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New York City Police detectives were questioning a suspect late Tuesday in the death of a Queens man who was pushed in front of a train at a Midtown subway station, a law-enforcement official said.
Naeem Davis, 30 years old, was in custody in connection with the death of Ki-Suck Han, who was allegedly shoved into the path of a Q train entering the 49th Street station near Times Square on Monday afternoon, the official said.
According to the official, a break in the case came when detectives reviewing video surveillance from commercial establishments in the area spotted the suspect talking with street vendors along a row near 50th Street and Seventh Avenue, a block from the subway station where Mr. Han was killed.
On Tuesday afternoon, detectives went to that corner and took Mr. Davis into custody.
According to the official, Mr. Davis made statements implicating himself in the killing to detectives late on Tuesday but police were withholding charges until a lineup could be conducted with witnesses on Wednesday.
Mr. Davis is a former employee of a deli at the corner of 49th Street and Seventh Avenue, and a manager there told investigators he recognized the man in a video released by police late Monday, the official said.
While that video—captured by a commuter who gave it to police—helped identify a suspect, it did little to shed light on what sparked the violence.
In the video, Mr. Han is seen standing casually with his hands in his jacket pockets facing the suspect, who uses profanity while imploring Mr. Han to leave him alone. Witnesses who spoke to police said Mr. Han was pushed after that interaction.
NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly, at a news conference early Tuesday, said witnesses saw the suspect "talking to himself prior to the pushing taking place."
"There was some sort of confrontation," Mr. Kelly said. "Witnesses we spoke to were not particularly focused on what happened before the confrontation."
One witness, a 27 year old man, told detectives that the suspect had been yelling at numerous passersby and that the victim had tried to calm him down, leading to the violent outburst, the official said.
After being pushed, Mr. Han attempted to lift himself out of the track bed as the train bore down on him, but was unsuccessful, police said.
Mr. Kelly said Mr. Han, 58 years old of Elmhurst, Queens, was in Midtown to renew his Korean passport.
While toxicology tests have not yet been completed, investigators were looking into the possibility that Mr. Han may have been intoxicated at the time of the incident, the official said.
Among the items retrieved from Mr. Han's body was an empty pint bottle of vodka, the official said.
Mr. Davis was well known among street vendors near the subway station, who said they saw him on Tuesday but that he had changed his appearance.
Liz Willis, who operates a newsstand near where Mr. Davis was taken into custody, said the man had shaved his head and beard. "He was all cleaned up," she said.
The vendors said the suspect at times appeared disheveled and would talk to himself, but nothing about his personality suggested he was violent.
Mor Niang, a vendor who sells hats and scarves, said the suspect ran errands for the vendors—pushing their carts to garages, getting them cigarettes and coffee—for small amounts of cash. Mr. Niang said he'd "never seen him angry" and described the man as a "gentleman."
"For me, he was a very nice guy," Mr. Niang said.
—Danny Gold and Alison Fox contributed to this article.
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Windows Native Authentication for MySQL
By rsomla on Oct 11, 2011
For password-less connections to work, server's administrator must install the WNA plugin in the server and create user accounts which use this plugin for authentication. It is also possible to allow connections to existing MySQL accounts via a proxy WNA account. With this setup Windows clients can password-less connect to the proxy account, and then proxy configuration selects the final MySQL account based on client's Windows credentials (user name or group membership). Detailed instructions on how to install the WNA plugin and setup and configure WNA accounts are given in the documentation.
Internally, WNA plugin usses Windows SSPI API to create a shared security context between client and server, which allows server to read client's credentials. For this to work, obviously both client and server must run on a Windows machine. Additionally, both computers must be registered inside a Windows domain (in which case Windows internally uses Kerberos authentication). If this is not the case then password-less connections are still possible but only from the same computer on which server is running (in which case NTLM authentication is used).
Note that whether native Windows authentication is used or not entirely depends on the MySQL account to which a client tries to connect. If that account is configured by DBA to authenticate using WNA plugin, then this is the only option for that account - a client can connect to it only if the client supports WNA and is run by an authorized Windows user. It can not fall-back to the standard MySQL password authentication, as well as it can not request native Windows authentication when connecting to a non WNA account.
At the moment, client support for WNA plugin is implemented mainly in the libmysql client library which is shipped with MySQL 5.5.16 (the community version). This support is built into the library and does not require any additional configuration. If your client uses this version of libmysql for connecting to the server it should be able to connect to WNA accounts.
Note that if the client is using a connector library like Connector/C++ and that library links to libmysql dynamically, then configuring the dynamic linker to use version 5.5.16 or later of libmysql will enable WNA support in your client application. If, however, the client uses libmysql based connector which is statically linked to an older version of the library (as is the case with Connector/ODBC), then it will not work with WNA plugin.
Some connectors do not use libmysql but have their own implementation of the MySQL client-server protocol (for example Connector/Java). These connectors will require changes in their implementation of the protocol to support WNA plugin.
Here is a table summarizing which of MySQL connector products support WNA plugin at the moment:
|if dynamically linked with libmysql 5.5.16+
|3.51.29 & 5.1.9
|will not happen very soon
|no plans to support WNA in PHP

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I've rescued Riddler's first hostage from the courthouse, and gone to the location of the second hostage, outside the Black Canary. However, I've search all over the building and can't find any doors or other entrances. How do I get in the building with the second hostage? Or do I have to go somewhere else?
Look for a green question mark on the wall. You should be able to walk up to it and break through the wall to reveal a door hidden behind it.
The spot shows up on your mission quest long before you can actually click to get in, at least for me. I had to find about ten more trophies before the question mark showed up... And the question mark shows up on detective mode not in regular mode.
You will see a green question mark spray painted on the brick wall next to the covered Riddler trophy next to the Black Canary. If you walk up to the wall close enough, it will tell you to press A to inspect. After you press A, Batman will knock on the wall, looking for a hollow part and will break through. Then go through the door.
If you walk up to the green question mark on the wall it will tell u to click a button to break the wall and go into a hidden door
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China can control the outbreak of an avian flu strain newly contracted by humans, a senior Chinese health official said on Sunday (April 7), a day after China reported its eighteenth case of the H7N9 virus that has so far killed six people.
China has said it is mobilizing resources nationwide to combat the new strain of bird flu, monitoring hundreds of close contacts of confirmed cases and culling tens of thousands of birds where traces of the virus were found.
Authorities rounded up pigeons and caught them in cages in the People's Park in Shanghai after infected pigeons were discovered in a food market in the city earlier in the week.
"Although everyone is worried about bird flu, I think the government can take measures like doing a test on the pigeons, and then the safe pigeons can be released and stay in this square," said 28-year-old Jin Yexi, a Shanghai resident.
