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I consider buying a Chinese tablet with an Exynos 5250 SoC. It is a Voyo A15. It is not supported by CyanogenMod, but there is a Custom ROM available for this tablet. I would want to install Ubuntu Touch on it.
My question: Would it be possible to port Ubuntu Touch to this device? Considering it has the same SoC as the Nexus 10. I have enough Linux experience (of building kernels etc.), so I could do (at least try to do) the porting myself. The manufacturer has not yet released the source for their ROM, but the drivers for the Exynos chip are available. The Exynos is not the only chip on the tablet, so if the manufacturer doesn't release those drivers, is it still possible?
Maybe this is not the right place to ask this question, should I try at CyanogenMod forums? Maybe there is someone with experience of porting CyanogenMod/UbuntuTouch to exotic Android Tablets?

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If I want to replace sugar with honey in black or green tea, can I add the honey at any point or should I wait until the tea cools down a bit?
There is apparently evidence that some of the flavour compounds in honey deteriorate during heating:
The text suggests that honey should not be heated to more than 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit). So it might be wise to let the tea cool down a bit before adding the honey. Having said that, I usually put the honey in immediately after removing the tea leaves and it tastes fine to me. The flavour of the honey is clear and pronounced and I have never felt that anything was missing.
It is preferable to add the honey into the tea when it is hot to let it melt a bit. Otherwise, it'll be harder to mix it in. And yes, you can replace sugar with honey in tea. It is healthier and I do it all the time.
If you want to try something other than honey, agave nectar is another sweet alternative. I use it in baking instead of honey sometimes.
Some people are "iffy" as to this because it generally requires a lot more to sweeten than sugar, and can leave a residue if too much is present, but I actually generally prefer to sweeten my tea (and coffee) with honey and/or brown sugar.
Hmn... It's not the flavor that you should be worrying about when adding honey to hot tea, but rather, the honey's natural antibiotic properties. At high temperatures, the enzymes are destroyed.
Well, the thing asks that I avoid making statements based on my opinion... So I'd like to claim right here that this is not my opinion. I study food technology and honey was a topic that was discussed. And also, I was holding a conversation with the guy selling Manuka honey. So although I can't back up my words, I'll provide a link with information on honey.
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6 Absurd Pirate Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies)
#3. Sailors Became Pirates to Live a Life of Crime
The Myth:
Based on what we've learned from the singing pirates on Peter Pan, the life of a pirate was all about stealing, fighting and collecting booty, and therefore the decision to become one must have depended entirely on how much you enjoyed those things. Pirates of the Caribbean adds "ingesting massive amounts of alcohol" to the mix. Look at any pirate song and you'll see the same basic ingredients repeated over and over.
Above: Roughly three-tenths of a pirate.
In fact, the entire twist of movies like The Princess Bride (we're assuming you've either seen it by now or don't care) depends on people taking for granted that the only way to become a pirate was by being a complete wreck of a human being -- not even Westley's own crew knows he sort of stumbled upon his "Dread Pirate Roberts" title out of necessity, not criminal tendencies, because that would kill his reputation.
More so than those Saw movies he'd go on to make.
After all, it's not like decent citizens just went and became pirates all the time ...
The Truth:
Wait, no, it did happen all the time. The overwhelming majority of pirates were honest sailors who ditched their jobs because the conditions were awful. Only a small minority became a pirate because they actually enjoyed being an outlaw. Being a sailor during pirate times was one of the shittiest jobs ever, and if they lived under British rule, most of them didn't so much "sign up" as "get kidnapped by the Royal Navy."
This was before they invented patriotism.
Seriously, at one point, half the British Navy consisted of men forcibly recruited by hired thugs who scoured the harbors looking for anyone with a full set of limbs. If they didn't have enough money to pay off these thugs, they were suddenly sailors. "Pressed men" were paid less than volunteers (if they were paid at all), were shackled to the ships while on port so they didn't try to make a run for it and were flailed for any minor offense in a naval handbook that they probably didn't even get a chance to read.
"That's the last time he'll hum "Karma Chameleon" on deck."
That's without counting all the storms, crowded quarters and tropical diseases that made life so shitty for sailors in general. As a result, 75 percent of men who were press-ganged ended up dead within two years. So when a pirate crew captured their ship and offered them an alternative to certain death and constant humiliation, a lot of them understandably replied, "Fuck yeah!" In pirate movies, there's always a huge difference between the clean-cut lawful sailors and the nasty, deformed pirates, but it turns out they were basically the same thing.
Wouldn't the older pirates basically treat the fresh meat like slaves, though? Apparently not. We've told you about Black Bart, the sailor who was captured by pirates and six weeks later became their captain -- kinda like Westley's story in The Princess Bride, except for the fact that his crew knew exactly where he came from and didn't give a shit.
"This guy has fewer visible open sores than any of us. He should be captain!"
#2. Pirates Buried Their Treasure
The Myth:
This is like the main thing that pirates do, right? Steal treasure, put it in a chest, bury it someplace and then draw a map to remind themselves where they left it? If we are to believe RPG games, the whole world is littered with treasure chests that someone forgot about -- and according to The Goonies, the map could very well be hidden in your attic.
Which would imply that you're the descendant of a deformed mass-raping pirate, but whatevs.
The Pirates of the Caribbean movies notably found more things for the pirates to do than just bury and search for treasure, but those are still important parts of the story. After all, they couldn't get away with ignoring such a central part of real-life pirating, because this was totally a real thing that people did (we sure hope the next paragraph doesn't disprove it).
The Truth:
Pirates did bury their treasure ... like three times. None of those three guys made a map, meaning that authentic pirate treasure maps have simply never existed.
"Hey, this is just a picture of mom and dad wrestling without pants on!"
Not only did treasure maps not exist -- they were never even necessary, because the buried booty was usually found right away. The first pirate that we know for sure buried a treasure was Sir Francis Drake, who in 1573 robbed a Spanish mule train loaded with gold and silver and buried some of it along the road because it was too heavy to carry in one trip (if only there had been some mules nearby). Apparently the treasure wasn't so expertly hidden, though, because by the time Drake and his men came back to retrieve it the Spanish had found and dug up most of it.
Inside was a note that said, "SUCK IT, DRAKE."
Another famous pirate, Roche Brasiliano, confessed to burying more than a hundred thousand pieces of eight near Cuba after being tortured by the Spanish Inquisition, who thanked him for the tip and killed him. Captain William Kidd is said to have buried some treasure near Long Island in 1699, but again it was found by the authorities almost right away and used as evidence against him in England. And that's about it. If there were more, no one's been able to prove it.
Maybe if those guys had been more successful, treasure-burying might have caught on among pirates, but that doesn't seem to be the case. However, there were still persistent (unfounded) rumors that some of Captain Kidd's treasure was never found, and that was enough to capture the imagination of writers and painters everywhere.
Original gangster.
Kidd's legend inspired Washington Irving's Tales of a Traveller in 1824 and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Gold-Bug" in 1843, among others, which incorporated the idea of a treasure map. Irving's work influenced Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, and the rest was (a gross misconception of) history.
"Centuries from now, my memes will live on."
So if they never buried it, what did pirates do with all that gold that they obviously collected? Well ...
