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Call Me Irresistible (Large Print / Paperback)
R.S.V.P. to the most riotous wedding of the year . . .
Lucy Jorik is the daughter of a former United States president.
Meg Koranda is the offspring of legends.
One of them is about to marry Mr. IrresistibleTed Beaudinethe favorite son of Wynette, Texas. The other is not happy about it and is determined to save her friend from a mess of heartache.
But even though Meg knows that breaking up her best friend's wedding is the right thing to do, no one else seems to agree. Faster than Lucy can say "I don't," Meg becomes the most hated woman in towna town she's stuck in with a dead car, an empty wallet, and a very angry bridegroom. Broke, stranded, and without her famous parents at her back, Meg is sure she can survive on her own wits. What's the worst that can happen? Lose her heart to the one and only Mr. Irresistible? Not likely. Not likely at all . . .
About the Author
Susan Elizabeth Phillips soared onto the New York Times bestseller list with Dream a Little Dream. She s the only four-time recipient of the Romance Writers of America s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award. A resident of the Chicago suburbs, she is also a hiker, gardener, reader, wife, and mother of two grown sons.
Praise For…
Susan Elizabeth Phillips writes absolutely splendid women's fiction. Her books are infused with wit, heart, insight and intelligence. They delight and entertain on every level. A book by Susan Elizabeth Phillips is always a sparkling tonic for the senses.
-Jayne Ann Krentz
...Susan Elizabeth Phillips at her very best. Romantic, funny, sexy, and poignant.... If you're down or busy or distracted, I have the cure: Call Me Irresistible is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. I loved this book.
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CADIZ - A good kicker in high school football is a bonus.
A very good kicker is a weapon.
Bellaire used the big right leg of Dalton Conroy to slip past Harrison Central, 29-28, Friday night at a jam-packed Wagner Field in Buckeye 8 action.
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ROOM FOR MORE — Harrison Central's Maurtice Hython runs for a portion of his 211 yards during Friday's 29-28 last-second home loss to Bellaire.
The 240-pound Big Reds' senior booted a 22-yard field goal as time expired to give his team the improbable victory over the stunned Huskies and their faithful.
"That is probably the most pressure I've ever felt in my life," Conroy explained outside an exuberant Bellaire lockerroom.
Bellaire trailed 28-26 after junior quarterback Spencer Badia capped a 7-play, 67-yard touchdown drive with a 5-yard quarterback draw. His two-point pass was batted away by a diving Fletcher Watt to preserve Harrison Central's slim lead with 3:25 remaining to play.
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Bellaire 29, Harrison Central 38
Bellaire 10 10 0 9 - 29
Harrison Central 7 21 0 0 - 28
B-Maffe 60 pass from Badia (Conroy kick)
HC-Hython 36 run (Teixiera kick)
B-Conroy 20 FG
HC-Hython 18 run (Teixiera kick)
HC-Hython 15 run (Teixiera kick)
B-Maffe 18 run (Conroy kick)
HC-Hython 1 run (Teixiera kick)
B-Conroy 43 FG
B-Badia 5 run (pass failed)
B-Conroy 22 FG
RUSHING: Bellaire 24-83-td (Maffe 8-44, Badia 13-34-td, Koshenka 1-3, Snell 1-1, Westlake 1-1). Harrison Central 40-225-4tds (Hython 31-211-4tds, Maykowski 3-16, Mitchell 6-(-2).
PASSING: Bellaire 26-44-306-td (all by Badia). Harrison Central 6-11-98-int (all by Mitchell).
RECEIVING: Bellaire 26-306-td (Patrone 9-99, Maffe 5-94, Crosby 3-10, Hess 2-41, West 1-14, Horvath 1-12). Harrison Central 6-98 (Moore 3-32, Pelegreen 2-57, Olmstead 1-9).
FIRST DOWNS: Bellaire 20; Harrison Central 17.
PENALTIES: Bellaire 4-45; Harrison Central 5-42.
FUMBLES: Bellaire 0-0; Harrison Central 1-0.
With the Huskies expecting an onside kick, Conroy boomed one deep that Josh Moore fielded at the goalline and returned to the 15.
Talented running back Maurtice Hython gained four yards on first down, but lost one on second as Logan Koshenka made the tackle. On third-and-7, Harrison Central quarterback Rashaen Mitchell dropped back to pass. With the rush in his face, he spun around a couple of times to elude defenders, but soon found himself in the end zone. He got a step out of the end zone before getting flagged for intentional grounding. That left the Huskies with fourth-and-24 from inside their own one.
David Miser's punt was fielded by Brendon Ross at the 36 and returned to the 28. On third-and-4, Badia laced a rocket into the arms of Hunter Westlake that moved the ball to the Huskies' 11. Badia gained six yards on a pair of carries that lined Conroy up for his game-winning attempt.
After a pair of timeouts, one by each team, the snap from Wyatt Back to Badia was perfect and Conroy's kick split the uprights as the Bellaire sidelines and bleachers erupted in joyous celebration.
"Dalton is the weapon we talked about earlier in the year," a jubilant Bellaire head coach Jose Davis allowed. "We know where we have to get to be in his range. That was a chip shot for him. He probably had 20 or 30 yards to go on that kick."
While the kick made winners out of Bellaire for the fifth time in seven outings, and halted a two-game losing skid, the loss was really hard to swallow for the Huskies on Homecoming.
"They made one more play than we did," said a disappointed Harrison Central head coach Justin Kropka. "Our kids played hard and were in the right places. It just didn't work out."
The game was a tale of two halves as the Huskies bolted to a 28-20 halftime margin thanks to a 21-point second quarter.
Hython picked up 119 of his 211 yards and all four of his team's touchdowns in the first half. Only two of his 15 second-half carries went for more than seven yards.
"We really didn't make any big adjustments defensively at halftime," Davis explained. "They (Harrison) were just muscling us up and down the field. Our kids had to man up and they did."
Badia found Nick Maffe on a perfectly executed middle screen and the senior tailback weaved his way down the field before cutting to the far sidelines en route to a 60-yard scoring strike to give Bellaire a 7-0 lead following Conroy's PAT.
Hython scored from 36 yards out and Rafael Teixiera's extra-point evened the count at 7:58 of the opening stanza.
Bellaire went back ahead when Conroy connected on a 20-yard field in the waning seconds of the half as the visitors led 10-7.
A pair of Hython scoring runs, from 18 and 15 yards, gave Harrison Central a 21-10 lead with 6:06 left before the half.
A 18-yard run by Maffe cut into the hosts' margin at 21-17 and, after Hython scored from a yard out, Conroy boomed a 43-yard field goal through the uprights as the first half came to a close with the Huskies on top, 28-20.
"That was huge for us to score in the last minute," Davis said of Conroy's second field goal. "That gave us the momentum going to the lockerroom."
Neither team could dent the scoreboard in the second half as the defenses took center stage.
"Our defense has given up some big plays, and they did again tonight, but when we needed them to step up in the second half, they did," Davis praised.
Badia finished 26 of 44 for 306 yards and a touchdown. Patrone landed nine catches for 99 yards, with Maffe gaining 95 on five receptions.
Mitchell was 6-for-11 for 98 yards and an interception, which was pilfered by Patrone.
Bellaire returns home to Nelson Field next Saturday to host Union Local, while Harrison Central hits the road to Wintersville for a crucial meeting with Indian Creek.
Mindi Snyder was crowned homecoming queen during halftime festivities. She selected the odd-colored rose.

