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Christopher Wheeldon with Heather Ogden in rehearsal for Polyphonia
Internationally acclaimed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has received many awards for his work including the London Critics' Circle Award for Best New Ballet for Polyphonia, the American Choreography Award and the Laurence Olivier Award. Mr. Wheeldon studied at The Royal Ballet School and joined The Royal Ballet in 1991. That same year, he won the Gold Medal at the Prix de Lausanne. In 1993, he joined New York City Ballet. He began his choreographic career with New York City Ballet in 1997 when he created Slavonic Dances for the company's annual showcase.
In 2000, he retired from dancing to concentrate on choreography and served as New York City Ballet's first Artist-in-Residence, creating two ballets, Polyphonia and Variations Sérieuses. In 2001, Mr. Wheeldon was named New York City Ballet's first Resident Choreographer and from 2007 to 2010, was Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Morphoses / The Wheeldon Company. He has choreographed such works as Morphoses, After the Rain, An American in Paris and The Nightingale and the Rose. Among the celebrated ballets Mr. Wheeldon has created for other companies are Continuum for San Francisco Ballet, Tryst and DGV (Danse à Grande Vitesse) for The Royal Ballet and a full-length Swan Lake for Pennsylvania Ballet. For Morphoses / The Wheeldon Company's inaugural season, Mr. Wheeldon choreographed two new works, Fools' Paradise and Prokofiev Pas de Deux.
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When I was a young'n, I thought having a tattoo was the ultimate form of badassery. If a boy had a tattoo, it meant he was the much-desired bad boy and probably wore a leather jacket and rode a motorcycle too. The Bangz's energetic music video for their song 'Boys with Tattoos (We Jerkin')' sings about the common temptation.
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I'm changing out a ceiling fan to a regular light fixture. The ceiling fan was wired to two switches----one to operate light, one to operate fan. Do you think it's ok to just cap off the hot and neutral wires that I won't be using up at the ceiling box and leaving it wired to the switch I won't be using? |
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you can, but i would disconnect them and cap them in the switch as well. and leav ea note on BOTH ends saying where they go and why they are disconnected. |
You will only have one wire to cap off. The fan and light will be using the same neutral wire. It is fine to just cap the unused wire with a wire nut. |
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Joni Mitchell - The Studio Albums 1968 - 1979
From Laurel Canyon to jazz-rock's far outposts - the suffragette of sensuality's stunning first decade...
Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female artist in music history. While there have undoubtedly been more impressive singers, from Billie Holiday to Aretha Franklin to Dusty Springfield, prior to Mitchell's emergence female performers were largely restricted to interpretive roles. Even the formidably talented Carole King had to wait until the '70s for significant success as a singer-songwriter with Tapestry.
But Mitchell's wider influence is undeniable, with artists far removed from her initial folk-music scene acknowledging her impact - Prince, famously, is a huge fan, and Madonna has admitted that "of all the women I've heard, she had the most profound effect on me from a lyrical point of view". Not to mention, one imagines, Mitchell's presentation of herself as a sexually self-determining woman at a time when submissive acquiescence was the dominant mode afforded newly "liberated" women; nor her capacity to negotiate some of the most complex and unvarnished emotional analyses ever set to music. Joni Mitchell was a true emancipator, a suffragette of sensuality blessed with a heightened poetic sensibility.
There is no better evocation of the dawn of a new, more questing consciousness than Joni's early albums: the very album title Ladies Of The Canyon is redolent of flaxen-haired damsels in Angeleno hippie paradise. Mitchell had been discovered by David Crosby, who became the first of her Laurel Canyon lovers. As producer of her debut album Songs To A Seagull, Crosby's main aim was to capture her talent as clearly as possible, unencumbered by overweening arrangements. "I didn't do a very good job producing it," Crosby once told me modestly, "but she did make an astounding record."
The opening track "I Came To The City" deals with her early marriage, as if opening the album with a line drawn under her previous life. As such, it presages the strain of confessional honesty that runs throughout her work. Couched in imagery of pirates and seabirds, gems, flowers and fabrics, the rest of the album expresses her driving need for freedom, especially from the anchoring restraints of would-be suitors keen to pin her down. Heard retrospectively, the cold detail of the songs, and the austere purity of her voice, speak volumes about her clear-eyed ambition.
Studded with the early classics "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now", Clouds is suffused with romantic uncertainty, hope and betrayal, like a ledger of the emotional accounting of the free-love era, profit and loss measured not just in love, but in the restraints and expectations love places upon us: the older woman "left to winter here" in "The Gallery" and the hesitant steps into new territory taken in "Tin Angel" and "I Don't Know Where I Stand". Ladies Of The Canyon added "Big Yellow Taxi", "Woodstock" and "The Circle Game" to her burgeoning canon of classics, while "Willy" - lover Graham Nash's nickname - became one of the earliest examples of the new mode of autobiographical revelation that turned Laurel Canyon scenesters' songs into diaristic soap operas. But Blue was the landmark album, the apotheosis of Joni's early style in which her lyrical strategies, melodies and vocal approaches were handled with a compelling confidence, and sequenced with an intelligent regard for what might be called the album's emotional topography. Even today, there is no better evocation of the light-hearted joy of romance than "Carey", with its see-sawing melody, and a delivery that slips so easily between affectionate yearning and bubbly excitement.
The same themes sustained through For The Roses in the fretful self-absorption of "Woman Of Heart And Mind" and "Lesson In Survival", while both "You Turn Me On I'm A Radio" and "Blonde In The Bleachers" dealt head-on with the difficulties of sustaining relationships between musicians. But it was Tom Scott's reeds that offered the clearest indicator of how Mitchell's music would develop through the '70s. The fuller arrangements of Court And Spark, with their jazz-inflected horns, have the effect of freeing up the songs: the material is just as romantically themed as before, just as anxious about appearances and social graces, but the general mood is lighter and less insular: the backing vocals, flute and Larry Carlton's guitar give a mousse-light soul mood to a song like "Help Me", while the jazz-pop texture of "Car On A Hill" offers an early blueprint of the sophisticated sound for which Steely Dan were searching at the time.
With Carlton, vibraphonist Victor Feldman and the Dan's Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter involved, that sound came even closer on The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, perhaps Mitchell's greatest accomplishment. The arrangements this time incorporated bass flute, flugelhorn, and miasmic electric piano, with "The Jungle Line" offered the most dynamic expression of the album's overall theme tracking the thin veneer, between the primitive and the sophisticated. The album's protagonists live in gated communities like prisons ("He gave her a room full of Chippendale that nobody sits in"), disguise themselves in the "stolen clothes" of long-gone movie icons, and engage in the courtly rounds of "The Boho Dance", pointedly contrasted with the reminiscence of a furtive but free youthhood of romance and rock'n'roll in "In France They Kiss On Main Street".
