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Enjoy these colorful holiday classic candies made with vanilla, nuts and chocolate - perfect dessert to impress your guests.
During the holidays, candy-coated chocolate candies are usually available in a red and green combination. If you can't find just the red and green mixture, sort a multicolored bag to get enough of the red and green for this recipe. Use the remaining candies to stir into drop cookies or just for snacking.
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|New U.S. Distributor for Mainair Trikes
Florida-Georgia Flight Center Near Gainesville Dickert
British triker Colin Bodill pilots his Blade 912S trike
on his solo flight round the world. Mainair Sports Blade 912S
trike uses the 100-hp Rotax 912S 4-stroke aircraft engine with
electric start, a 2.43-to-1 gearbox reduction drive and a 65-liter
(16.9-gallon) fuel tank. The Blade 912 model offers the 81-hp
Rotax 912 4-stroke aircraft engine (certified to European JAR
22 standards), with a 2.273-to-1 gearbox reduction drive.
- Photo by Paul Tomlin
Dickert offers trike training at the Cross City Airport (CTY) in Cross City, Florida. He says he "loves to travel, and is developing a "2-place trike trailer to transport two trikes c one for his customer and another for him to fly and train in when he reaches his destination. Dickert indicates he may market the trailer to the ultralight industry by this summer. Dickerts distributorship will offer Mainair Sports full line of Blade and Rapier trikes. The Lancashire, England manufacturer offers both ready-to-fly trikes and kits (which include a factory-built trike wing). Dickert loves to fly trikes, and says he has logged "more than 600 hours flight time during the last 6 years.
The Florida-Georgia Flight Center is also a dealership for
AirBorne Windsports, Dickert indicates. AirBorne is an Australian
trike manufacturer, as well as a producer of nonpowered (foot-launched
free-flight) hang gliders.
*See "Flightlines: Another Round the World Challenge in
a Microlight May 00 UF! ; "Flightlines: Round the World Flight
Update, August 00 UF!; "Flightlines: Where Are They? Microlight
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Replace a word with yanked text
this wiki
created 2003 · complexity basic · author Yang Xiangyu · version 6.0
A common requirement, particularly when programming, is to copy or delete text from one location, and use what was copied or deleted to replace text in one or more other locations. This tip describes how this operation is performed using standard Vim techniques, and with some tricks that may make it easier.
How to copy/paste
Copy a word and paste it over other words:
|yank inner word (copy word under cursor, say "first").
|Move the cursor to another word (say "second").
|select "second", then replace it with "first".
|Move the cursor to another word (say "third").
|select "third", then replace it with "first".
Copy a line and paste it over other lines:
|yank current line (say "first line").
|Move the cursor to another line (say "second line").
|select "second line", then replace it with "first line".
|Move the cursor to another line (say "third line").
|select "third line", then replace it with "first line".
Deleting, changing and yanking text copies the affected text to the unnamed register (
""). Yanking text also copies the text to register 0 (
"0). So the command
yiw copies the current word to
"" and to
viw selects the current word, then pressing
p pastes the unnamed register over the visual selection. The visual selection that was just replaced is then stored in the default unnamed register.
As you can see in the examples above, if you want to paste the same thing a second time, then you must use the
"0 register, as in
viw"0p. A workaround is to remap the
p command in visual mode so that it first deletes to the black hole register like so:
xnoremap p "_dP
Note, using
P in the remap replicates the default visual mode
p function. Feel free to test. And you'd use
xnoremap instead of
vnoremap, according to the docs. Now you don't have to worry about pasting from the
"0 register each subsequent time.
However, this remapping prevents you from pasting from other registers in visual mode. So
viw"ap to paste from the
"a register is now broken. This script may solve that. Alternatively, I guess you could use a leader key instead such as:
let mapleader="," xnoremap <leader>p "_dP
And then the workflow would be:
yiw, move,
viw,p, move again,
viw,p, etc
Alternate method
An alternate method is to do the paste/replace using
cw. This method has the advantage of being easily repeatable using the
. repeat command.
|yank inner word (copy word under cursor, say "first". Same as above).
|Move the cursor to another word (say "second").
| select "second", then replace it with "first" If you are at the start of the word then
cw<C-r>0 is sufficient.
|Move the cursor to another word (say "third").
|select "third", then replace it with "first".
- Use with clipboard @+
- Explain: Use register 2 to insert previously deleted text:
This process works with any selected text, although it works best if:
- The yanked text is characterwise and the replaced text is selected characterwise; or
- The yanked text is linewise and the replaced text is selected linewise; or
- The yanked text is blockwise and the replaced text is selected blockwise.
yiw (yank inner word) is an example of a characterwise copy, while
yy (yank current line) is an example of a linewise copy.
With this mapping, you can press
S to replace the current word with the last yanked text. You can repeat the operation to replace words at different locations (move to another word and press
S, then move to another word and press
S, and so on). Each time you press
S, the yanked text is "stamped" over the current word.
nnoremap S diw"0P
S command is then not available – use the equivalent
cc command instead.
An alternative mapping uses the black hole register (
"_) for the deletion so the unnamed register is not changed:
nnoremap S "_diwP
The alternative replaces the current word with the last text that was yanked or deleted. This means that you can copy or delete text from one location, then use that text to replace words in multiple other locations. However, if you delete any more text (for example, if you press
x to delete an unwanted comma), the ability to easily use the previously-deleted text is lost.
