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6 Images That Ruined the Lives of People They Made Famous
It's easy to forget that the people involved in iconic photos are, well, people. For every image that instantly became a part of history, there were lives forever changed both behind and in front of the camera -- they are instantly famous, due to pure circumstance. And sometimes these lives are in no way changed for the better. We're talking about the bizarre and often tragic stories like ...
WARNING: SOME OF THESE IMAGES ARE DISTURBING. We have censored where necessary, but if you're sensitive, you might still want to stay away.
#6. The White Guy at the 1968 "Black Power" Olympics Photo
The Photo:
You've almost certainly seen this photo somewhere, but may not know the background, other than "It was at the Olympics, right? Aren't they standing on that medal thing?"
It was at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, and American runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos won medals in the 200-meter finals. But what catapulted them into notoriety was this photo of them doing the "black power" salute at the podium. The photograph became an iconic image in the history of civil rights, but what's not often discussed is the awkward-looking white guy on the left.
"Man, I never know what to do with my hands during a photo. What do you guys usually- oh."
The Tragedy:
That's the Australian silver medalist, Peter Norman. While he looks kind of jittery in this scene (and is clearly not participating in the black power bit), he knew very well what was going to happen behind him -- he'd spoken to Smith and Carlos before the ceremony. Not only did he support their cause, but the black gloves were his idea, and he wore a civil rights pin on his tracksuit when he took to the podium.
Unfortunately for him, Australia wasn't any more progressive than the United States at that time, being under the grip of a whites-only immigration policy, so having one of their own support racial equality in front of the entire world was like a kangaroo punch to the groin.
It's the third leading cause of death among Australian males.
So even though he was a world class runner and No. 2 in the world, Norman was blacklisted from any future Olympics. And they really meant it -- with Norman out of the picture, Australia didn't send anybody to sprint in the 1972 Munich Games.
After he was ostracized from the Aussie establishment, Norman went through a severe period of depression and substance abuse. Although he'd hoped to receive recognition at the 2000 Sydney Olympics -- it being his home country and in a more enlightened world -- he was again snubbed, being the only Australian Olympian who wasn't given a chance to run a VIP lap of honor.
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"Hey, it's only the year 2000; social issues take time ... try again in 2115."
All because he didn't, what, do a "white power" salute in response? In our opinion, that would have made things even more awkward. And speaking of stupid racist controversies ...
#5. The Man Who Filmed the Rodney King Beating
George Holliday
The Video:
George Holliday was a simple drain rooter (the guy you call when your drains are backed up from all the candy bar wrappers and cigarette butts you've flushed down there) who lived a happy life until the night of March 3, 1991, when he heard the sirens that would turn his life upside down. Grabbing his video camera and heading into the street, he wound up capturing the infamous scene of half a dozen police officers beating the living shit out of Rodney King. It was a tape that never found its way to the family memories collection.
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Other notable exceptions: Cousin Steve's wedding and Mother's Day '89.
The Tragedy:
This being before the days of smartphones, there were certain police officers who figured they could do pretty much whatever they wanted in public, because who's going to believe the word of some doped-up black guy? And they were still kind of right -- despite the clear footage of cops trying to make pancake batter out of a near unconscious man, the police were acquitted of all charges, which sparked the LA riots that led to 54 deaths, almost 3,000 injuries, and hundreds of buildings torched.
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And a "very special" episode of The Fresh Prince.
Everybody wanted somebody to blame for the wreckage, and although many pointed their fingers toward more deserving targets, a depressing number of people turned their ire against Holliday for having the presence of mind to film the events. He started getting death threats in the mail, and once the media put a face to his name, he became known locally as "the guy who started the riots," in much the same way that NBC is responsible for the trauma of 9/11, we guess.
Holliday lost his job and his marriage because of the media circus. He works as a freelance rooter these days, but can't advertise for fear of people tracking him down. And the final kick in the balls of the whole thing was that his trivia card in Trivial Pursuit misspelled his name as "Halliday."
Michael Kelley/Los Angeles Times
"My only solace is having the best beard in the tri-state area."
#4. The Other Guy in the RFK Assassination Photo
The Photo:
In June of 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy lived up to the family tradition of being shot dead by a madman for a stupid reason. In this case, it was by Sirhan Sirhan, who we can only assume was pissed off that his parents neglected to give him two separate names. At the moment of the assassination, this iconic photograph was taken as Kennedy lay dying, head propped up by some random, surprised dude.
Sirhan shot first.
The Tragedy:
That random dude was Juan Romero, a 17-year-old Mexican immigrant who worked as a busboy at the hotel that Kennedy was staying at when he was shot. He was snapped in the photo because Kennedy was shaking his hand at the moment when Sirhan took his life.
After the photograph circulated the world media, grieving citizens who have an unhealthy habit of blaming anyone but the crazy dude with the gun began to latch onto Romero as the culprit. Bags of mail flooded into the hotel where Romero worked, many accusing him of putting Kennedy in harm's way by stopping to shake his hand, or even demanding to know why he hadn't taken the bullet himself. In fairness, many praised him and hoped, we guess, to rub his head for luck.
If he had jumped in front of Kennedy, he probably would have gotten hate mail from racists for taking bullets away from "real Americans."
Being that he was just a simple immigrant from the projects, Romero couldn't deal with the newfound fame that now haunted him, and he fled from town to town in an effort to return to the simple life. It didn't help that he always harbored guilt over the role he believed he had in delaying Kennedy long enough for Sirhan to get a good shot in.
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Similar to Jackie's "It's a beautiful day! Let's put the top down!" guilt.
While he did eventually settle down and raise a family, Romero missed out on attending college and, as of the last time a reporter forced him to talk, never fully learned to cope with the celebrity caused by the infamous picture. It's so weird, it's like some people don't want to be famous. Hey, speaking of which ...


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Last year, Australia shipped about 24 million metric tons of LNG -- most to Japan. Australian exports are forecast to more than triple in the next five years as new projects come on stream. The country has more than a dozen projects either under construction or on the drawing board.
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PERTH, Australia -- Japan will play a "pivotal" role in
Australian LNG exports over the next five years, an executive
of Inpex Corp. said on Wednesday.
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nuclear power reactors and the growth of other energy sources
such as renewables and coal," Mr. Okawa added.
Japan's demand for imported LNG -- which ballooned after the
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I want to reuse the washed yeast from a previous batch of beer in my next batch. Should I make a starter for it? If so, how much of it? I looked at MrMalty, and it seems to me they tell me not to make a starter for this. So how much yeast starter should I make? Should I just repitch the washed yeast?
You don't necessarily need to make a starter if you are re-pitching within a few weeks because the viability of the yeast will still be pretty high. But, if you store the yeast for much time you should always make a starter. This ensures that the yeast is still viable and it will help ensure the yeast are active so you don't have a long lag time during fermentation.
I frequently wash yeast for use in future batches and always make a starter. It gives me a little peace of mind because I know for certain that the yeast are viable before pitching.
