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It was an entirely different atmosphere when Henry Hughes attended Dakota Wesleyan University in the '80s.
Some might remember him as Henry on the "Birch and Henry" show at DWU – a student-produced "talk show" that was hosted within the campus center with its own live audience, discussing hot topics.
"As a young man, I challenged and debated issues regarding politics, religion, sex, even marijuana and alcohol use," Hughes said. "My teachers were tolerant but also offered solid guidance. Literature, such as works by Henry Thoreau, Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson, which I read deeply at Wesleyan, helped me form an open-minded view of religion and humanity. With DWU's great teachers and a rich liberal arts curriculum, I really found my way into the world."
Hughes will give this year's Opperman Lecture, "My Time at DWU – Transition and Transformation," at 11 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 17, in the Sherman Center. This event is free and open to the public. The Opperman Lecture series began 18 years ago with an endowment by Dwight Opperman, who attended DWU in 1947-48. He funded the lecture to bring distinguished alumni back to DWU to share their experiences with students.
Hughes grew up on Long Island, N.Y., coming to DWU in 1983 and graduating in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a minor in biology. He completed his Master of Arts degree in poetry writing at Purdue University, where he founded the literacy magazine, Sycamore Review.
He taught English in Niigata, Japan from 1991-1994, through the JET Program and continued to travel around Asia and write and publish on various subjects. In 1994, he moved to China and was a foreign expert in English at Beijing Foreign Studies University. In 1997, he returned to Purdue to complete his Ph.D. in American literature and publish a number of poems and essays.
During his years at Dakota Wesleyan, Hughes was one part of the Birch and Henry Show on campus, a late-night talk show of sorts that convened in the campus center several times a semester with more than 200 students, faculty and staff to listen and laugh along. Birch Hilton, his coconspirator and friend, was a psychology major from White Lake who starred on the football team and later completed his master's degree in counseling and became a teacher and counselor for the developmentally disabled in Denver. The show took one semester off in fall 1985 and resumed in spring 1986, ending that May when Hilton graduated.
"While not professional in the strictest sense of the word, the Birch and Henry Show was a rollicking good time, with just the right amount of bawdy jokes and bad talent to make it worthwhile," quoted the Dakota Wesleyan Memory Book.
Hughes is now a professor of English and writing at Western Oregon University and the author of three books of poems, including "Men Holding Eggs," which received the 2004 Oregon Book Award. He is the editor of two anthologies, "The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing" and "Fishing Stories," both published in the distinguished Everyman Library Series.
Hughes reviews new poetry and nonfiction regularly for Harvard Review. He is married and lives in Oregon.


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Hanne Darboven's monumental work entitled Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983), 1980-1983, will open to the public at Dia Center for the Arts, 548 West 22nd Street, New York, on March 28, 1996.
Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 consists of 1,590 wall-mounted panels of uniform size and format and nineteen objects. It traces one hundred years of history via a miscellany of images and texts that range from postcards to art reproductions, portraits of film stars, and the covers of weekly magazines. Many bear handwritten notes and quotations.
Over the past thirty years, this German artist has created a vast body of work based on time as registered by history and by memory alike. Beginning with the date, whose numbers she manipulates into a temporal and chronological system, Darboven has in Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 constructed an encompassing, encyclopedic archive that fuses public history and collective memory with personal experience.
Hanne Darboven was born in 1941 in Munich, Germany. In 1965 she graduated from the Hochschule fnr Bildende Kunst in Hamburg, where she had studied painting. Between 1966 and 1968, Darboven lived in New York City where she created her first mature works, which placed her at the center of Conceptual art practice. Since 1967 she has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, including Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1995-96. In New York City she has shown with Leo Castelli Gallery since 1973. She lives and works in Hamburg, Germany.
Background information on Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 is available at Dia's world wide web site located at www.diacenter.org.
Dia will close for the summer on June 23, 1996. The exhibition will continue when Dia reopens on September 12, 1996 and remain on view through June 1, 1997. Hours are Thursday through Sunday, 12 noon to 6 p.m.
Major funding for this exhibition has been provided by the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Lufthansa German Airlines, with additional generous contributions from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany through the German Consulate General New York and the members of the Dia Art Council.
Opus 17A, a work for double bass that the artist composed immediately after finishing Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983, will have its debut at a reception for the artist on May 1, 1996 at 6:00 p.m. The piece will then be recorded and played once a day throughout the duration of the exhibition.
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text: Staying hydrated in the hot summer sun By Theresa Dvorak June 27, 2013 As we enter the Dog Days of Summer and reach triple-digit temperatures, an important way to fight the heat is to stay well hydrated. In the summer months, when temperatures and humidity are higher than we're used to, it is easy to become dehydrated. Read More


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I'm attempting to build a database with every pasuk in Tanach, I'm trying to determine the size of the varchar needed for this. Which pasuk is this and how many letters does it have?
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The verse in Tanach with the most words is Esther 8:9 (source) with 43 words:
ויקראו ספרי המלך בעת ההיא בחדש השלישי הוא חדש סיון בשלושה ועשרים בו ויכתב ככל אשר צוה מרדכי אל היהודים ואל האחשדרפנים והפחות ושרי המדינות אשר מהדו ועד כוש שבע ועשרים ומאה מדינה מדינה ומדינה ככתבה ועם ועם כלשנו ואל היהודים ככתבם וכלשונם:
Since these words don't look so unusually short (and in fact contain one of the longest words in Tanach האחשדרפנים) and the next longest pasuk has only 41 words, I would guess this pasuk has the most letters as well, which by my count is 193 (235 if you count the spaces).
This doesn't answer your question, but in MySQL a varchar doesn't take extra disk space if you make it larger than necessary.
Are you storing in UTF-8, UTF-8-MB4, or 8859-8? The different types take different amounts of space. (3, 4, or 1 respectively, assuming you are using MySQL).
So you may just want to do varchar(65535) and not worry about it.
However if you anticipate lots of sorting operations the larger varchars do take extra temporary table space, which can slow things down. But if you sort via an index this is not a problem.
Hmm, I wonder if this is the wrong stackexchange site..... :)
Also, if your data source has nekudos the size depends on if you are storing the character composed or not. If they are not composed you need to double the space to account of the nekudos. (Although composed characters are somewhat preferred, so you should convert them.)


