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Record High Prices At The Gas Pump Likely To Linger In California
Gas prices spiked overnight Thursday by as much as 20 cents per gallon in parts of California, causing some stations to close and shocking many customers.
According to The Associated Press, the average price of regular gas across the state was nearly $4.49 a gallon. In other parts of the country, gas prices have fallen. South Carolina has the lowest average gas prices in the continental U.S. at $3.49 a gallon.
Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at GasBuddy.com, told AP that the highest gas prices in California were around Los Angeles, where at least five stations crossed the $5 a gallon mark on Thursday.
But sadly for drivers in the Golden State, gas prices will keep going up, because while wholesale gasoline prices have increased $1 per gallon, average retail prices have increased by just 30 cents, according to DeHaan.
The AP also says:
"The national average for gas is about $3.79 a gallon, the highest ever for this time of year. However, gas prices in many states have started decreasing, which is typical for October.
But in California, gasoline inventories are the lowest in more than 10 years — a situation made worse by the state's strict pollution limits that require a special blend of cleaner-burning gasoline during hot summer months."
What's fueling these high prices? Refinery and pipeline troubles, which pushed wholesale costs to a record high this week, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The Times reports:
"Analysts attributed the increase to mishaps that have befallen some of the state's 14 refineries, which operate with little margin for error because few facilities outside California make the state's cleaner-burning gasoline."
This led some gas station owners to stop buying fuel. What if they couldn't sell it? When those stations ran out of the cheaper gas, they closed their pumps.
Other station owners just took a chance on the more costly fuel, hoping customers would understand.
NPR's Carrie Kahn will report more about price pressure at the gas pump on this afternoon's All Things Considered.
(Tanya Ballard Brown is an NPR.org editor.)
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(CNN) -- A gunman looking for someone he believed owed him money took and released hostages in Valparaiso, Indiana, before fatally shooting himself, authorities said Friday.
The unidentified suspect, who had two gunshot wounds to his head, died Friday evening, said Valparaiso Police Sgt. Michael Grennes.
Mayor Jon Costas said a man from the area went to the Prudential office building, which included a real estate business, to find someone who allegedly owed him money. The person was not there, and the man pulled out a handgun.
Arriving officers engaged in a brief exchange of gunfire with the suspect, police said, and the standoff began.
Grennes declined to give the number of hostages, but said they were released over several hours. Earlier, Grennes said there were fewer than 10 people in the building.
The gunman remained barricaded in the building after the last hostages were released. Police swarmed in about 4:30 p.m. after hearing the gunshots, Grennes said.
One female employee was treated and released for a head injury received from the suspect, police said. The injury was not the result of a gunshot.
CNN iReporter Scott Kleckner said he saw a SWAT team and helicopters in the area.
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"Scoliosis is a lateral curvature of the spine."
Nathan Johnson is a physical therapist who treats patients with scoliosis.
"It's usually caused either from some congenital deformities at birth or it can be an orthopedic or a neuro-muscular disease."
But Johnson says in most cases they don't what causes it. Scoliosis can be detected by an x-ray measuring the degree of curvature of the spine.
"Most the time it is screened in schools. Usually from age 9-11. From that they look at different areas of the spine and have the child bend forward to see if they can determine a certain amount of curvature."
Parents who want to screen their children can look out for a few warning signs. First, look to see if one shoulder is higher or lower than the other.
"Other landmarks right up on their hipbones, their illiad crest, you might notice a difference here. It might even be more prevalent if there's a leg length discrepancy."
Treatment for scoliosis depends on the severity. In extreme cases surgery is needed, but for more mild cases exercise and physical therapy can be the answer.
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The standard polynomial in $r$ non-commuting indeterminates $x_1,\ldots,x_r$ is defined by $${\mathcal S}_r(x_1,\ldots,x_r):=\sum_{\sigma\in S_r}\epsilon(\sigma)x_{\sigma(1)}x_{\sigma(2)}\cdots x_{\sigma(r)}\,$$ where $S_r$ is the symmetric group in $r$ letters and $\epsilon$ is the signature. Each monomial is a word in the letters $x_j$, affected of a sign $\pm1$. Finally, let us normalize $$T_r:={1\over r!}{\mathcal S}_r.$$
When $r=2$, ${\mathcal S}_2(x_1,x_2)=x_1x_2-x_2x_1$ is the commutator. When using the Frobenius norm $\|M\|=\sqrt{Tr(M^*M)}$ , we know from [1] that $\|[A,B]\|\le\sqrt2\|A\|\cdot\|B\|$, and $\sqrt2$ is the least constant in this inequality, whatever the dimension $n\ge2$.
If $r\ge2$, what is the least constant $c(r,n)$ in the inequality $$\|T_r(A_1,\ldots,A_r)\|\le c(r;n)\prod_{j=1}^r\|A_j\|,\quad\forall A_1,\ldots,A_r\in M_n(\mathbb{C})?$$
Because $n\mapsto c(r,n)$ is non-decreasing, we set $\tau(r)=\lim_{n\rightarrow+\infty}=\sup_n c(r,n)$.
By Amitsur--Levitski Theorem (see [2] for a short proof, or Section 4.4 of the second edition of my book on Matrices), we have $c(r,n)=0$ when $r\ge2n$. From above, we have $c(2,n)=\sqrt2/2$. I can also prove the inequalities $$c(r+s,n)\le c(r,n)\cdot c(s,n),\qquad \tau(r+s)\le\tau(r)\tau(s).$$ In particular, the limit $$\rho:=\lim_{r\rightarrow+\infty}\tau(r)^{1/r}$$ exists and is also the infimum of the sequence. What is its value ?
Finally, is there a quantitative counterpart of Amitsur--Levitski, in the sense that $r\mapsto c(r,n)$ would drop to a small value at some threshold value, less than $2n$ ?
[1] Seak-Weng Vong, Xiao-Qing Jin, Proof of Böttcher and Wenzel's conjecture. Oper. Matrices, 2 (2008), pp 435--442.
[2] S. Rosset. A new proof of the Amitsur-Levitski identity. Israel J. Math., 23 (1976), pp 187--188.


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I was wondering whether or not a slide in a slide projector acts as light diffuser? So when I have a light source that does not have a parallel beam on the slide can I expect that the other side of the slide is illuminated with a Lambertian of similar reflectance?
