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iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus sell 10 million units during launch weekend
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If you were curious just how well Apple would do with selling larger iPhones, it turns out that the answer is, better than ever. The company has announced that it sold over 10 million iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus smartphones in the first weekend of sales. This would include the previously announced 4 million pre-orders of the device that were sold in the first 24 hours of availability. This makes it the best-selling smartphone launch of all time, beating the record of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c last year, which sold 9 million units in the first weekend. Also impressive?? Last year the iPhone 5s launched on day one in China, while this year China isn't included in the sales figures due to a delayed launch.
Due to the massive demand, it may be tough finding an iPhone 6 Plus, as supply of this model is constrained, with the Apple Store showing a 3-4 week backorder on the 5.5-inch device.
Tim Cook, Apple CEO, shared this statement:
"Sales for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus exceeded our expectations for the launch weekend, and we couldn't be happier," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. "We would like to thank all of our customers for making this our best launch ever, shattering all previous sell-through records by a large margin. While our team managed the manufacturing ramp better than ever before, we could have sold many more iPhones with greater supply and we are working hard to fill orders as quickly as possible."
In three days the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus go on sales in 20 additional countries. You can pick up the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus from Apple.
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Unboxing Live 146: Apple iPhone 6 Plus
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Apple has released the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, and we were on hand at the Apple Store in Lynnwood, WA at the Alderwood Mall to get our hands on one of the first units (and one of the very few gold iPhone 6 Plus models that were in stock.) We open up the new iPhone 6 Plus in this episode of Unboxing Live, and give you a look at the 5.5-inch smartphone in all its glory, along with all included accessories.
If I seemed tired in this one, it's because I arrived at 9:00pm the night before the iPhone went on sale, and this video was recorded 16(!!!) hours later when I finally had the device in-hand and ready to unbox.
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9 custom iOS 8 keyboards you can download now!
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iOS 8 was released today, and it's a great update to Apple's mobile devices (see our iOS 8 review.) In addition, many developers have started to release custom keyboards, a new capability found in the updated OS. Users can now leave the stock keyboard behind for something more customized. Here are some of the best third-party iOS 8 keyboards that you can add to your devices right now!
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iOS 8 now available for download!
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Apple has release iOS 8 to the world, bringing with it a host of new features for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Users will find improvements to just about every stock iOS app, as well as new additions like Health, Continuity, and Handoff. We published our full iOS 8 review this morning, which you can read for a full rundown of what to expect. Here's a list of the compatible devices:
- iPhone 5s
- iPhone 5c
- iPhone 5
- iPhone 4s
- iPod touch 5th generation
- iPad Air
- iPad mini with Retina display
- iPad mini
- iPad with Retina display
- iPad 2
You can update to iOS 8 now, either through an over-the-air update, or by plugging in to iTunes and having it perform the update for you. Of course, iOS 8 will ship on the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus this Friday.
iOS 8 review: A more powerful iPhone experience arrives
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iOS 8 is the follow-up to last years radical redesign of Apple's mobile operating system. After the visual overhaul, the company went to work on adding a bunch of features that would make its devices more open with features like extensions and third-party keyboards, yet more secure with improved permissions and more widespread Touch ID integration. With iOS 8, Apple looks to refine the experience that was introduced last year, while allowing features for the power users of the world to shine.
It's been shown that Apple follows a two-step release process with its iOS device hardware and software. For example, one year the company will release a new design for the iPhone, and the following year it'll keep that design and refine the device, releasing it as an "S" class upgrade. iOS seems to follow a similar pattern, especially this year, which follows last year's big redesign. With iOS 8, Apple has introduced a layer of polish on top of its mobile operating system, bringing with it a bevy of new features. The question remains, do all the changes come together in a meaningful way? Join us for our full iOS 8 review as we explore the answer.
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How to use AT&T Next and Verizon Edge to your advantage
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We've received a few emails over the last few days from readers asking about switching to AT&T Next so that they can get the new iPhone 6 on Friday for no money down. AT&T has been notifying some customers who are mid-contract that they can switch to a Next plan at no charge, doing away with contracts going forward. Of course, there are those who are still under AT&T's grandfathered "unlimited" data plan, but others simply want to know if programs like AT&T Next and Verizon Edge are worth it, or if they're rip-offs. The thing is, early upgrade plans like Next and Edge basically allow you to divorce the act of owning and paying for a phone, from paying for cellular service. If you play your cards right, you'll actually come out ahead financially, and you'll be able to upgrade to a new device whenever you want. Let's walk through a scenario of buying a phone with AT&T Next.
All currently available mainstream plans feature two components: a data charge, and a line charge. We will ignore the data charge aspect from here on out, because it's the same regardless of what plan you choose.
AT&T Next offers you a lower monthly line charge ($15 less for data plans under 10GB, $25 less for 10GB and over) in exchange for them not giving you a large subsidy when you buy your phone. Next plans never involve a contract, and you can get out of them at any time, penalty free, by paying off the balance you owe on your phone.
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Unboxing Live 145: Nespresso VertuoLine
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In this episode we open up the Nespresso VertuoLine single-serve coffeemaker. This is the latest innovation from Nespresso, which features new bar code technology that tells the coffeemaker how quick to brew the coffee and at what temperature, depending on the flavor chosen. We open it up in this episode and give you a look at the appliance.
Here are the Nespresso VertuoLine features:
- Fully automatic machine uses a revolutionary new brewing technology for traditional Italian espresso beverages and classic American coffee.
- Advanced, ultra-quiet Centrifusion technology relies on centrifugal force to gently and precisely brew coffee and espresso -- both topped with a natural amber crema for the deepest, most complex flavor and richest aroma.
- Computerized scanning system reads the bar code on your Nespresso VertuoLine capsule, ensuring precision blend-specific brewing for your desired beverage.
- Works exclusively with Nespresso's new premium VertuoLine capsules (12 are included -- eight coffee and four espresso).
- Brews one or two cups of coffee (7.77 oz.) or espresso (1.35 oz.), all with one-touch convenience.
- Machine heats up quickly, reaching optimal brewing temperatures in 15-20 seconds.
- Adjustable tray accommodates cups of various sizes (from small cups to travel mugs).
- Used capsules are automatically ejected and collected in a built-in container.
- Energy-saving function turns the machine off automatically after 9 minutes of inactivity.
- Descaling alert lets you know when it's time to descale your machine.
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Apple pre-installing iWork and iLife apps on 64GB, 128GB iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus
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Apple will be bundling in all of its free iWork and iLife apps for buyers of the 64GB and 128GB iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, an Apple Retail training document reveals. The apps included are iMovie, GarageBand, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, and iTunes U. iPhoto isn't included, as it is being replaced by the new-and-improved Photos app in iOS 8 that includes more advanced editing tools and support for the new iCloud Photo Library.
For those who pick up the 16GB model, all of the aforementioned apps will still be available for download, they just won't be pre-loaded on your iPhone when sent from the factory. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus go on sale this Friday at 8:00am at Apple Store locations, as well as cellular carrier stores. Pre-orders started this past Friday, and Apple has announced that it has sold 4 million iPhones within the first 24 hours of pre-sale availability.
Microsoft will reveal Windows 9 on September 30th
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Microsoft has started sending out invitation to select press to its Windows 9 reveal event that will take place in San Francisco, California on September 30th. Microsoft execs Joe Belfiore and Terry Myerson will both be on hand to talk about "what's next for Windows and the enterprise." At the end of the event, we expect the company to release a Windows 9 Technical Preview that will allow developers and enterprise users to take the new software for a test drive to get apps updated and deployment scenarios tested. New features for Windows 9 include Cortana integration, virtual desktops, a new Start menu, Notification Center, and a refreshed UI that will see flatter icons (similar to Apple's OS X Yosemite.)
