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(Reuters) - Hostess Brands Inc will proceed with a plan to go out of business after the maker of Twinkie snack cakes said last-minute talks with striking workers broke down on Tuesday.
Hostess and its striking bakers union were pressed by New York Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain into mediation to try to end the walkout and save the company and its 18,500 jobs. Drain acted as a mediator during the private talks.
Hostess, which also makes Wonder Bread and Drake's cakes, will ask Drain to approve a plan to begin a piece-meal lidquidation of the 82-year-old company. It has said that its operations were crippled by the bakers' strike and that winding down is the best way to preserve its dwindling cash.
Hostess plans no further comment prior to an 11 a.m. ET hearing on Wednesday.
A representative of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (BCTGM), which went on strike November 9, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ken Hall, the general secretary of the Teamsters, Hostess' largest union expressed disappointment at the failed talks. The Teamsters had accepted an 8 percent cut in wages in an attempt to save the company.
"This is a tragic outcome and our thoughts and prayers go out to all Teamster Hostess members and all Hostess employees," Hall said in a statement.
The BCTGM leaders have said they believe there are buyers prepared to bid for the company, and bankers and analysts expect the company's best-known brands to live on under a new owner or owners.
Bankers have said rivals including Flowers Foods and Mexico's Grupo Bimbo were very likely to be interested in parts, but not all of, the brands. Neither company could be reached for comment.
Private equity firms have also shown interest. Sun Capital Partners is interested in bidding for all of Hostess, according to a source familiar with Sun's plans, and Metropolous & Co is also interested, according to Daren Metropolous, a principal at the firm.
Officials at Sun did not respond to requests for comment.
Hostess runs 33 bakeries, 553 distribution centers, about 5,500 delivery routes and 527 bakery outlet stores throughout the United States. Bakery operations ceased last week, though product deliveries to stores continued in order to sell already-made products.
The company has blamed union wages and pension costs for contributing to its unprofitability. Hostess Chief Executive Gregory Rayburn has also said the company's labor contracts have deterred would-be bidders for the company and its assets.
In addition to its unionized workforce, analysts, bankers and restructuring experts have said that a fleet of inefficient and out-of-date factories has also eaten up costs. They have said some brands may be more valuable once they were separated from the factories and sold to non-union competitors.
The case is In re Hostess Brands Inc, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-22052.
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Overcoming injuries primary key in beating Braves
LOS ANGELES -- The most quoted Dodger after Sunday's regular-season finale was team surgeon Neal ElAttrache, which is no way to go into the playoffs.
But that's the kind of season it's been for the Dodgers, who held a pep rally with Matt Kemp on crutches, ruled out of the playoffs. Andre Ethier wasn't at the rally, also hobbled by a bad ankle and likely to join Kemp on the cheerleader squad.
The theme of this crazy season for the Dodgers has been "day to day." They'll only go as far in the postseason as their medical staff can take them.
With that in mind, here are three keys for Los Angeles to defeat the Braves in the NLDS, which begins Thursday at Turner Field.
The Dodgers couldn't get through the last week of the regular season without losing two of their four high-paid outfielders. And some people actually want them to trade an outfielder, as if they have too many. Remember, they had 20 disabling injuries prior to the magic turnaround date of June 22, and only five after.
When the Dodgers were relatively healthy this season, they mowed through the opposition at a record pace. But they struggled early when hurting, then struggled late with another wave of ailments, and there are other serious questions about their health as the rosters must be set.
Nobody is sure if shortstop Hanley Ramirez can stay in one piece, and he's the most important everyday player. He hasn't gone all-out all month as he tries to avoid irritating a sciatic nerve condition in his lower back. Yasiel Puig has a bruised left shin. Utility men Jerry Hairston (back) and Nick Punto (toe) also missed games the last week.
On the bright side, the pitchers appear to be sturdy.
Barring the unpredictable, the Dodgers believe that their pair of Cy Young aces positions them to compete with any team, home or away, no matter how many other Dodgers are missing.
Zack Greinke was signed for October. On most staffs, he'd be starting Game 1. But not this one. Clayton Kershaw was the ace the last time the Dodgers were in the playoffs in 2009, but he's made huge leaps since then to become a truly elite pitcher.
Hyun-Jin Ryu gives the Dodgers three pitchers capable of dominance, but it's really up to Kershaw and Greinke.
Kenley Jansen
He's been dominant since taking over the closer role from Brandon League, at one time retiring 27 consecutive batters for a reliever's perfect game.
The Braves, however, handed him a pair of losses at Turner Field in May, so he'll need to erase that from his memory. And one more thing: he hasn't performed on the October stage, and the Dodgers remember the trouble Jonathan Broxton had with that final exam. Jansen hasn't given the club any reason for concern, improving as the season progressed.
Jansen rebounded from last year's heart surgery and has stepped up his conditioning so he wouldn't wear down when it matters most. He's even mixing in more two-seamers and sliders to go with that Mariano Rivera-like cutter. And if things get dicey, Brian Wilson and his World Series ring are at the ready.


