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The 5 Most Ridiculous Lies You Were Taught In History Class
#2. Washington and the Cherry Tree
The story:
It's a parable that resonates through every primary school student's retelling of the life and times of the man who was both America's first president, and the only president to also have been a superhero.
As a child, we were told, George Washington came into possession of a hatchet, and went about his days chopping the shit out of everything he saw. One day he came upon his father's prize cherry tree, and without so much as a second thought he chopped that sucker down, presumably because it was a Monarchist. Upon being quizzed by his father about the event, Washington proudly admitted that he had been the culprit, due to his inability to lie. The story was later loosely adapted to film with Jim Carrey in the leading role.
The truth:
In a fairly cynical culture, George Washington has still been elevated to the status of some kind of deity, thanks in part to a man named Mason Locke Weems. He was the author of the unfortunately titled biography "The Life of George Washington, with Curious Anecdotes Laudable to Himself and Exemplary to his Countrymen." This was the shortest title his editors could persuade him to agree to.
Weems recalled many fantastic stories about Washington, with particular emphasis on his overwhelming moral fortitude and infallibility. The cherry tree story is of particular importance, because it demonstrates that Washington can easily destroy things, and just chooses not to.
According to Weems, "at the sight of him, even those blessed spirits seem[ed] to feel new raptures." That's right, when the angels learned of the existence of George Washington, they began to second-think their allegiance to their much less powerful leader, God. Curiously, Weems waited until Washington was dead before publishing his anecdotes.
As it turns out, if Washington was indeed incapable of lying, then Mason Weems was surely his exact nemesis, seeing as his recounting of Washington's exploits were about as historically accurate as the 1999 Civil War documentary Wild Wild West.
Nevertheless, Weems' pack of lies were taught as fact in American school textbooks for over a century, probably because they are much more enthralling than the true story of a man who, by more reliable accounts, was actually a bland, boring and uncharismatic everyman who just happened to be taller than average, and pretty good at warring. The story still resonates today, delivered to your children's impressionable minds through such reliable media as Sesame Street.
Why does this bullshit story survive? Perhaps because the central message still resonates: "It's much easier to tell the truth when you're the one holding the ax."
#1. Benjamin Franklin, the Kite and the Thunderstorm
The story:
Another great American hero to whom many seem to attribute mutant superpowers is Ben Franklin, the scientist and statesman whose inventions included bifocal spectacles, the urinary catheter and freedom. He was particularly interested in electricity, and faced with intense skepticism from his colleagues about his theory that lightning is electricity, legend has it that he conducted an experiment to prove them wrong.
Franklin, with a knowing wink, went out into a raging thunderstorm and released a kite with a lightning rod affixed to the top and a metal key attached to the string. When the kite had annoyed the face of God to the point that he threw a bolt of lightning at it, the charge passed down the string and into the key, and when Franklin touched the key, it let off a spark of static, which somehow allowed him to discover electricity.
The truth:
It's certainly true that Franklin at least proposed a kite experiment. Less certain, however, is whether or not he ever actually got around to performing it, and some sources suggest he did not. What is certain is that the experiment had nothing to do with lightning. If someone flew a kite into a storm, and it was struck by lightning, there's a good chance that person would be utterly destroyed. In fact, everyone in the vicinity would at the least suffer from hairless-scalp syndrome.
Many people today who believe the amended story of Franklin's kite experiment grew up immersed in the revisionist history of Walt Disney, whose classic cartoon Ben and Me portrayed Franklin not only as having flown the kite in a thunderstorm, but also having been a complete fucking jerk.
While few people still believe that all of Franklin's innovations are actually attributable to his pet mouse, the kite story is still widely accepted despite the unfortunate testimonies of anyone who's ever been stupid enough to replicate it.
The reality of Franklin's experiment is that it simply involved flying a kite into some clouds to collect a few harmless ions, in order to prove that the atmosphere carries a charge. It is through Franklin's discoveries that science was able to infer, later on, that lightning probably has something to do with electricity.
The idea that his kite was actually directly struck by a bolt of lightning is a rather dramatic exaggeration perpetuated by some school textbooks, which also helpfully serves to convince generations of children that getting hit by lightning is not only totally harmless, but scientific fun!
It also, like the Newton apple thing, takes one of history's great geniuses and portrays them experiencing childlike wonder at some now-common idea, as if everyone who lived before the 20th century was a childlike simpleton.
Why can't there be some other legend about him, one closer to his real personality? Like the time he pleasured six women at once. Sure, we made that up. But if you go out and repeat it enough, it'll be in the textbooks by 2050. Let's try it.
S Peter Davis runs the exceedingly adequate SPeterDavis.com. The illustrations in the article were by Nedroid of Nedroid.com fame.
If you liked that, you'll probably enjoy reading about more bullshit your mom tried to pull on you in 5 Common Body Myths Debunked. Or, enjoy S Peter Davis's tour through the The History of the Sitcom. And be sure to find out how the latest Vogue cover manages to be the most racist masturbation fodder since Paris Hilton became too skanky to excite us anymore.
We have some bad news: Ancient Greece looked like a pastel explosion, Columbus didn't discover America, and your favorite book sellers are now taking pre-orders for a text book written and illustrated entirely by the Cracked team! Hitting shelves in October, Cracked's De-Textbook is a fully-illustrated, systematic deconstruction of all of the bullshit you learned in school.
It's loaded with facts about history, your body, and the world around you that your teachers didn't want you to know. And as a bonus? We've also included the kinkiest sex acts ever described in the Bible.

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I was able to install Ubuntu 11.10 in dual boot in my MacBook Pro 5.1 with rEFIt. I had to do it twice because first time I installed GRUB in /sda instad of in /sda3. Anyways, it wouldn't work: after choosing Ubuntu in rEFIt I got the balck screen with the white cursor.
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It's been awhile right? It's worth trying sometime. Once your brain stops screaming that you're wasting valuable time, you might start to appreciate the quiet.
That's the idea behind a class at University of Washington called "Information and Contemplation." For the first 15 minutes of class, students sit in silence. It's a form of meditation, basically, a way to calm the endlessly multitasking mind of the average college student. The class hopes to take college students outside of their normally busy and distracted lifestyle to gain better perspective on how to live a more balanced and peaceful existence. Continue reading "The Brilliant Class Where You Do Nothing for 15 Minutes"


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"You're the face of the bully!" Cuomo shouts. "We want answers! When gay kids die! For bad reasons! We want to blame people! Because a lot of people! Get away with it!" Is Chris Cuomo in some kind of agitated state, or was this preview clip just edited strangely?
