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Students at a local school, were spreading holiday cheer to those in need today, as part of an annual service project.
The third and fourth graders at Holy Trinity Lutheran School didn't celebrate Christmas by exchanging gifts. Instead, they chose to do a project together that helps others.
This year one of the students Christen White, suggested they help the Salvation Army soup kitchen and the students voted.
"We chose salvation army, so we're here to serve people and wish them a Merry Christmas," said Holy Trinity Lutheran School Student Trinity Rose.
"We're glad we came today so we could meet some new people and make some new friends," said Holy Trinity Lutheran School Student Ava Johnson.
White's grandmother volunteers at the soup kitchen and it made her want to help, too.
At the kitchen, the students helped serve food, clean and prepare tables, and sang Christmas carols for those who came to eat.


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Select the right running shoe to protect your feet
"It can be a little bit intimidating when you're new to running or trying to find a new shoe," said Ed Griffin, owner of specialty running store Fleet Feet Sports Syracuse in Syracuse, N.Y. Throughout his 12 years in the business, he's seen the importance of making the process as approachable as possible.
This is important because a properly fitting shoe is essential to avoid injuries. "There are a lot of ways to injury yourself running, but not having a proper shoe that supports you in the right way can put excess strain on the body," explained sports podiatrist and doctor of podiatric medicine Cary Zinkin. He said that he sees many clients in his practice develop injuries such as plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendonitis and stress fractures from poor-fitting or overused shoes. (A standard running shoe lifetime, he says, ranges somewhere between 300 and 500 miles.)
As a runner himself, Zinkin knows firsthand the importance of a good shoe fit. "You can wear any clothes you want, but you have to have the best shoe. That's your equipment," he says.
If you're new to running or have never been properly fitted for a shoe, get an analysis of your foot type and size. Zinkin recommends heading to a specialty shoe store for this and warns against the convenience of online shoe shopping. "Don't do it," he said. "Even if you've had your feet measured in the past, both shoe models and feet measurements can change." As you age or gain weight, he notes, your feet may also increase in size.
According to Stephen Pribut, a doctor of podiatric medicine and past president of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine, runners should generally go one size larger than their standard shoe size and may actually have different size feet. Time of day also matters when shoe shopping. Pribut suggests going at the end of the day when feet have expanded, or around the time of day you normally run.
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"If the sales person isn't asking you any questions about what you've done or what you'll be doing, find a different place to buy your shoes," said Griffin. To share your history, he recommends bringing your old pair to the store for sales personnel to investigate, as the shoe can tell the story of your running style and foot shape. "Often individuals have a problem with their existing shoe - it may not fit right, may not have the right function or may have specific wear patterns," he explained.
Confused about manufacturer shoe categories? You're in good company. "The industry just made up a bunch of words to describe their shoe lines," said Pribut. "Everyone has their own meaning for the terms."
According to Victor Ornelas, FIT Manager with Fleet Feet, who helps develop the fitting process for the company's franchise locations, there are three common categories manufacturers use: cushion, stability and motion control.
Cushion, also called neutral, is designed for a stable foot with normal pronation. Stability will offer a dense material on the inside of the shoe and is best for overpronation. Motion control often has a denser material that's often reinforced to have more stability for excessive overpronation. These features range among manufacturers and styles, however, and should be considered with the shoe's last (or shape).
But, as Ornelas notes: "The fitting process is as much of an art as it is a science, and individuals should feel comfortable in the shoe." This means you need to spend a significant amount of time in the shoe before buying it. Pribut recommends spending at least 10 minutes in the shoe. Zinkin suggests taking the pair for a test run. If you run outdoors, this means a jog around the block. If you run on a treadmill, check for a store that has one.
And remember that you should try many different shoe types before settling on a pair. As Griffin noted, "Don't worry: No one is judging you. Feet are unique - and just like eyeglasses, you need to try out different options to get the feel right."
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5 Movies That Cause Gaping Plot Holes in Their Own Sequels
Remember how the first Terminator film was all "Only organic matter, guys," and in the second film they were all like "Fuck it, knife hands" for, like, no explained reason at all? All of that man ass for nothing, thanks to a sequel-induced plot hole.
But that's not the only case of a sequel raising more questions than it answers. In fact, some sequels only exist by feeding off the carcass of the original's now-mangled plot ...
#5. The Police Totally Should Know Who Batman Is at the Beginning of The Dark Knight Rises
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Sure, Heath Ledger was an excellent Joker, but the real tour de force performance in The Dark Knight had to be this guy:
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Pretty smug for an office drone.
This is Coleman Reese, the little turd in the second film who not only manages to learn Batman's secret identity, but also tries to batmail him for millions of bat dollars.
While that doesn't exactly work out for the guy, once the Joker holds Gotham hostage for the Bat's true identity, Reese musters up the weenie courage to go on national TV announcing his revelation about the man behind the cowl. Before he's able to pull the curtain, however, plot gets in the way when the Joker changes his mind and puts a bounty on Reese's head instead of the Bat's, causing a shit show that ends in Reese getting taken into police custody.
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"I just made some pieces."
And while Batman helps keep Reese out of the grave, he goes on to kill Gotham's beloved but secretly evil Harvey Dent, making him the number one most wanted asshole of Gotham City, since he also gets blamed for every terrible thing Dent did during his short rampage as Two-Face.
But in the Sequel ...
The Dark Knight Rises opens eight years after the second film. Bruce Wayne has retired, and Batman remains the most wanted criminal of Gotham ... because for some reason nobody thought to ask the guy who claimed to know who he was.
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"We were gonna interrogate him, but no one wanted to be locked in a room with that wiener."
In fact, they never mention Coleman Reese again. What exactly happened to him? Did they just let him go? He's the only person who knows the identity of the bat-masked man who went on a murder spree that included at least one cop and the city's freaking district attorney. Even if Reese -- the guy who was trying to blackmail Bruce Wayne at the beginning -- for some reason decided not to rat on a wanted murderer, how would he even manage to walk down the street at that point without every single cop and criminal gunning for him?
