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8 Things You Won't Believe Can Be Hacked
#4. Shower in Free Money
Remember the "easy money" scene from Terminator 2, when John Connor and his friend hack an ATM with a portable Atari computer? That wasn't fiction. (Well, that one part, anyway. The rest of that movie was absolutely fictional. Sentient killer skeleton robots do not exist, and "Hasta la vista, baby" is not a thing that reasonable human beings say to one another.) Unlike most companies, ATM designers haven't been getting hacked much in the last decade or so, and as such, their security measures are slightly behind the curve.
At last year's Black Hat technical security conference, IOActive Labs' Director of Security Research, Barnaby Jack, wanted to demonstrate just how easy it was to hack a couple of ATMs. He didn't need to open up the machine or even make a withdrawal to accomplish this. He did everything entirely remotely, using only his laptop and a program called Jackpot. When he was done, a jaunty little tune played on his speakers, the word "jackpot" flashed on his screen, and the ATM started spitting out bills all over the place, presumably while Barnaby kicked his heels together and yipped like an old-timey prospector.
Roughly 40 percent of you are now typing "Jackpot full download" into Google.
#3. Crash the National Power Grid
By 2020, the U.K. wants to have a smart meter in every home to measure gas and electricity consumption. The devices send real-time data directly to the utility companies through a Web connection, thus providing customers with constantly updated information on energy conservation while simultaneously helping to manage national demand more efficiently. The smart meter sounds like a reasonable idea to us working stiffs (well, we're not really working, but we sure are stiff!), but where we see just a little gray box outside that gives us power, a hacker sees a bunch of low-hanging fruit with minimal security, spanning the entire country.
Time to bake some hack pie, baby!
If just one of these boxes was infected with a worm, it could theoretically bring down the entire grid. In the case of the U.K.'s future national "smart grid" plan, that could potentially mean cutting the power off to an entire country.
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That's why the really good Modern Warfare players own generators.
Worldwide, there are already 40 million smart meters in use, and several of those networks operate in the U.S. Yet another team from IOActive (these guys are starting to sound like equal parts Robin Hood and Doctor Doom, aren't they?) developed a worm and used it to illustrate the security flaws in these systems. With this worm in place, they did exactly what they warned, and successfully took control of an entire American power grid. Mike Davis, a senior consultant for the firm, issued this ominous statement: "We can switch off hundreds of thousands of homes potentially at the same time." He didn't append the statement with a list of demands or anything, but we're forced to assume that it was followed by some sort of maniacal cackling.
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#2. Stop Your Heart
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Everything from your car to your blender is getting upgraded with a computer chip these days. Medical implants like pacemakers are no exception. Since they need to be updated somewhat remotely anyway (otherwise all maintenance would involve major surgery), they do have limited outside connectivity, allowing doctors to access your stored medical history, your name and address and your doctor's name and address. Oh, and a skilled hacker can access all of it, too.
That's right: They can hack your goddamn heart.
And as if we need to say it: Obviously they can remotely stop it beating while they're in there.
"Damn you, V4g1n@B00bs87! Daaammnnn yoooouu ..."
In some devices, like an implanted defibrillator, which shocks your heart back into activity if it ever seizes up, hackers can remotely shut off the device and wait for you to die or, if they just ain't got all day, send it into test mode instead -- where the pacemaker repeatedly delivers powerful, fatal shocks to the heart even when it's already beating just fine.
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But if you enter the Konami Code ...
Diabetic implants like insulin pumps have proven to be another security risk: When hackers get access to one of these devices, they can mess with the levels being injected into the body, which, again, can have fatal consequences. Jay Radcliffe discovered this hack while he was dicking around with his own diabetic equipment. At first he thought it was "really cool" that he could just ditz around for a few minutes and gain access to computers within his own body. Then he realized that any bored teenager with the right skill set could have total mastery over whether he lives or dies.
"Hey Dad, how big was that insurance policy again?"
He doesn't sleep well these days, we expect.
#1. See You Naked
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You know those full body scanners they have at airports now? They're essentially robots that strip-search you with science, staring right through your clothes to see if you're hiding a weapon or an embarrassing tattoo. But more disturbing than the simple fact that these pictures exist is the ease with which these X-ray devices can be hacked. Hackers can gain control of an airport's PC from hundreds of miles away and download these pictures in a flash, probably kick-starting a new half-transparent ghostporn fetish (and the Internet is already at near critical levels of fetish saturation).
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Pictured: Critical fetish saturation.
The images these devices capture are supposed to be deleted immediately after security views them, but that's not always the case. Last year, images from an older type of full body scanner (slightly less naked-looking images) were leaked, and future privacy breaches like this are considered a very real threat. So if you're planning to travel by air in the future, maybe hit the gym, do a little waxing and be more selective about your underwear choices, because you never know who could be judging your naked body in the near future. (Us. It's probably going to be us.)
Oh yeah. This is ... hot?
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Recent and archived news articles by Vijai Singh of The New York Times.
A Curriculum to Strengthen Students Against Cyberbullying
Students at the Facing History School in New York City try to understand the circumstances and decisions surrounding larger social injustices and then relate that back to their own experience.
June 4, 2014, Wednesday
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Video: Visions of Venus
Venus Williams reflects on the various outfits that she has worn over the years at the U.S. Open.
September 7, 2013, Saturday
MORE ON: Williams, Venus , United States Open (Tennis) , Tennis , Fashion and Apparel
Taking Sides: Heat vs. Spurs
Fans take sides ahead of the N.B.A. finals between the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat.
June 6, 2013, Thursday
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A Strip of Cloth That Makes Dry Cleaners Shudder
It can be a challenge to remove a stain from a sari, the traditional Indian garment, without damaging the material.
May 11, 2013, Saturday
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Building Cars to Drive in the Park
Teenagers from all over New York City will demonstrate soap-box derby cars they made from recycled materials at a "Street Games" festival in an East Harlem park on Saturday.
April 27, 2013, Saturday
Section 15: The Usher
With the regular season coming to an end, The Times paid its final visit to Section 15 and talked with Jerome Dixon, the section's usher.
April 22, 2013, Monday
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Section 15: Time With the Grandchildren
Bennie M. Ginyard, of South Ozone Park, Queens, likes to bring her grandchildren to Barclays Center to watch the Nets and grab a Nathan's hot dog.
April 17, 2013, Wednesday
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With Little Fanfare, a Women's Team Takes the Field
The New York Sharks, part of the Women's Football Alliance, begin their season this weekend.
April 5, 2013, Friday
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Board Warns Teacher for Having Two Jobs in the Same School
A teacher at Public School 80 in Queens who also worked as a custodial helper there was issued a warning from the city's Conflicts of Interest Board.
February 28, 2013, Thursday
The Votes Are In, and the Iron Is Out
Hasbro, the manufacturer of the board game Monopoly, announced that after decades of silent service, the iron game piece was to be replaced by a cat.
February 6, 2013, Wednesday
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Held by the Taliban
In the fall of 2008, David Rohde traveled to Afghanistan to do some reporting for a book about the region. He and two Afghan colleagues were kidnapped by the Taliban and held for seven months.
At War Blog
Afghanistan in Review
Alissa J. Rubin, Kabul bureau chief, looks back at the major military campaigns -- and forward at the prospects for progress in the coming year.
The Colors of Holi
Watch Holi celebrations in different places around the city. A parade will be held on Saturday in Richmond Hill, Queens.
Surprising Fourth of July Facts
Did you know that 99 percent of consumer fireworks are made in China? Or that three presidents have died on the Fourth of July?
