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The video Miracles has earned Insane Clown Posse many new fans and an unfair reputation as being anti-science. Insane Clown Polytechnic is trying to clarify this misconception. Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J have explained in interviews that they were promoting a positive appreciation for the natural wonders of the world.
Some people say we, the Juggalo fans of "The Insane Clown Posse", lack basic scientific understanding on subjects like fucking magnetism, light, and nature. Fortunately, us Juggalos will be outside the Warfield Theater on June 5th, 2010 to show that Juggalos understand science too.
To that end, we will be setting up a Science Fair outside the Warfield between 6pm-8pm to demonstrate several of the scientific principles which some people think confuse us.
"I am a scientist, and I have a PHD, and I love ICP's music and moderately insane amounts of Faygo. Scientist Juggalo is not an oxymoron!" —Dr Syzygy
There are several ways to participate in this event. Just add yourself as a volunteer to any section you'd like. No matter which you choose, please arrive at NoiseBridge at 4pm this Saturday, June 5th. There will be punch and pie.
If you would like to teach science to your fellow Juggalos, please prepare a hand-held scientific demonstration based on any of the subjects from the ICP song 'Miracles'. We will be hosting a planning meeting to discuss our science fair projects at 7pm on Wednesday, June 2nd, at Noisebridge. You don't have to come to the planning meeting to participate, just show up on Saturday.
We will be providing the following equipment for scientists:
- Borrowed Lab Coats (for mad science)
- Safety Goggles
- Poster Board + Markers
- Hephaestus
- Bob Dole
- Lamont - Fucking Magnets: Learn How They Work!
- Crutcher
- Dr. Laszlo "McMurder" Fuggnutz
- Reed (doing solar eclipse)
- Parintachin
- macegr - not noisebridge member but approve of juggalo outreach program
- Have my own labcoat already
- Will explain the pre-Aristotle elements, can manage cleanup on most other topics
- Made this today for show-and-tell: http://twitpic.com/1u9l6r
- showed up at 6:10 and guy said the science fair guys were told to go across the street, but I didn't see anybody over there :( 25 mile drive for nothing
- Update: apparently I was the first on the scene...thought I was late. I left after walking up and down the line and getting some yells about the magnet. In a way I'm glad I missed ICP following me to my car.
Lab assistants (i.e. help prep, but not appear as scientist at the event):
- DrSyzygy/Mikael
- Miah
- Doctor Popular
If you don't want to teach, but still want to participate in this event, please bring a camera and help document our endeavor.
- Everfalling
- DrSyzygy/Mikael
- Ani
- Sam
Some Juggalos may misunderstand us as haters rather than family. Some will not want to talk to a scientist. They will literally feel we be lyin, and gettin them pissed. For this reason, we would like a couple of volunteers to act as security for our scientists and documentarians to make sure that no harm comes to any of the Family, scientist or otherwise.
- Al Gore
- a big guy
Explanations For Nature's Miracles
- Pyramids
- Niagara Falls
- Oceans
- Stars
- Mountains
- Trees
- Seas
- Lava
- Snow
- Rain
- Fog
- Pets
- Sun
- Moon
- Mars
- Milky Way
- Shooting Stars
- UFOs
- Rivers
- Trees
- Rainbows
- I can take this one. However, it might be better if we had a more focused presentation on magnets, but with some ancillary experts on topics that Juggalos may be interested in. Flipzagging 17:08, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
- This is the one I've sat an thought about presentation ideas for. Really depends on how deep one wants to go - Huygens-Fresnel and wavefronts bending will need to be around if we wanna dig down, but the basic idea I've been thinking about is "Light bends when it slows down. Different materials let light go at different speeds. It all depends on wavelengths, and thus on color. Look here - a prism and a white LED keychain." Michiexile 02:10, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
- Richard Feynmann attempts to answer this question, with difficulty, after explaining that any answer he gives is likely to be unsatisfying. It's hard to discuss the fundamental forces in any terms other than their own. Mandatory listening for whoever's doing the magnets poster. -126.96.36.199 19:05, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Light never slows down, ever. Different colors refract at different angles because of their energy level. But all colors regardless of wavelength travel at the same speed - the speed of light. quasar
- Michiexile is correct. The velocity of light varies within substances. Snell's Law expresses the index of refraction at the boundary of two substances as the ratio of the the velocities of light within those substances. For example light goes almost half as fast through arsenic trisulfide as it does in air, so arsenic trisulfide has an IOR of 1.9. -Laszlo 18:20, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Cool, I did not know that. I see what you're saying. The way I'm reading it, it's not the light slowing down so much as light taking a break and spending some time in an electron. quasar
- A first approximation at something that can be said, and quickly, to this subject:
- http://img.skitch.com/20100604-p6kip79xgceh24ane4gqsjrwpy.png
- Michiexile 22:18, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
- How far do you want to go into this? "Why does light bend?" Eventually you will start to overlap with the magnet explanation! :) --Macegr 22:33, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
- It won't take long at all to start overlapping with magnets here. Not all that surprising either! The next step, however, is to talk about Huygens-Fresnel, and viewing each point along the refraction boundary as a wavesource, and then showing how the speed change makes the wavefronts change direction. Going even this deep, however, puts the whole explanation way past the one-sentence explanation, and even way past the 1-minute elevator talk. Michiexile 17:43, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
- Another part that I haven't even started to adress is "Why is the rainbow round?" - which ties in with the rainbow "really" being a circle, and with how we see each colour only through the exact raindrops that are at the right position for the light to bend just right to hit our eye - which happens, for a point-shaped light source (the sun) to be in a circle: the circle of things that are just the right amount of (angular) distance from a straight line, thus giving the circular "rainbow". Final bit of _this_ explanation, then, is the observation that usually, rainbows are visible with the sun in such an angle that the rainbow is partially hidden by the horizon. Michiexile 17:43, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
- I'm bringing a colour printout of the illustration I linked above today. If anybody wants to use it in an explanation of rainbows, that's awesome; otherwise - big deal. I'm a lab assistant, not a scientist (see above), anyway, so I won't do that much explanation tonight.
- How far do you want to go into this? "Why does light bend?" Eventually you will start to overlap with the magnet explanation! :) --Macegr 22:33, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
- Air
- Fire
- Water
- Solar Eclipses (dibs - Reed)
- Weather
- Magnets
- Pelicans
- Giraffes
- Music
- Love
- Dirt
- Metamorphosis
- Genetics
- Crows
- Ghosts
Laszlo would like to present cognitive dissonance theory as an explanation for how misattributed anger toward scientists can lead to their mischaracterization as motherfucking liars. Scientists can be Family too.