Anyway, Ravi also gave an interview to the Newark Star-Ledger. Excerpts:
I'm never going to regret not taking the plea. If I took the plea, I would have had to testify that I did what I did to intimidate Tyler and that would be a lie. I won't ever get up there and tell the world I hated Tyler because he was gay, or tell the world I was trying to hurt or intimidate him because it's not true.
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More short takes on Obamacare...
…starting on our homepage with "A Good Start," by Charles R. Morris:
There is no reason to expect it to go smoothly. It took a year to sort through the mass confusion surrounding George W. Bush's Medicare Part D program, which was a far simpler challenge, since all the eligible patients were already known to Medicare. The ACA, working through an array of exchanges run by the states and the federal government, must create new databases of individuals and businesses, apply new eligibility rules, qualify hundreds of benefit plans, and match eligible recipients and plans. Plans and rates will differ substantially from state to state. …
But the overall prognosis for the law's success is still bright. The states that have embraced the law seem determined to make a good show of it. Their exchanges will be ready to open on the first of the year, and though there will certainly be glitches, most of them should be operating fairly smoothly by the summer. Even better, the first exchange insurance prices are lower than even friendly analysts expected. …
The performance of the federal exchanges may well lag that of the participating states, since hardly anyone imagined that almost two-thirds of states would opt out. But the feds will catch up—among other things they will mostly be able to apply the same basic data systems in every state. Over time, Republicans may rue the boost that the opt-out red states gave to the creation of a national health-care system.
Ezra Klein at the Washington Post on how demand for Obamacare is what really troubles those who would defund it:
It was strange and slightly perverse to watch Obamacare open and be flooded with people desperate to sign up for health insurance even as the government closed because Republicans wanted the law ripped out, or at least delayed. In some quarters, Republicans mocked Obamacare's technical problems, but the jokes were wan: Overwhelming demand for the law is not a boon to the GOP's position.
This is, of course, precisely what Republicans were scared of: That a law they loathe would end up being enthusiastically embraced by millions of Americans -- and thus proving permanent. It's Obamacare's possible success, not its promised failures, that unnerve the GOP.
Eduardo Porter in the Business section of today's New York Times sees it similarly:
[T]he argument that half the Republican Party has simply lost its mind has to be an unsatisfactory answer, especially considering the sophistication of some of the deep-pocketed backers of the Tea Party insurgency.
There is a plausible alternative to irrationality. Flawed though it may turn out to be, Obamacare …could fundamentally change the relationship between working Americans and their government. This could pose an existential threat to the small-government credo that has defined the G.O.P. for four decades…. [T]he law has many provisions that are likely to improve life for millions of Americans, including a big portion of what we know as the working middle class.
As it turns out, the core Tea Party demographic — working white men between the ages of 45 and 64 — would do fairly well under the law….
To conservative Republicans, losing a large slice of the middle class to the ranks of the Democratic Party could justify extreme measures.
And extreme (and slightly garbled) rhetoric.
Texas governor Rick Perry, in New Jersey stumping for U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan, called implementation of the ACA a "criminal act." "If this heath care law is forced upon this country, the young men and women in this audience are the ones who are really going to pay the price. And that, I suggest to you, reaches the point of being a felony toward them and their future."
Kevin Drum looks at how corporate employers might like to exploit glitches and the complexity of the rollout:
For the past year or so, Obamacare has been the perfect foil for every corporation in America that's done something unpopular with its benefits package. In the past, they were forced to vaguely blame their handiwork on "rising prices" and leave it at that, but now they have something better. Cutting back on benefits? Obamacare! Raising copays? Obamacare! Reducing hours? Obamacare! Whatever it is, all they have to do is say that it's a response to Obamacare. CEOs and HR directors across the country are pleased as punch that for at least a little while, they can plausibly deflect criticism for things they were probably planning to do anyway. It's been a godsend.
Deroy Murdoch at The Corner gets in the predictable barbs while equating IT glitches with creeping, unworkable socialism:
Arizona, Florida, Texas, and 22 other states have resisted Obamacare, and basically told Obama that if he wants exchanges in their jurisdictions, he can go ahead and erect them. In contrast, New York and its liberal-Democrat-dominated state government designed its exchange website with enthusiasm and a collectivist sense of purpose. So, if this is as good as Obamacare gets in a cooperative, pro-socialized-medicine state, imagine how things will unfold in places where state officials actively drag their feet on Obamacare implementation.
After just two days, Obamacare already resembles the wheezing, unresponsive, morbidly obese monster about which Republicans and free marketeers have warned consistently for three and a half years.
Jonathan Cohn acknowledges the glitches are real—and says they don't matter:
Consider what happened in Kentucky—a state where, despite the state's conservative political currents, leaders are setting a standard for how well Obamacare can work. According to officials there, the new "Kynect" website logged more than 57,000 unique visitors on Monday, with each person staying on the site for an average of 11 minutes. More than 2,000 people started applications and more than 1,200 completed them. In Arkansas, consumers filed into a help center at the University of Arkansas to find out about their new options. The online systems were down, making on-the-spot enrollment impossible. But, according to an account by David Ramsey in the Arkansas Times, people said they could wait until the system was working. …
Buying health insurance on the individual market has always been frustrating and difficult. In most states, it has required filling out lengthy forms on medical histories—sometimes forcing people to recall specific doctor visits and treatments, with the threat of denial or policy cancellation even for inadvertent omissions. And that's not to mention that insurance companies frequently took weeks and even months to process applications. Or the fact, that when the process was done, many people simply couldn't get coverage because they had pre-existing conditions or simply couldn't afford the premiums.
Republicans and their allies are reveling in Obamacare's implementation glitches. But their solution isn't to provide people with some easier, quicker, and more reliable source of insurance. It's to replace a system that has some early, fixable technological problems with no system at all. It's to stop people from getting health insurance—and take it away from those who are already getting it.
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I agree with Cohn - website issues usually are fixable, and should be fixed relatively quickly, if the folks who support them are reasonably competent.
I would guess that at least a fair amount of the website traffic on the first day were goofs like me who were idly curious but aren't really in the market for health insurance. Let's see how much traffic there is today and the next few days, and how well the systems handle it. What should worry the admininstrators is not first-day traffic jams, but the ability to handle traffic as the final days for enrollment approach. I read somewhere recently that the myth that young, healthy people would wait until they are sick to buy Obamacare insurance is a canard, as in reality the law provides for the equivalent of an "open enrollment period" that ends sometime early in calendar year 2014; people who miss the enrollment period are out of luck until the following period. If that's not correct, I hope someone here can provide a correction.
One of the points Jonathan Chait made yesterday is that, by forcing the shutdown, the GOP was stepping on the bad press of what was likely to be Obamacare's worst day. In a saner time there would have been a lot more "analysis" like Deroy Murdoch's, disingenuous but effective: Har har, the website is down, where's your hope and change now?
