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7 Hacks That Turn Everyday Objects into Deadly Weapons
The world is rife with mundane crap that doesn't qualify as even remotely lethal, and that's barely hilarious at all. Fortunately, with some moderate tweaking, even the simplest of items can be turned into something horrifying.
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#7. Super Soaker Flamethrower
When Super Soakers arrived on the scene, they put ordinary squirt guns to shame with their extended range and awesome power. Sure you had to pump till your arm cramped into a freakish, bent claw, but that just prepared us for many lonely, cold nights in front of a glowing monitor.
It was only a matter of time before some disillusioned youth with pyromaniac tendencies and a fascination with WWII-era weapons of horror noticed that water wasn't the only thing you load into it. And where more wholesome youth would have stopped at firing delicious nacho cheese from their squirt gun, others were determined to turn a water-soaked afternoon of fun into a fiery nightmare of unsupervised hooligans and singed eyebrows.
Super Soakers have ranges up to 45 feet, meaning when you set one ablaze you can torch your neighbor's house from the convenience of your own kitchen or barbecue their hot dogs for them without having to stop watching Maury.
The Internet offers up a wide range of videos on just how to make one, with some budding young arsonists and future burn victims choosing to rig up an ignition system while others simply get a friend to hold a lighter under the flammable stream (because there's probably no way that could end badly).
Though if flaming guns are too modern and crass for your tastes, you can always burn yourself the way our forefathers did by wielding this guy's flaming sword.
#6. Hemi-Powered Big Wheel
Remember the Big Wheel trikes we all had as kids that were slightly slower than walking, and that we rode until the plastic tires got holes in them and our legs cramped from the completely non-ergonomic design of the ass-numbing seat? Marcus Braun does and had a hankerin' for the good old days, because when Dodge announced a "What Can You Hemi?" competition, Braun set to work making the most dangerous children's toy this side of China.
Arguably the best part of a Hemi-powered Big Wheel is the hilarity/horror presented by the fact the driver can't actually see over the handlebars to know just who or what he's crushing, but as long as they have wicked awesome streamers blowing in the breeze it probably doesn't matter much.
In theory there's nothing wrong with a Hemi-powered Big Wheel, it's just the slippery slope it represents. You know, we build bigger trikes, they make bigger babies. Soon we'll be overrun by seven-foot tall, 300 pound toddlers with jam hands and ridiculous amounts of horsepower.
#5. Handgun Helicopter
Think those fancy unmanned aerial combat vehicles are only for the armed forces? Think again! All you need are a handgun, an RC helicopter and a lack of common sense and you too will have the ability to smite your enemies from on high like Zeus tossing out lightning bolts.
Jim Simmons, presumably unhappy that his previous shootings required him to get off the couch, rigged up a Springfield 1911-A .45 caliber automatic to his toy helicopter, just for the hell of it. For those of you not familiar with guns, this type is favored by law enforcement and the military for its stopping power and shootability. If you absolutely must have a flying handgun, this is the one.
While you may think a remote controlled helicopter shooting blindly as it flies through downtown or wherever is hilarious enough already, Simmons hooked up a camera to the helicopter so he could, you know, aim and make it harder to argue against premeditation.
If you've ever flown an RC helicopter, even one not carrying a sidearm, you're likely well aware of two things they do very well: crash and explode. Often simultaneously. Combine that with the inherent difficulty of control, and an armed helicopter seems just as likely to take out its owner as anyone else, though if it was caught on video it would clean up on YouTube.
#4. V-8 Chainsaw
According to the U.S. Product Safety Commission there are over 28,000 chainsaw injuries in America every year. According to Robert Andrews, that number is laughably low.
Andrews built a chainsaw powered by a Buick V-8 engine, named the Predator because "Fucksaw" was already taken, to compete in log-cutting contests. Yes, there are actually other V-8 powered chainsaws out there, along with probably quite a few legless woodsmen.
The chainsaw can cut through a four-foot log in two seconds, or about as long as it takes other competitors to shit themselves, and has never lost a competition. The Predator requires Robert and a buddy to stand on each side to lift it while searing hot exhaust belches out against them, which they don't mind so long as in the end the tree learns its place and never again dares to grow peacefully, all giving off oxygen and shit.
Besides the fact that this saw could chew through a sea of bodies like a hot knife through butter, only faster and with more screaming, like any chainsaw it's prone to breakage. As witnessed by this clip, these saws can backfire very suddenly in a burst of flame and kick ass red suspenders.
The Predator however has only broken once, according to the creator, but it broke so hard that a hunk of the chain was found a mile and a half away in a hotel parking lot, undoubtedly full of terrified tourists and adulterers.


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Topics Covered: Alternative and Complementary approaches to cancer care, current research, psychological crises and turning points in cancercare, mind-body approaches that you can use in your practice
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King Abdullah watched a presentation about the new projects, which include four power lines linking Madinah with the central, eastern, western and southern networks.
In remarks at the ceremony, Minister of Water and Electricity Abdullah Al-Hosain said the linkage of the Kingdom's regions with a single grid would ensure adequate supply of electricity to residential, business and industrial areas. He added that the GCC electricity grid is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
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To become cancer cells that develop into a tumor, normal cells must undergo a process called carcinogenesis. Molecules are part of this process, and the cells in which they reside receive signals to keep this process going. Targeted cancer therapies interrupt the signaling process by zeroing in on certain parts of the cellular changes and signals that are needed for a cancer to develop and grow.
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How can I synchronize MS SQL Server databases? Is there any tool, preferably open source?
For scheduled and ad hoc database synchronization you can use ApexSQL Diff (for object schema synchronization) and ApexSQL Data Diff (for record synchronization)
They cannot be used for real time synchronization. IMO, it's best to use database mirroring for real-time
As others have said, there are lots of built-in ways in SQL Server 2008 to make two servers synchronize, real-time or on a schedule.
Some points you should take into account:
Depending on the answers, you can choose the method most suited for your needs; other than the ones which were already described (replication and mirroring), remember you can also do some other things:
Have you looked at the built in mirroring functions? Technet has a brief description here. The primary server sends its transaction log records to a secondary server, which then replays the transaction log.
Mirroring can be set up synchronously or asynchronously.
If I understand you right you want to have a copy of the database from the web server on your local machine. The changes in the database on the web server should be periodically copied to your local server.
I believe you can do that with replication but you need at least a Workgroup edition of SQL server on your web server.
If your database is not large or doesn't change frequently you can use Snapshot replication. SQL Server will periodically take snapshot of the database and replicate it to your local server.
For bigger or frequently changed databases I would suggest you to use merge replication. It is less time and resource-intensive.
You can get more information about replication in Books Online. Take a look also at Data Movement Patterns.
http://danmacs.posterous.com/configuration-of-database-mirroring-for-non-d is a link to my blog describing how to set up database mirroring for non-domain servers. That does not however allow you to have both SQL Servers active at the same time, to do that you would need to do some form of replication. Depending on how the data is accessed, if it's all read then it's not too bad, if it's read on one server and read/write on the other, again not too bad, if it's write/write then you are going to be in for some "interesting" times.


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Consider a list $\boldsymbol{x}=x_0,x_1,\ldots,x_{n-1}$, which we consider to be circular by taking the subscripts modulo $n$. The entries in the list are distinct integers.
