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Golden Greek's journey led him through Notre Dame, NFL and Hollywood
SOUTHINGTON -- After having already established himself as the best athlete ever to come out of Southington High, one fateful fall day in 1941 Jack Zilly stepped into the national spotlight, albeit one created by the car headlights shined onto the Cheshire Academy football practice field.
An assistant coach from national collegiate power Notre Dame traveled to Connecticut to scout Zilly, and not having seen enough of the 6-foot-2, 200 pound end during practice, the coach requested that headlights be turned to the field so he could run him through some more individual drills.
"Then at the end of a couple of drills, the guy asked my dad if he wanted to go to Notre Dame," said Zilly's oldest son John. "He said, 'Hey, it won't cost you anything.' It was a handshake deal, no paperwork. The guy said, 'Hey, a promise is good enough.' That was how he got his scholarship to Notre Dame was on a handshake."
That was the start of an incredible life's journey that involved one of the greatest college football programs, the NFL, World War II service, Hollywood and an eventual business career in New England.
Zilly ultimately turned that handshake at Cheshire Academy into a brilliant All-America career that earned him two national championships with Notre Dame in 1943 and 1946. Beyond that there were three NFL championship game appearances with the Rams, including a victorious 1951 world championship game.
His national spotlight wasn't limited to the football field, either, as the stature and good looks that earned him the nickname the "Golden Greek" also landed him bit parts in a half dozen Hollywood movies including "Twelve O'Clock High" with Gregory Peck.
Zilly didn't just play an officer on the big screen, however. He became one in real life, interrupting his Notre Dame career to serve in the Navy in the South Pacific for 34 months during World War II. After being discharged as a lieutenant junior grade, he returned to Notre Dame to start at offensive and defensive end for the 1946 national championship team.
"As far as picking the outstanding player, you got the right guy in Jack Zilly," said Notre Dame teammate Terry Brennan, who later became the Irish head coach and hired Zilly as an assistant. "He was a very good athlete. The son-of-a-gun could pole vault. A guy his size had to be very coordinated to do that. He was quick. He was tough and strong and all those things, and he was a smart player. He was always where he was supposed to be."
Brennan said that as a senior at Notre Dame, Zilly mentored a young end named Leon Hart and helped shape him into the eventual Heisman Trophy winner he became. Zilly also made his own mark as a player, however, as he became an All-American at Notre his senior year.
While he was still in the Navy he became draft eligible and was selected by the NFL champion Cleveland Rams in the fourth round (32nd overall pick) of the 1945 NFL draft. The Rams moved to Los Angeles by the time he joined the team in 1947.
Zilly played five seasons with the Rams having his career essentially come to an end when he broke his leg during the summer of 1951. He was replaced as the Rams' starting right defensive end by another Connecticut native, Andy Robustelli, who used the break to launch his own NFL career that ultimately earned him 10 All-Pro honors. Zilly played one more year with the Eagles in 1952 but then moved on to coaching.
By the time his life resume was complete — Zilly died in 2009 at age 88 — it was as impressive and well-rounded as any that a Connecticut athlete ever produced. Arguably the best all-around athlete to ever come out of Southington, he was certainly the town's first superstar.
A member of the first class of inductees into the Southington Hall of Fame, Zilly was the town's first All-American, first professional athlete, first national champion, first world champion and the first to speak in a Hollywood movie.
Despite all his success, Zilly remained humble as he lived out the later stages of his life first as a real estate broker in Narragansett, R.I., and then in retirement.
"He was never one to throw his accomplishments out there," his son, Patrick, said. "He wasn't a person who bragged about his career. Most people didn't even know he played in the NFL. A lot of people in Rhode Island knew he played for Notre Dame because there is a big fanbase there, but he was very low key about it.
"But he was proud about what he accomplished, and he loved football. Believe me, he loved football. It was his life."
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Since C# is strongly typed, do we really need to prefix variables anymore?
I used to prefix in the past, but going forward I don't see any benefit.
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Since C# is strongly typed, do we really need to prefix variables anymore?
I used to prefix in the past, but going forward I don't see any benefit.
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In fact, Microsoft's own style guidelines (where the practice originated) now recommend against it. In particular, see the section on General Naming Conventions, which includes the following text (in bold type, no less):
The only places I see fit to bend the standards and prefix variables:
I didn't find any consistent situation where prefixing a variable with its type would make the code more readable, though.
EDIT: I did read the Microsoft guidelines. However I consider that coding styles are allowed to evolve and/or be "bent", where appropriate. As I mentioned above, I found using underscore prefix useful by trial and error, and is certainly better than using this.whatever everywhere in the code.
Supporting the "evolving" theory - back in .NET 1.x when Microsoft released coding guidelines, they advised using Camel casing for everything, even constants. I see now they've changed and advise using Pascal case for constant or public readonly fields.
Furthermore, even .NET Framework class library is currently full of m_ and _ and s_ (try browsing the implementation with the Reflector). So after all, it's up to the developer, as long as consistency is preserved across your project.
If Hungarian means "prefix with a type abbreviation" such as uCount or pchzName, then I would say this practice is bad and thankfully seems to be fading from common use.
However, I do still think that prefixes are very useful for scope. At my studio we use this convention for prefixing variables :
I've found this to be very useful. The func param prefixes in particular are useful. Way down inside a function you can always tell where that var came from at a glance. And typically we will copy the var to another when we want to modify it or change its meaning.
So in short: prefixes for types are unnecessary with modern tools. The IDE takes care of identifying and checking that stuff for you. But scope-based prefixes are very useful for readability and clarity.
There are also fun side benefits like with Intellisense. You can type i_ ctrl-space and get all the input params to the func to choose from. Or g_ ctrl-space to get all your singletons. It's a time-saver.
Nope. Did we ever need to?
Hungarian notation is ugly. The only exception is with interfaces, where most people think it's acceptable.
Linus sums it up well: "Encoding the type of a function into the name (so-called Hungarian notation) is brain damaged - the compiler knows the types anyway and can check those, and it only confuses the programmer"
No. Hungarian Notation just adds unnecessary noise to code and is redundant with compiler type checking.
Yes, if Hungarian notation were used as it was originally meant, instead of as implemented by Microsoft. Much like the example above, which shows text boxes and corresponding labels as lblWhatever, txtWhatever. Use it to define the use of the variable, not the type. It can provide information to know that your number is moneyTotal, which tells me more than just the data type.
But, as commonly used? No.
Prefixes are a leftover from the VB (and older!) days when Hungarian Notation was king. That is no longer the case, though the C# community does mandate things like using a prefix of Capital
The current Microsoft Guidelines are here.
Hungarian notation is no longer needed to identify data types like in your string example, but it still can be useful for identifying characteristics of variables in other ways. Here's a good article that talks about useful ways of using the Hungarian notation: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html
Here's an excerpt
"In Simonyi's version of Hungarian notation, every variable was prefixed with a lower case tag that indicated the kind of thing that the variable contained.
For example, if the variable name is rwCol, rw is the prefix.
I'm using the word kind on purpose, there, because Simonyi mistakenly used the word type in his paper, and generations of programmers misunderstood what he meant."
He also uses an example of identifying strings prefixed with an 's' or a 'u' to identify if they are secure to print out or not, so that a statement like print(uSomeString); can easily be identified as wrong.
I personally don't anymore, however you will still people argue to prefix for scope.
I go with Microsoft and use their Capitalization Styles for all naming conventions. The entire "Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers" section, which that link is a part of, is pure gold, in my opinion.
Additionally, I love the "Framework Design Guidelines" book from Addison Wesley. It covers all of these guidelines with annotations from Microsoft team members on to why they recommend what they are proposing and how it is adopted within the organization.
Well, to counter, I'd say - it depends. I'm personally against them, but it comes down to your team. Each team should be responsible for developing their own set of guidelines. Hopefully that doesn't include so-called Hungarian Notation, but it really should be a team decision. You might find cases where you want to break with the style guidelines.
What makes me curious about this question is the fact that the languages (C then C++) where prefixing (i.e., Hungarian notation) was introduced were also strongly-typed. For all I know, it was done with Pascal's use at Microsoft as well. And it would seem that it was also used with Mesa, a strongly-typed language that the Hungarian may have had some familiarity with [;<).
That being the case, it is fair to get beneath the question and consider (1) what problem was prefixing used to help solve and (2) how has that problem gone away?
I know that's not exactly an answer, but it might be more useful than the blanket objections to use of prefixes as outmoded or wrong-headed.
Most of the arguments I see against Hungarian notation mention that modern editors and IDEs are perfectly capable of giving you all the information you need to know about every identifier. Fair enough.
But what about printed code? Don't you carry out code reviews or walkthroughs on paper? Don't you use printed code for training purposes? Don't you use code snippets for online help? Hungarian notation is extremely valuable in these occasions.
I keep using (some sort of) Hungarian notation in all my code. I find its absence ugly and lacking in information.
Even though the compiler can quickly and easily check the type of a variable, humans are unable to do so while skimming a piece of source code. Therefore some people (like me) prefer to make variable names a tad more verbose, making them quickly recognizable to be global or class variables, string or int, etc.
It might not help the compiler, but when reading a foreign piece of code, it surely saves you having to look up each variable manually...
Definitely not. As a general rule, I've come to believe that it's just noise. If you're an indepedent consultant or your company doesn't have a comprehensive style guide, IDesign has a great guide. Just look on the right hand side of the page and you can D/L the latest iteration of their C# Coding Standard document.
I only use it in my database (PostgreSQL)
Hungarian notation was never meant to be used to show what data type the variable was. It was misunderstood to suggest that "str" or "i" be used to implicitly define the type. It was meant to only show the "kind" of variable, not the "type."
So to answer the question, it shouldn't be used now nor should it have ever been used in the past.
I know it has been linked, but scroll to the bottom of Joel's article for more info - http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html where he talks about where Hungarian
For a general overview of good conventions see here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229002.aspx
There is a book about that in which they explain the reasons behind each of that conventions. Pretty interesting read.
I always prefix instance member variables with m__ and static member variables with s_. I've come across variable articles from MS people who recommend/discourage the approach.
I'm also pretty sure I've come across the m_ prefix when looking through the standard .NET libraries using Reflector...
No, we don't need them. I used to follow this when back in the days, we were forced to follow that kind of a coding standard.
Also with Intellisense, Code Definition Window and Refactoring tools built into VS and other third party plugins like CodeRush express and Refactor Pro, it's easier to work with code without it.
Inside the code and when working with data types I see no reason for the use of Hungarian notation.
But when I'm working with a series of user interface control, be that they are textboxes, dropdown lists, grids or what not, I like to have my intellisense work for me. So to accomplish that, I usually make the id of the control with a prefix of "uxSomeControlName". This way, when I'm looking for that textbox to grab it's text value, all I have to do is type "ux" and all of the user interface ID's are displayed. No need to search for txt, ddl, grd, or anything else.
Now is this correct, if you read the above, no. But I don't want to sit hear and try to remember a dozen or more control names when I just have to know two letters.
Like I said, this is only when working on the front end.
I use it all the time but that could because I use VBA with Access and Excel.
For me CountAll is a name intCountAll is a name with this difference that it additionially describes the name (never intended for machines just for humans) like sintCountAll tells me its static pintCountAll private and gintCountAll global so for the purpose I use it; it is very usefull.
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The only prefix I would consider for C# is a _ for member variables such as
I would say that in most languages these days that have a limited set of types - in particular no concept of unsigned types - then a well-named variable shouldn't need the prefix.
In languages that have signed and unsigned types, or a slew of similar types (e.g. short, int, long or Int8, Int16, In32), then prefixes are useful, despite what anybody else has or will say (and they will, you know it).
The compiler will, at best, give a warning when you try and mix integral types of different signs in expressions, and this could easily be missed if, for example, you configure your IDE to only show errors (not warnings) in a build in the final summary (as you can do with Visual Studio). Mixing signs in arithmetic can seriously ruin your day, so save you or your successor a headache and give them a clue. Remember - you're not the only one who will ever look at the code.
A solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
While many programmers today are abandoning it, I would still use it in certain cases. Here are some of them;
I sometimes use a kind of prefix where pName is a parameter passed into my function (notice I don't prefix the type), oName is local to my current method, mName is a member to the class I'm in and cName is a constant or static readonly member.
Personally I find it helps.
The short answer is NO. But...
I see the point of getting away from Hungarian notation, the standards in our shop forbid it, too, but I still find it useful in my one-off or little utility projects for one reason and one reason only: when I am coding to a large number of controls in a web or win form, using HN makes it easy to use Intellisense make sure I catch every single control while coding.
If I have a five checkboxes and their names all start with chk then typing chk gives me the list of every one of them and I can easily pick which one I'm working on that moment.
Also, sometimes I find myself wondering "what the heck was that checkbox named again?" And I have to break off and look in the .ASPX page again.
One way I have compromised is to begin with HN, and then once I have gotten the main code in a win or web form complete, my last step is to do global renames for the HN-named controls. This has actually worked well for me. YMMV, of course.
No, if your methods are so long that you cant read the definition at the same time as the use, or the name doesnt imply the type then you have more serious design issues than just naming.
However, i INSIST that you do prefix controls with their type, such as txtName.