Things that are Miracles
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Faygo soda makes us insane cause of its sugar but insane amounts of Faygo cause premature death among Ninjas so I'm thinking to do a poster about the health benefits of "less is more" when it comes to Faygo. This is possibly a risky strategy as this pop is their holy sacrament and I'm not suggesting criticizing it, only advocating judicious use of this powerful high-fructose corn syrup-based sacrament.—Parintachin
- Consider going into the metabolic breakdown of fructose. I wasn't really sold on sugar being a problem until I saw Dr. Lustig's talk, and he's got some good stuff there. The catch is that sucrose is 50% fructose, and HFCS is 55%, so it's almost as bad either way. -Laszlo 20:07, 5 June 2010 (UTC)


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WK has now become the second Kentucky university behind Louisville to sell beer at athletic events.
The Athletic Department is saying the reaction has been nothing but positive.
"It's something that our fans wanted, it's something that they've become accustomed to at many of the other venues that they go to," WK Athletic Director, Todd Stewart says.
Stewart says since beer has been sold at places like the Hot Rods games and SkyPAC, fans have been requesting to have it on the WK concession menu for years.
However, he says it's most important to do so safely.
"You can't buy more than two beers at one time, we're cutting off sales after the third quarter, and in order to buy beer you have to get a non-transferable bracelet, and have your photo id before hand," Stewart says.
Even with record-breaking attendance at the last home game against Southern Miss, police say, safety has yet to be an issue.
"We were kind of nervous about the alcohol sales at first, not to say something won't happen we still have several games left, but so far everything's going well," Officer Mandy Johnson with WK Police says.
And the option to have beer at the game helps several tailgaters get there by kick-off.
"Usually before they had beer people would tailgate and drink their beer in the red cups, cover it up in the parking lots and whatnot, but now that beer is sold in the stadium it's bring more people in," says WK Freshman, Gloria Akakpo.
"This might just bring more people into the game, where they can drink once they're inside of the stadium," Officer Johnson says.
While a few fans don't like the new menu choice.
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Others say it's one reason for the crowd.
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Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal praised the increasingly cooperative relationship between the Kingdom and China during a joint press conference held in Riyadh on Tuesday following talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. "The Saudi-Chinese relationship is in its early days," he commented. "However, I expect a huge boom in the future." Yang's visit coincides with the 20th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Prince Saud noted that the day's meeting involved consultations on several international issues, including the Palestinian crisis, Iran's nuclear program, the situation in Iraq and the fight against terrorism.
Regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict, Prince Saud criticized Israel for ignoring U.N. resolutions and rejecting reasonable proposals to resolve the situation. Arab countries have done their duty by presenting the Arab Peace Initiative, he insisted, which gives Israel the security it seeks, but if one party does not want peace, then peace won't be achieved. For his part, Foreign Minister Yang reaffirmed China's call for serious negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis with the ultimate goal being the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Turning to the Iranian nuclear standoff, Prince Saud stated, "I have told His Excellency of our support for the efforts of the P5-plus-1, of which China is a member, aimed at solving the crisis through dialogue and by peaceful means, and guaranteeing the right of Iran and other states in the region to the peaceful use of nuclear energy, according to the standards and procedures of International Atomic Energy Agency." The Chinese Foreign Minister agreed that the Iranian nuclear file should be solved through political diplomatic channels with an eye towards regional stability.
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Is there any way to find out how many copies of a set were produced? I would like to know how rare some of my older sets actually are.
There is an indication of the rarity of a set in the LEGO Collector's Guide.
I assume it's the same in the second edition as well, as this is what the two reviews of it on Brickset have to say:
So you can see both reviews consider this rating system to be pretty much useless (and the reviews of first editions weren't better) and it doesn't indeed compare to actual figures. However, the fact that they weren't able to secure any is probably a fairly good indication that these figures are not available to the general public. (And knowing LEGO, there's a chance that they haven't kept figures themselves from the distant past anyway.)
So while this is far from an actual answer to your question, the rarity rating of the Collector's Guide is probably the closest you'll ever get. Maybe a future edition will have more, but I wouldn't count on it.


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The Naugatuck Valley League has joined forces with the South-West Conference to schedule nonleague football games for the 2013 and 2014 seasons.
Naugatuck athletic director Tom Pompei, the NVL president, said the games will be played in Week 6 of each of those seasons. The matchups were determined after examining the win-loss records for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. The home team will determine the date and time of each game.
In 2013, the most intriguing meeting is perennial state power Masuk playing at 18-time state champion Ansonia, the two-time defending NVL champion.
Other matches in 2013 include Newtown at Wolcott, Holy Cross at Weston, Woodland at Pomperaug, Joel Barlow at Torrington, Bunnell at Naugatuck, Seymour at Oxford, Derby at Bethel, Brookfield at Wilby, New Fairfield at Sacred Heart, Watertown at New Milford, Kennedy at Stratford, Notre Dame-Fairfield at St. Paul and Immaculate at Crosby.
In 2014, the schedule consists of Wolcott at Masuk, Ansonia at Newtown, Pomperaug at Holy Cross, Weston at Woodland, Naugatuck at Joel Barlow, Torrington at Bunnell, Bethel at Seymour, Oxford at Derby, Sacred Heart at Brookfield, Wilby at New Fairfield, Stratford at Watertown, New Milford at Kennedy, Crosby at Notre Dame and St. Paul at Immaculate.
Should Oxford join the NVL — it has formally applied and is awaiting word from the league for next year — it wouldn't affect these games at all, noted Woodland athletic director Brian Fell, who handles the scheduling for the NVL.
Seymour plays at Oxford in 2013 and Oxford visits Derby in 2014.
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The striker has continually being linked with a move away from Signal Iduna Park, and his agent has now suggested that he could leave the club at the end of the campaignRobert Lewandowski's representative, Cezary Kucharski, has hinted that the Poland international could leave Borussia Dortmund at the end of the season.
The striker has caught the attention of Manchester United and City with his goalscoring performances for the reigning Bundesliga champions, while Bayern Munich and Juventus are also believed to be interested in signing the 24-year-old.
"Robert has made his decision. Only he decides when he will make his decision public, though," Kucharski said in a Polish talkshow.
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9/4/14 - The Columbus Crew managed to hold onto the crucial fifth spot in the Eastern Conference, despite suffering a 2-0 loss to the Montreal Impact on the road last weekend. Even though the Crew entered the game on a roll of form, the squad largely failed to generate many scoring chances against the Impact, who were motivated by the debut of a new acquisition as a Designated Player, and who was responsible for both Montreal goals. The Crew pressed hard in the second half, forcing the Impact netminder into key saves, but were unable to find the back of the net. The Crew are back home this weekend to face C.D. Chivas USA.
