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Most cruise lines have restrictions for pregnant passengers, primarily for those in their third trimester (last three months) and some cruise lines may refuse to book you if you are beyond a certain week of your pregnancy. Some cruise lines require a medical certificate or a letter from your doctor stating your term of pregnancy or due date, pre-existing physical or medical conditions, your fitness to travel, and any medications you require while onboard. Pack these in an easy-to-find place, preferably with all your other tickets and documentation.
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Anyway, I am brand spankin' new to map making. I use GIMP 2.6, and so far have made two maps. One was a sample map, one that I made to help myself get familiar with map making, and the other is a map of Ta'ana, a province in the world of Flytch, which is the setting of a new story I am working on. Ta'ana is one of three provinces in Flytch, the other two being Lur and Tir. I will make their maps soon. The story I am working on is kind of like Lord of the Rings meets White Wolf's World of Darkness. Ta'ana is the land of vampires, Lur is the land of mages, and Tir is the land of werewolves. They have humans as slaves. But enough about that, this forum is for maps!
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The idea is interesting but it looks like too obviously pasted elements together. Also the orange things are way too pixellated.
The idea is interesting but it looks like too obviously pasted elements together. Also the orange things are way too pixellated.
To add to what Max has said, the contrast between the blurred central image and the hard pixelated arms of the compass rose is disorienting. Also, the characters within and surrounding the central part of the compass rose sort of get lost due to their blurriness and small size.
The desaturated colours are a lot better and at this size the pixels are difficult to spot, though if you can blur them ever so slightly (keeping the rest of the image untouched) i think they'd look better. overall though, I think it looks quite nice
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i dunno, but the central image is too blurred. If you not blur the background and just do in the letters how you did in the letter on the outside circle?
Looks better at this size and witn desaturated colors. Now you'll have to show the whole map
This is anyway my first map made by computer. Im not so good at drawing, so be nice
I can do some images using different all-ready-there photos.
Ill put some pictures, need to just have it ready.. This world is big, so theres lots of to do..
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It's pretty. You're doing hand-drawn effects on parchment. Think about how your in-character cartographer would get the blurred effect, and why. Could it be watercolor/ ink wash? Are there instances of those effects elsewhere on the map? If so, the effect is more believable than just the element by itself.
Mmmh.. Im not sure if i did understand everythink right.. but.. mmh.. u mean is there more blur effects in map?


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The man accused of biting off part of another man's ear went before a Carteret County judge and later told WITN that he was only trying to stop a bar fight.
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(Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Clippers are one of the top five scoring
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game homestand Sunday versus the Atlanta Hawks.
Los Angeles, which also will host Miami and Chicago, equaled a franchise
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Heat veteran reserve Ray Allen hit the go-ahead baseline jumper with under two
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Bordering rivals Union Local and Barnesville are set to meet Friday on the refurbished grass of Shamrock Stadium in a 7 p.m. start.
The Jets and Shamrocks come into their annual showdown with different psyches. The Shamrocks are coming off their first win, a cherished 36-32 victory against Meadowbrook.
"It really feels like there is a monkey off our backs," Shamrocks rookie coach Matt Johnson said. "It felt really good to get that win, especially in the (Dowler Memorial) game."
The Jets, meanwhile, saw their struggles continue. They lost their 21st straight game and failed to score for the second consecutive week. But, coach Mark Cisar contends his team is really close to a breakout performance.
"At times, we look decent and we move the ball, but other times, we don't play with any consistency," Cisar said. "We just can't seem to put it all together. I think we've ran and thrown the ball decently at times, but we've not put it together yet. We need to get first downs, move the chains and not put ourselves in a hole."
Though the Jets have struggled, Cisar was very upbeat about how well his team has stuck together through the trying times.
"We've been really positive as coaches and players," Cisar said. "Our kids have been resilient in their work ethics. They believe in each other and believe that they can win. This is a really good group of kids and something good is going to happen for these kids."
While they've yet to register a point, Johnson observed on film that the Jets haven't been that far away.
"I think against Meadowbrook, (UL) was inside the 5-yard line three times and in the red zone two other times," Johnson said. "They do good things offensively, but they just can't seem to punch it in. I think they'll eventually get it figured out and they're still tough to prepare for because they can operate out of so many formations."
The Shamrocks rebounded from an opening-week dismantling at the hands of John Glenn to win last week.
"We made a lot of improvement," Johnson said. "We had kids who looked shell-shocked in week one because they'd never been in that situation, but we had a good week of preparation and that's a credit to the kids to come back and work the way they did after the first game."
The Shamrocks have won the last two meetings with the Jets after rallying for a 39-20 victory last season. Union Local led 20-7 in the first quarter, but were shut down the rest of the way.
This year's contest is going to come down to big plays. Union Local's offense has traditionally been built on those under Cisar's watch, while the Shamrocks made three big defensive plays, returning three interceptions for scores.
"We need to make a couple of big plays and give ourselves a chance," Cisar said. "Barnesville does a good job of showing different looks and they've got guys coming from everywhere. It's going to come down to who makes the big plays at right time. We need to make a couple, so we can get our engine going."
Union Local's offense is triggered by sophomore Gavin Porter. He's passed for 226 yards and he's been picked off four times.
On the ground, the Jets are led by Eric Dunfee who has 51 yards.
He's also their leading receiver with five receptions for 70 yards. Kaleb McDiffitt has 6 receptions for 48 yards, while sophomore Tater Blake has 6 catches as well.