#1. Pirates Mostly Stole Gold
The Myth:
Pretty much every pirate movie we've mentioned so far involves some sort of massive stash of pirate gold: There's the room full of treasure in The Goonies ...
The haunted gold cavern in Pirates of the Caribbean ...
Somehow, treasure hordes are less satisfying without Sean Astin.
And the entire treasure island in Treasure Island (we're guessing, we've never seen it). Often the entire plot revolves around getting or keeping the gold, like in Roman Polanski's Pirates or Cutthroat Island.
But pirates did raid ships and steal their gold: That's a historical fact, and don't you dare take that away from us, Cracked. Why else would they raid ships? What could possibly be more important to pirates than riches?
Other than booty.
The Truth:
How about soap? Or food? Or candles, sewing tools and other horribly mundane household supplies? When a ship was taken by pirates, the loot was more often that not a cargo of salted fish or supplies going to the colonies -- and they were pretty OK with that.
Riches don't stop the hunger seizures.
Pirates were big fans of gold and silver, but they were even bigger fans of not starving to death in the middle of the ocean or accidentally drowning because they didn't have the equipment to perform necessary repairs on their ships. Being outlaws, they knew they couldn't just pull into the local 7-Eleven and load up on provisions and spare parts, so they had to be judicious when it came to their loot. They also raided ships for slightly less boring stuff like gunpowder and navigational tools. For those sailing in tropical climates, however, the real treasure was actually a chest filled with medical supplies.
And if they did come across a spectacular amount of money (which did happen on occasion), they preferred to spend that shit right away in a place like Port Royal -- the pirate harbor so licentious that God pulled a Sodom and Gomorrah on it -- rather than save up to invest in some sort of 17th century 401k.
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In my experience it seems that colleagues who arrive at work early (= right on time) are generally the most productive in the team. Sure there are always outliers, but in general this seems to be the case, at least in my experience and line of work.
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Some of the PVC windows in my house lets wind and cold in, so I need to adjust them to cut off the draught. I have no experience in adjusting them, so I need to find out how I can achieve this. Any tips?
The windows look like this:
If the windows are no longer sealing correctly, replacing the weather stripping is the easiest method to close drafts.
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Make sure the drafts you are experiencing are coming from the within the window frame, though. Some drafts sneak around the outside of the frame, and you may need to place or replace insulation around the frame if the drafts are not actually coming through the window itself.
I've found out that UPVC doors and windows can be adjusted by a technique called "toe and heeling". I have managed to fix the issue after watching the following video. I have checked and adjusted the hinges and the roller cams.
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I'm trying to follow a line in a derivation for $P(Z>X+Y)$ where $X,Y,Z$ are independent continuous random variables distributed uniformly on $(0,1)$.
I've already derived the pdf of $X+Y$ using the convolution theorem, but there's a line in the answer that says:
$P(Z>X+Y) = \mathbb{E}[\ P(Z>X+Y\ |\ X+Y )\ ]$ where $\mathbb{E}$ is the expectation.
I'm not familiar with this result. Could anyone give a pointer to a similar result if one exists?


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Maybe this will be long but I want to cover as much detail as I can to get proper help, because I think I need it.
I'm 23 years old. I'm a Computer Engineer who got top 10 degrees in university, and I'm working in a private company (since 6 month) which some days ago told me they told me I'd get a raise because they're happy with me.
Who can't be happy saying this?. Well, I don't. I always say, to my family and friends that I'm not an "above average person" (which rarely they believes me). Well, believe it please, I'm not.
This is a moment in my life where I stopped to think why I'm not really happy about myself, and I think I came to the conclusion that my good performance comes from a really deep fear of failure about everything I face to do. I never failed in an exam, never fail a test in school, never fail in about anything I did...
I have to be honest and admit that I had fear about failing exams, I had fear about what others think about me if that could happend, meet expectations, maintain that image others believe about me... it seems that I value myself under the metric "good results" in a very "cold" way. All this was the fuel that let me achieve such good results in university; and the same happens with my job. In work, in such a short time a try to achieve the same level of expertise of senior professionals, and I put a lot of pressure on myself.
I know it's wrong to be so self-demanding, there's a high cost to pay (stress). All this seems to show a lack of confidence, fear of failure, giving value of myself depending of really not such important things in life.
I know this is not the psychology stackexchange (I don't even know that would be the right place), I just need some advice. I'd not be angry if this is closed, but who knows..
Edit: I'm asking for some resources (books, websites, etc) or personal advice that would help me overcome this situation. I believe this long term stress (if not solved) would eventually force my productivity to decline I guess worsening the situation.


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My husband died of cancer on January 17, 1996. He was 42 years old. He left me and my son, who was 6 years old at the time. We will always love and miss him but I know he's in God's hands now. God is Calling is a painting of my husband when he died. I knew he was in peace and in no more pain.


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Coll. by M.C. Parler Mr. William Eden
Monte Ne, Ark.
January 20, 1960
Reel 343, Item 3
Talk about the outlaws on the border: Sam Bass, the Jameses, the Youngers, the Starrs, and others.
MCP: Did you ever hear anybody say they had met Sam Bass?
WE:No ma'am.
MCP: Do you know the song about Jesse James?
WE No ma'm.
MCP: Did the Younger boys run with the same crowd that Bass ran with?
WE: No no no no! Sam didn't fool with them at all. Sam he left his home at sixteen and went to Texas, you know, add he got in with em in Texas. Cole Younger commences
I am a bandit highway man Cole Younger is my name
(After Mr. Edens sings this song, which will be transcribed as Item 4, he continues to talk about the desperadoes, and that will be transcribed as a continuation of item 3)
MCP: They don't tell how Core Younger died, do they?
WE: Nono no. But we have news of him, and the history books, that Cole eventually was released. He made a preacher while he was in the penetentiary. And Jim Younger, his brother, —
Bob, now, that was the one that got shot in the mouth — Bob he died — and Jim Younger and Cole they served and they paroled emfor so long, and Jim wanted to marry his old sweetheart, and they wouldn't stand fer it under the parole, you know.
They wouldn't allow him to, and he killed himself. And afterwards they give Cole a free parole.
MCP: And he took to preachin'?
WE: Why he preached in the penetentiary. And he preached after he got out.
And Jess James and Frank they left Cole and them after that robbery — they was ail into that, and Frank and Jess got clear away. And they captured Cole and them in the cave.
MCP: And then Jesse James got shot in the back by one of his own men, didn't he?
WE: Yeh, by his cousin. Him and Bob was cousins. But I beaieve
-more-another man died for Jess.
Reel 343, Item 3
I'll tell you what I do know: I've read their books a lot, and their pictures in em you know. And while I was in Oklahoma —now after I got to be great-grandpaw in Oklahoma —
. . . my wife was a great reader, and we took lots of papers.
And we got a paper with Jess James's picture in it, and when I looked at the picture I said, "There's Jess James's picture." When we come to read it, there was Jesse's confession that he that Bob killed another man for him. And Bob, you see — the government had offered so-much reward, and it was reprieved for Jess James's body, dead or alive. And Bob planned with a feller that him and that feller he was a-planning with that kind of favored Jess to capture Jess. Bob told the feller they would. And Bob told Jess how he'd have the man fixed and have him settin' in the chair waitin' fer Jess to come in. And the man was to kill him. Jess come in and shot the feller in the back of the head. Jess killed him himself, killed the man himself And they thought Bob had killed the man, and so Bob got his pardon and also his reward. And Jess got away.