Twenty-nine year-old resident Shi Nannan was concerned that the virus could spread like the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, which emerged in China in 2003 and killed about 10 percent of the 8,000 people it infected world-wide.
"I'm quite worried that the bird flu could be in a latent period and will break out. Because, a few years ago, when there was the SARS virus, it was very frightening. Actually, I'm really worried, I have a child, I'm very worried that a disease could spread throughout the whole of Shanghai city on a large scale like that again," Nannan said.
A manager of a pharmacy in Shanghai said they were selling out of stocks of face masks and baphicacanthus root, a traditional medication believed to prevent flu, since the outbreak was reported.
"Because of reports of bird flu in the last two days, sales of face masks and baphicacanthus roots have gone right up, and supply can barely meet demand. Every day, between ten and twenty boxes of baphicacanthus root medicine and forty to fifty packs of face masks sell out. So the suppliers are nearly out of stock now, and we have nowhere to get more," pharmacy manager Wu Yan said.
But China was confident that it can control the bird flu outbreak.
"We can. We are confident we can effectively control it," the head of China's National Health and Family Planning Commission Li Bin told Reuters on the sidelines of a World Health Organization (WHO) backed event in Beijing.
Li did not elaborate, but she is the most senior Chinese health official yet to publicly comment on the subject.
The bird flu outbreak has caused global concern and some Chinese internet users and newspapers have questioned why it took so long for the government to announce the new cases, especially as two of the victims fell ill in February.
The government has said it needed time to correctly identify the virus.
The WHO's representative to China, Dr. Michael O'Leary, repeated that no evidence of transmission between humans has been found and praised China for its efforts to determine the source of the virus.
"We don't know yet where this will go, but we're pleased so far that there's not really evidence of person-to-person transmission, even though there's a couple of small family clusters, but China is demonstrating their ability to get on top of this problem quickly, to investigate strongly and to, I'm sure, come to conclusions as quickly as possible," he said at a World Health Day event in the Chinese capital.
Other strains of bird flu, such as H5N1, have been circulating for many years and can be transmitted from bird to bird, and bird to human, but not generally from human to human.
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I have come across this food, but I am not sure what it is called. This is a totally vegetarian food but looks like non vegetarian. It is made up of soya(soya beans). Does any one knows whats its real name and whether such food exists or not? Also, how organic/non artificial free from chemical is it? How Hygienic is it? What are the famous restaurants in the world for it? I have heard some Chinese restaurants which offers vegetarian Chinese food, is that the same?
I have never heard of Tofu being called "vegetable meat". There are some fake meat types based on different types of soya products (or also other plant proteins), like "fake duck". But the only product I have seen bearing the generic label "vegetable meat" is textured vegetable protein. It is made from soya beans whose fat has been extracted to be used for oil production.
As for "non artificial", I have no idea what your personal definition of "artificial" is. It doesn't grow on trees, but then neither does butter, and I have never heard people condemn butter as "artificial". It is a processed product, and it is not a traditional process, but I can't tell you if it is more or less processed than traditional heavily processed foods such as sugar. Also, the amount of chemicals involved is probably dependent on the manufacturer. I guess you have to trust the regulatory organs of your country to not allow the production of food containing something harmful. Organic? This depends on the manufacturer too. If he adhers to organic production guidelines, then it is organic. And hygienic? This is even harder to answer, it depends on not only the manufacturer's decisions about the process, but also on the day-to-day process quality measures his employees take.
There is no reason to say that "vegetarian meat" is the same as vegetarian Chinese food. A cup of rice served in a Chinese restaurant is vegetarian and Chinese, but does not include any kind of meat substitute. If I cook a French recipe and use textured soy protein as meat replacement, this makes it vegetarian, but not Chinese. There can be some overlap between the two, but I doubt that it is big. China has had social conditions leading to vegetarian lifestyles (poverty, religious restrictions) for long before production of such protein began.
I doubt that any restaurants in the world are famous for it, mainly because it is a poor meat analogue. Yes, it offers a high amount of protein. But it does not taste really like meat. World-famous restaurants are world-famous because they offer high-quality food, and no food using inferior substitutions is high-quality. Yes, there are good vegetarian restaurants, but they don't make poor imitations of meat dishes using fake meats, they offer vegetarian dishes made from good ingredients. Some of them can feature some of the more popular soy products like tofu, but they are probably not famous for their tofu, because the tofu is not the main star of all dishes.
This all assumes that what you refer to is actually the textured vegetable protein I linked, but that is far from clear from your question. Other possibilities exist, because people have long tried to find a suitable meat substitute for vegetarians and for people who can't afford real meat. Most are soy-based, like the mentioned tofu and tempeh, but there are also wheat-based ones like seitan, and I think that there was some kind of beans product used sometimes instead of meat. Without you giving us more information, we can't conclude for sure which one you mean. But the answers to the other questions is about the same, with the exception that some processing methods are older than others and so can be considered more traditional (in case this plays a role for your understanding of "artificial").
Are you talking about Tofu? It is often used to make imitation meats (example: Tofurkey), and is made from soy. It's perfectly hygienic, popular around the world, and no more artificial than most other mass-produced foods -- it can be entirely organic, but is not always. It's not one of those new laboratory-produced chemicals, it's just soybeans processed similar to cheese.
In my experience, most "soy based" vegetarian meat substitutes (other than tofu) are processed, commercially-produced foods, e.g. from companies like MorningStar Farms.
More common for homemade meat substitutes is seitan, also known as "wheat meat." This is made by mixing vital wheat gluten with various liquids and spices to make a chewy, flavorful dough, which is then boiled or steamed before use. My favorite recipe for it is from the PPK. If you use organic, chemical-free ingredients, the end product itself is also organic and chemical free.
In the US, one of the most famous vegan restaurants is Millenium in San Francisco. They also have two cookbooks.
jackfruit is also one of the vegetable meat
The meat which is now going to be genetically produced is called veg meat. The meat which scientists have discovered. Now meat can be produced without harming the animals. They will take a very small piece of flesh from any organisms whose meat they want to produce and then they will genetically make the pieces big fleshy pieces of meat, after that it will be packed in polythenes and supplied in market to be sold.
There's actually an industry of 'fake meat', which is making stuff that looks like meat, but isn't:


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Negative probabilities are naturally found in the Wigner function (both the original one and its discrete variants), the Klein paradox (where it is an artifact of using a one-particle theory) and the Klein-Gordon equation.
The question is if there is a general treatment of quasi-probability distributions, besides naively using 'legit' probabilistic formulas? For example, is there a theory saying which measurements are allowed, so to screen negative probabilities?