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I am a beginner in OpenGL, and I would like to know how to distinguish specific objects in an OpenGL game. For instance, the game world contains 3 gems of different colors, how can I know which one the user collides with exactly? P.S. At first I thought it could be picking, but no, picking is for mouse pointing
It sounds like you just want a general games development glossary like this one:
If you want to know the correct terminology for something, you'll just have to look it up. There's no 'central guide'.
Generally by the point at which you're ready to implement something in your game you'll have done enough research on it to not only know that the relevant term is but give a full etymology lesson on how that term came about :)


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It's well-known that $$e = \lim_{n\rightarrow \infty} (1+1/n)^n$$ as defined by Bernoulli when considering infinitely-compounded interest. I believe this is the earliest definition of $e$.
But if we were in (say) the 17th century (before differentiation), how would we know that the limit exists and how could we calculate the value to arbitrarily many decimal places? Equivalently, how can we prove that $$ e = \sum_{n=0} 1/n!$$ without using $\frac{d}{dx}e^x = e^x$? (If we can prove $\lim_{h\rightarrow 0} \frac{e^h-1}{h} = 1$, that gives the derivative of $e^x$ and I'm fine with that approach too.)


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Was 9/11 an Inside Job?
2. The 9/11 Conspiracy guys are retarded.
Just as it's wrong to find complicated conspiracy where simple incompetence will explain everything, it's also wrong to presume evil motives where simple mental retardation may be the explanation.
Loose Change didn't invent the 9/11 conspiracy. The conspiracy theories started loooong before 9/11, because there is a core group of people out there who quite simply believe every conspiracy theory ever suspected, ever, by anybody.
For instance, the Loose Change guys actually guest hosted a talk radio show recently. When a caller suggested that we should be more worried about the government controlling the weather, the guys agreed that of course the government has weather control machines but this 9/11 thing is also important. Hey, why not.
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Now, fans of this site know, I don't be trustin' me no government. I've put in time at various intelligence agencies and at one major government contractor (Kellogg, Brown & Root). I've worked for these people and let me tell you, the government is a mess. And elected officials, don't get me started on those people. They'll do anything it takes to get votes.
But here's the thing. The 9/11 "Truth" guys, the Loose Changers and all the many websites, they don't just think government is corrupt. They think everybody, and I mean everybody, is either evil on a demonic scale, or a mindless sheep.
For instance, how much money would it take to get you to kill 3,000 random, innocent Americans? Or, say you stumbled upon somebody else's plan to kill 3,000 innocent Americans. How much would it take to get you to stay silent afterward?
A hundred dollars? Two hundred? Two hundred fifty?
Well if the conspiracy guys are right, there are people reading this right now who took that deal. No kidding.
Here's why. The entire 9/11 "Truth" movement rests on the idea that the World Trade Center towers were rigged with explosives, a "Controlled Demolition" like you see with old buildings. That's the whole thing. They say the buildings couldn't have come down otherwise.
Forget the fact that no experts on the subject agree with them. That's not the point right now. We're just trying to get inside these guys' heads.
Now, maybe you could keep the plan itself a secret. A few dozen murderous black ops guys, demolitions experts with a grudge against the USA, maybe they've been brainwashed. Who knows. Maybe it could be done. People point out that the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb was kept a secret, so why not this?
But the cover-up. Holy shit, guys. Covering this thing up after the fact would be like trying to keep the atomic bomb a secret after Hiroshima. Just wait 'till you hear this.
First, picture the demolitions teams wiring up the World Trade Center towers with explosives prior to the attack. Obviously you couldn't do it during business hours, since it'd be kind of hard to explain to the 100,000 people who worked at or visited the WTC towers on any given day why you had a huge chunk of wall torn out and were wiring up a bomb on the steel beams there.
World Trade Center observation deck. Notice: people are there.
I mean, keep in mind, I don't know how big of a job that would be (no one has ever demolished a building that size before) but a building just half the size of one WTC tower took 4,000 separate charges to bring down. Four thousand.
That job took seven months of prep work... and they had the run of an abandoned building, without having to hide their work from 100,000 people every day. Our demolition crew, on the other hand, can work only at night and has to spend the last bit of every shift carefully repairing the wall and hiding any evidence of charges or detonators as not to be discovered during the day.
Huge teams of demolitions experts, who had no problem wiring a building full of innocent New Yorkers to explode, hired in secret, worked every night for what had to be a year (and that's only if they had a big enough crew) placing maybe 10,000 separate charges in each tower and another few thousand in WTC 7 (the smaller WTC tower that also collapsed, later in the day on 9/11).
And nobody notices.
That's right. That's the theory they're putting out there. 100,000 DVDs they've sold with this.
Truckloads of bombs, dozens of mysterious workers, going in and out of the building, night after night. Security at the building doesn't catch them, Port Authority Police don't catch them, random eyewitnesses who stumble across the operation and call the cops don't catch them, maintenance workers who stumble across wet paint and repaired walls and bits of strange wire don't catch them, security cameras don't catch them.
The bomb-sniffing dogs who were brought in from time to time (remember, these buildings were bombed by terrorists in 1993) who are trained to find even one bomb, fail to notice the 10,000 bombs lining their building.
If you're saying that nothing could possibly be more retarded than that, you're wrong.
No, they're just getting started. It's at this stage of the hypothetical plot when the 9/11 conspiracy guys say the real cover-up began. This is when all of the many, many people who could have blown the lid off the whole thing chose to stay silent because they were paid off by the government.
That includes hundreds of private researchers and government employees who prepared gigantic reports about the collapse of the towers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
Also, officials in the New York City Fire Department.
All were written fat checks, say the conspiracy guys, to cover up the murder of 3,000 New Yorkers. Keep in mind, some of them were New Yorkers themselves - all of the FDNY guys were - and some of them had friends who died in the towers. The theory even says it was the commander of the FDNY itself who detonated one of the buildings, and therefore he was in on the decision to kill 343 of his own firefighters and 60 police officers.
For money. If that were you... how big would that check have to be? These are people he saw every day, worked with every day. He went to weddings, birthday parties, to baseball games with these guys. In the mind of the 9/11 conspiracy, he'd kill them all for a big enough pile of cash.
Would you?
There's more. We have hundreds, if not thousands, of reporters and writers who researched the collapse, including the nine reporters and dozens of experts for the huge Popular Mechanics article on the subject.
They were paid off, too. And paid enough to walk away from the story of a lifetime, a chance to blow the lid off the conspiracy. Paid enough to refuse a sure Pulitzer and a lifetime of fame and riches as one of history's greatest heroes. And paid in such a way that no other reporters would notice and get jealous or ask questions. These people do tend to be the curious type, you know.
We're getting a nice sized payroll here. Now let's add in the hundreds of people from a dozen different agencies and police departments who claim to have helped clean up flight 93 wreckage, including 300 volunteers. The conspiracy guys say there was no plane, therefore they were paid to lie, along with all of the witnesses in Pennsylvania who claim to have seen the plane go down.
But wait, there's more. Because there are hundreds of thousands of civil engineers and structural engineers in the world (people who are experts in what makes buildings fall down) and lots of demolitions experts. Approximately zero of them say the 9/11 attacks looked like bombed buildings. All of them either say outright that the demolition theory is asinine, or are silent in the face of what the Loose Changers say is video proof of mass murder so obvious even an uneducated jackass off the street can spot it.
The conspiracy guys' explanation?
You guessed it. They were paid to stay silent. Hey, why not? Probably half a million people there, but, you know. Since we've got the checkbook out anyway...
Also, think of all of the friends and family of these paid conspirators, who suddenly see all this mysterious wealth...
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...Wouldn't some rumors get started?
You've got some hypothetical professor who was about to write a paper proving the towers were demolished, suddenly coming into Powerball-sized wealth and abandoning the paper at the same time... his wife never let it slip? His kids didn't object? All his jealous colleagues who noticed the sudden new cars and new home and elaborate vacations, nobody asked questions? Nobody made an anonymous call to the IRS, just out of spite? All the bank employees who noticed thousands of mysterious deposits, all of which have to be reported to the IRS, that didn't leave a trail?
I mean, we're up to a sizeable portion of the US population here. Odds are you've passed some of these people on the street.
And keep in mind, this can't be chump change. Even in a world where every structural engineering desk jockey is okay with mass murder, they're still not going to risk jail and career ruin and walk away from a huge book deal for ten grand. Oh, no, it's got to be millions, per person, just to make it worth it. Even a dedicated conspirator would need to know he or she was set for life.
Let's say they wrote 500,000 checks (hell, you've got more than 120,000 people in the American Society of Civil Engineers alone, and they'd be the first ones to speak out). Say the average payout was ten million (barely enough to live rich the rest of your life, but let's just say). So that's 500,000 times ten million which is...
...Five TRILLION dollars.
That's about half of the value of all goods and services produced in the United States last year. Therefore the 9/11 conspiracy was, in terms of payroll, the single largest employer in the history of the world.
The board of directors of the 9/11 conspiracy gather to await instructions (artists' rendering)
And here's the kicker...
100% of the people who were offered the deal, took it.
After all, we don't have a single person who has come running into the offices of the New York Times, waving a check and saying, "look! Here's a check for ten million smackers that the government gave me to be silent about 9/11! Can you believe these assholes? Now give me my book deal!"
Not one. Even with the lure of fame and fortune and a chance to go down in history as The Guy Who Saved American Democracy, even with the crushing guilt of seeing thousands of bodies hauled out of the rubble, even seeing the horrors of a nation turned inside out by war and paranoia that was completely manufactured as a gruesome hoax, some of these people having their own friends and families and colleagues die in the attacks, not one turned down the money... or took the money and came forward anyway.
And that, is the conspiracy mindset.
It's not a belief in corrupt leaders. Hell, we all believe in corrupt leaders. It's a belief in a corrupt everybody. It's driving around in a world where every single person you see out of your windshield is utterly bloodthirsty and amoral, all except for you and a few, brave friends. What could make you feel more important than that?
You can see the attraction right away. Most people, to feel special, have to actually do something special. But why not do what these guys do, and just make the rest of the world out to be wretched? Hell, once we've painted everyone else as mindless or murderous, all we have to do to feel superior to them is roll out of bed.
Remember what I said earlier about Dylan Avery and how it was probably just a desire for fame that drove him to do all this? Look at the parallel here. At the heart of all this is that basic human need to feel special somehow, twisted in the most warped and corrosive way imaginable.
In conclusion, the 9/11 Conspiracy Guys aren't evil and they aren't liars. They're merely filling a basic human need, using their imaginations and paranoia to elevate themselves to a level the real world will never elevate them to. Also, they're retarded.
The Verdict:
Liars? Retarded? They're probably both right. Just as the crooked televangelist steals from old widows who themselves have an honest faith in God, Dylan Avery and the Loose Change guys have made a nice name for themselves (and a nice profit) from a large group of true believers who have always lived at the fringes of society. These are the type who think the moon landing was a hoax, that Area 51 houses alien spacecraft.
And then you have the rank and file, the kids who watched the video and just plain didn't know any better because they didn't follow it up with any reading. They're not reading this, for instance.
No, they saw Loose Change and went charging into their favorite forum or chat room, screaming, "WATCH THIS BITCHWHORES LOOSE CHANGE IS GONNA CHANGE YOUR WORLD." By the time people started posting info that debunked it, it was kind of hard for them to back down without looking like an asshole. So, they stand by it.
So even if you strapped them down and forced them to read this, they'd just pick out one detail that they thought would give them reason to discredit the whole thing and dismiss it from their minds.
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After all, nobody likes feeling like an asshole. But if we keep getting the real information out there, with time, the conspiracy silliness will fade away.
I have faith in humanity.
If you have watched Loose Change you should immediately watch the rebuttal video that goes pretty much sentence-by-sentence. If you'd like to read more about the 9/11 conspiracy movement, there's lots more at Debunking911.com and Screw Loose Change, whose research I stole for this article.


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A lot has happened since I last popped into this thread. Fantastic work winning the the Champions League with Werder and a good move to Arsenal too
Koster looks phenominal - although I don't think I could ever have it in me to spend £60M on one player, but I guess when you're backed by a tycoon money is no object . It's interesting to see MK Dons in the prem in your save(although, it doesn't look like they will be there for much longer). In mine they suffered 3 successive relegations and are stuck in the Blue Square North, £40M in debt


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Hybrid View
31 Jan 2012 12:51 PM #1
Using Designer 2.0 and Designer 1.1
Can I load Designer 2.0 and still have 1.1 on my machine to use as I have been? I would like to still do our production development with the old designer and try out the new designer.
31 Jan 2012 1:43 PM #2
Yes, they will install in different directories in all operating systems.
In windows and linux installing designer 2.0 will start owning the xds file extensions which you can change back if you want.
In os x installing designer 2.0 will not own the new file extension whig you can also change via finder.
In short yes they can live side by side but you will have to configure yor file associations the way you want them.Aaron Conran


