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5 Horrible Life Lessons Learned from Teen Movies
If you're under the age of 50, chances are you received most of your life guidance from teen movies. By the time you even entered a high school, you had probably learned enough to recognize the vital importance of prom, high school football and avoiding girls in whipped-cream bikinis. And then there were the lessons that teen movies taught us that seemed to be aimed specifically at landing us in a gutter somewhere.
#5. Undergoing a Physical and Mental Transformation is the Way to Lasting Happiness
As seen in: Grease, The Breakfast Club, She's All That, American Pie
Can't get a date? The person you love doesn't love you back? Well, according to teen movies, it's probably because you dress in clothing that reflects your individuality, background and personal style. The solution couldn't be any simpler: Just completely erase any external evidence of your personality, and physically transform yourself into whatever you think your crush will like.
The greasier, the better.
In Grease, innocent Sandy breaks up with John Travolta after he tries to pressure her into sex. For some reason, she immediately regrets this rash decision and sets about remaking herself in the image of the slutty women he seems to prefer. The change includes taking up smoking, changing her mannerisms and even getting rid of her accent.
Is Sandy in love or the witness protection program?
It's not just women who are encouraged to erase their personalities, though. In American Pie, Chris Klein can't lose his virginity until he totally transforms himself from a douchey jock into a douche bag who wears sweaters. And of course, in Grease, John Travolta can't make his car fly until he undergoes a personality wipe that takes him from greaser to ... greaser in a sweater?
"Yeah she risked getting pregnant and took up a life threatening habit, but I'm wearing a fucking sweater over here."
In The Breakfast Club, the mysterious, silent Allison gets a makeover that transforms her from standard "cute goth" to "hip and sexy," which in the 80s meant that all of her clothes look like they're made out of pillowcases.
"Huge improvement." - Guy who's not to be trusted around children.
Popular jock Andrew, who up until this point has regarded Allison as an unusually talkative piece of furniture, is immediately enamored, rewarding the former outcast by holding hands and kissing her. It's the beginning of what we're sure turned out to be a happy and long-lasting relationship.
None of these, however, is as brutal as the 1999 film She's All That, in which a popular student named Zach spends the film remaking the brooding, artistic classmate Laney to better fit the tastes of him and his friends. He gets her to wear contacts instead of glasses, has his sister cut most of her hair off, gets her to wear makeup and dresses her in heels and the exact same skimpy dress that his ex-girlfriend wore.
The message being that women are interchangeable.
Zach ultimately ends up winning Laney's love, making the message pretty clear: If you can't find a girl you like right away, you can pretty much just create one to suit you from scratch.
#4. You Can Loosen Up by Dating a Juvenile Delinquent
As seen in: The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 10 Things I Hate About You
So you're a young woman attending a typical American movie high school, and you're unhappy. Maybe your problem is that you're too smart for your classmates, or too popular, or related to someone who's too popular (yes, those actually count as problems in the world of teen movies). Fortunately, the solution for female teen movie angst is both simple and close at hand. And that hand is wearing handcuffs. And a knuckle-duster.
Ladies, you are apparently all about this shit.
Jeanie, Ferris' sister from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, has a life consisting of storming around angrily and complaining about her popular brother. That is, until a drug addict in a police station strikes up a friendly conversation by telling her she looks like a whore. Flattered, Jeanie soon starts making out with him, which luckily gives her a saliva-based personality transplant. Thanks to the magic of criminality, Jeanie transforms from uptight bitch to giggling, happy schoolgirl who is willing to protect her brother from the consequences of his truancy.
Like Jeanie, Kat from 10 Things I Hate About You cares enough about her future to actually attend school, but she takes things even further down the road to squaresville, unabashedly reading outside of school. This chick needs to seriously to loosen up, right? Fortunately, she finds lasting happiness with Patrick, a troublemaking student who early on in the film is shown attacking another boy with a drill for attempting to talk to him. But it's just that devil-may-care attitude that enable him to teach Kat to loosen up a little and to show her that getting embarrassingly drunk at a party isn't the end of the world, a code of ethics that teen movies and date rapists swear by.
Pro Tip: In real life, the guys lining up to walk your hammered ass home from the party won't look like 1999 Heath Ledger.
In The Breakfast Club, self-described "criminal" Bender continually acts up in front of the too-popular girl Claire (Molly Ringwald). He tears up library books, sets his shoe on fire, pulls a knife on another boy, goes into a screaming rage, punches himself and repeatedly attacks anything near him that is lying on a flat surface. In case that wasn't charming enough, he repeatedly insults Claire, attempts to molest her while hiding under her table, proposes ganging up with another male student and impregnating her and eventually reduces her to tears.
In other words, he's a charmer.
It doesn't matter that Bender doesn't seem like he'd be remotely fun to hang out with. He's a juvenile delinquent and therefore, the teen movie universe's Yoda when it comes to loosening up and enjoying life. Unfortunately, that leaves one of the all-time classic teen movies with a love story that plays out like a cult inductee being emotionally broken and then taken advantage of.
And on a related note...
#3. Car Theft and Reckless Endangerment Are Just Technical Terms for Harmless Wacky Fun
As seen in: Sex Drive, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, License to Drive, The Karate Kid, The Goonies
So you're a character in a teen movie, and you want to have nonconsensual sex with many unconscious women, but you don't have a way to get there. No problem! Just steal a car, and it'll all turn out OK, even if you don't have a license. In fact, not having a license will just add more excitement to the whole gig, like the way open-heart surgery gets more exciting when nobody in the room has gone to medical school.
And we've all been drunk for days!
In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ferris persuades Cameron to steal his father's rare 1961 Ferrari, and they both must deal with the consequences of this serious action: the best day of their lives! Sure, Cameron does end up having to take responsibility for his actions. But only because of a freak accident that comes about because -- you guessed it -- two other best friends steal the car, roll up the miles on the odometer and have what appears to be the single most enjoyable joyride in the history of Ferraris. In sum, Ferris Bueller's Day Off plays like a PSA about car theft, where the message is, Everyone's doing it, and it's so fun that even if you get caught, it'll be worth it!
Ah, to be young enough to be tried as a minor again ...
Of course, Ferris is a driver's ed instructional video compared with License to Drive, in which Corey Haim doesn't let failing his driving exam stop him from stealing his grandfather's Cadillac to impress a young Heather Graham. This leads to a series of nearly fatal accidents -- their vehicle hydroplanes and careens down a steep hill, they get involved in a fun high-speed chase in pursuit of a drunk driver -- before the unthinkable occurs: The car ends up getting totally trashed!
Fortunately, Corey gains the admiration of his entire family when he uses his newly acquired badass driving skills to rush his pregnant mother to the hospital in reverse gear, almost killing several pedestrians when he drives on the sidewalk to avoid traffic. In the film's final scene, Corey's father forgives him before Heather Graham pulls up in a Volkswagen. Everything being resolved, Corey jumps into the driver's seat and speeds off happily as the credits roll. Wait -- he still doesn't have a fucking license.
But hey, a license is just a piece of paper. That stops the police from throwing you in jail.
In fact, John Hughes' entire filmography seems intent on pushing the "driving without breaking the law is for squares" agenda. Weird Science, Sixteen Candles and Some Kind of Wonderful all feature young teen heroes casually mentioning that they don't have a license before hopping into their cars and driving away. According to these movies, any driver training is optional; you just kind of pick it up after you find yourself on a highway going 80 mph with your screaming friends in the back seat. Then you just cruise your way into a series of zany events in which nobody ever turns out arrested or dead.


