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My kids bathroom light keeps turning itself off after about 5 minutes. Then after 10 minutes or so it will turn itself on again, and so forth. I am wondering if this is something relatively simple that I can fix?
An intermittent problem like this could be caused by a combination of a loose connection and the waste heat from the bulb. As the bulb and light fixture heat up, they expand eventually causing the loose connection to be broken, turning off the light. With the light off, they cool down and shrink, remaking the connection so the light turns on again.
This could be dangerous as you could get arcing across the connection at the points where the light turns on or off, which can cause electrical fires.
To find and fix the problem:
If the light is recessed, check the bulb size as to compare to what is rated for the can. The rating will be on a paper label glued inside the can. Too much wattage equals too much heat and the thermal unit inside the can is doing its job, turning off the lamp to cool down and turning the lamp back on when it is safe. It will repeat until the lamp is replace or the thermal unit goes bad, which means a costly or time consuming repair.
Of course, if it not a recessed light it probably what @Niall C. is talking about.
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McDaniel College
One of the oldest private colleges in Maryland and the first coeducational college south of the Mason-Dixon Line, McDaniel College offers its 1,700 undergraduates from 35 states and 18 countries more than 60 programs of study. Situated on a hill overlooking Westminster, Md. – less than an hour's drive from Washington, D.C. – the College is a close-knit community of students, professors, and staff focused on learning for life. Here, students learn to think creatively and critically, challenged by McDaniel professors who are mentors dedicated to classroom, laboratory, and studio teaching – and who involve students in their research. The College's curriculum features courses that offer global, multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives and classes that are specific to each year of study, including first-year seminar, sophomore interdisciplinary studies and a junior writing experience. January term provides opportunities to engage in concentrated coursework beyond conventional study, and students conclude the academic program with a capstone experience that synthesizes learning from earlier studies within a chosen major. A branch campus in Budapest, Hungary, gives the College a unique global perspective. McDaniel College is nationally recognized as one of the eight colleges in the Northeast that changes lives, according to former New York Times education editor Loren Pope in his book Colleges That Change Lives.
2 College Hill,
Westminster, MD 21157
Web Site: www.mcdaniel.edu
Type of Institution: Independent 4-year
Fall 2008 Total Enrollment: 1,739
Male: 783 Female: 956
Full-time: 1,683 Part-time: 56
2009-2010 Tuition and Mandatory Fees for Maryland Residents:
Full-time Tuition per year: $32,000
Part-time Tuition cost per credit hour: $1,000
Campus Housing:
Room: $3,500
Board: $3,100
Degrees or Awards: Bachelor's, Master's
Calendar: Two semesters and January term available for undergraduates. Two semesters and summer sessions available for graduate students.
Entry Requirements: Recommended high school program should include 4 years English, 3 years social studies, 3 years of one foreign language, 3 years laboratory science, and 3 years mathematics. SAT or ACT required. Transfer students must submit high school and college transcripts.
Application Deadlines: Entrance decisions are made several times each year. Deadlines for Early Action are October 15, November 15 and December 1. Deadlines for regular decision are January 15 and February 15. All applications are due by February 15. February 15 is deadline for scholarships.
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Migrants, Migration, and Development
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This volume from MPI's Transatlantic Council on Migration aims to fill the analytical gap regarding the question of what greater global cooperation on governing the flow of international migrants could achieve. The book focuses on a set of fundamental questions: What are the key steps to building a better, more cooperative system of governance? What are the goals that can be achieved through greater international cooperation? And, most fundamentally, who (or what) is to be governed?
Migration and development have emerged as a pressing policy priority on the global agenda. This report identifies critical lessons from the past decade of policy experimentation and offers recommendations for migration and development policy.
The impact of climate change as a driver of human migration is expected by many to dwarf all others. Still, certain frequently repeated forecasts of the number of people who stand to be displaced by climate change are not informed by a complete understanding of migration dynamics, as this report explains.
الأردنية ودعم اقتصاده. وابتدأت العَمالة غير العربية الآتية من آسيا بالزيادة في السنوات الأخيرة في الأردن، وبالأخص من سريلانكا والفِليبّين.
Migrants from the Philippines and Sri Lanka have taken on a growing role in filling labor shortages in Jordan, leading to significant challenges surrounding the recruitment of these foreign workers. Based on interviews with government officials in sending and receiving countries and focus groups with migrants, the report analyzes the role of private recruitment agencies and points to oversight gaps.
This edited volume examines the development impact of diasporas in six critical areas: entrepreneurship, capital markets, "nostalgia" trade and "heritage" tourism, philanthropy, volunteerism, and advocacy.


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The National Bureau of Economic Research recently published a paper by Eli Berman, Jacob Shapiro, and Joseph Felter called "Do Working Men Rebel?" The paper challenges one of the few universal tenets held by Counter Insurgency planners and decision makers: the belief that unemployment drives insurgent violence. To put the traditional view succinctly: give young men a job, and they will throw down their rifle and stop conducting attacks. The authors make a compelling argument, using data from the Iraqi district level and the Philippines equivalent- province level, that in fact the opposite is true. Prosperity brings violence, rather than reducing it.
The purpose of this post is not to explore the statistical models, data sources, or other specific academic concerns, as the two case studies and the types of data used are generally well thought out. There are some questions about the implementation, or operationalization, of the data, from a planner's perspective.
The following vignette will highlight the operating picture the authors consider statistically in the study: The Iraqi district /Philippine province observed for the study is the source of a major government effort against insurgents. Increased patrols and checkpoints (kinetic operations), increased aid to businesses and community (civil military operations), along with a myriad of other efforts, are being used to reduce insurgent effectiveness. As this occurs, violence increases with no significant relationship to unemployment. At first this glance the policy implication is that efforts to employ young males, the most likely insurgents, are a waste of resources, as they do not reduce violence. However, further exploration might lead to a different conclusion. The following issues should be more carefully considered before concluding that increased employment does not reduce insurgent violence.
1. The data show that the area analyzed is the subject of intense effort by the government security forces. That means that such an effort almost certainly draws insurgents into the area to fight. The study's authors do not have the ability to build a compelling profile of the insurgents. For Iraq, one immediate question comes to mind: what about foreign fighters? They are potentially one of the most likely elements to "march to the sound of the guns" along with other more professional insurgents. The Syrian elements in Anbar province Iraq prior to the tribal awakening would be a great example of external forces that would skew study data. Since the study occurred in two very small geographical areas, a better question to ask might be "how did the Iraqi province the district resides in perform overall in terms of reduced violence and higher employment?"
2. The government's forces cannot be everywhere at once. "Clear, Hold, Build" means that you have to establish a beachhead to work from, as the Marines and the Afghan Army are currently doing in Marja. Marja will draw violence for months as the Taliban tries to disrupt the "Building" that is to follow in the wake of the current "Clearing" and "Holding." Additionally, Marja may remain a problem, but is the seed planted there really unable to affect Helmand as a whole? Perhaps higher employment reduces the number of insurgents emanating from Marja, ultimately reducing the total number of insurgents in the overall battle space? This does not refute the study data, but calls into question whether the geographical areas studied were large enough to enable operational and strategic level decisions to be made about eliminating programs that provide employment to young males.
A follow-on to this effort that examined a larger geographical area and better examined the question of who is behind attacks would be incredibly insightful and add value to the authors' study. While any data can be picked apart, the authors should be commended for challenging the status quo and providing a perspective that may prove to be incredibly invaluable for planners and decision makers.


