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The boss, Asok, Dilbert and wally sit at a conference table. The boss says, "Introducing the new bonus plan." ASok raises his hand and says, "Yes!!! I'm already working at peak performance, so that bonus is as good as mine!" Phil appears behind asok and says, "Asok, Mr. Reality wanted to visit you, but his car won't start. I'm Phil."
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Dilbert comes home from work still wearing his robe.. Dilbert says, to dogbert, "You said you'd give me a million bucks if I went to work like this. Pay up." Dogbert says, "I'll bet you double or nothing that you won't go to work totally naked." Dilbert sits naked in his cubicle and thinks, "Wait... what were his exact words?"
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Tags incomprehensible accent, won't ask questions, coffee pot
Wally, pouring a cup of coffee, says to Dilbert, "I'm thinking of adopting an incomprehensible accent so people won't ask me questions." Dilbert asks Wally as he returns the empty coffee pot to the warmer, "Um... Are you leaving that coffee pot empty right in front of me?" Wally says to Dilbert, "Meeyerna derna furna algonkin buhjoorna."
Tags exactly man, sell ten million, idea won't work, idea makes better
THE "EXACTLY" MAN: Randy, looking at a piece of paper, says to Dilbert, "Your idea won't work. No one would buy this kind of product." Dilbert says, "We already sell ten million of these per year. My idea just makes them better." Randy exclaims, "Exactly!!" and Dilbert thinks, "?"
Tags down to 40 cups, won't survive, lucky, coffe rehab
Catbert says to Wally, "Wally, I'm sending you to a coffee rehab program." Wally exclaims, "Gaaa!!!" Catbert says, "They'll get you down to forty cups a day." Wally exclaims, "Not double digits!!!" Wally is escorted out. He yells, "You monster!!! I won't survive!!!" Catbert says, "If you're lucky."
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Topper vs. the Boss "It was the biggest fish ever caught in that lake!" "That's nothing." "I once caught a dinosaur by using nothing but dental floss and a pull tab from a beer can." "I'd like to see this alleged dinosaur." "Too late. I also make the world's best barbecue sauce."
Tags project plan, stupidity, leaping off page, simple, won't work
Dilbert and Wally refuse to support my project plan. Will you take a look at it? "GAAA!!! The stupidity is leaping off the page and burrowing into my brain!!!" "Does anyone around here known how to say a simple 'This won't work'?" gurgle
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Your engineers think my project plan won't work. "I'll assign Wally to your project. He's a perfect fit." "Because he's a problem solver?" "Because he won't work either."
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Man says, "Your order will only cost about $20,000." Dilbert says, "No it won't." Dilbert says, "We both know you're intentionally underestimating the true cost to get the sale, you lying sack of spit." Man says, "You're not supposed to say that out loud." Dilbert says, "Is it okay if I imagine a bear attacking you?"

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IDEA KRAFT team will be at our Chamber office on Tuesday, May 8th from 10am to 4pm to meet with businesses that would like to be featured in the new Otsego County Community Guide. They will discuss the process and photoshoot preparation and will answer all of your questions. They will also bring a sample of what the book will look like. You don't want to miss it.
If you can't make it in person, please send us an email to schedule a call.
The Otsego Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that it will be publishing a brand new, completely redesigned Community Guide about our region with the help from our member and creative agency, IDEA KRAFT. This full-color publication is a great opportunity to feature your business.
The Community Guide will highlight a diverse mix of local businesses, products and attractions through more than 50 full-page spreads. A combination of engaging visuals and informative text will encourage visitors to explore all the great experiences Otsego County has to offer. The back of the book will include a directory of businesses with maps displaying their locations. Initial distribution of 2,500 publications will be local in addition to areas outside the region.
Our Community Guide will reach a wide range of visitors to your area, making it easy for them to connect with different businesses. Each business will be visually highlighted on a page dedicated solely to them and will receive three to five professional photos that they can also use for their own marketing purposes. Additionally, businesses have the option to register for only the directory and map rather than the full page feature.
We're excited about the vast growth happening in our community and strongly believe that we can make Otsego County a tourism destination by showcasing its great businesses, products and attractions.
You are invited to reserve your featured space by Friday, May 18th, 2018.
For additional information, refer to the enclosed flyer or contact IDEA KRAFT's Project Manager Jocelyn Bailey at [email protected] or 607-235-5855 or call the Otsego County Chamber Barbara Ann Heegan at (607) 267-4010. Thank you!


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Is Dallas ready for a spike in COVID-19? 'We've got the manpower now'
Hospitals are reallocating resources, enlisting medical students and retirees, and hiring temp nurses. Physician volunteers are ready to pitch in, too.
By Kevin Krause and Mitchell Schnurman
6:00 AM on Apr 1, 2020 CDT
In New York and California, where coronavirus cases are spiking, officials are pleading for more help — not just masks, beds and ventilators but more doctors, nurses and technicians.
"Help New York. We are the ones who are hit right now," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
"If you have a background in health care, we need your help," said California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who's launched a new California Health Corps.
In Dallas-Fort Worth, leaders appear confident they have the health care workers to respond to the crisis. They said they're reallocating resources, enlisting help from medical students and building up their supply of temporary help in preparation for a potential surge in patients.
Some local doctors are marshaling "physician volunteers" to take on routine medical work and free up more hospital providers for COVID patients.
"We've got the manpower now to do it," said Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, who's helping coordinate the local response.
How ready are Dallas-Fort Worth hospitals for the coming surge?
By Mitchell Schnurman, Sue Ambrose and Holly K. Hacker
A list of retired doctors and nurses willing to help is growing, he said, and the U.S. Navy will staff a field hospital at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas. But Jenkins acknowledged that conditions could change rapidly.
"The problem is, you begin to lose the first few waves of health care workers when they become sick and have to be isolated," he said. "As people get sick and get quarantined, then that really makes it challenging for us."
In March, requests for temporary nurses in D-FW tripled from the February total, according to Dallas-based AMN Healthcare, the nation's top medical staffing company. That surge in demand is one indicator of expectations among local hospitals, and the metric shows other metros facing more dire straits.
In New York City, currently the epicenter of the pandemic, requests for nurses soared 10-fold in March, AMN said. Requests for temp nurses in Houston were up 500%. In highest demand are nursing specialists in acute care, including intensive care units, emergency rooms and surgery.
In the past three weeks, over 20,000 nurses and medical professionals at AMN have raised their hands to help with COVID cases in hospitals and other settings, said Cole Edmondson, AMN's chief clinical officer.
"Nurses are volunteering to come out of retirement to help, nursing students are contributing and nurses now in practice are taking on roles to help where they are needed," Edmondson wrote in an email.
He said local health systems, public health officials, government agencies and the private sector were working together to prepare for a coming surge. And they're studying what's been done in other countries and U.S. cities.
"Surge staffing plans are being activated," he wrote, and they include tapping health care students, health care travel professionals, new graduate nurses, retirees and internal resource pools.
"These are the steps we should be taking and that we are taking," wrote Edmondson, who helped coordinate care for America's first Ebola patient in 2014.
At Medical City Healthcare, the surge planning includes redeploying some workers, such as those in elective surgery, to temporary assignments that could be activated if needed.
Medical City also closed four off-campus emergency rooms and nine urgent centers, "enabling us to move key clinical staff, physicians and any necessary resources to our main campus locations," spokeswoman Janet St. James wrote in an email.
Parkland has beefed up hiring, and it's directing some nurses to answer employee calls about community exposure while others are doing fever checks at hospital entrances. At this time, Parkland is not recruiting retired medical workers or asking residents to change roles, spokeswoman April Foran said. But it has advised surgeons and others to "expect requests" to assist in patient care that's within the scope of their training.
What you need to know about coronavirus
By Wire Services and Tom Steele
At UT Southwestern Medical Center, more faculty and resident physicians can focus on the COVID response because elective surgeries and nonessential imaging have been suspended. Faculty members have also volunteered to support the response, spokesman Russell Rian said.
Medical students are not assigned to COVID care, but they can volunteer to screen patients and staff, assist with phone calls and deliver meals. Third- and fourth-year med students can help in the emergency department by talking with patients' families and getting supplies, Rian said.
In general, hospitals are accustomed to flexing their staffing models because patient volume tends to fluctuate, even in normal times. The companies bring in part-timers, add supplemental workers and hire staffing agencies, said Stephen Love, CEO of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council.
Administrative nurses can also work bedside, he said, and nursing students can pitch in where appropriate.
"Having available beds is one thing, but we need to have those beds staffed with our dedicated workforce," Love wrote in an email.
Like many states, Texas has long had a shortage of nurses and other technical specialists, and that's likely to continue during the coronavirus outbreak — even if nursing students and retired nurses step forward.
During a crisis, planners tend to double count the number of nurses, said Erin Carlson, an associate professor at UT Arlington's College of Nursing and Health Innovation. Nurses often work three 12-hour shifts, which allows them to take other jobs during the week. But during an emergency, that nurse can fill only one position.
In addition, up to 30% of health care workers may be sick or quarantined during a big outbreak, she said.
"We're going to have more and more people exposed and can't come to work," Carlson said.
While COVID cases are climbing sharply in New York, the pace of the outbreak has been slower in Texas. That's put the state in "a bit of a holding pattern," said Kanaka Sathasivan, a spokeswoman for the Texas Nurses Association.
Hospitals don't want to make preemptive hires, she said, but many nurses from elective surgery centers and other facilities are currently looking for work.
Hospitals have been keeping beds empty for the potential wave of COVID patients, which has led to nurses being asked to take off some shifts, said Cindy Zolnierek, CEO of the nurses association
She expects Texas hospitals will soon start cross-training those nurses in COVID care. Right now, nurses and medical workers are anxiously awaiting the storm: "Everybody is kind of bracing for it," Zolnierek said.
If there's a surge of COVID cases in North Texas, many people will be eager to step up, including physicians, said Dr. Robert Rogers, an allergist in Fort Worth.
On Monday night, he and others in the Tarrant County Medical Society started developing a plan to enlist physician volunteers to improve the local response. Many doctors have some free time because primary care visits are down and elective procedures have been postponed.
Retired doctors want to help, too. "But we want to keep 'em safe," Rogers said.
They plan to assign some retired and active physicians to telemedicine, which could prevent unnecessary trips to the ER. Others would man tents outside the ER, helping diagnose and direct patients.
"All of this is to reduce the load on emergency rooms," Rogers said.
The group is working with Texas Health Resources to develop a process to maximize their efforts. They're planning to coordinate with other health systems, too.
"We're hoping we don't have a surge, but we need to have an infrastructure to use these doctors efficiently and effectively," Rogers said.
COVID-19 pandemic highlights shortage of nurses and respiratory therapists looming over Texas
By Ariana Giorgi
Texas small business gets a lifeline: Up to $10 million with no collateral and loan forgiveness
By Mitchell Schnurman
Lawsuit in Dallas federal court accuses Chinese government of creating coronavirus as 'biological weapon'
By Kevin Krause
Kevin Krause. Kevin has worked for The Dallas Morning News since 2003, and he has covered federal criminal courts for the past six years. Kevin has been a journalist for 26 years. Kevin is a multiple recipient of the Stephen Philbin Award for excellence in legal reporting. Kevin earned a BA from Boston University.
kkrause@dallasnews.com @KevinRKrause
Mitchell Schnurman, Business columnist. He covers a wide range of topics.
mschnurman@dallasnews.com @mitchschnurman


