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As the question reads, I want to be able to select a block of text and remove all the hyperlinks in it at once.
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There is a hot-key for removing hyperlinks in a text selection in Microsoft Office, since Office 97.
1. Select the block of text
2. Press CTRL + SHIFT + F9
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Just a warning, this will unlink every type of field that happens to be in the selection, not just hyperlinks. – Adam Dec 14 '12 at 9:48
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I have a formula in Excel that evaluates the l_x's (number of lives aged x) in mortality data:
=IF(J3>J2,"l_x increased",IF(J3/J2-1>=devianceThreshold,"Deviance too high",""))
Accross the spreadsheet I refer to the l_x's as lx, where the x is a subscript.
When I press CTRL + SHIFT + F, nothing happens.
Is there a way to make the x a subscript in a formula, like the one above?
It's not a big deal if it can't be done, but nevertheless it would be nice, from an aesthetic point of view.
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You can't set sub-cell formatting in a formula cell, as far as I know. You could use the Unicode character U+2093 (Latin Subscript Small Letter X: ₓ), which seems to render OK in Calibri or Arial (Excel 2010, Windows 7). There is a Unicode block dedicated to superscripts and subscripts.
I just realised this has the advantage of not changing the Excel row height as well. Bonus!
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I've been using Flickr for a while, since they didn't automatically resize my pics (for example, they would leave a 700 x 740 pixel image I uploaded in it's original size), but with their latest upgrade to their website, they're resizing my pics, just like the couple of other pic hosting sites I know about (Photobucket and Imageshack). Are there any other similar sites that'll keep my pics in their original size?
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Have you tried Picasa from Google? (The same name is used for a photo organising app and a photo hosting website)
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Photobucket will give the original size, for those > 1024px, if you end the filename as .jpg~original. There is even an option to keep your original file-names.
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Parents do the best they can to raise you with the tools they have. Many parents would be shocked to know that their children were little sponges, soaking up every word and action and interpreting it in their own way. Since each brain and view of the surrounding world is so different, it is no wonder therapists have a constant flow of clients.
Although many thoughts, fears, reactions, and actions get imprinted upon children at an early age, it is never too late to recognize where these things come from and to decide whether or not you wish to continue to hold onto them. Here are five things, out of potentially many more, that your parents inadvertently taught you!
1. How to Swear
Fathers are especially good at “teaching” this one. Ever been around your dad in his workshop when he hit his thumb with a hammer? Or how about when he came home from work and tripped over the cat? What about your mom’s reaction when the dog pooped on the floor? Or what your mother said when your father threw the baby up in the air and played catch? There are many every day situations that can cause a parent to inadvertently let loose a blue streak! How do you react to surprise, pain, fear, or fatigue? What swear words are your children learning?
2. The White Lie
Ever overhear one of your parents calling in sick to work? “Cough, cough, cough, I seem to have caught a bug from one of the kids. Can’t make it in today.” You look around the house to see which one of your siblings is sick. Then you wonder if it could be you who is sick! But when your parent comes into the room, he/she is perfectly healthy sounding. How confusing is that? In later years, you make a note to tell your therapist about it! What are some other white lies you overheard, and how does that affect your behavior today? Are you a master at the “mental health day” phone call to work?
3. Fear of (Spiders, Mice, Lightening, and Other Events)
Parents tend to have different parenting styles here. Your father may have run around the house after a mouse with a shotgun declaring, “I’ve got it!” and your mother may have picked the mouse up by its tail and thrown it out. However, do you remember the reaction to a spider in the bathtub? Which parent screamed and ran away? And how was the offending critter taken care of? Was it squashed into a piece of toilet paper and flushed down the toilet, or trapped in a cup and let go free outside? Now look at your reaction to these critters and events. Where did it come from? Is it a carbon copy of one of your parent’s reactions or is it the exact opposite?
4. How to Mess Up a House
Are you a piles person, compulsively orderly, or somewhere in between? Chances are that you are a reaction to, or an embodiment of, the way your parents lived. We all know the basics of cleaning a house, but our houses reflect not as much our ability to clean the house but our ability to mess it up! The best way to analyze your style is to look at how your parents live once the children have flown the nest.
5. How to Procrastinate
It’s 9 pm on a school night, and your mother is putting you to bed. You mention that you haven’t finished your big craft project for the Science Fair, and it’s due tomorrow. Your mother lectures you on leaving something so late and then runs around the house gathering materials for your science project. The two of you sit for the next two hours at the kitchen table modeling a papier-mâché volcano, complete with a baking soda eruption. You proudly carry it to school the next day and get an A on your science project. When do parents enable self-learning and stick-to-it behavior, or when do they, from fatigue, and their own need to have some quiet time and get to bed at a decent hour, inadvertently encourage procrastination? Any attention can be good attention, even if children are being scolded by their parents.
There are many ways parents, and you, yourself, as a parent, model less than desirable behavior. When you internalize this behavior, you can model it yourself or model the exact opposite behavior — or even model a behavior that stems from your own unique interpretation of that behavior. Ever wonder how two siblings who grew up in the same household can have two entirely different interpretations of what went on in that household?
Everyone sees the world differently, and everyone chooses how to react to that world. Even years after the original incident that formed our behavior has taken place, you can still chose to react differently. What behaviors do you have that you can trace back to your parents? How did you chose those behaviors, and do you still chose to keep them?
Beth H. Macy, M.Ed. Psychology, LMHC, is the author of “Many Years Many Worlds.” For more information visit www.manyyearsmanyworlds.com.
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Here Thar Be Dwarves
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Here Thar Be Dwarves is the 23rd episode overall (the seventh of the third season) of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. It was first aired on July 23, 2004, along with Bully Boogie. The episode incorporates several elements from The Lord of the Rings, as well as Star Wars.
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Grey DeLisle Mandy, Halfling
Greg Eagles Grim
Richard Steven Horvitz Billy, Billy's Dad, Bigfoot
Dee Bradley Baker Snail Creature
Gregg Berger Rootrot, Lawyer
Michael Dorn King Beardbottom, Dwarf #2
Greg Ellis Daddy Elf, Druid #1
Dave Fouquette Yogi
Jennifer Hale Billy's Mom, Halfling
Bob Joles Druid #2, Dwarf #1
Tom Kenny Boo-Boo
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Letter to L. Sprague de Camp
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L. Sprague de Camp 30 August 1964 is a letter from J.R.R. Tolkien to L. Sprague de Camp, written on 30 August 1964.[1]
• Subject: Tolkien writes about his opinion of the contributions to the anthology Swords & Sorcery.
• Publication: Quotes from the letter were published in Mythlore 50.
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The Golden
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A title of the Dragons Glaurung and Smaug, and of Ar-Pharazôn, the last King of Númenor.
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Tolkien Estate
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The Tolkien Estate is the legal body which manages the copyrights of J. R. R. Tolkien's works. It mainly holds the copyright over the literary texts. Executors of the estate include Christopher Tolkien, his wife Baillie Tolkien, and Christopher's nephew Michael Tolkien, Jr. Cathleen Blackburn of Manches & Co. has been the estate's solicitor for many years.
The film and merchandise rights for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit were sold by J.R.R. Tolkien, and are currently owned by Tolkien Enterprises, a company controlled by Saul Zaentz.
Cathleen Blackburn
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Diana West
I can see it now -- I think.
It's on the right-hand page of a book by or about Winston Churchill, and it is a quotation by Churchill on the subject on war -- specifically, what happens to a civilized society when it goes to war with a barbarous one. I can't find it (yet), but what I remember as being the main point was that if -- if -- the civilized society is to prevail over the barbarous one, it will necessarily and tragically be degraded by the experience as a vital cost of victory. Partly, this is because civilized war tactics are apt to fail against barbarous war tactics, thus requiring civilized society to break the "rules" if it is to survive a true death struggle. It is also because the clash itself -- the act of engaging with the barbarous society -- forces civilization to confront, repel and also internalize previously unimagined depredations. This is degrading, too.
In Churchill's era, the more civilized world of the Allies was necessarily degraded to some intangible extent by what it took to achieve victory over barbarous Nazism. For example, bombing cities, even rail transportation hubs, lay beyond civilized conventions, but this was one tactic the Allies used to defeat Hitler. However justifiably, civilization crossed a previously unimagined and uncivilized line to save, well, civilization. Then there was Hitler's Holocaust -- an act of genocide on a previously unthinkable scale and horror. Who in the civilized world ever imagined systematically killing millions people before Hitler? And who in the civilized world retained the same purity of mind after? Civilization itself was forever dimmed.
The question is, did, for example, bombing Dresden to defeat Hitler or, in the Pacific War, dropping two nuclear bombs to force Japan to stop fighting, make the Allies into barbarians?
I think most people would still say, "of course not," and argue that such destructive measures were necessary to save civilization itself -- and certainly thousands of mainly American and Allied soldier's lives. But if this argument continues to carry the day, it's because we still view that historic period from its own perspective: namely, as one in which Allied lives -- our fathers, husbands, brothers and sons -- counted for more than Axis lives, even those of women and children.
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Jonah Goldberg
Operation Neptune Spear was the culmination of years of patient intelligence-gathering. The CIA identified bin Laden's compound nearly 10 months ago, in August 2010, and monitored it by satellite and from a secret safe house in Abbottabad at a cost of tens of millions of dollars.
And even that was breakneck speed compared with the years our government spent hunting bin Laden. In 2002, the CIA heard about a possible courier code-named Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. In 2004, it learned that he might have worked closely with bin Laden. It wasn't until 2007 that it got al-Kuwaiti's real name. It took two more years to track him down to a specific region.
That, of course, barely skims the surface of American patience and sacrifice. We've spent billions of dollars and lost numerous American and allied lives trying to defeat al-Qaeda. Those efforts have ripped apart our politics, from the debates over waterboarding and what some claim is torture to extraordinary rendition, black sites and Guantanamo Bay. Some of those techniques and decisions seem to have led us to bin Laden's door.
Surely one more week of harmlessly searching hard drives while the public was kept in the dark wouldn't have been too great an additional burden. The White House would have still gotten their moment to preen and to ride their bump in the polls as far as they could. All they had to do is hold their tongues for a little while longer.
Obama says he won't release bin Laden's death photo for fear that American triumphalism might hurt American interests. Would that he had the same concern when it came to White House triumphalism.
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Joseph C. Phillips
Is there a double standard? Absolutely! There is also a growing sensitivity to public speech that has corrupted our sense of proportion. If one must resign for speaking the truth – Obama is light skinned, well spoken and does have a habit of turning on the “flava” when he speaks before Black audiences – what is the penalty for saying something truly outrageous? Calling for the head of Harry Reid only succeeds in making legitimate liberal outrage over the similarly innocuous uttering’s by others. If we continue down this path I fear we will end up a nation unable to govern itself because we will be unable to speak lest we offend someone…somewhere.
Moreover, these displays of outrage miss the real substance of Reid’s intimations.
What is now clear for all to see is the new lefts political calculation vis a vi race. For the left there can be no post racial America because for the new left race is a chief weapon in their arsenal. Their use of race and racism is premeditated; it is a commodity to be traded in the political market. THAT should be the focus of GOP outrage; that should be what the media is talking about; that should be the cause of our national indignation.
There was another interesting bit of “dish” found in “Game Change.” In an effort to gain the endorsement of Massachusetts senator Edward Kennedy for his wife, former President Bill Clinton reportedly said to the liberal icon about Obama, "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.” According to the book, Kennedy was offended by the remarks and ultimately gave his support to Obama. In a subsequent conversation Clinton griped, “The only reason you are endorsing him is because he is black. Let’s just be clear.”
According to Harry Reid and Tim Kaine Clinton was quite correct; were it not for his light skin and his ability to speak like a “negro” when he has to he would still be a junior senator from Illinois and not the President of the United States.
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Paul Greenberg
The founding fathers were great statesmen, not flawless prophets. Their hindsight was reliable enough, going all the way back to Athenian democracy, but their ability to anticipate the future wasn't perfect. (Whose is?)
Consider Federalist Paper No. 57, which is often attributed to dear old, theoretical old James Madison. In it, he assures citizens that Congress would never abuse its authority under this proposed new Constitution because its members "can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society."
Good theory. Practice is something else. Even the founders, it seems, nodded on occasion. James Madison, if it was he rather than Alexander Hamilton who wrote No. 57, was confident that Congress would make no laws giving its members special privileges, but he failed to foresee how its members might interpret the law, including the Constitution itself, to make a privileged exception for themselves.
Consider the current legal case, political controversy and sizzling-hot potato that might be styled Congress versus Justice.
It seems the Department of Justice duly obtained a warrant from a federal judge allowing the FBI to search for specific documents in the congressional offices of the Hon. William Jefferson, U.S. representative and suspicious character from the Great State of Louisiana. And search the FBI did.
Whereupon the equally Hon. Dennis Hastert and indignant company in the House declared a constitutional crisis. For this wasn't just an ordinary suspect but . . . a congressman!
Quick, call the lawyers, the professors, the constitutional gurus and all professional pettifoggers. Republicans and Democrats in the House rose as one to defend their suspect colleague, who had already ignored one subpoena in his valiant effort to resist another.
Who says there is no honor among congressmen? There's nothing like a challenge to congressional privilege to revive bipartisanship.
After some $90,000 in literally cold cash had been found in Rep. Jefferson's freezer at home, the feds got a search warrant and went through his office for what an informant had told them was evidence of a bribe. After all, why is a congressman's office different from all other offices subject to a proper search warrant?
Because, the FBI's critics point out, Article I, Section VI of the Constitution declares that members of Congress shall not be questioned "for any Speech or Debate in either House . . . ."
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Useful Notes: PlayStation Portable
aka: Playstation Portable
Step Your Game Up.
Short story: the PlayStation Portable could be called a "successful failure." It was a failure in stealing the market from Nintendo for the third time in a row, but a success in that it still sold tens of millions of systems (so far has sold nearly 70% as many systems as the original PlayStation), and had a number of hit games.
Long story: in 2004, Sony was riding high off the first two PlayStation systemsnote , and decided to get into the handheld market, confident they could repeat their success for a third time. The gaming press was just as confident. It seemed like all the factors were in place for it to happen. Sony's use of discs versus the DS' cartridges, a traditional controller versus an unconventional controller, better third-party support, multimedia capabilities, and far greater processing power (which wasn't the case with the last two systems, but still a touted factor) had all paid off for Sony in the past. It seemed like the PSP could become the leader in the handheld gaming market, dethroning Nintendo.
However, not everything went as planned. There were a few reasons for this:
• The rechargeable battery's life was much better than other handheld challengers Nintendo had faced, but still paled in comparison to the DS. Playing a movie could cut the battery time to one-third.
• While disc-based formats proved to be superior to cartridges for home consoles, the format's advantages were less pronounced on a handheld device. The discs still offered higher capacity, but the optical format resulted in comparatively longer loading times, louder system noise, and increased battery usage due to disc spinning and seeking. Without the production volume of DVDs or CDs, the format didn't have the huge cost differential that made discs preferable to carts in the 5th generation. Storage of multiple games was also made less efficient due to each disc being permanently encased in an outer shell. The console and discs support Region Coding, and while only three PSP applications/games made use of region coding (the Asian release of the Battlezone remake, as well as the Comic Book reader and Remote TV Viewer applications) all UMD movies were region coded and couldn't play on PSPs from a different region.
• Loading times aren't as much of an issue with home consoles, but handheld systems are often played here and there in two-minute windows. Taking even 30 seconds to load is a major downside under those circumstances. In the later models, Sony incorporated a method which considerably shortened loading times note for compatible games. The console also has a "sleep" function which saves the current memory-state for quick revival later, but this causes even more problems for the already-iffy battery life.
• The system didn't have a Killer App by the time the DS had Nintendogs, Mario Kart, and New Super Mario Bros.. The PSP did later get sales boosts from the redesigns and true killer apps like Monster Hunter in Japan, but those were well after the DS took off and after the PSP had lost any lead.
• Most important of all was the different focus. Sony was convinced there was a "handheld gaming ghetto," which meant that the smaller-scale games on handhelds were supposedly inferior to home console games. The PSP was an unsuccessful attempt to bring home gaming to portables, which left developers scrambling to find a medium between the huge games of home consoles and the "bite-sized" gaming for portables, while Nintendo already had plenty of practice with that golden mean.
Despite these issues, the PSP still saw financial success during its lifespan. As mentioned, it's easily the most successful competitor to Nintendo's handheld dominance and the highest-selling second-place system of any console war. Firmware updates since launch increased the system's capabilities, ranging from being able to play more file formats, to being able to organize media in folders, to PS3 remote play compatibility. UMD titles allowed portions of the game to be installed to the memory stick, reducing loading times and extending battery life.
During its heyday, PSP was also notable for a massive homebrew community. Custom firmware has opened many new ways to use PSP's advanced hardware, from running various emulators (up to GBA and PSX), to browsing YouTube videos, reading eBooks, and even using a console as an IR Remote - all of which made a modified PSP one of the most versatile and powerful portable devices of its time, long before modern smartphones entered the market.
The PSP is capable of downloading retail titles available for it through Sony's online storefront, as well as smaller games, video, and Downloadable Content for existing games. Furthermore, the final incarnation of the PSP, the PSP Go, was specifically built around digital distribution, having no support for the UMD medium. Despite fears from older PSP owners, Sony insists that the Go was never meant to replace the PSP. Response was lackluster at best, with reports that some stores wouldn't even stock it. note
Since the PSP was released in 2004, and Sony historically released new consoles every six years, by 2010 there was a storm of rumor and speculation over what would come next. The announcement didn't hit until January 27, 2011. Sony's new device, named the PlayStation Vita, was released later that year.
• One R4000-based MIPS32 "microprocessor assembly" with floating point and vector floating point units.
• Another R4000-based MIPS32 "media engine" similar to the microprocessor assembly, containing various multimedia hardware (such as decoders).
• Both cores are rated at 333 mHz, but generally operate at 222 mHz to preserve battery life. A handful of games fully unlock the processor, and a system with custom firmware can permanently set the CPUs to 333 mHz, increasing performance at the cost of battery life.
• The original PSP shipped with 32 MB of RAM, which was upped to 64 MB in the 2000 and subsequent models to allow for shortened load times with aggressive caching.
• Aside from system memory, the PSP contains two sets of dedicated memory, 2 MB for graphics processing and 2 MB for multimedia processing through the media engine.
• Data can be stored on any number of different versions of Sony's proprietary memory stick technology.
• One custom 166 mHz dedicated graphics co-processor with support for advanced graphical calculations such as vertex blending and tessellation.
• Featured a 4.3-inch 16:9 TFT LCD screen displaying a 480 x 272 image in 16.8 million colors.
• This chip can ostensibly generate 33 million flat-shaded polygons per second, but that's a theoretical maximum.
• The system comes with partial hardware rendering, instead of strictly software rendering that the PS2 had. This got around some compatibility issues, like with texture compression, while still allowing some flexibility with the vector units.
• Initial models had a 5V 1800mAh battery, which could be upgraded officially to a 5V 2200mAh battery. Typical battery life is 4-6 hours.
• One ARM9-based WLAN chip capable of connecting via 802.11b.
• Early models shipped with an IrDA port, apparently just for kicks, because it was not officially supported nor used in any first-, second- or any-party software.
• Late-model firmware enabled the "ad hoc party" feature, allowing PSPs to create virtual local networks via the internet.
• The 2000 and 3000 models have an AV output connector.
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From the Daily Mail:
Scientists have genetically engineered an organism that secretes diesel fuel wherever there is sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. Biotechnology company Joule Unlimited claims it can produce diesel fuel and ethanol on demand at unprecedented rates.
Researchers at the firm, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said they can produce the fuel that runs jet engines using the same ingredients that make grass grow.
They also claim to be able to make it in facilities both large and small and at costs comparable to the cheapest fossil fuels.
Chief executive Bill Sims said: 'We make some lofty claims, all of which we believe, all which we've validated, all of which we've shown to investors.
'If we're half-right, this revolutionises the world's largest industry, which is the oil and gas industry.
'And if we're right, there's no reason why this technology can't change the world.'
For more, see: Is this the solution to the world's energy crisis? Scientists 'make diesel fuel using sun, water and carbon dioxide'
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Mon September 9, 2013
Estefan Sings The American Songbook — With A Latin Twist
Originally published on Mon September 9, 2013 9:10 am
Gloria Estefan, the poster girl of the Latin music scene in the 1980s and '90s, the frontwoman for the Miami Sound Machine and the singer who made Middle America get up and conga...
GLORIA ESTEFAN: (Singing) Doctor, I've got this feeling inside of me, deep inside of me...come, shake your body, baby, do that conga. No, you can't control yourself any longer. Come on, shake your body, baby...the rhythm is gonna get you tonight.
MARTIN: Now, after nearly four decades in the music business, dozens of albums to her name, this Latin music queen is going in a different direction.
ESTEFAN: (Singing) You made me love you. I didn't want to do it. You made me love you, and all the time you knew it...
MARTIN: This is a song from her latest album. It's a collection of classics, aptly titled "The Standards." When I spoke with Estefan, she said these are songs that have been with her for a very long time.
ESTEFAN: This actually started in my childhood. Because when we came from Cuba, my mom - very musical family - my mom is really the diva. She still sings beautifully. And I was surrounded by music since the day I was born. So, when we came to the States, I was two years old, and although she, little by little, got her record collection here - with Javier Solis, Trio Los Panchos, the greats of Cuban music, like Olga Guillot, La Lupe, Cachao.
Then that was joined by the greats of American music, like Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, Dean Martin, Andy Williams, Henry Mancini, Nat King Cole. This is the music that I grew up listening to in my house, and I still remember staring at those record covers and listening to, you know, the lushness of the arrangements, the orchestra. I was a musician already. I sang since I talked. So, I used to watch Andy Williams and I watched Dean Martin and Dinah Shore and loved when they sang.
MARTIN: Well, let's get into the album a little bit. Let's listen to a song. This one is called "What a Difference a Day Makes."
ESTEFAN: (Singing) What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours, brought the sun and the flowers, where they used to be rain...
MARTIN: Is there a story behind this song?
ESTEFAN: Most certainly. October 25th of 1975, I stepped on the stage for the first time with the Miami Latin Boys in my first official gig. And Emilio - it was his band; we weren't dating at the time - he was just my boss.
MARTIN: This is your husband now of many years.
ESTEFAN: Yes, Emilio, my husband of 35 years now, by the way. We did this song in disco because Viola Wills had done an amazing version then. And it was the first song that I sang. But on this record, I didn't want to do the disco version, obviously. I wanted to stay true with the original.
ESTEFAN: (Singing) Skies above can't be stormy, since that moment of bliss, that thrilling kiss. It's heaven when you find romance on your menu. What a difference a day makes, and the difference is you.
MARTIN: Let's listen to another song from the album, originally a Spanish song that you chose to sing in English. It's called "The Day You Say You Love Me." In Spanish, what's the title?
ESTEFAN: "El Dia Que Me Quieras."
ESTEFAN: (Singing) Tender sighs like a whisper, caressing my daydreams. Here by my side, I feel life smile upon me, whenever your sweet eyes can look into mine.
MARTIN: So, I understand this song has particular personal resonance for you.