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WEIRTON - Following Friday's hard-fought loss to Brooke, Joe Dunlevy was hoping his Indian Creek cagers would rebound with a strong performance on both ends of the Carl Hamill Fieldhouse floor Saturday.
The veteran coach got what he wanted.
His Redskins scored the game's first seven points, closed the opening half with a 17-0 run and cruised to a 53-28 victory over Weir High's Red Riders.
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DEFENSE — Indian?Creek's Alex Young defends Weir's Shane Davis during the Redskins' 53-28 win over the Red?Riders Saturday in Weirton.
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WHO'S OPEN? — Weir's Dylan?Cassiadoro looks for an open teammate while defended by Indian Creek's Blake Roar during the Red Riders' 53-28 loss to the Redskins Saturday in Weirton.
"We had a tough, hard-fought, physical game with Brooke," Dunlevy noted. "We fell behind but our kids battled back like crazy. I wasn't sure what they might have left in the tank, but they really came through.
"We talked about playing well for four quarters, particularly on the defensive end. They did that and we shot the ball fairly well."
Shane Winland got the Creek rolling when he grabbed an offensive rebound and went up strong for a pair. Sweet-shooting Frankie Kamarec knocked down a triple off an Alex Young assist then dribbled past a Weir defender for a deuce. Drew Sullivan added four first-period points and the Redskins led 14-5.
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Weir 5 2 7 14-28
INDIAN CREEK (5-1): Kamarec 4 0-0 11; Furda 1 2-2 5; Roar 1 0-0 3; Young 4 3-5 11; Haught 0 0-0 0; Huynh 1 2-4 4; Lewis 0 0-0 0; Anderson 0 0-0 0; Durbin 1 0-0 2; Foldi 0 0-0 0; Connor 1 2-2 4; Woodbury 0 0-0 0; Sullivan 2 3-6 7; Winland 2 2-2 6. TOTALS: 17 14-21 53. 3-pointers: Kamarec (3), Furda, Roar; Rebounds: 30 (Young 8); Turnovers: 5.
WEIR (0-6): Masters 0 2-2 2; Knight 0 1-3 1; Viakley 1 0-0 2; Wood 1 0-0 3; Davis 0 0-2 0; D. Cassiadoro 2 2-2 6; Groves 2 1-2 5; Smith 1 0-2 2; Sims 1 0-0 2; Curtis 1 0-0 3; A. Cassiadoro 1 0-0 2; Kirk 0 0-0 0. TOTALS: 10 6-13 28. 3-pointers: Wood, Curtis; Rebounds 24 (Groves 6); Turnovers: 17.
The Red Riders were limited to just five field goal tries during the opening stanza, making one (a three ball by Michael Curtis). They also were forced into five turnovers by Creek's pressure defense.
Winland and Dylan Cassiadoro exchanged baskets before Dunlevy's club went on its tear. Young scored five straight, including two off a nifty reverse layup. Kamarec connected again from behind the arc and Young followed with another four markers. Points by Winland and Matt Furda closed the spurt. Creek led 33-7 at the half.
Mike Granato's crew, which also was playing on back-to-back nights, took 15 first-half shots but made just two. The Riders also were whistled for 10 ball-handling miscues. Creek, on the other hand, converted on 50 percent of its shot attempts in building the huge advantage.
The visitors led 43-14 after three quarters.
Kamarec and Young both had 11 points to pace the Redskins, now 5-1. Nine Creek players were able to dent the scoring column. Young also had eight of his team's 30 rebounds. In addition, Creek was only charged with five turnovers.
For Weir, winless in six outings, D. Cassiadoro had six points. Josh Groves added five and snared six boards. Andre Sims swatted away five Indian Creek shots.
"We've got to avoid frustration and there's no question that it is setting in," Granato said. "We definitely are not used to this. We're going to get better but only if we practice and play with intensity on every possession and for every minute.
"I'm in charge of this ship. It's not the Titanic yet. We need to take the commitment our kids have and transfer it to execution."
Granato praised his Red Riders for their commitment and dedication, pointing out "all 19 players were here this morning for our shoot-around." Also, he noted his players also showed up before the junior varsity game to "shoot some more."
"Mike and I are lifers," Dunlevy added. "Every now and then you have to rebuild. He'll get them back because he works hard with his kids."
Indian Creek has another back-to-back weekend in its future.
On Friday, Dunlevy and company will go on the road to battle "our biggest rival," Edison. On Saturday, "an outstanding Carrollton team" will visit Wintersville.
Weir returns to action Friday, traveling to Madonna for the annual city championship game.

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$$\int{\frac{5x^3+8x^2+x+2}{x^2(2x^2+1)}} dx$$
So ... how do I start? Numerator cant be factorized it seems, and this looks like a complicated expression ...
I tried expanding the denominator to see if integration by substitution will work, but it didn't give any ideas
$$\int{\frac{5x^3+8x^2+x+2}{2x^4+x^2}} dx$$
I don't see a clear way to integrate by parts either. Can anyone enlighten me?


