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I would like to know for some future works on my bike whether I have a freewheel or a cassette?
I will look at the bike in itself, but just for a little heads-up: my bike is a 2012 FX 7.2 (Trek).
In these days, are freewheels even still used anymore on new bikes? and anyone can tell me what I have?


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Praise for Clinton was unwarranted
Shame on everyone, from President Obama on down, for praising Hillary Rodham Clinton as one of the best secretaries of State of all time. She couldn't stand in former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shower clogs.
Mrs. Clinton shall forever be stained by the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the American consulate in Libya, just as her husband, former President Bill Clinton, will always be stained by the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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Sandy Socks wrote on Feb 12, 2013 1:00 PM:
Does this mean that George Bush was responsible for the 3000+ deaths caused by the 9-11 attacks? Is that his shame,shame,shame?
And what about the Great Ronald Reagan? Is the 241 U.S. servicemen killed in the Beirut Barracks bombing his stain that will never be washed away?
I'm was wondering if it works both ways. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 12, 2013 8:13 PM:
Sandy Socks wrote on Feb 12, 2013 9:04 PM:
You have been a magnet.....if you know what I mean.
I really wouldn't mind hosting (and paying) for a bi-partisan pizza party here in Prospect. We're called the Mecca of Mozzarella for our many pizza places. Needless to say, you'd be one of the left invitees. No shortage of righties. Just can't figure out the contacting dilema.
Its been three months since the election and while the differences remain, I think tempers may have abided a bit.
Thinking of contacting the Rep-Am. "
conservative1 wrote on Feb 13, 2013 10:25 AM:
The diplomat was in Benghazi on a covert mission to buy back weapons the US sold.That's why there was no security, no armored cars. It backfired and they were attacked. The President and Ms Clinton denied these Americans help to hide the mission. Then concocted the video story to deflect blame.
The Watergate cover up cost Nixon his Presidency. No one died during the Watergate cover up. People died in the Benghazi cover up. Unfortunately there is no press any more. They are all in the tank. "
Sandy Socks wrote on Feb 13, 2013 11:25 AM:
Ditto for Kitty and anyone else who falls under the democrat umbrella.
You're the kind of guy Al Cap says makes this site an unfriendly place. You turn every post into a political confrontation. You'll always find a negative rebutal regardless of facts and logic.
It appears you're on here every day, day and night, scouring the posts, like a junk yard dog looking for an intruder. Lighten up a little bit. It will do everyone well. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 13, 2013 9:17 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 13, 2013 10:06 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 13, 2013 10:12 PM:
Rob M wrote on Feb 14, 2013 5:39 PM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 14, 2013 7:26 PM:
al.cap wrote on Feb 16, 2013 9:21 AM:
and he did manage to get an awful lot of jihaddists to line up in front of our guns. "
al.cap wrote on Feb 16, 2013 9:24 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 16, 2013 11:19 AM:
al.cap wrote on Feb 16, 2013 1:24 PM:
and there was evidence of wmd in iraq. he gassed the kurds in the north. and there were reports of gas being used against iran in the 80's. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 17, 2013 9:32 PM:
As far as the war .....see the attached ......source national security archieve.....at the gelman library at geo wahington university
The preparation of white papers on both the United States and British sides also needs to be taken into account. That Bush and Blair each turned to their intelligence agencies for the papers is significant—they were evoking the imprimatur of secret intelligence to justify policy preferences. Both papers had the function of justification, not analysis, and neither government waited until it had compiled all the evidence before demanding these products. Neither government asked for intelligence estimates, fashioned in secret, in order to inform policy on Iraq. Instead, both Bush and Blair did want their intelligence agencies to carry out avowed political agendas. And the timing of the white paper drafts—now established as being in the summer of 2002, before there ever was a UN debate or a Security Council resolution—clearly indicates their true function. The accumulating weight of evidence currently supports the interpretation Scott McClellan gives, not that supplied by apologists for the Iraq war. "
al.cap wrote on Feb 18, 2013 8:28 AM:
Reagan didn't tell the embassy guards to let the truck-bomb in. bush may have lost people on foreign soil, but he never watched them die while withholding military support. but the r makes them guilty, while the d absolves the current fools from everything. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 18, 2013 10:23 AM:
KITTY wrote on Feb 18, 2013 10:32 AM:
conservative1 wrote on Feb 18, 2013 10:48 AM:
Even Leon Panetta has distanced himself from Obama and Clinton on Benghazi.
They sat and watched these Heroes be killed on camera rather than expose their failed covert operation. The diplomat probably knew the consequences of the mission going bad.
Bottom line is Clinton lied, Obama shucked and jived, Rice lied, an innocent American was/is jailed in the coverup. I believe it's called TREASON.
Unfortunately the press went from watchdog to lapdog.
Kitty.. I didn't vote for Bush either election. John McCain is a war hero, he has earned respect from you.
Liberal rules 101 when you fear your opposition (Sarah Palin) resort to name calling. I expect better from you. A moron isn't someone who has been successful in everything she's done. Ms Palin is the epitome of the American Woman. She commands the respect you and concerned seek. "
conservative1 wrote on Feb 18, 2013 11:04 AM:
I realize she is no Hillary Clinton. I doubt she would be able to look the other way (or maybe from the closet) as Bill had sex in theGovernor's and Oval Offices. I don't think she would have the stomach to have killed those witnesses in the Whitewater scandal. I know she wouldn't be able to make up a cover story and have an innocent American jailed to protect her legacy and still sleep at night. She doesn't have Hillary's widely known "truck driver's" vocabulary. Finally although Ms Palin is an attractive woman, we both know she is no Hillary Clinton in that department either. "
KITTY wrote on Feb 18, 2013 1:15 PM:
OMG......palin quit her job as governor so she could go out and pursue money and reality tv....even fox has fired her.......she is a complete joke.....jealous of her looks......now you're really too funny.....
Hillary is brillant and will be the next president of the us..... if she wants it....... "
todd wrote on Feb 19, 2013 6:19 AM:
Some of the commenters here are people who just like to fight. And that's fine. I'm glad you have a place here to bring your facts. I'm glad you found villains on the other side to vanquish. But none of it is real.
The first thing I do when I get a chance to come to the Rep-Am site is click on "Most Commented", because you guys love to fight each other. This makes money only for the Republican-American. It's the same way that these kinds of fights only make money for MSNBC, FOXNEWS, CNN, talk radio, Drudge, The Huffington Post. But I read and watch them. Why? Because sometimes I just like to watch people fight.
So that's great. But none of it is real. It's all manufactured entertainment. We all have our own facts and our own websites now. We all engage in false equivilency and moral relativism. Because we like the fights!
So keep it up. I'm glad you're all here bloodying yourselves for my enjoyment. But don't take it seriously. Have a real pizza party and give out free high fives. You guys are like semi-pro athletes. Kick each other's heads in, by all means, but shake hands after, remove your uniforms and take a shower.
Everything is going to be fine. "
Sandy Socks wrote on Feb 19, 2013 9:00 AM:
I told Pape you were getting close. Now our secrets out.
The truth is we don't think of ourselves as Fox/MSNBC commentators. We're more like professional wrestlers who will gouge out eachother's eyes or crack the other guy with a chair. Then we all go out afterwards for buckets of chicken wings and pitcher of beer. Or pizza. You're in. "
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KITTY wrote on Feb 19, 2013 2:37 PM:
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I have currently an error on store sync after "authorized":
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6 Jul 2012 5:27 AM #12
are we down again?
"RPC request timeout" out is one of several symptoms that come with a server issue.
prob not your issue.
we waitRegards Maurice
6 Jul 2012 8:29 AM #13
Looks fine now, sync succeed !
Thanks guysGoldledoigt
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down again ?Goldledoigt
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Maybe you should use something more professional like Parse.com.