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Brian Eno On World Cafe
Song List
- "Lux 2"
- "Lux 4"
British musician, composer and producer Brian Eno is commonly recognized as one of the most important innovators in ambient music. Though he now mainly composes using computers, Eno was one of the early pioneers of tape-loop music. He's been an important figure in the history of more conventional pop, as well; he began his career as a member of Roxy Music, and later went on to collaborate with a variety of artists, including U2 and David Byrne.
Eno's latest album, Lux, began as a piece he was commissioned to create for a baroque gallery within a palace near Turin, Italy. He wrote the piece at a studio he built within the gallery, and tailored the music specifically for the physical space of that room, working with its natural acoustics. He was so enamored with the result that he later produced a reworked version to be released as a standalone album.
Here, Eno talks with World Cafe host David Dye about Lux, as well as some of the other projects he's been created during his remarkable career.
This segment originally aired on December 21, 2012.
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This question was triggered by a comment of Peter Shor's (he is a skeptic, it seems.) I thought that the holographic principle and AdS/CFT dealt with that, and was enough for Hawking to give John Preskill a baseball encyclopedia; but Kip Thorne is holding out, as are others. Why?
It is a matter of opinion, largely dependent on what you mean by settled:
I would expect the resolution of this dilemma to hold no relation whatsoever to AdS/CFT, being it specific to anti de Sitter spaces, which makes it irrelevant to our universe (unless someone proves an analog version for de Sitter spaces, which seems unlikely)
I think the key to the resolution of this dilemma is the false assumption that quantum evolution is unitary everywhere and for all observers.
To explain why the above assumption is false, take for instance the process of measurement of quantum observables. Regardless of the philosophical doctrine of measurement one subscribes to, the fact is that part of the information of the measured state is lost forever to the party that obtained information from the measurement. Yes, when observers do measurements to quantum systems, the global superposition of the system observer-system is still there "somewhere", evolving under perfect unitary evolution. However, some of the information from the measured system that is accessible to the observer is lost forever, even in principle, because of apparent collapse. So, it should be clear in this case that even if evolution is unitary for outside observers, physical observer eigenstates involved in the measurement will observe violations of unitarity.
so, unitarity is clearly not an absolute property of a system evolution, but depends on the "frame" where it is observed, and how the system couples to the observational frame.
Let's speculate how to apply the above in the scenario of the black hole information paradox: an observer outside the black hole sends information inside it, when the information crosses the event horizon, the information is lost forever for him.
However, observers inside the event horizon still see the whole system behaving under unitary evolution; the information sent inside the event horizon is still reachable to them. In particular, all entanglement correlations between states in and out of the horizon are preserved from their point of view, of course, as long as the measurement devices keep sending data inside the horizon for these observers to measure the correlations.
The trouble arises because some people is naively expecting quantum unitary evolution to be an absolute property that is agreed on by all observers, but quantum measurements are a clear example how this is not true in general.
Susskind complementarity has not solved nor settled the problem. Susskind (first paper considereding firewalls correct) and Harlow (with a loophole) withdrew theirs papers. (later Susskind, posted an amending proposition, but not conclusive)
Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?
Polchinsk, et al.
"We argue that the following three statements cannot all be true: (i) Hawking radiation is in a pure state, (ii) the information carried by the radiation is emitted from the region near the horizon, with low energy eective eld theory valid beyond some microscopic distance from the horizon, and (iii) the infalling observer encounters nothing unusual at the horizon. Perhaps the most conservative resolution is that the infalling observer burns up at the horizon. Alternatives would seem to require novel dynamics that nevertheless cause notable violations of semiclassical physics at macroscopic distances from the horizon."
...It is widely believed that an external observer sees this information emitted by complicated dynamics at or very near the horizon, while an observer falling through the horizon encounters nothing special there. These three properties | purity of the Hawking radiation, emission of the information from the horizon, and the absence of drama for the infalling observer | have in particular been incorporated into the axioms of black hole complementarity (BHC)...
...There would be an inconsistency if one were to consider a large Hilbert space that describes both observers at once. Such a Hilbert space appears when quantum gravity is treated as an efective field theory, but it cannot be part of the correct theory of quantum gravity if BHC holds...
...that it uses the naturally produced Hawking pairs rather than introducing ad- ditional entangled ingoing bits. This leads us to a rather dierent conclusion, that the thermalization time does not protect us from an inconsistency of BHC....
then throw the second (information is lost, non unitary evolution) or the third proposition (no drama infalling observer), in any case complementarity is not enough.


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Like many resort hotels, the Marriott San Juan Resort and Stellaris Casino in San Juan, Puerto Rico, adds a fee to its daily room rate to cover amenities such as bottled water, a casino coupon, local phone calls and wireless Internet.
And as is the case at many resort hotels, it doesn�t matter whether you drink bottled water, want to visit the casino, make a phone call or use the Internet. Marriott�s fee is mandatory.
Resort fees routinely are hidden on travel and hotel sites, but nowhere, as Steve McEvoy recently discovered, are they more dramatically concealed than on such so-called �opaque� sites as Hotwire and Priceline.
When McEvoy booked a room at the Marriott through Priceline, a site that doesn�t reveal the name of the hotel until you�ve paid for a nonrefundable reservation, he was told that he�d pay only $150 a night. But his e-mail confirmation said that he�d be billed an extra $22 in fees � that, in effect, the surcharge was part of the room rate.
�Is anyone trying to write a law to prevent this from happening?� asked McEvoy, a transportation consultant who lives in Philadelphia.
As a matter of fact, yes. The lack of disclosure of these extra charges, a longtime source of frustration for travelers, is getting attention from a group of consumer advocates led by Ed Perkins, a fellow syndicated travel columnist for Tribune Media Services and a former Consumer Reports editor. In a recent letter sent to the Federal Trade Commission, Perkins asked the agency to rule that these fees are �unfair and deceptive.� An FTC decision on the matter would close a loophole that collectively costs travelers tens of millions of dollars every year.
The way some resort fees are broken out and disclosed commonly is referred to as �drip� pricing: This means that a company initially advertises only part of a product�s cost, then reveals additional mandatory charges later, as a consumer goes through the buying process. And hotels aren�t the only ones to use this price-tag sleight of hand; you also find it in the automobile sales and financial services industries, among others.
Drip pricing is a special concern to the FTC. This spring, the agency hosted a workshop about the issue and solicited complaints from consumers, a potential sign that it may act soon to curb this practice.
Perkins hopes the government will start with hotels. One reason, he told me recently, is that negotiating your way out of resort fees and other required surcharges used to be possible. But �increasingly,� he wrote in his letter, �hotels stonewall guests on these fees.�
A representative for the American Hotel and Lodging Association, the trade organization for the U.S. hotel industry, said the organization couldn�t speak about the issue until it consulted with its members.
The FTC didn�t respond to a request for a comment about Perkins� letter. A Priceline representative declined to comment about its resort-fee disclosure practices, although in past cases, the company has said it believes the way it displays mandatory fees after a purchase is sufficient.
Asked about Priceline�s disclosure, a Marriott representative pointed to his company�s website, which prominently shows a resort fee but calculates it as part of the price after a room is selected. Marriott can�t control how these fees are displayed on Priceline, he added.
�We provide the rate and applicable fees,� he said. �The online travel agency determines how to display it.�
The hotel industry�s best argument for charging resort fees is that everyone is doing it. If one resort stopped and displayed a true price, then it would lose business to competitors whose rates look cheaper because they don�t include a resort fee in their base price.
But fixing the resort-fee problem might require creative thinking on the FTC�s part because of a layer of other players, notably online travel agencies, which determine how rates get advertised and displayed. It�s worth noting that resort fees have survived despite widespread public criticism and threats of lawsuits. Simply put, this is one hotel fee that refuses to die.
According to Perkins, government action isn�t without a precedent. After fuel prices spiked, for instance, many airlines started carving out a portion of a true airfare by labeling it a �fuel surcharge� and excluding that amount from their price promotions and displays, he said. The Transportation Department stepped in, forcing airlines to quote an �all-in� fare.
Cruise ships stopped drip pricing in the mid-1990s after Florida�s attorney general investigated �port fees� that covered more than the actual dockage costs. Turns out they also covered cruise lines� operating expenses for fuel, fresh water and wages. Six cruise lines agreed to stop drip pricing in Florida.
The timing for the current effort couldn�t be better. Not only are hotels and online agencies taking a harder line with guests who grumble about resort fees, but the success of these extras also is emboldening some nonresorts to match them. John Kazlauskas, a writer from Los Angeles, recently had to pay a $5 resort fee on a $33-a-night motel room in Anaheim, Calif., that he found online.
�It is truly ridiculous,� Kazlauskas told me.
Although no one tracks resort fees by hotel, they are part of a class of extras referred to as �ancillary� fees. A recent New York University study projected that the American hotel industry would earn nearly $2 billion in ancillary fees this year, nearly quadruple the $550 million it collected a decade ago.
Ideally, the government would require hotels, as it did airlines, to include any mandatory fees in their prices. But even if the FTC issued only specific guidance about how and when to disclose the fees, it would mark an important step toward solving one of the most vexing problems facing hotel guests today.
Christopher Elliott is the ombudsman for National Geographic Traveler magazine. Email him at email@example.com, or troubleshoot your trip through his website, www.elliott.org. Distributed by Tribune Media Services.


text: So you guys thought that the Halloween kitten was cute, well I have a surprise for you. Here is another great and exciting lesson on "how to draw a Halloween puppy", step by step. Here you will have so much fun making a puppy in the cutest way imaginable. The best part of this tutorial is how you can color in your drawing to look like any dog breed type there is. You could even turn a simple puppy into a beagle, Rottweiler, poodle, Labrador, golden retriever, or even a hound. I went with a mutt because as you know mutts need love too, and they are almost always adorable when they are pups. Well, that is about it. Make sure you show others your drawing when you are done because I bet they will flip and praise you for creating something so adorable. I shall return with more greatness so beware, or be scared.


