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So now we both have these on the front of our bikes, and they seem rock-solid during use. As a low-rider rack, you cant place things across the top of the wheel, but I've never had an issue with handling when loading the front, either. These racks are a bit expensive, but you get what you pay for. Also, FYI, this rack does fit on the 2009 Novara Safari, though you have to tilt it at a slight angle (15 degrees?) to clear the disc brakes.


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Is it true that every real closed field can be elementarily embedded in some other real closed filed with the same Archimedean classes (I mean in a proper extension)? Can for example real numbers be elementarily embedded in another real closed field with the same Archimedean classes? R (real numbers) is not the only Archimedean field, is it right?
The question is somewhat ambiguous, it's not clear whether the Archimedean classes are meant to be additive or multiplicative. I will assume the former, i.e., equivalence classes of the relation $$a\sim b\Leftrightarrow\mathrm{sign}(a)=\mathrm{sign}(b)\land\exists n\in\omega\smallsetminus\{0\}\\,(n^{-1}|a|\le|b|\le n|a|).$$ First, since real-closed fields (rcf) have elimination of quantifiers, any embedding between them is automatically elementary. Thus the question is whether every rcf $R$ has a proper rcf extension $S$ with the same Archimedean classes (i.e., every $s\in S$ is $\sim$ to some $r\in R$).
As Andreas noted above, this property does not hold in general, and in particular, $\mathbb R$ has no proper Archimedean extension. On the other hand, it holds for many other real-closed fields: for example, any Archimedean rcf different from $\mathbb R$ has a proper Archimedean rcf extension (namely, $\mathbb R$). I think the following characterization holds:
Proposition: If $R$ is a rcf, the following are equivalent:
On the one hand, let $S\supseteq R$ be a rcf with the same Archimedean classes and $x\in S\smallsetminus R$. We can assume $x>1$. There exists $c\in R$ such that $c\sim x$; WLOG $c< x< 2c$. Then $0< x/c-1< 1$, and the Dedekind cut on $R$ determined by $x/c-1$ is easily seen to satisfy $(*)$.
On the other hand, assume the cut $\langle A,B\rangle$ is given. We define an ordering on the rational function field $F=R(x)$ as follows. Using the fact that every nonzero polynomial is a product of linear polynomials and polynomials of the form $(x-a)^2+b$, where $b>0$, we see that for every $f(x)/g(x)\in F$, there are $a\in A$ and $b\in B$ such that $f$ and $g$ have constant sign on $(a,b)_R$; we define the sign of $f(x)/g(x)$ to be the sign it assumes on $(a,b)_R$. This makes $F$ an ordered field. Let $S$ be its real closure. For a given $\alpha\in S$, there exists $c\in R$ such that $\alpha\sim c$ whenever:
Thus $S$ is a proper rcf extensions of $R$ with the same Archimedean classes as $R$.

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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- A group of select students is honing their leadership skills and at the same time, leaving a lasting mark on their community.
Ninth graders from Junction City, Manhattan and Riley County worked together Monday to create water crossings along the Linear Park Trail Sunset Spur behind the Sunset Zoo in the Little Apple.
It's all part of the Flint Hills Regional Leadership Program- a servant-based leadership seminar for area youth: The Leadership, Education, Achievement and Development Workshop. This year's program spanned two days- a day of classroom leadership and team building exercises followed by a day of community service.
"Our teachers have seen who has potential to be leaders but need more skills to be developed. The program here give you a variety of ways to help show you team work and how to lead in a group and how to perform tasks that you need to get done," said Deandre Ramsey, a Junction City High Student student.
Finishing the service project was no easy task. Just getting the materials down the trail was hard work but the students say they learned a lot- skills they can take back to their respective high schools and continue to develop.
"It helps with communicating and teamwork and we're just learning how to understand what each other's skills are. I'm going to be able to incorporate other people's ideas and how to make them work to make a bigger plan more successful and also to be able to vocalize my own opinions," said Gabby Bond, a Riley County High School student.
"I think we're going to attract a lot of people down here, especially since it's by the Sunset Zoo... You just keep collaborating with different groups, figuring out who is doing what and being able to help each other as well... I think that I would be able to get a lot more done in the future," added Sarah Stewart, a Manhattan High School student.


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I'm using a gemset per project approach. Suppose I just installed RVM, created a gemset, called 'test' and install rails 3.1.0.rc4 there, which installs a bunch of gems. Now I switch to the global gemset (
rvm gemset use global), and view my gems. I expect to see empty list, because I didn't install any gems into global gemset, but see all my gems from 'test' gemset. How is that?
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rvm gem list show all gems from all gemsets when invoked from global gemset. If so, how can I view only current gemset's gems?


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Do open source(or amd's) drivers work well for hd5570? Especially on ubuntu 11.10 I don't have it but i want to buy so if anyone could tell me i would be greatful. Thanks!
I have a 5770 XFX XXX 1Gb RAM, and in my experience the answer is: no. After taking a look at the official documentation the answer is still no.
The thing is that the radeon driver package, a.k.a. the open source driver for the ATI vga, offers some support for the oldest cards, for the new ones there are two main option:
Downloading and building your own package from the latest driver available from AMD ATI is a pretty easy task http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Main_Page and gives you good performance.
I'm using HD5850, and I'm very satisfied with the open radeon driver that's used by default. You can achieve better performance with the proprietary drivers, but they don't always work well and have problems of their own. I prefer to use the open drivers. They just work and I can expect my VGA performance to increase over time. :)
I'm currently using Ubuntu 11.10 and AMD HD6800. Additional drivers didn't work att all, so i find this page -
Option 2: Manually Download/install/Configure the ATI Driver - everything works great.
Here is option 2:
This method applies to all Ubuntu-based distros (Kubuntu, Linux Mint, Xubuntu etc.), by the way.
I have an Ati 5470 and I use the opensource driver in Ubuntu 11.10, because with the proprietary driver Ubuntu had many problems with this video card (like Unity 3D is screwed up and unusable). With this, Unity 2D works, but it gets hot after some time of use and there is already a bug opened for that.-
I solved it changing the profile of the ati driver, as suggested here, and installing Jupiter, which is a battery consumption indicator.
And, on startup, brightness is always low and you have to manually get it normal with the brightness function button on the keyboard..there is already a bug also for this problem.


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Definitely. While valuable, I don't think pure "feel" is a benchmark that can be reported on unless performed using a true controlled double blind experiment with an appropriate sample size. In other words, you aren't allowed to say "I can see/feel it, so should you" . Anyway, I cooked up a few spreadsheets a while ago that appear to produce the same graphs as TR's reviews so the data processing should be relatively quick. Are there any demands on game and test duration? Resolution (I normally run 6048x1200 so my defaults are atypical)?Flying Fox wrote:You can probably try doing what TR does with frame time captures in Fraps. Then you can see if the spikes have been smoothened?
Sorry, that was pretty basic of me not to label the axis. X is frame number. Y is frame time in ms.kumori wrote:What are the units on the Y Axis. Is this measuring frame render time?
I didn't realize the image overflowed. Just click on it.kumori wrote:The graph does actually have a legend if you horizontally expand your browser window:
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ANOTHER ANIMAL — the band featuring GODSMACK members Tony Rombola on guitar, Robbie Merrill on bass and Shannon Larkin on drums — will perform at the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) in Anaheim, California. This year's NAMM show will run from January 17 to January 20 at the Anaheim Convention Center.As previously reported, ANOTHER ANIMAL will be the featured guests on the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline", hosted by Bob Coburn, airing Monday, January 21 at 11:30 p.m. EST/8:30 p.m. PST. Fans can talk live with ANOTHER ANIMAL by calling 800-344-ROCK (7625). To find a station near you or to listen to the show live via the Internet, go to www.rocklineradio.com. Fan-filmed video footage of ANOTHER ANIMAL performing the song "Broken Again" at the Irving Plaza in New York City on October 16, 2007 can be viewed below. ANOTHER ANIMAL also includes original GODSMACK guitarist Lee Richards and former UGLY KID JOE frontman Whitfield Crane. Larkin told The Pulse of Radio that he personally wanted to bring Crane into the band to repay him for giving Larkin a job with UGLY KID JOE during the peak of that band's success. "He took me out of one of the darkest places in my life, when I was ready to just quit the music business," he said. "Well, Whit was in his own dark place, so I got to call him and say, 'Dude, guess what? I have this side project, so I'm offering you a chance now to be back on a major label and get your voice on the radio again. I was able to return a favor that was life-changing for me." ANOTHER ANIMAL's self-titled debut disc sold 3,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release. ANOTHER ANIMAL recently completed a U.S. tour with labelmates ALTER BRIDGE.
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Is there a precise mathematical derivation for the correspondence principle for which I can replace $E \rightarrow i \hbar \frac{\partial}{\partial t}$ and $p \rightarrow -i \hbar \nabla$?
There are a few different ways to establish this correspondence, eg, using Lie groups or Fourier Transform. But, in the end of the day, the notion that this takes one from Classical to Quantum Mechanics is nothing but an 'axiom'. So, in this sense, it's a bit weird to use the word "derive" the principle: this 'principle' is used as one of the axioms that defines Quantum Mechanics.
In any case, von Neumann was probably the one to first formalize this construction in terms of what he called "Transformation Theory", which is the theory of Fourier Transforms for distributions (generalized functions).


