well.
As you can see in the video, everyone has their own concerns about the Internet of Things.


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QCAD - 2D CAD System.
Click here for a documentation of the DokuWiki formatting syntax that can be used in reports
Please search for existing tasks (also closed ones) before opening a new task.
Please make sure that you are using the latest Version of QCAD before posting a bug (menu Help > Check for Updates)
FS#765 - Imprecise drawing of circle
Opened by Christian Aigner (caigner) - Thursday, 14 February 2013, 19:29 GMT+2
Last edited by Andrew (andrew) - Monday, 18 February 2013, 17:59 GMT+2
I use version 3.0.8
By accident I stumbled across a minor bug.
I wanted to connect two arcs seamlessly with a third arc. (Image 1)
So I drew two straight lines at right angles at the end of each arc, and at the crossing I put the center point of a circle. (Image 2)
Out of curiosity I zoomed in to the end of the second arc and discovered that the circle did not go through the end point of the arc, even tough I snapped it to the end point. (Image 3)
I could trim the circle to the wanted arc and the arc is displayed without any displacement.
So it seems that only the display of the circle is faulty, not the internal representation of it.
Monday, 18 February 2013, 17:59 GMT+2
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: Caused by new approximation of arcs with splines. New implementation reverts back to line segments.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I use the Linux version. Sorry.
Testing 3.0.8
Windows 7 - 64
I can reproduce this also.


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For over forty years, Uni Filter Two Stage Competition Air Filters have been unsurpassed in both engine protection and overall performance. And their unique two stage design produces more horsepower and more torque than any other motorcycle, ATV, or UTV air filter.
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aerotools-ng provides a C interface for accessing the Aquaero5 USB device by Aqua Computer. It consists of a set of functions for data access and conversion, and a commandline tool using these functions as an example implementation. It also includes utilities for exporting sensor data to SNMP to be used by NMS and other monitoring/graphing tools.
SysopView shows information in a visually attractive way, like computers in movies do. The idea is that it can show information relevant to system administrators non-comprehensible for non-technical personnel, while still looking attractive even if you don't know what is shown. The current version can show nagios status data, webcam streams (mjpeg, jpeg, and video4Linux), and VNC, has a built-in terminal emulator in which regular text applications can be run, can sniff the network (including remotely) and dissect streams and show pictures which are sniffed, can show external bitmaps (from, for example, mrtg and rrdtool), and can scroll text (currently showing output of rssfeeds).
jmxtrans is effectively the missing connector between JMX and whatever logging or graphing package that you can dream up. jmxtrans is very powerful tool that reads JSON configuration files specifying servers/ports and JMX domains/attributes and then outputs the data in whatever format you want via special "Writer" objects that you can code up yourself. It does this with a very efficient engine design that will scale to querying literally thousands of machines. The core engine is pretty solid and writers are included for cacti/rrdtool, graphite, and stdout.
CSVSee graphs data from CSV files, especially those containing timestamps. You can graph all columns, or specific columns matching regular expressions. Graphs can be displayed in an interactive viewer, or saved to a .png or .svg file. Tools are also provided to generate CSV files by string-matching in multiple timestamped text files, and for creating CSV reports of Grinder load test logs.
NoSpex is a Python scripted realtime graphing library designed to be easily employed by security consultants and reverse engineers for teasing apart and depicting the relationships between processes in a system under analysis. It is realtime in the sense that the graph is continuously rendered and animated as new relationships are introduced. It is easily employed in the sense that all the bookkeeping is done by the Python module and exposed using a simple thread-safe API. NoSpex relies on the SDL graphic library for a frame buffer and Cairo for rendering to the frame buffer. This combination produces a fast and visually elegant graph that should be portable wherever SDL and Cairo can be found.
Pkviz is a tool for plotting and cycling through and animating a series of network packets captured by tcpdump. What makes it unique is that the packets' structure is visualized, not any labels and not time itself. Pkviz takes each byte in a packet and plots it out end-to-end, left-to-right, from the first byte to the last. How high the dot gets plotted depends on the value of the byte: bytes with a value of 0 are at the bottom and those which are 255 (0xff) – the maximum value of a byte – get plotted at the top. This might not be interesting for one packet, but that changes when you start looking at thousands of packets. Pkviz can cycle through thousands of packets in the set so you can see what happened on the wire.
Instavue extracts the Instaviz diagrams from the user's iPhone or iPod Touch backups. The user can then choose to print the diagrams or export them to any of these vector and bitmap formats: BMP, EPS, GIF, Graphviz, JPEG, PNG, PostScript, SVG, TIFF, Visio VDX, or VML. Mac users can also export to these additional formats: JPEG2000, OpenEXR, Photoshop, PDF, Quickdraw, Silicon Graphics or TGA. Windows users can also export to the EMF (Enhanced Metafile) format.
A tool that displays information about BOINC projects.
A Web service to edit an XML configuration file.


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How do I update my DoubleClick username and password to a Google Account?
To update your DoubleClick sign-in information to a Google Account, just follow these steps:
Watch a video on how to update DFA or DoubleClick Search to a Google Account.
Watch a video on how to update DFP to a Google Account.
Important: After you update, your DoubleClick agreements will continue to govern your use of DoubleClick services, and the Google Account Terms of Service shall not amend or supersede those agreements. Learn more.
- On your product's sign-in page, click the Update Now link.
- Click the Sign in with your DoubleClick Account link in the top right, and log in.
