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Stakes Ahead for McLaughlin Runners
Vision Racing's 4-year-old colt Keep Laughing and Mr. and Mrs William K. Warren's 3-year-old colt Charitable Man both hit important benchmarks for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin Thursday and have stakes races in their future.
Keep Laughing, a son of Distorted Humor, returned to the winner's circle for the first time since winning the Lafayette Stakes at Keeneland last April with a come-from-behind victory Thursday afternoon in a six-furlong allowance at Gulfstream Park.
Keep Laughing's sweeping score was a relief to his connections coming on the heels of a tiring eighth-place finish in his comeback race on Jan. 15. The colt dropped back off a fast pace under jockey Alan Garcia before making a bold run through the stretch to draw off by 2¼ lengths.
"I was worried until I saw the fractions and then I was glad we weren't on the lead," said assistant trainer Neal McLaughlin, subbing for his brother Kiaran, who is on a vacation cruise with his family. "Alan never gave up on him and he came with the finish like we had been hoping for."
McLaughlin said the first race back was a disappointment, but plenty of good came out of the result.
"His first race back he probably needed," he said. "He had really developed and matured over the winter, filled out, and he really, really got a lot out of it."
It was the third career win for Keep Laughing and the McLaughlin brothers will be on the lookout for stakes at a mile in the future, although Kiaran McLaughlin indicated by phone Friday it might be a tough jump to join the $300,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap (G2) at that distance on Mar. 14.
"We're thinking a mile will be what he does best," said Neal McLaughlin right after the race. "He showed that today. He also showed that even a sprint with those kind of fractions would be okay, but we might look at stakes at a mile for him now."
Charitable Man breezed three furlongs in 37 4/5, and will now ramp up his efforts to make a late appearance on the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail.
"It was just an easy three-eighths to get him back and ready," said McLaughlin. "We will be looking to run somewhere in early April. Whether it's a stakes or some kind of allowance we don't know, but it all depends on everything going perfectly. We're up against it to make the first Saturday in May, but we will see what happens from here. We can't have any setbacks."
Borel Gets Beethoven to Step on the Gas in Latest Workout
With Oaklawn Park-based jockey Calvin Borel in town for stakes mounts, trainer John Ward accelerated the workout schedule for John Oxley's 3-year-old star Beethoven Friday morning at Gulfstream Park, and Borel accelerated the graded-stakes winner into a faster breeze than his last few drills.
The son of Sky Mesa breezed five furlongs in 1:00 2/5 under the jockey who won the 2007 Kentucky Derby (G1) aboard Street Sense. It was four seconds faster than the colt's work last Saturday.
"He didn't put a lot of effort into his last workout," said Ward Friday morning. "With Calvin in town, we figured we'd get him back out there and he did it well and finished strongly. If you look at all his workouts, he throws in some slow ones, so that wasn't much of a concern."
Beethoven, who won the Kentucky Jockey Club (G2) at Churchill Downs on Nov. 29 and finished fourth in the Holy Bull Stakes (G3) here on Jan. 31, has developed a strong late kick for Ward.
"He's finishing the way a good mile-and-a-quarter horse should," he said. "We're finding out what he likes, and as long as I can figure that out, we can keep pleasing him."
Beethoven is expected to race next in the $250,000 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) on Sat., Feb. 28.
Campos Scores First Career Win
Apprentice jockey Ares Campos secured his first career victory Thursday at Gulfstream Park aboard Gary Aiken's Gary's Boomer in the sixth race.
The 18-year-old native of Puebla, Mexico, began galloping at Saratoga two years ago and secured a job exercising horses for Todd Pletcher at Monmouth Park.
"I'm very happy right now and filled with emotions," said Campos moments after guiding the 4-year-old gelding home at 25-1. He said it moments before the traditional dousing by his fellow riders in the Jockeys' Room (photo attached).
"Every race is tough. When you leave your country, no matter how human you are, there's always a feeling that things could go wrong. But to be able to say I'm competing with the best jockeys in the world as an apprentice is a dream come true."
Campos will continue to race with a 10-pound allowance until he wins four more races. It took him 16 races to get his first victory.
"You leave everything behind so it's satisfying," said Campos. "This is a great reward. You're doing what you want to do. It's a special day for me and I hope I have plenty more."
Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Tops Weekend Stakes Tripleheader at Gulfstream
The latest renewal of the $250,000 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes (G2) – with a field expected to include Beethoven, This Ones for Phil, Capt. Candyman Can and other potential Kentucky Derby (G1) prospects – will be the highlight of a graded-stakes tripleheader next weekend at Gulfstream Park.
The Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth, to be run at one mile this year, will almost certainly yield one or more contenders for the $750,000 Florida Derby (G1) to be run four weeks later here on Sat., Mar. 28. It shares the spotlight on Saturday's card with the $150,000 Canadian Turf Handicap (G3) for older horses at one mile on turf.
Sunday's $150,000 Davona Dale Stakes (G2) is the 3-year-old filly companion test to the Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth, also at one mile, with IEAH Stables and partners' Grade 1 winner Laragh and Lael Stable's recently purchased Frolic's Dream prominent among the nominees.
John Oxley's Beethoven turns back in distance from the nine-furlong Holy Bull Stakes (G3), in which he finished fourth after breaking from the far outside post 10 in his first start since capturing the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs in late November for trainer John Ward.
Paul Pompa Jr.'s This Ones for Phil was very impressive winning the Sunshine Millions Dash on Jan. 24 by 2¾ lengths in his first start since a private purchase last year and first start for trainer Rick Dutrow, who guided IEAH Stables and Pompa's Big Brown through victories in the Florida Derby and Kentucky Derby last year.
Joseph Rausch and David Zell's Capt. Candyman Can won the seven-furlong Hutcheson Stakes (G2) over the track on Jan. 30 for trainer Ian Wilkes. The homebred son of Candy Ride was making his first appearance since finishing third behind Beethoven in the Kentucky Jockey Club, beaten only a half-length for it all.
Other probable starters in the 63rd edition of the race include Ken and Sarah Ramsey's Notonthesamepage, Edward P. Evans' Quality Road, Eli Gindi's Break Water Edison, Samotawka Stable and partners' Theregoesjojo, Shadwell Stable's Taqarub, MiJak Stable's Salo Jak and Thomas Conway and partners' Jack Spratt.
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ZZ Top return to CD racks on 11 September with La Futura. The Texan trio's first album in nine years is already a hit with music critics who wouldn't normally praise the band.
In the U.K's The Guardian newspaper, Michael Hann writes: "It's simply brilliant. In fact, their 15th album would sound amazing even if the songs weren't up to scratch – [Billy] Gibbons and co-producer Rick Rubin have done a remarkable job in making the band sound both timely and timeless, and fiercer than at any time in their career."
Hann adds, sure to please gearhead Gibbons, "ZZ Top sound like an engine coughing and spluttering and roaring into life."
At the New York Times, they say: "The result is kind of incredible: loud, immediate and knowing, full of subtle changes to simple song structures and the same pop-art representations of blues and Texas culture that the band has dealt in ever since it first put palmetto trees and a live buffalo onstage in 1976."
Gibbons tells the New York Times of the album's long gestation: "It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness. White people get nervous and speed things up… you don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and you ain't got nothin' to lose. And that's where the groove lies. Consider that as a mental concept for a second."
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It might be useful in some areas, but quantum mechanics... is one of the hardest places to start.
To put it another way, even if you introduce some equations for quantum mechanics, you are still going to look like an idiot compared to someone from the field... even someone from the field as it existed in the 1920s.
It might be better to go find experts in the field, and have them write short articles for the general public that are about established but not widely known things.
It might be better to go find experts in the field, and have them write short articles for the general public that are about established but not widely known things.
I'm not convinced. In principle it sounds great, but in practice you'll have a lot of resistance coming from several different groups:
)1) Christian fundamentalists who have no room for uncertainty in their model of the universe. To them, you might as well be reading from the Necronomicon, because anything that's unknown can't be declared true, anything that isn't true must be a lie, and all lies come from Satan.
2) New age crystal wavers who are still convinced that quantum mechanics proves there are man
I would be opposed to any sort of calculus in an equation for popular press. But algebra? Yes. Algebra makes some things easier to understand.
And YES, it will require a little more mental effort for most people, but mental effort is a good gauge of how much someone is learning. In fact, put both the equation and a sentence explaining it. But algebra is sufficient for explaining the vast majority of physical concepts in a compact form.
Math equations are a language. A language we are all taught from middle school. We can and should use it, and use it clearly.
I fear that the only way to get the general public to become more familiar with how to read equations would be to sneak them into sports coverage or something.
Brother, that's the truth. I've got a friend, teaches business statistics to undergrads, and is always surprised when one of her students, who are mostly dim on the subject, start spewing complicated statistical concepts that they picked up on sports radio, making the connection to stats more generally.
Now, statistics does not quantum mechanics make
And that says more about our teaching abilities than our learning capabilities. The students are not necessarily dim, but they're not interested in the subject without an application they're also interested in. That's why a tutor is often able to help these people when a classroom lecture setting has failed - a tutor picks up on their interest and relates the subject to the student in a meaningful way. A small class size lets the teacher reach out individually as needed, whereas a large class will miss t
a tutor picks up on their interest and relates the subject to the student in a meaningful way.
What happens when they have no tangible interests?
You suddenly realize you got lost in thought and wandered off campus, and are now lecturing to a rutabaga.
Everybody has interests, and math being math almost all interests can be tied back to it if you're halfway clever. If you are completely unable to establish the rapport
necessary to discover those interests for most students, or are unable to link those interests to math, well then perhaps you should reconsider your decision to teach.
I think you should understand a little bit about vocabulary to understand the problem. "What", you may ask, "does vocabulary have anything to do with math and equations?" Well, first of all, equations are a very specialized form of vocabulary. A lot of formula are symbols which represent concepts. It's no different from a word. The context under which the word is used matters greatly in whether an individual becomes aware of a word which he or she does not understand. The word tectonic could be used to desc
And you already confused something like 75% of the readership of a non-technical news source.
I'd be happy with complete facts and the whole truth. Equations would bubble up to the surface every once in a while under those conditions. I stopped watching the news (TV) years ago because of the half-truth, spin, and bias on everything--just couldn't trust it anymore and didn't want to waste my time polluting my perception.
Without math, it's impossible to convey what you're trying to convey. The press is way too dumbed down already, and many times I've read science stories that are just plain misleading as they try to simplify the message.
Putting equations into news stories means that some people won't understand them, but most importantly it will encourage some of those people to investigate further, and learn how to read equations. If there's no math in the popular press in the first place, then there's no incentive for people to improve themselves.
I agree with this. What I'd like to see is equations added in, where helpful, in the same way as small images in a body of text. Then you could put a caption below, just to say something informal but informative about the equation. I think that way it would be easy for people to decide whether they want to read it. Some people aren't going to want to, so it's important that it's not something you have to read through in the article itself.
Without math, it's impossible to convey what you're trying to convey. The press is way too dumbed down already, and many times I've read science stories that are just plain misleading as they try to simplify the message.
Putting equations into news stories means that some people won't understand them, but most importantly it will encourage some of those people to investigate further, and learn how to read equations. If there's no math in the popular press in the first place, then there's no incentive for people to improve themselves.
no equations doesn't mean no math. Equations generally do a pretty poor job in explaining things. I'd much rather read an article containing "because acceleration is inversely proportional to mass" than one containing "because F=ma"
no equations doesn't mean no math. Equations generally do a pretty poor job in explaining things.
Yes, they do a poor job in explaining things to people who don't know what the terms in the equation mean; raw math often says little if anything, by itself, about the real world, as you have to connect the mathematical items to items in the real world.
But, BTW:
I'd much rather read an article containing "because acceleration is inversely proportional to mass" than one containing "because F=ma"
...I'd rather read an article containing "because, for the same amount of force applied, acceleration is inversely proportional to mass"; my mass is much less than that of a Porsche 911, but I can't even get to 100 km/h on foot or on a bicycle, much
I think that the equation whiners here overestimate the clarity gained when text does include actual equations. I hate to remind you that probably millions of people have stared at the equation with the deltas and the h-bar, and still managed to completely fail to understand quantum uncertainty. In fact, it's a popular view these days that Heisenberg himself did not understand just what his uncertainty results said about the underlying world. And it's not for a lack of seeing the equation. He derived the da
some people won't understand them, but most importantly it will encourage some of those people to investigate further,
Erm you do know the structure of articles and the state of the readership at large means that "investigate further" in some rare intelligent circumstances where the reader is particularly keen to explore further knowledge, rarely if ever extends to reading to the end of the article.
I don't think anyone at all will read an article and then start on a quest to understand equations within them unless the article is in some obscure field related magazine to the person's work, or they will be graded on their und
...but most importantly it will encourage some of those people to investigate further, and learn how to read equations.
Wow, I must live on a different planet. In my opinion, all this will do is make Joe Sixpack say "this ain't important enough for me to learn math, is American Idol on?"
Without math, it's impossible to convey what you're trying to convey. The press is way too dumbed down already, and many times I've read science stories that are just plain misleading as they try to simplify the message.
