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13 Old War Photographs You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
#6. The Guns Straight Out of Looney Tunes
Via Warhistory.ie
Nooo, that's not -- that's a cartoon, right? If you panned out on this image, you'd find a smug rabbit standing there about to put his finger in the barrel. This just isn't how guns work, is it? The bullet would hit the curve and just explode inside the barrel, right?
"Every time we try to fire, it just apologizes for drinking too much and makes some excuse about work in the morning."
Apparently not.
During WWII, the biggest problem a tank driver had was enemy infantry getting close enough to the vehicle to enter a blind zone -- the area immediately surrounding the tank that any soldiers inside simply couldn't angle to shoot at. And so the Germans developed a rifle with a curved barrel so that riflemen inside the tank could just stick the gun out of the tank hatch and fire at potential enemies.
Via Warhistory.ie
And if you rotate the image 90 degrees to the right, it's how you put gas in your car.
Not only did the bullet fail to hilariously explode on its way out of the floppy dong rifle, but it would neatly fragment in the curve, creating a devastating shotgun-like effect. Later prototypes, complete with periscopes, were developed for other infantry units to shoot at Allied soldiers from behind cover (and presumably to teach any loitering smartass ducks a lesson in manners).
#5. Grumman TBF Avenger
Via Pacificstorm.net
This is an Avenger torpedo bomber off the USS Bennington, piloted by Bob King during the battle of Chichi Jima. He was gravely missed by his friends and family ... because after pulling his plane out of a spin, he flew this wingless bastard -- in this exact condition -- all the way back to the fleet to be picked up safely, and nobody has stopped buying him drinks since.
#4. Listening to the Skies: X-Treme Edition
Via Retronaut.co
That can't be what it looks like. It's a guy goofing around in a radar station; it's a man piloting two giant, automatic cereal spoons. Anything would be more believable than what it actually looks to be -- an old-timey sky-listening device. But that's exactly what it is, and even crazier: It totally worked. Here's another:
Via Retronaut.co
Before radar, bombing fleets could only be detected visually, or via acoustic location devices. And no, we're not skipping over anything high-tech here: You just plugged a giant cone into your ear and listened really hard for the German pilots whistling inconspicuously. Elegantly simple, really. The only tricky part was trying to make sure the rest of the army didn't look over and see you while you were doing it; they'd never let you live it down.
Especially in France, where you not only had to hold a giant metal hand up to your ear to listen for distant planes, but also had to play a mechanized game of seesaw while doing it:
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"I just heard a fart. That must mean Goering's on his way."
#3. Kamikaze Attacks
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We're certain you know about kamikaze attacks -- when zealous Japanese pilots suicide-bombed their own planes into high-value targets. They were more common than one might think: 2,800 kamikaze planes sunk around 40 Navy ships and damaged 350 others. And of course, the images are incredibly dramatic:
That's a Zero trying, and ultimately failing, to crash into the deck of the USS White Plains. Man, just looking at those photos is kind of humbling, isn't it? They're perhaps the most striking visual depiction of the somber desperation of warfare.
Now, here's the aftermath:
Via Wikipedia
USS Hinsdale showing kamikaze damage inflicted on April 1, 1945.
This now paints kamikaze pilots as less "honor-bound soldiers willing to sacrifice anything" and more like "aerial Wile E. Coyotes." Presumably right after this impact, the pilot stumbled out, unharmed save for a comically blackened face, to look at the camera and dejectedly mutter something like "It's a living."
#2. But They Really, Really Liked That Ship
Via De1939a1945.com
We hear the phrase "go down with the ship," and we have a few different impressions: First, that it's kind of an anachronistic practice. Nobody's actually done it for centuries, right? And second, that it only applies to the captain. For the record, both impressions are wrong. That image above is the whole damn crew of the battleship Zuikaku, right after it sacrificed itself as a diversion in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
You can see them dumping all the explosives before the ship dumps them on top of the dumped explosives. And you can't quite make it out, because they're all facing away from the camera, but every single one of them is giving the Pacific the finger.
Via Wikipedia
It required a full battleship to haul around all those massive balls.
After the last-minute unpacking was done, the crew all lined up neatly, gave a cheer and went down saluting. We're not even going to look up a death toll. We're positive the ocean just ran away right after this picture was taken and they all walked home safely.
#1. We Liked WWII Before It Became All About the Special Effects
Via Wikipedia
What is that, a screenshot of that new Battleship movie? The sequel to Independence Day? You can practically taste the Roland Emmerich smeared all over this image; it's way too excessive to be real. Look at all those gargantuan battleships parked so close together, on and on into infinity. Look at the ceaseless stream of military vehicles and soldiers. What is this, the new Call of Duty game?
No, this is Omaha Beach, June 1944, when American ships took advantage of low tide to unload huge amounts of war material for the front. That photo is not embellished, retouched or dishonestly angled in any way: That's just how goddamn ridiculously over the top a battle in WWII actually was. They even brought all their battle zeppelins, proving that, once again, the only difference between steampunk fans and history buffs is the stupid goggles and blue hair dye.
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Earl Simmons, 42, of Lyman was arrested at about 1 a.m. near the Li'l Cricket convenience store at 1904 Gap Creek Road. A Spartanburg County deputy saw Simmons get out of a 1978 Buick and enter the store, according to an incident report.
The deputy noted in the report that he had seen Simmons drive up to the same location the previous night, and later learned that Simmons did not have a valid driver's license, having been issued tickets by both the Greer and Duncan police departments.
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Simmons was charged with driving without a license, according to online jail records. He was released after paying a $237 bond, Master Deputy Kevin Bobo said.
The Associated Press reported that Simmons was arrested in a Phoenix suburb in 2011 after a trooper clocked him driving at 102 mph. He had recently finished a stint in prison on probation revocation for failing to submit to drug testing and driving without a license.
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I have a point featureclass with a point for every 25cm - in Total 400,000 Points. I would like to reduce this resolution to one point every Meter. How could I instruct ArcGIS Advanced(ArcInfo) to do this? I can´t see a thinning tool or generalization tool for Point feature classes and don´t want to create a raster from the data yet to resample.
Use the Delete Identical (Data Management) tool in ArcGIS. You can see from the screenshots, I generated a uniform grid of points within the polygon extent and used the Delete Identical tool with a 10m XY tolerance to thin the points.
Alternatively, use the Integrate (Data Management) tool to make points coincident at a certain XY tolerance.
1) create a new grid with 1 m spacing (fishnet)
2) use "spatial join" to aggregate the attributes of the points falling inside the polygons
3) create the centroids of the polygons
3b) Alternatively, you can make a spatial join between the centroids and your original points so that you can define more advanced merging rules (aka based on the distance)
You can use the thinning tool that is available for LAS datasets, lasthin, from LASTools (free download).
Although I haven't used it a lot on shapefiles myself (I have tried it on LAS files though), the help text states:
Additinally, if you have access to FME, there's a PointCloudThinner transformer there which should do what you need.
"Thinning" implies dimensionality, which points do not possess. Given a regular grid of point values, I'd convert the points to a raster, then resample to the desired interval, and convert back to points. This would be a lot less computationally intensive than trying to solve this with vector datatypes.


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Chopping A 1951 Mercury - Master ChopWritten by on July 1, 2009 Chopping An Old Mercury The Old School Way
Bill Hines has chopped more Mercurys in his 65 years in the customizing business than he can remember. Bill is now 86 years old and still works every day with his favorite old cars.
This project got started when Bill got his hands on a very nice '51 Mercury from a relative in Michigan. The Merc was nearly rust free and the small pieces that needed fixing were no problem for Bill. It was brought out to California, where he decided to do all the modifications on it and build a custom that one of his customers might like to buy with the bodywork done. "We'll do what I call a mild top chop," says Bill.