Apple releases OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 8, Public Beta 3
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Apple has released OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 8, alongside OS X Yosemite Public Beta 3, the latest updates for the pre-release builds of OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Developers and AppleSeed customers that are part of one or the other programs will find the 917MB update available now in the Mac App Store Updates section. The public release of Yosemite is expected to come sometime in October.
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Can anyone help me remember a 1940's film about a woman with a recurring memory. There is a scene in an auction and she ends up going to a lighthouse and goes up some stairs using a hidden door. She ends up falling to her death on the rocks below.
I am very sketchy about details but would be pleased if someone can remember which film this scene is from. I think it had someone well known like James Mason or Gregory Peck definitely from that era anyway.

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Titanfall beta "should help" with smooth launch, but Respawn is still concernedWritten by: / / 3 Comments
As one of the most anticipated games of 2014, EA and Respawn Entertainment will need to deliver a monster of a game when Titanfall launches in mid-March to match the expectations being set for the pair's mech-based, military-themed first-person shooter.
Being multiplayer-focussed, part of the problem of delivering on Respawn's vision for the game will be a smooth roll-out online as hundreds of thousands of players simultaneously swamp the servers – a problem that EA and other publishers have had a very tough time with, highlighted by issues plaguing the launch of SimCity in 2013 in particular.
A recent quick-fire Alpha test for Titanfall would have helped the team learn a few things about what is necessary to keep players playing online, but hearing from participants, it seemed as though even that small test was rife with problems as the servers were taken down and brought back up again. That's to be expected as the developers look to stress test the capabilities of the servers, tweak settings and try again, but will the participants in the announced Titanfall beta have to endure the same issues?
According to Respawn Entertainment's Vince Zampella, and following a question put to him on Twitter, the veteran developer is excited about the impending launch of Titanfall but he's still fearful over what's to come:
@Pikepointzero yes, but mixed with a bit of fear. We want the launch to be as smooth as possible. Beta should help.
— Vince Zampella (@VinceZampella) February 2, 2014
That's certainly a natural feeling, especially for someone who once stewarded the launches of major Call of Duty games and knows how much excitement is swirling around for Titanfall, but we're hoping that Respawn and EA are able to use the game's beta as a definitive test for launch next month to ensure we all have a problem-free time online.
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Titanfall is out on Xbox One, PC and Xbox 360 on March 11th in North America, March 13th in Europe and March 14th in the UK.
A beta test for Xbox One and PC has also been announced.
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For those of you unfamiliar with the concept of Sicherman dice, the idea is that you can have an alternate arrangement of numbers on the sides of a pair six-sided dice such that when the pair is rolled together, the probability curve for the total remains the same. Following the instructions in the justification section on the wiki page makes it pretty easy to find alternate configurations for larger n-sided dice.
My question is, is it possible to have a Sicherman trio of sorts, where three non-standard n-sided dice rolled together are equivalent to three standard n-sided diced rolled together. You can accomplish this trivially by taking Sicherman pairs and adding a standard die, but I'm not interested in that solution. I've tried with 8 and 10-sided dice, but there wasn't a non-trivial solution. Is there a better way than brute-force to find a n where a Sicherman Trio of n-sided dice is possible?
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I would like to know the meaning and the importance of the word 'ICTHUS' among Christians. I have learned that this is some sort of symbol. Can anyone help me on this?
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The word means "fish" in Greek. The symbol of the fish was often used in the early church to distinguish believers from unbelievers where persecution was an issue. When meeting another person, one Christian would draw one arc, and if the other person completed the drawing of the fish by adding another arc, then the Christian would know that he or she was in the presence of another believer. In other words, it was a low key way to identify each other, reducing the risk of being found out as a Christian where to be found out may have cost them their lives.
You can read more about the term here:
ΙΧΘΥΣ means fish in an old form of Greek. It now primarily refers to a particular Christian fish symbol. From Wikipedia:
The word itself has symbolic meaning, though. Saint Augustine gives the following symbolic explanation in City of God:
For the symbolic meaning of fishes and the "fish symbol", you could ask:
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Entry from The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.):
SOURCE: F. L. Cross and Elizabeth A. Livingstone, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd ed. rev. (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 617.
Additional Resources: J. B. *Pitra, OSB, Spicilegium Solesmense, 3 (Paris, 1855), pp. 499–543 ('ΙΧΘΥΣ, sive de Pisce Allegorico et Symbolico'); G. B. *de Rossi, ibid., pp. 545–84 ('De Christianis Monumentis ΙΧΘΥΝ exhibentibus'); H. Achelis, Das Symbol des Fisches and die Fischdenkmäler der römischen Katakomben (Marburg, 1888); R. Pischel, 'Der Ursprung des christlichen Fischsymbol', Sb. (Berl.), 1905 (1), pp. 506–32; C. R. Morey, 'The Origin of the FishSymbol', Princeton Theological Review, 8 (1910), pp. 93–106, 231–46, and 401–32; 9 (1911), pp. 268–89; 10 (1912), pp. 278–98. I. Scheftelowitz, 'Das Fisch-Symbol im Judentum and Christentum', Archiv für Religionswissenschaft, 14 (1911), pp. 1–53. F. J. Döger, ΙΧΘΥΣ (vol. 1, RQ, Suppl. 17; 1910; 2nd edn., Münster i.W., 1928; vols. 2–5, ibid., 1922–43). L. Werhahn Stauch, 'Christliche Fischsymbolik von den Anfängen his zum thohen Mittelalter', Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 35 (1972), pp. 1–68. R. St J. Tyrwhitt in DCA 1 (1880), pp. 673 f, s.v., and pp. 625–8, s.v. 'Eucharist (in Christian Art)'; F. Cumont in PW 9 (pt. 1; 1914), cols. 844–50, s.v. 'Ichthys'; H. *Leclercq, OSB, in DACL 7 (pt. 2; 1927), cols. 1990–2086, s.v. ΙΧΘΥΣ; J. Quasten in NCE 5 (1967), pp. 943–6, s.v. 'Fish, Symbolism of'; J. Engemann in RAC 7 (1969), cols. 1021–97, s.v. 'Fisch, B. Christlich'.


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Picky Eaters: Born or Made?
To Eat or Not to Eat? That Is the Question
Once upon a time there lived a storybook badger named Frances, who would only eat bread and jam. Bread and jam for breakfast, bread and jam for lunch, bread and jam for supper. Her mother tried to interest her in eggs, sunny-side up, or a delicious plate of spaghetti and meatballs, all to no avail. Finally, Frances' mom gave up and gave in, serving only bread and jam to her fussy child until one day even Frances was forced to admit that there can indeed be too much of a good thing.
There's good reason why the classic picture book, Bread and Jam for Frances by Russell and Lillian Hoban, has enchanted children for three decades: friendly, furry Frances reminds young readers of themselves. Many children go through stages when they refuse to eat certain foods, or insist on only eating a few favorite things (usually devoid of all nutritional value, or so it seems). Eating is often divorced from hunger in the power struggles and manipulative game-playing that result:
"I won't eat broccoli! It's like eating baby trees!"
"You must have two bites of salad and one bite of meatloaf to get dessert."
"Why do you always make fish when you know I hate it?!"
"If you drink your milk, I'll play Candy Land with you."
We wonder: Is this our fault? Are all the other children in the neighborhood happily eating salad and meatloaf right now, while our willful, whiny child holds out for chicken nuggets? Are the other parents who meekly made PB&J in advance, knowing their children would refuse meatloaf and salad, enjoying a happier, quieter supper than we are right now?