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One of the most famous lines from movies is " There is no place like home." See if you can guess which movies these famous movie quotes came from!
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How would I prove that, in any triangle, any of the exterior angles is bigger than any of the remote interior angles?
Help would be much appreciated!
From your figure above, let
$m \angle1 = a$
We must show that $a > c$ and $a > d$.
Since all of the angles of a triangle must sum to $180^\circ$, we have
$b + c + d = 180$
Also, since $\angle1$ and $\angle2$ are supplementary:
$a + b = 180$
Reversing the second equality and adding to the first, we have
$(b + c + d) + 180 = 180 + (a + b)$
$a$, $c$ and $d$ are all positive, so if $a = c + d$, then $a$ must be greater than both $c$ and $d$.
As $ \angle1 = \angle3 + \angle4 $
The above is because of the rule "exterior angle of a triangle is equal to sum of two the interior opposite angles" .
as this is true
1) $ \angle1 = \angle3\ this\ is\ true\ iff \angle4=0 $ and
2) $ \angle1 = \angle4\ this\ is\ true\ iff \angle3=0 $
But the above two violates the definition that triangle has 3 angles .
if a quantity is equal to sum of two other positive quantities.....
sum will be greater than either of the two quantities added .
so $ \angle1 > \angle3\ $
$ \angle1 > \angle4\ $


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If this winter weather has you unsure of the road conditions in your area there is a helpful number you can call. 5-1-1 is Kentucky's traffic and travel information line.
This weekend the line was bombarded with callers wanting to find out road conditions.
The phone line usually receives 56,000 calls a month, but this past Sunday more than 32,000 calls were logged in one day.
Keirsten Jaggers, of the Kentucky Transportation Department, says, "Your basic road conditions, and this is something that's updated every minute. On the website it's updated every 15 minutes, and they would find out the latest road conditions for that area."
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Do paracompact non-Hausdorff spaces admit partions of unity? I'm just curious.
The answer is no. Take the "classical" example of the line with two origins. This space is non-Hausdorff, paracompact and doesn't admit partitions of unity.
EDTI: I think the question is a kind of "duplicate" . Ok, but if you have an example for a non-Hausdorff manifold, which doesn't admit partitions of unity, you have an example for a non-Hausdorff paracompact space with the same property.
First the definition:
For the non-existence of a partition of unitiy: take the open covering $ U = (-\infty,0) \cup \{ 0_a \} \cup (0,\infty)$ and $\tilde{U} = (-\infty,0) \cup \{ 0_b \} \cup (0,\infty)$. Assume, there is a partition of unity subordinate to this cover. Then the value of each origin would have to be $1$ which cannot be true. (Edit: villemoes was a little faster :-) )
It's worth noting that any $T_1$ space which admits partitions of unity for finite (two element even) covers is Hausdorff:
Proof: Let $x, y \in X$. Let $U = X \ \{x\}, V = X \ \{y\}$. Then let $\{f, g\}$ form a partition of unity with $f$ subordinate to $U$ and $g$ subordinate to $V$. Then $A = \{ t : f(t) > \frac{1}{2} \}$ and $B = \{ t : g(t) > \frac{1}{2} \}$ A and B are disjoint open sets with $y \in A$ and $x \in B$.
Edit: On closer inspection, this if of course just the standard proofs that the existence of partitions of unity for finite covers implies normality + the fact that $T_1$ normal spaces are hausdorff


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Forum on U.S.-GCC strategic cooperation held in New York
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Foreign Ministers of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, GCC Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton participated in the 2nd ministerial meeting of the Forum of Strategic Cooperation between the GCC and U.S. at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York last night. The meeting was chaired on the GCC side by Saudi Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. The Forum was established on March 31, 2012 with the aim of promoting cooperation between the GCC and the U.S. in the political, economic, security and military fields.
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Steps taken to establish a navigational operations center in Bahrain with U.S. participation
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The statement condemned the movie mocking the Prophet Muhammad and criticized attempts to defame religions. It also stressed the rejection of all forums of terrorism and extremism and denounced the attacks on the foreign missions of the U.S. and other countries in recent weeks.
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A statement from Sheriff John Root says the latest robbery occurred Sunday night at a gas station off Interstate 75 near exit 29. According to the statement, a lone male armed with a semi-automatic pistol took an undisclosed amount of money from the attendant and fled on foot.
Root said it is not known if the robbery is connected to three others that have taken place in southern Laurel County in the past 11 days.
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Buildout Plans for the Sweatshop (2169 Mission #300)
This is a page for capturing ideas associated with the buildout of 2169 Mission.
Build out Service Requirements
- City waste dumpster and permits
- Sales tax free account at local big box hardware/contractor store (yay 501(c)(3))
Spaces at 83c
83c has subspaces consisting of:
- The Main / Meeting Room
- The Dirty Shop (Machine Room)
- The Clean Shop (Electronics Lab)
- The Chill Space (Lounge)
- The Kitchen
- The Bathroom
Spaces Planned for the Sweatshop
Concept: Usage Zones
One conceptual idea last night was to break the space into three major use areas, and cluster the rooms associated with those uses in three areas. The areas mentioned last night were the Academic area, the Party area, and the Build area. The Party space seems a natural fit for the back of the space (it has a DJ Booth!); the front, with the light and space, seems like a good place for Classrooms, and the middle, dungeon-ish area seems like where shops should go.
Academic / Classroom
consisting of conference / classrooms, areas suitable for learning, planning, and colaboration. Room ideas are:
- Dungeons and Dragons room: a rectangular room with a board-room style table in it, walls covered in bookshelves and whiteboards.
- Math Room: Krutcher suggests that rather than a "conference room" style classroom, maybe we want a "math room" -- essentially a room with a couple of small tables, some chairs or couches, lots of pacing space, and a bunch of whiteboards; the idea is to facilitate active, creative discussion.
- Study Rooms: Small rooms just big enough for four people to crowd into or one person to spread out in.
- The chill space / lounge conceptually could belong to this Zone.
Make / Build
Consisting of shop and lab space. Ideas include:
- Dirty Shop -- the machine room / fab space for actually sawing, hammering, lathing and milling.
- Clean Shop -- electronics lab filled with benches for soldering &c.
- Craft Space -- suitable for textile work &c
- Darkroom -- For developing pictures
- Chem lab -- space suitable for chemistry / bio work
- Recording studio - soundproof area big enough for a small band and mics
- Ham shack - Amaetur radio operating room. Needs good way to get feed lines to the roof. Might be good to colocate with recording studio
This space is essentially given over to the "party" aspect of Noisebridge: This is the large social space where people not only dance and socialize but hack in large, overlapping groups, much like the vibe that's often present in the Big Room at 83c.
- The Big Room -- Big open space suitable not only for dancing but for general meetings.
- DJ Booth -- What to do with the DJ Booth?
- Kitchen -- needs to be built.
- Bathrooms -- one is built, other may need buildout. (shower?)
- Server room -- Enough room and cooling for a rack of machines. Max 5kw worth of equipment and cooling.
- Nap space -- quiet area to relax, sleep, etc. Perhaps simply hammocks on the roof?


