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The Prophet Moses (pbuh)
The Arrogance of Karun and His Punishment
Along with Pharaoh, Karun is mentioned among those who were destroyed at the time of the Prophet Moses (pbuh).
The Qur'an informs us that Karun was the owner of great possessions in Egypt despite being a descendant of the Israelite tribe.
In the following verse Allah indicates that Karun opposed the Prophet Moses (pbuh) together with Pharaoh:
We sent Moses with Our Signs and clear authority to Pharaoh, Haman and Karun. But they said, "A lying magician." (Surah Ghafir: 23-24)
It is noteworthy that Karun, who was with Pharaoh, was also in charge of a great treasure:
Karun was one of the people of Moses but he lorded it over them. We gave him treasures, the keys alone to which were a heavy weight for a party of strong men… (Surat al-Qasas: 76)
The great fortune and status Karun possessed in Egypt, due to his closeness to Pharaoh, made him arrogant and insolent towards his own people. He refused to accept the Prophet Moses' (pbuh) message, and boasted about his possessions to make the Children of Israel feel attachment to the life of this world. In fact, his great fortune and status became the envy of some of the people from the Prophet Moses' (pbuh) tribe. Allah relates the arrogance of Karun and the envy those of poor faith among the Children of Israel felt for him:
He went out among his people in his finery. Those who desired the life of the world said, "Oh! If only we had the same as Karun has been given! What immense good fortune he possesses." (Surat al-Qasas: 79)
The true believers among the Children of Israel never felt inclined towards Karun. On the contrary, they comprehended the pitiful situation he was in, and warned him:
…When his people said to him, "Do not gloat. Allah does not love people who gloat. Seek the abode of the Hereafter with what Allah has given you, without forgetting your portion of the world. And do good as Allah has been good to you. And do not seek to cause corruption in the earth. Allah does not love corrupters." (Surat al-Qasas: 76-77)
These same people of faith gave advise to some of the members of their own tribe who were inclined to Qarun, and warned them to retain the nobility of a believer in their conduct, and never to prefer the temporary pleasures of this world over the mercy of Allah:
...Those who desired the life of the world said, "Oh! If only we had the same as Karun has been given! What immense good fortune he possesses." But those who had been given knowledge said, "Woe to you! Allah's reward is better for those who believe and act rightly. But only the steadfast will obtain it." (Surat al-Qasas: 79-80)
The main reason why Karun went astray was his belief that he was possessed with "knowledge." In other words, he had the boastful attitude that he was superior to other people.
He said, "I have only been given it because of knowledge I have." Did he not know that before him Allah had destroyed generations with far greater strength than his and far more possessions? The evildoers will not be questioned about their sins. (Surat al-Qasas: 78)
Nevertheless, in the end, Karun's arrogance brought him nothing but harm. He brought great torment upon himself by being unwisely ungrateful to Allah, and arrogantly believing that all his possessions were earned of his own accord. Karun finally came to realize that he was a feeble and helpless servant of Allah, when his possessions, which had made him so boastful, were completely destroyed by Allah:
We caused the arth to swallow up both him and his house. There was no group to come to his aid against Allah, and he was not someone who is helped. (Surat al-Qasas: 81)
What befell Karun was a warning, and an event from which those around him, as well as succeeding generations, were to draw lessons from. Those who sympathized with him immediately realized that what they had desired so dearly was actually temporary and ultimately worthless. They recognized that those who boast of their possessions and wealth can never attain salvation, and that they will eventually have to give account for their deeds:
Those who had longed to take his place the day before woke up saying, "Allah expands the provision of any of His servants He wills or restricts it. If Allah had not shown great kindness to us, we would have been swallowed up as well. Ah! Truly the unbelievers are not successful." (Surat al-Qasas: 82)
Ultimately, the prepared end for Pharaoh and Haman, was the same met by Karun:
And Karun and Pharaoh and Haman—Moses came with the Clear Signs to them, but they were arrogant on the earth. They could not outstrip Us. (Surat al-Qasas: 39)
The story of Karun clearly illustrates for us that Allah does not bestow his mercy on those who are arrogant because of their wealth and possessions, and who consider themselves to be wiser or more knowledgeable than others. In the Qur'an, Allah also gives us examples from other peoples of the past. Many civilizations of the past had attained great success and material wealth. Yet, all these civilizations were obliterated from the face of the earth. Allah took back the souls of these people, who had thought themselves to be the rulers of the earth, and reduced their glorious palaces to ruins:
How many wrongdoing cities We destroyed, and now all their roofs and walls are fallen in; how many abandoned wells and stuccoed palaces! (Surat al-Hajj: 45)
There is another lesson the story of Karun teaches us: not to be taken by the allure of the temporary riches of this world and of those who possess them.
The ones a believer should be inclined to are hose who withstand hardships in the way of Allah, those who spend their possessions, and live for the cause of Allah, and those men of faith and wisdom, whose hearts are full of love for Allah. As the Prophet Muhammad (May Allah bless him and grant him peace) said "Allah does not look at your forms and possessions, but He looks at your hearts and your deeds." (Muslim) Those who appear to lead a luxuriant and prosperous life, actually live in spiritual deprivation. Each day drift these people into eternal torment in Hell. Allah indicates this situation as follows:
Do not let their wealth and Children impress you. Allah merely wants to punish them by them during their life in the world and for them to expire while they are unbelievers. (Surat at-Tawba: 55)
Possessions should not be desired for pleasure and ostentation only. We need to keep in mind that Allah puts humans to test by their possessions as well. These possessions bring enjoyment to people as long as they are used to earn the good pleasure of Allah. Karun, for instance, ended up in misery, despite his measureless wealth. The case of Karun is indeed a warning for all generations, both past and present.


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- Barbara Poole said...
Is that a pumpkin lamp or real pumpkin? Nice scary picture, love how it was photographed.
- October 31, 2012 at 11:30 AM
- Carol said...
Real pumpkins. Man's father did the photo. There is one of his mother, same year, on the blog from Halloween of 2009
Believe he may have put an electric light bulb in there, not sure and Man cannot remember.
- October 31, 2012 at 1:33 PM
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SUGAR LAND, Texas - Roger Clemens will pitch for the Sugar Land Skeeters Saturday.
Clemens is scheduled to make his first start at Constellation Field in Sugar Land around 7:05 p.m when the Skeeters play the Bridgeport Bluefish.
Friday, Clemens joined his teammates for a conference, where he revealed his involvement may be a one-night performance.
"I'm going to pitch Saturday and see how it goes. See how my body responds," Clemens said.
"We're going to have some fun with it. If I get through Saturday, we'll see where it goes from there."
His fastball was clocked at 87 mph during his workout on Monday.
Clemens won the Cy Young Award seven times throughout his career.
The 50-year-old is ranked third on the all-time strikeout list.
He retired from the New York Yankees in 2007.
Clemens was recently on trial in federal court after being accused of lying to Congress.
He was found not guilty.
Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Superman And Bizarro Team Up For Interactive Storybook App – You Know, For Kids!
Superman and Batman played a huge role when I was learning to read back in the mid-1980s. Not only did I have plenty of storybooks and comics featuring the two, but I also had read-along books and records (yes, records) that I listened to on a nearly daily basis.
It looks like the kids of 2014 are going to have the opportunity to experience an updated version of that with a new interactive storybook from Livo Books, Superman and Bizarro Save the Planet. It's available through the Apple App Store and Google Play.