The Shamrocks watched sophomore Collin Wilson return a pair of interceptions for scores last week. David Stewart also had a pick six.


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Marvel brings digital comics to WonderCon with its House of Ideas panel, bringing the latest updates for the Marvel Comics App, Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited and more.
This week,, Brigid looks at Marvel's new Infinite Canvas, the comparison between DC's print and digital quality, Amazon pulling manga from the Kindle and free digital "Walking Dead" for WonderCon attendees.
"Amazing Spider-Man" writer Dan Slott speaks to CBR about "Ends of the Earth," an epic 6-part story putting Spidey on a global quest to defeat a dying Doctor Octopus' final plan.
Iron Man buckles before Emma Frost's diamond form in today's John Romita Jr.-illustrated teaser for April's Jason Aaron-scripted "Avengers Vs. X-Men" #2
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New York, NY (Sports Network) - Five shooting guards were among the fourteen
lottery selections in the 2012 draft, and besides having the same position in
common, they all unfortunately share the fact that it's been a struggle in the
early going. Let's take a look at each player:
The former Florida guard was selected third overall by the Washington Wizards
and was the first shooting guard taken in the draft.
Beal's stroke was considered so good that he drew comparisons to one of the
greatest shooters of all time in Ray Allen. But so far, the word that comes to
mind when I think of Beal right now is "bricklayer".
In 13 games, he's shooting just 32.6 percent from the field, which includes
awful performances where he shot 0-for-5, 1-for-11 and 3-of-14 from the floor.
It seems to me that a lack of confidence is Beal's biggest problem with his
shooting stroke, and it's not unusual to see this in a first-year player. Just
ask Jimmer Fredette, one of the greatest shooters in college basketball in
recent memory, who shot an abysmal 38.6 percent in his rookie season in
2011-12 with the Sacramento Kings.
Confidence has never been a problem for Waiters, who was selected right after
Beal by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Some might even consider him cocky.
But we've only seen flashes where that confidence has led to high-level
performances. The highlight of his season so far came in his fourth game, when
he scored 28 points on 10-of-17 shooting, including 7-of-11 from downtown, in
the Cavs' win over the Clippers in Los Angeles.
Since that contest, the former Syracuse guard has mainly struggled with his
shot, which is a part of his game which needs work and wasn't considered a
strength coming out of college.
Over the last eleven games, Waiters is shooting just 34 percent from the floor
and 31 percent from the 3-point range.
In addition to his shooting struggles, Waiters is settling for too many jump
shots, and not using his breakdown ability to get into the paint and also the
chance to get to the foul line more often. He's averaging just over five 3-
point attempts per game, but is only getting to the line 2.6 times.
It was a bit of a surprise when the Toronto Raptors selected the University of
Washington guard with the eighth overall pick. For one, he was not projected
to go that high, and the Raptors already had a young shooting guard in DeMar
After seeing sporadic playing time over the first three weeks of the season,
Ross has gotten more consistent minutes lately, but with the exception of one
good shooting performance (9-for-17) in a blowout loss to the Houston Rockets
on Tuesday, Ross has struggled with his shot like the rest of the lottery
shooting guards. He's hitting 41.5 percent from the field and just 27.8
percent from downtown.
But beyond his shooting struggles, I have a problem with the fact that Ross'
two free throw attempts in last night's loss in Memphis were his first
attempts of the season. But this shouldn't be a surprise, since Ross isn't too
good at putting the ball on the floor and getting to the line. He averaged
just 1.8 free throw attempts in his two seasons at Washington.
And with his inability to create his own shot, he's not going to do much in
terms of creating shots for his teammates.
It's not exactly the talent I'd be looking for with the eighth pick of the
To say that the game hasn't been flowing for Rivers is probably an
The former Duke guard, who was selected 10th overall by the New Orleans
Hornets, has simply been awful so far. He's shooting 31.9 percent from the
floor, and has had three games in which he failed to score from the field.
His poor play eventually led to coach Monty Williams' decision to remove
Rivers from the starting lineup in favor of Roger Mason, Jr.
"I don't want to get inside of his head," Williams said, "but I do know that
young guys who have had a great deal of success on other levels feel it will
be a bit easier when they get here and when it's not, then there may be some
pressing going."
If Rivers can eventually relax, don't expect him to be a dead-eye shooter,
because he never has been. He was a 70 percent foul shooter in his senior year
in high school and shot just 65.8 percent in his one season at Duke. In his
brief pro career, he's shooting 66.7 percent, hitting 22-of-33 from the line.
The former Connecticut star was originally drafted by the Houston Rockets with
the twelfth overall pick, and then was traded prior to the start of the season
to the Oklahoma City Thunder as part of the deal that landed James Harden in
Unlike the four shooting guards selected before him Lamb is seeing very little
floor time.
He's appeared in only eight of the Thunder's 16 games, and is averaging 2.1
points in just 4.3 minutes per game, while shooting 33.3 percent from the
This season will be a lot about watching and learning for Lamb, but he should
get a pretty good education being around and practicing with the likes of
Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. Although, Lamb was sent down to the D-
League on Thursday to work on his game.
I thought based on Lamb's skill set, his production, and the fact that he was
a vital part of an NCAA championship team, that he should have been drafted
higher, and I still believe he has a legitimate shot at being the best
shooting guard in his draft.
One of the unsung heroes in the Brooklyn Nets' quick start is Reggie Evans.
The backup power forward has been a monster off the boards. He's pulling down
8.6 rebounds in just 19.5 minutes per game, but has the top per-48 minute
average in the league at 21.1.
