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100% cotton with a beautiful soft, matt finish. This yarn knits to a standard DK tension on 3.75mm needles. It comes in a stunning selection of colours from soft pastels through to jewel like brights.
100% Wool, this yarn is hard wearing yet soft to touch, making it ideal for all family and homeware projects. Available in 22 shades of the original Pure Wool DK with the addition of 10 brand new heather shades developed specifically for this new yarn.
100% Wool made with high quality extra fine merino. Merino has a natural elastic quality allowing for movement when wearing. It is also 'breahtable' so warm when the weather is cold, and cool when the weather is hot. The knitted fabric is soft and smooth and is a great core yarn with a large shade range.
This cotton is a wonderful dry handle cotton yarn.
The popular wool cotton has been in the Rowan range for many years.
Pure wool is a robust, hard wearing yet soft 100% wool yarn.
This cotton is a wonderful machine washable soft handle cotton yarn which is perfect for all year round knitting.


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Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month is a national initiative designed to encourage drivers of all other kinds of vehicles and motorcyclists to "share the road" with each other.
Now that warmer weather has is right around the corner, motorcyclists will soon be out in force. Drivers of cars, trucks and buses are reminded to look out for and share the road with motorcycle riders, and motorcycle riders are reminded to obey traffic laws, wear DOT-compliant helmets and other protective gear, and make themselves visible by wearing bright colors and using reflective tape.
Increasing safe riding and cooperation between all road users and motorcyclists will help to reduce the number of fatalities and injuries on our nation's highways.
Motorcycles are among the smallest and most vulnerable vehicles on the road and riders are at greater risk of death and serious injury than other vehicle operators if they are involved in a crash. In fact, according to the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), per vehicle mile, motorcyclists are 30 times more likely to die in a crash than occupants of cars, and 5 times more likely to be injured.
NHTSA's latest statistics bear out this unfortunate fact. In 2011, 4,612 motorcyclists died on America's roads, accounting for 14 percent of total highway deaths despite motorcycle registrations representing only about 3 percent of all vehicles in the country.
Despite historical declines in automobile fatalities, motorcycle deaths have increased every year for 13 of the past 14 years, except 2009 which saw a decline.
Motorists and motorcyclists have a common responsibility to share the road together in a safe, courteous and conscientious manner. Drivers need to be on the lookout for motorcyclists at all times, signal all lane changes and turns, and constantly be checking mirrors and blind spots before proceeding. Drivers must be fully focused and alert to the road, and in control of their vehicles at all times by never driving impaired by alcohol, drugs or distraction.
Riders should obey all traffic laws, be properly licensed, use reflective tape and stickers to increase their conspicuous, and always wear a Department of Transportation-compliant helmet and other proper protective equipment. Like their motorist counterparts, motorcyclists should never ride while impaired or distracted.
Together, motorists and motorcyclists can work together to keep each other and our roads safe for everyone, not only in May, but all year long. Additional information about safe motorcycle riding can be found at the NHTSA web site.

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- Don't search in google.
- You got one life per day.
- Only zigma, Benchem, supastaru and me can post questions.
-. Don't leave jokes as answers, or you'll lose your life.
- If you want to post questions, do it on Week-ends, or whisper them to any of us, we will post them giving you the full credit of it.
If a person posts a question with two parts, and then asks you to answer both parts, it means answer both parts. If you only answer one part of it, you'll lose your life.
-Easy question: 0.5
-Medium question: 1
-Hard question: 2
When you win a weekly contest, you will participate of the Monthly contest, that will be decided by a sudden death match question. Only the ones who won a weekly contest can participate.
Please, don't answer weekly questions. You are not going to win any point. Anyway, you can answer week ends questions.
This is a forum game and i hope no one made one already,dont search the answers, use your knowleadge. i saw a true or false but not a trivia so please forgive me if someone made one! this question is VERY difficult so attention people! :In MK2 for the arcades, in the early revisions there was a problem with reptile. What did they eventually fix?
it doesn't matter if you don't know the answer, just try to guess it, it's not very difficult!!


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The FCC's Net Neutrality Proposal: The Wrong Way to Use Regulatory Presumptions
In April 2011, I proposed something along these lines in my piece, "A Modest Proposal for FCC Regulatory Reform." There I suggested that Congress revise the Communications Act's Section 10 forbearance and Section 11 periodic review provisions to incorporate a rebuttable presumption to the effect that, absent clear and convincing evidence to the contrary, the FCC must deem the consumer protection and public interest criteria for granting regulatory relief satisfied. In my July 2013 testimony before the House Commerce Committee at the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology's hearing on "Improving FCC Process," I urged that, absent clear and convincing evidence that regulation is needed, the Communications Act be amended to incorporate a rebuttable presumption requiring the FCC to grant regulatory relief. I am pleased that Rep. Bob Latta, the Vice Chairman of the Communications Subcommittee, has introduced a bill, H.R. 2649, to establish just such a deregulatory rebuttable presumption consistent with my proposal.
And last November, once again before the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, I urged in my testimony that, in the new digital environment in which consumers generally have choices among alternative providers, "the FCC's future regulatory activity should be tied closely to findings of demonstrable market failure and actual consumer harm." I testified that the FCC should be required, much more than it is today, "to engage in rigorous economic analysis that focuses on whether there is a demonstrated market failure causing actual consumer harm."
Now, back to the Commission's proposed new net neutrality regulations. Not only is there not any showing of a present market failure in the broadband marketplace, but in paragraph 49 the Commission largely dismisses any need to perform a meaningful market power analysis. It says that its "open Internet concerns" are not limited to markets in which broadband providers may have market power.
Assuming for present purposes that the majority decision in the D.C. Circuit's Verizon v. FCC case remains the controlling precedent, it may be that the FCC, subject to compliance with various other legal constraints, has the authority to readopt some form of net neutrality regulations in the absence of a showing that Internet providers possess market power. But this is in no way means that it is a sound approach for the agency to follow. Indeed, it would be unwise for the Commission to embark on implementing a new regulatory regime for the Internet while disclaiming the need, first, to find a market failure.
I will admit that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 may not directly require the FCC to adopt the presumptively deregulatory approach that I advocate. That is why I have urged that the Communications Act be revised in a way that explicitly employs rebuttable presumptions to prevent the FCC from imposing regulation in the absence of convincing evidence of market failure and consumer harm. But while the 1996 Act may not explicitly require the Commission to employ deregulatory presumptions, Congress did state at the beginning of the key conference report that the legislation was intended to create a "pro-competitive, deregulatory national policy framework."
And of central relevance here, Congress also stated in the 1996 Act that it is the policy of the United States "to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet and other interactive computer services, unfettered by Federal or State regulations."
I have said many times in the past few months that the wisest course at this time would be for the FCC to refrain from readopting net neutrality regulations, while giving Congress a chance to work its will. But assuming the FCC does move forward, it should not be so presumptuous as to presume the need for regulation of Internet providers' practices. This is the wrong way to employ rebuttable presumptions.
The proper approach, given what Congress said when it adopted the Telecom Act of 1996, and given the current dynamism and competitiveness in the broadband Internet marketplace, is to presume, absent clear and convincing evidence of a market failure and consumer harm, that regulation is not needed.
This would be the right way for the Commission to use rebuttable presumptions.