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17 More Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
#7. "Somebody Keyed My Mountain Picture!"
It looks like the artist was dabbing in snow at the top of that mountain in the upper left at the moment he had a stroke. Just spazzing out with a random zig-zag the whole way down the scene.
Even more terrifying, it's actually a road--Stelvio Pass in the Italian Alps, named one of the best driving roads in the world by Top Gear. Judging from the second picture, some highway guardrail manufacturer stands to make a fortune on this place.
#6. The Bad News is We Had to Cut Down All of the Trees
We admit it: We never get tired of stuff that's way bigger or way smaller than it should be.
On that note, this monster bookshelf is Kansas City's main library. It's certainly attention grabbing enough to get kids off the Internet and into reading (just kidding kids, keep reading Cracked!), but we're guessing it also created the rubbernecking accident capital of the world. What would be even more awesome is if you pulled on a certain book, the whole thing would swing around and reveal a secret building.
#5. Birds Do Not Like To Be Photographed
This would be another example. Or at least we think.
This is a flock of starlings giving you the finger. We're still holding out hope that somewhere there's a bird trainer who has devoted his life to teaching huge flocks to do nothing but this.
#4. Sir Please Do Not Walk On My Abstract Painting
This looks to us like one of those awful composite shots of some miniature rocks with a guy shopped in. It's actually a real picture of a frozen river in India, as photographed by Sankar Sridhar, who has all sorts of equally cool photos on his site.
Natives of the area around this river only walk on the ice with padded shoes since anything else would damage the sacred frozen water, and it might refuse to freeze in the future. Boy are these guys going to be pissed when they find out about global warming.
#3. And Speaking of Things That Look Like Paintings
If you look at this one close, you'll see what's going on here. Her left hand, and some strands of hair give away the fact that this is not a painting or a photo run through the Photoshop watercolor filter, but an actual woman whose body has been painted to look like it.
So we guess it is sort of a painting, only they used a woman as a canvas. Then presumably they position her in a window and when people come by to look at the "painting" she reaches out and grabs them and everyone laughs.
#2. The Most Roundabout Way to Say "Wash Me"
This looks like a sarcastic print ad for a car wash, but that is a real car and that is real dirt and a real detailed landscape smeared into it. It's the work of artist Scott Wade and to be fair to the car's owner, he added the dirt himself.
#1. We're Pretty Sure This is Symbolic, But Not Sure What It's Symbolic For
At the very least this looks like a posed shot, or maybe some sort of weird lobbyist advertisement trying to drum up some funding for our troops. But it's actually a real image captured of U.S. soldiers ambushed by the Taliban, and one guy who didn't have time to change into his war clothes. Why do we issue our troops huge, pink comedy boxers? BECAUSE WE ELECTED A DEMOCRAT.
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Anyone else bummed that George Lucas is finally "Calling It Quits' on big blockbuster films?
Okay so I am a big fan of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series. I fall into the category of disappointed folks with Lucasfilms projects as of late. (Although the Clone Wars series is top notch IMO). I still resent Lucas for making me suffer through Jar Jar BInks. And as much as I want to be happy that he is hanging up his reigns, I'm still feeling some apprehension because I know he still has ideas that will advance cinema.
Am I the only person that is disappointed to see Lucas throw in the towel? Hope it doesn't give him more free time to tinker with my beloved IV, V, VI...
Legendary movie producer and director George Lucas has announced his retirement via this month's Empire Magazine.
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Interesting thoughts... My first reaction is that, given the success or lack thereof of his more recent movies, maybe he's realizing that he doesn't have everything he used to and wants to get out before he ruins his reputation with even more stinkers. Kind of like an MVP-type athlete who retires while still in his prime (a la Barry Sanders).
Well, at least we won't have to worry about releasing another Jar Jar or tribe of Ewoks on us again. But then again, he's not too old to come out of retirement. (How many times did Michael Jordan retire?)
@woadwarrior: Good points as well...and bonus points for another sports analogy!
Not even remotely disappointed. A large part of me wishes he had thrown in the towel sooner so I wouldn't have had to explain the difference between the "real" Star Wars and the point where it became an old man trying to re-live his glory with some painful to fans ego stoking to my son.
Not at all. His most recent movies haven't been all that great. Indy Jones was a long time ago :-) And, so was the last good Star Wars movie. So, I guess I can't think of anything in recent memory from him that I'd miss, so I don't think I'll miss him.
Will he promise to stop screwing with the old ones, too? What good work has he done in the last 30 years? Clone Wars was good, but I don't know how much Lucas had to do with that. I can't think of a thing.
The sad portion is that Episodes I - III were an opportunity wasted. I remember how excited I was at the first teaser trailer. Then how dissappointed and pissed off I was at the actual film. Add to that the "improvements" on episodes IV-VI and I'm not at all sorry he is hanging things up.
And always remember, HAN SHOT FIRST.
@elandria: Yeah good point. But then we would have never had Darth Maul.
@kmeltzer: Okay so I concede that his later films are not at the top of my list but, have you considered the quality of programming that he is putting out in the Clone Wars series? I mean it's a weekly 22 minute CGI animated series that looks closer to movie animation than it does to South Park.
@wilfbrim: Lucas was really involved with Clone Wars at the outset. Down to the tiniest details including plot, imagery, and storyline.He has become more comfortable with director Dave FIloni over the four seasons and I believe he now gives him a little more license these days. But I think he is still intimately involved with the show.
I just hope he has enough saved up for retirement.
Sounds like everyone here would enjoy the documentary "The People vs. George Lucas" check it out on Netflix, I really enjoyed it.
I just saw Red Tails this weekend. I wanted to love it, and had wanted to see it in the theater but couldn't. I was really disappointed in the lack of character development and in the writing, though the special effects were awesome.
I think he stopped trying a while ago, and while it saddens me (and I still love the original 3 Star Wars and all the Indy movies), it's good for him to stop before we just get movies that are all JarJar Binks characters
@jimmyd103: I'll give you that point. But, it doesn't make me "bummed" :-)
I haven't read anything about it but unless he's got some serious illness or something, I'll believe it when I see it.
George Lucas got fabulously rich and famous a long time ago but has continued to try to make more money and increase his fame by producing new stuff or rehashing old stuff. People like that don't retire. I assume he is just out of ideas at the moment, so scaling back seems like a decent choice. Once he has what he feels is another good idea, we'll see him back in action (good or bad).
To clarify, I am not opposed to the rich and famous getting richer and more famous. My point is only to illustrate that people have a tendency to want to keep making money and keep being famous. Look at all the movie stars that get wealthy and then continue to make dumb movies only for the sake of making money and being in the spotlight.
Isn't the root of the problem that he left the director's guild so he can only produce films independently now? If my memory is right, he was fined because he refused to put the names of the main actors in the beginning of the movie. Nobody will hire him to direct a movie now that he's not in the guild.
@wnyx585am: George Lucas has an estimated net worth of $3.2 billion as of 2011. Not to mention the continuous spring of royalties that continue to roll in every day. At 67-years-old I don't think he needs to make anymore money.
i was irritated when he made greedo shoot first. i was disappointed and angry when he released the 3 prequels. with the exception of yoda fighting, and darth maul, those movies were and embarrassment to star wars fans everywhere. then after he did Crystsal Skull, i realized that Lucas has drained all of his creative juices. it makes me sad that someone who could come up with movies as amazing and ground breaking as the original SW and Indiana trilogies, has sunk to making the dregs of hollywood cinema. Shame on you George Lucas, you should have hung up your towel decades ago.
although, to give credit where credit is due, the clone wars series is very very good. i don't watch it, but i've seen it a few times and will concede that its very well done. also, i don't play the games, but they seem to be very popular and well done.
@jimmyd103: Of course he doesn't need more money. That doesn't stop Warren Buffet from going to work everyday. It also doesn't stop Keanu Reeves from making movies.
No, he needs to retire before he ruins something else. I see him now and I ask myself....."Is that Kenny Rogers!?!?".
George Lucas seems to want every movie he is involved with to re-create the "wonder he experienced as a boy" watching Flash Gordon serials and Sinbad movies on the big screen. groan
You can't just make "Indiana Jones in Space!" movies, slap the Star Wars label on them, make the dialogue stinted, the acting wooden and then throw up 2 hours of digitally created fireworks. Silly heroes, comical villians....Maybe in 1953 this worked amazingly well on 10 year olds.....but today we want things a tad deeper. The first two Star Wars films were plenty "serious"...then it all went to hell :(
I think it is the right thing for him to do. He has made his money and now has some time to enjoy it.
I like George Lucas and am a fan of not only his movies, but the Star Wars books that have been inspired by the movies. I know he has a hand in creating the "universe" and story lines in the books. I loved the Young Jedi series. I hope he does continue to make movies as I see some of the books as having movie potential.
@wootalistic: I think you just made the point for us. Lucas set the very basic universe. The novels (which range from kind of meh to spectacular, with the average being pretty good) he had little to nothing to do with. In hindsight it would have been better off for him to give only the barest outline of a story to somebody competent and let them do it.
Not totally bummed because I think his best work is far behind him. Maybe there are too many cooks in the kitchen? He may just need more control of the project at hand. Guess we'll never know.
The main reason he produced anything of worth was because he had other people around to tell him, "No George, that's dumb." He got too big to take criticism and got to thinking he had some sort of Midas touch for movies.