ESTEFAN: It does indeed. That was our wedding song. Originally by Carlos Gardel, the tango god of Argentina, who passed away in his 30s in an airplane accident. And it was really a big loss for Argentina. This was written in 1920. And when I sang it in the studio, I was holding my grandbaby, who at the time he was born in June and I recorded this in December. So, it became a whole different meaning for me. And those words you just heard were all about him. And that shows how these standards can just continue to grow and evolve and have different meaning, depending on who's singing them and what you're singing them about and where they stem from.
MARTIN: I'd like to take a big step back in time, if you're game.
ESTEFAN: Of course.
MARTIN: The Miami Sound Machine - it was such a successful band in the '80s and '90s in particular. I wonder if you can give us a sense of what it was like back then. Was Latin music a hard sell at the time?
ESTEFAN: We started as a gig band, playing weddings, bar mitzvahs, quinces. And it was for fun. I never envisioned that it would turn into this. I was just such a happy girl to be able to go to rehearsals and be able to sing. I used to play and sing for my mom and dad on my guitar and that was enough. But to be able to have a whole orchestra, to do arrangements. To me, that was the most fun.
So, in Miami we were very fortunate that our audiences were very accepting of both, and that's really what made us so successful, that we could do, you know, a disco tune, a ballad, really romantic, turn around and do a Latin tune. And in Miami, they love that. So, that gave us a lot of gumption and a lot of belief that this sound would really work. And despite the fact that when we started trying to record and put our songs in English, they would say you're too American for the Latins; you're too Latin for the Americans; lose the drums; lose the percussion; change your name. And the fact that we had this fresh, different sound and that we stuck to it is the reason we had success. So, we were very happy that we were our own cheerleaders.
MARTIN: Is it kind of amazing to you that now in 2013 look at all the artists who have come in your wake - Shakira, J. Lo, Selena Gomez, Pitbull - I mean, the list is so long. And you and that group, you paved the way, in a lot of respects.
ESTEFAN: Well, I look at it as opening the door a little further. Because, for me, looking at Carlos Santana and what he did with his bag, you know, like the rock and Latin together, then Jose Feliciano, who refused to change his name, and was - I saw him sing "Light My Fire" on, you know, on the Grammys. And we were so happy when we kind of broke through and opened that door a little further for the ones to come. And that's why it was important for us to really support and help these younger artists, because all we go was no's from everybody - no, no, no, no - and we wanted to give them yes. And, you know, it makes us happy when these things happen.
MARTIN: Gloria Estefan joined us from Miami. Her new album, "The Standards," is out this week. Thank you so much.
ESTEFAN: It is my pleasure.
ESTEFAN: (Singing in foreign language)
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25-player Heroic mode
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25-player heroic mode refers to a new raid difficulty setting. This setting is accessed from the raid leader's portrait menu; currently the only other difficulty settings are 10-player mode, 10-player heroic mode and 25-player mode for raids.
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Celina Summers
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HordeNPC 32Celina Summers
Celina Summers
Title <Reagents and Poisons>
Gender Female
Race Forsaken (Humanoid)
Level 70
Health 8,982
Reaction Alliance Horde
Affiliation The Hand of Vengeance
Location Howling Fjord
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Celina Summers is a Forsaken reagent vendor located at the Apothecary Camp in Howling Fjord [26.3, 24.5]
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Quest:The Thunder King
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Neutral 32 The Thunder King
CategoryVeiled Stair
Experience23,600 XP
or 1Gold98Silver49Copper at Level 90
Reputation+10 The Black Prince
Rewards1Gold 98Silver 50Copper
PreviousOfficial alliance mini-icon [90] Call of the Packmaster
Official horde mini-icon [90] The Soul of the Horde
NextSecrets of the First Empire
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The Sunreavers and the Kirin-Tor are mounting an assault on the Thunder King's base of operations! My new friend here and I were just discussing the ramifications of their attack.
You and I can stand to benefit from the situation, <name>. I have a few ideas...
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• Depending on when players completed the previous quest, this quest might be skipped.
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1. Both 15 [90] Stranger in a Strange Land
2. Neutral 15 [90] A Legend in the Making
3. Neutral 15 [90] The Strength of One's Foes
4. Neutral 15 [90] Trial of the Black Prince
5. Neutral 15 [90] Fear Itself
6. Neutral 15 [90] Breath of the Black Prince
7. Neutral 15 [90] Incoming...
8. Both 15 [90] The Measure of a Leader
9. Both 15 [90] A Test of Valor
10. Both 15 [90] The Prince's Pursuit
11. Official alliance mini-icon [90] The Lion Roars / Official horde mini-icon [90] Glory to the Horde
12. Both 15 [90] A Change in Command
13. Official alliance mini-icon [90] Call of the Packmaster / Official horde mini-icon [90] The Soul of the Horde
15. Neutral 15 [90] I Need a Champion
16. Neutral 15 [90] The Thunder Forge
17. Neutral 15 [90] Spirit of the Storm Lord
18. Neutral 15 [90] The Crown of Heaven
19. Neutral 15 [90] Echoes of the Titans
20. Neutral 15 [90] Heart of the Thunder King
21. Neutral 15 [90] A Reckoning
22. Neutral 15 [90] Celestial Blessings
23. Neutral 15 [90] Cloak of Virtue
24. Neutral 15 [90] Preparing to Strike
25. Neutral 15 [90] A Timeless Discovery
26. Complete the following:
27. Neutral 15 [90] A Pandaren Legend
28. Neutral 15 [90] Judgment of the Black Prince
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Researchers find chemical secret to recapturing youthful brain
Melissa HealyLos Angeles Times
WASHINGTON -- Adults (especially parents) often find fault with the teenage brain. But they should admit that it is a powerful learning machine -- and that sometimes, the grown-ups wish they could recapture its nimbleness. New research, conducted by researchers at Yale University and published Wednesday in the journal Neuron, homes in on the genetic and chemical mechanics that could make that possible.
The new research, says the study's senior author, Dr. Stephen M. Strittmatter, helps point the way to therapies that might allow victims of stroke or spinal cord damage to "set back their brain's clock" to a stage of development that would foster the rapid relearning of lost skills. And, he added, it might aid those hobbled by post-traumatic stress disorder to reconfigure their relationship to painful memories and learn to live again.
"It's about going from adulthood back to adolescence, and in general that's something we would not want to do," said Strittmatter, a neurologist who directs Yale School of Medicine's program on neuroscience, neurodegeneration and repair. "But in some cases, it could prove very helpful."
Having lived through these wonder years, the adult brain becomes a bit, shall we say, plodding. Its cells continue to sprout the axons and dendrites that lash neurons together in a process we call learning. But there's nothing like the mad re-creation of brain architecture -- the constant replacement of existing neuronal connections and their replacement with new ones -- that characterizes the teen brain.
The brain, says Strittmatter, "becomes cemented in place." Compared with the highly plastic adolescent brain, it is hard-wired.
The two sets of mice appeared in all respects the same in early childhood and adolescence: It was only with the transition to adulthood that the protein's power to tame the brain's constant rewiring act became evident.
Did the mice actually behave any differently when their brains were "reset" to teenage mode? Even into adulthood, Strittmatter noted, tests of memory and function in both sets of mice did not differ in significant ways.
But there was one key behavioral difference between the groups: When researchers taught the mice to expect a shock when they heard a buzzer -- a process called fear conditioning -- adult mice whose brains were in "hard-wired" mode found it harder to adapt to changes intended to extinguish that fear. But fear-conditioned mice who had their Nogo receptors knocked out easily lost their fear reactions when researchers taught them they were in no danger.
These are the kinds of advances in neuroscience that not only promise help for patients with grievous injuries, they raise a glimmer in the eyes of healthy adults bothered by the loss of cognitive agility that comes with age. Cognitive enhancement to reverse the marginal insults of aging might look awfully seductive to healthy older adults too -- probably because they don't remember the many downsides to having a teenage brain.
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Kady to Politico
By Patrick
FishbowlDC has learned that CQ’s Marty Kady (see his FishbowlDC interview here) is joining the Politico as a congressional correspondent and contributor to The Crypt column. Kady spent five years at CQ, starting at CQ Homeland Security.
CQ’s Anne Hoy wrote, in an internal email: “During his five years, he wrote for its website, daily and weekly publications. He was the
technology and science reporter in Commerce and Industry and the intelligence and foreign policy writer in the Defense and Foreign Policy domain. As part of the Inside Congress team, he has been at his
best when explaining leadership’s strategy. A recent example was his July 9 CQT story outlining the three-pronged strategy of Democratic congressional leaders for the remaining months of the session: blame
Republicans for blocking the Democratic agenda, revive the debate over Iraq and pursue a list of less controversial domestic policy items. Another example was his June 28 CQT story explaining the absence of
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell from the immigration debate. His easygoing and unflappable nature will be missed. His last day is July 27. We wish him well.”
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Simulation Model for Quality Improvements
Member Submitted
Author Bharath Srinivasan believes that quality improvement is not only based on absolute number of defects, which is helpful for the early phases of a project, but also on the measurement of the Mean Time To Failure [MTTF]. In this article, he explains how this model helps his team improve early detection, and predict and reduce the Residual Defect Density (RDD).
About the author
AgileConnection is one of the growing communities of the TechWell network.
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The Care and Feeding of Testing Skills
Article Summary:
It's a good idea to thoroughly study the bugs that have already been found in the software you're testing. It's even better if you study other people's bugs, too. Read on in this issue of Career Development as Elisabeth Hendrickson provides a helpful guide to continuous professional development.
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A Universe Throttling Up
Astrophysicist Adam Riess talks about his Nobel-winning discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
Billions of years from now, anyone still in our cosmic neighborhood might look up at night and see inky blackness where galaxies once dotted the sky. Anything not in the vicinity of our own Milky Way galaxy will have sped far away, expanding ever faster outward.
“Things would get more and more diffuse and spread out, and eventually the expansion of space would be faster than the speed of light,” explains recent Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Science Telescope Institute. “Not any one thing is moving faster than the speed of light, but the relative expansion or separation between galaxies will grow that way.” Eventually, those galaxies would disappear from view when “their light would have to travel too fast to actually overcome the expansion of space.”
In October, Reiss was awarded the Nobel in physics, along with fellow High-Z Team member Brian Schmidt of Australia, and Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Supernova Cosmology Project. They made the discovery simultaneously that the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating. That discovery led, in turn, to the now accepted theory that a mysterious “dark energy” fills most of the universe.
Air & Space Associate Editor Heather Goss talked with Riess about his research.
Air & Space: Tell us about the methods you used to make this discovery.
Riess: My colleagues and I looked for supernovae – a particular class of supernovae called Type 1a supernovae. They all blow up at about the same size, and you can use the brightness to determine how far away they are. You can also measure the redshift, the shift toward the red colors due to the expansion of space. By measuring those two things together, you can measure the expansion rate of space. And by measuring far away supernovae you can measure back in time, so you can measure the past expansion and compare it to the current expansion. That’s what we did, and we found that the expansion rate was increasing, not decreasing as expected.
Air & Space: And you found that this changed at some point, that the expansion was slowing down, then began speeding up. Can you explain that?
Riess: When the universe was younger and smaller and more compact, the attractive gravity that it feels – from the mass of the objects in it – is stronger than when it becomes bigger. As it became bigger, the gravity became weaker and dark energy therefore became ultimately dominant. We think it was about seven billion years ago when that changeover occurred.
Air & Space: You originally studied these Type 1a supernovae for your doctoral thesis. Was your intention to ultimately use them to study the expansion of the universe?
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Justice is served: Katy Perry's Muslim-offending music video edited following worldwide petition
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What I find amusing about this whole thing is that, as far as I know, Egyptians have complained about Dark Horse and it's laughable depiction of Egypt.
Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 03/09/2014 - 17:57
What a bunch of pig shiit! Try getting your radicals in check before telling the world you are offended by a music video. Why don't you condemn all the killings these muslims are doing around the globe and leave the Western world alone!!!!
ENOUGH ALREADY!!! (not verified) Thu, 03/06/2014 - 02:02
Today at 9:02 PM
OMG why r u ppl talking like this about Muslims. I heard a lot of u saying "why are they making this a big deal? if it was us we wouldnt care" we are not its just its something that really gets us upset we care so much about our religion, and if u guys dont really care if something like this happens to u than that aint our fault. We r gonna be asked what did we do when that happened, and were gonna say we spoke up and got them to delete that part with no problems or anything. I bet u if it was not Katy perry that did this and it was someone normal, most of u ppl would've been like this is not right, but just because she famous ya r standing up for her. Also I'm not saying that Katy perry did this on purpose, I'm not really sure if she even meant it or not. from my point of view as a muslim if i know that some one a muslim or a non muslim does something like this to another religion i would disrepect that person because that means they have no respect. Also a lot of u say that muslims hate americans. No we dont, at least not all of us, some does and im sure that goes the same for u i mean most of the comments ive read is all hate to muslims because they stood up for their religion and most muslims comments were only on the main subject which is the katy perry dark horse video. But you guys went viral and started talking about muslims in every way its like u got the chance. i can say lots of things to and explain about why some muslims hate america but this comment is already too long.
Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 03/04/2014 - 03:20
I can definitely understand why this would be offensive to muslims now that I know their position. However, I certainly wouldn't have known this would offend them simply because of my ignorance of muslims. Which I can assure you was also the case with the directors of this music video as well.
Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 03/03/2014 - 19:56
This is really actually funny the way you are going on.
Kittycat (not verified) Mon, 03/03/2014 - 18:57
This article is incredibly silly! Of course Perry's video will not change. It would be against the Law to do so. Check Youtube for yourself. (You need to learn how Western Laws work).
Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 03/02/2014 - 22:07
Bullshit. Most, if not all, reference and/or mock Christianity, and no one gives a shit, but oh no! don't let anyone reference a muslim because all hell breaks loose. Insecure, over sensitive cry babies.
Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 03/02/2014 - 19:36
"Justice is served"?
Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 03/02/2014 - 10:47
Justice ? And that's why the Islamic community faces such distrust . Justice is life for killers of Lee not for a slight in music video. If you put more effort into denouncing fundamentalists and less time on pop videos you would do better.
Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 03/02/2014 - 10:27
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Mirror Morionis - Eternal unforgiveness 3/5
Reviewed: 11-1-13
1. Towards the woe
2. When mirror cries
3. Inner waste
4. The sun will never rise
5. Her morion eyes
6. Diamond sand
7. Graves filled with my dreams
8. Towards the loss within
While I've always been a major power metal fan and mostly listen to fast-paced CDs, 15 years ago I was greatly drawn to female fronted bands and eventually opened my arms to bands with the "beauty and the beast" vocal style. This led to my discover of atmospheric/gothic/doom metal masters Draconian - a killer band that's been around for over a decade and they already have a bunch of high-quality CDs. Since learning of Draconian, there have been other bands surface, and I've always given them a chance, hoping they could one day match the greatness of Draconian.
Throughout the years, some of the other bands that have popped up are Edenian, Amederia, Aut Mori, Symphonian, Auto-De-Fe, Locus Titanic Funus, Edenfall and Lorelei. Most of these bands are from Russia, which is exactly where Mirror Morionis is from, and for this debut 'Eternal unforgiveness' they've signed with Endless Winter, a Russian-based label that specializes in doom. While some of these Russian bands sing in Russian, Mirror Morionis has chosen the English language for this debut.
Musically, the CD is an atmospheric/gothic/doom metal blend that's fairly slow for the most part, just like what's heard from the mentioned bands. It's perhaps a bit slower than Draconian's style overall, and as you'd expect, some of the songs are extra-long. Though the production isn't at the level of what's heard from Draconian, Aut Mori and Lorelei (for quick comparisons), it's fairly good and in line with the sound from the other bands mentioned. I also think that this CD is more atmospheric than most CDs in the style, and Amederia is probably the best direct comparison.
Vocally, I like this band a lot, as the "beast" has a typical and deep death-style voice that's perfect for the style, and the "beauty" fits in well too, flowing nicely with the music, as opposed to overpowering it. The songs in general are definitely solid for the style, but they haven't quite captivated me like some of the songs from Draconian (for sure), or even from other new bands like Symphonian, Lorelei and especially Aut Mori, which is probably my favorite band from the style besides Draconian. Still, this is a promising debut and if you're into this style and some of the mentioned bands, you should certainly check out this CD.
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I have the mini kit making 500ml working solution for 10 films, my Paterson tank takes 290 ml.
Did I make a mistake in thinking I could use the chemistry as single use and discard?
If it is for re-use only, do I have to extend processing times? I may just as well have stayed with Tetenal ..
Why is life so difficult?
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Digital audio is the result of sound reproduction, using pulse-code modulation and digital signals. This includes analog-to-digital conversion (ADC), digital-to-analog conversion (DAC), storage, and transmission. While modern systems can be quite subtle in their methods, the primary usefulness of a digital system is the ability to store, retrieve and transmit signals without any loss of quality. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Digital audio)
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Conservatives upset that Obama left out the almighty in thanksgivin...
Someone enroll these idiots in a grade school US History class, please.
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I had a short discussion about this on facebook. The guy said he appreciated that Bush always thanked god. He didn't respond when I mentioned that Bush was a born-again Christian and at least Obama acknowledges that atheists have a right to exist. I also pointed out that Obama has acknowledged god before.
Jon Stewart was ranting about this last night, that's how I learned about this. The thing is that this isn't a case of Fox News trying to make a mountain out of molehill, they didn't do a very good job. They noted that Bush and Clinton both failed to acknowledge god in at least 1 of their respective thanksgiving addresses and then noted that god is mentioned in the written copy. It's nice when Fox News comes with disclaimers. Anyway, I think that because he didn't mention god in the verbal address, we can forgive him for mentioning him in the written copy.
Like it would help. They believe what the want to believe. Facts don't matter.
What, you mean that Thanksgiving isn't about sacrificing the almighty turkey god, who we fatten up over months, only to sacrifice him and eat his flesh? ;D We even praise him, after we eat, by rubbing our bellies, unbuttoning the top button of our jeans or trousers, and saying, "Ohhhh, I'm never going to eat that much again... Ohhhh..." You just can't beat that mantra.
Hey, so long as Obama mentioned football. Did he? He should have. Football is so Thanksgiving. ;D
Funny how a bunch of the Republican contenders for President didn't mention God either, but that's okay.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Samsung's decision to try a new mobile operating system for its latest wearable computer, first reported by USA TODAY yesterday, suggests the Korean giant fears the growing economic clout of Google's ubiquitous Android software.
By switching from Android, the world's most-used smartphone system, the No. 1 handset maker is making a bold bet that its hardware will be enough to attract early buyers of these so-called smartwatches.
But in doing so, Samsung also risks confusing consumers by further fragmenting the nascent market for wearable computers.
Most applications for these devices, also made by Pebble, Jawbone and many other startups, are now written to run either with Android or with Apple's mobile system, iOS.
By shunning Android, which Samsung used to power its long and lucrative rise to the top, the No. 1 smartphone maker is betting that it can attract a critical mass of smartwatch developers to its open-source Tizen platform.
Smartphone consumers have shown that they will stick with a software platform that has a robust pool of apps, as Apple's and Google's do.
On the other hand, operating systems that weren't widely embraced by the developer community led to a dearth of apps and then to plummeting hardware sales for BlackBerry, Nokia and others.
In today's global smartphone market, the value increasingly is in software and the potential for mobile ad sales behind it.
Samsung, if it follows through on a plan to split from Android, seems willing to risk dampening the market for smartwatches until an alternative to Google's developer platform can be incubated for the new product category.
Any sustained move by Samsung away from Google is a high-risk strategy, but putting Tizen on its latest Gear product instead of Android is a step in that direction.
The Korean conglomerate, which spends billions of dollars a year on product research, looks willing to make a small version of that bet — and Google itself may have provided the motivation.
A report last week on the tech news site ZDNet, citing documents obtained from a lawsuit between Google and software giant Oracle, indicates the Internet search giant is imposing strict Android-licensing provisions on its hardware partners.
Among the provisions is a requirement that Samsung and other pre-install not just Android but also Google's own apps, such as maps, onto their devices.
Those are similar to the ones that Microsoft long imposed on makers of personal computers to get its Office programs pre-installed on Windows-powered machines.
Google's hardball negotiating stance, if confirmed, shows how much economic might the Internet search giant has relative to its Android hardware partners.
Its near-80% global smartphone operating system market share is approaching the same type of dominance that Microsoft still enjoys in PC software.
With the PC market shrinking and the smartphone market slowing, at least in the U.S., hardware makers see wearable computing as a nascent growth segment.
And it's a market in which Samsung doesn't want to see Google capture too much value from in its earliest days.
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Does this test have other names?
Urine C-peptide
What is this test?
This test measures how much insulin your body produces. If you have hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, or other issues related to diabetes, your doctor may order a C-peptide test. This test is often done using a blood sample, but a urine sample can also be used.
Why do I need this test?
If you have diabetes, it can be hard for a health care provider to tell how much insulin your pancreas produces by just looking at your physical symptoms. A C-peptide test measures the amount of insulin your body makes.
What other tests might I have along with this test?
C-peptide can be measured with either a blood test or a urine test. Sometimes the ratio of urine C-peptide to creatinine is used to help measure how much insulin your body makes. Your doctor may also recommend other diabetes-related tests.
What do my test results mean?
C-peptide levels are measured in picomoles per liter (pmol/L). A normal C-peptide test result is less than 200 pmol/L. Higher levels of C-peptide typically mean higher levels of blood sugar. They may also mean that you are making too much insulin because you have a tumor called an insulinoma. Lower levels of C-peptide mean lower levels of blood sugar or your body's inability to make insulin.
This number is just one factor your doctor uses to check your overall health. The ratios of many different components, including C-peptide, are important for finding out the best way to treat your diabetes.
How is this test done?
A C-peptide test can be done with either a blood or urine sample. For the urine test, you can provide the sample at home or at a health care provider's office. Your health care provider will give you instructions on how and when to give the sample.
When a blood sample is needed, it is drawn by putting a needle into a vein in your arm or hand.
Does this test pose any risks?
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What might affect my test results?
Your diet, including when you last ate, can influence your C-peptide levels.
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Sometimes the test is done after fasting, and other times it is done after you eat a meal. Your health care provider will give you instructions on how the test is to be done and, if needed, how to collect a urine sample.
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Genesis 6
The Book of Genesis
Chapter 6
Chapter Overview:
In this chapter we have,
1. The abounding iniquity of that wicked world, ver. 1 - 5. and
ver. 11, 12.
2. God's just resentment of that iniquity, and his holy resolution to punish it, ver. 6, 7.
3. The special favour of God to his servant Noah.
1. In the character given of him, ver. 8,9,10.
2. In the communication of God's purpose to him, ver. 13 - 17.
3. In the directions he gave him to make an ark for his own safety, ver. 14, 15, 16.
4. In the employing of him for the preservation of the rest of the creatures, ver. 18, 19, 20, 21.
Lastly, Noah's obedience to the instructions given him, ver. 22.
6:1Men began to multiply upon the face of the earth - This was the effect of the blessing, Genesis 1:28 , and yet man's corruption so abused this blessing, that it turned into a curse.