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'Oh, isn't it beautiful?!" cooed a woman near me on the escalator, gliding down into the shimmering casino heart of the new Revel resort.
No doubt, the "SkyGarden" off the hotel's fourth-floor lobby was stunning, a vast terrace landscape wrapped in native shrubs and fire pits with a breezy view of the ocean 114-feet below. But downstairs on the casino floor, the blinking machines, rattling roulette wheels and trancelike gamblers punching slots looked pretty much like every other gaming pit I've seen. Yes, the gleaming glass Revel tower is supposed to be a step-up as Atlantic City's new multibillion dollar splash, and there are acres of polished marble, dangling lights that chime like Tinker Bell when you pass beneath them, and an intriguing roster of star chef restaurants from Philly, New York and D.C. But are these celebrity outposts any more genuine than the eateries that brought name brand dining allure — if not always consistent name brand quality — to the nearby Borgata nine years ago?


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Reviewed By Mark G (LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ) Reviewed for a 2015 Jeep Wrangler —8/17/2015 3:36 AM
The mount seems well made. It now comes with 2 keys for the bike lock and can be locked to vehicle with your own lock. Mounting was easy except putting the spare back on. My spare is 245/65/R17. There is a flat plate that rests on the top of the tire it would have been good to have one on the bottom as well. Does seem like a lot of weight, my bikes are mountain type. Only time will tell!


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I would like to test drive ubuntu-touch on a 12.04 based convertible notebook. This is a normal notebook without android and a intel amd64 capable cpu (not arm cpu).
(See also the Shuttleworth presentation, e.g. http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Ubuntu-kommt-aufs-Tablet-1806342.html)
So my questions are:
- Have someone tried this before?
- What special packages I have to install?
- Is there a ppa containing this packages for precise?
- alternative: There can I find the package sources to build them for precise in my own ppa?
Any information is welcome.


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An arbitrary union, or a finite intersection, of open sets in a topological space is again open. What name is given to the hypothetical property that an arbitrary intersection of open sets is open?
As an example, consider a partially ordered set $X$. Call a subset $U\subseteq X$ open if $y\le x\in U$ implies $y\in U$. (Bonus question: Are there other interesting examples?)


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Operation Mobilization is a Christian mission organization, inspiring and equipping believers to expand God's kingdom.
Dale Rhoton has been with Operation Mobilization from its inception in the late 1950's. His passion is to share what God is doing around the world. He is excited to realize that our generation is seeing a unique movement of the Holy Spirit in Asia, Africa and South America. At the same time, there are many great needs and open doors.
Dale had the privilege of joining George Verwer on his first trip to Mexico (1957). This was the beginning of OM. In the '60s he pioneered and directed OM ministries in the Middle East and Communist Europe. Since 1978, he has been in the ship ministry, serving 15 years as the CEO of OM Ships. In 1999, he turned over the main leadership responsibility to a colleague and is now promoting the ship ministry in North America and Asia full-time.
He is married to Elaine, whom he met while studying at Wheaton College. She has written two books about OM ships: The Logos Story and The Doulos Story. They presently live in southern California. They have two sons and a daughter. They all have families and live in different countries: John in Vienna (Austria), David in Barcelona (Spain) and Sharon in Dallas (USA).


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Novell is now a part of Micro Focus
Scheduling meetings with partners and customers who are on different collaboration systems can be tiresome, but with support for Free/Busy URLs in GroupWise 2012, it's quick and easy.
Employees around the world are filling up network storage with files that they are too afraid to delete. From emails to spreadsheets, Word docs, to MP3s. But this is causing a major problem for these organizations' information managers, as they are battling the beast of "Data Glut." In this video, Micro Focus introduces you to the concept of File Analysis. With File Analysis, you can learn what data is being stored, its relevance, and how to implement policies for data lifecycle management.
Join us to learn how easy it is to upgrade to GroupWise 2014, and how the switch can benefit you with more responsive, adaptable email.
Short video on Underwriters use of Groupwise.
GroupWise 2014 offers users flexible, dynamic email and calendaring that work the way they want to work. It also supports the platforms and devices admins need.
When a non-profit private university looked into so-called "free," cloud-based e-mail solutions as alternatives to GroupWise, the spreadsheet analysis was surprising. After doing the math, GroupWise came out on top in several categories. As Director of Information Technology for Millikin University, Pat Pettit is always looking for cost-efficient ways to improve IT services. When she installed GroupWise in 1996, it was because of the innovative features it included (for no additional cost), plus its low administrative burden and high scalability—ideal for a university environment. That's why, 16 years ago, Millikin became one of the first universities to offer e-mail as a standard application to everyone—faculty, staff and even students. Today, Millikin University offers an "e-mail address for life" at no cost to current students and alumni.
GroupWise 2014 takes one of the most reliable and secure email and collaboration solutions and updates it for today's communication challenges. The mobile and flexible GroupWise 2014 peacefully coexists with Active Directory and other email systems while helping your organization communicate with confidence, no matter where your people work. For more information visit us at www.novell.com/groupwise
Find out how we're releasing Web templates for Android and Playbook tablets—as well as a number of customer-requested quality and performance enhancements—in this important milestone for the GroupWise product line. You'll also find out how our Mac client update signals a renewed commitment to the growing contingent of Mac users in our customer organizations. Finally, you'll hear compelling data from our partner BrainStorm about the value of end-user training in realizing the full value of your GroupWise investment.
Watch this short video to hear President, Bob Flynn, talk about why now is a great time to do business with us.
GroupWise and Vibe go together, as a famous Gump once said, like peas and carrots. Let Dan Christensen show you the new integrations that bring the richness of your Vibe workspaces right into the GroupWise interface. One place; everything you need.
Ever scheduled an appointment and then thought, "Doh! Forgot to cc: my boss...or attach the agenda," worry no more. Let Scott Clayton show you how to easily edit appointments without cluttering up your recipients' mailboxes. He'll also show you how to use the new graphical interface to set recurring appointments.
Are you an administrative assistant? Team manager? Keeper of the departmental conference room and equipment schedule? In this demo, Ron Bingham will show how you can use the new proxy calendar color-coded overlay to manage the availability of users, conference rooms, projectors, and more.
iPads are the hottest gadget going, and users are bringing them into the workplace in droves. To support them, GroupWise 2012 includes web templates designed to take advantage of the iPad UI and form factor. Just point your Safari browser to your WebAccess URL and let Sirisha Palagiri show you the possibilities!
Want to find what's relevant as opposed to what came in last? Let Tom Urquhart show you how the new relevance sorting engine in GroupWise 2012 brings your most frequently used contacts, folders, and categories to the top of the list when searching or using name completion.
Sharing a folder tree once meant sharing every folder in the hierarchy individually. With GroupWise 2012, you can share an entire folder tree--and all of its contents--in one simple step. Need to un-share? It's just as easy. Kent Sievers shows you how.
Since when did you NOT need to communicate with the outside world? With the new Skype integrations in GroupWise 2012, doing so is easier than ever. Our own Bob Goodman will show you how you can see presence indicators, send text messages to, and call your fellow Skypers directly from GroupWise.
If you rely on the web as your primary interface to GroupWise, let Kiran Palagiri introduce you to the completely revamped GroupWise 2012 WebAccess. One look and you'll see why the web is becoming a primary interface to GroupWise for many of our customers!