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I am developing a webapp for my company right now. During the development I've often seeked for help here on the forums when I got stuck. Sometimes I also had to post some code to help other users find out where my mistakes where.
Now, my question is: am I "allowed" to post code of something that will be used by a company, and will eventually be its copyright?
Probably this is a stupid question, but I'm curious to know, in case also for future projects.
How much code are you intending to publish? If it's a helper method that will be used in code then I don't think it's a problem.
Also, what country do you live in? The law differs in the US when compared to countries like the UK and others in Europe.
You can have a look at the code I've posted if you look for the threads I've started. It's not much code, just some lines where the problems were,
And I live in Italy, do you know anything about the rules here on this matter?
Is this company you are an employee of (you said 'my company')? If so, the company owns everything you do as you write it, you never own it yourself.
Your employment contract probably forbids you from disclosing anything like that, but in reality, it's unlikely to be a problem, not for small snippets.
If you are concerned, have a chat to your employer.
Yes, I meant the company I work for. Actually, though, I am not a real employee, I am a "freelancer" doing this project for them.
I don't think this is a problem, I was just curious. Also, the snippets I posted are not exactly the ones that are now in the actual code because if I posted them it means that they contained some errors
Another thing about this topic: do you think that it could be a problem having let a couple of users login to an online version with test credentials?
On a side note to this subject, Blogger and software mage Joel Spolsky has written a rather comprehensive answer to a question on ownership of projects in free time that may be useful to the original poster. Some of the things he addresses are of some value and may be quite surprising.
If the copyright were mine I would be allowed to post some code right?
You can do as you please with your own work, however, under a work for hire arrangement where copyright is due to be assigned to a third party at the end of the contract, I don't know, I'm sure there may be an argument to be made that you need the intended owner's permission, or perhaps include a clause in your contract that gives you the right to do it.
As I say though, I really don't see it being a problem for just code snippets.
Ok, thank you


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CATSHILL Post Office could be on the move to a new location in the village, it has been announced.
The post office is currently based at Meadow Road, Bromsgrove.
A proposal had been made to move the village's post office to the One Stop store, in Woodrow Lane, Catshill, 600 metres from the current site.
The Post Office is now inviting customers and other interested parties to give their comments on the move, as part of a six week consultation before a final decision is made.
The new store would feature a modern open plan counter with post office products and services, alongside retail transactions, designed to be convenient to customers.
The branch would also be open from 6am to 11pm, Monday to Saturday, and 7am to 11pm on Sunday - 72 hours more than are currently offered at the existing village store.
The proposed move is part of major modernisation programme across the Post Office network designed to make it easier for customers to do business, through longer opening hours and modern open plan environments.
Post Office regional network manager for central England, Adrian Wales, said: "We understand how important Post Office services are to residents in Catshill and we are confident that this new modern branch will meet the needs of the local community and secure services for the future.
"The proposed changes to the branch are part of a major investment programme to convert the Post Office network to new-style branches and this investment, the largest in the history of the Post Office, marks a commitment to no more branch closure programmes."
Anyone who wishes to have a say on the proposal is asked to call 08457 22 33 44, email firstname.lastname@example.com or write freepost, to Your Comments, Post Office Ltd.
Alternatively visit postofficeviews.co.uk using the branch code 270246.


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Beck Center Youth Theater Presents OUR TOWN, Now thru 11/4
Beck Center Youth Theater presents Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize winning play, Our Town tonight, November 1 through 4, 2012 on the Mackey Main Stage. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. There is a 10 a.m. student matinee today, November 1. Tickets are now on sale.
Described as the greatest American play ever written, Our Town tells the story of the Webb and Gibb families who live in the small town of Grover's Corners. Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal set and props, the play is performed in three acts – Daily Life, Love/Marriage, and Death/Loss. Audiences follow the families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually, in one of the most famous scenes in American theater, pass away. Our Town reminds us that life is both precious and ordinary, and that these two fundamental truths are intimately connected.
Directed by Jonathan Kronenberger, Our Town features a cast of 33 students from Beck Center's arts education programs. "With the 75th anniversary of Our Town coming up early next year, I felt it was perfect timing to explore this classic play with our students." said Kronenberger, associate director of Beck Center's Theater Education. "Having the chance to work on this challenging piece of literature with actors ranging from 9 to 18 years old has been a real gift." remarked Kronenberger "There is so much to discuss, explore and share with these young actors. It reminds us how fleeting time is and yet how we never quite lose that child inside."
This production of Our Town is dedicated to Tony Award-winning writer, Mark O'Donnell who passed away suddenly this past summer at the age of 58. A Cleveland native, O'Donnell got his start in theater over 40 years ago when he performed in Our Town at Lakewood Little Theatre, now known as Beck Center for the Arts. O'Donnell was a playwright, novelist, poet, cartoonist, and sometime, songwriter, but was best known for co-writing the book for the Broadway hit musical, Hairspray for which he won a Tony Award with co-author, Thomas Meehan.
Tickets for Our Town are $12 for Adult/Senior (65 and over) and $10 for Children/Student (18 and under). To purchase tickets, visit beckcenter.org or call 216.521.2540, ext. 10. Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood, just 10 minutes west of downtown Cleveland. Free onsite parking is available. Beck Center's production of Our Town is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. New York City and is sponsored by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the Ohio Arts Council, and Music Is Elementary.
Beck Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization that offers professional Theater Productions, arts education programming in dance, music, theater, visual arts, early childhood, and creative arts therapies, and gallery exhibits featuring regional artists. For more information about the Beck Center, visit beckcenter.org.


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POLICE have today (Tuesday) confirmed the identity of the dead man as Ross Paterson, from Taunton.
A MAN aged 23 died after being hit by a taxi in the early hours of yesterday (March 16).
Police say the accident happened at about 3am on the Obridge Viaduct, in Taunton.
Accident investigators were at the scene yesterday.
Officers are seeking witnesses - anyone with any information should call 101.