Inside a Wilson Football Factory
Jane Helser recently retired after working for nearly 50 years at the Wilson Sporting Goods factory, the source of the N.F.L.'s handmade footballs.
Fantasy Football: Picks for Week 15
With the fantasy football playoffs in full swing this week, owners of Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo will be relying on him to carry them to a championship.
Movies, Meet 4D Theme Park
To increase attendance, theaters are trying to redefine the moviegoing experience with amenities and effects like mist, scents and moving seats.
Fantasy Football: Picks for Week 11
For Week 11, Packers receiver Jordy Nelson is a must-start and some other picks that fantasy players may want to consider are Bengals' A.J. Green and 49ers' Frank Gore.
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Dan DeZordo joined the 49ers staff in the middle of the semester in the fall of 2013 as the Assistant Director of Athletic Facilities and Event Operations. He will be seen at numerous athletic events in aid of the game operations staff, as well as assist the department in maintaining facilities and helping to schedule usage of all of the athletic venues on campus.
After his undergraduate career as a football and track athlete at Marietta college, DeZordo taught math at Southern High School in Racine, Ohio, where he also coached volleyball, basketball and track.
He moved to North Carolina and started taking classes in 2011 towards a Masters at Ohio University while teaching at Burlington Day School. He was a math teacher and the Athletic Director at the school. He earned that Masters in 2013 before joining the 49ers in the fall.
He earned his BS in Math at Marietta in 2008.
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July 15, 2013 is a banner day in the annals of snack fooddom as Hostess begins selling once again Twinkies and its other spate of tasty goodies. In honor of this momentous occasion we've put together a list of other iconic foods we'd like to see back on the grocery store shelves.
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Teenage Drivers
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The American Automobile Association (AAA) advises parents and teens to write a driving agreement that both sign. This will motivate her to drive safely because she'll know what penalties will be imposed for infractions and what additional privileges she'll earn for maintaining a safe record.
Here are the kinds of requirements AAA and other experts suggest including in your agreement:
The agreement also should list penalties for infractions of the agreement.
The Safest Cars for Teens
How your child drives is probably as important as what he drives. Chances are high that a teenager driver will be in a collision, so put him in a vehicle that offers the best protection.
The insurance institute says teens shouldn't drive small cars because they lack the crash protection of larger cars. But you don't have to opt for the biggest car you can find. Many mid-size cars have good safety ratings. Look for newer cars with such safety features as airbags.
The institute also cautions parents not to let their teens drive unstable vehicles. Sport utility vehicles, especially smaller ones, have higher centers of gravity and are more likely to roll over if a teen over-corrects a driving error. High performance cars aren't good for teens either, because they encourage speeding.
Don't buy your child her own car as soon as she gets her license. If she has to use your car, you'll have more control over where and how much she drives. Consider a purchase only when she's experienced and has shown that she can handle driving privileges responsibly.
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There are formations of stalactites, stalagmites, soda straws, and more. An underground stream flows through the cave bed, and the temperature is a relatively constant 58 degrees.
National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows
The Shrine has 200 beautifully landscaped acres of gardens and devotional areas, including the Outdoor Amphitheatre, Shrine Church, Lourdes Grotto, Stations of the Cross, Millennium Spire, the Visitors Center with a restaurant and gift shop, and the Shrine Hotel.
Belle-Clair Fairgrounds & Exposition Center
Home to the annual St. Clair County Fair, several craft shows and monthly flea markets, the complex also includes the Belle-Clair Speedway, with stock car races and demolition derbies.
Peabody River King State Fish Wildlife Area
Boat docks and fishing areas are easily accessed for all skill levels - even special docks for kids.
This monument honors Elzie Seager, Chester native and creator of beloved cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man. The Popeye statue stands proudly next to the Chester Bridge.
Ratz Memorial Park and Lincoln Park
Located in Red Bud, these parks feature picnic shelters, and plenty of playground equipment. Both are great places to take the kids.
CITY:Red Bud
Acorns Golf Links is located in Waterloo, Illinois featuring 6,701 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72 . The course rating is 72.3 and it has a slope rating of 125. You will not find subdivision golf at Acorns; just nature, beautiful scenery, challenging design, and you. Making Acorns the premier public course to test your game, have fun with good friends, or to get away from your daily hussle and bussle. Acorns features zoysia fairways, five tee boxes; matching every level of golf and large bent grass greens. Designed by William Ebeler, the Acorns golf course opened in 1997.
Ranked seventh-best golf course in the state of Illinois, Annbriar is an 18-hole, par 72 course. Photo Credit-Annibriar-Golf-Course
This expansive park features picnic areas, baseball and softball fields, playgrounds, tennis courts, horseshoe pits, and sand volleyball courts. The centerpiece of the park is an old train depot, a full-size caboose, and a train car that can be reserved for groups.
Spring Valley offers a par 18 golf course.
Julius J. Knobeloch State Nature Preserve
Beautiful. untouched nature preserve which way originally purchased by the Knobeloch family in 1874. After a family disagreement, the land was auctioned off to the nature conservancy and then sold to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
Turkey Bluffs State Fish and Wildlife Area
Hiking, picnicking, horseback riding and wildlife viewing. Hunting for upland game, fur-bearers and deer is encouraged on its 2,265 scenic acres that overlook the Mississippi River.
Fults Hill Prairie State Nature Preserve
The preserve consists of nearly 1,000 acres of both upland prairie and lowland wetland marshes. A variety of plants and animals can be found in the preserve, some common, and some cannot be found anywhere else in the state.
CITY:Prairie du Rocher
Two lakes, a nine-hole golf course, a camping area, a cottage/residence area, as well as picnic shelters, are features of this great park.
Designed by golf legends Pete Dye and Bob Goalby, Yorktown offers an 18-hole lit par 3 golf course.
The Orchards offers an 18-hole golf course.
Kaskaskia River State Fish and Widlife Area
One of the largest state-owned and managed sites in Illinois, located 35 miles southeast of St. Louis. The land and water area total more than 20,000 acres of river and bottomland. It contains 36 miles of river.
The marina on the Kaskaskia River is the site of drag boat races in September. Next to the marina, enjoy batting cages, ball fields, and roller hockey in the park.
CITY:New Athens
Roland Barkau Memorial Golf Course
This 18-hole golf course was designed by Robert Garard and Gary Hoelcher.
Tour this farm where the elk roam on 55 acres of the 600-acre spread.
This nine-hole golf course was designed by Darryl Stein.
World Shooting & Recreational Complex
The World Shooting & Recreational Complex was designed for shooters, built for recreation. The complex has 120 trap houses stretching 3.5 miles, 2 sporting clays courses, 24 combination trap/skeet fields, and cowboy action shooting. The complex has 7,000 square foot event center, conference rooms, restaurant, gift shop, 1,001 campsites, multiple fishing lakes, and much more!
This nine-hole golf course opened in 1971.
CITY:Red Bud
This nine-hole golf course opened in 1954.
This nine-hole golf course opened in 1910.
Ride the ferry across the Mighty Mississippi the next time you visit historic St. Genevieve and Randolph County. The ferry travels between St. Genevieve, Missouri and Modoc Illinois, and holds approximately nine vehicles.
This 18-hole golf course was designed by Don Horell.
Golf the par 9 course at this country club.
Kaskaskia River Marina Campground
100 sites, recreation building, cable TV, swimming, fishing, tent camping, handicap access.