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I was trying to run
chmod -R 777 ./ but ended up typing
chmod -R 777 / and set
777 on my entire machine. What can go wrong? How can I fix it?
I was trying to run
Problems? Yes, lots. Can it be fixed? Sure. Faster than reinstalling? Probably not.
My recommendation is to reinstall. Keep a backup of the existing system, and restore the package list and the contents of files in
If this is a system with multiple local users, note that making some files world-readable has revealed some things that should have remained confidential.
If you really want to try repairing (more of a learning exercise than a practical recovery route), first restore the permissions of a few files. Note that while most files are now too open, a few are missing necessary setuid bits. Here are steps you should take before anything else. Note that this is not an exhaustive list, just an attempt at making the system barely functional.
Then you'll need to restore all the permissions everywhere. For files under
For files under
You may not notice it at first, but lots of things can and will go wrong. The main problem is that the entire security model for the entire system is broken. It's like having a body without a skin, organs all out in the air. It's bound to get infected because it's not meant to function like that. Even if it seems to work for a few minutes, you need to clean this up.
The best way would actually be to start from scratch. This way will greatly reduce your risk and give you a cleaner result in less time. If you have proper backups, this shouldn't be too trying an experience.
If you do try to clean it up, The primary way would be to tell your distro's packages manager to reinstall EVERYTHING on the system including, overwriting config files. Then use whatever verify system it has to look through them and make sure none of them are flagged as having files with permissions out of the ordinary. Next, work through things like user home directories and reset everything to sane permissions en masse, then work through the few things that should have special permissions (like ssh keys files). Lastly, do a full system find for everything marked as 777 and go through the list (it should be small if you've done the other steps thoroughly) and work through them one by one making sure they should be the way they are.
Some security-conscious programs will not start if certain files have too "loose" of permissions. As @ceving said,
The main thing that can go wrong is now any user can open, read, and write any file on your system. The two reasons why this are bad is: A) if a malicious user gains control of your system either through a an exploit or misconfiguration, he/she can modify anything on your system now, and B) you can delete anything you want even if you are not root, so you've just negated most of the protections of not running as root.
If you didn't back up the permissions beforehand you're in a bit of situation. You might be able to create a script that "fetches" a list of permissions from a freshly installed system and then "apply" those to everything on your system. I don't have such a script handy, though.
This guy saved my job! (You need to access somehow)
1) To reset uids and gids on files and directories :
2) To permissions on files and directories
then change manually permisions to these files:


text: Hey ho guys, and welcome back to another fun tutorial. Today I am going to submit a lesson on another logo from Gears of War. I already have a lesson on this design, but since it is kind of old and the steps are pretty confusing, I thought it would be a good idea to make another submission for "how to draw Gears of War", step by step. The only thing different between submissions is the drawing style and the detail involved. I tried making the Gears of War symbol as easy as possible and I think I may have succeeded. You will definitely find this lesson way easier than the older one made in 2009. No matter how you choose to go about it, you will still have fun drawing a symbol from one of the most popular games being sold around he world. That's about it for now, but I will return in a few. Peace out people and enjoy!


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SKorea's economic growth hits 2-year high in 1Q
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By YOUKYUNG LEE
(AP) SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's economy expanded at the fastest level in two years in the first quarter as capital expenditure and exports turned higher, the central bank said Thursday.
South Korea's economy grew 0.9 percent in the January-March period from three months prior, accelerating from 0.3 percent growth in the fourth quarter, according to Bank of Korea's preliminary reading.
Over a year earlier, Asia's fourth-largest economy expanded 1.5 percent, the same level as the previous quarter.
The bank said capital expenditure increased after declining for the previous three quarters. Exports also turned higher after the fourth quarter's drop despite Japan's aggressive monetary easing programs that drove down the value of yen, which gave a boost to Japanese firms that compete with South Korean exporters.
Growth in capital expenditure and exports helped mask a decline in private consumption, which turned lower for the first time in five quarters.
The better-than-expected reading comes after the central bank slightly revised down its forecast for South Korea's economy to 2.6 percent growth this year, from 2.8 percent three months earlier, citing a downgrade in the global economic outlook. But Bank of Korea held its key interest rate steady for a sixth month in April after two rate cuts last year, saying that South Korea's economy is on track to slow recovery and is not weak enough to justify an additional monetary easing.
South Korea's government takes a more grim view on the economy. Last month, it said South Korea's economy will expand 2.3 percent this year, instead of 3 percent it had predicted three months earlier, blaming the yen's slide that dents exports and weak consumer sentiment.
The government proposed $15 billion extra budget to boost the economy and to create jobs, which is under the parliament's review.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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Hey I have ubuntu server 12.04 and I want to benchmark it. I found something called nbench but it's old. I need something that measure my CPU,RAM and HDD. I also installed Phoronix Test Suite but I search for tests but every one is 500MB+ and I don't have that much space.
What do you recommend?