Putting equations into news stories means that some people won't understand them, but most importantly it will encourage some of those people to investigate further, and learn how to read equations. If there's no math in the popular press in the first place, then there's no incentive for people to improve themselves.
Exactly. So what if everyone doesn't get the equations? As long as there is some explanatory context around them, that should be plenty. And some folks might even decide (as mentioned above) to investigate and learn something new.
Mathematics is the only way to accurately describe the universe and everything in it. As such, *everyone* should have a keen interest. Heinlein was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I think he had it mostly right:
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, h
Should articles be written with intelligence and nuance when writing for a "general audience"?
But they should start with adding footnotes with references first. Most popular science articles don't even mention their sources properly, which sometimes makes it really hard to follow up on them even if you are a scientist.
Everybody not willing to understand simple mathematics (with explanations) is being willfully ignorant. There is no way to reach such people, they would not comprehend the text either...
Willfully ignorant? Not really, no. People have different aptitudes. And there is a far cry between the math taught in schools to the average person, and the math needed to understand Heisenburg and quantum theory.
They should start by using proper units. I know the USA is not metric, so they can use feet, miles and pounds, but football fields, states of delaware and volkswagens are not proper units. (and especially Library of Comgresses)
Personally I think that part of the problem is the non-metric units that are still in use. By accepting that it is in any way sensible to use them, you've already given up on the logical, elegant approach to quantification. You've made it more likely that people resort to the "football fields" etc.
as someone who measures for a living, metric isnt some magical entity that cures all ills. all (real) units have some precise definition, held and maintained by a body or agency of standards, and your vast oversimplification of "everyone different than me" is insulting and itself ignorant of the field of measurement. if the conversion between units scares you, i suggest getting a calculator.
No, not a magic bullet, but a self-consistent, extensible, logical, location-independent basis for straightforward communication. Conversion of units doesn't scare me, it just seems a splendidly archaic and sometimes error-prone way to spend time. A quick trite example: without knowing where your interlocutor lives or works or chooses to base their unit system on, tell me how much liquid is in the gallon container next to my desk?
"Everyone different from me" is amusing, maybe even ironic, though I don't kno
Those aren't units of measurement, they're points of comparison. That's why they're preceded by phrasing like "as big as".
Equations are a great way of explaining something to someone who is familiar with equations. Someone who has done first year undergraduate maths and done reasonably well at it will appreciate having an equation to explain something.
Someone who did fairly poorly at high school maths will look at an equation and say, "What???"
Take Newton's second law. You can explain it in two ways. The first:
When a force is applied to a body, it accelerates in proportion to the force and inverse proportion to its mass.
I've written lots of reports with math formulas (in Latex) where they are needed. Most, if not all, the intended readers have a Ph.D. in experimental physics or optics but I noticed that unless the math is really trivial, they will not follow. Even the slightest math supported reasoning will throw them off. That experience tells me that math for the general audience is probably not a good idea. It is simply pointless the be correct if you are not coming across. Who hears the tree falling in the forest.
You need the explanation to understand what the paper is about. You need the formulas to verify your understanding and to verify the work.
Many people don't read your formulas because they don't have to: they want to get the big ideas, but they aren't interested in verifying your work. For example, your result may be simple enough that they can verify it themselves, or they may decide that it isn't important enough to bother verifying it.
But for your scientific work to be complete, the formulas (or other for
You need the formulas to verify your understanding and to verify the work.
I think that indicates that a lot of people would like to understand the equations, but that they just consider it too much effort.
The thing with a lot of equations is that they are too concise to be easy to understand. I'm going to make a programming analogy here: Looking at any sufficiently sizable and advanced formula is like looking at a sufficiently sizable and advanced regular expression. Sure, if you take the time to carefully examine the regular expression, you will find out what it matches for. It
This is oddly reassuring. I'm a reasonably smart guy, a strong statistician and programmer, and I cannot follow formulas. They're not intuitive and I have to painstakingly work through and translate them as if they were a foreign alphabet. I sometimes wonder whether that's just me, but it seems not. I note that someone in TFA's comments posted a mathematical explanation to demonstrate how much clearer it made things, and at the first Greek letter I skipped to the next comment. No doubt everyone in the
For me this depends on the area. In many parts of CS, you can safely ignore the equations, because they end up being needlessly tedious formalizations of something that was already said in two sentences, and proofs of trivial properties by structural induction. I guess there's a certain "nice to be sure" aspect of restating even straightfoward things with symbols, but rather than having them in the paper, in those cases I'd rather their proofs be formalized in Coq or Isabelle or something and included a che
The innumeracy of the public is at a lower level than that. This is like arguing about whether kids should be taught calculus in school when they're struggling with basic arithmetic.
What we need is not more equations in the press, but more graphs, tables, and diagrams. I can't count the number of times I've seen a journalist try to explain, say, changing poll results or the interplay between mortgage rates and foreclosures using text, plus a quote from an expert which they clearly don't understand, when a
I think that graphs are often quite misleading. Especially when they are used to show statistical information. You can make very different graphs from same base data. One chooses the graph trying to get best propaganda value.
That is why we have the phrase "Lies, damned lies, and statistics"
If someone has an axe to grind, it's easy to make graphs lie. Lying with inferential statistics is a bit more involved, so that gets held off until third year. (No joke, I had a research methods assignment that required me to formulate conclusions then generate a dataset to support them.) But when you legitimately want to understand what's in data, or explain it honestly to someone else, the right visualisation beats statistics every time. Humans are pattern detectors, graphs contain patterns, statistic
Science articles, one would presume, are written for persons interested in science. The idea that there is some broad swath of persons who wish to understand quantum mechanics but stand to be chased off by a simple formula strikes me as unlikely.
If it is a problem, then the logic is the kind of the logic that will perpetuate the problem: the reason math is not as digestible to a public audience is because they're not accustomed to it, and they're not accustomed to it because the media is choosing not to pr
Why reawaken the horrible and traumatic memories of school? Well, unless you were like me who was always good at math. In my case, I would object to news stories containing more references to bullying and teasing. But I've forgiven my childhood bullies of all that. It was easy to do and I've since and I've forgotten most of it. Forgetting it was just as easy as forgetting where I buried their bodies after I took my revenge. *muahahahaha* Ok, I'll take my pills now.
Absolutely not.
Wikipedia has already fallen prey to this. Articles on all these things are just dense reference manuals iseful only to graduates in their subjects rather than enlightening explanations.
They failed when those same people got full of themselves taking over the subject matter. They are as useless as a "man page" on regular expressions.
Equations are short hand and full of a form of jargon specific to a field, in terms of the arcane symbols used to represent a property or constant, with the explanation of what each symbol means buried in the text. They are great at condensing meaning, and allowing somebody familiar with them to manipulate them easily. But they are actually terrible at conveying meaning to someone not familiar with the field it is describing.
Often diagrams are the best way to explain mathematical concepts where possible. In the end, most scientist presents with a set of equations or concept to understand, will inevitably spend some time plotting out or trying to pictorially described what it means, to help understand it. So why not short circuit that?
to the name "quantum mechanics" and probably figure that it is a guy who uses a wrench to do something on a car. "Heisenberg" is a guy who cooks blue meth on TV using methyl amine instead of the usual Nazi method.
You want to put math in newspaper articles? That would first require that journalists and editors understand the math. Journalists in the US generally can't differentiate between news and the crap they report on as if it were news (who won on American Idol, etc.).
Didn't Arthur C Clarke have this argument with his publishers? Every equation resulted in a 80% reduction in audience?
Something to that effect.
In "Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking states that "Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. I therefore resolved not to have any equations at all. In the end, however, I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = mc^2. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers."
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking [wikiquote.org]
In my experience, the concept of entropy gets abused a hell of a lot more than the Heisenburg uncertainty principle.
I do not think the original article was a success for various reasons. It is not easy to explain quantum mechanics convincingly, and I don't think the lack of equations was a main weakness. Those of us who are happy with equations with Hamiltonian operators and eigensolutions probably understand the uncertainty principle too. Those of us who have not touched serious maths, or have done it too long ago will be made to feel stupid rather than being helped.
I think what the article needs was good pictures. H
Most literate people could probably handle arithmetic, fractions, simple exponents, some basic geometry, and linear equations.
However, I would not expect a general-audience article to feature calculus, statistics (beyond references to the mean and median), complex algebra, differentials, etc. As in, everything past pre-algebra class is sketchy, at best.
But algebra beyond linear equations, any kind of complex geometry (beyond rote formulas), calculus, just about anything with a sigma symbol in it, etc. I'm a Computer Engineer, and I don't remember how to do any of that stuff. Format of an equation describing a parabola? Method for computing integrals? How to calculate Standard Deviation? I've forgotten it all; it was 15+ years ago, and has no relevance to my day-to-day life. I could probably pick it up again relatively quickly if I needed to (okay, except for calculus and linear/diffEq; I sucked at it even at the time), but yeah, my eyes would start glazing over any article that relied on my understanding of even moderately complex math.
An introduction to Calculus from an MIT video series. [mit.edu]
The first video requires so much previous knowledge to follow. The average person would have no idea what they were saying. And this is "Introductory" to the basics for what is being discussed in the article.
I read the OP's letter, and while it was a great explanation of the actual details of the uncertainty principle by going over what the different variables meant, it didn't enhance my understanding at all. (Not least of all because it left out units.)
It stated the principle, and gave it's exact formula, but didn't tell me why it was true; it said it just was, and that was final. The NYTimes article explained WHY you can't measure both location and velocity simultaneously, and how this does and does not hav
Because if he doesn't cite the math not even the people that know the subject will know if he's right or wrong.
A big problem with "expert opinion" in the press is that they never have to substaniate their opinions. They instead make very vague arguments and say they would get into it further but not in the laypress. Then they fail to follow that up with any further publication in the specialized expert press where all readers could be assumed to understand the subject.
That needs to stop. Either cite your op
The problem with the original article was that the writer asserted effect for cause:
"....Why exactly is the uncertainty principle so misused? No doubt our sensationalist and mystery-mongering culture is partly responsible.
No, we have a sensationalist and mystery-mongering culture for the same reason we have superstition: fundamental human ignorance, and a failure of the educational system.
It's part of (I believe) a basic function of the human brain to try to organize and explain the environment around
We don't expect journalists to write articles only in Basic English [wikipedia.org]. If someone were to profess that they had never heard of Shakespeare, or didn't know what a metaphor was, we would rightly judge them as being ignorant, or at the least, highly under-educated. Yet, apparently, balking at the simplest of equations is perfectly acceptable.
It's no wonder that we have such shallow thinking, such an abysmal and superficial political discourse, such a disengagement with the notions of science and society, when e
The author struggled to make clear his point and left the impression he was creating a strawman argument
Strange - I found his arguments (in the first article, didn't read the second) quite straight forward, and I feel that adding equations would only have obfuscated matters. Most people don't understand equations and inequalities or their specific significance, and that goes for a lot of well-educated people too. The significance of Heisenberg's inequality is that you can use it in quantitative calculations when you test your theory, but it does not in itself add much to your intuitive understanding of the pr
A good book to read on this topic is David Bodanis's E=mc^2,
"A biography of the world's most famous equation"
It's not just another Einstein book. It's actually about just the equation and its life.
The author gives examples of how printing houses using different equation notation were like Microsoft, driving out the competition for the standard.
All manner of symbols were used for math, some examples:
e================== mc^2
e || mc^2
e -----------> mc^2
e ][ mc^2
Anyway, yes equations "can"
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Sunday, May 13, 2012
Goodnow Library, Sudbury, Massachusetts. -- History and Genealogy Room
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- onerhodeislandfamily.com said...
Lovely pictures, Barbara. An ancestor we share! and, I may actually be descended in 2 very distinct ways, depending on how the mysterious Lamphere line turns out. I expect to make it over there sometime - don't have a good excuse right now. How are the genealogy resources? Missed you at the Bash!
- May 13, 2012 at 7:59 PM
- Barbara Poole said...
Hi Diane,
I'll keep my fingers cross about this line. Would be neat being related, along with Midge. Genealogy resources are excellent. I neglected to mention that they are very strict as to using the room, you sign in, show id. Copies only .10, a big plus, even with the 12 pages I made. Not sure if they have more or things Boston doesn't have though. Thank you Diane, I just got cold feet yesterday...for the next Bash, I'll be there.
- May 13, 2012 at 8:10 PM
- Carol said...
I so love the places you get to research in, they are beautiful, and inspiring. Love this series!
- May 15, 2012 at 9:21 AM