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I could only attend batting practice at today's game because I had Dave Matthews Band tickets for later tonight.
Since today's game was to begin at 12:35, I feared that there would be no batting practice. Usually on day games after night games, there is no batting practice. However, when I was walking to the Center field gate, I could see this.
I got to the gates at 9:45 AM, 15 minutes early, and was third in line. There were two non-ballhawks in front of me, so I felt pretty confident about being the first person into batting practice and claiming any Easter eggs.
I was the first one to the early entrance point, but the season ticket scanner wasn't there. A few other security guards came and said we had to wait until the scanner showed up. I showed them I had season tickets and I even flashed my season ticket card. They said no one could enter until the scanner showed up. In the mean time, there were three fans with visitor passes in the bleachers.
Ryan Doumit crushed a homerun that landed in the bleachers. All I could do is stand helplessly and watch one of the visitor fans walk over and pick it up. One missed opportunity. Doumit hit another ball that hit near the bullpen. It bounced off a bleacher and rolled down to the front row. Luckily, the visitors didn't see this one. When the employee who scans the early entrance finally showed up 6 minutes late, I ran in and claimed the Doumit HR ball. It was ball #1.
I asked Nyjer Morgan for a baseball, but he ignored me.
Game: 6 Balls (3 hit, 3 device)
Season: 26 Balls (12 hit, 9 thrown, 5 device)
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I think I'm going to throw up !
The New York Daily News is one of the greatest publication in the history of the world for dishing dirt. This time though there's so much dirt it boggles the mind and some of it I DON'T want to know.
Lucy was a whore. Elvis had gay sex. Bette Davis was a murderer. And you don't even want to know what happened to Judy Garland.
The latest column by Rush & Molloy has a preview of the upcoming book "Hollywood Babylon: It's Back."
"Hollywood Armageddon" might be a more like it.
The book dishes unbelievably horrific dirt on some of the biggest tv and screen icons EVER. To quote Rush & Malloy the book's authors "have dared to publish the pictures and stories too explicit and actionable for even the pulpiest supermarket tabloids."
For some reason, most of the Rush & Malloy column focuses on celebrity penises. The book features a host of nude male photographs never before published. Those pictures feature full frontal nudity by a number of celebrities (more on that momentarily.) The column (and the book) also goes into great detail about which Hollywood stars have the biggest dongs.
Among the largest penises (literally not figuratively) in Hollywood are those belonging to Johnny Depp and Sean Connery (at least according to "Hollywood Babylon.")
I'm sure Depp and Connery will be able to overcome the STIGMA of being labled as having incredibly large penises. Some of the other celebrities in this book may have a more difficult time.
After all, thirty years after his death, Bing Crosby is still remembered as a guy who beat his kids because of what was written in ONE book. The same thing is true for Joan "Mommy Dearest" Crawford.
And some of the details in "Hollywood Babylon" are beyond outrageous.
Among the allegations the book makes are:
Lucille Ball got her start in Hollywood as a hooker.
Meanwhile her husband, Desi Arnaz (known to millions of adoring 50's tv fans as Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy), is alleged in "Hollywood Babylon" to have had a homosexual affair with actor Cesar Romero.
The alleged Arnaz/Romero homosexual affair is far from the most notorious claim in "Hollywood Babylon."
Also, according to the book, Elvis had gay sex with 60's tv and movie actor Nick Adams (a well-known member of Presley's inner circle and entourage.)
There have been plenty of Hollywood stories about the legendary actor James Dean being gay or bisexual.
However, "Hollywood Babylon" goes into detail about Dean's "disconcerting interest" in a 12-year-old boy in the early 50's. Not only that, but the book has an on-the-record quote from director Elia Kazan who said he believed the allegations,
"I've known many actors who have been twisted up in their sex lives, but never anybody as sick and unhealthy as Dean was."
Speaking of sick, "Hollywood Babylon" says not only was actor Cary Grant involved in gay sex,
but he had INCESTUOUS gay sex with his own stepson, Lance Reventlow.
Even sicker, the book claims somebody had sex with Judy Garland's dead body.
That's right. Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz.
Again, some of this stuff is beyond sick.
The column also says the book accuses Bette Davis (the most decorated actress in the history of the Academy Awards) of being a murderer.
Police believed Bette Davis killed her second husband, Arthur Farnsworth, by hitting him on the head and causing a hemorrhage that lead to his death two weeks later. But a grand jury – six men who confessed to being ardent fans – found her innocent.
That is one allegation in the book that has been proven to be BASICALLY true. Police DID suspect Davis in the death and a grand jury was convened which refused to press charges. However, whether Bette Davis was guilty or not is sheer speculation by the book's authors.
Actors and actresses aren't the only people slimed in "Hollywood Babylon." There's even an item about Winston Churchill engaging in a bit of buggery with an effeminate songwriter.
I have no idea how much (if any) of the stuff in this book is true.
I do know that the authors have developed a unique strategy for establishing their credibility.
The entire credibility of the book "Hollywood Babylon" is based on celebrity penises. The book is a virtual encyclopedia of celebrity male genitalia. They have somehow tracked down AND PUBLISHED naked pictures of Mick Jagger, Daniel Radcliffe, Ewan McGregor, John Malkovich, James Woods, Richard Gere and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger among others.
Frankly, I don't want to see ANY of these guys naked. However, if you put a gun to my head, Mick Jagger, John Malkovich and HARRY POTTER would rank pretty low on the list of celebrities whose packages I'd like to check out. What's strange is the book seems to rely on these nude pictures to establish their credibility with the reader. They seem to be saying, "Look, if we can get these photos that noone's ever had before then you should believe our stories that noone has heard before."
And "Hollywood Babylon" leaves no penis unturned. Sean Connery is 77- years-old. Yet, somehow the authors managed to track down somebody who saw Connery pose as a nude college model almost 60 years ago AND GET A QUOTE,
"It was the biggest I've ever seen. It made me drop my charcoal pencil."
Trust me. When this book comes out there will be even harsher reactions than that.
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What have we here?