That works, has full doku, good support and is not in alpha stage as Sencha.io.


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Volleyball Releases 2014 ScheduleJune 26, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – On the heels of arguably the most successful season in school history, the Anderson University volleyball team will play eight matches versus four teams that earned NCAA Tournament appearances a season ago, as the Trojans announced their 2014 schedule on Thursday.
As an encore to a 2013 campaign that saw AU earn its' first-ever NCAA Tournament victory in just the program's second NCAA Tournament appearance, the Trojans will square off against eight geographically diverse nonconference foes in addition to the grueling 22-match South Atlantic Conference slate.
"I think it is a great schedule," said Anderson head coach Craig Mosqueda. "It is a tough schedule, but we are looking to win. There's not an easy match on there. Our whole conference is loaded."
In addition to its familiar league opponents, Anderson will face squads from the Great Lakes Valley Conference, the Great Midwest Athletic Conference and the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference in addition to a pair of teams from the Conference Carolinas and three from the Peach Belt Conference.
The 30-match schedule is nearly evenly split, with 13 true road contests, five matchups at neutral sites and 12 matches in the friendly confines of the Abney Athletic Center.
Anderson begins the campaign by venturing to a pair of tournaments, starting with a trip to the Bluegrass State to participate in the Bellarmine Invitational, Sept 5-6. The Trojans open the tourney by facing the host Knights, who are led by second-year head coach Jenni Grzebin. Bellarmine, led by GLVC Libero of the Year in Louisville native Jaclyn Ohlmann, posted a 15-14 record a year ago and advanced to the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament.
The Trojans remain in the Commonwealth for a pair of contests, squaring off against Salem International (WV) and Mercyhurst (Pa.) a day later. This fall marks Salem International's first season of NCAA Division II action as members of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC). Mercyhurst notched an 18-14 overall record last season, including a 12-10 mark in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.
"I wanted to remain competitive as we start the season," noted Mosqueda, who is entering his sixth year at the helm of the Trojan program. "Bellarmine is good and they play in a tough conference. All three teams there should be good competition for us."
AU returns to the Palmetto State a week later, as the Trojans travel south for the USC Aiken Invitational, Sept. 12-13. The Trojans open the two-day event by facing Francis Marion (21-9, 12-6 PBC), which posted its' first 20-win season since 2008 a year ago, but were upset in the PBC tourney, dropping a five-set decision to sixth- seeded USC Aiken. The Trojans and host Pacers close out the opening day of the tourney immediately following the AU-FMU contest. USCA is coming off a 19-13 campaign that saw the Pacers reach the Peach Belt Conference championship match after entering as the sixth seed, with returning outside hitter Taylor Stratton earning a spot on the PBC All-Tournament Team.
A pair of Conference Carolinas opponents is next on AU's slate at the tourney, as the Trojans face Limestone for the first time in more than two years and Lees-McRae for the first time since the 2009 season, when both were members of Conference Carolinas. Last season, the Saints fell to conference co-champion King University in Limestone's first appearance in the tournament semifinals since that 2009 season, en route to a 13-16 overall record. Lees-McRae is expected to return four letterwinners from last season's 2-29 squad.
"Right off the bat, we start with two teams that have the potential to reach the NCAA Tournament and are returning most of their rosters," added Mosqueda. "I feel really good about having (nearly) everyone back and our newcomers will really help."
Following the two tourneys, the Trojans play five of their next seven matches in the friendly confines of the Abney Athletic Center, opening action in the perennially challenging South Atlantic Conference with a brief one-match road trip to Brevard (7-21, 3-19 SAC) on Sept. 16. The SAC boasted five schools in the eight-team NCAA Southeast Region field a year ago and the Trojans open their home schedule three days later by playing host to Tusculum. AU ended the Pioneers' season with a 21-11 mark by rallying for a hard-fought 3-1 win in the opening round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament. Last year marked the Pioneers' eighth consecutive winning campaign.
Mars Hill, which was 16-12 a year ago, invades the Abney Center a day later to close the brief two-match homestand. AU follows up by traveling to Hickory, N.C., on Sept. 23 for a clash with Lenoir-Rhyne, which posted a 17-10 overall record last season, as the Bears were eliminated in the opening round of the conference tournament by the Trojans. Rising senior Hayley Rhyne, a second-team All-Southeast Region selection as an outside hitter, is expected to lead the Bears this season.
Anderson opens a three-match homestand on Sept. 26, welcoming eight-time defending conference-champion Wingate to the Electric City. The Trojans will be looking for their first win over the Bulldogs since 1999, with WU holding a 13-1 advantage in the overall series. Wingate ended last season ranked 12th nationally after going 32-3 in 2013, including 22-0 in league action and reaching the NCAA's Elite Eight for the third time in four years. The Bulldogs will enter the 2014 season with a 37-match SAC winning streak.
Less than 24 hours later, Anderson will host a tri-match, with Coker and Peach Belt Conference-opponent GRU Augusta invading the Abney Athletic Center. The opening match will feature a matchup between the Trojans and Coker, which went 3-28 overall and winless in its inaugural season in the SAC. The Cobras and GRU Augusta square off in the afternoon's middle match, then AU wraps up the non-conference portion of its schedule by facing GRU Augusta in a 4 p.m. contest. Last season, the Jaguars posted an 8-25 record, while missing the PBC tourney for the first time in five seasons.
The Trojans open the month of October with visits to Catawba (Oct. 3) and second-year SAC member Queens (Oct. 4) looking to maintain the momentum from claiming victories in three of the four head-to-head matchups a year ago. Catawba will be looking to bounce back from a sub-par 4-20 mark last season, while Queens made its first NCAA postseason appearance in school history by earning the sixth seed in the Southeast Regional before falling in three sets to No. 3 seed Flagler.
Anderson returns to the Electric City for a season-high four-match homestand in mid-October, with the Trojans opening the stretch with their second straight NCAA participant. Newberry, which went 18-13 last season, qualified for NCAA postseason play for the third consecutive season a year ago, falling 3-1 to second-seeded Armstrong. First-year Carson-Newman head coach Dan Ahiers and his Eagles' squad visits AU on Oct. 10, while the Trojans play host to Lincoln Memorial on Oct. 11. The Lady 'Splitters posted an 18-13 mark last season and will be looking for a return to the NCAA Southeast Regional in 2014 after missing out on postseason play for the first time in six years a season ago.
The Trojans continue their quest for a return to postseason play three days later by beginning the second half of the double-round robin conference schedule versus Lenoir-Rhyne.
The top eight teams in the final league standings earn a berth in the SAC Championship, which will be hosted by Lenoir-Rhyne in Hickory, N.C., Nov. 14-16. The NCAA Southeast Regional is slated for either Nov. 20-22 or Nov. 21-23 at a site to be determined.
"We feel good about our chances this year," Mosqueda concluded. "We will have played a tough schedule that should prepare us for (the tournament). Hopefully, with our success in the conference (season) and the conference tournament, we should be able to get into the NCAA Tournament again."


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Osteoporosis is a disease in which bones become fragile and more likely to fracture.
Thin bones; Low bone density
Osteoporosis is the most common type of bone disease.
Osteoporosis increases the risk for breaking a bone. About half of all women over the age of 50 will have a fracture of the hip, wrist, or vertebra (bone of the spine) during their lifetime.
Bone is living tissue. Existing bone is constantly being replaced by new bone. Your entire skeleton is replaced about every 10 years. Osteoporosis occurs when the body fails to form enough new bone, when too much existing bone is reabsorbed by the body, or both.
The most important cause of osteoporosis is genetic. This means that you inherit the risk from your parents. Other risks include not having enough calcium to build new bone tissue. Calcium is one of the important minerals needed by your body for bones to form. If you do not get enough calcium and vitamin D, or your body does not absorb enough calcium from your diet, your bones may become brittle and more likely to fracture. Other risk factors include smoking and various childhood and adult diseases.
