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Possible announcement during late summer (August).
Apparently, according to Official Xbox Magazine, Rockstar may be announcing GTA V sometime during August. There is a Gamescom Convention in Germany around the same time.
It would make sense if they did announce it next month, they announced GTA IV just over a year in advance to its release. It has been said that a 2012 release is more than likely. If they announce it next month, it will make an 8-9 month stretch till April (April 29th 2008, GTA IVs release).
Possible? Could be, but who knows...
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The fuck? Does anybody look in these sections anymore?
Hell, I wouldn't doubt if they would announce. They've kept us waiting long enough. Since its being mentioned in OXM, I really wouldn't doubt it.
All this anticipation. Fuck, it'd be cool to finally get an official announcement from Rockstar. I've really changed my personal desires for the upcoming GTA. I hope they have come up with a whole new city. Instead of recycling the fucking old ones. Well, aside from Vice. I fucking love Vice. I just couldn't imagine Vice without that awesome 80s theme it had, tbh.
That is what SA was when it was released, to me, which made it so exciting. A WHOLE new map to explore, no not just its dumbass features, the exploration is what makes it cool, the getting the feel of the map. THAT was awesome. When IV came out, it was just.. oh... LC again, cool...
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Rockstar should really work on making the next GTA title have more side missions and repeatable stuff. Don't focus on City only, adds more country or etc. Specifically some combat orientated shit
Ala shit that made Vice City / San Andreas fun. I played through GTAIV and all it's DLC Twice. Once solo, second time with Rappo's Bodyguard mod I believe.
I called Dwayne's backup option and stormed a abandoned construction site, we stormed up the stairs covering each other, taking cover and laying down suppressing fire. It was amazing.
Then one of my guys decided to flank around me, he took a stray bullet from a guy I missed. Direct Headshot, his body slumped on the stair railing and he feel down several feet.
I felt that more than any cutscene. It was fucking intense working in a squad, it was fun as hell, it made me feel sad for a few seconds.
Apart from that ForeverAlone.jpg feeling, the game is just dead. Realism makes it lifeless way, way faster than VC or SA ever did. Hell, fucking riding a NGR-800 through the entire map in SA was fun as hell. I knew the entire map by memory, I didn't need to open and set a checkpoint, I just drove.
Damnit, I even drove the bike around the map two times because it was fun.
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It would be great if there were an announcement sometime this year. I really thought there would've been something by now.
As far as the next game's location, I'm pretty much up for anywhere really. It would be nice to get a new start. A huge map with all kinds of unfamiliar locations to explore. I know it's already been said and I agree, exploration is part of the fun. With III, VC and SA looking for the packages/special items was half the damn fun of the game. In IV, it was a pain in the ass killing all the pigeons and not really satisfying either.
Ultimately, there has to be a way to combine the fun and re-playable activities of the III trilogy with the realism of IV. I understand where they were going story-wise. It just would make more well rounded and immensely replayable game if there were additional options and activities which were actually enjoyable. IV's side stuff was pretty boring and actually was more of a nuisance to have to do. Bowling for me was terrible. The only time I messed around with it was the mission where you had to take Michelle there. That's it. Same went for darts and pool. Unless I had to try and unlock a friend's hook up for Niko I didn't bother. I think they could've been put to better use if they had been incorporated into the multiplayer somehow.
It stands to reason that if they are working on the next title the game should be amazing. The amount of time has provided plenty of room to create a brilliant world and a great storyline to go with it. I just hope to hear or see something soon.
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++ operator, would the better choice for an increment operator be as in C:
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After losing every starter from his 2011 state championship team to graduation, St. Xavier soccer coach Andy Schulten could hardly envisage a repeat.
"I really thought we'd have a hard time getting out of our district with the new alignment," said Schulten. "We didn't even think state championship."
Last Saturday, though, his reloaded squad achieved that remarkable end when it eked out a 1-0 win against host Paul Dunbar in the KHSAA state final and captured the program's fifth title in six years.
"They just didn't want to lose. All year long they didn't want to lose," said Schulten, who has led the Tigers to eight crowns in 15 seasons. "Just when I think that we're going to play an off game, we find something down deep inside."
Neither team created many quality chances in the match, but the Tigers capitalized on a direct kick from just outside the box with 13:06 to play. Senior forward Adam Kirsch drove the ball across the face of the goal, where Joey Stoltz redirected it off the back post and into the net.
The win over the second-ranked Bulldogs (25-4) capped a remarkable season in which No. 1 St. X (27-0-2) extended its unbeaten streak to 55 matches, recorded 20 shutouts – including 11 straight to end the season – and out-scored opponents 105-13.
Kirsch, who scored both goals in a 2-0 semifinal win against Boone County, was named Tournament MVP.
Several Louisville-area teams and individuals will be in the hunt for titles Saturday at the KHSAA State Cross-Country Meet at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. Here are the runners to keep an eye on in each class (rankings from KYTrackXC.com):
Class A
Start: Girls at 9:30 a.m., boys at 10:15.
Girls' runner to watch – Holy Cross sophomore Karly Gawarecki won the Lexington Catholic Invitational (Small School Division) last month at the Kentucky Horse Park with a PR of 19:14.75 and is seeded fourth for the State Meet. Gawarecki will attempt to dethrone three-time reigning champion Maddox Patterson of Sayre, who qualified with a runner-up finish (19:39.31) at the Region Five meet, but is vulnerable after missing much of the season due to illness.
Girls' team to watch – Defending champion St. Henry is led by No. 2 seed Sam Hentz and seventh-seeded Taylor Connett.
Boys' runner to watch – Holy Cross senior Jacob Thomson is the undisputed distance king in Kentucky and holds a No. 6 national ranking. The reigning Class A champion will look to peak at Foot Locker Nationals in December, but may still challenge the course record of 15:33 on Saturday.
Boys' team to watch – Top-ranked St. Henry is seeking an 11th straight title.
Class AA
Start: Girls at 11:30 a.m., boys at 12:15 p.m.
Girls' runner to watch – Gabby Karas of Collins, who won the 2-A title last year as a seventh grader, is a heavy favorite to repeat after torching the Region Three field with a time of 18:09.5.
Girls' team to watch – South Oldham – seeking its fifth consecutive title – is led by Erin Wilson, Grace Whitworth and Keightley Dudgeon who placed 4-5-6 at the regional meet.
Boys' runner to watch – Lexington Catholic's Nicholas Laureano returns as the No. 1 seed after a runner-up finish in 2011. The senior won Region Four in 16 minutes, 44.0 seconds.
Boys' team to watch – Two-time defending champion North Oldham has seven runners seeded in the top 60, led by No. 10 Luke Tarvestad.
Class AAA
Start: Girls at 1:30 p.m., boys at 2:15.
Girls' runner to watch – Manual senior Cassidy Hale, the defending Class 3-A champion, won the Region Three Meet in 18:28.40, but will need a strong showing to top No. 1 seed Bailey Davis of Assumption, who took Region Four in 18:14.59.
Girls' team to watch – Assumption is pursuing its third title in a row and fifth in six years. The Rockets, ranked No. 1 in the state and No. 10 in the nation, boast five top-10 seeds: Davis, Katherine Receveur (fifth seed), Emily Bean (seventh), Kenzley Defler (ninth) and Kate Crawford (10th).
Boys' runner to watch – Defending champion Connor Sheryak of St. Xavier edged teammate Sam Lewis to win the Region Three crown (15:46.90) and is seeded second behind Chase Geary of Muhlenburg County.
Boys' team to watch – St. X, ranked No. 5 nationally, has six runners among the top eight seeds and should be a lock to repeat. Battling to score for the Tigers will be Sheryak, Sam Lewis (third seed), Christopher Striegel (fourth), Nick Reader (sixth), Thomas Cave (seventh), Max Mudd (eighth) and Mark Johnson (12th).
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19 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped (Part 13)
It's time again for another installment of our popular feature wherein we show you photographs that are 100 percent real, despite the fact that they all look 100 percent fake. In case you missed the previous installments, here are links to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, the gritty reboot that doesn't acknowledge the previous installments, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, and Part 12. Or you can just read this one on its own; we don't pretend to know how busy your schedule is.
#19. Your Artsy Photographer Friend Finally Learned Photoshop
Roni Bintang
The red symbolizes "color."
This looks like somebody decided to toy with mixing color with grayscale, maybe as an homage to the "girl in the red coat" from Schindler's List.
But it's actually an undoctored photo taken in the aftermath of a volcano eruption in Indonesia. When the eruption left a thin layer of ash over the landscape, the flower was still a bud. After the dust had settled, it bloomed to become a vivid splash of red in the ashy gray landscape. The result is a striking photo with an inspirational message for the ages: Sometimes success means being born at the right time.
#18. "I Wanted a House That Reflects What's in My Soul"
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"I see a red door and I want it painted black ... then sometimes I go a little overboard."
This looks like somebody selected this house with the Magic Wand tool in Photoshop, then slid the brightness down to zero. That, or it's the house every 13-year-old goth kid swears he's going to live in when he grows up. But it's actually a very real home in Germany, or at least it was.
And, while we wish we could tell you that Glenn Danzig lives there, in reality it was painted like this as a farewell prior to demolition. Or maybe the house knew the demolition crew was going to show up at night and went into stealth mode.
via ThisIsColossal.com
Earlier, it looked like any other German house.
#17. No, This Isn't Man-Made
Karen Hakansson
"I watch you change through your window. All of you."
At a glance, you'd say there are two options for this "man in the mountain" photo: It's either a very quick and simple Photoshop job or a very laborious and complex art project that spent months turning the mountainside into an image of a goateed giant who's about to burglarize the shit out of this town.
But it's neither -- it's a completely natural and coincidental formation on a mountainside near Alesund, Norway. Before you call bullshit, here's what it looks like up close, as seen in this photo by climber Arnt Flatmo:
Arnt Flatmo
So, not a man then. It's Satan.
The locals call the man in the mountainside "Sulamannen" (hint: The mountain itself is located in the town of Sula), and he only appears when it gets just the right amount of snow. The folklore goes that each winter, like magic, this man in the sock hat and goatee appears and, once everyone is asleep, swoops down and steals your television to sell it for meth money.
#16. Oh God, Please Tell Us He Cropped in That Background
Mustang Wanted
"Cropped? No."
Nothing about this looks real, for about a dozen different reasons. Obviously no human would suspend himself by his fingertips at what looks like 2,000 feet off the ground. And in general the cityscape below him looks like a bad CGI effect. For all the realism this guy achieved, he might as well have cropped himself into a photo of outer space.
But if you're scared of heights, get ready for your palms to start sweating: This is an undoctored photo of a real stunt, done with no safety harness, performed by a real idiot. He is a Ukrainian man who goes by the name Mustang Wanted, and if you want to see him taunt death in video form, have at it:
He doesn't reveal anything else about his identity or his motivation, but from the information available to us, we're going to assume he's trying to save up to buy a Mustang.
#15. Perhaps You Would Like to Upgrade to Our New Fourth-Dimensional Siding
Steven King
Divide your time evenly between sunbathing and sweeping!
This looks like a clever photo project blending a before and an after view of a house in the desert by alternating the views with each board. Or something. But by now you know that this is exactly what you would see if you were standing in front of the house -- it just took some strategically placed mirrors.
Steven King
The stripes give you the reflection of a fatty.
It wouldn't work if the desert wasn't so uniform that the reflection becomes indistinguishable from the landscape on the other side of the house, giving the illusion that you're looking straight through it. The house was part of an art installation by artist Phillip K. Smith III, and we're not sure how the photos were taken without capturing the photographer in the shot -- it probably has something to do with vampirism. Oh, and if you think the thing looks trippy during the day, it could double as a goddamned rave club at night.
Steven King
Don't forget to hydrate when you're dropping E in the middle of the desert.
#14. From the LEGO School of Architecture
Oscar Ruiz
Everything is awesome. Except for the homeowner's association. They're dicks.
"So it's not a Photoshop, it's just a really shitty model of a housing development?" Nope, there's real, tiny people in them there houses. That is, depressingly, a real housing complex on the outskirts of Mexico City.
We can't give you an angle that doesn't make it look like a little LEGO village built by the world's most unimaginative child. The houses even come in gender-specific colors, the orange for boys and a lovely pink for the girls, complete with parking space for the LEGO Barbie dream car. In the wider view, you can even see primer-gray models in the background, presumably waiting to be painted:
Oscar Ruiz
Then a giant comes along and steps on one and starts screaming for us to clean up.
#13. Look Closely, You'll See a Face
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Or possibly a butthole. Impressive either way.
OK, if that's not Photoshop, then it's some stupid stuffed animal, right? That's not, you know, some kind of living being ...
It sure is. That there is an actual Angora rabbit, and its fur is the result of carefully breeding only the fluffiest bunnies with each other over thousands of generations. This means that breeders have to take a male that looks exactly like that and a female that is exactly that fluffy, or fluffier, and make them fuck.
Are you picturing it? Or at least are you picturing the foreplay, when the male has to dig through there to figure out where the hell her genitals are?
#12. "Yeah, Man, You Can Really Feel the Bass"
Richard DuPont
"I warned you to get out of that goddamn tub."
We've got to admit, but for the first time ever, we were more focused on the rest of the picture, rather than the fact that the dude's balls are showing. What looks like a reflection in a fun house mirror is in fact a statue created using a 3D printer and a modified 3D scan of artist Richard Dupont's own body (or he was trying to create an exact replica and the printer fucked up).
We have to give him credit; a lot of artists couldn't have resisted the impulse to give themselves a little upgrade below the belt. Although we guess it's possible he did.
#11. It's a Stripper's Shoulder Tattoo Come to Life
George Karbus
Just with fewer waterborne diseases.
We're shocked there isn't a unicorn loping by in the background of this photo of a man gently casting a magic spell to the wonderment of his dolphin friend. Are there real people whose actual lives just ... look like this? All the time? Is that seaweed hiding a singing crab perched on his shoulder?
This photo was a finalist in a CBS sports photography competition taken by George Karbus. If you look close enough, it's easy to spot that the aquatic wizard's magic missile is actually just a well-placed jellyfish. Which, incidentally, makes the photo about 1 percent less weird. Is he, like, feeding it or something? Does he have jellyfish food on his finger? Do jellyfish allow you to just poke them like that? And are passing dolphins always that amused by it?
Shane Killian
"You should see the 'after-hours' exhibit."
What looks like a cruel booby trap intended to rip the tendons out of the elbows of unsuspecting tourists is actually just a perspective trick created by Jerry Andrus (that's not him in the photo), the world's king of creating apparently impossible objects. It's next to impossible to explain how it works in text (although if you stare at it long enough, you may eventually figure it out -- you're looking at the hollow back of the sculpture), so your best bet is to watch it in motion:
What's great about that video is that, when the illusion is viewed from the front, it still looks impossible when you pass something through it even in motion. Hell, even after you know how it works, the moment he turns it around, your brain just freezes up again. See, this is the kind of shit that used to get people put on trial for witchcraft.


