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Its a big food and family weekend for us coming up. Not only do we celebrate the Christian Easter we also celebrate my husbands Macedonian Orthodox Easter as well. This year they both fall on the same weekend. That means one meal on Friday and another on Sunday. I only have to cook for one
On the menu this evening was a spiral Ham with a Sam Dog BBQ mustard, ginger and sorghum molasses glaze. Sides were Sisters Secret chili oil firecracker shrimp and cheesy stone ground grits (From South Carolina), potatoes, rapini with porcini salt, homemade creamed corn, plus orange glazed carrots. I also made a couple loaves of Macedonian Sweet braided Easter Bread with almonds.
The glaze for the ham was very simple.
Mix 1 cup Sam Dog BBQ Yellow dog with 1/4 cup sorghum molasses and add enough grated ginger to your liking. I marinated the ham in this mixture for 6 hours. I also glazed a few more times during the cook time with Sam Dog BBQ Yellow Dog – it's really an excellent sauce.
Total time & temp on the Traeger at 275F for 2 1/2 hours until the glaze had completely set and caramelized.
It was a delicious ham –
For everyone out there I wish you the very best this Easter and always…. Enjoy the time you spend with your Church, Family and Friends.


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- Standing parties (cocktail, casual gatherings) call for nibblets and finger foods, and at least six different kinds of appetizers, including dips and sweets.
- At buffet parties, plan for one or two main courses (chicken and meat or fish, usually) and up to six side courses, including vegetables, grains, salads, breads, and desserts.
- At seated parties, one main course and related side dishes are all that is required, but you will want to serve dinner prefaced by an appetizer and/or salad, and follow it with dessert. Don't forget to have a few pre-dinner noshings available for guests: cheese and crackers, chips and dips, and an additional appetizer or two.
Try to keep your menu varied and surprising, but don't make it overly complicated. For example, you might make an exotic main course, but you should pair it with a relatively bland side dish, allowing guests to take a break from spicy flavors. Likewise, spend your time (and money!) preparing one or two significant appetizers, and then round out the menu with dips and breads.
Planning Drinks for Your Party
Although the beverage selection should vary from party to party, a few basic rules hold true:
- Stock up on bottled water and assorted soft drinks (including diet drinks) and juices for guests that don't drink alcohol.
- Make sure you have plenty of ice! A few hours ahead of time, fill a large bucket or the bathtub! with ice and chill a selection of soft drinks, beer, and water.
- If you are serving spirits, take into account your guests' varying preferences. Include red and white wine and assorted cocktails.
- Regardless of the event, always have regular and decaffeinated coffee ready to brew toward the end of the night, as well as sugar, cream, and a few interesting coffee condiments, such as cinnamon or vanilla syrup.
Although you can't be expected to stock every type of beverage your guests could possibly demand, a good host will have enough of a variety on hand to suit most requests.
As mentioned elsewhere in this book, you don't have to stock your bar with top-shelf liquor. Keep a few bottles of quality hooch on hand citron vodka, a good scotch and decant the bargain liquor into attractive glass bottles. You can also purchase two types of wine: the good stuff for the first hour, and the mediocre stuff for the rest of the night, after the guests have loosened up a little on the quality cabernet.
Although water, juice, and soft drinks are perfectly fine for those who don't drink alcohol, you might also add a few exotic options, such as freshly brewed iced tea, flavored bubbly water, or sparkling juice.
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BELTON (November 2, 2012)--"Least Among Saints," a movie that follows a veteran who takes a boy under his wing after returning from war, will debut at the Grand Avenue Theater Friday.
The movie follows the veteran's life as he adjusts to reality back home.
The film is directed by Marty Papazion and stars AJ Cook from the CBS show "Criminal Minds" and Audrey Anderson from "The Unit."
"Least Among Saints" runs about two hours with showings at 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
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CNN cited the American Immigration Council's recent report ...
New stats released on political, economic role of Ariz. immigrants
Published on Fri, Jan 13, 2012
On Thursday, the research and data-gathering Immigration Policy Center released an extensive report detailing the vast contributions of immigrants to the U.S. The enlightening report titled "Strength in Diversity" breaks down by each state the information gathered and also makes important nationwide conclusions.
Nationally, the IPC estimates that 12.5 percent of U.S.-Americans are immigrants, rising steadily from 7.9 percent in 1990. In total, there are over 40 million immigrants in the U.S. today. Former Mexicans make up the largest segment of this country's immigrant population at nearly 30 percent. The vast majority of U.S. immigrants are authorized residents, with just 28 percent undocumented. And the report estimates that at least 4.5 million native born U.S. citizen minors in this country have at least one undocumented parent.
In addition, the statistics gathered by the IPC demonstrate the tremendous economic and political contributions made by immigrants to this country. Ten percent of all registered voters in the U.S. are naturalized immigrants or the U.S. citizen children of immigrants. More than 15 percent of all U.S. workers are foreign born, including 40 percent of our nation's farming, fishing and forestry work force. And households headed by undocumented immigrants annually pay $11.2 billion in state and federal taxes. The IPC concludes that if the nation's undocumented population were to be completely expelled, the U.S. would lose $551.6 billion in economic activity, $245 billion in gross domestic product and 2.8 million jobs.
In Arizona, specifically, the IPC estimates that 13.4 percent of the state's population or 856,663 state residents are immigrants. This is up from 7.6 percent in 1990.
The report details a variety of ways in which immigrants make important contributions to Arizona politics and economy. In total, 9.7 percent of registered voters in the state are immigrants or the children of immigrants. Foreign born individuals are estimated to account annually for $10.2 billion in state economic output and generate state tax revenues of $776 million. Immigrants account for 16.6 percent of the total workforce in the state, with undocumented individuals making up 7.4 percent of all Arizona workers. In addition, immigrant secondary education students in the state are estimated to pay annually $243 million in tuition, fees and living expenses.
In compiling these statistics gathered from a variety of universities, government agencies and research organizations, the IPC states that it is attempting to illuminate the potential power held by, in particular, Latino and Asian immigrants to shape this country's future. By demonstrating the tremendous influence the U.S. immigrant population has as a voting, consuming and laboring body, this report demonstrates the need to include this group more seriously in conversations regarding our collective national trajectory.
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Fast coming through the ranks and already turning heads for all the right reasons, Dakota Mamola's going places. Son of the legendary Randy Mamola, Dakota has inherited his old man's knack for wringing the neck of a two wheel machine and finding speed that others dream of.
Now based in Spain, Dakota's balancing the pressures of school with life on the road between race tracks. Dakota's been making appearances on the ACU Academy Cup and mixing it amongst the best in class. Of four outings in the 2010 season he was never out of the front of the field and finished second in Snetterton.
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Woodland keeps coach's promise in showdown win over Naugy
BEACON FALLS — Woodland High football coach Tim Shea made a promise earlier this week. Friday night against Naugatuck, his team made good on it.
In the first annual George Pinho Memorial Trophy game before more than 2,000 fans, the Hawks held off the Greyhounds for a 25-22 win and kept the prize in the hands of the team he loved.
