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6 Reasons Professional Poker Is Way Harder Than It Looks
I used to keep track of my finances like an accountant with OCD. Well, all that got drop-kicked after I started playing poker. Remember how anal retentive poker players are about their play stats? The big irony is that they're anal about their play, but nonchalant with their money. Kind of like the morbidly obese dieter who's anal about his Diet Coke, but nonchalant with his bacon.
"Can I get a shot of rum with my nonalcoholic beer?"
You see, in poker, there's something called variance. Variance is the stats nerd's way of saying that, in order to generate an average profit of, say, $100 an hour, you have to tolerate swings of thousands and sometimes even tens of thousands of dollars. Let's say you start a session with $10,000 and end up with $11,000 five hours later. Hey, you just had a great day, averaging $200 per hour in profit over five hours. But, during those five hours, you may at some point have been down to $1,000 and at another point been up to $20,000. That's variance.
Sure, he missed one step, but he went down the other 20 like a champion.
My buddy Matt once got into a 50-hour-long heads-up (one-on-one) match with another pro. Well, the other guy took Matt for over $70,000, at which point Matt decided to take a break from poker for a few months. When I commiserated and pointed out that taking a break was probably a good idea after such a big loss, Matt replied that it wasn't about the money. He didn't give a shit that he lost $70K. What he cared about was that he got outplayed for 50 hours straight. And that's why he was taking a break. Because, due to variance, what matters in the long run is how well you play, not how much you win or lose in any given session.
The same could not be said for strip poker.
And since becoming numb to losses is part of the game, that extends beyond the poker table. Matt recently went to dinner with a bunch of poker friends. They decided to play credit card roulette for the $2,000 dinner tab -- everyone tossed their credit cards into a pile, and the server picked one at random to charge. Matt's card got picked, and the only reaction it elicited from him was an annoyed chuckle. And it wasn't because $2,000 meant nothing to him. It's just what poker does to you. You get desensitized to losing huge gobs of money due to random chance.
When flirting with fate, it's best to assume the position first.
And in fact ...
#2. You Become Immune to Bad Luck
Don't get me wrong: despite the downside, Matt and Jake love their job. They love it because it's technical and analytical, and because it's a unique lifestyle and because they enjoy the ups and downs.
And because this guy is just asking to be shaken down.
Poker teaches you humility, emotional control and, most of all, patience. You realize that life in general is one big game of chance that you can kind of sort of control, but often is subject to just plain dumb luck, and that life is about how you react to that luck. To use an obnoxiously tired metaphor that's actually appropriate here, you learn that life will deal you a shitty hand every now and then (sometimes one after another for months on end). But when it does, you just have to toss the cards aside and wait for the next hand to come your way. The game goes on.
That's why gamblers tend to be a philosophical bunch.
When your car breaks down and you need a $700 emergency repair ... oh well, shit happens. When your credit card gets hacked and thousands get charged on it ... whatever, it's just a minor annoyance. When your girlfriend dumps you ... fuck it, you'll meet someone else. They've felt all of these ups and downs before, at the table. Poker takes the kind of dramatic ups and downs you'd normally experience over the course of a decade working in an office and plays them out in one night.
One day, you're hitting up Vegas nightclubs and plowing through four $500 bottles of Grey Goose at a VIP table. The next day, you're wondering if skipping breakfast will leave you enough money for dinner. That's life, and you learn to accept it.
Not that it's for everyone, either. One thing you don't pick up on when watching the glamorous pros is the fact that ...
#1. There Is Guilt
Sometimes when you have a shitty job, bonding with your coworkers is what gets you through the day. Well, in poker, you have no coworkers, because everyone else is the enemy. That's the thing about poker: it's not like a business, where a customer gives you money and in return you give the customer a car or a TV or a hamburger. Poker is a zero-sum game, which means that every dollar you win was lost to you by another person. So, if you're pulling in $100K a year, that means that people collectively lost $100K to you over that year.
"Hey honey! I lost half our house deposit but ended up with another guy's pension!"
This has led to professional poker players being compared to drug dealers, because sometimes your best source of income is the degenerate gambler who's so addicted to poker that he's willing to risk his entire life savings. As a poker pro, though, your job isn't to be the addict's conscience and cut him off. Your job is to feed his habit and give him the gambling high that he craves.
"This is awesome!"
I still remember the moment I realized I could never be a poker pro long-term: I was playing at the Orleans in Las Vegas. Everyone at the table was friendly, and I was having a great time just chatting up my tablemates. Two seats to my right was a retired-looking old man who didn't say much, but always smiled whether he won or lost. After a few hours of play, he was down to his last $40 or so, which he committed to a hand I was in. I won that hand, and as the dealer pushed the pile of chips toward me, I looked up to see the old man slowly push his seat back and stand up. He even managed a sort of goodbye nod toward me, but his body language gave away his dejection as he plodded away from the table.
Now, I don't know if he was playing with retirement money or extra spending cash. I don't know if my busting him out meant that he would be short on money for the rest of the month. And, as I noted above, it wasn't my business to care. If someone is going to risk his money against me, I have a right to win it -- the players know the rules when they sit down.
There's no mercy in this game.
Still, as I watched him walk away, this feeling of uneasiness crept over me. I had done what I was supposed to do -- win money -- so why did I feel so guilty? Right then and there, I knew I didn't want to play professionally for much longer.
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Earlier this year, developer IO Interactive revealed the first glimmer of details on the team's next stealth action Hitman game, going so far as to talk about specific gameplay features and things we can and should not expect in the new-gen exclusive title.
Today, IO has sent out the very first piece of public concept art for the next Hitman, along with a few more grains of insight into the game. First thing's first: Here's that art (click to enlarge):
Posting on the official Hitman site, IO wrote:
"[…] we're making great progress with building exotic and expansive locations for the new game. To give you an idea of what we're aiming for, here's the first piece of concept art from the game.
"This location is set in Central Europe and you'll be able to explore the entire building you see in the image, inside and out. For a sense of scale, the building on its own is larger than any location in Hitman Absolution."
If you're waiting to see more of the next Hitman game at E3 2014 next month, then IO has some disappointing news, saying that "our next Hitman is going to be under wraps for a bit longer," and the team is "focusing all of our time and efforts into creating the best possible Hitman game. That's our number one priority and we don't want to divert valuable resources to show something before it's ready."
A good reason, but it would certainly be great to see what the team is cooking up sooner rather than later.
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Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
Great developers once had no experience, too.
Great developers are not only expensive but also hard to find. So, if you have a high-quality screening and hiring process, hiring entry-level developers can be a great way to find those up-and-comers and turn them into great developers.
There are plenty of other reasons:
Train the next set of developers the way you and your methods allow.
Assuming "entry-level" roughly means "fresh grads", there can be sinister motives.
A fresh grad most likely WILL NOT know a lot about his rights by virtue of the fact that he hasn't worked anywhere yet. Unless his uncle is a lawyer or a HR person, he definitely won't.
An experienced programmer might know about his rights simply because of the fact that he has gone through ups and downs in other companies.
It is easy to find loopholes, trick, manipulate and cheat fresh grads when it comes to complicated legal and HR issues and laws. You cannot do it easily with an experienced programmer who has worked in a few companies. Because, even if he hasn't memorized all the laws, he will know from experience about what is happening in other companies and will immediately catch if something is fishy.
In short: An experienced programmer has already fallen into the pit (made by previous employers) and knows better than to walk into one again. A fresh grad hasn't and won't.
Some things cunning employers want to cheat fresh grads on:
Fresh grads just assume things are supposed to be that way because they don't know any better. So he/she is a jackpot to the employer.
DISCLAIMER: I know these things not because I do them, but because people have done it to me.
Why would you hire a senior programmer if you only needed someone to do grunt-work tasks?
Personally if I were a senior programmer that was asked to do nothing but simple tasks all day I'd quit.