A decrease in estrogen in women at the time of menopause and a decrease in testosterone in men is another major cause of bone loss. Other causes of bone loss include:
Other risk factors include:
There are no symptoms in the early stages of osteoporosis. Many times, people will have a fracture before learning they have the disease.
Pain almost anywhere in the spine can be caused by fractures of the bones of the spine. These are called compression fractures. They often occur without an injury. The pain occurs suddenly or slowly over time.
There can be a loss of height (as much as 6 inches) over time. A stooped posture or kyphosis (also called a dowager's hump) may develop.
Bone mineral density testing (most often with a DEXA scan) measures your bone mineral density. Your health care provider uses this test to:
A spine or hip x-ray may show fracture or collapse of the spinal bones. However, simple x-rays of other bones are not very accurate in predicting whether you are likely to have osteoporosis.
You may need other blood and urine tests if your osteoporosis is thought to be due to a medical condition, rather than simply the usual bone loss seen with older age.
Low bone mineral density (by DEXA scan) also occurs with osteomalacia, another disorder of bone mineralization
Treatment for osteoporosis may involve:
Medicines are used to strengthen bones when:
Medicines used to treat osteoporosis include:
Exercise plays a key role in preserving bone density in older adults. Some of the exercises recommended to reduce your chance of a fracture include:
Avoid any exercise that presents a risk of falling. Also, do not do high-impact exercises that can cause fractures in older adults.
Your body needs calcium and vitamin D to keep your bones strong. Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium.
[Note: Some expert groups are not sure the benefits and safety of this amount of Vitamin D and calcium outweigh their risks. Be sure to discuss with your doctor whether supplements are a good choice for you.]
Stop unhealthy habits:
It is important to prevent falls. The following are suggestions on how to do this:
Surgery to treat severe, disabling pain from spinal fractures due to osteoporosis include:
Medicines to treat osteoporosis can help prevent future fractures. But spine bones that have already collapsed cannot be reversed.
Osteoporosis can cause a person to become disabled from weakened bones. Hip fractures are one of the main reasons people are admitted to nursing homes.
Calcium is important for building and maintaining healthy bone. Vitamin D is also needed because it helps your body absorb calcium. Following a healthy, well-balanced diet can help you get these and other important nutrients.
Other tips for prevention:
Medicines can prevent osteoporosis. Your doctor can tell you if any are right for you.
Rosen C. Osteoporosis. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 251.
Lorenzo JA, Canalis E, Raisz LG. Metabolic bone disease. In: Melmed S, Polonsky KS, Larsen PR, Kronenberg HM, eds. Williams Textbook of Endocrinology. 12th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 29.
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Back in the old days, my team had a policy that any stored procedure modification required comments in two places:
- Top of the stored procedure with an overall summary of the changes made
- Comments on each line where the change was made
It typically looked like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE usp_Test
The purpose of this stored procedure is to get data.
Created by 8kb 2001-01-01
Modified: removed OR clauses from JOIN statement..8kb 2001-06-01
FROM t1
JOIN t2
ON t1.colA = t2.colA
-- Removed OR clause..8kb 2001-06-01
-- OR t1.ColB = t2.ColB
But now with integrated source control, I can summarize the changes in the source control and then use the compare / diff functionality to see the differences between the old and new versions.
Is there still value in writing line-by-line change comments in stored procedures that are part of integrated source control?


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So I'm creating a game and I would like to know how to perform resource streaming (rather than loading the whole file into the buffer) for things such as my maps, sounds, music, etc. I'm using C++ and DirectX9 if in case you need to know.
A note, setting off multiple reads will be slower because the disk I/O keeps seeking around to pull bits of data from each open request.
To get around this I created an intermediate streaming traffic cop that prioritized multiple async read requests and serialized them to the OS. In your own game you can create priorities based on data type or how soon the new data will be needed so that audio can come in first to avoid skipping and far away data will be loaded last.
A note on audio: you do want to stream audio because data is pretty large, but you want your game to stream the data before it's needed because waiting for the actual "Play sound" call before loading will cause all sorts of delay and spoil the user experience.
Since background loading and preparing data is a complex sequence of events involving threads, callbacks and voodoo that spans several systems in your game I suggest designing the interactions carefully before laying down any code to avoid massive debugging headaches later.
It's more than just streaming the assets — the disk itself is a mechanical device and you need to minimize seeks and simultaneous parallel streams. So you need to chunk up your data so it can be streamed en masse, and then evicted all at once without any risk of leaks.
I liked DoubleFine's GDC talk about their chunking solution.
Specifically re streaming world data, I believe it was GPG's Dungeon Siege that was the first well-known title to achieve this really efficiently for a really large 3D world. It enabled the modern MMO (post the whole tile-based Ultima Online era).
Here's an article where Scott Bilas outlines the solutions they used. I don't doubt it would help to do further searches on the same topic. I seem to recall a GamaSutra article, but not too sure. Could be the same one.
I am sure things have come a long way since then, but that should get you started.
You want to use the concept of chunks or pack files or the like where the entire chunk is streamed. The chunk should contain the data that it needs when used in the game. World Geo, specific models for that area, textures, sound effects, scripts and the like. It should not contain background audio, that should be a streaming system on its own.
You really dont want to read an individual packed file for each of these, but you definitely do not want to read each individual asset. The FileIO will kill any overhead. (Ideally the chunk files are all packed together into one large file you can just fseek() through to get to the right chunk you want to load)
Hope this helps.


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The only thing more awesome than an urban legend turning out to be true is if that same legend involves some sort of nefarious sex or groin related hilarity.
Luckily, all of these qualify.
#6. Digit Ratio Theory
The Legend:
"Dude, I can totally tell he's gay! Look at his fingers!"
This sounds like one of those playground urban myths that adolescent males use as an excuse to punch each other. Supposedly, comparing the size of your index and ring fingers can tell whether a guy is destined to one day make out with Sulu and Andy Dick in a poorly lit alley in Hollywood.
Yeah, right. Enough of your ignorant homophobia!
The Truth:
Incredibly, this is a real thing. It's called digit ratio theory and multiple studies have confirmed it.
Apparently if you have a longer ring finger, it means you got more testosterone as a fetus and are more likely to be hyperactive, aggressive and disgusted by anything featuring Hugh Grant.
A longer index finger, on the other hand, means more estrogen, making you more neurotic and sensitive. So if your index finger is way longer than your ring finger, you're like the gayest dude ever, right?
Actually, no. Studies found that it was when the two fingers were nearly the same length that the subjects were more likely to be gay (men and women both). Why? You'll have to ask the scientists, it's technical. What we do know is a study from Rutgers looking at finger lengths in lesbians even found a noticeable difference between the "butch" ladies who drive trucks and wear flannel and the more feminine lesbians who tend to populate your fantasies.
So... how far into this entry did you get before you stopped to look at your fingers?
#5. The Dong Stuck in a Pool Filter
The Legend:
So you're swimming around the pool and you pass by the humming filter, sucking debris out of the water. "Hey, watch out!" yells one of your friends. "I know a guy who totally got his dick stuck in one of those!"
The Truth:
Did you dream about being a cop when you were a kid? Chasing bad guys and sliding over the hoods of cars? Well, here's a nice story for you that gives you a better idea of the day-to-day life of a law enforcement officer.
"I bet I'll never have to touch some dude's dong."
The police force in Lakeland, FL responded to a call from the Scottish Inn motel. The clerk had called 911 just before 5 A.M. because who else do you call when a customer tries to hump your aquatic equipment and is then unable to free himself?
See how there's no spot for your dong? Why do you think that is?
Cops arrived and did what they assumed would save the day by shutting off the pump. Problem solved, right?
