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My LO will be 1 year old tomorrow! I've been dairy, soy, egg and nut free since he was 7 weeks old. About two months ago I added back soy back in with no apparent issues. The last week or so I've added a bit of dairy back into my diet. His initial symptoms back when he was a newbie were green, mucousy and bloody stools as well as gas and tummy aches. I have not seen any of these issues but have noticed that his cheeks are really red and dry at times. Do you think this is a symptom of the dairy?
His Dr. would like me to try putting him on whole milk this weekend and I'm so nervous about it. I plan on mixing the whole milk with expressed BM slowly. I'm wondering what symptoms I should be looking for other than the symptoms he has as a newborn. Also, the last week or so I've started losing my milk supply. I've been pumping like mad trying to increase it but have not seen any results. I'm worried that the whole milk won't work out and I'll have no breastmilk left for him...then what do I do? Has anyone had any luck with any alternatives? Coconut milk, goats milk, rice milk?


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holy....what warhead it will carry? mines? HE? or MIRV?
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holy....what warhead it will carry? mines? HE? or MIRV?
It's just heavy MLRS, nothing like MIRV :)
But in the fire unit will be the conventional HE, cluster and Tesla\EMP warheads.
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What are your opinions on the difficulty on how to get shiny Pokemon. Most people are saying that this game makes it too easy. In my opinion it's still probably going to be difficult for me.
First we have the already existing Masuda method. It could still take thousands of eggs to get a shiny. But then with a certain item (Round Charm), eggs will be easier to get.
Next, there's the Shiny Charm. This item makes it so it's easier to find shiny Pokemon. By what percentage, is a mystery. But even if it made the chances 1 in 200, it would still be hard to obtain. The only way to receive this Key(?) item is to have every Pokemon in the Pokedex, which will probably require almost every DS game in the series. You probably won't need the event exclusives so that makes it a bit easier. Also, there is no word that the effects of MM and the charm will stack.
And now we have our freebies, which are Haxorus and Gible. Haxorus will probably be hard to catch, due to it having Guillotine and having a capture rate of 45 (it will escape a few times). You'd also need to see every Pokemon in the Unova Dex. And Gible will probably be hard too. Banjiro is most likely going to be a tough opponent.
So what are your opinions on the shiny Pokemon difficulty?
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Ok, so my 5 month old is not a good crib napper. She only naps in her swing (mostly my fault b/ I know she needs the sleep & I have been trying to avoid the tears!) She is going to grow out of her swing really soon & she has got to start sleeping in her crib for naps. She sleeps & self soothes in her crib at night great. Naps are the big issue. I am planning on doing sleep training for crib naps as soon as I am home with her full time (in 2 weeks). Have I waited too late to start??! Anyone had success at 5 months? I am dreading it!! I plan on trying CIO with checks & PUPD if necessary.
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My DD was a colicky newborn and only napped in my arms or in her swing until she was 7.5 months. I only quit the swing then because we moved haha- we were both so addicted to it that I might have used it until she crawled out. I gently STed her at 7.5-8 monts with incredible success. You haven't waited too long- 5-8 months is an excellent window for STing. My DS was STed at 3 months only because he didn't like the swing. If I have another baby, I will still give the swing a chance until 6ish months, I much preferred my 2 hour swing naps to DS's 45 min crib naps and baby sleep doesn't really stabilize until after 6 months anyway.


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Vets still an afterthought?
There were points along the the health care "reform" process that had mind boggling omissions, including a couple times where Democrats totally forgot to exclude veterans who have VA health care coverage from fines and possible criminal liability for not paying them. There may still be problems in the most recent boondoggle for many TRICARE users (more familiar to military and veterans who use or have used it). From VA Watchdog.org:
Washington, D.C. — Today, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Ranking Member Steve Buyer and House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Buck McKeon introduced a bill and offered an amendment in effort to protect veterans, servicemembers, military retirees, and their families, from adverse consequences in the national health care bill. They were joined in their efforts by Deputy Ranking Member Cliff Stearns of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and a number of other House members.
The congressmen's efforts to protect veterans were supported by The American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the National Association for Uniformed Services, and the Association of Service Disabled Veterans.
"In addition to being fundamentally opposed to this sweeping government takeover of health care, I also strongly object to the health care reform bill, H.R. 4872, because it jeopardizes our veterans, servicemembers, and their families," Buyer said.
"Ranking Member McKeon and I have taken every viable approach to fixing this problem, including offering an amendment and introducing a stand-alone bill. These actions were necessary because the Senate health care bill language being incorporated into the House health care reform bill does not give the Department of Defense and VA health care systems specific protections from interference by other government agencies administering the various authorities contained in this massive bill."
"The health care reform bill DOES NOT cover most TRICARE beneficiaries under its definition of minimum essential coverage for health insurance--it only includes TRICARE for Life. Further, the bill's definition of minimum essential coverage DOES NOT cover the children who suffer with spina bifida as a result of a veteran parent exposed to Agent Orange during the Korean or Vietnam Wars, and also does not cover CHAMPVA beneficiaries (certain dependents, widows and orphans)."