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Martin Legassick, The Struggle for the Eastern Cape, 1800-1854: Subjugation and the Roots of South African Democracy, Democracy in Africa Series, Vol. 1
KMM Review Publishing Company, Johannesburg, 2010
152 pp
What have we here? This reviewer found the product very different from what she expected, after reading the publisher's stated intention, with its Democracy in Africa Series, to develop "a series of books to address issues of democracy on the continent. The aim ... is to contribute to the discourse on the consolidation of democracy in Africa." With that in mind, I looked for references to the large body of work on the topic, for example, books or edited volumes by P.J. Hountondji, by P.A. Nyong'o, by Mahmood Mamdani and Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba, and so on. There are none. If the author has good reasons for excluding such "discourse" from his own discussion it would be helpful to readers to understand that choice.
So what does one get? The Struggle for the Eastern Cape offers a detailed account of the fraught history of that region between 1800 and 1854, by means of a synthesis of published work. The author's own path breaking histories are peripheral to this discussion but he is thoroughly familiar with the relevant research, both early and recent, as outlined in chapter 1, titled "Historiography". Legassick draws on many secondary sources, amply acknowledged in the endnotes. He relies heavily on three for his concluding chapters: "This book is indebted to the narrative strength of [Noel] Mostert's account, the theoretical insights of [Tim] Keegan, and the more pointillist approach of [Clifton] Crais." Indeed, the wealth of sources for the time and place considered here is impressive. The cover blurb therefore surprises where it asserts that this volume "reconstructs our understanding of a period that has been given little attention in the historical narratives of South African democracy".
Christian missions are central to this narrative: "If this book dwells on the various forms of mission activities and ideas it is because missionaries were the main mediators of colonial politics and culture among the Khoisan and Xhosa." In that connection, Elizabeth Elbourne's argument that "religious ideas" can be used with effect by all parties - the oppressed, as well as the oppressor - is important. From the dispossession of the herding people, and the measures by which the new British masters of the Cape sought to control them, the story turns to the greater challenge posed them by the strong and numerous Xhosa on the colony's eastern frontier. Expulsions and treaties characterised the second decade of the century, until the scene was dramatically altered by the arrival in 1820 of thousands of British settlers.
At this point the story "hots up". Britain's interests were brought to the fore by means of far-reaching changes in the colony's legal system and traditions of governance. "Coloureds" received civil rights and, for some, land hunger was met by access to a large tract, the Kat River Settlement - on land from which Xhosa had been expelled. Philanthropists, who were in the main London Society missionaries plus a handful of the ruling elite, confronted a quandary: "In reality the contradiction was inside philanthropism, between forcible civilisation and upliftment. The 'more civilised' were set against the 'less civilised'". There followed "Maqoma's war" of 1834-36 which British regulars, reinforced by the coloured members of the Cape Mounted Rifles and by colonists, eventually won. The latter were soon afterwards embittered by the British colonial secretary's dispatch that ordered the surrender of certain conquered land. Legassick cites Mostert who refers to that dispatch as "the pivotal event of the nineteenth century". To this he adds: "... echoing through the words of Glenelg and, behind him, of Buxton and Philip [of the London Missionary Society], were the voice and the arguments of the absent Maqoma."
From that point, the influence of missionaries became more complex. Representatives of mission societies which were less attached to the humanitarian ideal gained the ear of government. The messages conveyed to prospective converts among the Xhosa gave rise inevitably to cynicism. Here the author presents a wealth of pithy quotes from an array of sources, many of them steeped in disillusionment. Colonists were unflagging in their zeal to assert control over the labour force. Repeatedly thwarted with respect to a vagrancy law, they secured (in 1842) a Masters and Servants Act. From the 1840s, settler pressure grew in favour of representative government. For a time the movement was blocked by the Colonial Office which suspected the intentions of the colony's "dominant caste". The ups and downs of this process are traced in detail and are of considerable interest. Of crucial importance was the setting of criteria for the franchise. Legassick alludes to various analyses (by Keegan, Crais, Ross) of the factors which persuaded policy-makers to support, en fin, a low franchise.
The conclusion begins: "Had things been left to the Boers and indigenous people to negotiate and fight it out for themselves, South Africa might have become a different place". I imagine it would! There was, within the timeframe of this book, a sort of a model taking shape across the Vaal River where the South African Republic was already in being. That polity had also, of course, experienced the influence of "British rule, and of the growing integration of South Africa into the world economy of 19th century capitalism", which "hardened the hierarchies of race, and strengthened the hegemony of white colonists". This formulation becomes, in fact, the central message of the book.
The chapter ends with a reflection on the mixed messages of the Christian mission. As Legassick acknowledged earlier in this text, many sources on which the historian must depend were mediated by the missionaries: thus, for example, "are our views of Khoi-Xhosa relations filtered through the eyes of missionaries with different standpoints on colonization". Here he comments on the phenomenon of Xhosa conversion: "Ironically, having been conquered, the Xhosa took up Christianity in a big way - though on their own syncretic, often semi-millenarian, 'Zionist' terms". The miracle is the resilience of Xhosa culture, despite the many shocks it sustained.
Curiously (to me, at least) the cover blurb refers to the "non-racial franchise in 1854" as representing "the roots of democracy in this country". Should not a contribution to "Democracy in Africa Series" take account of the indigenous forms of government which embraced (unless I am misinformed) certain democratic elements? My most heartfelt complaint concerns the fact that "democracy" is nowhere defined. Had it been, it should not have been possible to construe it, as is done here, in terms of race or social class without so much as a passing allusion to gender.
The book includes a number of relevant illustrations. Should it be reprinted, the map's caption should be altered to read "in the 19th century". A further correction: the date 1900 (p 109) should be changed, I think, to 1800. An index would be a welcome addition.