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Can you believe it? We're already halfway into February! I have been getting calls for counseling requests around relationships; Valentine woes and deep feelings of aloneness. I even got a Facebook message from a man challenged with his life choices and loss of love. I am very clear that every person on this planet wants to love and be loved. We all want to feel special, be seen and acknowledged for the beautiful beings that we are. So why is it so hard to "find" love?


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In San Francisco, Proposition 8 backer to head Catholic Church
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SAN FRANCISCO — The announcement by Pope Benedict XVI has been dubbed the "Bombshell by the Bay."
Next week, a key player in the passage of Proposition 8 — a man who has decried the "contraceptive mentality" of modern life — will become the leader of the Catholic Church here in the city that thrust same-sex marriage onto the national stage, the birthplace of the Summer of Love.
Supporters view Archbishop-designate Salvatore Cordileone, the 56-year-old son of a commercial fisherman, as a charming and brilliant defender of the faith. He is fluent in Spanish and Italian, has been known to sing vintage TV theme songs in Latin and is a deep believer in a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
But many gay and lesbian Catholics worry that they will be marginalized after Cordileone's arrival. Oasis California, the Episcopal Church's gay ministry, convened a meeting recently at a Castro District bar to discuss how spiritual people should respond to the "architect of Prop 8" coming to town.
Cordileone's appointment "re-emphasizes the Vatican's concern, and the U.S. bishops' concern, about gay marriage," said Father Thomas J. Reese, a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Woodstock Theological Center. "Even in a city like San Francisco, they're willing to appoint someone who ... has a high state and national profile on this issue.
"They're serious," Reese said, "and they're not going to back down."
During a July news conference, Cordileone was circumspect when discussing the "cultural challenges" his new diocese would present — which he said revolved around "issues of family life and, essentially, come down to our understanding of the human person, the purpose of our human sexuality, what God calls us to do and how he calls us to live and how he calls us to love."
But in a recent interview at the headquarters of the Oakland diocese, where he has served as bishop for three years, Cordileone was more direct: Gays and lesbians who are in sexual relationships of any kind, he said, should not receive the sacrament of holy communion, the central ritual of Catholic life.
"If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences," he said, "and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences."
The prelate's light-filled office overlooks Oakland's Lake Merritt. Just beyond the graceful urban estuary, he said, are "100 blocks of inner-city neighborhoods. Those are fatherless children."
Cordileone will lead a flock of more than 500,000 Catholics spread over 91 parishes in three counties — San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin. Although it is not as influential as the country's largest dioceses, New York and Los Angeles among them, it is a high-profile destination for a fast-rising archbishop.
And though he strives to deliver Catholicism's absolutes in as nuanced a fashion as possible, Cordileone said, people need to understand that "the church is not going to change its teaching. ... The solution isn't to say, 'Well, I'm just going to disagree and continue being a Catholic.' That's not how we arrive at holiness."
Unlike secular organizations, however, the church cannot just slam the door on dissenters, he said. Instead, the Catholic Church must reach out, support people, "move them along to understand."
Cordileone, who heads up the subcommittee for the promotion and defense of marriage of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, came early to the Proposition 8 battle.
In 2007, the California Supreme Court was considering the constitutionality of a voter initiative that changed the state family code to say that "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."
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In Saints Row: The Third there are many things to buy: weapons, weapon upgrades, vehicle upgrades, crib upgrades, properties, tattoos, clothing, etc.. All of these added up are expensive. What's the best way of making money, so that I may acquire these things with haste?
I was initially emphasizing the fonts of key aspects of each method, but there are too many, so instead I'll simply tell you what to look out for: source and cash per unit time. Source means stuff like which activity or diversion, the difficulty level if it's an activity, or the vehicle and location if it's a barn-storm. These methods are aside from buying as many properties as possible to earn money over time passively, aside from buying that money DLC, aside from completing the missions that have bigger cash rewards, and certain other things.
This video claims $10,000+ (e.g., $11,913) in three minutes with Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax. Let's be generous and round: 12K/3 = 4K/minute. My record, with a partner, for cash is $24,907, in medium SERC. Restart will take a little over 4 minutes and 20 seconds = 260 seconds. That's about $5,748 per minute ($95.8/s), at best. Deaths detract from time, for example.
This video claims $40-80K per minute at the air-port. The barn storm lasts from 2:03 to 2:07, earning $10,216. It restarts at 2:22. 22-3 = 19 seconds. $32261.0526/minute = $537.684211/second which is not as good as the title claims. Caveat: Their method is only available close to the end of the game because it requires a vehicle that you may not get, depending on your decision in the story.
This video shows flying a plane at the air-port. I can't run its numbers well because it speeds up the video for the return pass, but it earns $5,108 per pass and takes a while to make a return pass (longer than another method which earns more per pass, so calculation isn't bothered with).
This video shows flying a VTOL jet at the air-port. Starts at 0:17, earns $5,108 per pass, and returns to the start after two passes at 0:58. 58-17 = 41 seconds. $5,108*2/41 = $249.170732/second = $14950/minute.
This video shows camping Luchadores in an Apache helicopter. It earns respect at the same time as earning cash, but this easily earns lesser cash. Thus, I don't want to bother to crunch its numbers.
[Video demonstrating camping Professor Genki spawns]
Sad Panda Skyblazing can be glitched such that a roof-clearing bonus is repeatedly awarded. 0:46 enters, $408350, 3:30 exits. The cash amount is modestly projected. 3:30-0:46 = 164 seconds. $149396.341/minute, $2489.93902/second, which is over 7 times Arapice Island barn-storming. Downside: Requires DLC and reproducibility. One commenter commented that it requires two players. I just recently learned about this, so I haven't tested its reproducibility. Upside: May be the fastest way to earn cash and may be fun to do with two players.
Helicopter barn-storming Arapice Island: 0:13 to 0:49 is a complete pair of passes, starting and ending at the same point, with the same velocity. These time values are based on the YouTube player. 49-13 = 36 seconds. 2*$6,166 = $12,332. $20553/minute, $342.6/second, $1233200/hour, sustainably.
For me, the easiest way is to leave myself standing in my crib and switch the input on my TV to watch cable. Every fifteen minutes, I switch back and collect the money. It may take a little longer, but at least it's more fun than other methods. I've made over ten million dollars this way. If you don't want to be stuck watching TV then do something else, but set a timer to remind yourself to keep coming back.