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The 5 Ballsiest Ways Fans Have Affected The Outcome of Games
These are the kind of stories that you have to love even if you hate sports. After all, these fans, after paying good money to watch the sporting event, couldn't just sit down and enjoy the athletic showcase they came to see. They had to make it all about them. And thanks to their jackassery, not only did hilarity ensue, but the course of sports history was changed forever.
#5. Duke University's Speedo Guy Provides the Ultimate Free-Throw Distraction
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It's an unwritten rule in basketball: If you go to the foul line, expect to see hundreds of fans standing and waving shit in front of you. They're also likely to scream anything from vague insults to vicious racial epithets, simply to annoy you enough that you miss your shots. It's all kind of pointless, of course -- basketball players have been dealing with that silly bullshit since middle school. The players just tune it out, and fans convince themselves that their signs and chants behind the backboard are actually doing something to affect the game.
But in 2003, one heroic fan at Duke University had a plan. He knew that in fact one man truly can make all the difference. Provided that one man is virtually nude at the time.
See, this game was against the University of North Carolina. These teams have been slugging it out as far back as 1961, and it's considered by many to be the greatest rivalry in sports. One fan knew he had to pull out all the stops, and by stops we mean his balls:
Patrick King, a student at Duke, did what every opponent in history has failed to do: He convinced the rabid crowd to sit down. Why? Because if hundreds of kids were all on their feet and acting like utter loons, the free-throw shooter wouldn't have been able to see this:
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"You see, guys? That is teamwork."
This is what North Carolina's Jackie Manuel saw when he went to the free throw line in the middle of yet another nail-biter between these historic rivals. King stripped off his coat, rose above the now-seated students, and began to dance in a tiny, distracting Speedo. Every stereotypical stripper gyration that King could think of, he performed. Hip-thrusting, leg-pumping, and the occasional booty shot all combined to throw Manuel completely off his guard.
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"Be glad I don't give you both barrels."
Manuel took the first shot.
It missed.
Manuel tried to gather himself, to shrug off the power of King's mystifying man meat, and prepared his second shot. That's when the dancing got wilder and thrustier, until even the Duke faithful were overcome with lust.
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"We're going to need the rulebook for this one. And a new ink pen."
Manuel took the second shot and ... well, we'll just let him tell it:
"I just saw this guy in a Speedo, y'know, no shirt, just dancing around. It was kinda hard to focus on my free throws, seeing a guy in a Speedo moving around. I was like, OK, gather myself, y'know, refocus. He jumped up again and started doing another dance and y'know, inside I was laughing, but, y'know, trying to stay focused. It kinda threw me off and I ended up missing my second free throw."
Patrick King, aka Speedo Man, caused two missed free throws ... and his team ended up winning that crucial rivalry game by three freaking points. And thus King became more famous for his grape-hugging undies than anything else he will ever accomplish in the future.
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"I'm fabulooouuuuuussss!"
#4. The New York Yankees Win a Pivotal Playoff Game, Thanks to a 12-Year-Old Boy
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If you get tickets to a baseball game, the advantage to sitting in the outfield is the one-in-a-thousand chance you might catch a very valuable souvenir: a home run ball. So for a young Yankees fan attending a game in the major league playoffs, the absolute best-case scenario would have to be catching a ball hit by one of his heroes (like, say, all-star Derek Jeter). In fact, that would probably be the highlight of his life, as no young Yankees fan has ever grown up to be a good person.
But 12-year-old Jeffrey Maier managed to top that. From the stands, he didn't just catch the home run, but actually caused it, and helped send the Yankees to the fucking World Series in the process.
It was Game 1 of the 1996 American League Championship Series between the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles. It was the eighth inning, with the Yankees trailing 4-3 and running out of chances.
Yankees superstar Derek Jeter smacked one into the outfield, but it wasn't long enough to be a home run -- it was just short. But in baseball, that's all that matters -- being just short of a home run means a routine out. And sure enough, Oriole outfielder Tony Tarasco was there, ready to catch the ball and drive another nail into the Yankees' coffin.
But just as Tarasco stretched up, a young hand reached down from the stands and snatched at the ball, deflecting it out of play.
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He then went to the hospital and beat up several cancer patients while giggling.
If you're wondering how it's legal for fans to just reach into the field of play and participate in a major league baseball game, the answer is, it's not. At all. Normally the umpire just calls interference and the runner is declared out (which would have made young Jeffrey Maier an instant villain, since fans could have argued that if he hadn't interfered, then maybe the outfielder would have dropped the ball on his own). But this time, the umpire declared it a home run. This tied the game and completely knocked the wind out of the Orioles' sails.
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"Sir, I strongly disagree with your assessment of this particular play and would appreciate your reconsideration."
The Yankees would go on to win the ALCS (and later the World Series), while Maier would get his 15 minutes of fame. He appeared on talk shows, was publicly declared a thief by the governor of Maryland, and offered no apologies for his actions, saying that any 12-year-old Yankees fan would have done the same thing.
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"Angel in the Outfield Tells Sports to Go Fuck Itself."
Meanwhile, the guy who actually caught the ball (remember, Maier just deflected it) was nowhere to be found. No accolades, no talk shows, no free tickets to Game 2 (complete with limousine ride), no nothing. That's what he gets for not being a 12-year-old boy.
#3. The 1908 Olympic Marathon Was Decided by Everybody but the Runners
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The early days of the modern Olympics certainly reflected the times: Gymnasts competed in slacks held up with belts, women athletes wore full-length dresses complete with gigantic feathery hats, and fans thought nothing of handing glasses of alcohol to athletes in the middle of competition (apparently).
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They kind of needed it to soothe the fear that those hats induced.
In the 1908 London games, the men's marathon came down to two runners: South African Charles Hefferon, and Italian Dorando Pietri. The latter was well behind Hefferon with just over two miles to go, and the race was all but in the bag.
Then a fan offered Hefferon a drink, which he readily accepted. This wasn't just a paper cup of water or whatever they had in 1908 instead of Gatorade. No, this was a glass of fine champagne, because this was 1908 and people back then had class. Hell, we think champagne is what they used for Gatorade back then -- there are stories of people who managed to win after consuming a bit of wine or brandy during a race.
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"Looks like you're fine, but just don't run over 10 miles per hour."
Unfortunately for Hefferon, there is a reason modern science does not recommend slowly getting hammered while in the middle of a demanding act of rigorous physical activity -- after another mile of running, Hefferon developed severe cramps. This slowed him down significantly, and ultimately cost him the race.
This would seem to mean that the gold medal was in the bag for the second place Pietri, who was probably smirking at how the man in front of him clearly couldn't hold his liquor. He sped up to take the lead. This, unfortunately, is possibly the worst long-distance running strategy imaginable. Worse, it seems, than drinking fucking alcohol. Because, while Hefferon simply developed cramps and slowed down, Pietri quickly gave in to exhaustion and began stumbling and bumbling around like he was the drunk.
After Pietri collapsed, bystanders proceeded to escort him across the finish line. Sadly, that turned out to be illegal, and Pietri was disqualified. Thank God, because cutting his medal up so all 15 of his helpers could be recognized would have been a ripe pain in the ass.
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Not even Voldemort's soul could handle that kind of dilution.
The actual winner, by the way, neither drank nor required assistance, and thus nobody remembers him. Pietri, the guy who lost, was later awarded a special Silver Cup by the queen of England and had a reverent tribute song written about him by a young Irving Berlin. Man, losing is awesome!