But Jonathan Cohn is also right that it's hard to shock people with technical glitches when we've all experienced the pre-Obamacare reality of having, or trying to get, health insurance. There's a half-hour line? The form can't be filed immediately? That's your big-government nightmare? Let me know when you've got something to report that doesn't sound better than my best day dealing with Aetna or United.
I teach a community college class in a college whose student body is mostly low to moderate income. My students have been asking me all kinds of questions about how to enroll, and they are disappointed when they learn that coverage isn't effective until January. Young people already know how dangerous it is to be without insurance, and they know that individual policies under the current system are unreliable. Governor Perry's idea that this is a felony on the young is out of touch with reality.
The local news in my area of Michigan is running all sorts of anecdotal reports--people who can't get on, people who say the premiums are still too high, people complaining about the deductibles, people whose current insurance carriers are cancelling policies and going out of business because they can't meet ACA requirements, people who qualify for subsidies but can't find out what those subsidies will amount to. It makes everything sound more confused, disorganized and negative than it might actually be once things calm down..
I'm holding off on visiting the exchange for a week or two in hopes some of the glitches will be worked out by then, and I'm not taking first reports or punditry too much to heart at this point.


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On my back wheel on one side balls won't fit! I am 100% certain they are the same balls I took out easily with the magnet on my screwdriver several weeks ago to mail my bike home. They are 1/4" balls. I'm afraid if I get new balls, they wouldn't fit either since they are not worn any smaller. I even tried freezing the balls to shrink them and get them in, but that didn't work. Can I use 15/64" balls? They don't seem to fit the curve of the cone snugly anyway, but they do seem to fit the cup. I don't really want to take a ball out since it leaves such a large gap.
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Are you sure you're putting in the right number of balls? Generally, when a bearing is new there is about a half-ball space left when you have a full complement of balls. As the bearing wears this gets to be closer to a full ball's space. It's easy to see the space and think you should put in another ball, but you don't need one.
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From Homemade Candy Corn to Skillet Toffee: 10 Candy & Sweets Recipes
Homemade mallomars. Salted pistachio brittle. Chocolate-dipped beer marshmallows. Who needs store-bought candy when you can make delicious sweets right in your own kitchen? And just in time for Halloween, we have a recipe for homemade candy corn, too!
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The spell states It appears where you designate and acts immediately, on your turn. but does the summoning count as a movement (a la teleport?) by the creature which would then invoke an attack of opportunity?


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Before They were Famous: Scary Celebrity Hairstyles, Skin and More
These photos prove that stardom and cash can fix even the worst celebrity hairstyles and more
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That's why when we look at red carpet photos and magazine covers, it's easy to get down on ourselves thinking, "how in the world are they so gosh darn perfect!?" So we decided that instead of letting their perfection frustrate us, we'd do something more productive, like remember that without fame and fortune, these flawless celebrities look a lot like us. Because the truth is, which we're sure you're well aware of, being famous allows you the luxuries of having regular facials, dermatologist visits, access to the best hairstylists, colorists, dentists and plastic surgeons in the country. That all means that if they have skin problems, acne, frizzy hair, crooked teeth, flat chests, big noses or the like, they can quickly see to it that these "problems" get "fixed."
So to boost our confidence, we put together a little slide show showing some of our favorite stars before and after they hit the big time. Hopefully it'll be a nice reminder that the reason why many celebs look so good is because of the fact that they're famous. Here are the celebrities who have gotten major beauty boosts thanks to fame: Ashlee Simpson, Miley Cyrus, Salma Hayek, Kim Kardashian, Katherine Heigle, Katy Perry, Blake Lively, America Ferrera, Scarlett Johansson, Leighton Meester, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Jennifer Aniston.
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by LittleBunny Friday, January 4, 2013 at 10:14AM Report as inappropriate
Interesting how makeup and plastic surgery work wonders!
by robyne00 Saturday, May 26, 2012 at 07:56AM Report as inappropriate
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Wow they changed alot. Specially kim totally transformed her face
by Kary26 Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 08:48PM Report as inappropriate
Kim has had way too much surgery! She doesn't even look like herself! I love Katy Perry and she has become a quirky, but beautiful woman!
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kim definately got some work done
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I don't think SJP looks much better. lol
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I seriously believe with the money and right people, anyone can look like a celebrity! Glad to see they were normal once :)
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I think some of these transformation are just amazing. it definitely gives the average woman hope to improve her looks
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Most of them have honest, natural smiles on photos "before". "After" they look like statues :/
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I am trying to find an approximate solution to an eigenvalue equation using techniques from perturbation theory. Roughly speaking, the problem is as follows
$L^s \phi_q^s = \lambda_q^s \phi_q^s$
The operator $L^s$ can be written
$L^s = L^0 + s L^1$
where $s>0$ is small and $L^0$ is self-adjoint acting on some Hilbert space. I am trying to find solutions of the form
$\phi_q^s = \phi_q^0 + s \phi_q^1 + \ldots$
$\lambda_q^s = \lambda_q^0 + s \lambda_q^1 + \ldots$
Inserting the above expansions into the eigenvalue equation, and collecting terms of like orders in $s$ yields
$( L^0 - \lambda_q^0 ) \phi_q^0 = 0$ (1)
$( L^0 - \lambda_q^0 ) \phi_q^1 = (\lambda_q^1 - L^1 ) \phi_q^0 = 0$ (2)
When the Hilbert space is $L^2((a,b))$ ($-\infty < a < b < \infty$) the spectrum of $L^0$ is simple and purely discrete. Solving (1) yields a complete set of orthonormal basis functions with the orthogonality relation $<\phi_n^0,\phi^0_k>=\delta_{n,k}$. By the Fredholm alternative, in order for a solution $\phi_n^1$ of (2) to exist, the RHS of (2) must satisfy
$< \phi_n^0, (\lambda_n^1 - L^1 ) \phi_n^0 > = 0$
Thus $\lambda_n^1$ is given by
$\lambda_n^1 = < \phi_n^0, L^1 \phi_n^0 >$
And $\phi_n^1$ is given by applying the resolvent operator to the RHS of (2), which yields
$\phi_n^1 = \sum_{k \neq n} \frac{< \phi_k^0, L^1 \phi_n^0 >}{\lambda_n - \lambda_k} \phi_k^0$
When the Hilbert space is $L^2(-\infty,\infty)$ the spectrum of $L^0$ is purely absolutely continuous. Solving (1) still yeilds a complete set of orthonormal basis functions with the orthogonality relation $<\phi_p^0,\phi^0_q>=\delta(p-q)$. However, solving (2) is now more complicated. When the operator $L^1$ is such that
$< \phi_p^1 , L^1 \phi_q^0 > = \delta(p-q) f^1(q) + g^1(p,q)$ (3)
Trying a solution analgous to the discrete case works works
$\lambda_q^1 = f^1(q)$
$\psi_q^1 = \int \frac{g^1(p,q)}{\lambda_q - \lambda_p} \phi_p^0 dp$ (the integral converges). (4)
However, I am looking at various $L^1$. And, for certain $L^1$ I do not have (3). Rather, I have
$< \phi_p^1 , L^1 \phi_q^0 > = \delta(p-q) f^1(q) + h(q) \delta'(p-q) + g^1(p,q)$
(yes, that's a derivative of a delta function). Frankly, at this point, I am totally stuck. I've tried a solution of the form (4) with
$g^1(p,q) \to h(q) \delta'(p-q) + g^1(p,q)$.
