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Let E be the Euclidean plane. Does there exist a collection C of subsets of E whose union is E and which are all straight lines such that (1) No two distinct straight lines belonging to C are parallel (2) Every subset of E which is a straight line not belonging to C is parallel to exactly one straight line belonging to C and (3) No three pairwise distinct straight lines belonging to C are concurrent? The problem is trivial, of course, without condition (3). All the straight lines belonging to C can intersect in the same point. If such a collection as C exists, could anybody give an example of one. Or is some version of the Axiom of Choice needed to prove its existence? Finally, while still requiring conditions (1) and (2) to be fulfilled, one could ask whether it is possible for the union of all the straight lines belonging to C can be a closed proper subset of E-rather than E itself. But this, I suspect, is impossible-even with the Axiom of Choice and even though we have not imposed condition (3).
Such a set of lines can be constructed by transfinite induction of length $\mathfrak c = 2^{\aleph_0}$.
Enumerate all possible directions and all possible points in order type $\mathfrak c$. (This uses a well-order of the reals.)
In the i-th step, do the following two steps:
Step (1,i): If the i-th point is covered by the lines selected so far, do nothing. Otherwise, choose a line through this point which has a direction that was not used by previously selected lines, and that does not meet any intersection point of any two previous lines.
Step (2,i): If a line with the i-th direction has already been selected, do nothing. Otherwise, choose a line in the i-th direction which does not contain meet any intersection point of lines chosen so far.
Each of the choices above uses a well-order of the reals. Each such choice is possible because there are $\mathfrak c$ many possibilities a priori, and fewer than $\mathfrak c$ are disqualified by the requirement to avoid certain points.
Unless I have made a mistake, this construction by transfinite induction is quite standard. If I recall correctly, Ciesielski's book "Set theory for the working mathematician" contains more examples of such constructions. ADDED: Also, Joel's question mentions several similar (plus a few dissimilar) constructions, both on mathoverflow and elsewhere.
Let $C$ the curve defined by $y=x^x$ (for $x>0$) union the point $x=0,y=1$. The set of tangents to $C$ (including the $y$ axis) satisfies the hypothesis, as the slope of those tangents grow continuously from $-\infty$ to $+\infty$, and it is impossible to draw three distinct tangents from any point of the plane. So what is wrong with this example?
I just forgot the union of the lines must be $E$ . Time to go to bed ; please delete this answer if you can. On the other hand, in this case, the union of the lines is a closed subset of $E$, so it may still be worth something
(Too long to be a comment, but:) It is impossible to, say, make the union of $C$ either the complement of an open concave region (trivial) or the complement of an open circle (there's only one possible choice of line for each point on the boundary of the circle, and then any other line has to be parallel to one of these tangent lines).
On the other hand, I think it should be possible - certainly with $AC+CH$ - to make the union of elements of $C$ be, say, the complement of an open triangle $T$. Work in $\omega_1$-many stages, where at each stage $\eta$ you have countably many lines already drawn, and you're trying to get a new line which goes through the point $(x_\eta, y_\eta)$ (assuming this point isn't in $T$ and doesn't lie on an existing line already) and is "legal" (i.e., doesn't intersect $T$, doesn't intersect an existing point of intersection between already-chosen lines, and isn't parallel to any given line). Initialize the construction by starting with the three lines containing the three edges of the triangle; then it seems that, by our assumption that $CH$ holds, we can continue this construction to hit every point not in $T$. [EDIT: As Emil points out below, CH can be dropped by considering instead the cardinality of the set of points to be avoided at each given stage. So only $AC$ is used.]
A key step in this proof is that the set of lines through a given point not in the closure of $T$ can be identified with a set of reals of positive measure, so the countably many lines we've already determined can't get in the way of continuing the construction; and the boundary of $T$ is covered by finitely many lines, so that won't cause unavoidable trouble either. This last condition fails if we try to avoid an open disc.
On the other hand, it does seem possible to avoid a closed disc, by basically the same argument as above. I think, in general, it is possible to have the union of the lines in $C$ be the complement of any convex, bounded, open region; and it is possible to have the union of lines in $C$ be the complement of any closed, convex region whose boundary is a union of countably many line segments; so long as we assume $AC+CH$. ($CH$ can be replaced by the appropriate cardinal characteristic requirement that any set of reals of cardinality $<2^{\aleph_0}$ has measure 0; see Do sets with positive Lebesgue measure have same cardinality as R? for why this isn't a consequence of ZFC alone.) I have no idea how much choice is required for any of this.
How about tangents to a deltoid, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Deltoid.html ?
It do look like the tangents really do cover the entire plane, and all of those are non-parallel.


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An evening of hope, healing, and reflection offers a touching glimpse into the creative writing program at the Cancer Center
Poems and stories relate to the cancer experience including diagnosis, treatment, and survival. Other works reflect on broader themes of memory, grief, hope, family, humor, and life's daily moments.
Sculptures on exhibit are torso casts of breast cancer survivors
The evening will include a pre-reading reception on the 4th floor atrium where you may meet the writers and look at an art show curated in collaboration with DHMC Arts and the nonprofit cancer support organization Forest Moon.
The "1 in 8 The Torso Project" is a group of life size embellished torso casts created by women who have experienced breast cancer.
Also on hand will be Margaret Stephens, therapeutic harp practitioner in the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and the Creative Arts Program who will play selections on her Celtic harp during the reception.
How cancer care creates poetry
Works included in the reading were submitted by participants in the Cancer Center's writing program.
Creative writer, workshop leader and teacher, Marv Klassen-Landis has been facilitating individual sessions and small writing groups with cancer patients and family members for the past two years as part of Patient and Family Support Services' Creative Arts Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
Marv has inspired patients getting chemotherapy or resting in bed during a bone marrow transplant procedure to have fun with words and personal recollections.
People who have never written a poem or put a family memory into words on paper have become inspired to share a story or to explore personal feelings through rhymes, letters, and conversation.
Marv's responds to patient's own words by writing them down on his laptop and reading them back and forth until a work is considered finished. Sometimes Marv can suggest a form of poetry that doesn't require rhyming or a way to combine two memories into a story.
Nostalgic, humorous or/and insightful poems and stories have emerged on paper to the delight of the patients and their family members. As one woman declared recently to her husband, a patient undergoing chemotherapy, "I never knew you could write so well!"
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Writing for relaxation with Norris Cotton's creative writing facilitator offers a person facing a difficult illness the opportunity to dive deep inside themselves to express a feeling or to float playfully along with a memory of haying in summer on grandfather's farm. Marv offers a blank journal to take home and fill if someone wants to continue writing at home.
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It's been a while since I went rock climbing but I'd like to get back into it. What are some hand exercises that will help with climbing?
In addition to using a Finger exerciser, I do the following:
These give finger, hand, wrist and forearm strength - worthwhile using them together. The thing I'm not so good at is toughening up the backs of my fingers. I play guitar, so my fingertips are nicely callused, but I always scuff the backs of my fingers when trying to jam into cracks.
Climbing is the best exercise for finger and hand strength improvement, just make sure to warm up and stretch.
Just want to defend my answer. There are a lot of books out there you can read about climbing for training. Many of them will tell you not to waste your time cross training. The best training for climbing, is climbing.
Now if you are advanced there are other methods, but the useful ones are directly related to climbing.
The most obvious are fingerboards. Do dead hangs and pull ups in all different finger positions and different common climbing holds.
The next is H.I.T., or "Hypergravity Isolation Training", where using HIT boards you can follow a regimen to work solely on hand strength while still in a climbing format. You can train pinches crimps, and varying pocket sizes with different finger combinations.
There are also campus boards which are wooden boards with varying degrees of crimping difficulty which are ridiculously difficult and strenuous and should only be used by top tier climbers or you will injure yourself.
Now, with all these methods in mind, just climbing a wall will do wonders to improve your hand strength, whether it be top-roping, lead, or bouldering (or other).
