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5 Nazi Plans That Prove They Were Dumber Than You Think
Other websites like to tiptoe around the issue, but we've never hesitated to come out and just say it: The Nazis were bad.
And the thing is, the Nazis weren't strictly about tearing Europe down brick by brick and the Holocaust. They actually had tons of other horrible and, quite frankly, stupid ideas. Not all of them were brought to fruition, fortunately, but at one time or another, Hitler was all about ...
#5. Operation Pope Kill
Fun fact about Hitler: In the 1930s, he ordered Catholic schools to replace their classroom crucifixes with pictures of him. If ever there was a piece of trivia that encapsulated how Adolf saw himself in the larger world, that was probably it. In hindsight, it's kind of easy to blast the papacy for not doing enough to help European Jews during the Holocaust, just so long as you remember that they were dealing with a guy who was only steps away from abolishing all religions and setting himself up as Germany's lord and savior.
On one hand, militarism is terrifying. On the other hand, artillery would have made math class 4,000 percent more interesting.
Step one in that plan: Seize the Vatican. Step two: Kidnap the Pope. Step three: Hitler ... is declared God, we guess?
The Stupidity:
By 1943, Pope Pius XII began making vague yet public condemnations of Nazi human rights abuses, and Hitler started making vague threats of killing him for it. Not to the world at large, of course, because he was crazy, not stupid. Or not that stupid, anyway. According to SS General Karl Wolff, Adolf himself gave him a special mission in September 1943, saying, "I want you and your troops to occupy Vatican City as soon as possible, secure its files and art treasures and take the Pope and curia to the north."
"Once I have that hat, the armies of the Reich will be unstoppable!"
OK, but that's just occupying the Vatican, kidnapping the Pope and stealing some art, right? All of which fits the Nazi profile we've come to know and loathe. But there was a second component to the plan. Once the first wave of soldiers secured the Vatican and got their hands on Pius, a second, secret group would come in under the pretense of rescuing the Pope, kill the first group under the pretense that the guys in the first group were really Italian assassins, then accidentally shoot the Pope in the chaotic melee that followed. But it would be cool, because the Nazis could blame the Italians for the gaffe when it was all over. What could possibly go wrong?
Fortunately, the plot never took place because one of the inside men alerted the Italians before it ever got underway. The craziest part is that the scheme even got past the "What if we took over the Vatican?" phase in the first place. According to historian Robert Katz, assassinating Pope Pius XII posed zero potential benefits to the Axis powers, and probably would have ushered in a global backlash that would have made "the Ten Plagues that rained down on the pharaoh ... look like confetti." Which is a hard thing to pull off, if you think about it.
You have to hand it to the Nazis. It takes hard work to be that consistently terrible.
#4. The V-Weapons: Big, Scary Missiles That Couldn't Hit Anything
There were two things the Nazis hated the most, and the second was getting bombed by their enemies. So when Great Britain began bombing German population centers, the Nazis took the bull by the horns and created a whole weapons program specifically aimed at retaliation. Upon learning that their first-choice name "Das Shit-ton of Vengeance" wasn't appropriate, the project was named "Vergeltungswaffen," which is "reprisal bombs" in German.
It's also the German term for "penis envy."
This series of rockets, bombs and cannons were eventually known as Germany's V-weapons, because even Germans couldn't be burdened with saying "Vergeltungswaffen" every day.
The Stupidity:
It's hard to read about the V-weapons program without picturing an Aryan version of Wile E. Coyote engineering the whole thing behind the scenes. Especially when rockets routinely failed for such hilarious reasons as "too steep," "fell on airport" and "steam generator misbehaved." According to one disgruntled engineer whose V-2 exploded only three seconds after ignition, "We just blew a million marks in order to guess what could have been reported accurately by an instrument probably worth the price of a small motorcycle."
The Nazis weren't great at thinking things through.
Of the nearly 6,000 V-2 rockets constructed, only 3,170 were actually launched. Of the 1,403 lobbed at England, nearly 300 somehow missed. And we mean they missed England, a 50,000-square-mile target. The V-2s aimed at London fared no better, with only 517 hits out of 1,359 attempts. It seems like you could consistently do better with huge, cartoonish catapults.
"This would be a lot easier if computers weren't the size of houses right now."
Still, we guess that's not bad as far as experimental weapons programs go ... unless you compare its price tag of 3 billion wartime dollars to, say, the $1.9 billion the U.S. spent to create a significantly more effective weapon called "the atomic bomb."
Even when they reached their targets, they couldn't do all that much damage -- the famous V-2 rocket only had a 2,200-pound warhead. In comparison, one allied B-29 bomber could drop 10 times as much, on a target 2,667 miles away, all while displaying sexy paintings of naked ladies on its fuselage. Guess who won that war for global military supremacy?
Bundesarchiv, RH8II Bild-B0786-42 BSM / CC-BY-SA
Hint: Not the guys who opted for sexy paintings of naked men.
#3. Hitler's Obsession With Invading Switzerland
Maybe you think of the Swiss as the Bill Paxtons of Europe, mildly hanging out as neutrally as possible, blending in with the background, completely inconsequential in the plot of the story. And you'd be right, if Bill Paxton was rocking some serious ammunition up in that beautiful hair of his.
It's like a nest made by birds with poor depth perception.
Because there's a reason Switzerland managed to stay neutral when the world was burning all around them: They're incredibly hard to invade. They've got mountains on the southern and northern borders, and despite what the Von Trapps would have you believe, mountain climbing isn't a walk in the park. It's even harder when you're trying to drag thousands of tons of ammunition behind you.
For another thing, the Swiss have jealously guarded their neutrality in the best way known to man: with guns. When the Nazis started revving up, the Swiss got their shit together in three days. Most countries are lucky if they can get all their congressmen in town for three days, much less arm an entire army 500,000 strong. So, sure, you can take Switzerland -- but you'll leave many, many bodies behind. And at the end, all you'll have to show for it is freaking Switzerland.
Above: The treasures of Switzerland.
But Hitler, with world domination on his to-do list, just would not stop talking about it.
The Stupidity:
So right in the thick of World War II, just as Winston Churchill was taking office and the Nazis started gearing up for battle with the last Allied power in Europe, Adolf Hitler asked his senior strategy guys to come up with a massive plan to invade Switzerland. He hated Switzerland for some reason, calling them the "pimple on the face of Europe," as if Cyprus didn't even exist or something. And he was oddly emotional about the whole deal, causing his chief of the General Staff to complain, "I was constantly hearing of outbursts of Hitler's fury against Switzerland, which, given his mentality, might have led at any minute to military activities for the army."
