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The Mormon m. (Morons n., Moremen f.) is a mystery school that worships Jesus of Jerusalem and takes 10% of your pay. Like other mystery schools, such as Freemasonry and Christianity, it thrives on jello dishes, casseroles and pasteries. Unlike all other organized religions, it is, of course, The Only Correct Religion.
Mormons are taught that we are all brothers and sisters in the Lord, which makes finding a mate and reproducing prolifically increasingly awkward. Mormons are readily identified by their habit of going door-to-door trying to meet new friends. Mormonism still remains popular today because there are never-ending rumors about who they are and what they believe. Seriously, who doesn't enjoy peeps talking 'bout you?! Be sure to ask those guys coming around door-to-door what's the latest ridiculous rumor about them.
edit History
A 33 year old BYU coach named "Joseph Smith", was given some "golden plays" by an angel named "Moroni". Using some invisible glasses he ordered from an ad in a comic book Joseph Smith wrote a sweet playbook useful for all College sports. Someone thought it was bullshit, and took the book. To prove it was not bullshit Joseph Smith wrote another slightly different version of the same book, also using the invisible glasses. That convinced millions of people. The Mormons are still contenders in College sports and some unbelievers are still digging up mountains looking for the glasses, but unfortunately have not been able to find them because they are invisible.
In 1860, Smith, left control of his playbook retroactively to Brigham Young, who moved the BYU teams with the Spirit in Provo Utah.
By 1970, Mormons had already taken over more than 54% of the United States, leading to a tricycle and Jello shortage. Their swelling numbers caused an increase in Jello consumption leading the Gelatin bubble of 1999.
edit Naming
The word "Mormon" is believed to be a corruption of the phrase "More men", chosen due to Mormonism's shameless and unquenchable hunger for more members, either through breeding or
conversion delivery from temptation. It's actually intended as a slur. But since it references a prophet, military genius, and author of the history referred to as "The Book of Mormon" it was never offensive to those who are familiar with the liturgy. Haters gonna hate.
edit Golden Plates
No, they're not hidden somewhere in the Mormon Tabernacle - a couple of people got to feel them through a burlap bag then they got given back to the Angel Moroni. Now that you know you can't steal them and hock them for cash, you can quit reading now.
Some say that the plates never existed and that Joseph Smith was a deluded cult leader, but those people are liars!
edit Proof of concept
Church History: When Jesus Christ lived on the earth, He organized His Church "as if it were like unto a sock drawer" (Luke 21:4). After Jesus Christ descended to hell, His wicked disciples changed the Jello recipe of the Church that He had established. This Apostasy, or general falling away from the Jello, brought about the age of lost and mismatched socks. In a letter to the Amphibians (12:34-87 or so, just keep looking), Peter prophesied that Jesus would come back "really any minute now, and shit man, He will be peeved" and restore tidiness to His Church. But Jesus Christ's long-postponed coming would pour forth in a gushing stream of holiness only when BYU wins a National title.
In 1820, the 25-year-old Joseph Smith went into a grove of trees near his home in Palmyra, New York, in order to consider geomagnetic polar shift and he was distracted by thoughts on religion. Opening his Bible to the story of David and Goliath (his favorite story not related to geomagnetic polar shift), he found a passage which says, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him" (James 1:5). Joseph decided, "well, forget it!", and after sneaking off to a secluded spot where he could ponder the petty rivalries within the Christians, he suddenly saw a blinding light and had a marvelous vision. God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ appeared beside a slab of bacon, just as heavenly beings had appeared to prophets like Moses and Paul in biblical times. When Joseph came to, he realized that he would never use heroin, and learned that the Church originally organized by Jesus was no longer consuming Jello products.
Smith was chosen (by a vote of God the Father and the Son, with the Holy Spirit abstaining) to restore true Christianity, with Jello, to the earth. To get this started, the angel Moroni showed Smith where a set of golden plates and Jello recipes were buried. Joseph translated the Book of Mormon, and received authority to organize the Church. Joseph's Jello recipes are still legendary.
The Church was organized in Fayette, New York, on 6 April 1830, and quickly gained hundreds of followers attracted by the prospects of Jello embellishments. To support his Gelatin lifestyle, Smith encouraged others to try the new recipes for themselves.
Now a worldwide Church with over 14 million bajillion members, 11 million of which have major Jello or pastry addiction. The Church recently made headlines when it decided to hire Vince, "The Sham-Wow" guy to produce and star in several TV spots where many modern Jello friendly products are featured and made to amaze with wonderment.
edit Caffeine
Mormons can drink caffeine, they just prefer not to because caffeine is for followers and they prefer to be leaders. However a recent breakaway faction called the Latte Day Saints have been experimenting with viewing images of low caffeine, high milk forms of coffee.
edit Mormons vs. Amish
While many people believe Mormons are much like the Amish, they are incorrect. Amish always win in the beard growing contests and Mormons will not dispute this.
It all began one day when a bearded youth of the town and a village Amish woman were fighting over the last fresh cabbage at a local farmers' market. Cleverly, the Amish woman beat down the bearded youth with a nearby salt shaker, resulting in the youth being exposed as a beard faker. The Amish rejoyced over their small victory for over three years, then finally decided to seek a rematch. The Mormons, sensing the pacifist fury of the Amish, conceded quickly.
The lack of fierce battles continues to this day. During a typical skirmish, the Amish will avoid eye contact and harshly shun, while Mormons will use pretend curses like: flippin', fetch, oh snap, what the smack, crud, fiddlesticks, oh heavenly days, oh my heavens, geez, whoops, crapola, fudge, frickin, blast, doggone it, for petes sake, for cryin' out loud, golly, and oh sugar.
edit Utah
Every Mormon must once in their lifetime discuss at length the tentative possibility of a pilgrimage to Utah (The Mormon Mecca). But, usually opt instead to share that they believe in Jesus Christ and can enjoy Jello anywhere. When these pilgrimages do occur, they require a minimum of 2 coolers full of healthy snacks. Once they reach Utah, they reconnect with friends and visit historical sites. Utah is the place where Re-fried Bean Flakes grow in abundance. These flakes are considered by Church Publicists to be the foodstuff that was prophesied by Church President MC Lorenzo Snizzle in the early days of the Church, "a righteous chow, to calm your howl" and thus the Bean Flakes sprung forth like a Manna for the modern day. This is seen as an attempt to distract believers from their Jello consumption.
Cindy Brady once lost her Boo-Boo Kitty doll in a hard-ass game of dice in the back room of an Orange Julius Kiosk at a downtown Salt Lake City Mall, modern Physicists believe, as a consensus, that the loss of the Boo-Boo Kitty was significant in the pantheon of Utah History. Initially, when the ransom for Boo-Boo Kitty was not met by Mr. Brady, the Scientists who'd kidnapped Boo-Boo Kitty by cheating with magic Craps die quickly wired Boo-Boo Kitty for use as a Cold Fission Fuel. The Apostle, Elder I. R. Whitebread has stated that the Church categorically denies such reports of any involvement in Dice games or Kidnapping, yet the Cold-Fission energy flows forth from Salt Lake with reckless abandon, often filling the Jet Stream with the noise of the beloved MoTab Choir.
edit The MoTab Choir
Once a desolate and unlivable wasteland, The Salt Lake Basin now is home to The world-renowned MoTab Choir. This enormous group of singers that numbers over 15,000 voices was once a dull gathering of moaning canyon-dogs. In 1855, Bring'em Young issued the order to earn the title America's Choir which they finally accomplished via President Ronald Reagan. The Apostles gathered and voted on some fat white lady to lead the congregation in hymns. Each week more fat white ladies showed up, and a few of their fat , coke-bottle glass wearing, over-starched shirt having-on husbands came to hum along in a low, indiscernable tone. The room stunk like elderberries at first, but then the sweet aroma of song wooshed all that away. Elder I.R. Whitebread, the former Church MC, wrote many of the original hymns. Because of his epically large ears he was voted best hearing and named the group "The MoTab Choir" At their first performance, Mr. Krueger arrived. The Church was amazed to see how Mr. Krueger rocked the house until the entire congregation joined in, joyously singing and shunning superlatives. After this miracle, the Church named the group officially MoTab, and since then the group has become world-famous for its gigantic performances.