Bill's right-hand man Brad Masterson has his own shop today but he still helps Bill when important projects come up. Both Bill and Brad like to use the early methods, and Brad has been given the nickname "the Lead Slinger", thanks to the fact that he does a lot of the lead work on the custom cars like they did years ago. Both also like to use the gas welder as much as possible and only use the MIG to tack-weld pieces in place.
The '49 to '51 Mercs are pretty much the same car, but the '51 is a bit different, with a bigger rear window and longer rear fenders, and Bill wanted to keep the rear window intact.
Before Brad started to make any cuts, Bill marked the cuts across the roof and along the rear pillars. Many might think that Bill just gives orders and will let Brad and the younger guys do the work, but that is not the case--he is very much involved in the work as you can see in the pictures. After the top was cut, the 86-year-old Bill climbed up on the roof, cleaned it up with a big grinder and welded it together.
We asked Bill, "How are you going to cut the pieces here to get the pillars together?"
"I don't really know," he said with a smile. We had the feeling that Bill knew exactly what he needed to do, so we stood back and started shooting photos.
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Before making any cut marks or modifications, Bill starts by welding a "line-up pin" to the lower edge of the windshield opening. This pin will show if the middle of the roof is in the middle as well as the tilt of the windshield. During the chopping process it will make it easier for Bill and Brad to make sure the roof did not move in either direction during the welding.Although Bill might have cut more than a hundred Mercury tops since he started chopping, he still plans all the cuts and measures more than once to be sure. This one will be a "mild" 3-inch chop.Before any cutting was done, the rear window was supported with some tubing to make sure it would keep its shape. The roof was also given some extra support inside for the same reason.Brad began by cutting the door tops, so there was nothing in the way when the pillars were cut and the roof was put back on.Brad uses the big reciprocating Sawzall to get straight cuts that won't need much work when the pieces are fit together again. A support piece of tubing was welded in across the roof over the B-pillars (arrow) to make sure the roof did not change shape during the cutting and welding.Bill put tape across the roof where he wanted it cut 12 inches up from the rear window. The side cut was done along the chalk line and over the driprail so they could use as much of it as possible.The B-pillars will be chopped 3 inches, so Bill knows that he needs to cut 2 inches out of the tilted A-pillars to fit when the roof goes back on the body. He makes his cut in the middle of the pillars where they have the same diameter. Cuts were made up in the roof (arrow) and at the bottom of the A-pillar to get them to tilt back properly. Both Bill and Brad are very accurate with their cuts, because they know that the final result will be much better if the fit is perfect before welding.Once the A- and B-pillars were cut, the roof was held in place with two pogo-sticks until the final cut across the rear of the roof was done.
The cut-off wheel was used again to cut an access hole through the roof skin making it possible to get the blade of the Sawzall through to make the straight cut across the roof.The roof was lifted off and Brad started cutting the edges around the rear window. The window will be tilted down to meet the lowered roof. Brad separated the rear window from the package tray by cutting it an inch under the inside rear window edge.Brad used the Sawzall to make some cuts from the previously removed C-pillar section around to the body line in the rear sail panel at the corners. Brad cut a little at a time, going from side to side and testing periodically to check when the window would tilt forward with the least amount of sheetmetal deforming.The roof was then placed back on the body and a pair of pogo-sticks was used to hold it up at the front.Brad cut the lower part of the B-pillar (arrow) at the beltline to allow it to tilt slightly to meet the roof pillar. The B-pillar was then clamped. Brad checked the measurement of the roof at the B-pillars and checked the "line-up pin" in the front window to make sure the roof was centered and even on both sides (Bill was happy with the result, and he can be picky with 1/8-inch or less sometimes). Once Brad and Bill were happy Bill tack-welded the B-pillars.When it was time to weld the edge of the two roof pieces together, a couple of pogo-sticks were used with a piece of steel to keep the roof's original shape. Brad was inside making sure that nothing moved under the roof while Bill tack-welded on top.Bill cut the lower part of the A-pillar to make it easier to shape the sheetmetal before welding. The A-pillar was tacked in place and the sheetmetal at the bottom was worked a little so that both edges were on the same plane. The top part of the pillar was cut slightly into the roof to make it easier to tilt it a bit before welding.Brad gas welded all cuts. The inner edge in the door opening also needed some adjustments to get everything to line up.
Brad marked and cut the door top piece a bit at a time to get the best possible fit before welding. After each cut he test-fitted it until it was perfect and then tacked the door tops in place.One of the extra boys at Bill's shop helped out with grinding the rear pillars before Brad started cutting off some of the overlapping sheetmetal on the C-pillars.The most time consuming part of the chop was the lower edge under the rear window and up the C-pillars. Bill used the gas to heat the metal, formed it with his hammer and cut it down to get the two edges on the same plane.Bill then spent a few hours with the gas welder, hammer and MIG welder while he managed to puzzle the rear pillars together with the body edge. He shaped the sheetmetal bit by bit before everything was welded together. Now all it needs is some more time with the grinder to smooth the welds and some old-timey lead to make it perfect.


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FIREFIGHTERS. THAT INCLUDES TEN FOR CAL FIRE'S SANTA CRUZ-SAN MATEO COUNTY DISTRICT... ACTION NEWS REPORTER PHIL GOMEZ, JOINS US LIVE FROM SANTA CRUZ AS THOSE FIREFIGHTERS RETURNED TO WORK TODAY ...PHIL???# IT'S ONLY JANUARY, BUT CALFIRE-SANTA CRUZ- SAN MATEO COUNTY FIRE IS BEGINNING TO STAFF UP AS IF IT WERE SUMMER. THE HILLS ARE BROWN INSTEAD OF WINTER GREEN. THERE'S ONLY BEEN A TOKEN AMOUNT OF RAIN OVER THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS AND FIRE FIGHTERS ARE STAFFING UP. Brush fire threatening a structure. Structure protection Redwood Estates THE SIGHT OF FLAMES RACING UP THIS HILL OFF HIGHWAY 17, IN LOS GATOS , IS STARTLING AS AN UNSEASONAL WINTER WILDFIRE CAME WITHIN ONE HUNDRED FEET OF A REDWOOD ESTATE HOME. EVEN UNUSUAL FOR FIRE FIGHTERS. I think at last count we had responded to 30 vegitation fires when normally at this winter time maybe somewhere around 5-to-9 fires that would be much smaller as well. NORMALLY, THE FIRE SEASON ENDS IN OCTOBER BUT WAS EXTENDED THROUGH DECEMBER BECAUSE OF EXCEPTIONAL WINTER FIRE CONDITIONS. LAST WEEK THE GOVERNOR DECLARED A DROUGHT WHICH INCLUDED A DECLARATION TO ADD SEASONAL FIREFIGHTERS. I got called back after 2 weeks NATHAN NAZAROFF WORKED THROUGH THE SUMMER MONTHS AND WAS SURPRISED WHEN HE GOT THE CALL TO RETURN TO SEASONAL DUTY. You were hired for the potential of what? Wildland fires and the extended fire season. Hows it look? It looks like it's going to be one heck of a season. Two inches of rain is very slim. PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING IN AROUND THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS RECOGNIZE THE POTENTIAL THREAT AND FEEL A BIT SAFER KNOWING FIRE CREWS ARE AVAILABLE DURING THIS UNUSUAL FIRE SEASON I think it's needed. Why? Because its asa dry as a tinder box. We're been up here 30 years. we live up by Lompico by the reservoir. this is abslolutely the driest I've seen in all of my years. I've been up here much needed. It's a blessing that we have them here. THERE'S NO TELLING HOW LONG THE SEASONAL FIREFIGHTERS WILL REMAIN ON DUTY AS NO RAIN IS EXPECTED IN THE NEAR FUTURE AS FOR THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE NEAR REDWOOD ESTATES, A SANTA CLARA COUNTY FIRE INVESTIGATOR SAYS THE HALF ACRE BLAZE WAS STARTED AT A HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT.# U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER SPENT
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We are looking for a guitar for my son, and have seen cheap ones at Toys R Us, et al. He is just starting out, and we are trying to gauge his interest before spending too much. Would it be worth starting off with what is essentially a toy, and upgrading later? If not, what things should we look for? Nylon or steel strings? What size? 30", 1/2, 3/4? Is there anything else that would help him use the instrument?