Disclaimer: This answer has not yet been tested by experience.
I saved the yeast from our last 4 brews, but I haven't used any of it yet. Although it was my impression that the washed yeast could simply be repitched, I was planning on treating it like dry yeast, and proofing it just to test my storage more than anything else.
You'll note the quantity of yeast slurry does change on the calculator, and I don't know about you, but when I adjust the sliders to represent the near solid yeast cake I've saved, it looks like I only need half of what's there, so a starter while perfectly acceptable, should be unnecessary.


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Is there a way for the enchantment to be taken a way form the sword because the enchantment is not the best, o and that it gives me my XP back so I can in chant it to something better.
You cannot get your XP back from enchanting (on Xbox or otherwise). Once you've spent it, it's gone for good.
To remove an enchantment from a tool, you'll need to combine the tool on the workbench with another tool of the same type and material (both diamond pickaxes for example). Note that this will remove the second tool, but:
So to remove the enchantment, without wasting a whole tool, you'll have to use both items to at least below 50% health, and then combine them. This will remove the enchantments from the tool.
Unfortunately, the Xbox version hasn't released the Anvil yet, although it's on their planned upcoming features. With the Anvil you'll be able to combine/repair tools (similar to the workbench), except they can keep and combine their enchantments.
You can then also enchant books, and combine them on the Anvil with tools to pick and choose the enchantments you want on your tools.
The only downside to the Anvil, is that it costs XP to use it. Meaning that enchanting this way actually costs around double XP, as you need to enchant books (-XP) and then combine the book with a tool (-XP).
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6 Valuable (And Disgusting) Ways They're Reusing Human Waste
We live in an era of recycling, where hippies scream in horror if they spot a soda can in the garbage and go into convulsions at the thought of a landfill full of paper. But if you think glass bottles, milk jugs and CSI are the only things that can be recycled, read on. The next dump you take could be used to build a school in Japan.
What is it Good For?
Beauty Treatments.
Generations of frat guys told women "It's good for your skin!" in a desperate scheme to find willing targets for their mayonnaise cannons. As it turns out, not only is this claim apparently true, but several companies are actually peddling brogurt as the next great beauty cream ingredient.
The hilariously named Cmen Beauty Now offers discreet shipping of the pure product straight to the buyer's home, along with reassurances of the stock being disease-free and provided by individuals who are "tested monthly." They really have to boast about their quality control, because their competition is a whole nation full of guys drunkenly offering to apply it directly to the customer's face at no cost (high five, bro!).
Meanwhile, Skinscience, a Scandinavian company, is marketing an entire line of Spermine beauty creams and serums. Spermine is an antioxidant found in human semen that's said to be 30 times stronger than vitamin E and able to repair sunburned skin, based on results Skinscience gathered after testing their products on 3,000 women (curiously, no men signed up to participate in the "rub sperm all over your face and sprinkle some on that sunburned back of yours as well" tests).
We note that both of these companies make zero effort to disclose where exactly they're getting their massive quantities of semen from. So until we get some transparency to this process we're forced to imagine a hand-made sign and a line of hobos that stretches all the way around the block.
#5. Your Hair
What is it Good For?
Human hair is traded on a large scale, whether it be females donating their hair to Locks of Love or Sean Connery donating his chest hair to the Smithsonian. However, it disturbed us to discover that much of what is swept up from the floors of barber shops and beauty parlors winds up in our food. No, we don't mean that nasty, black, curly hair you found in your French fries last week. We mean as an FDA approved food additive.
It turns out that human hair is a main source of L-Cysteine, a substance used as a dough conditioner. It is used to speed up mixing and add elasticity, making it very popular for pizza dough and other bakery specialties. Obviously it's not still hair by the time it makes it into the food, so the hair you found in your large meat lover's was not in fact put there on purpose, unless the cook just thought it would be funny.
Except real cooks don't fuck around.
Always struggling to find ways to be more disgusting than the Western world, China figured out that human hair could be used to mimic artificially hydrolyzed soy sauce, thereby eliminating the need for any actual soy. Hair was gathered from salons, barbershops and hospitals across the country before being transformed into the popular cooking condiment (a process outlined under the "shits and giggles" section of the Chinese national budget).
A news article highlighted the practice and the Chinese government eventually banned it. In a country that doesn't exactly have top of the line safety standards for the stuff they make, even they draw the line at feeding people salty hair juice. So that's something, at least.
#4. Your Pee
What is it Good For?
Your piss can save lives. It turns out there's a component of urine (Urokinase) that just happens to be extremely effective at breaking up blood clots, the kind that happen when someone suffers a stroke or a heart attack. Now before you decide to piss all over someone in cardiac arrest, we should mention that it takes a special filter to separate the anticoagulant goodies from the rest of the urine, though if you were going to piss on that person anyway we suppose we can't stop you.
So if doctors and stuff can use your piss, why aren't people going door to door with buckets buying it off you? And if they're not doing that, how do they collect the stuff? Well, it turns out somebody already has a whole bunch of piss on their hands...
Yes, we're talking about the Porta-John company. By treating their more than 10,000 rental toilets like giant specimen jars, they have gotten enough product to go into the production of what their website refers to as "human sourced proteins."
A filter is placed in each Porta-John, harvesting the desired proteins on a flow by flow basis while weeding out undesired clutter such as shit, used condoms and things that lay outside the dark boundaries of the human imagination. We're guessing the guy that gets sent to retrieve these filters didn't really "wow" anybody during the interview process.


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X.509 certificates can be used for servers, clients, email, code signing and more applications. http://twitpic.com/6gdxaq indicates that a certificate can have different of these 'capabilities' on it - but how do you see those? What X.509 field denotes these different uses?
X.509 "Key Usage" defines what the issuer allows the certificate to be used for. Remember that not all applications follow this requirement however.
There are several extensions which restrict usages for a certificate. A basic certificate, without any extension, is deemed "fit for any purpose", as far as X.509 is concerned. The key type can still have some consequences; e.g. a RSA key can work for both asymmetric encryption and signatures, but a DSA (or ECDSA) key, by construction, can only serve for signatures (a signature-only certificate is still good enough for a SSL client or server, though, because of "DHE" cipher suites).
