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It's Kind of a Funny Story Trailer: A New Brand of Galifianakis Crazy |
Zach Galifianakis has made a name for himself playing offbeat characters, but his comedy comes with a heavy dose of realism in the upcoming It's Kind of a Funny Story. He plays Bobby, a patient at a mental facility who becomes a mentor of sorts to Craig, a teenager who is new to the psych ward. The subject matter isn't... |
In the midst of the jokes, we get a glimpse of the film's underbelly: a story about friendship, love, and just trying to fit in. It teeters on the brink of falling into the "precious indie comedy" category, but that doesn't make it any less appealing. Lost fans bonus: Daniel Faraday sighting! To see the trailer, just r... |
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I love the idea of getting food while you're watching a movie but I haven't yet seen it pulled off well. There is no way around being interrupted. The actual theater is quite nice inside. The strip mall it's in leaves a tremendous amount to be desired but once inside you forget about the exterior. |
It's mainly bar food you are offered from the menu. Specials vary by weekday. Very nice staff. Lots and lots of cocktails, wine and beers as you'd expect from a bar. Food: Nachos, chicken fingers and quesadillas are all average if not below average. I did find the service to be better than the buckhead movie and dine ... |
I would return for a movie and some decent adult beverages but I'll pass on the food next time. |
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Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN - The Minnesota Twins announced today that they have recalled infielder Jorge Polanco. In 72 games with Single-A Ft. Myers, the 20-year-old hit .289 (83-for-287) with 12 doubles, five home runs and 35 RBI. Polanco, who was just named Florida State League Player of the Week, made 68 starts at sh... |
To make room for Polanco on the 25-man roster, the Twins have optioned right-handed pitcher Yohan Pino to Triple-A Rochester. Pino made two starts for the Twins posting a 6.30 ERA (10.0 IP, 7 ER). |
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Richard D Ackerman |
Case Conclusion Date:July 6, 2009 |
Practice Area:Litigation |
Outcome:Dismissed on Trial Date |
Description:Landlord attempted to evict client who was operating a lawful medical marijuana dispensary. Client answered by claiming that patient rights were being interfered with and that other constitutional rights were being threatened by landlord's retaliatory eviction. City of Lake Forest was allegedly pressuring l... |
Interviews With Akihiro Gono and Hector Lombard |
Akihiro Gono: We saw each other at the press conference but our eyes didn't meet. He may have been looking at me. I'm not going to lose a trash-talking battle, though. When I talk, it's ground and pound. (laughing) Hector said something at the press conference like he's going to shut me up in the fight, and I understan... |
My condition isn't bad. It's not great and hot horrible. I've been working on punches to hit southpaws during mitt training. That punch is coming along well. |
I've only seen one of Hector's fights on videos. The image was bad, though, and the bottom of the film was at the top. I haven't seen a video with bad quality like that since I was watching a porn video in middle school. So, it didn't really help me much. (laughing) He's from Cuba but apparently he started boxing after... |
I've thought of a strategy and I've also thought of what to do if that doesn't go very well. Fights rarely go according to your strategy so I have also considered the worst-case scenarios. I don't expect that I will be able to win without being in trouble at least once. Actually, it will be my time to shine when I'm in... |
The other Grand Prix members are tough. Everyone looks so tough. I'm lacking in skill compared to them. How does a mini car beat a sports car with a giant engine? That's what I've been thinking about. If they run on the highway, there's no way the mini car can win. You've got to use the back streets and win while the f... |
I'm not worried about my teammate Kazuo being in the main event. He's got something to settle with his opponent but I would have preferred if he and I had been the main and semi-main events. Even though Kazuo and I are on the same team, we're also rivals and that kind of competition will drive me to become stronger. So... |
Hector Lombard: I feel really good about my PRIDE debut. I was able to sleep but I am very excited and I want to fight as soon as possible. PRIDE is the greatest event in the world and I've wanted to fight for a long time. I want to make a special position for myself here. |
I've become accustomed to life in Japan. Since I began training at Yoshida Dojo, I've been growing on a daily basis and advancing every day. If I was 100 before I entered Yoshida Dojo, I'm 400 now. By the way, what I learned at Yoshida Dojo is a secret! I think I'm an aggressive fighter right now and I will give 100% o... |
I don't think anything in particular about Gono. Except, I think he talks too much. I've been doing judo for a long time and I've met many great fighters. For example, I think Yoshida is a great human and he never speaks ill of his opponent before a fight. Personally, I don't like Gono's style. I don't think this is th... |
By the way, they call me "Heku-chan" at the dojo. So, when you're cheering at the event, call out "Heku-chan!", not "Hector!" or "Lombard!", because I really like that nickname. (laughing) |