I bought my son a 3/4 scale guitar with nylon strings when he was 5 or 6. That gave him enough interest to start learning, then I let him use one of my cheap full scale acoustics with steel strings at age 8 as his hands were big enough.
Currently he has taken up bass, so he is learning on a 5 string that my bass player had spare. It is a challenge as he is only 11, but he is gaining hand strength and stretch.
The core for me at the start was letting him enjoy what he was doing, so nylon strings meant it didn't hurt his fingers. Once he had decided he wanted to learn, he was mentally in a place where toughening his fingers up on steel strings wasn't an issue.
I started playing guitar at about 7 years old, I got a classical guitar, slightly smaller than the common size -but very slightly (I think it was larger that the '3/4 size', I actually played until I was 20!). The important thing for a child, I'd say, is that the guitar is confortable to play: rather low action and normal-to-low tension strings. Nylon, of course.
Consider a ukulele.
"Real" ukuleles are available cheaply (although you can spend a lot on a really lovely one). It suits small hands. It has nylon strings so it's not too difficult to fret. There are plenty of resources for learning real songs to play on the uke. Having fewer strings makes for easier chord shapes. It's a great instrument on which a child can learn the basics of fretting, strumming and plucking without having to deal with a large instrument.
One down side is that if he migrates to a guitar, he'll have to learn new shapes, to account for the extra two strings.
But to mitigate that, being adaptable to new tunings is a good skill -- and young minds adapt quickly. And of course, he could choose to stay with the uke... or the mandolin... or the banjo... or any number of other guitar-like instruments.
If you do this, do get a uke book (or learn uke yourself, and teach him). The high-tuned bottom string is counter-intuitive, so he'll need reassurance -- or with the right strings you can tune it low so it feels more like a guitar.
Whether you go for a guitar, a uke, or something else, make sure the instrument has acceptable intonation. Playing an instrument with bad intonation is really no fun whatever your standard.
If you do go for a steel strung instrument, pay special attention to the action and the string tension. You don't want to put him off by giving him an instrument that's a struggle to fret.
I'm not (really) a guitar player, but I have taught beginners as part of a generalist music-lesson gig. The other answers so far are good, but I would add two essential things from my own experience:
I remember teaching a very young student who clearly had a "toy" guitar, and these two issues made it almost impossible to teach her. It was frustrating for the student and for me, and the student never really improved very much.
I agree on quality. You wouldn't want to give a child a pre-war Martin unless you're crazy and rich or he's Chris Thile in the making, but you wouldn't want to give something that pretended to be an instrument, either.
Smaller, but not too small, or else the child will rightfully think it's just a toy.
Two crucial things to note: If the child is interested in playing electric, no acoustic guitar will do, and if the child is interested in playing acoustic, no electric guitar will do. And your child, as with anyone who hasn't been taught to know better, will not know how hard to fret, and will thus oversqueeze, hurting fingertips (which makes playing uncomfortable) and pulling sharp (which makes the sound uncomfortable). Early on, teach a light touch, and this will make the rest of the process easier.
This is around the same age I started playing guitar. The guitar I started on was my dads first guitar which was from the early 60s, it was a catalog guitar nothing fancy. For strings, since I had an electric I had light gauge steel strings.. The way I got hooked was just by listening to the music my dad liked, which is the same music I like now and then.. I wanted to be able to play that music that I heard. Just don't force it on him, thats is what killed it for me for about a year, yes try to get him to practice but make it fun not stern and dull, make achievements for him where he could get some sort of reward related to guitar .. like a strap that he saw that he liked, or something simple like that
Hope this can be of some help for you.
I would go against buying a toy guitar. This really kills everything from the start. Rather paying a little extra might pay a lot in the long run. For the guitar priority one should be, going for something that suits his body shape. Something he is comfortable with it.
Also go for steel string not Nylon!


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Let M be a smooth manifold. Can every k-form $\omega$ on M be written as a sum of k-forms, that are wedge products of 1-forms, i.e. $\omega = \sum_{i=0}^n \alpha_1^{(i)} \wedge \ldots \wedge \alpha_k^{(i)} $, where $\alpha_l^{(i)} \in \Omega^1(M) $ ? If M is compact, one can cover M be finitely many charts and use a partition of unity to see that this holds...but how about the general case?
The answer is yes and you need transversality in some form. Here we use Whitneys embedding theorem, but a weaker statement would suffice. Embed $M \subset \mathbb{R}^m$. Thus there is a monomorphism $TM \to M \times \mathbb{R}^m$ of vector bundles, dualizing to an epimorphism $M \times \mathbb{R}^m \to T^{\ast} M$. Let $a_1,\ldots ,a_m$ be the images of the basis vectors. You can write any $k$-form on $M$ as a linear combination with $C^{\infty} (M)$-coefficients of the forms $a_{i_1} \wedge \ldots a_{i_k}$. Done.
The same argument as in comapct case works if you use in addition Ostrand's theorem on colored dimension
Johannes' answer can be upgraded to the following statement:
Let $M$ be a second countable and Hausdorff manifold (who cares about others?) and $\pi_i\colon E_i \longrightarrow M$ vector bundles for $i = 1, \ldots, N$. Then the canonical map \begin{equation} \Gamma^\infty(E_1) \otimes_{C^\infty(M)} \cdots \otimes_{C^\infty(M)} \Gamma^\infty(E_N) \longrightarrow \Gamma^\infty(E_1 \otimes \cdots \otimes E_N) \end{equation} is an isomorphism of $C^\infty(M)$-modules. The same holds if you do some symmetrization/antisymmetrization in tensor powers of a single vector bundle in addition.
My favorite argument uses the smooth version of Serre-Swan's theorem: the sections $\Gamma^\infty(E)$ are a finitely generated and projective module over $C^\infty(M)$ and any finitely generated projective module is (up to iso) of that form. This can e.g. be proved along the same lines as Johannes' argument by embedding the tangent bundle of $E$ into some big $\mathbb{R}^n$ and observe that $E$ is naturally identifiable with the vertical subbundle of $TE$ viewed as bundle over $M$.
Then the above statement is shown by noting that the map is clearly injective (and well-defined). The surjectivity is the harder part. But the tensor product on the left hand side is again finitely generated and projective, so it has to be the space of smooth sections of some vector bundle. Then the injectivity gives that this vector bundle can be included as a subbundle of $E_1 \otimes \cdots \otimes E_N$. Counting fibre dimensions shows that they coincide...
The main point is that Serre Swan also holds in the non-compact case. An alternative proof of this can be found e.g. in Well's book in complex differential geometry.


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Two masses in 3d space attract each other with a potential relative to the distance between them. There is also an external force on each particle based on the distance from a origin. I want to find the equations of motion.
I thought about reducing it to the 1 body problem or use Lagrangian formalism to find the equation of motion, however, the external force kind of ruins that approach. Any ideas on how to approach this?


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Last night South Park had their fun with the fitness product that we have all come to know and love: the Shake Weight. While not necessarily uncharted territory, they put their signature spin on it, taking it to comical heights.
Here Sharon decides to try it out for the first time. The voice-assisted model is very encouraging.


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Intrapersonal empathy gap
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Loewenstein (1996, 2005) identifies an intrapersonal empathy gap. In the respective experiments, subjects make choices with delayed consequences. When entering the state where these consequences would unfold, they get the possibility to revise their initial choice. Revisions are more substantial when these two choices are made in different emotional states. The concept of the empathy gap suggests that the initial choice represents a misprediction of future preferences. However, it might alternatively be based on a well understood disagreement with future preferences. In this sense, people would like to add: "But don't ask me again!" To disentangle both explanations, we induce two different emotional states in each subject and offer a self-commitment device in the first state. In one condition, subjects move from a "cold" state of reflection to a "hot" state of impulsiveness. In the other condition, this order is reversed. We find evidence for the hot-to-cold empathy gap, but not for the cold-to-hot empathy gap when subjects can self-commit to their initial choice.