6:2The sons of God - Those who were called by the name of the Lord, and called upon that name, married the daughters of men - Those that were profane, and strangers to God. The posterity of Seth did not keep to themselves as they ought, but intermingled with the race of Cain: they took them wives of all that they chose - They chose only by the eye: They saw that they were fair - Which was all they looked at.
6:3My spirit shall not always strive with man - The spirit then strove by Noah's preaching, 1 Peter 3:19 , and by inward checks, but 'twas in vain with the most of men; therefore saith God, he shall not always strive, for that he also is flesh - Incurably corrupt and sensual, so that 'tis labour lost to strive with him. He also, that is, all, one as well as another; they are all sunk into the mire of flesh. Yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years - So long will I defer the judgment they deserve, and give them space to prevent it by their repentance and reformation. Justice said, cut them down; but mercy interceded, Lord, let them alone this year also; and so far mercy prevailed, that a reprieve was obtained for six score years.
6:4There were giants, and men of renown - They carried all before them, 1. With their great bulk, as the sons of Anak, Numbers 13:33 , and, 2. With their great name, as the king of Assyria, Isaiah 37:11 . Thus armed, they daringly insulted the rights of alltheir neighbours, and trampled upon all that is just and sacred.
6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth - Abundance of sin was committed in all places, by all sorts of people:and those sins in their own nature most gross and heinous, and provoking: and committed daringly, with a defiance of heaven. And that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually - A sad sight, and very offensive to God's holy eye. This was the bitter root, the corrupt spring: all the violence and oppression, all the luxury and wantonness that was in the world, proceeded from the corruption of nature; lust conceives them, James 1:15 , see Mt 15:19.The heart was evil, deceitful and desperately wicked; the principles were corrupt, and the habits and dispositions evil. The thoughts of the heart were so. Thought is sometimes taken for the settled judgment, and that was biased and misled; sometimes for the workings of the fancy, and those were always either vain or vile. The imagination of the thought of the heart was so, that is, their designs and devices were wicked. They did not do evil only through carelessness, but deliberately and designedly, contriving how to do mischief. 'Twas bad indeed, for it was only evil, continually evil, and every imagination was so. There was no good to be found among them, no not at any time: the stream of sin was full and strong, and constant; and God saw it. Here is God's resentment of man's wickedness. He did not see it as an unconcerned spectator, but as one injured and affronted by it; he saw it as a tender father sees the folly and stubbornness of a rebellious and disobedient child, which not only angers but grieves him, and makes him wish he had been written childless.
6:6And it repented the Lord that he had made man upon the earth - That he had made a creature of such noble powers, and had put him onthis earth, which he built and furnished on purpose to be a comfortable habitation for him; and it grieved him at his heart - These are expressions after the manner of men, and must be understood so as not to reflect upon God's immutability or felicity. It doth not speak any passion or uneasiness in God, nothing can create disturbance to the eternal mind; but it speaks his just and holy displeasure against sin and sinners: neither doth it speak any change of God's mind; for with him there is no variableness; but it speaks a change of his way.When God had made man upright, he rested and was refreshed, Exodus 31:17 . and his way towards him was such as shewed him well pleasedwith the work of his own hands; but now man was apostatized, he could not do otherwise, but shew himself displeased; so that the change was in man, not in God.
6:7I will destroy man - The original word is very significant.I will wipe off man from off the earth; as dirt is wiped off from a place which should be clean, and thrown to the dunghill. Or, I will blot out man from the earth, as those lines are blotted out of a book which displease the author, or as the name of a citizen is blotted out of the rolls of the freemen when he is disfranchised. Both man and beast the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air - These were made for man, and therefore must be destroyed with man. It repenteth me that I have made them - For the end of their creation also was frustrated: they were made that man might serve and honour God with them and therefore were destroyed, because he had served his lusts with them, and made them subject to vanity.
6:8But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord - This vindicates God's justice in his displeasure against the world, and shews that he had examined the character of every person in it, before he pronounced it uersally corrupt; for there being one good man he smiled upon him.
6:9Noah was a just man - Justified before God by faith in the promised seed; for he was an heir of the righteousness which is by faith, Hebrews 11:7 .He was sanctified, and had right principles and dispositions implanted in him: and he was righteous in his conversation, one that made conscience of rendering to all their due, to God his due, and to men theirs. And he walked with God as Enoch had done before him: in his generation, even in that corrupt degenerate age. It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith to swim against the stream, and to appear for God, when no one else appears for him: so Noah did, and it is upon record to his immortal honour.
6:11The earth also was corrupt before God - That is, in the matters of God's worship; either they had other gods before him, or worshipped him by images: or, they were corrupt and wicked in despite of God. The earth was also filled with violence, and injustice towards men; there was no order nor regular government, no man was safe in the possession of that which he had the most clear right to, there was nothing but murders, rapes and rapines.
6:12God looked upon the earth - And was himself an eye - witness of the corruption that was in it, for all flesh had corrupted his way - It was not some particular nations that were thus wicked, but the whole world so; there was none good beside Noah.
6:13The end of all flesh is come before me; I will destroy them - The ruin of this wicked world is decreed; it is come, that is, it will come surely, and come quickly.
6:14I will destroy them with the earth, but make thee an ark - I will take care to preserve thee alive. This ark was like the hulk of a ship, fitted not to sail upon the waters, but to float waiting for their fall. God could have secured Noah, by the ministration of angels without putting him to any care or pains, but he chose to employ him in making that which was to be the means of his preservation, both for the trial of his faith and obedience, and to teach us that none shall be saved by Christ, but those only that work out their salvation; we cannot do it without God, and he will not without us: both the providence of God and the grace of God crown the endeavours of the obedient and diligent.God gave him particular instructions concerning this building.
1. It must be made of Gopher - wood; Noah, doubtless, knew what sortof wood that was, though now we do not.
2. He must make it three storieshigh within: and,
3. He must divide it into cabins with partitions, placesfitted for the several sorts of creatures, so as to lose no room.
4. Exactdimensions are given him, that he might make it proportionable, and might have room enough in it to answer the intention, and no more.
5. He mustpitch it within and without: without, to shed off the rain, and to prevent the water from soaking in; within, to take away the ill smell of the beasts when kept close.
6. He must make a little window towards the topto let in light.
7. He must make a door in the side of it by which to goin and out.
6:17And behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth - I that am infinite in power, and therefore can do it; infinite in justice, and therefore will do it.
6:18But with thee will I establish my covenant - [1.] The covenant of Providence, that the course of nature shall becontinued to the end of time, not withstanding the interruption which the flood would give to it: this promise was immediately made to Noah and his sons, Genesis 9:8 , &c. they were as trustees for all this part of the creation, and a great honour was thereby put upon him and his. God would be to him a God, and that out of his seed God would take to himself a people.
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1 Kings 17:1 NRS
1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe a in Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word."
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ASV 12 having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. NIV 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
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Parallel Bible results for Leviticus 25:36
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Leviticus 25:36
KJV 36 Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee. NIV 36 Do not take interest of any kind from him, but fear your God, so that your countryman may continue to live among you.
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Feature Christmas 2010: Surgery
Red for danger: the effects of red hair in surgical practice
BMJ 2010; 341 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c6931 (Published 09 December 2010) Cite this as: BMJ 2010;341:c6931
1. Andrew L Cunningham, foundation programme doctor, general surgery,
2. Christopher P Jones, foundation programme doctor, general surgery,
3. James Ansell, registrar in general surgery,
4. Jonathan D Barry, consultant surgeon
1. 1Welsh Institute of Metabolic and Obesity Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Morriston Hospital, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg NHS Trust, Swansea SA6 6NL, Wales, UK
1. Correspondence to: J D Barry jbarry{at}doctors.org.uk
Jonathan D Barry and coworkers discuss the validity of the unique surgical requirements of patients with red hair
Traditionally, surgeons and anaesthetists regard red haired patients with some trepidation because of their reputation for excessive bleeding, a reduced pain threshold, and an, albeit anecdotal, increased tendency to develop hernias.
An estimated 1% to 2% of the general population worldwide has the phenotype for red hair, increasing to between 2% and 6% in the northern hemisphere.1 The typical phenotype associated with red hair is fair skin, freckles, and light coloured eyes. This colouration results from high levels of the red pigment phaeomelanin and reduced levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. Red haired people are also sensitive to ultraviolet light.2 Despite several validated methods to stratify surgical risk and outcome on the intensive care unit, such as the American Society of Anaesthesiology score3 and the acute physiological and chronic health evaluation score,4 none take into account the effect of red hair. We discuss the magnitude of risk posed to clinicians by patients with red hair.
A brief history of red hair
Red hair is referred to several times in ancient literature. Xenophanes, a Greek philosopher and poet, mentioned the blue eyes and red hair of the Thracians. Boudica, the Celtic queen of the Iceni, was described by the Roman historian Dio Cassius as “tall and terrifying in appearance . . . a great mass of red hair . . . over her shoulders.” Homer included several red haired mythical characters in his epic poem The Iliad, particularly Achilles, whose fate is the stuff of legends. …
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The Philosophical Roots of Anthropology (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
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Anthropologists claim to have made mankind aware of its own prehistory and its importance to human self-understanding. Yet, anthropologists seem hardly to have discovered their own discipline's prehistory or to have realized its importance. William Y. Adams attempts to rectify this myopic self-awareness by applying anthropology's own tools on itself and uncovering the discipline's debt to earlier thinkers.
Like most anthropologists, Adams had previously accepted the premise that anthropology's intellectual roots go back no further than the moral philosophy of the Enlightenment, or perhaps at the earliest to the humanism of the Renaissance. In this volume, Adams recognizes that many good ideas were anticipated in antiquity and that these ideas have had a lasting influence on anthropological models in particular. He has chosen five philosophical currents whose influence has been, and is, very widespread, particularly in North American anthropology: progressivism, primitivism, natural law, German idealism, and "Indianology". He argues that the influences of these currents in North American anthropology occur in a unique combination that is not found in the anthropologies of other countries. Without neglecting the anthropologies of other countries, this work serves as the basis for the explanation of the true historical and philosophical underpinnings of anthropology and its goals.
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Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.
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Eleanor Jean ParkerAmerican actress
Eleanor Jean Parker, (born June 26, 1922, Cedarville, Ohio—died Dec. 9, 2013, Palm Springs, Calif.), American actress who was a blonde beauty who earned three Academy Award nominations for best actress for her superb performances in roles that highlighted her versatility. She portrayed a shaved-headed prisoner in Caged (1950), a policeman’s wife (harbouring a secret with an abortionist) in Detective Story (1951), and a polio-stricken opera singer in Interrupted Melody (1955), but she was best remembered for her supporting role as the emotionally frigid baroness in the Julie Andrews vehicle The Sound of Music (1965). Parker gravitated to a career as a thespian while still a teenager. She studied acting at the Pasadena (Calif.) Playhouse and was discovered by a Warner Brothers talent agent. Parker made her feature film debut in Busses Roar (1942) and spent the next few years bouncing back and forth between A- and B-movie roles. She definitively graduated to A roles with Pride of the Marines (1945), opposite John Garfield. Parker delivered another sterling performance in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) as the supposedly crippled wife of a heroin addict (Frank Sinatra) trying to go straight. In later years she appeared on television. Parker retired after her role in the TV movie Dead on the Money (1991).
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Successive elective kings of Poland failed to overcome the inherent weaknesses of the state, and the belated reforms of Stanisław II served only to provoke the final dismemberments of 1793 and 1795. Russia was a prime beneficiary, having long shown that vast size was not incompatible with strong rule. Such an outcome would not have seemed probable in 1648, when revolt in the Ukraine led to Russian “protection” and the beginning of that process of expansion which was to create an empire. The open character of Russia’s boundless lands militated against two processes characteristic of Western society—the growth of ... (100 of 166,739 words)
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Good Parliament of 1376
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...the chancellor, and the appointment of laymen to state offices. The new government, dominated by men such as William Latimer, the chamberlain, proved unpopular and ineffective. When the so-called Good Parliament met in 1376, grievances had accumulated and needed to be dealt with. As in previous crises, a committee consisting of four bishops, four earls, and four barons was set up to take...
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Edward III (king of England): The years of decline: 1360–77 England in April 1374 and with the help of Alice Perrers obtained the chief influence with his father, but his administration was neither honourable nor successful. At the famous so-called Good Parliament of 1376 popular indignation against John of Gaunt’s ruling party came at last to a head. Alice Perrers was removed and some of Gaunt’s followers were impeached. Before the Parliament...
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He succeeded his father, Thomas I de Beauchamp, as earl in 1369. He served on the lords’ committee of reform in the Good Parliament in 1376 and again in 1377, and he was a member of the commission of inquiry in 1379. Appointed governor to Richard II in February 1381, Warwick joined the nobles who sought to impose their authority on the king and was one of the lords appellant in 1388.
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The last five years of the prince’s life are obscure. Some contemporaries suggest that he supported the Commons when political discontent culminated in the Good Parliament of April 1376; but he knew he was dying, and he was probably seeking the best means to ensure the succession of his second—but only surviving—son, Richard of Bordeaux (afterward Richard II). Edward was buried at...
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Alternate titles: Procyon; ringtail
raccoon (genus Procyon), also called ringtail , any of seven species of nocturnal mammals characterized by bushy ringed tails. The most common and well-known is the North American raccoon (Procyon lotor), which ranges from northern Canada and most of the United States southward into South America. It has a conspicuous black “mask” across the eyes, and the tail is ringed with 5 to 10 black bands.
A stout animal with short legs, a pointed muzzle, and small erect ears, the North American raccoon is 75 to 90 cm (30 to 36 inches) long, including the 25-cm (10-inch) tail. Weight is usually about 10 kg (22 pounds) or less, although large males may grow to more than 20 kg. Those living in northern regions are larger than their southern counterparts. The North American raccoon’s fur is shaggy and coarse, and its colour is iron-gray to blackish with brown overtones. Southern raccoons are typically more silver, with northern “coons” tending toward blond or brown.
Like all raccoons, the North American raccoon is an intelligent and inquisitive animal. The hairless front feet are highly dexterous and resemble slender human hands, the hind feet being thicker and longer. Although classified as a carnivore, the raccoon is omnivorous, feeding on crayfish and other arthropods, rodents, frogs, and fruit and other plant matter, including crops. Raccoons are mistakenly believed to “wash” their food before eating it if water is available. This misconception arises from their habit of searching for food in or near water and then manipulating it while eating.
Because of its fondness for eggs, nestlings, corn, melons, and garbage, the raccoon is unwelcome in some areas. It is still hunted (often with hounds) and trapped for its fur and flesh. The North American raccoon played an important role in the North American fur industry during the 19th century. In the early decades of the 20th century, raccoon coats were de rigueur for the sporting set. As a result of the fur’s value, raccoons were introduced to France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Russia, where they have become a nuisance. In the latter portion of the 20th century, raccoons expanded their range northward in Canada, likely because of conversion of forest to agricultural land. Warmer temperatures and less-severe winters would enable raccoons to extend their range even farther.
The crab-eating raccoon (P. cancrivorus) inhabits South America as far south as northern Argentina. It resembles the North American raccoon but has shorter, coarser fur. The other members of genus Procyon are not well known. Most are tropical and probably rare. They are the Barbados raccoon (P. gloveralleni), the Tres Marías raccoon (P. insularis), the Bahaman raccoon (P. maynardi), the Guadeloupe raccoon (P. minor), and the Cozumel raccoon (P. pygmaeus). Raccoons belong to the family Procyonidae, along with the olingos, the cacomistle, and the kinkajou.
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brass, Brass paperweight (left) with components zinc (centre) and copper (right).Splarka alloy of copper and zinc, of historical and enduring importance because of its hardness and workability. The earliest brass, called calamine brass, dates to Neolithic times; it was probably made by reduction of mixtures of zinc ores and copper ores. In ancient documents, such as the Bible, the term brass is often used to denote bronze, the alloy of copper with tin.
Characteristics of the alloy.
The malleability of brass depends on the zinc content; brasses that contain more than 45 percent zinc are not workable, either hot or cold. Such brasses, known as white brasses, are of little industrial importance, though a granulated form is used in brazing (soldering); they also form the basis for certain alloys used in die-casting. The malleable brasses may be further subdivided into those that can be worked cold (generally those with less than 40 percent zinc) and those with a greater zinc content, which require hot working. The former group, known as the alpha brasses, are widely used in the manufacture of pins, bolts, screws, and ammunition cartridge cases. The beta brasses are less ductile but stronger and thus are suitable for the manufacture of faucet handles, sprinkler heads, window and door fittings, and other fixtures. A third group of brasses includes those with other elements besides copper and zinc, added to improve physical and mechanical properties, corrosion resistance, or machinability or to modify colour. Among these are the lead brasses, which are more easily machined; the naval and admiralty brasses, in which a small amount of tin improves resistance to corrosion by seawater; and the aluminum brasses, which provide strength and corrosion resistance where the naval brasses may fail.
Brass ware.
The ancient Romans used brass primarily in vessels, dress armour, jewelry, and brooches or clasps. Brass production declined after Rome withdrew from northern Europe but resumed during the Carolingian period. More malleable than bronze, brass was used to make ewers and basins, lamps, bowls, jugs, and numerous other household items.
From the 13th to the 17th century in Europe, monumental brasses were used to commemorate the dead. Engraved brass plates, depicting the deceased, were set into the surface of the tomb and often were embellished with inscriptions, heraldic devices, and other designs appropriate to the individual’s life and circumstances. More than 4,000 of them still exist in England alone. In the 16th century, before silver from the New World flooded Europe, brass basins and plates gained enormous popularity as decorative showpieces for the homes of the bourgeoisie. Such pieces were hammered and embossed with elaborate designs. When the silver and gold of the Americas supplanted brass as a decorative metal, it found other uses in the manufacture of utilitarian household wares and chandeliers, candlesticks, sundials, and clocks. In addition, brass became a major material for the manufacture of fine instruments for astronomy, surveying, navigation, and other scientific pursuits. Brass was often forged, cast, chased, and decorated with engraving. See also bronze; bronze work.
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The reverse of the sovereign debt crisis continues.
Short-term borrowing costs around Europe (with the exception of a couple peripheral countries) continue to collapse.
The latest to join the "club" of not paying money to borrow? Finland.
The Finnish 2-year yield just dropped to zero (via Linda Yueh).
Via, an intraday look at the Finnish 2-year yield.
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Last fall, we learned that German authorities had failed to uncover a plot by a neo-Nazi group to murder nine immigrants despite having monitored the group since the late '90s.
As we now learn from Der Spiegel, they were apparently distracted by the activities of fairly run-of-the-mill leftists.
The paper reveals that Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has been spying on 27 members of "The Left" party now in parliament — a third of the party's representation:
"According to a Jan. 4, 2012 document from the Interior Ministry, the BfV employs seven workers for the "handling of the Left Party" with personnel costs of some €390,000 ($504,000) per year. By way of comparison, more than 10 domestic intelligence agents are conducting surveillance on members of the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD), at a cost of some €590,000 each year.
The views of The Left party are not terribly controversial: more state ownership, a minimum wage for workers, more money for education.
The BfV has responded that it is not spying, merely monitoring; no clandestine techniques have been used to gather information.
Some Left Party members are also said to have had ties to the East-German Stasi.
But it's not just ultras they're observing. The party's leader, deputy chairwoman and other committee members have all been targeted.
As the L.A. Times' Aaron Wiener writes, the situation is, at a minimum, a mis-allocation of resources. He quotes one German political scientist thusly:
"They've been looking in the wrong direction, and maybe for political reasons. It raises a very big question mark about the work they do. If they are really concentrating on preventing a danger to democracy in Germany, they are failing on a grand scale."
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REVENGE! Freelancer Hijacks Gym Chain's Web Site Over Pay Dispute en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Wed, 03 Jun 2015 15:52:19 -0400 Jim Edwards cmonster Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:46:57 -0500 Yet the gym accepted (i.e. "passed along") the incomplete product to their new design firm instead of having the new firm start from scratch. The gym shot itself in the foot by accepting the product regardless of how the developer missed expectations. johnnyB Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:21:47 -0500 @cmonster: Pssst...he did. $5k upfront and then never delivered anything usable. He missed the corporate launch by 4 months and was fired for not returning emails. CNG Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:15:51 -0500 Unfortunately Fitness SF's statement makes it seem they paid in full to the amount of $5000, when earlier today the gym ownership told me that was half the project fee of $10000, but they felt it wasn't working out so decided not to pay the rest. Full summary and thoughts on my blog at <a href="" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ></a> Mantra Oomi Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:47:59 -0500 Oh this is no Goody mr Gym owners, please outsource much web designing to my Banalore brothers who will do much cheaper. Ha ha MF ers let's outsource it all, including the CEO congratulations if you have managed to get paid upfront Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:38:32 -0500 the best i have managed to do is 1/3 up front -- hopefully enough to cover the actual out of pocket costs. cmonster Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:27:05 -0500 Pssst... The secret is to get paid up front. TimmyC Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:51:43 -0500 I've been a web developer since 1998 (so 14 years? wow), and I've never had a client refuse to pay me. There was one (my cousin) whose company went under before I finished his website, another one who in mid-development got pregnant with some millionaire and decided to stop doing anything, but everybody else paid. That said, I'd rather write it off as a loss than do something like this, because they're even less likely to pay him now, and future clients are no more likely to hire him. What I found works to get payment is simply sending emails first once a week, then once every couple of days, then every day, then calls, all while being courteous and friendly, and they all cave sooner or later. Russell Venaska Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:50:23 -0500 Just a suggestion from a CPA who spent five years in public accounting. Make sure to get a retainer up front and then piecemeal percentage based on percentage of completion for the work. Then you bill them final bill for the last 10%. Deadbeat clients can bankrupt your firm! nerdbert Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:55:56 -0500 This is how life is as a contractor and why you have to keep a massive emergency fund when you do that kind of work. It's depressing how many times you get companies that are slow to pay or even just won't because they think it won't be worth your time to get a lawyer. Still, I gotta love the publicity and "revenge" he's extracted. He's exposed these jokers and opened the eyes of all the other contractors they hire. Anonymous Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:37:12 -0500 That's funny -- I wonder how long it will take for them to "fix" it. Probably as long as it takes them to pay! Hahahahaha! Jon Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:29:06 -0500 It looks like they are getting destoyed on Yelp as well. ka1axy Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:19:50 -0500 Fitness SF, instead of simply claiming they paid Jonen, should post copies of his invoices and the cancelled checks...if they have them. Instead, they've shut down their social media presence. That doesn't seem like the act of a company "in the right", does it? Frank Jonen deserves to be paid. Good on him for calling out Fitness SF! Joh Bin Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:00:53 -0500 it's pretty obvious the website was *not*, as they put it, "hacked". deadbeats suck Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:09:19 -0500 and that response has amounted to "the guy still lives with his mother". having been in mr. jonen's shoes more than once, i applaud him. how glamorous the lives of the self-employed are. Fitness SF are naughty boys Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:51:43 -0500 I love the fact even the hijack page looks beautiful..lovely clean design and typography. Support Frank Jonen! PAY UP GYM RAT SCUMBAGS!
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Of all of the pony/muscle/whatever cars, I think the mustang looks like dookie. Drifting is for little asian girls in nissans.