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WELLSBURG - Brooke County Commissioners learned Tuesday that two of three grants sought for prevention resource officers at Brooke County Schools haven't been awarded.
The commissioners received letters from the state Division of Justice and Community Services stating because of steep competition for funds, it's unable to award two grants sought by the sheriff's department.
The state division oversees certification of the officers, who are assigned to schools to provide security, and act as liaisons between students and faculty and their police departments.
Brooke County Sheriff Chuck Jackson confirmed grants weren't received for the prevention resource officers at Brooke High School and Follansbee Middle School, though a grant was awarded for an officer at Wellsburg Middle School.
Jackson said he is disappointed by the news, particularly since Sheriff's Deputies Larry Palmer and John White each received state awards for their work through the program and the county hosted the state PRO conference this year. But he acknowledged when the program was begun about 20 years ago, the intention was for the grants to help initiate officers' presence in schools, with local sources eventually funding the officers entirely.
Jackson said that never happened, though the sheriff's department and Brooke County Board of Education have contributed more of their cost in recent years, as funding was reduced.
He said in recent years about $35,000 was awarded in grants and $25,000 provided by the school board, with his department supplementing the remainder of about $132,000 needed for the three officers.
Jackson said he strongly supports the program and will seek additional money from the school board and explore other options to maintain the officers, particularly one at the high school.
"We're going to have a police officer at Brooke High School if I have to pay for it out of my own pocket," he said.
Jackson said one option may be to divide an officer between the two middle schools. But he said that would require the county to return the state grant because it requires the covered officer to serve at just one school.
The commissioners encouraged Jackson to keep the officers.
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Spice up and old stand-by-- deviled eggs-- with a little curry.
Prep Time: 5M
Cooking Time: 10M
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- 6 large eggs
- 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- 1-2 tsp medium-hot curry powder
- 1/4-1/2 tsp cayenne pepper, to taste
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
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- Cook the eggs in a pan of boiling water for about 6 minutes for hard-boiled. Remove from the pan and let cool, then peel away the shell.
- Halve the eggs lengthwise, and carefully remove the yolk using a teaspoon. Put the egg yolks in a bowl, and mix together with the mayonnaise, curry powder, and cayenne. Season well with salt and pepper.
- Now spoon the devilled egg mixture back into each egg white, dividing the mixture evenly among the halves.
- Serve with some crispy lettuce leaves, Parma ham, and another pinch of cayenne pepper, if you wish.
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- Do not overcook the eggs, otherwise the outside of the yolks will be gray instead of yellow, resulting in a less attractive finished dish.
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Early-season. This mild, artichoke variety originated in southern Italy and produces large heads of creamy, sumptuous garlic. True to its name, Early Red Italian cuts the waiting for delicious garlic for sauces, pestos and enjoying raw. The husky heads are wrapped in lightly marked, white wrappers. Stores well.
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CULTURE: People all over the world have used garlic for centuries. Specialty garlic is a food that can be enjoyed in a manner much like fine wine. Garlic thrives in rich, well drained, composted soil with a pH between 6-7. Adapted to many climates, garlic is easy to grow and is bothered by few pests. Separate the cloves of garlic just prior to planting. In the maritime Northwest, garlic is best planted by October so it has time to establish a good root system before cold damp weather settles in. When spring growth begins, water to keep the soil slightly moist, and fertilize with a high nitrogen fertilizer applied every 2 weeks until bulbing begins. As harvest approaches, watering should be less frequent to avoid molding or staining. Cut off any flowering stems at the top leaf to redirect energy to the bulb.
HARVEST: Garlic should be harvested when 3-4 green leaves remain on the stem. Each green leaf represents one layer of covering over the bulb in the ground. If there are no green leaves when you harvest, you may find the cloves are exposed when you dig up the garlic. Tie the plants in small bundles and dry in a cool, shaded, well-ventilated location. After about 2 weeks, you can hang the bundles in a cool location, out of any direct sunlight. You can also remove the stems and store the garlic heads in a mesh bag.
Hardneck Garlic: Allium sativum subsp. ophioscorodon
These garlics typically produce 5-10 cloves per head. Approximate cloves per pound is 40-65 but this can vary based on seasonal conditions and the variety. Cloves grow in a single circle around a central woody stem. These varieties also produce, or attempt to produce, a flower stalk. What makes these garlics stand out is the range and quality of flavors they exhibit. Hardneck garlics have a shorter storage life than softnecks.
Softneck Garlic: Allium sativum subsp. sativum
These varieties produce 6-18 cloves in several layers around a soft central stem. Approximate cloves per pound is 50-90 but this can vary based on seasonal conditions and the variety. These easy-to-grow garlics are excellent in the kitchen and usually have the best storage qualities. Great for braiding.
Elephant Garlic: Allium ampeloprasum:
Not a true garlic, these enormous bulbs have a much milder and sweeter flavor than garlic, as it's related more closely to a leek.
CULTURE: Elephant garlic is planted 6-8 inches apart and covered with 4-6 inches of soil.
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My sister recently had a cold conization of the cervix after colposcopy. The pathology report results are adenocarcinoma in situ from 3 to 6 pm, 6 to 9 pm and 9 to 12. It says the margins are less than 1 mm. The endocervix had one fragment of adenocarcinoma in situ. She tells me the plan is a hysterectomy in 6 weeks. Are other tests warranted for staging work up? Is a hysterectomy all she needs for adenocarcinoma in situ?
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At this point, the diagnosis is adenocarcinoma in situ, which has no potential for distant spread. Thus, no further evaluation is needed prior to hysterectomy. It is very likely that the final pathology report from the hysterectomy will show nothing worse than adenocarcinoma in situ, and that will be the end of the problem, as it will have been removed entirely with the surgery.


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Is there a formula for the determinant of an induced representation, e.g. in the fashion of the Frobenius character formula.
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$$ det \; Ind_H^G \rho(g) = (-1)^\alpha \prod\limits_{\gamma, \gamma_1 \in G/H \atop \gamma^{-1}g\gamma_1 \in H} det \rho(\gamma^{-1}g\gamma_1).$$
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Let $\{X_{\alpha} \}_{\alpha \in A}$ be a collection of Banach spaces. It is easy to show that $ P = \{(x_{\alpha}) : {\rm sup}_{\alpha} \|x_{\alpha} \| < \infty \} $ with $\| (x_{\alpha} ) \| = {\rm sup}_{\alpha} \| x_{\alpha} \|$ is a banach space.
If the indexing set $A$ is finite, then it is easy to show that $P$ (with the natural projection maps) is the product of $\{X_{\alpha} \}_{\alpha \in A}$ in the category of banach spaces.
Assume $Y$ is a banach space and $f_{\alpha} : Y \to X_{\alpha}$ is a linear continuous map for each $\alpha$. If ${\rm sup}_{\alpha} \|f_{\alpha} \| < \infty$ then it is easy to see that the induced linear map $Y \to \Pi X_{\alpha}$ has image a subset of $P$ and is continuous. If this condition is not satisfied then it is not clear to me that there exists a continuous linear map $g:Y \to P$ such that $\pi_{\alpha} \circ g = f_{\alpha}$ for all $\alpha$.
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Although I'm Spanish, I can't recall for a word that accurately translates "lorekeeper", as the person who knows the wisdom and tradition of his people.
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In celtic cultures, where the tradition is mainly oral, the bards ("bardos" in spanish) were the ones who maintained the ancient knowledges and passed it from one generation to another, mainly in the form of songs, or poems.
So, depending on the cultural heritage of your context (for example on the north of Spain), you could use the word "bardo" as a somewhat equivalent of lorekeeper. You can think that all bards are lorekeepers while not all lorekeepers are bards.
However you should take this with a grain of salt, as the use of the word "bardo" has evolved quite a lot with the past of time, and today is something perceived more like a minstrel than a lorekeeper, so... while the use of "bardo" would be ethimologically correct, maybe your audience don't understand it correctly.
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The Grand Mayan Lorekeeper
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Clinical education has long been a hallmark of the education of our students and the activities of our faculty. For more than 40 years, Rutgers–Newark students have gained "hands-on" legal experience as they provide pro bono representation in real cases to underserved individuals, causes, and communities. Enrollment in one of the clinics has launched the careers of numerous prominent public interest lawyers as well as attorneys in the nation's most respected law firms and the legal departments of Fortune 500 corporations.
To provide scholarship assistance to the many students who are drawn to the law school because of our clinical program, to support the costs of litigation, and to increase outreach to the low-income citizens of local communities, we need to expand funding for the clinics. The Clinic Fund supports all of the school's clinics, especially the collaborative activities of individual clinics. To name an individual clinic requires a minimum gift of $5 million.
The Child Advocacy Clinic serves the needs of children and families who are at risk and living in poverty in Newark and the surrounding areas, and educates law students to be thoughtful and highly skilled practitioners. The CAC is involved in advocacy including obtaining or maintaining Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for children (federal public assistance for persons with disabilities), securing needed therapeutic and medical interventions for children, and assisting kinship caregivers in meeting the legal, financial, and educational needs of the children in their care. In addition, the CAC is the law guardian (attorney) for several abused and neglected children who are residing in foster care, many of whom are children with disabilities.
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The Thermador CT227N and CT227NW oven have a non-discoverable interface for setting the clock time, what is the hidden method to set the time?
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Below the clock LED display is a large round knob. Rotate the knob counter clockwise a couple of whole turns until you hear a beep and the word
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Does there exist a Borel measure or any valid measure on an infinite dimensional Banach space such that a bounded open set in this space has a positive measure ?
The negative result mentioned in the comment by Zen Harper, is about invariant measures, non-existent on infinite-dimensional Banach spaces. If one does not require the invariance, there is no problem. See, for example, the calculation of the Gaussian measure of a ball in the paper
It is a consequence of Riesz' Lemma that every open ball in an infinite dimensional normed space contains a disjoint sequence of smaller open balls. They all have the same measure under a translation invariant measure, so if the surrounding ball has finite measure, they all have measure zero. For separable spaces, this shows that every open set gets either measure 0 or $\infty$ under a translation invariant measure.
If you don't care about translation invariance, Wiener measure on the space of continuous function on [0,1] with starting value 0 should satisfy your condition.
We can give a construction of a standard translation-invariant Borel measure in $R^N$(here $N$ denotes a set of all naturall numbers), which obtains the value one on the infinite-dimensional cube $[0;1[^N$. Actually, we are free from the demand of sigma-finiteness, because the space $R^N$ is covered by the uncountable family of pairwise disjoint shifts of $[0;1[^N$. Measures with above-mentioned properties are adopted as partial analogs of the Lebesgue measure in the infinite-dimensional topological vector space $R^N$. Partial analogs of the Lebesgue measure in general Banach spaces are assumed as translation-invariant Borel measures which obtain the numerical value one on the unit sphere or on the standard infinite-dimensional parallelepiped ( generated by any basis ).
The fundamental works of English mathematicians C. Rogers and D. Fremlin are devoted to problems of the existence of such measures in non-separable Banach spaces. I have considered the following problem posed by C. Rogers (1998):
Does there exist a such translation-invariant Borel measure in $\ell^{\infty}$ which obtains the numerical value one on the closed unite sphere?( here $\ell^{\infty}$ denotes a non-separable Banach space of all bounded real-valued sequences equipted with standard norm)
My result asserts that this question is not solvable within the the theory $ZF+DC$.
On the one hand, we can construct a "consistent" extension of the theory $ZF+DC$ where this question is solvable positivelly( such a theory is the so called "Solovay model")
On the other hand, we can construct a "consistent" extension of the theory $ZF+DC$ where this question is solvable negativelly ( such a theory is "ZF+AC+"there is no a measurable cardinal")
The proof of these facts can be found in
"G.R.Pantsulaia, On ordinary and standard products of infinite family of σ-finite measures and some of their applications Acta Mathematica Sinica, English Series (2011) 27: 477-496, March 01, 2011"
You have mentioned that in separable Banach spaces there is no a translation-invariant Borel measure which obtain a numerical value one on the unite ball. But if we consider a question asking whether there is a translation-invariant Borel measure in a separable Banach space which obtain a numerical value one on the infinite-dimensional parallelepiped ( generated by any Markushewicz basis, in particular, by Schauder basis ) then the answer to this question is yes.