But that solution blows up. My sense is that I should be looking for some sort of condition on $\lambda_q^1$ which would guarantee that a solution $\phi_q^1$ of (2) exists. But, I know of no such condition.
If it helps, you can think of $L^0$ as $-d^2/dx^2$ so that the eigenfunctions are $\phi_q^0(x)=e^{iqx}/\sqrt{2\pi}$. And $L_1 \phi_q^0 = x \phi_k^0(x)$. If you're wondering, the derivative of the delta function comes about as follows
$< \phi_q^0, x \phi_p^0 > = (1/2 \pi) \int x e^{i(p-q)x} dx = (1/2 \pi i) (d/dp) \int e^{i(p-q)x} dx = (1/2 \pi i)\delta'(p-q)$.
Any guidance on solving this problem would be greatly greatly appreciated.


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I'm trying to setup an intranet on a dedicated server, it would need simple things like a sharing folders and a private website that will only be accessible trough vpn.
Now I'm really not sure how to achieve this, I kinda get the idea of setting up vpn that's fair enough but how do I set the website to only show in the intranet?
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What are the best conditions for sealing an asphalt driveway? What time of year, and under what kind of weather would be best?
Pick a sunny day, with ABSOLUTELY no chance of rain that day. If it rains within a few hours of the sealing job, you won't be happy. 24 hours will be plenty of time for it to dry though.
The perfect day would be sunny, but not incredibly hot, as sealing a driveway would be miserable work on a blistering hot day. Remember, you will be standing on black pavement in the sun.
Start work in the morning, to give it time to dry in the sun. Keep anything off it for a day.
A sunny day in the 70's-80's range is ideal for sealcoating. It is warm enough to ensure proper drying and cool enough to prevent the sealcoat from drying too fast to correct a mistake.
One of the key things to remember when sealcoating is CLEANLINESS MATTERS! By far the most simple way to do this is to have one person with a leaf blower and another with a stiff bristle push broom. Do a quick once-over with the leaf blower then have the broomer start at one end of the driveway while the leaf blower operator directs the stream of air at the broom. Spend extra time at cracks and dark spots.
Another option is to thoroughly power wash the driveway. This is less than ideal as you will have to wait a day or more for the driveway to fully dry. Failure to do so will trap moisture in the asphalt after sealing and damage the asphalt when it freezes. Powerwashing also leaves the possibility for wind to blow more dirt/debris onto the driveway while waiting for it to dry.
Properly cleaned asphalt will guarantee a good seal. :)
My preferred application method for sealcoat is a squeegee versus a broom or sprayer.


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Deep within the desert is a mysterious pyramid. Mysterious cuz back when a village existed within it, very few save those who resided in the village knew exactly what went on behind its walls. The pyramid itself was in the centre of the village, which was surrounded by high, forbidding walls with a huge gate in the middle. Outsiders spread rumours about the village, some true others simply fabrications built on truth. Visitors wondered; were the walls and gates there to keep people out, or to keep people in? Was there something terrible lurking within the depths of the pyramid, something that if it broke loose, could devastate the entire land? The truth was just as terrifying as the rumours, perhaps even more so. The village did not need high walls and barred gates to protect itself. Deep within the pyramid, there were certain rituals that took place in order to ensure that the village and the pyramid were protected from harm. Any enemies that penetrated the walls and attacked the village would be instantaniously struck down with a mysterious plague, one that devoured their bodies and left their bones to lie in the dust as a warning to others. The priests guarded their secret jealously, but bits and pieces of tales about the rituals escaped to be spread among the outsiders and to encourage them to fear the place as a dreadful warning of death. And how right they were to fear the pyramid. As anyone with any common sense would after learning the horror within the walls.
A scene now materialises in front of you. Looking at first like an innocuous film reel with the faded colours, the dank walls, the floors worn from centuries of footsteps. But then, you spy the girl. She hangs from the door, her head down and her face covered by the dark curtain that is her hair. She hangs from ropes fastened to metal hooks that are driven deep into the wood of the door; the ropes are tied around her wrists and neck, so tight that they are almost embedded in her pale skin. The girl is dressed in a plain shift, dark as blackest night. She does not move as blood drips from her; from her hands, her face; trailing down her legs and dripping off the toes of her bare feet to form a pool beneath her. Elaborately dressed men dip their hands in it up to the elbow, daubing it in the carvings on the door. They utter a droning chant that sounds almost like a hymn to some diabolical god. Busy with their duties, the men pay no attention to the prone figure that hangs above them like a marionette. They notice nothing save the sound of their chanting, til something falls down past their eyes and they stand back, staring. It is a blindfold; it flutters down to the floor like a hurt bird, landing on the edge of the pooled blood which stains its whiteness red. The priests then back away from the girl, praying for deliverence, their eyes wide with fear. The room is then racked with hideous screams as bodies are torn open by invisible forces, organs ripped out viciously, more blood splattered on the floor to mix with what is already there. Within minutes, every single one of the priests are dead. The ropes then break, seemingly of their own accord, and the girl drops to the ground. Despite her surroundings, she does not walk away at once. She knows what lies beyond the door, now.
