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Collected by Raymond W. Whittier
For M.C. Parler
Transcribed by Linda Humphrey
Sung by:
Mr. Clyde Bland Little Rock, Ark Nov. 25, 1960
Reel 303 Item 2
Casey Jones
Come on you rounders if you want to hear,
A story told about a brave engineer,
Oh, Casey Jones was the rounders name,
On a six-eight wheeler he won his fame.
The caller called Casey 'bout half-past four; kissed his wife goodbye at the station door.
He mounted to the cabin with his orders in his hand, Took a farewell trip to the promised land.
When he turned the curve at the Reno hill,
He blew his whistle with a mighty shrill,
And the flagman knew by the engine's moan,
That the man at the throttle was-a Casey Jones.
He looked at hie watch and his watch was slow;
He looked at the water and the water was low;
He looked at the fireman and-a then he said,
We're goin'-a reach-a 'Frisco but we'll all be dead.
Oh, Casey Jones was a-settin' in his seat,
Saw a big number four come a-starin' him in the face. He said to the fireman, boy, you'd better jump,
For there's two locomotives that's-a bound to bump.
Oh, Casey Jones said just before he died,
There's two more roads that he wanted to ride.
The fireman said what could they be?
The Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe.Casey Jones cont'd
Miss Casey was a-settin' on the bed a-sighin'
When she got the news that Casey was a-dyin'.
Said go to bed-a chillin and-a hush your cryin',
You got another pappy on the Salt Lake line.
Forgotten stanza:
Turn on the water, shovel in the coal,
Stick you head out the window, watch the drivers roll. We'll run her till she leaves the rail,
For we're eight hours late with the western mail.
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FakeAlGore wrote:he AI Suite installed...
ludi wrote:Wait, I thought the advanced power savings features aren't enabled during the BIOS routine, meaning the CPU is not at the same idle value that it will experience when fully booted and running a modern OS?
DancinJack wrote:FakeAlGore wrote:he AI Suite installed...
Delete that bloat crap.
Scrotos wrote:I could be wrong but logically it doesn't make sense to me that a BIOS (even EFI) would be hitting the CPU as hard as a modern OS. Sure it might not be throttling down the MHz or voltage, but still it's not exactly peggin' the CPU at 75% or even more than 5% or less.
FakeAlGore wrote:After using it for a few minutes, I'm inclined to agree with your assessment. I'll remove it tonight and use HWMonitor to check on my temperatures. Do you know if it can write to a log file at a predefined interval? I plan to run the test overnight, and I'd like to see if the temperatures are stable throughout testing instead of just knowing it isn't too hot when I wake up.
DancinJack wrote:CoreTemp can.
FakeAlGore wrote:Scrotos wrote:I could be wrong but logically it doesn't make sense to me that a BIOS (even EFI) would be hitting the CPU as hard as a modern OS. Sure it might not be throttling down the MHz or voltage, but still it's not exactly peggin' the CPU at 75% or even more than 5% or less.
It's my assumption that the UEFI BIOS isn't utilizing the HLT instruction to properly power down the CPU at idle because it is run as a single process without a separate kernel handling such things.
For a real-world example, the Windows 9x-based operating systems did not implement the HLT instruction because there was not a system idle process like in Windows NT-based operating systems. To properly power down the CPU during idle on such systems, you had to run a program such as Waterfall Pro, Rain, or CPUIdle that would do nothing but run in the background issuing HLT instructions at the lowest CPU priority. This lowered power usage and heat dissipation.
axeman wrote:Most machines will have higher idle temperatures showing in the BIOS versus the OS, UEFI or not, because they're not bothering with HLT instrucations or whatnot. That's nothing curious. No one else ever sat in the Hardware Monitoring screen in the BIOS watching all the numbers?
Scrotos wrote:I suppose my contention is that even at 100% single core NOP in BIOS it's not really going to test... anything. And might as well just ignore whatever "load" that is for the purposes of testing heat and all that.
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Jenkins: Obama Gets a Do-Over
The president wins re-election, but what he hopes to achieve in a second term is a mystery.
Punditry did not cover itself in glory in the closing days of election 2012. For the seventh race in a row, Republicans nominated somebody conspicuously not associated with the right wing of the party, infuriating liberals who saw their theory of the election and the country confounded. They went unsubtly about trying to make the world fit their worldview.
In response to his statement that he wanted no more Iraqs, they invented a past for Mitt Romney as a warmonger. They accused him of wanting to destroy Detroit, though the primary document, his New York Times op-ed, was suspiciously close to the plan later adopted by President Obama.
Mitt the Social Darwinist, Mitt the gutter of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—Mr. Romney should send half the nation's writers a bill for the psychotherapy services he provided them.
Similarly overheated imaginations on the right painted Barack Obama as a hardened socialist rather than what he is, a peddler of LBJ-Nixon big government hubris well past its sell-by date.
On Wednesday, we woke up to the same old reality, divided government and an overextended fisc whose options are steadily narrowing. The country may start to wonder what the pundits are good for, when it figures out how little help they provided in the voting booth.
Mr. Obama now can be expected to claim a mandate, one whose content he will perhaps share in his memoirs. Judging by his campaign, he expected his victory margin to come from single women frightened that their abortions and contraception would be taken away.
This is a mandate to do what? That is, besides a mandate to keep frightening women about abortion and contraception every time Democrats need to scare up a few votes in close races?
We have 50-50 elections; we have campaigns focused on micro-targeting and scheming soundbites, for a reason: Voters are ready neither to reform the welfare state nor pay for it, but at least we got a bit closer to airing the question in this race than in previous ones. You can thank Romney-Ryan for that.
Why oh why, moaned an especially ingenuous pre-election installment of "60 Minutes," can't Democrats and Republicans get along?
The CBS show harked back to an imaginary postwar comity, never touching on the obvious point that it's easier for politicians to compromise on how to spread among voters the ever-larger largess of an ever-growing government.
Never would it occur to "60 Minutes" that our bitterly static electorate and politics is the inevitable output of our predecessors' collegial over-commitment of nonexistent surpluses to provide benefits that all of us now know some of us won't be getting.
In this context, what we can expect from Mr. Obama is an almost comic mystery. In 2008, when it became clear he was going to win the White House, he delivered the irrelevant boast that "a new energy economy . . . that's going to be my No. 1 priority."
The parallel moment in this year's campaign was his late, off-the-record insistence to the Des Moines Register that, upon being re-elected, he will deliver a grand bipartisan bargain on taxes and entitlements that he never mentioned to voters.
Why do we link these two moments? In 2008, Mr. Obama got his energy revolution, albeit one he didn't seek—shale gas, which had the ironic effect of rendering more uneconomic his solar and wind subsidies. Even as his EPA worked to undermine shale, shale (by displacing coal) made America the only large economy to reduce its carbon-dioxide emissions in recent years.
Shale also went a long way toward keeping Pennsylvania and Ohio in the president's column.
If this pattern holds, Mr. Obama's next four years are easy to predict. He will fail to pay for the welfare state by raising taxes on the rich, and the rich will respond by inventing the technologies that so increase the wealth of our country that Medicare and ObamaCare (with reasonable modifications) will become affordable.
Are we being hyperbolic? Yes. But the shale episode is a valuable lesson. Two centuries of American entrepreneurial culture, the crazy can-doism and expertise about a zillion things that resides in the brains of Americans, is still a huge force.
Whoever was elected yesterday stood a good chance of inheriting a belated rebound in the U.S. economy. He could also hope for a continuation, at least for a while, of the peculiar dynamic that has allowed the U.S. to finance nearly infinite deficits at almost no cost.
If so, there will be a window of opportunity if Mr. Obama would only use it. The Rube Goldbergism of ObamaCare, added to the Rube Goldbergism already extant in our health-care system, in our view never made him the "transformational" president he sought to be. He can still be a consequential president, though. But his opportunity will quickly go pear-shaped if the bond market loses confidence in him to bring discipline to our long experiment in Depublican and Remocrat borrowing and spending.


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Sunday Night Woot Off??!?!?!
Surprise!!!!! Now, let's see some good stuff too!!
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i'll be up with the little one anyway. so, thanks for the entertainment woot!
oh, and obligatory: worst. wootoff. ever.
I was blind sided by this one, technically it is a Monday Morning woot off.
Thought that they would start it on Tuesday, but Monday works for me. Hopefully, they will still have the early December woot-off, also.
It seems to be stuck on an Xbox controller...
EDIT: kids.woot is stuck too... is it already over?
Not stuck. Just stalled by products nobody wants. It won't move on until it's sold out. That strap thing on kids.woot is a REALLY bad idea in a car, and is useless in a stroller, so it's going to be stalling kids.woot for a while. Hopefully they only have a couple to sell. (And hopefully the rubes who DO buy it won't use it in the car and risk the lives of their children.)
I'm in. Although I'm not sure why.


