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5 Absurd (But Mind-Blowing) Pop Culture Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracies are a lot like orgies -- they take careful planning, involve a lot of people putting themselves in compromising positions, and never end up working as well as movies promised they would. And even though we just created an image of a sloppy gang bang in your head, we're not just talking about politics, here -- pop culture is just as full of "secret symbols" and "hidden messages" that make it seem like there's a shadowy genius secretly manipulating the puppet strings from behind a vast curtain.
But there's not. As this Cracked Classic shows, even the most convincing arguments about secret messages turn out to be even dumber than the ending of How I Met Your Mother (and as a side note, we apologize for so thoroughly driving home the point that no one in any position of authority has any idea what they're doing -- we admit that's not, ya know, super comforting).
It's hard enough to make a good movie or TV show, but apparently some of the stuff you watch or listen to also contains secret hidden messages that only close examination will reveal. Or, at least, that's what countless conspiracy theorists around the internet would have us believe.
The strange thing is, sometimes they'll produce a piece of evidence so eerily convincing, it's like they've waved their hands and made your sanity disappear. Here are five of pop culture conspiracy theorist's most convincing nuggets, and a look behind the curtain at how they get you ...
#5. The Fox Network Predicted the 9/11 Attacks
We have previously mentioned that the Fox X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen had become an obsession with conspiracy theorists ever since 9/11. The reason is the pilot episode--which aired a year before the attacks--featured a plot to hijack a 747 and fly it into the World Trade Center.
We're guessing this screen capture is the most any of you have ever seen of it.
But if you Google "Simpsons predict 9/11" you find that in a 1997 episode of The Simpsons did the same, in a much more obscure yet creepy manner. In the episode, the family goes to New York. And, while it's not that weird that the Twin Towers would be featured in the episode (Homer's car gets stuck there due to parking tickets)...
...this is pretty freaking creepy:
Holy shit! They're totally using the towers to make the "11" in 9/11! That's not Photoshop, either. The clip is all over YouTube, go look.
Why it's Bullshit:
It's fun to imagine that the world's strings are secretly being pulled by an underground group of powerful men, and that Rupert Murdoch, the founder and CEO of the Fox networks' parent corporation, is a member. But the reality has a lot more to do with statistics. It turns out a show that hits on as many real world subjects as The Simpsons will accidentally "predict" a number of events if it's on the air for 20 years, four presidential administrations and approximately 60 million episodes. For instance it "predicted" that the universe would turn out to be doughnut shaped, and that Roy of Siegfried and Roy would be mauled by one of his own tigers.
That tiger's been on the Bilderberg Group's payroll for years.
It's also a matter of statistics if you look at the source. If you let a crazy person rant long enough, they're bound to hit on a strange coincidence that makes you cock your head to the side. In this case, the epicenter of the conspiracy seems to be the remarkably crazy radio talk show host Alex Jones, who's other hobbies include blaming the Jews for, well, everything. Of course, Jones has little to say about the Illuminati anti-Roy, pro-tiger mauling policy.
The fact is, if you look hard enough, you can find plenty of other movies, TV shows and books "foreshadowing" the attacks. Go get your DVD of The Big Lebowski and watch the beginning: The Dude's check is dated September 11th. And, playing on the television while he fills it out, is President Bush, Sr. giving his famous "This will not stand" speech from 1990... a speech about the need to go to war in Iraq. The Coen Brothers were in on it, too!
As for The Lone Gunmen, they came up with the idea of using an airliner as a weapon for the same reason the terrorists did: It just seemed like a good way to carry out a terror attack. Years earlier, it happened in a Tom Clancy novel (1994's Debt of Honor) and a decade before that, in a Stephen King novella (The Running Man--yes, the one that would become a Schwarzenegger movie, they just took out the airliner-into-the-skyscraper climax).
But just for fun, let's say that Rupert Murdoch knew about the attacks ahead of time thanks to his Illuminati connections. Why insert that fact into your freaking prime time TV shows? How would subliminal hints about what's coming be helpful to a plot allegedly intended to shock the public into submission to the New World Order and martial law?
Let's let Alex Jones explain it. Quote:
"They believe because of what they're into, you call it Kabbalah or whatever, it's all the same junk that, you know, these groups are into, it's called lesser magic, they believe if you show what you're going to do before, in a riddle--it's like the legend of the vampire, they've got to trick their way into your house."
Sounds crazy now, right? Well that man's show gets approximately one million listeners each and every day.
#4. The Wingdings Font is Loaded With Anti-Semetic 9/11 Hidden Messages
Open up Microsoft Word. Or any word processor with Wingdings font. Type "NYC."
This is what you get:
Somewhere right now, Mel Gibson's ears are burning.
The Wingdings controversy experienced a resurgence shortly after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 when somebody found out that typing "Q-3-3-N-Y" displayed an image eerily similar to an airplane crashing into the World Trade Center.
Still not convinced something's up? This one actually crossed over into the mainstream media even before 9/11. Back in the 90s somebody noticed the Wingdings thing and The New York Post went nuts with theories that somehow this was a hidden message urging death to the Jews. And if they believe it, well ...
Why it's Bullshit:
... it could very easily be sensational bullshit they made up on a slow news day.
Above: The New York Post.
Appropriately, a magician did a damn fine job of explaining how this particular trick works. As Penn Jillette put it in an essay on the subject:
"To me, [poison] [Star of David] [thumbs up] means 'Jewish people make really good pesticides'" and, "Once you're crazy and know nothing about numbers, the chances of finding something psychotic and hateful in a Scrabble factory explosion are hovering just around 100 percent."
And then he juggled for a while.
As for the coded reference to 9/11, well, remember that to get that, you have to type in Q33NY. How does Q33 link to 9/11? It doesn't. As Microsoft (shouldn't have had to have) noted, Wingdings is just random bullshit. When the letters you're typing to get your "coded message" don't have to correspond to anything coherent, you can make them say any crazy thing you want.
Or you could back up before Microsoft had to update their random jumble of coded images to protect themselves from the crazies. When you type NYC in the new Webdings font, you get this:
Dear Internet:
Maybe Vista would have worked better if we didn't have to spend so much time reverse engineering an obscure font around your crazy bullshit.
#3. Harry Potter is an Allegory for Homosexuality
On October 19, 2007, J. K. Rowling revealed a secret that the Muggle community is still reeling over: Hogwarts' headmaster Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore was gay. From this, those on the fringes of the evangelical community decided that the entire Harry Potter series, and with it the entire wizarding world, is in fact a front for the single largest homosexual conspiracy since musical theater.