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FOLLANSBEE - A Wellsburg man has been charged with public intoxication, obstructing an officer, brandishing a weapon and making terroristic threats in connection with the investigation of reports of a suspicious person carrying an assault rifle within the vicinity of a local school Friday.
City Police Chief John Schwertfeger said Justin Charles Nixon, 38, of RD 2, Wellsburg, was charged after being apprehended by police responding to the reports of a man walking on Allegheny Street with an assault rifle at about 1:40 p.m.
Schwertfeger said Nixon matches the description provided by witnesses and though a weapon wasn't found on his person, an assault rifle was found in a home on the street where he was staying.
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SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTED — Brooke County sheriff's deputies were among many area police agencies who responded to reports of a man carrying an assault rifle on Allegheny Street Friday afternoon. A Wellsburg man has been charged with public intoxication and obstructing an officer and may face other charges in connection with the incident./Warren Scott
Justin Charles Nixon
Nixon was apprehended by police near the intersection of Allegheny and Linden streets, not far from Jefferson Primary School, which was locked down by Brooke County school officials after the suspicious man was reported to police.
Follansbee Middle School and Hooverson Heights Primary School also were locked down as a precaution, said Marty Bartz, Brooke County assistant superintendent.
Schwertfeger praised school officials and area law enforcement agencies, saying they responded swiftly to the reports.
City Police were assisted by the Brooke County Sheriff's Department and Wellsburg Police in investigating the incident.
Bartz said officers from the sheriff's departments, including prevention resource officers at Brooke County Schools; Wellsburg Police; and even Steve Himmelrick, an officer with the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources, escorted children from Jefferson Primary and Follansbee Middle schools to their buses or parents' vehicles when the lockdown was lifted about an hour later, near the schools' regular dismissal time.
The lockdown at Hooverson Heights Primary School, which is farther away, was lifted earlier.
Kathy Kidder, superintendent, said the school's automated calling system was used to alert parents of the lockdowns, stating briefly that a suspicious person in the area was the cause.
Kidder said the school district hadn't received any threats.


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Low-Calorie Breakfast Recipes for Two (Slide 8)
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I know the title sounds a bit weird but thats what i remember. I watched this as a kid, which was probably before or around 1990. Back then, i was pretty confused/scared by that scene. There was some kind of social event and then there was that weird alien/monster with kind of a proboscis/trunk. I believe it was considered friendly at first, but then (for some reason) mutated into a not-so friendly thing. Panic broke lose and in defense, someone cut part of the proboscis but it immediately grew back. Some man was hiding under a table and when he was trying to look what was going on, the "monster" tramped down his head but somehow in a funny way (i believe there was no blood/gore involved).
I finally found it myself.
It was created in 1981 by two countries that no longer exist in the geo-political sense, namely Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Two versions of the film were made, the Yugoslavian title was 'Gosti iz galaksije' (which translates as 'Visitors From The Galaxy") and the Czech version was called 'Monstrum z galaxie Arkana' (which can be translated into 'Monster from the Galaxy Arcana').
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The Cancer Center's Nashua Grand Opening
New hematology/oncology clinic to open Jan. 16 in Dartmouth-Hitchcock's new Nashua, N.H., facility
The new building will include a hematology/oncology clinic, part of the Cancer Center, as well as Dartmouth-Hitchcock's new state-of-the art ambulatory care center.
The new five-story, 140,000-square-foot facility solves a space problem that had been hampering the Cancer Center's and Dartmouth-Hitchcock's ability to serve communities in southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts.
But it will also showcase several unique patient-centered features. The infusion suite, for example, is designed so that a single nurse on duty has visual contact with every patient undergoing infusion, ensuring patient safety. Also, each infusion station is designed for privacy and to facilitate conversation with fellow patients: a half-wall topped with a privacy window between each station allows patients to visit or to keep out unwanted distractions.
Architecturally, the Nashua building is designed so that doctors and nurses sit together near patients, promoting collaboration and a team approach to patient care. The same kind of feature brings general practitioners and specialists together. And outside the infusion suite, a healing garden offers a pleasant environment for rest, recuperation, or contemplation.
A grand Opening Celebration will be held on Jan. 28th, including a ribbon-cutting at 10:00 a.m., refreshments and food from Nashua restaurants and yogurt from Stonyfield Farms, self-guided tours, meet-and-greets with providers and staff, health and screening information, and children's activities.
In addition to the festivities on the 28th, the Nashua Chamber of Commerce is hosting its members-and-invited-guests "Business After Hours" networking reception at the new building on January 11.
Hematology/Oncology and Other Services
The Cancer Center will operate a full-time hematology/oncology clinic within the new facility, and provide treatments and care for a variety of cancers on a regular, scheduled basis. The new building will also include an infusion suite, radiology for MRIs and CT scans, endoscopy, gastroenterology, general surgery, orthopedics/podiatry, an occupational and environmental medicine clinic, cardiology, dermatology, infectious disease, and neurology. In addition, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (ChaD) will operate a pediatric and pediatric specialties clinic in Nashua. The third floor of the new building will be devoted to women's health—obstetrics, gynecology, nurse midwifery, maternal-fetal medicine, reproductive medicine and infertility, and breast health, with an imaging center for mammography, bone density scans, and ultrasounds.
There will also be a café for patients, families, and staff in the new facility.
Because of its patient-centered design and increased availability of services, the new facility will better enable the Cancer Center to provide local care. Patients who already receive treatment in the old Nashua facility will not have any interruption in their care.
Appointment Information for Current Patients
Current, ongoing Nashua patients should note the following important messages:
- In preparation for the move to 2300 Southwood Drive, our East, West, and Squires facilities will be closed on Friday, January 13. Please note that Urgent Appointments, the Lab, and Radiology will be open on Friday, January 13, at the new facility to handle patients' acute needs on move day.
- When you arrive for your appointment, please proceed directly to the department floor for patient registration—you no longer need to stop at central registration at the first-level entrance.
- Our department phone and fax numbers will remain unchanged, except for Urgent Appointments. Please note that the new number for Urgent Appointments is (603) 577-4188.
January 10, 2012
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Healthy Homemade Birthday Cake Recipes (Slide 17)
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ANDERSON, S.C. – Coming off a three-game sweep of South Atlantic Conference newcomer Coker last weekend, Anderson University baseball returns to action on Wednesday looking to continue its winning streak when it travels to the Greenville Drive's Fluor Field to square off against Southern Wesleyan. First pitch is set for 5 p.m.
The Trojans
Currently, AU is on a four-game winning streak, capturing a 22-12 marathon win over in-state rival North Greenville prior to the conference sweep. Despite their 7-13 overall record, the Trojans are an impressive 6-3 in SAC play, joining three other teams at the top of the conference standings with three conference losses.
After fending off a six-game losing streak, Anderson's offense has come alive, hitting .392 in its last four games. The Trojans have added 14 doubles, three home runs and are slugging .585 in the span. Six Trojans, who started in each of the last four games, hit .400 or above in the winning streak, highlighted by senior right fielder Paul Como's .471 average with five doubles, seven RBI and four runs scored. For the season, Como ranks second nationally in doubles with 10.
Also getting national recognition is classmate Nathan Galliford with seven home runs this season, one home run shy from tying the nation's leader, Montevallo's Jackson Slaid. Galliford hit a home run in each contest of the three-game series against Coker, capped off by an eventual game-winning two-run home run, giving AU a 5-4 lead.
Defensively, Anderson's weekend rotation of Spencer Earle, Thomas Goodman and Landon Beck shined against the Cobras, combining for two complete games, 26 strikeouts and just nine walks. Along with right-hander Evan Jordan, who came in relief in the first game, the four Anderson pitchers held Coker batters to a .202 average.
The Warriors
Beginning the season with 14 straight home games, Southern Wesleyan holds an 8-11 record for the season with a doubleheader scheduled for Tuesday against Truett-McConnell. Most recently, the Warriors captured two-of-three from Southern State Athletic Conference opponent, Brewton-Parker last weekend. After dropping the opening game of the season, SWU clawed its way back into the series, sweeping the doubleheader on Saturday.
Two-way player Daniel Williams is currently hitting a team-high .352 with two doubles and nine RBI. Teammate Michel Hyman, who has started in the outfield in all 19 games, joins Williams as the only other Warrior hitting above .300 this season with a .303 average, adding a double, four RBI and 16 runs scored. For the campaign, Southern Wesleyan begins games quickly, outscoring its opponent 23-3 in the first inning this season.
On the mound, left-handers Matt Buss and Matt Craig each have five starts for the year, as Buss leads the starting rotation with a 2.63 ERA, while Craig carries a 3.45 mark. As a staff, the Warriors are holding teams to a .267 average and are two strike outs away from 100 for the year.
The Series
A season ago, SWU captured both meetings between the teams with a 17-11 win on April 11 in Central and a 4-3 win in AU's regular season finale at Anderson Memorial Stadium.
Wednesday's meeting marks the third straight season the Trojans will play at Fluor Field, splitting its matchups with Lander in each of the last two seasons. Last year, the Trojans stunned the nationally-ranked Bearcats with a 4-1 win on April 9, 2013.