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Which questions are most successful at gauging the UX design experience in a candidate? What approaches are best used during a job interview for a UX design position?
First: Hello. Welcome. Thank you for coming to see us today. Take a seat. Coffee. Put interviewee at ease.
Then: "Tell me about the experience you had getting here today."
It has no correct answer since the interviewer knows nothing about the journey. But the interviewee actually undertook the complete experience so should be very much in a comfort zone.
It's great for seeing what was noticed, how it is communicated to someone who wasn't there, and of course it's very much a case of seeing if they pick up on what you are expecting of them and can convey the experience descriptively and passionately ( or not...) and if they can actually 'tell a story' in the process.
It's such a lovely little big question.
If you had the power to change one object/device/software application you use regularly, what would it be? How would you change it?
I would then listen for answers to the 2 questions I didn't ask "why change it?" and "what will the implications be?" Everyone can come up with ideas but few people can explain them well and see the bigger picture.
One thing we always do is a design exercise that is abstracted away from the specifics our application. It tests the creativity and interaction design talents of the applicant. There are half a dozen different answers, and any are good, we just want to see thought process.
The specifics of the test have to do with taking something with alot of values and binning them into groups.
List five principles of a usable web site
Explain the basics of conducting a usability test
Bring up a site with excellent user experience on my computer/laptop/projector; now show us why you think it is excellent
Explain some likely UX issues with this web site (our web site, a random site, a huge site like Amazon or MSN)
What others have to say:
OH. I came across a great doc on Slideshare yesterday. It has common questions, UX/UI specific questions, and questions that were asked by Fortune companies.


