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It's amazing how different the experience can be between playing with friends and playing with strangers.
It's Us vs Them. Friendly NPCs vs Enemy NPCs. People who are there to help you vs people who are there to annoy you. Moral support vs obstacle to be overcome.
Even if you are the perfect Pollyanna and see all strangers as potential future friends, truth is there are a lot of random players you would never want to be friends with. Maybe they're horrible people. Maybe you are horrible people. Maybe they just play so differently that you have nothing in common. Nothing except … a brief meeting in an instance run, like two ships that pass in the night. But then again, some of the coolest, most hilarious, and most unexpected encounters I have had with other players has come from random people in instances. They can't ALL be the enemy.
How we act with friends
So your friends or guildies are people who you know and encounter in game frequently. You know each other's in-game history – who is the new alt, who knows the instance backwards, who likes to rush, who prefers to go slow, who loves/hates achievements. And hopefully, you trust your friends.
You are more likely to have discussed your goals for the run before zoning in, and more likely to discuss any issues while in the instance. So for example, if it's an achievement run, people will know before they join. Friends will also (usually) not boot you if you are having a bad day, it's enough that you say sorry and explain that you were hungover/ distracted/ stupid and don't do it again.
Since they are friends and you expect to be dealing with them again, you're more likely to agree to any requests (can I take this for my alt/ offspec? can we try achievement X?). You have an understanding that they'll reciprocate. in future if not right now. It's all part of building an ongoing relationship and strengthening existing social bonds.
Your friends will not only listen to requests, they will also listen to criticism and helpful suggestions. So if someone really isn't playing well, you expect a friend to take helpful advice without throwing their toys out of the pram — admittedly a lot of this comes down to how the advice is given.
On the other hand, because you're comfortable with each other, you may also push the bounds more than with a random group. If you want to try crazy deathwish pulls, you do it with friends who you know can handle it. Messing around together is part of the fun of gaming with friends, whether it means attempting instances when you underman or undergear them, running Gundrak in 3.5 minutes, or pulling two more groups before you realise that the healer died (I have never done this, it's purely hypothetical! And we didn't wipe anyway!)
Playing nice with others
There may be some people out there who treat every random PUG member as if they were a long lost friend, but they're not the majority. However, some people genuinely are more careful and polite with strangers than with guildies. Others treat strangers like trash (or like NPCs, which comes to the same thing).
If you want to come across as classy, pick the former rather than the latter. It also encourages other players to reciprocate, nudging them towards 'treat this person like a player, not an NPC.' To humanise the other player. Yes, this is like the way hostage negotiators act, possibly a chilling concept.
When the hostage-taker gets to know the hostages and sees them as human beings, it becomes more difficult to execute them.
We call this behaviour playing nicely with others. Whether or not it's really worth it in a 10 minute instance run with people you may never see again is up for debate. This also follows Henry Higgins' sage advice: "The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated."
So if you want someone to act like a lady, treat them like a lady.
There are times when players will just disagree on what it means to be polite. Is it polite to ask for an achievement? Is it polite to say no? Is it polite to queue up for a random instance if you haven't bothered to gem and enchant your gear? Is it polite to queue as a tank if you can't tank and don't have the gear for it anyway? Is it polite to throw a strop, pull three groups, and then vanish mid-fight if someone doesn't agree to your request?
These aren't issues we have with guildies. There's no need to pussy-foot around being polite, because they're friends so we feel more comfortable to just explain how we feel. And hopefully no strops ensue.
Do you play differently with friends than with strangers? Any way in particular?


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When "The Partridge Family" star David Cassidy jokingly asked town patrolman Tom Jones "What's new, pussycat?" at a traffic stop Wednesday, Jones, a young rookie, had no idea what he was talking about.
"I did not know who he was or what he meant by that," Jones said Wednesday as he recalled stopping the '70s teen heartthrob just after midnight.
Cassidy, 63, did not dim his headlights when approaching Jones' patrol car on Columbia Turnpike.
"He was very polite and courteous and joking around despite the situation," Jones said.
Cassidy's boyish face was on magazine covers, lunchboxes and millions of record albums before Jones was born. Jones also was unaware of his namesake, the Welsh pop star who had a hit with the song "What's New Pussycat?"
Cassidy was charged with felony driving while intoxicated, showing a 0.10 percent blood alcohol content, at 12:08 a.m. He was released from the Rensselaer County Jail about 3 a.m. on $2,500 bail, District Attorney Richard McNally said.
Cassidy is a regular at Saratoga Race Course and spends parts of the summer in the Capital Region. According to the police report, he lives on South Ocean Drive in Fort Lauderdale and listed his occupation as a working artist and entertainer.
Police Chief Bernhardt Peter said Cassidy arrived at the Albany International Airport on a flight from Las Vegas and was driving a Volvo S60 rental car with his fiancee to visit her friends in North Chatham.
"They apparently took a wrong turn somewhere," Peter said.
In a deposition on file with police, Jones said Cassidy was westbound on Columbia Turnpike when the part-time officer did a U-turn and pulled him over.
"The officer observed an odor of alcoholic beverage, suspect showed slurred speech, impaired motor coordination and bloodshot, watery eyes," Jones wrote in the report.
Cassidy failed a routine roadside sobriety test, Jones said.
In February 2011, Cassidy was ordered to serve a year probation and had his license suspended for six months after pleading no contest in Florida to a charge of driving under the influence.
He was ordered to attend a school for drunken drivers, fined $500 and ordered to serve 50 hours of community service.
2010 dashboard cam video of David Cassidy DUI arrest in Florida.
Because that was his first DWI arrest, Cassidy was not required to show up in court and had a lawyer handle his appearances. Now that he faces a felony, Cassidy will have to personally make his court appearances, McNally said.