So don't worry about cross training, just go climb a wall. When you really hit a plateau (Probably around the 5.10 going into 5.11 level or later), look into HIT.
If you haven't climbed in a while I would recommend staying away from doing fingertip pull-ups on hang boards. My assumption is that you are out of climbing shape and tendons and ligaments are easy to injure and take a long time to heal. This is coming from someone who has been climbing for around 8 years off and on and has made many mistakes, please learn from mine. Over all, take it slow when returning from a hiatus.
Available products I have used without injury are the powerball and the grippers. Both are small and can be used when you might otherwise be wasting time, like waiting in line at a store.
For further advise I would suggest www.trainingforclimbing.com. It is edited by a well known, longtime (34 years) climber on the east coast, Eric Hörst. He is also frequently featured (74 times!) in a podcast called Pod Climber, giving training advice. I found this valuable as I could listen in the car.
Building Grip Strength
Your best chances to improve your fingertip strength is performing excercises specific to those ligaments at or near body weight.
Balls, rings, and grip springs are good for warming up, but not increasing strength.
But you need to be careful if you are just starting out because you can easily injure yourself by overtraining.
Please do not just throw yourself into 50 pull ups a day... you will tear a tendon/ligament inside of 6 weeks.
Great Training Book
The best reference that I know of on climbing training is called "Performance Rock Climbing" and is one of the great books about improving climbing fitness. Highly recommended.
Note: Yes it was written in the early 90's, it is still amazing.
Training Aids
Use resistance bands to decrease force for high rep pull up workouts.
Alternatively you can use them to increase force for short intense workouts.
Use the finger board to isolate the grip area to your 1st or 2nd knuckle, and reduce the number of fingers on the board for increased intensity.
Last note...
The most common for rock climbing are with fingerboards or campus boards.
Without those, you can perform dead hangs on anything you can hold onto, such as pullup bars. To make it a little more difficult, you can dead hang on the edges of doorways.
There are other handheld devices for grip strengthening, such as tiger claws.
Lastly, wrist curls with dumbbells will also strengthen forearms which will help when climbing.
If I already had the right to vote I would give a +1 to Patrick Scott's answer. Probably the best hand and finger exercises that help with climbing are the ones actively performed while climbing! And the key to strengthen fingers as best as possible, is to actively work on different styles of climbing. In other words, trying all kinds of imaginable grips!
Beginners worrying about injuries should just start-up with easy climbs (problems/routes) which feature big pocket-like grips and slowly advance in harder/smaller, all kinds of grips.
Most of the alternatives to "train" fingers (including various squeezing balls, dumb-bell curls, chin-ups, finger chin-ups, press-ups on fingertips) would be better a choice for recovering from injuries, trying to perform equally distributed muscle training (having in mind for example isometric exercises) to avoid various effects caused by over-training specific groups of muscles, or really targeting at being able to hold on very specific grips/holds.
As well as squeezing stress balls and pulling on fingerboards, I bought a powerball a few years ago after one of my friends lent me his. It really helps with the wrist and forearm, and if you get the RPM counter, you can have a bit of fun, too.
This is a common question for beginners to ask. Climbing feels overwhelmingly strenuous when you're starting out. There are a variety of exercises that are recommended to strengthen your fingers, I can enumerate them below, but some are given in other answers. But I want to emphasize the following:
If you have access to a climbing gym, or live somewhere with outdoor rocks accessible after work, you will get significantly better gains in your climbing ability from just climbing 2 or more times a week, consistently, that you will from pure finger-strength training. Especially if you're a beginner.
If you've been climbing for a while and are looking to supplement your training, or if you just can't climb all that frequently you could consider the following:
Using general fitness equipment:
Specialized pieces of climbing equipment:
With either of these you would want to do dead-hangs (like on the pullup bar), and focus on the larger holds for the first few months. I don't know what your fitness background is, but both of these can should be considered "high risk" devices. They're designed by and for experienced rock climbers. They're targeted at people who are already climbing 5.12 sport climbs or V5 boulder problems. If you're not at a similar level of fitness, you could easily injure youself using them. Climbers regularly put their hands into positions that can only be considered orthopedic-ally unsafe when they grip tiny holds.
Also consider using the Grip Saver Plus from Metolius. It has the advantage of not only exercising your finger pressure, but the inverse. Witch from what I've heard from a physiotherapist is good thing. There were a theory behind that I don't remember well, but from what I remember the main idea is that you have to exercise the inverse of the tendon to gain strength in that tendon.


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So I'm seeing edit wars and that sucks but there's kind of no option because there's no talk page and now there is so take it here, guys.
I'm wikitransposing a bunch of stuff from the articlespace to here because it's getting out of hand and crufty. Maybe we should start a new page called Beef, and you can just talk shit about people in the space or not in the space bugging you, either signing your posts or like an anonymous little coward. But at the beginning of this page it says, "This is a place to keep track of ... people who have been asked to leave Noisebridge ..." So for now, let's just limit it to that, yeah? If someone hasn't been explicitly individually asked to leave the space, please leave them off 85. As it is it's turning into a "people part of subcultures I don't like" page. 'Cause otherwise this thing is going to get ridiculous and way out of control, with oogles and other annoying individuals. And let's face it, in a place dedicated to people with limited social skills, almost everybody's a bit fucking annoying. <3
Sorry Anonymous Coward, this is completely wrong. 85 is not a list of people who have been kicked out of the space, as implied by your bad attempt at selective quoting (...) above. It's to help solve a specific problem of the space being invaded by non-hackers. It's a tool to help us determine who the problem users of the space are and then ask them to leave. (Jesse Z.)
Old beef
The Oogles
Some people seem to have gotten the impression Noisebridge is a 24-hour hangout and drop-in center, whether or not sleep is permitted. With refrigerators where you can leave your food.
The following people have been accused of using Noisebridge as a crashpad and the general sentiment seems to be that they are not making the space more Excellent.
(guy with cane who isn't Zack)
- Has not slept or stored stuff at the space in any way.
- Assisted with Removing Jonathon from the space
- Has been active in utilizing the space productively.
- Iraq War Veteran with two purple hearts. (edited by Jedi)
Yogurt Container Man
- I forget his name. Nice guy, unshaven, pretending extremely hard to not be homeless, plays chess, is really handy at repairing the Occupiers clothes with a needle and thread or with the sewing machines. Stores random things in the shelves in the middle of the space.
- someone really unchill posted a lot of crap about long time Noisebridge volunteer Rayc. I certainly DO NOT agree with everything Rayc does, but I can't imagine any sane person thinking he is unwanted or is an 'Oogle'. Justin Doerr if you really think Rayc should be escorted from the space, please make one of your hilarious long winded without end rambling tangential requests at the next weekly meeting, so we can laugh at you.
- I, for one, want to say I love rayc' tours. If you have a specific criticism, please mention it, so we can perpetuate awesome institutional culture for newcomers and learn from each other, but it seems to me that rayc always gives tours, when no one else is willing to, that, if nothing else, leave first-time visitors excited and inspired. Whatever other bullshit falls out of his mouth, who cares? People can figure out the rest for themselves, right? As long as they're here and willing to contribute and learn. And that's what rayc' tours do.
- Look, I realize Amber, despite her protestations, was the catalyst for much of this. But, to my knowledge, she's never been escorted out of the space. Recently, in fact, she has been making an effort to be more productive, disavow her previous aquaintances, and integrate/interface better with the space. This has redeemed her in the eyes of some, but by no means all, regulars. So she dresses like a hippie and engages in logical fallacies when debating. If that's enough to not want her in the space, then grow a pair and ask her respectfully to not come back until the next Tuesday meeting. If not, then shut up and stop talking shit, or at least filling up 85 with rants.
--- "Please only re-add someone if you know for a fact they've been asked to leave and have specifically refused or been escorted out." --Eric
Sorry Eric, that is just not correct. This page is to compare notes with people who may think a person's presence in inappropriate. If a person has already been asked to leave they may be placed on the 86 page. I have not seen Amber in four days and the space has been MUCH MUCH improved as a result. I would very much like it if she never returned. (Jesse Z.)