The standard extensions which limit "capabilities" for a certificate are the two following:
Microsoft, in their own CA software ("Active Directory Certificates Services") decided that the standard extensions were not good enough, so they defined another called
Another, older, non-standard extension which attempted to convey usage restriction was the
The contents of an extension are honoured only insofar as the involved software understands it. Extensions can be marked "critical", meaning that an implementation which does not recognized an uncritical extension is allowed to ignore it, while an unknown critical extension MUST trigger unconditional rejection of the certificate. That's the theory, and, of course, practice may differ. Some implementations do not honour the criticality flag. Other ignore non-critical extension even if they recognize them. The wording of the standard is not crystal-clear either:
An implementation could claim that it has "processed" an extension by ignoring its contents, because there is a difference between recognizing an extension, and enforcing its semantics. The whole picture is made even more blurred with some extensions, in particular
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16 May 2012 8:47 AM #11
I placed that piece of code inside my onJsonstoreBeforeLoad event in the store. If you look at my first post, I replaced:
Ext.apply(store.getProxy().extraParams, { name: 'test' });
store.getProxy().setExtraParam('name', 'test');
16 May 2012 9:51 AM #12
16 May 2012 10:11 AM #13
I had problems getting this to work correctly outside the store:
store.getProxy().setExtraParams({name:'test'}); store.load();
I have used ExtJs on websites and I have some understanding of how it works, but I have had some serious problems trying to figure out how Architect works. I think these products are really good for online applications, but they need some serious improvements in their documentation and tutorials. Especially since most of the tutorials I find to try and figure this stuff out are for older versions that are no longer applicable.
16 May 2012 10:24 AM #14
When should you add the params? Is it because they are dynamic so you would like to add them at the start or?
Because you can add them directly in the Architect if they are static. If not you can grab the store and add them as said before, are doing that all the time in my applications.
16 May 2012 10:53 AM #15
What I want to do is update a list of items based on current location. If you have a sample of code where you were able to adjust store params succesfully in your app, then I would love to see it. Most of the time I get small snippets, one or two lines, that don't help me a whole lot because they are out of context. I found a nice twitter tutorial when I started and tried to duplicate, but it was using an older version and I had some trouble modifing it to work in architect.
16 May 2012 2:44 PM #16
I think they are talking of an event binding on the store itself.
Click your store in the project inspector.
Go to Event Bindings in the config panel below.
Click the + button to add an event.
Use the Event type chooser box to choose beforeload.
This will give you a function skeleton with the store as a parameter to the function.
Add in this:
store.getProxy().setExtraParam('my_param_name', value);
The params you want to set this way need to be available before the store loads.
16 May 2012 9:42 PM #17
Also, if your are using ExtDirect you need to add the param names to paramOrder
orgid=item.orgid; var bookings = Ext.data.StoreManager.lookup('Bookings'); bookings.proxy.paramOrder=['start','limit','orgid','startdate']; bookings.proxy.extraParams={orgid:orgid,startdate: '2012/01/20'};
16 May 2012 11:51 PM #18
Note. I have not tested it because I don't have the correct URL for the proxy and the Model has no fields
I hope it helps.
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Theorem: if $d=\gcd(p-1,n)$ then the number of solutions to $x^n=a$ in $F_p$ is equal to $\sum_{\chi^d=1} \chi(a)$


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I am very new to threading and am having a small problem i just can't find the solution for. I am wanting to print out the values of args.id and args.delay inside the mythread function. however i am getting the error error "C2228: left of '.id' must have class/struct/union".
Thanks in advance for any help
struct ThreadArgs{ int id; int delay; }args ; void main(){ unsigned __stdcall mythread(void *data); unsigned ThreadId; int x = 5; args.id = 2; args.delay = 3; HANDLE hThread = (HANDLE)_beginthreadex(NULL, 0, mythread, &args, 0, &ThreadId); WaitForSingleObject(hThread, INFINITE); //Sleep(2000); } unsigned __stdcall mythread(void *data) { Sleep(1000); ThreadArgs *args = (ThreadArgs *) data; cout<<args.id<<endl; cout<<"hello world"<<endl; return 0; }
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By moniquegarcia on Wed, 07/17/2013 - 2:50pm
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The traditional approach to nitrogen management in irrigated cotton has been to push for maximum high yields by applying large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer. Historically, in many parts of Arizona, nitrogen application rates have exceeded 200 pounds per acre per season. Although yields may increase, there are serious drawbacks to this practice. Over the last 10-15 years the luxuriant vegetative growth resulting from these high nitrogen applications has harbored damaging insect populations and diseases in Arizona's cotton fields. Studies during the same period have shown that aggressive nitrogen fertilizer application can actually increase the loss of nitrogen from the soil. In the past, nitrogen fertilizer has been relatively inexpensive for Southwest desert growers, but in 2001 those costs rose approximately 30 percent and more or less remained at that level during 2002 and 2003.
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To help Arizona cotton growers reduce their reliance on high nitrogen applications in their fields, University of Arizona researchers studied and documented nitrogen uptake patterns and requirements in the crop at three UA agricultural centers. At each location, treatments varied from a conservative to a more aggressive approach to nitrogen management. Results at each location revealed a strong relationship between the crop fruit retention levels and nitrogen needs for the crop. Results showed that the higher, more aggressive N application regimes did not consistently benefit yields at any location. Generally, the more conservative, feedback approach to N management provided optimum yields at all locations.
UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences researchers have designed nitrogen management guidelines and recommendations that pinpointed the best times to apply nitrogen in the proper amounts. Over the last 14 years this comprehensive nitrogen management strategy has been implemented in a statewide extension education plan for cotton growers that includes bulletins, reports, articles and grower meetings.
The cost of cotton production has been high during the last several years, but the market price has been low. UA demonstration projects on cooperating cotton farms have realized yields equivalent to commercial yields, using less nitrogen input, which has saved approximately $30 per acre in nitrogen application costs. If adopted statewide, the annual savings, at February 2003 nitrogen prices, would be about $15-$25 per acre. If 200,000 acres of the total cotton acreage in Arizona were affected, this would equate to $3 to $4 million in savings to the growers. Growers would be using approximately 150 pounds per acre, compared to a more common rate of about 200 pounds per acre, a 25 percent reduction.
In 200,000 acres of cotton, this means 5,000,000 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer would be withheld, resulting in less rampant vegetative growth, fewer insect problems and improved plant use of residual nitrogen in the soil. It would also protect groundwater from excess leaching of nitrogen compounds, thereby protecting the environment.
Difficult market conditions, which are the worst they've been since the Great Depression, have no doubt served as a stimulus in encouraging growers to make these changes. Approximately 60 percent of the cotton growers in Arizona are using more conservative nitrogen management strategies than they were five to ten years ago. Fortunately, the information in the educational program associated with these management decisions was already in place.
Funding Agencies:
Water Quality Program, national Cooperative Extension; Hatch Act; Smith-Lever; Arizona Cotton Growers Association; Cotton Incorporated
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Jeff Silvertooth
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The University of Arizona
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Tel: (520) 621-7228, FAX: (520) 621-1647


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Faith, Artifacts Of Character & Electing A President
As part of the lead-up to Frontline's new documentary, The Choice 2012, they've asked several close observers and biographers of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to engage in what amounts to an online version of a roundtable discussion about the two men and the formative experiences of their lives.I found it to be a fascinating exchange. Take, for example, this entry from Obama biographer David Maraniss responding to an earlier observation by Jodi Kantor:That's right, Jodi, and it goes back even a decade before that speech, even before he became a community organizer in Chicago. In 1982 he wrote a letter to a girlfriend in which he described how his life was forcing him to an all-embracing philosophy. "Caught without a class, a structure, or tradition to support me, in a sense the choice to take a different path is made for me," he wrote. "The only way to assuage my feelings of isolation are to absorb all the traditions and all the classes; make them mine, mine theirs."