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Aug. 17 Celebration to Mark 100th Anniversary of Old Tunnel
FREDERICKSBURG – Old Tunnel State Park will host a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first train's steaming through the only tunnel on the San Antonio Fredericksburg & Northern Railroad's 24-mile rail line on Saturday, Aug. 17.
An afternoon of activities, many geared toward youngsters, begins at 1 p.m. and ends at 5:30 p.m. with a talk on the history of the railroad and tunnel by a member of the Kendall County Historical Society. After the event, visitors are invited to stay for the nightly bat emergence from the tunnel.
The first 70 visitors can pay $5 to walk the half-mile nature trail down to the lower viewing area to see the bat emergence up close. Tickets will go on sale about 6 p.m. Seating for the lower viewing area is limited to 70 visitors. Any remaining visitors can watch from the upper viewing area for free.
Approximately 20,000 people visit the state park each year, primarily to view the bats emerging from the abandoned rail tunnel in their nightly search for insects. The tunnel is home to approximately 3,000 cave myotis bats and up to 3 million Mexican free-tailed bats from May through October.
"For the kids, we will be offering bat crafts, a storybook trail and face-painting," says Nyta Brown, Old Tunnel State Park superintendent. "We'll also have interpreters from Enchanted Rock State Natural Area and Lyndon B. Johnson, Blanco and Guadalupe River state parks on hand doing demonstrations and providing information about their parks."
According to an article on the Texas Transportation Museum website, the long-awaited rail service in 1913 out of Fredericksburg cut the usual travel time by mule-drawn stagecoach from the Texas Hill Country burg to San Antonio by more than a day and a half. The SAF&N railroad connected with the main San Antonio & Aransas Pass rail line between Waring and Comfort.
The railroad's 24 miles of track through rugged hill country terrain required 24 bridges and trestles, and the blasting of a tunnel through a limestone hillside at the highest point along the route about 11 miles southeast of Fredericksburg and 13 miles north of Comfort. The rail line, by then known as the Fredericksburg & Northern Railroad, was abandoned in 1942 due to financial difficulties and the success of bus service between the two cities.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department purchased the 16 acres, which includes the 920-foot long Old Tunnel, in 1991 to operate as a wildlife management area. Due to the large number of visitors, the property was transferred to the State Parks Division in 2011 to become a state park.
Old Tunnel State Park, which is located at 10619 Old San Antonio Road, is open year-round from sunrise to sunset. Bat viewing occurs nightly from May through October. There is no fee to watch the bat emergence from the upper viewing area. The lower viewing area is closed Monday through Wednesday, May through October, but is accessible the rest of the week via a half-mile, primitive trail by paying a $5 fee. Visitors must stay on designated trails and are not allowed inside the tunnel.
Call (866) 978-2287 for up-to-date bat emergence information. For directions and to learn more about Old Tunnel State Park, visit: http://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/old-tunnel.
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Well it works for me, and many others. Perhaps you could provide more details.
Simply stating "it doesn't work" is rather useless.
Nothing seems to work, After using 2 types of Bits and checking out the new Operating system, Check sum errors. Never really had any problem booting a DVD from Backtrack 2.3.4 but now Something tells ,me that Backtrack Did a Error themselves?
Please Lets correct the Problem
Well it works for me, and many others. Perhaps you could provide more details.
Simply stating "it doesn't work" is rather useless.
To be successful here you should read all of the following.
If you are new to Back|Track
Back|Track Wiki
Failure to do so will probably get your threads deleted or worse.
I have to agree with Archangel. Works for me and many others. Please provide more details as to what steps you are taking and what errors your are receiving.
I have burnt both KDE and GNOME both twice. None of the 4 will boot.
Cant get sd card using unetbootin to work.
Cant get USB stick to work using Unetbooting.on XP either
I have managed to get a USB stick to work using Unetbootiing on my Ubuntu laptop.
Now I am trying to make and SDHC card using my bootable USB STICK.
rsync -avh wont copy files over.
SDHC card fdisk created 2 x 4gb partitions fat32 & ext3 & formated
Any pointers please - please to save the last of my hair!
All the above work using BT4
in BT4 when creating my sd card I use the following to copy the files
rsync -avh /media/cdrom/ /mnt/sdc1/
I guess in BT% the files are in a different location. Which files do I need to copy to my sd card?
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Rag & Bone Spring 2014
Cross-body bags, dresses suspended on spaghetti straps, sloppy sweaters, bib overalls . . . what were you doing in the nineties, daddy? David Neville and Marcus Wainwright might have been provoking that question when they sent out their brisk Rag & Bone homage to New York minimalism for next spring. About twenty years ago, New York was at the center of a fashion uprising—that internationally transformative time when what was coming from Seattle in the way of grunge hit NYC and was polished up by the likes of Calvin Klein and Helmut Lang. The people who were doing the polishing—translating the cool but grubby aesthetic into the thing that was eventually called "minimalism"—were largely British stylists, models, hairdressers, and photographers who'd migrated from London. So perhaps that's why it felt so natural that Neville and Wainwright's breezy-cool collection contained such strong echoes of that thrilling period. These guys are British too, after all—the second generation to have come to New York and made it in a big way in fashion. Though, as they both harumphed mock-indignantly backstage, they were "still at school!" when the New York nineties phenomenon was bouncing from sidewalk to runway and becoming something the entire world held in awe.
That, at least, is one explanation of why Rag & Bone's spring had such a cool, no-nonsense confidence in its mild cross-referencing of sportswear, Japanese conceptualism, and the romantic, flower-sprigged dresses of grunge. The standouts: the hyper-oversize cricket sweaters with ultra-deep V-necks, the A-line pleated skirts, and the series of double- and triple-layered chiffon slip dresses. All of them could simply have walked right off the runway and onto the sunny September New York sidewalks without anyone batting an eye. The Rag & Bone boys speak the democratic language of American fashion like a couple of natives by now—but perhaps they're not so keen on being thought of as newbies anymore. At the end of the show, they were joined by their six-year-old sons, Neville's Dash and Wainwright's Noah, who barreled out from backstage to join their daddies.