The scene fades away, to your relief. You look about you at the very different surroundings. You are now standing at the edge of the desert; a few stunted bushes are in view, as well as a jackal hopefully nosing around a rubbish pile. An unearthly cry, like that of a soul in torment distracts you, and you turn to see a young man sitting down near to you, rocking backwards and forwards making a keening noise. He briefly lifts his head and you realise that he is mad; the jackal runs away in fear and you wish you could do likewise, but you are compelled to watch. A girl approaches him from behind. She is fairly pretty, with dark red hair and bright blue eyes. A smile hovers on her lips, one not so nice on the pretty face. She puts her arms around the young man from behind, whispering something in his ear. He freezes, as tho her touch is ice, his hand slipping down towards his pocket. There is still time for the girl to save herself, to escape the fate laid down as punishment for the awful crime she has committed. But she can not resist and thus her fate is sealed. The redheaded girl kisses the young man on the lips, a triumphant look in her blue eyes. Barely a minute passes, before he shoves her roughly away and she falls on her back like an upturned beetle. He pulls out a knife; its edge is keen and the light reflects off the blade. He screams to her about how much he loved her, how she has betrayed him and lied to him, all the time stabbing at the girl's soft flesh with the keen blade. He calls her Eirene, which is not her name, but in his madness, it is Eirene's face he sees before him. The girl desperately tries to fend away the knife, tries to tell him that she is not Eirene, but his blade silences her by slicing thru her heart and lungs, and she dies. The young man immediately shakes the girl, begging for her to wake. She does not respond; it is too late for that. The young man screams his unearthly cry once again to the heavens, slashing at his throat and wrists in his guilt and pain, as tears roll down his face to mingle with the blood. He does not die there, but in the hallway he gasps out his last breath before expiring, leaving a stain that will never wash out.
You are not sure how much more of this you can take. Luckily for you, there is just one last scene to be played out in the tragedy of the pyramid. Your new location is a bridge that crosses a pool of water. We'eds grow within the pond and fish nibble at said we'eds. There is a spring below it which keeps the pond full; it is also a lot deeper than it looks. Your secret wish to not witness any more mindless slaughter is destined to not be granted. Muffled screams can be heard, and you turn to see a girl being dragged accross the bridge by two men away from where you are standing, altho you did not see them go by. The girl turns her face up, and she is terrified. You can almost see the fear oozing from every part of her being, she is so frightened. One of the men slaps her roughly accross the face and calls her a wh*re. He gags her before she can respond, pulling the cloth tight around her face and knotting it behind her head, catching a few strands of hair within the knot. Tears pour from the girl's eyes as the second man ties her wrists and ankles together, securing an iron ball to each. One of the men, the man who struck her, is her own father; the other, her uncle. He finishes tying the ropes and roughly yanks a handful of hair as he berates his niece for attempting to ruin the Hound's Gate ritual. You have never heard of this term before, but somehow, you know what this is. The Hound's Gate ritual involves a young man who from the ages of seven to fourteen is raised as an animal, forced to crawl on all fours, make no noise save that of a dog and kept eternally chained up outside. He is kept away from the other villagers and kept pure, fed well and given plenty of exercise in order that he should grow up strong. His fate is to be drugged so that he is mentally changed into a mindless animal, then set upon the sacrifice; a youth chosen for this very reason. If the youth kills the Hound, then he is given the gift of life and banished from the village, and a new Hound is chosen. If the Hound kills the youth, then he is sent back to the doghouse to endure another seven years til the next ritual. Abruptly, the two men lift the girl and hurl her into the pool. She struggles, but the iron balls quickly pull her under and the water fills her mouth, her nose and finally her eyes. Bubbles rise to the surface and finally stop, indicating that the girl has drowned.
This is a tragedy in three parts. The tragedy signals the end of the village as it is buried by a sandstorm which suddenly rises up and engulfs the village, destroying everyone who still survives. Back to the present day, where the sand has fallen away revealing the village as it was back in its heyday. It is inhabited only by ghosts, and occasionally the odd group of people who feel they are courageous enough to brave the horror of the pyramid. But if you wish to be one of these groups, beware. Not all the ghosts are harmless. A maniac ghost haunts one of the hallways, where a bloodstain covers the floor. He will stab any girl who resembles his beloved. There is also the ritual girl, the Beast, the drowned girl and a host of other beings, some who reinact their grisley deaths, others who seek to force the living to share their fate. Be warned; and be careful; lest you not live to regret your decision to spend a month in the... Pyramid Of Dolls.
1. This is a private RP. The only people allowed to join are myself, Sarah and Wolfie. Please do not spam in here or ask to join.
2. No character profiles; introduce one or more of your characters in your intro. You must have a ghost connected to every living character who enters the pyramid.
3. As always, RPG forum rules apply.
The made for TV film, created just in time for Halloween, was short yet compelling. It racked up more viewers than any other Halloween programme did, and for good reason. Its events were based on solid cold fact; this was no run of the mill ghost story. And yet, there were certain aspects which were glossed over. The story was of a pyramid set within a village in the middle of a desert, with a tragedy in three parts playing within its walls. Of course, the producers did not believe in the ghosts at all and neither did most of the viewers. It was just something to watch on Halloween and shiver pleasurably over. At the end of the movie, however, was a competition. Anyone who wished to enter was to write the answers to the five questions on the screen and send in their entry to the address given out below, by the end of November. The winner would be picked from a hat and would win a fitting prize; a trip to the Pyramid Of Dolls itself, along with as many people as they cared to take with them, for a whole month. They'd also be given supplies, and more would be delivered every week by helecopter.
Rian Emerald was sprawled on the sofa watching the film. He was fairly tall, with messy black hair and green eyes. He was watching the film mainly cuz there wasn't anything else on that was worth watching; a cheesy horror movie 11th sequel on one side, a documentary on another, and the news on the final channel. Rian didn't believe that the stories were based on truth for a minute; but he had to admit that it was a good film, well acted and the stories were convincing. Well, convincing for made up rubbish anyway, he thought. When it came to the competition, he rolled his eyes. "Who in their right mind would want to stay in that dump for a month?"
His sister Destiny was sprawled on the floor, on top of a big rug. She had the same green eyes as Rian but was much shorter, barely at five feet and has messy blonde hair streaked with blue and green. She had been watching the film with rapture, munching popcorn like there was a famine going on. At his words she turned her head.
"I would, so there! Me and Doyle are gonna enter. Ain't that right, Doyle?"
Her friend Doyle mumbled something in response. He was a quiet enough guy, which begged the question of why he hung around with Destiny. He was very tall and lanky, looking like someone had stretched him out like marzipan.
"So there, Rian! Ha!" she stuck her tongue out at him.
"Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go."
-Bernard Malamud
Rian glared at her. "What's the point of entering, anyway?" He nodded towards the screen, where the competition rules, questions and address still were, ready for anyone who wished to enter to write down.
"I bet millions of people watched this film tonight, and at least a million of those people will enter. You can read it there plain as day; there can only be one winner out of all those people. What in the hell makes you think it's going to be you?"
He laughed at the ridiculousness of it all.
"Because. I am awesome." Destiny said matter-of-factly. She pulled over a pen and paper and started taking down notes.
"Gonna have to get some more mates in though." she said thoughtfully, "This'd be so awesome as a summer vac. Who do you think would be interested?"
"Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go."
-Bernard Malamud
"Dunno," Rian said. "If you win, which you won't, I'll come. I get bored in summer vacation anyway. Not as tho there's anything much to do. And if I come, then Snake will, too. Tru might; but she'll probably insist on taking her stupid boyf with her."
"God I hope not. That guy sucks. He's nice to her and all, but he's just kind of... Slimy in a way."
"Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go."
-Bernard Malamud
"He's pathetic," Rian said, contempteously. "He's probably never camped out in his life. If we take Tru, Raziel will probably agree to come, too. And I bet Mum will have Erin come as chaperone. She can bring her pet." XD
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Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 5M
Serves: makes 4 servings
- 7oz ( 200g) tortilla chips
- 1 cup canned chopped tomatoes, drained
- 4 scallions, white and green parts, finely chopped
- 3 tbsp drained and chopped pickled jalapeño slices
- 1 cup shredded Monterey Jack or Cheddar cheese
- 1 avocado, pitted, peeled, and diced
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Similarly is there some 2D-sequence which gives me the number of graphs with n vertices and diameter d?
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Over the next five years, the growth of the market in the Asia-Pacific region is likely to be centered at Japan, China, and India. A number of factors such as the huge patient population base, increasing funding/investment toward the development of point of care diagnosticproducts, growing focus of both international and domestic players on the Asia-Pacific point-of-care diagnostics market, and large number of R&D activities are driving the growth of the market in the Asia-Pacific region.
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6 Dec 2011 8:44 PM #1
Sencha Touch 2 colorpicker
I needed a colorpicker in my own project so I revised the one Mitchell wrote to make it work in ST2.
Since Sencha 2 does not have an extensions forum. I thought here should be an appropriate place to post it in case anybody may find it helpful.
It is on at https://github.com/Codier/Sencha-Touch-2-Colorpicker
6 Dec 2011 10:25 PM #2
Looks good. I added a few comments to your commits.Sencha Inc.
Robert Dougan - @rdougan
Sencha Touch 2 and Ext JS 4 Core Team Member, SASS/Theming Wizard.
11 Sep 2012 12:40 AM #3
I couldn't get your version to work with the current Sencha v2, so I refactored it. The working result is here: https://gist.github.com/3696947
One minor bug - it seems to not select the right color unless you explicitly tap on the color. You can't just scroll to it and tap "done".
Will be looking for a fix and will update the gist if I fix it.
11 Sep 2012 6:55 AM #4
21 Feb 2013 6:59 AM #5
Thank you for your reply. I replaced the original code in Ext.form.ux.touch.ColorPickerField.js with the updated code from your post, but I'm still getting - Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'getPageBox' of null
Did you get this working?


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Klansmen in prayer before lighting "fiery cross," in photograph by Press Democrat photographer Mary Carroll in Florida in 1979 for the Lakeland Ledger
Mary Carroll
Ku Klux Klan Deep South only? Don't Bet on it
Gaye LeBaron's Notebook Copyright the Press Democrat March 15, 1987
As unbelievable as it seems to those of us who are tucked securely into our liberal California niches, the Ku Klux Klan is in the news again. The spectre of the white-hooded mob raised its ugly head in Cummings, Georgina, on Martin Luther King's birthday and again in February when an all-white jury in Alabama brought in a $7 million award for the death of a black man selected at random for hanging by the KKK. If that verdict survives the appeal process, the United Klans of America will be, as Newsweek put it so happily, "forced to sell off its assets, down to the last hooded sheet."
This is a consummation devoutly to be wished. But the Klan has disappeared before, only to rise again. Whatever happens with this strident handful of bigots, you can be certain the press will cover it, and eventually a sociologist or political scientist will write a book about it. There is something compellingly horrifying, like a Stephen King movie or a carnival freak show, about the KKK. The aberration of American society- a nightmare tangent of the American dream –seems to be, sad to say, relentlessly "interesting." "You won't find a book on the shelf about the Ku Klux Klan," said a reference librarian Audrey Herman when I was rifling through the card file in the Sonoma County library. Surprisingly, I asked if we were in some kind of censorship phase. "No," she said, "it's the wrong time of year to find a book about the Klan. It's term paper time and kids always want to write about the Ku Klux Klan."
In Sonoma County, California, where blacks constitute less than one percent of the population, the ghoulish tales of this terrorist group must seem foreign and distant to today's writers of term papers. Many of them would be surprised to know that teen-agers who lived here in the 1920s might have picked cards promoting the KKK off Santa Rosa's sidewalks, cards which had been scattered in the night by hooded men (and women) from cars with fiery crosses attached to their radiators. Youngsters might have attended Klan gatherings as spectators and would certainly have read the bold, black headlines in the Press Democrat, the Santa Rosa Republican and the Petaluma Argus saying: KLAN ACTIVE IN SONOMA COUNTY, or KU KLUX KLAN WOMEN ORGANIZE HERE, or KLANSMEN MEET TONIGHT ON HILL ROAD. How could this have happened? There weren't as many blacks per capita in Sonoma County then as there are now. Why the KKK? This is a question that continues to perplex. The answer is probably found in history texts discussing the revival of the Klan in the years following World War I. Historian Page Smith quotes reformer Oscar Ameringer on the variety of targets for this "next" Klan: "The end of the war meant that the evil spirits it had aroused needed new objects for hatred. Trade unionists, Reds, radicals, pinks, foreigners…were all at hand." Another explanation places responsibility on the relatively new medium of film. David War Griffith's movie, "Birth of a Nation," made from an inflammatory historical novel called "The Klansmen," was seen by an estimated 100 million Americans between its release in 1915 and 1930. Walton Bean, in his history of California, suggests that the film "did more to fasten racial stereotypes on the American mind than anything since Uncle Tom's Cabin and …it was partly responsible for the great revival of the KKK that reached its height in the 1920s." California's North Coast seems to have provided a fertile field for this "great revival." Certainly, central Sonoma County had Southern parentage, having been settled by farmers from Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee. But this was not a factor in Petaluma, where there was also Klan activity. The whole county, of course, had been painted with the brush of frontier justice and vigilantism with the lynching of 1920 (and would be again in 1935 when labor organizers were tarred and feather on the courthouse steps). And there is a 19th-century history of Klan activities here particularly in the area around Healdsburg where the Hudson brothers and rancher (and sheriff) Tennessee Bishop rode out to frighten whoever they thought needed frightening. The faint historical footprints left here by the Klan (mostly cautiously worded newspaper stories making reference to "certain practices" and "alleged actions") would indicate that the peak years were 1922 to 1925 and that any activity usually involved "law 'n' order" issues. In May of 1922, following substantial press coverage of a Klan revival in Los Angeles, a Forestville deputy sheriff named Archie Hicks received a message written on a Western