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Capital punishment Dying out Little by little, countries are ditching the death penalty See article Readers' comments Capital punishment is a very (understandably) touchy subject. Perhaps one has to ask themselves three questions. Are there crimes punishable by death? Do humans have the moral authority to administer this punishment? In practice, is it carried out efficiently and fairly? It is apparent that there are countries as a whole that are starting to rethink their answers. I believe that the reduction of the use of the death penalty in states is a positive step. People have been killing others for centuries for various reasons. Now it seems like people are finally starting to understand that this may not be the most civilized way to handle things. With all the war, genocide, and deaths due to illnesses on the planet, no more lives need to be lost. Personally, I am against the death penalty. I don't think that other have the right to decide whether or not someone should die for a crime they m

Easing winds help crews fight Wash. wildfire Fire spokeswoman Christy Boisselle (boy-SELL') said Monday evening the fire is 35 percent contained. The blaze started Sunday. The cause is under investigation. Three firefighters suffered minor injuries while fleeing their truck. YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Light winds were helping firefighters gain ground Monday on a wildfire that burned nearly 10 square miles of dry grass and sagebrush in central Washington, as investigators examined how three firefighters were injured fleeing their truck in the flames. The firefighters had driven down a driveway to protect a home that was threatened, but the fire came up too quickly and they were unable to turn around, said Christy Boisselle, a spokeswoman for West Valley Fire and Rescue. They escaped with minor injuries after the blaze jumped the dusty dirt road, where the remnants of the scorched truck remained. Fire officials earlier said it burned 10,000 acres, but downgraded that number to 6,200 acres later Monday after

#29 - MrMysteriousMagic has deleted their comment. [-] User avatar #39 to #29 - mookiez (11/26/2012) [-] My mom, she refuses to use anything else. She has a ******* alienware with a i7 hyper threading 3.4 ghz 4 cores 8 threads. 14 gigs of ram. And does nothing but run ie and facebook games. It makes Me rage so much. User avatar #76 to #39 - thepandaking (11/27/2012) [-] what a bunch of titties. if she really doesn't know about computers, she wouldn't have an alienware >.> and any of that other **** mentioned. User avatar #84 to #76 - mookiez (11/27/2012) [-] Because she has money, And because It has a light up keyboard. #60 to #39 - jakeattack (11/27/2012) [-] wait what the actual **** ? why would she even buy something like that? does she even know what any of that means? so many questions. User avatar #85 to #60 - mookiez (11/27/2012) [-] Because of the light up keyboard. Shes not doing it anygood. #87 to #85 - jakeattack (11/27/2012) [-] oh god please tell me you are just a master at stories that she did n

Subject: Re: ARGSUSED and friends To: None <> From: der Mouse <[email protected]> List: tech-kern Date: 01/16/2000 23:32:57 >> I don't consider this "cluttering up" at all. I consider it being correct. > I have found some rather nasty bugs lurking in code by going through > and making lint happy with the code. As have I, going through and making gcc -Wthis -Wthat happy...what's your point here? It sounds as though you're trying to say "yes, it's good to make code pass lint", though what you're really saying is that lint has helped you, which is not the same at all. On a few occasions lint has helped me too, but I've never gone to the trouble to eliminate cast pointers without upsetting lint, it's hard to write anything useful. That's why I use gcc with various warning options instead; I find that with a suitable set of options, it's (a) strong enough checking to be worthwhile and (b) weak enough that useful programs can be made completely warning-free. (Though I do wish there were a way to s

Marina Grande restaurants / Seafood Lonely Planet review Run by the third generation of the same family, patronised primarily by locals and fronting the beach, this restaurant serves fish so fresh it is almost flapping. Consider the tasting menu (€48) with dishes like warm seafood salad and linguini alla scoglia (calamari, prawns, scampi, shellfish and cherry tomatoes). And it gets better… Marina Grande is a member of the Slow Food Movement and uses almost exclusively organic produce. Reservations recommended.

Ambient Music Replaces DrugsS Kids these days continue to disappoint us all. In my day, we had fake drugs like salvia, that really worked. Now, kids are trying to get "high" with "i-Dosers"—digital sounds, on computers. Oklahomans are worried. What happens is, kids go to (which also sells "legal bud," TELLING), and pay real American money to download digital tracks that allegedly "POWERFULLY ALTER YOUR MOOOD," hint hint. Popular tracks include "Peyote," "Trip," and "Orgasm." The intrepid Miami Herald knew right where to find someone who would be alarmed about such a thing: Still, parents in the town of Mustang, Okla., were warned about I-Dosers in March when the school superintendent there sent a letter saying some students at Mustang High who listened to the sounds ``exhibited the same physical effects as if they were under the effects of drugs or alcohol,'' including increased blood pressure, rapid pulse and involuntary eye movements. Says one iDoser, "i was using the content drug half way throught my d

Comments by joetom69 Written on Driver cited in morning Alcoa Highway crash: in response to knoxknothead: through the city 55 Do 55 on the interstate and you're a hazard. You can travel with the flow of traffic which runs about 60-65. It's the idiots doing 50 and the ones doing 80 that cause the problems. Written on North Knoxville car crash leads to drug, weapons charges: in response to VolzsFan: The way they describe the geographic location of other recent crimes, how do they not label this as "West Knoxville"? Because one is off Broadway, the other in Halls. Written on UT trustees panel OKs raises for DiPietro and Cheek, tuition and fees increases: It's Haslam High School now. They're trying to acquire all property between Henley and Concord and have almost succeeded. in response to TenMileJerry: How funny to see all these bleeding heart liberals defending Obama and his stripping of their privacy. At least the ACLU hasn't compromised, and for that they have earned newfound respect. After this

Oswalt offer won't trigger big spending Oswalt offer won't trigger big spending HOUSTON -- Soon after Astros owner Drayton McLane hosted a small holiday dinner for his top executives and their spouses Friday night, he indicated to MLB.com that Roy Oswalt's offer to restructure his contract in order to make room for a top-line starting pitcher is a generous thought, but not something that will immediately lead to big spending. McLane said he has not talked to Oswalt personally, deferring to general manager Ed Wade, who originally received the message from Oswalt that he would be willing to shift some salary to clear room on the payroll. However, Oswalt's hope that the team would add another high-salaried, bona fide star is not something the Astros are prepared to make happen in the near term, McLane said. "It would be a No. 1 or No. 2 pitcher, and that's just not in the cards right now," McLane said via mobile phone. The Astros are in the process of lowering their payroll from a projected $120 million to

Poster of Linux kernelThe best gift for a Linux geek Section: (8) Updated: 2010-03-01 Local index Up depmod - program to generate modules.dep and map files.   depmod creates a list of module dependencies by reading each module under /lib/modules/version and determining what symbols it exports and what symbols it needs. By default, this list is written to modules.dep, and a binary hashed version named modules.dep.bin, in the same directory. If filenames are given on the command line, only those modules are examined (which is rarely useful unless all modules are listed). depmod also creates a list of symbols provided by modules in the file named modules.symbols and its binary hashed version, modules.symbols.bin. depmod will also generate various legacy map files in the output directory for use by the older hotplug infrastructure. These map files are largely deprecated.   -a --all -A --quick -b basedir --basedir basedir If your modules are not currently in the (normal) directory /lib/modules/versio

1. Health Discuss in my forum Top 10 Facts About Autism Updated April 15, 2011 Parents of children with autism quickly discover the top autism facts. But what about in-laws, teachers, coaches, and cousins? Few people outside the immediate family really want to read 20 closely-written pages from the National Institutes of Health. Here are some bare bones basics for those who know and interact with your child - along with links to more in-depth information for those who want to know. 1. Autism Is a 'Spectrum' Disorder People with autism can be a little autistic or very autistic. Thus, it is possible to be bright, verbal, and autistic as well as mentally retarded, non-verbal and autistic. A disorder that includes such a broad range of symptoms is often called a spectrum disorder; hence the term "autism spectrum disorder." The most significant shared symptom is difficulty with social communication (eye contact, conversation, taking another's perspective, etc.). 2. Asperger Syndrome is a High Functioning F

Sign up × I can see hidden files in Finder but when I search it doesn't find hidden files. I have tried everything. defaults write AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder I also change "File visibility" to "Invisible Items" when searching. Please help somebody as it drives me mad how Apple makes it difficult to change. share|improve this question 2 Answers 2 There is a way to search also within hidden files: 1. Open Finder 2. Fill search box with searched text 3. Click "+" button. 4. Choose "File visibility" and your option. enter image description here share|improve this answer Unfortunately it does not work. I have tried that before. –  PJ_ Feb 18 '13 at 15:09 Do as maseth says, but instead of "File visibility" you want "System files". Or rather, do both to be able to search everything. share|improve this answer This does not work either in my tests –  markhunte Mar 22 '14 at 17:18 Your Answer

Epson Stylus Color 740 Ink Jet Printer Selected FAQ What is halftone printing? In order to simulate varying size halftone dots in computer printers, dithering is used, which creates clusters of dots in a "halftone cell." We recommend using Error Diffusion when printing halftoning. The more dots printed in the cell, the darker the gray. As the screen frequency gets higher (more lines per inch), there is less room for dots in the cell, reducing the number of gray levels that can be generated. Epson's (LPI) lines per inch conversions are as follows: 720 dpi equates to 240 lpi 360 dpi equates to 120 lpi Was this helpful? Yes No Didn't Apply Viewed FAQs Return to Main FAQs Page