A local pattern is a Boolean expression $P(i)$ involving inequalities between the values $x_i,x_{i+1},\ldots,x_{i+k}$ for some constant $k$. For example, we might have $P(i)=(x_i\lt x_{i+1})\wedge(x_i\lt x_{i+2})$. "Finding $P~$ in $\boldsymbol{x}$" means finding a value of $i$ for which $P(i)$ is true, or determining that there is no such $i$.
Trivially, we can find any local pattern in $\boldsymbol{x}$ in $O(n)$ time just by trying each $i$. Perhaps surprisingly, some nontrivial local patterns can be found in $O(\log n)$ time. Consider the pattern for a local minimum $P(i)=(x_i\gt x_{i+1})\wedge(x_{i+1}\lt x_{i+2})$. Choose any three distinct entries $x_i,x_j,x_k$, where $x_j$ is the least. Without loss of generality, we can assume that $0\le i\lt j\lt k\lt n$. Let $\ell~$ be the midpoint (rounded towards $j$) of the longest of the intervals $[i,j]$ and $[j,k]$. If $x_j\lt x_\ell$, $x_j$ is the least of $x_i,x_j,x_\ell$, while if $x_j\gt x_\ell$, $x_\ell$ is the least of $x_j,x_\ell,x_k$. It is easy to see that continuing in this fashion finds a local minimum in $O(\log n)$ steps.
The question is: which local patterns can be found in $O(\log n)$ steps?


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Opening to the mystery
There's more to this!
The mystic lifts a hand and describes an arc in the air.
The detective leans forward and displays the evidence.
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The limiting container of certainty – your beliefs about how the world works, about who you are, what your purpose in life might be, about your reasons for behaving, feeling, thinking, the way you do – tips for a moment and spills its contents into the dream of your world…
And you are left at once both liberated and unsettled. "But I thought I understood! I thought life was this way, my life was this way!"
This is a good path. A path of uncertainty, of questioning, of not-knowing, of seeking. Of losing the path and wondering if it ever existed in the first place…
Of opening to the Mystery, the strangeness, the wonder of it all…
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Why is this? Are they trying to escape the modern world and retreat into fantasies about the past? This may be the case for some, but my experience over the last twenty-five years shows me that the majority of people who turn to Druidry today do so because they are concerned about the future, and they are following a deep intuition that it is in the roots of their spiritual and cultural heritage that they will find the answer to life's problems. And so a movement apparently backwards is in reality a movement forward.
Just as a salmon swims and jumps upstream, going against the current to return to the spawning grounds of its birth, so perhaps we too need to swim against the current to return again to the sources of our spiritual history. And just as a new generation of salmon are born each year in these spawning grounds, so perhaps we too might find some form of rebirth in such a quest.
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From the naked sages of India and St.Francis of Assisi to modern-day witches and Christian nudists, from Lady Godiva to Lady Gaga, via 'The Full Monty' and 'The Calendar Girls', A Brief History of Nakedness surveys the touching, sometimes tragic and often bizarre story of our relationship to our naked bodies.
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The passage led to a central chamber. Each stone was inscribed with zigzag lines like bolts of lightning, lozenges, shapes that looked like dragons' teeth, others like shields and axe-heads – and always the swirling fluid movements of a people who were guided by some mysterious force to decorate their temple in this way. One stone had been carved with what appeared to be two handles, as if it was a great door that led to the Otherworld and could be swung open. Or perhaps it was a place of birthing where women could stand, holding the handles tight to strain in the darkness.
The guide was talking, telling them of the latest findings of archaeology. Gillard closed his eyes. He wanted to sense the presence of the people who had created this place. He was one of them, a temple builder. He had been following the same impulse they had followed – to make something of beauty that would house the dead, that would be a place to bless the new-born, that would be a portal between this world and the next… He leant out to touch the walls of Gavrinis, to steady himself, and to feel the energy of the stones run through him. And he was back chipping stone with the quarry men in Brocéliande, back in his church watching the masons at work, the new windows being fitted.


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Are Repeat C-Sections Safer Than Natural Birth?
March 13, 2012 -- Planned repeat cesarean section is linked to healthier outcomes among mothers and babies compared to vaginal birth after cesarean, or VBAC, in a new study from Australia.
Death and serious health issues associated with either delivery method were rare.
But women in the study who had planned surgical deliveries experienced fewer serious bleeding issues compared to women who planned to have VBAC deliveries, and their babies were about half as likely to die or suffer serious health problems around the time of birth.
VBAC Rates Declining
One in three babies born in the United States is delivered by cesarean section, and the rate of vaginal deliveries in women who have had C-sections continues to decline.
Many ob-gyns no longer offer VBAC deliveries to their patients, and many insurers no longer pay for them.
While the Australian study suggests that planned repeat cesarean sections may be safer than labor in women who have had previous C-sections, it isn't that simple, says Catherine Y. Spong, MD, of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Repeat C-sections carry their own risks, and those risks rise with each pregnancy.
"The big take-home for me is that we need to prevent the first cesarean delivery whenever possible," she tells WebMD. "Clearly the safest delivery method for both mother and baby is an uncomplicated vaginal delivery. The problem is, we don't know which patients will have uncomplicated deliveries."
2 Stillbirths in Planned VBAC Group
The Australian study included 2,345 pregnant women who had one previous delivery by C-section and were considered candidates for VBAC.
Planned C-section deliveries were scheduled for 1,108 women and VBAC deliveries were planned for the remaining 1,237 women.
But less than half (43%) of the women who chose to labor ended up having vaginal deliveries. The rest had elective C-sections or had emergency surgical deliveries due to complications.
There were two unexplained stillbirths in the planned vaginal delivery group. There were no infant deaths among babies born to women who had scheduled cesarean section.
The rate of fetal or infant death or serious health issues prior to hospital discharge was 2.4% in the planned VBAC group, compared to 0.9% in the planned C-section group.
The researchers concluded that while the actual risk for both forms of delivery was quite small, elective repeat C-sections were associated with significantly lower risk for both mother and baby.


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#LoveCapeTown:The Best Places to Find Local Capetonian food
The Mother City has been described by many as a cultural melting pot that offers locals and visitors an experience of sights, sounds and tastes. Good food has always been one of the city's major offerings, and there is no shortage of good eateries and fine wines.
But it is the culinary offerings that remind us of mom's cooking that we crave most, and in Cape Town you're bound to find a multitude of restaurants and cafes that conjure up the most delicious home-made meals. Sink your teeth into the following:
For spicy Cape Malay cuisine
The Cape Malay influence can be traced back to South Africa's early days, when the Dutch East India Company needed a provisions station to supply ships bound for Malaysia.
Some examples of Cape Malay cuisine that have survived to tempt palates today include smoorsnoek – snoek cooked over a fire or simmered with onions and tomatoes; oumens onder die kombers (old person under the blanket) – meat patties wrapped in cabbage leaves; denningvleis – slow-cooked leg of lamb with chillies, spices and vinegar; and bobotie – meatloaf with onion, sultanas, almonds, bay leaves and spices, topped with egg custard.
My absolute must-haves and visits are:
Restaurant and dish: Bredie at Biesmiellah Restaurant
Breyanis and bredies have long been a part of Cape cuisine and, while you may have tasted breyani before, you should try out the popular tomato bredie. At Biesmiellah in the Bo-Kaap, it is made with braised lamb cubes, onions and fresh tomatoes, a dish sure to leave you satisfied and wanting more. They also have an assortment of other curries and treats on offer.