Margaret E. Roethel, 90, of Oak Lawn, past president of the Wrigley Credit Union, died Sunday in the Brentwood Home for the Aged, Oak Lawn. She worked for the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. for 45 years. There were no immediate survivors. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Blake Lamb Funeral Home, 4727 W. 103rd St., Oak Lawn.


Gran Canaria Surf Camp | Surf holiday | Surf holiday | The Big Surfing 101 – Part 2 – The Shaper.
This Episode of the "Big Surfing 101" will introduce you to the Shaper and his Product. More precisely you will learn a lot about your surfboard: Where it is made, which material is used and what elements are essential to have a good ride on the waves.
Gran Canaria Surf Camp welcomes you to the Second edition of our "Big Surfin g 101", the SURFLINGO dictionary explaining the unique jargon of the surfers. Through the upcoming editions, Surf Camp Las Palmas will teach you all the important things you have to know about the exciting sport of surfing to get ready for your surf holiday with us. Before you go out to surf the Atlantic Ocean, it´s wise to take some time to get a bit of theoretical information about surfing. Setting of this edition: The sharper and his product.
The surfboard is THE essential piece of the surfing equipment. In order to get a fundamental understanding of the board we´re riding in the Atlantic Ocean, we shouldstart with looking at the very beginning of a surfboard.
The hopefully long life of a surfboard begins with the sharper. He´s the magic person who t ransforms a blank into a surfboard. As much art as it is craftsmanship and carpentry, shaping good surfboard requires a set of specific tools, techniques, and knowledge that usually take years to learn and decades to perfect. Let´s take a closer look at the specific ocean mathematics: The surfboard construction and its material.
First, there is the foam blank. It is the original block of foam used to shape a surfboard. The foam is a lightweight, cellular plastic material containing gas-filled voids. Almost 90% of surfboards you will spot in your surf holiday are polyurethane or polystyrene-based. Polyurethane (PU Blanks) are common for premium non-industrial produced boards. Since the 1960s, this type of blank is regarded as the standard material. However, they are not consider the best choice because of the environmental damage during its manufacturing and the fact that it absorbs Atlantic Ocean water once the laminate is damaged. Polystyrene (EPS Blanks) is frequently used for industrial manufactured boards. It is a cheap and not very stable material that also absorb water.
To have a well-functioning board once you are in the Gran Canaria Surf Camp , theblank is applied by a layer of fiberglass, Kevlar, carbon fiber or natural materials. This is a cloth woven from glass strands gathered into yarns, available in various weights, patterns and finishes. The less glassing used the lighter your board will be, but this will make it more prone to dings, delamination and breakage.
In order to have a flexible and stable board once you´re surfing the Atlantic Ocean the shaper adds the Stringer. This wood structure typically runs down the center of a foam blank, provides strength, and flex memory to the surfboard. The so-called Channels on the bottom side add drive, agility and direction to turns…so all you need to have fun in your surf holiday.
When shaping, the shaper often takes into account the specifications of the client surfer, and molds his medium to best accommodate the user's personal surfing style and wave of choice Less common and with smaller acceptably among Surfpros, you also can buy a standard store board for example from the American surfboard manufacturing company Surftech. It is specializes in mass-produced and currently is the largest surfboard manufacturer in the world.


How did you format your copyright page? Did you use a template?
I think you could use almost any copyright page from a mainstream book and edit ti to make it your own. You are welcome to use mine if you want. I have different ones for nonfiction and fiction. If you want a copy, let me know.


Please note: this 1957-1958 Plymouh Savoy Front Floor Pan Access Panel, Left Side Only is styled for a Plymouth Savoy . Order your 1957-1958 Plymouh Savoy Front Floor Pan Access Panel, Left Side Only from Classic 2 Current Fabrication.
This replacement Front Floor Pan Access Panel is made specifically to repair the original on a Plymouth Savoy for years 1957, and 1958.


Roots & Raíces is a collective based in Baltimore City that collaborates with the non-profits Rising Over Standards and Excelling (ROSE) and CASA de Maryland to produce various events and programs throughout the year.
Roots & Raíces provides a platform for artists, musicians, and activists to highlight, support, and celebrate immigrants through the arts and civic engagement.
Our vision is to change the narrative of how immigrants are perceived in the United States in order to generate equitable social change for all immigrants.


What color is this ESC wire please, red or black?
Pitzon is right. you can also use the motor connections as a guide. With the MR02 they did it right and the one side it both black and the other is both red.
ok thx for the info guys.


For Whole Kids Foundation, we created a message platform, annual report, supplier kits, online banners, Kids Club logos, materials and more. In 2015, we were selected to create their annual campaign, which is rolled out to every Whole Foods Market. The focus: Growing Healthy Kids. We designed and developed over 110 creative projects that launched in September 2015. The campaign raised $3.7 million and served more than 500,000 kids to help them get rooted in healthy eating.
Watch kids talk about the power of school gardens, salad bars and healthy options.