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Facebook has deprecated the offline access permission.As a developer is there some other way for me to post on the wall of a user when he is not online or I can do that only when he is accessing my app?
We started with Q&A. Technical documentation is next, and we need your help.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, you can contribute.
You can increase 2 table columns in your app namely short_access_token & long_access_token.
Once user authenticates your app, an access token is generated, store it in short_access_token. Then pass this access token to:
Once you run this, an access token with 60 days validity will be generated. Store it in long_access_token. Now, use this long_access_token for 60 days.
You can generate long lived access token only once a day i.e. the first time. Use this long lived access token to post on user's wall (if you've already got the permission).
Ref: https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/offline-access-removal/
You can post to a users wall, without that user being logged in, for up to 60 days. After that, you will need to force the user to login to Facebook again and get a new 60 day access token.
To do all this gracefully, you should store the date of the acquisition of the token in your DB, and set up the necessary UI for the user as that date approaches.
In addition, if the user is an infrequent user of your application, you should really test the validity of the token at least once a day, and go redirect them to login to Facebook if your app finds that the token has expired. This also helps re. tokens becoming invalid due to the user changing their Facebook password.
Of course you can post to a user's wall as long as you have a valid access token – no matter if they are "online" or not.
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On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, was one of the senators who helped defeat the Manchin-Toomey compromise amendment which would have extended background checks for gun purchases. The bill was initially supported by the pro-gun group Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Additionally, polls indicate that 90 percent of Americans favor extending background checks in an effort to keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of those who are mentally unstable and to also hopefully help prevent tragedies such as the recent attack in Newtown.
In a statement on his website, Portman explained his decision to vote against common sense with the following non-specific justification: "I do not believe it would be effective in preventing the kind of heartbreaking loss of life seen in Newtown or in other recent tragic incidents. It does, however, contain several provisions that would make it more difficult for law-abiding Ohioans to exercise their constitutionally guaranteed rights."
Let's consider those two diversions - er - I mean reasons separately. First, is it reasonable not to vote for something which could help simply because it doesn't help enough? Isn't that like telling a drowning man that you'd like to throw him a life preserver, but you'd prefer to drain the pool?
Portman does claim in the same statement that he hopes to later vote in favor of a provision which "helps ensure those suffering from mental illness have access to the treatment they need, but also enforces and improves rules already on the books that limit their ability to threaten themselves and their communities." How does he hope to accomplish this Herculean task? According to Portman, "I will be supporting amendments to improve background checks by strengthening state reporting of individuals who courts have found to be mentally ill."
So Portman, who does not support expanding the medical safety net, claims he'd vote to somehow non-specifically get help to those with mental illnesses. He also claims he wants to "enforce rules already on the books" that limit their ability to hurt others, but he voted against M-T which would have done precisely that. And how exactly does "strengthening state reporting of individuals who courts have found to be mentally ill" help if we don't extend the background checks those reports would target?
So much for Portman's disingenuous claim that M-T didn't go far enough for him to support it; what about his claim that M-T steps on the toes of law abiding gun advocates? We're talking about background checks here, closing gaps in the already established need to police illegal or otherwise disallowed gun transactions. That's it. That's all.
In summation, Portman's claims ring hollow. He knuckled under to pressure from the gun lobbies, plain and simple; and in so doing he put all Ohioans - nay, all Americans at risk.
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The Stroller: 'My right'
Published: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, September 9, 2013 at 3:46 p.m.
Kevin Sloan of Spartanburg is wondering where Larry Weekley has been lately. "Evidently he hasn't paid any attention to Vice President Joe 'Shotgun' Biden or any of the other liberal gun-control fanatics," says Mr. Sloan. "Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., actually said only police and military should have guns. Also, several Democrats in the New Jersey Senate session were recorded saying, 'We need a bill that is going to confiscate, confiscate, confiscate.' By the way, it's called a magazine, not a clip, and it's not a matter of 'needing' a 30-round magazine. It's my right. It's not up to some politician to tell me how I can protect my family. The Second Amendment was written to protect us from a tyrannical government, not for deer hunting. As usual, Mr. Weekley is another liberal spouting off on something he knows nothing about."
'IT WAS DIRTY': It's been a few years since Jonesville High School was closed, a decision that upset many people, including James and Thelma Haile of Jonesville, and the absence of Friday night football in their community makes it more painful this time of year. "We would very much enjoy being able to see Jonesville Wildcats football on Friday nights and all the other sporting events and other activities at the old Jonesville High School," says Mr. Haile. "People responsible for the closing of the school know who you are. It was dirty of you to do this."
'TOP-NOTCH': Dinah McCall of Spartanburg is singing the praises of folks at Image Collision, the auto body repair shop off Asheville Highway near Hearon Circle. "I recently had my first experience with Image Collision, and not only was the repair work on my vehicle exceptional, but their customer service was top-notch," she says. "They let you know every stage your vehicle is going through, update you on the progress and wash and vacuum your vehicle following the repair. It was such an easy process for me because they make it that way. Customer service seems to be something from the past, yet this business has it at the top of its priority list, and when a local business does such a great job for its customer, I think it should be recognized."
BRAIN TEASER: What do the words banana, dresser, grammar, potato, revive, uneven and assess have in common? Look at each word carefully. Can't figure it out? You'll find the answer in Wednesday's Stroller column.
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I have been out of commission for the month of September! I've been so busy working on non Crowded Teeth things! But I had exciting business meetings for super fun products that are coming out in 2012 - stay tuned for details!!
Here are the details on some shows that happened in September. Art is still available!
The Forest Friends show at Leanna Lin's closes this week so try to check it out ASAP! Here are some photos from the opening event! Here were my pieces for the show:
Forest Friends11" X 14" Framed Giclée and 5" X 7" Framed Giclées
$150 and $50 each
Nucleus had a Small World themed show to celebrate the release of Joey Chou's Small World book. It is beautiful!
Here is my piece for the show:
Hugs From Around the World
5" X 12" Wood, Paper Acrylic Pieces - Set of 5
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A Muhlenberg County mobile home quickly engulfed in flames early Thursday morning, taking the life of the man inside.
Family members say the homeowner, 48-year-old Ronnie Noffsinger, had recently moved back to Muhlenberg County.
The Bremen Volunteer Fire Department responded to 8602 Highway 70 around 4 this morning.
They say by the time they arrived, the home was fully involved.
While the cause of the fire is still under investigation, Noffsinger's niece, Sabrina Noffsinger told WBKO, he had been using his stove as a heating source, for several weeks.
Sabrina says her uncle was starting to turn his life around.
"He got saved here recently. Last time I seen him, it's been a while back, but I was sweeping the porch and he came walking up through here, and he had been to church, but that was actually the last time I seen Ronnie," Sabrina says.
She says that was a little over a month ago, but it wasn't unlike her uncle, to keep to himself and stay in his home.
Noffsinger's death is being investigated by the Muhlenberg County Coroner's Office.