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Sheedy saw Dees' problems coming
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KEVIN Sheedy says he saw problems coming at Melbourne when granted a ''Clayton's interview'' by the Demons for their then vacant coaching position in 2007.
The coaching great, who won four premierships at Essendon, was short-listed for the Demons job that went to Dean Bailey. He said on Friday he felt he was never seriously considered.
Amid the tanking investigation centred on Melbourne, Sheedy again raised his 2007 experience when asked on Triple M if he felt sorry for Melbourne fans.
''I actually went and interviewed Melbourne - they thought they were interviewing me - and you could see the problems coming,'' he said.
''[I thought] 'They've got to get their act together better.' That was five years ago.''
Sheedy said he sensed 20 minutes into the interview that he was not the right person for the job, and was critical of Melbourne's questioning panel, which comprised then chairman Paul Gardner, then chief executive Steve Harris, Demons great Garry Lyon and former St Kilda captain Nathan Burke.
''Look, you couldn't say that you were interviewed by the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest committee, but I just wasn't really thinking that they were the right guys,'' he said.
He said he thought the panel had not treated him as a serious candidate.
''It was a Clayton's interview. But that's OK,'' he said.
Widely regarded as one of the AFL's best marketers, Sheedy said it was vital for the league to have a healthy Melbourne. But he said the panel he encountered five years ago lacked vision and had no plan to sell the club.
''It was all about 'How will you coach the team?' Well, I mean I know how to coach the team, I've got no problem with that,'' he said.
''But it's about how the club sees itself. To me … I have no problem with Dean Bailey and young [Mark] Neeld [who succeeded Bailey] as coaches, but you needed to take over the club and really get it right up there with marketing, members, sponsors, the whole lot.
''You needed to be in a position to take over Melbourne, like Sir Alex Ferguson [did at Manchester United], to really shake it and rattle it.''
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NTH vs SYD 19:20ES
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GCF vs NTH 16:35MS
WBU vs CAR 19:20ES
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RIC vs CAR 19:50MCG
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ESS vs MEL 13:40MCG
WBU vs GCF 16:35CAZ
NTH vs GEE 19:20ES
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GCF vs GWS 14:10MS
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GWS vs GEE 13:45SO
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RIC vs FRE 16:35MCG
ESS vs PTA 19:20ES
BRI vs NTH 19:20G
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MEL vs STK 15:20MCG
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HAW vs RIC 19:50MCG
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COL vs MEL 14:10MCG
SYD vs ADE 16:35SCG
CAR vs NTH 19:20ES
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GEE vs SYD 19:20SS
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GEE vs HAW 19:20MCG
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GCF vs ESS 16:35MS
STK vs GEE 19:20ES
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RIC vs NTH 00:00ES
HAW vs CAR 00:00MCG
GEE vs ADE 00:00SS
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« Hermias (5), a Christian philosopher Hermogenes (1), teacher of heretical doctrine Hesychius (3), Egyptian bp »
Hermogenes (1), teacher of heretical doctrine
Hermogenes (1), a teacher of heretical doctrine towards the close of 2nd cent., the chief error ascribed to him being the doctrine that God had formed the world, not out of nothing, but out of previously existing uncreated matter. Tertullian wrote two tracts in answer, one of which is extant, and is our chief source of information about Hermogenes. The minuteness with which his arguments are answered indicates that Tertullian is replying to a published work of Hermogenes, apparently written in Latin. Another doctrine of Hermogenes preserved by Clement of Alexandria (Eclog. ex Script. Proph. 56 p. 1002, being unlike anything told of him by Tertullian, was conjectured by Mosheim (de Rebus Christ. ante Const. p. 435) to belong to some different Hermogenes. But the since recovered treatise on heresies by Hippolytus combines in its account of Hermogenes (viii. 17, p. 273) the doctrines attributed to him by Clement and by Tertullian. Probably Clement and Hippolytus drew from a common source, namely, the work "against the heresy of Hermogenes," which, Eusebius tells us (H. E, iv. 24), was written by Theophilus of Antioch, and which is mentioned also by Theodoret (Haer. Fab. i. 19), who probably drew from it his account of Hermogenes, in which he clearly employs some authority different from the tenth book, or summary, of Hippolytus, of which he makes large use of elsewhere. Theodoret adds that Hermogenes was also answered by Origen, from which it has been supposed that he refers under this name to the summary now ascribed to Hippolytus; but there is no evidence that Theodoret regarded this work as Origen's (see Volkmar, Hippolytus und die römischen Zeitgenossen, p. 54), so that some lost work of Origen's must be presumed. The passages cited are all our primary authorities about Hermogenes, except some statements of Philaster (see below).
A considerable distance of time and place separates the notices by Theophilus and Tertullian. THEOPHILUS survived the accession of Commodus in 180, but probably not more than two years. Hence 180 would be our latest date for the teaching of Hermogenes, which may have been earlier. He probably had disciples at Antioch, and therefore must have taught at or near there, and any writing of his answered by Theophilus must have been written in Greek. Tertullian's tract against Hermogenes is assigned by Uhlhorn (Fundamenta Chron. Tert. p. 60) to a.d. 206 or 207. In it Hermogenes is spoken of as still living ("ad hodiernum homo in saeculo") and coupled with one Nigidius in the work on Prescription, c. 30, as among the heretics "who still walk perverting the ways of God." There are indications that the work to which Tertullian replies was in Latin, and every reason to think that Hermogenes (though probably, as his name indicates, of Greek descent) was then living in Carthage, for Tertullian assails his private character, entering into details in a way which would not be intelligible unless both were inhabitants of the same city. The same inference may be drawn from the frequency of Tertullian's references to Hermogenes in works of which his errors are not the subject (de Monog. 16; de Praescrip. 30, 33 adv. Valent. 16; de Animâ, 1, 11, 21, 22, 24); for apparently proximity gave this heretic an importance in his eyes greater than was otherwise warranted. Tertullian describes him as a turbulent man, who took loquacity for eloquence and impudence for firmness. Two things in particular are shocking to his then Montanist principles, that Hermogenes was a painter, and that he had married frequently. Neander and others have supposed that the offence of Hermogenes was that he painted mythological subjects. But there is no trace 455of this limitation in Tertullian's treatise, which shews all through a dislike of the pictorial art, and Tertullian seems to have considered the representation of the human form absolutely forbidden by the 2nd commandment. As for the charge of frequent marriages, if Hermogenes, who in 207 would be advanced in life, was then married to a third wife, a writer so fond of rhetorical exaggeration as Tertullian might describe him as one who had formed a practice of marrying (nubit assidue), or who had "married more women than he had painted." Tertullian's language may imply that Hermogenes had also endeavoured to prove from Scripture that a second marriage was not unlawful.
With regard to the doctrines of Hermogenes, the language of Hippolytus suggests that he denied the physical possibility of creation from nothing; but in the representation of Tertullian no stress is laid on the philosophic maxim, "Nihil ex nihilo," and the eternal existence of matter seems only assumed to account for the origin of evil. The argument of Hermogenes was, either God made the world out of His own substance, or out of nothing, or out of previously existing matter. The first or emanation hypothesis is rejected, since He Who is indivisible and immutable could not separate Himself into parts, or make Himself other than He had ever been. The second is disproved by the existence of evil, for if God made all things out of nothing unrestrained by any condition, His work would have been all good and perfect like Himself. It remained, therefore, that God must have formed the world out of previously existent matter, through the fault of which evil was possible. Further, God must have been always God and Lord, therefore there must always have existed something of which He was God and Lord. Tertullian replies that God was always God but not always Lord, and appeals to Genesis, where the title God is given to the Creator from the first, but the title Lord not till after the creation of man. Concerning Tertullian's assertion that God was not always Father, see Bull, Del. Fid. Nic. iii. 10. From the assertion of Hermogenes that God was always Lord of matter, Neander inferred that he must have denied any creation in time, and held that God had been from eternity operating in a formative manner on matter. Tertullian does not appear to have drawn this consequence, and (c. 44) assumes as undisputed some definite epoch of creation. But the account of Hippolytus shews Neander to have been right. With regard to the general argument, Tertullian shews that the hypothesis of the eternity of matter relieves none of the difficulties of reconciling the existence of evil with the attributes of God. If God exercised lordship over matter, why did He not clear it of evil before He employed it in the work of creation? Or why did He employ in His work that which He knew to be evil? It would really, he says, be more honourable to God to make Him the free and voluntary author of evil than to make him the slave of matter, compelled to use it in His work, though knowing it to be evil. He contends that the hypothesis of Hermogenes amounts to Ditheism, since, though he does not give to matter the name of God, he ascribes to it God's essential attribute of eternity. He asks what just claim of lordship God could have over matter as eternal as Himself; nay, which might claim to be the superior; for matter could do without God, but God, it would seem, could not carry out His work without coming to matter for assistance. In the discussion every word in the Mosaic account of creation receives minute examination and there is a good deal of strained verbal interpretation on both sides. But the authority, and apparently the canon, of Scripture were subjects on which both were agreed. Tertullian holds Scripture so exclusive an authority that its mere silence is decisive, and, since it does not mention pre-existent matter, that those who assert its existence incur the woe denounced against those who add to that which is written.
Though the word "materialist" is first heard of in this controversy, the views of Hermogenes were very unlike those now known by that name, and it is doubtful whether our word matter exactly corresponds to the hyle of Hermogenes. This apparently included the ideas of shapelessness and disorderly motion, so that all the sensible world could not, as in our modern language, be described as material. That which became κόσμος ceased to be hyle, and, in fact, Tertullian does not admit the existence of matter in the sense of Hermogenes. Hermogenes held matter to be infinite and refused to apply to it any predicate. It is without form, and is described as in a perpetual state of turbulent restless motion, like water boiling in a pot. It is not to be called good, since it needed the Deity to fashion it; nor bad, since it was capable of being reduced to order. It is not to be called corporeal, because motion, one of its essential attributes, is incorporeal, nor incorporeal because out of it bodies are made. Hermogenes repudiated the Stoic notion that God pervades matter, or is in it like honey in a honeycomb; his idea was that the Deity, without intermixing with matter, operated on it by His mere approach and by shewing Himself, just as beauty affects the mind by the mere sight of it (a very appropriate illustration for a painter) or as a magnet causes motion without contact merely on being brought near. By this approach part of matter was reduced to order and became the κόσμος, but part remains unsubdued; and this, it is to be supposed, was in the theory of Hermogenes the source of evil. Tertullian acutely remarks that this language about God's drawing near to matter as well as the use of the words above and below with reference to the relative position of God and matter cannot be reconciled with the doctrine of Hermogenes as to the infinity of matter.
The lost tract of Tertullian against Hermogenes discussed the origin of the soul, which Hermogenes ascribed to matter, Tertullian to the breath of life inspired by God at the formation of man (Gen. ii. 7). Tertullian accuses his opponent of mistranslation in substituting "Spirit" for "breath," apparently in order to exclude the possibility of interpreting this part of the verse of the communication of the soul, since the Divine 456Spirit could not be supposed capable of falling into sin. This supplies one indication that the tract to which Tertullian replies was in Latin; and Hermogenes, as a Greek by birth, would probably not use the current Latin translation of the Bible, but render for himself.
The opinion of Hermogenes (not mentioned by Tertullian, but recorded by Clement, Hippolytus, and Theodoret) is that our Lord on His ascension left His body in the sun and Himself ascended to the Father, a doctrine which he derived or confirmed from Ps. xix., "He hath placed his tabernacle in the sun." (Theodoret adds that Hermogenes taught that the devil and the demons would be resolved into hyle. This agrees very well with the doctrine that the soul derived its origin from matter.) It is a common point of Gnostic doctrine that our Lord's nature was after the passion resolved into its elements and that only the purely spiritual part ascended to the Father. But on no other point does Hermogenes approach Gnostic teaching; in his theory of creation, he recognizes neither emanation from God nor anything intervening between God and matter; his general doctrine was confessedly orthodox and he would seem to have no wish to separate from the church nor to consider himself as transgressing the limits of Christian philosophic speculations.
It remains to notice Philaster's confused account of Hermogenes. It would not cause much difficulty that he counts (Haer. 53) the Hermogenians as a school of Sabellians, called after Hermogenes as the Praxeani were after Praxeas. Though the silence of Tertullian leads us to believe that Hermogenes himself was orthodox on this point, his followers may very possibly have allied themselves with those of Praxeas against their common opponent. But in the next section Philaster tells of Galatian heretics, Seleucus and Hermias, and attributes to them the very doctrines of Hermogenes that matter was co-eternal with God, that man's soul was from matter, and that our Lord deposited His body in the sun in accordance with the Psalm already quoted. It is beyond all probability that such a combination of doctrines could have been taught independently by two heretics and it is not likely that Hermogenes had disciples in Galatia; we may therefore reasonably believe that Philaster's Hermias is Hermogenes. Philaster, however, attributes to his heretics other doctrines which we have no reason to think were held by Hermogenes: that evil proceeded sometimes from God, sometimes from matter; that there was no visible Paradise; that water-baptism was not to be used, seeing that souls had been formed from wind and fire, and that the Baptist had said that Christ should baptize with the Holy Ghost and with fire; that angels, not Christ, had created men's souls; that this world was the only "infernum," and that the only resurrection is that of the human race occurring daily in the procreation of children. Philaster may have read tracts not now extant, in which Tertullian made mention of Hermogenes, and possibly if we had the lost tract de Paradiso it might throw light on Philaster's statements. But we may safely reject his account as untrustworthy, even though we cannot now trace the origin of his confusion.
The tract against Hermogenes has been analysed by writers on Tertullian; e.g. Neander, Antignosticus, p. 448, Bohn's trans.; Kaye, Tertullian, p. 532; Hauck, Tertullian, p. 240. Consult also arts. s.v. in Tillemont, iii. and Walch, Hist. der Ketz. i. 576; and E. Heintzel Hermogenes (Berlin, 1902).
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vlad247 -> PIPO methods (6/12/2008 5:43:31 PM)
I have 2 DVD drives: ASUS DVD-E616P3 and Samsung SH-S202H(TS-H632H).
If I choose to scan for PIPO errors for the Asus drive with dvdinfo then it
says that this drive is not suitable for PIPO scanning. Scanning with
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The Nero cdspeed tells me the opposite:
the Samsung drive cannot be scanned for PIPO errors and the Asus drive is scanned normally.
What are the commands( or methods ) specific to the Asus drive that return the PIPO information ?
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This amazing image is an artist’s rendition of a gamma ray burst. You can see an animated version at the URL below. What is a gamma ray burst? It’s an incredibly energetic explosion that is thought to occur when a massive star collapses. The burst lasts just seconds or minutes, but it has more energy than a million billion suns! As you might have guessed, gamma rays are released during a gamma ray burst. Gamma rays are extremely energetic electromagnetic waves. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/mov/97789main_GRBstar2.mov
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Teach your child to save a life
By John Bonifield, CNN Medical Producer
Tristan Saghin kisses his younger sister, Brooke. Tristan saved Brooke's life after she fell into a swimming pool last month.
• Most children can be taught to handle an emergency
• The first step is to teach them how to dial 911
• Fear may paralyze kids who aren't so take-charge
(CNN) -- The Saghin family was getting ready for church last month in Phoenix when 2-year-old Brooke sneaked out a back door that had been left open, fell into a swimming pool and started to drown.
By the time Brooke's mother, Kim, pulled her out, she wasn't breathing. Brooke's 9-year-old brother, Tristan, wasn't about to let his kid sister die.
He told his grandmother to call 911 -- an impressive feat for any kid -- and then he did something even more remarkable:
"Tristan jumped down and started doing CPR. He just did it," Tristan's father, Chris Saghin, says. He remembers his son telling him, " 'I really didn't think. I just knew I had to do something.' "
Tristan knew how to save his sister's life only because his parents had taught him.
"He plays army and medic all the time. He wants to be a medic," Saghin says. "It's kind of his passion."
Boy saves sister with CPR
That passion has made Tristan an inquisitive little boy. He was watching a movie -- the war film "Black Hawk Down" -- and he took notice when a character performed CPR on a victim.
" 'Hey dad, how's that actually keeping him alive? He's dying,' " Saghin recalls his son asking.
Chris and Kim seized the opportunity and taught Tristan CPR on a full-size Halloween skeleton they had in the house.
"You don't expect that to ever come to a place where it saves your daughter," Saghin says. "He feels proud that he did it, and we tell him, 'We're real proud of you.' "
'Almost all children will be a hero'
Most children can be taught to handle an emergency. The first step is to teach them how to dial 911. You can unplug a landline and teach even a 3-year-old to dial the numbers.
Kids can be taught to be mini-EMTs while waiting for help to arrive.
"Any child can be taught to call 911, but every child can be taught to do more in an emergency," says Dr. David Markenson, a pediatrician in New York, who advises the American Red Cross on child safety and first aid.
A 4-year-old can learn to treat cuts and scrapes. An 8-year-old can be taught to help a person who is choking, and studies show they're also smart enough to use automated external defibrillators when trained. Studies show a 9-year-old can learn and apply CPR. An 11-year-old can learn how to tend to bee stings, allergic reactions and burns. A 15-year-old can become a certified swimming lifeguard.
Children are different: Some will want to spring into action in an emergency, while others will freeze up.
"There are kids who always feel like they're the in-charge kids," Markenson says. "The key is giving them the skills to use that desire to be in charge."
Fear may paralyze kids who aren't so take-charge, so parents and teachers need to help them work past that emotion.
"You have to tell them that it's OK to feel that way," says Markenson, who suggests parents tell their children, "When you go to help someone you might be nervous. It might be you see things you haven't seen before. What you have to remember is you're helping someone."
Child safety experts advise telling kids to count to five, or to close their eyes and take a breath. The idea is to break their contact with the emergency for a second, until they can refocus.
"Almost all children will be a hero if the parents have told them this is the right thing to do," says Markenson. "Even the quiet, shy kid can really shine in an emergency."
Here are five emergency situations where you can teach your child to be a hero and save a life.
Emergency No. 1: Choking
Grade-school kids are old enough to assist a choking victim. Kids can lean the person forward and then slap him or her on the back. The American Red Cross recommends a series of five blows to the back, followed by five "abdominal thrusts" -- teach your child to make a fist, put the thumb-side of that fist just above the person's belly button, then push. They can grab their fist with their other hand for more power.
Emergency No. 2: Bleeding
Blood can be a ghastly sight for children, especially if there is a lot of it. You can prepare your child for such an encounter by starting with something mild, turning a nosebleed into a teachable moment.
"The approach to a nosebleed is the same approach to all bleeding, which is direct pressure," Markenson says.
Have your child push on his nose to stop bleeding. After the drama lets up, tell them they can help someone else who is bleeding in the same way, by pushing on the part of that person's body that is bleeding.
Emergency No. 3: Fire
If someone catches fire, your child can yell and remind that victim to stop, drop and roll.
"The motion of rolling will smother the fire," says Lorraine Carli, vice president of the National Fire Protection Association.
The association and the Home Safety Council don't recommend teaching children how to use fire extinguishers, because fire extinguishers may be difficult to operate and kids may lose valuable time getting to safety.
"If a kid knew how to use it and could use it, there wouldn't be harm," Carli adds.
Emergency No. 4: Drowning
Do the experts suggest a child toss a floatie or pole out to a drowning person? Or should they do absolutely nothing?
In most emergencies you want your child to jump in and help -- but not this one -- not when a person is in trouble in the water.
"You don't want a kid going out there," says Dr. Sara Ross, assistant medical director of Safe Sitter, a nonprofit that prepares teens for watching kids. "That has high potential to be a multivictim accident."
Panicky victims can drag their would-be rescuers underwater. While kids, especially those who are strong swimmers, may have that instinct to jump in, safety experts say there are better approaches.
"There are a lot of people who try things and it works out. It doesn't mean it's the best thing to try," Markenson says. "In most cases there's something you can throw to them to keep them afloat."
Older teens can learn when to enter the water as a trained lifeguard. The American Lifeguard Association and American Red Cross Lifeguarding have information on how teens 15 or older can become a lifeguard.
Emergency No. 5: A person isn't breathing
When Brooke Saghin wasn't breathing, her 9-year-old brother Tristan pumped his sister's heart while the family waited for rescue workers to arrive.
You can teach your child CPR in three easy steps. First, instruct him to put the heel of his hand on the victim's breastbone in the center of the chest. Second, put the other hand on top and interlock the fingers. Third, press straight down into the chest 100 times in one minute.
Don't worry about mouth-to-mouth breaths. For bystanders -- like Tristan or your little hero -- experts recommend a new version of CPR that requires using only hands.
"The single skill you have to teach is push in the middle of the chest -- hard and fast," Markenson says. "Children as young as 3, 4 and 5 can be taught how to do that. Will they do it perfectly? No. Could they help someone? Yes."
The American Heart Association can help you find a CPR class in your area. It also has a how-to CPR video. There's no minimum age, although kids around 9 and older are stronger and better able to do chest compressions.
The Empowered Patient is also a big believer in this tip: Along with teaching your children holiday carols and the national anthem, you can introduce them to a throwback -- the Bee Gees' song, "Stayin' Alive." Teach them to deliver chest compressions to the beat of the song. It has the same rhythm as life-saving CPR. The Empowered Patient website has more information on the technique.
You can also teach your child how to use an automated external defibrillator. A defibrillator shocks the heart to beat in a normal rhythm. Studies show even a third-grader can use a defibrillator if he or she is taught how to peel off the backing on the chest pads.
"Grade-school kids can actually use that device because it's so self-explanatory," Ross says.
Tristan's father is grateful they took the time to teach their son to save a life.
"He got her breathing. She would have had brain damage or worse," Saghin says. "We're so blessed."
Elizabeth Cohen, Senior Medical Correspondent, and Sabriya Rice, CNN Medical Producer, contributed to this article
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By Stephen Gutowski | March 1, 2013 | 3:59 PM EST
California's Democrat governor Jerry Brown apparently won't go on "The O'Reilly Factor" so host Bill O'Reilly sent Jesse Watters to the gold coast to figure out why. Since Jerry Brown won't tell O'Reilly why, Watters asked the people, instead. The results are, predictably, hilarious.
Heck, not everybody even knew who their governor even is.
The jokes are pretty funny and the people are definitely unique, but the problems certainly aren't surprising. When you tax and spend at levels greater than any other state in the nation, you're going to have a bad time.
So, maybe, it's better that people don't know who you are.
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Clean Viusal Studio workspaces by deleting folders such as Release, Debug etc. and intermediate files.
Important notice
Folder options take precedence over File deletion options. If you check "Clean Release folders", all files and subfolders (including .exe, .dll, .lib, .ocx) in all Release folders will be erased even if you uncheck "Output files (.exe .dll .lib .ocx)" in the File deletion options.
After writing dozens of projects (editing source codes, compiling, linking, debugging, etc.) in Visual Studio, I found the source directory (D:\Cpp) taking so much space. This is annoying since my laptop has very limited capacity. So, the question is:
How do we clean our workspaces?
For a small number of workspaces, we could manually delete the intermediate files (which file is an intermediate file is described below) generated by Visual Studio. For tens (or even hundreds) of workspaces, we need to manage it in a nicer fashion. This is my motivation for creating this project.