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Lately the Street Pass feature of the 3DS has not been working for me. A coworker and I will both have our 3DSs, at work, next to each other, with the wifi on and street pass never connects. Sometimes turning the wifi on and off will cause it to connect properly.
Anyone know if there are any better solutions? I'm worried I'm missing random street passes out there because most of the time it requires me to toggle the wifi.


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It's gone, which is a real shame, I should've made more use of it. Where's the best place to go to get free ampersands that I can then embed using
@font-face in CSS?
Check out The League of Movable Type over at http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/. All of their fonts are free, designer-created, and come with the fonts needed for @font-face usage.
Google Web Fonts allows you to do pretty much what the ampersand site did, and perhaps with even more fonts to choose from. Check out the GWF Getting Started page linked below, and look for the section titled "Optimizing your font requests (beta)" which talks about how to link a small subset of any Google Web Font for use on your site. This will allow you to link just the ampersand and nothing else, like you wanted.
Don't forget... you have to encode the ampersand symbol when using this method. The ampersand encoding is just %26 for URLs. Here's an example using the encoding to link the ampersand from a font called Inconsolata:


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1964 Pontiac GTO - Buried TreasureWritten by on April 19, 2012
A low-mileage, original-condition muscle car is a welcome addition to any car show. People gather around, note the car's originality, and express their surprise at its preservation over such a long time. Drama heightens when the admirers learn that the car is still with its original owner. If the second owner is explaining his recent acquisition, he garners similar respect for the find. But many of these original, unrestored museum pieces seem to miss the most sought-after versions by a year or two. Or they sport an undesirable color, the lowest-horsepower motor, or some kind of ridiculous trim. In fact, you almost wonder if those original unrestored cars survived because nobody wanted to drive them!
Rarely is the low-mileage, unrestored, original car exactly the machine that muscle car dreams are made of. Sometimes, though, the dream comes true, as with this '64 Tri-power GTO, which was recently located after being stored tightly away by its original owner in a small private building in South Holland, Illinois.
Its story is fairly straightforward. In 1964, an 18-year-old young man from a well-to-do family in Chicago purchased this Marimba Red GTO. It is powered by the top-of-the-heap 389ci, 348hp Tri-power engine, with a proper Muncie four-speed transmission sending power to the 3.90 Saf-T-Track rear. It gets better: Metallic lined brakes, the rare transistorized ignition, manual steering and brakes (for frequent dragstrip outings), black buckets, optional tach and gauges, and console round out the car. Essentially, this GTO has all the optional equipment that most guys would have killed for back in those Beatlemania days. This is the car I would have ordered (had the Plymouth dealer burned down). The original owner fell in love with the car, and for the next 46 years he stored it in climate-controlled buildings, washed and waxed it regularly, and drove it only on nice days for short stints around the south side of Chicago. When he passed away in 2010, the GTO had just 8,000 miles on its odometer.
His passing resulted in a phone call to Jim Mattison of Pontiac Historic Services to establish its pedigree. After finding out about the car's unrestored status, Jim called Joe DeMesy, a well known collector of original, unrestored cars. Joe called Mike Ardito at Tri Power Automotive in Libertyville, Illinois, to check out this intriguing Pontiac prior to making a deal with the original owner's family. Mike found it to be all it was claimed to be and more. The low-mileage time capsule was immediately purchased and brought back to Tri Power Automotive for a thorough cleaning. A seasoned Survivor Show judge, Mike was discovering and perfecting unrestored cars way before anyone was paying attention to them. His business is booming not only with restorations and high-performance builds, but also because his shop is known as one of the best in the country for preserving and beautifying original cars.
The car received a cleanup, some paintless dent repair magic from Mike, and undercarriage detailing that would rival any of the best shops in the country. The finished product is a gold mine of information for the restorer interested in documenting construction and assembly methods used in the Pontiac factories. Parts usage, stampings, overspray patterns, and assembly line practices can be gained from close inspection of this car.
"This car is cool because it came with all the right equipment that people like," says Mike. "Many times you find these original, unrestored cars, and they are amazing, but they usually don't have all the right options. Joe's car has everything that a muscle car guy would want in an early GTO."
At a Glance
Owned by: Joe DeMesy, Dallas, TX
Restored by: Unrestored original, detailing by Tri Power Automotive, Libertyville, IL
Engine: 389ci/348hp Tri-power V-8
Transmission: Muncie M20 wide-ratio 4-speed manual
Rearend: 10-bolt with 3.90 gears and Saf-T-Track differential
Interior: Black vinyl bucket seat
Wheels: 14x6 steel with spinner hubcaps
Tires: H78-14 Goodyear whitewall
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Thanks to the documented 8,006.2 miles on the odometer, the glistening, born-with Marimba Red paint on Joe DeMesy's GTO looks almost showroom new. In its first year of production 32,450 GTOs were built; 18,422 were hardtops like this one, and 8,245 were equipped with the Tri-power engine.The '64 GTO came standard with a 389ci V-8 that was fed by a single four-barrel carburetor and produced 325 hp. The only optional motor for the '64 GTO was this Tri-power 389 that pumped out 348 hp. This car also has the optional (and very rare) breakerless transistor ignition for stronger spark.The GTO option that year included bucket seats, but the console was optional. The woodgrain-styled Custom Sports Steering Wheel is original to the car. Sitting in a car with so few miles on it is a distinctly different experience than being in a restored car. Both cars can be immaculate, but the original car exudes authenticity.When the car arrived at Tri Power Automotive, it needed a good bath top and bottom, but because of its low mileage, it cleaned up fairly easily. When asked about the chemicals used for cleaning the undercarriage, Mike Ardito answered,Standard tires on the '64 GTO were 7.50-14 redlines on 14x6 JK rims. The optional whitewalls and spinner hubcaps dress the car up nicely, though they would become less common on GTOs as the years progressed. During the car's lifetime, the original owner added American Torq-Thrust wheels, which likely looked great on this car. Because the tires were weather-checked when Joe bought the GTO, he sourced a new set of bias-plies from Coker Tire.Standing just behind the transmission looking forward, note the absence of paint on the vertical portions of the floor pan that face rearward, and the Marimba Red overspray on the drain holes and floor pan ribs. An unrestored, well-preserved car like this packs a wealth of information for the restorer interested in reproducing the exact assembly-line practices. MCR