Location: Wale Street, Bo-Kaap
Contact: +27 (0)21 423 0850
Website: www.biesmiellah.co.za
Restaurant and dish: Salomies at Cosy Corner
Roti wraps, or salomies, have always been a firm favourite in Cape Town. The butter chicken salomie at Cosy Corner Restaurant in Cape Town is tasty and good value for money. There are other fillings and you can also get your hands on some of their delicious samoosas while you wait.
Location: 119 Ottery Road, Wynberg
Contact: +27 (0)21 797 2498
Be a Cape Malay Master Chef in Your City:
Cape Malay Cooking Safari
If you are looking for a unique way of exploring some of the Cape's culinary history, this Cape Malay cooking safari is sure to be just the experience. This acclaimed tour starts at the Bo-Kaap Museum and includes a walking tour of this historic area that was also declared a national monument. Your group (maximum 10 people per tour) will be taken to shop for ingredients for a typical Cape Malay dish, before participating in an interactive, cooking workshop at a Bo-Kaap family home. Here you will discover the art of mixing masala, folding samoosas and other Cape Malay food secrets, before enjoying a tasty traditional Cape Malay meal.
Location: Bo-Kaap Area
Contact: +27 (0)21 790 2592
Website: www.andulela.com
Cost: Half-day tour R660
For the ultimate fish and chips parcel:
No visit to Cape Town is complete without enjoying an authentic Cape Town-style fish and chips experience along the harbour-side. Wrapped in newspaper, drenched in salt and vinegar and served with buttered rolls, a snoek or hake parcel at the following establishments is too good to miss out on:
Restaurant: Kalky's Fish and Chips
Perfect for people soaking up the Capetonian sunshine and enjoying some live music occasionally, the 15-year-old Kalky's is the best place to get your parcel, for as little as R38, this side of the mountain.
Location: Kalky's, Kalk Bay Harbour
Contact: +27 (0)21 788 1726
Restaurant: Wharfette Bistro at Mariner's Wharf
A drive out to Hout Bay is rewarding in more ways than one, with unbelievable views and the tasty delights of the Wharfette Bistro. While their speciality is fish and chips, you can also indulge in grilled lobster, prawns, lekkerbekkies, sole, snoek and much more. Enjoy your feast on the quaint benches provided outside or while dipping your toes at the water's edge.
Location: Mariner's Wharf, Hout Bay
Contact: +27 (0)21 790 1100
Website: www.marinerswharf.com
Cape Town's takeaway must-haves:
Restaurant and dish: A Gatsby at Golden Dish Restaurant
This unassuming eatery in Rylands on the Cape Flats is always abuzz with locals and patrons from far and wide. A weekend in the Mother City would be incomplete without tucking into a popular Cape Town delight called a Gatsby, and the Golden Dish is known for making some of the best. This long bread roll comes with a filling of hot chips and anything from masala steak and chicken to polony and Vienna sausages. The portion size is large and a full version can easily feed four adults. They are open until the early hours of the morning, so it's also the perfect spot for a late-night bite.
Location: Corner of Hazel and Klipfontein roads, Athlone
Contact: +27 (0)21 633 7864
Website: www.facebook.com/pages/Golden-Dish
Restaurant and dish: Masala steak sandwiches at Wembley Roadhouse
Somewhat of a Cape Town institution, Wembley Roadhouse is well known for its tasty treats. One of the most popular items served here is the masala steak sandwich, which is made with braised onions and extra strong masala. If you're wishing for a tasty sandwich with a spicy bite, you can't go wrong with this.
Location: 21 Belgravia Road, Athlone
Contact: +27 (0)21 697 1430
Website: www.wembley.co.za
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While the Xbox 360 may have included a few reporting tools on Xbox LIVE to let Microsoft know about players who weren't behaving themselves while interacting with others online, the new Xbox One reputation system has become much more community driven to better inform these players that their behaviour needs some work, or to reinforce their good behaviour.
Program Manager on Xbox Live, Micheal Dunn, has outlined the Xbox One reputation system and the various categories in which players can be placed, ranging from 'Green' (good players), 'Yellow' and 'Orange' (players who need to keep an eye on their behaviour) and 'Red' (players who need to change their ways online). You can see where other players are in the spectrum simply by looking at their Gamercard where you'll see their reputation represented as in the image above:
"The more hours you play fairly online without being reported as abusive by other players, the better your reputation will be," writes Dunn. "The algorithm looks to identify players that are repeatedly disruptive across the community on Xbox Live. The vast majority of players do not regularly receive feedback from other players and, thus, will stay at the 'Good Player' reputation level."
Here is a more detailed breakdown of each category:
– Good Players : The majority of gamers will fall into this level. As we've said before, we have plans to introduce rewards for good behavior and look forward to sharing more in the future!
– Warnings for Needs Work: Beginning this month, some players will start receiving reputation warnings as their reputations drop due to feedback from the community. The purpose of these communications is to remind players about their effect on the community and encourage them to have more positive interactions. These warnings are based on community feedback collected since Xbox One launched.
– Penalties for Avoid Me: If players do not heed warnings and continue to have a negative impact on other players and the Xbox Live community, they will begin to experience penalties. For example, people with an "Avoid Me" rating will have reduced matchmaking pairings and may be unable to use certain privileges such as Twitch broadcasting.
Dunn adds that the Xbox One reputation system "adjusts for false reports from people that might intentionally report someone of greater skill or for other griefing purposes," so just because you continued to dominate someone in a game of Call of Duty or Titanfall, you won't be penalised.
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6 Enlightened Ideas Brought to You by Evil Empires
If history teaches us anything, it's that it's way harder to pick out the good guys from the bad guys than the movies would lead us to believe.
In fact, some of history's most face-blastingly savage regimes came up with some shockingly progressive innovations in health, human rights and, well, everything else.
#6. The Nazis Get the Anti-Tobacco Ball Rolling
We put this on the list at great risk to our future political careers. You really can't say anything good about the Nazis without it getting taken out of context in a campaign ad, and obviously pointing out that, say, Hitler's soldiers were well-groomed doesn't excuse their many, many, many atrocities.
So nothing we're about to say about the Nazis makes us feel even the slightest bit bad about slaughtering them in one video game after another.
Your dapper Mechsuit won't save you this time, Hitler.
And Yet...
They were the first to point out that, hey, tobacco kills people.
Although Adolf Hitler had a 25-cigarettes-a-day habit early in life, he eventually came to find the addiction disgusting. Especially once German scientists discovered the link between tobacco and lung cancer, at which point the Fuhrer initiated the first anti-smoking campaign in modern history, and the most successful one throughout WWII.
And yeah, of course the motivation for the campaign was bizarrely linked to racial purity, because they were, after all, the Nazis. But what really mattered was that they were the first to link smoking during pregnancy with stillbirths and miscarriages, and went so far as to ban tobacco ration cards for pregnant women and Nazi ladies under the age of 25, just in case they got knocked up with Aryan spawn.
The Nazis were also the ones who coined the phrase "passive smoking" and outlawed smoking in Nazi offices, schools, buses and trains. And they actually restricted tobacco advertisements in 1941, almost 30 whole years before America bothered to do the same.
Score one for the Nazis.