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I'm thinking of creating a Game Engine with a C++ Compiler using OpenGL but I don't know how to create a compiler in an application. Do I have to write the compiler? or could I use (for example) the Visual C++ Compiler?
The only reason that I can see for including a compiler in an application is that you wish users to be able to write their own code in C++ which is compiled, linked, and executed at runtime. This isn't a brilliant idea, and in fact there is a common game engine technique called scripting that allows users to do write their own code and have it executed.
A short extract from Jason Gregory's Game Engine Architecture (third edition) from page 794 can be found below:
A short list of benefits of scripting:
I would suggest you look into adding scripting functionality as this would be a better solution to your problem. There are many scripting related questions on gamedev.stackexchange to get you started!
Yes, you can (and in my opinion should!) use the Visual C++ compiler. It is currently one of the best compilers out there.
Furthermore, while it is very interesting to write your own compiler, it's not very wise to use it for speed-critical applications like games.


text: Eight Steubenville High School students received $250 checks from the Challenge Program Thursday. The sophomore and junior students were recognized for attendance, academic improvement, academic excellence and community service by the program that partners with businesses to motivate students by encouraging good habits that will last through their education and future careers. DPS Penn partnered with the Challenge Program to provide the incentives to the local students. Receiving recognition and the checks were, seated, from left, William Utzler, Joseph DuBois, LaShawna Wilson and Mariah Nixon; and standing, Carmela Biasi, Emily Masloski, Katrina Sliuka and Francesca Torini. -- Dave Gossett


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Bullied high school student Tommy (Daniel Flaherty) is suddenly befriended by his chief tormentor, Matt (Kenton Duty), the school's most popular student and star athlete. Tommy is suspicious, but is forced to accept the awkward friendship in order to enter a cooking contest with a big prize. And besides, it's so much easier to impress his crush, Sarah (Katherine McNamara), when he's not getting beat up by Matt and his team. As the cooking contest heats up, Sarah sniffs out a conspiracy, but nobody wants to hear about it. Can Tommy trust his budding friendship with Matt or is it all a huge joke on him?
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How can I view more than one page in Blackboard at the same time?
In any web browser, you have the ability to open multiple windows (or multiple tabs in a single window). You can log into Bb Learn in each of these windows or tabs and navigate to different parts of your course. For example, one window might contain the Grade Center and a second window could contain the Discussions module. This ability to hop back and forth between different places in the course without leaving the page is faster and can be very convenient when developing course content or grading student work.
With multiple browsers, you can perform an additional trick. If you access Bb Learn in Firefox, for example, with your regular NAU account, you can access Bb Learn in Google Chrome or Internet Explorer or Safari and log in using a different account such as the Test Student. This allows you to design things as an instructor and test them in a true student view.
Additional browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are free and easy to install on your Mac or Windows computer.


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HGervais wrote:Andrew Forbes wrote:HGervais wrote:Picking up and putting down Kiss Me Deadly several times today. This whole holding off on picking up Criterions until the start of the July B&N sale is driving me a little crazy.
Buy it. Buy it. Buy it. Buy it.
Actually, ask yourself if you'll watch it before the sale, and let that determine whether or not you buy.
Having said that, buy it.
Oh I will but 18 bucks is a lot more attractive than 40 bucks. I know Kiss Me Deadly. I love Kiss Me Deadly. I can wait a few weeks....it's just not something that I'm used to.
It's good to fight against our society's impulse for instant gratification. Kudos to you.
On the other hand, what's twenty-two bucks in the face of eternity? Buy it.


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What is atherosclerosis?
Atherosclerosis (say: "ath-er-o-skler-o-sis") is a disease that causes your arteries to become hard and narrowed. It's even possible for an artery to become completely blocked. Your arteries are blood vessels that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body.
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What does the Spanish word mortal mean when used as slang? Does it have a positive or negative connotation towards the thing being described?
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In Argentina:
In informal conversation, it's roughly equivalent to 'terrific', as in very good, awesome
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meaning that it was really good, that I enjoyed it very much.
In Spain, and as far as I understand, it has a powerful negative connotation. For example:
However, and as it sometimes happens with other words, it may as well be used with exactly the opposite meaning. I haven't ever heard it that way, though. Wheat I have heard, as @Laura points out, is de muerte meaning "extremely good" or "awesome":
It can also mean "extremely funny" in Spain.


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WEIRTON - The Brooke girls soccer team defeated Weir 3-0 Thursday at Jimmy Carey Stadium.
Mekenzie DeFranco, Shelby Cronin and Michaela Hinerman all found the back of the net for the Bruins. Hinerman was joined by Cheyenne Hudson and Sarah Hardsouk in dishing out an assist. Marena Cline earned the shut out with three saves in goal.
The Red Riders used a pair of players in net with Alyssa Kelly saving nine shots and Nicole Pellegrino stopping five.
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RACE TO THE BALL — Brooke's Cheyenne Hudson races a Weir player to the ball during the Bruins 3-0 win Thursday at Jimmy Carey Stadium.
-- Fred Younce
CONTROLLING THE BALL — Weir's Alesia LeSane pushes the ball upfield against Brooke. The Red Riders fell 3-0 to the Bruins Thursday at Jimmy Carey Stadium.
-- Fred Younce
Redskins ground Jets
WINTERSVILLE - The Indian Creek volleyball team swept Union Local 25-8, 25-22, 25-9 Thursday.
The Redskins (18-2) received nine kills and six digs from Whitney Martin, four digs from Ali Collaros, three digs from Mallorie Sullivan and three digs and three blocks from Alexis Fithen.
Jessica Furda led the way with 20 assists, seven aces, two kills and 17 digs, with Brey Mays adding four aces, six kills and six digs; Bre Berryman contributing eight kills, two blocks and two digs; and Kiarra Kamarec chipping in three kills, two blocks and three digs.
The Jets were led by Carly Schafer's seven digs, eight assists, and two blocks with Shayla Otto adding two aces, seven digs, three kills and two blocks.
Big Red blanks Carrollton
STEUBENVILLE - The Big Red boys soccer team topped Carrollton 4-0 Thursday at Harding Stadium on a night to support the fight against breast cancer.
Nate Kurty, Shane Fabros, Jorge Dominguez and Brandon Llewellyn each scored a goal for Steubenville. Llewellyn also added an assist with Stefano Lanni assisting on a pair of goals. John Paul Duff had two saves in the shut out.
Carrollton goalie Tyler Krantz turned away 16 shots in the loss.
Big Red (9-5-2) takes on Edison Wednesday at 6 p.m. in sectional play at Harding Stadium.
Brooke drops three
SISTERVILLE - The Brooke volleyball team dropped matches to Morgantown (25-11, 25-17), Parkersburg South (25-18, 25-12), and host Tyler Consolidated (25-14, 25-17) in a quad-match Thursday.
Against Morgantown, Samantha Mazzone had three assists and two aces for the Bruins with Isabella Preston adding four kills, Angela Staffileno adding four kills and five blocks and Emily Stuck adding 11 digs.
Mazzone had six assists vs. Parkersburg South while Prestion had three kills and five digs, Kourtney Leonard had three kills and two digs, Staffileno had four kills and four blocks, Stuck had 10 digs and Kourtney Koscevic had three blocks.
The match against Tyler Consolidated saw Mazzone pick up seven assists, Preston two aces, Leonard two kills, Staffileno seven kills, Stuck eight assists and Koscevic three kills.
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I know I could just carry a bottle, but scavenging is much more fun. What is a good source of vitamin C in the wild? Have spruce needles really got enough?
Pine needle tea is a good solution which is available year round in areas where pines grow. Do be careful to identify properly, and take care to not guzzle the stuff down... too much is bad for you. However this is the easiest to find and pine needle tea has a ton of vitamin C.
Dandelion greens are plentiful in many areas and good for vitamin C, though I detest the flavor.
Chicory is a decent source, though I find it to be too easy to misidentify.
All types of berries are your answer here! Pretty much any (edible) variety contains a large amount of vitamin C - blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries for instance. (Blackberries and raspberries seem to be especially prevalent at the right time of the year here in the UK.) And they're tasty too.
Of course, it goes without saying if you're not 100% sure what a plant is then don't risk eating it.
Scurvy Grass Sorrell has leaves rich in Vitamin C, and got its name from sailors travelling round Cape Horn who would eat the leaves to avoid scurvy.
It tastes pretty good, despite what the Wikipedia page says, but I'm not sure how widespread it is outside South America.