"He reminds me of a young Dennis Rodman," said Shaquille O'Neal on TNT after
the Nets beat the Clippers last Friday. "He gets every rebound, doesn't want
to shoot and doesn't want to score."
Evans incredible board work comes despite the fact that he readily admits his
lack of fundamentals and athleticism.
"I'm not the best box out person; I can't jump as high," Evans said. "So you
gotta use your head and just go get it and stuff like that. I'm not the best
person you want to look at if you want to know the fundamentals of
After losing at home to the Brooklyn Nets Wednesday night in a game marred by
a second quarter scrum that led to the ejections of Rajon Rondo, Kris
Humphries, and Gerald Wallace, Celtics coach Doc Rivers didn't mince any words
in describing his team's play this season.
The stats clearly back Rivers' take on his team. The Celtics are last in the
league in rebounding (37.1 per game), 26th in opponents field goal percentage
(45.9 percent), and 22nd in opponents points (99.7 per game).
Dwight Howard has always been a terrible foul shooter, but he's gotten
markedly worse since last season.
Prior to his last year in Orlando, Howard was a career 59.8 percent foul
shooter. But last season he shot 49.1 percent and so far with the Lakers he's
at 47.8 percent.
His 3-for-12 performance from the line on Tuesday was a big reason why the
Lakers lost at home to the Pacers, 79-77. Two of those misses came with 57
seconds left and Los Angeles down by one.
With Howard's foul shooting at an all-time low, nobody will be surprised if he
costs the Lakers a playoff game if he continues to be this bad.
As a matter of fact, Lakers' fans got a taste of how costly Howard's free
throw shooting can be in the 2009 NBA Finals when the Lakers played the Magic.
With Orlando having a chance to tie the series at two, Howard went to the line
in game 4 with an opportunity to ice the game with 11 seconds left with the
Magic holding a three-point lead. But he missed both attempts and Derek Fisher
hit a 3-pointer to send the game to overtime where the Lakers eventually
prevailed and took a 3-1 stranglehold on the series. Howard finished 5-of-12
from the line in that critical loss.
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Palmer Named Track & Cross Country Assistant Coach
AMES, Iowa – Iowa State cross country and track and field head coach Martin Smith announced the hiring of Will Palmer as an assistant coach Tuesday. Palmer previously worked under Smith at Oklahoma.
At Oklahoma, Palmer served as the director of operations where he was responsible for team travel logistics, home meet management, managing communication between the track and field staff and other athletics offices for the Sooners.
"Will has a very strong work ethic," Smith said. "He is very passionate about his work and sees it as an extension of a lifestyle, which is very important in track and cross country where you don't have much of an offseason."
Before his time in Norman, Okla., Palmer interned with the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). Palmer also worked with Robert Chapman at a coaching internship with Team Indiana Elite, where he oversaw daily workouts in preparation for the World Indoor Championships.
Palmer was a member of the men's cross country and track & field teams at Williams College, where he focused on the 1500m and 3000m steeplechase. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in June 2011.


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All-nighters: you can only avoid them for so long.
Its a week before your midterm and you're relaxed. That's definitely enough time to study right? But then you have that meeting tonight. You also promised dinner with your roommate the next night. Oh, and a new episode of your show is on- you can't miss that. Before you know it, your midterm is the next day and you haven't studied yet. It's crunch time and you're dreading the night ahead of you, but at this point it's necessary. Although this may be an experience most college students want to avoid, some may thrive and work greatly under pressure. While we don't endorse sleepless nights, we're certainly guilty of quite a few of them. Here are some tips to help you survive your first all-nighter:
1. Take a nap: If you've already had a long morning, go ahead and take a two or three hour nap in the evening before you begin doing your work. This will give you energy for the long night ahead of you.
2. If your assignment doesn't need internet connection, don't use it: Social media sites such as facebookand tumble can be quite distracting. If your assignment does require internet connection, limit yourself to using those sites. There is a lovely application for macs called self control, which allows you to block a list of websites or programs you want for a certain period of time.
3. Keep energized with healthy snacks: The continuous snacking and crunch of a bowl of nuts or dried fruits gives you a steady release of energy over time. If you're looking for a quick energy source, fresh bananas and apples are the way to go. Both are packed with several vitamins, minerals and good carbohydrates.
4. Stay away from energy drinks: The quick energy high is always followed by a crash. If you must, drink a soda or coffee. They'll give you a perk without the crash later. If you're not a caffeine drinker, cold water will keep you up throughout the night.
5. Study location is key: Not your bed, a comfy couch, or the floor that will potentially make you want to fall asleep. Work somewhere you will not be tempted to fall asleep and complete your work in a well lit place.
6. Complete your more challenging assignments first: You'll have more concentration to do good work at the beginning of your all-nighter.
7. If possible, take a couple breaks: During your breaks, walk around and stretch or take a cold shower to help wake you up. If needed, take a 20 minute power nap to re-energize your body and mind.


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LAKE CITY, Fla. - Columbia County deputies were called Thursday morning after a bank reported a man on a bicycle at the drive-through window was trying to cash a forged $300 check on the account of a man who had died.
Deputies say that staff at Columbia County Bank branch on U.S. 90 West was aware the customer had died and called law enforcement. The Sheriff's Office says Ray Newby, 52, admitted to deputies that he forged the signature and attempted to cash the check.
Newby, of White Springs, was arrested without incident and charged with uttering a forged instrument, grand theft and fraud.