Sometimes you have tasks that require doing but don't require the breadth of experience a more seasoned programmer will have. These tasks are often repetitive and not very meaningful as a programmer but are good for new hires cutting their baby teeth.
There are also considerations regarding people who can be taught. Often an experienced programmer who is not quite senior yet clearly not a new hire will have gained some experience yet has not managed to shed the "I already know everything", "Why should I change", "I don't like learning new ways" attitudes that you won't find prevalent in a new hire.
Fresh ideas? the stuff they teach at university is constantly changing, it could well be that the recent graduate that you jsut hired has some ideas that your seasoned programmers wouldn't consider because they are stuck in a certain way of thinking.
Altruism, I think any company has to appreciate that we all start somewhere, and if we don't get a start then we don't carry on being developers.
Cheap labor, not only does having a graduate recruitment get your cheap labour it can also foster relationships with local universities and lead to even cheaper if not free labor in the form of summer internships (I don't agree with not paying them though).
Not paying for a digger when all you need is a shovel, if you need a latrine dug why pay thousands for a digger, when you can get a pleb with a shovel. Sure the pleb with the shovel might advance to the point of being a digger, but until that point why pay for it.
Also experienced devs might get bored with stuff that they consider menial where a recent grad can learn an awful lot form it.
I don't know if it's true anymore (but was around 10 years ago) in the government contracting world (probably other industries also) the companies get tax write offs for hiring new grads.
The company I work for hires "entry-level" for specifically one reason. Its most mature and profitable products were developed on a 3rd-party framework that nobody has heard of or would spend the time learning otherwise. The position is advertised as no experience or degree required, as all the training will be provided in-house to people with the desire to learn. It's also an excuse to pay pathetically low salaries, and it works since there is practically no risk of these new programmers taking their newly acquired skills somewhere else.
A lot of companies want someone whose mold-able who they can train to do things the way they want, not the way some other company did things. Also these positions tend to acknowledge that theres going to be a learning curve due to lack of experience and that the company is ok with that. The company is essentially trusting that that individual will eventually become a really good asset to their company over time.
Many times it is easier to draw on a blank piece of paper than to update an existing sketch.
In software this is generally called greenfield vs brownfield development.
If done right you can end up with someone in the end that understands your business better and is enthusiastic.
You actually need to ensure that you have a professional resource that can take the newcomer under their wing. As long as you find yourself someone that is enthusiastic and proactive about their own development they will shine. If you find them tinkering around with some idea, push and encourage it, they will feel they can contribute something.
You need to treat them like an apprentice in a body shop, get them doing shitty jobs, but at the same time give them their own time to experiment, it's the best way I've found. You end up finding they come to work the next day with something they did at home and are excited about telling you what they've done.
In addition to the reasons already mentioned, we should note that this is a pattern intrinsic to human nature. Throughout history we can see skilled labor organized a certain way, with masters leading a group of apprentices and a smaller group of journeymen (intermediate-level craftsmen) to build things together.
It pops up again and again, with different names and details, but generally the same basic pattern, because it works well with the way our brains are wired. So we shouldn't be surprised to see similar organization in computer programming, which is another form of skilled labor. We may call the masters Architects, the journeymen Senior Developers and the apprentices Junior Developers, but the pattern is the same.
You may want inexperience programmers so you can train them to do it your way. This assumes:
You might also want an inexperienced programmer, because you don't require programs that would challenge or interest an experienced programmer. Also if you have have experience programmers, you may be able to challenge them by having them mentor the inexperienced programmer.
An inexperience programmer may have a perspective you need. NIH (not invented here) and WADITW (we alway do it that way) are not always best. Choose someone who will ask probing questions. Be prepared to change your ways.
You may be better off with an experienced programmer, as the may have higher productivity per dollar. Documented productivity ratios are something like 26 to 1. You may be lucky and get a highly productive inexperienced programmer.
If your employee turnover rate is high, you may only be able to hire inexperienced programmers.
If your budget is per head, inexperienced programmers may be all you can afford. This does not mean your project will cost less. It is far more likely cost more. Fewer experienced programmers may be more cost effective.
Experienced programmers bring baggage from prior projects. Some of this will be good, and some of it will be bad. If you don't have the resources to minimize the bad and maximize the good, you may want an inexperienced programmer. They will have different baggage.
You may require skills or knowledge that your experienced programmers don't have, but that an inexperience programmer has. Hire them and do some cross training with your experienced programmers.
It is good to grow talent. Find at least one inexperience programmer for your team. Train them and mentor them. Challenge and support them. Learn from their fresh perspective as they learn from your seasoned perspective.
Many businesses in the US today want someone to come in, do a task and leave. They don't want someone who will take time to figure out something, nor do they want someone who needs things explained. Consequently, most ads for developers request/require umteen years of experience with everything.
What I think should change is to change to a different corporate culture. The Daily WTF had one essay called "Up Or Out". While the model mentioned in that essay is one used in the legal profession (as well as some consulting companies), that model does not map well to existing corporate culture.
Budget should almost never be the reason why you should hire fresher.
The primary reason why you recruit freshers is when :
All these answers with great and noble reasons for hiring entry level people are nice and all.
The real answer is: a company gets the best resource it can get for the amount of money it's willing to spend. That's business. If it's not willing to spend much, it advertises for someone who won't cost much. "Entry level" is a job posting signal phrase intended to result in that outcome. HR won't waste time interviewing rock god developers who they can't afford.
If they're lucky, they find someone underselling their value, underpricing themselves as "entry level" when in fact they're more senior than that. Can you imagine a company not snapping up such a tempting offer? Of course not. All the "we can develop them in our image" "fresh energy makes us more vibrant" stuff goes out the window at that moment.
So. Browse most of these answers to see the nice, happy-world justifications for it. The real answer is: yes, that decision is almost always budgetary.
My guess the other reason is the lack of available/willing better programmers.


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5 Pieces of Star Wars Technology That Exist Right Now
In order to avoid disappointment later on, let's just get this out of the way right off the bat: No, science has not yet created the lightsaber (goddammit). But, as we've mentioned before, scientists are doing their absolute nerdiest to make Star Wars a reality every single day, despite the fact that nothing in the film was created with realism in mind. A generation of scientists and engineers who grew up with the trilogy has already given us ...
#5. Speeder Bikes
The speeder bike scene in Return of the Jedi taught adolescent boys everywhere two things: First, all it takes to defeat the highly trained soldiers of an evil empire are some conveniently placed trees and a few hairy dwarfs. Second, it's not only the lingerie section of Mom's Sears catalog that can cause confusing feelings in your Underoos.
To this day, we still want to make sweet love to that scene.
Mark DeRoche, head of a company called Aerofex, was apparently a big fan of that scene as well. But unlike most of us who spent years of our childhoods pedaling our bikes between trees while making swooshy sounds with our mouths, DeRoche actually has the wherewithal to make it happen:
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Yep, that's not a Photoshop -- his company is in the process of perfecting a "low-altitude tandem duct aerial vehicle" that's sure to have every Star Wars nerd scrambling to auction off his NIB action figure collection for the cash to snag one. When you watch the Aerofex hover bike in action, it's easy to see why DeRoche says it's "probably a tribute to George Lucas' team":
So, are you ready for the bad news? It'll be a while before you can go down to a dealership and get one. At a current price tag between $50,000 and $100,000 and a target market of "agriculture, search and rescue, border control and transportation ... the Australian Outback, East Africa, a doctor going between villages," the odds of us everyday folk scoring one of these bad boys aren't looking real favorable.
Still, we're going to latch on to that faint glimmer of hope and hold it in a death grip -- because the potential payoff of simultaneously fulfilling our childhood Skywalker fantasies and our present-day "unobstructed commute" fantasies is just too good to let the dream die that easily. Now, if only science would come up with a laser cannon that we could duct tape on there to make it truly movie-authentic ...
