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Professor Karima Bennoune – Giving Voice to International Human Rights Advocates
Writing for the UK's Guardian newspaper from Algeria, where she spent 10 days in February observing that North African country's pro-democracy protests, Karima Bennoune hailed the bravery of demonstrators who risked arrest and beatings by riot police 10 times their number. The impetus to engage, understand, and give voice to the ordinary citizens as well as organized activists who struggle against government repression and religious extremism is what motivates Bennoune in her legal scholarship and advocacy.
It is no mystery as to one of the most important sources of her human rights focus. As a young man, her late father was imprisoned and tortured by the French army during Algeria's war of independence. Years later, a prominent professor at the University of Algiers, Dr. Mahfoud Bennoune received death threats from religious fundamentalists for his vocal opposition to their attacks on basic rights. "From him," she has said, "I learned the imperative of engaging with what is happening to others in the society and world around you."
|Professor Karima Bennoune (right) at her Distinguished Research Lecture with former student and fellow Algerian-American Chehrazade C. '06.
Since graduating from a joint program in law and Middle Eastern and North African studies at the University of Michigan, earning a J.D. from the law school and an M.A. from the Rackham Graduate School, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, Bennoune has devoted her career to advancing legal and institutional systems for protecting human rights and women's rights. She is a highly respected author, lecturer, teacher, and scholar whose research and human rights field missions have included Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Fiji, Lebanon, Pakistan, Niger, South Korea, southern Thailand, and Tunisia. In 2007 she became the first Arab-American to be honored with the Derrick Bell Award from the Section on Minority Groups of the Association of American Law Schools.
Most recently, Bennoune, who is Professor of Law and Arthur L. Dickson Scholar at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, was selected as the 2010/2011 Chancellor's Distinguished Research Scholar at Rutgers–Newark. She received the award, which she characterized as a tribute to the people she writes about, from Chancellor Steven Diner on March 3 following her Distinguished Research Lecture titled "A More Courageous Politics: Muslims Confront Fundamentalism . . . and Demand Democracy." Her book of the same title is forthcoming in 2012 from W.W. Norton & Company.
The phrase "a more courageous politics" comes from one of Bennoune's heroes. Cherifa Kheddar is the president of Djazairouna, an organization Kheddar founded for victims of terrorism during Algeria's "dark decade" of civil war. As many as 200,000 people were killed in the 1990s when armed fundamentalists battled the military-backed government and regularly targeted civilians. "Kheddar's own brother Redha and sister Leila were murdered," said Bennoune, "yet she managed very courageously to come through the horror of that experience and become one of Algeria's leading human rights defenders."
In a 2007 speech in Paris on the anniversary of September 11th, Bennoune recalled, "Kheddar said that without the adoption of a more 'courageous politics', human rights advocates could not successfully challenge fundamentalism." Asked whether she has seen evidence of the new bold approach to religious fundamentalism called for by Kheddar, Bennoune said that "in the international human rights community I don't think we've made a good deal of improvement yet in how we tackle these issues. In fact, there has been a lot of silence on these issues."
Very much involved in the current pro-democracy protests in Algeria, Kheddar herself exemplifies "a more courageous politics," added Bennoune. "What's happening now in terms of the pro-democracy protest movements sweeping North Africa and the Middle East is another form of a 'courageous politics', with the aim of targeting dictatorships, repression, and lack of human rights."
Struggles for democracy and struggles against fundamentalism go together. In fact each is the sine qua non for the other. Struggle for real democracy is the best way to enable a struggle against fundamentalism and the ongoing battle against the forces of the religious right. And success in the struggle against fundamentalism is essential for the creation of real democracies that respect women's rights.
One of the challenges Bennoune sees in the region is that "a faulty paradigm" has been created in which people have to choose between either dictatorship on the one hand and fundamentalism on the other. "What people are saying through these pro-democracy movements is that we reject both of these options and what we want is real democracy and social justice." The pro-democracy movements have also shown the fundamentalists to be irrelevant in many ways. As one example, she noted that when Ali Belhadj, formerly the number two leader in the Islamic Salvation Front, appeared at the February 12 Algiers protest, he was denounced by some demonstrators as an assassin and ignored by many young people who had never heard of him.
"Fundamentalists are not leading these revolts," Bennoune said. Rather, they are social justice demonstrations organized by youth groups, trade unionists, civil society groups, opposition political parties, and long-time human rights activists. "My view," she offered, "is that struggles for democracy and struggles against fundamentalism go together. In fact each is the sine qua non for the other. Struggle for real democracy is the best way to enable a struggle against fundamentalism and the ongoing battle against the forces of the religious right. And success in the struggle against fundamentalism is essential for the creation of real democracies that respect women's rights."
Bennoune would like to see greater attention paid to the full range of human rights issues, including freedom of expression and freedom of assembly as well as underlying economic and social rights issues. In Algeria, a 2001 decree banning demonstrations in the capital is still on the books. And in the Algiers working class neighborhood of Bab El Oued, Bennoune found families living in a parking garage. Meanwhile, a young unemployed activist told her: "We need democracy to fight exploitation."
In observing the Algiers' protests, what Bennoune found most moving was the strong involvement of women's rights groups. "Chanting in favor of democracy, waving flags, singing the national anthem, and holding signs protesting the country's discriminatory Family Code and calling for social justice, they held their ground until attacked by policewomen – women whose careers were made possible only by the hard work of women's rights activists they were now attacking."
The way in which women were engaged in places like Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and beyond "is inspiring and gives me reason to be optimistic," said Bennoune. "On the other hand, it is absolutely clear that their work is really just beginning. They will have to work very hard to make sure that any new governments and new constitutions are beneficial to women and women's rights, are protective of past gains in women's rights in places like Tunisia, and that are maximizing the feminist potential of these revolutions."
For example, abrogation of the Family Code, which discriminates against women, "is an absolutely core part of calling for change in Algeria." Yet when Cherifa Kheddar took part in the February 19 Algiers' protest with a sign calling for an end to the code, some male protestors told her she was being divisive. "Women's rights activists not only have to take on governments but also sometimes have to take on the opposition itself to make sure that they are paying attention to the women's rights agenda." Bennoune said. "They need and deserve support and solidarity."
In her forthcoming book, A More Courageous Politics: Muslims Confront Fundamentalism . . . and Demand Democracy, Bennoune will challenge some of the stereotypical notions in this country that depict all or most Muslims as fundamentalists – "ideas not found exclusively on the right but ones that tend to be held especially by those among the 'new right', such as those who opposed the Muslim community center in lower Manhattan." But she'll also take on some ideas found among some on the left – "that one shouldn't criticize Muslim fundamentalism or even that one should almost support Muslim fundamentalists because they are seen as the legitimate representatives of the downtrodden in these countries. Recent events," she added, "have shown this to be completely untrue."