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Several members of the Board of Trustees toured the Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons following their July 12 meeting.
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As temperature rise the density become lower,When temperature goes down, density is higher but in higher temperature the body become bigger so why density become lower?
You just said it! As the body is heated, it becomes bigger, so if it's mass doesn't change, it's density has decreased, since density is the mass divided by the volume.
Density is an intensive property. It is not dependent upon the amount of material inside the system (scale invariant).
A block of iron at a given temperature has the same density, regardless of how big or small the block is.
For the density of something to reduce one of two things must happen.
Case 1 effectively isn't happening (you do get some evaporation but not enough to affect the density), so case 2 happens.
This is because for most materials as the temperature rises the atoms/molecules that make up the material move faster and further thus increasing the volume that the material takes up. There are exceptions to this - water being one in the range 0 to 3.8 °C - where the volume decreases as the temperature increases.
density is inversely proportional to volume of the body from the eqation: density = m/v With increase in size of body with temperature, volume of body also increases hence, the density will reduce (as it is inversely related to volume) hope you understood the answer. regards


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I created a RuneScape account using the Facebook-Login.
Now I would like to remove this dependency, to be able to log in using user/password, instead of having to use facebook.
I added an email address, but I still can't seem to login using email+password.
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I think we've all experienced this kind of feeling: "Wow, I don't recall this being that bad." Or ... "that good."
Now, the artistic quality is another story altogether. Except for the last piece, Diamonds, I think this is one of the most wrongheaded performances of Jewels I've ever seen. I've seen this company live with almost this exact cast many years ago, and liked it, so either my tastes have changed, or something else was going on.
I have seen Jewels performed over several generations at NYCB, including the premiere season; by Miami (two different seasons); and on dvd, by Paris. I have always been open to alternate performance styles, within reason.. Something may be lost, but so far I've always found something genuine and moving to replace it. (The extraordinary elegance of the POB version, for example, and its sense of luxe and volulpte)
Bad reviews can be as intriguing as good reviews. Your comments makes me even more anxious to have a look at the Mariinsky version, which I've been told is in the mail.


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Today in Tweet Beat, Tyra claims that the editing (for her own show) misconstrued how she feels about body image. Plus, celebs react to Dr. Laura's N-bomb.
Dr. Laura uses the N word 8 times on he radio sho. Let's get her back! All black people say Dr. Laura 9 times right now. Feel better?
the N word ...who can use it & who cant?
You know maybe we should stop the confusion and EVERYBODY stop saying the word Nigga. Shit, I did it again.
wht is the difference between nigga & nigger its da same thang guy
NOW this old school racist bitch has a reason to call me the N-word! It's 2010 ... sick of this shit. And there are folks defending her.
And after ages of wanting to reject reading "Eat, Pray, Love"... I have been won over by people I trust have good taste.This better be good.
I would go see a movie called "Eat Brains Love."
If you're not wasted, the fucking day is.
Ok!! I just left me 3 week old IPad at the dog park.. I hate losing shit.. And don't tell me I can afford another one. It still sucks. Damn!
Its a MIRACLE!! Somebody from SVU doubled back to the dog park on 23rd and Westside Highway and found my shit!! It sat there for 3hrs. Wow!
ANYTHING anybody has ever done wrong to you, FORGIVE THEM.. everyone makes mistakes! thats why the put erasers on pencils... ya feel me.lol
I believe in equal sexuality and that's what the women in my books have. No man is scoring off them.
If there's one thing that feminists and misogynists can agree on it's that women menstruate too much.


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I have found a reproducable crash bug in xserver-xephyr. When I run the following command:
apport-bug /var/crash/_usr_bin_Xephyr.1000.crash
it sends a whoopsie report and does not ask me for any extra information such as how to reproduce the bug, which I know. It also doesn't file a real bug report. How am I supposed to do it?