But the first question, before we get to "how to make them eat," is, "how to get ourselves off the hook." To find the answer, we surveyed parents from Seattle to Boston, asking them: "Are picky eaters born or made?" Not surprisingly, those with picky eaters believe they came into the world as such. Those whose children eat everything give themselves a big pat on the back. A sampling of the findings:
Andrew, father of Nathan, 18 months: "They're born. We have struggled so much to get this kid to eat. He loves noodles and sweet things, but he likes them better on my plate than on his. He loved American cheese slices for a few days; now he won't touch them. It's not what we're doing, it's that he just keeps changing."
Sam, father of Peter, four years: "They're made. We've never made special meals for him, always insisted that he try new foods, and as a result he eats everything. He loves fruits and vegetables."
Amy, mother of Michaela, five years, and Lily, three years: "It's both. It's personality, temperament. They're born that way and it just gets made worse, or not. When Michaela was a baby she would eat everything, then at two she wouldn't, and now she's starting to branch out again. Lily has always been more particular. She looks at a food first, asks a lot of questions before she'll try it. But let's face it, this is almost always about the parent, not the kid!"
True, perhaps, but since establishing parental guilt or innocence will not get us where we want to go, let's now move beyond bread and jam and look for solutions.
Beyond Bread and Jam
The good news is, what is true for a storybook badger is also true for children. In other words: This too shall pass. Most kids won't starve, since much of this conflict has nothing to do with actual hunger or intake of food, anyway! Picky eating often represents a child's desire to exert control (which is why we see so much of it during the toddler years). There are simple things we can do to encourage good eating habits, but only if we are willing to stop micro-managing the intake of every morsel. A few simple suggestions:
1. Don't barter, plead, or make deals involving food. Drawing connections between eating and good or bad behavior ("Good girls who eat their carrots get ice cream") sets up a dynamic that can prove to be disastrous in adulthood ("I'm entitled to eat this entire bag of cookies because I won the new account" or conversely, "because I'm feeling anxious or unloved.")
2. Limit or ban the amount of junk food and sweets kept in the house. New York Times' health columnist, Jane Brody writes that she never kept candy, chips, soda, or ice cream at home when her kids were growing up. Instead, she gave them money once a week to go out and buy their own goodies. This had the effect of restricting their access to foods void of nutrition, but without complete deprivation. Similarly, you can cross frozen fries (loaded with hydrogenated oils!) off your shopping list, but build in a visit to a fast-food emporium instead.
3. Choices, choices, choices. Since picky eating is often a power play-- "I refuse to eat what you say I must" -- you can increase the chances that kids will make healthy food choices by spreading the dining room table with a myriad options. Instead of meatloaf, for instance, serve "make your own" tacos and let kids "build" their own dinner, choosing whether or not to add cheese, tomatoes, or lettuce. Replace a single salad with a colorful platter of cut-up veggies, including baby carrots, pea pods, celery, and red and yellow peppers, perhaps with a selection of dipping sauces (nothing fancy, dressing out of a few bottles with do!) Fondue, now back in vogue as a chic dinner-party option, is great fun for kids because eating becomes an engaging activity.
4. Read labels. Think that six-pack of applesauce is a healthy snack choice? Chances are it's low fat or fat-free, but most likely packed with sugar and utterly devoid of nutrients. Then again, juice boxes that seem surprisingly devoid of vitamin C may have added calcium. With heavily processed foods, it's impossible to make assumptions. Check the ingredients.
5. Be realistic about portions, mindful of hunger. Two-year-olds, for example, should get one-quarter to one-third of an adult's food portion. That's not a lot, and yet another reason not to force-feed by demanding "four more bites." Kids need to learn to eat in response to hunger cues, not because you say so.
6. Be sneaky. There's something to be said for "what they don't know won't hurt them." Soft tofu or cooked vegetables can be pureed and added to tomato sauce. Finely chopped spinach or broccoli can be mixed into ricotta cheese when stuffing shells. Add unsweetened applesauce or shredded carrots to muffins.
7. Be patient. Good eating habits are built over time. Nutritionists and pediatricians say you should consider your child's nutritional intake over the course of a week, not a day. Leaving aside economic variables, most children with access to enough food will get enough of what they need to be healthy.


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To make Google Authorship Information work, you should follow some steps one of which is to login to your Google profile, and add the links of the articles you've contributed to.
This is a good step, as much as you are only a contributor of few articles, or you've contributed to articles across many websites, and many domains.
But if you are the owner of a website, and you have large number of articles (say 100 articles and more for example), then it gets tediuse and uncomfortable task to add each article's URL to your Google Profile.
Does Google has a feature to tell it that you own a website, so that it knows that the author of each article on that website is you?


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6 Horrible Aftermaths Implied by Movies With Happy Endings
We like our movies to have happy endings, because it makes the drive home that much easier if the rest of the date was full of forgotten wallets and cabbage farts. However, even movies with the most uplifting and/or completely resolved endings start to reveal horrific consequences for their respective characters once you sit and think about them for long enough, to the point where we want to see a sequel just to know that everybody made it out OK.
#6. Man of Steel -- Metropolis Will Probably Never Be Able to Rebuild
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During the climax of Man of Steel, Metropolis gets torn asunder by General Zod's planet-destroying gravity jackhammer. Superman manages to destroy the machine, and the two of them have a 20-minute skyscraper-toppling punch festival that ends with Zod defeated and the world celebrating their new blue-spandexed alien Jesus.
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Alien Jesus never misses his traditional post-destruction Big Gulp.
The Horrific Aftermath:
Sure, Superman saved Metropolis (and the world) from Zod's space wrath, but at least in the former case we're using the word "saved" loosely. Hundreds of buildings were obliterated. Somebody ran the numbers on the damage, and they're freaking obscene.
DC Entertainment/Warner Bros.
Yeah, maybe it's time to buy a nice quiet property in Gotham.
According to Kinetic Analysis Corporation, the leading company in predicting and evaluating the impact of catastrophic events, at least 129,000 citizens of Metropolis were killed in the climactic conclusion of Man of Steel, along with another 1 million injured and 250,000 missing. Those numbers are on the same level as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which is unsurprising when you consider that, according to the analysis, Zod's machine caused a circumference of destruction "similar to an air burst from a 20-kiloton nuclear explosion."
DC Entertainment/Warner Bros.
So, like the end of The Avengers, if Iron Man had dropped the nuke.
The cost of all that devastation would total somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 trillion. That's roughly 40 times the physical damage of 9/11, or 15 Hurricane Katrinas. It would cost more than half of the U.S. government's entirely yearly budget to repair.
Damn, Supes, at least make some kind of effort to steer the fight away from a densely populated city. We know it doesn't look as cool and CGI artists love to render flying debris, but that's part of the cost of heroism. As it stands, it will take Metropolis decades to fully recover, assuming people don't just abandon like Detroit. And that's not even counting the hundreds of thousands of families left with Superman-shaped holes in their lives where their loved ones used to be. Jor-El should've left a copy of Of Mice and Men in Superman's space crib.
DC Entertainment/Warner Bros.
Also, installing a human skull swimming pool in the Fortress of Solitude? Bad form man, bad form.
#5. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial -- Elliott is in Serious Trouble with the Government
In case you weren't a kid in the 1980s or your parents were vengeful douchefiddlers who hated whimsy, E.T. is about a lovable alien named E.T. who accidentally gets left behind on Earth and befriends a young boy named Elliott. Government agents show up and try to capture E.T., but Elliott and his friends spring him from custody, because highly trained federal agents are apparently easily bested by middle school-aged Dungeons and Dragons fans. They take E.T. to the woods where his alien mothership is waiting, Elliott and E.T. have an emotional dudebro hug-out, and E.T. climbs aboard the ship to return to his planet.