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Italian citizens need a visa to visit Australia. Visa exemption or visa-free access does not apply to Italy. A visa allows a stay of up to 90 days. Passports must be valid for at least 6 months on the date of entry.
Most countries issue visas through embassies, visa on arrival offices or electronic visa (e-Visa) providers. The cost, processing time, requirements and types of visa issued vary.
It is possible to stay longer than 90 days without leaving the country. You can do it by applying for a visa extension or getting a visa allowing a stay of more than 90 days.
If you plan to exit and re-enter the country numerous times, a multiple-entry visa will simplify matters. You can stay up to 90 days during each visit, and no minimum gap is required between visits.
We advise you not to overstay your visit at all costs. If you cannot avoid an overstay, however, you will most likely be fined an amount that costs more than a visa extension, visa run or new visa. In most cases, you will not be thrown in jail.
Italian citizens transiting in Australia should consult with their airlines about the possibility of getting a transit visa, maximum transit time allowed and flight delay policies. If you are flying point to point on a budget airline without a transit visa, you will need a tourist visa to clear immigration upon arrival.
Next: How to get your Australia visa?
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I need to repair C# code that was decompiled on with .NET 4. Unfortunately, on my workstation there is only .NET 3.5 installed and that might be the reason why the following code won't compile:
ReportPage.<>c__DisplayClass26 <>c__DisplayClass = new ReportPage.<>c__DisplayClass26();
What <> construct means here? There are no c__DisplayClass26 strings anywhere in the code except this line. This might mean that this name is constructed from some metainformation that was missed during decompilation.


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Figuring out what you need ahead of time and what tips and tricks you can use are a great time saver. Setting up your site is an important part of the whole process. Each of these sites has helped me a lot.
Here are some great tips and checklists to make your life easier:
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I have a sorted array of integers of size n. These values are not unique. What I need to do is : Given a B, I need to find an
i<A[n] such that the sum of
|A[j:1 to n]-i| is lesser than B and to that particular sum contribute the biggest number of A[j]s. I have some ideas but I can't seem to find anything better from the naive n*B and n*n algorithm. Any ideas about O(nlogn) or O(n) ? For example: Imagine
A[n] = 1 2 10 10 12 14 and B<7 then the best i is 12 cause I achieve having 4 A[j]s contribute to my sum. 10 and 11 are also equally good i's cause if i=10 I got 10 - 10 + 10 - 10 +12-10 + 14-10 = 6<7
These A[j]s must be contiguous. Because the problem is not trivial feel free to ask me if you find my descriptions ambiguous at some point


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In the exercise we are given that the spectrum of a light source consists of two spectral lines, which both have wavelengths around $500 \text{ nm}$ and the separation between them - given in wavenumbers - is close to $0.1 \text{ cm}^{-1}$.
One part asks us to calculate the distance between the mirrors if we want the free spectral range of our Fabry-Perot etalon to satisfy $FSR(\text{in } \overline \nu) = 2.5(\overline \nu_2 - \overline \nu_1)$.
Now, I know that the free spectral range ($\theta = 0$, $n_{air} \approx 1$) is given by
$$FSR = \frac{c}{2d}$$
where $d$ is the distance between the mirrors and we have
$$\Delta\overline \nu = \frac{c}{\lambda_2} - \frac{c}{\lambda_1} = \frac{c}{2\pi}\Delta k $$
So shouldn't then
$$d = \frac{c}{2 FSR} = \frac{c}{2 \cdot 2.5c/(2\pi) \Delta k} = \frac{\pi}{2.5\Delta k} \approx 12.566 \text{ cm}$$
According to the solution this is wrong: They get $FSR = 0.25 \text{ cm}^{-1}$ and $d = \frac{1}{2 \cdot FSR} = 20 \text{ mm}$
I seem to be missing something. If they calculate the free spectral range in terms of the wavenumber, shouldn't they convert it to frequency by
$$FSR(k) \to FSR(\nu) = \frac{c}{2\pi} FSR(k)$$
instead of
$$FSR(k) \to FSR(\nu) = c \cdot FSR(k)$$
Does anybody see what's going on here (maybe the solution is simply wrong, but I'd like to know for sure)?


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Video: U.S. Secretary of Education loses big on Celebrity Jeopardy
posted at 9:50 pm on November 21, 2006 by Allahpundit
What's more embarrassing than being Secretary of Education and having your ass handed to you on Celebrity Jeopardy? Being Secretary of Education and having your ass handed to you on Celebrity Jeopardy by Lenny from "Laverne & Shirley."
She was more than twenty thousand dollars behind at the start of Final Jeopardy.
Bonus fun fact for all the Spinal Tap fans out there: yes, there was a category devoted to Stonehenge; yes, the answer to the $1,000 question was "the Druids"; and yes, Michael McKean was the one who got it right.
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LAMPASAS (November 30, 2012)--A boil water notice was issued for some Lampasas residents late Thursday.
Kempner Water Supply customers who are experiencing low or no water are encouraged to boil their water to ensure the destruction of harmful bacteria.
The company says residents affected are from the corner to CR 3560 and CR 3420 to Hwy. 281. Also, customers from the corner of CR 3560 and CR 3420 south to FM 580 should boil their water.
Kempner WSC will post red signs in the affected areas where residents and businesses will need to boil their water.
Blue signs indicate the notice has been lifted.
The company did not say what caused the boil order to go into effect.


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The מנחת שי at the beginning of בראשית (on "יהי רקיע") cites a מחלוקת whether the word 'רָקִיעַ' (and likewise for other words with a פתח גנובה) is pronounced as רָקִיאַע or as רָקִיַע, that is, with a glottal stop or without before the פתח. Does anyone know of a modern source that indicates the appropriate מנהג, or any indication of the most common מנהג (among those who would pronounce רָקִיאַע differently from רָקִיַע)?
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Sepharads (and more precisely tuniasian) pronounces Raki-Ya and when the letter before the patah' is a waw then we pronounce wa (like rou-wah'). You can see the Tikoun soferim Ich Matsliah' for further informations
The way I heard it in Yeshiva, it's ru-ach and ko-ach; thus, raki-a'; also, gavo-ah and elo-ah (not gavohah or elohah, though I think Lakewood's BMG spells it as such; the rebbe of mine who told us this was a product of BMG and admitted it was a problem.) I'm assuming the ayins are the same as ches's and heh's.
Has anyone heard otherwise?
In most dikduk sefarim it states that by throat letters (aleph hey ches and ayin) if they are the last letter of a word with a pasach under them they are read as if pasach alef precedes them. I'm sure you know this. This being the case, the correct way would be rakiaa with a pasach alef. Also one of the subrules of this klal is that the word becomes milel meaning the stress is on the beginning of the word. In rakia we say raKIah not rakiAH so I would take that as yet another proof. I will check the Minchas Shai again because I must have forgotten it. Also, who is to say that the ayin does not get pronounced even if there is an alef? Tishma has an ayin at the end with no nikud. Do you say it like it had no ayin or do you need to make the glottal stop anyway. I would assume yes. If so, it would be very hard to diffrentiate between rakia with an alef or without.
The "סימנים" edition of תנ״ך, edited by שמואל מאיר ריאחי / Shmuel Meir Riachi (of Jerusalem) and published by Feldheim in 2006, includes in its prefatory list of features (in feature 5) the following explanation (in my own translation from the Hebrew):
He cites no source.
i cannot provide written sources, but i can provide Sephardim reading those pesuqim in question.
First one by Rabbi Yossef Benarroch ZT'L (don't know what flavor of Sepharad)
This website is called Pizmonim, and if you click on the link it will take you to a page of Torah readings. There is one for Bereishith and it had something like 4 recorded versions.
Take a listen.