CITY:New Athens
Located within the Kaskaskia River State Fish & Wildlife Area, Baldwin Lake boasts excellent fishing and migratory bird watching for outdoor enthusiasts. A two-lane boat ramp, camping, and picnic facilities are nearby.
40 sites, lake swimming and fishing, tent camping, handicap access.
This 18-hole golf course opened in 1962.
Stop in or make a reservation to ride the trails. Lessons are also available.
Southwestern Lakes Golf Course
This nine-hole golf course opened in 1967.
The focal point of this park is a monument dedicated to fallen soldiers from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
Randolph County Conservation Area
Amid rolling hills and abundant game cover, this area is a hunter's paradise offering quail, deer (archery only), squirrel, dove, and rabbit hunting. Bass and channel catfish are found in its 69-acre lake. Equestrian trails, picnicking, and camping.
Randolph County State Recreational Area
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Are there a good computer programs one could use for learning No Limit Texas Hold'em? Many responses say that best way is to play with real oponents but I would like to learn without losing any money in the process
You can use some ICM-training programs, like: ICM Trainer - it can help you understand how to play late phase of a tournament (when to push/fold).
You can also use some Equity calculators - using those you can understand relative hand strenght in given circumstances. I recommend: Equilab
There are also many programs, which can help you analyze your game. Most of the software I'm thinking about here is designed to help you during the play (by displaying a HUD with your and your opponents stats), but you can also use them to review your previous games (i.e. to find leaks). Examples here would be: Poker Tracker and Holdem Manager.
Even if you read all books all strategies ,you will not play that way. you need some practice. play for some cent blinds and learn from it. best program to learn poker is : pokerstars.exe
I played some years and when i stop for some time and start again i sometimes still do stupid mistakes. It's simple and easy, you need practice to stay good.
"programs" do not exist. afaik.
but you can register at pokerstrategy.com and even win something for free i guess :)
I have bought and am utilizing Poker Genius (www.poker-genius.com) to learn Texas Hold'em. As a successful Blackjack card counter for 25 years I know the value of meaningful practice and Poker Genius training software is the best I have found. Not only can I play realistic games from a technical standpoint, but I can play against a variety of life-like opponents. I can learn card playing strategy while also becoming adept at learning to "read" and react to the other players. Let's face it – not playing against the house as in other table games introduces a whole new dimension to poker. Poker Genius has modeled this aspect of the game wonderfully, giving you a variety of table playing scenarios, while allowing you the flexibility to create your own table scenarios, even to the point of creating your own specific opponents. As you play the other players learn your style and react accordingly just like in real money games. The Poker Genius statistical analyzation reports are a wealth of information guiding you to your strengths and weaknesses. There are many other benefits too numerous to list, I suggest you download their free trial. Take a few hours to read the well written user manual and try some games yourself. I received timely, thorough responses from their support department when I e-mailed several times with questions. (I am in no way connected with this company – I am just a serious student of the gambling games I play.)
If it's just about not loosing money, you should try Play Chips on PokerStars. Once you manage to build up a nice stack of play chips and hold on to it, you should also be able to do the same at the pennypoker that PokerStars offer.
There are as of yet no robots that play any kind of proper No Limit Holdem. The only thing you could learn from playing against robots like that are bad habits.
Read books, read and post on forums and practice a lot. That's the only recipe to become good at the game.
And once you've become a little bit proficient, you can start using software to enhance your game like the accepted answer suggests, but these are not tools for beginners, and will not help to learn the game.
I don't recommend not using money, learn how to play the basics from books. then set yourself a spending limit IE £20, deposit that into a good site and play. trying to lose as little as you can out of maximum hands, without playing too tight. When you're not using money you don't make decisions that you would do realistically and it doesn't feel right. You learn best from mistakes and when you're losing fake money; you're not really making mistakes.


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Have you ever had that little tickle in your throat that turns into a full blown cough? You are out in public, people are staring and there is nothing you can do but cough? This has happened to each of us at one time or another. Imagine this happening to you all day long for the past 15 years. That is what my friend Ella Martin of Wintersville faces on a daily basis. You ask what she has done. I answer everything known to man. She has been to local doctors, traveled to Pittsburgh, Cleveland and has been evaluated by the National Jewish Health Center in Denver. She has gone through major surgery and taken every medicine given to her. Nothing has helped. The doctors are all discouraged, as they cannot figure out what is going on, they are all at a loss.
I'm not writing so that you feel sorry for her, I'm writing so that you learn compassion for others. Many of you have come face to face with Ella and I bet if you were to see a replay of your reaction you would not be too proud of yourself. The man in Kroger, the lady at the beauty parlor, the ladies at Naples, the lady at the Dollar Store and the list goes on. Please don't tell her to "smoke another one," as she has never had a cigarette to her lips. She can't explain the situation to you when she can't catch her breath from coughing, not to mention the embarrassment. Please don't stare at her in disgust or say that woman needs to stay home with that cough. Because she does stay home, she will only leave to go to church, visit family and to do what she absolutely has to. This chronic cough controls her life. She has nothing contagious.
Ella doesn't have a choice when it comes to her chronic cough. We, however, have a choice in our reaction. Here are a few suggestions: Ask her, "Are you OK?" Ask her if she needs a cough drop. If those make you uncomfortable then just go on with your life with no reaction.
We face many situations in our daily lives and we have choices as to our reactions. Please be kind when you see a mother with an unruly child in public. Many of us have been there. When someone rushes in front of you in line, instead of getting mad, think - I wonder what is going on in their life that makes them so distracted. I hope they aren't on their way to see a friend in the hospital. And when someone has a "bad cough" beside you, don't assume they have smoked for years or are trying to make you sick. Make the choice to give others the benefit of the doubt. It makes you a better person and helps them with whatever their burden is at the time. Remember, sometimes we have choices, and sometimes we don't.
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Most math papers have few figures, if any, although sometimes a well-chosen figure can be a tremendous help in understanding mathematical concepts. Does anyone have any examples of notable uses of figures in mathematical writing and/or texts that make great use of figures/diagrams/illustrations?
Mumford's picture of Spec(Z[x]) comes to mind.
You can read a discussion of it here.
I am a huge fan of the drawings of Anatoly Fomenko (for some of his drawings, see here; for a description of his odd historical theories, see his wikipedia pages here and here).
In particular, his book "Algorithmic and Computer Methods for Three-Manifolds" with Matveev (which really has nothing to do with computers) is IMHO one of the best intro books on 3-manifolds available largely because of its drawings. The mathscinet review of the Russian version is worth reading; see
MR1162113 (93f:57002) Matveev, S. V.; Fomenko, A. T. {\cyr Algoritmicheskie i kompʹyuternye metody v trekhmernoĭ topologii}. (Russian) [Algorithmic and computer methods in three-dimensional topology] Moskov. Gos. Univ., Moscow, 1991. 303 pp. ISBN: 5-211-01743-9
EDIT : To give an idea of how amazingly cool the above book is, I have posted two pages of it here and here. It's a crying shame that it is not better known...
A paper that used figures to, in my view, revolutionize the understanding of an area of mathematics is: R. Penrose. Applications of negative dimensional tensors. In D.J.A. Welsh, editor, Combinatorial mathematics and its applications, pages 221–244. Mathematical Institute, Oxford, London, New York, Academic Press, 1971.
Turning a sphere inside out
The book by G. K. Francis entitled "A topological picturebook" is beautiful. Have a look at this snapshot, starting with page 16.
