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I have thin-sliced zucchini and steamed it for use in my soup. One of the zucchini turns out to be bitter. I have saved half of it for use on the next day. Is there a cooking method that will remove the bitterness from that same zucchini, preferably with a presentation that is similar to steaming?
When I cook zucchuni I slightly scrape the skin with help of a knife to reduce the bitterness.
Also for some meals prepared by mashing, I peel the skin off.
Having bounced around to the various other sites I basically had what I've heard anecdotally before confirmed; salt and lay out to drain liquid. I suppose the implication is that by dessicating the zuke a little bit, it can remove the Cucurbitacin (which is a steroid developed to ward off herbivores). Putting the zukes in salt water is also recommended by some.
It appears that people can become ill from incredibly bitter zukes, so be wary of eating extremely bitter ones. In this case, you may want to follow the wisdom of your taste buds and drop the zucchini in the trash.
Also, salt masks bitter flavors; it's one of the reasons that, for example, bacon goes so well with cooked greens.
I learned a nice tip from a Sri Lankan friend which seems to make them taste less bitter:
1) Chop off the stem end of the courgette with a sharp knife (not serrated)
2) Press the stub / courgette surfaces back together and rotate the stub end against the courgette continually for a couple of minutes.
3) As you do so you will find a thick, white substance leeches out of the courgette through the cut end (it might continue for half a minute or for a few minutes)
4) Once it's stopped leeching out (or you're bored!) wipe off the white stuff and discard the stub.
5) Continue to prepare / cook / eat as planned. It should taste better!
Your Sri Lankan friend was right. Here in India we do the exact same thing for cucumbers, which is from the same family as zuchinni. Taking out the white stuff makes it less bitter. In addition, before rubbing the two surfaces together, you should lightly poke the two surfaces three to four times with your knife. This helps in taking out the white stuff better.


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In last Friday's edition of the Forum of Fargo-Moorhead*, reporter Erik Burgess advanced the story of Lennon Cihak, the Barnesville MN teenager denied the sacrament of confirmation by his pastor, Fr. Gary LaMoine of Assumption Parish, for Cihak's public support of same-sex civil marriage. Burgess reported, among other things, that:
- a classmate of Cihak's also was denied confirmation, and for the same reason;
- in an open letter to the parish, Fr. LaMoine maintained that Cihak voluntarily chose not to seek confirmation; however,
- Fr. LaMoine told a reporter that he would not have confirmed Cihak anyway;
- Fr. LaMoine apparently became aware of the issue because "My secretary Googled his name"; and,
- both Bishop Hoeppner and diocesan spokesman Msgr. David Baumgartner remained unavailable for comment.
Here at dotCommonweal we've had a lively and far-ranging conversation about this situation (see here and here) and what it says (or doesn't say) about the wider Church. In addition to reading those threads (thanks to all the commenters!), I took some time over the weekend to check out Lennon Cihak's Tumbler and Twitter feeds. It helped disabuse me of an overly simplified notion of "parallel churches"---if only because I'm not sure which church would have room for a music-making, gay-marriage-endorsing, chocolate-milk-drinking, abortion-opposing, Romney-supporting, Obamacare-hating, part-time grocery-store worker with an (appropriately) adolescent sense of humor, who roots for his high school's football team and loves his grandma. (I'm also not sure whether he'd be interested in joining either of those "parallel churches".)All of which is to say that Lennon Cihak reminds me of so many 17 year olds: fearfully and wonderfully made, bursting with surprises and contradictions, full to the brim with possibilities. He also reminds me that one of the things I've always loved about the Catholic Church is the way it's a church for people who otherwise have nothing in common---other than their love of God and the nourishment they find in the sacraments.*Thanks to John Hayes for linking to this article in one of the threads, and to Eric Buygis for his post on this topic.
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I would imagine that if Fr. LaMoine were to closely question all 17-year-olds slated for Confirmation, there would be good cause, by his standards, to deny a great many of them the sacrament. And no doubt if he were to closely question his parishioners on certain issues of Catholic teaching, he would find good cause to deny a significant portion of them communion.
The disagreement is over the wisdom of voting on an amendment to the state Constitution not doctrine. .Does the Archbishop of Minnesota think that an amendment to the US Constitution on this issue is the way to go? If they think it is the way to go, do they think that it could it ever garner 2/3rds of both Houses and States? Will they join the Tea Partiers { Bachmann MN 6th] and push for a Constitutional Convention!Where is the fraternal correction when you see some bishops/pastors going off the doctrinal/pastoral cliff? The silent pastors and bishops in their silence on this obsession with civil SSM are undermining the Faith. Will not one bishop stand up and say," this SSM civil law obsession is not a wise course of action' The military changed to 'open' service and the only problem resulting, was hetro sexual activity in the 4 Star general ranks Haven't the hierarchy learned anything from their silence in the abuse crisis?
Fr. John Coleman has his take on this over at America:I was reminded of a conversation I had with a retired archbishop about an earlier letter by Archbishop John J. Meyers of Newark who wrote in a pastoral letter that Catholics who supported marriage equality for gays and lesbians should abstain from communion. The retired archbishop told me Meyers needed to consult a good canon lawyer. While Meyers, in his letter, said he wanted to be clearer than some other of his fellow bishops regarding homosexuality, in fact he went beyond what good pastoral practice and canon law allow.http://americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=5499
After the recent election, I heard one bishop or priest remark on radio that if a Catholic is teaching in the public school system, and if due to all the recent babble about gay marriage - the school curriculum changes to require the teacher instruct children on the validity of gay marriage, that Catholic teachers should ask to not be required to teach such things. Corrupting the minds of the young is a very serious thing of course.The pro-gay marriage folks will make it very difficult for Catholics to teach in public schools.Interestingly, I recall my mom mentioned that in the town where she grew up (in SD) there was only one Catholic teacher in the entire public school; basically there was one Catholic teacher allowed because folks in that town considered themselves broadminded enough to tolerate that much. With things like the HHS mandates and gay marriage coming fast at Catholics, we may be headed for that sort of situation again.
