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I will use the notation of Wheeden & Zygmund's Measure and Integral because the problem come from that book: $|\cdot|_e$ for outer measure and $|\cdot|$ for Lebesgue measure. An exercise says: prove (3.29) and (3.29) is:
Theorem Suppose that $|E|_e<\infty$. Then $E$ is measurable if and only if given $\epsilon>0$, $E=(S\cup N_1)\setminus N_2$, where $S$ is a finite union of non-overlapping intervals and $|N_1|_e,|N_2|_e<\epsilon$.
I did "$\implies$", and I was thinking that "$\impliedby$" would be easier. But is not after all. I appreciate any advice.


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I have just installed squidguard in my server to restrict porn or adult site. I followed these instruction.
It's working great. Problem is squiguard list(blacklist) youtube.com as porn site. I want to remove youtube from blacklist. How can i do this?
Database save in
/var/lib/squidguard/blacklist/... I found several youtube site links in
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I am using Natty with with classic GNOME desktop.
I use Empathy and sometimes Skype.
Both these get the online state from the system itself somehow.
If I don't touch my keyboard for a few minutes - even when watching a YouTube clip or something - the inactivity triggers an auto-away state on my messaging apps.
It's synchronized so I imagine its coming coordinated from the system, and not the two apps making the same decision individually.
How can I disable this? I want manual control - I'm only
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I generally find myself using two or three tabs in my Terminal on OS X.
A minor inconvenience is often that the tabs don't share a command history. So things like
history | grep thingIamlooking for don't get me where I want to be.
Is there a way of focing Terminal tabs to share history, or some other
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I've had a desire to get some sort of handle on the Grothendeick-Teichmuller group for years now, but I've always felt that I could never find a source that was introductory and readable.
The obvious candidates are Schneps's:
Grothendieck's "Long March through Galois theory"' andThe Grothendieck-Teichmuller group $\widehat{GT}$: a survey'. However I find them to be rather technical and off-putting for a person trying to understand this for the first time.
Do you know of an "easy" (by which I mean: well-motivated) introduction to the Grothendieck-Teichmuller group?


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I just can't find the "Use dynamic global hostname" option in Apple Air Port Utility 6.1 (610.31). Where can I find this option now?
Apple seem to have removed/hidden some of the more advanced options from the Airport Utility interface in version 6 and this is likely one of them. Unless there's a workaround someone else can suggest to make such options visible again, on 10.7 (Lion), I've been getting around this by using the AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion. You can find the Dynamic Global Hostname option by clicking Manual Setup > AirPort > Base Station tab > Edit - though I'm sure you already know that :)
Note that I have the AirPort Express 802.11n (2nd Generation) and the Airport Utility 5.6 does complain that
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For $A \in SU(2,C)$, it is clear that $A$ is completly determined by its first row (well any row or column, but let's say first column). In the general $SU(n,C)$-case this is no longer true. In fact, it seems that for every complex $n$-vector of unit norm, there exists a family of matrices for which the vector is the first column. By working with messy simultaneous equations I seem to have shown that every two elements of this family differ by a multiple of $SU(n-1)$ embedded in the bottom right hand corner with 1 in the first entry of the first column and zeros everywhere else. I suspect that there is a bijective correspondence between elements of this family and $SU(n-1)$ but can't prove it.
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PHILADELPHIA- The Charlotte women's cross country team ended their Atlantic 10 stint with a ninth place finish at the 2012 championship earlier Saturday afternoon at Belmont Plateau in Philadelphia.
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Butler finished with a team score of 37 in the women's 5k. La Salle was second (70) followed by Richmond (125), Saint Louis (134), Xavier (150), Dayton (154), Duquesne (183), St. Joseph (196), Charlotte (235), and George Washington (282) to round out the top ten.
Leading the Niners was freshman Morgan Richards. She finished 28th overall with a mark of 18:40.4. Senior Hana Sutchar was second for Charlotte and 43rd overall (18:59.3). Sophomore Jen Molke finished just a few steps behind Sutchar to place 46th with a time of 19:02.3. Sophomore Jenna Christensen was 56th (19:12.3). Rounding out the top five for the 49ers was Katie Holloway finishing with a time of 19:21.1. Charlotte averaged a time of 19:03.08 in the 5k.
On the men's side, Charlotte was 14th with a team score of 373 in the 8K. Freshmen Getisso Dentamo and John Felts were 58th and 59th respectively. Dentamo capped a time of 27:08.4 as Felts was clocked with a time of 27:08.5. Cody Hodgins was 84th (27:55.0) and Ben Sterett was 85th (27:55.8). Eleazar Garcia was fifth for the 49ers with a mark of 28:00.4.
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I finished a website project with new technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3. But my company will not let it go to production. They plan to launch the new site in their new project version function.
Should I include such a non-yet-online project on my resume/CV?. Maybe with an additional explanation such as "this project is not released"?


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Barnes & Noble NOOK 8 GB Tablet (Certified Pre-Owned) for $79 + free shipping
Deal will be live at 2 AM CST. Pricing will be $129 until this time.
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Or you could get the 16gb version (still certified pre-owned) for 20 bucks more:
Uh-Oh...a future deal. Must tattle...lol. It is a couple hours from going live.
Good deal. In my experience, these "Direct from Barnes & Noble" refurbished items are new, not refurbished...the only difference is that it doesn't come with the fancy retail box. B&N is just liquidating old stock while trying not to upset their retail partners by saying it is new. Even if it turns out to be a refurb, it still has the full one-year warranty just like a new one would have.
Either the 8gb or the 16gb is rootable by simply booting from the microsd card. no need to do anything to the device that would void the warranty. You can dl whatever version of Android and do it yourself, or buy microsd cards ready to go.
Fun Fun.
Woot has made my 4 year old's Christmas a bit more exciting.
@davemmanc: in for two-- my four and 6 year old who have to have the same thing or else there's gonna be a fight.
In for one. For this price I can finally start learning a thing or two about rooting without ruining something much more expensive.
@cleverett: Thanks, I was wondering about the quality. Price is tempting...
For what it's worth, this is the 2nd gen. "Nook Color" from B and N. Solidly built entry tablet.
Lady at the store was showing me this unit yesterday, and pitching the new Nook HD and HD+ as "greatly superior to the iPad Mini and Kindle Fire HD tablets in every way."
Looked up specs later:
Another trump card for the Nook HD is its display, packing an eye-popping 1440×900 resolution with a 243ppi density – making it the stand-out candidate in the 7-inch market.
They have the advantage on display pixel density...but it is only comparable to the iPad and Kindle HD in terms of processing power.
How about the 16 G on the 1 Sale a Day site? Anyone have trouble buying from them before? Thks!
I have an older nook which has 3G for downloading book purchases only. I see this one says wi fi. Do you need wi fi for book purchases, or are the book purchases still 3G?
@soldiergirl: Yes, I have bought a older model Nook off of 1 Sale a Day and never will again. You could definately tell it was used. I have never had this problem when purchasing direct from B&N.
Does anyone know of a link to a step by step, laymens terms way to root this? The only ones I can find seem to be in tech-speak.
@casee123: Thank you very much for the info!
It's dead :o(
@bmw66x: Hey, that's really cool. Thank you for that, I picked up the tablet now that I know it's as simple as that. The only thing that was keeping me waiting on a nexus 7 was tricky rooting methods on cheaper tablets.
I think I'll do the download option of the N2A and get myself a deal on a micro SD card with extra space. I found these:
@ronnysrv: Here is a helpful hint...DO NOT use anything but a Class 2 or 4. The class 10's DO NOT work better. There is something about the small bit reading that allows the boot card to work BETTER in the lower classes. I have made 100's of the cards by now for the Color and implore you to heed this warning.
a helpful link:
@soldiergirl: The ones on 1saleaday are Barnes & Noble Certified with the same warranty. I order from them on a regular basis, including the current Nook Tablet.
@morriea: Interesting! I'll read into that further. Glad I didn't buy the card yet. I appreciate it!
Anyone get theirs yet? I see a few feedbacks being left for the Barnes & Noble ebay store for the auction that they received already.


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I'm having a 14 hour overnight stopover in Seoul in early December. I was looking to leave the airport and maybe see some of Seoul. Are there any reputable and good night tours of Seoul, especially walking tours?