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Postmedia News Recent Stories Tie one on: Bow blouses return, but this time they’re a lot less voluminous If the fall trend reports are to be believed, it looks like bows are the new buttons. So rather than getting all buttoned up this season as per usual, consider tying one on instead — in the form of a subtly sweet bow blouse Liberals could win their first seats in Alberta since 2006 but Conservatives hold commanding lead; NDP trails 'That shutout in Alberta appears to be ending with Liberals poised to elect a number of MPs ... in both Edmonton and Calgary,' a Mainstreet/Postmedia poll says Meet Saskatchewan’s Mr. and Mrs. Awesome – and yes, that is legally their last name The Regina couple even created a new family crest featuring a dirt bike speeding up the slant of an uppercase A Man who wore ball-and-chain to his bachelor party ordered to pay $550,000 for pushing man who teased him Joshua Robinson, after being pushed by Leelund Turner, suffered a 'significant brain injury' when his head hit t

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American Chopper has been in HDTV seems like forever and now it might not be. Discovery Communication is moving the show from The Discovery Channel to TLC with the goal of returning their flagship station to its roots science and nature. There hasn't been any announcements if this will affect Discovery HD Theater but we aren't worried. Many of the mainstay shows on HD Theater, like Trading Spaces and Rides, comes right from TLC's lineup. But we are hoping that Discovery's soul seeking will bring the birth of TLC HD. That's not saying that we don't like Discovery HD Theater but rather the opposite as we love it. We just want to see more "science and nature" programs on it. Move the lifestyle shows to a station that is about life and bring back the nature stuff Discovery! [via TV Squad]

Obama's budget: A put up or shut up moment for the GOP It's facile to say that if the extreme right and left of American politics dislike something, it must be a good idea, but in the case of President Barack Obama's budget proposal, it may be true. The president is taking one more stab at a "grand bargain" on the budget that would reduce deficits to a manageable size, through a combination of tax increases and spending cuts — including cuts to Medicare and Social Security. Some liberal groups are promising primary challenges to any Democrats who vote for a reduction in future Social Security benefits. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called it a "left-wing wish list." In fact, it's hard to find much of anyone in official Washington — the president included — who is particularly excited about this proposal. But Mr. Obama was right to make it, on both policy and political grounds. In its broad outlines, the proposal is what we need in order to avoid either an excessive buildup of the national debt or

Training your puppy Training is an important part of your puppy's development, and also plays a major part in strengthening the bond between them and you. It's always helpful to know how young puppies respond to training - most will pick it up quite quickly, but you should bear in mind that they won't know why they're being scolded or rewarded unless you do it immediately after they carry out certain behaviours. Puppies learn most of their habits at around 12 to 18 weeks old, so make sure you're training and reinforcing the right messages then. Take a look at our comprehensive guide to dog training and behaviour to get started.

Murder Probe Continues A month after a gunshot victim was found at his home, there has still been no arrest made in the case. Lamen Clemons, 48, of Philadelphia, was shot at least five times. He was found dead at his home on Nov. 1. Police Chief David Edwards told the Neshoba Democrat that investigators are following leads and have interviewed at least one person out-of- state who may have information about the case. Edwards said he hopes evidence submitted to the crime lab will provide some answers.

R6RS is "perfect" 1. the academic publishing business 2. the fund raising business 3. adapting each others innovations beza1e1 said... The biggest argument against R6RS seems to be bloat. They say Scheme betrays its root, because it gets big and complex, instead of "smallest possible, while usable." Is it really debated enough, wether all this stuff belongs into Scheme? Probably. Then why don't people just point to the mailing list thread (or whatever)? taw said... I'm just curious - why cannot the module system and the rest of the stuff that R6RS tries to do be implemented as SRFIs first, and only after they're used for some time they could be frozen into the new spec ? matthias said... Easy questions. Yes, one can produce an OS with Turing Machines. (At least I am pretty sure one can.) I still wouldn't want to do it. In this spirit, Scheme isn't the best medium for creating large applications and frameworks. The implementors (on the editoral board) _have_ implemented variations of th

Thursday 25 December 2014 Maher has a burning desire to feed the hunger within Outside criticism stung Brendan Maher, but he tells Damian Lawlor that it's the feeling inside the camp that means most Damian Lawlor Published 17/08/2014 | 02:30 Tipperary's Brendan Maher Tipperary's Brendan Maher TWO weeks ago, Brendan Maher wrote to the Tipperary Supporters Club with a simple message for its members. He recalled how the county senior team had held over 100 group sessions since December and that there were individual gym sessions as well as specialist training weekends away. Maher painted a picture of what is involved in preparing for games; from physical training to diet, from nutrition to analysis. His message, though straightforward enough, went down extremely well around the county because a wedge had divided the team from sections of its support. In some cases the players felt the criticism had become personal. "We make the effort because we love playing for Tipperary and we always do our very best

We all have experienced those times when the computer started becoming laggy, the performance started going down, and a lot of things begun breaking down. At times, you’d start facing unexpected system crashes, applications not working, the resource usage going up and a lot of other similar issues. While sometimes, this can be caused due to malware present in your machine, but what if that’s not the case? What if you’re using a top of the line antivirus and malware defense solution, but still face PC slowness and abrupt behavior? Operating systems have a tendency of building up a lot of background information over time, like cached items, offline files, temporary data, registry keys that are no longer valid, and various other things that might cause your machine to become slower than you’d consider acceptable. This is particularly true for Windows-based machines. There’s a reason Microsoft chose to include system utilities like Disk Defragmenter, Disk Cleanup etc. in the OS, because they realized that sooner

Sunday, June 21, 2009 BlackSheep Sunday: The Horse Thief In the West, stealing a horse was a hanging offense. Sometimes the horse thief was lynched on the spot where he was captured and other times the thief was brought into town, locked in jail, tried, convicted, and hanged at a scafford or hanging tree in town for all to witness. When a horse thief was hanged where captured, they were often placed in an unmarked grave nearby, but when the thief was hanged in town they were normally buried in the local cemetery. Many times they were unmarked, with no one willing to order and pay for a permanent marker, and sometimes they had a temporary marker. This particular horse thief was marked much later. While his name was unknown, his deed is remembered forever. The Horse Thief New Santa Fe Cemetery Kansas City, MO 1 comment: dustbunny8 said... Very cool find!People forget that a horse was a essential animal in those days-not a luxury.

Xbox World won't be around for the Xbox 720 release date in fall 2013, but the folding magazine is still speculating on specs for Microsoft's new video game console. "Durango promises four hardware cores, each divided into four logical cores," said the magazine in an 8-page Xbox 720 spread. In addition to a quad- core processor, Xbox 720 could have 8GB of RAM, which would be a significant jump up from Xbox 360's 512 RAM of shared RAM. • We're from the future, here with a review of the Xbox One! Toys within the toy Microsoft also intends to one-up Kinect, its controller-free gaming device, when Xbox 720 comes out. "Kinect 2.0 tracks up to four players," said the magazine, "and can read even the smallest movements of your fingers thanks to advancements in camera technology and processing grunt." Such advancements could lead to augmented reality games, although the magazine said this particular feature won't be ready until 2014. Still, Xbox World illustrated the potential of AR games, saying it "would

1. Take advantage of educational opportunities. Does your company offer an employee assistance program? Take the initiative and reach out to your human resources department or your supervisor and ask him or her to walk you through all the professional development opportunities available to you. Whether it's a free workshop that will teach you computer coding or reimbursements for college tuition, many employers want to keep hardworking people. Show them you're worth the investment and stay sharp for future opportunities. 2. Build better relationships with your co-workers. Just because you have a job doesn't mean that you're done networking. Most people spend at least 40 hours per week at work, so the people you work with are a huge part of your life. Use your time with your colleagues to build relationships, ask about their interests, and learn about their families. When you deepen your workplace connections, you increase the likelihood that your name will come up first when a new opportunity arises. 3. Sho

This Super Skinny Racer Is Almost Entirely Carbon Fiber Okay, so it's not as light as the world's lightest, but TriRig's12.9 pounder is still pretty damn light. Crafted out of tough carbon fiber, the his model's made for triathlons—so it's as aerodynamic as it is pillowy. The Ultra Light Tri Bike has every possible bit of hardware—from saddle clamps to brake levers—either stripped away or lightened as much as TriRig could pull off. The result is pretty gorgeous, and we imagine would be a godsend for an athlete who had to haul the thing around. No word on pricing, but given the $45,000 price tag of the last TriRig cycle we covered, expect something in this neighborhood. [TriRig]

HindustanTimes Tue,11 Mar 2014 There's no closure for them Namita Bhandare, Hindustan Times New Delhi, February 01, 2013 First Published: 21:43 IST(1/2/2013) Last Updated: 21:50 IST(1/2/2013) In the small room they call home, the family of the girl known as Delhi's Braveheart is trying to come to terms with its loss. Already there is no evidence that she lived here only a month ago. Her books and clothes have been packed away, although her brother points to a physiotherapy textbook that somehow got left out. On the front cover, a name has been scribbled in pencil on the top corner. It's a neat scrawl, as if unwilling to take up more than its necessary space. I can only wonder how a girl with such a big spirit could have had such a tiny handwriting. The father, his face a stoic mask, doesn't want to hear the old story repeated. But the mother recounts the events of that night of December 16, how the family began to worry when it began to get late, how they tried her mobile but couldn't get through, the call

Esteban Huertas From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Esteban Huertas (1876-1943) was a military leader from Panama. He was born in Colombia. When he was 8 years old he ran away from home and he joined the army. He won many medals and in 1902 he became general. In 1900 he lost an arm when he fired a cannon. In 1903 he was one of the people who made Panama independent. A year later president Manuel Amador forced Huertas to retire because he was afraid Huertas wanted to become dictator. Huertas died in Panama City in 1943.