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5 Seemingly Harmless Groups That Wield Terrifying Power
Everyone knows a conspiracy theorist who, at the slightest provocation, will spout a stream of cerebro-diarrhea about the secret organizations that control every minute aspect of our lives from the shadows. Well, it turns out you owe that guy a burrito, because he was totally right about everything ... except for the "secret" part. The sinister organizations making society dance like a puppet aren't illuminati or freemasons -- they're boring, ordinary groups gone mad with power. Groups like ...
#5. The Auto Clubs That Invented Jaywalking to Shift Blame to Pedestrians
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Sure, we all hate it when some arrogant pedestrian has the audacity to get their blood all over our hood, but put yourself in the shoes of that oblivious walk-monkey for a second: Isn't it a little strange that, if you happen to cross the road at the wrong spot, you're the lawbreaker, even if you don't inconvenience any drivers at all? Motorcycles, bicycles -- hell, even horses supposedly have equal rights to the road. But you, with your primitive feet, have absolutely no business being there, and you're basically volunteering for a real-life game of Frogger every time you cross the street in a non-stripy section.
Except that you'd never have the stones to rock the vest/tie/no shirt combo.
But that wasn't always the case. When cars first arrived on the scene, they weren't guaranteed the right of way -- if a car hit a pedestrian, it was a shocking and public tragedy. The driver would face charges of something like "technical manslaughter" even when the accident was considered unavoidable. The thinking was that you're the one shooting about in a murder machine -- the burden of caution is on you.
It was auto clubs like AAA that first worked to make drivers the lords of the blacktop. Back in 1923, people started calling for physical speed limiters on cars to prevent accidents, and auto clubs (under heavy influence from the boys in Detroit) realized that slower cars would result in fewer owners, fewer sales, and fewer memberships. With an astoundingly subtle, graceful, not even slightly racist campaign, they lobbied and successfully kept American cars faster than your mom at a Loverboy concert.
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Although the idea of walling off Cincinnati does sound appealing to most modern Americans.
The bigger victory, though, was shifting the blame for accidents away from errant, roguish, begoggled old-timey automobilists over to those devil-may-care pedestrians. The concept of jaywalking basically didn't exist until the 1920s -- why would it? Streets were made for people to get around, and most people got around by walking. Now they suddenly had to get the hell out of the road to make way for cars. It makes sense to us today in our auto-centric culture, but picture that moment when it happened: It would be like waking up one morning to find that you could no longer walk down the hallway in your apartment building because too many people were getting hit by Segways.
So with the legislation in place, it came time to focus on changing people's perceptions. And much like cigarettes and Japanese card-battle games, auto makers found that they had to hit them young. AAA paid for the safety education of millions of students, telling children to use crosswalks and look both ways. Who could argue with that? It was all in the name of saving those precious young sales.
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Lives. We mean saving lives. Same difference, right?
#4. Credit Reporting Agencies Who Sell You to the Highest Bidder (Or Any Bidder)
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As far as society is concerned, your entire worth as a human being boils down to a single number on a single piece of paper: your credit score. Somehow, we all accidentally entered into a Logan's Run-type situation, but instead of coming when we turn 30, the men in black jumpsuits show up when we inevitably overcharge our Home Depot card trying to build a trebuchet in our living room.
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"We'd have approved you and hooked you up with moat financing. Just sayin'."
And that's not the unsettling part. See, credit ratings are controlled by just three private companies: Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion. But these companies rule far more than your credit score. Recently, Experian landed a sweet deal with the Social Security Administration under which they control your access to online Social Security statements and benefits. That's particularly scary because it turns out that Experian isn't exactly great at online security: Last year, Irish regulators opened an investigation into their security practices due to the more than 80 breaches of their consumer database since 2006. If you're wondering why the Irish were investigating the issue, it's because Experian -- the company that controls access to U.S. Social Security benefits and the credit reports of U.S. consumers -- is based in Dublin. Ireland's not exactly Thunderdome or anything -- we're sure they have a fine workforce -- but we're outsourcing our own benefits and the maintenance of the single most important number in our lives?
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And you just know you're going to get screwed when they convert your number to metric credit.
Don't freak out.
Because it keeps going!
You know all those pre-approved credit offers that you get in the mail and use as kindling for your flaming trebuchet balls of justice? Those companies know to send you all that crap because the credit reporting agencies can sell your information to any third party they damn well please. And they're not just selling your name, address, and credit score -- they even sell unlisted phone numbers. Presumably because they, like Cracked, know that everything is better in lists.
#3. The Medical-Industrial Complex That Exists Solely to Bankrupt You
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We all know that the health care industry has the second most jacked up perception of value in the country, slightly behind defense contractors and just above printer ink. But you might not know exactly how bad it really is, so here -- check out this comparison of the cost of medical procedures in the U.S. versus the rest of the world:
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Seems appropriate that the one where they get to jam something up your ass has the best value, percentage wise.
An angiogram in the U.S. costs 26 times what it does in Canada. Canada is right there! Depending on where you live in the States, you could conceivably look out your window at the Canadian border and literally watch $879 burst into flames. But why? It's not (solely) because of socialization, or the lack thereof -- it's because the hospitals and insurance companies are involved in a sort of cold war of blatant fraud that leads to constantly escalating prices. Each hospital has a "chargemaster" -- a list of what it charges for every item or service. No two hospitals' chargemasters are quite the same, but they all have one thing in common: gigantic markups. But the insurance companies know it's a hot steaming wad of crap, so they use their largess to haggle with the hospitals and get upwards of 70 percent discounts off the list prices. Hospitals then have to mark everything up, because they know those bastard insurance companies are only going to pay 30 percent of the asking price. You see where this is going: Those without the necessary influence to haggle (i.e., you, the uninsured jerkwad with third-degree trebuchet burns) are pretty well screwed.
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"Sorry, your policy only covers catapults."
People don't think to question it because most of them have never even heard of a chargemaster, and the health industry has managed to steer the health care debate away from asking why we're paying $77 for a single gauze pad when we could buy a whole goddamn box of the things at Walmart for 10 bucks and focusing instead on who should pay for it.
But how have they managed to so completely foul up something as fundamental as health care? The answer is obvious: money. Hospitals are a for-profit industry, and one does have to spend money to make money. Lobbyists for defense, aerospace, oil, and gas have tossed a combined $2.8 billion at Washington since 1998. The medical-industrial complex has spent about twice that.
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Everyone else is playing checkers. They're playing che$$.
Five and a half billion dollars buys you a whole lot of influence; we'd recommend holding off on laying siege to your dickhead neighbor Chad's rec room until this whole thing settles down.