I am wondering this because I want to know if I have to raytrace the light path of a projector from the slide (assuming Lambertian reflectance of the slide) or from the light source.


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Suppose $(a_n)$ is a non-increasing sequence of positive real numbers and $\varepsilon_i = \{\pm 1\},\ \forall i \in \mathbb{N}$ such that $\sum\limits_{i=1}^\infty \varepsilon_i a_i$ is convergent. Is it true that $\lim\limits_{n\to \infty}(\varepsilon_1+\varepsilon_2+...+\varepsilon_n) a_n=0$?
That would be more than welcome on AoPS, College Playground. For MO, it is hardly appropriate.
The statement is always true. Start with the fact that if the sums $\sum_{i=k}^m b_i$ ($1\le k\le m\le N$) are bounded by $\delta$ and $u_i$ is an increasing sequence of numbers on $[1,2]$, then the sums $\sum_{i=k}^m b_i u_i$ are bounded by $2\delta$. Now, split the set of indices into intervals of length $N_j$ such that the last $a$ in each interval is at most twice less than the first $a$ in each interval and the next $a$ is smaller. Let $A_j$ be the starting $a$ of the $j-th$ interval. The observation we made shows that the supremum of the sums of $\epsilon$'s over all subintervals of the $j$-th interval times $A_j$ is at most $2\delta_j$ where $\delta_j\to 0$ (tails get small). This tells us that we need only show that the limit is $0$ over the indices corresponding to the block beginnings. Now, what happens for that subsequence is that whatever product we had for $j$ gets divided by at least $2$ when we pass to $j+1$, after which we add at most $2\delta_j$. It remains to note that if you start with any number and do a sequence of steps each of which is division by 2 followed by adding a number that gets closer and closer to $0$, you will get closer and closer to $0$.
No. If $\epsilon_i = 1,$ for all $i$ and $a_i = 0$ for $i$ not a perfect square, and $a_{k^2} = 1/k^2,$ then your limit is not zero, and the series is convergent. If you don't like $0,$ make the non-square $a_i$ some arbitrary small positive sequence.
EDIT however, if in the OP you replace $\lim$ by $\liminf,$ I am not sure what the answer is.


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Pregnancy: Weeks 23-26
In the sixth month, your baby's brain is growing rapidly and hearing is well developed. (In fact, studies have found that unborn babies can communicate a preference for classical music over rock.)
Week Number 23
- Eyebrows and eyelashes are forming.
- Lips are becoming more distinct.
- Eyes are becoming more developed, but they still lack color.
- The first signs of teeth appear beneath the gum line.
Week Number 24
- Blood vessels in the lungs are developing.
- The head is still large compared to body size.
- The baby can swallow.
Week Number 25
- The body is beginning to become plump.
- The skin becomes wrinkled.
- If the baby were born now, it would attempt to breathe.
- Taste buds are forming.
Week Number 26
- The face and the body generally assume the appearance of an infant at birth.
- Baby begins to make breathing movements although there is no air in the lungs.
- Will respond to touch.
As your second trimester ends, take some time to sit back and enjoy it. Very soon your pregnancy will be over and all the days you dedicated to creating a new human being will be only a vague memory. Cherish them now.
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Roundup: Terryville boys, girls both beat Litchfield; Kaynor boys roll
Tyler Trillo poured in 12 points in the second quarter, and finished with a career-high 27 points, as the Kangaroos built a 32-23 halftime lead in a 67-42 Berkshire League victory Wednesday in Litchfield.
Arthur Trent added 13 points and seven rebounds, and Shea Tracy had 10 points for Terryville (3-0).
Litchfield (0-3) was led by Matt McCarthy with 12 points, Spencer Persechino with 10 and Brandon Hookstadt with nine.
Kaynor Tech 74, Prince Tech 55: Tre-Kel Douglas scored a game-high 26 points and pulled down 12 rebounds as the Panthers took down Prince Tech in CSC action in Hartford.
Tre'Von Gibbs recorded a double-double with 17 points, 16 rebounds, five blocks, and two steals while Terrance Thompson chipped in with 11 points.
Tyler Baptista had five assists and five steals for Kaynor Tech (2-1).
Lovell Cassels had 23 points and Jermaine Douglas finished with 20 for Prince Tech (0-2).
Girls Basketball
Terryville 62, Litchfield 35: Juila Pilarski scored a game-high 19 points with four steals in a BL girls basketball game in Litchfield.
Olivia Pilarski added 12 points with five rebounds for Terryville (2-3), and Katie Duncan chipped in with 10 points, seven rebounds, five assists and four steals. Liz Klopp also had eight rebounds.
Sienna Markelon scored a team-high 12 points while Tara Shakley added 11 points for the Cowgirls.
Shepaug 46, Gilbert 19: Samantha Moravsky scored a game-high 14 points, had eight steals and five rebounds as the Spartans topped the Yellowjackets to pick up their first win of the season, in Winsted.
Kate DeWitte added 10 points while Caroline Kelly had nine points, 16 rebounds, and five steals.
Kelsey Johnson finished with six points and eight rebounds for Shepaug (1-4).
Shelly DeLa Paz scored nine points for Gilbert (0-5).
Pomperaug 65, Stratford 11: The Panthers outscored Stratford, 25-0, in the opening quarter and never looked back in an SWC victory in Stratford.
Hannah Metcalf scored a game-high 14 points and had six steals while Morgan Metcalf chipped in with 13 points and nine rebounds.
Gabbie Holness recorded a double-double with 12 points, 11 steals, and eight assists for Pomperaug (4-0).
Gabby Penzetta had six points for Stratford (1-2).
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I have some function $f(x)$ I wish to evaluate, which is yielding divide-by-zero errors for sufficiently large inputs. How do I increase the precision with which this function is evaluated in order to prevent this? Can I do this while also plotting the function?
Straight from the Mathematica documentation of
then testing
As mentioned in the comment of your question, those related questions has got tons of tricks about precision management in Mathematica. I should be a bit more explanatory with my answer here.
Lets evaluate this code.
the above result comes with a error as the logical positivity test fails.
Now an easy solution here will be to extend Mathematica's precision using the key
One needs to be clear with the expression
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BRYAN COUNTY, OK -- A teenager was found lying in the woods after fleeing from Calera police and crashing her car into a ditch this morning.