In August 2008, Cassidy spoke at a fundraising gala for The Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Council of Saratoga County and admitted having an alcohol problem.
"Tonight, I am publicly stating that I am an alcoholic," Cassidy told a crowd of approximately 250, according to a story that appeared in the Glens Falls Post-Star following the event.
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2005 Ultimate Adventure Ultimate 1975 Chevy K10 Part 3Posted in Ultimate Adventure: 2005 on October 1, 2005
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If you've been paying attention, you know we're building a 1975 1/2-ton Chevy to tackle the 2005 Ultimate Adventure. In year's past we've built some impressive late-model rigs to take on our annual off-road road trip. But rather than try to outdo last year's trick Tacoma, we wanted to find a wreck we could transform into a machine that will drive across the nation, wheel, and make it back in mostly one piece.
This month we're focusing on the most abused parts of any 4x4, the axles. From experience we know that this is one place you don't want to skimp on when you're building for extreme use. We knew there was no way the original Dana 44 and 12-bolt were going to survive our trip with 39-inch tires, lockers, and 5.13 gears. We needed 1-ton axles. Sure, we could have tracked down a Dana 60 front out of a '77-'91 GM 1-ton for around $1,500. But we didn't, and here's why: The newest GM 60 we could hope to find is going to be at least 14 years old. It'll only come with a low-pinion centersection. And assuming it's not bent or has spun a pinion bearing, it'll still need to be completely rebuilt and regeared for another $2,000. Even after we built it up with all the trick parts we ended up using, it still wouldn't be wide enough to run the bead-lock wheels we had planned. So we knew a custom axle was in the cards.
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Since the frontend was going to be an all-new piece, we wanted to save some money on the rearend and run a 14-bolt. Plus it would give us a chance to try the new 14-bolt ARB Air Locker. To match the front axle width we had planned, we needed the widest 14-bolt axle we could find. Ideally we would have used a '91-and-up dualie axle (72 inches) but we had to settle for a 69-inch-wide version from a '78 GMC 1-ton van. We shipped a core axle we pulled out of the local boneyard over to the guys at Off Road Unlimited and stood back as they worked their magic.
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Lockers are mandatory front and rear for all vehicles that go on the Ultimate Adventure. But with all the street miles we have to tackle just getting to the trail, it's nice to be able to run open from time to time. The selectable ARB Air Locker has proven itself in past Ultimate Adventure truck buildups, so when we chose the Pro-Rock front axle for our K-10, we knew what locker would find its way inside. The gear techs at Dynatrac bolted our ARB in with a Motive Gear 5.13 high-pinion gearset and set a textbook pattern.
With the axleshafts, eight-lug Dynatrac wheel hubs, and brake kit installed, all we had to do was sling the front Pro-Rock axle under our truck. We've done this with three floor jacks and a few sore backs in the past, but the crew at GM Truck Center made it so much easier with a little help from a forklift. To make our installation super smooth we ordered Dynatrac's spring plate and U-bolt kit so we wouldn't have to track down these parts in a junkyard.
Since we were only planning to run a 4-inch Tuff Country suspension lift on the front of our truck, we knew we were going to have to make room for our crossover steering system. The rivets were air chiseled out of the original engine crossmember and then we had to cut it in half to remove it from between the framerails.
We bolted in this high-clearance crossmember from Missouri Off Road Outfitters that ties the two engine mounts together and leaves a lot more room for a drag link. Since we had the whole front clip off the truck anyway, we added Off Road Design's steering-box brace to triangulate the box to the front crossmember.
The rear 14-bolt axle for our UA K10 started life in a '78 GMC van. After we pulled it out of the junkyard we took it to Off Road Unlimited to have it rebuilt. First the housing was chemically stripped and the original spring pads were cut off. The pinion support was cleaned and the inside of the housing was painted and prepped for the all-new 14-bolt ARB Air Locker and a Motive Gear 5.13:1 ring-and-pinion.
Off Road Unlimited did a world-class job on the rear axle. The attention to detail would make some heart surgeons look sloppy. The inside of the housing was painted to facilitate oil drain-back and help seal the casting. The pinion support was then assembled with a new bearing and a 1410 yoke modified by ORU to use U-bolts instead of straps.
When ordering 5.13 gears for a 14-bolt axle with an ARB, make sure to specify a thick ring gear, as the ARB carrier is designed to use gears for the 4.10-and-down case. If you're familiar with ARB differentials, you'll notice the locking mechanism has been moved to the opposite side of the carrier to make room for the third pinion bearing in the 14-bolt design. When routing the air line, ORU makes sure that it doesn't rub against any internal surfaces.
Rebuilding the 13-inch drum brakes on a 1-ton axle is expensive, not to mention they weigh a ton. When it comes to shopping for disc-brake conversions for these axles, the most complete package on the market comes from Off Road Unlimited. Sure, some people can piece together a bracket and a caliper combo at home, but ORU goes beyond that and includes a rotor, new wheel studs, a brake-line kit, a master cylinder, and an application-specific proportioning valve.
The stock stamped-steel cover hit the Dumpster long ago, so we had ORU seal up our 14-bolt with its cast-aluminum cover. The Dana 60 version of this ORU cover survived our 2002 Ultimate Adventure, but since we plan to cut the lower lip off the axlehousing, we may go with a cast-iron piece for a bashproof setup.