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I was going through the Windows Installer page and it's made very simple. I'm just wondering if I'll lose my files if I do that. I had Ubuntu, loved it, got a new laptop, and should've installed Ubuntu then but didn't. I don't have any external storage media currently available to me, but if I can install Ubuntu without losing my files I'll go ahead and do that. Help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
First of all, Try Ubuntu with a liveCD or liveUSB. To see if it works with your laptop. because sometimes you may end up with a black screen.
Second thing, Try to back up your data. I know you don't have any external storage. But try to find one. To tell you the truth I don't back up my data. Even when I installed Ubuntu for the first time. Because the installation process is really simple. all you have to do is to click on "Install alongside windows" option and it will automatically adjust it for you.
Now, if you want to select the "advanced option". At that time you should really consider backing up your data.
Are you using a CD or are you installing from wubi.exe by copying the files over from the .iso / disc image onto a folder?
I was able to just run wubi.exe while Windows 7 was still running by taking all the install files off of the disc image. It made a .disk file in my Windows folder, set up a boot option and restarted perfectly. All my Windows files were perfectly fine. I don't know what to add for someone using a CD though.
There are two options that I would recommend:
You can install Ubuntu through WUBI -
You can install alongside Windows -
How to later retrieve your files:
WUBI: In File Browser, goto /host/
Alongside Windows: The partition should show up in the side of the file browser. e.g. Mine says "Acer"
Easiest method is wubi ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/windows-installer Just click "Get the installer" and it should start downloading. After you download, save; it asks you you enter username, password, and then tells you to restart the computer. Once you restart, ubuntu automatically starts. Then, shut down the computer and when you start it, there are two options: windows, AND ubuntu. You are ready to go. This is the method that I followed and successfully downloaded ubuntu.
It's a great thing as you have windows and you have ubuntu (without altering anything in your windows).


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My question seems pretty easy. Prove the correctness of the following approximation:
$$f(x)''= \frac{-f(x-2h)+16f(x-h)-30f(x)+16f(x-h)-f(x+2h)}{12h^2}$$
I rendered myself deeply saddened upon stumbling on this and being seemingly unable solve it by my own. I also failed to find proof anywhere online. Only final answer.
The way I tried to it is via pretty common Taylor series expansion:
$$f(x+h) = f(x) + f'(x)h+\frac{1}{2!}f''(x)h^2+\frac{1}{3!}f^{(3)}(x)h^3 + \sum_{n=4}^\infty \frac{1}{n!}f^{(n)}(x)h^n\quad (1)$$
I cut it off after $f^{(3)}$.
I use this formula to get rest of the points to have 5-stencils, simply by substituting $h$ with $\{-h; 2h; -2h\}$ Thus I get:
$$f(x-h) = f(x) - f'(x)h+\frac{1}{2!}f''(x)h^2-\frac{1}{3!}f^{(3)}(x)h^3\quad (2)$$ $$f(x+2h) = f(x) + 2f'(x)h+\frac{4}{2!}f''(x)h^2+\frac{8}{3!}f^{(3)}(x)h^3\quad (3)$$ $$f(x-2h) = f(x) - 2f'(x)h+\frac{4}{2!}f''(x)h^2-\frac{8}{3!}f^{(3)}(x)h^3\quad (4)$$
When I use equations $(1)$ and $(2)$, and add them by sides, I can get the 3-point formula:
$$f(x+h) + f(x-h) = 2f(x) + f''(x)h^2\quad (5)$$
$$f''(x) = \frac{f(x-h) - f(2x) + f(x+h)}{h^2}$$
However when I try to do this with all the equations $(1)$-$(4)$ I get:
$$f(x+h) + f(x-h) = 2f(x) + f''(x)h^2 \quad (6)$$
$$f(x+2h) + f(x-2h) = 2f(x) +4f''(x)h^2\quad (7)$$
Then I can try subtracting $(6)$ from $(7)$ and I get:
$$f(x+h) + f(x-h) - f(x+2h) - f(x-2h) = 3 f''(x)h^2\quad (8)$$
which gives
$$f''(x) = \frac{f(x+h) + f(x-h) - f(x+2h) - f(x-2h) } {3 h^2} \quad(9)$$
This is clearly different from what I am expecting. Also doing $(6)$+$(7)$ doesn't seem to yield correct coefficients, even though it preserves $f(x)$ term.
Could you point out flaw in the approach and provide correct reasoning or any materials? All I found were very general or final answers with no explicit transformations. I feel kinda stupid being unable to get it right but I can't spot the flaw.


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A Port St. Lucie man was bragging on his Facebook page about his life as a drug dealer and how easy it was for him to sell drugs in front of Martin County Sheriff's deputies, according to MCSO.
Deputies said Taylor Harrison, 21, took a selfie of himself with stacks of drug cash and drugs, and a photo of an MCSO patrol car that pulled along side of him.
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Deputies captured a photo with an undercover camera while Taylor tried to sell drugs to an undercover deputy.
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PA Sales Tax: Clothes are exempt right?
Just put in my 'rando' long sleeved shirt order + was surprised by the addition of a sales tax. I'm pretty sure shirt.woot type t-shirts are in the exempt category as they are not solely used for formal evening wear or solely for sport or made of fur (ref: https://revenue-pa.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1846/~/are-clothes-subject-to-sales-tax%3F) and are the same kind of shirts that Target + Old Navy don't charge me tax on. Did I get this wrong? Or is shirt.woot in for some complaints? And yes, I did email customer service.
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I'm guessing any and all t-shirts count as clothing normally used when engaged in sports.
The fur portion (natural OR synthetic) of that law that you link to is so effing ridiculous I'm surprised they decided to complicate things so much... some of the legislators must have been paid off by competing material manufacturers.
Interesting --> NT – T-shirts, imprinted
You're right about t-shirts being non-taxable.
Answered you in your other thread on shirt.woot:
Basically, I'm checking.
Amazon says:
"Items sold by Amazon .com LLC, or its subsidiaries, and shipped to destinations in the following states are subject to tax:
New York
North Dakota
No sales tax is charged when purchasing gift cards; however, purchases paid for with gift cards may be subject to tax."
Which sounds to me like they are charging tax on everything they sell to those customers because its simpler than trying to figure out what is and isn't taxable in each state.
I am HOT!! Way beyond POed!! I am FUMING! I just canceled my order for the batteies. Amazon and Woot have no idea how much business they just lost!
To answer your question - as you already know - yes, you are correct. There is NO TAX on clothing in PA. There is NO TAX on ANY "necessity" in PA (although what the state considers a "necessity" doesn't always have rhyme or reason). For example - candy is not taxed because it is a food, but gum is. Regardless, NO shirts on shirts woot should EVER be taxed for PA residents. PA is good at collecting tax, but if you pay tax on something you shouldn't - don't think for a second they will give it back. Nope, tax shouldn't be charged on clothing in the first place.
You have no idea how much shopping I do (used to do) on Amazon and Woot. We are talking FIVE
DIGITS last year. That translates into WELL over $600 dollars in tax I WON'T be saving be shopping here anymore. I had NO idea this was coming and don't even know what caused the change...
@michaels1715: " I had NO idea this was coming and don't even know what caused the change..."
State legislatures want their tax revenues. You can write your legislature, but good luck with that. Some states have even added a line to their state income tax forms to calculate how much you should pay for internet, mail, or out of state purchases.
Whether an item should be charged tax or not is just another problem for internet and mail-order retailers to figure out. It's not going to go away but may take a bit to work it all out.