You can take the Seoul City Night Tour. This is a non expensive city tour that departs at 8pm all days except mondays and city holidays. The problem is that you won't see all main city sightseeing, but it will give you an idea of the city.
If you are looking for something more interesting (and expensive) a friend was very happy with the night tour of I love Seoul. I've not tried, but it seems more complete. It starts at 5pm (I don't know if that's a problem for you) and must be 2 people to take part in the tour.


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Another one of my songfics taken from the Heart of the Guardian trilogy. There comes a time when you realize that time goes by too fast. You wake up one morning and you realize that your baby girl is all grown up. Lyrics are from Bob Carlise's Butterfly Kisses.
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The sun was shining its full warmth when morning broke gently over the hills. The jasilyn blossoms turned their petals to greet the morning rays. Life began to stir within the cool stonewalls of the villa, the little noises signifying that today was to be different than any other day. For the old man standing on the verandah, gazing at the morning sun, it would mean a great change in his life.
He walked slowly through the house that had been home for over twenty years. A lot of memories were stored in that house. Some were happy, some were sad but all his and those of the people who passed through there. As he passed through the house, he noticed the packages that had piled up. All gay and pretty but for the man standing there, he felt like it was a death sentence. Then she passed through the halls brushing her hair and doing her morning chores. He smiled as he stopped to think and remember.
Theres two things I know for sure
She was sent here from Heaven
And shes Daddys little girl
As I drop to my knees by her bed at night
She talks to Jesus and I close my eyes
And I thank God for all the joy in my life
Oh but most of all
She was such a small little thing when he first held her. Nothing more than a little pink bundle snuggled in her mothers arms. Nestled in his big arms, she yawned and looked at him with those eyes like her mothers: honey colored with a slight fire. She looked as if she had not a care in the world; that nothing mattered as long as those that cared for her were there.
He looked at her as her mother held her and said, Carth, I named her after two good people.
He understood what she meant and kissed her soundly. It meant a lot for that tiny bundle to be named after two women he had loved and loved. He looked at the tiny sleeping face and thanked all in creation, thanked the Force, for bringing her into the world safe and healthy.
For butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair
Walk beside the pony Daddy
Its my first ride
I know the cake looks funny Daddy
But I sure tried
She was a little girl running through the villa. He was chasing after her and carrying her high on his shoulders. Her little eyes glowed like her mothers while her hair got in the way just like his. Playing with her brother, she squealed with happiness and give him a hug with all her heart. In his heart, he promised that nothing bad would happen to her.
When she played with her best friends, she was all aglow. He watched them as they played their games, occasionally taking part in whatever mischief they were in. She would run with her brown locks blowing in the wind as she skirted the stallions in the pasture, never minding how she nearly give him a heart attack when she stood near their hooves. Her first ride on one was more relaxing to his mind as he watched her laugh as she grabbed the mane.
Oh with all that Ive done wrong,
Ive mustve done something right
To deserve a hug every morning
And butterfly kisses at night
The hardest was to say good-bye when he had to report to the fleet. She would cry at first but then she would give him something she made. She would then give him a hug and a kiss and say, I love you Daddy.
Every time he would think he was the luckiest man in the galaxy. That he should be blessed to have a beautiful little girl. And every day she would give him a hug and a kiss.
Sweet sixteen today
Shes looking like her mama
A little more every day
One part woman, the other part girl
To perfume and make up from ribbons and curls
Trying her wings out in a great big world
But I remember
She was growing up, looking like her mother. Her figure filled out but those eyes never changed. She was growing up into a beautiful young lady. He remembered chuckling how he thought he would have to chase prospective suitors away. He didnt have to worry for she was too much like her brothers, riding stallions and chasing katarans on the plains. She was so full of spirit and life.
It hit hard when she ran away from home. He thought he lost her when she took his place helping out a neighboring planet in the army. He remembered being a nervous wreck, wanting to go after her and protect her. It was her mother who said that she had to do what she thought was right. She tested her wings and she came back. Into the warmth of his arms as he held on, not wanting to let her go.
Butterfly kisses after bedtime prayer
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair
You know how much I love you Daddy
But if you dont mind
Im only gonna kiss you on the cheek this time
When she came back, she was not alone. Following behind her was one he hadnt seen in ten years. In her eyes he saw that she was in love. He knew that it would happen someday but he didnt think so soon. Still he put up with the pecks on the cheeks knowing that she still loved him and she was his little girl.
He watched her walk by the river, so grown up. He knew now it was only a matter of time. But she was still his little girl.
Oh with all that Ive done wrong
I mustve done something right
To deserve her love every morning
And Butterfly kisses at night
He didnt deserve it at all. She was a beautiful thing and she laughed when he made a big show of giving her the nickname he once called her mother. No he didnt but something out there, maybe the Force thought he did. He had his little girl as proof.
All the precious time
Like the wind, the years go by
Precious butterfly
Spread your wings and fly
Snapping out of his reverie, he walked through the halls trying to get everything in order. His uniform was rather haphazardly put on for at the moment he could hardly believe that it had come at last. Running through his mind was the thought that time had gone by so fast. He thought that he would have all the time in the galaxy to know her and watch her grow up but it was just too short.
He remembered the lost time he had with his son and compared it with that of his daughter. He may have done better but he still felt that there hadnt been enough time. Sighing, he fixed his uniform and went to the room that he dreaded entering.
Shell change her name today
Shell make a promise and Ill give her away
Standing in the bride room just staring at her
She asked me what Im thinking
And I said Im not sure
I just feel like Im losing my baby girl
And she leaned over
She looked beautiful like her mother did on her special day. She sat there looking at her reflection in the mirror as her mother brushed her hair till it shone like silk. She was smiling as her mother talked to her and he felt a pain in his heart.
She must have known for she turned her head and said, Daddy!
He walked in and gave her a hug. Today he would be giving her away and she would leave home. He was losing his baby girl but he knew deep down that she would always be in his heart.
She must have known for she whispered, Ill always love you Daddy.
He merely smiled and hugged her again. He shared a glance with her mother and whispered, And I, you, Beautiful.
And gave me butterfly kisses with her mama there
Sticking little white flowers all up in her hair
Walk me down the isle Daddy
Its just about time
Does my wedding gown look pretty Daddy?
Daddy dont cry
He led her down isle feeling like the luckiest man in the galaxy. She walked beside him, so beautiful. The flowers in her hair reminded him of her mother when she was young. Today though he would give her away and tears threatened, stinging his eyes. As he gave her hand to the one waiting, he gave her one last smile.
He sat with her mother and watched as she made her promise. He felt the tears still but promised not to cry. He sat there holding her mothers hand in his and he smiled at her.
Oh with all that I've done wrong
I must have done something right
To deserve her love every morning and butterfly kisses
I couldn't ask God for more than this is what love is
I know I've got to let her go but I'll always remember
Every hug in the morning and butterfly kisses
He knew that he had to let her go. She was no longer the baby girl he once held in his arms. Instead she was a beautiful young woman. Instead of the little curls, there were soft waves. She had a figure but the eyes never changed. So like her mother yet her own person.
He knew he wasnt perfect. He had made mistakes but he had been given a second chance. He did something right to deserve the smiling girl standing there in her white gown. He thanked the Force for giving him such a beautiful daughter as he sat there holding her mothers hand and smiled.
The End
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At last, hope for statewide texting ban
Could next year be the year Florida finally bans texting while driving?
Could it be the year utterly sensible tax-ban legislation makes it through both the House and the Senate?
Could it be that Gov. Rick Scott actually signs it into law?
And that Florida's roads are a little safer?
Signs are pointing to a "yes."
Rep. Doug Holder, is picking up the House side of a bill offered by Sen. Nancy Detert, for the past two years. It is a simple, straightforward bill that states:
"A person may not operate a motor vehicle while manually typing or entering multiple letters, numbers, symbols or other characters into a wireless communications device or while sending or reading data in such a device for the purpose of non-voice interpersonal communication, including, but not limited to communication methods known as texting, emailing and instant messaging."
Got that? In other words, no typing on a cellphone, iPhone, smart phone, iPad, whatever, while you're behind the wheel of a car.
Sound harsh? Hardly.
The fact is the bill would make texting a secondary offense, meaning police would need another, primary reason to pull someone over before giving them a ticket for texting. A first-time offender would be fined $30 for a non-moving violation; a second offense within five years would cost $60. No points on the license. And there are even exceptions for GPS devices, for emergency workers and for anyone simply reading cell phone messages. In short, the law bans the action of typing only.