If you do calendaring via WebAccess and want to feel like you're leading the pack, let Lex Barfuss show you how we've enabled recurring appointments and how we've introduced a new graphical busy search that the Windows client will soon adopt!
Contacts are nothing short of professional currency. Let our own Kendell Sorensen show you how to make them more rich, more memorable, and more central to your business cachet by adding contact photos in GroupWise 2012 WebAccess.
Rich Quattrochi from Mutare Software shows how to get unified messaging for GroupWise without replacing anything using Mutare's EVM Plus giSTT middleware solution. He looks at how to convert voice messages to text and include them in email and instant messages (IMs), short message service (SMS) messages and customer relationship management (CRM) communications.
Join us to discuss options for high availability and disaster recovery for Open Enterprise Server and GroupWise. Topics will include OES Clustering Services, Business Continuity Clustering (along with exciting pricing changes) and PlateSpin Forge and Protect.
FaxGwise is a soft fax solution that brings fax communication to the current century. Send and receive faxes directly from and within your mailbox. Manage all fax traffic, fax users, templates, log files etc. in one administration console. Hear how fax integrated into GroupWise helped a FaxGwise customer improve productivity while adding convenience, efficiency and compliance.
Jacques Sauve from Adaris shares how Vibe and GroupWise transformed how his company shares information internally and with customers. Customer successes where Vibe has transformed businesses are also highlighted.
This short demo will show you how the task management features in GroupWise 2012 can help you stay on top of your To-Do list, and align your e-mail inbox with business priorities.
See how the new contact management features in GroupWise 2012 can turn static data into valuable business currency.
Many organizations' decision-making is slowed down by having to collate the required information from multiple applications and repositories. This demo shows how GroupWise can help by providing a customizable dashboard for any project or any user, that brings all the important information together in a single view.
Ken Muir, CEO of GWAVA, talks about GWAVA's 10 years in the spam and anti-virus market and how they are innovating for the future.
Kari Woolf, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Will Peterson, GroupWise Engineer, share the future of GroupWise administration including a demo with Rajesh Vasudevan, GroupWise Engineer.
Hear our focus from President and General Manager, Bob Flynn.
Lightning Round: Callers ask their tech questions.
Server platform migrations can be costly and negatively affect user productivity. What's needed is way to migrate file and folder structures while protecting the integrity of security rights and other metadata. Watch to see how Storage Manager and Cross Empire Data Migration can simplify Platform migration and keep Data integrity preserved and User productivity unaffected.
Have no way of easily identifying potential server issues before they occur? See SUSE Manager's ability to monitor the health of servers and notify when server performance thresholds are exceeded. Reduce server downtime and ensure better service quality to the line of business by maximizing reliability, availability and performance.
It Takes time to gather the right server information in a large Linux datacenter. See how SUSE Manager can quickly query multiple Linux servers for information about configurations, patching levels, etc. enabling IT to move at pace with business needs.
IT staff spends their time manually patching and updating their Linux servers. See how SUSE Manager Improves IT staff productivity and enables them to focus on more value added activities.
This short video shows how you can provision business services faster using the automated workflows and provisioning engine in Cloud Manager.
Organizations need to simplify the process of certifying to auditors that employees have appropriate access, but using spreadsheets to certify access can be both inefficient and time consuming. What is needed is an automated, repeatable, auditable and accurate end-to-end solution for access certification. Research has shown that organizations using an automated approach to access certification can reduce the time required to review employee access by up to 50 percent.
A common issue for users is that they have a hard time collaborating with other team members and tracking team related projects. This is because teams are dispersed and often rely solely on email to manage projects and share information. What is needed is a tool that lets you securely store and share project information with other team members. This tool would allow teams to work more effectively together and give them a central place to manage tasks and share project data.
A big problem within all organizations is knowing who has the latest versions of documents as well as just knowing if a document exists or not. This lack of control causes delays on productivity and wastes time. Users need a tool that will help them manage their documents and be able to track who has what version, what edits were made, etc. This will make team projects go much faster by removing the need to manually track down edits, create new versions and manage the overall document life cycle.
A common complaint in organizations is that internal bureaucracy can be an obstacle to driving the business forward. This is usually because most processes still involve manual form-filling and approval, and these processes are laborious and prone to errors. What you need is an easy way to turn manual processes into automated workflows that everyone in the company can use. Having this capability would remove a significant obstacle to productivity and help make your teams more agile and productive.
Service Desk can improve IT support services to your users and can help you track support issues relating to your Windows 7 migration.
Finding out which of your PCs is ready for Windows 7 can be complex and time-consuming. See how our Asset Management can automate the inventory process and provide you with detailed Upgrade Readiness reports.
This short demo will show you how Patch Management within ZENworks 11 can help keep your new Windows 7 PC fleet working, secure, and compliant.
Application Virtualization can help you sidestep Windows 7 compatibility issues and migrate safe in the knowledge that your legacy applications will continue to run.
This demo shows how the imaging and personality migration features of ZENworks 11 can help you migrate to Windows 7 quickly and effectively, with minimal impact to users' productivity.
Operations Center helps you measure the performance of your IT systems against agreed Business Service Levels.
Many organizations struggle to provide their staff with an open working environment while at the same time maintaining control over Corporate Use policies. See how Storage Manager can stop the worry about suspect use of your file storage and free your IT staff to work on business objectives.
This brief demo will show you how you can monitor your IT systems from a Business Services perspective, allowing you to properly see the impact of any IT outages to the business and diagnose the root cause of a business service failure more quickly.
Learn how to take away the pain of missed appointments.
Data growth can be hard to control and the spiraling cost of new disk storage capacity needs to be controlled, without hurting the productivity of users. See how Dynamic File Services can solve this problem by getting the most out of your existing hardware, while at the same time getting maximum value for your primary storage investment. All without users changing the way they work.
Collaborating on documents with your teammates can be slow when you're physically apart and all you have is a string of email attachments for review. See how Vibe can solve this problem through online document editing and version control, and how Vibe's integration with Messenger can speed up remote collaboration even further.
Find out how GroupWise 8 helps you improve your personal productivity.
See how the Role Mapping Administrator can make your business more agile by giving Business Managers the ability to set their own teams' access levels.
Pasco Risk uses Identity Manager, Access Manager and Micro Focus® Vibe for its innovative client portal, called TravelSafe. The solutions make it easy to add information to the portal, manage users, ensure strong security and high availability for corporate clients.
In this webinar we will discuss our three-fold strategy for delivering these solutions to you; Blackberry Enterprise Server, Activesync and partner solutions. We will review availability, features, supported devices, the future of GroupWise Mobile Server and much more.
See just how easy it is to make the move to Linux. This technical demonstration reviews: A working GroupWise 8 Post Office on NetWare, Migrating a GroupWise 8 Post Office from NetWare to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server/OES, Linux using the GroupWise Migration Utility, the migrated GroupWise 8 Post Office from NetWare on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server/OES Linux.
See how GroupWise 8 can enhance your day-to-day life with a new dynamic dashboard.
Forrester discusses collaboration market trends and our principles and strategy.
Check out this demo of the most exciting new features in GroupWise 8, including Home View innovations, integration with Micro Focus® Vibe, enhanced task management capabilities, a robust new contact management interface, and new tools to make your calendar more effective than ever before.