However as in golf, every shot makes somebody happy. With that in mind, maybe Catholics can parlay all this change into an expansion of Catholic schools; to justify a greater investment in Catholic school systems.
By golly, if he keeps this up he'll be made the new Bishop of Oakland! He's a direct clone of The Croc.
Luke -- Well said. I'm a Catholic high school teacher, and your description is right-on.
Luke -- Well put. One factor I would add to your excellent list is the dynamic transition that many 17-year olds are living through, say from 15 to 17 to 19. It should not be at all surprising to see some of the most deeply held convictions (TBD) reverse or disappear or otherwise change in a year or two. Viewing a 17-year old as cast in stone seriously misunderstands the nature of the boy-man in process.
I was confirmed in the third grade. Maybe we should go back to the days when you were confirmed before you were old enough to have an opinion on any dispute more profound than doughnuts vs. Pop-Tarts.
Her is something from Litesite news. Quite a different take or spin.Fr. Lamoine told LifeSiteNew.coms that the final decision to delayconfirmation was made by the boy himself -- and that his support for gay"marriage" would have precluded him from receiving the sacrament.BY John JalsevacBARNESVILLE, MN, November 16, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) The parents of a17-year-old boy in Minnesota are claiming that their parish priest deniedtheir son the sacrament of Confirmation because he posted a photo in supportof gay marriage on his Facebook page a claim that the priest, Fr.Gary LaMoine, has denied.The story broke earlier this week on the Fargo Forum, and has since beenpicked up by numerous other media outlets, including the Associated Press.The mother of the boy, Shana Cihak, told the Forum that she was shocked bywhat she says was the priests decision to bar her son, Lennon, from thesacrament.You kind of know the Catholic beliefs, but I never thought they woulddeny somebody confirmation because you werent 100 percent, she said.I guess thats what shocks me.But Fr. LaMoine, the pastor of Assumption Parish in Barnesville, toldLifeSiteNews.com that there were other concerns that contributed to thedecision to delay Lennons Confirmation, and that the final decision wasmade by Lennon himself, not the priest.According to Catholic teaching, Confirmation is a sacrament of initiationthat confirms Catholics as mature Christians. It is usuallyadministered to young teens.Fr. LaMoine said that his conversations with the Cihak family began in earlyOctober, when he sent a letter to Lennons parents, Doug and Shana,encouraging them to start coming to church to support their son.The priest told LifeSiteNews.com that he only discovered Lennons gaymarriage post by accident on October 25, the day after having a two-hourmeeting with the family. During that meeting the priest had brought up thefact that the Cihaks were not coming to church, as well as othermatters that the priest said, I cant get into here. No mentionwas made of Lennons views on marriage during that meeting.The following day Fr. LaMoines secretary, who is Facebook friends withLennon, chanced upon the controversial post and alerted the priest to it.The priest says that he then telephoned Lennon, and in the course of thatconversation the boy said he had chosen not to go forward with Confirmation.Click like if you want to defend true marriage.Lennons post came days before Minnesotans were slated to go to the pollsto vote on an amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Itshowed him holding a pro-marriage sign that he had defaced to express hissupport for equal marriage rights.The priest admits, however, that once he knew that Lennon supported same-sexmarriage, and was unwilling to retract his views, that he would not havebeen able to confirm him.You cant have people out there saying things that are so contrary tothe central teaching and doctrine of the Catholic faith, and going throughConfirmation, he said. After he put it out in the public, we wouldhave looked like a bunch of hypocrites in confirming him.Fr. LaMoine said that in the course of teaching the confirmation classes, hehad addressed the Churchs teaching on marriage at significant length,including speaking to the Minnesota amendment directly.At the moment, says Fr. LaMoine, his primary concern is for Lennon, who isnow the center of a major media controversy. Im more worried aboutLennon than I am about anyone else, because hes so vulnerable andtheyre sticking him out there.The priest decried the tone of the media coverage. This is coming out asif I just kicked [Lennon] out in anger, he says. I dont functionthat way as a pastor. I called him up and talked to him. And Im not angryat him.In a statement which Fr. LaMoine plans to read to his congregation onSunday, the priest says he is dismayed that what should have been kept aninternal Church matter has now become a public controversy. To place this controversy into the public forum was the decision of theyoung man and his family, he said. It was not my intention or theintention of Bishop Hoeppner who was informed about the situation shortlyafter the young man withdrew from candidacy.Meanwhile Doug Cihak, Lennons father, has told media that he is not madat the pastor, and understands that he is just being a messenger ofthe Church.Lennon himself has said he doesnt want the church to be put down,but expressed his concern that the priest is being so strict. He wontloosen up about things.Follow us on Twitter: Follow @LifeSite!function(d,s,id){varjs,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs[removed].insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,script,twitter-wjs);http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/parents-claim-minnesota-priest-denied-s...
The priest says that he then telephoned Lennon, and in the course of thatconversation the boy said he had chosen not to go forward with Confirmation....andshortly after the young man withdrew from candidacySuddenly he was not interested in being confirmed?Fr. Lemoine's insistance than Lennon said "he had chosen not to go forward with confirmation" reminds me of the third-grade teacher who says "JImmy chose to stay after school. He knows that pupils who don't hand in their homework have to stay after school and he didn't hand it in".