In addition to the above, you could use the following to replace visually selected text with the last yanked text. Again, you can quickly repeat this by selecting some more text and pressing
S to make the same change.
vnoremap S "_d"0P
If you want to replace visually selected text with the last yanked or deleted text, use:
vnoremap S "_dP
From tip 1011
For those who use visual mode, here are some commands and mappings that may be useful:
gv to reselect the previous visual area.
Copy the current word or visually selected text to the clipboard:
nnoremap <F4> "+yiw vnoremap <F4> "+y
Replace the current word or visually selected text with the clipboard contents:
nnoremap <F5> viw"+p vnoremap <F5> "+p
Prepare a
:substitute command using the current word or the selected text:
nnoremap <F6> yiw:%s/\<<C-r>"\>/<C-r>"/gc<Left><Left><Left> vnoremap <F6> y:%s/\<<C-r>"\>/<C-r>"/gc<Left><Left><Left>
One key <F7> does everything. Good for inter-window copying and pasting.
"copy vmap <F7> "+ygv"zy`> "paste (Shift-F7 to paste after normal cursor, Ctrl-F7 to paste over visual selection) nmap <F7> "zgP nmap <S-F7> "zgp imap <F7> <C-r><C-o>z vmap <C-F7> "zp`] cmap <F7> <C-r><C-o>z "copy register autocmd FocusGained * let @z=@+
See also
Related Plugins
- ReplaceWithRegister plugin to replace text covered by a motion, entire line(s) or the current selection with the contents of a register; more versatile and covers corner cases better than simple mappings
- YankRing - Maintains a history of previous yanks, changes and deletes
- yankstack - It allows you to yank and delete things without worrying about losing the text that you yanked previously. It effectively turns your default register into a stack, and lets you cycle through the items in the stack after doing a paste. This plugin is intended to be a simpler alternative to the YankRing plugin.
- vim-easyclip - This plugin solves that problem by redirecting all
change and
delete operations to the black hole register and introducing a new operator, 'cut' (by default this is mapped to the
mkey for 'move').
- Prune out any misguided information.
- That will leave some notes on copying a word (or selected text) and pasting it to replace another word (or selected text).
- There will also be some notes on visual mode which should be moved elsewhere (possibly 1584).
- 47 Swapping characters, words and lines
- 191 Transposing
- 438 Search and replace in a visual selection
- 646 Moving lines up or down in a file
- 1584 Visual selection
I hope some of these can be merged, while others will be "see also".
Copy/paste tips:
- 66 Transfer text between two Vim instances
- 71 Transfer text between two gvim sessions using clipboard
- 261 Close windows from gvim popup menu
- 312 Copy, cut and paste
- 344 Cut or copy lines without counting the lines
- 356 Quick yank and paste
- 386 Cut/copy and paste using visual selection
- 432 Putting the current file on the Windows clipboard
- 471 Using the mouse for Vim in an xterm
- 478 Copy the search results into clipboard
- 829 Copy and paste between Vim instances
- 834 Word-wise cut, copy and paste
- 964 GNU/Linux clipboard copy/paste with xclip
- 984 Accessing the system clipboard
- 1199 Unconditional linewise or characterwise paste
- 1268 Copy and paste between sessions using a temporary file
- 1593 Smart paste
- 1623 Using the Windows clipboard in Cygwin Vim
I'm parking the copy/paste list here; later will work out which is "main" copy/paste tip and will move list there. JohnBeckett 11:24, September 28, 2009 (UTC)
- I'd like for this tip to remain about copy/paste as it relates to visual mode, and we should have at least one other (separate) tip on the system clipboard (maybe more than one if specific systems have problems). One more that is a general "how to copy/paste" that also discusses use of registers would be good too. I don't want to see too much combination though, or the tip will probably become too big. --Fritzophrenic 16:27, October 1, 2009 (UTC)
I find it completely ridiculous that such a common operation is not more easily accomplished in VIM. Having to use the pinky finger to hit two far characters in
"_ or
"0" is wholly inefficient. And I am not the only one who is annoyed. It is absolutely mind boggling that there is no clean way to accomplish this. Instead we have to resort to huge ass webpages describing all the workarounds and idiosyncrasies, and/or install a plugin. Notepad wins this one.
- I have to say I agree this is an annoying quirk of Vim. But note it's there for a reason. Another common need is to move multiple blocks of text around, with one block replacing the next block which then needs to move elsewhere. Vim is optimized for this use case instead of "copy one block then replace a bunch of other blocks with it". Nevertheless, I admit I probably do the latter more often than the former so I do run into this a lot; I've just gotten in the habit of using register 0 when I'm replacing text rather than the unnamed register. --Fritzophrenic (talk) 21:04, July 15, 2014 (UTC)
- I understand the use case for the 'feature'. But that's what named registers are for. I think really the problem is the stupid choice to 'cut' with the
ccommands. The implementation is poor when you have to rely on the pinky finger to type all three keypresses as in
"0p. Have you just trained yourself to be super fast with that? Because I cannot do it fast at all.
- I understand the use case for the 'feature'. But that's what named registers are for. I think really the problem is the stupid choice to 'cut' with the


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The Problem with God: Interview with Richard Dawkins
The renowned biologist talks about intelligent design, dishonest Christians, and why God is no better than an imaginary friend.
British biologist Richard Dawkins has made a name for himself defending evolution and fighting what he sees as religiously motivated attacks on science. Dr. Dawkins sat down with Beliefnet at the World Congress of Secular Humanism, where his keynote address focused on intelligent design.
You're concerned about the state of education, especially science education. If you were able to teach every person, what would you want people to believe?
I would want them to believe whatever evidence leads them to; I would want them to look at the evidence, judge it on its merits, not accept things because of internal revelation or faith, but purely on the basis of evidence.