And then E.T. died of space rickets on the way back to his home planet. Also, Santa Claus isn't real. Live with it.
The Horrific Aftermath:
After sheltering an alien for a long period of time, breaking him out of government custody and assisting in his escape back to the stars from whence he came, Elliott and his family will be lucky if they don't spend the rest of their lives in federal prison.
Think about how many laws Elliott broke in order to help E.T.: He and his brother stole a government van, lead government agents on a high-speed chase, and took to the sky with space magic before they could be apprehended, sailing right over the heads of a confused roadblock of CIA spooks.
Thankfully they were only wielding walkie-talkies. Or was it shotguns? Who even remembers anymore?
Even though Keys, the scientist in charge of tracking down and studying E.T., seems like a decent guy (he shows up for E.T.'s departure and doesn't try to keep the little guy from leaving), he's ultimately just a researcher with no real authority. There's nothing he can do to prevent Elliott from having to get his GED via correspondence courses at Guantanamo Bay.
This kid is not going to fare well in prison.
Also, Elliott previously had a psychic connection with E.T., a fact that the government is unlikely to forget. Now that E.T. is gone, Elliott is the only person on the entire planet with any link to extraterrestrial physiology and technology. He may well end up in some dungeon in Northern Virginia having his brain dissected by a CIA think tank trying to harvest his mind for secrets. E.T. could have at least done Elliott a favor and used his psychic powers to erase everyone's memory before he left, especially after freeloading in the kid's house for a week and eating all his Reese's Pieces.
"I'll ... be ... right ... back with warships ... for the rest of the Reese's ... Pieces."
#4. Forrest Gump -- Gump's Wealth Devastated a Community
After his unabashed shrimp fetishist best friend Bubba is killed in Vietnam, Forrest Gump keeps a promise he made to go into the shrimping business in Bubba's hometown of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, an area of the country not particularly conducive to aspiring young entrepreneurs with minimal personal assets in the late 1960s. Undaunted, Forrest buys his own shrimping boat, and basks in the rays of punishing failure for several months, enduring an endless torrent of grumpy hate from a legless Gary Sinise. He finally hits a stroke of good luck when Hurricane Carmen strikes the area and demolishes every single shrimping boat in the area, sparing only Forrest's busted old trawler.
Wipe off that innocent look, Forrest. We've noticed how badly things tend to go for your so-called "friends."
With no competition to speak of, Forrest catches all the shrimp himself and starts the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, turning him into a millionaire almost overnight. He invests some of that capital into up-and-coming Apple Computers and graduates to a "go-zillionaire" (his words), leaving him free to mow lawns and raise Haley Joel Osment without any financial worries for the rest of his life.
The Horrific Aftermath:
Remember all the other shrimping boats in Bayou La Batre that were annihilated by the hurricane?
Ohhhh, right ...
Here's a little real-world perspective -- Bayou La Batre is known as the "Seafood Capital of Alabama," and the fishing and shrimping industries are its lifeblood. In 2005, the area was completely devastated by Hurricane Katrina and required a lot of outside assistance just to survive. Because shrimp boat owners aren't rich -- they got everything they own tied up in their boats. Now imagine if, amidst all that hardship, some asshole decided to build up a monopoly and horde all the shrimp for himself and his dirty pet hippie, simply because his boat was lucky enough to escape crushification.
He's struck gold! Pink, smelly gold!
Forrest may get to polish a billion-dollar nest egg, but the movie completely glosses over the fact that literally every other captain in the area has had their livelihood utterly destroyed by the storm. Even when its fishing and shrimping industries are functioning normally, Bayou La Batre has a notoriously high poverty rate -- many of them would've had a hard enough time recovering from the hurricane without Forrest coming in and laying claim to the entire shrimp harvest with his own corporate fleet. Remember, even if those poor bastards were able to get the insurance to replace their wrecked boats months later, it doesn't matter -- that's Bubba Gump territory now. Maybe they can get jobs scraping barnacles off his bow.
Forrest obviously didn't do this maliciously and was merely capitalizing on his good fortune, but the fact remains that a staggering number of Bayou La Batre's residents no longer have any means to support themselves or their families. They're likely going to wind up broke and homeless, all so that Forrest can continue having his charmingly ass-backwards adventures.
It's a slow month for capitalism when "Slow-witted Man Catches Most Shrimp in Abandoned Harbor" merits a Fortune cover story.


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Nonnewaug football making some big strides
WOODBURY — The scoreboard showed that the Nonnewaug football team dropped its seventh game of the year, 27-7, to Gilbert/Northwestern, but what happened during the game and where the program is headed was the real story.
In a game the Yellowjackets needed to keep their Class M state playoff hopes alive, the Chiefs gave the G-N everything it could handle, and showed improvements across the board.
Nonnewaug held G-N running back Tony Ortiz to just 66 yards rushing on 12 carries while racking up 229 total yards on offense themselves.
On the defensive side, the Chiefs had their ball-stripping skills on high alert and caused four fumbles, three of which they recovered.
"We have grown by leaps and bounds," Nonnewaug coach John Oko said. "Those seniors that have been with us all four years have helped create some stability for us as a program."
Players like quarterback Christian Metallo (78 yards passing, 32 yards rushing), running backs Nick Uberti (31 rushing yards) and Nick Bordiere (41 rushing yards) may be graduating, but they have left their mark on a program that is making progress.
"Today we ran the ball better than we ever had before," Oko said. "We've become a tougher team mentally. The kids are starting to understand the value of coming to practice and working hard every day."
Rebuilding a program that went dark for two years not that long ago is never an easy task, but Oko and his coaches have asked their players to buy into the dedication it takes to become a strong football program.
"We are a very young team on the offensive and defensive line," Oko said. "I think our kids are working hard in the off season workouts and running so they can get stronger."
Nonnewaug led 7-6 after one quarter, and while it was burned twice by Ortiz (74-yard and 84-yard touchdowns through the air), the defense made an impressive stop after G-N had a 1st-and-goal from the Chiefs' 8-yard line in the third quarter.
"It doesn't surprise me that we played so well in this game," Oko said. "We have had three or four games that we were in late but the kids are still learning what it takes to win."
"I like what I see at this point," Oko said. "We are going to keep working hard to get better."
As a school, Nonnewaug has always been a force on numerous fronts in the sports world.
With time and consistency now working for them, it looks like the Chiefs may pick up this winning thing on the gridiron.
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While on the road you don't have your handy scales at home, and without making an appointment to see a doctor, where else could you find some scales to determine your on-the-road weight? This is useful if say, your travel medicine is weight-related...
Ask at your hotel or hostel. I work in a hostel and we have about four sets of scales so guests can make sure their luggage won't be over the weight limit for their flight.
I'm sure we're not unique in this regard.
When you are at the airport you could step onto the conveyer belt of a checkin desk that is not in use. The scales normally still show the weight.
If you happen to find a shop that sells stones (for stone carving) they usually have scales to measure the weight of the stone to calculate the price. Those scales should be able to hold you.
You could try to befriend someone local and ask to borrow his or her scale. You could also use the couchsurfing website to contact people and ask them just to borrow their scale.
Or you could try to find a store that sells scales and just use it in the store without buying it.
Sometimes you can find a scale inside a gym or swimming pool (maybe more common in Scandinavia?)
In many countries you actually have people standing around on street corners with their scales which you can use for a small fee.