- On the Choose a Google Account page that appears, select one of the following:
- If you've used Google products for your business (such as Analytics, AdSense, or AdWords), or you have already updated another DoubleClick Account, enter the email and password in the Yes box and click Link Accounts. We strongly encourage you to use separate Google Accounts for personal and business use. If you don't have a Google Account for business, we recommend that you create one.
- If you need to create the Google Account, click the Create a new Google Account now link in the No box.
- On the Create an Account page, we strongly recommend that you enter your work email address (firstname.lastname@example.com) in the Your current email address: field.
- Follow the remaining instructions to create a new Google Account.
- Click the I accept. Create my account. button.
- Access the email specified on the Email verification page.
- Click the link in the email message we sent you.
We can't modify the DoubleClick sign-in pages until all users have updated. Therefore, we recommend that you bookmark the Google sign-in pages for your DoubleClick products.
Important: We strongly discourage you from sharing your Google Account with other users of your DoubleClick product. Learn why.


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A-848 AquaClear air pump model 50 double output, for aquariums 20 to 50 us gals. Packed in a colorful display box.
This full range of technically advanced air pumps provides reliable power for all aquarium air requirements. These "virtually silent" running air pumps will provide many years of trouble-free operation. The AquaClear air pumps are a reliable source of air for air operated items such as air stones, air- actuated ornaments, air driven protein skimmers or for adding movement or oxygen to any aquarium.


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The Battlefield series has thrived on multiplayer, so fans were a bit disappointed to see Battlefield 4's debut would focus on the single-player campaign. However, developer DICE says it wants to create more than just a shooter experience and have players form a bond with the characters.
"For us, it's important to grow up a bit and create a great story, a character you care about, where you feel involved in their actions and that's based on the core idea of the whole game," executive producer Patrick Bach said.
"For a game like Battlefield, you could argue that it's just a shooter, so who cares," Bach told Edge. But, he argues that "if you're playing multiplayer, you actually care about the guys in your squad. Those are often your friends, they have their personalities, you help them, they help you, and they have their own mindset. Now we need to create a single-player that mimics that feeling."
From there, he said, multiplayer can take things on display in the single-player campaign. "It's a great showcase of a lot of different aspects of the game... If you look at [the GDC] demo, you can extrapolate a lot of features that you can then translate into either the single-player or the multiplayer."


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pngquant is a batch conversion utility to quantize and dither truecolor PNG images, especially those with a full alpha channel, down to "RGBA-palette" PNGs (i.e., PLTE + tRNS in PNG parlance). Such images are usually two to four times smaller than the full 32-bit versions, and partial transparency is preserved quite nicely. This makes pngquant especially useful both for Web sites and for PlayStation 2 development, where one of the texture formats is RGBA-palette-based (though not PNG-compressed).
Little CMS intends to be a small-footprint color management engine, with special focus on accuracy and performance. It uses the International Color Consortium standard (ICC), which is the modern standard when regarding to color management. The ICC specification is widely used and is referred to in many International and other de-facto standards.
XRoar is a cross-platform emulator for the Dragon 32, Dragon 64, and Tandy CoCo computers, all originally released in the early '80s. The emulator runs under Unix-like operating systems (including Mac OS X) and Windows, with older versions available for handhelds like the Nintendo DS and GP32.
Potamus is a lightweight GTK+-based audio player with a simple interface and an emphasis on high audio quality. It tries to make it as easy as possible to use your file manager to locate and play music. Potamus can play a wide range of audio formats, works with ALSA, JACK,and other audio systems, and supports 24-bit audio and gapless playback.
Concurrency Kit provides a plethora of concurrency primitives and lock-less and lock-free data structures designed to aid in the design and implementation of high performance scalable concurrent systems. It was designed to minimize dependencies on operating system-specific interfaces, and most of the interface relies only on a strict subset of the standard library and more popular compiler extensions.
bcg729 is an Open Source implementation of both the encoder and decoder of the ITU G729 Annex A speech codec. It is written in C 99, is fully portable, and can be executed on many platforms, including both ARM and x86. libbcg729 supports concurrent channel encoding/decoding for multi-call applications such as conferencing. This project was initially developed as part of Mediastreamer2, Linphone's media processing engine, so it contains the glue to be integrated into Linphone/Mediastreamer2.
MMLi is a simple Music Macro Language interpreter written in ISO C99. The Music Macro Language originated in 8-bit BASIC implementations (as part of the "PLAY" command), and can still be found in modern BASICs (like QB64) and in system software (like FreeBSD's spkr.c driver.) This interpreter features an example "mmlitest" program which can be used to translate MML sequences into beep(1) commandline arguments.
giflib is a library for rendering and generating GIF image files. This is the GIF service code in C used for over two decades by graphics applications, Web browsers, game consoles, ATMs, and pretty much anything else that throws pixels on a display. It is simple, stable, and bulletproof.
The ExaScale IO (ESIO) library provides simple, high throughput input and output of structured data sets using parallel HDF5. It is designed to support reading and writing of turbulence simulation restart files, but it may be useful in other contexts. The library is written in C99 and may be used by C89 or C++ applications. A Fortran API built atop the F2003 standard ISO_C_BINDING is also available.


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I ask myself that question a lot, especially since I typically save my workbooks to SharePoint team sites on our corporate servers. If you, too, save and share files on your network, you can make your life easier by adding the Document Location box to the Quick Access Toolbar.
The Document Location box shows you exactly where your file is saved. If you need your coworkers to review or edit your workbook, just paste the link from this box into an email message and send it to them. Trust me—sending a link is way better than sending a file attachment!
Here's how to add this box to the ribbon:Click the arrow next to the Quick Access Toolbar, and then click More Commands.