Attend this session to learn how to make the most of the latest WebAccess client enhancements in GroupWise and the best way to implement them in your organization.
Synovus Financial (Synovus) is a more than $33-billion dollar financial services holding company. Synovus provides commercial and retail banking, as well as investment services, to customers through 30 banks, 330 offices and 467 ATMs in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Florida and Tennessee.
GroupWise has been delivering e-mail and calendaring features for more than 20 years. The latest version, GroupWise 8, takes personal productivity to a new level. With new features such as the "Home View", external calendaring enhancements, robust contact management and much more, this session will show you how to upgrade your current GroupWise to the latest version. It is an easy upgrade that you will want to make.
Keith Shaw talks with Wendy Steinle about the new batch of wikis, blogs, and other collaborative software that helps companies become more productive and deliver value.
Data protection and recovery for environments.
SEP sesam offers simple backup and restore in a complex world.
Risk free e-mail infrastructure products to provide 100 percent up time and compliance. Includes policy enforcement and management. This presentation shows how to utilize Messaging Architects products with GroupWise 8.
The integrated helpdesk solution.
Disaster recovery for GroupWise, including a demonstration of Reload getting a GroupWise system back up and running at the click of a button.
A highlight of the GroupWise 8 training available from our end-user training partner BrainStorm.
Eight integrations for GroupWise 8 using Riva Integration Server
From low-cost, commodity hardware and consolidation opportunities to the wealth of open source software add ons, the benefits of Linux are significant. And because collaboration is an ideal platform for realizing these efficiencies, many customers are moving their back-end GroupWise systems to Linux. Join us to see how easy it can be, and get some expert advice on the best way to do so.
GroupWise 8 is the most user-focused release ever. With an emphasis on personal productivity, GroupWise 8 is full of features that help end users "get things done" wherever they are and whatever client platform they want to use. Attend this session to learn how to make the most of the latest Linux/Mac client enhancements and the best way to implement them in your organization.
Topics covered are where to start and what file systems are available, running agents as non-root, administration (ConsoleOne), and Monitor (GWHA).
Randy Goddard and David Mair from the Open Audio team talk with Alex Evans and Travis Grandpre about what GroupWise 8 can do for new customers.
David Mair sits down with Travis Grandpre and Alex Evans to talk about the release of GroupWise 8 and how we are using it. Recorded 2008.
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8 Terrifying Instruments Old-Time Doctors Used on Your Junk
There were all sorts of reasons not to go to the doctor back in the old days, back when their bags were full of mercury vials and hacksaws. And when the often puritanical patients had problems "down there" they were probably even more hesitant.
Thankfully, the world of quack medicine has always been around to sell them do-it-yourself devices to cure everything from impotence to constipation. And as horrible as you think these devices were, trust us, they were worse.
#8. Violet Ray Generators
Are you fascinated by the works of Nikola Tesla? Do you often find yourself wondering how you can cram one of Tesla's most famous inventions in your ass?
Violet Ray Generators were a hugely popular turn of the century device of medical quackery that claimed to be the one and only sci-fi-inspired contraption that could cure damn-near any aliment you threw at it. With the aid of a number of assorted tubes designed for various body parts one could potentially cure warts, toothaches, obesity, pimples, insomnia, jaundice, deafness, or dandruff, all by simply pulling out the recommended attachment from what is apparently Hellraiser's briefcase.
For the most part, the usage of a generator simply required the user to switch it on and awkwardly rub a purple-glowing glass tube all over a portion of the body while resisting the urge to pretend they were engaged in foreplay with an alien.
But when one came down with a case of constipation, enlargement of the prostate, or impotence there was no other choice but to pop one of those glass tubes in your asshole and hope to God you don't sneeze or cough. Oh, and if you miss the old-school medical techniques like this, you can still buy these antique devices on ebay.
#7. Lawson's Vaginal Washer
In the pre-douche era, a time of great Victorian craftsmanship and artistry, one man sought out to take on the problem of feminine hygiene. This man, having never seen an actual vagina up close, invented Lawson's vaginal washer.
There's only one picture of the vaginal washer available. This is an egg beater. Same principles apply.
Seriously, everything that needs to be said about Victorian-era understanding of female genitalia is right there in this spinning brass machine with a cartoonish crank on the side. Oh, yes, those blades up there would whirl around when you cranked it. You know, to clean the vagina.
There is a nozzle on the back where you can attach something to shoot in water or a bottle of some chemical with a name like Dr. Hallsworth's Medicated Lady Parts Solvent. The line starts over here, ladies!
#6. Spermatorrhea Ring
Victorian era folks tended to believe that masturbation and nocturnal emissions could have devastating effects on the body, including blindness and retardation. Now, we understand that such old wives tales have a way of surviving, even among educated people. But what we don't understand is why they didn't demand more proof of the "masturbation will destroy you" thing before putting strapping anti-boner spikes to their dongs.
That's right, to combat the growing problem of unnecessary erections many inventors worked feverishly to devise contraptions that could effectively neutralize wang swelling. The Spermatorrhea Ring was comprised of a flexible metal band that comfortably accommodates an average sized penis.
Also there are spikes.
So when, say, a particularly foxy lady strolled past and the male mind rejoiced at the prospect of a chance sexual encounter, his penis would swell and draw ever closer to the spikes along the border of the ring. So it gave you enough time to run your hand through a meat grinder, or perhaps saw off a foot in an attempt to distract your brain with something -- anything -- that will make your boner just go away before it was impaled by spikes.
#5. Rectal Dilators
So with a product like Dr. Young's Rectal Dilators, we have to ask the question of whether there ever was an actual "Dr. Young" involved or if that's just part of the brand name, like Wendy's. Would people insert something like that into their ass unless a "doctor" told them to?
If there was a "Doctor Young," he apparently believed the body's nervous system to be an intricate interconnection of roads that allow organs to function in concert--and he was very right about that. What he wasn't right about was his apparent belief that all of these intricate interconnections of roads lead directly to your asshole, and that all illnesses could be solved by cramming different objects in there.
Use this on your butt. Or, alternately, to kill a werewolf.
That's if he believed it at all; our hypothetical Dr. Young may have just been doing it for the challenge. If you can convince somebody that inserting an ass-cork will make their bad-breath go away, you deserve every fucking dollar you get out of it.
Dr. Young also sold two, uh, custom sized dilators on very opposite ends of the "that's just gross" spectrum. The first is a 5 inch long, inch and a half thick behemoth, and the other is--and we apologize for letting you know of this-- "infant size."


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I tried installing mysql server a couple of times and I'm having problems. First of all, when I install it gives me a message that it's setting up and it just hangs. I can't ctl + c out of it, so I reboot the server and try to log into the db with
sudo mysql -u root -p
I enter my password and then get
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
I restart the server:
$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)
utility, e.g. service mysql start
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an
Upstart job, you may also use the start(8) utility, e.g. start mysql
I try this:
$ aptitude search mysql | grep ^i
i A libdbd-mysql-perl - Perl5 database interface to the MySQL data
i libmysql-java - Java database (JDBC) driver for MySQL
i A libmysqlclient16 - MySQL database client library
i mysql-client-5.1 - MySQL database client binaries
i A mysql-client-core-5.1 - MySQL database core client binaries
i mysql-common - MySQL database common files, e.g. /etc/mys
i mysql-embedded - MySQL - embedded library
i mysql-server-core-5.1 - MySQL database server binaries
When I navigate to the folder to see if the *.sock file exists:
it does not. I also try this:
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status: Unable to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Any ideas? On my other machines installing mysql has been a snap, not sure what the problem is here.