If this all sounds vaguely familiar to regular readers, I noted a similar issue with previous bills here: Stop the Rush: Fix the Bill, where almost all disabled veterans with VA coverage were an afterthought and left open to fines and possible criminal liability for not paying them.
I don't know about you, but I didn't even scratch the surface of the 900 pages a day required to analyze the new bill in 72 hours. But I'd probably need a team of lawyers and a month to find any loopholes and negative technicalities as it pertains to current law anyways. Generally it seems to be mostly the same stuff as before in different combinations, unfortunately with many of the same or similar uncorrected problems. The real problems seem to be absent from most of the talking points being fought over, a combo failure of parties, partisans, pundits, and media talking heads in my opinion. The biggest problem still remains in how little this "reform" actually addresses in the overall health care system, both public and private.
For more on that, see yesterday's post here: Unintentional Comedy?
In that post, I was mocking the White House assurances that the VA is safe from reform (as if it didn't seriously need it or this bill is so bad that it would somehow be scary to veterans). A great headline remake was found in the comments here on that:
"The Secretary of Veterans Affairs would continue to maintain sole authority over millions of backlogged claims and for enhancing the quality of abuse and access for all unsuspecting veterans."
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I'm ashamed to admit that I was so much in Thanksgiving mode that I completely missed this. It just goes to prove that even during a busy holiday weekend, you can never take a break from appreciating the important things in life. Family. The outdoors. Good times. Making memories. The best quarterback of all time traumatizing his kids in a giant turkey suit and probably scarring them to the point they'll go vegan for the rest of their lives. You have to cherish the little moments.
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Things to consider while harboring the kind of rage and resentment that no meme or even emoji is powerful enough to convey, so I'll have to use words:
— In the grand scheme of things, it's not like this is the worst loss you can suffer. To go on the road, against a first-place team with the No. 1 defense, have a rookie muff a punt to give the home team a short field while losing one of your key components and repeatedly getting pantsed by the officials and still you only lose in overtime? There's no shame in that. The world might be trying to bathe in the Patriots' blood right now, but everyone has to admit it took a good team, a series of horrible calls, a code red on Rob Gronkowski and a nation of millions to bring them down. And if reports are accurate and Gronk's knee injury is not season ending, then he's coming back and bringing hell with him.
— Still, when Gronk went down, you know somewhere in a secret chamber in NFL headquarters there were men in dark robes sitting around a pentagram of candles and goat heads cackling with glee.
— In a year of bad officiating, this game set a new standard that may never be duplicated. I can take that the officials have been consistently atrocious. But Sunday night they were something far worse: atrociously inconsistent. Gronk gets called for yet another pass interference penalty for touching a defender with his chicken wing (which the league has said is perfectly legal). Pat Chung lays an open palm on a receiver for a nanosecond and draws a holding call that negates a sack. But in overtime Aqib Talib grabs JoJo LaFell to the point I thought he might need an anatomically correct doll to show us where he was violated, and there is no call. And the very next play after the terrible Gronk call, Tom Brady took a blatant shot to the head but the officials couldn't find their flags. Just as bad was Denver's Todd Davis running into Ryan Allen but apparently in a perfectly legal way, raising the existential question/Riddler clue, "When is running into the kicker NOT running into the kicker?"
— The worst, obviously, was the Gronk penalty. It's painfully obvious by now that as the NFL continues its downward spiral into complete NBA-ification, the refs are taking over games and applying rules differently to different players. Gronk has such a size and strength advantage that they're willing to call everything on him and practically nothing against him in order to level the playing field. They see him as Liberty Prime from "Fallout 4," and if his probability of mission hindrance against corners and safeties is zero percent, then by god the communists in the striped shirts will slow him down with flags.
— As of this writing, we're hearing things like Gronk walked out of the locker room under his own power, without crutches or a brace on his knee, so there's hope. I've reached my limit on catastrophic injuries already this season. And I'd rather face a wilderness survival situation with Charlie Sheen, Johnny Manziel and Jared from Subway than live through that moment he was on the ground writhing in pain again. Hopefully the Pats have laid enough tribute upon the altar of the Football God of Lower-Leg Injuries for one season. If not, I'm willing to try human sacrifice. Believe me, I've got plenty of people in mind.
— The damned shame of it is that Gronk was the focal point of Denver's coverage and he still was well on his way to a 100-yard night. On his catch-and-run touchdown, Darian Stewart wanted no part of trying to tackle him. I saw Black Friday shoppers on YouTube going after bargain-priced vegetable steamers with 100 times the aggressiveness Stewart showed on that one.