The problem may be that you may use your home scale naked, while you are dressed to various degrees when on the street (depending on the weather). Also some of the scales look pretty old, and may not be super correct. But at least is it gives you some idea.
In the UK pharmacies sometimes have scales that require a coin to be activated.
If your hotel room has a bath, measure the dimensions, fill it up completely with water, climb in and measure how much water is displaced. Don't blame me if the hotel complains about water damage :)
For completeness sake, pharmacies in Italy often have both scales and sphygmomanometers to measure blood pressure. Both are available to the customers, and are either free or coin-activated.


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Published August 19, 2013
A truckload of stranded commuters cross a flooded street in Manila, Philippines.
Selim Caliskan, Germany head of human rights organisation Amnesty International, and other activists hold up masks of Nefertiti, the wife of Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten, and posters reading "Egypt: Stop Further Bloodshed!" as they demonstrate against violence in Egypt, in front of the Egyptian embassy in Berlin.
Members of an international religious movement called the White Brotherhood perform a ritual dance near Babreka lake, Rila Mountain, south of Sofia, as part of celebration of their New Year.
Indonesian soldiers stand guard as inmates line up before being transferred to other prisons, at Labuhan Ruku prison that was burnt after a riot, Batubara, North Sumatra.
A girl (C) reacts as she watches an aerial view film, flying high over mountains, during the opening of the new visual entertainment museum Orbi Yokohama in Yokohama near Tokyo, Japan.
Police detain an anti-fracking demonstrator outside a drill site run by Cuadrilla Resources, near Balcombe in southern England.
Steve Westnedge plays his saxophone for a Leopard Seal known as "Casey" as part of a study on the animal's reactions to different sounds at Sydney's Taronga Zoo, Australia.
A woman and her pet participate in a parade in support of a bill penalizing cruelty against domestic and wild animals waiting to be discussed by the Legislative Assembly, in San Jose, Costa Rica, Aug. 18, 2013.
Luna Rossa Challenge sails near the Golden Gate Bridge before their race against Team Emirates New Zealand in the second race of their Louis Vuitton Cup challenger series yacht race in San Francisco, California, Aug. 18, 2013.
A cloud partially covers the Rock of the British territory of Gibraltar at sunrise from La Atunara port before Spanish fishermen sail with their relatives to take part in a protest at an area of the sea where an artificial reef was built by Gibraltar using concrete blocks, Algeciras bay, La Linea de la Concepcion, southern Spain, Aug. 18, 2013.


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The medical helicopter in which the shooting victim was flown to the hospital landed in the parking lot of Ellison High School. (Photo by Rachel Cox)
KILLEEN (January 16, 2013)--A 20-year-old man who was shot in the head Wednesday afternoon in a house near a Killeen high school was flown to Scott & White Hospital in Temple.
Officers who were sent to the house in the 3300 block of Pebble Drive in response to a report of the shooting just after 1:15 p.m. Wednesday found three men, one of whom with what they called an extremely critical gunshot wound to the head.
Officers were interviewing the other two men, who police said are 22 and 24, but no further details were released.
Police said the shooting victim was a Fort Hood soldier, but a post spokesman later said the man may have been a former soldier, but was not currently serving.
It was also not clear whether either of the two other men is a soldier, but all three men were living in the house, police said.
The house is near Ellison High School, whose parking lot was used as a landing zone for the medical helicopter.
Killeen police spokeswoman Carroll Smith said a handgun was recovered at the scene.
Smith said initial investigation revealed the shooting may have been accidental.


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Notation question:
What does $(\Delta^1)^{ \{1, \ldots,n-1 \}}$ denote? UPDATE: I (David Speyer) tried to fix the LaTeX. Please see if I got it right.
Vocabulary question:
Suppose $z:\Delta^{n+1} \rightarrow S$ is a morphism of simplicial sets. What does the following translate to in algebraic terms: $z|\Delta^{ \{0,\ldots,n \} }$ is a constant simplex at a vertex $x$.
So mainly, I just don't know what that is supposed to mean, "is a constant simplex at the vertex x". Everything else makes fine sense.
I've searched through a number of books on homotopy theory, algebraic topology, etc. and I've been unable to find these precise usages.
I ask these questions only because I'm reading HTT by Lurie, and these usages come up and they're quite confusing.


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I'm wondering if there's a way to watch a website for changes, even if the site doesn't have a web feed. Specifically, I'd like to watch various state's court form websites for updated forms. http://www.courts.ca.gov/formnumber.htm So you'll see on that page, a form number (adopt-200), and a date revised (7/1/2010).
I'd like to use IFTTT (or something similar... hopefully I don't have to make my own, but whatever) to notify me if there is a change to any of the forms on that page, and then download the new pdf file.
Any ideas?


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STEUBENVILLE - A Cleveland-based workplace consultant warned the Jefferson County Safety Council Wednesday of the pitfalls of social networking, saying the community is seeing firsthand how quickly it can spin out of control.
Timothy Dimoff, president and CEO of SACS Consulting & Investigative Services Inc., said business owners need to "contain and control" social networking with "good policies, good education and an informed management team."
"If you don't put a control mechanism in place, you're in trouble," he said. "You also have to incorporate a procedure for how to respond to negative inputs or comments ... you have to have a policy in place."
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SOCIAL NETWORKS DISCUSSED — Workplace consultant Timothy Dimoff told members of the Jefferson County Safety Council at Wednesday's meeting they need to be proactive in developing a social networking policy and communicating it to their employees. The group meets monthly at the YWCA in Steubenville.
-- Linda Harris
A case in point, he said, is the firestorm of controversy that erupted in the wake of the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl at an end-of-summer party in August, graphically referenced in a series of Twitter feeds, Facebook posts and a 12-minute video posted by other teens at the parties.
Two members of the Steubenville High School football team, Trent Mays of Bloomingdale and Ma'lik Richmond of Steubenville, both 16, have been charged with rape. Mays faces a second charge, illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material. Their attorneys have denied the charges in court.
The case drew international attention after online activists posted screen captures and videos that included ribald commentary and raised allegations of a cover-up, claiming local police and prosecutors are protecting Big Red student-athletes as well as children from prominent families even though county Prosecutor Jane Hanlin asked the office of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine to oversee the case soon after the victim's family reported the alleged attack. Two special prosecutors have been assigned to the case, and a visiting judge, Tom Lipps, will oversee the trial, which is scheduled to start Feb. 13.
Dimoff said the Steubenville community wasn't prepared for the firestorm of controversy the case triggered in the online world.
"You need to be prepared in the future, use it as a learning lesson," he said. "If someone starts posting negative (comments) online, be prepared to respond."
He said Twitter, Facebook and YouTube give social networkers access to an audience of millions, "but the majority of people have no idea the impact (what they say) can have, does have, when they put it out."
"A lot of the information that's come out on social networking sites is not factually true, not researched but (people think) if you read it online or do a Google search, it must be true," he said. "It can be really damaging."
He said it's also becoming a problem in the workplace, having an impact on corporate images as well as worker productivity. A recent study suggests users spend as much as 2.5 hours of their working day monitoring and updating their personal social networking sites, shopping online or visiting pornographic sites, he said.
"You really need to have a policy, communicate that policy to your employees and get them to buy in. If you don't clearly state what they can do and cannot do, it will become a runaway train."
Dimoff said well-meaning employees have exposed themselves and their companies to fines and criminal charges for inadvertently breaching client confidentiality and insider trading, and he pointed out freedom of speech laws "don't protect you if you defame anyone" via social networking.