It is noteworthy that Fr. LaMoine recalls what "in the course of that conversation the boy said" with no mention of what he himself said when he made the call. With his Sunday collections falling short of budget according to his Nov 18 parish bulletin, it might behoove him to find an improved approach to reforming and retaining his parishioners. http://www.catholicweb.com/bulletins/73402/Nov-18-2012.pdf
The real issue is that Fr. LaMoine said that regardless of whether the boy voluntarily delayed his confirmation, he would not have confirmed him anyway because of his support of gay civil marriage...FULL STOP.There is a contradiction in principle here where clergy is never reminded of their responsibilities. A priest or bishop has a responsibility to stand firm on teachings they believe are the truth regardless of the consequences. In this case, someone is denied confirmation and Eucharistic reception because of their support of gay civil marriage. The contradiction is that this decision in principle applies to all other parishioners who are about to be confirmed or are confirmed and believe in the support of gay civil marriage as well. Some may believe that the priest's decision is merely the exercising of required virtuous courage, but it is cowardice in like of the broader application of the moral principle to others with similar convictions. If the priest and bishop does not issue a communique applying the same decision to those parishioners who support gay civil marriage, then we have moral dilemma, inconsistency and contradiction in principle. This will likely "not happen" because of the consequences like more appropriate criticism, more empty pews and further diminishment of the Church's teaching authority. The Church often calls Catholics to virtuous courage in accepting other teachings (e.g., Natural Family Planning instead of contraception), yet where is the application of virtuous courage this case?Bishop John Meyer of Newark proclaimed that anyone who supports the marriage equality of gay and lesbians should refrain from Eucharistic reception. If this is a teaching of truth that should apply to all Catholics, then the USCCB should issue a national directive on the subject. If you are all hoping (my sarcasm) for this to happen, I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale. The upshot is that these kinds of irresponsible decisions and contradictions in principle are ignored by parishioners for good reasons. They are focused on their relationship with Christ and strive to lead morally upright lives in accordance with the Gospel message. We live in a divided Church and in a crisis in truth and Rome continues to blame it on the ills of the modern age. Should not Rome claim responsibility for a lack of a convincing moral theory intelligible to most Catholics? When is comes to morals, faith without reason is blind and foolhardiness. Reason without faith is to deny the transcendent Spirit. We need both and that is Rome's responsibility.
Michael B. ==The clergy preach to us Faithful that we must value reason. Some even say that this appreciation of reason is a major difference between Catholics and Protestants -- we value reason and they don't. But it seems that the Catholic clergy is exempt from the requirement to be consistent. Go figure.
Ann O. Michael B. -- The Pope offered a view on faith and reason in his Nov 21 general audience, briefly addressing "the reasonableness of faith ". His conclusion is "The Gospel establishes a new humanism . It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake". He looks to faith to provide the direction for scientific discovery. He appeared to me to be supporting somewhat defensively the role and necessity of faith, given science and rationality. Among other things, he appears to conflate "truth" as found by science, which is tentative since it is subject to change with further evidence, with the truth he would associate with faith. He also misstates a scientific experiment he could replicate by looking out the window -- what we see when we look directly at the sun. Amplification of his message might be illuminating on "Rome's responsibility" with which Michael concludes. http://visnews-en.blogspot.com/2012/11/benedict-xvi-it-is-rational-to-be...
Jack B. --Benedict's defense of science is certainly welcome, especially given how many people these days are inclined to dismiss its findings when they don't like them. (I'm thinking of the weather problems.) But I think he's too confident about our understanding of the religious mysteries. He doesn't seem to want to admit that there appear to be contradictions in what we are told to believe, and for many people these apparent contradictions in the Faith are disastrous. It would be better to admit them outright and to look for the source of the contradictions in our inadequate understandings of what has been revealed. But to admit our partially wrong understandings is to admit error, and the Vatican doesn't do that.


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Can anyone suggest good resources to learn about vulnerabilities in and attacks on web sites, in a hands-on way, for someone with limited programming experience?
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OWASP has a couple of very interesting resources of this kind:
I suggest you start by developing dynamic websites that involve a database, using HTML/CSS, a client side programming language (like JavaScript), and a dynamic language (PHP is a popular choice). To fully understand web security attacks, you need first to get familiar with the client/server architecture, and the way a dynamic language interacts with a database to retrieve/insert/modify data.
Once you grasp the basics of dynamic web development, you can start learning about attacks. The OWASP Guide Project is a great resource and a reference for experienced web penetration testers as well as newcomers. For hands-on training, just google for a vulnerable web application and you'll find many deliberately vulnerable apps to safely and legally practice against. DVWA is a good starting point.
The next step is learning about tools. I advise you not to use these until you fully understand the different attacks (XSS, SQLi, CSRF, RFI/LFI, XST, etc) and how to manually perform them. For a concise list of open source tools to use when assessing a web application, you can check this previous answer of mine.
Sans has a Web Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking: Capture the Flag class you might be interested at https://www.sans.org/security-training/web-penetration-testing-ethical-hacking-capture-flag-day-6-13632-cid
There are some capture the flag sites that you might learn from using
A larger list can be found at http://captf.com/practice-ctf/
I think that you ability to understand attacks of software is limited by your ability to create software. For people with limited programming experience interested in "web security" I would tell them to write a web application. It can be simple, but they need to know how it works from the developers point of view before they can understand how it can be manipulated to do tasks it wasn't designed to do.
this vulnerable web application will help you understand OWASP top 10 and the good thing is that it is challenging Mutiliade
I know that there are sites like HackThisSite that take a hands on approach to teaching security. You can check those out. Once you have a fundamental understanding of the common exploits, doing a lot of reading (including this site!) can also help a lot.


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i wanna get one for my mom, but the internet they have isnt the best DSL, like if somebody gets on their laptop to browse facebook, then my online gaming begins to lag. im just wondering if this would cause lag in things like that? and if its even worth buying?