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I have an OpenOfice macro that I want to use to process the contents of an OpenOffice file. I am able to do this by opening the file with OpenOffice and then running the macro. How do I invoke the macro from the Linux command line without using the GUI? Something like:
$ oowriter -headless -o MyDocument.odt -RUNMACRO MyLittleMacro


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A high speed chase that spanned three counties finally comes to an end in Butler County Wednesday afternoon, but not before some serious damage was done.
Law enforcement tells us the chase started in Simpson County around 2:20 p.m., after a Maryland bondsman spotted the fugitive he was looking for. The suspect, 29-year-old Carroll Ignatious Norris, Jr. of Maryland, was driving his pick-up truck at speeds of 100 miles an hour or more through Simpson, Warren and Butler Counties.
Fifteen to 20 law enforcement vehicles were following close behind, and officers say two of their vehicles were rammed by Norris.
After stop sticks and spike strips were used in attempts to slow the assailant, officers finally stopped the man minutes into Butler County.
WBKO has confirmed Norris has eleven outstanding warrants from three different cities in Maryland, on charges ranging from armed theft to fraud and cold checks.
In addition to those, Norris now faces charges in Kentucky, including attempted assault, multiple counts of wanton endangerment and several other charges. Norris is lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail. He'll face his Kentucky charges before being sent back to Maryland.


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Proof That UI Is So Much More Than a Party School
The Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa has a required course for all undergraduate students titled Business Communications and Protocol—or BCaP for short.
The purpose of this course is to prepare students for the world of work, giving them the practical day-to-day operations knowledge regarding the ins and outs of email, report writing, telephone etiquette, public presentations, and business/personal ethics.
Too often we hear about student arrest records, that Iowa is a "party school," and general negativity surrounding our "college students." Below are excerpts from several personal codes of ethics as written by students currently enrolled in a BCaP class:
• When looking back and talking with friends about elementary school, I am always referred to as the bully. I never thought that this was the case when I was a kid; I thought I was protecting myself. ... Kids that I used to bully are still uneasy around me. The first question I ask myself is: Do my choices harm others? I might never have realized this if not for my days as a bully. ... Now I am constantly evaluating whether I am harming others in anything that I do."
• "I think it is imperative to protect the people closest to me and the innocent at all costs. As an adult male, I think it is crucial that I ensure that nothing bad happens to family or close friends, and I take ownership and responsibility when something does happen. ... My thoughts in caring for these groups of people first is that my friends and family have invested the most in me and so I need to reciprocate that energy toward them, also I need to use my size and capabilities to protect those who can't protect themselves (innocent)."
• "The most successful person in the world is probably that middle-class father of three who has some great friends and a fantastic family. Being humble is another difficult thing to do. When someone makes it to the top, all they want to do is flaunt it to the people that thought they wouldn't make it and their friends. It is hard, but I try to stay modest when I am successful. ... When someone sends a compliment my way, it is nice to hear once in a while, but I always remind myself that I still want to do even better."
• "I will take ownership for my own mistakes and not let anyone else take the fall or the blame. I will not let someone else feel the consequences from my own mistakes. On the contrary, I will always give credit where credit is due. I will not take credit for an idea that someone else came up with. ... I will graciously accept constructive criticism and do my best to incorporate that advice into my work ethic."
• "I feel that a 'reciprocity' test in every situation is valuable in making the best decision. When you try to understand the other party or person involved in a dilemma, fight. or even plain conversation, the way you behave and communicate is only enhanced. I feel that understanding the other side assists you in everyday life and in hardships where making a decision is necessary."
• "Respect the personal choices of others. If it does not directly affect the way I feel or live my life, then it should not matter. Do not share the business of others or gossip about their personal choices. Do not care about the negative thoughts of others but do care about the thoughts of those who matter. Have integrity and keep in mind that even the smallest choices can have a big effect on the way others perceive my character."
We've got some great students attending the University of Iowa. Their words and ideas are hopeful, and I'm thankful our futures will include these introspective leaders.
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A little about myself first. I am 22 years old living in the UK and working in retail. I did not put the time into college and find myself in a situation that couldn't be further from where I aim to be. I have been trying to get my head round how to break into the games industry for some time put off by the steep learning curve and barriers to entry without a degree.
As times rolling by I am less deterred and more determined to overcome this. I have done a little research into Python with a view to learning my way round UI work and a little (and I do mean a little: the basics would be generous) of C++. In the past I have used RPGmaker ect but the bulk of my experience in this field was whilst I was playing NWN. I was part of a 6-8 man team and asides from using the drag and drop style editor I actually learned a lot of scripting with the help of my team and other resources. I loved it. Getting around 1 hour of sleep a night so I could learn all day and work all night as it were.
So that is about the extent of my expertise. What I would like to know is: What can I do to give myself a fighting chance of making this my career. I don't think I am talented enough with the art-work side of things but definitely have a head for numbers and code. I would love to be pushed in a direction that will yield results as well as bolster my CV and applications for a degree and or job (perhaps a language / editor to bring pet projects to life). QA has gone through my head but I haven't the foggiest where to start looking there (pre-degree work) and isn't the end of my ambition.
Also, I'm sure this isn't the place to say this but well done to the makers of this site. What a great idea and what a great community, there is enough here to have given me the proverbial kick up my arse that I needed to get going on this.
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The 8 Most Successful Politicians (Who Weren't Human)
#4. Frederico the Goat
In 1996, Frederico the Goat carried on the torch of Cacareco the Rhinoceros by running for mayor of Pilar, Brazil (Scroll down to the second article if you click that link unless you are really interested in whether Guyana will get a law school.)
Goats are already making progress in countries like Spain, where they can serve in the military.
Although highly popular (a convoy of 50 vehicles drove through town in support of Frederico), his candidacy was also highly controversial (someone shot at the convoy). That's why some people found it highly suspicious when the candidate was found dead under mysterious circumstances (His owner said he "had a lot of foam in his mouth"), especially since he was leading in opinion polls at the time.
An alternative explanation.
Much like President Kennedy, Frederico was cut down in his prime, leaving only questions of what might have been. Unlike Kennedy, we will actually never know what really happened.
#3. Rabbit Hash, Kentucky
Rabbit Hash isn't an animal or the remains of one, but a town. I can't name just one animal here because Rabbit Hash is an animal-electing phenomenon. They have been voting animals as mayor since 1998, partly because they have nothing better to do, and partly to get some attention.
And it's hard to blame them, since the town almost went under in the 70s and is basically being maintained by a historical preservation society. So sure, elect some animals and get some press. At least it's not like that historic black town that's only being preserved because of birdwatching.
"Look, kids! It's the only thing that will get people to care about you!"
But the thing is, the level of detail on the Rabbit Hash official website is a little nuts. For the most recent election (winner: Lucy Lou, border collie), there were detailed biographies of all 12 animal candidates, every one of them filled with terrible animal puns.
Example: "Pike is liberally conservative, but he is tired of the dog and pony show of politics." Hmm. "Although rumors have dogged him about the ladies..." Okay, that's enough.
I don't really blame Pike. I blame the handlers.
Meanwhile, the bloglike "Herb's Thoughts," on the front page, despite its hokey "down-home" dialect, doesn't always quite fit the mold of cutesy animal-electing family friendly stuntery, with quotes like: "My Daddy allus tole me that politics an' religion was jest like a penis!.......ya don't pull it out in public and ya don't dare try and cram it down my kids' throat!"