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Diesels — Mack
|2001 Engine Preview
Interested in putting a dog in your engine room? You might be if it was the Mack Bulldog. That's right, the same company that powers those big semis on the highway now wants to power your boat. Mack is entering the market with a pair of diesels that put up some pretty impressive numbers. The M-E7 is a 12-liter in-line six with four valves per cylinder and Bosch mechanical injection. Rated at 650 hp at 2300 rpm, it carries a dry weight (without gear) of 2,525 pounds, or 3.9 lbs/hp. It comes standard with a Walker AirSep and is available with either a heat exchanger or keel cooling. The M-E9, which was still undergoing final testing at press time, is a 16-liter V-8, also with four valves per cylinder, rated at 925 hp at 2500 rpm. It weighs 3,400 pounds without gear, or 3.68 lbs/hp.
Volvo recently purchased Mack (part of Renault-Mack), mainly for its over-the-road truck engines. It remains to see what affect that will have on the marine side, since these new Mack engines compete directly with some Volvo Penta models.
Mack (877) 679 7622. Fax: (610) 709-3636. www.mackpower.com.
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Topic: Need everyone' input before 12/11/0700, not just patient,caregiver too
Hi, everyone.
Sorry for the short notice, I got the question just yesterday.
For example, Below for questions 1-4, that, if I am your doctor or nurse, and you are on oxaliplatin, and I ask you those four questions in the exact way, word for word, Do you understand the questions completely? Or need more assistance and explanation . Can you right away ,for question 1,for example, give me the answer peripheral neuropathy or [ cannot touch cold surfaces].
Or for question 9,if your tumor grown into the portal vein and after you read the question, Will you ask yourself whether the oxaliplatin works for my canner which is grown into the portal vein or not? Even you know your diagnosis is cholangiocarcinoma ?
If you can do that, that means the question is understandable for the patients when ask . If not, then the FDA will rephrase the question and make them more user friendly by the patient in order to assess the outcome of the treatment
At this meeting ( patient-focused Drug Development ) at FDA to discuss proposed questions that are geared towards eliciting the burden of disease "from a patient's point of view." These questions are listed below. We are interested in hearing your feedback on these draft questions; for instance, are the questions are worded in a way that makes sense to you?
Understanding the Condition
1. What are the clinical manifestations of the disease that have the greatest impact on patients?
2. Are there other aspects of the disease that have a significant impact on a patient's daily life? (e.g., impaired mobility, sleep problems, etc.)
3. How do the clinical manifestations change with disease progression?
4. How do the other aspects of the disease change with disease progression?
Assessment of Treatment Options
5. What therapies are currently used to treat the disease?
6. How effective are available therapies at treating the clinical manifestations of the disease?
7. How well do available therapies work in treating the other aspects of the disease?
8. How does the effectiveness of available therapies change with progression of the disease?
9. Does therapy effectiveness vary by patient sub-population?
Please give your ideas and further feedback on this message page before
12/11/0700.(ie: you can substitute that question with the way you would like to be asked and write it down here, or at least give each question a score between 0-5; 5 meaning you understand the question completely WITHOUt further additional explanation by medical professionals. and 0 being COMPLETELY do not know what the question means to you. And 3 being half and half and need more clarification by the doctor or nurse or need to look it up on the internet before COMPLETELY understand the question.
Just give the rating from 0-5 is ok too.
And I will try to communicate your feedback to the FDA meeting on 12/11/2012.
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J. Upton's slam changes tenor of game, recent stretch
Left fielder crushes sixth-inning shot, lifting Atlanta in return home
ATLANTA -- Taking advantage of Jason Heyward's return to the lineup and the opportunity to entertain the home fans, Justin Upton again put his team on his back and delivered a shot that allowed the Braves to begin distancing themselves from the frustration they encountered the past few weeks.
Upton carried the Braves through the month of April with a flurry of home runs. But none of them were as timely as the monstrous sixth-inning grand slam that proved decisive in Friday night's 8-5 win against the Dodgers at Turner Field.
"As soon as he took a swing, you knew that ball was going to be out of the ballpark," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "It was one of the prettiest swings I've seen him put on a baseball."
Upton has created many memorable moments while compiling a Major League-leading 14 home runs through the first six weeks of his career with the Braves. His walk-off shot against the Cubs on April 6 provided a chance for him and his teammates to go through the season's first two weeks in near-perfect fashion.
But it was not as auspicious as the blast that enabled the Braves to distance themselves from the misery they encountered while losing five of the past six games on a 10-game road trip that concluded on Wednesday.
"Things like that, you feed off of as a group," Heyward said of Upton's slam, which traveled toward the pennants below the 755 Club before landing in the outfield terrace pavilion seats located beyond the left-center-field wall.
With Heyward playing for the first time since his April 22 appendectomy, and Brian McCann playing at home for the first time since returning from offseason shoulder surgery, the Braves finally had their lineup at full strength.
As a result, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly fell victim to Gonzalez's ability to separate his right-handed and left-handed power threats at the top of the lineup.
After Jordan Schafer began the one-out, sixth-inning rally with a pinch-hit bloop single, and Andrelton Simmons followed with a liner that nearly knocked third baseman Luis Cruz's glove off, the Dodgers attempted to preserve their two-run lead by lifting right-handed reliever Matt Guerrier in favor of lefty Paco Rodriguez, who promptly walked Heyward to load the bases.
Instead of burning another reliever, Mattingly opted to attack the right-handed Upton with Rodriguez, who entered the night having held both right-handed and left-handed batters to a sub .200 batting average.
"You can only match up so many times," said Mattingly. "You do it in the sixth, you'll be out of pitchers. I had to pick my poison. I leave Matt in, Upton has worn him out [with three extra-base hits in six at-bats]. I'd like to match up every hitter, but they only let me have seven relievers. Somebody has to get the opposite guy out. The issue for us is to get Heyward."
Upton fouled a first-pitch fastball, then crushed Rodriguez's 1-1 fastball that found too much of the plate. The no-doubt shot was the third career grand slam for the Braves' left fielder and gave the Braves a 6-4 lead.
"He had nowhere to put me," Upton said. "So I was looking to be aggressive in my zone and not swing at his pitches. He threw one over the middle that I could handle."
After Heyward began his two-hit performance with a double in the second inning, Upton began his five-RBI night with a groundout in the two-run third. Freddie Freeman followed with a single to account for the only other run the Braves scored off Hyun-Jin Ryu, who surrendered just two runs, despite issuing a season-high five walks in five innings.
"Any time you can get in the bullpen during the first game of a series, it gives you a little bit of an advantage," Upton said. "That was nice for us to put some pitches on the starter and then get in the bullpen."
Braves starting pitcher Paul Maholm allowed the Dodgers to draw blood with a run in the second inning and he opened the sixth by surrendering the first of Scott Van Slyke's two home runs. In between, the Braves left-hander allowed a pair of unearned runs courtesy of Dan Uggla's inability to handle Cruz's routine chopper in the fourth inning.
When the Braves entered the bottom of the sixth inning facing a two-run deficit, they had stranded 20 runners over the course of their previous 14 innings dating back to Wednesday. But once Heyward battled back from a 1-2 count to draw a walk, the stage was set for Upton to take the mighty swing that allowed him and his teammates to forget about their recent woes.
"He didn't try to do too much," Heyward said. "But he did what he can do when he gets his pitch to hit. That was awesome for everybody."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A joint Catholic-Orthodox summer camp for young people in Kazakhstan
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Success Story
Thanks to the support of our donors, this year ACN was able to help sponsor a joint Catholic-Orthodox summer camp for young people in Kazakhstan!With an area of over one million square miles, Kazakhstan is nearly a quarter of the size of the United States. Yet in all this vast area, there are just 15 million inhabitants. This country of mountains, steppes and desert, between Russia, China and the Caspian Sea, plays a key role within Central Asia in the export of primary raw materials. Kazakhstan is one of the richest nations in natural resources in the world, with huge reserves of coal, iron and copper, while vast oil and natural gas reserves lie close to the Caspian Sea. Yet, despite this wealth of resources, there is still great poverty among the ordinary population. At the same time, many people still feel the burden of the country's bloody past during the era of the Stalinist deportations. From 1941 onwards, the country became like one vast prison camp, with numerous labor camps, where many Catholic priests worked courageously underground to serve the people. Even to this day, the Catholic Church in Kazakhstan has to battle all kinds of difficulties. Everywhere there is evidence of drug addiction, violence, abandoned children and dire poverty. While hope in a better future is fading in some regions, many people are seeking strength in the Church. In Kazakhstan this generally means the Orthodox Church (some 44%) but there are also a considerable number of Catholics (close to 2%) among the population. The pastoral and social challenges in an increasingly secularized world are the same in either case. But two priests want to make a difference. Catholic priest, Father Józef Trela, who has been working in Kazakhstan since 1997, and Orthodox priest, Father Aleksandr Merinov, decided to bring together approximately 30 young people from their respective parishes for a summer camp in Urdzhar from August 3-10 this year. The idea was for the young people to get to know one another, to learn something about each other's faiths and at the same time learn something about history. Joint liturgies and joint prayer will help strengthen the new friendships.Undoubtedly this meeting will bear rich fruit, but without our help, it could not have taken place. As far as possible, and where necessary with the help of their parish communities, the young people themselves strove to cover their own travel costs, but extra money was still needed for food and other materials.ACN promised a contribution of $2,042, and through the generosity of our donors, we were able to fulfill that promise so that young people in Kazakhstan could grow in their Christian faith this summer!
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I thought you might like a sneak peak at the logo we have developed for Sydney's first free standing birth centre. Anna and myself are working together to make this project a reality. I hope you like our logo.
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The Janeanna Birth Centre plans on welcoming Guests in 2011
Janeanna Birth Centre will provide:
- One-to-one midwifery care
- Specialist natural therapy practitioners
- Pregnancy, birth and baby courses
- Pre and postnatal exercise classes
- Social networking and support groups
- Early Childhood services
- GP consultancy
- Counseling
- Online and in-house shop
..... catering for all needs during pregnancy, birth and beyond
Janeanna caters for the family who desires low intervention continuity of care with their chosen private midwife. We will provide a unique service to meet the growing demand for respectful woman/baby centered care during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period.
At Janeanna we will offer a beautifully decorated, warm, family oriented facility specifically built for birthing with all the home touches. Janeanna is a privately owned family centre.
Friends of the Birth Centre
By June this year we will be launching Friends of the Birth Centre; a volunteer committee of maternity consumers who support the birth centre with advocacy, fundraising and consumer input. We welcome your contribution.
Want to be involved?
If you have skills to offer, would like to be part of Friends of the Birth Centre or wish to enquire about being a practitioner or educator or maybe you simply want to be updated with our progress, we welcome your email.
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I hear two types of complaint about green tea ice cream.
The first: "I don't like green tea. I hate the bitterness."
Sorry, friend. I can't help you. Why are you reading a post about green tea ice cream anyway?
Then there's the second complaint: "Most green tea ice cream tastes like vanilla. I want real tea flavor!"
To the macho green tea ice cream lovers out there—of which I occasionally count myself a member—who say such things, this is the ice cream for you. It's as loaded as green tea ice cream gets. That doesn't mean it's inedibly bitter, though—just that it's giving green tea its due: grassy and robust, but with sweet vanilla undertones.
I decided to cut the ice cream's considerable richness with some fresh ginger. Okay, a lot of fresh ginger. Enough to send some fresh, bright heat down your throat as you dig in. Unfortunately, fresh ginger has a tendency to slightly coagulate heated dairy, so don't be surprised if, when making this ice cream, you see some clumps. After cooking the dairy into a custard, straining it, and churning it, I've never had problems with lumps in the final scoop.
It's an ice cream strong enough to hit you when you have a cold, rich enough to satisfy the more hardcore of green tea urges, and refreshing enough to beat the muggy summer days to come. Would that all ice creams were so bold.
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The Internal Revenue Service is in more hot water, this time after it accidentally leaked the Social Security numbers of thousands of taxpayers.
Public.Resource.org, an independent nonprofit dedicated to transparency of public documents, discovered that the tax identification numbers of "tens of thousands" of donors to Section 527 nonprofit political groups were accessible because the IRS neglected to redact the data when posting the groups' filing information to a public online database.
"This Section 527 database is an essential tool used by journalists, watchdog groups, congressional staffers, and citizens," said Public.Resource.org in a statement detailing its findings. "While the public posting of this database serves a vital public purpose (and this database must be restored as quickly as possible), the failure to remove individual Social Security numbers is an extraordinarily reckless act."
Brief, but potentially damaging oversight
The IRS did act quickly. The Social Security numbers were on the Internet for less than 24 hours.
But the IRS definitely didn't need any more black marks on its record. It's been under investigation since May for a variety of missteps, including selective handling of applications by groups for another tax-exempt status, 501(c)(4), that also involves a limited amount of political activity.
Upon discovering the breach, Public.Resource.org founder Carl Malamud wrote the IRS and the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. As an example of the latest privacy breach, Malamud pointed out 10 instances where a Social Security number was accidentally revealed on the government website.
"While this report details only 10 such examples, which I was able to find quickly using simple searches, the problem is more significant," wrote Malamud.
He also made several recommendations, including that the IRS make it easier for those who discover such privacy breaches to notify the IRS of the problem.
The IRS has yet to comment on the personal data display error.
While the information was not available for long, identity thieves can work quickly, so I suspect -- hope -- the agency is notifying those whose tax ID numbers were made briefly public. That way they can keep an eye on their financial accounts in case someone less honest than Public.Resource.org got a look.
Want the latest news on taxes, tax reform prospects, filing deadlines, political fights, Internal Revenue Service alerts and tax-saving tips? Subscribe to Bankrate's free Weekly Tax Tip newsletter.
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I'm just starting Qi Gong and enjoying it (8 Pieces of Brocade). From this DVD and other sources, breathing seems to be a critical part. Likewise, understanding Qi is important, including how to focus on it, "lead" it, "smooth" it, and other things that are interesting but their meaning isn't clear.
Can someone recommend a book or DVD (or two) that introduces the concept of Qi and perhaps basic principles of breathing? YMAA has many books and DVDs on these -- which one(s) are good for starters?