The book explains how to draw and visualize pictures of low dimensional famous topological spaces: the dunce hat, a tetrahedral hyperbolic manifold, the Withney bottle, the Hopf fibration, and so on.
When I was an undergraduate I read the book Intuitive Topology by Prasolov. It's a wonderful illustrated guide to low-dimensional topology (mostly knots/links and surfaces). If I recall correctly, almost all of the "proofs" are by pictures.
Here's one of my favorite diagrams, based on a paper by Lawrence Leemis:
Probability distribution relationships
Also, here are some diagrams due to Robert Bartle relating various modes of convergence:
Edward Tufte's books are quite beautiful, though they do not focus so much on mathematical figures/diagrams per se. However, via Tufte, I did come across this version of Euclid's Elements by Oliver Byrne, which presents the propositions and proofs of the Elements using colored diagrams and symbols. I'm not sure whether Byrne's edition is clearer or better to learn from than the original Euclid, but it sure is pleasing to look at.
Knots, links, braids, and 3-manifolds, by Prasolov and Sossinsky (you can look at it on Google books) essentially has a picture on every page. They are very pretty.
Indra's pearls by Mumford, Series, and Wright has some breath-taking pictures. There are also cartoons by Gonick, which improves any book. Here's the copy at Google books.
Edit: A topological picturebook, by Francis is wonderfully illustrated. There are directions for reproducing the figures, as well as their mathematical meaning. Chapter eight of the book deals with the figure eight knot. :)
see my starting effort to help see 3-manifolds at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:3-manifolds
Reid's Undergraduate Commutative Algebra has a lot of great figures, most notably the frontispiece depicting the statement "let $A$ be a ring and $M$ an $A$-module" geometrically.
The following is a wondeful candidate: Jos Leys, Lorenz and Modular Flows: A Visual Introduction, Feature Column of the AMS web site, November 2006.
There's a chapter in Littlewood's "Mathematician's Miscellany" entitled The Zoo, which has many charming examples of pictoral proofs inspired by various animals.
The figures in John Stillwell's books are always superbly drawn, and really enhance the exposition.
Bar-Natan's first paper on Khovanov homology included a great figure (visible immediately if you follow that link) that summarised the entire construction. A great improvement over the previous epic.
H.S.M. Coxeter's books include Regular Polytopes. This book deals with the classification of regular polytopes. In this book there are Coxeter diagrams which are closely related to Dynkin diagrams. In his works are many diagrams,figures and illustrations. They influenced M.C Escher. Many of Escher's works reflect his ideas. In 1996 Coxeter published a paper on one of these "Circle Limit III." For more information see here and here.
Arnol'd was famous for his pictures (that poor $\ $ s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d $\ $ cat...), but the Award for Best Pictures must surely go to "Geometry and the Imagination" by D. Hilbert and S. Cohn-Vossen.


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Join us next Sunday (May 27) for a Faith in Action ONE VOICE Prayer Walk. We will be meeting at 9am at Cumberland.
Can we pray about the possibility of working on Ellen Robertson's home and yard for an F.I.A. I have not seen the property myself, but have received information from a reliable source, that her property is in terrible shape. Her home needs pressure washing and painting, and her yard is over run by poison ivy. It would take about 50 folks to get the place back in shape. In case you aren't aware Ellen is a widow, and has been for numerous years. She is a lover of Jesus and has devoted her life (outside of her family and job at Life Grocery) to our family at C.C.C. Ellen would have to use funds from her savings to fix up her house and yard, and since she doesn't have that much longer to work, I personally feel this would not be a wise move. I would appreciate the staff and elders praying about this very important matter, as again, my valuable source said the cost, if repairs are not done soon, would be extremely high.


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[base stock]
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As much as the lubricants industry might wish it otherwise,
base stocks production is becoming more commoditized, and it is
intertwined inextricably with mainstream refining operations.
The vast majority of base stock production occurs in lube
blocks, which are integrated, both physically and
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lube block, separating it conceptually from mainstream refining. Into the lube block may
flow a variety of feedstocks (primarily vacuum gasoil
(VGO), but also hydrocracker bottoms, vacuum tower bottoms and
hydrogen) while intermediate streams not sold directly from the
lube block to third parties are returned across the
fence to the parent refinery, for pool blending or
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THE GROVE (April 23, 2010)-Downtown The Grove and everything in it goes on the auction block Friday morning and by Sunday night every piece will have been sold to the highest bidder.
The downtown business district - founded in 1859 - sold to Moody Anderson in 1972 and he spent nearly 40 years gathering memorabilia to fill his Country Life Museum from floor to ceiling.
Now, all of that memorabilia will be sold by Burley Auctions and auctioneer Rob Burley.
According to the Burley Auction Group website, thousands of items and then the buildings, themselves, will be sold this weekend.
Burley said the town opens up for an auction preview at 8 a.m. Friday and the first lot of 600 is set for sale beginning at 10 a.m.
The items include a fully-stocked country store, a bank teller cage and vault, a post office - which was decommissioned in 1996 but up until then operated daily - a dentist's office, a saloon and a blacksmith's shop.
The Grove is on Farm Road 1114 just off State Highway 36, sixteen miles southeast of Gatesville in eastern Coryell County.
It was established about 1859 and named for the grove of live oak trees in which it is situated.
At one time the settlement was called Morrison Grove. By the late 1860s the community had two general stores, a mill, and a gin.
The post office opened in 1874 with J. B. Coleman as postmaster. In the mid-1880s the community had three general stores, two groceries, and a population of 150; area farmers shipped cotton, hides, and grain.
By 1900 The Grove was one of the most prosperous towns in the county. It had a two-teacher school with sixty students in 1904, and a Lutheran school opened there in 1908.
The community began to decline in the 1940s, when it was bypassed by State Highway 36.
Some area farmers were forced to relocate when Fort Hood was established in the early 1940s, and others lost land when the Belton dam was built in 1953. Improvements in transportation and consolidation of agriculture also contributed to the community's decline.
The public school at The Grove closed in 1948, and students were bussed to schools in other communities.
The Lutheran school continued to operate until 1962 but was then closed for lack of students.
The population of The Grove, reported as 150 in the 1940s, fell to 140 in the 1950s and 1960s, and by 1970 to sixty-five, where it remained through 2000.


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I've been working on a project which has an HTML5 video embedded. It works locally, but when I put it on a server (or in this case, MAMP) it doesn't play. If I right click on the video, it will let me save the video file but it never plays on the page. The particular video in question has no controls, but when I added another test video with controls it had an X in the center.
I'm serving H264, WebM, and Theora. The same videos play perfectly fine in Chrome or Safari.
Any security issues I'm missing? Also, any idea why Firefox is the only browser that refuses to loop the video while the others do?
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The words I learned when beginning Spanish for
east and
west are
este and
oeste, which are basically cognates of their English equivalents.
But I've been told that there are other words to denote
east and
oriente and
poniente. How did these words get those connotations? Are there times when you would use these words and not
este and
Also the main words for
north and
south are
norte and
sur, which again are basically cognates. Are there non-cognate words in Spanish that connote
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Still 'Electric' After All These Years
Recorded at Buddy Miller's house in Nashville, Tenn., Richard Thompson's "Electric" (New West), out this week, finds Mr. Thompson front and center in a sparse setting, his guitar the only solo melodic instrument. That's cause for joy: Mr. Thompson, 63, is a superior guitarist who always plays with a clear tone and exquisite taste, and provides no small amount of head-snapping surprises—features present in abundance on "Electric."