- Justin suffers from a terminal case of Overshare . Often the disease sufferer has ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA that no one gives a flying fig about their daily struggles. The only known cure is polite shunning until the sufferer gets a clue.


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If I display my email address on my website, I would probably receive a lot of spam, so I can set up a contact form instead. If I want to display my phone number, how can I prevent unwanted phone calls?
Well, the first thing is not to worry about it so much, because your threat model is unlikely.
Voice spammers don't get phone numbers by sending bots out to crawl the web, because they have much better sources of numbers.
And targeted attacks, where someone wants to prank call you specifically, can't be prevented because you can't tell who is an attacker and who is a customer.
If you still want to obscure your text, then here you can use similar techniques to those used to obscure email addresses:
If you are in the US or Canada, you could use Google Voice (or any other VOIP service) and supply the Google Voice number. Google has pretty good anti-spam features built in to Voice and you can block any numbers that are problematic or only allow it to forward to your phone at certain hours.
Google Voice gives you, for free, an alternate phone number that you can (selectively) forward to other numbers. They also have a widget you can embed onto a webpage that can be used to call you directly from the page.
If you don't want to go through setting up your own asterisk server and routing SIP through it, there are plenty of VOIP options... Google Voice being one of them. I display my GV number on my website through an image to discourage any sort of web scraping shenanigans.
You can use the same methods that are used for e-mail adresses:
In addition to this, you can replace zeros with uppercase o's, however some scrapers can handle this (note that the scrapers I'm talking about are not used by spammers).
Honestly, I doubt phone spammers scrape web sites for numbers, much easier to simply dial all numbers and detect which ones exist.


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When I want to redirect the user after successful registration, I just use "registration_redirect" filter hook. How about when registration fails, which filter hook should I use? I looked into wp-login.php but I didn't see any filter/action hook that I could use. How do I go about this?
You could add an htaccess redirect or try out the theme my login plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/. It has options for custom redirection.
There is an more sophisticated solution instead of htaccess or plugin. For those interested in this topic, there's my code to redirect after (exactly before) unsuccessfull resitration attempt.
Why before? Before an attempt for registration, WordPress checks for an username and email address, whether they are not empty, whether they are not already in DB, and whether email nor username are in correct. If so, it reports errors and you can hook to a function right after this check.
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But, there is an but. This process, Next step, just calls wp_insert_user() and this function fails only on empty_user_login, existing_user_login and existing_user_email - otherwise it end successfully. And if you've read carefully, all these variables are checked before this function is called (this double check is logical as you can call wp_insert_user directly from your plugin).
So if register process fails after mentioned hook, it fails because there's something wrong with your WordPress installation and so, it is not a fail of your redirection function hooked to register process.
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"The case will likely go to a grand jury, and determine whether there should be charges brought against anyone," said Conceal Carry Instructor Trainer Deborah Williams.
That was the case with the Bradshaw shooting, and the grand jury decided not to indict Tommy Brown on manslaughter charges, saying it was a case of self defense under Kentucky law. KRS 503.055 states, a person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who is attacked in any other place where he or she has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force, if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another.
"Just as soon as that threat stops, the right to self defense stops," said Conceal Carry Instructor Phil Kimbel.
Both experts agree the purpose of using force for self defense is to stop the threat of harm, but as the law states, they don't rule out deadly force when necessary.
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I need a loading screen that shows my app name and after that the next scene will show automatically.
Well, for cocos i have no idea. But I've done this with pure OpenGL-ES, I cant tell exactly how, since it depends in your implementation of Scene, your states, your sprite drawing, etc. But here's a pseudo code of how mine looks like:
This will load your texture, put the logo in the center of the screen, register it to draw, create a ScreenFader(explain later) with a white color that would take 2 seconds to finsih, make the ScreenFader take the whole screen and register the ScreenFader to draw also.
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Thats it. And in your scene update, do this:
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I have Delia's Complete Cooking Course, which suggests cooking for 30 minutes at 230C plus 30 degrees at 180C per pound (450G); about 1hr 20 minutes.
Delia Online just says 30 minutes per pound at 190C.
Which would people recommend? I'm planning on adding garlic and rosemary to the meat, and making an onion and rosemary sauce.


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A tall, naked man on the corner of Main Street is causing a stir in Downtown Louisville.
While not actually human, the nude figure is a 30-foot statue that stands on a pedestal in front of 21c Museum Hotel, the company that obtained the piece, titled, David (Inspired by Michelangelo).
Sculpted by Turkish artist Serkan Ozkaya, who currently resides in New York City, David (Inspired by Michelangelo) is an homage to the original Renaissance masterpiece and its cultural legacy.
The nearly 3,500-pound effigy was acquired in 2010 by Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown of 21c. In 2011, it was transferred overseas from Istanbul, Turkey, to New York City, where it then traveled on its side via truck to its permanent location in Louisville at the corner of Main and Seventh Street.
"Steve (Wilson) met (Ozkaya in Istanbul) and learned about his artwork after he had built his first version of David (Inspired by Michelangelo)," said Alice Gray Stites, the chief curator and director of art programming at 21c. "The first project that (Wilson) did with Serkan (Ozkaya) was actually in 2009 when Serkan collaborated in Art Without Walls. …Serkan hand drew the front page of the April 10, 2009 (Courier-Journal). … He has had a long-standing relationship with 21c."
Ozkaya originally created a double-size, golden replica of Michelangelo's David for the Ninth International Istanbul Biennial in 2005. Based on a computer model from Stanford University professor Marc Levoy, Ozkaya's sculpture was constructed out of fiberglass, steel and spray-painted gold. It took a team of six people to complete the project in the course of six months.
"Like a child learning the Western history of art from badly printed books, we do not have access to the world of originals," Ozkaya said of his decision to replicate David. "We can only fantasize and learn about them, accept them as we accept the sun and the mountains. I wanted to take the 3D model as the idea for the thing and recreate the most precious man-made object ever made, and one which I had never seen for myself. I took the liberty to imagine it twice as tall and in gold."
Prior to the opening of the Biennial, Ozkaya's sculpture collapsed shortly after installation. Following that setback, he restored the damaged replica and cast two additional copies. One remains in Turkey, while the other was installed in May outside of 21c.
"The piece is clearly made to be shown outside," Stites said. "It is a work that is meant to be integrated into the urban landscape. It really becomes part of the architecture of downtown."
It has also become a popular topic of discussion.
Almost impossible to miss, David (Inspired by Michelangelo) has caught many people by surprise, prompting a variety of responses.
"(I'm) maybe a little (surprised the statue is outside), but not really considering it's in front of 21c and they seem to like to do some more modern things," said Odd Chrysis, a Louisville resident. "Honestly I want to see stuff like that down the whole street; set up art pieces all over downtown. … I think that would be great and encourage local artists and artists abroad to come do installation pieces."
While Chrysis is a supporter, other passers-by have formulated a bit of a different opinion on the unclothed model.
"I was a little shocked to see it on the street," said Megan Doak, a visitor from Ohio. "I'm used to seeing naked people all the time – I work in an ER – but not in the middle of the street. I'm not sure I would want any of my little kids seeing it out and about."
John Dalusio from Sarasota, Fla. also expressed some dissent toward the artwork, but due to its glowing color. "(It's) much larger and anatomically correct (compared to the original)," Dalusio said with a laugh. "The main thing that stands out is the bright gold guilding. If it was (made of marble), toned down, it would probably be less gauche – less controversial, too."
His wife, Mariann, however, argued for the value of bringing the grandiose statue to downtown Louisville. Having traveled to Louisville for only her second time, she was impressed with the shocking monument and what it signified of Louisville's progress.