And this man now, that the picture — said he was Jess James. And he said that when he left there, he never did live with his family any more. He left there and he went to — now I'm studying what state he went to — but anyhow, he went there and he married another woman. But of course, he went by the name of Robert Howard. And he married another woman. And he said, one day — why it had went on for years. And Jess was dead, of course. And Frank James, his daddy-in-law — I guess he was in good standing, a man that was well-thought-of, his daddy-in-law. And they lawed Frank out. And that turned Frank loose, you know. And so Frank understood that his brother was living. If he hadn't, he'd a killed Bob Ford, that's what he'd a done. In my judgement.
And one day, though, this feller said that he was settin' a-talkin' with some fellers, and a man come along, said, "Hello there!" Why, he said, "Jesse James!" And said his wife was settin' in the door and heard it. And he said he got up and went out there. And he was one of the Youngers' relatives that feller was. And he come along and knowed Jess. Him and
Jess talked a long while, this paper said, and the feller went on, and went back and said to his wife, he said, "Well, what are you going to do about it?" She said, "About what?" Said "You heared what that feller called me?" "Yeah." "Well," he said, "I'm Jess James." He said, "What are you goin' to do?"
And she told him, she said, "You've made me a livin' and treated me right, and I'm goin' to stay with you as long as we live."
And he outlived her, and he come into Oklahoma now, he claimed. He was at Muskogee, Oklahoma, lookin' for a man who was a U.S. detective at that time, and Jess and him knew one
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another. Jess knowed when they'd meet that one or tother of em would die — they'd shoot one another down. And he was a- goin' then to see Uncle Bud — I forgit the feller, Bud somebody — and so he went on to Muskoggg, and Uncle Bud was dead.
And he had a son Bud, and he visited with that Bud. And he come back and he said he was goin to Fort Smith to meet some friends that he had down there. And that was the last I heard of him.
WE: Wasn't Belle Starr a kind of a pal of Jesse James's? No,
Cole Younger.
MCP: Did you ever hear of Cherokee Bill?
WE: I not only heard of him, I seen him. Face to face. Himand Henry Starr both. When they was in Fort Smith jail, they was under a death sentence then. And Henry was only about eighteen. And so Belle ahd been in there with em, and she concealed a pistol and got it in there to Cherokee Bill. And the man that captured Cherokee Bill, he said he'd kill the man that captured him if he ever got out. And they even phoned to that man to
look out, they thought he was goin' to make his getaway. But
they surrounded him and held him in there. And he eventually agreed to give his surrender to one feller, give his pistol
to one certain feller, and he said that was to Henry Starr.
And they told him to hand it over and they'd come in then, and so he thought that Henry -- him and Henry was both under death sentence, they was goin' to hang — and Henry just turned the pistol, the stock of it, and handed it through the bars, and the muzzle of it back towards himself, to the officer. And he tuck it, and Cherokee Bill said, "Henry, you ain't got the nerve I thought you had." And they gave Henry a — sent him to the pen, saying that they was commutin' his sentence and sent him to the pen. And then eventually got out. And Henry was out several years. And he helped some more fearers to make a robbery and got killed down south in this state. I lived down in Oklahoma right among — I knew Cale Starr, a cousin to Henry,
I knew him down there. And I knew the Christys. You've heard of them, ain't ye?
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Huskies' Hartley to miss Sunday's opener with ankle injury
All-America guard could be out 2-4 games
|Connecticut's Bria Hartley, left, celebrates with fans in the seated in the student section after her team's win over Texas A&M in an NCAA college basketball game in Hartford, Conn., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Connecticut won 81-51. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
STORRS – The UConn women's basketball team will definitely start the season without its lone All-American on Sunday, as the Huskies' medical staff discovered that Bria Hartley's ankle injury is more serious than initially diagnosed.
Hartley said that team physician, Dr. Tom Trojian, expects her to miss 2-4 games, because further review of the MRI done on her ankle showed not only a high grade sprain but a partial ligament tear.
Coach Geno Auriemma said Friday that he expects Hartley to miss Sunday's season opener against Charleston and the Huskies' second game, at Texas A&M, but he hopes she will be ready for the team's trip to the Virgin Islands for games 3-5 in the Paradise Jam tournament.
"She's missed a month now," Auriemma said. "So I would say right now what's realistic is that she's going to need at least a week, if not more, of practice before she's a hundred percent, like ready to practice and ready to play.
"So in my mind I'm thinking, `OK, sometime after Texas A&M (Nov. 18),' Because it would difficult to come back next week. We only have a couple days of practice, travel and then say, `OK, you're ready to play.' So I'm not counting her Sunday. In my mind, I'm not counting on her at Texas A&M. After that I'd be a little bit surprised if she wasn't ready for the Paradise Jam.''
Hartley injured the ankle during the FIBA World 3-on-3 championships in Greece at the end of August. She played after hurting the ankle and also returned to campus and continued individual drills and pickup games.
It wasn't until she finally told the coaching and medical staffs that the ankle still hurt that Auriemma sidelined her after the first official day of practice on Oct. 14.
``I probably should've sat out a little bit earlier,'' Hartley said. ``Now you just do what the doctor says and just work on getting better. That's the only thing I can do. (Athletic trainer) Rosemary (Ragle) has me doing a bunch of workouts and stuff, trying to stay in shape a little bit, get my stamina up. So that's really all I'm concentrating on.''
Hartley has been wearing a boot cast all day except for when she goes to bed or goes to physical therapy.
``It's frustrating, but at the same time it is a long season and you don't want it to get worse,'' Hartley said. ``So you just want to make sure it's fully healed. I don't really want it to be like a nagging injury all season. It definitely feels better from when I first realized I was hurting really bad. It's probably like 70 percent almost. I'm doing a lot of stuff in the pool, doing a lot of stuff on the bike. It's helping a little bit.''
Hartley said that her range of motion is improving and the swelling is decreasing so there are at least signs of encouragement. She is doing things a little at a time to make sure she isn't creating another setback for herself or causing more pain.
She said she wants to get back to practice as soon as possible, because she's getting really annoyed at having to sit out.
"So soon I'll be back in there, at least doing a little bit of court stuff, maybe doing stuff with Rosie on the side," Hartley said. "I was able to shoot a little bit today. So that was good. Just like free throws, stationary stuff. They still don't want me jumping on it. But they did say I'll come out of the boot for maybe like three hours a day like while we're in practice and try to do stuff out of the boot and see how that feels."
She does feel like all the time she has missed has been somewhat of a setback in terms of learning the offensive sets Auriemma wants to run and developing chemistry with the new players. But she said she's been paying attention from the sideline and knows Auriemma will be there when she gets back on the court.
In her absence, the Huskies have looked to fifth year senior Caroline Doty and freshman Moriah Jefferson to run the offense.
Auriemma said he is not yet sure what his starting lineup for Sunday's game will be. He knows that Kelly Faris, Stefanie Dolson and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis will all start. He said he is considering two combinations of players to fill the other two spots. He will likely either start Doty with freshman forward Breanna Stewart or will start Jefferson at guard with Morgan Tuck at forward.
