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The expression "gone to seed" usually has a negative connotation, meaning disheveled, declining or otherwise past-prime. When your plants go to seed, or "bolt," they quit being what you planted and become gangly towers looming over the garden. In this respect they're more like teenagers than elders, but anthropomorphism aside, the plant's formerly edible parts become shriveled, bitter and woody. This can look like a bad end for your endive patch, but crops that have gone to seed can still play an important role.
A plant that has run its productive course is, naturally, a source of seed. Depending on the plant's propensity to crossbreed, the seeds it produces might be true to the parent, or a mix of parent and some similar nearby plant. (For this reason it's inadvisable to replant seeds from garden squash or melons, because squash-family hybrids can be foul-tasting or poisonous.) The seeds might also be sterile and not sprout at all.
The practice of seed saving is another discussion, full of complexity and art, and it's more commitment than I care to take on. Instead, when the greens bolt, I simply let the seeds fall where they may. If any of them happen to sprout next month, or next spring, great—any time a yummy plant wants to grow up between my garlic or tomatoes is fine with me. I'd much rather have edible crops volunteering themselves than many of the weeds I know.
The first plants to bolt are generally the leafy cold-weather plants like spinach, lettuce, escarole and cilantro, and they make their moves when spring turns to summer. These elders crowd the garden with their blossomed stalks, providing cool, moist shade that allows later-blooming plants to maintain their tender youth a little longer. Newly sprouted plants are thus sheltered as well.
Perhaps most importantly, the flowers attract pollinators. The nation's bee population is plagued by mites, viruses and neonicotinoid-based pesticides, all of which have been implicated in die-offs, and may play roles in colony collapse disorder. This dire situation is alleviated, if only slightly, by a pesticide-free garden gone to seed, which can provide a safe, nourishing haven for imperiled bees. My bolted garden is a gridlock of bee traffic, which helps transform it into place of interaction between interdependent segments of the greater ecosystem. Watching bees patronize the newly opened blossoms is never a buzz-kill.
A plant that has run its productive course is, naturally, a source of seed.
A garden gone to seed is a diverse ecosystem, with young plants growing in the shade of old-growth annuals, but diversity has its drawbacks. Bees aren't the only critters that prefer dense polyculture to boring monoculture. Disease and pest problems may increase. As your plants fill out and crowd together, they won't be able to grow as large as they would if they had more room. If your singular goal is to pull as many pounds of food from the garden as possible, then letting plants bolt might not be the game for you.
Few home gardens, however, are about production alone. It's probably more pragmatic to spend your time at a paying job instead of gardening and buy your food. But a little plot of land feeds more than just your belly. A diverse garden with different types and ages of plants is interesting. A garden gone feral can blur the line between growing food and gathering it. A stroll among your plants is like entering the forest to see what you can find, and when you push the bolted radicchio aside to discover a young head of hidden lettuce, it feels like a gift.
I take care throughout the season to create this kind of luck by casting handfuls of seeds every which way in spring and summer. Mostly I toss seeds for greens, herbs and carrots, all of which can be planted all summer long for a fall crop, and all of which do well in partial shade. When I happen upon an unexpected parsley patch or grove of carrots, the fact that I'd scattered their seeds there, or allowed their parents to bolt, doesn't diminish the thrill. But as you'd expect, hurling seeds randomly in the garden won't result in orderly rows. Those who like their garden linear and neat should probably avoid this tactic.
There's a fine line between letting your garden go to seed and simply abandoning it. I call it managed chaos. You may need to pull some plants that are crowding or shading others. Bolted plants might block a sprinkler or attract unwanted pests and birds that shit on your parsley as they eat cilantro seeds. You may choose to let only a select few bolted plants stick around.
Managed chaos probably doesn't fit most people's idea of what a well-cared-for garden should look like. And to be honest, while it looks good to me, I often find myself slightly embarrassed when I show my garden to others. I feel compelled to blurt out why I chose to let it go to seed. In the end, gardens, like pets, often come to reflect their owners. Some gardeners value appearance above all else. Others care more for an interesting personality. Then there are those like me who use the space to explore the greater ecosystem, and as a source of adventure and surprise. The bolted variety of gardening may not pay for itself in the cold economic calculations of input versus return. But as entertainment it's cheaper, and more enlightening, than a trip to the movies.


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This is the most amazing run I have ever seen! Danny Hart wins by 11.6 seconds (World Championships are usually won by less than half a second, last year 11.6 back from winning would of been 14th place! not second!) and even throws in a sick whip near the finish! Awe inspiring!


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Changes to the MLB
Dec 15th
By Jared Serre aka jaredthe79
Baseball is a great game. From powerhouses like the entire lifespan New York Yankees with twenty-seven championships to turn around teams such as the 2013 Boston Red Sox after a sixty-nine win campaign in 2012. The sport is a great getaway from the stresses of daily life. But the problem is that the sport has some major issues that need to be worked out. One of these problems is the whole instant replay ordeal. It was recently okayed by the owners, but why wasn't this in effect before? Instant replay was available in most major sports More >
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Dec 10th
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Pulling a redemption can be a time to celebrate, especially when you look at the checklist and realize that your redemption is for a shield, one of one autograph. At the same time, it can be a time of anger, rage and disappointment. Looking at your shield, one of one autograph from 2008 Exquisite and realizing that most companies will do nothing to help your expired code. I've had my own personal positive and negative experiences with redemptions. I've noticed most people on Sports Card Forum absolutely despise redemptions. I thought we should explore the reasons More >
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What do Mike Leake and Xavier Nady have in common?