The project is a MFC dialog-based application, which I think every buddy in CodeProject could benefit from it. It utilizes a few controls, such as button, ListBox, checkbox, a couple of Visual C++ directory and/or file related functions, such as RemoveDirectory and DeleteFile, and a class called CFileFind.
Intermediate file types
Normally, we do not need the Release and Debug folders and all the files included after our projects compile successfully. Same thing for the intermediate files, which are described below. Most of the information presented here was excerpted from Microsoft's web site, which could be visited here.
Intermediate files generated by the debugger:
File extension Source Contents
.pch Debug Precompiled header file.
.pdb Debug The program debug database file.
Intermediate files generated by the compiler:
File extension Source Contents
.bsc Compiling The browser code file.
.idb Compiling The state file, containing dependency information between source files and class definitions.
.sbr Compiling Source browser intermediate file. The input file for BSCMAKE.
Intermediate files generated by the linker:
File extension Source Contents
.ilk Linking Incremental link file. See /INCREMENTAL for more information.
.map Linking A text file containing linker information. Use the /Fm compiler option to name the map file. See /MAP for more information.
Intermediate files generated by Visual Studio:
File extension Source Contents
.aps Resource Binary version of the current resource script file; used for quick loading.
.ncb Solution This file is a binary file used by ClassView and is specific to the local machine.
.o Object files, compiled but not linked.
.obj Object files, compiled but not linked.
.opt This is a binary file that is the workspace options file for the local computer.
.plg build log file. It is an HTML file which you can view in i.e. or other browsers.
Output files (most often they are our products):
File extension Source Contents
.exe Output your product.
.dll Output your DLL product.
.lib Output the library file which stores information about your .dll file.
.ocx Output our ActiveX controls.
Other files:
File extension Source Contents
.scc Other source safe file (contribution from Indivara in this forum.)
Note: *I understand it is a tough task to make this list 100% complete. Thus, I am expecting your contributions, just the way you contributed to codeproject.
Handling the folders
In general, the Release and Debug folders are there. What we do is the following:
// Pseudo code:
// First, we delete all the files in the folder
// then we remove the empty folder
The reason is that the function:
can only remove empty directories. Occasionally, we may have subfolders under Release or Debug. Let us assume we have the following directory structure:
|--- HelloWorld
|--- Release
|--- Precious Data Folder 1 (may well contain the
user's valuable data)
|--- Precious Data Folder 2
|--- Debug
|--- HelloWorld.dsw
Then we are forced to delete all the files in folders Precious Data Folder 1 and Precious Data Folder 2 first, then remove these two directories, and finally, we can handle the Release folder itself. Hence we have to solve the problem recursively. The code snippet below demonstrates how to use CFileFind class to do the job --- and you may need some time to digest it if you are really a beginner.
void CCleanWorkspaceDlg::RecursiveDelete(CString szPath)
CFileFind ff;
CString path = szPath;
if(path.Right(1) != "\\")
path += "\\";
path += "*.*";
BOOL bResult = ff.FindFile(path);
bResult = ff.FindNextFile();
if(!ff.IsDots() && !ff.IsDirectory()) // a file
CString str;
str.Format("Deleting file %s", ff.GetFilePath());
// delete the file
else if(ff.IsDots()) // . and/or ..
else if(ff.IsDirectory()) // a dir and we go recursive
path = ff.GetFilePath();
ff.Close(); // don't forget to close it
Warning: After you press the clean button, all files and folders in the Release and/or Debug folders, with Precious Data Folder 1 and Precious Data Folder 2 included, are permanently gone.
As a programmer or a would-be one, you won't put any data into the Release and/or Debug folders manually, so there is no risk for you. However, there exists a chance when the user may have some value data in there. Consequently, you may think of rewriting/modifying the code and giving a warning after the button is pressed and before the actual deletion.
We have two choices about the empty folders: keep or remove them. If the end user checks the checkbox "Keep empty folders",
they will be kept; otherwise they are erased. There are some good reasons to keep them, though. For example, my DLL project has a post-build step (you can press Alt + F7 to access the project settings) which copies the .dll and .lib file to a test application's Release folder. In this case, I require my test application's Release folder to be there.
Handling the intermediate files
Now let us go back to handle intermediate files which reside in the workspace directory. By definition,
workspace directory := the directory where the files xxx.dsw and/or or xxx.dsp reside.
One thing first: we may have a workspace containing two or more projects, each residing in its own (sub)folder. If so, we have a bunch of .dsp files. But we always have one and only one .dsw file. In this case, workspace directory is the directory containing the .dsw file plus subdirectories each containing a .dsp file.
You may ask when the intermediate files are generated in the workspace directory. Good question! You may have many answers. But one answer reads like this: some old-fashioned guy like me, prefer to build simple projects using command line:
//classical hello, world program
cl HelloWorld.cpp
for a console application (I am almost sure you've known or heard of the classical hello, world program.); or
// classical skeleton SDK or Win32 program (like
// these in Petzold's "Programming Windows 95")
cl HellowWorldWin.cpp kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib
for a simple SDK application. The compiling and linking process described above will generate .obj and other intermediate files in the workspace directory. What is more, you may have manually copied outputs of your DLL project (.dll and .lib files) to the test application workspace directory.
The deletion of these files is an easy task, no need of recursive stuff. We just need to check the file extensions, see the code snippet below:
// delete intermediate files
if( str == ".aps" || str == ".ncb" || str == ".obj"
|| str == ".opt" || str == ".plg" ||
str.Right(2) == ".o" ) { // a bug pointed out by Blake V. Miller
if(m_bIntermediate) {
CString str;
str.Format("Deleting file %s",strFileName);
It might be good to give the end user some info about what files are being deleted. We can do this by updating the ListBox as below:
If the user clicks "Log to a file", the cleaning process, which indicates what files and/or folders have been deleted, is written to a file named "Cleaning Log.txt". The writing (or serialization, to keep up with the terminology in OOP) procedure utilized the CArchive class. It is a relatively easy job --- we just need to write the strings stored in the ListBox to a file. However, there is a subtlety here: the CArchive::WriteString function does not write carriage return (CR) and form feed (LF).
You may think of handling it by adding a new line as follows:
ar.WriteString(str + "\n")
But when you open the log file in Notepad, there are no new lines produced. It turns out that the following code snippet works.
ar.WriteString(str + "\r\n")
The escape "\r" stands for carriage return (in case you forgot what you've learned from your first C/C++ language course. Frankly, I did.)
In this article, we demonstrate how to delete intermediate folders and/or files generated by Visual Studio using
and the class
Hope this makes life a little bit easier for programmers and/or developers who read CodeProject.
• There is a chance that some (novice) users may have a lot of files in the Release and/or Debug folders. This program, however, will delete all the files in Release and/or Debug folders without asking your permission. It'd be better to understand what you are doing first. I am not responsible for any data loss since the program and the source code is provided as is, so use them at your own risk;
• When we have hundreds of workspaces to clean, the main program comes to a halt. Thus, we may need a work thread to do the nasty job and a UI thread to maintain the user interface. I have no plan for adding multi-thread support for this project. Simply put, the user could fire up the cleaning process when a cup of coffee or tea is to be consumed;
• We could log all the deleted files and/or folders in a file, although the ListBox does give some info;
• My project setting has a post-build step, which will copy the .exe file to the user's desktop:
copy Release\*.exe "%USERPRROFILE%\Desktop"
which works perfectly in Win XP, but may not work at all in Win9x.
Several CodeProjecters have pointed out bugs, improvement suggestions, and I am grateful to them:
• Blake V. Miller for a bug in the code, which has been corrected in the newly uploaded source code;
• Indivara for his .scc file extension;
• slim for his link to another similar (may well be better, I assumed) project;
• owillebo for his detailed description of a DOS script solution.
Update list
• July 1st, 2005
first public release and minor modifications following several viewers suggestion;
• July 2nd, 2005
added the option for logging the cleaning process, which tells the user what files and/or directories have been removed;
• July 6th, 2005
corrected the bug of the edit box by adding a EN_CHANGE handler and modified the article a little bit,
• July 7th, 2005
.idl is a source file/interface extension generated by MIDL. Removed the deletion of files of this type.
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An article on getting the size of all folders
I needed a program that could help me clean up my old PC. Therefore I wanted a program that could show the size of each folder. My first thought was that .NET 2.0 (C#) was the perfect solution for that job - and it was!
In a very short time and with very little code, I wrote a program that listed all folders from a selected folder (or a complete hard drive) with the size (and accumulated size) of each folder.
Using the Code
As I mentioned earlier, the code for this is really short. Especially with the .NET 2.0 version of GetDirectories which has an option for searching all subdirectories, this was a very easy job.
In the application, I have a region for the Form. This is only for improving the user interface (saving the form size and position on close and setting the gridview size when the form is resized).
I have also made the program run as a BackgroundWorker thread. This is also not necessary but it gives a better user experience, especially if the user wants to scan the complete hard drive. In this case, the BackgroundWorker thread keeps the program still responding while scanning and enables the user to cancel the operation.
The code that does the work is given below:
private DataTable m_dirs = new DataTable();
private Dictionary m_dirsSize = new Dictionary();
private bool LoopFolder(DirectoryInfo root)
if (this.backgroundWorker1.CancellationPending)
return false;
foreach (DirectoryInfo di in root.GetDirectories("*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
string fullname = di.FullName;
double size = GetFilesSize(di);
DataRow dr = m_dirs.NewRow();
dr["Name"] = fullname;
dr["Size"] = size;
m_dirsSize.Add(fullname, size);
// sum up the fullsize on all parents
DirectoryInfo parent = di.Parent;
while (parent != null && !this.backgroundWorker1.CancellationPending)
if (m_dirsSize.ContainsKey(parent.FullName))
m_dirsSize[parent.FullName] += size;
parent = parent.Parent;
return true;
The program loops all directories and adds them to a DataTable. When finished, the DataTable can then be bound to the gridview. The program uses a generic Dictionary to sum up the size of each parent. This could also have been summed up in the DataTable but it is must faster using a generic Dictionary.
When the loop is finished, the program runs through every DataRow in the DataTable to round the size and to insert the accumulated size in the DataTable:
foreach (DataRow dr in m_dirs.Rows)
dr["Size"] = Math.Round((double)dr["Size"], 2);
string fullname = (string)dr["Name"];
if (m_dirsSize.ContainsKey(fullname))
dr["Fullsize"] = Math.Round(m_dirsSize[fullname], 2);
One last thing that we usually also want to see is the size of each file in a folder.
This is done in the SelectionChanged event of the gridview:
if (grdDirectories.SelectedRows.Count == 1)
string directory = grdDirectories.SelectedRows[0].Cells[0].Value.ToString();
toolStripStatusLabel1.Text = directory;
DataTable tblFiles = new DataTable();
tblFiles.Columns.Add("Name", typeof(string));
tblFiles.Columns.Add("Size", typeof(double));
tblFiles.Columns.Add("LastAccessTime", typeof(DateTime));
tblFiles.Columns.Add("LastWriteTime", typeof(string));
tblFiles.Columns.Add("CreationTime", typeof(string));
tblFiles.Columns.Add("ReadOnly", typeof(bool)).ReadOnly = true;
tblFiles.Columns.Add("Ext", typeof(string));
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(directory);
foreach (FileInfo fi in di.GetFiles())
DataRow dr = tblFiles.NewRow();
dr["Name"] = fi.Name;
dr["LastAccessTime"] = fi.LastAccessTime;
dr["Size"] = Math.Round(fi.Length / 1024.0 / 1024.0, 2); // size in MB
dr["LastWriteTime"] = fi.LastWriteTime;
dr["ReadOnly"] = fi.IsReadOnly;
dr["CreationTime"] = fi.CreationTime;
dr["Ext"] = fi.Extension;
tblFiles.DefaultView.Sort = "Size desc";
grdFiles.DataSource = tblFiles;
You can actually bind the gridview directly to the FileInfo[] from GetFiles(). But to control which columns are shown, I use a DataTable. Using a DataTable also makes it possible to sort gridview.
Points of Interest
One thing that would be nice to add is the opportunity to delete a folder or file.
• 9th April, 2006: Initial post
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The team is in the jungles of the Amazon and the boardrooms of Dubai, where the Birds must make a deal with the Devil!
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A business meeting in Dubai that considers fracking is interrupted by Poison Ivy.
A week earlier, the Birds of Prey are running from the Perennial attacking them and killing Brett Leyden. The Perennial is a mixture of plant and human genes. Ivy explains to the others that she has a new suit that gives her new powers but also takes life from here, meaning she'll die in six months. She has lured the Birds to inject them with a similar toxin to force them help her fight people who harm the earth. If they help her for six months, she will cure them, if not, they'll die. If they die, a toxin will be released to help Earth to recover and make it greener again.
Back in Dubai, security threatens to kill Ivy but the Birds jump in and help her. When the company's boss wants them to arrest Ivy, Starling puts a gun to his head and shoots.
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Early Work
In 2001, Jason Aaron's eight page Wolverine story won a Marvel Comics talent contest, but it was not until 2006 that he produced The Other Side, a Vietnam War story published by Vertigo and illustrated by Cameron Stewart. The Other Side won the Eisner Award in 2007 for Best Limited Series.
Aaron quickly followed The Other Side with Scalped, an ongoing series also published through Vertigo. The series followed Native American organized crime in the fictional reservation of Prairie Rose. The story was partly inspired by the life of Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist who executed two FBI agents during a shootout on a reservation. Elements of this real-life incident were incorporated into one of the series' main characters, Chief Lincoln Red Crow.
Quickly, Aaron was picked up by Marvel Comics and signed to an exclusive contract that did not affect his continued work on Scalped. He wrote the Get Mystique! story arc for Wolverine and was then assigned as the new regular writer of the Ghost Rider ongoing series. He continued to write Ghost Rider until the series ended and wrapped up his run in the Ghost Riders: Heaven's on Fire limited series. Despite the cancellation due to low sales, his Ghost Rider run was well received by fans.
While writing Ghost Rider, Aaron also launched Wolverine: Weapon X as an ongoing series and secondary Wolverine title. This series ended after sixteen issues but only so Aaron could immediately launch the new Wolverine ongoing series, essentially continuing his work on the character. He also wrote PunisherMAX, creating versions of Kingpin and Bullseye unique to Punisher's MAX continuity, and Ultimate Captain America, debuting the Ultimate Universe version of Nuke.
Coming out of his success with Wolverine, Aaron became the writer of Schism, a major X-Men event revolving around in internal civil war among mutantkind between Cyclops and Wolverine.
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As children growing up in Australia, Baran Flinders and his sister Selinda received nothing but mockery as their unique abilities developed, she could transmute elements, while he exhibited terrifying strength. The world-renowned scientist Dr. Helga Jace taught them how to control their talents, whereupon they created the villainous identities of Mammoth and Shimmer and joined Doctor Light I, Gizmo, and Psimon as members of the Fearsome Five. Mammoth has clashed with the Teen Titans and Superman, both with the Fearsome Five and on his own. Devoted to his sister, Mammoth suffered deep psychological trauma when Psimon killed her. With the help of Doctor Sivana, however she was resurrected and the Fearsome Five reunited. Mammoth joined Alexander Luthor's Secret Society of Supervillains along with Psimon, Shimmer, and Jinx.
Mammoth is seen in multiple issues of Salvation Run on Team Joker, from getting in an argument with Ibac to punching Martian Manhunter in the face.
Mammoth has a run in with Bane, Scandal, Deadshot and Ragdoll when they broke into Alcatraz trying to free Tarantula. They battled with Mammoth with little success and ended up enraging him even more. Scandal finally puts him down by remotely piloting Black Manta's ship through the wall and ramming him.
Baran is immeasurably strong and is partially invulnerable. He appears quicker than his considerable bulk would imply but lacks any developed skills as a hand-to-hand combatant.
Baran's durability has been shown to fluctuate through the years, at one point Wonder Girl and Starfire could not physically harm Baran with some of their best attacks, and at other points he's been able to be physically harmed by Bane.
Also, Baran appears to be emotionally underdeveloped and has a very strong attachment to his sister. He can become uncontrollable if separated from Selinda.
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 300 lbs.
Hair: Red or dirty blond
Eyes: Blue, Green
In Other Media
Teen Titans
Mammoth in Teen Titans.
Mammoth appears in the Teen Titans series and is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson. He first appearance in "Final Exam" as one of the graduate student at the H.I.V.E. Academy along with Jinx and Gimzo employed by Deathstroke, to destroy the Teen Titans. The three criminals took over Titans Tower, but were ultimately defeated by the Titans. In "Deception" when Cyborg infiltrated the H.I.V.E. Academy as a villainous student named Stone, unknowingly, Gizmo, Mammoth and Jinx - the latter more intensely - befriended Cyborg, though this was broken up when Cyborg's true identity was revealed . Gizmo, Jinx, Mammoth and other Hive Academy students, later formed the group known as the H.I.V.E. Five in "Mother Mae-Eye". The team fight against the Titans, who was under the influence of Mother Mae-Eye and they came close to defeating the Titans but were driven off by Mother Mae-Eye. Later the Titans returned the favor by sending them Mother Mae-Eye's cursed pie, which possessed them.
Mammoth with the rest H.I.V.E. Five.
Mammoth and his former co-students were recruited by the Brotherhood of Evil in "Homecoming Part II". In "Lightspeed" H.I.V.E. Five robbed a museum containing Egyptian artifacts, but were foiled by the young superhero Kid Flash. However, the team later succeed in capturing him. When they tried to present Kid Flash to Madame Rouge, Kid Flash escaped and the entire team ended up humiliated and scolded by Rouge. Madame Rouge went after Kid Flash herself, with Jinx also taking up pursuit. The other H.I.V.E Five members were afraid of Madame Rouge, so they decided not to take part in the mission. In "Calling All Titans" he is ordered by the Brotherhood of Evil to take out Cyborg. Instead, he knocks Cyborg into an abyss, only for Cyborg to later reemerge inside the Brotherhood's secret hideout with Kole and Gnarrk. In "Titans Together" where five Titans encounter him and three other villains hurry to watch Robin being flash-frozen. Jericho, in the body of Cinderblock, released Pantha, Más, Beast Boy and Herald. Mammoth's face is burned by Pantha's claw. During the final battle he and his H.I.V.E. Five mates were knocked unconscious by a hex from the reformed Jinx while trying to escape, and Kid Flash placed them in the Brotherhood of Evil's freezing machine, taking them out for the rest of the battle.
Young Justice
Mammoth in Young Justice.
Mammoth appears in Young Justice TV series, voiced by an uncredited Dee Bradley Baker. In "Drop Zone", he and Shimmer are working for the Cult of the Kobra , but not appearing to have any sort of special powers without a altered version of the Venom serum (which is a combination of the Venom serum and Blockbuster formula). Though he is shown to be powerful enough to easily trounce Bane and Superboy in combat, he is ultimately defeated after being electrocuted into unconsciousness by Aqualad . Mammoth reappears in issue #16 of the tie-in comic where he kidnaps an astronomer. He is pursued by Batman and Robin, but manages to escape. He later appears in the episode "Terrors" where he is shown as an inmate at Belle Reve. He acted as a bodyguard for Icicle Sr. and other high ranking prisoners. He assists in a breakout attempt orchestrated by Mr. Freeze, but is defeated by the combined efforts of Superboy and Icicle Jr., and is last shown frozen to a wall. He also appears in the episode "Usual Suspects", where he ambushes the team with his sister, Riddler, and Cheshire. He is beaten into submission by Superboy using his full Kryptonian powers.
Teen Titans Go!
Mammoth appears in Teen Titans Go! as a recurring villain and member of the H.I.V.E. Five. He is also on a doge ball team and apparently weighs 1000 pounds. Mammoth is also shown to be Robin's rival because he is the biggest and strongest.
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Fleetwood Mac's current tour is significant. It's the first time in 16 years that Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie and Stevie Nicks are performing together regularly, and so far they appear to be having fun. The time was right for a FMac re-infusion; singer-songwriters and indie rock bands have been mining their sound for a decade or more. And while songs like "Rhiannon" and "Go Your Own Way" never really disappeared from rotation on FM stations, some of the slightly deeper stuff — the 1979 "Tusk" album, for example, or its 1982 follow-up "Mirage" — is worth hauling out of cold-storage. Fleetwood...
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README for Win32::LongPath PREREQUISITES ============= This module was developed for the Windows environment. It was tested in WinXP and Win7 (64-bit) but should work in anything from WinXP to Win8. It was not designed for non-native environments (i.e. Cygwin) and probably would not work there. It was developed in ActivePerl 5.16 but should work with Perl 5.8.0 or later. Install a C compiler. It has been successfully compiled using MinGW 4.6.2, MinGW64 4.5.4 or Visual C++ 2010 Express. Please note the following: 1. It is best to use the same compiler that was used to compile Perl itself. 2. MinGW 3.4.5 created a DLL that did not work in the WinXP environment. 3. MinGW 4.6.2 required the following change to the Makefile. OTHERLDFLAGS = -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ INSTALLATION ============ Make the source code directory the current directory and type the following commands to create the module, test it and install it. NOTE: Use dmake instead of nmake if you are using MinGW. perl Makefile.PL nmake nmake test nmake install The test code will do the following: 1. Create a very long path in the source directory that includes Unicode names. If the path already exists a warning will be displayed. 2. Create a Unicode file in that directory. 3. Copy and rename the file. 4. If the file system, operating system and user privileges support it, it will create a hard link, relative symbolic link to a directory, and a fullpath symbolic link to a file. A diagnostic message will be printed if these conditions are not met. NOTE: Symbolic links require Administrator privileges. 5. Change the read, hidden, system and FANCI attributes of file. A diagnostic message will be displayed if the FANCI attribute is not supported and it will not test this feature. 6. The file access and modification times will be changed to 24 hours earlier and will be tested for that time. Since some file systems do not have 1-second resolution (i.e. FAT) a diagnostic warning will be displayed if the access time is not the same and less than a day or the modification time is not the same and is less than 2 seconds. 7. The contents of the directory will be examined using the opendirL function. 8. The files and created path will be removed. NOTE: If the process fails it may leave the long path and files behind. Most likely Windows Explorer will not be able to remove it due to its length.
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ACL2 Version 3.5 (May, 2009) Notes
Major Section: RELEASE-NOTES
Below we roughly organize the changes since Version 3.4 into the following categories: changes to existing features, new features, heuristic improvements, bug fixes, new and updated books, Emacs support, and experimental hons version. Each change is described in just one category, though of course many changes could be placed in more than one category.
Many improvements have been made to ACL2's ``evisceration'' mechanism for hiding substructures of objects before they are printed, and to related documentation:
o A new documentation topic explains evisc-tuples. See evisc-tuple.
o A new interface, set-evisc-tuple, has been provided for setting the four global evisc-tuples. See set-evisc-tuple.
o A new mode, ``iprinting'', allows eviscerated output to be read back in. See set-iprint.
o Function default-evisc-tuple has been deprecated and will probably be eliminated in future releases; use abbrev-evisc-tuple instead. Also eliminated is the brr-term-evisc-tuple (also the user-brr-term-evisc-tuple). The term-evisc-tuple controls printing formerly controlled by the brr-term-evisc-tuple or user-brr-term-evisc-tuple.
o ACL2 output is done in a more consistent manner, respecting the intention of those four global evisc-tuples. In particular, more proof output is sensitive to the term-evisc-tuple. Again, see set-evisc-tuple.
o A special value, :DEFAULT, may be provided to set-evisc-tuple in order to restore these evisc-tuples to their original settings.
o (Details for heavy users of the evisc-tuple mechanism) (1) There are no longer state globals named user-term-evisc-tuple or user-default-evisc-tuple. (2) Because of the above-mentioned :DEFAULT, if you have referenced state globals directly, you should use accessors instead, for example (abbrev-evisc-tuple state) instead of (@ abbrev-evisc-tuple). (3) For uniformity, set-trace-evisc-tuple now takes a second argument, state.