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Did you hear the latest?
Women in Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia have been banned from using the library. Their male guardian has to take out books for them.
But not to worry – hope is on hand in the form of the findings of last year's all-male conference on "women in society" pictured below.
Or maybe not…

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The New Republic (Large Print / Paperback)
Disgruntled New York corporate lawyer Edgar Kellogg is more than ready to leave his lucrative career for the excitement and uncertainty of journalism. When he's offered the post of foreign correspondent in a Portuguese backwater that has sprouted a homegrown terrorist movement, Edgar recognizes Barrington Saddler, the disappeared reporter Edgar's been sent to replace, as exactly the outsize character he longs to emulate.
Yet all is not as it appears. Os Soldados Ousados de Barba"The Daring Soldiers of Barba"have been blowing up the rest of the world for years in order to win independence for a province so dismal and backward that you couldn't give the rat hole away. So why, with Barrington vanished, do terrorist incidents claimed by the "SOB" suddenly dry up?
The New Republic addresses weighty issues such as terrorism with the deft, tongue-in-cheek touch that is vintage Shriver. It also presses the more intimate question: What makes particular people so magnetic, while the rest of us inspire a shrug? What's their secret? And in the end, who has the better lifethe admired, or the admirer?
About the Author
Lionel Shriver s novels include The New Republic, the National Book Award Finalist So Much for That, New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World, and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London and Brooklyn, NY.
Praise For…
"[Shriver's] whip-smart observations—about relationships, the role of the media, the cult of personality are funny and on the mark."
"In her latest novel, Lionel Shriver pays homage to Joseph Conrad—examining terrorism, media bloodlust, and the cult of personality through an unexpected lens of satire."
-Marie Claire, Four New Page-Turners to Keep Bedside
"A very funny book, but the laughs are embedded in a deeply disturbing subject."
-NPR, "Weekend Edition"
"Shriver is cursed with knowing the human animal all too well. The New Republic is satire of a Shriver kind, that is to say biting."
-Miami Herald
"Lionel Shriver, the author of the harrowing and patient We Need to Talk About Kevin, delivers something altogether different: a callous and romping political and journalistic satire."
-The Daily Beast-- This Week's Hot Reads
"Shriver is one of the sharpest talents around."
-USA Today
"Witty, caustic and worldly, [Shriver] is a raconteur who could show even Barrington Saddler a thing or two about entertaining a crowd."
-Wall Street Journal
"Shriver has been a National Book Award finalist with good reason: Her page-turners examine serious issues."
-Reader's Digest Recommends
"A wondrously fanciful plot, vividly drawn characters, clever and cynical dialogue, and a comically brilliant and verisimilar imagined land. . . . The New Republic is simply terrific."
-Booklist (starred review)
"The dialogue zings and the writing is jazzy. . . . [Shriver] can toss off a sharp sketch of a passing character in a phrase, and she's got a gimlet eye for what's phony, or affected, or even touchingly vain in human behavior."
-Entertainment Weekly
"Shriver is an incisive social satirist with a clear grip on the ironies of our contemporary age . . . [Her] take on journalism and international politics is wry, insightful and just over the top enough to be fun."
-Los Angeles Times
"[Shriver] is uncannily perceptive[with a] vigorous capacity for compassion . . . [A] surprisingly tender novel disguised as a clever satire delivered in polished prose."
-Philadelphia Inquirer
"Part Scoop, part Our Man in Havana and part Len Deighton thriller, Shriver's novel is not just about terrorism but also about journalism and the nature of charisma. . . . Shriver's Barba is a wonderful creation."
-Financial Times


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Stoke v City: Sold out
- 27 August 2013 16:44
- Posted by @NieldyMCFC
Stoke City v Manchester City
Saturday 14th September 2013
Kick off – 3pm
Supporters are advised that tickets for our Barclays Premier League game against Stoke City have now sold out.
Official Match Ticket
Entry to the Stadium will be granted on the presentation of a valid ticket purchased from the Club. The Club excludes all liability to any supporter who is denied entry to the Stadium as a result of their ticket having been purchased through an unauthorised seller. The unauthorised sale or disposal of tickets may also amount to a criminal offence and the Club will inform the police as soon as it becomes aware of any unauthorised sale or disposal of tickets.
It is important that you have purchased, and are in possession of, the correct ticket and that it is activated to allow you access in to the stadium. If the supporter who originally purchased the ticket is no longer able to attend the match, please contact the Supporter Services team on 0161 444 1894 (option 1, then option 3) to discuss, and where appropriate, upgrade your ticket. Please note that in some instances, you may be required to visit the Ticket Office above the City Store at the Etihad Stadium in advance of the match so that we can make the necessary amendments to your ticket (this is applicable where there is a change from a concession to an adult). Failure to upgrade your ticket before you attempt to enter the ground may result in a stadium ban.
Duplicate Ticket(s)
Should you misplace your ticket, we can arrange for a duplicate to be collected on the day of the match from the Stoke City Ticket Office. Please contact the MCFC Supporter Services Team on 0161 444 1894 (option 1, option 3) who will be happy to help. Failure to provide the correct information in advance or on the day may result in either club not being able to provide a duplicate ticket. Identification will be required at the Stoke City Ticket Office.
Getting to the Britannia Stadium
Plan your journey following the directions as advised by Stoke City. http://www.stokecityfc.com/club/britanniastadium/directions.aspx
We would like to remind everyone why we have the best supporters in the country. On your visit to the Britannia Stadium, please respect the stewards and staff at the Club and we ask that you:
- Remain in the seat that you have purchased
- Keep your ticket with you at all times
- Do not block the aisles or gangways
- Do not smoke
- Follow the ground regulations
The Ticket Office and Supporter Services are open Monday - Saturday, 9am to 5:30pm (closed Sunday & Bank Holiday). Both facilities will open on the day of all scheduled First Team home fixtures and Supporter Services will open for all scheduled First Team away fixtures until kick-off in-line. For this match we will open in-line with our standard opening times stated here. Please call 0161 444 1894 (option 1, option 3).
All tickets are sold subject to availability and are issued subject to Manchester City Football Club Limited's 2013/14 away match terms and conditions of sale and the applicable Ground Regulations of the opposing team.