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I have AT&T DSL Uverse, the 3MBPS package and it seems to do fine while I'm downloading movies and music AND have a VPN into work, all at the same time.
As for the service, it's great. Does all the things that PacBell used to do but you only pay $3-4/month for the taxes for the base package. I bought it last time it was on woot and have probably broken even if not more.
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@tucnguyen: I just read, but haven't tried yet, that a ups will power both the ooma and a cordless phone during outages, of some duration.
OP: I haven't noticed any issues re: lag, but I am not a heavy resource user, no gaming, little streaming. It might save you enough to upgrade speed. I just got my 1st, post ooma bill from u-verse, sure is nice($3.50 here, too), and no issues w/ faxing or call quality.
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Potato skins with spicy tomato sauce are a classic favorite.
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- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Once the potatoes are cool, quarter each one, and scoop out the flesh, leaving a thin layer of flesh in the skin to make a shell. Put the skins hollow-side up on a baking sheet, and drizzle with the olive oil. Sprinkle over a pinch of sea salt.
- Mix together the tomatoes, cayenne, and parsley, and season with sea salt and black pepper. Spoon a little of the mixture into each potato skin. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes, until the skins are golden and crispy. Top each of the potato skins with some sour cream and serve on a large plate.
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29 Jan 2013 9:01 PM #1
GWTP Nested Presenter Issue
When using GXT with gwtp framework the nested presenters are not displayed. However the html is attached to the DOM. Only doing resize or calling Container's forceLayout() displays the content.
This happens when using GXT container (VBoxLayoutContainer) as a top-level container for nested presenter. When using native GWT panel like FlowPanel the presenter is displayed after onReveal() event without the need to resize or forcing layout.
I would appreciate any help.
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30 Jan 2013 6:06 PM #2
I am using GXT, GWTP and nested Presenters without any issues. I am also using a variation of the MVP design pattern that utilises UiHandlers.
You might like to try using a VerticalLayout as the parent container for the VBoxLayoutContainer.
See also:
-> http://uptick.com.au/content/working...and-uihandlers
-> http://code.google.com/p/gwt-cx/source/browse
31 Jan 2013 10:11 AM #3
Thanks for the reply Rob - I haven't used GWTP much, but like you, I haven't had problems with it when I did.
pitt, I'm going to mark this as CLOSED for now, but feel free to open with a working code sample that demonstrates the issue. We have a bug template so that we can make sure to get all the important information right away instead of going back and forth a few times - please try to follow it in the future for quicker fixes.
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Thanks for the info. I'll try to use VerticalLayout to see if it will redraw after adding new child.
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When adding a new child, forceLayout() must often be invoked on the parent to inform it that its sizes have changed, and new details must be accounted for. This isn't always necessary, but depends on the type of parent being used - SimpleContainer will never need it, neither will most of its subclasses (except BorderLayoutContainer), but most containers that handle multiple children and size them will need it. When you want to wrap up this call in an AcceptsOneWidget, you usually want to make something like this:
foo.setDisplay(new AcceptsOneWidget() { public void setWidget(IsWidget widget) { parentContainer.clear(); parentContainer.add(widget, new BarLayoutData(...)); parentContainer.forceLayout(); } });
31 Jan 2013 1:41 PM #6
-> When adding a new child, forceLayout() must often be invoked on the parent to inform it that its sizes have changed, and new details must be accounted for. This isn't always necessary, but depends on the type of parent being used - SimpleContainer will never need it, neither will most of its subclasses (except BorderLayoutContainer), but most containers that handle multiple children and size them will need it.
Ahh, I remember I had an issue with a nested Presenter (GWTP) that was the center panel in a BorderLayoutContainer. When changing the content I had to call the containers onResize() method:
// MainPageDesktopView.java @Override public void setInSlot(Object slot, Widget content) { if (slot == MainPagePresenter.TYPE_SetContextAreaContent) { if (content != null) { getCenterPanel().add(content); if (content instanceof com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.container.VerticalLayoutContainer) { ((com.sencha.gxt.widget.core.client.container.VerticalLayoutContainer) content).onResize(); } } } else { super.setInSlot(slot, content); } }
31 Jan 2013 3:50 PM #7
Did it seem to be a bug in that? You shouldn't usually need to invoke onResize(), though according to the RequiresResize API, that's a perfectly acceptable way to inform it that sizes had changed and it should re-size itself and its children. In the case of ResizeContainer (VLC's superclass - not SimpleContainer that I mentioned in my post), onResize() calls setPixelSize, which will call onResize(int,int), which schedules a forceLayout() task. The VLC probably still has its size from when it was first added, so these should be equivalent at the end of the day...
31 Jan 2013 5:15 PM #8
I think that it may have been related to the use case where the user resized the browser window and then used the navigationPane (the west container) to navigate to another nested Presenter.
I remember i tried a few options (including calling ForceLayout()), however, calling onResize() seemed to work - so I moved on to other things ....
-> Did it seem to be a bug in that?
I don't think so. I think GXT was just behaving in a way I didn't expect.


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Sir Basil Zaharoff, standing in front of a huge explosion.
Zaharoff started his career of villainy modestly, as an arsonist for the Constantinople firefighters. Yes, you read that correctly. The corrupt Turkish fire department actually hired people to start fires in rich people's houses so firefighters could go in and steal all their shit. It was fun as far as evil enterprises go, but Zaharoff had grander aspirations.
He later became a huge-time international arms dealer for Swedish munitions company Thorsten Nordenfelt, but with a twist: Zaharoff figured that the best way to make a living selling weapons was to first create demand by starting a bunch of wars, so that's exactly what he did.
And Zaharoff didn't even have the Coppola name to back him up.