Investigators believe Newby cashed other checks in the recent past and additional charges are possible.
Newby was booked into the Columbia County Detention Facility and held on a $15,000 bond.
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May 31, 2016
There's a saying that you can't please all of the people all of the time. But apparently you can if they're holiday shoppers.
A survey released by the National Retail Federation on Sunday is showing that U.S. shoppers hit stores and websites at record numbers over the Thanksgiving weekend. They were attracted by stores' efforts to make shopping easier for everyone, including opening on Thanksgiving Day and expanding shipping and layaway options.
A record 247 million shoppers visited stores and websites over the four-day weekend starting Thanksgiving, according to the survey. That's up 9.2 percent from a year ago. Americans spent more too: The average holiday shopper spent $423 over the entire weekend, up from $398.
Total spending over the four-day weekend totaled $59.1 billion, up $52.4 billion in 2011.
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Flipping a bitch is making an illeagal U-turn, usually done in the middle of a street or over a double line. Often times resulting in your passengers freaking out or shitting their pants.
"When she flipped the bitch I almost shit my pants"
"Just flip a bitch, there's no cops"
"Just flip a bitch, there's no cops"
your mom가 작성 2003년 03월 10일 (월)
a U-turn
"Dude, you better FLIP A BITCH, i think i saw a cop up ahead."
mainframe가 작성 2003년 10월 31일 (금)
When driving, this is to indicate that you must make a "U-Turn".
You passed it up Holmes, flip a bitch and go back the other way.
Olater가 작성 2001년 09월 28일 (금)
When you are driving down the road and you need to quickly turn around and head the opposite direction.
Hey Mike, you just passed up the bar, its cool, just flip a bitch!
Jasen NOLA가 작성 2008년 12월 31일 (수)
The process of making an U-Turn in a vehicle, usually impulsively and sometimes illegally.
Yo, cuz, right up here on the left... quick, flip a bitch at the light!
John L Cat가 작성 2008년 07월 10일 (목)
A saying usually said in last minute sitchuations when giving a friend directions
yeah u missed the turn so ur gonna have to flip-a-bitch
gavin g가 작성 2006년 03월 19일 (일)
a change in direction caused by maneuvering your body/an object. you must change your acceleration and direction in witch you are traveling thus for your displacement is 0. there are many a terms like flip-a-bitch but none with the same power. its kinda of like making a u turn but not even close?
"USE IT OR LOOSE IT" as a German once said
"USE IT OR LOOSE IT" as a German once said
i made a wrong turn down yonder so i had to flip-a-bitch.


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Is there a way of having multiple web servers (message stores) in a way that when a user logs in to the main one and the mailbox resides on another server it forwards him over to the other server ? -I don't have money for load balancer ?-
also is there a way to have the message store and the tomcat seprate ? -is it even a good idea ?-


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May 30, 2016
Dole Food Co.'s fresh vegetables division is recalling 756 cases of bagged salad, because they could be contaminated with salmonella.
The salads were distributed in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Dole said late Saturday that it's coordinating with regulatory officials and that no illnesses have been reported.
The company said the bags are being recalled, because a random sample tested by the State of New York came back positive for salmonella.
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Saudi bans maids without wisdom teeth: I really wanted to believe that this was an attempt to ensure that all housemaids in Saudi Arabia were "wise", but the idea was actually far more sensible than that. Faced with the problem of job-seeking maids falsifying their ages in their passports, Saudi authorities were said to be refusing entry to any Asian housemaids without wisdom teeth on the grounds that they could potentially be underage.
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May 31, 2016
Authorities in West Alabama say one person died on Sunday afternoon while hunting.
Sheriff Tyrone Clarke says the person died after an accident on County Road 10 in Kinterbish.
Clarke tells Newscenter 11 that details are limited at this time, but that Sumter County investigators are working with the Department of Fish and Wildlife to determine exactly what happened.
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text: The neuroscience of screwing up neuroscience 19 January 10 by Jonah Lehrer This article was taken from the February issue of Wired UK magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.It all started with the sound of static. In May 1964, two astronomers at Bell Labs, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, were using a radio telescope in suburban New Jersey to search the far reaches of space. Their aim was to make a detailed survey of radiation in the Milky Way, which would allow them to map those vast tracts of the universe devoid of bright stars. This meant Penzias and Wilson needed a receiver that was exquisitely sensitive, able to eavesdrop on all the emptiness. And so they had retrofitted an old radio telescope, installing amplifiers and a calibration system to make the signals coming from space just a little bit louder. But they made the scope too sensitive. Whenever Penzias and Wilson aimed their dish at the sky, they picked up a persistent background noise, a static that interfered with all of their observations. It was an incredibly annoying technical problem.At first, they assumed the noise was man-made, an emanation from nearby New York City. But when they pointed their telescope straight at Manhattan, the static didn't increase. Another possibility was that the sound was due to fallout from recent nuclear bomb tests in the upper atmosphere. But that didn't make sense either, since the level of interference remained constant. And then there were the pigeons: a pair of birds was roosting in the receiver, leaving a trail of what they later described as "white dielectric material". The scientists evicted the pigeons and scrubbed away their mess, but the static remained, as loud as ever.For the next year, Penzias and Wilson tried to ignore the noise, concentrating on observations that didn't require cosmic silence or perfect precision. They insulated the steel joints with aluminium tape, kept the receiver as clean as possible and hoped a shift in the weather might clear up the interference. They waited for the seasons to change, and then change again, but the noise always remained, making it impossible to find the faint radio echoes they were looking for. Their telescope was a failure.Kevin