But honestly, when a lawyer working for the richest man in Gotham suddenly comes out with the fact that he knows who Batman is, you'd literally have to put in effort to not connect the dots at that point.
#4. Everyone Forgets About the Key Technology Between Tron Movies
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As we previously pointed out, the entire Tron series is centered on characters completely ignoring the fact that they have a laser that could potentially solve all of the world's problems and instead use it to play frolf in a discotheque. As seen in the first film, our hero, Flynn (The Dude), discovers that a laser being tested and used to digitize inanimate objects can also do the same thing to people. Then he himself is lasered into the computer world to fight with sentient programs conveniently living out an allegory for religion.
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Until Flynn, this orange was their god.
But in the Sequel ...
Flynn is introduced seven years after he gets out of the computer in the first film. He runs the company and now has a son whom he regales every night with stories of his adventures on the "grid."
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"Eh, fuck it, close enough." -CGI artists
After that, Flynn vanishes -- as in he gets trapped in his own creation using the laser from the original film -- and no one knows where he went. Because apparently sometime between the first and second films Flynn was able to take a laser that used to fill two floors of his company ...
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... and was observed by dozens if not scores of employees ...
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... and tucked it away in an arcade basement.
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It'll be safest in the hands of the 16-year-old seasonal arcade employees.
Because once you learn that computer programs feel feelings and believe in gods, the best course of action is to not tell anyone about it. Even Flynn's partner, Alan, has no freaking clue what happened to his pal or any semblance of what he was up to all these years ... despite knowing where Flynn was the night he had his revelation, and that the company he works for houses a giant digitizing laser.
When Flynn came back from Neverland that first time around, did Alan not even bother to ask what happened, or did Flynn just randomly lie to his best friend about the biggest discovery of mankind? How did he even get that laser into the cramped basement without help? Did he build a new one completely from scratch, along with an ultra-modern console? There's literally no option that doesn't involve murdering all of the workers, Batman-style.
#3. Men in Black 3's Central Plot Completely Voids the First Two Films
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The MIB is a highly trained organization devoted to protecting Earth from comically grotesque or oddly hot alien life by recruiting wisecracking rookies or emotionally distant curmudgeons or talking dogs. It's a formula that actually appears to be working out for them, as all three films involve them managing to save the globe from near annihilation.
First you have the Arquillians, a tiny race dwelling in robot faces with a love for pirogies despite having no possible ability to consume them.
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You'd think alien technology would use a touchscreen instead of a clusterfuck of steampunk levers.
They fire upon Earth and threaten to blow it up unless they get a tiny galaxy in the form of cat jewelry. Next up in MIB 2 we meet Serleena, a hentai wet dream that crashes on the planet, only to wreck up the place. The point is, basically all of MIB's problems are shit-tempered aliens showing up wanting crap in exchange for not exploding the world.
But in the Sequel ...
The most recent installment happens when a villain of the comically grotesque variety travels back in time to 1969 to kill Josh Brolin as Tommy Lee Jones before he is able to send something called the ArcNet into space -- an "impenetrable shield" designed to protect Earth from anything aliens might throw at them. A shield that, according to the film, Earth absolutely had at the time the first two movies took place.
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The rings don't do anything, but 1969 law required all sci-fi technology to have kickass ellipses.
In other words, it completely negates the threats of the first two movies.
Once they got that ArcNet up there (again, said to have happened in 1969), there's no reason that the Arquillians should have been able to fire on the planet, right? That's what an "impenetrable shield" does -- it goddamn shields things, impenetrably.
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So THIS the shield can ward off, but not a race of aliens the size of mice?
How does anything with hostile intent get on the planet? Shouldn't the first two movies just be two hours of dudes in suits laughing while watching satellite images of shit smacking into a giant force field that's been around since the Apollo era?


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Some 1,350 employees and contractors at ExxonMobil's Baytown chemical plant were recognized for safety performance in more than 5 million work hours in 2011 and 2012 with no recordable injuries.
The ExxonMobil chemical plant in Baytown,
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"Operational excellence is the foundation of ExxonMobil's
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Some 1,350 employees and contractors at the ExxonMobil plant
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recorded injuries.
"Baytown has an exceptional safety culture that is built on
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personnel and process safety activities. Our safety culture has
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ExxonMobil Chemical, one of the largest chemical companies
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surrounding their operations," said AFPM president Charles T.
The ExxonMobil Baytown site, which includes an
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Fast, maneuverable, and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century and fought in many battles. This book recounts the most significant and unusual actions in their history. From torpedo boat-destroyer actions by the Japanese against the Russian fleet in 1904 through the two world wars, to the Falkland Islands in 1982 and the attack in 2000 on USS Cole, the author paints a vivid picture of their hard-fought battles. With individual chapters devoted to each incident, the book may be read as a series of dramatic narratives, but, taken as a whole, it provides a sweeping history of destroyer warfare from an unusual angle.
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Hesperus resident Ronald Edward Gaddie died of lung cancer Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012, at his home. He was 63.
Mr. Gaddie was born to Avery and Beth Gaddie on March 4, 1949, in Grand Island, Neb. He graduated from Grand Island High School and later attended trade school in Denver.
After moving to Durango in 1977, he met his future wife, Kathy Motsinger, at Purgatory Ski Area, now Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort, that same year.
�After being friends for several years, they became partners in life,� his family said.
The couple married on Oct. 6, 1983, in Durango. They are raising their granddaughter, Josie A. Rose.
Mr. Gaddie started his owner-operated trucking business, which was successful for many years.
He was an avid fisherman who loved the mountains, his family said.
Mr. Gaddie is survived by his wife and companion of 33 years, Kathy Gaddie of Hesperus; daughter, Kassie E. Gaddie of Waco, Texas; mother and stepfather, Beth E. Gaddie Moroney and Tom Moroney of Grand Island; and one granddaughter.
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC – The 49ers completed their play at Wake Forest Invitational.
In A1 singles consolation bracket, Charlotte's Jack Williams defeated Davidson's Ricky Saad, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.