For a truly bulletproof, street-legal, and maintenance-free bead-lock wheel, we chose a set of Hutchinson Rock Monster wheels. These high-end forged-aluminum wheels use an exclusive double bead-lock design that holds both inner and outer sidewalls in position. Twenty-four 1/2-inch studs hold the two wheel halves together while a tire-specific rubber ring locks the tire sidewall to the aluminum rims. They're not cheap, but for a truck like ours, these wheels are worth every penny. To seal the two wheel halves together, a special O-ring gets pressed into a machined groove on the wheel face. We coated the ring with some grease to keep it from sticking and then placed the wheel half into the rim shell and started the nuts on the eight long studs.
To match our street-legal bead locks, BFGoodrich brewed up a set of 39-inch DOT-legal Krawler tires. They practically got delivered to our offices in an armored car! They use the same tread pattern as the championship-winning competition Krawler, but are constructed with a harder rubber compound that will let us run them on the street. We slipped the Hutchinson inner rubber bead lock into the tire and then slid the inner wheel shell in through the backside of the tire.
While we were waiting for the axle hardware to be assembled, we were back at GM Truck Center shooting photos of this custom winch mount for the rear of our K10. Since we knew there were going to be times we needed the capacity of a 16,500-pound winch, but didn't want to hang the138 pounds off the front bumper, we mounted this Warn 16.5ti over the rear axle of the truck to pull us out of anything we can't drive through! Don't worry, we'll still put a winch in the front of the truck, but it'll only weigh 89 pounds.
As we're writing this, the Ultimate K10 is tucked away in the corner of Fabworx, custom metal fabricators, getting a four-point rollcage installed. Next month we'll show you how Fabworx built the cage and fitted our MasterCraft seats and Tuffy Security center console.
Ultimate K10, Part 1
Ultimate K10, Part 2
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Consider a dihedral group of degree n and order 2n. Its two-dimensional irreducible representations can be realized over the field $\mathbb{Q}(\cos(2\pi/n),\sin(2\pi/n))$, with the usual action by rotations and reflections. Also, any splitting field of characteristic zero for this group must contain $\mathbb{Q}(\cos(2\pi/n))$, because this is the field generated by the characters of the irreducible representations. (Here, splitting field for a finite group means a field over which all the irreducible representations are realized).
When n is a multiple of 4, these two fields are the same; otherwise, they are not. My question: when n is not a multiple of 4, what conditions would ensure that the smaller subfield $\mathbb{Q}(\cos(2\pi/n))$ is a splitting field for the dihedral group? I think we can restrict attention to n odd.
For instance, when $n = 3$, the dihedral group of degree 3, order 6, has $\cos(2\pi/3) = -1/2$, $\sin(2\pi/3) = \sqrt{3}/2$. So, any splitting field must contain $\mathbb{Q}(1/2) = \mathbb{Q}$. Also, $\mathbb{Q}(1/2,\sqrt{3}/2) = \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{3})$ is a splitting field since it contains the usual representation given by rotations and reflections.
However, $\mathbb{Q}$ is also a splitting field. To see this, we think of the group as the symmetric group of degree three and take the standard representation. So in this case, we see that $\mathbb{Q}(\cos(2\pi/n))$ works as splitting field even though it is smaller than the field $\mathbb{Q}(\cos(2\pi/n),\sin(2\pi/n))$.
NOTE: It is not true in general that if the characters all take values in a field, the representation can be realized over that field. The standard counterexample is the quaternion group, whose characters all take rational values but whose irreducible representations are realized only when we go to $\mathbb{Q}(i)$. However, some weaker variant of the result may be true for the groups that we are interested in here, namely, the dihedral groups.


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This is a vintage TruAde picnic cooler in original, un-restored condition. TruAde was a non-carbonated fruit drink available in orange, grape, grapefruit and chocolate, as well as other flavors. The TruAde company was based in Chicago, Illinois, but the drink was bottled in Washington D.C. Although it was very popular, the drink disappeared about 20 years ago. Fortunately for TruAde lovers, the soft drink was released once again in April in the North Carolina area.
This picnic cooler is most likely from the 1960s. This is based on the logo design, as I was unable to find another cooler like this as reference. It has a great toolbox design to it, making this durable cooler useful in a garage or as an airline cooler.
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A new $21-million grant will help researchers at the University of Michigan Health System better understand the HIV virus on a molecular level, potentially paving the way for new treatment approaches to AIDS and other diseases.
The National Institutes of Health grant, which will be distributed during a five-year period, establishes the Center for HIV RNA Studies, or CRNA.
Alice Telesnitsky, Ph.D., a professor of microbiology and immunology at the U-M Medical School, will head the CRNA and says the grant brings together researchers in a variety of disciplines to tackle the sometimes tricky HIV-1 RNA molecule, which plays an essential role in a virus' ability to reproduce itself.
"Viruses are made up of proteins and RNA, and most research focuses on the proteins," she says. "Because RNA is a simple molecule, it can sometimes appear nondescript when we look at it. This grant will unite a team of people who will look at RNA on different scales, assessing its structure, movement and replication."
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I totally wanted to dust off my rolling pin and participate in this month's Daring Bakers' croissant challenge, but I just couldn't find enough time to fit it in before the posting deadline. Croissants have been on my baking to-do list forever and I don't think I will be marking it off anytime soon.
I've been baking less since I've been trying to eat less sugar lately. I don't like using sugar substitutes like stevia (Truvia), sucralose (Splenda) or aspartame (Equal, Nutrasweet). They all have a funny aftertaste. And those sugar substitutes don't do well in most baked goods anyway since real sugar not only adds sweetness but aerates, moistens and adds structure to the baked good. Sugar substitutes can only add sweetness.
This cocoa oatmeal muffin is by no means health food and is definitely not low in sugar or fat. It is seemingly healthy due to the oatmeal. I love the deep, rich flavor of the unsweetened cocoa powder. And as strange as this might sound, it tastes just like a bowl of oatmeal (but with chocolate!).