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Shirt - Primark
Skirt - RARE
Bow - Primark
Rings - Topshop & market
Loafers - River island
Bag - Bershka
Hey dolls,
So I wore this outfit recently, I was just looking around town etc, its been soooo hot recently in the UK and its going to be for a few days. I actually want to wear cosy jumpers but the weatherman isn't having it haha
I got this bow from primark for £2 the day before and I thought it would be such a cute detail to an outfit like this one, let me know if you like the idea!
Hope you are all well =]
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I have just installed the 9.0.3 patch and have started a new save with Man Utd, I got to the number selection and it says that Park's favoured number is 7. Was this also the case in previous patches? And also, why is this his favoured number?
I have just installed the 9.0.3 patch and have started a new save with Man Utd, I got to the number selection and it says that Park's favoured number is 7. Was this also the case in previous patches? And also, why is this his favoured number?
I don't know if it was like this on previous patches, but I expect that is his favoured number because that is the number he wears when he plays for S. Korea
I'm not sure if it was the case in previous patches but maybe it's his favoured number because that is his number when he plays for South Korea or it may even be his lucky number for some reason or another
The favoured numbers have changed between patches, and different games in patch 9.0.3
I don't know about park ji sung, but I have noticed that Carlos Cuellar first off didnt have a favoured number, and now its 5.
Secondly, I've noticed that Oscar Ustari's favoured number was 23, and now its 1..
Seems to me that it purely is random..
On patch 9.0.2 aiden mcgeady's preffered number was 7.
and in reply to Scouse from the south, if they are corrections then I don't know how they have come about them. Cuellar hasnt been number 5 since he left spain, and was 24 at rangers also so thats a bit odd.
and also the players that most definitely have preferred numbers eg. Nigel Reo-Coker (20) arent set as having a preferred number..
Nigel Reo-Coker has been number 20 at MK Dons, West Ham and now Villa..
anyway it doesn't make a difference to the gameplay... I was simply making an observation.
Certainly all of the favoured numbers that I've seen come up in my Liverpool game have made perfect sense though.
In some oriental cultures 8 is considered lucky, I am pleased that not all players from these areas want to be 8 as that would be silly, though probably "accurate".
Pardon my ignorance but where can you see the players preferred number in game? Or are you talking about in the editor?
This might be better in the Data forum, but while we're on the subject, I was surprised to see that David Beckham's favoured number was 23, when it's quite obviously 7.
Not disagreeing at all, I can see why 23 is listed as his favourite number. Just pointing out that the number 7 has been taken at every club he's moved to since Man Utd (including AC Milan) Had that not been the case he might not have ever got into this 23 business at all.
Personally i would give Park Ji-Sung number 7 instead of Ronaldo. It's not like cristiano ronaldo is the kind of player to chuck a tantrum over something so small.
Yep thats true.
Well not at Man U but he is for south korea.
I do, I think his work rate is exceptional, isn't the most talented footballer but gives his everything
7 was definately beckham's preferred number when he was at united and just after - but I thnk he'd stick with 23 if given the option now...
I think after a long and sucessful spel with a number - that could change their preference.
Would be great to see former players keeping their numbers when they moved to different clubs...
Park is shocking though.
One, he isn't the most gifted of players ill agree with but his work rate is awsome (as stated above )
Two, he is a Manchester united player, Man City or Liverpool fans must agree that any player who wears a Man Utd shirt cannot be shocking, look at the success that Man Utd has had under ferguson, i dont think he would continue to field a shocking player let alone play a shocking player in important games.
Three, his attitude is brilliant, after taking a bad tackle he just gets up and continues the game, he gives his all for the shirt.
Four, he gets many assists and the old goal which will always benefit the team
Park is a massively underrated player imho, yeah he has a great workrate - he also has great control and technique of the ball but doesn't get to prove this regularly for Man U as they have such a big squad.. I'd love him to play for Liverpool myself and I sign him quite a bit on FM even though he is underrated on that too
Just a shame he can't finish like he did today on a regular basis, then he'd be even better
Im only going on highlights im not a man utd fan but when ever i see him on highlights and that hes ****, i go west ham home and away so i suppose that im ignorant to some underated players. Watching him today i take back that he is shocking nice goal nice finish but i have seen him sky loads of shots on highlights and never seen him do anything to make me change my mind.
Do newgens have favoured numbers?
Nick the Man Utd researcher would have done this. If you think it is wrong then ask him in the Man Utd data forum.
Often on my saves, when i am not playing with United, Park gets number 7 before second season, while Ronaldo with 12 or something like that.
Pretty ridiqulous.
Re park's workrate. I would try incredibly hard, but still, no premiership clubs seem interested in my services!
I'm in 2010 on FM09 and I've just noticed that Park Ji-Sung and Cristiano Ronaldo have switched numbers! So stupid.
Numbers are really screwed up. When you leave a club, all the players' numbers seem to switch around for no apparent reason. This doesn't happen in real life! You might conceivably get one or two changes, but not wholesale ones.


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How Dallas Does Philanthropy
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
Today's science museums are interactive, kid- (and adult-) friendly, multimedia sites of adventure and discovery. A Disney World for the mind. And the astonishing Perot Museum of Nature and Science, designed by Pritzker Prize-winner Thom Mayne and his Morphosis Architects, is noteworthy for at least three reasons: its stunning architecture; its exhibits and educational missions; and its financing, which would be possible only in a city like this one, which cherishes capitalism and philanthropy in equal measure.
Ross Perot has lived in Dallas for 50 years and made his fortune here. In 2008, at the start of the last recession, his five children together pledged $50 million for a new museum to replace older facilities in Fair Park, the 1936 home of the Texas Centennial, and to honor their father and mother, Margot, a former teacher with a passion for education. Carolyn Perot Rathjen said she and her siblings knew exactly how to celebrate their parents—"with a mission to inspire minds through nature and science"—when they saw Mrs. Perot's eyes light up at the sight of yellow school buses in front of Houston's Museum of Natural Science. Thus far, at the Perot Museum, attendance includes 2,000 schoolchildren a day (and total attendance in the first two months has exceeded 200,000).
Other local industries and philanthropists made up the rest of the total $185 million cost. The major donors' list in the entry hall reads like a Who's Who of Dallas's elite business leaders and corporations: The more-than-$5-million crowd includes names like Clements, Dell (OK, he's really an Austinite), Hill, Hoglund, Hunt, Jones (think "Cowboys"), Meadows, McDermott, Moody, Pickens, Rees-Jones, Rose, Texas Instruments, plus a $10-million challenge grant from an anonymous donor. Anonymous donors are scarce in these parts.
All these benefactors made it possible to open the museum on Dec. 1, well ahead of schedule; to put it on firm financial footing; and to meet the estimated $14 million annual budget, which includes such educational outreach as lab opportunities for local students whose schools may lack even microscopes. No public money, no bonds were needed to build and to sustain the museum.
The building itself is a commanding 10-story concrete cube, with walls striated rather than smooth; it looks like a peeling geological formation rising beside a freeway at the edge of Dallas's burgeoning arts-and-culture district. It both stands apart from the earth and seems to be a part of it. Its urban setting is softened by the subtly appropriate landscaping—representing various Texas ecosystems—that surrounds it. The museum has already won accolades for its "green" status. Inside and outside the museum, nature and art, and technology and art, work together.
Everywhere you look inside the 180,000-square-foot building, you can glimpse other parts of it. Infrastructure—heating ducts, lighting, pipes, solar panels—is as visible as the occasional work of art, like Englishman Daniel Chadwick's "Superorganism," a giant mobile of transparent discs with solar-powered cells that provide movement depending on available sunlight.
The elevators have glass walls. Piranesian angles and shadows intersect everywhere. You can watch the surrounding city from indoors and see a landscaped, energy-saving, water-collecting, "living" roof from one level above. Within the galleries, the traffic flow is ingenious, and the 11 halls never feel cramped, even with hundreds of rambunctious schoolkids, from pre-K to high school, running around.
A one-way escalator, part of which is encased in glass and looks stapled onto the outside of the building, takes visitors to the top floor, after which they descend by stairway or elevator. You start with the cosmos, the solar system and the stars. Printed wall matter—of greater interest, of course, to adults than to youngsters—complements hands-on displays. Then come fossils, dinosaurs, evolution and paleontology, including a new specimen, uncovered in Alaska, named Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum for the Perot family. How many philanthropists get an extinct species of their very own?
On the mezzanine, reachable by staircase, is the brilliantly arranged Rose Hall of Birds, which permits a bird's-eye view of the dinosaur exhibits below. You can stare at Alamosaurus, with its tiny teeth, virtually eye to eye, after you have seen it, on the lower level, towering above you. The arrangement also reminds us that birds are in fact dinosaurs' modern relatives. You can "build your own bird" by selecting—at various stations—body shape, wing shape and span, beak and song, and then see whether it will actually fly. This cafeteria model of experimentation works well.
Other displays attempt to engage all the senses, even smell, as in a series of Texas landscapes that lets you sniff such specimens as pine needles, prickly pear flowers, skunk, and coyote urine.
On the third level, it's "Earth Over Time"—i.e., land, water, air, geology and weather. The most beautiful, subdued and quiet section is the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall, a low-lit space with blackened vitrines in which objects are brilliantly lighted, as in an art museum: case after case of minerals you have heard of (gold, quartz and tourmaline), and others, even more dazzling, that you probably have not (rhodochrosite). I can imagine some visitors getting ideas for dining-table centerpieces. No surprise: This room attracted fewer children and more adults; fewer boys, more girls.
It goes without saying that a Texas museum will lean heavily on studies of energy, especially oil and gas. There's an almost perfunctory section at the close of the Tom Hunt Energy Hall on "alternate energy sources." Some viewers will doubtless quibble with the presentation on horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing (i.e., fracking), in the Barnett Shale, on which Dallas sits. The end of the video acknowledges that "there has been some controversy" regarding this method.
Although "interactive" has many meanings, an adult visitor may come away thinking that "active" is its main ingredient. Put "hyper" in front of that. Concentration here looks to be in short supply. Kids are all over the place, having a ball and—presumably—also getting educated, at least subliminally or unconsciously. Some will come back, after school or on their own, in future years. I stopped a group of lively, wide-eyed, third-grade boys turning a giant crank that opens and closes, behind glass, a 1.5-ton geode. I asked: "What's your favorite part here?" One said unhesitatingly, as I might have predicted, "Space and Dinosaurs." His pal said "All of it," and they sped off, in a nanosecond, to the next room.
Mr. Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University, and editor-in-chief of the Southwest Review.