"I was surprised at what's happening here (in Louisville)," she said. "It's bringing a lot more sophistication to the city. I think it's a beautiful little city. It's a little hidden treasure, and I think they're doing a lot to try and bring it back, which I think is a really great thing."
It may strike both a positive and negative chord in the public, but 21c isn't so much concerned about harsh criticism. The museum brought the piece to Louisville so that it might incite conversation and opinions.
"We've had a wonderful range of reactions, which is what happens when you put a thought-provoking work of art in the atmosphere," said Stites. "(It's) encouraging people to react in a variety of ways and hopefully engage in discussion about that work of art and other works of art and our downtown. … We always seeks to encourage the growth of public art in Louisville and other cities, (because) public art adds so much to the life of the community."
Responses to David (Inspired by Michelangelo)
"21c continues to bring an amazing level of creativity, entrepreneurship and energy to Main Street with attractions large and small. This replica of 'David,' an internationally-known larger-than-life piece of art, provides Louisville residents and visitors a rare opportunity to admire and revel in such skill and scale."
– Mayor Greg Fischer
"Woah! I love this. What a fabulous, exquisite sculpture – in Louisville? As I turn 40, I have a new appreciation for this kind of art. To me, it represents the accomplishment of maintaining freedom and independence in who you truly are. Every day, I strive for that as one of my newest goals. This sculpture inspires me to do exactly that."
– Charla Young Lipsey, "Power to Change"
"He's all man, baby. I'm surprised those Kardashian harlots haven't bought the building across the street just to savor the view."
– Terry Meiners, Clear Channel Radio and WHAS11's "Great Day Live!"
"I think the statue on Main Street is a hoot! It adds humor and draws attention to our city. It makes me smile."
– Carla Sue Broecker, Columnist for The Voice-Tribune
"I think it's wonderful. It, and 21c, makes our town more memorable. When it first went up, we were out to dinner with friends. My wife and all the ladies wanted to see it, so we drove downtown just to look at it. We wanted to know what all the buzz was about. … THAT is good for Downtown Louisville."
– George Lindsey, Radio Personality on 102.3 The MAX
"It's big, gold and shiny."
– Letitia Quesenberry, fine artist in Louisville
"Modern day David would have a manscape – a lighting bolt carved in his pubic hairs. Other than that it just makes me want to hit the gym a little more."
– Tony Vanetti, Radio Personality on 95.7 QMF and one half of the Afternoon Underdogs on 790AM WKRD.
"I think (the original) 'David' is beautiful, in part, because it is marble. This looks like David's flashy cousin from Vegas."
– Mandy Connell, Midday Host on 84WHAS.
"I bet 'David' wishes they had turned the air conditioning down while this was being chisled."
– Matt Jones, founder of KentuckySportsradio.com and host of KSTV and KSR Radio.
"Athough the work wouldn't be my first choice esthetically, I think that the conceptual nature of the sculpture can be yet another useful tool for 21C to educate a wider audience on the subject of contemporary art. Some can appreciate it for its scale and visual impact (or not), while others can choose to learn about the process with which it came to be. I find it a great addition to Main Street."
– Bryce Hudson, contemporary artist in Louisville
Photos By CHRIS HUMPHREYS | The Voice-Tribune


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I'm failing to find a replacement for Univers Condensed to use on the Web. I'm using Typekit (portfolio), and right now using LFT Etica Web which is much wider than Univers. I tried Googleing but no luck, so I decided to sign up and ask the pros.
The great thing about Univers is that it comes in so many weights and widths. It's a real powerhouse of a typeface.
Very few typefaces come with the range of fonts that Univers does. So there's really no universal 'alternative'.
Now, if you are only using one particular weight of Univers, we could maybe find a font with similar metrics.
All that said, you don't need an alternative. You can license Univers as a web font:
I would consider the google-font "Oswald" It comes only in 3 weights and has no italic or oblique version, but reminds me of the Univers Condensed type. Try changing Oswald 1pt less than Univers, regular -> light and bold -> regular.. Last, change tracking to +50..
That should do the job.. :-)..
Roboto Condensed is a close alternative, and available on Google web fonts
I've been looking for the same answer without pay a cent, so I found this font in typekit trial: https://typekit.com/fonts/nimbus-sans-condensed
I hope you like it.


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Do you know how to construct a compact hyperbolic 3-manifold with three or four totally geodesic boundary components? The only constructions I could find have one boundary component. A reference would be appreciated.
Do you know how to construct a compact hyperbolic 3-manifold with three or four totally geodesic boundary components?
Theorem(Long and Niblo): If $M$ is a 3-manifold and $S$ is an incompressible component of $\partial M$ then $\pi_1 S$ is separable in $\pi_1 M$ (pick a base point in $S$ to make sense of this).
This means that for any $\gamma\in \pi_1M\smallsetminus \pi_1 S$ there is a homomorphism $f$ from $\pi_1M$ to a finite group such that $f(\gamma)\notin f(\pi_1(S))$.
Corollary: If $|\pi_1M:\pi_1S|=\infty$ then $M$ had finite-sheeted coverings such that the preimage of $S$ has as many components as you like.
Proof: Choose a homomorphism $f$ such that $f(\pi_1S)$ has large index in $f(\pi_1M)$. Now your covering corresponds to $\ker f$. QED
So examples exists as finite covers of the example you already have!
A beautiful construction (relying on 2-dimensional hyperbolic circle packings) of hyperbolic 3-manifolds with many totally geodesic boundary components cab be found in the paper
Totally geodesic boundaries are dense in the moduli space. J. Math. Soc. Japan 49 (1997), no. 3, 589--601.
by Fujii and Soma.
If you don't care about explicitly constructing the metric, you can do this:
Let $N$ be a closed orientable $3$-manifold. Let $\Gamma$ be any finite graph such that each component has negative Euler characteristic. A theorem of R. Myers (in his "Excellent 1-manifolds" paper) gives you an embedding of $\Gamma$ into $N$ such that $M=N \setminus \mathrm{nbhd}(\Gamma)$ is irreducible acylindrical atoroidal and boundary incompressible.
It then follows from Thurston's geometrization theorem for Haken manifolds that $M$ admits a hyperbolic metric with geodesic boundary.
A combinatorial way to construct examples consists of taking any (topological) ideal triangulation with k ideal vertices where all edges have valence >=7 (i.e. each edge meets at least 7 tetrahedra, counted with multiplicity: if you take at least 6 you might find toric cusps). After removing an open star of the vertices you get a 3-manifold with k boundary components which admits such a metric.
(To prove this, see http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0402339, or prove that there cannot be any normal surfaces with non-negative Euler characteristic in such a triangulation and use geometrization.)
You can constrcut concretely the metric if all edges have the same valence v>=7: in this case you realize every tetrahedron as a regular truncated hyperbolic tetrahedron with dihedral angles at all 6 edges equal to 2pi/v (such an object exists since this angle is smaller than pi/3).
The number of tetrahedra you need for such a construction of course grows with k. For k=1, two tetrahedra suffice (see Thurston's knotted Y from his lecture notes).


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- Applying to the Law School
- Full–Time and Part–Time Programs
- Entering Class Profile
- Minority Student Program
- Financial Aid Overview
- Paying for Law School
- Admitted Students
|Watch this video and learn what current students and alumni have to say about the value of the MSP.
For more than 45 years, Rutgers School of Law–Newark has been in the forefront of two movements: first, to make legal education more democratic by making it accessible to members of groups historically excluded from legal career opportunities and, second, to make it more relevant to public life by immersing interested students in the "hands-on" representation of real clients.
Prompted by the unrest in Newark and other major U.S. cities in the summer of 1967, the law school undertook a searching examination of its roles and responsibilities as a legal institution within a declining urban community. As a consequence, the faculty voted to create the Minority Student Program (MSP), with the goal of enrolling substantial numbers of students from historically underrepresented groups in the expectation that they would enrich the educational experience and become lawyers who would help provide legal representation and leadership in their communities.
|Yvette Bravo-Weber, Assistant Dean for the MSP, meets regularly with students.