In A2 singles consolation bracket, Charlotte's Forrest Edwards was leading Stetson's Simon Julian, 6-1, when Julian retired.
In B1 singles consolation bracket, Charlotte's Alex Calott defeated Iowa's Dom Patrick, 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-4, in the semifinals. Then, he lost to Duke's TJ Para, 6-7 (1), 6-1, 10-7, in the Finals.
In C1 singles consolation bracket, Charlotte's Paul Cisti defeated Liberty's Stan Vaughn, 6-3, 1-6, 7-5.
In C2 singles consolation bracket, Charlotte's Carl Solik lost to East Carolina's Ross Nigro, 6-0, 6-2.
In D1 singles, Charlotte's Alex Weber lost to Davidson's Evan Watkins, 6-2, 6-4.
In A doubles consolation bracket, Charlotte's Williams and Edwards defeated Stetson's Espe and Julien, 8-7 (2). Then, they lost to Wake Forest's Ho and Bloom, 8-3.
In B doubles, Charlotte's Jordi Massalle Ferrer and Weber lost to UNC Greensboro's Phillips and Smith, 8-4, in the semifinals.
In C doubles consolation bracket, Charlotte's Francis Pare and Paul Cisti were trailing Stetson's Antopika and Kapukiran, 6-2, when they retired.
In D boules, Charlotte's Calott and Solik defeated Elon's Sablik and Gaeslen, 8-4, in the semifinals. Calott and Solik lost to East Carolina's Morris and Holvoet, 8-6, in the finals.
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It seems most countries have a national drink – these are the kind of bottles that are bought on holiday and go dusty in the cupboard only to be pulled out for drinking games at parties years later. One of the most iconic national drinks of all time is of course Tequila.
Tequila, as we all know, has a bad reputation as being that party drink, that led to that night, and many have avoided exploring this infamous spirit unless forced to by a friend who is swaying on the spot with a party hat on his head screaming, "SHOT!". However, if this is the case, Tequila's rustic cousin Mezcal should pique your interest. "What is a Mezcal?" I hear you ask. Well take a seat and I will tell you a story.
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I have samba-shared directories and I want to know what exactly someone have download from it.
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You can increase the logging level to show more detailed information. So just keep increasing the level until you have information that is detailed enough for your needs.


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The beautifully designed Ban Hin Kiong Temple in the heart of Manado's China Town is 335 years old and is the oldest Chinese temple built here during the Qing Dynasty era in China (1644-1911). It is a house of worship for the Tridharma followers from Manado and the region.
The name Ban Hin Kiong consists of three words, Ban meaning "plenty", Hin meaning "abundant favors" and Kiong meaning "palace". Therefore, Ban Hin Kiong means a holy palace that exudes much happiness. At Ban Hin Kiong, a number of annual events are held every Chinese New Year and at Goan Siao or Cap Go Meh.
Since the temple is located in Manado's city center, you can find many hotels to stay, from three-star hotels to smaller accommodation. It takes only about 15 to 20 minutes to reach this temple from any part of Manado.
It is best to visit the temple in February during Chinese New Year and Cap Go Meh celebrations. Various attractive performances and parades are held for the local community and for tourists.
This red temple looks elegant and attractive with ornaments on all sides. The ornaments are symbols that depict the holy message about the creation of the sky, the earth and human beings. Together they represent the image of God in all his virtues in one integrated, harmonized and complete totality.
On the rear wall you will find carved paintings. The central panel shows a child who is trying to pick a fruit with an old man standing beside him. This symbol means that anyone who plants will enjoy its fruits. There are many other meaningful symbols that remind us about God's powers.
Visitors are allowed to enter the praying area of the Tridharma followers in this three-story building, but must take off their shoes at the front entrance.
The Ban Hin Kiong Temple is located at D.I. Panjaitan Street in Manado, which is the center of the city's China Town where are found many shrines and temples, homes and interesting markets run by Chinese. The temple is strategically located and is easily reached by public transport, by mikrolet or taxis. Visitors can also rent a car or motorcycle to tour China Town.


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People all across the country celebrated the 62nd National Day of Prayer.
And in Logan County, several came out to take part in prayer on the Court of Justice steps.
Coordinators for the event say it's important to keep this tradition going in Logan County.
"It's given to us by our country as a national holiday and the reason we do it is because god put it on our hearts. It's a calling that he has given us," says coordinator, Debbie Timberlake.
Sen. Rand Paul and a representative from Congressman Ed Whitfield's office took part in Russellville's National Day of Prayer ceremony.


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I have Nikon D7000 with 18-105 mm lens. One day around noon outside I tried to dial in 1/4000 shutter speed in Shutter Priority mode at 18 mm f/3.5. The exposure meter was telling me my image is going to be underexposed. I tried to increase the ISO to its maximum value but still exposure meter was not balanced. So I am wondering at what combination of ISO and f-stop I can use such or more faster shutter speeds.
The meter is for manual mode. Ignore it if you're in shutter or aperture priority.
It may blink Lo at you if it thinks it's too dark, or pop up the flash, but just give it a try and see what you get. You were probably fine to shoot
Sunny 16 Rule says on a sunny day, at f/16, shutter ought to be reciprocal of ISO.
Your exposure gets basically determined by three things:
These three properties together determine the amount of stops. There are tables as a general guideline for how many stops you need under certain circumstances. One example is given here.. According to this table, the most common bright daylight setting equals the number 15. On this same page is a table which shows which settings you need to use for which f-stop number.
This table says that for bright sunlight you can achieve 1/4000 at ISO200 F/4.


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#2. Charles Goodyear Invented Vulcanized Rubber, Rubber Condoms
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Charles Goodyear makes it easy to remember what he invented, since a popular tire brand still bears his name. Early on in life, he became obsessed with turning very brittle natural rubber into a more durable and therefore useful product. It took him until 1844, after more than a decade of attempts that included constant failure, near-death scrapes, friends deeming him delusional, extreme poverty and a brief stint in jail.