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March 19, 2012
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has named Dan Streible, associate professor of Cinema Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, an Academy Film Scholar for his work in the field of "orphan films." Streible will also receive a $25,000 grant from AMPAS to aid in his research and writing.
Streible was selected for the honor on the basis of his proposal for a manuscript detailing the growth of the "orphan film" phenomenon in the U.S. since the early 1990s and analyzing the dynamic that the movement has established among film archivists, preservationists, scholars, curators and filmmakers. His book, Orphan Films: Saving, Studying, and Screening Neglected Cinema, will be the first to analyze orphaned work (defined as films that have been abandoned or have suffered physical, historical or cultural neglect), including newsreels, silent movies, shorts, independent and studio features, documentaries, outtakes and animation.
Established in 1999, the Academy Film Scholars program is designed to stimulate and support the creation of new and significant works of film scholarship about aesthetic, cultural, educational, historical, theoretical or scientific aspects of theatrical motion pictures. Streible joins 14 other Academy Film Scholars who are currently working on projects. For more information about the Academy Film Scholars program, visit http://www.oscars.org/filmscholars/
This Press Release is in the following Topics:
Tisch School of the Arts
Type: Press Release
Press Contact: Richard Pierce | (212) 998-6796


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From DeGroot 2.4.2, let $a_i$ be the conditional probability that the gambler wins all $k$ given gambler is at $i$.
$a_i = pa_{i+1} + (1 - p)a_{i-1} $
It's not clear from the text what steps are taken to solve for the general form $a_i$ (maybe Gaussian elimination). How do you solve the recurrence equation for $a_i$? If this can be found through the characteristic equation of a matrix $A$, then how do you construct $A$? As the problem is described, the first row has $a_0 = 0$, and last with $a_k = 1$.


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WHEELING - Whether they like it or not, many Warwood residents find themselves preparing for life with GreenHunter Water's natural gas frack water treatment facility in their neighborhood, following the Wheeling Planning Commission's approval last week of the company's site plan for the controversial facility.
But Warwood's representative on Wheeling City Council, Gloria Delbrugge, has opposed the plant from the start, and she's not ready to throw in the towel just yet.
"Nothing's changed. I don't like them here. I don't want them here. Go somewhere else," she said.
Although the Planning Commission's approval of GreenHunter's site plan requires no action by council, Delbrugge believes she and her fellow council members could attempt to reverse the commission's decision by refusing to accept its report when it comes before them, likely sometime next month. But she admits she doesn't know what would happen next.
"When it comes to that ... of course I will say 'no,'" Delbrugge said. "I don't know how everyone else feels. ... Most of council doesn't have to live with it. I do."
The third-term councilwoman is also calling on the West Virginia Division of Highways to step in. She believes trucks exiting the facility - the former home of Seidler's Oil Service - from the narrow North 28th Street will have to veer into oncoming traffic to make the turn onto state Route 2.
"The (Division) of Highways has to be sure that (W.Va.) 2 is safe. ... That's going to be a dangerous situation ... ," Delbrugge said. "Maybe the DOH will make them build another road up further."
Don Thacker, a resident of North Park Terrace in Warwood, said he's not too worried about the GreenHunter plant.
"If it brings jobs, I think it's OK. ... Whatever man does, it pollutes. ... As long as (GreenHunter) can take care of it, I don't see any problem with it."
Chuck, a man who lives a few blocks away from the proposed plant site who declined to give his last name, is most worried about potential traffic problems. He's also skeptical as to whether the plant will create any jobs for Wheeling. But he doesn't see a whole lot that can be done about it.
"I see a lot of the neighbors on TV (protesting the plant). ... You just go with the flow. That's about all you can do," Chuck said.
Although many Warwood residents have vocally opposed the project - some banding together in a group calling itself the "Wheeling Water Warriors" - Delbrugge said she doesn't know of any residents who plan to attempt legal action to delay or stop construction of the plant, although she said she knows of at least one resident who has contacted the office of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. She also said she's talked with people who are considering moving away from Warwood if the plant is built.
The Planning Commission's 4-1 vote to approve GreenHunter's site plan came after the company provided missing information that had caused members to table the matter twice previously. That included documentation from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the West Virginia Department of Transportation showing that GreenHunter's project meets their guidelines. The commission also asked for documentation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and/or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission showing that the plant will not emit excessive amounts of radiation.
Commission member John Clarke cast the lone vote against site plan approval for GreenHunter, an action Delbrugge applauds.
"I thought, 'Good for him,' and my hat's off to him for doing that," she said.
Although she disagrees with the commission's decision, Delbrugge was happy to see them stand firm in their request for more information - something she's not sure GreenHunter was prepared for.
"They thought we were a bunch of yahoos.. ... We're not a bunch of yahoos," Delbrugge said. "You must obey our rules."
The Planning Commission vote cleared a major hurdle for GreenHunter, whose only remaining issue with the city - a zone change city officials believe GreenHunter needs to pipe fluid beneath Wheeling Heritage Trail, which is zoned residential - could be rendered moot if federal regulators forbid fracking waste from being shipped by barge on inland waterways.
GreenHunter officials would prefer to ship the material by barge, claiming it is safer and cheaper to do so, but have said they will truck the fluid from the Wheeling facility if necessary. Company leaders have repeatedly said their safeguards for spill containment meet all state and federal regulatory demands, and radioactivity - a major concern for many Warwood residents - will be minuscule in volume at the Warwood plant.