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I have a domain name with GoDaddy and I have my domain name setup with Google to receive email using that domain name (email@example.com). Yesterday I bought a WinHost account and had to update the nameserver information. Will changing the nameserver information to Winhost's nameserver information interrupt my Google apps (specifically Blogger and Gmail)?
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The answer is YES, unless you also copy all your current DNS records to the new DNS server too. You should do that before you move your name servers, although some control panels don't allow that until they are officially named as your name server. In that case, you make the changes ASAP although mail flow will be delayed while they propagate.
Why don't you just add any new records you need within your Google DNS manager? You do not have to move your DNS to Winhost. Post back with what new records you need for Winhost, and I can tell you how to do them.
Considering that it is now too late, what you should of done if kept your DNS Records in place and just forwarded your site to the proper IP Address. For example:
Your host should give you the proper IP to forward the traffic to. Ask them nicely. If that doesn't work, start looking for a new host.


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I'm using an action sheet in my tabbed application, and when it shows, Xcode logs the following message:
Presenting action sheet clipped by its superview. Some controls might not respond to touches. On iPhone try
-[UIActionSheet showFromTabBar:]
-[UIActionSheet showFromToolbar:]
instead of
-[UIActionSheet showInView:].
showFromTabBar takes a
UITabBar argument, and the
UITabBarset up in the Interface Builder (tab bar controller or view controller, doesn't matter) won't connect to any
UITabBar I create in any header file. So I can't call
showFromTabBar on the tab bar I actually have.
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How can I convert a video file to a sequence of images, for example one frame every N seconds. Can mplayer or ffmpeg do this? I have used MPlayer to grab screenshots manually but I would like to automate this for a long video.
It's very simple with ffmpeg, and it can output one frame every N seconds without extra scripting. To export as an image sequence just use
Ok so to export as an image sequence we can use an image format as the output with a sequential filename, but we don't want to export every single frame. So simply change the frame rate of the output to whatever we want using the
So to put it all together, this is how it would look to save one frame of input.mov every four seconds to output_0000.png, output_0001.png etc.:
Change the %xd to however many digits you need, e.g. if the command would create more than 10,000 frames change the
Windows users:
On the command line use
In CMD and BAT Scripts use
Don't use just one
will save a frame as a jpeg file every 5 seconds.
However, it will not stop at the end of the file, it will continue producing copies of the last frame. To avoid this, find the duration of the video in seconds, using another player, or with mplayer:
and look for a line like "ID_LENGTH=147.00".
Subtract 2 from the length, and use this value for the
This command generates a 320×240 sized JPG thumbnail at the 4th second in the video. Put this in a script that changes the time and file name and you're done.
More info: Create a thumbnail image every X seconds of the video
With VLC 1.1.0 and above, you can use the scene video filter:
The above saves 1 out of every 24 frames (--scene-ratio=24), starting at 00:00:10 and ending at 00:00:11.
Just tested and confirmed this works with VLC 2.0.3 on a fresh Windows 8 installation (I have no additional video plugins or software).
Full documentation: http://wiki.videolan.org/How_to_create_thumbnails
If you are after a kind of contact sheet and if you are working with a Unix-like OS, you can use this elaborate script, called to the point Video Contact Sheet *NIX, short vcs.
In the background it also uses
For a interval of 10 minutes, the invocation is like that:
Check the full list of commandline options for some other tweaks.
Here is an example contact sheet, taken from the homepage:
You could also try this
VirtualDub can do this for you
You can skip frames in VirtualDub. Just use "Decimate By" option located at Video -> Frame Rate menu. For example if you set "Decimate By 100" then use File -> Export -> Image sequence, it will save only every 100th frame.
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If I use the shortcut CTRL+;, the date that is pasted is the server date. I have changed the settings so my Time zone is selected to my local time. Shouldn't my Local time get pasted as opposed to the server time? Do I need to configure elsewhere or this feature isn't implemented the way I am expecting it to behave?
I tried Ctrl+; and it shows the local date (and time with Ctrl+Shift+;) so the issue appears to be fixed.


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I have installed Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon – have been upgrading from Linux Mint 13.
There is a feature:
I can move between workspaces by moving cursor to the edge of screen and holding it there for about 1.5 seconds.
It is very useful, but sometimes annoying. And I cannot find where to turn off it.


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The 5 Most Pathetic Abuses of Power in Sports History
One of the most crushing disappointments of childhood, right up there with the truth about Santa Claus and seeing your father cry, is the realization that you probably don't have what it takes to be a professional athlete. The door on that career path closes early and never opens again, unless, of course, you grow up to be disgustingly rich and powerful.
Because professional sports have never shied from choosing money over dignity, it's entirely possible to grease your awkward slide into professional athletics with hundred dollar bills ... provided they've changed enough sweaty palms to make them slippery.
#5. Ted Turner Plays Baseball Manager for a Day
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Let's face it: The whole point of becoming a billionaire is so you can buy a sports team and vicariously live out all of the fantasies you were too slow or chubby to achieve in real life. But what sucks is the "vicariously" part -- even though you get the nicest luxury box and are allowed to hang out in the locker room with the stars, you're not allowed to get directly in on the action. Well, Ted Turner figured if he owns the damned team, who's to stop him from declaring himself manager?
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Or even ... God?
It was 1977, and Turner's Atlanta Braves were a team synonymous with spectacular failure. Two games from the end of the season, they were stuck with a dismal record of 60-100, a 16-game losing streak and they were dead last in the division. While fans hung their heads in shame and thought for certain that things couldn't possibly get any worse, Turner set out to prove them all wrong. He fired then-manager Dave Bristol and announced the role would be filled by an interim coach: himself.
Just to be clear, Ted Turner was the media mogul who revolutionized cable television, founding CNN, TBS and TNT -- nowhere in his long lists of accomplishments is there anything close to coaching a professional sports team. Ted Turner, like most people, probably saw managers sitting at games in full uniform, shooting the shit with players, resting on their own fat guts and thought, "Well hell, I could do that." So he did. He waggled his enormous power in the face of Major League Baseball and inserted himself in the dugout to crash professional baseball players into each other like action figures.
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Money means never having to not act like a 10-year-old.
In an effort to quell everyone's completely justifiable doubt about his ability, Turner said, "If I'm smart enough to save $11 million to buy the team I ought to be smart enough to manage it." Now, in case you didn't know, being a baseball manager is way more complicated than it looks -- that's why guys get paid millions of dollars to do it. So it should surprise no one that Turner lost his first game in charge, handily. He didn't get a second chance to prove himself either because the baseball commissioner forced Turner to take off his uniform and skulk back to his owner's box like a pouty child.
We're not exaggerating, either. His response to being kicked out of the manager position was, "I want to manage even more now because they don't want me to. Everybody takes all this so seriously. This is just like a big little league team to me." And, if you're surprised that Turner didn't just demand they let him take the field as one of the players, well, that brings us to ...
#4. The President of Chechnya Arranges a Match of Soccer All-stars Vs Himself
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The president of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, is the type of leader who would make the perfect antagonist in a James Bond movie. He has a firm grasp on presentation, assuring the world that Chechnya is no longer a war-torn pile of rubble, but a much looser grasp on basic human rights principles when the cameras aren't rolling. Britain has denounced his entire presidency as a "regime of oppression" because the flamboyant Kadyrov insists on having his way all the time. On a small scale it can manifest in something as simple as hiring Hilary Swank to attend his birthday party, and on a large scale it can be as absurd as urging Russia to go to war with Georgia and the Ukraine for no other reason than that he thinks they're irritatingly westernized.
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They're just angry the new episodes of Breaking Bad come to Georgia first.
So when Kadyrov announced he'd hired a team of world-cup winning Brazilian greats to play an exhibition match against the Chechen team, everyone in Chechnya just took it as another example of his ostentatious nature and kept their mouths shut. They were a little more surprised, however, when he announced that he would be playing striker for the Chechen team.
Kadyrov, it turns out, has always been a huge soccer fan, and when we say huge we mean that both figuratively and literally. He's a heavy, stocky guy who looks suspiciously like a fraternity pledge who is only begrudgingly acting as president as part of his rush-week torture.
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Does ... does his jersey say "tyrant"?
But as a huge fan of the sport, he wasn't about to have the greatest players in history coming to town on his questionably-obtained dime just so he could sit in the stands and watch them like one of his poverty-stricken asshole citizens. No way -- he was going to play.
He panted out onto the field, danced around for a little bit and then got to work lumbering and sweating his way through two full halves of everyone on both teams doing their best to help him score. He was even awarded three penalty kicks (presumably because the refs were interested in seeing their families again), the first two of which he missed, even with the goalie discreetly trying to usher the ball into the net.
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"No, it's understandable; 192 square feet is a small target."
While Brazil won the game 6-4, Kadyrov had such a good time that he repeated the stunt a few months later against a world team of former stars, again assigning himself the glory position on the field. We're all waiting anxiously for the day that someone plays a little too aggressively at one of these exhibition matches and suddenly disappears at halftime, not just from the game but from all the team photos, as well.
#3. Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov Wanted to Live Out The Fast and the Furious
Hey, remember in the Iron Man sequel when Tony Stark just spontaneously jumped into a race car and joined the Monaco Grand Prix, unannounced? Well, the main difference between that and the real story we're about to tell you is that in the real version, the guy won the race instead of getting his car whipped in half by a supervillain.
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Curiously, Don Cheadle still made an appearance.
Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov had some big crazy shoes to fill when he took office as President of Turkmenistan. He succeeded Saparmurat Niyazov, a man who subscribed to Batman villain-levels of insanity. So how do you prove to your people that you deserve to subjugate them as much as the last dictator? Well, if you're Berdymukhamedov, by driving really goddamn fast.
In 2012, Turkmenistan was eager to prove its economic stability and general autonomy as a country by hosting an automotive race (after all, what has been a better symbol of wealth and class than NASCAR?). Then, right before the event began, Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov appeared on the horizon driving a bright-green, $1.6 million Bugatti sports car.
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Jolly Rancher Green was the classiest option he could have possibly taken.
Though it first appeared as though he was only there as a spectator, in a painfully staged moment of spontaneity he requested to be entered in the event. The president also just happened to have racing gear with him and another car that wouldn't cost quite as much as the GDP if he crashed it.
But that's just a publicity stunt, right? Just a president proving that he's one of the people by supporting this premiere racing event in the country. Surely, he wasn't there to steal the spotlight from all the actual racers who trained and worked exhaustingly just to qualify and compete, right? Ha, you just got Berdymukhamedoved!
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Gurbanguli, out.
He won the whole thing and stole everyone else's thunder, leaving everyone to speculate if the entire race wasn't just a publicity stunt to make him look more impressive. Reports that he then cranked some Zepplin and drove off into the sunset, leaving a trail of burning tax-receipts and sobbing forensic accountants behind him are unconfirmed.