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The New York City Council's Land Use Committee today approved a modified version of the NYU Core expansion plan by a vote of 19-1. The proposed expansion plan now goes to the full City Council for a vote on Wednesday, July 25.
Under the plan, which was revised in discussions with Council Member Margaret Chin and the City Council, NYU will be able to build four new buildings on the superblocks it owns on the Washington Square campus for new classrooms, labs, performance space, dorms and faculty housing. The plan will also increase the amount of publicly accessibly open space on the superblocks.
"Today we thank the City Council Land Use Committee and Council Member Margaret Chin for her leadership and vision in creating a plan that allows the University to grow on its own property while at the same time ensuring that Greenwich Village maintains its neighborhood character," said Alicia Hurley, NYU Vice President for Government Affairs and Community Engagement.
"The modifications include an overall reduction in density, funding from NYU to maintain both the public and private open space on the blocks, improvements over the next year to existing open spaces, a provision for community facility spaces throughout the sites, and a commitment to MWLBE goals."
To learn more about the plan, visit:
NYU President John Sexton's Letter to Council Member Margaret Chin, July 16, 2012
An Overview of the NYU Core Plan, as Modified with the New York City Council
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ELM GROVE - Martins Ferry coach Paige Williams had a hunch after the Purple Riders jumped out to an early 3-0 lead that Wheeling Park wouldn't lay down.
She was right.
Kendra Johnson hit a walk-off fielders choice to second base in the bottom of the eighth as the Patriots rallied to defeat Martins Ferry, 5-4, on Wednesday at Lisa's Field.
''We jumped out early,'' Williams said. ''We had some errors that hurt us. I, personally, had some coaching errors that I'd like to take back. But if you let a team like Wheeling Park stay with you long enough, this is what they're going to do to you.''
The Purple Riders (5-3) started the game hot as Kady Webb's double into left field drove in Cassie Hanson and a Tyrah King double cleared the way for Webb as Ferry went ahead 2-0 in the top of the first.
King then brought in Morgan Stalder on a single in the third and the Patriots (14-2) were looking at a 3-0 deficit.
''All the runs they got, we gave them,'' Park coach Dee Davis pointed out. ''Errors or misplayed balls or misthrows...I thought 'oh no we dug ourselves in a hole,' but I know we're a good hitting team.''
Park used a five-hit fourth inning to churn out its first run as Morgan Karnell smacked an RBI double to right field.
The Patriots went right back at it in the fifth as a Kelsi Johnson hit brought in Marissa Tucker and Ashleigh Sidon to tie the game at 3-3.
''Tucker's our leadoff. If she gets on, then that's going to start it,'' Davis said. ''Then we ended up getting two runs out of it.''
Ferry answered back in the sixth as a throwing error gave Kylie Stalder enough time to cross home.
Park then tied the game again when a Kelly Albers sac fly drove in Carly Greer in the bottom of the inning.
After neither team managed much in the seventh, the game went into extra innings, something that, according to Davis, played out in Greer's favor.
The junior then record three of her seven strikeouts in the frame and set the stage for the Patriot's offense.
''When she's in the groove, she's tough,'' Davis said.
''When she's out of the groove, we're a little shaky. But the last three batters, she was feeling it. The longer she goes in a game, the stronger she gets. It just showed right there. She did a great job.''
After Kelly Albers loaded the bases on a fielder's choice, the scene was set for Kendra Johnson's game-winning bouncer.
''They play tough, Martins Ferry did. I'm glad we came out with the victory.''


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By changing only the crank-end head, piston and rod assembly, the same cylinder body can be mounted on any of the common 5-in. to 7-in. stroke compressor frames that have been manufactured in the last five decades.
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text: I have received a promotional code and customized my sleeve, filled all forms and hit "complete order" button. And then... I saw some lenghty error message about database "actively refusing connection", so I repeated whole process but this time website told me that my code has been used and so I can't order. Now, anyone from SI please tell me if my order (1st) has been received or no as I can't confirm it and I don't want to wait until I get my sleeve (and lose a deadline).


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So I've been playing the Sideway demo and I got 4 out of the 5 secrets. There's a certain platform I can't reach, and nearby there's a special platform which I can't stand on, but glows when I jump over it. Here's a screenshot in which I added an arrow indicating the unreachable platform and a circle around the glowing platform (since Nox is currently "over" it, you can see a faint purple glow there, otherwise it doesn't appear):
(I've also added a "graffiti" tag of my own, just to stay loyal to the overall feel of the game)
What is the meaning of this glow? Is there any way in which I can activate this platform? Alternatively, is there any other way to reach that unreachable platform on the left?


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Mercer County VFW Post 1571 and American Legion partner for the 2nd Annual Veterans Ball.
The 2nd Annual Veterans Ball hosted by the Mercer County VFW post 1571, American Legion Post 121, and their Ladies Auxiliary will be Saturday, Nov. 9, tickets include dinner and entertainment by River City 6. Social hour will be from 5-6 p.m. with dinner to follow. There will be a short ceremony at 7 p.m. honoring all veterans. Tickets are available from members of both organizations or downstairs at the VFW. The vent proceeds will benefit the Mercer County VFW Post 1571, The American Legion Post 121, and The Wounded Warrior Project. The evening will be filled with food, fellowship, and live entertainment.
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Private Development Section
We are the team within Birmingham City Council that act as the Highway Authority.
We can enter into legal agreements for a newly built road to be publicly maintained or licence highway improvement works.
Birmingham City Council is the Highway Authority for all the publicly maintained highways in the city other than Trunk Roads. There are many ways in which land can become public highway and one of these is for the land to be dedicated within a legal agreement.
The Council adopts roads and footways (in some cases emergency links, footpaths, verges, visibility splays) and infrastructure such as traffic signals, street lighting and highway drainage by different methods as stated in the Highways Act 1980 and thereby takes on the maintenance responsibility.
The Private Development Section undertakes the management of design approval, construction planning, site inspection, enforcement and adoption of highway works built by developers. The following pages will give you a greater understanding of what is involved:
If you wish to contact us, we welcome enquiries either by post or by telephone:
You can report a highway defect online or telephone 0121 303 6644 (out of office hours emergencies telephone 0121 303 4149).
Advice is obtainable on highway status and proposed highway schemes from the Highway Information Team that updates and maintains the Highway Records.
Other useful telephone numbers are also listed here.
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Fax Number: 0121 303 6379
Further Information:
- Private Development Section Home Page
- Adoption of Highways
- Agreements under Section 278
- Bond (Surety)
- Contact Us
- Creation of New Public Highways (Section 38 Agreement)
- Development Permits
- Drainage
- Environmental Protection
- Highway Design and Technical Approval
- Highway Lighting
- Highway Safety
- Road Making (Costs)
- Safety Audits
- Site Inspection
- Technical Documents
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U.S. Senator Rand Paul stopped by our WBKO-TV studio Monday afternoon.
He told us he believes Mitt Romney will win the presidential election, because President Obama has had four years to improve the economy, and there are still 23,000,000 people out of work.
Some have said the current Congress has done very little in the way of compromise to get this country going again. The senator from Bowling Green believes Congress should compromise.
"I think really the compromise is on the spending side," said Senator Paul, "because both have their sacred cows. I mean you've got Republicans running around the country saying, 'I will not cut military spending.' I'm not one of those. I am willing to compromise on military spending. I think Democrats need to compromise on the entitlement spending, or on entitlement reform. I think we could come together. Entitlements have to be fixed in order to save, them because we're living longer, and we have smaller and smaller populations, and a bigger and bigger retirement pool. They will have to be changed in order to save them."