8/27/14 - The streaky Columbus Crew are at it again, this time on a hot streak. After a surprising blowout of Western Conference contender Los Angeles, the Crew welcomed Eastern rival Houston to Crew Stadium, and for the second straight weekend, it was a big night for the offense, as the Crew kept pace in the conference race with a 3-0 shutout of the Dynamo. Justin Meram maintained his run of good form for the Crew, scoring the game's first goal; then, notching an assist with a well-placed cross to teammate Adam Bedell in the 59th minute that led to the Crew's second goal. The final goal was scored for Columbus by second-half substitute Aaron Schoenfeld. The Crew are level on points with Toronto, who owns the tiebreaker on head-to-head results, and two points clear of New York, who holds down fifth place on the East ladder. The Crew close out their August schedule with a visit to Montreal this weekend.
8/21/14 - The Columbus Crew were not kind hosts to the hot side of the moment, Los Angeles, as the Crew laid a Massive smackdown in a 4-1 victory this past weekend. Crew forward Justin Meram played a key role early, opening the scoring for the Yellow and Black in the 23rd minute with a tricky spin followed by a curving shot that beat the Galaxy goalkeeper. Meram would collect an assist just 10 minutes later, faking a shot then playing a through ball to teammate Ethan Finlay who timed a cut to the goal just right to double the Columbus lead. After allowing the Galaxy to cut the lead in half not long into the second half, the Crew took advantage of L.A.'s offensive pressure to score a pair of goals on the counterattack, first by Ben Speas, then Giancarlo Gonzalez. The Crew hope to stay in the playoff hunt when Houston comes to town this weekend.
8/14/14 - For the first several years after Major League Soccer expanded into Canada with the creation of Toronto F.C. and the so-called "Trillium Cup" competition the following year, the Columbus Crew dominated their rivals from the Great White North, winning all but one year. This year, however, saw the Crew fall for just the second time, as TFC claimed the final match of the season between the two teams by a 3-2 scoreline, and for the first time won all three meetings by an 8-4 aggregate score. The Crew were on their back foot the entire match, playing catch-up all game as Toronto opened the scoring, followed by a Crew goal scored by Federico Higuain via penalty kick in the 45th minute. Toronto needed just 15 minutes in the second half to move on top, then Justin Meram re-equalized at the 82nd minute. However, the Crew gave up the game-winner just two minutes later. Columbus hosts the high-flying Los Angeles Galaxy this weekend.
7/30/14 - Moving into fourth place in the East, the Columbus Crew got a late strike from Ethan Finlay to grab a 2-1 victory on the road at New England, who have now lost eight straight. The victory was the Crew's second straight win after a tough winless skein that reached seven games. While the Revolution had a number of scoring opportunities in the first half (including 15 corner kick opportunities), but it was Columbus who got on the scoreboard first, off a free kick from Federico Higuain in the 43rd minute. The Revs equalized just a few minutes into the second half, but in the 84th minute, Finlay collected a nice through ball from teammate Justin Meram, who had just entered the game, and Finlay made no mistake with his shot. The Crew head to the home of rival Chicago this weekend.
7/23/14 - In a tight week on the schedule, the Columbus Crew split a pair of home games, falling 2-1 to visiting Sporting Kansas City in a midweek match, followed by a 2-1 victory over Montreal Impact on the weekend. While the Crew were bolstered somewhat by the return of defenders Giancarlo Gonzalez and Waylon Francis from the surprising Costa Rica national squad, the team's lack of healthy forwards meant that playmaker Federico Higuain had to start the game as the lone forward. After SKC struck first shortly before halftime, the Crew got a bit of luck about 15 minutes into the second half, going up a man, and a few minutes later the recipient of an own goal by Kansas City. But SKC would get their gamewinner shortly before the final whistle. However against the Impact, the Crew's fortunes were reversed, getting a pair of goals from Bernardo Anor, his first since Opening Kick in March. After a midweek friendly against English side Crystal Palace, the Crew head to Foxborough, Mass. to take on New England.
7/16/14 - Last weekend's match between the Columbus Crew and New York Red Bulls was not pretty for the Black and Gold, who fell to the Red Bulls 4-1 at Red Bull Arena. The Crew could not keep the French former international star Thierry Henry down, as Henry scored once and notched three assists for the Red Bulls, who moved three points ahead of the Crew while solidifying for now their grip on fifth place in the Eastern Conference. The Crew's lone tally came from sub Adam Bedell, who snapped a Crew scoreless streak that dated back to late April. The Crew also lost Jairo Arrieta to injury during the game, and will be without the services of Bernardo Anor their next game, after Anor was ejected for a second yellow card during the game. That next game for the Crew will be a midweek tilt against second place Sporting Kansas City, followed by another home match, this one against Montreal.
7/9/14 - It took some late effort but the Columbus Crew managed to get a point from a 1-1 draw with Colorado on an Independence Day trip to see the Rapids, keeping the Crew close to the top five in the Eastwern Conference of Major League Soccer. The Crew got their equalizing goal in the 76th minute of the match, when a Colorado midfielder made a poor back pass, which allowed Ethan Finlay to collect his fourth goal of the season. The Crew are actually even on points with New York, though the Red Bulls have a tiebreaker advantage at the moment. The Crew will attempt to break that deadlock in their next game, as a matter of fact, heading to New Jersey to take on the Red Bulls this weekend.
6/26/14 - Despite taking a lead late in the second half, the Columbus Crew couldn't finish off Eastern Conference rival Chicago in their U.S. Open Cup matchup, as the Fire advanced to the quarterfinals of the nation's oldest cup competition 4-2 after extra time. The Crew's Jairo Arrieta put one home in the 55th minute on a classic bicycle kick from six yards out; then 15 minutes later, Bernardo Anor found a deflected shot in his path and sent home a low shot for the Crew's second goal. The Fire re-tied the score in the 83rd minute, then a few minutes into extra time, sent another one into the back of the net, and added an insurance goal in the 108th minute for the final scoreline. The Crew resume MLS play this Saturday when they host F.C. Dallas at Crew Stadium, followed by an Independence Day visit to Colorado.
6/19/14 - In a game that was probably closer and more difficult than they would have liked, the Columbus Crew defeated North American Soccer League side Indy Eleven of Indianapolis 2-1 after extra time, in a midweek U.S. Open Cup match played at InfoCision Stadium at the University of Akron. The Crew jumped out to a fast lead when Bernardo Anor sent one home in just the fourth minute of the game, but then things turned sour for Columbus, as they would find themselves a man down to Indy for most of the rest of the game – a situation exacerbated in the 110th minute when a second man was ejected. However, Indy could not take advantage, and ultimately committed a foul in their penalty area, leading sub Jairo Arrieta to slot home the spot kick and give the win to the Crew. Columbus returns to Crew Stadium for their next MLS tilt, when FC Dallas come to town on June 28.