— On the bright side, I've been looking for Scott Chandler to elevate his game and he did step up. Granted we could use a little more fight going after balls at the top of his routes, but he got open in crunch time and made catches. And his touchdown was perfect execution. He read Von Miller was shading him to the inside so he used his size and speed to break it off into a corner route for a simple pitch-and-catch. Textbook. And file that play away next time you're tempted to want the Pats to go after a Johnny One Note edge rush specialist like Miller. Ask him to do anything other than pin his ears back and go after the quarterback and he's useless.
— Another shame of losing this one is it wastes a phenomenal game by Logan Ryan on Demaryius Thomas. Giving away four inches and almost 40 pounds, he nevertheless out-physicaled Thomas and clung to him all over the field. Occasionally he had help from Chung, and early on it looked like they were playing some quarter-quarter-half coverage (where one safety takes a deep half of the field and two DBs split the other half). But for the most part he was singled up in man. And aside from that one crucial deep ball Thomas high-pointed, Ryan won every battle. If the NFL doesn't take the rest of the Patriots' picks away before the draft, I'm ready to go all in on Scarlet Knights.
— How is it that if the eligible receiver rule is so crucial that they use a method of declaring yourself to the ref as simple and archaic as rubbing your belly when you come on the field? By that standard, every guy on my couch after Thanksgiving dinner was declaring himself eligible.
— I didn't stick around for the postgame, but I assume NBC gave a game ball to the officiating crew?
— What should not get lost in the shuffle is the loss of Dont'a Hightower. The main reason the defense had survived Jamie Collins' bout with the bubonic plague or the zombie apocalypse virus or whatever he's contracted has been Hightower. He's not only held the middle of the front seven together, he's been great off the edge, messing up blocking schemes by flipping the defense so he goes from Will 'backer to Sam just before the snap. And while Jerod Mayo still is faster than anyone at making the reads and has that knack for being the first one flowing to the ball carrier, guys continue to slip tackles on him, as Ronnie Hillman did on that first Denver touchdown. Mayo's head and heart are in the game, but his body hasn't been since before his two injuries.
— Speaking of tackling, this loss isn't all on the officials or the injury gods. This as good a run-stopping secondary as I can ever remember the Pats putting on the field, one through five. But on both those C.J. Anderson touchdowns, the backs suffered total breakdowns. On the first, they had Devin McCourty in run force on the edge, with Chung and Ryan outside. The pass routes ran those two off the play and when McCourty got sealed off, they never were able to recover. On the overtime touchdown, they simply didn't have the bodies on the play side of the field.
— While the defensive line struggled at times with filling cutback lanes on inside zones (see: Anderson's 8-yarder in the second quarter, Hillman's big gain on second-and-10 in the third and a few others), I feel like right now it's the best unit on the team. The rotation is confusing enough just watching the linemen every week, I can't imagine how it is to game plan against a scheme that will move anyone to any slot along the line on any given down. Chandler Jones made his interception from the nose. Jabaal Sheard will play middle linebacker on one play, then run a stunt with Jonathan Freeny from three-technique tackle to force the incompletion that led to the missed field goal. And Alan Branch made Matt Paradis look like he was riding one of those douchebag sideways skateboards.
— Those virtual numbers that superimpose the yard markers over the snow might be the greatest invention since the voice on my phone that gives me directions. Now if only NBC could give us a virtual Cris Collinsworth that doesn't watch Talib keelhaul Mathew Slater to the ground and call it "a little jersey pull" or shamelessly orgasm at the end of the game like he did.
— And you'd think that after all the years of working together, Collinsworth and Al Michaels would be better at the mindless banter. Like when they showed the obligatory Denver ski resort footage and, running out of things to say about it, started talking about how it's making them look forward to the Olympics. Not for nothing guys, but there will be precious little in the way of Alpine ski events at Rio 2016.
— In case you missed it, Bob Costas conceded at halftime that Brady's career has been slightly better than Peyton Manning's. I can't confirm it, but I imagine counselors were made available to anyone who needed to work through the grief.
— Still, the good news on Manning's injury is it gives him more time to sell the Papa John's five-meat pizza. I'm glad to see he's doing his share to keep America constipated.
— Though I'd rather watch a hundred ads where Pay-me-a-ton is shilling for things he doesn't use than see one more clueless sports dad driving his family around in a Sorrento. I don't get why Kia thinks it's good marketing. But I guess the company is trying to capture the growing emasculated father demographic.
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— Another way first-person shooter games are way better than real life: By now the Patriots would have picked up enough health packs to have Collins, Julian Edelman and Dion Lewis back.
— I thought nothing this week could bother me after suffering the loss of Clara on "Doctor Who." But with all due respect to my adorable pretend TV nerd wife, this was worse. Sorry, Impossible Girl. At least you died a hero. We lost Gronk and Hightower and saved no one.
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Imperialism and Globalization
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Imperialism is not a stage, not even the highest stage, of capitalism: from the beginning, it is inherent in capitalism's expansion. The imperialist conquest of the planet by the Europeans and their North American children was carried out in two phases and is perhaps entering a third.