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Baltimore-Washington International Airport
Maryland Aviation Administration, Third Floor, Terminal Building,
PO Box 8766, BWI Airport, Maryland 21240-0766, USA
Telefon: (410) 859 7111.
Website: www.bwiairport.com
The airport is located 16km (10 miles) south of Baltimore and 52km
(31 miles) north of Washington DC.
How to get there
The I-195 serves the terminal directly, with a designated airport exit. From Washington DC, take the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, heading north, until signs for I-195/BW appear. Bear right and follow I-195 to the airport. From Baltimore, take Russell Street south to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, then follow the parkway south to the junction with I-195, and merge left off the parkway onto I-195 for the airport.
Information about parking possibilities at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport
Access by public transport
The airport has its own station (tel: (410) 672 6169), connected to the terminal by free shuttle buses which run from the lower level roadway. A light rail service (tel: (410) 539 5000; www.mtamaryland.com) is available to downtown Baltimore and Hunt Valley (journey time: under 30 minutes). Amtrak trains (tel: 800 872 7245; www.amtrak.com) run to all destinations on the east coast of the United States. MARC trains (tel: 1 800 325 7245; www.mtamaryland.com) serve Baltimore, Washington DC, Prince Georges County, Anne Arundel County and Harford County.
MTA bus No. 17 (tel: (410) 539 5000; www.mtamaryland.com) links the airport with Patapsco light rail station to the south of central Baltimore. SuperShuttle (tel: 1 800 258 3826; www.supershuttle.com) offers scheduled shared ride van services to/from Baltimore City, Baltimore County, and surrounding areas in Maryland, Washington DC and Virginia. The Airport Shuttle (tel: (410) 381 2772 or 1 800 776 0323; www.theairportshuttle.com) runs a door-to-door service covering Howard County, Maryland. A Washington DC Metro bus service, the BWI Express B30 (tel: (202) 637 7000; www.wmata.com), runs from the airport to Washington's Greenbelt metro station.
Taxis are readily available outside the airport. The taxi rank is situated outside the baggage claim area on the terminal's lower level. Taxi information is available (tel: (410) 859 1100; www.bwiairporttaxi.com). The fare to downtown Baltimore is around US$35, and to Washington $90.
Information desk
The Customer Service Centre (tel: (410) 859 7992) is situated on the upper level of the terminal between concourses B and C. It is open 0900-1700 Mon-Fri. There are information points at a number of locations throughout the terminal complex.
Airport News:
BWI recently expanded and improved many of its facilities and infrastructure, including general terminal and access improvements.
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Morehouse Parish has been the home of many talented people who've followed their dreams in music, arts and entertainment, translating their abilities into successful careers.The gospel singing group 11th Hour, who began in the small back roads church Harmony Baptist in Collinston, is one of the many success stories from this area, currently recording their sixth gospel album in North Carolina.
The gospel singing trio -- Amber Eppinette, Candice Jordan and Justin Morphis -- use their voices as instruments to spread God's word through music.
Eppinette, who is the daughter of Harmony Baptist pastor the Rev. Allan Eppinette, began the group in 2006 after her parents' gospel group, Pure Heart, came to an end.
"We sang for years and when we came off the road, Amber still wanted to sing," said Dara Eppinette, Amber's mother. "That's when she started 11th Hour."
The group originally consisted of members Amber Eppinnette, Candice Jordan and Dylan Robinson.
Jordan states on the group's website that she prayed for guidance in her decision to join the group.
"We'd sing together and individuals would come to us and say, 'God really used you to speak to my heart,' or 'God has you guys singing together for a purpose -- we can see God all over you,'" she said. "That's when I knew He was the one calling me to this."
Later on, Robinson left the group to pursue a solo singing career and was replaced by Seth Eppinnette, Amber's brother.
"Then Seth got a job with the Monroe Police Department and Wendy Lowe stepped in," Dara said. "After Wendy left, Justin came in 2010."
Dara said the three members of 11th Hour grew up singing around each other.
"Amber and Candice have always been bus babies," Dara said. "Candice's daddy was Pure Heart's piano player."
Dara said Morphis's family was also singing during the time Pure Heart was performing.
"We watched him grow up too," she said.
Morphis reveals on their website that while ministering to the church congregation at Bufford Road Baptist in Richmond, Va., he followed the Lord's calling to join 11th Hour.
"I remembered that when I prayed and asked God if this is what He was calling me to do, I listened, and He answered and opened the door. I stepped through it," Morphis writes. "I am trusting Him."
The members of 11th Hour have had much success in their career so far.
"Their fifth album, Gather Round, had the song 'Adam's Fall.' It went to number fifteen on the Singing News Chart and stayed there for two months in a row," Dara said. "It stayed in the top 80 for approximately seven months."
Page 2 of 2 -Dara said the group travels around and performs from Thursday to Sunday.
"They've been gone about 60 percent of the year during 2012 so far," she said. "They do a lot of revivals. They're considered the sleeping giants, but they're becoming very well known."11th Hour signed a three year contract on June 25 with Crossroads Music Co.
"That's one of Southern gospel's top music labels," Dara said. "They produce groups such as the Kingsmen and Mark Bishop."
Dara said the fame of becoming well known has not affected the members of 11th Hour.
"They're oblivious to it," she said. "They're ministry focused. They see this as opening more doors for ministry on a larger scale, nationwide."
Dara said 11th Hour's new album is expected to be released at the end of September.
"They'll perform it during homecoming at the Thomas Jackson Lingo Community Center in Oak Grove ," she said.
For more information on 11th Hour's albums and touring schedule, visit their Web site at www.11thhourgospelgroup.com.
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3Q foreclosure filings in Conn. surge 34%
Foreclosure filings in Connecticut increased more than 34 percent in the third quarter of 2012, in part due to a backlog of notices that had been delayed while questionable filing practices were investigated, according to a new report.
The report was officially released today by Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac, which tracks foreclosure data nationwide. The report said that while foreclosure filings in Connecticut in September actually fell 1.4 percent from August, and were up a mere 1.6 percent from September of last year, filings surged in the third quarter.
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5 Spies with Bigger Balls Than James Bond
Sean Connery convinced us all that to be a totally kickass spy all you needed was a nice suit, a martini and a wang that did your thinking for you. But where Bond stopped to make sure his Aston Martin was looking its best before taking out his one nemesis and his gimmick-laden crony, there are real-life spies who etched their names in history with the sheer size of their balls.
#5. Richard Sorge Turned World War II
Richard Sorge was an expert marksman, fluent in several languages and sported a Ph.D. in political science (because every spy should be able to distract you with a speech on the sociopolitical impact of poverty while he shoots you with a poison wrist-dart).
He was recruited by the Soviet Union and has even been referred to as "Stalin's James Bond," though it was in a French newspaper who said it and God only knows what their standard for that title is.And then, shit got real...
When Hitler came to power in 1933, Sorge was sent to Japan to assess any threat towards to the Soviet Union. Through his network, Sorge learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor months before it happened and even the exact date of Operation Barbarossa (the Nazi invasion of the USSR). And he did it all without a single snowmobile chase (that we know of).
File photo of Sorge from the Covert Super Spy Newsletter.
So his info gave the Soviets a huge advantage, right? Well, Stalin, being a prick, dismissed Sorge as "a little shit who has set himself up with some small factories and brothels in Japan." Sorge turned out to be right, of course, and millions of Russians died. You should always pay attention to little shits in Japanese brothels.
Go on, suck my dick, Stalin.
Then, when Stalin was afraid the Japanese would follow the Nazis into the USSR, Sorge managed to photocopy reports that proved Japan was not going to invade. This meant the USSR army could throw all its might at the German Nazi invasion, and may have turned the tide of the entire war.
But, you can only steal so many massive secrets before someone finally catches on. Sorge was captured and then offered to the Soviets three times in exchange for Japanese prisoners, but no one took them up on the offer. Sorge never admitted who he worked for, even under torture. After three years he was hanged.
If not for Sorge, it's entirely possible the Nazis would have won, and to this day Russia would likely be a festering heap of sausage and oom-pah bands. In 1964, the Soviets finally acknowledged him as one of their own and commemorated his service by putting his face on a stamp. He probably would have preferred not being hanged.
Favorable Comparison to Bond: Disapproving Superiors
The most badass thing you'll ever lick.
Whenever Bond fails (always temporarily of course), it's always because some higher-up disapproves of his sexily unorthodox methods. Sorge was a victim of the same "he's just too goddamn manly to be trusted" discrimination, only in his case, instead of a matronly M clucking her tongue at his wandering penis, it was Joseph fucking Stalin.
#4. Fritz Joubert Duquesne Hated the British... A Lot
Fritz Joubert Duquesne's utterly insane story starts before his spy days. If somebody decided to do a JJ Abrams Star Trek-style "young James Bond" movie, it would pretty much play out like this guy's life.
He was a South African who fought in one of their wars against the British. He was captured and, knowing wang can solve any problem, seduced the daughter of one of the guards to gain freedom. He then made his way to England where he convinced them to let him join the army and got stationed back at South Africa, with the intention of thoroughly fucking things up from the inside. Keep in mind, he wasn't spying on anyone's behalf at this point. He was working as a saboteur just to be fucking doing it.And then, shit got real...
Already pissed at the British for locking him up, his hate rose to a boiling point when he returned to his parent's farm in South Africa and realized the British Army had killed his sister, sent his mother to a British concentration camp and the entire place was littered with unsold Robbie Williams' CDs ensuring nothing would ever grow on the land again.
Cracked Fact: Robbie Williams was in English boy band "Take That" and therefore deserves endless mockery.
As revenge, Duquesne planned to completely destroy Cape Town, where Lord Kitchener, the man responsible for what happened to his family, was staying. He recruited 20 men to begin his tour of destruction, but was betrayed by the wife of one of his cohorts and wound up imprisoned again. He managed to escape the death penalty by giving away secret South African codes (they were bullshit), receiving life imprisonment instead while his 20 men were forced to eat English food and then shot.
English food.
After the war, they made the mistake of releasing Duquesne. Still holding a grudge over the whole "slaughtered sister" thing, he headed to Scotland, tracked down Kitchener and sabotaged his boat, killing him.
Moral: Don't fuck with Duquesne, he'll find you eventually.
Wait, we're not done. High on life but low on people to kill and now a very wanted man, he faked his death by writing his own obituary in the New York Times and told the world he'd been killed by legions of Amazonian natives wanting to steal his treasure (his first choice was saying he'd wrestled 30 tigers and then was sexed to death by 50 pornstars from the future, but it had been used by a different madman a week earlier). Duquesne then disappeared.
He had to explain his disappearance somehow, goddammit..
Eventually he was caught and arrested for a different crime. Hiding his true identity, because who gives a shit who's going to prison as long as someone is, he pretended to be paralyzed so he'd be sent to a prison hospital. Ask yourself, if you had to fake being paralyzed, how long do you think you could keep it up?
Duquesne did it for two freaking years.
Then, somehow, Duquesne cut off the bars in his window, jumped to a nearby building, climbed a six-foot wall, a fence with eight-foot iron spikes and then fled.
He was clearly Iron Man.
Years passed, and Duquesne was still pissed at the British. So pissed that when World War II came around, he decided to help the Nazis by doing the thing he loved best: freelance spying. He formed the infamous Duquesne Spy Ring, which ended up being the largest espionage ring ever broken up in U.S. history. Duquesne would die at the age of 78, and probably went wiping his ass with the flag of Britain.Favorable comparison to Bond: First 60 Years of His Life
Bond may plays by his own rules, but he was ultimately acting on behalf of her majesty. Duquesne was like a pinball fueled by angry testosterone. Granted, being a blind angry ball of sex is what landed him on just about the worst side of history possible. But right up until he became a Nazi spy, he lived to show us what history would have looked like if Maximus, Jason Bourne and Rambo hated the British as much as George Washington.
#3. Mata Hari's Vagina Killed 50,000 Men
Born Margaretha Zelle, she became Mata Hari in 1903 when she found out another dancer had stolen her first choice of names, Titsa Flappin. She danced for only the best and ended up sleeping with many of her customers, including a German prince, the Dutch Prime Minister and probably all three Stooges.
Except for poor, poor Shemp.
Hari's spy career only began when an officer she loved needed an eye operation, and they were short on funds. It's a sad state of affairs when a hooker needs to moonlight as something else to make money.
Being Dutch and therefore allowed to travel freely during World War II--and also well acquainted with high ranking German officials--the French persuaded her to spy on the Germans.And then, shit got real...
You see, the Germans were on to her, and fed her false information as well as healthy doses of penis. When she returned to Paris, the French refused to pay her for what they realized was useless intel. Things got worse when the French intercepted a German message from Mata Hari and deduced she was actually a double agent! Holy shit, somebody make us a flowchart here.
You couldn't handle this fucking chart, you pansy.
Many believe the Germans actually intentionally blew her cover, maybe an act of revenge for not indulging in all their weird German fetishes. Either way Mata Hari was arrested by the French, who said her spying had led to the deaths of 50,000 soldiers.
Deviant German porn, according to our Google research.
While awaiting her execution, Hari danced for her jailers and regaled them with risque stories about her past (because skanky chicks in prison don't have much else to do). At the same time, however, she was scheming an escape plan. She came up with three:
First, a former lover, who happened to be an aviator, promised to break into prison, and fly her out. Second, a nobleman who lost all his money boning her proposed bribing the shooting squad to use blanks and bury her very close to the ground, where he would come along and dig her up later. Third, Hari's doctor would say she was pregnant, and under French law, a pregnant woman cannot be executed. The French, unaware that they had an international reputation as limp-wristed wusses who couldn't get anything done, managed to carry off the execution before any of her plans could play out.
Refusing the customary blindfold, Hari walked to the yard where 12 men were waiting for her, the only time in her life such a thing happened that didn't end with her sitting on an inflatable cushion for a day afterwards. As the men raised their pistols, she decided to strip, convinced they would not shoot someone as beautiful as her.
She turned out to be wrong about that and her body was donated to a hospital, where it was kept preserved. It was only in 2007 they realized her head was missing, and possibly had been for 30 years. Best not to think about why someone might only take the head and leave everything else.Favorable Comparison to Bond: Has a Gifted Vagina
If SPECTRE had tailor made a spy to take down Bond, they couldn't have done much better than Mata Hari. Sure, they threw the occasional double crossing femme fatal at Bond, but those ladies would always tip him off by doing something transparently evil, or break down and confess. Mata Hari's allegiances were so amorphous that people are still arguing about whose side she was on. It's likely that if Hari had existed in the Bond universe, she would have been rescued from the firing squad at the last second by a tuxedoed man flying a bulletproof hang glider.