The commitment to pursue an aggressive policy of equal opportunity, together with subsequent initiatives to recruit women and to expand the MSP to include disadvantaged applicants of all races, transformed Rutgers–Newark Law into one of the most diverse law schools in the country with respect to race, gender and class.
To better educate a transformed student body and with a new understanding of the law school's obligations to the local community, the faculty also approved a recommendation by a commission comprised of professors, students and administrators to create an extensive clinical program. Today our Clinical Program is distinguished by the breadth and diversity of its 10 live-client clinics, comprehensiveness of experiences for students, and involvement in cases and projects with far-reaching legal or social impact.
The Minority Student Program is a post-admissions program that reflects the faculty's continuing commitment to promoting diversity and opportunity in the classroom and the legal profession. The program provides academic support, mentoring, and internships to students who, regardless of race or ethnic origin, can demonstrate through a history of socio-economic or educational experiences that they have been disadvantaged.
Admission to the MSP is separate from and subsequent to admission to the law school. Every applicant is invited to indicate his or her interest in the program on the admission application. All matriculated students, regardless of race or ethnic origin, are eligible for consideration for the MSP.
Almost 3,000 students of color and students from disadvantaged backgrounds have participated in the MSP and graduated from the law school. MSP alums can be found on the bench, in the U.S. Congress, in private practice, government agencies, major corporations, legislative bodies, public interest organizations, and academic institutions across the country.
Now in its fifth decade, the Minority Student Program remains a vital and influential program for advancing the Rutgers commitment to excellence, opportunity and impact and for promoting diversity in law school and the legal profession.


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When I'm connected to my school's wifi network, which is an enterprise WPA2 network, using PEAP authentication and MSCHAPv2, I get disconnected every 30 minutes to an hour. It won't reconnect, and the only way I can get it to reconnect to the network is to flip my hardware wifi kill switch (on my laptop, which is an MSI x350
Here's what I assume is the relevant output of lspci:
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
And here's (probably too much, but I don't know what's relevant) stuff from my system log:
I'm using Kubuntu 11.10 with the KDE4.8 backports. But I've been having this problem with this machine since I bought it and was using Ubuntu (unity) 11.04. The problem persists no matter whether I use the gnome network manager or KDE's.
Edit: I'm now using GNOME again, but having the same problems.


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Notes from previous [[Frontend Web Development]] classes.
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==== Class for 2013-10-07: Version control (Git) and the command line ====
==== Class for 2013-10-07: Version control (Git) and the command line ====
Revision as of 18:31, 15 October 2013
Notes from previous Frontend Web Development classes.
Class for 2013-10-14: Backend web development
This class was all about the seedy underbelly of web development: the backend!
I know we already have a backend class here at Noisebridge, but this one was tailored toward frontend developers wanting to get a taste of how things come together. We spent the first half talking about PHP, then moved onto a Rails, a more complex example.
Here are the steps used for class preparation:
If you would like to follow along, the easiest option is to run a virtual machine:
- Install VirtualBox AND the Extension Pack
- Download this preconfigured Ubuntu virtual machine (1.84GB)
- Double-click the .ova file. You should check the "reinitialize the MAC address" step.
- Start the machine after installation and you're all set!
- System username and password are both "frontend". Feel free to change them if that's uncomfortable.
If you don't want to use a virtual machine.
On Linux, you'll need to follow these steps:
- https://github.com/joshfng/railsready
- When installing, choose RVM.
- Also run
sudo apt-get install nodejs
- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP
On Windows or Mac OS X:
- Start with RailsInstaller: http://railsinstaller.org/
- And for PHP:
Install Apache, PHP, RVM, Ruby, and Rails individually. Good luck!
Class for 2013-10-07: Version control (Git) and the command line
This class was a general overview on version control and the command line. I've taught how to use an FTP client to upload files to the web, but the truth is that most developers don't do that anymore - rather, they collaborate with their peers by using version control systems, which allows them to keep track of their work in a reliable fashion and push it to the web.
Again, this class wasn't about web development per se - it was just an important introduction to using the command line to work with Git, one of the most popular version control systems. Everyone created their own fork of a repository and checked in their work.
We signed up for a free account at GitHub and installed Git. Those on Windows installed Git for Windows (all default options are fine).
Class for 2013-09-30: Old vs. new: progressive enhancement and browser testing
We talked about progressive enhancement - a practice where websites are created in a layered way that makes them accessible and cross-browser friendly. We looked at two versions of an example site and demonstrated how one is outdated, and the other adheres to progressive enhancement principles. We've touched on these concepts throughout the whole class, but in this class we focused on why they're important, and what could happen if you DON'T adhere to them.
This segued into a talk about browser testing - how to do it and what to look out for. We suggested using modern.IE for virtualization tools.
We also mentioned Modernizr, Normalize.css, and HTML5 Boilerplate.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-09-23: The mobile web
We took this blog and turned it into a mobile-accessible website via the use of media queries. We also talked about the rest of the world of the mobile web: user agent strings, frameworks like jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch, and the future of HTML5/CSS3 in mobile website and app development.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-09-16: CSS3
We'd covered CSS3 before, but in the context of a mockup. We looked further into CSS3 with a demonstration of what the new technologies are, how to make the most of them, and how to make sites using them look good in less capable browsers.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-09-09: HTML5 elements
We took an entertaining (in my opinion) look through this page containing every currently valid HTML element. Many of them are considered "HTML5" elements, but that's just because they're relatively new.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-08-26: ClassName Swap, Language Review, RTFM, by Garrett Smith
Lesson: CSS ClassName Swap
By changing an element's
className multiple styles can be changed at one time.
Using the descendant selector, and changing the
className of an ancestor element, multiple elements can be updated simultaneously, with a modicum of highly efficient code.
For Styles, replace a loop that applies styles to descendants by adding a class token to the nearest common ancestor (example, explanation).
Calculating Selector's Specificity (CSS 2.1).
The classname swap example leverages the fact that class selectors (e.g.
.foo) have higher specificity than element selectors (e.g.
CSS Selector specificity is determined four numbers, a-b-c-d, in a number system with a large base.
count 1 if the declaration is from is a 'style' attribute rather than a rule with a selector, 0 otherwise (= a) (In HTML, values of an element's "style" attribute are style sheet rules. These rules have no selectors, so a=1, b=0, c=0, and d=0.) count the number of ID attributes in the selector (= b) count the number of other attributes and pseudo-classes in the selector (= c) count the number of element names and pseudo-elements in the selector (= d)
Unschooling and autodidacticism; an Intro to RTFM, RTFFAQ, and SFTW.
Understanding defines the difference between the followers, who resort to mystical incantations or convoluted DOM libraries to do the work for them, and those who can implement project requirements, as specified, with clean code (Vimeo). And not downloading free scripts off dynamic drive or [ jQuery], copying, or programming by observation.
When misunderstandings or debates arise, and that happens fairly often, it is important how to find the answer using STFW and RTFM, and when that fails, how (and where (CIWAS, JSMentors, c.l.js, ciwah) to ask a smart question.
JavaScript Review
Other versions of ECMAScript, including E4X and Compact, are out of scope for this class.
FAQ, also hosted on Matt's site.