Cocoa Oatmeal Muffins
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2 cups old-fashioned rolled oats (not quick-cooking)
2 cups buttermilk (low fat is okay)
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (natural not Dutch-processed)
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp kosher salt
2 large eggs
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2/3 cup vegetable oil (like canola or grapeseed)
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped bittersweet chocolate (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 F. Line 15-18 standard-sized muffin wells with cupcake liners.
Combine rolled oats and buttermilk in a large mixing bowl. Let mixture sit at room temperature for about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
In another bowl, whisk flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt to combine. Set aside the dry ingredients.
Add eggs to the oats-buttermilk mixture and mix well. Add sugar and mix well. Then add oil and vanilla extract and mix well.
Add the flour-cocoa mixture to the wet ingredients and fold until the dry ingredients are just incorporated. Gently fold in chopped chocolate (if using). Do not over mix. The batter should still be slightly lumpy.
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This beautiful and ornate fob from the Georgian (ca1850) era is very unusual! Made of sterling silver, this decorative piece is open in the center and has a wonderful swirled frame encrusted with sparkling old Rose Cut diamonds. Resting at the base of the fob is a stunning peridot stone held within a bezel rimmed with 12kt yellow. The oval-shaped peridot has a lively, vivid green color and is beautifully faceted along the sides and back. In the center of the seal is a carved intaglio design representing an intricate family crest. At the top of the piece is a sterling loop, which is encrusted with diamonds along its outer surface. This exquisite fob is as stunning as it is rare, and would look perfect worn on a long silver chain. Perfect for any fob collector, it would make an outstanding addition to any collection!
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"Hold on. You're telling me I can burn more calories, lose more weight and get into better shape by working out less?"
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Baking banana cupcakes is my way of using the ripe bananas that have been sitting in our fruit bowl. Our family eats a lot of bananas but I think this week we went a little over-board, so we had some leftover that were turning black. I mashed the bananas with a little lemon juice and used it as a flavoring for cupcakes. I added crème fraîche (you could use sour cream) so the cake batter was very moist.
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(CNN) -- Local favorite Valentino Rossi claimed victory in Sunday's San Marino MotoGP to stay at the top of the championship standings in his quest for a ninth world title.
Rossi wheelies his way to victory in his home MotoGP at Misano.
Italian Rossi, who was born in nearby Tavullia, started the race on pole but was left trailing Dani Pedrosa in the early stages as the Spaniard grabbed the lead going into the first corner.
Rossi was then forced to fend off a spirited challenge from his Yamaha teammate and nearest championship rival Jorge Lorenzo, before edging past Honda rider Pedrosa with 21 laps left and pulling away for victory.
Rossi's sixth win of the season extended his lead over Lorenzo, who also passed Pedrosa to finish second, to 30 points.
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"Maybe I had a problem for something like that to happen," Pedrosa told reporters.. "Lorenzo and Rossi were just too fast for me on the corners, but hopefully I will have more fortune next time."
Rossi is hoping to wrap up a sixth MotoGP title to add to his three world titles in other categories in his remarkable career on two wheels.


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The NEC Tournament will be held at the LPGA International Legends Course in Daytona Beach, FL from May 3rd - May 5th 2013. Central will begin their spring slate at LPGA International on March 22nd until March 27th for their Spring Trip.


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'Fast Six' Trailer to Debut During Super Bowl XLVII
Vin Diesel has given his 35 million Facebook fans something to be thankful for once again, as he's taken to his page to reveal a major piece of information regarding one of his movies.
This time he let us know when we'll finally see the 'Fast Six' trailer and it's during the biggest TV event of the year.
Super Bowl XLVII, which takes place on February 3rd, is when Universal Pictures will debut their first look at the much-anticipated sequel. Mr. Diesel got us ready us by writing:
I don't think anyone is prepared for what will happen on memorial day 2013...First look at Furious 6 will be at the Super Bowl.
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Spent all afternoon Sunday chasing wind in South Lake Area. There was supposed to be 10-20 SW all day. Went to Grass lake, no wind. Hope Valley, no wind. Caples Lake, no wind and then insane gusts.
Now, a day later, I look at the Ikite data from Sunday and see 10-20 readings all afternoon. Where the hell was that? Does anyone know?
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DNR Says Worker Improperly Accessed License Data
ST. PAUL (AP) - The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources says it's notifying about 5,000 people after an employee accessed their driving and motor vehicle records without authorization.
The agency said in a statement Tuesday that the employee is no longer employed by the DNR. Spokesman Chris Niskanen says he can't elaborate on that.
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Skarsgard Farms is the new name for the farm and CSA formerly known as Los Poblanos Organics. In January the operation moved from its former home at Los Poblanos Historic Inn and struck out on new ground. Skarsgard Farms, which is also organic, takes up 40 South Valley acres, compared to the 3 that were under cultivation at Los Poblanos. The extra space is much-needed, as it supports an astounding 3,800 active CSA members—plus another 1,200 occasional members. (A big part of how Monte and co. have been able to feed so many people is through partnerships with farms in Colorado, California, Mexico and other places—the organic, non-local produce augments the Skarsgard CSA boxes.)
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"The pigs eat well," Skarsgard explains, "which makes a high-quality ingredient at a good price."
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Even if your belly is completely full, this truck serves the kind of food that makes you feel light after eating it. And it puts most restaurants to shame in the drink department. No sacchariney sweet soda fountain drinks here—on our visit, the Harvest Truck was pouring fresh lemonade, smoothies to order and sun-brewed ice coffee that was easily the best ever.
We enjoyed these delicacies at communal tables shaded by an awning. Across the aisle at market, the Skarsgard Farms' stand was set up next to its produce delivery truck, which still bears the LPO emblem. If the Harvest Truck runs out of onions or greens during the lunch rush, restocking is as simple as walking 20 feet.