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I want to install Asterisk server on Ubuntu 11.10. Is there a tutorial?
There is a tutorial here which uses a slightly out of date version of Asterisk. It is for Ubuntu server 11.04.
The latest version of Asterisk is listed here. (Currently 1.8.x for Long Term Support till 2015-10-21 or the newer 10.x supported until 2013-12-15.)
You can use the newest version, currently 10.4.1 by replacing


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Harvey is a 1950 film based on Mary Chase's play of the same name, about a man whose best friend is a pooka named Harvey—in the form of a six-foot, three-and-one-half-inch tall invisible rabbit.
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In the movie Harvey from 1950 in the ending it is made clear that Harvey actually exists and is a Pooka, some sort of fairy from the celtic mythology. Apparently he has chosen Elwood P. Dowd as some ...


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Is there anything like that that heavy or other kinds of violin-strings should break down the instrument?
Thicker strings (aka higher gauge strings) do exert higher tension on the instrument. on a violin they will do this in two primary directions, one is is pulling the neck toward the tail piece, and the other is putting more pressure on the bridge.
I don't think having higher gauge strings will make much of a difference, but you should make sure of two things anyways:
You probably want to take a good violin to a luthier at least once a year.
If you have a high-quality instrument, heavy strings shouldn't damage it.
If your instrument is made out of cardboard or you're stringing it with steel power cables, things aren't so certain. Just don't do anything ridiculous; going up a gauge or two won't exceed the parameters of a decent instrument.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The Charlotte softball team will conclude its regular-season home finale on Tuesday, April 30 when it hosts Winthrop for a non-conference doubleheader beginning at 7 p.m. at D.L. Phillips Complex.
The Niners (21-25 overall, 7-9 Atlantic 10) are coming off a split with Saint Louis on Friday. The Eagles (24-23, 12-9 Big South) who haven't played in nine days, are riding a three-game sweep of Liberty on April 20.
This season the 49ers are 6-2 against Big South teams. Charlotte has swept Radford, Gardner-Webb, and Presbyterian but fell twice to Campbell in a doubleheader.
Winthrop is led by McKenzi Corn who is hitting a solid .399. Corn also leads the Eagles in hits (55), runs (38), and doubles (13). Chelsey Schoenfeldt is Winthrop's homerun leader with 14 on the season. She's batting .343 and leads the team in RBIs (52).
The Eagles are led by Sutton Watson in the circle. Watson has turned in a 14-12 performance this season along with a 3.12 earned run average (ERA). Watson has also recorded 126 strikeouts. Winthrop also has help in the circle from Dallas King, Schoenfeldt, and Sara Allen.
Natalie Capone (.357) heads Charlotte's offense with 50 hits. Chelsea Ingersoll (.352) has a team-leading nine homers along with 45 hits. Jessica Plemmons (.341), Briana Gwaltney (.321), Lindesy Holloman (.300), and Samantha Slade (.299) have each been consistent batters in the 49ers' lineup.
In the circle, Watkins (13-14) has been Charlotte's ace. She has turned in a 3.60 ERA and a team-high 135 strikeouts. Chelsea Lisikatos has recorded a 3.99 ERA in 112.1 innings pitched.
Tuesday's game will be Charlotte's final non-conference game as it wraps up the season when it visits La Salle on Saturday, May 4.


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This Week C9: Win7 API's, Spec# and Boogie, Expression 3 Starter Kits
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Habib "Runtime" Heydarian review the week's top developer stories including:
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Yahoo! API's starting to shut down
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Expression 3 Starter Kits from UX Connection
Silverlight 3 adoption curve by VBandi
Charles Petzold on Fluttering 3D Photo Effects with Silverlight 3
LINQ to SQL cheat sheet via Greg Duncan
Gunnar Peipman's tips for documenting source code
Habib Heydarian, debugging exceptions with the VSTS2010 Historical Debugger:
"An Introduction to UI Automation" by Sam Jack
Visual Studio 2010 Themes (1 from Rob Conery and 2 from Jimmy Bogard)
Using WPF in Office Clients by Beth Massi
Open Source Licenses demystified by Zack Rusin
Just for fun: Musical Sorting Algorithms (1 and 2)
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Thank you guys for putting my blog post about Silverlight 3 adoption in your show! FYI: I am a guy, but if I put my entire name ("András Velvárt") on the blog, you still probably would have had difficulty figuring that out... I'll get a picture up though, thanks for the reminder
I think you're right! I would have probably botched the pronounciation of your name anyway.
Well great post, we were happy to cover it András!
Great video...thanks!
Guys, stop putting your hands between your legs.
I plan on getting you guys to learn my name sooner ot later with further posts to cover
I thought I was the only one who noticed...
It's not like the camera has X-ray vision...
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Cuba. It's one of the world's most isolated countries, and lawmakers in Tallahassee want to keep it that way, offering choice words about what they call a repressive communist regime.
"That vile dictatorship of Cuba!"
Now, all the talk has been turned into a law... One that blocks international companies doing business with Cuba from being eligible for state contracts or investments.
It's aimed at weakening Cuba's economy, but Rafael Marte worries it'll hurt Florida's economy more.
He runs a convenience store specializing in Latin-American goods, many of them sold by international companies in Miami that just happen to have Cuban ties.
"If the parent company that is not located in Florida, they do business with Cuba, then these warehouses here are going to be penalized, and we are going to be penalized, too, because we will not be able to get what we are getting right now," Marte said.
It's not just food companies feeling the impact, but multi-national contractors critical to expanding Florida's ports and building highways.
That's why the powerful Florida Chamber of Commerce is criticizing the law in a statement, saying 'Florida creating its own foreign policy potentially sends a negative message to our major trading partners such as Brazil, Canada and Colombia. This bill is likely unconstitutional and may have unintended consequences."
Consequences the Cuban-American lawmakers behind it argue pale in comparison to what their parents and grandparents had to go through when Fidel Castro took power.
But Rafael wonders, "Are we penalizing the people? Are we penalizing the government? You tell me."
Governor Scott is taking heat for signing the bill into law, not just from people like Rafael, but Florida's Cuban exile community. The governor made it clear he doesn't think the trade crackdown can be enforced without the federal government passing its own law.
Nearly 240 companies the state invests in have Cuban business dealings.


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The Kyle City Council approved the City's Budget for Fiscal-Year 2013-14 at their Special Called meeting on September 4, 2013. The $45.36 million budget allows for all City programs and services to continue at their current levels and includes a new street maintenance program, but does not provide for any new employees or facilities.
"I am very pleased with the work of the council and city staff in the development of this budget," said Kyle Mayor Lucy Johnson. "We've come a long way in terms of getting our fiscal house in order over the past couple of years and I think this budget provides a great value of services for our citizens."
The approved budget does not raise the Maintenance & Operations portion of the property tax rate that funds the operations of the city. The portion on the property tax that funds debt payments will increase from $0.2541 per $100 of assessed taxable valuations to $0.2780.
The increase in property taxes will raise approximately $349,000 to cover debt obligations for the fiscal year. These debt obligations include the first series of six bonds contemplated for the $36 million road bond package approved by Kyle voters in the May general election.
"We worked very hard to be able to present a budget with no increase in the operations portion of the property tax rate," said Kyle City Manager Lanny Lambert. "Our city continues to grow and generate new revenue through that growth, which is a key factor in allowing us to be able to keep our property tax rates steady."
The total property tax rate in the approved budget will increase from $0.5244 per $100 of taxable valuation to $0.5483, an increase of $0.0239. The increase in property taxes is expected to cost the average homeowner in Kyle $30.15 per year, or $2.51 per month.
The proposed budget also includes a 20% increase in water rates and a 10% increase in wastewater rates. These rate increases represent the third year of a three-year plan to bring revenues from the City's water and wastewater utility into balance with the utility's expenses. Other rates that the city charges for various services will also increase approximately 5% in order to keep up with rising costs for those services.
The City Council conducted a total of 5 budget workshops that included public hearings where citizens were able to communicate their concerns about the budget to the council. The council also heard presentations from City staff on each department's proposed budgets.
"Approving a city budget that is responsive to the needs and expectations of our citizens is probably the most important job of the city council," said Johnson. "By making this budget process as open and transparent as possible, I think we were able to achieve that goal."
The City of Kyle Budget for FY 2013-2014 will be available on the city's website at CityofKyle.com and can also be viewed at the Kyle City Hall and Public Library.