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The first national, comprehensive plan to support and encourage physical activity among all Americans was released on May 3, 2010, at an event in Washington, D.C. The National Physical Activity Plan, a wide range of public policy recommendations across eight broad sectors, is the product of a 10-month collaboration of experts in diverse fields. In November 2009, the Human Kinetics' owned journal, the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, released a supplement collecting several white papers by leading scholars on issues addressed in the Plan. (Click here to read the open-access supplement.)
"This is a national initiative that goes well beyond just telling people to exercise. We are recommending policies, programs, and initiatives that will change our communities in ways that enable all Americans to be physically active," said Russell Pate, Ph.D., chair of the National Physical Activity Plan. "It's well established that physical activity brings manifold health benefits, but we need to change people's behavior. The Plan provides a roadmap for change, addressing everything from the education of health professionals to zoning laws, school policies, and workplace wellness programs."
The Plan is, in part, an answer to America's alarming rates of adult and childhood obesity and decreasing levels of physical activity. Research has shown that physical activity and exercise can help prevent and treat obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, depression, bone disease, cancer, and other diseases. If implemented, measures called for in the Plan could significantly improve public health, cut health care costs, and reduce health disparities.
The product of a public/private partnership, the Plan calls for policy, environmental, and cultural changes to help all Americans enjoy the health benefits of physical activity. The vision is that all Americans are physically active and live, work, and play in environments that facilitate regular physical activity. The Plan is an ongoing collaboration of scores of nonprofit organizations, corporations, and public agencies serving as partners, affiliates, and sponsors.
Following the announcement of the Plan at the National Press Club, leaders addressed Members of Congress and their staffs. Speakers included Pate, Robin M. Ikeda (M.D., MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Acting Director, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control), Barry Ford (President, National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity), Shellie Pfohl (Executive Director, President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports), Nancy Brown (CEO, American Heart Association), Robert E. Sallis, (M.D., FACSM, Past President, American College of Sports Medicine), and Katie Adamson (Director of Partnerships & Health Policy, YMCA of the USA).
Governors and mayors throughout the United States have proclaimed May 3rd "National Physical Activity Day." "This level of support from elected leaders is very encouraging," said Pate. "Successfully implementing the Plan will depend, in large part, on the willingness of leaders at every level to enact the kinds of changes that will encourage and allow people to become more physically active. Currently, there are too many barriers to active lifestyles and too many Americans are left behind."
A Call to Action
The Plan presents a call to action with specific strategies for each sector, for example:
The Plan Process
Pate led a process that identified strategies and tactics for eight key areas of society that have a direct impact on the physical activity levels and health of people in the United States. Eight working groups collaborated under the guidance of a 23-member Coordinating Committee. The eight sectors are
Following the May 3rd launch, the National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity (NCPPA) will lead implementation, working with the organizations designated to coordinate teams focused on each of the eight sectors. "We envision communities that are walkable, schools that understand and embrace the link between physical activity and academic achievement, and workplaces that celebrate opportunities to be physically active as a way to enhance the bottom line," said NCPPA President Barry Ford. "Physical activity of all types is critical to building healthier and more livable communities, and it is as simple as putting one foot in front of the other."
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I have patch a couple of places at the base of my shower with silicone rubber sealant using a caulking gun and it's worked well and water no longer escapes from the shower. However, where I have done the patching it is lumpy but where the original sealant is there is a smooth continuous finish.
Two questions:
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I am designing a calendar icon for an app, I am putting a random date right now on it, what should be ideal date that I should put. Is there any usability research done on the same? I know the best scenario can be if it can display the current date, but right now it might be too much an overkill to develop such a feature, so what should be the ideal date that i should put on the icon? Blackberry puts it to be 31, another number which I though was quite eye catchy was 23. Is there any such paradigm that a particular date is catchier?
Try doing a google search on calendar icon and then you capture the results (if worth it). Just by skimming the results I saw that 9 was a popular number, but not far from others.
From the Semiotics perspective 31 might work, as people easily identify it as the maximum number of days a month can get, and design-wise is filling.
I think that only having the red bar at the top and a big bold black number (or calendar grid (SMTWXFS) id size permits) at the bottom is good enough for people to identify the icon.
MORE ON ICONS: I bumped today into this link: Tips for Designing Great Icons and Images from the iOS Human Interface Guidelines. Worth having a look for people that want to design their own icons.
If it is technically feasible, update the icon on an hourly/daily base to show the current date/day. This way, the user sees the current date/day by just browsing through the set of application icons without starting the calendar application.
Technically, it may require configuring and running a system service to redraw the icon at midnight without user interaction.


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13-year-old Sean Timm says the eight day robotics camp at Nicolet College mixed the best of both worlds.
"I like technology a lot more than I do outside stuff," Timm said. "It's kind of nice to have technology like drones to bring me outside. It's really fun."
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The job is an ideal match for Sposito, who worked for almost 30 years as a printing pressman for the New York Times while getting his undergraduate degree in union leadership and administration. At Rutgers Law School, selected for its reputation for faculty excellence in labor and employment law, he held editorial positions on two journals, captained a moot court team, and wrote three research papers on labor issues that were published.
Now Sposito has been selected to participate in the Government Fellowship Program, an initiative of the Section of Labor & Employment Law of the American Bar Association (ABA). He will serve for a three-year term as a member of the Committee on Development of the Law. ABA Section Government Fellows are expected to participate in Section projects that include pro bono work, trial advocacy competitions, and outreach programs to law students, young lawyers, and government lawyers.
Sposito stated that he is excited to be able to participate in the debate concerning the direction of labor law at a time when the National Labor Relations Board is dealing with new issues in an environment of rapidly changing workplaces. In addition to his work at the Board, Sposito has been involved in outreach activities such as guest lecturing at Fairleigh Dickinson University and at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. He also has taught a labor and employment law course at CUNY's Murphy Institute School of Professional Studies.
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**bank feeds update overnight
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Revision as of 17:55, 25 January 2012
See Also
- Annual Report - some financial reports and stuff, color coordinated to look official-like.
New Accounting System
Minimum Requirements
Following are the features that we need to keep track of our basic finances:
- import and reconcile transactions (Xero is TERRIBLE at this) from
- Wells Fargo
- Paypal
- Square
- other possible options listed under Treasury#Billing & Payment processing
- keep repeating invoices for membership dues & regular donors
- some smart suggestions to reconcile incoming transactions with their matching invoices (xero is betarded at this. It searches only by amount, not by name and amount)
- categories for flagging transactions as various types of expenses and income to make taxes easier
- custom categories / tagging to track income/expenses for sub-projects (like the Noisebridge Tor project) separately from the general fund
- some reasonably convenient way to output data (graphs and reports would be nice, but good clean csv files would do. I can matplotlib that shit.)
- clear tracking of unpaid invoices
- Reasonably forgiving and customizable rules system (i.e. xero has logical rules for automating reconciliation but won't let you create rules to reconcile against created invoices, only to create new transactions)
- Reasonable batch edit UI (i.e. xero won't let you delete invoices once created, you can only void them, one at a time, and it's 4 clicks per void. Not A Feature.)
- generate receipts easily
- report generation for standard bookkeeping reports such as a balance sheet and profit & loss for reasonably custom date ranges.
- web-based or linux-compatible local app. Some sort of remote data storage and ability to access from multiple machines is required. (Dropbox is an acceptable aid for this)
Bonus Features
These are in order of priority. Lacking any of these is not a deal breaker, but we really hope for the new system to include some of the higher-priority extras.
- direct access to the full details of paypal or square transactions (i.e. notes to the payee, etc)
- really smart algorithms for invoice reconciliation, alteration and deletion (i.e. delete invoices for this member during these dates or change the invoice amount on individual invoices without affecting repeating invoices)
- an interface which isn't bleeding edge flash that trips up in Linux
- automated email invoicing for recurring invoices
Options to look into
- Quickbooks
- An individual from Intuit contacted Noisebridge via the press alias wanting to meet with us and talk about how the hacker community works. They offered to reimburse us for our time (weird). User:Hurtstotouchfire replied suggesting a more casual interaction and noting that they were welcome to come by our public space. Heard back today. Sounds like they are mostly doing market research and will be meeting with Mitch. Will update. --User:Hurtstotouchfire
- Less Accounting
- Recurring invoices: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mia5zCN24Q4
- API: http://lessaccounting.com/api (but doesn't have library implementations, so ActiveResource)
- GNU Cash (other examples here: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspace_Software)
- Kashoo
- doesn't look like it has bank feeds (have to start account to check
- no smart algorithms for reconciliation?
- integrates with Freshbooks
- inDinero
- has bank feeds
- "automatic categorization" -- matching algorithms?
- User:SuperQ Does not do double entry accounting, not really an accounting package
- Outright
- bank feeds update overnight
- "automatic categorization"
- Zoho Invoice
- Recurring invoices: http://www.zoho.com/invoice/help/invoices/online-recurring-invoices.html
- API: http://www.zoho.com/invoice/api/index.html
- Danny says that Zoho can't import very well.
- Turbocash
- Recurring invoices: http://turbocash.net/Knowledge-Base/Repeating-Invoices/
- Windows / Linux (with WINE) and very dodgy text...
- Accounting package overview
- Freshbooks
- goddamnit, freshbooks does only invoicing. Check partners for accounting: [1]
- $30 per month for unlimited clients
- Import Clients using CSV http://community.freshbooks.com/support/is-there-a-way-to-import-data-into-my-freshbooks-account/
- You can not import invoices, payments, estimates, staff, projects, items, tasks, or timesheets into FreshBooks.
- So we'd need to use API to set up recurring invoices for all users http://developers.freshbooks.com/billing/
- Recurring invoices
- Out of the box (with template support)
- With Formstack integration http://blog.formstack.com/2010/05/27/freshbooks-integration-feature-upgrades/
- OOTB Integration with:
- WePay with Formstack integration http://blog.formstack.com/2010/12/14/capture-data-and-collect-money-with-formstack-wepay/
- API (Ruby / Python / Java) - http://developers.freshbooks.com/
- Ruby Gem: https://github.com/bcurren/freshbooks.rb
- Seems to have happy customers http://www.yfncg.com/2011/05/16/computer-guys-toolbox-payment-collection/
- Good review from PC Magazine http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2254091,00.asp
- Chargify
- Recurring Billing
- RESTful API
- Formstack integration
- Spreedly - Recurring Billing
- Recurly - Recurring billing
Payment processing
- Authorize.net
- CheddarGetter
- Cash in general
- iTransact
- merchant account and gateway, etc. Fees.
- Beanstream
- online credit card payments
- bank debits
- PintPay
- Mazooma - online service for bank account transfers.
- can't find much info on creating a merchant account without actually signing up. Annoying FAQ.
- accepts most big banks. Credit unions probably screwed.
- MoneyBookers - online payments
- Looks like a pretty direct paypal substitute
- Supports recurring payments
- In the USA, accepts visa, mastercard, and bank transfers
- Good international support for payment systems
- Fees include a flat $0.29 + 2.9%
- There are additional fees for some transaction types. Very confusing fee structure.
- Money laundering policy! - honestly these guys come off as corporate dicks. Anyone have positive things to say about them?
- Flattr - micropayment system
- Uses Moneybookers or PayPal to transfer funds.
- 10% fee.
- Google Checkout - online payment processing
- Fee maximum: 2.9% + $0.30 (less if we have >$3K/mo transactions, but that's unlikely)
- requires a google account
- WePay
- User:Hurtstotouchfire was contacted by WePay and had a phone meeting with them to discuss how they fit with us as a business. They are very nice and have API support. More notes on that call on User_talk:Hurtstotouchfire.
- Donations https://www.wepay.com/about/why_donations
- Request Money https://www.wepay.com/about/why_bills
- Recurring payments
- creating a wepay account is optional for transactions. WePay will process on a one-time basis. Account likely necessary for repeating payments.
- Has fees (3.5%, comparable to paypal) https://www.wepay.com/about/fees
- Formstack integration