Scroll down to the Document Location command and double-click it to add it to the Quick Access Toolbar.
Click OK. At this point, you should see the Document Location box on your Quick Access Toolbar. (If you ever want to get rid of it, right-click the border of the box, and then click Remove from Quick Access Toolbar.)
This procedure applies to Excel 2010, but it works pretty much the same way in Excel 2007. To quickly open the Excel Options dialog box in Excel 2010 or earlier, press ALT, and then press T, O.
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MUKILTEO — Dale Hendrickson didn't feel very emotional when he and his fiancé, Steven Ilg, picked up their marriage license.
He did Sunday when they tied the knot in a midday wedding in the historic Mukilteo Lighthouse.
"It's hit me now," Hendrickson said moments after exchanging vows with his partner of 20 years. "I didn't think it was something that would ever be legal."
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It wasn't until last week when the state law allowing same-sex couples to marry went into effect. Because another state law requires a 72-hour waiting period, no couples could wed until Sunday.
At 12:01 a.m. Sunday the vows began in earnest.
Gay and lesbian couples married in churches, city halls and courthouses all across Washington in a statewide celebration of matrimonial emancipation wrought by the passage of Referendum 74 in last month's election.
On Whidbey Island, Army Col. Grethe Cammermeyer, a retired nurse who successfully challenged the military's ban on open service by gays and lesbians, planned to marry her longtime partner, Diane Divelbess, at their home in Langley. Nine other same-gender couples were to marry at the home, too, Cammermeyer told The Associated Press.
In Lynnwood, two couples — Kevin and Keith Arnett and Corine Schmidt and Molly Lloyd-Wilson — scheduled a joint ceremony at Trinity Lutheran Church.
And in Seattle, about 140 couples made reservations to marry at City Hall where five separate chapels were set up to accommodate the revelers.
Starting at 10 a.m., cheers and applause regularly broke out as another couple's marriage became official.
At the Mukilteo Lighthouse, the cold, dreary weather didn't dampen spirits of the two dozen friends and family members at the nuptials of Hendrickson and Ilg, who are Mukilteo residents.
Guests sat on folding chairs and benches, some squeezing packets of hand warmer salts, as Snohomish County District Court Judge Tam Bui officiated her first-ever marriage of a same-sex couple.
"This is a very fitting place because it is a very historic event for both of them," she said.
The two men wore matching black suits, white shirts and red ties. Each had a red rose boutonniere pinned to his lapel.
In a brief ceremony of less than 10 minutes, they recited the traditional marriage vows — though Ilg drew laughs when he ad-libbed "for richer and richer" — exchanged rings and sealed it all with a kiss.
"By the power vested in me by the state of Washington," Bui concluded, "I am so thrilled to pronounce you husband and husband. May I present you Mr. and Mr. Hendrickson-Ilg."
Hendrickson shed tears at the end.
"It sounds a little odd," he said of his new married title, "but I will definitely get used to it."
Susan Ilg of Fremont, Calif., Steven Ilg's sister-in-law, wiped away a few tears, too.
"The words mean something to me," she said of the vows. "I think it's fabulous they are able to do this."
It's a long time coming, said Roberta McKay of Redmond, who works with Steven Ilg at a medical supplies firm in King County.
"Everybody should have the opportunity," she said. "I could not be happier for them."
Don McKay, her husband, said watching two men exchange vows didn't seem any different than if it was a man and a woman.
"It still feels like two people ready to spend their lives together," he said.
Last month, Washington, Maine and Maryland became the first states to make same-sex marriage legal by popular vote. They joined six other states — New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont — and the District of Columbia in having laws or court rulings permitting same-sex marriage.
Washington's law doesn't require religious organizations or churches to perform marriages, and it doesn't subject churches to penalties if they don't marry gay or lesbian couples.
Married same-sex couples will still be denied access to federal pensions, health insurance and other government benefits available to heterosexual couples because the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA, bars federal recognition of gay unions.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday said it will take up gay marriage during the current term. Several pending cases challenge the federal benefit provision of DOMA, and a separate appeal asks the justices to decide whether federal courts were correct in striking down California's Proposition 8, the amendment that outlawed gay marriage after it had been approved by courts in the nation's largest state.
Hendrickson and Ilg have been together 20 years, the last five in a registered domestic partnership.
They met through a personal ad Ilg placed in the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News.
"Dale responded. We talked for hours the first time we met," Ilg said, adding the two have been together since.
They wanted to wed on the first day possible.
"We're big believers in marriage," Ilg said.
Hendrickson also said he wanted to be married just in case something arises to take it away like in California.
"Who's to say it will always be there for everyone," Hendrickson said. "Rights have to be used."
Herald wire services contributed to this report.
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How to make the best ever, no-cook play dough recipe in just 4 minutes, that will lasts for 6 months!
The other day I slightly modified our usual no-cook play dough recipe and it turned out to be the best ever! It's softer, smoother and doesn't start to dry out even if it's played with all day. This is my new go-to recipe and I just had to share it!
I also realised that, even though I have about a million-and-one play dough recipes and ideas on this site, I don't have a post simply dedicated to how to make the stuff! So here it is.
If you have never tried making your own play dough, this is the time to give it a try. It's very different to store bought play dough, being much softer and lasting a whole lot longer.
The benefits of using play dough for young children are wonderful and the play possibilities are endless!
You need:
- 2 cups plain flour (all purpose)
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup salt
- 2 tablespoons cream of tartar
- Up to 1.5 cups boiling water (adding in increments until it feels just right)
- food colouring (optional)
- few drops glycerine (optional- adds more shine!)