On a field trip to Lahore last fall, she met Diep Saeeda – "a living, breathing example of courageous politics," whose multidirectional critique of Muslim fundamentalism and U.S. policy resembles the construct that Bennoune has been developing in her scholarship. A peace activist who leaflets at intersections against both the Taliban and the U.S. military, Saeeda persisted in organizing a demonstration against the blasphemy law despite having received several threats that suicide bombers would target the demonstrators.
"There are many incredibly brave people who are carrying on the struggle against fundamentalism in many different Muslim-majority countries who deserve our attention and support," said Bennoune. "Their work is also very much related to struggles for democracy. My goal is to make sure these people are heard. Fundamentalists get a lot of airtime. If your position is 'Be reasonable', you don't often end up on television."


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What Is Hypertension?
High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a very common condition in older adults. The blood pressure is the physical force exerted by the blood as it pushes against the walls of the arteries. An elevated blood pressure means that the heart must work harder to pump blood. High blood pressure can also damage the walls of the arteries. With time, hypertension increases the risk of heart disease, kidney disease, and stroke.
Symptoms of Hypertension
Hypertension may not produce any symptoms, even if you have had it for years. That's why it is sometimes referred to as a "silent killer." It's estimated that 1 out of every 5 people with high blood pressure aren't aware that they have this major risk factor for strokes and heart attacks. If not properly treated, high blood pressure can damage the heart and circulation, lungs, brain, and kidneys without causing noticeable symptoms.
What Causes Hypertension?
Blood pressure is given as a reading of two numbers, such as 110/70. The higher number (systolic) is the pressure when the heart beats. The diastolic, or lower number shows the pressure between the heartbeats, while the heart is refilling with blood. Normal blood pressure readings are lower than 120/80. The cause of most cases of hypertension is unknown. Occasionally, conditions of the kidney or adrenal gland are the cause of high blood pressure.
Prehypertension: A Warning Sign
Prehypertension means that your blood pressure falls just above the normal level, corresponding to a systolic pressure between 120 and 139 or a diastolic pressure of 80 to 89. About one-fourth of Americans have prehypertension, and these people have two times the risk of heart disease compared with those who have lower blood pressures. Lifestyle changes can help many people with prehypertension to lower their blood pressure.
The Hypertension Danger Zone
You are considered to have hypertension if your blood pressure measurements are 140/90 or higher, for either of the two numbers. At this level of blood pressure you may not have any symptoms. When blood pressure reaches 180/110 or higher, a serious condition known as a hypertensive crisis may occur. This can lead to stroke, kidney damage, heart attacks, or loss of consciousness. If you measure your blood pressure and it is this high, rest a few minutes and measure again. If it remains high, call 911. Symptoms of hypertensive crisis can include anxiety, nosebleeds, severe headache, and shortness of breath.
Who Gets High Blood Pressure?
High blood pressure is more common in older people. At age 45, more men have hypertension than women. By age 65, this is reversed and more women are affected. People with diabetes have a greater risk of hypertension than those without diabetes, and having a close family member with high blood pressure also increases your risk of developing it. About 60% of all people with diabetes also have hypertension.
Hypertension and Race
African-Americans are at greater risk of developing hypertension than people of other races. Some studies suggest that African-Americans may be more sensitive to salt than other races. For those who are genetically prone to salt sensitivity, a small amount like a half-teaspoon of salt can raise blood pressure by 5 mm Hg. Dietary factors and being overweight can also raise blood pressure.
Hypertension and Sodium
Sodium, a chemical found in salt, raises blood pressure by promoting the retention of fluid by the body. This increases the workload on the heart. The American Heart Association recommends an upper daily limit for sodium consumption of 1,500 mg. Checking food labels and menus can help you calculate how much sodium you are consuming. Processed foods are particularly high in sodium and make up about 75% of our sodium intake. Among these, lunch meats and canned soups have some of the highest levels of dietary sodium.
Hypertension and Stress
Stress leads to temporary elevations of blood pressure, but there is no proof that stress causes ongoing high blood pressure. Stress may have an indirect effect on blood pressure since it can influence other risk factors for heart disease. People who are under stress tend to engage more in unhealthy habits like poor nutrition, alcohol use, and smoking, all of which can play a role in the development of high blood pressure and heart disease.
Hypertension and Weight
Being overweight increases the risk of getting hypertension and increases the workload required of your heart. Diets designed to control blood pressure are often designed to reduce calories as well. Most of these diets require decreasing consumption of fatty food and sugars while increasing your intake of lean protein, fiber, fruits, and vegetables. A weight loss of just 10 pounds can make a difference in your blood pressure.
Hypertension and Alcohol
Drinking too much alcohol is a risk factor for high blood pressure. The American Heart Association guidelines recommend the consumption of no more than two alcoholic drinks per day for men and no more than one drink a day for women. One drink is defined as one 12-ounce beer, 4 ounces of wine, 1.5 ounces of 80-proof spirits, or 1 ounce of 100-proof spirits.
Hypertension and Caffeine
Caffeine can bring on the jitters, but there is no evidence that it can cause long-term hypertension. However, especially for those not accustomed to caffeine, a caffeinated beverage might bring on a temporary rise in blood pressure.
Hypertension and Pregnancy
Gestational hypertension is high blood pressure that develops in pregnancy. If not properly managed, it may develop into preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is elevated blood pressure and the leakage of protein into the urine by the kidneys. Preeclampsia can be dangerous to both mother and baby. After the baby is born, high blood pressure of pregnancy usually returns to normal levels.
Hypertension and Medicine
Certain medications contain ingredients that can elevate blood pressure. Cold and flu medications that contain decongestants are one example of drugs that raise blood pressure. Other kinds of medicines that can raise blood pressure are steroids, diet pills, birth control pills, NSAID pain relief medications, and some antidepressants. Talk to your doctor about the medications or supplements you may be taking that might affect your blood pressure.
'White Coat' Hypertension
Sometimes people have a higher blood pressure reading when they are in the doctor's office. This may be due to anxiety or nervousness. For the most accurate readings, take your blood pressure at home at different times and share these measurements with your doctor. To determine if your readings are accurate, bring your home blood pressure monitor to the doctor's office so that the device and your technique can be evaluated.
Hypertension and Children
Although it's most common in older adults, hypertension can also affect children. The normal blood pressure for a child is dependent upon the child's age, gender, and height. Your doctor can tell if your child's blood pressure is abnormal. Children are at higher risk for hypertension if they are overweight, are African-American, or if they have a family history of the condition.
Treatment: The DASH Diet
Dietary changes can help control blood pressure. One diet designed to promote lower blood pressure is known as the DASH diet. This stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. The DASH diet recommends eating more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, poultry, nuts, and fish. Red meat, saturated fats, and sweets should be avoided. It can also help to reduce your intake of sodium.
Treatment: Exercise
Exercise is another lifestyle factor that can lower blood pressure. It's recommended that adults get about 150 minutes per week of moderate exercise. This can include activities like walking, bicycling, gardening, or other aerobic exercise. Muscle-strengthening activities are recommended at least twice a week.