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Last week's blog was about e-reading vs print reading. I wrote that e-book choices through libraries are limited because many publishers do not allow libraries to purchase or license digital copies to loan to cardholders. This limit has become a freedom to read concern for libraries.
E-books are here to stay; it is possible that in the future new books may be published only in digital format. When that happens, an e-reader, a credit card, and disposable income will be necessary to read a book unless all major publishers are willing to sell or license a title to public libraries.
Currently several major publishers refuse to sell or license e-books to public libraries. Others make them available at a very high price or impose heavy restrictions on their use. Consequently the selection of e-books available for loan is limited.
Librarians and library organizations are pressing publishers to change their practices. Some pilot programs are underway as publishers and libraries strive to develop mutually acceptable models.
We need the help of readers to voice their concern about preserving the freedom to read. You can support this effort by contacting state and federal elected officials. Make them aware of the e-book lending challenges and encourage them to press publishers to work with libraries.
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LYNE MP Rob Oakeshott wants the government to loosen the purse strings and start a third round of stimulus now that the Labor government has all but abandoned its promised surplus next year.
Economists had welcomed the federal government's decision, saying it was not unexpected and would ease the pressure on the Reserve Bank when it makes its monetary policy decisions.
Treasury had forecast in October a $1.1 billion surplus for 2012-13, a turnaround from a $43.7 billion deficit the previous year.
The Finance Department's latest monthly statement, released on Thursday, showed cash receipts for 2012-13 so far totalled $111.6 billion at the end of October, down almost $4 billion on expectations.
The main factor was company tax revenue, hit by profit declines.
Treasurer Wayne Swan said on Thursday that he'd rather ditch the surplus than tighten fiscal policy further and risk local jobs and growth.
Mr Oakeshott applauded this move but wanted the government to go further.
"Unless there is a bumper summer, unless we really can see some increase in consumer confidence and consumer spending I do think the conversation in the first quarter next year will be one about whether to stimulate the economy with a third round of stimulus," he told ABC radio today.
Labor backbencher Doug Cameron cautioned that Australia needed to learn from Europe, where austerity drives had taken many countries' economies backwards.
"We should not be out there arguing fiscal austerity when there are major parts of the economy still in recession and still not recovered from the global financial crisis," he told the ABC.
Independent MP Tony Windsor doesn't see the loss of a surplus as a problem either.
"To focus on the word surplus as being the determiner of being a good economic manager, I think, has always been flawed," he said.
ANZ said in a research note on Friday that, as signalled by ratings agencies, a short-term delay in returning the budget to surplus was unlikely to have an impact on Australia's sovereign AAA credit rating, as long as the path towards fiscal consolidation remained clear.
"While the government will not release updated budget forecasts until early in the new year, we consider a deficit in the order of $5 to $10 billion for 2012-13 would not faze ratings agencies or markets," ANZ said.
JP Morgan economist Tom Kennedy said Mr Swan's comments meant there would be less pressure on the Reserve Bank in its easing of monetary policy.
"I think the fiscal drag will obviously be less over the current financial year and I'm assuming so into the 2014 financial year as well," he said.
"For that reason we think at the margin it takes a bit of pressure off the RBA, because now we have the two arms of policy – the monetary arm and the fiscal arm – moving in a more congruent manner, rather than going in opposite directions."
Mr Kennedy said on Thursday that a deficit was to be expected as growth moderates.
"When you look at the outlook for 2013, you've basically got growth fading ... In addition, you've got commodity prices that we think have certainly seen their peak in terms of pricing. You had very high prices for coal and iron ore in the back end of 2011 and I think the economy is still adjusting to the lower prices," he said.
"I think considering the current outlook, a deficit will certainly be what occurs with the budget."