- Mix the flour, salt, cream of tartar and oil in a large mixing bowl
- Add food colouring TO the boiling water then into the dry ingredients (colour optional)
- Stir continuously until it becomes a sticky, combined dough
- Add the glycerine (optional)
- Allow it to cool down then take it out of the bowl and knead it vigorously for a couple of minutes until all of the stickiness has gone. * This is the most important part of the process, so keep at it until it's the perfect consistency!*
- (If it remains a little sticky then add a touch more flour until just right)
We use these Wilton Gel colours as they are much more vibrant and take only a tiny amount to colour the dough. We also use them in all our other sensory play activities to and they last for ever!
You can store this play dough in an air tight container for at least 6 months. If you live in a humid climate you might need to store it in the fridge and out of sunlight.
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This article was printed from mlb, originally published .
Read more news at: https://www.mlb.com/news
Motivating players Black's greatest strength
Black actually is good at all those things, but the thing that makes him really special is hard to explain and occasionally hard to identify. It's there, though, real and critically important.
In fact, it probably is what all of baseball's best managers have. Joe Maddon and Jim Leyland have a gift for it. So do Bruce Bochy and Dusty Baker. Mike Matheny and Bob Melvin appear to have it.
In an era when managers have binders of statistical help with matchups, defense, etc., the thing that's left to them and them alone is building relationships with players and creating an environment that compels everyone to play hard and put the team first.
If that sounds simple, it's anything but. Managers must be competent in running a game and all of that, but beyond those things, they absolutely must keep the lines of communication open and to always be honest with players, regardless of whether the news is good or bad.
"What never changes is the importance of being able to create an environment of winning," said Padres executive vice president and general manager Josh Byrnes.
That's an enormous assignment when you consider that a manager typically is dealing with a blend of younger and older players and with players from various countries and backgrounds.
There are guys making big money and others who think they should be making big money. Some are approaching free agency, seeing it as their personal lottery ticket. Others have more yesterdays than tomorrows in the game.
To take all these people, to put them together for six months and get them to play with a singularity of purpose, is a very special gift. In six seasons as the manager of the San Diego Padres, Black has distinguished himself in the things that are really important. Even though the Padres have had just two winning campaigns in Black's six seasons, the Padres appreciate all the gifts he brings to the table.
That's why they announced Monday that they've picked up his contract options for the 2014-15 seasons. With Byrnes about to begin his second season on the job, with new ownership in place and with a foundation of young talent finally Major League ready, there's a sense that special days are ahead for the Padres.
First, though, the manager. Byrnes has known him since the mid-1990s when both men worked for the Cleveland Indians. That they would end up together years later as a respected young executive and talented manager was too much to imagine at the time.
"He's gifted at creating an environment that's fun and inclusive," Byrnes said. "He creates an expectation of success and no excuses. People know what's expected of them. He's bright and engaged and helps us make decisions. He's a great person, a great guy to be around. I consider us lucky to have him."
Baseball's best managers make the job look easy. In fact, they never seem to be doing much at all. They juggle a dozen different things at once and never let anyone see 'em sweat.
"Buddy is very competitive, but he's steady and positive," Byrnes said. "A manager has to be able to form a relationship with a lot of different people."
The Padres haven't been to the postseason since 2006 and were thrown off track in 2012 by a numbing number of injuries to the pitching staff. At one point, they were 22 games under .500.
To keep a club together and playing hard under those circumstances might be the toughest test for a manager. Black passed with flying colors as the Padres went 42-33 after the All-Star break despite using 15 different starting pitchers.
Among the position players, they appear to be building a nice core of talent around third baseman Chase Headley and outfielder Carlos Quentin. Shortstop Everth Cabrera and second baseman Logan Forsythe are both 25 years old. So is outfielder Cameron Maybin.
The Padres hope to have Clayton Richard, Edinson Volquez and Eric Stults in their 2013 rotation. They have an impressive array of quality, unproven arms behind them, and a bunch of others still recovering from injuries. That's why Byrnes will be shopping for a veteran starter -- or two -- this winter.
"I was really impressed with how we played and the energy of our team," Byrnes said. "We played with a fearlessness. Our position players played a lot better. We scored runs and played defense. We were pretty good and pretty deep. I think we've definitely taken strides. At the end of the year, we were playing teams fighting for playoff spots."
The National League West has become one of baseball's toughest divisions, with the Giants winning the World Series again and the Dodgers spending like crazy to get back to the postseason.
"They're going to have better resumes and get more attention and have a bigger payroll," Byrnes said of the Dodgers. "That doesn't mean we can't beat them. We have to embrace who we are and embrace the challenge. They're going to have good players, and so are the Giants."
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Drawing Unit is in "Inch" but the Layer Data (Line wight) is in "mm" ....
I like it ... but maybe I'm the only one
I played around and now .... I don't like it anymore. The conversion of the Line weight is for me not understandable ...
Line weights are simply fixed and not converted or scaled at all.
In model space, a 1mm wide line is displayed as 1mm wide.
On paper, a 1mm line is always printed as 1mm wide, regardless of the scale that is applied for printing. I.e. line weights are NOT scaled with the drawing scale.
This makes sense because the line weight usually has a meaning (e.g. visible edge: 0.5mm, continuous; invisible edge: 0.13mm, dashed.
Scaling or converting the line weight would change the meaning or function of the line in the drawing.
Yep ... absolutely plausible. Thanks for the explanation.
But the Line weights are still all metric. Is that on purpose?