"I always tend to lean toward experience," Auriemma said. "But if I start Caroline and Stewie with the other three, what do you do when Bria comes back? Somebody's got to sit."
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My house has vinyl siding. If I want to hang something on an exterior wall, can I just attach it with screws drilled through the siding? Or do I need to do anything to prevent water from seeping in around the screws?
The siding needs to remain free to expand and contract. So cutting at least a slot , then hanging something through that would work, but would be unsightly, and would leak water through the hole. So I think that finding some kind of gasket or trim piece (such as is found where your vents protrude through siding) and trimming with J-channel all around it would look better and would be less prone to leaks.
You should probably seal it with some kind of silicone based caulk. If water seeps in behind the vinyl you'd be inviting mold and other damage. Whenever I've attached things or drilled through my siding I've always used DAP clear silicone caulk to seal around the hole.


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Oak Creek's Ben Hakes makes WIAA state wrestling semifinals
Proving that anything worth having is worth working for, Oak Creek 160-pound wrestler Ben Hakes went the full mile Thursday at the WIAA State Individual Tournament in making Friday's semifinals.
Hakes (44-1) had a small lead over Oshkosh West's Cole Yoder (26-8) for most of the first-round bout before pinning him at 5:56 and then in the quarterfinals, he got a key reversal at the start of the third period and then held on for a 4-3 win over Hortonville's stubborn Nate Rynish (39-9).
The two victories advance Hakes, in his first state tournament appearance, to Friday's 6 p.m. semifinals at the Kohl Center in Madison agains Wausau West's Travis Hettinga (43-3).
The championship bouts will be 6 p.m. Saturday.
"A lot of hard work went into this," he said. "I just had to make sure that I wrestled like I had all season. Do what got me here in the first place."» Read Full Article
Date steals woman's belongings, strands her at gas station
Oak Creek — Officers responding to a report of a "hysterical" female inside a gas station Feb. 22 discovered a first date gone terribly wrong. The woman told police her date ditched her and took off with all her belongings.
According to the Oak Creek police report:
An employee called police to report a woman was hysterical and crying inside Kwik Trip, 9535 S. 13th St., about 8:55 p.m. Feb. 22.
Police spoke to the woman, who stated she was on a first date with a man — whose name she did not know — and they had gone out for some drinks and a movie earlier that evening.
The man then drove to Kwik Trip and told her to run inside and buy him some 5-Hour Energy drinks. While the woman was inside the business the man drove off, with her purse and overnight bag still inside his vehicle.» Read Full Article
Air Force recruiting office reports receiving threatening phone calls
A member of the U.S. Air Force recruiting office reported receiving multiple threatening phone calls from a woman between 12:40 a.m. and 1:15 a.m. Feb. 27.
According to the Oak Creek police report:
The woman called the recruiting office, 10050 S. 27th St., multiple times, and stated that she hopes the Air Force member's children will be harmed and his wife decapitated.
The Air Force member believes the calls are coming from a woman who is blaming him for her husband's suicide last year.
A 24-hour patrol watch was requested at the recruiting station and at the service member's residence, and the investigation is ongoing.
Police investigating bomb threats at three Oak Creek businesses
Oak Creek — Police are investigating a series of bomb threats phoned in to three Oak Creek businesses on South Howell Avenue the evening of Feb. 22.
According to Oak Creek police reports:
The first bomb threat was received at Tazino's, 8201 S. Howell Ave., at 7:27 p.m. Feb. 22. The restaurant received a call from a male who stated, "There is a bomb in the store. You need to evacuate." Police made a sweep of the restaurant, but did not find anything unusual.
The second bomb threat was received at Subway on 82nd Street and Howell Avenue about 7:30 p.m. that day. A male called the store and stated, "You need to evacuate the store. There is a bomb in the store, and a bomb in your car."
Police did a security sweep of the store but found nothing unusual.» Read Full Article
Police say man beat woman when she did not know where they were
A 31-year-old Milwaukee man was cited for battery after allegedly beating woman and leaving her when she did not know where they were.
According to the South Milwaukee police report:
The man and a 22-year-old Milwaukee woman had been at a bar on the south side of Milwaukee and became lost after leaving.
When they arrived in South Milwaukee, the man asked the woman where they were and she did not know.
He became angry, punched and kicked her several times, and dragged her out of his car, and left her in the 800 block of Park Avenue. The caller heard a scream for help around that time.» Read Full Article
Man steals TVs and more from two Franklin hotels
Franklin — Police are seeking a Milwaukee man who stole appliances and bedding out of two motel rooms during the early morning hours of Feb. 21.
According to the Franklin police report:
A 25-year-old man rented a room at the Sunrise Motel, 9347 S. 27th St., and was scheduled to leave the morning of Feb. 21. When an employee entered the room to clean it shortly after noon, they found all the appliances and bedding had been stolen.
Taken were a $50 refrigerator; a $325 television along with an $80 wall mount; a $125 microwave; two bedspreads, valued at $150; four $20 pillows; $40 worth of sheets; and a $40 telephone.
While police were investigating the incident, dispatch received a theft report from an employee at the Plaza Motel, 8151 S. 27th St.» Read Full Article
Medenwaldt's clutch three caps stunning rally for Oak Creek
The shot wasn't supposed to go to senior Oak Creek guard Alex Medenwaldt.
"The play was designed for a drive and kick to Harrison (Cleary)," said Medenwaldt, "but they had that covered so I took it."
That particular shot came just moments after the host Greenfield boys basketball team had missed what could have been a clinching front-end of a bonus situation with about four seconds left in a WIAA regional quarterfinal game Tuesday night.
Medenwaldt went up the court as fast as he could and released the desperation 3-point shot from the right wing, and it swished at the buzzer, knotting the score at 40-all.
"It was a long shot," said Medenwaldt, "but my teammates gave me the confidence that I could hit it. I'm just glad they gave me that shot."» Read Full Article
Police say Cudahy man bit brother to stop him from drinking
A 45-year-old Cudahy man was cited for assault for allegedly biting his 49-year-old brother in the arm Feb. 14 in their apartment after the brother went to get a beer, and the 45-year-old demaded he stop.
According to the Cudahy police report:
The two men were in their apartment on East Grange Avenue when the older brother wen to the refrigerator to get a beer just after 6 p.m. Feb. 14.
When the older brother went to get a beer, the younger brother "began to yell at him, demanding he stop drinking," then threw a lit cigarette at him. When the cigarette missed, his brother bit him.
The younger brother told police, "I bit him in the arm because I don't want him drinking anymore." The older brother told police his brother "is intolerant of any drinking within the house."
Whitnall candidates face questions at March 11 forum
A candidate forum for all four Whitnall School Board candidates will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. March 11 in the School Board meeting room, 5000 S. 116th St., Greenfield.
The Edgerton Elementary School PTO is facilitating the forum, to which candidates Jonathan Cagle, Michael Clarizio, Jon Jones and incumbent Nancy Zaborowski have been invited.
Each candidate will give an introduction and share why they are running. After that, candidates will respond to written questions from the audience. If time allows, questions submitted via email to firstname.lastname@example.com will be addressed.