"Technology is moving faster than the laws protecting companies and individuals from its improper use," he advised. "Create a policy. Discuss it with your employees and train supervisors to monitor what's going on."
He also said employers should recognize offensive postings will very quickly go virile, "and it will be painful."
"Be prepared to respond both in the media and also in the social networking world," he advised, adding that it's not necessary to update business blogs, tweets and Facebook sites every day. "You can do a couple things a month and be very much involved and be respected. Overloading (social networking content) does not work."
Safety council members meet monthly at the YWCA on North Fourth Street.
(Harris can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.)


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Improve Your 10- And 12-Bolt PositractionWritten by Jeff Smith on January 1, 1997 Ways To Improve The Effectiveness Of Both The Eaton Plate-Style And The Auburn Cone-Design Limited-Slip Units
The only thing more frustrating than not having the power to spin the tires is smoking the right rear when youd rather be accelerating. Single-tire spin occurs with either an open differential or a dead posi-traction unit. Since two legs are better than one in any kind of butt-kicking contest, well take a look at a couple of ways to improve the effectiveness of both the Eaton plate-style and the Auburn cone-design limited-slip units.
The purpose of a posi-traction unit is to tie the two drive axles together for more efficient traction under acceleration. Originally designed to improve traction in mud, snow and icy conditions, such traction improvers were soon adopted to limit tire spin. Under hard acceleration in a rear-wheel-drive car, torque tries to rotate the rearend housing, lifting the right rear tire while planting the left one. While a posi-traction device does nothing to counteract that motion, it does connect the two drive tires with a friction device to prevent the right rear tire from spinning. The effectiveness of the unit can be measured by the amount of torque it takes to break the right rear tire loose from the left rear.
At this point, you might think that the simplest way to permanently tie the two wheels together would be with a solid link between the two axles. Drag racers often employ just such a device, known as a spool. Low-buck hot rodders sometimes weld the spider and side gears together to create an inexpensive spool. Unfortunately, both of those alternatives are dangerous for street use. The reason for the differential in any vehicle is to accommodate the different distances the inside and outside tires must travel in a turn (the outside tire travels a significantly greater distance than the inside tire). If the outside tire is not allowed to travel the greater distance, the axles twist and the outside tire tends to bounce and chirp. That eventually leads to broken axles. When the axle breaks in a GM 10- or 12-bolt rearend, the tire, wheel and axle combination exits the car, tearing up the rear sheetmetal in the process.
A limited-slip unit allows some slippage between the axles in a turn, which means that the device will eventually wear to the point where it cannot prevent torque from spinning the right rear tire under straight-line acceleration or the inside tire when accelerating out of a turn. Thats when you know its time to rebuild the posi.
We wont cover removing the posi from the rearend in this story. If you need more information on that, you can consult a shop manual. Once the differential is removed from the housing, it can be easily disassembled and the clutch plates inspected for wear. To help us detail this rebuild, we enlisted the help of Steve Chrisman at Jack Chrisman Enterprises. In the case of the Eaton-style unit, a Posi-traction rebuild kit with new clutch plates is available through any Chevrolet dealer. If the friction facing on the clutches is worn, you might consider replacing the clutches. The rebuild kit is not expensive.
Usually, the clutch plates are not significantly worn even though the posi slips easily. That can be rectified by adding thicker shims to preload the posi with a higher breakaway torque. The shims are placed either between the clutch pack and the case or between the clutch pack and the large side gear. Chevrolet sells shims ranging in thickness from .007 to .030 inch that will increase the clutch-pack stack thickness and increase the torque required to make the unit slip. That is the most common way to improve the preload of a used posi-traction unit. Too thick of a washer stack will prevent you from assembling the spider gears in the posi unit. Start by using a .010-inch-thicker shim for each clutch pack (for a total of .020 inch). In our unit, that was all we could squeeze into the clutch packs and still assemble the unit. This procedure can be used to increase the preload on an Auburn cone-style posi as well.
Most posi units also employ a spring pack that puts additional load on the clutch packs. Two steel plates locate four springs that can be replaced. Chevrolet offers two different springs for the 12-bolt Eaton posi. The stock replacement springs are rated at 50 pounds per inch, while the high-performance springs are rated at 75 pounds per inch. The heavier springs can be tried, but they also may create a popping sound as they preload and then release the clutch plates, especially in tight, slow turns. Auburn also offers higher rate competition-only posi springs, but the company doesnt recommend them for the street.
One way to measure the effectiveness of the changes you make to a posi is with a homemade torque adapter. The one we used was built by SCCA autocross racer Dan Livezey. The adapter is simply a flat steel plate drilled with the appropriate wheel bolt pattern and a 1-inch nut welded in the center. To use it we placed the car on jackstands and removed one wheel. We used the right rear since it more closely approximates a tire-spin situation. We blocked the left rear tire and slipped the adapter onto the right rear axle. With the parking brake released, we used a torque wrench to measure the amount of torque required to turn the axle. Our autocross racer sources tell us that a breakaway torque of between 110 and 140 pounds of torque will work well on the street and prevent inboard tire spin even in a tight, slow turn when the power is applied. It is possible to create more breakaway torque in a posi, but excessive torque only creates a bind in the posi that could decrease component life.
Improving your limited-slip probably doesnt rate style points compared to bolting on a supercharger, but when it comes to putting the power to the ground, two legs are always better than one.
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The best way to rework a posi is to position it on an 8- to 12-inch-long axle stub. Place the axle stub in a vise with the splined end of the axle engaged in the side gear of the posi. You can use an abrasive cutoff wheel to cut the axle, and you will have to weld a washer to the stub or use a tube over the axle to keep it from sliding all the way through the opposite side gear. (Now is a good time to check for imperfections on the gear flange. A honing stone or knife sharpening stone can be used to repair any raised portions on the flange.)With the center pin removed, pry the spring-plate assembly out of the case. Spin the posi unit on the axle stub to remove the two small spider gears from the differential. There should be a small brass washer behind each of the convex spider gears. Inspect all of the parts for wear and replace any damaged pieces.Once the spider gears are removed, the larger side gears can be removed along with the clutch packs. Chrisman marks the clutch packs, side gears and spider gears so that they can be returned to their original locations.Inspect the clutches and replace them if they appear worn. New clutches measure .070 inch thick. There is also a shim located either behind the clutch pack or between the clutch pack and the side gear. To improve the breakaway torque of a posi, you can add an additional shim to remove clearance in the clutch pack. Chrisman used one .010-inch Chevrolet shim for each clutch pack to reduce the clearance. Reassemble the clutch pack making sure to include the half-circle clips over the clutch pack before slipping them over their respective side gears. Place the combined clutch pack and side gears into the case.The hard part comes when you try to install the small spider gears back into the case. Rotating the first spider gear in is usually somewhat easy. Rotate it past the hole in the case so that when you rotate the second spider gear in, they will both line up properly.Chrisman found that this 1-inch-long fine-thread bolt and nut (from a Chevy flywheel) can spread the side gears apart enough to slip the brass washers between the spider gears and the case. If needed, two bolts and nuts can be used to evenly compress the clutch packs. Remove the bolts once the washers are in place.Test fit the large center pin through the case to ensure that the brass washers and spider gears line up properly. Work carefully to prevent damaging the soft brass washers. Then remove the pin.
The posi is now ready to be installed into the rearend. Chrisman prefers Torco or Redline lube, but any quality 80-140W gear lube will work. Whichever lube you choose must be accompanied with Chevrolet's Posi-traction additive. A magnetic drain plug is also a wise investment.This is the posi breakaway torque checking tool built by Dan Livezey. Slip the tool over the wheel studs, chock the opposite wheel and use a torque wrench to measure the amount of torque required to turn the axle. Torque values of between 110 and 140 ft-lbs will work fine for street and mild competition use. If torque is under 100 pounds, the posi needs additional shims.