You could call it ... a particularly bad time of his life.
Finally Goodyear perfected the vulcanization process by, possibly accidentally, mixing sulfur with natural rubber. The process would prove revolutionary and go on to be used in everything from airplane wheels and life jackets to shoes and watches.
The Sex:
Before the 19th century, if you happened to get lucky with the opposite sex or were in desperate need of a toe warmer, you'd have probably found yourself grasping for the nearest piece of animal intestine, weasel testicles or, if you were lucky enough -- and Japanese enough -- a nice tortoise shell to prevent any unwanted STDs.
Bet the tortoise didn't see that coming.
Goodyear knew that with his rubber innovation, he had something better.
Goodyear's rubber condoms were not as sure-fitting as today's contraceptives. In fact, they only covered the head, but did have the bonus of being more cost effective and reusable ... which must have done wonders for 19th century venereal diseases.
That's right. It's a dick bag.
They were also not quite as flexible as would have been desired, so people had to go to their doctor to get measured, which is exactly what every man wants ... to have his dick rated for size by a man in a position of power.
Three nights is coincidentally the amount of time it takes to get an erection afterward.
Goodyear didn't just stop with condoms -- rubber diaphragms were also on the patent books, as was an early form of the douche bag.
Being an eccentric inventor and not a businessman, he profited little from his inventions and wound up back in prison in Paris in 1855 after getting himself into debt again. He did receive some recognition when the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was named after him, and he was also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1976 for his role as a visionary inventor. Doesn't appear that they mentioned the condom thing.
There would be a pretty bad housing shortage if it wasn't for one man and his dedication to boning.
#1. Hamilton Beach Makes Kitchen Appliances, First Vibrator
The Geniuses:
Odds are that you have at least one Hamilton Beach device in your kitchen right now. Your coffee maker, or blender, or toaster - if it runs on electricity and can be used in the home, they make it.
Also, we're coming over for pizza.
The company was formed by inventors Chester Beach and L. H. Hamilton more than a century ago, and the ladies have them to thank for one more invention ...
The Sex:
They also invented the very first commercially available electric penis substitute, way back in 1902.
If you're wondering what people used before that, the first vibrators were initially wonderfully inefficient, cumbersome objects that could just as easily have been mass torture devices as sex aids. Or both.
It looks like something you'd use to breach a castle's wall.
They were the exclusive property of doctors, because this was an era when the female orgasm was treated as a medical oddity that should only be left to professionals (considered a treatment to calm down "hysterical" women). Then, Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Beach brought the world this:
It came with its own handy carrier case for the frustrated businesswoman.
If you're thinking, "Wait, 1902? I didn't even know they had electric anything back then!" you're actually almost right. Showing that humanity really did have its priorities straight, the vibrator was just the fifth patented electrical appliance ever. It came just after the sewing machine, but about a decade before the vacuum cleaner and electric iron. For those interested, they can still be bought on eBay.
Yep, a 300-page instruction booklet sounds about right.
Not that you'll find any of this on the Hamilton Beach website. Among the pictures of soup and coffee machines there is not a single mention of the landmark lady lover.
That's okay, HB. We'll give you credit.
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#5. Pink Floyd's Real Backward Message
Putting backward messages into music (also known as "backmasking") was all the rage back in the 80s -- and by "all the rage" we mean "the subject of congressional inquiries." Bands such as Judas Priest and Led Zeppelin were accused of including subliminal satanic mind-control messages in their songs, in what was undoubtedly one of the stupidest moral panics in American history.
We're beginning to think these guys may not be the best role models.
The "satanic messages," of course, were complete horseshit, because it's practically impossible to purposefully sing or speak something that is intelligible both forward and backward. This is why most of the alleged messages sound like the singer is having a seizure. But backmasking has been used intentionally by bands like The Beatles ... mostly because it sounds cool. They never meant to hide anything: it was done for purely aesthetic reasons.
Hundreds of pages of blotter acid counts as an aesthetic reason, right?
In 1979, Pink Floyd became the first popular band to include a reversed message that was actually intended to be hidden. On the first half of their classic album The Wall, the song "Empty Spaces" contains what sounds like mumbling when heard forward, but is actually muffled speech that reveals itself when reversed. Any concerned citizen desperate to find something to be outraged about must have gotten pretty excited when he reached that part ... until he heard what it says (turn your speakers way up):
"Hello, hunters. Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont--"
... and then the speaker is interrupted by a female voice saying someone is on the phone. Not exactly "DELIVER YOUR ANUS UNTO SATAN." We're afraid that's about as exciting as real instances of backmasking get -- unless you count grunge band Ash hiding an entire song on their debut album, Trailer. When reversed, pitch-shifted and sped up, the noise at the end of Track 5 actually turns out to be a demo track of another song on the album. What's so neat about that? The album was released in 1994, when the cost of the audio equipment and/or software to hear the song would have put it out of the reach of the vast majority of listeners. That's several layers of hidden. This would all be a whole lot more impressive if anyone actually knew or cared who Ash was.
These guys look more like the roadies than the band.
#4. Monty Python Album Makes You Question Your Sanity
Let's say you're listening to a record and you hear a track you like. In fact, you like it so much that you call some friends over to show them this amazing song. But then you play the record ... and the song isn't there. In fact, the whole record seems completely different from what you remember. Your friends laugh at you, your girlfriend leaves you, and your parents call you a disgrace. Eventually you're institutionalized and die from insanity.
That is literally the only way that scenario can play out.
That's probably (definitely) what happened to anyone who listened to Monty Python's Matching Tie & Handkerchief album (which, to add to your mental stress, did not always come with a tie or a handkerchief). One side of the album had two completely different sets of tracks, and you never knew which one you'd get until you played it. How was this possible? Well, for starters, you need to have the original vinyl version of the album, which requires being over 40 and/or a weirdo.
Lots of vinyl albums used lock grooves. That's when the needle reaches the end of the album and instead of, you know, ending, it keeps playing the last part in a loop. The Beatles did it with Sgt. Pepper's, which ended with a "sound designed to annoy your dog" and an endless loop of laughter and gibberish.