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by Garber, Marjorie
What is "character"?
Since at least Aristotle's time, philosophers, theologians, moralists, artists, and scientists have pondered the enigma of human character. In its oldest usage, "character" derives from a word for engraving or stamping, yet over time, it has come to mean a moral idea, a type, a literary persona, and a physical or physiological manifestation observable in works of art and scientific experiments. It is an essential term in drama and the focus of self-help books.
In Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession, Marjorie Garber points out that character seems more relevant than ever today, omnipresent in discussions of politics, ethics, gender, morality, and the psyche. References to character flaws, character issues, and character assassination and allegations of "bad" and "good" character are inescapable in the media and in contemporary political debates. What connection does "character" in this moral or ethical sense have with the concept of a character in a novel or a play? Do our notions about fictional characters catalyze our ideas about moral character? Can character be "formed" or taught in schools, in scouting, in the home? From Plutarch to John Stuart Mill, from Shakespeare to Darwin, from Theophrastus to Freud, from nineteenth-century phrenology to twenty-first-century brain scans, the search for the sources and components of human character still preoccupies us.
Today, with the meaning and the value of this term in question, no issue is more important, and no topic more vital, surprising, and fascinating. With her distinctive verve, humor, and vast erudition, Marjorie Garber explores the stakes of these conflations, confusions, and heritages, from ancient Greece to the present day.
Publisher: Picador


I've spoken in this space before regarding marriage and what it has become. I believe that a big part of the problem with marriage in these times is the fact that we have allowed it to become all about love and something that I only have while "in love". Recently we've seen yet another example of this mentality, played for us in larger than life celebrities. After 4 months, Kenny Chesney and Renee Zellwinger (don't know if she ever changed her name) are getting an anullment for "fraud". Don't know what it's all about other than yet another couple bailing out.
There's a lot of scary commentary here to think through. Heterosexuals have turned marriage into a voluntary love relationship. This is evidenced by the divorce rate and and the number of couples that don't feel they need to get married any more. It's evidenced by the number of people that are more concerned with their careers, putting off having children until later or never, or people that are trying to have children way beyond child bearing years.
When marriage was a mandatory economic and political institution (husband brought home the money and voted), there was more reason to stay together. I especially like the comment about the husband and wife having completely different (but I would add complimentary) roles in the family. Now we have both being wage earners, and both being caretakers. Dependance on one another is good thing.
It is rather sad how people perceive marriage. Marriage is work, period.
I like the fact my husband is the head of our household and we are still partners. We make decisions together and so forth.
Marriage is a lifetime committment not some passing fling.


Home / Blog / What is Joint Replacement Surgery?
By Brooke Marshall | Crisp Living.
Our joints are meant to protect our bones from rubbing together when they move. Sometimes joint cartilage becomes worn down or damaged due to injury or disease. When this happens, the bones can't move smoothly, which often results in pain, swelling, and immobility.
If joint problems like this are left untreated, they can become debilitating. Often, they only get worse over time. One treatment option is joint replacement surgery. In this kind of operation, damaged bones in the joint are removed and replaced with other material such as metal or plastic.
After a joint replacement surgery, you may need to work with a physical therapist as you learn how to regain mobility in your joint without disrupting the recovery process. Recovery time depends on which joint is replaced and how invasive a surgeon must be in order to replace the joint. Larger joint replacement surgery will require that you take more time off work and that you slowly enter back into normal life.
Once you have recovered, you will likely notice a significant improvement in mobility and function of your joints. You will probably also experience less swelling and pain in the affected area, allowing you to use your joints in normal life activities as you did before your injury or joint disease.
If you experience joint pain or problems, be sure to talk to your doctor thoroughly about if joint replacement surgery is a good option for you. Many people experience pain relief and improvement of mobility through joint replacement surgery, but everyone's bodies and needs are different, so it is important to know what will work best for you.


Sun today pulled the trigger on Microsoft, slapping down a lawsuit that accuses the Redmond, Washington company of breaking agreements relating to its Java licensing contract. The firm will seek unspecified damages as well as an injunction to make Microsoft stop issuing misleading statements, and will revoke Microsoft's right to use the 'Java-compatible' logo.
Specifically, Sun is objecting to Microsoft's alleged refusal in Internet Explorer 4.0 to abide by the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1 reference. This relates to an alleged alteration of the Java Native Interface (JNI) virtual machine interface that lets developers access native code on the operating system, and the Remote Method Invocation (RMI) interface that lets Java programs communicate between different computer platforms. Sun hasn't yet said it will revoke Microsoft's Java licence but said it will withhold ongoing Java development code and documentation from Microsoft until a resolution has been found.
"For the past six months, Microsoft has publicly refused to stick by the terms of its contract," said Alan Baratz, president of Sun's JavaSoft division. "Last week, Microsoft went beyond the spirit of the law and into the letter of the law when it shipped Internet Explorer 4.0. We have worked very diligently and have offered numerous solutions. Rather than comply, Microsoft has embarked on another direction [to] break cross-platform technologies. Some might think [the resulting code is] still Java, but it only works on Windows."
Baratz said Microsoft's recent behaviour "had been egregious enough ... but what we found [in compatibility testing] was much, much worse" and amounted to tricking developers into creating Windows-only programs instead of embracing the "write once, run anywhere" openness of true Java.
He described Microsoft's behaviour as "a major disservice to the other 116 Java licensees [and] developers who expect Java programs to run anywhere".


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Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the West: Containing Accurate ...
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project. The latter charge rests almost entirely upon the evidence of General Eaton, a gentleman whose chivalrous disposition led him through many singular adventures, and whose history, as recorded by himself, presents a more favorable picture of his heart and genius than of his judgment. He was a man of warm temperament, who adopted hasty and vivid impressions from the impulse of the moment. From his testimony, I should be inclined to believe, that Colonel Burr had cherished some vague ideas respecting a disjunction of the Union; but it does not appear that those speculations were ever matured into any settled plan, of confided to his adherents. I am led to this conclusion, by the characters of Colonel Burr and the gentlemen who were implicated with him in his disastrous expedition. Burr was a man of extended views, a close observer of men and manners; and it is not to be presumed, that he would have lightly embraced a scheme so fraught with treason, madness and folly. He knew the American people well. He had studied them with the eye of a statesman, and with the intense interest of an ambitious political aspirant. His rank in society, his political station, and his extensive practice at the bar, threw open a wide and varied scene to his observation, and exhibited his countrymen to him in a variety of lights and shades.
Nor was Burr the man upon whom such opportunities would be lost. To him, the avenues of the huhuman heart were all familiar, and he could penetrate with ease into its secret recesses. To study man was his delight - to study his countrymen his business. Could he then have been a stranger to their intelligence, their sense of honor, their habits of calculation, and their love for their republican institutions? Could he expect to transform at once, the habits, feelings, tastes, and morals of a people conspicuous for their courage and political integrity?--for such are the people of the western states. It has been supposed, and with some plausibility, that his hopes were founded on the dissatisfaction evinced by the western people, at the time of the discussion of our right to navigate the Mississippi. It is true, that the rude and unprovoked violation of our privileges on that river by Spain, excited an universal burst of indignation throughout the Union. It is also true, that this feeling was most warmly displayed in the west. In the Atlantic states, the insult was felt as implicating our national honor; in the west, it was a matter of vital importance to all, and of personal interest to every individual, and as such it came home to men's business and bosoms. The Mississippi was the natural outlet, and New Orleans the mart for the produce of the west; and when that market, to which they believed they had an indefeasible right of access, was barred to them, it was but the natural and common impulse of the human mind, which induced a people, at all times proud, impetuous, and tenacious, to call for vengeance and redress, with a sternness and impatience commensurate with their injuries. The conciliatory spirit and tardy policy of Mr. Jefferson, neither satisfied their feelings, nor suited their exigencies; and they were willing to impute to tameness in the executive, or to a disregard
for their interests, that which might have been the result of national weakness or mistaken policy. Believing themselves to be abandoned by the general government, they felt it a duty to protect their own invaded rights; and if the government had not interposed with effect, they would doubtless have drawn the sword-against whom? the government? No, but against the common enemy.
In this there was no treason nor disaffection-no estrangement from their sister states, no breach of faith with the government, nor violation of the compact. It was saying only to their federal head—"defend us, or we will defend ourselves."
If Colonel Burr expected to fan these feelings into rebellion, he had either more boldness or less wisdom, than has commonly been placed to his credit; and had he openly avowed this project, he would have called down upon his head the imprecations of a people, who, if they had spared his life, would not have forgiven so foul an insult to their virtue and understanding. But let us ask who were the adherents of Colonel Burr? Who were they who were to share his fortunes, to reap with him the proud laurels of successful valor, or the infamy of foul rebellion? Were they persons of obscure name and desperate fortune, or were they men of good blood and fair fame? These questions are embarrassed with some uncertainty, because most of the gentlemen who have been accused of adhering to Colonel Burr, have denied the fact; and I wish not to assume any thing as a fact, on this delicate subject, which is, or has been controverted. But it is not denied that many "prosperous gentlemen" were engaged in this enterprise; and many others suspected, with a belief so strong as to amount almost to certainty; and among these were men whom the people have since exalted to the most important trusts, and confided in with the most implicit reliance. Among them were men of high standing, who had reputations to be tarnished, fortunes to be lost, and families to be embarrassed; and many high-souled youths, whose proud aspirings after fame could never have been gratified amid the horrors of a civil war and the guilty scenes of rebellion.
It is argued against these gentlemen, that they have uniformly denied their connexion with Burr, which it is supposed they would not have done had they known his designs to be innocent. But this I do not conceive to be a fair argument. The united voice of the whole nation had declared Burr to be a traitor, and his adherents shared the obloquy which was heaped upon their misguided leader. Even admitting their innocence, or their own belief of it, still it would have been a hopeless task for this handful of men to oppose their feeble asseverations to the " voice potential " of a whole people. Many of them, also, were candidates for office, and they found the avenues to preferment closed by the anathemas pronounced by the people against all who were concerned in what they believed to have been rank conspiracy. They might, therefore, have bent to the current which they could not stem.
Blannerhasset was an Irish gentleman of easy fortune -a man devoted to science, who retired from
the world, in the hope of finding happiness in the union of literary and rural occupation. He selected this island as his retreat, and spared no expense in beautifying and improving it. He is described as having been retired in his habits, amiable in his propensities, greatly addicted to chemical studies, and a passionate lover of music. In this romantic spot, and in these innocent pursuits he lived; and, to crown the enchantment of the scene, a wife, who is said to have been lovely even beyond her sex, and graced with every accomplishment that could render it irresistible, had blessed him with her love, and made him the father of her children. But Blannerhasset, in an evil hour, became acquainted with Burr-he imbibed the poison of his ambition, became involved in his intrigues, and shared his ruin—a ruin as complete, desolate, and hopeless, as his former state had been serene and bright.
Whatever were Burr's intentions, it is certain that they embraced schemes so alluring, or so magnificent, as to win the credulous Blannerhasset from the abstraction of study and the blandishments of love. This island became the centre of operations. Here arms were deposited and men collected; and here, assembled round their watch-fires, young gentlemen, who "had seen better days," and " sat at good men's feasts," endured all the rigors of the climate and the privations of a campaign, rewarding themselves in anticipation, with the honors of war and the wealth of Mexico. Burr and Blannerhasset were the master spirits who planned their labors; Mrs. Blannerhasset was the light and life of all