KXII was on the scene shortly after the 3:29 a.m. call about an empty car in a ditch. Colbert Fire's Assistant Chief Jonathan Horn says the 17 year old driver was on her way home from work when the police chase began.
"They contacted the owner of the car's residence and they said the driver had been at work and was out running around and still hadn't made it home yet," said Horn.
Even though her car ended up in a ditch off 75 northbound, the chase actually started from the opposite direction.
"She was southbound on 69/75," Horn said. "And drove over the barrier cable and jumped over the scale house, we're standing over the scale house exit here, jumped it and landed in the ditch."
Horn says officials believe that's the point when she fled. So when backup arrived, they found the car but no driver. Northbound 75 was temporarily closed while police and fire from Calera, Bryan,Colbert and Grayson as well as Air Evac helicopters from Sherman searched for the missing teen.
She was found nearly three hours later laying next to a tree in the woods where she'd been hiding just 75 yards away from the scene.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Iraq veteran Alma Felix hopes the U.S. military's new rules to open hundreds of thousands of combat jobs to women will lead society to recognize that female troops can be courageous warriors.
The 27-year-old Army veteran says women have proven themselves over the past decade in Iraq and Afghanistan, and have come home with the feeling that few know of their contributions.
She says female soldiers tend to disappear into the background.
Across the country, members of the military of both sexes said they accept the new policy, so long as women will have to meet the same standards as their male colleagues.
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Public school boards have been reticent to explore adopting charter schools in their districts. Not because they necessarily did not want them, but because most are "clueless" how they function.That was one of the messages that Kimberly Williams, an education policy advisor who has dealt with charter schools in Louisiana for more than six years, told the Morehouse Parish School Board during an informational meeting held Tuesday night.Read the full story in Friday's print edition of the Enterprise.
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I'm reading the proof of the following fact:
Let A be a ring, a an ideal of A, M an A-module. Then $(A/a) \otimes_{A} M$ is isomorphic to M/aM.
So the solution is to tensor the exact sequence $0 \rightarrow a \rightarrow A \rightarrow A/a \rightarrow 0$ with M.
This induces an exact sequence:
$a \otimes_{A} M \rightarrow A \otimes_{A} M \rightarrow (A/a) \otimes_{A} M \rightarrow 0$
One question:
Why is $a \otimes_{A} M \cong aM$ ? Why is this "clear and obvious" i.e how do we see it quickly?
I just started reading about the tensor product of modules and have trouble seeing why such isomorphisms are natural, I'm sure there's a "quick" way to see them, so why this is clear? is there any other way to think about the tensor product besides been the quotient of a free module by a set of generators?


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Comic Relief: Young Spaniards Drown Their Sorrows on the Internet
'Freaklances' Strikes a Chord and Turns a Euro as an Animated Web Series
MADRID—Pity poor Fausto, a geeky young graphic designer struggling to survive as a freelancer amid Spain's devastating recession.
One client refuses to pay Fausto for a job, and then adds insult to injury by chiding him for being overly materialistic. "A creative person like you shouldn't worry about money," the deadbeat says.
Fausto must also work with pompous yuppie Roi Stakeholder, self-styled CEO of Stakeholder Consulting. When Fausto observes that the company has no other employees, Mr. Stakeholder says that is deliberate: "I don't have anyone to contradict me."
Home provides no refuge for luckless Fausto. After he falls behind in his rent, his elderly landlady suddenly brandishes a mop handle and sets upon him like a ninja.
Fausto is the star of a popular animated web series, "Freaklances," created by a pair of self-employed tech whizzes who know the territory all too well. Alex Otero, 31 years old, was forced to become a freelancer in 2008 after losing his corporate job. Rather than getting depressed, he took comic revenge by launching "Freaklances" with his friend and fellow freelancer, Julio Garma, 40. Striking a chord with struggling young Spaniards, "Freaklances" has had 1.5 million views in its three years online and now has corporate advertisers and its own line of merchandise.
While some young Spaniards are protesting and others are emigrating because of the economic disaster that has left half the country's 16-to-24-year-olds jobless, others are taking to the Web to seek comic relief. Web shows with names like "Treintañeros" (Thirtysomethings), "Asqueadas" (The Disgusted Ones) and "Parados" (The Jobless Ones) are finding dark humor in the economic distress of Spain's so-called lost generation, while offering an antidote to the sanitized view of the crisis often presented on mainstream Spanish TV.
The most successful Web series, "Malviviendo" (Living Badly), was launched by director David Sáinz in 2008 on a budget of €40 (about $52). He had to steal a neighbor's Wi-Fi signal to upload it.
Four years later, 27 million Spaniards have viewed Mr. Sáinz's earthy portrait of down-and-out barrio youths. The 28-year-old Mr. Sáinz himself plays the lead, el Negro, who earns a few euros working with friends as a car parker. El Negro views the occupation in loftier terms. They are "uninsured social workers who accept drivers' contributions in return for direction and friendly assistance in parking and protecting vehicles," he says. "We're protecting them from ourselves, when all is said and done."
One of El Negro's best buddies is a kleptomaniac and narcoleptic, that is, a compulsive thief who is prone to sleep attacks. Sleep always seems to call at the most inopportune moments, such as when he is breaking into a car to steal the stereo.
The coarse language and stoner humor of "Malviviendo" aren't suitable for the workplace. But that really isn't a problem, given its target audience. "A lot of our viewers aren't going to work anyway," says David Valderrama, a 28-year-old co-star. Mr. Sáinz and his production crew were recently hired to do another series by a regional network, while a cable station started running episodes of "Malviviendo" late-night.
Spanish television certainly needs the fresh blood, says Paula Hernández, a communications professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She says that it is "a disgrace" the way the task of chronicling the plight of Spain's young people has largely fallen to Internet upstarts. Indeed, some mainstream television networks have been presenting escapist fare, including a 17th-century adventure series and a soap opera set after the Civil War of the 1930s, says communications expert Charo Sádaba.
One exception is the network comedy series "Con el Culo al Aire," which roughly translates to "Caught With Your Pants Down." It chronicles a collection of economic refugees who wind up taking refuge in a campground. The show has had good ratings, though some critics think it is too tame. "The crisis serves as a piece of scenery," wrote Alejandro Bolaños in a review in the Madrid daily El País. "And at times, it's very evident that they're using a cardboard prop."