6/16/14 - The Columbus Crew caught a lucky break in their game against D.C. United, part of a soccer doubleheader at FedEx Field in suburban Landover, Md. with a Spain-El Salvador friendly (won by La Furia Roja 2-0). The luck came late in the second half, when DCU's Fabian Espindola's penalty kick – awarded when the Crew's Bernardo Anor was called for a handball in the penalty area – went right into the hands of Crew goalkeeper Steve Clark. The blown PK by Espindola was the best scoring opportunity by either team on the night; the Crew were outshot by DCU 14-10, with United notching three shots on goal to Columbus's two, and Columbus also lost the possession battle as well, 52.1% to 47.9%. Next up for the Crew is a unique trip to the University of Akron's FirstEnergy Stadium on June 17, for a U.S. Open Cup battle with the North American Soccer League's Indy Eleven, a second-division side. Their next MLS battle will occur on June 28, when F.C. Dallas comes to Crew Stadium.
6/3/14 - The Columbus Crew's last game in May was the second of their Trillium Cup matches with fellow Eastern Conference foe Toronto F.C., north of the border at Toronto's lakeside BMO Field. (For the record, the great white trillium is the official provincial flower of Ontario, and also the official state wildflower of Ohio – hence the naming inspiration for the rivalry cup.) Unfortunately for the Massive side, TFC emerged victorious 3-2 on a pair of goals from longtime English Premier League star Jermain Defoe, and a late gamewinner by Doneil Henry, giving the Canadians ownership of the rivalry cup for just the second time since its creation. The Crew held leads of 1-0 and 2-1 at points; Columbus forward Justin Meram opening the scoring in the first half, and Agustin Viana putting the Black and Yellow back in front in the 65th minute. But Henry's injury-time strike put the game and the Trillium Cup out of reach for 2014. The Crew have a pair of games this week, on June 4 against Real Salt Lake at Crew Stadium, then pay a visit to D.C. United this weekend.
5/21/14 - The scoring drought is over for the Columbus Crew…but the winless streak continues, with a 3-3 draw on the road at Portland. Federico Higuain put away two first-half goals, a 25 yard chip shot in the 14th minute and a penalty kick given in stoppage time when Portland defender Futty Danso pulled down the Crew's Giancarlo Gonzalez in the box on a corner kick. The second half was quiet for much of the duration, until a wild finish saw three goals (one by the Crew, two by the Timbers) scored in a five minute stretch between the 80th and 95th minutes. Despite giving up two points with the equalizing goal by Portland, the single point earned by the Crew moves them up to sixth place in the Eastern Conference, with 13 points. The Crew host Chicago this weekend.
5/8/14 - Just three points separate the top five sides in Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference, from the three-way logjam among Sporting Kansas City, the New England Revolution and New York Red Bulls at the top, through resurgent D.C. United. In the midst of this bunch are the Columbus Crew, who were unable to gain some ground in a 2-0 loss to Sporting KC in Kansas last weekend. After taking on the Houston Dynamo on April 7, the Crew return home for a battle with Vancouver this weekend; midfielder Wil Trapp will be back in the starting XI for the Crew after missing the first game in his MLS career due to a pair of yellow cards earned in the loss to Kansas City.
4/30/14 - They're yellow, and they're Massive, and they're atop Major League Soccer's Eastern Conference. A home draw with New York Red Bulls has given the Columbus Crew a one-point cushion in the East table going into May's action, when the Crew heads to Sporting Park on May 4 to take on defending MLS Cup holders Sporting Kansas City. Leading the way with the Massive attack is forward Federico Higuain, whose four goals have him tied for fourth leaguewide with D.C.'s Fabian Espindola. Five players total have found the back of the net for the 3-1-3 (W-L-D) Crew; aside from Higuain, forward Jairo Arrieta (two goals), and midfielders Bernardo Anor (two goals), Hector Jimenez and Justin Meram (one goal each) have tallied for the Crew through their first seven games.
Columbus Crew hope to live up to their "Massive" nickname in 2014, after a disappointing 2013 season that saw the Crew let go of longtime head coach (and former Crew stalwart player) Robert Warzycha, as well as interim coach Brian Bliss. Gregg Berhalter was named the new coach late in 2013, after the completion of the regular season. Returning for the Crew are team captain and sole Designated Player, Argentine forward Federico Higuain, who found the back of the net 11 times in all competitions, second only to Ghanian Dominic Oduro (13), who also returns for the Crew.
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6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America
#3. Everything You Know About Columbus Is a Calculated Lie
The Myth:
Columbus discovered America thanks to a daring journey across the Atlantic. His crew was about to throw him overboard when land was spotted. Even after he landed in America, Columbus didn't realize he'd discovered an entire continent because maps of America were far less reliable back then. In one of the great tragedies of history, Columbus went to his grave poor, believing he'd merely discovered India. Nobody really "got" America's potential until the pilgrims showed up and successfully settled the country for the first time. Nearly 150 years might seem like a long time between trips, but boats were really slow back in those days, and they'd just learned that the Atlantic Ocean went that far.
"Pile into a tiny boat with dozens of filthy people for months on end" isn't the world's most attractive sales pitch.
The Truth:
First of all, Columbus wasn't the first to cross the Atlantic. Nor were the vikings. Two Native Americans landed in Holland in 60 B.C. and were promptly not given a national holiday by anyone. Columbus didn't see the enormous significance of his ability to cross the Atlantic because it wasn't especially significant. His voyage wasn't particularly difficult. They enjoyed smooth sailing, and nobody was threatening to throw him overboard. Despite what history books tell kids (and the Internet apparently believes), Columbus died wealthy, and with a pretty good idea of what he'd found -- on his third voyage to America, he wrote in his journal, "I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown."
"Unknown" in this context means "inhabited by tens of millions."
The myths surrounding him cover up the fact that Columbus was calculating, shrewd and as hungry for gold as the voice over guy in the Cash4Gold ads. When he couldn't find enough of the yellow stuff to make his voyage profitable, he focused on enslaving Native Americans for profit. That's how efficient Columbus was -- he discovered America and invented American slavery in the same 15-year span.
There were plenty of unsuccessful, mostly horrible attempts to settle America between Columbus' discovery and the pilgrims' arrival. We only hear these two "settling of America" stories because history books and movies aren't huge fans of what white people got up to between 1492 and 1620 in America -- mostly digging for gold and eating each other.
When people talk about traditional American values, this is what they mean.