"It almost seems like a bad idea to let one crazy guy decide where the army goes."
What they came up with was Operation Tannenbaum, a plan to put stupid Switzerland in its place once and for all. Want to know how hard it is to invade the land of chocolate and versatile pocket knives? The plan called for roughly 25 divisions and up to 500,000 freaking men -- as many as four times the soldiers deployed for the invasion of Norway.
And for what? A tiny, mountainous piece of land that one German diplomat called "an indigestible lump" that wasn't worth choking down. IN YOUR FACE, SWITZERLAND!
They didn't have Pepto-Bismol back then.
In short, instead of getting bogged down in Russia, Nazi Germany nearly got bogged down in their own backyard against an enemy that was no threat to them whatsoever, grinding out a bloody siege in freezing mountains guarded by half a million Swiss Rambos.
Hitler shelved the plan for reasons unknown to this day (maybe it turned out he was thinking of a different country the whole time?), and the closest Switzerland ever came to fighting in WWII was when they occasionally got bombed by the Allies.
Please note the lack of the word "accidentally."


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The fixes just don't work. They really don't. Any other fixes? Phone line chucking us out on 3rd code when I have inputted the same code on another comnputer and it worked! and the certificate fix doesn't work either
The fixes just don't work. They really don't. Any other fixes? Phone line chucking us out on 3rd code when I have inputted the same code on another comnputer and it worked! and the certificate fix doesn't work either
Miles/Neil, I put in the code but it just says unable to connect to the internet. What do I do? cus im getting bored and impatient now, please help
Where is Miles and Neil?
I don't know if anyone brought this up before, but here goes.
The game flows real nice until I get to the matchstage of the game, so when it's preparing for the game it just freezes and I get a failmessage or something, it says that something si wrong and a log has beed created in Crash Dumps.
I am playing in windowed mode.
Something worth mentioning is that I have the exactly amount of RAM as the system requirements (512 Mb), is that a problem?
I think i got everything there, I play it in swedish so i can't give you the exact failmessage, but i hope someone can help me to sort this out.... I wanna play
Anybody have any news of the flat looking players on the 3D view? I can play in 2D but when the box has 3D Match View on it I would like to see 3D. Away to watch David Haye on tv now.
miles, have you got any further on the progress with finding out why we still cant activate the game on the softanchor screen yet? we went through most of it with marc but the link he gave us just keeps asking for a username and password. HELP!!!!!!!
Do you want us to start up a new one for the constant issue of not connecting when authing?
I'm trying to get this activated via the phone. It is asking for a 16 digit activation code!
What is this? I guessed it was the code on the back of the FM2009 manual but that is more than 16 digits.
Any help?
*agrees with jaygo*
same problem as villalad. soon as there's a real fix let us know.
yes, for example:
Originally Posted by ipswichjon2
Earlier on I posted a similar issue - I've got it running in windowed mode and okay for two weeks game time no freezes - to get windowed mode
1 - right click FM2009 exe start up icon and then properties
2 - in the target field add a space and "-windowed -small_screen"
3 - click apply/ok
thanks to the guy on the PC/Mac discussion section who posted this
And had success, there was a windowed option from within the game which was where i was getting confused. Cheers though.
I have the following issues:
- I have installed it on my desktop without being asked for any code
- I can't install it on my laptop because Softanchor says that my code is already activated
- If I change the code to lower case, Softanchor tells me that activation was successful. But when I try to run the game, it once again asks me for the code
- I have tried phone activation, and it gave the same results as mentioned above; appears to work, but Softanchor keeps asking me for the code.
- I have tried all the solutions posted here
Marc told me to try the method where you reinstall and delete some folders. I've tried that (4 times) and it's still not working. Looks like seldald has the same problem.
now i am really confused, out of nowhere, a massive sports interactive sign just came on the screen and wah lah, the game came to light as if by magic??? work that one out??? but i am very cautious as i have heard this happening before and after exiting the game you have to go through the whole authentication process again. no doubt ill be back on this forum nearing suicide!!! wish me luck
When you phone it should be the 16 digit code showing on your screen, but don't hold your breath it throws you out after the 3rd set of 16 as it says you have the wrong key!! even though you have the correct one! This is just terrible.
Am i the only one with a [-703] error still?
I've just tried the phone again and have got to the 5th number again, which appears to be the point it throws me out now.
I have tried following the above instructions but I keep getting the error message, cannot connect to the internet. i am connected obviously. I have re-installed the game many times now.
Tried to follow the instructions you have posted regarding the certificates but when i click on the link https://fm2009.sa01.softanchorinsight.com it takes me to the website, and does not give me the certificate error message.
again my keycode is somewhat difficult. I know 1, and I are getting mixed up, do we have issues with 2 and z i have tried many ways now.
Even after last install, after making doubly sure to tick the unicom box, internet or phone... I now have no phone activation box or option. I thinks someone is having a laugh here!
i'm not the most technically minded person. in laymans terms, can you explain to me why upon launching via steam, literally nothing happens? it says 'in game' for about 2 seconds on my profile and then nothing. nothing boots up at all. is htere any manual fix for this becuase at this rate, i really cant see me getting fm working which is a total nightmare cos i love it. my girlfeind, however, is very happy i cant get it to work.
do you envisage there will be a patch released to make it work via steam?
I have RADEON 9250 as graphics card, this should be fine yes?
i have seen people post in here and other threads about the issue with the xml parsing error but with no resolution...
XML parsing error!
not well formed (invalid token) at line 1 of last_saved_game.xml
Can someone PLEASE help me with this???
You may also want to reboot before you try the above and you may want to contact Steam support too:I installed through Steam and cannot start the game or create a shortcut, or running without Steam being active
Fix: If installed via Steam, you can find the game executable (exe) at the following location:
C:\Program Files\Steam\Steamapps\Common\Football Manager 2009
If you double click this the game will launch, you can also create a shortcut to this location on your desktop.
You launch the game via Steam and nothing happens
Please raise a support ticket at the Valve website: https://support.steampowered.com/
When I write the cd-key for the second time, this time on a link from Soft Anchor, then say it already before I taste anything into that "Your trial period has expired! Please visit www.sigames.com"
When I entered my key into production and pressure next pops up as follows: "Sorry, but this instalation of Football Manger 2009 Certificate could not be activated for the following reasons: The program could not access the Internet. Veligst Check your connection. If you have need assistance, please visit
www.sigames.com "
I've already installed the game on my laptop and never had to use soft anchor so I don't know what to do now. I have already tried to uninstall it several times, without any effect!