That's by design. The menu will always be dictated by freshness and flexibility, says Skarsgard. "One week the breakfast burrito might have asparagus, another week zucchini, and then chard and bell peppers," he says. "It's going to be like 'Iron Chef' every day, depending on what's fresh."


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WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - The White House has released a statement on the House Intelligence Committee memo, accusing the Department of Justice and the FBI of abusing surveillance powers to look into President Donald Trump's campaign.
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Minority members of the Committee have reportedly drafted a separate memorandum. The Administration stands ready to work with Congress to accommodate oversight requests consistent with applicable standards, including the need to protect intelligence sources and methods."
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Sessions issued a statement Friday after Republican lawmakers released a memo they wrote alleging surveillance abuses at the FBI. President Donald Trump declassified the memo earlier Friday.
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We've pulled together an outfit we'd love to wear for a night out on the town, including a top that'll double as perfect slumber party wear should you all end up at the same apartment for a nightcap and some gossip.


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Study Abroad
Preventing Losses While Studying Abroad
You are required to have full coverage accident and health insurance to study abroad. Coverage should include "Bedside Visit" (emergency airline ticket for a family member to visit the sick student in the host country), repatriation (preparation of remains and transportation to home country in the event of death) and medical evacuation. You and your family need to know, before you leave, what your insurance covers and what may not be covered, outside the United States. In compliance with Georgia State University's Crisis Prevention & Management Policy, all students enrolled in a GSU program receive mandatory accident and health insurance, included in the cost of the programs. You also need to carry personal liability insurance against injury or damage caused by or resulting from your acts or omissions and property insurance to cover losses of money or property.
In this section, you will find information on how to stay well while abroad. The process of wellness starts before you go abroad with a visit to your doctor. You may need to get inoculations to protect yourself from infectious diseases endemic in the countries you will visit. You will also learn some tips to ensure you drink clean water and eat uncontaminated food.
File a Travel Plan with GSU's Office of International Initiatives: International Travel Plan
Check with the U.S. Department of State Website: The first thing parents and students should do before traveling anywhere is to check with the U.S. Department of State's International Travel Information website. There you will find links to Consular Information Sheets and Country Background Notes, which provide important information about your host country. For some countries, there may be a travel warning in effect, so be sure to check the Department of State's current Travel Warnings as well. Travel warnings are issued when the Department of State decides, based on all relevant information to recommend that Americans avoid travel to a certain country. To make sure you have a more comprehensive view of the situation in your host country, you may also want to cross-reference with other sources of information, such as the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and their Country Information page, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the U.K. Foreign Commonwealth Office.
What to Know about Your Country: Learn all you can about the health and safety issues of the countries you plan to visit. This includes reading about the cultural and political climate of those countries, as well as learning about how others view people from your country, race, ethnic group, religion, gender and sexual orientation.
Infectious Diseases and Inoculations: Find out about the infectious diseases endemic in countries to which you will be traveling, and get the appropriate shots and pills, and take the appropriate medications with you if your doctor thinks it's necessary. Find out about any potential side-effects of shots and pills that you may take. For more information on diseases prevalent in your destination country, please see the CDC link in the Resources section of this Handbook.
Physicals and Check-ups: Get a complete physical, eye exam and dental check-up before going abroad. The quality of dental and medical care may be different in your country and/or more expensive than similar care would be in the United States.
Can You Drink the Water?: Find out if water is safe to drink in the countries to which you will be traveling. Purify unsafe water before you drink it. Make sure water bottles come sealed when you buy them. Remember that ice can also be unsafe, as well as the water you use to brush your teeth.
Food Safety: Poor refrigeration, undercooked meat, and roadside/outdoor vendors could pose problems related to food contamination. If you get diarrhea or food poisoning, remember to drink plenty of fluids to stay hydrated. As with any illness, consider seeing a doctor if your condition worsens. Give your body time to adjust to new types of foods you will be eating.
Laws and Codes of Conduct: Make yourself aware of both the rules and regulations of the study abroad program sponsor, and the local laws and customs of the countries which you will be visiting. Understand that you will not only have to conform to the legal system of the country you will be visiting, but also obey the codes of conduct required of program participants.
Mental and Physical Health: Consider your own mental and physical health issues when applying for a study abroad program, and make all your necessary health information available to the program's administrators so they can assist you with any special needs, or advise you on the risks you might face. Study abroad may include both physical and mental challenges for students.
Prescriptions: Get a doctor's signed prescription for any medication you have to bring abroad. Some prescriptions may need to be translated if you wish to fill them abroad. Include your glasses or contact lens prescription. Bring an extra pair of glasses.
First-Aid Kit: Consider a well-stocked first-aid kit as a first line of defense. Some items to include are: sunscreen, bandages, flashlight, sterile pads, insect repellent, adhesive tape, aspirin, antacid, anti-diarrhea tablets, anti-malarial medication, extra bottled water, feminine protection, condoms, rubber gloves, etc.
Fitness and Exercise: Try to get fit in the time you have before departing overseas. A healthy body can help you to fight off illness and recover faster if you do get sick. Also, try to stay fit while abroad, even though it may be harder to follow a structured workout routine.
Walking: Get a good pair of comfortable walking shoes. Without access to a car or public transportation abroad, you may have to do quite a bit of walking. Break in your shoes before you go.
Emergency Contacts: Keep the program staff and an emergency contact at home well informed of your whereabouts and activities and provide these people with copies of your important travel documents (i.e. passport, visa, plane tickets, traveler's checks, and prescriptions).