The Web's importance as a platform for angry young voices is evident in the success of 29-year-old cartoonist Aleix Saló. Early last year Mr. Saló published a graphic novel, "Españistan," which acidly chronicled the bursting of Spain's real-estate bubble and suggested the country was lurching toward failed-state status, like Afghanistan. But with the book market contracting, "Españistan" "was pretty much ignored," Mr. Saló says.
That changed in May 2011 when Mr. Saló posted a nearly seven-minute "Españistan" video on YouTube. Within a day, "Españistan" was a trending topic on Twitter. Within a week, the video had been viewed 1.5 million times.
The video recapitulates Spain's economic glory days of the past decade when construction entrepreneurs touted home-owning as almost a moral obligation. "Don't be a vulgar, rent-paying hippy," was the slogan of the day, the video says. A banker in a clown suit cuts deals with anyone—or anything—that walks into his office. One man shows up with his pet turtle as co-signer, and leaves with a loan. Eventually, the whole house of cards collapses.
"All of a sudden, we discovered that we were poor, and that, worst of all, we'd never stopped being that way in the first place," the video concludes.
Carlota Escandón, 28, and Silvia Chicón, 26, produced a semiautobiographical online series, "Asqueadas," about two overeducated and underemployed young women, Bea and Lola. In one episode, titled "The Solution Lies Out There, Abroad," Bea is convinced that her longtime boyfriend is about to propose. "In the ranking of patience, there's me and Camilla Parker Bowles," she says.
Instead, the jobless beau tells her he is emigrating to Abu Dhabi to seek work. When a romantic rival emerges in Abu Dhabi, Bea sets out on a journey to win her boyfriend back—only to be stranded in Paris because of a volcanic eruption.
The series got glowing reviews, but its creators still couldn't find work in Spain. So in October, Ms. Escandón herself left for London to join some university-educated friends from Spain who work as waiters and bellmen. "You can't be too particular now, as long as it's a job," said Ms. Escandón, who found work in a chocolate shop.
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8 Amazing (And Totally Useless) Skills People Taught Animals
#4. Teaching a Dog Parkour
Sometimes even the most athletic of humans can feel inadequate when exposed to a more impressive specimen of sheer athleticism. Usually they're being put to shame by a fellow human, but we know of at least one dog who thinks that's more of a general guideline than a rule -- because he's been trained to excel at perhaps the most simultaneously badass and pointless sport one can do without some sort of ball: parkour.
"Checkmate, squirrels."
His name is Tret, and he's a 5-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier from Ukraine, which is where the people too badass for Russia go. Really, the video says it all:
It's like watching a Rocky training montage while tripping balls. Over the course of the video, you see Tret run along walls ...
... spring himself over gates ...
... climb on top of a pole, simply because the pole is there ...
... and fly through the air like a wingless hound of the apocalypse.
What makes this all the more incredible is that there's no one leading Tret during his parkour session. His eyes and smirk tell you that he always tries to find the hardest path from point A to point B, because anything less is for pussies and Chihuahuas.
And if you think Tret's impressive, wait till we jump to the opposite end of the spectrum from athletic to brainy and show you that it's possible to ...
#3. Teaching a Dog Math
Try to think of the best trick you've taught your dog. Maybe it was to play dead, roll over or bark at the mailman to keep that bastard away from your wife. Well, it's a good thing there's no such thing as the No Dog Left Behind Act, because we're about to introduce you to Beau, the black Lab who, while other dogs are busy sniffing asses or humping legs, is busy being a freaking mathematician. Beau can add, subtract, multiply or divide just about any math question you toss his way, answering with the correct number of barks. And he can do it whether the problem is given to him verbally or written on paper, because just in case you weren't impressed enough that he can do math, he can also read.
To be fair, lots of people can do amazing things when there's sausage involved.
Beau once auditioned for David Letterman's "Stupid Pet Tricks" segment but was turned down, presumably because Beau is the polar opposite of stupid. But right about now you're probably thinking, cynical Cracked reader that you are, that the dog's not really doing math -- the owner probably just has him trained to bark on a secret cue. Nope. Even when the owner is nowhere to be seen, Beau is still perfectly capable of doing his math. So long as you're packing treats to reward him for his answers, if you ask him what five plus three is, Beau will bark eight times. Then if you erase half the plus sign to turn it into a minus sign, he'll bark twice.
Beau's only weak point is that his owners never taught him the concept of zero -- ask him a question where the answer is nothing, and he just starts barking uncontrollably, which is Dog for "Fuck you, nobody said this would be on the test!"
"Good job, buddy. Now let's go do my taxes."
#2. Teaching Lizards to Model
As one might reasonably imply from his name, Henry Lizardlover loves him some cats. We're kidding, of course -- what Henry really loves is his pet lizards. He loves them so much, in fact, that not only has he changed his surname in their honor, but he's also dedicated his life to making them do this:
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"Draw me like one of your French girls."
That's right, he's photographed them doing everything from everyday human-type stuff ...
... to straight-up soft-core lizard porn:
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This, combined with the name change ... we're going to go out on a limb and say that Henry may be completely fucking crazy.
Henry's been raising lizards for over 30 years, and he's had over 60 of the pointy critters throughout his life. And at some point during that time, he figured out that he was some sort of lizard whisperer, able to train them to pose in humanlike positions -- indefinitely. Seriously, you might be thinking that it's nothing more than some quick camera work to capture them before they wander off in search of a cricket or something, but it's not: If you watch this interview with Anderson Cooper, you'll see that the lizards freeze up and allow Henry to pose them like living G.I. Joes (or, sometimes, Barbies), and then stay there until he tells them otherwise.
You just have to wonder what could possibly be going through the little minds of the lizards -- creatures we normally think of as cold and unfeeling -- to make them cooperate with ol' Hank's every anthropomorphic whim.
We're going to go with deathly fear.
#1. Teaching a Monkey to Tend Bar (and Do Karate)
While all the animals we've shown you so far can do undeniably amazing things, they're all pretty much one-trick ponies. And we have to wonder, why is that? When you have such an obviously talented animal, why stop at teaching it just one pointlessly impressive thing? Well, apparently a certain bar owner in Japan felt the same way, because not only has he taught his pet macaque how to act as a waiter, but he's also enrolled him in karate classes.
Tavern owner Kaoru Otsuka realized one day that the eldest of his two pet macaques, Yat-chan, tended to stare at the waiters as they gave drinks out to the customers. Kaoru finally let Yat-chan out one day, and the monkey quickly became the establishment's newest waiter. He knows what drink to give which customer, where to get the drink and how to politely hand it to them. The customers respond by giving him soybeans as tips.