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Do you buy gifts for your pets at Christmas?
DH thinks I'm nuts, and, well, he's at least partially right, but I want to get something special for our furbabies this Christmas.
In 2012 we lost a cat, Buddy, who had only been with us a short time, and one of our border collies, Rascal, who had been an important part of our family for nearly 12 years. Our remaining border collie (inappropriately named Cuddles) and our Shih Tzu, Lexie, were nearly as bereft as the non-furry family members. In the Spring we added a rescue kitten, Camry, who has cheered us all up tremendously. With all of the changes to our furbaby family, I want to REALLY treat those we have with us for much too short a time. Not quite sure what to get them, but I'm determined to do something more than just give them an extra doggy biscuit. Something BIG!
Do you buy special gifts for your fur/feather/finbabies for Christmas? Can you suggest something special for my critters? I am at a loss but determined to do something great!
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I am so sorry to hear about your losses. I can not imagine what I will do when Bulldog goes.
As for shopping for your pets. YES!! I spend more on Floyd then I do on some family members. One good idea might be a Barkbox. You can sign up at Barkbox and they send you a grab bag every month full of surprise goodies for your pup. I got them for a few months and although they were worth the price, they came with stuff I couldn't give to my boy. The treats were usually natural and/or organic, but had beef or chicken in them which he cant have. If it wasn't for that I would have continued to get it.
Happy Holidays furry fellas!
I do. I usually restock their catnip and get them a new toy - usually a catnip one (can you see a trend haha). I also get them their favorite treats and food, which are ones that I can't get in bulk and cheap throughout the year, so they only get them on special occasions (well, the food is just not what they should be eating all the time).
We always get our pets gifts. Now, I have to admit part of this is due to the fact that over the years it has been enjoyable to watch our children/grandchild react to the fact that Santa brought the animals gifts.
As far as what we get them... well, it really depends. Bodie always gets tennis balls because he loves them. I mean LOVES them. Tara is getting a huge bag of her favorite chew sticks. Our kitten Eloise is getting non skid feeding bowls (trust me, she needs them). And our rabbit, Mrs Bonnie Wigglesworth, is getting a bag of carrots.
We don't think Mrs Wigglesworth will be too upset that we spent more on the other critters than her.
Absolutely. Usually, a special type of chew thing for the dog, and various catnip-infused goodies for the cats.
Yes. A new chew toy keeps the dog at bay while the rest of us open our own gifts instead of sniffing around the tree and attempting to eat wrapper paper.
<::sigh::> Of course.
My dogs appreciate time with and attention from me more than any material gift, so I make sure that every holiday starts with some "family" time on the couch. I also tend to get each munchkin a stuffed squeaky toy, which becomes an unstuffed non-squeaky toy within minutes. I also wrap some of their favorite non-toy toys: they each get a wrapped empty soda bottle, a wrapped empty yogurt container, etc.
I can't imagine the pain of your losses this year. I hope that your family, including your new members, have a wonderful holiday together.
Of course the boys get gifts! We have to keep them occupied on Christmas day, or they get huffy for being left out.
For the dogs, I really like the 'rooting' toys - Hide-a-squirrel is one my boys love. It's a puzzle! It's a squeak-toy! It's fluffeh!
I have been shopping for a dog bed for Simba for a few weeks now and haven't found one I like for a price I am willing to pay. He doesn't really need one, I was just going to retire the oldest of his five beds and donate it to the neighbor dog. I think instead I am going to get him a couple of custom collars made, I found a few I liked the patterns for, but of course I have to pay extra and have them special made for his size. I ordered him a coat last week, I have my doubts about it fitting but it will be something else under the tree and I can donate it if it's too small. I got him some treats and those will go under the tree as well. Jasmine doesn't get gifts, she wants nothing to do with social gatherings and she's got no interest in toys. I bought her some treats and I may put them under the tree, but unlike for the dog who expects gifts under the tree it would be just for my amusement. When we unwrap gifts she'll be asleep on my bed. But she'll enjoy the treats later.
The only gift my pets get is food. That's all they seem to appreciate me for anyway.
I tried giving them special treats and they don't even want them.
we do not but Santa leaves our pets something in their shared stocking that we hang for them
No. Certainly not. That's ridiculous.
My pet is Jewish. I buy him a Chanukah present :)
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Her stuff is really adorable--meowtinis, fortune cookies, etc.-- and she is wonderful to work with. I plan to buy my cat a gift from her as I have not supported enough small businesses this season. I've given her stuff as gifts and they have gone over very well.
Yep. Catnip toys for the cat, and usually a few new toys for the dog. Also, a rawhide bone for the dog so she keeps to herself while we're opening our gifts.
My first thought when I read this question was "No way would I EVER do that!" Then "...wait. I'm buying my sister's dog a present."


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The Hebrew word for the act performed at a circumcision is "לימול". The root appears to be נ.מ.ל. Following the exceptional rules for roots whose first letter is נ, the causative participle and nominative should be "ממיל" (with the second מ דגושה). Why then is the universal word for one who performs the act of circumcision "מוהל" as if the root is י.ה.ל (e.g.), which can't possibly be the case?
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The root is מול, sometimes considered a biliteral root, מל. Compare קם.
There are cases in the Semitic languages where a full consonant appears in the middle of such roots to "fill them out" to the usual triliteral form. Compare Aramaic רהט "run" (Hebrew רץ).
The Talmud Yerushalmi in Mesechta Yevamos דף מג,ב פרק ח הלכה א uses the word as follows כההיא דאמר רבי הילא בשם רבי יסא הלוקח עבדים ערלים מן הגוי על מנת למוהלן. I guess that is the source of the ה
I believe you have the wrong root: http://ericlevy.com/Revel/BDB/BDB/14/num108.html#t59 what נ.מ.ל gives. For the root see: http://ericlevy.com/Revel/BDB/BDB/13/mem32.html#t18