Thank you in advance!
my saved games would not re-load so i uninstalled the game and tried to re-install. but when i put the disk back in, it doesnt load, infact nothing come up at all and i cant re-install fm.
i tried exploring the disk but it just came up with:
data error (cyclic redundancy check)
what can i do? at the moment iv just got a game that does NOTHING!
thank you Niel,
is it a case case of wait and see,
or do we have a timescale,
this game is currently unavailable please try again a another time....
Any fix on this yet, trying to launch through steam but get the above message.....
Been asking for some help with this since 8am and been trying to play the game since 2pm yesterday.
Tried installing uni version but had graphics instllation problem....which of the two peoblems is easier to fix (I have already dowloaded patch and DXSDX to no avail).
Please Help
i have the same earlier, but now after re-installing i have no phone option to try. guess i am fighting a loosing battle.
To solve this you can reset your preferences.
What operating system are you using?
If you have a shortcut on your desktop you can do the following:
- Right-click on the FM shortcut.
- Choose "Properties" from the pop-up menu.
- In the "Target" field, add the --reset_preferences command line option after "fm.exe", so it should look like this:
"fm.exe" --reset_preferences
- Press OK and then try to run the game as normal, using the shortcut.
You'll want to remove the command after you run the game, as otherwise it will continue to reset your preferences every time you launch.
You need to re-install your DirectX. You can find the link here:
Good evening.
I'm trying to install the game on a 2nd machine (my laptop).
Upon the activation screen it come up with: Your trial period has EXPIRED! Please contact SIgames.com
I couldn't find anything on the first page with regards to this error.
1) On receiving the error, please uninstall the game
2) Please navigate to the following directory:
XP users: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009 Certificate
Vista users: C:\Program Data\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2009 Certificate
3) Please ensure that it is the \certificate directory you are located in
4) Delete all content
5) Reboot the machine
6) Re-run the installation programme and retry activation - ensuring you have 'verified' your key using the following website: http://keylookup.fm2009.softanchorinsight.com/
7) You should now be activated
Yeh think im going to give up for the night. Been at since 3pm yesterday on and off and it is really starting to do my swede in.
Only so many times you can witness error [-703]
In post #5 in this thread I described my problem. I have emailed both Marc and muzchap with jpegs of my keycode but still no reply from either one. I kinda feel left out so **** this for tonight. I'm gonna go watch some Sons of Anarchy episodes instead. I really hope that someone from SI can take the time and have an answer for me by tomorrow since I've been kind of ignored so far...
any news yet please on not connecting issue, im starting to get really up setup now
Soft anchor?? Who's idea was this anyway?? Me thinks this may cost SI more in the long run than any piracy that went on before this activation stuff!
I'm encountering the "fm.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close" error.
The send report says the following:
AppName: fm.exe AppVer: 184.108.40.206064 ModName: fm.exe
ModVer: 18.104.22.168064 Offset: 00fdc281
Any ideas? I've tried repairing the Microsoft Dot.Net framework but it doesn't work. I was playing the game earlier perfectly fine, and have tried re-installing it. I'm also running the latest patch?
thanks guys i have followed you advice and should be set-up very soon.
What about the freezing issue ????
Received the game today (dvd), and spent a good hour setting things up before getting to the first friendly game, selected my team and when clicked on go to match the bloody thing freezed.F@@@
Using Vista x64 with the patch and latest vista updates.
So much for the 'games for windows' assurance :
Thanks Neil!!
Im back up and running and no problems!! You guys have had a fair amount of stick for this launch and some of it is understandable. I ws one of those who took a day of yesterday to get fm and was pretty p***** that i couldnt get it working until around 11pm.
HOWEVER, i can speak for a lot of people when i say this, the fact that you guys are on here at nearly 1am the following day helping fellow football managers is a fantastic thing to do and we thank you for everything you are all doing!
Keep up the hard work and i hope everyone is up and running soon...
Can you go to the following directory:
C:\Program Files\Steam\Steamapps\Common\Football Manager 2009
You should see the "fm.exe" there, but there should also be a dbghelp.dll file too. It sounds like this file is missing from your system, which means somehow perhaps the game did not install correctly or you may have accidentally deleted it?
Thanks for all your help guys, really appreciate the time your putting in to sort this out, who knows, i could be back here soon!!
I have the same problem as Totty and a few other with the phone activation telling me after the 3rd code that I have the wrong number. It is not the wrong number, i have checked and tried as suggested to put in in capitals and lower case without success.
Any further with the solution?
Please help!
actually, just figured that in the fm09 DEMO file, that dbghelp file does exist, am i being thick to think i could just simply cut and paste this across or not??
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I have managed to authenticate however when i click on the fm 09 icon nothing happens. i then click again and it staes the game is already running. i checked applications on task manager and its not there.
Does any one have any ideas
You can find it here:
The titled section - 'Error: Application was unable to connect to the internet. Please check your connection.' - Only deals with Internet explorer users and not firefox users like myself.
When you follow the only other link for additional help the website it takes you to simply states that it is possible for firefox users to get the required certification saying that all you have to do is simply go to the download page right click and save the link for import later, it does not however give a link to get to the download page or say what exactly to right click on.
I have tried all of the other relevant methods to get my game working and have even installed the game onto another pc just to see if I had the correct code which I did.
Please help
I checked the number online via this computer and it was right. The phone activation is for my laptop which doesnt have internet access. I would play on this machine but it isnt upto the required spec needed
I tried to download DirectX SDK and during my download it cut off saying i need to use a PACKER tool? is there any sudgestions about how i can get to play fm? or is there anywhere or thing i can download to get it working? its killing me not being able to play it
i dont know if you saw on my last post but i was saying i'd found the dgbhelp.dll file but it was in the DEMO file that i downloaded from steam. am i able to simply cut and paste into the file of the full version or not?
going to bed now, can some please fix this over night so i can have a fun sunday :S
Can't someone at least say that they are looking into my problem??
im sure i've seen someone else have that problem somewhere in the previous 6 pages - am i getting somewhere?
The phone is not working for me, and I have checked my key code on that website. The last time I tried the stupid thing gave me a response key which didn't work.


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I can't connect with my Nokia phone via Bluetooth. It's already added to devices..I can't browse it, nor send files. On ubuntu before, there wasn't problem. What should I do? Thanks in advance.
Simply download Blueman from the Ubuntu Software Manager. Once Blueman installed right-click your device within Blueman and trust it. Will work great!