At first, it seems like the type of crazy knee-jerk homophobia we've come to expect from the lunatic religious fringe. But then you read the detailed decoding in this article:
"The story is about a boy who lives in a cupboard (i.e. "in the closet"). His Aunt and Uncle are ashamed of him because his parents were quite eccentric (i.e. "flaming") and they are deeply concerned and afraid that he will turn out just like them. On his 11th birthday (i.e. roughly at the onset of puberty), the boy discovers that he is actually a 'wizard,' different in both style and substance from normal people, or 'muggles' (i.e. 'breeders'). The boy is groomed into his new existence by a large, hairy bear of a man who shows Harry a hidden underground community of 'wizards' living right under the noses of the general population (i.e. the gay subculture). Harry's first trip to this subculture involves traveling through 'Diagon Alley,' a play on the word diagonally (i.e. not straight)."
And they weren't the only ones to notice the trend, and far from the most high profile.
So, stripping out all of the paranoia about the evil gay agenda, doesn't it seem possible Rowling wanted Harry Potter to symbolize the struggle of a young boy with "weird" feelings, trying to find his place in society?
Much like this film.
Why it's Bullshit:
If anybody has a right to be upset about Rowling's "Dumbledore is gay" announcement, it's the gay community. After all, the only gay character in the entire Harry Potter universe is so deeply in the closet that tens of millions of people were able to read seven long novels without figuring it out. That's how she "openly promoted homosexuality through her work"?
And for a supposed allegory for gay teens, Harry Potter himself is one hell of a man's man. The guy played hide the broomstick with his best friend's sister, gets to first base with a Scottish Asian, nearly banged a ghost, picked up a pair of twin Indian sisters with zero difficulty and would have probably whipped out his wand for that chick in the London Underground had that asshole Dumbledore not cockblocked him.
So what's the idea here? That Rowling is trying to reach out to closeted teens by telling a story of a confused young boy with similar feelings? That makes perfect sense if she believes part of the young gay experience is touching lots o' boobs. And that she decided to only out Dumbledore, but keep her brilliant hidden metaphor about the rest of the story a secret.
As for us, we're going to stick with the most straight forward interpretation. Harry Potter stood for nothing more nefarious than witchcraft and Satanism:


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Crovitz: The Economics of Immigration
Adding more skilled workers would bring in an estimated $100 billion in federal revenues over a decade, largely from increased income taxes.
For the first time in a generation, the debate over immigration has turned to the opportunities, not the burdens. Washington might finally deliver immigration reform, especially as politicians realize that adding more skilled workers is the fastest way to boost the economy and avoid a fiscal crisis.
Silicon Valley is the poster child for today's dysfunctional immigration policy. Foreign technologists trained in the U.S. are routinely denied work visas and return home to become successful entrepreneurs in China and India. For many years, half of Silicon Valley startups have had an immigrant founder, but this trend is in decline as fewer foreigners can find a foothold on the path to citizenship.
Steve Jobs famously turned against Barack Obama in 2011 when the president wouldn't sponsor a law to award work visas to foreigners who earn advanced degrees in technology and the sciences, despite the shortage of native-born skilled workers. "The president is very smart, but he kept explaining to us reasons why things can't get done," Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson. "It infuriates me."
The last time the U.S. reformed immigration policy was in 1986, when President Reagan created a political coalition by focusing on immigrants as assets, not as liabilities, a sharp contrast with Mitt Romney's suggestion last year that they should pursue "self-deportation." President Obama last week embraced postelection bipartisan reform in a speech using the words "economy" or "economic" 10 times. Immigration, he said, "keeps our workforce young; it keeps our country on the cutting edge." Sending skilled graduates back home "is not how you grow new industries in America. That's how you give new industries to our competitors. That's why we need comprehensive immigration reform."
We also need a comprehensive rethinking of the purpose of the immigration laws. It's not widely understood that for more than a century the main goal of the immigration laws has been to set racial and ethnic quotas—not to attract the best and brightest from around the world.
Since 1899, immigrants have been designated by "race or people." Until the 1920s, there were few limits aside from the ban on laborers under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. That changed with the Immigration Act of 1924, which created the federal Quota Board to "preserve the ideal of American homogeneity" by setting quotas that favored Protestant Europeans. "The calculus of numerical restriction in the 1920s was aimed at engineering the racial composition of the nation; it had nothing to do with the economics of absorption," wrote historian Mae Ngai in her 2004 book on immigration policy, "Impossible Subjects."
Many parts of the immigration system are still based on quotas. Visas for permanent residency are capped, so that no country can have more than 7% each year. There is an annual limit of 140,000 green cards for employment-based immigrants, so the ceiling means that while immigrants from small countries like Belgium and Guinea have a good chance, the waiting list for citizens of populous countries like China and India can last for decades.
More broadly, of all the developed countries, the U.S. puts the lowest priority on potential economic benefits when reviewing prospective immigrants, according to Pia Orrenius, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She estimates that of the 1.1 million green cards issued every year, 85% are to family members or for humanitarian purposes. Only 15% are for highly skilled immigrants based on employment, and half of those go to the workers' spouses and children. Australia, Britain and Canada are outcompeting the U.S. for skilled people by using a point system based on immigrants' education and ability to invest or start companies.
The parts of the U.S. system that are designed to boost the economy need updating. The H-1B visa program, established in 1990, creates 65,000 visas a year for highly skilled workers. But the demand for skilled technologists has grown so much since then that in some years this quota has been filled within hours. No wonder Steve Jobs was impatient.
Smarter immigration policy would give less-skilled immigrants a path to citizenship that could include language and civics requirements. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that legalizing the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. would boost revenues by $48 billion over 10 years while costing $23 billion in increased public services.
Former CBO official Arlene Holen estimates in a Technology Policy Institute paper that adding more skilled workers would bring in $100 billion in over a decade, largely from increased income taxes.
It's time to focus on the economic opportunities that immigrants can bring to the country, regardless of their origin. That would be good both for American economics and for American values.

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Improving Reading Skills in Middle School
Q: I'm in seventh grade. I read slowly and I don't understand what I read. What can I do?
A: Talk first with your parent(s) about your concerns. They can help you talk with your teacher and with your school counselor about your reading. You may be able to get some testing and extra help with reading at school, or your parents may get some tutoring for you outside the school.
You are really smart to be concerned about your reading and to want to get help with it. As you move into higher grades, reading will be more and more important, and you will want to be able to read the best you can.