Besides Larry Carlton, bassist Jaco Pastorius had the biggest impact on Mitchell's late-'70s sound, his floating fretless tones and deft harmonics at their most sensuous on the lovely "Coyote" from Hejira, an album about her constant search for love and music, depicted as a flight from both boredom and the anchorages of partnership and marriage. Accordingly, the songs are missives from a variety of locales (New York, LA, Memphis, Savannah), a succession of hotel rooms, and a string of lovers - literally, in the closing track's title, "The Refuge Of The Roads".
Unfortunately, Joni's Jazz Odyssey leads her into less agreeable territory on the double-album Don Juan's Reckless Daughter and Mingus, the tribute album of songs co-written with the late Charles Mingus. On the former, Pastorius's bass becomes deeply irritating, evoking the supercilious self-satisfaction of '70s jazz-rock, while the side-long semi-improvised jazz symphony "Paprika Plains" is one of the least appealing items in Mitchell's catalogue. One can't help thinking that Tim Buckley blended folk and jazz so much more guilelessly, and infinitely more enjoyably, ten years before.
Sadly, Mingus finds her more deeply embroiled with such as Pastorius, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, pursuing the etiolated, lifelessly academic jazz style of the era. Her description of the pieces as "audio paintings" exactly fingers the problem: I don't want audio paintings from a great songwriter, I want songs. Is there something wrong with that?
Andy Gill
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UPDATE, JUNE 2012: The NLRB on May 30, 2012, issued its third report on social media cases brought to the agency. The report calls into question the legality of some wording employers commonly use in their SM policies. The Operations Management Memo details seven cases involving such policies. In six cases, the General Counsel's office found some provisions of the employer's social media policy to be lawful. In the seventh case, the entire policy was found to be lawful.
Whether they're shooting off their own tweets or following others, employees using Twitter—the fastest growing social media site—are creating liability and PR risks with their 140-character rants, raves and company gossip.
Example: A high-profile public relations executive landed in Memphis and promptly posted on his Twitter account, "I would die if I had to live here." The problem: Memphis is home to FedEx, one of the PR exec's largest clients. Oops. Needless to say, FedEx reps were not amused.
The trend isn't confined to Twitter, Facebook or other social media tools. Any kind of blog or video can spread your employees' "youthful indiscretions" around the world in seconds.
Example 2: When two employees at a North Carolina Domino's pizza delivery store were bored one evening, one filmed the other sticking a piece of cheese up his nose and then placing it on a sandwich soon to be delivered to a customer. They posted the video on YouTube. More than half a million hits later, Domino's had a viral gross-out PR nightmare on its hands and the health department at its doorstep.
In an ideal world, both of these incidents would be covered by a policy reading, "For gosh sakes, people, use your heads!" But behavior is easier to legislate than common sense, which means crafting policies that rein in how employees may use technology on the job. Defining the technology and the problem
According to a recent survey conducted by Deloitte, 22% of employees say that they use some form of social networking five or more times per week, and 15% of employees admit they access social networking while at work for personal reasons. Yet, only 22% of companies have a formal policy that guides employees in how they can use social networking at work.
Before we can figure out what to do about these exploding media at work, we first need to know exactly what we are dealing with. So, for the uninitiated, the following is a short lesson on the various types of social networking that are likely being accessed from your workplace right now.
Blogs: Blog is short for weblog. Blogs either provide commentary on news or a particular subject, or serve as an online diary. There are hundreds of millions of blogs on the Internet, many updated every day.
Facebook: Facebook started as an online tool for college and university students to connect with each other. It has since expanded to allow anyone over the age of 13 with a valid email address to open a free account. It is loosely organized into a variety of networks based on schools, location, employers, charities and other causes. Connections are known as "friends." People update with short written blurbs about what they're doing, pictures, video and the like.
LinkedIn: LinkedIn is an online network for professionals. It allows people to search and connect via alma mater, location, employer or various user-created groups. It has over 41 million members.
Twitter: Twitter is latest big thing in social networking. It is known as "micro-blogging." "Tweets" are text-based posts of up to 140 characters, displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to followers, other users who have subscribed. Crafting the policy: The 7 key questions
A perfect social networking policy to cover these new media could be drafted using only a few words: "Be mature, be ethical, and think before you type." Ultimately, you may decide that such brevity is what you want for you business. For the sake of completeness, though, here are the seven most important questions to ask yourself when drafting a social networking policy.
1. How far do you want to reach? Social networking presents two concerns for employers—how employees are spending their time at work, and how employees are portraying your company online when they are not at work. Any social networking policy must address both types of online use.
2. Do you want to permit social networking at work, at all? It is not realistic to ban all social networking at work. For one thing, you will lose the benefit of business-related networking. Further, a blanket ban is also hard to monitor and enforce.
3. If you prohibit social networking, how will you monitor it? Turning off Internet access, installing software to block certain sites or monitoring employees' use and disciplining offenders are all possibilities, depending on how aggressive you want to be and how much time you want to spend watching what your employees do online.
4. If you permit employees to social network at work, do you want to limit it to work-related conduct, or permit limited personal use? How you answer this question depends on how you balance productivity versus marketing return.
5. Do you want employees to identify with your business when networking online? Employees should be made aware that if they post as an employee of your company, the company will hold them responsible for any negative portrayals. Or, you could simply require that employees not affiliate with your business and lose the networking and marketing potential Web 2.0 offers.
6. How do you define "appropriate business behavior?" Employees need to understand that what they post online is public, and they have no privacy rights in what they put out for the world to see. Anything in cyberspace can be used as grounds to discipline an employee, no matter whether the employee wrote it from work or outside of work.
7. How will social networking intersect with your broader harassment, technology and confidentiality policies? Employment policies do not work in a vacuum. Employees' online presence—depending on what they are posting—can violate any number of other corporate policies. Drafting a social networking policy is an excellent opportunity to revisit, update and fine-tune other policies.
Contributor: Jon Hyman, a partner with Kohrman Jackson & Krantz PLL, a Cleveland-based law firm, and editor of the Ohio Employment Law newsletter. Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com.
According to a Society for Human Resource Management report, here are some specific guidelines for drafting a policy on employees' use of Twitter or other social-networking tools.