You can send/receive after check Receives files in personal sharing preferences but for browsing I dunno, I can't browse too.
For me, I frequently use
Wait for the installation to finish, and you can use the software as you like. As long as I'm using the software, I have no problems with receiving from the Bluetooth file transfer but yes, I did have problems if I want to transfer files from PC to my mobile phone.


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Of course there is a set order in the Siddur, but is there a hierarchy in ברכות השחר? If, for example, someone did not wash his hands or use the bathroom when he woke up, can he say Elokai Neshamah or ברכות התורה?
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One pair of brachot in the morning that must be said in order is Mattir Asurim before Zokef Kefufim. If one said Zokef Kefufim first, he no longer recites Mattir Asurim (Shulchan Aruch OC 46:5).
Some say the set of Shelo Asani X's must be said in order, and if one said a later one he can no longer say the previous ones. However the Mishna Berura who quotes this opinion (46 sk 16) tends to reject that position.
Some require Elohai Neshama to be lechatchila recited after another bracha because it doesn't itself start with "Baruch Attah...", but others reject this requirement (see OC 6:3 with commentaries). All agree this would not invalidate the bracha.
That's all I can think of in terms of required orderings. Different Nuschaot have different traditions for the rest of the order.
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The brachah of Ahavas Olam may exempt you from Birkas HaTorah. Therefore, you should say the latter first (47:7). The brachah of Mechayah HaMeisim may exempt you from Elokai Neshamah (MB 6:12). DoubleAA wrote in his answer that some say that you have to say Elokai Neshamah after Asher Yatzar; the Rama says to say Birchos HaTorah immediately after it. The korbanos have a specific order, as explained in 1:5-8 (and see Aruch HaShulchan there for the explanation of the Ashkenazi practice of saying only three things). I thought I remembered seeing in the Mishnah Brurah that you can say the brachos even if you don't experience the things (e.g. hearing an actual rooster crow), but I can't find it.


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For staying in the most convenient location in Hong Kong, it costs you only HK$ 200 per person per night.
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Cathy was a god sent as BA managed to loose 2 of our suitcases. She told me all we needed to know about the apartment and the only issue we had was that the induction cooker would sometimes cut out due to overheating but we hardly cooked during our stay anyway so was not really a problem.
The apartment is clean, well equipped and fully air-conditioned and as it's on the top floor we had no issue with noise whatsoever.
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we arrive in hk at 9pm on dec 28 2013 and we meet cathy at argyle st when we get off in the bus anyway cathy's place is a good choice for people who want a place near for everything that they want aside from being called as sneakers st.it is also near in the famous lady's market and not to mention the mtr where you can go to anywhere you want in just a few minutes. all in all cathy is a good host as well as her place if ever i will go back to hk iwill choose again to stay in her place
Cathy's apartment is nicely located, a few steps away from Mong Kok station and the street market. It's easy to roam around Hong Kong with its location.
The place is very tidy, the wifi internet is very fast, the amenities are good. The place is kept clean.
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I have Ubuntu 10.10. I know that one cannot directly jump from 10.10 to 11.10. So, first I have to upgrade to 11.04, then 11.10 . But how could I be sure that 11.04 and 11.10 will work on my pc? Is there any way to check that? Also, should I backup my data? And if yes, which folders?
One way I usually test this is by using the liveCD iso image. I often take the .iso image and write it to a USB stick using the USB creator that Ubuntu has.
Unfortunately, that does mean you have to download more things, as you end up downloading each version twice:once as a liveCD and once as Packages.
Even if the Live(USB or CD) does work, there could be a small chance the upgrade doesn't do as well as you had hoped. It never hurts to have a backup. I usually use rsync like this (after plugging in an external drive, but in this case even another partition would work):
Yes, unfortunately Ubuntu does not support jumping across versions. (It could work though, if you have some experience with apt.)
First, you really want have a backup of your data. While, it's likely that your data does not actually get deleted during the process, if something goes wrong, it's much easier to recover if have a backup. All your personal data is in
If 10.10 works on your computer, all future version should also work. If something goes wrong (like an issue with the display driver), you can still restart with a fresh install of 11.10 (and the restore your backup.).
Actually, if you want a standard install of 11.10, backup + install 11.10 + restore data is probably faster than several upgrades.


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Furthermore, how does Archery level? Does every successful hit on an enemy reward me with a set amount of experience, or does damage dealt also play a role? Also, do I receive any experience for a missed shot?
You do not receive experience for a missed shot. You do gain experience on every successful hit (does not have to be enemy!). The more damage you do, the more experience you gain. A kill also gives you a bit of experience bonus (judging by how much the bar moves).
The best part of leveling archery is that you don't have to hit an enemy to get experience, you can make target practice on your summoned minions, such as a familiar or zombie. Just summon one, shoot at it, then repeat.
There are also 3 archery trainers in Skyrim that can improve your skill for gold:
Another way to get 5 easy levels is to go to a place called "Angi's Camp". It's a little south-east of Falkreath. Angi will give you tips for using a bow, and if prompted will take you down to some targets and tell you which to shoot, etc. etc. Doing each practice session on the targets grants you 1 level, regardless of what level you are, and there are 5 in total. I waited and used them to get from 90 to 95, though in hindsight I maybe should have waited to do from 95 - 100. Also found inside the shack at her camp is a skill book on her bedside table which will grant you another skill point. Hope this help!
There are actually six free archery levels that can be gotten from training with Angi. There are four challenges, the first grants you three archery levels, and the other three grant 1 level each upon completion. Not to mention the archery skill book called "The Gold Ribbon of Merit" available in her house by her bed, which could potentially give a seventh free archery level.
There are several effective ways to level archery in Skyrim. The first way I found was as follows:
Another good way to level archery:
Yet another good way would be to find any troll, equip your Ice Form shout that freezes enemies for whatever it is, twenty seconds or whatever, and use low-damage arrows so that the troll can regen about as fast as you can damage it. When it gets close to you, shout and get some distance.
There are obviously other good ways to level archery, but hope these suggestions help. They certainly helped me. :)
One of the best ways I've seen to level archery is to get the Dark Brotherhood horse, and shoot it repeatedly. It usually regenerates whatever damage you do to it between shots, and he holds still and doesn't despawn.
Plus, he looks awesome :)
If you're not bothered by using a minor exploit, there's a quick way to get 50 Archery (and several levels!) early in the game:
You can only train 5 times per level, but at very low levels his training may cause you to level anyway. You can very easily get up to level 50 (Faendal's limit) this way. You can presumably do the same with Aela the Huntress up to 75, but you have to do the Companions quest chain before she will join you.