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Lasers have to be technology's biggest disappointment. For half a century, sci-fi taught us that in the future, guns would shoot glowing beams of energy that could blow the shit out of anything in our way. It's 2013: We thought we'd be living an entirely laser-based lifestyle by now, and instead they're just key-chain-size cat tormenters. How are we going to blow fighters out of the sky with that shit?
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Well, the military is finally getting into the Death Ray business. Here's what it looks like when a ship-mounted laser goes all Empire on a passing drone:
That's right: The U.S. Navy has tested out a warship-mounted laser cannon (officially and uber creatively dubbed the Laser Weapon System, or LaWS) and successfully used it to destroy drones and smaller boats at a cost of a meager buck per shot (whereas firing off missiles costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a pop). The first of such laser weapons will be deployed on the USS Ponce in early 2014, after which they'll presumably start sticking them on, just, everything, because holy shit it's a laser cannon.
Sadly, there's no accompanying "pew-pew" sound effect, and unlike in the movies, the weapon doesn't fling out a visible laser-turd that a 10-year-old jump rope expert could effectively dodge (because in real life, light travels at the speed of light). But to give you a better idea of what's happening just before the drone bursts into flames, here's the scene depicted using the very latest in '90s PC gaming technology:
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"Damn, I don't remember MS Flight Simulator being this hard."
In addition to the "zap you straight to Davy Jones' Locker" setting, the laser cannons will reportedly also feature a "dazzle" setting, which we assume still zaps you just as dead, but does so like C-3PO: fabulously.
#3. Floating Probe Droids
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In The Empire Strikes Back, said Empire sent a probe droid to Hoth to scour the icy planet in search of rebel scum. This drone was able to autonomously float along the planet's surface and scan for life, while simultaneously looking all creepy and insect-like.
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Where's a giant rolled-up newspaper when you need one?
To develop our own real-world probe droid, we first need a drone capable of the type of hovering movement seen in the movie. The MLB Company took care of that part when they developed an unmanned aerial vehicle dubbed the V-Bat, a "long endurance VTOL design" capable of floating around with a 5-pound payload for 10 hours.
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We would've gone with "The Great Winged Dongbot," but whatever.
That's pretty cool and all, but DARPA took one look at it and decided it wasn't quite cool enough (and for DARPA, the concepts of "cool" and "terrifying" are somewhat intermingled). They figured what the V-Bat really needed was the ability to act autonomously. Oh, and also a clawed arm. The primary function of this bastardized V-Bat is to hover its way into hard-to-reach places and deliver a "payload" -- what exactly that payload is isn't specified, but we're going to assume it's not throwing pies. As you can see in this video, it's already working pretty well:
Using its "vision cameras," the V-Bat is able to successfully judge the distance to its target, approach, clamp on its payload, and retreat -- all without any human direction. While they're using a stationary target in that demonstration (a ladder), you know it's only a matter of time before they train it to track down moving targets (read: humans) and latch on to them with its freaky robot claw. And since it's completely autonomous, it'll be able to do so without any operator input beyond a cry of "That guy! Sic him!"
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It may not be the Force Choke you've always daydreamed of performing on freaking Dave from accounting, but hey, a Robot Choke is almost as good, right?


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I am looking for a web app in which I can upload my images and convert them to web-friendly versions such as GIF/PNG? Something similar to when you upload photos to Facebook and they are automatically converted into GIFs.
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For photos please stick to JPEG, it's the best format for those out there. Graphics should be in PNG format. There are many converters available, here are some of the best:
If you have graphics in PNG format you can smush them afterwards which saves a few extra kilobytes.
Neo is right. Photos are far too complex to be stored in GIF or PNG with any smaller filesize than the JPG version of a photo.
PNG's main strength is saving a perfect pixel-for-pixel copy of an image and compressing it as small as possible, given the constraint of preserving each pixel's hue, saturation, lightness, and opacity exactly as they were in the original image. Their ability to save 256 different shades of transparency makes them ideal for saving non-rectangular images and superior to GIF (which can only save one shade of transparency). Photos do not contain enough repeated colors or patterns to be losslessly compressed to a small size. Since a PNG version of a photo is all about preserving each and every pixel with its original value and there are virtually no repeated colors in a photo, a PNG version of a photo will rarely be much smaller than a fully uncompressed format such as BMP. By contrast, a graphic such as the famous presidential campaign poster of President Obama, which contains only four colours, is highly compressible and a perfect candidate to be saved in PNG with a very small filesize.
As Neo also mentions, GIFs are not a good candidate for storing photographic images because the total number of different colors able to be stored in a single image is very low in comparison to other image formats. A GIF can only store 256 total unique colors for each frame whereas almost any photo will contain a list of colors with many more than 256 unique colors referenced. When a photo is converted to GIF, the 256 most common colors will be preserved and all colors outside that range will be changed to the closest one of these 256, however this will lead to posterization.
I mentioned the famous poster of President Obama from his election campaign before which is an artistic and intentional use of extreme posterization where the entire image has been reduced to only four colours, however when converting a random photo to GIF the result will not generally be pleasant.
JPGs use a completely different manner of compression known as lossy compression. This means that they are not at all concerned with preserving each pixel with the precise value as the original, but rather the same overall impression. JPGs are inherently lossy - literally unable to be saved at any more than 99 percent quality of the original image, however most programs which save JPGs as output (such as image editors) opt to save with a much more aggressive compression ratio such as 80 percent original quality or less. If there is a JPG image which you have repeatedly opened and saved in an image editor, this can rapidly degrade the quality of the image as each time the image is saved another 20 percent of the previous version is permanently lost (assuming that the program is set to save JPGs at 80% quality).
JPGs can be saved at any quality level you choose (south of 99 percent), however as you get into lower quality levels, the JPEG artifacts will grow increasingly unacceptable to human eyes.
A central high-range (75% - 85% compression quality) JPG copy of a photo will appear acceptable and will be much smaller in filesize than the PNG version of the same photo (although the PNG will be perfect quality).


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BROCKTON – Mayor Bill Carpenter might convince the City Council to eventually pass an ordinance allowing him to name interim Police Chief Robert Hayden as the city's civilian police commissioner, but it won't be the ordinance that councilors deliberated Tuesday night.During a two-hour Ordinance Committee meeting in a packed City Council chamber, the five councilors on the committee raised a number of concerns with the ordinance before they ultimately decided to postpone further action on the legislation until their next meeting.Among the concerns raised by councilors were the cost of the change, the lack of a residency requirement in place for a commissioner and if the ordinance could be used in the future."What you have proposed, so far, is costing the city money, and I'm not saying that it's not a good investment, but it is costing the city a significant amount of money," Councilor-at-large Jass Stewart said about Carpenter's proposed ordinance.Under the ordinance, a commissioner would receive an annual salary of $149,000 plus benefits.That salary would be in addition to the $72,812.74 that Capt. Emanuel Gomes will receive over the next two years to compensate him for the final year he had remaining on his contract as chief. Gomes will receive that money in addition to the salary he receives in his role as captain.While speaking before the committee, Councilor-at-large Robert Sullivan described the economic situation surrounding the ordinance as "asinine.""We're paying for two people to do the same job, in essence," Sullivan said.Stewart also raised a concern that there was no residency requirement included within the ordinance, but Carpenter countered that one was not included because he felt it was unnecessary based on the length of the commissioner's appointment."This is a temporary appointment to serve a term of no more than 12 months, so even under the city's residency ordinance, any new employee is allowed 12 months to relocate to city," Carpenter said.However, during the hearing, Stewart recommended that a residency requirement be added to the legislation in case a commissioner were to be appointed to more than one consecutive term.A number of councilors also raised questions about adding a "sunset provision" to the ordinance over concerns about how the ordinance could be used by mayors in the future.A sunset provision is a clause in a piece of legislation that states after a certain length of time or after a certain event, the legislation ceases to be in effect and the law reverts to what it was previously.Throughout the meeting, Carpenter repeatedly told councilors that he was only seeking the ordinance to make Hayden the head of the Police Department for one 12-month term, and, as such, he had no issue with including a sunset provision in the ordinance.Page 2 of 2 - Carpenter needs the ordinance to name Hayden the head of the department in order to circumvent a state law that requires police officers, including chiefs, to retire at age 65.Carpenter even proposed his own amendment during the meeting, which would sunset the ordinance once the "position of Commissioner of Police becomes vacant, either as a result of death, resignation or retirement."To that end, Carpenter also stated his intention to have Hayden help him select the department's next chief to further reiterate that Hayden's tenure as commissioner would be a one-time instance."It is my full intention upon Mr. Hayden completing his service to appoint a uniformed chief of police that I hope will come from the ranks of the Brockton Police Department," Carpenter said.Edward Donga may be reached at email@example.com MORE about this issue.