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The artwork sold in the 10×10 auction raised £51,000 for charity. More than 400 people attended the event, which was held on the 1st of December at the beautiful Florence Hall at RIBA in London.
10×10 London creates an artistic snapshot of London and raises money for Article 25, the United Kingdom's leading architectural and construction aid charity.
The theme for this year's event was the Thames, with artists exploring the role the river plays in shaping our city. The 10×10: Drawing the River grid followed the curvature of the river and took in the incredible variety of architectural landmarks built along its banks. From the London Wetlands to Limehouse basin, centuries of London's history can be traced along the river.
Article 25 would like to thank all our fantastic sponsors, guests and artists, without whom the event would not have been the great success it was. We are extremely grateful for all the support and already looking forward to 10×10 2016.
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BENWOOD - City Council authorized three officials to act "in the best interest of the city" when they travel to Columbus next week for a mediation session regarding the old Bellaire Toll Bridge.
Mayor Ed Kuca, Police Chief Frank Longwell and City Attorney Eric Gordon are to visit the office of U.S. District Judge Algenon L. Marbley at 9:30 a.m. July 16. The Benwood leaders and bridge owners Lee and Crystal Chaklos of KDC Investments and Delta Demolition are to discuss what the owners can do to meet the requirements for a demolition permit in Benwood.
The parties had until the end of the day Tuesday to submit their ideas for a possible resolution to the judge.
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Representatives from KDC and Delta Demolition were on the agenda to speak at Tuesday's council meeting, but did not attend. Kuca believed this was because the judge advised the parties to not speak publicly about the specifics of the case prior to next week's mediation.
Council members want the city officials to stand firm on seeking a $1 million performance bond from the bridge owners, and they also want the demolition complete within three months after it begins, Kuca noted. Council members previously said they would accept a $500,000 cash bond, but they would prefer the owners secure the $1 million performance bond, they indicated Tuesday.
"I hope the judge will agree with what council said tonight," Kuca said Tuesday. "Because of the situation with the industrial park, Undo's and the houses under the bridge, it has to be taken down in a timely manner - at least the section over Benwood.
"We have about 125 trucks a day that come in and out of that industrial park, and we can't allow that to cease," he continued. "That's our revenue money. We have to keep these businesses operating. Council doesn't feel that's too much to ask."
In other matters, council approved hiring Bill Piccard, 50, as a member of the Benwood Police Department. Piccard is a retired Wheeling police officer who recently worked with the Bethlehem Police Department, Longwell said. Piccard will be paid $36,000 annually and receive full benefits.
"We have to change our strategy and go with hiring older, more experienced officers," he said. "It's costly to send young officers to the academy. If they do pass, they don't stay very long."
Younger officers are seeking more excitement and opportunity - often leaving the Benwood Police Department even if it means a cut in pay, Longwell noted.
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In My Day... (The Bottle Cap Debacle)
When I was a kid (i.e. "In my day..."), when a soda company had a contest they would put right under the cap "You're a Winner!" You might win a free soda or $1,000,000 or maybe you had to collect all the NFL teams' helmets to win something. The point is, you looked under the cap and you knew you were a winner or a loser. I used to enjoy that BTW. It was very exciting.
So our soda bottler friends (at least at Coke), now put codes under the cap that you're supposed to log into a website, create an account, type in the jibberish code and see if you won...or lost. At least that's what I think I'm seeing - feel free to straighten me out if I'm mistaken.
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Do you bother to go through all that?
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No. I long for the good old days.
Hey you kids, get off my lawn!
Hell no. Sometimes I will give my caps to others that are collecting them, but I don't really go out of my way to do it. There's no way I'm going to enter a code onto a webpage just to get told 'drink more ovaltine'. At least listening to the radio and decoding the message was fun.
Yeah, you don't win anything on coke. You get to collect points that you can spend on mostly crap. Or you can redeem them for free cokes or enter contests and giveaways and whatnot. I'm usually maxed out on points but I sometimes enter contests if I really want to win something. I never do win anything though. I miss the old days too.
I don't. But I do remember those days and I would go to the gas station and look under 10 or 20 bottles and making sure I was buying a winner. There's enough of an air gap that you could always read the text under the cap if you knew how.
The only time I use coke rewards codes is during Monopoly at McDonalds where you can win 30 points in one shot - enough for a free 20 oz.
I don't go for any sweepstakes or any of that.
I love coke rewards. Been doing them since the program first started, and have gotten tons of free stuff, from hats and tshirts and mp3 players, to six-flags themepark tickets, $5, $10, and $20 gift cards. Free 12 packs, and of course the free 20oz bottles 4-5 times per month. (I drink a lot of diet coke and sprite zero).
This week they're doubling the point value of powerade caps, which is a nice bonus, and nearly every wednesday they have a "sale" on some prizes. They also offer free points to the extent that I'd estimate that of my current 1,600 points, at least 600 were "free".
Thanks for reminding me, by the way.... I still have my free new quarter pounder burger coupon I got last month from coke! Headed out to get one now!
My only compliant is the inflation going on. A few years back I got a family 4-pack of six-flags tickets for 1,400 points, and today it's 1,000 pts per ticket. 20 oz cokes used to be 24 points, then they raised it to 30 pts, and now it's 40 points.
anyway, you can hardly blame the companies for switching to this method of promotion from the old style. This way they get your email address or celphone number to send out promotional emails or texts, and they can gather valuable marketing data... much more return on their investment. Also, with that old style of prizes under the cap, sometimes the big prizes were never won/claimed because the few winning caps were never bought, or the person never checked to see if they won.
I'm with @kamikazeken, my family generally only drinks Coke products (same with my employer), so yes, I collect all the codes and have been doing it for years. I have received a bunch of free stuff (shirts, 12 packs of soda, gift cards, puzzles, umbrellas, etc) and I guess I'll just keep doing it until they stop the program.
I enter the codes but I do not get very many. I have gotton a handful of free coke coupons but I do not pay too much attention to the program. Sure liked the old way better!
The wife plays. Best you can hope for seems to be free music.
I've been saving the points for years, but have never bought anything other than coupons for free 12 packs. When I started saving them there were some really cool things offered for thousands of points, but just about the time that I had accrued a few thousand, they maxed offerings out at 2000 points, limiting the items to smaller ones. Ah, well.
I still save the points, and enter a lot of contests when there is something I would really like, but have only occasionally won small things such as burger or sub sandwich coupons. (Still want one of those big trips!) I think I have about 6000 points stashed away.
I wonder if they will change to QR codes to make entering easier? Seems like if they made it a one step process more people would enter.
i used to work at a grocery store.... all the night stockers had mini maglite flashlights- during lunch break, we would shine the light through the top of the caps and the message would appear on the surface of the liquid like the bat signal. worked on everything but sprite. i think soft drink companies figured out this stuff was happening in stores other than mine, and had to go to these codes. ;-)
@kamikazeken: I wouldn't wear any of their caps or t-shirts even if they were free and I didn't have to go through all that effort to get one.
Who wants to wear something plastered with the Coke name all over it and providing free advertisement for a company? Not me. The only t-shirts I wear now are the shirt.woot ones and people are always asking me where I got them.
Does anyone else get really annoyed when you just can't read the code clearly? The codes in the boxes of cans are usually pretty clear (although I get smudged ones occasionally), but the codes inside the lids are often a mess. My OCD kicks in and I HAVE to figure out the code. Is that a K or an H? Oops! Maybe it's an N!