Note: Make sure you have a good hiding spot before doing this! Get a follower, then make them wait somewhere. Crouch in shadows about 20 feet (whatever seems a good estimate) and equip both your bow and your arrows (make sure they are not too strong to kill your follower). Begin shooting your follower every six seconds (unless you have a powerful bow that deals more than 3/4 of their health; in this case shoot them every time their health fully regenerates). If you are completely hidden, you should gain Sneak experience, too. Doing this properly should level up your Archery from about 30 to 50 in about fourty minutes, from 50 to 70 in about an hour, and from 70 to 100 in about an hour and a half. And it also levels up your Sneak a little bit slower than Archery; it should max out your Sneak if you continue this process.
Hope this helps! :)
If you really need help with archery turn your difficulty up to medium and just do the stormcloak questline and the Companions questline and just use arrows and sneak the whole time and you can raise levels quick!
Note: You can level up sneak by going to high hrothgar with an iron dagger and sneaking behind any of them and attackthem over and over again. Also Make sure you have the guardian stone for sneak on i raised archery in 3 hours to 100, i know thats long but at least i had fun doing it! Ya Know?
Find bandit camps and just sneak around till you find a nice place to hide. Go into sneak mode and you'll one shot them and gain sneak xp too. I've done this to about 5 or so bandit camps. I also did this with a troll.
By the way, I'm only lvl 13 but that's how I got my archery to about 35 and also got some money. I've tried the giant one but they kept moving so I got closer, fell off a cliff then got mauled. You can also hunt deer, elks, wolves, and I've even kill a mammoth that was stuck. It'll gain you xp quick if you're in the right area and are low lvl like me.
Go to an open field with giants and mammoths, shoot them and then get in a small house so they can't get you.
In your main quest where you will have to go to High Hrothgar and train your Unrelenting Force, Sneak somewhere where you still see the four Greybeards (after they form in circle) then hit them with a bow. They won't attack you when they form their circle, but do not attempt this at any other time. The Greybeards have plenty of health so they can endure up to 4x to 5x of 40+ damage from your bow. While one of them regenerates, shoot the other Greybeards. Just complete the process and you're good to go. Increasing the difficulty will also increase there health.
After becoming thane in Whiterun, head into Dragonsreach, and go up onto the balcony overlooking the main hall. Then shoot the jarl and only the jarl. I leveled up from 50 to 100 in about an hour of this.
Just run around with a Daedric bow and kill everything. I leveled up from 20 to 60 in 45 minutes.
Set the difficulty to 'Master'. Find a cage and summon Frost Atronach inside (it is too big to get out), keep shooting it till it dies. Summon & repeat...
I normally hunt mammoths, giants, and trolls. I'm Getting upwards 70's now so buying is to expensive. Also I'm constantly on the look out for dadrea or whatever hearts for the daedric bow. And I hunt dragons because I'm Slowly making dragon armor. Gonna get rid of my amazing looking nightingale armor
To train easily, use a crap bow, something like a hunting/imperial bow, and get a bunch of iron/steel arrows.
Now join the Legion, and when you are in a fort, raiding, attack a guard (but save previously just in case they end up endless). Make sure you hit them and they die.
This should help you level up quick. I gained like 20 lvls from lvl 50 just by doing that.
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Eugene Wurtele, 64, of Nebraska City was ordered held without bond Tuesday following an appearance in Otoe County Court where he is charged with 12 counts of sexual assault of a child.
Otoe County Attorney David Partsch asked Judge Todd Hutton to set bond at $1 million.
He said Wurtele is accused of 11 counts of sexual assault from June 1, 2011 to Dec. 31, 2012, involving a 10-year-old girl and one count of sexual assault involving a seven-year-old girl between Nov. 1, 2011 and Jan. 15, 2012.
Partsch said Wurtele also has charges pending in Douglas County, where he earlier posted bond of 10 percent of $500,000.
Defense Attorney James Martin Davis said a $1 million bond is unreasonable.
He noted that Wurtele has no criminal record, has never been arrested before and is well established in the community.
Wurtele is a former member of the Nebraska City School Board.
"I don't know, as a matter of record, that there is anything to be said that he is a flight risk," Davis said.
He said Wurtele has been out of jail for a week and police, honoring Davis' request, did not serve an arrest warrant pending arrangements for the court appearance Tuesday.
Judges John Steinheider and Randall Rehmeier have recused themselves from the case and Otoe County has a judge vacancy due to Judge Jeffrey Funke's move to the district court.
Davis said Wurtele has been married 44 years, is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and only recently retired as a locomotive engineer with Burlington Northern. His wife Nancy accompanied him in the courtroom.
He asked for a 10 percent provision on a $50,000 to $100,000 bond.
Davis said the Douglas County case originated after Wurtele made a voluntary disclosure and said Wurtele has also cooperated with Otoe County investigators.
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Not only is the new OceanX outdrive attractively designed, but it's engineered for the long haul.
First the Basics
Let's start at the very beginning. A stern drive outdrive is the same as your outboard's lower unit. Only this time the drive is connected to an engine inside the boat, instead of one attached above hanging on the transom. It's the drive portion that is outside the boat, hence the term "outdrive." It also goes by the name "stern drive," as it's attached to the stern of the boat, or "inboard/outboard" ("I/O"), as part of the system is inside the boat (the engine) and part outside (the outdrive). They're all the same thing described by different words but the long and the short of it is… this is where all the power of the engine gets transferred to the water to propel your boat.
Problem #1
So what sort of problems do these units have and how does the OceanX solve them? First of all, it's important to note that nothing in the marine world, it seems, is without its problems. Stern drives have been on our boats for years and they get the job done. But so does your computer, and does it ever have problems? Of course, but it's the price we pay and we all do what we can to deal with the inherent problems.
The rubber bellows are an Achilles heel in any stern drive lower unit.
These things are made out of rubber, and rubber is not exactly an indestructible material. Quite the contrary, rubber dries out, cracks and it punctures easily. But it's the most appropriate material we have and, again, we must deal with the problems. Without a lot of TLC, after a number of years, the bellows will crack, start to open up, and then water will get in.
Water and universal joint gimbals do not get along, especially when salt enters the equation. You normally solve the problem by replacing the bellows periodically which requires hauling the boat and removing the drive. Otherwise, the only way to tell that you have water intrusion is to haul the boat, remove the outdrive and inspect the gimbals. This is a very costly procedure and aggravating if nothing is wrong.