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Are there any "natural" physical observables which have non-empty point spectrum which consists of numbers which are not algebraic numbers?
I don't have a complete answer, but maybe the following is useful for your purposes:
Consider the Laplacian $\Delta$ on a circular drum of unit radius. As explained on the wikipedia page, the axially symmetric eigenvectors $\Delta u(r) = -\lambda^2 u(r) $ are Bessel functions $u(r)=J_0(\lambda r)$. Obviously, the boundary condition requires $J_0(\lambda)=0$. In other words, the eigenvalues of this Laplacian correspond to zeroes of Bessel functions, and I would be very surprised if these numbers are not transcendental. In fact, Mathworld mentions that the first zero has been proven to be transcendental by Le Lionnais.
The corresponding quantum mechanical situation would be the Hamilton operator $H=-\hbar^2/2m\cdot \Delta$ of a free 2D electron confined to the unit disk. The boundary conditions are the same, $\psi|_{ \partial\Omega}=0$.
For instance, consider a 1D electron inside a box of length $L$, i.e. $\psi(0)=\psi(L)=0$. The eigenstates are simply standing waves, and the eigenvalues are
$$ E_n = \frac{\hbar^2}{2m_e} \left(\frac{\pi n}{L}\right)^2.$$
If you count $h$ as algebraic, then this is algebraic. But if you count $\hbar$ as algebraic, then this is transcendental. Your way out is probably to turn the question into a relative one: is there a physical observable whose eigenvalues are algebraically independent of the $E_n$? Clearly, you only need to consider the eigenvalues of the Laplace operator now.
Transcendental numbers often pop out in higher-loop Feynman diagram calculations. One example is the spectrum of local operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, where the anomalous dimensions at higher loops in general contain $\zeta$-functions. As an example, the dimension of the operator $\mathop{Tr} \phi^a\phi^a$ is given perturbatively by $$\gamma = 4 + 12g^2 - 48g^4 + 336g^6 + (-2496+576\zeta(3)-1440\zeta(5))g^8 + \mathcal{O}(g^{10})$$ (I don't think there is a rigorous proof showing that $\zeta(n)$ is non-algebraic for positive and odd values of $n$, but it seems likely to me...)


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We're pleased to confirm that the anticipated Version 1.3 Update is planned to be released on Wednesday 7th October. It is likely to result in an extended period of downtime that could see the game unavailable from 6am until 4pm (now 6pm see below update) (BST) – although we hope to have all gameworlds up and running before then.
The update is our third major enhancement - the key features are outlined below and a full changelist can be found on the manual.
1.3 introduces the FML manager to the latest, bleeding edge version of the FM/FML match engine. This engine reaches a new level of depth and detail and is a big step forward that all managers should enjoy. It also takes us bang up to date to the very latest version bringing us in sync with Football Manager 2010 This means that, from now on, we'll always have the most updated version. Please note, this will be implemented in the nearest "off-season" to the update in your gameworld, so as to make sure it doesn't affect your league table. Please note, this will be implemented in the nearest "off-season" to the update in your gameworld, so as to make sure it doesn't affect your league table.
It comes with a great set of new tactical 'shouts', which add extra ease to the already excellent tactical system developed in 1.2. See the above piture for a quick look!
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The Client is now ready and uploaded so you'll be able to get updating to the latest version. All that needs to happen now is to finish off some maintenance on each of the gameworld clusters.
Some of these are very nearly finished and will be available within the next half an hour. Some may take a bit longer, but should not take too long. You can get an idea of which gameworlds are up and which are not on the status page.
As you may have noticed, it's now 6pm.
The latest is that all gameworlds have finished their optimisation and are just going through some final last minute checks.
This basically means that we're very nearly there! Please bear with us
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We are in the process of opening the gameworlds, so those that have downloaded the client should be in shortly
The gameworlds are up and running and people are starting to be able to log in.
There is an issue with download speeds being slow at the moment which is to do with the high demand currently being placed on the servers by all those attempting to download the new client. Although we are looking at ways to try and speed this up, the best advice we can give at the moment is to try and be patient whilst it downloads as any fix to make things faster may be a while away.
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#4. Vin Diesel
Neither Vin nor Diesel is his real name (it's Mark Vincent), but it was a given that creatures like this do not have names so much as titles. He's lately known more for the movie The Pacifier (original working name, Oh My God, what am I watching? Oh, right, poop.), and not known, thankfully, for his "comedic" turn in Find Me Guilty. But, one can hardly mention Vin Diesel's name without remembering severed carotid's and snapped necks.
Multifacial, a movie he produced for $3,000 (and which, surprisingly, is not porn) gained the attention of Steven Spielberg, who cast him in Saving Private Ryan. This started off Vin Diesel's film career in a long string of roles being surly, growling one-liners, looking intimidating without even trying, and racking up a body count (huge) and number of Oscars (zero) to rival Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime.
And, the whole time, he was playing Dungeons and Dragons. Has been for over 20 years. Seriously, somewhere on his body is a tattoo of his player character's name. Now, that's hardcore gamester.
His geek flag flew higher when he opened up his own gaming development house, Tigon Studios, just because he was tired of people making crappy games based on movies. The very fabric of existence was rent asunder when, to the shocked and frightened gasps of a reviewing public, it turned out The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, the first video game based on a movie since Goldeneye was not just better than the movie, but better than just about every other game that came out that year. It's average review score was 90 percent, according to MetaCritic.
#3. Porn star Asia Carrera
Retired porn star Asia Carrera, real name Jessica Steinhauser, is a bit of a legend in the porn industry. With 36-26-36 measurements, she performed in a jaw-dropping 400 hundred films in her career and exchanged an unthinkable amount of bodily fluids. She's also mother of two.
She calls herself "the nerd of porn," and we assumed it was some kind of in-joke, until we saw her credentials. Here is somebody who studied piano as a child and by the age of 14 was playing in Carnegie Hall.
At 16, she went to Japan and taught English classes. She was a state spelling champ, in the National Mathematics League, a Spanish National Honor Society member, placing in National Geography, Language and Math Olympiads, and is a member of Mensa. That got her a free ride to Rutgers, where she double-majored in business and Japanese. This naturally inspired her to change her first name to Asia and become an entrepreneur in America's fastest growing business.
Either that, or her self-professed hatred of her parents' pressure on her to succeed academically made her lash out by riding random guys reverse cowgirl on camera. Whatever works.
When she and her brother get in the room together, she admits a tendency to "geek out," and would rather volley IMs back and forth than hold an actual conversation. The sex lives of some of our staff members are, to be honest, quite similar, so we can relate. Her geek hallmark, however, is her love of LAN parties and Unreal Tournament (handle: megab*tchgoddess).