Improved break-on-error in several ways. First, it breaks earlier in a more appropriate place. Thanks to Dave Greve for highlighting this problem with the existing implementation. Also, break-on-error now breaks on hard errors, not only soft errors (see er, options hard and hard?). Thanks to Warren Hunt and Anna Slobodova for sending an example that showed a flaw in an initial improvement. Finally, new options cause printing of the call stack for some host Common Lisps. See break-on-error. Thanks to Bob Boyer for requesting this feature.
Trace! may now be used in raw Lisp (though please note that all soundness claims are off any time you evaluate forms in raw Lisp!). Thanks to Bob Boyer for feedback that led to this enhancement.
ACL2 now searches for file acl2-customization.lsp in addition to (and just before) its existing search for acl2-customization.lisp; See acl2-customization. Thanks to Jared Davis for suggesting this change, which supports the methodology that files with a .lisp extension are certifiable books (thus avoiding the need to set the BOOKS variable in makefiles; see book-makefiles).
Improved the error message for illegal declare forms of the form (type (satisfies ...)). Thanks to Dave Greve for sending an example highlighting the issue.
If trace output is going to a file (because open-trace-file has been executed), then a note will be printed to that effect at the time that a call of trace$ or trace! is applied to one or more trace specs.
The notion of redundancy (see redundant-events) has been made more restrictive for mutual-recursion events. Now, if either the old or new event is a mutual-recursion event, then redundancy requires that both are mutual-recursion events that define the same set of function symbols. Although we are not aware of any soundness bugs fixed by this modification, nevertheless we believe that it reduces the risk of soundness bugs in the future.
The definition of trace* has been moved to a book, misc/trace1.lisp. A new version, used in ACL2s, is in book misc/trace-star.lisp. Trace utilities trace$ and trace! are still built into ACL2. [Note: File misc/trace1.lisp was deleted after Version 4.2.]
Certain certificate files will now be much smaller, by printing in a way that takes advantage of structure sharing. Certifying the following example produces a .cert file of over 3M before this change, but less than 1K after the change.
(defun nest (i)
;; Makes an exponentially-sized nest of conses i deep.
(if (zp i)
(let ((next (nest (1- i))))
(cons next next))))
`(defconst *big* ',(nest 20)))
Thanks to Sol Swords for providing the above example and to him as well as to Bob Boyer, Jared Davis, and Warren Hunt for encouraging development of this improvement. We have also applied this improvement to the printing of function definitions to files on behalf of certify-book and comp.
Names of symbols are now printed with vertical bars according to the Common Lisp spec. Formerly, if the first character of a symbol name could be the first character of the print representation of a number, then the symbol was printed using vertical bars (|..|) around its name. Now, a much more restrictive test for ``potential numbers'' is used, which can result in fewer such vertical bars. Base 16 is now carefully considered as well; see set-print-base. Thanks to Bob Boyer for requesting this improvement. Note that macros set-acl2-print-base and set-acl2-print-case have been replaced by functions; see set-print-base and see set-print-case.
The ACL2 reader now supports `#.' syntax in place of the `#, syntax formerly supported. Thanks to Bob Boyer for requesting this change. See sharp-dot-reader. NOTE that because of this change, `#.' no longer causes an abort; instead please use (a!) or optionally, if in the ACL2 loop, :a!; see a!.
Some small changes have been made related to gag-mode:
o Gag-mode now suppresses some messages that were being printed upon encountering disjunctive splits from :OR hints. Thanks to Sol Swords for suggesting this improvement.
o ACL2 had printed ``Q.E.D.'' with all output suppressed and gag-mode enabled. Now, ``Q.E.D.'' will be suppressed when PROVE and SUMMARY output are suppressed, even if gag-mode is enabled.
o The use of set-gag-mode had drastic effects on the inhibited output (see set-inhibit-output-lst), basically inhibiting nearly all output (even most warnings) when turning on gag-mode and enabling all output except proof-tree output when turning off gag-mode. Now, set-gag-mode only inhibits or enables proof (PROVE) output, according to whether gag-mode is being turned on or off (respectively). The related utility set-saved-output has also been modified, basically to eliminate :all as a first argument and to allow t and :all as second arguments, for inhibiting prover output or virtually all output, respectively (see set-saved-output).
A defstub event signature specifying output of the form (mv ...) now introduces a :type-prescription rule asserting that the new function returns a true-listp result. Thanks to Bob Boyer for sending the following example, which motivated this change.
(defstub census (*) => (mv * *))
(defn foo (x)
(mv-let (a1 a2)
(census x)
(list a1 a2)))
Improved the efficiency of string-append so that in raw Lisp, it calls concatenate. Thanks to Jared Davis for suggesting this change, including the use of mbe. A minor change was made to the definition of concatenate to support this change, and the lemma append-to-nil was added (see below).
The checksum algorithm used for certificate files of books has been changed. Thanks to Jared Davis for contributing the new code. This change will likely not be noticed unless one is using the experimental hons version of ACL2, where it can greatly speed up book certification and inclusion because of function memoization (of source function fchecksum-obj).
Fewer calls are made to the checksum algorithm on behalf of certify-book and a few other operations. Thanks to Jared Davis for providing data that helped lead us to these changes.
Formatted printing directives ~p, ~q, ~P, and ~Q are deprecated, though still supported. See fmt. Instead, please use ~x, ~y, ~X, and ~Y (respectively). As a by-product, rule names in proof output are no longer hyphenated.
A new keyword, :multiplicity, is available for tracing raw Lisp functions using the ACL2 trace utility. See trace$.
Users may now control whether or not a slow array access results in a warning printed to the screen (which is the default, as before), and if so, whether or not the warning is followed by a break. See slow-array-warning.
On linux-like systems (including Mac OS X and SunOS), :comp will now write its temporary files into the "/tmp" directory, which is the value of state global 'tmp-dir. You can change that directory with (assign tmp-dir "<your_temp_directory_path>").
The messages printed for uncertified books have been enhanced. Thanks to Jared Davis for requesting such an improvement.
A function definition that would be redundant if in :logic mode is now considered redundant even if it (the new definition) is in :program mode. That is, if a definition is ``downgraded'' from :logic to :program mode, the latter (:program mode) definition is considered redundant. Previously, such redundancy was disallowed, but we have relaxed that restriction because of a scenario brought to our attention by Jared Davis: include a book with the :logic mode definition, and then include a book with the :program mode definition followed by verify-termination. Thanks, Jared.
The ACL2 reader no longer accepts characters other than those recognized by standard-char-p except for #\Tab, #\Page, and #\Rubout (though it still accepts strings containing such characters). As a result, no make-event expansion is allowed to contain any such unacceptable character or string. Thanks to Sol Swords for sending an example that led us to make this restriction. A simple example is the following book:
(in-package "ACL2")
(defconst *my-null* (code-char 0))
(make-event `(defconst *new-null* ,*my-null*))
For this book, a call of certify-book formerly broke during the compilation phase, but if there was no compilation, then a call of include-book broke. Now, the error occurs upon evaluation of the make-event form.
ACL2 now collects up guards from declare forms more as a user might expect, without introducing an unexpected ordering of conjuncts. We thank Jared Davis for sending us the following illustrative example, explained below.
(defun f (x n)
(declare (xargs :guard (and (stringp x)
(natp n)
(= (length x) n)))
(type string x)
(ignore x n))
Formerly, a guard was generated for this example by unioning the conjuncts from the :guard onto a list containing the term (string x) generated from the type declaration, resulting in an effective guard of:
(and (natp n)
(= (length x) n)
(stringp x))
The guard of this guard failed to be verified because (stringp x)) now comes after the call (length x). With the fix, contributions to the guards are collected up in the order in which they appear. So in the above example, the effective guard is the specified :guard; the contribution (stringp x) comes later, and is thus dropped since it is redundant. NOTE by the way that if :guard and :stobjs are specified in the same xargs form, then for purposes of collecting up the effective guard as described above, :stobjs will be treated as through it comes before the :guard.
Modified close-output-channel to try to do a better job flushing buffers. Thanks to Bob Boyer for helpful correspondence.
The notion of ``subversive recursion'' has been modified so that some functions are no longer marked as subversive. See subversive-recursions, in particular the discussion elaborating on the notion of ``involved in the termination argument'' at the end of that documentation topic.
Formerly, :type-prescription rules for new definitions inside encapsulate forms were sometimes added as constraints. This is no longer the case. See also discussion of the ``soundness bug in the forming of constraints'', which is related.
It is now possible to affect ACL2's termination analysis (and resulting induction analysis). Thanks to Peter Dillinger for requesting this feature. The default behavior is essentially unchanged. But for example, the following definition is accepted by ACL2 because of the use of the new :ruler-extenders features; See ruler-extenders.
(defun f (x)
(declare (xargs :ruler-extenders :all))
(cons 3
(if (consp x)
(f (cdr x))
The following lemma was added in support of the improvement to string-append described above:
(defthm append-to-nil
(implies (true-listp x)
(equal (append x nil)
A mechanism has been provided for users to contribute documentation. See managing-acl2-packages for an example, which contains a link to an external web page on effective use of ACL2 packages, kindly provided by Jared Davis. ACL2 documentation strings may now link to external web pages using the new symbol, ~url; see markup. Of course, those links appear in the web version of the documentation, but you made need to take a bit of action in order for these to appear as links in the Emacs Info version; see documentation.
Added intersectp (similar to intersectp-eq and intersectp-equal).
The user now has more control over how ACL2 prints forms; See print-control. Thanks to Bob Boyer for useful discussions leading to this enhancement.
Some Common Lisp implementations only allow the syntax pkg-name::expression when expression is a symbol. The ACL2 reader has been modified to support a package prefix for arbitrary expressions; see sharp-bang-reader. Thanks to Hanbing Liu for a query that led to this feature and to Pascal J. Bourguignon for suggesting an implmentation.
Ill-formed documentation strings need not cause an error. See set-ignore-doc-string-error. Thanks to Bob Boyer for requesting this feature.
Type declarations are now permitted in let* forms; see let*, see declare, and see type-spec.
(For Lisp programmers) Macro with-live-state has been provided for programmers who refer to free variable STATE, for example with macros that generate uses of STATE, and want to avoid compiler warnings when evaluating in raw Lisp. For example, the following form can be submitted either inside or outside the ACL2 loop to get the desired effect (see doc-string): (with-live-state (f-put-global 'doc-prefix " " state)). For another example use of this macro, see the definition of trace$ (ACL2 source file other-events.lisp).
(System hackers only) Added :redef- to undo the effect of :redef+. See redef-.
Function random$ is a built-in random number generator. See random$. Thanks to Sol Swords for requesting this feature and providing an initial implementation.
Sped up guard generation for some functions with large if-then-else structures in their bodies. Thanks to Sol Swords for sending an illustrative example.
Sped up guard generation in some cases by evaluating ground (variable-free) subexpressions. Thanks to Bob Boyer for sending a motivating example: (defn foo (x) (case x ((1 2) 1) ((3 4) 3) ... ((999 1000) 999))).
Modified slightly a heuristic association of ``size'' with constants, which can result in significant speed-ups in proofs involving constants that are very large cons trees.
Added a restriction in the linear arithmetic procedure for deleting polynomial inequalities from the linear database. Formerly, an inequality could be deleted if it was implied by another inequality. Now, such deletion requires that certain heuristic ``parent tree'' information is at least as restrictive for the weaker inequality as for the stronger. Thanks to Dave Greve for bringing a relevant example to our attention and working with us to figure out some surprising behavior, and to Robert Krug for making a key observation leading to the fix.
(GCL especially) Improved compiled code slightly by communicating to raw Lisp the output type when a function body is of the form (the character ...). This tiny improvement will probably only be observed in GCL, if at all.
Applied a correction suggested by Robert Krug to the variant of term-order used in parts of ACL2's arithmetic reasoning.
Fixed bugs in the handling of flet expressions, one of which had the capability of rendering ACL2 unsound. Thanks to Sol Swords for pointing out two issues and sending examples. One example illustrated how ACL2 was in essence throwing away outer flet bindings when processing an inner flet. We have exploited that example to prove a contradiction, as follows: this book was certifiable before this fix.
(in-package "ACL2")
(defun a (x)
(list 'c x))
; Example from Sol Swords, which failed to be admitted (claiming that
; function A is undefined) without the above definition of A.
(defun foo1 (x y)
(flet ((a (x) (list 'a x)))
(flet ((b (y) (list 'b y)))
(b (a (list x y))))))
(defthm not-true
(equal (foo1 3 4)
'(b (c (3 4))))
:hints (("Goal"
(disable (:executable-counterpart foo1))))
:rule-classes nil)
(defthm contradiction
:hints (("Goal" :use not-true))
:rule-classes nil)
Sol's second example, below, pointed to a second bug related to computing output signatures in the presence of nested flet expressions, which we have also fixed: this form failed before the fix.
:trans (flet ((foo (a) (list (flet ((bar (b) b)) a)))) x)
Fixed a subtle soundness bug in the forming of constraints from deduced type prescriptions. As a result, when ACL2 prints a warning message labeling encapsulated functions as ``subversive'', ACL2 will no longer deduce :type-prescription rules for those functions. Examples that exploit the bug in ACL2 Version_3.4 may be found in comments in ACL2 source function convert-type-set-to-term (file other-processes.lisp) and especially in function putprop-type-prescription-lst (file defuns.lisp). For more on the general issue of ``subversive recursions,'' see subversive-recursions.)
Fixed a soundness bug in the handling of inequalities by the type-set mechanism, which was using the inequality database inside the body of a lambda.
Fixed a long-standing soundness bug in compress1 and compress2, whose raw Lisp code gave the logically incorrect result in the case of a single entry other than the header, where that entry mapped an index to the default value. Also fixed soundness bugs in compress1, in the case of :order >, where the raw Lisp code could drop the header from the result or, when the input alist had entries in ascending order, fail to return an alist in descending order. For example, the following book certified successfully.
(in-package "ACL2")
(defthm true-formula-1
(equal (compress1 'a '((:HEADER :DIMENSIONS (4) :MAXIMUM-LENGTH 5
:DEFAULT 1 :NAME A :ORDER <)
(1 . 1)))
:DEFAULT 1 :NAME A :ORDER <)))
:hints (("Goal" :in-theory (disable (compress1))))
:rule-classes nil)
(defthm ouch-1
:hints (("Goal" :use true-formula-1))
:rule-classes nil)
(defthm true-formula-2
:DEFAULT NIL :NAME A :ORDER >)
(1 . 1)
(2 . 2)))
:DEFAULT NIL :NAME A :ORDER >)
(2 . 2)
(1 . 1)))
:rule-classes nil)
(defthm ouch-2
:hints (("Goal" :use true-formula-2))
:rule-classes nil)
(defthm true-formula-3
(equal (compress1 'a '((:HEADER :DIMENSIONS (3) :MAXIMUM-LENGTH 4
:NAME A :ORDER >)
(1 . B)
(0 . A)))
:NAME A :ORDER >)
(1 . B)
(0 . A)))
:rule-classes nil)
(defthm ouch-3
:hints (("Goal" :use true-formula-3))
:rule-classes nil)
Fixed a soundness bug involving measured subsets and verify-termination, by changing verify-termination so that it uses make-event. See verify-termination, in particular the discussion about make-event near the end of that documentation topic. Peter Dillinger first raised the idea to us of making such a change; when we found this soundness bug, we were certainly happy to do so!
Fixed a bug that could cause a hard Lisp error but not, apparently, unsoundness. The bug was in the lack of attention to the order of guard and type declarations when checking for redundancy. In the following example, the second definition was redundant during the first pass of the encapsulate form. The second definition, however, was stored on the second pass with a guard of (and (consp (car x)) (consp x)), which caused a hard Lisp error when evaluating (foo 3) due to a misguided attempt to evaluate (car 3) in raw Lisp. The fix is to restrict redundancy of definitions so that the guard and type declarations must be in the same order for the two definitions.
(local (defun foo (x)
(declare (xargs :guard (consp x)))
(declare (xargs :guard (consp (car x))))
(defun foo (x)
(declare (xargs :guard (consp x)))
; Now we get a hard Lisp error from evaluation of the guard of foo:
(foo 3)
Fixed a bug in the guard violation report for function intern-in-package-of-symbol. Thanks to Dave Greve for bringing this bug to our attention.
Made a change to allow certain hints, in particular certain :clause-processor hints, that had previously caused errors during termination proofs by viewing the function being defined as not yet existing. Thanks to Sol Swords for bringing this issue to our attention with a nice example.
ACL2 now properly handles interrupts (via control-c) issued during printing of the checkpoint summary. Previously it was possible on some platforms to make ACL2 hang when interrupting both during a proof and during the ensuing printing of the checkpoint summary. Thanks to Jared Davis and Sol Swords for bringing this problem to our attention.
Fixed a bug that was preventing, inside some book "b", the use of a :dir argument to include-book that refers to a directory defined using add-include-book-dir earlier in the book "b". (We found this ourselves, but we thank John Cowles for observing it independently and sending us a nice example.)
(GCL and CCL only) Fixed a bug in certain under-the-hood type inferencing. Thanks to Sol Swords for sending an example using stobjs defined with the :inline keyword, along with a helpful backtrace in CCL, and to Gary Byers for his debugging help.
Fixed a bug in print-gv, which was mishandling calls of functions with more than one argument.
Fixed a bug in the handling of AND and OR terms by the proof-checker command DV, including numeric (``diving'') commands. Thanks for Mark Reitblatt for bringing this problems to our attention with a helpful example.
Fixed printing of goal names resulting from the application of :OR hints so that they aren't ugly when working in other than the "ACL2" package. Thanks to Sol Swords for bringing this issue to our attention.
Fixed proof-tree printing so that interrupts will not cause problems with hiding ordinary output because of incomplete proof-tree output. Thanks to Peter Dillinger for pointing out this issue.
Fixed a hard error that could be caused by mishandling a forced hypothesis during forward-chaining. Thanks to Peter Dillinger for bringing this bug to our attention by sending a useful example.
Fixed a bug that could cause simplifications to fail because of alleged ``specious simplification.'' This bug could appear when deriving an equality from the linear arithmetic database, and then attempting to add this equality to the current goal's hypotheses when it was already present. Thanks to Eric Smith for sending a helpful example (in July 2005!) that helped us debug this issue.
Fixed a bug in processing of :type-set-inverter rules.
Fixed a bug that was causing an error, at least for an underlying Lisp of CCL (OpenMCL), when ec-call was applied to a term returning multiple values. Thanks to Sol Swords for sending an example that brought this bug to our attention.
Fixed handling of array orders to treat keyword value :order :none correctly from an array's header. Previously, there were two problems. One problem was that :order :none was treated like the default for :order, <, while :order nil was treated in the manner specified by :order :none (see arrays). Now, both :order :none and :order nil are treated as :order nil had been treated, i.e., so that there is no reordering of the alist by compress1. The other problem with this case of :order was that the :maximum-length field of the header was not being respected: the length could grow without bound. Now, as previously explained (but not previously implemented) -- see arrays -- a compress1 call made on behalf of aset1 causes a hard error if the header of the supplied array specifies an :order of :none or nil.
An ignorable declare form had caused an error in some contexts when it should have been allowed. In particular, this problem could arise when using an ignorable declaration at the top level in a defabbrev form. It could also arise upon calling verify-termination when the corresponding defun form contained an ignorable declaration at the top level. These bugs have been fixed.
Contrary to existing documentation (see make-event-details), the value of ``ld special variable'' ld-skip-proofsp was always set to nil during make-event expansion, not merely when the make-event form has a non-nil value for keyword parameter :check-expansion. This has been fixed. Thanks to Sol Swords for bringing this issue to our attention.
We have disallowed the certification of a book when not at the top-level, either directly in the top-level loop or at the top level of ld. Before this restriction, the following would certify a book with a definition such as (defun foo (x) (h x)) that calls function h before defining it, if the certification was by way of the form such as:
(er-progn (defun h (x) x) (certify-book "my-book"))
But a subsequent include-book of "my-book" would then fail, because h is not defined at the top level.
Printing with fmt directive ~c now works properly even when the print-base is other than 10. Thanks to Sol Swords for reporting this bug and providing a fix for it.
(SBCL, CMUCL, and CCL only) Fixed a bug in sys-call-status in the case that the underlying Common Lisp is SBCL, CMUCL, or CCL (OpenMCL). Thanks to Jun Sawada for bringing this bug to our attention and providing a fix.
Fixed a bug that was preventing local defstobj events in encapsulate events. Thanks to Jared Davis for bringing this bug to our attention.
Fixed a bug evidenced by error message ``Unexpected form in certification world'', which could result from attempting to certify a book after evaluating an encapsulate form with a local defmacro. Thanks to Jared Davis for pointing out this bug and sending the example:
(local (defmacro foo (x) `(table foo 'bar ,x)))
(local (foo 3)))
Formerly, evaluating a trace$ form inside a wormhole such as the break-rewrite loop could leave the user in a bad state after returning to the top level, in which that function could not be untraced. This has been fixed. Note however that when you proceed from a break in the break-rewrite loop, the tracing state will be the same as it was when you entered that break: all effects of calling trace$ and untrace$ are erased when you proceed from the break.
A :guard of (and) is no longer ignored. Thanks to Sol Swords for bringing this bug to our attention.
A bug has been fixed that could result in needlessly weak induction schemes in the case that a recursive call is made in the first argument of prog2$. This has been fixed by including prog2$ as a default ruler-extender in the new ruler-extenders feature (see above, and see ruler-extenders). For details on this bug see Example 11 in distributed book books/misc/misc2/ruler-extenders-tests.lisp.
(For CCL/OpenMCL on Windows) ACL2 should now build on CCL (OpenMCL) on Windows. Thanks to David Rager for bringing this issue to our attention and helping with a fix that worked for CCL 1.2, and to the CCL team for improving handling of Windows-style filenames in CCL 1.3.
See for a list of books in Version 3.5 of ACL2 but not Version 3.4.
Run the shell command
svn log -r 94:HEAD
to see all changes to books/ since the release of Version 3.4.
Here are just a few highlights.
Thanks largely to Jared Davis, many Makefiles have been improved to do automatic dependency analysis. See book-makefiles for how to get your own Makefiles to do this by adding a line: -include Makefile-deps.
Libraries books/arithmetic-4/ and books/rtl/rel7/ have been eliminated from the default book certification (make regression), in favor of new libraries books/arithmetic-5/ and books/rtl/rel8/ contributed by Robert Krug and Hanbing Liu, respectively. They and Jun Sawada have arranged the compatibility of these libraries; i.e., it is possible to evaluate both of the following in the same session:
(include-book "rtl/rel8/lib/top" :dir :system)
Library books/rtl/rel1/ is no longer certified by default (though it is still distributed in support of ACL2(r); see real).