In case you were wondering why they'd do that.
But then there are double grooves, which is when the album's grooves are pressed in a way that makes it so you get a completely different set of tracks depending on where the needle lands. That's what Monty Python did, and the best part is that they didn't bother to tell anyone about it, creating real confusion in the audience. Also, the record sleeve didn't even list the album's tracks, presumably so that there was no fucking way you could prove to your friends that you weren't lying about what you heard. On top of that, both sides were labeled "Side 2," making things even more maddening.
We're fairly certain Graham Chapman was an Elder God.
Mr. Bungle later did something similar in Disco Volante: If you play the record from the beginning, you get the normal tracks, but if you drop the needle at a specific point in the middle, you can hear a secret song (as long as you have the U.S. vinyl version). But then again, chances are anyone listening to Mr. Bungle is already on drugs and won't think much of that.
#3. Led Zeppelin's Changing Album Art
On first look, the artwork to Led Zeppelin's In Through the Out Door is the most boring in their whole discography -- the front cover is just a photo of some guy sitting in a bar, and the inner sleeve shows crude black and white drawings of the contents of the table. Where are the naked aliens crawling through rocks? Where are the exploding zeppelins, bizarre obelisks and satanic references?
Why have they stopped trying to make us feel uncomfortable?!
But the album art is only boring on the surface ... literally. If you wash the inner sleeve with water, those lame black and white drawings become permanently colored. And since no one intentionally gets water on their albums, this means most people probably found out about this when his asshole roommate spilled bong water on it.
"Hey, what the fuck are you ... Whoa."
The artwork uses the same special watercolors employed by some coloring books, but the band never advertised or even mentioned this feature, so you could have owned the album for decades without realizing you could do this (as a simple eBay search reveals). And even then, most painted sleeves we could find are only partially colored, like the one above, probably because so many people had heart attacks shortly after discovering this.
#2. Public Enemy Hidden Track Gives Critics the Finger
You probably know about hidden songs at the end of a CD, typically after a long silence or multiple blank tracks. Some, like "Endless, Nameless" from Nirvana's Nevermind, are famous in their own right. On the final track of One for the Kids, Yellowcard has a hidden song that shows up only after a silence that lasts for exactly 4:20, because they're very subtle.
It isn't easy to find photos of Yellowcard concerts that aren't obscured by billowing clouds of blunt smoke.
Most are just good for scaring the shit out of you when you forget you left your CD player on and are starting to fall asleep. There are other ways to hide a song, though, like before the CD even starts.
Before the first track on any CD, there's a section of data called the pregap, which is typically used to store structuring data for the disc itself. But a few enterprising artists found a way to place audio in the pregap, which is like putting the salami on top of the bread. To access the pregap, you must go against your every instinct by pressing and holding the rewind button at the beginning of the first track, until it can't go back any further. This will often show a "-1" in the display window, with all the creepy associations that brings to Super Mario Bros. players.
Lots of bands have hidden stuff in the pregap, and they're not always limited to the first track, either. Progressive rock band Dream Theater hid instrumental intros on half the songs on their album Octavarium. Most pregap tracks are stuff like that -- short intros or band chatter -- but then there are bands who try to get more creative with it, like Public Enemy did in their 1994 album Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age.
Public Enemy is usually associated with old-school hip-hop, but in this album, Chuck D recorded and hid a full freestyle rap titled "Ferocious Soul," with lyrics mocking the critics who had accused the band of being "anti-black" for saying that gangster rap had negative messages, since it promotes unrealistic things like ridiculous wealth, being constantly surrounded by titties and owning insane amounts of jewelry (shaped like titties). Old-school hip-hop's lyrics were considered silly in comparison by rap fans.
Pictured: A far less silly representation of life in urban America.
And all you have to do to listen to this rare gem is press rewind. Simple, right? Well, it would be, if it wasn't for the fact that most pregap songs aren't accessible anymore. Nowadays, electronics manufacturers have to build their products to a standard known as Red Book audio, and pregap audio goes against those standards. As a result, the majority of stand-alone CD players and computer optical disc drives can't read pregap audio. ITunes and other media players won't recognize it and the tracks are typically not available for sale from online music retailers. On the upside, this means those tracks the artists meant to hide are really well-hidden now.
#1. Information Society Hides a Text File ... on Vinyl
Information Society is pretty much the definition of the one-hit wonder, with 1988's "What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)" basically being their only major single. So you probably don't give a fuck about some New Wave band -- we get that. We totally don't either.
Cracked offices, circa 1988.
But despite utterly failing in the hair and scarf department, they did do one amazing thing no other band managed to do: hide a text file on a vinyl record. On their 1992 release Peace and Love, Inc., the band included a track titled "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode or Ascii Download)." What probably seemed like a load of gibberish to most listeners was actually a set of instructions: If you take a standard modem, configure it with those settings, dial into it with a phone and play the track from the album into the receiver, you'll end up with a plaintext file detailing an insanely exaggerated story about the band being extorted by the Brazilian government. Here's a sample:
If this is as urgent as they say, you sort of question the logic of why they'd hide it in such an impossible-to-retrieve format. Most listeners at the time had no idea something like this was possible (shit, we live in 2010 and we didn't either), so even if they were computer-savvy enough to understand the title of the song, they probably thought it was an obscure joke.
"How do we make sure that only huge, huge nerds listen to our music?"
Before Information Society, other bands had used a similar method to encode stuff like lyric sheets, promotional information about the band and even a full adventure videogame in all its pixelated glory (you can play in your browser by clicking here). In those cases, you had to record the songs into an ordinary audio tape and then play the tape in a Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer to watch the results (provided your mom didn't yell at you while you were recording the audio, because then you were fucked). None of these were actually hidden, since they were all intentional and advertised features, but they're still pretty awesome.
Artists from decades ago were so much more productive. All we get out of Kanye are a bunch of retarded tweets.
And this.