The entire conversation is filled with similarly close and perceptive observations about both men, structured in response to four "artifacts of character" presented by Frontline.I think we get a contemporary glimpse of this aspect of Pres. Obama in the latest campaign video produced to persuade "people of faith" to join and support his re-election. In both word and image, the video is broadly and---within the constraints of American civil religion---deeply inclusive. At a couple of points I hear (or think I hear) echoes of Catholic social teaching as transmuted through the Campaign for Human Development-funded community organizing work Obama did for a few years in the mid-1980s: the dignity of work, the inherent worth of all human beings.Given the powerful testimonies at the Republican National Convention from people who had encountered Mitt Romney in his role as a LDS stake president, I can't help but think that a similar fluency in speaking about faith, citizenship and politics from Gov. Romney would serve him (and his campaign) well.(I spent a bit of time searching YouTube and the Romney campaign website for a similar clip from and/or about Mitt Romney, but was unsuccessful. If anyone knows of one, please link to it in the comments.)
About the Author
Luke Hill is a writer and community organizer in Boston. He blogs at dotCommonweal and MassCommons.
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Ah, yes. This is the man that members of our hierarchy and clergy (even from the pulpit) have demonized from the very beginning of his presidency. (The nasty letters sent to Fr. Jenkins protesting the invitation of Obama to Notre Dames 2009 commencement and award were posted on the Cardinal Newman Society website.) At the U.S. bishops meeting last November Cardinal (then Archbishop) Dolan announced the foundation of a new Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty chaired by Bishop Lori, who then gave a presentation followed by the bishops overwhelmingly approval of a 3% increase of their diocesan funding to the USCCB. It may not amount to much money from the individuals in the pews but how many U.S. Catholics are aware that part of their collection money is going to subsidize a group that has what I am coming to think a hidden agenda to prevent Obamas second term. Note: advisory board members, Carl Anderson, member of Reagans administration and Mary Ann Glendon, who did radio spots for Romney during the Republican primary, calling him the most pro-life candidate.
Ah, the hagiographies of true believers. It must be nice to be able to find your saints where you look for them.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H.L. Mencken
Good post, Luke Hill.
I will look forward to this video-- especailly post first debagte!I know there are reasonable critics, but is there anything that approached "Frontline" for incisive reporting that approaches fairness as much as possible? This isa traesure of PBS that we muct support!


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Noisebridge needs money. An idea is circulating to host a benefit/fundraiser event at Noisebridge in March or April (Ides of March or April Fool's Day soiree?) It could be a simple affair with art for sale donated by local artists, or a splendid gala event with performances, bands, alt fashion show, &c (someone suggested a hacker art auction). Potential really fab way to replenish the NB coffers, clear out old stuff & revitalize the space with new members. In order for it to happen, a bunch of people must come together to organize & commit. People already tentatively involved include , , KimKim & Gay Josh . To get involved, subscribe & post to [https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss Noisebridge-discuss] or you can email
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== 2013 Noisebridge Benefit ==
DATE TBA April 2013 (tentative)
Noisebridge needs money. An idea is circulating to host a benefit/fundraiser event at Noisebridge in March or April (Ides of March or April Fool's Day soiree?) It could be a simple affair with art for sale donated by local artists, or a splendid gala event with performances, bands, alt fashion show, &c (someone suggested a hacker art auction). Potential really fab way to replenish the NB coffers, clear out old stuff & revitalize the space with new members. In order for it to happen, a bunch of people must come together to organize & commit. People already tentatively involved include DanF, TLongshanks, KimKim & Gay Jew Josh (written w/ approval). To get involved, subscribe & post to Noisebridge-discuss or you can email noizparty-at-riseup.net.
I've seen DanF working on multiple paintings to auction over the weekend.
James (sundquistjames-at-gmail) can coordinate music/live bands if people want them. April works best. Please share your thoughts on the Noisebridge-discuss list.
Longshanks (longshanks-at-spaz.org) sent the following response to JamesSun, DanF et al. but did not Cc the entire Discuss list:
I'm very much in favor of live bands (For One Night Only —@ NoizBridge!) & can see that being huge & fun. Same with the art auction w/ 100% of proceeds to NB. April seems like a good bet. April Fool's Day Benefit? Or later in the month, since by gosh February is more than halfway over already...
Cc'ing to DanF: Dan, do you remember at the hackathon/A. Swartz memorial there was a guy you & I were both talking to, who was from the East Bay & said he had experience organizing/promoting successful fundraisers? You & him were talking about the band Grandaddy (which maybe he used to be in) as I was leaving, & I told him to give you his contact info 'cause he was into the fundraiser idea....did you get it? Thx
Please also include my friend Stan (an NB frequenter). In addition to possibly playing (he is in a costume jug band called Thee Hobo Gobbelins), he wants to help organize & is experienced so doing. Maybe the 3 or 4 of you (JamesS, DanF, StanOz & *404 Error-NameNotFound*) can be the 'Music Comity' [sic] of the 2013 Noisebridge Benefit Planning Group (NBPG). Quoted message from StanOz follows:
Forwarded message—Subject: benefit—From: Stan Osborne (stan-at-ana.com)_Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013:
I will help. Just let me know what I should do next. Just pick a date and I will pack the place with volunteers and deep pockets as I am a certifiable event organizer. In the 1990's I was the local arrangements chair for two different ACM conferences held in San Francisco. These were in different years and held in local event venues. The first was 3.5 days long and the second one was 12 days. I personally negotiated all the contracts for the hall(s), catering, banquets, transporation, etc., and I know how to motivate volunteers for 100% volunteer projects. I know the first event was a success as I was later told the event made money for ACM. Stan Osborne Volunteer Tutor @ NB
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Thursday, 2/21/13
Last night I was @ NB & spoke with Dan, one of the people with whom I was developing the idea of this benefit last month @ the Hackathon. Dan is an artist & has been working on original paintings & artworks to potentially auction or donate for the benefit. James has offered to organize musicians & bands to play if we want that. I was not at the Tuesday meeting two nights ago, as I am never at any of the Tuesday night meetings. I asked James & Dan if they were & if the benefit was discussed; it doesn't sound like it was except in a cursory way. My feeling at this point is that I have a lot of creative energy I could potentially invest in organizing an event of this scope, & I want to help NB out, but I am not willing or able to commit large amounts of energy & time into making something happen if the community isn't into it or doesn't see it as a priority at this point. I am embarking on a sizable endeavor right now that involves helping my friend start up a print shop/offset press in the City which is going to absorb me in the coming days. That & ZiP & other zine-making projects is where my focus is going to be from here on out. I believe I have some skill as an organizer that I will gladly contribute to the benefit effort if it coalesces in the near future. I can design flyers & other promo materials, & prepare special editions of ZiP (my Noisebridge-valentine-in-zine-form) & organize & staff a table of zines, print materials, stickers, & other merch & swag for the event, if & when it happens. Or others may take over & make it happen in a different form. As long as NB benefits, I'll be happy. That is where I'm leaving this for now.