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Neighbors-helping-Neighbors USA, Inc. is a cost-free, grassroots, nationally recognized job search support and networking organization.
Meetings are peer-led by volunteers who deliver the program in job search education, support and networking opportunities. The group is targeted to adults who are actively looking for work and interested in reinvigorating their careers and undertaking a job search campaign.
Membership is open to anyone in career transition, including unemployed or underemployed individuals and recent college graduates, military veterans as well as people re- entering the job market, people preparing for a possible job change, struggling small business owners and anyone looking for part time or volunteer work.


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MapNationalist China, Hong Kong, and Macao. "For official use only." Includes inset of Hong Kong and Macao, glossary, and index to Taiwan's administrative divisions. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC...
- Contributor: United States. Central Intelligence Agency
- Date: 1958


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Re: Helmet Dent
Ok, I'm just going to reinforce what everyone else is saying here. I know it's an old topic but there are purists and I feel like I want to say something because this hasn't really been settled.
Enemy of the Empire is the most conclusive evidence there is. The entire Jango thing is weak as it is positioned differently. As Jaster said a while back he got the dent when Vader reflected the bolt back at him and hit him in the head. The helmet was consistently clear until that point in time where it appeared.
This all goes back to your view of EU but to me this explanation works. That is all.


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Henry Bacon American (1839-1913
Henry Bacon Born: 1839, Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States of America Died: 1912, Cairo, Egypt Gender: Male Biography: An expatriate artist best known for his scenes of life aboard transatlantic passenger ships, Henry Bacon enjoyed an international career as an illustrator, travel and art writer, and painter in oils and watercolors. Bacon was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, of an old New England family. Little is known of his initial artistic training, but by the time he enlisted in the U.S. Army during the American Civil War, at the age of eighteen, he was ready to serve both as a soldier and as a field artist for the popular magazine Leslie's Weekly. Badly wounded in the war, Bacon returned to Boston and began to paint while attending anatomy lectures given by figure painter William Rimmer (1816–1879) at the Lowell Institute. With his bride, he departed for Paris in 1864. Bacon was one of the first American artists to be admitted to the recently reformed Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under the influential French history painter Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889). He also became an art correspondent for American journals. Between 1866 and 1868, partly in an effort to economize, Bacon and his wife lived in the village of Ecouen, near Paris; there, he worked under figure painter Edouard Frère (1819–1886), following his example in producing the sentimental French peasant scenes so popular among European and American collectors of the day. Later, Bacon produced American scenes of everyday life in colonial-era America and coastal views of the French province of Normandy. The smoothly finished surfaces, rich colors, and carefully modeled figures of Bacon's paintings were consistent with popular, academic taste. Beginning in 1867, his works were displayed regularly in the Paris Salon, a prestigious annual exhibition. In the mid-1870s, Bacon made two visits to the United States that furnished material for his most notable works: scenes of passengers aboard the steamships that had revolutionized transatlantic travel, making France a popular American tourist destination. These images, some of them reproduced as illustrations for Bacon's travel articles in popular periodicals, established the artist's reputation in America. As Bacon's academic style went out of favor in the 1890s, he attempted to adjust his manner to the newer mode known as impressionism, with its bright, pure color applied in distinct brushstrokes. Following his second marriage, to a writer from a prominent Baltimore family, Bacon found the means to travel extensively in search of new material. Maintaining a studio in London, he worked in Italy, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and Greece, but he was particularly fascinated by Egypt. His first excursion there, in 1897, inspired the artist to take up the medium of watercolor, in which he worked for the rest of his career. Bacon returned several times to Egypt, where he died at the age of seventy-three.


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7-22-11 PNC Park
It seemed to be a really nice day today, until a pop up thunderstorm hit at 4:30.
I had been down on the riverwalk waiting for home runs to bounce out, since the Pirates had been hitting when it started pouring. By the time Amy and I got back up to the center field gate, we were soaked.
Amy had to work, so I told her goodbye, that I was going to leave and come back at the end of the game to pick her up.
Then I changed my mind. I was hoping on finding a few balls in the bleachers since the Pirates had been hitting. And, I made it to the bleachers at least sixty seconds before any other ballhawk, as there was a group of people between myself and the next closest ballhawk. It didn't matter. Any balls that were in the bleachers had been there were long gone, and of course there was no batting practice, despite it being really nice once the gates opened.
I watched closely as the Cardinals warmed up in right field.
I watched closely as the Cardinals warmed up in right field. I watched as Lance Lynn overthrew his thowing partner and the ball ended up in the seats. His partner let the ball go, and the ushers didn't seem to notice it, so I just kept my eye on that spot until 5:30 rolled around.
In the meantime, Herbie Andrade hooked up every single person that asked for a ball except for me. He hates me because I change shirts. Little did he know that everyone he gave a ball to does the same thing, so I was faced with ratting them out too, begging for a ball or moving on. I choose to just get the Lynn ball, so when the rest of the stadium opened I ran directly to where the ball should be, except it wasn't where I saw it hit, it was actually in the handicapped section. So I hopped the railing and grabbed it for ball #1 here:
Content with one ball, I spent the next hour and a half helping Amy.
As for the game, the Pirates lost, thanks to an abysmal first inning.
And it was packed.
Jam packed.
Around the seventh inning, I remembered that I had signed up for a catch on the field session tonight. I had totally forgotten about it and didn't have a partner, so I asked Nick Pelescak if he wanted to do it. He agreed – so after the game, we were allowed on the field for a good twenty minutes to throw.
The Pirates reps gave me a ball to use – it wasn't an MLB ball – it was a Rawlings ball with a Pirates logo on it. It felt like a training ball that the Washington Nationals use. I decided not to count it in my stats.
In the meantime, Amy punched out and returned to take a few videos of Nick and I throwing. So if you have a few minutes and want to watch them, here you go:
Video #1:
Me robbing home runs (That background music is God-awful):
Nick Pelescak robbing home runs:
Catch on the field #2:
Some long tossing from bullpen to near third base:
The last two minutes before we were told to leave:
Game: 1 ball (1 found)
Season: 296 balls (128 hit, 63 thrown, 70 device, 35 found)
Games: 55 games
Career: 1,418 balls
Attendance : 38,940 (sellout)