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I enjoyed my time at River Falls. The relationship between faculty and students was close. They knew their students when they saw them outside of class. I taught at Wild Rose High School for 4 years and Coleman High School for 30 years when I retired in 2003. The 34 years I spent teaching agriculture I saw a lot of change in agriculture as well as the students.
Thomas Welty – 1969
I was thankful to be able to live in the barracks while attending college there and many of those friendships have lasted a lifetime. I enjoyed teaching at Wittenberg and loved the opportunity to work for the DPI. I really enjoyed working with all the FFA officers as state FFA advisor.
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text: Parallel Research Group, Kasetsart University, Thailand Pround to Announce the Release of ******************************************************** SCMS (Smile Cluster Management System) Release 1.2.2 ******************************************************** Introduction ============= SCMS is an extensible management tool for beowulf cluster developed to simplify the magement task for large beowulf cluster. SCMS provides a rich set of tools and support system that help system administrator monitor, submit command, query system status, maintain system configuration and more. SCMS GUI tool helps administrator of beowulf cluster to manage the cluster much easier. SCMS is released under Opensource license (BSD based). New features in SCMS 1.2.2 ========================== * Support both x86 and alpha platform now. * Much improved installation process. Easier to install. * Much improved graphical user interface * MDI style, much more efficient screen use. * Changable SKIN. You can now customize scms look and feel to suite your organization need. (We will appreciate if you tar your skin and give us URL that we can download). * Powerful grid style host selector that scale to thousands of nodes. * Much faster GUI * Configuration Wizard: A gui that walk you to configuration without the need to edit any file. * Preference : SCMS option and preference can be changes inside scms using GUI. * Automatic replication tool: Feature that allow you to define source file, destination host and file, and date time to be replicated. Then scms will schedule the automatic replication for you. Notes: == We take the alarm part out to rework on it. need feed back on this part. == We take out KCAP and make it a separate package. KCAP will be released soon after this. Screen dumps are available at http://smile.cpe.ku.ac.th/research/scms1.2.2 SCMS Basic Features ===================== * Global access to node information -Interface to Local OS and get node information -Collect the information to a single point * Heartbeat and node health diagnostic * API for application to access node information. - API is available in C, Java, and TCL/TK . * Parallel Unix Command - Shell based parallel unix commands such as pps, pls, prm etc. - Mostly follows scalable unix tool model ( SHPCC94 Paper by Bill Gropp and Ewing Lusk) - Come with powerful Grahical interface for these tools that help filter output * Graphical User Interface Tools for common user and admin task - System Management Disk space, users, reboot, shutdown etc. User can select to perform command on one node, set of node or all cluster using a dashboard called "Host Selector". - System Monitoring Show realtime monitoring. - System Configuration Browse to hardware and software configuration of each node. - Parallel unix command GUI to parallel unix command. - Alarm system GUI to config information of alarm system. - Performance Logging GUI to config information of Performance Logging. * System Architecture - Client/Server - Layered Architecture How to get SCMS ================ SCMS is now available for download at http://smile.cpe.ku.ac.th/software/ For more information please contact Parallel Research Group Computer and Network System Research Laboratory Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand Email: prg at smile.cpe.ku.ac.th http: //smile.cpe.ku.ac.th


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Latter-day prophets are: number one,
Joseph Smith; then Brigham Young;
John Taylor came third, we know;
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Joseph F. Smith (remember the F);
Heber J. Grant; and George Albert Smith;
David O. McKay was followed by Joseph Fielding Smith,
Then Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimball,
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Linux--The Most Secure OS of All?
The Few, The Proud, and The Secure
Some may claim otherwise, but many insist that Linux is the most secure operating system (OS) of them all.
Linux security advocates point to a plethora of hardened distributions and hardened kernels, for one thing. Linux administrators can also take also take many steps to make any distro even more secure, starting with installation procedures.
Linux practitioners have seen security as a priority from day one, according to Jim Dennis, one of the principals at Starshine.org. "Essentially, people who use Linux tend to value security over features," Dennis maintains.
Many Linux distros, for example, come with support for transmission control protocol (TCP) wrappers compiled right in, he illustrates. "With Sun Solaris, for instance, you still have to add that."
Dennis acknowledges that Linux is now feeling the impact of worms and viruses. By and large, though, these infections originate in the Microsoft Windows environment, he charges.
One way to help fend off incursions is to use componentry from different code bases--such as Apache 2.0 and Apache 1.3--in putting together Web server implementations, according to Dennis. "Diversity saves us," he quips.
Meanwhile, organizations such as banks and federal security agencies have been working for years to build hardened Linux distros and kernels. Hardened kernels include LIDS; GRSecurity; RSBAC; and LOMAC.
In the distro category, Dennis points to Openwall Linux (OWL); SELinux; and Adamantix, a Debian derivative. Adamantix was previously known as Trusted Debian.
SELinux, on the other hand, was developed by the National Security Agency (NSA). This hardened distro, which features a hardened kernel, is also "extremely granular," so that implementation is complex, Dennis says.
In a two-hour session at the recent PC Expo show, and a follow-up interview later, Dennis gave wide-ranging tips on how to protect all Linux implementations from technical and network exploits.
Security is a highly complicated matter, however, Dennis admitted. "I'm not going to make you a CISSP pro in two hours. I'm not one myself," he told attendees at PC Expo's Linux Bootcamp.
On the installation side, Dennis recommended starting from either a CD or an isolated local area network (LAN). You should eliminate services you don't need, and place strict limits on any services you do need.