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Wasteful Spending
January 8, 2013
Dear?Editor, Having no regard for taxpayer dollars, President Obama flew back from Hawaii for a couple of days to deal with the "fiscal cliff", then took Air Force One back to Hawaii to complete......
The President deserves a vacation. I have no problems with his trip. I, however, strongly oppose his approach, in the face attitude, his spending, and his failure to assume leadership in addressing our most urgent issue of the day, our debt level in this country. He has the opportunity to go down in history as a truly great leader if only he would be willing to make some unpopular and challenging decisions. I do not believe he can do it. Sadly, he will leave office with a debt so Hugh that our children and grandchildren will be impacted for years to come.
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How about the salaries of the 20+ Bag people who sit on their ass and vote "NO" to everything? Especially the eternally stupid Michele Bachmann, (who for the 34th time introduced a bill to repeal The Affordable Care Act) She's really worth her salary.
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I agree with you it's rediculous. just think how much we would have saved from the Bush family alone if politicians had to pay for their own vacation expenses.
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I want to buy some extra RAM but Hardinfo wont tell me which brand, model, latency and speed I'm currently using to buy the same kind.
What else can I use?
I want to buy some extra RAM but Hardinfo wont tell me which brand, model, latency and speed I'm currently using to buy the same kind.
What else can I use?
You can get all you want from this command:
1st part of the information you get:
SMBIOS 2.7 present. Handle 0x001B, DMI type 16, 23 bytes Physical Memory Array Location: System Board Or Motherboard Use: System Memory Error Correction Type: None Maximum Capacity: 16 GB Error Information Handle: No Error Number Of Devices: 2 Handle 0x001C, DMI type 17, 34 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x001B Error Information Handle: 0x001E Total Width: 64 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 4096 MB Form Factor: SODIMM Set: None Locator: ChannelA-DIMM0 Bank Locator: BANK 0 Type: DDR3 Type Detail: Synchronous Speed: 1333 MHz Manufacturer: ELPIDA Serial Number: 5A0C95A6 Asset Tag: 0123456789 Part Number: EBJ41UF8BAS0-DJ-F Rank: Unknown Configured Clock Speed: 1333 MHz
This answer isn't particularly Ubuntu, but it's often the most convenient one.
Find out the model of your computer (or if it's a custom assembly job, of your motherboard). Enter the model in the memory search tool on the website of a major RAM vendor (for example Crucial or Kingston). The site will tell you which of their product are guaranteed to be compatible with your system. Even if you don't wish to buy from that vendor, you can note the characteristics and look them up on your favorite vendor.
Open a terminal (
From here you'll see all the details you could ever want.


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For two pmf $p=\lbrace p_i\rbrace$ and $q=\lbrace q_i\rbrace$ on the same finite alphabet, we know that relateive entropy $D(p\|q)=\sum p_i\log\frac{p_i}{q_i}$ and 1-norm $\|p-q\|_1=\sum |p_i-q_i|$ are both measures of their distance. But it is unfortunate that relative entropy is not a norm. My question is: even so, do we still have equivalence between these two measure of distance? To be specific, assume $\|p-q\|_1\le C$ for some positive constant $C$, do we have $D(p\|q)\le MC$ for some positive $M$? If have, how to prove? Thanks a lot!
No, that is not true. Let $p^{(n)}\to q$ in $L^1$ such that $p^{(n)}$ lies in the (relative) interior of the probability simplex whereas $q$ is on the boundary (of the simplex), i.e., $q_i=0$ for some $i$. Then $D(P^{(n)}\|q)=\infty$ for every $n$.
But the other direction is true because of the Pinsker's inequality $\|p-q\|_1\le \sqrt{2D(p\|q)}$ (you may already know this fact!).
I have found a solution, but it seems not complete (will explain at the end)
$D(p\|q)=|D(p\|q)|=|\sum p_i\log p_i-\sum p_i\log q_i|=|\sum p_i\log p_i-\sum p_i\log q_i+\sum q_i\log q_i-\sum q_i\log q_i|$ $=|H(q)-H(p)+\sum(q_i-p_i)\log q_i|\le|H(q)-H(p)|+\sum|q_i-p_i||\log q_i|$. If we denote $M_1=\max\lbrace|\log q_i|=\log\frac{1}{q_i}\rbrace$, the last equation will be $\le M_2\|p-q\|_1+M_1\|p-q\|_1=M\|p-q\|_1$ where $M=M_1+M_2$. Here I claimed that $|H(q)-H(p)|\le M_2\|p-q\|_1$ for some positive number $M_2$ due to the Mean Value Theorem extended to multi-dimensional space and concavity of entropy wrt pmf. This seems true but I am not very sure. That's why I think the proof is incomplete. Could anyone please justify this inequality (it's better to point out such a proposition in some textbook)? Thank you!


