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In particular, my friends and I are looking for something that has a similar social sharing aspect -- where we can share feed items with one another, from within the same interface. Basically, what Google Reader used to be, before they neutered it.
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Alternatives to Google Reader:
Newsblur: This is a very good alternative more than anything in the way that organizes our feeds. Well minimalist, but with good use of colors to detail the importance of the news contained in the folders that have separated our RSS Newsblur and is promoting ways in which you can migrate your account to Google Reader them, seizing the opportunity. And the truth is they have the service to promote.
Netvibes: This service is a dashboard with many features, among them a complete account RSS reader. Do not be afraid to see the price list because the basic account comes out almost $500, but we have a free account that includes the RSS reader and some more features.
Bloglines: Ideal for mass consumers of blogs, BlogLines allows us to read our feeds directly online, and is also available for some cities in its Local.Bloglines is a simple alternative.
Good Noows: This web based application promises "change the way we read the news."And they may be right. It has an interface much more interesting and attractive than Reader. It is web-based and totally free. It is one of the best alternatives to Google Reader!!
Feedlooks: With FeedLooks we can combine two things: our RSS feed and our Twitter account to get everything synchronized in one place. It is one of the most complete because it has features that allow us to filter the most interesting news of a publication to which we subscribe, and let us read feeds without leaving the app but with the same aesthetics of the web that we are reading.
Feedly: Feedly is a reader "for creative minds." One of the best alternatives to Google Reader needs to be installed in your browser to use, but when we do have access to integration with social services like Twitter and Facebook, a simple and minimalist interface, and many ways to customize the way read the news.
Readefine: Readefine experience is almost the same as reading a newspaper, for its interface. It has support for Instapaper and ReadItLater, builds on our existing Google Reader account and organizes our feeds in multiple columns to have better access.Beware, for this reader has to be installed on the computer prior to use, but in a good way to synchronize our feed.
Feed Demon: Another great alternative that is already chosen by many. FeedDemon is a simple service that does not distance itself too much from Google Reader, and can serve for those who do not want to wean too much to what were already using.
Blog Bridge: "The best system for addicts to information" has the best interface (actually seems a bit dated), but is aimed at people who have to learn everything at the moment it is published (journalists, professional public relations, among others). It has to be installed on your computer to use and care, because it has a price, so only limited to those looking for something professional. Check out Blog Bridge
Readable.cc: A simple news reader with a focus on readability. No social features but has a voting system that is used to find new content you may find interesting. It's also open-source.
For similar sharing experience you could try The Old Reader. Their goal is to create "Good old Google Reader" clone.
Newsblur is currently adding sharing and commenting right inside the reader.
BazQux Reader is a new Google Reader alternative. It shows comments to posts and supports reading of Facebook and Google+ pages.
PS: I'm biased here, since I'm developer of BazQux Reader.
Try this out Good Noows
How to save screen estate in the new Reader
Other Readers
Now that Google Reader has been retired, I have been using a combination of sites. I started using RSS NewsBytes to keep tabs on current events and major tech news, and Feedly for well, pretty much everything else. The problem with all the readers that I have experienced is that they are kind of difficult on the eyes. NewsBytes is designed a little bit easier on the eyes it seems for the bulk of my reading, but clearly it is lacking in a lot of other features, esp. the social sharing.
Reeder, if you're using an iPhone. I used to use this a lot - very slick.
Sublug is a new feed reader that seems promising.
Nice list. A new alternative to Google Reader is http://www.todaynews.info


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I'm unsure if this is a shader issue with my video card, but my paddle is the exact same color as the majority of the background in Bit.Trip Beat. I had a similar issue with Bit.Trip Runner in which the obstacles I was supposed to jump weren't showing up. I was able to fix this by going into C:\Users[Name]\Local\Bit.Trip Runner and adding ForceFixedFunction = yes to the .cfg file. I tried this in Bit.Trip Beat to no avail.
Long story short. Is this supposed to happen? If not, how can I fix this?
That's my paddle sticking out of the top of the pink blob. As you can see, this can easily become an issue as it makes my paddle impossible to see when the pink blob grows.

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Any one know of any good references for reading about the Bernsteins Presentation of the Iwahori Hecke Algebra? I need some notes which has an example or two. It would really help.
Like some of his other important ideas, Bernstein's presentation has mostly been disseminated through the papers of other people. Probably the most influential is the 1989 JAMS paper by Lusztig, freely available from the AMS here. Combinatorial work by Arun Ram and others involving affine Hecke algebras also depends on this viewpoint: see for example Parkinson-Ram
Two relevant recent papers with extensive references are also available on arXiv and would be worth looking at in any case: haines-pettit and goertz.
I found the paper of Chriss and Khuri-Makdisi (Chriss, Neil; Khuri-Makdisi, Kamal. On the Iwahori-Hecke algebra of a $p$-adic group. Internat. Math. Res. Notices 1998, no. 2, 85--100.) quite helpful.
You may also look at Haines-Kottwitz-Prasad and Prasad.
In book form, the equivalence of the Coxeter and Bernstein presentations of the affine Hecke algebra appears in the first 4 chapters of Macdonald's book "Affine Hecke algebras and orthogonal polynomials". It is very carefully written, but the notation can get a bit heavy. When first reading it, I suggest you always assume that you are in case (1.4.1) in Macdonald's notation.
Chapter 6 does rank one examples.
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The club are set to clash with Swansea in the Capital Once Cup final with a place in Europe, as well as the trophy, up for grabs for the winnerBradford City could be set to reject a place in the Europa League should they qualify by beating Swansea City in Sunday's Capital One Cup final.
The Bantams' co-chairman Mark Lawn has revealed that the West Yorkshire club would refuse to pay in order to play in the early stages of the Europa League, which consequently would mean forfeiting a potential place in Europe.
Lawn told The Sun: "I'm not going to pay to play in Europe.
"When we beat [Aston] Villa [in the semi-final], I was told, 'You don't really want to get into Europe - it costs you money in the early rounds'.
"I said, 'Well, that'll be fun because if it costs us money, we won't be there'.
"Realistically, it's not going to be a problem because I don't think we're going to win against Swansea."
He added: "I won't put us in fiscal danger to play in Europe. That's not going to happen. I'm deadly serious.
"It's all very well saying there are financial rewards once you get to the group stage, but we're a fourth division [League Two] club - realistically, we're not going to get there."


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QDMA unveiled its new Land Certification Program (LCP) at the 2011 National Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. The long awaited companion to the Deer Steward courses - which are aimed at certifying individuals - the LCP is a multi-level, voluntary process which will evaluate and certify one or more properties against an established list of Quality Deer Management (QDM) Standards and Performance Measures.
The LCP was developed to recognize the accomplishments of landowners and sportsmen implementing the four cornerstones of Quality Deer Management (QDM) throughout North America, as well as those committed to ethics, conservation and biodiversity through land stewardship; and to encourage management practices on participating lands that will enhance deer and other wildlife species, habitat conditions, and hunting experiences by providing incentives, recommendations and/or assistance; and finally to inspire others to engage in sound wildlife management and conservation of our natural resources.