Not everybody can evaluate all evidence; we can't evaluate the evidence for quantum physics. So it does have to be a certain amount of taking things on trust. I have to take what physicists say on trust, for example, because I'm a biologist. But science [has] a system of appraisal, of peer review, so that I trust the physics community to get their act together in a way that I know from the inside. I wish people would put their trust in evidence, not in faith, revelation, tradition, or authority.
What do you wish people knew about evolution?
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Listen to clips from Dawkins' recent speech:
The Flaws in the Argument from Design
There Is an Alternative to Chance
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Creationists Adore Gaps in the Fossil Record
Evolution and Theism Are Incompatible
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Advanced Style Vintage Submission
I just received this wonderful photo from Holly at Lucitebox.com, a wondeful vintage clothing site. She writes, It's a found photo that I got in a thrift store easily twenty years ago. I almost cried when I found it. Anyway--here's a link to my favorite stylish and advanced lady. I have her framed in my kitchen and every time I look at her, I think, "That lady has such style!"
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4 comments:
- Sarah and Hannah said...
amazing. i did a shoot with my grandma also. do u want a pic?
- March 31, 2009 at 4:53 PM
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i adore these glasses!
- March 31, 2009 at 6:31 PM
- lucitebox said...
Hello to my new favorite blog!
Thanks for posting my photo of this awesome lady and her dog. I had to put her on my blog a couple of weeks ago because she's been such a big part of my life for so long. Who would ever endeavor to donate this to a thrift store?
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Where the g-s grow. the best hood in chicago.
twista is from the streets of k-town.
di Nicole G 14 aprile 2006
Top Definition
K-Town is a nickname for an area of a series of Chicago streets whose names begin with the letter K.
"We're rollin through K town."
(Kilbourn, Kildare, Karlov, etc.)
(Kilbourn, Kildare, Karlov, etc.)
di Lowrider 05 settembre 2005
K-town is an area of the west side from Pulaski to Cicero All the street names begin with a "K"
Where if you don't belong
you won't be long
Where if you don't belong
you won't be long
Keystone, Karlov, Keeler, Kostner
ect ect ect........ Thats K-town
and if you aint from there dont go there
ect ect ect........ Thats K-town
and if you aint from there dont go there
di Thirdworld 26 luglio 2008
a common type of marijuana found in kcmo/kck. Light green in color, and has a visible amount of thc crystals on it. It is usually placed in the mid-grade category.
Let Me Go Get A Quarter Of That kTown To Smoke.
di AK-47816420 22 maggio 2008
Premium marijuana from Kansas City, Missouri. Most commonly referred to as K-Town bud. The rapper TechN9ne references it in several of his songs.
I'm not in the mood for reggie, man. Let's get some of that K Town and get fucked up tonight.
di Grantham 26 marzo 2008
Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Home of Queen's University, and nearly 100 prisons.
Yo, are you in Ktown this weekend? Don't get stabbed.
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text: Want to build a perfect website? Don't trust the designers Magazine features 16 May 12 by Brian Christian This article was taken from the June 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.Dan Siroker helps companies discover tiny truths, but his story begins with a lie.It was november 2007 and Barack Obama, then a Democratic candidate for president of the US, was at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, to speak. Siroker -- who today is CEO of the web-testing firm Optimizely, but then was a product manager on Google's browser team -- tried to cut the enormous queue by sneaking in a back entrance. "I walked up to the security guard and said, 'I have to get to a meeting in there,'" Siroker recalls. There was no meeting, but his bluff got him inside.At the talk, Obama fielded a facetious question from then-CEO Eric Schmidt: "What is the most efficient way to sort a million 32-bit integers?" Schmidt was having a bit of fun, but before he could move on to a real question, Obama stopped him. "Well, I think the bubble sort would be the wrong way to go," he said -- correctly. Schmidt put his hand to his forehead in disbelief, and the room erupted in raucous applause. Siroker was instantly smitten. "He had me at 'bubble sort'," he says. Two weeks later he had taken a leave of absence from Google, moved to Chicago, and joined up with Obama's campaign as a digital adviser.At first he wasn't sure how he could help. But he recalled something else Obama had said to the Googlers: "I am a big believer in reason and facts and evidence and science and feedback -- everything that allows you to do what you do. That's what we should be doing in our government." And so Siroker decided he would introduce Obama's campaign to a crucial technique -- almost a governing ethos -- on which Google relies in developing and refining its products. He showed them how to A/B test. Over the past decade, the power of A/B testing has become an open secret of high-stakes web development. It's now the standard (but seldom advertised) means through which Silicon Valley improves its online products. Using A/B, new ideas can be essentially focus-group tested in real time: without being told, a fraction of users are diverted to a slightly different version of a given web page and their behaviour compared against the mass of users on the standard site. If the new version proves superior -- gaining more clicks, longer visits, more purchases -- it will displace the original; if the new version is inferior, it's quietly phased out without most users ever seeing it. A/B allows seemingly subjective questions of design -- colour, layout, image selection, text -- to become incontrovertible matters of data-driven social science.After joining the Obama campaign, Siroker used A/B to rethink the basic elements of the campaign website. The new-media team already knew that their greatest challenge was turning the site's visitors into subscribers -- scoring an email address so that a drumbeat of campaign emails might eventually convert them into donors. Their visit would start with a splash page -- a luminous turquoise photo of Obama and a bright red "Sign Up" button. But too few people clicked the button. Under Siroker's tutelage, the team approached the problem with a new precision. They broke the page into its component parts and prepared a handful of alternatives for each. For the button, an A/B test of three new word choices -- "Learn More", "Join Us