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If I'm inclined to bid NT with 15-17 points, but am weak in one suit, how weak can I be, and still bid 1NT, as opposed to bidding 1 club, to find out if my partner can show strength e.g. a stopper in my suit, by bidding it?
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Your partner's response(s) ought to give you a good idea of whether a no trumps contract is the correct one to pursue, or if you might be better off looking elsewhere.
Perhaps your partner will bid Stayman over your NT bid. If you find a satisfactory fit in hearts or spades, then the question of whether you have a shortage somewhere else becomes irrelevant (in fact, it turns into a bonus).
Otherwise, your partner may well - indeed, is statistically quite likely to - try to bid the suit that you are weak in. If he does, then this reinforces your initial assumption that a no trumps contract may be a good place to be.
If your partner avoids the suit you are weak in - especially if he avoids it twice, then perhaps NT is not such a good idea. However, if this is the case then he has almost certainly bid in a suit that you hold 4 cards in, by now. If so, you have a pretty good option to shift to, outside of no trumps!
If you have a balanced hand, 15-17 HCP, but you don't open 1NT, you may encounter difficulties rebidding.
For example, you open 1m and your partner responses 1NT, and then you are in a dilemma. Your 2NT rebid promises 18-19 HCP (between 1NT opening and 2NT opening), which is unsuitable now. Sometimes you reverse with a 4-card major and your parter goes 4M with only 8 points. Other times you pass or bid a 3-card suit, but your partner has 9-10 HCP.
For 15-17 HCP, I open 1NT for all 4-3-3-3, 4-4-3-2, 5m-3-3-2, and 5m-4-2-2. Whether to open 1NT for 5M-3-3-2 or 6m-3-2-2 is another question to discuss. Don't forget 1NT opening preempts opponents' majors!
I frequently open a 15-17 1NT with a small doubleton minor, but guarantee at least Qx or xxx in each major to stand partner's possible weak transfer.
A hand that fails this standard, but does not have a 5-card major, has at least 7 minor suit cards and thus is opening a 4-card or longer minor suit.


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1. What is the 48 Hour Film Project?
It's your chance to stop talking and start filming! The premise? Filmmaking teams have just one weekend to make a short film. All creativity—writing, shooting, editing and adding a musical soundtrack—must occur in a 48 hour window beginning Friday evening at 7:00pm and ending Sunday at 7:00pm. The following week, the completed films are screened to an eager audience.
2. How much does it cost?
The registration fee is for the entire team and includes two free tickets to the screenings (which are given to the team leader).
In the United States, registration fees vary from $125 to $175 per team, as follows:
First Year Cities
- $125 for each team
Repeat Cities
- Early Bird registration: $140
- Regular registration: $160
- Late registration: $175
For the registration fee outside the United States, please visit the webpage for that location.
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3. When will the 48 Hour Film Project come to my city?
The dates for each city are listed on our 48 Hour Film Project website. If we do not have listed dates, then the dates have not yet been determined. If you want to be the first to find out when the 48 Hour Film Project is coming to your city, sign up for your city's newsletter.
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4. What are the films about?
That's up to the filmmaker; however, each team must select the genre for its movie in a random drawing 15 minutes before the start of the competition. In 2015 there are 14 genres.
In addition, teams are given a character, a prop and a line of dialogue that must appear in their film.
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5. Who sees the films?
The films screen to sold-out audiences in every city we've visited. Of course the filmmakers, actors, family and friends are there to enthusiastically support the premiere of the weekend's work. But also supporters of the local film community, and discriminating viewers who want to see something new—something raw and alive—are there to feel the creative energy.
6. Who are the filmmakers?
The 48 Hour Film Project is open to all filmmakers, pro and novice alike. Rules state that all team members (crew and cast) must be volunteers. Most teams consist of film and video professionals. And teams have attracted some top talent on both sides of the camera. Martin Freeman, Penn of Penn and Teller, Dennis Farina, and Nick Clooney have all appeared in 48HFP films.
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7. Is there a limit to the number of people on a team?
No. Our smallest team was just one person—he sets up the camera then runs around to act. Our largest team to date was a team from Albuquerque with 116 people and 30 horses! The average, though, is about 15 people per team.
8. Am I allowed to be on more than one team?
Yes, you're allowed. We hope you can make the scheduling work out!
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9. How long are the films?
The films are short; they must be a minimum of 4 minutes and a maximum of 7 minutes long Short is good. Not only are shorter films tighter and usually more interesting, they are more marketable.
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10. Where and when are they shown?
On the first few days following the competition deadline, the movies are screened at a grand premiere in a local movie theater. A guaranteed standing-room-only audience of tired, excited filmmakers, crews and friends are in attendance to cheer on the films.
11. How is the event advertised?
The event is advertised by word of mouth, on the web, and via local press. Local filmmakers and organizations are our most vocal supporters and do a great job spreading the word. In each city, the 48 Hour Film Project has generated considerable interest from local and national media. From CNN to the Washington Post and LA Times—we've had coverage in hundreds of media outlets to date.
12. What should I do with my film after the competition?
Get it out there! Enter it into festivals, play it in public screenings, upload it to websites, get it on television, and show it to anyone you can. Be sure you abide by any restrictions in the Team Leaders's Agreement.
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13. May I show a modified version of my film?
Yes, presuming that the showing adheres to the Team Leader's Agreement that you signed when entering the 48 Hour Film Project. If it is a modified version of a 48 Hour Film Project film, please include a title card and a mention in the end credits that say:
The concept for this film developed during the 48 Hour Film Project. [competition:website]
14. Is this a contest and will there be a "Best of" selection?
Yes and yes.
One film in each city will be chosen Best of City.
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15. Will I win?
Depends on what you mean by winning. Countless filmmakers over the years have told us that the 48 Hour Film Project weekend was fantastic. They loved getting to use their creative talents; they had fun with their friends; and they made a film, too! So if winning means having a great time, you've got a very good shot at it.
There were over 4,000 entries in 2012 and we gave out more than 1,130 awards. There were 113 city winners...and only one grand prize. There are even more entries this year. So if winning means getting that grand prize, you've got your work cut out for you. But don't let that discourage you—you can do it!
16. Will I get rich?
Probably not. As far as we know, no one has made much money selling a 48 Hour Film Project film. However, some of our 48HFP filmmakers have had success with their films in other festivals including SXSW; one team won a $100K filmmaking package at a festival; and filmmakers have used recognition of their 48 Hour Film Project film to get paying work.
Additionally, we at the 48 Hour Film Project have set up an arrangement whereby if we're able to earn money by distributing your film, you will receive a portion of that money. We believe our arrangement is fair and equitable. As you may know, the market for short films is nearly non-existent. However, we do garner more interest in our films because of the 48-hour concept and the fact that they are part of a bigger collection. So, while folks have lots of fun doing the 48 Hour Film Project, they don't make lots of money.
17. Who judges the films?
In each city we gather a group of film and video professionals to serve as our judges.
These judges generally have extensive experience within the field. We require these judges to be fair and impartial. Our judges donate their time and talent to rate the films. In addition to determining the winner they also select a number of other awards. The judges on the national/international level have included actors such as Julianne Moore, directors such as Simon West (Con Air), and editors such as Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Bull, The Departed).