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Barbara Potts has worked as an elementary school counselor for many years. She has a BA in psychology from Wake Forest University, and an M.Ed. in Guidance and Counseling from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.


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You often hear statistics like "$5,000 is the average cost of repairing a defect in production". While I understand that this varies greatly based on the company you work for, how they manage bug fixes and the salaries of those involved among other things, I'm being asked to find some kind of average. Anyone know where I might find a study or analysis of such things?
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It's common to see graphs in textbooks of the costs of fixing bugs found at various stages:
The source for the graph is Software Engineering Economics by Barry Boehm, which is probably worth getting hold of.
The cost of fixing a bug is a metric which probably has little value on its own. This article (Word doc) explains some of the problems:
I've never heard that. Do you have a source?
Unfortunately, I don't know of any meaningful Industry Average here. I'd also be very skeptical of anything that would purport to be one. I do know that many of these sorts of popular truisms "it costs 10 times as much to fix a bug in production as it does before production" are just made up without any real data behind them.
Personally, I think you'd be far better off trying to capture the costs within your specific company.
This might help: http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=WEEKLYCOLUMN&ObjectId=3223
Interesting. What is the motivation behinds such a question? What are they really after?
This may or may not help you, but my guess is that software bug cost is likely power-law distributed. This roughly means that there are many bugs that don't cost very much to fix (imagine a bug found from unit test results early in production code; the cost to fix that is essentially zero and there may be several of these kinds of bugs) and that there are a very small number of bugs that have a very high cost to fix (eg round-off errors causing rockets to explode). Quantities that are distributed with power-laws don't have well-defined mean values. Median values are a better quantity in these cases since they're better defined, but I'm still not sure what calculating such as value actually tells you about costs.
I don't have any hard evidence on hand for this, but I would be very careful when looking for "average cost per bug" or similar quantities, even with a narrow context.
The Leprecahauns of S/W engineering book (http://leanpub.com/leprechauns ) has a chapter on 'The cost of defects: an illustrated history' where he tries to find the data behind the claim that the later a defect is found the more expensive to fix. Might be worth you reading the book to see how a lot of industry myths are exposed
Usually i use this simple formula: Cost to fix a defect = (Number of people * number of days) * cost per person-day
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I am going on a cruise to Greece and Italy this summer, I really wanted to buy a new Canon lens for my t2i but i am confused whether to buy the 17-40 f/4.0 or the 15mm 2.8 fisheye. Any help?
Those two lenses are going to give you significantly different results. The big thing to note is that the fisheye lens is, well, a fisheye. It'll create severely distorted images that can be "straightened" using software but it's going to have a distinct fisheye look.
It doesn't look bad, but it's not what one would usually choose for a walkaround/vacation lens.
On the other hand the 17-40 f/4L is a well respected lens that covers a good wide-angle zoom range. f/4 should be fast enough for outdoor scenes and well-lit indoor scenes as well.
I'd say unless you're specifically looking for the fisheye look, go for the 17-40.
The Fisheye is a lens for special effects. You certainly don't want to buy this as a lens for documenting your vacation.
Without knowing what other lenses you have it's difficult to say what you should get, but if you want to take holiday snaps you want to take as versatile a lens with you as possible so the 17-40 is probably a better bet than the fish eye.
Personally I have an 18-200mm lens which I use when I'm on holiday because it means I don't have to take any other lenses with me. I also carry about my 50mm 1.8 because it's awesome.
Unless you know you need a fish eye then you probably don't need a fish eye, you might be able to get similar a effect by getting a fish eye filter that screws onto one of your existing lenses for an awful lot less money.
I would say for a greater range of possible uses, it would probably be best to get the 17-40 over the fisheye.
I've been to both Greece, and Italy and I can say with 100% certainty that you will want the 17-40 over the Fish-eye. Of the two, the 17-40 is more versatile, and given that the T2i has decent enough high-iso capabilities, the overall usefulness of the 17-40 will easily compensate for the 1-stop light loss.
You have a cropped sensor camera, I would consider an EF-S lens. These tend to be cheaper and lighter than similar quality EF lenses like the 17-40.
Consider the 17-55, 17-85, or 15-85.
The 17-40 will take sharper pictures than the kit lens, but it doesn't have IS (Image Stabilization) so you may actually get blurrier pictures when you use it, in some light conditions!
If you are looking for a wide angle lens, either to fit more into the frame or to get a wide-angle perspective , you should read http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/how-to-use-ultra-wide-lenses.htm which covers the subject well (I know, I know, KR this, KR that. But it's a good guide to effective use of wide angle lenses). Also, you should know that the 17-40 gives you only about a 6% wider view than the kit 18-55 lens! So if you think you want, or have been told to get, "a wide angle lens," you should look into the 10-22 or its off-brand equivalents.
If you don't already know that you want the fisheye, you probably shouldn't get it. As others have mentioned, it's a specialty lens, and you should only get a specialty lens if you have specific uses in mind for it.
Have you considered other lenses, like the 17-55?
Finally, you are just going to be shooting things close-up, right? Because neither of the lenses you asked about (nor any of the lenses I've mentioned) will be particularly good at capturing anything detailed more than a couple hundred feet away.


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Sveta Petka Kolo
sets Slava dinner
Members of the Sveta Petka Kolo from the Holy Resurrection Serbian Orthodox Church ate lunch at the three-day Serbfest at the church as part of their October meeting.
Members expressed their desire to attract younger women into the group, in hopes of, among other things, teaching them how to cook specialty Serbian dishes.
The group finalized plans for the Slava dinner to be held at the church on Oct. 27.
The next meeting set for Nov. 7 at noon at Eat 'n Park Restaurant in Steubenville will include making plans for the Christmas party.
Annual fall revival
At Mount Zion
Mount Zion Baptist Church will hold its annual fall revival on Tuesday through Thursday at 7 p.m. nightly with the Rev. H. L. Harvey Jr. as the guest revivalist.
Harvey is the 37-year pastor of the New Friendship Baptist Church in Cincinnati. In addition to his pastoral duties, Harvey has served in various capacities, including as statistician for the National Baptist Convention, USA; past president of the Ohio Baptist State Convention; past moderator for the Cincinnati Baptist District Association; and past chairman of Operation PUSH. Harvey has received numerous honorariums and awards, most recently with Whittier Street in Avondale recognized as Harvey Place.