Create a choice activity The choice module allows students to answer a question by choosing one of a range of options. Your rating: None Thanks for sharing so often, Mark. Syndicate content Moodle for New Zealand Schools is owned and managed by Catalyst IT, a certified Moodle Partner from New Zealand.

With warmer weather, snakes come out of hiding - FOX Carolina 21 With warmer weather, snakes come out of hiding Posted: Updated: By now, you've noticed warm temperatures this week, and a lucky few have also noticed snakes stepping out to bask in the sun. So what do you do if you see one on a trail head, or even in your backyard? It all depends where you find the snake. If it's on a trail, a snake remover may have some trouble getting that snake down. But there are some simple things you can do to make sure you don't get hurt. "It's warming up. We need to be aware," said Daniel Marchand with the Phoenix Herpetological Society. "We need to start thinking, these things are going to start coming out again." He said when the weather heats up, snakes come out of hibernation - and into your yard. "Those are all common things we get, in the backyard, under the grill, near the planter, in the tool shed," Marchand said. He said they've had at least 20 calls this week reporting snakes, and removed 10 of them. Hi

Logitech Squeezebox Radio review (black) See all models The easiest way to use Rhapsody is to add songs to your library using a PC, then just browse the library on the radio. We're longtime fans of the Rhapsody subscription services and we were really impressed with the Squeezebox Radio's implementation. Tracks loaded up almost immediately on our network, complete with album art and essentially gapless playback between tracks. It's a pain to search for artists using the navigation wheel, but you can get around the problem by adding albums to your library using a PC, then choosing from your selected albums/tracks on the Squeezebox Radio. Internet radio and podcasts: Like every other Wi-Fi radio on the market, you'll get access to the wide range of free Internet radio stations that are available. There are thousands of stations available and if for some reason you can't find your favorite stations, it's easy to add the URL using the SqueezeCenter software. It's also easy to add podcasts in the same manner (

A String Theory Rebuttal In the light of all of the recent criticisms of string theory, many of which have some measure of validity or logic to them, you may be wondering how anyone could continue working on string theory. How could some of the most brilliant physicists in the world devote their careers to exploring a field that is apparently a house of cards? The short answer, stated in various forms by many string theorists over the years, is that they find it hard to believe that such a beautiful theory would not apply to the universe. String theory describes all of the behavior of the universe from certain fundamental principles as the vibrations of 1-dimensional strings and compactification of extra dimensional geometries, and can be used in some simplified versions to solve problems that have meaning to physicists, such as black hole entropy. Most string theorists are able to dismiss the idea that string theory should be further along than it is. String theory does, after all, explore energies and s

Distracted driving a real problem October 15, 2012 Estherville Daily News Save a Life Tour by Kramer entertainment had brought the simulator so students could see how hard it is to text and drive - without getting into an accident, of course. And it was pretty difficult. All the students seemed to agree, though, that driving while texting - or distracted in any other way - just isn't a good idea. And the statistics show it. Most accidents happen when drivers are distracted. It might be driving while texting, changing a radio station, reading or turning around to yell at the kids in the back seat to be quiet. Whatever it is, distracted driving can and does cause accidents. If you don't believe that, the next time someone pulls out in front of you or runs a stop sign, look at what the driver is doing. Odds are that the driver is either talking on a cell phone or texting. Drunk driving used to be the big bugaboo that everyone was worried about - and Kramer has a simulator for that too. But distracted

4 Evolutionary Explanations for Modern Annoyances #2. Your Married Guy Friends Are Boring If pop culture is to be believed, the bachelor party has evolved. A generation ago it represented the final opportunity for a man to sow his oats. Now it's a weekend of dude activities centered more on male bonding than on women. The bachelor party is no longer about sex. It's a going-away party. The unacknowledged in all this is that the friend you had when he was single will not be the same friend when he is married. "It's weird. For some reason, I hate beer pong and fight clubbing now." A team of Michigan State researchers led by S. Alexandra Burt revealed that nice guys who don't exhibit antisocial (bad) behavior tend to marry more often than their wilder counterparts. On top of that, marriage reduces bad behavior. Burt said it is unlikely that marriage inhibits antisocial behavior directly. She believes marriage leads to better social bonding and less time spent with idiot friends (my words, not hers). Anothe

Saturday, December 7, 2013 The Pain of Writing photo by paper pastries Ernest Hemingway said, "There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." Today we sit in front of computers but Hemingway's sentiment still rings true. The act of writing is fulfilling yet painful. Between undergrad and grad school, I've spent an infinite number of hours typing stories and papers on my laptop. Afternoons and all-nighters filled with despair, Coca-Cola, and fervency. Fulfilling a writing assignment usually feels as physically and mentally exhausting as running a marathon. When I have a story deadline, I typically procrastinate because the blank page is a wall that appears too tall to climb. So I sit at the bottom and look up in dismay. Hours before my story is due I begin scaling the wall while the clock steadily dwindles. I need the fever of a deadline to spur me into action. This dysfunctional writing cycle produces unnecessary pain and stress. Once I finish my story, with only a few min

Why do I get the error: SAX parser fatal error: External entity not found: "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"? Benoit Quintin [This happens because Sun's Web site is down, so the servlet engine can't find the remote copy of the web.xml DTD at that URL.] Well, you can download the dtd and point the document reference inside web.xml to the local copy, I suppose. [You can also "inline" the DTD by replacing the reference with the literal text of the DTD. See this web.xml file for an example. Finally, you could attempt to turn off DTD validation in the XML parser, but not all servlet engines allow you to configure the XML parser they use to parse web.xml. 0 Comments  (click to add your comment) Comment and Contribute About | Sitemap | Contact

Fight Club Fight Club – Review Fifty dollars can buy an awful lot of things. Twenty-Five delicious pomegranates. Two DVDs. Both volumes of Alan Moore's Supreme, possibly the single greatest comic book series ever written. An evening at the movies for two and a half people. If whichever executive at Vivendi Universal thought that this game were equal to, or greater in value than any of those things, I'd have trouble imagining someone more self-deluded. If that same executive, and this is the theory I tend to believe in, felt that the game could be dumped on an unsuspecting audience who would snatch it up based on its association with a popular movie, as well as the attractive graphics on the back, then I have trouble imagining someone with less respect for the game-playing public. Fight Club is, as the title would suggest, a fighting game. A ludicrously bad one. It features a few of the features and game modes that people have come to expect, including a disappointingly short story mode, a poorly-devised

Detail misuse cases Jump to: navigation, search • Communicate potential risks to stakeholder. • Communicate rationale for security-relevant decisions to stakeholder. • Requirements Specifier • As required; typically occurring multiple times per iteration, and most frequently in Inception and Elaboration iterations Identify misuse cases Misuse cases are identical to use cases, except that they are meant to detail common attempted abuses of the system. Like use cases, misuse cases require understanding the actors that are present in the system. Those actors should be mapped to capabilities, if possible. Misuse cases should be designed for each actor, and one should also consider uses cases for nefarious collaborating actors. As with normal use cases, one should expect misuse cases to require adjustment over time. Particularly, it is common to start with high-level misuse cases, and refine them as the details of the system are better understood. Determining misuse cases generally constitutes

web analytics March 11, 2014 / 9 Adar II, 5774 At a Glance Sponsored Post Hamas Killed the Baby, Egyptian FM Kissed the Dead Baby, CNN Blamed Israel tell a friend The death of a baby is tragic, always.  But for the terrorists in Gaza and their supporters, the death of a child provides an irresistible public relations bonanza. Even when the killer of the baby isn’t their enemy, but their own weapons. So when the Egyptian Prime Minister, Hesham Kandil, paid a visit to Gaza as a show of support for his fellow Islamists, a dead four-year-old child, Mahmoud Sadallah, was furnished for the photo opportunity.  The staging was perfect: Kandil, gently laying a kiss on the dead child’s forehead, while Ismael Haniya, a Prime Minister of Hamas, holds the child aloft, as dozens of concerned men look on in the background. Kandil fought back tears as he said to reporters gathered to record the moment, “What I saw today in the hospital, the wounded and the martyrs, the boy … whose blood is still on my hands and clothes

I have been planning this story out for the longest time, and I have been waiting until it got close enough to Christmas to post it, and I am really cutting it close! lol Okay, on to the story I have been writing for over a month now. lol Also, I changed the name back to Sexy Santa because I don't know. I really wasn't into the other name that much. Alice and Rose: 21 years old Bella: 21 years old Edward: 23 years old Mike: 24 years old I hope you guys enjoy it! Sexy Santa -Chapter One- "Bella come on, it will look amazing on you! Mike will love it!" Alice excitedly exclaimed over the phone. "Alice, how many times do I need to tell you that I am not dating Mike!" Bella said annoyed that her friend never stopped bugging her about Mike Newton. He's had a major crush on her ever since her high school years, and Bella recently bumped into him a couple weeks ago. Mike had asked her out to dinner to 'catch up' on all the years that passed by, or that is what he told her. Mike on the other hand had other i

Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system Forgot your password? Comment I've long thought this should happen... (Score 1) 390 ... I just didn't expect it to happen so soon. A mesh network is a natural step to take on the path to fully automating roads and all but eliminating the dangers of the road. Naturally the next step would be to mandate cars to participate in the network, to get the best data. I just wasn't predicting it would be in this decade. Mind you, the recent advances in automatic driving without mesh networking has also been surprising, so maybe I should have seen this coming. I don't know what the submitter is so worried about. This is simply one of the final nails in the coffin of road fatalities. Comment Re:Non News (Score 1) 127 You lose many babies, even when trying (even successfully) to conceive. That's not a problem; potential babies are a dime a dozen. We can always just manufacture more, with pleasure! I can't say the same for potential sales. On

Advertisement Upgrade to remove ads What is the main force by which most of the water within xylem vessels moves toward the top of a tree? c. evaporation of water through stoma In which plant cell or tissue would the pressure component of water potential most often be negative? b. stem xylem Water potential is generally most negative in which of the following parts of a plant? a. mesophyll cells of the leaf Which of the following has the lowest (most negative) water potential? e. leaf air spaces Which of the following is responsible for the cohesion of water molecules? c. hydrogen bonds between the oxygen atom of one water molecule and a hydrogen atom of another water molecule Transpiration in plants requires all of the following except d. active transport through xylem cells. Which of the following statements about transport in plants is false? e. Gymnosperms can sometimes develop especially high root pressure, which may account for the rise of water in tall pine trees without transpiration pul

Jane Fonda has been in the public eye for more than 50 years, as an Oscar-winning actress for the films "Klute" and "Coming Home," an activist against the war in Vietnam and an exercise guru who has made more than 20 workout videos (now DVDs). Her first video came out in 1982 and helped start the aerobics craze. Now 75, Fonda is in the middle of what she calls her third act of life. She has a boyfriend, music producer Richard Perry. She's still friendly with ex-husband Ted Turner. She had children with ex-husbands Tom Hayden and the late Roger Vadim. A few years ago, she said in a recent telephone interview, she realized she was happier than she has ever been. "It took me by surprise because I come from a long line of depressives," she said. "I wasn't very happy as a younger person, yet I found myself happy." Fonda is working as much as ever, too. She plays Nancy Reagan in an upcoming film about President Ronald Reagan's butler, and she appears in the television series "The Newsroom." Her newest book, "Pr

PASADENA, CALIF. - Today, for the sport of it, all your theories about American Idol will be shot down. Theory No. 1: TheIdoljudges are meaner than usual this year. Because Rosie O'Donnell says so. Some media outlets, including O'Donnell on ABC's The View, have criticized the judges for being especially unkind, pointing specifically to Kenneth Briggs and Jonathan Jayne, who became buddies while standing in the Seattle audition line. They were terrible on the show and quickly dismissed, Simon Cowell calling Briggs, who has big eyes, a "bush baby." Later, it was reported that Jayne once participated in the Special Olympics. Cowell said he wasn't aware Jayne may have been mentally challenged, and he told the press, regarding Briggs: "I take your point — it's a singing competition and why should I call anyone a 'bush baby?' But I don't think we should be censors on the type of people (who participate on the show)." Idol made celebrities out of Briggs and Jayne, who ended up last week on Jimmy Kimmel Live. "The

Take the 2-minute tour × Does anyone know which cars can be made your "personal car" by stealing? Or which ones can't? Out of them, is there a "best" non purchased car in terms of speed/acceleration/the usual? EDIT: I'm making a list over here, feel free to contribute: GTA Online - Which stolen cars can you bring to LS Customs? Corollary: has anyone made a list of their sell prices? share|improve this question As far as I know you cannot go to a Los Santos Customs to modify super sports cars, because they are considers "too hot" and the game asks you to buy them off of the ingame websites. I don't know if you can put them in a garage and make them yours that way. Also I don't know if they are still considered "too hot" if you manage to put them in a garage you own. So yeah... too much "if" to make this an answer. –  Strike Oct 3 '13 at 9:18 1 Answer 1 You can still upgrade the Sports cars like the Inferno, Banshee, etc. However, you can not upgrade them if you stole it. By LS Customs telling you the car

Croton oil From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Croton oil is the source of the organic compound phorbol.[1] Today croton oil is the basis of rejuvenating chemical peels, due to the caustic exfoliating effects it has on the dermal components of the skin. Used in conjunction with phenol solutions, it results in an intense reaction which leads to initial skin sloughing and then eventual regeneration. Tumor promotion activity was traced to phorbol esters present in croton oil.[2] Pure phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate is now used widely for laboratory study of tumor development. Since croton oil is very irritating and painful, it is used in laboratory animals to study how pain works, pain- relieving and anti-inflammatory drugs, and immunology. [3] During World War II, the United States Navy added a small amount of croton oil to the neutral grain spirits which powered torpedoes. The oil was intended to prevent sailors from drinking the alcohol fuel. Sailors devised crude stills to

Crowd Likes Bush - Times In Disbelief "Softball Season" for Bush, whines the Times, after the president appears before a friendly crowd: "...some onetime allies voice worry about the White House creating the impression that he is cloistered, hearing only supportive voices." Times' reporters can'tstand it when President Bush actually has the nerve to speak in front of supportive crowds, and neither did the headline writer to Jim Rutenberg's Thursday story, "Outing Finds Bush in the Thick of Softball Season." The text box reads: "In a challenging time, the president turns to a friendly audience." That "friendly audience" would be the Associated General Contractors of America. Reporter Rutenberg, as if in disbelief, quoted chapter and verse the often-religious, positive bent of some of the audience questions to Bush. "President Bush did not leave Washington on Wednesday. But for at least two hours he was transported to a different world, away from inquiries involving the credibility of top aides and question

You are here French Onion Soup With White Vinegar creative.chef's picture French Onion Soup is a delicious appetizer recipe that you will simply love to serve to your loved ones. I am sure, once you try this French Onion Soup, you will always crave for some more.   Onions 1⁄2 Pound   Garlic 1 Clove (5 gm)   Butter 1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)   Flour 2 Tablespoon   Stock 3 1⁄4 Cup (52 tbs)   Dry white wine 1 Cup (16 tbs)   Salt and pepper 1   White bread slices 4 Large   Cheese 1 Cup (16 tbs), grated   White vinegar 1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)   Eggs 4 1 Peel and chop the onions. Peel and crush the garlic. 2 Melt half the butter in a saute pan. Add the onions and cook them. When they are golden, add the flour and stir with a wooden spoon until the flour browns. 3 Add the stock and the wine, mixing in well. Add the crushed garlic. Cook for about 40 minutes. Adjust the seasoning without stinting on the pepper. 4 Meanwhile, cut the bread into rounds. Toast them or dry in a low oven. 5 Boil some water in a saucepan. Add the vinegar

TV tech (and other home gadgets) that can save your life Published September 25, 2013 There are unseen dangers in your home -- and the stuff in your TV could save you from them. A new device, shaped like a small garbage can and about as big, creates a plasma field similar to that in a flat-screen television, which emits billions of harmless electrons, Novaerus exclusively tells  It emanates no heat. It constantly draws in the air around it. Harmful particles in that air are exposed to an electromagnetic field, and ultimately the genetic material inside the airborne bug is rendered harmless -- meaning they can't mutate or recombine. “The plasma field can destroy the protein bio-films of viruses, break down the cell walls of bacteria and mold, allergens and odors,” said Kevin Maughan, the founder of Novaerus. “It eradicates 100 percent of airborne pathogens and reduces microbial surface counts by up to 90 percent.” These and other gadgets are part of any well- connected modern digital home. They monitor p

Poor Regina (Lana Parrilla), right? For once, she didn’t do anything wrong, and yet everyone blames her — thanks to Cora’s (Barbara Hershey) machination. (Thanks, Mom!) Emma (Jennifer Morrison) was on Regina’s side for part of Once Upon a Time Season 2, Episode 10, which just made it all the more painful when Emma turned against Regina, and vowed to keep Henry away. (Sidenote rant: Regina raised Henry for 10 years after Emma gave him away. She doesn’t just get to jump in and be The Fun Mom!) OUAT showrunners Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis talked to TV Guide about some of the burning questions left over after the ep.  Who died? Since Cora just abducted Archie Hopper/Jiminy Cricket (Raphael Sbarge) and made it seem like Regina killed him, who really did die? “It's sort of the explanation at the end, which is that it was Cora's first day in town and she doesn't know who she killed,” Horowitz said. Kitsis added, “Honestly, she killed a faceless, nameless person and it was really more to highlight her coldness

Chegg Guided Solutions for Safety Health and Environment 1st Edition: Chapter 3 Chapter: Problem: 0 Stars(0 users) • Step 1 of 4 (a) Chemical hazard Any hazardous chemical substance that can be a gas, liquid or solid form, it can be simple or compound substance that causes illness or unhealthy problems to the workers is known as chemical hazard. (b) Combustible liquid Any liquid substance that gets burnt/ignited when it reached its flashpoint, which is generally at 37.78 deg C (100 F) and lower than 93.34 deg C (200F) is called as Combustible liquid. • Step 2 of 4 (c) Explosive Any substance that gets explodes when triggered/ignited with a sudden release of heat, sound, light and pressure. The amount of destruction caused by the explosive depends up on its composition and quantity. (d) Flammable solid Any solid substance which is easily flammable when ignited and releases good amount of energy is called as flammable solids. They can cause chemical hazard when igni