The Volvo Penta Solution
Wouldn't it be nice if the drive itself let us know if we had a problem? That's what the team at Volvo Penta asked and… go figure, they answered "yes, it would!" The OceanX solution is to add a sensor to the gimbals to detect if there is any water intrusion through the bellows and alert you before you start to have parts fail. Gone are the premature haul outs to "check if maybe you have a problem" and gone are the rusted gimbals failing at the worst possible time.
It may not look like much, but this little gem is the water intrusion sensor mounted to the gimbal inside the bellows. Its job is to save you money.
Now to be sure, the gearing inside an outdrive takes a fairly tortuous route as the power makes its way from the engine to the propellers, with no less than two 90-degree turns and lots of room for failure along the way. This sensitive area is largely immersed in water, so again we have a potential water intrusion problem. Thus it's important that these parts all get their fair share of lubrication. That's where the drive oil comes in. Contaminated oil will quickly lose its viscosity (thickness) and fail to continue lubricating these critical components. In addition, the water (particularly saltwater) will quickly corrode and wear away the gearing.
The OceanX Solution
Again, sensors are the key. Volvo Penta has fitted the drive gear case with a sensor that not only detects when water contaminates the oil, but it also alerts the operator to a low oil condition. We've seen this work in practice in our tests of the drive system and it's inarguably a huge leap forward. Both the bellows sensor and the drive oil sensor are firsts in the industry… not a surprising claim to fame for Volvo Penta (which first introduced the stern drive in 1957).
Here is a view of the drive oil sensor mounted in the gear case. It alerts the skipper to a low oil level as well as water contamination.
Problem #3
We still have the problem of metal components in a harsh saltwater environment. That means corrosion. Anyone who has ever spent time on the water, or even around a dock, will recognize the familiar images of a corroded outdrive. It isn't pretty or cheap. Not only is the harsh saltwater a critical offender to metal, but galvanic corrosion-- metal deterioration from electrical currents -- is just as damaging.
And then there is the matter of corrosion.
Here, Volvo Penta went on a full frontal attack. They start with an electro-deposition treatment. This is based on the fundamental physics principle that opposites attract. The metal parts are charged with direct current and then immersed in a bath that has oppositely charged particles in it. This allows every corner, crack, and crevice to have a continuous even coating over the entire surface of the part. But the real kicker is the coating itself. Volvo Penta uses a titanium-ceramic coating for exceptional corrosion protection. It's flexible, so less prone to flaking and chipping off.
Now all that is well and good while in the showroom or on a new boat. But the question on our minds is -- what happens when it gets scratched? Now you've removed the coating and exposed the bare metal, right? Wrong. Volvo actually tested this in four parts of the globe by immersing intentionally damaged drives into warm salt water and tested the differences. The results were outstanding, they tell us. The outcome of the tests shows a 400 – 500% improvement with the new treatment, resulting in less corrosion creep from the scratched surface according to Volvo engineers.
Now there are also sacrificial anodes -- zincs -- that come into play. You have them in your engine, and they're also attached to the drives. Their job is to deteriorate before other metal components do. They sacrifice themselves for the greater good. We looked at the test above and asked what would happen if the zincs were eaten away and you didn't notice? Now you have a significant reduction in protection, right? Again, we were wrong.
Here you can see visible differences in a scratched surface that was subjected to corrosive salt water over time in photos supplied to us by Volvo Penta. On the left, corrosion is able to creep into the scratched surface and expand the damaged area. On the right, the corrosion is kept to a minimum and barely affects the scratched surface at all.
The folks at Volvo Penta tell us that the improved metal components in the OceanX outdrive will offer substantial corrosion protection beyond the competition. They back that statement up with their in-house testing and have provided us with photos of the results.
These photos were supplied by Volvo Penta.
Volvo Penta is so confident in their new OceanX product that it is backing the OceanX with a four-year limited warranty against corrosion! We like companies that put their money where their mouth is.
Other Notable Facts About the OceanX
Here are some other tidbits we discovered during our tests--
It's easy to look at the OceanX and say, "oh, just another outdrive" but the reality is that this drive is a giant leap forward in both technology and corrosion protection. It's backed by a great warranty and features some industry firsts. The competition was actually the first one out with a new anti-corrosion system several years ago, so Volvo Penta had the advantage of seeing what the competition did, then improve on that. And they did.
The shifting mechanism in the new OceanX is easily accessible and does not need bellows.
Of course, the new coatings, sensors, engineering and tooling all come at a price. The OceanX will cost you more than the standard lower unit. Check with your builder to find out exactly how much.
Is the OceanX lower unit worth the money?
To our way of thinking, that all depends if you go boating in saltwater or fresh, how much you use your boat each year, how well you maintain it, and whether you leave it in the water or dry sail it absolutely every time you use it. If you use your boat in saltwater then the answer is probably yes, it is well worth the money. If you only use your boat in fresh water a few weeks a year and take meticulous care of it, and plan to trade up in two or three years and haul it out after every use, then you probably don't need the added protection and safety features the OceanX provides.
But no matter where you do your boating and no matter how well you take care of your boat, when it comes to resale time, your boat should be worth more -- or should sell faster -- if you have the OceanX lower unit. It is definitely the preferred way to go, and on the used boat market it should give your boat a big leg up on the competition.


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I assume that the available heads differ somehow, but don't understand what those differences might be and if they're functional, personal preference or a bit of both.
Most tripods are sold without a head so that you can decide independently on each part.
They both have to match in terms of capacity but otherwise you are free to choose the right set of legs and heads according to your requirements. If they were bundled together you may not find the right combination for you.
Particularly there are way more variety of heads than legs. They vary in precision, speed, motion control, balance, etc.
Probably for the same reason high end bodies don't come with a lens.
This gives you more flexibility with what head you purchase, and to allow for the professionals that already have one or more heads.
Choice for one size does not fit all. For some situations a 3 way pan/tilt would be fine but for others a ball head is a must.
Manufacturers offer a variety of possibilities to match the conditions under which the head will be used.
At last, it depends on your taste, subject matter and ease of use.
It has possibly been said already in the answers above, but the answer is, different needs, different heads.
Video needs a head that can be moved smoothly for example. Many people like ball heads because they are quick to set up, BUT they are hard to use when shooting for example a panorama, a more "classic" design is better suited to that.
By selling tripods without heads, it is possible to offer maximum flexibility with few products, plus you can mix and match heads and legs between manufacturers as well.