Air Travel: When you travel by air, drink a lot of non-alcoholic fluids, stay away from caffeine, eat light, and stretch often to avoid jetlag. Many airlines are now required to show an in-flight video of stretching exercises you can do on the plane in order to avoid the potential formation of blood clots, which can be caused by cabin pressure. A direct flight is usually easier for most travelers, but flights broken up by stops can also lessen jet lag.
Transportation: Accidents involving in-country travel, whether by air, bus, train, taxi, car, etc., are a major cause of injury to students abroad. It is important to understand what the safe modes of travel are abroad.
Bus: Since it is the cheapest way to travel (though rather tedious), travel by bus is often a very popular choice for students and travelers. However, since it is so slow, you may prefer to take the train. Often, if you can't find service to a particular location on national or regional buslines, local service should be able to take you to your desired destination.
Train/Metro: Travel by train is usually much faster than by bus, and can be a better option if you want to see more places in a short amount of time. You may want to avoid traveling by train alone at night, particularly in more urban areas. In major cities especially, you will find the metro system (where available) to be the most convenient form of transportation to move about the city, although beware of pickpockets.
Air: Air travel can be a good value compared to a long bus ride. If you know of discount airfare websites, you can find tickets for less than a train ride would be. Especially if road travel is unsafe due to poor road conditions, and if train travel is too slow for your needs, then air travel can be a safe and pleasant option.
Cars (Driving): While renting a car while studying while abroad can be a great way to see the countryside, it can also be a very stressful and dangerous way to travel. In countries where driving laws are significantly different than in the U.S., such as the UK or Hong Kong where drivers travel on the left side of the road or in other countries where you would experience a completely different driving environment, you should consider taking another form of transportation – especially if you feel hesitant at all about driving. U.S. driver's licenses are valid in most countries for up to 12 months. Insurance is required for all vehicles, including rental vehicles. You should obtain full coverage insurance when renting vehicles in any country – to make it easier, most rental places will arrange this beforehand. If a driver is involved in a vehicle accident resulting in damages or injuries to another party, the driver may be detained by local authorities until a settlement is arranged with the injured party. Furthermore, depending upon the extent of damages or injuries to the other party, you may face charges filed by the country's judicial authorities.
Alcohol and Drugs: Use and abuse of alcohol and drugs abroad can increase the risk of accident and injury. Many study abroad accidents and injury are related to the use and abuse of alcohol and drugs abroad. Violating drug laws abroad may result in very serious consequences. In some countries, being found guilty of violating drug laws can result in consequences as serious as death.
Setting an Example: Set a good example. Remember you are like an ambassador for your U.S. college or university. Behave in a way that is respectful of others' rights and well-being and encourage others to do the same.


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Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 8: Monte Carlo Simulation Part II
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In this lecture, we continue our discussion of Monte Carlo simulation. Examples from Hard Sphere Monte Carlo simulations based on the Metropolis algorithm and from Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations of fullerene growth on spherical surfaces are presented. A discussion of meaningful statistics, result interpretation, and error analysis is presented as well.
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Pioneering French Electronic Artist Thinks Creative Industry Should Get '$300-400' Of Each Smartphone Sale
from the but-it's-'not-a-tax!' dept
The number of times figureheads of the copyright industry have proposed (and often collected) a "you must be a pirate" tax on media are too numerous to count. (Not literally, of course, but it's been several dozen times…) The operative theory is that most people buy blank media and devices only to load it up with infringing content. This stems from the industry's innate fear that any new technological advance (VCRs, high speed internet connections) serve one purpose: to make infringement faster, easier and more widespread.
Jean Michel Jarre, a pioneer in the field of electronic music, has peeked into the future (well, more of the present, really) and has glimpsed an untapped goldmine -- one that would "allow" the common man/woman to pay what's "owed" to content creators.
Here's what Jarre had to say in an interview he gave during the recent Midem conference. He states that creators should work with tech companies (which is a good idea) but then goes on to explain that "work with" means "collect an arbitrary fee from" (which isn't).
[C]reators needed to sit down with phone companies, computer companies selling hardware, as well as the distributors of all kinds of art forms, and create the right business model for creators. He doesn't, however, think that consumers should have to pay. "Music, photography, media, film – it's all going to be free on the internet. We have to accept it," he said.Jarre may be a talented musician, but if he thinks this "won't affect consumers" if creators are given $300-400 of the sale price of a smartphone, he's completely (or willfully) ignorant of market realities.
But that doesn't mean that creators can't get paid. "Think about when you listen to a song on the radio," he explained. "You are not paying for it, it's not illegal to do it, because the rights have been paid for on top, beforehand, by the radio station, by the network. We have to find exactly the same kind of system with the internet."
"We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators. If you get rid of music, images, videos, words and literature from the smartphone, you just have a simple phone that would be worth $50. Okay, let's accept that there's a lot of innovation in the smartphone, so let's add $100 for this innovation – the remaining $300-$400 of the price should go to [the creators]."
Paying artists is not a tax or cultural levy, he said, adding that artists were here before electricity and will be here long after the internet. "We need each other, so at the end of the day we have to find the right partnership. We are talking about a business partnership, not a tax, and this shouldn't affect the consumer."
The $300-400 that smartphone makers are used to keeping for themselves (which Jarre handily believes is all profit margin) will have to come from somewhere. And that "somewhere" is the consumers. Instead of $499 MSRP, the phone will leap to $899-999. Once those prices go up, consumers will purchase fewer phones, especially with more service providers in the US looking to eliminate subsidized purchases. Fewer sales means less money flowing back to the creators -- which in time will mean those extracting this amount (based on the faulty assumption that the only thing that makes a smartphone "smart" is infringing content) will be back to ask for a higher fee -- which will result in even fewer sales -- and so on, ad infinitum, ad absurdum.