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I'm trying to create a custom control that can be shared by both Silverlight and WPF. For the sake of this I don't use Triggers in my Custom control's templates which are not supported by Silverlight - instead I use Storyboard animations which seem to be supported by both platforms. |
First, I made a Custom control which works well for Silverlight. Then tried to use it in WPF and kept getting the following runtime error: Property path is not valid. 'Shape' does not have a public property named 'Background'. |
The following XAML in my Custom control template is the cause: |
<VisualState x:Name="Hovered"> |
<ColorAnimation Duration="0:0:0" |
Storyboard.TargetProperty="(Shape.Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color)" To="White" /> |
What is the valid XAML syntax for this part of code for WPF specifically? |
And is it possible to make this XAML valid for both Silverlight and WPF? |
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Shape does not have a Background but instead it has a Fill(Background) and a Stroke(Border). |
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Unfortunately, it doesn't help. The above code doesn't work in wpf with Shape.Fill as it doesn't with Shape.Background – rem Mar 6 '11 at 17:56 |
OK. I've ended up with (Background).(SolidColorBrush.Color), it works. – rem Mar 6 '11 at 19:26 |
What do you mean by doesn't work? Does it show any error in Output Window? – decyclone Mar 6 '11 at 19:27 |
It gives the error: "'Fill' property does not point to a DependencyObject in path '(0).(1)'". – rem Mar 7 '11 at 8:36 |
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1996 OPEN FORUM Abstracts |
Five Things I Learned this Year about Nitric Oxide |
Ray Ritz, RRT Sunday, November 3, 1996 |
As we have gained experience with the administration of nitric oxide, a more organized and less mysterious approach has been developed. Our most recent improvements in this therapy include: |
1. Concentrations: Higher concentrations of nitric oxide - those in excess of 20 ppm offer little if any benefit to patients presenting with hypoxemia and/or pulmonary hypertension. Preliminary data actually implies that hypoxemic patients PaO_{2}'s are statistically better at 5 ppm than at 20 ppm. Additionally, lower ... |
2. Weaning: We have developed a safe efficient method to wean NO during mechanical ventilation. Since low concentrations of NO appear to present little risk, after initiating a NO dose of 5 - 20 ppm, we give priority to reducing ventilatory support over reducing the NO level. Once the patient's lung function improves a... |
3. Scavenging: A standard ICU room ventilation system changes the entire room air supply approximately 6 times per hour. When administering NO during mechanical ventilation levels between 5 and 80 ppm and at minute ventilation's between 1 and 20 l/m, we have not seen ambient concentrations on NO rise more than 50 - 60 ... |
4. Delivery Techniques Systems to deliver NO during mechanical ventilation in both adults and pediatric settings should conform to certain basic standards. The delivered concentrations should be stable through out the inspiratory cycle. During non-constant flow, this requires pre-mixing the NO into the ventilator compr... |
5. Analyzers The limitations of NO and NO_{2} analyzers should be understood. Both electrochemical and chemiluminesence analyzers generally have minimum response times of 30 and 6 seconds respectively. This means that neither technology will monitor fluctuations in NO levels during a single breath. Since the therapeuti... |
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Skeleton Key: Bone Cells May Play a Part in Regulating the Body's Metabolism |
Two new studies suggest that the sugar-regulating hormone insulin may play a role in bone health, and implicate the skeleton as a major regulator of energy metabolism |
Insulin, the well-known blood sugar hormone, may have a newly discovered function in the body that will rattle your bones—regulating skeletal growth and breakdown. |
Two new studies published online July 22 in Cell show that insulin stimulates both bone building and breakdown in mice through the hormone's effects on two types of bone cells: bone-building osteoblasts and bone-resorbing osteoclasts. What's more, these cells are involved in an intricate hormonal loop that in turn regu... |
Our skeletons are continually being broken down and rebuilt through a mechanism known as bone remodeling. This seemingly wasteful process is absolutely necessary to maintain structural integrity of the skeleton, and also regulates blood levels of calcium, an essential nutrient used in muscle contraction and other cellu... |
In order for a cell to respond directly to insulin it must display an insulin receptor on its surface. Scientists have known for some time that the bone-building osteoblasts have insulin receptors, although the effect of insulin on these cells was not well understood. |
To better comprehend insulin's effects on bone, both research teams engineered mice so that their osteoblasts no longer displayed insulin receptors. Researchers led by Thomas Clemens of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine discovered that those mice developed a bone-making deficiency, having thinner bones with f... |
Clemens points out that people with type 1 diabetes, who are unable to make insulin, frequently have low bone mass, suggesting that the results may be relevant for humans. |