Simple enough?
You'd think, especially considering an AAA study found 95 percent of American motorists thought texting — apparently other people's texting — threatened their personal safety. Thirty-nine states already ban texting for all drivers; another five impose a ban on "novice" drivers.
A slam dunk? Not so fast.
Strange things happen in the State House. Two years ago, Detert's bill passed the Senate 34-4. It moved to the House and disappeared. This past year, it suffered a similar fate. The bill won 20-1 approval in the Senate Budget Committee. But, again, it was doomed by problems on the House side.
Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, a powerful committee chairman, was dead-set against it. House Speaker Dean Cannon didn't like it either: At one point, he told the Tampa Bay Times, "I've got personal liberties concerns."
So RIP texting bill.
The good news is those two House members are gone. Longtime legislator Detert should have more clout. And Holder's standing has increased in the House; he is reportedly tight with new Speaker Will Weatherford.
So maybe this time, it may get done. We hope so. We'll skip the statistics that demonstrate just how dangerous texting-while-driving can be. We won't harp on the fact that younger people are growing up with an all-text-all-the-time mindset. A state driving-while-texting ban may not stop the behavior, but it will discourage it.
Texting while driving is distracted driving. It is dangerous. Let's get this law on the books.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Buoyed by a pair of school-record efforts from freshmen, the Anderson University women's and men's track and field teams wrapped up the 49er Classic, hosted by Charlotte at the Irwin Belk Track & Field facility on Saturday.
On Friday, freshman Sherin Malone posted a new school record in the women's 100 meter hurdles, while newcomer Ben Boerma posted a new school record in the men's 5000 meter run.
Freshman Lauren Averitt finished 63rd in the 100 meter prelims on Friday in a time of 13.49, while Malone claimed 28th in the 100 meter hurdle prelims with her record-setting time of 15.36.
The 1500 meter finals saw junior Sydney Hazel earn 58th, with freshman Bari Robinson just behind in 59th, with times of 5:02.73 and 5:02.83, respectively. Sophomore Devan Fisher claimed 83rd in a time of 5:28.04.
A trio of freshmen paced the Trojans in the 5000 meter finals, as Olivia Gardner (18:33.03) collected 31st, with Grace Gerlock (19:35.77) crossing the line in 56th. Mia Swierzs (20:16.94) placed 70th in the event. Freshman Megan Shahoud brought home 39th in the long jump with a distance of 4.69 meters and Baxter collected 28th in the javelin throw with a toss of 28.05 meters.
Juniors Brooklyn Watt (34.90 meters) and Savanna Keese (30.61 meters) brought home 25th and 34th, respectively in the discus throw.
On the men's side, freshman Caleb Knight took 99th in the 200 meter prelims with a time of 23.94, while crossing the line in 64th in the 400 meter prelims in a time of 52.28.
The 1500 meter finals saw freshmen Thomas Garrigan (4:10.28) and Jesse Patrick place 63rd and 104th, respectively. Freshman Jonathan Shorter finished 38th in the 400 meter hurdle prelims in a time of 1:00.79, with freshman Eric Hoover claiming 43rd in the discus throw by tallying a distance of 29.84 meters.
Shorter (18.17) finished 44th in the 110 meter hurdles prelims, with freshman Malik Brown (18.22) just behind in 45th.
Boerma crossed the finish line in a school-record time of 15:35.98 in the 5000 meters to garner 48th, with senior Parks Edwards bringing home 60th in a time of 15:48.69. Freshman Ned Kennedy (15:51.94) claimed 63rd, while junior Westley Wilson (16:04.58) and newcomer Michael Burch (17:14.47) finished 74th and 90th, respectively.
"I was very pleased with our performances," said Anderson head coach Randy Greer following Friday's events. "The kids came out and performed well after the break from our last indoor meet."
In Saturday's events, senior Madison Guest finished 51st in the 800 meter finals in a time of 2:26.42, while Robinson placed 60th in a time of 2:29.18. Baxter and Shahoud shared 27th in the high jump with a height of 1.50 meters.
Sophomore D'Yandra Morris (12.34 meters), Watt (11.73 meters) and Keese (11.11 meters) placed ninth, 18th and 27th, respectively in the shot put.
Junior Joshua Visi-Clark claimed 38th in the men's 800 meter finals in a time of 1:59.33, with Hoover garnering 28th in the triple jump with a distance of 12.33 meters.
The Trojans return to action on April 5 at the Wingate Invitational.


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FMC will remain vigilant on ocean carrier pricing
December 09, 2010 - LM Editorial
While the Federal Maritime Commission failed to implement any significant reform, it did address ongoing concern over cartel pricing in the transpacific yesterday.
In addition to its various efforts to use its investigation as a vehicle to help shippers and carriers improve their business practices and commercial relationships, the Commission will continue its enhanced oversight of the Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (TSA) and Westbound Transpacific Stabilization Agreement (WTSA).
"I want to personally thank the many U.S. exporters, importers, ocean transportation intermediaries, ocean carriers and other transportation officials who committed their time and resources to this investigation," said Commissioner Rebecca F. Dye. "We look forward to their continued voluntary participation as we build on the collaborative work conducted under the Fact Finding to strengthen the business relationships between ocean carriers and their customers and increase supply chain reliability."
Commission staff also will develop recommendations to enhance oversight of the three global alliances.
The findings and recommendations were based on more than 170 interviews with a wide variety of companies and organizations involved in international ocean shipping, a series of "best-practices discussion pairs" between shippers and carriers, and internet-based collaborative efforts concerning solutions to container availability.
Many U.S. exporters and importers participating in the current U.S. Federal Maritime Commission investigation into carrier practices on vessel and equipment capacity and related matters have noted that liner carriers in the U.S. Westbound and Eastbound Pacific trades have charged identical and/or very similar rates and terms for carriage and uniformly applied surcharges.
Among those consulted was Agriculture Transportation Coalition, which told LM earlier this year that carriers had "rolled cargo," and refused to load cargoes without additional compensation.
"In doing so, carriers often ignore contractual service commitments and prohibitions on the unilateral imposition of surcharges," said AgTC executive director, Peter Friedmann. "Shipper protests have been largely ignored by carriers, and these disputes are mooted by the need to move the cargo."
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The 10 Most Deranged Sidekicks of All Time
#5. Einar from the Sugarcubes
Einar was a, um, vocalist in Bjork' band the Sugarcubes. If you remember the band, he' the guy with the accent that rants in the background while you're just trying to frickin' hear Bjork sing! Couldn't they have gotten him a tambourine or something to keep him busy?
Einar' share of the lyrics in Sugarcubes make even less sense than Bjork' and they're sung in his signature vocal styling, which, on the continuum of things that are awesome to listen to, registers somewhere between an alarm clock and your parents having sex.
You have to wade through 2 minutes of Bjork and the BAM! before Einar pops up and lays some shrill Icelandic rap on your ass. But if your heart hasn't been frozen in terror yet today, it' well worth the wait.
DIAGNOSIS: As the law of sidekicks states, a sidekick must be at least as crazy, if not crazier, than his or her leader, lest they cease to serve a purpose. Well, Einar is Bjork' sidekick, meaning he must inhabit levels of sheer insanity not yet charted by the institutions of mental health.
BONUS FUN FACT: Einar is a ninth level elf wizard.
#4. Renfield from Dracula
While most remember Igor as the ultimate creepy horror henchman, Dracula easily out-guns the good doctor with the vermin-eating Renfield, whose thing is devouring the souls of little animals. He starts with flies but things get out of control and soon he' eating vermin.
You know how it is, we've all had crazy weekends.
Hey, Ren, guess who has lots of rats? That' right, it' Dracula! There' just a few things he needs done first ...
This clip from Werner Herzog' Nosferatu illustrates how messed up Renfield is by putting him next to the creepiest thing in the universe: Klaus Kinski' hideous vampire makeup.
Yep, ol' Ren is still creepier. That' talent.
DIAGNOSIS: Paranoid schizophrenia, eats rats so probably some vitamin deficiencies, too.
#3. Lil Jon"You know what this song needs?"
"No, what?"
"Some guy in the background screaming 'OH-KAAAY!!!'"
"By Jesus, you're right! But where the hell are we going to find someone with that unique skill set?"