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Q: Why is my foreach input not set? Hey, I'm a novice at PHP, so have mercy on me!
I'm trying to echo $qty, but it's saying that the variable is an undefined variable.
If you see anything I'm doing wrong, feel free to tell me!
Thanks in advance!
action.php:
            foreach ($rows as $row){
              $food = $row['food'];
              $price = $row['price'];
              if(isset($_POST['qty'])){
                $qty = $_POST['qty'];
                echo 'set';
              }else{
                  echo 'unset';

              }
              echo "

            $food
            $qty
            $price

";
        }

order.php:
            foreach ($rows as $row) {
            $food = $row["food"];
            $price = $row["price"];
            $picture = $row["picture"];
            $description = $row["description"];
            $id = $row['id'];
            echo "

                    $food
                    $$price
                    <input type='number' min='0' max='10' placeholder='#' name='qty' maxlength='1'>

";
        }

A: It seems almost certain then that if(isset($_POST['qty'])){ didn't pass, so the variable wasn't given a value. Make sure you are passing POST data to this script
If I am correct, you should see the word "unset" in the output.
You could set $qty in advance so that no matter what, it will have a value, or give it a different value if your if statement is false:
//set a default value earlier
$qty = 'This is the default value!';

//or in the if statement
if(isset($_POST['qty'])){
  $qty = $_POST['qty'];
  echo 'set';
} else {
  $qty = 'qty wasn't given a value!';
  echo 'unset';
}

A: You're trying to use $qty when it isn't set. This occurs when $_POST['qty'] is empty. What you need to do is set a default value for it in those cases:
if(isset($_POST['qty'])){
    $qty = $_POST['qty'];
}else{
    $qty = 0;
}

Or use the ternary operator to make this a one-liner:
$qty = (isset($_POST['qty'])) ? $_POST['qty'] : 0;

A: It's not defined because you're not POSTing(form submission) a field named qty

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Berge en Dale a dress rehearsal for SA champs
By Press Office, January 10, 2017
Many of the country's leading cyclists will be heading to the 102km Bestmed Berge en Dale national classic on the West Rand in what could be a dress rehearsal for the national road championships.
The 15th edition of the road race, which also sports a 55km component, will see around 5 000 riders assemble at the Cradlestone Mall in Muldersdrift on February 4.
The Bestmed Berge en Dale national cycling classic will be a dress rehearsal for the following week's national road championships. Photo: Supplied
ASG Events route director Darren Herbst said the event, which is presented by Optimum Financial Services, was strategically positioned the week before the national champs.
"Being placed one week ahead of the nationals gives it extra importance in terms of helping riders to peak at the right time. It also gives us an idea of who is going well," he said.
Last year's Berge en Dale saw a podium lock-out by RoadCover when Gustav Basson won ahead of Clint Hendricks and Bradley Potgieter. Hendricks went on to place third in the elite men's road race at the nationals.
With Berge en Dale a premier seeding event for the Cape Town Cycle Tour, Herbst said it had always attracted a big field and they were again looking forward to hosting the participants.
The top riders will be heading to the nationals in Wellington (February 7 to 12) straight afterwards and then to the Cycling South Africa-sanctioned Bestmed Tour of Good Hope (March 6 to 10) in the Cape Winelands, where they will come up against an international field.
Herbst said the route of Berge en Dale's feature event would remain unchanged as they did not want to "mess with a winning recipe".
According to him, the venue would again offer various fun activities leading up to the race.
"We will have an expo, while Cradlestone Mall always make it a memorable experience for everyone."
Herbst said the event had been extended to a second day this year to include a mountain biking component on the day after the road races.
"We have had a lot of requests over the years and feel this will broaden the appeal of the weekend," he said.
"We're fortunate to be in an area where there are beautiful mountain bike trails and we have joined hands with Hero Adventure Hobby Park in Krugersdorp to make this happen.
"With areas such as the Walter Sisulu Botanical Gardens to work with, there are amazing trails with many features, so it was a no-brainer."
Herbst said there would be 40km and 15km options.
He described the longer route as "intermediate with some undulations and a bit of a kick to it", with the short option aimed at families and social riders.
Entries close on January 26. For more info, visit www.asgevents.co.za.
Bestmed Berge en Dale
Berge en Dale


Zinc (Zn) is abundantly enriched in sub-retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) deposits, the hallmarks of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), and is thought to play a role in the formation of these deposits. However, it is not known whether Zn is the only metal relevant for sub-RPE deposit formation. Because of their involvement in the pathogenesis of AMD, we determined the concentration and distribution of calcium (Ca), iron (Fe) and copper (Cu) and compared these with Zn in isolated and sectioned macular (MSD), equatorial (PHD) and far peripheral (FPD) sub-RPE deposits from an 86 year old donor eye with post mortem diagnosis of early AMD. The sections were mounted on Zn free microscopy slides and analyzed by microprobe synchrotron X-ray fluorescence (μSXRF). Metal concentrations were determined using spiked sectioned sheep brain matrix standards, prepared the same way as the samples. The heterogeneity of metal distributions was examined using pixel by pixel comparison. The orders of metal concentrations were Ca ⋙ Zn > Fe in all three types of deposits but Cu levels were not distinguishable from background values. Zinc and Ca were consistently present in all deposits but reached highest concentration in MSD. Iron was present in some but not all deposits and was especially enriched in FPD. Correlation analysis indicated considerable variation in metal distribution within and between sub-RPE deposits. The results suggest that Zn and Ca are the most likely contributors to deposit formation especially in MSD, the characteristic risk factor for the development of AMD in the human eye.