The first phase of this devastating enterprise was organized around the conquest of the Americas, in the framework of the mercantilist system of Atlantic Europe at the time. The net result was the destruction of the Indian civilizations and their Hispanicization- Christianization, or simply the total genocide on which the United States was built. The fundamental racism of the Anglo-Saxon colonists explains why this model was reproduced elsewhere, in Australia, in Tasmania (the most complete genocide in history), and in New Zealand. For whereas the Catholic Spaniards acted in the name of the religion that had to be imposed on conquered peoples, the Anglo-Protestants took from their reading of the Bible the right to wipe out the "infidels." The infamous slavery of the Blacks, made necessary by the extermination of the Indians--or their resistance--briskly took over to ensure that the useful parts of the continent were "turned to account." No one today has any doubt as to the real motives for all these horrors or is ignorant of their intimate relation to the expansion of mercantile capital. Nevertheless, the contemporary Europeans accepted the ideological discourse that justified them, and the voices of protest--that of Las Casas, for example--did not find many sympathetic listeners.
The disastrous results of this first chapter of world capitalist expansion produced, some time later, the forces of liberation that challenged the logics that produced them. The first revolution of the Western Hemisphere was that of the slaves of Saint Domingue (present-clay Haiti) at the end of the eighteenth century, followed more than a century later by the Mexican revolution of the decade of 1910, and fifty years after that by the Cuban revolution. And if I do not cite here either the famous "American revolution" or that of the Spanish colonies that soon followed, it is because those only transferred the power of decision from the metropolis to the colonists so that they could go on doing the same thing, pursue the same project with even greater brutality, but without having to share the profits with the "mother country."
The second phase of imperialist devastation was based on the industrial revolution and manifested itself in the colonial subjection of Asia and Africa. "To open the markets"--like the market for opium forced on the Chinese by the Puritans of England--and to seize the natural resources of the globe were the real motives here, as everyone knows today. But again, European opinion--including the workers' movement of the Second International--did not see these realities and accepted the new legitimizing discourse of capital. This time, it was the famous "civilizing mission." The voices that expressed the clearest thinking at the time were those of cynical bourgeoises, like Cecil Rhodes, who envisaged colonial conquest so as to avoid social revolution in England. Again, the voices of protest--from the Paris Commune to the Bolsheviks--had little resonance.
This second phase of imperialism is at the origin of the greatest problem with which mankind has ever been confronted: the over-whelming polarization that has increased the inequality between peoples from a maximum ratio of two to one around 1800, to sixty to one today, with only 20 percent of the earth's population being included in the centers that benefit from the system. At the same time, these prodigious achievements of capitalist civilization gave rise to the most violent confrontations between the imperialist powers that the world has ever seen. Imperialist aggression again produced the forces that resisted its project the socialist revolutions that took place in Russia and China (not accidentally all occurred within the peripheries that were victims of the polarizing expansion of really existing capitalism) and the revolutions of national liberation. …


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Prediction: If it doesn't rain in Seattle, Democrats turn out for Sen. Patty Murray and she holds her seat.
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I'm storing a relatively reasonable (~3 million) number of very small rows (the entire DB is ~300MB) in PostgreSQL. The data is organized thus:
Table "public.tr_rating"
Column | Type | Modifiers
user_id | bigint | not null
place_id | bigint | not null
rating | smallint | not null
rated_at | timestamp with time zone | not null default now()
rating_id | bigint | not null default nextval('tr_rating_rating_id_seq'::regclass)
"tr_rating_rating_id_key" UNIQUE, btree (rating_id)
"tr_rating_user_idx" btree (user_id, place_id)
Now, I would like to retrieve the ratings deposited over a set of places by your friends (a set of users)
The natural query I wrote is:
SELECT * FROM tr_rating WHERE user_id=ANY(?) AND place_id=ANY(?)
The size of the user_id array is ~500, while the place_id array is ~10,000
This turns into:
Bitmap Heap Scan on tr_rating (cost=2453743.43..2492013.53 rows=3627 width=34) (actual time=10174.044..10174.234 rows=1111 loops=1)
Buffers: shared hit=27922214
-> Bitmap Index Scan on tr_rating_user_idx (cost=0.00..2453742.53 rows=3627 width=0) (actual time=10174.031..10174.031 rows=1111 loops=1)
Index Cond: ((user_id = ANY (...) ))
Buffers: shared hit=27922214
Total runtime: 10279.290 ms
The first suspicious thing I see here is that it estimates that scanning the index for 500 users will take 2.5M disk seeks
Everything else here looks reasonable, except that it takes ten full seconds to do this! The index (via
\di) looks like:
public | tr_rating_user_idx | index | tr_rating | 67 MB |
at 67 MB, I would expect it could tear through the index in a trivial amount of time, even if it has to do it sequentially. As the buffers accounting from the
EXPLAIN ANALYZE shows, everything is already in memory (as all values other than shared_hit are zero and thus suppressed).