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Freehold Police Officers Deliver Baby At Gas Station
A Freehold police officer delivered a baby at a gas station when the mother began to deliver the baby en route to the hospital.A Lakewood couple was headed to Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick early Sunday morning and realized the baby wasn't going to wait for the 32 mile trip. according to the Lakewood Scoop.com. The couple called Freehold Police and pulled into an Exxon gas station on Route 9 reports the Asbury Park Press.
Officers Frank Mount & Drew Galaydick responded and delivered the baby girl in the station's parking lot. EMS arrived shortly and transported the family the rest of the way.
"It was a big surprise," clerk Paramgit Singh told the Asbury Park Press of the police and EMS that filled the parking lot.


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text: Quote of the Day: Anthony Mangieri on What Will Make Una Pizza Napoletana Stand Out in SF Quick Bites News in one quick bite. Adam Kuban Profile Twitter Facebook 19 Printer-Friendly Version "Well, I've been meaning to come out here for a long time. I guess you could say that the timing took too long. But, look, I started this whole wacky frenzy [about Neapolitan pizza]. All those other guys know that. Everyone who's planning on opening a Neapolitan pizzeria has been to my place in NYC to check it out. I've tried the pizza at some of the new places out here. It's all good and it's all different. But I've been making pizza since I was 15 years old. I started Una Pizza Napoletana in 1996 when no one else was doing it. I'm not doing this because it's trendy or to make money." --Anthony Mangieri, on the ZagatBuzz blog


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Jameis Winston (AP)
Florida State quarterback and Heisman Trophy contender Jameis Winston is the subject of a sexual assault complaint that was made by a woman last December, multiple media outlets reported Wednesday.
No charges have been filed, and a police incident report obtained by Tallahassee.com says that the suspect is unknown. Tallahassee.com reported that Winston was not named in the incident report, which was heavily redacted. Tallahassee police released the report Wednesday afternoon in response to a request by the site.
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"The case is open and active and the victim is working with the State Attorney's Office," Tallahassee police spokesman Officer David Northway told Tallahassee.com.
Tim Jansen, an attorney for Winston, told Tallahassee.com that Winston has cooperated with authorities, but he disputed a report by TMZ.com that said police and prosecutors have interviewed Winston.
"This case has been going on for over a year. The case was basically closed and we're not sure why it's opened up," Jansen told Tallahassee.com. "We've been cooperating with the law enforcement agencies and we're hoping to get a quick resolution in favor of Mr. Winston."
The complaint was filed early on Dec. 7, 2012, according to Tallahassee.com. The alleged victim said the assault occurred between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. Police received the complaint about two hours later.
According to the report, the suspect was described as being between 5-foot-9 and 5-foot-11 and weighing 240 pounds. Florida State lists Winston as 6-foot-4 and 228 pounds.
TMZ.com managing editor Harvey Levin stood by the site's claim that Winston is the suspect.
The 5'11 reference was from initial report ...possibly an eyeball reference. We have confirmed the suspect is Winston -- 100%— Harvey Levin (@HarveyLevinTMZ) November 13, 2013
Florida State released a statement Wednesday evening:
"We are aware of a matter that was investigated by the Tallahassee Police Department almost a year ago. Because the investigation has not been closed by TPD, we cannot comment further at this time. We look forward to a speedy resolution of the issue. There is no change in Jameis Winston's status. Coach Jimbo Fisher and Jameis will be answering questions about football only until there is a resolution."
Tallahassee.com reported that Winston spoke briefly to reporters Wednesday night, and that questions about the complaint were not allowed.
Winston, 19, has led the Seminoles to a 9-0 record and a No. 2 ranking in the BCS standings as a redshirt freshman. FSU said there was no change in Winston's status for the Seminoles' home game Saturday against Syracuse.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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With May '2-4' done with and June almost upon us, there is one species itching to bite into the new summerish season: the mosquito. Some places around the world are already warm and others are just about to feel the heat – ideal breeding grounds for the mosquito who has waited as much as the beach bunny for the sun.
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Governors make friendly game-day wager
LINCOLN - - Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman has announced a friendly wager with Washington Governor Chris Gregoire when the Nebraska and Washington college football teams meet for a rematch in Thursday's Holiday Bowl. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cornhuskers and the University of Washington Huskies will play in the 33rd Annual Bridgeport Education Holiday Bowl being held at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego Thursday night, Dec. 30. Governor Gregoire is the current chair and Governor Heineman the vice-chair of the National Governors Association. The two talk frequently as leaders of the bipartisan organization representing the nation's governors. If the Huskers win, Governor Gregoire will send Governor Heineman Washington wild salmon. Should the Huskies win, Governor Heineman will purchase Omaha Steaks for Governor Gregoire. Governor Heineman said, "I am confident of a Husker win in this rematch. While I prefer Nebraska beef, for one night Sally and I are looking forward to Washington salmon." Governor Gregoire said, "The Huskies have had an inspirational season and I am confident they will win this year's Holiday Bowl," said Gregoire. "The quality of Washington's salmon and beef are first rate, and my husband Mike and I are eager to taste how Omaha steak measures up. Let the game begin." The Holiday Bowl will begin at 9 p.m. CT and will be televised nationally on ESPN.


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I too have also decided to give antibiotics a try. I actually made my decision over a month ago, but could not find a cooperative doctor until recently. He wanted to test me for CPN but before we could do the test I came down with a bad urinary tract infection. Which is probably a good thing, since apparently you can test negative for CPN and still have an infection in the cns, and this just jumpstarted my antibiotic therapy.
So here is a rundown of what has happened so far. Dr. wrote a prescription for ciprofloaxin 500 mg twice daily for U.T.I. Ciprofloaxin crosses blood brain barrier well and is effective against CPN. I took it that evening and was up all night with the sensation that I could not breath, since I experience this from time to time anyway, I thought maybe it was just a fluke. The next morning I got up to go to work and took my second dose. Within a few hours the same thing, this time only worse. Very similar to what Karrie experienced and has explained elsewhere. I also could see myself having to take an ambulance ride to the hospital. I thought I was having a reaction to the cipro so I called the doctor and they wrote another prescription for doxycycline 100 mg twice daily. I've been taking it for about 3 weeks now.
The first couple of weeks on doxycycline I didn't notice any real change and I didn't experience any breathing difficulties. I had been wondering if what I had felt on the ciprofloaxin was mabe they herxheimer reaction. From the research I had done ciprofloaxin quickly spikes in blood concentration where as the tetracycline antibiotics are more of a slow build. So earlier this week I decided to use myself a guinea pig and instead of spacing my doses of doxycycline I took 200 mg at the same time in hopes of getting a quicker spike in blood concentration and duplicating the effects I had on the ciprofloaxin. I did indeed get the same sensations of not being able to breath, although not quite as intense. In my mind this tells me that in all likelihood what I experienced was the herxheimer reaction. I'm going in to see the doctor this week to convince him to continue me on antibiotics, if he will not go along I'm going to go it alone. Ill keep you all up to date on how it's going.
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text: Home → Lifestyle DAR presents Good Citizens Awards Winners of the DAR Good Citizens Awards for high school students are, from left, Emma Schaafsma of Delaware County Christian School; Criztel Navizaga of Upper Merion Area High School; Rachel Schuck of Great Valley High School; Abigail Gould of Phoenixville Area High School and Reina Hernandez of The Overbrook School for the Blind. Each read her essay to members of The Great Valley Chapter, National Society for the Daughters of the American Revolution, for the annual Good Citizens DAR Program for area high school seniors. Anne Clisham, chairman, and Maureen Wylonis, regent, presided. Posted: 01/31/13, 12:01 AM EST | # Comments Advertisement Subscribe to Home Delivery for only $2.50 per week!