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Forums → Ten Forward → Previous / Next (reply • watch)
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I'd like to be able to switch through pages about planets, species and such by hitting previous or next. Similar to the way years are done. It seems like it would be better then going back to a list somewhere all the time. Is this possible? Jaf 14:04, 31 March 2006 (UTC)


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Tomorrow clothes collector extraordinaire Daphne Guinness is auctioning off another chunk of her vaunted wardrobe, the recent subject of a dedicated exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Technology — 100 or so pieces, to be exact, to be sold at Christie's in London. Why? She's selling clothes to save clothes!
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — About 1,500 store-level produce and floral workers checked out new products and took another look at some familiar ones July 15 at the La Mirada, Calif.-based Fresh Produce and Floral Council's annual Southern California Expo.
They also saw industry veteran Kent Kuwata accept the prestigious Norman H. "Buz" Bolstad Produce Award at a keynote awards breakfast preceding the expo.
The award, named in honor of one of the founders of the FPFC, recognizes distinguished leadership within the organization as well as the produce industry as a whole.
In presenting the award, last year's recipient, Mike Casazza, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Apio Inc., Guadalupe, Calif., characterized Kuwata as a "consummate businessman" who is "approachable and friendly and always ready to share ideas."
Kuwata, category manager for Smart & Final Corp., Commerce, Calif., got his first taste of the produce business in his grandparents' fresh produce stores. He would accompany his father to the produce market to procure fruits and vegetables.
"He has held virtually every position there is in retail produce — produce clerk, produce manager, store manager, produce director, category manager, produce and floral buyer — and has worked at Vons/Pavilions, Gigante and Smart and Final," Casazza said.
"He has been an active and incredibly supportive member of the FPFC for decades and is known as a standout volunteer," Casazza said.
He is a member of the FPFC board of directors and a dedicated supporter of the City of Hope cancer hospital and research facility in Duarte, Calif., Casazza said.
Kuwata has been married to his wife, Vicki, for 32 years. The couple has two daughters.
Also at the breakfast, the FPFC Floral Achievement Award was presented to Alice Grazziani, floral director for Encino, Calif.-based Gelson's Markets.
Keynote speaker was Capt. Richard Phillips, inspiration for the movie "Captain Phillips," starring Tom Hanks. He recounted his 2009 ordeal when a band of Somali pirates raided the container ship Maersk Alabama that he was commanding as it ferried food aid to East Africa.
He told attendees that they can tackle challenges in their own lives by applying the same principles he did during his ordeal, like be strong, be flexible and never give up.
During the expo that followed, about 200 companies touted their goods and services.
This was the expo's second year with an expanded floor plan, said expo chairwoman Kristen Reid, executive vice president at Mixtec Group LLC, Glendale, Calif.
"We sold out of exhibit space this year and have a bigger retail draw," she said.
Some retailers came out from Arizona to attend the event at the Disneyland Hotel, she said.


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So I have started to write this app using Tkinter, and I have somethings working. But as I start to add more measurements to my app I am finding it rather monotonous, which makes me feel like I am doing it wrong.
Here is what I have so far:
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from Tkinter import *
class Conversion:
Main window layout
def __init__(self, root_window):
self.button_quit = Button(root_window, text="Quit", fg="red", command=root_window.quit)
self.button_quit.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky=W)
self.speed_mbits_label = Label(root_window, text="Mbps")
self.speed_mbits_label.grid(row=1, column=0, sticky=W)
self.speed_mbits = Entry(root_window, validate="focusout", validatecommand=self.speed_convert)
self.speed_mbits.grid(row=1, column=1, sticky=W)
self.speed_mbits.insert(0, 0)
self.speed_mbytes_label = Label(root_window, text="MBps")
self.speed_mbytes_label.grid(row=1, column=3, sticky=W)
self.speed_mbytes = Entry(root_window, validate="focusout", validatecommand=self.speed_convert)
self.speed_mbytes.grid(row=1, column=4, sticky=W)
self.speed_mbytes.insert(0, 0)
self.button_convert = Button(root_window, text="Speed Convert", fg="blue", command=self.speed_convert)
self.button_convert.grid(row=3, column=1, sticky=W)
self.button_clear = Button(root_window, text="Speed Clear", fg="black", command=self.speed_clear)
self.button_clear.grid(row=3, column=2, sticky=W)
self.size_bits_label = Label(root_window, text="bits")
self.size_bits_label.grid(row=4, column=1, sticky=W)
self.size_bits = Entry(root_window, validate="focusout", validatecommand=self.size_convert)
self.size_bits.grid(row=4, column=2, sticky=W)
self.size_bits.insert(0, 0)
def speed_convert(self):
Based on input into Entry fields calculate either MBps or mbps
if int(self.speed_mbits.get()) > 0:
self.speed_mbytes.delete(0, END)
self.speed_mbytes.insert(0, int(self.speed_mbits.get()) / 8)
elif int(self.speed_mbytes.get()) > 0:
self.speed_mbits.delete(0, END)
self.speed_mbits.insert(0, int(self.speed_mbytes.get()) * 8)
def speed_clear(self):
Reset Entry fields for speed back to 0
self.speed_mbytes.delete(0, END)
self.speed_mbits.delete(0, END)
def size_convert(self):
root_window = Tk()
app = Conversion(root_window)
While I still have a problem with the focusout working after I have used it once, and I need to make it a little more user friendly. My problem is I am repeating the same code over and over again (Label, Entry, Grid, Insert).
I feel like I should create a dictionary with a tuple to build the root_window rather than copying and pasting my code over and over. But if I were to create a dictionary with tuples, then I would be better off building another class to handle this.
I'm not really quite sure how I would handle this.
My main hang up is the self.variables. I don't know how I would loop the self.speed_mbits_label.
Or how I would handle the setup of the grid. Maybe I would create a newline variable in a tuple that added 1 to the row, and then have +1 to the column for each item created.
I'm not necessarily stuck, as I can continue on, but I think that my code is bloated and I just want to find a better way of doing it.
Any suggestions?