During a recent phone conversation, Mr. Thompson, who was in Miami and about to leave to perform on a cruise ship as it toured the British Virgin Islands, said he chose Mr. Miller to produce for the sound he captures in his home studio. Mr. Miller recorded the session on tape rather than digitally, allowing a warmth to shine through. Nothing is cluttered, nor does anything compete with Mr. Thompson, whose voice hasn't lost a bit of its quality. "Electric" features Michael Jerome on drums, Taras Prodaniuk on bass, Mr. Miller on an unobtrusive rhythm guitar, and Stuart Duncan—who drops in on occasion—on fiddle.
"It's a good room for recording," Mr. Thompson said. "It has a slightly trashy sound." He added that he liked Mr. Miller's production on discs by the late Solomon Burke, Shawn Colvin and Robert Plant.
Back in September during the Americana Music Association's annual festivities—Mr. Thompson received the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award for his songwriting—Messrs. Thompson and Miller welcomed a handful of visitors to hear an early version of "Electric." In the sun-soaked room where the album was cut, Mr. Thompson stood behind rows of folding chairs and faced Mr. Miller's recording console, eyes closed as if lost in thought but swaying to the rhythm of the music. Every now and then, he'd jerk and grimace during a guitar solo, as if he were playing along in his mind. Asked to characterize the disc, the wry Mr. Thompson said, "It's somewhere between Judy Collins and Bootsy Collins." He added, "Or Peter, Paul and Jimi"—a description that was close to accurate: Among Mr. Thompson's earliest influences is traditional folk music, and that is evident even when he is on electric guitar in a band setting. On "Stuck on the Treadmill," for example, he plays a beefy riff in unison with Mr. Prodaniuk, a technique that found its way into early heavy metal, but which Mr. Thompson said is common in Celtic folk. "Sally B." opens with Mr. Thompson singing and playing the same melody; again, a trait in Celtic music. With "less harmonic information," as he put it, there's more opportunity for a soloist to shine.
"Electric" fits well within the continuum of Mr. Thompson's career, which is nearing the half-century mark. As he's done in the past, Mr. Thompson programmed the album to unfold like a concert set. The opener, "Stony Ground," establishes the template for the uptempo numbers: Mr. Jerome's drums give off a flappy, rumbling sound as if the toms, rather than the snare, were the kit's centerpiece. Accompanied by tambourines and handclaps, the booming effect echoes in the midrange, encouraging, rather than competing with, the guitar.
As a songwriter, Mr. Thompson allows the listener to bear witness as his characters share their dark, private thoughts. In "My Enemy," a down-tempo ballad, he tells a first-person tale, with novelistic insight and immediacy, of a friendship between two stubborn men that was broken long ago: "Now we're just two old men on the brink each waiting for the other to blink / If I should lose you I'd be left with nothing but fate." He cleaves the chilling environment with a stinging solo that speaks of the narrator's bitterness.
Despite the album's title, Mr. Thompson also offers several quiet ballads, exhibiting his feathery touch on acoustic guitar. Alison Krauss and Mr. Duncan join in on the dreamlike "The Snow Goose." As Messrs. Jerome and Prodaniuk offer sympathetic support, Mr. Thompson provides a folk underpinning to "Another Small Thing in Her Favour" before adding his electric guitar for a tasty solo that may remind listeners how much Mark Knopfler borrowed from his predecessor.
In mid-March, Mr. Thompson begins a tour with Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. Mr. Thompson will perform in a trio setting, permitting him to revisit his exceptional catalog of compositions, including the songs of "Electric," which reveal how much he can do with abundant space.
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Lunchtime Movie: 42
Bring your lunch to the Bluffton Branch Library each Tuesday at Noon and enjoy a film. We'll provide dessert! Full movie listing is available at the Bluffton Branch Library.
Showing: 42 (PG-13, 128 minutes)
In 1946, Jackie Robinson is a Negro League baseball player who never takes racism lying down. Branch Rickey is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. To that end, Rickey recruits Robinson to break the unspoken color line as the first modern African American Major League player. As both anticipate, this proves a major challenge for Robinson and his family as they endure unrelenting racist hostility on and off the field, from player and fan alike. As Jackie struggles against his nature to endure such abuse without complaint, he finds allies and hope where he least expects it.


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Hi, I don't really know where to begin because I am so confused at this stage of my life, but I'll give it my best. I am graduating from a top-tier university next month (May) and am now looking for a job in the industry. For a little background - I have changed my career aspirations more times than I can count, and think I have finally settled on something. I had considered everything from medical school to management consulting, but for the majority of college I was set on going to law school. All went well, and I got into a good law school, but I thought - is this what you want to do for the next 40 years? Well, no it's not, so I made the complete foolish and naive choice to defer going to a great law school and making over 100k in another 3 years, in hopes of working with video games. I also passed up a few great jobs paying over 60k. I am probably a fool, but working with games is the only thing I can seriously see myself doing full-time for the next few decades. Well now you know how determined (or stupid) I am, let's move on.
I am interested in a variety of areas in gaming, most notably, design, production, and journalism. I know I can't jump into any of these right away, so my question is - what should I do? I really don't want to be a QA tester, because I need to pay my bills and student loans, plus I would like to use the fact that I have degree from a prestigious university. There is a HUGE developer right near where I live that has a job posting for an associate producer. Is it common for a college grad to get such a job? The listing says that they PREFER 1-3 years experience with at least one shipped titled. Is it still possible to get hired in lieu of this, since the experience is preferred? They also require a BA/BS, which I am looking for. However, I have submitted a resume and have not heard anything in over a week, so I am getting discouraged.
Can anyone help me out? Should I continue to go after decent-paying jobs like this that I am probably underqualified for, or should I humble myself, go into poverty, and be a tester? If I can't find a job, I am considering 2 options: First, I will be a QA tester and write freelance in my spare time, and hope something happens from that. Second, I might stay in school for another 2 years (which I really don't want to do) and get a second degree in Computer Science and be a programmer, since they seem to be the only ones that can get a job right after school. Programming is not my preference, but I know a little Java and do enjoy PC's, and if that's what it takes to work in the industry, so be it. I'm sorry to ramble for so long, I just really need help and with graduation rapidly approaching, I think I might be suffering from anxiety. Maybe I should have went to law school...ugh. HELP!
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I've recently been using my computer while laying down on my bed with a monitor arm extending my monitor in front of me from the side of the bed.
My keyboard and mouse are wireless, and I can use wireless headphones, regular speakers, or a wire headphone.
So, I have many things available and it's comfortable for long time.
But I don't want that. I want to set on a chair, have a computer in front of me on a desk, with some papers, a pen, while everything is comfortable, so that I work for hours like this.
I don't know how to do that.
It came to my mind the question: if I buy ergonomic chair, ergonomic keyboard, multiple matte monitors extending from arms, will I feel comfortable? Do people that have this set-up feel comfortable and can concentrate for hours (with breaks in between) while programming or studying or something like that? I would like to hear your experience and your ideas... for example, what is your dream workspace, and do you have something close to that right now?


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The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a grant of $70,000 to Auburn Montgomery under the Fulbright-Hays International Education program Group Projects Abroad Short-Term Projects. As reported in News and Headlines on Sept. 30, the grant will fund a four-week curriculum development seminar on the cultural history and welfare of women in Belize.
Auburn Montgomery was one of just 16 institutions in 11 states, and the only institution in Alabama, to receive this type of grant.