Treatment: Diuretics
If diet and exercise are not sufficient to lower blood pressure, the first medications recommended are often diuretics or so-called "water pills." These reduce sodium and fluid levels in the body to lower blood pressure. Taking diuretics means you will urinate more frequently. Sometimes, diuretics deplete potassium levels as well, which can lead to muscle weakness, leg cramps, and tiredness. Other side effects of diuretics can include elevated blood sugars in people with diabetes. Less commonly, erectile dysfunction can occur.
Treatment: Beta-blockers
Beta-blockers are another drug used to treat hypertension. They work by slowing the heart rate and thereby decreasing the workload of the heart. They can be used to treat other conditions as well, including abnormal heart rate (arrhythmia). Side effects of beta-blockers can include dizziness, insomnia, fatigue, cold feet and hands, and erectile dysfunction.
Treatment: ACE Inhibitors
ACE (angiotensin converting enzyme) inhibitors are another class of antihypertensive drugs. They reduce the body's levels of angiotensin II, a substance that narrows blood vessels. This means that arteries are more open (dilated) and the blood pressure is lower. Side effects of ACE inhibitors can include skin rash, dry cough, dizziness, and elevated potassium levels. Women taking ACE inhibitors should not become pregnant.
Treatment: ARBs
Instead of lowering angiotensin II levels, a related class of drugs called ARBs or angiotensin receptor blockers prevents the actions of angiotensin II on the arteries. This means the arteries stay more open and blood pressure is lowered. ARBs can take a few weeks to work. Side effects can include dizziness, muscle cramps, insomnia, and elevated potassium levels. As with ACE inhibitors, women taking ARBs should not become pregnant.
Treatment: Calcium Channel Blockers
Calcium channel blockers are drugs that reduce the movement of calcium into cells of the heart and vessels. This reduces the strength of heart contractions and relaxes the arteries, allowing them to remain more open, lowering blood pressure. Side effects of calcium channel blockers can include heart palpitations, dizziness, swollen ankles, and constipation. They should be taken with food or milk. Because of potential interactions, those taking calcium channel blockers should avoid alcohol and grapefruit juice.
Treatment: Other Medications
There are even more medication types that can lower blood pressure. Some of these are alpha blockers, vasodilators, and central alpha agonists. Your doctor may prescribe these medications if other medications have been ineffective or if you have another condition along with hypertension. Side effects can include fast pulse, palpitations, diarrhea, or headaches.
Treatment: Complementary Therapies
It has been shown that meditation and other relaxation techniques can help lower blood pressure. Yoga, tai chi, and breathing exercises can also help reduce blood pressure. It's best when these are combined with changes in diet and exercise. Tell your doctor if you are taking any herbal remedies, since some of these preparations can actually raise blood pressure or interact with your blood pressure medications.
Living With High Blood Pressure
Hypertension often lasts a lifetime, so following a careful management plan is essential. Keeping your blood pressure under control can lower your risk of heart disease, stroke, and kidney failure and can improve your quality of life.
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CU-Boulder students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to use One Million Acts of Green -- an online sustainability tool and social network that allows participants to build and track sustainability plans, measure the individual and collective impacts of their actions, and share their progress among Facebook friends and Twitter followers.
There are more than 100 acts of green from which to choose, from taking public transit instead of driving, to carrying a reusable water bottle, and eating vegetarian at least once a week. As actions are completed or committed to on the site, both individual and collective reductions in carbon footprint, energy and water use are tallied and displayed.
In support of CU-Boulder's One Million Acts of Green, the Campus Sustainability office will match each new participant (up to 500 students and up to 500 faculty and staff), putting $10 toward campus sustainability projects. That could total up to $10,000 in additional funding.
The platform has been used since February as part of CU-Boulder's annual EcoStar Challenge, a competition between residence hall residents to reduce water, steam and electricity consumption and increase recycling. This year's EcoStar Challenge concludes on April 12 with cash prizes to the top three leading residence halls. Updated standings are available on the One Million Acts of Green site.
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recently i decided to switch to the 5.0.3 verison of the facebook c# sdk library. One of the modifications a i had to do was to change the script in my login view :
FB.init({ appId: '<%: FacebookContext.Current.AppId %>', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true });
which was previously something like
Facebook.FacebookSettings.Current.AppId and it used to work fine. Now i get the compilation error
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My webconfig is set correctly i think, just like in the mvcwebsite sample included in the library. Any ideas what can be wrong?


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The best thing about Google is that its employees have all the time in the world-or at least, a Google-bestowed chunk of hours-to devote to various side projects. You might recognize some of these. Like, say, Gmail.
Other Google side projects might fly under your radar for a variety of reasons, not the least of which being that these services are stuck in the Google Laboratory. This self-proclaimed "testing ground" is where useful add-ons to existing Google products boil and bubble. But here's the problem: There are a ton of ingredients in Google's soup.
How will you know which of the more than 50 Gmail add-ons are best without first installing them? Easy: You'll read this guide. We're counting down the 20 most useful Gmail Labs features that you can apply to your account with the mere click of a button. As a bonus, check out the end of the list for our 5 picks for worst Google Labs.
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For a Merry Little Christmas
The object of gifting this Christmas is to make it special, stylish, fun and, for the most part, relatively inexpensive.
If I could make fudge or marmalade, or knit, sew or even macrame, then I might proffer some alternative homemade suggestions.
But this being a style column written by a woman who had to call her mother from New York on Christmas morning for instructions as to how to cook her first turkey ("Perhaps you should defrost it first, darling?"), I'm going to have to recommend the things I know.
Which is a long-winded way of saying here's some stylish stuff, some of it to be presented tongue-in-cheek, but all of it worthy of wrapping with a big red bow.
FOR HER: Yves Saint Laurent "Belle de Jour" clutch, £450
This is simply the best clutch out there: sleek, stylish and with just enough edge to put a twist on whatever she is wearing. I don't normally approve of logos, but just in case she or anyone else is in any doubt of its genesis or your generosity…
FOR HIM: Eight & Bob eau de toilette, £125 for 100mL
According to legend, this was John F. Kennedy's favorite fragrance. It was so named because when Kennedy wrote to the French perfumer Albert Fouquet to order samples, he requested eight "and if your production allows, another one for Bob."
FOR HER: Nike NKE 0.09 % Free Run+ 3, £80
Because everyone needs some encouragement to "get out there" and burn some postholiday calories, or at least banish murderous thoughts about various family members. These work on so many levels—comfort, performance and style—that you can wear them with jeans or even a dress and they look pretty cool.
FOR HIM: Pinarello Dogma 65.1, from £6,000
I know nothing about bikes aside from the fact that the male sex seems obsessed by them. This one looks nice—it's very shiny and doesn't Bradley ride a Pinarello?