Dunbar is a researcher who studies how scientists study things -- how they fail and succeed. In the early 90s, he began an unprecedented research project: observing four biochemistry labs at Stanford University. Philosophers have long theorised about how science happens, but Dunbar wanted to get beyond theory. He wasn't satisfied with abstract models of the scientific method -- that seven-step process we drum into students -- or the dogmatic faith scientists place in logic and objectivity. Dunbar knew scientists often don't think the way the textbooks say they are supposed to. He suspected that all those philosophers of science -- from Aristotle to Karl Popper -- had missed something important about what goes on in the lab. (As the physicist Richard Feynman famously quipped, "Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.") So Dunbar decided to launch an in-vivo investigation, attempting to learn from the messiness of real experiments.He ended up spending the next year staring at post-docs and test tubes: the researchers were his flock, and he was the ornithologist. Dunbar brought tape recorders into meeting rooms and loitered in the hallway; he read grant proposals and the rough drafts of papers; he peeked at notebooks, attended lab meetings, and videotaped interview after interview. He spent four years analysing the data. "I'm not sure I appreciated what I was getting myself into," Dunbar says. "I asked for complete access, and I got it. But there was just so much to keep track of."Dunbar came away from his in-vivo studies with an unsettling insight: science is a deeply frustrating pursuit. Although the researchers were mostly using established techniques, more than 50 percent of their data was unexpected. (In some labs, the figure exceeded 75 percent.) "The scientists had these elaborate theories about what was supposed to happen," Dunbar says. "But the results kept contradicting their theories. It wasn't uncommon for someone to spend a month on a project and then discard all their data because the data didn't make sense." Perhaps they hoped to see a specific protein but it wasn't there. Or maybe their DNA sample showed the presence of an aberrant gene. The details always changed, but the story remained the same: the scientists were looking for X but they found Y.Dunbar was fascinated by these statistics. The scientific process, after all, is supposed to be an orderly pursuit of the truth, full of elegant hypotheses and control variables. (Twentieth-century science philosopher Thomas Kuhn, for instance, defined normal science as the kind of research in which "everything but the most esoteric detail of the result is known in advance".) However, when experiments were observed up close -- and Dunbar interviewed the scientists about even the most trifling details -- this idealised version of the lab fell apart, replaced by an endless supply of disappointing surprises. There were models that didn't work and data that couldn't be replicated and simple studies riddled with anomalies. "These weren't sloppy people," Dunbar says. "They were working in some of the finest labs in the world. But experiments rarely tell us what we think they're going to tell us. That's the dirty secret of science."How did the researchers cope with all this unexpected data? How did they deal with so much failure? Dunbar realised the vast majority of people in the lab followed the same basic strategy. First, they would blame the method. The surprising finding was classified as a mere mistake; perhaps a machine malfunctioned or an enzyme had gone stale. "The scientists were trying to explain away what they didn't understand," Dunbar says. "It's as if they didn't want to believe it." The experiment would then be carefully repeated. Sometimes, the weird blip would disappear, in which case the problem was solved. But the weirdness usually remained. Read page 2 1234 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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A long talked about alternative to the Panama Canal moved one step closer this week, reports analysts for IHS Global Insights.
The Nicaraguan government proposed legislation that will give a 50-year concession for the construction and operation of a new canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to a Chinese operator.
Should the Chinese operator succeed in raising sufficient finance to develop the project, it will profoundly alter operational conditions in Nicaragua, shape global trade pattern, and shift regional relations.
Of several proposed alternatives to the Panama Canal, this proposal seems the most likely yet to get off the ground, partly because of the Nicaraguan government's dominance of the domestic scenario, partly because of the clear long-term commercial benefits for a plethora of different actors.
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Welcome to the Midwestern suburbs, where exciting things never happen. Well, almost never. After a near-death experience (choking on a hero sandwich), Beth (Anne Heche) is revived only to realize she now has a direct line to God. Of course, her husband Tom (Michael Landes) is skeptical and dismissive - and his mistress (Alexandra Breckenridge) is stunned to learn that her lover's wife is now a prophet! But when inexplicable things begin to happen, everyone's beliefs are tested. Beth starts to say and do things that shock her family and entrance her friends, but she isn't going to be your typical "fire and brimstone" prophet. Let's just say, if God had a desperate housewife as His m...
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Entertainment | They stay up late, earn but a little, chase laughs in small towns, and all because they believe in the growing entertainment niche known as Clean Comedy
LIMA, Ohio-Clayburn Cox admits to growing up poor. So poor, he says, that instead of the deodorant called Sure, he could afford only the deodorant called Perhaps. Instead of "I can't believe it's not Butter!" he had to settle for "I can't believe we can't afford I can't believe it's not Butter." He could use only a generic weight loss program called food poisoning. And he never felt like a million bucks. Instead he felt like a coupon.
When Cox admits this to a group of strangers, they laugh-which is just what he wants.
Cox, 31, is one of 13 contestants at July's Clean Comedy Challenge in Lima, Ohio. The comedians, many of them Christians, descended on this tiny town for three nights of competition billed as church clean and club funny.
The event's founder, Leslie Norris Townsend, says this is the only event like it in the country. She hatched the idea two years ago after attending a convention for Christian comedians. The week was full of seminars on how to be funny and how to get gigs. But Townsend says it lacked what up-and-coming funny people need most: stage time.