After selling the world's first submarine to the Greeks, Zaharoff went running to the Turkish government to tell them what he'd done. Understandably frightened, the Turks bought two submarines of their own. Realizing he had a good thing going, Zaharoff then went to Russia and helpfully informed them that Greece and Turkey were stocking up on submarines, and furthermore, he'd heard them saying that Russians were a bunch of jerks. So Russia bought some subs. The icing on the cake was that much of the product that Zaharoff was shilling was faulty, overpriced garbage. His submarines fell apart as soon as they tried to fire a torpedo.
It's pretty much impossible to pin even a ballpark body count on Zaharoff (after all, he wasn't pulling the trigger). To give you an idea of how much hardware he put into the world, by the summer of 1918, Zaharoff's profits were so huge that he distributed "at least" 50 million francs for the Allied war effort (and incidentally secured ongoing demand for his wares). The British rewarded his "service" to the war by granting him a knighthood, which he modestly accepted.
"For outstanding achievement in the field of 'selling machine guns to people in funny hats'."
Despite Zaharoff's efforts to prolong it indefinitely, World War I did eventually end, and he spent the remainder of his years earning even more unbelievable profits as the manager of a popular casino in Monte Carlo. An evil casino? We're guessing almost certainly yes.
#2. Queen Cleopatra
Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Egypt, may not be the most brazen of villains on this list, but she does stand aside as the only one whose schemes all involved blowjobs. Her groin-conquest of Europe was so notorious that the people snidely nicknamed her "the Gaper."
This was before her robot-fighting days.
Cleopatra's career started off evil enough: She conspired with Julius Caesar to overthrow her husband (who was also her brother. It was Egypt.) and make her pharaoh. Also, at some point between her blowjobs, she talked Caesar into adopting the leap year, which, as far as evil plans go, isn't as lame as some we've seen over the past century of comic books.
But getting it on with Caesar was just the beginning of her sexy, sinister conspiracy, which eventually turned the whole damned planet upside down and did things to it that make us feel like we need to take a cold shower.
Caesar looks like he could use a trip to the frigidarium.
Cleo's regular romps with Julius eventually produced a son, Caesarion, whom she of course married (again: Egypt). She was never able to coax Caesar into adopting the brat as his heir, but Cleo hit a spot of luck after Julius "happened" to get assassinated while she was in Rome, and she promptly gained control of Caesar's David Schwimmer-esque subordinate Mark Antony through the only way she knew how.
Rome, engaged in civil war after Caesar's assassination, now had Cleopatra playing both sides by grabbing every dick she could find that could grant her a little political brawn. Unfortunately, the rival supervillain Augustus, whose power was evidently blowjob immunity, crushed her dreams along with the Egyptian navy at the Battle of Actium, prompting her to take her own life to avoid capture. This battle ended not only Egypt as a sovereign nation but also the Roman Republic. And all because the Queen of Egypt put out.
And because Mark Antony sucked ass at admiral-ing.
#1. The East India Co.
If you remember anything from American history class, you know the East India Co., often called the British East India Co. It was this organization's nefarious attempt to monopolize the tea industry in the American colonies that led to the Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party. If you don't remember history class, well, then, you know them as the bad guys in the Pirates of the Caribbean films (Note: The true story does not involve a pirate with an octopus for a face).
Davy Jones may have been involved in the sinking of the Lusitania, though.
But that's just one tale in the larger story of an evil corporation that secretly ruled the world for over 200 years. Starting out as a small intercontinental trading venture in 1601, it eventually went on to become the world trade equivalent of Microsoft circa the 1990s. But it was the company's under-the-counter drug operation in China during the 18th and 19th centuries where its supervillainy truly showed.
One of its key trade products was opium (basically unprocessed heroin). The company monopolized the production and export of Indian opium, but when the Chinese Empire, its best customer, began to see the unfavorable side of massive, widespread heroin addiction, it made the wise choice of banning the drug. The East India Co. wasn't about to take that shit lying down: It hatched a plot to deliberately get the Chinese people addicted to opium so their leaders would have no choice but to repeal the ban and open up trade.
It does look like some potent shit.
Over the next few decades, the East India Co. sold its opium to shady drug dealers in India who smuggled their wares into China to create a massive consumer demand via millions of new addicts. When China uncovered the plot, it waged war with Britain, which unsurprisingly sided with the British East India Co. The two Opium Wars both resulted in catastrophic defeat for the Chinese, who had to forfeit Hong Kong to the British, and that provided a convenient outpost for the ongoing free supply of opium to a needy, hopelessly addicted populace. Needless to say, the East India Co. posted one hell of a good year after that.
"Nice country. We'll take it!"
So what became of the East India Co.? Terrifyingly, they still exist, though in a diminished capacity. Mark our words, it's simply biding its time.
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Rally Caps On: Stocks Surge; Fiscal Cliff Looks Less Disastrous
A snapback rally was bound to happen at some point.
Investors have their rally caps on this morning, with major indexes on track for their biggest one-day gain since mid-September. Optimism is slowly building that a deal will be reached to avert the so-called fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts due early next year.
The Dow is up 162 points, or 1.3%, to 12750, led higher by Bank of America General Electric and J.P. Morgan. The lone Dow laggard was Intel The chip maker announced this morning that CEO Paul Otellini will step down in May.
The S&P 500 rose 1.5% to 1380, as energy, material and financials paced the gains. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite added 1.5% to 2896. Apple shares surged. Prior to Monday's trade, the stock had been down about 25% in less than two months.
A pair of better-than-expected readings on the housing market also gave investors reason to push stocks higher on Monday.
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama said he was "confident" the fiscal situation will be dealt with accordingly. Those comments came after political leaders from both parties expressed optimism about last week's discussions.