"It's home," said Jack Pinho, a senior wide receiver whose late father is now the rivalry game's namesake. "It's where it belongs."
George Pinho, a Naugatuck native, was a Woodland assistant coach who died suddenly in January. With George's brother, Tony, on hand to present the trophy, Shea said an already important game took on more meaning.
"We made a promise that it wasn't going anywhere," Shea said. "A lot of what George talked about is stuff we do. We talk about fearing the family. It's about us as a family and what we have to do to protect this family. I believe that George was looking down on us tonight."
With the best seat in the house, George saw Woodland give a defensive effort that stymied a Naugatuck attack that had looked potent in the first three games of the season.
The Hawks (4-0) forced four punts — including a failed fake punt and one that never got off with a botched snap — and three turnovers on downs. They held the Greyhounds to 94 rushing yards and forced Naugy quarterback Jason Bradley to miss on 23 of his 39 attempts.
"We went with different groupings (on defense)," Jack Pinho said. "We just had to make sure we contained Bradley. Coach (Chris) Moffo did such a great job coaching us all week, and he deserves all the credit."
The two most important stops Woodland made came in the second half, minutes after Tanner Kingsley had hooked up with Taylor Tucciarone for a 6-yard touchdown pass and an 18-16 lead.
The Greyhounds drove inside the red zone, but the Hawks stopped them on downs to take over at the 16. Woodland then marched downfield, but was stopped by a Sean McAllen fumble at the Naugy 14, but the defense held for a three-and-out. Bradley couldn't handle a low snap on the punt and Will Flormann caught him at the 7-yard line to set up a first-and-goal opportunity.
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ball well, but we got jammed up near the goal lines," Naugatuck coach Craig Bruno said. "We both played a good game. We made a few mistakes we usually don't make, but that's football, and they're a good football team."
Three plays after the failed punt, Kingsley snuck into the end zone behind center Alex Varhol. Flormann's PAT kick gave the Hawks a 25-16 lead with 8:02 remaining.
"That play came from halftime," Kingsley said of his 3-yard scoring sneak. "I told Coach (Tim) Phipps what kind of looks I was getting and they had faith in me to get the ball into the end zone."
On the ensuing drive, the Hawks forced another turnover on downs when the 5-foot-8 McAllen locked down the 6-foot-5 Ryne Griesenauer for a fourth-down incompletion.
"I saw his height and I was a little shaken because I had never covered a wide receiver like that," said McAllen, who held Naugy's leading wideout to just three catches. "I knew if I covered him well and jumped for the ball, I'd be OK."
McAllen, a sophomore, also excelled on offense with 168 total yards. Seventy-five of those yards came on a pair of screen passes in the second half that kept Woodland drives alive.
"He's our guy," Shea said. "Sean isn't afraid to make a play. Our screen game has gotten better over the years. A spread draws the blitz, and the screen game helped to keep them back."
Kingsley settled with short passes most of the night, going 31-of-41 for 302 yards and three touchdowns. He hit Mike Kenney for a 9-yard touchdown in the first quarter and struck Pinho for an 11-yard score that gave Woodland a 12-8 halftime lead.
"They didn't really allow us to get the ball deep downfield because their corners were playing 10 yards off the line," said Kingsley, who connected with six receivers. "We were going to abuse them with the short passes and grind it out."
Tom Douty scored on a 12-yard touchdown pass from Bradley with 1:35 remaining to cut Woodland's lead to 25-22, but the Hawks' Chris McDonald recovered the ensuing onside kick and effectively ended the game.
In the postgame, with the Pinho Trophy in hand, the Hawks acknowledged the black-clad student section that made for what Kingsley said was a perfect night in his team's chance to honor their late coach.
"I can't even describe the atmosphere," Kingsley said. "We weren't going to lose this game."
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The 5 Craziest Exploits of the World's Shadiest Politician
#2. Trouble With Women
The College Movie Scenario:
The college movie hero is a ladies' man, almost to a fault: Dongwalski gets all the girls he could ever want ... but not the one he truly wants. She's smart, pretty, confident and turned off by Dongwalski's rampant sexism. He better change his ways, quick, or the love of his life might end up marrying the dean's horrible son!
Silvio Berlusconi's Career:
Berlusconi once opened an international business conference by saying that Italy had the most beautiful secretaries in the world. That's ... oh shit, really? Despite being personally responsible for the sudden career changes of more whores than rehab, he still thinks the only job women can hold is that of "secretary," and even then it's probably only until the right man comes along.
Above: The Right Man.
In 2008, he personally blocked a woman's right to die, after it was officially granted in court. The woman in question had been in a coma for 17 years. His reasoning? Because she was still, and we quote, "in the condition to have babies" and if she was lucky "could even give birth to a son." As far as he was concerned, if she could get pregnant, then she was still a 100 percent functional female. Luckily, the doctors involved decided not to take orders from a man who views half of the human race as sperm incubation units who've been inexplicably granted the gift of speech (possibly via magic spell).
But he doesn't get away with it all. There are some noises of protest. Sexy, female noises. What took Mubarak decades of brutal repression, Berlusconi has somehow managed in less than a decade and through sheer misogyny. Thousands of women have taken to the streets of Italy to scream about all his rampant sex addiction. Which was probably his exact fantasy when he first took power.
He probably thinks it's his birthday.
#1. Thwarting the Dean
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Dongwalski and the dean are constantly at odds: That stuck-up old man wants to bulldoze the skate park to build an accounting department, he's banned halter tops from the quad and even changed Pizza Saturday to Tofu Tuesday! It's up to Dongwalski to fight back the only way he knows how: Partying!
Silvio Berlusconi's Career:
In 2005, Berlusconi told newspapers that he'd had to "dust off the old playboy skills" to persuade Finnish president Tarja Halonen to change a meeting location. When Finland rather reasonably intimated that claiming to have screwed its premier was a fairly good way to declare war, a Berlusconi minister tried to defuse the situation by saying that "anyone who had seen a picture of Halonen must have been aware that he had been joking."
"The fjuck did you just say?"
He was president of the EU Council of Ministers for an entire day before calling the German minister a Nazi concentration camp guard. At a previous meeting, he made a hand gesture implying that the Spanish foreign minister's wife was sleeping with other men, though why Italian men have evolved such specific gestures is probably:
a) something they don't like to talk about, and
b) mostly due to Berlusconi.
Any gesture that can be even loosely interpreted as an erection, we call a Berlusconi. It's just simpler that way.
But his masterpiece was pissing off the queen of England and the president of the United States in the most painfully embarrassing double-header in history. At a G-20 photoshoot in 2009, Berlusconi started shouting to Barack Obama from the back row so loudly and insistently that the actual queen of England stopped to ask who that rude man was and why he couldn't shut his stupid face (we may have paraphrased that a bit).
Reports say Berlusconi was shouting "Mr. Obama!" but based on his public speaking record, there's no way it wasn't really "Where the white women at?"
"Just kidding! Berlusconi's penis is colorblind. And riddled with syphilis."
Be sure to pick up our book because Berlusconi would want it that way.
