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Former Prairie Village City Councilor David Morrison has followed through on his promise to appeal his ouster from the city council and the issue is now in the hands of the Kansas Court of Appeals.
Morrison was ousted from public office by Johnson County District Court Judge David Hauber after a non-binding jury heard evidence in early October. Hauber refused to stay the order for Morrison's seat to be vacated during the appeal.
Morrison also had asked the appeals court to stay the order and allow him to continue serving in the council during the appeal. That motion was denied by the court and a motion by the district attorney to preserve the status quo — keeping Morrison out of office — was granted.
Morrison also asked for the case to be transferred to the Kansas Supreme Court and that was denied as well, according to court records.
The Johnson County District Attorney's office is defending the appeal rather than the city because it was that office that filed the removal proceedings against Morrison. Attorney Steve Obermeier is handling the case for the county.
Obermeirer said the appeals court is still awaiting transcripts from the case. After that, each side will file briefs and Morrison can request oral arguments. It could be months before the appeal is decided, he said.
A replacement for Morrison, Courtney McFadden, has already been seated on the council to represent Ward 5. Morrison did not respond to requests for comments.


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I was just wondering if the crusting buttercream recipe that most of you are using is the same as the one that cali4dawn posted for the BCT recipe? I have been using the decorator icing, and this weekend we're having a bake sale for Relay for Life, so I wanted to try something different! It's going to be for cupcakes, but I want them to taste great so they can raise some money!
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Yes, I use that same recipe for all my buttercream needs.
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What's New in Edge Rails #49
Weeks of December 3 - December 9, 2012
- The venerable schema_migrations table gets some new metadata in 0a5afa22, including a fingerprint and timestamp.
- f02d2185 builds on this to add full migration history to schema.rb.
- Active Record can use NOT in relation building as of de75af7ac, so you can say things like
Customer.where.not(:name => 'Joe'). (The original commit also included LIKE support, but that was removed in 8d02afea5).
- 9d62e048 renames all action callbacks from *_filter to *_action. Seems like pointless jerking around to me, but whatever.


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Downton Abbey without Lady Mary? Not going to happen. Michelle Dockery, the Emmy-nominated star of the hit period drama, said she has no plans to abandon ship.
"I am sticking with the show for however long the producers want it to go," Dockery said on UK talk show This Morning.
Downton Abbey is entering its fifth season with a fall 2014 premiere in the UK and a winter 2015 start in the US. There's been chatter that season five could be the end of the road.
"I don't know yet if there is a season six, but it's not going to go on forever. It won't be Perry Mason," creator Julian Fellowes said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Downton executive producer Gareth Neame, who has previously said the show could run for five or six years, said the end is not quite in sight.
"I can confirm that there are no plans to end the show after the fifth series," Neame said in a statement released to E! News in January. "ITV commission each series on a year-by-year basis. In an interview given to The Wall Street Journal (published December 31, 2013), Julian Fellowes stated that the show would not go on forever (inevitable of course and something both he and I have been on the record for previously). For now, ITV have commissioned series five and that is what we are busy preparing."
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Downton Abbey continues to post high ratings in both the U.S. and the U.K.
"We don't know how long it's going to go on for," Dockery said. "We're on series five now. What's great is that we have six months of the year to do other things in between so I am still here and whatever opportunities come up, then I will go with it."
Dockery was on This Morning promoting her new movie Non-Stop. Liam Neeson and Lupita Nyong'o also star.
Dockery, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville and the rest of the principal cast—including some new faces—have all signed on to return for a fifth season. During the third season of Downton Abbey, Jessica Brown Findlay's character, Sybil, was killed off. Dan Stevens Matthew died in the season three Christmas special and Siobhan Finneran left the show between the third and fourth season.
There had been chatter that Smith would not return for a fourth season, but in a recent interview with The Huffington Post, Fellowes said, "I refuse to do the show without her. It's an honor to not only watch her but to also write for her. She's inspiring."
Phew. It looks like all the Crawleys will be staying put…for now. No more Christmas special deaths, K?


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I know it's only April, but if I had to name the big theme for the gaming industry in 2012 I'd say it's the rapidly developing animosity between players and developers/distributors. Seen from one side, it's honest working man David vs. bad business practices Goliath. From the other, it's entitled gamers vs. art and market realities. I'm usually pretty firmly in the former camp, as can be attested to by the quasi-socialist rants I keep posting on other people's blogs (sorry, Azuriel) about personal purchasing power and not puttin' up with crap from The Man. However, to be completely honest I haven't actually followed any of my own advice.. until now.
I bought the Day 1 DLC for Mass Effect 3 even though I do not in the least accept the argument that DLCs are created in some magical free time when otherwise talented video game professionals would be put out on the streets. (I was literally told by a fellow who works for a known MMO company that denying the legitimacy of Day 1 DLCs is condemning small children to starvation. Why do I hate ART and BABIES?) Despite my misgivings, I am stupid for Shepard and there was no way I was going to miss out on an arguably critical piece of lore like meeting a Prothean, so I held my nose and bought the DLC.
So anyway, now I find myself staring at the Guild Wars 2 pre-purchase website. Not pre-order — pre-purchase. Blizzard really formalized the idea of selling MMO beta access with their Annual Pass, and Arenanet has run with it and decided that only people who pay for the game in its entirety right now will have beta access. This is a game, by the way, that is already years over their first admittedly optimistic estimated release date (they've had a "playable demo" at the last three PAX Primes I've attended), and in fact there still has been no indication of when players can expect to actually play the thing.
To be fair it would be incredibly surprising if Arenanet were to disappear with everyone's pre-purchase money, and common sense says that the game will be on the shelves before the end of the year. However, I really do not like the new business practice of selling "beta" access. (I put that in scare quotes because if I'm paying for it, it's not really just bug testing.)
What am I buying by giving Arenanet my money an estimated six months in advance (and that might be a generous estimate)? Broken down to its purest economic logic, that $60 could be sitting in my bank account accruing interest instead of doing the same for Arenanet. And let's face it, it's not like some indie Kickstarter* where they need the money to even create the game.