I have tried various combinations of
ANALYZE, and
CLUSTER with no measurable improvement.
Any thoughts as to what I am doing wrong here, or how I could debug further? I'm mystified; 67MB of data is a puny amount to spend so much time searching through...
For reference, the hardware is a 8-way recent Xeon with 8 15K 300GB drives in RAID-10. Should be enough :-)
Per btilly's suggestion, I tried out temporary tables:
=> explain analyze select * from tr_rating NATURAL JOIN user_ids NATURAL JOIN place_ids;
Hash Join (cost=49133.46..49299.51 rows=3524 width=34) (actual time=13.801..15.676 rows=1111 loops=1)
Hash Cond: (place_ids.place_id = tr_rating.place_id)
-> Seq Scan on place_ids (cost=0.00..59.66 rows=4066 width=8) (actual time=0.009..0.619 rows=4251 loops=1)
-> Hash (cost=48208.02..48208.02 rows=74035 width=34) (actual time=13.767..13.767 rows=7486 loops=1)
Buckets: 8192 Batches: 1 Memory Usage: 527kB
-> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..48208.02 rows=74035 width=34) (actual time=0.047..11.055 rows=7486 loops=1)
-> Seq Scan on user_ids (cost=0.00..31.40 rows=2140 width=8) (actual time=0.006..0.399 rows=2189 loops=1)
-> Index Scan using tr_rating_user_idx on tr_rating (cost=0.00..22.07 rows=35 width=34) (actual time=0.002..0.003 rows=3 loops=2189)
Index Cond: (tr_rating.user_id = user_ids.user_id) JOIN place_ids;
Total runtime: 15.931 ms
Why is the query plan so much better when faced with temporary tables, rather than arrays? The data is exactly the same, simply presented in a different way. Additionally, I've measured the time to create a temporary table at running in the tens to hundreds of milliseconds, which is a pretty steep overhead to pay. Can I continue to use the array approach, yet allow Postgres to use the hash join which is so much faster, instead?
By creating a hash index on user_id, the runtime reduces to 250ms. Adding another hash index to place_id reduces the runtime further to 50ms. This is still twice as slow as using temporary tables, but the overhead of making the table negates any gains I see. I still do not understand how doing O(500) lookups in a btree index can take ten seconds, but the hash index is unquestionably much faster.


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|DSP-BASED DEVICE FOR AUDITORY SEGREGATION OF MULTIPLE SOUND INPUTS - There is provided a unique signal processing technique for localizing and characterizing each of a number of differently located acoustic sources. Specifically there is provided a method for auditory segregation of multiple voice inputs comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of voice input signals from different source locations; filtering said voice input signals with head related transfer functions (HRTF) using a digital signal processor (DSP) thereby assigning the voice input signals to different locations in virtual auditory space; and changing the HRTF filtered voice input signals in two dimensions, wherein pitch is changed and the signal is filtered with different filters emulating vocal tracts of different sizes thereby further segregating the voice input signals from each other.
|SOUND LOCALIZING ROBOT - There is provided a biomimetic robot modelling the highly directional lizard ear. Since the directionality is very robust, the neural processing is very simple. This mobile sound localizing robot can therefore easily be miniaturized. The invention is based on a simple electric circuit emulating the lizard ear acoustics with sound input from two small microphones. The circuit generates a robust directionality around 2-4 kHz. The output of the circuit is fed to a model nervous system. The nervous system model is bilateral and contains a set of band-pass filters followed by simulated EI-neurons that compare inputs from the two ears. This model is implemented in software on a digital signal processor and controls the left and right-steering motors of the robot. Additionally, the nervous system model contains a neural network that can self-adapt so as to auto-calibrate the device.


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May I ask where you got your wig from? It's super pretty >~<
Aww, you make a cute Ferferi!
you're a very pretty feferi!
oh my gog why is your cosplay so good
and youre so pretty too omg
and youre so pretty too omg
sooooo purty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! c:
I would love to cosplay as fef someday, and this is what I'd want to look like! Nice!
Looks amazing! 38D
She looks very pretty
Headcanon Feferiiiiiiiiii
Welp. Off to make a head canon folder....
Oh my gosh you're so pretty *o* Seriously, you make an AWESOME Feferi *gives you my head-cannon stamp* I really love the wig you used for this too c:
This is PUUUURRFECCCT :33
This is perfect <3 I love the brightness of all the colours and your cosplay is amazing
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'Comic-Con' Director Morgan Spurlock Does His Best Stan Lee Impression
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- April 5, 2012
Take a deep breath and prepare to learn everything you need to know about Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope straight director Morgan Spurlock's fast-talking mouth. Will it change the world? Probably. Plus, Junkfood Cinema enthusiast Brian Salisbury accepts the dangerous mission to play Movie News Roulette. Download Episode #128...