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I have a KML file with hundreds of points. To each point there is information, such as Name, Power, Age (it's a map of hydroenergy powerplants). If I import that KML file to QGIS, this information is lost. Is there a way I can keep this information?
Thanks for your help. I tried that, but still the Data is lost. The Information looks like this:
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Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions recently released a report titled, "Energy independence and security: A reality check," that examines whether or not energy independence is necessary to achieve energy security. Deloitte contends that the answer is "probably no."
Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions recently released a
report titled, "Energy independence and security: A reality
check," that examines whether or not energy independence is
necessary to achieve energy security. Deloitte contends that
the answer is "probably no."
The report reviews present and developing national energy
policies and discusses US strategies for oil imports and
A key conclusion is that, "While US energy independence may
be unattainable in the foreseeable future, energy security is a
realistic and achievable goal."
"The real issue is not independence from all foreign oil,"
the report continues, "but reducing oil imports from unfriendly
nations, diversifying our supply of energy sources and ensuring
that no nation can effectively manipulate markets against our
national interests....Understanding how to reach [energy
security], however, requires us to know more about our sources
and uses of energyand the realities of energy supply and
The report also acknowledges, "For most energy-consuming
sectors of our economy, our supply is predominately domestic,
with only transportation remaining more heavily dependent on
imports. Thus, the US already has significant 'energy
independence,' at least in terms of exclusive reliance on
domestic production, for much of its economy."
"The remaining question," Deloitte contends, "is how to make
the transportation sector more independent of sharp disruptions
and 'unfriendly' sources [of energy]."
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CEDAR PARK, Texas (September 28, 2013) – The San Antonio Rampage defeated the Oklahoma City Barons 2-1 in a shootout in their first preseason game of the year on Saturday at Cedar Park Center.
Jared Gomes tallied the game-tying goal with 12.9 seconds remaining in regulation and notched the lone goal of the shootout to give San Antonio the win in front of 2,613 fans at Cedar Park Center.
Rampage netminder Dov Grumet-Morris made 21 saves in regulation and turned aside all five Oklahoma City shooters in the shootout.
The two teams combined for 22 penalties in the contest, but neither was able to light the lamp on the power play. San Antonio was 0-for-7 on the power play, while Oklahoma City was 0-for-9 with the man advantage.
San Antonio had a golden opportunity on the power play at the midway mark of the period when Rampage forward Greg Rallo ripped off a shot from the point. Oklahoma City netminder Richard Bachman surrendered a big rebound, but the Rampage were unable to capitalize on the chance.
Both teams committed four penalties in the opening frame, but neither was able convert with the man advantage.
Early in the second period, Rampage forward Logan Shaw was sent scrambling over Bachman, chasing a Greg Zanon rebound that was brushed off at the last second by the Barons' goalie.
Soon after, the period once again descended into a constant back-and-forth of penalties. After a Barons goalie change that switched out Bachman for Ty Rimmer, Oklahoma City's Ryan Martindale broke the stalemate at the midway mark. The center streaked between two San Antonio defenders and deked Grumet-Morris before depositing the puck into the back of the net.
San Antonio was tested late in the period with a 5-on-3 kill followed by a 5-on-4 kill, but Grumet-Morris stood tall in the net, making a stick save up high, and then a gorgeous post-to-post save to keep the Rampage at a one-goal deficit.
With a minute left on the clock, Jack Combs fed a slick pass to the slot that was picked up by Jon Matsumoto, but the center was unable to cash in, letting the time run out with Oklahoma City still holding a 1-0 lead after 40 minutes of action.
Within minutes of the whistle blowing to mark the start of the third, the Rampage were granted with their best offensive chance of the game when a power play quickly developed into a 5-on-3. Though the Barons were able to kill it off, the Rampage had several excellent chances that had Rimmer all over the net trying to preserve the Barons lead.
Tony Turgeon, in his first professional game, and first as a winger, dropped the gloves with Oklahoma City's Erick Lizon midway through the third period. The two went blow for blow, until Turgeon finally got the upper hand and sent Lizon to the ice.
With an empty net and 12.9 seconds remaining, Gomes crashed the net and snuck one past Rimmer. Gomes' first of the preseason was assisted by Vincent Trocheck and Combs, effectively sending the game into overtime.
Neither team was able to light the lamp in overtime, thus sending the game one step further into a shootout.
The shootout went goalless until the third round, when Gomes beat Rimmer. His tally became the eventual winner as Grumet-Morris turned aside all five Barons shooters. The Rampage skated away with a 2-1 win, outshooting the Barons 30-22.
The Rampage return to Cedar Park Center tomorrow to face off against in-state rival Texas Stars at 5 p.m. They open the 2013-14 AHL regular season at home on Friday, October 4, when they host the Chicago Wolves. Individual and season tickets can be purchased at the AT&T Center Southeast Box Office, by calling a Rampage representative at 210-444-5554 or online at sarampage.com.


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This might be a silly question but I take the risk because it's been puzzling me for quite some time :
If you have 2 flashlights, one facing North and one facing South, how fast are the photons (or lightbeams) from both flashlights moving away from one another?
Just adding speeds would yield 2C, but that's not possible as far as I know.
UPDATE : the reference frame here would be the place where the flashlights are and/or UPDATE2 : the beams relative to one another.


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Montgomery County now has a sixth human case of West Nile virus, an official confirmed Monday.
A 44-year-old resident of South Montgomery County was confirmed Friday as being diagnosed with West Nile virus, said Dr. Syed Ibrahim, chief epidemiologist for the Montgomery County Hospital District Public Health Department.
There have been no confirmations of any deaths from West Nile virus in Montgomery County, Ibrahim said. All six of the county's human cases have been in South Montgomery County.
The Texas Department of State Health Services has confirmed 1,276 human cases of West Nile illness in Texas this year, including 58 deaths. Fifteen of those deaths were in Dallas County, while Harris County has had three.
West Nile is a mosquito-borne virus. There are two forms of the illness; West Nile neuroinvasive disease and West Nile fever. The symptoms of severe infection from West Nile neuroinvasive disease include headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness and paralysis.
West Nile fever is the milder form of the illness. Symptoms include fever, headache, body aches, and occasionally a skin rash on the trunk of the body and swollen lymph glands.
Most people infected with the virus don't know they have it, Ibrahim previously said, and less than 1 percent develop West Nile neuroinvasive disease, which includes inflammation of the brain, spinal cord or tissue surrounding the brain.
People older than 50 and those with compromised immune systems are more likely to develop this form.
To protect themselves, residents need to wear protective clothing (long sleeves and long pants) when outdoors, avoid going outside at dawn and dusk, and make their home unattractive to mosquitoes by emptying containers that may collect rainwater and sprinkler water.
Adults should use insect repellant that contains more than 10 percent DEET; children should use insect repellents that contain less than 10 percent DEET, and DEET should not be used at all on babies.


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WASHINGTON (CNN) - The race for the White House remains very close, according to a new national poll, partly because neither President Barack Obama nor Republican challenger Mitt Romney have a clear advantage on issue number one - the economy.
A CNN/ORC International survey released Friday also indicates that Obama supporters are more energized right now than those backing Romney.
According to the poll, 49% of registered voters say that if the November election were held today, they would vote for Obama, while 46% say they would cast a ballot for Romney, the unofficial GOP presidential nominee. The president's three point margin is within the survey's sampling error. Obama had a nine point advantage in CNN's last national poll, which was conducted in early April.
"Which candidate better understands how the economy works? That's a tie as well - 45% pick Obama, 45% choose Romney," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
According to the survey, one in five questioned say neither candidate can fix the economy, with another one in five saying the economy will recover regardless of who wins in November. Among the rest, once again there is no clear advantage - 31% say economic conditions will improve only if Romney wins; 28% think things will get better only if Obama stays in office.
The poll was conducted Tuesday through Thursday, before the release Friday morning of the May unemployment numbers. According to the disappointing report from the Labor Department, the nation's unemployment level edged up to 8.2% last month, with only 69,000 jobs created in May.
According to the poll, the economy, by far, remains issue number one. Fifty-two percent said that it's the most important issue facing the country today. The deficit, at 18% is a distant second.
Over the past few weeks, the Obama campaign has been hammering Romney's business experience at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he co-founded. Did their strategy work?
"The public splits down the middle on Romney's business experience as well," adds Holland. "Fifty percent say that Romney has the right experience to reduce unemployment and improve the economy if he were elected, with 45% saying he does not."
The poll also indicates that Americans' views of the economy haven't gotten any better or worse since the spring. In March, the number who thought the economy was in good shape jumped from 18% to 31%, but there has been no additional movement since then. Sixty-nine percent say economic conditions are poor.
Although the race for the White House is essentially tied, Obama does have one big advantage: His supporters right now are far more enthusiastic about him. More than six in ten Obama voters say they strongly support the president, while only 47% of Romney voters feel that way about their candidate.
Nearly three-quarters of those questioned say they've made up their mind about who they will vote for in November, with one in four saying it's possible they could change their mind.
In the battle for crucial independent voters, the poll indicates Romney holds a 51%-39% advantage.
The president's approval rating continues to hover around the 50% mark. Fifty-two percent give Obama thumbs up on the job he's doing in the White House, with 47% saying they disapprove of how he's handling his duties.
The survey also indicates Americans are divided in the battle for Congress, with 48% saying they would back the Democratic candidate in their congressional district and 45% saying they would support the GOP candidate.
The CNN poll was conducted by ORC International from May 29-31, with 1,009 adults nationwide, including 895 registered voters, questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points, with a sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for registered voters.