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Cruising The Cabriolet WayWritten by on September 6, 2012 Contributors: Doug Adams
GIFTED. Despite the mechanical and styling improvements made to the Ford lineup in 1936, and the milestone two-millionth Ford V8 made, hot rodders didn't get to start dismantling and customizing these cars until after World War II, by which time they were well used.
For several decades of hot rodding, everybody wanted only the "cool" body styles (three-windows and roadsters), and there was enough supply at the time to satisfy most rodders. Many would turn down a perfectly nice cabriolet for a less practical roadster (no side windows). That era has long passed, obviously. All models are now desirable, and the purists have little to choose from, hacking up cabriolets to look more roadsterish.
We can't all be that lucky—unless you're Bo Nielsen, the 45-year-old owner of this very-well-kept '36 cabriolet. You've got to have an angel on your shoulder to deserve a find like this. Drop-top body styles have a lower survivability rate, adding to their current rarity. Once the cloth disintegrates on an abandoned ragtop, the rest of the body-frame assembly becomes a water cistern, with all elements chemically uniting to form a brown mass.
Jim and Jeanette Turrini have lived next door to Bo's grandparents since the early '50s. Whenever Bo visited, he'd ask all about their cool cabriolet. The stories would begin to flow about places the couple had been in the car and about Turrini's Auto Salvage in Novato, California, owned by Jim's brother, Jack. For 40 years, all manner of vintage cars and parts were taken in and sold or parted out there. This body is a prime example.
Jim had a disastrous wiring fire that destroyed the original body. A few years later, another '36 cabriolet came to his brother's yard. In the process of swapping bodies, Jim installed the newer drivetrain and got creative with the details. With the yard as a resource, he could experiment with pieces of other cars to make the cabrio less "standard": bumpers from a '40 Oldsmobile, '40 Studebaker taillights, a '40 Pontiac instrument panel, and a '46 Merc flathead with adjustable tappets. The original modifications Jim made to this open car could be called a mild-custom approach today. For some reason, this style doesn't turn up nearly as often as the more hot-rodded variety with frames cut for big engines, enlarged fenderwells, pushbars, gutted interiors, and so on.
Eventually, the '36 moved into Bo's grandmother's garage for long-term storage. When the youngster had to move his father's '55 Plymouth out of the old garage, he finally got his chance to take an intense perusal of the Ford, which had been shielded by the Plymouth. Bo enjoyed conversing with the Turrini family and now asked more detailed questions. He learned that Jim had turned down many tempting offers to sell the car. In 2008, Bo's mom called Jim with the sad news that grandma's house was being sold. There was no longer a place to store the cabriolet. The good news: Jim and Jeanette had designated her son as its caretaker.
"The Turrini family is very generous, but when they said the car was to go to me, I couldn't believe it," Bo says. The last license tag was from 1961. Somewhere along the line, the heads had been pulled, creating eight perfect places for squirrels to hide acorns. No stranger to a wrench, Bo put serious effort into retaining the classic, '50s-custom style while making the car driveable. He cleaned and measured all the engine internals and put it back together, went through the brakes and clutch assembly, replaced the fuel tank, installed all-new wiring (for 12 volts), put on new tires, and did whatever was needed to make the old 'vert safe, reliable, and fun to drive. Mission accomplished: He's enjoying it greatly, and frequently. Should you see it somewhere, go shake Bo's hand and see if his good luck rubs off. We already have. ★
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Following an engine fire, Jim replaced the original V8 with everyone's favorite combo: a postwar-Merc engine and trans, a Columbia two-speed rear, and hydraulic brakes. Bo had to rebuild the flathead, adding block-letter Edelbrock heads, a two-pot intake, a distributor, and cool "oil-bath-look" air cleaners that he cast himself (see MidnightOilGarage.com).The progressive chain linkage is adjusted by adding or subtracting slack. "The No. 40 chain and gears are left over from a twin-engine minibike project," he explains.Ford designers worked hard to improve the '36 hood's side-panel vent design over the '35's, yet unsophisticated teenagers simply tossed the stock side panels in the backyard and visited Eastern Auto (in the West) or Western Auto (back East). For $9.95, they'd get a pair of blank steel side panels that installed in half an hour on '32 to '36 Fords. (Today, that wouldn't buy the raw metal for one side.) The "wide-five" artillery wheels were first used on '36s—the first V8 Fords to have solid wheels instead of wires.The area around the cowl vent has the common cancer of the groove. When the rubber seal rots away and the drain hole clogs, the tin is under attack from then on. Fortunately, it's fixable.The steering column with Ford's original locking arrangement and a Merc shifter could probably tell some stories, given the number of times it appears to have been painted.The wonderfully patina'd spotlight is original, one of many parts that Jim had chromed in the '50s. This one is called a Mobilite.Builder Jim Turrini was obviously a custom-car enthusiast. He pitched the stock running boards and molded the rear of the front fenders and the front of the rear fenders.The ragtop still has a nice, original grille, complemented by the cool "wing-tipped" '40 Oldsmobile bumpers with a Ford accessory guard.A wide-angle lens makes the interior look more spacious than it is, but this one has numerous custom touches. Since Jim had the resources of Turrini's Auto Salvage, owned by his brother, he picked out a '40 Pontiac instrument cluster and '46 Merc wheel. Jim and a friend stitched the green-and-white interior with a home sewing machine! Exposed under that vinyl is some original upholstery.
Jim and Jeanette Turrini were happy to see their former daily driver brought back to life after half a century. Bo was equally thrilled to see their faces when he drove it to their home and they heard the Merc flathead purr again.


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Amassing 86 points in field events alone, the Pratt High School girls track team breezed to victory on a miserably cold night at Kingman on Tuesday. Along with 76 points on the track, the Lady Greenbacks totaled 162 points to easily outdistance runner-up Larned (100) in the ten-team event.
The boys team scored 75 to take third place, with powerful Rose Hill piling up 210 points to win the meet.
The girl throwers dominated. Jenson Maydew took 1st in shot (37-4) and 4th in disc (93-2). Samaria Kohman won discus (96-7) and took 3rd in shot (32-10). Kayla Baer got a silver medal in disc (96-0) and Emily Hook chipped in a bronze in javelin (95-6). In a fun, unique event, the girl throwers also got to show off their wheels, taking silver in the 4x100 weight person relay (66.6).
The Lady Frog jumpers also piled up points and medals. Connor Reh won triple jump (34-4) and took 3rd in long jump (15-9). Jaci Kolm was 5th in TJ (31-9) and Paige Bailey 4th in LJ (14-8). Pratt went 1-2 in the pole vault with Chloe Cannata going 8-0 to take the gold and Morgan Strong getting the silver at 7-0.
Paige Bailey sprinted to 2nd place in both the 100m (13.44) and the 200m (28.38.) Bailey, Reh, Kolm and Christina Fernandez won the sprint relay going away (53.4). "The girls' handoffs looked really smooth this week," observed PHS head coach Forrest Mazey. In the 4x400 relay, Chloe Cannata, Anna Swank, Adele Loomis and Jaci Kolm took 3rd (4:45).
Hurdler Kirsten Roberts added a 4th in the 100mHH (21.65) and a 6th in the 300mIH (59.36.)
