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6 Iconic Movie Leaders (Who Aren't Fit To Lead A Parade)
It would be a hell of a lot easier to get motivated at work if you had a leader like, say, William Wallace from Braveheart to shout motivational slogans in your ear. That's why movies include those inspirational leaders; it's everyone's fantasy to live in a world where the people at the top are competent and inspirational.
And then there are the characters who somehow wound up at the head of a whole bunch of people despite not being fit to lead a parade. These are those guys.
#6. King Leonidas (300)
The Spartans had a pretty good plan going: Hold off the Persians at the strategically perfect Gates of Thermopylae until the Council got off their fatasses and sent the rest of the army to bail them out. So when Quasimodo Uglius Muchus showed up out of nowhere and told Leonidas about a secret path that could ruin their whole strategy, that could have been a problem.
Luckily, he was on the side of the good guys. All he wanted to do was help fight the Persians to restore honor to his outcast father. But in a move that was epic both in douchebaggery and short-sightedness, Leonidas turned him away, spouting some bullshit about how the hunchback would weaken the strict formation of the phalanx.
Look, we're no experts on military tactics or anything but it seems to us like you could just place the dude slightly outside the phalanx, have him kill a few Persians, soak up a lot of arrows, and die a hero's death. Everybody's happy.
Hell, it's not like the Spartans actually fought in a neat formation anyway. A few seconds into the battle it turns into a free-for-all where everybody starts leaping around and trying to figure out how to kill each enemy in a cooler way than the last.
Instead Leonidas tells him that he's too weak to fight and that his father will remain dishonored, which in Spartan terms would be like if someone called you at a funeral and questioned your parentage while simultaneously making sweet love to your mother. The double-whammy of an insult drove the hunchback directly to Xerxes, where he immediately sold out the good guys.
But even if that nonsense about the phalanx was right, what Leonidas actually did about the secret path was even worse: absolutely nothing. No wall of boulders to block it off, no traps to decimate the Persian troops, not even guards to send warning back to the troops. Look, even if the hunchback hadn't made like Lando Calrissian, Persian scouts might have found the passageway all by themselves. Instead of making literally any effort to stop them, Leonidas pretty much just forgets about the whole thing. We never even see him ask about the path's location--for all we know, he has no idea where the damn thing actually is.
There's a line between heroically facing death and actively courting it; Leonidas sprinted over that line and never looked back.
Specifically, he first sprinted in fast motion, then slow motion, then fast motion again.
#5. Coach Norman Dale (Hoosiers)
Hoosiers, where Gene Hackman leads a team of white, small town underdogs to a state basketball championship, may be one of the best sports films of all time. But when you get right down to it, the head honcho at the center of the plot should never have been let anywhere near a basketball court, let alone made a coach.
We could point out the obvious stuff, the way Coach Dale throws temper tantrums and gets ejected every time a call doesn't go his way, or hiring the town drunk as assistant coach because he seems to like watching basketball a hell of a lot, despite the fact that that describes literally every sports fan on the planet. But there's a basic problem with his strategy, and you don't need a detailed understanding of basketball to see it.
Coach Dale stresses fundamentals, and only fundamentals. He has his players adopt a slow, defense-oriented style of play that would be absolutely ingenious if they were facing a bunch of senile, paraplegic grandmothers. They weren't; they were playing against deeper teams, with superior athletes, who had been practicing just as much and with better equipment.
And the occasional teenwolf.
So what advantage did his team have?
Underdogs win in the real world all the time, but it's almost always because they took risks that paid off. They don't have a choice. You can look at the last Super Bowl, where the favored Colts were criticized for playing it safe, while the underdog Saints turned the game on a risky onside kick after half time. Or there's this awesome example of a girl's basketball team who consistently beat hugely favored opponents via the utterly insane strategy of devoting the whole team to stopping the opponents' inbounds pass. It's the same in sports as it is on the battlefield or the business world--if you're are at a disadvantage to your opponent, you have to pull out all the stops and force them to make a mistake.
Of course, in the film, everything completely turns around when star player Jimmy Chitwood decides to join the team. Thing is, though, Dale had pretty much ignored him for all this time, and he definitely didn't win the kid over with his coaching style, so we can only assume Chitwood just got fed up of Dale's shitty brand of basketball and decided to show him how it's really done.
All the players suddenly start listening to Jimmy and not Dale, and their strategy completely changes--as shown by the fact that they start actually making baskets and winning games--until they wind up State Champs. Jimmy was the Michael Jordan to Coach Dale's Phil Jackson. Every coach looks like a genius when you've got a guy who can score any time he wants.
#4. Viper (Top Gun)
As the Base Commander at the Top Gun training facility, Viper is undoubtedly one heck of a pilot. But if he was any good at commanding, he would have kicked out Tom Cruise's Maverick the first chance he got.
To put it simply, Maverick was the worst possible soldier ever, as he wouldn't follow orders at all and always did his own thing--heck, it's right there in his name. "Hold up, Cracked," you say. "That was the whole point! Jerry Bruckheimer's heroes are always loose cannons, like the cops in Bad Boys! There's always an authority figure who lets them get away with it because they get the job done!"
There's a difference here. Those guys weren't in a job where one wrong move could, at best, wreck $38 million worth of high-tech aircraft, or at worst, accidentally start World War III. So here's Maverick repeatedly questioning the authority of his instructors and being insubordinate, getting his teammates and himself "killed" multiple times in mock battles, and clearly putting the lives of, well, everyone on planet Earth at risk every time he took to the air with live ammunition and Russians on his radar screen. And all he gets are a series of stern warnings.
But how do you enforce a man who doesn't play by the rules?
Incidentally, this is the freaking military we're talking about here. That whole insubordination thing is no laughing matter: Being contemptuous or disrespectful "in language or deportment toward a warrant officer, noncommissioned officer, or petty officer while that officer is in the execution of his office" is actually legitimate grounds for a court martial in the Navy.
It's cool. This is America.
If Viper needed any more convincing that Maverick was the wrong man for the job, the fucker manages to crash the previously-mentioned 38 million dollar plane and simultaneously kill one of his fellow aviators during a training exercise. Maverick then falls into deep depression--he clearly can't deal with death; not a good thing for a soldier. Viper's attempt to console Maverick is even worse: He tells the kid that the Navy covered up his dad's death, which would logically result in Maverick getting pissed at the Navy for ruining his dad's life and leaving.
Instead he somehow gets his shit together, graduates, gets into a single battle and then decides to be a flight instructor. This not only means that Viper couldn't even motivate him enough to be an actual goddamn fighter pilot, but now Maverick gets to teach a bunch of impressionable young aviators tactics that will get them all killed. Maybe this is why now we make sure to fight all of our wars against enemies who don't have planes.