I'm not entirely sure if Rabbit Hash is going for the "cute gimmick so you come visit us" angle or the "make you uncomfortable so you pay us money to go away" angle. We all do what we must to survive.
#2. H'Angus the Monkey Mascot
First of all, yes, technically Stuart Drummond, the man in the monkey costume, was the name on the ballot, and he is a human being, as much as any Englishman can be.
However, he ran for office in his monkey mascot costume, which he wore in his job as official mascot of the local sports team. Although he spoke about actual local issues at times, his biggest campaign pledge was a banana for every schoolchild.
A promise he BROKE, by the way.
This election, in 2002, was the first time the borough of Hartlepool had voted for a mayor (I guess it's something boroughs don't usually do) so maybe they hadn't quite gotten the hang of it yet. Drummond claimed unequivocally that people had voted for him seriously based on his platform, saying "If anyone's suggesting people actually voted for a monkey, that is just demeaning to the public. It's a serious thing, voting. They know who they voted for and what I was standing for."
Apparently he stood for "H'ANGUS X".
But when that same reporter asked patrons of a local pub who'd they'd voted for -- the monkey or the man -- they replied, "The monkey, of course."
He was re-elected to a third term in 2009.
#1. Mayor Pulvapies
Sure, none of those mayors may have been human (except technically the monkey guy) but at least they've been some kind of living organisms. So the town of Picoaza, Ecuador, has them all beat, since it elected a brand of foot powder mayor in 1967.
He does look accessible.
Since it was election time, the manufacturer of the foot powder Pulvapies decided to make some tongue-in-cheek election-themed ads with the slogan: "Vote for any candidate, but if you want well-being and hygiene, vote for Pulvapies."
Picoaza took this literally, and Pulvapies won the election as a write-in candidate. This is like if Americans had watched the M&Ms election-themed ads and actually voted Blue M&M into Congress.
Would that have been so bad?
News after the election is hard to come by, but let's assume that Pulvapies never took office, because it can't. The town certainly still exists, so all we know for sure is that it didn't implode over the logical impossibility of voting a brand of foot powder into office.
But here is what it would have looked like if it had.
I think we can all learn a lesson from this, which is that next time you want attention or want to embarrass the political system (or both!), put an embarrassing non-human candidate on the ballot. Sure, you'll be wasting taxpayer dollars and contributing toward the erosion of faith in an already battered democratic system, but it'll be funny.
Note: You know who would probably never win an election? Cancer. That's why I'll be participating in a 100 mile bike ride to raise money for leukemia research, click here to find out more or donate.
Check out weeks past in which Christina explained 5 Reasons Why Parenting is One Place We Shouldn't Imitate China and 5 Wildly Popular Car Modifications That Must Be Stopped.


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Ice racing on Three Ponds for 66 years
MILTON — With the air temperature ticking below freezing on an overcast day, and most folks in the area searching for ways to keep warm, being outdoors at Milton Three Ponds was an anomaly. Sunday is car racing on the ice day, and has been so, according to old-timers, for some 66 years.
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This is the first in a series that I'll will be writing about personal information management.
While personal information is often thought of as only the documents, emails, and other pieces of information that people receive or retain for some potential, immediate, or future need, William Jones, in his Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management (Morgan Kaufmann, 2008), expands the field to include information about "me" or owned by "me." As our online identities, information about us online, expand, how can we manage that information to put our best face (identity) forward?
My online life has proliferated greatly over the past years. What once was an email account that I accessed through a text-based interface and was primarily a way to communicate with a few friends I knew "in real life" has become multiple blogs, websites, social networks, comments, micro-blogs, status updates, photos, drawings, links, presentations, and more. Each one is a new profile and another place people might find my content (or at least something about me).
Perhaps I'm lucky in that I have an unusual name. I can Google myself and go through 100 results without finding a hit that isn't me (also an indication of how active my online life is, I guess). Take a look at the first page of results on my name in quotes. On examination the results reveal a few points of interest. Seven out of ten feature my name in the page's title. Six of the ten have my name in the URL. The top result is my home page, which has my name in neither title nor url, but is in the header of the page and the metadata and probably a lot of links go there referencing my name. The remaining result is my profile on my library's LibGuides, which simply features my name 10 times in a very small amount of text.
When you are trying to find out about someone online, a lot is based on names in titles and urls and links from one site to another. That is no problem if you have a rare name (at least, rare online) and your name ends up in titles of pages or urls. But many services don't put names in page titles; maybe they just put your username, which is often not your name or even close to your name. Maybe your name only appears once on a page, but it's a single important occurrence (table of contents of a book, praise in a newspaper article or blog post). How will people find you (if you want to be found)? How will people find what you want them to find (the good stuff)?
Even more problematic is the case of someone with a name that is shared by others who also have some kind of online life. Confusion can easily occur to the casual searcher. I have a friend who has not only someone with the same name as her but who is also in the same profession. This lack of difference in basic identifiers (same name, same occupation) can increase the chances of confusion and a mingling of multiple identities. In the case of my ITLWTLP colleague Emily Ford, a Google search on her name does bring up her author page at this site (result nine). But it also brings up Emily Ford the author of a book from the "Erotic Print Society", Emily Ford the marketing manager, Emily Ford who posts about restaurants in the San Francisco area, Emily Ford the rowing coach at Oregon State, as well as Emily's in Alaska, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. Some of these might be the same Emily–does author Emily live in San Franscisco or coach rowing, did Emily from North Carolina move to Massachusetts–, but they might also all be different.
In a world full of Emily's, how does our Emily associate herself with her content and not someone else's? If she is looking for a job and someone Googles her name, the Googler should easily realize that these are not all the same Emily, but he or she may make wrong assumptions about certain content. He may think ITLWTLP Emily also writes erotic fiction–our Emily may not want people thinking that. He may miss positive content that Emily would want others to see. There are no easy answers to these problems, but a number of sites and tools have been made to help aggregate online identity and make connections between the sites you want people to see.
ClaimID, created by two doctoral students at UNC's School of Information and Library Science, was designed as an online identity manager. You create an account to manage your ClaimID page (you can take a look at mine) which serves as a kind of home page. For the many people without a homepage, who use Facebook or Twitter or Blogger as their primary online home, the ClaimID page offers a single page to aggregate your personal information. This page is used as a repository for your links: links about you, links by you, as well as links that people might think are about you (so you can say "not mine!"). By putting your name in the URL, the title, and the metadata, ClaimID hopes to make your page rise in search results. By linking back to your ClaimID page from your various online profiles, you can help raise that profile (most search results use inbound links to increase relevancy). With ClaimID you can stake a claim to your online identity, tweaking it as you see fit by adding or not adding content.
ClaimID makes use of a few emerging (already emerged?) tools for making social/identity connections online. Of relevance to gathering personal information about yourself is "rel=me". This is a subset of the XFN (XHTML Friends Network) microformat. A microformat, as succinctly described by Microformats.org, is "designed for humans first and machines second, …a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards." Basically, it is a way to embed data that is both human and machine readable. XFN is used to embed social relationships into links. If I have a link on my blog to another blog, I can use XFN to note that the owner of that other blog is a "friend" or a "colleague" or even that I have "met" them. These relationships are marked using the "rel" (short for relationship) attribute of link tags in HTML. If a normal link to my friend's blog looks like this:
A Blog I Read
A link to my friend's blog, where I am using XFN, may look like this:
Blog I Read
This would allow XFN aware applications to know that I consider the owner of the "Blog I Read" to be a friend.