According to Fariba Deravi, Director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, one of the objectives of the Group Projects Abroad (GPA) is to enable faculty and administrators in institutions of higher education to spend time in a foreign country acquiring resource materials for curriculum development in area studies. The GPA encourages education and cultural exchanges that foster greater cross-cultural understanding and new-world views.
The overall intent of the Auburn Montgomery project, being led by Drs. Denise Davis-Maye and Annice Yarber from the Department of Sociology, is to operate a curriculum development seminar centered on the cultural history, status and experiences of women in the Americas, specifically Belize. Project participants will explore and compare patterns of gender roles, family structures and processes, faith practices, physical and mental health, and economic and political structures in contemporary Belize and their impact on the welfare of women in leadership.
"Ultimately, the project seeks to promote respect for diversity and ethical interactions between cultures, as well as to increase awareness of issues faced by women in countries with emerging economies," Deravi said.
Yarber and Davis-Maye's "Summer Institute on the Welfare of Women in Belize" will support 15 post-secondary and K-12 educators in the development of comprehensive curricula and units on the cultural history and current status of women in Belize. The participants will come from the academic areas of social sciences, music, art, English, social studies, science, and social work.
The application process has begun and is available online at http://geomaps.aum.edu/Brochure2013.pdf.
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By SHAWNA JANKOVIAK
CHEBOYGAN — County officials approved the 2014-2019 Capital Improvements Plan at their meeting on Sept. 10, adopting a blueprint for the planning of capital improvement expenditures.
Community Development Planner Scott McNeil said the Michigan Planning Enabling Act requires local municipalities that have adopted a master plan to annually prepare a capital improvements program. There is a procedure for development and approval.
"The Act provides that the capital improvements program show those public structures and improvements, in general order of their priority that in the judgement of the Planning Commission will be needed or desirable and can be undertaken within the ensuing six-year period," McNeil explained.
He said the Planning Commission continues to invite local municipalities that have projects listed in the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy, which is completed through the Northeast Michigan Council of Governments each year, to submit projects for consideration in the Capital Improvements Program.
"As a result, you will note projects for Forest Township and the Village of Wolverine are included," McNeil said. "Also new to the Capital Improvements Program are projects planned by the Cheboygan County Council on Aging."
McNeil stressed that the plan would have no financial impact on the county.
"The inclusion of a project in a capital improvement program will not require any public entity or department of the county to fund or complete the project," McNeil said. "It is a planning tool that can coordinate community planning, financial capacity and physical development."
He said the Planning Commission held a public hearing on the 2014-2019 Capital Improvements Program on Aug. 21 and approved the program with a recommendation for approval to the county board.
In the plan's "needed" category, projects include the second phase of renovations at the animal shelter; a new maintenance building, a runway rehabilitation, a taxiway extension and a terminal ramp rehabilitation at the Cheboygan County Airport; a new restroom and shower facility at the Cheboygan County Fairgrounds; an elevator upgrade, trim panel replacement and window replacement at the Cheboygan County Building; a new fuel facility at the Cheboygan County Road Commission's Indian River garage; the paving of Long Lake Road, reconstruction of Mann Road, reconstruction of Quarry and Ostrander roads and reconstruction of Trowbridge Road; a roof replacement and parking lot resurfacing at the Cheboygan County Council on Aging's Wolverine Senior Center and a new septic system, parking lot resurfacing and Sand Castles Adult Daycare expansion at Sand Road Senior Center; and the replacement of the Cedar Street Bridge in Wolverine.
In the plan's "desired" category, projects include a terminal renovation and expansion at the Cheboygan County Airport; a show arena roof and portable bleachers at the Cheboygan County Fairgrounds; energy efficiency upgrades at the Cheboygan County Building; solar energy panels at the Cheboygan County Road Commission's Indian River facility; a pier system replacement and upgrade at the Cheboygan County Marina; a trailhead at Tower Pond; and a trail at Lumberman's Park in Wolverine.
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I have a legendary Marksdwarf. I stationed him where he needed to be using x > s. The seige is over, the goblins are routed, but Fikod won't stand down. I can reassign him, but if I go to the milita screen (m), I can't deactivate him using a like I could with all of the other dwarves.


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I'm a coder. It's what I do. It's what I like doing. It's also what pays the bills. I do this at home and I set my own hours.
However, I have a problem. I have a very, very hard time getting in 8 hours of work a day doing this. I work at home, and I have tried so many different strategies to help me stay on task. I've tried working at different times of the day and night. I've tried timing myself and taking breaks and various intervals. Certain things seem to help some, but not enough.
I realized just recently that I believe one of the reasons for this is that the work I do does not allow any way of simply 'going through the motions' as most jobs do. For example, if I were a custodian, even if I were distracted or had trouble focusing, my mind could be in the clouds while I sweep or vacuum and I could still get the job done well because it's primarily physical. With my work, every bit of it requires a certain level of focus and concentration.
With that all in mind, this kind of work is still something I'm really good at. I just need help with strategies on how to get motivated when I'm not, stay motivated and focused for several hours every day, and overall just make it work.


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[ 19 April 2013 to 22 April 2013. ]
There's more than one centenary to celebrate this year, with the Morris 100 Canberra Celebration and Tour set to mark 100 years since the first Morris car left the factory In Oxford, England.
This weekend, anyone with an interest in cars built by William Morris, later Lord Nuffield, can celebrate not only the Centenary of Canberra [...]
[ 1 April 2013 to 30 April 2013. ] This just in:
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CMC Presents The Bootleg Sessions
Reptile Park
The Burley Griffin
Magic Rob Universe
Briony Wills
Tuesday 2nd 7:30pm
Andrew and Shannon's Pub Trivia
Thursday 4th 9pm
Ten Volt Shock (Germany)
Saturday 6th 9:30pm
Pat Capocci
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In May 1912, the entrant 29 won the Federal Capital City Design Competition. This was of course Walter Burley Griffin, you've probably heard of him.
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[ 20 February 2013 to 31 October 2013. ]
This looks like a good use of a Sunday Morning:
As the saying goes, a year is a long time in politics!
Behind the Lines 2012 looks back on the highs and lows of the political year through the eyes of Australia's best cartoonists. Their observations of the personalities, parties and political power-plays are insightful, amusing [...]
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[ 1 November 2012 to 31 July 2013. ]
An intriguing exhibition up on the War Memorial website:
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Suppose we are working in an "arrows-only" definition of a category such as given in Mac Lane's "Categories of the Working Mathematician" (1998) p.279 or on nlab. How can we formulate the definition of a product in such a category? I do not see how to do this without implicitly referring to objects (identity arrows).
Using the notation of nlab, the following is a fibered product: if $x, y$ are arrows with $t(x) = t(y)$, then their fiber product is the pair of arrows $u, v$ with $t(u) = s(x)$, $t(v) = s(y)$, and $s(u) = s(v)$ such that for any pair of arrows $a, b$ with $s(a) = s(b)$, $t(a) = t(u) \, (= s(x))$ and $t(b) = t(v) \, (= s(y))$ and such that $x \circ a = y \circ b$, there is a unique arrow $c$ having $s(c) = s(a) = s(b)$, $t(c) = s(u) = s(v)$, and $a = u \circ c$, $b = v \circ c$.
To define a plain product, suppose the category has a final object (that is, of course, that there exists an arrow $f$ such that for any arrow $x$ there exists a unique arrow $x'$ with $s(x') = s(x)$ and $t(x') = f$) and replace $x$ and $y$ by $x'$ and $y'$ in the above. If it doesn't have one, of course you can just add one.
Can't get any farther away from identity arrows than that; you need to be able to specify sources and targets to define composition.