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Charlotte hit its first two homers of the season, including a grand slam from junior outfielder Justin Seager (Kannapolis, N.C. / Northwest Cabarrus HS) to power past Youngstown State 10-4 in game one of a scheduled Sunday doublehdeader at Robert and Mariam Hayes Stadium in non-conference college baseball. The Niners improve to 7-2 on the season, 6-0 at home, winning three in a row. The Penguins are 2-9, dropping their last six games.
Outfielder Mike Accadri started the game off with a base hit to left, advancing to second on a sacrifice bunt and to third on a wild pitch. After a walk to third baseman Drew Dosch, the runners pulled off a successful double steal for the first run of the game. A failed pickoff of Dosch included a throwing error that allowed Dosch to score for the 2-0 lead, the Penguins first of the series.
An RBI sacrifice bunt from shortstop Justin Roland (Salisbury, N.C. / East Rowan HS) scored Charlotte's first run of the game in the bottom of the third before a walk and a hit batter loaded the bases for Seager, who drilled the 1-0 offering to left for the team's first homer of the season and the first grand slam for Charlotte since Zane Williams four-RBI hit on March 5, 2010 against Marist. Charlotte led 5-2 after the third.
The 49ers scored four more runs in the fifth. After a walk to senior outfielder Michael Green (Richmond, Va. / Thomas Dale HS) and a flyout, Seager drilled an RBI double off the wall in the fifth for his sixth two-bagger of the week and eighth extra-base hit in four games this week. It was his game-high and new career best fifth RBI of the game. He scored on an RBI single from second baseman Brad Elwood (Indian Trail, N.C. / Piedmont HS) before redshirt freshman Brett Lang (Charlotte, N.C. / Ardrey Kell HS) hit a 2-2 pitch out to left for his first career homer and the 9-2 Charlotte lead.
Green doubled with one out in the sixth and scored his career-high third run of the day on an RBI single from senior third baseman Shane Basen (Waxhaw, N.C. / Marvin Ridge HS) for the 10-2 lead. The hit extended Basen's career-long hit streak to 18 games, including the last nine games of 2012.
Youngstown State scored two runs in the ninth after four walks and two hits in the frame, including an RBI double from third baseman Drew Dosch, his fourth RBI in the series.
Charlotte reliever Ryan Mas (Matthews, N.C. / Butler HS) was outstanding in his first action of the season. In a career-long 5.1 innings, he tied his career high with three strikeouts, allowing just two hits and two walks on 74 pitches. He earned the win (1-0), the third of his career.
Penguins starter Robert Switka took the loss (0-2). In 2.1 innings, he allowed five runs on two hits and three walks, with one strikeout.
Game two begins at 4:20 p.m. with Charlotte freshman Micah Wells (Pfafftown, N.C. / Mt. Tabor HS) opposing sophomore Ryan Krokos of YSU.
NOTES: Seager has at least one double in all four games this week... Roland's streak of 37 consecutive games reaching base safely came to an end in the contest... Charlotte has had an inning of three-or-more runs in all seven wins this season... 10 of Seager's 17 hits have been for extra bases, for a slugging percentage of .857... He leads the team with 14 runs scored and 14 RBI.


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I am trying to connect to a IM account (WebEx connect - Protocol: Jabber/xmpp) with Thunderbird 15 but it fails to connect. It doesn't throw any error just says "Not Connected".
Pidgin works perfectly with the same setting what I provided in Thunderbird 15.
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At first blush, the 8th Senate District race is a study in contradictions. The incumbent in a strongly Democratic state is a Republican. The challenger, who spent most of his career managing an industrial firm, is a Demo-crat, while the GOP incumbent is a longtime public-employee-union member. Sen. Kevin D. Witkos, R-Canton, already delivers the business-friendly votes challenger Dan Seger promises and deserves a third term, but Mr. Seger, a former Republican, bears watching in the future as the "pro-business Democrat" he professes to be.
Len Suzio, R-Meriden, winner of a special election in February 2011, has turned out to be a fearless, aggressive lawmaker who is unafraid to stand up in public for the causes he champions. These have included opposing the Hartford-New Haven busway and the controversial early-release program for some prison inmates, as well as advocating energy-tax relief. His Democratic opponent in the 13th Senate District, Dante Bartolomeo, has paid her dues as a four-year member of the Meriden City Council. But for conservatives and others who feel they have suffered enough from the Democratic reign at the Capitol, depriving the Senate of one of its strongest voices for spending restraint would be a mistake.
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The aptly named Arches Collection by ELK Lighting features light fixtures with a distinct curved shape to the base. Vanity lights curve down while the wall sconce arches up to shine its light toward the ceiling. A variety of styles gives you a fixture to suit any environment. These modern lights are a great way to dress up your space.
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I am curious to see a simple demonstration of how special relativity leads to Lorentz Invariance of the Maxwell Equations. Differential form will suffice.
Due to the constraint $\nabla \cdot B =0$, there exists a vector potential $A$ such that $B = \nabla \times A$ and $E_j = \partial_0 A_j - \partial_j A_0$ (up to a sign I forget). In other words, $E$ and $B$ assemble into a "field strength tensor" $F_{\mu \nu} = \partial_\mu A_\nu - \partial_\nu A_\mu = dA_{\mu \nu}$. This is the correct object to reason about when thinking relativistically. It's just a 2-form, so its transformation rules are simple. We can write Maxwell's equations as
$d * F = 0$,
here $*$ is the Hodge star. This is clearly invariant under isometries (Lorentz transformations).
Another way to see it is when deriving the EM wave equation from Maxwell equations. The Lorentz Invariance means that the amplitude should be symmetric under translations of space and time and rotations. In the wave eq. you have only 2nd derivatives (time and space), hence symmetry under Lorentz is preserved.