They could only wish. For those who've never spent a half hour or so playing penis tug-o-war with a suction filter, the result is massive swelling that, as it turns out, prohibits wang removal even when the pump is shut off.
Feeling not quite up to the task of shlong-liberation and assuming additional humiliation for the dude in the pool was in order, paramedics were called in. Presumably a pretty huge crowd had gathered at this point, to enjoy a solid hour of heavy lube application and group tugging until finally someone was able to make a poetic Free Willy joke and the man was taken to the hospital.
#4. The Call Girl Daughter
The Legend:
A man is sent out of town for business on the company dime. Upon arrival he wastes no time and gets right to business. And by business we mean, of course, "whores."
As he carefully arranges his bondage gear and furry outfits, there is a knock on the door. His whore has arrived. He opens the door, boner at full strength, to discover the call girl is none other than his own daughter. Awkward Thanksgivings ensue for years after.
The Truth:
In 2002, an Israeli businessman was sent to a resort called Eilat for four days where presumably his company expected him to relax a bit, learn a few new tricks to apply back at the office and not try to pork his own daughter. Very likely that was in some manner of memo regarding what was acceptable behavior during his time away, wedged between "no gambling" and "no filling your ass with firecrackers."
"Do I care if she's my daughter? Uh, if you can at all avoid it, that'd be best, but don't go crazy."
Unable to control his insatiable need to bone, the man ordered a call girl on his first night there. Sure enough, the woman that was sent to his room just happened to be his little girl.
Who's your daddy? Oh... right.
The man in question suffered a minor heart attack upon seeing his daughter there, either from anguish or from the rush of blood caused by the history's fastest wilting boner. After taking a few moments to collect themselves, we assume they shared an awkward hug and the man left for home.
Likely perplexed about the best way to deal with the situation, he opted to ignore our "drink away the memories" advice and instead told his wife everything. She then vowed to not only find a better occupation for her daughter--which is arguably anything since very few occupations these days result in sex with your dad outside of some Wal-Marts in the South--but also to divorce the man.


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6 Movie Remakes that Missed the Point
Movie remakes are a win/lose proposition. On one hand, you're starting with a movie audiences have already grown to love. On the other, if you fuck it up, it becomes a horrible embarrassment for everyone involved.
But nothing is worse than when the remake is made by someone who apparently had no clue what the original was even about. That's how you get misguided--and even downright insulting--remakes like...
#6. Rollerball
What the Original Was About:
The 1975 film takes place during 2018, in a dystopian future where a handful of corporate states form a world government. The most popular form of entertainment is the titular sport, which boils down to a violent spin-off of roller derbies, with the addition of motorcycles. In this future, rollerball serves as a substitute for all other sports as well as warfare and, in the words of the film's antagonist, serves to "show the futility of individual effort." In our words, it demonstrates "how fucking awesome sports are if you add motorcycles to the mix."
The story revolves around Jonathan E., a star player who becomes a little too famous and powerful for the corporation's tastes. After attempts to convince Jonathan to retire fail, the owners begin changing the rules of rollerball in an effort to get Jonathan killed. As a result, the sport quickly degenerates into senseless and brutal violence. Brutal motorcycle violence.
Death sports aside, the original Rollerball focused more on social commentary. Jonathan has to fight to maintain his identity and his free will, and he also strove to understand the relationship between corporations and modern society. The finale of the film shows how rollerball fans have been stunned by the brutality of the violence, but they cheer on Jonathan's achievements as an individual.
What the Remake Did Instead:
The 2002 remake decided to ditch all that boring social/political stuff and replaced the message of "brutal violence is bad" with "brutal violence kicks ass!" Changing the setting from dystopian future to present day, rollerball is just another sport, one that's mostly popular in the former Soviet Union. Jonathan is less interested in maintaining his free will than he is in driving fast cars and trying to bang Rebecca Romijn.
The new version focuses pretty much exclusively on the sport itself, with the story revolving around Jonathan's promoter trying to make the game more violent in order to boost ratings. That's essentially what the movie does as well, with the film being marketed as an action movie and the attraction largely being the increasingly violent matches. You know, the ones that the original designed to make us feel uncomfortable and barbaric.
How Did They Do?
The original wasn't a classic, but it received generally good reviews and has established a cult following. The remake was universally panned and made only $26 million dollars from a budget of $70 million. Damn, how could they go wrong with a cast that included Pink and LL Cool J?
#5. I Am Legend
What the Original Was About:
It started as a 1954 novel (I Am Legend) and was first made into a film in 1964, called The Last Man On Earth. It featured Vincent Price playing Dr. Robert Morgan, man of science and monster hunter extraordinaire. Living in a world where everyone has been infected by a disease that turns them into vampires (and not the sparkly Twilight variety, either), Morgan kills as many of the mutated as he can, while researching the plague and looking for a cure. You'd think he'd try to focus on one goal or the other, but hey, we're not doctors.
Pictured: Intensive scientific research.
There's a heavy emphasis on how Morgan tries to deal with the psychological issues that come with the complete loneliness and despair of his situation. Morgan eventually encounters another survivor by the name of Ruth, but he soon learns that she's part of a group of infected people who suffer some of the effects of the disease but are able to hold the worst at bay with a vaccine. They're working to rebuild society, but they're terrified of Morgan since he appears to them as a mysterious killing machine (as he's taken down some of their kind during his career in vampire slaughtering).
Morgan escapes with Ruth's help, but he's eventually hunted down. In the novel he peacefully accepts his death, realizing that he's the last of his kind and the infected survivors represent the next step for humanity. The book's title, I Am Legend, referred to Morgan realizing that he, in his mass killings, had ironically become the mythical, nightmarish creature to this new breed.
The movie gets the same message across, but Morgan, half-crazy from years of isolation, goes out after a violent chase, eventually dying as angrily as possible. While it sounds like a huge change, the movie is otherwise pretty faithful, especially when compared to future attempts...
What the Remake Did Instead:
The first remake came out in 1971 under the name The Omega Man. Starring Charlton Heston, as Colonel Robert Neville, the monsters in this film are less scary than they are silly, with the vampires blaming the disease on the evils of science. So they're Luddite vampires, refusing to use anything other than the most primitive technologies. How do you think a bunch of bow and arrow wielding bad guys performed against the spokesperson for the NRA?
The movie mostly involves Neville shooting shit up, eventually coming across a group of people who are semi-resistant to the disease. He gives them a serum of his blood so they can become fully immune and restore humanity. He then dies heroically, knowing that he helped save the world from a plague of Amish vampires.
The 2007 re-remake, while finally getting the title right, otherwise plays out exactly the same as the Heston version. Will Smith kills a bunch of vampires in order to help some kids escape with his cure, once again saving the world from those no good monsters. Well, at least they used technology this time.
"Lemme see you nod your head, like this!"
How Did They Do?
The Last Man on Earth hasn't aged very well, but it was well received at the time and still has some charm. The Omega Man was widely criticized, and I Am Legend received mixed reviews, with most complaints focusing on the weak ending which, as it turned out, was a last-minute change. The original "true to the novel" ending can be found on the DVD extras. If only the author of the novel had audience focus groups available to him, he could have fixed that whole "message" thing and saved Hollywood the trouble.
#4. Halloween
What the Original Was About:
The 1978 John Carpenter film is about a guy who kills teenagers. On Halloween. That alone should explain why it's one of the most well received horror films of all time.
But if you want to get into all that boring analysis stuff, what makes this film is work is how Michael Myers, the big bad villain, is portrayed. The teenagers he's stalking don't know anything about him; he's an unknown, unstoppable killer who apparently has no reason for what he's doing. And that's exactly what Halloween is about: evil that's mysterious and unworldly. Well, that and candy. Halloween II is mostly about candy.
"Do I see Reese's Pieces down there? Fuck yes!"