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An assembly of state and local government representatives cut the ribbon on the Georgia Grown Visitors Center at the State Farmer's Market in Forest Park Friday to showcase the facility's opportunity to increase agri-tourism in Clayton County. The ceremony marks the embarkment of revitalization efforts in the area, which officials say aim to increase tourism and commerce through a multitude of infrastructure improvements like commuter rail, roadway extensions, and facility expansions. Expansion of retail within the market is an emphasis for the Clayton County Tourism Authority that wants to marry agriculture and tourism, said Beth Bailey, the spokesperson for the Georgia Grown Center. The market plans to replace some of its facilities with more restaurants and shopping opportunities to broaden the scope of its visitation, she said. Market improvements will attract agricultural-based groups like the Texas Cooperative Extension Service, who recently sent 100 rangers to tour the market, Bailey said. Groups like the rangers would purchase produce from the market while spending money in the area's hotels and restaurants, she said. Arrangements with metro Atlanta's convention centers also would send the market more visitors looking to see the sights, Bailey said. The sum of the improvements would create a multi-faceted market that served trade-purposes as well as establish it as an tourist icon worldwide, said Tommy Irvin, the commissioner of the state Department of Agriculture. Tourism in Clayton County produces $24.18 million in tax revenue, said Stacey Dickson, the president of the Clayton County Convention Center and Visitors Bureau. "Clayton County is among the highest revenue producers for the tourism industry. Of course, our fortune of being home of the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport plays a huge role in the fact that we generate so much revenue," she said. As economic revitalization continues to progress in the State Farmers Market, federal and local representation for the area has called for a deviation from centralizing state administrative facilities in downtown Atlanta. Officials hope to loosen downtown Atlanta's lock on the facilities by sprinkling division offices throughout the state. Congressman David Scott has fueled a push to bring a portion of the state Department of Agriculture to the Farmer's Market. Scott recently suggested that the Farmer's Market could provide an ideal place to house a related division of the agriculture department. "It would bring tremendous prestige for the community," he said. "If we approached it in a manageable way, it would be very doable." However, Scott said he could do only so much on the federal level. The move would require some "traction" locally before it could reach fruition, he said. "If we get some traction on this idea, I'd be the first one at the table," he said. But Commissioner Irvin rebuffed the idea when asked about it at Friday's ribbon cutting, even as enthusiasm for the move simmered in local leaders who said they looked forward to elevating the market's reputation to national status. "There would be no place here for it if there were a desire," Irvin said. "The Department of Agriculture is pretty well-housed across from the capitol." Eldrin Bell, the Democratic-nominee for the county chairman, took the opportunity to add the idea to his election platform. "I would certainly move to bring any state agency here that could be of value to Clayton County," he said. "What we're seeing her today is just the way that kind of cooperation with the state helps in our efforts to advance tourism." Michael Onyemenam, the Republican-nominee for county chairman, did not attend the ceremony but also expressed his approval of the idea, saying it would help to solidify the state's interest in the market. "It shows that they're not going to abandon it," he said. County Commissioner Carl Rhodenizer said discussions were in place but that current projects needed to make more progress before a state agency would be ready to make the market its headquarters. "In time, it will take place," he said. "Moving development a little further with the commuter rail would help."More like this story
- State takes interest in county's historic assets ( August 17, 2010 )
- Farmers Market Visitors Center set to close ( June 9, 2008 )
- The 'aerotropolis' idea
County Chairman looking at airport-centered plan ( February 26, 2008 ) - Southern Belle unveils new corn maze design ( September 14, 2012 )
- Tourism industry working to increase occupancy ( March 4, 2005 )


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not good with linux? it's not a problem. firstly, you should install wine. your distro should provide a method for installing it (follow their instructions). then go to Wine HQ for more details in running wine. i've never heard of solid edge and, tbh, i doubt it will work. winehq has a list of applications known to work (although it's far from complete) and it should also have the basic instruction manual on too.
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Here's why Linux is easier than Windows:
Package Managers! Apt-Get and Portage (among others) allow users to install programs MUCH easier than Windows can.
Hardware Drivers. In SuSE, ALL the hardware is detected and installed automatically! How is this harder than Windows' constant disc changing and rebooting?


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HELENA — Putting together the pieces of the state's two-year budget takes center stage at the Montana Legislature this week, when lawmakers return from their mid-session break.
But House Republican leaders want the budget puzzle to include more than just a spending plan; they also want it built around a plan for cutting Montanans' taxes, now and into the future.
"I don't want to leave any cracks in this thing," said Rep. Duane Ankney, R-Colstrip, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. "We want to coordinate with the tax bills, so people get the full picture of the budget and spending."
Starting Wednesday, the 21-member committee will spend three days voting on House Bill 2, which sets spending levels for state agencies over the next two years.
In their current form, HB2 and related spending bills compose a $4 billion general fund state budget, about 7 percent higher than the state's current two-year budget. The spending bills also include billions more in federal funds.
Even with that increase, however, the state still has a projected $480 million budget surplus by June 2015, the end of the two-year budget.
How to divvy up that surplus — via spending, tax cuts or both — will be the crux of the battle over the budget waged between the Legislature's Republican majority and Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock.
Spending items that have yet to be decided and that would reduce the surplus are a pay raise for state employees, fixes for financially troubled public-employee pension funds, an oil-and-gas impact fund and proposed state building projects.
Republicans say they support some form of raise for state workers, who haven't had a raise in base pay since 2009, but haven't decided how much or in what form, and the oil-and-gas fund has bipartisan support.
The Bullock administration and its Democratic allies also say they'll try to restore some spending that's been cut from HB2, including the budget of the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, federal funds for family planning and a program to help veterans attend the university system.
But, overall, they're mostly satisfied with spending plans endorsed by joint House-Senate panels that worked on the budget the past two months.
"We're appreciative of the work that the (budget) subcommittees did," said Dan Villa, the governor's budget director. "They've adopted, in large part, the budget of the governor."
The deeper disagreements will be over tax policy, and how much of the $480 million surplus will end up being "spent" on tax cuts, and in what form.
Republican lawmakers have put forth bills proposing income and property tax cuts of more than $300 million, and so far have rejected Bullock's more modest proposals to rebate or cut taxes by some $120 million.
"If the choice is between spending (the surplus) and having tax relief, I think a number of us are in favor of tax relief," said Senate Majority Leader Art Wittich, R-Bozeman. "There's more money coming in than expected.
"I think it's still too early to know which tax bill will be the best, but we know we want a number of them."
Several of these tax bills have been sent to Ankney's Appropriations Committee. He says as the panel votes on HB2 and crafts a proposed overall budget in the coming weeks it also will be sorting out how much tax relief the state can afford, and in what form.
"You look at what you got in (the budget), you look at what you need in there and you look at what you can give back," Ankney said last week. "That's the beauty of Montana; you've got to have a balanced budget. That's what keeps it from getting complicated."
Ankney also says — and Democrats agree — that the budget panels that put together the preliminary budget in HB2 worked mostly in a bipartisan fashion, with many unanimous votes.
"The partisan door has not been slammed in the Appropriations Committee," said Rep. Galen Hollenbaugh of Helena, the panel's Democratic vice-chair. "This committee is working really hard to find our common ground, and then to move on from there."
Still, Hollenbaugh says Democrats worry that tax cuts will take a priority over funding needed state programs.
"Burning the candle at both ends, if you will, through permanent tax cuts needs to be balanced with the programs that are appropriate," he says.