I have frequently joked with friends that all MMOs that are under development are amazing while all released MMOs are trash, and I'm sure distributors have taken notice of that hype cycle. Why NOT try and get our money now, when the future is filled with promise and Reddit hasn't yet turned on you like an army of angry, neckbeard-ed howler monkeys? Hell, The Secret World is letting people buy Lifetime Memberships now, and even the gaming press hasn't seen half of that game.
I regret my decision to buy the ME3 DLC. I liked the content but I really should not support bad business practices, and with that in mind I'm not going to pre-purchase Guild Wars 2. I feel it just opens the door to routinely selling beta access as a game perk, I don't want to encourage companies soliciting full retail or subscription payments before even having a release date, and I think we gaming types should be more demanding about trying before we do any buying.
I am just as notoriously bad as any gamer about following through on my purchasing threats, but it seems I really do have a line in the sand and today.. today I'm not crossing it.
* Speaking of indie Kickstarters, the folks at Glass Bottom Games would like our help in creating an anti-gravity racing game for desktop computers. I know a few good folks at GBG, and I loved Wipeout way back when, so now I'm letting you know.


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Glad you both, Mary & Sue, enjoyed this one. It's one of my favorites. :)))
I remember that song too Mary. She is hoping that she is seeing the face of possible future suitors or even husband Sue!! :)))))
I really like this one Joyce especially the faces in the bubbles...Sue
This reminds me of the song my parents used to sing, "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, Pretty bubble in the air......." Thanks, heaps, Joyce.


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SAN FRANCISCONvidia Corp. said Tuesday (Dec. 13) it would provide the source code for its CUDA low-level virtual machine (LLVM)-based compiler to academic researchers and software-tool vendors, a move the chip firm said would more easily add GPU support for more programming languages and support CUDA applications on alternative processor architectures.
LLVM is an open source compiler infrastructure with a modular design that makes it easy to add support for new programming languages and processor architectures. It is used for a range of programming requirements by many leading companies, including Adobe, Apple, Cray, Electronic Arts, and others, according to Nvidia (Santa Clara, Calif.).
The new LLVM-based CUDA compiler, which is enhanced with architecture support for Nvidia's parallel GPUs, is included in the latest release of the CUDA Toolkit (v4.1), now available to the public, the company said.
A statement issued by Nvidia Tuesday quoted Sudhakar Yalamanchili, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, saying that opening up the CUDA platform was a significant step.
"The future of computing is heterogeneous, and the CUDA programming model provides a powerful way to maximize performance on many different types of processors, including AMD GPUs and Intel x86 CPUs," said Yalamanchili, who is also the lead on the Ocelot project, which maps software written in CUDA C to different processor architectures.
Nvidia said early access to the CUDA compiler source code is available for qualified academic researchers and software tools developers through registration on the company's website.


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Just started working on our China trip (1st time) to Beijing, Xian, Yangshou, Shanghai after originally planning to take a tour group (supposedly the 1st time as we have been travelling independently). The trip will be in late Oct.-early Nov., 2013. Since this will be a short (14 days) and tight IT, we're a bit concerned about topic title. Will appreciate any feedback you can share as far as your experience and how you dealt with same. Most of our hotel reservations were placed with booking.com; domestic flights (3) will be with Ctrip. Re most current info (ex. transportation/subway, opening/closing to sites), where to best check? I have checked most current travel guides available but aware that those are not really that current. Is there any reliable sites I can check other than China Highlight, China Travel Guide? Thank you... I know I will not regret doing this independently no matter what the outcome will be.
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Look at Trip Advisor. Also check library for guide books on China (that's where I found some great info). Many websites. Google is your friend.
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I've never had a problem with overbooking on any of the hotel websites. Your flights, booked through Ctrip are on Chinese airlines. No one here has complained of problems with Ctrip. If the airline cancels a flight, they need to re-book you.
For questions on opening/closing times, I'd use the most current guidebook for general planning, as my experience is that Chinese websites are not necessarily up-to-date (especially those of Chinese tour operators like you listed above). Once you get there, use your hotel's concierge desk for such questions. As above, it never hurts to google, but be aware that there are seasonal opening/closing times, so what you find may not apply when you are there.
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This website has the opening times and entry fees for all attractions in Beijing: http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Travel/Sightseeing/index.htm
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I don't think you will have an issue..
check for latest times and info on each site's internet site.
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You always could arrive in China with nothing booked at all, retain travel flexibility, and pay less for both transport and hotels as a result. There's rarely any advantage gained by booking so far ahead, and certainly no need at the time of year you're travelling. The best rates for foreign-run hotels are almost always found on their own websites (and most guarantee this), and the best rates for Chinese-run hotels are obtained by bargaining at the counter. Since no booking site (even Chinese ones) has more than a limited number of these there's more choice, too. For Chinese hotels sites such as Ctrip only tell you rates you'll be able to equal or beat yourself, and the images and descriptions of the properties should not be taken at face value (Ctrip disclaims responsibility and blames mendacity on the hotels).
Some setbacks are to be expected and micro-planning your travel before you even arrive will significantly increase the chances of these occurring, as well as the risk of a domino effect from each setback on subsequent items on your tour.
In passing, China Highlights and China Travel Guide are not 'reliable' sites. China's various metro systems and tourist attractions usually have their own websites which can be found using the standard search engines. But their owners rarely keep them up to date either. That's just how things are.
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Thank you all for sharing, giving feedback most especially temppeternh. Upon further research, I discovered that foreign-run hotels offer "early bird rate" + free cancellation so can have the best of both worlds. On the other hand, when I checked a hotel in Yangshou their website indicates a unavailability of a specific room but at booking.com there was one so I was able to get my choice of room. Numerous fodorites posted that they were able to get a better flights price if booking about a month before departure through Ctrip, etc.
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> On the other hand, when I checked a hotel in Yangshou their website indicates a unavailability of a specific room but at booking.com there was one so I was able to get my choice of room.
But if a Chinese-run hotel very unlikely at anything like the rate you might have paid in person. If you *must* have a certain room in a certain Chinese-run hotel on a certain date of course booking is unavoidable. But it's typically far cheaper to be flexible.