If you prefer feces-free food, do not try to tip your human waiter with soybeans.
The customers love Yat-chan and his younger partner, but they're only allowed to work two hours a day because of animal rights regulations. So what does Yat-chan do in all of his free time? Why, he trains with his sensei, of course.
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"Here, put on this sparring gear that I borrowed from a 6-month-old child."
OK, that's just ridiculous. That can't be real, right?
Apparently it is (we really want it to be true). Yat-chan will kick through boards ...
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... do pushups ...
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... jump over sticks ...
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... and drink beer.
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"Look, I taught him to regret all of the bad choices he's made in his life!"
And did we mention that he plays drums and does traditional Japanese dance on the side? Holy shit, we just realized that not only does this monkey have more of a life than your average pet, but he has more of a life than we do. Way to make us end the article on a depressing note, Yat-chan.
When XJ's not busy trying to get his Chihuahua to walk on walls, he talks about writing on his blog. He'll also tattoo your name on his face if you follow him on Twitter, if he's in the mood.
For more things we probably shouldn't do with animals, check out 7 Insane Military Attempts To Weaponize Animals and 7 Ridiculous Cases Where Animals Were Put On Trial.
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Instances of SAT induce a bipartite graph between clauses vertices and variable vertices, and for planar 3SAT, the resulting bipartite graph is planar.
It would be very convenient if there was a planar layout that had all the variable vertices in one line and all the clause vertices in a straight line. This can't be done because such a graph would be outerplanar, and $K_{2,3}$ isn't.
But maybe a weaker layout is possible.
Is it possible to lay out any planar bipartite graph $G = (A \cup B, E)$ such that
- All vertices of $B$ are on a straight line
- A can be partitioned into $A_1 \cup A_2$ such that all vertices of $A_1$ are on a parallel straight line to the left of $B$, and all vertices of $A_2$ are on a parellel straight line to the right of $B$.
This seems to relate to track drawings of planar graphs.


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Your article is too long and complicated. No one wants to comment on it!...lol
Trust (County Exec) Scott Walker on local funding
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Your article is too long and complicated. No one wants to comment on it!...lolHide replies
I think you're right. Maybe I should change the headline.
If you went with a Scott Walker sucks or Scott Walker is my hero theme, you would have well over 50 commens by now. Just look at Gurda, that guy used to write stories about Milwaukee history and he would get maybe 3 comments on something. As soon as he blasted the GOP, he had about a 100 comments. Good or bad, contoversy and strong opinions sells papers and also drives online viewing.
bigvern - Yesterday at 10:53 PM:
"Good or bad, contoversy and strong opinions sells papers and also drives online viewing."
bigv - you're correct, look how many hits Kane's tripe normally gets. If Alex could only inject a little race baiting into his articles he'd have a winner.
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So far, my observations are correct. Othher than you posting 5 times, no one else seems to have anything to say about Alex's column.
Maybe it's because it's Saturday and the weather is relatively nice and people are doing things outside the house.
@big vern- this article is not long and complicated.
It presents an interesting view of the short-sightedness of people who are only able to view the situation from their own perspective. Walker and the GOP are a prime example of not being willing to sit down and deal with the complexity of the world and a world view that theirs is the only one which is "correct".
If you can hang around long enough across the expanse of local politics statewide its rather apparent local communities do better self managing. The less state inference there is, the better.
One issue both sides avoid is talking about funding the local county courts and corrections system that are big expense items. We have judges and prosecutors that are state employees working in counties. Our state prosecutors indict based on state law. The counties pick up the tab for running their local county courts. Locally counties have too little say in the criminal laws. That is taxation without representation. If someone is charged under a state law why is it their cases have to be heard in the local court? This is where local funding of the courts barriers justice because people charged under state laws do not have the right to be heard in a state court system free of county government influence.
More than 30% of every dollar of state tax dollars goes to support the states corrections system with over a third of all state workers employed with the WI DOC. There is no formula for allocating those costs by county.
Doyle changed the funding because the state was drawing increasingly more resources to fund the WI DOC. He never addressed how those costs were escalating.
When you file your tax returns look at the amount of taxes being paid. One third is going to the WI DOC.
The state needs revision in its court, justice and corrections systems. If Milwaukee had to pay the full cost of supporting prisons for its convicted it would break the local area budgets. Skyrocketing costs to uphold truth in sentencing is why local funding may never return.
The state can not simply release violent felons. The bills are due on the prison building boom.
Interesting and informative. And I love your 'NOTE'.
I guess you need to decide whether you want to write worthwhile blogs or popular/controversial blogs. Maybe you could alternate.
Good column, Alex.
As a taxpayer in Wisconsin (and in Milwaukee), I'd like to see a system where the "legislators" and "policymakers" I get to vote for - whether at the city, county, or state level - use their best judgment to minimize the impact on the taxpayers they serve while also respecting the role of government to provide certain necessary and useful "public" goods and services (e.g., certain minimum 'safety nets' )that the marketplace, for one reason or another, either is not going to provide or is not very good at providing. It sure would be nice if politicians at every level talked directly in those kinds of terms to their constituents, rather than making everything into a battle with those from the 'other' party.
I hope Christian Schneider responds to your very interesting reaction to and commmentary on his column on this subject.Hide replies
Thanks, grumps! Great points. We'll see what Christian thinks about all of this, hopefully.
Your on the right track to question and have the research done. That is awesome.
The problem is where is the dividing line between what constitutes local, county and state obligations to pay?
If we go back further in the dynamic of funding state aids to schools never should of been. When local communities had to fund their own healthcare for the poor, schools, infrastructure, etc we had a much stronger America. Local communities could not run around their citizens views to get state or federal money. We had the natural migration of people and cities that folded up as the jobs moved/marketplace changed.
Today we have local communities that clearly can not rise to pay to upkeep their own communities being supported by hard working taxpayers from other areas of the country. We are paying so they don't have to confront change and reality. Cities like Milwaukee and Detroit if they had to pay to support their own citizens would of become ghost towns long ago when the jobs moved out. What happened is our paying to obsolete cities running is they became overrun by crime and drove up the costs for the rest of us. If those areas had been plowed under to open up homestead space the natural process to rebuild would of happened.