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The 5 Saddest Attempts to Take Over a Country
We tend to want to root for the underdog in our society. When we hear about a rebellion in Egypt or Libya or elsewhere, we instinctively want to root for the scrappy kids trying to fight back against The Man.
The problem is that a lot of coup attempts aren't all that inspirational. Some, in fact, border on slapstick comedy.
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#5. The Oufkir Coup Tried to Ram the President's Plane in Midair
The thing about being an evil dictator is that you need evil henchmen to help out. And the thing about having evil henchmen is that eventually they say, "Wait a second, why aren't I the one in charge?" The only good thing about that scenario is that sometimes, hilarity ensues.
For instance, the henchman in our story was Mohamed Oufkir, who, in the 1960s, was the adviser and right-hand man of King Hassan II of Morocco. He was doing dirty work for his king, and we're not talking about gardening. He violently suppressed protests, spied on his own people and had so many people disappear that French courts eventually tried him for murder. Mohamed Oufkir was the crony that supervillains dreamed of. Until, as you can guess, his ambition got the best of him.
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Most top henchmen get metal teeth or a razor hat. Oufkir got off-center glasses.
In the early '70s, Oufkir got tired of being the second banana to the king and decided to have a good old-fashioned "nondemocratic change of power," complete with the backing of the Moroccan military.
"With sunglasses and a uniform of indeterminate rank, anything is possible!"
In 1972, King Hassan went to a conference in France. Smelling a chance for a coup, Oufkir put his well-hatched plans in motion. When King H. was on his way back to the country, Oufkir sent not one, not two, but three fighter jets out to attack the king's plane as it flew over the Mediterranean. How hard could this be -- they had the element of surprise, and it was three fighter jets to the king's one unarmed, sitting duck 727.
What Oufkir didn't realize was that his pilots were none other than the Three Stooges. The planes were shooting at the royal jet when the pilots discovered they only had practice ammunition on board. They did as much damage as a pistol loaded with paper clips. That was when one of them had the brilliant idea to just ram the king's jet midair.
So the king himself got on the radio and, in his own voice, told the jet pilots to stop firing because the "tyrant" had been killed. Happy that this guy (who coincidentally sounded exactly like the person they were trying to assassinate) told them that the king was dead, the pilots returned home. Mission accomplished!
By the time they realized what had happened, the king was already landing in the capital of Rabat. King Hassan II immediately ordered the arrest of hundreds of disloyal officers and was ready to get his one-time buddy Oufkir. But Oufkir by this time had committed "suicide." King Hassan, unfazed, then continued to rule the country until his death by heart attack in 1999.
"You don't need a crown to be a king. Just great, elephantine balls."
#4. Nine White Supremacists Tried to Take Over a Country
Have you ever wondered what would happen if preschoolers thought they could take over a country? Us, too. Fortunately, Operation Red Dog painted a pretty vivid picture of how that would work out -- only instead of imagining grape-juice-stained 4-year-olds storming the beach in red wagons and Big Wheels, picture white supremacists. Give them mullets and cutoff jean shorts, what do we care?
Ubermensch. Some emphasis on the "uber."
The story starts in 1979, when racist politician David Duke introduced American Klansmen to Canadian neo-Nazis, because above everything else, Duke was a matchmaker. Obviously, their mutual love of hating brown skin meant that the two groups should hook up permanently and get some race wars going. But how? Last we checked, there wasn't much of a market for "Team Hate" merchandise.
The plan that emerged was so obscenely convoluted that you'd think it came from a Bond villain: invade a country and set up a puppet government that would be friendly to their businesses. Because God knows starting a business in Canada or the United States would have been CRAZY.
"The demand for poorly tailored white robes just ain't what it used to be."
Their country of choice was Dominica. They had the former prime minister on their side and everything. And as if the motley crew wasn't racist enough, representatives of apartheid-era South Africa offered to provide funding for the escapade as well. By early 1981, the supergroup of invading racists was ready, but "ready" is a pretty subjective term. Enlisting people who didn't actually know anything about covert military operations was probably their first mistake. Buying only one boat was mistake numero dos. Hanging a swastika on their one and only boat as it docked in New Orleans: mistake three.
"We're ... uh, Hindu."
And that was when things just got comical.
The original hired crew of the S.S. White Power got spooked about the trip for some reason, so a new captain and crew were hired. It took the new captain about five minutes to suspect something was amiss, so he immediately tipped off the ATF about the Getalong Gang. The ATF then arrested the former Dominican prime minister, the one the whole plan revolved around. Wait, here's the best part: With the key person to their scheme in jail and their plans completely exposed, the team decided to go ahead and invade Dominica anyway.
A few days later, captainless and prime ministerless, the nine remaining team members began loading up the boat in New Orleans, when the ATF came up and arrested them all. The group then learned of their biggest failure: Of the nine people ready to invade, three of them were undercover ATF agents. The media quickly called the fiasco the "Bayou of Pigs," and all conspirators got three years of jail for never getting anywhere close to overturning a country.
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Above: Apparently enough guns to pacify a nation of 70,000.
#3. A Guy Tried to Take Over France With Some Forged Documents
In 1812, former musketeer and all-around French guy Claude Francois de Malet had a great idea: He was going to topple Napoleon's government.
Never mind that he had zero support from the military, or that he was living in a sanitarium when he came up with the plan ... none of that mattered. He had support from a few royalists who wanted a king on the throne and he had something every conspirator needs: crazy eyes.
Most of world history is a clash of mental illnesses.
While Napoleon Bonaparte was off fighting the Russians, Malet managed to escape the asylum, steal a general's uniform (which he gladly wore) and forge some official-looking documents to back up his audacious plan. The plan? Tell everyone that Napoleon was dead and that he was in charge now.
So, the first person "General" Malet approached was a colonel in the French National Guard. Upon seeing the Kinkos-fresh docs, the colonel was 100 percent convinced that everything the general said was true. Did it matter that he had never seen this man before, or that the documents were ordering the arrest of several of Napoleon's officials? Non. And it didn't hurt that the papers also turned this particular colonel into a general. You've got to hand it to Malet, he was pretty smooth.
Sexy smooth.
So the new general released troops to the fake general, and the fake general marched everyone over to La Force prison to order the release of some of his old cronies. No one blinked an eye, but maybe that's because this was the part where Malet started shooting dissenters in the face. Yeah, that's probably why.
Malet was only a few master strokes away from taking over the entire Parisian military when he made a huge mistake: He actually let someone get a closer look at those fake papers. Colonel Jean Doucet wasn't a guy who could be easily placated with a new star for his jacket -- and he knew for a fact that Napoleon had written letters after the death date provided by Malet. Not to mention that he totally recognized the fake general from a previous insurrection and knew that the guy had put in some time at an insane asylum.
Basically, it'd be like if your boss called in sick to work and that temp who was fired for low-hanging jeans showed up, claiming he was totally in charge now. Come to think of it, this whole insurrection played out like an episode of The Office at one point. Except cast members of The Office weren't arrested, tried and executed like Claude de Malet and his collaborators were.
It's debatable whether Malet or the cast of The Office made out better.