I think to add an 'Edit line weight' - between metric and imperial feature would be useful and seems logical. Maybe this could be added in the 'layer Data' dialog window!


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A heart transplant is an operation performed to replace a diseased heart with a healthy one from another person.
A heart transplant is recommended for children who have serious heart dysfunction and will not be able to live without having the heart replaced. Some of the illnesses that affect the heart in this way include complex congenital (present at birth) heart disease and cardiomyopathy (disease of the heart muscle in which the heart loses its ability to pump blood effectively).
The number of children who need heart transplants varies from year-to-year.Visit the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) website for statistics of patients awaiting a heart transplant, and the number of patients who underwent a transplant this year.
Hearts that are transplanted come from organ donors. Organ donors are adults or children who have become critically ill (often due to an accidental injury) and will not live as a result of their illness or injury. If the donor is an adult, he/she may have agreed to be an organ donor before becoming ill. Parents or spouses can also agree to donate a relative's organs. Donors can come from any part of the United States. This type of transplant is called a cadaveric transplant.
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is responsible for transplant organ distribution in the United States. UNOS oversees the allocation of many different types of transplants, including liver, kidney, pancreas, heart, lung, and cornea.
UNOS receives data from hospitals and medical centers throughout the country regarding adults and children who need organ transplants. The medical team that currently follows your child is responsible for sending information to UNOS and updating them as your child's condition changes.
Criteria have been developed to ensure that all people on the waiting list are judged fairly as to the severity of their illness and the urgency of receiving a transplant. Once UNOS receives the data from local hospitals, people waiting for a transplant are placed on a waiting list and given a "status" code. The people in most urgent need of a transplant are placed highest on the status list and are given first priority when a donor heart becomes available.
When a donor organ becomes available, a computer searches all the people on the waiting list for a heart and sets aside those who are not good matches for the available heart. A new list is made from the remaining candidates. The person at the top of the specialized list is considered for the transplant. If he or she is not a good candidate, for whatever reason, the next person is considered, and so forth. Some reasons that people lower on the list might be considered before a person at the top include the size of the donor organ and the geographical distance between the donor and the recipient.
An extensive evaluation must be completed before your child can be placed on the transplant list. Testing includes:
Tests are done to gather information that will help determine how urgent it is that your child be placed on the transplant list, as well as to ensure the child receives a donor organ that is a good match. These tests include those to analyze the general health of the body, including the child's heart, lung, and kidney function, the child's nutritional status, and the presence of infection.
Blood tests will help improve the chances that the donor organ will not be rejected. These tests may include:
The diagnostic tests that are performed are extensive, but necessary to understand the complete medical status of your child. The following are some of the other tests that may be performed, although many of the tests are decided on an individual basis:
The transplant team will consider all information from interviews, your child's medical history, physical examination, and diagnostic tests in determining whether your child can be a candidate for heart transplantation.
After the evaluation, if your child is considered a good candidate for a heart transplant, he or she will be placed on the UNOS list.
The group of specialists involved in the care of children who are undergoing a transplant procedure is often referred to as the "transplant team." Team members work together to provide the best chance for a successful transplant. The heart transplant team consists of:
There is no definite answer to this question. Sometimes, children wait only a few days or weeks before receiving a donor organ. It may also take months or years on the waiting list before a suitable donor organ is available. During this time, your child will receive close follow-up from his or her doctor and the transplant team. Various support groups are also available to assist you during this waiting time.
A major problem affecting the availability of hearts for transplant is that these organs cannot come from living donors. Kidney transplants often come from a living donor; both the person who donated a kidney and the recipient are able to live with just one remaining kidney. New techniques are making it possible for some people in need of a liver transplant to receive part of an organ from a living donor; both the recipient and the donor may be able to live successfully with just a segment of a liver. However, an entire heart is needed for a human to live. Neither donor nor recipient can live with only a segment of a heart. Therefore, people in need of a heart transplant must wait for the death of a person who generously decided to share his or her organs.
Availability of donors for heart transplantation is also affected by the size of the child needing the transplant. For instance, an adult donor heart cannot be transplanted into an infant because the infant's chest is simply too small to accommodate the large organ. Children must wait for an appropriately sized organ to become available. However, as of May 15, 2000, new UNOS guidelines were established to give preference to children under 18 on the waiting list before adults whenever a heart from an adolescent donor (ages 11 to 17) becomes available.
Each transplant team has its own specific guidelines regarding waiting on the transplant list and being notified when a donor organ is available. In most instances, you will notified by phone or pager that an organ is available. You will be told to come to the hospital immediately so your child can be prepared for the transplant.
Once an organ becomes available to your child, you and your child will be immediately called to the hospital. This call can occur at any time, so you should always be prepared to go to the hospital, if needed. Once at the hospital, the child will have some more final blood work and tests to confirm the match of the organ.
The child will then go to the operating room. The transplant surgery may require several hours, but will vary greatly depending on each individual case. During the surgery, a member of the transplant team will keep you informed on the progress of the transplant.
After the surgery, your child will go to the intensive care unit (ICU) to be monitored closely. The length of time your child will spend in the ICU will vary based on your child's unique condition. After your child is stable, he or she will be sent to the special unit in the hospital that cares for heart transplant patients. Your child will continue to be monitored closely. You will be educated on all aspects of caring for your child during this time. This will include information about medications, activity, follow-up, diet, and any other specific instructions from your child's transplant team.
Rejection is a normal reaction of the body to a foreign object. When a new heart is placed in your child's body, the body sees the transplanted organ as a threat and tries to attack it. The immune system makes antibodies to try to destroy the new organ, not realizing that the transplanted heart is beneficial. To allow the organ to successfully live in a new body, medications must be given to trick the immune system into accepting the transplant and not thinking it is a foreign object.