Music will be provided by the following choirs: Tuesday, the Voices of Praise of Wheeling and St. Paul's Male Chorus of Washington, Pa.; Wednesday, The Men of Standard and Macedonia Baptist Choir of Wheeling; and Thursday, The Men of Friendship of Washington, Pa., and The Voices of Second of Second Baptist Church.
The revival is open to the public.
The Rev. Norries A. Hood Sr. is Mount Zion's pastor.
Friends to sing
in Amsterdam
Friends, a contemporary Christian vocal music group, will present the worship service on Oct. 27 at the United Methodist Church of Amsterdam, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
It is open to the public.
A free will offering will be taken.
Apple/pumpkin fest in Irondale
Irondale United Methodist Church will host an "apple/pumpkin fest" on Thursday from 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Cost is by donation with carryouts available.
The menu will include cabbage rolls, kielbasa and sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, green beans and fall desserts.
Band to perform
at Covenant
The Tri-State Community Band, under the direction of Rick Hicks, will present a concert of inspirational and seasonal music at Covenant Presbyterian Church on Sunday beginning at 3 p.m.
A free will offering will be taken.
The band originally was formed in 1980 as the Toronto High School Alumni Band for football games. Interest from local band members quickly grew, and the Toronto Community Band was formed, performing throughout the year. The band has since expanded to include members from Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania and adopted the name Tri-State Community Band to reflect that.
The band rehearses at Steubenville High School every Thursday at 7:30 pm. New players are always welcome. Associate directors include Tony Violi, Joe Lancia, and Homer Bower.
The church is located at 1443 Belleview Blvd., Steubenville.
Church society elects officers
The St. John Altar-Rosary Society of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Wellsburg has elected officers.
They are: president, Wilma Stewart; vice president, Martha Lallone; secretary, Kimberley Caldwell; and treasurer, Tina Postlethwaite.
Nancy Reed is past president.
The next meeting will be the AIM Women's Center baby shower on Nov. 6 in the church hall beginning at 7 p.m.. AIM is an acronym for Assistance in Motherhood.
Everyone is invited to attend and bring an unwrapped baby item to be donated to the A.I.M. Women's Center. Items also may be left in the vestibule of the church at any time.
Located in Steubenville, the pregnancy crisis center offers alternatives to abortion, free pregnancy tests and ultra sounds, doctor referrals and classes in health and child care. Sharon Maedke is its director.
During the shower John and Roberta Alvarez will present a program of Broadway tunes for entertainment. There will also be games and prizes.
A luncheon will be served by a committee made up of Sara Gundling, Ruth Cusick, Martha Lallone, Virginia Diserio, and Mary Margaret Cipoletti.
The December meeting will be a Christmas covered-dish dinner.
The following committees were appointed: auditing and flowers, Tina Postlethwaite; candle, Eleanor and Dorothy Sacripanti; telephone, Carol Jones; sanctuary, Wilma Stewart, Kimberley Caldwell, Virginia Diserio, Jackie Cawthorn, Donna Shalvis, Carolyn Mason, Barb Almasy, Tina Postlethwaite, Mary Marg Cipoletti, Mary Beth Harvey, Monica Biery, Nancy Mitchell and Nancy Reed.
The funeral luncheon teams are led by Flora Antigo, Nancy Mirtchell and Carolyn Mason.
Rosary leaders for October and May are Martha Lallone, Jackie Cawthorne, Mary Marg Cipoletti, Hilda Tarquinio, Nancy Reed and Wilma Stewart.
The Rev. Dan Pisano is the church's pastor.
Orthodox church
hosting dinner
Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church, 206 N. 10th St., Steubenville, will hold a Sunday dinner from noon to 4 p.m. featuring pierogies, kielbasa, sauerkraut and baked goods.
The cost is $8.
Patrons can dine in or get takeout.
Bazaar, dinner at
Colliers church
The Colliers United Methodist Church is celebrating fall with its annual fall bazaar and turkey dinner on Oct. 26.
The bazaar will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
A variety of soups and sandwiches, including hot dogs and sloppy joes will be available for eat-in or take-out from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Dinner will be served from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. and will include turkey and dressing along with whipped potatoes and gravy, green beans, rolls, desserts and drinks.
Cost of the dinner is $8 for adults, $4 for children age 7 through 12, and children 6 and under eat for free. Carryouts will be available.
There also will be various tables set up, including a bake sale, white elephant and jewelry.
The church is located at 318 Pennsylvania Ave., in Colliers across from the Colliers Post Office.
For information call (304) 527-1696 or (304) 527-1816.
Doug Snyder guest
speaker at church
Brother Doug Snyder will be the guest preacher at the 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday worship services at Port Homer Community Church located at 2454 county Road 68, Toronto.
Snyder is an evangelist for People for Jesus Ministries that Snyder said the Lord led him to initiate in 1996. It has involved preaching on the streets and in churches in America and ministering for 12 years in six nations in Africa, planting churches there.
For directions, call (740) 461-5156.
Bible study
series detailed
Covenant Presbyterian Church, 1443 Belleview Blvd., Steubenville, is hosting a Bible study that will be held on Thursdays at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., beginning Oct. 24.
The public is invited to the Bible study video series on "He Gave Us Prophets" by Richard L. Pratt Jr.
A discussion led by the Rev. Ronald L. Pritts will follow.
Location of card
party changed
Because of a fire in the kitchen at St. Peter's Catholic Church, its Catholic Woman's Club has changed the location of the upcoming card party.
The Oct. 27 event will instead be held at Holy Rosary Church. It begins at 2 p.m.
Special service,
dinner planned
The Apostolic Lighthouse Church located on Kings Creek Road in Weirton will be hosting a special family and friends love service and dinner on Sunday.
The service begins at 11:30 a.m. with the dinner to start at 2 p.m.
"Sharing Love and Unity" will be the theme. There will be a guest speaker.
The service and dinner are open to the public.
Gloria Burns serves as pastor.
Weirton church sets sale, auction
Sacred Heart of Mary Church in Weirton will hold a rummage sale and Chinese auction on Oct. 25-26 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days in the school cafeteria.
Refreshments also will be sold. This will be the last sale until spring.
For information, call (304) 723-7175.
Trunk or Treat
at N.C. church
The New Cumberland Nazarene Family Life Center will hold a "Trunk or Treat" on Oct. 26 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Seeing Hand to hold open house
The Seeing Hand Association at 750 Main St., Wheeling, will hold an open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday in celebration of Meet the Blind and Disabilities Awareness Month.
Karen Haught, executive director, said the open house will be both an educational and fun day for all age groups.