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The Prowers County Sheriff's Office assisted the Bent County Sheriff's Office in serving a search warrant in the 1000 block of South 12th Street on Thu., Dec. 6, 2012.
The search warrant was to locate stolen "horse tack." Several sheriff vehicles from Prowers and Bent County were on scene to serve the search warrant.
Sheriff Faull stated, "I want the neighbors and people driving by the residence on south 12th during that time to know that no stolen property was located and that follow up investigations showed that the people in question were totally innocent and the information to obtain the warrant proved to be inaccurate."
If anyone has any questions concerning this incident, please call Sheriff Faull at 336-8050.


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Thanks for posting,
I diligently put all the nvidia info in my posts above.
When The last poster said they were using a 7600, I was able to reproduce the error with my 7100
My best advice at this time is to install the 173 drivers, The dev are working on a cure, I suspect it will hit the main repos soon.
So far, it seems it is the 7k series card that is affected, The 173 drivers do work, a fix is on the way.


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I use /k/. (BrE speaker)
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Hi All,
I always hear people say "Weekend", the pronunciation like "Weegend", I wonder if the k in weekend is an "unaspirated k"
I use /k/. (BrE speaker)
[08] What did you do last weekend? - YouTube
Which native-speaking people do you hear using this pronunciation?
/k/and /kʰ/ are allophones of the same phoneme in English. It's the same word whether a letter is aspirated or not. Unaspirated /k/ is not a /g/. I can't hear any /weegend/ here, and English speakers are poor judges of aspiration anyway because it makes no difference to meaning in English.
"Word-final voiceless stops optionally aspirate."
Aspirated consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I don't hear a /g/ in the middle either.
I just watched it and I didn't hear a /g/ either.


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It was very useful for developers looking to support as many different users as possible
No, it was useful for developers looking to cut corners. Screenshots simply aren't a reliable way of testing something that the user will be interacting with. For instance, one particularly nasty Internet Explorer 6 bug made all the text on a page disappear - but only when the window was resized. There are some Android bugs where the tap target for links is different to where they appear on screen. Some Internet Explorer 8 bugs only manifest themselves while something is being animated.
Aside from the inherent limitations with a screenshot service, I've personally witnessed cases where this tool renders things differently to how a genuine browser renders it. It looks suspiciously like they were using a technique similar to IETester, because they got identical things wrong. A genuine copy of Internet Explorer 6 was rendering something one way, and this tool was showing Internet Explorer rendering something a completely different way.
The only reliable way of testing websites is with virtual machines. It's a little resource intensive, but it guarantees that you are testing with the actual browser and not with some Frankenstein reproduction, and it lets you replicate how a user actually uses the website - which is not by passively looking at it without any interaction.
The only reliable way of testing websites is with virtual machines. It's a little resource intensive, but it guarantees that you are testing with the actual browser and not with some Frankenstein reproduction, and it lets you replicate how a user actually uses the website
Even that isn't enough. I had a nightmare of a time identifying an IE7 bug due to a race condition. Our QA team (at a different office) was able to reliably reproduce it on physical hardware, but I couldn't in VMs because they ran slow enou
I did find it useful, for a short period of time, when I was greener to the web development industry. But in practice it just didn't provide proper feedback.
The Web standards are being followed a lot more closely by browsers. Of course, Microsoft doesn't believe in rounded corners (Anyway, I think that may be patented [theregister.co.uk]).
IE7 sucks just about as bad as IE6, but I keep a VM with IE7 (Vista) around for extreme testing.
VirtualHostX [clickontyler.com] is also pretty useful, as I can develop sites on my laptop, then directly transition them to the server with no fiddling with mod_rewrite or DB settings.
IE9 supports rounded corners just fine...
IE9 supports rounded corners just fine...
I do most of my testing with IE7 and IE8 (and tend to want to support IE8), but I just set up an IE9 and an IE10 VM. I haven't really started testing with them much. That phase begins this weekend.
With that service you can VNC/Remote Desktop into machines running just about any combination of technology that you want to test again. You can also do screen shots, but being able to click on a screenshot to remote in was always the real perk.
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Facebook Revealed As Behind $1.5B "Catapult" Data Center In Iowa 82
Earlier this month, an article raised the question of who owns the giant data center being built in Altoona, Iowa. Today, the Des Moines Register has an answer, gleaned from "legislative sources." The giant facility, estimated to cost $1.5 billion when construction is complete, is to house a data center for Facebook. The article lists various attributes the site has to make it attractive for all that data, including access to transportation, extensive network infrastructure, and relatively low risk from natural disasters.


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"Pulling through" can also be slightly risky. I've almost had accidents because I was pulling through and someone pulled in to the same spot! No collisions but it would have been my fault if it happened.
I saw this thread over the weekend and wanted to respond as this is something I have a real thing about - but I was only online on my phone over the weekend so only getting back to this now!I have always felt that backing into a space is more difficult, as one has a narrower area to fit into, whereas backing out, in theory, you have a much wider area to reverse into. That's not of course to say you should not observe what's around, or that you have carte blanche to take up all the available space, but the bottom line is I find it a lot easier and quicker to back OUT than I do to back IN. It's the way my head works, but I would never condone backing out without making full observations. This was then discussed on Top Gear, and I was alarmed to discover they felt the opposite. While there's a lot in that show people might not agree with of course, they are all 'professional' drivers, so I attached some credibility to what they said on this issue, and their take on it WAS down to the issue of it being more likely that observation is harder if reversing out due to the range of possible directions of traffic and people approaching which could be out of your line of sight, whereas reversing in, really the only concern (barring freak accidents) is avoiding the other cars.However, I do still see a lot of people taking a LONG time to reverse in, and it does irritate me, I admit. I drive in, and when I reverse out, I do so smoothly and quickly (and with suitable observations to be safe).Oddly enough, while pulling through is not to my knowledge illegal here in Ireland (where I live) or the UK (where I learned to drive), it has always felt a little bit rude to me. I'm just not sure why!!
Any of you old enough to remember the original Muppet Movie?Fozie is driving, with Kermit, in a De Soto, gets told to turn left at the the fork in the road - and shows a giant fork, stuck in the road. At one point, Fozie's driving is particularly bad and Kermit asks him, 'Where did you learn to drive?'Fozie replies, 'I took a correspondance course.'So that's what I ask all the bad drivers out there when I'm ranting and raving inside the safe, relatively soundproof confines of my own vehicle.
3. One lady in a big 4WD vehicle - I didn't pay any attention to what type - had trouble backing into the space because a) the vehicle was big and the space to turn in was small b) she was having trouble seeing properly over the seats while reversing because she was short, so this took extra time. She was in and out a few times.
4. One person took so long trying to do it that I ended up driving around her when she was backed far enough in (at least the third time of trying!) to leave enough space for me to do so. I was able to do that faster than she was manoeuvring the car in and out, so that gives an indication of how slow she was at it.
So, the most annoying things were a) people not signalling that they were going to take a space and b) not doing it properly/not having the skill to do it in a reasonable amount of time. Also, sheer obliviousness to the fact that other people were using the car park too
Quote from: perpetua on February 27, 2014, 04:18:59 AM4. One person took so long trying to do it that I ended up driving around her when she was backed far enough in (at least the third time of trying!) to leave enough space for me to do so. I was able to do that faster than she was manoeuvring the car in and out, so that gives an indication of how slow she was at it.You may well have been there just as long while she tried to maneuver into the space.
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TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe played up signs of economic recovery and appealed to voters for political stability in a debate Wednesday, a day before campaigning starts for upper house elections set for July 21.
Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, the New Komeito Party, are expected to gain a majority in the less powerful upper house through the elections, when half the chamber's 242 seats will be up for grabs. That would give them control of both chambers of parliament for as long as three years if early elections aren't called, making it easier to pass legislation after years of gridlock from a "twisted parliament," in which the opposition controls the upper house.
Abe's Cabinet has enjoyed relatively strong public support since taking office in December after the LDP's landslide victory in lower house elections, thanks largely to his three-pronged economic revival program dubbed "Abenomics," which includes massive monetary easing and public spending. Business confidence has bounced back, stock prices have risen sharply and the weaker yen has given exporters relief.
Abe boasted about the 4.1 per cent annual economic growth rate in the first quarter, and pledged to lift Japan out of years of deflation.
"Thanks to everyone's strength, politics has changed and the economy has begun to move," he said. "We will win the election, end the twisted parliament and deliver visible results that you can see."
Flanked by eight other party leaders in a debate held at the Japan National Press Club, Abe was the target of many of the questions posed by political rivals and experts querying his economic policies, views on revising the constitution, nuclear power and ties with China and South Korea.
Questioned about whether his government will go ahead with plans to raise the sales tax in April to 8 per cent from 5 per cent, Abe said that raising taxes was still an essential part of reducing Japan's bulging national debt, but that his government would be making decisions while closely monitoring the economy.
The lack of an appealing alternative to the LDP should also benefit the party in the upcoming elections. Voters are deeply disappointed in the main opposition party, the Democratic Party of Japan, which ruled the country for just over three years from 2009 to the end of 2012, because it failed to deliver on campaign promises.
Currently, the LDP has 50 seats in the upper house that won't be contested, while the Komeito has nine, given them a total of 59. So together they need to win 63 seats to gain a majority of 122 in the chamber, which experts say is likely.