View Full Version : is this site legit to watch steelers football?? 08-18-2008, 12:52 AM hey im trying to find a way to get live video streams of the steeler games on my laptop and was wondering if anyone has tried this. im not sure if it seems legit or not and was wondering if anyone has something like this on their computers? something just doesnt seem legal 08-18-2008, 01:12 AM They charge for streamed broadcasts you can get for free with TVU, TVAnts, Sopcast or other similar software (which by the way aren't legal for the most part and mostly consist of channels streamed from Asia that are all Chinese/Thai/Korean, etc. and you can't understand a word of what's being said anyway): Satellite TV to PC Scam (http://topw ebscams.com/website/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ViewContent/mid/403/Articl eID/4/Default.aspx) 08-18-2008, 05:53 PM On gameday someone will post a live stream, don't worry.

ken2375 Wrote: Nov 23, 2012 1:13 PM I would guess that Sandra is most probably going to college on a government grant or a loan that will never be repaid. I don't consider myself to be a prude, but women nowdays seem to want the world to know of their behavior. Undoubtably, most are proud to have lost their moral grounds and act very badly, as they always blamed men for doing. Before, someone screams that it is an eqjual right provision, then please be prepared to fund your own entertainment. The USA is already funding birth proigrams for the third world countries through the United Nations Against America (UN),

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Religion & Ethics: Content from Across the ABC Date/Time 30 Dec 2014 12:30:12am 1) For centuries the Christian church was defined as being obedient to the Pope in Rome. Things changed quite radically in the 16th century. Marriage was for centuries defined as a "conjugal relation between men and women", things changed quite radically in the 21st century... panta rhei. 2) "Thus heterosexual people no longer have the right to enter an institution understood to be only possible for heterosexuals"... No, you get 0 in logic John Milibank. By opening the doors of the formerly exclusive club to everybody, everybody is allowed in: both the old members and the new ones. 3) "renders all marriages 'gay marriages'"... No! Another 0 in logic: it renders all "marriages" simply marriages, defined as the legally recognised union between two consenting adults. This applies to civil law. The churches are free to keep whatever definition they wish. 4) When you refer to "complementarity in marriage" what you are really referr

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Bill Gates ‘not satisfied’ that Microsoft is doing enough Bill Gates, speaking on the set of CBS This Morning, was asked point- blank by Charlie Rose if he was happy with Steve Ballmer’s performance as CEO. The Microsoft chairman’s response acknowledged some of the company’s missteps but made it clear that he still supports Ballmer in the role. Gates responded, “He and I are two of the most self-critical people you can imagine. There were a lot of amazing things that Steve’s leadership got done with the company last year. Windows 8 is key to the future. The Surface computer. Bing people are seeing as a better search product. Xbox.” He continued, “But is it enough? No. He and are not satisfied that, in terms of breakthrough things, that we’re doing everything possible.” Gates offered smartphones as an example. This is an area where Ballmer has been widely criticized for not seeing the potential of the iPhone. “There’s a lot of things like cell phones where we didn’t get out in the lead very early. … We did

NHL proposes 50-50 revenue split; other terms may be sticking points League tries to spur negotiations amid lockout with deal that would limit contracts to five years and postpone eligibility for unrestricted free agency. Players want clarifications before responding. October 17, 2012|By Helene Elliott • NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, foreground, arrives with deputy commissioner Bill Daly as the NHL and its locked-out player resume negotiations in Toronto on Tuesday. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, foreground, arrives with deputy commissioner… (Chris Young / Associated…) The NHL kick-started its stagnant negotiations with the players' association Tuesday by proposing a collective bargaining agreement based on a 50-50 split of hockey-related revenue between owners and players and contingent on a full season being played, starting Nov. 2. Although the division of hockey-related revenue in each year of the proposed six-year deal is more favorable to players than the NHL's previous offers to them of 43% and

Beccariophoenix madagascariensis   Beccariophoenix madagascariensis “Giant Window Palm” Natural Habitat: Naturally found throughout the emergent tropical rainforest, in a small eastern section of Madagascar, known as Analamazoatra. Description: A large solitary palm that can reach heights over 40 feet tall and closely resembles a Coconut palm. It is also closely related to a Coconut palm through genetics. The madagascariensis develops a very large thick brown trunk. It has very thin rings or leaf scares, closely stacked on top of each other, left by the older falling leaves. The crownshaft emerges upwards of 15 large pinnate feather leaves, which can reach length over 20 feet long. The leaves are a light green and look very similar to a coconut leaf. The self cleaning crownshaft is usually covered with a brown fibrous netting, also similar to a coconut palm. There are a few variations of this palm, including the Window and Non-Window variation. These seedlings have begun to emerge leaves with small windows.

It wasn't until 2001 that this 1862 mystery was finally solved. Seventeen-year-old Bill Martin was visiting Shiloh with his family, where he heard about the strange glow. His mother, microbiologist at the USDA Agricultural Research Service, had studied luminescent bacteria, and Martin wondered if similar bacteria might have been at work. With his friend Jon Curtis, Martin researched Photorhabdus luminescens, a type of bacteria that lives in the guts of parasitic nematodes. When nematodes vomit up the glowing bacteria, P. luminescens kills the other microbes living in the nematoad's host. Normally, P. luminescens couldn't live in the human body since it dies at human body temperature. But Martin and Curtis, studying the historical records and the conditions in Shiloh, realized that the nighttime temperatures were low enough for the soldiers to develop hypothermia, allowing the bacteria to thrive in their bodies, kill off competing bacteria, and perhaps save the lives of their human hosts. For solving thi

Media centre Global tobacco treaty enters into force with 57 countries already committed Parties represent 2.3 billion people The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) enters into force on Sunday 27 February 2005. This represents an historical moment in public health, as the Treaty gives countries more tools to control tobacco use and save lives. On the 27th, the provisions of the Treaty will be legally binding for the first 40 countries that became Contracting Parties before 30 November 2004. Tobacco is the second leading cause of death globally, causing nearly five million deaths a year. Estimates show that it will prematurely kill ten million people a year by 2020 if current trends are not reversed. Tobacco is the only legal product that causes the death of half of its regular users. This means that out of 1.3 billion smokers, 650 million people will die prematurely. Seventeen additional countries have become Party to the treaty since 29 November. For these, and

Ready, fire, aim By Paul King, Editorial Director Everyone knows that the federal government moves at the speed of a super slo-mo video. Government lobbyists, on the other hand, can attain warp speed whenever they need to. Employees of the U.S. House of Representatives who eat in the Longworth cafeteria saw political activism in, well, action in June when someone got the idea to promote Meatless Mondays. One day in early June, a sign appeared at one of the stations in the cafeteria servery. According to published accounts, the station was touting some new vegetarian options.  Within days, the Farm Animal Welfare Coalition (FAWC)—a lobbying group that represents beef, chicken and pork ranchers and producers—fired off a letter to the House Administration Committee and to Restaurant Associates (RA), the management firm that runs foodservice in the House. Complaining that Meatless Mondays is a “tool of animal rights and environmental organizations who seek to publicly denigrate U.S. livestock and poultry prod

I'm having a problem when dynamically adding series to a chart. I have some code that dynamically creates a model from JSON data that I receive from the backend. Eventually, i'll create a new line series object and add it to an array. Then i'll set the series to the chart object like so. Creating a new series is done via this simple function. I tried Ext.create('Ext.chart.series.Line') and new Ext.chart.series.Line(), it made no difference. createSeries: function (index) { return { type: 'line', xField: 'logged_date', yField: 'disk' + index, style: { stroke: '#ED1C24', lineWidth: 2 highlightCfg: { scale: 2 marker: { type: 'circle', stroke: 'ED1C24', fill: '#515151', lineWidth: 1, radius: 3, shadowColor: 'rgba(0,0,0,0.7)', shadowBlur: 10, shadowOffsetX: 3, shadowOffsetY: 3, fx: { durat

Skip over navigation Pat Barker Chapters 1–2 Themes, Motifs, and Symbols Chapters 3–4 Chapter 1 Dr. W.H.R. Rivers, a psychiatrist at a mental hospital in Craiglockhart, Scotland, silently reads a letter written by Siegfried Sassoon in July 1917. Sassoon's declaration, a "willful defiance of military authority," clearly and logically states his decision to stop fighting as a soldier in World War I. Sassoon believes that the purpose of the war has changed; what was once a war of liberation and defense has become one of aggression. He cites the suffering of the troops, the political insincerities, and the "callous complacence" of those at home as reasons for his protest. Rivers notices that Sassoon has signed the letter "S. Sassoon," conveniently leaving out his first name, Siegfried. Bryce and Rivers discuss the possibility of Sassoon becoming a patient at the Craiglockhart hospital for "shell-shocked" soldiers. Rivers expresses his reservations, doubting that Sassoon is really shell-shocked and hesita

ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time, scientists have evidence of flu in bats. U.S. health officials say they found genetic fragments of a never-before-seen virus in some Guatemalan bats. Flu bugs are common in humans, birds, pigs and a variety of other animals, but this is the first time one has been documented in these winged mammals. So far, scientists haven't been able to grow it, and it's not clear if -- or how well -- it spreads. The risk to humans also is unclear. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention did the study. The research was posted online Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bear Farming Bear Bile Farming, China - Photo credit: World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) Bear farming is a singularly nasty form of animal abuse, intended only to harvest bile from the gallbladder. To reach the gallbladder, which is deep inside the bear's body, a connection must be made from the gallbladder to the skin. This connection (or fistula) is made by inserting a metal or plastic tube, or by creating a tissue bridge (in essence, a leak) between the gallbladder and the skin. This surgery is performed by individuals mostly untrained and unskilled, and does not meet modern veterinary standards. Many bears die during or soon after the fistula operation. After the bile fistula is established, the bear is confined in a cage, often hardly bigger than its body, to keep the fistula open and control the bear. This lasts the entire life of the bear. To obtain bile from the fistula some bears are dressed in a "metal jacket" with a collection container attached. Other bears are forced to li

Search Words Monday, March 12, 2012 Bill Wilson, AA, and LSD One of the underlying problems of categorizing addiction as a stand-alone disease is that it is so often found keeping company with all sorts of other diseases and problems.  Addicts are often found to be suffering from mental illness, depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, horrible memories, etc.  This is why therapy for these other problems can very often be beneficial, though it is best to treat them separately. The medical community has never given up on trying to 'crack the code' of addiction, in large part because these other treatable conditions are usually co-occurring and can be confused.  Also, because of the overwhelming effects of the disease on the body and mind, doctors and medical professionals are often the 'first responders' in addictions crises.  Science wants a cure for all ailments, because science wants to understand the why and the how.  If you have those, then you generally have the cure. So, now this article pops up

Bordetella pertussis The topic Bordetella pertussis is discussed in the following articles: cause of whooping cough • TITLE: whooping cough a long-drawn inspiration, or “whoop.” The coughing ends with the expulsion of clear, sticky mucus and often with vomiting. Whooping cough is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis. • TITLE: bacteria discovery by Bordet • TITLE: Jules Bordet (Belgian bacteriologist) ...agents in the blood, including those that cause typhoid, tuberculosis, and, most notably, syphilis (the Wassermann test). After discovering (with Gengou in 1906) the bacterium, now known as Bordetella pertussis, that is responsible for whooping cough, Bordet became professor of bacteriology at the Free University of Brussels (1907–35).

[Top][All Lists] [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Link with permissions (was: bitkeeper vs tla) From: John Meinel Subject: [Gnu-arch- users] Re: Link with permissions (was: bitkeeper vs tla) Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:43:23 -0500 User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) Miles Bader wrote: Dustin Sallings <address@hidden> writes: to do any permission bit comparisons against that tree. What about this. Tla keeps the meta information about file permissions separate from the files themselves. (I think right now the way it checks if permissions have changed is to do a stat on the revlib and the tree, and then see what the permission bits are). Then by default (or with a flag), a checkout could be read-only. As could revlibs. I know CVS supports this, I'm guessing bitkeeper does as well (in CVS the 'edit' command undoes the readonly flag.) I don't know that "chmod foo" cares enough about the file permissions, though, since you are changing them, and a hardlinked tree has the same permissions on all versio

Image: Credit card © Alistair Berg, Digital Vision, Getty Images There's a lot of worry going around about the FICO credit score. It can be like a sleeping giant you don't want to wake. Carry too much debt, and you could wake the giant and see your score plummet. Never carry debt, and the giant won't like that either. Apply for too many credit cards at one time, like a balance transfer offer and a gas card, and the giant will grunt and roll over, dropping your credit score a bit in the process. Take out a car loan, and your credit score will almost certainly take another hit. We worry, all in the name of making our FICO credit score as high as humanly possible. (Do you know your credit scores? Take this MSN Money quiz for an estimate.) But the FICO score isn't the make-or-break number everyone thinks it is. Credit card issuers often make decisions based on two other scores: your application score and your revenue score. Let's take a look at the application score. • What it is: Your application score, qu

Dungeons and Dragons Wiki Mannon (3.5e Campaign Setting)/Character Creation 9,519pages on this wiki < Mannon (3.5e Campaign Setting) Available Source BooksEdit To prevent random craziness that I have no concept of, only the following books may be used by players: PhB, PhB 2, Complete Mage, Complete Arcane, Complete Warrior, Complete Scoundrel, Complete Adventurer, Spell Compendium. With regards to the Spell Compendium only spells found in the other legal books may be used. The Compendiums version supersedes all other versions(except official Wizard errata). Advertisement | Your ad here Around Wikia's network Random Wiki

• Date joined:2008-06-06 • City:Mexico City • Gender:Male • Alignment:Good • Points:37733 Points • Ranked:#143 out of 175628  Name: Jake Hamilton Alias: Nighthunter Identity: Public Age: 10 (Body of 28 years old) Hair color: Black Eye color: Green Birthplace: Laboratory of the original Nighthunter Nationality: White American Species: Human Marital Status: Single Group Affiliations: ICE Dragons  The original Nighthunter  Jason Hamilton Jason Hamilton was the first Nighthunter. As a baby he was taken by the LHS where he grew up believing that he would one day become their greatest weapon against metahumans, he however had a greater plan in mind and through the ages got to know the greatest heroes and villains where he learned everything he could from in an attempt to fill his agenda.  Jason died at the hands of Andferne when they were both part of the Zero Squad after an ambush of the latter.  The last wishes of Jason Hamilton Jake Hamilton is the second person to use the name of Nighthunter, th

Last updated: March 12, 2014 Decade-old message found in a bottle Decade-old message found in a bottle IT WAS a day that started like any other for tour boat operators in the Whitsundays. But it ended with a mystery like something straight out of a fairy tale. Eerie connection to flight MH370 Eerie connection to flight MH370 The latest on missing flight MH370 The latest on missing flight MH370 ROLLING COVERAGE: We will be bringing you continuous updates as officials seek answers as to how Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 vanished. The worst celebrity travel companions revealed The worst celebrity travel companions revealed Travel Updates Wild winter storm smashes Wellington, dumps snow in Otago Wild storms have lashed parts of New Zealand while a 20 hour snow dump has blanketed other areas. Courtesy ONE News NEW Zealand's capital, Wellington, continues to be battered by the fiercest storm in years, which has ripped up roads, toppled trees, damaged houses, crippled public transport and cut pow

Member Login not a member? sign-up now! Customize to your family and get personalized newsletters. Name of my story A Walk through the Park Who is the story about? Sadie and her brother Tyler Description Sadie and Tyler take a walk through the park and see all sorts of amazing things. Who else is in the story? Sadie and Tyler are the only characters. Where are they? Sadie and Tyler are at the park. It is a beautiful day and there are lots of things to see and lots of things to learn. What are they doing? Sadie and Tyler are walking around looking at things they find outside. They see trees, clouds, bunny rabbits, and flowers. Why are they doing that? Sadie and Tyler like learning about nature. Sadie sees the trees and the flowers and shows Tyler. They talk about the green leaves and the brown trunk. They look at all the different colors of flowers. The see the rabbit eating clovers. They watch as he hops away with his strong hind legs. They look into the sky and see all the fluffy clouds. They learn

Hi 34° | Lo 25° Fewer Patients Need to Take Antibiotics for Dental Care Dear Dr. Roach: I just read the question from “B” on bacterial endocarditis. I had bacterial endocarditis seven years ago, and I’ve also had a mitral valve prolapse heart murmur for decades. You advised “B” that, if you’ve had bacterial endocarditis, “You have to take antibiotics before any dental work that seeds the blood with bacteria.” Didn’t the American Heart Association rescind or modify its recommendation on that several years ago? I had stopped the prophylaxis a few years ago, on the advice of my cardiologist and acquiescence of my dentist. Should I resume my former prophylaxis treatment? Thanks! — D.R. Answer: The American Heart Association did indeed change its recommendations in 2007, and sharply limited the people who should receive antibiotics to prevent bacterial endocarditis. Now the only people for whom antibiotics are recommended before dental procedures are people with a history of endocarditis, people with a prosthe

Take the 2-minute tour × So I have localized a storyboard in Xcode using Use Base Internationalization. I went in and translated all the strings in the strings files. Yay. That took forever. Now I added a new element in the base file of my storyboard. It has a label in it, with a string that I need to internationalize. I saved it, built it, etc. But that new element is nowhere to be found in my pretty strings files. Please do not tell me that I now have to manually add ALL of my elements? share|improve this question add comment 4 Answers up vote 0 down vote accepted The Xcode release notes says: To resynchronize your strings files with new content from your user interface documents, use the --generate-stings-file option of the ibtool command to produce new strings files. Then, manually merge the new files into your existing localized strings. That's pretty lame, but there you go. You could use something like FileMerge to help you sort out the differences. (We have a set of scripts that read in the s

TOPICS > Politics Mortgage Fraud Sweep Nets Hundreds of Arrests June 19, 2008 at 6:10 PM EST Loading the player... The Justice Department and the FBI announced hundreds of arrests Thursday for mortgage fraud, which is blamed for sparking a national credit crisis and nationwide housing crisis. An NPR correspondent and Columbia Law professor examine the government crackdown. JUDY WOODRUFF: The government’s crackdown on mortgage fraud. Ray Suarez has our story. RAY SUAREZ: It was just about a year ago when the collapse of two large hedge funds first alerted Wall Street and the broader public to a subprime meltdown already under way. The failure of those Bear Stearns funds foreshadowed what was to come: hundreds of billions of dollars in mortgage-backed losses around the world; record foreclosures in a number of communities; a bailout of Bear Stearns; and the beginning of a larger credit crisis throughout the financial system. Early this morning, the federal government indicted the two former hedge fund ma

Reply to a comment Reply to this comment ThinkTank writes: Alternative energy is great, it really is, but it doesn't make sense to have to get a second job to pay for it. It's too expensive right now. It needs to be more cost effective. If alternate energy advocates are serious about promoting alternative energy then they need to make it more cost effective. I think a good way of doing that is to make a $1 million contest designed to inspire a new generation of innovative solutions. This was recently done to advance oil clean up technology... Netflix also did something similar, offering a $1 million prize to anyone who could significantly improve its movie recommendation system. These are good ways to get a bang for your buck. In its current state, subsidized alternate energy is nothing more than a mask to make the politicians look cute and subdue the greeny Prius drivers powered by toxic batteries.