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Guide rings and guide strips
In hydraulic cylinders the most commonly used guides are guide rings and guide strips. They accommodate radial loads of forces acting on the cylinder assembly and guide the rod in the cylinder head as well as the piston in the cylinder bore (fig. 1).
Guides are made of polymer materials and prevent metal-to-metal contact between moving parts in a working hydraulic cylinder. Compared to metal guides, polymer guides provide the following advantages in hydraulic cylinders:
- significantly longer service life
- work more smoothly against the cylinder bore and the sealing surfaces
- avoid wear of cylinder surfaces despite the presence of contamination particles
- high resistance to insufficient lubrication at low speeds
- larger contact area (fig. 2, fig. 3 and fig. 4) due to higher degree of elastic deformation distributes the load and reduces stress to counter-surface
- certain self-lubricating properties
SKF supplies different precision machined guide rings with different polymer materials and sizes, which make them appropriate for a wide variety of operating conditions and applications.
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Are there any common expectations from perspective employers when they hire a Perl developer?
For a student who likes Perl and Linux and would like to get a job as Perl developer, what would you recommend to learn?
I am looking for things that are generic and applicable to most/all Perl positions, as opposed to specific details of a given company's requirements.
In other words, what are the things I should be able to to/know to become more attractive to ANY company looking for a Perl developer.


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"Daal" is an East Indian dish and refers to a variety of lentils, peas, and beans that are used to make soups and stews or served with bread.
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Cover peas with water and soak 30 minutes. Drain. Add 3 cups fresh water and peas to a large saucepan. Cook 50 minutes.
Purée half of mixture in blender; combine with remaining peas in saucepan. Add 1/4 to 1/2 cup more water if needed.
Add bouillon, cumin, salt, pepper, turmeric, and chili. Simmer an additional 5 minutes. Add cilantro and serve.
Chopped tomatoes may be added. Daal can be served with plain yogurt and flat bread (such as roti, chapatis or pita), if desired.
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If regular sodium bouillon cube used, sodium = 488mg per serving.


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Physicist: Straight.
In fact, in mathematics the "curvature" of a curve is usually defined as the "reciprocal of the radius of the osculating circle". This is fancy talk for: fit a circle into the curve as best you can, then measure the radius of that circle, and flip it over.
It makes sense; a smaller circle should have a higher curvature (it's turning faster) but it has a smaller radius, R. So, use 1/R, which is big when R is small, and small when R is big. There are some more technical reasons to use 1/R (like that you can apply it directly to calculating the centrifugal force on a point following that path, or that it gives rise to the entirely kick-ass Descartes' theorem), but really it's just one of the more reasonable definitions.
So, just working with the standard definition, you say: the curvature of a circle is 1/R, if I let the radius become infinite, the curvature must go to zero. Zero curvature means no bending of any kind. Must be a line.
Old school topologists get very excited about this stuff.
Say you have two lines on a plane. They'll always intersect at exactly one point, unless they're parallel in which case they'll never intersect at all. But the Greek Geometers, back in the day, didn't like that; they wanted a more universal theorem. So they included the "line at infinity" with their plane, and created the "projective plane". In so doing they created a new space where every pair of straight lines intersect at one point, no matter what.
To picture this, imagine the ground under your feet as the plane and the horizon as the line-at-infinity.
Parallel lines meet at two points on the horizon (in opposite directions). So the line at infinity is weirdly defined with opposite points on the horizon being the same point. Mathematicians would say "antipodal points are identified". In the projective plane two lines always meet at one point.
Notice that east-west parallel lines meet at the east-west point on the line at infinity, and north-south parallel lines meet at the north-south point at infinity. So you do need the entire horizon, not just a single "far away point". A single point would yield the Riemann sphere, which is also good times.
Back to the point. If you think about circles in this new-fangled projective plane, one of the first questions that comes to mind is "what happens if the circle includes a point on the line at infinity?".
No matter how big the circle is, or where its center is, the whole thing will always be in the plane (not all the way out to the line at infinity). If the circle does have a point on the horizon, then you'll find that the center also has to be at infinity (if it's in the plane, then it'll be closer to some points on the circle than others, but the center point is the same distance to every point on the circle). Specifically, the center will be on the line at infinity exactly 90° away from where the circle intersects the line.
This agrees surprisingly well with the intuition behind the more colorful circle picture above. Science and math truly are a beautiful tapestry of interconnections and nerding right the hell out.