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I'm wondering how to perform a worst case analysis on a such algorithm.
The basic operation is
for (i=1; i<=N; i++)
for (j=i; j<=i*i; j++)
for (k=1; k<=N; k++)
if (condition(i,j,k))
b[i][k] = function (b[i][j]);
b[i][k] = b[j][k];
I don't know how to start and to justify my intuitions.
Does worst case analysis mean that I must assume that
condition(x,y,z) will always be
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1927 Ford Track T - Cheap ThrillWritten by on January 1, 2007 Contributors: Kevin Lee, Jim Crews Jim Crews' $5K Hot Rod
If you think it's impossible to build a hot rod on a next-to-nothing budget, this modified is ready to prove you wrong. The twist to the story is that owner and builder Jim Crews wasn't intending to build a modified before fate connected him with this sweet '27 track T.
It all started with a steel '27 T touring body with the back half hacked off. One of Jim's co-workers had dragged the abandoned body out of a dump owned by his departed uncle and deposited it in his mother's garage. After 25 years, the mother wanted her garage back. The co-worker didn't want the body, so he passed it on to Jim, free of charge.
Total cost so far: $0.
The Model T frame was a gift from one of Jim's neighbors who also had a garage to clean out.
Total cost so far: $0.
It took actual cash-but not much-to lure the '84 Ford four-cylinder engine and transmission out of the local salvage yard, but Jim turned around and swapped the four-speed for the T5 he really wanted.
Total cost so far: $150.
You get the idea. We won't continue with the dollar-by-dollar tally. Suffice it to say, with only a buck and a half out of pocket, Jim was well into a hot rod project he never really intended to start.
About this time, Jim left his job as a welder in order to open his own full-service hot rod shop, Tin Man Fabrication in Oak Grove, Minnesota. Working on other people's projects brought the progress on his own rod to a crawl, but he continued to collect the parts and pieces that would eventually find their way onto the modified. Most of these parts were discarded components from other cars, or used parts that customers wanted upgraded. When he got a little extra cash, he ordered aftermarket parts, such as the Speedway front suspension, the MAS aluminum fuel tank, and other goodies.
Jim says that when it was time to paint the car, his wife Amy insisted on green. "I'm not a green kind of guy, but I tried by keep my mind open," he tells us. He picked the final color based on a photo he found of an old olive green Willys pickup with orange wheels. It was unique and not too bold. "But when I put it on the car, it was shockingly bright. My original idea was to paint the whole car green with some orange accents, but the color was too loud, so I decided to break it up by adding the orange scallops."
The ability to fabricate and paint, the knack for inheriting free or low-cost parts, and building a relatively simple car all contributed to the low cost of Jim's hot rod, but as a professional builder, he's learned a few other tricks about saving money during a buildup-any buildup. The most important, he tells us, is to go in with a plan and not to deviate from it. At the beginning of this project, he made some sketches to create an idea of what the final product should look like, and spent time thinking about how all the pieces were going to work together. Throw some talent and luck into the equation, and you definitely can build a hot rod on a working man's budget.
What kind of hot rod are we talking about? How about the kind that can draw a big crowd and create a big buzz when it pulls in alongside the big-budget boys at the Street Rod Nationals in Louisville. How about the kind that can make seen-it-all magazine photographers choose it out of a crowd of 10,000 cars for a spread in Rod & Custom. All for $5,000. How about that?
Jim & Amy Crews
Oak Grove, Minnesota
'27 Ford Track T
Jim took his hand-me-down Model T frame, boxed the 'rails, and Z'd the rear to give the roadster the right stance. A Speedway Motors dropped tubular front axle lowers the car further. Other Speedway suspension parts include the hairpins, front and rear friction shocks, and rear airbags. Jim also added '35 Ford spindles, a suicide spring perch, and Vega steering box to the front, with Tin Man Fabrication (TNF) hairpins in the rear and '40 Ford juice brakes all around.
He knew the old T 'rails were originally built to carry a four-banger and, even boxed, would groan under the weight of an eight-cylinder, so he followed suit with an updated version of the original mill: a 2.3-liter OHC Ford taken from an '84 Mustang. Kalbo Racing Engines in Oak Grove, Minnesota, machined the block and modified the stock manifold, topped with a Holley two-barrel and K&N air cleaner. The modified cast-iron headers were ceramic coated, and tied to 30-inch glasspacks. Jim hooked the engine to his T5 transmission and custom built an open driveshaft to the '40 rear with 3.78:1 gears, which came from a friend's '35 Ford rod.
Wheels & Tires
Nothing looks better on a track T than a set of wires. These are 18x4 '32 Ford front rims and rear 16x6s from a '35, painted to match the scallops. The tires came from Coker. The front skinnies are Indian motorcycle blackwalls, pushed along by Firestone dirt-track grooved rears.
Body & Paint
There's not a lot of body to a track T. The sheetmetal had taken a few gunshot wounds, but was in pretty good shape otherwise. Jim repaired most (but not all) of the bullet holes, widened and stretched the body slightly, and channeled it over the frame 2 1/2 inches. The rear corner panels and steel floors were added at TNF. The original windshield was shortened and the stanchions leaned back. In between the Dietz-style headlights, a '28-29 Model A grille was shortened 4 inches and dressed up with a custom aluminum insert. Jim honored wife Amy's request for green paint by shooting this olive green DuPont color, complemented and tempered by orange scallops. When the painting was done, Mike Hovland broke out his brushes to add some pinstriping and finished the job with airbrushed graphics around the remaining bullet holes.
A lot of work went into this bare bones interior. Jim filled the steel '27 dash with an Auto Meter carbon graphite speedo, installed a LimeWorks steering column and four-spoke wheel, and formed aluminum inside door panels. Limited floor space didn't leave much room for the clutch and brake pedal assembly, so Jim came up with a stacked pedal assembly using a remote Mopar master cylinder and cable-operated clutch. When it came to seating, Jim let himself deviate from his original planned bomber seats, which wasn't the look he was going after. Instead, he built his own seats from foam and plywood. The idea was to simulate the look of vintage leather, so Jordan at Old Skool Kustoms in Monticello, Minnesota, upholstered Jim's seats in English Toffee-colored Symphony Vintage vinyl, with a hand-tied baseball stitch at the seams. A matching shifter boot and door straps are on Jim's list of future improvements.