Wisconsin is not loosing the job creation battle because of high taxes but rather over distribution of those taxes. I pay more taxes per dollar than I did in Wisconsin where the money stays local. I pay higher sales tax with more taxable, car tag fees, insurance, utilities are taxable year round, higher water/sewer costs, etc. It costs more to live on less. I know my labor is going to help my city not to fix some other town that couldn't confront its failed leadership problems.
Doyle could not confront the real issue that Wisconsin's Democrat lead cities were pulling more share of the tax revenues than areas producing more taxable revenue. I do not personally believe Doyle was a Democrat, he was a confused Republican.Hide replies
Silky, thanks for the comment. I think there is some truth to what you're saying, but let me offer another side of the argument to consider. Hundreds of thousands of people come into the City of Milwaukee every day -- people who live in the suburbs or exhurbs -- and they increase the need for city services significantly. I live a block of of Lisbon Avenue, for example, which is just a regular street, and it alone gets 22,000 cars per day. It is City of Milwaukee property taxpayers who pay for all that wear and tear, even though a huge percentage of the need is created by suburbanites. Believe me, I'm glad that so many people from Waukesha, Wauwatosa, Bayside, Franklin, Germantown and Whitefish Bay (my hometown) come into Milwaukee for Bucks games, Milwaukee Art Museum exhibits, Brewers games, fine dining, the lakefront, employment, etc., but one could argue that they are not paying their fair share. They wear down our streets, use our police/fire services, litter in our parks -- and then go home. Downtown Milwaukee is actually experiencing a boom, while the rest of the country is struggling to come out of the stagnant economy, so I'm not really complaining. We have new buildings going up and new businesses coming in. If we were in our own bubble -- with only Milwaukeeans using services and only Milwaukeeans paying for them -- I think we might be OK. But there is a mass of humanity coming into Milwaukee every single day, and then leaving again. In my mind, a sales tax might help balance things out a bit, because those people who shop, dine and seek entertainment in Milwaukee would then be paying at least a little bit into our municipal service system. As it is now, they pay nothing to the the City of Milwaukee. There is a sales tax for Miller Park, but there is no sales tax for streets or sewers or such basic things. Just something to consider.
How about this, Alex: You stay there and I'll stay here. You cross 124th street, you pay me. I cross 124th street, I pay you.
That's pretty much what you're advocating with your response to silky.
BTW: All I use Milwaukee for is it's airport. If I have to.
BTW, Alex, I did enjoy your article as it applies to revenue sharing.
Great article Alex. One connection I did not see mentioned in your article, and I don't know if Christian referred to it since I'm too lazy to read his article), is that Shared Revenue is supposed to help offset the cost of State Mandates. Walker complained about these too - things the State tells Counties and Cities they have to do but which they do not fund (and continue to fund less and less). For counties this includes courts, law enforcement (freeways in Milwaukee Count), behavioral health, etc.
If Christian and those on the right think Shared Revenue should be reduced, then so should mandates. The state should pick up more of the tab.
Alex it would be nice to see some type of graph outlining the funding going out and the funding coming in over the past several decades. In addition, without State mandates, can we get rid of shared revenue? How would that affect Milwaukee?
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Go to http://facebook.com/developers, and then click the Create New App button.
But, when I go to this link, it just takes me straight to my Facebook Fan Page??
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Laurie's Experience with Seattle Teen Programs
"Late Night has provided me with a safe environment where I can go hang out with friends and play basketball and enjoy myself. I first started going to Late Night when I moved to Seattle, at 13. It was a place I was able to make new friends and try new things like basketball. That's where my love for the game first began. I was, and still am, the only girl that came to play, but I think that is what got me as good as I am today. Through Late Night I had a chance to play against the boys that were always bigger, faster, stronger and more skilled than I was but that was the challenge. Their abilities challenged mine which in turn made me a better player."
"I was lucky to find my first job through Late Night with the YES (Youth Engaged in Service) program. A YES volunteer worked late night most nights that I attended and they steered me towards the program. The next summer, I applied and became a YES volunteer at Bitter Lake Community Center, which helped me get to know the staff and the surrounding community. Through Bitter Lake I gained resources at other Community Centers that eventually helped me mature into the young woman that I am today."
"After the YES program I followed it up by volunteering at Bitter Lake and getting more involved in my community. Upon realization of how dedicated I was to working at Bitter Lake, Cynthia Etelamaki, site supervisor, hired me to work as a Pre School Counselor during the summer and even sometimes during the school year when one of the counselors couldn't make it. Now I work at Bitter Lake as much as I can, whether it is with the Pre School, helping out behind the desk or working at special events we host."
"I still come to Late Night and play basketball and socialize. I now see a lot of younger kids going through the same process and experiences I went through. Late Night is a great program that gives young people a place to hang out and grow into young adults."


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I just got my first Android about a week ago; so I'm hoping to learn a thing or two about it.
One thing I've been curious about is if there's a way to access my phone on my computer through Bluetooth. I was hoping I could reformat the Micro SD card that's in my phone (because I don't have an adapter..)
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There were around 3 minutes of blue screen at the end of the video (download). And given then title
10 years of... it seemed more like The early years of...
Steve has a blog btw but it doesn't talk technical all that much.
Minh wrote:2) DX has version numbers, of course, but what's this DDI thing I've been seeing? Seems like a lower-level thing than DX.
scobleizer wrote:Do you use DirectX? Tell us about how.
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Say I've bought an app for $0.99. If I delete it, and then I require that app again, do I need to pay another $0.99?
(OK, I really don't want to waste $0.99 just to try it…)
Say I've bought an app for $0.99. If I delete it, and then I require that app again, do I need to pay another $0.99?
(OK, I really don't want to waste $0.99 just to try it…)
You'll have all of your apps for the life of your iTunes account, and you can download them again at any time for no charge.
The only exception is apps that have been removed from the App Store for legal reasons -- generally copyright violation of some form -- or if they're removed by Apple due to some rules violation, both of which are very rare.
Apple has been gradually improving its App Store interfaces so it's easier to determine which apps you already own. Until recently if you saw an app in the store that you already purchased the link to access it would still have the price: if you clicked it and you already owned it you'd be presented with a dialog that indicated that you'd already purchased it and asked if you just wanted to download it again.