Despite Myers being all about the stabbing, Halloween isn't a very violent film, relatively speaking. Few people are killed, and none of the violence is graphic. That's what's great about the film; it's suspenseful rather than pointlessly violent. We're sure anyone choosing to remake it would realize that, right?
What the Remake Did Instead:
The 2007 version was directed by Rob Zombie who, not just content to make bad music, has established himself as a director of bad movies.
This remake decided to focus significantly more on Michael as a child, giving the character a backstory. While not a bad idea in theory, in practice the character development amounts to little more than "Uh oh, he likes to kill people!" which makes Myers about a complex of a villain as Snidely Whiplash, while simultaneously eliminating the mystery of the original Myers. Instead of being a big unknown, he's just some kid who's kind of a jerk.
"You know, you might be more popular if you stopped doing stuff like this. Just sayin'."
Of course, the body count is upped too. In fact, Michael kills more people as a child in the opening scenes of this version than he does in the entire original movie. When people are getting knocked off so rapidly, it eliminates any suspense over who survives and who doesn't to the point where it's impossible to care about any of the characters. The remake featured plenty of gratuitous nudity as well. OK, so it had a little merit.
How Did They Do?
The original made $55 million ($176 million in today's money) from a budget of less than half of a million. Unfortunately the remake was financially successful as well and, sure enough, they're making a sequel. So on one hand, they've turned the series into the kind of standard slasher films we see every year. On the other hand, the original Halloween's success is the reason we see so many of them. So, really, John Carpenter has no one to blame but himself.


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"The fiscal cliff has the spending cut side, and the tax increase side. Unfortunately they really weren't able to make any decisions on the spending cuts side, but they did iron out how our taxes will look for the next year at least," said Certified Financial Planner Jeanne Fisher.
The deal did accomplish some key provisions. It extended unemployment benefits for one more year, but it also ended the payroll tax holiday, meaning your taxes will go up two percent.
Congress redefined the threshold for the Bush-era tax cuts, which will increase various tax rates for those making more than $400,000 a year, and $450,000 for families.
When it comes to spending, the automatic federal spending cuts have been delayed until March, and that's where it gets messy.
"It is already anticipated that we will reach the new debt ceiling of 16.3 trillion by March, so they're going to have to make a decision on are we going to cut spending... where are we going to cut spending... or are we going to raise the debt ceiling," said Fisher.
It's the answer to the debt ceiling crisis that every taxpayer awaits.
"At the end of the day, either we have to make spending cuts, or we have to raise taxes, we can't have everything and not pay for it," said WKU Graduate Student Will Simpson.
As for today, the stock market didn't seem to reflect the treacherous road ahead, but Fisher says that can always change.
"The market is responding positively to the fact that we have a deal at all, but it's a new day today, and tomorrow, there will be a new problem," said Fisher.
Fisher says the u-s is expected to reach the debt ceiling by March. and your paycheck is likely to shrink.
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6 Hilarious Attempts at Brainwashing Kids With Comic Books
#3. Johnny Turbo Brings You the TurboGrafx-16
The Comic's Intended Message:
Buy Turbo Duo, the first CD-game system ever!
Its Accidental Message:
If you don't acknowledge that the Turbo Duo is the first CD-game system ever, a fat man in galoshes will cripple you! Also, fuck Sega!
In 1992, Turbo Technologies, Incorporated released the Turbo Duo, which was the successor of the TurboGrafx-16. To promote the new system and compete with Sega CD, TTI invented corporate spokeshero Johnny Turbo and plugged his adventures in gaming magazines.
Meet Jonathan Brandstetter, real-life TTI programmer and Johnny Turbo's alter ego. His hobbies include looking like your uncle and constantly pointing out that SEGA- er, FEKA CD is grossly inferior to Turbo Duo. When Jonathan catches wind that FEKA salesmen are slandering Turbo Duo in front of impressionable consumers...
... he leaps into action as Johnny Turbo, who then assaults the FEKA agents unprovoked.
Imagine you're a bystander here. You're just trying to buy a SEGA CD, but suddenly a coked-up sanitation worker waving a gun starts screaming about Sherlock Holmes and pummeling the salesman. At this moment, are you thinking about A) the Turbo Duo; or B) the sudden warmth in your Hanes?
After defeating FEKA, Johnny Turbo invades his roommate's dreams to subliminally hawk the Turbo Duo game, Lords of Thunder. Unfortunately for his roomie, Johnny's sales pitch is akin to being double-teamed by the ghosts of Syd Barrett and Captain Lou Albano.
When Johnny tells his roomie about a secret code to access Bomberman, well, the reader has front row seats to the birth of a neutron star.
At the end of the day, Johnny Turbo failed to boost the Turbo Duo's sales, and the system went under in 1995. The moral of the story? Death threats and acid flashbacks are no way to sell kids video games.
#2. Brent Rinehart's Political Comic
The Comic's Intended Message:
Reelect Brent Rinehart for Oklahoma County Commissioner!
Its Accidental Message:
Brett Rinehart is the victim of a massive homo-satanic conspiracy!
In 2008, Oklahoma County Commissioner Brett Rinehart mailed his constituents a curious piece of campaign literature, specifically a crudely drawn black-and-white comic book.
The comic opens with a brief overview of Rinehart's early life. As you can see, he was in the Air Force and--oh, who's that horned fellow at the bottom? Yup, that's Satan. You better get used to him, because he's got a severe revenge boner for Brett Rinehart.
The devil apparently takes umbrage with Rinehart's party plank of keeping Oklahoma totally not gay. We think this vendetta between Brett Rinehart and the Dark One is just a big silly misunderstanding. It's obvious that Rinehart mistakenly thinks "gay people" is a synonym for "ancient Romans."
After Rinehart affirms his commitment to keep the gays (re: gladiators) out the Sooner State, he takes some jabs at his political opponents. You can read the rest of the comic here, but we'll just tell you the high point of this ugly mess is a macrocephalic she-male screaming typos.
No, YOUR kidding.
In 1962, George C. Wallace used this comic book tactic when running for governor of Alabama, and he got the job. So things had to work out for Brent, right?
Jughead it ain't.
Well, no. Rinehart came dead last in the county commissioner primary elections. That's right, even his political base thought he was too crazy. To top things off, he was soon after prosecuted for fraud and money laundering. If he decided to act as his own attorney, we would pay good money to sit in on that trial.
#1. Captain Al Cohol
The Comic's Intended Message:
Even the strongest of us can succumb to the alcohol addiction!
Its Accidental Message:
You must be legally intoxicated in order to understand what the hell is going on in Captain Al Cohol!
Throughout the 70s and 80s, the government of the Northwest Territories, Canada released a series of promotional comics starring dipsomaniac superhero Captain Al Cohol.
Ostensibly a well-meaning attempt to warn the children of Canada's northern climes about the dangers of alcoholism, Captain Al Cohol is instead a depressingly hilarious romp through a lost space alien's battle with the bottle.
Unlike other alcoholic superheroes (Iron Man, for example), Captain Al Cohol doesn't take many proactive steps towards combating his addiction. In fact, he doesn't even do much superheroing. He just wanders around Inuit country, getting shitfaced and allowing tragedies to befall him and his loved ones. Imagine if Lex Luthor could pick up Kryptonite at 7-Eleven and you'll understand why Captain Al Cohol has zero dramatic tension.
Fortunately, those tragedies are what keep Captain Al Cohol worth reading. Feast your eyes on Al's girlfriend getting run over by a spontaneous musk ox stampede...
... a flashback to when he accidentally incinerated his space family...
Aliens don't get drunk. They get swacked.
... or that one time hippies made fun of his outfit.
Naturally, Al's screw-ups induce further shame. So what does he decide to do?
Steal money and buy beer. Tony Stark, eat your heart out.