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Todays high tech features are being incorporated into the best trade show booths that attract the eye, the mind and the business for those brands that succeed. Its very important to use trade shows as showpieces for your brand and opportunities to demonstrate and introduce products to potential customers.
Working with the best professional display design-build company is critical to success too. The booth design company has to be a good listener, interpreter of your vision and the best to carry out that vision in solid form. Experience is at the top of the list and knowing what draws the immediate and positive attention of the user audience takes time and study. Knowing how to communicate with the audience is just important. The best exhibit creates the atmosphere the customer seeks and sees themselves at homein. The exhibit speaks their language, knows what they expect and delivers it from the start. The right mixture of colors, materials, sound and technology makes the display draw the audience right to the exhibit and opens the conversation.
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The exhibit builder also needs to incorporate ease of management into the display. Matching the brand to the exhibitors use of technology and facilitating how it works is part of the process. The exhibitors representative should be greeting and talking with visitors and not pushing buttons. The mix of tech and personal diplomacy has to be right. The display engages and the representative involves the visitor in a new relationship.
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MINGO JUNCTION - Village Council will meet at 5 p.m. Friday to discuss personnel and contract issues, officials have announced.
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WEIRTON -The Weirton Steel Management Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. Monday at Giovanni's Restaurant in the banquet room.
George Lacik will be guest speaker, discussing changes in health care for 2013.
All members and former members are invited to attend the dinner and social time.
Adena plans Christmas events
ADENA - A Christmas parade is scheduled for Dec. 9, when a line-up for parade participants will be on Hannah Avenue at 4:15 p.m. At 5 p.m. there will be caroling on the Village Green and following this, families can go to the Adena Community Center for treats from Santa and refreshments for the entire family. Pictures will be aken with Santa as well.
There is a float contest with three monetary prizes awarded.


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The population of the Chinese empire was about 120 times larger than the Jurchen tribe, who later renamed themselves to Manchus. Yes, the Manchus were very skilled warriors and the late Ming dynasty was facing internal troubles but how did such an insignificant group of hunter gatherers form a new dynasty in China lasting from something like 1644 to 1912?
To begin with, the Empire was rocked with two major peasant rebellions at the same time as the Qing invasion - when the palace appeared as if they were going to be overrun by the newly declared Shun Emperor, the last emperor of the Ming dynasty, Chongzhen, went nuts and killed his entire family before hanging himself, leaving a succession crisis on top of everything else.
Meanwhile, the Jin dynasty had, at the time, consolidated politically, and developed a formidable army with the right combination of training, tactics and leadership to win major battles against a moribund and complacent Imperial army. They also had the political savvy to bring disaffected nobles and officials to their cause, most notably General Wu Sangui. With the defeat of the Shun Emperor at Shanhai Pass, the supremacy of the Qing was assured. It took a succession of emperors and a few decades before all of China was brought into the new empire, mostly due to resistance to being ruled by yet another outside power - but in the end, Hong Taiji was able to reconcile the culture of the Manchu with the culture of the Han, and cement the Qing as a dynasty.
Perhaps part of your confusion stems from a misunderstanding of the Manchu. They were not, as you say hunter-gatherers. Rather, they were pastoralists. Hunter-gatherers, as you rightly point out, tend to have very low populations. They have to rely for sustinance only upon what nature has available where they happen to be living.
Pastoralists raise their own herd animals, which typically can subsist off off grasses. While this does require a great deal of mobility, if the terrain is right it allows a nation of pastoralists to have far more people than a hunter-gatherer socity.
Agricultural societies don't have the drawback of mobility, feed themseves directly (rather than indirectly through animals), and thus can achieve even greater populations. However, pastoralists still have one trump card that the other two types of societies can't match: It turns out that mobility is damn useful in warfare as well. Pastoralists have a lifetime of mounted training that residents of other societies have a hard time matching. This fact has always allowed pastoral societies to punch way above their population "weight class".
In China this meant continual conquests from the grassland areas to their north up until the modern age. This includes not just the Manchu but before them the Yuan, Jin, Former Qin, Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, Later Tang, Liao, and Xi Xia.
By the name of Jurchen they were known for they high culture long ago. Tengis-Khan win over China, but did not win over this nation. Only his heir Ögedei Khan did manage it.
They already ruled China in the past - Jin Dynasty (1115–1234) in China. Sometimes, they were vassals of China. China, Korea, Manchu and Japan were all parts of one cultural space.
So, they were no insignificant, no hunters/gatherers, no nomads. And their winning over China in 16-17th century was a thing not a bit outstanding.
There was a "civil war" between two Chinese factions one under Wu Sangui, the other under Li Zicheng that handed the balance of power to the "Manchurians."
This occurred after the "Nuzhen" or "Jurchen" (Manchurian) tribes had been united under one banner, with their capital and Shenyang.
A similar division of "China" between the Jin and Song dynasties accomanied by a similar unification of the Mongol tribes under Genghis Khan led to the Mongol conquest of China.
Put another way, the "stars aligned" for both the Mongols and the Manchus at different times.
If they worked anything like the Mongols and other nomads that went imperial, they absorbed those they conquered, giving them a level of autonomy backed up with quick and brutal reprisals if they stepped so much as an inch out of line (and that could involve the sacking of cities, killing the entire adult population and selling the children into slavery in case of the Mongols). Do that a few times and an a population tends to get the message that they'd best do as they're told.