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Office of Residence Life Housing and Meal Plan Contract - 2011-2012
TERM OF CONTRACT: This contract covers the academic year in which the student is enrolled and classified as a fulltime, resident student. All Resident Students are required to have a meal plan and sign a housing and meal plan contract. Students who have roommates or share an apartment or suite may be required to sign a shared responsibility agreement in conjunction with this housing contract.
OCCUPANCY: Occupancy is required by the University's first day of classes. Rooms not claimed by this date may be reassigned, unless the Dean of Students has granted permission for late arrival in writing. Any student who arrives late without prior notification must accept whatever room is assigned, if any. Early arrival to campus at the beginning of each semester, before your assigned check in date, is not permitted unless you have prior approval from the Director of Residence Life. Campus housing closes at 7:00 pm on the evening of the last class day before a vacation and opens at 1:00 pm on the day preceding resumption of classes. During fall and spring breaks, residents may remain on campus with the permission of the Residence Life Office. Students are required to leave their residences within 24 hours of the last final examination, or by hall closing, whichever comes first, unless the Director of Residence Life explicitly authorizes an exception in writing. Note: Assignment of a room does not include occupancy during vacation periods between semesters, i.e. Thanksgiving Break or Winter Break. Summer Housing is covered by a separate contract.
ROOM ASSIGNMENTS AND CHANGES: A change in room assignment is the prerogative of the University. Students may not change rooms without prior authorization from the Residence Life Office. The University reserves all rights with respect to the assignment and reassignment of the room accommodations. Room consolidation is a process all students are expected to adhere to. Those students, who do not secure a private room by payment, will be expected to consolidate to a double room. Students may be administratively removed from their housing assignment if they demonstrate an inability to function appropriately in a residential environment or for non-payment.
VISITORS AND GUESTS: Visitors and guests to University housing and student rooms are permitted only as authorized by University regulations outlined in the Student Handbook 2011-2012. The right of the student to live in reasonable privacy supersedes the right of a roommate to entertain guests. Common sense and mutual respect should be the primary determinants for the invitation of guests to campus. Residents are responsible for the conduct of their guests at all times, and guests must abide by all University policies during their visit. Guests must be escorted at all times by the resident student they are visiting. All overnight guests must be registered with the Residence Life Office and Campus Security.
FACILITIES: The University provides the following: All campus furniture that is placed in your apartment/room must remain inside the room/apartment.
FIRE AND SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS: Permitted items include: clock, stereo of reasonable wattage, small, cube refrigerators, computer, hair care appliances, electric fans, UL approved grounded power strips with fuses, air popcorn makers, coffee maker (with temperature control), hot water pots, toaster ovens (that do not have exposed heating elements with temperature controls), microwaves under 800 watts, and window air conditioners (in Davenport and Danville only). Floor unit air conditioners may be used in Main Hall, if approved by the Office of Residence Life.
Prohibited items include: hot plates, electric frying pans, open flame/exposed heating element cooking appliances, non-portable electric appliances, halogen lamps, fireworks/firecrackers, immersion heaters, candles, firearms/ weapons, space heaters, accelerants, and gasoline driven devices. The University reserves the right to prohibit and/or confiscate any item found within University residence facilities if judged unsafe or hazardous.
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INSPECTION OF ROOMS: Routine inspection of rooms for health, safety, or maintenance reasons will be made monthly and during vacations, and may occur at any time with advance notice. Room and/or apartment searches may be conducted with authorization from the Dean of Students, the President of the University, or their designee.
ROOM AND BOARD RATES (See Meal Plan Options/Cost Below): Room and board rates are paid by the semester. All residential students are required to maintain a dining plan. In the case of withdrawal from the University, while school is in session, there is no refund of room or board charges for the semester. Room and Board Rates are as follows:
Traditional Residence Halls - Danville, Davenport, Main per semester: Unlimited Meal with $25 Bonus Bucks $4,060.00 14 Meal (210 Block) with $50 Bonus Bucks $3,960.00 07 Meal (105 Block) with $75 Bonus Bucks $3,660.00 (not available to first year students)
Traditional Residence Halls/Suites - Bishop, Fugate per semester: Unlimited Meal with $25 Bonus Bucks $4,210.00 14 Meal (210 Block) with $50 Bonus Bucks $4,110.00 07 Meal (105 Block) with $75 Bonus Bucks $3,810.00 (not available to first year students)
Averett Commons Apartments - Cost per semester: *Housing Not Available in Averett Commons for first-year students Unlimited Meal with $25 Bonus Bucks $4,610.00 14 Meal (210 Block) with $50 Bonus Bucks $4,510.00 07 Meal (105 Block) with $75 Bonus Bucks $4.210.00
Mt. View Apartments - International Student Housing Only Housing and Meal Plan Contract apply, as well as conditions outlined in a separate lease agreement signed at check-in. Room and Board cost and payment options are outlined in lease agreement. Required to select a Meal Plan option below.
*Private Room Rate (limited availability)- $800 for the academic year (Must be paid before student is permitted to check-in to room)
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I'm looking to replace my not-so-great pepper grinder. I would like it to be approximately 5 to 8 inches tall and made of wood. And of course it has to have a great grinding mechanism with fine, medium and coarse settings. Any suggestions? |
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- Posted by JessyFeldm_speakeasy (My Page) on Sun, Apr 3, 05 at 6:00
Goojie, the Unicorn Magnum isn't wood, but it is a highly regarded pepper mill by Cook's Illustrated. Some of us at the Cooking Forum own it and think it's da bomb. It's capacity is huge, easy to fill, and even better, a small twist generates a pretty hefty amount of well ground pepper. The manufacturers have several sizes available if the Magnum, 9", is too big. Easily available on the net. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Unicorn Magnum and friends
I have the peppermill in the link below. It is excellent. Three settings for size of flakes, the little knob at the top does not get loose and it is easy to fill. Supposedly Wm. Bounds mills crush instead of grind pepper for more taste (?). I know it works well and they also have wood versions. |
Here is a link that might be useful: william bounds pepper mill
FWIW, both the above are excellent, but I like the Peppermate for the following reasons: 1. don't have to grip the top to grind - a big plus for arthritics 2. has a "catcher" to hold ground pepper if you want to measure, and 3. its a fairly fast grinder windje |
Here is a link that might be useful: Link to Peppermate
Oooohhhh, we're having the same discussion over in the cooking forum. Check in there for even more ideas. I love my brass Turkish coffee grinder. |
Thanks for the suggestions so far. I'll definitely check out those grinders. And I'll head over to the cooking forum too! |
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The Poyen Indians picked up a big 59-52 win in the Benton Harmony Grove Tournament against the Bauxite Miners from the 4A Classification Tuesday night. The Indians jumped out to a 17-13 first-quarter lead that was extended to 34-23 at the half. The Miners cut into the lead slightly in the third quarter, but still trailed 42-32 heading into the final eight minutes.