FOR HER: Hermès "Rocaille" buffalo-horn hair slide, £165
If she has long hair, then ask yourself whether she could ever better a hair ornament from Hermès. I doubt it.
FOR HIM: Moncler pompom beanie, £145
I know they are logo'd, but have you seen anything more 007 ( Roger Moore) than this beauty? I love a man in a bobble hat.
FOR HER: Kiehl's Original Musk eau de toilette, £38.50 for 50mL
This is still the best musk out there (within the realms of synthesized musk, because the use of real musk is banned). So let's just call it like it is—and what Kiehl's originally called it: love oil.
FOR HIM: Jack Pyke flocked crow decoy, £6.89
I have one of these, purchased at a Norfolk game fare, currently perched on my bookshelf. Every man who lays eyes on it desires it immediately. Something to do with the hunter instinct, perhaps?
FOR HER: Whippet Grey's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," £39.95
Ingenious. It's not a book, it's not a picture, it's a whole book that can be read from a picture. I defy anyone not to love "Alice."
FOR HIM: Bella Freud dog sweater, £258
I love Bella Freud's sweaters—all of them. But the dog logo, designed for her by her father, is my favorite. If you must buy him a Christmas sweater, at least buy him a stylish one.
FOR HER: Astley Clarke "Cats Eye" chandelier earrings, £295
Yes, chandelier earrings are nearly over, but the times that they still work are when they are given as gifts and worn as everyday items. Christmas offers the perfect opportunity. Preferably worn with pajamas.
FOR HIM: Mr. Hare "Bernard Green," £475
By his shoes a man may be judged and these wonderful, green lace-ups from Mr. Hare are close to perfect.
FOR HER: Marni quilted down vest, £630
In a sea of gilets this winter season, this is unique. Warm and cutting-edge with a typically Marni-esque sense of humor, it will be one of those pieces that you can count on her owning—and wearing—for years.
FOR HIM: Fresh English mistletoe, from £7.99
Why? If you need to ask, you are in the early stages either of a relationship or a first marriage. Because most men need reminding.


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I wish I we could get some kind of news about the next GTA. 2+ years now, c'mon Rockstar!
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On foot controls like an FPS (Halo, Fallout 3, Half Life, etc) but with optional third person camera as well. I'm tired of having to hold a button to aim a gun, not being able to run backwards/jump and shoot
Make the player run automatically, enough wasting a button on sprinting!
More fluid transition when running and jumping, for instance currently when you are running and try to jump a wall, the Niko stops, jumps, grabs the wall, then lifts himself up. In real life, you'd jump and push off the top of the wall, hop over fairly quickly and be on your way.
Also, it'd be cool to be able to kick off a wall to change directions. You can use X for kick, now that its freed up
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It would be nice if they would put in more mission that affect the overall game play.
Like others have suggested they should have two characters to play as to see different parts of the story.
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*How about a cheat code for realistic car deformation, now that we have real-time damage, wouldn't it be awesome (not on missions) to hit a wall at 50mph and completely obliterate the engine bay!
*Another cheat that lets us drive trains OFF the tracks and through the streets, complete with steering
*When other people get too close to the player, you can't shoot them, this gets annoying, especially when they're shooting you!
*Baseball bat is glitchy at best, when the other person is on the ground, you can't seem to hit them very often
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I really wish the next GTA would include some options like Saint's Row has. Saint's Row would be one of the best games created if it weren't for the havok engine. My wishlist for GTA...
-Autoshop where you can customize your car, aftermarket part, engine, body, interior, etc...
-A garage at your safe house, like the other gta's. none of this parking space stuff
- More intricate and in depth storyline, also you see the characters outside the mission
- More customization to the character similar to SA, more clothes, more styles, etc..
- More working miscellaneous stuff, working umbrellas (if theres lightning, you see people running), working convertibles for sunny and rainy weather. clothes get wet from water, scrapes from the pavement, etc....
- character movement was sluggish, need to make it easier to move like SA
- A little better weapons mechanics, make pistol whip an actual button, i agree with the previous person who mentioned this that it was lame. mechanics other wise was good, again, just a little sluggish in some areas.
- A lot more fun cheats, bring back alot of the cheats from GTA3, ped riot, ped with guns, gore cheat, peds chase after you, possibly zombie apocalypse cheat, crazy stuff
- Add the fun vehicles back, jet pack, hydra, riot tank, monster truck, etc....
- dual weapons, pistols( m9 or glock), small smgs (tec 9, mack 10)
- customizable weapons, silencers, scopes, grips, FMJ, possibly gold plate some
- your own courier that brings you your vehicles
- your own weapons, the ones you buy, are yours, just have to re buy ammo
- Better police mechanics, spike strips, better road blocks, better swat, keep the army, if you have 6 stars, streets should be empty, sectors blocked off, shoot-to-kill should come in later. possibly at 3 or 4 stars.
- better car mechanics, cars in GTA4 felt like they had no sway bar what so ever.
- more intricate missions. ex: if you have a car chase mission, have an in game friend cut off the lead car. make it more intense, the some goes for you, if youre getting chased, have to worry about getting sideswiped
- more detailed oddjobs, car theft missions, bookie type missions, taxi driver, EMT, Police, work for the mob, lawn-cutting services, bodyguard services, etc etc
- more melee like VC, tools, machetes, chainsaw, bat, 2x4, katana
- more in game melee, GTA 4 had the bricks, make anything melee, broken piece of wood from fences, barbed wire, etc..
- more gangs, something like SA or 3. you have your mafia, crips/bloods, cartel, yakuza/ triad.
- I would really like to see some of the old gang cars back. like the diablo stallion, mafia sentinal, cartel cruiser, etc...
- BRING BACK THE CHEETAH, if youre going to have a lamborghini car (infurnes), you gotta have the ferarri.
i think thats it for now...
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well i was wondering you know packie in the TBoGT credits he could be in next game vice city maybe ............... or san andreas CJ could have cameo so could niko but hell we could be packie
well iwas wondering............................... you know packie in the TBoGT credits we could be him in vice city ............or san andreas CJ could have a cameo and so could niko LJ and a few others so think............................................. .................................................. .....................
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I hope the next GTA will feel alive like Red Dead. I feel there needs to be animals in all Rockstar's open world games from now on. I hope the next GTA is as realistic as possible. What I mean is, I want to be able to do most things that come to my mind if I had the keys to an open city.
Here's a crazy example. Maybe you go to a wildlife area in the world, find a cougar, tranquilize it, take it back into the city, and hide it in the middle of a populated area. Then you just wait until it wakes up and enjoy, or start robbing places when people run screaming. It seems kinda crazy, but it would be simple for Rockstar to do something like this, and it's actually fairly realistic...i think. All R* would have to do is create a tranquilizer gun obviously, allow it work on all animals, and give players the ability to put stuff in and out of car trunks. Instantly, it gives the player so many random possibilities. I just hope R* thinks like that. I don't care about in game friends, so I really hope they don't waist their time on that aspect of the game unless they find a way to make it only benefit the player. Like for example, I might become friends with the the guy I buy explosives from, because I buy explosives from him a lot. Then he will give me discounts or freebies, and maybe we blow up things together sometimes and that's it. I don't want to take somebody out to dinner just because they're fat, and will whine if I don't call them back.