Frogs of Distance represented well. Adele Loomis won the 800m by over 13 seconds (2:36.) Kaylah Romine took 2nd in the 2-mile (12:42) and 4th in the mile (5:57). Cassidy Cronister added a 5th in the mile (6:29.) Romine, Cronister, Loomis teamed with Anna Swank to take the silver in the 4x800 (11:11).
The boys found points and medals a little more difficult to come by this week than in their previous meet victory at Nickerson. Shawn Ramos (TJ 6th 37-1) scored Pratt's only point in the jumps. Austin Gates got silver medals in shot and discus (42-10 and 118-4) and Austin Boshart got 3rd in shot ( 42-8.) The PHS throwers took 6th in the weight relay.
The Greenbacks scored well in hurdles. Weston Riner took silver in highs and intermediates (15.98 and 42.19) and Devon Roberts got 6th (18.07) in highs and 5th (44.68) in intermediates.
Robby Eggleston took 6th in both dashes (100m 11.82; 200m 24.7). Eggleston, Devin Koehler, Nick Koler and Anthony Cannata teamed up to take 5th in the 4x100 ( 46.78). Ryan Landry took the bronze in the 400m (54.93) and along with Riner, Roberts and Josh Ash took 2nd in the 4x400 relay (3:45).
In distances, Josh Ash got the silver in the 800m ( 2:11) and Joseph Loomis took 4th (5:10) in the mile and 5th (2:15) in the 800m.
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The Greenback thinclads will be in action again at the St. John Invitational on Friday, beginning at 4 p.m.
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Is the Milky Way Visible from Nebraska? If so, where is the best place to view it, and also what would be the best time of night to see it? I know this is probably a very novice question, just trying to get a better understanding of what I can see. If it helps, I'm south of Omaha.
Well, because the axis of the rotation of the Earth is not the same as the axis of rotation of the disk of the Milky Way (and also because we're transforming a 2-dimensional spherical map into a 2-dimensional cartesian map), the path of the disk of the Milky Way galaxy looks something like this:
So, there is actually a wide range in declination that the Milky Way can be seen at. The range of declination you can see depends on your latitude (for a review of RA and declination, coordinates used in the celestial coordinate system, see this post). For example, here in Philadelphia (just about $+40^{\circ}$ declination), I'd be able to see from from $-50^{\circ}$ to $+90^{\circ}$ in declination. For Nebraska, find the latitude of your location. To calculate the lower limit, add your latitude (which will be positive since you're in the northern hemisphere) to $-90^{\circ}$ (mine was $+40^{\circ}$, so: $-90^{\circ} + 40^{\circ} = -50^{\circ}$). To find the upper limit in declination, it's even easier. Since you're in the northern hemisphere, you can actually see the north celestial pole. This means that the upper limit is simply the maximum it can possibly be, which is $+90^{\circ}$. The larger the latitude the more circumpolar your night sky gets.
The good news is that you should definitely be able to see it in Nebraska. The only question during what season will you see it at its best? Take a look at the constellations which contain parts of the Milky Way and find the season you can see it in - now you know where to look.
The last thing I want to add is that you need nice dark conditions. Local weather conditions or sources of light pollution may very easily hide the Milky Way. From Philadelphia, even on perfectly clear nights we have no chance of seeing it. If you've got a city on one of your horizons, try to plan around that - either go to a darker location or try looking opposite in the sky from any sources of light pollution.
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* For 2 straight weeks there have been no problems with anyone attempting to live at Noisebridge and the sleeping problem is mostly gone. Katherine's consistent morning patrols and enforcement have maintained the space starting each day with her 6:30 am arrival.
* For 2 straight weeks there have been no problems with anyone attempting to live at Noisebridge and the sleeping problem is mostly gone. Katherine's consistent morning patrols and enforcement have maintained the space starting each day with her 6:30 am arrival. .
Revision as of 19:17, 14 February 2012sleeping at Noisebridge. This is a practice which is unacceptable to varying degrees depending on whom you ask. Although there is no clear consensus on how to deal with this, it is clear that some of the sleeping behavior is not excellent. But in the middle of the night, social pressure to be excellent wanes, and this is largely the only tool Noisebridge has for enforcing the One Rule. The Rooster Brigade is an observational effort to understand the nocturnal underbelly of the Noisebridge community and hopefully disseminate excellence beyond the midnight hour.
The Rooster Brigade maintains no official policy on how to wake or interact with people who are sleeping at Noisebridge. The only rule at Noisebridge is Be Excellent.
Possible Members of the Brigade
- hurtstotouchfire
- shannon
- danny
- martyn
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- Katherine
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- October 6 - Dec 15
- Laurent. Found daily in classroom and in laser engraver DJ booth. Sleeps in either one or two office chairs with legs propped on second chair.
- January 16 - January 31
- Daily forced wake up of everyone sleeping at Noisebridge by Katherine at 6:30 am. Number of sleepers drops dramatically during this period
- February 1 - Present
- Daily wake up now additionally enforced by throwing out people who do not wake on the first try by Katherine. Several people removed. This has been daily at 6:30 am.
- 02/03/12
- 9 people appear to be crashing at Noisebridge. Eric took some notes with basic descriptions and a few first names.
- 02/04/12
- 02/05/12
- A guy named John who sometimes sleeps at Noisebridge (Ben has photographed him) was removed by Ben, Rayc and another guy after becoming violent and threatening people in the space. He was picked up outside by the police.
- Eric asked one person in the morning not to sleep at Noisebridge. Update: talked more with her that evening. She said that she once objected to someone waking a sleeper because she had just given the sleeper in question a massage on the couch and they had dozed off. It was 4 or 5 in the morning at the time. I suggested that 4am bodywork which leads to sleeping should be done at someone's house, because sleeping in the space is a really touchy issue right now.
- 02/06/12
- Eric kicked out another one of "Amber's minions" who was crashed out in a chair less than an hour after arriving in the space.
- 02/07/12
- User:Malaclyps popped by at 7AM. A bunch of people were sitting around really trying hard not to fall asleep, but not able to do much else. I smiled kind of nervously, and went home feeling sad.
- Apparently an anonymous rooster, present in the space that morning, was keeping the would-be-sleepers in line. I will see if I can learn any more about this anonymous contingent of the late night crew that is clearly attempting to enforce excellence. -User:Hurtstotouchfire
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- User:Hurtstotouchfire 05:33, 12 February 2012 (UTC): This evening I met Amber and her friend Nick and talked with her about sleeping in the space. She says that she's new to the community and that there have been false rumors spread about her. I got her email address and will chat with her a bit more later either electronically or in the space. Update: talked to Amber a little more that evening. She said that she objected to someone waking a sleeper once because she had just given the sleeper in question a massage and he dozed off. It was 4 or 5am at the time. I suggested that 4am massages might be more appropriate for someone's house since they tend to lead to sleeping, and sleeping is a really touchy issue in the space right now. Amber is not on the mailing list and didn't know about the wiki or the tuesday meeting. I encouraged her to get involved if she wants to keep hanging around. She is keeping a personal supply of food in the kitchen, including a flat of eggs. I haven't looked all the way though it and I didn't ask her about it (maybe I should have). She told me that she was available for helping people with astrology and that she bakes pies in the middle of the night but didn't seem to be interested in any of Noisebridge's resources other than the kitchen, couches and wifi. She identifies as an occupier. She seems like probably a reasonably nice person but not especially interested in understanding the established community agreements about excellence. She seems to think all of her behavior is excellent. She seemed pretty annoyed at me by the end of our discussion. Rayc also spent much of the discussion pretending to be her lawyer ("My client..." jokes) even though I asked him to stop and pointed out that I'm not a cop and I'm not their mom, I'm just trying to understand what's going on at noisebridge.