They also show us white Europeans being unable to easily defeat a native population that hadn't yet been ravaged by plague. It wasn't coincidence that the pilgrims settled America two years after New England was emptied of 96 percent of the Indians who lived there. According to James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, that's generally how the settling process went: The plague acted as a lead blocker for white European settlers, clearing the land of all the natives. The Europeans had superior weapons, but they also had superior guns when they tried to colonize China, India, Africa and basically every other region on the planet. When you picture Chinese or Indian or African people today, they're not white because those lands were already inhabited when the Europeans showed up. And so was America.
American history goes to almost comical lengths to ignore that fact. For instance, if your reading comprehension was strong in middle school, you might remember the lost colony of Roanoke, where the people mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind only one cryptic clue: the word "Croatan" carved into the town post. As we've covered before, this is only a mystery if you are the worst detective ever. Croatan was the name of a nearby island populated by friendly Native Americans. In the years after the people of Roanoke "disappeared," genetically impossible Native Americans with gray eyes and an "astounding" familiarity with distinctly European customs began to pop up in the tribes that moved between Croatan and Roanoke islands.
"It must be written in a cypher of some sort. Let's just go ahead and call it alien abduction."
#2. White Settlers Did Not Carve America Out of the Untamed Wilderness
The Myth:
The pilgrims were the first in a parade of brave settlers who pushed civilization westward along the frontier with elbow grease and sheer grizzled-old-man strength.
The Truth:
In written records from early colonial times, you constantly come across "settlers" being shocked at how convenient the American wilderness made things for them. The eastern forests, generally portrayed by great American writers as a "thick, unbroken snarl of trees" no longer existed by the time the white European settlers actually showed up. The pilgrims couldn't believe their luck when they found that American forests just naturally contained "an ecological kaleidosocope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory and oak."
"We have hours of weeding ahead of us, but by the grace of God, we will persevere."
The puzzlingly obedient wilderness didn't stop in New England. Frontiersmen who settled what is today Ohio were psyched to find that the forest there naturally grew in a way that "resembled English parks." You could drive carriages through the untamed frontier without burning a single calorie clearing rocks, trees and shrubbery.
Whether they honestly believed they'd lucked into the 17th century equivalent of Candyland or were being willfully ignorant about how the land got so tamed, the truth about the presettled wilderness didn't make it into the official account. It's the same reason every extraordinarily lucky CEO of the past 100 years has written a book about leadership. It's always a better idea to credit hard work and intelligence than to acknowledge that you just got luckier than any group of people has ever gotten in the history of the world.
"Holy crap, it's already wired for Wi-Fi!"
Nobody's role in settling America has been quite as overplayed as the pilgrims'. Despite famous sermons with titles like "Into the Wilderness," the pilgrims cherry-picked Plymouth specifically because it was a recently abandoned town. After sailing up and down the coast of Cape Cod, they chose Plymouth Rock because of "its beautiful cleared fields, recently planted in corn, and its useful harbor."
We're always told that the pilgrims were helped by an Indian named Squanto who spoke English. How the hell did that happen? Had he taken AP English in high school? The answer to that question is the greatest story your history teachers didn't bother to teach you. Squanto was from the town that would become Plymouth, but between being born there and the pilgrims' arrival, he'd undergone an epic journey that puts Homer's Odyssey to shame.
And at the end, instead of bangin' his hot wife, he had to teach white people how to bury dead fish with corn kernels.
Squanto had been kidnapped from Cape Cod as a child and sold into slavery in Spain. He escaped like the boy Maximus he was, and spent his better years hoofing it west until he hit the Atlantic Ocean. Deciding that swimming back to America would take too much time, he learned enough English to convince someone to let him hitch a ride to "the New World." When he finally got back home, he found his town deserted. The plague had swept through two years before, taking everyone but him with it.
when the pilgrims showed up, instead of being pissed at the people from the Continent who had stolen his ability to grow up with his family, he decided that since nobody else was using it, he might as well show them how to make his town work.
"And this is the sea. I'd recommend bathing in it, because you people smell like the inside of my asshole."
This is especially charitable of him when you realize that, while the pilgrims were nicer than past settlers, they weren't exactly sensitive to Squanto's plight. According to a pilgrim journal from the days immediately after they arrived, they raided Indian graves for "bowls, trays, dishes and things like that. We took several of the prettiest things to carry away with us, and covered the body up again." And yet Squanto taught them how to make it through a winter without turning to cannibalism -- a landmark accomplishment for the British to that point.
Compare that to Jamestown, the first successful settlement in American history. You don't know the name of the ship that landed there because the settlers antagonized the natives, just like the vikings who came before them. The Native Americans didn't have to actively kill them. They just sat back and laughed as the English spent the harvest seasons digging holes for gold. The first Virginians were so desperate without a Squanto that they went from taking Indian slaves to offering themselves up as slaves to the Indians in exchange for food. Enough English managed to survive there to make Jamestown the oldest successful colonial settlement in America. But it's hard to turn it into a religious allegory in which white people are the good guys, so we get the pilgrims instead.
If this were accurate, the settlers would be shitting in bushes while the Indians told them which leaves were safe to wipe with.
#1. How Indians Influenced Modern America
The Myth:
After the natives helped the pilgrims get through that first winter, all playing nice disappeared until Dances with Wolves. Even the movies that do portray white people going native portray it as a shocking exception to the rule. Otherwise, the only influence the natives seem to have on the New World and the frontiersmen is giving them moving targets to shoot at, and eventually a plot outline for Avatar.
It's pretty much just this and Kevin Costner until Wounded Knee.
The Truth:
The fake mystery of Roanoke is a pretty good key for understanding the difference between how white settlers actually felt about American Indians and how hard your history books had to ignore that reality. Settlers defecting to join native society was so common that it became a major issue for colonial leaders -- think the modern immigration debate, except with all the white people risking their lives to get out of American society. According to Loewen, "Europeans were always trying to stop the outflow. Hernando De Soto had to post guards to keep his men and women from defecting to Native societies." Pilgrims were so scared of Indian influence that they outlawed the wearing of long hair.
Ben Franklin noted that, "No European who has tasted Savage Life can afterwards bear to live in our societies." While "always bet on black" might have been sound financial advice by the time Wesley Snipes offered it, Ben Franklin knew that for much of American history, it was equally advisable to bet on red.
"It's this, or powdered wigs and sexual repression."
Franklin wasn't pointing this out as a critique of the settlers who defected -- he believed that Indian societies provided greater opportunities for happiness than European cultures -- and he wasn't the only Founding Father who thought settlers could learn a thing or two from them. They didn't dress up like Indians at the Boston Tea Party ironically. That was common protesting gear during the American revolutions.