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Can anyone help me with an HDMI cord question?
Yesterday, I started a project to install a new media console that will go directly under my TV (which is mounted on the wall). It became apparent that I will need a longer HDMI cord for the PS3 as the cord will have to run the length of the media console and come up behind the PS3 from the bottom.
My question is: I have a 10 foot HDMI cord now. Will a longer cord (say 15 feet) affect the quality of my connection for streaming Netflix or gaming online?
Also does anyone have any recommendations for which cord I should buy or are they all pretty much equal?
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You can easily get away with a longer cable. At the lengths you're interested in the cable quality won't matter too much. I'd recommend Monoprice and just go with one of their cheaper cables in the length you need.
Any one that's of spec and decent quality one will be fine. My "goto" place for cables is monoprice.com ... here are their HDMI cables
Agree with the two earlier replies on Monoprice.
HDMI signals are digital, which means that they don't suffer from loss or distortion that you would get from an analog cable (such as composite cables). Because they're digital, either all of the signal makes it through or none of it gets through. You won't see ghosting or noise, you'll just see the picture breaking up badly if there's something wrong with the HDMI cables.
15 foot cables are no problem as long as they're well constructed (good connectors, sturdy boots around the connectors to keep the cable intact).
As usual, wooters be helping wooters. Thanks everyone.
I can't imagine you'd have any deterioration of quality. I have a 10 to 15 ft cable despite my PS3 being right next to the TV. I've never seen any lag or problems. Video quality occasionally drops, but that's the TV itself.
As a sidenote though, if you're looking to run the cable through a wall I'd get an insulated one for added deterioration and tear protection like this: http://amzn.to/Q4prM6
@dkalthoff: Thanks, I'm gonna triple check my measurements to make sure I won't have too little or way too much cord then I might pull the trigger since this is a good price. Not going to put it inside the wall, but $8.99 for the cord aint bad at all.
I just recently bought this 15' HDMI cable off of Amazon to play HD videos off the interwebz on my HD TV. I have had no issues with quality or sound. And the price is right too!
@czarkingkaiser: I ordered a monoprice one that was like 25 or 50 ft and it has always worked great. I travel alot and wanted to be able to jack my laptop into the hotel tv but mostly now it serves as the connection to my blu ray player to the tv less than 5 ft has never been a problem.
Moral of the story I wouldnt worry about the length so much having enough is always better than not enough...
No problems with extending or getting a longer HDMI cable.
Speaking of HDMI cables, I was a sucker for a HDMI Monster Cable back in 2008 and paid nearly $80 for it. Well, that cord is broken now because I use that same cord to travel with (do not bend HDMI cables!!) and there was no difference between that Monster Cable and a $5 replacement cable I bought from Amazon.
I hate monsters even more now..
Until you're approaching 50+ feet of cable, there should be absolutely no degradation of the signal. Even then, we're talking (very) minor losses.
Yay for Monoprice....another vote here!
@czarkingkaiser: Hey buddy, I got your back! I just posted a super nice HDMI cable the other day.
This right here is all you need and at a bargain price-
I got this one:
The cable is about an inch wide. The quality is perfect, we have people plugging and unplugging a laptop all the time with no issues.
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Big East commissioner: 'committed to a vibrant and dynamic future'
UConn president: 'tough moment for our fans'
|UConn president Susan Herbst.
We enjoyed having Louisville in the Big East conference and we wish them well.
The Big East has anticipated the continuing realignment that is reshaping college athletics and has already made important additions as part of our vision for the future. We will continue moving forward to fulfill that vision, which includes a strong national football conference and a strong and storied basketball conference. Big East teams will continue to compete and succeed at the highest level and, as always, will combine athletic and academic excellence. With schools stretching from coast to coast and in many of the top U.S. media markets, the Big East has become a truly national conference with outstanding young men and women competing across a full range of sports.
We are committed to a vibrant and dynamic future for the Big East conference.
- Here is what UConn president Susan Herbst and athletic director Warde Manuel said in prepared statements released by the school
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WEIRTON - The Weirton woman who allegedly tried to hit two juveniles with her car Monday evening in the vicinity of Owings Street has been charged with two counts of malicious assault, reckless driving, disorderly conduct and public intoxication, Police Chief Bruce Marshall said.
The driver, identified as Theresa Hall, was released from the Northern Regional Jail in Moundsville Tuesday. Her address was not immediately available.
"Our guys responded to a disturbance call in the area of Owings Street," Marshall said. "As the situation unfolded we found the defendant had struck one of the juveniles and attempted to strike another."
The boy who was struck suffered only minor scrapes. Marshall said the investigation is ongoing.
Wintersville man admits to violation
STEUBENVILLE - Jason L. Garrison, 27, of 334 Bradley Ave., Wintersville, was sentenced Tuesday by Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge David Henderson to six months in the Eastern Ohio Correction Center after Garrison admitted to a probation violation.
Garrison pleaded guilty to grand theft and theft for stealing $37,500 in firearms and other items from a house on Efts Lane in January 2012. Garrison was allowed to enter drug court in August but the county's adult probation department filed for a probation revocation, stating Garrison again was abusing drugs and was not following the regulations of drug court.
Henderson said Garrison will be on probation for three years, during which time he must make restitution to the victim. Garrison faces up to 18 months in prison if he violates probation.
Owner of pitbulls cited after incident
FOLLANSBEE - The owner of two pitbull terriers involved in a fight with a collie on Oak Alley Sunday afternoon has been cited for violating a leash ordinance.
Lisa R. Koch, 23, of 765 Clifton St., Follansbee, received the citation from the Brooke County Sheriff's Department, which assisted Wellsburg Police in investigating the incident.
Wellsburg Police were called because the Follansbee Police officer on duty was returning from transporting two subjects to the Northern Regional Jail, according to police reports.
According to police reports, Koch was releasing her dogs into her yard when a man was walking with his collie along Oak Alley. None of the dogs were leashed, police said.
Police said Koch, the owner of the collie and another person each were bitten while attempting to separate the three dogs and were treated at the scene by the Brooke County Ambulance Service.
According to the reports, Wellsburg Police shot and killed the two pitbulls while the collie died as a result of the attack.
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Is Thierry Henry Worth the Money?
The Red Bulls Star, Who Makes More Than Most MLS Teams, Has Scored Plenty of Goals but Collected Few Trophies
Since his joining the New York Red Bulls three years ago, Thierry Henry has never won Major League Soccer's most valuable player award. He has never finished as the league's top goal scorer or led the league in assists. He has won just a single playoff series, has never taken his team past the Eastern Conference semifinals and has unequivocally failed to end the franchise's 17-year championship drought.