#5. The Aztecs: Eaters and Educators of Children
Before Cortes and his poxified Spanish troops infested the Americas, the Aztecs were the reigning lords of central Mexico. With an empire spanning the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean, and a capital city supporting at least 200,000 inhabitants, no can argue that the Aztecs didn't have their business together.
Fancy business.
Unfortunately, a big part of their "business" involved their religion, which had a few snags in it for junior Aztecs. Snags like worshiping gods who drank baby blood like water, and required ritualistic child sacrifices for every little heavenly favor, like rain, successful harvests or their continuing existence. So, yeah, the Aztecs rolled like that.
Also, cannibalism.
And Yet...
The Aztecs' non-sacrificed kids were beneficiaries of the world's first mandatory education.
The same guys who ate their babies in exchange for rain also went to great lengths to educate the undigested kids. And unlike most civilizations of the time, they weren't just interested in smartening up the rich boys. In fact, the Aztecs were arguably the first in the world to require all of their living children to go to school.
Aztec High graduation ceremony, Class of 1440 . GOOOOO JAGUARS!
Aztec kids were homeschooled until their teens under the close supervision of their local Principal Skinner. While at home they were required to memorize nuggets of Aztec wisdom, presumably little proverbs that didn't apologize for the slaying of childhood playmates. From there, they could either attend a school to study the liberal arts and agriculture, or another to study government, medicine and the fine arts.
Also, just to be on the safe side, they were taught how to kill people. And probably how to eat their still beating hearts.
#4. The Mongol Hordes Were Big on Feminism
The Mongolian empire was so hardcore that the entire 13th and 14th centuries are actually referred to as "The Age of the Mongols." Yes, TWO WHOLE CENTURIES claimed by the mofos who took over Eurasia like a swarm of people-killing locusts.
Experts estimate that the Mongols were singularly responsible for the deaths of between 30,000,000 and 100,000,000 people across Asia, Europe and the Middle East, a feat that is only rivaled by the deaths resulting from the entire second World War.
And if Ghengis' alcoholic son hadn't died an early gin-soaked death, the entire continent of Europe might have gotten the "Mongol Special" as well.
And Yet...
Women were the ones pulling the strings at home.
You know the idea that if women ruled the world, there would be no wars? Bullshit. One of the most violent civilizations in the history of the universe gave extraordinary privileges to its women, and look at where it got them.
Seriously, look.
Ghengis Khan's mother was one of his main advisers, and he let his wives help him choose his successor. And the only reason why the Mongolian army was so ferocious in the first place was that women were allowed to run the show back home so the men could make fighting their full time jobs.
Mongolettes could own property, divorce and even remarry. And while their female Persian neighbors were wrapped up in burqas and their Chinese subjects were deforming their feet as signs of subjugation, Mongol women were free to train for the military if so inclined. Which means that there were probably Lady Mongols out there killing men, children and the unborn as well.
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Frostproof: City Tags, Bags Low-Flow Fire Hydrants
Water flow too low to fight fires or hyrdrants too hard to open
Published: Monday, June 24, 2013 at 6:11 p.m.
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FROSTPROOF | City Council member Diana Biehl wanted to know why certain Frostproof fire hydrants were wrapped in bags.
Fire Chief Bill Lord has released a list of 22 city hydrants that are either hard to open or don't have enough water volume to fight a fire, according to National Fire Protection Association standards.
He has had to have them covered with bags so firefighters would know to use other nearby hydrants.
The city contracted with R&M Service Solutions of Dade City in February for $4,845 to paint, reseal, lubricate, test and map each of the city's approximate 170 hydrants.
James Keene, the city's public works director, said that included tagging each one of them with the results of the most recent flow test.
Seventeen of the hydrants tested below the required 500 gallons per minute flow rate,he said.
Biehl said bagging the hydrants looked "unsightly" and asked whether they could be marked another way. She suggested painting the hydrants a different color, such as gray.
Lord said that would be up to Keene, since his crews would need to do it.
However, Lord suggested in a later communication to the council that the cap of low-flow hydrants be painted white.
Council member Martha Neher asked whether the city's plan to loop the water system would help.
Lord said, "Yes and no."
The system has 6- and 8-inch lines, when it should have 10- and 12-inch lines, Lord said.
The lines have enough water pressure — 55 per square inch — but not enough volume, he said.
"We need to rework the entire water system," he said.
The City Council gave approval in May to pay Chastain-Skillman Inc. $80,500 to start design work on a water loop line.
Keene said he's hoping that a 12-inch line may start fixing the problem.
"We're waiting on engineering, because we might be installing 14-inch line, which would give all the volume you need," Keene said.
Fire hydrants flowing 240 gallons per minute are located at:
Colony Avenue and Sharon Street.
County Road 630 West and Don Street.
CR 630 West and Clay Pit Road.
At the dead end of Pine Avenue South.
Hall Street and McCarthy Avenue.
Heights Avenue.
Lake Reedy Boulevard and Barr Road.
Lake Street and Center Street.
The northwest corner of Blackjack Avenue.
Scenic Highway North and Fann Street.
The seven that flow below 380 gallons per minute:
CR 630 East at Lake Reedy Boulevard.
First Street and Orange Avenue.
Eighth Street and Lime Avenue.
Eighth Street and Walnut Street.
Eleventh Street and North Avenue.
Lake Reedy Boulevard South and Virginia Avenue.
Palm Avenue North and Center Street.
Five that were bagged because they are hard to open are at CR 630 West and Ulmer Road, Ninth Street East and Lime Avenue, Eighth Street West and Pear Avenue, Harrell Avenue and Sangster Street, and on the lake side of Sunset Drive.
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Title: Bridge Scour and Stream Instability Countermeasures Experience, Selection, and Design Guidance Third Edition, Volume 2
Description: Bridge Scour and Stream Instability Countermeasures: Experience, Selection, and Design Guidance, Hydraulic Engineering Circular No. 23 (HEC-23), identifies and provides design guidelines for bridge scour and stream instability countermeasures that are suggested for use by various State departments of transportation (DOTs) in the United States. Countermeasure experience, selection, and design guidance are consolidated from other FHWA publications in this document to support a comprehensive analysis of scour and stream instability problems and provide a range of solutions to those problems. Selected innovative countermeasure concepts and guidance derived from practice outside the United States are introduced. Management strategies for developing a Plan of Action (POA) for scour critical bridges are outlined, and guidance is provided for scour monitoring using portable and fixed instrumentation.
There are two companion documents, Evaluating Scour at Bridges (HEC-18) and Stream Stability at Highway Structures (HEC-20). These three documents contain updated material from previous editions.
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Javascript incorporates some of the best and worst ideas in programming languages. In this segment, Doug Crockford introduces the Javascript programming language, covering all of the core language features, including numbers, strings, operators, arrays, objects, and functions, pointing out the good, the bad, and the ugly features of the language as he goes. You'll learn about some common Javascript patterns, why lambda is cool, why you should never, ever use eval, and why you should always declare everything.
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I am sure that this series contains a lot of useful information. However I am not going to be able to extract it due to the speaker. His continual use of 'um' is just about enough to set my teeth on edge. In this first 30 minutes of part 1, Crockford probably used the term 'um' 200 times. A few times 'um' was use two or three times in one sentence.