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If there are not, then would it be easier to say that 2 objects are identical as ordered fields as opposed to being isomorphic as ordered fields? Or is the word isomorphism used to emphasise the fact that the objects are different as sets?
Inside of the complex numbers there are lots of examples of distinct fields which are isomorphic. For instance, there are three subfields of the form ${\mathbf Q}(\alpha)$ where $\alpha^3 = 2$: take for $\alpha$ any of the three complex cube roots of 2 and you get a different subfield. What are the consequences of treating them as literally equal? You can't make any sense of Galois theory if you do that! Similarly, all $p$-Sylow subgroups of a finite group are isomorphic (since conjugate subgroups are isomorphic groups), but it would kind of destroy a lot of the content of the Sylow theorems by trying to say the $p$-Sylow subgroups are identical.
More generally, anytime you have isomorphic but unequal objects inside a larger object, it can lead to confusion if not outright incomprehensibility if you try to regard them all as identical. (There was a paper by Chevalley about unit groups in number fields where he made a genuine error by an abuse of the "square root" notation and I think one might be able to express the mistake in the form of an isomorphism being confused with an equality, but I'd have to look at the paper again to be sure about this.)
The word isomorphism does not emphasize that two objects are different; any group or vector space admits an isomorphism with itself using the identity map. The word emphasizes that in a structural way the two objects look like each other even though they are not literally the same. Never say two objects are identical if they are not actually identical. Having said that, I must admit that in mathematics one meets phrases like "since $X$ and $Y$ are isomorphic we can identify $X$ with $Y$" and then $X$ is replaced with $Y$. The usefulness of doing this depends on the application you have in mind. Note, however, that replacing $X$ with $Y$ is not saying that $X$ and $Y$ are the same thing.
This question sounds like it is being asked by someone who hasn't had a lot of experience with isomorphisms and is trying to get a feel for what it means. In a year or two, after seeing more appearances of the concept and its uses, you'll get a better feel for it, but for now do not think the word isomorphism is a synonym for identical.
A slightly more general answer: if the objects in question have no non-trivial automorphisms (i.e. non-identity isomorphisms from itself to itself) then no danger will come from treating isomorphisms as the identity. (E.g. the real numbers has no automorphisms as a field, and so any two copies of the real numbers can be unambiguously identified as fields.)
But if $X$ and $Y$ are isomorphic but Aut($Y$) (or, equivalently, Aut($X$)) is non-trivial, then the identification of $X$ and $Y$ is not uniquely determined (because you could always postcompose with a non-trivial automorphism of $Y$, or precompose with a non-trivial automorphism of $X$, to obtain a different identification), and hence in this case there is not an unambiguous identification. (A typical example of this is the isomorphism between a finite-dim'l vector space and its dual; there is not a uniquely determined such isomorphism, and so one should not identify the two, although they are isomorphic.)
In some contexts, although there is not a uniquely determined isomorphism, there is a canonical choice, e.g. the identification of a finite dimensional space with its double dual. Such isomorphisms are normally described in the language of natural isomorphisms between functors (e.g. the identify functor and the double duality functor are naturally isomorphic as functors from the category of finite-dimensional vector spaces --- over some given field --- to itself.) Often it is safe to identify objects that are identified by a natural isomorphism in some category theoretic framework that is suitable for the problem at hand. But even in these cases, sometimes one has to actually know an explicit description of the natural isomorphism (e.g. because you might need to make a computation involving both objects, which will of course require you to know how they have been identified). In particular, when identifying two objects via some natural isomorphism, it is good form to explicitly describe the natural isomorphism at some point, unless the natural isomorphism in question is utterly conventional (e.g. the double duality isomorphism for a finite-dimensional vector space; and even then, one might write something like "we identify $V$ and $V^{\vee\vee}$ via the usual double duality isomorphism").
Added: This answer is very similar to that of Charles Staats, which was posted while I was writing.
If $p$ is a prime, then the multiplicative group modulo $p$ is isomorphic to the additive group modulo $p-1$, which is to say it's a cyclic group of order $p-1$. It's trivial to find a generator of the additive group, but a fair bit of work to find one for the multiplicative. Related to this, it's easy to solve $ax=c$ in the additive group, using the Euclidean algorithm, but the difficulty of solving the corresponding equation $a^x=c$ in the multiplicative group - the discrete logarithm problem - is the basis for some cryptography systems.
First of all, as other posters have said, you never claim that two objects are identical unless they actually are equal as sets. However, there are times when it is appropriate to "identify" two isomorphic objects. (This is really just an issue of language).
Exactly when such identification is appropriate is a matter of some subtlety. If there are many different isomorphisms between two objects, and no natural way of selecting one of them, then it is generally a bad idea to identify them (although sometimes this is done implicitly, as when we talk about the field with $q$ elements). This applies in particular to a vector space and its dual. Generally speaking, if you have a unique isomorphism, or even a "natural isomorphism" (this can be made precise using category theory if desired), you are safe identifying them; however, this might conceivably produce problems if they are distinct subsets of some larger set you are interested in.
To further complicate the matter, in many, or even most, cases, we don't actually care about the identity of the set in question, only its (external or internal) structure. Thus, for instance, any questions about the real numbers that cannot be answered using the fact that they form a complete ordered field (e.g., is $1 \in 2$?) are not really questions about the real numbers at all. This produces interesting issues in philosophy of mathematics; see this website for a discussion. Things get even more interesting when you start defining objects (e.g., tensor products, limits, colimits) using universal properties; in this case, the objects are only defined up to natural isomorphism, so there is no single construction that "is" the desired object.
There are also times when either of two identifications may be appropriate, but not both at once. For instance, $\mathbb{Z}$ is naturally isomorphic to a fixed subset of the p-adic numbers $\mathbb{Z}_p$, and to a fixed subset of the real numbers $\mathbb{R}$, but no one would ever write $\mathbb{Z} \subset \mathbb{Z}_p \cap \mathbb{R}$ (except to discuss when it is not appropriate to make identifications).
In short, it's a subtle question, and the answer is based more on experience than on any codified set of principles.
Expanding on Andy Putman's comment, beginners in linear algebra often think of all finite-dimensional vector spaces (over $\mathbb{R}$, say) as the same, in particular as $\mathbb{R}^n$ with the standard basis. This can lead to mistakes in any kind of computation, say in multivariable calculus, where one has to compute simultaneously with a row vector and a column vector (e.g. an element of a vector space together with an element of its dual). The problem is that matrices act differently on row and column vectors, hence if you end up changing basis you need to deal with row and column vectors in opposite ways.
One paper I looked at needed to check every subgroup of $S_n$ for small $n$. There's a lot of symmetry there, which the author was trying to exploit. Although $S_4$ contains three subgroups isomorphic to $\mathbb{Z}_2\times\mathbb{Z}_2$, the author only checked one of them; without loss of generality (``by symmetry'') that was sufficient. Problem is, one of those subgroups is normal and the other two are not, and that could have made a difference.
The punchline is that the additional case checked out fine---the logical error didn't snowball.
The answers are great so far, especially Emerton's. I would like just to add another example which I have encountered. It is the gluing construction of the structure sheaf of an affine scheme. I think the one given by "locally constant elements in the stalks" is better, but anway:
If $A$ is a ring and $X=Spec(A)$ its spectrum, then it can be shown that the assignment $\mathcal{O}_X(D(f)) := A_f$ is a sheaf on the basic open subsets. Now every sheaf on a basis of a topological space (which is closed under intersections) extends uniquely to a sheaf on the whole topological space. But wait, if $D(f)=D(g)$, it is not necessarily true that $A_f = A_g$! But we can fix that by observing that there is a unique $A$-algebra homomorphism $A_f \to A_g$ if $D(g) \subseteq D(f)$, and that this is actually an isomorphism if $D(f) = D(g)$. Thus in practice it really does not matter which $g$ with $D(f)=D(g)$ is chosen.
There are some ways of formalizing this. For example you could define $Q$ to be a big ring which contains all the $A_f$ as subrings, but the identifications become identities. Define a partial order on $A$ by $f \leq g \Leftrightarrow D(g) = D(f)$. Then $A_f$ is a direct system on this partial order and we can take $Q$ as its colimit.
Spivak, Differential Geometry, Vol. 1, Chapter 3, page 16.
Background: $M$ is a manifold, $i$ is an embedding pf $M$ into a Euclidean space, and $T(M,i)$ is the tangent bundle on $M$, constructed assuming the existence of the immersion $i$, which is the way Spivak does carries out the construction at first. Then he notes that for a different choice $j$ of the immersion, we have a bundle equivalence between $T(M,i)$ and $T(M,j)$.
Then goes on(quoted verbatim):
And then he constructs the tangent bundle in the way independent of the immersion, ie the more modern approach, and expounds its merits.
Consider $V \subset H$ both Hilbert spaces in the setting of evolution equations. It is useful to work with a Gelfand triple setting $V \subset H \equiv H^* \subset V^*$ where $H$ is identified with its dual. But then identifying $V$ with its dual is a mistake and leads to confusion.
In Group Theory there is a notion stronger than isomorphism, i.e. similarity. For two permutation groups to be "similar" there must exist both an isomorphism between the group and a compatible (commuting in the categorical sense) isomorphism between the sets being permuted. The couple of these two isomorphisms is called a similarity. Two permutation groups can be isomorphic but not similar.
Similarity is useful to compare group constructions such as the wreath product, group presentations and classifications of subgroups of the symmetric groups.
In these situations, using only isomorphism would be a mistake and would lose information.