But for most of his time in the MLS, Henry has held one specific distinction: He has been—by some distance—the league's most lavishly paid star.
In his third full season, Henry, 35, has already collected more than $21 million from the Red Bulls, and his guaranteed salary of $4.35 million for the current season makes him the highest-paid player in the league for the second successive year.
To put that figure in context, Henry's annual paycheck isn't merely bigger than any of the league's other 556 players. It exceeds the total payroll of D.C. United, the Houston Dynamo, the New England Revolution and a dozen more of the league's 19 teams.
All of which raises a rather awkward question about someone who may be the most accomplished player to dabble in U.S. professional soccer since Pele: Is he actually worth the money?
"It's so difficult to quantify," said Alejandro Moreno, a former MLS Cup winner with Columbus and now a soccer analyst. "Is he a difference maker for the team, is he an impactful and influential player in MLS? Clearly, the answer is yes. But when you make that kind of investment, you have to believe it's to win a title."
By that standard, the Red Bulls' splashy acquisition of Henry counts as a miss. The team currently occupies first place in the Eastern Conference ahead of Sunday's marquee home matchup with the Los Angeles Galaxy (1 p.m., ESPN2), but as their long-suffering fans know only too well, New York remains the league's only original franchise without a major trophy.
But Red Bulls coaches, team officials and league executives take a different view. Since he joined the franchise on a 4 1/2-year contract from FC Barcelona in July 2010, Henry has been almost everything they hoped for.
"Without a doubt, he has delivered," said Red Bulls general manager Jerome de Bontin. "He has demonstrated on the field since he got here an extraordinary ability to bring the game to a level that is only played by the top athletes."
The numbers tell the story rather starkly. In 2009, the season before Henry joined the team, the Red Bulls posted a league-worst record of 5-19-6, earning 0.70 points per game on average. Since he signed, the club has a 39-24-32 record, averaging 1.57 points per game, and has qualified for the playoffs every season.
Red Bulls executives say the team's turnaround is down to Henry's competitive drive, his ability to elevate the play of his teammates, and the sense of professionalism he has helped instill at the perennially underachieving franchise.
But mostly, it's down to his goals. Since his MLS debut midway through the 2010 season, Henry has scored 36 goals in 79 games, the second-highest tally in the league in that span behind San Jose striker Chris Wondolowski's 60 goals. He also has 20 assists and has been named Player of the Week more often than anyone else.
"A lot of teams in MLS are hard-working and organized, but what they don't have is firepower," says Andy Roxburgh, the Red Bulls sporting director. "That is what Thierry brings us."
In truth, Henry's value to the Red Bulls comes not just from the fact he's such a remarkable goalscorer, but that he's also a scorer of such remarkable goals.
In the past three years, Henry has scored memorable solo goals, spectacular free-kicks and even directly from a corner. Only last week, he all but locked up the MLS Goal of the Season award with an acrobatic bicycle kick against Montreal.
For De Bontin, the team's general manager, that goal encapsulated Henry's singular worth not simply because it came in the 88th minute and won the game, but rather on a Wednesday night that featured a full slate of NBA and NHL playoff games, the goal occupied the No. 1 spot on ESPN SportsCenter's Top-10 plays.
"Those are things that you can't invent—even if you were trying to make them happen, you could not with out the talent of a player like Thierry," he said, adding that Henry's fireworks are the team's most powerful marketing tool.
Likewise, the team says that Henry, who won a World Cup with France and scored 175 goals for Arsenal in the English Premier League, has a world-class pedigree that has helped sell tickets, attract new players and bring both the club and the league a level of credibility that few other players on the planet could provide.
But those attributes are tough to quantify by traditional measures. In fact, crowd numbers at the 25,000-seat Red Bull Arena have dropped every year since Henry joined the club. Average attendance last season fell to 18,281, representing a 7% drop from 2011. Through five games this season, the Red Bulls are averaging 16,021.
Still, De Bontin says Henry's offensive prowess and global appeal of Henry have enhanced the team's international standing as well as the brand of beverage maker Red Bull, which bought the club in 2006 and also owns teams in Austria, Brazil and Germany.
"Often some comparisons are made with David Beckham, and in his own right David brought a lot of exposure to the league," he said. "But in terms of performance on the field and past success, David Beckham never played in a World Cup final, let alone won one. If you look at Thierry's record, he has won everything."
But for some observers, Henry won't really be able to justify his astronomical salary until he emulates Beckham by adding one final trophy to his glittering résumé.
"I think for any of these big-time, big-name, highly-paid players, the final barometer is whether they can win a championship," said Moreno. "David Beckham was able to do so and now that Thierry Henry is the league's highest paid player, he needs to take that next step and win a championship for that organization."
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Corrections & Amplifications
The New York Red Bulls are the only original franchise in Major League Soccer yet to win one of the two major titles, the MLS championship or the Open Cup. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said New York was the only original franchise yet to win an MLS championship.


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Video attracts OSU's attention
January 6, 2013
COLUMBUS — Ohio State University is "closely monitoring" the case of two Steubenville High School students charged with rape after a video of a university student speaking flippantly about the......
It doesn't sound like the kids who were present and didn't do anything will be prosecuted as accessories to a crime. These kids were apparently raised in a culture of rape and they will never change. The only way to protect our communities is to not allow any of them to attend colleges where our daughters and granddaughters may become their next victims. I urge everyone to join me in writing to the universities that have football teams and ask that none of the boys from Steubenville High be recruited to their college football teams. If they are recruited, the universities are knowingly recruiting kids who have lived in a culture of rape and therefore will be targets for massive lawsuits by any students or locals who are raped by these boys.
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Bravo OSU! They took the responsible path and kicked Michael Nodianos out! Now we need to take responsibility and kick out the other students and coaches and prosecutors and sheriffs who neglected their duty as human beings to protect and care for the victim of rape and assault.
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Unless the right thing happens and OSU kicks you out, at least we know where to find you scum.
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Here's an example of how a schools SHOULD react to student violence and to those students who are present and chose NOT to assist a victim:
Hamline University men's basketball coach Nelson Whitmore has been indefinitely suspended and 14 players face discipline in connection with an player-on-woman assault that allegedly took place in a Spokane, Washington hotel room on New Year's Eve.
One player punched a woman fracturing her face in 3 places and 14 players either saw her attack or saw her unconscious or refused to help her.