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Just heard the very first F This Movie!'podcast, which frankly doesn't sound much different from the latest one ("Juno") so at least you guys are consistent. Interesting how Patrick came around to liking "Avatar" after initially disliking it. Has anybody in 'the gang' seen the 'Collector's Edition' with the added 16 min. footage? In the podcast Doug wonders about Earth as talked about in the original version, and the new Earth-set prologue and handful of extra scenes might be worth discussing (don't know myself, never seen the new version and only saw "Avatar" twice). Any thought/chance that, for the upcoming 100th anniversary podcast, you guys could do a James Cameron retrospective in which you 'F' all of Cameron's movies? Skip on the junk (early Corman stuff) and then dive into his post-"Terminator" work. The extended version of "Avatar" could be included here, since I doubt you guys would do a whole new "Avatar" podcast just to talk about the added 16 minutes.
Keep up the good work 'F This Movie!' crew. Your "Sleepaway Commentary" was like a wake-up call that you guys are freaking awesome. After listening to about 40+ podcasts (who has time to count? ) on my commute to and from work I can now actually tell Doug apart from Mike now (Alex and JB have their own distinctive voice) and have a new hobby/weekly ad daily appointment to check out. I just hope the suggestions I e-mailed a few days ago aren't completely ignored because that would break my tiny newfangled heart (a fan's heart Patrick, you hear?).


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LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas farmers enter this holiday with a sense of uneasiness as Congress struggles in efforts to reach agreement on a new farm bill.
"It's the not knowing," said Matt Miles, whose family owns a 6,000-acre farm in Desha County.
Miles said it's important for a farm bill to be in place soon so he and thousands of other farmers across the state can begin planning for next year, which includes getting production loans from the bank.
"It's like if you don't have all your tools," he said. "You don't have all the information to obtain a production loan and everybody has to have a production loan. Right now, no one knows what to expect."
U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., and U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, are members of a House-Senate conference committee charged with hammering out an agreement by Dec. 13.
Agriculture is the the largest industry in Arkansas and accounts for about one-fourth — $16 billion — of the state's economic activity. One out of six jobs in the state are agri-related, according to Arkansas Farm Bureau.
For generations, the federal farm bill has set long-term national policy for farm subsidies, food stamps and other rural development projects. Congress last approved a farm bill in 2008 and was scheduled to reauthorize it a year ago. Instead, lawmakers approved a one-year extension of the $500 billion legislation. The extension expired last month.
Agriculture advocates and educators in Arkansas want the next farm bill to be for at last a year, and they want the traditional combination of farm subsidies and food assistance programs.
The House stripped nutrition program from the version it passed, to be considered separately.
"I think it's a mistake," said Arkansas Agriculture Secretary Butch Calhoun. "I'm not going to say they don't need to do something on the nutrition side, the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), but it's a mistake to completely separate them."
Combining the elements "has worked for years and years and years. That gets people to come together from the big cities and from all congressional districts and all the states … and support a farm bill," Calhoun said.
Without a new bill, or an extension of the 2008 bill, the country's farm policy would revert to the 1949 law which, among other things, gives the U.S. secretary of agriculture the power to set price controls and production limits for farmers.
"If no new legislation is passed, then the default legislation would be the 1949 farm bill with budget-busting levels of support, something that neither taxpayers nor consumers would tolerate," said Eric Wailes, who holds the L.C. Carter Chair for Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture.
"I expect that they're going to get to it. Whether or not it's going to be a short-term extension, another one-year extension, or actually get something done remains to be seen," Wailes said.
Rich Hillman, vice president of the Arkansas Farm Bureau and a farmer of soybeans and rice in Carlisle, said Congress must approve at least a one-year extension. Anything less would hurt the state's largest industry, he said.
"Anything other than a full extension is certainly going to leave agriculture, and particularly Arkansas agriculture, in a very, very … unstable manner," Hillman said.
He said the state Farm Bureau opposes the separation of the nutrition programs and farm policies and has voiced its concern to U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Dardanelle, the only member of the Arkansas House delegation who voted against an early version of the House farm bill.
Cotton voted for a later version from which funding for nutrition programs was removed.
"I think he understands where we stand," Hillman said.
Keeping the two together is important because that means the bill gets bipartisan support from both rural representatives as well as those who represent urban areas, he said.
"Agriculture is not as important in some states as it is in others," Hillman said, noting that Los Angeles County in California has 17 U.S. House members, compared to four for all of Arkansas.
Those California members of Congress care a great deal about nutrition assistance programs but "could care less about the agriculture situation in Arkansas," he noted.
Like Miles, Hillman said farmers annually seek production loans from their local bankers and the uncertainty of a long-term farm bill makes it more difficult for bankers to offer the loans.
Along with seed, farmers also must purchase equipment and other items to keep their farms running from year to year.
"So to make those expenditures, to make those financial plans, to be efficient, we need a long-term farm bill," he said.
Calhoun said there is a sense of urgency among many farmers for Congress to get its act together.
"What they need to do is get busy and pass a farm bill," he said. They need to pass one because it's time for people to start borrowing money. It's time for people to start finalizing their plans about what they are going to plant next year."
One thing that will be different, said Miles, Hillman and Calhoun, is that direct government payments to farmers will probably be eliminated in a new farm bill.
Hillman said neither the House version or Senate version of farm bills contain that subsidy, and that is a concern.
"As far as Arkansas farmers are concerned, that's a lot of the safety net we have currently," he said.
Ending direct payments is the primary source of savings in the Senate bill, which would reduce overall spending on agriculture programs by $13.9 billion over a decade, according national reports. The House bill would cut spending on agriculture programs by $12.9 billion over 10 years.
Without the direct payments, the safety net would be maintained, in both bills, with beefed up crop insurance that farmers pay into and provide some additional protections.
Miles and Hillman said Arkansas farmers prefer the direct payments because they don't often file for crop insurance.
"In our area with the irrigation the way it's set up, insurance has never been something that has worked on us," he said, adding the direct payments improves cash flow for the farmers at the beginning of the season.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during in a speech in October that he opposes separation of the farm bill and is optimistic that Congress will come to an agreement before the Dec. 13 deadline.
"There are benefits that will accrue that serve the producers," he said in describing the importance of a farm bill. "The safety net will be put in place and people will be free to invest."


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WACO (November 28, 2012)--Senior care service provider Visiting Angels is collecting pieces of fleece to make blankets for area senior citizens.
There is a suggested donation by Friday of two coordinating pieces of fleece, 1 5/8 yard each.
Patterns should be age appropriate.
Volunteer high school students will prepare the fleece and tie the pieces together at the organizations Christmas party to create as many blankets as possible.
All blankets will be given to the Central Texas Senior Ministries and Friends for Life to be distributed.