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The Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy in the Doisy College of Health Sciences offers occupational therapy services available through its Faculty Practice, both on site and in the community. The occupational therapy services available include pediatrics, geriatrics, rehabilitation and mental health. The mission of the Faculty Practice is to provide comprehensive, compassionate occupational therapy services to children, adults and their families. In addition to individual evaluation and intervention services, we offer innovative programs for clients in individual and group settings.
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text: Italy's Sara Errani returns a backhand to China's Na Li during their quarterfinal match at the Italian Open tennis tournament, in Rome, Friday, May 16, 2014. Sara Errani took advantage of a supportive crowd to beat second-seeded Li Na 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 Friday and reach the Italian Open semifinals for the second consecutive year. The 10th-seeded Errani is attempting to become the first Italian woman to win Rome since Raffaella Reggi took the title 29 years ago. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)


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The 2nd International Conference on Systems Biology
Date: November 4-7, 2001
Location: Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA
Symposium Web Page: www.icsb2001.org
Sponsors: Caltech and Japan Science and Technology Corporation
Topics: Systems biology is the application of experimental, theoretical and modeling techniques to the study of biological organisms at all scales, from the molecular, through the cellular, to the behavioral levels. Understanding biological processes from the systems perspective is an essential cornerstone of a true understanding of biological function. Advances in this field promise to have an impact on an increasingly vast range of related areas in this century.


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If the nuclear holocaust happened in 2077, then why are the clothes and music in the style of the 1950s? (source)
If the nuclear holocaust happened in 2077, then why are the clothes and music in the style of the 1950s?
Because the Fallout universe is set in an alternate history. Basically the Fallout universe explores how the world could have evolved if the nuclear visions of the 50's would have come true. It's called Retro-futurism, and it's been executed perfectly by the game designers IMHO.
As you can tell from the background info you get in the game world, the society in the year 2077 has stopped evolving, its ideals of family, patriotism, life style etc. come straight out of the 50's. The design of cars, planes, buildings, and the technology behind are the exact same as envisioned in our 50's, except in the Fallout universe, they've actually come true. If you've played Fallout 3,
I heard its because both timelines played out exactly the same, but in the 50's we made the transistor which replaced all nuclear things and they didnt.


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I am running Ubuntu 11.04. But now due to some or other reasons I have to format my entire disk and reinstall the Ubuntu, But I have Installed many softwares on Natty. And when I'll reinstall the ubuntu, I have to again reinstall all those updates , drivers and softwares too. So I want to ask is there any way so that I can make an .iso image of installed Ubuntu along with all the softwares, preferences, drivers etc. existing in it ? Is there any way so that I can back up my whole OS along with all its softwares, drives, updates n all ?
there are various ways to do that. The simplest one is using remastersys
You should install ubiquity package before working with remastersys
or you can use fsarchiver, redo-backup (A live cd)
What you can do is to backup your home directory and save a list of all packages that you have installed. To save the list of installed software use following command:
This will create a file with a list of all pakcages/softwares that are installed on this system. You will need to backup this file to somewhere safe.
Then when you reinstall ubuntu on your machine you can use the following command to install all these software
This command WILL NOT install anything. It will just mark the packages for install. To install them, run the following command:
This will take time to complete as your system will download and install all the packages. After this command is complete replace your current home directory with the one you backedup previously.
Hope this helps
I answered "How to customize live Ubuntu CD?" with a way of creating live CDs from current installations. This means that you will not need to download all the packages again. This guide may seem long and hard, but it is mostly "follow along" and "copy and paste". Here it is, copied out and edited a bit:
Creating a live CD from an existing/new installation
A good way would be making a live CD from a current installation. This can be done using a virtual machine (just don't install any VM tools inside the guest OS)
So, first we need a fresh install(if you can't install it for real, try using a virtual machine) with only things that you need (in your case thunderbird, samba and ssh). Then we tweak the system and record where the tweaks are (e.g. you change your desktop background, the settings are in ~/.gconf or you add firefox shortcuts, they are located in ~/Desktop). This is needed for step 4.
All credit goes to capink, because the guide is from here.
In China, some friends use ucloner in Ubuntu to backup the OS.
If you have Ubuntu installed on a single harddisk and you have another harddisk of equal or larger storage capacity, then cloning the disk is really simple:
So, for example, if you want to clone sda to sdb, then you would do
Be careful to use the correct if (input file) and of (output file). The input file is the disk you want to copy. If you switch order, then you will clone the empty disk onto the full one, which will leave you with two blank disks. :)
Also make sure that the new disk has sufficient space to clone the first disk. Otherwise it'll just be chopped off at the end. There will be no warnings.
If you want to create an image, then simply replace
I have a script that migrates an Ubuntu install to another location, e.g. in your case you could migrate it to an external hard drive. The neat thing is that you can independently boot it and confirm that it's working before formatting your old drive. It's an exact copy - no configuring, reinstalling or tweaking required. You just have to prepare the target partition. (It also doesn't modify the current install so you can test the migrated one before formatting the old one.)
(Yes it's the wubi migration, but it does normal migrations too. I use it all the time to backup and restore different installs)
Once you get all your data and reinstall, you may want to try using Clonezilla to take an image of your OS. If something goes wrong, just pop in the OS image and you'll have your system back to where it was.