For online identity, the value of "me" can be used for the "rel" link attribute to represent a link to another page about/by the same person. The use of "rel=me" is already in place at a number of web applications and sites. Take a look at the html of any Flickr profile page where the user has filled in the "homepage" field, and you will find a "rel=me" link. Similarly, the "Web" field of a Twitter user's profile is also linked with "rel=me". These links make an assertion of identity between two sites. Ideally, a user would be able to create reciprocal "rel=me" links to loosely verify the relationship. In other words, if my Twitter page has a "rel=me" link to my home page, my home page would also have a "rel=me" link to my Twitter page. This reciprocal linking shows that I have control over both sites, thus verifying their connection as "me." Verifying who "me" is, is another problem all together. If someone else made a Twitter account and linked as "rel=me" to my home page, there would be an ambiguous relationship, because I, in control of the home page, would not link back to someone else's Twitter account with "rel=me." These links are not about establishing who someone is, rather they are about relationships: saying that this account and that account are the same entity.
These links are what would be considered "semantic links". The idea of semantic links is that the link itself helps explain the relationship between the two ends of the link (in this case, people relationships, but it could also be other types of relationships). Of particular importance is the ability of machines (other computers) to "read" these links and understand the relationship.
Google's Social Graph API is one application designed to read these semantic links using the "rel" attribute and XFN. The Social Graph is not yet widely used, but it points to the potential for these types of tools. For the time being, it's interesting to use the Social Graph to see how one's own accounts and sites are connected. One can peruse a few example applications of the Social Graph including the Site Connectivity demo.1
You can type one or many websites into the Site Connectivity box and it will track down "rel=me" links, both one way and reciprocal. See the results for my homepage here. The results show how my various sites/accounts connect to each other through "rel=me" links. The first section, "Info on Your Connected Sites" shows sites connected by "rel=me"" links. The sites in the left column are those linked from my homepage. The right column indicates the strength of the connection. Sites at the top of the table with green numbers are reciprocally linked with "rel=me". I'll admit it's not all completely clear to me. The "Possible Connections" sections show sites that link to one or more of my other sites. I'm not sure why my home page appears down here. I do know that a few of my ITLWTLP colleague's Twitter accounts appear in this section because they have this site in the "Web" field of their accounts. Because I am also pointing at the same page, the Social Graph thinks we might be the same entity.
You'll note that I've actually got a number of reciprocally connected sites and profiles. This is primarily because my home page links out to a number of my profiles with a "rel=me" link. When those sites (Twitter, Flickr, etc.) are also using "rel=me" a reciprocal relationship is created.
Even if you don't have your own home page (or a ClaimID page) linking out to all these services, you can create a networked identity by linking your profiles to each other. Tools able to identify and follow these semantic links can follow chains of links to create an aggregate. If you put someone's Twitter URL into the Site Connectivity demo at Google, you can often immediately find that user's profile in various blog platforms, Flickr, Friendfeed, Technorati, and other sites. Try it for yourself. If we put Aaron Schmidt's Walking Paper website URL into the search we end up with a list of potential connections to FriendFeed, Flickr, Yelp, Technorati, and LastFM2.
Do these connections, publicly discoverable as they are, offer a threat to privacy? I would say, "no." The type of information tracked by the Social Graph API, all of these links, are based on information published by the people in the links. I choose what I put into my Twitter account web field. I choose what goes into my Flickr profile and all my other accounts. If I don't want these pieces of information to be discovered, I shouldn't make them public or at least not link them together.
By choosing which connections you create and how you label them, you can create multiple online identities. If I had wanted to, in the past, keep my librarian self separate from my comics blogging/drawing self, I could have made a concerted effort to not link those profiles, to use separate home pages, separate usernames, separate commenting identities. It might not have been a perfect separation, but it would have helped a lot in separating the two identities. In my case, those both becoming ever more public identities, it does not behoove me to do this. I want the connections to be made.
One should be aware that any information that gets out there publicly could be put to use by sites and users outside the original context. This gets done already; think about the white pages that spread across the internet and the sites that aggregate them. In the past I've found sites that list my last four or five phone numbers and addresses all at once. This is being done with our social networking information. Going through the Google results on my own name (above), I found results at the site Delver. There were two pages for "Derik Badman." One seems to be drawing on my Flickr information (and links to my now deleted MySpace account), showing my profile, connections, and thumbnails from that site. The second seems to be drawing a limited amount of information from Facebook, including a small subset of my friends (perhaps those that had public profiles?). Why are these two profiles separate? As far as I can tell, this is because my public Facebook page had no links to any of my other accounts, thus keeping the site from making the connection between the two.
So what does all this matter to librarians, that is, beyond a personal interest in their own online identities? Information literacy, educating our patrons, is more than just about finding, using, and evaluating information made by others; it is also about our own information and our own personal information space. And personal information is more than just the stuff we keep on our computers. Personal information is also the information about us that others might find, use, and evaluate. If we are aware of these issues, we can advise patrons to manage their online identities. Tools that automatically create these connections will only increase over time. People should be aware of their online identities as they look for jobs (don't you Google candidates?), while those with a public personality, or who want to have a public personality need to be even more careful of the identity they put forward. For self-promotional reasons, being able to manage and connect all one's various profiles, content, and networks can aid in creating exposure for creative endeavors. Younger users can benefit greatly from being aware of these issues before their online identities proliferate, allowing a great control of these identities from the start. Some of us are stuck with what's out there, and all we can do is manage the results.
Thanks to: Emily Ford for comments and the use of her name, Ellie Collier and Hilary Davis for comments, and Lianne Hartman for editing, comments, and the title. ()
- The use of other "rel" values can be used by this system to works towards a "distributed social network." This article by Ben Ward is a good introduction to the topic. [↩]
- I should note that none of this is private information. It's all based on publicly viewable links. [↩]


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Hot Flashes (cont.)
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD
Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
In this Article
- Hot flash facts
- What are hot flashes?
- What causes hot flashes?
- What are the symptoms of hot flashes?
- How are hot flashes diagnosed?
- What is the treatment for hot flashes?
- Hormone Therapy
- Bioidentical hormone therapy
- Other drug treatments
- Complementary and alternative treatments
- Phytoestrogens
- Black cohosh
- Other alternative therapies
- Can hot flashes be prevented?
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Black cohosh
Black cohosh is an herbal preparation that is becoming more and more popular in the U.S., and the North American Menopause Society does support the short-term use of black cohosh for treating menopausal symptoms, for a period of up to six months (because of its relatively low incidence of side effects when used over the short-term).
Some studies have shown that black cohosh can reduce hot flashes, but most of the studies have not been considered to be rigorous enough in their design to firmly prove any benefit. There also have not been scientific studies done to establish the long-term benefits and safety of this product. Research is ongoing to further determine the effectiveness and safety of black cohosh.
Other alternative therapies
There are many other supplements and substances that have been used as treatments for symptoms of menopause, including:
- vitamin E,
- licorice,
- evening primrose oil,
- dong quai,
- chasteberry, and
- wild yam.
Scientific studies to prove the safety and effectiveness of these products in relieving hot flashes have not been adequately performed.
Can hot flashes be prevented?
While the development of hot flashes cannot be prevented, the treatment methods as described in the above section may be able to reduce their incidence and severity.
REFERENCE: Santen, R. et al. "Menopausal hot flashes." Mar 17, 2015
Source: MedicineNet.com
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The Fifth Element (Remastered) [Blu-ray]: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich - Save $19.11 for $7.88
Ancient curses, all-powerful monsters, shape-changing assassins, scantily-clad stewardesses, laser battles, huge explosions, a perfect woman, a malcontent hero--what more can you ask of a big-budget science fiction movie? Luc Besson's high-octane film incorporates presidents, rock stars, and cab drivers into its peculiar plot, traversing worlds and encountering some pretty wild aliens. Bruce Willis stars as a down-and-out cabbie who must win the love of Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) to save Earth from destruction by Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman) and a dark, unearthly force that makes Darth Vader look like an Ewok. --Geoff Riley
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Hah. Multipass. :)
Aziz! Light!
This is yet another one of those must see movies.
\I think the ending was a little hurried.
I meant the heroic scene before the tanning bed scene.
But it's a must see movie for everybody.
Didya know she practiced that made up language so that all the words, grammar, pronunciation etc would work?