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WACO (December 2, 2012) -- Baylor has accepted an invitation to play in the 2012 Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, marking the first time in program history the Bears have earned bowl bids in three consecutive seasons.
Baylor will face UCLA from the Pac-12 Conference when the nationally televised (ESPN) Holiday Bowl is played at 8:45 p.m. CST on Dec. 27. Both Baylor and UCLA will be making their Holiday Bowl debuts, and the teams will be meeting for the first time on the gridiron.
"It is very exciting to be going to a bowl game for the third straight year and the Holiday Bowl is widely recognized as one of the best in terms of hospitality, student-athlete experience and atmosphere," said Ian McCaw, Baylor's Director of Athletics. "We need Baylor Nation to rise up and support the Bears by contacting the athletic ticket office to make arrangements to purchase tickets and come to San Diego to be a part of this special event. This is Baylor's first out-of-state bowl game in 20 years, so it is imperative that we have a great turnout to cheer on the Bears against UCLA."
UCLA (9-4, 6-3 Pac-12) started the season 9-2 before dropping consecutive games to Stanford, including Friday's Pac-12 Championship Game. The Bruins are ranked No. 17 in the latest AP Top 25 Poll released Sunday.
Baylor (7-5, 4-5 Big 12) finished the regular season with three consecutive Big 12 Conference victories. The Bears knocked off No. 1 Kansas State on Nov. 17, 52-24, defeated Texas Tech 52-45 in overtime on Nov. 24, and they closed the regular season Saturday with a 41-34 win over No. 23 Oklahoma State. The win over OSU improved Baylor's record to 5-0 in home games against ranked teams over the last two seasons.
"I'm extremely proud of our team for getting us into a bowl game, especially a bowl with the national reputation that the Holiday Bowl has earned through the years with all of the great games played there," Baylor head coach Art Briles said. "It's an honor for Baylor to play a really good UCLA football team."
Baylor has won seven or more games in three straight seasons for the second time in program history and first time since 1949-51, when the Bears combined for 23 victories. Entering the Holiday Bowl, Baylor has 24 wins over its last three seasons, which ties 1985-87 for the most victories over a three-year span in Baylor's 114 seasons of football. The Bears are also 10-1 in the months of November and December over the past two years, and BU is 12-1 at home since the start of the 2011 season.
Baylor's balanced offense leads the nation in total yards (578 ypg), ranks third in passing (353 ypg) and 19th rushing (226 ypg), making it one of three programs nationally (Louisiana Tech, Texas A&M) ranked in the top 20 in both rushing and passing offense.
Baylor has continued to produce big numbers despite losing five offensive starters to the 2012 NFL Draft. The Bears have scored 40 or more points in nine of 12 games this year and 18 of 25 games dating back to the start of the 2011 season. BU's quick-strike attack, which ranks fifth nationally with 44.1 points per game, has totaled nine one-play TD drives this season (16 TD drives of three plays or fewer) and scored 20 TDs on drives of one minute or less (40 of two minutes or less).
The high-octane offense is led by senior quarterback Nick Florence, who leads the nation with 387.7 yards of total offense per game. Florence's favorite target is senior All-American wide receiver Terrance Williams, who leads the nation with 147.0 receiving yards per game. Williams, one of three Biletnikoff Award finalists, has already broken the Baylor single-season receiving yards record (1,764), and he needs 236 receiving yards in the Holiday Bowl to become the second 2,000-yard receiver in NCAA history.
The Bears' late season run has coincided with the emergence of a strong one-two punch in the backfield featuring sophomore Lache Seastrunk and junior Glasco Martin. Seastrunk has 874 rushing yards on the season, including 693 yards and five touchdowns in his last five games, while Martin is second on the team with 791 rushing yards and leads the way with 12 TDs.
Baylor's defense has also stepped up late in the season, intercepting 11 passes over the past five games. The Bears are now 15-2 when forcing two or more turnovers during defensive coordinator Phil Bennett's two seasons.
"These bowls are the fruits of the labor," Briles said. "It's an opportunity to extend your season, to give your fan base an opportunity to travel and support you, and you do all you can do to take full advantage of the opportunity. It'll be a great experience for our players. To be able to go see a new part of the United States, that's what makes bowl games great. It's a new adventure."
Baylor is allotted 11,000 tickets for the 2012 Holiday Bowl. The tickets, which are priced from $65-$85, may be purchased by Baylor Bear Foundation members and 2012 season ticket holders by signing into their accounts online at www.BaylorBears.com/tickets. Tickets can also be purchased by calling the Baylor Athletic Ticket Office at 254-710-1000 or in person at the Ferrell Center box office from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Bear Foundation members and season ticket holders must place their orders Dec. 5 by noon CT.
If any tickets remain from the Baylor allotment, they will be available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 8:30 a.m. on Dec. 6.
Baylor students may purchase tickets to the 2012 Holiday Bowl Dec. 5-7 in the Bill Daniel Student Center Ticket Office. Student tickets, which cost $65, may be purchased from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., Dec. 5-7, or until supplies are exhausted. All student tickets will be allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis. Student pick-up instructions will be given at the time of purchase.
Baylor fans interested in travel packages for Baylor's trip to San Diego for the 2012 Holiday Bowl may sign up for information with Anthony Travel. Travel options will be sent via email from Baylor's travel partner as soon as they become available.


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by Melissa Brunner
I was sitting at the desk waiting for the 5 pm news to start when one of the photographers walked into the studio and said there was a report of a fire at our old WIBW building so let's see if we could see it on any of Jeremy's weather cameras.
Words can't describe the feeling in my stomach when Jeremy said, "We got it," followed by, "Oh, wow."
There it was. You could see the bright orange glow flickering from the center, the thick black smoke rolling into the sky.
To me, that building wasn't just the old WIBW studios. It was the place I grew up, the place I learned what it really means to report, to work as a team. I remember my first day, midway through a tour with Mary Loftus when Jim Doblin called us back to the newsroom to send me on my very first story. I remember my desk in the corner of the newsroom - the new person got the small desk in the corner, next to that monster of a machine where we rolled the CBS Newspath feeds - tapes changed every hour, on the hour. It all comes into a computer now.
That building was where I met my husband, where I battled chicken pox, where I was first chewed out by a public official. That building is where I made so many friends and learned from so many far wiser than myself.
When all is said and done, I think those of us in news will appreciate the visual, headline-making way in which that old building went out. It would have been nice to set up a tent and have a picnic while we watched the wrecking ball have its way. But, in the end, we had to scramble and respond the same way in which we learned to do it from within those very walls.
And, in the end, the technology that never existed within those walls brought the "family" back together tonight. Through Facebook and Twitter and emails, we've shared memories and consoled each other through the loss of this, our old home.


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Kid Cudi Plans to Release New EP In the Next Three Months
Good news Kid Cudi fans: you don't have to wait until 2015 to hear new music. During a recent show in Dallas on his ongoing 'Cud Life Tour,' the Lonely Stoner announced plans to release a new EP within the next three months.
The project, as Cudder puts it, "will be a prelude to [his upcoming album] 'Man on the Moon 3,' it's all attached to the story. When 'Man on the Moon 3′ comes out, you will be able to play this EP segueing into 'Man on the Moon 3.' It will be a seamless connection. It will be a continuation from 'The Flight of the Moon Man' at the end of 'Indicud.'"
Like his aforementioned album, Cudi revealed that he'll be producing on the project, only this time alongside his long-time collaborator Dot Da Genius, who produced his flagship hit, 'Day n Nite.' Fellow Cleveland native King Chip (formerly known as Chip Tha Ripper) will also make an appearance.
Though he didn't provide a specific release date, the former G.O.O.D. Music artist plans to keep his fans on their toes by revealing the release date of the EP within 24 hours of its arrival.


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Robert Myers is one of the leading theoretical physicists, working in the area of string theory in Canada. He received his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1986, after which he was a postdoctoral researcher at what became the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He moved to McGill University in 1989, where he was a Professor of Physics until moving to Perimeter Institute and the University of Waterloo in the summer of 2001.
Professor Myers was awarded the Herzberg Medal in 1999 by the Canadian Association of Physicists for seminal contributions to our understanding of black hole microphysics and D-branes. He is also the 2005 winner of Canada's top prize in theoretical and mathematical physics awarded by the Canadian Association of Physicists and the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques. More recently, he was awarded the 2012 Vogt Medal by the Canadian Association of Physicists and TRIUMF for outstanding theoretical contributions to subatomic physics. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is one of the few people to have won the first-place award in the Gravity Research Foundation Essay Contest more than once (winning in 1995 and 1997). Past winners of this contest, which was established for the purpose of stimulating thought and encouraging work on gravitation, include Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose. Professor Myers was named as one of only three Canadian physicists on the list of the World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014, the Thomson Reuters list of top 1% of researchers who wrote most cited papers in their field over the period 2002 to 2012.
Professor Myers is also a fellow of the Cosmology and Gravity Program of the Canadian Institute For Advanced Research, a uniquely Canadian enterprise devoted to networking top-flight researchers from across the country. From 2001 to 2005, he was a founding member on the scientific advisory board of the Banff International Research Station, a facility devoted to hosting workshops and meetings in the mathematical sciences and related areas. Professor Myers has also served on the editorial boards of the following research journals: Annals of Physics (January 2002 - July 2012) and Journal of High Energy Physics (May 2007 - present). Though his current activities remain centered at Perimeter Institute, Professor Myers remains active in both teaching and supervising graduate students with his cross-appointment as an Adjunct Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Waterloo.
I am a member of the Quantum Fields and Strings group at Perimeter. While I have broad interests in theoretical physics, I would say that my research has primarily focused on gravitational aspects of string theory. In recent years, I have been particularly interested in applications of a set of tools that has emerged from string theory, known as the AdS/CFT correspondence or more broadly as gauge/gravity duality.