Class for 2013-08-12: More useful jQuery plugins
Our final jQuery-focused class touched on a number of other common plugins that are found in the wild. We took a closer look at Bootstrap and jQuery UI, and looked at plugins that make your page look super snazzy:
- Datepicker (jQuery UI) - fancy datepickers appearing near your input fields
- Accordion (jQuery UI) - collapse and unfold lists of elements
- Scrollspy (Bootstrap) - change navs to highlight where you are scrolled on a page
- Cycle - make easy slideshows
- Chosen - style dropdowns
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-08-05: Sign-up forms
We continued working on our site and added a sign-up form, with validation, inside the modal. We used the jQuery Validation plugin. Validation is a very common request from clients and it comes in handy to know all the tips and tricks of forms and validation, and what new HTML5 elements can provide.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
We went back to the "professional" site we'd put together a number of weeks ago and added more functionality to it with some jQuery plugins. We first made a dialog box - or a "modal" - pop up when you click the sign up buttons. We did this by introducing jQuery UI to make common user controls easier to create. We also added some dropdown functionality to our menus using pure CSS, but explained that jQuery UI can help out with the subtle nuances of menus.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-07-22: AJAX
We talked about Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, a technology that allows us to talk to a server without leaving the page. jQuery makes this extremely easy. We added AJAX functionality to our app we've been building on. We used this PHP file to test it out.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-07-15: jQuery, cont'd
We continued learning about jQuery by focusing on the example we saw last week. We added functionality to it that made it seem more like the real thing.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-07-08: jQuery
We introduced jQuery, a JavaScript library that makes web programming a whole lot easier. jQuery is the most popular of many libraries that allow us to interact with the document easily, while also providing us with a few tools that are missing from the base language.
To learn what jQuery can do, we added some scripting to this sample web app.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-07-01: JavaScript, cont'd
We continued discussing JavaScript basics: arrays, objects, creating functions, and scopes.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-06-24: JavaScript
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-06-17: HTTP & SFTP
We talked about file transfer: HTTP, which is the method of getting and sending information in the web browser, and SFTP, which is a method of securely uploading files to a web host.
We set up free web hosting accounts at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, and uploaded to them using the FileZilla client.
Class for 2013-06-03: Working from professional mockups, cont'd
We continued putting our professional-looking site together from where we left off. We focused on some fancy CSS3 techniques, and we saw how to make an interactive dropdown menu with no JavaScript.
We didn't exactly finish, but I went ahead and put on the finishing touches. The final product can be found here (but where we left off can be found in the lecture materials).
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-05-20: Working from professional mockups
We took the knowledge we gained from looking at the CSS box model, floats, and positioning, and worked off of something given to us by a designer (me).
We worked off of this mockup and its annotated version to make a site that could pass as a professional design (but don't take my word for it). Image assets can be found here.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-05-13: CSS positioning
In the last few classes, we focused on element measurements and floats. This time, we focused on positioning of elements: spacing them out from other elements using margins, and using absolute, relative, or fixed positioning to put the elements anywhere we want on the whole page.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-05-06: CSS floats
Floating is the secret sauce behind creating websites with multiple columns, navigation menus, and basically any block element that's aligned to the left or right. We learned about floats by taking a look at some examples, then took a mockup and created a site from it.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-04-22: CSS selectors and the box model
CSS selectors are probably the most complex part of the CSS language, so we looked at them further in-depth. We also talked about the box model, the display concept that makes words and containers on the web look like they do.
Lecture video
Lecture materials
Class for 2013-04-15: the basics
We covered the very basics:
- Explaining "frontend" vs. "backend"
- Discussing tools of the trade
- Explaining the separation between structure, presentation, and behavior
- Writing a basic HTML page
- Styling the page with basic CSS
- Explaining the role of frontend web development as a job and career
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To the person(s) who stole my Big Red decorations: I guess that was your way to be mean or to play jokes, but to me that was stealing a person's property.
I put the decorations out to show my grandson, Ta'Juan, the love, respect and admiration I have for him for being grounded in life. Since you stole, you wouldn't know what that means.
So now, let me tell you that you took the decorations, but you can't steal my love or my support, or vice-versa.
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For a while I've been reading J.E.Humphreys's book "Representations of semisimple Lie algebras in the BGG category $\mathcal O$" under the impression that any module in $\mathcal O$ has a finite generating set composed of highest weight vectors. Now I've realised that I'm lacking a proof. So what would serve as a counterexample? Or has my assumption been correct for some reason?
I apologize if the answer can be found further on in the book itself!


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For his service to his country, Duke Hobbs not only received a Purple Heart, he was also awarded a Bronze Star for bravery. The Aggie's military career began when he joined the Army in 1944, after finishing his freshman year.
Duke Hobbs says, "I did my basic training at Camp Hood."
Once he completed his basic training, Duke was off to Europe to serve his country during World War II.
"The assigned us to go over on the Ile de France which was a large, large Luxury liner. I think, probably the third or fourth larges in the world at the time and they had outfitted that as a troop ship to carry about 20,000 troops at a time," says Hobbs.
Some of those troops then had to cross the English Channel, but bad weather delayed that crossing.
Hobbs remembers, "We were suppose to cross the Channel on this LST and the channel was choppy, choppy so we pulled back in port and we sat there on the LST then for several days."
Eventually Duke's outfit made it to Hagginaw, France where the weather wasn't any better, "Cold, cold, cold. This was one of the coldest winters that Europe had had in something like 50 years," says Hobbs.
After freezing there for a while, Duke's division was on the move towards Kampen, a town right on the border of Germany and Belgium. Taking the town though wasn't easy because the Germans had placed mines in the area.
Duke Hobbs says, "We took the town and the night after the town was secure, tanks came rolling up all the tanks from tank companies came rolling up noisily and then they very quietly moved back again, we were right on the Rohr River."
While the crossing of the Rohr was taking place, Duke's division had other problems, they needed ammunition. "A call was put out for a volunteer to go back to regiment to bring in some more ammunition, we were running short of ammunition for our platoon," says Hobbs.
The mission was dangerous. There was gunfire overhead, but Duke and another brave soldier retrieved the ammo for their outfit.
Hobbs says, "It was nothing, but others thought it was."
During his time in the army, Duke served with exceptional men, one be his Company Commander, who he still remembers today.
"His name was Palmer, Lt. Palmer, just absolutely one of the greatest people I've ever known. Absolutely fearless really, at least that was the way that we all looked up him," says Hobbs.
To this day, Duke looks up to and respects Palmer…just the way many look upon him.
Hobbs says, "We owed this to the country and we did this. In look back upon it, I'm proud of the things I was able to do."
Following the war, Duke Hobbs finished his degree from Texas A&M University. After that, he served in a different branch of the service, he went into the Air Force and served his country during the Korean War.


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Home > Food > Recipes > Tandoori Chicken
Tandoori Chicken
Categories: Spicy
Type: Main Dishes
Type: Main Dishes
Green chili, garlic, cumin, and paprika make this spicy Indian chicken dish shine.
Serves: serves 4
- 4 chicken quarters, skinned
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 green chili pepper, deseeded and thinly sliced
- 1-in (2.5-cm) piece fresh ginger, peeled and chopped
- 4 tbsp low-fat natural yogurt
- 1 tbsp ground cumin
- 1 tbsp garam masala
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 2 tbsp sunflower or grapeseed oil
- 1 red pepper, sliced iceberg lettuce leaves, shredded
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- Put the garlic, green chili pepper, ginger, and a tablespoon of water in a blender and mix to a smooth paste.
- Stir garlic mixture into the yogurt, adding the cumin, garam masala, paprika, and oil. Mix and pour over the chicken.
- Cover and leave to marinate in a cool place for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight. Turn occasionally.
- Preheat the oven to 325°F (170°C).
- Bake the chicken, uncovered, for about an hour. Spoon the juices over the chicken from time to time, and turn halfway through.
- Serve surrounded by slices of red pepper, shredded lettuce, with lemon quarters.
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That so called scam has been going around for 10 yrs.Anyone that has a computer surely has gotten that scam a dozen times or more. Sad that nothing can be done. As you know you're not suppose to answer back to those idiots, because than they know that your e mail addy. is active, and than they sell give[ sell] your e addy.to other scammers. I know a few people that replied by saying, I forwarded the e mail you sent me to scam@fbi**** See you later,in JAIL. That actually is a working e mail address.Throw a scare into them and let them wonder.If you send that e mail to,, firstname.lastname@example.com they will follow up on all spam than after enough complaints are sent to them, they are SUPPOSE to take action, but if they do or not is another thing.A hefty fine and jail time would stop all of that crap that are sent to us.