Click HERE to download the LCP Overview Brochure to learn more about this exciting new program!
There are three designations (levels) of the LCP:
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QDMA Pledged Lands – Recognizes properties committed to QDM, the QDMA, wildlife laws and safety (Standards 1-4). This designation does not require a written management plan or a site visit by qualified property inspector, thus properties that achieve Pledged Lands status are not certified; self-application available. Applicants can bypass this level and apply directly for one of the certification levels if so desired.
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Found Attons rotten vendor. I killed the Gammoreans in the library, had the bar tender poison the rodian leader, and found the man assaulting the girl and killed him. So that is all 3 company leaders. However, when I go to the main company room up the ramp , the guards only let me say 2 of the 3 are gone, and my only other option is "ok ill be going now".
Did I miss one of the 3 leaders? Did I not pick up a datapad from the guy with the woman? Or is this a glitch?
I talked to the green twilik in the cantina, the dialog appears to ask her to lure the man out. She says it will cost 2K. I did not have 2k then, so i left. Once I completed Attons quest, I recieved 2K, went back to talk to her, and the only dialog option I get is that I do not have enough money, even though I do. So I am stuck.
Child in "Enclave sublevel" (you know what I mean) starts his convo always after reloading save or reentering module.
Why does Engiiners use head of Sith Assasin?
Lots of people everywhere don't have even on line dialog. Same with Jawas on your ship. Why?
Using option "Follow the galaxy?" in 'Green Jawa' dialog finishs conversation. However, if you ask him about something different first and then you chose this line, conversation will be continued.
Missed VOs for Aliens in conversation between Devaronian and Twi'lek.
Some droids near Opo Chano don't have names.
Some Opo Chano's line aren't voiced.
Guy near room with Ogarh Kaths starts conversation every time I enter room.
No matter how long I'm trying, it's impossible to kill some guard droids in "enclave sublevel" (blast, what was "your" name of this module?)
No VOs for Bith in Docks.
Twi'lek dancer in cantina doesn't have VOs in SOME lines.
Most of aliens have missed lip synch.
Would be nice if the guy that attacked me near Ebon Hawk would have lightsaber equipped, especially I can find one in his body.
While talking to some merchant, the unknown Duros says one of lines in conversation with some of them.
Also, I'm wondering, would be possible to make Nihilus reborn cutscene as in-game cutscene? This BIK movie was terrible quality.
Talking of Nihilus reborn, I believe there was supposed to be "Sith" instead of "Syyth"?
And by the way. It's very hard to understand VOs and subtitles are hard to read with that quality.
Other than that, I love this mod again. I thought it's gonna be much worse after some things from yesterday (Harry Potter dialog. LOL), but now it's really cool again.
spoiler:the test questions on telos are messed up. I answered all the ones as your walkthrough says and only got 2/4
spoiler:On M4-78-B, I got all three Protos spy processors. I go back to give them to HK-47, only he's not there anymore! I've looked in a few other places on the moon, and I've tried reloading the module both by exiting and re-entering and by reloading a save, but I can't seem to find him. I can look more thoroughly, but since neither the spoiler walkthrough nor anybody else mentions him being anywhere else when you report to him again, I'm guessing something's wrong.
spoiler:1. I reloaded from a game before I entered the Factory Floor module for the first time. (I get paranoid about losing stuff or whatever, and tend to save every like three minutes. In different slots. And it's definitely worth it.)
2. Then, I walked straight to HK-47, not talking to anybody else in the module, and received his task.
3. I had already figured out which of the droids were spies, so I took each one out (the Factory Floor one, then the Reactor module one, then the Landing module one), still without talking to anybody.
4. I went straight back to HK-47, not talking to anyone.
And, somehow, it worked.
Maybe all I needed to do was start from before entering the module for the first time, but I thought it would be annoying if that turned out to not be it and have to try other things too. So I just restarted from before the module, then didn't do anything else I thought might even remotely conceivably mess it up.
spoiler:Second time on Coruscant (the final battle), the party is supposed to get to the temple. After fighting through a few opponents, I can't get in. The door are closed, and I am stuck in the module. Am I missing something?


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Let X be a compact surface and $\tilde{X}$ its blowing-up, how can I show the formula $c_2(\tilde{X})=c_2(X)+1$?
Let me slightly expand on Dmitri's comment.
Let $X$ be a finite type separated $\mathbf{C}$-scheme. Let $e_c(X)$ be the compactly supported Euler characteristic. (We consider the singular cohomology of $X$ with $\mathbf{Q}$-coefficients.)
Then, if $X$ is irreducible and $n$-dimensional, by Gauss-Bonnet, we have $\deg c_n(X) = e_c(X)$.
Let $p:Y\to X$ be a proper birational surjective morphism. Let $s$ be the number of exceptional components of $p$. It is easy to see that $e_c(Y) = e_c(X) +s$.
This generalizes what you need.
Check this question where a more general situation is discussed.


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Nintendo sold 160,000 Wii U's in three months ending June, is outsold by Wii
Only 160,000 Wii U consoles were sold worldwide in the quarter ending June 2013.
Activision announces another new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game
Another Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game has been announced by partners Activision and Nickelodeon.
EA bets on FIFA 14 for PS3 and 360; Ultimate Team overhauled
Forget Xbox One and PS4, as EA pledges to keep investing in current generation FIFA.
Just as we suspected, the Wii Vitality Sensor has been scrapped
One of the most maligned pieces of gaming hardware ever revealed will not now be released.
Angry Birds Trilogy catapulting to Wii and Wii U
Shock news – there are formats on which Angry Birds has not yet been released.
Xbox 360 overtakes Wii as the UK's No.1 games console
Xbox 360 is this generation's best-selling home games console in the UK, says GfK Chart-Track.
Ubisoft: Don't write off Wii U yet
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History has a Lesson for HotJava
Unfortunately, many users of the World Wide Web are unaware of the rich history of the hypertext field, with many thinking it started with the release of Mosaic in 1993 or (at best) with the CERN linemode browser from 1991. Of course, hypertext goes back to Vannevar Bush in 1945 and Ted Nelson in 1965, and many of the lessons from earlier hypertext products apply to the WWW.
Sun is releasing the Java language and the HotJava browser as the latest event in browser technology. The ability to write "applets" to add dynamic behavior to the client side of the Web is powerful and will certainly lead to new and possibly dramatic applications. The closest analogy I can think of in the hypertext field is the release of HyperCard in 1987: HyperCard was also free (so it spread quickly), it was viewed as the hottest technology that year, and it gave newfound freedom to a large user community that had not previously been able to program dynamic behaviors for their Macintoshes (before the release of HyperCard, implementing GUIs on the Mac was a truly painful experience and my graduate students usually spent about two months before they could put the simplest meaningful behavior on the screen).