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MATLAB offers a function polyeig for computing polynomial eigenvalues, which appear, for instance in quadratic eigenvalue problems (see here for some applications) such as:
\begin{equation} (M\lambda^2 + R\lambda + K)x =0 \end{equation}
where $M$, $R$ and $K$ are matrices. Any realistic way of accomplishing this in Mathematica? By realistic I mean one that actually employs specialized algorithms.
P.S. If anyone from Wolfram is reading this: any perspectives on whether this may appear in future releases of Mathematica?


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BRIDGEWATER - Two people were taken to the hospital and a tier 1 hazmat team was called in after an incident in Bridgewater Monday night.
Bridgewater Police Lt. Thomas Schlatz said "two kids were trashing their own vehicle and acting irrational" outside of the Cumberland Farms at 33 Main Street about 11 p.m. Monday night. He said they may have been on drugs.
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If we view the j-invariant of a lattice as a map from the upper-half plane to the complexes by $\tau\mapsto j([1,\tau])$, then it is surjective, holomorphic, and has quite a number of other wonderful properties (see the third part of Cox's Primes of the Form for a great introductory reference).
My question is: does $j$ have any fixed points? If so, do we know what any/all of them are?
I'm in particular curious what goes into the proof. Specifically, whether the answer is immediate from some complex analysis, or whether you need to have a good handle on $j$ itself (or both!). A professor I asked suggested thinking about $j(\tau)-\tau$ on the compactification of the fundamental domain of $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$, but we weren't able to clean it up.


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Tyler Zanco, 17, was found at about 10 p.m. Thursday, March 20, suffering from a gunshot wound in the parking lot of the Gardencrest Apartments complex at 31 Middlesex Circle, according to the Middlesex District Attorney's Office. He was taken to Newton-Wellesley Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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Songbridge is a new group at Noisebridge that meets Fridays 6:00PM-8:00PM in the Church classroom (The back room).
Songbridge is for song hacking: making music that hacks human minds and emotions. We cover multitrack recording using DAWs (digital audio workstations)
- Josh Hertel: email@example.com User:Jhertel242
- User:lxpk
Things to bring
- Laptops
- Music Software
- Mac-only: GarageBand
- Ableton Live
- Cubase
- Basically any software based multi-recording system.
Linux Music Production Distros
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- AV Linux http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html
- "...a full complement of the best Linux Audio and Video creation software encompassing both open-source excellence and commercial demos."
- KX Studio http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/
- "...a collection of applications, artwork and plugins, targeted at audio and video production."
- "A complete Live (GNU/LINUX) distribution for musicians and professionals studios based on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.4."
- Ubuntu Studio http://ubuntustudio.org/
- "...some of the most popular and recently updated audio software in the Linux world."
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A student at an eastern Kentucky school for dropouts has been charged in a complaint with threatening to kill two federal judges and a federal prosecutor.
The Lexington Herald-Leader reports a deputy U.S. marshal said in a sworn statement the student told a counselor he planned to shoot everyone involved in the prosecution of his father, who is serving prison time for possession of child pornography.
The student's age was unavailable, but court documents said he attended the Appalachian ChalleNGe Academy in Harlan County. The school is for 16- to 18-year-olds who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out of school.
The student was charged Friday in a complaint in federal court. He has been hospitalized since December.


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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - A press conference was held Thursday morning to address the issue of synthetic marijuana, also known as K-2, that has caused alarm in the Ohio Valley and resulted in a drug bust.
Debbie DeAngelis, 58, was charged with drug trafficking, an Felony 3, and no bond was set. DeAngelis is the owner of the Trading Post located in Bridgeport.
Along with the Trading Post, Shadyside Party Center in Shadyside, Bob's Cheap Smokes in St. Clairsville and DeAngelis' home were also targets of raids. The bust resulted in the seizing of more than 16,000 packets of synthetic marijuana, 17 guns and a large amount of money.
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BELMONT?COUNTY?Prosecutor Chris Berhalter, left, and Task?Force Commander John?McFarland detail Wednesday's drug raids during a press conference Thursday morning.
"The Drug Task Force has faced a new front in their battle against illegal drugs and that new front is synthetic marijuana," said Belmont County Prosecutor Chris Berhalter. "This is a recent phenomena that our county has faced and in looking at how our county addressed it, you're looking at a group effort with law enforcement from the attorney general office to the Drug Task Force to the sheriff's department as well as other law enforcement agencies of Belmont County assisted."
The K-2, which is marketed as a legal product, contains dangerous and banned substances. Law enforcement agencies have seen a rise in crime that has been directly linked to the consumption of this product.
There has also been severe addiction and medical issues as a result of using K-2.
"To attack the problem head on, local businesses were notified that these products are, in fact, illegal and we asked them to immediately stop the sale of these products and to immediately remove them from their stores," said Berhalter. "And as much as we excepted, most of the businesses upon being notified of this did just that, remove these poisons from their shelves."
But several business chose not to heed this warning and continued with the sale of synthetic marijuana, claiming it was incense, which resulted in the bust that occurred on Wednesday.
"This is the continuum cooperation of law enforcement, the attorney general, the Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI), the Drug Enforcement Association (DEA) and the Belmont County Drug Task Force," said Sheriff David Lucas. "We are going to continue on, the businesses out there that want to continue on and sell this substance ... we are going to come after them, they are no different then these businesses yesterday."
For Drug Task Force commander Martins Ferry Police Chief John McFarland, this is a new territory for the Belmont County Drug Task Force.
"Normally our drug investigations done by the Drug Task Force usually take place in homes, cars and dark allies, this is a new direction that we have to focus our investigation on," said McFarland. "These drug sales are done over the counter at your local carry out store or cigarette shop. This investigation went very well with the help of BCI and the DEA."
McFarland went on to say that if a business does to continue sale, the same thing will happen to them.
"I would like to commend the members of the Belmont County Drug Task Force and their efforts and time they put into this investigation of this case and the other cases that were involved."