So inside the Chippewa Room of a Howard Johnson Hotel, contestants from seven states are taking the next step toward becoming stand-up artists. This is admittedly a long way from the big time. But the comics seem so addicted to any limelight that at least two are willing to miss their wives' birthdays to chase laughs in Lima.
Some are brand new to the comedy world. Others have spent a decade telling jokes. Throughout the weekend they use one-liners or longer narratives to poke fun at marriage, weight gain, reality television, homeschooling, church matchmaking, and politics.
Nearly all of them gulp down water to battle the dry mouth and nerves before heading to the stage. They all learn that handling a joke is like holding a Fabergé egg. And when a flat joke is met by silence, the comedian's pain soon becomes the audience's too.
Risking rejection is worth it because the growing entertainment niche known as Clean Comedy is catching, they believe, as audiences tire of mainstream comedians who grow raunchier and raunchier. Videos of Christian comedian Tim Hawkins receive more than 23 million YouTube views. A DVD series titled "Thou Shalt Laugh" is on its fifth volume. One Wichita, Kan., church has started the "Kingdom Comedy Club," which hosts nationally known Christian comedians. And a series of Christian comedy shows started by a campus minister at Arizona State University is four years later attracting more and more students.
For the country's only Clean Comedy competition, judges this year include a cruise ship entertainment booker, a California-based producer, and a couple of clean comedian pros, like Dennis Regan. Regan has had multiple appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman-the holy grail for comedians-and throughout the weekend contestants reverently refer to his "four Lettermans." Everyone is dreaming that Lima somehow one day will lead to Letterman.
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But the competition's first night did not go so well for Marty Simpson. The 39-year-old from Columbia, S.C., took up comedy three years ago. A former high-school football coach, Simpson yearned for something to give him the same pregame butterflies, and found it in comedy. He has performed in churches and clubs in 10 states. "Comedy is the best bang for the buck," he says. "You stand up, grab the mic, tell a joke, and the audience laughs."
In this competition, Simpson, once a quarterback, did the equivalent of throwing an interception: He debuted a brand new act with a new character on the challenge's first day. Acting like a coach, Simpson took the stage with a whistle around his neck. But when the first 45 seconds went by with zero laughter, Simpson couldn't remember the rest of his new material.
"I was left with sweat beads on my head," Simpson said, and five minutes is a long time to sweat on stage. "I'm just glad it's a three-day competition."
The next day the judges, seated American Idol style, say Simpson did not fully commit to his new character. "Why are you doing comedy?" asks judge and talent manager Jan Maxwell Smith. "Until you figure it out none of this will really matter."
"At least I am positioned for the most improved award," Simpson cracks.
For last year's challenge winner, the answer to the judge's question is simple. Jonnie Wethington says the laughter is like "tiny hugs from strangers. There's a 7th-grader inside all of us who wants that."
But Wethington also has another calling. He's involved in college ministry at a Nashville church. Not long after he started doing comedy, the church's leaders asked him to make the weekly announcements every Sunday in a fun way that would help the congregation of 400 pay attention.
Today Wethington doesn't care if he gets paid at a comedy club or not. He uses those jobs in the secular world to sharpen his funny bone for church performances: "I don't want to be that guy with 25 minutes of communion wafer jokes."
Wethington is alluding to the dominant stereotype that Christian comedians aren't funny. When C.J. Harlow, a contestant from Kentucky, performs at comedy clubs on nights that include secular comics, he says he often feels like he's "in a gunfight with a knife."
"Everyone else is super dirty so maybe I'm the light in the middle of all that," he said. Harlow, 38, started doing comedy four years ago after thinking about it for a decade. A former Marine, he first used his routines to entertain fellow soldiers with nightly skits while deployed to Somalia. During his first gigs back home he took note cards on stage to read.
"I don't have dogs, kids, or a wife," he says as a way of explaining why he decided to try life as a full-time comedian. "I have a picture of a plant, but it died."
Last year Harlow performed from Florida to Rhode Island, but made only $15,000. He keeps a tent, sleeping bag, and an air mattress in his car, and sometimes on the road the car becomes his bedroom.
Proverbs may say that "a joyful heart is good medicine," but churches and comedy often make strange bedfellows. Comedians mostly make fun of things and jokes usually are birthed through dark times, and often at the expense of others.
A recent job at a Christian college for Harlow included a contract warning that he could forfeit his pay if he used jokes that included bathroom references or the word hell. A popular story among the comics here is that organizers at a church event once told a comedian that she couldn't use the word pantyhose.
"The church has always been so worried you will offend somebody," says the Clean Comedy Challenge organizer, Townsend, who in 1996 came in second place in the stand-up comedy category of Star Search. "I believe that Jesus would have a smile on His face most of the time. He would be going to comedy clubs."
Harlow believes there are valuable ways for comedy to reach churchgoers. He used to struggle with marijuana addiction and sometimes incorporates that into his jokes. He believes that being honest about it and including it as part of his comedic testimony may touch people in the audience who are struggling with the same thing.
Cox, whose poor man routine ultimately wins him the challenge's championship trophy, is a public high-school teacher. He was able to share his Christian testimony to many of his Auburn, Ala., students for the first time when they came to his performances at a local coffee shop.
While Cox and others see the audience as a mission field, Simpson believes he also is called to minister to other comedians. When an alcoholic comic said he couldn't get sober living at his parent's house, Simpson invited him to live with his family. That comedian spent 21 clean days with Simpson, Simpson's wife, and two children. He now has been sober for 20 months.