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Sometimes I need to transfer some music from my PC to my Galaxy S2 and must always activate USB debugging. Then I think, can I keep it ON forever? I mean, Keep it ON for ever can give me a problem (cost battery?) ? And what's USB debugging?
Enabling USB debugging essentially starts up the
Leaving it enabled all the time will have a negligible impact on battery, if any at all. Some other things to consider about leaving it on (or not):
See also: Using Hardware Devices from the Android SDK documentation which discusses debugging applications on physical devices (rather than the emulator). There is also a documentation page regarding the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) which explains its purpose and its commands.
To make one of eldarerathis' cons less critical:
One could use Tasker or Locale together with the Secure Settings plugin to automatically toggle USB Debugging on for safe locations (based e.g. on cell towers, network/GPS location, WiFi networks connected or in reach), and toggle it off (exit-task with Tasker) when leaving such. With a NFC tag and the Locale NFC Plugin it could also be switched it on/off on demand.
All that even without touching the screen -- so it would work even if the screen is broken. And that "unscrupulous individual" then would have to be in your "safe location" or have your tag, and must know those circumstances -- which is much less risky.
If your device does not belong to that small group having trouble mounting their storage with USB Debugging turned on, this would leave almost no "Con" then.
The biggest downside is not being able to mount it as a mass storage device when you plug it into the computer. With it turned on it will always assume you want to debug the device. You really only need it turned on if you are developing software for the phone or plan on using adb with your phone. The adb program is only available through the Android SDK so its not something average users need. That being said I keep my turned on all the time, but that's only for connivence for doing Android development because I do that more often that use it as a mass storage. You mileage may vary.
You don't have need to keep debugging always on. In some devices it affects the charging of battery. When debugging is kept on, the charging speed becomes very low.... it'll take more than 5 hours to full charge.... if you have such problem then keep off usb debugging, ON it only when you need......


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As a part of learning system programming, I am looking to implement a file shredder. The simplest way (and probably seen as naive) would be to replace the data bytes with zeroes (I know OS splits the files and I'll replace bytes in all those chunks). But when I google on this topic, I am surprised to find multiple pass algorithms, some going as high as 35!
Could someone elucidate the benefit of multiple pass please? I couldn't find any explanation.


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Treehotel (Sweden) create amazing, architect designed, hotels and cabins that are meant to harmonise with the environment they are in. The Mirror Cube definitely meets that requirement. I just wonder how many birds fly into the thing?


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Between insightful and educative, which is more appropriate in the following sentence?
The article is very well written and very educative/insightful.
When I use Google ngrams, it gives a higher rank to the word insightful. However, I am curious to know whether the word educative is an appropriate word in this context. Is there any word better than both insightful and educative?


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The harvested seeds of various grass-related crops, such as barley, wheat and corn. Grains are usually malted, flaked, or roasted before being used by the brewer. Grains comprise the majority of the grist in an all-grain brew.
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I know the difference has to do with how the grains grow on the stock, but I'm not completely sure what that difference is. It also seems like 2-row is more commonly used as a base malt, but I've seen ...
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I want to make a Rauchbier. How do I go about smoking my grain?
I've never made a Rauchbier before. I have some pear wood that I've been curing for about 5 months now and would like to use. I've got an all-grain setup, but no smoker; I suppose I'll need to get one....
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Recently I found this post on Reddit. It describes the following algorithm to find e:
Here is an example of e turning up unexpectedly. Select a random number between 0 and 1. Now select another and add it to the first. Keep doing this, piling on random numbers. How many random numbers, on average, do you need to make the total greater than 1? The answer is e.
This means that you need on average ~2.7 random real numbers to make the sum greater than 1.
However, a random number between 0 and 1 would on average be equal to 0.5. So intuitively I would think that, on average, only 2 random numbers would be required to have a sum > 1.
So where did I go wrong in my thinking?
I just figured it out myself: You need at least two numbers to have a sum > 1, but often you'll need three, sometimes you'll need four, sometimes five, etc... So it only natural that the average required numbers is above 2.
Thanks for the replies!


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YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan -- A USS George Washington sailor faces an indecent assault charge after prosecutors on Friday dropped a separate assault charge stemming from the same incident.
Petty Officer 3rd Class Jon Riley Canfield, 22, was re-arrested by Kanagawa police for allegedly assaulting a 24-year-old Japanese woman in a building near Yokohama train station on Jan. 21, a Tobe district police spokesman said Monday.
Police forwarded the new charge for consideration to the Yokohama District Public Prosecutor's Office on Sunday.
Police now accuse Canfield of grabbing the woman by the shoulders, touching her chest and pressing her against a wall.
On Jan. 22, police acknowledged there had been an incident involving the woman, but only pursued charges against Canfield for allegedly punching a 28-year-old Japanese man afterward.
A Yokohama prosecutor's office spokeswoman declined to comment Monday on why they dropped the initial assault charge. The man who police say Canfield hit sustained minor injuries and later turned the sailor over to police.
Japanese police said Canfield registered a 0.12 blood alcohol level in a breath test that was administered shortly after his arrest.
Incidents involving U.S. servicemembers have come under increased political and media scrutiny since an alleged rape in October involving two Texas-based sailors in Okinawa spurred protests. Shortly afterward, military officials imposed an 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew on all servicemembers in Japan.
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The 13 Most Disturbing Vintage Ads for Household Products
#6. Clear Eyes Drops Will Unleash Your Eye Lasers
We're pretty sure that this is how Tom Cruise has sex.
The Message:
Boy, will your eyes be clear when you use these eye drops.
The Horror:
Nobody wants their eyes to be so clear that your soul literally escapes your body and jumps into the lady you were flirting with at your aerobics class. That sounds awkward. The text here seems to indicate that this was supposed to be a sexy image of a man and a woman lovingly staring into each other's eyes -- at what point was that idea scrapped and replaced by an alien mating ritual in which the male and the female grab shoulders and unite their minds in psychic pleasure?
Imagine them locked in this position for the next 45 minutes as the laser of sex between them grows more and more intense. Thank you, Clear Eyes.
#5. Myers's Rum: It's What Your Murderer Drank
Presenting the only time someone has worn that type of coat while fully clothed.
The Message:
All the other rums taste like kiddie booze compared to Myers's Rum. Myers's Rum is so great, in fact, that it doesn't even have to submit to the most basic rules of grammar.
The Horror:
"Hey, uh, Joe?"
"Could you maybe ... not look at the camera like you want to rape and kill us? We're trying to sell a product here, after all."
"Oh, sorry. How's this?"
"No, that's ... still no good. Make it less rapey. Tone down the rape."