+11+ (Tony Longshanks)
PS - The email@example.com email address I started for this purpose will remain active & I will check it regularly. A NB-er named Dwayne Crosby has offered his band to perform in a benefit if we want it; he can be reached at wineandspearit-at-gmail.com. Also, my friend Stan, who offered to help organize & attract donors, has experience & can really Get Things Done, said as follows: "The NB event should be 6-8 weeks in the future, or it will be hard to get groups to commit. The NB place is not that large, so organizing something that fills it up is not to hard. The difficult aspect is attracting people with deep pockets and motivating them to donate."


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AG087: Crazy as a Lunatone
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Crazy as a Lunatone (Japanese: 神秘!宇宙から来たポケモン!? Mystery! Pokémon From Outer Space?!) is the 47th episode of Pokémon: Advanced Challenge.
Episode Plot
A meteorite flies to Earth, crashing and making an explosion. A man and a woman go to inspect the meteorite, so they go inside a vehicle to go to the site. They find the meteorite and launch the rockets. A Pokémon frees itself with a blue light. They go to capture it, but the Pokémon evades and uses Psychic, levitating the vehicle. A beam from the vehicle is fired, hurting the Pokémon, but something happens - the Pokémon glows with a red light, calming the man and the woman. The Pokémon goes to the nearest village.
The gang is seen walking to get to Lilycove City. They go to the Pokémon Center in Volley Town. Team Rocket eats some rice balls and Meowth heard of a meteor that fell somewhere near them. They plan to steal it, earning a promotion. The gang arrives to Volley Town, although it is unusually very quiet. They go inside the Pokémon Center, but see nobody. Nurse Joy appears, with red eyes. The gang asks for bed for the night and to rest their Pokémon, but Nurse Joy refuses (having a strange voice). During the night, they walk to get rest. Brock thinks that Nurse Joy was a "fake" one, she was acting very weird. They first go to eat dinner. During the dinner, Lombre goes away, seeing something.
Lombre is being captured. The gang tries to convince the men that it is Brock's Pokémon, so he sends it back to its Poké Ball, proving the men. The men undisguised themselves - they are Ken and Mary, the ones who got on Clefairy spaceship. Ken says they went to capture the Pokémon from outer space and went to get the meteorite, but don't remember anything - they think the Pokémon erased their memories. They suspect the same Pokémon erased the villagers' memories, so they put some special helms to protect from psychic activities. They go away to get it. Brock tells he heard stories that Clefairy and Starmie are from outer space, but is concerned for what it did on villagers.
The gang goes inside the Pokémon Center to investigate. Team Rocket appear as well, since they found nothing at the meteorite site, they think something in the meteorite is in the Pokémon Center now. They go inside by breaking the window. James finds his flash light (which he lost) and turns it on, so the gang sees some movements. Team Rocket appears before them and Meowth mentions that they are after the meteorite. They all go inside a room when they heard Nurse Joy's voice. Suddenly, they hear something - James turns the flash light on and sees the Pokémon - the Lunatone. Jessie comes to Lunatone, but is affected by its red light and orders everyone to get out.
James and Meowth shake her, making her come to her senses. Lunatone used Hypnosis on her and the other villagers. Meowth translates Lunatone was scared. Nurse Joy appears before them, saying they should get out. Team Rocket plan to get Lunatone, so James sends Cacnea to use Needle Arm and Jessie her Seviper to bite Lunatone. Lunatone uses Psychic, but after a while, fails and falls down. Nurse Joy comes to her senses. Meowth translates that it used so much Psychic attacks it got its energy depleted, but mostly because of the attack from Ken and Mary. Lunatone says it needs moon light to be healed.
Nevertheless, Seviper goes to bite and Cacnea uses Needle Arm, but They (along with Jessie, James and Meowth) are blasted when Pikachu used Thunderbolt on them. Nurse Joy treats Lunatone, saying it will feel better, but it needs moon light to get its energy back. The full moon is tonight, but the deal is that moon can't be seen from Volley Town. Nurse Joy mentions the Camerupt Point where they could place Lunatone to restore its energy. However, Brock reminds that Ken and Mary are still after the Pokémon... The gang is seen pushing a cart, while inside Lunatone and Pikachu are to hide it from Ken and Mary.
They encounter Mary and Ken and play dumb, saying they are going to Camerupt Point where they'll have a Moon party there. Ken and Mary let them pass, but suspect they hide something, so they assemble a machine to get a mystical Pokémon. The gang reaches the Camerupt Point, all they need is to wait for the moon to show. Pikachu and Lunatone go out and they see the moon going up. However, it is only Team Rocket in the balloon. They release a hand to get Lunatone, but another one goes to negate theirs - it is Ken and Mary inside the vehicle.
Each side identifies the other and begin to argue. Ken and Mary's vehicle begins to spin Team Rocket's balloon and releases an electric surge, blasting them off. Next, they go after Lunatone. Pikachu uses Iron Tail, but the attack is cancelled when the vehicle's arm hurts him. Brock sends Mudkip to use Water Gun, but nothing happens, only that the arm knocks Mudkip out. May sends Beautifly to use Silver Wind, stopping Ken and Mary. Mudkip uses Water Gun and Pikachu Thunderbolt, shutting the vehicle. Soon after, the moon rises, powering Lunatone up.
However, Ken and Mary's machine is not stopped. They go to capture Lunatone, but Lunatone uses Hidden Power, blasting Ken and Mary off. The gang waves goodbye to Lunatone as it goes away.
- Featured Pokémon: Illumise, Gulpin, Parasect, Lanturn
- The design of Mary's Pokédex is based on the Game Boy Advance SP. It uses the "Dexter" voice rather than the "Dextette" of Ash's Hoenn Pokédex.
- The episode name is a play on the phrase, "crazy as a lunatic" or "crazy as a loon."
- At the beginning of the episode, a classic Pokémon identification can be seen. In this case, it is a Venonat.
- When Chimecho appears during Team Rocket's motto, it seems to have two "spikes" on its "back" rather than one.
- During the battle between Team Rocket and the Lunatone the 'R' on Jessie's shirt is reversed.
- Either there are two Pokémon Centers, or the scenario of the Pokémon Center changes from one place to another during the episode. At first, when the group enters the Center, there's a building behind them. Later, they are hiding behind a bush, right where the building was.