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#2. Queen guitarist Brian May
In case your musical knowledge doesn't pre-date the '90s, Brian May played lead guitar, wrote for and was the sometimes lead singer of Queen. He put the words "We Will Rock You" (surprisingly), "Who Wants to Live Forever" (ironically), and "Fat-Bottomed Girls" (not so surprisingly) in Freddie Mercury's mouth. Sometimes Freddie shrugged and said, "Ah, bloody 'ell, I broke my last bottle of Goldschlager with 'at 'igh C, so's 'ow about I shut my gob and let you 'ave a go at it?" and sang back up to him.
In the early '70s, he also had a Bachelor of Sciences degree with honors from the Imperial College of London and was in the middle of his doctorate studying how light reflects off of dust floating in space and the movement of that dust within the solar system. While we at Cracked are sure that Brian May's heart was pounding with excitement when he first signed up for the classes, we admit that you probably had to be there to give a rat's ass.
May also apparently grew tired of it, because at that point he took 30 years off from his doctorate to become a millionaire, one of the best guitar players in the world and a member of one of the greatest rock bands in history.
When he wasn't busy rocking faces, May fiddled around with astrophysics, co-authoring two scientific papers and the book Bang! - The Complete History of the Universe with Christ Lintott and Patrick Moore. He also has been a regular guest on the latter's show The Sky at Night for years). Finally, after he was satisfied that he had squeezed all the rocking he could into one lifetime, he went back and got his doctorate in the fall of '07.
Then, he was appointed Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, meaning we now have a man who can look upon both Albert Einstein and Eddie Van Halen and ask why they didn't get more done.
#1. Dolph Lundgren
Mr. Lundgren was an almost-superstar back in the '80s, having played comic hero The Punisher (1989 version) and even He-Man (1987). But, his greatest acting accomplishments is beating Apollo Creed into something resembling grape jelly and inspiring the greatest Rocky montage of all time.
As it turns out, this towering blond monster who casually told Sylvester Stallone, "I will break you," could have, in fact, probably calculated the amount of effort (in force pounds per square inch and Joules expenditure) needed to do just that in his head.
The man reportedly has an IQ of 160. He graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, got his master's in chemical engineering, then was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT. After just two weeks of that, his superhuman intellect allowed him to calculate that a life spent inventing life-saving chemicals would mathematically contain less awesome than one movie spent playing He-Man.
Hey, did we mention that he speaks five languages (French, Swedish, German, English and Italian)? Or, that he's a Pentathlon Team Leader and a former Ranger? And a third-degree black belt?
So, really, to play a superhuman machine of destruction in Rocky IV, he still had to tone it down quite a bit. Hell, this man had to tone it down to play He-Man.
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Just wanted to keep you all updated on the state of play here at Edgar HQ and on Edgar Force One — I can't say which one I'm at right now for national security reasons:
New Bay Area Meetup
I've started a Meetup group in San Jose, California, which I'm using to offer free evening events on finding focus, motivation and peace in your work. I'm excited about the next meeting, which will be on Monday, June 28, because yoga teacher Rosy Moon, who co-leads my full-day intensive workshop, will be joining me.
We'll be talking about how yoga can help us accept and even embrace the tension, frustration, fatigue and so on we feel in our work — and, of course, doing some yoga with participants. We'll also demonstrate how the deep inner work we do in our workshop can help people let go of the blocks that have them avoid truly giving their gifts to the world.
If you're in the Bay Area, I encourage you to drop by — you'll definitely learn a lot and have fun!
Inner Productivity Intensive
I think I'm still digesting how powerful an experience the last Inner Productivity Intensive was. My friends are like "okay, time to finish processing and feel happy about it already!" :) Not only did Rosy and I have a blast, but we got some incredible feedback — here's a sample:
"I wanted to let you both know how much I enjoyed the workshop. It was a great experience – I learned a lot and actually enjoyed most of it! It may be the best single day workshop I have attended in my professional career."
- Aidan C., San Francisco, California
"The Inner Productivity Intensive Workshop was amazing, maybe even transformational. I'll use some of the practical techniques I learned pretty much every day for the rest of my life. At the same time, I also gained deeper insights into myself and my relationships that were incredibly valuable."
- B.P., San Francisco, California
Almost as soon as the last participant left, Rosy and I were talking about scheduling another one. If I procrastinated about putting it together, that would make me a big hypocrite, and I didn't want that. So, I wasted no time in setting up the next workshop for August 15, 2010.
If you're ready to get conscious, and let go, of patterns of thinking and behavior holding you back from giving your deepest gifts to the world, this is the workshop for you. You can find out more about it and register here.
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I had the privilege of appearing on two wonderful radio shows recently — both hosts had read and deeply appreciated the book, which led to discussions that were educational and fun. I'll post the links to them below.
* Welcome Changes Radio with Velma Gallant, June 2010
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While reading Problem Solving Strategies - Crossing the River with Dogs and Other Mathematical Adventures by Ken Johnson and Ted Herr, I came across a problem I was not sure how to solve.
One of the five members of a company's board of directors was suspected of sleeping during a board meeting. It was known that only one board member had actually slept, but no one (except the five members) knew who it was. The company vice president questioned the members and they made the following statements:
Davis: The snoozer was either Rawls or Charlton
Rawls: Neither Vongy nor I was asleep.
Charlton: Both Rawls and Davis are lying.
Bobbins: Only one of the Rawls or Davis is telling the truth.
Vongy: Bobbins is a liar.
When the board chairperson (she was not questioned) was consulted, she said that three of the board members always tell the truth and two of them always lie. Who slept in the meeting?
Perhaps I am simply glossing over one facet of the information given that I need to solve it. It seems like a simple problem on its hinge, so I am a bit flustered I am not able to solve it!
If you could give me a run-down of the logic used to solve it, that would be lovely.
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In Oct. 2001, the U.S. attacked Afghanistan to eliminate the terrorist stronghold of the Taliban and al Qaeda. Months later both had been routed, their leaders fleeing across the border into Pakistan's tribal region. The war was over. Or so everyone thought.
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In Oct. 2001, the U.S. attacked Afghanistan to eliminate the terrorist stronghold of the Taliban and al Qaeda. Months later both had been routed, their leaders fleeing across the border into Pakistan's tribal region. The war was over. Or so everyone thought.
A decade later the war continues and some Afghan experts, like CU-Boulder's Najeeb Jan, believe the years of fighting and billions of dollars spent in trying to establish a secure, democratic government in Afghanistan has failed.
CUT 1 "The mission in Afghanistan has, to a large extent, been a failure.
With the exceptions of a few strongholds, mainly in Kabul and around a few military bases – there's really no security. There's a fundamental lack of unity, a greater distrust among the civilians, and the billions of dollars that have poured in, there is really not much to show for it. (:22) So on many fundamental levels this decade of war and violence in Afghanistan has brought little or nothing." (:32)
Jan, who is part Pakistani and attended school there for six years, is an assistant geography professor at CU-Boulder and an expert in political Islam, the Taliban and U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Jan explains why the mission in Afghanistan has been a failure in his eyes.
CUT 2 "The broad-term policy was short sighted, lacked any historical depth, any understanding of the real geopolitics and dynamics of the region. The way in which, for instance, Pakistan plays a particular role in Afghanistan. (:13) So it's looking at Afghanistan in this sort of short term lens of A, revenge, of course, for 9/11, but also this hubris that we can remake a country as we see fit - everyone trying to get in on the act that we can make this medieval society a modern democratic society. That has been a catastrophic failure." (:33)
Jan says the Taliban, though weakened considerably and unable to launch major offensives, are still dangerous and remain an influential player in the region. And, he says, they also know that time is on their side.