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TEMPLE (October 8, 2012)—Temple police on Monday still were searching for a man who held up an employee outside the West Adams Avenue Family Dollar store Sunday and made away with a bank deposit.
Temple police Cpl. Christopher M. Wilcox said officers were sent to the store at about 8:30 a.m. Sunday after an employee reported he had been held up by a man with a gun.
The employee reported he was getting into his car in the store's parking lot and was about to drive to a local bank to deposit the store's receipts when a man who was in the car pointed a handgun at the clerk and demanded the employee get into the car and drive away from the building.
The clerk was forced to drive the suspect away from the store, and at some point struck the employee in the head with the handgun.
The gunman got out of the vehicle near the intersection of N. 13th St. and W. French Ave., the fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.
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The suspect is described as a black male, stocky build, approximately 5-feet, 7-inches tall, last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, dark clothes, with a bandana covering his face.
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One of my players is playing a mounted character, and is claiming that since a lance is a two handed weapon, that it deals double Strength damage, even when wielded one handed while mounted. While this doesn't make sense, does it follow the rules as written?
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The lance does double damage if used from the back of a charging mount.
This has nothing to do with the separate rule that if you wield a one-handed weapon two-handed, or a two-handed weapon, it does 1 1/2 x STR damage (not 2x).
I will note that in Hero Lab it correctly simulates this behavior. My cavalier with a +4 STR mod, when mounted, can hold in one hand for d8+4 or two for d8+6. If I am charging, this becomes 2d8+8 one-handed or 2d8+12 two-handed.
Furthermore, this isn't some strange superheroic fighting style - before the development of the vamplate, holding on with both hands was really the only way to employ a spear or lance on horseback. Also note that lances aren't fragile or designed to break (jousting lances perhaps, but not ones made for war).
Kind of.
The Lance has this special quality:
Note that wielding the lance one-handed is optional. You can, not you must.
The Ride skill gives you the following benefit:
So yes, RAW you can wield a lance with two hands, while guiding your mount with your knees.
However to do so, you must still meet all the normal requirements of a two-handed weapon. So, no shield. You must be guiding your mount with your knees to have the weapon ready to strike. Etc.
Here's what the rules say about two-handed weapons:
Note that the higher strength bonus is a function of wielding a weapon two-handed, not of using a two-handed weapon. So wielding a two-handed weapon one-handed (as can be done with the lance) doesn't grant a higher strength bonus (if he wants to use a shield, for example).
(And to clarify: One-handed vs. two-handed changes the strength bonus from 1x to 1.5x. The double damage from using a lance on a charging mount is always present, whether wielded in one or both hands)


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Assume these threads run in single core cpu. As a cpu only run one instruction in one cycle. That is said, even thought they share the cpu resource. but the computer ensure that one time one instruction. So is the lock un-necessary for multiplethreading?
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This is best illustrated with an example.
Suppose we have a simple task that we want to perform multiple times in parallel, and we want to keep track globally of the number of times that the task has been performed, for example, counting hits on a web page.
When each thread gets to the point at which it's incrementing the count, it's execution will look like this:
Remember that every thread can suspend at any point in this process. So if thread A performs step 1, and then gets suspended, following by thread B performing all three steps, when thread A resumes, its registers will have the wrong number of hits: its registers will be restored, it will happily increment the old number of hits, and store that incremented number.
In addition, any number of other threads could have run during the time that thread A was suspended, so the count thread A writes at the end might be well below the correct count.
For that reason, it's necessary to ensure that if a thread performs step 1, it must perform step 3 before any other thread is allowed to perform step 1, which can be accomplished by all threads waiting to get a single lock before they begin this process, and freeing the lock only after the process is complete, so that this "critical section" of code cannot be incorrectly interleaved, resulting in a wrong count.
But what if the operation were atomic?
Yes, in the land of magical unicorns and rainbows, where the increment operation is atomic, then locking would not be necessary for the above example.
It's important to realize, however, that we spend very little time in the world of magical unicorns and rainbows. In almost every programming language, the increment operation is broken down into the above three steps. That's because, even if the processor supports an atomic increment operation, that operation is significantly more expensive: it has to read from memory, modify the number, and write it back to memory...and usually the atomic increment operation is an operation that can fail, meaning the simple sequence above has to be replaced with a loop (as we'll see below).
Since, even in multithreaded code, many variables are kept local to a single thread, programs are much more efficient if they assume each variable is local to a single thread, and let the programmers take care of protecting shared state between threads. Especially given that atomic operations are not usually enough to solve threading issues, as we'll see later.
Volatile variables
If we wanted to avoid locks for this particular problem, we first have to realize that the steps depicted in our first example aren't actually what happens in modern compiled code. Because compilers assume only one thread is modifying the variable, each thread will keep its own cached copy of the variable, until the processor register is needed for something else. As long as it has the cached copy, it assumes it doesn't need to go back to memory and read it again (which would be expensive). They also won't write the variable back to memory as long as it's kept in a register.
We can get back to the situation we gave in the first example (with all the same threading problems we identified above) by marking the variable as volatile, which tells the compiler that this variable is being modified by others, and so must be read from or written to memory whenever it's accessed or modified.
So a variable marked as volatile will not take us to the land of atomic increment operations, it only gets us as close as we thought we were already.
Making the increment atomic
Once we're using a volatile variable, we can make our increment operation atomic by using a low-level conditional set operation that most modern CPUs support (often called compare and set or compare and swap). This approach is taken, for example, in Java's AtomicInteger class:
The above loop repeatedly performs the following steps, until step 2 succeeds:
If step 2 fails (because the value was changed by a different thread after step 1), it again reads the variable directly from main memory and tries again.
While the compare-and-swap operation is expensive, it's slightly better than using locking in this case, because if a thread is suspended after step 1, other threads that reach step 1 do not have to block and wait for the first thread, which can prevent costly context switching. When the first thread resumes, it will fail in its first attempt to write the variable, but will be able to continue by re-reading the variable, which again is less expensive than the context switch that would have been necessary with locking.