Thus, Lil Jon' career is born. To be fair, he' an accomplished producer who might take exception to being labeled a sidekick, but when it comes down to it, he' basically a hype-man for hire who will come in, spend two hours in the studio screaming "WHAAT!" and bump up your album sales by 25 percent.
Here' a video that shows Lil Jon doing what he does best: ranting in the background of somebody' song and making lots of money. It should be noted that we didn't even watch this video, we just searched YouTube and picked a link at random. We are confident, however, that our description would be appropriate no matter what video we picked.
DIAGNOSIS: Severe voice imodulation, mild hearing loss, crunk accumulation.
#2. C-3PO from Star WarsAs a robot, C-3PO is one of the only characters in the Star Wars universe that shouldn't be scared shitless. He' just a collection of wires, lights and bolts that can be put back together again.
Sure, R2-D2 is basically a faceless, trash can with wheels, but at least he opened some doors and started a few fires. C-3PO, on the other hand, was so afraid of everything that he spent six fucking movies doing absolutely nothing.
Really, go out and rent either Star Wars trilogy. Watch any scene from any Star Wars movie for plenty of evidence of C-3PO' shiny, golden worthlessness.
DIAGNOSIS: Panophobia (fear of everything). That' his only disease until the DSM officially recognizes "being a gay robot" as a pathology.
#1. Smithers from The Simpsons
Not since Ahab has a fictional character suffered from monomania as intense as Wayland Smithers. To use a marine metaphor that Smithers might approve of, he is like a lamprey suckling on the might of Mr. Burns' shark.
In either metaphor, the tragedy of their relationship is present: Mr. Burns barely knows he' there. Smithers' life is utterly devoted to his unattainable white whale, an old man who still thinks that gay means happy. Moreover, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, he is doomed to have the object of his affection forget any hints he drops by the next episode.
While at first his devotion seems almost sweet, various revelations throughout the series hint at a darker obsession, like a screen saver of a naked Burns saying, "Hello Smithers. You're quite good at turning me on" and more disturbingly an enormous chest tattoo of he and Burns that reads "The Boss of My Heart."
Here' a link to a montage that perfectly illustrates the complex yet brutally hierarchical relationship between Smithers and Mr. Burns:
Unhealthy parasitic relationship, sexual-identity issues, monomania.


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Devils win Buckeye 8
ST. CLAIRSVILLE - The St. Clairsville golf team won the Buckeye 8 championship Friday at Belmont Hills Country Club with a 349 for a 682 total. The first round was played at Cadiz Country Club last month.
Seth Vannoy won the individual honors with his 152. Harrison Central's Austin Kowalski was second (162) and Ian Saho third (167). Edison's Jimmy Marsh placed seventh at 173 and Indian Creek's Aaron Foldi ninth at 181.
Also for the Huskies, who took second at 707, Bryce Walrath shot 186 and Evan Ossman 194.
For third-place Edison, Clay Woodward shot 187, Shane Pendleton 198 and Ben Boyd 204.
For Indian Creek, Adam Freshwater and Chris Riffee shot 201. Jesse Rouse shot 93 Friday and Justin Dailey 94.
For Buckeye Local, Brenna Czuchran shot 196, Eric WIlliams 201, Dan Duill 215 and Jake Savage 262.
Madonna and Linsly also played.
Michael Rogers shot 2-under 70 for the Blue Dons. Alex Colantonio shot 77, Nick Mazur 81 and Thomas Gianni 82.
The OVAC Championships will be played next week at Oglebay Park.
Knights gain a split
The Toronto volleyball team split a tri-match Thursday, beating East Richland (25-7, 25-16) and losing to Conotton Valley (25-15, 25-20).
Chelsea Anderson had 17 points, six kills and four digs, Amber Fuller nine assists and seven kills, Emily Kosikowski six points, Katie Spadafora seven kills, six points and two blocks, Mykia West four kills, Emily Anderson four points and three digs, Josey Jones 20 points and two kills, Olivia Kosikowski two points, Miranda Robinson four kills and three kills, Serena Burkey six points, four assists and two kills and Delaney Merideth six points and three kills.
"There were a lot of positives - Spadafora had fantastic net presence and key blocks," said Toronto head coach Chelsey Fletcher. "Chelsea Anderson found her swing.
"Although the ladies had many positive moments, as a team, we did not play mentally tough against Conotton valley. Many younger ladies saw playing time vs East Richland which goes a long way for program building."
Girls fall league at Big Red
STEUBENVILLE - The Steubenville Girls Basketball Fall League will be held Sept. 15 through Oct. 20 for middle school (grades 5-8) and high school teams.
Only two players from the same school will be allowed on the same team (per OHSAA rules). The goal is to have each girl play in two games every Sunday. Teams will change on a weekly basis and all games are scheduled to be officiated.
Cost is $60 per player and includes league shirt. Games will be played inside the Crimson Center and Stern Gym.
For information, contact Mark Masloski at (740) 275-1611 or at email@example.com.


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The True Weight Of Water
Part of the nation's physical landscape is changing. Nature writer and commentator Craig Childs has been watching the dramatic transformation of a mighty river that is running dry.
Small porpoises once swam in the brackish estuaries of the Colorado River delta. Jaguars stalked the river channels and marshes. It's not like that any more, though. The Colorado River no longer reaches the sea in Northern Mexico. It hasn't since 1983.
I sometimes travel through that dry Mexican country on foot. You walk across sandswept bars of clamshells from the estuaries that used to be there. You have to carry all your water on your back. When you've got a week's worth, 80 pounds, you learn to measure every sip, shaking your bottle to feel how much is left before you drink again.
There are times you can't see a living thing to the horizon. Once I came across an abandoned cattle ranch 50 miles inland from the delta. A few leathery cow carcasses lay scattered. No one had been there in a while.
Though the country was locked in a drought, I found the ranch's concrete cistern nearly full of water. The windmill had continued pumping whenever the wind blew, producing enough to fill the cistern 5 feet deep. The water was warm and laced with algae, and I drank it from a metal pail, dipping and pouring it over my face. It felt like a miracle.
On the U.S. side of the border, the Colorado River barely quenches Phoenix, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The federal Bureau of Reclamation just put out a comprehensive report on the Colorado. One suggestion is to pipe part of the Missouri River hundreds of miles south, to take the pressure off the Colorado. That's unlikely to happen. More likely is an increase in desalinization plants.
The report made me think of that desert cistern. In this part of the world, water is not about green lawns and swimming pools. It's not about piling on infrastructure, growth adding to growth. Water here is about savoring and conserving.
I know folks in southern Arizona who harvest rainwater from their roofs. They keep up gardens from their cistern. I have friends near Tucson who built subtle berms across their desert property, changing the way rainwater flows. While water tables nearby dropped more than 200 feet from the strain of subdivisions, their well came up by 15.
These acts may seem like drops in the bucket, but they add up. The solutions are not always industrial. Sometimes they are about realizing the true weight of water, making it a miracle again.
Craig Childs is the author of Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the End of the World.
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I'm wondering what API methods there are to determine a company's market cap, i.e. (number of shares issued) * (price per share).
I know IQfeed and perhaps Yahoo will do this - does anyone know of any other API's that will do the job?
I know you mentioned that you already know about Yahoo's ability to do this. However, I thought I'd add the following snippet on how to do this with Yahoo. It's a trivial HTTP Get, and is likely the quickest and easiest way to get the information you're after:
That will return a single result with one entry, which is the market cap of the stock you supplied. You can also supply more than one stock:
See Yahoo Query Language (YQL) blog: Getting stock information with YQL and open data tables.
Go to the YQL console, and use the following query:
Here is key part of the result:
Once you have the result in .xml, its easy to query it using LINQ in C#.
The Zacks API should have this data, see http://www.zacksdata.com/zacks-data-api
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ASTM Board Meets in Chicago
The 2013 ASTM International board of directors. Left side: (first row, from left) Kaphong Choi, Dennis Rounds; (second row, from left) Ronald Ebelhar, Shaun Donnelly, Dale Bohn; (third row, from left) Charles Sidebottom, Jeffrey Goldfinger, Steven Cramer; (back row, from left) Kenneth Yarosh, Richard Peri, Michael Withers, vice chairman. Right side: (first row, from left) Mary McKiel, chairman, James A. Thomas, president; (second row, from left) Daniel Janikowski; Thomas Schwartz, vice chairman; D. Thomas Marsh (third row, from left) Amy Costello, Robin Graves, Anthony Thornton; (back row, from left) Donald Mays, Ralph Paroli, Kitty Pilarz, Taco van der Maten.Not in attendance: Scott Colburn and S. Shyam Sunder.