"You can't crack a service you can't reach," Dennis said. "Bind services to specific interfaces via their config files. Use 'host allow' and 'host deny' to say who can access services, and who can't."
When installing patches and upgrades, check vendor package signatures and/or checksums. Debian binary packages are unsigned, however. With RPMs, signature checking is optional.
If possible, you should also run Bastille, an interactive lockdown/hardening script. Right now, Bastille supports Red Hat, SUSE, TurboLinux, Debian, and Mandrake distros, in addition to Mac OS X and HP-UX.
Bastille may be "generic and opaque," but it's also "quick, easy, and a consolidation of best practices," according to Dennis.
Dennis also advised installation of both AIDE and Samhain, a software project from lunapark.
"AIDE is the new tripwire. Tripwire is old and somewhat non-free," Dennis added. For its part, Samhain features LDAP authentication, a network console, a stealth option, and daemon mode, for instance.
"Use two," Dennis suggested. "Copy archives and checksum databases. Use bootable read only (RO) media. Add to DNS, DHCP, routers, SNORT, BB/Naslos, etc."
Denis also gave advice across a wide range of other security areas, including the use of "jail services" such as chroot; replacement of "deprecated protocols" such as telnet, and the role of cryptography, to name a few.
The most important thing, though, is to never let down your guard, Dennis recommended. "Stay vigilant. Complacency is dangerous," he concluded.


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Although there was not one hand knit gift given, I still enjoyed Christmas. I did receive the Arwen Keyhole Scarf in a beautiful blue color from my good friend Cindy. It is my new favorite scarf.
I found this mistletoe hairpin tutorial from Matsutake. This is my kind of project - quick and sweet. It is made with wool felt and beads, and you never have to look for mistletoe, because it is always right there above you - actually attached to your head. Perfect really.
One of my New Years resolutions is to spend more time here. I've really missed this place.
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Good Samaritan helps injured police officer
18-year-old suspect now in custody
18-year-old suspect now in custody
18-year-old suspect now in custody
New Hampshire police said a civilian bystander assisted a police officer in a tough spot during an arrest Saturday afternoon.
Surveillance cameras were rolling when a police cruiser approached the area of Barry and Lake avenues in Manchester.
Manchester police said Officer Fred Gillis saw 18-year-old Stone Cooper, who had warrants out for his arrest.
As the video continues, Gillis is seen getting out of his vehicle and moving towards Cooper.
At the same time, a Good Samaritan is crossing the street.
"I heard a police cruiser pull up behind me and yell for somebody to stop. I turned as anybody else would to see what was going on," said the Good Samaritan, who didn't want to share his name or show his face.
At that point, the man said Cooper started running towards him.
"He decided he was going to play hide and seek with the officer in and amongst a bunch of parked cars," the man said.
The surveillance video then shows Cooper running down Lake Avenue.
He is seen colliding with a car, getting back up and is eventually tackled by Gillis.
Manchester police said Gillis hit his head on the pavement and briefly lost consciousness.
Cooper allegedly tried to get away, but that's when the Good Samaritan stepped in.
"I helped the officer get the cuffs off of his belt and came back around him and had to help the officer in cuffing the individual," the man said.
Cooper was eventually arrested.
"He was arrested on a possession of a controlled drug warrant and he was charged additionally with resisting arrest," Sgt. Chris Biron of the Manchester Police Department said.
Manchester police said they are happy the Good Samaritan was there.
"We appreciate the Good Samaritan taking a minute and helping officer Gillis, realizing the gravity of the situation," Biron said.
Gillis is expected to be okay.


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Taiwan may have found the light at the end of the economic tunnel with the better-than-expected foreign trade data which were released last week, but the nation cannot afford to get too comfortable about the figures because they come from a low comparison base and there are still headwinds ahead in the global economy.
Last week, the Ministry of Finance reported that the nation's exports last month unexpectedly rose 10.4 percent from a year earlier and 10 percent from the previous month to US$27.17 billion, hitting a 14-month high and ending six consecutive months of decline. Imports also fared better last month, increasing 1.3 percent year-on-year and 8 percent month-on-month to US$23.09 billion.
According to the ministry's report, the turnaround in last month's exports came as seven of the nation's 10 major export sectors posted a year-on-year increase in shipments, led by a 138.5 percent increase in mineral shipments, such as gasoline and diesel.
A closer look at the data revealed a 20.6 percent annual shipment increase in optical products (including panels used in flat-screen TVs) and a 10.5 percent rise in electronic products (such as semiconductors and other electronic components). However, their strong rebound, as economists said, could be driven by a temporary surge in electronic shipments for inventory replenishment and was also a likely result of clients' inventory build-up to meet consumer demand ahead of China's Golden Week holiday earlier this month. Without these short-term orders, it is questionable whether the growth momentum is sustainable.
Moreover, one needs to keep in mind that the surge in mineral shipments last month was the result of a relatively low comparison base from the same month last year, when factories in the Formosa Plastics Group's petrochemical complex in Yunlin County were ordered to close for safety inspections after a series of industrial incidents, and which caused a plunge in petrochemical shipments.
What is also worth noting is that exports of information and communications products showed a contraction of 20.1 percent year-on-year last month, following a decline of 23.9 percent in August. This sector, led by Acer Inc's PCs and HTC Corp's smartphones, has continued to present the largest contraction among the 10 major export categories since May, which should keep businesses on alert about the falling competitiveness of Taiwan-made products in this sector.