You might by the way like to note it's 'YangshUO' (pronounced, roughly, 'shwor' not 'show')--the single most frequently misspelled destination in China (a place I must admit I would omit from any brief China tour).
> Numerous fodorites posted that they were able to get a better flights price if booking about a month before departure through Ctrip, etc.
Indeed this is the time at which discounts begin to appear through all agencies. Most tickets in China are bought last-minute and for steep discounts on the published prices which (as for hotels) almost no one ever pays. There can be bait-and-switch problems with Ctrip pricing, and there are intermittent problems with accepting foreign cards. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't: there's no guarantee that Ctrip (or eLong or the others on-line) has the best prices, and they are frequently undercut by agents in the city of departure.
It shouldn't be assumed that standard booking methods or booking policies or any of the other commonplaces of travel administration work the same way in China as they do elsewhere. Travel habits are different, agencies targeting foreigners are absolutely shameless in their rapacity, pricing policies are different, payment systems are different, and so on.
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Thanks again for your valuable feedback temppeternh. I think we are willing to pay more for convenience as long as the difference is not exorbitant. I prefer to have hotel and flight reservations in advance and not to have to worry or be concerned with making sure I am getting the best bang out of my money. To set an example, the hotel that I reserved in Beijing has an excellent location, been highly recommended by numerous fodorites that if I am not able to get the room that I wanted in that particular hotel, I'll be disappointed. Re reserved room rate, if one finds a lower rate, booking can match it so I intend to check for the rate a few days before departure and request for the lower rate if that's the case. At the end of the day, most probably I'll be paying about $15-20 per day for convenience... very much worth it, IMO.
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Some people simply don't feel comfortable without booking every detail of their trip in advance, and that's entirely up to them. But in fairness to other readers it should be said that while advance bookers want to convince themselves the price differences are small, the figure of $15-20 is really one that has been plucked out of the air. The savings can in fact easily amount to hundreds of dollars over a trip, or thousands for a family, depending of course upon the advance booking method chosen, the grade of hotel, etc.
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Thank you for your opinion temppeternh... anybody else who can share his/her experience?
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You can get amazing deals at the last minute but limited choice (flights). Often you are better off getting the early bird deal.
I never had issue payment via a foreign credit card with ctrip. travelzen or elong. Except that travelzen does have a surcharge for foreign credit cards.
Showing up at a hotel and bargaining a good deal is somewhat of a myth. It is pretty rare that the clerks at the counter have any power to give you a great deal. You will often manage rto pay less than the rack rate posted behind the counter but rarely less than booking online (via the hotel website or some online agent).
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> Showing up at a hotel and bargaining a good deal is somewhat of a myth.
Only if myths are true. It is absolutely standard procedure at Chinese-run hotels. It's the way China works.
> It is pretty rare that the clerks at the counter have any power to give you a great deal.
Except at Chinese-run hotels that it is entirely standard for a discount to be offered before you even ask for it, and then to take it down some distance from there. Hotels expect it, and everyone does it; all the time.
> You will often manage rto pay less than the rack rate posted behind the counter but rarely less than booking online (via the hotel website or some online agent).
Where 'less' is 30% to 70% less than the rack rate, depending on circumstances.
Whether you find a 'good' price on-line rather depends on which site you're looking at. Ctrip apparently offers fantastic discounts, but these are just the ones you can find for yourself (and to that degree it's a good guide to what you really need to pay) but usually beat yourself, too, although not always by a large amount. Nevertheless, you're cutting out the middle man.
Insofar as it only has a limited range of hotel choices, pushes on its first pages those that give it a larger profit margin rather than those that might be best, and often offers descriptions up to which the hotels cannot live, Ctrip is not so good. Where payment is not made in advance, rooms are not always there when you arrive. The guy with cash in hand at the counter trumps the one with a booking for which he or she might not turn up, and hasn't done so yet.
Again, some people are simply not comfortable unless they book in advance, but not doing so means rooms can be inspected before payment is actually made so you know what you're really getting, and a much larger stock of hotels, including the brand new, cheaper, and better value for money, is available for consideration.
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Nasopharyngeal co-colonization with Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae in children is bacterial genotype independent
Bacterial interference between Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae in the nasopharynx has been observed during colonization, which might have important clinical implications for the widespread use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in young children. This study aimed to determine whether the capacity of Staph. aureus to compete with Strep. pneumoniae is dependent on bacterial genotype. Demographic and microbiological determinants of carriage of specific genotypes of Staph. aureus in children were also studied. Children (n=3198) were sampled in the nasopharynx to detect carriage of Staph. aureus, Strep. pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis. Staph. aureus genotypes and pneumococcal sero- and genotypes were determined. Age, gender, zip code, active smoking and co-colonization with N. meningitidis or Strep. pneumoniae, both vaccine- and non-vaccine types, were not associated with colonization by specific Staph. aureus genotypes. Based on the whole-genome typing data obtained, there was no obvious correlation between staphylococcal and pneumococcal genotypes during co-colonization. Passive smoking showed a significant association (P=0.003) with carriage of a specific Staph. aureus cluster. This study suggests that there are no major differences between Staph. aureus clones (with different disease-invoking potential) in their capacity to compete with Strep. pneumoniae subtypes. Further studies should demonstrate whether differences in bacterial interference are due to more subtle genetic changes
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If you believe sports clichés, beating a team three times in one season is a tough thing to do.
Beating a team four times in one season, then, must be even more difficult. That's the challenge the Rosemount girls hockey team faced in the opening round of the Section 3AA tournament. Playing an Apple Valley team they had already swept in South Suburban Conference play and knocked from the winner's bracket in the Louis Schmitz Holiday Classic, the Irish came out on the short end of a back-and-forth 4-3 final last Wednesday at Apple Valley Sports Arena.
The Eagles, who trailed twice before scoring three unanswered goals from 4:55 of the second to 2:59 of the third, outshot the Irish, 42-28.
"The difference was the fact that they capitalized on their opportunities," Rosemount coach Josh Hoekstra said. "As all the other games were close, this game was no exception. In section hockey it usually comes down to bounces.... This was an incredibly tight game that could have gone either way."