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I hope they end up "Deader than a doornail"
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James Hotter Than Anthony, and the Knicks Lose
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When I scrape out the seeds out of my vanilla beans and simmer them with milk or incorporate them into batter, they always leave little tell-tale black dots in the finished product. Is it possible to filter them out somehow and is it something commonly done in the professional kitchen? I don't think I remember seeing these dots in restaurant desserts. It's not critical, but I'd rather my panna cotta be pristine white :-).
A chinoise will not--I speak from daily experience--filter out vanilla seeds. A coffee filter would, but my question is: why on earth would you bother? It's annoying to do (and depending on what the product is, filtering through a coffee filter would ensure you lose other things), and seeing actual vanilla seeds in the final product tells your guests that you are using real vanilla beans, not extract.
Professional kitchens do not, generally speaking, attempt to remove the seeds for the reasons noted above.
@stephenmacdonald, most dessert recipes that call for a fine mesh strainer do so because there is the possibility of chunky things ending up in the product. In the case of that recipe, I would guess it is to prevent chunks of undissolved gelatine from ending up in the final dessert.
Just use vanilla extract if you don't want specks of seeds showing. Straining of custards is to remove any coagulated egg particles, not to remove the seeds.
infuse the cream with the whole bean intact, do not split it. It will still infuse flavor, not as quickly or as much but that would be one way to use it without specks showing in your finished dessert.
A coffee filter should do the trick. I believe cheesecloth wouldn't be fine enough, but I'm not 100% sure.
This recipe for panna cotta calls for scraping seeds and using a fine mesh strainer on the final product, but as per @roux and @Darin's answers, it's not for getting the seeds out.
I'm not certain as to whether professional kitchens strain them out.
I use Vanilla extract instead of vanilla bean and it turns out pure white and taste great. I have made it and shared it with my neighbors and they said that it taste , as good, if not better than the one they had at the resturant. I use 2 tsp. vanilla for one recipe. I hope this helps.


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Certified for Microsoft Dynamics: Chat with Christian Lindberg
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Convergence 2009, I got an opportunity to sit down with Christian Lindberg, Microsoft. Christian is driving an important initiative called
CfMD (Certified for Microsoft Dynamics) for our ISVs. Christian shared his deep insight including What is this program, How to get it, What are the benefits to ISVs and Customers, and How to
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Is it true that bulky people can't be fast like Bruce Lee or flexible like "Superfoot" Wallace or tall like the great Khalil? I want to be big, fast, and able to fight all at the same time.
Have you ever watched American football, or heavyweight Olympic lifting? What about the heavyweight and light-heavyweight divisions of the UFC? It's absolutely possible to be simultaneously big, strong, fast, and flexible.
The key elements are getting big and strong, then incorporating a lot of power training into your strength and conditioning program, and maintaining that weight while working on mobility and explosiveness.
YES, so much yes!
I have seen big bulky people contend in races. I have also seen bulky people out-spar their skinnier opponents in a dojo. It is possible
The above answers your question but I would go on a bit, if I may.
To achieve this,
p.s: A little informal physics... velocity is caused by acceleration which is caused by jerk which in turn is caused by snap <— this is what you want to decrease. I should add, "it ain't easy". You mentioned Bruce Lee who, in my books, was the master of minimal snap time. His acceleration posed a problem for video cameras of his time. Try to beat yours.
Sure, you can be big and fast. That said, there's some important ideas to keep in mind about what your training is going to look like. There's basically going to be 4 factors you are training (as far as conditioning) - power, speed, endurance, and, size.
To quote Wikipedia on Bodybuilding:
Right here you can see power and size are trained for differently. Then there's the issue of endurance (which varies on how you expect to use your martial arts and in what conditions).
Finally, speed. The usual adage of the slow bulky guy isn't a matter of too much muscle as much as result of bad training.
Here's where we go into neuromuscular science... your body has a natural reflex reaction when a part of your body is moved too fast - it tightens the muscles around the joint to serve as a braking action to stop the joint from getting injured. The extreme result of this is a muscle pull or muscle tear - the body decides to let a muscle take damage rather than a joint because muscle heals easier.
When it comes to resistance training, the advice to stretch after a workout is so that you can reset your muscle spindles back to normal full ranges - otherwise they will set their "default" at a shorter range - and when you try to move fast, your own muscles serve as a braking factor to your speed.
So it's not that more muscle slows you down, it's that muscle training that ALSO sets the muscle spindles to a smaller range of motion, done over long periods of time, slows you down. Stretching after resistance training isn't about getting more range of motion, it's about keeping what you have and making sure it's available when you move at speed. Reset the muscle spindles and you can keep your fast movement.
Beyond that, then it's really about developing your flow and ability to read the movements of an opponent in martial arts. There's plenty of folks who aren't fast, if you watch them, but when you're facing them they're a step ahead and sometimes you can't track their movements well - because they've figured out how to read you and not telegraph their own movements in return.
Yes you can. But in general you need to train your muscles in a balanced way so that you don't overdo one and thus de-emphasize the others.
There are different types of muscles in the body. There are muscles for strength, power and speed, the latter is generally known as fast twitch muscles.
Those that are bulky in a muscular way, such as a very large body builder, tend to be slower because they've over emphasized one type of muscle over another. But of course it all depends on how bulky you are talking about.
Van Damme is a pretty muscular guy and also quite fast. My second Master was a very big guy and was faster even than Bruce Lee while his arms and muscles were over twice the size of Bruce and he was over six feet tall and come in at 280-300lbs.
So you can do it but you have to do some research and become educated on different types of working out and exercises for different effects and maintain a balance otherwise one type of muscle fiber will suffer over the others.
One would need a picture to see exactly what you mean by bulky.
You can however reach an optimum where you develop the maximum strength in the minimum volume (lean muscles) that allows you to be fast and flexible enough. Martial arts isn't about force, as in brute explosive force, as you don't try to lift your opponent over your head or snap his bones in two. Excluding the actual fighting techniques, a fighter needs to have stamina (lean muscles) to keep up a long fight, speed to attack before being seen and flexibility to execute extreme movements without injuries.


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I have been hoping for some time and finally it happened. This answer of mine got 10 pluses and this should have earned me both "Enlightened" and "Nice answer" badge. I got the "Nice answer", but didn't get the "Enlightened".
However, I am sure I was the first one to answer. Even if I assume that there was another answer prior to mine that was deleted by its poster, but according to this thread such answer should not count as first and mine should still be the first.
Can somebody please explain why didn't I get the badge? Also is there any query I can run to see if my answer is counted as first?
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BATES, Jeffrey M., 54, of Toronto, OH, formerly of Wellsburg, WV, passed away Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, in the Shands Medical Center in Gainesville, FL.