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I have a proof that I want to undergo peer review. I unfortunately am not affiliated with any university. How should I go about getting it reviewed and either rejected or published?
I have a proof that I want to undergo peer review. I unfortunately am not affiliated with any university. How should I go about getting it reviewed and either rejected or published?
I don't publish in pure mathematics journals (I'm a computer science researcher) but at least in my field, there is no affiliation requirement in order to submit to peer-reviewed journals.
First a quick comment: you haven't told us the subject of your proof. I don't mean to sound negative or discouraging, but if it relates to a famous long-standing conjecture (Riemann hypothesis, twin prime conjecture, etc), there is very little chance your paper will be taken seriously, as these problems have been so well studied that the odds of an amateur resolving them in 6 pages is very very low. If you do find yourself in this situation, then surely along the way to proving the famous conjecture you have also developed new theory and partial results that are interesting in their own right -- I would focus on getting some of these published first.
The first step would be for you to identify a relevant journal, and read their submission instructions. All journals have very specific instructions about how your submission should be formatted and how it should be submitted/uploaded to them. Many have LaTeX templates you'll be able to use.
Next, the editor will determine whether to send the article out for peer review, or reject it immediately. To minimize the chances of outright rejection, be sure you structure and format your paper professionally. Reading accepted papers from the journal is surely the best way to learn the standards of form, but a few quick tips:
If your submission looks and smells like a professional paper, it will be submitted for peer review. The usefulness of those reviews is always uncertain, but with any luck you will get good feedback on how to improve your paper, even in the unfortunate even that the reviewers recommend rejection.
Ultimately, you have to write a complete paper around your proof and submit it to a journal. Hopefully, you already have an idea which journals might be appropriate for your paper.
There are probably many means to get feedback before, but these can't replace actually writing and submitting the paper. A tricky part might be to find and discuss related work (this is expected as part of the introduction of a paper), especially if you don't have access to anything equivalent to a university library. However, you don't necessarily have to be affiliated with an university to get access to its library (or the library of its mathematical institute).


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Before joining AAAS, Neureiter worked both in private industry and public service. He entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1965 and was named deputy scientific attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn. In 1967, he was transferred to Warsaw as the first U.S. scientific attaché in Eastern Europe with responsibility for Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Neureiter returned to Washington in 1969 as assistant for international affairs to the president's science adviser in the White House Office of Science and Technology.
In 1973, he joined Texas Instruments, where he held a number of staff and management positions. He was appointed the first science and technology adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State in 2000. In 2008, he received the Public Welfare Medal, which honors the "extraordinary use of science for public good."
Neureiter earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Rochester and a doctorate in organic chemistry from Northwestern University. His father, Paul Neureiter, came to SUNY Geneseo in 1937 as chair of the Division of Natural Sciences. The Neureiter family established a scholarship in his memory for women science majors at Geneseo.
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7 Classic Disney Movies That Taught Us Terrible Lessons
Maybe we're too hard on Disney. After all, they simply remake classic stories in cartoon form. What's not to like?
Well, as you'll see, it all depends on just how much thought you apply to it. Here's seven pretty terrible lessons that Disney films taught us, whether they meant to or not.
#7. The Lion King: To Be Successful, Sometimes People Got to Die
Simba always knew that he was going to succeed his father, Mufasa, as the next Lion King. But fate liked spitting in poor little Simba's face, and his dear old dad got trampled to death by wildebeests. Of course, Mufasa's death was really caused by the evil Scar, Simba's uncle.
Later, all grown up, he reclaims his thrown and Scar suffers the double whammy of falling off a cliff and getting torn apart by hyenas. So after two particularly nasty and horrendous deaths, Simba finally becomes the lion king.
The Supposed Message:
We all have responsibilities we can't ignore. And don't trust that creepy uncle.
The Actual Message:
In order for you to be successful, other people will have to pay. And ultimately, that's okay, because the ends justify the means!
First you have Scar, who knew he couldn't be king of the pridelands until that dick Mufasa and his brat son were out of the way. So Scar did away with both of them, killing Mufasa and banishing Simba, and, as a result, he got to be king for a descent amount of time.
Then when Simba started to grow some balls, he took back his throne... but only after Scar himself took a dirt nap. It's true that Simba didn't intentionally kill him, but you know who did? The screenwriter. After all, the movie doesn't end with Simba convincing Scar to renounce his evil ways, or putting Scar in lion jail.
In fact, Lion Jail isn't even real.
No, the message was sent loud and clear: Simba could not be the true king unless Scar was dead. And they even arranged it so that Simba wouldn't have any of the pesky guilt that would have come with actually doing the deed himself. Everyone lived happily ever after. Except Scar of course, whose body was slowly pooped out by several hyenas the next day.
#6. Cinderella: Sort of Like "The Secret"
Cinderella is forced by her bitchy stepmother to clean the house from stem to stern every day. The only thing that prevents her from swallowing a bottle of pain killers is her belief that someday her dreams will come true.
One day Cinderella plans to attend a ball thrown by the prince, but the fact that she has a cutthroat bitch for a stepmother completely slipped her mind. She is forbidden from going.
Luckily, it turns out Cinderella has a fairy godmother, who uses her magic to hook Cinderella up with a ride, a beautiful outfit and a pair of what would seem like grossly impractical glass heels. At the ball Cinderella uses her innate flirting skills and rocks the prince's world, to the point that the next day the prince whisks her away to be his princess.
The Supposed Message:
Dreams do come true!
The Actual Message:
If you wait around long enough, the universe will practically hand stuff to you.
"Could you fix my credit score while you're at it?"
No one is denying the fact that Cinderella's life was one big shit stain. But in her state of mind, she actually thought that her dreams would just sort of happen if she sat around being miserable long enough. It never occurred to her that she had the ability to just tell her stepmother to go fuck herself.
Instead she kept scrubbing floors and believing that, if she continued to wish very hard and take absolutely no action, everything would fall into place. And what do you know, the bitch gets a fucking kingdom out of it.
So don't worry, girls. Some kind of "Fairy Godmother" will sweep into your life at any moment, and find you a man to take care of everything. Just keep wishing!
#5. The Little Mermaid: A Little Deal with the Devil Never Hurt Nobody
A little mermaid named Ariel, who is presumably little in title only since she has one impressively big rack, dreams of living her life on shore and finding her true love. Well, a clearly evil sea-witch named Ursula offers to give the naive mermaid legs in exchange for something she probably might need in the future: her voice.
When Ariel makes it to shore, she realizes the Sea-Bitch screwed her, as her legs work with the grace of a drunken paraplegic and she can't speak. So now she must somehow make Prince Eric fall in love with her while appearing to be either mute or retarded.
By some miracle, the prince takes the bait (again, note the rack) but then Ursula, who in the cartoon seems to be portrayed as a black drag queen, goes after the couple. The prince is forced to kill Ursula by stabbing her with a ship. As a result, Ariel gets both her legs and her voice.
The Supposed Message:
True love conquers all!
The Actual Message:
A little compromise with evil is okay, as long as everything works out okay in the end!
Ariel loved to sing, and she sang pretty damn well. But she wanted to live on shore and find love so bad that she made a "deal" with a "devil" and "sells" her beautiful voice, or "soul" so to speak.
And guess what? It worked. Sure, the writers threw in some complications in the form of Prince Eric having to send Ursula straight to Disney Hell, but the fact of the matter remains that Ariel would never have gotten to meet Prince Eric at all had she not compromised with the evil queen in the first place. She made a figurative deal with the devil, got everything she wanted and came out completely unscathed.
So keep that in mind if you have to, say, sleep with some dude to get that acting role. None of that will matter once you achieve your dreams!