Slightly modified Control-t e (defined in emacs/emacs-acl2.el) to comprehend the notion of an ``ACL2 scope'', and added Control-t o to insert a superior encapsulate defining such a scope. See the Emacs documentation for Control-t e (generally obtained after typing Control-h k).
Modified distributed file emacs/emacs-acl2.el so that if you put the following two forms in your ~/.emacs file above the form that loads emacs/emacs-acl2.el, then Emacs will not start up a shell. Thanks to Terry Parks for leading us to this modification.
(defvar acl2-skip-shell nil)
(setq acl2-skip-shell t)
Bob Boyer and others have contributed numerous changes for the experimental ``hons'' version of ACL2 (see hons-and-memoization).
The ACL2 state can now be queried with (@ hons-enabled) so that a result of t says that one is in the experimental hons version, while nil says the opposite.
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(Source: Lucasfilm/20th Century Fox)
I. RIM Unveils Eye-Catching Alpha Testing Hardware
The Alpha BB10 Development Platform [Image Source: CrackBerry]
BlackBerry Jam
III. The Best (or Worst) is Yet to Come
RIM Sign
[Image Source: BGR]
Sources: RIM, CrackBerry
Comments Threshold
RE: Surviving
By retrospooty on 5/1/2012 4:44:19 PM , Rating: 2
Yup... at best this looks like its equal to todays Android and IOS phones. It has to be better and it has to be perfect to compete with future Androids and iPhone 5.
RE: Surviving
By Pirks on 5/1/2012 7:43:11 PM , Rating: 3
The apps in Blackberry 10 run in background all the time, so you can just flow between apps as opposed to resuming apps from tombstoned state. You can drag your thumb from left to right to peek at other apps that are currently running in the background. And you can swipe between the apps without any delay.
The software keyboard in Blackberry 10 has been redesigned from ground up. The keyboard now looks well designed, well spaced and responsive too. The new innovative stuff is that the keyboard is personalized for you and it offers word suggestions over few letters based on the predictive engine. You can just swipe the suggestions up to your actual typing text. Also you can use swipe right gesture to delete characters as well.
The camera software experience in Blackberry 10 is also designed for a great photo experience. RIM showed a stuff where you can just click a photo, choose a portion of that photo and use an analog like control to choose better version of the portion from previous frames. Yes, the software starts capturing frames even before you click it.
Well, there's nothing like this in iOS or crapdroid, and not in WP7 either.
Mick can keep ignoring all these positive news about BB 10, whatever ;) He's not sensible and talking to him about positive RIM news is a waste of time, he'd always ignore them. Just like these above.
Shame on you, Mick.
RE: Surviving
By Nortel on 5/1/2012 10:22:11 PM , Rating: 2
RIM: Were better than you are! We have better stuff.
Industry: You dont get it, RIM. That doesnt matter!
Pirks you don't get it.
RIM's too late...period.
RE: Surviving
By Pirks on 5/1/2012 11:49:45 PM , Rating: 3
Who cares about late or not? I only care about quality of a product. If crapdroid is not late and crap, while BB 10 is late but not crap, of course I buy BB 10, same logic applies to everyone else.
RE: Surviving
By Paj on 5/2/2012 10:26:26 AM , Rating: 2
The hardware may be great, but today's smartphone markets are more than good hardware.
The problem with BB10 is all the apps need to be rewritten from scratch.
Also, there's no backwards compatitibility. No existing Blackberry app will be able to run on the new OS at all.
This will cause a massive schism in the app ecosystem for Blackberry. With such a dwindling market share, most software houses will likely abandon it altogether, if they havent already. Not many job postings for app developers mention BB experience...
RE: Surviving
By Tony Swash on 5/2/2012 11:28:48 AM , Rating: 2
I have to confess that this did make me laugh.
Ian Austen, reporting for the NYT:
"Research in Motion on Tuesday unveiled prototypes of the new BlackBerry 10 phone and operating system that the company hopes will be its salvation, in a form that looked quite rough around the edges. Among the features missing on the test phones given to software developers was the ability to actually make phone calls or access wireless networks."
RE: Surviving
RE: Surviving
By retrospooty on 5/2/2012 1:15:00 PM , Rating: 1
Yes Pirks, I am aware of the concept. Palm had it on Web OS 3 years ago. I am not saying QNX/BB10 isnt good, It looks really good, but it wont likely matter. RIM has to execute perfectly and they have not done that in a long long time. They need to have moved on this 3 years before they did (in 2007, not 2010)
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RE: AMD/Nvidia
By Regs on 3/13/2007 8:31:58 AM , Rating: 1
Drivers? Their first objective is to actually release a new product. I feel like im playing my games on a my imginary K8L Stars AND rv630.
RE: AMD/Nvidia
By D4rr3n on 3/13/2007 9:54:18 AM , Rating: 2
Well that is pretty much spot on. Now I like AMD as much as anybody else, for years I only built AMD systems, and I had always hoped they'd catch up with Intel. But I just don't understand the total and complete dismissal of any of the problems AMD is currently facing.
Perfect example right here, AMD has nothing to worry about but drivers because someone can't get purevideo setup properly with Windvd. I mean could anybody honestly think that? They certainly have a hell off a lot to worry about and drivers isn't at the top of that list.
They are in the worst position both financially and as far as competitive products out in the market in a long time, a very long time. I hope they can bounce back from this because it certainly isn't good for the consumer to have less competition in the marketplace, but they are in one hell of a jam right now. People can close their eyes and plug their ears all they want but it wont make this situation go away.
RE: AMD/Nvidia
By Zoomer on 3/17/2007 9:20:53 AM , Rating: 2
Well, there aren't actually any real DX10 boards on the market. The all loved G80 doesn't support DX10 in vista right now.
Drivers are important. If not, why don't you switch to VESA SVGA drivers for your card right now? That has gotta be well tested.
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Being a mentor means never giving up
This is the story of Carmen and me. Carmen is a pseudonym. Let’s be clear. When I met Carmen, she was less than one year old. She was adorable. But I think all babies are adorable, what with their inherent promise and rosy skin.
Back then, I ran the “Mother Goose” story time at my local library. Carmen was a regular, dragged there by her grandma: a delightful woman who turned out to be both my neighbor and a fellow Pennsylvanian.
Fast forward a few years. I become the crossing guard at my local elementary school. You guessed it, Carmen’s school.
Carmen soon took to arriving a half-hour early every day just to hang out with me and my dog Jamie: the rescued stray who accompanied me on my daily duties. I started to notice something.
Carmen begged for my attention. She chattered. She flattered. She petted my dog. She walked too close. We three became a trio in the early morning light, waiting for the walkers to arrive.
Flash forward another year. I end my crossing guard gig, but I couldn’t quite leave her behind. So I devise a “craft club,” whereby Carmen and I would meet every Thursday at 4 p.m. at my house to do crafts, games, and reading until 6 p.m.
I thought that, with craft club, I could clean up Carmen’s dirty elbows, could extinguish her lying habits and fix her neediness. Not so much. I learned that those elbows were the least of her worries. I learned that Carmen is a lot like I’d once been: a little girl in need of love and acceptance, a girl whose family faced seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Today, two years later, Carmen still has dirty elbows. She does not yet smell of lavender: my hope for her. She is still in need of love. But she has me. I wait for her every Thursday at four, though she usually arrives at my door closer to 3:45. Our little battle.
True confession: I do not usually answer the door if she arrives before four. I hate this about myself. I hate that I try to minimize our time, try to squeeze it into two hours. She scares me a little. I can’t fix or control anything with Carmen. I can only open the door. And look in her eyes as she talks.
We eat pretzels. We paint with watercolors. We play Uno. We play Sorry. I read her a chapter of Grandma’s Attic, by Arleta Richardson. She hates that book. I love it. That book teaches a lot of moral lessons. Carmen is nice enough to indulge my moralizing through it. Grandma’s Attic is about all the things I try to teach Carmen. It is about manners, honesty, and truth telling. I am still trying to be the librarian.
Hah! If I’m being honest, Carmen teaches me more than I teach her. Way more. Carmen is amazing. Carmen is beautiful, dirty elbows and all. She is my hero. I have not walked a mile in her shoes. Not even close. If I had, I would surely have faltered.
In the end, the important thing is not to have done our best, but to have bested those who doubted us. Fight on, sweet Carmens the world!
Kimberly Laustsen of Carrollton is a freelance editor and blogger and a Community Voices volunteer columnist. Her email address is kimberly.laustsen @gmail.com.
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Movie Review | Neil Young Journeys: Concert footage, hometown tour a treat for fans
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Thunder rumbling up from the center of Earth with scraggly flashes of lightning amid fire and flood: That describes the sound of Neil Young’s amplified guitar in Jonathan Demme’s compelling concert film Neil Young Journeys.
The roar from below evokes huge chunks of rock displaced in a continual blasting operation. Heard over this man-made earthquake, Young’s passionate cracked whine assumes an oracular power. As always in his singing and songwriting, time weighs heavily. The cantankerous old man and the lost little boy are one and the same.
The movie, which follows Demme’s earlier concert films, Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006) and Trunk Show (2009), was shot in May 2011 at Massey Hall in Toronto during Young’s solo tour promoting his 2010 album, Le Noise. The material includes songs recorded for that album (with two outtakes) and old favorites. Mostly it is a loud concert, but the roar is more earthshaking than earsplitting.
Onstage, Young is shot mostly in close-up from below the microphone. In his mid-60s, he suggests a grizzled cowboy ferociously squinting into a Canadian sunset. The camera is close enough to his whiskered face that you can peer into his mouth. A wooden Indian rests on the stage next to a keyboard to which Young occasionally repairs for songs such as I Believe In You. But his electronically processed guitar dominates.
Before it settles down into a concert film, the movie shows Young reminiscing and pointing out personal landmarks while driving around Omemee, his northern Ontario hometown and the setting of his ballad Helpless.
The opening number, from Le Noise, is his angry-sorrowful environmentally conscious ballad Peaceful Valley Boulevard, which remembers how the West was won in an insatiable quest for gold and oil, then leaps into the present with its final image of a polar bear drifting on an ice floe. History is a tale of rapacious conquest and destruction with an apocalyptic ending.
Ohio is accompanied by footage of the 1970 protests at Kent State University, at which four students were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen. The slain students are named and their pictures shown. More than four decades later, it still hurts.
In the most wrenching verses of Love and War he pictures brides of servicemen killed in action trying to explain to their children “why daddy won’t ever come home again.”
In the concert’s climactic number — Hitchhiker, an autobiographical account of life on the road through many decades —— he apologizes to a wife he neglected, names the drugs he took (hashish, amphetamines, Valium, marijuana and cocaine), recalls a bout of paranoia and wishes he were an Aztec or Inca.
Young’s music is a neo-primitive style unto itself. His elemental folk-rock tunes are equipped with rough, scrawled lyrics that reach for the primal and the personal at the same time in a language that is both aphoristic and enigmatic.
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2010 Honda Accord Crosstour Long-Term Road Test - Wrap-Up
2010 Honda Accord Crosstour Long-Term Road Test
2010 Honda Accord Crosstour - Wrap-Up
"You don't choose cars like this; you succumb to them. They creep up on you like thin hair and thick ankles."
"The Honda Crosstour's various personalities haven't been stitched together with much style. Maybe it would be more effective if it had a giant plastic replica of a hamburger and fries attached to the roof."
When it entered our fleet 12 months ago, the 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour had the odds stacked against it. We all know it's what's on the inside that counts, but a pretty face makes a good first impression. And the Accord Crosstour had one that only a mother could love. We needed time to get to know this new Crosstour. After all, it was a Honda. In the world of cars, being a Honda is a good thing. That was a good place to start.
Why We Got It
Bigger is better. That is what Honda told us with the all-new Accord Crosstour. It redesigned the Accord sedan in 2008, increasing most of the dimensions. That wasn't enough. Honda went even further with the 2010 Accord Crosstour, casting it into a giant wagon crossover thing, but not quite an SUV. Into which category the Crosstour best fit was somewhat vague. Its role in this segment-straddling niche, which included the Subaru Outback and Toyota Venza, was what appealed to us. We wanted one.
On another level, the Honda Accord is a massively successful seller in sedan form. It remains a benchmark in the highly competitive midsize sedan league. Honda ventured outside its comfort zone with the Crosstour and we followed. Maybe Honda knows something we don't. When Honda offered us a Crosstour for the long-term blog, we accepted. An Accord with all-wheel drive and room for skis was right up our alley. This should be a popular car.
We spent more time on the highway driving our 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour than in any other situation. Executive Editor Michael Jordan reflected following 800 miles along Interstate 5 in California, "It settles into its suspension on the road, so you feel like the ride motions are being controlled by the dampers, not the springs. There's a lot less of that thing that makes every other Honda and Acura feel like there's 80 psi in the tires. It gives this cut-down MDX a poise that you won't find either in a Honda Accord or an Acura TL. It's like a different ride engineer at Honda R&D did the job. Hope he gets more work." He continued, "The car part works pretty well, too. The low Honda-style beltline accentuates visibility, which keeps you relaxed on a long drive. Seats are great."
Inside the cabin, Director of Vehicle Testing Dan Edmunds addressed the perceived lack of rear visibility. Edmunds blogged after an 800-mile interstate trip of his own, "Visibility was a concern expressed by some when they first saw this design. On this trip, at least, I didn't have a huge problem with seeing cars around me. The Crosstour has the same peek-a-boo secondary window in the vertical part of the hatch that we saw on the Honda CRX back in 1988. It helps improve the view straight out the back, and it also helps you see down lower in the rear bumper area than you could in any SUV. And that rear three-quarter window, small though it may be, does give the driver a glimpse into the blind spot with a simple head check. Could it be better? Sure. Is this what I would call poor? Not at all. The view out of the back is good and into the blind spots is decent."
Honda built electronic maintenance reminders into the Crosstour. When the light came on we went to the dealer: pretty simple. Along the way we still checked the fluids, though. It asked for an oil top-off at about 5,000 miles. Just 2,500 miles later the Crosstour required its first formal service. It cost a mere $50.
Near the 15,000-mile mark the dash illuminated B16 service due; cough up $300. The oil and filter change (B) was expected, as was the tire rotation (1), but the differential fluid change (6) came as a surprise to our wallet. Honda recommended this interval as a break-in period. From this point forward, diff fluid is changed every 30,000 miles.
We've come to expect a brake job due on Hondas around the 20,000-mile mark. It happened to our 2008 Accord, our 2005 Accord Hybrid and the Crosstour, too. One difference was that we returned the Crosstour to Honda before completing the work ourselves. A passenger airbag recall was issued during our test but it did not apply to our vehicle. Our maintenance experience was quite positive overall.
Total Body Repair Costs: None
Total Routine Maintenance Costs (over 12 months): $345.19
Additional Maintenance Costs: None
Warranty Repairs: None
Non-Warranty Repairs: $20 to repair a flat tire
Scheduled Dealer Visits: 2
Unscheduled Dealer Visits: None
Days Out of Service: None
Breakdowns Stranding Driver: None
Performance and Fuel Economy
We track tested our 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour when its long-term test began and we repeated the process at its conclusion one year later. After a year the Honda showed improvement in general performance at the track. Only acceleration tests reflected a change for the worse.
From a dynamic perspective, the Crosstour got better. Slalom speed increased by almost 3 mph to 62.2 mph. Around the skid pad the Honda generated 0.80g of lateral force, which was a negligible improvement. Both tests benefited from the stability control system remaining on. Not all straight-line tests reflected progress, however. Chief Road Test Editor Chris Walton wrote following a 60-0-mph stop of 132 feet, "Yikes! Steering wheel vibration and shuddering is pronounced after the second stop. There is adequate fade resistance, and the stopping distance is slightly better than its first test, but these rotors are way warped. The tires still feel rock hard and gravelly." Acceleration from zero to 60 mph fell 0.4 second to 8.0 seconds (with 1 foot of rollout), and the quarter-mile time fell to 16.2 seconds at 86.8 mph. We cannot explain the reason for this decrease.
EPA fuel-economy estimates ranked the 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour at 17 city and 25 highway mpg, an average of 20 mpg. After 19,000 miles of service our fuel consumption rate matched that figure exactly. That didn't seem too bad for a 4,035-pound car.
Best Fuel Economy: 27.8 mpg
Worst Fuel Economy: 12.3 mpg
Average Fuel Economy: 20.2 mpg
Retained Value
Twelve months ago Honda suggested a $36,930 retail value for our 2010 Crosstour. At the time of this story, Edmunds' TMV® Calculator gauged its private-party resale value at $27,347. This equates to roughly 26 percent depreciation from its original MSRP.
According to the same calculator, a 2010 Accord sedan depreciated about 24 percent under similar conditions. So the market doesn't seem to mind whether the Honda has a hatch or a trunk in the back. Honda maintains a reputation of reliability, and that makes a big difference on the used car lot.
True Market Value at service end: $27,347
Depreciation: $9,583 or 26% of original MSRP
Final Odometer Reading: 19,400
Summing Up
Our long-term test of the 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour began on a superficial level. But we soon discovered what it offered beneath the surface. Edmunds.com Editor Ed Hellwig owns the quote, "You don't choose cars like this, you succumb to them. They creep up on you like thin hair and thick ankles." Hellwig added, "One minute you're rolling a 3 Series coupe, the next your wife needs room to haul her gardening stuff and the kids want rear doors and a DVD player. It's about that time when wagon-style things like the Crosstour start to look attractive. OK, plausible maybe."
You don't get a Crosstour to impress friends with its looks. You aren't drawn to it for the engaging drive either. A Crosstour sits in your driveway because an Accord sedan isn't large enough to manage your life. You need the extra cargo space, sometimes you need all-wheel drive and you don't want the financial liability attached to fueling a V8 SUV. For the past 12 months and nearly 20,000 miles we drove it in the situations for which this car was intended. We found some snow, dusted around on a dry lake bed and spent the rest of our days tooling down the highway.
By the conclusion of our test the 2010 Honda Accord Crosstour was like new. Interior and exterior wear were virtually nonexistent. Resale value was decent. The Crosstour was ready for a set of brake pads and rotors when we returned it but otherwise mechanically sound. Say what you will about the styling. There are undeniable functional benefits to the tall wagon design. But is that enough to outweigh aesthetic tastes? That depends. As Hellwig concluded, "Your friends may wince, but your family will love you."
The manufacturer provided Edmunds this vehicle for the purposes of evaluation.
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CNN reports that a group of Stanford University students have designed a vibrating ankle brace intended to help the elderly avoid falls. The device uses a chip that monitors the position of the wearer's ankle—if it detects a roll it deems dangerous, the brace will vibrate, sending a signal to the person's brain that they need to correct their position. They say the development of the device is still at the preliminary stages, however, and that it requires more testing. Let's just hope they test it on themselves before surprising grandma with an early birthday present.
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It's springtime again, which can mean only one thing. No, not the impending arrival of young couples making out behind the bushes at the park, it's time for Xbox 360 Spring update rumors. Clan support has been a rumored addition for a while now, and there are even some alleged pictures of it in action (see above). Before we define this a little further, let's just get this out of the way: clan support is not part of the upcoming spring update. This was confirmed by Major Nelson himself during our latest Xbox 360 Fancast.
Now for clarification's sake, it's perfectly possible for any given game to have clan support. As such, screens like the one above may be legitimate. However, Major Nelson informed us that Microsoft has no plans to integrate clan support into the 360 itself. In other words, there are no plans to add universal clan support that spans multiple games. Clan support is offered by Microsoft, but it is up to developers to implement it into individual titles.
So, there you go, no clan support in the spring update. Of course, that doesn't stop us from speculating about other features.
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This article was originally published on Joystiq.
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Being Earth Week and all, it's not too surprising to hear of San Diegans stretching their mental might and figuring out an effective way to convert carbon dioxide to fuel, but according to the University of California, San Diego, that's precisely what they've done. Clifford Kubiak and Aaron Sathrum have reportedly developed a prototype device "that can capture energy from the sun, convert it to electrical energy, and split carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide and oxygen." Interestingly, this concept produces more than just an alternate source of fuel, as CO2 splitting also creates a "useful industrial chemical" in CO, and furthermore, helps reduce a greenhouse gas. Currently, they are building the device using a gallium-phosphide semiconductor, and while the existing rendition still requires "additional energy" outside of sheer sunlight for the process to work, they're hoping that the American Chemical Society will warm up to the idea and give 'em a helping hand.
[Via Physorg, thanks Richard N.]
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Imation's Atom Flash Drive may not be the most capacious USB key you've ever seen -- heck, it's probably not even the smallest -- but it is this company's most diminutive of all time, and that just has to count for something. Available in 1/2/4/8GB sizes, these units feature Vista ReadyBoost compatibility and support for passwords while measuring less than 1.5-inches long and .5-inches wide. Slip one of these sub-1-ounce drives into your pocket today for $17.99 to $99.99, depending on capacity.
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This isn't the first time we've played Dark Void, having gotten a chance both at last year's E3 and this year's CES. But, when a game is about flying with a jetpack, we really can't resist playing more. Rest assured, Dark Void seems to get better and better.
Capcom could have scrapped the compelling plot and simply released "Jetpack: The Game," and we'd have been satisfied. Seriously, the flying is that solid. You're not just leaping into the air like a rocket-propelled Superman, you're an aerodynamic missile who has to bank, roll, loop, carefully navigate turns and constantly be aware of your surroundings. You can easily forget that there's humanity to save once you hit the boost button and send the hero, Will, soaring through the air, weaving around the game world.
The level we demoed this time is set well into the game, with Will having already mastered his jetpack. The current objective is to take out the Watchers' anti-aircraft guns and to gain access to one of their bases, which serves as an internment camp for human slaves. It's located deep inside a canyon filled with sharp, stone fingers that poke into the air. As you fly around, you'll be under fire from both AA guns and enemies ... in flying saucers. Yep, just the sort of wake up call to shake us out of flying around with that big dopey grin on our face.
Luckily, there are guns mounted on the jetpack, in addition to a boost and a brake function, so you can slow down and fire away at stationary AA turrets, or pick off moving ground and aerial targets, which, by the way, ain't easy. For ground targets, you can switch to hover mode and pull your rifle out, but for the saucer-shaped enemies that come right at you, you're going to want to use the jetpack guns or try boarding the small ships themselves.
"The thing about Will is that he's just meat. He can't take that much of a licking."
The boarding process requires flying near enough to one of the saucers and hammering the indicated button once the on-screen prompt appears. Will automatically crashes onto the saucer. From here, your goal is to pry open the vessel's access panel, but you'll also need to scamper around the outer ring of the saucer to avoid fire from the pilot. From time to time, the pilot will also roll the ship to try and hurl you off, but you can grab on by "spamming" (producer Morgan Gray's term) the appropriate button. Once you rip the panel off, the pilot exits the cockpit and a grappling sequence begins. You toss him off the ship by flicking the right stick back and forth, and then -- you guessed it -- you've got yourself a flying saucer. As Gray puts it, "The thing about Will is that he's just meat. He can't take that much of a licking," so that's why it's a good idea to commandeer one of these sturdy ships whenever possible.