Jeff was born on Sept. 23, 1958, in Steubenville, OH, son of Marvin L. Bates and Marlene (Bates) Sayers.
Jeff loved his family and fought his battle until the very end. He was an installer with the Jefferson Co. Cable Company and he also worked for the family- owned Lime Rock Mine in Florida. He loved boating, people, his friends, and he touched many people's lives in many ways. Everybody has a story to share about Jeff. Jeff loved racing his mini-stock car in McAllen, TX, he loved hunting alligators and he loved his dog, Lucky.
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I want to get the solutions of this. I did a polynomial division.
First, I know that $(x+1)$ is a factor since $1^3-2\cdot1^2-5\cdot1+6 = 0$
So my division goes like this: $$..........x^2-3x-2$$ $$(x+1)|\overline{x^3-2x^2-5x+6}$$ $$x^3+x^2$$ $$......\overline{0-3x^2}-5x$$ $$........-3x^2-3x$$ $$...............\overline{0-2x}+6$$ $$....................2x-2$$ $$....................\overline{0 + 8}$$
(Sorry for the improvised formatting. Ignore any dots you see there.)
So I get, at the end, the quadratic $x^2-3x-2+8=x^2-3x+6$
However, $\triangle = (-3)^2-4(1)(6)=9-4(6)=9-24=-15$
Therefore, there are no solutions since $\triangle$ is negative.
But I definitely did something wrong, since I do know that the solutions are $1,-2,3$
What did I do wrong?


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I am using Mapinfo 11. I want user to be able to find shortest route between two points so that user can travel from point A to point B using these path. Any Idea how to achieve this?
Edit: I need to be able to do this with the Bing Hybrid Map.
apparently there is a tool that allows you to do that in mapinfo
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calculating the shortest distance , there is a logic behind it.
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ATLANTA — With Georgia one win away from playing for a national championship, quarterback Aaron Murray has suddenly imposed a media blackout.
The school said Monday that Murray met with coach Mark Richt and got permission to be relieved from his media responsibilities leading up to the Southeastern Conference championship game between the third-ranked Bulldogs (11-1) and No. 2 Alabama (11-1).
The winner of Saturday's game at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta will advance to face top-ranked Notre Dame for the BCS title (12-0).
Murray has always been one of Georgia's most accessible players, usually meeting with the media on Tuesdays and after games. But he gave a hint that his approach would change when he didn't hang around following last week's win over Georgia Tech, appearing to catch the sports information staff off guard.
One of his best friends, linebacker Christian Robinson, said Murray simply wants to make sure his entire focus is on beating the Crimson Tide.
"I don't think this has anything to do with the media," Robinson said. "I don't think he's trying to send message. It's just something he decided to do this week as far as being prepared."
Murray, a fourth-year junior, is the nation's top-rated passer and the first quarterback in SEC history with three straight 3,000-yard seasons through the air. But he has struggled at times in Georgia's biggest games.
In the Bulldogs' lone loss this season, a 35-7 blowout by South Carolina, Murray completed only 11 of 31 passes for 109 yards, including an interception. He was just 12 of 24 for 150 yards against Florida, with three interceptions, but the defense bailed out the Bulldogs in a 17-9 victory.
Robinson, who shares a house with Murray, said the quarterback spent the entire day Sunday studying film at the football complex.
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Among the theorems of early geometric model theory there is one by Lachlan stating that every totally categorical structure with a trivial pregeometry is intrepretable in a dense linear order.
That suggests in particular that there are totally categorical structures with a trivial pregeometry that are not interpretable in the trivial structure $(M,=)$. Could someone kindly give an example of such a structure?


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Can anyone come up with a way to divide any given x by any given y without actually dividing?
For example to add any given x to any given y without adding you would just do:
And to subtract any given x from any given y (that is, y-x) you could do:
*edit: well since (i) is ($\sqrt{-1}$) and that is technically subtracting this one might not work perfectly but for the sake of the riddle and for the sake of example, I'm using that equation :)
How can you divide without dividing? Can anyone come up with equations that work for all $x$ and $y$ values? (For all
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How do we formally prove that the fundamental group of any Lie group is always commutative?
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As Vahid says, it is true for any topological group. Here is a proof. I'm sure there are nicer, more conceptual ones out there, but here goes.
Let $G$ be your topological group. Take two loops $\sigma$ and $\gamma$ in $G$, based at the identity of $G$, which we will denote by $e$. Let $\sigma \cdot \gamma$ be the concatenation of the two loops. This is given by $$ (\sigma \cdot \gamma) (t) = \begin{cases} \sigma(2t) & \quad \text{ if } 0 \le t \le 1/2 \\\ \gamma(2t-1) &\quad \text{ if } 1/2 \le t \le 1 \end{cases} $$ (Sorry, couldn't manage to format that any better. Feel free to edit if you know how to put a nice brace bracket to the left of that definition.)
The idea is this. We will show that $\sigma \cdot \gamma$ is homotopic to to the loop given by the pointwise product of $\sigma$ and $\gamma$. Let's call that loop $\rho$, so $$ \rho(t) = \sigma(t)\gamma(t).$$
Now define an auxiliary function $P : [0,1] \times [0,1] \to G$ by $$ P(s,t) = \begin{cases} \sigma\left( \frac{2t}{1+s} \right) & \quad \text{ if } 0 \le t \le \frac{1+s}{2} \\\ e &\quad \text{ if } \frac{1+s}{2} \le t \le 1 \end{cases}$$
At $s=0$, this function does the whole loop $\sigma$ as $t$ goes from $0$ to $1/2$, then sits at $e$. In other words, at $s=0$ this is the first half of the loop $\sigma \cdot \gamma$. As $s$ gets larger, $P$ does the whole loop $\sigma$ as $t$ goes from $0$ to $\frac{1+s}{2}$. At $s=1$, $P$ does the loop $\sigma$ at normal speed.
Then similarly define a function $Q : [0,1] \times [0,1] \to G$ by $$ Q(s,t) = \begin{cases} e & \quad \text{ if } 0 \le t \le \frac{1-s}{2} \\\ \gamma \left( \frac{2t-1+s}{1+s} \right) &\quad \text{ if } \frac{1-s}{2} \le t \le 1 \end{cases}$$
At $s=0$ this is just the second half of the loop $\sigma\cdot\gamma$, while at $s=1$ it is exactly the loop $\gamma$.
So finally, define $$ H(s,t) = P(s,t) \cdot Q(s,t). $$ At $s=0$ this is $\sigma \cdot \gamma$, while at $s=1$ it is the pointwise product loop $\rho$. $H$ is clearly continuous, and $H(s,0) = e = H(s,1)$ for all $s$, so this is a homotopy of loops between $\sigma \cdot \gamma$ and $\rho$.