I earned 2 Mountain Dew X-Boxes. No contest just points. Sold them for over 2x what OEM cost.
The Mountain Dew Limited Edition Xbox was only available through a Mountain Dew sweepstakes requiring loyal Dew-drinking Xbox fans to amass 550 points in order to "buy" the Limited Edition Xbox. The sweepstakes spanned 5 months – from April to August 2004. Production was limited to 5000 units. Within 1 day all systems were reserved. The Mountain Dew Limited Edition Xbox is neon-green colored and has a special jewel atop the Xbox that has the words "Limited Edition" and the Mountain Dew logo under the Xbox name. Included with the neon green console is one of two games: Project Gotham Racing 2 or Amped 2. Only 30 points could be registered per day for the contest.
Mountain Dew Points were awarded as follows: 20 oz. 1 pt, 1-liter 1 pt, 2-liter 1 pt, 12-pack 3 pts, 24-pack 6 pts, 32/44 oz. Fountain Cups 1 pt
Back in the day, Coke had a 50 state contest. They printed the name of each state under the caps. And that was when you had to carefully take the top off a glass bottle with a bottle opener. None of this screw-off top easy-peasy stuff. And we had to walk 7 miles through the snow to get to a store! And...and...
(I won the contest. :-) )
I enjoyed the Mountain Dew Game Fuel promotions. They gave away prizes every 15ish minutes and you could use codes towards entries. Got a free hoodie.
@claren44: What did you win?
@phillystyle: I don't remember. :-D
no,seriously...I don't. Maybe a free 6-pack or something like that.
@omnichad: A friend of mine would tilt the soda under the light of the refrigerator case to see what was written on the cap reflected on the surface of the soda. He used to never pay for soda. I never bother with those codes, but I have a co-worker who loves all those games (especially the Monopoly supermarket game) and I earn buddy points bringing her in all the game pieces I accumulate.
Back in my day, there was a 1-in-6 wins promotion where 1 out of every 6 bottles would win a free 20oz soda. I can't remember which kind of pop it was... The best part was you could just give the cashier your winning cap and walk out the store with your new beverage. I think my best streak was 6 wins in a row without buying a single bottle. That was an epic summer.
I won a Garrison Hearst autographed football, circa 1993, in an instant win game (it was a Coke promotion). I had to call this 1800 number and enter my code, then a recorded message came on and told you what you won and how to claim it.
Instant gratification is what this country desires
I have a bag of Coke codes sitting around that I have not done anything with for over two years. The codes are still good but I never had the time to enter them all and now with the limits per week, it is even more of a pain. Like other posters have said, the quality of the prizes has gone down as well so there is even less motivation. I miss the days of opening a bottle and seeing "Winner" under the cap.
Can you be more specific? I am trying to defeat a patent that was issued in 1996. It was grated in Europe for a process that uses a unique code to claim a prize or a discount via using an electronic communication means. They thought of the internet as the communication means. But the telephone would qualify.
So what you are describing fits that bill perfectly. And 1993 is before 1996 last time I checked.
If you have any more information on the name of the sweepstake or you might even have a cap from those days that would be it.
Thanks a lot for your help.


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Cool, the price dropped. I notified them that it was being sold elsewhere offline at this price. I wonder if that helped?
it's actually been this price since at least the 12th, when I ordered it. Should have thought of adding it to woot then...
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We've started playing Madagascar and Lego Star Wars on our Windows media center PC connected to the TV. Using the wireless keyboard works but isn't ideal. What kind of gaming controller would you recommend for games like these? Gamepad, joystick, or what else?
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I recently started playing Lego Batman, which has the same controls as Lego Star Wars. I found that the keyboard made the game practically unplayable. I dug out a generic USB gamepad that someone gave me long ago. It was the first time I've ever found a use for the gamepad, and I was amazed at how easy the setup was. Windows recognized it immediately, and the game recognized and set up nice default controls for the gamepad. I'm not at home, so I can't confirm it's the same model, but this looks very similar to what I have.


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Defense attorneys for accused murderer Lucas Goodrum are asking the judge in his death penalty case to move the trial again, and delay the start of the case until November.
Special Judge Tom Castlen granted a defense request for change of venue last week, moving the case from Bowling Green to Owensboro. Now, the defense is asking Castlen to move the trial to Jefferson County (Louisville) and wait until November to start.
Defense attorneys conducted a phone survey of 400 potential jurors in Warren County in January, and say the results show a jury pool tainted by pretrial publicity. Judge Castlen agreed, and moved the trial to his home turf of Owensboro. But Goodrum's attorneys point to a phone survey of Daviess County conducted Feb. 13th which they say shows that jury pool is similarly biased.
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Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher killed his girlfriend before driving to the team's practice facility and killing himself in front of team officials, Kansas City police said.
Belcher, a 25-year-old from West Babylon, N.Y. who played college football at Maine, shot himself at 8:10 a.m. after a conversation in the parking lot of the team's offices.
According to police spokesman Darin Snapp, Belcher had a talk with team general manager Scott Pioli and head coach Romeo Crennel and thanked them for his time with the Chiefs. Belcher then walked 20 or 30 feet and shot himself in the head, just after police arrived. Belcher's mother, who recently moved from New York to Kansas City to be with Belcher and his girlfriend, called police at around 7:50 a.m. local time to tell them that Belcher shot 22-year-old Kasandra Perkins. The couple had a three-month-old child. Belcher's mother added that the pair had been arguing recently.
The Chiefs released a statement on Saturday afternoon that said after talks between Crennel, Chiefs team captains and the league office, the team decided it will play Sunday's game against the Carolina Panthers as originally scheduled.
The NFL said in a statement, "We have connected the Chiefs with our national team of professional counselors to support both the team and the families of those affected. We will continue to provide assistance in any way that we can." Both Pioli and Crennel gave formal statements to police.
A regularly scheduled Chiefs team meeting still went on at 9:30 a.m. Other than that, no one else was near the facility at the time. A police spokesman said the coaches and officials were never in danger and were simply talking in the runup to the suicide.
Belcher, a hard-nosed run-stopping linebacker who signed a one-year deal worth $1.9 million this year, had a dip in his production this season after dealing with a groin injury to start the season. He was a special team standout who took the toughest route possible to the NFL: undrafted free agent. He managed to stick on the roster for the last four seasons, tallying a career high 87 tackles last season. He had 38 through 11 games this season.
At Maine, he had a distinguished career, winning a conference Defensive Player of the Year award in 2008 and making All-American teams in the same year. The Chiefs were one of the disappointments of this NFL season, going 1-10 on the season.
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Andrew Vogel, 27, pleaded guilty in July 2011 to theft of an automobile, theft of checks and forgery. He was sentenced by Henderson to six months in the Eastern Ohio Correction Center, followed by two years of probation. Vogel was ordered to make $14,495 in restitution, mainly to credit card companies.
Vogel was arrested by City Police on Oct. 16 after he was caught inside a vacant house in the 3900 block of Portland Boulevard.
Police were checking the residence on a report of a flashlight seen inside, when an officer looked through a garage window and saw Vogel. Vogel took off running out of the home but was temporarily detained in an alley, police reported. Vogel struggled with the officer and again took off running. Several officers searched the area and caught Vogel in the woods near the county children's home, police reported.
Officers found a pipe cutting tool and cut copper piping on a blanket inside the home.
Vogel pleaded guilty on Monday to a bill of information charging him with burglary and possession of criminal tools in connection with that case. Henderson sentenced Vogel to one year in prison on that case, plus an additional one year in prison on the probation violation.
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