The following are the most common signs and symptoms of rejection. However, each child may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
Your child's transplant team will instruct you on who to call immediately if any of these symptoms occur.
Medications must be given for the rest of the child's life to fight rejection. Each child is unique, and each transplant team has preferences for different medications. Some of the antirejection medications most commonly used include the following:
Because antirejection medications affect the immune system, children who receive a transplant will be at higher risk for infections. A balance must be maintained between preventing rejection and making your child very susceptible to infection. Blood tests are performed periodically to measure the amount of medication in the body to ensure your child does not get too much or too little of the medication. White blood cell counts are also an important indicator of how much medication your child needs.
This risk of infection is especially great in the first few months because higher doses of antirejection medicines are given during this time. Your child will most likely need to take medications to prevent other infections from occurring. Some of the infections your child will be especially susceptible to include oral yeast infections (thrush), herpes, and respiratory viruses.
Your child will have very close follow-up with the transplant team after leaving the hospital. This will allow for close monitoring of your child and the function of the transplanted heart. Follow-up visits may include the following:
Children who have received a heart transplant will need lifelong follow-up with doctors who are specialized in transplant medicine. Keeping appointments with your child's transplant doctor, as well as maintaining contact with the transplant team when symptoms of rejection occur is vital. Parents (and the recipient, when old enough) are the first line of defense; they must understand and recognize the signs and symptoms of rejection and report them as soon as possible to the transplant team.
Living with a transplant is a lifelong process. Medications must be given that trick the immune system so it will not attack the transplanted organ. Other medications must be given to prevent side effects of the antirejection medications, such as infection. Frequent visits to and contact with the transplant team are essential. Knowing the symptoms of organ rejection (and watching for them on a daily basis) is critical. When the child becomes old enough, he or she will need to learn about antirejection medications (what they do and the signs of rejection), so he or she can eventually care for himself or herself independently.
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After waiting four months for the kinks to be ironed out, I download iOS 6, Apple's new mobile operating system. The update includes a slew of features –Facebook integration, photo sharing, etc. Most exciting is "Do Not Disturb," a setting to pause the torrent of bings, bleeps, dings and vibrations that come with the digital age.
My life is abuzz with the sounds of my iPhone, iPad and computer: a ping for email, a buzz for Facebook messages, a tone for Skype calls, and the occasional ring of a phone. Sometimes it seems that hardly a minute goes by without some jingle.
I've started searching for moments of silence. Two weeks ago, I declared 5 to 7:30 p.m. – from when my daughter comes home to her bedtime – to be email-free hours. We still Skype with grandparents and answer texts, but I try to avoid emails.
This week, I'm experimenting with a plan to check email only once an hour. Fighting the Pavlovian urge to flip to Gmail every time I hear an email ping, I'm waiting until the last 10 minutes of each hour to sort through new messages. This system is an attempt to raise productivity and retain focus for longer stretches. We'll see how it goes.
Taking time out stems from the fourth commandment: "Six days you shall labour and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work." (Exodus 20)
Inspired by Shabbat, Reboot – an organization devoted to inspiring under-connected Jews to generate projects that impact the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds – has pioneered the National Day of Unplugging. The annual event (this year it's on March 1-2) encourages people to take a brief respite from their digital devices – to disconnect in order to connect.
But Shabbat is more than the "Do Not Disturb" function. Reboot's Shabbat Manifesto offers 10 principles designed "to slow down lives in an increasingly hectic world": 1. Avoid technology; 2. Connect with loved ones; 3. Nurture your health; 4. Get outside; 5. Avoid commerce; 6. Light candles; 7. Drink wine; 8. Eat bread; 9. Find silence; 10. Give back.
The manifesto takes the Jewish particularism of Shabbat and makes it universal. Reboot calls it "a modern spin on the ancient day of rest for people of all denominations." Kiddush becomes "drinking wine." "You shall not work" becomes "avoid commerce." Hamotzi becomes "eat bread." Prayer becomes "find silence."
There's certainly something appealing about paring Shabbat down to its universalistic appeal. Universalism is what enables a White House Passover seder, Chanukah to become the holiday of lights, and a mitzvah to be common parlance for a good deed. At the same time, pursuing the universal to the exclusion of the particular is what makes kashrut, Shavuot and Israel irrelevant to so many.
If Shabbat is only about unplugging, then I celebrate it every day from 5 to 7:30. But there's more. I wonder what could be added to the Shabbat Manifesto to remind us that, at its core, Shabbat has both universal appeal and a particularistic source – "the seventh day is a Sabbath of the lord your God."


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Opened by Stefan (stefan) - Tuesday, 04 October 2011, 20:17 GMT+2
It would be nice if one could select multiple blocks in the block list at once (holding ctrl or ctrl+shift). Main purpose would be to delete them if they are not needed anymore. If possible, the same applies to layers.
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A medley from "Les Miserables" will be among the selections at Oklahoma Christian University's annual Winter Instrumental Concert on Feb. 10.
The free concert featuring the university's instrumental groups starts at 2:30 p.m. in OC's Hardeman Auditorium.
OC's Symphonic Band will perform the "Les Miserables" medley along with Frank Ticheli's "Nitro" and the Goldman March "On the Mall."
The university's Jazz Ensemble will perform the rock-and-roll piece "Vehicle" by the Ides of March, "Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel, "Little Brown Jug" by Glenn Miller, and a recently composed fusion/funk tune, "R U Chicken?"