Donations can be dropped off at the Visiting Angels office located at 3833 Franklin Avenue, facing Valley Mills.
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SHADYSIDE - Top-seeded St. John Central and Toronto advanced to the Division IV sectional softball tournament co-final Monday with opening-round victories, but the Irish and Red Knights took entirely different paths in reaching their destination at the Mead Township Park Complex.
In the opener, knowing that they only had two hours until the OVAC Banquet of Champions was to start, the Irish (23-3) didn't waste any time in run-ruling Frontier, 15-0, in just 63 minutes.
The Red Knights (16-7) used solid pitching, timely hitting and nearly flawless defense in slipping past Bridgeport, 2-1, in the nightcap that took only 67 minutes to play.
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ONE MORE TIME — The Toronto softball team, led by pitcher Cari Horne, defeated Bridgeport, 2-1, Monday in sectional tournament action. The Red Knights meet St. John Central Wednesday.
-- Kim North
St. John Central and Toronto will return to the Tiger Town diamond Wednesday at 5 p.m. for the right to move on to district tournament action in New Philadelphia next week.
Toronto punched its ticket as No. 9 hitter Carly Cooper singled in Lexie Berger in the third and fifth innings, and Cari Horne scattered three harmless singles.
"I didn't even realize that," Toronto head coach Gene Ciccarelli said when informed of Cooper's heroics. "That's awesome. That's special.
"These are two pretty evenly matched teams. We told the girls to go up there and make contact. Put the ball in play and make them make the plays."
Berger led off the third with a walk and went to second on Chelsea Anderson's sacrifice bunt. A groundout moved her to third and she raced home when Cooper's 2-out infield blooper fell untouched.
The Bulldogs (10-13) drew even in the fourth as Keri Renzler, playing for the first time since suffering a broken thumb in Game 4, was hit by a pitch with two outs. Caitlyn Kroll's single to right sent Renzler scurrying towards third. The relay throw plunked her in the helmet and caromed out of play, allowing her to touch home.
Toronto responded in its next at-bat as Berger's bunt was thrown wildly down the first base line and she hurried to second. Anderson once again laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt to move Berger to third. After Hadzima struck out the next batter for the second out, Cooper sent a shot up the middle that deflected off of Hadzima's glove for an infield single as Berger scored.
All the while, Horne was settling into a groove after the third as she retired nine in a row until Emily Nowakowski's sixth-inning drive to right was dropped, but she was nailed at third on a fine relay throw. Horne got the Bulldogs 1-2-3 to end the game.
Horne finished with seven punchouts and no walks.
Hadzima struck out three and walked a like number. She permitted five hits - all singles.
"I think the nerves might have gotten to the girls," Bridgeport head coach Tom Joseph allowed. "It was only Ashley's second game back pitching after the knee injury and Keri (Renzler) hadn't played since the fourth game.
"The Horne girl pitched a very good game for them. We didn't hit the ball, but when we did, they made the plays.
"I told the girls that I was retired from softball when I took the job because I knew some of the juniors then. That was two years ago and I'm still like coaching these girls."
In the St. John Central win, Hannah Absalom struck out a dozen, walked two and allowed only a bunt single in the top of the fifth in leading the Irish to the lop-sided triumph.
"Hannah was Hannah again today," veteran Irish head coach Jerry Magistro said of his junior ace who notched her fourth 1-hitter of the season. "We didn't expect any less of her today, and she delivered."
She also helped herself at the plate by smacking her second career grand slam that highlighted an 8-run third inning. The Irish sent 13 batters to the plate, with five of them reaching via a base hit. it was her first circuit shot of the year.
St. John Central batted around in the bottom of the first when 11 hitters went to the plate. Morgan DeLuca's sixth roundtripper of the season - a 2-run shot - ignited the early outburst.
Toronto 2, Bridgeport 1
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BRIDGEPORT: Hadzima (LP, 3K, 3BB) and Renzler.
TORONTO: Horne (WP, 7K, 0BB) and Brown; Cooper 2S, 2RBI


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I heard that Bava Basra is the longest masechta in blatt but Brochos is the longest mesechta in words. Did anyone else hear anything about that?
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What most likely got this rumor started is that Brachos does have and lots of pages with minimal commentary. Brachos does in fact (according to my calculations) take the record for most Talmudic text per page.
No, Shabbos is the longest.
See the comments here: http://mi.yodeya.com/questions/2184/shelosha-veshishim-mi-yodeya/2208#2208


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An exciting month for Corvette lovers continues. First the premiere of the new C7 Stingray. Now the Performance Build Center is moving to the Bowling Green Assembly Plant.
"Dollar for dollar, pound for pound, it's the best sports car in the world and then to be able to bring that engine build to Bowling Green too. Detroit is not the only car city. Bowling Green, Kentucky is," says Delivery Manager Gary Cockriel.
Corvette owners will be picking up their brand new cars and engines directly at the National Corvette Museum. Bowling Green will now be the one-stop-shop for everything Corvette.
"They used to have to go to Wixom, Michigan and do it there and have the engine shipped here. Now it's going to be a lot easier to time all that because it's going to be in all one location," says Cockriel.
The sound of engines will bring excitement throughout town with tourists traveling from across the nation.
"This is going to be a great addition to the whole layer of Bowling Green tourism because they can physically help the people on the assembly line put together these high performance engines and see Americas favorite sports car being built," says Telia Butler from the Bowling Green Area Convention and Visitors Bureau.
With more hands on activities local businesses may see more green.
"All the hotels are going to be booked with more car enthusiasts, more Corvette enthusiasts and Bowling Green is just a big hot spot in the nation for automotive industry in general. So this is going to be a big big player," says Butler.
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Bernanke on Baseball: A Beacon for D.C.
The Fed chairman says Washington should learn from the Nationals' twin focus on statistics and intangibles
People decry the absence of leadership in Washington these days. My response: Look no further than the home-team dugout at Nationals Park.
Under Manager Davey Johnson's confident, laid-back leadership, the Washington Nationals, defying all preseason conventional wisdom, have claimed the 2012 championship of the National League Eastern Division and the best regular-season record in Major League Baseball. Who knows what's ahead? Unabashed Nats fans—and I've been one since the team arrived in town in 2005—can only hope.
During the 1960s and '70s, Davey was a Gold Glove Award-winning second baseman for the Baltimore Orioles, Atlanta Braves and other teams. He went on to a fine managerial career that included a 1986 world championship with the New York Mets. This season, at age 69, he has proved indispensable on a team that has thrived despite lack of experience and injuries that have kept many of its star players off the field at times.
Why? He combines the best of two seemingly at-odds managerial traditions.