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Editor's Note: This review first ran as part of our Fantastic Fest coverage, but Comic-Con Episode Four hits limited theaters this week. Delivering a massive event with his trademarked smile behind the camera, Morgan Spurlock's Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan's Hope is the kind of joyous celebration that might also...


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Editor's note: The Southern Foodways Alliance delves deep in the history, tradition, heroes and plain old deliciousness of barbecue across the United States. We've been sharing dispatches live from their 15th annual Symposium "Barbecue: An Exploration of Pitmaster, Places, Smoke, and Sauce" in Oxford, Mississippi, over the past few days. Dig in.
North Carolina writer Randall Kenan delivers the opening keynote address at the 2012 SFA symposium, a literary meditation on the importance of the hog in Southern culture. Kenan is introduced by Ted Ownby of the University of Mississippi. It's saucy.
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October 23rd, 2012
From the moment the ancient Greeks held the first Olympics 2,700 years ago, our picture perfect image of elite sportsmen has revolved around the oiled, ripped, macho body.
But not all our leading sports stars fit the stereotypical bill of chest-thumping demigods.
Some, such as jockeys, instead go to extreme lengths to stunt their growth - sometimes down to the size of a pre-pubescent child.
In an industry where just a few extra pounds can rule you out of a multi-million dollar race, jockeys are put under enormous pressure to meet miniature weight requirements.
October 23rd, 2012
Ray Isle (@islewine on Twitter) is Food & Wine's executive wine editor. We trust his every cork pop and decant – and the man can sniff out a bargain to boot. Take it away, Ray.
It's the 23rd of October, which means that once again the birthday of Edison Arantes do Nascimento, much more widely known as Pelé, is here. The man is considered to be the greatest soccer player ever, which, if you ask me, is a fine excuse to celebrate.
Since he's Brazilian, why not raise a toast to him with a caipirinha? Pelé himself doesn't drink, but that's as may be - Caipirinhas, made from muddled limes, sugar and cachaça (the distilled spirit made from sugarcane juice that's Brazil's national drink), are refreshing and potent in equal measure. Muito bom!
October 23rd, 2012
While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday.
It's in the can - October 23 is National Canning Day!
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The Seattle School District's new school assignment plan, put into action two years ago and intended to cut costs and alleviate confusion, appears to be working - meaning Seattle-area schools are starting to better reflect the demographics of where they're found. Predictably, this development means some schools have become whiter, just like the neighborhoods they call home.
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The analysis indicated a substantial loss of diversity at Alki, Arbor Heights (in Southwest Seattle), Sacajawea (Maple Leaf), Gatewood (West Seattle) and Greenwood elementaries and McClure Middle School (Queen Anne). Each saw a spike in white students.
Racial balance rose at Leschi, North Beach (Northwest Seattle) and McGilvra (Madison Park) elementaries. Two of those saw a jump in students of color while Leschi was already heavily minority and got closer to average by getting more white students.
Parents at schools in each category said they have noticed the shifts.
Seattle's old plan allowed students to apply to any school in the district, with decisions on who would go where made based on factors like whether a sibling already attended the desired school and the student's proximity. The new neighborhood method, unanimously approved by the School Board in 2009, assigns students to the school they live near (with a few loopholes), and has so far been phased in, with only a school's incoming grades affected.
Predictably, Seattle School District officials call the plan a success in the Times' story, "pointing to skyrocketing enrollment and some $1.4 million in transportation-cost reductions, with more savings expected," as noted by staff reporters Brian M. Rosenthal and Justin Mayo.
Of course, there was a vision behind the old plan's madness - a vision acknowledging the value of diversity in Seattle's schools. This, after all, is a district that was at the forefront of big city busing in the 1970s, and a district that went all the way to the Supreme Court to defend its school assignment "racial tiebreaker," a diversity-driven mandate eventually ruled unconstitutional in 2007.
These days, however, the District's talking points have shifted away from mentions of diversity and integration, and toward the overall quality of education provided. This, School Board President Michael DeBell tells the Times, is what parents are really concerned with.
"I believe that parents and taxpayers want us to have consistent academic achievement, much more than they're seeking diversity," DeBell is quoted as saying.
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District officials also acknowledge they have changed their thinking on the contentious topic of integrating schools, saying it's not because they no longer value diversity but that busing became an expense the district can no longer afford.
They say they are focusing instead on educating students where they live, trying to boost the quality of schools in poorer parts of town so they are just as good as the ones in wealthier neighborhoods.
Of course, if that was a simple feat one assumes the District, and similar school districts across the country, would have tackled it by now.
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I've read someone say this is a boring stock. I don't understand this.
The company is the leader in the industry. The founder has a long history of solid management.
It has a fortress of a balance sheet with no debt. Its current assets are 4.5 times total liabilities. Its net net ratio compared to price is 0.28, the highest of my current watch list. The price/book stands at about 1.3.
Revenues, earnings, and dividends have been growing steadily. The dividend payout is at about 3.25% at a healthy payout ratio below 40%.