Awesome movie.
If you like the fifth element, why not buy another amazing film by Luc Besson?
Leon The Professional:
Big bahda boom.
This is tied for the current best price and best price I've ever seen for this movie (walmart has it for the same price, take your pick). $7.88 is a steal, if you've been thinking about grabbing it, now's the time.
"Have we got anything bigger than 120's?"
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - It is a proud time for St. Clairsville and Belmont County after the recent state-level accomplishments of the St. Clairsville Red Devils this past football season. Belmont County Commissioners Wednesday passed a resolution honoring the team and Coach Brett McLean.
The coach and team members visited the commissioners during their meeting.
This past weekend, the team capped its 14-1 record with a first-ever appearance in the OHSAA State Championship game.
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BELMONT COUNTY Commissioners honored the St. Clairsville High football team Wednesday for its great accomplishments this season. The Red Devils went 14-1 en route to a Division IV state runner-up trophy.
Praise also went to McLean, who has led the team to qualify for playoffs six times with two 10-0 seasons, and who completed his most successful season in his 11 years of leading the team.
Commissioner Ginny Favede congratulated the players, noting that they will remember this accomplishment for years to come.
"We are all so amazingly proud of you," she said, adding that the lessons learned in sports such as teamwork, responsibility, their own measure and capabilities, and the value of hard work, will profit them throughout their lives. "I congratulate you all on being such good men, such good women, such good athletes."
Commissioner Charles R. Probst, Jr. added that the team's accomplishments have been followed with interest by surrounding counties.
"You give us all bragging rights and we've all pulled together," he said. "This resolution speaks for all the residents of Belmont County."
"You're among the elite in Belmont County," said Commissioner Matt Coffland. He recalled the strong showing of supporters in the stands during the event. "What's amazing is how everyone in the county comes together."
Commissioners congratulated McLean on instilling in his players the importance of inner drive to persevere and strive for success both individually and as a team.
"Without you, none of this would be possible," said Favede. "It's such a thrill to be here and to acknowledge all of you."
"This is something you've instilled in them that they're going to carry through for the rest of their lives," Probst said.
Coffland also complimented McLean on the quality of the players' characters, which he helped to shape.
McLean credited the players, their families, and added that the cheers of county fans were a source of inspiration for the team.
"The overwhelming support of Belmont County, when you turned around and looked into that crowd and it was wall to wall red and grey," he said. "We're proud to be the St. Clairsville Red Devils but we're just a part of a county that's a real proud county in the state. We'll continue to work to compete at that level."
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The 5-8 miles between aid stations will fly by as runners enjoy the beautiful trails shaded by towering 2nd and 3rd generation redwoods. The diverse course is linked together With Bear Gulch, Skyline Trail , and a sweet loop on Wunderlich Trail. Huddart Park serves as the perfect staging area for the start and finish and large grassy areas where runners may spread out and lounge while enjoying the post race food.
Sorry, no dogs are allowed in the park or on the trails.
Park information: Huddart County Park, Wunderlich County Park
Location: Huddart County Park - Woodside, CA
Date: Saturday, December 17, 2016
Events: 10K, Half Marathon, 35K & 50K
Check In & Bib Pickup: 7:30 AM - 8:35 AM
Start Times: ● 10K - 8:45 AM ● Half Marathon - 8:30 AM ● 35K & 50K - 8:00 AM
Time Limit: There is an 8.5 hour time limit for the 50K race.
Parking: Parking is $6.00 and available within Huddart County Park.
Race Capacity: The Woodside Ramble will have a capacity of 400 runners, across all distances.
ITR Refund Policy:Entry fees to our trail runs are non-refundable. With advanced notice, we are happy to transfer part of your entry fee (75% up to two weeks of the event, 50% from 2 weeks up to 72 hours of the event) to a future ITR event. Only registered runners can participate, and you cannot exchange your entry with another runner.
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Overall winners of each race distance will receive a medal, a custom glass Stein and an item from the Inside Trail Racing schwag bag.
All ultra-marathon distance finishers will receive a custom printed Pint Glass with the race logo.
All other finishers will receive a custom medal with the race logo.
The Dead Last Finisher (DLF) in each even will receive a custom award.
All registered runners will receive a Greenlayer Sports Evolution technical fabric shirt. Your favorite training tee has been updated for the new season. Made from super soft moisture-wicking fabric, the Evolution Short Sleeve Tee offers the perfect blend of performance, fit and design at an exceptional price point. The Greenlayer logo is featured in a color popping contrast color on the left sleeve.
Fabric: 150g / 50% recycled polyester / 50% polyester
To be guaranteed your shirt size, you must register by December 3, 2016.
At Inside Trail Racing aid stations it's like an all you can eat buffet, but this is a race, so don't linger too long! Expect to find variety at all of our aid stations, including a plethora of Clif Bar Products (Clif Shot Gels, Clif Bloks, Clif Bars), as well as sweet and salty offerings like trail mix, pretzels, potato chips, Oreo cookies, Pop Tarts, boiled potatoes with salt, PB&J finger sandwiches, regular soda (Coke or Pepsi), Mountain Dew, water, Tailwind Endurance Fuel, PB&J finger sandwiches, M&M's, Mike & Ike's, salt tablets... you get the idea. There will also be general first aid items but no anti-inflamatory medicine. We strongly encourage all runners to carry at least one 20oz bottle from which to sip while you enjoy your run.


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Drive-by shooting reported in Union
Published: Monday, March 11, 2013 at 5:58 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 11, 2013 at 5:58 p.m.
A Union man told deputies that someone fired a shot into his Santuc-Carlisle Highway home Saturday.
According to an incident report, deputies responded to the home about 9:40 p.m. A resident said he was watching TV with his family in the living room when he heard a shot. The shot came through the front window and hit a picture frame hanging about 2 feet above his head, the report states.
No one was injured in the incident. Damage was estimated at $300.
The resident said he didn't see a car but heard one leaving from in front of his house after the shot was fired, the report states. Deputies retrieved a piece of lead from the living room floor.
No suspects were listed on the report.
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I have a concrete counter that is a bit unusual in that the surface layer is just concrete dye. It looks awesome, very earthy mix of colors, but unfortunantly it cracks, pulls up a bit. I tried patching with SpectraLOCK grout, and while it seems to work, and be stronger, it is sanded, and I need an unsanded grout.
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Normal Menstrual Cycle - Topic Overview
What controls the menstrual cycle? continued...
A change in hormone levels can affect your cycle or fertility. For example, teens tend to have low or changing progesterone levels. This is also true for women close to menopause. That is why teens and women in their 40s may have heavy menstrual bleeding and cycles that change in length.
Other things can change your cycle. They include birth control pills, low body fat, losing a lot of weight, or being overweight. Stress or very hard exercise also can change your cycle. Pregnancy is the most common cause of a missed period.
What common symptoms are linked to the menstrual cycle?
Some women have no pain or other problems. But other women have symptoms before and during their periods.
For about a week before a period, many women have some premenstrual symptoms. You may feel more tense or angry. You may gain water weight and feel bloated. Your breasts may feel tender. You may get acne. You also may have less energy than usual. A day or two before your period, you may start having pain (cramps) in your belly, back, or legs. These symptoms go away during the first days of a period.
When your ovary releases an egg in the middle of your cycle, you may have pain in your lower belly. You also might have red spotting for less than a day. Both are normal.
How can women take care of bleeding and symptoms?
You can use pads, tampons, or menstrual cups to manage bleeding. Whatever you use, be sure to change it at least every 4 to 8 hours. Pads may be best at night.
Many women can improve their symptoms by getting regular exercise and eating a healthy diet. It also may help to limit alcohol and caffeine. Try to reduce stress.
A heating pad, hot water bottle, or warm bath also can help with cramps. You can take an over-the-counter medicine such as ibuprofen or naproxen before and during your period to reduce pain and bleeding.