But no matter how careful we are in selecting our judges, judging itself is extremely subjective. So many times, two regarded critics feel markedly differently about the same film—remember the long debate between Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert about Apocalypse Now; remember Pauline Kael's ambivalent review of Star Wars. Similarly, on many occasions our favorite 48 Hour Film Project film of the year has not even won its city. When it comes to evaluating art, a lot comes down to matters of taste.
18. Can I or my organization be a sponsor?
Of course! Email Mark Ruppert, our Founder, to express interest.
19. Does the maximum length of the film include credits?
No. Your film may be 7 minutes long plus 1 minute of credits.
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20. Are credits in the beginning permissible?
Opening credits are allowed. They do not count against the credit time limit. However, they do count against the 7 minutes of film. Remember, the audience is here to watch, not read.
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21. Are we allowed to have footage under our closing credits?
Yes, however, the narrative must end before the closing credits begin. So outtakes, Ferris-Bueller-like antics, or bonus scenes are allowed. But if we removed the credits, the movie should still feel complete.
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22. Can I film outside of my city?
Absolutely! The only requirements are that you have a representative from your team at the Kickoff and that you deliver your film to the Dropoff. Other than that, it's up to you. We've had teams shoot hundreds of miles away from their host city. We've even had a Boston team upload footage from Panama!
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23. Are stock footage and photos allowed?
Stock film and video footage is prohibited, except as part of a special effects filter. However, if you have the rights to them, then stock photos are permitted. In other words, you may use photos not taken during the 48 hour time period. Note that photos cannot be used in sequence to create the illusion of motion.
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24. Is animation allowed?
Yes. However—while you may use still drawings created before the Project—you may not use sequences of drawings created before the Project to create the illusion of motion. Using existing images and 3D objects is permissible, provided that you have full and permanent rights to them. Again, only animation created during the 48 hour period is allowed. And, as with a live action film, you must have all rights to the animation you submit.
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25. What about special effects? What's allowed?
You may use special effects that involve any of the allowed elements that you have rights to: still photographs, footage shot during the 48 hours, or footage rendered during the 48 hours. You may also use stock footage if it is part of a post-production effect or on a background screen or television and the stock footage is placed over or under footage that is shot within the 48 hours. Stock footage of people or other performers is not allowed.
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26. May we include our logo that was made before the filmmaking weekend?
Yes, provided that it begins the film and is shorter than five seconds long. Note that the logo does count against the 7 minute running time of the film.
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27. Should we shoot in HD? Should we shoot in widescreen? Should we use surround sound?
Unless you are otherwise notified, your film will be shown in Standard Definition in stereo or mono. So you may shoot in HD or use surround sound, but the film will generally not be projected that way. Please make sure that you adhere to the format requirements found on your city page.
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28. Do I need to subtitle my film?
No. However, if the judges in your city cannot understand your film, they are less likely to give it awards.
29. My file doesn't fit on my flash drive. What do I do?
It might be that you've got the drive formatted for the wrong file system. Generally drives come formatted with the FAT32 file system, which cannot store files larger than 2GB. If you're on a Mac, format your drive to Mac OS X Extended (Journaled). If you're on a PC, format your drive to NTFS.
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30. Have any of the movies been shot on film?
Yes. Three 48HFP movies were shot at least partially on film stock. These teams had connections with labs that enabled them to develop the film and transfer it to one of our accepted formats in the 48 hour time period. We were quite impressed!
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31. Does every team member have to sign the Team Leader's Agreement?
No, only the team leader needs to sign it. However, everyone who works on the film must sign the Liability Waiver form. See the production documents page for more details.
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32. What's a logline?
A logline is a very short, catchy summary of the story, usually not longer than one sentence. We ask you to provide a logline for your film on the Wrap Up Form.
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl seeks a way home to Kansas, befriending along the way a scarecrow without a brain, a tin woodsman without a heart, and a lion without courage.
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33. Can we submit a faxed release form?
Yes, if you are working with someone out of town, can they fax or email you the release form? Please include a paper copy of the faxed or emailed release form with the rest of your paperwork.
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34. How do we document public domain or royalty-free music and photos?
Have the person who has the rights to the music or materials sign the release form. In the case of royalty-free materials, this is the person who purchased them. In the case of public domain materials, this could be anyone on the team. Please also include documentation that shows your rights to the music or materials, such as a license, a purchase receipt, or a statement by the author.
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35. Is music or materials from Creative Commons allowed?
You may use Creative Commons music or materials that are Attribution Only. If the Creative Commons license is either Non-Commercial or Sharealike, it is not compatible with the 48 Hour Film Project's Team Leader's Agreement and therefore cannot be used.
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36. Do I need a Location Release to shoot on public property?
No, but you may need a permit. We do not require you to prove to us that you received a permit, but you may be stopped from shooting or even fined if you do not have one. Please check with your local film commissioner.
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37. Can I get a copy of my submitted film and/or paperwork?
Yes, copies of the release forms and/or film may be requested by the team leader—or an individual release form by a team participant. To request a copy, please send a letter with your name, team name, the film name, the city, the year, and a check made out to the 48 Hour Film Project (to cover our costs). The check should be for $75 if you want just the paperwork, $100 if you want just the film, or $150 if you want both the film and the paperwork. Send these to:
The 48 Hour Film Project
Attn: Archive Request
PO Box 40008
Washington, DC 20016 USA
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38. Can the required character be heard instead of seen?
No, we must actually see the required character in some way on the screen. Just being audible off screen - like on the other end of a phone conversation - does not count. Remember, he/she need not be the star of the film, just make an appearance.
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39. Does the required character have to say his name or wear a name tag?
As long as the audience can infer who the character is, he/she doesn't need to be further identified.


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LAKELAND | Deputies are looking for a man who ran after crashing a car into a semi-truck, critically injuring a Lakeland woman early Tuesday.
A Saddle Creek Corp. semi-truck was heading north on Fish Hatchery Road in Lakeland about 12:30 a.m. when it was in a collision with a white 2013 Chevrolet Malibu at the intersection of Saddle Creek Road, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office.
The truck jackknifed and the driver of the Malibu ran from the scene, deputies said.
China Harris, 24, a passenger in the car, was critically injured in the crash and investigators have been unable to speak with her.
The unknown driver is described as a slender black man with short hair, wearing a white T-shirt.
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For example an electron radiates when accelerated. So does a positron. But is the radiation emitted by accelerated positronium the sum of the radiation emitted by each separately? If not, why not? If so, does this provide a way of testing whether a given neutral particle is composite? For example, does a neutron bremsstrahlung when decelerated?
In the view of classical electrodynamics, electron-positron pair would definitely emit radiation when accelerated. But in quantum mechanics, positronium at the singlet state (spin anti-parallel) with 0 orbital angular momentum will be perfectly spherically symmetric in its rest frame. In other words, it will have no net charge, net dipole moment, net quadruple moment, .... So it will not radiate. Triplet state and excited states may, however.
Neutron will surely emit radiation when accelerated, although very small, because it has non-zero magnetic dipole moment. That is not called bremsstrahlung however.
And this would not be a good way to probe whether a particle is composite or not. The higher-order radiation is small and hard to detect, and it is much more straightforward to simply measure dipole or quadruple moments.


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I am thinking about installing Ubuntu Studio on my new laptop, basically because Jack coexists with PulseAudio "out of the box" which I have found impossible to achieve in a previous installation. Also, it uses the low-latency kernel by default. However, I'd also like to keep using Gnome shell.
Hardware: Lenovo T430.
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but this brings along more than 100 extra packages, some of which I am not sure I really need. In addition, it asks if gdm should be the default display manager (instead of lightdm), however, according to Wikipedia, the former is the newer and better alternative. After keeping LightDM and changing the greeter to use the Unity greeter (the default greeter doesn't seem to recognize the new session types), I can log in to Unity but not to the good old Gnome shell.