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Lynn dominates Dodgers for seventh win
Righty allows two hits in six shutout innings as Freese, Craig homer
LOS ANGELES -- Insistent that their collective early-season struggles against left-handed pitchers would not extend into a year-long conundrum, the Cardinals backed up the statement with substance by teeing off against Dodgers lefty Chris Capuano on Friday night.
Facing the first of three consecutive southpaw starters, the Cardinals rode a homer and three RBIs each from Allen Craig and David Freese to a 7-0 win in front of 45,134 at Dodger Stadium. Lance Lynn battled through lower back and hamstring tightness to give the Cardinals six scoreless innings, becoming the third National League pitcher to record seven wins on the season.
The victory was the 16th in May for the Cardinals, who improved to an NL-best 31-16. Los Angeles continues to trend in the opposite direction, having dropped 14 games this month.
"I don't want to jinx us by saying that we're good to go now [against lefties], but we have a lot of confidence as a lineup against lefties and righties," said Craig, now 7-for-11 lifetime against Capuano. "Traditionally, we've done a pretty good job against lefties. I think, over the course of the season, that'll even out and we'll start to see some better performances."
This was certainly a decent first step.
After scoring only three runs in 28 innings against the last four lefty starters they had faced, the Cardinals had that total matched only 2 1/3 innings into Capuano's five-plus-inning outing. They would end up tagging the lefty for six runs (five earned) before his night was over, three of those scoring via home runs from Craig and Freese.
"We have a good lineup," said manager Mike Matheny, whose club entered the night with a .223 batting average against lefties this season. "I think they're going to hit lefties as well as they're going to hit righties when it comes down to it."
Making his first start since receiving stitches to close a cut on his right hand last Sunday, Freese doubled home the Cardinals' first run in the second. Jon Jay, who had reached on a fielding error by first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, scored while barreling into the left shoulder of Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis, who was blocking the plate with his body.
Ellis remained on the ground for several minutes and was tended to by a trainer, but stayed in to finish the game.
"I'm just happy nobody got hurt," Jay said. "It was just a last-minute play. I'm glad he's not hurt, and I'm glad nothing bad happened to either of us."
"I'm glad to see that A.J. is OK," added Matheny, an outspoken advocate for eliminating runner-to-catcher contact at home. "I haven't taken another look at it, but it looked like he was there at the plate taking it all up."
Craig, a Southern California native, delivered a two-run double in the third. Two innings later, he launched his third home run of the season, a solo shot into the left-center-field seats.
He now has 17 RBIs in May, a month in which Craig has batted .363. With the double, he improved to 18-for-44 (a .409 average) with runners in scoring position.
"I believe in myself that I'm going to get the job done and try not to take any opportunity for granted," Craig said. "I feel like I'm going to get the job done every time, though I understand that's not going to happen. But my focus is there."
Hours after having his stitches removed, Freese went deep in the sixth, doubling his season home run total and giving him his second multi-RBI game of the season. They came exactly one week apart.
"It's feeling good," Freese said of his swing. "I feel strong. Keeping my front side closed, which is helping me be quicker to the baseball. It's nice to join the fun."
While his season numbers are still suffering from a dismal April, Freese is now quietly hitting .298 in May. He lacks many extra-base hits, but has hit safely in 12 of his last 16 games.
"Just getting him some positive results can take us all a long way," Matheny said of Freese. "It's definitely something he's been waiting to happen."
Lynn (7-1) allowed only three baserunners -- none of which reached third -- while efficiently shutting the Dodgers down. He opened his start by throwing 37 consecutive fastballs while facing only one over the minimum through the first three innings.
He followed that with six straight curveballs before returning to a fastball-heavy game plan for the rest of his start. The Dodgers, now employing Mark McGwire as their hitting coach, never could adjust.
"He threw the ball extremely well," Ellis said. "He's got kind of a strange angle to his fastball. He was better than I saw him any time last year. He was on his A-game and he pitched well when his team gave him a lead."
Lynn may have had a chance to seek his first complete game if not for the lower back and hamstring discomfort that increasingly bothered him. It was no deterrent to his effectiveness, but with a 7-0 lead after the sixth, the Cardinals did not want to take the chance that the issue could worsen.
As a result, Matheny ended Lynn's night after 77 pitches.
"As the game went on, it just kept getting tighter and tighter and it kept getting harder to get looser," Lynn said. "I would have loved to go longer, and I wish I could have, but we made the decision that we'll let the bullpen finish it from there and we'll get ready for the next one. With the run support and the day off [on Thursday], it was a good time not to hurt myself and let some guys get some work."
Those other guys -- relievers Randy Choate, Seth Maness and Mitchell Boggs -- each followed with scoreless innings to preserve the Cardinals' Major League-best eighth shutout.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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THESE are the two people police are trying to track down after a Malvern hotel was burgled.
A small amount of money was taken from a drawer in the office, but no other items are believed to have been taken, from Mount Pleasant Hotel, in Belle Vue Terrace.
Mount Pleasant Hotel have declined the opportunity to comment.
It took place in the early hours of Wednesday, June 25, and West Mercia Police are asking for anyone with information to contact them on 101, quoting incident number 0346 of 30th June 2014.
Information can be given anonymously by calling Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or by visiting crimestoppers-uk.org


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the "#volun_msg" id is getting butchered in IE6 (extra padding to right) AND IE7 (extra padding to the right AND adding an Xscroll).
i added a background color of black in addition to the background wallpaper so the issues in IE6 and IE7 are easily noticeable.
it looks ok... i guess... in other browsers though.
It shouldn't have decreased in width/height. I literally only movd the padding to a new spot lol :).
Glad it worked though (I assume you got whatever you saw sorted)
Hi, IE isn't using that padding space for the scrollbars, it's instead doing the scrollbars and then adding the 10px padding. You could just move the padding
#volun_msg form{padding:10px;}
cool cool... however, when i did that it worked, BUT the #volun_msg was getting reduced in width and height since no more padding. also, the footer info was getting butchered cuz of reduced width and height. so i added back to the width and height of #volun_msg and the same problem is still there.
im really tired right now and i guess my left brain is not working right as i can't problem solve due to fatigue. do you think if i were to get rid of #volun_msg COMPLETELY and only do styling on "#volun_msg form{styling}" it would work? im gonna think about this and try this method after a long, deep sleep.
thanks Mr. Reese...
ok i ftpd new style page w/the changes you suggested. however, don't you see how the footer now is being moved up because #volun_msg is now smaller? even if i add to the height and width of #volun_msg to compensate, the original problem still remains:
IE6 #volun_msg width is bigger than in other browsers and is extending into the guys suit AND the black background is still present on the farthest right side of the #volun_msg.
IE7 is adding a horizontal scrollbar and on the far right side there is the black background
*black background was added to clearly show that the paper background is not meeting the width in only IE6 and IE7.
It's the 100% width in the clear_it style that is causing the horizontal scrollbar in IE7.
Use height instead.e.g.
.clear_it {
clear: left;
[B] /*width: 100%;*/
font-size: 0;
worked great thanks Paul (:
one last problem (i hope last):
see the Yscroll section with the about info? yeah-there is no padding on the scroll box at the bottom for IE8. this problem occurs for the about, issues, and contact pages in the little scroll boxes. IE8 has padding on the top, right, and left sides, but NOT on the bottom :(.
strangely, this problem is isolated to IE8 and the padding-bottom shows up in all other browsers.
Read post #2 for an explanation and a fix :).
It's probably just a bug, but the padding doesn't seem to be added in when scrollbars are added. I'll report this bug to James Hopkins.
oh you mean the bit:
yeah the problem w/that is the about and issues pages (#about_txt && #issues) have no child element like #volun_msg does (#volun_msg form).
Well the padding obviously can't be put on a scrollbar element , so if you want, just designate the first child (whatever that is) (using > selector) and then set the bottom padding on that.
Some questions-what element (type) will always be the first child of the about_txt/volumn_msg page. What kind of structure will always be similar
you lost me. this is like some da vinci mirror writing or something. can you please at least tell me how i should style the #about_txt {} so i can get the padding-bottom to show up in IE8?
You'll have to make space on another element instead.
You could remove those breaks you have in that section and use some padding bottom on the p element instead.
#about_txt p{padding-bottom:15px;margin:0}
As Paul said another element would be neede.
My last post was a question on the general structure of the page. I could have given you a global CSS rule to place in your file and that would ensure on all pages the padding would show.
Though make sure you have a common wrapping element that comes after (or before) the scrollbar element to compensate for IE8
thanks everyone. no real quirks to speak of anymore.... i think:(.
when is Claussen gonna get picked?
ftpd changes:
Excuse me?
lol i was watching the NFL draft while i was posting... the funny thing: Jimmy Clausen got picked 20 seconds after i clicked post.
he has Steve Smith to throw to now. wow-he got lucky.
[ot]I was watching that as well, although I stopped for a few minutes to post up on here..Ravens got a very nice draft going on.
I do feel bad for the Broncos though. They are SOL this season. I also feel that the Colts are done[/ot]