In keeping with the tradition of meeting in locations away from ASTM International headquarters, the ASTM board of directors took the opportunity to assemble in Chicago on Oct. 13-16 for this year's fall meeting. With more than 1,000 active ASTM members in and around the Chicago area, the Windy City is no stranger to ASTM International.
Members in "Chicagoland" are active on nearly all of ASTM's 143 technical committees, and next to Washington, D.C., Chicago is the leading association headquarters city in the United States, making it the country's second largest association community.
A Sustainable City
Another interesting connection to ASTM International comes on the heels of today's focus on the environment. Chicago is the first major U.S. city to achieve a distinguished sustainability rating based on ASTM standards for meetings, conventions and other events.
ASTM's green meeting standards are the first to provide comprehensive performance requirements for nine areas of meeting and event production, ranging from accommodations to food, and meeting venues to transportation. These ASTM standards provide event planners and suppliers with specifications for producing events more sustainably.
"Choosing Chicago as the location for our board of directors meeting is an example of ASTM standards in action," says ASTM International President James A. Thomas. "With the recent release of the complete suite of ASTM standards covering the sustainability of destinations and events, these ASTM documents are benchmarks. Chicago is one of the first cities in the world to achieve certification as a sustainable destination, a distinction which is based on ASTM standards."
Dominic Sims (left), CEO of the International Code Council, spoke of the valued partnership between ICC and ASTM at his luncheon speech to the ASTM board. Shown also are Mary McKiel (center), 2013 ASTM chairman of the board, and James A. Thomas (right), ASTM president.
Further refining Chicago's environmental focus is the city's Sustainable Chicago 2015 initiative, a roadmap that sets goals, actions and commitments toward sustainability. ASTM standards address many of the sectors covered in Sustainable Chicago 2015, including clean energy, transportation, water and wastewater, and recycling.
ASTM Outreach Day
One full day of the board's stay was devoted to making and furthering local connections. On Tuesday, Oct. 22, teams of board members and senior staff embarked on 28 visits to corporations and associations, as well as a national laboratory and a local university. In total, ASTM had the opportunity to reach some 400 individuals from various sectors where ASTM standards play a key role in quality, safety and commerce. (See sidebar, "Chicago Outreach Day Visits.")
Part of Outreach Day involved members and staff seeing the application of ASTM International standards firsthand. The various teams toured corporate facilities, warehouses and in-house testing labs, and saw such ASTM activities as interlaboratory testing. At several locations, the site visits served to generate new interest among individuals at the host organizations who were less familiar with ASTM, further extending the impact of Outreach Day. It was a day of knowledge sharing, information exchange and overall good will.
Guest Speaker
Dominic Sims, CEO of the International Code Council, addressed the board as the luncheon speaker on the first full day of policy meetings. ICC is dedicated to developing model codes used to construct safe, sustainable, affordable and resilient structures.
Sims emphasized the strong relationship between ASTM International and ICC, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this past July. "The minutes of the first ICC meeting show ASTM at the top of the list of attendees. ASTM is a valued partner," Sims said.
ASTM International is one of five cooperating sponsors of ICC's International Green Construction Code, the first model code to include sustainability measures for the entire construction project and its site. Forty ASTM standards are cited in the IgCC, and 13 ASTM technical committees have standards referenced in the IgCC on topics ranging from air quality to thermal insulation.
Board Meeting Locations
Chicago is among other world-class cities that have been destination for the ASTM board to convene. Past meeting locations include Beijing, Berlin, London, Mexico City, New York City, Stockholm, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C.
The next away location for the board will be the capital and largest city in South Korea, Seoul, in October 2014.
Chicago Outreach Day Visits:
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
- American Architectural Manufacturers Association
- American Dental Association
- American Institute of Steel Construction
- The Ames Laboratory, Critical Materials Institute
- ArcelorMittal
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Baxter International
- Dow Chemical Co.
- Illinois Tool Works
- International Code Council
- Intertek
- Kids in Danger
- Liberty Tire Recycling
- Medline
- Metals Service Center Institute
- Portland Cement Association
- Professional Service Industries
- Sears
- Steel Founders' Society of America
- Stepan Company
- University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Engineering
- Water Quality Association
- Window and Door Manufacturers Association
- Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc.


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Can someone explain to me the rationale for why the market may be moving towards OIS discounting for fully collateralized derivatives?
Most counterparty agreements specify some sort of ois rate for the interest paid/received on posted collateral. So the OIS rate is the appropriate one to use for discounting future cash flows.
Prior to 2008 the OIS/Libor spread was small and stable, so you didn't really need to worry about this, but now it's much larger, so people are taking it into account. The reason it's "big news" now is that properly switching pricing systems over to use OIS discounting is a large change, so most places are only now getting this online.
If you assume that you do not have any market risk (a strange assumption, but it would hold for example if you are fully hedged), then a (correctly) collaterlized derivative does not have any net future cash flow. Clearly: if the derivative contract has a cash flow of -X, its value will go down by X and the collateral account will have a cash flow of +X (the corresponding collateral will be returned).
If there is no future cash flow, there is no discounting (in the sense of funding costs). However there is a new question now: what is the correct amount of collateral C we should post in t=0 to collaterlize the cash flow in t=T?
Since collateral is accrued according to the collateral contract by the OIS rate we would like to have that the accrued collateral account matches the cash-flow, that is
C * (1 + r * T) = X
where r is the OIS rate. That is we determine the collateral by OIS discounting
C = X / (1 + r * T).
OIS discounting is the way to determine the amount of collateral we have to post.
(You can make this argument mathematically correct (under some general assumptions) and show that collateralization is like having a different currency which has its own interest rate, I have some stuff on this (paper, spreadsheet for OIS bootstrapping, source code) here: http://www.finmath.net/spreadsheets/curvecalibration/ )
The OIS rate is more stable than Libor, right? And according to this article from Risk Magazine:
There are three interest rates in play here:
In order for the collateralisation process not to generate surplus value to either participant, considering a single cashflow received today and then repaid a day later will give the answer that we need 1 = 2 = 3. Otherwise there will be a net flow of cash on today or tomorrow (or both).
First, consider net flows today. The person paying for the cash flow is paying out market value & receiving the collateral call value. We need 1 = 2 for the two to balance.
Second, take net flows tomorrow. That same person will be receiving the cash flow and repaying collateral with interest. For the values of these to balance then we need 2 = 3.
So then 1 = 2 = 3 in our example. Discounting for market value must follow discounting at the rate determined in the collateral agreement.
And since you can essentially synethesize any derivative by pasting together 1-day cashflows of this nature then this also estabishes that 1 = 2 = 3 for all derivatives.


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Mars Rover Ready to Dig In
NASA Seeks Evidence of Life in First Drilling Since Landing; 'Scientist's Dream'
After months of trial runs, NASA's Curiosity rover is ready to scratch the surface of Mars, positioning itself this week to drill into the crust of the red planet and wildcat for evidence of life for the first time.
Latest Photos From Mars
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Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California said Tuesday that they have targeted a fine-grained fractured slab of bedrock for the rover's first drilling attempt—a tricky procedure made all the more difficult by the complexities of the rover.
In a milestone for planetary exploration, researchers expect to extract and remotely analyze a mineral sample from the interior of Mars beginning in about two weeks. Scientists hope the specimen—its chemistry unsullied by the harsh surface conditions—will reveal whether conditions on the cold, arid world were once favorable for life.
"We will go into the sequence of rocks that are the brightest prospects for telling us about the early habitability of Mars," said mission project scientist John Grotzinger at the California Institute of Technology. "We are at a very sweet spot to do that."
The spacecraft voyaged 352 million miles to reach Mars this past August, but its next critical step will be measured in fractions of an inch. The rover's drill can chip about 2 inches into the interior of Mars to extract a small spoonful of powdered rock for analysis in an onboard chemistry kit. The effort may take six weeks or more. Researchers want to ensure the rock won't break the drill bit and that the mineral sample won't be contaminated by machinery as the rover scoops it onboard.
"Drilling into a rock to collect a sample will be this mission's most challenging activity since the landing. It has never been done on Mars," said Mars Science Laboratory project manager Richard Cook.