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Does anyone else think that woot should accept Amazon gift cards?
I mean, woot is hardly an "independent sub" of Amazon based on the myriad changes to biz model, shipping, cart, products, staff, etc. etc. so why not just allow their gift cards to be used? If they are afraid that they will be stealing business from the main Amazon site where sometimes they offer the same products as woot for much more, I'm sure they would make it up in volume from GC users on woot...just sayin
Full disclosure: I did send feedback about this through the formal channel but never got a response other than the initial ack.
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Everyone does except TPTB.
Woot should accept Amazon money but the prices on Amazon are not all that different from woot.
I think that Amazon still contends that woot is a separate entity. One that makes it's own decisions. Nice try, 'Zon.
Sure, gift cards would be nice. So would the Free shipping on 'eligible' $25 purchases. And, of course, the option of buying into Prime.
IMO, not going to happen. Not unless/until woot grows up and becomes a true storefront. Sans all the absurd tabs of falsely different groups of items. And, a search function is sorely needed.
I think Woot should leave the Amazon fold...but that's just my opinion.
What I think matters not a hill of beans.
@mtm2: Of course. Yet, it'll never happen. Remember @snapster? He sold woot to Amazon. No do-overs there. It's a done deal.
@morriea: Truer words never spoken.
My last Woot order was in March. I think that's the last time I spent any time on this kind of wishful thinking.
I also remember wishing that Amazon Prime shipping would apply. And while I'm spinning my wheels, world peace and a cure for cancer would be lovely, please, thanks.
Lets vote on it !!! Awwwww wait. nevermind.
Never gonna happen, but if woot gave me free shipping for prime, I'd buy roughly 478,962.381% more stuff from them.
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The spring season proved that the road to the West Virginia state tennis tournament ran through Weirton.
There were 11 state qualifiers from the city, with four more coming from just north in New Manchester.
However, without the help of the Weirton Parks and Recreation Department, the goal of making it to Charleston would just be a pipe dream from the homefront.
"Without them," said Weir High tennis coach Dave Thompson, "we'd be dead in the water."
The department provides use of the Starvaggi courts, as well as Marland Heights Park, free of charge to the Red Riders and Madonna tennis teams.
"Without those courts, we can't play," Thompson said. "The kids would have nothing to look forward to."
Most players on the Weir High tennis team do not participate in another school-sponsored sport.
"Some kids tried out that didn't even own a tennis racket," said Weir athletic director Mike DelRe.
Still, nearly 20 girls came out for the team in 2014.
"They just love him so much," DelRe said, referring to Thompson. "He's great with the kids."
This year, Thompson's leadership helped propel a pair of girls - Barbie Sulimanova and Claudia Diaz - to the state tournament. They were the first female state finalists in school history.
The girls are foreign exchange students from Slovakia and Spain, respectively.
"I heard rumors of how good they were," Thompson said. "I was hopeful that they would do something. There were so many ups and downs all season because our region is so tough."
Weir and Madonna compete against Oak Glen, Wheeling Central, Magnolia, St. Marys, Williamstown, Parkersburg Catholic, Ravenswood and Wahama.
Sulimanova defeated regional champions from Region I (North Central), Region III (Capital-area) and Region IV (Southern). In the state championship, she was defeated by Oak Glen sophomore Madison Juszczak, who beat Diaz in an earlier round.
"They were so thrilled to be part of the process," DelRe said. "They are pure high school kids enjoying the journey. They don't have that aura about them that most American kids carry with them. They're wide-eyed kids just making the most of their young lives."
One night in their Charleston hotel, DelRe observed Sulimanova talking on the phone with her mother, who still lives in Slovakia.
"It was an interesting sight to see," he said. "They were talking in Slovakian, just jabbing away, talking about the excitement of playing in a championship."
But that wouldn't have been possible, even on the state's grandest prep stage, without the help from back home.
"The city gives us access to the courts for practices and meets - for free," DelRe said. "They've done it forever. We appreciate that the Parks and Rec people have done so much for us."
Terry Weigel and Coty Shingle of the department played a bigger part this winter, with the help of Sulimanova, Diaz and their host Bill Galloway. They all collaborated to build a tennis backboard at Marland Heights in January to help themselves, and residents, practice even more.
"They're such a joy to be around," Thompson said. "They're just great girls."
Thompson has only been the tennis coach for three years, taking over for DelRe when he became athletic director. He knew next to nothing about the sport when he started.
That's a similar story for Kelly Sinsigalli.
In her fourth year as Madonna's tennis coach, Sinsigalli's first introduction to the sport was in 2010.
She attended a Blue Dons match, just to support the team.
She left as the new head coach.
"Sue Wesie was the coach and at the time she was about to retire," Sinsigalli said. "She had asked me if I wanted to take it over and here I am. I really enjoy it."
Her original role was basically just the team's official organizer.
"I was learning from the kids," she said. "They taught me the rules and how to keep score. Then, eventually, I started playing myself.
"I've met some great people. Tennis players tend to be super nice."
She plays in local leagues in Steubenville, Weirton and Wheeling.
"She's gotten way better," said Madonna senior Christina Conforti, a state-qualifier. "It was a little weird when she first started coaching. We all kind of played a part in showing her the ropes. Now, she's really teaching us a lot of things."
Madonna's other state qualifiers were Matt Conforti, Cole Roberts, Ryan Watts, Thomas Gianni, Alan Alimario, Morgan Duerr, Elizabeth Conforti and Ali Welch.
Madison Hill, Hayley Spurlock and Addison Sayre also qualified for Oak Glen.
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WELLSBURG - Brooke High School Principal Toni Shute has announced six Brooke graduates will be inducted to the Brooke High School Hall of Fame this weekend.
The six are: Bernie Bertus: Class of 1979; Heather Brown Conwell, Class of 1988; Wendy Neel Bacdayan, Class of 1990; Tom Townsend, Class of 1993; Nathan White, Class of 1996; and Brain Melnyk, Class of 1998.
It's the 24th year for the hall of fame recognition ceremony, and the six will join 74 other Brooke alumni selected for distinguishing themselves at the intercollegiate level, on and off the field of play.
The ceremony will be held Friday during half-time ceremonies of the Brooke-Weir game. The six also will be honored at a dinner and induction program at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Brooke High School.
Tickets for the dinner are $10 each and may be purchased by calling (304) 527-1410 or stopping at the school's main office.
While at Brooke, Bertus lettered in football for two years, basketball for two years, track for one year and golf for one year. He went on to play football at Glenville State College, where he graduated in 1983.
As a player on the pioneer football squad, Bertus was a four-year varsity letter winner in football starting 29 consecutive games.
He was a three-year starter as defensive back, team captain his senior year and co-captain of defense, received WVIAC Conference Honorable Mention and was named WVIAC Conference Player of the Week Honoree.
Following graduation, Bertus went to the AFA in 1983 and played for the semipro team, the Charleston Rockets as a defensive back and led the team in interceptions.
Bertus' love for the game has kept him active as a coach, including time at Parkersburg High School and Blennerhassett Junior High School. He has served as a coach and commissioner for Wood County Sports since 2000 and is its current vice president.
He and his wife live in South Parkersburg, They have three children, and the youngest plays for the Bethany College football team.
Conwell participated in basketball, volleyball and track, was an All-State selection in basketball for three years, USA Today All-American Honorable Mention and All-OVAC for three years. She was on the first girls' team to qualify for state tournament play, all-tournament team state finals and the 1986 state runner-up team.
In track, she held the school's record for high jump and shot put and participated in the state track meet her junior and senior years, medaling her junior year.
Attending Marshall University on a full scholarship, Conwell was a four-year letter winner in basketball and led the team in shooting percentage her sophomore and junior years and in blocked shots her senior year, when she was co-captain.
Her basketball career with the Thundering Herd included three Southern Conference Championships.
She graduated from Marshall in 1999 and is manager of the claims department for Progressive Insurance of Cleveland, where she lives with her husband and four children.
Bacdayan participated in track and field and basketball. Her accomplishments in track and field include qualifying for the states in the 100 for three years, placing first at the regional competition in the 100 in the 1987 and 1989 regional competitions, placing third in the 100 and place fifth in the long jump. In the OVAC competition, she placed third in the 100 and long jump in 1988 and third in the long jump in 1989.
In basketball, Bacdayan was a starter and was selected to the OVAC All-Star Team.
She continued to compete in track and field at Washington & Lee University, where she was a four-year letter winner, Freshman Athlete of the Year and three-year team captain, and set school records in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay.
In the ODAC Indoor Championships, Bacdayan took awards in long jump , 55m and 60-yard dash and in the ODAC Outdoor Conference Championships, took awards in the 100m and long jump and set a long jump record.
She was recipient of the NCAA Scholar Athlete Award and Conference Scholar Athlete Award.
Following graduation in 1994, she went on to the West Virginia University School of Medicine, completing her pediatrics' residency at Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh.
Bacdayan is a pediatrician at Pittsburgh Alliance in Pittsburgh, where he lives with her husband and three children.
Townsend participated in tennis, basketball, football and baseball. He was a three-year letter winner in tennis, achieved a 22-1 record in singles, and was Brooke Invitational champion and OVAC singles and doubles champion and singles regional finalist.
He went on to play tennis at Wittenberg University, where he was a four-year varsity letter winner, team captain and Most Valuable Player; was named Second Team All- North Coast Athletic Conference, Honorable Mention All-NCAC, gained the No. 1 title in singles with a 14-6 record and still holds the Wittenberg record for No. 1 singles victories.
He is employed by the Seattle School District and lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter.
White participated in football, basketball, baseball and soccer. He was named West Virginia AAA All-State First Team Place-Kicker, OVAC Big School First team Place-Kicker, OVAC Big School Honorable Mention Place-Kicker and OVAC Big School Honorable Mention Place-Kicker.
He was winner of the Roger Simpson Memorial Award, a four-year varsity letter winner and set an OVAC record with a 53 yard field goal.
White was also a three-year letter winner in baseball and OVAC Big School Honorable Mention Firstbase for baseball, basketball two-year letter winner and soccer two-year letter winner.
White played football for Fairmont State College, where he was named Associated Press Little All America First Team punter and held school records for punts and field goals in a season, field goals in a game, career and consecutive extra points and career punts.
He also helped teams win the Division I-AA National Championship, Southern Conference Championship, Mid-Atlantic Conference Championship and WVIAC Championship.
He is employed by Arnett Foster Toothman, Certified Public Accountants, and lives in Morgantown with his wife and two sons.
Melnyk played football, basketball and baseball. He finished his final season at Brooke High with 81 strikeouts in 48 1/3 innings while permitting only 30 walks. His final record was 3-6; however, he posted a 3.47 earned run average and hit .386 from the plate.
He went on to Garrett Community College in Maryland, where his NJCAA division final statistics were 53 2/3 innings pitched, 72 strikeouts, 1.34 strikeouts per innings, and ranked fourth in the nation in NJCAA baseball.
He later transferred to Point Park College in Pittsburgh, where he achieved 63.1 innings with a win-loss record of 8-0 in 12 games.
He had 21 earned runs, an earned-run-average of 2.99, 79 strikeouts, and 11.23 strikeouts per game. He was named American Mideast Conference Baseball Pitcher of the Year Award and received the All-American Award.
Melnyk was drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 21st round and now lives in Pittsburgh, where he owns Melnyk Cleaning, a commercial cleaning business.