I bought in with real money at $17 and have not been sorry. I just made a limit order at $19.80. According to Fool stats, the short interest ratio is at 9.40. I'm not sure why it's that high but I'll take my chances. The downside risk is low, but if it does go lower, well, I'll just make my third purchase on sale again.
I am oriented more to growth, but this looks more like a good value play for the next 2-3 years. It may not have bottomed out, but I think the risk to the down side is limited now.
-- It has no debt and the current ratio is above 2.
-- The yield is well above 3% and the payout ratio is respectable, below 50%.
-- The CEO is shrewd, and his son is heir apparent.
-- The company dominates their sector.
-- The price is nearly 30% off its high.
Its era of massive growth is over, but the financials are outstanding, and I like the story of how the CEO put the company together. It's a dominant player in its field. I'm buying it as a value play for the next couple of years.
Good on my screener.
Good value metrics. Price/Book 1.23, PE 8.7, DE 0. Expects reduced government sales. Div 3%.
Small cheap and under-followed.
Well managed company with a good should rise with the auto industry in the next few years.
Solid company with essential product.
Must agree with kristm, "boring, slow growth, meat and potatoes". Solid company: I'm sure it will roll with the punches. We need them, they need us.
Just a hunch
This company is midsized in a industry slowed by energy and manufacturing costs. However, earnings are still in positive growth for this company, and should continue as the economy begins to crawl out of the recession over the next five years.
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Contrarian pick for growth and low debt. Not a stellar performer but it has good growth potential and the PPS has irrationally languished. No debt, solid but not unrealistic growth. Low PE
Company has had solid results for years. A very low P/E, good cash position, steadily increasing sales. A defiinite go.
This is what I'd consider a "meat and potatoes" type stock. It's not a tech stock, not a Chinese stock, not a biotech concern. Just plain folks. A boring, slow-growth business making something that nobody thinks about until they need it - but eventually we all need it!
Stock is approaching its 52-week low, with a P/E below 7. Has taken a hit on slower earnings for the last quarter but that's a temporary setback, the company is still strong and worth more than what it's selling for right now.
Has a strong business, with holdings overseas. Based in Chattanooga, TN, where tow trucks were invented. Main competitor is Jerr-Dan, a division of Osh Kosh (OSK). I'm marked outperform on it, too.
Disclaimer: I'm also picking this one to support some local businesses. This is the best Chattanooga area stock I've found so far.
I live a mile from their Ooltewah, TN, plant. It faces I-75, right on my way to work, so I drive past it several times a week. I watch their inventory yards, both incoming and outgoing, and both have been "full" for over a year. Ooltewah is a small town and does not suffer rush-hour gridlock, but I can monitor the traffic as their dayshift lets out and all the cars get backed up at the traffic light. That has remained constant for about two years.


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Ted Simons: Good evening. I'm Ted Simons. The governor announced she will not run for another term, a curious pronouncement considering the constitution prohibits her from serving another term. Here to make sense of it all, Ben Giles of the Arizona Capitol Times. Good to see you. Sounds like the governor announced the obvious. What's going on?
Ben Giles: This was not unexpected. If you ask just about any attorney in the state of Arizona they would have told you constitutionally even the partial term that Governor Brewer served when she replaced Janet Napolitano, who left for D.C., any lawyer would have told you she can't run again but she's been keeping everyone on pins and needles for the last couple of months, delaying announcements about whether or not she would try to challenge this in court. Today she still said she truly believed if I had gone to court I think I would have been successful in arguing that I get another crack at reelection.
Ted Simons: Why didn't she go to court?
Ben Giles: I think it's time to move on, as she said, she used the phrase pass the torch. She's done a lot at the capitol with Medicaid expansion appeared is still trying to do a lot this year, she made clear her veto stamp and pen have a lot of ink. She wants to improve education standards in Arizona. That's going to be a big load at the capitol this year. She has her work cut out for her but she can still be an influence in coming years. She has millions in campaign covers that now she won't use.
Ted Simons: How did talk about another term even get started when the constitution seems quite clear on this?
Ben Giles: I think as we have seen countless times at the capitol, the lawmakers of any variety be they the representatives in the house or the Senators or governor, they take a look at the constitution and they interpret it in ways that they see fit. I sit in Senate Rules Committees all the time where attorneys will raise constitutional concerns about a bill and it's acknowledged and the bill is still voted forward because at some point a lawmaker will decide we think this is worth a court challenge because we don't agree with the interpretation of the constitution.
Ted Simons: On we go. Oversight ideas for this new child abuse agency. Sound like you've seen a draft or ideas out there. What kind of oversight can we expect?
Ben Giles: Seems like a lot more than there is now. There's been a group of lawmakers, the governor's staff, a couple of child -- experts in the child welfare field have been making appearances at these weekly Friday meetings in the governor's office drafting a bill what they call the independent department of child safety an family services. In the latest draft that we received a copy of from the March 7th meeting, the draft explained that one of the things they are considering is creating a citizen oversight board which would include constituents and clients of the department to have a say in the best practices but also similar to something that the juvenile corrections department has, an inspection agency charged with ongoing looking at quality assurance issues within the department to make sure that procedures are being followed. Then also to make sure those procedures are the most effective way to keep children safe and protect children from abuse.