The Irish (8-14-4) grabbed their first lead when Shaniah Anderson scored unassisted 1:14 into the game. Apple Valley responded less than three minutes later and the first period ended in a 1-1 deadlock.
The visitors went ahead for the final time thanks to Kristen Rueter's power-play goal (assists to Anderson and Kendra Goodrich) early in the second. The Eagles once again tied the score less than a minute later, and netted a power-play goal of their own to make it 3-2 heading into the third.
It was 4-2 by the time Rueter scored her second goal (assist to Anderson and Goodrich) with less than two minutes remaining.
Rosemount goaltender Caitlin Dantzscher stopped 38 shots in the loss. Dantzscher, Lauren Riley, Taylor Sampson and Bailey Vitek were the four seniors who played their final games for the Irish. The group helped the program reach the state tournament for the first time ever last season.
"I am proud of our senior class," Hoekstra said. "They were great to work with on the hockey rink and more importantly they are great people. We will miss them dearly."


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The spike at 10K is an artifact of the test rig, its there in just about everything at headroom. i'm not pro AKG242 MkII either really, but I would take them over the HD800. The HD800 is part way to a nice and very comfortable headphone (if you can get past what you look like with them on), it does many things very well.
The first time I heard them I thought they were quite impressive, but over time with more experience with them, the overtly large stage along with the mind exploring mid/treble became apparent to me and now its all I hear. They are very picky as far as amplifier, most seem to enjoy them with tubes, probably due to having more damping in the electronics to offset some resonance in the driver, construction or impedance. Several mods have come about to battle the resonance I speak of, as well as a quite ridiculous one where a set of HD600 are worn at the same time as a set of HD800 over the top (both are open back) you should read Tyll's review of this hehe! hilarious!
aside from soundstage size, my JH13 (custom in ears with passive 3 way 6 driver WW-MM-TT crossover) are better at everything they do for my taste. They are much more nimble, with STAX-like transient speed, more detail, nice tight and well extended bass, very good imaging, excellent and fairly neutral midrange, yet without the fatigue. they have a small bump at ~40-50hz (with extension down to 15-20Hz), but are otherwise quite neutral as are built to be Custom in ear stage monitors.
Each set of JH13 is equalized (to a target curve) due to every set and every ear cavity/'room' response being different. they use the ear impression used to create them, along with computer modelling and measured response to meet the curve for each set of headphones crossover. This is termed 'ear flat'
there are now a couple versions of stage monitors with digital crossover/correction and are paired with a multichannel DSP->DAC->AMP with 6 wire headphone cables (actually from memory they were disappointingly a 4 wire a side with a shared ground)
for the money needed for a decent HD800 rig i'd rather just go the extra mile, get some STAX and build a DIY T2, KGSS or BHSE. But I became distracted with speakers....
I do not believe you can get a great idea of how headphones will sound by plots just yet, you can get some idea of how headphones may compare to one another, so i'm glad the search for a proper measurement technique is ongoing.
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I use ferrites araound all my audio cables, including speakers. What's the hell ?
|11th February 2013, 04:36 PM
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There are lots of different ferrites for lots of different purposes. Also iron dust cores which some may confuse with ferrites. Use the right core and it helps keep RF out of your equipment. Use the wrong one and it could help inject RF into your equipment by tuning your cables to make them better antennas!
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actually here Frank, Tyll has documented and collected all of the mods to address the problem I speak of. the most well known of which is the 'Anaxilus mod' after the head-fi member. waterfall plots seem to reveal it best.
thats it on headphones from me, sorry chaps.
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I doubt any big changes due to the Q of various ferrites, considering the involved inductances. Am-i wrong ?
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True, you have to match the ferrite to the problem (the noise that is of concern) though the clip on ones are quite often broadband (25MHz - 100/300MHz) and I would suspect that these are the most frequently used as they are the 'standard' or basic clip on most of us are likely to buy. Operating at frequencies though of a magnitude of 1250X the hihest audio frequencies are they (rf aside) going to affect the audio waveform, and if so by how much?
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Three possible effects of ferrites on cables:
1. modify (hopefully downwards) the amount of RF entering the equipment
2. affect stability (but only on equipment which was almost unstable anyway)
3. add distortion (but only when used wrongly e.g. separate ferrites on signal and return wires so saturation possible)
Less RF ought to improve things, but some people may prefer extra noise and distortion so injecting RF via badly designed cables etc. may please them.
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A ferrite bead can also work wonders. In an EF2 or EF3 in the base of the diver they absolutely kill any HF parasitic oscillation. Wonderful devices.
|11th February 2013, 05:59 PM
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May-be we can start a business of special audiophile ferrites, with rare earth, precious metal plated, with some nice wood cover to dump resonances (of course) witch will add purity to our music ?
With the advantage we could produce real impressive curves (in the Ghz range) to justify the amazing improvement, ( a little obscure technique help ), and nice poetic words to share comparative listening impressions, in the spatial area, separation, fluidity, easiness of transients and natural of the reproduction.
Of course, they will be VERY expensive, and w'll have to pretend their improvements only reach the top on HI-FI (not MID-FI) equipments around. While they will help any system, no way to lose a market.
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Constructing a Message-Pruning Tree with Minimum Cost for Tracking Moving Objects in Wireless Sensor Networks Is NP-Complete and an Enhanced Data Aggregation Structure
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Wireless sensor networks have often been used to monitor and report the locations of moving objects. Since sensors can also be used for storage, a wireless sensor network can be considered a distributed database, enabling us to update and query the location information of moving objects. Many researchers have studied the problem of how to construct message-pruning trees that can update a database and query objects with minimum cost (the Minimum Cost Message-Pruning Tree problem). The trees are constructed in such a way that the total cost of updating the database and querying objects is kept as minimum as possible, while the hardness of the Minimum Cost Message-Pruning Tree problem remains unknown. In this paper, we first show that the Minimum Cost Message-Pruning Tree problem is NP-complete. Subsequently, since the message-pruning tree with minimum cost is hard to be constructed in polynomial time, we propose a new data aggregation structure, a message-pruning tree with shortcuts, instead of the message-pruning tree. Simulation results show that the proposed data aggregation structure significantly reduces the total cost of updating the database and querying objects, as compared to the message-pruning tree.