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Titanfall beta confirmed, identity of Xbox 360 version developer finally revealedWritten by: / / 4 Comments
After the super quick-fire alpha test for the game some weeks ago, the existence of a beta test for Respawn Entertainment's Titafanfall was seemingly confirmed recently after photos of promotion material hit the 'net.
The beta has since been formally confirmed by Respawn's Vince Zampella, and although we now know the test will include both Xbox One and PC, the start dates haven't been officially announced (despite the fact that the posters pointed out February 14th) – from Zampella:
#supersecret announcement time. I'm sure no one has been able to guess from the leaks. PC and XboxOne Beta! Details in the coming days
— Vince Zampella (@VinceZampella) January 28, 2014
It's additionally been revealed that Bluepoint Games (a studio formed from game industry veterans from Metroid developer, Retro) will be handling the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall – a sliver of information that has remained secret since the announcement of the game.
Work that you might know Bluepoint from in the past include the high definition ports of games included in the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, God of War Collection and Ico & Shadow of the Colossus Collection, as well as the PS Vita version of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.
Zampella wrote on Twitter:
The 360 version is being done by the amazing team at Bluepoint Games.
— Vince Zampella (@VinceZampella) January 28, 2014
Titanfall is out on Xbox One, PC and Xbox 360 on March 11th in North America, March 13th in Europe and March 14th in the UK.
Have you waded through El33tonline's already extensive current and continued coverage? You can find even more videos, screenshots and details. Also don't miss El33tonline's hands-on preview of Titanfall, as well as our impressions of the game from E3 2013.
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7 People Who Never Gave Up (But Absolutely Should Have)
Perseverance is what makes mankind great. Where would we be if George Washington stayed home smoking his weed and boning his slaves? How many of us would still be masturbating to our mom's old issues of Glamour if the guys who invented the Internet hadn't stuck with it?
But for some people, perseverance beats them up, slaps them around and makes them dance around in a pretty pink dress. These are the people who should have known when to quit... but didn't.
#7. Troy Hurtubise, Bear Fighter
His Dream:
Designing and constructing grizzly bear-proof armor.
His Quest:
The strange journey of Troy Hurtubise begins with two seemingly unrelated events. First, when Hurtubise was 20, he was attacked by a grizzly bear while hiking. Hurtubise escaped unharmed, but he became extremely interested in grizzlies and wanted to find a way to "study" bears safely, and by "study" he apparently meant "get his revenge by beating the shit out of."
Three years later, when he was in college, Hurtubise was struck with the inspiration to build a grizzly-proof suit of armor while watching Robocop. This is probably not the first epiphany ever achieved while watching a Paul Verhoeven movie, but probably the first one that did not lead to either criminal charges or new laws being written.
"Your move, Bear."
Hurtubis, apparently unaware that things you dream up when you're stoned out of your mind at three in the morning watching Robocop should be promptly forgotten about, decided to build the damn thing.
But Should Have Quit Before...
Hurtubise spent the next seven years and over $150,000 constructing this:
Keep in mind that this is the Mark VI. That means that he made five suits before coming up with this. Hurtubise spent all of his money, nearly lost his wife and son, and wasted countless hours of his life building a suit that looks like it was thrown together by a couple of cosplayers the week before Dragon*Con.
But don't let its incredibly shoddy appearance deceive you, the thing actually worked. Hurtubise didn't want to pussy around with a bunch of "science" tests in some "lab." If you're going to test bear-proof armor, you go to the closest thing thing to a grizzly bear you can pay with beer: bikers. Hurtubise hired a bunch of biker dudes to beat the crap out of him with baseball bats and two-by-fours.
He also had someone hit him with a car and throw him off a cliff to prove that not only was the suit effective, but that Hurtubise was clinically fucking insane. After several more tests, a Mark VII and a new suit of armor called "The Trojan," Troy Hurtubise has still yet to use any of the suits for their original purpose: studying bears. Unable to find investors rich and/or stupid enough to back him, his financial difficulties forced him to sell the Trojan on eBay.
Unfortunately nobody on eBay was rich enough (or wanted to fight bears bad enough) to meet his list price, so he just ended up raffling the thing off. Broke, unable to interest anyone in his designs and exhausted from years and years of failure, Troy Hurtubise took a long hard look at his life, reflected on the mistakes he'd made and built another goddamn set of armor.
#6. Darius McCollum, Train Thief
His Dream:
Working for the New York City Transit Authority.
His Quest:
Obsessions come in all shapes and sizes, but fewer are harder to understand than an obsession with trains. For most of us, trains are means to an end. They take us to work, they allow us to experience the sights and sounds of a place when we're traveling, and they're awesome for secretly feeling up strangers. For Darius McCollum, they're the equivalent of a cheeseburger that blows you while you eat it.
"Hey. Hey train. Whatcha doin' later? Carrying passengers? Hot."
McCollum grew up in New York and by the age of five, when most people are still not 100 percent sure where the bathroom is, he had memorized the entire subway system. Shocked at how little respect and admiration this earned him with other kids, McCollum's obsession grew until in 1981, at the age of 15, he stole the E-train.
You may be asking yourself, "how the fuck do you steal a train?" Well, he didn't exactly steal it, he more sort of borrowed it. McCollum hijacked the train and drove it along its regular route. He was so good, in fact, that the passengers had no idea anything was wrong. Passengers only became suspicious when they noticed that the driver was doing his job in a professional manner and wasn't muttering "fuck 'em all" under his breath over and over.
McCollum was eventually caught and charged.
But Should Have Quit Before...
Instead of enjoying his joyride and devoting his energies into a full time masturbation regimen like other, healthy 15 year olds, he kept on stealing trains. McCollum has been arrested 26 times and incarcerated for 19 of them. All this just to pretend to do a job that the people who actually do probably loathe.
In a rare moment of clarity, McCollum wonders how his life would have been different if had just decided to be really into Star Wars.
#5. Jocelyn Wildenstein, Aspiring Cat-Woman
His Dream:
Making herself look like some kind of cat-human hybrid.
Her Quest:
Back in 1990, Jocelyn Wildenstein had what a lot of people would call a "charmed life." First, she was stinking rich. We're not talking comfortable, second house on the lake rich. Wildenstein owned a private jet, houses all over the world, a priceless art collection and probably a suped-up Camaro. All this and she didn't even have a job. She was living the American Dream.
Then, something horrible happened. About the time she turned 50, Wildenstein found out her husband was cheating on her. Feeling depressed and unattractive, she did what people with money do: She got some plastic surgery. A little something to help her self-esteem in a trying time.
But Should Have Quit Before...
She decided she wouldn't be happy with just a nip or a tuck. No, Jocelyn Wildenstein wanted to look like a cat. Whether she just went insane or snapped after watching one too many episodes of Ron Pearlman's show Beauty and the Beast is unclear.
We can see wanting to have his hair--it's fucking awesome--but his face?
But most observers are able to agree that whatever the reason, she was out of her fucking mind and rich enough to make it a reality. Wildenstein has spent the last 29 years and over $4 million transforming herself into Catwoman.
She has had numerous silicone injections into her cheeks, chin, forehead and lips, as well as facelifts and surgery to make her eyes look more "feline." But what's $4 million when you're loaded, right? Well, when her husband, Mr. Wildenstein, saw what she was turning into, he decided to divorce her before she had the tail and claws installed.
After a judge granted Mr. Wildenstein a divorce on the rare-used grounds of My-Wife-Is-Turning-Into-A-Catmonster, Jocelyn lost a huge chunk of her fortune. If that wasn't enough to create the "What the fuck was I thinking?" epiphany, it's probably not coming ... until she's got that first live mouse in her jaws.
#4. Glynn "Scotty" Wolfe, Wife Collector
His Dream:
Being married, at all times, at any cost.
His Quest:
Had his first wife not died after only a year of marriage, Glynn Wolfe might have led a very different life. The details of his first marriage are few, but he must have liked it because after his first wife died he got remarried ... 26 more times.
To be fair, Wolfe was a Baptist minister whose strong religious beliefs prevented him from living in sin. But he was also apparently a horn dog because he couldn't stay single. In order, Glynn Wolfe married:
Marcie McDonald, Stephanie Delaney, Victoria Ernest, Katherine Johnson, Rachel Jennings-Prescott, Charlotte Devane, Valerie Harborn, Charlotte Devane again, Frances Hunter, Carol Demmings, Priscilla Ralph, Katherine Archer, Lisa Walters, Katherine Archer again, Nina Morgan-Stuart, Chase Jones, Kathleen Briggs, Sharon Goodwin, Sharon Goodwin again, Demerle Goin-Rankin, Julia Santiago, Gloria Mascari, Vivian Alvers, Maria Velez, Eileen Shelton, Guadalupe Chavez, Maria Chavez (no relation), Christine Camancho and Linda Essex.
Wolfe's longest marriage lasted seven years and his shortest only 19 days. 19 days! What the hell can go wrong with a marriage in 19 freaking days? It turned out it was a dude, right?
But Should Have Quit Before...
Actually, we're thinking it's not marriage he was addicted to, but divorce. According to his son, Wolfe divorced one of his wives because she ate sunflower seeds in bed.
That may be irritating, but most of us wouldn't get divorced over it. But what did Wolfe care, it wasn't like he couldn't just find someone else. He knew how to play the game.
Hmmm... Maybe he was onto something.