The four candidates will vie for three seats in the April 1 spring election.
More information is available from David Cotey, communications coordinator, at email@example.com or (414) 458-0592.
Cudahy man faces charges for threatening cousin for dating his ex-girlfiend
the cousin's relationship with his ex-girlfriend Feb. 6 and 7.A 19-year-old Cudahy man faces charges of battery and criminal damage to property after he threatened his cousin over
According to the Cudahy police report:
The 19-year-old had been threatening his 21-year-old cousin over the cousin's relationship with the 19-year-old's ex-girlfriend.
The 19-year-old attacked his cousin with a hammer outside the ex-girlfriend's home in the 3700 block of East Morris Avenue on Feb. 6.
The 21-year-old was hospitalized at St. Luke's South Shore Hospital, 5900 S. Lake Drive, and the 19-year-old allegedly found his car parked outside, and did $1,250 worth of damage shortly after midnight Feb. 7.
Mayoral races, other offices to be narrowed in today's primary votes
Polls are open until 8 p.m. today for primary election voting in for local offices.
The primaries are held where the field for office needs to be narrowed to two candidates for the April 1 general election.
A featured race tonight is for mayor of Waukesha, where incumbent Jeff Scrima is fending off three challengers —attorney Shawn Reilly, Common Council President Terry Thieme and Michael Volpano, a part-time instructor of marketing at Waukesha County Technical College.
In other mayoral races:
■South Milwaukee: Mayor Tom Zepecki is asking voters to hire him for a fifth two-year term. His two challengers are Ald. Erik Brooks, a co-founder of the South Milwaukee farmers market, and James Leavens, a retired Wauwatosa firefighter.» Read Full Article
Oak Creek man winds up in a creek, faces 7th drunken driving charge
the Racine Journal Times reports.An Oak Creek man whose car ended up in a creek in Caledonia is facing his 7th drunken driving charge,
Witnesses saw Trevor Davis, 39, drive erratically on 6 Mile Road before going over a snow embankment at the dead end of 5 Mile Road about 7:30 p.m. Thursday, the Journal Times report.
Officers found the vehicle in a creek and Davis sitting in the driver's seat smoking a cigarette, according to the complaint.
Franklin mayor candidate says he was 'railroaded' in obstruction, harassment cases
Milwaukee County Supervisor Steve F. Taylor -- who is running for Franklin mayor on Tuesday -- offers no apologies for his run-ins with police and prosecutors while on the La Crosse Common Council.
In 2000, Taylor was convicted of a misdemeanor count of obstructing a police investigation and he cut a plea deal on a charge of violating a harassment order.
"I was definitely railroaded," Taylor said Thursday.
This is what the records show:
Taylor's ex-girlfriend obtained a restraining order against him for harassment after the pair broke up. He then pleaded guilty in a deferred prosecution agreement in 2000 to a misdemeanor count of violating that restraining order. The conviction was deleted after a year because he didn't violate the order again.» Read Full Article
Oak Creek resident says property was damaged after bachelorette party
An Oak Creek resident called police Feb. 4 to report property damage after renting her trailer to a friend for a bachelorette party.
According to the Oak Creek police report:
A resident in the 6300 block of South 24th Street called police to report a friend damaged her property at 10:40 a.m. Feb. 4.
The caller told police she rented her trailer to a friend and her friend's friend for a bachelorette party Feb. 1, and said that drinks were spilled that left stains on her carpet, drink "rings" were left on her piano and one of her beer mugs was missing and possibly broken.
She was advised the damage was a civil matter, not a police matter.
Handgun used in Franklin Check 'n Go robbery
Franklin — Police are seeking a man who displayed a handgun during a robbery at a check cashing business Feb. 6.
According to the Franklin police report:
The man entered Check 'n Go, 6505 S. 27th St., just before 5 p.m. Feb. 6 and asked an employee if he could cash a tax refund check. He then passed the employee a note, displayed a black handgun tucked into his left waistband, and ordered the employee to get him money.
He obtained an undisclosed amount of cash and fled.
The man is described as a 6-foot-tall black man about 35 years old and weighing about 180 pounds. He was last seen wearing a Cincinnati Reds baseball cap, a plaid flannel shirt, gray hooded sweatshirt, cuffed blue jeans and red shoes with matching shoelaces.» Read Full Article
Franklin police help identifying Check N Go robbery suspect
Franklin police are seeking assistance identifying a suspect in a robbery Thursday of the Check N Go store at 6505 S, 27th St.
The suspect displayed a weapon and demanded money from the clerk. He escaped with cash.
Anyone with information about the robbery or the identity of the suspect should contact the Franklin Police Department at (414) 425-2522.
Frozen yogurt store to open in Southridge
Greendale — Southridge Mall could soon become the home of Wisconsin's first Yumz Gourmet Frozen Yogurt.
Yumz, a self-serve frozen yogurt franchise, has 12 stores divided between Florida, Illinois and Indiana.
The mall expects the store to be open in spring.
The store offers multiple flavors of fat-free frozen yogurt, including bubble gum and eggnog, made with natural ingredients.
For information, visit the store's website at YumzFrozenYogurt.com.
Fatality reported in Cudahy after large police response
The Milwaukee County medical examiner's office is responding to a death at S. Whitnall Ave. near Nicholson Ave. in Cudahy, where a throng of police officers were gathered Wednesday morning and afternoon.
According to WTMJ-TV, someone called police around 9:30 a.m. to say a male family member was suicidal. Neighbors were instructed to stay indoors.
Police didn't immediately respond to a call seeking information Wednesday afternoon.
Man calls police because hot sauce in his to-go bag spilled
A man who called Hales Corners police Feb. 2 to complain about sauce spilling in his to-go bag was told it did not warrant police intervention.
According to the Hales Corners police report:
A man called police at 12:45 p.m. Feb. 2 to ask an officer to respond to Confucius Restaurant, 5394 S. 108th St., because they put his sauce upside-down in his to-go bag and sauce spilled all over his car.
The man was upset because the manager refused to do anything about it when he complained, so he wanted police to go to the restaurant first "before the cops are called on him."
The caller was advised it was a civil matter and did not warrant police intervention.
Franklin to move Open Enrollment students to solve overcrowding
Franklin — To address overcapacity at Robinwood Elementary School — and future overcrowding predicted at Pleasant View Elementary — the School Board has considered three options:
· Plan A: Do nothing and allow Robinwood to remain at 108 percent capacity and Pleasant View at 95 percent.
· Plan B: Move a total of 56 Open Enrollment and district exception students from both schools to another elementary school.
· Plan C: Adjust school boundaries to move 132 of the district's elementary students, and place most of them in Ben Franklin Elementary, which is only at 75 percent capacity.
Concluding a heated discussion about the role of Open Enrollment students in the district, the Franklin School Board approved Plan B on Jan. 29.» Read Full Article
Opposition arises to proposed beer garden in Greendale park
Milwaukee County's Scout Lake Park in Greendale, including fears from nearby residents of increased crime, noise and littering.Opposition surfaced Monday to a proposed beer garden at
The park's small size and mostly wooded area coupled with its proximity to an elementary school would make it a poor choice for a beer garden, said Sonja O'Brien, who lives near the park on the 5800 block of Lakeview Drive.