The Webcomic Guide to Black Body Radiation and the Colors of the Stars Earlier this year, Jorge Cham of the webcomic PhD Comics explained the Higgs Boson by combining narration from physicists with his own artwork. In his latest video, The Fingerprint of Stars, Jon Swift, Ben Montet, and Melodie Kao of CalTech's John Johnson Exoplanets Laboratory explain why different stars appear to be… » 12/15/12 10:30am 12/15/12 10:30am We twiddled the knobs until it worked: What grad student science papers… Grad students in every field develop a linguistic armor against uncomfortable scrutiny. Fortunately, where lab-bound research monkeys are concerned, PhD Comics' Jorge Cham is here to translate, explaining when grad students left work to grab a couple beers and when they just don't want you protesting their lab. » 3/11/12 12:00pm 3/11/12 12:00pm PHD Comics is coming to a theatre near you! If you're a grad student, were once a grad student, know a grad student, or just enjoy hearing about all the crap that grad stud

The man who wrote the book on the U.N. Security Council tells how it’s handling Syria Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations in New York in April last year. (Allison Joyce/REUTERS) David Bosco is an assistant professor of international politics at American University's School of International Service. He is the author of "Five to Rule Them All," a history of the U.N. Security Council. He writes the Multilateralist blog for Foreign Policy magazine; you can find him on Twitter @multilateralist. We talked on the phone Wednesday morning about how the Syria situation is likely play out at the U.N. A lightly edited transcript follows. So what would you say are the main issues the council is facing now? I think what's going on now is that the French and the U.S. and the Brits really want to try to nail down this notion of Syria handing over its chemical weapons in the form of a binding Security Council resolution, and they want it

-   Fedora ( -   -   cloned F11 install refuses to boot (kernel hang) ( kz26 06-17-2009 04:04 PM cloned F11 install refuses to boot (kernel hang) I installed F11 x86 from the DVD onto a machine using a total of 4 partitions: 1. /boot 2. / 3. /home 4. swap I then created an image of the first 3 partitions with fsarchiver/Parted Magic and restored it onto a second machine (with different hardware). Grub was loaded onto the second machine as well without a problem. The new cloned install will get past grub fine but the kernel hangs. After removing 'rhgb quiet' from the boot options, I can see that the last message outputted to the console is something about the PS/2 mouse - this doesn't make sense as the mouse is working perfectly fine. Additionally, I can still reboot using ctrl-alt-delete so the kernel/CPU must still be responsive. I have tried troubleshooting the various pieces of hardware, so I'm guessing it's something with the clone. All the cloned filesystems appear to be fully intact; the partition U

Play this page as an MP3 playlist Kids, Sex and the State Partial & slightly edited transcript of a talk [1][2] by Judith Levine from The War on Sex. The age group with by far the largest number of convictions for sex offenses are people between 14 and 20 years old. In 2002 I wrote this book Harmful to Minors and it argued that the things that we do in America to try to protect children from sex are way more harmful to them than sex itself—which is actually a great part of growing up—and that the things that we do such as criminalize kids sexuality, or put them into jail, or put them in psychological counseling, or giving them abstinence-only education—these things really have terribly grave consequences for kids. I wish I could say that that book made a difference in a positive direction but it didn't. Things have gotten way worse since 2002. Since that time almost every single state in the union has vigorously strengthened their sex crime statues. These laws are intended to protect children from sexual

Take the tour × I'm getting a new shower installed in my house, to replace the existing mixer shower. I am going to stick with a mixer shower, not least because I don't have a water tank. So, this means I have a high pressure system. There are 2 pieces of terminology commonly used with showers - pressure, and flow rate. As I understand it, the flow rate determines how much water can pass out of the shower per minute, and pressure determines how much you can restrict the water's egress while maintaining the flow rate. Now, I want to get the most powerful shower possible with my current setup. I understand that I am limited to the pressure and flow rate coming in from the mains because I have a high pressure system. In my experience, though, what makes a shower feel "powerful" is a third factor - the water velocity. The velocity of the water coming out of the shower head makes a major difference - if it's really fast, that's what I call powerful, as it can give a really nice massaging feel. That, combined wi

POLL: Which RE Girl Would You Stick With? #31DestinyKnotPosted 6/18/2013 8:25:31 PM Rebecca all the way, she'd make a great mentor for my medical training. =T ..like Cindy Lennox..herb hoarder. D= #32Volren617Posted 6/19/2013 11:16:31 AM Probably Jill. She's the most experienced fighter/operative outside of Ada, and Ada seems much more the "just die if you can't pull your own weight" type. She does save Leon some, but in a lot of the situations they wind up in she still leaves him to do a lot of heavy fighting.

From Wikisource Jump to: navigation, search This page has been validated. who had been convicts and who formed Riley's third class was comparatively free, and marriage between them and the children of freedmen or prisoners was frequent and generally approved. Indeed such connections were far more encouraged and less a matter for reproach in early years than at a later date. The lowest rung of the social ladder was made up of convicts still under sentence and "free labourers". This was, of course, a social and in no sense a legal equality. The development of a class of "poor whites" was an inevitable consequence of the existence of servile labour. The free man fell from the social and economic point of view when he became a competitor of the bond-servant whose labour was compulsory although paid for by food, clothes and a yearly wage. The normal condition of a free man in a country where land might be had for next to nothing and cultivated with scarcely any capital was that of proprietor not labourer, and

Join The Community Excessive costs down the road Just red here in this forum that rear tires wear off after 5K miles and replacement is $1,500. I'm driving BMW 7 series now and my Michelin tires last 25K miles and cost $800 for a pair. Are there ant other excessive expenses associated with keeping Tesla MS going? Modern BMW 7 series uses run flat tires that neither last 25K miles nor cost $800 for a set. I have 3k on my 21" Michelins, no wear to be seen, still look new. There have been only a couple of people complaining of excessive wear. Either they need an alignment or they should stop doing burn outs at every light! Excessive rear tire wear seems to be a rare problem for only a few Tesla owners, likely related to alignment problems. I have 4500 miles on my P85 with 21" tires, and have plenty of tread left. Certainly no asymmetric inner tire wear that has been reported by the folks with the excessive wear problem. I do not see any excessive costs down the road, except for the unknown cost of battery r

Take the 2-minute tour × It appears that only Partial Homomorphic Encryption(P.H.E.) is practical for modern day (2011) use. However I'm having difficulty locating libraries (FOSS or otherwise) that enable me to leverage this technology. El Gamal is an example of an algorithm that does PHE, but the wiki page doesn't clearly explain what blind math operations are supported and how to implement them. Potential Use Cases A PHE is something that can be used abstract to offload mathematic operations to a 3rd without that party ever knowing what the underlying value is. e.g. x+y=z can be performed and it will have a valid encrypted result, but all 3 values are never known in unencrypted format to the third party. This is beneficial to protecting stock market analysis data, PII, or anything considered proprietary or confidential. So, what encryption algorithms exist and what libraries exist that allow me to operate on the encrypted data? Samples of operations I'm interested in include • Addition and Subtrac

Categories: Above the Law Thumbnail image for nbc parking porn.JPG Parking porn. One source said of the allegations: Ya think? My Voice Nation Help This is why democrats like me vote republican, the bureaucracy is out of control. Enough is Enough,Where Does the Buck Stop??? LADOT & We all have to play by the rule, pay ridiculousparking fines While these clowns get away with porn on the job, Pull favors forVIP? We Angelinoshave a say in this Stop the Corruption, by getting rid of the Mayor, Departmentof Transportation Management, Including the Parking Bureau, They are allstuffing their pockets with lavish retirement plans, Driving City paid cars(Why), huge pay Increases, while picking our pockets. We need acomplete investigation to the Mayor’s Office, LADOT office, Audit of CityFinances, to Trace the money, Trace favors pulled by other city officials andtheir families, specially parking tickets. This Mayoris out of touch with Reality, Let’s give him a Reality check, if they can do itin Eg