The ongoing challenge for Christian comedy is how to define clean."Some may do a Viagra joke and call it clean because there are commercials on TV about it," said Regan, who served as one of the judges.
At its most basic level, clean comedy means zero curse words and vulgarity. A comedian for nearly 25 years, Regan used to get laughs using dirty words sprinkled throughout his jokes. Once he tried telling the exact same joke with all the bad language taken out, and the audience didn't laugh.
"For the most part comedians don't do clean because it is very hard," Regan said. "But if you work to do things in a more thoughtful way, you will become a better comedian."
Regan said the clean comedy field was so small two decades ago that he knew all the comedians. Now it's crowded. Simpson compares it to where Christian music was about 30 years ago-a niche market with a handful of not widely known artists. Today Christian music spans genres and can be bought in most stores. The comics at July's comedy challenge are hoping they can catch what may be a coming Christian comedy wave.
So they spend the weekend honing their craft: They work on how not to forget jokes, how to keep a safety parachute of laughs to pull if an act is bombing, and how to handle another not infrequent hurdle: hecklers in the crowd.
Though he didn't win the competition after his rocky first night, Simpson takes solace in the fact that the judges said he had one of the best sets on the final night. That performance included a sound-effects-heavy story about putting an electric collar on his barking dog. Response to that set boosts Simpson enough to head over to a nearby restaurant for open mic night. Never mind that it's nearing 1 a.m. and he already has spent the last three days telling jokes.
"I think the ministry of laughter is coming, " Simpson said before disappearing inside the restaurant to grab the microphone-and hope for more laughs.


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It has been a couple years since I last did a Zimbra install, but I am looking to do a fresh NE one again here shortly. So, I had some questions regarding implementation of an SLES 11 SP1 server with Zimbra on top. First off, what does everyone recommend for a filesystem? I have used both ext4 and XFS but was wondering if there were any special "Zimbra" benefits to either of them (or maybe another FS).
Second, I was wondering if anyone had any luck or if Zimbra has finally implemented a DR system for system to system replication. In other words, we will have one device at our main location and another at our DR site. The device at our main location will be the main server and handle e-mail. The second device will sit there idle except for (hopefully) receiving sync data from the main server so that if the main server went down, we'd have the other one we could bring up quickly (basically bind ext IP, change internal DNS, and go). But, the big catch is how can we duplicate the data at both sites? I have an idea of using the backup system and just copying the incrementals and fulls up at night. However, I was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions? I see there is a DRBD solution and the imap sync...but I was hoping for something different...other options.
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Sabres are floudering badly. Third worst team in the conference, third worst goal differential in the league (and it would be worse if they Bruins didn't fall asleep against them). Vanek and Pominville could be difference-makers, and Miller could certainly stabilize a team like the Isles or (shudder) Toronto.


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Holley Carburetor Rebuild - Save That Swap Meet HolleyWritten by Jeff Smith on April 1, 2011
Sometime about 25 years ago, car magazines began doing stories on electronic fuel injection. They also began counting the days before carburetors would become extinct. Yet on the street today, the hot street-machine engine scales are still most definitely tipped in favor of the carburetor.
Holley Carburetor The overwhelming popular hero 50 years ago, as well as today, is the Holley carburetor, and it's probably a safe bet that will continue for at least the next 20 years. Many car crafters start out with a used Holley carburetor, so we thought a quick previously owned Holley carb drive-by might be a good thing, and maybe we'll add a few 21st century tweaks.
Pick a Winner Holley Carb
If you don't speak the Holley carb dialect, a few pointers may be in order. There are several ways to differentiate a Holley carb. We'll start with 4150 versus 4160 models. The classic 4150 uses a metering block on the secondary side, while the less expensive 4160 style uses a thinner metering plate. This difference also creates two dual-feed lengths, so keep that in mind when ordering a new fuel line. The other major way to identify a Holley carb is by the secondary actuation using either straight mechanical linkage or vacuum actuation in which velocity through the primary side of the carb creates enough signal to push a diaphragm against a small spring inside the vacuum housing to open the secondary side.
Holley also offers the broadest range of different size carburetors that are rated by airflow expressed in cubic feet per minute (CFM). The two most popular Holley carb sizes are the 600-cfm and 750-cfm versions but flow ratings range from 390 to 1250 cfm.
The Used Holley Shakedown
If you're looking for a used Holley carburetor, the swap meet is the place to go. At our most recent trip to Long Beach, California, the population density of Holley fuel mixers was at an all-time high. Prices seem to hover between $100 and $150 for all but the bigger-cfm carbs. There is an art to choosing a good carb, and since you can't test 'em, you may need a friend with a practiced eye to help spot the good ones. Holleys are pretty durable, so it's not difficult to find carburetors that are 20 to 40 years old. Any Holley with a small, linkage-actuated vent hole in the top of the primary fuel bowl is probably a '60s factory Chevrolet carb. The factory carbs can also be identified by a seven-digit sequence number on the choke housing. Another easy way to spot an older Holley is by the straight screwdriver blade float bowl screws. Later Holleys use a 5/16-inch hex bolt.
Look for a carb with matching bowls front and rear, with a color and appearance that is consistent. Mismatched bowls and/or metering blocks may be a sign that this carb has been assembled from the orphan carb parts bin and may be a questionable performer. Also look for broken or cracked base plates and missing small linkage pieces. These are usually good warning signs to look for a better unit. Take a quick glance at the air bleeds in the choke horn area to ensure that the carb has not been drilled by an overzealous "tuner." It's also best to recognize carb sizes by the Holley part number located on the choke horn. For example, the only difference between a 0-4779 750-cfm carb and its 0-4780 800-cfm cousin is a 1/16-inch larger secondary venturi diameter, so it's best to know the popular Holley list numbers in order to know their cfm ratings without having to ask. Car Craft family member Tim Moore has spent much of his life searching out good used Holleys, and we passed along some of his knowledge base.