HyperCard had one unfortunate aspect that will probably repeat itself with HotJava: the profusion of new work included huge amounts of complete junk when people went overboard with inappropriate use of animated transition techniques, mixed weird fonts, and drew plain ugly background bitmaps. The specific attributes of bad user interface design employed by newly unleashed designers with no UI expertise will probably be different for HotJava, but rest assured that there will be some. Caution is recommended in picking up Java design ideas as long as there is no considered user interface styleguide available for appropriate use of the new technology in ways that will help users rather than hinder them.
If you don't believe that new technology can be used in ways that hinder users, then please consider the proportion of WWW pages that have used the ability to set a background texture pattern in Netscape 1.1 in ways that have no meaning other than to reduce the user's reading speed. (And given that it is about 25-30% slower to read text from computer screens than from paper, we don't exactly need page designs that reduce the readability of screen fonts even further).
My advice at this stage is to be fairly conservative in introducing new user interface elements in HotJava. A basic user interface design principle is minimalism: very often, less is more , and you can improve your user interface by removing features that do not help users. As a simple thought experiment, consider what would happen to the UI if you were to remove a certain design element: if the interface would work equally well, you should probably go ahead and kill the design element.
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Is there a 'better' or different way of saying room for improvement?
Despite the success of X, there is still room for improvement...
Is there a 'better' or different way of saying room for improvement?
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You could say "Opportunities for enhancement"
Just thought of another one:
Since 'room for improvement' is a bit of a non specific phrase another improvement would be to go with something more precise if possible. For example, if you're talking:
(You can play a bit with synonyms for 'room' in this context as well like scope, capacity, etc to find something that sits with the rest of the text.)
Additionally, what works in the sentence will depend a lot on the tone you want to take. As per the answers and attached comments from @frustratedwithformsdesigner and @cornbread-ninja some phrasings are going to come across as pretty negative.
Assuming you go on to describe the needed improvements, you could instead say that X is lacking in this or that, but that sounds more negative. I imagine that we say room for improvement because it's constructive criticism.
"it is not optimal"
"it is suboptimal"
"it could be better"
"more could be achieved"


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How can I generate the equation of a curve that matches all arbitrarily given (x,y) pairs? I would like a polynomial of nth degree, where n does not matter, as long as the curve passes thru all the given points.
I guess this problem is NP-complete. If so, how do I find the closest matching curve in a feasible amount of time?
Furthermore; how do I generate a piecewise polynomial, in case the given (x,y) pairs are discontinuous, or they draw the shape of a, say, circle?
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Accessing the Implanted Port
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Last Modified: November 1, 2001
You will need the following supplies:
- (1) 10 cc syringe with Cannula attached
- (1) 100u/cc vial heparin
- (1) Vial Adapter
- (1) bent Huber needle with mini tubing
- (1) sterile dressing kit
- tape
- sterile gloves
- Injection Site
- Wash your hands (See Handwashing section for more information.)
- Open sterile dressing kit on a clean, dry, flat surface.
- Open Huber needle package and drop on sterile barrier alongside dressing kit.
- Open interlink injection site.
- Attach injection site to end of Huber needle tubing. Be careful not to touch the Huber needle.
- Wipe interlink injection site with alcohol. Set down in sterile field.
- Flip off the top of Heparin ( 100 u/cc) vial and clean with alcohol wipe and let dry.
- Remove cover from Vial Adapter.
- Firmly insert vial adapter into Heparin vial.
- Carefully open 10 cc syringe.
- Pull back the plunger and draw up 5 cc air. (See picture #8)
- Remove cap from syringe.
- Insert Cannula syringe into center of vial adapter (100 u/cc) and turn over.
- Inject 5 cc air and withdraw 5 cc Heparin. (See picture #11)
- Remove syringe from heparin vial and remove all air from syringe.
- Carefully pick up bent needle by the interlink injection site. DO NOT TOUCH THE NEEDLE!
- Insert 10 cc syringe filled with 5 cc heparin (100 u/cc) into interlink injection site and flush heparin until it goes through the needle to get rid of all the air. Place on sterile barrier.
- Put on sterile gloves.
- Open the alcohol swabs. With each swab, scrub the skin over the port using a circular motion from inside out.
- Repeat, using the betadine swabs. Let dry.
- Remove the extra betadine with the large gauze pad.
- Open the betadine ointment package and place back in sterile tray.
- Remove cover on implanted port needle.
- With your _______ hand (nondominant), find the center of the port and place two fingers on the edges of the port to steady it.
- Hold the bent needle with your hand _______(dominant). While applying pressure with your index finger over where the needle bends, insert the needle into the center of the port. Push in the needle until you feel the back of the nort and vou cannot advance the needle any further.
- With your _______ hand (nondominant), flush the port with 5 cc of heparin.
- Apply the Betadine ointment around the needle site.
- Apply 2 x 2 split sponge around needle.
- Apply 2 x 2 sponge over top of split dressing.
- Remove your gloves and apply medipore to secure dressing.
- If you are unsure that the needle is in the correct position DO NOT INFUSE ANY SOLUTIONS. Remove the needle and go back to the first step of accessing the port.
- If you are certain the needle is in the correct position try lying down or moving in different positions and then try flushing again.
- Make sure you can feel the needle touching the back of the port, and try to flush again.
- If you are still unable to flush, STOP and remove the bent needle. Notify your physician.
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This may sound like a childish question and for all its worth, very well may be one as I am only 17, but how do I know who to trust with reviewing or looking at my work? The idea of someone stealing someone else's work, sounds so horible I cant imagine anyone doing it, but I am still not very secure on the topic. So who should? and shouldn't I trust? to show work I have done to.
I also often don't know if work I have done is of any value, much of my work, may very well be crap. But if I ever have or create somthing of value, whom do I trust?


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Hi all,
Is it possible to update my NN5L to a NN5?
If this is possible what parts i have to order?
Hi all,
Is it possible to update my NN5L to a NN5?
If this is possible what parts i have to order?
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Here is acton, the third variation, this one sans peplum and knit in Love-it. (See the previous 2 posts for her sisters). For me, Love-it is the summer, or warm climate, Pure Merino. They stand in very well for one another. Back to the names – Can you tell me who currer, acton and ellis are? Ah well, that question is way to easy with Google, but then, that's how I found the names too. With so many female names in the Berroco archives, it's hard to find triplets and one story, 3 for all, in Norah Gaughan Vol 2 is all about triplet variations on a theme.
We photographed in Margery Winter's home. This room is her husband Milo's studio. I've admired his work for years. I think maybe his color sense is affecting mine, and definitely in a good way!
Milo was gracious and generous enough to let leave his painting sketches pinned up and strewn about.
Oh and lest I forget, The Knitting Contessa wrapped up a month of Holiday madness with an interview of me on her blog. She asks some questions I don't think I've ever been asked before.