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I am testing recipes for an upcoming cookbook! The author is The Happy Herbivore, and she is churning out recipes faster than I can make them. These, as the name suggests, are a very crispy nugget--my boys pound them back with plenty of plum sauce. If you are interested in the upcoming cookbook (and the over 200 non-cookbook recipes already posted), check out The Happy Herbivore blog for updates.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Cookbook Tester Recipe: Crispy Chickenless Nuggets
Posted by Vegan Dad at 9:23 PM
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- Jan Scholl said...
i like how the coating looks on these. what did you do that is different from the original recipe?
- April 26, 2008 at 12:58 AM
- Happy Herbivore! said...
Hey thanks for the shout outs!! I love having you as a tester - your official rating system is priceless :)
Your nuggets look awesome!!
- April 26, 2008 at 11:45 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
I left a message re: breading on the super secret tester's blog.
- April 26, 2008 at 12:45 PM
- Binx said...
my dad has always told me that the easiest way to judge a musician is by how well he/she plays a recognizable cover. i think that applies to cooking, too. these look beautiful! i already admire your personal recipes, but now we see the touch you add to other peoples recipes, as well. :)
- April 26, 2008 at 1:44 PM
- Carrie said...
Wow these look amazing! Great photo. Can't wait for the cookbook.
- April 29, 2008 at 1:10 PM
- SaraJane said...
Okay.. yum! These look so good. I love some faux nuggets and fries from time to time.
- April 30, 2008 at 12:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
hey, is this a soy-free recipe?
also, vegan dad, what are your suggestions for making vegan cutlets crispier?
- August 25, 2009 at 4:55 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Yes, it is soy free since it is mainly made out of gluten. As for the cutlets, you could bread and bake them, or fry in more oil.
- August 28, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- Lexi said...
Wow this picture is wonderful!
I just saw the recipe on HH's website; however, now I'm a bit puzzled. She cites a cornflake coating, but I've NEVER been able to make crushed cornflakes look that good/crispy. Can you share your secret?
Thanks :)
- February 4, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Double coating. Dip the seitan in soymilk mixed with apple cider vinegar, then roll in crumbs. Redip in soymilk, and toss again in crumbs.
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Let $A$ be a DVR and let $X/A$ be a smooth, proper scheme with geometrically integral fibers. Is there an easy way to see that the Picard group of $X$ is isomorphic to the Picard group of the generic fiber $X_\eta$ of $X$?
Here is an argument, which hopefully is not too dodgy:
Firstly, if $D_{\eta}$ is an effective divisor on $X_{\eta}$, then the Zariski closure $D$ of $D_{\eta}$ will be an effective divisor on $X$. Since $Pic(X_{\eta})$ is generated by the classes of effective divisors, this shows that the restriction map from $Pic(X)$ to $Pic(X_{\eta})$ is surjective.
Now let $\mathcal L$ be a line bundle on $X$ which is trivial when restricted to $X_{\eta}$. If we choose a non-zero section $f$ of $\mathcal L_{\eta}$, then multiplying by a sufficiently high power of $\pi$ (a uniformizer of $A$), we may assume that $f$ extends to a section of $\mathcal L$. The zero locus of $f$ is then some multiple of $X_s$ (the special fibre). This is precisely the zero locus of $\pi$, and so scaling again by an appropriate power of $\pi$, we may assume that $f$ is actually nowhere zero, showing that $\mathcal L$ is trivial.
Note: I am assuming that the special fibre is irreducible. [Edit: As Laurent Moret-Bailly points out below, what follows is incorrect, due to a confusion between connectedness and geometric connectedness. New Edit: As Qing Liu points out in his answer, while the argument given is not quite correct, the conclusion is actually okay!]
Additional remark: Although I switched into the language of line bundles half-way through the above argument, this is not necessary (it is just the first thing that came to mind when I initially wrote the answer). It is perhaps cleaner to think entirely in terms of restricting effective divisors $D$ on $X$ to $X_{\eta}$, and extending effective divisors on $X_{\eta}$ to all of $X$ by taking Zariski closure. One easily sees that these operations provide an isomorphism between $Pic(X)$ and $Pic(X_{\eta})$, provided that every divisor supported on the special fibre is principal. If the special fibre is irreducible, then there is only one reduced effective divisor supported on the special fibre, namely the special fibre itself, and this is principal, being cut out by the equation $\pi = 0$. What Qing Liu's answer shows is that even if $X_s$ is reducible, it is still the case that it breaks up as a disjoint union of components, each of which is principal.
This is too long to be a comment to Matt Emerton's answer. I think his conclusion is correct. Namely, if $X$ is smooth and proper over $A$, then $\mathrm{Pic}(X)\to \mathrm{Pic}(X_{\eta})$ is an isomorphism (whenever the generic fiber is geometrically connected or not). As explained by Matt, one can suppose $X$ is connected and we have only to show the injectivity. Clearly the kernel is generated by the irreducible components of the special fiber $X_s$. So it is enough to show that each of these irreducible components is a principal (Cartier) divisor.
Frist consider $A'=H^0(X, \mathcal O_X)$. It is finite and flat over $A$. As $X_s=X\otimes_{A'} (A'/\pi A')$ where $\pi$ is a uniformizing element of $A$, is smooth over $A/\pi A$, this force $A'/\pi A'$ to be separable over $A/\pi A$, hence $A'$ is étale over $A$.
The scheme $X$ is also a smooth proper $A'$-scheme with geometrically connected generic fiber. Let $s_1,\dots, s_n$ be the points of Spec$(A')$. Then $A'/\pi A'=\oplus_i k(s_i)$ and $X_s$ is just the disjoint union of the $X_{s_i}$. By Zariski, $X_{s_i}$ is connected, smooth, hence irreducible. Let $\pi_i\in A'$ be a uniformizing element at $s_i$ and a unit at $s_j$ for all $j\ne i$. Then the divisor div$(\pi_i)$ of $\pi_i$ on $X$ is $X_{s_i}$.
In Laurent's example, each copy of $\mathbb P^1_k$ is actually a principal divisor. So there is no more divisors on $\mathbb P^1_{A'}$ than on $\mathbb P^1_{\mathrm{Frac}(A')}$. Hope I don't miss something.


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*Crossposted to the new Pano Photographers on G+ community* where I've also uploaded a series of photos to illustrate what I'm talking about... Feel free to respond on either thread...
Ok - so this is a request for suggestions. I'm trying to configure the above system to let me use the camera via QR clamp on a ball-head, on the NN3MkII whilst also using my new Peak Design Capture Camera Clip system MICROplate.
I'm a big fan of the Capture system, having found them on Kickstarter, and use their system to holster my camera on my backpack when I'm out hiking. The fact that the Capture QR plate is attached to the camera and the same plate can also be used on my regular Really Right Stuff QR clamp on my regular ballhead + dropped into the NN 3 MkII QR clamp is great for quickly swapping between regular shots, and pano.
I've been using the NN3MkII with the Arca Style QR clamp for a couple of years, and recently started using it with the OM-D E-M5 and Samyang 7.5mm fisheye. Now the problem with the OM-D is that it has an off-center tripod mount (around 10mm). With the original Peak Designs plate (or their new square ARCAplate) I could let the plate slide into the NN QR clamp (vertical orientation) to the bottom stop, secure it, and I was only a few mm off alignment, which was good enough for most shots.