"You are invited to join us for tours, to talk to the employees, watch mops being made and chair caning and interact with a guide dog," she said, adding, "Visitors will also be able to try on special goggles that allow the wearer to experience what it is like to be blind."
Visitors also can shop in the Crafters for a Cause gift shop, which is stocked with many new fall and seasonal items. There also will be refreshments and door prizes.
For information about the services offered by the association, call (304) 232-4810.


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My 4th day was a Wednesday. Here is a little recap of some of what happened:
The weather today have been rainy. In the early evening I went out to capture some evidence in my garden. It's not easy to see, but it is raining as I shoot these.
While outside I shot a few photos of my pots of Daffodils. They have been flowering for weeks now.
MT went to football practice tonight, I wanted some photos of him, but the rainy weather was too much to bring my camera out into. So I made him stand by the window to get a few photos of him once we got home. He wasn't too happy about the arrangements – but let me shoot a few photos.
He could not help himself for doing a little playing. I was a little bit slow to catch this without the blur (it all happen in just a few seconds) – I love my 9 yr old, and this is a keeper (both the photo and the boy!).
MT took some time to figure out the drawing board I bough him for his new Wii. He found it more fun once he figured out how to do and spent quite a bit of time drawing away.
Right before bed he decided he was hungry anyway (isn't that typical), so we made some food and while he ate I read to him from Harry Potter #4. Our evenings are running by so fast these days.
When he was finished upstairs, brushing his teeth and stuff, I read the rest of the chapter for him.
He was the one pushing the shutter button down to set the timer and he decided that he would face the camera and smile. Love when that happens!!
I'm often to be found by my mac book in the evening. Reading. Typing. Editing. Watching. Connecting. I love my laptop.
Me sitting by my work space. Not sure about the new hair cut, wish it was shorter. Feels like it is in that weird place in-between short and long. The place I really don't love that much. Hm..
All these photos above is from late afternoon and early evening. During the day we were both at work and school, and no photos were taken. MT got home first and waited patiently for me to arrive. We made some easy food (pasta with homemade tomato sauce and minced meat, one of our staples), before MT had to run off for football (soccer) practice. I was tired after a couple of long days at work, and so glad the thing I was supposed to do in evening was canceled because of the rain. Thankful that something good actually came off all that gray and boring weather. 😉
What good things happened to you on Wednesday – or today?!
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Never knew the head of Fatah was such a good goalkeeper:
Never knew the head of Fatah was such a good goalkeeper:
I had never seen this before:
Interesting coincidence.
Everyone seems to think it is easy managing Manchester United with all the great players they have.
But when your best player is showing signs of decline, its makes it more difficult.
Look at the comment about 26 year old Rooney
Yes he is declining at the age of 26!! Always thought they hit peak at 27!!
In my other save, Roy Hodgson got the job in Summer 2012 which is a somewhat more believable than...
I know I've posted it elsewhere, but it's so unbelievable I think it definitely warrants a place here.
Keeper sent up with 10 minutes to go whilst 2-0 down. The cross comes straight for him. He tries to score a Maradona-esque "Hand of God". It doesn't go as well as he might have hoped.
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He's only been here for 6 days and already wants out!
I definitely have to agree with the Valencia manager. If we weren't so insistent on walking the ball into the net, we might have got the vital 14 goals that usually make a football victory respectable instead of the poxy seven we managed. I mean, it's not like we had a man sent-off in the 4th minute with the score at 0-0 - the kind of thing that might just make seven goals excusable. Oh wait.. we did!
Mike I know what you mean, when you beat a team they question your approach and when you lose or draw they praise your teams passing ability
I just think it's hilarious to be criticising us for trying to walk it into the net when we just hit them for seven.
The old divert attention from our shoddy defence, I wonder if Wenger thought of it
Nothing strange about this screenshot, a good win against the mighty Leicester Tile 2008 followed by a hammering against Bromley for Corinthian FC.
But Corinthians good run in the FA Trophy was enough to gain the accolade of 'most improved team in Europe', much deserved I say.
PS, ignore the poor league position for Bayern, I've only just taken over.
How on earth are they the 216th best team in Europe?!! (Or even the 340th for that matter)
Simmed far into the future and took control of a new promoted club, noticed one of my players had Kaka as a favoured person, surely not...
Well... He's been there since his retirement in 2018, probably could get a coaching job in any club he wanted, yet he shows up here for a low wage, my oh my. Not that the club would be complaining mind you, even though his determination and motivating lack a fair bit he's a killer coach
Erm, How is this guy English??
Born and bred in Ankara came through the Ankaragucu academy but he is somehow English. Surely he is a full blooded Turk, even if one of his parents was born in England would that really qualify him for the England team?
He can hardly speak the language
I'm not managing Ashton United BTW... just spotted it in my inbox.
Can't fault their ambition though - They're currently bottom of the BSN!
I believe had I been knocked out of the Champions League I would have had good cause to complain to UEFA as the person Manchester City were claiming is Nathanael Lafargue clearly isn't.
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Hugo Sánchez leaves Aston Villa for Real Sociedad...
Meanwhile, the Villa chairman discreetly brings in Lawrie Sanchez, hoping nobody will notice...
dick spaan? mines about 6 and half inches.
you have to admit on Matt Busbys 90th Birthday and against Munich. I read somewhere that someone from Munich said that cause of every thing that happendin 58 (Forever Rememberd) that they werehappy that it was united who did it due to the special relationship United have with Bayern and fact they look after all the 58 stuff over there
I strongly deneid these allegations to my family!
Not particularly funny, but definitely unusual... David De Gea's 963 appearances for Athletico.
He could have easily made 1000, but he was a sub keeper for the last few seasons of his career.
Bump. This thread should never leave the first page!
The season's only just begun though :confused:
If I were manager of Hibs I'd be seriously p***ed off
If u finish in top 6 after 33 games you can't finish after 38 games any lower than 6th and if u finish in bottom six after 33 games u can't finish after 38 games any higher than 7th.
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b) However, RonnyDonny's explanation of the Scottish Premier rules were to just point out that this posted screenshot gets slightly less "funny" when you see that it happens almost every year. ie. team in 7th is very likely to gain more points than team in 6th due to them playing 5 easier games after the split (even teams as low as 10th can finish with same points as 6th - see below).