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This series is a bit outdated but still contains solid advice that every proficient JavaScript programmer should know. There's some coding but the series is primarily theoretical with a lot of historical context. Essentially this collection is a remastering of video talks from Douglas Crockford available at YUI Theater and on youtube. Discussions in the series speculating what ECMA5 (completed in 2011 ) might hold and references to IE8 indicate its age. Despite this, I did not find any points no longer relevant to modern JavaScript programming. These talks are, to the greater extent, enduring. In particular, I feel the explanation of inheritance in JavaScript in this series to be the best I've seen.The historical background provided is important but would have been better if contained to one of the videos in the series. I found myself "tuning-out" during lengthy historical discussions in some videos causing me to miss the point where an important practical aspect was introduced. There are many gems that you can use in everyday JavaScript coding scattered wthin this series. Some of the ones I enjoyed include Checking within For .. In statements, the Functional Inheritance technique and the Memoizer pattern. Many of these are presented too quickly and you may miss them first-time 'round.This is a collection of canonical talks given by a leading expert in JavaScript, Douglas Crockford. I would not agree that it qualifies as a "Master Class" but is certainly worth watching, especially if you're new to JavaScript.
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As Wikipedia's article on ALL CAPS indicates, it is legibility which is affected. While it doesn't state that the text becomes completely illegible, it notes that the practice leads to low legibility.
Bad handwriting is considered to be cacographic.
While I don't think that they really address the fact that the individual letters are clear, you can also consider incoherent and indistinct.
Its both "less legible and less readable". The words illegible and unreadable are too strong. Besides the legibility of the headline depends on the context, like a newspaper daily having its name on the top most headline of the newspaper, a form of art(calligraphy), etc. They can also mean shouting, if used in emails and such media.
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Brookings city officials asked a question Monday that strikes at the heart of the impending financial crisis and subsequent public safety impact for Curry County.
"What is the role of our police officers if there are no sheriff's deputies available to respond to an incident outside of the city limits?"
Improbable problem?
With Curry County on the brink of a financial meltdown, the Sheriff's Department currently has six patrol deputies, two working each day on shifts covering 20 hours a day, seven days a week. The number of deputies is likely to drop when crucial federal timber funds dry up within a year. (The same is about to happen in the neighboring counties of Josephine and Jackson.)
Police Chief Chris Wallace and Sheriff John Bishop have a mutual aid agreement in which their officers and deputies back up one another during potentially high-risk calls. At a city workshop Monday, Wallace broached the subject of what happens when deputies are no longer available.
"It's not my intent to respond to calls in the county all the time; my priority is the city proper," Wallace said.
There are no options available for the sheriff, whose last-ditch effort to raise funds just to maintain current operations failed when voters rejected a law enforcement levy last year.
So what is the answer to the city's question?
None was given at Monday's workshop. However, the suggestion was made that citizens be invited into the discussion via a public meeting.
Which begs another question: Will citizens come?
A majority of voters sent a clear message when they rejected the law enforcement levy. What will it take to convince them of the seriousness of this public safety crisis?
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Inspiration for Thanksgiving from the Edgar Cayce Readings
On November 20th, 1938, Edgar Cayce was asked to give a reading for Study Group #1 on with an explanation of the true spirit of Thanksgiving. It was a challenging time, like today, and the world was filled with fear and uncertainty. Following is the text of Reading 3976-21. May it fill you with inspiration and a greater appreciation of Thanksgiving. Best wishes for a very Happy Thanksgiving from Edgar Cayce's A.R.E.
Gertrude Cayce: You will give at this time information which
may stimulate in the hearts and minds of those gathered here a greater
appreciation of the true spirit of Thanksgiving, and which may be to all those
to whom it is sent an inspiration and an explanation for Thanksgiving even in
the face of personal problems and spreading world-wide fears and hatreds that
seem to dominate so many minds today.
Edgar Cayce: Yes, we have the subject here; and many there
be that appear with the desire to give their own interpretation upon such a
subject. But rather would we choose--from the more universal need of those
here, as well as mankind everywhere that thought, that purpose, that
attribute of man's choice to show, to give thanksgiving for not only the
blessings as may be the experience of many but the fuller meaning of the
appreciation of Life itself and the opportunity which is offered to all through
same to become more and more aware of their relationship to the Creative Force
or God.
It is well that ye be reminded, then, of how--in those
periods when there were the preparations in the lives and experiences of a
peculiar people, under unusual circumstances, in extraordinary environments--they were reminded, not in their days of plenty but in the days when each day
they were given only sufficient for that day, that periods were to be, should
be, set aside when thanksgiving was to be a part of their activity--their
remembrances for all the joys, the sorrows, the disappointments, the hopes that
were and might be theirs if--if--they would but hold to those promises;
relying--as it was necessary in those days, those hours, for a complete dependence--upon the bounty of a merciful Father, who had a purpose in the bringing out,
in the edifying, in the directing.
And today, as ye look back upon those experiences, ye--too--find thyselves chosen.
Have ye chosen Him? For as was given then, "If ye will be my people, I will
be thy God!" This is a universal experience, then. To each soul gathered
here, to each soul throughout the land, to each soul as may be in all lands:
"If ye will be My people, I will be thy God!"
Then in this land--as ye understand--when in the
experiences of a handful of those seeking a place where they might worship God
according to the dictates of their own conscience, the bounties of the land
were in such measures as to preserve their lives--then there was the
proclamation that thanksgiving must be in the mind and heart of each soul. So in this land was set the precedent that has come to mean
so much that year after year thy rulers of the several States, thy director in
the general, have kept, do keep that precedent.
Then, to all: As ye do in the spirit of true thanksgiving
come to realize, as ye find in thy daily experience with thy fellow man--he
that is unappreciative of opportunity, of care, of thought, of longsuffering,
to thine own mind becomes very little. What, then, will ye - as servants--yea, as children of a
living God, of a living promise to thee--do about such a period, such a day?
For the day itself is as nothing. Remember how He as the
Teacher of teachers gave that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the
Then remember, Thanksgiving is thy opportunity to show thy
appreciation to thy friend, thy home, thy mother, thy children--yea, most of
all to thy God! As it may be truly said--of all the days for man's opportunity,
of man's making, of man's concern, truly Thanksgiving should be nearer and
dearer to the hearts of those who are appreciative of Life and its
opportunities, under any experience! For remember, it was instituted not under plenty but under
What is the need then of man in this day of disturbed mind,
of anxieties?
That ye may reconsecrate, rededicate - each of you - thy
heart, thy body, thy purpose, to the living God! This is the message then that should be to all.
Let this day of Thanksgiving be not only that wherein to
enjoy that which may satiate the body, that which may make for the gratifying
of appetites of the body, but that day when each of you may give thanks to God
for being alive--with the opportunities to raise thy voice in prayer, in
praise, in thanksgiving for the love He hath shown, that He showers upon thee
day by day!
And as ye do this--in the spirit of love, in the spirit of
truth, of patience, of longsuffering--ye will receive that awareness of His
closeness to thee. And this will bring you to the greater knowledge, the
greater understanding of what He would have thee do.Let thy life, thy experience then, be not without purpose.
What do ye then purpose to do with His promises to thee?
In this land ye may give praise for freedom of speech, for
the opportunities to raise thy voice in whatever way and manner ye choose. For know, as He taught, the principles of life are that as
ye do unto the least of thy brethren ye do unto thy Maker. Then, as ye give thanks, as ye give praise to thy friends
for kindnesses, for gentlenesses, for those things that make thy experience
more bearable in a cruel world--under circumstances oft where a troubled
heart is made lighter--how much greater in this day, then, that is set aside
by thy laws, by the judgments of thy governors and of thy president--how much more ye would give thanks to God!