However the problem with this square plate and the OM-D is that I had to be really careful with the tilt screen to avoid catching it on the plate. So when Peak announced the new smaller MICROplate - I thought fantastic - and ordered one.
This has a standard 38mm width, but a depth of about 28mm - which nicely avoids fouling the screen, but it doesn't fit any of my QR clamps. The new plate has a much more satisfactory footprint on the camera - completely avoiding the screen. However it is only standard QR width in the wrong dimension - which means I have to spin the QR plate on the NN3 by 90 degrees to clamp to the other dimension on the plate. This works, but now I don't have the width of the plate to slide across, and I'm stuck with too large an offset.
Is a SlideFix clamp the solution?: The 28mm depth confuses me as none of my ArcaSwiss clamps will close to this dimension. I wonder if Peak have made it to fit the ArcaSwiss Slidefix system? I can't find any drawings that show the dimensions of the system accurately enough. I guess the screw-clamp one is most likely to work as I've had problems with the flip-lock on 3rd party plates, and the combo clamp would work with old and new systems.
NN Thin Rail plate - Ok... so I think I can attach the above combo SlideFix plate to the NN thin rail plate to replace my current standard Arca Swiss clamp.
However - I've still got the offset tripod mount problem on the OM-D.
NN T Adaptor III - looks somewhat cumbersome, and I don't think this will work with a QR plate of any form
RRS BOEM5 L-plate and grip + then attach the MICROplate - this moves the tripod hole to the right location, to which I would attach the MICROplate
Hmm - ok... so now I'm talking about this system
RRS BOEM5 + stacked MICROplate on the camera
Slidefix QuickSet + NN thin rail plate + NN3MkII for pano
Slidefix QuickSet + ball head or P0 monoball (a touch heavy at 340g) for regular shots
Is this going to work? Have I missed any options? Or should I just go back to the square Peak Designs ARCAplate, and be careful with the screen?


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I've often thought that, once indwelt by the Holy Spirit and saved by the grace of God, Satan has nothing against me.
But, is to ignore Satan also to underestimate the potential he has to assault the Christian? What do the apostles and disciples of Christ say with respect to Satan's ability against the Christian?


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Defending Our "Loserhood" With All We've Got
It seems like there's no idea people will defend more fiercely or passionately than the notion that they aren't good enough human beings. Many people, when talking about how inferior or inadequate they supposedly are, undergo an amazing transformation. People who usually shy away from conflict or seem apathetic suddenly become champion debaters when arguing that they haven't achieved enough with their lives. People with generally positive outlooks on life suddenly become incurable cynics and pessimists when they're convincing you of how badly they screwed something up. And so on.
A recent conversation with a friend reminded me of this quirky aspect of the human personality. My friend is a highly-skilled and well-paid biotech researcher. "On paper," as they say, he's got everything going for him—he has a first-rate education, he's in great shape and he's got a nice house and car. Unfortunately, however, he and his girlfriend split up six months ago. Since then, he's been insisting to me that he's not a successful guy at all—in fact, he says, he's a "loser."
This hasn't been for lack of trying on my part. Every time he's called himself a loser, I've reminded him of all his great qualities and everything he's accomplished in his life. But for every positive thing I say about him, he's got a reason why it's irrelevant, unimportant or exaggerated. If I remind him of how well-liked he is at work, for instance, he'll tell me people are just pitying him. If I remind him of something he has fun doing, like playing tennis, he'll insist it doesn't matter. If I tell him he's a kind and generous person, he'll tell me those are weak qualities that he wishes he were rid of.
As flattery was getting me nowhere, I decided to take a different tack. I asked him how he would feel if he didn't think he was a loser. (This was inspired by Byron Katie's process of undermining negative thoughts by asking yourself, among other things, who you'd be if you didn't believe your thoughts.) Of course, like any good friend, I was hoping he'd experience a life-changing epiphany when he pondered this question, never feel down on himself again, and live the rest of his life in a state of undisturbed inner peace.
However, I didn't quite get the reaction I'd hoped for. Instead, he became angry, telling me I was missing the point because he obviously did think he was a loser, and lecturing me on how I was being unrealistic and needed to "live in the real world." But when he calmed down, he acknowledged how fiercely he'd been defending the idea that he was a loser, and how strange, and maybe even amusing, that seemed.
This conversation got me wondering: why do we hold on so tightly to negative thoughts about ourselves? Why do we defend ourselves against giving up those thoughts, despite how painful they are? I've come to believe it's because, consciously or otherwise, we see these ideas about ourselves as part of who we are. We need these ideas, we think, to be complete human beings—losing them would be like losing some part of our bodies, or even being completely annihilated.
In discussing a client who, like my friend, harbored the belief "I'm a loser," psychologist Betsie Carter-Haar aptly describes this sense of identification with our ideas about ourselves:
A positive experience is simply not acceptable to the 'Loser' because its quality is different from, and inconsistent with, that of his self-image. But it goes even further: a positive experience is actually threatening. What if he were not really a Loser? Who would he be then? . . . . [H]is fear of loss of identity, of a deep void of inner emptiness, if not correctly understood is often too overwhelming to be faced. In such a situation it frequently seems less painful to have a negative sense of self than no sense of self at all.
When we persistently have certain thoughts about ourselves, these thoughts eventually become so familiar and constant that we conclude they're actually part of us. Our beliefs become as comfortable and familiar as our bodies, homes, jobs, and so on. For instance, if we believe—for whatever reason—that we're bad and inadequate for long enough, we become identified with that belief, and protect the belief by arguing tenaciously with anyone who tries to convince us otherwise.
How do we detach ourselves from, or end our identification with, our ideas about who we are? How do we dispel the need to defend our "loserhood" to the death? One helpful technique, I've found, is to regularly experience being in a state in which you aren't thinking anything about yourself. Try sitting alone, closing your eyes, and focusing your attention entirely on some sound or sensation—either within yourself or the outside world. You might, for instance, focus on the feeling and sound of your breathing, or on the sound of birds outside your window.
When your awareness is entirely fixed on a sensation, rather than your mind's memories, interpretations and judgments, you are not thinking. Nonetheless, you are the same being you've always been. Even when you have no ideas or beliefs about yourself or anything else, you remain you—ceasing to think, or perform any other mental activity, doesn't destroy you at all. This realization helps weaken your attachment to the ways you think about and perceive yourself.
Recognize, as well, that you existed—you were the person you are today—before you had a single thought. Up until some point in your early development, whether in the womb or after your birth, you hadn't thought about anything. You didn't see yourself as a "loser," "winner," "doctor," "mother," or any of the other labels you've since attached to yourself. In fact, you didn't see yourself at all—you simply were yourself. Regularly reflecting on this is a great way to liberate yourself from negative thinking.