Now", and "Sign Up Now" -- revealed that "Learn More" garnered 18.6 percent more signups per visitor than the default of "Sign Up". Similarly, a black-and-white photo of the Obama family outperformed the default turquoise image by 13.1 percent. Using both the family image and "Learn More", signups increased by a thundering 40 percent.Most shocking of all to Obama's team was just how poorly their instincts served them during the test. Almost unanimously, staffers expected that a video of Obama speaking at a rally would handily outperform any still photo. But in fact the video fared 30.3 percent worse than even the turquoise image. Had the team listened to instinct -- if it had kept "Sign Up" as the button text and swapped out the photo for the video -- the sign-up rate would have slipped to 70 percent of the baseline. ("Assumptions tend to be wrong," as Siroker succinctly puts it.) And without the rigorous data collection and controls of A/B testing, the team might not even have known why their numbers had fallen, chalking it up perhaps to some decline in enthusiasm for the candidate rather than to the inferior site revamp. Instead, when the rate jumped to 140 percent of baseline, the team knew exactly what, and whom, to thank. By the end of the campaign, it was estimated that a full four million of the 13 million addresses in the campaign's email list -- and some $75 million (£50 million) in money raised -- resulted from Siroker's careful experiments.A/B testing was a new insight in the realm of politics, but its use on the web dates back at least to the turn of the millennium. At Google -- whose rise as a Silicon Valley powerhouse has done more than anything else to spread the A/B gospel over the past decade -- engineers ran their first A/B test on February 27, 2000. They had often wondered whether the number of results the search engine displayed per page, which then (as now) defaulted to ten, was optimal for users. So they ran an experiment. To 0.1 percent of the search engine's traffic, they presented 20 results per page; another 0.1 percent saw 25 results, and another, 30. Due to a technical glitch, the experiment was a disaster. The pages viewed by the experimental groups loaded significantly slower than the control did, causing the relevant metrics to tank. But that in itself yielded a critical insight -- tenths of a second could make or break user satisfaction in a precisely quantifiable way. Soon Google tweaked its response times and allowed real A/B testing to blossom. In 2011 the company ran more than 7,000 A/B tests on its search algorithm. Amazon.com, Netflix, and eBay are also A/B addicts, constantly testing potential site changes on live (and unsuspecting) users.Today, A/B is ubiquitous, and one of the strange consequences of that ubiquity is that the way we think about the web has become increasingly outdated. We talk about the Google home page or the Amazon checkout screen, but it's now more accurate to say that you visited a Google home page, an Amazon checkout screen. What percentage of Google users are getting some kind of "experimental" page or results when they initiate a search? Google employees contacted by Wired wouldn't give a precise answer -- "decent," chuckles Scott Huffman, who oversees testing on Google Search. Use of a technique called multivariate testing, in which myriad A/B tests essentially run simultaneously in as many combinations as possible, means that the percentage of users getting some kind of tweak may well approach 100 percent, making "the Google search experience" a sort of Platonic ideal: never encountered directly but glimpsed only through derivations and variations.***Still, despite its widening prevalence, the technique is not simple. It takes some fancy technological footwork to divert user traffic and rearrange a site on the fly; segmenting users and making sense of the results requires deep knowledge of statistics. This is a barrier for any firm that lacks the resources to create and adjudicate its own tests. In 2006 Google released its Website Optimizer, which provided a free tool for anyone who wanted to run A/B tests. But the tool required site designers to create full sets of code for both A and B -- meaning that non-programmers (marketing, editorial or product people) couldn't run tests without first taxing their engineers to write multiple versions of everything. Consequently there was a huge delay in getting results as companies waited for the code to be written and go live.In 2009 this remained a problem in need of a solution. After the Obama campaign ended, Siroker was left amazed at the efficacy of A/B testing, but also at the paucity of tools that would make it easily accessible. "The thought of using the tools we used then made me grimace," he says. By the end of the year, Siroker joined forces with another ex-Googler, named Pete Koomen, and they launched a startup with the goal of bringing A/B tools to the corporate masses, dubbing it Optimizely. They signed up their first customer by accident. "Before we even spent much time working on the product," Siroker explains, "I called up one of the guys from the Obama campaign, who had started up a digital marketing firm. I told him what I was up to, and about 20 minutes in, he suddenly said, 'Well, that sounds great. Send me an invoice.' He thought it was a sales call."The pair had made a sale, but they still didn't have a product. So Siroker and Koomen started coding. Unlike the earlier A/B tools, they designed Optimizely to be usable by non-programmers, with a powerful graphical interface that lets clients drag, resize, retype, replace, insert and delete on the fly. Then it tracks user behaviour and delivers results. It's an intuitive platform that offers the A/B experience, previously the sole province of web giants such as Google and Amazon, to small and midsize companies -- even ones without a hardcore engineering or testing team. What this means goes way beyond just a nimbler approach to site design. By subjecting all these decisions to the rule of data, A/B tends to shift the whole operating philosophy -- even the power structure -- of companies that adopt it. A/B is revolutionising the way that firms develop websites and, in the process, rewriting some of the fundamental rules of business.Here are some of these new principles:Choose everything The online payment platform WePay designed its home page through a testing process. "We did it as a contest," CEO Bill Clerico says. "A few of our engineers built different home pages, and we put them in rotation." For two months, every user that came to WePay.com was randomly assigned a home page, and at the end the numbers made the decision. In the past, that exercise would have been impossible -- and because it was impossible, the design would have emerged in a completely different way. Someone in the company, perhaps