Union telegraph form, warning him about his "actions" at a recent dance. The dance in question was at Dinucci Hall, and Hicks had arrested "several hoodlums who created a disturbance." The warning read: "Our representative will surely visit your town unless you take immediate steps to stop such actions as have been reported to our Order." Hicks didn't exactly panic. He just handed it over to the sheriff. But the newspaper gave the story top play under an eight-column headline reading "KLAN ACTIVE IN SONOMA COUNTY." By the fall of 1922, the local Klan was organized enough to announce its intentions to the public. The first recorded Klan gathering of the century took place in October at McDonald's Reservoir (Lake Ralphine). It was an outdoor meeting, according to the newspaper, attended by both Klansmen "and the American Legion." Two days later 104 new members were inducted into the Klan in a ceremony in Napa County. The burning cross was visible from the main highway. The next initiation rite was in Santa Rosa, which meant that the hometown newspapers got a chance to look at this sociological phenomenon, in the language of the 1980s, "up close and personal." The site selected was a field on the Julius Ort ranch on Petaluma Hill Road, rented for the occasion from the owner. Attendance was by invitation only, The Press Democrat informed its readers before the event, warning them that cards would be needed to gain entrance to the grounds. It was general knowledge that Klansmen would be coming from Vallejo and Napa as well as Santa Rosa. "Directions will be given from an American flag draped auto at the junction of Santa Rosa Avenue and the Petaluma Highway," the story read, concluding ominously with: "No car will be allowed to leave the initiation until the exercises are completed." The description of the evening's activities was published the following day beneath a headline guaranteed to get the readers' attention – 2,000 PERSONS SEE INITIATION IN SHADOW OF FIERY CROSS. They were in a flat field west of Petaluma Hill Road three miles south of town, a field that is now part of Henry Matteri's dairy, according to George Crane who remembers driving past with his grandfather in a buggy and having the old man point out the place where they burned the cross. The largest cross burned on a hill on the east side of the road – a hill that was later cut away from fill when the freeway was built. In the field the headlights of dozens of automobiles formed a circle around the arena. Within the circle there was a square formed by a cordon of more than 100 white-robed men. In each corner of the square was an American flag. Outside the square a large flag was stretched between two poles and in the center of the square, still another flag. Around the square were the smaller crosses which prompted the Republican's reporter to write about the eerie scene "in the glow of 50 burning crosses." There were 1,000 spectators who stood on the outer fringes of the parking area, stretching on tiptoe to see the proceedings. Without the invitation card, the curious could get no closer than "the fourth row of machines." At 10:10 p.m. the officers assumed positions on wooden boxes and "into the circle rode a horseman bearing a lighted cross. Both man and horse wore white robes with the KKK insignia in red letters. The horseman announced that citizens were outside seeking admittance to the invisible empire. They were led into the human square where they knelt at each post for the rites." The entire unholy rigamarole took about an hour. At the conclusion, said the story, "somebody yelled 'when do we eat?' and the Klansmen began to shed their regalia in the flickering light of the fiery crosses. The initiation was over." There were other such ceremonies the following year in Petaluma across the road from Vallejo's Old Adobe. "The fiery cross," wrote the Argus reporter, "shone through the mists of the night and its rays were seen from the elevated portions of this city and the sight impressed all those who noticed it." The Petaluma Argus reporters generally seemed less amazed at the goings-on than The Press Democrat writers. Indeed, Petaluma journalists may have treated the Klan with far more dignity than it deserved, devoting columns to coverage of a Klan Speaker in the Petaluma High School auditorium (!) in 1924 and another at the First Christian Church in 1925. There was another outdoor ceremony in Santa Rosa in 1925 "in a field south of the Barham Avenue triangle." There were meetings of 300 Klansmen in the 100F Hall in Santa Rosa and an "Invisible Empire" organizational meeting at El Verano Hall in the Sonoma Valley in 1925, the same year that a Napa state traffic squad captain was buried in a Klan funeral, his body escorted by six pallbearers in white robes and hoods. After this three-year flurry –which gave Santa Rosa a reputation statewide as a KKK hotbed- the Klan disappeared from the news columns. There were not, to my knowledge, any truly dramatic incidents that led to its being outlawed or disbanded –unless you count the economic drama of 1929 and the Great Depression that followed. The moral? Hey, that's easy. Sonoma County residents can be as smug as we like about our little corner of the world and its tolerance, but we can never point to places like Florida, where the accompanying photograph was made, or Cummings, Georgina, where Oprah Winfrey is the only black allowed, or any Alabama or Carolina town where Klansmen gather and march, and say it can't happen here. Because it already has.
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The ceremony will begin at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) at 10 am following a bagpiper-led procession of commencement participants from the law school.
A 1993 Rutgers–Newark Law graduate, Warren was the first student at the law school to receive a public interest fellowship named after legendary civil rights attorney Arthur Kinoy, a member of the Rutgers Law faculty for almost 40 years. Now known as the Kinoy-Stavis Fellowship, the fellowship honors two of the founders of CCR.
Before joining CCR, Warren was a national senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, where he litigated civil rights cases, focusing on affirmative action, racial profiling and criminal justice reform. Prior to the ACLU, he monitored South Africa's historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings and worked as a criminal defense attorney for the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn. In recognition of his civil rights activism, Warren was honored by the law school's Alumni Association with the 2012 Fannie Bear Besser Award for Public Service.
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5 Backup Plans That Would Have Changed Modern History
#2. If One Nuke Had Been Accidentally Launched ...
While the Cuban Missile Crisis gets all the glory for being the week that almost killed everyone, there were several weeks during the Cold War when the world was on the brink of a nuclear war, and no one had a clue. We've briefly mentioned September 26, 1983 before, when a retired Soviet Air Force colonel named Stanislav Petrov decided to let you be alive right now.
We all owe him at least one missile silo filled to the rim with beer.
He was manning an early attack detection booth when the one thing his training had prepared him for happened: His radar suddenly went berserk with what was unmistakably five American nuclear warheads headed straight for Mother Russia. It was actually a once in a lifetime sun glare creating the illusion of five missiles, but Petrov didn't know that. After retiring, and suffering the most well-earned nervous breakdown of all time, he explained that he had kept his cool because the moment wasn't scary enough. His background as an Air Force colonel told him what an American attack would look like. The only thing stopping him from firing back was his gut feeling that the fleet of bombs was a little too small to make sense.