Last thing I can think of, would be internet service that has a real purpose. I want the ability to buy exotic cars online that you will never see on the street. Maybe even some cars that cost a million+ with ridiculous Bugatti Veyron type stats, but then again I guess there also needs to be a way to insure it, or at least a way to get a nuke to destroy a city block if somebody ruins your ride. I would also like ability to buy lots and lots of constantly updated weapons from an Ammunation online store!
Oh yeah, R* is not controversial enough anymore. I want some nice realistic "anything living" gibbing and a deeper crime element. You should be able to be a drug lord, assassin or leader of assassins, run a chop shop, etc.
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Also, get rid of the phone. Its really annoying.
I like the tranq gun idea, go to the zoo, kidnap a tiger, give it to some drunk guys
If theres a countryside, make people out there do redneck stuff, riding ATV's, shooting stuff, burning stuff, even blowing stuff up. Taking their trucks offroad.
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kidz... atleast in dem cutscenes it wd make da game mo realistic nd if the game will be in los santos i want the same grove street fam... word up...
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1. Vice City por favor?
2. Let you have 1 slot to save a car that will never disappear even after you exit the game, perhaps you have to buy the car. Since it's registered to you it won't be reported stolen and impounded.
3. Depending on the relevancy of it to the story, maybe the ability to buy new houses or apartments.
4. Drug dealing, like in Chinatown wars but with world models for the drugs.
5. More melee interactivity, like being able to break arms or perform headlocks and throws.
6. When you're stopped your break lights should be on.
Thats 250,000+ lines of code right there. No offense but it seems like a waste of time and irrelevant to the story, unless the next game is "Grand Theft Auto 5: Honky-Tonk Shennanigans"
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why not make it easy and say combined all features, weapons, cars, bikes etc... to make some kind of super GTA
basicly fuse all current GTA's together it would proberly be called GTA vice liberty andreas stories V
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it was just a fought but R* should consider fusing all the GTA's of course it would take alot of memory to save
the main thing that would please me is a huge map therefore when you complete the game you hav a large map to
play around in they sould hav more enterable buildings to without loading
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Ballets that should NOT be revived
Posted 04 February 2008 - 04:52 AM
Andre Prokovsky is staging his ballet "The Great Gatsby" for Tulsa Ballet:
"Andre Prokovsky doesn't mind that most people already know the stories his ballets tell.
If anything, using a story as well known as "The Great Gatsby" as the source for a ballet makes the process of telling a story through movement easier."
Caveat: my very subjective opinons, based on personal experience, follow. They are my own views and in no way represent the views of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre.
I was part of the first incarnation of this expensive fiasco in 1987, which Pittsuburgh Ballet Theatre premiered as part of the opening celebrations for the newly renovated Benedum Theater. Mr. Prokovsky was, in my opinon, an incompetent choreographer. The "American Dream" scene was a joke; it ended with Daisy, dressed as the Statue of Liberty, perched on Gatsby's shoulder, torch aloft. (During rehearsals for it, he once looked at the 18 of us and said, "Make a star shape." Being good do-be dancers, we did it, somehow.) Most of us had more than a dozen costume changes; in that scene, I was a tap-dancing cowboy just kind of jamming up there on stage next to the tapping Salvation Army nurse . No matter that some of us knew more tap steps than others (he did not provide any). That experience went straight into my Big Book of Bad Ballet Stories (subsection "Reasons to Retire"), providing me with countless hours of mirth in my post-dancing dotage. Too bad it cost PBT over $1 mil. Later, PBT ended up replacing Prokovsky's choreography Bruce Wells's; they found the rights to the original Gunther Schuller score to be too expensive and replaced the music too.
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Any recent ballet by Helgi Tomasson. No, they're not atrocities and you can sit through them, but they've been uninspired to the point of pain.
Kenneth MacMillan's Isadora: there was a hideous rumour a couple of years ago that it was going to be revived. Mercifully the rumours proved false.
It must have been something. (And I have difficulty seeing Merle Park in the role.) How did he deal with the fatal accident, BTW?
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Some years ago Boston Ballet did an execrable piece of something which went on forever and gave one a migraine headache and all I can remember other than terrible music, nonexistent choreography and awful sets and costumes is that it was about bees.
"Beehive" by choreographer Jim Self.
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Then there's Balanchine's "Opus 34". Schoenberg's "Music for the Cinema". There's a lost Balanchine that can STAY lost.
But I'm soooo curious!
I'm also interested in expensive failures, and what they say about the choreographers/companies that produce (or revive!) them.
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Is this status-bydesign?
This is still happening, over a year later, and with work having been done updating the flagging options.
Is this status-bydesign?
This is still happening, over a year later, and with work having been done updating the flagging options.
Bumping this question, because the problem is still present. I think it is actually a problematic bug -- I initially thought that the flagging dialogue was disabled for some reason (e.g. because the answer had already been deleted).
I can't believe this would be difficult to fix -- something like this would correct it, I think:
Was about to bug report this as well. Only my example had a narwhal.
We were setting "color" on the top level post div, the flag was inheriting it. I changed it so we target
I just change a bunch of style sheets. This should be resloved.
Another bug was lurking ... on many SE 2.0 sites the downvoted styling was overridden. That is also fixed.
If every single stylesheet on all our sites breaks ... it is my fault
Based on the Web Developer Toolbar in Firefox, it appears that the Flag Reasons box is a child element of the
Whether or not that's "correct" behavior is debatable, but that's how it appears to be happening.
I'm getting this too. It can be annoying, as if another transparent entry falls on top of a button in the dialog, I can't click it.


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I installed the Google Analytics SDK in my app.
I want to be able to have real time analytics (new feature proposed by Google).