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Air Products plans to build, own and operate a new
world-scale hydrogen production plant adjacent to Shell
Canada's Scotford facility located northeast of Edmonton,
Alberta, the companies announced on Wednesday.
The Air Products facility will produce over 150 million
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Published: Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 12:44 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 12:44 p.m.
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. – Phase one of the Hendersonville Bike Park opened to the public Tuesday, showcasing dirt jumps, pump tracks and more during a "soft" opening at Jackson Park.
More than 50 people showed up for the opening and over half were kids on bikes. With helmets strapped on, they poured onto the track and rode some laps.
Mountain Community School and Avery's Creek Elementary's bike clubs were also at the event.
The first phase took about 1,000 volunteer hours to complete, Pisgah Area SORBA representative Rodney Robinson said, adding that the park is a safe place for kids to come and ride their bikes.
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Awesome. Great expressions on these little guys.
laggyg wrote:You know, there was something I couldn't quite put my finger on...a little itch in the back of my mind that said "despite it's awesomeness, something is bothering me about this design."
You nailed it.
It's probably way too late for a resub though, no? And I still want one, as-is, anyway...maybe more than one so I don't feel bad wearing it (like I might wreck it). It's still such an incredible design even without being off-centered...
I actually tried a side placement first, but it just didn't look right. The smack center print really did look better with the roundness of the record. Subjective, I guess. But I'm glad you like it anyway!
JadenKale wrote:remove "sort of", and I agree.
Word. I didn't mean to imply anything less than full-throated enthusiasm for Bass's artistic chops. I can see how my original comment could read differently, however, so thanks for giving me the opportunity to clarify
jnorah wrote:One more gargleblaster! This is to cool I love your line work.
Thanks jnorah!
This is awesome. My only complaint is that the splatter behind him makes it look very graphic-designy. I'd much rather it have the simplicity of the image without that distraction.
I agree with the previous wooters, this design is awesomely funny, and the only one on this derby that I would actually buy, thus it gets my vote. Too bad it was submitted late and has a zero chance of printing :/
Also, why is it that the thumbnail looks so Battlefield Earth (2000) compared to the fullsize images? Looks like the half-tones/gradients/whatever are being severely mangled.
Re: Inspired by Teamwork
Yeah, they definitely look like Siamese twin puppies.
I NEED this shirt. Please. Please. Please.
SnowQueenVT wrote:Nice artwork,I like the bee on the left the best, he's so cute!
Hey Hey now He is a tough Bee a killer Bee he can't be cute. Just kidding Thanks.
Re: Inspired by (Northern Lights (Take II))
I don't like it. It looks like something you could get at an Arizona Indian Gift shop. All you need is an OP label and boom, Kmart would sell it.
Then again, I am a bit of a snob.. But truely I would go with a dreamcatcher at the gift shop.
THANK YOU. this is good to know. The community here is so much more helpful than the 'other' shirt site. ;)
I will look forward to entering next week. Is it beneficial to submit early or does it level out(voting wise?)
nowikissyou wrote:I agree with the previous wooters, this design is awesomely funny, and the only one on this derby that I would actually buy, thus it gets my vote. Too bad it was submitted late and has a zero chance of printing :/
Also, why is it that the thumbnail looks so Battlefield Earth (2000) compared to the fullsize images? Looks like the half-tones/gradients/whatever are being severely mangled.
Yeah I did enter late, stayed up till 3:30am trying to make sure I got it in before the deadline. I had the initial sketch on Friday but with my kids and mothers day looming did not get around to completing it before early this morning.
thatrobert wrote:No, but I've read some Duckstoevsky.
There really is a book called Moby Duck. It's about a shipment of bath toy ducks (and beavers, frogs, and turtles) that was swept overboard in 1992. A journalist went on an epic trek to learn about the shipment, ocean currents, and such. Very cool read.
Re: Inspired by It Came Out of Nowhere
The thumbnail most tones tend to degrade when reduced thus creating a moiré pattern effect that would not be evident if File is printed. Also if you right click on the thumbnail and select open image in new window you can see larger detail.
Re: Inspired by: Sucka
I suspect most people don't get this shirt, but I like it. Go pleco!
Re: Inspired by Flower Carrier
Love Katamari
rainbowconfetti wrote:I beg to disagree- this is exactly what pedophiles do and although I'm sure ramyb didn't mean to connote *such* a horrible image, it comes across nonetheless
It's obviously death. If you see a pedophile, you need to look within to figure out why.
This really is stunning. The only design with my vote this week.
Re: Inspired by Summer
was there a shirt titled "summer"? i didn't see one on tgentry's list (only "summer to fall").
thewayisshut wrote:Not the shape of the bones, but the pose. I just find it... cheap that it's exactly the same as the picture I posed. The legs are in the same place, the head's in the same place, the tail... There are many ways to draw a horse skeleton, if one is creative. I see no creativity here. Furthermore, he didn't have to use a skeleton for his joke...
First: It's a horse. It has horse bones. You can't really change what they look like in some attempt to be creative. Therefore, the bones are drawn like every other realistic picture of a horse's bones. We don't get ants in our pants when the pictures in different books look "similar".
Next: It's a Trojan Horse. That is how a Trojan Horse stands. When do you really see a Trojan Horse not standing like that? In order for it not to tip over, it needs all 4 legs on the ground. It is supposed to look grand so it is posed in it's most majestic looking pose. You just need to get past that.
Lastly: It's an x-ray. X-rays show the skeleton. Yes, it needs the skeleton to make the joke successful. Why would you say that it doesn't? Even the little dudes are skeletons to show the x-ray aspect. The skeletons of both the horse and the dudes are the premise of the joke. That is what ties it all together. To say that the skeleton is unneccesary makes no sense. How does this joke work without it?
The creativity is not in the details of any one particular aspect. It is in how the artist brought it all together. Making it glow-in-the-dark is the only thing that could make this design cooler.
Johndis5 wrote:It's obviously death. If you see a pedophile, you need to look within to figure out why.
Pedophiles sometimes kill their victims. It happened here two days ago.
Re: Inspired by Full of Ink
Wish this could have been subbed sooner. I think it would have made it to the fog.
Ah well.
Re: Inspired By (Bearly Significant)
If I could order the one, I would.
gottapea wrote:THANK YOU. this is good to know. The community here is so much more helpful than the 'other' shirt site. ;)
I will look forward to entering next week. Is it beneficial to submit early or does it level out(voting wise?)
It's usually better to submit earlier, but sometimes later submissions have done well, particularly if they are outstanding.
Re: Inspired by Flora and Phonograph
Love this it is a great design, the wood texture and the ridges as vines really make your piece stand out, very thoughtful execution.
Oops! My bad.
Re: Inspired by (Nature's Harmony)
This design looks like music to me. Nice placement of the bird and the imprint. +1
Re: Inspired by (Unstill Life)
Really love your design. It is different than the usual woot shirt. I like the realistic look. It must have taken awhile to create. I can think of a few women in my life that would love this. +1
nowikissyou wrote:Also, why is it that the thumbnail looks so Battlefield Earth (2000) compared to the fullsize images? Looks like the half-tones/gradients/whatever are being severely mangled.
The thumbnail is 600 x 600 pixels which is bigger then the 240 x 240 pixels requested by woot. So woot is shirking the image much more then normal to fit correctly. That generally causes the thumbnail to look a little weird on most computers but it's really noticeable on halftones. =]
Re: Inspired by Dragon Slayer
Love the style! My neighbor is a pilot and I've been trying to get him to buy a woot shirt. I'm sure this design would win him over and welcome him to the woot club. Great shirt +1
Re: Inspired By (We Rule The Air)
Surprised this hasn't pulled in more votes. Very wearable. +1
serenityh wrote:There is something just right about a lion in a raincoat. Really cool design.
SnowQueenVT wrote:Wonderful.
VonMonkey wrote:I love this, it's awesome
thanks, all y'all. I loved this design. I wish I knew where to submit something like this. woot sure ain't it.