On the left-hand side of the Atlantic, America almost launched a nuclear attack when a bear tripped a border alarm on an Air Force base that somehow got its wires crossed with the airbase's nuclear air raid siren. That time, the fate of the world came down to people in the control tower realizing their error and speeding down the runway to catch a plane that was on its way to drop a litter's worth of Baby Boy's on Russia.
The world record for the number of people saying "shit" simultaneously was shattered that day.
To recap, outside of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the closest the world has come to nuclear apocalypse looked a hell of a lot like slapstick comedy. It wasn't that Americans and Russians weren't taking this nuclear thing all that seriously, it's just that they were too busy constructing their backup plans for a nuclear attack.
If They'd Gone With Plan B:
Had Petrov launched a nuclear counterattack like his training had told him to, Congress would have been whisked off to a bunker in West Virginia, of all places. Operation Greek Isles worked with the Greenbriar Hotel near the Virginia border to secretly build a giant underground complex to house the members of Congress and their families. The new complex came complete with dorms, kitchens, a complete replica of the House and Senate chambers, a radio system strong enough to allow members of Congress to help calm what was left of the nation and an incinerator for those who got radiation poisoning, because Congress had apparently seen Night of the Living Dead one too many times and thought radiation poisoning required the zombie cure.
The operation was cleverly hidden from guests within the hotel.
Via Nuclearatomiccentury.blogspot.com
Via Nuclearatomiccentury.blogspot.com
Unfortunately, there wasn't room for guests or non-essential staff of the Greenbriar, which is why the guards had orders to shoot any non-Congress people who tried to get in. Nothing like hearing a pool boy get capped and that whole "incinerate the infected" rule to raise the morale of the last Americans on the face of the Earth.
But if you thought the Americans weren't fucking around, you don't speak Russian, which has 25 different words for sacrificing human life (not fucking around being to Russians what snow is to Eskimos). Take for instance the phrase "mertvaya ruka," which means "dead hand" in Russian.
In America, that might be the name of a horror movie or a masturbation technique. In Russia, it is the name given to the giant border-wide robot installed around the city of Moscow whose only job is to kill you and everyone you've ever loved. The robot detected that a nuke had just been dropped. Ol' Dead Hand would run signals up to the silos to double check that nobody was responding. Upon confirming that the people with their finger on the doomsday button were dead (or on a piss break, whatever), the system automatically launched all the Soviet weapons at the United States. No talk. No getting permission. Not even engaging Jimmy Carter in a stern dressing down to see if you could get him to give you New York City. Mertvaya Ruka launched immediately, and cut out the middleman. And the first guy. And the last guy. It was a doomsday robot, is what we're saying here.
The only English it knew was "You are not the boss of me" and "Suck it."
While the Russians are unsettlingly quiet on the matter today, the mysterious UVB-76 radio transmission is believed to be part of Mertvaya Ruka, so it is generally believed to still be active in Moscow.
#1. Soviets and Americans Reach the Moon at the Exact Same Time
A few times during his presidency, John F. Kennedy suggested that NASA and the Soviet space program conduct a joint mission to the moon. Kennedy being the first to call NASA's moonshot is pretty well documented. The guy was young and cocky, and it fits perfectly with the version of JFK we like to remember, whose biggest problem was keeping his dick from getting slammed in the window behind the many women he sneaked out of the Oval Office. But actually, Kennedy spent at least part of every day he was in office fretting over his decision, or at least looking at how much the mission to the moon was costing, and muttering "Oh shit oh shit oh shit." From a purely pragmatic perspective, the idea of a shared mission would be a chance for him to offload some of that cost onto the USSR.
And maybe finally get to second base with Khrushchev.
Both times Kennedy suggested the collaboration, the Russians rejected it. At the time, it was assumed that this was out of cockiness or fear that Kennedy would withdraw his outstretched hand and say, "Psych!" while all the Asian and Latin American countries they were both wooing pointed and laughed. But history shows that it was more likely because the Soviets were afraid of showing the Americans just how ass-backward their space program was. Open communication with NASA probably looked to the Soviets like an invitation to shower with the Globetrotters might look to the Washington Generals: They were going to look woefully inadequate in front of people who made a living humiliating them.
"TOO SLOW! HAHAHA! Oh, hey, you got somethin' there on your shirt ..."
But there were also reasons that Kennedy's offer would have looked pretty appealing to head communist Vladimir Khrushchev. The wall of silence between the superpowers was taking its toll on both economies. And since the Soviets were in on the dirty little secret that most of their technology was more in the "glorified bottle rocket with a terrified person strapped on" category, they would have the most to gain. Which is why Khrushchev decided to reverse course and accept Kennedy's offer as part of an effort to scale back the craploads of money they were spending on the Cold War. He realized that it was going to be wildly unpopular with much of the Kremlin, but he also saw what Kennedy saw: a chance to completely change the tenor of the space race and the Cold War at large.
There's also the not insignificant detail that Kennedy was a charming motherfucker, and he and Krushchev had built up a trust. There's apparently a bond that develops between people who have had a 13-day staring contest with the fate of the world on the line. The very week he revealed the world-changing decision to his son, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Johnson made similar offers, but it just wasn't the same. Krushchev didn't trust Johnson to be his wing man on such an important decision. Kruschev's plan to go to the moon with Kennedy while sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, died with Kennedy, and the Cold War went on, business as usual. Possibly 28 years longer than it had to.
"No more! I pull finger, but it only produces the fart!"
If They'd Gone With Plan B:
It's impossible to overstate just how different things could have been if the U.S. and Soviet space programs, one of the key symbols of the technological rivalry between the two superpowers, had joined the same team.
While the U.S. eventually made it to the moon, the value of "U-S-A! U-S-A!" chants and souvenir moon rocks gained from the victory would have been outweighed by the strategic partnership (especially when you consider how easy the world has found it to dismiss the moon landing as a hoax). Krushchev's decision, too, was part of an overall plan that would have scaled back the Russian army to 500,000 soldiers from 2.5 million, and diverted spending from weapons to "consumer and commercial, non-military production."
Mostly commemorative plates.
It was like the two leaders were ready to call it a day and begin the process of ending the Cold War 28 years before it actually happened, before the Vietnam War started and before the hippie movement was born in protest. You might not speak a different language if Kennedy hadn't been assassinated, but you probably wouldn't know what the word "groovy" meant, and we think that's a different time line we could all get behind.
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It's insanely annoying having the email reply pop directly over my Firefox window every time I hit reply to an email in Mail. Each time I drag it over to the vacant space on the left of my primary display, and EVERY time it returns when I reply to an email.
Finder has similar issues with Cmd+N, resize, close. Open a window, resize it, close it, immediately open another new window, and it's where the original one was.
Is there a system-wide or third-party solution for forcing applications to place new windows where I left their previous ones?