The Chamber Orchestra will perform "Centrefugue" by M.L. Daniels in its Oklahoma debut. Centrefugue received honorable mention at the most recent Isaac/ASTA composition contest and will be published by Kjos. The orchestra also will present works by Arcangelo Corelli, Gerald Finzi and Bedrich Smetana.
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A risk factor is something that increases your chances of getting a disease or condition. It is possible to develop multiple myeloma with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing multiple myeloma. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
Factors that may increase your risk of multiple myeloma include:
- Age—Multiple myeloma is rare in people under 40 years old. It is most common those aged 65 years and older.
- Family history—Although multiple myeloma tends to run in families, it is possible to have the disease without a family history.
- Occupational or environmental exposures—Working in the petroleum or agriculture industries is associated with multiple myeloma. Radiation from a nuclear bomb fallout increases the risk of many blood-related cancers, including multiple myeloma. Radiation from other sources, such as medical treatments, may increase the risk, but it is not associated with many cases.
- Ethnicity—Multiple myeloma rates in those of African American descent are nearly double those in Caucasians.
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Repeat after them: A's primed to defend division title
The Angels, notably, reeled most of it in. That's what happens when you give Albert Pujols a new teammate named Josh Hamilton, making their star-studded cast the new favorite in the West -- at least to outsiders.
However, inside Oracle Arena, where A's players and staff convened for FanFest on Sunday, expectations of keeping the division crown in Oakland were heard loud and clear -- maybe all the way to Seattle, where the Mariners have undergone a needed lineup makeover, or in Texas, where feared bats still rest in Arlington and the Astros prepare in Houston to join baseball's toughest division.
"I think these guys feel good about themselves, and we feel good about them as well," general manager Billy Beane said. "It's great we're not talked about. It makes Bob Melvin's life easier and my life easier. Let the script play out the exact same way it did last year. Texas and Anaheim, they're great teams and have some high-profile players and deserve the attention. But the one narrative I don't buy into is we didn't sneak up on anyone last year. In 162 games, you don't sneak up on anyone."
The A's won 94 of those games and went on to win two more in the AL Division Series before dropping a deciding Game 5 to the Tigers. Since then, they've largely stayed intact, minus Brandon McCarthy, Jonny Gomes and Cliff Pennington. Yet their additions arguably prove greater, what with the likes of outfielder Chris Young, catcher John Jaso and shortstop Hiroyuki Nakajima now in the fold.
Their lineup is deeper, their depth is enviable, and their pitching staff -- owners of a 3.48 ERA last year -- boasts both qualities.
"We can't go out and spend $15 million a year on a guy, so we have to find guys that add to the mix for us," Melvin said. "I think Billy has a pretty good sense in being able to look at the long-term and looking at the short-term and knowing that this is a window for us. With some of the lack of resources we have here, you have to do some things differently and very uniquely, but this year was about adding to the mix. We have a general manager that made us even more flexible than we were last year."
As for Hamilton, A's pitchers held the slugger to a .247 average last season. Pujols hit .278 against Oakland and, together, the new teammates combined for just five home runs in 152 at-bats when facing the green and gold.
"The way I look at it, with Anaheim, everyone is predicting them to be so much better than everyone, but looking back, our pitching staff did one heck of a job between Albert and Josh last year by keeping them contained," Josh Reddick said. "If they can do that again, I think we'll be in good shape. Expectations don't change, it's just a new crew and a new year. We were outcast last year and everyone's counting us out again, but we have the firm belief that we can do this thing again."
"The big sign last year was Albert Pujols," Melvin said. "They've added Josh Hamilton, so that's something we have to deal with. More important is that we worry about ourselves rather than other teams. I think we proved last year that if we do things in the right fashion, that we have a chance to win. We're the defending division champs, and I think if you ask other teams within our division if they're worried about us, there's probably some that will say yes based on what we did last year."


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How does one find time for books? One finds time for books by taking it.
Even in our computer age, books are still the best way to preserve and transmit ideas. Not to speak of the diverse pleasures that books bring to readers. The printed book is a neat, compact, well-behaved invention. It is there when you want it. You need no apparatus to deal with it. It slips into your pocket, it fits your hand, it yields to your eye. A book asks no questions about your colour or creed or college degree.
Long ago John Milton declared: "A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond." He hurled a scornful condemnation against the barbaric practice of consigning books to the hellish flames of the auto-da-fé. "Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature created in God's image, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself," he thundered prophetically.
Jewish tradition, perhaps more than that of any other group, reflects the noble estimate of the value and significance of books. When an ark containing The Book is placed in a room, humble as it might be, that room becomes a shrine. When revered books become old and worn and their pages become lose and separated, it is considered a sacrilege to discard them to the mercy of callous hands or stunted minds or to the whims of shifting winds. Instead they are collected and deposited in the attic of the synagogue, and when space is no longer available, they are buried in a solemn ceremony.
Words of praise for books and reading are widespread and eloquent. In an earlier generation, American author Clarence Day wrote that "the world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build on others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young and still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of me centuries dead."
The Book of Judges speaks of a city in Judah that Joshua called Kiryat Sefer, Book Town. The library in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem today may well be called a modern Kiryat Sefer. In addition to one million volumes and more than 10,000 periodicals, there are many collections catalogued separately. There are also incunabula, microfilms and manuscripts. I know of no other country in the world whose map lists a Kiryat Sefer.