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Gorgeous photos and studio!December 28, 2007
emily #
I did know about currer bell prior to google's aid…I'd forgotten the names of the other two, though. very cute; I'm looking forward to seeing the whole book.December 28, 2007
Jelena #
I also knew the real names of the Bronte sisters without Google, but I've been a fan of their writings for years, and have read biographies about them.
If my name has never been used, you're welcome to it.January 4, 2008
kay Wisniewski #
Watching these variations prompts another question. Have you thought about a feature in KnitBits on using a Berrocco design as a template for substituting interesting pattern stitches? I recently knit Ticuna (one of your freebies) in Ultra Alpaca and loved the way it fit and feels. Now I'm looking for other ways to use the pattern by substituting interesting cable pairs from my hoard of stitch pattern books. Any suggestions?January 14, 2008


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Afterwards the said butter can be used to butter your roommate's toast.
Afterwards the said butter can be used to butter your roommate's toast.
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My wootalyzer went crazy with updates, I also got a text letting me know the woot-off started again!
@cowboydann: Yeah, that's how I realized. Also my Facebook page got several posts for the same item in a row, so I knew something was up
home woot is back up
/gets a can of Rockstar ready.
Bring it. Oh yeah!
@bdecker202: AAANNNNDDDD, it's gone... :(
This woot-off scares and confuses me.
Same here with Wootalyzer. When it first started alerting me to new items, none of the sites were loading yet.
Woot is enjoying toying with us. I think woot might be a sociopath.
ah HA! All sites are down again. I think it was just a glitch in the matrix. But a pretty clear preview of what's to come. Unless, you know, woot it just messing with us again.
does anyone know if the error.woot.com will redirect to www.woot.com when the site is back operational again?
I bet they cancel it just to confuse people more.
Shoot. ZombieWoot makes my dodgeball picture more relevant. When are the forums going to be back up?
I was just getting ready for bed!
@underinsomnia: With a username like that? I don't believe you
They removed the Woot-off, but staff have hinted that it is indeed continuing in an hour
@baillard: automatically? No. It's back up now.
Just answered my own question, refreshing error.woot.com doesn't appear to redirect back to www.woot.com which seems up as of 21:01 MST
So confused. So very confused.
I I I .....feel so dirty....so used.....um, yes, leave it on the night stand.....
ummm... and nothing
@sadsephiroth: literally... where's the update? I'm tired...
1:06 AM EST. Where's my Woot-Off??
And then... woot! went down again. Huh?
It's 1:12am EDST here and everything's down so i would say, not yet. (but when?)
This from woot's Twitter account:
@Tumbde we promise by 12 CST or else throats start getting slit.
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Maybe the site will never be back up because they've slit everyone's throats since it wasn't back up by anywhere near 12 CST.
@dxdn: methinks throats are getting slit and planks walked!
@zenophile, I imagine it's more cursing and facepalms.
I'm sure there are a couple of people at the woot offices that are thinking that the tweets jinxed the re-launch of the woot-off.
The added pressure of hitting a certain time may have led to shortcuts and mistakes. It's even less funny when there are tweets like "slitting throats".
Am I missing those Tweets? Under the regular Woot account?
OK, fess up WootStaff. Was this planned, or a function of the cross site server screwup that happened on Tuesday?


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President Obama Treads Lightly in Response as Egyptian Crisis Deepens
U.S. Officials Question Whether Long-Term Ally Can Remain Stable State
The deadly fight in Egypt's streets has led U.S. officials to question whether America's long-standing ally can remain a fundamentally stable state.
Worries that Egypt is headed to an extended armed insurrection, and that the U.S. has little power to stop it, help explain President Barack Obama's cautious response to this week's bloody crackdown by Egyptian security forces on Muslim Brotherhood supporters, U.S. officials say. In response to violence that has left hundreds dead on the streets of Cairo, Mr. Obama on Thursday canceled a coming U.S.-Egyptian military exercise to show displeasure at the actions of the country's military leaders—but stopped short of cutting off aid more broadly.
U.S. officials describe a balancing act in which the president is trying to register displeasure with the crackdown while also keeping channels open to Egypt's military leaders and avoiding the risk of encouraging protesters to think they can prevail with violent tactics.
The conventional wisdom—shared by both the U.S. and its allies in Israel—has long been that Egypt has a relatively cohesive society, free of the stark sectarian divisions that have fueled so much unrest in countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. While the U.S. intelligence community saw trouble brewing in Egypt for months, analysts now are contemplating the once-unthinkable prospect of a long-term period of violence between secular and Islamist groups.
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"There is a real possibility of civil war," said one senior U.S. official briefed on the intelligence. "There is a dangerous possibility Egypt goes the way of Syria."
In his remarks from outside the Martha's Vineyard home where he is vacationing, Mr. Obama condemned the deadly violence in Egypt and called on its interim government to lift a state of emergency. He also tried to nudge the military and the Brotherhood toward the peaceful beginnings of a broad government. "America will work with all those in Egypt," he said, insisting "all parties need to have a voice in Egypt's future."
In response to Mr. Obama's comments, Egypt's presidency released a statement late Thursday expressing its "appreciation" for the president's concern while cautioning that understanding "the real facts" were necessary. "The [Egyptian] Presidency fears that statements that do not depend on the truth of matters may lead to strengthening the armed violent groups and encouraging them in their path against stability," the statement read.
Among U.S. officials, the fear is that Egypt could head in a darker direction. U.S. officials and regional diplomats say the nightmare scenario would be a civil war in Egypt that creates a crescent-shaped arc of instability from Syria and Lebanon to Iraq, Egypt and Libya. Israeli officials have told their American counterparts that, if Egypt succumbs to violence, an already fragile Jordan could be next, jeopardizing the Jewish state's last stable border and its buffer zone with Iran.
While U.S. intelligence officials don't expect the Muslim Brotherhood to mount an organized insurgency in Egypt, radicals within the group could go underground and launch attacks. Some radical Islamists in Egypt who fought in Iraq during the U.S. occupation have returned home, where they could wreak havoc, officials say.
Moreover, a stockpile of arms lies in neighboring Libya, a country in which the security situation is spiraling downward in similar fashion. That impedes the ability of the Libyan government to lock down the arsenal accumulated by the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
U.S. officials worry eastern Libya could serve as a springboard for insurgents moving across the border into Egypt. The Egyptian military has appealed to the U.S. for months to help curb the flow of weapons they feared were moving across the Libyan border and on to Islamic militants operating on the other side of Egypt, in the Sinai Peninsula.
Even if an insurgency breaks out, though, many U.S. officials think the Egyptian army could contain it. There are no signs of a split within the military, and intelligence agencies don't think the Muslim Brotherhood's supporters have a large quantity of arms.
Still, one senior administration official cautioned Thursday: "We are concerned that if they continue down a path of crackdown there could be an escalating cycle of violence…you could have a more unstable situation over time if there's not a political process established."