For it is in Him indeed that ye live, that ye move and have
thy being. Let thy heart then be glad. And as has been indicated, let each raise his voice in
thanksgiving for all that has, that may come to pass in the experience of each soul that prays, "Thy will, O God, be done in me--now. Not as I will, but as Thou would have me go."
Pray that peace may be in the minds and hearts of those who
direct the destiny of the many, throughout the world. For they are not in power
of themselves, but that ye--too--may learn a lesson to do, and to seek to do,
the will of thy Father; and not to do that which is IN direct contradiction to
that of praise to thy Lord, thy God.
Keep then that Day in praise, in thanksgiving, in such ways,
such a manner that ye show to thy conscience that what ye worship as thy God is
aware of thy appreciation of life!
We are through.
Members of Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. have access to all 14,000 plus readings in the member-only section of our web site.
In my biography of Edgar Cayce, and in two previous articles for Venture Inward, my
wife and I wrote at length about Edgar Cayce's search for the Mother Pool, an enormous
untapped sea of oil which was identified in the readings as being located in the vicinity of San
Saba, Texas. Edgar and various partners, on a few occasions in the 1920s, undertook to find this
oil with the goal of raising funds to build a hospital where patients could go to receive Cayce
health treatments. Due to various forms of sabotage and insufficient funds, Edgar Cayce and his
partners were never able to reach the Mother Pool. After Cayce's death, numerous attempts were
made to follow in his footsteps without the benefit of personal readings by Cayce.
The decision to try to use the Cayce trance readings to find the legendary Mother Pool
was a bold and risky move. Cayce himself was well aware of not only the potential good that
might come from such an endeavor, but also the risk. Over the course of his career, Cayce
offered both advice and caution to those who would follow in his footsteps. Before even giving
his first oil reading in 1919, he consulted the source about the morality and ethics of using
psychic information to find oil, natural gas, and minerals. After all, experience had taught him
that giving certain types of non-medical readings didn't generate much long-term good, and
could actually be quite harmful to not just himself but those who obtained them. Using psychic
power to gamble at the race track or poker tables amounted to taking an unfair advantage over
others. The same could be said for using psychic power to locate buried treasure. Hidden gold or
other valuables didn't necessarily belong to the person or people who went seeking it. The source,
however, reassured Cayce that using the readings to help people find oil and natural gas could be
a good thing. Petroleum, or riches from the earth, belonged to the people who owned the land it
could be found on. Nothing was wrong with the notion of helping people—for a fee or
percentage—to locate it, just as Edgar's grandfather, a douser, had used his talents to help
farmers find water.
Over the years, Cayce went on to give several hundred oil readings, many of which
survive in the Cayce vault at A.R.E. headquarters, and many others which have been lost. The
first requests came from people and companies looking for help drilling their own wells. The
fantastic success that came from giving these early oil readings—several notable individuals
became millionaires and one became a multi-millionaire—inspired Cayce to join friends and
family to create his own oil prospecting partnership. Its purpose, from Cayce's point of view, was
to generate income to build a hospital where the readings could be used to heal the sick and help
build a community that could, as he said, "Manifest the Love of God and Man."
With this in mind, the Cayce Petroleum Company drilled at least two wells in central
Texas in 1921, leased thousands of acres where he intended to drill, and gave readings on many
different locations where earlier readings indicated oil could be found. But by 1924, Cayce had
all but abandoned his dream of funding a hospital with revenue from oil prospecting. Time had
proven that the Cayce readings seemed to help others in their search for oil, but while they
pinpointed oil for Cayce, he and his partners could not seem to get to it and bring it to the
surface. In several instances, his company was underfunded. At other times, outside interests
resorted to devious means to undermine his work. Hugh Lynn Cayce often told the story of how
one oil driller hired by Cayce dropped a tomb stone into a well shaft to make it look as if he had
fulfilled his contract by drilling "down to the granite." There was also suspicion that the sabotage
occurred so that the Cayce leases and money to renew them would run out before they struck oil,
and then the saboteurs could step in and find the oil for themselves. This may be one reason that
in trance, Cayce instructed them to purchase 99 year leases, one of several suggestions that were
ignored. On a more spiritual level, what may also have been true, however, was that Cayce and
his partners did not share a psychic "accord" which the readings said was necessary if success
was to be realized on a material level.
Oilman and one-time Cayce partner Curtis Willmott, perhaps more than anyone
connected to Cayce's oil ventures, understood this principal in both the abstract and literal sense.
"All hands," he told Edgar, "have to be pulling together with a common purpose." Moreover,
their common purpose couldn't be the desire for riches, but "God's purpose," or the "First
Purpose." As Edgar himself later acknowledged: "There are cosmic or...[Divine] laws just as we
have a penal law. [Treasure hunters must give up the idea of finding great wealth until] each one
has come to the consciousness of making himself right with the Creative Forces"—a provision
repeated many more times in the readings in years to come. The moment the "material" side of
life takes over from the spiritual," the source admonished, "conditions are materially turned," and
the seekers will lose, and literally become the enemy of one another.
Over the last several years, interested Cayce followers have been drawn together to
support the search which initially began with David Mangum (a member of A.R.E. Houston)
with the help of his son, Darin, who were subsequently joined by a Canadian and US based oil
company, Integrative Energy (IE). IE, whose principal Rick Hatala is a long time member of the
A.R.E, has been overseeing the project with the help and support of a small, highly dedicated
management team and staff, board of directors, and board of advisors. Among the company's
unique features is their intention that profits are not only to be shared by the investors, but also to
be used to develop clean alternative and new energy sources, provide education in the form of an
Integrative Leadership & Learning Center, and to help fund Edgar Cayce's Association for
Research and Enlightenment (the A.R.E.).
Using the Cayce readings to locate the correct drilling location and obtaining the
necessary leases to drill on property identified in the readings has turned out to be a daunting
task with many internal and external conflicts that were resolved by adhering and acting in
accord with universal principles of relationship. In Integrative Energy's most recent drilling
attempt last August, several locations where Cayce had previously drilled had been identified,
but the specific leases that Cayce Petroleum drilled on in the 1920's, could not be acquired. The
company then relied on leading edge technologies to find nearby locations that might contain
geological fractures which would, IE believed, connect them to the same Mother Pool discussed
in the readings. Although in their first attempt they found oil, it was not in commercial quantities.
The lessons learned from the most recent drilling attempts has resulted in the team going
back to conduct research in old land files, maps, the Cayce readings, and many other sources.
The goal was to identify a new location—one more directly linked to where the readings
indicated oil would be found. They now believe they may have identified several locations
recommended by the readings, and are in the process of obtaining any leases on locations they
don't already have. This next well will be funded jointly by Integrative Energy and investors
buying an interest in the Cayce well itself, with a continuing interest held by past IE investors.
If you would like to learn more about Edgar Cayce's oil years, you can download a free
copy of our booklet, "Riches from the Earth," at www.integrativeenergyusa.com/cayce.
As both investors, and supporters of the Cayce work, my wife Nancy and I are waiting in
earnest for drilling to begin again. We desire, like so many Cayce supporters, to see the readings
once again be proven out and the Cayce legacy strengthened, and to see profits from oil go,
perhaps for the first time, to a community that will use them for the betterment of mankind.