For a hundred years after the American Revolution, none of this was a secret. Political cartoonists used Indians to represent the colonial side. Colonial soldiers dressed up like Indians when fighting the British. Documents from the time indicate that the design of the U.S. government was at least partially inspired by native tribal society. Historians think the Iroquois Confederacy had a direct influence on the U.S. Constitution, and the Senate even passed a resolution acknowledging that "the confederation of the original thirteen colonies into one republic was influenced ... by the Iroquois Confederacy, as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the constitution itself."
If we'd incorporated their fashion sense, C-SPAN would be more interesting.
That wasn't just Congress trying to get some Indian casino money. The colonists came from European countries that had spent most of their time as monarchies and much of their resources fighting religious wars with each other. They initially tried to set up the colonies exactly like Western Europe -- a series of small, in-fighting nations stacked on top of each other. The idea of an overarching confederacy of different independent states was completely foreign to them. Or it would have been. But as Ben Franklin noted in a letter about the failure to integrate with one another:
"It would be a strange thing if six nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming a scheme for such a union and be able to execute it in such a manner as that it has subsisted ages and appears insoluble; and yet that a like union should be impracticable for 10 or a dozen English colonies."
Join, or die (or plagiarize from the Indians).
In 1987, Cornell University held a conference on the link between the Iroquois' government and the U.S. Constitution. It was noted that the Iroquois Great Law of Peace "includes 'freedom of speech, freedom of religion ... separation of power in government and checks and balances."
Wow, checks and balances, freedom of speech and religion. Sounds awfully familiar.
One of the strangest legacies of America's founding is our national obsession with the apocalypse. There's a new JJ Abrams show coming this fall called The Revolution about a post-apocalyptic America, and of course The Hunger Games. We go to a gift shop in Arizona and see dug-up Indian arrowheads, and never think "this is the same thing as the stuff laying around in Terminator or The Road or that part in The Road Warrior where the feral kid finds a music box and doesn't know what it is."
We love the apocalypse as long as nobody acknowledges the truth: It's not a mythical event. We live on top of one.
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I have and USB key with Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (kernel 3.2.0) on it. Recently I have bought an Asus EEEPC 1015 CX. I am unable to boot this USB key on it.
Moreover, I have older USB key with 10.04 LTS installed (kernel 2.6.33) which also doesn't boot.
I was suspecting this to be a kernel problem, so I have tried other kernel versions, namely 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7 from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/, but this didn't help.
Symptoms: in recovery mode: boot process prints "Loading initial ramdisk ...", then screen refreshes and it gets stuck with cursor blinking in top left part of the screen.
in normal mode: all I get is a blank screen.
Thank you for any ideas.


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I wonder how to draw such path diagrams with minimal effort.
I wonder how to draw such path diagrams with minimal effort.
Here is another solution using
TiKZ is an awesome package for making diagrams. Because you do it programmatically rather than interactively, you can make images very precisely, and with higher-level concepts; but it involves some forethought if you want to do it quickly. I will describe the workflow, in order to describe not just what code would produce this image, but to indicate how you can go about designing code to produce this image.
Obligatory pre-amble
Use something like this at the beginning of your document.
The command
Defining styles
Your picture has several nodes (boxes, ellipses) with common features. We define different styles of nodes which more-or-less duplicate them. You should name them more intelligently than I have. All of these are settings which describe how they ought to look. (The "
There are also different kinds of arrows which are repeated: we define styles for those as well. (Here, "
Ad-hoc commands
Some of your nodes have features such as labels with multiple lines. We're going to make a macro to produce those labels nicely. The default width of
In order to more quickly prototype the image, I want fast control over the spacing of the nodes vertically, which is where there is the most variation (and the most non-uniformity). I will define a scaling factor that I can adjust for this (set to a negative number, to change the normal
Building the picture
Here we go:
The scale was found by trial-and-error to get it to fit on a single page. You can also independently control the x-scaling and y-scaling, but I didn't do it that way, because I wanted to reverse the directions for co-ordinates anyway, and could do the scaling another way. (You can do this with a negative y-scaling, but then it messes up with the corners of the nodes, such as
While you're building this, you should be re-compiling all the time to find out whether your placement is working well, and to adjust the styles of the nodes to make their appearance work better. But don't spend too much time making everything perfect; get things just almost-right first, and then make them perfect at the end.
Building the E nodes
These are the nodes with E labels on the left and right. We will give them names so that we can refer to the nodes when drawing arrows.
I eye-balled the relative vertical spacing of the nodes; wherever there was a larger gap, I settled on an incremental spacing of
Building the V nodes
These are the nodes with V labels, which will be the names of the nodes. They also have separate titles, which are the Axxx#-style part of their printed labels. They have similar vertical positioning as the input nodes. We produce their labels using the
We use the V# part of the label to name the nodes, because it's shorter, and because they match up with the names of the neighboring E nodes; this will be convenient later.
Building the F nodes
These are the elliptical nodes with the F labels. This is again similar to the V nodes. Their vertical positioning is basically at the gaps of the V nodes; this was computed by hand, though if you were slightly fancier you could have
Building the D nodes
For each of the F nodes on the right-hand side, there is a D node above and to the right. We place a D node for each one at a fixed position relative to the corresponding F node.
If you were to end the picture here by adding
Arrow drawing
Here, we take advantage of the labelling scheme for the nodes. In this case, because the labels are fairly uniform throughout the diagram, we basically just need to say "connect each E node with the appropriate V node", and similarly for the D nodes to the F nodes (with the appropriate style of arrow).
The V and F nodes don't have such a simple naming scheme, but that's okay; we just specify the full node names. Also, we would like the arrows to terminate precisely at the middle of the vertical sides of the boxes; we do this by specifying the "
The most complicated arrow to do in the diagram is between F1 and F3; we want this arrow to be anchored precisely at the centre-right, and to curve. We can do this by specifying the "
The other arrows are fairly simple, and use the techniques described thus far.
Finishing up
And that's it!
The resulting figure:
It's a pretty faithful representation of the original, if I so say so myself; And I made it in one hour, starting from nothing but the original to go by — some of which was spent looking up forgotten bits of TiKZ as I went!
Look at the second tutorial in the TikZ manual: it's titeled "A Petri-Net For Hagen", if you work through the example you'll be able to do something like this with ease:


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Centerforce Dual Friction Clutch - Clutch BasicsWritten by on August 1, 2010 When The Horsepower Count Goes Up You'll Need Some Extra Driveline Clout. A Centerforce Clutch May Be The Answer.
Chatter, slipping, limited or no adjustment, catastrophic failure, and heavy pedal pressure are the most common reasons to upgrade your clutch, but sometimes the simplest reason is a technological upgrade for comfort. Older OEM finger clutches have been used with most three- and four-speed standard shift cars for decades. These old heavy-duty clutches sound cool, but have you ever driven one in stop-and-go traffic? Not fun, unless you have a hydraulically powered left leg. This '70 Judge had an older aftermarket performance clutch, which was getting tired. It started chattering and wasn't holding sufficient pressure on the flywheel. And most aggravating, it was a bear to operate. Time to upgrade.