As of now the App Store app on the iPad now intelligently replaces the price with "installed" if you have it installed (and, I believe, "install" if you've purchased it but it's not on the device), and the very latest iPhone App Store app seems to be doing it now, too. iTunes 10.3 appears to be doing it as well.
To go along with what Matthew said, there is one way you can lose access to an app: if it is malicious, Apple has a "kill switch" that will delete it off everyone's devices when they remove it from the store. To date, they have never used the kill switch.
No, you won't. If you download the app again using the same account you will not be charged again.


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The Brookings-Harbor Lions send a heart felt "Thank You" to the Brookings-Harbor community for your support of our "Lions In Sight" Food Drive on Saturday, Jan. 30.
The Community Food Share weighed your donations and it totaled 2,110 pounds of food. You also donated $312 in cash.
Thank you for supporting our community when there is a need.
Areta Schock
A Forest Service- Winchuck Watershed council meeting will be held at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 10, at the Winchuck Fire Hall.
The meeting will be a "get-to-know the Forest Service" and to learn "what's happening" on forest lands in the Winchuck River Basin. In addition to getting to know the District Ranger Alan Vandiver and his staff, topics to be discussed include fisheries, timber, recreation, sudden oak death (SOD) and roads. Harry Hoogesteger, South Coast Watershed Coordinator, will also give an update on current watershed restoration projects in the basin.
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Community 101 is a new grant program at Brookings-Harbor High School.
Those who are encouraged to participate are students in freshman Health, Talent Search and Rotary Interact club members. This is an awesome way for our students to learn about and give to their community.
There are about 20 students, so far, who are representing our school. Our mission is to identify nonprofit organizations that help needy families with shelter, food and water. Each Community 101 class has $5,000 to distribute to nonprofits in their community. The main focus of this group is to help fund and support organizations.
The students of Community 101 will also be volunteering in our community, reading grant proposals, conducting site reviews, and holding fundraisers. Community 101 aligns with graduation requirements and provides leadership opportunities.
The entire $5,000 allocation goes to the community, and frequently businesses or individual donors sponsor a classroom by providing the $5,000 or making an addition to it. Students may also use this program for the basis for their senior project, but as part of the program, students must volunteer two to five hours per month at community nonprofits, bringing them much closer to community issues.
For information, call me at 541-469-2108, ext. 239.
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I've been homeless from Key West, Fla. to Delaware, to Seattle to Yuma, Ariz., and most states in between .
I've been traveling homeless in my motor homes, camper vans, truck campers, motorcycles, bicycles, and a lot of hitchhiking which I like best because of less stress.
I've gotten to know hundreds of people, mostly homeless and a lot not. I'm writing this because of a letter to the editor about homeless that came out in the Pilot Wednesday, Jan. 27, because the homeless need a voice, too.
There are hundreds of reasons people end up homeless, some because of their own fault, some because of others, some because of laws, some because of nature. Everybody – no matter how rich, smart or strong you are – needs help from other people. Some people are more reluctant to seek or ask for help for different reasons; they are still just people who need help from each other like everyone else.
I don't feel sorry for the homeless. I try to help them and anyone else I can, just like Jesus; he didn't try to help just the blessed, he tried to help everybody. Most of the time when you see someone on a corner with a sign it's because they have tried everything they know to make it on their own and have given up. The few dollars they get helps them barely make it through the day, but what they really need is a friend that will listen to their needs and help them find resources to get them met, such as a doctor, dry warm place to stay, food and honest income. Most are willing to work but limited to what they can do. They don't need much. They have learned to live with so little for so long. They get by to survive.
I love Brookings/Harbor. I've been coming here 15 years. Some of the best people and climate I've seen in all the states. If I ever was to settle down, it would be Brookings/Harbor.
No two people are alike in their thinking, actions, wants or needs; the community and churches have abundant resources to lend a hand to the few homeless if they would just take the time to find out what they truly need.
Joel Ellis, homeless
Brookings Harbor
I am reading this article ("Blown Up," Pilot, Jan. 30) in Bakersfield, California, with tears in my eyes.
Just when I think all young people are selfish and spoiled, I am reminded that there are caring and extremely brave young men out there.
My thanks to not only these men but to their parents too, as they raised such remarkable sons!
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So in Dungeon World, there doesn't seem to be any stat for initiative or any structure to the sequence of moves that people can make. Is the game intended to be simply played "round robin", or do some people tend to make entire series of moves in a row, or what? I'm coming from games like D&D and Pathfinder, so the absence to a structure to the combat turn order is both refreshing and confusing.
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It's up to the GM to direct turns in combat by switching between characters, often by asking "What do you do?"
The Example of Play chapter also demonstrates these transitions.
I suspect the same character making multiple moves in a row is boring and goes against the fill the characters' lives with adventure agenda.
Make the game more narrative!
Even though you have turns, don't forget that in a round of combat all actions are contemporaneous. (In some rule-sets the terms "turn" and "round" have their meaning swapped... by the way the idea is the same...)
In a round robin approach you can just collect all players' actions in a turn of combat and just explain what happens accordingly to what you (the GM) decide for NPCs/Environment to happen.
Furthermore, players must always describe their in-game actions in order for a move to be triggered; for example, it's not permitted to say merely
but maybe something like
Acting like this, the player can express his will to interact with Lucy the following turn.
It's enough to keep in mind that you are roleplaying and not playing a video game.
I try to imagine the narrative of combat as being a bit like a soccer game. The spotlight is passed back and forth and sometimes intercepted. You want to make sure that everyone gets a chance, but remember, the GM's mandate is to always ask "What do you do?" and to be curious about the situation. Think about who each action might affect and ask them how they respond. Luckily, you only have half as many active members of a battle to think about - the monsters only go when the PCs look to you as if to say "well, what does the Ogre do now?" or when moves indicate they get to do something. The players will pick this rhythm up and start jumping in to have their say, too.


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On Tuesday, December 20, 2011, The Rittenhouse Hotel honored renowned Italian operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti by naming room 1306 "The Pavarotti Suite." The dedication and reception was held in the suite and included a performance by Bill Davenport of the Academy of Vocal Arts. Photography by Jim Cottingham.
On Monday, December 12, 2011, the Curtis Institute of Music hosted a reception to celebrate the creation of a new annual fellowship established by the Consular Corps Association of Philadelphia. The reception took place in Lenfest Hall, the schools new 105,000-square-foot campus expansion on the 1600 block of Locust Street. Guests later enjoyed one of the public performances on the Student Recital Series in Curtiss Field Concert Hall. Photography by Vince Massa/Kelly & Massa Photography.