The Obama administration has been carefully—critics say, timidly—calibrating its response. Administration officials and those from allied nations in the region both argue that cutting off all aid to Egypt could make a dangerous situation even worse, prompting the country's generals to sever ties with the U.S. and emboldening Muslim Brotherhood supporters to step up protests.
So Mr. Obama, in a statement delivered Thursday during his vacation, tried to balance his impulse to keep open lines to the Egyptian government with the mounting pressure at home to take stronger action against it, U.S. officials say.
He urged Egypt's military leaders to end the bloodshed while also cautioning that he wasn't trying to encourage the protesters. "We don't take sides with any particular party or political figure," he said.
In a nod to those in Congress who want to do more to freeze some $1.5 billion in annual U.S. aid to Egypt, most of which goes to the military, he also cautioned: "While we want to sustain our relationship with Egypt, our traditional cooperation cannot continue as usual when civilians are being killed in the streets and rights are being rolled back."
The administration is employing what amounts to a good-cop, bad-cop approach to try to pull Egypt's generals back from the brink. While the White House has made clear privately and publicly that it doesn't want to cut off Egypt's aid, it has also warned the generals that a growing number of lawmakers may do just that if the violent crackdowns continue.
"Congress has a very important voice here," a senior administration official said. "We're going to have to have a dialogue with Congress when they come back in town."
The violent course of events in Egypt shows the extent to which the Obama administration misjudged the depth of divisions within Egyptian society and the potential for a sustained violent showdown between Islamists and non-Islamists, officials and diplomats say.
In April, one senior American official called the country a "relative island of stability" in the region—despite signs of a coming breakdown between the military and President Mohammed Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood-backed government failed to heed U.S. advice to reach out to its opponents. At the same time, the country's military leaders didn't listen to American appeals to give Mr. Morsi more time.
Events seem to be moving beyond U.S. control or influence, much as they have in the civil war in Syria. There isn't yet any area in Egypt where insurgents could operate out of the military's reach, as there is in Syria, though that is why the Libyan border in the west and the thinly populated Sinai Peninsula in the east are worrisome.
Those concerns have led to what Western officials have described as unprecedented cooperation between Israeli and Egyptian security services. An Israeli drone strike last week in Egyptian territory in the Sinai was carried out after consultations between Israeli and Egyptian security chiefs.
—Matt Bradley contributed to this article.
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Waterfowl hunters must remove plants and plant fragments from decoys, strings and anchors; remove plants seeds and plant fragments from waders and other equipment before leaving hunting areas; remove all water from decoys, boats, motors, trailers and other watercraft; and remove all aquatic plants from boats and trailers before leaving a marsh or lake. In addition, hunters are encouraged to brush their hunting dogs free of mud and seeds.
North Dakota's roadside pheasant survey conducted in late July and August indicates total birds and number of broods are up statewide from 2013.
Stan Kohn, upland game management supervisor for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said the survey shows total pheasants are up 30 percent from last year. In addition, brood observations were up 37 percent, while the average brood size was down 4 percent. The final summary is based on 253 survey runs made along 106 brood routes across North Dakota.
More than 700 licenses for antlerless deer are still available after the North Dakota Game and Fish Department recently completed its second lottery drawing. Individual results are available online at the Game and Fish website, gf.nd.gov.
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A goldeye taken from Lake Audubon in July still remains a state record, even though the official weight is about a half pound less than originally reported.
Initially, the weight for the big goldeye, caught by Velva angler Brayden Selzler, was determined as 4 pounds, 12 ounces. After a follow-up investigation, North Dakota Game and Fish Department biologists concluded that the fish officially weighed 4 pounds, 3 ounces.
Selzler's goldeye still broke the previous state record by 6 ounces.
Families looking for a fun afternoon filled with outdoor activities are invited to attend Teddy Roosevelt Family Day on Sunday, Sept. 28 at McDowell Dam just east of Bismarck.
The free event runs from 1-4 p.m. and families can come and go at any time. It features many hands-on activities including archery, BB gun shooting, fishing, animal identification, prizes and more.
The first 750 kids who attend also receive a free Teddy Roosevelt patch.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department is currently working with 18 landowners in 14 hunting units across the state who would like to host hunters with antlerless deer licenses in 2014.
Participating landowners are located in hunting units 2C, 2G2, 2I, 2J2, 2K2, 3A4, 3B3, 3C, 3D2, 3E1, 3E2, 3F1, 4B and 4E.
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North Dakota's sandhill crane season opens Sept. 20 and continues through Nov. 16.
Limits are three daily and nine in possession in unit 1 (west of U.S. Highway 281), and two daily and six in possession in unit 2 (east of U.S. Highway 281). Shooting hours are one-half hour before sunrise to 1 p.m. each day through Nov. 1. Beginning Nov. 2, shooting hours are extended until 2 p.m. each day.
Hunters are urged to use caution and identify birds to prevent shooting at whooping cranes as they begin their fall migration.
Friday, Sept. 19 at noon signals the start of a nine-and-a-half-day deer hunting season for youth ages 12-15.
Licensed residents ages 12 and 13, and 11-year-olds who turn age 12 in 2014, are allowed to hunt statewide, but only for antlerless white-tailed deer. Resident deer gun hunters age 14 or 15, and 13-year-olds who turn age 14 in 2014, with a "youth season" license, can hunt statewide for any deer, except antlerless mule deer in units 3B1, 3B2, 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D, 4E and 4F. In addition, a special license is required to hunt antlered mule deer in those same units.
North Dakota's two-day youth waterfowl season is Sept. 20-21. Legally licensed resident and nonresident youth waterfowl hunters age 15 and younger may hunt ducks, geese, coots and mergansers statewide.
The daily bag limit and species restrictions for the youth season are the same as for regular duck and goose seasons. Exception: the additional two blue-winged teal allowed during the first 16 days of the regular season are not allowed during the youth season.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department and Ducks Unlimited co-sponsor a trailer full of waterfowl hunting gear that is available to families with young hunters.
Purchased by the Game and Fish Department's Encouraging Tomorrow's Hunters Grant Program, the trailer is designed for families who don't have the appropriate gear for their young hunters to hunt waterfowl. The equipment is donated by Avery Outdoors.


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The Wichita Eagle reports that 27-year-old James Gary was killed in the shootout early Sunday.
Lt. Scott Heimerman says four other people were injured, including two critically. The shooting occurred at a warehouse that had been rented out for a party. Police say more than 100 people had gathered at the warehouse and parking lot when arguments broke out and shots were fired.
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For every force there is an equal force in the opposite direction on another body, correct?
So when the Suns gravity acts on Earth where is the opposite and equal force?
I also have the same question for centripetal force in a planets orbit.
As many others said, the Sun feels the same force towards Earth as the Earth feels towards the sun. That is your equal and opposite force. In practice though the "visible" effects of a force can be deduced through Newton's first law, i.e. ${\bf F} = m{\bf a}$. In other words, you need to divide the force by the mass of the body to determine the net effect on the body itself.