The impressive export figures for last month cannot hide the fact that Taiwan is still in a difficult economic situation amid the persistent uncertainty over the eurozone debt crisis and slowing growth in China and the US. For the third quarter as a whole, for instance, exports contracted 2.3 percent year-on-year, and although third-quarter exports showed an improvement from the 5.4 percent contraction in the second quarter, it should not be forgotten that Taiwan's total exports in the first nine months of the year were still 3.9 percent less than the year before.
Meanwhile, overall import growth remained weak despite the mild improvement seen last month. Part of the weakness was because imports of capital equipment fell 0.2 percent last month to US$2.82 billion from a year ago and declined 10.6 percent annually to US$27.17 billion in the first nine months. This certainly poses a source of serious concern for the nation's future economic recovery because lower imports of capital equipment is indicative of weak domestic investment and reflects a conservative outlook among domestic manufacturers.


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We should add LaTeX capabilities to the Wiki text editor. This will bump-up publication collaboration productivity.
The SVN capabilities of the wiki make it ideal hub for science publication collaborations. However, the current Wiki formatting environment (https://nanohub.org/tools/crystal_viewer/wiki/WikiFormatting) does not understands LaTeX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX).
There are some LaTeX implementations for Trac online:
- http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/LatexMacro
- http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracBibPlugin
- http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracMathPlugin
Since LaTeX is the main scientific formatting tool for scientific publications and the NanoHUB nature is multidisciplinary (many groups working on each project), adding LaTeX functionality within Wikis must be a priority. This will bump-up our productivity as we would simultaneously work in the most up to date version of a publication draft in its final deliverable form (e.g. no need to write it up in the wiki, then in Word and then port it to LaTeX for the publisher).


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A heart isn't that complicated either: when you get down to it, at any instant in time a heart is a collection of atoms and molecules like any other, including concrete or rods.
Accelerator isn't that hard to kill, actually, if you're prepared for it and/or have free reign of materials. While base-conventional means are ineffective, special means aren't. He has to breath, he has to eat, he has to sleep, and do any number of functions for his body to stay alive.
When you're out without restrictions, it's actually a lot easier: it's far harder to shoot to disable someone, for example, than it is to shoot to kill. Everything past that is practice, and there's no reason Kuroko can't practice her accuracy.
*Accelerator can't reflect everything all the time: if he did, he would die because the body wouldn't intake the oxygen, food, and nutrients it needs to survive. His lungs must be allowed to expand, his stomach digest, his eyes must receive and absorb light, the body must be allowed to function. To reflect the inner and outer workings of his own body would kill him. To simply survive, Accelerator can't block everything; even when he told the first Misaka clone that 'reflect' was his default setting, at the same time air has to be able to transfer through his skin and lungs to breath.
If it can be done to a pillar, it can be done to any other object... including a chest cavity. Or, if you boost your precision, the air inside the trachea which isn't technically touching him, and thus not reflected.
There's no reason Kuroko has to be in range of accelerator to do anything. In fact, there's no reason she has to be visible, or even in the same room. Though she has a limited range, it's more than enough to hide from him, more than enough to run.
Simply preparing ahead of time could give her the means to (1) launch a decisive first strike before he's activated the network to use his powers, (2) means to strike without ever been seen or detected (cameras in rooms, while hiding in a collapsed basement), (3) avoid coming in range of him at any point, (4) outlast the 15 minutes of the Misaka network. After which point, he's virtually helpless.
These are all things Kuroko's powers allow her to do even now. Whether she would is another story.
Though as heroes of the story they always appear mighty and invincible, in fact all of them would be quite vulnerable to a half-decent special forces team from just about anywhere. Accelerator can be taken care of by gas, and would never have a chance against invisible odorless agents. Pretty much everyone else would outright die from a unexpected bullet ambush. In fact, even Acclerator can, if you do so immediately before or after his time limit. But even before then, he was far from undefeatable.
*That list could start with Accelerator himself, since he lost a boxing match when Touma could only use one hand to hit him, whereas any successful hit from Accelerator would have won.
|2009-12-02, 23:39
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I think you're getting a few things mixed up.
Teleport isn't exactly "replacing"
As stated before, it involves sending an object through the 11th dimension.
The glass windows are teleported into the columns without replacing anything at all.
The panes push the columns away, and then break afterwards because its nature can't hold up.
Just imagine compressing an object into an infinitely small point, and then expanding it at some other point.
Also, of course Accelerator doesn't reflect everything.
He has to allow himself be affected by gravity and breathe.
You can pretty much say that his AIM is a firewall, where it only allows things that are essential to him.
When Kuroko tries to teleport something into Accelerator, his body organ isn't getting "replaced".
If a pane gets inside, it just goes in and pushes everything else around it.
Therefore, in this occurrence, Accelerator only needs to prevent the pane from getting teleported into him.
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In my opinion, Kuroko makes the series. Her obsession can be seen as a running gag, but how her actions are executed are always fresh every episode. I see the Mikoto/Kuroko relationship the same as the Kagami/Konata relationship; one would not have the same impact without the other. She is the character that makes me laugh, and she is the type of character without mysteries. No matter what type of drama or twists Railgun has, Kuroko will always be Kuroko, and that fact alone makes me look forward to the next episode.
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Actually, what you suggest is replacement to, because in the expnasion from infinitely small you're displacing other things (like air), but your suggestion is contrary to the canon.
As Kuroko's practice and precision scale, the number of things she can do to kill him in one blow increase. Teleporting a grenade inside his stomach would be just one of them (it can get there because there is a path from outside to there without touching any part of Accelerator). Teleporting nerve agents or gas around him would be another. And that's if his reflection shield is on. Which it can only be for 15 minute increments. At all other times, he has no defense, so a pre-emptive first strike wouldn't have that resistance.