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A web service, a Firefox extension, a desktop program or script, or just about anything will do.
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I have found many many requests for this feature to be implemented natively,
This is untested by myself (I don't have firefox -_-) but it might be of use, even if just for the method of how to get the data out, as this could be converted to greasemonkey, etc.
I just thought that I would give a little update to the code. I tried log2log but I think that software is obsolete so don't bother.
I needed to save my logs but unfortunately the code displayed does not work and I assume its because Meebo has made several changes since then. Anyways, I made a few edits and it worked perfectly. The steps are still the same but here is the new macro:
Make SURE to replace "yourusername" with the current user that your logged in with so that the file is saved to your desktop instead of the c drive.
This is the only change you will need to make.
Create a new macro by hitting record, then stop (this is just to create the file don't do anything). Edit the recorded macro that you just created and delete whatever text is there. Paste in the new code. Replace yourusername save the macro, then follow the steps in the original message to start saving your logs.
Meebo is offering chat log downloads until Meebo Messenger closes on 11 July 2012.
Additionally, the developer of Log2Log rolled out a new version of Log2Log (v1.0.1) to support conversion of these Meebo chat logs to a different format. The software can be downloaded from SourceForge.net.


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- Binding: Paperback
- Era: 21st century
- Number of Pages: 288
- Subject: History
- Date Available: September 2010
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After first assessing the state of ballistic missile proliferation in the Middle East, South Asia, and Northeast Asia, Dennis Gormley identifies the factors shaping the spread of cruise missiles in these regions. He includes the specialized knowledge needed for missile development, narrative messages about reasons for acquiring cruise missiles, and international norms of state behavior about missile nonproliferation policy and defense doctrine. He argues that cruise missiles are not destined to supplant ballistic missiles, but rather join them, because when employed together they severely test even the best missile defenses. He then addresses the policy adjustments needed to staunch the spread of cruise missiles, or, barring that, cope militarily with the dual threat of cruise and ballistic missiles.
Dennis M. Gormley is a senior research fellow at the University of Pittsburgh's Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies and has frequently testified before Congress on national security issues. The author of three other books, he lives in Alexandria, VA.
Praise for Missile Contagion
"The strength of Gormley's approach is that Missile Contagion is structured to address issues of interest to multiple audiences—international security analysts, academics, and policymakers. . . . Failing to heed his unambiguous warnings will increase the likelihood that the missile contagion will spread unchecked, and the United States, along with its allies and friends, will confront a world unnecessarily more dangerous."
—John C. Baker, The Nonproliferation Review
"Gormley's expertise on these missiles, honed over years of research and publishing, is immense, and his knowledge of the subject verges on the encyclopedic. . . . For all those who want to understand this threat and what can and must be done about it, Gormley's book is an indispensable guide."
—Dr. Stephen J. Blank, Parameters
"[Gormley's] exhaustive treatment of missile proliferation makes Missile Contagion an important analysis of nonproliferation regimes, the subtle interrelation of cruise and ballistic missiles, and the strategic import of defenses against them. . . . [He] argues compellingly . . . that traditional nonproliferation regimes must be enhanced."
—Tom Karako, The Journal of International Security Affairs
"A leading expert on cruise missile proliferation, Dennis Gormley has written Missile Contagion, a highly readable volume that presents clearly and concisely his concern that cruise missiles are on the edge of becoming a primary threat to international stability."
—Dr. John H. Barnhill, Air Force Research Institute Book Reviews


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Top 10 Books by Eric Carle
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The Mixed-Up Chameleon
Chameleon finds life a bit dull until he's introduced to an amazing array of animals during a visit to the zoo. The lizard gets its wish to acquire what he considers the other animals' most enviable traits. The result is a mixed-up chameleon indeed!
Activity: The Hungry Chameleon. In this math activity, children identify a number and draw the correct amount of insects that a hungry chameleon hopes to catch.
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could anyone please help me? why is it impossible to embed a torus in R^3 with index 1 ( usual euclidean space with index 1 as a semi-riemannian manifold) as a semi-riemannian submanifold?
thanx. but i didn't understand. let me ask another question. why with this metric R^3 doesn't have any compact semi-riemannian submanifold?


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It has been a while since Fanotech released the Nadir swivel. The first release sold out very quickly.
Now that people have had a chance to play around with it, what are your impressions? Hate it? Can't figure it out? Love it? Can't do a pano without it? Want to throw it agenst the wall and curse the day it was shipped?
Since I have not seen any feedback, I thought I would start a thread here. All comments, positive as well as negative are welcome. Feedback is very important for future product development.


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Washington (CNN) – Phillip Maxwell wishes he had done something to stop it.
Maxwell, a Michigan attorney, is still haunted by what he claims he witnessed on the campus of the state's elite Cranbrook School in 1965: a young Mitt Romney and a group of friends holding down a classmate named John Lauber and cutting off chunks of his long hair.
"It was not an event you take a lot of pride in. And it was that way for all of us," Maxwell told CNN.
Maxwell confirmed the story, first reported in the Washington Post. However, he insisted the incident was far worse than a high school prank.
"I'm a lawyer. I know what an assault is. This kid was scared. He was terrified. That's an assault," Maxwell said.
Romney said in an interview with Fox News Radio he does not recall the incident described in the Post article. But the former Massachusetts governor acknowledged he engaged in pranks that "might have gone too far" and apologized for any harm done during his time at Cranbrook.
"Back in high school, I did some dumb things, and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that," Romney said.
Maxwell told CNN he is disappointed in Romney's response to the story.
"He says he doesn't remember it and I find it difficult to believe," Maxwell said in a telephone interview.
"It's unfortunate that Mitt simply hasn't owned up to his behavior," he added.
Maxwell, who told ABC News he is a registered independent who has voted for both Democrats and Republicans, said the episode is "relevant" in the campaign as a window into Romney's character.
"I guess you have to take it into account. Are you the kind of person who would stop the abuse of an innocent person?" Maxwell asked.
In an interview on a separate topic for the June issue of Automobile Magazine, however, Maxwell said he will not be casting his ballot for Romney, though added praise for the candidate.
"I'm a Democrat, so I won't vote for him," says Maxwell. "But he'd probably make a pretty good president. He's very smart, very principled.
To this day, Maxwell regrets he will never have the chance to make amends with Lauber who, according to the Post, died in 2004.
"I wish I could have apologized to him," Maxwell said.
Lauber's family said they were "aggrieved that John would be used to further a political agenda," according to a statement obtained by The New York Times.
Late Thursday, the Romney campaign provided statements from other former classmates of the GOP contender.
"Mitt was a thoughtful guy with a great sense of humor who cared about his classmates. He had a good perspective on how to balance all the pressures high school students face. He would never go out and do anything mean spirited. Clownish, yes. Never mean," Richard Moon, one ex-classmate said in the statement furnished by the campaign.
"Mitt never had a malicious bone in his body – trying to imply or characterize him as a bully is absurd," John French, another former classmate, said in another statement released by Romney's staff.
Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said French "wasn't involved in incident and doesn't remember it happening." She did not elaborate on the statement issued by Moon.