${\bf F_s} = {\bf F_e}$
${\bf F_s} = m_s {\bf a_s}$
${\bf F_e} = m_e {\bf a_e}$
$m_s {\bf a_s} = m_e {\bf a_e}$
${\bf a_s} = {\bf a_s} \frac{m_e}{m_s}$
Now, the last term is $3 \cdot 10^{-6}$! This means that the force that the Earth enacts on the sun is basically doing nothing to the sun.
Another way of seeing this:
$F = \frac{G m_s m_e}{r^2}$
$a_s = \frac{F}{m_s} = \frac{G m_e}{r^2}$
$a_e = \frac{F}{m_e} = \frac{G m_s}{r^2}$
$\frac{a_s}{a_e} = \frac{m_e}{m_s} = 3 \cdot 10^{-6}$
Again, the same big difference in effect.
Regarding the centripetal force, it is still the same force. Gravity provides a centripetal force which is what keeps Earth in orbit.
It's worth pointing out that the mass that acts as the charge for gravity, known as gravitational mass is not, a priori, the same mass that appears in Newtons's law, known as inertial mass. On the other hand it is a fact of nature that they have the same value, and as such we may use a single symbol $m$, instead of two, $m_i$ and $m_g$. This is an underlying, unspoken assumption in the derivation above. This is known as the weak equivalence principle.
The opposite is that Earth attracts the sun with the same exact force!
The earth feels a force towards the sun. The sun feels an 'equal and opposite' force towards the earth. In fact, the earth does not rotate around the sun; instead, the sun and the earth (if you are considering only those two bodies) orbit around their center of mass.
Sun and Earth interact through gravity. Sun exert a gravitational force on Earth and ... Earth exert and equal and opposite force on Sun (or is it the opposite ?).
Opposite here does not mean "sci-fi anti gravity force repelling objects" but opposite as in "vector of opposite direction and equal magnitude".
The centrifugal force is not a force, but a pseudo force that is introduced because the referential frame is not inertial. In the referential frame where you need to introduce the centifugal force, the "opposite reaction" is the centripedal force itself.
To solve the Earth around the Sun problem, first consider that the sun as an infinite mass and is thus without motion. The sun exert a force on Earth, and in some frame of reference you need to introduce an additional pseudo-force.
The gravitational field "generated" by Earth is weaker, but the forces are equal (in magnitude).
$E_{earth} = \frac{G m_{earth}}{r^2}$
$E_{sun} = \frac{G m_{sun}}{r^2}$
$F = E_{earth} * m_{sun} = E_{sun} * m_{earth}$
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Considering the title of your question "is gravity a force": Gravity is one of the four fundamental interaction of nature (strong and weak interactions, and electromagnetism). No complete treatment of this interaction exists at a quantum level, so from a classical point of view, yes gravity is a force, associated with a conservative [gravitational] field, etc.
The mantra, «gravity is not a force»
Gravity is not a force, according to General Relativity (or rather, at least according to Einsteinians' interpretation of GenRel). This seems to have been Einstein's point of view. The other answers are also correct: within a Newtonian framework. But even some physicists have always found Newton's fundamental views on force confusing, and many regard GenRel as having cleared this up. I am a wikipedia editor myself, so I know how little it can be trusted on any subject about which people really care, but here is a reference and I thought this mantra was not controversial...von Hayek's followers' encyclopedia
Force is a classical notion
«At the base of classical mechanics is the notion that a body's motion can be described as a combination of free (or inertial) motion, and deviations from this free motion. Such deviations are caused by external forces acting on a body in accordance with Newton's second law of motion» The point is to have a physical notion of force, not just a mathematical construct.
Contrast with General Relativity
«there is no gravitational force deflecting objects from their natural, straight paths. Instead, gravity corresponds to changes in the properties of space and time, which in turn changes the straightest-possible paths that objects will naturally follow.» Anything physical should have a covariant mathematical formulation...mathematical formulations that are not covariant are not physical. Everything is waves and a local field theory. So there is no need to look for the opposite force...
In summary
All the previous answers are also correct, from the Newtonian point of view which assumes that gravity is a force and then deduces what must be going on, if it is a force. And for many practical purposes such analyses are handy. But reading your question very literally, you are asking whether gravity is a force, and technically, the answer is no.
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references as the source code of this forum
If something is non-controversial, like the chain rule, references are not necessary. But if something is controversial, or original, it is time to trot out the references. By now, thanks to Ron, I see that this standard mantra is controverted by some people, so I have supplied references. And here is a reference to the idea of supplying references meta-discussion about stack exchange
Just a caveat that is left out of the answers above:
Newton's third law is only approximately true. If a system radiates (either electromagnetically or gravitationally), then the net momentum of the system can change, and you will find that $F_{12}\neq F_{21}$ if the radiation is not uniform in all directions. The reason for this is simple enough: radiation carries energy and momentum away from the system.
For the Earth and the sun, this really doesn't matter much, because the gravitational radiation of the system is so close to zero that we wouldn't even know how to begin to search for the effect.
But for things like colliding black holes, the effect can become very significant. Two orbiting black holes with zero center of mass velocity can end up with more than the escape velocity needed to leave the center of the galaxy, for example.
When you study a two-body problem, which may seem fairly complicated (for the reason that there are two different problems intertwined: knowing the relative position of the two bodies, determine the force acting on each of them; knowing the forces determine the relative position after some time), all is clear once you make the following standard change of coordinates: define the position vector of the center of mass
\begin{equation} \textbf{X}=\frac{1}{m}\sum_i^2 m_i\textbf{x}_i \end{equation}
and the relative position vector
\begin{equation} \textbf{r}=\textbf{x}_2-\textbf{x}_1\end{equation}
This change of coordinates is invertible:
\begin{equation}\textbf{x}_1=\textbf{X}-\frac{m_2}{m}\textbf{r} \end{equation}
\begin{equation} \textbf{x}_2=\textbf{X}+\frac{m_1}{m}\textbf{r} \end{equation}
Now, the magic thing about this change of coordinates is that almost every significant quantity splits into two terms, for example you can check that the total kinetic energy is $T=T_{CM}+T_0$, where the first term is the kinetic energy computed in the center of mass and the second is the kinetic energy of a fictitious particle moving with the center of mass and of mass $m=m_1+m_2$. The kinetic energy in the $CM$ is:
\begin{equation}T_{CM}=\frac{1}{2}m_1(\dot{\textbf{x}}_1-\dot{\textbf{X}})^2+\frac{1}{2}m_2(\dot{\textbf{x}}_2-\dot{\textbf{X}})^2=\frac{1}{2}\mu\dot{\textbf{r}}^2 \end{equation}
where $\mu=m_1m_2/m$ is the reduced mass and it is smaller than both masses. If $m_2>>m_1$, to first order, $\mu=m_1(1-m_1/m_2)$.