@michaels1715: It's only a matter of time before every purchase on the Internet is taxed. Don't get used to the idea of not paying taxes for online purchases.
@michaels1715: It wasn't Amazon. Amazon was forced to reverse it's policy of not charging sales tax to PA because of a PA state directive. So they'd be breaking PA law if they didn't start charging tax.
Seriously, we live in the US. You pay sales tax. It's a luxury when you don't, really ridiculous to get so heated over it. BTW, join the club and be thankful. I pay 9.5% sales tax on Amazon and Woot since I moved to Washington last year.
"I had NO idea this was coming and don't even know what caused the change..." It has been an issue in the news for years, that being Amazon's battles with state legislatures to not charge sales tax. Also, you could have googled it, because the PA news is all over the internet right now. When a business has a presence in a state, you need to pay sales tax. Amazon has successfully made deals and lobbied against it for a long time, but now they are starting to lose those battles.
@meh3884: @hackman2007: I think you two are missing the point. He isn't annoyed about sales tax in general, he's mad about paying it on products that are on the books as being tax-free.
@panthiest: michaels1715 mentioned several things in their post. The poster mentioned they canceled their order from Woot for batteries which is not related to clothing. Later the poster mentions that clothing shouldn't be taxed and finally mentioned they will not be shopping on Woot or Amazon at all. Unless I'm missing something, this goes a lot deeper than purchases that shouldn't be taxed if they plan to quit shopping at both for all purchases.
@panthiest: Sure, but again - that's Pennsylvania's directive, not Amazon's. Saying he's not going to shop at Amazon at all anymore because Amazon is being forced to follow a PA state law that includes tax on clothing is quite misguided. How much of that "5 figure" in sales were shirts from shirt.woot? Amazon has been vicious in this fight; if there was a way to get out of charging sales tax on some items they would have found it. Or maybe they're working on it now.
Regardless, this is neither out of the blue nor surprising. It's been in the works for a long time and is going to happen more as Amazon opens more warehouses across the country in more states.
@meh3884: once again, though, that was not his original point. It seems t-shirts should not be taxed at all in Pennsylvania. It looks like maybe woot! is charging it in error.
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Okay, first of all, I apologize. I was taken by surprise and was having an upsetting morning already about something else, so I over-reacted. It is not Amazon's or Woot's fault whatsoever - I'm sorry I implied it was. This is totally the fault of the bass ackwards state of PA. Woot, please accept my apologies for yelling & ranting at you - I wasn't being myself. I appreciate all that you guys did to try to prevent this.
As far as whoever said something like "we live in America, we pay tax" (I'm on my phone - too much effort to re-read comments), or something like that. Well, that may be true for where you live, and also where I live now, but 2 states I've lived in/still have relatives in/travel to frequently, do NOT charge ANY sales tax - New Hampshire & Delaware.
I don'tt pay much attention to news, but I have heard talk of tax changes for online shopping - I didn't realize it was going to affect me drastically, starting today.
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I think a couple of you mixed me up with the OP. I am not
THE OP, I was just answering the OP & ranting at the same time. No, PA does not charge sales tax on clothes, and yes, shirt.woot is charging tax incorrectly. Shirt woot is not what I was complaining about. How much of my 5 figures were spent on shirt.woot? Less than 3 figures. That's the least of my problems, as I mostly buy "non-necessities". Again, I only mentioned clothing because I was answering the original question.
Everyone makes mistakes. Some people admit them, some do not. I am one who admits my mistakes (usually). I was completely, 100% wrong to rant at Amazon and Woot. Instead I should've been thanking them for all the effort they've put into this issue with the states and especially PA. So again, I apologize - I am truly sorry. I will need to go apologize on shirt.woot as well.
Cont... (last time, sorry)
Oh, and by the way, one of you was very careful not to call me he or she, but another one of you called me "he", although I think he/she had me mixed up with the OP. I usually sign my name when I post under this ID, but didn't even bother to this morning. The majority of people who see "michaels1715" assume my first name is Michael, but they are wrong (please note the "s" after michael) - my name is not "Michael", nor am I a male :D
I hope everyone has a safe and happy labor day weekend.
@michaels1715: Off topic, I have to admit that your rant made me smile. I immediately thought of my late father-in-law who would start or end many stories with "I was HOT!!" He's the only one I've known who used that phrase, so I had an instant picture of him in full indignation. I wonder if it is a regional thing? He was from Maine originally, but lived in Connecticut most of his life.
@michaels1715: Sorry for calling you a he - I actually wasn't trying to imply gender, just going with the standard without doing an awkward s/he or grammatically incorrect 'they' :) Also, I totally understand getting heated over this, I was pissed when I had to start paying, too.
Anyways, on the taxing thing - even if your state does not collect sales tax, they collect taxes in other ways - through property, school, income tax, etc. Some way or another, we pay. Any time we don't it is a luxury, that was my point there.
Lastly, what I was ultimately getting at is that it still might not be woot erroneously collecting tax. It is possible that PA is forcing Amazon to charge an all encompassing ecommerce tax on all purchases that is not the same as your typical in-state purchase tax, which exempts clothing. One reason would be to make you more likely to purchase in state. Taxes are only one reason why local economies don't like Amazon or other mega online retailers :)
Well this turned into so much fun, I probably shouldn't mention use tax ; ) http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/use_tax/14489
@michaels1715: You could move to Germany and pay 19% tax on everything that's not food. Food's only like 7.5% or something like that. I love it when other Americans complain about how many taxes they have to pay and take umbrage that someone had the gall to charge them sales tax. Just remember: it could always be worse. Or you could always look at it as a small fee for the privilege of living in a freaking amazing country. That's what I do.
@zuiquan: The rates of VAT (Value Added Tax) are way higher in Europe generally, but there's one noticeable difference in the shopping experience - the price displayed includes the tax, so if the sticker says EUR19.99, you get change from 20 Euro. It makes it easier to stick to your budget :-)
@ripwave: I'll give you that it's already factored into the cost of whatever you're buying but it's still a hidden tax. Whether a person acknowledges it or not is up to them. Sure, I can go out and buy a Google Nexus 7 for 249 euro and there's no "extra" tax involved. So that Nexus 7 actually costs me $313 and some odd cents. Part of that extra cost is the exchange rate but most of that is the VAT. Take the VAT out of the equation and a Nexus 7 costs me roughly 253 dollars after conversion. So yeah, it's already factored in but 20 percent is still 20 percent.
Hi there. Heard back and we are making corrections to our calculations for PA for shirts. You should expect a redund on that tax before long. Sorry for the inconvenience.
good to know. Thanks for the update @thunderthighs.