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Husband and wife team Dirk Boswell and Michelle Lee's trip to Pakistan almost didn't happen. Between the aggravating visa process and attacks by the Taliban in the southern part of the country, the 12-day visit seemed like a plan that might never materialize. However, at the last minute, after Boswell and Lee had been told at the Los Angeles consulate that it would take two to three months to get their visas, Michelle received an email from a contact in Pakistan that said their applications had been approved. "L.A. is where visas for Pakistan have to go through on the United States' side, as we were almost getting ready to get on a plane and come home that morning when I got the email," explained Michelle. "It was incredibly frustrating, but it all came together at the last minute." Michelle and Dirk, both Rotarians, were part of a Friendship Exchange to Lahore, Pakistan to promote cultural understanding, cooperation and amicability between residents of different nations. A handful of other Rotarians from Canada and the U.S. also participated. Rotary International (also known as the Rotary Club) is an international service club whose stated purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humaniarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Tasking care of their own Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. It is the largest native Punjabi-populated city in the world and an important historical centre for the Punjabi people. With a rich history dating back over a millennium, Lahore is a main cultural centre of Punjab and Pakistan. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains an economic, political, transportation, entertainment, and educational hub. "It's very similar to India," Dirk said of their impressions of Pakistan. "Except there was hardly any trash in the streets! It was very clean. Like any developing country, they have a lot of charitable pro¬jects that benefit the poor. They do an admirable job of taking care of their own." Pakistan is a sovereign country with a population exceeding 180 million people; it is the sixth most populous country in the world and located at the crossroads of the strategically important regions of South Asia, Central Asia and Western Asia. Pakistan is the second most populous Muslim-majority country and has the second largest Shi'a population in the world. After Islam, Hinduism and Christianity are the largest religions in Pakistan. Boswell, Lee, and their companions stayed with Pakistani families and toured various Rotary-funded projects, like schools, an orphanage, and various medical clinics. The group was also privy to local Rotarians efforts to aid Rotary's End Polio Now campaign (for more information, go to www.endpolio.org). Working to eradicate polio "The Pakistani people, whether they are Rotarians or not, are working really hard to eradicate polio," said Michelle, who is also the District Governor for Rotary District 5080, which includes Colville and Kettle Falls, among others. Worldwide, fewer than 240 polio cases were confirmed for all of 2012, an all-time low, down from 650 cases in 2011. Also in 2012, India – long considered an epicenter of the disease – was removed from the polio-endemic list after posting a full year with no new cases, leaving only Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan as countries where the wild poliovirus has never been stopped. Violence against polio vaccine volunteers has been a concern in Pakistan. In December, eight volunteers involved in a polio vaccination campaign were gunned down in a string of attacks in the southern port city of Karachi and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. In January, two members of a polio vaccination team were killed when their motorcycle hit a bomb in the restive Kurram tribal region of Pakistan. Despite these incidents, Boswell and Lee say they felt very safe and secure during their visit. "It's much different (in Pakistan) than the media portrays," Dirk said. "They definitely know what our perception of them in the United States is," added Michelle. "They think we think they are fanatical, violence mongers, and that's not who they are. It's this group of fundamentalists who are hurting people and making the news for it. If you watched nothing but American news, you would think that right now our schools are the most unsafe place to be. At no time during our trip did we feel at risk. The people were very warm and receptive to us being there."


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I have flight where I need to move from airplane to another. Do I need to check out my luggage and then check it in again, or will it be automaticaly transfered to another plane?
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In any case, the airline employee at your original checkin can tell you whether your luggage is checked through - they'll often ask you themselves to confirm whether you want that.
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Srinivasa Ramanujan in his first letter to G.H. Hardy stated many results for which he didn't give proofs. Among them the result taken from this link seems interesting :
- If $$\int\limits_{0}^{\infty} \frac{\cos{nx}}{e^{2\pi\sqrt{x}}-1} \ dx = \phi(n)$$ then $\displaystyle\int\limits_{0}^{\infty} \frac{\sin{nx}}{e^{2\pi\sqrt{x}}-1} \ dx = \phi(n)-\frac{1}{2n} + \phi\biggl(\frac{\pi^2}{n}\biggr)\sqrt{\frac{2\pi^3}{n^3}}$.
The link also mentions that $\phi(n)$ is a complicated function. The following are certain special values and shows some values.
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#3. Google's Crazy Interactive Results
Google is well-known for its elaborate April Fool's jokes (and terrifying policies), in which the company will announce some ridiculous new feature that anyone without a calendar or common sense will fall for. What you might not know is that this sense of humor also extends to Google's search engine itself, which has a bunch of hidden jokes triggered by specific words or phrases.
For example, odds are you've used Google search for what most human beings use it for: spell check. Yeah, we've all typed a word we weren't sure how to spell into Google and let the "Did you mean ..." part correct us. But if you're wondering if you spelled the word "anagram" right, Google won't help you out there -- instead, it offers you an actual anagram for "anagram."
Perhaps they're just trying to remind you that you haven't harassed your sheep lately.
Or if you type "recursion," which is the process of repeating something, then it suggests ... "recursion." Click on that and it'll show you the same thing over and over, in an infinite loop.
Which is hysterical, unless you're trying to find the actual meaning, in which case this is spectacularly unhelpful.
Google also has a calculator function, which comes in pretty handy when you type "answer to life, the universe, and everything," a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. As in that book, the answer is given as ...
So long, and thanks for all the personal data.
For more festive results, you can try searching "Christmas" ...
Or "Hanukkah" ...
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Or, yes, even "Festivus" (from Seinfeld), which displays the traditional Festivus Pole all over the side of the page.
To get rid of it, you have to pin Jerry Stiller.
Other searches are a little more interactive. Fans of aviation or (more likely) Star Fox 64 will be delighted to see what happens when you type "do a barrel roll" into Google.
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If you own an Android phone or tablet, you know that it's good to update it every once in a while because each new version comes with nifty new features and ways to accidentally message photos of your genitals to everyone in your family. What you might not know is that each version also comes with a cool Easter egg -- like this adorable painting of the Android mascot standing next to a monstrous gingerbread man and surrounded by a bunch of zombies talking on phones.
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We'd be offended by the implication, but we're too busy being creeped out.
Yes, that's in your phone, and yes, it looks like something Jeffrey Dahmer painted in first grade. In order to see the Easter egg, simply go to your Settings menu and tap "About Phone." You'll see "Android Version" in that menu. Tap on that part very fast a bunch of times, and eventually a reward will pop onto your screen.
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And your nightmares.
Each Easter egg references the (always candy-related) name of the current Android version: The one with the gingerbread monster is for version 2.3, which was called Gingerbread, and for version 3, or Honeycomb, they included a simple image of a bee.
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Which is the last thing you see before being sucked into the Grid.
Yeah, OK, that one's pretty lame. Others are a little more interactive, though: In version 4.0, called Ice Cream Sandwich, you get an image of a little ice cream sandwich man -- hold your finger down on him, and he starts flying across the sky, doing his best Nyan Cat impression.
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Somewhere, George Bluth's stomach rumbles.
And for the next version, Android 4.1, or Jellybean, they included a little mini game that lets you fling virtual jellybeans around.
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Until you find the hidden fetus.
So keep this little tip in mind for when Google releases the next Android update, Edible Panties. That should be an interesting one.
#1. The Konami Code Works on Websites
The Konami Code is arguably the most famous video game cheat code ever created. It gained popularity when it was included in the game Contra by Konami, where it granted the player 30 lives, and is as follows:
If that's too hard to remember, you can use a simple mnemonic device: UUDDLRLRBA.