- User:Hurtstotouchfire: Had a more extensive conversation later with Nick who seemed much more proactively respectful of the space and not entitled. He has also not gotten involved in any of noisebridge's infrastructure. I encouraged him to do so. He says he's never slept at Noisebridge and tells others not to.
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Getting a large sum of money in Assassin's Creed 3 is much different then previous version of the game. Gone are they days of buying every shop in town, and now we appear to have to actually do a little bit of labor for our money. What are some of the best ways of quickly earning large sums of cash. Are there some items that are cheap/easy to craft but sell for a boatload?
If you're like me and completely suck at the tavern games...
Hunting and selling pelts can be quite profitable, though a bit time-consuming. I like hunting wolves - they travel in packs and can be killed instantly with the hidden blade (unlike bears which take 3 hits) for a pelt in perfect condition. Beaver pelts are good as well. Beavers are slow and easy to track, and their pelts sell for boatloads.
I'm only on sequence 6 so far, and I'm also making decent cash from opening chests around the world, though I suspect this source will dry up shortly. :)
Haven't done much crafting yet since I need to gather more resources and artisans, but it doesn't seem like an efficient money-maker, since making the same item increases its cost for a while.
Sending your assassin recruits on missions is another source of income. It's not very quick, but it's pretty hands-off and passive.
Go to the Homestead, buy as many bear pelts as you can. You can sell them on convoys and you''ll make a great profit. You should get more and more if you send multiple convoys at once.
Buy bear pelt for £240 then sell it by naval convoy to saint Augustine for £1258 profit per pelt.The only downside is it takes 32 minutes but with 1 maxed out convoy you can sell 15 bear pelts for £19k
A good idea for money making is to hunt beaver. They're relatively easy, and a great spot to find a few is around the mine where Norris works. Just around the river, there's raccoons, and beavers. Just use an arrow, or run up to them, they aren't very fast. The hides sell for quite a few pounds if you market them through the use of caravans. Otherwise, they're only 160 pounds. Make sure to sell them to the FIRST general store you unlock, the one from the tutorial. The second one won't pay nearly as much.
Sell ale and upgrade your homestead as early as possible. Officer's swords 1220, cannon 1400, fine clothing 1230, fine shoes 1002 pelts make good filler whilst stockpiling parts to craft large items. Try to rotate artisans wood buttons, blades, linsywools, send pelts. Next trip back make weapon handles, then make fine clothing and officers swords. Also with 4 major artisans you can rotate stock pretty effectively.
Elk and bear pelt farming for trading. There are tricks to hunting bears. Hit them from an air attack, or jump right before they attack you. Then you can 1shot them. Here's a vid of bear and elk pelt farming that can be done over and over:
Also a good way to make money is by finding chests, some may have 10k and others 7500 or 1250. You can buy chest map at eny general store 2000 or 2500.
Do one liberation mission that grants the ability where your friends become guards and take you as a prisoner. (This should be done before Sequence 7, or otherwise before you do any liberation missions.) Go into a fort under British control that hasn't been freed and use the aforementioned ability without entering alerting anyone. Open the chest, leave, and enter again.
Find the fort with the most chest cash to make a ton of money. This makes about 10K every 10 minutes if you find the right fort.
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When I recognize the symptoms of hypothermia, how should I treat it? And what are the dangers if the symptoms are ignored?
When treating mild to medium hypothermia, you should:
Main thing is to stop and get the patient warm. Drink hot fluids, start a fire, etc.
Severe hypothermia should be treated medically if at all possible. It is suggested that the best/only way to warm a person is for two people, one on either side of the person, to get in a sleeping bag and warm the person with their body heat (i.e. gradually). Do not administer hot fluids or attempt to warm in any other way...Do not make the patient move too much, or you will send the body into shock.
As for dangers, if you ignore hypothermia long enough, the person can go into shock, become semi-conscious, unconscious, etc. So it is very serious and should be treated right away.
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Admittedly, my first aid training has lapsed - but the last mountain first aid course I took about 5 years ago made a point of matching the speed of onset.
For example - if a person has fallen into an icy stream, they will have very rapidly cooled. You need to get their core temperature up, fast - the best way to do this is to strip them down out of their wet clothes and dry, and then, while still unclothed (this is not the time to be body shy), into a sleeping bag with someone else.
However, if it is a result of long-term exposure, then you can't just rapidly heat them up (no matter how bad it may seem). If they haven't gone too far (teeth are still chattering, they're still shivering) - extra layers and, a hot, sweet drink can help. Keep them moving.
If they are not shivering anymore, they're pretty much heading into hypothermic shock - at that point, get them into a sleeping bag with another warm body. You should strip outer layers, but t-shirts and shorts can be left on.
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Are all the best efforts truly local, or are there good regional/national causes (for example, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy) that are worth supporting?
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Rails-to-trails, LAB and others are all great groups who do a lot of good, but not necessarily in your area. Like the saying goes, "Think globally, act locally".
The best form of advocacy is to ride as much as you can. In the developed world we tend to look at cycling as recreation or a hobby. As such, many participants drive their bike to the place where they ride their bikes.
The more visible you are to your friends, neighbors and co-workers as a cyclist, the better. The more you ride for transportation, or utility the more 'credibility' you have with those around you.
Begin in your local community. If you ride to the store, restaurant, or library and there is not a convenient place to lock your bike, talk to the manager. On a couple of occasions I have mentioned to a manager that I and other cyclists like a particular restaurant but we don't visit as often because there is nowhere to lock our bikes other than a chain link fence, or a tree. Two 'strip malls' now have bike racks.
Finally, your town or county may have an advocacy group already - join - be active.
Showing example is a great way for cycling advocacy.
People around me take usage of car for granted. But when they see me riding my bike everyday for working, for shopping or just for the pleasure of cycling, they start to question their behaviour. There is still a long way before they are converted but the seed has been injected in their mind.
There are lots of cycling clubs that are associated with IMBA (International Mountain Biking Association). These clubs often run events and maintain trails.
By joining an IMBA club, you'll help support efforts on a regional and national level.
Buying from your local bike store that does advocacy, instead of ordering online or buying from Walmart.
One of the aspects of Cycling Advocacy is to make cycling more popular. My usual approach to this is to get work colleagues to volunteer to take part in a charity bike ride a few months from now (we usually do the Manchester to Blackpool Bike Ride in aid of The Christie which is about 60 miles long).