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text: So I uploaded the finished art for this tutorial to my Facebook page and people seemed to like what they saw. My mother has been requesting a tattoo design like the one I am submitting now. She told me that she would really like to see what type of tattoo I could make in the form of a cool Geisha face surrounded by everything about the art. The idea got me into thinking about what I could create. A few days went by and ironically four other people asked for a tattoo in the form of a geisha girl. After two more days of thinking I came up with the design you see here. Having said that hoopla, here is "how to draw a geisha tattoo", step by step. I really love how the drawing came out, so I hope you guys do too. I still have one last tut going up. So if you are looking for something easy to draw before the nights up, stick around because this just may be a crossing.


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quote: quote: It's why he did what he did that's in question. Who cares? The blood on his hands is equal either way. The people are still dead, no matter what the reason.
quote: It's why he did what he did that's in question.
quote: The majority of these people are obviously NOT too insane to be punished. How stupid are you to believe that?
quote: If so, how is this guy, perhaps, not one of them ?
quote: Do we care if he is? I certainly don't. Insane or not, he clearly and premeditated set out to kill as many people as he could. What about this aren't you getting?
quote: Nice trap you've constructed using the sympathetic grandma. If I stand my ground I'm a heartless bastard. If I give in, I'm a hypocrite.
quote: Sorry but this guy didn't have dementia to the point that he thought a house was a campfire or whatever. Come on this is ridiculous! The guy planned this with almost military-like precision, while ALSO leading a normal life. How can that be the actions of a clinically "insane" person?


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6 Terrifying Diseases That Science Can't Explain
The world is full of some pretty awful diseases, including but not limited to viruses that leave you with your limbs rotting off (CAUTION! Pictures!) or pooping yourself to death in hours.
What could be worse than getting diagnosed with one of those? How about having a doctor stand over your death bed, shrug his shoulders and say, "I dunno, magic?" After all, nothing is scarier than the unknown, and science can't explain the first thing about some pretty horrific diseases, and even less about how to stop them.
#6. Dancing Plague
Firmly in the category of "things somehow made more terrifying by a ridiculous name," the Dancing Plague was an actual disease that killed people. In 1518, in Strasbourg, France, Frau Troffea started dancing in the street. After six days, others began to join in; after a week there were 34. By the end of the month there were 400, though at that point most of the people started dropping dead of exhaustion, starvation and strokes. From dancing.
Deadlier than a crocodile with rabies and a machine gun.
Now, you may be thinking that "tackling and forcibly stopping" the people who were literally dancing themselves to death may be a sound idea for preventing the afflicted from dying. But of course, at at time when there was no such thing as Hazmat suits, that would have taken an enormous set of balls. Instead, Strasbourg officials had the brilliant idea of getting everyone to dance more--they herded the afflicted indoors, built them a stage and paid minstrels to crank out more jams, which eventually resulted in most of them dying. Clearly this was the pinnacle of 16th century medicine.
"Well, they're not dancing anymore, are they?"
The Mystery:
The whole thing just kind of ended and, despite almost five intervening centuries, modern medicine has no explanation for why 400 French people suddenly danced themselves to death. Many theories have been offered, such as ergotism (poisoning by a certain type of fungus) and mass psychogenic illness, but they have some issues.
MPI is the first runner-up for the most plausible explanation, but it would have required 400 people to all develop the exact same "mass hysteria" of dancing at a staggered pace over a month, which is pretty unlikely. In the case of ergot poisoning, one of the common side effects is loss of muscular control, which makes complex movements (like dancing) impossible.
Then again, the only alternative seems to be demonic possession or witchcraft, so maybe we'll just go with the fungus thing and pretend it never happened.
#5. Stiff Person Syndrome
Not everything terrible in the natural world kills you. Sometimes it just pounds your crotch into pixie dust with a meat tenderizer (figuratively).
Nature is a lot like Vinnie Jones.
Stiff person syndrome is one of those cases. People afflicted with it experience increasingly progressive rigidity, so it's kind of like a muscle cramp that never, ever goes away. As the disease progresses, the victim's muscles become more and more stiff until they are completely paralyzed--the muscles becoming so constricted that they are frozen. In severe cases, the condition results in difficulty breathing, problems swallowing, muscle ruptures and fucking broken bones.
The Mystery:
We have no idea why this syndrome develops in some people. It might have something to do with having diabetes; it could be an autoimmune disease; and it could be the result of a mutated gene, which would be the dumbest mutant power ever conceived.
"You can just take that shit right the fuck outside."
This brings up the very real possibility that you could have it right now and not even know it. There is no way to predict that it will happen to someone, or how long it will take to cripple them once it starts. There are some treatment options, most of which involve lots of injections that relieve part of the stiffness. The bottom line, though, is your ass is wheelchair-bound regardless of what you do.
#3. Sweating Sickness
While bleeding to death inside your body is pretty terrifying, the sweating sickness will kill you mere hours after you start showing symptoms, and it has come and gone six times already in Europe.
Reportedly it begins with "a sense of apprehension," followed by violent cold shivers, headaches, severe neck, shoulder and limb pain, and oddly, giddiness. After the "cold stage," which can last anywhere from 30 minutes to three hours, there comes the "sweating stage," where the victim starts pouring out sweat like Ruben Studdard trapped in a Stuckey's with no air conditioning.
Because he's fat.
While the sweat stage isn't always immediately fatal, it typically leads to more sweating stages that will eventually kill you. It first appeared in 1485 in England, and killed thousands of people within a single year, most likely because by the time anyone realized they had it, the entire village was already infected.
The Mystery:
We have no freaking idea what it is. People sweat, then die. Quickly. Is it a virus? Bacteria? Something toxic everyone in the area was drinking or eating or breathing? Who knows?
All we have is speculation. Some think it might be a version of the Hanta virus, which is a hemorrhagic fever like Ebola and Lujo, but there's no proof. This is like telling someone that there is a werewolf somewhere in their room before shutting off the lights and letting them guess.
"Hotter. Hotter! You found him!"
What we know is that it's contagious. We mentioned already that it has come and gone six times already--these weren't individual cases scattered over centuries, but six individual epidemics. And as we know from Ebola and Lujo, when you don't know what causes it, it's only a matter of time before some poor bastard farts on a transatlantic flight and once more unleashes cold, sweaty hell on the modern world.