It's easy to see why the code became popular: 1980s games were fucking hard. Soon, however, it spread to games from other companies and other systems ... and from there to present-day websites. If you use Google Reader, for example, and type the Konami Code on your keyboard, your left sidebar reveals a hidden ninja.
Just a friendly reminder that Google is watching you. Always.
GameSpot.com is a video gaming news website that brings you trailers, reviews, and downloads for the latest games out today. But once you enter the Konami Code and hit Enter, the main page switches to what one might have seen if the Internet had been around in the 1980s.
Games are now rated from hellacious to tubular.
And just to show you that this isn't a U.S.-only thing, on a certain section of the BBC's website, entering the code brings up a photo of Doctor Who's robot dog, K-9.
That sounds like something we just made up, but it isn't.
Unfortunately, Konami Code Easter eggs are usually pretty short-lived, presumably because they are surreptitiously sneaked in by nerdy programmers without consulting with their bosses and then removed as soon as they're found out. We've mentioned before that, for a while, entering the code on Marvel Comics' website brought up an image of a squirrel dressed as Deadpool, while doing it on ESPN.com caused the entire page to be invaded by unicorns.
At first we thought it was just our screensaver.
Facebook did something similar in 2009 when a temporary Easter egg caused the Konami Code to trigger a lens flare effect all over the website.
J.J. Abrams never turned it back off.
But the best use of the Konami Code so far goes to the old site for the now defunct Newsweek magazine: Pressing the familiar keys caused all the headlines on the front page to be replaced with fake news stories about zombies.
Who will prepare us for the zombie invasion now? Cheezburger.com?
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5 Real Subcultures Way Crazier Than Anything from Japan
You've got your goths, your punks, your emo kids, your gangbangers, your jocks, your nerds, your proto-Juggalos, and your postmodern bronies: Life is full of bizarre subcultures based on mutual interest, and we've covered a few of them before. But then there are these baffling cliques, which seem to be based on a peyote vision or some terrible mistranslation in the Bible.
#5. Mexico's Pointy-Booted Tribal Dance Culture
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Nope, those shoes are not Photoshopped. They're real, they're incredibly popular, and they make the Iron Sheik weep with envy. Known as "botas picudas," these Keebler Elf war-boots are all the rage among some Mexican men. They're the signature look of the tribal subculture, which involves dancing to a mixture of Native American, electronica, and African music for fabulous cash and prizes, which the winners then spend on even crazier-looking boots. It is the Circle of Boots that Elton John was trying to warn us about.
We couldn't find any stories about tribal men botching a triple Lutz and impaling themselves on their own footwear, so apparently you can move in these things. The average pair costs about $30, but they're more if you make them sparkle and glitter like a rhinestone cowboy. Luckily, cardboard and colorful tape are all a poor kid needs to inadvertently kick himself in the junk with flair and panache.
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"Now no one will ever laugh at me again!"
This whole weaponized phallic footwear thing started thanks to one man, known as "Cesar of Huizache," who just showed up at a cobbler's shop and requested boots with curly, 3-foot-long toes. Since the customer is always right (even if they're clearly not right in the head), the cobbler made the boots. Cesar then went out dancing with them, and the rest is confusing, imbalanced history.
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Nothing's hotter than guys trapped in a Jigsaw torture device while still shaking what mama gave them.
Look, we know "this guy showed up and wanted them and everybody else thought it was great for reasons you cannot comprehend" isn't the best origin story, but sometimes reality is disappointing. If it makes you feel any better, you can pretend the dude had crippling toe gigantism or something.
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Quentin Tarantino's dream disease.
#4. The Pony-Loving Hooligan Kids of Dublin
Bronies fetishize cartoons. The Pony Kids of Dublin, Ireland, prefer the real deal.
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Friendship is magic(ally delicious).
These are mostly young children and teenagers who have grown up poor and alone. As an escape from such a crap life, they've turned to ponies. Stroll through the right project at the right time, and you'll encounter dozens of tough-looking street urchins flitting about atop their horsies like a dressage convention.
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Hi-ho, Douchebag, away!
Of course, as Lisa Simpson will sadly attest, ponies are goddamn expensive. So how the hell could a slew of impoverished kids afford them? Nobody's quite sure. It could be that horse culture is a leftover from the preindustrial revolution, which hit Dublin a bit softer than most places, or they could be rogue horses that escaped from Irish gypsies. Seriously, that is a legitimate possibility. But most likely it's down to boring old supply and demand: If you want to join the Pony Kid Brigade, you can easily pick up a Black Beauty of your own at the Smithfield Horse Market. Twice a year, the market heads gather up ponies and sell them for about the price of a pair of shoes -- no regulation, license, or anything else required.
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"I should've taken them up on their offer to become glue."
Seriously, much like motorcycles, knowing how to ride that thing is in no way related to owning one:
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Step 1: Get off. Step 2: Stay off.
#3. The Swedish Raggare: '50s-Style Hillbilly Greasers
Swedish raggare subculture loves a few things more than anybody else in the world: leather jackets, vintage hot rods, poodle skirts, pomade, and unintentional racism.
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Cellphones, too. Just like Elvis had.
These aren't just a bunch of adorably foreign greasers adopting elements of another culture because it's exotic, it looks cool, and "getting drunk on a hot rod" is a more satisfying hobby than elk wrestling (or whatever it is the Swedes do on the weekends). The raggare didn't "adopt" the greaser thing as a bit of ironic nostalgia -- the '50s never ended for them. They've been doing this for 60 years, and the subculture only grows in popularity with each passing day. A huge part of the scene is the raggare brawls -- organized honor-based mass fistfights that rove from town to town, like a mashup between The Wild One and Street Fighter II.
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"You must defeat the Fonz to stand a chance."
And of course, what happenin' smorgasbord of Eurockabilly is complete without a healthy dose of Deep South casual racism:
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"The Canadian snowbacks take our jobs! That is how you do it, yes?"
It's not always racist on purpose -- most raggare probably just like the way the symbol looks, or at best only got the general gist of "good old boys who think the man should go fuck himself until he walks funny" from the flag. But that still won't help your jet-lagged confusion any when you stumble off a flight in Stockholm and right into a line of Elvis impersonators doing burnouts in the General Lee, who all, at some unseen cue, start beating the shit out of each other.
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Starting with the jackass repping both sides of the Civil War.


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The lemma says that a special ribbon graph drawn on page 167 presents a cylinder. I am sorry that I don't know how to show that ribbon graph here.
I especially don't understand the statement starting "One may check that the cylindrical structures are compatible on the boundary..."
Could you show me the detail and/or an intuitive(geometric) proof?


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Well, he started acting at a young age in local productions of popular plays. The small productions started at the age of eleven, but by the time he was fifteen, Zac was well on his way. He worked in various small roles on popular television series. Apparently he caught the right people's attention because he was offered a regular role on the television show Summerland. (The show has since been canceled)
Apparently Zac was teased a great deal at school for having a gap between his teeth and being the shortest boy in his class. Since then, Zac has grown up a bit to 5'6", but still is pretty humble. He claims that he is a pretty normal guy who just happens to have eyes that older women find attractive.