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I want to da a keywordquery because it shoul work with Sharepoint Enterprise and FAST Search. And all i want is to get the 10 last modified documents from a search application.
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There is known a lot about the use of groups -- they just really appear a lot, and appear naturally. Is there any known nice use of semigroups in Maths to sort of prove they are indeed important in Mathematics? I understand that it is a research question, but may be somebody can hint me the direction to look on so that I would see sensibility of semigroups, if you see what I mean (so some replies like look for wikipedia are not working as they are anti-answers).
Semigroups provide a fundamental, algebraic tool in the analysis of regular languages and finite automata. This book chapter (pdf) by J-E Pin gives a brief overview of this area.
Am slightly surprised no one has mentioned the Galvin-Glazer proof of Hindman's theorem via the existence of semigroup structure on $\beta{\mathbb N}$, the Stone-Cech compactification of the positive integers (see, for instance, part of this note by Hindman.
The relevance to the original question is that knowing that ``compact right topological semigroups have idempotents'' may sound recondite, but it is just what was needed to answer Galvin's original question about translation-invariant ultrafilters, which was itself motivated by a "concrete" question in additive combinatorics.
On a related note, while it is in general not possible to embed a locally compact group as a dense subgroup of something compact (the map from a group to its Bohr compactification need not be injective), you can always embed it densely into various semigroups equipped with topological structure that interacts with the semigroup action: there are various of these, perhaps the most common being the WAP-compactification and the LUC-compactification. Unfortunately this often says more about the complicated behaviour of compact semitopological semigroups (and their one-sided versions) than about anything true for all locally compact groups, but the compactifications are a useful resource in some problems in analysis, and the semigroup structure gives one some extra grip on how points in this compactification behave. (Disclaimer: this is rather off my own fields of core competence.)
Victor, I don't understand your claim that $C^0$-semigroups aren't really semigroups. You are not free to decide for all the mathematical community what is a semigroup (I guess that you are interested only on discrete semigroups, aren't you ?).
$C^0$-semigroups are fundamental in PDEs (in probability too as mentioned by Steinhurst). The reason is that a lot of evolution PDEs (basically all parabolic ones, like the heat equation, or Navier-Stokes) can be solved only forward but not backward. In linear PDEs, this is a consequence of the Uniform Boundedness Principle (= Banach-Steinhaus Theorem). There is a nice theory relating operators and semigroups, the former being the generator of the latter. In the linear case, a fundamental result is the Hille-Yosida Theorem. Subsequent tools are Duhamel's principle and Trotter's formula. A part of the theory extends to nonlinear semigroups.
Edit. John B. expresses a doubt on the fundamental aspect of semigroups, compared with the evolution equations from which they arise. Let me say that semi-groups say much more, for the following reason. Evolutionary PDEs have classical solutions only when the initial data $u_0$ is smooth enough, typically when $u_0$ belongs to the so-called domain of the generator. This result can never be used to pass from a linear context to a non-linear one via the Duhamel's principle. In other words, in order to have a well-posed Cauchy-problem in Hadamard's sense, we need to invent a notion of weaker solutions ; this is where the semi-group theory comes into play.
An important application of semigroups and monoids is algebraic theory of formal languages, like regular languages of finite and infinite words or trees (one could argue this is more theoretical computer science than mathematics, but essentialy TCS is mathematics).
For example, regular languages can be characterized using finite state automata, but can also be described by homomorphisms into finite monoids. The algebraic approach simplifies many proofs (like determinization of Buchi automata for infinite words or proving that FO = LTL) and gives deeper insight into the structure of languages.
Semigroups of bounded $L^{2}$ operators are very important in probability. They in fact provide one of the main ways show the very close connection between a self-adjoint operator and a `nice' Markov process (nice can be taken to mean strong Markov, cadlag, and quasi-left continuous.) So how does one get this semigroup from a Markov process? If $X_t$ is your process let $\mu_{t}(x,A)$ be measure with mass $\le 1$ with value $P(X_t \in A | X_0=x)$. Then $\int f(y) \mu_t(x,dy) = T_tf(x)$ gives a semigroup of bounded $L^{2}$ operators.
Why are such constructions important and natural? If $f$ is your initial distribution of something (heat for example) and $X_t$ is Brownian motion. Then $T_t$ acts by letting the heat distribution $f$ diffuse the way heat should. This then gives a nice way to connect PDE and probability theory. I'd end by offering that semigroups are important, in part, because they do arise is so many places and can bridge between disciplines. There are other reasons as well.
Circuit complexity. See
Straubing, Howard, Finite automata, formal logic, and circuit complexity. Progress in Theoretical Computer Science. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 1994.
If you want a research problem relating circuit complexity with (finite) semigroups, there are many in the book and papers by Straubing and others. See also Eilenberg and Schutzenberger (that is in addition to Pin's book mentioned in another answer) - about connections between finite semigroups and regular languages and automata.
(Commutative) semigroups and their analysis shows up in the theory of misère combinatorial games. The "misère quotient" semigroup construction gives a natural generalization of the normal-play Sprague-Grundy theory to misere play which allows for complete analysis of (many) such games. (See http://miseregames.org/ for various papers and presentations.)
Though you say that $C_0$ semigroups are not really semigroups, the structure of compact semitopological semigroups plays an important role in the investigation of their asymptotic behaviour. For example, Glicksberg-DeLeeuw type decompositions or Tauberian theorems are obtained such a way, see Engel-Nagel: One-Parameter semigroups for Linear evolution Equations, Springer, 2000, Chapter V.2.
Unary (1-variable) functions mapping a set X to itself under composition is a semigroup. Cayley's Theorem (one of them) says that every semigroup is isomorphic to one of this kind.
Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2011.02.18
Given a group $G$, the Block Monoid $B(G)$ consists of sequences of elements in $G$ that sum to zero. So for example, an element of $B(\mathbb{Z})$ is $(-2,-3,1,1,3)$. The monoid operation is concatenation, and the empty block is the identity element.
Given a Dedekind domain, one can take its ideal class group, and consider the block monoid over that group. Note that in the obvious way, elements of the block monoid can be irreducible or not. One can study irreducible factorization in the Dedekind domain by studying irreducible factorization in the block monoid.
Why nobody explicitly mentioned one of the most natural examples: symmetric semigroup of a set? This is the semigroup anologue of a permutation group (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_semigroup).
Toric varieties in Algebraic Geometry!! Indeed, the category of normal toric varieties is equivalent with the dual of the category of finitely generated, integral semigroups.