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE -Terry Dayton had 10 years in as a barber when he decided to hang up his shears in 1997.
Dayton graduated form the Wheeling Barber College in 1986 and began his career at Denny's House of Hair and Snips in St. Clairsville before striking out on his own in 1990.
The next seven years, Dayton owned and operated Buzcuts in St. C.
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TERRY?DAYTON stands inside the new location for Buzcuts barber shop, the same location as the former location of Buzcuts at 46060 National Rd., Suite 8 in St. Clairsville. Buzcuts is housed in the plaza adjacent to the BP station, across the overpass from Belmont College.
Running his own shop began to take its toll on Dayton and he admittedly became burned out.
He sought a steady position with good pay and state corrections provided that opportunity.
But recently Dayton felt that draw to return to the barber chair and resigned his position and began searching for a place to start cutting hair again.
He inquire about a couple places, but when the spot at 46060 National Rd. West, Suite 8 became available, he couldn't pass up the opportunity.
Walking into his new shop was like a trip back in time ... literally.
That's because Suite 8 is the exact location that Buzcuts was housed when Dayton previously was in business.
"It had been an apartment, but the same paint I used was still on the walls," Dayton said laughing.
"I've been out of this business for 16 years and I missed it.
"I really did miss it.
"And I was thrilled to be able to move back into my old shop.
"I'm glad to be back doing what I love."
Buzcuts is a full-service barber shop, catering to the entire family from grandparents on down to younger kids.
Dayton's prices are the same too as when he retired: $12 for a gentleman's hair cut and $15-17 for the ladies. Kids' haircuts are priced at $1 per year of age.
Have a 2-year-old needing a trim? Throw a couple bucks in your pocket and head on down.
Dayton has purchased all new equipment for his shop, but it's still the same equipment he used during his previous stint. Similarly, the styles of hair he's seen men requesting haven't changed much either.
Men's hair is easy. They've been wearing some of the same styles for the last 20-30 years," Dayton admitted. "Women's styles seem to change with the season almost. They are more fashion conscience."
Dayton will be open Tuesday through Thursday from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.; Fridays from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Starting last Wednesday and running through July 1, Buzcuts will give away three free gift certificates for one full year of hair cuts.
The drawings will take place on May 15, June 15 and July 1.
Three lucky winners will receive eight free cuts/stylings, each, for one year.
Appointments can be made at (740) 391-3157 and walk-ins are welcome.
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The 6 Most Terrifying Allergies You Can Actually Get
#3. Sunlight
As with the allergy to exercise, we hesitate to make too much fun of those allergic to sunlight because between the two, they're creating a potential group of dedicated Cracked readers. Allergy to sunlight, also known as Solar Urticaria, is a complete nightmare.
People with solar urticaria make allergic antibodies against various proteins found in their own skin, creating a reaction when exposed to sunlight and presumably causing them to hiss, bare their teeth and scurry back under a bridge somewhere.
"What's it going to do to me?"
Symptoms of this allergy really aren't that bad. If you don't mind breaking out in hives wherever sunlight can (and will) find your skin. We're talking within minutes of exposure. Though as long as you're not a hippie nudist, the trips to the emergency room should be restricted to the less embarrassing regions of your skin. So, y'know, you can take solace in that.
Why would you end up in the emergency room, you ask? Well this is yet another allergy that could lead to anaphylaxis. So, once again, we have the dropping blood pressure and the victim trying to suck air through uncooperative lungs. In a nutshell, this means you could die a horrible, horrible death, the sun effectively becoming God's gigantic death ray.
"For the love of God, what do I do?"
You go to your doctor and get tortured some more. Seriously. A diagnosis is made when the skin is exposed to various forms of light, or sometimes just regular old sunlight, while they watch to see just how hivey you get. It will be around here that you'll start to wonder if your doctor is enjoying this, and come to the undeniable conclusion that he is.
Antihistimes or oral steroids will only decrease your symptoms, not make them disappear. They can try to desensitize your skin with repeated exposures to sunlight, seemingly following the Tyler Durden method of alleviating suffering. That therapy only lasts for a few days and needs to be repeated frequently, which in your mind, probably appears to be missing the point. We'll just stay inside, thanks.
#2. Semen
Having this allergy is reason number 146 why you will never have a job in the adult film industry. A semen allergy can be a general reaction a woman has to any semen, or she may just be allergic to yours. So ladies, you now have an excuse to let a guy down easy. Just pull out the note from your doctor.
This reaction tends to be on the woman's side in the sense that we can't find any examples of men whose semen makes all women react badly (except in a metaphorical sense). What we do have examples of is men being allergic to their own semen. So let that sink in for a moment.
"What's it going to do to me?"
This is where it could get ugly. That whole area down there is not a great place for a woman to break out in an allergic reaction, and the sensation has been described as feeling "like 1,000 needles have been injected in them at one time."
Reports show women could have swelling, itching, burning of the genital areas, and in severe cases, our old friend anaphylaxis shows up. So if at any point during intercourse, your partner starts screaming, "OH NO, MY BODY IS ON FIRE AND I CAN'T BREATHE," your response should not be, "THAT'S RIGHT, MY DONG IS THE LOST ARK OF THE COVENANT AND YOUR VAGINA IS THE NAZIS."
After several hours of apology
"For the love of God, what do I do?"
Finally some god news. Researchers have found that having sex two to three times a week can help quite a bit, though maybe this isn't as fun as it sounds with the whole "feeling like 1,000 needles" thing.
The alternative is they can give the woman allergy shots to desensitize her to the semen. These injections would include small doses of her partner's semen. So basically, either do the nasty as much as possible (possibly while she's breaking out in hives and can't breathe) or have the doctor do a semen injection. If it's the latter just make sure you're absolutely clear in your instructions, and that he is actually a doctor.
"But Cracked writers," you're probably saying, "Surely we've reached the end of the list! How could any allergy be worse than this?"
#1. Water
That's what's worse. This is a rare allergy in which water itself (not any chemicals in the water) are causing the reaction. You would think, since our bodies are made mostly out of water, that you'd be a hivey, rashed-up mess all the time if you had this, right? We're not doctors, we're just thinking out loud, here.
This condition, called Aquagenic Urticaria is very rare, but people do have it and somehow they're still alive.
"What's it going to do to me?"
The itchy hives will usually develop within 15 minutes of contact with water, but can last for a couple of hours. So bad news, you'd have to give up going to the pool and hitting on all the younger bikini-clad girls who affectionately call you, "That creepy old molester-looking guy we had to call the cops on that time." Unless you want to risk the chance of one of them splashing water at you, causing a painful breakout and earning you the new nickname, "Creepy old molester guy who appears to be slowly turning into a lobster."
And don't forget how bad you would smell. The Australian girl who was in the news with this condition has to take one-minute showers. Any more than that, and she'll break out in hives that itch so badly she'll scratch them until they bleed.
For those of you thinking that this is yet another allergy that fits neatly into your no sun/exercise/shower lifestyle, imagine how you'd react to the sound of thunder if you knew rain was going to react like acid on your skin. We're thinking it'd be less than awesome.
You should also cancel any invasions of other planets that are mostly water
"For the love of God, what do I do?"
We decided to let this website speak for itself:
"If the water itself is causing the hives, then doctors will usually recommend using a steroid cream or antihistamine to treat the symptoms. The goal of this treatment is to relieve the symptoms, and hope that the condition goes away by itself. There are no approved medications that will cure water urticaria, and there is no guarantee that they will go away on their own. There is only hope.
There are two issues with this approach:
First--these medications are not a cure, they only treat the symptoms. Second--is that steroids and antihistamines can have severe side effects. They are not intended for long-term use."
Wow, all of those words when a simple, "You're fucked" would have sufficed. We hope you're the "hopeful" kind of person that doesn't mind "severe side effects" that even the website won't name, presumably because they're so horrific that now the writer can't sleep at night and lays curled up in a ball, sucking on their thumb. Though probably not because, if you're allergic to water, we're guessing you're allergic to hope, too.
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