Now we can redo that process and show that $\rho$ is homotopic to the other concatenation $\gamma \cdot \sigma$. So this shows that $\pi_1(G)$ is abelian.
One-sentence explanation: because the fact that a topological group $G$ is a group object in topological spaces makes its fundamental group $\pi_1(G)$ a group object in groups, and this is an abelian group.
Geometric proof: A connected Lie group $G$ is homotopy equivalent to a maximal compact subgroup, so we may assume $G$ is compact. Being compact, $G$ admits a bi-invariant Riemannian metric with respect to which it is a symmetric space, the symmetry $s$ at the identity being just the inversion map. Now a homotopy class in $\pi_1(G,1)$ can be represented by a closed geodesic $\gamma$ (of minimal length in its homotopy class, by a shortening process). Since the differential of $s$ at $1$ is minus identity, $s$ sends $\gamma$ to itself parametrized backwards. It follows that the homomorphism induced by $s$ on the $\pi_1$-level is inversion. However, the inversion map in a group is a homomorphism if and only if the group is Abelian.
It is actually true for all topological groups. Topological groups possess a structure which makes them H-spaces and fundamental group of every H-space is abelian. The formulation and the proof is given in Algebraic Topology, Homotopy and Homology, by Switzer Pages 14-16.


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I've studied it on high school but i've never understood it's meaning. So, what it means? I kinda "know" - this knowing is a little speculative - that it could be used to plot geometric figures and that some patterns of equations with higher degrees can be use to plot circles and some other geometric figures, can you add something to this or correct it? and, can you suggest something more?
A quadratic equation is a polynomial equation of degree 2. Quadratic equations are good for modelling parabolas and things which are naturally parabolic. One example of this is modelling the flight path of a projectile.
A quadratic equation is a special type of equation. An equation is something like
$$x + 2 = 7$$
By solving this equation we mean that we want to find a number (or numbers) $x$ such that when I add $2$ to that number, then I get $7$. It is not hard to see that for this specific equation there is only one solution $x = 5$.
A quadratic equation is an equation of the form
$$ax^2 + bx + c = 0$$
where $a, b$, and $c$ are fixed numbers and $a \neq 0$. Again the question is: for which values of $x$ is this equation satisfied? So we simply want to find all the numbers $x$ such that when you evaluate/find $ax^2 + bx + c$ then you get $0$.
As an example, consider the quadratic equation
$$x^2 -1 = 0.$$
First note that this indeed is a quadratic equation by comparing it to the general form given above. We note that we get the equation by having $a =1, b = 0, c =-1$. We realize that there now is two distinct numbers $x$ such that $x^2 - 1 = 0$, namely $x =1 $ or $x = -1$. There is a lot more to say about quadratic equations. One can for example find a general formula that gives you all the values that satisfy the equation. For more on this, you might (as suggested elsewhere) look over the Wikipedia article.
Now while there is an algebraic formula for solving a quadratic equations, there are also other methods. The Wikipedia article has a bit about a Geometric solution.
Edit: Here is a page about how to construct the solutions to a quadratic equation with ruler and compass.


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MARVIN H. MOORE, ) Case No. 10-10533
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Credit services organizations (CSO's) that engage in debt management for compensation are
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required by Kansas law to register with the state bank commissioner. Failure to do that is a violation
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Allied violated the KCSOA by not registering in Kansas and is answerable in actual damages for
that; its failure to register and its other deceptive activities render it liable for two additional civil
penalties at $10,000 per act as well as attorneys' fees and costs.
Procedural Background
Marvin Moore filed his bankruptcy case on March 3, 2010. Before that, he signed a contract
with Allied for debt resolution advice. Moore had about $44,000 in unsecured consumer debt. Allied
represented that it could reduce this debt to $17,600. For that service it would charge $6,600,
2 See Reed v. Bennett, 312 F.3d 1190, 1195 (10th Cir. 2002) (A court may not grant
summary judgment in favor of movant solely based on nonmovant's failure to file a response to
the summary judgment motion.); Murray v. City of Tahlequah, Okla., 312 F.3d 1196, 1200 (10th
Cir. 2002) (same); D. Kan. LBR 7056.1(a) (All properly supported material facts of the movant
are deemed admitted if the non-movant fails to respond.).
KAN. STAT. ANN. §§ 50-634(b)(2) and 50-636(a) (2005)
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payable in installments. Moore paid Allied $6,722.33 over eleven months' time. Several of Moore's
creditors sued him anyway and he filed this chapter 7 case.
The chapter 7 trustee, Edward J. Nazar, sued Allied for violations of the KCSOA and the
KCPA in connection with its conduct. Allied's registered agent was served personally in Phoenix
and responded with a letter generally denying the trustee's allegations. Because the letter purported
to be a response to the complaint, and because entities may not appear pro se in cases or proceedings
in this District, I issued a notice of deficiency directing that an answer or other pleading be filed by
an attorney.5 That notice was returned unopened a month later, marked "not deliverable."6 When no
proper answer to the trustee's complaint was filed, the trustee obtained a default judgment against
Allied on August 15, 2011.7 It remains for the trustee to demonstrate its entitlement to damages, civil
penalties, and attorney fees and has filed this motion for summary judgment to that end.
Allied filed nothing in response to the motion for summary judgment.8 Rule 56(e) provides
that when the nonmovant does nothing to controvert the movant's facts asserted in a summary
judgment motion and the facts are properly supported, the court may consider them undisputed, and
if those undisputed facts demonstrate that movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law, may
grant summary judgment.9 The following summary of facts pled by the plaintiff and properly
5 See D. Kan. LBR 9010.1; Dkt. 9.
6 Dkt. 12.
7 Dkt. 21.
8 The Court's letter to Allied setting forth its deadline to respond to the summary
judgment motion was also returned undeliverable. Dkt. 29, 31.
Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(e)(3) (If the [adverse] party does not so respond, summary judgment
may be granted if the motion and supporting materials – including the facts considered
undisputed – show that the movant is entitled to it."); D. Kan. LBR 7056.1(a) (All properly
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supported are, therefore, not in dispute, and support the entry of judgment as set out below.10
The debtor Marvin Moore is a resident of Kansas. In November 2008, the debtor enrolled
in a debt settlement program with Allied Consumer Services, LLC. The debtor became aware of
Allied's services through an advertisement on the radio and/or on television. The Client Agreement
executed by debtor provides:
The subject matter of this representation of CLIENT [Debtor] by COMPANY
[Allied] is for the resolution of outstanding debts through negotiation and settlement
with the creditors listed by CLIENT . . .