At the men's belts department of our online shop you will find the Spring-Summer 2018 collections from the top designers and the most prestigious brands.
Prada proposes large oval and rectangular buckles, sturdy and elegant Saffiano leather, in a braided motif or in ton-sur-ton fabric. Guccissima leather, glossy prints and red-green-red accents for the maison Gucci, ever a benchmark for small leatherwear and Made-in-Italy excellence. Belts with vintage buckles for Dolce & Gabbana, whose range also includes impeccable classic models in black or neutral tones; as does Versace's, increasingly focused on rigorous geometric lines embellished with the iconic Medusa head. The vintage finish, achieved by complex ground-breaking production techniques, gives the belts a distressed yet innovative appeal while lending them extra tensile strength and wear-and-tear resistance. A choice of sportier models by Armani Jeans, Bikkembergs and many other brands is also on offer.
In our online store you can buy men's designer belts from the leading brands' Spring-Summer 2018 collection, or browse our Outlet section for discounted items.


The choir at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute is directed by Cynthia Peyton Wahl.
Humans primally express themselves with sound.
Where there is joy, there is a joyful noise. Where there is pain, there is wailing.
No matter where, every global culture holds a traditional musical language as specific and sophisticated as their spoken dialect.
Science shows that vocalization can leech stress from the body by lowering cortisol levels and producing oxytocin. A recent behavioural neuroscience study also found higher concentrations of endocannabinoids in subjects after singing, which benefit mental health, cognition and memory.
Just imagine what can happen when in a swarm of voices singing together.
Cynthia Peyson Wahl, singer and director of choirs at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute, sees – and hears – great value in collaborative soundmaking.
"The whole body is involved in singing," Peyson Wahl says.
When breath synchronizes, heartbeats synchronize, too.
Such intense co-ordination of physical and intellectual processes align groups of humans like flocks of birds or schools of fish. Consciousness becomes collective.
"(T)he community of singers together is of one mind or one heart, and the energy is positive, and they're meaning to add a positive energy to the world – very few people get a chance to add beauty to the world," Peyton Wahl says.
Peyton Wahl directs singers from the Daniel McIntyre choir.
But what makes singing in a choir different from playing in an instrumental ensemble?
"We have text. It can help solidify the ideas we have about how we're going to interact in the world, that point us towards goals we want to have as a community," Peyson Wahl says.
To choose those texts, she collaborates with her Grade 12 singers.
Each year, Peyton Wahl and her singers establish a theme. One year, it was community, and another year, social justice.
"Our theme for this year is love. We're thinking about ways we can demonstrate love in our interactions with each other inside and outside the choir room," Peyton Wahl says.
The music her choirs sing represents the cultural cornucopia of Daniel McIntyre's student body to ensure all young people and their voices feel welcome in the room.
As an educator, Peyson Wahl's endgame is to fill the world with conscious and empathetic humans through choral music.
Peyson Wahl knows that exploring the depths of human emotion is a difficult thing to do – at any age.
But there is power in numbers.
Andrew Balfour, composer and artistic director of Winnipeg's Camerata Nova, has been a chorister as long as he can remember. He grew up singing at All Saints' Anglican Church on Broadway, where his father was a priest.
Andrew Balfour is now a composer, but he discovered a love for music through choir.
He was one of the many Indigenous children pulled from their families during the decades of the Sixties Scoop. He feels he never had the religion pushed on him when he was young, but the music he sang in that church spoke to him.
"When I first started singing Bach as a kid, I realized that it was something special," Balfour says.
The All Saints' choir was one of exceptional calibre. Balfour recalls that their director was invective in demanding a pristine standard. Though the young singers would regularly be brought to tears, Balfour found comfort in his connection to the music, his fellow singers and his sense of belonging.
Balfour knew he was an essential part of something – something that could produce transcendent beauty.
After dedicating many years to studying trumpet, he returned to singing in the early '90s. It was the spatially resonant choral writing of contemporary Estonian composer Arvo Pärt that flipped the switch.
Balfour has composed a healthy catalogue of choral works over the last 20 years for a variety of ensembles in Winnipeg and beyond.
The music Balfour writes often carries deep personal significance. His first choral work was a four-part hymn to be sung at the wedding of a woman with whom he was deeply in love. A section of his more mature works are connected to his understanding and fortification of his Cree identity.
Most recently, he has been commissioned to compose for the Juno- and Grammy-nominated Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth.
No matter who is singing or what is being sung, Balfour marvels at the power of collaborative singing to open hearts and minds. Age, gender, creed, ideology and political leanings become inconsequential when swimming in sound.
Not all Winnipeg choirs, however, are about hard work and refined repertoire.
Co-directors of the city's most well-lubricated casual choir, Katy Harmer and Ian Campbell, started the Winnipeg chapter of Beer Choir in September 2017.
A Winnipeg Beer Choir event.
They were inspired earlier that year by an event hosted by St. Louis-based choral director Michael Engelhardt at a choral directors' conference in Minneapolis the pair had attended earlier that year.
"We started in September 2017 at Fools & Horses. That drew about 50-ish people. Our St. Patrick's Day event there was overflowing. Most recently, we put on a sing-along Messiah in November with orchestra and soloists. We had about 180 people out to that event," Campbell says.
"We've heard from so many people that have come to Beer Choir that they love how much fun it is and how it gets them singing without having to commit long-term to a choir," Harmer adds.
Though a baroque masterwork like Handel's Messiah might sound intimidating, there's always a sprinkling of seasoned choristers upon which the less confident can lean.
Harmer and Campbell say the repertoire isn't always so demanding. Even so, the pressure of perfection is tapped away with the kegs.
Choristers at a Winnipeg Beer Choir event.
Harmer adds that the Winnipeg Beer Choir is a great place to meet new friends from all walks of life.
From the World Village Gospel Choir to the Rainbow Harmony Project, Riel Gentleman's Choir and Red Sisterhood Singers to Women of Note and River City Sound (formerly Golden Chordsmen), the Prairie Voices family to Ecco and Sonolux, Renaissance Voices to the Winnipeg Glee Club, Les Intrépides to the O. Koshetz choir – these choirs only represent a fraction of Winnipeg's community ensembles. There is a choir for anyone who wants to sing in Winnipeg – whatever their age, taste or skill level.
This is a call to all those who sing in their showers and cars, when they know they're home alone, in the wilderness or only in their heads.
This is a call to be vulnerable together. To listen to one another. To be courageous for each other.


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Q: How to reconstruct F# assembly signature from F# dll I want to access F# signature data from a compiled F# dll.
I understand that I can get the signature data from the source files using the FSharp.Compiler.Service library.  I could not find a way to use that library to produce signature information from a dll without sources.
I see two options, but I think it's possible there may be a simpler solution.  The two options I'm aware of are:

*

*Embed the F# source code in the dll and use FSharp.Compiler.Service to extract information from the embedded resource.  I could then make any associations to reflection metadata from correspondence in name.  Unless I did something wrong, FSharp.Compiler.Service can't interpret an .fsi signature file, so it seems that the whole source would need to be embedded for this to work.

*Reconstruct the F# signature from reflection metadata.  This approach seems necessarily insufficient because some data is not recoverable through reflection (e.g. type aliases).
My question is:
Is there a better way to access F# signature data and associate it with reflection metadata than I have suggested?
Another way to look at this question that might make it a little more concrete is, "Given a compiled F# assembly, how can I determine all the type aliases (and referents thereof) that would be available to referencing projects?"

A: This is essentially what the Library documentation part of F# Formatting does. It generates documentation from a compiled DLL (together with the XML comments), but the key part is that it loads the metadata about the F# code from the compiled DLL.
The way it works is that it uses the F# Compiler Service to build a project
It uses the F# Compiler Service to load the compiled F# DLL (as if you were referencing it when compiling some code). The F# compiler service then sees all the information about the DLL, including things like aliases (that's what the F# compiler itself sees when you reference a DLL!)
The source code for it is on GitHub - good starting point is the call to FSharpAssembly.LoadFiles here, which reads the meta-data that is later processed.


Being charged with a Measure 11 offense is serious. Not every attorney is qualified to handle Measure 11 cases, but our team of legal professionals at Gilroy Napoli Short Law Group has handled numerous Measure 11 cases.
Our team of legal professionals consists of experienced criminal defense attorneys with in-depth understanding and knowledge of criminal law and how the prosecution prepares its cases. Gilroy Napoli Short Law Group has experience representing numerous people facing Measure 11 charges, mitigating ramifications and obtaining the best possible results for our clients.