Exactly the same as in the objects-and-arrows presentation of category!
Working with the "arrows-only" definition of a category doesn't mean you can't talk about objects, it just means that they're themselves a defined notion. Some constructions can be very nicely given in purely arrows-only language, but for many things — and I think product is one — it seems most natural to define "objects" and then to use them in the statements of further definitions.
You can certainly then unfold the definition to give it in a way that doesn't mention objects. But I think it's important to note that you don't need to do this, and a priori, no obvious big reasons one would want to!
Edit: Reading Martin B's comment, I realise I may well have misunderstood the intent of your question. I'm leaving this answer, though, as I think it's still a point worth making!


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9 Words You've Used Today With Bizarre Criminal Origins
#4. "Raspberry" Meant "Fart"
Today's Usage:
"Your daughter just blew a raspberry at my son. How cute."
Past Usage:
"Your daughter just blew a raspberry, are you sure microwave burritos are good for a two-year-old?"
Here's something you might have wondered: Why, when somebody blows through their lips to make that farting sound, do we call it a "raspberry"?
This is a deadly serious fruit.
For that, you can thank Cockney rhyming slang, a type of speech used by the London working class that's been around since the mid 19th century. As we have mentioned before, it's the reason for a lot of the nonsensical slang we use today, such as why some people call money "bread."
Unlike a lot of slang, there's actually a set of rules to it. First, you must be dressed as a chimneysweep. Then, you think up a word you want to say without others understanding you (for example, money). You then think up a phrase that rhymes with all or part of it ("bread and honey"). Finally, you shorten the phrase, so that outsiders can't guess what you mean when you say "bread."
"Give me all your bread or I'll barbecue grill you. And get me a sandwich, I missed lunch."
So, you might have heard somebody say "Put up your dukes!" when telling you to raise your fists to fight them. Back then "forks" was slang for fingers, they'd rhyme forks with "Duke of Yorks", and then just shorten it to "dukes."
We're playing our trap card, the Duke of Connaught. He has the eyes of a killer.
Which brings us to "raspberry." In its original form, it was "raspberry tart," which rhymes with "fart." Gradually, it became associated with the farting sound you can make with your tongue, because "tongue-flatulence" just doesn't have the same ring.
#3. "Deep-Six" Meant to Toss a Rotting Corpse Into the Water
Today's Usage:
"My robo-warrior home business development plans were deep-sixed by my parole officer."
Past Usage:
"Let's deep-six these buccaneer corpses off the side of the boat, in accordance with their pirate faith."
"Deep-six", like lots of words you use today, comes from old sailor and pirate lingo. You can also thank them for inventing terms like cooties (their word for body lice), Slush Fund ("slush" was the discarded fat from the ship's kitchen, which they sold for extra money) along with manhandle, ass and cockpit, which are the exact kind of things you'd expect a group of lonely men who spend months at sea without modern hygiene to come up with.
"Argh, I got so bored I set my hair on fire."
As for "deep-six", if someone drops dead on a ship in the middle of the ocean, you can't just bury them in the backyard like most of us do when an inconvenient corpse pops up. It's even worse when you're going to be at sea for a while: You know that the body will sit there, creeping everyone out with its dead eyes, perhaps getting stolen one day for a cruel prank involving a foggy night and some hidden rigging. So back in the day, sailors would simply throw the body overboard with as much solemnity as the occasion could manage.
"And so we commit this body to the sea, and see if we can skip him across the water. The record is five hops."
In this nautical slang, throwing a body overboard was known as deep-sixing. The "six" might have come from six fathoms, the minimum depth required to bury someone at sea. This was also known as the "if you can see it washing up on the shore, you're probably doing it wrong" rule.
"He had a message rolled up inside him. It says, 'send women.' "
#2. "Geek" Meant Sideshow Freak
Today's Usage:
"Dave is looking at another website about photocopiers shaped like spaceships. What a geek."
Past Usage:
"We found out that it was Dave who's been eating all those rats. What a geek."
Whenever you refer to yourself as a "computer geek," "movie geek" or "backyard missile-testing geek," you are in fact using carny lingo, a secretive dialect once used by the migrant workers who ran carnivals and circuses. Carnies used this language to isolate themselves from the outside world for when the weird peanut smell just wasn't enough. They'd also use it to test whether the aspiring job applicant or waitress they were talking to was a true fellow carny. If they responded with a glazed, frightened stare, chances are they weren't.
Just like normal people when cornered by a Starcraft geek.
Up until the 1950s, geek was carny talk for a sideshow freak who bit the heads off live animals. Back then, "geek rage" didn't mean what happens whenever a studio grittily reboots a film made in 2007. Instead, it consisted of toothily decapitating chickens, rats and snakes, which the geek would then sometimes eat alive. This, apparently, was what audiences had to make do with before pictures of people falling into holes became available on YouTube. The geek's line of work was so disgusting that even the other freaks shunned them.
She doesn't strike us as a picky eater.
By the mid-century, "geek" had escaped its carny restraints and become a term for a general misfit or outcast. These soon became the geeks we all know from 80s teen movies, who had advanced from eating animals to building computer-generated sex slaves. Today, those too young to remember the fact that phone handsets were once connected to things probably aren't even aware that the word was once a genuine insult. But geek is not the only word we can thank those wacky carnies for: they also gave us beatnik, ballyhoo, shill, scam, grifter and jerk.
#1. "Discard" (and Lots of Other Words) Was a Gambling Term
Today's Usage:
"I discarded the audiobook when it did not, in fact, teach me to seduce any woman in 10 minutes."
Past Usage:
"In order to win the game, I discarded some of the cards in my bad hand by pretending to yawn and then eating them."
This one seems kind of obvious once you hear it -- before it got its current, wider meaning, discard was a 16th century word meaning "get rid of a card while gambling." It does have the word "card" right in there. But considering that gambling is frowned upon as a hobby, a shocking amount of our language comes from the old underground gambling world.
Especially the foul.
Sure, there are the obvious slang terms like wild card, at stake, showdown and up the ante. But other, everyday words also came from the poker table -- for example they came up with the word luck. Likewise, hazard comes from a word meaning "play the dice." Bluff was invented by American poker players in the 19th century. Even the word "deal" was used in its poker context before it ever was used to mean "a business agreement." When people talk about stocks or young athletes they call the good ones "blue chip", aka the high-value blue discs used in poker (we can also thank these chips for "when the chips are down" or "let the chips fall where they may.")
Or "don't sweep up those chips, they're good eating."
So apparently if you put enough people together in a dark room and keep them there long after their families have abandoned them and the homemade liquor has erased all memories of the outside world, they're going to start making up new words. And the rest of us will start using them.
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Race #9 This Saturday At CGS
By Ben Deatherage
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Cottage Grove, Oregon- After a great night of racing last weekend the Cottage Grove Speedway is back in action this Saturday June 8th. The ¼-mile clay oval will have four classes of action for what should be another great installment to the 2013 season. Classes in competition will include the Northwest Wingless Tour, Dwarf Cars, Late Models, and Hornets.
"Saturday is going to be good show," said Heather Boyce, General Manager of the Cottage Grove Speedway, "we hope everyone can make it out for some great family fun at this great facility."
The Northwest Wingless Tour has been to CGS twice this year and has produced two different winners. Kyle Miller and Kyle Mehner have been triumphant so far when the NWWT have been to "The Grove". The last two races with the series have occurred at the Sunset Speedway Park in Banks with Sterling Kane and Mitch Hoffses earning victories up there.