As an economist and (naturally enough) a devotee of statistics, I came to thinking about the role of baseball managers through my longtime interest in sabermetrics, the approach pioneered by Bill James and others and brought to life in the book "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis. The basic idea is very appealing to an economist: Given the voluminous data available from 130 years of major-league history, it's possible to submit the hoary conventional wisdoms of baseball to rigorous statistical tests. The insights of sabermetrics—such as the importance of on-base percentage, the low value of stolen bases and sacrifice bunts in most situations, and of adjusting for park effects when evaluating player performance—now play a role in every team's thinking.
The alternative view is the traditional scouting approach, putting the highest value on identifying players with the right skills and mental makeup.
In recent years, most baseball teams have combined both approaches. Davey, who earned a degree in mathematics from Trinity University, is the epitome of this head-and-heart consensus. He was an early proponent of the use of statistical analysis in baseball decision-making, and it is clear in his tactical management of games that he is very conversant with sabermetric principles. He well understands, for instance, how to use statistics in determining lineups and pitcher-hitter matchups.
At the same time, Davey is also really good at identifying and nurturing talent. Most strikingly, he has shown himself willing to sacrifice short-term tactical advantage for the long-term benefit of bolstering the confidence of a player in whom he sees great potential. He lets players play through slumps and gives pitchers who have gotten behind a chance to dig themselves out. His reasoning: Giving a promising player the opportunity the prove himself will often do more for the team in the long run than making an ostensibly better tactical decision in the short run—even if it costs the team a game or two.
An example would be Nats shortstop Ian Desmond. A player of great promise, he struggled both offensively and defensively at times during past seasons. Some even questioned his ability to play major-league shortstop. But Davey recognized his talent and told Desmond he would be his shortstop for the year.
Ian's response was to have an absolutely sensational season. This year, he has had the best OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging percentage) of any shortstop in the major leagues. His fielding percentage is the highest, and his errors the lowest, of his career so far. He was named to the National League All-Star team and is one of the major reasons for the Nats' success.
The point is that Davey fully appreciates the importance of making decisions based on factual evidence and rigorous analysis. He strikes the right balance between relying on the tangible (data) and the intangible (confidence and motivation) and shows the rare ability of being able to make the right trade-off between winning the day's game and motivating a player who will help the team win in the long run.
These trade-offs don't always pay off, but many times they do, and the high success rate is a reflection of Davey's ability and judgment—and that of the Nationals' outstanding general manager, Mike Rizzo. Together they have created a team that is not only strong this year but very probably will be for years to come.
Many of us in Washington could learn a thing or two from the Nationals' approach.
—Mr. Bernanke is chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.


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in the animal kingdom. No other animals has the ability to be so sweet and
lovable and yet so tough and intimidating. Your teddy bear is one of the
safest, most precious toys you own. Teddy bears help keep us safe and
protect us from nightmares and the monsters under the bed. Real bears are
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So not so long ago, I asked for a simple proof that $\mathbf{R}$ has only one smooth structure. A proof that was communicated to me by Ryan Budney (link text) was the following:
So let me recall his argument: So let $X$ be a real line endowed with a "potentially" exotic smooth structure. We know that $X$ is Hausdorff and paracompact so for every open covering $\mathcal{U}$ of $X$ we have a partition of unity dominated by $\mathcal{U}$. Using this we can endow $\mathbf{R}$ with a Riemanian metric $ds^2$ (choose your favorite open covering which is locally finite!). Let $x_0$ be a point of $X$ so that $X-x_0=X^+\bigcup X^{-}$ is the disjoint union of the two components. Finally, note that one may integrate this metric against the Haar measure of $X$ using the velocity vectors $1$ and $-1$ in the fiber above $x_0$ to get two bijections
Since the metric $ds^2$ is smooth we see that $f^+$ and $f^-$ are smooth and that they glue in a smooth way. So basically, the proof works because we can think of $\mathbf{R}$ as the union of two geodesics.
Q: Is there somekind of similar argument for $\mathbf{R}^2$ and $\mathbf{R}^3$ ?
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It seems to me in the debate about guns that there are some who are unfamiliar with the text of the Second Amendment. It states:
�A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.�
Within that phrase, there is an enormous amount of room for smart people to debate what �well-regulated� or �militia� means. Also, we already have regulated what �arms� are currently allowed. If there is a chance that there is smart legislation that could keep a gun out of the hands of a person who would harm innocents, we should consider it. The act of considering such laws and passing them if they make sense is consistent with the language of the Second Amendment, and not many have labeled it unconstitutional or un-American.
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Which of the following is correct and why?
- opportunity at the tips of her fingers
- opportunity at the tip of her fingers
The former seems correct to me, but I don't entirely understand why.
Which of the following is correct and why?
The former seems correct to me, but I don't entirely understand why.
Tips is correct because fingers is plural. Since there are several fingers, there are several fingertips. Other examples:
On the other hand,
There's only one tongue, so of course there's only one tip.
When you say "the tips of my fingers", you are referring to the individual tips of each finger. A possible usage would be "I felt a tingling in the tips of my fingers".
However, when you're talking about a more metaphorical something that's just within reach, you would use "the tip of my fingers", since you're referring to all your fingers - your figurative "reach" - as one unit.
Personally, I'm quite happy with He spoke without any notes but seemed to have every fact at the tip of his fingers, but I find opportunity at the tips of her fingers a rather odd metaphoric usage.
Checking Google Books, I find 28 hits for both plural "at the tips of his fingers", 11 for "mixed" "at the tip of his fingers", and 8 for both singular "at the tip of his finger" (obviously "at the tip of his fingers" is nonsense). Note that most of the results seem to be completely literal anyway (Andre looked at the tip of his finger).
For me, the "standard" metaphoric usage is "at his fingertips". I'm not going to try and count the relevant hits in that link - but it's at least tens, if not hundreds of thousands.
Having said all that, regarding OP's specific usage, I think the "correct" version would be "at the tip of her fingers", since the intended sense is of a singular metaphoric reach, ability to access easily.
But if, say, an investigative journalist were talking to his editor, he might more correctly say "I have several reliable sources at the tips of my fingers", since in that case he'd be talking about easily reaching different people in different places.
As I have always done, I will use my own language to help in this answer. Supposedly, when you say "cars", you mean more than one. When you talk about "the motor of the cars", you're referring to a unique model of motor that works in every car, so the motor is repeated after every car, being the car different, but not the motor.
After that, you could say "cars" and then talk about the "the motors of the cars" and you'll be referring to every motor of every car but never stating that they are the same. The previous sentence implies that the motor is the same for the cars.
In your case, the fingers have tips. But the fingers have everyone, a tip. And that's the clue. You may use both with the only difference that the singular form is a generic or general to denominate repeating objects that are almost the same, and the plural, that reveals that being repeating objects almost the same doesn't make them equals.