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Julian Cowart
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About Me
PhD, Leadership for Higher Education
Capella University, Minneapolis, MN
M.A. Education and Human Development, Higher Education Concentration
The George Washington University, Washington DC
B.S. Multiple Church Ministry
Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, TN
Southwestern Christian University, Bethany OK
Director of Online Education
LeTourneau University, Longview TX
Director of Curriculum and Academic Resources, July 2006 - Present,
Director of Curriculum and Special Programs, November 2001 - June 2006
Director of Curriculum and Classroom Technology, July 1999 - October 2001
Director of Continuing Studies, January 1998 - June 1999
Hinds Community College, Jackson MS (Vicksburg Campus)
Adjunct Instructor, March 1997 - December 1977
Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Mount Vernon OH
Director of EXCELL, July 1995 - January 1977
Financial Planning Counselor, August 1994 - June 1995
The George Washington University, Washington DC (Hampton Roads Center)
Senior Education Specialist, January 1991 - July 1994
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We're proud to launch "Mozilla Webmaker," a new program to help people everywhere make, learn and play using the open building blocks of the web. The goal: help millions of people move from using the web to making the web. With new tools to use, projects to create, and events to join, we want to... Read more


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New Dark Souls II bosses, NPCs and lore revealed in 'Cursed' trailerWritten by: / / 11 Comments
Namco Bandai Games has released an epic new trailer for Dark Souls II to remind us to save our pennies for this third entry in From Software's celebrated Souls series. Entitled 'Cursed', the trailer does a great job of capturing the desperate struggle for survival that lies at the heart of the Dark Souls experience while giving us a glimpse at a number of new bosses, enemies, NPCs and environments from the sequel which have been kept under wraps until now.
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Dark Souls II will be released on March 11th in the US and March 14th in European territories for PS3 and Xbox 360, with a PC version expected at a later date. Head over here for El33tonline's previous coverage of the latest entry in this hugely influential series.
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To promote the launch of Pentaho BI 4 last week, we hosted two live demos to showcase the great new features bringing 'Power to the User' in our latest release. By the volume of questions we received during the demos (which had record attendance) – we can tell that everyone is just as excited about this release as we are! Although it was impossible to answer every question during the live demo, there was a trend of common questions asked by the audience. Here are the top five most asked questions and answers:
Q: Which Internet browsers does Pentaho support? Is there a preferred browser?
A: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Chrome are all supported by Pentaho. We do not have a preferred browser – any of these are fine.
Q: Does Pentaho offer training or classes?
A: Yes, Pentaho and our partners offer a wide range of online and in-person training classes all over the world. Visit our training page or contact your account rep to learn more. Also, we plan to host a live demo of BI 4 for more technical users within the next month. Check back to the events page on our website for more information. We often share discounts to our Facebook fans and Twitter followers.
Q: What are the different editions of Pentaho BI 4 and how much do they cost?
A: Pentaho BI 4 is offered in three different editions: Basic, Professional and Enterprise. Read the What's New in Pentaho BI 4 overview to see what is included in each edition. We don't publicly state our pricing for competitive reasons, but you can request a quote online here.
Q: How do I migrate from my current version to Pentaho BI 4?
A: When the GA is available in the next 4-6 weeks we will provide documentation for Enterprise customers to migrate to Pentaho BI 4. This will be similar to past migration documents.
Q: Is there a mobile version of Pentaho BI 4 that will allow me to access my information on an iPad or phone?
A: Yes, Pentaho's interactive analysis tool, Analyzer, is fully supported on the Apple iPad.
If you're still looking for an answer to your question, please contact us. And if you missed the live demo, watch it online here.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – After wrapping up their indoor season nearly four weeks ago, the Anderson University men's and women's track and field teams are slated to open their respective outdoor seasons at the 49er Classic, hosted by Charlotte at the Irwin Belk Track & Field facility this week.
Junior Jill Baxter will open the events for the Trojans, as the Denver, N.C. native is scheduled to compete in the heptathlon, beginning at 11 a.m. on Thursday and continuing through Friday, while the other events will begin at 11 a.m. on Friday and wrap up late Saturday afternoon.
Last year's 49er Classic attracted nearly 50 programs from across the nation, with Baxter claiming 11th in the heptathlon. With four events on the opening day a year ago, Baxter used a personal-best distance of 8.87 meters in the shot put to finish sixth in the event. She placed seventh in the high jump at 1.48 meters and 14th in the 200 meters in a time of 28.15 seconds. Her time of 18.89 seconds in the 100 meter hurdles was good enough for 17th.
On the final day, Baxter tied for 17th in the long jump with a distance of 4.57 meters and brought home fifth in the javelin throw with a toss of 26.69 meters. She closed the event with a 12th-place finish in the 800 meter run.
The Trojan women's team wrapped up its indoor season at the one-day Gamecock Invitational on Feb. 22, with 16 top-10 finishes, including two first-place efforts. Junior Sydney Hazel won the mile run, while freshman Olivia Gardner claimed first place in the 3000 meter run.
Freshman Bari Robinson captured fourth in the 800, with junior Madison Guest finishing ninth. Sophomore Devan Fisher captured third in the mile run, with freshman Grace Gerlock bringing home seventh in the 3000 meter. Mia Swierzs and Amber Worthy finished ninth and 10th, respectively, in the 3000 meter.
Freshman Sherin Malone crossed the line in third in the 55 meter hurdles, with freshman Megan Shahoud, and Baxter finishing third and fourth, respectively, in the high jump. Shahoud also placed third in the long jump. In the throwing events, junior Brooklyn Watt placed fifth in the shot put and fifth in the weight throw. Fellow junior Savanna Keese earned fourth in the weight throw, while sophomore D'Yandra Morris was ninth in the shot put.
The men's squad grabbed 13 top-10 efforts, with freshman Caleb Knight earning 10th in the 400 meter dash, while junior Joshua Visi-Clark placed fourth in the 800 meter run. Freshmen Thomas Garrigan and Jesse Patrick finished fourth and eighth, respectively in the mile run.
Freshman Ben Boerma placed third in the 3000 meter run, with senior Parks Edwards finishing just behind in fourth. Freshman Ned Kennedy, senior Westley Wilson and freshman Michael Burch finished sixth, seventh and eighth, respectively, in the 3000 meter.
Malik Brown captured second in the 55 meter hurdles, with freshman Jonathan Shorter finishing third. Freshman Philip DeGraaf was seventh in the pole vault and freshman Eric Hoover was ninth in the long jump.


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Volkswagen unveiled the two-seater open-top Buggy Up! concept at the Frankfurt Auto Show. The concept has its roots in the buggy car that was born in California in 1960s. Built with strong, high-tech, lightweight construction steels, the Buggy Up! concept is a perfect beach car as it has arrangements to drain the water via floors/seats and the interior is made water proof as well.


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Susan has coordinated college efforts in raising $13.4 million in competitive grants in six years. Her favorite part of the job is working with faculty, staff, and community partners to plan innovative and exciting projects that ultimately make our campus and community stronger. Some special projects she is working on now include raising funds for the Health, Nursing, and Science Center, establishing the UCC Foundation Fund for Innovation, and building partnerships with organizations such as the E.M. Kauffman Foundation and Walmart Foundation.
Ms. Taylor specializes in resource diversification, strategic partnerships, and special projects, and serves as a speaker at national conferences for the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), Workforce Development Institute (WDI), and Council on Resource Development (CRD). She has a master's degree in public administration from University of Montana and a bachelor's degree in geography from Oklahoma State University. Susan is also a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE). She was recently awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to participate in the Fulbright International Education Administrators Seminar in Germany in October 2014.
Prior to finding a home in academia eight years ago, Ms. Taylor held roles as national park ranger, Boys & Girls Club director, and field ecology teacher. Susan stays busy with her husband and two young children. She enjoys travel, wine, music, swimming, reading, and the outdoors.