To further encourage foreign investment in the United States through the EB-5 program, Congress created a pilot program in 1993. This pilot program enabled U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to approve regional centers to facilitate EB-5 investments in defined geographic areas and in approved categories. Regional centers generally offer individual entrepreneur investors advantages when applying for EB-5 visas. A total of 3,000 of the 10,000 visas offered to EB-5 investors each year are set aside specifically for investment petitions submitted through regional center projects.
An EB-5 Regional Center is an organization that sponsors projects under the EB-5 program. A regional center can be any private or public economic entity that is involved with the promotion of increased domestic capital, job creation, improved regional productivity, and increased economic growth. The regional center staff professionally manages regional center projects. Investors are not required to and generally do not actively manage their EB-5 investments on a daily basis. Moreover, regional center projects have the advantage that both direct and indirect job creation is recognized by USCIS to meet the EB-5 program requirement of 10 full-time jobs per EB-5 investor in a new commercial enterprise.
Most of the existing regional centers have been approved as targeted employment area (TEA) investments, thus qualifying for the reduced $500,000 investment requirement – see 8 C.F.R. § 204.6 (e). In addition, only USCIS can approve regional centers to handle projects within specific industries.
Despite the advantages, starting a new regional center is an expensive and time-consuming process. It can easily take one to two years to gain USCIS approval, if such approval is ever granted. Additionally, the application process and ancillary expenses can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
In many cases regional center owners determine that, for what could be a variety of business reasons, the regional center needs to partner with outside EB-5 projects. It may be that the regional center has not been able to attract enough EB-5 investors to its currently available projects, or that the regional center wants to attract projects that will allow it to utilize all of the industry designations for which it has been approved by USCIS.
In these cases, regional centers may decide to partner with outside EB-5 projects through either a rental-type agreement for a fee or for a percentage of a project's revenues, or as an actual partner in a joint venture proposed by an outside party. The variety of ways in which the rental of a regional center may occur are limited only by the needs of the partners and the advice of legal and other professional counsel.
Whatever the structure, the arrangement allows both parties to meet their business goals. The outside party receives the advantages of establishing the project through a regional center. The regional center further fulfills its mission to assist EB-5 projects in creating jobs and a positive economic impact in the United States.
For the reasons noted above, many entrepreneurs with worthwhile projects that seek to attract EB-5 investors prefer to attempt to buy, or to rent and/or enter into a licensing or joint venture agreement with, an existing regional center in consideration of its sponsorship of the proposed project.
Buying a regional center as a whole is not usually a viable option. Not only are very few regional centers for sale, but such purchases, if available, are complicated by issues such as assumption of existing project liabilities, geographic and industry scope limitations, and other challenges. There may also be risk management and compliance issues relating to pre-existing projects that may preclude the sale from occurring.
A better option is presented in the form of the project essentially renting the use of an existing regional center. Growing numbers of regional centers are open to partnering on projects which fall within their geographic and industry approvals, and which present seemingly sound and viable business opportunities. A rental arrangement also allows the regional center to secure a further stream of income.
Thus, partnering may be the most viable way to enable a proposed project to gain the advantages of submittal through a regional center, without the additional time and costs associated with starting a new regional center – coupled with the higher possibility of a denial in doing so. Of course, the project itself must still be submitted to USCIS for approval independent of the regional center, but the approval process is much quicker and less cumbersome than the regional center approval process.
The payment of a fixed direct fee to the regional center.
Generally, the entity that partners with the regional center remains responsible for all costs and liabilities associated with the project. Most often, the developers also cover insurance costs.
In exchange for these financial considerations, the regional center sponsors the proposed project under its regulatory umbrella, and the project enjoys all of the benefits outlined above for a regional center EB-5 project. The regional center may already have extensive marketing plans in place to help "sell" the project and may even already have group of pre-qualified investors ready to invest in the project.
All project developers must undertake serious due diligence with respect to selecting a regional center with which to partner. Regional centers are only authorized to develop projects within a defined region and only in certain industries (per industry codes included on the RC's approval letter). If the proposed project falls outside of the regional center's approval, an amendment may be submitted to USCIS in order to incorporate the new project. However, this is not automatic and can cause project delays.
Regional centers run the gamut from being managed by seasoned professional staff to being poorly, or even illegally, managed. It is vital to check out the track record of the regional center in terms of USCIS-approved immigrant investor petitions (I-526s) and to speak with qualified references, such as experienced immigration counsel, other industry professionals and existing project partners.
In conclusion, regional centers provide a popular business vehicle for those seeking to develop EB-5 projects – and "renting" a regional center is an increasingly viable option. As with all new business enterprises, it is important to consult with experienced legal counsel and business professionals before selecting the best option for developing and presenting an EB-5 investment project to potential investors and to USCIS.


the deal?  Thanks, Jim Claremore, Ok.
thanks to the new webmaster Alan Petersen.
Re: icarex, how to apply?
Could someone write a primer on how to apply Icarex to a Free flight model.
How to bond to curved sheeted (D-box) undersurface.
Basically an A to Z manual.
had reached great height against a huge cumulus cloud when it suddenly D/td.
get a very good line for retrieval.
other A/2 which appeared not to have its trim optimised.
PS Stamov was able to find the ship quite easily with the on board beacon.
fly 3-1/2 miles from a flight st Muncie at the Nats of that year. Need more?
an even more accurate rule of thumb!!!!!! if that's not a contradiction.
nearly all of them. What is it?
could enlarge on this just a tad for the masses.
John has already explained it - but it goes something like this.
Tan 2 used a synthetic rubber in the mix. This is made by Goodyear.
ball manufacturers. This means it has to be made just for our rubber.
This means they will now make the rubber with out it - hence Tan Sport.
else hence Tan Super Sport to be.
New forms and rules for the 2003 National Cup are on the NFFS web site.
Please make use of the forms to let me know about your 2003 plans.
attend the NATS on a regular basis due to excessive driving distances.
the rules is repeated below.
selection of the exempt contests."
Most if not all NC events will be offered at these contests.
participation in the NOS event.
have been tabulated and are posted on the NFFS.  Please check it out.
little time to request National Cup status and report results.
catch some big thermals in the new year.
I always liked Lorbiecki !
enough for several FIA's. Inside length dimension to be 46" min.


For the first time ever in the Upper Midwest, Minneapolis will host one of several national caffeine crawls Saturday, June 1st from 10:30am to 3:30pm. Tickets are currently still available and you can select one of two route options.
The Caffeine Crawl is the clever brain child of The LAb, a group so passionate about quality beverages that they wanted to highlight local businesses that are dedicated to excellence. At the Caffeine Crawl, participants can expect to sample some pretty amazing coffee, tea and chocolate. In addition to giving your taste buds a workout, participants will have to opportunity to learn more about the quality, technique and process of the products. At each stop in the crawl, there will be a brief presentation and a selection of free drinks available to attendees only. Get your tickets!!!
Want to know more about this year's Caffeine Crawl and to find more locations nationally? Check out the links below!
My family attended the Boulder, CO crawl last summer and had a blast! We learned a lot of new info and drank delicious coffee in every shop. My favorite was the chocolate shop. My son won the big coffee grinder prize and my husband won two bags of coffee!


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Q: Iphone programming: Multiple UITableViews reading from the same source? This question is related to UITableView issue when using separate delegate/dataSource, though I have a different problem. I'm just starting to learn iPhone programming.
Basically I have one main view with a table. On the event of a cell click, a sub view with another table is shown.
The datasource and delegate for the main view's table are set as files' owner, and I have added the necessary code in there to handle the table data and everything is fine.
But, when the second table in the sub-view seems to crash the application, I did the same thing, set the datasource and delegate to the file's owner and repeated the same procedure as for the main view's table. I have no idea why this is happening.
The sub-view has its only nib/xib file and its own outlet. If i do not attach any datasource to the subview's table, it takes the data from the main view's table; I don't understand why that is, since I have set the datasource to be the file's owner.
For example: the FirstView controller has a table FirstTable, the datasource and delegate are set to the owner of Files. I added the following in FirstView.m:
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {
    return 4;
}
// Customize the appearance of table view cells.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"LibraryListingCell";
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil) {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault
                                       reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
    }
    cell.textLabel.text =@"Table Cell";
    return cell;
}

Everything works perfectly.
The moment I repeat this with a second table and a second view, the application crashes saying
reason: '-[UISectionRowData tableView:numberOfRowsInSection:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x69188d0'

I have done exactly the same for second table: implemented numberOfRowsInSection and cellForRowAtIndexPatch inside secondview.m and set the second table's delegate and datasource to the file's owner. If I remove the delegate and datasource for the second table, the application doesn't crash but has an empty table in the second view.
Any suggestions? or am I missing some key concept here ?