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How can I say "I was working." in German?
I was thinking:
Ich war arbeiten.
But I feel that is totally wrong.
How can I say "I was working." in German?
I was thinking:
But I feel that is totally wrong.
The other answers cover most of what should be said but I am gonna go for it anyway:
So... your German translation sounds correct and people say that a lot, BUT that is a coincidence. It is not the German equivalent of the English progressive aspect.
This looks like progressive aspect but it is not expressing the same notion. The German construction is pretty much an answer to "Where were/are you/what have you done there?" in a general sense. It does not really focus on the whole "that was happening right then" thing. If that is your focus you can go for these:
The German construction with "sein + inf" is apparently called "Absentiv". A very detailed explanation (in German) is here.
First of all, your translation is not wrong. It would be the typical answer to questions like "Wo warst du?" or "Warum bist du nicht zur Party gekommen?", emphasizing what you were doing.
I think the most literal translation would be "Ich habe gearbeitet", typically if there was some context that is no longer given, e.g. "Ich habe bei Siemens gearbeitet" (implying that you work somewhere else now, or are retired).
If you want to describe the circumstances in the past, "Ich arbeitete" might be a translation as well, e.g. "Ich arbeitete von früh bis spät" or "Ich arbeitete für eine Transportfirma".
So there are some rules of thumb which translation would sound "natural" (and there is some overlapping), but it always depends on the context .
You're thinking in English. Most languages that I have studied, other than English, don't do the whole "I am verb-ing," "You are verb-ing" thing. That is, they use a subject and a finite verb - that's all. They don't throw "to be" in there, and when you really think about it, the English way is more confusing.
You have two options for expressing the indicative past: simple (imperfect) and present perfect.
Present perfect:
You will hear the former spoken more often than written, and the latter written more often than spoken.


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I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that:
a) This is a rather unmotivated question.
b) I can't remember whether or not I've asked this before, but searching doesn't seem to turn anything up so ...
Consider some "shape" function $\phi: \mathbf{R} \to \mathbf{R}$. Then given some function $f: \mathbf{R} \to \mathbf{R}$, one can ask whether the "difference quotient",
$\lim_{y\to x} \frac{f(y)-f(x)}{\phi(y-x)}$,
exists at various points $x$. Letting $\phi(x) = x$ corresponds to taking normal derivatives, and intuitively when the limit exists this means that near $x$, the function $f$ "looks like" $\phi$ does near 0.
However, if the ratio $\phi(x)/x$ is not bounded above or away from 0 as $x\to 0$ (I'm mostly thinking of the case when it is neither, so that $\phi$ is "wildly oscillating" in some sense), then anywhere the above limit exists and is nonzero, the function $f$ is necessarily non-differentiable.
My question: If $\phi$ is some wildly oscillating function as described above (pick your favorite), can there be an $f$ for which this limit exists everywhere?
(Edit: I suppose I really want $\phi$ and $f$ to be continuous functions.)


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This website http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~kcy05t/ appears to refute Quantum mechanics using some proof.
An important paper involved is this 'Calculation of Helium Ground State Energy by Bohr's Theory-Based Methods' http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.2546 (written by the website author)
How to disprove the author's claims, assuming his refutation of QM is unacceptable/false.
Note: I don't know if this question belongs here.
Edit:It may take considerable effort to refute or support his claims.


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My greatest personal productivity discovery has been audiobooks.
I've obtained some from people and the net but I tend to consume audio books, listening everywhere I go.
My particular interest in audiobooks lies within the genre of self development. I visited audible.com but you're only allowed one book per month at around R90 here is South Africa.
This is expensive when considering the monthly quantity I go through. Any other enthusiasts with better, possibly cheaper solutions?


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Coye Still was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-District Men's Track and Field Team/Cross Country teams as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. Capital One and CoSIDA recognize the nation's top student-athletes annually for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom.
Still, a junior from Harrisburg, N.C. is a first team selection with a cumulative grade point average of 4.00. Still is representing District 3 and is pursuing a degree in history.
Still has mounted a successful year for the 49ers and recently participated at the NCAA East Preliminary Championship in Greensboro, N.C. He competed in the long jump and finished 14th with a leap of 23'8.
He also was the long jump champion with a season-best leap of 24'02.5 at the Atlantic 10 Championships. Still led the league in the long jump after his performance at the A-10 Championships and ranked fourth in the conference in the high jump (6' 6.75). Additionally, his long jump mark (24'02.5) ranks fifth on the Charlotte all-time list.
First Team Academic All-District honorees will advance to the Capital One Academic All-America Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be announced on June 27.
To be eligible for this award, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve and maintain a cumulative GPA of at least 3.20 on a scale of 4.00. He/she must have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing at the institution and must have completed at least one full academic year at the institution. Sports information directors nominate eligible athletes from their schools who are named to district teams prior to being voted upon on the national level. CoSIDA has been selecting Academic All-America teams since 1952.


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Kohl's Corp. reported a 5% drop in first-quarter profit on weak sales due to unseasonably cold weather in large parts of the United States.
Kohl's net income fell to $147 million in the quarter ended May 4, down from $154 million a year earlier.
Sales fell 1% to $4.2 billion. Comparable-store sales fell 1.9%.
"After a slow start, sales improved considerably in April as the weather finally improved in our most weather-sensitive regions," said Kevin Mansell, Kohl's chairman, president and CEO. "Despite the lower than expected sales, we outperformed our earnings guidance as gross margin results and expense management were better than expected. Our inventory levels are consistent with our expectations."
Kohl's ended the quarter with 1,155 stores in 49 states, compared with 1,134 stores at the same time last year. The company opened nine new stores during the first quarter of 2013 and expects to open three new stores and remodel 30 stores in the fall.


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A formal written or spoken statement, esp. one given in a court of law
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The expression comes from Anglo-Norman Middle English. A court of law is a place, hall, or chamber in which justice is administered.
You will also find the word in court of justice, court of judicature or the Supreme Court.
It was used in the middle ages in many occurrences where important institutions where to be found. See for instance the king's court - from which it then gained the meaning of "retinue".
You will find the word in Italian and Spanish "corte" (see for instance the Renaissance book "Il cortegiano" by Baldassare Castiglione.
Beyond Old French, Spanish and Italian, the origin can still be traced back to the Latin "cohort-em" which means yard or enclosure. In modern French it has lost its final "t" and is now spelled just "cour".
you can't separate out the "law" from "a court of law". It is a set phrase. You could just say "in court", but not all proceedings in "a court of law" take place in the court room these days.
The phrase a refers to the location and proceedings of a legal tribunal.
A court of law in the one sense is a physical place. It is the building in which the judge presides over a case of legal debate.
In the other sense, a court of law is the abstract situation, referring to the authority that the judge represents while presiding over said tribunal.
The House of Commons and the House of Lords formally make up the High Court of Parliament. There are also the courts (short for courtyards) in Oxbridge colleges and similar places, and "student courts" where student unions impose discipline without formal authority, so not all courts are courts of law.
There is also the technical point that only courts of law have the right to impose legal sentences. Tribunals, mediators, and local councils cannot fine or imprison people. (It's a technical point because, for example, the owner of a carpark cannot fine you for parking in the wrong place, but he can tow away your car till you pay what's due).