Out of the various people who volunteer and do the bike ride each year, a number carry on cycling (if they hadn't already been keen cyclists), this was what got me back into cycling a few years ago, now.
So my suggestion would be to try and get friends or colleagues to do something cycling related with a few months to prepare for it, and hope that as a result they will rediscover cycling and become once more converted to the Way of the Bike.
Slightly silly but... public transport strikes. Preferably in sunny weather!
Here is a great link from Bikes Belong on effective methods of bicycling advocacy by individuals!
To summarize:
Adventure Cycling Association is a great group. Their nonprofit mission: "to inspire people of all ages to travel by bicycle for fitness, fun, and self-discovery."
Although there are great local groups, some things are best addressed by nationwide efforts. The vote in the US Senate over transportation funding - MAP-21 - was publicized and lobbied over by groups like the League of American Cyclists - and I think that was instrumental in getting things changed for the better.
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In DnD 4e, I wield a Glaive with Heavy Blade Opportunity and Polearm Gamble.
If my defender ally slides an enemy adjacent to me on his turn, can I use an at-will attack power on the enemy?
In DnD 4e, I wield a Glaive with Heavy Blade Opportunity and Polearm Gamble.
If my defender ally slides an enemy adjacent to me on his turn, can I use an at-will attack power on the enemy?
Argument for yes:
It does not, like other powers, indicate "on their turn." Furthermore, the natural impossibility of taking opportunity actions on your own turn prevents this power from triggering from your own forced movement.
Furthermore, the enemy must be non-adjacent on the move (defined as leaving 1 square for another, not the move total), so if the enemy starts adjacent to you, a slide of 2 squares is necessary for Polearm gamble to trigger.
Argument for No:
Polearm Gamble could be expanded into a power card that would look like this:
Opportunity Action
Rules Compendium p.200 states:
Rules Compendium p.212 states:
In this case, Polearm Gamble's trigger condition is based on the keyword "enter", which is defined as a type of movement. This means that the No OA rule applies, because the Polearm Gamble OA is triggered by movement.
With that in mind, Pureferret does make a valid point that players have come up with an interesting teamwork strategy; the DM should certainly consider allowing the opportunity attack as a house rule if it makes the game more fun for everyone involved.
As Brian states, this is not 100% cut and dried. However I believe we can reason our way to the likely true answer.
The Rules Compendium, page 29 gives us Two Principles to Keep in Mind and number 1 is Specific Beats General. Therefore it would be easy to stop there and decide that Polearm Gamble is clearly allowing an exception to the general rule of No OA's during forced movement, but I don't believe that is the case.
Polearm Gamble is clearly allowing an exception, but what exception is that?
If the wizards team had wanted to make Polearm Gamble a strong feat they could have just said it granted Threatening Reach 2 (or perhaps +1 your normal reach). But they don't, clearly they wanted to limit it to something less. You aren't allowed
Looking at all of that, I find it hard to believe that it was meant to allow you to take OA's against shifting and creatures undergoing forced movement. Any other power that allows OA's against shifting creatures specifically says so.
Polearm Gamble reads like a power that was meant to be less than threatening reach, not more.
D&D is based on broad rules, with many exceptions. Polearm Gamble uses deliberate arduous wording depicting that any enemy not adjacent who enters, not moves, into a square adjacent draws an OA.
DMs can houserule it not to if they wish. But as written, OAs are granted.
As Brian states, it's in the rules for Polearm gamble, and forced movement OA's are only forbidden for movement away from the attacker. In this case the specific ruling outweighs the general.
The more important thing however is that two PCs have come up with a strategy that works using teamwork, which is something that should always be encouraged. If it proves too powerful it shouldn't be nerfed by the rules, but by the enemy wising up and being more tactical themselves.


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Enbridge noted that, by early next year, its Bakken Expansion Program will add 200,000
bpd of increased export pipeline capacity from the Bakken
resource play - 80,000 bpd into Berthold, N.D. and
120,000 bpd into Cromer, Manitoba - taking Enbridge's
total capacity from North Dakota to 475,000 bpd.
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capacity out of the Bakken, creating a near-term solution to
transportation bottlenecks and the resulting crude oil pricing
differentials," said Stephen J. Wuori, president of Enbridge's
liquids pipelines unit, in the statement.
Enbridge will seek environmental, local and regulatory
approvals to facilitate in-service for the Eddystone project in the third quarter of
2013. Its partner, Canopy, is a Pennsylvania-based company
focused on niche petroleum midstream and process
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It seems to be a well-known fact that if we have a 3-fold $X$ with only ODP singularities (ordinary double point) and a smooth Weil divisor $E$ passing through them, then by blowing-up $X$ along $E$ we get a small crepant resolution of $X$. I was wondering if anyone knew of a quick proof of this and/or a reference where it is proved. Thanks
The more general phenomenon behind this is that $E$ is not a Cartier divisor at the ODPs. (A Cartier divisor could not be smooth, because that would imply that $X$ is smooth!) The pre-image of this divisor will be Cartier and hence the blow-up is not an isomorphism (as it is when one blows up a Cartier divisor). On the other hand the divisor is locally defined by $2$ equations near the ODPs, so the fibers over these points can be at most dimension $1$. Hence they are exactly dimension $1$. In other words, the blow up is a small morphism.
Then you need to see that the blow up is indeed smooth. You may do this by verifying that the pre-image of $E$ is smooth which should not be too hard as its pre-image ought to be just the blow up of E at the ODP points (check this by an explicit local computation). These points are smooth on $E$, so the blow-up of $E$ remains smooth. Then its a smooth Cartier divisor, so the ambient space has to be smooth along it, but it is already smooth everywhere else.
Just for the sake of saving anyone else who needs this fact, we may local analytically assume that $X\cong \text{Spec }\mathbb C[x,y,z,w]/(f(x,y,z,w))$, where $E$ is defined by $x=z=0$ and $f=xP+zQ$ for polynomials $P,Q$ such that $f$ vanishes at the origin, has vanishing derivatatives at the origin, but whose Hessian is nonsingular there. This follows sinces $E$ is smooth and passes through the ODP, which has embedding dimension 4. Taking the proper primage of $X$ under the blow-up of $\mathbb C^4$ along $E$ gives explicit equations for the blow-up of $X$ along $E$, and using the Jacobian criterion shows that the blow-up is nonsingular from non-singularity of the Hessian matrix.


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The 5 Weirdest Things That Influence How Your Food Tastes
We never get tired of optical illusions (particularly that mind-melting one with the gray squares) -- it's good to remind yourself that your senses can't be trusted. But the one sense you'd think you could trust is taste -- nobody is going to convince you that a hamburger is apple pie.
But, as with the other four senses, your taste is manipulated by a whole bunch of factors outside of your control. Like ...
#5. What Your Mom Ate While You Were a Fetus
Obviously, the food you ate as a kid growing up will influence your tastes for life. But it starts earlier than that. In fact, the foods your mother ate while you were in the womb influence what your favorite foods will be.
As well as the food she bathed in.