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Its not really the worst idea in the world, it gives teams who have no chance on winning the league something to aim for, in real life only once has the team in 6th had less points than the team in 7th. It also makes the relegation scrap a bit more interesting when the teams down there have to play and beat each other rather than wait for one to take a pounding from the old firm. Not going to argue about the SPL being run by morons tho
23-second cameo appearance
Having sent a young striker out on loan to Crawley - I was surprised to see him enter the field of play as a substitute on 58:50, score a goal on 59:13, then be substituted himself before the opposition had even kicked off.
He wasn't injured in scored the goal, so must have been tactical!
23 seconds on the pitch. Good days work...
Todd squared
32 is the new 22
Who's going to be the first with a funny screenshot from FM12?
Here is my Assistant report on my team regarding the better players.
And here is my best Senior Striker!!!
Notice anything?
that he's deemed a youth
however, because once a player is in the senior team he cannot be selected for the youth team (no player can appear in both)
Perfect start to any game. Check the timeline in the bottom left for the inevitable result of hurling yourself two-footed at the guy taking the kickoff.
The own goal at the start of the second half (our second equaliser) was also hilarious, near post corner defender kicked the ball into the diving keeper's face and in, but there isn't a decent enough camera angle for a replay.
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So this is why The Rams are doing so well in the NPower Championship this year...
He wants to play for Greece even though he's retiring in a couple of months and can't play for at least nine.
I completely understand your decision there Matt.
Good work guys. I've just returned to the forums for the first time in about two years. I can't believe this thread is still going!
He doesn't appear to be left with any other choice?
thats a good point......i take it back lol
Easy group?! Looks like the Group of Death to me.
bahahaha :s
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I've just seen this on FM2008.
I think the poor referee needs glasses...
As opposed to what? Wild Tuna??
So is he available for loan or not?
maybe the dont think he and therefore they will benefit from sending him on loan to you
Someone needs to go back to maths classes.
One team gets a bye? Don't see the problem.
No idea on how the league cup works though so yeah, if there's anything else wrong i dont know about it.
If that is the 1st season, that will be because AFC Wimbledon and Crawley Town have to play a preliminary round so I assume that when you view the draw it will say 'AFC W or Crawley vs ...'
Oh, now I feel silly.
Crawley and Wimbledon had a pre-lim game this year, could be that.
Opening day of the season and no one could be arsed to turn up....
Noticed this name in a recent match
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lol, the Turkish players seem a big hit with FM12 :P.
Oh dear at that name.
Fm09, first time I've seen this... definitely lol'd
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I had heard some debate on this topic, and I had always learned to use two spaces after a period. But it would seem there is an argument against it.
However, I do not understand what the issue is against this practice.
I had heard some debate on this topic, and I had always learned to use two spaces after a period. But it would seem there is an argument against it.
However, I do not understand what the issue is against this practice.
In short, this is a disagreement based on technological generations.
When everyone was handwriting things, there was no issue - the space after a period was however large the writer thought looked good.
But with the first generation of typewriters, a decision had to be made. These were monospace typewriters, and with fixed spacing it was considered that two spaces after the period set it apart and made it clearer when the sentence ended, distinguishing more clearly from a comma.
With late-70's proportional spacing typewriters, and even more with the advent of word processors, the system became intelligent enough to adjust the space depending on the letters on either side, a process known as kerning in the typographical world. This allowed the space after the comma and the space after the period to be clearly distinguished even if they were both typed as a single space.
Thus, the debate: those of us who grew up with typewriters were taught "always use two spaces after a period," while younger folks who grew up with word processors were taught (frequently by Microsoft's grammar checker) to use a single space.
My answer? I try to use a single space in documents, but two spaces when I'm using a monospace font (such as comments in computer code). And the entry field on this site, which displays monospace while I type but publishes as proportional spacing, is really confusing me. :)
Very compelling answer to this question on Slate last month. One space is correct, two is wrong. It's not a matter of preference. Two is wrong.
As others have mentioned, there's no grammatical reason for two spaces, it's purely a mechanical issue. Since the mechanical context that led to the double-spaces (the typewriter) is pretty much gone, the practice of double-spaces should be gone, too.
I know there is tons of disagreement out there, but I have known several people voice their frustration when they see double spaces after periods — I'm no different. It's the 21st century. We don't have typewriters anymore. We have word processors.
One space after the period gets the point across. Two spaces after the period feels, to me, somewhat like adding an exclamation point after every sentence! Completely unnecessary. It sticks out like a sore thumb. One space looks more natural to the eye because we have now grown accustomed to it.
If you want to use two spaces, though, then use two. Just be consistent throughout the piece.
The rule is not "two spaces after a period;" it's "two spaces at the end of a sentence." You will notice that the preceding sentence does not end with a period -- nor does this one!
Use two if your text will likely be displayed in a monospace font, such as in e-mail (true e-mail is plain text), a .txt file, source code, or on USENET. It does make it more readable.
Since most people these days do not send true e-mail, write .txt files, or even know what USENET is, that leaves source code. Therefore, if you are not a programmer, use one space.
As Yossi Farjoun pointed out on the english.stackexchange incarnation of this question, part of the controversy here comes from a false dichotomy. There are really two separate questions involved: one of aesthetics, one of implementation.
The answer to 1 is debatable: it's a matter of taste and convention, and varies between publications, between genres, between countries, between languages, and over time. The current consensus in English, in most genres, is no. However, there are significant exceptions: Donald Knuth favoured wider inter-sentence spacing, so in communities (eg mathematics, academic CS) where TeX, LaTeX etc. are popular, readers are generally accustomed to it.
The answer to 2 then depends on how your text will be transmitted to the reader. As html? Then typing a double space will do nothing: if you really want a wider space, you'll have to throw in a
This sounds like the equivalent of the "tabs versus spaces" fight that programmers have.
In the end, if you are being held up by the number of spaces after a period, then I'd just quit writing, because you'll never get past that first sentence.
Or take the e e cummings approach. Screw punctuation entirely.
When writing for publication, professional or otherwise, this is not a matter of preference. Your best bet is to consult a style guide.
I use The Chicago Manual of Style. I believe most style guides call for one space. I grew up using two spaces, but thanks to Microsoft Word's grammar and style checking, it automatically corrects when I mess up and try to put in two spaces.
If you're not writing for publication, then it is a matter of preference and no one can give you a right or wrong answer.
UPDATE: Since one of the other answers references an online article, I figured I would do the same. See Grammar Girl's brief, informative, and rantless post, "How Many Spaces After A Period?". She also says to use one space. However, she also says this:
If you plan on publishing, one space is your best bet. If in doubt, find which style guide your market adheres to and go with that.