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Can a women write a Mezuzah?
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The Gemara in Gittin(מ''ה ע''ב) says
That would seem to Indicate that a women may not write a Mezuzah. The Drisha(יור''ד סימן רפ''א) asks why is it that the Tur skips this Halacha about Mezuzah but does say it about Teffilin (אור''ח סימן ל''ט) The Rif and the Rosh also fail to mention this Halacha of women not being Kosher to write a Mezuzah.That is since the above mentioned exception to women states that only those who can not wear Tefillin cant not write it seeing that it does not apply to Mezzuzah nor Tefillin it seems that women may write them. Therefore the Drisha comes out That A WOMEN MAY WRITE A TORAH AND MEZUZAH.
The Beis Yosef the Mechaber(יור''ד סימן רפ''א) changes and says a Torah she may not but makes no mention of not allowing Mezzuzah.
In SH"UT Shagas Aryeh he says the reason that women may not write Mezzuzos is because since we learn out of the word וכתבתם the laws of writing Teffilin so to Mezzuzah from which we learn out from the Tefillin for sure a women can not write.
We are left with a Question as the Meor Ktziah (אור''ח סימן ל''ט) points out The Mechaber never says a women can not write Tefillin!!!
The Mishneh Berurah(אור''ח סימן ל''ט ס''ק א') brings that according to Halacha that a women may not write Tefillin and answers that the Mechaber did not have to write it explicitly by Mezuzah because by Teffilin he writes just as a women or slave writes Teffilin is Posul so to by Sefer Torah and Mezuzah and he did not need to repeat himself.


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Officials in Traverse City are discussing whether to reroute area highways to create a bypass around town.
U.S. 31 and Michigan highway 37 presently are combined into a single thoroughfare that runs near downtown and along Grand Traverse Bay.
Local leaders want to bring the matter to the Michigan Department of Transportation's attention as the agency begins preparing its next five-year plan this fall.
Garfield Township Supervisor Chuck Korn says there are several possible ways a bypass could be constructed, including rerouting the two highways to run south and east of Traverse City.
That would require building a connector road that has long been a contentious issue as leaders have debated how to deal with heavy traffic in town.
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Small Business Must-Reads—Tuesday, Feb. 26
High taxes: Businesses in the medical marijuana industry can face an effective federal income tax rate as high as 75%. CNNMoney.com.
Departing Mills: The outgoing chief of the Small Business Administration looks back at her term serving the agency and what's ahead for small firms. Bloomberg Businessweek.
Lean corporations?: Intuit co-founder Scott Cook says established companies need to adopt the strategies Eric Ries describes in his book "The Lean Startup." Forbes.
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i want to learn to do some basic style programming with latex, I'm searching a bit but i can't find a clear source of information. I'm searching things like
Comparison Operators
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Arguments Uses
For example when i search information about conditionals i only found some sites that provide one miraculous command that do some specific comparison, is like that there is always \ifSomething=OtherThing command and not only one IF like i'm accustomed to use in any other language where the Comparison operator take the responsability to adapt what we want to compare. Same for the other topics.


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I'm attempting to construct two tables in Oracle,
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create table statements. Of course, both the
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create table B are failing because neither table has been created yet.
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7 People Who Never Gave Up (But Absolutely Should Have)
#3. Robert Kearns, Intermittent Wiper Inventor, Damn It
His Dream:
Fighting the world's biggest automotive companies.
His Quest:
One night in 1953, Robert Kearns had a great idea. Tired of not being able to see clearly out his windshield when his wipers were on, Kearns invented the intermittent windshield wiper. This may not have been the coolest invention in the world (unlike hot dogs with the cheese inside) but it's still pretty awesome.
Kearns took the idea to Ford. After a few positive meetings, Ford told him they weren't interested. Imagine Kearns surprise when a few years later he saw that Ford was in fact interested enough to use his invention on their cars--they just weren't interested in paying him anything for them. Understandably outraged, Kearns prepared to fight to get his patent back.
But there was a slight hiccup in his plan; he went apeshit insane. He didn't just get angry and take a dump on Ford's front lawn, he went honest-to-goodness, call-a-psychiatrist, the-C.I.A.-is using-my-fillings-to-control-the-world's-pancake-supply crazy. For some reason he believed that President Nixon had asked to meet him in Australia to build an electric car. Boarding the local bus for Melbourne, Kearns made it as far as Alabama, where he was briefly institutionalized. Kearns recovered and made it his life's mission to get revenge on the car companies for almost making him go to Australia.
The horrible depths Kearns nearly sank to in his quest
But still, after Kearns sued 27 different car companies (including Ford, for $325 million) he won a few of the suits and was awarded millions. If he had walked away at this point, he would have been number one on Cracked's list of The Top 7 Crazy Guys Who Came Out On Top, So Good For Them.
But Should Have Quit Before...
Hearns turned around and plowed almost all of his earnings into other lawsuits. For him, it wasn't enough that the car companies admitted that intermittent windshield wipers were his invention and paid him for it, he wanted to be the only person to have the legal right to build them. Kearns was a notoriously difficult client and went through five different law firms before finally taking the final, obligatory step in crazy obsessions; he became his own lawyer.
Kearns devoted so much time to his legal battles that his marriage fell apart and because he had no legal training, he was unable to manage his lawsuits and missed several filing deadlines, losing out on his chance to make millions more.
In 1991, a federal judge dismissed all his outstanding lawsuits because Kearns' patents had expired. Exhausted and only partially vindicated, Kearns left the past behind and retired to a big house in the country to devote himself to a new hobby: trying to reclaim his patents.
#2. Hiroo Onoda
His Dream:
To win WWII ... in the 70s.
His Quest
In 1941, Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda was sent to a small US-occupied island in the Philippines to mess with Uncle Sam's shit. Within the first month, all but him and three other guys were dead or captured. In spite of having all odds against them, they were determined to press on.
In 1945, the enemy began air-dropping pamphlets claiming that the war was over. Being well trained soldiers, Onoda and his men knew the Japanese would never surrender, and it was obviously a foolish attempt by Allied forces to destroy their morale. They also found cleverly planted newspapers in the farms they raided that claimed the Americans had built a bomb that could level cities, but that was obvious bullshit too, right?
Wakka wakka!
But Should Have Quit Before...
World War Two ended. Over the course of the 30-some years that followed, the rest of his troop either defected or were killed by locals during attacks on enemy food supplies. When the locals found the body of his recently deceased comrade complete with his WWII era uniform, they called the Japanese government who dug up the old file on his mission, and put a notice out to the press that there might be some crazy ass Japanese soldier trying to kill Allied soldiers out in the woods.
Eventually a backpacker ran into Onoda and told him the war was over, but Onoda still wouldn't hear of it, and insisted he was simply waiting to be relieved of his post. When the kid returned with Onoda's former commander, who was long retired and now worked in a library, he finally decided that maybe he should reconsider his stance on the war.
#1. Jack Thompson, Anti-Game Crusader
His Dream:
Ridding the world of evil things, most notably Grand Theft Auto. The game, not the theft.
His Quest:
Most of you know Florida attorney Jack Thompson as the anti-video game guy. But even before that he worked overtime as a moral crusader. Be it rap music, Howard Stern, South Park, video games or Janet Reno, Thompson never found an imaginary threat he couldn't exploit, an opponent he couldn't harass or a crime he couldn't blame on the evils of popular culture.
Jack Thompson first came to national attention in the late 80s when he ran for Dade County State Attorney against future Attorney General and UFA Fighting Champion, Janet Reno. At a campaign event, Thompson asked Reno whether she was gay or not. Reno told him that she only liked "virile men" and that's why she wasn't attracted to him. Unlike most people, who would have crawled into a hole for the rest of their lives after having their manhood disparaged by Janet Reno, Thompson launched a public career out of it.
He wasn't man enough for her.
His dick probably permanently shriveled and useless, Thompson began attacking anything and everything he perceived to be a threat. He started by trying to get 2 Live Crew records banned, not on the grounds that they were shitty, but on the grounds that were corrupting youth and spreading indecency. In one of his first of his many jaw-droppingly inane public statements, Thompson likened the release of their albums to firing an AK-47 into a crowded schoolyard.
Thompson also started to refer to himself as 'Batman' and sent people copies of his driver's license with a Batman costume drawn over his face. Clearly, the man meant business. You don't draw a Batman costume on your picture unless you're serious. Or 10.
Thompson continued to look for things to be upset about until he came upon the gold standard for people convinced that kids are too stupid to understand the difference between fantasy and reality: Grand Theft Auto.
Thompson started his crusade in 2003 when he forced his way on to the legal team in a case involving a shooting by a teenager. He attempted to get the defense, the prosecution and the judge to blame Grand Theft Auto for "training" the kid to kill people. Thompson was eventually thrown off the case.
But Should Have Quit Before...
Like most crazy people, Thompson only drew encouragement from his failure. For the next few years, he traveled from state to state, shoehorning his way into murder trials involving kids, trying to get someone, anyone to blame violent video games.
When none of those attempts worked, he then tried to sue the makers of GTA, Take Two Interactive, claiming that the game was "the greatest threat to children since polio." He also sent a letter to Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick's mother, claiming she had raised him like he was in the Hitler Youth. All of Thompson's cases against Take Two Interactive failed, and he eventually agreed not to publicly comment on or decry their games ever again. He honored his agreement by appearing on CNN to publicly comment on and decry the game.
But all was not lost. The Florida Bar Association, moved by Thompson's quest for public decency, did their part in bringing it about. They permanently disbarred Jack Thompson due to his repeated violations of legal procedures and harassment of other attorneys and judges.
That's right: In the end, Jack Thompson was considered too sleazy to be a lawyer.
Thanks to Marc Russel for giving us the tale of Mr. Hiroo Onoda. To learn about more people who should've quit while they were ahead, check out 6 People Who Died In Order To Prove A (Retarded) Point and The 6 Most Utterly Insane Attempts to Kill a US President.
And visit Cracked.com's Top Picks because you know you could never give up on us.