In the months since Curiosity's landing, the mission has mostly generated waves of rumor about life-related chemistry on the distant world that, one by one, mission scientists debunked as they made their findings public. So far, they have detected no traces of methane in the Martian air, no unequivocal chemical evidence of water on Mars today, and no native organic compounds that would indicate that life had once been present.
What they are finding in Gale Crater, where the rover landed, is an arid landscape of wind-swept badlands that in some ways seems hauntingly like Earth. Wheeling across the uneven terrain at 1.5 inches per second, the rover has recorded panoramic vistas that often resemble the Mojave Desert. It spotted rounded pebbles that scientists believe were likely shaped by an ancient ankle-deep, fast-flowing stream. Its chemical sensors detected basalt rocks that could have been lifted from a Hawaiian lava flow.
By all accounts, engineers are finding the $2.5 billion Curiosity rover—the most complex spacecraft ever landed on another planet—more difficult to operate than anticipated. The 1-ton, nuclear-powered vehicle totes 11 instruments, from a laser to a robotic whisk broom designed to sweep samples clear of the Martian dust. Even as routine a task as extending the craft's heavy mobile arm has proved tricky because the craft can more easily overbalance than engineers had estimated.
"It is a complicated beast," said Rob Manning, chief engineer for the Mars Science Laboratory, as the Curiosity craft's overall mission is called. "Everything is taking longer than we had hoped."
Even so, the mission's 425 scientists are feasting on data. "Scientifically, it is fantastic," said NASA planetary soil scientist Doug Ming at the Johnson Space Center in Texas, who helps run the rover's X-ray spectroscopy apparatus. So far, the craft has beamed back 18,226 images and nearly 10 gigabytes of raw information about the planet's geology, mineral chemistry, soil composition, and atmosphere. In five months of prospecting, scientists have thoroughly analyzed three air samples and three soil samples. The researchers also have tested 100 rocks and soil specimens by blasting them with the rover's laser and then scrutinizing the vaporized material.
In all, the rover has traveled 2,312 feet from where it touched down on Aug. 5. Recently it rolled by a sinuous set of dark-colored rocks that NASA scientists named "Snake River," before parking itself in a shallow flat depression called Yellowknife Bay.
There, the rover's cameras and sensors revealed a range of rocks that may have been formed by water, including veins, nodules, cross-bedded layering, and a lustrous pebble embedded in sandstone.
NASA officials named the rocky outcrop chosen for drilling after John Klein, a former Mars Science Laboratory deputy project manager who died in 2011.
"We are now less than a mile from where we landed yet the geology is intensely diverse," said space scientist Roger Wiens at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, who is principal investigator for the rover's laser sensor. "It is a scientist's dream."
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6 Mind-Blowing Achievements in Propaganda
#3. The Boston Massacre
Of course, Paul Revere gets most of his street cred for his famous "midnight ride" (most of which is bullshit), but he had an equally important role in one of the most important propaganda tools of the American revolution: an engraving called The Bloody Massacre. If you touched a textbook in an American public school, you've seen it.
Uh, sure.
Now, Revere was apparently a student of the Thomas Alva Edison school of engraving, in that he simply took someone else's drawing and used it as the basis of his own. In this case he borrowed the work of a young artist named Henry Pelham and produced the broadsheet that would be the lightning-rod for the Sons of Liberty in the wake of the Boston Massacre.
What is that dog doing down there?
Why it's Pure Propaganda:
Because the image whitewashed the hell out of history in a way that would make Dan Brown blush.
Just about every element of that broadsheet was pulled directly out of either Pelham's or Paul Revere's ass, all to make the near-riot we call the Boston Massacre look more like the last half-hour of Rambo. In reality, there were seven or eight British soldiers surrounded by a screaming mob of 300 or 400 colonists. In the picture, the besieged British soldiers are transformed into a goddamn firing squad, smirking as they mow down a dozen unarmed innocents.
It was like this. More or less.
That picture swept across the colonies like wildfire. Revere sold the prints, pushing it in ads that ran in all of the Boston newspapers. Copies hung in houses all across the colonies, and the image of a row of British soldiers mowing down a bunch of pedestrians was burned into America's memory forever.
#2. The Cult of George Washington
As you may have noticed, we're hard on the founding fathers here at Cracked, and we've even taken our shots at George Washington at times. But he was unquestionably the father of the country and we don't like to think about how things would have played out without him.
That's why they named the nation's capital after him, after all. And put him on the one dollar bill:
And on our stamps:
And our schools:
And on a mountain:
And a state:
And a monument:
And, uh, a fresco of him being leveled-up to a freaking deity? Painted by a dude from the Vatican to be displayed atop the Capitol?
And carved into a statue dressed as Zeus?
What the fuck? That one almost appeared atop the Washington Monument... riding a freaking chariot.
OK, so America may have taken the whole Washington thing a little too far.
Here he is as a pastry chef.
Why it's Pure Propaganda:
While we have already mentioned the liberties taken with George's life and so-so military career, the way he's been worshiped throughout American history extends far beyond Parson Weems' bullshit story about George the lumberjack. In fact, it really extends into full-blown cult of personality status. The new USA spent decades plastering Washington's face and name onto every flat surface they could find.
Why? Well, for several reasons, but mainly because the new nation sort of needed it. The 13 colonies barely tolerated each other and the biggest danger was that the new nation would collapse into a cloud of civil wars and cannon smoke. Since the United States had little history of its own, and thus no legendary heroes to rally around, the public appeal and near-worship of Washington helped establish a single (and largely mythological) figure all of the colonies could get behind.
Keep in mind, George Washington wasn't voted into office--there were no primaries or debates or campaign ads or other candidates. They basically just declared him President, and most people were fine with that because everywhere they looked they found a reminder that the man was a god. Hell, to this day he's worshiped and glorified in classrooms, textbooks, children songs and just about every element of pop culture from commercials to movies.
Of course his own political allies were quick to promote it, but so was everybody who wanted to sell something by jumping on the Washington merchandise gravy train.
Everybody had t-shirts with this on it.
#1. Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima
That up there, friends, is a picture of the USA winning World War II. You can't tell us that it doesn't make you want to go fight in a war a little bit. It's the raising of the flag at Iwo Jima, the end of a hard-fought battle in the Pacific theater. They turned it into a kick-ass statue:
Why it's Pure Propaganda:
If you've read about the famous photo you've probably ran across accusations that it was staged. That's not necessarily true. But it was grossly misleading, and the story behind it is utterly ridiculous.
When the marines took the highest point on the island (Mount Suribachi, which dominates the land mass) they did raise a flag, and snapped a photo. This one:
You'll notice that flag is tiny, and kind of sad looking.
Still, when the Secretary of the Navy showed up to the war zone, he was so overcome at the sight he decided he wanted a copy of it. And by it, we don't mean the photo. We mean the actual flag, which there was only one copy of. Why did he want to deprive this battalion of their prized battle standard? No joke--he wanted a souvenir from the battle that he was not even in.
To keep the Secretary from stealing their flag, battalion commander Chandler Johnson had his men quickly take it down, presumably before the other guy could shimmy up the pole and grab it. He then sent one of his men after a replacement flag, with the command that he bring back a big, man-sized flag this time.
The raising of that flag is what we have the iconic photo of, the "let's put up some other flag so this asshole doesn't steal ours" flag. Oh, and we should mention that the flag wasn't marking victory, as the battle wasn't over. Half the men in this picture (Franklin Sousley, Michael Strank and Harlon Block) were dead before the Battle of Iwo Jima was won, and as for Rene Gagnon, he had to fight the longer war of being "that guy" in the picture who only shows a bit of his leg.
Still, Raising the Flag at Iwo Jima won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, and became one of the most iconic images of the 20th Century (no doubt to the delight of FDR's propaganda department). They brought the surviving Marines in the photo home to tour the country and sell war bonds. They made a movie about it, and had them pose for a sculptor to create a memorial.
Hell, even the Soviets were so impressed they had no choice but to rip it off themselves during the Battle of Berlin. Their flag raising was staged, by the way.
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Katie Holmes: From Harried Mom to Red Carpet Hottie (Photos)Sunny Chanel
You know what I love to see? Star transformations. It's easy to forget when we see a celebrity all glammed up on the red carpet that they don't look like that 24/7. And when we do see them looking, well, just like us, before they undergo the aforementioned transformation, it gives us all a glimmer of hope. That could be us! Well, not really. But a girl can dream, right?