The lagrangian of the system is:
\begin{equation}\mathcal{L}=\frac{1}{2}\mu \dot{\textbf{r}}^2+\frac{1}{2}m\dot{\textbf{X}}^2-U(r)=\mathcal{L_0}+\mathcal{L_{CM}} \end{equation}
If you write down the equations of motion, you can see that the $CM$ moves with uniform velocity whereas the second equation is that of a fictitious particle $\mu$ in a central force field. So, in the case of the earth going around the sun, both move in an ellipse around the common $CM$ and since the $CM$ is a weighted mean of the position of the bodies and since the mass of the sun is one million times more than that of the earth, we can say approximately that the sun is static and the earth is spinning around it. Yet, the forces acting on the earth due to the sun and on the sun due to the earth are still equal and opposite, so there's no paradox after all.
Is gravity a force acting at a distance? This idea sounded improbable even to Newton himself. In fact, the field-concept is much more satisfactory and makes the necessity of instantaneous interactions obsolete. With GR, gravity turns into an entirely local, geometric effect.
In this simplified picture, gravity of the Sun is a centripetal force for Earth's orbital motion; centrifugal force that equalizes it comes from the angular momentum of Earth. If Earth didn't have an angular momentum (was, say, created near the sun without relative velocity, at least in the angular direction), it would just fall on the Sun.
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The 6 Most Wildly Irresponsible Publicity Stunts in History
Not everybody has the money for ads and billboards, which means they have to get creative when it comes time to promote their cause or business. And by creative, we mean insane and absurdly dangerous.
This was even more true back in the old days, when even those with money had limited options for advertising and the law was a lot more lax when it came to risking everyone's lives. That's how we wound up with ...
#6. The Crash at Crush
In 1896, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway needed to attract more customers, especially in Texas. Railroad executive William Crush was put in charge of finding a solution to this little dilemma. After finding no place in Texas that non-Texans would want to visit, and tired of waiting for the Dallas Cowboys to be invented, he said to his bosses, "How about we create a temporary city and have two trains go full speed in a head-on collision for all to watch?!"
What else were you going to do in 1896?
Obviously they greenlighted the plan. A new town, named Crush, sprung up in Texas for the sole purpose of having a place for people to go to watch the crash happen. Tents were put up. A grandstand was built. And two trains were procured, painted and sent around Texas to advertise the crash.
Finally, on the day of the Crush crash, the railroad made the event free and gave reduced rates to everyone traveling by train. The "city" of Crush now had over 40,000 people gathered there, making it the second-largest city in Texas for a day.
Petticoats and Pistols
"Free Bird!"
Despite the safety measures taken, such as building a special track for the event and having the police hold the crowd back from the oncoming collision, things didn't go according to plan. Both trains were set on "full speed ahead" mode and were abandoned by the crew. The railroad was expecting just a crash; they were not counting on the boilers to explode. Yes, children, there is the potential for danger even in something as innocuous as a massive intentional train crash.
Petticoats and Pistols
"Nothing bad can come of this."
The trains collided at 45 miles per hour, with the force erupting the boilers. Debris flew everywhere, including into the crowd. Three people were killed, and many more injured, like that guy who took those photos who lost an eye from a flying bolt.
"People will still want to ride our trains, right?"
After the mayhem, William Crush was fired. But there was almost no negative publicity of the event. Crush, sensing an opportunity, made a plea to his old company that this could be turned around to be a piece about railroad safety, and he was rehired the next day.
Petticoats and Pistols
"Eh, we can't stay mad at you!"
The town was torn down after the day of the crash. The railroad gave casualties of the collision something every victim would want: free passes on the same railroad that almost killed them.
#5. The Art of Flagpole-Sitting
The 1920s had a lot of fads that look weird today, like flapper girls and Prohibition. And then there was pole-sitting.
Above: the "lolcat" of its day.
You're probably wondering what "pole-sitting" is slang for. We're going to ruin it by telling you that in fact it was just sitting on poles. People would climb a flagpole or other similar pole and sit on top for days on end. And the man who popularized it was Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly.
You Remember That
The top of that pole is lodged so deep he had difficulty swallowing.
Where'd he get the nickname? Why, he survived the Titanic, of course! Or so he claimed.
For 13 hours in 1924 in Los Angeles, Kelly sat on a pole to advertise a movie. But it grew from there. Using the ol' "sit on top of a flagpole and promote something" gag, by 1928 he was making over $100 a day, which is something like $1.7 trillion an hour in 2011 money if our math is right (and it's not). He even broke a pole-sitting world record in 1929 by sitting for 49 days on a flagpole in Atlantic City. But then, like all fads, pole-sitting was replaced by new fads such as zoot suits and crushing poverty. With the Depression raging, Kelly needed new publicity stunts. And fast.
Bad Fads
"How about standing on top of a flagpole?"
Instead of getting a real job, he started doing non-flagpole-related activities for publicity stunts. In 1934, for example, he attempted to jump off the George Washington Bridge in New York and was stopped by police at the last minute. But then in 1939, a doughnut company started National Doughnut Dunking Week and needed someone to do something to get people to notice. Their go-to guy? Shipwreck Kelly, who ended up doing this:
That's Kelly eating 13 doughnuts upside-down on a wooden plank protruding from the top of a 54-story building in the middle of Manhattan. And if that wasn't enough, he did it on October 13, which fell on a Friday that year. One wrong shift in weight and doughnuts would never be seen in the same way again. In case you were wondering, he didn't fall, but his career as an odd-job stuntman never picked back up again.
#4. The Scopes Monkey Trial
You have hopefully heard of the 1925 Scopes monkey trial (if not, don't get your hopes up that they actually put a monkey on trial -- we would have made the whole article about that if they did). For many of you, the story was framed as a landmark case in the teaching of evolution in public schools. In reality, it was all an orchestrated publicity stunt. And kind of a silly one at that.
"Let's all sit around in the heat and listen to old people argue!"
Which is to say it all began not as a court case, but as a ploy for the city of Dayton, Tenn., to bring in tourists and money.
"Visit lovely Dayton, home of ... eh, never mind."
After the Butler Act was passed, making it illegal to teach evolution, the ACLU put ads in every newspaper in Tennessee in the hopes that some city would take up a legal challenge. After Dayton business leaders read it, they decided that a trial would not only bring thousands of people to their small town, but also that it should be broadcast worldwide.
"It's either this or polio to keep me entertained."
Now they just needed somebody to get arrested. The head of the group asked his friend John Scopes, a football coach and substitute biology teacher, to go into class and start teaching up some evolution. Scopes did so, turning himself in and even telling his students to testify against him.
Back then, you could dress like this and no one would bat an eye.
After the ACLU joined up, the trial of John Scopes quickly grew out of control. The people arguing the case were selected almost entirely based on how famous they were. In defense of Scopes would be famed attorney Clarence Darrow (who had made headlines as the defense in the Leopold and Loeb murder trial -- the O.J. Simpson trial of its day), and they tried to get H.G. Wells, the famed British author, to join the team.