Despite his protestations, this fee (Jarre seems to approach it as a licensing strategy, right before asking for an arbitrary figure that's three-quarters of the retail price) is a tax/levy. The only way it wouldn't be is if phone makers entered into licensing agreements. But what would they be licensing? A new phone carries very little unlicensed content (if any) before the consumer fills it with their own. Some of this content will already be licensed, having been purchased from any number of legitimate services. Some content, of course, will not be licensed or otherwise paid for. But taking a chunk out of every sale presumes that all smartphones are nothing more than handy carrying cases for infringing content. Hence, it's a tax or levy, of the "you must be a pirate/criminal" variety.
For all of Jarre's defense of creation and innovation, he automatically gives the creators -- whose content may never be on the phone in an unlicensed form -- the largest portion of each phone sale. He makes a small concession for "innovation" that tops out at $100. "Creators" are apparently worth 3-4 times as much as the innovators who crafted the smartphone Jarre sees as an untapped revenue stream.
This clashes with Jarre's earlier statement where he says artists were here "before electricity" and will outlast the internet itself. If artists are everlasting and smartphones (or the internet) only fleeting, why is the payout so skewed towards the hardier species (so to speak)? Jarre wants to have it both ways: artists "deserve" this because they've been a cultural force since the beginning of time but are simultaneously on the verge of extinction and badly in need of a handout from the Hot Tech Thing Du Jour.
He drives this cognitive dissonance home further with this:
"We are the people creating the future – not manufacturers of computers or cables. We are the extraordinary."Well, if that's the case, maybe the people "creating the future" should be taking a smaller cut than these short-sighted tech innovators, or better yet, pitching in to keep these manufacturers of pocket-sized cultural vessels afloat until the next wave of innovation hits.
Underneath it all, he's right about the creative force of the world's population. It will continue even without grabbing 75% of a smartphone's retail price. The world's creators didn't wait until adequate copyright protections were codified by their respective governments before creating and they'll continue to create even if they think the world's tech innovators are somehow coattail-riding their creations to the tune of billions of dollars. They'll do it in the face of piracy and the addition of innumerable "competitors" thanks to the elimination of barriers to entry.
Jarre gazes at this longevity and strength and sees it as a position of leverage against (apparently) parasitic tech companies. When he smashes it all together to make his clumsy point, the strength is now supposedly a weakness, and creators nothing more than a disadvantaged group begging for loose change outside a manufacturer's headquarters. It becomes as incongruous as a Mob enforcer telling his extortion victims that the reason they have to pay is because he a.) can kill them and their families and b.) because he's a disenfranchised member of an ethnic group that has been historically poorly-treated in America.
Jarre does likewise. Artists are unstoppable! Please give us free money.
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In Iraq and Afghanistan they've battled insurgents and built schools. But when it comes to enrolling in school themselves, many of today's veterans are facing an unexpected fight – the fight to stay afloat amid mounting college costs.
It's time for a revamped GI Bill, say veterans' organizations and scores of US legislators. Like their World War II counterparts, the men and women making sacrifices in the "war on terror" should be rewarded with benefits that cover the full cost of education, they say. As a bonus to society, they tout the prospect of long-term economic gains and a steadier stream of good recruits.
It's not clear yet whether those arguments will pull more dollars out of a tightly cinched federal purse. But the issue resonates as part of a wider conversation in American society about the need to increase access to higher education. Because low-income recruits make up much of today's military, a more robust GI Bill "would do a measurable amount ... to expand equality of opportunity in a period of American history when equality of opportunity is contracting," says Theda Skocpol, a government and sociology professor at Harvard. "It's a lot more important than ... whether you're going to force wealthy universities to [spend] a higher proportion of their endowments," she says, because it affects average people.
A coalition of veterans' groups called for dramatically higher education benefits this week in publicizing their annual budget and policy recommendations. They noted that in 2005-06, the average cost of a four-year college (tuition, fees, and room and board) topped $17,000 a year. Yet full-time GI benefits covered barely more than half those expenses. (Injured veterans can qualify for full expenses through a different set of benefits.)
On Capitol Hill, support is building for new World War II-style benefits – either in this year's budget or through legislation such as that proposed by Sen. James Webb (D) of Virginia and Sen. Chuck Hagel (R) of Nebraska, both Vietnam veterans. Known as the Post 9-11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act, it would apply to those who have served two years of active duty, with part of that service since Sept. 11, 2001. Full benefits would cover the equivalent of a four-year education at the highest-priced public institution in a given state. The law would also provide a monthly living stipend of up to $1,000 and give veterans 15 years, instead of 10, to use their benefits.
"We keep saying this is the next 'greatest generation'... and we should give them the same educational opportunities that the people coming back from World War II had," Senator Webb says.
Paul Rieckoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, has been making the case – in D.C. and in the media – that a new, comprehensive GI Bill "is arguably the best return on investment we can get from a government program." It would help mitigate other issues, he says, because when veterans have to sleep on Mom's couch or work an extra job to pay for college, many "get behind on their loans and have to drop out of school.... That's when we start to see the mental health [and family] problems kick in."
A patchwork of state provisions covers some gaps in the meantime. Twenty-five states offer a variety of education benefits to veterans or to members of the National Guard, according to Military.com.
World War II veteran Jerome Kohlberg recently launched the Fund for Veterans' Education to give private scholarships – but he is also challenging the US government to make a bigger investment in today's returning soldiers.
The original GI Bill – the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 – covered full tuition (at public or private schools), fees, books, and a living stipend. By 1952, the government had spent $7 billion on education for 2.2 million veterans. The return on that investment was at least $5 for every $1 spent, according to a 1988 report for Congress's Joint Economic Committee – and that's only counting the 40 percent of veterans who would not have attended college otherwise.