An example of this day to night change, from mommy duty to red carpet hottie, is Katie Holmes. On Tuesday during the day, she was spotted casually dressed and carrying her daughter Suri. And at night, Katie got all dolled up for the star studded premiere of Gravity!
Check out Katie Holmes' day to night transformation right here:
Katie Holmes From Day to Night 1 of 5
Quite a change from harried mom to red carpet hottie.
Night 2 of 5
Katie wore a light face and had her hair in a simple ponytail.
Hot Pink 3 of 5
Katie wore a hot pink mini dress by Azzedine Alaia and paired it with a pair of beige heels.
Day Time 4 of 5
During the day, Katie wore a very short denim miniskirt, a sweater with stars, and blue and gray flats.
Suri Cruise 5 of 5
Katie carried her little school girl Suri Cruise, who is still wearing her cast.


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Dr. Brown believes that every religion reflects the richness of the human experience, offers a unique insight into human nature, and has something to teach humanity. Whether it is an ancient faith that spans the globe or a tiny tradition lost in the depths of some distant continent, we can gain an insight into humanity's rich spiritual history by studying them. Today, more than at any time in the past is the open minded study and appreciation of every world religion of urgency.
Dr. Brown has lived for extended periods of time in various countries of the world and experienced most world religions first hand. He spent five years in Jerusalem, seven in Geneva, Switzerland, five in Boston, a year each in Budapest, Prague, Paris, Moscow and Mexico City, periods of several months in China, Indonesia, Senegal, Cameroon, Peru, Egypt and Haiti, and most recently fifteen in New York City where he presently resides.
In addition to teaching world religions at UTS, Dr. Brown teaches history, political science, and ethnic studies full time at Touro College where he was awarded the Teacher of the Year Award in 2002. He is a licensed New York City tour guide and can be often seen guiding groups through the streets and neighborhoods of the city. Dr. Brown is a New York Council for the Humanities featured lecturer where he presents programs on the city's ethnic neighborhoods, famous people, historic events, and houses of worship at New York State colleges, universities, libraries, and historical societies. He is also a docent at the New-York Historical Society where he leads tours of the various society exhibits.
He has published A Religious History of Flushing, Queens: From the Flushing Remonstrance Until Today, Into the Soul of African-American Harlem: A Spiritual Walking Tour, and How New York Became the Empire City: A Mythical Tour of Lower Manhattan. He is currently completing An Autobiography of Fifth Avenue: How a Street became The Avenue with a textbook on teaching world religions in a religiously diverse environment in progress. In addition he has written several articles, most recently, "Taking to the Streets: Teaching Living Religions in the Streets of New York" in the Journal of Unification Studies.
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My fire alarm always goes off when I cook, even when the food is not burning. Because of this, I have never been able to keep batteries in my fire alarms. How can I stop this from happening?
Many modern smoke/fire detectors have the ability to temporarily disable or decrease the sensitivity of the alarm for a short period of time, usually 15 or 20 minutes. At the end of the time period it returns to full sensitivity.
You may want to look into replacing your smoke detector with one of these.
Most modern smoke detectors check for a few things... smoke, heat, light (some check for rapidly changing light patterns). They can also be triggered by steam or aerosols.
So firstly, what is the source of the trigger? If your food isn't burning, is your oven clean? Is your stove clean? Just because you can't see the smoke, doesn't mean there isn't any.
Secondly, do you have a ventilation problem in your apartment? If you have a hood-fan, I'd use it. If you have a bathroom fan, you might consider turning that on. It might help a little to pull air in that direction. You could also open a window if the weather permits.
Thirdly, what is the age of the smoke detector? If it is too old, it might need a replacement. Some detectors are prone to false alarms after they get old.
Lastly, some detectors can also generate false alarms when they're dirty. (A good vacuuming might help if this is the case)
There are all kinds of reasons fire/smoke alarms will go off when you're cooking. Sometimes, it's just flat-out smoke. Other times, atomized fats or even steam will be detected as smoke. Some detectors will also detect heat, and it's really easy to generate excess heat near the ceiling when cooking.
The only solution I know is to have the fire/smoke detector outside the kitchen. In our house, we have one that's directly outside the kitchen door in a hallway, which seems to provide enough separation from the kitchen for it to only go off in truly smoky situations.
If you really want to have the detector in the kitchen, put it as far from the oven/stove as possible, and perhaps see if you can find one that has a "pause" or "hold" button on it. You press the button and the detector goes dead for a predetermined length of time, giving you enough time to do your cooking without setting it off, then it comes back on automatically so you don't have to remember to restart it.
I used to have this problem quite a bit. Well, almost. My recipe was always burning or boiling over, causing lots of smoke.
Removing the batteries is an okay solution, but obviously that doesn't offer you much fire alarm protection. You can run up and waft the air around it, but that is a hassle to do ever time.
My solution was a bit hack-y, but it works. I took one of those souvenir fans you get at Six Flags, and affixed it to a coat hanger with some hot glue. A lot of hot glue. Then I just bent the coat hanger around the fire detector until it stayed.
Before I cook, I'll turn it on and enjoy a quiet home.
Just make sure to not glue over the battery holder. I did that at first, and it was a real pain to change the batteries. I suppose a normal fan would work, but I couldnt' figure out a way to mount it easily.
There may be something on your oven elements that is burning, causing smoke. Contrary to what has been said above most of the commonly sold detectors do not detect heat. They detect Smoke. Heat Detectors are available but they are not as common. There are a small number of combo detectors. The reason? Smoke can move quickly through a house. The heat can take a while depending on the structure.
I would check to see if you have ventilation to help get the smoke out of the house. Some stove hoods are not properly vented and they do not remove cooking smoke from the house.
The worst thing you can do is remove the battery from a smoke detector as you will forget to put it back. You cannot imaging how many homes I have found after a fire that did not have batteries in the detector for this very reason.
If your detectors are old, they can also be prone to false alarms. Replace the battery 2 times a year and replace the detector every 10 years. Newer detectors are less prone to false alarms in some cases,
The type of smoke detectors that go off for cooking are called ionization detectors. They use radioactive material, (Americium 241) to create an ion field. The best particle to attach to and disrupt the ion flow is a particle from the kitchen. These type of detectors also have a very high failure rate according to most all new testing. The answer is not silencing the detectors. It is to replace them with other types of detectors that are available. I have been in the fire safety business for almost 30 years. This is a very common problem. Heat detectors should be placed where smoke detectors can not. Those areas include kitchen, attic, garage, laundry rooms, furnace rooms, h20 heaters, etc. Smoke detectors are not to be put in these areas. THEY WILL NOT WORK! Photoelectric smoke detectors are a much better fit for life saving units over ionization. They detect true smoke, not kitchen odors. Best Wishes
if you're not up for replacing your fire alarm, there's a simple low-tech solution: use a can of compressed air (the kind that you use for blowing dust off your keyboard -- endust and dust-off are popular brands). a quick blast of compressed air into the fire alarm works like a charm -- and still leaves the detector operable.
What type of smoke detector? Most you'll find in homes are either optical or ionization. Ionization detectors are more prone to false alarms, so don't do so well in kitchens. Wikipedia has a reasonable description of the differences.
Depending on how handy you are with a soldering iron, you could hack the detector itself to add a switch between the battery lead and the rest of the electronics. This doesn't solve the problem of forgetting to turn it back on when you're done, but it makes it a heck of a lot easier to turn off and back on than by taking the battery out. It should be said that if you are going to create such a Franken-detector, you should check that it's not illegal or disallowed by your lease, if you have one, and test it extensively before counting on it to save you in an emergency.
Use the smoke alarm in another room and buy a temperature alarm for the kitchen instead.
A temperature alarm is activated when either the temperature becomes high or if the temperature suddenly rises rapidly.
An example:
The fire alarm goes off when I cook too. Even when there is not much smoke, or not smoke at all, it goes off. The way I prevent this from happening is opening all my windows so that the fresh air can come in and the smoke can go out. It really works!
When we had that problem, we used a fan and directed it towards the smoke/CO2 detector. Worked like a charm.
Just wrap clingfilm round the detector but take it off when cooking is done/
An apartment I lived in had detectors that went off while cooking. They put a light cloth filter cover that went over then secured it with a rubber band. According to them if the smoke built up in an actual fire it would penetrate and still set the alarm off. As an alternative to that, after I moved I would use a jay cloth and secure it with a rubber band. When I tested it with burning paper below it it still went off but it did eliminate the false cooking alarms. It's not really pretty but it worked, even if just put up temporarily put while cooking.