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Submission + - GLOBE at Night Aims to Map Global Light Pollution (globeatnight.org) 1
Kilrah_il writes: Light pollution is a big problem this days, affecting not only astronomers and wild life, but also everyone else because of wasted energy. GLOBE at Night aims to raise awareness by urging people to go outside and find out how much light pollution there is in their area. "The campaign is easy and fun to do. First, you match the appearance of the constellation Orion in the first campaign (and Leo or Crux in the second campaign) with simple star maps of progressively fainter stars found. Then you submit your measurements, including the date, time, and location of your comparison. After all the campaign's observations are submitted, the project's organizers release a map of light-pollution levels worldwide."


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"We thought we had a young player who loved football, who had won four road playoff games, and although he didn't have a perfect year in 2011 we thought he was doing this," Tannenbaum said, angling his arm to suggest an upward plane. "Based on how he played in 2012, that contract doesn't look very good. "The interesting thing about Mark is, he comes in and is one of only five quarterbacks to win 30 or more games in his first three years. And then he plays worse. It really doesn't make sense."
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That's what happens when you hire a defensive coordinator run-amok and dump every offensive playmaker you ever had and replace them with cheap imitations so you can take your money and throw it on the other side of the gridiron. Your two safeties can ball, but they're one-season-carpetbaggers and didn't score 14 points per game.
And the bottom line was: It didn't NEED to be done. He still had 2 years remaining on his deal. After missing out on Peyton, you got the feeling that Tanny wanted to do SOMETHING, which ended up being a disaster.
This tells me that Tanny and the Jets organization believes that Mark Sanchez does not love and is not putting his best foot forward. No?We thought we had a young player who loved football
What it tells me is that the Jets were, to some extent, taken in by his supposed "love of football". Him being a gym rat, "loving" football, and generally being a nice kid blinded them, to some extent.we thought he was doing this," Tannenbaum said, angling his arm to suggest an upward plane
While its important to have a guy "eat, breathe, love" football, that's just step one in evaluating the guy. He could love football and have a chronic inability to decipher the defense. The love of football doesn't automatically mean that the game slows down for him, unfortunately.
I'd rather have an ahole who can find a receiver whilst being blitzed, then a nice kid who panics.
What Tanny doesn't realize and what makes him a massive fool is that the QB does not singlehandedly win a football game. His only defense of Sanchez is to cite team statistics: wins. Pathetic. Thank god this loser was canned.
God forbid we had a GM who thought "outside the box" and evaluated the QB's individual performance rather than the team result. I mean, talk about revolutionary, to analyze the QB by actually looking only at the way the QB played. I guess Tanny's analysis of Sanchez went something like this: SCOREBOARD
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Dan Fouts did it the best. He wore a hat in practice that said MFIC.
Mother F***** In Charge No one doubted who ran that offense, and in the huddle, no one doubted who was in charge. You shouldn't need a guard to tell a WR to shut up. The great QB's would have done that 6 weeks earlier.
You could be a nice guy if you're the QB.....I guess. But first and foremost, you need to be in charge, no questions asked. If you don't think you're in charge, sure as **** no one else will.
The moral of the story: Hope is not a strategy.
Also, every Qb gets beat downs at one time or other, the good ones rise above it, the bad ones are wrecked (Carr, Harrington etc)
Now I'm not sure if Sanchez can be salvaged as many players and coaches think. But if he can be I don't think he can Do it here in the NY Market.
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For Stevens Students, an Italian Venue Sets the Tone for Acquiring Entrepreneurial Skills
What does the term 'study abroad' conjure up?
Learning, culture, communication, collaboration, anticipation and anxiety are some of the phrases that come to mind – and these, and many such similar expressions were used by a group of undergraduate students who travelled to Naples, Italy for a Stevens two-week immersion course in Entrepreneurial Analysis of Engineering Design.
Initiated in 2013 by the School of Systems & Enterprises (SSE) at Stevens, in collaboration with the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II, the two-week, three-credit spring extension course in Entrepreneurial Analysis of Engineering Design offers a unique learning and cultural experience for students from various parts of the globe.
"We live in an era where understanding and interacting with global communities has become a required skill-set in our personal and professional lives," said Dr. Kate Abel, industry professor and director of the undergraduate engineering management program at SSE. "Expanding our student's academic and personal growth to make them successful entrepreneurs is at the heart of our program and an illustration of the Stevens strategic priority of Student-Centricity."
The 2014 spring session in Naples truly had an international flavor. With 14 students from across Stevens, eight from the University of Arkansas and several others from Tec De Monterey and University of Naples Federico II, the program was an amalgamation of cross-cultural learning, team building and entrepreneurial thinking.
"The experience that I received from this trip was more than what I originally expected," said Hannah Siddoti, a bio-medical major at Stevens. "Besides learning about the challenges in the setting up of new engineering ventures and the steps involved in taking an idea from innovation to the marketplace, the experience of working in a group with students and teachers from different cultures, hearing their stories and professional perspectives, and learning to connect and communicate on a global platform, were some of my key takeaways from the program."
"The goal is to provide students an introduction to business design and launch an understanding of the global work environment, with concepts of student exchange, diversification and collaboration through a full immersion format," said Dr. Luca Iandoli, associate professor of engineering and innovation management at the School of Engineering, University of Naples Federico II (Italy) and visiting research professor in the engineering management division at SSE. "The immersion format allows students to experience working within an international team along with experiencing the culture and business environment of a new country."
For Kristin Salmins, a mechanical engineering major at Stevens, the trip was a bit nerve-wracking to begin with. "Not having ever traveled outside the continent and to a non-English speaking land, I was not sure what to expect. But, it was amazing. From the fantastic curriculum, to learning about the world around me, to making new friends and memories, the trip has given me a new attitude towards myself and the world."
Besides the classroom learning, the field trips is what made the program truly educational and immersive.
"Visiting a mozzarella factory and a winery to see the operational processes of a real business - to see how a start-up comes to life, the experience was illuminating and reinforced many of the concepts that we had been 'theoretically' taught in class," said Elizabeth Pascetta, an engineering management student at Stevens. "Above all, the opportunity to enjoy the fresh mozzarella and savor different wines was a wonderful part of the visit."
The Archaeological Museum, the Phoenician steps, Mount Vesuvius, the city of Pompeii and the coast of Capri were some of the other places the students visited - places that accentuated the culture and heritage of the country and its people, and made the entire trip enjoyable and completely immersive.
"The importance of being able to connect, communicate and collaborate with people is crucial to being a successful entrepreneur and innovator in the world today," said Dr. Iandoli. "We want our students to broaden their horizons by adapting quickly and managing the tensions as well as opportunities that arise from cultural differences.
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Spaceport Colorado reached a crucial milestone on Tuesday when Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Mark Udall announced the Federal Aviation Administration's approval of a $200,000 grant to fund the site's feasibility study.
" This is what we've called the domino that needs to fall," said Dennis Heap, executive director of aviation at Front Range Airport, the proposed site for the spaceport facility.
Colorado, along with California and Hawaii, received funding from the FAA's new Space Transportation Infrastructure Matching Grants, which totaled $500,000.
The feasibility study is the first step in the licensing process. It will determine all of the logistics for operating a commercial spaceport, such as the requirements for the operating vehicles, storage, launching and landing, and other operational details.
"It does two things: it will start the process," Heap said. "And, it shows that the FAA believes Spaceport Colorado could be a viable entity."
There are eight licensed spaceports around the U.S., but thr proposed Spaceport Colorado would be the first to offer horizontal launch. Proponents say the spaceport could offer space tourism, unmanned spacecraft facilities, and global point-to-point travel.
"We see Spaceport Colorado as a key driver for bringing a wide array of spaceflight-related business to our state, including spacecraft development and manufacturing, advanced scientific research, and crew training," said Tom Clark, CEO of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. in a press release.
The federal matching grants provide up to 50 percent of the total project cost. Private sponsors, along with state and local governments, must provide the remaining funds.
The federal matching grants require that at least 10 percent of the total project is funded by private donors.
"These investments will help us continue to develop a safe and robust commercial space industry in the United States," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, in a statement.
Front Range Airport is considered the ideal location for a space port as it is six miles east of Denver, but remote enough to foster future growth.
"Having a spaceport in Denver will make Colorado a leader in space travel and solidify our reputation as a pioneer in the 21st century innovation economy," said Bennet, in a press release. "It will bring jobs to our state and fuel economic development and scientific research."
The next steps for Heap and his team include more fundraising from public and private sources, conducting an environmental study, and submitting the licensing application to the FAA's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
"By the end of next year, we will hopefully be in the position to have a spaceport license," Heap said.
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DuPage County will host a free document shredding event for residents from 9 a.m. to noon on Oct. 5, according to a county news release.
Documents will be shredded on-site and all collected paper will be recycled. The event is intended to help residents protect themselves from identity theft and is not open to businesses, the release said.
It will be held at the Naperville Public Works Service Center at 180 Fort Hill Drive in Naperville.