Sometimes, when you're being so specific, it just has real importance when you're using it (the sentence) in a phrase that requires a clear definition about the question of being many or just one part that repeat in many others. If that is not the case (an expression for example) I don't think you need so much clarity.
Giving a good look at the other answers I realized they are right about the metaphorical use of tip v/s tips. I think that's also a good point.


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Beau Biden Stumps in City
The son of Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday a Mitt Romney victory would mean immediate budget cuts for military veterans.
"President Obama has made a multi-generational commitment to our warriors. Only 2.3 million Americans have served us in the two long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands of men and women veterans have come home with scars we have not yet seen. Our commitment to our veterans must be kept," said Beau Biden, an Iraq war veteran.
"One year ago Gov. Romney gathered a group of military veterans together to discuss his voucher health care program. That would lead to the privatization of the veterans' health care," said Biden.
The Delaware attorney general met with Obama supporters and reporters at the Obama re-election campaign headquarters on South Fourth Street.
"I believe Romney is a patriotic American. But he has chosen to ignore veteran issues and he has chosen a running mate who also has chosen to ignore our veterans. Congressman Ryan enthusiastically supported the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and at the same time he supports tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans," Biden said.
"The Romney-Ryan tax cut plan will give $800 billion in cuts to Americans who are making $1 million a year. And $400 billion will go to 120,000 households in America. At the same time the Romney-Ryan budget plan will cut $11 billion to the Veterans Administration.
"We have the greatest generation of our lives who are now in their golden years. I don't think Romney and Ryan get it. The consistent theme of their campaign is the privatization of government programs."
According to Rob Diamond, vote director for the Obama for America National Veterans and Military Families, "Romney is someone who will shoot first and aim later."
"I will be spending the next two days in Ohio with Beau Biden because this is an important state. Our veterans face a stark choice this November. Americans will start casting absentee ballots in the next few days. President Obama understands the situation we are facing. Under his leadership more Al-Qaida have been killed or captured than under any other administration," Diamond said.
"I take this election very personal because I am a disabled veteran. The Veterans Administration has helped me to return to school and has helped me with my medical issues. Mitt Romney said he doesn't have to worry about 47 percent of Americans. I am proud to be part of the 47 percent. Our president will take care of our veterans. He understands the veterans," said Steubenville resident Ray Martineau.
Also speaking at the press conference was state Sen. Lou Gentile, D-Steubenville, who said the residents of Eastern Ohio have answered the nation's call.
"We have an obligation to care for our veterans upon their return. Our veterans need job opportunities in Ohio. We must do everything we can to provide our veterans with education and training for a job," Gentile said. "President Obama understands we need to find more jobs for our veterans. President Obama will make sure benefits are available for our veterans."


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When I am trying to execute a file(name.sh) in the command line by the command ./name.sh , I am getting the error that:
"." is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable or batch file
please help me execute the .sh file
When I am trying to execute a file(name.sh) in the command line by the command ./name.sh , I am getting the error that:
please help me execute the .sh file
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You're on Windows CMD.EXE (from the error message). It uses a different syntax to execute commands. You'll need to use
To clarify, Windows does not have a built-in utility to support .sh files. To run such, you'll need to install a third-party tool such as Cygwin.
You are trying to run a Linux command at the Windows Command Prompt.
On Linux the forward slash is a path separater. On Windows the backslash is a path separator and the forward slash generally indicates an argument.
Therefore, Windows thinks you are trying to run a command called "." and parsing it the argument "/name.sh". The correct convention would be ".\name.sh". Additionally Windows will automatically search the current directory for your command so you could just type "name.sh".
The next problem you will face is that Windows does not know what a sh script is, again this is a Linux thing. You could solve this by installing Cygwin if you really want or need to run a sh script.
However, judging by one of your previous comments you could just as well rename the script to name.bat and delete the "#!/bin/sh" line. Now you have a Batch file which Windows should understand. You can read more about batch files here.
Alternatively you could turn to the dark side and install Linux. From the prompt:
Your program will run and you will have a better system as well.
Windows doesn't natively run
You're trying to run your car on orange juice instead of gasoline. Windows shares similar commands stored in .bat or .cmd files with Unix/Linux/zOS Unix Subsystem/*ix shell scripts as these two families of operating systems share a common ancestor the DEC PDP-x machines.
If you want instant gratification, you will need to install an environment that provides a "sh.exe" program or "csh.exe" or "bash.exe" program (tsh.exe anyone?)
Alternatively, if you know Unix script commands, very well, and you know Windows .cmd and .bat file commands, very well, you can translate the .sh file into a .bat or .cmd file. Even so, you will often encounter more Unix-styled programs that have no equivalent under Windows--grep, sed, vi, emacs, etc. Thus, the call to install CygWin (no minimalist)--just to get the shell and Unix tools. Put it on a flash-drive, for these special occasions.
Someone said something about MS-DOS using
Has no difference in effect. Yes, it is not true for all operations – the actual answer is simply No, or without Cygwin or SSHD you can't.
I only know because I stupidly spent half a day trying to figure out what
Use Github for Windows. It contains all the Unix environment executables.
It's possible that the problem is actually within the file
So: does
If you have a Linux box in your home (or work) and plugged to the same network, and this network is safe, this might do the trick:
To run the shell script from the windows. First use the command : dos2unix then you can use your normal command : sh runide.sh
This will work out.
ok, there's a LOT wrong with that - drop the #!/bin/sh, and change the extention to bat, and it might work with a few more fixes. Then you can just invoke it by its filename as well.
The syntax of a unix shell script, and a windows batch file arn't too similar. cygwin, or a load of messing around with unxutils might make something that would work in both, but unless you're ABSOLUTELY sure the environment is always the same, it isn't worth the headache
I found a different and easy solution, called UnixUtil.
Download and unzip it to C: drive. Set the environment variable
This is important. DO NOT set path to


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What is the Process if you are Laining Meggilah for women only: Who makes the Bracha? Before and after? Can a person who has already heard be yotzeh the Women? Does it make a difference if it is Multiple women or one?
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See: "Women's Megillah Reading," Aryeh A. Frimer, In "Traditions and Celebrations for the Bat Mitzvah," Ora Wiskind Elper, Editor; Urim Publications: Jerusalem, 2003; pp. 281-304. PDF file available online at: http://mj.bu.edu/rsrc/MailJewish/MjReaderContributions/WomensMegillaReadingRev3.doc; HTML files available at http://www.lookstein.org/articles/women_megilla_reading.htm and http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/english/tfila/frimer2.htm.