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In what case we should implement Captcha based security?. How accurate it is and if there exists any alternatives for Captcha based Security.
I am not going into basics of CAPTCHAs based security as you can read it from Wikipedia. But what interesting is how accurate they are and what are the evaluating parameters for them. To my knowledge CAPTCHAs has been broken in research with image processing techniques but still requires practical implementation and its just a matter of time i.e. you can read a recent Decaptcha techique . There are two ways to evaluate CAPTCHAs
A very nice must read paper for understanding use of Captcha based security.
The captcha is a visual or audio challenge to the user to prevent bots and automated scripts from accessing the services protected by it.
It is valuable for:
A CAPTCHA does not provide any other kind of security, it only provides protection from bots and the rate limiting that comes with it.
The Wikipedia article on CAPTCHAs is quite comprehensive, you might want to have a look at that.
There are alternatives to the common CAPTCHA approach that requires users to decipher warped and distorted text. Those hard-to read CAPTCHAs are easily solved by bots using optical character recognition (OCR) software and are extremely frustrating for your legitimate human website visitors. One alternative is called Confident CAPTCHA, which asks the visitor to identify specific pictures to prove they are human and not a bot. It's much easier for people to use than those hard to read text CAPTCHAs. At the same time, it's very difficult for bots to correctly solve because they have trouble understanding the semantic meaning of the instructions and then identifying the subject matter of random pictures in order to choose the right pictures.
Right from the Captcha website:
They can be used in instances when you want to prevent a bot from automatically completing a process ( account registration, login after failed attempts etc)


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I have been playing guitar for 12 years now and I'm 28.
I am under treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis (R.A.) and was wondering if anyone who has R.A., or other pain in their hands, has any approaches they have used to reduced their pain when playing?
Do you recommend a particular brand/gauge of strings, warm-ups or anything else that has helped you?
I have been playing guitar for 12 years now and I'm 28.
Sorry to hear that your playing is impacted. I don't have R.A., but I have a number of wrist, shoulder, and arm problems. Here are some things that I have found useful for my situation - I hope they can help you with yours:
have a look at Jamie Andreas's Guitar Principles. This is a way of fundamentally changing the way you approach the guitar which results in reduced stress and tension when you play. Also don't be scared to use lighter gauges - Richard Thompson uses 8's on his strat and I haven't heard anyone complain about his tone. Finally, take heart from people like django reinhardt who have made world changing music despite their disability.
Other than alcohol?
I would suggest you pick up a slide. On an electric guitar, the stress to your fingers shouldn't be too bad and you can still play some pretty cool sounding stuff.
great discussion. I have Multiple Sclerosis which also makes my left hand numb at times (for days at a time). I have found using "open tuning" helps tremendously. I can make beautiful sounds with fewer fingers. I also have laid my guitar in my lap and play similar to a steel-slide guitar. I use my strongest finger to hold down the fret; I use light/ bronze strings which give my guitar a beautiful mountain harp sound. But I do try to play for shorter periods but several times a day.
also, Aspercream works wonders. I put it on and then wear kid-leather gloves over my hands for half an hour or so. This seems to have a longer lasting effect that the warm water trick.
Hope this helps!
I am a 71 year old woman and have played guitar for years. I have had to change techniques over time as the inflammation and pain has gotten worse. I find that playing an acoustic with strings that are close to the fret board is easier for me than playing electric. Also light strings help a lot. I use Agustine light (blue)) Since I can't curve my index finger on my left hand enough to form a C or G7 chord I capo third fret and use the E formation when playing in G and the A formation when playing in C. You do have to use bar chords this way but I can manage that even though I can't fret all the strings across. I just play all the strings I can and it works OK. Since I play with my husband a lot his chords fill in the missing notes to make a fuller sound. You do need to know a lot of the chords that basic guitar players may not use but it is worth learning them to be able to play with other people in most keys.
I taught myself guitar. As a result, I started off with crappy technique that caused injury to my hands. In order to stop the pain, I went back to the beginning and analyzed my personal ergonomics and then changed my technique.
What I found worked for me was:
Good luck!
Do you use "tapping" in your solos (as introduced by Eddie Van Halen) ?
I don't have pain but sometimes I get cramp in my hands during a long gig, I have found that using a lot of tapping seems to need less tension in my hands and generally less movement to get fast riffs and licks going.
Each finger only holds a note for a short time, and rarely would you be bending a string like this so there's less stess on the fingers in general (or at least, that's what I find)
This is on electric guitar with fairly low action ands size 10 strings. You can do it on acoustic as well but it's not so easy as the strings are mormally tighter.
If the Van Halen sound frightens you off, I should point out you don't have to sound like EVH with this technique, it can be used slowly and smoothly too.
Just a thought. Must be pretty frustreating for you - I hope you find a solution
I am 55 years old and have developed these same isues over time. First and foremost a vist to your doctor. Clebrex (or miloxicam generic celebrex and not costly) has worked very well for me. Use good non greasy deep heat muscle rub on your hands and wrists before you play. Secondly, a little larger guitar neck like say a les paul verses a Gretsch or Fender as you do not have to close your hand as tight to make chords or hit those lead licks. Also, I am very much in agreement with lighter gauge strings. Ernie Ball Super slinkys or regular slinks seem to be much easier to fret. Last but not least, excersise your hands. Open them as far as you can and close them as far as you can as often as you can. I pray this helps. Keep at it and God Bless!
I have arthritis in my fingers and the first finger will not bend very far on both hands without pain. Classical play position is easier because the fingers are more staight and the wrist more underneath the neck of the guitar. My doctor suggested that playing more would be almost a therapy with anti inflamatory drugs. I am reluctant to take these tablets as I believe the same drugs killed her with an aggressive stomach cancer.
Electric playing with bar cords is not painful. Look at Keith Richards fingers.
One thing I do notice is that I moved from North Yorkshire in UK to Switzerland (which is very dry) in 2010 and my fingers are rarely painful in Switzerland. One famous guitar player I heard had moved to Australia as arthritis is rarely painful there I am told. So yes, warm and dry and gently keep playing. If you don't use it, you lose it.
I have arthritis in both hands, but mainly had pain in my fretting hand. It felt like my hand was on fire. I've had it about a year, warming up is like learning to play again. I went to the doctor and there is finger exercises to help improve mobility and speed, but the medication they prescribed is working wonders. I've been taking it for less than a week and it is really kicking in. It's called *SULINDAC 200 MLG. pill, twice a day. I'm playing with .52-.10 gauge string, speed picking and power chords.
I have been playing guitar, mostly classical style, for about 50 years. Until my first attack of rheumatoid arthritis I was able to play fairly advanced music at a reasonably good level for an amateur. Such pieces as Albeniz' Leyenda, a dozen of the Venezuelan Waltzes by Lauro, various other pieces by Tarrega, etc.. The first thing I noticed in my case was that my hands always feel like they are encased in latex gloves or perhaps you might imagine that the fingers are attached to some rubber bands whose tension you must overcome to move at all. Therefore, the first facet to go is agility, and with it, speed of play.
The next facet to go is structural and will vary among us all depending on whether or not you are able to arrest the progress of the disease. In my case the ability to curl the fingers properly on the left hand, especially (in my own case) the index finger kills the ability to play certain chords. I can reach almost any note by itself but often suffer when trying to combine notes which used to be very elementary for me (even a basic position 1 "C" chord is hard for me at times.)
I have decided to 'get real' about the level of music I am able to play. I still play every day but I have much lower expectations of what I can bring out, and I select much simpler pieces than I did in my prime. If you play classical I suggest playing studies and classical adaptations of popular music which are often easier than concert type pieces. For rock, folk, singalong, I think many other contributors here have given some real nice thoughts.
Good luck and don't let it bring you down; I almost made that mistake but now I realize that 'you have to be alive to complain'..
You can try this stuff I take called "Zyflamend"...its an herbal and it really works. I had arthritis in both of my hands and not only couldnt play the guitar, but doing dishes and other kinds of housework were miserable. I went to a health food store I trust and the vitamin consultant told me about this. So I took it and in about two months my hands stopped hurting and my the swelling in my joints went away. It really does work and is not super expensive....try it!!
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