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Nearly half of the United States' airborne fire suppression equipment was operating over Colorado on June 25, 2012, CNN reported, as tens of thousands of acres burned. Fires raged in southwestern Colorado, northeastern Colorado, and multiple locations in between.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this natural-color image on June 23, 2012. Red outlines approximate the locations of actively burning fires. The High Park and Weber Fires produced the largest plumes of smoke.
The High Park Fire continued to burn west of Fort Collins. Started by lightning on June 9, 2012, this blaze had consumed 83,205 acres (33,672 hectares), making it the second-largest fire in Colorado history, after the Hayman Fire that burned in 2002. As of June 25, more than 2,000 people were fighting the High Park Fire, and firefighters had it 45 percent contained, according to InciWeb. Nevertheless, The Denver Post reported that the fire had destroyed 248 homes, making it the most destructive in Colorado history, even if it was not the largest.
In the opposite corner of the state, the Weber Fire started around 4:15 p.m. on June 22. As of June 25, the fire had burned approximately 8,300 acres (3,400 hectares) and was being fought by 164 personnel. The cause was under investigation. The fire had high growth potential because of possible wind gusts from thunderstorms, InciWeb reported. On the other side of Durango, the Little Sand Fire had been burning for weeks after being started by a lightning strike on May 13. As of June 25, that fire had burned 21,616 acres (8,748 hectares), was being fought by nearly 200 people, and was 31 percent contained.
West of Colorado Springs, the Waldo Canyon Fire forced 11,000 people from their homes, many of them compelled to evacuate in the middle of the night on June 23–24. The fire started around noon on June 23, and by June 25 it had grown to 3,446 acres (1,395 hectares). InciWeb stated that 450 firefighters were battling the blaze, which retained the potential for rapid growth.
The Woodland Heights Fire just west of Estes Park was small but very destructive, consuming 27 acres (11 hectares) and destroying 22 homes, Denver's Channel 7 News reported. That fire was completely contained by the evening of June 24.
As fires burned, Colorado also coped with extreme heat. The Denver Post reported that Denver endured triple-digit temperatures June 22 through 24, and the National Weather Service forecast temperatures of at least 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) for June 25 and 26, with temperatures in the upper 90s through June 29.
Colorado's fires have followed a dry spring. Although the state experienced unusually heavy snow in February, little snow followed in March and April, part of a larger pattern of low snowfall. By June 19, 2012, conditions throughout the state ranged from unusually dry to extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
On June 25, 2012, Tim Mathewson, a fire meteorologist with the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination Center, remarked: "Current conditions are comparable to 2002 fire season, which was the worst in Colorado history. Fires haven't burned as many acres at this point, but the drought conditions and fuel conditions are right up there with the 2002 season, if not worse."
- Bunch, J. (2012, June 8) Colorado's Hayman fire set high marks for size, cost, heat and rehabilitation. The Denver Post. Accessed June 25, 2012.
- Gray, M. (2012, June 25) Wildfires burn across Colorado, Utah; force more than 10,000 from homes. CNN. Accessed June 25, 2012.
- Hanlon, T. (2012, June 24) At least 248 homes destroyed in High Park fire. The Denver Post. Accessed June 25, 2012.
- Harrison, W., Gathright, A. (2012, June 24) 22 homes lost in Estes Park fire; 100 percent contained. Channel 7 News. Accessed June 25, 2012.
- InciWeb. (2012, June 25) High Park Fire. Accessed June 25, 2012, 11:30 a.m. MDT.
- InciWeb. (2012, June 25) Little Sand Fire. Accessed June 25, 2012, 11:30 a.m. MDT.
- InciWeb. (2012, June 25) Waldo Canyon Fire. Accessed June 25, 2012, 11:30 a.m. MDT.
- InciWeb. (2012, June 25) Weber Fire. Accessed June 25, 2012, 11:30 a.m. MDT.
- Lee, K. (2012, June 25) Waldo Canyon fire forces 11,000 people from their homes. The Denver Post. Accessed June 25, 2012.
- McGhee, T. (2012, June 24) Denver baking while fire rages throughout Colorado. The Denver Post. Accessed June 25, 2012.
- National Weather Service. (2012, June 25) Denver Forecast. Accessed June 25, 2012.
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (2012, June 19) U.S. Drought Monitor. Accessed June 25, 2012.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen using data obtained from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). Caption by Michon Scott.
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I am close to launching a website that i have been working on for some time now and i plan on carrying out a significant review of security .
I understand that one of the biggest areas of concern from a security point of view is how you handle user input (fields / forms etc.)
I don't expect anyone to reply with tonnes of information on each, as the internet is full of help and advice BUT the one downside of the internet is 'how up to date' the information is (don't want to use / implement out dated practices) or the 'integrity' of the advice, especially in relation to this subject'.
So what are your key best practices for each of the following:
1 - Validating Input
2 - Sanitizing Input
Thanks in advance for your help...


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In just a few short years, 20-year-old Jake Miller has gone from creating YouTube selfies to performing live alongside hip-hop royalty such as Snoop Dogg, Flo Rida, Mac Miller, Sean Kingston and Asher Roth. He has more than 320,000 followers on Twitter. MTV Buzzworthy has admitted to being "mildly obsessed" with him. And, on Friday, Miller will begin his first national headlining tour at the Fillmore Miami Beach.
But amid all the glamour and hip-hop hoopla, when Miller wants to keep things real, he turns to a middle-aged eye doctor from Weston.
"After every show, I go backstage, and everybody says, 'Great show, great show.' But he gives me an honest critique, which helps me get better," Miller says. "I'm about to play, like, 40 straight shows. Something is bound to go wrong."
Miller's backstage mentor is Bruce Miller, his father, who will be at Friday's performance.
"He likes to stand at the very back of the crowd, to see the fans' point of view. One thing he pointed out is that I need to pay attention to the whole room, including the fans in the back, the fans on the second floor," Miller says. "It's hard, because the lights are blinding. But a lot of the true fans maybe can't always get great seats."
The lights are about to get brighter for the Bieber-ishly handsome Cypress Bay High School ex, who will release his debut album, "Us Against Them," on Tuesday. There is an evolving eclecticism in Miller's music and his singing, which ought to broaden his appeal to include those put off by the "rapper" label he's been carrying.
Miller counts rootsy troubadour Jack Johnson among his influences (along with the Beatles and John Mayer), and the video for his upbeat dance-pop single "Collide" opens with him holding an acoustic guitar at Fort Lauderdale beach.
"I wouldn't say I'm urban or the beach. Maybe a little of both. I'm just a big music lover in general," he says.
"Us Against Them" touches on a range of genres, from acoustic balladry to EDM. Miller says he will "leave it up to the fans to decide" what the title means. The essential message, he says, is hope.
"Everybody at some time is suffering, whether it's a kid being bullied or an adult who doesn't like his job, or lost a family member," he says. "[The new music] is definitely upbeat, songs that say 'Everything's good. Everything's going to be alright.'"
Jake Miller will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, at the Fillmore Miami Beach, 1700 Washington Ave. Tickets cost $25, $32 at the box office and Ticketmaster outlets. Call 305-673-7300 or go to FillmoreMB.com.
Get daily updates on South Florida entertainment and things to do at SouthFlorida.com, on Twitter at @BenCrandell and Instagram /BenCrandell.