The parties expressly acknowledged that "CLIENT has engaged COMPANY for the sole purpose
of negotiating a resolution of said creditors within the Agreement." Debtor agreed to "budget in
personal savings" $672.22 per month for 36 months. The Client Agreement states: "These funds
are budgeted for ultimate distribution to creditors. CLIENT will make all settlement payments
directly to creditors."11 Allied never registered as a credit services organization with the Kansas
Bank Commissioner.
Allied required the debtor to list all of his unsecured debt, which totaled approximately
$44,000.00. Based upon Allied's estimated settlement percentage of forty (40) percent, Allied
claimed it could settle all of debtor's unsecured debt for $17,600.00 for a charge of $6,600.00, its
supported material facts of the movant are deemed admitted if the non-movant fails to respond.).
10 Plaintiff's statement of uncontroverted facts is properly supported by the affidavit of
Marvin H. Moore. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c)(1)(A) and (4). The Court may also consider
materials that are not cited by movant, but in the record such as the complaint. See Fed. R. Civ.
P. 56(c)(3). By virtue of Allied's default, the factual allegations of the complaint are admitted.
Olcott v. Delaware Flood Co., 327 F.3d 1115, 1125 (10th Cir. 2003).
11 See Client Agreement, p. 2.
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negotiation fee for its services. Allied represented that this would require a monthly payment of
$672.22 from debtor. Allied required the debtor to make monthly payments of $672.22 for eleven
(11) months to pay its negotiation fee before Allied would begin to negotiate with the debtor's
creditors. The debtor received an enrollment summary page and signed a client agreement with
Allied that also reflected these terms of their agreement. At Allied's instance, the debtor also
executed an ACH Authorization form to allow for automatic withdrawal of the monthly payments
from debtor's bank account. The debtor decided, however, to make the monthly payments to Allied
by check. The debtor also executed a Limited Power of Attorney for the benefit of Allied.
The debtor made his monthly payments of $672.22 for ten (10) months. The total amount
the debtor paid Allied was $6,722.22. Based upon the representation by an Allied agent, the eleventh
payment was to be returned to the debtor as a reward for making timely payments.12 That never
happened. While the debtor was paying Allied its negotiation fee, several creditors contacted the
debtor to resolve the debts the debtor owed them. The debtor requested the return of some the
debtor's payments so the debtor could settle those debts, but Allied refused. After the debtor made
his tenth payment on time, the debtor contacted Allied to see if the debtor could simply deposit the
eleventh payment in the debtor's account instead of making the payment only to have Allied return
it, but Allied refused. This, along with Allied's refusal to return funds so the debtor could settle the
debtor's debt, caused the debtor to terminate his agreement with Allied. The debtor requested Allied
to return the money he paid, but Allied refused to do so. To date, Allied has yet to refund any money
12 See Client Agreement, p.3, where this returned payment is described as a Program
Completion Bonus Incentive but provides for a debtor refund "equal to 3% of the total
enrollment fees paid for a total of $1,320.00." The Court observes that by its calculation this
refund is equal to the amount of debtor's total unsecured debt, some $44,000, not his enrollment
fees. In any event, it does not match up with debtor's monthly payment.
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to the debtor.
The plaintiff filed this adversary action against Allied on February 3, 2011, alleging
violations of the Kansas Consumer Protection Act (KCPA) and the Kansas Credit Services
Organization Act (KCSOA). In addition to the sum paid by debtor to Allied, the Plaintiff has
incurred $2,012.50 in attorney fees and $202.01 in costs for the prosecution of this action.
Allied violated the KCSOA by failing to register
KAN.STAT. ANN. § 50-1118 requires that anyone engaging in the debt management business
with a Kansas resident must register as a credit services organization with the Kansas bank
commissioner, post a bond, and fulfill a number of other duties.13 A CSO is one that provides debt
management services for a fee.14 Debt management is defined in the Act to include "negotiating or
offering to negotiate to defer or reduce a consumer's obligations with respect to credit extended by
others."15 Violation of the act is answerable in actual damages plus attorneys fees.16 Further, a
violation of the KCSOA is deemed by law to also be a deceptive practice under § 50-626, the
KCPA, and whatever remedies are provided for in that act are cumulative to those allowed in the
KCSOA.17 A violation of the KCPA and specifically the commission of a deceptive act is
13 See § 50-1119 to § 50-1123. A "consumer" under the Act is an individual who is a
Kansas resident, § 50-1117(b).
14 § 50-1117(c).
15 § 50-1117(d).
16 § 50-1133.
17 § 50-1132
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answerable either in actual damages or a civil penalty of $10,000 per act, whichever is greater.18
Here, the undisputed facts establish that Allied is a CSO and did not register with the state
bank commissioner. That violates § 50-1118 of the KCSOA and, is, therefore, a deceptive act by
operation of § 50-1132. The remedy for the KCSO violation is the actual damages the debtor
suffered, the $6,722 that he paid to Allied and did not receive back, plus the estate's attorneys fees,
$2,012.50, and costs, $202.01.
Allied violated the KCPA by committing deceptive acts
As noted above, violating the KCSOA is, of itself, a deceptive act. The remedies are
cumulative. So, not only is Allied answerable in actual damages under the KCSOA, but it is also
answerable for the civil penalty provided in the KCPA, KAN. STAT. ANN. § 50-634(b) and § 50636(
a). Section 50-636(a) provides for a penalty of up to $10,000 per act. There is no question that
Allied is liable for an additional $10,000 penalty for failing to register under the KCSOA.
In addition to registration, plaintiff alleges other violations of the KCSOA by Allied as the
predicate for a civil penalty for a deceptive act – "failing to provide the necessary disclosures and
financial analysis required by the KCSOA."19 Plaintiff does not detail what those omitted disclosures
are nor specify the applicable KCSOA sections violated by Allied. Section 50-1120(c) specifies the
information and disclosures that must be contained in the debt management services agreement.
Section 50-1120(b)(1)(B) requires a CSO to "prepare[ ] and provide[ ] to the consumer a written
financial analysis of and initial budget plan for all of the consumer's debt obligations which
indicates the consumer can reasonably meet the requirements set forth in the budget plan." An
18 § 50-634(b) and -636(a).
19 Dkt. 28, p. 8.
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examination of the Client Agreement and the Enrollment Summary Page, reveal that several of the
disclosures required by § 50-1120(c) are omitted.20 Nor is there any evidence in the record of a
written financial analysis of debtor's debt obligations and cash flow to show debtor can make the
payments required by the plan. On the record before it, this Court concludes that Allied indeed
violated § 50-1120 in numerous ways and such violations constitute deceptive acts. The plaintiff
demands only one additional civil penalty arising out of this cluster of violations.