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Since when intangible things can be teleported?
And teleporting an object into a body isn't easy when it's moving,since she has speculate the direction in which he will move and of course which leads to luck more than Math powa.
And teleporting an object is decomposing it into Atomes then recomposing it in the chosen location (unless she is using different method of teleportation..) so since Accelerator can reflect UV rays,so it won't be a problem for him reflecting incoming atomic particles no? (well,that depends on the speed of his reaction...)
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Btw notice how different Kuroko is in normal life and in "battle mode" (all screenies are from 9th ep.):
"battle mode":
Sure, most probably battle scene and restaurant scene were made by different artists (maybe not), still it's nice to compare the faces ^^
Battle Kuroko is sooo cool! Notice how she tilts her head
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Your putting to much on kuroko's ability despite the fact she's only level 4 and an inferior version than someone. And what's more easily to imagine. Teleporting a whole body than teloporting inside a body. Imagining a person as a whole is much more easier than picturing what's inside of it.
And as for kuroko beating up accelerator then that will never happen as long as his line of defense is their. And the only time it will be out is if his doing an attack or a move that requires his full mindset on it. Leaving no place for a small calculation of redirecting.
|2009-12-03, 08:39
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If she couldn't teleport gases and liquids, then everytime she or another person was teleported they would lose the air in their lungs and much of what's inside their stomach and digestive track (since a lot of the bacteria and enzymes we rely on compose much of the inside of our body). Blood would also be suspect. There would also be a significant pressure difference between the inside and outside of any person she teleports, which would have severe functionality and medical consequences (like the bends, eyes popping, eardrums bursting) that we never see any suggestion of in-series.
Teleporting gases and liquids are a mandatory secondary power of her demonstrated abilities.
She already has a mind capable of calculating in 13 dimensions. Her teleportations are effectively instantaneous, without a delay factor. And esper brains are shown as capable of far, far more intricate calculations on the fly.
She already teleports people and objects around when they move on a scale of kilometers per second, at thousands of miles per hour. Arguing that a measly few inches or feet per second constitute an enormous barier is laughable in the context of what she already does as a matter of course.
Kuroko's teleportation isn't a particle stream. It's a movement through another dimension entirely, one Accelerator would have to be actively guarding every possible means through any given point, without compromising whatever extra-dimensional effects it might have on himself.
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With teleporting an attack inside a body, and this is an attack, not surgery, you don't care about mixups or precision. Mixups help, not hurt, since the objective is the cause maximum internal damage. You aren't replacing his heart with a slab of concrete because you want to study his heart; you're throwing it in there to kill the son of a bitch. If you replace the entire heart, he's dead. If you replace half the heart and a lung, he's still dead. If you only cut a major artery, he's dead.
So Kuroko can launch a first strike. She can wait him out and launch a final strike. Or she can have someone or something else distract him, and strike an unguarded area (or make one of her own). With base tactical knowledge and preparation, she can find and exploit a weakness.
|2009-12-03, 12:55
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So that contradics the fact of the safity of Dimensional teleportation (which is normally impossible since the human can't see farther than the 4th dimension) which is far to be safe because another dimension doesn't mean no obstacles (like gravity).
Of course if the fact of Kuroko using dimensional teleportation is stated in the story (which i didn't totally read) so i guess it's maybe related to the story.
|2009-12-03, 15:33
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Any safety concerns are meaningless, since safety is the antithesis of what a teleportation-attack is about. Replacing the rope where vital (and even non-vital) organs are is the objective, not an unacceptable consequence.
But as I said, a confusing analogy. Kuroko teleports people with their clothes (and teleports the clothes off of Mikoto) a number of times without issue. Kuroko can not only teleport sealed systems (objects, people), but accessory items connected to them as well.
We do, for example, have examples of Kuroko teleporting into and out of what are, in effect, sealed 'boxes.' In the final episodes of To Aru Index, Koruko teleports a number of people out of the underground shopping mall even after the barricade walls have come down. Even though all main and known routes were closed, to seal the intruder and anti-skills in, she was still able to bypass the barriers.
A human body is analogous to the sealed shopping mall, with a critical exception: while the shopping mall could close shutters across all entrances, a human body that wishes to breath can not. The human body is effectively a doughnut, when it comes down to it: there's a top and a bottom and an open tube through it.
|2009-12-04, 04:11
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Well,i guess i haven't been clear enough:
About the box exemple,i meant how can you teleport something that you aren't conscious about (which is the object inside the box) which has it's proper magnetic properties ,and as you stated before she must calculate to the 13dimension everytime she teleports a thing which she is conscious about (something she sees,or knows) but how can she correctly teleport something that she still ignore it's nature,physical properties,and else......
So maybe it's normal when she teleports herself,but when it comes sending a body (to a far place) through other dimensions that she knows only from variable calculations (a human cannot see farther than 4th dimension) is far,far from safe.
By the way,if she teleported people like did Sangoku in DBZ...well,i have nothing to say about that...
|2009-12-04, 07:19
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For simplicity, there's nothing in the series that implies that she breaks down/shrinks/alters the teleported object in anyway that would require her to remake it at all levels. She simply moves it, replacing the destination point.
Secondary is that she doesn't need to know what's in the box, because her AIM field surrounds the box as a whole and moves the box. For analoy, she's picking up the box itself, not unpacking the box and carrying it piece by piece.