Clerico himself, would have wound up choosing a design. But with A/B testing, WePay didn't have to make a decision. After all, if you can test everything, then simply choose all of the above and let the customers sort it out.For that same reason, A/B increasingly makes meetings irrelevant. Where editors at a news site, for example, might have sat around a table for 15 minutes trying to decide on the best phrasing for an important headline, they can simply run all the proposed headlines and let the testing decide. Consensus, even democracy, has been replaced by pluralism -- resolved by data.The mantra of "choose everything" also becomes a way for companies to test out relationships with other companies -- and in so doing becomes a powerful way for them to win new business and take on larger rivals. In 2011 a fund-raising site called GoFundMe was talking to WePay about the possibility of switching to its service from payment giant PayPal. GoFundMe CEO Brad Damphousse was open about his dissatisfaction with PayPal's service; WePay responded, as startups usually do, by claiming that its product solved all the problems that plagued its larger competitor. "Of course we were skeptical and didn't really believe them," Damphousse recalls with a laugh.But harnessing the power of A/B testing, WePay could present Damphousse with an irresistible proposition: give us ten percent of your traffic and test the results against PayPal in real time. It was an almost entirely risk-free way for the startup to prove itself, and it paid off. After Damphousse saw the data on the first morning, he switched half his traffic by the afternoon -- and all of it by the next day.Data makes the call Google insiders, and A/B enthusiasts more generally, have a derisive term to describe a decision-making system that fails to put data at its heart: HiPPO -- "highest-paid person's opinion". As Google analytics expert Avinash Kaushik declares, "most websites suck because HiPPOs create them".Tech circles are rife with stories of the clueless boss. In Amazon's early days, developer Greg Linden came up with the idea of giving personalised "impulse buy" recommendations to customers as they checked out, based on what was in their shopping cart. But his feature was shot down at demo. "I was told I was forbidden to work on this any further. It should have stopped there."Instead, Linden worked up an A/B test. It showed that Amazon stood to gain so much revenue from the feature that all arguments against it were rendered null by the data. "In some organisations, challenging a senior vice-president would be a fatal mistake, right or wrong," linden wrote in a blog post on the subject. But once he'd put the idea in front of real customers, the higher-ups had to bend. Siroker recalls similar shifts during his time with the Obama campaign. "It started as a pretty political environment -- where, as you can imagine, HiPPO syndrome reigned supreme. I think over time people started to see the value in taking a step back and saying, 'Here's three things we should try. Let's run an experiment.'"This was the culture that he had come from at Google, what you might call a democracy of data. "Very early in Google's inception," Siroker explains, "if an engineer had an idea and had the data to back it up, it didn't matter that they weren't the VP of some business unit. They could make a case. And that's the culture that Google believed in from the beginning." Once adopted, that approach will beat the HiPPOs every time, he says. "A/B will empower a whole class of businesses to say, 'We want to do it the way Google does it. We want to do it the way Amazon does it.' " Says WePay's Bill Clerico: "On Facebook, under 'Religious Views', my profile says: 'In God we trust. All others, bring data.'" 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X-FAB Group, the mixed signal foundry based in Erfurt, Germany, today announced a new development that makes photodiodes for analog applications available to its customers for the first time. The advancement is X-FAB's latest in a string of successes in bringing the outstanding features of CMOS processes to new analog applications. X-FAB's new photodiodes have a spectral sensitivity comparable to the human eye and, furthermore, are suitable for infrared applications. Native CMOS diodes are the technological foundation.
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Vinewood Cemetery
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The Vinewood Cemetery is is located in Vinewood, Los Santos. The cemetery is featured a few times throughout the game. It first appears in Sweet & Kendl where Ryder, Big Smoke, Sweet and Kendl Johnson are all mourning the death of Beverly Johnson, the matriarch of the Johnson family. At the end of the funeral, the gang minus Kendl are leaving the cemetery when the Ballas show up in a red Voodoo and attempt to kill Sweet; however, they end up destroying Big Smoke's Perennial, prompting the gang to flee with BMX's and to head back to Grove Street. Later in the game, Carl kills Little Weasel who, as a high ranking member of the Ballas gang, is given a funeral in the mission Los Sepulcros, with Ballas O.G. Kane in attendance. Sweet devises a plan to sneak over the wall located at the back of the cemetery to kill Kane and the other Ballas members.
- The area surrounding the cemetery is referred to as "Los Sepulcros" (Spanish for "The Graves") in the mission of the same name, though the game map does not list this area as such. It could be suggested that it was intended for the area to be called Los Sepulcros and not simply be another area in Vinewood.


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What will it take for Kevin Costner to give a performance again? His new movie, the western Open Range, which he also directed, has a lot going for it – beautiful camerawork, impressive editing, a strong, simple storyline, a marvelously cantankerous Robert Duvall – yet smack at the center is sweet, dear, painfully inadequate Kevin Costner, looking and sounding so uninvolved with his surroundings and his fellow actors that he weakens his entire film. (It took great restraint to laugh at him only once, at his hysterically unmotivated reading of the cowpoke classic "Let's rustle up some grub.") Some will argue that Costner is actually deeply in character, playing an uncivilized man for whom conversation and companionship offer little comfort, but look at him onscreen: His Zen blankness is indistinguishable from a coma, and his "concentration" resembles nothing so much as a somnambulist struggling to stay awake. As usual, Costner is fine with rare moments of fringe comedy – reminding us why we once liked him in movies like Bull Durham and Field of Dreams and Tin Cup – but he's positively deadly in Open Range, and not because of his character's prowess with a gun.