So, we can get to the land of atomic increments (or other operations on a single variable) without using actual locks, via compare and swap.
So when is locking strictly necessary?
If you need to modify more than one variable in an atomic operation, then locking will be necessary, you won't find a special processor instruction for that.
As long as you're working on a single variable, and you're prepared for whatever work you've done to fail and to have to read the variable and start over again, compare-and-swap will be good enough, however.
Let's consider an example where each thread first adds 2 to a the variable X, and then multiplies X by two.
If X is initially one, and two threads run, we expect the result to be (((1 + 2) * 2) + 2) * 2 = 16.
However, if the threads interleave, we could, even with all operations being atomic, instead have both additions occur first, and the multiplications come after, resulting in (1 + 2 + 2) * 2 * 2 = 20.
This happens because multiplication and addition are not commutative operations.
So, the operations themselves being atomic is not enough, we must make the combination of operations atomic.
We can do that either by using locking to serialize the process, or we could use one local variable to store the value of X when we started our calculation, a second local variable for the intermediate steps, and then use compare-and-swap to set a new value only if the current value of X is the same as the original value of X. If we fail, we would have to start over again by reading X and performing the calculations again.
There are several trade-offs involved: as the calculations become longer, it becomes much more likely that the running thread will be suspended, and the value will be modified by another thread before we resume, meaning failures become much more likely, leading to wasted processor time. In the extreme case of large numbers of threads with very long running calculations, we might have 100 threads read the variable and be engaged in calculations, in which case only the first to finish will succeed in writing the new value, the other 99 will still complete their calculations, but discover upon completion that they can't update the value...at which point they'll each read the value and start the calculation over. We'd likely have the remaining 99 threads repeat the same problem, wasting vast quantities of processor time.
Full serialization via locks would be much better in that situation: 99 threads would suspend when they didn't get the lock, and we'd run each thread in order of arrival at the locking point.
Full serialization via locks would also give us advantages in cases where it's important that jobs be processed in order of arrival: if we're running a banking application, it's important that, if a deposit came in before a withdrawal, the deposit be processed first, otherwise the withdrawal, which came later and should succeed, might find insufficient funds and (incorrectly) fail.
If serialization is not critical (as in our incrementing case), and the calculations that would be lost if updating the number fails are minimal, there may be a significant advantage to be gained from using the compare-and-swap operation, because that operation is less expensive than locking.
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you see, even if 1 instruction runs on a CPU at any given time, computer programs comprise a lot more than just atomic assembly instructions. So for example, writing to the console (or a file) means you have to have to lock to ensure it works like you want.
Seems many answer attempted to explain locking, but I think what OP needs is an explanation of what multitasking actually is.
When you have more than one thread running on a system even with one CPU, there are two main methodologies that dictate how these threads will be scheduled (i.e. placed to run into your single-core CPU):
The problem does not lie with individual operations, but the larger tasks the operations carry out.
Many algorithms are written with the assumption that they are in full control of the state they operate on. With an interleaved ordered execution model like the one you describe, the operations may be arbitrarily interleaved with each other, and if they share state, there is a risk that the state is in an inconsistent shape.
You can compare it with functions that may temporarily break an invariant in order to do what they do. As long as the intermediary state is not observable from the outside, they can do whatever they want to achieve their task.
When you write concurrent code, you need to ensure that contended state is considered unsafe unless you have exclusive access to it. The common way to achieve exclusive access is synchronizing on a synchronization primitive, like holding a lock.
Another thing that synchronization primitives tend to result in on some platforms is that they emit memory barriers, which ensure inter-CPU consistency of memory.
Except for setting 'bool' there is no guarrantee (at least in c) that reading or writing a variable takes only one instruction - or rather can't be interrupted in the middle of reading/writing it
Shared memory.
It's the definition of... threads: a bunch of concurrent processes, with shared memory.
If there is no shared memory, they are usually referred as old-school-UNIX processes.
(shared memory in UNIX-like kernels was indeed usually implemented using a fake file descriptor representing the shared memory address)
A CPU runs one instruction at a time, but what if you have two or more CPUs?
You are right in that locks are not needed, if you can write the program such that it takes advantage of atomic instructions: instructions whose execution is not interruptible on the given processor, and free from interference by other processors.
Locks are required when several instructions need to be protected from interference, and there is no equivalent atomic instruction.
For instance, inserting a node into a doubly-linked list requires the update of several memory locations. Prior to the insertion, and after the insertion, certain invariants hold about the structure of the list. However, during the insertion, those invariants are temporarily broken: the list is in an "under construction" state.
If another thread marches through the list while the invariants, or also tries to modify it when it is such a state, the data structure will probably become corrupted and the behavior will be unpredictable: maybe the software will crash, or continue with incorrect results. It is therefore necessary for threads to somehow agree to stay out of each other's way when the list is being updated.
Suitably designed lists can be manipulated with atomic instructions, so that locks are not needed. Algorithms for this are called "lock free". However, note that atomic instructions are a actually a form of locking. They are specially implemented in hardware, and work via communication among processors. They are more expensive than similar instructions which are not atomic.
On multiprocessors that lack the luxury of atomic instructions, primitives for mutual exclusion have to be built up of simple memory accesses and polling loops. Such problems have been worked on by the likes of Edsger Dijkstra and Leslie Lamport.


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Giving minimal credence to estimates in popular media of the average biomass of insects/arachnids, etc. in an acre of land, it seems that a "free-range" cow (I don't mean to pick on cows) might be something of an omnivore. Is there any evidence that herbivores derive essential parts of their diet from sources other than cellulose? Or that they do not?
One key nutrient worth thinking about in the context of this question is vitamin B12. Herbivores such as cows and sheep will derive this directly from the bacteria in their rumen. Rabbits produce two types of feces - soft and hard - and they eat the soft variety, rich in gut bacteria, as a source of nutrients like vitamin B12. Gorillas are primarily herbivores, but are thought to derive their vitamin B12 from insects, eaten purposefully or inadvertently.
So yes, herbivores derive this particular nutrient from non-plant sources.