Per the Magain Avrohom 585:3 if the one reading the Megila has already heard the Megila and fulfilled the mitzvah, it is advisable that those listening should say the Bracha "Lishmoah Megila" themselves rather than have the reader say the blessing.
To supplement, not supplant, R'Gershon Gold's answer, no one says a b'racha after a reading for women. (Source: Rama 692:1, q.v.)


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As a result of President Barack Obama's recent re-election as our nation's chief executive by a most-impressive 332-206 Electoral College margin over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, combined with the Democrats increasing their majority in the U.S. Senate and making gains in the U.S. House of Representatives, perhaps Republicans will now finally consider being more receptive to the wishes and needs of America's working and middle classes and cease to take their marching orders from the vituperaive demagogues of the conservative entertainment complex. That group includes Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, et al, whose often hate-filled personal rants are seldom based on any semblance of reality and distract from focusing on the critical issues of our nation that need to be addressed.
Over the decades, Democrats have been chiefly responsible for programs and initiatives that have significantly contributed to our greatness as a nation, including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, unemployment compensation and workers' compensation to name but a few.
During his first term in the White House, Obama's leadership has been critical and chiefly responsible for the following: equal pay for equal work; saving the domestic auto industry; credit card reform; the Hate Crimes Prevention Act; the Affordable Care Act; student loan reform; Wall Street reform; middle class tax cuts; repeal of don't ask, don't tell; raising fuel efficiency standards; ending the war in Iraq, etc.
Is it not now finally time for Republicans to concentrate on the nation's business and challenges and be less obstructionist and more willing to consider compromise for our nation's greater good?
Without a positive refocusing of their political and national goals and strategies and becoming more statesmanlike in their approach to the legislative process with a prioritization of the needs of the working class, including less advocacy for the very wealthy, the Republican Party on a national level may be in jeopardy of losing significant relevance as a major political force.
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I'm wondering how other people feel about forward symlinks: are they safe? Good practice? Depends?
The reason I ask is that apparently in the linux desktop world, there seems to be a push by various distros to combine /usr/bin with /bin.
I've asked why but haven't gotten any great answers other than being able to do an "exec" call to load programs and not have to search PATH (which, to me, seems a rather inconsequential thing to do).
So they don't want to search path and always use /usr/bin/ -- ok, why not just put symlinks in /usr/bin pointing back to /bin? (FWIW, it's not just "bin", but also sbin, lib and lib64).
Instead of using backlinks, my current current distro has chosen to move binaries off of the root partition onto/into /usr and, as they move files from /[s]bin and the libs to /usr/[s]bin, they are putting forward-links from the root-based dirs to the files in /usr.
I have gotten no reasons, at all, for why they decided to move things from the root partition to /usr, but I thought it was common sense, in the case of critical files (like those needed for boot), to never use links to a file-system that might not be mounted by the time you can reference the symlinks.
I.e. links in /usr to root are safe because you can't mount /usr if you don't have a root! But the other way around... moer than once I've restored /usr from backup or hand-fixed some problem solely from the rootfs.
Am I being overly conservative or are forward link now considered to be in the realm of 'good practice' for critical files??


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Fenix TK11 R5 258-Lumen Cree LED Flashlight for $51.99 + free shipping
Have no fear of the dark with this Fenix TK11 R5 LED Flashlight. Outshine the cheap flashlights your neighbor uses thanks to the powerful 258 Lumen Cree LED bulb.
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People still spend this much money on cree flashlights?
Looks little overpriced... I can find a 250 lumen flashlight that use 3xAAA batteries in my local auto parts store for $30.
In general, Lumen output is inaccurate at best.
Good luck finding actual test data on these flashlights showing actual output.
I was at Cabella's and happened to have my light meter with me.
I chatted with one of their sales people and we made an inpromptu lightbox (cardboard box with a hole on each end
we measured about a two dozen LED flashlights (mostly), headlamps, lanterns
Those that had lumen output were anywhere from 20-80% less than listed...
We used a new set(s) of lithium batteries for the tests...
My $.02
Fenix actually adheres to the ANSI FL1 standard for lumen measurement.
So what you are saying is, it meets the ANSI standards for overpriced 258 lumen Cree flashlights?
There Are a ton of crap lights out there. In fact, its hard to find a good one amidst all the junk.
most cheap ones are advertised by their LED output NOT ANSI ratings that tell the OTF or "Out The Front" lumens. This number can be 30% lower in some cases.
Fenix is well renowned as one of the best.
This is a great deal and its about time we see some good lights here.
Check out this link for a killer review. and some good lights.
Just go to Costco, you can get a 3 pack of 250 lumen lights for $15 bucks with duracell batteries included for each light. They are nice and bright.
I'm not saying the Fenix light is a bad light, but I have yet to test them in person. Mostly cause of the cost. Besides, unless you are doing some serious away from civilization searching, what do you need an expensive light like this for? Honestly, if someone can tell me, I might consider one of these.
@schujo77: Personally I want a light that works when I need it and I know that I can count on it. I've seen too many of the cheaper lights crap out within a month due to bad contacts, crappy circuit boards, or failed switches. I have several Fenix lights in different sizes and none of them have failed on me.
BTW $55.89 on amazon.
@bowlingb: Fair enough, however, I've had my Costco lights for over a year now and they are still rock solid. I agree that there are too many inexpensive lights that fall apart, but Costco usually sells fairly good quality items. Ok, I'm going to quit now cause even I am being sickened by how much I'm talking up that company.
I had a Fenix penlight (one of the single-AAA superbright jobs) that just went out on me recently after 2 years of occasional use. I suspect that I left it on & it burned out, or something similar; I would have no compunction about buying another one even given that the first one failed.


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Here, a story is told of a competitor in the Russian math olympiad of 1945. The boy did not solve a single problem, but received a prize for writing:
I spent much time trying to prove that a straight line can't intersect three sides of a triangle in their interior points but failed for, to my consternation, I realized that I have no notion of what a straight line is.
Assume the standard Euclidean geometry of the plane. What is the simplest way to prove this statement? Can it be done without analytic geometry?
As noted in the quote, a lot of this has to do with how to rigorously define. A related question is: how is Euclidean geometry rigorously defined today, and in particular, what is a line? What is a point? A triangle?


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The 8 Most Badass Make-A-Wish Foundation Wishes
#4. Erik Flips Off Animal Rights Organizations
In 1996, 17-year-old Erik, suffering from a brain tumor, wanted to kill a bear.
Now, before you fly to the comment section to complain, you should know that the bear was a Kodiak brown bear that was in season in Alaska at the time. Make-A-Wish prepared all the proper paperwork and permits to make the hunt go through. It was during this bureaucratic period that numerous animal rights groups leaped into action, trying to stop the trip.