Before investors get all kumbaya over the fiscal cliff, it's important to remember a few factors. Prior to Monday's trade, the Dow had dropped in six of eight sessions following Obama's re-election. Some sort of bounce back was to be expected.
While sentiment is slightly turning more optimistic about the fiscal cliff, a deal still is far from signed, sealed and delivered. If discussions grow more contentious as the end of the year approaches, markets would likely turn more volatile.
"Until the issues concerning taxes and spending are addressed the uncertainty is expected to weigh on the stock market," says Bruce Bittles, chief investment strategist at R.W. Baird & Co.
Last week, one gauge of investor sentiment showed market participants are more gloomy now than at any other point this year.
That said, the CBOE's volatility index, or VIX, still hasn't reacted much to the market's latest swoon. On Monday, the market's so-called fear gauge is down more than 4% to 15.75. The VIX's historical average is around 20.
Some contrarians have suggested the VIX needs to spike before believing stocks have bottomed.
"Investor psychology is not considered excessive or extreme," Bittles says. "The sentiment numbers do support the potential for a short-term rally but fall short of signaling a high probability of a sustainable rally."
In other words, Monday's rally makes sense. But it may not be the beginning of a new, sustainable run-up.
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Marianna- Each year, more infants are dying in Northwest Florida because of health complications compared to the rest of the state. The "Healthy Start" program has been working for the last twenty years to bring that number down.
Mary Lott's son Aiden is a happy and healthy two-month-old.
"He's just a bundle of joy, I love him," said Lott.
After her doctor found Aiden could be at risk for Sudden Instant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, Lott enrolled in "Healthy Start" four months into her pregnancy.
"It's good to stay informed on the latest, so this program will do just that," said Lott.
Jackson County OBGYN and "Healthy Start" Community Partner Ricky Leff said not every story is like Lott's. He said there are a number of factors, especially in Northwest Florida, that work against an infant's chance of survival.
"Low income or poverty basically, smoking, obesity is also a contributor, so all of these things, and substance abuse as well," said Dr. Leff.
Last year, seven out of every 1,000 infants in Florida died from these complications, and in Northwest Florida, that number was closer to eight.
"There is plenty of poverty in rural areas. If I had to say one single thing that contributes to it, that probably would be it," said Leff.
Lott said this program was a life-changer and recommended it to any moms with infants or mothers-to-be.
"I give Healthy Start an A+ in my book," said Lott.
To qualify for this free program, moms have to meet a certain number of risk factors, but it is not income-based.


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We have several used gear shops locally, which also sell climbing shoes. I'm looking to start climbing and I am considering buying used shoes to save cost. Is it ever safe to buy used shoes, and if so, what would indicate that a pair is no longer "safe"?
Safe? Yes. As in your life usually doesn't depend on them. Safe, as in a safe buy? Also yes.
When looking at used climbing shoes it really helps if you take someone along who knows what to look for and/or knows the shoes themselves. If you know what they look like new then you know what they should look like.
Specifically, check the seams and make sure they aren't coming apart. Especially the seam around the thickest part of rubber on the soles. If it looks like it starting to pull away at all stay away.
Check the rubber on the bottom. If it has deep gouges or long cuts in it, then the previous owner probably didn't take care of them and might have even hiked in them.
Often times you can find shoes in nearly new condition this way. Plenty of people make the mistake of buying everything and finding out they don't like rock-climbing, or picking shoes like they would any other shoes and have to bring them back because they don't fit right.
I would highly recommend you try to find somewhere to rent the shoes and try them out first. Or go to an indoor gym and try them.
For the fit, they should be sock tight (which is why I don't wear socks with them). Your first time wearing them, your feet should be in pain after climbing in them for an hour or two.
For your first pair I recommend a mostly flat sole, for "all-around" use. They usually do alright in any situation and they are often times cheapest (not always). As you get more experience you will learn what you need.
Your life will not be at risk from used shoes. No.
But you will run a serious risk of getting athlete's foot. This happened to me and it took six months to get rid of. Beware.
You shouldn't buy used safety equipment (ropes, harnesses, carabiners, etc) because you don't know if the previous owner handled them properly (maybe they splashed bleach on the rope?). But shoes aren't really considered "safety related" - if the shoes did fail in a climb, it would be no different than having your foot pop off because of bad footwork. Which happens frequently, and is something you should assume might happen - that's why you have a rope and harness that you trust.


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Suppose H is a subgroup of a finite group G. Can the group of all automorphisms of H that extend to G can be characterized somehow? What condition on the group extension would guarantee that any automorphism of H can be extended to G?
An abstract answer to the question for all groups is given in the papers below. I have not followed the field in recent years. There may be other papers specific to finite groups.
Charles Wells, Automorphisms of Group Extensions, 1970.
Kung Wei Yang Isomorphisms of group extensions. Pacific J. Math. Volume 50, Number 1 (1974), 299-304.
D.J.S. Robinson, Applications of cohomology to the theory of groups, Groups – St. Andrews 1981, London Math. Soc. Lecture Notes vol. 71 (1982), pp. 46–80.
Jin Ping, Automorphisms of groups Journal of Algebra Volume 312, Issue 2, 15 June 2007, Pages 562-569
The papers in the accepted answer by @SixWingedSeraph all refer to a somewhat more specific problem, that of extending an automorphism of a normal subgroup to a larger group. Although the questioner says something about a group extension (which would usually imply normality of $H$), he did not specify that $H$ should be normal.
Extending automorphisms of normal subgroups
I haven't managed to get my hands on the Robinson paper "Applications of cohomology to the theory of groups", but I understand it has some explanation and applications of Wells' result, as well as a new proof. The Jin paper "Automorphisms of groups" restates the result of Wells in somewhat different language, and applies it to the case where one wants to find an automorphism of $N$ which acts trivially on $G/N$.