We're installing a Centerforce Dual Friction clutch (PN DF271739), which distributes pressure evenly over a 360-degree friction facing on one side of the clutch disc, and uses a segmented design on the other side to concentrate clamping pressure, hence the "dual friction" moniker. We chose this clutch because it combines excellent driveability with light pedal pressure.
Whenever you're replacing a clutch, always have the flywheel resurfaced or install a new flywheel. Just because it looks good doesn't mean it is good. Any clutch disc needs a flat surface to properly engage the flywheel, and about 500 miles of use to break-in properly. If your flywheel is glazed or uneven, the clutch disc will wear out in short order.
The engineering of this Centerforce pressure plate includes a centrifugal weight system. As engine rpm increases, the centrifugal force also increases due to these weights. This force increases the diaphragm pressure, resulting in more clamp load down through the pressure plate and disc to the flywheel. Simply put, this creates a clutch that functions more efficiently and with far less pedal pressure than a conventional finger-style clutch.
If you're installing a new clutch install a new throwout bearing. They're inexpensive, and are a critical part of the system. A worn bearing will usually be noisy and will not provide the proper release capabilities for the clutch. We're installing a Centerforce self-aligning bearing (PN N1716), but will first compare it with the one we remove from the car. They must be the same height, diameter, and have the right inside diameter to work properly. Always check before installing the new bearing. This bearing is the replacement for all GM applications that use a stamped-steel throwout bearing fork.
Our installation took between four and five hours, working slowly. Allow a day if you are working on the floor. After we adjusted the clutch, the testdrive was amazing. The pedal pressure was half of what it was, and the clutch engagement was positive, smooth, and effortless, making the car a pleasure to drive. Let's proceed with the R&R of the clutch, and look at some other critical parts and procedures along the way.
Preinstallation Checklist
• It's a good idea to have a factory service manual for your car
• Have a can of brake cleaner handy to wash the machined flywheel
• You'll need a torque wrench for the flywheel/clutch plate bolts
• Do you have an alignment tool for the clutch assembly?
• Do you have a replacement pilot bearing and removal tool if applicable?
• You'll need a floor jack and four jackstands for on-the-ground work
• Have a jack to support the transmission if working on the ground
• Take pictures of all the components and linkages before removal
• Refer to your vehicle manual service for clutch adjustment procedure
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Here's the setup before we started the teardown. Unless you've done this before, always take photos of how the linkage and other parts are attached before taking everything apart. Also write down the order of your disassembly, and use the reverse order for installation.Begin by disconnecting the e-brake cable, recording how long the threaded rod sticks out from the nut securing the cable. You can duplicate the exact original setting at reinstallation.Now disconnect and remove the rest of the reverse lockout linkage rods. If you're working on a restored car, these parts can be cleaned and replated, or freshened up with Eastwood Detail Gray or Silver Cad paint.The original bellcrank is now lowered free of the mounting. The speedo cable can also be disconnected and moved out of the work area.The bellhousing lower cover can be loosened and left hanging until the bellhousing is removed, and both exhaust pipes disconnected. Why haven't they been replaced you ask? They are original to the car and are still solid. Replacement pipes are not shaped the same as the originals, which are crimped to clear the crossmember.Underhood, we disconnected the clutch actuation rod from the bellcrank and the reverse lockout rod at the steering column. The car can now be put up on a lift, which we luckily had, or up on four heavy-duty jackstands.The engine is now supported on a floor jack or transmission stand prior to disconnecting and removing the crossmember.After removing the two transmission mount bolts and two bolts at each side of the crossmember, the part can be angled and removed from the chassis. The floor jack or trans jack is now supporting the engine and transmission.
The shifter handle was jammed on the shifter, so rather than damaging it, we simply disconnected the linkage rods and swung the assembly over the exhaust pipe. Take pictures of this step so you have a reference as to how it all goes back together. You don't want First where Second should be.Unless you're a body builder, having a friend available makes trans removal and replacement a lot easier. It might need to be rocked around slightly while pulling back to get it free, and once it is free, it's heavy.Before removing the driveshaft, mark the original placement of the parts for correct reinstallation. A black marker works great.Now remove the four bolts securing the transmission to the bellhousing. All four can be taken free, as the input shaft will hold the trans in place.With the trans out, remove the bellhousing with the clutch fork in place. We discovered an older finger-style aftermarket pressure plate attached to the original flywheel. The lower trans cover can now be removed, as it was captive around the back of the starter. Remember, keep a record of how you took things apart.Our flywheel was showing its age. There were several areas that were glazed. We inspected the pilot bearing, and it was in excellent shape, so it wasn't removed. Had it been original, or showing wear, we would have changed it.The Centerforce pressure plate was hung loosely with one top bolt in place. The disc, which is marked as to what side faces the engine, is then slipped up under the plate and located with the alignment tool. The tool fits all the way into the pilot bearing, exactly lining everything up for the 10-spline input shaft.We had a spare flywheel resurfaced prior to starting the work, so we didn't have to stop to have the machining done. Either install a new flywheel or have a spare as we did for convenience. The contact surface was thoroughly washed with Justice Brothers Brake Cleaner. We torqued the flywheel bolts, moving side to side to 100 lb-ft, per the factory manual.
The throwout bearing is now inserted into the clutch fork. The large side faces the clutch and must be inserted correctly into the fork. The fork spring clips must be installed between the throwout bearing collar flanges. If the clips are installed above the top flange, you will not be able to properly adjust the clutch and you'll be doing the job twice.After reinstalling the transmission and bolting it all up, use your "before" photos to reattach the linkage. A slipup here can affect the gear positioning, so get it right the first time.Now reinstall the bellcrank, spring and mount, lockout rod, speedo cable, and other miscellaneous items. The crossmember and driveshaft follow in sequence. Consult your manual for how to do the final adjustment on your clutch.


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The Franco-Czech novelist Milan Kundera was born in Brno and has lived in France, his second homeland, since 1975. He is the author of the novels The Joke, Farewell Waltz, Life Is Elsewhere, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Immortality, and the short-story collection Laughable Loves all originally written in Czech. His most recent novels Slowness, Identity, and Ignorance, as well as his nonfiction works The Art of the Novel, Testaments Betrayed, The Curtain, and Encounter, were originally written in French.