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Thieves entered three businesses Sunday night in the capital city and made away with cash.
At 7:15, officers were on the scene at 1517 SE 6th. That's where Deportes Y Mas workers say four black men, two of them armed, held them at gunpoint. One worker told 13 News her four frightened kids were in the store at the time. No one was injured. Workers say the robbers got away with about one hundred dollars.
At 7:45, across town, officers were called to Dimple Donuts on SW 21st St. Employees say a white man, about 6 ft. tall wearing a red hooded jacket with a dark blue bandana covering his face, entered the store. Workers say the man said he wanted what was in the register. They thought he was joking, pointed at the register and said "well there it is..." That's when workers say the man fled the store. They saw he had a large knife and realized he was serious.
Then just after 8 p.m., the Subway off 17th and Medford was hit. Authorities say a man matching the description of the Dimple Donuts robber threatened the cashier with a knife. Officials say four people were inside at the time. No one was injured during the incident. The thief made off with an unknown amount of cash. Police say they don't know if that suspect took off by foot or vehicle.
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Verizon Wireless is making a big announcement in New York on Tuesday. Could the news be the long-awaited Verizon iPhone?
On Friday, the company sent reporters an invitation to a press event hosted by Lowell McAdam, Verizon's chief operating officer. The event, which will take place at the Lincoln Center, is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. ET. (That's 1/11/11 at 11.)
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday afternoon that an unnamed source confirmed that the press conference is about the Verizon iPhone. And All Things Digital said it heard from an unnamed source that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will make an appearance at the press conference.
Verizon is still keeping mum about what, exactly, the company will announce on Tuesday. A company representative declined to comment further on the invitation sent to press. So we have no way of knowing for certain what the big news will be. Just this week, the carrier announced a slew of new smartphones and tablet PCs for its 4G wireless network, including the new Motorola Xoom tablet, HTC Thunderbolt, and the Motorola Droid Bionic, among others.
Missing from the list of 4G products announced--and the one thing readers constantly asked us about during the week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas--was the long-rumored iPhone running on the Verizon network. For months, there has been speculation about Verizon getting a version of the iPhone, once Apple's exclusivity deal with AT&T ends early this year.
Indeed, CNET readers and attendees at CES, where Verizon made its big 4G announcements, were disappointed Thursday after both the Verizon CEO keynote and the Verizon Wireless press conference that the iPhone was not announced at the show. Despite its absence, the iPhone still managed to dominate chatter in Las Vegas all day Friday. This isn't the first time that Apple, which doesn't participate in CES, has managed to steal thunder from the CES show. The first iPhone was introduced during CES in 2007 creating a big stir.
When asked Thursday about a Verizon version of the iPhone, Verizon Wireless executives Tony Melone, chief technology officer, and Marni Walden, chief marketing officer, declined to comment.
"We don't comment on rumors," Walden said in an interview with CNET. "We are here today to talk about our new 4G network and 4G products."
But Melone said that if Verizon were to get the iPhone, the carrier's network is ready to handle the extra load of traffic expected from eager iPhone users switching from AT&T to Verizon's network.
"I can't answer specifically about the iPhone," he said during an interview with CNET. "But in general, I feel very confident about our network. We have seen tremendous growth over the past 19 months on our network with the Android devices and other smartphones. And I am very confident in our 3G and 4G networks--that we can handle whatever demands our customers put on us."
Even though Verizon has not been commenting on when it will get the iPhone, executives have long indicated that getting the device wasn't a matter of if but simply a matter of when. Now that we think we know when the device will be launched, the next big question is whether a Verizon iPhone will work on Verizon's new, faster 4G wireless network.
Verizon launched the faster network in December. It is touted to get between 5Mbps and 12Mbps average download speeds. Compare this to the 700Kbps-to-1Mbps average download speeds of its 3G EV-DO network.
The 4G service is now available to more than 110 million potential customers in 38 markets. And Verizon plans to increase the coverage and potential customer base over the next two years, until it completes the network.


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My shared hoster is continually disabling my site as it appears there is a run away plugin that is pegging mysql.
In their logs, I'm seeing these:
# Wed Jun 29 00:00:33 2011
# Query_time: 22.923943 Lock_time: 4.941786 Rows_sent: 100 Rows_examined: 808400
use FOO_wrdp2;
SELECT * FROM wp_slimex_stats LIMIT 808300, 100
# Wed Jun 29 00:00:38 2011
# Query_time: 4.485267 Lock_time: 0.000093 Rows_sent: 100 Rows_examined: 808500
use FOO_wrdp2;
SELECT * FROM wp_slimex_stats LIMIT 808400, 100
# Wed Jun 29 00:00:39 2011
# Query_time: 1.409544 Lock_time: 0.023081 Rows_sent: 100 Rows_examined: 808600
use FOO_wrdp2;
SELECT * FROM wp_slimex_stats LIMIT 808500, 100
Notice the
wp_slimex_stats mention and teh large query times. This is the part that's raising red flags for my shared hoster.
wp_slimex_stats is indeed a table in my wordpress db but there is no such plugin installed or running on my wordpress blog. It also doesn't appear to be a part of other plugins I have installed.
I've done a web search and can't find much info at all on this plugin but it appears to be a logging plugin based on the columns I see in the mentioned tables (remote_ip, langugage, country, domain, referer, etc).
How in the world do I debug this to track down where the plugin actually is so I can disable it?