Webb's bill has 32 cosponsors and a companion bill in the House. Dozens of other proposals have also cropped up in Congress to tweak educational benefits, and Webb is working to incorporate some of those ideas, such as equalizing the benefit for National Guard and Reserve members who serve as much time in war zones as their full-time counterparts.
Webb estimates his bill would cost an additional $2 billion a year. But the Department of Veterans Affairs opposes it, estimating a significantly higher cost and an administrative burden of calculating individual benefit amounts. Currently it sends out an automated monthly check based on a veteran's status as a full- or part-time student.
Money isn't the only barrier. One problem is inconsistency in schools' willingness to transfer credits from other schools or military experience, says John Mikelson of Student Veterans of America and a student at the University of Iowa. He's heard cases of two people with the same level of training who were granted different credits at the same school. New SVA chapters are springing up on campuses every week to support administrators and veterans as they transition from soldiering to school.


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Anyway, I had a modest version of that intertextual thrill this week rereading Adam Bede for my graduate seminar. In waltzes our "hero," the dashing young squire Arthur Donnithorne, and almost the first thing out of his mouth is this pithy assessment of Lyrical Ballads, hot off the press when the novel is set:
"It's a volume of poems . . . : most of them seem to be twaddling stuff; but the first is in a different style--'The Ancient Mariner' is the title. I can hardly make head or tail of it as a story, but it's a strange, striking thing."As it happens, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was Monday's reading for my Brit Lit survey class, and so I spent much of my weekend renewing my acquaintance with its "strange, striking" verse and browsing in the vast array of attempts to "make head or tail of it." As I'm sure I would have known more definitely if I were a Romanticist, "Mariner" is one of those poems that have become as significant for their critical history as for themselves (if there's a distinction, an issue which of course underlies many of the articles I was reviewing). Having introduced Romanticism last week with some Wordsworth, particularly "Tintern Abbey," it is certainly vexing to turn to "Mariner" and see how it messes with one's generalizations (the language of common men? I don't think so!)--and yet that's the point, or one of them, that there aren't going to be any truly stable generalizations in our course even though we will need them to move forward, or to start from. And I'm in some sympathy with Arthur about Wordsworth's contributions; as was remarked over at Wuthering Expectations some time ago, Wordsworth is probably "the most boring great poet in history." Great, yes, but the risk of trying to write unpoetically is writing, well, unpoetically at times.
But I know I shouldn't sympathize with Arthur's reading taste too far, and in fact one of the interesting issues we discussed about Adam Bede in our seminar was characters' reading (or not) and how it affects both their thinking about their own lives and our judgments of them. Hetty doesn't read novels, we're told, and so spins her fantasies about becoming a lady oblivious to the potential complications; Arthur should have finished Zeluco, which might have strengthened his moral resolve by emphasizing the consequences of seducing innocent young girls. A lot of our attention ended up being on our own reading of Hetty, and in particular on whether the narrator's close attention to her interiority and the inadequacies of her self-perception and moral development in any way compensates for those defects, or whether that attention is (perhaps inevitably) condescending, or worse. We remarked that everyone around Hetty attributes qualities to her that she doesn't really have, largely because of her deceptive beauty (leading Adam, for instance, to assume a tenderness of character equal to the softness of her arms and other curves). Dinah too mistakes Hetty for something more than she is, but Dinah's case is particularly interesting because she gives Hetty credit for greater moral elevation, seeing in Hetty's sobs, for instance, "the stirring of a divine impulse" when in fact Hetty is just moody, in an "excitable state of mind." "[W]hile the lower nature can never understand the higher," the narrator remarks,
the higher nature commands a complete view of the lower. But I think the higher nature has to learn this comprehension, as we learn the art of vision, by a good deal of hard experience.The hierarchical language is potentially troubling here, especially in combination with the frequent associations of Hetty with animals and other "lower" creatures. Some judgment on Hetty for her vanity and selfishness (eventually destructive not just to herself, but, most painfully, to her child) is surely essential. But if she is of a "lower" kind, how far ought we to hold her responsible? It's striking that the "hard experience" called for here is Dinah's, or the "higher" nature's: Dinah is capable of moral growth and the expansion of her sympathy even to Hetty as she really is, seems to be the message, but isn't it Hetty's "hard experience" to which much of the novel is primarily dedicated? But it's Hetty who is not able to read her own experience and learn from it: that's for Dinah, and us, to do.


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As you may know by now I am currently babysitting a cat named Nyarly for a niece of mine. Thing is its been 2 months now and his progress of adapting to life outside the bedroom is going really slow. I am slowly introducing him to the cats and they do somewhat ok as long as they are apart, but if they see each other one or both will start growling and Alison and Nyarly already had a fight. Also he tends to not want to be down for long, he tends to run to the room because he feels safe there. I don't want to keep him in my room because that is no life for a cat. I know it could be upto a year before she can take him, but there has been no contact from her at all. She have not even visited this cat and we are getting close to having to get rid of him. With the no contact to even ask about the cat, I am thinking she may not even want him.
My mom is threatening in paying the 50 dollars and surrendering him to the shelter or rehome him. (In our area if you have a pet for 10 days its yours so we tech. own him) He is a type of cat who is sweet, but will hide when scared.
What should I do? Should I keep working with him, or should re homing him be better? My brother has her number and she has his, and there has been no contact from her. I would think she would want to see him or even check on how he is doing. I am not sure if I am going to be able to get him to where he is fully ok with being left alone with the other cats, and its breaking my heart to have him locked up because I don't feel safe yet leaving him with the others unsupervised.


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