"So less 'I'm going to murder you,' then?"
"Less that, more 'Please buy my product.'"
"Gotcha. How about this?"
"Maybe if we take away the coat ..."
"Nobody touches my fucking coat."
#4. Metrecal Diet Food Is Like Eating a Plate Full of Pink Paint
Look at those bubbles -- even the plate's trying to vomit.
The Message:
Drink Metrecal diet food instead of eating regular meals and you'll be slim in no time!
The Horror:
This looks like someone is really confused about how to drink their cough syrup. See, there's a reason why most diet supplements focus on how slim this thing will supposedly make you look and not on the product itself: Most of that shit looks gross. They could have just shown a person drinking this vile stuff from the can, but instead they decided to draw comparisons with eating a steak, thus stressing the fact that this could never pass for one in any sense. And that's probably why they felt the need to apologize for the photo in the small print:
"And we said, 'Yeah, sure, what the fuck.'"
But what elevates this from simply unpleasant to creepy is that, after being introduced in the early '60s, Metrecal was actually pulled from the shelves in the '70s after the government linked the whole liquid diet fad to 59 deaths. So this didn't just look like some killer goo from a horror movie, that's actually what it was.
#3. Vegetables Are as Fun as Robot Puke
The Message:
Technology has advanced to the point where you no longer have to chop and mix your own vegetables: Now they come in a box. Welcome to the fantastic world of tomorrow.
The Horror:
"Eat the vomit of Billy the vegetable-spewing robot!"
It seems like at some point this was just supposed to be a cartoonish steam shovel dumping out the vegetables, but somebody decided that wasn't kid-friendly enough. So now the steam shovel is a living being, with human teeth, no less, and you are eating the rejected contents of its own digestive system.
"You don't even want to know what we do to fruit."
Look, it's fine to put a wacky mascot in your ad, but we never want to think we're eating something from that mascot's body. Cocoa Pebbles don't insist that they're tiny dried bits of Fred Flintstone's shit. This ad was hardly the first offender, though ...
#2. Fresh Fish Oil, and We Mean Really Fresh
One of those spigots is a reproductive organ, isn't it?
The Message:
This fresh fish oil is as fresh as literally tapping a freshly caught fish.
The Horror:
We have no idea how this is supposed to make the product more appealing. Not only are these children drinking fish juice directly out of faucets implanted on a giant fish, but the fish is alive, and it is watching them. Look at that eye, pointed directly at the small humans slowly emptying its own innards. Look at that mouth, wide open in terror and confusion.
And not just because of the large hook painfully inserted in it.
Look, advertisers, you're supposed to make us forget the horror involved in producing the stuff we eat, not make it worse.
#1. Shadow Children Like Sanitol
You have no idea how many tries it took for us to not write "Satanol" in this entry's title.
The Message:
Your happy little sailor will brush his teeth all day if you give him this crap.
The Horror:
A sailor, or some sort of other-dimensional shadow demon, crudely shaped into the form of a child in an effort to mock God's creations.
We honestly want to know -- what the hell is going on here? Don't tell us it's a crude racist representation of a black child. Look at the hair. Hell, even the whites of his eyes are black.
"Come on, Cracked. It's clearly just a printing error, they just reversed the colors, that's all."
OK. Sure. That's probably it. Here, let's try it the other way:
Sweet dreams.
For more insane advertisements, check out 12 'Sexy' Ads That Will Give You Nightmares and 10 Awesome Ads (For Traumatizing Children).
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At its best transmission quality, what is the equivalent samplerate and bitdepth of FM radio?
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There isn't a single, simple answer for this question. This forum post explains:
If you're looking for a compression bitrate to use, the answer gets even more complicated, as it depends on the compression format and algorithm you're using. However, I found a table of recommended bitrates for various source media. From this, you can see that for analog sources such as FM radio, analog tape or LPs, and an MP3 target, the author recommends 92-128kbps.
And see the audacity wiki for an explanation of FM sample rates. In summary, you can use a 32 kHz sampling rate with "only a little quality loss."


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I have seen bastante translated as enough, plenty, or even too much. What range of meanings does bastante have? How can you determine whether it means just enough or too much?
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I think the spectrum is comparable with English:
I usually hear 'bastante' used when implying more than 'enough'; although it's not exactly the same as 'plenty', it's pretty close in a lot of cases:
According to the RAE, bastante means "enough" or "quite a bit", like c4sh says in their answer. I've never seen it translated as too much:
And these are all the meanings listed.


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Head volleyball coach Gokhan Yilmaz has announced the program's summer camp dates for 2014. The volleyball program will host Team Camp, July 14-16, Position Camp, Hitters Camp, Setters Camp and Libero Camp, July 17 and an All Skills Camp, July 18-20.
In addition, four two-hour skills sessions are being offered: July 14th (10:00am – 12:00pm), July 16th (4:00pm – 6:00pm), July 18th (10:00am – 12:00pm), July 20th (4:00pm – 6:00pm).
Team camp will include instruction from area college coaches, club coaches and college players while the individual camps will include instruction from area college and high school coaches and college players. Campers in the individual camps will be divided into groups based on experience and age.
A youth camp has also been added July 21-23 from 9am-4pm. Open to all entrants in 3rd-6th grade. This camps includes six hours of high level instruction. Youth camp covers all skllis in volleyball including, but not limited to, setting, hitting, blocking, serving, passing and defense. Sessions will help every individual improve and help everyone learn more about the game. LIMITED SPACE IS AVAILABLE. REGISTER BY JULY 1st.
All Charlotte 49er Camps and Clinics are open to any and all entrants – and are only limited by the age, gender or grade level. Volleyball camps are open to all entrants from 7th to 12th grade.
For registration information, contact the volleyball program at 704/687-1020 or via email to assistant coach Margeaux Sinibaldi at email@example.com.
Charlotte 49ers Volleyball Camps:
July 14-16 • Team Camp
July 17 • Position Camp
July 18-20 • All Skills Camp
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Four Two-Hour Skill Sessions:
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Kong Naturals Straw Balls are specifically designed to appeal to your cat's natural hunting instincts. Their unique straw weave has lots of nooks for easy snagging and their unpredictable roll adds to the fun. Kong Naturals Straw Balls toys bring out the natural instincts of your indoor cat.
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Cute but no endurance
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The kitties loved this ... for about three days, and then our ten-week old kitten tore it apart. Made quite a mess all over the carpet, not to mention all the little pieces of wicker it broke into that the cats were chewing on. Sorry, but highly UNrecommended.
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