Ted Simons: It's the citizens oversight board made up of what kind of citizens?
Ben Giles: The language specifically says clients and constituents, which I believe would mean parents who have gone through a child protective services investigation. Folks who have real life experience with dealing with cases of abuse and neglect. I think constituents might be some of the child safety an well favor organizations in Arizona that are already working to keep children and vulnerable adults safe.
Ted Simons: I think you wrote the draft could be ready for legislative consideration by May 1st. Most folks thought that this was going to be the lightning rod, this was going to be the biggy if there was going to be a problem this year that would be it. Now you're thinking common core might be?
Ben Giles: Could be. That is at least it appears in votes in the Senate last couple of weeks. That is an issue that seems to be splitting the Republican party in the Senate. There was a bill sponsored by Senator Al Melvin that would have done away with the common core standards in Arizona. It was preliminarily approved but there's one more vote in each chamber before it passes, and it was defeated 12-18. Pretty resoundingly on the Senate floor when you had five Republicans vote against it plus the 13 Democrats who are vocally opposed to it. This is an issue that Senate president Biggs has taken a more vocal role in this year. He has been beating the drum against common core. Just today he pushed two more anti-common core bills for preliminary votes on the floor. They did pass. But I think the expectation is with this strong backing of common core, new standards, education standards from the business community, that they too will be defeated maybe in a similar 12-18 vote.
Ted Simons: Again it sounds like the proverbial tempest in a teapot. The governor is all for this college and career ready standard as common core is now known. They can put all the repeals they want to her desk. She's not going to sign those.
Ben Giles: That's where there's been rumors about how this could be the Medicaid expansion of 2014, an issue that dragged the budget process along into the late summer months and kept a lot of us, lawmakers and reporters included, longer here than we wanted to be. We were here until about mid- to late June last year until the governor finally called a special session on Medicaid expansion. It's not really clear, but we'll have to wait and see how long folks are willing to drag their feet on common core and the budget as part of it.
Ted Simons: Again, why is common core such an anathema to some factions in the Republican party?
Ben Giles: There is a narrative, a fear that this is naturalizing as neat president big said our public education system in Arizona, that states were basically suckered into accepting common core standards when they accepted race to the top funds from the federal government several years ago. However, there are signs that this is a more state-based consortium that is pushing these standards. For instance there's an assessment test being developed named park that education secretary -- superintendent, excuse me, John Huppenthal, is a governing board member. There are signs this is being developed at a more state-based level, but as we heard in the Senate today, there are strong arguments that local control is the best way for education standards and curriculum to be developed. Some of the bills are trying to give local school districts a bigger say in adopting the standards.
Ted Simons: That sounds like that one is long from over. Good to see you. Thanks for joining us.
Ben Giles: Thank you.


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I've been using Ktorrent for the past few weeks, and it's just the best linux bittorrent software in the market, but I taught of some improvements in the syndication tool that could just make KTorrent perfect !
In the filters, there's already a non matching item filter which I think is a great idea, but it doesn't seem to work, for example, if I already filter 10-20 shows, and I wanna filter out of these shows the ones that are in HD, it's not possible, Ktorrent apparently just choose to apply one filter over the other one.
A second issue is the refresh feature, apparently, it doesn't check whether a file has already been downloaded or not, it's particularly annoying when ktorrent automaticaly refresh the rss feeds, so a file that has already been downloaded gets downloaded again.
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Thanks you for the post.
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I have this same issue. In fact it causes major issues. Sometimes I'll come to the computer and see like 30 downloads started (redownloading stuff I already have) and then moving it to the completed downloads folder. This causes tons of file copy errors and really just kicks the **** out of the system. I've been having this issue since a while back but was hoping it was fixed with the latest releases. But it hasn't.
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The #SaveConstantine campaign is now in full swing, and one fan who's definitely willing to do his part is Stephen Amell. The Arrow star has proposed a crossover featuring the two DC Comics characters, promising to guest star on Constantine if a new network picks it up.
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- Confounding Labyrinths are difficult maps with no clear path, scattered with dangers
- Hidden perils are static and dynamic booby traps that threaten careless adventurers
- Ferocious Hordes: the enemies you find in Instances are stronger and more aggressive than those in the open world
- Terrifying Bosses: Powerful enemies that guard valuable and rare items. One player alone does not stand a chance, but teamwork and strategy will be victorious
- Boundless Loot: Black Gold Online uses a Need and Greed loot system, meaning groups decide on their own, whether selfish or altruistic, how to share the loot.
- Consequential Death: Players who die in an Instance will recover back at the beginning, forcing them to work their way through to rejoin their party
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