The prosecution, led by a Christian fundamentalist organization, was not to be outdone, and got the three-time former Democratic nominee for president William Jennings Bryan to be their lawyer. (This would be like having evolution proponent Richard Dawkins fight a legal case against Al Gore.) For the city of Dayton, the stunt was working beautifully.
Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan were so old they
probably could have testified about evolution from firsthand experience.
In the end, Dayton's push for a huge media circus and worldwide attention on their small town worked. Complete with colorful reporting (one journalist dubbed the whole affair "the monkey trial"), the resulting trial made money for many local businesses, and still brings in people today to the courthouse and museum dedicated to the only thing mildly interesting ever to happen in Dayton. In 1960, a movie was even made about the case.
Featuring the most adorable nerd-monkey ever caught on film.
The trial didn't resolve shit, by the way. After eight days, Scopes was found guilty and ordered to pay $100, with teaching evolution in Tennessee continuing to be illegal until 1967. But hey, it worked out well for Dayton.


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Robert Cochrun chose to do what so many have decided isn't worth the time.
Cochrun dedicated 38 years of his life to public service for the village of Wintersville.
He died on Dec. 5 at the age of 74.
His public service career began Jan. 1, 1974, when he first was elected to Village Council. He served that post until he was elected mayor in 1996. He served two terms as mayor before returning to council in 2006. He was a member of council at the time of his passing.
Mr. Cochrun truly cared about people and their problems and concerns. Pity the poor village worker or official who was on the receiving end of a complaint call from Cochrun. He kept calling back until the matter was resolved, regardless of the magnitude.
It is hard to list Cochrun's accomplishments throughout his nearly four decades of service. He worked to get the village's first cable television service and brought bus service for village residents. He obtained benefits for village workers and sought help in getting Main Street and Fernwood Road widened. He respected and trusted the village police department and was able to get the first grant for a juvenile officer. He established a village administrator position and helped with the implementation of a village wage tax. His accomplishments also included the move to the new village municipal complex on Grove Street and the development of subdivisions and help for businesses to locate and grow in the village.
He was recognized for his work with the Wintersville and Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission lifetime achievement awards.
The village also named a street after him, something that really made him proud.
Mr. Cochrun touched generations in Wintersville and joined the list of people who spent most of their lives serving the village. That list includes Ray Laman, Frank Layman and John Martin.
Public service is overlooked by many today. There just isn't enough time in the day, some claim, but Mr. Cochrun found the time, and his decades of service are noted and respected.
His presence in the village will be missed, but his dedication to the village should be an inspiration for someone else to come forward and help lead the way.


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MIT Campus Police Officer Fatally Injured in Shooting
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—A campus police officer was shot and killed Thursday night at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after responding to a disturbance on campus, according to Cambridge police and the Middlesex County District Attorney's office.
Gunshots were reported on the MIT campus at 10:48 p.m. near the Ray and Maria Stata Center, near Vassar and Main Streets, according to an emergency notice posted on the school's website. It advised those on campus to stay indoors and away from the building, and nearly an hour later it said injuries had been reported. MIT police later determined that a suspect was no longer on campus, and that it is safe to resume normal activities.
Massachusetts State Police and Cambridge Police are investigating the shooting. The officer had multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to a statement on the district attorney's website.
A Massachusetts State Police spokesman said authorities have no reason to believe the shooting was related to Monday's Boston Marathon bombings.
After the gunshots at MIT, hundreds of cops descended on nearby Watertown, where residents heard gunshots and a loud explosion. residents of nearby Watertown reported an explosion, but it wasn't clear whether there was any connection to the shooting.
Adonis Karageorgis, a 35-year-old dental student who lives in Watertown, said he heads a loud explosion from his apartment's balcony.
"I looked up and saw the sky light up," he said. "You could smell the smoke."
In statement early Friday, the university said: "MIT is heartbroken by the news that an MIT Police officer has been shot and killed tonight in the line of duty. Our thoughts are now with the officer's family. We are working with multiple police departments in order to ensure the safety of the MIT campus: the safety of our students and others on our campus is our highest priority."
Shortly before midnight Thursday police were gathered at the scene of the shooting, and a stretch of the campus near Vassar Street and Main Street in Cambridge was cordoned off. Police were searching through woods with dogs and flashlights.
—Josh Dawsey and Pervaiz Shallwani contributed to this article.
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Pedaling past spinal injuries
Twilight Gala will raise funds for special bikes
A functional electrical stimulation bike, or FES bike, is designed primarily for people with spinal cord injuries who have lost all or part of their ability to move their legs. The bikes, which use electrical stimulation to force the muscles to contract, help increase muscle strength. They also prevent atrophy, improve circulation, relax muscle spasms and increase a riders' range of motion.
Given the steep price, most of those who need them cannot afford to purchase them. That's where the National Spinal Cord Injury Association's Connecticut Chapter (NSCIA CT) comes in. On Saturday, the nonprofit organization will host a Twilight Gala at the Aqua Turf in Plantsville. Proceeds will benefit various programs, including funds to maintain and service FES bikes at places like LifeDesigns ReAbility Center in Shelton.
Tad Duni, owner of the center, said many insurance programs do not cover the long-term therapy that people with spinal cord injuries need. So he offers the use of his bikes free to people with paraplegia and quadriplegia.
"It's so important to get the muscles moving to prevent infection, circulatory deficiencies and bone fractures," he said. "It helps with having tone in the lower extremities ... helps the heart and lungs and improves self-esteem."
To use the bike, electrodes are placed on the surface of the rider's legs. A computer system sends low-level electrical impulses to the leg, causing coordinated contractions of the quadriceps, hamstrings and gluteal muscles. The leg sensors provide constant feedback to the computer, which controls the sequence of contractions and the pedaling resistance, allowing the rider to power the bike smoothly and naturally with his own muscles.
Having a resource like LifeDesigns is valuable because there are few FES bikes available to the general public in the state, said Ray Gorneault, co-chairman of the upcoming gala.
"The rehab centers have them, but they run at a tight clip, with people waiting to get on them," he said.
Funds from the gala are also used to provide $500 grants to individuals with spinal cord injuries, whether it's giving them a motorized wheelchair or making homes accessible with ramps and other amenities.
Nationally, there are 12,000 new spinal cord injuries a year in the U.S., Gorneault said, and 270,000 people living with an injury. Duni estimated that there are 3,500 people with spinal cord injuries in Connecticut and another 55,000 with some form of paralysis.
People with MS, Parkinson's, muscular dystrophy, traumatic brain injury or those who have had a stroke may also benefit from using an FES bike, he said.
The NSCIA CT is run by volunteers who help those with spine-related injuries or diseases and their families. The Twilight Gala is its largest fundraiser. All proceeds go to programs and services in Connecticut.
This year's event will feature Paul Nitz, a four-time member of the U.S. Paralympics Track & Field team. Nitz, who jointed the Hartford Financial Services Group in 1992, lives in Bloomfield. He won four consecutive gold medals at the International Paralympic Games competing in 100-meter wheelchair races.
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