This is just a brief summary of several hours of reinstalling Ubuntu Studio and trying to make things work.
What is the most robust path to achieve the desired result -- an installation with a low-latency kernel and working Jack, with Gnome shell?
Install Ubuntu Studio + ???, how to configure?
Install vanilla Ubuntu, add some packages from Ubuntu Studio, how to configure RT+Jack?
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The terms "Perseverance of the Saints," "Eternal Security," and the phrase "once saved, always saved" are a bit fuzzy in my head. I understand the general concept behind them, but what are the differences between these various views or doctrines?
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What is the difference between the doctrines of "Perseverance of the Saints" and "Eternal Security?"
Put simply, perseverance of the saints refers to the Calvinistic view that since Christians are chosen (or "elect") by God prior to conception, it is impossible to lose salvation - if we have it, we've always had it, if we "lose it," we never had it to begin with.
Eternal Security (Also known as "Free Grace") is the view that once someone believes in Jesus Christ as the their Lord and savior, they have eternal life.
"Once saved, always saved" is generally attributed to the former view, as it has to do with Calvinistic predestination, whereas the latter view says that once you make the "decision" to believe, you can't lose your promise of eternal life regardless of subsequent actions.


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Come Sail With Me is a quick and easy fusible applique project featuring sail boats. There is a full size pattern for easy tracing and placement. A great project for using up some of your scraps or those beautiful batiks you have been saving. A great raw edge applique project or needle turned applique. Finished wall quilt size - 32" X 39" Designed by Carolyn Vagts
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Dances Of Universal Peace
- When Multiple dates from Jan 12 - Jun 8, 2013 [days & times]
- Where First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego, 4190 Front Street, San Diego Map | Website
- Age limit All ages
- Categories Dance
- Cost Free
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An interfaith practice, inspired by and honoring the many wisdom traditions of the world. The Dances use sacred phrases, simple circle dances, and music to create an opportunity where hearts can open, spirits can soar, and a deeply-rooted peace can be experienced.
Since The Dances are is an experiential process, come ready to participate in some spiritual practice! No experience is necessary. Just bring your curiosity and your open heart and be prepared to dance.
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text: Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Beyond the Baseline Tweets of the Week: Fast-food runs, Jedi Nole and bacon deliciousness by Courtney Nguyen Twitter Email Posted: Fri Nov. 16, 2012 With the offseason finally here, some players are vacationing, others are working the exhibition circuit and at least one, apparently, is falling asleep at the sink. Here are some of the best tweets from the week.Tweet of the week: Andy Roddick, in Toronto for an exhibition with Milos Raonic, was served "Daniel Nestor" wine, much to his chagrin.http://twitter.com/MardyFish/statuses/269474895849734144Best of the rest10. Frightening: Well, Shahar Peer is a heck of a lot braver than I would be.http://twitter.com/shaharpeer/statuses/2691336887411916819. How do you really feel?: Mardy Fish co-signs Roger Federer's call for faster courts.http://twitter.com/MardyFish/statuses/2690690444711936008. Well, it is the offseason: Victoria Azarenka hits up the Golden Arches.http://twitter.com/vika7/statuses/2692183298168872977. Blonde ambition: Heh. Thunder Balls.http://twitter.com/geniebouchard/statuses/2692693350952755206. The Force is strong in this one: Jedi Nole did right by his Slovakian coach Yoda in stopping by Bratislava for an exhibition.https://twitter.com/DjokerNole/status/2688419411757793285. Full extension: Never trust a wife who has Twitter. Just never do it.https://twitter.com/BrooklynDecker/status/2687837140776673294. This Modern Love: Bloc Party and Rafa are on another level, according to Petko.https://twitter.com/andreapetkovic/status/2679880071377100803. That's awkward, Jurgen: Not every picture you take on your honeymoon needs to be tweeted, dude.http://twitter.com/jojomelzer/statuses/2690705711516958722. Robbo's tired: Laura Robson is in the midst of an intense training block, but never mind that. Why does she leave her shower gel next to the sink?https://twitter.com/laurarobson5/status/2670103665407426561. Bacon, Bacon, BACON!: Janko Tipsarevic speaks some truth. http://twitter.com/TipsarevicJanko/statuses/269139236475764736 More Beyond the Baseline


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Whenever I see clothing articles geared toward hiking and backpacking that discuss layering (base layer for wicking, mid layer for insulation, etc.), they always seem to discuss these things in terms of things you wear on your chest. How come we don't apply the same principles to our pants? How come I can't seem to find base layer and mid layer pants when trying to select gear for cold weather hiking?
I'm not sure why pants don't receive the same attention but the layers are available.
You can easily find base, insulating, and shell layers.
Olin's answer gives some good reasons layering pants may not seem as common. In reply:
(2) There are full-side-zip pants for mountaineers (crampons) and wide-opening pants for skiers/boarders and regular boots.
(3) Any time it's cold or wet I've used layers, and so did the people around me. Because a jacket is easier to put on everyone starts there when that is sufficient of course.
Actually, layering of clothing on the other parts of body is discussed, but not so often. There are many reasons for it:


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What I meant by "diminish" is the reduction in value of something abstract.
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The purpose of the principle is to set a standard of morality according to the promotion or __ of happiness among the individuals.
The blanks above should be filled with the noun of the verb "diminish".
Based on what I found on several sources on the internet, I found the noun: decrease & decline. But I cannot replace the blanks with "decrease" or "decline" because it seems to match in more concrete context such as numbers, graphs, etc. (If I don't sense it wrong).


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The 2013 Car Craft Street Machine NationalsWritten by Jeff Smith on October 25, 2013 Contributors: Wes Allison Back To Du Quoin!
In 1998, police, the mayor, and every peace-loving denizen of sleepy Du Quoin, Illinois, banded together with the proverbial pitchfork to drive the heathen street-machine guy out of town. Satisfied with their win, they failed to notice the deflated Pro Street heroes pushing their glory machines back into the black of the garage, unpopular, and unloved.
Years after Du Quoin's trend-setting and influential car culture slowly evaporated into the cracked earth, someone dared to consider a resurrection of the Street Machine Nationals in 2013. The idea began on social media and grew from there. Boys who were now men uncovered their cars and grabbed their kids to show them what they loved and remembered from so long ago. The police prepared the tear gas and lined the streets like the gathering of Vader's clone army ready to deliver the gavel, only to be greeted by grinning families packed into clean and tidy muscle cars, row upon row of them. Du Quoin was back.
We were there, too, without a clue as to what to expect. Could we resurrect the past glory of this show? Could this version of the show live up to anyone's expectations? Would people even show up?
Well, people did show up, and the turnout was better than we, or our corporate bean counters, had predicted. Passion ran high among the attendees, and nearly everyone we met thanked us profusely for bringing the show back to Illinois, while regaling us with tales of personal experiences from shows past. We listened with rapt attention.
To those who couldn't make it, study these pictures. Back home in Los Angeles, words fell short of describing the weekend to friends and family. Instead, we would invariably reach for the laptop, saying, "Wait, you just have to look at these pictures." If you like what you see, plan on joining us next year. If your car isn't ready, who cares? If it's driveable, bring it! Take pictures of it, if it's not; we want to see what you're working on. Your passion is what fuels us to make this magazine and host these shows.
Editor's Choice Awards
|Other award-winners are as follows:
|Troy Russell
|1962 Bel Air
|Scott Tiffany
|1967 Comet
|Josh Lester
|1993 Cutlass
|Brand X
|Gary Groeteka
|1969 AMC Rebel
|Adam Cox
|1954 Chevy
|Louis Jackson
|1955 Chevy
Miss Street Machine Nationals
Like we do at the Summer Nationals, the bikini contest was held on the main stage near the Chevrolet Performance display. Five ladies entered the contest, and the judges picked Miranda Smith as winner. Runners-up were Ashlyne Page and Josette St. John.