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I always get the doubt about this. I know that a bike measures its speed based on the motion of its front wheel. So what is the case with train? Is it same principle? Then what about an airplane? Is it by radars?
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Trains simply use a wheel rotation, either by an eddy current disc as in a car speedo or by a digital counter on a shaft in a modern system.
Aeroplanes don't really care about their absolute (ground) speed they only care about the speed relative to the surrounding air - this is what determines if the wings work. They measure this with a pitot tube, essentially a form of air pressure measurement.
These days planes measure their speed (and position) using GPS. In the old days (my father used to fly Tiger Moth's!) they would measure air speed for a rough guide, but correct their speed by spotting landmarks on the ground. In poor visibility it was not uncommon for pilots to get lost, sometimes resulting in tragedy when they flew into mountains or ditched in the sea.
Trains can measure their speed just like bicycles, because the wheels are in contact with the track. However I would guess that modern trains also use satnav.
Planes have pitot tubes.
Trains have wheel encoders
The airspeed indicator: which calculates speed by measuring the pressure created by air that flows past an airplane as it moves forward. There is one concern with that. Because that pressure is a result of both the plane's forward velocity and the static atmospheric pressure, an accurate measure of airspeed requires that the atmospheric pressure be subtracted from the total air pressure the airplane experiences. This leaves only the velocity pressure, which is the increased pressure caused by the rate of speed.
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4 end points (a,b,c,d say) are chosen uniformly randomly and connected a to b and c to d by two geodesics on the 2-dim round sphere. Here uniformly is in the obvious sense of the volume form associated with the round metric. What is the probability the two curves cross?
The probability is 1/8. With each (generic) pair of geodesic segments you can associate another 15 pairs which you get by replacing each of the 4 end points by its antipodal point. You can easily check that of these 16 pairs, exactly 2 intersect.
If you extend to complete circular geodesics then the probability is 1. So it is just a matter of finding the probability that the point of intersection is in both segments chosen, which is an easier linear (not spherical) problem.