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"Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology" Initiative Charts New Path for College-level Biology
Meeting the needs of the 21st Century
According to a rising chorus of biology educators, major changes in the teaching of undergraduate biology are needed to bring undergraduate biology courses into the 21st century. Such changes, these educators say, are necessary because modern biology has, in recent years, undergone major transformations. For example, biologists have used emerging technologies and interdisciplinary collaborations to rapidly open new areas of biological research and pioneer new approaches that enhance our understanding of living systems.
Associated advancements in biology are helping society better address urgent problems involving climate, energy, food and health. At the same time, a communications revolution has created a hyper-connected world in which information flows fast and freely. Because of these trends, the ways in which we discover, understand and learn about biology have profoundly changed.
In response to these new realities, biology educators are considering ways to better prepare college students for careers in the life sciences and to promote biological literacy in our citizenry. In doing so, they have increasingly recognized that traditional undergraduate teaching approaches that aim to "cover it all" cannot accommodate the ongoing explosion of new information in biology.
A call to action
To help biology educators modernize undergraduate biology education, the National Science Foundation (NSF)--in partnership with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)--launched a national initiative in 2007 called Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology. This initiative was designed to distill a set of cutting-edge, 21st century approaches to undergraduate biology education from decades of conversations, reports and calls for change. Steadily gaining momentum, the initiative has, thus far, culminated in:
The final report's findings were summarized by a quote from Carol Brewer, professor emeritus of biological sciences at the University of Montana and the conference co-chair, that was included in a summary of the final report. Brewer said, "We all have work ahead of us to ensure that the transformations we make in biology classrooms around the country reflect the biology we do in the 21st century."
To help guide this transformative effort, the final report identifies:
Facilitating change in the biology classroom
Another critical aspect of the report is its emphasis on the importance of developing student-centered teaching approaches that actively engage students in interactive, inquiry-driven, cooperative and collaborative activities. According to the report, these approaches should convey to students the wonder of the natural world and the passion and curiosity of scientists, involve students in authentic research experiences, and teach students how to evaluate complex biological problems from varied perspectives without just reciting facts and terminology.
To promote the development of student-centered approaches, the report directs readers to practical resources to help them integrate student-centered learning throughout biology curriculums, relevant examples of successful models and approaches to student-centered learning, and practical advice on using assessment tools.
In addition, the report recommends designing and revising undergraduate biology courses to incorporate clearly defined, measurable goals; the latest insights into how people learn; and successful best practices in teaching that have been identified by science education researchers and practitioners.
The report also cites the need for institutions--including colleges, universities, professional societies and federal and private funding sources--to create environments that promote advances in biology education. The report advises institutions to do so by preparing and training future faculty members to create student-centered classrooms, offering professional development in teaching to all biology faculty members, hiring biologists who have education specialties, and devoting funds and resources to improving biology education.
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- Please note that video downloads use 2 of your download allotment
Please see Freegal's FAQs for more info.
If you are experiencing problems downloading music from Freegal, check the issues list at the bottom of this page, and contact us if you continue to have problems. Help is also available at the Freegal FAQ page.
What is Freegal?
Freegal is a downloadable music service that provides access to millions of songs, more than 100 genres of music, over 12,000 music videos, and over 28,000 record labels including the U.S. Sony Music Entertainment Catalog.
How do I access Freegal?
You can access Freegal with your Liverpool Public Library Card and PIN. If you do not have a PIN, please stop in at the Library and a staff member will be happy to set one up for you.
How does Freegal work?
You can download up to FIVE songs per week (Monday through Sunday). A music video counts as two songs. The songs and music videos are yours to keep. It is legal because the library pays for the service.
How do I search Freegal?
Browse by Genre, Featured Artist, Most Popular, or Newly Added; or do a keyword search at top of the home page by artist name or song title.
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VETERANS are furious after thieves stole union flags from flagpoles across Great Harwood ahead of Armistice Day services.
Flags in Town Gate, Memorial Park, Mercer Baths, the Showfield and by the canal at Rishton were removed on Saturday. Police are investigating.
Witnesses reported seeing a cherrypicker vehicle in the area.
Great Harwood councillor Gareth Molineux said the thefts took place between 11am and 6pm.
He said: "This year we made a decision to put up more flags and flagpoles because of Armistice Day, but also the Olympics and the Queen's Jubilee.
"For the flagpoles in the park you need a key to access the rope, but the rope near the flags has been cut and the weights are either missing or damaged.
"It could have been mindless vandals but we have not ruled out anti-war campaigners.
"Fortunately we were able to get a flag up for the service by being creative with a bit of string ahead of the start and finish of the parade from Town Gate."
Ian Wilkinson, chair of the Friends of Mercer Park, was outraged. He said: "It's not just about the flags being removed, it's the timing that is significant.
"We want to know the reason why this has happened."
Len Myerscough, chairman of Great Harwood Royal British Legion, said: "I am disgusted. I don't know who would do such a thing.
"To steal the flags ahead of Remembrance Sunday is heartless. These people have no respect for people's feelings. They are disrespecting the sacrifice that these men and women made."