The simplest answer is that she has required secondary powers that allow her to see and interact with the 13th dimension on a level to be safe. And if she can do those complex calculations reliably, as she does, she can make smaller calculations as well.
|2009-12-04, 12:47
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And about this "secondary power" they haven't mentioned it in the Index anime (which i just finished) so,is it stated in the novel? or Railgun manga?
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Read the examples, and tell me if it doesn't make sense. I'll elaborate then. But short point is, in order to do what she's able to do, she requires more powers than they explicitly claim.
Whether it's through her field or not, I can't say 100%, but it makes a good explanation why she can't teleport Touma.
|2009-12-07, 10:36
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It seems the "computer parts" Kuroko-chan orders just brings a person's inner personality outwards; but considering how frank she is with her sexuality, all it did is make her a little more childish...
Kinda makes you wonder what would have happened if Mikoto did drink the "computer parts", don't it?
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Homemade Sauerkraut: A Century-Old Family Tradition
I've escaped to the family farm for a bit this summer, just in time for making sauerkraut. It's an annual summertime tradition carried on by my parents as it was by my grandfather, great grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, Anton, before them. Each generation made "kraut" on this very same farm; this recipe and method have remained intact with a few simple ingredients and manual tools...
Tools include eight-to-ten-gallon stoneware crocks, the wooden "stomper" my grandfather made, the "kraut cutter" (a large wood and steel mandoline), and heavy stones. The only three ingredients are cabbage, dill, and salt.
Preparations start early each spring with planting cabbage in the garden. By late June, a row of large heads are ready for use. The dill is also grown in the garden and used for everything from sauerkraut to pickles.
On one generally sweltering afternoon each July, the three-week sauerkraut-making process begins:
- The crocks are taken out of storage and cleaned.
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- The cabbage is rinsed, cored, and quartered.
- Each quarter head of cabbage is sliced thin into a crock.
- Every three heads, a layer of three or four dill sprigs is laid into the crock.
- Two teaspoons of salt are spread over the cabbage and dill.
- Then the "stomper" is used to mash the ingredients. This is important for producing brine from the cabbage – be sure to stomp vigorously!
- These steps are repeated, layering the cabbage, dill, and salt then stomping until the crock is filled. It generally takes about twelve large heads of cabbage to fill a ten-gallon crock.
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After three weeks, the cloth, stone and plate are taken out of the crock, the dill is removed, and the sauerkraut is ready to serve. Since my family makes enough to give away and to eat throughout the year, the finished sauerkraut is packed firmly into pint- and quart-sized jars and preserved by sealing in a hot water bath.
This culinary tradition is older than any one member of the family, but it binds us together - past, present, and future. The activity serves as a reminder of a simpler time and of the longevity of memory, inheritance, and oral history passed down from parent to child.
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text: Cotton Extends Longest Rally in Two Years January 24, 2013 09:00 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Bloomberg Email Copyright 2013 Bloomberg. By Oliver Renick and Marvin G. Perez Cotton futures rose for the seventh straight session, the longest rally in almost two years, on bets that production will drop in the U.S. as demand rebounds in China. Sugar, cocoa and orange juice declined. Output in the U.S., the world's largest exporter, may fall to 14 million bales this year from 17 million last season as farmers turn to more profitable crops including corn and soybeans, Rabobank International said today. A smaller crop in China, the largest user, means domestic supply will lag behind demand, the bank said. Prices are up 10 percent in January, headed for the biggest monthly gain since February 2011. "The possibility of lower acres and lower production in the U.S. is bringing in speculative money," Sid Love, president of Joe Kropf and Sid Love Consulting Services, said in a telephone interview from Overland Park, Kansas. Cotton for March delivery rose 3 percent to settle at 82.89 cents a pound at 2:30 p.m. on ICE Futures in New York, the biggest gain since Oct. 17. Earlier, the fiber touched 84 cents, the highest for a most-active contract since May 10. Prices rallied 6.6 percent in the six previous session. On Jan. 15, money managers and speculators held long positions, or bets on higher prices, that exceeded shorts by 24,944 futures and options, up 8.8 percent from a week earlier, government data show. Speculators were net-short on cotton as recently as Nov. 27. 'Decidedly bullish' India, the world's second-biggest producer, will see output drop 5.4 percent in the year that began Oct. 1, according to the country's textile minister. The forecast is "decidedly bullish" for prices, Gary Raines, vice president of economics and analysis at Nashville, Tennessee-based broker FCStone LLC, said in an e-mail. Export sales jumped 73 percent in the week ending Jan. 10, with purchases led by China, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show. The agency will update weekly figures tomorrow. "We anticipate the cotton market will be supported by Chinese imports and that reserve selling will not be a negative factor for prices," Rabobank said in a report today. A bale of cotton weighs 480 pounds, or 218 kilograms. Raw-sugar futures for March delivery slid less than 0.1 percent to 18.49 cents a pound on ICE, the seventh decline in eight sessions. Cocoa futures for March delivery fell 0.9 percent to $2,195 a metric ton in New York, after sinking to $2,178, the lowest for a most-active contract since July 18. Orange-juice futures for March delivery dropped 2.1 percent to $1.132 a pound on ICE, the first loss since Jan. 15. Bloomberg News --Editors: Steve Stroth, Thomas Galatola Back to news


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Learn how to make these pretty paper cones here at BHG.
Follow the simple instructions to make these cute washi tape decorated glasses here at Country Woman.
I'm loving the sweet decorated plant pots out there. This one has chalkboard paint on it. From PlaidOnline.