I'll remark that one interesting case is where $N$ is the direct product of isomorphic finite simple groups (e.g., a nonabelian chief factor). Here $Z(N)$ is trivial, which makes the long exact sequence above collapse rather nicely. But in this case one can obtain similar results by using the fact that if $N$ is center free, then any homomorphism $\alpha : Q \rightarrow \operatorname{Out}(N)$ uniquely determines an extension of $Q$ by $N$. This is however only mildly more elementary, as proving this fact also requires group cohomology techniques -- see chapter IV.6 of Ken Brown's book "Cohomology of groups".
Extending automorphisms of arbitrary subgroups
So I guess the overall answer to the original question is "sometimes not". If you have a specific situation which is still of interest, you might try looking at the second Pettet paper to see if it helps you show the automorphism extends or does not extend. It looks like it would be a hard problem to find a general characterization.


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So where have I been???
First please let me say Im not asking for sympathy or even any comments (doesnt mean you cant just its not necessary) just wanted to say a few things.
Most important is thank you to those of you who have asked about how Im doing and about my sweet baby who is sick. I tried to keep up with all of you but then I got overwhelmed. Also, even though it was a while back (as I think its been at least 2 mos. Since I scrapped) thanks to those who nominated some of my LOs. I have been reading on and off and trying to keep up.
My thyroid started acting up again and spent a lot of time in bed asleep or just not able to function. Have a new specialist and we are trying some new meds and checking some other things. . I know a few of you I was in the middle of conversations and just disappeared but I truly could barely get out of bed and lost 1/3 of my hair in 3 weeks!!
The last couple weeks Ive been doing better and even was able to drive myself to an appt. this week.
Rebel (my dog with the injured back) is doing pretty well with the meds hes on and the new ramp. That was a mess but got it done and will scrap about it one day. My smallest baby had some issues with his teeth and almost starved to death which nearly broke my heart that we didnt notice. And our only baby girl (dog NOT human) who just turned 7 has glaucoma so we have been in and out of the drs office trying to save her eye site and keep her out of pain. So the dogs alone have been keeping us on our toes.
My dear friend lost her father and I was helping her deal with that as well. So its not that I havent cared just that I havent felt up to really playing around lately. Hoping scrappin survivor will help pull me out of that since Ive been waiting for it forever. Please know however it may have seemed I really have cared and appreciated ALL of your support and caring. It really does mean a lot to me.


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I'm new to linux/ubuntu and I have encountered a little problem: After installing x2x (following ubuntu community documentation about x2x) my laptop keyboard no longer works. The x2x system worked great - I was able to control my laptop from the desktop which was ssh'd into it... but the keyboard on the laptop no longer works. I have a dual-boot, and when I boot into lion (it's an early 2008 macbook) the keyboard works fine. Also, if I use a wireless usb mouse/keyboard when in ubuntu they work... just the actual computer hardware doesn't. Help?
- Installed x2x, worked great
- Now the keyboard on my laptop dosen't work when logged into Ubuntu, but works in native OS (mac, lion)
Additionally, if I log into a guest account in Ubuntu they keyboard works fine... So I'm assuming there's something wrong just in my main account.


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5 Famous Symbols that Were Created to Be Horrible Insults
Time and context change everything. A time traveler from 100 years ago would not understand, for instance, why showing up to school with a swastika on your shirt would get you sent home with a stern letter to your parents. And the changes go both ways -- the awful insult of the past is today's badge of pride.
So it's always weird to look at the pop culture symbols we just take for granted and realize how often the origins are somewhere between insulting and utterly horrifying.
#5. The Gay Rights "Pink Triangle" Was Invented by Nazis
It's one of the most well-known symbols of gay pride, second only to the rainbow flag. Gay rights advocates the world over use a pink triangle on their clothing to symbolize their allegiance to the cause, even though it makes them look a little bit like a weird cult.
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All glory to the mighty Isosceles!
The Insult:
But a pink triangle wasn't something you wanted to be wearing back in the 1940s, because it would have meant that you were in a fucking Nazi concentration camp.
Back when the Nazis were trying to figure out what kinds of people were deserving of life and settled on "white, blonde, straight, German" as the basic criteria, they realized that there were kind of a lot of people who didn't fit that mold for one reason or another. This presented a problem -- how could they easily distinguish between people who deserved to die because they were Jewish, those who deserved to die because they were gay, and people who deserved to die because they looked at you funny?
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The logistics of mass genocide are truly a nightmare.
The answer they came up with was to attach color-coded triangles to prisoners' shirts so that the worst people in history could easily identify the crime and therefore decide efficiently how bigoted they should be against the wearer. So Gypsies got brown triangles, common criminals got green, and homosexuals got pink. If you were a Jew in addition to any of these other categories, you got an extra yellow triangle, and God help you.
Himmler loved him some cheat sheets.
So why would homosexuals today want to use a symbol invented by Hitler? Simply, there's no better way to defuse a symbol of hatred than to appropriate it. That's why, after the war, German gay rights groups began using the symbol as their own, and gay activist organizations of the '70s followed suit.
#4. "Camptown Races" Mocks How Black People Talk
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On the subject of folk songs, you don't get much more innocuous than "Camptown Races," that delightful Southern tune that most of us associate with either Looney Tunes or ice cream trucks. For some of us, it's a reminder of simpler times back on the ranch when Grandpa would merrily mend the fence while humming "doo-dah, doo-dah." But the fact that this is an old Southern song should ring alarm bells, because it turns out ...
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Dammit, the South, can't you create ONE thing that isn't terrible in some way?
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Oh man, this song is just racist as shit.