In the Company of Legends
It started with forum posts and a full-court press instigated by James Smith with a Facebook page to bring back the Street Machine Nationals. There was enough interest that many people started thinking, let's get the band back together. Source Interlink management and Family Events decided to take a chance, and the word quickly spread that Car Craft was going back to Du Quoin. But the only way it was going to be a hit was if all our friends showed up. And they did.
For those of us who lived those early Pro Street days, the 2013 Nationals was nothing less than 72 hours of fun that pulled old friends together. It was a great vibe to visit with Matt and Debbie Hay, drive Scott Sullivan's 1955 Chevy again after 20-plus years, trade jokes with Rick Dobbertin and wife Mary, learn that Rich Gebhardt has built his 500th (!) chassis, listen to Billy Wooten stories, and hear some amazing tales from Rod and Tina Saboury that will soon be transcribed into a full feature story. Mark Grimes kept it alive with his ice-blue, suicide-door 1965 Chevelle, and Gary Buckles of Dayton brought his slammed, blue Camaro that still looks amazing. Seeing Bob Maynard again after all these years was also a treat. Wally Elder and Al Maynard weren't able to make it, and you can tell them they missed a great party. Of course, we can't forget the effort that Toby Brooks put into this, which centered around his self-published book called Sensory Overload, an incredibly well-researched work on the history of the Street Machine Nationals. Bret Voelkel brought out his Pro Street Mustang that has changed very little, and there were plenty of Troy Trepanier cars to represent his contribution to the Nationals.
Then, there was Rocky Robertson. He wasn't going to show up. He thought he was too busy playing with boats and kicking back on the lake near his shop in Albers, Illinois, but good old peer pressure brought him around. Once he was back among his old pals, I think Rocky had the most fun of all of us. He brought his pink, injected V6 Buick right out of mothballs, and while it wasn't ready to rumble, it wasn't long before the talk turned to the now-familiar: "You know, it wouldn't take much to make this run again..."
I watched Matt and Debbie a bit more closely than the rest. I wondered how they would feel, attending a show like this without a car. Matt and Debbie are without a doubt the most gracious of all our Pro Street friends, and I knew that showing up in a rental car would just not feel right. They had made a run at buying their old Thunderbird, but it hadn't happened. At Du Quoin, Matt had on his game face throughout the weekend. Then, I received an email from him a day or so after the Nationals. He said Debbie announced, "We need a car!"
A wonderful woman, that Debbie Hay. But then, we already knew that.
Cruisin' With Cheese Whiz
It was a little more than 20 years ago when Scott Sullivan invited me to accompany him on a cross-country adventure. The plan was to prove his 1955 Chevy—to be later dubbed the Cheese Whiz car—was no fairgrounds queen. He wanted to drive his slammed Pro Streeter from Dayton to Los Angeles and then run 10s on the dragstrip. The story ran in the Dec. 1988 and Jan. 1989 issues of Hot Rod, and there were multiple roadside distractions including cracked wheels, blown tires, stuck overnight in the Utah desert, and surviving a tornado. So when Scott invited me to co-drive out to the Street Machine Nationals, I thought, what could go wrong? Thankfully, Mickey Thompson helped out with a new set of tires for the '55 to replace a set of 10-year-old, two-ply dirt track rear tires and aging fronts. The new M/T Street Radials made a wondrous change to the 1955's steering response and handling, while the addition of a set of single-adjustable RideTech shocks on all four corners allowed Scott to fine-tune the ride quality. After a quick test drive on Wednesday night, Scott said, "Man, I can't believe how much better this thing rides. I should have done this a long time ago."
Scott convinced his buddy, Joe Davis, to follow us in the Scott-built red Henry J., while Elaine Erisman rode shotgun. We didn't have any difficulties, and the drive was pleasant, while I resisted the urge to tweak the part-throttle air/fuel ratio. A lack of proper tuning equipment and carb gaskets kept me from doing my normal, "Hey Scott, you don't mind if I tweak that carburetor for you, do you?" routine. Fuel mileage was a bit of a buzzkill, but hey, it's a Lingenfelter 496ci Rat. We broke up the seven-hour cruise with a stop at Bret Voelkel's RideTech shop in his hometown of Jasper, Indiana, and got a tour of his expansive new facility. We also passed Rod Saboury pulling his new Corvette to the show on the freeway, which was a pleasant surprise. After an easy day on Friday, we decided to hook up with Matt and Debbie Hay, Rick Dobbertin and wife Mary, Rod and Tina Saboury, Street Machine Nationals book author Toby Brooks, and Scott and his crew. Sitting at the table at Applebee's, I got the feeling that this could have easily been 1986. We may all be a bit older, but the thrill is still alive.
Midnight Drags
Midnight Drags is a heads-up, drag-racing concept we've been kicking around for a couple years in our staff meetings, and with the help of some sponsorship money from Gear Vendors, it finally came to fruition at I-57 Dragstrip, a cool, old eighth-mile track in nearby Benton, Illinois. Track owner Scott Bailey runs a Grudge Match format on the weekends, and we joined in on the fun, offering a $1,000 prize and a Dickies CC jacket to the top dog.
We worried the sudden downpour two hours ahead of our scheduled start time on Saturday night would wash out the event completely. Instead, it merely pushed the schedule back a couple of hours, making Midnight Drags actually start at midnight—well, 11:30, but that's close enough. The rain did keep a few competitors away, but we were still impressed with both the turnout and the quality of the cars. The top guys were trapping faster than 130 mph in the eighth-mile. Those are low 8-second cars, my friends.
After several rounds of eliminations, Mitch Leidecker emerged victorious, driving his 1990 Mustang to the stripe just a bit quicker than first runner-up Nick Droit in his 1992 Camaro. We couldn't have scripted it better: Mustang versus Camaro in the final round.
|The Competitors
|Adam Shain
|2002 Corvette Z06
|Geoff Dugopolski
|1966 Malibu
|Brandt Greer
|1991 Mustang
|Tim Melvin
|1973 Nova
|Brian Burwell
|1955 Chevy
|Mark Faust
|1930 Model A
|Ryan Roberts
|1972 Nova
|Stanley Sutton, Jr.
|Nick Droit
|1992 Camaro
|Mitch Leidecker
|1990 Mustang
In our efforts to promote the return of the Street Machine Nationals, one of the most common reactions from readers was that they wanted extra coverage, which is what we've tried to do here. But even within eight pages, there is plenty we left out, so go to CarCraft.com to see a weekend recap by our online guy, Nik Kolenich, and additional photos we didn't have space for here.
This show would not have been possible without sponsorship from Chevrolet Performance, Gear Vendors, Painless Performance, RideTech, and Bowler Transmissions. Thank you for your support.
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Rick Cox of Lansing, Michigan, and his wife, Kelly, are also veterans of the Street Machine Nationals, having entered several cars in past shows. This year, Rick drove his Pro Street '73 Corvette from Lansing to attend the show, reporting no problems at all during the 1,000-mile round trip. It's got a 427 big-block and an M-22 four-speed.This month's Horsepower! spread featured Tony Mifflin's Camaro. His brother, Bob, and their friend, Linnie Hixenbaugh, all drove to the show together. Bob's Chevelle is in the center and is powered by a 555-inch big-block. He's getting it ready to compete in this year's Hot Rod Drag Week and is looking for mid-10s. Linnie's Camaro (right) is the group'sThe Pro Street look dominated the show. We could probably count on one hand the number of Pro Touring cars we saw the entire weekend. Whether or not you like the aesthetic, it was certainly interesting to be around this many Pro Street builds, and one of the wildest is Greg Carrasca's 1987 Chevy Sprint. He bought the car for $75 about 10 years ago with the intention of building it this way. For a while, he had a small-block in the engine compartment but eventually upgraded to a 454, most recently adding the 14-71 supercharger. A TH350 trans and narrowed truck 12-bolt round out the drivetrain. Greg boasted that the whole rear axle is only 27 inches wide between the 33x21.5 slicks. He works at Metalcrafters in Mammoth, Illinois, a company specializing in chassis building. Owner Kim Gough told us the Pro Street movement never died in the Midwest.Like any good car show, we gave awards out to our favorites. Editor Glad doled out the plaques on the main stage, while show emcee Joe Pagano (sporting the hat of power) handled the tunes.