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From Stick Figures To Portraits, Bush Frees His Inner Rembrandt
Here in Dallas this weekend, two dozen portraits of world leaders painted by former President George W. Bush will go on exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Since leaving office, the former president has spent time developing his artistic side, painting everything from his beloved dog Barney to self-portraits. But this is the first time he's put together an exhibit. Lauren Silverman of Dallas member station KERA got a sneak peek.
LAUREN SILVERMAN, BYLINE: Like many artists, President Bush started with stick figures - on his iPad, not a canvas. After that, he moved on to more complex portraits of his pets. Then he found a teacher in Dallas.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: I said I'm thinking about painting. She said, what's your objective? And I said, there's a Rembrandt trapped in this body.
JAY LENO: Right. Wow. Well, so...
BUSH: Your job is to find it.
SILVERMAN: That's Bush on "Jay Leno" last November when his newfound pastime went public after a hacker posted images of his paintings online, including a self-portrait in a bathtub. Immediate reaction was harsh. The online site Gawker called the paintings awkward and simple. But some respected art critics like Jerry Saltz with New York Magazine saw sincerity in his work.
JERRY SALTZ: All the glitches, the mistakes in his work, the kind of endearing amateurism makes the work have a certain resonance.
SILVERMAN: That resonance is on full display in Dallas at the Bush Center. The new exhibit is called "The Art of Leadership: A President's Personal Diplomacy." On "The Today Show" this morning, Bush was interviewed by his daughter Jenna. He admitted no one expected a gallery show with his signature 43 on the backs of dozens of paintings.
BUSH: I paint a lot because, as you know, I'm driven person, and I want to get better. A whole new world has opened up.
SILVERMAN: Crayon-colored oil portraits of 30 world leaders hang in simple black frames next to artifacts and gifts from their homelands. There are the faces of friends and rivals. One of Bush's favorites is his portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
BUSH: I met with him a lot during the presidency. I got to know him very well. I had a good relationship throughout. It became more tense as time went on.
SILVERMAN: Bush says he wanted to make Putin's cold, blue eyes resonate, and they do on a mauve background. Mat Gleason, a critic and curator in Los Angeles, says Bush's paintings of other leaders are revealing.
MAT GLEASON: It's one thing for George Bush to paint a self-portrait in the bathtub or a painting of a dog, but to actually paint other people, I don't believe that an artist can edit out what they really feel.
SILVERMAN: And Bush's affection for his good friend Tony Blair comes across in the portrait of a man smiling. There's also the Dalai Lama's sweet grin and gold and maroon robe. Bush discovered his inner artist through Winston Churchill, who spent hours at the easel and compared painting a picture to fighting a battle. In just two years, Bush has fought more than two dozen battles with oil paint in his mancave-turned-art-studio. And you get the feeling he painted with haste. Again, art critic Mat Gleason.
GLEASON: Ironically, you know, the art world today is very open to people who don't have a mastery of technique. And so maybe much like the political field, you don't have to be the most polished politician, and you can be a little raw around the edges and still get your message across.
SILVERMAN: The president's message may not be political, but it's certainly a glimpse into the world as seen through one American leader's eyes. The exhibit opens to the public Saturday at the George W. Bush Presidential Center. For NPR News, I'm Lauren Silverman in Dallas.
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Will have the rest of the day's play later.Top seed Hall bounced out of Wimbledon
London, 22 June II
WORLD number one Jason Hall has become the second top seeded player in as many years to fall in the round of 64 at Wimbledon after the tournament favourite was stunned 4-6, 6-1, 4-6, 1-6 by unheralded Norwegian Tom Vollan.
The three-time Grand Slam champion was an almost unbackable favourite after his dominant first round performance, but things looked awry early as Vollan broke in the first game. The world number 46 was always going to pose a different challenge for Hall, but it was clear that Hall had in some ways underestimated his opponent.
After dropping the first set, it looked like business as usual for the American star who stormed through the second set 6-1.
However, Norway's second best player had other ideas and refused to be bullied by the American. He fired down seven third set aces and broke serve twice to inch towards a most unlikely victory.
Despite going down a double break early in the fourth, Hall still kept his hopes alive as he snatched a break off the unflappable Vollan serve. Unfortunately for the top seed - and the tournament organisers - he was blown off the court by some sensational hitting from the Norwegian who converted his first match point with an almightly forehand down the line.
Hall's exit opens up the top section of the draw as Vollan now meets Spain's Ion Andueza. Andueza was taken deep into a fifth set before ousting 30th seed Dmitry Orlov of Russia 6-0, 3-6, 7-5, 5-7, 9-7.


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In California, there are still hundreds of concrete buildings that need reinforcement to bring them up to the new seismic code. As many as 50 of the more than 1,000 concrete buildings in Los Angeles would be in danger of collapsing during an earthquake, according to conservative estimates.
Some owners have done retrofits, but the cost of adding reinforcement is beyond the reach of many. The city is looking for ways to help mitigate the costs, while some City Council members are calling for verification that the problem is as widespread as reports indicate.