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Vanderbilt's Franklin apologizes for sexist comment
Coach's comments to radio show went viral
Vanderbilt coach James Franklin apologized Thursday for a comment during a radio show that his assistant coaches' wives needed to be attractive in order for their husbands to be hired.
The comments went viral and he apologized via Twitter.
Vanderbilt Vice Chancellor of Athletics David Williams also admonished him Thursday over the "inappropriate" nature of the message during the SEC meetings in Destin, Fla.
"He clearly made a mistake," Williams said. "And clearly what he said is not how he feels and not how we feel."
Franklin made the comments during an interview with a Nashville sports radio station.
"I've been saying it for a long time, I will not hire an assistant coach until I've seen his wife," Franklin said Wednesday. "If she looks the part, and she's a D-1 recruit, then you got a chance to get hired. That's part of the deal.
"There's a very strong correlation between having the confidence, going up and talking to a woman, and being quick on your feet and having some personality and confidence and being fun and articulate, than it is walking into a high school and recruiting a kid and selling him."
On Thursday, Franklin tweeted his apology: "My foot does not taste good, I hope I did not offend any1, I love and respect ALL, have a great day, enjoy the fam & don't forget to #AnchorDown."
Franklin is in his second season at Vanderbilt after replacing Robbie Caldwell. In his first season as head coach, he led the Commodores to a 6-7 record, including a loss in the Liberty Bowl.
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5 Famous Online Copyright Crusaders Who Are Total Hypocrites
#2. Viacom Lays Claim to a County Board of Education Campaign Video
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We could fill an entire article -- or book -- with nonsensical YouTube takedown notices by copyright holders (who could forget the infamous case of Universal Music demanding a takedown of some toddlers dancing to a radio playing Prince?). But perhaps no single example best conveys the system's absurdity and hypocrisy like the time Christopher Knight saw a corporate giant use his video and then demand that he take down his copy of their copy of his video. Confused?
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Well, it started in 2006 when North Carolina politician Christopher Knight became an overnight Internet celebrity thanks to a geeky-as-all-get-out Star Wars-themed campaign commercial:
It became such a big deal that VH1's Web Junk 20 (the Tosh.0 of its day) featured the video on the air:
Pretty sweet for a guy who was just running for a spot on the board of education. So, rather than take offense to the fact that MTV's trashy cousin was using his work for profit, Knight posted their version of his video on his YouTube page, praising the touches of corporate comedy added to his homegrown video sensation. And that's when things got strange.
Not long after posting the Web Junk 20 clip, Knight received a notice from YouTube that, due to a DMCA claim from VH1's parent company, Viacom, the video was taken down. That's right: The video he made now somehow belonged to Viacom, and they were willing to get litigious to make sure it stayed that way. It seems absurd that he even had to remind everyone that he was the one who made the commercial that provided the basis for the entire Web Junk 20 clip in the first place. It seems downright criminal that Viacom acknowledged this point and still insisted that Knight take the video down.
Christopher Knight for School Board
Massive organizations using unreasonable force on plucky upstarts never backfires.
According to Viacom's logic, the fact that they added additional commentary gave them grounds to claim copyright over everything in the Web Junk 20 clip.
In accordance with YouTube guidelines, Knight responded by filing a DMCA counterclaim. This meant that Viacom either had to file an official lawsuit charging Knight with copyright infringement or allow the video to be restored to the lowly county board candidate's YouTube page. After the story began generating negative press for Viacom, they relented and allowed Knight to post the video. How very gracious of them.
#1. The MPAA Is a Serial Copyright Violator
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The Motion Picture Association of America has a lot of goddamn nerve. It's so in love with the idea of suing Internet users for downloading movies that it asked the feds to save the 25 petabytes of Megaupload user data compiled while building the case against that site so it can file some lawsuits of its own in the future. Former MPAA head Jack Valenti was fond of saying that there's no such thing as fair use, meaning you don't get to share any movie you own with anyone, ever, without paying, but they have no problem making illegal copies of movies when it serves their needs. For instance, the MPAA was once caught burning illegal copies of the documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated to distribute to employees.
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"It isn't piracy if we don't call it that."
Like we said, a lot of goddamn nerve, and the MPAA's disregard for the same copyright laws it fights so hard to enforce doesn't end with a few illegally copied DVDs. A blogger who wrote his own blogging engine called Forest Blog found that the MPAA was using his work on one of its sites, but had removed any linkbacks or attribution that would indicate where the software they were using came from. The saddest part of that fiasco was that they were totally within their rights to do that if they had simply paid the developer in question a license fee of just $25. The MPAA argued that the site in question wasn't technically public yet (although you could obviously find it with little effort), and that they would have paid up in the event that it went live.
Meanwhile, the MPAA once forged ahead with a $100,000 lawsuit against a man for downloading one movie that it could not even find on any of his four computers. We added that emphasis because fuck these people so hard.
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"He mentioned the movie twice on Twitter. I'm ruling that a green light."
And we still aren't done. The MPAA took its copyright watchdogging in a terrifying new direction a few years back when it introduced rootkit software to be installed on college campuses. They claimed that it was merely for each school's own internal data-gathering needs, but privacy experts pointed out that it would also be a great way to allow anyone to spy on your network while hiding the fact that they're doing so.
Thankfully, we never had a chance to find out. Shortly after posting their new weapon of awful online, it was noted that the software was based on a GPL (general public license) version of Linux called Xubuntu. That GPL requires any program built using that code to have its source code released and licensed under the GPL also. The MPAA refused to do that, forcing an Ubuntu developer to send a takedown request to the ISP hosting the shady software.
No one at the MPAA has a large enough beard to properly run Linux.
Not long after that, the link to the software was taken down. Count that as a minor victory, while also assuming that, in the days since this embarrassing incident, the MPAA has probably just found newer and better ways to spy on you.
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In most places I have worked for, there were no formal System or Business Analysts and the programmers were expected to perform both the roles. One had to understand all the subsystems and their interdependencies inside out. Further, one was also supposed to have a thorough knowledge of the business logic of the applications and interact directly with the users to gather requirements, answer their queries etc. In my current job, for ex, I spend about 70% time doing system analysis and only 30% time programming.
I consider myself a good programmer but struggle with developing a good understanding of the business rules of a complex application. Often, this creates a handicap because while I can write efficient algorithms and thread-safe code, I lose out to guys who may be average programmers but have a much better understanding of the business processes.
So I want to know - How much business and systems knowledge should a programmer have ? - How does one go about getting this knowledge in an immensely complex software system (e.g. trading applications) with several interdependent business processes but poorly documented business rules.


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I must have angered the Beer Gods. Yet another Beer Festival that I am unable to enjoy. Visiting the Peasant in Clerkenwell last night the set up had begun for their Great British Ale Festival. It runs from tonight until the 4th of April, but all I could do was eye the racked beer and flick through the laminated brewery logo's or as I think I termed them "Beery Porn", I mean they're laminated after all.
If the list below wasn't reason enough they are also starting with a Hog Roast. Ales on offer are:
Castle Rock Brewery – Harvest Pale Ale (3.8%), Nottinghamshire
(2010 CAMRA Supreme Champion Beer of Britain)*
Hopdaemon Brewery – Incubus Bitter (4.0%), Kent
Oakham Ales Brewery – Engine Chaos (4.1%), Cambridgshire
Wells and Young's – Banana Bread (5.2%), Bedford
Kelburn Brewery – Red Smiddy (4.1%), Renfewshire, Sotland
(SIBA Bronze Award in Best Bitter category)*
Salopian Brewery – Darwin's Origin (4.3%), Shropshire
Crouch Vale Brewery – Yakima Gold (4.2%) and Santiam Amber (4.3%), Essex
Truman's Brewery – Runner, (4.2%), East London
Meantime Brewery – Pale Ale (4.2%), Greenwich, London
Fat Cat Brewery – Meow Mild (4.3%), Suffolk
Hadrian & Border Brewery – Secret Kingdom (4.3%), Newcastle
Hop Back Brewery – Entire Stout (4.5%), Wiltshire
( 2011 CAMRA Winter Supreme Champion Beer of Britain)*
Dark Star Brewery – Golden Gate (4.5%) and Festival (5.0%), Sussex
Red Fox Brewery – Wily Old Fox (5.3%), Essex
RCH Brewery – Double Header (5.3%), Somerset
Thornbridge Brewery – Jaipur IPA (5.9%)
(Derbyshire SIBA Bronze in Supreme Beer category & Gold at Brewing Industry International 2011)
AllGates Brewery – Mad Monk (7.1%), Lancashire (SIBA Champion)
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Say I had Vedalken Orrery and I used Cloudshift on something, could I respond to Cloudshift bringing the creature back into play with Day of Judgement or something similar?
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No, Cloudshift is resolved as a single, atomic event. There is no time in between the parts of its effect in which anyone has a window of opportunity to cast a spell.
From the Comprehensive rules:
"To respond to X" means "to cast or activate after X is placed on the stack but before X resolves."
One can respond to Cloudshift, but not to "bringing creature back". That's not a spell, activated ability or triggered ability. You do not get priority in the middle of a spell resolving [CR 116.2e].
If you cast Day of Judgement in response to Cloudshift, it you would resolve before Cloudshift does anything at all. Cloudshift cannot save a creature from Day of Judgement, but Fiend Hunter and Sudden Disappearance could.
I would say no, Cloudshift removes and puts back a creature as part of the same effect, so you cannot 'inturrupt' the effect in the middle of its action by casting some other spell. You could Day of Judgement before you cast or after you cast cloudshift, but you cannot remove your own creature, Day of Judgment, and then put it back.