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HOUSTON - Drunk driving is suspected as the cause in two separate wrong-way crashes on Houston-area freeways Friday, officials said.
The first accident happened around midnight on the North Freeway near Tidwell Drive.
Houston Police said the driver got on Interstate 45 headed northbound in the southbound lanes. A Houston police officer tried to move out of the wrong-way driver's path, but slammed into a concrete barrier. The crash caused a chain reaction collision involving five cars.
"There were a couple of other wrecks. After the fact, I guess, they rolled here and hit the brakes so that's basically what occurred," said Sgt. Sorge with the Houston Police Department.
The suspect, Martin Hernandez, 33, was stopped one exit later and arrested. Hernandez was charged with driving while intoxicated and accident involving injury. Records showed it's his second DWI offense.
The officer was checked out by paramedics. He sustained only minor injuries. HPD said the officer had recently returned to work because of another crash several months ago involving a drunk driver.
The second wreck happened along Highway 225 and Richey Road in Pasadena shortly after 12:45 a.m.
Police said a man in a pickup truck was going the wrong-way when he hit the back of an 18-wheeler. The big rig's back axle was knocked off the truck. The 18-wheeler driver sustained minor injuries.
The man in the pickup had to be taken by helicopter to a hospital, where he was in serious condition.
In the past week, five people were killed in two wrong-way crashes on the North Freeway. The accidents occurred on June 29 and on July 1.
The wrong-way crashes happened on Interstate 45 in south Montgomery County. In both cases, alcohol was suspected.
"It's not a road problem. It doesn't appear the signs are a problem. I don't understand it. It's ridiculous," said Erick Burse with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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Adaptive Bumper System
Contact: email@example.com
Twitter: @steveshoap
US patent 8,016,332
A Safer Small Car
Note: There are links to two completely different inventions at the bottom of this page.
The new Federal
rules require that future cars get much better fuel economy.
On average, cars will have to get lighter, which means less steel.
On the other hand, new Federal rules will require that cars become safer in crashes.
Removing steel makes cars less safe.
The car companies have difficult design goals to meet.
The car in the above figure has a small trunk area. It does not have the long trunk that protects the rear seat passengers of large sedans.
to see a small car that has been hit in the rear by a large vehicle.
Gordon Murray is a famous British car designer. At the link below, he describes a problem with the design of auto chassis.
If a vehicle has structures that protect the passengers from a high speed collision, that same structure will NOT crumple in a low speed
collision. The structure fails to reduce g forces on passengers in a lower speed collision. Mr. Murray proposes that city cars be designed with different crash standards from highway cars. This means that a city car will not give the proper protection to passengers if it is in a high speed collision. Also, the city car will not be allowed to drive on highways.
to see his article. The paragraphs below show how I propose to solve the city vs. highway problem.
I have invented an Adaptive Bumper System that has US patent 8,016,332.
It is shown in the figure at the top of this page. A box of energy absorbing material is connected to a bumper with three shafts.
The amount of energy absorbing material that gets crushed in a collision is determined by sensing the collision forces
at the first moments of a collision.
A high speed collision will crush ALL of the material. A low speed material will crush less material.
My Adaptive Bumper System solves the problem of city vs. highway cars. A car using the Adaptive Bumper can be used for both city and highway.
to see a Finite Element Analysis simulation of two different blocks of polyurethane foam that have different stiffness properties.
to see the Adaptive Bumper System.
The Bumper of the Adaptive Bumper System can be retracted to facilitate parking in small spots.
It is possible to combine a extendible/retractable bumper with an extendible/retractable rear axle.
to see how a city car can have its wheelbase extended to improve its ride on the highway. Also,
a longer vehicle is more aerodynamic and will get better fuel economy during highway driving.
My Original Safer Car Invention:
Before I invented the Adaptive Bumper, I invented another way to make cars safer in collisions. (US patent 7,699,347)
The earlier invention uses a box of energy absorbing material that is connected to multiple pairs of bumper shafts that stick out of the box in perpendicular directions. The invention can be seen
Small cars need the bumpers more than large cars. However, in side collisions, even large cars deliver huge g forces onto the passengers.
to see the result of a large vehicle hitting a pole sideways at 20 mph. This is a new U.S. Federal Test.
The rear bumper is extended before driving and (optionally) retracted when parking.
The side bumpers may extended all of the time and may be hidden by running boards, or the side bumpers can be retracted when parking.
to see a modern use of running boards.
No bumper is extended just before an accident is anticipated.
Until recently, I believed that the energy absorbing material was going to be aluminum honeycomb or a metal foam.
I now believe that rigid polyurethane foam is the best material. It is much lower in cost than metal foams,
and it is already used by the auto companies in energy absorption applications.
An article
on the car
in t
WIRED Magazine Autopia blog.
to see article.
for another blog article that discusses the new NHTSA Side Impact Pole Test.
to see a brochure from the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety called Shopping for a Safer Car 2010.
The brochure has a graph that shows that
small cars have a collision death rate that is DOUBLE that of large cars.
The Shared Crumple Zone invention has been granted a US Patents 7,695,018 and 7,699,347.
to see the US Patent on Google Patents.
Mercedes Benz
has invented a new type of side bumper. They call it PRE-Safe and it is a device that expands explosively
on the side doors of a vehicle. It might require the anticipation of an impending collision to fire the device, which is a difficult task to accomplish.
PRE-Safe is described on a web site whose link is
. The PRE-Safe devices are the red shapes on the front and rear doors.
A detailed description is given half way down the page.
The PRE-Safe devices extend a few inches. My invention extends a foot or more. More extension is better when g force reduction is desired.
The federal government (NHTSA) has created a new crash test that makes a car crash sideways into a pole at 20 mph.
to see a video of side crashes into a pole.
to see why the invention is needed.
to see the invention details.
to see an "aftermarket" version of the invention.
Contact me at email@example.com
I have invented several other systems shown below:
to see an irrigation system topology with improved system features.
to see a digitally controlled hose system for fighting wildfires
. The system can also be used
to deliver water after a disaster destroys the water infrastructure in a region.
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This article was published 11/3/2011 (2353 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
When a child is born with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, odds are great he will be in foster care by his third birthday.
The odds are just as great he will remain there until he ages out of the system at 18.
Some researchers report four of every five kids with FASD will not be raised by their biological parents.
According to a Manitoba study, at least one in six children in care in this province is known or strongly believed to have the disability.
But child welfare systems in Manitoba and elsewhere are still struggling to comprehend the magnitude of the problem and how to handle it.
"The child welfare system is still getting to the point where they are just beginning to understand FASD," said Don Fuchs, a social work professor at the University of Manitoba.
Fuchs has co-authored a number of research projects on FASD and the child welfare system. One published in 2007 estimated at least 17 per cent of the kids in foster care in Manitoba had been diagnosed with FASD or were strongly suspected to have it.
In Manitoba in 2010, there were more than 9,000 kids in care, meaning at least 1,500 of them had FASD.
Fuchs said his hunch is a number of kids were missed and that the real number of FASD kids in care is much higher.
Unfortunately, coming into care does not guarantee a child with FASD will be diagnosed. There is, Fuchs notes, no standard requiring every child to be assessed for disabilities, either cognitive or physical.
The child welfare system is not designed for that.
"The system is about trying to make families work," said Fuchs.
Most children with FASD who come into care don't come to the attention of social workers because of their disability. They come into the system because of their parents' alcohol or drug use.
On average, kids with FASD are taken into care when they are two and a half years old, Fuchs found in a 2008 study. Chances are they will be in care for an average of three-quarters of their life. That generally means, once they're taken from their parents, they never go back.
And that means, said Fuchs, no system is in greater need of understanding and meeting the needs of kids with alcohol-related brain damage than the child welfare system.
"It has major implications for how you understand foster care, how you train social workers and how you use resources," he said.
Donna Debolt, a former social worker turned FASD consultant, said, unfortunately the system's ability to handle the specific needs of FASD kids is not much better than their biological families'.
Young children with FASD are usually quite easy for foster families. They are generally compliant and can stay in one placement for years.
But as they get older, expectations for their behaviour change. Unfortunately, their behaviour does not.
"They don't change, but expectations do," said Debolt. "The child reacts by falling apart. The family reacts by thinking someone else can do it better and the placement breaks down."
Most kids with FASD will have a stable placement until their preteen years. Then they begin a sad path of bouncing between foster homes and group homes.
Debolt calls it tragic.
"The most important thing we can give these kids is placement stability."
Debolt said there are four things the system can do to help keep kids and foster families together longer: training; ongoing coaching and resource support; respite care; and therapy to help accept that these kids are not going to get better no matter how hard the foster families tries.
"Families need to be trained until they yell, 'Uncle,'" said Debolt.
Ongoing coaching helps them remember what they've learned and respite care offers both the parents and the kid a break when things get tough so the placement doesn't permanently break down.
"These kids are very hard to take care of and (families) need breaks," said Debolt.
Often times placements break down because families get so frustrated that all their talking and working with a child with FASD hasn't helped the child get better. Grief and loss therapy can help manage those expectations.
"This is about disability management not treatment," she said. "The damage has happened. We aren't going to fix it."
Steinbach-area foster parent Jennifer Friesen and her husband, Les, have had a crash course in the confusing mishmash of aid available to kids with FASD and their families, especially outside Winnipeg. Four of her five foster children have FASD.
"If foster parents knew what to expect and had coping tools and more support, there would be a lot less bouncing of kids in the system," said Friesen. "I see too many foster parents that have completely unreasonable expectations of their kids. And it causes huge frustration for everybody, and I think it causes even more psychological damage for the kids."
To understand how much extra help FASD kids and their foster families need one need only look at the money child welfare systems spend to cope.
In a 2008 study, Fuchs found nearly all FASD kids required special fees on top of the basic foster care rate, at an average of $15,617 per child per year. One child needed an extra $172,000.
That's money that goes for respite care, psychiatric and medical costs outside Manitoba Health coverage and higher foster fees to compensate foster families for the additional time and money they spend to look after FASD kids.
Nearly half the kids in care with FASD had also been diagnosed with mental illnesses such as depression or bipolar disorder.
More than 15 per cent of FASD kids also required exceptional circumstance funding for things such as criminal legal fees or renovations to a foster home to accommodate a disability.
There are signs the child welfare system is making strides when it comes to FASD. In 2008, the provincial government began funding an FASD specialist in all four child welfare authorities. Their aim is to help improve the diagnosis rates and help the system and families understand and receive training for the special needs.
The move was a recommendation of the Children's Advocate who looked at the issue of kids who die in care. The report found prenatal alcohol use was a direct factor in the deaths of 10 children in care.
-- with files from Mary Agnes Welch


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Per serving - 104 calories, 2 gram fat (14% calories from fat), 2 gram protein, 20 gram carbohydrate, 5 gram fiber, 20 milligram cholesterol, 17 milligram sodium