Heidi Prescott, director of the Fund for Animals -- and someone who frequently misses the point -- offered Erik a camera so that he could take a picture of a bear instead of killing it. Pierce Brosnan, a terrible actor, invited Erik and his family to the film set of Dante's Peak if Erik would call off the hunt. In a move that should shock no one, Erik declined both offers.
"I got all the Brosnan I could handle in the GoldenEye game."
As the big trip grew nearer, activist groups began to place more and more pressure on Make-A-Wish to stop the hunt. Groups held protests and inundated the Minnesota branch handling the wish with angry phone calls and letters. But, come on, this kid is actively dealing with a bear and a fucking brain tumor; what chances do your puny letters stand?
Ultimately, the attempts to stop the trip failed. One early morning, without warning, the boy, his father and their hunting guide took off to an undisclosed location in Alaska to hunt the bear. The results of the trip were never released, and honestly it doesn't really matter. The real point of the trip was for Erik to spend one last weekend with his family doing what he loved most. He got that.
"You only get one bullet, son. Then it's just you, the bear and a bowie knife."
Although Make-A-Wish chose to stay away from hunting wishes after the PR disaster this one brought, another organization soon stepped in to fill their place. Hunt of a Lifetime now fulfills all the animal-killing wishes sick kids can handle. We doubt they care too much what animal activists think.
So if you're sick and want to go out fighting rhinos with a machete, they're your best bet.
#3. Ben Makes a Cancer-Fighting Game
Bay Area Make-a-Wish Foundation
9-year-old Ben was having difficulty combating the nasty side effects of chemotherapy needed to fight leukemia. Instead of just sitting around and moping about his struggles, he decided to turn the tables and challenge cancer to a duel on his terms: Ben wished for a video game, starring himself, that was all about beating the shit out of invading cancer cells.
Make a Wish Foundation
That wish was made with the stipulation that Electronic Arts have nothing to do with it.
Ben's trouble's caught the attention of LucasArts game designer Eric Johnston who, inspired by Ben's story, convinced LucasArts to donate their facilities for use after hours. After six months of working together, Ben and Eric released Ben's Game in 2004. In the free downloadable game, users play as a character modeled after Ben as they "zoom around on a skateboard" and fight cancerous cells, battle monsters and stave off the negative effects of chemotherapy. It's Ben's little way of saying "Sure, in the hospital cancer puts up a good fight, but in the game, I'm kicking its ass and also I have a skateboard."
"Who's laughing now, cancer?"
Because Ben is a better person than anyone reading or writing for this website could ever hope to be, he specifically designed the game to help other children with cancer, not just himself. Ben's Game is installed in hospitals all across the world and available for download. Ben created a way for young cancer patients to deal with their chemotherapy in a way that was fun and accessible. At 9 years old. Download it here.
It's great for sick kids and bored college students trying to ignore the lecture.
#2. Ezra Gets the L33t Treatment
While many players of Blizzard's World of Warcraft see the game as an outlet to another world, few needed it as much as 10-year-old Ezra Chatterton, who had spent several years battling a brain tumor. Ezra long wished to play WoW, but his father refused due to the family not being able to afford a proper computer or account. That all changed when Ezra's house tragically burned down and all his toys were destroyed. In response, a computer (and a new house) was purchased, and Ezra and his father quickly took to bonding as they journeyed through Azeroth together.
"Look, son! An orc tea-bagging a night elf!"
Blizzard soon caught word of the both tragic and wonderful story of their game bringing a struggling family together and quickly partnered with Make-A-Wish to bring Ezra to their main office in California in 2007 for a day of fun and adventure.
Ezra received a tour of the company, but his real reward came in helping the design team create a series of content for the game: most notably a character named Ahab Wheathoof, voiced by Ezra. Ahab sends the player on a quest to rescue his lost dog -- an animal based on Ezra's pet dog.
Apparently Ezra's dog could viciously murder you.
The fun didn't stop there, however, as later in the day Ezra's character was increased to the then maximum level of 70. He was also given a ton of gold and, most awesomely, limited exclusive rights to the Ashes of Al'ar -- a super rare phoenix mount added to the game that day.
One day, science will be able to engineer real flaming birds to help sick kids.
The last thing Ezra did before heading home was receive temporary admin power, in-game. While he may have been weak in our world, for a short time he was the most powerful character alive in Azeroth. Ezra used his newfound powers to obliterate some of the newest, toughest enemies the game had to offer like it wasn't even a thing. In the years to come, Blizzard would donate $1.1 million and $800,000 directly to Make-A-Wish.
Better known by Blizzard as "22 minutes worth of profit" and "16 minutes worth of profit."
#1. Erik Becomes a Superhero
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington
For his wish, 13-year-old Erik wanted to become a superhero.
A few days later, Spider-Man called asking for his help. Spidey alerted Erik that the dreaded Dr. Dark and Blackout Boy, a new supervillain duo (played by Edgar Hansen and Jake Anderson from The Deadliest Catch), were terrorizing the people of Seattle. They'd captured the Seattle Sounders MLS team and were holding them hostage in their own locker room. Spider-Man explained that he was busy, and he knew that Erik was really just the secret identity of the superhero Electron Boy, so he begged Eric for his help in saving the day.
Make a Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington
He also gave Eric a DeLorean. Because Spider-Man is the shit.
Eric got into costume. He got his magic lightning rod. And he was ready for action.
After being escorted to the stadium, Erik met with fellow hero Lightning Lad, who instructed him to free the soccer players by blasting open the locker room doors with his lightning rod. The Sounders were free, and everyone was celebrating on the field when the Jumbotron POPPED to life with a message from Dr. Dark.
Make a Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington
Who apparently has an IV bag of evil.
Dark explained that he and Blackout Boy had positioned themselves at Puget Sound Electric and were holding one of its employees hostage. Erik was off to battle again, riding alongside 20 police officers, as well as over a thousand Seattle citizens who spent all day cheering on the young boy wherever he went.
Make a Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington
Congratulations, Erik, you win at childhood.
After freeing the hostage, Erik's big day ended with a climactic showdown with Dr. Dark and Blackout Boy at the Space Needle. Upon seeing the two villains, Electron Boy attacked with his lightning rod, freezing both of them in their tracks. The police apprehended the villains and the day was saved!
Soon after the event, City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw claimed the day to be "Electron Boy Day." When asked for comment, Erik responded, "This is the best day of my life."
Make a Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington
We've never looked that cool doing anything.
And that's what wishing is all about.
To contribute to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, click here.
Matthew Culkin is a junior English major at Tulane University. Reach him for comment or writing opportunity at firstname.lastname@example.com, or follow him on Twitter.
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