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What's the Best Ponytail for Your Face Shape?
Turns out there's more to throwing your hair up than you think. Follow this easy guide to discover which ponytails work best with your face shape
Another option that's especially great if your ponytail is stingy in length: Create a deep side part and swoop hair across your forehead. Pull the rest of your hair into a small elastic at the nape of your neck, says Cho. This will create a soft, side-swept angle across the face and help hide the puny ends in the back.
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I was hoping to see a ponytail style for those of us with longer faces.
by HeathRene Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 09:35AM Report as inappropriate
I definitely agree with the heart-shaped face thing! My forehead is huge and I hate it, so I always keep my bangs side swept to hide out.
by schien Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 10:13PM Report as inappropriate
Wow I have a round face and this really helped me think of other ways of making it better.
by shellychen1110 Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 06:51PM Report as inappropriate
I like side ponytails.
by nicky22 Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 08:15AM Report as inappropriate
I love the side ponytail! It's so different and cute.
by MizzPink Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 06:32AM Report as inappropriate
i dont like pony tails at myself but these looks are lovely!
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Ponytails are awesome!
by Sari Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 07:10PM Report as inappropriate
I love the side ponytail look. I've been using this ponytail for years and still love it! I like the braided fringe.
by luckygal79 Monday, December 31, 2012 at 06:11PM Report as inappropriate
Nice looks
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I loved the reasonings and the tips provided to adjust the ponytails for eaach face shade. I had a hard time figuring out the diamond face shape though. I can go ahead with Cameron Diaz's style.
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My question is:
Are there $G$, which is a fundamental group of a surface or a 2-orbifal, and its two finite index subgroups $H_1$, $H_2$ satisfying the following condition: $H_1$ is isomorphic to $H_2$, but for any automorphism $\varphi$ of $G$, $\varphi(H_1)$ is not $H_2$?
If the answer to question 1 is Yes, can $H_1$ and $H_2$ be normal subgroups of $G$?
This question arise from the extension of the automorphism of a surface or an orbifal to its covering space.


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When solving for unknowns why does the symbols sometimes change from $a + $ to $a -$ or vice versa or stays the same?
For example (using solutions from text): $2x+6 = x+16\quad$ and the solution is $2x-x = 16-6\quad \Rightarrow \quad x=10$.
$8x-12 = -3x+21\quad $Solution: $8x+3x = 21+12\quad \Rightarrow \quad 11x = 33\quad \Rightarrow \quad x=3$


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6 Famous Geniuses You Won't Believe Were Perverts
We've previously discussed how some of history's most famous geniuses would've rather been busy bumping nasties than changing the world. As it turns out, that's a fairly common problem among artists, statesmen, and spiritual leaders. None of what you're about to read necessarily detracts from any of the great things they accomplished -- we're not saying that. We're just saying that behind closed doors, they liked to get freaky.
#6. Gandhi Slept in a Pile of Naked Women (Including His Niece)
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Gandhi is arguably the most famous spiritual leader in modern history and was responsible for the civil rights movement that eventually broke British imperial rule over India. He was known for peaceful acts of non-cooperation, including hunger strikes, boycotts, and a 241-mile march to the sea to gather salt, an act prohibited by a bizarrely specific edict of British law.
Gandhi was revered as a holy man until he was assassinated by a religious fanatic, which sadly is what tends to happen to people like him. History repaid Gandhi for decades of self-sacrifice in the name of his fellow man by making a movie about his life starring the bad guy from Species.
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Here he is, posing in front of a statue of himself.
But Behind Closed Doors ...
It's true that Gandhi took a vow of celibacy when he was 37. However, this did not stop him from heroically encouraging young women to sleep naked with him until he was well into his 70s.
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Yeah, we know, buddy. You don't even have to do the look.
He claimed that this was merely an extension of his vow, intended to test his pious restraint (a phrase a cynical person could take to mean "to inflate his boner tube"). According to the strict rules of Gandhi's ashram, these women weren't even allowed to sleep with their own husbands, yet they were all but required to participate in the Mahatma's creepy old man slumber parties, which included not only sleeping nude with Gandhi, but also bathing with him and giving him stripteases, because the path to a temptation-free existence is apparently paved with nipple tassels.
That's not even the shadiest part. Gandhi took his 18-year-old grandniece on a trip with him to Bengal and commanded her to share the nudity bunk with him for their entire stay, a move he rationalized by telling her that they might be killed at any moment by angry Muslims. That's right -- Gandhi told his barely legal niece to take off all of her clothes and climb into bed with her equally naked great uncle because the two of them might suddenly be murdered.
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"Understand? Great, now go strip down and meet me in the hot tub."
We're not even saying he was secretly slipping these girls the G-bone every night -- we have no knowledge of that. We're saying that commanding everyone to sleep in a nude Gandhi pile, purely for the purpose of not engaging in sex, is somehow way freakier.
#5. Benjamin Franklin Liked to Bang Lots of Old Women
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In addition to being one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin was a prolific inventor and a tireless innovator, responsible for bifocal spectacles and odometers, the flexible urinary catheter, and a dominating presence in rap lyrics. He was an early adopter of environmental awareness, formed libraries and founded hospitals, organized the first fire service, and pushed for anti-slavery legislation before his death in 1790 of an acute overdose of righteous awesomeness.
But Behind Closed Doors ...
Benjamin Franklin was an avid poonhound specializing in dusty cooz. That is to say, he prided himself on keeping the oldest and most busted mistresses he could find, for a list of reasons that prove he was just as much an innovator of morning-show-DJ chauvinism as anything else.
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"Welcome back to Crazy Ben's Morning Zoo! Who's ready for LESBIAAAAAAANS?!"
In a 1745 letter to a younger acquaintance, Ben Franklin advised that elderly concubines were the best choice because they were so deflated by age that they would do anything to keep a man interested in them. Rickety old women, he continued, are also by nature more discreet, more experienced, and less likely to become pregnant, which would spare you from any of that ridiculous "children" bullshit. You're less likely to feel bad about having sex with them, because throwing one into a raisin-skinned bone sack is much less sinful than deflowering some pretty young lady who made the foolish mistake of trusting you.
Granted, he had his more polite, old-timey way of putting it:
"... I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones ... Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience ... Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion ... and lastly they are so grateful."
And so on. Yeah, you don't exactly have to read between the lines there.
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"You would see, the biggest dick would be from me, and the card attached would say, 'Thank you for meating, my friend.'"
He also makes the salient point that being vain in your selection of a mistress is pointless, because all women look the same from the waist down, which is the only part of them that matters anyway:
"Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one."
"Goddammit, Jim, no means no!"
That's right; all women look the same if you cover everything above the vagina "with a basket." Thanks, Ben!
#4. Winston Churchill Liked to Be Naked
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Sir Winston Churchill was Britain's prime minister and first lord of the admiralty during World War II. He was a celebrated wit and a Nobel Prize winner, and is arguably one of the most famous national leaders in history. He also enjoyed a steady diet of alcohol and cigars, and walked around dressed like a Dickensian moneylender.
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"You will have me paid back by Tuesday, or I shall confiscate your child, crutches and all."
But Behind Closed Doors ...
Churchill liked to parade around naked, ambushing unsuspecting staffers and foreign dignitaries alike with his gin-blossomed twig and berries.
Apparently, anyone who had an appointment with Churchill ran the risk of walking in on him striding around his office in his pasty undulating birthday suit, conducting the business of the nation with his grundlebrush ruffling gently in the breeze.
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A rare photo of him (left) engaging in a friendly contest of "Shout Obscenities at Eisenhower's Crotch."
His naked shenanigans weren't limited to just his personal staff, either -- both Franklin D. Roosevelt and his son Elliot were exposed to mini-Winnie. FDR stumbled upon a nude Churchill, only to have the prime minister remark, "You see, Mr. President, I have nothing to hide." Meanwhile, Elliot, responding to Churchill's specific request to meet with him, opened the door to Churchill's office to find him standing completely naked with a cigar in his mouth, dictating a letter to his male secretary.
When Sir Winston visited the White House later that same year, he made a habit of wearing absolutely nothing while in his room, seemingly oblivious to the near-constant stream of attendants that came in to serve him brandy while desperately trying to avoid eye contact.
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"Take off the hat? Oh, man, I thought you'd never ask -- wait, where are you going?"