For the full story, see Thursday's (December 5) Malvern Daily Record.
On Tuesday night, the Ouachita junior boys, senior girls and senior boys traveled to Nevada for a set of conference games, with only the Lady Warriors returning home victorious. In the first game of the night, the Ouachita Junior Warriors fell 56-41. Ouachita fell behind 25-4 in the first quarter and were forced to play catch-up the rest of the way. The Junior Warriors whittled into the lead throughout the game. They trailed 32-16 at the half and outscored Nevada 10-6 in the final quarter. Andy Swaim led the Junior Warriors with 15 points.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Because of a winter storm warning that was issued on Wednesday for Thursday and into Friday for most counties in northwest and north central Arkansas, the Arkansas Activities Association has postponed all scheduled games for December 6th and 7th, which will extend the 2013 football season one week.
After last week's dominating 42-7 win over Green Forest by the Glen Rose Beavers, it was pretty obvious who this week's Coach of the Week was going to be. Until Wednesday afternoon, it was also obvious what this week's Game of the Week was going to be the Beavers' semifinal game against the Smackover Buckaroos.
For the full column, see Thursday's (December 5) Malvern Daily Record.


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Paisley Moon has most, if not all of the entire Name Brand Glass product line on hand, in our store. Name Brand Glass Water Verticals and Ash Catchers feature Showerheads, Diffusers, Trees, Percolators, and more. We will be photographing and adding the rest of the Name Brand Glass we carry by the end of June.


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Short Film Of The Day: The Experimental Color and Effects Orgy of 'Solopsist'
Features By Scott Beggs on March 8, 2012 | Be the First To CommentWhy Watch? What if Charlie Kaufman and Salvador Dali got to film a live-action version of Fantasia? It's a great question, and Andrew Huang's Solopsist comes close to answering it. It's no wonder why it won the Special Jury Prize for Experimental Short at Slamdance this year. It's an explosion of practical and special effects with no need for a narrative. Two women become one giant, furry technicolor beast; strange sea creatures offer up a symphony of snorts; and a young man turns to dust in vignettes that are evocative and visually arresting. Plus, after you pick your jaw up off the floor, you can see how they made the magic. What will it cost? Only 10 minutes. Skip Work. You've Got Time For More Short Films.
Watch the Deal Go Down in a Scene from Slamdance Winner 'Welcome to Pine Hill' (and Check out the Full List of Winners)
Movie News By Scott Beggs on January 27, 2012 | Be the First To CommentWelcome to Pine Hill, the first feature film from Keith Miller, has won the Grand Jury Sparky Award for Feature Narrative at Slamdance. The film focuses on former drug dealer Shannon (Shannon Harper) who now works as a bouncer when the sun goes down and a claims adjuster when the sun comes up. In this verite-style offering, Shannon receives a bit of life-changing news that sets him on a path to confront the past and contemplate his future. As you can see in the scene above, there's something obviously compelling about the delivery and the style. It's enough to make nerve endings tingle and the brain start thinking about fight or flight. Simple, yes, but effective. The story behind the film is also fascinating. Director Miller and star Harper met when Miller was walking his dog in New York and an angry Harper approached him claiming that it was his dog. After a huge shouting match, they realized that it was Harper's dog – a puppy he had previously lost. The next day they met so that Miller could pay him for the animal and could toss out the idea that they make a film together. A short was born, and so was their working relationship. They accidentally shared a dog, and now they share a victory. Here are the rest of the winners from Slamdance this year – emerging artists truly worth keeping an eye on. The Slamdance pedigree alone ensures that there's some truly interesting work going on […]
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(Best Syndication News) - Researchers from the University of East Anglia found that reducing the amount of fat in a person's diet could help them lose around three-and-one-half pounds without reducing their food intake. In addition to slimming down, the participants had shown reductions in their "bad" LDL cholesterol levels. The study trial results were published in the British Medical Journal.
The weight loss occurred when the person was picking low-fat foods. The report was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) Nutrition Guidance Expert Advisory Group (NUGAG) Subgroup on Diet and Health to determine if their recommendations for total fat intake were up-to-date.
The researchers reviewed results from 33 randomized controlled trials that were held in North America, Europe, and New Zealand. Cumulatively, 73,589 men, women, and children were studied; all had varying states of health.
The participants who were eating a reduced fat diet were compared against those who were eating a typical fat diet. The participants' waist and weight were measured at the start and after at least six months.
The results of participants who ate a reduced fat diet were modest and long lasting. The low-fat diet group had an average reduction in body weight of 0.6 kg, their BMI fell by 0.56 kg/m² and their waist circumference tightened by 0.5 cm.
These were not weight-loss trials and the participants were not told to reduce their calorie intake; they ate normal diets. The researchers reported that the weight loss happened early on and lasted for at least seven years.
Lead author, Dr. Lee Hooper, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, explained that the trend for weight loss in people who ate a reduced fat diet was consistent. They saw the trend in almost every trial, Dr. Hopper added.
The study did not investigate the reductions of specific types of fats, such as saturated fats. Dr. Hooper said cutting down on saturated fat could be beneficial because this type of fat is associated with heart disease and stroke.
Reducing the intake of saturated fat can be accomplished by switching over to low fat or skim milk. Eating less butter, cheese, and cutting the fat off meat are also ways to reduce saturated fat intake.
In addition to reducing fat intake, Dr. Hooper suggests that other dietary and lifestyle factors should be included to stay healthy. She said not to smoke, drink alcohol in moderation, stay physically active, stay hydrated, and be sure to eat lots of vegetables and fruits.
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Large monitor productivity... what's the largest display I can buy/which one is most productive? {The Jason Calacanis Weblog}
May 20th 2007 10:32AM I'd definitely say you want to use a triple monitor array:
and this one in particular:
When you use 2 or 4 screen displays the bezel falls right in the middle of your line of sight, between the 2 panels. 3 screens solves that problem and I have always found 3 screens intuitive to use, maybe its just me, but I like having a central focus screen, preferably something big and then 2 peripheral panels for supporting and tasks.
The "21X" http://www.cinemassivedisplays.com/Trio_21X.php
from cinemassive is perfect. You get the large 21.3" center panel with dual rotated 17" wings in portrait mode which is ideal for documents like email, word and web pages.
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Would it even be possible?
New Zenview offers six 24-inch displays as one {Engadget}
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And I have a lot to learn - like setting my distance, and that the viewfinder is a bit bigger than what will actually come out. Other than that, there are a few shots I am really happy with, particularly on"bulb" mode.
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On the right of my Navigation Toolbar (Firefox 11.0 now but it was also there with 10.0.2) there is place to enter a search term and a drop down menu to select Wikipedia or Google or anyone of several others.