A: You can use same datasource and delegate methods for multiple tables.
You have to mention in which table you are doing operations.
For example:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    if ([tableView isEqual:TableView1])
    {
       //do work for tableview1
     }
     else if([tableView isEqual:TableView2])
   {
      //do operations for tableview2
   }
}

A: This is the main View controller .h file.
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "SubView.h"
@interface StackOverTableSubViewViewController : UIViewController <UITableViewDelegate,UITableViewDataSource>
{
    UIView *contentView;
    UITableView *tblVw;
    NSMutableArray *array;
    SubView *SubViewObj;
}
@property(nonatomic,retain) UIView *contentView;
@property(nonatomic,retain) UITableView *tblVw;
@property(nonatomic,retain) NSMutableArray *array;
@property(nonatomic,retain) SubView *SubViewObj;
@end

This is the main View controller .m file.
#import "StackOverTableSubViewViewController.h"
@implementation StackOverTableSubViewViewController
@synthesize contentView,tblVw,array,SubViewObj;

// Implement loadView to create a view hierarchy programmatically, without using a nib.
- (void)loadView
{
    contentView=[[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen]bounds]];
    contentView.autoresizingMask=(UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight);
    contentView.autoresizesSubviews=YES;
    contentView.backgroundColor=[UIColor whiteColor];

    tblVw=[[UITableView alloc]initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen]bounds] style:UITableViewStylePlain];
    tblVw.dataSource=self;
    tblVw.delegate=self;
    tblVw.scrollEnabled=YES;

    array=[[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
    [array addObject:@"Row1"];
    [array addObject:@"Row2"];
    [array addObject:@"Row3"];
    [array addObject:@"Row4"];
    [array addObject:@"Row5"];
    [array addObject:@"Row6"];
    [array addObject:@"Row7"];
    [array addObject:@"Row8"];
    [array addObject:@"Row9"];
    [array addObject:@"Row10"];
    [array addObject:@"Row11"];
    [array addObject:@"Row12"];
    [contentView addSubview:tblVw];
    self.view=contentView;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)table numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    return [array count];
}

// Row display. Implementers should *always* try to reuse cells by setting each cell's reuseIdentifier and querying for available reusable cells with dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:
// Cell gets various attributes set automatically based on table (separators) and data source (accessory views, editing controls)
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"CellIdentifier";

    // Dequeue or create a cell of the appropriate type.
    // UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil)
    {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
        cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
        cell.textLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
        cell.textLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
        [cell.textLabel sizeToFit];
    }
    cell.textLabel.text=[array objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    return cell;
}

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    SubViewObj=[[SubView alloc]init];
    [self.view addSubview:SubViewObj.view];
}

/*
// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
}
*/

// Override to allow orientations other than the default portrait orientation.
- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
    return YES;
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
    // Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview.
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
    // Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
}

- (void)viewDidUnload {
    // Release any retained subviews of the main view.
    // e.g. self.myOutlet = nil;
}

- (void)dealloc {
    [contentView release];
    [SubViewObj release];
    [tblVw release];
    [array release];
    [super dealloc];
}

@end

Add a view controller called subview. Here's subview.h:
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface SubView : UIViewController <UITableViewDelegate,UITableViewDataSource>
{
    UIView *contentView;
    UITableView *tblVw;
    NSMutableArray *array;
}
@property(nonatomic,retain) UIView *contentView;
@property(nonatomic,retain) UITableView *tblVw;
@property(nonatomic,retain) NSMutableArray *array;
@end

And subview.m:
    #import "SubView.h"
    #import
    @implementation SubView
    @synthesize contentView,tblVw,array;
// Implement loadView to create a view hierarchy programmatically, without using a nib.
- (void)loadView {
    contentView=[[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(200, 10, 300, 600)];
    contentView.autoresizingMask=(UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight);
    contentView.autoresizesSubviews=YES;
    contentView.backgroundColor=[UIColor whiteColor];

    tblVw=[[UITableView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(200, 10, 300, 600) style:UITableViewStylePlain];
    tblVw.dataSource=self;
    tblVw.delegate=self;
    tblVw.scrollEnabled=YES;
    tblVw.layer.borderWidth=4.0;
    tblVw.layer.borderColor=[[UIColor redColor]CGColor];
    array=[[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
    [array addObject:@"Data1"];
    [array addObject:@"Data2"];
    [array addObject:@"Data3"];
    [array addObject:@"Data4"];
    [array addObject:@"Data5"];
    [array addObject:@"Data6"];
    [array addObject:@"Data7"];
    [array addObject:@"Data8"];
    [array addObject:@"Data9"];
    [array addObject:@"Data10"];
    [array addObject:@"Data11"];
    [array addObject:@"Data12"];

    [contentView addSubview:tblVw];
    self.view=contentView;

}

/*
// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
}
*/

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)table numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    return [array count];
}

// Row display. Implementers should *always* try to reuse cells by setting each cell's reuseIdentifier and querying for available reusable cells with dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:
// Cell gets various attributes set automatically based on table (separators) and data source (accessory views, editing controls)

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"CellIdentifier";

    // Dequeue or create a cell of the appropriate type.
    // UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil)
    {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
        cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
        cell.textLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
        cell.textLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
        [cell.textLabel sizeToFit];
    }
    cell.textLabel.text=[array objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    return cell;
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation {
    // Overriden to allow any orientation.
    return YES;
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {
    // Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview.
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
    // Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
}

- (void)viewDidUnload {
    [super viewDidUnload];
    // Release any retained subviews of the main view.
    // e.g. self.myOutlet = nil;
}

- (void)dealloc {
    [super dealloc];
}

@end

Try this code. This app was done for the iPad. Change the dimensions as needed for the iPhone.

A: I had the EXACT same issue and fixed it by deleting my connection from the table view's datasource to the files owner. Then I pasted in the code below replacing the existing cellForRowAtIndexPath. I had to change the array name to match my array and then reconnect the datasource to the files owner, and it started working. Must have been a snafu in my function code somewhere.
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    static NSString *CellIdentifier = @"CellIdentifier";
    // Dequeue or create a cell of the appropriate type.
    // UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:CellIdentifier];
    if (cell == nil)
    {
        cell = [[[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:CellIdentifier] autorelease];
        cell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
        cell.textLabel.lineBreakMode = UILineBreakModeWordWrap;
        cell.textLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
        [cell.textLabel sizeToFit];
    }
    cell.textLabel.text=[array objectAtIndex:indexPath.row];
    return cell;
}