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick
Author of Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet
We have become so accustomed to change that we no longer recognize it when it happens. Ours is
the age of the worldwide web, interactive social networks, and virtual reality. We possess the ability to
find the answer to virtually any question at the touch of a button. Our grocery store checkout lines
read prices with lasers, we don't have to even leave our home to buy virtually any product or service
online, and all 14,000 Edgar Cayce readings are available instantaneously on the worldwide web.
Whether in medicine, relationships, technology, ecological-awareness, or internationalism, the earth
today is very different than it was even 10-15 years ago.
There are wars and rumors of war broadcast around the globe in the blink of an eye. We hear of floods
and famine and hate-crimes as they occur; and a day doesn't pass when we don't see renewed
evidence of gang-wars or drugs or our inhumanity to one another. But all of this information has
become so common that we may often simply shrug our shoulders, change the channel, or turn the
page. In many places, the world has become more fractured than ever before, as politics, race,
sexuality, culture and especially religion divide us. Countless thousands of individuals have been killed,
are dying, or have given up all sense of hope. The dis-eases of our time have crippled bodies, tortured
minds, or imprisoned souls. And yet, in spite of the fact that change is all about us, some of us
continue to wait for the Big One as evidence of "changing times."
On a more positive front, our age of change has also had more life-affirming ramifications. Many
events have been hope-renewing: the collapse of Communism, the formation of the European
Economic Community, a renewed sense of hope in solving such issues as the oil crisis, the healthcare
crisis, and the ever-growing awareness that we must bind together as one planet to heal the ecological
world we call home. There has even been a renewed sense of faith in God for hundreds of thousands.
We are now allies and friends with those we once fought. We have the technology and the desire to
bind together in the face of natural or man-made disaster, helping those who have been impacted
with food lifts, medical supplies, and restoring hope.
Many changes are underway that seem to suggest our potential unity as one human family. Actually,
more than anything else this is what the Cayce readings suggest is at the heart of our collective future.
Kevin Todeschi is
A.R.E.'s Executive Director and CEO. As both student and teacher
of the Edgar Cayce material for thirty years, he is the author
of over twenty books, including his most recent, God In Real Life: Personal Encounters with the Divine, and
the bestselling Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records. Known for his ability
to explain complex subjects in a straightforward and easy to
understand manner, Kevin is popular for his insight and his sense
of humor.
Copyright 2009, Kevin J. Todeschi
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Two quick questions on notation, motivated by my being reading Cayley at the moment (I stumbled across a random volume of his Collected Works and now I am unable to do anything else but read it through—good libraries are the worst place for work!).
I. He uses the notation $$(a,b,c,\dots)\!\!\!(X,Y,Z)^3$$ for forms (the parenthesis uses by the printer are more pronouncely curved than the ones mathjax is using here, so the crossing pair looks much nicer in the printed book than my poor rendition) The above is clearly a cubic form on $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ with coefficients $a$, $b$, $c$, &c. Can someone tell me
what ordering of the coefficients is used on the left of the $)\!\!\!($ ?
(This notation allows him to write the general polynomial of degree $n$ as $(a,\dots)\!\!\!(x,1)^n$, which is certainly nice!)
In some places, the parenthesis in $)\!\!\!($ which has its concavity to the left is adorned with an arrowhead on the upper end. I'd love to know what that means!
II. He writes determinants as in $$\begin{vmatrix}a,&b,&c,\\d,&e,&f\\g,&h,&k\end{vmatrix}$$ (with commas) but sometimes he writes things like $$ \begin{array}{c} \begin{pmatrix}a,&b,&c\end{pmatrix} \\ \begin{vmatrix}d,&e,&f\\g,&h,&k\end{vmatrix} \end{array} $$
What does that denote?
There are also a few instances of $$ \begin{array}{l} \begin{pmatrix}a,&b,&c\end{pmatrix}\!\!\!(x,y,z)\!\!\!(x',y',z') \\ \begin{vmatrix}d,&e,&f\\g,&h,&k\end{vmatrix} \end{array} $$ which presumably is a notation for a bilinear ternary form, combing the two notations...


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I would like to port Ubuntu Touch to a device that is currently not supported. What are the requirements for doing this and where do I begin?
Ubuntu (Touch) 13.10 is released; it's stable for developers now. You can get the step-by-step guide here.
However, I used the CyanogenMod. Check the building CyanogenMod guide to learn how to build it.
Building from source for Android guide, and Building Ubuntu Touch wiki should help you as well.
After it is ready, visit the Porting Ubuntu Touch guide along with the Ubuntu Phone Install guide given before.
The steps are:
These links give you a fair idea of how you should proceed. The actual code to be used differs from device to device, due to the different drivers, (but, Terminal commands would remain roughly the same) and it's something you'd have to work on yourself with lots of trial & error.
I tried porting to Lava Xolo Q800, which was built fine, and it installed too. But, it does nothing that a smartphone should do apart from connecting to WiFi. I've now reinstalled Android.
I would first start by getting a rooted Linux(Android) device and make sure you have a 64-bit Ubuntu system. (a lot of ram would be good like 16 gigs if you can swing it, or at least that much available with a swap file or partition)
If your not familiar with CyanogenMod become familiar by installing and by building it. I say this because the guide you already mentioned clearly states:
If your device is not listed here then check here. This is well documented and easy to follow and will help you better understand and has loads of guides.
Depending on your preference, you may just want to start here:
Then go for the Cyanogenmod project, but I think your best bet is building Cyanogenmod. Once you have done that go back to the guide you mentioned.
Bottom line learn Android first, the more you can understand with Android the easier Ubuntu Touch will be to port.
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Is there a way to remove drywall without exerting brute force? Being that I live in a condo, I don't want to go all happy with a hammer to my wall and disturb my neighbors. It seems there would be a way to saw lines into the drywall so that it could be easily pulled away. While a saw isn't whisper quiet, it's definitely far less barbaric than a hammer.
Well, you really only need to punch one or two holes in the drywall to get it started, then you can simply pull it down with your bare hands. Assuming it's really just drywall and not something heavier.
Sawing lines won't really help, however, as properly installed drywall has screws ALL OVER it - so just go with "punch hole and start pulling"...
Sawing drywall is pretty loud. The drywall acts like an amplifier for the sound. I would not recommend it as a quiet method.
You can use a utility knife to cut the drywall. It would take several passes but it will work. Once a piece is cut you can pull it free. This might work for a small piece but would be a lot of work for a whole wall or room.
You should consider just tearing the drywall down when it would bother your neighbors the least. It goes pretty fast and would be over quickly.
What are you going to do to keep quiet when you replace the drywall? Installing screws or nails are both pretty loud. You could use adhesive, that would be very quiet.


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I've tried to upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 but it failed and result in "unstable system" or something.
sudo apt-get install -f doesn't work
sudo do-release-upgrade says I'm up to date.
So I though of deleting my current unstable 13.04 Ubuntu and install it fresh new(if there isn't something else i can do), but the problem is that I have dual boot with windows.
how can I delete my Ubuntu and install it fresh new, without touching windows?


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The title says it all. How can I detect duplicates in my media library?
dupeGuru Music Edition is what you want. Set the scan type to "Audio Contents" in Preferences. Please note that the program is fairware so please contribute if you can.