These polka dotted ones are adorable! From The Golden Sycamore.


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Pacific Southwest, Region 9
Serving: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Islands, Tribal Nations
Storage and Disposal
National Information
On this page:
- Permitted Storage Facilities in Region 9
- Permitted Disposal Facilities in Region 9
- Permits for Storage Facilities
- Community Involvement and Environmental Justice
The storage and disposal regulations of TSCA (40 CFR 761.50 - .79) require specific approaches for PCB waste cleanup, storage location and duration, landfill and incineration disposal, and decontamination and recycling. Additional information about PCB waste options is provided in the Interpretive Guidance.
Permitted Storage Facilities in Region 9
- Clean Harbors Los Angeles, LLC
- Earth Protection Services
- Lighting Resources Inc.
- Veolia Environmental Services Technical Solutions
Permitted Disposal Facilities in Region 9
Permits for Storage Facilities
Earth Protection Services, Inc., Phoenix AZ
This facility has undergone full closure.
Lighting Resources, Inc., Phoenix AZ
EPA's proposed permit decision to allow Lighting Resources, Inc. to commercially store PCB wastes and decontaminate PCB-containing lighting ballasts
- Fact sheet, English (4 pp, 105K)
- Fact sheet, en Espanól (4 pp, 108K)
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- Appendix A: Sampling Plan for wire and Steel from the Decontaminated Lighting Ballasts (PDF) (3 pp, 21K)
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EPA is supporting national Environmental Justice (EJ) goals by inviting communities to provide input during the permit application review process. To support early engagement of permittees and overburdened communities, EPA's Pacific Southwest office has developed an Environmental Justice and Permitting Implementation Plan which the Pacific Southwest regional office will follow in processing EPA RCRA and TSCA permit applications. In addition, EPA has developed a community engagement guide for potential permitees, entitled Promising Practices for Permit Applicants Seeking EPA-Issued Permits: Ways to Engage Neighboring Communities. Please see the Environmental Justice and Permitting webpage for further information.


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As a food blogger, I keep one finger pressed to the pulse. What's new, what's in, what's hot, what's not? These are absorbing questions.
For example, coloured pants -- in.
Such observations require careful attention, not to mention foresight. You will note as you observe the Reems Eats blog that Haley and I are attune to these nuances. We maintain a cutting edge profile. For example, we considered embedding video, only to realize that was on the cusp of old, so we didn't. We thought about Twitter but then realized the conceptualization of Twitter was really a lot hipper than Twitter itself in its digital form, so we left it at that. Online is still in, so we've stayed onboard. We also figured we'd keep the blog format for now but we have noticed that older, back-to-the-orgin type trends are making a comeback, such as canning or growing potatoes or using a typewrite; so heck we might just jump that trend and swap the blog for a log and do the whole thing in calligraphy. We're not sure. We're just going to see where the whole thing goes.
In the meantime, another notable flashback trend is that of the hunter gatherer. Once a figure relegated to the Socials Studies textbook, the hunter gatherer has re-emerged as a present-day lifestyle option. Consider the word, 'forage.' It appears on menus: "wild foraged mushrooms." Or is referred to as a past time, "foraging."
But the hunter was never one to be outdone by the gatherer. Note who's name comes first (gather always follows hunter). Hunter has also returned to a place of prominence. Think bow and arrows. Think Hunger Games. Or tall green boots sold with accessorized socks. Friends tell me they'd like to hunt—fell a deer or two and stock their freezers. These are urban people, shades away from hipster. Maybe the hipsters aren't too far off. They're already in camo—dark muted tones. They blend into buildings or slouch against the rain-gray West-Coast sky. They tread with the practiced obscurity of the hunter.
Even he-who-shall-not-be-named-on-the-blog (my hubbie) is doing it. Bow, check. Arrows, check. Deer, check. He's kicking off slippers, dashing out the door, sprinting across the property in hot pursuit. Fear not, his arrows are capped.
In fact, I'm considering joining him and he's encouraging this line of thinking. He said I'd be useful in flushing out the prey. I imagine I could go springer spaniel style and dash into the under brush, yapping at deer hooves to angle the herd into the clearing. It's likely a good workout. If you've followed Reems Eats for any length of time, you've concluded that I'm always up for a good workout. Anyways, I think hunting could be a perfect opportunity. Although trapping—also a form of hunting—appears less cardiovascular. Perhaps if the trapline stretched over a number of miles I might receive something of a physical benefit. But perhaps I'll leave that for people in the Ozarks or those with snow and dogsleds. I read a pretty excellent Janet Oke novel in which the main character runs the trapline. She also always wears a braid in her hair. This is before she meets HIM and lets that braid loose and gives up the trapeline for more womanly pursuits. If you've read this novel and can recall the title, feel free to comment as I'd love to get my hands on it again.
On a what's-hot-what's-not note, Haley tells me that braids are in. She says a good place to stay abreast of hairstyles is Pintrest.
In the meantime, I've been gathering. To be honest, I prefer the status of the hunter position, as well as the thrill of the chase and the triumph of the kill but more and more in life I have come to realize that we don't choose our callings as much as we are chosen by them. It has fallen to me to gather. I gather for a few reasons. One is that once I've arrived home, I don't like to leave. This often puts me in the unfortunate position of having to scrape a meal from what's left in the fridge and the pantry. Also, I've recently learned I'm an under-buyer (read the Happiness Project to find out where you lie in the under-buyer over-buyer spectrum). As an under-buyer, I refuse to stock up. I refuse to buy all the essentials. I make do. I scrape, I salvage, I improvise. Which is exactly what I was preparing to do the other day when my eyes chanced across Julia Child's quiche formula in Food and Wine (thanks again, Haley, for the birthday subscription). Julia's great for supplying the bones of a recipe. She instructs you as to the technique and the essentials and allows you to fill in the gaps. I followed Julia to a bacon quiche. You might choose squash. Or better yet, bacon squash. Whatever. See what's in the fridge. Or if you have a herb pot, poke in there.