The problem is the tools. When it comes to fine points of typography, WYSIWYG is the wrong way to do it.
Typing and most editing should probably be done with monospace fonts. Reading should be done with beautifully typeset proportional fonts. (See Joel Spolsky's UI book.)
Details like how much wider an inter-sentence space should be than an interword space (if at all) should be a reader choice in any electronic format (e.g., ebooks, websites, etc.), and a book designer choice in hardcopy. Writers should be able to type any number of spaces between sentences. It's the tools' job to accommodate everyone, but most of them don't because they've been tainted by the mistaken notion that WYSIWYG is a good thing.
There are situations where ambiguity can creep in. Consider:
This first line is a single sentence. The second is two. They mean slightly different things. Without a difference in spacing distances, this distinction is lost. Admittedly, this is contrived, and many would consider the first line as an example of bad writing.
Agreed. The basic premise of two spaces is now an outmoded idea, however there are many people that still write like this, and many that still teach using two spaces. Most of the time this is simply due to the way that people were originally taught to format typed text, they teach it the way they were taught.
I have a co-worker who is twenty-two years old, and doesn't use a typewriter, but he uses two spaces at the end of every sentence because he was taught that it is the appropriate format. I suspect that this practice will be around for a long time to come, even though it is no longer necessary.
When your text is displayed as an HTML document (web pages, etc.), any extra spaces are automatically collapsed into one space, even if you are using a monospace font.
When your text is displayed (almost) anywhere else in the modern world, single spaces are sufficient in most cases, but you also have the freedom to use a double space to specifically distinguish two statements from one another. Consider your medium, choose your weapon, convey your message.
Helping my 11 yr old son with a project last night, I noticed he was two-spacing it. He just wrapped up a semester of typing at school, I'm pissed at his keyboard teacher because now I'm gonna have to break him of this habit.
I can't believe anyone would teach that in today's world.
I'm an old school web developer (grew up with typewriters), and I sometimes do slip and put a double space in the code. The nice thing is that the browsers take it out for me.
Unless you intentionally encode the double space like so "
One more perspective on the matter was addressed by XKCD.
You may also be interested in the following article: Double Spacing After Periods
The catty answers from unpublished writers amuse me. I double-space after periods, not because I'm old enough to use a type writer but because that's how I was taught. Double-spacing and monospace fonts absolutely make initial editing much easier. For my final edit, I prefer to make a faux galley to check how well the flow works when it is typeset as it will be as a book. When I turn it in, I only take out the spaces if I'm really pushing 400 pages and it buys me a page or two. (In my genre, publishers get really unhappy when you go over the magic 100k mark.) I've published 6 books with a major NY publisher and never had an editor comment on spacing after a period. The book gets typeset anyway. It's a non-issue.
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Current "One Hit Wonders"?
I was listening to a song that I hated when it first came out, but it has grown on me. "Somebody that I used to know". I was thinking I wonder if this will be a one hit wonder. Are there any songs/artists out now that you predict will be a "one hit wonder?"
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There are two types of people in this world, people who love that song and people who can't stand that song. I'm one type and my girlfriend is the opposite type.
Most of them...
Actually, the age of the one-hit wonders is nearly over. The digital age has made it easy for people to find more music from those artists and thus, sell more albums and prolong their awful career.
Of course, I could be wrong -- but I never am :)
I don't listen to enough new music to offer a good opinion on this one. I am stuck hopelessly in the classic rock/hair band era.
I saw your question and immediately thought of this song. While I agree with @capguncowboy as well about the digital age making more music from these artists more accessible, I still doubt that another song from this artist will be something that anyone will remember even in a year. However, I know I will still be singing this one in a few years and would remember it if I heard a few bars of it somewhere.
I do think it's funny how you can go from hating a song and then it grows on you. I think I listen to it at least once a day. And I agree with Cap too. If you have a nice body and can shake your a$$... you'll be around. :(


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Is the sefer Toldos Yeshu quoted by any big rabbanim? Which version is the most accurate (original)?
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Interestingly, Bar Ilan search reveals no places where this book is quoted by this name. It seems that for the most part the answer is no, it is not quoted. However, in the uncensored version of Rashi Avodah Zarah 10a (quoted by Shnayer Leiman), Rashi mentions ספור תליית ישו, which is a version of Toldot Yeshu. In this sefer, the author discusses the work and mentions a few places where it was quoted by rishonim, including the aforementioned Rashi, Rashbam, R. Ephraim and Nizzahon Yashan, and that the חתם סופר wrote הערות on the 1705 edition.
Dr. Shnayer Leiman, a historian at Yeshiva University, cites to a 1705 version in his well-received lecture "Jewish Perspectives on Early Christianity - Nittel, the Ninth of Teves and Pope Simon Peter" which can be found here. He said that this version is cited in Hagahot Rav Baruch Frankel Orech Chaim 580 and in Rabbi Aharon Worms' Meorei Ohr. If you find the 1705 version, let me know. Otherwise, I may have to bug Dr. Leiman.


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16 Sep 2010 10:29 PM #1
ExtJS Grid, Poor Performance with High Frequency Updates?
I just began using ExtJS 3.2.1 and I'm concerned that there are usage patterns for these components that I am not aware of because the performance of the grid control is not as good as I was hoping for.
My goal is to use the ExtJS grid with a JSON data store. I am using a comet server (WebSync) to push JSON data to the client where the data is loaded into the JSON store. When I test my solution with small datasets (10 rows, 5 cols) the grid renders and updates great. However, when my dataset is larger (40 rows, 10 cols) performance begins to degrade to the point where the page seems to hang or crash.
Regarding the JSON data, the client listens to three types of data from the server in JSON format. The three data blocks represent 1) row adds, 2) row deletes, 3) row cell value changes.
An example of how the client would progress to a crash is as follows:
1. server sends a data block consisting of 40 rows, 10 cols worth of data to the client
2. client receives data block. store.loadData(datablock, true) is called. data is rendered to screen.
3. server sends a data block consisting of 40 rows, 10 cols worth of data
4. client receives data block. loops over data objects using store.GetByID() to find the matching store row. values in the row are updated and record.commit() is called to save changes. (client will receive these blocks, steadily, every 500 milliseconds)
Result: watch grid update quickly. then watch updates begin to slow. finally, watch the page crash
I am pushing relatively small chunks of data from the server to the client at the 500ms interval. In addition, I have created a windows forms solution that accepts the data pushed from the server at the 500ms interval and works great. so, I don't believe that this is related to latency transferring the JSON to the client.