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Female Characters in Horror Film and Fiction: Victims or Survivors?
Posted on February 8, 2013	by Diane Dooley
I am, as always, delighted to welcome horror author, Luke Walker, back to my blog. He doesn't just support women in horror once a year; he supports us ALL THE TIME. He's a great guy and an opinionated big lug, so sit back and enjoy his contribution. Feel free to argue with him or call him names in comments. He enjoys that sort of thing *grin*
The last time Diane participated in Women in Horror Month, I came up with a piece on women in horror films. Since then, I've often thought about a particular issue relating to this – women as victims.
Recently, I saw a film from the early eighties which was mostly awful in terms of plot and consistently awful in its treatment of women. Pieces. For those who might have missed it (and you haven't missed much), it's a fairly bog standard slasher that wouldn't exist without the obviously superior Halloween or even the not very good Friday 13th. Basically, a serial killer chops up pretty college women with a chainsaw because he has issues with his mother yadda yadda. So far, so ho hum. But here's the thing – everything about the film is designed to give the viewer a voyeuristic thrill or to connect extreme violence with sex. Take a look at the scene with the victim on the waterbed. Penetration and blood? Yep. Upskirt shots? Yep. And finally an oral stabbing? Yep. Or how about the girl in the lift? Or the woman shaking it while wearing a skimpy leotard? The sexual, victimised connection couldn't be made clearer unless the film-makers had their actresses carrying signs stating it. But instead, they go for having a screaming woman wet herself in fear before she's killed. Unpleasant all round.
Basically, Pieces is a piece of crap. But here's the thing: there are plenty of examples in horror films in which women are not the victims, in which they fight back against their attackers and often succeed in saving the day at least until the sequel comes along. The most famous example from roughly the same time period as Pieces is of course the Nightmare On Elm Street series. Out of the five films made in the eighties, all bar one feature one of two female protagonists fighting back against Freddy Kruger. Nancy from the first film returns in the third to stand with a group of institutionalised teenagers, while Alice from part four returns in its follow up to protect her unborn son from Mr Kruger. Ignoring the overall decline in the series, it's interesting the film-makers went with the whole Final Girl angle instead of putting a male character in their place, especially if you believe teenage boys were the target audience.
Could it be they took inspiration from Jaime Lee Curtis in the original Halloween? Or maybe the character of Sally in Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Possibly, but let's not forget that while those two characters do fight back in some respect against Michael Myers and Leatherface's charming family, they're also screaming victims for much of their films. At the risk of spoiling the end of TCM, the last we see of Sally is a probably insane, shrieking woman sent over the edge after the film's horrific events. Survivor and victim, Sally is both.
And of course, there are female victims and survivors in horror fiction just as there are in films. The late Richard Laymon was fond of having human and inhuman monsters rape his female characters – fond of it enough for me to consider his work on the same level I consider films such as Pieces. But the horror world also has talented writers such as Stephen King who've given us women including Dolores Claiborne, Beverley Marsh, Fran Goldsmith and Jesse Burlingame who will not bow down and be destroyed by the terrible events of their stories (in order, an abusive husband, a supernatural child killer, the end of the world and being trapped in a house in the middle of nowhere while literally nobody knows where she is). Along with King, we have writers ranging from Alex Adams to Alison Littlewood to Kaaron Warron to Gary McMahon to Tim Lebbon who create female characters who are every bit as fully developed and rounded as all characters, men or women, need to be.
Ultimately, nobody should completely be the victim any more than they should completely be the hero. Fictional characters need to be as flesh and blood as they are in reality. It's just a shame some people forget that.
Luke Walker is the author of The Red Girl and the upcoming, 'Set, both from Musa Publishing's horror/paranormal line, Thalia.
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9 Responses to Female Characters in Horror Film and Fiction: Victims or Survivors?
Dale Long says:
Nicely put, Luke. It's my opinion that movie directors have a "target" audience, because it's easier to pander to a stereotypes needs than it is to tell a good story.
I keep forgetting that Jamie Lee Curtis was a, if you'll excuse the term, "scream queen". She is always such a great presence in film. Like Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee tends to play such strong characters.
Yep, it's easier for bad or lazy film-makers to go for the stereotypes. And the interesting thing about Curtis in Halloween is that while she is a terrified teenager (understandably), she still fights back to some extent against Michael Myers and it's not only in self defence. She's protecting children against the boogeyman.
I can see the point you are making, but I've been doing a study of this same subject for a feminist scholarly paper I'm doing and must disagree with the image of the "survivor." Perhaps women are, but why has it become the stock storyline in horror to butcher, torture, and torment women in the first place? From Hostel to the new gore-porn to novels, there is an ever-increasing level of violence against women in horror. I don't want to see an hour and a half of women being brutalized and then in the last twenty minutes, one "hero" chainsaws the bad guy. What is the real message in something like that? I find it disturbing.
I don't particuarly disagree with you in that women face a lot of violence in horror although I don't personally think it's a stock storyline or that it's ever increasing. In all genres, there are easy, thoughtless ways of telling the story. Thankfully, that doesn't mean decent, intelligent and well-written/filmed fiction isn't out there.
Thank you for bringing that up about Richard Laymon–I'd been hearing about him as one of the horror "greats," so when I read "Beast House" and found it sensationalist, exploitation-style garbage, I was like, "Hm. Okay. What am I missing? What's 'great' about this?" So, thanks. I was starting to think I was all alone over here.
I have a question though, because it's been bugging me: This trope of the Final Girl. Does it still apply when the girl in question is the film's protagonist? I've heard it applied to everyone from Ripley to Nancy, and while I get it to a certain extent, I get the same vibe off them as I do from male protagonists in horror films–that they survive not because they're female, but because it's their story. Do you know what I mean?
Beast House was one the examples of Laymon's work I had in mind. I've got no problem with his style in terms of schlocky page turners (he was very good at that), but the man had a big rape thing going on and the example in that book is particularly foul.
Re the Final Girl issue – it's a tough one. I get the impression with a few examples that they survive because they find strength and resources they didn't know they had. Or it's just a case of kill or be killed.
That's a good question, Laurel. I've often wondered myself what the difference is between a 'Final Girl' scenario and a film which has a female protagonist who survives. Doesn't the 'Final Girl' scenario also include that all the other females who die don't deserve to survive because they're slutty or stupid or bitchy or something, leaving only the good and pure one at the end? I don't know if this is the answer. Just a thought.
Sealey says:
Well, I do have a problem when it feels like the "hero" comes out of nowhere at the end after being the victim the whole movie/book. You can't undo one message/image that's been shoved in your face the whole time your viewing/reading in the last couple scenes. But, I do agree with you that in order for the character to feel real, they can't be just one or the other completely. Otherwise they feel cardboard. Thanks for providing examples of the ones who do it right, too, Luke! My reading list has a couple new additions. 🙂
Maybe strangely, I'm the opposite. I quite like it when a character who's been attacked finds whatever it takes to fight back. They don't have to turn into an action hero; they just need to stand up and say they're going to survive. Look at Sydney in the first Scream. Watch the last fifteen minutes or so and you can really appreciate the difference in her character from earlier on. She's angry. She's standing up for herself. She's a survivor.


Petition to get rid of vintage gold?
Get rid of vintage gold?
Now they "Might" Have one to get rid of it?
I like vintage gold a smidge better???
You could get items for 15,000 dollars at vg that would be 200,000 or something at tns, especially some of the costumes are much cheaper???
It really doesnt matter to me. You can either have a super expensive chance to get whatever you want whenever you want but it might turn out to be sold already when you earn enough money and you might be scamed when trading or you can have a one day chance to get something you may or may not want for a less expensive price but might just give up on getting because its still a lot of stars and you may never get what you voted for anyway???
I kind of blame tns for making vintage gold so freaking expensive. MAYBE if somebody didnt start the 1,000,000 stars for a pencil thing fantage wouldn't think that "Oh, all the fantage people have tons of stars, so lets make the stuff really expensive because they wont care!" and the people who didntuse trade and sell and had like 100 stars would have to struggle to get 50,000 stars for a stupid penciIm just sayin'! I know its just a game but I seriously think that this stupid thing with tns and vg has completely ruined the game for me.
Since every. single. thing at T&S cost like 2 mil.
But... people will get scammed... AGAIN..
and its most likely they wont bring it back.
If they as careful, they won't get scammed. Now that I ink about it a main reason people were scammed was because they weren't careful!
And about ridiculous prices, there should only be a trading place in the oasis/ lucky bobs??? So that way vintage gold will stay and people would be happy?
User bidded 1,534 on the super hair.
No waiting except your set time, a max of 1 weekor something.
Eh...sorry...I'm a little off topic.
i don't want to get rid of vintage gold it might be pricey but it says all the stuff thats gonna be on this week so you have like a week to save up.My friend did this and got 10000 stars in a week for a bunny nose.
1. I was away when it was removed.
3. Vintage is selling all my good stuff.
4. Tues. blond bb is being sold.
i mean really fantage went though all that hard work to make vintage gold and now you want it gone? its only been like 2 months and you guys are already asking for it to be removed and i find that really stupid.
Fantage would probably have trouble doing that.
Is it seriously that bad????????
●Trade n Sell is stupid.
● Trade and Sell sucked, honestly.
●Vg isn't that bad though.
●I just want the regular vintage back, and the oasis back.
Why the heck would you guys want Vintage Gold to go away.
It has cheaper prices and unlimited stock, so everybody gets a chance to have that item.
Not to mention to appease everybody who had their pretty 2-million star items sold, they had a whole week where you could get refunds.
Seriously, why would you want Trade n' Sell back, overpriced things, scammers, not knowing when something good is going to be available.
I would rather have Old vintage over all of them, but i don't care much beacause either way its people fighting over pixels.
yeah i prefer old vintage.... but vintage gold is better than trade n sell, at least some items aren't 1m stars and up.
Ya it would have been better if they just left the old vintage.
Subject: Re: Petition to get rid of vintage gold?