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The 5 Most Badass Prison Escapes in the History of War
You take a capable, well-trained soldier with an iron will, and put him in desperate circumstances with equally desperate captors in a POW camp. The prisoner wants out at all costs. The captors want to hold him at all costs.
The result is often stories that seem too insane to be true. Yet...
#5. Three Men and a Pommel Horse
The Capture:
One of the most absurdly complex and overall ludicrous prison escape attempts in history is thanks to a pair of British pilots named Oliver Philpot and Eric Williams, who wound up in a Nazi prison camp along with another British soldier named Richard Codner. Philpot and Williams had been shot down during a bombing run, but it isn't exactly clear how Codner wound up there. Though, from listening to the guy, it is quite possible he voluntarily entered the prison just to see if he could break out. In his own words, "I enjoyed myself when we were escaping. We were really living then. I think it's only when you're being hunted that you really live... I liked being hunted..."
The Escape:
It wasn't the guards, guard dogs, or barbwire fences at Stalag Luft III that were the biggest problem inmates faced: it was the dirt. On top was dusty grey, but not far underneath was sandy yellow. Any yellow dirt that turned up in the prison meant a tunnel was being dug. Tunnels, like the three used in the Great Escape were being dug all the time, but most of these were discovered because of the amount of time and yellow dirt required to dig from one of the prison buildings.
There had to be a way around it. Together, the three men built a really big pommel horse (the rail with a pair of handles, like gymnasts use), capable of holding up to three men uncomfortably inside. Then they convinced the guards that they, and many other inmates, just loved the hell out of gymnastics. To make it convincing, they practiced for hours each day, despite the fact their rations, while adequate, weren't exactly chalk full of protein.
The men took turns hiding inside the horse; inmates carried it in and out to the yard, placing it in the same spot by the fence every day (Closer to fence = less dirt). From inside, a digger took the top layer of grey dust and placed it in a box. Bowls were used for shovels. So as not to leave a gaping hole in the yard, a board was placed over the hole and covered with the grey dust from the box. Guards walked right over it, and didn't notice.
The yellow dirt, meanwhile, was brought inside the prison with the digger, where it was disposed of in gardens, rooftops, and the toilet, Shawshank-style. The noise from digging, which would be picked up by microphones placed along the fence line, was attributed to the gymnasts leaping around the yard.
Just me and my leotards, no digging going on here...
Almost four months and many sweaty testicles later, the tunnel was ready. The three men punched through, assumed fake identities, and travelled across Europe, eventually making it to Britain via Sweden. As for the pommel horse and all those gymnasts back in the camp...we're sure they bear no hard feelings for leaving them there to rot.
#4. Airey Neave: Master of Half-Assed Disguise
The Capture:
Airey Neave was a British soldier who was wounded and captured by the Germans in World War II. He immediately picked up escaping as a hobby and at his second prison camp, Stalag XX-A, he escaped with a friend and nearly made it into Russian territory in Poland before being picked up and turned over to the Gestapo, better known as the biggest assholes of the war. For his transgression, Neave was sent to where all problematic POWs go: Oflag IV-C, the castle of Colditz.
This place was so badass, it got its own TV show, TV movies, regular movies, board game, and computer game. Oh, and some books too.
The Escape:
Hermann Goering, the second biggest douche in Germany in the 1940s, declared Colditz "escape proof." Several prisoners, including Neave, set out to prove him wrong using various batshit insane methods.
One prisoner was sewn into a mattress in order to be smuggled out. Two others built an entire glider out of scavenged wood. Tunnels were also popular, but like each of these attempts, ultimately big fat failures (to be fair, the glider just didn't get finished in time).
Neave, perhaps wisely, settled on a subtler concept of escape. Finagling a Polish army tunic and cap, he painted them to look more like the Germans' uniforms. Then he proceeded to walk out the front door. Unfortunately, search lights reacted with the paint he'd used, making it shine a bright green.
Failure did not deter him. He tried the exact same plan five months later, this time using cardboard, cloth, and some more paint to make a more authentic-looking uniform. He and another prisoner, Anthony Luteyn, who had his own costume, just needed an opportunity.
That opportunity came in the form of an all-inmate stage show that was being put on at the prison (no, really). The two slipped under the stage, into a room that connected to a corridor which lead, not to freedom, but to the one place no prisoner wants to wind up: the guardhouse.
Wearing British uniforms over fake German uniforms over civilian clothing, the two lowered themselves into the room, ditched the British uniforms, entered the guardhouse, and pretended like they owned the place. Nobody noticed.
Having rehearsed their exit, they paused at the door leading out of the prison, exchanged a few remarks in German, and even put on their gloves before calmly leaving. The guards were completely fooled into thinking Neave and Luteyn were visiting officers. After passing through the courtyard and through the moat, they ditched their "German" uniforms and became two Dutch workers with papers, which were also fakes that gave them permission to travel from Leipzig to Ulm.
When they tried to buy train tickets for somewhere else, the police arrested them, later bringing Neaves and Luteyn to the foreign workers office because they really thought they were Dutch workers who had gotten confused; the duo split the moment the nice policemen weren't looking. Even when the Hitler Youth stopped them, Neaves and Luteyn remained composed and told another lie: They were Germans, from the north, of course. After this, Neaves and Luteyn kept to the country and travelled on foot. Hungry and a little frostbitten, they made it into Switzerland.
Neaves would eventually get back to Britain, where he would work to reinforce escape lines in Europe for other POWs. Later, he joined the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, where, in a freaking sweet turn of events, Neaves would personally serve Hermann Goering his indictment for being an absolute and total asshole.
#3. Douglas Bader: The Nazis' Favorite Prisoner
The Capture:
Over the French coast, British fighter pilot Doug Bader and the RAF spotted a dozen German planes in formation. Bader crazily tried to deal with them on his own, nearly colliding with a couple in the process. His haphazard tactics got him separated from his comrades and eventually shot down.
The Germans captured him not long after that, and were astonished to discover Bader had no legs. He'd lost them while trying to perform an aerial stunt before the war had broken out. It wasn't his fault, though; his friends had dared him.
The Escape:
The Germans were actually pretty nice to Bader, finding him a curiosity. Only hours had past and his capturers were chatting him up and letting him sit in a BF 109 plane, though they politely declined to let Bader take it for a spin when he asked. When the Germans learned that Bader's artificial legs had been lost when he bailed out, they searched for his wrecked plane, found one of the legs, fixed it up, and returned it to Bader--yes, these are the Nazis we're talking about here.
That was after the complimentary fruit basket
They even contacted the British and allowed for a replacement for the other prosthetic to be airdropped. The British dropped him in a new leg, then used this temporary safe passage agreement to complete a bombing run.
Legs restored, Bader began a long campaign of being a complete pain in the ass to the Germans. While still recovering in the camp's hospital, he climbed out a window using a blanket and walked about 100 miles toward the coast before being recaptured, which didn't deter him at all. Bader made so many escape attempts that the Germans actually threatened to take his legs away if it didn't stop.
They should have taken his legs away. After a lovely dinner with his captors, Bader and some other POWs made yet another break for it.
He saw notzing.
And they might have escaped, if not for Bader's immense popularity. A Luftwaffe officer, a fan apparently, went to Bader's room at the camp, probably for an autograph. He discovered the room empty and raised the alarm. After three days, Bader and his crew were eventually captured again.
He was undeterred. Even after being put into a more secure prison that was literally a castle, he continued to seek out ways to defy the Nazis, becoming involved in more escape attempts for other prisoners and efforts to embarrass the officers running the place. Spoiling his next attempt at freedom were the Americans, who finally liberated the prison. When Bader emerged, he asked to be taken to the American airfield, where they kept the fighter planes. He wanted "to have (one) last crack at the Germans."
Thanks for the legs, suckers!


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I run the following command:
sudo iwlist eth0 scan
and get output that looks like this:
Cell 01 - Address: AB:CD:EF:12:34:56
Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
Frequency:2.417 GHz (Channel 2)
Encryption key:on
I won't bother filling it all out, as I'm trying to fix a laptop and I cannot simply copy the output.
How can I use built-in tools such as
sed, etc. to fetch information given certain criteria? For example:
I want to grab the mac address when knowing the essid. I also don't want to rely on the
Cell # or line positions. Knowing common information, like the word Address before the mac is fine.
Expected output:
I want to use it in a variable, like so:
sudo iwconfig eth1 ap $(command)
Where command would result in the expected result. If there's another way of pushing the result as a variable using
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About to embark on the initial phases of a project to rewrite a legacy application from the ground up (existing business rules will change somewhat, and be extended to incorporate a large number of new requirements that the existing infrastructure cannot handle). I am looking for items that are important to remember when working to reengineer an existing application.
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Write a suite of unit tests for the existing functionality first. When you do your rewrite, you can use this unit test suite to verify that your existing business rules still work in the new application.
Come up with an incremental transition plan. That is, make it so the project is always in a runnable state, transitioning from old code to new code without getting in the position of requiring effectively all of the new code to be written first before anything works.
There might be some things still done "the old way," while other features are done "the new way," and the user interface might be less than desirable for a while. But this approach will significantly reduce your risk, because you can always ship something. (Actually, if you have a gradual UI transition too, this might work nicely with Joel's notion of the Iceberg Effect: management/customers will see progress and have a notion of what remains to be done.)
This depends somewhat on the circumstances of your code base, but look carefully before deciding if this base is the exception to the rule or not, because it probably isn't.
Trying to come up with things not already said:
I really wanted to leave it at those three steps, but just in case someone took it as me being lazy, rewriting from scratch is almost doomed to fail. Incrementally adapting and refactoring code is the best way.
Lots of good answers so far. (I assume the existing system is either a hopeless jumble or coded on the wrong platform)
Here are my thoughts:
One big thing to remember when rebuilding from scratch is domain knowledge. Companies often engage in 'complete rewrites' - using the most recent technologies and development projects to ensure the highest order of buzzword compliance - leading to dissappointing results because the people who knew most about the topic were not consulted with extensively.
There's nothing wrong with complete re-writes. Or mostly complete rewrites. There's a time and a place for them. Platforms change, technologies change... sometimes they just have to be done. But, they are best done under the guidance of the people who are the most expert at the topic - those involved in the previous implementation - for the best chances of a positive outcome.
There are a lot of good answers here that are really good points. There is one thing that I think is also important. Look at how technology has progressed from the point where the original code was written and what is out there now:
By all means, you must assess the existing code; unit test, plan, research, development, more testing. But you also have to take into consideration new technologies that may extend the lifetime of version 2.