CUT 3 "What's going to happen is NATO is withdrawing, the British are pulling out and the Americans are drawing down. In four years the U.S. will be gone. (:07) This will precipitate one factor. The Taliban will say, 'Yes. We defeated another super-power. Look, the Americans are gone and we're still here.' It will strengthen the hand of that organization. They will also continue to have an influence in Pakistan." (:22)
A concern for the region, says Jan, is that after the Americans leave there's a real chance the country will slide back into the same bloody civil war following the 1989 post-Soviet occupation.
CUT 4 "That's what it seems like. We've created conditions where there is no strong central player. We have regional geopolitics powers – probably Iran but certainly India and Pakistan - which will be continuing to influence players in the region. I'm sure the U.S. will continue to support militarily with a small force contingent and continued aid. (:22) So what you have is the continued situation for a real stalemate unless there is some type of settlement. And that seems to be increasingly difficult when everyone who's put up as a negotiating element is either assassinated by the other side or killed." (37)
The key for lasting peace in the region, and any chance the Karzai government will survive after the U.S. leaves, is for a negotiated peace settlement that includes all influential players in the region. That includes Karzai's government, the various Taliban groups, and the Pakistan army, says Jan.
CUT 5 "There has to be a regional conference where all of the major players are brought to the table, otherwise one of the others will try to undermine the process. The key to any success in that region is going to go through Pakistan – the Pakistan military. (:13) The military will have to be there from both a geopolitical and geographic perspective. There is no solution without Pakistan. Pakistan sees what ever happens in that region as tied to their national security, it's own national destiny." (:27)
If a peace settlement doesn't happen before the U.S. leaves, then Jan says the Taliban and other ethnic elements, if they aren't checked by the Pakistan army, will probably be able to overrun the Karsai government.
CUT 6 "The Karzai regime, which is notoriously corrupt, does not have a strong basis for national unity, will not be able to fend off a long-term, sustained assault on the regime." (:10)
Jan says, while Kabul and other cities have benefited somewhat from reconstruction and development programs and are relatively secure, change and prosperity have not reached the important rural, agricultural communities where most of the people live, particularly in the Pashtun regions that gave rise to the Taliban.
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I have a problem, in that my head is sometimes like a broken iPod player. When I'm supposed to concentrate on a job, or simply try and shut my mind down to go to sleep, a song will pop into my head. Sometimes it will be some random song I haven't heard for ages, and suddenly the melody will keep repeating in my head. Even trying to sing the melody out loud doesn't usually work for me. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
There is a website called Unhear it which uses the latest reverse-auditory-melodic-unstickification technology.
The best way is to occupy yourself in doing some thing like solving math problems. If you are busy enough, you will definitely forget that song!!
This may sound a bit crazy, but whenever that happens to me it usually means my subconscious is trying to tell me something. Over the years I've noticed that if a song suddenly pops into my head for no discernible reason -i.e. not because I heard it on the radio that morning- I better pay attention to the lyrics. More often than not, the song describes my current emotional state or provides the answer to a dilemma I've been pondering.
Cognitive bias, coincidence? I don't know, probably, but it's a cool little brain quirk. I wonder if research has been done on the subject.
There's only one way known to men to get a song out of one's head.
Replace it with an even worse one.
So try to find your personal song-buster. That'd be a song that's more annoying than most, but you actually enjoy and you have already gotten so used to it, it's just background noise. So you can concentrate on the job even with it on. Whenever a earworm squirms in, song-buster saves the day.
That is a tricky thing to do. Sounds like you might want to try some meditation techniques to clear your mind and to help you focus. This is not to be done when you actually need to focus on work but rather a daily exercise to help your mind get better at focusing. Good luck!
There's also a white/pink/brown noise generator site called SimplyNoise. You might want to use that while you meditate...and then when you need to focus on work, you can play it to help you achieve singular focus on the present task at hand.
The most effective method I know of is to imagine that Bob Dylan is singing the song (even if it isn't one of his). That always works for me.
But more seriously, does the song in your head actually actually prevent you from functioning? Other than a brief moment of "I haven't thought of that song in ages" how negative is the impact of having your own personal sound track.
I wonder if the problem is more the fact that you are fretting about having a song stuck in your head and how it might impact your productivity.
As Mary Poppins said:
In evry job that must be done There is an element of fun You find the fun and snap! The job's a game
Or if you prefer, the Seven Dwarves might have said it best.
Your brain is too active. Do this: breathe slower and count your breath silently. And, most importantly, do your job. Please don't fight against this, it's like trying "very hard" not to think about something, which ends up the opposite way.
The theme song to National Geographic is my "song eraser. ". It is snazzy enough to replace the current song, but it has a definite ending, so it doesn't stick around.


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For example use this .htaccess code in your root of wp-admin (Not your wordpress root). Create a new .htaccess file there and use this code.
Replace xx.xx.xx.xx with your IP address. You can add more. Thereafter only you can access wp-admin. You can also use redirection plugin.
If you must want to rename wp-admin then proceed to read more but with extreme caution.
Just replace "wp-admin" with your keyword. Use this simple search and replace tool. Here is the screenshot of that tool.
Warning: If you update your wordpress then your site will be broken. You should replace them in themes and plugins too. I highly NOT recommend this option. Use this option only if its mandatory. I'm not responsible for any problem that arises if you use this option.
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Amarillo Design Bureau
Setting: Star Fleet Universe
Major statistics: Attributes, Skills, Advantages, Disadvantages
Character Generation is point based; Attributes 10-normed, skills purchased to TN based upon governing attribute. Advantages and disadvantages in same pool.
Tasks: 3d6 for (skill + modifiers) or less.
Combat: standard GURPS - damage to Hit Points, which start equal to ST or HT (depending upon edition), with Health rolls at various thresholds to remain functional and to survive.
Standalone Core Book & Several supplements. All softcover.
Setting is the Variant TOS-derived Star Fleet Universe, as described in Amarillo Design Bureau's Star Fleet Battles. This is grounded in the Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph, but expanded heavily, and is a more militant setting than the official Trek universe.
Starships and Spacemen
Fantasy Games Unlimited, later Goblinoid Games. In print, softcover and PDF.
Major Statistics: Attributes, Class, level
Setting: "Galactic Confederacy" Star Fleet Service.
Character generation: Random attribute rolls (3d6+ racial mods), pick class.
Level and rank tied together; your level is your rank. Class determines what gets Experience points. Level-up increases 1 attribute 1 point, and allows more equipment.
Task system: 1d20 for attribute or less. Some subclasses get a +1 or other small benefit.
Setting is Trek Inspired, but altered because the license was too expensive.
Confederation Races: Humans, Taurans (Vulcan-like), Rigel (warrior humans), Andromedans (Blue, Furry, humanoids, highly psionic, very emtional)
Alien Races: Zangids (Klingons) and Videni (Romulans with a Dune influence).
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FASA. Out of print; license revoked for cause in 1989.
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percentile rated attributes and skills, plus some racial abilities.
Task System:
Skill percentile determines a number of automatic capabilities, harder items are roll 1d100 for skill percentile or less, possibly modifying the percentile.