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While I answered this question in Stack Overflow: How does the Stack Overflow Search Input work?
I found this hidden feature: If you type your search expression than clicking Ctrl + Enter it will open a new tab or window with the results for your search expression.
For some browsers you will need to allow popups in the site to make it work.
For the sake of completeness The keydown (
It's not a very hidden feature that, on Stack Overflow, the HTML
What is hidden is that if the person names the question with the tag anywhere in the title:
It will not also prepend
Comment short links are now available:
To obtain comment id you can extract it from the full comment link or use dev tools to inspect the HTML.
For example: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/posts/comments/14689
I can't believe no one has mentioned descriptions of Stack Exchange functions and data hidden mostly in tooltips. This came up most recently in this question about privilege percentages. @Arjan commented "As always on these sites: when in doubt, hover your mouse over the text for more detail."
You can determine the total number of active users by looking at how many people have the "Teacher" badge (posted at least one upvoted answer):
View other users' privileges page by visiting
Came to know about this feature from a post made by animuson.
You can get raw view of post comments (either question or answer) by typing such URL:
For example comments on this very question: http://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/8211/comments
Working on all sites of course.
Associating your Stack Overflow login with another Stack Exchange site gives you +100 free reputation, just like that. I only just discovered this when I decided to set up a leatherworking site on Area 51, but there's nothing I can find about it in the FAQ or elsewhere. I think they wanted to make sure people weren't motivated just by the reputation, but here I go letting the cat out of the bag. :)
If you hover a username in the comments section of a question you get to see his (or her) reputation.
If you click on a question that was migrated, it takes you to the question on the site of migration. If you then click on the "migrated from blahblahblah.com" it will then take you back to the question stub on the first site.
To find the age of specific site, you can view the profile of the site's Community account, then the "member for" is the site age since this is the very first account ever created on each site.
For example on puzzling site: (URL template is
Easier than going to the full sites list and looking for the site you want. :)
Shows recently upvoted answers from new users or users with low rep.
You can run queries against the database for any Stack Exchange site with the Stack Exchange Data Explorer.
I did not know about this feature, or see it linked, until I read a Meta Stack Overflow post which used this example.
Query for Most Common Comments on Stack Overflow.
*Although now I know it exists. I've found the link in the footer.
On per-site-metas, there is a tab for showing users by participation. According to the tooltip it shows: Users most active in the last 60 days (combined number of posts, votes, comments and edits).
The URL for this tab is
The main site does not have such a tab. But simply by removing the
It works even for
Putting a parameter
Shortcut to the Advanced Search Options
Just search for an empty (or 1 character length) query and you will see the page.
Note: it is not recommended to link to this URL, use it for personal use only as this method of accessing might disappear in the future leaving a bunch of broken links.
You can browse directly to answers you have downvoted using a hidden feature of the stackoverflow.com/questions page if you have the answer's unique ID (available on the Reputation Calculator page).
(NOTE: Why you would do this anymore given that the answers are now hyperlinked directly from the Reputation tab is questionable, but it still works anyway.)
(This actually works for any answer as long as you know the id
View all linked questions of any post using the format:
These could be further sorted as:
For example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/linked/3102819 shows a page having all questions linked to/from "Chrome: Disable same origin policy" post.
I was going to post a request asking for questions determined to be duplicates to be listed on the original question, but I found that there was already a feature request for it and that it was status-completed because you can find questions that are duplicates of this one by looking at the "Linked" sidebar. Cool!
(Note: also appearing there, are questions, comments, etc. that link to this question.)
Shortening questions and answers URLs
Let's assume the following URL to answer:
We can delete the middle text part, change the question to 'q' and leave only the answer number and still have a working URL : :)
While this way is not recommended, it is supported and works - according to what @genesis wrote.
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$$2+\cot\theta = \csc\theta $$ where $$ 0 \leq \theta \lt 2\pi $$
The suggested answer is $2.21$ only (in rad, corr to $3$ sig. fig.)
My reasonable guess is there are at least two solutions. Any suggestion?
$$2+\cot\theta = \csc\theta $$ where $$ 0 \leq \theta \lt 2\pi $$
The suggested answer is $2.21$ only (in rad, corr to $3$ sig. fig.)
My reasonable guess is there are at least two solutions. Any suggestion?
Notice $$2+\cot\theta=\csc\theta\Leftrightarrow 2+\frac{\cos\theta}{\sin\theta}=\csc\theta\Leftrightarrow \csc\theta(2\sin\theta+\cos\theta)=\csc\theta$$
$\csc\theta$ is never zero, so look at $2\sin\theta=1-\cos\theta$
How many solutions does this have in $(0,2\pi)?$ Perhaps picturing the behaviour of the RHS and LHS alone will help convince you that there is only one solution. Or you simply solve it as Avatar has suggested.
We know $\csc^2\theta-\cot^2\theta=1 $
$\implies (\csc\theta+\cot\theta)(\csc\theta-\cot\theta)=1$
Given $\csc\theta-\cot\theta=2$
So, $\csc\theta+\cot\theta=\frac 12$
So, $2\csc\theta=\frac 5 2\implies \sin\theta=\frac 4 5>0$
$\cot\theta=\frac 12- \csc\theta=\frac 12- \frac 5 4<0$
So, $\theta$ will lie in the 2nd quadrant, the principal value in $(\frac {\pi}2,\pi)$
$2+\cot\theta=\csc\theta\implies 2+\frac{\cos\theta}{\sin\theta}=\frac{1}{\sin\theta}$
$\implies2\sin\theta+\cos\theta=1$ $(\sin\theta\neq 1)$
$\implies \frac{2}{\sqrt 5}\sin\theta+\frac{1}{\sqrt 5}\cos\theta=\frac{1}{\sqrt 5}$
$\implies \cos\alpha\sin\theta+\sin\alpha\cos\theta=\frac{1}{\sqrt 5}$ where $\alpha=\arctan(\frac{1}{2})$
$\implies \sin(\alpha+\theta)=\frac{1}{\sqrt 5}$
I think you can solve it from here.
Let $\cot\theta=x,$ then, $\csc^2\theta=1+\cot^2\theta=1+x^2$
Thus, $(2+\cot\theta)^2=\csc^2\theta$
$\implies 4+x^2+4x=x^2+1$
$\implies 4x=-3\implies x=-3/4\implies \tan\theta=-4/3\implies \theta=\pi-\arctan(4/3),2\pi-\arctan(4/3)$
But only $\pi-\arctan(4/3)$ satisfies the original equation.Thus, the solution is $\theta= \pi-\arctan(4/3)$
Square both sides and we have
Using the Pythagorean identity for $\csc$ and $\cot$ gives $$4\cot\theta=-3$$ From here, it's a simple matter to find two possible solutions in $(-\pi,\pi]$: $\arctan(-4/3)$ and $\arctan(-4/3)+\pi$. Since we squared both sides at one point, we may have introduced extraneous solutions. The first of these angles, $\arctan(-4/3)$ is in quadrant IV, so its $\csc$ is negative. Meanwhile, $2+\cot(\arctan(-4/3))=2-3/4$ is positive. So the original equation cannot be satisfied by $\arctan(-4/3)$. For a final confirmation, check that $\arctan(-4/3)+\pi$ does indeed satisfy the original equation.


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I recently moved into a new apartment, built around 1960. There was no outlet in the bathroom or within 10 feet, just a light switch. So I purchased a CFCI/Switch combo at Lowes. There were only two wires in the box when I opened it up, a black and a white(no ground wire). I wired it according to the instructions, and everything is working fine, except. The outlet will not work with the switch in the on position and vice versa, outlet works fine with the light switch off. Is this normal? I am having trouble shaving in the dark, any advice would be appreciated.
It sounds like your electrical box for the switch does not have the power source (line), only a 2-wire cable to handle the switching for the light; the line comes in at the fixture.
Unfortunately you cannot add an outlet to this configuration as-is. You will need to bring a third wire down into the box from the fixture that will act as a dedicated neutral so that you can have the outlet always powered, and then optionally power the light via the switch.
Based on what you've described, my recommendation would be to bring in an electrician to handle this task for you as it requires pulling a new cable from another junction box and correctly wiring it up.