#4. Beauty and the Beast: Just Because He's Abusive, Doesn't Mean He's Not a Really Good Guy
After a spoiled prince pretty much tells an old beggar woman to fuck off, he is transformed into a beast, as it turns out the beggar is an enchantress. And she makes it very clear that until he learns to love and thus is loved in return, there will be no ladies in his life and it's just going to be him and his hand for a very long time.
As luck would have it, there happens to be a woman out there named Belle with a heart big enough to share with unfortunate-looking people such as the Beast, and she's not too bad to look at either. When her father is kidnapped by the Beast, Belle offers herself in exchange for his freedom.
Against all odds, they fall in love. The townspeople snap and try and kill the Beast, but because Belle admits she loves him, the Beast turns back into a man and the two live happily ever after.
The Supposed Message:
Treat others the way you wish to be treated!
The Actual Message:
Underneath the abusive exterior of your man is a loving heart he's just dying to share with you.
First of all, Belle was a prisoner in the Beast's fucking castle. Nothing says "I love you" like house arrest. Secondly, he wasn't exactly whispering sweet nothings in her ear. The Beast hurled insults at Belle at every chance, and came close to pimp slapping the shit out of her on more than one occasion.
But she ignored all that unimportant trivia, because the Beast had a loving heart! Sure he gets angry sometimes, but that's just how he is. And, in the end, he turned back into a sexy, romantic prince. It's all good now.
Her patience paid off, girls, and it will for you, too! If you just stick with it and don't judge your man too harshly. Or call the cops.


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STEUBENVILLE — An Internet website describing itself as the world's largest petition platform, "empowering people everywhere to create the change they want to see," has posted an online petition......
MajorMatt: It appears that you are on the wrong side of the issue. Not too many people are in agreement with you nutty comments.
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Hey flick you and beagle been smoking that meth together? Sorry to rattle your chains buy no I am not the coach. If I was I would have you doing grass drills till you puke. But then I am not the coach.
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"Tomsays" is right on point. Hard to believe folk like "MajorMatt" (who may well be the coach himself)so blindly ignore felonious rape and support the cover up. Let's not forget ole "jockstrap" Mike McVey and his hiding under a rock during this whole crisis. This is very much akin to the Penn State Rape case except, here, it seems there may be more involved in the cover-up. I agree with the posters who support immediate suspension - not needed to wait for criminal prosecution when moral ethics have been violated. Also agree with proposal to suspend entire program for at least a season to show contrition and support for victims of sexual crimes.
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Coach Sac should have been sacked last season by the BOE after it was found out that he knew about the rape, and failed to act on reporting it as required by law. In fact he let those players play for 8 games during the season. Hopefully now that he is about to go before a grand jury for inditement for this failure to act, he will do the right thing and resign, or the BOE will do the right thing and FIRE him. How the BOE and the good people of Steubenville, not MajorMatt or Mike 831 who don't seem to understand that "Rape is Rape", have allowed him to continue coaching after knowing what action he did and didn't take is beyond me. Sack the coach and do the right thing BOE.
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Carlton...PLEASE stay in Houston. Give them the grief down there.
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I'm a Big Red grad and I say with as much emphasis as I can that Reno has to go. He is an open wound that will not heal. As long as he's around, the town will continue to be ridiculed.
I disagree with another writer who says that the football program should be shut down for a year. That would blow the top off the town. We need to keep football, but we need to do it right. Get rid of Reno and bring in some bright young coach like Todd Filtz who can right the ship.
I'm not giving up on my town. I will support it just as I am trying to change it. There is a lot of good in Steubenville. Unfortunately, Reno Saccoccia is not a part of that.
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This isn't going to end well for the coach or members of the school board. It's so sad to see people still try and say they did nothing wrong, must be something in the water.
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Thanks Mike. Now I see why beagle is beagle. I will look past his biased ignorance and his failure to act as an adult. Meth must be getting to him!!!!
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This article illustrates exactly what's wrong with Steubenville and the people who grew up there and stayed. Big fish in a small pond, huh? If this were a larger city, the entire High School Athletic Department would be arrested - just like @ Penn State. Stand up and take responsibility for your influence on the kids and community. You've disgraced the entire community.
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We call on the school board to suspend Coach Saccoccia for his behavior. The fact that he has refused to take any real disciplinary steps towards the football players that either witnessed or in some way abetted the alleged rape is disturbing, and his treatment of the New York Times journalist who spoke to him about the case is frightening. His actions are indicative of someone who cares more about their win-loss record than about the young people they are supposed to be improving.
We also urge the school board to examine the actions of Superintendent Michael McVey and Principal Shawn Crosier. This sad case has all the tell tale signs of an attempted cover-up, and our hearts ache for the victim who has been subjected to undue scrutiny and blame.
Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, 636-433-2511. snapjudy@gmail****, (SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests)including victims who were assaulted in institutional settings,summer camps,athletic programs,Boy Sc
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And I thought the only problem was a coach who knew about an alleged rape and did not report it, maybe a crime but certainly a decision that should prevent him from ever interacting with children again. It gets worse and worse- now the superintendent publicly supports the coach ,without a word of support for the victim. Is this who the community wants in charge of its school system? Where is his sense of justice? It's apparent that the coach runs the school but for God's sake stop these 2 from ever being in a position again to do harm
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There are some good points made here, but if common sense and logic rule, the best thing IS to wait until the Grand Jury is presented with all the evidence---most of which none of us have seen or heard yet. But just as there are in fact good people in Toronto (Mike831). And also, this is NOT about football to the Steubenville community as a whole. Tony917--you apparently don't spend any time in Steubenville or you would see that the truth is exactly the opposite of what you said.
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Tony - Very well said. It is indeed difficult to figure what makes these people tick...putting a childs sports game above moral decency. You are right - it is not necessary to have a criminal conviction...any normal code of conduct would call for at least an administrative suspension of suspected coaches and officials. Suspending the play for a season would be a great way for the community to show it is ready to begin with a fresh start.
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Does this school district not have a code of conduct which is to be followed by both students and coaches? If not, why? And if so, why must the district wait until after the grand jury to act on this scumbag of a man? Coaches all throughout the country on EVERY level are removed for various reasons which have NOTHING to do with "breaking a law." It's called LOOKING OUT FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF THE STUDENT-ATHLETE.
The fact that one of the first posts on here throw out "jealousy" and Big Red's football success and such speaks VOLUMES!!! To the Steubenville community as a whole, this is all about football. How very sad. It's all about a GAME played by CHILDREN. How scary! Until this mindset changes, the community is without hope.
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@flickd, you made my point, wait until after the grand jury hearing instead of assumptions, i never stood up for these young men, i waited for the judge to make a decision, now i'm going to wait for the grand jury, if adults did wrong , they need to be punished, but don't make accusations before the hearings, thats always been my point.
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Gee, what a brillian mind! Lets see how cocky you are after the Grand Jury proceedings and indictments. Oh, yea...word is that Big Red can't even find opponents who want to play a team affiliated with such a heinous crime. Keep up the blind faith baby!
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Actually, comments are based on pure fact, while your's based on biased ignorance. You represent the really sad issue in this case...the failure of adults to maturely and responsibly take action. The negligence exposed by many, many adults (including school officials and parents)is alarming. Perhaps only when more jail sentences are awarded will you all wake up.
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beagle, you are entitled to your opinion so am I you are......... absurd and a nutshell as well as deviant
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This petition is a good thing. This nutball coach even admitted on the 20/20 interrogation tape that he told students "not to volunteer any information." What kind of mis-guided deviant would give such advice. This coach while having a good record has a long history of not producing any college scholars. A coach (and Superintendent) job is to develop upstanding, morally responsible young men and women. Saccochia and McVey both have seemed to fail in this regard if all that is alleged is so. The Grand Jury may have some real surprises and shocks for Reno and McVey. In the interim, it would be best to suspend all suspects and cancel the football program for a year of introspection and respect for this victim and ALL victims of sexual abuse and intolerance.
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William Daniels lights Garbo and Crawford to an absolutely incredible degree -- they glow like Eastern Orthodox icons in this.
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