Dutch auction From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A 1957 Dutch auction in Germany to sell fruits A Dutch auction is a type of auction in which the auctioneer begins with a high asking price which is lowered until some participant is willing to accept the auctioneer's price, or a predetermined reserve price (the seller's minimum acceptable price) is reached. The winning participant pays the last announced price. This is also known as a clock auction or an open-outcry descending-price auction. This type of auction is convenient when it is important to auction goods quickly, since a sale never requires more than one bid. Theoretically, the bidding strategy and results of this auction are equivalent to those in a sealed first-price auction. Auction process[edit] In a Dutch auction, the item being sold is initially offered at a very high price, well in excess of the amount the seller expects to receive. Bids are not sealed, as they are in some types of auctions. The price is lowe

91 Photos March 12 and 13, in Buenos Aires Karen & Hayes at the End of the World The Peace Bear exhibit in Buenos AiresThe Peace Bear exhibit in Buenos Aires (Karen Griffith-Hedberg) The rest of that day and the next we wandered around downtown Buenos Aires. Wasn’t sure what to expect, but found it to have a European feel (not such a surprise when you realize this is a country with relatively young European roots). Outside the centro, it’s not really a pretty city, despite many green parks…too many uninspired standard rectangular concrete buildings in various stages of decay, and side streets with crumbling sidewalks. However constructions projects everywhere are apparently part of upgrades for next year’s bicentennial celebration. The old port area has already been given a complete makeover and taxi driver and hotel staff both pointed it out with pride, a clean and attractive place for a stroll (complete with Upscale Tourist Area hotels, and prices). The shopping area along Calle Florida looks like any dow

Theoretical key From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search D minor, an impossible key signature. C minor, equivalent possible key signature. In music theory, a theoretical key or impossible key is a key and scale which exists in theory and practice, but whose corresponding key signature make its notation impractical. Such a key is one whose key signature would contain one or more double-flats or double- sharps. Double-flats and double-sharps are used in music as accidentals, but they are never placed in the key signature (in music that uses equal temperament), due to notational convention and because reading the music would become unnecessarily difficult. For example, the key of D minor is not conventionally used in notated music, because its corresponding key signature would contain a Bdouble flat (submediant). An equal-tempered scale of D minor comprises the same notes as the C minor scale. Under equal temperament the scales sound exactly the same; such key pairs are said to be enh

Managed Care Current Billing System Fosters Error, Dishonesty MANAGED CARE March 2005. © MediMedia USA Current Billing System Fosters Error, Dishonesty Michael S. Victoroff, MD MANAGED CARE March 2005. ©MediMedia USA Michael S. Victoroff, MD The U.S. medical claims payment system was designed by Kafka and implemented by Monty Python. Its inefficiency and high error rate are exacerbated by a disappointing volume of straight up fraud. Who has not become exasperated trying to match what was submitted to his insurance carrier with the services he received from a "pay-for-CPT" provider? Why is this so hard? Because the claims system is corrupt! I use that word in its broad sense, encompassing both inadvertent message garbling as well as deliberate acts of dishonesty. Behold, an example.A few months ago, I lacerated a finger in one of those western states where they have lots of horizon. After trying folk remedies (mainly shouting special words), I surrendered to a local ED for a stitch and a tetanus shot.

Skip to main content 1. Life 2. Green 3. Green Living Flame retardants may affect fetal brain development © Ng | Flame retardants are chemicals that are present in many beds, furniture, and other items that we use everyday. They are present in our environment, including indoors. These chemicals allow materials like beds to burn more slowly when exposed to flames. Some people are considering avoiding them, as studies have been accumulating to suggest that exposure to flame retardants may lead to health problems. A recent scientific study by Dr. Julie Herbstman and colleagues adds some new information to our knowledge about these compounds. The study reported that higher exposure of pregnant women to a type of flame retardant was associated with lower test scores of brain function in their infants and toddlers. What are flame retardants? Several different chemical compounds are used as flame retardants. One type of chemical flame retardant includes the polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). That mou

Export (0) Print Expand All A printer pool associates two or more identical printers with one set of printer software. To set up such a pool, add a printer using the Add Printer wizard and assign that printer as many output ports as there are identical printers. Windows 2000 places no limit on the number of printers in a pool. When a document is sent to the printer pool, the first available printer receives and prints it. This configuration maximizes print device use while minimizing the time users wait for documents. Efficient printer pools have the following characteristics: • All printers in the pool are the same model. • Printer ports can be of the same type or mixed (parallel, serial, and network). • It is recommended that all printers be in one location. Because it is impossible to predict which printer will receive the document, keep all printers in a pool in a single location. Otherwise, users might have a hard time finding their printed document. If one device within a pool stops print

Being the new girl by PO469 Fiction , Bi-sexual, Cum Swallowing, Domination/submission, Female/Female, Girls domination, Group Sex, Lesbian, Non-consensual sex, Water Sports/Pissing Posted: 2010-07-25 Author's infos Gender: Male    Age: Secret    Location: N/A Introduction: Donna moves to town and is quickly befriended by three classmates that give her a special welcome. Donna walked into her new homeroom class. It was late October and she had just moved to Atlanta with her folks. They moved to a brand new house in one of the northern suburbs and she went to start at her new school. She was a 16-year-old junior. She found a desk and the teacher introduced her to the class. The school had a uniform so she was dressed like everyone else. The girls wore gray plaid skirts that were about mid thigh and a white blouse. Some of the girls tried to be a little creative but there was not much you could do and if you went too far you got sent home. The guys wore gray slacks and white shirts. The teacher asked who had m

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Fuzion (version 5.02) Fuzion cover.jpg Designer(s) Fuzion Lab Groups Publisher(s) Fuzion Lab Groups / Hero Games Publication date 1998 Genre(s) Universal Fuzion is a generic role-playing game system created by the collaboration of R. Talsorian Games and Hero Games. Fuzion is a combination of the Interlock System, (used in games like Mekton and Cyberpunk 2020), and the HERO system (used in Champions, Justice, Inc., Star Hero, etc.). Fuzion is an adaptable system which can be played in any genre and setting imaginable. Fuzion is noted for its anime-genre support, customizable rules flexibility, and being one of the first generic game systems to be released for free over the internet. It is one of the first games to readily allow licensing, albeit not the "hands-off" licensing offered by the Open Gaming License (OGL) that came about some years later. A modified OGL set of rules based on Fuzion is published by Gold Rush Games as the Action! Syste

Exclusive: We Chat With 'Europa Report' Director Sebastian Cordero Europa Report is a new found-footage sci-fi flick that follows a group of astronauts who travel to the Jupiter moon of Europa in search for signs of life. They find nothing unusual and return to Earth without incident. Just kidding; of course they don’t. We spoke to director Sebastian Cordero about the science behind the art. How did Europa Report come about? The script was already written and the producers were looking for a director. I was lucky. They approached me, which is odd because I had never done any sci-fi before. The films I did in Ecuador were mostly gritty realism. I feel that the producers saw in me potential, in terms of dealing with tensions in an enclosed space. One of my films had a character that hid in the cellar of a mansion, which I think has a lot in common with the tension we wanted in Europa Report. I’m very much an actor’s director. I’m very concerned about performances, about making sure the actors get where the

Sam Falls has combined use of alternative materials alongside traditional forms of art, together with a tendency to involve himself in a dialogue between photography and other means of expression, such as painting and sculpture for his latest exhibition at Luce Gallery. But everything starts with the photography, investigating it in order to discover its potential for expansion into an art form. In his work, Sam Falls tries to bridge the distance between different mediums and techniques, for instance between printing and painting which are united in the same work, or the use of bricks, depicted in images or used in a sculpture that is eventually painted, in the continuous search for complete harmony between many expressive tools. The exhibition will cover different stages of the artist’s work, showing how he seeks to explore the greatest possible number of medium. The images in his works are mainly minimal and abstract, while the colours are often bright and are used to enhance the shapes, which change wit

Amid Calls For A National Victims' Fund, Local Officials Say Give Newtown A Chance Supporters of a "National Compassion Fund" are looking beyond the efforts of Newtown officials including First Selectman Pat Llodra, who want to see the largest victims' fund amassed following the 12/14 tragedy kept under local control. While eight families have signed on supporting an idea to create a nationally administered infrastructure to administer funds following future disasters, only one survivors' family member has criticized the local United Way fundraising initiative. In late February, while efforts were still underway to localize a distribution committee, Cristina Lafferty-Hassinger, the daughter of slain Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Hochsprung made an extended public Facebook post taking the nonprofit to task. "The United Way of Western Connecticut gallantly stepped up to help manage the influx of donations, but who are they really helping? They offered their trusted name to evoke confidence from eager donors, but

Take the 2-minute tour × I have an NSMutableArray named as totalunits. It has some data. Each data has value like this. ({blah blah blah},{blah = 1}). The second value should change to 0 instead of 1. Thats what I explained in following codes. NSMutableDictionary *inappDict=[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init]; [inappDict setObject:@"0" forKey:@"inapp"]; [[totalunits objectAtIndex:currenttag] replaceObjectAtIndex:1 withObject:newDict]; But using this, I'm getting an exception like this: [__NSCFArray replaceObjectAtIndex:withObject:]: mutating method sent to immutable object. Help me. Thanks in advance share|improve this question add comment 1 Answer up vote 1 down vote accepted You've initialized your NSMutableArray as NSArray, so it has no mutation methods; double check, that you need to operation NSMutableArray and not NSArray share|improve this answer well, your exception description is telling another stuff =); an array that is returned by the [totalunits objectAtIndex:currenttag