Re: Inspired by Taking Flight
Is the one on the right a zombie penguin?
Re: Inspired by King of the Beasts
And where was this during the Royalty derby, young lady?
Hi all,
thank you so so much for your nice compliments on the King! It means so much to me, I appreciate it more than you know. ;_;
I don't often get to do big illustrative things like this. I was really happy to be able to draw and sub this guy, and Im very thankful people have liked him ^_^.
Re: Inspired by In the World Of Black and White
Thanks everyone! I appreciate all the supportive comments and those who voted. Really excited for this design and @ cmdixon, the idea of series is great one with a noir series with varied b&w animals; i.e. penguins, zebra, etc. Thanks again for all the support.
i will agree that the penguin characters are used more than anything else. I would suggest that they be replaced by more ramyb squirrels!
in for three for axe murdering squirrels.
Mavyn wrote:Wish this could have been subbed sooner. I think it would have made it to the fog.
Ah well.
I agree. Hopefully it can fit into another derby in the future. Unless a miracle happens and it makes it to the top this time!
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Every prime $p = 4k + 1$ can be uniquely expressed as sum of two squares, but for which integers $x$ is $x^2 + y^2 =$ some prime $p$? Stated differently, does the square of every positive integer appear as one of the squares in the representation of some prime $p$?
If the square of every positive integer appears as one of the squares in the representation of some prime -- that is, if for each $y$ there is an $x$ such that $x^2 + y^2$ is prime -- then it follows that there are infinitely many primes of the form $X^2 + Y^4$ (by restricting to $y$s that themselves are squares). This corollary happens to be true, but it was a breakthrough result of Friedlander and Iwaniec from about 15 years ago, so it seems unlikely that the much stronger question the OP is asking has been proven.
This is a special case of Bateman–Horn conjecture, which in this case states that for given $y\in\mathbb{N}$ the polynomial $p(x)=x^2+y^2$ assumes prime values for infinitely many $x\in\mathbb{N}$, more specifically, $$\#\{x\leq N: p(x)\text{ is prime}\}\sim\frac{1}{2}\prod_{p\nmid y}\frac{p-1-(-1)^{\frac{p-1}{2}}}{p-1}\cdot\frac{N}{\ln N},$$ thus the asymptotics should depend on $y$, but only by a multiplicative constant.
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Battlefield 3 - Digital Download for PC for $9.99 + free shipping
Game Stop has Battlefield 3 (PC) for $9.99 downloaded. Step into the role of the elite U.S. Marines where you experience heart-pounding single player & multiplayer missions.
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Solid deal, but keep in mind that you'll have to download Origin (essentially EA's version of Steam) to play this. Probably not a deal breaker for most, but I personally refuse to support it.
try this power up code for a discount: 3876105106611
Get this game. It 'forcibly takes advantage' of all other games. 10$ is insanely good. Origin isn't great, but deal. It's worth it.
Still Origin? Still Nope!
its actually not through origin, its through gamestop's app called gamestop app; its their way off attracting people to use their app so they don't use steam or origin, you can run the game independently of gamestop app or even just use the code that they provide you with your own download whether that be from EA or torrent or whatever
@piotrt02: didnt work
You are correct sir, It dosnt work. This was all i could find for nine ninty nine
Oh wow, there's free shipping on a digital copy!
Sold out, as indicated here:
Origin doesn't bother me. What does is the fact that I have to use that idiotic launch from browser DRM.
@tristicus: I thought that was part of origin?
@yankeefan1087: I doubt it. It literally makes me launch my browser and you have to get servers from the browser itself. It is ridiculous.


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Hi guys I'm looking at giving this kind of photography a shot and was wondering if my 18-105mm lens set to 18mm would be wide enough to create a good image. Has anyone here used this lens for doing these 360's?
Hi guys I'm looking at giving this kind of photography a shot and was wondering if my 18-105mm lens set to 18mm would be wide enough to create a good image. Has anyone here used this lens for doing these 360's?
Thanks Bill for the quick reply!! I needed to make sure before getting to far into it. Are the images created using a 10mm or 12mm any better or just require less images and those take less stitching.
He uses the 18-55mm and 8mm lenses. You will see the quality of the work that is possible.
may be you will be glad with this: D90 Lower rail setting 54
18-105VR/f3,5-5,6 D90:
18 100
24 95
35 88
50 78
70 66
105 28 you have to replace the normal knob with the screw from the rail stop and add two rings to be able to fix the plate.
"you have to replace the normal knob with the screw from the rail stop and add two rings to be able to fix the plate"
Hello Heinz...
Could you give us more informations about this ?
Maybe with pictures if youhave time...
Thank you
you can not reach a rail setting of 28 with the normal knob of the upper rail. So i used the screw of the rail stop plate, which is too long. To be able to fix the camera tight, i added two rings to the screw to get the right length. Now you can fix the camera plate tight.
In the meantime you as well can order a special knob from the estore.
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Hi, new to the forum and nodal ninja's and pano shots, hopefully it's ok to post this here since I have the same camera. I have a D90 as well with the 18-105 kit lens, I also have a Nikon 50mm f/1.8D AF Nikkor Lens and a Sigma 70-300. Which Nodal Ninja do I need to get? I tried looking at the chart but I dont understand some of it. I like the panos ive seen on here where you can scroll all the way around but the first thing I'd like to try and do is get a nice flat pano/multi shot of our san juan islands. Any help would be appreciated.
The least expensive recommendation is the NN5L
You can go up in price from their depending on the added features you seek.
So I wouldnt want to get an NN3?
Would I ever want to use it though? Having never taken these photos before I wasn't sure which lenses I would use.
Also, is it better to get the RD16? or RD8 or what?
Hi and welcome,
I suppose you won't use the big lens in the beginning. Though you get a better resolution, it takes a much bigger amount of pictures and in the beginning I would not dare to shoot and stitch panoramas with this lens right now.
But take in your mind, if once your are infected with this virus, you might do something else than "6 shots around or 4, or 3 with fisheye lenses". Or you want to step over to FX frame cameras. In this case you would need the NN5w/RD16 for two reasons: weight of the camera-lens combination is too heavy, your lens asks the longer upper rail of the NN5 for the upper rails settings. NN5 / RD16 gives you the widest range to expand without buying something new.
So this is something you have to take in your mind when deciding to buy your equipment.
I will set up photos for you D90 NN5 NN3 Kit Lens, 50mm today and send information about rail- and detend plunger settings of the rotator.
Meanwhile you could work through the store, NN3 MkII complete set or with rotator RD8, NN5 RD16, Ez-Leveller II, to check the amount of money you have to spend for the different set up's.
Keep in mind, you are just missing a Nikkor 10.5mm/f2.8 DX fisheye lens, high price but highest quality.
So it takes some time to get all this information, but I am quite sure we can get you running quite soon.


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Since 1995, Dr. Nielsen's Alertbox articles on usability topics have been essential reading for usability and user experience professionals. Currently, the Alertbox receives over 12 million page views annually.
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Jakob Nielsen holds a Ph.D. in human–computer interaction (HCI) from the Technical University of Denmark in Copenhagen.
From 1994 to 1998 he was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer. He was hired to make heavy-duty enterprise software easier to use, since large-scale applications had been the focus of most of his projects at the phone company and IBM. But luckily the job definition of a Distinguished Engineer is "you're supposed to be the world's leading expert in your field, so you figure out what would be most important for the company for you to work on." Therefore, Dr. Nielsen ended up spending most of his time at Sun on defining the emerging field of Web usability. He was usability lead for several design rounds of Sun's website and intranet (SunWeb), including the original SunWeb design in 1994.
Dr. Nielsen's earlier affiliations include Bellcore (Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ), the IBM User Interface Institute at the T.J. Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY), the Technical University of Denmark (Copenhagen), and Aarhus University (Århus, Denmark).