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Ravioli with Ricotta and Spinach
Categories: Cooking with Kids, Kid-friendly, Pasta Dishes, Vegetarian
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
In Italy, these little cheese and spinach-filled ravioli are often served on Christmas Eve
Prep Time: 30M, plus standing
Cooking Time: 10M-15M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- pinch of salt
- 3 large eggs
- 1tbsp olive oil
- beaten egg, for brushing
For the filling
- 12oz ( 350g) baby spinach leaves, washed, but not dried
- 1 cup ricotta
- 1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan
- 1 large egg, beaten, plus more for serving
- 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- olive oil or melted butter, to serve
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- Sift the flour and salt on to a work surface and make a well in the center. Beat 2 of the eggs and the oil together and pour into the well. Using your fingertips, draw the flour into the center, gradually incorporating all the liquid to form a rough, sticky dough. Knead the dough for about 10 minutes, adding more flour as needed, until the dough is smooth and elastic. Wrap in oiled plastic wrap and let stand for 30 minutes.
- To make the filling, place the spinach in a heavy pan. Cover and cook over medium heat for 2 minutes, shaking occasionally, or until wilted. Drain, pressing out as much water as possible, then chop finely and transfer to a bowl. Add the ricotta, Parmesan, egg, and nutmeg and mix, seasoning with salt and pepper.
- Cut the pasta in half. Keeping the other portion covered, roll out one portion on a very lightly floured work surface into a rectangle about 1/16in (1.5mm) thick.
- Using a teaspoon for each, drop mounds of the filling on the pasta, spacing them 11/2in (4cm) apart. Beat the remaining egg and brush it between the mounds. Roll out the second portion of dough to the same size as the first, and place it over the first rectangle. Use your fingertips to press the pasta between the mounds to seal.
- Cut squares around the mounds with a pasta wheel or sharp knife. Place on a baking sheet lined with a floured kitchen towel and let stand for 1 hour to dry.
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. In batches, add the ravioli and cook until floating. Transfer to a large warmed bowl and toss with melted butter. Grind pepper over the ravioli and serve hot.
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I've been reading through Lurie's book on higher topos theory, where he develops the theory of $(\infty,1)$-toposes, which leads me to the following question: Is there any sort of higher topos theory on the more general $\omega$-categories, where we don't require all higher morphisms to be invertible?
The short answer is no. Even 2-toposes are poorly understood -- we don't know what the right definition is. For higher dimensions, including $\infty$, we definitely don't have the answers.
Just as the primordial example of a (1-)topos is $\mathbf{Set}$ (the 1-category of sets and functions), the primordial example of a 2-topos should be $\mathbf{Cat}$ (the 2-category of categories, functors and natural transformations).
Mark Weber has done some work on 2-toposes, building on earlier ideas of Ross Street. But I think Mark is quite open about the tentative nature of this so far.
There was a good discussion of the current state of 2-toposes (and more generally n-toposes) at the $n$-Category Café last year:
One should keep in mind that Jacob Lurie's book "only" (if I may use this word) discusses the (oo,1)-version of Grothendieck toposes/category of sheaves: the (oo,1)-toposes in Jacob Lurie's book are (oo,1)-categories of (oo,1)-sheaves/of oo-stacks.
This is less general than the "elementary (oo,1)-toposes" that one would eventually want to see, but it already goes a long way -- and it is more accessible.
Similarly, while a general theory of n-toposes for higher n is largely missing, there is a bit more known about (oo,n)-sheaves, i.e. of oo-stacks which are presheaves with values not just in oo-groupoids but in (oo,n)-categories.
For instance Ross Street once proposed a notion of descent for strict-omega-category-valued presheaves. Using a result by Verity this may be regarded as presenting descent for strict oo-groupoid valued presheaves, but I'd expect that with the required care exercised it goes further than that (and this seems to be what Street had in mind, though I can't tell that for sure).
But a more developed general theory for descent of (oo,n)-category valued presheaves is developed notably in Hirschowitz-Simpson's Descente pour les n-champs. This yields at least part of a theory of Grothendieck-style n-toposes.


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Sooo great! I'm realy proud of you. xD
That's sooo cool!
Oh my god that's so fucking great! But i think brutal love sounds more like a x-mas song don't think the same? when i heard it for the first time, i thought that was soo great for x-mas!!! I'ts sooo wonderful brutal love *-*
thts cool!!! reminds me when my CLASSICAL :( band played brain stew at my bros school.
oh haha that's awesome! :D
Reminds me of my son's 7th grade Rock Band performance last summer. His group, Trapped in Plastic, played "When I Come Around" in their set. Totally cool!
I'd like to be there!
5th grade rock band - a concert not to be missed :)


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I have seen many people use the phrase "my bad" in Internet forums. What does it exactly imply and is it a proper English phrase?
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Yes, "my bad" is a proper English phrase. It is an apology; when you say "my bad", you're basically saying, "I admit a mistake" or "my fault, sorry for that". Wiktionary says:
It also links to this Language Log entry, which provides further insight:
It's proper English slang. I wouldn't go so far as to say it was proper English.
It will certainly be effective in irking English teachers, haters of textspeak, and other grammar purists!
To my ear "my bad" is very much an Americanism. Handle with care.
Concrete Gannet is right. "my bad" is very much an Americanism. I had not heard this until recently, and was baffled when I did. I heard it on American television programmes and a computer game. I have not heard any British people use it.
To me, it's like the Americanism "I could care less". It does not actually, make sense. It might be acceptable and even considered as proper English in the USA but, it is not elsewhere. At least not in the UK. It does not make sense because, it is an unfinished sentence.
When I have heard it, my immediate thought was, "your bad what?". Your bad behaviour? Your bad language? Or, just your bad English, which this sentence demonstrates?
I think it is a short way to apologize, many people were ashamed when they see they were wrong about something, so this may be a shorter and faster way to admit that they were wrong and/or to apologize.
It's a slang, faux apology. It says, "I was wrong, but I'm too haughty to actually apologize for my error."
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We construct a simple three person trust game with one trustor and two trustees. The trustor has the possibility to either trust both trustees or none, while the trustees make their decisions either sequentially or simultaneously, depending on the treatment. When trustees play sequentially, follower trustees who are informed about the leader's choice are significantly less kind than in the simultaneous move treatment as well as the leader trustees. These findings can not be explained by models of inequity aversion, pure guilt aversion, or conformity. Instead, follower trustees cherry pick the motivation that serves them best. When the leader trustee played unkind, they tend to conform and play unkind, too. When the leader made a kind choice, followers seem to perceive the duty of reciprocating to the trustor as already fulfilled by the leader. While guilt works well as a motivational force in a dyadic situation, it gets alleviated easily when there is someone to shift responsibility to, like the leader in our three person game.
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How would I copy a batch of files into the same directory with an appended filename via SSH Bash Script? For example.
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The trick is for it to be a one liner so I don't have to do any fancy for loop or some other mechanism to pass it via ssh.


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Unlike every other To-Do list I have ever seen, Astrid Tasks allows its users to search for the tasks as evident from these screenshots:
My Question is: Is this feature really applicable in a To-Do List? What kind of people will use it? In what condition/situation will this feature be used.
Let's say that this feature is useful when one has a lot of To-do-entries in a lot of separate lists in the app.
- What kind of person will have a lot of entries in a lot of list?
- I think someone who is really very unproductive and screwed up. Am I right? I have been personally using To-Do list for over 6 months now, and have never had over 20-25 items in my list, which I can easily look at by just scrolling - within a few seconds.


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In Software Center, I have to run through the purchasing process even if a product is priced with 0$ (e.g. 'Full Circle Magazine'). That makes no sense to me. If the price of the product is 'zero', It should not lead through the purchasing process and instead should just let me install the product straightaway.
Can I know why this is the case and can someone point me to the design decisions for this if there are any?


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