Holley Hints, Tips, and Tricks
There are plenty of small changes that can turn a marginal carburetor into a crisp, throttle-responsive mix master that will have your buddies thinking you're some kind of carburetor wizard. The cold, hard truth is that just returning the carburetor to its stock jetting, accelerator pump squirter size, and other specs will, if anything, return the carb to a proper baseline for further tuning.
|Primary jet
|Secondary meter plate*
|Power valve
|Accelerator pump nozzle size
|0.025 (0.031 w/-4 and newer)
|Secondary spring
|Power valve channel restrictor
|0.063 inch
|Idle feed restrictor diameter
|0.032 0.034 inch
3310 Specs
These are the specs listed in the Holley catalog for all the 0-3310 vacuum-secondary carburetors. Most of the specs are the same for all the different models with a few exceptions, which are also listed.
|Holley Renew kit
|Summit Racing
|Holley accelerator pump cam kit
|Summit Racing
|Holley vacuum-secondary spring kit
|Summit Racing
|Holley secondary meter block kit
|Summit Racing
|Holley quick-change cover kit
|Summit Racing
Old-time carb guys use Chapstick on bowl and metering block gaskets to keep them from sticking.
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If the carb is dirty or varnished, a good soaking in carb cleaner is necessary. If the carb is in better shape, a few squirts of carb cleaner down the air bleeds and through all the metering block circuits may be all that's necessary to ensure all the passages are open.This '60s OE Chevrolet vacuum-secondary 3310 used small mixture-distribution tabs on the primary boosters to direct fuel to certain spots in the intake manifold. This could cause mixture distribution problems on non-OE applications (especially single-plane intakes), so be aware of this when buying older Holleys.If the primary or secondary throttle blades have been drilled for a monster cam, it will often cause the engine to idle too high, even with the idle speed screw backed all the way out. You can purchase new throttle plates from Holley or just buy an entire new throttle-plate assembly.All 3310s (except the -1) are 4160-style carbs that use a metering plate instead of a metering block. For less than $50, you can convert to a secondary metering block that includes the proper jets and all the gaskets. The metering plate is retained with clutch-head screws. If you don't have a clutch-head screwdriver, try grinding the tip of a cheap screwdriver.A quick way to bench set the float level is to invert the bowl and adjust the float until it's level. Final float adjustments can be done with the engine running. Minor float level adjustments work just like fine-tuning the jets.This tip is critical. Adjust the accelerator pump linkage with zero clearance so as soon as the throttle is opened, the accelerator pump arm also moves to push fuel out of the squirter. Adjust the pump cam arm to ensure that this system pumps fuel the moment the throttle moves.The power valve channel restrictors (arrows) are similar to the main jets that restrict the amount of fuel added when the power valve opens. This allows you to lean the primary jets and still have sufficient fuel when demand increases. If it's necessary to go to smaller primary jets for part-throttle tuning but you still need more the wide-open throttle fuel, compute the smaller jet flow area reduction, then enlarge the power valve channel restrictor by that area to add the fuel back in. The second pin indicates the position of the idle feed restrictor.Most stock vacuum-secondary Holleys come with slow-opening diaphragm springs. The spring kit is inexpensive, but changing the springs is a pain. If you invest in a quick-change lid, then changing springs takes about two minutes.


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Training Providers
In its most recent research on training trends, the 2007 State of the Industry Report, the American Society for Training & Development estimates that U.S. organizations spent nearly $130 billion on employee learning and development in 2006. That figure includes direct expenditures such as salaries for learning professionals, administration, outsourcing activities and other non-salary delivery costs. The estimate is based on the average U.S. organization's per-employee training expenditure—$1,083—multiplied by the number of full-time workers in the U.S., which ASTD puts at 119.7 million. The report shows steady momentum for spending on training. In its 2006 report, ASTD estimated corporate learning expenditures in the U.S. at $109 billion.
Meanwhile, the Corporate Learning Factbook 2008, produced by Oakland, California-based Bersin & Associates, contains data on 2007 corporate training spending, which it says approached $58.5 billion. To arrive at that estimate, Bersin says it weights its data to more accurately reflect the makeup of businesses in the U.S., which tend to be small or midsize, while most of its survey respondents were big companies. That weighting could account for the spending estimate being lower than that of the ASTD report, says company president Josh Bersin. The Bersin survey excludes government organizations, while the ASTD report includes responses from public-sector organizations.
Despite the variance, the reports corroborate each other on at least one important finding: One of every three hours of training is now being delivered via some form of technology, and that ratio is expected to climb in coming years.
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Harry Brown
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Running Time: 97 mins.
MPAA Rating: R
Box Office: $1,818,681.00
Genre: Crime, Foreign, Thriller, Urban, Western
Harry Brown, an ordinary law-abiding citizen, just wanted to quietly live out his retirement. But in this desolate urban wasteland, the residents live in fear of the drug dealers who rule the streets...and the police offer little protection. When Inspector Alice Frampton can't convict the thugs who killed Harry's best friend, he decides to take the law into his own hands. Using skills honed as a Royal Marine, Harry begins to serve his own brand of justice, and no one will stop him.
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