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The procedure is roughly the same for both Down and Synthetic, however down requires special precautions:
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Dr. Ritvo makes frequent public speaking and television appearances on local news channels and has appeared on the TODAY show and a special segment on EXTRA called "Beauty and the Brain". She had a long running TV segment called "Real Relationship" and appears regularly on CW's HealthKey program (www.HealthKey.com) with Dr. Steve Salvatore. She is often quoted in the Miami Herald, and has also been quoted in the New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, WebMD, SELF magazine, Ladies Home Journal, O Magazine, Allure, Vive Magazine, MommyMD, and in ezines including HealthKey, HybridMom, EmpowHer, SheKnows and others. She is a regular guest on a radio show Brain Food for the Heartland, also for the national show Life Love and Health with Christopher Springmann and is a guest on numerous other radio shows around the country. Dr. Ritvo is a blogger for PsychologyToday.com and TheBeautyPrescription.com. She also speaks on behalf of Gladerma and just completed a speaking engagement in Brazil. She serves as a panelist and guest speaker for national and international conferences, including most recently in 2010 the International Internet Dating Conference, Vive Magazine's women's conference and Empowered Women Conference.
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Training Course: Police Training Officer (PTO) Phase I Basic Training
Mode of Delivery: Classroom
Training Provider: University of Louisville Southern Police Institute (SPI)
Target Audience: Law Enforcement Officers
Course Description: The PTO model is specifically designed for agencies engaged in the community-oriented policing and problem solving (COPS) service delivery method. The Basic PTO course prepares participants to become post-academy field trainers. Participants will learn how to use problem-based
learning and other adult learning strategies to coach and mentor recent academy graduates through field training phases. The objective of the Basic PTO training is to produce graduates of the training program who are capable of providing responsible, community-focused police services; to design fair and consistent evaluations that address a trainee's skills, knowledge, application, and ability to effectively provide policing services to their communities; to develop and enhance the trainee's learning from the academy within the community environment through a series of real-life problem solving activities; to formulate learning opportunities for new officers that meet or exceed the training needs of both the community and the policing agency; to prepare trainees to use a problem-solving approach throughout their careers by employing problem-based learning training; and to promote the practice of using community members as partners in problem solving.
For additional information on this course: www.louisville.edu/spi
Training Course: Police Training Officer (PTO) Phase II Basic Training
Mode of Delivery: Classroom
Training Provider: University of Louisville Southern Police Institute (SPI)
Target Audience: Law Enforcement Officers
Course Description: PTO Phase II Implementation course will prepare those who are tasked with implementing and managing a PTO Program to increase their opportunities for success and sustainability of the program. PTO Implementation course will provide critical instructional areas that will include:
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I've been in Morocco nearly a month, and it will soon be time for my return. During my stay here, checking into hotel rooms hasn't been an issue, but businesses aren't nearly as lenient about that sort of thing in America. I have a day layover in Newark, and I'm trying to figure out whether it's possible for me to stay at one of the hotels nearby. I'm 17 years old, and my birthday is only 16 days after the time I'd need the room. Are exceptions ever made in situations like these?
Best answer is probably - legally: yes. Realistically: no.
You're signing a contract that you agree to pay for damages, beer from the minibar, etc, and as a minor, you can't legally enter into a contract.
So legally they could 'let you', but it's highly unlikely that they'd want to expose themselves to a risk like that.
From this page on hotel liability:
This page on Minimum Age Requirements for Renting Hotel Rooms may also prove to be of interest. It seems the one "loophole" you might have is for a parent to write a letter of consent and provide a security deposit in advance. But I'd contact them first to check.
Otherwise, you may just need to resort to "couchsurfing" - although I can't officially condone that, as couchsurfing.org requires that you be 18 to use its service...
Typically this is explicitly disallowed. However, in the U.S. one is typically only required to present a credit card (but no photo ID) in order to check in. If you have a credit card in your name, and as long as you don't look super-young, you might have no problems at all.
If you want to pay cash -- it probably won't work.
If you have a credit card, it's worth trying.
Or you could stay at a hotel where you never have to interact with a human in order to check in, such as Yotel NYC.
Both of my children have had issues renting hotel rooms in Canada - the US has similar rules - while under 21. Twice my youngest was stranded far from home with a credit card and the hotel had a policy forbidding him to rent a room. One place called us, and with our consent allowed it, the other (further away) did not but let him and his friends hang out in the lobby for 3 hours while his father drove there to get him. I redeemed an award stay for my oldest and made special arrangements in advance that it would be ok even though she was a few days shy of 21, and they still attempted to turn her away, but when I called the manager it was allowed. Both kids had credit cards in their own names.
This is worth checking out in advance. Call or email hotels and try to get it settled and booked in advance.


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I would like to record an output of a program with PulseAudio using command line/bash script. It is important not to record every output of the sound card, but only the one of one specific program. I thought I would have to create a new null-sink and than move the programs output to this new sink. Than tell parec to use this specific monitor to record. The first step would be something like this:
pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=steam
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December 22, 2013 / Category: Innovation
You love getting in a solid cardio workout, but sometimes it gets boring. Who likes staring at a wall for the duration of a 5k on the treadmill?
September 20, 2013 / Category: Innovation
You may have noticed that the display console of your favorite exercise machine has some curious cords or ports that you have no idea what to do with – until now.
Many machines offer options for you to sync your mobile device with the machine while you're exercising, which can take your phone beyond its typical duties of simply playing music.
So here are some amazing ways you can connect your phone whether at home with the new Platinum Club Series, a treadmill with a touch screen TV console, or at your favorite facility with the Elevation Series with Discover Tablet Consoles.
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Congratulations to Life Fitness President Chris Clawson for winning the 2013 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Midwest Region. Chris shares this honor with his predecessor, Life Fitness co-founder Augie Nieto, and former Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Award recipient. The awards are the culminating event of the Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum, the nation's most prestigious gathering of high-growth, market-leading companies.
When Chris Clawson took on the role of Life Fitness President in 2010, he wanted to return the company to its roots as innovators and industry leaders. His first move was to position Life Fitness as tech leaders in the fitness industry, while also creating products that would dictate the market, as opposed to react to it. Under his leadership, Life Fitness introduced a wave of ground-breaking tech advancements in the fitness industry, including the Discover Tablet Consoles and LFopen, the industry's first and only truly open product platform.


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Musical memories of Mr. Lange
The Jan. 17 passing of music virtuoso Michael Trentalange, or Mr. Lange to his students, is yet another tempus fugit marker for us baby boomers. Hundreds of Greater Waterbury parochial school students learned to play musical instruments from Lange Music Co. on East Main Street during the 1950s and '60s. Mickey Lange, his brother John (who owned the adjacent Trent Grocery store) and clarinetist Teddy DeCorso conducted the $1-per-half-hour sessions.
It was 1960, at St. Mary's School. I took clarinet lessons on Fridays at Lange Music, and my sixth-grade teacher, Sister Louise de Salles, noticed my clarinet case. Although I was just beginning to learn how to play the instrument, Sister Louise ordered me to play something for the class. I blew a few crude, primitive notes to snickering classmates. Adding insult to mortification, Sister Louise joked that it sounded like Scovill's factory whistle. The class broke up with laughter.
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We all know that après ski activities consist of sipping hot chocolate next to a roaring fire in a Navajo-print jacket, but what about avant (before) ski? Skiing and snowboarding are physically demanding sports and optimal conditions occur at high elevations (less oxygen) and in cold temperatures, but it's also fun and a great way to get your heart rate up during those winter months. Whether you are a Blue Circle bunny or a Double Black Diamond Slalom, uh, mogul, you may want to do some 'pre-season training' to prepare before you hit the slopes, focusing on these four areas:


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1951 Ford F-1 - Rightfully Re-restoredWritten by on November 1, 2009 Gordon McGilton's '51 F-1
When it comes to building a truck, it's always easy to pick out the guys who have experience in having done it before as opposed to the guys who are doing it for the first time simply by asking what it is that they're starting with. Having said that, this really only applies to the guys who set out to build a truck at a level of completion like Gordon McGilton has done with his '51 Ford F-1. Those guys who are building workhorses or primered hot rod trucks aren't concerned with every panel being straight and the sheetmetal in perfect virgin shape. Patina is oftentimes the name of that game; the more distressed the more impressed. But if one's setting out to build a five-star truck, those with experience know that the better the foundation, the better the end result.
Gordon is no newcomer to the truck game, having built nearly 100 trucks over the years when he owned a shop in Southern California. He's always had a soft spot for the second-generation Ford F-1s. He owns a half dozen currently and when he saw an ad for a restored '51 Ford pickup in the classifieds section in a freebie paper in northern Washington, he just couldn't help but call the owner and get the story behind the truck. As he had hoped, it was too good to be true and not long after the transaction was made, the restored Flareside was on its way to Chris Odom's Extreme Metal and Paint in Anacortes, Washington, to be disassembled and stripped down to bare metal.
The first step in the build process was to box the entire chassis in anticipation of the Flat Out Engineering Corvette C4 suspension kit. The stock suspension was disassembled and set aside-no doubt as backup bits to one of Gordon's other trucks-before the framerails were strengthened and the new crossmembers added. The Corvette suspension components were then bolted up hub-to-hub, including the stock rack-and-pinion. RideTech Shockwaves replaced the stock Vette devices and allowed Gordon to adjust the height of the F-1 from in the weeds to an appropriate ride height. A set of Foose billet wheels shod in BFG radials completed the rolling chassis affairs.
To power the hauler, Gordon had Chris install a GM Performance Parts Chevy ZZ3 crate engine backed by a 200-4R transmission. A Barry Grant Six-Shooter induction system was added to give the motor a decidedly more hot rod vibe, while a Billet Specialties Tru-Trac serpentine pulley system was added to tuck the Powermaster alternator, power steering pump, and Vintage Air A/C compressor nice and tight against the block.
Outside, Chris massaged a number of the body panels. The rear fenders were moved forward 2 inches and the running boards were extended forward to meet the bottom of the front wheelwells, which were completely reworked. A careful eye will notice that the openings are identical to those of the rear and have been lowered to allow the reveal to continue uninterrupted to the front of the fender. This exaggerates the lowered stance of the F-1 even further. Chris then set out by rubbing every square inch smooth before spraying it in Glasurit Black.
The truck was then sent over to Paul Atkins' upholstery shop in Hanceville, Alabama, where every interior panel was custom fabricated before being covered in black leather. That silver material covering the inserts on the door panels above the one-off armrests as well as those on the custom-formed seat is stock upholstery material from a '57 Chevy. Chris also had his hand in on the interior portion of the cab, having reworked the dash, combining the glovebox door and ashtray resulting in one long glovebox door, as well as lowering it to allow the custom, one-piece dash trim to continue across the face of the dash. Where the stock gauges once sat, Chris installed a pair of Classic Instruments items that keep a close eye on engine management. Above the Vintage Air climate controls is the stock speaker grille that now functions as a center A/C vent. Circular side vents are at opposite ends of the dash. An ididit Inc. tilt column and a Lecarra '40 Ford-style wheel complete the interior accoutrement.
For a man who's built hundreds of cars in his life, many of which were trucks, Gordon maintains that the '51-52 Ford F-1 pickups are among his most favorite. And this is coming from a guy who has a '65 Corvair with a Joe Mondello-built 455ci Olds Toronado stuffed behind the seat, a former factory racer '63 Pontiac Catalina with a 455, and a handful of other equally mind-boggling hot rods, muscle cars, and pick 'em ups. When we asked Gordon if he's ever owned anything other than classic American tin, he just smiled and said that he was a hot rodder through and through and that the pompous, ego-driven sports car crowd just didn't get his low-key, T-shirt and jeans attitude. Gordon, we totally get it!


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Frequently Asked Questions About Pregnancy
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Your Body with Baby
Why do I feel so hot and sweaty?
Your metabolism works overtime during pregnancy. Your body is burning more calories, and as a result, you often feel warm. An increase in blood supply to the surface of your skin, as well as hormones, all have an effect on how hot you feel. Keep cool by dressing in natural fibers and layering clothes so that you can always cool off by removing a layer. Hop in the shower; pat on a little talcum powder afterwards. You may need to change antiperspirants if your normal brand isn't working. To avoid dehydration as your body is working hard to burn calories and produce more blood, drink plenty of water.
I have splotches of discolored skin on my face and abdomen. Is this normal?
Yes. Pregnancy hormones can cause hyperpigmentation of your skin, which makes certain areas of your skin (most commonly around the forehead, nose, cheeks, abdomen, and areolas) to darken. These discolored spots are usually dark on light-skinned women and light on dark-skinned women. Don't worry, though-these discolored patches will fade and eventually go away after your baby is born.
Does intercourse hurt the baby?
Unless you have a high-risk pregnancy, you are not going to harm your baby by having sex. Sex is quite safe in a normal pregnancy. Vaginal bleeding, a history of miscarriage or premature labor, or a diagnosis of placental problems are good reasons to restrict intercourse, however. During the last month before your due date, you also should proceed with caution. Ask your practitioner if you have any concerns.
I'm getting varicose veins in my legs. Is this common in pregnancy?
The hair-fine marks, also known as spider veins, usually appear on the lower legs and are caused when increased blood volume and pressure damage the valves that regulate blood flow up out of the blood vessels of the legs. The result is pooled blood in the vein and that telltale squiggly red or blue line.
Supportive stockings, putting your feet up, resting on your left side, and taking an occasional walk when you need to stand for long periods of time may relieve leg soreness associated with varicose veins.
How can I tell whether I am experiencing morning sickness or something more serious?
If you vomit more than three or four times a day, are hardly able to keep any food down, lose weight, feel very tired and dizzy, and urinate less than usual, you may have something more serious than run-of-the-mill morning sickness-specifically, you may be suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). Additional symptoms include increased heart rate, headaches, and pale, dry-looking skin. It is important to diagnose and treat HG as soon as possible, so contact your doctor if you feel any of these symptoms or feel that your morning sickness is more serious.
How do I know if I'm doing Kegel exercises right?
If you are doing Kegels correctly, you will not be tightening other muscles like your buttocks or thighs. You will be isolating this internal muscle and not straining other ones in the process.
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I was cutting up a mango, when I noticed some black threads inside.
What are those?
They are quite tough, brown-black, about an inch long (2.5 cm). I've got a picture.
It's an indication that the fruit has started to rot:
Edit: Yes, the above is probably being overcautious in stating "any black fibers? → trash!" It's from a "Dummies" book after all. ;) I couldn't really find another good reference. But I'm sure you can make the distinction between a piece of fruit that has a small brown spot and one that's black and shriveled. Still, the color of the fibers is a result of the late ripening/rotting process of the mango, rather than a result of an earlier stage in its growth. But having eaten this mango with the one, tiny black fiber shown in her picture, I don't really expect to read Mien's obituary on this site tomorrow. ;)
I believe some mangos do that in early stages of over-ripening (similar to how an avocado does that). I usually cut around them and keep eating.
Black streaks in mango. Please read the following articles from www.abc.net.au:
These articles identify the presence of well delineated black veins in otherwise good, fresh mango as a "disease" of the fruit. It turns out that this is caused by the mango trees lacking sufficient fertilizer.