The saucer controls just like your jetpack, and you can use its guns as well, which are more powerful than the ones mounted on your pack. The only drawback is that the saucer doesn't have a hover mode. Well, "It doesn't have one yet," Gray told us. Once we took care all of the AA guns, we headed down to the battle on the base's entrance platform. If you're in the saucer, you'll need to eject to head inside. Although, the advantage of approaching by jetpack is that you can hover and lend full air support to the human rebels on the ground, and then scamper inside when the coast is clear.
Once you hit the ground, this is an entirely different game.
Once you hit the ground, this is an entirely different game. On foot, you have more firepower at your disposal (better guns and grenades), but you'll need to be aware of your ammo levels. We were spoiled by the jetpack's unlimited fuel and ammunition. Inside the base you'll face different kinds of Watchers, including a kamikaze enemy who runs up to you and detonates, sending out a blue energy sphere that does damage over time if you you don't high tail it out of range. You can pick up different Watcher weapons, too. We grabbed a couple toys that appeared similar to a machine gun and shotgun. Will can carry up to two guns, and each weapon has a melee attack as well.
Throughout battle you'll earn "tech points" that can be used to upgrade your weapons, and every weapon, including the jetpack guns, can be upgraded twice. Besides Will's rifle, the Watcher guns, and grenades, there will also be weapons that Nikola Tesla has invented called "Teslatech." You'll be able to upgrade by accessing sporadically placed weapons lockers throughout the game.
Inside the base, we plowed through a few waves of enemies, and then faced off against a hovering nasty with a serpentine tail. His powerful attack can take you out quickly, but if you circle behind him you can punish his weak back and finally send him crashing down -- which is exactly how we did in this particular mini-boss. Once past him, we moved into a vertical combat segment that ended up being the bane of our existence.
In vertical combat, Will uses his jetpack to keep himself pressed against the underside of a platform, and he can peek out and take aim either straight up or straight down a level. You can flip up onto the platform you're underneath or you can leap from platform to platform, as long as they're close enough to grab. It's a disorienting perspective from below, as you look up that long, cylindrical level laced with enemies peeking over the edges of their own platforms and firing down at you.
Whenever you activate Will's jetpack, he careens unsteadily and will die the instant he runs into anything.
The hardest part for us was getting onto the first level of platforms. We couldn't double-jump up, and whenever you activate Will's jetpack, he careens unsteadily and will die the instant he runs into anything. That is, unless you have supernatural instincts. Thankfully, Gray told us that they're going to add a "couple of bounces" to that mechanic, because as it plays now you die the instant you glance into the side of anything. We're not expecting Will to be indestructible, but it's highly frustrating to be flying along, accidentally graze a platform, and boom -- you're dead.
If you avoid death by jetpack, gunfire from enemies, instant death by touching the giant force field at the bottom of the level, and finally make it to the top (phew), then you'll deactivate the force field and continue on. This is where our demo ended, as we smashed the force fields controls with the butt of our gun. It was a relief ... after dying too many times to count. Seriously, it was embarrassing.
Overall, Dark Void continues to impress us. The flying is amazing and the combat and cover system controls well (at least, horizontally speaking -- we've still got some practice to put in on the vertical elements). At this stage in development, the game is most in need of polish. Details like damage effects are still underwhleming, for example. We were playing an Xbox 360 build, which appeared extremely solid, although Capcom assures that the PS3 version will be virtually identical. We're excited to strap on the jetpack again at E3 and see what new challenges Capcom has in store there.
This article was originally published on Joystiq.
PSN Thursday: 'Finally, some PS1 games' edition
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Iron Man 2That's right, the Fall season has officially begun and brought with it the first Summer blockbuster on Blu-ray, Iron Man 2. If you aren't into that one, there might still be something out there for you this week. One that caught our attention was from the Criterion Collection. The Thin Red Line is a late 90's World War II movie that is supposedly one of the best war flicks, so check it out if you haven't seen it, we know we will be.
Iron Man 2 (Paramount)
The Thin Red Line (Criterion)
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Criterion)
Airborne Toxic Event: All I Ever Wanted
Babies (Universal)
Get Him to the Greek (Universal)
Battle 360: Complete Season 1
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (Sony)
Frozen (Anchor Bay)
Good (E1)
The Killer Inside Me (MPI)
King Kong (Warner)
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (Warner)
Lighthouses of the Pacific Northwest
Nostradamus: 2012 (A&E)
Patton 360: The Complete Season 1 (A&E)
Prey (Weinstein)
The Private Eyes (Hen's Tooth)
Rock & Rule (Unearthed Films)
Suck (E1)
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We've spent a few click days shooting click with click Sony's new click NEX-5N click click click and were very click impressed with its click still image performance click click but click noticed some... Oh man, we've gotta hit Stop. As you can see, the camera suffers from a rather significant yet-to-be-diagnosed condition that outputs a mysterious clicking sound whenever you move it about. Since it's quite faint, this is little more than a minor nuisance when shooting stills, but when you go to playback video click it's impossible to ignore, rendering the audio component of your video virtually useless.
We've been able to isolate the sound to the camera body itself, so it's completely independent of the lens and other accessories. We also happen to be testing a variety of new Sony products this week in San Diego, and had Sony reps on hand to acknowledge and confirm the issue, which seems to plague every NEX-5N that we've tried. This is still very fresh, so Sony doesn't have a fix or even a statement to issue, but because 1080/60p video is one of this camera's headline features, we're going to recommend holding off on your purchase until the company can confirm what's causing the issue. Jump past the break to hear it for yourself in our demo video.
Update: To clarify our experience, we've only tested four cameras, all of which were likely manufactured at the same time. All four cameras presented the same clicking sound, but Sony is still investigating the issue, and has by no means implied yet that all NEX-5Ns are affected. We will of course share any updates as we receive them from Sony.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Ever since Eadric the Pure first made players spin around to avoid being blinded by his Radiance -- the bane of keyboard turners everywhere -- many paladins were enamored with the idea of firing off a flash of light and similarly dazzling those around them into incoherence. And we almost had it too, in the Cataclysm beta, when Blinding Light first debuted as a player ability. However, the spell was removed early on, only (it seems) to be put on the back burner.
Now, Blinding Light returns in Mists for a second try at making it into the paladin spellbook. This time around, it looks like it is here to stay. If you're in the beta, you can try it out yourself as soon as you hit 87.
The spell itself is pretty straightforward. On a 3-minute cooldown, you can fire off a burst of light that will cause all enemies around you to wander confusedly for 6 seconds. As a tank, I can see myself getting a lot of use out of this in AoE situations, when I need a breather from a pack of enemies that are punching me in the face.
Ret and holy paladins will find similar use for it, whether out in the wilds of Pandaria or deep in PvP. Basically, any time you need to get a large number of enemies to leave you alone for a few seconds, this spell is there for you.
Admittedly, it doesn't have the same flash or zing as some other level 87 spells, but it can very much shine in the right situations.
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Nintendo's most lucrative electric rat may be trading in his Thunderbolt attack for a Meerschaum pipe, as the publisher has trademarked something called "Great Detective Pikachu."
Normally, trademarks come and go. You're as likely to see a 'mark spawn a full-fledged game as you are to see a company sit on a term or phrase for potential future use. Great Detective Pikachu however, is a bit different as it directly ties to a recent, official video depicting a strange, talking blue Pikachu.
Scant little is known of how the game will actually perform or what Pikachu might be detecting, but it has been revealed that motion capture techniques are being used to properly animate the rodent's facial expressions and speech routines. Whether that sounds adorable or intensely terrifying comes down to your opinion on overly-anthropomorphized Pokémon.
Either way, we aren't likely to know how things play out until Nintendo decides to shed more light on this mystery.
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Every properly raised gorilla knows it's not enough to be tough; you also have to be hygienic. Which is surely why Corning has developed an antimicrobial form of its Gorilla Glass that inhibits the growth of algae, mold, mildew, fungi, bacteria and other nasties that might want to take root on a heavily used touchscreen. The glass contains an ionic silver coating that's similar to what's found on other germ-killing surfaces. Except that here it's meant to be "intrinsic" to the material and is therefore claimed to function for the lifetime of a device, whether it's a phone, tablet, PC or even a piece of medical equipment -- although Corning stops short of making any health-related promises. The company also avoids saying whether any antimicrobial gadgets will appear in the near future, because a good gorilla always under-promises and over-delivers.
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Killing Floor 2 and Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate HD have yet to be announced, but they are in Steam's database according to reports of another leak. Several Steam users posted what look to be captured screenshots of the portal's stats page, but with a whole bunch of unexpected names on there.
Other standout games on the list include beat-em-up Battleblock Theater and multiplayer action game Happy Wars, both currently only on Xbox Live Arcade. Half-Minute Hero sequel Hero 30 Second is only out in Japan, but Half-Minute Hero Two is also on the list.
While Arkham Origins came to home consoles and PC last year, Warner Bros. released 2.5D game Arkham Origins Blackgate alongside it on 3DS and Vita. There's been no word of an HD port of the portable game, and when approached about Blackgate HD's name being on this list, a Warner. Bros representative told Joystiq, "We have no comment on this."
The stats page is back to normal now so we've been unable to verify the screens, and even if they're accurate they don't provide any confirmation the games will be released. That said, each one of the games we've mentioned certainly sounds plausible, so we'd say this is a space worth a watch.
[Thanks, Jordan!]
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to what extent do you think that Du Bois's concept of the double consciousness still...
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to what extent do you think that Du Bois's concept of the double consciousness still applies to the experiences of African Americans today? How can this be used to contrast African Americans who are extremely poor and live in segregated neighborhoods with the experiences of African Americans who have professional occupations and live in intergrated neighborhoods?
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This is a question whose response will contain both fact and opinion, it seems, since it asks of the student "What do you think?" There is, certainly, truth in DuBois's statement that African-Americans have “the sense of looking at one’s self through the eyes of others” (351), and, judging from comments by such celebrities as Oprah Winfrey, Spike Lee, and others, there are those who yet feel this way today. Nowadays, however, the reasons for this double-consciousness have, in some instances, been altered. For, it would be logical to conclude that in the time of DuBois, blacks were perceived as simply inferior to whites; however, in contemporary society, the perception is more complex. For instance, in the United States, there is now a president who is black, so the perception of "inferior" definitely does not apply since it was the white women's vote which turned the election of 2008 and, therefore, the "double-consciousness" cannot be so categorically defined. Conversely, there was a "double-consciousness" with an altered lens in some voters who felt that "a black man deserved a chance" and, thus, lent the candidate an advantage over others. Ironically, perhaps, this "double-consciousness" of which DuBois spoke is apparently felt by the president himself, who has made editorial remarks on certain incidents (Harvard professor's arrest and the Travon Martin case) and has recently said that his decline in favorability in the polls resulted in part from the negativity of some of the citizens, who "do not like me because I am black."
Since this "double-consciousness" exists at different levels in different parts of the America, it is also difficult to make conclusive statements about it in contemporary society. There are, indeed, white people in the U.S. who look through a veil of resentment for Affirmative Action appointments; so, in that respect, the "double-consciousness" is equally as negative as DuBois felt it was. Opportunities for housing, also, are sometimes cause for resentment as residents of a particular neighborhood look through the veil of what they perceive as a type of favoritism with loans, etc. not afforded them because they are not minorities. On the other hand, the "double-consciousness" of residents of housing projects and low socio-economic neighborhoods would seem to have more to do with the crime rate than any other issue. In conclusion, despite the changing of the type and duality of the "veil," though, "double-consciousness" seems to yet be a part of society in America.
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(Santa Cruz Sentinel) In the middle of a robbery, facing a 5'3" guy with a shotgun, store employee thinks to himself, "I can take this guy." And he does ( divider line 10
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technicolor-misfit: What an act of heroism might look like to ShannonKW.
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I was seeing the discourse moving in that direction some time ago. There's a familiar pattern of thought that I could see cropping up. Using Erwin Rommel as an example of heroism probably helped it along.
Americans, and to a lesser extent Brits, appear to have lost the ability to acknowledge virtue in (i.e. to respect) their enemies. To admit some good in an evil man is commonly taken among our people to be an act of making an excuse for his acts, or being an "apologist". Clearly, few in America consider the 9/11 attackers heroic or brave, though I do.
I can't find out who said it, but there was some TV personality who, in the wake of 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan, observed the bare fact that it takes more courage to crash a plane into a building than it does to launch a cruise missile from a position of perfect safety. This truth provoked howls of outrage and he was made to apologize for it, though I couldn't see what the fuss was. Those men were undeniably brave -- braver by far than the pilot of the Enola Gay who killed far more innocents and lived to tell about it. They were admirably brave men, admirably true to their cause, who sacrificed themselves to set in motion a series of events that brought upon their people the white-hot hatred of the greatest military power on Earth and culminated in the conquest of two Muslim nations. None of their enemies could have hurt their cause worse than they themselves did.
If there were a Hell, it might be punishment enough that they be permitted to see the consequences of their acts.
Nevertheless, it was a brave act, and they were brave men to do it. You're right (accidentally -- you were just trying to be a mud-slinging twat, I'm sure) that I admired it. When I saw the WTC attacks I thought it was magnificent, though I couldn't figure out what the hell they were trying to accomplish. I feel about the same way about Pearl Harbor. Among those of us who can still admire the virtues of our enemies, yes, the Bad Guy can still be a hero.
2012-11-11 10:57:39 PM
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technicolor-misfit: This isn't about bosses vs. peons. This is about insecure people who buy into some some lameass B-grade action movie version of honor and courage vs. people who don't feel the need to prove something by talking shiat on the internet about what badasses they'd be if anyone tried something while they were on the scene.
No, it isn't. I don't see anyone in this thread saying that he himself would be a badass in this situation. Some of us admire the act, and some of us feel the need to point out that it was was irrational, which has fark-all to do with being brave or heroic. Heroes generally are irrational. There was nothing on the heights of Normandy that was worth the lives of those who got themselves blown to bits trying to take it.
If there is anyone who looks like they have something to prove, it is those who, like you, are eager to respond to an act of bravery by saying, "...yeah, but he shouldn't have done it." The impulse to point out a man's faults when you hear of his virtues often comes from a bad place, and it makes you look bad.
Irrational bravery often makes the world a better place, and we admire it because it is a manifest recognition that there are things more important than your own life or safety. Sometimes those things are as insubstantial as an ideal. Take your human dignity for example. Some of us would submit to rape rather than die. Others of us would sooner die or risk death fighting off an armed rapist rather than be degraded in than fashion. The latter course is clearly irrational -- it is not worth your life to keep a penis out of your butt. Nevertheless, we admire and respect them that take the irrational option, and most of us are modest enough to admit that we don't know how we would act should we be confronted with the dire choice, though we hope we would be brave enough to be irrational.
Thievery is a lesser affront to human dignity than rape, but it still rankles. To stand by passively while some thug enriches himself at the expense of the law-abiding would be a bad feeling to a lot of us, like watching civilization take a wad of spit to the face. To venture a guess at the motives in this case, I doubt it was the money that mattered, nor a desire to protect the owner from loss. It was probably a matter of being too proud to allow a degenerate robber to walk over him, even though letting it happen would have been the rational thing to do. I salute this.
2012-11-11 04:30:20 PM
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He was described as a short man in his 20s about 5 feet, 3 inches tall. He wore a blue beanie, grey hooded sweatshirt, white socks, a black patterned bandana, black gloves, pants, and slip-on shoes.
Why is the press afraid to report a suspect's race? It's the most visible aspect of a person's physical description, but they rarely include it. I'm guessing their afraid they'll look racist.
2012-11-11 02:41:46 PM
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And then watch as the employee gets fired for standing up to the robber.
2012-11-11 07:40:58 PM
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ISO15693: Subby... if the man is actually shooting people, and you subdue him, that's being a hero. If you escalate a situtation like this, by attacking the guy with the weapon - that's just stupidity. You are essentially risking your life, and the life of everyone around you, to try and grab some glory. Thats the ultimate in selfish.
Right, because in the long, glorious history of armed robberies, no scumbag has EVER taken the money and then just killed everyone in sight for the fark of it. Armed robbers are always rational and reasonable. They are never drug-addled lunatics.
2012-11-11 07:33:14 PM
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All you people saying 'don't fight back, just give him the money'- where do y'all work again? I'm sure there are plenty of criminals who'd love to make an easy score tonight.
/stupidest thing since 'gun free home' signs
2012-11-11 06:34:59 PM
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Or they don't want to deal with a deluge of racist comments that are inevitable any time a suspect's race is mentioned and it isn't white.
Doesn't work, though. The people who need to talk about it bring it up anyway.
2012-11-11 06:24:27 PM
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Hector Remarkable: redmid17: Mad Mark: Hector Remarkable: If more surfers carried guns there'd be much less crime in Santa Cruz. And the more silver bullets, the less vampires. One thing I never could stand about the place.
What have you got against surfers and vampires?
He doesn't like that they don't carry guns very often.
Look, surfing vampires are a problem. And now, if we've got vampires, surfing at us, shooting at us, what chance do we have? What chance, I ask you, do we have against vampires riding the waves when they're shooting back at us? The whole place is out of control. Lots of vampires. Lots of surfers. Lots of shooting. This guy clearly only escaped because he was a surfing vampire, and he's out there now, with a shotgun, surfing around Monterrey Bay, by the moonlight, shooting off his shotgun, and drinking the blood of innocent Californian boaters. And I say that's very, very wrong.
It's not, not not wrong. That is for sure
2012-11-11 06:06:56 PM
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Wanted for questioning?
2012-11-11 06:05:05 PM
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Seems like in most cases if the person has a gun and you don't, unless they are there to KILL you, if they just want money, let them freakin' have it. Is your life (or anyone else's who might be caught in the crossfire) worth whatever they were planning on stealing?
Not sure if this guy is a hero. Especially if other people were in the room.
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BBB - Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC)
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Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins Handbook
Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
1. Name of the Organism:
Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC)
Currently, there are four recognized classes of enterovirulent E. coli (collectively referred to as the EEC group) that cause gastroenteritis in humans. Among these are the enteropathogenic (EPEC) strains. EPEC are defined as E. coli belonging to serogroups epidemiologically implicated as pathogens but whose virulence mechanism is unrelated to the excretion of typical E. coli enterotoxins. E. coli are Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria belonging the family Enterobacteriaceae. Source(s) and prevalence of EPEC are controversial because foodborne outbreaks are sporadic. Humans, bovines, and swine can be infected, and the latter often serve as common experimental animal models. E. coli are present in the normal gut flora of these mammals. The proportion of pathogenic to nonpathogenic strains, although the subject of intense research, is unknown.
2. Nature of Acute Disease:
Infantile diarrhea is the name of the disease usually associated with EPEC.
3. Nature of Disease:
EPEC cause either a watery or bloody diarrhea, the former associated with the attachment to, and physical alteration of, the integrity of the intestine. Bloody diarrhea is associated with attachment and an acute tissue-destructive process, perhaps caused by a toxin similar to that of Shigella dysenteriae, also called verotoxin. In most of these strains the shiga-like toxin is cell-associated rather than excreted.
Infective dose -- EPEC are highly infectious for infants and the dose is presumably very low. In the few documented cases of adult diseases, the dose is presumably similar to other colonizers (greater than 10^6 total dose).
4. Diagnosis of Human Illness:
The distinction of EPEC from other groups of pathogenic E. coli isolated from patients' stools involves serological and cell culture assays. Serotyping, although useful, is not strict for EPEC.
5. Associated Foods:
Common foods implicated in EPEC outbreaks are raw beef and chicken, although any food exposed to fecal contamination is strongly suspect.
6. Relative Frequency of Disease:
Outbreaks of EPEC are sporadic. Incidence varies on a worldwide basis; countries with poor sanitation practices have the most frequent outbreaks.
7. Course of Disease and Complications:
Occasionally, diarrhea in infants is prolonged, leading to dehydration, electrolyte imbalance and death (50% mortality rates have been reported in third world countries).
8. Target Populations:
EPEC outbreaks most often affect infants, especially those that are bottle fed, suggesting that contaminated water is often used to rehydrate infant formulae in underdeveloped countries.
9. Food Analysis:
The isolation and identification of E. coli in foods follows standard enrichment and biochemical procedures. Serotyping of isolates to distinguish EPEC is laborious and requires high quality, specific antisera, and technical expertise. The total analysis may require from 7 to 14 days.
10. Selected Outbreaks:
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Ingredients for 12 servings
Candy to Decorate Snowman
1 1/3 cups water
2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Royal Icing
6 large white gum drops (for hands)
Royal icing (in a squeeze bottle or piping bag)
2 peppermint patties (for eyes)
1 (7.5-ounce) bag square blue mint candies (for hat)
1 teaspoon peppermint extract
3 cups confectioners' sugar, sifted
1 orange gumdrops (for nose)
Food coloring, if desired
1/2 cup vegetable oil
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2 (12-ounce) containers whipped white frosting (recommended: Betty Crocker Fluffy White)
1 giant blue peppermint stick (for broom stick)
1 foot long fruit roll-up (for scarf) (recommended: Fruit by the Foot)
2 blue jelly beans (for eyes)
20 store bought small snowflake shaped cookies
2 cups sweetened flake coconut
3 round hard candies (for buttons)
2 large egg whites or 5 tablespoons meringue powder
1/4 cup color decorating sugar
3 eggs
8 blue candy covered chocolates (for mouth)
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Russian Egg Roulette Leaves Losers With Egg on Their Face
July 10, 2012
Russian Egg Roulette is an annual game held by the World Egg Throwing Federation. Gameplay is easy: there are six eggs in the carton, five hard-boiled and one raw. Participants choose an egg and smash it against their face. If the raw egg is selected, you're out. The World Egg Throwing Federation's winner for this year was Jerry Cullen.
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The leopard jumped onto, and over the cave, moving towards him. Halfway through his
crossing over, he looked back at the leopard, during which he slid and fell on his back. Horrified,
he laid immobile on the ground. Sweat poured as his heart pumped out of his chest. The animal
came charging towards him with its claws at the ready. He raised his head to see as it came to
kill him. It got to him.
Hardly had it touched him when a sharp spear tip came down its neck and stopped
dangerously close to his forehead. The boy felt his heart stop for a second, and the back of his
brain turn cold, as he watched his sweating father pull up the entire animal and throw it to the
side. He watched as he stepped on it and pulled out his spear from its neck, piercing into its head
with a roar.
With tears rolling down, the boy looked up apologetically at his panting, sweating, bleeding
father, who was also looking down at him with sympathy. He dropped to his knees, spotting the
deep, stone cut on his leg, the one that had left the blood trail. While soundlessly shedding tears,
the boy rose to his knees and embraced his father, who embraced him as well.
“I am sorry father,†he cried.
“It is okay,†his father replied, realizing that he had almost lost him.
“I am sorry,†the boy cried,
“It is okay,†he consoled him; “it is fine, we have to get out of this place, come.â€
That night, the man sat on the mud-plastered floor facing the fire, as he silently watched the
boy sleep quietly under the furry blanket. He looked at the puppy, which was coiled in the
depression next to the fire, also silently asleep. He looked up at the fire, as he continued to
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