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I like these photography post-processing effects.
Could someone explain how to make them.
I like these photography post-processing effects.
Could someone explain how to make them.
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The original photo is a vintage car in the midst of a fairly busy scene; probably a street in New York. To the left, what's undoubtedly an iconic NYC yellow cab. There's people around, possibly people gawking at the car or maybe just minding their business going down the sidewalk. The photographer didn't like the busyness of the composition, or the look of the people, and so decided to blur the surroundings away. The car was masked out so it wouldn't be affected, and then some distortion/blur filter was applied. I'm not sure exactly what filter was used, but it's something like this CrossBlur effect. This leaves an interesting texture and a hint of the original scene.
That didn't come out right in the background visible through the car's windows; I'm not sure if that was included in the filter and didn't work very well due to the small area of that section, or if it was just badly cloned in after the fact. Or on second look, maybe it just was entirely unmodified: it looks like you can see the hood of a modern car behind. The license plate was probably blurred-out manually.
Anyway, now it's fine art.


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Suppose there is a matrix equation such that:
$Ax = b$
where $A$ is given, which is an upper triangular matrix, and $b$ is given.
Then, $x$ and $b$ are perturbed by vectors $p$ and $q$ such that:
$A(x+p) = (b+q)$
The question asks to solve for $p$ in terms of $q$.
To approach this, I am thinking of finding $x$ by using the first equation, and then plug that $x$ into the second equation. Then, I can solve $p$ in terms of $q$. Do you think this (plugging in $x$ to the second equation) is acceptable? That is, is $x$ the same in both equations?


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I'm developing a race game in Andengine. I have created a car which player is controlling. But since this is a race game, there should be 3 or 4 car which snatch with the player's car. My question is: How do the opponent cars move along the path? How their logic works? Must I know certain path?
In racing games it's often best to use both track relative coordinates as well as Cartesian world coordinates. This makes it easier to reason about overtaking and optimal lines the cars should follow.
A great article to read would be Shawn Hargreaves' postmortem on the MotoGP AI
You can also try to use follow and flock algorithms like Open Steer
If you are more interested in how to determine the optimal curve that (AI) drivers should follow on a track you could research flow fields. You can find more info about those in the links in this answer on this same website.
I outline one simple implementation:
Assume your track is a series of points joined together and the last point joins the first to form a cicular track.
loop through all the points and find the nearest point to your car. Take this point and minus the previous point to get a normalized track forward vector; take the car position minus the previous point to get a "car vector"; do a dot product to get the perpendicular distance from the track vector.
The perpendicular distance represents how far away the car is from the center of the track. Now you know the distance and on which side of the track the car is on, you can steer (change the rotation/direction) the car back onto the track.


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What's the difference between "sensus plenior" and "inspired sensus plenior"?
Are the terms interchangeable? If "the deeper meaning intended by God but not intended by the human author" (sensus plenior) exists wouldn't it be inspired?
What's the difference between "sensus plenior" and "inspired sensus plenior"?
Are the terms interchangeable? If "the deeper meaning intended by God but not intended by the human author" (sensus plenior) exists wouldn't it be inspired?
Using Google, I find that "inspired sensus plenior" is most closely associated with Robert L. Thomas out of The Master's Seminary. More accurately, he coined the term "inspired sensus plenior applications (ISPA)" to describe a subset of the hermeneutical principles used by New Testament authors:
The term does not seem to have acquired much traction (though it's not been around very long in terms of Biblical scholarship), however. Perhaps part of the reason is that other thinkers do not feel the same need to separate the methods the apostles used from the methodology that is legitimate for modern exegetes. Richard Barcellos of the Midwest Center for Theological Studies notes:
To put it another way, if we abandon the suspect notion that the only legitimate meaning of a passage is its "single, grammatical-historical meaning", there's no particular reason to cordon off sensus plenior into categories of "inspired" and not. Certainly it seems strange to hold the New Testament writers to the principles of the grammatical-historical method considering it has only recently come into fashion. Even that pillar of the Enlightenment, Isaac Newton, assumed there were hidden meanings to be found in the Bible.
Now we still have the problem in that if we don't hold the New Testament writers (or anyone else) to the grammatical-historical meaning, how can we avoid interpretations of the "fuller meaning" (i.e., sensus plenior) from being anything and everything the exegete wishes it to be? How can we allow the early Christian writers to arrive at their interpretations without simultaneously giving license for interpretations that indicate the world will end in 2060 AD?
One possible answer, appropriate in a Christian context, is the Christological Hermeneutic which finds Jesus at the center of all of God's plans. According to this reading of the Biblical texts, all divine revelation prior to Jesus was pointed toward the coming Messiah who would reconcile the broken world to God. Therefore, we should expect certain texts to include meanings beyond the immediate meaning the human authors had in mind. This is the principle Paul used when he applied Genesis 3:15 to Jesus:
The historical-grammatical meaning of the text seems to be a sort of just-so story. Working inductively from the text, the Christological interpretation seems strained to the point of breaking, but working deductively from the claims of Jesus of Nazareth, the interpretation is more than plausible. Considering it is a forward-looking statement from God concerning the fallout from sin, it's not surprising that Paul (and other Christians) would see the Christ sent to redeem the world in this text in addition to other meanings.
Dividing sensus plenior into "inspired" and "plain" flavors seems to be a solution to the problem of how early Christians were able to arrive at "non-literal" meanings of passages from the Tanakh without giving license to modern interpretations that eschew the historical-grammatical method.
"Sensus plenior" is used to speak of the higher meaning contained in scripture without regard to the arguments concerning who may or may not discern it.
Those committed to the literal-historical methodology use the term "Inspired Sensus Plenior" to affirm that the apostles recognized a fuller meaning in the Old Testament without endorsing a modern use of methods to interpret it. "Inspired" is used to say that because the apostles were apostles, only they were authorized to interpret the scriptures in a non-literal-historical method. Whenever confronted with a hermeneutical problem caused by the literal-historical method, they can claim "inspiration". 1
This argument is similar to Mormon claim for the Book of Mormon. There are no golden plates to examine so we must simply believe the word of Joseph and his witnesseswhen the translation has no basis. In the case of "Inspired Sensus Plenior", the literal-historical method is incapable of reproducing the methods of the NT authors, and so we must simply believe that their special revelation is true.
This is contrary to the evidence of the scriptures themselves. Jesus showed the disciples on the road to Emmaus all the scriptures that spoke of him. As the apostles preached, those who wished could verify what they said against the OT as the Bereans did.
1 THE NEW TESTAMENT USE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT -- Robert L. Thomas
Whether sensus plenior (either inspired or not) exists is largely a question that depends on the particular doctrine an interpretation is evaluated in. Certainly the early Christian writers believed that the Hebrew Scriptures they inherited contained important links with the man they had come to revere as the Messiah. There's no particular reason why they wouldn't continue to use all the tools of interpretation available in the culture they were active in.
Among the Dead Sea Scrolls, we find examples of an interpretative technique call Pesher, which re-interpreted the Tanakh in light of current events. There's no particular reason to suppose that early Christian authors, most of whom were Jews, would not try their hand at the same technique. In fact, we know that Jesus himself interpreted the prophesy in Daniel 7 as a being fulfilled in himself. So it's no particular surprise that his followers would not discover hints of Jesus' life in the Tanakh as well.
God only knows whether or not any particular interpretation is inspired. Certainly the authors of the New Testament believed they were discovering deeper meaning in Scripture. However, there's no particular need for us to follow their precise techniques since those methods are not commonly used in our culture.