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Bing-Hong Liu, Chin-Hsien Tsai, Wei-Chieh Ke, Ming-Jer Tsai, "Constructing a Message-Pruning Tree with Minimum Cost for Tracking Moving Objects in Wireless Sensor Networks Is NP-Complete and an Enhanced Data Aggregation Structure", IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 57, no. , pp. 849-863, June 2008, doi:10.1109/TC.2008.22


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Logo Striped Long Sleeve
Chet DeHart: I was inspired to make this because whenever I think spring I always think of my mother wearing her spring stripes. Also, one spring when we were growing up we went on a boat for a whole week. The captain was a super cornball because he draped and carried himself like the epitome of a sailing captain: stripes, beard, tattoos. The whole nine yards.
¾ Sleeve Striped Women's Dress
Both: This is our first female item. We are taking a risk with this, but Lucid wants to produce men's and women's clothing, so you have to start somewhere, and a striped dress is perfect.
"USA Made" Striped Short Sleeve Tee
Chet: This is the staple in the Spring collection! This one follows a Japanese, Uniqlo vibe.
Black Metallic "URL Text" Windbeaker
Betts: This item is a little less minimalistic, but still stays true to our roots with the URL logo on the side. It took the longest time to design and it's also the most limited item for this collection.
Striped "3 Ball" Rugby Polo
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Both: Dickies are fucking awesome, and super durable. They are very minimalistic, so they're perfect when properly executed. We contacted them, and asked if we could be licensed to use their products. They immediately approved. It was an awesome feeling. The Dickies we have releasing are very simple and fit perfectly. It is our favorite item for spring.
Lucid FC Logo Steel Lighter
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As Bill Nye, the Science Guy debunks a number of recommendations on how to respond to the oil spill, sent in by ordinary citizens on CNN, there are a few viable solutions rising to the top, even as the oil continues to rise from the depths. The biggest buzz is about the actor Kevin Costner, pulling a massive piece of equipment that he has been developing with his scientist brother Dan since 1995, out of his closet (See video). He calls it Ocean Therapy. They claim that it is 97% effective in extracting clean water.
There is no question that a centrifuge device can effectively separate two fluids that are commingled. Indeed, such devices are used every day to do just that. They work on the principle that if two fluids have a different density, the heavier fluid will naturally move under rotation to the outer portion of the device where it can be selectively removed.
A centrifuge can also be used to remove particles or sediment from a fluid using the same principle.
There are, however, a couple of conditions under which a centrifuge will not be effective.
First of all, if the two fluids have the same or very similar density they cannot be separated centrifugally. Since sea water has a density of roughly 1022 kg/cu.m. and crude oil is around 850 kg/cu.m., that shouldn't be a problem in this case.
The second condition which could be problematic, is if one fluid in dissolved in the other. This resulting fluid is now a solution as opposed to a mixture. If you put grains of sand in water, they could be easily separated out, but if instead, you put in sugar and stirred until it dissolved; it would no longer be separable using strictly mechanical means.
This should not be a problem for removing the oil either. However, the chemical dispersant that BP is using, and has now been asked to stop using, is water soluble. So unfortunately, while the centrifuge might be quite effective in removing the oil, it is not likely to be successful in removing the chemical contaminants, nearly 700,000 gallons of which have been introduced in an effort to manage the spill.
I mentioned the work of Recovery I in an earlier post. They have developed and tested an absorbent material based on corn cobs. Not only are corn cobs inherently great absorbers (they will absorb 400% of their weight in water), but they float extremely well and they rotate in moving water, exposing their entire surface to the contaminant and have been shown to be effective in absorbing chemicals as well as oil. This makes it superior to hay or cotton or hair, which have also been suggested. Recovery I has commitments of at least 30,000 tons of material ready to be deployed. While additional testing will be needed to verify how effective the product will be with Corexit and under the specific conditions in the Gulf, the product deserves a chance. In fact, an official who tested the product for Environment Canada back in 1994, said, "it would be logical to assume that it would absorb the dispersant." Yet, according to CEO Adria Brown, despite the fact, that this product has received significant press coverage and the company has contacted BP, Homeland Security, the Coast Guard, the EPA, and Deep Water Horizon Response the Director of Administration, Region 6, which includes Louisiana, Department of Homeland Security, in Denton Texas, NOAA, and the Army Corps of Engineers, they have received no response whatsoever to date. Iowa Senator Grassley, has also received paperwork and has offered assistance moving through the legislative process, but so far, no one has asked for more information or requested even a small batch of product to be tested.
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I'm lacking some details of this morning's dream. And I kept waking up, so it changed a few times.
The first dream I remember, I was in the Army. We had to pack up and move base camp, again, and I was annoyed about that. I worried about losing our computer equipment We had a sliding glass door on the backside of the desert. Out on the deck were a couple of Michael Vick's dogs we were trying to retrain. But some idiot had put a little, white, yappy dog out there and I could hear fighting. Morons. So much hard work and now we were going to have to deal with an injured or dead dog.
At the same time, one of the other guys in the unit was an amazing chef and had a table in a fair to sell his food. I was trying to find someone else to go with him. I stopped by his table to see how he was doing.
Back at base, Mom stopped by to tell me that Meme wants to visit me for a third time, but will only take the train now. So anything we do in Cali has to be within distance of the train. I asked her if Meme knew it would take four days to get to Cali from Maine. Mom shook her head but said yes.
This is the time I woke up the first time. Then tried to go back to sleep.
I was in my car and had stopped somewhere. Before getting back on the road, I needed gas. So I drove around back and saw a gas station and went to the first pump I saw. It had a credit card reader, but was really an old pump. Just as my tank was finishing filling, I read the fine print on the pump. It was five dollars and fifty cents per gallon!
That is when I realized the old pump I was using was different than the rest of the pumps. This pump actually belonged to the business I'd driven around, not the Citgo station next to it. It looks like they had been scamming people for years. They were probably the town's original gas station and angry about big oil moving in. Maybe they used free-range, organic, local Californian oil? Who knows. I was angry.