Routine activities rolled on 1d10 rather than 1d100, and automatically succeed if skill 10+
Other system mechanics
Combat is action point based, uses hit points, and intended for counters-on-map.
No advantage nor disavantage system.
Character generation is rolled attributes, training templates for academy and branch, plus command and department head schools, plus randomized terms in various assignments providing skill gain rolls allocated to individual skills as desired. Final rank and position is contracted with the GM prior to beginning.
Other considerations
Extensive adventure support, long out of print. Has related starship combat game, Star Trek III Tactical Combat Simulator, later renamed Star Trek Tactical Combat Simulator
Made multiple extensions to the setting, most of which predate the release of TNG, and most of which have been contradicted by later Star Trek canon.
Most notable is that the Klingons, as presented, were based upon accepting bothe the "human look" of the series and the "ridge head look" of the movies; the explanation used was that the smooth heads were genetic modifications, hybrids, of Human and "Imperial" stock, comprising essentially a servant race with humanized features. A second fusion was of Romulan-Klingon mix.
By comparison, DS9's Trials and Tribbelations makes it Official Trek canon that, during the 5 year mission, Klingons did have smooth heads; in Enterprise, it is revealed that it is due to human DNA being used, but it's a form of retroviral therapy damage, and prior and post, klingons were Ridge Headed. DS9 also established that several smooth headed TOS Klingons (Including Qang and Qoloth) "now" have ridges again.
License Issue
The license issue boiled down to FASA being licensed only for TOS and TAS. Their publishing of TNG materials was grounds for revocation.
Icon System
Producer: Last Unicorn Games
Official Settings: TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager
Major statistics: Attributes, Edges, Skills, Specialties, Advantages.
Attributes are rated 1-5
Character Creation is by multiple templates plus point expenditure.
Each setting (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager) was a separate line, with separate core books for each. Each corebook is standalone and relatively complete; no Player/GM separation.
Corebooks are color hardcovers, supplements limited color softcovers.
Task system is dicepool based, using attribute d6's. Roll pool, keep highest single die, but, if multiple dice match, +1 per duplicate. So, in a roll of 5,5,5,6, you count the 5's, for 5+1+1=7. Then, to this total, add skill and edge (and specialization bonus or lack of specialization penalty), and compare to target number by difficulty.
Combat includes a hit point system, with damage steps producing penalties.
Star Trek: Adventures in the Final Frontier
Heritage Games
Setting: TOS/TAS only.
Major Statistics: 6 attributes, class.
Combat focused rule set, intended primarily for miniatures play.
Very limited mechanics, no skill system.
Published in 1978.
Prime Directive PD20M
Amarillo Design Bureau; in print.
Setting: Star Fleet Universe
Key Statistics: Attributes, Skills, Feats, Class, Level
Game System: d20 Modern SRD derived.
All supplements contain the same non-rules text as their GURPS Prime Directive equivalents, but the rules mechanics are all adapted to PD20.
System is pretty tight to the SRD from what I've heard, but I've not read it. (Someone who has, feel free to edit this)
Standalone Core Book & Several supplements. All softcover.
Setting is the Variant TOS-derived Star Fleet Universe, as described in Amarillo Design Bureau's Star Fleet Battles. This is grounded in the Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph, but expanded heavily, and is a more militant setting than the official Trek universe.
Assorted Home Brew
There are a variety of games being released under Paramount's current (last 3 years) web policy. Paramount and Viacom are apparently not currently seeking licensees for roleplaying games, and the games licensees are not companies which have Roleplaying Games.
There are Star Trek adaptations for several systems (Settings):
Icon System
Decipher. License not renewed circa 2006
Note: many elements appear to be adapted from LUG's Icon system implementation.
Settings: TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise
Separate Player's Guide and Narrator's Guide, several supplments; hardcover or PDF. All books are multi-setting. No adventures released.
Major Statistics: Class, Attributes, Skills, Abilities, Advantages, Disadvantages
Attributes are rated on a 1-18 scale, and provide a bonus to tasks based upon a 7 norm. They are generated on 2d6 + racial mods.
Skills range from 1-12, with a starting character limit of level 6.
Advantages are almost identical to their LUG Trek counterparts.
Class Abilities: specific archetypical abilities provide mechanical bonuses. Purchased like advantages, but limited by which archetype was chosen. Tiered; Tier 2 and 3 require other abilities to be taken.
Character Generation is by multiple templates, including class and subclass, with some points choices in most templates, plus advantages and disadvantages.
Experience system is in 1000 XP = 5 character point blocks, but is essentially point based.
Task System is 2d6, on a 12 +1d6, + modifier from attribute, + Skill level.
Combat system uses hit points, with penalties at various levels of losses.
Related non-Trek games: Lord of the Rings.
A designer's note formerly on the Decipher website indicated that the game evolved from a d20 adaptation.
Prime Directive 1E
Task Force Games, later Amarillo Design Bureau
Setting: Star Fleet Universe
Major statistics: Attributes and Skills, some racial abilities.
Attributes range, typically, 1-8, with potential for higher.
Character Generation is Academy Template plus Branch School Template, plus randomly determined points; it is common to have enlisted characters.
Tasks: Number of dice is equal to average of Stat & Skill. Roll the dice pool, keep best single die. 6's count as 5+ a reroll, recursive. (I've seen rolls where the best "die" was in the 50's.) Result is compared to a "Tricode"
Tricode is 3 numbers, separated by slashes. The first is for minimal success, the second for moderate, and the 3rd for complete. Two more success levels are figured from these: half the minimal is the low end for failure (below which is a fumble), and twice the complete is critical; these two are optional.
Combat uses two hit point tracks, Stun Points and Hit Points. Death is from both being 0.
Setting is the Variant TOS-derived Star Fleet Universe, as described in Amarillo Design Bureau's Star Fleet Battles. This is grounded in the Star Fleet Technical Manual by Franz Joseph, but expanded heavily, and is a more militant setting than the official Trek universe.
The Tricode system is initially confusing, but smooths out in a few sessions for most.
System focuses on special missions teams, called Prime Teams, comparable in many ways to US Seals and US Green Berets.
Corebook, 2 adventures, 2 supplements, all softcover. Scanned PDF of all books available. Some additional articles, including ship crew schools, in Captains Log (magazine) articles.
WOTC has released all of the D20 Modern rules for anyone to download and modify for their own games (it's (for me) the first result in google for the search d20 modern).
You can take those basic rules and modify them to fit a scifi setting better. It wouldn't include rules for starships though.
WOTC also used to have a Star Wars rpg, which is based on the d20 system, and does have rules for starships, and has lots of different species and planet ideas already made. The only problem is it's star wars not star trek.


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I've been working on using python to get access to Facebook insights information. I was able to get public information (e.g. 'likes' from cocacola's page) in addition to app insights for apps that I have developed.
Because I am the admin and developer for both pages and apps, when I go to facebook.com/insights I will see a section for pages and a section for apps. I want to be able to get insights for both from the graph api and store them on my personal database. Getting the app insights were not difficult. I obtained my app_id and app_secret when I created my app and then followed the process under App Login at this page http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/. This gave me an app access_token which I could use to get app insights.
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url = "https://graph.facebook.com/oauth/access_token?" + urllib.urlencode(args)
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access_token = response['access_token'][0]
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