Why are we running a picture of a 1991 Caprice wagon in Car Craft? Because owner James Borowiak used our articles to practice painting it before he tackles the restoration of the '69 GTO he's owned since he was 15. In the meantime, James and brother Bobby brought the Test Mule Wagon to Du Quoin.
Toby Brooks not only wrote a book on the show, called Sensory Overload, but he as much as anyone was the push behind bringing the Nationals back to Du Quoin. Go to the Sensory Overload Facebook page.Rod and Tina Saboury showed up with their latest Corvette adventure, a 1963 split-window Stingray with LS power and a Saboury custom chassis that he is now selling. If you want to know more, go to RodSaboury.com.Scott Sullivan never takes much of anything (except his cars) very seriously, so this is his mug shot response to being handed a pass tagging him as a Pro Street Legend.Mark Grimes returned with his Chevelle, looking as good as the year he built it. His family has grown since those early days, and they crammed into the Chevelle to be with him as it cruised into the fairgrounds.That's Rocky Robertson behind those shades. If you put Rocky and Scott Sullivan in a closed room, the energy generated could probably power a small city. Rocky kept both his car and that somewhat faded 1984 Street Machine Nationals T-shirt.If you think that Scott Sullivan works out of some professional-looking shop, think again. This is his normal working position on the 1955—lying on his back. This is also a great view of the new Mickey Thompson Sportsman S/R 33x22x15-inch radials and the new RideTech coilover shocks.Scott and the 1955 are now both a little older, but the Lingenfelter-built 496 under the throttle pedal is as strong as ever.We stopped several times for fuel, since the Scott-built custom fuel tank only holds 12 gallons. Scott also built the red 1951 Henry J., now owned by Bill Jergens. While we were at the fuel stop, a trucker came up to take a photo and told me his friend's name was Henry J. According to the trucker, his friend's father owned one of those cars and claimed his son was conceived in the back seat, so he named him Henry J. We're not creative enough to make up stories this good.
We approve of Chuck Johnson's 1979 Caprice. Formerly big-block-powered, he recently swapped an LS1 with LS6 heads and a Thumpr cam. This is a stealthy cruiser.J.J. Miller of Effington, Missouri, wanted us to see the registration stickers on his 1977 Caprice. He says he's been to every Street Machine Nationals since the beginning of the show. He used to work at the printing press where Car Craft was printed, so he always had first access to the magazine when it was literally hot off the press. "I entered every show and was never shut out, because I was the first one to get the registration form," he says.
In spite of the weather, participants flocked to the track, jamming up the access road. We heard locals saying this was one of the largest crowds the track has seen.The track crew did an excellent job of drying the track after the storm and keeping it sticky all night.Owner Scott Bailey's grudge format involved pairing competitors by randomly choosing names out of a hat for each round of eliminations.In the end, the final pairing came down to Nick Droit and Mitch Leidecker. Mitch's nitrous'd big-block-powered Mustang chased down Nick's ProCharger-equipped Camaro to take the win. Congratulations, Mitch, and thanks to all the Midnight Drags competitors for putting on a great show.


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Shakespeare Never Did This
Shakespeare Never Did This
Ecco, Paperback, 9780876859681, 176pp.
Publication Date: June 1, 2002
An account of Charles Bukowski's 1978 European trip. In 1978 Europe was new territory for Bukowski holding the secrets of his own personal ancestry and origins. En route to his birthplace in Andernach, Germany, he is trailed by celebrity-hunters and paparazzi, appears drunk on French television, blows a small fortune at a Dusseldorf racetrack and stands in a Cologne Cathedral musing about life and death.
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.


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Can $f(x)$ take the value of $\sqrt{2}$, where $$f(x) = \sin(x) + (\cos(x))^2\quad ?$$
When equating the value of $f(x)$ to $\sqrt{2}$, it gives imaginary values of $\sin(x)$.
Thanks in advance.
Can $f(x)$ take the value of $\sqrt{2}$, where $$f(x) = \sin(x) + (\cos(x))^2\quad ?$$
When equating the value of $f(x)$ to $\sqrt{2}$, it gives imaginary values of $\sin(x)$.
Thanks in advance.
Since $\cos^2x=1-\sin^2 x$, our equation becomes $\sin^2 x-\sin x+\sqrt{2}-1=0$.
Solve the equation $w^2-w+\sqrt{2}-1=0$. The roots are $$w=\frac{1\pm \sqrt{1-4(\sqrt{2}-1})}{2}.$$ The discriminant $1-4(\sqrt{2}-1)$ is negative, so our quadratic in $w$ has no real roots. It follows that there cannot be a real number $x$ such that $\sin x+\cos^2 x=\sqrt{2}$.
This does not fully answer the question. We can ask whether there are complex non-real solutions. For that, look at the two non-real values of $w$ obtained above. Call them $w_1$ and $w_2$. Recall that if $z$ is a complex number, then $$\sin z=\frac{e^{iz}-e^{-iz}}{2i}.$$ So we want to solve the equations $$e^{iz}-e^{-iz}=2iw_j \quad (j=1,2).$$ Multiply both sides by $e^{iz}$, and simplify. We get $$e^{2iz}-2iw_je^{iz}-1=0.$$ Make the substitution $u=e^{iz}$. We arrive at the equations $$u^2-2iw_j u-1=0 \quad (j=1,2).$$ These are a quadratic equation with complex coefficients. One can write down the solutions in more or less the usual way, and from them obtain the values of $z$ that work. There are infinitely many of them, just like there are, for example, infinitely many $x$ such that $\sin x=1/2$.
Remark To show that there are no real solutions, one does not need to recall the Quadratic Formula. We are interested in the equation $\sin^2 x-\sin x-1+\sqrt{2}=0$.
If we complete the square, we get $$\sin^2 x-\sin x-1=\left(\sin x-\frac{1}{2}\right)^2-\frac{5}{4}.$$ Since $\left(\sin x-\frac{1}{2}\right)^2\ge 0$, it follows that $\sin^2 x-\sin x-1$ must always be $-\frac{5}{4}$. Since $\sqrt{2}-\frac{5}{4}$ is positive, we conclude that we cannot have $\sin^2 x-\sin x-1+\sqrt{2}=0$. .
The local extrema will occur where $f\,'(x)=0$, or when factored, $(\cos x)(1-2\sin x)=0$. We can use the identity $\sin^2 x+\cos^2x=1$ to compute the possible extrema as
$$\cos =0 \implies \qquad \pm\sqrt{1-0^2}+0^2=\pm1 $$
$$\sin = 1/2 \implies \qquad \frac{1}{2}+\left|1-\frac{1}{2^2}\right|=5/4.$$
Of course $f$ is periodic and bounded so its image must be $(-1,5/4)$, which does not include $\sqrt{2}$.
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This reasoning applies to the reals. Allowing complex arguments is another story.
You ask if $f(x) = \sin x + \cos ^2 x$ can be equal to $\sqrt 2$. In short, no, it can't.
Now is when I take a moment to thank anon for noting that $1 < \sqrt 2$. That whole arithmetic thing.... yeah. Anyhow.
If one uses the first derivative test, then you can note that the max should occur around $\pi/6$ or $5 \pi / 6$ (plus multiples of $2\pi$ if desired). At both of these values, the function is a mere $1.25$, which (I hope anon checks me again) is less than $\sqrt 2$.
Put $\sin x =:u$. Then the question is whether the function $$g(u):=u+(1-u^2)={5\over4}-\Bigl(u-{1\over2}\Bigr)^2$$ can take the value $\sqrt{2}$ in the interval $-1\leq u\leq 1$. This is obviously not the case.


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