This is very convenient as one can drag and drop a term into this place and a search proceeds immediately. It is inconvenient because the results of the search opens over the place where I am currently working and 'back' is required to return to the screen I am using. I've failed to find any 'help' on this feature. Is there some place to force these searches to open in an new window or a new tab? |
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Albert if you have Windows 7 (perhaps it works with XP too?) you can highlight the words and by right clicking it the pop up menu offers the option to search in Google and if clicked. It does so in a new tab. Does for me at least, using Firefox. |
- Posted by albert_135 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 19, 12 at 10:44
When I hi-lite and right click as owbist suggests I only get options for Wikipedia and Answers.com. These do open in a new tab as is ideal. The 'manage search engines' field in my navigate toolbar has options for Google, Bing, Yahoo, Amazon, Ebay, Wikipedia and others. Is there some way to add more options the the hi-light and click right feature? Or, is there some way to get the 'manage search engines' to open in a new tab? |
- Posted by albert_135 (My Page) on Mon, Mar 19, 12 at 17:33
I found a place in Mozillazine that said alt-enter would open it in a new tab but that don't work for me. I found where someone else said middle-click would open in a new tab but that don't work for me. |
Doesn't help you, but alt-enter works for me. |
I just experimented the windows standard way ...with firefox 11.02 or whatever is todays version of the Standard Channel version. Copy & Paste some page words into the search box, hold down the CTRL key while clicking the search magnifier icon ... opens the search words in a new tab. |
Sorry, I also can't help you Albert_135 but thanks for asking the question and a big thank you for your response Owbist. Once again I've learned something new from the forum My Win XP with FF 11.0 responds just as Owbist's Win 7 does: highlight the word, right click, click on option to search in Google and a new tab opens. Computer Help is my first go-to site of each day. No wonder. Thanks to all. |
- Posted by albert_135 (My Page) on Tue, Mar 20, 12 at 16:04
Both my FF 11.x and FF 8.x behave as mikie describes above at 21:34 hrs yesterday. When I hi-lite and right click as owbist describes I only get Wikipedia (And Answers.com which I downloaded to the one machine.) and not Google. So, somewhere out there is a way to add Google to the right click option and to turn on the alt-enter option for the search bar. Someone, somewhere else said that I need to double click something in about:config. I haven't gone there yet as I am waiting for my IT person, aka spouse, to take an interest in my petty problem. |
When I hi-lite and right click as owbist describes I only get Wikipedia (And Answers.com which I downloaded to the one machine.) and not Google. The top search input box if set to wikipedia search, will dictate the hightlighted word default search is also wikipedia. So if you want to use Google search on rightclicked words, set that search box to google. Sounds like its presently set to wikipedia as default search. |
- Posted by ravencajun (My Page) on Wed, Mar 21, 12 at 14:05
those of you with firefox that opens the option to search in google and other search options you may have that due to an add on I know I do. I have used the add on for that for years. IT is called term blaster. termBlaster 2.0.5 |
- Posted by albert_135 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 21, 12 at 16:04
termBlaster 2.0.5 says ''Not available for Firefox 11.0" Pico-rant: this is one of my quarrels with frequent new versions of Firefox, new versions do not support add-ons, sometimes. |
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Venous leg ulcers are a serious result of venous disease and leg vascular issues. Varicose veins that go untreated can result in venous ulcers. This occurs in approximately 20% of all people suffering from varicose veins.
An ulcer (non-healing sore) in the skin refers to a place where the normal skin covering has been wiped away and the subcutaneous tissue under the skin is exposed. Venous ulcers most commonly occur in the leg between the knee and the foot. Leaking venous valves cause high pressure and abnormal circulation in the tiny vessels of the skin. When the abnormal circulation from long-standing reflux in the superficial or other veins causes the skin to become thickened and inflamed, it can actually break down into an open sore.
A patient's tolerance to venous ulcers can vary; they can be both painful and painless. If left without proper treatment, a venous ulcer will continue to grow larger until it encircles the leg and causes severe disability, pain, and may require amputation.
What causes venous ulcers?
When blood pools in the smaller veins next to the skin, pressure in the surrounding veins is increased. This increased pressure causes fluid to ooze out of the veins beneath the skin, resulting in swelling, thickening of the skin, and damage to the skin. When the damaged skin eventually breaks down, an ulcer is formed. The increased pressure of blood in the leg veins is due to blood pooling in the smaller veins next to the skin. Pooling occurs because the valves in the larger veins are damaged by a previous thrombosis (blood clot) causing blockage of the vein, or by weakening of the walls of the veins. As a result, the valves malfunction and become varicose veins. When the valves no longer function properly, gravity causes blood to backflow down the leg when standing. Then blood pools in the lower leg veins, increasing the pressure which, in turn, damages the surrounding tissue. Eventually, the skin breaks down and ulceration results.
Other causes of venous ulcers:
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- Poor circulation from narrowed arteries in the leg
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- Severe trauma to the leg
How are venous ulcers treated?
Treatment begins with accurate diagnosis and identification of the specific specific veins that are malfunctioning. Elastic stockings or rigid leg coverings may be prescribed. Seeing a wound care specialist is highly recommended. With specific diagnosis and aggressive correction, more than half of leg ulcers can be healed sufficiently to prevent recurrence.
How venous ulcers be prevented?
Early diagnosis and treatment of varicose and spider veins is essential to preventing venous ulcers. What starts as a minor aesthetic annoyance can easily escalate in to a symptomatic vein problem, and then lead to serious venous ulcers. Sclerotherapy and EVLA procedures treating the early-stage varicose and spider veins are much easier and less invasive than the treatment venous ulcers require.


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We take a look at parallel importing and whether it's a good thing for Australian consumers.
Parallel importation can help level the playing field for Australian consumers who are routinely slugged with higher prices for goods produced by multinational companies.
But despite injecting much-needed competition into the local market, parallel importation should also comply with Australian safety and labelling and requires a strong regulatory framework so that it can work in the best interest of consumers.
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How can some products look, taste and function the same, yet vary so markedly in price from their mainstream, retail counterparts?
Parallel imports are shipped in from abroad without the permission of the local trademark or intellectual property owner. Essentially, they're legitimate products that dodge standard distribution channels and, as a result, can arrive in our shopping basket for a fraction of the local recommended retail price (RRP).
For years, multinational companies have set different retail prices for the same product in different countries. That was, at least, until the boom in online shopping. For the consumer, this has meant one thing: markets have merged, and this sort of price discrimination – on everything from Mars Bars to digital cameras and even French champagne – is being put to the test.
Intellectual property legislation allows most parallel importers to bring products freely into Australia. The 2011 Productivity Commission's retail inquiry found the arguments made by multinationals in defending price discrimination were not persuasive.