(This article appeared in the Carnival of Positive Thinking, located at http://www.widowsquest.com/carnival-of-positive-thinking-57/.)


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Accu-Sort introduces new laser bar code scanner
Accu-Sort Systems, Booth 2047, introduced the AccuLazr AL5010 laser bar code scanner. The device's modular design includes a scan head, mounting base, power supply and choice of interface modules. It's intended for mid-range distance read applications from 5 to 48 inches, depending on bar code size, explained Pratap Chakravarthy, director of marketing.
In addition to flexible connectivity options, the scanner requires no maintenance other than keeping the scanning window clean in dusty environments. "In the event of failure, the scan head is hot-swappable and can be replaced in less than 5 minutes without reconfiguration or realignment," noted Chakravarthy. "Pressing a button on the scan head uploads parameters from the storage module in the mounting base, and it's back in operation."
To further help users track performance over an Ethernet or EtherNet/IP connection, the AL5010 is also compatible with the company's FAST Monitor remote monitoring and diagnostics system.
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Suppose $z \in \mathbb{C}$. How can we construct $\frac{1}{z}$ with tools without calculating? My teacher suggested something with a parallel line, but I couldn't figure it out.
A unit distance is not given!
Suppose $z \in \mathbb{C}$. How can we construct $\frac{1}{z}$ with tools without calculating? My teacher suggested something with a parallel line, but I couldn't figure it out.
A unit distance is not given!
Draw the reflection of the ray through 0 and $z$ with respect to the horizontal axis. Use the compass to find the point $A$ of absolute value $|z|$ on the axis and the point $B$ of absolute value 1 on the new ray.
Intersect the parallel line to $AB$ with the new ray to get $P=1/z$.
This works because the angle of $P$ is clearly the negative of the angle of $z$ and by similar triangles the absolute value of $P$ is $|1/z|$.
We assume that in addition to the point $z$, we also are given the real axis, and a unit distance. So we can draw the unit circle.
If $z\ne 0$, then $\dfrac{1}{z}$ has norm the reciprocal of the norm of $z$. Its argument is the negative of the argument of $z$. So if we find the number $w$ on the ray through the origin and $z$ such that $w$ has norm the reciprocal of the norm of $z$, and reflect in the real axis, we will have constructed $\dfrac{1}{z}$. Reflection is easy using the Euclidean tools. (Thanks to Phira for pointing out an earlier error.)
This brings us to a classical problem of Euclidean geometry: Given a length $a\gt 0$, draw a line segment of length $\dfrac{1}{a}$.
Draw a pair of axes, which for convenience we call the $u$ and $v$ axes, meeting at some point $O$. (The axes do not need to be perpendicular.)
On the $u$-axis, draw a point $A$ such that $OA=a$, and a point $U$ such that $OU=1$. On the $v$-axis, draw a point $V$ such that $OV=1$. Join $AV$. Through $U$, draw a line parallel to $AV$. Suppose that this line meets the $v$-axis at $B$.
Because $\triangle OAV$ and $\triangle OUB$ are similar, we have $\dfrac{OB}{OU}=\dfrac{OV}{OA}$, and therefore $OB=\dfrac{1}{OA}=\dfrac{1}{a}$.
All the constructions described above can be done with compass and straightedge.
My first thought is to use Möbius transformations, which are "constructed" out of rotations, translations, and inversions.
If you prefer a solution with inversion:
For a point $z$ outside the unit circle, intersect the circle with diameter $0z$ with the unit cercle. Intersect the line of the two intersection points with the line $0z$. The intersection point gives $1/\bar z$. Now, reflect with respect to the horizontal axis to find $1/z$.
You can check that this works, because you have lots of similar (rectangular) triangles.
For a point inside, draw the line $0z$, draw the line through $z$ orthogonal to it, intersect it with the unit circle to get the points $A$ and $B$. Draw the line through $A$ that is orthogonal to the radius $0A$, intersect it with $0z$ to get $1/\bar z$. Reflect it with respect to the horizontal axis to find $1/z$.


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I accidentally killed a noble, now every guard wants to kill me. Is there any way I can get rid of the bounty?
There are a few ways you can remove the bounty over your head
If the guards don't give you a chance to submit and go to jail or pay your bounty make sure that you sheath your weapon. The guards should then stop attacking and should hopefully hear your out :) If they don't you can try this:
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Immediately travel back to just outside the town. I don't know if it works with fast travel. Drop all stolen gear. When you approach the city gates the guards will stop you with the line "Wait, don't I know you?". You can try to argue, but the guard will insist, and say you are wanted. pay the fine, and the guard will confiscate all stolen goods, and let you pass. Then pick up your gear and enter the town.
If you forget to drop your gear, Complete the Dragon event at West Tower and then go to the dungeon. heat to the farthest room on the right in the dungeon and pick the lock of the evidence chest. The guards will ignore your criminal activities as you are now the Thain. take your gear back and leave the dungeon.
When you got bounty what you can do is either pay your bounty or, if you don't want to do that, let them take you to prison. Prison isn't such a terrible idea: you can escape all prisons (except Cidnah Prison Mine), and you don't have to pay the bounty. You will find your unstolen items in a chest at the entrance of the prison.
I assume you mean they won't offer you to pay your bounty and are intent on killing you. If so, did you try yielding to them by sheathing your weapon? Then they should offer you the option to pay off your bounty. You may only be able to yield if a guard captain is around with them though.
If they stop trying to kill you, you can opt to spend time in jail and then either break out, or serve your time.
Alternately, if you're a member of the Thieves Guild, and they are established in a city, you can pay off the guards for half the bounty.
This worked for me: 1) Equip a magic spell in both hands. 2) When the guards come running at you, get near them and keep hitting R to sheath and unsheath your magic.
The thing is takes them a while to realize your surrendering (sheathing). The action of sheathing while being attacked is what does it, so you have to spam it a bit so they realize. Hope this helps.
If playing on the PC, a fast way to get rid of your bounty is by opening the console and then targeting the pursuing guards (click on a guard). The guard's RefID should show up in the screen. After that, enter the console command,
That should put you just outside the nearest jail of the hold you're in, with no more bounty on you while still keeping your stolen items.
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there are many ways. i'll list some of them here
4 take some time off that city, since every city keep their criminal record of you differently.
5 be a thane of that city. it will clear your criminal record but any future criminal against that city will be punished
the easyest way to get a bounty off you is to wait for 3 days then it will be gone and no gard will want to kill you
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I recently had to renew my passport. The expired one has an Indian visa that will be valid until 2016. Is it necessary for me to get the visa transferred to the renewed passport, or can I get through customs in India (likely Mumbai) if I have both the expired and the renewed passports with me?
Yes, you will simply need to present both passports and you will be fine, as long as a few simple conditions are met.
This is the specific information from TIMATIC (the visa service used by most airlines/etc) :
Presuming none of the items above are issues, just present both passports and explain the situation and you'll have no problems.