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When commuting with a bike I usually stick to the right lane (I am based in the USA). When approaching a right turn only lane while biking, should I stay in the turn lane and signal to the car behind me that you I'm going forward rather than turning right, or should I move to the center or left lane?
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The key thing, is that you never want to be to the right of cars that are turning right.
Depending on the exact lane setup and traffic amounts, I would do one of these:
Exactly which I actually do depends on the traffic levels and what the far side of the intersection looks like. I would only do the 2nd or 3rd options if right-turning traffic is low and there's clearly space on the far side of the intersection for me to be to the right of the going-straight traffic (2 lanes, or 1 lane with a bike lane or wide shoulder).
To repeat: the main thing is to not be to the right of cars turning right. Get to their left or directly in front of them.
You are on the road, you follow the same rules of the road. A right-turn-only lane is for turning right, if you're going straight you don't belong there.
If you continue straight from a right-turn only lane, what happens at the other side of the intersection? Either there's no lane for you, or else there's an area where cars will be pulling out to turn right onto your street. On the other hand, if you're out in the "go straight" lane, you're visible and predictable.
To me, the question is, "How early do I need to merge into the go-straight lane?" The more difficult the merge, the earlier I'll start looking for a gap in traffic.
You mention trying to "signal to the car behind you that you are going forward," but I'm not aware of a signal that wouldn't be misconstrued as "Pass me."
The typical case where where I encounter this is transitioning from a rideable shoulder to a right-turn lane. What I typically do, depending on the length of the turn lane and the amount of traffic, is stay on the right edge of the turn lane for that period of time where I can safely do so, to allow cars coming from behind to make a right turn.
Then, when I'm sufficiently near the intersection and I see an appropriate break in the traffic, I move left and ride just to the right of the dividing line between through lane and turn lane (effectively "claiming" the turn lane). From that position I continue across the intersection (assuming no traffic control to the contrary), being sure to keep an eye behind (with helmet mirror) to make sure no one tries to turn right around me.
However, on a road with no rideable shoulder I would instead stay in the through lane all the way, "claiming" the lane as I approach the intersection to discourage those who might try to turn right from the through lane.
It's not the car behind you that matters. Whether you turn or go forward does not affect any decision which that car driver is going to make. You should rather ensure that the car which is behind you stays behind you, and does not try to take you over as it approaches the turn. You do that by checking over your shoulder and moving into the lane to fully occupy it.
By going forward out of a right turn lane, you are making a confusing move which can surprise the drivers approaching the intersection from other directions. For instance, a driver turning left from the opposite direction. Those are the cars that are more likely to hit you. Not only is it a confusing move, it is illegal: a "moving violation" of a traffic rule, like running a stop sign. A driver using a right-turn-only lane to pass on the right and go straight can receive a hefty fine.
You should move away from the curb to the left side of the right turning lane, just to the left of the stripe between that lane and the straight going lane so that you are technically in that lane. Or at least be on the stripe. Your move to the correct lane is an indication if your intent that you are going straight. Your other behavior should also have the unambiguous interpretation that you're going straight. Though it's not an official signal, extending your left arm forward and pointing with your index finger to indicate that you're going straight is not a bad idea, either.
That being said, right turn lanes sometimes have exceptions. Certain vehicles (for instance buses) can go straight. These are marked on the pavement and drivers have to know that. In my city there are right turning lanes which have an exception: bicycles can go straight. This is clearly shown with pavement markings. Streets where these occur have designated bicycle lanes clearly visible to drivers. When going straight through these turning lanes, cyclists should occupy the whole lane, and not allow right turning cars to pass them on the left.
IF YOU ARE CYCLING ON A ROAD THAT HAS OMNI-DIRECTIONAL FLOW OF TRAFFIC You should simply signal to turn right if you need to or just carry on going forward. If the right-hand turn is into a road with bi-directional traffic flow, watch for any cars approaching from the right when you going straight forward.
IF YOU ARE CYCLING ON A ROAD THAT HAS BI-DIRECTIONAL TRAFFIC FLOW Same as before; signal right (if you want to turn right) or keep going forward. Also, keep an eye on the oncoming or waiting traffic at the junctions.
A common factor in both cases is watching behind your left-shoulder to check for any oncoming traffic before changing lanes or making turns. This is a good gesture and pays off.
What you must remember is that unless approaching a junction-turn to left, you should never position yourself unnecessarily in the left-hand lane as it may block heavy traffic flow from behind (car drivers may curse you and honk). Please stay on the rightmost side of your road (without hitting pedestrians yourself on the kerb) so that the cars can simply overtake you gently. This is exactly what we do in the UK (only on the LH-side).
I hope this helps. You can find lots of videos on YouTube that may help you envisage your actions more practically.
I've seen cyclists use a few different options in this case. Whether each option is appropriate depends on local laws, intersection layout, and traffic flow.
I use all of the first 3 options depending on the amount of traffic and the layout of the road and intersection. For example options 2 and 3 work pretty well when a bike lane opens up through the intersection, though they may not be legal in all jurisdictions. Look at local laws and pay attention to what other cyclists do. It's important to be visible and predictable.


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String Along
- 5 to 10 minutes
- Hand-sized objects
- A piece of thick yarn 2 to 3 feet long
- Something as simple as grabbing for a toy helps to teach your baby how to control the environment. Tie the object or toy to one end of the piece of yarn and put the other end in your baby's hand.
- Demonstrate pulling to bring the item closer.
- Toss the toy out and help your baby to pull it back.
- Make several yarn toys so your baby can choose which to pull.
- Sing a song as you swing the toy back and forth toward or above your baby, just close enough that it can be reached.
- When your baby can crawl, pull the toy slowly so it can be followed.
- Use 2 objects and pull them in different directions so your baby can choose which one to follow.
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I am submitting an application and one of the requirements is:
Copy of bank account statement in country of residence, duly attested by Indian Embassy/High Commission/Consulate/Apostille in the country where applicant is located
I don't know how to interpret this statement. The person is located in USA and it needs to be sent to India.
Does it mean Indian Embassy or Indian High Commission or Indian Consulate or Indian Apostille? Or does it mean Indian Embassy or High Commission or Consulate or Apostille? But then "Consulate" alone doesn't make sense, but neither does "Indian Apostille".


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To explain a new signal processing technique based on Fourier Transform, Bogert et al went on to define a new vocabulary. The new terminology was published in a paper with the title:
The Quefrency Alanysis of Time Series for Echoes: Cepstrum, Pseudo-autocovariance, Cross-Cepstrum, and Saphe Cracking, B.P. Bogert, M.J.R. Healy, J.W. Tukey, Proc. Symp. Time Series Analysis, M. Rosemblatt, Ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1963, pp. 209-243.
Spell-checkers are not recommended... :-)
ADDED: As we can see, the authors changed the position of the letters in the paper title to reflect the phenomenon analysed (echo in communication). Then, they used these new words to nominate the signal processing technique.
The question is: are there another papers with this characteristic (papers where the unusual terminology in the title reflect the phenomenon analysed) ?
Only the term Cepstrum has been widely used.
BTW, Cepstrum is the result of taking the Inverse Fourier transform (FT) of the logarithm of the spectrum of a signal. There is a complex cepstrum, a real cepstrum, a power cepstrum, and phase cepstrum. The power cepstrum in particular finds applications in the analysis of human speech.
ADDED: The idea of the kepstrum appears in the classical work of Poisson (1823), Schwarz (1872), Szego (1915), and Kolmogorov (1939), and has been applied to geophysical problems by Robinson (1954), Bogert et al. (1963), Schafer (1969), Oppenheim and Schafer (1975), Tribolet (1977), and others., M.T. Silvia, E.A. Robinson, Use of Kepstrum in Signal Analysis, Geoexploration, 16, 1978, pp. 55-73.
Our word "kepstrum" means the same as their term "complex cepstrum". Because the kepstrum of a real-time sequence is real, the use of the word "kepstrum" is less confusing than the term "complex cepstrum"., M.T. Silvia, E.A. Robinson, Use of Kepstrum in Signal Analysis, Geoexploration, 16, 1978, pp. 55-73.


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I am making a photo gallery app in which I try to load images from asset folder. I'm successful in doing this.
Now I want to share the image(single not multiple) via email, facebook and twitter. This is where my problem starts. I'm able to post a plain message via my app but I'm unable to post my image or attach my image with it. I don't know how to do this. I tried many tutorials but to no help.


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Krull's Hauptidealsatz (principal ideal theorem) says that for a Noetherian ring $R$ and any $r\in R$ which is not a unit or zero-divisor, all primes minimal over $(r)$ are of height 1. How badly can this fail if $R$ is a non-Noetherian ring? For example, if $R$ is non-Noetherian, is it possible for there to be a minimal prime over $(r)$ of infinite height?
I think that the answer is yes.
Indeed, there are examples of integral domains $D$ such that every non-zero prime ideal of $D$ has infinite height.
Look at the paper
"Anti-archimedean rings and power series rings"
D.D. Anderson; B.G. Kang; M H. Park
Communications in Algebra, 1532-4125, Volume 26, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3223 – 3238.
Valuation rings demonstrate quite clearly the failure of Krull's principal ideal theorem: take a valuation ring O of finite dimension. The prime ideals then form a chain
$p_0:=0\subset p_1\subset\ldots\subset p_d$
so that for every $i\in\{1,\ldots ,d\}$ there exists $r_i\in p_i\setminus p_{i-1}$. Obviously $p_i$ is a minimal prime over $r_iO$.
For valuation domains of infinite dimension one has to consider the so-called limit-primes: a prime ideal $p$ of a commutative ring $R$ is called limit-prime if
$p=\bigcup\limits_{q\in\mathrm{Spec} (R): q\subset p}q$.
There exist valuation domains $O$ of infinite Krull dimension such that the maximal ideal $m$ of $O$ is no limit-prime. For example take a valuation ring such that the corresponding value group is
$\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}\times\ldots$ (countably many factors ordered lexigraphically).
Then one can find $r\in m$ such that $m$ is minimal over $rO$.