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By Peregrine Fairchylde
Staff Writer, Pennsic Independent
That didn't take long.
With the East Kingdom and allies outnumbered three, four, even six to one - depending upon whose estimates you accepted - the outcome of the Rapier Broken Field Battle was virtually preordained, and the Middle Kingdom's army and allies easily took the first two battles and the war point on Tuesday.
While the best two of three scenario was scheduled to take 20 minutes per battle, neither of the two scenarios lasted 10 minutes as the Midrealm's forces were able to quickly surround and then crush the Eastern army.
In the first battle, the East decided to attempt to defend only a small corner of the field, and managed to hold their lines initially as the Middle army faced them four deep along both fronts, more in places. A hold barely a minute into the fight only delayed matters shortly, and once the battle resumed the Eastern side began to suffer attrition at an alarming rate. Pressed by Northshield on their eastern line and Atlantia on their northern flank, the defenders were soon overwhelmed and the Middle took the battle.
The Eastern commanders tried to at least delay the inevitable in the second battle, sending small groups racing out to draw off or possibly flank the advancing Midrealmers. But again, there was little doubt of the end result.
"It was more fun, even if we didn't live longer," said a grinning Baron Fergus MacRae of the East, who led one of the small squadrons. "If you know you're going to die, go out fast, get killed fast, get out of your mask and get some water."
A third battle was fought with some units from the Midrealm crossing over to assist the East, but with similar results. However, the finale of that clash was a dramatic pair of duels between Don Robert McPharland of Ansteorra, fighting for the East Kingdom, and first King Malcolm of AEthelmearc then Duke Palymar.
With dozens of surviving Midrealm fighters surrounding them on the field, and dozens of deceased Easterners on the sidelines, Don Robert and King Malcolm faced off with single swords. After a series of quick lunges between the two combatants, Don Robert took His Majesty's sword arm. King Malcolm then fought left-handed and held off the white scarf for a time, but soon Don Robert had taken His Majesty's remaining arm, and King Malcolm conceded. Don Robert won a rousing round of applause from the onlookers for his skill.
Duke Palymar then stepped forward, also fighting single-sword, and the two faced off quickly amidst the eager armies. Their skills proved evenly matched that day as, mere moments into the duel, each struck a killing blow upon the other and they fell to the ground amidst loud cheers.
After the conclusion of the battle, King Malcolm addressed the Eastern forces on their sideline.
"Many are the days I have taken the field when a landslide was about to fall on me," he declared to the kneeling fighters. "I salute every man and woman who did so today. You brought courage, you brought honor, you brought guts. I thank you all!"
His praise was seconded by Her Majesty Noelle, Queen of the Midrealm, who saluted the Eastern army for their efforts.
Master Alexander d'Avigne of Ostgardr, who had directed the Eastern efforts, also had praise for his troops after the fighting was done.
"We stood against an army that dwarfed us," he told them. You did well, you fought well, but sometimes the bear eats you!"


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Exelon's Braidwood Generating Station has the honor of awarding three local high school graduates with scholarships for their impressive efforts during the 2008-09 school year.
BRACEVILLE, Ill. (May 20, 2009) - Exelon's Braidwood Generating Station has the honor of awarding three local high school graduates with scholarships for their impressive efforts during the 2008-09 school year.
Michael Lovino of Reed Custer High School, Reuben Quesada of Wilmington High School and Michelle Ruffatti of Gardner South Wilmington High School were chosen by their schools' faculty to receive the Braidwood Station scholarships.
"These students have excelled in the classroom and have pushed themselves to new heights of success," said Braidwood Station Site Vice President Bryan Hanson. "Exelon Nuclear and Braidwood Station are proud to give these awards that will help the students in their continued education."
Lovino finished with a 3.67 grade point average and will attend the University of Illinois in the fall, studying mechanical engineering. He was a member of the concert, jazz and pep bands and also ran on the cross country and track teams. Lovino was a member of the National Honors Society and also holds the rank of Eagle Scout.
Quesada will be attending DeVry University-Tinley Park as a network and communications major. He is a two-time winner of the Mathematics Award, the Technology Award and the Music Award. Quesada was captain of the boys' soccer team and also volunteered for the VFW, the Lions Clubs and the St. Rose pancake breakfast.
Ruffatti, Gardner South Wilmington's valedictorian, will be attending North Central College in Naperville. The Illinois State Scholar also won the Illinois Principal's Association of Outstanding Students award, was the Good Citizen Essay winner from the Daughters of the American Revolution, and was the school's Girls State participant - where she joined other peers in a program that teaches students about government. In addition to her studies Michelle was an all-conference athlete competing in track, basketball and volleyball.
Braidwood Station salutes these students and wishes them well in their future academic endeavors.


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15 June, 2010
U2 In SouthbendThis was the first post 911 show in the U.S. I had tickets for Chicago later in the week. Scored these tickets the night before the show on ticketmaster. Only seven rows off of the floor. The Joyce center is probally the smallest venue they played on this tour. 10,000 to 12,000 people max. It was cool to see them in this small setting. They went off the beaten path and opened the show with Beautiful Day with the house lights on. Keep in mind on this tour they normally opened with elevation. Overall I remember it being a pretty solid show. There was a little rust but hard to tell. They were much stronger a few night later at the United Center. We all know this band can't put on a bad show. I even had some pictures but I will have to see if I can find them.