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Ravenclaw Tower serves as the as the common room for students in Ravenclaw house at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
The entrance to the common room is located on the west side of Hogwarts at the top of a spiral staircase, presumably located on the fifth floor, and is a door without a doorknob or keyhole, but a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle. In order to enter the room, a person must answer a riddle asked by the eagle knocker; if they answer incorrectly, they must wait for someone else who gets it right.[HP7]
Known Riddles
- Question: "Which came first, the phoenix, or the flame?"
- Answer: "A circle has no beginning."
- — Luna Lovegood[src]
- Question: "Where do Vanished objects go?"
- Answer: "Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything."
- — Minerva McGonagall[src]
Common Room
The Ravenclaw common room is one of the airiest rooms at Hogwarts. It is a wide, circular room with a midnight blue carpet, arched windows hung with blue and bronze silks, and a domed ceiling painted with stars. During the day, Ravenclaw students have an excellent view of the school grounds, including the lake, Forbidden Forest, Quidditch pitch, Herbology gardens and the surrounding mountains. The room is furnished with tables, chairs, and bookcases; and by the door leading up to the dormitories stands a tall statue of Rowena Ravenclaw made of white marble. According to Prefect Robert Hilliard, the sound of wind whistling around the windows of the tower is very relaxing while going to sleep.
The Ravenclaw dormitories are also located in the Tower, beside a statue of Rowena Ravenclaw, with two doors leading off from the common room. One of them leads to the girls' dormitory, the other to the boys'
Behind the scenes
- Since the entrance to Ravenclaw Tower requires an answer to a riddle rather than a password, it seems to be relatively easy for members of other Houses to enter the common room if they are intelligent enough. For example, Minerva McGonagall, Head of Gryffindor House, entered the tower when Amycus Carrow was looking for Harry Potter.
- It is thought that the Ravenclaw Tower could possibly be the Central Tower as it is one of the tallest Hogwarts Towers. However, this is unlikely since the tower is squared and the common room is circular. It could also be the Stone Bridge Tower, since that was one of the only towers to change in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Alternatively, it could also be a turret on the Astronomy tower, but this is unlikely.
- Even though the Common Room does not appear in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, we still get to view the stairwell inside the Tower.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, it is strange that Harry knows where the common room is despite not going there in previous films. In the novel, Luna Lovegood takes him to the Tower, although he could have found where the common room was by examining the Marauder's Map.
See also
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (Appears in a glimpse)
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A win-win situation for Toshiba and OCZ: Q&A with Alex Mei, CMO of OCZ Storage Solutions
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As part of Toshiba, OCZ Storage Solutions is able to leverage Toshiba's NAND and combine it with its proprietary controllers, firmware and software. Toshiba's financial strength has also put OCZ in a better position to...
Focus on enterprise SSD: Q&A with OCZ CMO Alex Mei
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OCZ Technology shifted its corporate focus away from legacy DRAM memory modules in 2011, and has since built on its expertise in high-speed memory to become a leader in the design and manufacturing of solid state drives...
Solid state storage for the enterprise and consumers: Q&A with Alex Mei, CMO at OCZ Technology
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Solid state storage is one of the fastest growing segments in the IT industry, with SSD shipments alone forecast to see a CAGR of 63%, to reach over 201 million units in 2016, according to IHS iSuppli. Whether it is increased...
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The US Justice Department's antitrust cases against the world's major LCD panel makers have resulted in hefty fines for companies and prison terms for executives. Among them were Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) and its president...
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Once known as a supplier of premium DRAM modules, OCZ Technology has recognized its fiscal 2011 a transformational year for the company. In the year ended February 28, 2011, OCZ shifted its corporate focus away from the...
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(2) vessel traffic characteristics and trends, including traffic volume, the sizes and types of vessels involved, potential interference with the flow of commercial traffic, the presence of any unusual cargoes, and other similar factors;
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Source(Pub. L. 92–340, § 5, formerly title I, § 104,July 10, 1972, 86 Stat. 427; renumbered and amended Pub. L. 95–474, § 2,Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1474; Pub. L. 107–295, title IV, § 443(2),Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2132.)
2002—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–295substituted "safety, protection of the marine environment, and the safety and security of United States ports and waterways," for "safety and protection of the marine environment," in introductory provisions.
1978—Pub. L. 95–474substituted provision relating to factors to be considered by the Secretary and to consultation by the Secretary with affected groups for provision relating to the issuance of rules and regulations by the Secretary.
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Freegal is your access to free downloaded music from the Sony Music catalog. A streaming option has now been added to their catalog. Download 5 of your favorite songs each week or listen to a full album by streaming (5 hours/week). Visit our Download page on the KPL site for more information and helpful links to our other digital services.
One of the most buzzed about jazz albums of the year is Miles Davis at Newport: 1955-1975, the Bootleg Series Volume 4. Our compact disc copy will be here soon but if you don't want to wait, stream this extraordinary portrait of one of jazz's most important innovators which includes performances with legendary collaborators John Coltrane, Paul Chambers, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk and Julien "Cannonball" Adderley.
A new Netflix documentary titled What Happened, Miss Simone? has recently generated interest from film and music critics. Simone was a true original in every sense of the term. Her resume includes being a classically trained musician who attended Julliard, a vocal civil rights firebrand who wrote songs memorializing MLK and the young victims of a church bombing in Mississippi (Mississippi Goddamn), and an innovative Jazz vocalist who often mixed her classical training into her renditions of Jazz and Blues standards. She was also a complex human being who suffered from mental illness and butted heads with the music industry throughout much of her career. She's widely considered one of the great musicians of the 20th century. Check out her music from the library's music collection or stream the albums through Hoopla and Freegal.