Therefore, the plaintiff is entitled to recover a maximum civil penalty of $10,000 in
connection with the deceptive act of failing to register under the KCSOA, § 50-1118, and a further
civil penalty of $10,000 for the deceptive acts in failing to make all the required disclosures and
prepare a written financial analysis as prescribed by § 50-1120 of the KCSOA.
Summary judgment is granted
The motion is GRANTED. Plaintiff is entitled to judgment on his complaint for (1)
$6,722.22 actual damages for violating the KCSOA under § 50-1133; (2) $10,000 civil penalty
under §50-636(a) for violating the KCSOA, § 50-1118, a deceptive act; and (3) a $10,000 civil
penalty for additional violations of the KCSOA, § 50-1120, also deceptive acts. Plaintiff should also
receive his attorney's fees of $2,012.50 and costs of $202.01. A judgment on decision shall issue
this day.21
20 § 50-1120(c)(5) [a list of debtor's creditors under the debt management agreement],
(c)(6) [list of creditors not expected to participate in the plan], (c)(7) [that Allied may also
receive compensation from debtor's creditors], (c)(8) [that entry into a debt management
agreement may not be conditioned upon the purchase of other services or products], and (c)(11)
[a notice with contact information for the State Bank Commissioner to receive consumer
questions and complaints].
21 Defendant is in default of answer and has not questioned this court's jurisdiction to
enter a final judgment in this proceeding. To the extent that a court of appellate jurisdiction
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should determine that any part of this proceeding was not core or that this court lacked the power
to enter a final judgment, the forgoing findings of fact and conclusions of law should be deemed
proposed under Fed. R. Bankr. P. 9033, subject to District Court review upon appropriate and
timely objection.
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There's a case to be made for giving a Cy Young Award to a pitching superstar. You know the type: the pretty pitchers, the shutdown artists, the preternatural talents who could not miss greatness, and didn't. They are the special ones, who break into the major leagues as young men and never leave, who play a hard game as if a half-step ahead of everyone else. They carry teams to playoff wins, make millions, stockpile statistics and make success look so natural and easy, even if it isn't.
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Trying to run a Ubuntu server for the first time... But everything is in a terminal. Is there a way to switch to a GUI? Also, the server doesn't have direct access to the internet... So, is there a way to share it from a laptop?
There's no specific distribution called "Ubuntu server", it's all Ubuntu. There are different installation media for Ubuntu desktop and server, but the difference is only in the initial installation program and the set of packages included. The server installation media doesn't install a GUI by default, but it's just a package installation away.
To install a desktop environment, you'll need to enable package installation from the Internet (the desktop packages aren't on the server installation CD). The installation program should have done that for you if it found an Internet connection, but apparently it didn't.
Then run these commands to install a desktop environment:
You should get a graphical login prompt at that point (I'm not completely sure; if you don't get one, reboot).
Once you have a GUI, you should go and enable a few more software sources, at the very least security updates and the universe repository. Click on the Ubuntu button, and search for "Software Sources", and check the "restricted", "universe" and "multiverse" boxes (in addition to "main") in the first tab, and check at least "-security" and "-updates" (and you might as well check the others) in the "Updates" tab.
If you want to administer locally
You can install the default Ubuntu desktop by executing the following:
There are many desktop alternatives which you may install and use, like:
Local and or remote administration
Except from the above you can administer your server by using a web based solution using less resources:
Ubuntu Server never comes with a GUI. All activities that you need to do on a server can to be done through terminal. Even if you download the GUI, you will probably be able to access internet and get online support via forums or through chat. But there are no server / activities management tools for linux as yet which need a GUI for management.
If you are looking for some GUI similar to Windows Server, then such GUI does not exist for Linux Server. But you can download a Ubuntu desktop on a server to get the UI...All server related activities will still be required to be done through the terminal. You can download the desktop GUI on the server through the following command...
Following are the options
The reason why it's called "Server" is because it's lightweight (no GUI or extra packages) to run the machine as lean as you possibly can. Adding a GUI to it defeats the purpose of a Server installation.
However, installing as Server then using apt-get install/aptitude install your choice of a desktop can help to weed out unnecessary applications than from doing a direct installation of a Ubuntu Desktop release. If you're going this route, I personally like
EDIT: However, if you're using it as a real "Server" (ftp, web hosting, DNS, etc.), it is highly recommended to learn how to navigate Ubuntu via its shell instead of the GUI.
And what UbuntuIngrained said about the necessity of knowing the shell isn't necessarily true. There are packages that install GUIs for different server functions.
Ubuntu Server has no GUI, but you can install it additionally. Simply login with the user you created during installation and install the Desktop with.
Afterwards type
and you are done.
Ubuntu server is designed to use minimal resources . GUI will leads to utilize high resource and still you want GUI , you can choose lightweight packages. Install ubuntu-desktop with --no-install-recommends . this will exclude major softwares and tools like libreoffice, firefox , thunderbird etc
Refer these guides.
If you look very closely at the official Ubuntu Server Guide. Chapter 6 Remote Administration you will find that the last article would be of extreme interest. Trust me you do not want to install a DeskTop environment on a server, it uses up too many resources up to 50 to 60% if you go bananas and you don't get any benefit to control your server from a GUI standpoint.
Read and digest chapter 6.3 Zentyal. That is what you would need. I can't believe I overlooked that myself. So don't be afraid to install it, this is a full blown web interface that my first impression of installing the zentyal-core and zentyal-common was "AWESOME" look no further for anything other than the sanctioned web interface by Ubuntu creators.
However looks like this software might cost you money, but if you are serious about using a GUI, I'm sure the fees might be affordable for light use. Not everything in life is free if you want it bad enough. However I am sure home use might be fee free, depends on what services you need. This software comes with lots of modules, I dare say you should only install the ones you need.
Gathering from what you are saying I assume you would like one of two things:
Am I correct in this?
If it's the first, you should mark this and ask a Moderator to move it the "Ask Different" section, if it's the second you once again have two choices:
Install gnome package via
As to the internet thingy: You can set up a bridge or emulate a router. How to do that depends a bit on your hardware. There is a myriad of forum posts and howtos available on that subject. Use Google.
Packages of interest:
Some of the desktop managers have core-packages, so you can only install the desktop without any applications.
Hi guys after a little research I wanted to share an answer too!
TIP1: The
TIP2: If an option you choose installs
TIP3: If you need remote desktop via
TIP4: At options 2 to 6 if you wanna stop lightdm autostarting then run the command
The thing is, there is no GUI included with the server edition. You can install and
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