I drove off in Myrtle the Convertible with the top down. The highway split in three ahead of me, so I picked the center while I tried to put a big sheet of paper away in the glovebox so it wouldn't blow away. Just as I closed it, I looked up to see I was going over a bridge, I hit a slippery patch and lost control of the car. In slow motion, my car spun, I tried to regain control, but I was headed for the barrier. I hoped it would contain me, but the car broke through it. I saw a sandy beach below me, and knowing I could no longer control the car, I wrapped my arms around my head, pulled my legs up so that I was a little ball of nothing. Then I tried to relax, so that I wouldn't be rigid during the crash. I tried to believe I was a bouncy ball and the fall wouldn't hurt me. I tried to think of something relaxing, like lying in the sun on this sandy white beach instead of falling onto it in my car.
I woke up a second time.
I fell back asleep and I was at work. My coworkers were sitting in different conference rooms just chatting in small groups. I saw Travel Buddy P and wondered why she wasn't home with the new baby. I went in to talk to her and saw that there was a classroom full of kids all wearing matching jean jackets, huddled around a table and their teacher was standing at the front podium. I thought, Travel Buddy P looks really good for just having a baby. Maybe she will help out with the food table we have at the fairgrounds…
I woke up and decided to get out of bed for good.
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In case you haven't noticed, the race for the Oakland mayor's office is heating up. As Oakland residents and A's fans, we understand the importance that the Mayor's office will play in deciding the A's future in the coming years.
So, we're more than a little interested in what all 10 of the mayoral candidates have to say. At 8pm next Wednesday (Aug. 25), Rebecca Kaplan will be discussing the future of Oakland's sports teams at Linden Street Brewery, located at 95 Linden Street in Oakland.
Kaplan is an Oakland City Council member and a candidate in the mayor's race, which will be decided on Election Day, this Nov. 2. At Wednesday's event, Kaplan will pitch her ideas for using the retention of the A's and all of Oakland's teams for economic development. While we are not endorsing any candidate at this early stage, we are enthusiastic about this event. Linden Street Brewery is one of our favorite spots, and it's one of Oakland's homegrown business success stories. In addition, we are glad that the A's issue is being discussed in the mayor's race.
We also encourage the other Oakland mayor candidates to hold similar events on this issue that's so near and dear to the hearts of Oakland residents. In the weeks and months leading up to the election, we'll be sure to make space at Baseball Oakland for all of the candidates and their positions.
Until then, we look forward to this event and to the future political leadership that will lead Oakland into the 2010s. For more information, click here. Or go to the Facebook event page here. Look forward to seeing you there!
Friday, August 20, 2010
Kaplan Talking Oakland Sports Wednesday at Linden St. Brewery
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- Stephanie said...
What time does the sports talk with Rebecca Kaplan begin on Wednesday? It says 8pm here, but there are two different times given on her Facebook and website pages (7 and 7:30pm).
Looking forward to it.
- August 24, 2010 at 10:44 AM


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After enduring so many injuries a year ago, some of the more serious ones coming in camp, the Gators will take a little different practice approach over the next three weeks, UF coach Will Muschamp said Sunday.
After enduring so many injuries a year ago, some of the more serious ones coming in camp, the Gators will take a little different practice approach over the next three weeks, UF coach Will Muschamp said Sunday.
Muschamp has eliminated midday practices. The Gators will practice early in the morning, and when there is a two-a-day, the second practice will be at night.
"The midday practice is hard in terms of heat and weather. Sometimes you get lightning," Muschamp said. "We're going to practice every morning. When we have a two-a-day, a little later at night and a little lighter than we've done before.
"It won't be as taxing for the players. Eliminating the midday practice will help."
Gators are all in
Muschamp mentioned several times about how the players have bought-in to what the coaches are selling. To illustrate his point, he brought up the team's success during a mandatory summer running test in which the players have to run 16 110-yard sprints in a prescribed time, according to position.
"Only two players, one of them a true freshmen, did not make all their times," Muschamp said. "As far as the buy-in, that's there. I couldn't say that the previous three years.
"I've seen some things from this team from an intangible standpoint that are very positive. Now we have to see when the pads are on and football really starts."
New NCAA rule helps Gators
Muschamp said a new NCAA rule that allows coaches to be on the field for summer workouts has accelerated his team's development.
"I'm really pleased with how our summer went," he said. "Seeing our guys work, we're much further along than we've been anywhere I've ever been, because of the new rule. That's a credit to the NCAA."
Muschamp's Twitter misadventures
Muschamp continues to have some missteps in his quest to become Twitter savvy.
This summer, he attempted to return a private message to a recruit via a text on his phone, and the message went to everyone on Twitter. Luckily, he did not mention the recruit by name, so there is no potential issue with the NCAA.
"It's a work in progress," Muschamp said. "It's really unfair. When you get a message sent to you, it goes to your text. You respond to your text, then it goes out as a message to everyone. You learn the hard way.
"Social media is interesting. You've got to be able to understand how to do it to communicate with recruits. I told our staff, don't put anybody's name on anything."
UF stressing TO margin
Muschamp said the No. 1 team goal heading into the season is to win the turnover margin in games.
"In my three years at Florida, we're 19-3 when we won or tied the turnover margin. We are 3-13 when we lost it," he said. "That's a team stat. It's not about the offense taking care of the ball. Defensively, it's getting the ball off people.
"We haven't been explosive enough offensively to overcome turnovers. I think we will be this year. It's certainly not saying it's OK to turn the ball over. We've got to take care of the ball. That's our No. 1 thing as far as team goals go."
Backup QB going to play in opener
Muschamp reiterated Sunday that one of the backup quarterbacks will see playing time in the opener against Idaho.
"We need to find a backup quarterback that will play in the first ball game at some point," he said. "It's important for us to develop that position. We'll decide (who that is) when we get through training camp.
"We've got to get another guy ready to play, and that's what we plan on doing. Who that will be, I don't know. What sort of package we'll have for him, I have no idea at this time."