The beer garden would be on or near a half-mile path around Scout Lake, which is heavily used by children, families and elderly walkers, O'Brien said. Small side paths into wooded areas could provide cover for misdeeds, she said.
"It's the perfect environment for criminals and stalkers," O'Brien told the County Board's parks committee. She said she might get a concealed carry permit to arm herself in the park if the beer garden is approved.
Scout Lake Park is at 5902 W. Loomis Road.» Read Full Article
Franklin vs. Oak Creek doubleheader basketball photo gallery now online
Franklin and Oak Creek played a doubleheader in girls and boys basketball on Friday.
Photojournalist C.T. Kruger was at the games to capture all the action as the Franklin boys won 61-59, and the Oak Creek girls won 52-34.
View the MyCommunityNOW photo gallery of the doubleheader games.


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Baseball Welcomes Nationally-Ranked Lander on TuesdayApril 7, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Winners of five of its last six, Anderson University baseball returns to the diamond on Tuesday when it welcomes Peach Belt Conference opponent Lander to Anderson Memorial Stadium for a nonconference matchup. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.
The Trojans
After dropping the opening game of a three-game set to Lenoir-Rhyne on Friday, AU bounced back to claim the final games of the series with a 4-3 triumph followed by an 8-7 win in a doubleheader on Saturday. With the back-to-back one-run victories, the Trojans improved to 16-24 on the season, but hold a 11-12 mark in conference, which slots Anderson in fifth place in the SAC standings.
A key component to AU's recent success has been the hitting of sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper, who in the span of Anderson's last seven games, has hit .414 with three home runs and three doubles to go along with his 11 RBI and nine runs scored. For the season, the sophomore leads the league with 43 RBI and is the only player in the SAC with more than 100 total bases with 102.
Also earning conference recognition, senior Nathan Galliford is one two SAC players with double figure home runs of the year, as he is tied with Lincoln Memorial's Josh Coker for the conference lead with 12. Galliford also ranks second in the league in walks (25) and fifth in total bases (84).
The Trojan middle infield of junior Brett Cash and sophomore Kyle Bailey pace the team in stolen bases as Bailey has eight swipes on the season, while Cash has posted six for the year. The duo has combined for 91 hits and 56 runs scored on the season.
Senior right fielder Paul Como, who has started every game, is second on the team in doubles with 14 and blasted his third home run of the season last weekend against Lenoir-Rhyne.
The Bearcats
In the latest Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll, Lander was ranked No. 2 nationally as it enters Tuesday contest with a 31-6 overall record and an 18-6 mark in the Peach Belt Conference. Most recently, the Bearcats claimed two-of-three from USC Aiken, capped off by an 18-4 rout over the Pacers on Sunday to claim the series win. Lander has won three of its last four games, beginning with a 27-8 victory over Winston-Salem State.
Currently, Lander carries six hitters with averages over .310 this season, as two-way player Patrick Grady leads the PBC with a .455 average with 16 doubles and eight home runs. For the season, Grady has driven in 31 runs, while crossing the plate a conference-high 60 runs scored. Grady has led a Bearcat attack that has outscored their opponents 370-158 this season, while hitting .328 as a team.
Defensively, sophomore right-hander Taylor Alvarez ranks second in the league in wins with seven, as he has completed 61.1 innings with a 4.26 ERA. Teammates Dylan Wolchik and Mason McCullough, both right-handers, rank ninth and 10th, respectively, in strikeouts with 54 and 51. As a staff, Lander is holding batters to a .249 batting average.
The Series
Last season, the Trojans stunned nationally-ranked Lander with a 4-1 win at Greenville's Fluor Field, home of Minor League Baseball's Greenville Drive. Anderson starter Spencer Earle tossed six complete innings and allowed just one run against one of the nation's top offenses. Anderson's win snapped a 10-game losing streak against the Bearcats, getting its first win in the in-state rivalry since 2007.


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Does there exist $v=(a,b,c)\in\mathbb{Q^3}$ with none of $v$'s terms being zero s.t. $ a+b\sqrt[3]2+c\sqrt[3]4=0$ ?
And I was doing undergraduate algebra 2 homework when I encountered it in my head. At first It seemed like it can be proved there can be no such $v$ like how $\sqrt{2}$, or $\sqrt{2}+\sqrt{3}$ are proved to be irrational, but this case wasn't easy like those. Or maybe I was too hasty.


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Is it true that for any $A\in M(n,\mathbb{C})$there exist a $B\in M(n,\mathbb{C})$ such that $A = B^2$? I think this is not true (but I don't know nay example), and then is it possible to characterize such $A$?
No, it is not true that every complex square (no pun intended) matrix is the square of at least one other such matrix. The simplest counterexample is $\left(\begin{smallmatrix}0&1\\0&0\end{smallmatrix}\right)$.
Here is a rapid analysis. Any square root of $A$ will commute with $A$, so it will stabilise all its generalised eigenspaces (kernels of $(A-\lambda)^k$ for appropriate $\lambda\in\mathbf C$, $k\in\mathbf N$), and therefore the direct sum decomposition of the whole space into such subspaces. This means we can focus on individual generalised eigenspaces, which amounts to assuming that $A$ has only one eigenvalue $\lambda$.
If $A$ has a single eigenvalue $\lambda\neq0$ then we can write $A=\lambda(I+N)$ where $N$ is a nilpotent matrix, and in this case a square root is given by $\sqrt\lambda\sqrt{I+N}$ where $\sqrt\lambda$ denotes one of the complex square roots of $\lambda$, and $\sqrt{I+N}$ is given by Newton's binomial formula $$ \sqrt{I+N}=\sum_{k=0}^\infty\binom{1/2}kN^k, $$ which is actually a finite sum since $N$ is nilpotent.
So we are left with the case that $A$ is itself nilpotent, and here a square root does not always exist. On a suitable basis $A$ will be in Jordan normal form, and whether $A$ has a square root depends on the sizes of the Jordan blocks. A square root will in any case itself be nilpotent, so it is useful to look what happens with the sizes of the Jordan blocks when we take the square. It is easy to see that any Jordan block of size $d>1$ gives upon squaring two Jordan blocks of sizes $\lceil\frac d2\rceil$ and $\lfloor\frac d2\rfloor$. Inversely therefore, a nilpotent matrix has a square root if and only if the sizes of its Jordan blocks can be grouped two at a time, with possibly an isolated block of size $1$, such that two block sizes grouped together never differ by more than$~1$. So the above example which has a single block of size $2$ has no square root, but if we extend it to size $3\times3$ by a row and column of entries $0$ it does: $$ \begin{pmatrix}0&1&0\\0&0&0\\0&0&0\end{pmatrix} = \begin{pmatrix}0&0&1\\0&0&0\\0&1&0\end{pmatrix}^2. $$ A single nilpotent Jordan block of size $3$ however will remain without square root even if we make it arbitrarily large by extending with zeros. In general, the criterion for nilpotent matrices is that between any pair of absent block size values, the number of blocks with intermediate sizes must be even for a square root to exist. For instance for sizes $7,6,4,4,4,3,3,1,1,1$ no square root exists, because between the absent sizes $5$ and $2$ there are five blocks, of sizes $4$ or $3$.