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East St. Louis, Illinois Number 1, avoid East St. Louis like the plague. You'll immediately know you're there because, like Lewis Black describes North Korea, it's so evil the color has completely been sucked out. And the monkeys from the Wizard of Oz live there. Think I'm kidding? Test me if you dare. It's not a good place. Now even though downtown St. Louis proper is cool, there are still places there that creep me the fuck out.
St. Louis is built on the banks of the Muddy Mississippi with the downtown area right along those banks. It's really a neat place to walk around – parts of the riverfront have been completely restored into quaint little restaurants and shops. But right next door to those restored beauties are abandoned warehouses that look as though they've housed some form of torture chambers. And
running walking past them, I could swear sometimes if my heart wasn't pounding a deafening beat in my eardrums, screams could be heard. And guess what? It turns out I'm a psychic. Those freaky little mini-movies that have played out in 3-second segments in my mind came true in one East St. Louis warehouse. (more…)


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WORCESTER—Two teens were arrested Sunday evening after a fight broke out at the Crompton Park pool. The confrontation involved knives.
About 5 p.m., officers responded to the public pool, at 50 Canton St., for a report of a fight.
Witnesses told police two males showed up and tried to fight with other males who were in the pool area, police said in a news release.
Police said one male, identified as Jonathan Lugo, 18, of 48 Mendon St., Apt. 1, began punching the two other men. A second male, who is not being publicly identified because he is a juvenile, is accused of swinging a knife during the fight.
Officers found Mr. Lugo and the juvenile. The pair allegedly had several knives on them.
Mr. Lugo and the juvenile were charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, carrying a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace.
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It's 1991 and the iconic move Fried Green Tomatoes has just been released. Those from the South, or at the very least those familiar with the tradition of frying green tomatoes, were well aware of this tasty tradition. For a non-American like myself, the movie offered a slice of Americana as documented on the lives of several women in the south and their insights into food (just don't eat the barbecue); in short a heartfelt overview of the South in the 1930s. I had never had a green tomato nor did I see the appeal of such at the time. Years later, and with a few culinary attempts under my belt, I can at least make fried green tomatoes like an American; however maybe not as well as those at the Whistle Stop Café.
Green tomatoes are exactly what they appear to be: unripe firm fruit with a tart flavor. You can pick them now, when the days may not yet warm enough to turn them red, but you can also eat them all summer long as they can be picked right up into the fall. Either way, they are available at the local farm market or in your own garden right now. Find the firmest tomatoes that you can as those will not disintegrate upon cooking. You can do multiple things with green tomatoes if you don't just want to fry them: make chutneys and relishes (there's a recipe for one today), toss them in with pasta, add a nice crunchy tart addition to a salad, or marinate them and cook them on the grill.
The traditional method of frying them is to use simply cornmeal and bacon fat. There is nothing wrong with sticking with that simplicity (how can we go wrong with bacon fat?) however double-coating the green tomatoes with flour first gives the coating a better chance to adhere and stay crispy. Once you have sliced the tomatoes roughly a quarter inch thick you can salt them to remove any additional water. The water in the tomato will steam under the crust and make it soggy so keeping the tomatoes as dry as possible makes it worth it in the long run. This is essentially why we don't use red tomatoes as they are softer and juicier and don't stand up to the frying method; however you can fry them just don't expect the firm texture you get from the unripe version. In this recipe we add breadcrumbs and the double coating dip which helps the cornmeal stick and produce a crisper green tomato.
Fried green tomatoes
2 medium sized green tomatoes, sliced Ľ inch thick, salted and left to sit for 10 minutes
1 egg beaten mixed with Ľ cup of buttermilk or milk
˝ tsp of Cajun seasoning (optional)
Ľ cup of flour
Ľ cup of cornmeal – I like the finer ground for an easier texture
Ľ cup of breadcrumbs or panko (dried Japanese breadcrumbs)
Ľ tsp of salt
Ľ tsp of pepper
1 cup of vegetable oil
Mix the salt, pepper and Cajun seasoning in with the flour in one bowl. In another whisk the egg and mix that with the buttermilk. Lastly mix the cornmeal and the panko together. Set up your assembly line with the flour first, then the egg was then the cornmeal coating. Keep the dry-wet-dry-fry mantra in your head.
Start with coating them in flour mix. Then toss them in your egg mixture, quickly followed by the cornmeal crumb mixture. I like to let them 'dry' for a few minutes before putting them in hot oil. The oil should take 4 minutes or so to warm up. Be careful sliding the tomatoes into the oil so not to splash yourself. Cook on each side for 4 minutes until golden brown. Remove and drain on a paper towel. You can keep them warm in the oven so you can do batches of tomatoes.
If frying isn't your thing, there are other applications for green tomatoes. I love making a green tomato relish or chutney, you can add a ton of flavor to the already tangy tomatoes. The relish can be served with grilled chicken or pork and is great with a good cheddar; in this case we put it on a grilled cheese sandwich. Who wouldn't love tangy tart sweet heat tomatoes with a sharp cheddar and butter crispy soaked bread?
Green tomato relish
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons packed light-brown sugar
2 medium green tomatoes, diced small
1/2 medium red onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup golden raisins
˝ teaspoon cinnamon
˝ teaspoon of ground ginger
1 tablespoon coarse salt
1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
In a medium saucepan, bring vinegar, sugar, and 1/4 cup water to a simmer; stir until sugar has dissolved. Add remaining ingredients, bring to a rapid simmer, and cook until tomatoes are just tender and liquid has almost evaporated, about 14 minutes. (To store, refrigerate, up to 2 weeks.)
We grilled the relish between two slices of Irish cheddar and bread to make a delicious grilled cheese sandwich. Its perfect with any kind of cheese hot or cold.
Green tomatoes are fun. In fact you are probably resisting the urge to run out and pick the ones growing in your garden right now. Whether you adopt the great southern tradition or a new one of your own is entirely up to you. Enjoy the summer into fall availability of green tomatoes, their versatility and their usefulness in your kitchen. Channel your inner Tawanda!!! As always, happy eating. Cheers, Emma.
Emma Currie is chef and co-owner of the Brass Cafe in downtown Mt. Pleasant. Hometown Food feedback may be directed to Holly Mahaffey, Morning Sun Community Engagement Producer. She may be reached at 989-779-6063, email@example.com, or follow her on Facebook at facebook.com/holly.mahaffey.


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3: If you could get a Sharpie tattoo on your back, what would it be?
4: Did you grow up in a small or big town? Did you like it?
5: Your favorite adult as a child? (and not your parents, if they were your favorite)
6: What kind of smoothie sounds really good right now?
7: Most embarrassing moment from your
elementary school years?
8: Most embarrassing moment from your middle school years?
9: Most embarrassing moment from your high school years?
10: Pirates or ninjas? Why?
11: Have you ever climbed a tree more than twenty feet off the ground?
12: Did you like swinging as a child? Do you still get excited when you see a swing set?
13: If you could have any pet in the world, illegal or not, what would you get?
14: What's your most favorite part of your body?
15: What's your most favorite part of your personality?
16: Madonna or Lady Gaga? Neither? Both? Who
17: Have you ever watched the Superbowl all the way through?
18: Have you ever watched any major sporting event drunk?
19: What's the most delicious food you've ever eaten in your life?
20: Margarine or butter? Which did you grow up with?
21: Whole, skim, 1%, or 2% milk? (Did you know they make 1 1/2% milk?)
22: Which continents have you been on?
23: Do you get motion sickness? Any horror stories?
24: Backpacks or satchels?
25: Would you wear a rainbow jacket? A neon yellow sweater? Checkered pants?
26: What was your favorite cartoon growing up?
27: If you had to have a cow or a pig, which would you take? Why?
28: If you had to look at one city skyline for the rest of your life, which would it be?
29: Longest plane ride you've ever been on?
30: The latest you've ever slept?
31: Would you buy a sweater covered in kitten pictures? Would you wear it if someone gave it you for free?
32: Do you pick at scabs?
33: Favorite kind of bean? Kidney? Black? Pinto?
34: How far can you throw a baseball?
35: If you had to move to another country, where would you move?
36: Have you ever eaten Ethiopian food?
Vietnamese? Korean? Nepalese? How was it?
37: Small, liberal arts school or public university? Why?
38: A relationship with love or one with sex?
39: Do you eat enough vegetables?
40: Do you like horror movies? How about thrillers?
41: Would you scratch a crotch itch in public?
42: Do you swear in front of your parents?
43: Coolest thing you've ever been for Halloween?
44: If you could change your natural hair color, would you? To what?
45: Do you want to get married? Have kids?
46: Do you use a reusable water bottle? If not, you should.
47: City or nature person?
48: Have you ever used something other than "makeup" as makeup? (Like paint? Markers?)
49: Can you walk well in high heels? Even if you're a guy?
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U.S. health officials say more flu vaccine is on the way.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson says the manufacturer, Aventis Pasteur, will send 2.6 million new doses of the vaccine to the United States.
The U.S. is already expecting to receive some 24 million shots in the next couple weeks.
Thompson says we should expect a total of around 60 million doses of vaccine and nasal spray.
In addition, U.S. officials say they have enough anti-viral medication to treat about 40 million flu victims.
Thompson says that leaves more than enough treatment to deal with the coming flu season.