On Saturday, December 10, 2011, the release party for Christine Romans and Ali Velshi's new book was held. The book, "How to Speak Money," was co-authored by the CNN financial experts and provides advice for the average consumer. Notable attendees included Cecily Tynan and Jennaphr Frederick. Photography by Nell Hoving.
On Saturday, December 10, 2011, the 113th Annual Dinner of The Pennsylvania Society was held at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel in New York City. Notable attendees included Michael Nutter, Arlen Specter and Patrick Toomey. Photography by Yun Cee Ng.
On Saturday, December 3, 2011, the Free Library of Philadelphia hosted a holiday gala to celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. The festive event also honored local benefactor (and Dickens aficionado) Peter A. Benoliel. Photography by Kelly and Massa Photography.
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Starting in 2014 any individual not exempt will be required to carry minimum essential coverage or pay a tax/penalty.
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If your incomes is between 135% and 400% of the Federal Poverty Line you may qualify for premium assistance (tax subsidy). A licensed Exchange Certified Broker may assist you in determining your eligibility for a Obamacare Health Subsidy.
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The Affordable HealthCare Act begins January 2014 and plans are being sold today in Maryland during Open Enrollment which end March 31, 2014.
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I accidentally set off a large pile of TNT. I managed to hit escape before the explosion. Is there any way to prevent it going off?
If you open your world with MCEdit, you can select the area containing the TNT and use the "Delete Entities" operation to delete all the activated TNT in that area. (Note that Delete Entities will also remove any minecarts, boats, and wolves in the selection. MCEdit will show entities as transparent red blocks, but not what type of entity they are.)
Without such editing, by the physics of Minecraft, there is no way to stop activated TNT. However, you can prevent the explosion from having any effects on other blocks, including other TNT, by dumping water in the space where it will explode. (This probably can't help you fast enough unless you have a full bucket on your hotbar already.)
Hitting Alt+F4 would have been the wiser choice because by hitting Escape you invoked the game to save your world.
Alternatively you can quit the game, then delete (and backup) your
If you encase it in obsidian it will prevent the explosion going outward, encase it in water and it stops the damage that the surrounding blocks receive. I'd recommend worldguard because it can prevent the ignition of TNT.
Just thought I'd answer with one more solution: if you have Single Player Commands installed, you can use the
This is a nice solution because Single Player Commands pauses the game when you bring up the console with T, so you don't need to frantically type the command before it goes off.


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The Results Are In! Achieving Enterprise Data Performance
By Meghan Fritz-Oracle on Jan 30, 2014
As big data continues to infiltrate transaction systems, appliances and devices from a variety of applications – including social media – organizations are facing a number of challenges as they attempt to capture and utilize this data. While industry solutions are offering new and more digitally compact forms of data storage, these solutions don't get to the meat of organizations' chief issue: data must be managed and integrated closely into the business from the get go.
How exactly do we do this? Good question.
We conducted a survey[1] on database growth with more than 300 data managers and professionals who are members of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG). After reviewing the results, we took away the following top-line challenges related to managing and storing big data, and the opportunity for partners that lies within.
1. Business challenge: The need to reduce infrastructure costs. Organizations struggle as they attempt to manage large amounts of unstructured data without improvements and updates to their data environments.
2. Technical challenge: The need to improve performance and availability. Database administrators are mostly concerned with performance and consolidation efforts.
3. Application performance challenge: Survey results showed that the most critical performance issue is data growth outpacing storage capacity and the need to purchase additional hardware.
4. Data growth challenge: Half of our respondents stated that in order to combat and manage data growth they have to add more disk storage. Very few plan to use database level compression as a way to address growth.
Opportunity: Three words: Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC). As you may have caught above, challenge #1 is at odds with challenge #3. How can a business minimize infrastructure costs and put more hardware in place? You can't, really. Enter HCC, an Oracle Database feature supported by Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3 Series, but unavailable to third-party storage systems. HCC uses both row and columnar methods for storing data. By doing this, HCC reaps the benefits of columnar storage while avoiding the performance shortfalls of a pure columnar format and can dramatically improve storage efficiencies. HCC compression ratios range from 6x to 15x, significantly reducing storage capacity required and enhancing performance, while enabling customers to significantly reduce their storage costs.
Partners, it's up to us to engage our Oracle Database customers with storage cost saving messages by raising awareness and adoption of HCC. Here are a few ways to do so:
- Consult with customers: Run Oracle Advanced Compression Advisor to estimate potential storage savings. Use 'DBMS_COMPRESSION' package included with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 or higher.
- Use an HCC customer reference: This Starbucks case study is a great example. Architect, sell, and implement the ZFS Storage ZS3 Series.
Best of luck!
Joel Borellis is group vice president, Partner Enablement at Oracle. Monthly guest blogs such as this one are part of The VAR Guy's annual sponsorship. Read all of Oracle's guest blogs here.
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KILLEEN (December 31, 2012)—Killeen police were looking for a man they believe held up a local Family Dollar store Monday morning.
Officers were sent at about 8:15 a.m. to the store located in the 1600 block of S. Fort Hood Street, after a clerk at the store reported a man with a gun had held up a cashier.
The gunman told the cashier to hand over all of her money, then fled the store on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.
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The Lansing girls' basketball program will hold several camps this summer, beginning with a high school girls' session on May 27-31 from 5:30-8:00 p.m. at Lansing High.
The camp is available for girls entering grades 9-12, costs $65 and includes fundamental instruction and competitions. Participants will receive a T-shirt and a reversible jersey.
A middle school session will be held at Lansing Elementary School from 3-5 p.m. May 28-31. The camp is targeted for girls entering grades 5-8.
The cost is $40 and includes fundamentals, games, team competitions and a camp T-shirt.
An elementary boys' and girls' basketball camp will be from July 15-18 for children entering grades 1-4. The camp will be held at Lansing Elementary and will run from 1-2:15 p.m. each day for boys and girls entering grades 1-2 and from 2:30-3:45 p.m. for boys and girls entering grades 3-4.
Cost is $50 and includes fundamental instruction, games and team competitions as well as prizes and a camp T-shirt.
Please check the school's website for forms. Also, contact girls' basketball coach Christine Robinson for more information at email@example.com.