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2010.next: a better netbook for meetings
By sch on Sep 24, 2009
I recently borrowed one of the 10" netbooks that came out this year, and tested Build 123 on it. Here's a shot of Toshiba's sleek black NB205 displaying a clean Device Driver Utility run.
The NB205 has a keyboard on par with the r500 I use
regularly—large for a netbook—and has a superior trackpad.
Suspend-resume is reliable;
compiz runs well; the extra vertical inch
means fewer application compromises over last year's netbook crop. (For
instance, rather than rearranging panel to the sides, use of
gnome-panel's auto-hide feature is enough to let applications run well
when maximized.)
If I don't have to give it back, it'll be my new "netbook for meetings".
Netbook styling credit to Dave Powell.
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Each year on this free 45-minute call, approximately 400 listeners have joined us, with many more listening together in counseling centers, domestic violence shelters, meeting rooms, at school and at home; each year our numbers continue to grow. This is a very special time for us to come together in observance of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month to:
This year's call will feature the story of Christi Paul, NHH Headline News Anchor. Ms. Paul is a survivor of domestic violence and recently published author of a very inspiring and empowering book, Love Isn't Supposed to Hurt. She has a powerful voice and she uses it to help others in need, particularly children, as a Board of Directors member with Safe Kids Georgia and as an ambassador for Liz Claiborne's Love Is Not Abuse. Registration is FREE. Upon registering, you will receive two confirmation emails; one will ask you to "print your ticket and bring it to the event." Please print your ticket for the call-in details, but you do not need to bring it to the event. You can participate from any location using a landline or mobile phone.
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Recent and archived news articles by Bill Carter of The New York Times.
Behind the Scenes of 'Today,' 'This Morning' and 'Good Morning America'
In the dark hours of the morning, some of television's biggest celebrities are already rolling out into the streets of the city that never sleeps.
December 29, 2014, Monday
Goodbye, Nation. Goodbye, Blowhard Self.
After nine years nurturing his TV persona of a conservative talk show host, Stephen Colbert will bid farewell to the other Stephen Colbert on Thursday.
December 17, 2014, Wednesday
NBC Extends Contract of Brian Williams for 'Nightly News'
Mr. Williams continues to win the ratings battle virtually every week among total viewers, averaging over nine million viewers a night, the program's best total in almost a decade.
December 16, 2014, Tuesday
'Late Late Show With James Corden' Adds Staff for March Debut
The new CBS show will have Reggie Watts as its band leader, and is hiring producers from other late-night shows.
December 13, 2014, Saturday
Letterman's 'Late Show' Scheduled to End in May
Mr. Letterman, who is retiring, had a 32-year run on NBC and CBS, the longest tenure of any late-night host in television history.
December 11, 2014, Thursday
HBO's 'The Newsroom' Draws Backlash Over Rape Plot
An episode of "The Newsroom" on HBO has generated a backlash against an argument that some critics found disparaged the credibility of rape victims.
December 9, 2014, Tuesday
'Peter Pan' Is No 'Sound of Music' but Still Draws a Crowd to NBC
The live musical, starring Allison Williams, drew about nine million viewers, about half the audience for the live version of "Sound of Music" with Carrie Underwood.
December 6, 2014, Saturday
Nancy Snyderman to Return to 'Today' After Ebola Quarantine Flap
The appearance will end an extended absence by Dr. Snyderman, who drew a chorus of criticism for breaking a self-imposed quarantine after returning from Liberia.
December 3, 2014, Wednesday
Jimmy Fallon's Name Goes on 30 Rock Marquee
The marquee, consistent with the building's Art Deco architecture, announces that it is home to "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon."
November 25, 2014, Tuesday
Mike Nichols, Urbane Director Loved by Crowds and Critics, Dies at 83
One of America's most decorated directors, Mr. Nichols had a protean résumé of critic- and crowd-pleasing work, including "The Graduate" in film and "The Odd Couple" on stage.
November 21, 2014, Friday
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Suggest me a good, free, open source, downloadable web application in php to make a good website for a organization or group having more than one member. Only administrator(s) can change the content of the website. Please do not suggest me any forum/blog applications like WordPress, phpBB etc.
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Use one of the better-supported open-source CMSes for this reason.
I would suggest either Drupal or Joomla, both written in PHP. I am a strong Drupal fan, but Joomla has a lot of supporters as well.
Just some main bullet-points from the website of Drupal to show how versatile/powerful it is:


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The City of Nebraska City has declared a snow emergency starting tonight, Jan. 30 at 10 p.m.
All vehicles should be off the designated streets starting at 9 pm. All City parking lots have been cleared and are available for parking.
This snow emergency will last until 6 a.m. on Thursday, Jan 31.
Six inches of snow fell at Nebraska City this morning, closing schools and putting snowplows to work for the second major snow event this winter.
A Mobile Threatnet satellite map shows Nebraska City in the two inch range.
Snowfall totals include:
11 inches at Broken Bow
5.9 inches at Grand Island
4-6 inches at Lincoln
6 inches at Auburn
7 inches at Tecumseh
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