The Cholesky decomposition is loosely related to the concept of taking the square root of a matrix. If $A$ is a positive-definite Hermitian matrix, then $$ A = B B^{*} $$, where $B$ is lower triangular with positive diangonal elements where $B^*$ is the conjugate transpose of B.


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November 25, 2009
Cleaning up Durbanville Nature Reserve
As part of our Operation Green Initiative, the Cape Town Tourism Willowbridge VIC, in partnership with Northlink College Panorama, cleaned up the Durbanville Nature Reserve. On the 21st of November 2009 we all met (13 students, Gavin from Elle Tours and myself) at Northlink College, Panorama.
We drove off to Durbanville Nature Reserve where we met Bibica (the manager) who gave us a brief history of the Durbanville Nature Reserve with Tygerberg being the largest. We learnt a lot from her and about the importance of the conservation, animals and about the visitors.
We divided into two groups: the first had to pick up litter in the reserve and the second used tools to remove weeds and alien vegetation. The students were very active and helpful so we had a lot of fun.
We'll definitely be spreading the word about the reserves and their beautiful scenery, atmosphere, animals and the plants that are found there.
I'd like to say a very special thank you to:
- Bibica, who imparted interesting information on conservation
- Gavin from Elle Tours, who kindly assisted us with transport
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#Summify Welcomes New Intern
Team Summify welcomes Stefan Filip, another crazy hacker and our new intern! As you can tell from the photo He's excited to be here, and I'm envisioning he struck a similar pose for the paparazzi when he hopped of the airplane at YVR. After only a few short days, he's enjoying Vancouver and says the trains, streets, signal lights and diners remind him a lot of New York.
Joining us until December, Stefan is on the home stretch of completing his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Bucharest in Romania. He's an international medalist in programming contests and recently interned at Google's New York office during the Summer of 2010. After working in one of the most powerful technology companies of our time, Stefan wanted to find out what it's like to work with a small team trying to make it big. During Cristian's visit back to Romania last winter, Stefan heard that Summify was looking for interns and jumped at the opportunity to join the team. He hopes to learn more about the developmental challenges and lifestyle of a start-up company, so that one day he'll be prepared to launch his own. It's safe to say he's in the right place and we look forward to throwing a few challenges his way. Offline, Stefan enjoys running, reading, dancing and games, be they on a computer, board, or sports field.
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5 Brilliant Clues Hidden in the Background of Movies
#2. Back to the Future: Doc Brown's Thought-Reading Machine Works
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One of the running themes in Back to the Future (aside from how Marty stole the Civil Rights movement from black people) is the juxtaposition between how the characters behave in 1985 versus how they were in the '50s: Marty's conservative mother used to be a sex fiend, the aloof mayor of Hill Valley used to be a friendly janitor, and Marty's loser dad was ... well, a slightly younger loser.
And when Marty meets the younger Doc Brown, he sees that the Doc wasn't always a genius -- he's a rambling lunatic who wastes his time building ridiculous inventions that cannot possibly work. For example, the instant young Doc meets Marty, he tries to read Marty's thoughts using a Mind Helmet that looks like it was built from a shoebox full of old K'Nex he bought at a yard sale connected to a suction cup.
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Marty appears to be taking it much better than the Jehovah's Witnesses who stopped by earlier.
After Doc sticks the suction cup to Marty's head, he makes three guesses, which are as follows: "You've come here from a great distance," "You want me to buy a subscription to the Saturday Evening Post," and "Donations! You want me to make a donation ... to the Coast Guard Youth Auxiliary!"
The Foreshadowing:
Actually, Doc's mind-reading helmet totally works, which is the film's subtle way of telling us that he is, in fact, a genius -- he just doesn't realize it yet.
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"I mean, just look at this thing."
If you give that thought-reading machine a little flexibility and some loose interpretation, then everything the Doc said is true. Marty really has come a great distance -- the dude just got chased 30 years into the past by terrorists in a microbus. That's one. And what day of the week did Marty arrive in 1955? On a Saturday, which we see when he checks the date on a newspaper:
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Boom, that's two. Finally, every person Marty speaks to keeps asking him if he's in the Coast Guard, mistaking his vest for a life jacket, which is fair because Marty himself has mistaken a down vest for something that people are supposed to just casually wear.
One could argue that Doc is simply making the same error and letting it influence his guesses, but if that's the case, prepare to have your naysaying mind blown -- Doc senses that Marty is there about a donation, right? Well, later on in the same scene, Marty hands Doc the love letter his girlfriend wrote, which is on the back of a donation flier for the Hill Valley clock tower from 1985. The only reason Marty and Doc know when and where the bolt of lightning necessary to fling the DeLorean back into the Reagan administration is going to strike is because of this flier.
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"Marty, what exactly does she mean by 'pegging'?"
Doc couldn't have been aware of any of this -- he's literally only known Marty for 10 seconds when he rattles off his mind-reading guesses. And it stands to reason that those three things would be at the front of Marty's mind -- his time-traveling journey, the shocking discovery of what date he'd arrived in, and the love letter from the girlfriend he's trying to get back to. The movie is using this scene of apparent bumbling pseudo-science dumbassery to tell us that everything the Doc builds does actually work -- just not necessarily in a way that makes any kind of sense.
#1. The Avengers: An Offhanded Joke Sets Up the Finale
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In what should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, The Avengers is chock-full of nerd-culture references to appeal to the fans. The best (or, at least, the Internet's favorite) is Tony Stark's Galaga line. When Tony first arrives on the bridge of the Helicarrier after his backwoods punchfest with Thor, he runs through a few sailboat jokes to demonstrate his irreverent wackiness, then points off screen at one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s numerous deck hands to say, "That man is playing Galaga! He thought we wouldn't notice, but we did."
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And you didn't think we'd notice your absurd facial hair, Tony. But we did. We did.
Captain America looks around like everyone in the room just farted six times:
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"Whoa, did you guys ... did you hear that? It was from way over there, though. Not here."
But other than that, no one really reacts. The scene continues, and we get a nice little button at the end of it showing us the unseen crew member who was, in fact, playing Galaga:
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It's a fun throwaway joke that, incidentally, gives away the film's climactic final sequence.
The Foreshadowing:
In case you're not a student of video game history, Galaga is a shooter game wherein you play as a single space fighter defending the Earth from seemingly endless waves of alien invaders that pour down from the top of the screen. You can play it right here.
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Now, if you remember the movie at all (which, if you are reading this website, chances are you probably do), you know that it ends exactly the same way: Seemingly endless waves of alien invaders pour down from the top of the screen, and Iron Man zips around blowing them up.
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Meanwhile, Cap, Hawkeye, and Black Widow stand around and try to pretend like they're contributing.
In the end, Tony Stark even flies directly into space to face the oncoming swarm alone, effectively becoming the heroic little ship from Galaga:
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"With my dying breath, I enter my initials into the high scores ... A ... S ... S ..."
When Tony drops the initial joke, we have no idea what Loki's plan is yet. We know he's going to do ... something. With aliens. But the seemingly innocuous video game reference was actually priming our brains for the movie's finale. If only the aliens had themselves gotten hold of a copy of Galaga, they would have realized that aimlessly flying around in formation and waiting to get shot is actually a terrible invasion strategy.