Sophomore Skyler Mornhinweg and true freshmen Will Grier and Treon Harris will battle for that role in the coming weeks.
Gators open camp healthy
Unlike a year ago, when starting quarterback Jeff Driskel was still recovering from an appendectomy and several other players were nursing injuries, the Gators will open camp close to full strength.
"(True freshman cornerback) J.C. Jackson will start camp non-contact for seven to 10 days (after shoulder injury a few months ago)," Muschamp said. "He's far ahead of where we thought he would be at this time.
"(Linebacker) Matt Rolin has been completely cleared (coming off his second ACL surgery in a year). He and Andre (Debose) have been cleared for everything. We just want to make sure those guys are fully ready to go (before they take part in contact)."
Freshman looking Sharpe
It sounds like the offensive line depth could receive a boost from true freshman tackle David Sharpe, who drew praise from Muschamp on Sunday.
"He's a guy that six-six and a half and weighed 336 pounds when he reported," Muschamp said. "He made 16 (sprints) of 110 (yards) in the prescribed time for offensive linemen.
"He's worked extremely hard in the weight room. He's doing everything we've asked for in the weight room and in the classroom. I'm pleased at this point with his buy-in factor. He's athletic. He's extremely talented, extremely smart. He's a guy we're counting on to help this year."


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Usually when AVG Security Toolbar (aka, AVG Secure Search) is installed, it will automatically pre-scan your search results and protect you from those malicious webpages using its LinkScanner feature. If, you installed the AVG toolbar without knowledge, you can refer the following steps to remove it and then, change your browsers' homepage back to the original settings or what you want.
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1Open your default browser software like Mozilla Firefox.
2Click AVG's logo next to address bar, scroll down the menu then launch "Uninstall AVG Safeguard toolbar" option.
3Click Remove on the following "AVG Secure Search" wizard to process the rest of the uninstall procedure.
4For Windows 8, 7 and Vista users, choose Yes from the below UAC, letting it run AVG's "ToolbarUnInstaller" program.
5"Please wait while AVG Secure Search and the toolbar are being removed".
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The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities from Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums
In light of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent decision to return a rare—and by the Italian government's contention, stolen—vase painted by the Greek master Euphronios, Watson and Todeschini's colorful account of Giacomo Medici, an antiquities dealer found guilty of looting last year, and his illegal business dealings, is wonderfully prescient. Making sense of a lengthy catalogue of legal, artistic and forensic documentation, the authors meticulously map out Medici's underground network of middlemen and tombaroli , or tomb robbers, and link them to corrupt dealers such as Robin Symes as well as to established cultural institutions including Sotheby's, the John Paul Getty Museum and the Met—asserting that Medici supplied most, if not all, of the major collections of classical antiquities that have been established since WWII. Though Watson (Sotheby's: The Inside Story ) and Todeschini often become overly indignant when decrying their story's villains and frequently bog down the narrative with long-winded dialogue and paper trail excerpts, they are at their best when chronicling the international adventures of various investigators, such as the Carabinieri Art Squad's raids on various Italian criminals to recover lost loot. (May)
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Thought I'd start this thread instead of hi-jack mmandley's Serenity thread. I'm in the process of buying the goodies for my daily driver and wanted to see how many might be doing the same (or already running some of it) and can chime in with opinions.
Running PPE now and thinking of switching to EFI Live Autocal DSP5 with Idaho Rob tunes. KG - do you have the DSP5 switch and what's ur opinion on on-the-fly switching? Who does ur tuning? I was going to install it myself and didn't know how difficult or easy it is going to be?
I've got 4" cat-back exhaust and I'm going to replace my downpipe with new flo-pro and figure since i'm at it I'll pull the 4" out and get rid of the cat and go 5" all the way. Heard the downpipe can be a bitch with the heatshield in the way?
TransgoJr. Kit for the Allison sounds like a must for higher tunes. Don't suppose the lift helps either. Gonna have a shop do this one as I don't feel comfortable tying into the tranny.
Trans cooler lines on the LBZ are a nuisance and leak. Factory lines are chit and been replaced under warranty once already. Gonna buy new lines and replace them myself. Heard their a pain and have to take the whole front end apart.
Other items:
Shim kit
Air bags (anybody have pics of the guage and controls installed in cab?)
FASS or ADII fuel system
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Sunday, September 1, 2013
No White Shoes After Labor Day!
I took this photo of Phoebe's little feet and posted it on the Catladyland Facebook page last night. I cannot tell you how much I love this pic. I could stare at her feet all day long. They're so dainty and look like little shoes. My favorite comment from the Facebook post came from a reader named Susan: "No white shoes after Labor Day!" Well, I think I'll make an exception for Pheebs.
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Fastest Ways to Colorado From Ohio
The distance between the Midwestern urban centers of Ohio to Denver, in the middle of Colorado at the edge of the Rocky Mountains, is approximately 1,300 miles. You can travel between the two places quickly by air, with several airport and flight options. Or, if you want to take in the sights, you can plan a road trip that will take you through the heartland of America.
Air Travel
Continental, United, Southwest and U.S. Airways have direct flights between Columbus International Airport and Denver International Airport -- about a dozen a day, mostly in the early morning and late afternoon or evening, at the time of publication. If you can stand a stop or two on the way, your options are greater. You'll find similar flight schedules on your return trip from Denver to Columbus. Delta and United offer a handful of direct flights from the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to Denver.
Road Travel
To travel between the two states by car, take Interstate 70 from Columbus or other areas of central Ohio and head west. This major interstate highway leads to Colorado, and you'll travel through several states and major cities along the way. The highway passes through cities that include Indianapolis, Indiana; Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri; and Topeka, Kansas, on the way to Colorado. The speed limit for most of the route is 70 mph. I-70 continues through central Colorado and into Utah.
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You will encounter plenty of attractions and places to visit if you take this lengthy road trip. The Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park pays tribute to the Wright brothers, who were from this Ohio city. The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, which includes the St. Louis Gateway Arch, commemorates the Louisiana Purchase and the exploration of Lewis and Clark. For an admission fee, you can ride to the top of the arch. Topeka is home to the Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site, where you can learn about one of the most important segregation cases in U.S. history. When you get to Colorado, drive northwest of Denver on State Route 36 to visit Rocky Mountain National Park, possibly the most scenic destination on your trip. Some of the natural wonders you'll see at the park -- with a minimum elevation of about 8,000 feet -- include snow-capped peaks and abundant wildlife like elk, coyotes and bighorn sheep.