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TORONTO - The message from head coach Doug Taylor to his Weirton Madonna football team was rather simple this week.
"Our game plan was to come in and throw the football," said Taylor. "We knew he (quarterback Ross Comis) wasn't going to run the football. I think, for the most part, he did a good job throwing the ball.
"Not to take anything away from Toronto, because they are well-coached and a good football team, but I thought we would get the upper hand on them with our athletes."
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TEAMMATES — Weirton Madonna's Tyler Ewusiak (11) hugs teammate Eliott Nero after Nero scored in the fourth quarter of Friday's 41-20 victory over Toronto at Clark Hinkle FIeld.
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TEAMMATES — Toronto's Charles Ross III?(right)?congratulates quarterback Blaze Glenn after Glenn scored on a 30-yard touchdown run during Friday's 41-20 loss at home to?Weirton Madonna.
Enter Eliott Nero.
His 66-yard punt return with 8:16 left in the game broke the Red Knights back as the Blue Dons went on to scored 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter for a 41-20 victory Friday evening at Clark Hinkle Field.
"We're not into moral victories," said Red Knights head coach Eric Meek, whose team finished the season at 5-5. "We were like Rocky Balboa tonight. In teh 15th round, we got knocked out. I told them, just like Rocky loves Adrian, I love this football team.
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Madonna 41, Toronto 20
Madonna 0 14 6 21 - 41
Toronto 7 6 7 0 - 20
T: B. Glenn 1 run (Zdinak kick)
M: Nero 5 run (Antinone run)
T: C. Glenn 6 run (pass failed)
M: Biondillo 63 pass from Comis (kick failed)
M: Nero 2 run (pass failed)
T: B. Glenn 30 run (Zdinak kick)
M: Shaw 5 pass from Comis (Green kick)
M: Nero 66 punt return (Green kick)
M: Nero 13 run (Green kick)
RUSHING: Madonna 25-82-3 (Nero 18-72-3, Brown 2-9, Shrieve 1-1, Comis 4-0). Toronto: 32-104-3 (B. Glenn 7-60-2, C. Glenn 16-32-1, Cassella 3-5, Ross 2-4, Saner 2-2, King 2-1.
PASSING: Madonna 17-23-226-2-1x (all by Comis); Toronto 10-15-48-0-1x (all by B. Glenn).
RECEIVING: Madonna: Bowser 6-72, Biondillo 4-88-1, Nero 4-32, Guio 1-3, Ewusiak 1-26, Shaw 1-5-1. Toronto: Stewart 5-40, C. Glenn 2-(-3), Zdinak 1-5, Cassella 1-4, Tice 1-2.
FIRST DOWNS: Madonna 13, Toronto 10
PENALTIES: Madonna 4-46, Toronto 5-55
FUMBLES: Madonna 1-1, Toronto 3-0
"This was, by far, our best game of the season. I think we also played, maybe, the our best opponent of the season. We played four pretty good football teams (in losses) and I think Beallsville will also make the playoffs."
Including Madonna, Toronto's five losses were to teams headed to the playoffs - Wellsville, Catholic Central, Shadyside and Beallsville - a combined 41-7.
"I think we got better as the year went along," said Meek. "It was kind of hard to judge sometimes because we had a couple of games in there ... But, maybe those games gave us more confidence. We played a lot of young kids, but tonight was about our seniors. We are very proud of their effort. We are proud of their performance.
"We wish Madonna the best. The Madonna people have a great head football coach in Doug Taylor - and he's a better person. They ought to be very happy they have a leader like that. They have a fantastic football team.
"I said before the season I thought they were going to be the best football team on our schedule. We didn't flinch tonight. Last year we clinched from the beginning. From the first play, tonight we didn't flinch."
The Blue Dons entered the game fresh off an emotionally-draining come-from-behind victory last week against the Crusaders.
"We had a nice talk about it, but we took our two days off, celebrated those two days, then got back to work," said Dons middle linebacker and defensive leader Travis Brown. "I don't think it played into how we played tonight. The main focus is just winning the next game.
"Toronto played well tonight."
Blaze Glenn opened the scoring for a 7-0 Toronto lead with 5:33 left in the third quarter.
Nero answered with the first of his four touchdowns on a five-yard run early in the second quarter.
Chez Glenn went in from the 6 and then Comis hooked up with Marcelo Biondillo for a 63-yard yard score for a 14-13 lead at the break.
Nero scored from the 2 with 5:40 left in the third quarter and Blaze Glenn answered with a 30-yard scamper for a 20-20 score.
Comis hooked up with Dillon Shaw from the 5 with 10:32 left in the game. Then came Nero's punt return and he finished the scoring from 13-yards out with 5:31 unplayed.
"They are a tough team," Nero said of the Red Knights. "Every week is going to be a grind for us. Every team is going to give us their best shot and tonight was no different. We basically have a target on our backs and we know we're going to get the best from the other team from here on our.
"I caught the punt, saw I had some space, and my guys set up the wall. I got a huge block from I don't even know who, but I saw it out of the corner of my eye, but it was pretty huge and I knew I was gone.
"Our offensive line was huge tonight. Their pass protection was great. I can't say enough about our offensive line. They always show up to play."
Nero finished with 72 yards on 18 carries and three scores. Comis was 17-of-23 for 226 for 226 yards and two scores. He is now 65-for-102 for 1,123 yards and 11 scores.
Nero has 1,183 yards on the ground and 17 touchdowns.
"I really thought our defense played great tonight," said Meek. "Sometimes when we play a team that good, you wish it was a 36-minute game than a 48-minute game.
"I think our future here is really bright."
The Blue Dons' defense played Grinch in the second half last week against Catholic Central and held Toronto to 152 total yards.
"Defensively, we were pretty well set on what we wanted to do, but we just made some little adjustments," Brown said of leading 14-12 at half at being tied 20-20 entering the final period. "Offensively, we made some slight blocking changes. Our offensive line had a pretty good game tonight."
Madonna's defense had only given up 705 yards on the ground in eight games. It averaged surrenduring 191.2 yards and 10 points an outing.
"We took tonight's game as we were facing a good football team," said Taylor. "We knew they would come out with some emotion because it was their senior night and their defensive coordinator is going to retire and we knew they were going to play hard for him.
"Toronto had playoff aspirations and a big win against us would have catapulted them right into the mix. They were playing for some things. We had to take care of business and get out of here with a win."
That defensive coordinator is Bill Meek, father of Eric Meek.
"He is going to stay with us in a volunteer role, but he has coached for 44 years and he has been with me for all of my 18 years as a head coach," said Meek. "He's 73 and has been a huge part of my career - and my life."


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Top 10 Valentine's Day Movies for the Lovestruck
Celebrate Valentine's Day with some true romance classics. These movies have it all: great acting, witty dialogue, lots of sparks, and, of course, true love! So snuggle up with a loved one and celebrate the day at home with great movies.
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Roman Holiday
Take a trip to romantic Italy with enduring stars Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. Hepburn, who won an Oscar for this breakout role, plays a demure European princess bored with her official duties. Peck is the handsome American newspaper reporter she falls for on her day under cover as an ordinary girl.
Next: When Harry Met Sally
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
There was a lot of energy and excitement at the Rascal Flatts/JCPenney Angel Tree Toy Drive in Manhattan last week! Too many fans to count turned out with new toys for some lucky angels.
Rascal Flatts weaved in and out of the crowd to meet as many people as possible and sign copies of their new album. From the photos it looked like a scene from Where's Waldo?
The evening's climax came when toy drive partners JCPenney (represented by VP Rick Jones), Rascal Flatts, and The Salvation Army (represented by Major George Hood) took the stage to share what a positive impact the program would have on children and seniors in need. They thanked the audience for their generous support.
When Major Hood returned from NYC, I asked him about his thoughts on the event and our partners. His response was very encouraging.
"They're so committed to these kids. It's really refreshing to work with a retailer who wants to make sure kids are cared for," he noted.
"This is a corporate partnership where the people involved really are focused on meeting the needs of children – making sure kids have Christmas presents is more important to JCPenney and Rascal Flatts than any recognition they're going to get."
Just how important, you ask? Each member of Rascal Flatts has already adopted an angel of their own.
So what are you waiting for? Adopt yours today.