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Plant managers should remember that small, incremental changes can make huge differences to the competitiveness of a refinery in today's international marketplace.
[refinery optimization]
[advanced process control]
Refinery optimization is a complex business. Plant managers
across the globe face constant pressure to achieve commercial
targets. Fundamentally, a key part of the operational planning
process relies on setting accurate goals, whereby planning and
scheduling, process modeling and day-to-day plant operations
are important tools to help set targets and achieve them.
Often, management encounters more questions than answers.
Why do the linear programming (LP) models not reflect reality?
How do we cope with continuously changing targets? Why are we
not performing to expectations? The optimal plan typically will
be a stretch target. It may not factor in certain
constraints like tankage, but it will account for plant
availability while not assuming any product quality
Refining is not a linear
process. In reality, there is always a broad range of
variables and fluctuations to manage. As a result, there will
almost certainly be a gap between planned and actual
performance. A small percentage variation in the production
process or delays in scheduling can be costly and equate to
plant inefficiency. For executive decision-makers, this could
have a significant impact on planning and forecasting for their
entire operation. On the positive side, this could mean that
actual selling prices are higher than those for expected or
opportunistic purchases. Conversely, the effect might be
negative, causing less throughput, lower yields and product
quality giveaways.
Primarily, there are two types of gaps: unanticipated events
that have a big impact, with a large gap across a short time
frame; and the ongoing margin leak during normal operation,
with small gaps over a longer period of time.
Overall, these gaps are likely to have negative impacts on
refinery profitability levels. The
typical gap between planned and actual financial performance is
about 5%, but it is not uncommon to see a gap of 10% of gross
margin. For a mid-size refinery, at todays margins, a 10%
gap represents a potential financial loss of up to $20 million
per year (MM/yr). It is hardly surprising that, for most
refiners, closing this gap is one of the largest (non-capital)
improvement opportunities.
Therefore, from the perspective of the planners, it is
important to ensure that plans are as accurate as possible from
the outset of the process. To best achieve this accuracy,
planners must consistently question their models. They must ask
several key questions:
These considerations must also take into account the current
status the plant is operating under, along with the likely
changes over time. When first developed, planning models
usually reflect reality based upon the criteria known at the
point of design. However, changes to the refinery mean that the
model will require modifications over time, to prevent
inaccuracies from occurring.
Since it is necessary to update the planning model, planners
must decide how often to make necessary alterations. The best
practice will be to use engineering simulation models (process
and rigorous reactor models) to update the planning model.
Engineering models may require tuning to current operations,
but there is growing awareness that their usage is becoming
critical to delivering optimum planning models. In this
context, a blend of planning and engineering tools provides a
powerful solution.
Any refinery plan must be able to effectively manage risk.
This is always a difficult challenge. Key input variables in
planning can have a large degree of uncertainty associated with
themfeedstock and product prices, for
In the course of the planning process, refineries typically
will need to make assumptions and even informed guesses about
the future values of these variables. Inaccuracies in these
guesses will result in significant gaps between planned and
actual profitability.
The traditional approach to making these assumptions is to
perform a scenario analysis. Typically, such an analysis
requires the time-consuming definition of a large number of
cases. Incorporating risk analysis can help develop more
resilient plans that are likely to be achievable.
Closely linked to planning, scheduling is typically more
about feasibility than economic optimization. Planning output
is typically delivered to the refinerys management and
scheduling teams. The schedulers then take the plans and
convert them into hour-by-hour actions. However, a sensible
approach to scheduling should not only look at the various
options for achieving the plan, but also provide the ability to
react quickly to deviations from that plan.
Just as with the planning process, refinery management
should continuously question the scheduling approach. Key
questions typically include:
Here, petroleum-scheduling solutions that come with a
planning and scheduling model accuracy (PSMA) tool, which
facilitates and automates the process of model-accuracy
tracking, can play a key role.
Another key area that refinery management must focus on is
energy management. Refineries are extremely high consumers of
energy; approximately 40% of a refinerys outgoing costs
are energy-related. The cost of energy is the highest refining cost after crude oil
purchases (Fig. 1). The energy cost for an
average, 100,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery can hit $100
The rising cost of energy, along with stricter environmental emissions rules, means that there is
a need for better planning and management. In the future, there
will be an increasing focus within refineries on energy
optimization rather than only on hydrocarbon optimization. Today, the
focus on energy reporting is being superseded by a focus on
energy management, which requires management of both the demand
and the supply side.
Refiners must question energy costs. In particular, they
should ask themselves the following:
Some refineries have successfully implementedand are
continuing to integrateplanning, scheduling and
energy-management systems as part of an overall risk-management
strategy, effectively taking a more integrated approach to
their overall operational strategy (Fig. 2).
Refiners can look to achieve improvements in unit and
refinery-wide performance by concentrating on two areas in
particular: closed-loop control and open-loop management.
Advanced process control (APC) techniques typically come
into play with closed-loop control. Recent advances in APC have
reduced the cost of implementation and made controller maintenance much easier. As a
result, APC can now be justified on most units.
Composite APC applications can be used to synchronize and
optimize the operation of multiple units. New work is focused
on feeding targets from scheduling directly to APC
applications, which can understand operating constraints and
can feed back to the scheduling system (and, from there, feed
back to planning).
Open-loop performance management is also vital to adding
value in the refinery. Most performance-management systems in
use are actually performance-reporting systems. For performance
management to be valuable, it needs to move beyond simple
reporting by delivering information in as near real time as
possible, and it also needs to provide what is known as
look-ahead capability. This enables refiners to
answer the question, How will this information impact my
monthly plan, define the magnitude of the issue and facilitate
rapid solution investigation?
Performance reporting is capable of pinpointing where a
refinery is making errors and, therefore, help eliminate their
reoccurrence in the future. The point is not to avoid making
the same mistake twice; it is managing performance to avoid
making the mistake the first time.
Ultimately, performance management is extremely powerful
because it draws on data from many of the other tools
previously outlined, from planning and scheduling to APC.
Refineries should carry out a systematic performance analysis
to quickly identify gaps and actions. To be effective, this
analysis requires multi-disciplinary input.
Refining margins continue to be squeezed in todays
highly competitive marketplace. The difference between planned
financial performance and actual financial performance may be
up to 10% of a refinerys gross margin. Closing this gap
is one of the highest return opportunities for refinery
managers today.
Refineries should regularly define gaps in financial
performancetypically on a monthly basis. To do so
effectively, however, requires a systematic analysis of why
actual performance falls below target. Each step of the
processfrom planning to scheduling through
operationsneeds to be analyzed for gaps, along with the
financial value of closing those gaps. Once the reasons for the
gaps are known, appropriate actions can be taken. In some
instances, these may be one-off actions (e.g., replacing
unreliable equipment or process systems that require long-term
operational changes).
Refinery management must remember that small, incremental
changes can make huge differences to the competitiveness of a
refinery. Software technology solutions provide a
realistic method of closing the gap between planned and actual
performance, and they are critical to achieving long-term
commercial success. HP
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Engineers and designers are highly skilled individuals. Forcing them to enter design changes using tables, forms and spreadsheets is unproductive and uneconomical, and it increases the likelihood of human error—this is the way that most instrumentation software systems currently work. For too long, software vendors have denied engineers and designers the simple practicality of a graphical visual engineering interface with "drag and drop" capability and inbuilt intelligence, ensuring changes are automatically replicated into all the associated data and databases.
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