Every once in a while I come across a musician or an album that makes me stop and really listen. Valerie June is just one of those musicians and her album Pushin' Against the Stone is just one of those albums. Her music is bluesy and folky, with soul and funk, and her voice is the perfect conduit to blend all those styles together. She's also a great storyteller, and I find listening to her music evokes a similar atmosphere to many of my favorite southern gothic writers (think Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor or Toni Morrison). This was love at first listen for me.
You can find a copy of Pushin' Against the Stone both in our CD collection and on our streaming music service Hoopla
Singer Billy Stewart had chart success during the 1960's with hits like Fat Boy, Summertime, Sitting in the Park, Secret Love, and You Reap What You Sow and while he's not as well-known as the Motown label singers or James Brown, Stewart possessed and original style all his own that's worth checking out if you're a fan of old school rhythm and blues. His signature trademarks were improvising, scatting and rolling his tongue, all of which provided his vocal interpretations with a unique vitality. Tragically, Stewart died at 33 from an auto accident in 1970. For those new to his sound, try this excellent compilation that includes Stewart's recordings on the famous Chess Records label.
Raphael Saadiq has been around for quite a while. He came as a surprise to me because his vintage sounds. He seems extremely talented and is well packaged. He initially played with Tony! Toni! Tone! Over the years he has worked behind the scenes as a producer for some top names like, John Legend, Joss Stone, Stevie Wonder, Mary J Blige and the list goes on to some surprising other great artists.
What I really like about him is that he is very versatile. Raphael Saadiq is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and a record producer. I've read that his heroes are Chuck Berry, Stevie Wonder, Sly Stone and Little Walter. He says he wants to be a throwback with a futuristic twist. That certainly comes through on his latest CD Stone Rollin. That CD took me back to the 50s and 60s. It also had me reminiscing about Sam Cook. There are many great sounds and it is a great show of talent. It's definitely R&B at its finest and it had me rolling.
More buried treasure from the Friends Bookstore! This time some sweet blues to warm the cold winter away. Buddy Guy's Icon is an 11-song collection focused on his early years with Chess (1960-67), including early versions of "Stone Crazy," "I Got My Eyes on You," "When My Left Eye Jumps," "Watch Yourself," and "My Time After Awhile." Good good stuff.
On the more current side of things, I was really excited to find two great pieces by Keb' Mo' – his eleventh and latest release, The Reflection (2011), and The Door, his fifth album, released in 2000. The Reflection has a slick and smooth funky soulful feel, with lots of help from jazz greats Dave Koz and Marcus Miller. Not my favorite Keb' release, but it's still well worth owning. The Door, on the other hand, IS one of my favorites. It has a much more acoustic and rootsy feel, with help from Greg Phillinganes, Reggie McGride, and (much to my surprise) violinist Scarlet Rivera (of Rolling Thunder fame). A fine Friends find, indeed.
Bargains in the Basement is an occasional series highlighting noteworthy items unearthed in the lower level of Central Library. What a treasure we have (quite literally) in the Friends Bookstore. When you can grab high quality books, music, and movies for little more than pocket change, life is good. And all the proceeds go to help support the library. So shop often; you never know what you'll find. And stay tuned… I'll let you know what I find!
Butler is a native of Cape Town, South Africa. He started singing on the streets of Athlone for food and began touring when he was 7 years old. It's hard to peg him because he has so many great sounds. He's a singer, song writer and guitar player and he's been described as a rhythm and blues, jazz and worship performer. He would probably approve of those tags because he does all of them well but I think his heart is in his gospel music. He's good! His cool jazz blends well into a gospel. And as far as rhythm and blues is concerned, I had to look the definition up and make sure I knew what rhythm and blues was. Under R&B, I saw words like urban, soul, gospel and others that would classify Butler as a contemporary R&B artist. Well, one thing is for sure, he's definitely got rhythm and he knows his blues. Still, I think Jonathan Butler would like to be best known for his uplifting, spiritual sound, which he is highly respected for.
KPL has several of his CDs. Some of his titles are Jonathan Butler, Surrender, The Source, Do you love me? He's on a jazz CD called Summer Horns with Dave Koz and friends. Watch for his new CD Grace and Mercy. I'm sure it, too, will have a great sound.
The music world bid farewell to another guitar great on Wednesday with the passing of Alvin Lee. During the late 1960s and 1970s, the British born Lee fronted the band Ten Years After, and set the world on fire at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969 with "I'm Going Home." Lee was known for his lightning fast guitar work and sensitive interpretations of blues standards and his own compositions. Lee recorded nearly 30 studio and live albums during his career—to this day, Ten Years After Recorded Live remains one of my own "desert island" selections… most notably for its incendiary cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Help Me." His latest album, Still on the Road to Freedom, was released last year. Lee was 68. photo: alvinlee.com
I have always been a big
Norah Jones fan. She is one of the few artists to
have passed a tough test in my household: I can play Come away with me in my alarm clock every morning to
wake me up and I still enjoy the CD. There are not many CDs
that stand up to this test. So you can understand my pleasure
when I discovered a Norah Jones CD that I hadn't heard before in
the KPL collection. It's called Featuring and is a CD of duets and collaborations between
Jones and a wide variety of singers and musical groups. And
when I say "variety", I mean it! This CD is so neat in that
it showcases how versatile Jones is with her distinctive and
soulful voice pairing her with artists and groups such as
Willie Nelson,
Ray Charles, the
Foo Fighters, and
Ryan Adams.