Judging by the fact that he had to change his phone number after High School Musical released, I'd say more than just a few older ladies find him attractive. In fact, I know that's true because he came in second on our very own Hot Guys polls here on The Doll Palace. Keep faith ladies, you'll be seeing him again soon in the second installment of High School Musical in August some time.


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"Mr. Armani designed this for me," Blanchett said of her paillette-strewn pale gold gown at the 2014 Oscars, where she took home the Best Actress statuette.
"I've had a very long creative involvement with Mr. Armani. He's been very generously involved with the theater company that up until recently I ran with my husband," said Blanchett at the designer's pre-Oscar celebration.
Cate Blanchett also chose Armani Privé for the 2014 Golden Globes, where she won Best Actress in a Drama.
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6 Tiny Things Doctors Do That Can Save (Or End) Your Life
#3. Sunlight and Cuddles Do Miracles for Premature Babies
Premature babies face a whole bunch of problems on account of the fact that they're not finished turning into babies yet. Modern technology has come a long way in helping keep premature babies alive and kicking, but until now only hippies fully appreciated the benefits of cuddles and sunlight.
They're still wrong about that shitty salt deodorant, though.
It's called kangaroo care, because it's similar to the way that kangaroos carry their young. We don't mean that you have to slice open your abdomen and slip your baby into a skin pouch. Just holding your baby against your skin for a few hours a day has shown to lead to decreased infections and mortality, as well as increasing sleep and stabilizing temperature.
And it wouldn't hurt to do it by a window. One of the main problems that underdeveloped babies can face is something called hyperbilirubinemia, which is worth at least 800 points in Words With Friends, but you're probably more familiar with the term "jaundice." It turns the skin yellow, which in addition to clashing with the upholstery, means a buildup of bilirubin, which is more or less blood poop.
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That's right -- this little guy is filled with more than one kind of poop.
Thankfully, bilirubin is broken down by sunlight, so a few hours a day of cuddling your baby in a sunny room is a pretty effective treatment for jaundice not caused by being a career alcoholic. In fact, at least one study has shown that the day star was 6.5 times as effective as phototherapy from a machine. Score one for Mother Nature.
So there you have it. Babies work like Birdman.
And while we're on the subject of saving babies ...
#2. An Effortless Procedure at Birth Makes a Baby Healthier
One of the first things that you do after squeezing out a mewling infant is cut off the pulsating flesh cord that connects you, because it's weird and kind of gross. But hang on to those scissors -- research suggests that waiting just a few minutes before you cut the cord can prevent a whole bunch of problems further down the road.
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"Hey, hold off on those scissors. Let's watch Timecop first."
Researchers in Sweden studied 400 full-term infants and found that babies who had their umbilical cords clamped three minutes after delivery had iron levels 45 percent higher than babies who had their cords clamped after 10 seconds. This meant a reduced incidence in anemia, the disease caused by not having enough red blood cells carrying oxygen around your body (with oxygen ordinarily being beneficial to your health).
Until recently, the benefits of keeping the cord attached after the baby pops out weren't really known, but apparently the birthing mechanism prompts the umbilical cord to start downloading a whole bunch of useful crap into your baby that it's going to need in the coming months. Just because it's outside the oven doesn't mean that this bun is fully baked, which is why the umbilical cord delivers stem cells, which help fix up any structural damage your baby might have.
You can just tell this one's broken.
Cutting the cord off too early interrupts this delivery, which may risk complications. So although it's gross and quivering, it may benefit you to hum the length of your average pop song before you snip.
#1. Get a Cut, Cram Some Honey in the Wound
Antibiotics have a downside -- the more you use them, the more bacteria learn how to ignore them. As a result, antibiotics wind up helping create treatment-resistant superbugs, which is the exact opposite of what you want your antibiotics to accomplish. But what choice do you really have? Well, science is here to tell you, slather some honey on that wound, sucka.
"He's bleeding internally! Grab a funnel and spread those ass cheeks."
In the rare case where folk wisdom actually lines up with real life, honey, especially honey made from the manuka flower, is wildly successful in treating wounds because of how it reacts with bacteria -- it blocks their ability to stick onto the wound. In one trial, researchers tried using honey against MRSA, one of the aforementioned superbugs that evolved from the "staph" infection that now has the ability to create sores of biblical proportions. The result? Seventy percent of the honey-glazed patients had MRSA-free wounds, while only one guy on the regular treatment kicked the disease.
But there's another, more incredible discovery to come out of this. Another study showed that honey might actually help to reverse MRSA's resistance to antibiotics, making them useful again. Holy shit! Thanks, bees!
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A baby robot has been born. Now, with little DeeChee's help, researchers are studying how babies transition from babbling to forming words.
Dr. Caroline Lyons of the University of Hertfordshire is one of the computer scientists who helped design DeeChee the robot. She tells Weekend Edition host Scott Simon that humans are also critical to their experiments.
"One of our ideas is that you only learn to speak by interacting with another human. So we brought in a lot of ordinary participants and just asked them to teach DeeChee the names of shapes and colors."
As one might expect, not everyone is a great teacher. The study, published by the Public Library of Science One, puts it diplomatically:
"Some participants were better teachers than others: some of the less good produced very sparse utterances, while other talkative participants praised DeeChee, whatever it did, which skewed the learning process towards non-words."
Along with the study, researchers posted a video of a participant teaching DeeChee.
Lyons says the experiments, which last just eight minutes, are intended to simulate a focused, therapeutic learning session, rather than the gradual learning babies do in their everyday environments.
DeeChee started out knowing most of the syllables in the English language, as Slate reports.
"As humans talk, DeeChee tracks the number of times different syllables are used. It then uses the more common sounds to recognize words, which it can then speak."
The robot keeps a record of the syllables it hears and speaks, producing data for the researchers.
DeeChee has white plastic skin and a smile of red lights. Its hands can grab and gesture — and the participants respond to its human-like features.
"You can see how people do enter into the spirit of the thing," Lyons says, "and they do tend to talk to DeeChee as if it was a small child."
Wired Magazine explains that the lifelike design of humanoid robots like DeeChee is not just for the participants' sake.
"Many researchers think certain cognitive processes are shaped by the bodies in which they occur. A brain in a vat would think and learn very differently than a brain in a body."
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ITALY (July 14, 2010)—Firefighters battled a major blaze Wednesday morning on Interstate 35 between Italy and Waxahachie where a tractor-trailer rig was engulfed in flames.
A dispatcher for the Waco region of the Texas Department of Public Safety told News 10 both north and south bound lanes of the highway were blocked while firefighters battled the flames.
The highway reopened at around 10 a.m. Wednesday.
The truck loaded with plastics.
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The fire was first reported at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.