Treating consumers in one region as willing or able to tolerate significantly higher prices than those in other countries was a key reason listed by the Productivity Commission for growth in parallel imports, and formed a basis of their recommendation to government to reconsider the restrictions relating to the parallel importation of clothing.
Governments and consumers are eager to talk about parallel importation, but CHOICE found companies involved on both sides of the fence were less so.
Mars Incorporated told us it was unable to provide a list of its RRPs around the world, despite the fact an Australian Mars Bar costs almost double that of the same product in the UK. JB Hi-Fi also declined to comment.
Australian Consumer Law provides welcome protection for buyers, as local manufacturers can be hesitant to uphold warranties for imported products. All consumers are entitled to a guarantee of acceptable quality, fitness for purpose andright to repair on all products purchased from an Australian retailer. Kogan and JB Hi-Fi's Direct Import both also offer in-house warranties.
The world's biggest companies are some of the worst offenders when it comes to price discrimination. Amazon sells its Kindle e-reader for US$79 in the US, but Australians must pay $109 for the same product. In the US iTunes store, the Beatles No. 1 album sells for US$12.99, yet Australians fork out almost 60% more to buy this album from an Australian IP address. The latest Apple iPad 32GB Wi-Fi model retails for $649 in Australian stores, but sells for US$599 in the US.
The experts we spoke with all agree on one thing – the online world is moving fast, and large companies will need to minimise price discrimination and become more competitive sooner rather than later in order to stay afloat.
Later this year, a parliamentary inquiry will question Apple, Microsoft and other multinational tech companies that participate in geographic price discrimination. Federal MP Ed Husic, who's been lobbying in this area for more than a year, hopes the inquiry will bring an end to the unfair pricing burden placed on Australians.
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Mention Hong Kong, Taiwan or Tokyo to an electronics aficionado and their eyes light up. These cities have giant malls dedicated to all things electronic. TVs, digital cameras, mobile phones – the list goes on, and thanks to the internet, they're closer to us than ever before.
Ruslan Kogan, a pioneer of parallel imports in the electronics market, saw business sense in bringing these products to Australians at a discounted price years ago. Seeing a gap in the market, in 2006 he started up a business to fill it, and just five years later was listed on BRW's Young Rich List with a reported fortune of $62m.
Kogan hopes the growth of online retailing will make large manufacturers more accountable for price discrimination.
"Australians have been getting ripped off by big retailers for far too long and we're here to change that," he says.
Kogan's prices sit anywhere between 15-40% below the local RRP on a range of electronic goods, he claims. Canon's newest entry-level digital SLR camera, the 600D twin lens package, is available on his site for $809 plus $39 delivery, yet retails in shops for up to 30% more.
Retailer JB Hi-Fi launched its Direct Import camera e-tailer earlier this year in response to the growth of online shopping. The website provides consumers with the opportunity to purchase goods for less than their bricks-and-mortar stores are able to offer.
Its import price for the same camera is similar to Kogan's – $835 plus delivery. This is noticeably cheaper than its bricks-and-mortar stores, which sell the same camera, imported through conventional supply channels, for $258 more.
JN Hi-Fi states on its website: "Global consumer electronic brands provide lower wholesale prices in emerging mark ets such as China and India than mature economic countries… These emerging markets also have much lower supply chain costs due to lower local wages, consumer protection standards and weaker regulation. This allows wholesalers in those emerging markets to offer these prices to overseas buyers at lower prices than a local importer in a mature market is able to achieve."
Consumer items that have a quick turnover, including chocolates, soft drinks and personal care products, can be found in bargain basements and local corner stores around the country. Demand for cheaper groceries is fuelling the growing movement of parallel products into this sector, boosting competition and bringing prices down.
But Tony Mahar, director of sustainable development and trade at the Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC), suggests this may not all be good news for consumers. Manufacturing processes overseas are not always as stringent as Australian standards, particularly when it comes to allergens, and Mahar believes a proportion of parallel imports aren't correctly labelled with ingredients or allergen warnings before they hit the shelves.
CHOICE shopped at a number of discount stores, and the parallel products we found complied with local labelling regulations. But some retailers haven't always been so compliant. In the past two years, the NSW Food Authority has issued a number of fines to businesses that have failed to provide consumers with adequate labelling information on parallel imported products.
The AFGC says product recall and quality control mechanisms are also questionable for some parallel products. This year alone, the ACCC has recalled more than 20 food and grocery products for posing a risk to consumers. But recalling a product that has entered the country through the unconventional channels may not be so straightforward.
It's not only $2 shops that have tapped into the parallel import movement. A growing number of local retailers have developed a taste for parallel-imported French champagne – and few consumers will complain about a half-price bottle of Bollinger. After all, Australians drank 4.86 million bottles of French champagne in 2011, up 25% on the previous year, according to champagne expert Tyson Stelzer.
In a recent blind taste test conducted by Stelzer, a panel of experts preferred parallel-imported champagne on four out of seven occasions. He believes concerns raised by traditional importers about inadequate refrigeration and handling during the shipping of parallel imports are largely unfounded.
"From the consumer's perspective, parallel importing can be a positive thing," says Stelzer. "It helps to stimulate positive competition in the market".


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Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer
Re:OMFG (231 comments)
Settle down, NumbNuts. They happened to use an iPad because it contains an ARM chip. It's idiots like you that make Slashdot basically unreadable.
Announcing: Slashdot Deals - Explore geek apps, games, gadgets and more. (what is this?)
We are sorry to see you leave - Beta is different and we value the time you took to try it out. Before you decide to go, please take a look at some value-adds for Beta and learn more about it. Thank you for reading Slashdot, and for making the site better!
Re:OMFG (231 comments)
Settle down, NumbNuts. They happened to use an iPad because it contains an ARM chip. It's idiots like you that make Slashdot basically unreadable.
Re:Like everywhere else it's been tried... (732 comments)
You are an incredibly stupid person. So many Americans live in a weird bubble of ignorance. It's just embarrassing.
Re:I have to admit... (28 comments)
Yes, of course you can manually set up Hadoop in whatever environment, but it's a pain and generally speaking management is annoying. This new project appears to alleviate at least some of that, making it easy to remotely deploy and manage a Hadoop cluster. At least, that's what I got from the demo video - there's probably more to it.
Regarding Hadoop, I'm always surprised by its popularity given the relative fragility of HDFS (the NameNode is a single point of failure; other distributed filesystems have beaten this problem) and the dubious, beta-like quality of the tools built on top of it (Pig, etc.)
Re:Spelling Error (91 comments)
Not to mention "millennial". Look how many times it's misspelled in the summary.
Re:on the other side of the coin (490 comments)
GnuSense vs. Ubuntu.
Re:Microsoft Pledges to Sell More Macs for Apple (809 comments)
I can say firsthand that Macs have made serious inroads at Cisco, not just for mgmt but for programmers as well.