The study on this was carried out by researchers from the not-at-all-evil-sounding Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, who had pregnant women drink a bunch of carrot juice while pregnant and then while breastfeeding (with various groups changing up when they drank it). The results? The kids whose mothers were given the carrot juice, regardless of the stage when they were given it, were less grossed out when fed a carrot-flavored cereal one month later.
"My mom only ate whiskey and corn nuts."
And in fact, the kids whose mothers had carrot juice during both stages (during pregnancy and during breastfeeding) reportedly couldn't get enough of the stuff. And this is freaking carrot juice we're talking about here.
It makes sense in a way, considering the food your mom ate flavored both her breast milk and the amniotic fluid that surrounded you in the womb. Still, you'd think the residual carrot flavor would be imperceptible, having filtered through her body in the course of metabolizing it. You might like the taste of pork gravy but you wouldn't want to go lick the sweat off of a guy just because he eats it every day.
Oh, come on, what's suggestive about that?
But, science says you're wrong. So go try it.
#4. The Label -- Even If It Lies
It would be no surprise to find that, for instance, people think food in fancy packaging is better than something of equal quality that came in a box featuring a picture of a poorly drawn clown and Comic Sans font. That's why artists and designers get paid, it's why labels exist in the first place. But the influence a label has on the actual taste experience runs much deeper, and much weirder, than that.
First there's the experiment that found that simply labeling a food -- in this case, bologna -- as low-fat will result in people rating it as tasting worse than the equivalent full-fat version. No low-fat food was used in the experiment at all, meaning that both times, the participants were actually eating the full-fat bologna, the stuff they'd presumably eaten at some point in their lives and should have been familiar with.
"OK, now this one has the same fat content, but I shit on one half. Go."
Even weirder, a study conducted in 2002 found that simply adding the name of a substance onto the list of ingredients was enough to make people taste it within the food they're eating. Specifically, they gave the same nutrition bar to two groups, but for one group they added the word "soy" to the label (the bar had no soy in it). The soy label group thought their bars tasted much worse. They were almost four times as likely to say it had a weird taste than the group eating the exact same bar, only without that word on the label.
And those results hold up even when trying to filter out opinion -- these people weren't just asked if it tasted "good" or "bad." The testers with the supposed soy in their bars complained that it had an aftertaste, the other group didn't. The soy labellers also said the bar was "grainy."
The phrase "poop-like" was used several times.
All of those tastes and sensations were perceived only because they had (apparently) been conditioned to equate soy with tasteless health food. So, seeing that word on the label literally made it taste that way.
#3. Background Noise
Imagine the fanciest possible restaurant. If you never go to places like that, picture one from a movie -- white tablecloth, everyone has wine and there is soft, classical music playing in the background.
Now imagine a cheaper, family dining type place, like T.G.I. Friday's. There's loud pop music, often to the point that you can't hear yourself think.
On top of the table full of screaming kids, making you question your decision to never punch one.
Obviously these establishments are putting some thought into what they want their customers to hear. But why? Is it all about atmosphere? Not according to science. First, when you eat in places with high noise levels, you lose the ability to accurately gauge how sweet or salty your food is. It has to do with the way your brain is wired -- continual loud noises whip the neurons of your ear up into such a rage that for no reason they stage an all-out assault on the weaker neurons of your taste buds.
A cynical person could say that restaurants with lower quality food crank up the noise so that you're less likely to notice it, but we have no way of knowing that (maybe they just think the music adds to the "fun" atmosphere).
"One more Nickleback song and I'll burn this place to the fucking ground."
That's not to say that the optimum eating experience means dead silence -- otherwise that sad, lonely sandwich eaten quietly over the sink in your apartment wouldn't taste so much like shame. Science agrees with those stuffy restaurants you were imagining at the beginning -- if you pipe in music at a volume of between exactly 62 and 67 decibels (about the level that human conversations are held) the food served will be rated as tasting nicer than the exact same food served outside of this specific volume range. There, the music is just audible enough to arouse the senses, but low enough as not to overwhelm them (also, classical music works best). For the senses, the difference between soft and loud music is like the difference between an invigorating swim in a cool swimming pool and having somebody dump a bucket of ice water over your head.
All of this applies to drinking establishments too, by the way. Research found that your opinion of wine largely depends on what kind of music is being played while you drink it. Subjects changed their ratings of the wine by up to 60 percent depending on the soundtrack, which we're assuming means you could open a joint selling prison-brewed toilet wine by the glass, as long as you played fancy music while people drank.
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I had to find all the subrings of the integers and then prove that there aren't any more. It's clear to me the $(n\mathbb Z, +, \times )$ is a subring of the integers for all $n$ element of the natural numbers, $n>1$, but I'm not sure how to prove that there aren't any more.
I assume you assume that subrings don't have to contain the identity. If you can't figure out the proof right away, you should try an example like this:
A nonzero subring $S$ must have a nonzero element. We can choose the smallest positive one. In our example suppose it is $5$. If $S$ contains a number that is not an integer multiple of five like $12$, then we can do the following: $S$ contains $10$ because it contains $5$, and so it contains $12 - 10 = 2$. But we said $5$ was the smallest positive number in $S$!
Can you generalise this to a proof?
Hint: consider a minimal positive element in the subring.
By the Subring Test, a nonempty subset $\rm\:S\subset \Bbb Z\:$ is a subring iff it's closed under multiplication, and also closed under subtraction (i.e. $\rm\,S\,$ is an additive subgroup, by the Subgroup Test). But in $\Bbb Z$ multiplication reduces to (iterated) addition since $\rm\:n\cdot m = m +\,\cdots\,+m,\:$ with $\rm\,n\,$ summands. Hence subrings are the same as additive subgroups, which have form $\rm\,m\,\Bbb Z\,$ by this fundamental
Lemma $\ \ $ If a nonempty set of positive integers $\rm\: S\:$ satisfies $\rm\ n > m\ \in\ S \ \Rightarrow\ \: n-m\ \in\ S$
Proof $\ \: $ If not there is a least nonmultiple $\rm\:n\in S\:,$ contra $\rm\:n-m_{\:1} \in S\:$ is a nonmultiple of $\rm\:m_{\:1}.$


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Published: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, October 14, 2013 at 10:04 p.m.
Florida is suing Georgia over consuming too much of the fresh water that should be flowing to the Panhandle.
The legal action asks the U.S. Supreme Court to take significant steps, such as capping Georgia's water use at 1992 levels.
If only Florida was as serious about its own water use.
The dispute with Georgia relates to withdrawals from Lake Lanier, a reservoir on the Chattahoochee River that provides water to the Atlanta area.
The river is part of a system that forms the Apalachicola River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.
Low levels caused by Atlanta's excessive consumption have increased salinity in Apalachicola Bay, killing oysters and devastating the seafood industry there.
Florida is seeking an equitable distribution of the water in the system.
"Georgia has refused to fairly share the waters that flow between our two states, so to stop Georgia's unmitigated consumption of water we have brought the matter before the U.S. Supreme Court," Gov. Rick Scott said in a statement.
Scott deserves credit for pursuing the lawsuit. Hopefully he'll treat Florida's water use with a similar level of seriousness when lawmakers next pursue legislation protecting rivers and springs.