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Newly active round these parts; this just happened to me twice.
Is that how I should behave when I get downvote privileges?
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Newly active round these parts; this just happened to me twice.
If the answer is correct in the sense of containing only true statements, but is not applicable to the asker's problem, then it should be either downvoted or deleted (flag as "not an answer"). Deletion is reserved for answers that are strongly off-topic for the question (for example, an answer that uses a different programming language from the question in a case where the programming language matters). If it takes some knowledge of the topic to see why the answer is inapplicable, downvote.
If the answer is technically correct, but severely misleading or dangerous, it may be legitimate to downvote. Example:
You won't find a consensus on how far that can carry to what is merely dubious advice. Some people downvote if you answer fail to mention best practice, sometimes to the point of exaggeration because you can't always explain everything at once. The driving guideline is to upvote answers if they are useful and downvote if they are not useful. If you think that an answer is so bad that following its advice is worse than ignoring the answer altogether, downvote it. If you think that the answer has some good and some bad, a downvote is not warranted. If the answer is only wrong on a minor point and is otherwise helpful, correct it and upvote it.
Whatever you do, when you see something wrong, make sure that it's apparent what is wrong and why. Often, you should comment on the post (unless somebody else has already done that). Explaining downvotes is often a good idea, but it's not required.
No. If you feel tempted to do that, you're probably here for the wrong reasons. The only motivation I see for doing this is to more rapidly increase your reputation points so that you seem more attractive as a programmer to peers and potential employers for the purpose of being solicited.
If you carry that behavior to a job or other team project and start complaining about code that is obviously better than what you came up with, any:
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5 Real Murderers More Terrifying Than Any Horror Movie
There is no goofier Hollywood invention than the Flamboyant Killer. Whether you were raised on the Friday the 13th movies or Saw-type torture porn, they all have a slapstick quality that lets you know that in the real world, people like this just don't exist.
Real killers are, of course, much stranger.
#5. Rodney Alcala -- The Game Show Contestant
Warning: This entry comes with a video clip that, in context, is the creepiest goddamned thing you've ever seen.
Rodney Alcala is a serial killer who is on death row in San Quentin for murdering five women in the 1970s, but who has subsequently admitted to 30 more murders. He is also under indictment in New York for even more murders, and is believed to be responsible for an astonishing 130 killings total across the U.S. And he looks like this:
Via Integrallife.com
They don't call him "The Weird Al of Killers" for nothing.
But none of that is the reason he's on this list. No, Rodney Alcala will be forever remembered for one thing: In the middle of his murderous California rampage, Rodney Alcala was a contestant on The Dating Game. And he won.
Those high cheekbones led dozens of women to grisly ends.
For those of you too young to remember, The Dating Game was an ABC television game show hosted by paragon of 1970s cheese Jim Lange. The basic premise was that a "bachelorette" would ask three "bachelors" (hidden from her view) a series of ridiculous, double entendre laden questions and choose a winner based on who she believed had the bigger mustache. Our serial killer Rodney Alcala somehow found his way onto the show in 1978, even though at the time he was a convicted rapist and a registered sex offender, two things that are generally considered "turn-offs."
Via Daily Mail
Yeah, but he more than made up for it in sheer looks and style.
Jim Lange introduced Alcala as a photographer, which is eerily creepy in retrospect because Alcala baited many of his victims by pretending to be a professional photographer, and over a thousand explicit photographs of his known and suspected victims were recovered from his residence during the murder investigation.
Wearing a brown leisure suit and sporting a shirt collar with a three-foot wingspan, he took his place in his chair behind the microphone and proceeded to field sexed up questions from a high school drama teacher from Phoenix named Cheryl Bradshaw. Inexplicably, Cheryl decided the following responses made Alcala the most desirable candidate and chose him for a date (keep in mind the "him" in this sentence was a convicted rapist in the middle of a killing spree).
Behold the raw, primal power of '70s fashion.
Cheryl: Bachelor #1 ... what is your best time?
Alcala: The best time is at night. Nighttime.
Cheryl: Why do you say that?
Alcala: Because that's the only time there is.
Cheryl: What's wrong with the morning? Afternoon?
Alcala: Well those are OK but nighttime's when it really gets good. (inaudible muttering)
Yeah, we won't be sleeping anytime soon.
Cheryl: I'm a drama teacher, and I'm going to audition each of you for my ... private class. Bachelor #1, you're a dirty old man. Take it!
Alcala: Uuuunnnhhhh Come on ... over here! Grrrrrrrr rrrraaaaarrrrrr.
Remember when your mom told you that you have horrible taste in men?
Cheryl: I'm serving you for dinner. What are you called and what do you look like?
Alcala: I'm called the banana, and I look really good.
Cheryl: Could you be more descriptive?
Alcala: Peel me!
If you have five minutes, the video of this exchange is well worth all five of them:
So Cheryl was served up by dangerously lazy television producers on a date to tennis lessons and Magic Mountain with a serial murdering rapist. Luckily for her, after the show she apparently found Alcala too creepy and refused to go out with him.
#4. Johann "Jack" Unterweger -- The Underwear-Strangling Wordsmith
Via Escritoconsangre1.blogspot.com
Jack Unterweger was born in Austria in 1950 and spent his youth in and out of jail for petty crimes. It wasn't until 1974 that Jack finally discovered his true passion, which was strangling prostitutes to death with their own bras.
Via nytimes.com
Be honest. Who among you hasn't wanted to strangle a hooker while dressed as the Great Gatsby?
He was given a life sentence and imprisoned in Austria for what one would've assumed to be a lengthy stay, but while incarcerated he discovered a new talent that involved way less hooker death -- Jack Unterweger began writing, and turned out to be surprisingly good at it. His short stories, poems and plays got the attention of Austria's intellectual elite, and his autobiography Fegefeuer - eine Reise ins Zuchthaus (Purgatory -- A Trip to Prison) was actually made into a movie that was shown on Austrian national TV. Austrian intellectuals began a campaign to release Unterweger, believing that someone of his literary skill couldn't possibly be capable of murdering anyone and insisting he must be cured of whatever mental defect he might have once had.
The campaign was a success, and Unterweger was freed after serving only 15 years for violent, brutal murder. Thanks to the attention paid to him by his new literary friends, he immediately found work hosting television shows and discussing prison rehabilitation with the media. He also took to dressing in a style described as "a cross between a cowhand and a Mississippi preacher," his new look as a dapper eccentric helping to disarm and charm those he came across and further convincing the people in his new social circle of his intelligence and artistic authenticity.
Via Biography.com
Suddenly, our public nudity charges don't seem all that damning.
Oddly enough, Jack apparently still really liked killing hookers -- he strangled six in the first year after his release, again with their own bras. Before this unfortunate fact was realized, Jack took a trip to Los Angeles to write a story on prostitution for an Austrian magazine. He went on a freaking ride-along with the LAPD, and afterward strangled three local prostitutes, presumably for additional research.
Police began closing in on Unterweger while he was still in the United States, and he lead the authorities on a nationwide chase. While on the run, he placed calls to his friends back home in the media and the literary elite, imploring them to convince his pursuers of his innocence. Before his friends could indignantly start another campaign to protest his unfair persecution at the hands of the lowbrow American justice system, the Austrian police nailed him on the six murders he had committed since he had been released from prison.
Via Skcentral.com
"But he promised he wouldn't murder again!"
Finally cornered in Miami, Florida, Unterweger was captured and extradited back to Austria, where he hanged himself in his jail cell with his trouser drawstring, presumably because he had writer's block.
#3. Grady Franklin Stiles Jr. -- The Lobster Boy
What Grady Stiles, aka "The Lobster Boy," lacks in murderous volume, he makes up for in nightmarish creepiness.
Grady Stiles Jr., born on July 18, 1937 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had a congenital defect known as ectrodactyly (literally, "monstrous fingers"), which was common in his family.
Via Findagrave.com
It's subtle, but his hands are abnormal.
This deformity didn't keep the afflicted members of the Stiles brood down, however, as they found their perfect niche in the "carnival freak" community. And Grady's freakishness was spectacular, as not only were his hands fused into claws, but also his legs and feet were stunted into flippers. His father was already an attraction at the traveling sideshows, so he quickly put Grady to work in the tents at age 7, billing him as the amazing Lobster Boy, a moniker he would retain for the remainder of his life.
Via Mentalfloss.com
In modern times they would call him "Lawyers' Wet Dream."
Grady grew up, married another carnival performer named Mary Teresa Herzog and by all accounts was a mean, drunken, hateful bastard. He was constantly both mentally and physically abusive toward his wife and the four children he produced (two out of the four being lobsters). His handicap left him unable to walk, but because he constantly used his arms to move he developed massive upper body strength, allowing him to deliver vicious pinches, punches, headbutts and choke holds to any and all who displeased him.
Grady was so proud of his claws that he bragged "Everyone I have sex with wants to have sex with my claws!" which we want to point out suggests that not only did Grady have weird lobster sex, but that he had it with more than one person.
Via Phreeque.com
As evidenced by his children, named "Proof" and "Suck It."
When one of Grady's non-lobster daughters got engaged, Grady became jealous and ended the marriage before it began by shotgunning her fiancee to death on the eve of their wedding in 1978 (how he managed to fire said shotgun is strangely absent from historical records). Even though Grady openly admitted to the act and showed no remorse whatsoever, he was set free after being sentenced to only 15 years probation, presumably because the prison system had no facilities to accommodate lobsters.
"No, for the last time I don't need a tank, you insensitive asshole."
His wife Mary left him, got remarried and had another child, but for some reason grew weary of her new life and returned to Grady's open claws for a second marriage. Grady had not changed his ways, and in point of fact would frequently threaten to kill Mary and her family. It seemed only a matter of time before he made good, so Mary and her son Glenn paid another carnival worker $1,500 to shoot Grady four times in the head while he drank and watched television, which seems like something else they probably could've charged admission for.
Grady Stiles was so despised in his community that nobody could be found to step forward to serve as a pallbearer, and his simple gravestone was devoid of any epitaph. The only engravings, aside from his name, were two sets of clasped, praying hands.
Via Findagrave.com
It was decided that it was actually worse than the middle finger they originally chose.