General questions I have are:
Is it a problem that the JsonDataStore is being accessed from three different event handlers? Javascript applications are single threaded and event handlers are executed in a synchronous fashion, correct?
Am I expecting too much? Is it not possible to update my datastore every half second and expect the grid to be responsive?
What are the limitations of ExtJS grid (or purely javascript/html based controls in general) these days?
17 Sep 2010 1:51 AM #2
the grid rendering is poor performance, i agree. Measurements shows on a simple array grid that it takes 1,5 sec render in FF.
This is because of the huge HTML the grid produces and the way it's inserted in DOM. So, if you pull every 0.5 sec it won't work.
You can try to suspend some events, but the performance changes are marginal.
I hope there will be a more performant grid in 4.x.vg Steffen
Release Manager of TYPO3 4.5
17 Sep 2010 2:45 AM #3
You could also try to use a different GridView implementation (TableGridView) or even the ListView
if u can live with the drawbacks they have (no columnmove IIRC and some other missing things...)
Btw, Did u try to use an arraystore?
The normal json store sends the Data Description along with the data for each row which might be a bit slower.
And then there is Ext.USE_NATIVE_JSON which might be able to gain a few ms for you cause it will use the Browsers native JSON encode/decode methods..
17 Sep 2010 5:36 AM #4
Do you use beginEdit/endEdit around record updates? How about suspendEvents/resumeEvents around store?
store.suspendEvents(); foreach (json) { var record = findRecord(); record.beginEdit(); foreach (property in json) { record.set(property, value); } record.endEdit(); } store.resumeEvents();
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When does a topological affine space $X$ admit a non-trivial Gaussian measure? Namely, one whose support is the whole space $X$? One can always construct a Gaussian measure supported on a finite-dimensional subspace of $X$, such as a line.
Is local convexity of $X$ a sufficient criterion for there to exist a Gaussian measure supported on all of $X$?


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I have an external concrete patio, about 3 years old. I'm wondering if there are any finishing or refinishing options to make it look a little better than just boring 'ole concrete.
As mentioned by DA01, acid staining could be a good choice. There is just something to keep in mind with it though. Acid staining is somewhat transparent/translucent though. Is your patio free of permanent marks for example?
When my wife and I built our current come, we considered acid staining, but one of the cautions was that we needed to keep the concrete clean during the building processes. For example, some sub-contractors may like to make marks on the floor with a marker, chalk, etc. thinking it would just get covered up with tile or carpet. If it could not get cleaned up, it would show through the acid stain.
Now, considering that this is an outdoor patio, you most certainly don't have any construction marks, but you need to check and see if anything has marked the concrete since then.
If you do have marks or blemishes that would show through, and you still want to acid stain, then about your only option would be have someone put a new cream coat on the concrete. I'm not exactly sure what it is called, but my concrete sub had it done on a section of my driveway that was messed up cosmetically during the pour.
Finally, you could paint it. Just go and look for a concrete paint. Most can be tinted to any color you wish.
As an afterthought... You also need to decide what look you are looking for. Paint will give you a very consistent look, but acid stain will give a varied look--kind of mottled. Some areas will be a little lighter, some a little darker. It has to do with the way the acid reacts to the concrete. If you are not familiar with the look, just Google "acid stain concrete" and click on "Images".
Oh, by the way, the mottling is completely unpredictable, but that's part of the beauty!
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I'm currently having trouble getting my head around solving this matrix (eigenvalue problem?) transcendental equation.
I have a matrix 4x4 where, $\det(M)=0$. And where ij of the matrix is a function of 4 variables, 2 of them are known where 2 are unknown, $\alpha_r$ (
alphar) and $\epsilon$ (
epsilon, the strain). I've set strain to a reasonable value (0.05) which leaves me one variable,
alphar, to solve for. The matrix I have is below,
and the Mathematica code is (with
M = {{6.08259*10^22 Cosh[0.76724 a], 2.98856*10^23 Cosh[3.53664 a], -1.60097*10^21 Cosh[0.191442 a], -6.58085*10^21 Cosh[0.823236 a]},
{-7.24194*10^22 Sinh[0.76724 a], 1.63044*10^24 Sinh[3.53664 a], -1.89318*10^21 Sinh[0.191442 a], 3.40266*10^22 Sinh[0.823236 a]},
{2.21319*10^11 Sinh[0.76724 a], 2.21319*10^11 Sinh[3.53664 a], 1.46171*10^11 Sinh[0.191442 a], 1.46171*10^11 Sinh[0.823236 a]},
{-3.57353*10^11 Cosh[0.76724 a], 1.01793*10^12 Cosh[3.53664 a], 5.59395*10^10 Cosh[0.191442 a], -1.44394*10^11 Cosh[0.823236 a]}}
I need to find the root so that $\det(M)=0$. I've tried using
FindRoot[Det[M]==0, {a,0}]
But I don't get a reasonable value (depending on initial guess ranging from 0 to anything between 5 for example) I get 0 or almost 0, I should hopefully get a value between 0.1 and 0.8 depending on initial strain value.
From similar papers on the topic it seems I should have one transcendental equation in terms of the two variables, $\alpha_r$ and $\epsilon$. Would I be right in assuming this would be the characteristic polynomial of the matrix?
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Games have this fascinating power to invite players to become better at... beating the game. I like how after repeatedly smashing a damn Orc a few times I am magically more efficient at well smashing the damn Orc. It feels like I'm accomplishing something even though nothing is really happening to stuff that actually needs to be finished. But it's the same feeling I get when suddenly I notice I'm understanding a movie in a new language when a year before I could barelly read the subtitles. A year before? That's not very encouraging. Games are constantly reminding me how awesome I am with all them level ups and fancy items. It's not very fair against the feeling of hey 'I'm better than a year before' feeling.
Games have several mechanics designed to encourage you to keep trying:
- Competition. You can tell who of the people you know are doing better than you. It's a solid number. You have level 85 at Alchemy while Mike has only 40 and you both started playing at the same time. You're the man. Whereas Steve is a loser no-lifer for having level 90.
- Solid milestones. Quests in games have ponctual objectives. You need to get a sword, talk to someone and collect a number of blue potatoes. What next? There's always a next.
- Skill level. You know when you got better at something even though you're not sure why. It doesn't take several months to notice some progress.
The list goes on and on but my question is:
Is there any method teaching how to convert life tasks in quests, skills and other concrete numbers that can be compared to someone else's progress? Something that has a smaller gap between achivements but are somewhat universal.