The CD starts strong with a track from
The Little Willies. Jones and friends formed The Little
Willies in 2003 and came out with their second album For the Good Times in 2012. (You can also find
them on another excellent CD in the library's
collection: Putumayo presents Americana. It's bound to put you
in a good mood!) I was unfamiliar with Sasha Dobson prior to
this CD, but her duet, Bull Rider, is
fantastic! I have requested her CD through MeLCat and look
forward to become more acquainted with her music. Halfway
through the CD, Jones and friends adopt a totally different style
in Take Off Your Cool with
Outkast, Life is Better with
Q-Tip, and Soon the New Day with
Talib Kweli. A few songs later, there is a duet with Ray
Charles…need I say more? Who doesn't like Ray Charles??
But then, in my humble opinion, the CD reaches its pinnacle with
track 15: Creepin' In with
Dolly Parton. I love Dolly. Always have and always
will. This song makes me want to dance and sing over and over
again as I play it on repeat.
Basically, what I hope this blog conveys, is that this
compilation of songs is wonderful. Each and every song is as
delightful as it is different. I highly recommend this CD for
your listening pleasure.
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells toured and recorded together for decades, but this week's edition of Friends Finds consists of two separate recordings by these blues legends. Recorded in 2001 at the age of 65, Buddy Guy's Sweet Tea is fresh and raw, arguably one of the most immediate recording he's made thus far. (Now 76, he's still at it.) Its uncluttered North Mississippi sound places Guy's guitar right up front where it belongs. Guy himself says, "That's the way music was before it got too much tech and too many people." Amen.
On the other hand, if we rewind back some three-and-a-half decades before Sweet Tea, we find the late Junior Wells and his band introducing their blend of blues and R&B to enthusiastic (and for the first time, predominantly white) audiences. Recorded just months after his debut, Hoodoo Man Blues, and released in 2010, Live in Boston 1966 is as authentic a piece of Chicago blues history as you'll find. At a mere buck apiece, I snapped up both of these gems without hesitation.
Consider this little series the KPL equivalent of "Flea Market Finds," an ongoing report of the latest bargains unearthed in the lower level of Central Library. What a treasure we have (quite literally) in the Friends Bookstore. When you can grab high quality books, music, and movies for little more than pocket change, life is good. And all the proceeds go to a great cause, too. So shop often; you never know what you'll find. And stay tuned… I'll let you know what I find!
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Blonde beauty Amanda Seyfried knows how to play up her best feature - her perfect pout. The actress turned heads during the 2013 National Board of Reviews Awards Gala in New York City recently wearing a gorgeous dress and stand-out lipstick.
Seyfried looked ultra fashion-forward during the event, thanks to her stunning fuchsia lipstick with a darker cranberry top coat. The mix created a glamorous look on her lips, which is why she kept the rest of her makeup minimal. The actress dazzled in a light peach bronzer on her cheeks that helped her achieve a heavenly glow. Her blue eyes sparkled with shimmering gold eyeshadow on the top lids.
The gold and pink vibes worked well with her metallic-inspired frock. The high neckline of the dress was made of a gold material and vertical stripes of the same fabric along with a lighter metallic version transcended down the entire body of the dress. A horizontal stripe at her waist worked to show off her small frame. The addition of copper-colored hardware on the middle portion of the stripes added a rocker-chic vibe.


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Drama erupted yesterday when national women football team (Twiga Stars) players rejected 100,000/- each which was given to them as their share from the 10m/- donated to them on Thursday by Members of Parliament.
Members of Parliament donated 7m/- cash to Twiga Stars through Tanzania Football Federation (TTF) and promised to donate the remaining 3m/- on another day.
According to some senior players of the team who asked not to be named, the 100,000/- which was given to each one does not match the money which they were supposed to get.
Twiga Stars team manager Furaha Francis confirmed the backward development and said her team's officials and some senior players are discussing on the matter to find a solution before the day of the game which is tomorrow.
Twiga Stars team manager Furaha Francis confirmed the backward development and said her team's officials and some senior players are discussing on the matter to find a solution before the day of the game which is tomorrow.
The players said they were surprised that the soccer federation body took 2m/- from the donated 7m/-, claiming that they want to pay food bills which the players accumulated up to the day of the match.
"How can TFF take 2m/- from our money and claim that they want to pay food bills, this is not true. The fact is that we eat and sleep free in our camp which is in the JKT Ruvu military base," said one of the players.
The players said the development demoralized the camp because it happened only two days before their second leg tie against Namibia. They said this may affect them on the day of the match.
"Even if only 5m/- has remained from the money legislators donated to us, it's unrealistic that we get 100,000/- each. I think TFF are aware of the financial predicaments we are going through," she said.
She said TFF could have consulted them before coming up with their decision, adding that other teams value consultations before making decisions.
"Money matters are very sensitive and TFF should have been wise enough to consult us before making their decisions. Some of us we are breadwinners back home," she said.
TFF secretary general Angetile Osiah confirmed that his association took 2m/- but the money was meant to pay the bills which the players and officials have been accumulating for the past 5 days at an eating place in the city.


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Introduced by Logan Graphic Products, the FoamWerks line of foamboard tools allow anyone to cut foamboard and cellfoam easily and precisely. FoamWerks tools are accurate and easy to use.
They're perfect for framing, architectural and room models, signs, craft projects, home décor, school projects, and much more. All of the cutters feature ergonomic designs and
Drill perfect holes in foamboard using interchangeable
NOTE: Always use a scrap piece of foamboard underneath the piece you are cutting to protect the tool and extend the life of the blades.
® Logan is a registered trademark. ™ FoamWerks is a trademark.