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Drilling Is Not The Solution To Create Jobs And Reduce Reliance On Foreign Oil
President Barack Obama has made comprehensive energy reform a key issue of his presidency, with massive investments in clean energy, initial efforts to confront climate change, and a commitment to "ending our addiction to foreign oil." Today, Obama announced a sweeping new offshore drilling policy, opening "vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling" for the first time. This plan would also restore the ban on drilling in Alaska's Bristol Bay and the West Coast. White House officials "pitched the changes as ways to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil and create jobs," the Associated Press reports. For years, however, Obama has correctly explained that new offshore drilling would do nothing to "reduce U.S. reliance on foreign oil":
"The days of running a 21st century economy on a 20th century fossil fuel are numbered – and we need to realize that before it's too late."
"The truth is, an oil future is not a secure future for America."
"We could open up every square inch of America to drilling and we still wouldn't even make a dent in our oil dependency." 9/15/05
"It would be nice if we could produce our way out of this problem, but it's just not possible." 2/28/06
"Instead of making tough political decisions about how to reduce our insatiable demand for oil, this bill continues to lull the American people into thinking that we can drill our way out of our energy problems. " 8/1/06
"Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. Not even close." 8/28/08
This expansion in offshore drilling leases, the Energy Information Administration has found, will have no effect on gas prices or dependence on foreign oil. Nor will it increase jobs, as oil companies aren't really interested in new drilling — they are already sitting on existing leases instead of drilling them, in order to inflate their bottom lines by claiming the value of leased oil reserves as an asset. Furthermore, a Center for American Progress study has found that money that goes into the oil sector instead of the clean energy economy means a net loss of 14 jobs per million dollars.
In the beginning of August 2008, as Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF) "Drill Here, Drill Now" campaign overlapped the presidential campaign, and oil and gas prices were skyrocketing to record levels, Obama dropped his "blanket opposition to expanded offshore drilling," saying that he would be willing "to compromise in terms of a careful, well thought-out drilling strategy that was carefully circumscribed to avoid significant environmental damage" in order to get Republican votes for comprehensive climate and energy reform.
In 2005 and 2006, Obama talked about the "tough decisions" of "how to reduce our insatiable demand for oil" and "investing in more hybrids and renewable energy sources, raising CAFE standards and helping our auto industry transition to a fuel-efficient future," instead of drilling. In his first year in office, Obama made tremendous down payments on the clean-energy transition, the cash-for-clunkers program, and ninety billion dollars of Recovery Act funds for hybrid cars, efficiency, and renewable energy technologies, and momentous new CAFE standards that will save 1.8 billion barrels of oil demand. That accomplished, Obama took a step back, saying in his 2010 State of the Union speech that "clean energy jobs" means "making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development." America's oil addiction can only be broken with comprehensive climate legislation that puts a real cap on carbon pollution.
Conservatives are treating the announcement with disdain — Gingrich's ASWF said the president's plan "is likely to be an attempt by Obama to seduce the public (into) believing that he will do something in the future on offshore drilling," but amounts to little more than window-dressing. Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity vice president Phil Kerpen commented that "the idea that this is a big concession in exchange for which Congress should jumpstart climate legislation is ridiculous."


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What's the best thing to do if the condom breaks during sex?
– Meagan*
Many times, a couple won't notice that a condom broke until after sex. But if you know that the condom has broken during sex, stop right away and use a new condom.
If the condom does break:
To prevent condoms from breaking, keep them away from heat and light, don't carry them in a wallet, don't open them with anything sharp (like scissors or teeth), and avoid using oils or lotions on them. The material used to make condoms can weaken over time, so check the expiration date and don't use one that has expired.
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Note: All information is for educational purposes only. For specific medical advice, diagnoses, and treatment, consult your doctor.
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