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The 5 Stupidest Looking Superpowers in the Animal Kingdom
#2. The Klipspringer Can Jump Across Cliffs
The klipspringer is a type of African antelope that walks on the tips of its toes, as if trying not to wake up other animals that don't look like complete pansies. It's impossible to watch it mincing around without instantly hearing the appropriate cartoon sound effect.
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That's not its fur, that's its mascara running from all the bullying.
While all hoofed animals technically walk on their toes, the klipspringer is the only one that touches the ground with the very tips. In human terms, that's like a ballerina dancing on her toenails instead of her feet, and looks about as threatening.
Farm Mimosa
Plantigrade locomotion is for failures.
The Superpower:
"Klipspringer" literally means "rock jumper," because that's exactly what those special hooves allow it to do. Look at this thing leaping about from rock to rock like it's got actual springs in those things:
And that's nothing -- they have the ability to jump as high as 25 feet (or 15 times their height). Notice how its legs are always together when it lands on a new place? That's not an accident: The hooves allow it to land on surface areas no larger than a silver dollar with all four legs. This means you'll often see klipspringers in high, small, impossible to reach places and wonder how the hell they even got there (especially because they're also pretty agile, so they could have been standing right next to you two seconds ago).
"All right, Scotty, beam me out of here."
The secret is that their hooves are actually rubbery underneath, allowing them to leap onto rocky surfaces without slipping, or just stay on them as if defying all laws of nature. The only question now is why Marvel hasn't created an X-Men character named Klipspringer yet.
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Move over, Wolverine.
#1. Japanese Flying Squid Is Not a Sarcastic Nickname
Finding stupid-looking creatures in the ocean is almost too easy. Everything is squishy and weirdly shaped and has big goofy eyes. Sharks don't know how lucky they are. For instance, look at this thing:
Deep Sea News
Airborne cephalopod? Or some pothead's fancy glass pipe?
Those aren't tentacles -- they're a big orange handlebar mustache. That up there is the Japanese flying squid, but ... wait, did we say "flying"?
The Superpower:
That is a photo of squids off the coast of Japan using their own water farts to leap right out of the water and into open air.
L.A. Times
He who takes flight unleashed the blight.
The squids fill their bodies with water and then spit it out to propel themselves all the time, but these guys do it so hard they can launch themselves right out of the water, which to a squid has to be like a bird flying itself into outer space. And according to biologists, these things aren't jumping or even gliding -- they are technically flying.
Really flying. They can leap as high as 65 feet and remain in the air over a distance of more than 150 feet at a time, going at recorded speeds that are five times faster than they can move in the water. They are limited only by the wind ... and the strength of their water farts.
Daily Mail
Finally, a use for the phrase "water farts" outside of discussing Katy Perry.
Basically, once they've shot themselves out of the water, the squids are able to remain in the air by facing backward and using their fins like wings. They do this to save precious time and energy on long migrations during mating season -- like their octopus cousins, squids die after mating, so they don't have any time to mess around.
The reason why flying squids are less known than flying fish is mainly that they prefer to rocket out at night when no one's looking, in order to avoid being snatched by birds. Because this behavior is so recently observed, we aren't even sure how many types of squid can do it yet. That's right -- for all we know, they could all fly.
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"How did you think I got here?"
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Can't we picture air or water molecules individually? Then, why are Navier-Stokes equations needed, after all? Can't we just aggregate individual ones? Or is it computationally difficult, or inefficient to generate the picture of whole flow?
Consider a standard volume of $1\textrm{ m}^3$ of air. This contains on the order of $10^{25}$ molecules of O2 and N2.
If you needed to simulate or explain the physics occurring in that volume of air, would you want to model $10^{25}$ molecules and all the interactions between them or, say, 100x100x100 cells based on the Navier-Stokes equations?
Theoretically, it is possible to simulate every fluid flow ever by tracking every single molecule. But direct simulation of turbulence using the Eulerian Navier-Stokes equations requires $Re^{9/4}$ grid points and is thus totally impractical for Reynolds numbers larger than a few thousand. So simulating something with $10^{25}$ things to track is completely impossible.
As apparent from the other answers, the continuum approach of the Navier-Stokes equations makes life easier, by reducing the degrees of freedom. For example, Poisseuile flow (laminar flow between flat plates or in a pipe), is easily solved using the Navier-Stokes equations, but I have no clue how to solve it using just molecular behavior (on the back of an envelope that is).
If you calculate the Knudsen number of a specific problem, which is just the molecular mean free path divided by some macroscopic length scale, you can see if the continuum approach is a valid for the considered system.
Apart from the experimental and numerical difficulties to track each particle in a macroscopic piece of matter, there are physical reasons.
Theoretically, we can show that in the hydrodynamic regime the exact equations of motion for the collection of atoms/molecules reduce to the Navier-Stokes equations. This is shown in statistical mechanics.
Due to complex molecular effects, including molecular chaos, most degrees of freedom self-cancel and only some few dynamical modes survive. Those modes are collective --i.e. they describe the fluid as a whole-- and robust --i.e., they survive in macroscopic scales of space and time--.
That is, even if you were to trace the individual motion of each particle and next average to describe the collective motion of the whole fluid, you would see that your description is practically indistinguishable [*] from that given by solving the Navier-Stokes equations.
[*] The differences are of the order of the inverse of the size of the system and vanish for a macroscopic system.


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Wondered then a question. When selecting a few folders in nautilus which, in turn, have the files and other directories, which, in turn, is also the files, in nautilus by selecting "properties" from the context menu shows only the number of all objects inside, ie . considers the number of files together, and the number of subdirectories. How to make shown separately the number of files and number of directories, ie, how many of those and those?
Edit: This doesn't answer the question, see comments.
I suppose you are searching for the information in the status area of nautilus. This is a screenshot from Ubuntu 10.10:
This is not exactly what you asked for, but you can use the command line in order to count folders and files seperately:
This will find the number of folders including the one given by
This counts the number of regular files, symlinks etc. are not counted here:


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A leader of the greatest generation died recently.
Her served in Europe during World War II and was a member of the 8th Armoured Division, serving as a tank commander. When he returned, he continued to serve wherever he was needed.
If you called, "Hey, Pete," he always responded with "What can I do?" or "How can I help?'
His trademark was a black cigar and a shot of whiskey. He was the first one on the job and the last to leave, There were no numbers on the clock, just call me if you need me.
He worked for the C&P Telephone Co., but he also worked for all of us, especially his family.
If you enjoyed Wellsburg's festivals, Pete Donner's legacy is forever a part of the celebration.
On the Fourth of July, he was there, from the beginning. For the Christmas lights, he was there, from the beginning. For Little League Baseball and football, he was there, from the beginning.
He was a charter member and a loyal supporter of the Ohio Valley Veterans Memorial Squad that regularly paid tribute to fellow veterans. He was always there.
Pete participated in local VFWs and American Legions and was honored as the only male member of the Fairmont VFW Auxiliary.
He was a great storyteller and loved to share memories and tall tales with friends and family.
Pete enjoyed being out doors and was fond of hunting with his buddies.
I was blessed to work with Pete on many projects over the years. These are some of my memories. I'm sure that if you knew Pete, you have your own.
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On a unanimous vote Monday, the Tecumseh City Council approved paying $13,484 in cost overruns for the project, which was completed in October. City manager Kevin Welch said Van-Rob will reimburse the city for the local costs, which are now $56,641.
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25 Jul 2011 3:17 AM #1
[Sencha Touch Android] show and hide keyboard with code ?
I'm developing an app with a screen that has TextAreaField inside.
When user taps on textareafield virtual keyboard opens and if user never hits back button keyboard never hides.So keyboard is still on screen while user is navigating through other screens.
My will is to hide the keyboard when user taps on anywhere outside virtual keyboard.(on the same textarea for instance)
There should be some stable way to do this with Sencha Touch.
Has anybody every used TextArea and faced a "keyboard hide" problem like this before?
Any help will be appreciated.
30 Oct 2011 9:19 AM #2
Any solution to hiding Android keyboard with code?
Was wondering did you ever get a solution to this as I am facing the exact same problem. Seems incredible that such a basic thing is proving very difficult to find a solution to.
Thanks in advance,
30 Oct 2011 11:06 PM #3
I was using phoneGap with Sencha Touch so I've done it using the following code.Maybe if you are using phoneGap try this:
public enum KeyBoard { INSTANCE; private WebView appView; private DroidGap mGap; public void showKeyBoard() { InputMethodManager mgr = (InputMethodManager) mGap .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); mgr.showSoftInput(appView, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT); } public void hideKeyBoard() { InputMethodManager mgr = (InputMethodManager) mGap .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); mgr.hideSoftInputFromWindow(appView.getWindowToken(), 0); } /** * @return the appView */ public WebView getAppView() { returnappView; } /** * @param appView * the appView to set */ public void setAppView(WebView appView) { this.appView = appView; } /** * @return the mGap */ public DroidGap getmGap() { returnmGap; } /** * @param mGap * the mGap to set */ public void setmGap(DroidGap mGap) { this.mGap = mGap; } }
Last edited by Eric Clapton; 30 Oct 2011 at 11:08 PM. Reason: texting
3 Nov 2011 12:51 PM #4
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the update, however, I'm not using PhoneGap, so I'm afraid I don't have access to it's JS-native bridge API.
I've figured out the main issue I was having. It was very subtle indeed. The set up that I have is a separate panel, which is a child of a card layout component, with a text area field and form, so that a user can post a message. They have the opportunity to submit or cancel the message. It is most probable that the virtual keyboard will be open when the cancel or submit button is pressed. If either button is pressed the panel should disappear, the keyboard should be hidden, and they should be returned to the previous screen.
On closing the panel when tapping the back button (i.e setActiveItem), thinking of being a good memory management citizen, I tried to destroy the panel that I was leaving. However, if you do this straight away the OS gets a bit confused and inadvertently fails to close the open virtual keyboard. The solution is to destroy the panel via a setTimeout call, so that the native OS keyboard code gets a moment to run. I've included an outline of the code I used to solve the problem as I'm sure this has caught a few more developers out (and it certainly took me a long time to figure out what on earth was going on).
I've also included a work-around to the 'after' event on an animation being called twice.
myapp.views.InputPopupView = Ext.extend(Ext.Panel, { initComponent: function() { var me = this; this.dockedItems = [ { xtype: 'toolbar', dock: 'top', defaults: { scope: this }, items: [ { ui: 'default', text: 'Cancel', handler: this.showPreviousCard }, { xtype: 'spacer' }, { ui: 'confirm', text: 'Save', id: 'save-button', handler: function() { // Do something interesting here this.showPreviousCard(); } } ] } ]; this.items = [ { xtype : 'form', itemId: 'myForm', items: [ { itemId: 'myTextArea', xtype: 'textareafield', name: "myValue", placeHolder: "Enter your message", listeners: { afterrender : function(panel) { this.el.down('textarea').setHeight((this.ownerCt.ownerCt.getHeight()/100*45)); // Set to 45% of screen height. }, focus: function() { window.scrollTo(0,1); // Force top-docked toolbar back into view. (was a problem on iPad) } } } ] } ]; myapp.views.InputPopupView.superclass.initComponent.apply(this, arguments); }, showPreviousCard : function() { this.ownerCt.setActiveItem(this.prevCard, { // Example code assumes that parent is using a card layout. type: 'slide', direction: 'down', scope: this, after: function() { if(this.callSetActiveItemOnce === 0) { // Fix to stop method being called twice due to Sencha issue. this.callSetActiveItemOnce++; // Required to hide virtual keyboard. Do not do on Android as causes screen to jump after // slide transition. (In my case the previous screen is a panel with scroll: 'vertical' set) if(!Ext.is.Android) { this.down('#myTextArea').blur(); } // Allow virtual keyboard to disappear before destroying panel. var me = this; setTimeout(function() { me.callSetActiveItemOnce = 0; // Fix to stop method being called twice due to Sencha issue. me.destroy(); }, 500); } } }); }, callSetActiveItemOnce: 0 // Fix to stop method being called twice due to Sencha issue. });
.x-form .x-panel-body { padding: 0; }
Last edited by Philip Murphy; 3 Nov 2011 at 1:10 PM. Reason: Fix typo
2 Feb 2012 9:33 PM #5
show & hide keypad with code for iPhone
Anybody has similar functional code for iPhone please?
I am using sencha with phonegap. Please advice.
3 Feb 2012 2:21 AM #6
Here is a snippet that I'm using. The callback and scope are optional and may be omitted. The code assumes that you are in a text field or a text area. Works for web app, so might work for native as well. Let me know if it's of any use.
hideKeyboard: function(callback, scope) { var activeElement = document.activeElement; activeElement.setAttribute('readonly', 'readonly'); // Force keyboard to hide on input field. activeElement.setAttribute('disabled', 'true'); // Force keyboard to hide on textarea field. Ext.defer(function() { activeElement.blur(); // Remove readonly attribute after keyboard is hidden. activeElement.removeAttribute('readonly'); activeElement.removeAttribute('disabled'); if(callback) { callback.call(scope); } }, 100); }
19 Feb 2012 8:09 AM #7
That works fine
Thanks for your answer, it works perfectly
21 Feb 2012 11:14 AM #8
have you guys tried just blurring the input element? works for me. Is there a need to do philip's method? seems like a lot if blur does the job.
i.e., Ext.getCmp('componentID').blur();
8 May 2013 3:01 AM #9
Thanks eyepoker & Philip...
Both the answers works perfectly fine.
30 Oct 2013 10:23 AM #10
Thank you! Philip, your answer works. Just what I needed. +1


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I'm developing an iFrame Canvas application for Facebook using CakePHP, its Auth component, WebTechNick's Facebook plugin and OAuth for canvas pages (I've enabled this in the Facebook Developer app options). I would like users to be able to use the application after adding it to their profile (by requesting
publish_stream permissions) by visiting http://apps.facebook.com/myapp/ or as a tab in their profile.
Requesting permissions is not the problem. The user is redirected to the permissions request page and then redirected to a callback method which requests an
access_token, as per this tutorial.
After this callback the user is redirected back to http://apps.facebook.com/myapp/ which shows their personal index page. This is also where the problems start. As soon as the aforementioned URI is loaded, the browser asks for a form resubmission, this happens every time I reload http://apps.facebook.com/myapp/. This is the case because Facebook wants to pass the (expected)
signed_request parameter and I'm wondering what to do with it. It's not an empty variable, so do I need another validation method or redirect, perhaps?
How should I handle the procedure for the
signed_request parameter and, more importantly how to get rid of this form resubmission dialog?
Some of my methods, they might be a bit of a mess due to all the experimentation of the past day.
login and
callback methods, in my UserController.php:
function beforeFilter() {
if (empty($this->permissions)) {
$this->Auth->allow('login', 'logout', 'callback');
function login() {
$session = $this->facebook->getSession();
$login_url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/authorize?client_id=' . FACEBOOK_APP_ID . '&redirect_uri=' . MY_APP_URL . '/users/callback/&type=user_agent&&display=page&scope=' . FACEBOOK_APP_PERMISSIONS;
try {
$uid = $facebook_client->getUser();
$me = $facebook_client->api('/me', $params);
} catch (FacebookApiException $e) {
} else {
$this->set('authorise', true);
$script = '$(document).ready(function() { facebookRequestPermissions("'.$login_url.'");});';
$this->set('script', $script);
function callback() {
function callFb($url, $params) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
CURLOPT_URL => $url,
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => http_build_query($params),
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_VERBOSE => true
$result = curl_exec($ch);
return $result;
$params=array('client_id'=>FACEBOOK_APP_ID, 'type'=>'client_cred', 'client_secret'=>FACEBOOK_APP_SECRET);
$url = "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token";
$access_token = callFb($url, $params);
$access_token = substr($access_token, strpos($access_token, "=")+1, strlen($access_token));
if ($access_token) {
} else {
echo 'An error has occurred';
The JavaScript in the login method refers to this jQuery function, the Facebook JavaScript SDK is initialised in
function facebookRequestPermissions(login_url) {
FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
if (response.status !== 'unknown') {
The JavaScript function should only fire when a user is logged in, if not, a different landing page is shown.
I use some methods in an overall AppControler:
class AppController extends Controller {
var $components = array('RequestHandler', 'Session', 'Auth', 'Facebook.Connect');
var $helpers = array('Form', 'Time','Html','Javascript', 'Session', 'Facebook.Facebook');
protected $facebook;
protected $permissions;
private $user;
function beforeRender() {
//Save the username if it isn't already present
if ((int)$this->Auth->user('id') != '' && (string)$this->Auth->user('username') == '') {
$data = array('id' => (int)$this->Auth->user('id'), 'username' => (string)$this->user['username']);
if (!empty($this->user) && !empty($this->permissions)) {
$this->set('currentUser', $this->Auth->user());
function beforeFilter() {
$this->Auth->autoRedirect = false;
$this->Auth->loginAction = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login');
$this->Auth->loginRedirect = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'index');
$this->Auth->logoutRedirect = array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login');
App::import('Lib', 'Facebook.FB');
$this->facebook = new FB();
$this->user = $this->facebook->api('/me');
$this->permissions = $this->facebook->api('/me/permissions');
This only seems an issue with Firefox. Chrome doesn't display the dialog, but instead does a silent refresh after which the
signed_request parameter is empty, strangely enough. This isn't the case with Firefox, where the
signed_request parameter remains the same after every prompted refresh (unless the iFrame content is cached), which is looping infinitely, it seems.
EDIT 2: Still struggling with this, but I ended up disabling the OAuth 2.0 for Canvas option in the Facebook Developer application, which has resolved the form resubmission issue. Of course this is not a real solution, because OAuth 2.0 is becoming mandatory for canvas application on Facebook, I believe.