I suggest you couple this with MusicBrainz Picard which can tag your music files automatically.
There is a plugin that was made some time ago for this. I've used it recently but it still leaves a little to be desired. There is a "PPA" for it - but no built packages yet, just the Bazaar branch. The install instructions go something like this:
If you're interested in using the Bazaar'd source code do the following instead:
Once it's installed restart Rhythmbox and you should have a Duplicates Finder now in the plugin list.
After activating it - there are additional configuration options available.
After the plugin is enabled - and when it finds duplicates - it'll add an additional option to your library list:
A few settings that I've found as "odd" - I've tried this on a media library with over 120,000 songs (over 1,000 duplicates) and a library with about 1,000 songs and maybe 30 duplicates. On the former it took a VERY long time and crashed Rhythmbox several times during the search. I eventually went with Automatically "Remove from Library" to avoid having to rebuild the list. On smaller libraries everything works great though.
When a duplicate is found - if you have the default options selected - the lower quality version of the song will be added to the list. So it's safe to select all songs on the Duplicates list and "Remove" (Either delete from disk or remove from library).
You can use fdupes for that:
which gives you a list of all duplicate files.
You can easily install it with
I ran into a similar issue when I had a bunch of duplicate image files. In my case, I just used
Files with the same contents generated the same hash, so duplicates could be found easily. I manually deleted the dupes from there, although I could have extended the script to delete all but the first occurrence, but I'm always paranoid about doing that in an ad-hoc script.
Note that this only works for duplicate files with identical contents.
Try FSlint or dupe gredtter
To install FSlint type in terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T)
hope this is useful..
I've used FSlint to find duplicate files in general. FSlint is "a utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem."


text: WOOD COUNTY --A 25 year old is in critical condition after being accidently shot at a rifle range. Deputies say Joseph Sammartino of Wisconsin Rapids was shot by his father while the 53 year old was cleaning his gun. Deputies say the incident is under investigation but they do believe it was an accident.


text: It's clobberin' time! This is my first tutorial submitted, and I'm proud to have it be a tutorial on how to draw my favorite Fantastic Four character: The Thing! He is a man who gets transformed into this big rock guy, and is in search for a way to change back into his normal state and regain his normal life, including his family. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of The Fantastic Four, I do adore the story for this character. Here I have a how to tutorial of drawing The Thing in a front view as if he were about to go into battle. Hope you enjoy!


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LOCATION IN MALL: In the Food Court
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It's never too late to eat the fries you could have eaten./p>
Holla! Classic Grilled Dogs are just $1. Today only. #NationalHotDogDay
Restrictions apply: https://t.co/WTQNbHwOky https://t.co/KFAd80MMxA/p>
It's 2016 and we brought you #MacNCheetos. What's your move?/p>
[At counter]
BK: Anything else?
Guy: Will you be my best friend?
BK: Are you talking to me or the food on your tray?/p>
You can't spell love without fries, and a bunch of other letters./p>
Things to do this summer:
1. Fries
2. Things/p>
?????? You're welcome.
Restrictions Apply: https://t.co/ZtysEqh1sy https://t.co/wsffObTYcu/p>
*Wakes up at noon*
*Goes straight to BK*/p>
Sun's out. Shake's out. https://t.co/dSczxzRYH8/p>
It's #NationalDriveThruDay. You know what to do. https://t.co/5Gy5hzGAx8/p>
What do we have here? https://t.co/HCySuBYFuC/p>
It's not a party till the 5 for $4 shows up. https://t.co/sDAu6sHaAp/p>
Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nuggets nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom/p>
RT @BKMcLamore: Those aren't Chicken Fries, Sunpreet! Congrats on winning a James W. McLamore WHOPPER® Scholarship award #BKScholars https:…/p>
Pics or it didn't happen. https://t.co/ZmYXHyA3zd/p>
Guy: What u doing later
Girl: Getting BK
Guy: No like later
Girl: Still getting BK
Guy: No later!!!
Girl: Prolly still getting BK/p>
Guy: Plans tonight?
Nuggets: [Continue being nuggets]/p>
That sad moment when you offer someone an onion ring and they accept./p>
About that Chicken Fries life. https://t.co/zvv7qAyixn/p>
[At bank]
Teller: Ma'am, you can't open an account under the name Chicken Fries
Woman: Whyyy/p>
Pickles and onions = burger bling./p>
If you've never eaten a Whopper while tweeting about a Whopper, you don't know what multi-tasking is./p>
Mean people would be so much cooler if they were Chicken Fries./p>
Decisions, decisions.
On Fridays, we eat fries./p>
"It looks beautiful outside," she observed from her couch while eating Chicken Fries./p>
The journey to the drive-thru starts with a single stomach growl./p>
Chicken Fries. The end./p>
*Goes back in time*
*Orders another Whopper*/p>
You say potato, we say fries./p>
Keep your head up. That's where the menu is./p>
*A/C breaks*
*Straps Oreo Shake to forehead*/p>
*Eats nuggets while ordering more nuggets*/p>
Sometimes a Whopper just needs to be held./p>
Not loving nuggets makes about as much sense as using a question mark at the end of this sentence?/p>
Part Cheetos snack. Part mac n' cheese. 100% awesome. #MACnCHEETOS #Repost https://t.co/Kinso1dwGG/p>
Red, white and flame-grilled. #FourthOfJuly https://t.co/bcOnE1WqTu/p>
*Takes picture of Whopper*
Whopper: Delete it./p>
Plot twist: drive-thru lady asks you to pull up to the first window./p>
They feel so right in your hands. https://t.co/4ssCWFzHWi/p>
We won't tell anyone if you sneak Chicken Fries into the movies./p>
*Uploads Whopper to the cloud*/p>
Be the person your onion rings think you are./p>
Burger loans > student loans/p>
We only have fries for you. #NationalFrenchFryDay https://t.co/feDBpYetV1/p>
There aren't enough hours in the day but there are plenty of fries./p>
Creamy mac n' cheese in a warm Cheetos snack. That's how #MacNCheetos roll. https://t.co/7m8w8h3jL3/p>
We finally figured out what duck lips are for. #SelfieSunday https://t.co/n1BJSh1Hut/p>
But have you ever asked your onion rings how THEY'RE doing?/p>
*Adds Burger King receipt to scrapbook*/p>
Going to the drive-thru still counts as going out./p>
Wake up for the 2 for $4 Croissan'wich Deal. Then go back to sleep. https://t.co/boNDKPKVWe/p>
Note to self: Burger King./p>
The cool thing about Oreo Shakes besides their temperature and good flavor is, well, that pretty much covers it./p>
No shoes, no shirt, no service, but definitely try the drive-thru./p>
Onion rings will always understand you./p>
Happiness is sitting in the drive-thru in July and remembering you have no homework./p>
Ever wish someone would look at you the same way you look at Chicken Fries?/p>
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A breast cancer researcher at Kansas State University has received a $1.2 million federal grant.
Anna Zolkiewska will use the four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute to conduct research aimed at improving cancer survival rates.
The associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics is focused on breast tumor initiating cells, also called cancer stem cells. These cells drive breast tumor progression and tumor recurrence or metastasis.
Current treatments for breast cancer, such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, can destroy the majority of tumor cells. But these treatments cannot eradicate cancer stem cells.
Zolkiewska says it's critical to find more effective treatments against them.
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