Finally, there is much to consider in the following two selections from the midrash. The first teaches that the sword and the Book came down wrapped together from heaven. The Holy One said: "Keep what is written in the Book or be delivered to the sword." The other midrash maintains that a learned bastard stands higher on the social scale than an ignorant high priest.


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10."Man Up Anthem" (The Reach Records relay pass)
"Man Up" makes the list because it's the only song containing every artist Reach Records has ever signed. The warrior chant served as a sort of baton pass from the accomplished Reach veterans to the sure-handed "new school" stable of artists. The creative collage of 7 different styles, was an effectively clear anthem for a call towards authentic Biblical manhood. "Man Up" became the soundtrack for music, a movie and the movement of a legion of goldly men.
9."Just Like You" (Lecrae gets honest)
While most people would point to Rehab's other transcendent cut "Background", this track was arguably more influential. This autobiographical take of Lecrae's life was presented in a more personal way than we had previously heard from him. Instead of solely pointing towards the errors of modern cultural worldview, Lecrae essentially puts himself on trial. He unpacks his influences in the first 2 verses, then confronts his depravity/need for a Savior in the 3rd. It is not a surprise that this was used as an instrumental for the "Man Up" movie trailer. This song is like a movie all by itself. The track also was a bridge to two different styles of Lecrae's lyrical articulation: theological and sociological. Mixed together the final product is a beautiful blend of life and doctrine.
8."The Invasion (Hero)" (106 & Park recognized)
This Trip Lee anthem is arguably the most recognizable and accessible song in his illustrious catalog. Certain tracks have the ability to captivate the audience with the first few notes, and countless venues have experienced this reality through "The Invasion". Backed by the stellar vocals of soulful songbird Jai, Trip was even able to crack his second spot on the 106&Park scene.
7."We Can Be More" (Grown Folks music)
While Sho was the most eclectic Reach artist in the history of the label, the grown folks anthem "We Can Be More" has the feel of a timeless classic. Beyond finding itself in countless wedding reception playlists and engagement proposals, the two-step track communicated something more than the common "youth group" driven content the collective was used to delivering. With the velvet vocals of veteran crooner J.R., Sho cracked the code with this track, spawning a series of copycat love songs and mindsets geared for marriage.
6."Don't Waste Your Life" (Created a movement)
If Christian Hip Hop had a historic Top 10 countdown, this guaranteed rooflifter would have a secure spot in the Top 5. To begin with the song was placed on Lecrae's most critically acclaimed album "Rebel". Not to mention, it was one of the first overt modern mergers between theology and hip hop, taking its title from the popular John Piper book. And on replay value and concert hype alone (with the stellar international flow of a Dwayne Tryumf feature), this is easily one of the best songs produced in modern Christian.
5."Make War" (Difficult Doctrine lived out)
Tedashii is known for being the power-puncher of the label. His songs are typically bigger, louder and rowdier than his Reach compadres. And "Make War" was no different. In this track, T-dot brilliantly displays a difficult doctrine to live out: killing sin. In no previous time had war on the inner man been so obvious or seemed so necessary. The desperate plea, punctuated by a powerful verse from Flame, is still a classic in Tedashii's catalog.
4."Go Hard" (Another level of crossover appeal)
Beyond the obvious appeal of hearing this song performed live in a concert, "Go Hard" contains some of the most aggressive lyrics ever put on a Christian Hip Hop song. "Lord, kill me if I don't preach the Gospel" has been repeated by Christians of all ethnicities, ages, backgrounds and denominations. It had the theological weight and accessible appeal to reach the masses. The song was also famously played by Dwight Howard during pre-game warmups in the Orlando Magic arena. Lecrae and Tedashii bottled up electric energy, and it exploded onto this classic.
3. "Represent" (The first unashamed anthem)
I had forgotten the impact of this song until it was played last year on the Unashamed Tour to a raucous crowd reaction. This was literally the first unashamed anthem. The success/surprise of this chant was its "in your face" delivery, which was foreign to many in the still-growing Christian Hip Hop genre. It signaled a clear shift from the less accessible theological expository rap of the late 90's/early 2000s to more aggressive chants for the concerts. Without the success of this song, many of the Reach anthems we have grown to know and love may never have been released.
2."Cash or Christ" (Unapologetic doctrinal stance)
Trip Lee's "Cash or Christ" was easily the most recognizable and controversial song of his debut album "If They Only Knew". The Tony Stoneproduced banger took aim at the beef between God/money as idols in an indirect but piercing way. For young Trip Lee, this was a precursor to the theological weight we could expect from him in the future. Mixed with Lecrae's trademark flow, Christian Hip Hop was put on notice that then youngster was going to unashamedly speak the truth regardless of popularity.
1."Jesus Muzik" (Started it all)
Most recognizable song in Christian Hip Hop history? Probably. Most influential song? Almost certainly. Few people seem to be unfamiliar with the chopped and screwed chorus on this classic and the impact had ripple effects for countless artists. The announcement on Lecrae's After The Music Stops album was simply that music was no longer going to be a one-sided conversation. No longer would 106&Park have a monopoly on musical excellence. It was part theological treatise, part dirty south anthem, part rebellious response to culture all "rapped" together.
Seeing that Reach Records is celerating their 10th anniversary, the team here at Rapzilla finds it more than appropriate to wish the legendary label congratulations for their amazing contribution to the Christian Hip Hop movement. Whether or not you agree with the list above, one thing is for sure: Reach Records has had a prolific decade-long run. We give honor to whom honor is due and sincere thanks for providing so many of us with the soundtrack to our lives as we aim to glorify God.
Okay, let the debate begin. What are the top 10 most influential Reach Records songs of all time? Fire away!
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