Re:What's wrong with GCC? (711 comments)
Let me be honest: you have no idea what you're talking about.
Screening embryos already happens (456 comments)
Where I live, certain ethnic minorities (actually, taken together they are actually a majority) are notorious for screening embryos for gender. Then they abort the females until a male is born first. It's become such an issue that it's now illegal to specify an embryo's gender until the window for legal abortion has passed (I don't remember how many weeks/months that is).
If you're white, the doctor will still tell you if you ask though.
Re:Developer for the world? (246 comments)
Apple haters are a funny breed. I'll bet you think of yourself as a real free-thinking maverick, right?
Re:Not bloody likely (738 comments)
I'm 42, work for a very large Valley-based company whose name starts with "C" (as a contractor, so I'm self-employed) and I can tell you that the Valley in general is DYING for programmers of whatever age. To use just one example, I get calls from LinkedIn contacts and recruiters multiple times weekly, even though my profile says I'm not looking for work.
And what's more, I work remotely, which you would think would make me less desirable as an employee. It probably does, but companies are desperate, I guess.
Re:Only for dynamic languages (137 comments)
Actually, certain debuggers have had "edit and continue", compile on the fly capability while debugging for C++ and Java since 2005 or so.
Re:Prime Obsession? (1208 comments)
Same guy. He also wrote "Unknown Quantity". He's a pretty well-known conservative commentator in the US, one of those "let me tell you like it is" types.
Re:Sham Shame Show Shill (311 comments)
A lot of musicians don't perform live, and for those that do, the great, vast majority make no money at it. You are ridiculously naive, or you only listen to big-budget, Top 40-type music.
Re:Ok, how many more are there? (234 comments)
The way species are normally defined is whether or not they can interbreed, and if so, if their offspring are capable of having offspring (think mules).
Re:What no Guantanamo Bay for him? (202 comments)
Oh wait.. this is an open source community that understood what his intentions where and didn't have a knee jerk reaction.
What I guess intelligence trumps mass panic and ignorance.
That's exactly wrong. GH freaked out and banned his account after the Rails team repeatedly closed his bug reports. This story has been on Hacker News for a while now, so you can head there for the full story. His account was eventually reinstated after it was made clear to GH that they behaved poorly.
Wait a second (100 comments)
If this is AC 3, then what were Brotherhood and Revelations? I guess 2.1 and 2.2?
Re:Oh yes, software (630 comments)
At some point, the cost of automation must come down to the point where the human automatons are too expensive. The US gov't should provide all sorts of tax breaks and incentives to companies that automate like crazy, in order to pull back manufacturing and curtail China's growth.
Re:Why? (196 comments)
The ram pack was prone to wiggling a bit and you'd lose the entire contents of memory. You had to prop it on a book or tape it in place. Kind of a nightmare really. I also hated the ultra-fiddly tape storage, where you had to have the volume and tone adjusted just right to get those weird black bars that showed the program was loading or saving correctly.
Re:Organized trolling campaign by GreatBunzinni (265 comments)
GreatBunzinni actually sounds a lot like twitter (the crazed anti-MS poster, not the web service). Back in the day, twitter maintained numerous sockpuppets to hold forth on all manner of paranoid insanity. Could this be another? The mystery deepens!
Re:Spread the word (1002 comments)
You're in the wrong place. Most (though not all) people who post here are "geeks" in the sense that they know some terminology and are mostly engaged in technology on a political level (from "walled gardens!" to privacy issues to copyright issues). The actual programmers have departed for greener pastures - even CmdrTaco posts at Hacker News now.


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You're So Bad At Scaring People, Jennifer Aniston
The former 'Friends' star squashed any talk of reunion on 'Ellen'
Aniston did her best to turn the tables on the talk show host, who is famous for scaring the bejesus out of her guests.
"It was as if you were running from a spider..." DeGeneres recounted, before showing the audience just how terrible Aniston was at trying to surprise her.
"Towards you…That was really bad," Aniston said.
Ok. At least we all agree it was a poorly-executed trick.
"Have you not ever scared anyone before?" DeGeneres asked. "Don't you like to scare? Don't you hide when Justin [Theroux] comes home?"
"No, he does that to me," Aniston admitted. "He calls it trickery. But he's constantly hiding behind drapes. And I'm constantly scared. It's like it doesn't get old on me…"
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Version and / or Patch Used: 1.00.1035BETA
Developer Homepage: http://www.aida64.com
Product Homepage: http://www.AIDA64.com
Replacing Everest in our labs is AIDA64. This new testing suite is from the core development team from Lavalys and continues that tradition. The guys have thrown in better support for multithreaded CPUs as well as full 64 bit support. We use this to test memory and HDDs for now, but may find ourselves opening this up to other areas of the motherboard.
Memory performance is strong and out of the box you can see that the ASUS P8Z77-V PREMIUM lines up with the ASUS P8Z77-V Pro/Thunderbolt we looked at the other day, which tends to be ahead of the pack. And when overclocked we see a decent boost in performance.


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Residing in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Gastón Quindi Vallerga is a 32 year old Practical Shooting Pan-American Champion and two time IPSC Argentine Champion. Though he only began to shoot at the age of 21, it was not until 5 years later that Vallerga actually stepped foot into a practical shooting range, and in that instance he fell in love at first "shot." It was only two years later that Vallerga shot in his first large scale competition and went on to become the Latin American Vice Champion in Argentina. There was no doubt in his mind from that moment on that he wanted to go pro.
Vigorous training and countless hours spent practicing led Vallerga to become an Argentine Team member in the 2011 World Shoot held in Greece. Just a year later he obtained his first major title, Practical Shooting Pan-American Champion and second overall. While Vallerga continued to triumph, his passion sent him knocking on BERSA's door with an interesting proposal. His vision was to join the forces and talent of a world class shooter with the designs and ingenuity of a world class manufacturer. The new partnership began, followed by six months of shooting with a BERSA Thunder 9 Pro. With this basic stock pistol designed and manufactured by BERSA, Vallerga managed to obtain fourth place in the 2013 US IPSC NATIONALS and found himself among US GRAND MASTERS in the 2013 USPSA PRODUCTION NATIONALS. Vallerga and BERSA now work together on a new and improved full size pistol designed for both defense and competition. Vallerga continues to train hard to fulfill his dream: to become a World Class IPSC/USPSA shooter with a BERSA in his hands. Stay tuned for the results as his story with BERSA continues!


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Warm Weather Tip: Make Lemon Slice Ice Cubes
Coming up with new uses for lemons is definitely a hot topic at Real Simple, and we loved this smart idea from Lifehacker.
If you like a little bit of garnish in your water or don't want to water down your lemonade this summer. Simply freeze a sliced up lemon (or lime) and use the slices in place of ice cubes. Simple and refreshing, what's not to love?