Scott's statement focused on the economic impact of reduced freshwater flows on the oyster industry and that region's economy.
The reduction of river and spring flows from groundwater withdrawals has a similar potential to harm tourism and the natural resources in much of Florida, including Polk County.
Atlanta's unsustainable use of surface water threatens our state's environment and economy. Florida's use of groundwater poses the same threats. Let's show that the state does not need the Supreme Court to step in to address that internal issue.
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The 6 Most Badass Families of All-Time
Whether you believe genetics or upbringing is more important to how a person's life turns out, you can't deny that talented people tend to pop out of families in bunches. Michael wasn't the only Jackson kid who could sing.
And as it turns out, badassery is also handed down through the bloodlines. Just ask ...
#6. The Gracies
The Famous One:
Royce Gracie is to UFC and MMA fighting what Wayne Gretzky used to be to hockey -- the one name even a novice fan will know. He won three of the first four Ultimate Fighting Championship tournaments and in general is the superstar who helped make MMA a big deal.
"I'm just gonna keep on punching until people take notice."
The Family:
Royce came from a long, long line of MMA ass-kickers.
In 1925, Carlos Gracie founded a fighting academy to teach a new style of fighting called Brazilian jiujitsu. He's a demigod to martial arts fans, as this was the style that eventually became mixed martial arts and the UFC. Also, he was pretty good with a penis -- he fathered 21 children. More than half of them became black belts in BJJ, like he was building some kind of clone army.
To think our own measly ambitions begin and end with producing a Little League team.
But despite creating the art form, it was Carlos' brother Helio who perfected it. In his life, Helio had 19 professional matches, mostly against much bigger opponents, including former world wrestling champion Wladek Zbyszko, who was twice his weight, and sumo wrestler Massagoishi. Despite serious weight disadvantages, Helio only lost two of his matches.
Ironically, it was one of his losses that proved to be the greatest fight of his career. At 42 years old, Helio held his own against his 24-year-old former student Waldemar Santana in a no-holds-barred match before finally being knocked out ...
... after three hours and 42 minutes.
At least one of them here is having a quick nap.
Let that sink in for a second: Nearly four hours. Of continuous fighting. We get tired after four hours of video game fighting. Helio would finish his career as the first 10th degree red belt of BJJ. We assume a red belt is just a black belt that has become stained with the blood of his fallen enemies.
This is what happens when you fuck with the thermostat in the Gracie house.
The second generation of Gracies began with Carlos' oldest son, Carlson. Carlson would ride his wave of success through 18 matches (losing only one) before becoming Brazilian champion.
And seeking revenge for his uncle, he took out Santana four times.
However, Helio's son Rickson was unimpressed by his cousin's record and mastery of only a pitiful two styles of fighting. Rickson compiled a perfect 11-0 record in MMA, is a two-time Brazilian Freestyle Wrestling Champion and won a gold medal in Sambo. Rickson has mastered three styles of fighting in his life, including earning an 8th degree black and red belt in BJJ.
The aforementioned Royce Gracie is Rickson's brother, but it was his brother Rorion who actually founded the UFC, and less notably, taught Mel Gibson how to fight for Lethal Weapon. And that is the story of how one man's titanic sperm went on to give us the UFC and Lethal Weapon.
Apparently they follow the Highlander code and take each other on constantly.
#5. The Red Baron's Family, the Richthofens
The Famous One:
Manfred von Richthofen is better known as the Red Baron. If you only know one thing about World War I (the non-Hitler one), it's probably something to do with Germany's most notorious fighter pilot, with 80 confirmed kills to his name. If not that, then you at least know him from Snoopy cartoons or the frozen pizzas.
First image result for "Red Baron." Oh Google, you shame history.
The Family:
The Red Baron had a younger brother named Lothar, who experts believe was probably a more formidable pilot than the Baron himself. His kill count was "only" 40, half of his brother's, but Lothar also just did not give a shit. In one engagement, he went flying head-on against a more heavily armed British plane, the two pouring machine gun bullets into one another, trying to see who would die first. (Note: It wasn't Lothar.) The man seemed to be in it just for the insanity. Or, as the Baron himself wrote about Lothar, "If my brother does not have at least one success on every flight he gets tired of the whole thing."
Lothar never forgave his older brother for taking the best nickname.
You might wonder how a man could take such continuous insane risks without crashing eventually. To which we reply, who said he never crashed? His biography reads like a documentary of the war's top ten most horrifying fighter crash landings, and he spent much of the war in hospital wards.
Again and again he went down. And again and again, he went up. After every skeleton-pulping plane crash he was subjected to, Lothar von Richthofen jumped straight up, ripped off his casts and got his ass right back into a fighter plane. The real world, as a general rule, doesn't work like the cartoons -- a toon pilot who crashes every episode might be funny, but in reality you can pull that shit maybe twice. But you couldn't tell that to Lothar.
"Third time's a charm?"
But surely his stunts eventually killed him, right? Of course not. He would outlive his much more careful brother. Lothar did die in a plane crash -- but it was an engine failure in a commercial plane, years after his comfortable retirement as a mail carrier.
Oh, and the Baron also had a cousin named Wolfram, who was also a badass fighter pilot in both world wars. He only killed eight people, but he was also the only Richthofen to not die while flying, so technically he has an infinite K/D ratio.
"I ran out of enemies so I took on cancer. It did not go well."
#4. The Byrons
The Famous One:
We've talked about Lord Byron a few times before. To recap, he's one of the Western world's most accomplished poets, he fought in the Greek War of Independence and he ultimately had to leave Britain because he was having sex with everything.
"It was funny until the incest. -- Britain."
The Family:
Ada was Byron's only (legitimate) child. Her mother, terrified she'd turn out to be an insane boning-machine war-hero poet like her dad, decided to go exactly the opposite way, and made her study mathematics pretty much from birth, which eventually got her into the social circle of one Charles Babbage. Babbage was kind of a mad-scientist type, and he had formulated a design for some outrageous futuristic machine he called an "analytical engine." Today, we call it a "computer." By the way, this was 1837.
"One day, there will be one of these in every home!"
When some guy wrote an article about Babbage's machine in French, Babbage wanted it translated so he could read what other people were saying about him. Ada translated it for him, but then she just kept on writing until she'd produced a paper three times the length of the original. What she had done was formulate a way that the analytical engine might one day be used to produce music, graphics and advanced calculations. She stopped just short of predicting Crysis.
She even created a special teabagging punch card.
Even Babbage, the guy who invented a computer at around the time of Napoleon, thought she was insane. For him, the contraption wasn't much more than a high-tech abacus. But when someone actually got around to building the damn thing -- nearly 100 years later -- they found that Ada's computer program worked perfectly. In a way, she's kind of the reason you're reading this right now, which we think is much cooler than a bunch of boring poetry.


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David Wojick is a former consultant with the Office of Scientific and Technical Information at the U.S. Department of Energy in the area of information and communication science. He has a Ph.D. in the philosophy of science and mathematical logic from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.S. in civil engineering from Carnegie Tech. He has been on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon and the staffs of the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the Naval Research Lab.


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