As we've mentioned before, "Camptown Races" was written by Stephen Foster, one of the 19th century's most prolific songwriters. Among his many other gigs, one of Foster's jobs was writing songs for minstrel shows, that old tradition where white people lathered their faces with boot polish and spoke like imbeciles because holy fuck, what were they thinking? You know where we're going with this.
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To the Camptown Racist -- we mean Races?
Although it's usually cleaned up a little for modern audiences, the original lyrics as penned by Foster himself look like this:
De Camptown ladies sing dis song -- Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
De Camptown race-track five miles long -- Oh! Doo-dah day!
I come down dah wid my hat caved in -- Doo-dah! Doo-dah!
I go back home wid a pocket full of tin -- Oh! Doo-dah day!
Gwine to run all night!
Gwine to run all day!
I'll bet my money on de bob-tail nag --
Somebody bet on de bay.
Foster wasn't a third grader when he wrote the song -- it was just the old-timey equivalent of some white guy mocking Ebonics and ranting about DeMarcus and Shaneequa's crazy mannerisms. These were the days when you could do that and go down in history as a genius rather than everyone deciding to never speak to you again.
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No, guys, it's OK, Stephen Foster had black friends.
To Foster's credit, he actually treated black subjects with much more respect than some of his contemporaries and eventually dropped the dialect shtick in his lyrics altogether. And while the lyrics and even title of the song have been bowdlerized six ways from Sunday in the interim, "Camptown Races" became firmly imprinted enough in the American psyche for Mel Brooks to skewer its racist overtones over 100 years later in Blazing Saddles.
#3. The Democrats' Donkey Was Used to Call Democrats Jackasses
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The "donkey for Democrat, elephant for Republican" symbols America uses for its political parties are so common that you don't even think about how nonsensical they are.
Democratic National Committee
And poorly drawn.
Why didn't the Republicans choose, say, a bald eagle or something? Why didn't the Democrats go with a bear or, if you want to go the other direction, an adorable puppy? There's nothing particularly American about either of the beasts they picked.
The Insult:
The Democratic Party of America adopted the donkey logo specifically because the media kept calling Andrew Jackson a jackass.
In fact, both the Democrats' donkey and the Republicans' elephant trace their origins to political cartoonists of the day, who used these animals to represent the respective parties in their scathing doodles. The reason they called the Republicans elephants is more or less lost to history (maybe a Republican went nuts and trampled a bunch of people?), but when lampooning Jackson, they drew the Democratic president as a jackass to signify his stubbornness and, to their mind, stupidity.
Which is a bold move considering that Jackson had little compunction about shooting people who pissed him off.
The use of the jackass to parody Jackson became so widespread in the media that it was eventually expanded to refer to the Democrats as a whole.
Wait, a donkey kicking a lion to death is an insult?
The Democrats, not to be shown up by some hack cartoonists, decided that, rather than fight their growing perception as jackasses in the media, they would appropriate the image instead. But instead of the stubborn, dumb animal the media intended to paint them as, the Democrats spun the donkey as a humble working-class animal of the people.
By turning the media's insult into a compliment, they took the sting out of political cartoonists who were unable to use animal analogies quite so effectively until the day they decided George W. Bush looked like a monkey.


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What are good texts to acquaint oneself with standard asymptotic techniques, particularly as they relate to probabilistic combinatorics?
Philippe Flajolet and Robert Sedgewick's Analytic Combinatorics is the most comprehensive reference, available at http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/AnaCombi/anacombi.html. Also useful is Odlyzko's "Asymptotic methods in enumeration" (from The Handbook of Combinatorics) at http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/asymptotic.enum.pdf.
At a lower level than Flajolet and Sedgewick, Chapter 5 of generatingfunctionology by Wilf is a good introduction to complex analytic methods. (Yes, my two answers look very similar. As usual in a big list question, I am posting separate answers so people can vote on them separately.)
Flajolet and Sedgewick, Analytic Combinatorics (available for free, if you like, on the (sadly, late) Flajolet's web page.
At a lower level than Flajolet and Sedgewick, Chapter 9 of Concrete Mathematics (Graham, Knuth and Patashnik) is a good introduction to elementary methods.
If you want to know about quantities which (1) have nice generating functions and (2) depend on more than one parameter, the most thorough guide will be found in the papers of Robin Pemantle. to the best of my knowledge, he hasn't written a comprehensive guide to his work; his SIAM report might be the best starting point.


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A weakly initial set in a category C is a set of objects I of C such that every object a of C has at least one arrow from an object contained in I.
The question is then, does Fields have a weakly initial set? This is equivalent to the collection of prime fields being a set.
The converse is, is there a (fairly natural) example of a category without a weakly initial set? Aside from obvious things like the discrete category on the objects of a large category.


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This is my suggested followup to this question, which I thought resulted in some very worthwhile summaries. Now that we know the Fields Medalists and the other prizewinners, it would be nice for anybody who feels qualified to give a brief overview of the work (or aspects of the work) of one of them. The ICM has already posted brief overviews, but I would like to see the work presented in more detail or from another perspective.
For reference, the Fields Medalists are Elon Lindenstrauss, Ngô Bảo Châu, Stanislav Smirnov and Cedric Villani. The other prizewinners are Daniel Spielman (Nevanlinna Prize), Yves Meyer (Gauss Prize) and Louis Nirenberg (Chern Medal). Congratulations to all of them!


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Snow Bricks
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- Pack snow into a loaf pan. (If the snow is powdery, sprinkle a little water on it before packing it into the pan.)
- Turn the pan upside down and tap the bottom lightly to release the brick. Use snow bricks to build a fort.
- Bricks laid with their long sides together will make a sturdy structure.
- Pack snow in the gaps between the bricks as you lay them.
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