Expect flight times of close to three hours between the Ohio airports and Denver. It's just under 1,300 miles from Columbus to Denver, which should take about 20 hours of driving time. Major thoroughfares are well maintained, but expect some roads to be unpassable in the mountainous areas of Colorado in the winter. Trail Ridge Road through Rocky Mountain National Park, for example, is closed for months, often between October and May.
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A Visit Up To Lambeau With John Henson
When we asked Bucks first round draft pick, John Henson, what Wisconsin experience he'd like to partake in with a lucky Bucks fan, we weren't surprised by his answer.
"Can we go to Lambeau Field?" asked John.
And so to Lambeau Field we went.
We picked John up the day after he returned to Milwaukee for the remainder of the summer and headed up to Historic Lambeau Field. On the way up John had a radio interview and got to see some more of Wisconsin. When he arrived he was impressed with not only the field but how many people were there to watch a practice. Henson said, "It's kind of overwhelming."
The first person to greet John was Mark Murphy, President and CEO of the Green Bay Packers. Mr. Murphy told John about the tradition of players riding kids' bikes over to practice so John headed over to watch the players take off on bikes and to meet the winner of Bucks.com's sweepstakes to join him: Cassidy M., his wife Jamie, and his 16 month old son Colin. After a quick greeting and a couple of photos for memories John and Cassidy got in line to watch the players hop on bikes and head to practice. There's nothing like seeing a 300lb lineman riding a kid's bike.
After seeing the players off, John and company headed inside Lambeau Field for a tour. After walking through the tunnel and taking a lap around the field John eyed up the wall where players make their famous Lambeau Leaps after touchdowns. He gave a little hop to see and came away with a new appreciation for the celebration, "It's a legitimate jump," he said smiling.
When the tour was over it was time to head over to practice, but not before stopping to sign a few autographs and take some pictures. At 6'11" and in a Bucks polo it's hard for people not to notice Henson. Especially for the fans that were waiting with North Carolina jerseys in hand.
John and Cassidy got to walk the sidelines and take in the Packers practice in a real life episode of Hard Knocks. At one point during a drill for the defensive linemen the Packers big nose tackle BJ Raji looked over at Henson and shouted, "What's up North Carolina?" I guess Henson was hard not to notice even for the players practicing. It helped that the local media there for practice all turned their cameras to catch the Bucks first round pick watching an NFL practice.
After watching practice Henson and Cassidy went to get a bite to eat before doing a press conference at the Resch Center where the Bucks will play a preseason game on Friday, October 26th against the Minnesota Timberwolves. After the press conference was over Henson and Cassidy said goodbye. It was a great day for football and an even better day for a Bucks Summer Experience.
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Following the development Windows is heading, Linux seems like the way to go for many Windows 7 users. Linux Mint seems like one of the best alternatives for users migrating from Windows. There are however some changes that could be made, that would make the switch even easier. As a Windows power user, keyboard shortcuts are the basis for working efficiently. Being able to use identical keyboard shortcuts in Mint as in Windows would be essential to me, and probably a bunch of other Windows users.
You may ask: "Why is this so important?" The answer: The shortcuts I use have been practiced for years and having to relearn new keyboard shortcuts (that does exactly the same thing), is simply not something I am willing to do (unless I absolutely have to, and I am probably not alone saying that). For example: I would like to the win key to open the start menu (equivalent), and "win + e" to open the Explorer equivalent (Nautilus or PCMANFM). Last time I looked it up, this was also hard to do manually.
This shortcut profile could be made the default one, but I figure that many long time Mint users would not find that suitable. Adding a "Windows Profile" in Settings would please both worlds, and would make it easy to enable shortcuts identical to Windows. Naturally I would also add some custom shortcuts, which of course still should be possible.
There are also some other changes that I would like to see made. The only one that I can recall at the moment is the following. It may already be possible to do, but I think it should be as easy as a single click to enable. In the default file manager (Nautilus?), I would like to be able to enable a type-able address bar, so that I could simply "Alt + D" to highlight it, and then just type the path. I think this should be by default (in the Windows Profile).
Like the address bar here (PCMANFM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PCMan ... _0.9.3.png
Purposed "Windows Profile" for Mint
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When employees complain they are being harassed or say they work in a racially hostile environment, treat those claims seriously. Thoroughly and completely investigate their complaints, and resolve them as soon as possible.
Recent case: Mario Cantu, who is white and of Hispanic descent, works as a corrections officer at Michigan's Ryan Correctional Facility. He reported that, against prison policy, a black female corrections officer was alone with a prisoner in a bathroom. An investigation followed, and the woman was fired.
Cantu claimed that since then, black corrections officers constantly harass and threaten him, calling him a white "snitch." Cantu claimed management did nothing to stop the harassment, and in fact went out of its way to assign him to shifts with the worst harassers.
He sued, and a court ordered a trial, reasoning that a jury should decide whether Cantu had to work in a racially hostile environment and whether management participated in the harassment. (Cantu v. Michigan Department of Corrections, No. 07-CV-10339, ED MI, 2007)
Final note: This case clearly shows that allowing harassment to continue is a sure way to the courthouse.


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I have tried to reproduce the toys which i drew when i was a child and i desperately wanted them.I have one of them with me now..Guess what??
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You have the... YMX- 02 now? Lol, just a guess. What's really interesting is the first thing, the ZRX- 90. It's very cool. :) I love all the details here! 5/5 hearts.
cool toys and i like the way u made them , well done 5/5
I LOVE the details in these!!!! AND the colouring! Fantastic drawing!!! 5/5!!
ahaah!! this is awesome!! i love how you did the keyboard :D and thanks so much for the comments- im fond of eyes, but im just practicing for now :)
This is awesome. Best of luck on winning the comp. Goooo rakisesh! 5/5