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Hi everyone, please consider the following problem:
Let $(M_t)_{t\geq 0}$ be a continuous and positive submartingale and $S_t=\sup_{0\leq s\leq t}M_s$. Please prove that for any $\lambda>0$ we have
$$\lambda P(S_t>2\lambda)\leq E[M_t1_{\{M_t>\lambda\}}]$$
This inequality makes me remember the Doob inequality
$$\lambda P(S_t>\lambda)\leq E[M_t1_{\{S_t>\lambda\}}]$$
So it is enough to show that
$$E[M_t1_{\{S_t>\lambda\}}]\leq 2E[M_t1_{\{M_t>\lambda\}}]$$
But I have no idea to deal about the term $1_{\{M_t>\lambda\}}$, even by introducing a stopping time $T_{\lambda}$. Could someone help me prove this inequality or give some idea? Many thanks!


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Is there any social network website on which I can find people who match my interests (unknown people who are not already my friends), also the content (videos, articles etc) that match my interests?
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The first ones that comes to mind are three sites with different purposes.
Xydo is a new social site that is similar to digg, but way better. It aggregates all types of news sites/blogs and allows you to vote-up news stories and lets you 'subscribe' to your interests. Subscribe meaning that those news articles will show up in your news feed on the homepage. I love it. However, for the newer users it's invite only for right now, but you can always sign up for a beta account.
LinkedIn is a social site for business. I use it because there are potential clients or business partners that I can find in case I needed that. They also have a Q&A section, but it's much to be desired.
Quora is the Q&A site for interesting questions answered sometimes by the best and the brightest in that particular field of the question. It's social too as you can share and follow, but give it a whirl as I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
Using all those three sites should give you a balanced platform to find anything you needed in your field.
You may try Digg.com and Diigo.com. Digg recommends new posts as you digg some articles you like. Diigo is a social bookmarking website where you can follow people and interest groups.


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How can an electron distinguish between another electron and a positron? They use photons as exchange particles and photons are neutral, so how does it know to repel or attract?
Well, one quick answer, if you want to answer this at the level of QED, is that there are two Feynman diagrams (one where an electron scatters off of a photon, which then scatters off of a positron; another where the electron and positron annihilate, and then the photon decays into an electron and positron) describing $e^{+} + e^{-} \rightarrow e^{+} + e^{-}$, while there is only one that describes $e^{-} + e^{-} \rightarrow e^{-} + e^{-}$ (electron scatters off of a photon, which scatters off of another electron). The short of it is that you can't consider just QED vertices--you have to look at entire Feynman diagrams of processes, and at least know how many of them there are.
Of course, another answer is that, simply, the classical theory distinguishes these two processes--Maxwell's equations plus the Lorentz force law tell me that one process is attractive, and the other is repulsive. Naïvely, one would expect that the quantum process, by land large, would mirror the quantum process.
It's a good question and it is more convenient to describe the process by the Feynman diagrams in the position representation.
If one begins with the initial state that contains two charged particles whose wave functions are two wave packets separated by distance R, then the usual tree-level diagram involving the exchange of a photon quantifies the (small) change of the wave function by the (weak) electric field, in the position representation.
Imagine that the initial wave function is positive and real (which is possible for zero-velocity particles). The Feynman diagram (perturbatively) quantifies the change of the wave function. One may imagine, at some approximation, that it changes the two single-particle wave functions separately. Or you may imagine that one of the particles is superheavy and only the lighter particle's motion may be affected by the interaction (and the Feynman diagram).
The change of the lighter particle wave function, as evaluated from the Feynman diagram, vanishes at the center of the original wave packet. It has the opposite sign on the side closer to the other particle than on the opposite side. However, the overall sign of the Feynman diagram matters, too. In one case, the change of the wave function reduces the probability that the two particles are closer, and enhance the probability that they're distant - that's the repulsive interaction; for the opposite sign of the Feynman diagram, it's the other way around.
In fact, I cheated a little bit: the first change of the wave function has an "i" in it, and reduces the original zero-velocity wave function to a wave function of a particle with a small velocity; its sign will depend on the charges, just like in the previous paragraph. The previous paragraph is easier to talked about, so let me continue.
The Feynman diagram for 2 particles contains two electromagnetic vertices and each of them brings a multiplicative factor of "Q" - the electric charge of the corresponding particle. That's how the Feynman rules work. The Feynman diagram itself is a function of the positions (or momenta) that is therefore proportional to "Q1.Q2". If that's positive, it means that the change of the wave function is positive - i.e. has the same sign as the initial wave function - for separations greater than the original one. That's how one gets the repulsive force because the final particles are further in average. If "Q1.Q2" is negative, one gets the attractive force for the same reason with the opposite sign.
To summarize, the Feynman diagram is a function proportional to "Q1.Q2" whose sign determines the interaction's being attractive of repulsive because it decides about the relative sign of the initial wave function and its change, and the change of the momentum or position of the initial particles is encoded in this relative sign.
To imagine that the intermediate photon is literally a "ping pong ball" that can only cause a repulsive interaction would be way too simplistic - especially because such an idea neglects the quantum mechanical fact that the positions of particles are encoded in wave functions. But in fact, one may explain the repulsive and attractive interactions in this picture, too. It's because assuming a positive energy, the momentum carried by the "ping pong ball" photon is "negative" for an attractive interaction.
The wavefunction of a photon includes polarization as part of its description. The electric field is determined from the polarization, but in quantum electrodynamics, the electric field operator doesn't commute with the particle number operator. However, from the relative phases of diagram contributions with no photon exchange, one photon exchange, two photon exchange, etc., the direction of the electric field due to virtual photons depends upon the charge of the particle.
This answer is a simplified one to reply to the comment of @Charles as well as the OP question.
Suppose I am an electron. I move along playing ball with my electric field, i.e. I throw off virtual photons which break up into virtual electrons and postitrons and join up again to become a neutral photon, happily along.
Now suddenly one of my virtual electron( or positron) meets a virtual electron ( or posistron) pair from another charge entity. How will I know if the other real charge entity is an electron or a positron?
By how often my virtual balls are repelled or attracted. It means probabilities for path tracks , and crossections for it to happen. If there is repulsion( the paths diverge), then I know it is another electron I am approaching. If there is attraction, (the paths converge) then it is a positron. This has been measured experimentally of course.
The theory as Lubos gave in his answer encodes this simple experimental fact: like charges repel, unlike attract.


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The No Child Left Behind Act is supposed to point out failing schools and give parents the chance to transfer their kids to schools not listed as failing.
Some Kentucky school officials say the report was released prematurely. L.C. Curry Elementary is on the list, but Bowling Green Superintendent Dr. John Settle claims the assessment process the Bush Administration used to measure each state isn't fair to Kentucky.
Kentucky appealed in order to use existing assessment measures. The appeal calls for federal government to use school scores from this September, not from 1999-2000.
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