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We're on a corporate network thats running active directory and we'd like to test out some LDAP stuff (active directory membership provider, actually) and so far, none of us can figure out what our LDAP connection string is. Does anyone know how we can go about finding it? The only thing we know is the domain that we're on.
The ASP.NET Active Directory Membership Provider does an authenticated bind to the Active Directory using a specified username, password, and "connection string". The connection string is made up of the LDAP server's name, and the fully-qualified path of the container object where the user specified is located.
The connection string begins with the URI
For the server name, you can use the name of a domain controller in that domain-- let's say "dc1.corp.domain.com". That gives us
The next bit is the fully qualified path of the container object where the binding user is located. Let's say you're using the "Administrator" account and your domain's name is "corp.domain.com". The "Administrator" account is in a container named "Users" located one level below the root of the domain. Thus, the fully qualified DN of the "Users" container would be:
So, using an account in an OU named
Combine the
(You can use the domain's name in the connection string as opposed to the name of a domain controller. The difference is that the domain's name will resolve to the IP address of any domain controller in the domain. That can be both good and bad. You're not reliant on any single domain controller to be up and running for the membership provider to work, but the name happens to resolve to, say, a DC in a remote location with spotty network connectivity then you may have problems with the membership provider working.)
I just use this tool from Softerra (they make an excellent freeware LDAP Browser) to get the User DN from the currently-logged in user: http://www.ldapbrowser.com/download.htm
I always had problems finding the correct way to type out the OU. The command
For more information, please check this post (bottom of the post): http://www.schiffhauer.com/mvc-5-and-active-directory-authentication/
The full syntax is at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2255.html


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Ocean cargo throughput means jobs
December 20, 2010 - LM Editorial
As noted in today's news section, the ports of Southern California are reporting a new surge in throughput. Fortunately, this is becoming a consistent pattern at most of the nation's major ocean cargo gateways. In the end, it could mean a spike in related employment.
For example, Georgia Ports Authority's (GPA) Executive Director Curtis J. Foltz announced today the GPA experienced growth in November 2010, which is consistent with the double-digit growth rates that have been experienced since December 2009
"The Port of Savannah experienced moderate gains in November, following FY2011's very strong peak season," said GPA's Executive Director Curtis J. Foltz. "We remain cautiously optimistic about future volumes through the ports and continue to prepare for larger vessels, currently calling on the U.S. East Coast."
The Port of Savannah's Garden City Terminal handled 124,348 containers or 222,281 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), representing increases of 12.5 percent and 11.5 percent respectively. Fiscal year 2011 overall container volume to date (July – October 2010) reflects a 19.1-percent increase compared with the same time period in FY2010.
At the Port of Brunswick, the Colonel's Island Terminal handled 39,222 auto units in November 2010, which is an increase of 34.6 percent compared with November 2009.
And perhaps the biggest story of all is that Savannah will see 100 new jobs by 2011, due to the sale of a 689,400 square-foot distribution center in DP Partner's LogistiPort Industrial Park to JLA Home. JLA is a global virtually integrated company specializing in home furnishing products and is a welcome addition to a growing distribution market that has become one of the main service hubs of the Southeast.
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I go to gym once in 2-3 days, and I have a nice physique except my fatty stomach. Now I have started running daily for half an hour. But some of my friends have suggested to me that I should stop running, because it will also reduce your other muscles(e.g. chest and shoulder etc) with your stomach fat. I have really worked hard to gain some muscles and now I'm worrying does it really reduce our other muscles, as it reduces fat in stomach, by running. If that is the case, then what are other exercises that I can do to reduce my fatty stomach fast. Also I want to ask, whether walking at normal speed will help reduce fatty stomach.
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Yes, combining strength workouts with non-strength workouts will reduce the effectiveness of the strength workouts. Of course, that should be acceptable if your goal is broader than pure strength.
Per Tom Kurz' Science of Sports Training, page 174:
However, Rippetoe and Kilgore note that there is a way around this issue:
(Page 72, Practical Programming) (Note that strength and power, though related to muscle size, are not synonymous with that attribute.)
Just lifting will make you bigger and stronger than if you combine lifting with running, but running as well as lifting is a fine way to improve body composition (lose fat) at the same time as building muscle.
It won't directly, but it can indirectly.
You have to have a decent calorie surplus to grow muscle - otherwise your body can't build on what you've done in the gym, and you won't grow any muscles. Running alongside your workout can burn the extra calories that you were going to use to build muscle. This is probably what your friends are referring to. There's nothing inherent about running that damages muscle gains though.
Be aware: If you stop your cardio workout, you could hit a plateau very quickly. Your muscle gains are dependent on you exhausting your muscles. If you don't exhaust your muscles, your body will never get the signal that it needs to be stronger and bigger. If your heart and lungs are not up to the task of exhausting your muscles, you'll never grow that way, either!
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The amount you earn can't exceed your total Federal College Work-Study award as calculated in your Financial Aid Package. The KCTCS College you attend will consider your class schedule and other personal obligations when assigning work hours. FCWS wages are paid two weeks in arrears on the 15th and the 30th of each month. You may participate in FWS as long as you maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress and meet all other FWS eligibility requirements.


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Written in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely before arriving in London, where her offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war was met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, she set out independently to the Crimea, where she acted as doctor and "mother" to wounded soldiers while running her business, the "British Hotel." Told with energy, warmth, and humor, her remarkable life story and accounts of hardships at the battlefront offer significant insights into the history of race politics.
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Is Ed Boon teasing the next Mortal Kombat?Written by: / / 3 Comments
Mortal Kombat series co-creator and current franchise steward Ed Boon is stirring fans into a flurry on Twitter with a few of his recent tweets, hinting (in the most roundabout way possible) that there may be an announcement related to the next Mortal Kombat early next month.
Boon's latest Twitter tease went a little something like this:
Hmmm… I wonder what the X stands for ? pic.twitter.com/qDq5LvK4vs
— Ed Boon (@noobde) May 18, 2014
What does the 'X' stand for, indeed.
Could Boon be referring to Mortal Kombat 10, following on from 2011's outstanding Mortal Kombat reboot (also known as Mortal Kombat 9)? Or is Boon hinting at a 'cross' collaboration, similar to Street Fighter X Tekken in 2012? A collaboration isn't out of the question, either, considering Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe in 2008.
A new Mortal Kombat game has been released at an average of about every three years, so another game in the series is certainly due after developer NetherRealm Studios released the excellent Injustice: Gods Among Us last year.
Previous tweets by Boon have alluded to a June 2nd announcement of some kind after he lead Twitter followers on a mathematical journey counting down the days to early June.
What do you think Ed Boon and the crew at NetherRealm are working on at the moment?
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oracle-xe-11.2.0-1.0.x86_64.rpm on Fedora 17-64-bit. I was wondering why it is very slow, for example when I want to connect to it using Oracle SQL Developer or JDBC in my web application.
Are there any configuration for Fedora or Oracle Express 11 to improve my performance?
I mention that my machine specification is good (8GB RAM , Core i5 CPU).
I installed an Oracle Express on Windows using VirtualBox and when I wanted to connect to it from my Fedora it was slow but when I connected to it locally (in Windows) it connected very fast!