The most surprising finding for Clemens's team: as the modified mice aged they became overweight even though they were losing bone and not eating more than the controls. The animals also developed insulin resistance and other biochemical hallmarks of type 2 diabetes. |
Clemens explains that his team traced these metabolic effects to a critical hormone known as osteocalcin, which is produced by bone. Osteocalcin stimulates the pancreas to make more insulin and makes cells in the body more sensitive to insulin's actions. "The reason these mice are fat is because they're not making enou... |
But the insulin/osteoblast/osteocalcin/insulin loop does not appear to be the whole story. According to the second study, led by Gerard Karsenty of Columbia University, insulin stimulates osteoblasts to produce an "inactive" form of osteocalcin that "sticks" to bone and doesn't enter circulation to stimulate the pancre... |
Karsenty's team further found that the bone resorption process creates an acidic environment that converts osteocalcin into an "active" form, which can escape bone and enter circulation. Karsenty calls this process a "feed-forward" loop, where insulin stimulates the production of osteocalcin, which in turn stimulates m... |
"The significance of this is that bone is an integrated part of how whole body glucose equilibrium is regulated. Drugs that inhibit bone resorption [which are commonly used to treat osteoporosis] may, in certain patients, favor glucose intolerance," Karsenty says. He adds that this is a concern that also needs to be ad... |
Clifford Rosen, senior scientist at Maine Medical Center Research Institute who was not involved with either study, says the new findings have "huge implications" and "bring the skeleton into the metabolic arena." He points out that mice have very high metabolic rates, however, so future studies will need to address wh... |
Together, the studies suggest that bone plays a part in energy expenditure, Clemens says. "It's a part we missed before. We knew that muscle and fat played a role in metabolism, but we didn't think of bone as a true metabolic organ. This puts the skeleton, specifically bone cells, in control of body composition, throug... |
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What's next,<BR> public flogging? |
Censure: strong disapproval; condemnation. To condemn as wrong. (Webster's New World dictionary) |
It's interesting how a word like "censure" can come up in a public meeting. |
Monday night Sunnyside City Councilman Don Vlieger made a proposal that would change the rules the city council is held to. If the rules are adopted the city council would vote to censure a council member who is more than 60 days delinquent on any Sunnyside city tax or fee or Yakima County property tax bill. |
Once the censure is passed by a simple majority, the resolution of censure will become a Sunnyside City Council agenda item at every regular meeting until the bill is paid in full. |
The resolution will include all known information on the delinquent bill, including to whom the bill is owed and the amount owed. |
If the money is owed to the city, the council member's per meeting stipend of $40 would be withheld until the bill is paid. |
According to Vlieger's presentation at Monday's meeting, the purpose of the proposed resolution is to make council members more accountable and lead by example. |
I believe that making the city council accountable for their actions is important and a reasonable venture, but to publicly humiliate a fellow council member until a bill is paid is uncalled for. |
The city council meeting isn't the place to continuously air a council members' public laundry. I think council members need to be held responsible for their outstanding debt, especially to the city, but to have the censure resolution on every regular council meeting agenda until it is paid is a boorish way of doing bu... |
I see it as a deterrent to getting qualified people to run for city council for fear of one day becoming a public spectacle while face to face with constituents. |
The plan is also flawed. It only looks at delinquent monies owed to the city of Sunnyside and the county. In the past, at least one of the Sunnyside City Council members has owed a large sum of money to a nearby jurisdiction. After a long legal battle, the councilman was forced to pay the money owed to the city, but th... |
Are city council members who question their bills and don't pay them by the due date going to undergo the scrutiny of being censured? |
I also question the need to have weekly city council meetings if the council has to resort to taking time to discuss a resolution of censure as a part of a regular city council meeting until a bill is paid. Does the city council have that little on the agenda that it has to take on the responsibility of policing fellow... |
Who will be compiling the information on each city council member from both the city and the county? To keep up on each of the council members and their monthly bills, each person would have to have their bills pulled on a weekly basis. |
This amendment to the council rules seems a bit excessive. |
What's next? Is the council going to pull all of the city employees bills to see if they have been paying their water, sewer and garbage bills in a timely fashion? |
Are they going to try to suspend employees for not paying their bills? |
Where does it end, at public flogging in Centennial Square? We might as well hang a large scarlet 'IOU' from their necks and make them bare the shame of falling on hard times. |
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