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Chapter 3. Self-Regulation in Children and Young People with Down Syndrome
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Published Online: 25 FEB 2008
DOI: 10.1002/9780470777886.ch3
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Down Syndrome Across the Life Span
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The 5 Most Offensive Attempts at Video Game Marketing
There are two forces struggling to define the public perception of video games. First we have the gamers. These are often reasonable adults who are tired of being portrayed as frothy-mouthed would-be sex offenders with the collective attention span of an alcoholic gnat. And then we have the video game advertisers, who are all too eager to reinforce these stereotypes.
After all, from their end, the true value of a promotional campaign is in how much they can get the press talking about it. And how do you get the press to talk about it? Why, by triggering the outrage and/or ridicule of all of the non-gamers of the world. Thanks, guys!
#5. Dead Island Entices Gamers With a Headless, Busty Torso
Via Safevideogames
You may remember 2011's Dead Island for its harrowing trailer (which featured a family being torn apart by a zombie attack in agonizing slow motion) or for the mediocre, glitch-ridden game that had nothing to do with the awesome promo.
In any case, gaming label Deep Silver decided to get the hell off of the high road for the campaign for the game's 2013 sequel, Dead Island: Riptide. They decided to market the collector's edition of the game with a "grotesque take on an iconic Roman marble torso sculpture," which you can see below. Can't you see the art history oozing out of it?
Via Gamespot.com
If Michelangelo had lived another 20 years, this was what he'd be going for.
Here's the thing that Deep Silver (and many other gaming companies, as we'll see in a moment) don't get: Sex and violence are not like peanut butter and jelly. They are not two great tastes that taste great together. Hacking up zombies -- it's dandy. Boobs, ditto. But attaching a pair of pert breasts to a decapitated zombie torso? That's a crime against both sex and violence. Although to be fair, for a slaughtered torso, it's surprisingly, almost disturbingly modest (please note that the young lady's Union Jack two-piece has been left completely intact by the zombie attack). Because a zombie bite deep enough to expose bone didn't snap them, the strings on that bikini must be titanium wire.
It could have been a little worse.
So yes, this, uh, object is a "striking conversation piece," in that if you see this in someone's home, the best course of action is to distract them with conversation and then strike them on the damn head with it. Remember, bloody torsos are like cockroaches: If you see one, there are probably a lot more hidden out of sight. In the end, Deep Silver responded to complaints with a par-for-the-course, half-assed non-apology.
#4. Juiced Promotes Magical Molestation
Juiced was a forgettable racing title for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox that came out in 2005. In fact, the only reason anybody remembers it is because of its not-safe-for-work ad, which featured two dude-bros sexually assaulting a woman with enchanted video game controllers.
The scene begins with two guys hanging out in a car. They are enjoying the everyday pleasure of playing Juiced on their car's dashboard and dancing to rap music in a manner normally reserved for vivacious grandmothers in erectile dysfunction ads. Anyway, one of the players looks out the window and notices that, by adjusting the paint job on his in-game car, he's somehow changing the clothing of a redhead standing outside. Unfazed by their newfound paranormal powers, our scumbag protagonists immediately use them to telekinetically motorboat the nearest bystander.
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"We've never met a human. This is what they like, yes?"
It's tough to decide which is more awful: the poor woman's gasps of dismay as she's fondled by dark magic, or the guys' expressions of childlike wonder, as if groping a stranger via Xbox is like finding a puppy under the tree on Christmas morning.
Eventually the players strip the woman down to her thong and slap the Juiced logo on her keister. To reiterate, here are two men literally treating a woman as a customizable object and branding her ass like a cow. Was the Juiced ad team drinking hair gel when they dreamed this up? This spot never aired (because who would air it?), but we wouldn't be surprised if it's been recycled as an early draft of the upcoming Entourage movie.
Via YouTube
Shortening her skirt is the last "safe for work" thing you'll see in the video.
#3. Resident Evil Relies on Breast-Feeding and Chicken Guts
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When you think of Capcom's series of Resident Evil survival horror games, you naturally think of a naked mother -- generous of bosom and buttocks -- providing sustenance to her newborn child. Indeed, this French TV ad for 2005's Resident Evil 4 is a terrific example of the soothing, low-key breast-feeding gameplay that's made Resident Evil a hit worldwide.
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"Press 'X' twice to bite!"
Note the elegant camerawork as the camera pans across the mother's shoulders, the naturalistic and unashamed depiction of the suckling child, and the natural beauty of ZUT ALORS MES AMIS HALF THE PEOPLE WATCHING THIS CHOKED ON THEIR CROQUE-MONSIEURS.
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That's actually how most breast-feedings end, though. Kudos on the realism.
And for 2009's Resident Evil 5, Capcom's marketing wizards ditched the breast-feeding angle and appealed to English gamers with a London scavenger hunt for appendages. Players competed for a vacation to Africa by collecting body parts, each of which was worth a certain number of points: two points for limbs, five points for heads, and three points for (bikini-less) torsos. To make the props more realistic, they were smeared in chicken liver.
This promo backfired when, at the end of the event, Capcom realized that they couldn't account for all of the limbs they'd hidden. The company released a statement requesting that honest Londoners carefully dispose of any offal-drenched plastic elbows they stumbled upon. To make matters even weirder, this wasn't the only severed-limb gaming promo in London that month. A week later, Sega scattered bloody arms clutching copies of the Wii brawler MadWorld across the city.
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Is it possible to copyright a work in the name of a fictional writer? For example, like Nicolas Bourbaki or some pen name of some author? Can I use my own fictional name to copyright the work?
Yes, at least you can in the United States.
Reference: U.S. Copyright Office - Pseudonyms
Also: there are two ways you can indicate your pseudonym with the Copyright Office. You can either use just your pseudonym or you can use your real name and indicate you are "writing as pen name." Using the pseudonym as the copyright claimant can pose potential legal problems should such issues arise, so the Copyright Office rightly suggest that if you go that route, you should check with legal counsel.
Keep in mind, too, that because of tax requirements for payment, if you receive payment from a publisher, they will have to have your real name and social security number, unless you can work out some "middle-man" arrangement with an agent.
Finally, using a pseudonym doesn't offer any legal protection if you were, for instance, sued for slander or plagiarism.
Of course that depends on the country and internal laws but, since there may have Brazilians and Portuguese writers here, I'll answer based on those countries.
I just registered a book with IGAC, the institute that handle such requests in Portugal and it required my true name - what makes sense since it has to track who I really am - and my pen name - Eduardo Fernandes - what I think is for public consult of the archives.
If you want to use only the pen name, it's not possible what - in my opinion - makes all the sense since no copyright institute can register a manuscript without proper documentation and, if they have your documentation, even if they would accept your pen name only, they would also have access to your true name. I don't see how it's possible to copyright a manuscript without knowing who - in legal terms - you are.
Of course, you can create your own legal fictional identity - for example a small one man company - and let the cia to have the rights on your work, not you. That would make the YourPenName cia to be displayed as owner, not you. Of course, again, your cia will need to have papers and you would be listed as responsible for it, what would make your true self findable.


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Hi, I've always wanted to get one of these nodal ninja's and I haven't been to the site for a while until today and now I see the NN5's are to be discontinued. I own a d90 and I read in the nn3 forum that with a camera that heavy you really want the nn5. Does anyone know what will replace them and when? Or should I just get a NN5 now while I am able to still buy one? I really want to do some city scape panos to hang on a large wall just inside the front door of our home we purchased earlier this year. I was thinking maybe shooting across the water from gasworks park at night (if anyone here lives in/near Seattle)...
My current lenses are the 18-105 kit lens and a 50mm 1.8D.
I was looking at the "NN5 RD16", is it worth it to splurge for rd16?