This quiche is part of the weeknight dinner series. Haley and I are sharing stuff we make in the week that's easy and tasty and fun. The quiche is easy if you keep pie dough in the freezer. You can make your own pastry or buy it from the grocery store. Either will be delicious. I always forget how good quiche is and whenever I've made it I think I should do it more often. It also makes for excellent lunch leftovers.
Julia's Quiche
Adapted from the March Edition of Food and WineFor the pastry:
Roll out a 1 layer pie dough. Once you've settled it into a pie pan, cover it with a piece of buttered foil or a piece of parchment paper. Fill the pie with dried beans. Yes, beans. You're not going to eat them; they are simply to weigh down the pastry and make sure it doesn't puff up with baking. Bake at 450 for ten minutes. Remove the foil and the weights and bake for another 7 to 8 minutes until it is very lightly browned.
For the custard:
Crack 3 large eggs into a large glass measuring cup. Add enough milk to reach the 1 and ½ cup mark. Add some salt and pepper and whisk.
Place half a cup cheese and your filling (in my case two strips fried and then chopped bacon. Chard is also nice or squash. Whatever you chose be sure to cook it first) in the bottom of the cooked pie pastry. Pour the custard in. The custard should reach ¼ inch below the top of the pie shell. If it doesn't crack another egg into the measuring cup and add enough milk as to equal ½ a cup. Beat that together and add it to the quiche. Top with quiche with a little more cheese if you'd like (I don't usually but I'm trying to make your quiche extra good).
Bake the quiche at 375 for about 30 minutes or until set and browned.


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Which Web Browser Do You Use? 2011-03-29 05:20:21
Which Web Browser Do You Use?
Last week, Firefox 4 launched with a host of new features and was quickly downloaded by nearly 40 million people and counting. Google's Chrome browser is only two years old, but is already packing a punch with its helpful shortcuts, plug-ins, and more. Safari and IE are classics, and they come preinstalled on Macs and PCs respectively.
I've been a Firefox supporter for years, but as Chrome grows in popularity, so does my use of it. What about you?


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Let's say you received a Traffic Ticket while driving through Astatula, Clermont, Eustis, Fruitland Park, Groveland, Howey-in-the-Hills, Lady Lake, Leesburg, Mascotte, Minneola, Montverde, Mount Dora, Tavares, Umatilla you should not pay it. Paying your traffic ticket can cost you much more than you think. Read below about your Traffic Ticket and see why. Call Traffic Ticket Team, Lake County office, 1-866-433-3363.
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Lake County's point system for speed violations is tough. But simply because a Lake County police officer says you've committed a violation doesn't mean you're automatically guilty. You have a right to plead your innocence and confront the evidence. Challenge Your Lake County Traffic Ticket in Every Case. The fact is, you should challenge any Lake County Traffic Ticket you get. Sure, you ought to learn from your mistake, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't explore every avenue to avoid the nasty consequences of the situation. Whether you have a spotless driving record or one that's already questionable, you need to keep those points off your Florida license.
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The bad news is you got a Lake County Traffic Ticket. The good news is there are numerous procedures available to avoid a Lake County Traffic Ticket conviction, even if you are truly guilty of the offense. The Lake County Traffic Ticket Team may be able to help. We believe that almost any case can be won. We'll probe the technicalities. We'll look for every possible way to get your fine reduced and minimize the effect on your driving record. In some cases, we may be able to have the Lake County Traffic Ticket completely dismissed. We'll do whatever it takes to ensure the best possible outcome for you.
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Whether your traffic ticket was an infraction, misdemeanor or felony and whether it's your first ticket or your third, we can assist you in fighting the charge. Being represented by a skilled attorney is your best means to ensure a fair fight. We know the court rules and can present your case in a persuasive way, often without your presence in court so that you avoid missing a day of work. Other traffic ticket attorneys cover all aspects of the law. The Traffic Ticket Team concentrates on traffic offenses. Every day we go to bat for people like you who have received a Lake County traffic ticket. Choose to work with an experienced attorney, someone who knows how to handle situations like yours.
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Traffic Ticket Team handles all traffic violations in Lake County including:
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text: The Itanium is NOT 64 bit like a CRAY is 64 bit. It is an LP64 (longs and pointers). In FORTRAN: INTEGERs and REALs are still 32 bits. In C, int are still 32 bits. You are allowed larger addressing because longs and pointers are 64 bits. You may get 64 bit numberical accuracy in FORTRAN by use of "DOUBLE PRECISSION" but this capability is the same as on IA32 systems. The item you gain is that you have a bigger address space. Regards, Joe Troy Baer wrote: > On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Todd Henderson wrote: > >>We are currently specing out a new cluster and since we have a corp. agreement with one of the big pc vendors, I >>thought I'd contact them. They claim that the P4 Itanium is 64 bit, only in the 733 and 800 mhz speeds. Is >>Linux on Intel 64 bit for these processors? > > > The Itanium isn't a P4 derivative; it's a totally different architecture > that is in fact 64-bit. Linux on them is 64-bit clean AFAIK. > > --Troy