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A Marine from Waseca, Minn., was killed in Afghanistan Friday, according to his sister, the Mankato Free Press reports.
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We oppose Islam, not Muslims. We are against hate, not faith
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Age of brother?
Yes, your life is at stake. Yes, you should be paranoid. Welcome to humanity.
Welcome to FFI coco.
I am not sure how old your brother is and how seriously he takes islam but i guess you need to lead him to analyse the Quran. Just sit with him and read Quran with him and ask questions. Create doubts in his mind and he will join you.
coco wrote:I became an apostate around a year ago, maybe more. I came out to my parents around late spring early summer last year. At first it was a big shock etc. but it wasn't because I was going against Islam that was the problem, but the fact that I had become different from them. My mum believes in life after death and she said she wants to be with me after we die, even if it's in hell. Thus by me leaving Islam she thinks we won't be together in the hereafter. Both my parents are these so called 'apologetics' the precise rules of Islam aren't a big deal to them. So this made me really lucky compared to other apostates.
However as of late my younger brother is learning more about Islam, and has recently been enlightened to that oh-so-amazing hadith that claims death upon apostates. He made some threatening remarks while telling me about it but I just took it as a joke.
But now I'm beginning to wonder if it is really just a joke? I could never in my life imagine my brother killing me!!! But then I shouldn't underestimate the power of this religion. I'm scared that my brother will slowly turn into a fanatic and one day reason with himself that I need to die.
I want to know what anyone's opinion is of this actually happening...or am I just being paranoid in my state as an apostate of Islam?
I don't know what to do. He won't listen to me at all,
coco wrote:I don't know what to do. He won't listen to me at all, it's like he has some barrier that comes up when I talk about the Qur'an, he doesn't agree with most of it, but he will never question it. I put a translated copy of the quran down hard on the table once and he grabbed my hand really hard and said some things. I said that he was acting crazy all because of a book! Then he said what would I do if he did that to one of the books in my room I like reading. I just started to laugh because I wouldn't care if someone put a book down on a table and it made a noise.
Ram wrote:Coco - For Your Information
Muslim kills his sister for family honour.
OTTAWA - A man who killed his sister and her fiance because they brought dishonour on his family was sentenced to life in prison yesterday with no chance of parole for 25 years. Hasibullah Sadiqi, 23, said nothing after a jury of seven men and five women found him guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the Sept. 19, 2006 gun slayings of his sister, Khatera Sadiqi, 20, and her fiance, Feroz Mangal, 23. The couple were shot to death while they sat in Khatera's car in the Elmvale Mall parking lot just before 1 a.m.
"Your crimes have shocked and bewildered the people of almost every community in the nation's capital," said Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford, who sentenced Sadiqi immediately following the verdict. "The forfeiture of your liberty for the rest of your life only seems just."
Members of Mangal's family, including three of his brothers, wept in the courtroom when the verdict was confirmed by Rutherford. Hameed Mangal told the court his family's lives have not been the same since the killings....
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On the evening of Sept. 18, 2006, the couple went for dinner and to a movie with a group of friends that included Hasibullah. Khatera and Mangal drove Hasibullah to where his car was parked near the mall at the end of the evening. Before they could drive away, Hasibullah walked to his car, pulled a loaded Smith & Wesson .44 Magnum handgun from underneath the seat, walked back to Khatera's car and shot the couple at close range. Khatera died at the scene; Mangal was taken to hospital but died 10 days later when he was removed from life support.
In a victim impact statement read to the court by assistant Crown attorney Mark Moors, Khatera's mother, Nasima Fayaz wrote about how there remain unanswered questions despite the conclusion of the trial.
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Oops that not a muslim
My bad!
what happened dear coco ., How old is your younger brother? how old are you and what does he weigh?? Take some karate classes., Slap him and beat the hell of that kid until he gets good grades in school and stops talking nonsense about religions. Did he finish high school?
But there is something you can do. Ask him questions.
coco wrote:But there is something you can do. Ask him questions.
I will try to do this, but when I do he say things like 'I don't talk to kafirs' etc. There's an iron curtain around him, I think mostly he fears what happens after, when he finally accepts that Islam is not what he thinks it is. Right now Islam is the only way, like how it was with me.
Wootah wrote:Coco, why did you become an apostate? Do you have a story to tell? Understanding your reasons might be the key to helping your brother.
Ram wrote:Turbopower, what are you trying to prove? What kind of Islamic logic are you using? Please educate us. In one case, a Muslim man kills his sister because in his eyes she had dishonoured the family by choosing a man to marry without his and his father's consent - he did not care that the man was a Muslim also. In the other case, it is purely an emotional disconnect and a dire financial situation.
A Muslim is very sane and exactly knew why he had to kill his sister and her fiance. He killed for Islam, he killed because he was a Muslim. The other guy killed because he was insane. A very big difference.
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They get what they pay for when they offshore. period.
MTSO's are now rushing to jump on the USA bandwagon. Hospital administrators have had to deal with lawsuits and redundant protection (QA'ing every overseas report), and they want the work back in the US.
Outsourcing overseas has made more work and ultimately cost more than having had on-site MTs.
The work will NEVER be sent, en masse, overseas.
What we're also trying to point out to you is that even without a full-out union organization if, one by one, we begin refusing the 0.057 VR jobs, we an make a difference in numbers. We're not suggesting ANYONE quit their job, no matter how low the pay rate, but begin emailing/mailing/calling members of congress, senators and service owners, urging return of our precious medical records to the US, and level our pay out to pre-offshore standards.
It is clear by the mistakes edited daily, that VR is not the answer across the board, and may not be for many years. EMR is not comprehensive for all facility scenarios. OUR SKILLS ARE STILL NECESSARY AND WE DESERVE A FAIR WAGE, AND THE RESPECT THAT OUR KNOWLEDGE COMMANDS. I know many people with bachelors' degrees who could not perform our jobs. We are skilled, dedicated (in most cases), and well worth what little we are seeking.
Your post was fraught with errors. You didn't even get the gender of the owner right.
I realize this is a message board, people write quickly and are bound to make typos. Many of your errors simply weren't typos, though.
If I were an MTSO reading your post, I don't think I'd invite you to work for me. Sorry.
Can a medical Transcriptionist travel overseas and still work for a U.S. transcription company, as long as he/she maintains a U.S. residence and pays U.S. taxes? Is there any legal reason why they could not do so? Are any of you transcriptionists presently doing this, and which companies do you work for?