In Late Model competition Collen Winebarger has won the last two races. Paul Culp is the only other winner so far in the division. Two weeks ago was the first Dwarf Car show of the year with Kelly Gutches earning the triumph despite a downpour during the closing laps of the feature.
The Hornets are coming off of a non-point event last week which saw young Evan Britton capture the win. In the five point races that have been completed Joe Maricle and Kolby Clay each have two wins while Jim Simmons has just one.
Tickets for the races on Saturday are $12.00 for Adults, Senior/Military/Junior (13-17) $10.00, Youths (6-12) $5.00, and Children under the age of five are FREE. A Family Pass is offered for $30.00 which includes two Adults and up to four Youths. Pit gates open at 2:00 PM, front gates 4:00, time trials 5:30, and racing stats around 6:45. Remember whether you are a veteran or a current member of the United States military you will receive half off of your ticket purchase.
The Cottage Grove Speedway has hosted fast and exciting action as far back as 1956. Since then the ¼-mile banked oval has been regarded as a place where fast times are set and plenty of side-by-side racing occurs. Regular classes include 360 Sprints, IMCA Modifieds, NW Extreme Winged Sprint Cars, Late Models, Street Stocks, and Hornets from the months of April till October every Saturday night. For more information be sure and visit the venue's homepage www.cottagegrovespeedway.com or call the brand new Northwest Tracks Hotline at (360)-699-RACE.
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Date: Saturday June 8th, 2013
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Youths (5 and Under)- FREE
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Location: 2150 North Douglas Street, Cottage Grove, Oregon, 97424
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I think her name is Mimi. From what I remember of the series of carebears, there was this dark dimension and the bad guy was a cloaked guy and he had a minion called Pugsley (think that's how you spell his name).
When it comes to Mimi, from what i can remember she was the bad guy's niece who had had a scream that would break glass and he was deadly terrified of her screaming and now and again her and Pugsley would be sent off on this bike thing with propellers.....also i think she was very very ticklish


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In Russian we have idiom/saying "To shoot out of cannon into sparrows" (literal translation) which is used to convey an idea of applying too drastic measures to small problems. I believe there should be some native-English equivalents to this saying. Can you share if there are any?
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We speak of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Overkill is originally a military analysis term from the Cold War, referring to the fact that the belligerents each had far more nuclear weapons than they would need to completely destroy the other. These days it's generally used metaphorically to mean precisely the sort of excessive effort or excessive means you talk of.
Bring a gun to a knife-fight is another that comes from combat originally.
One American variant, "kill a mosquito with a bazooka".
"Never use a shotgun when a flyswatter will do."
Two idioms would be:
The wheel in question being a device for capital punishment of humans. So using it on a tiny fly would, quite literally, be overkill and it is also not clear if you would actually hit the fly at all or if it would be able to get away swiftly — a connotation it has in common with the Russian idiom you are translating.
As Robert Heinlein put it,
Heavy-handed is one that can be applied to a lot of different situations. Also "make a mountain out of a molehill" is a good one.
As AJ Henderson notes in the comments, there are several common variants of "attacking some small creatures with a large and unwieldy weapon" in use, and I doubt most English-speakers would bat an eye at "shooting sparrows with a cannon."
That said, in my experience, flies do seem to be a more common target in English than sparrows, while the most popular weapons seem to be either cannons or, for a more personal type of combat, sledgehammers. So I'd most likely go for either:
But if you'd prefer to target sparrows instead of flies, please do. Such little departures from the most heavily trodden path will simply give your writing that little bit of extra flavor.
I once used the phrase built a cannon to kill a fly in a paper, referring to the complexity of the "Commercial Exchange" semantic frame that is required in order to understand the meaning of the word money.
You could always nuke the entire site.
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Nursery children, who would otherwise be eligible to receive a free meal, must be receiving education both before and after the lunch period. However, children in nursery education who were eligible to receive a free meal at 6 April 2003 will have their entitlement protected until either:
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It should be noted that section 201 (1)(c) of the Education Act 2002, which extends free school meal entitlement to nursery age children who receive Local Authority funded education in settings outside of the maintained sector, will not be brought into force until a later date.
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In "The Late Great Planet Earth," Hal Lindsey presents a view of "Armageddon" referred to in Revelation. Is this view considered "valid, and if so, by which Christian groups?" Is Lindsey considered a "false prophet, and if so, by which Christian groups?" Or hasn't a consensus yet formed as to whether or not Lindsey's view "holds up."
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It is considered invalid by many Christians. It's also considered valid by many Christians. The closest you'll get to an objective answer is to look at the Amazon book star-reviews, which is what I encourage you to do. It indicates that the book is very polarizing. And I suspect that the answers which will accumulate here will look very much like the written reviews there.
There is absolutely no way to "decide" whether Lindsey's view holds up, so the question is impossible to answer. As you may predict from the book's reviews, you are sure to get quite polarized answers. For example, a random Catholic from the internet says:
And from an article on general subject matter:
From all this we can only assume that mild answers will range from the mild "well, many consider him ok" that Narnian presents, to the mild "read something better" I quoted above.
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It is considered valid by many Christians, specifically those who hold to a pre-tribulation rapture of the Church. Those that disagree with this opinion will generally consider him wrong about this issue, but not a false prophet. Hal Lindsey attempts to interpret Revelation. He certainly is convinced of this interpretation, but that does not make him a false prophet. He still holds to all of the essential doctrines of at least Protestant Christianity--the virgin birth, the Trinity, the death and resurrection of Jesus, etc.
So, he is probably wrong about at least some points and maybe even most or all of them, but he believes in salvation by faith alone in Christ alone--just as many other Protestants do.
By the same token, those who do not believe in a pre-tribulation rapture are not considered to be false prophets by those that do. It's just a disagreement in interpretation, over which we will have eternity to discuss and perhaps laugh about who was right and who was wrong.


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ARMED ROBBERY SUSPECT SOUGHT Surveillance Video Released
- BSO Case Number: OP1-01-060028
- PIO Number: 01-12-45
- Date: December 26, 27, & 28
- Time: see narrative
- Place of Occurrence: see narrative
- Discount Auto Parts, 2804 West Oakland Park Boulevard, Oakland Park
- Citgo Gas Station, 3201 West Broward Boulevard, uninc. Ft. Lauderdale
- Beauty Alliance, 2900 block of Griffin Road, Dania Beach
- Discount Auto Parts, 1741 South State Road 7, uninc. Ft. Lauderdale
- Unidentified
Description of Incident:
The Broward Sheriff's Office Robbery Unit is releasing surveillance video of an armed robbery suspect in the hopes of identifying him before he strikes again.
The unidentified white or Latin male is believed to be responsible for at least four armed robberies since December 26th. Fortunately, no one has been injured, but the suspect did shoot at one of his victims who tried to follow him after he committed one of the robberies.
The first robbery occurred in Oakland Park at a Discount Auto Parts store about 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, December 26th. The suspect approached the clerk at the checkout counter and threatened to shoot him unless he opened the cash register. In fear for his life, the clerk ran to the back of the store. The suspect started smashing the register and threw it on the floor. After gaining entry, the suspect fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
On December 27th, the suspect committed an armed robbery at the Citgo Gas Station located at 3201 West Broward Boulevard about 9:30 a.m. The suspect fled the scene, followed by the clerk. Before escaping, he fired a shot at the clerk but missed. Shortly before 5 p.m. the same day, the armed suspect fled with an undisclosed amount of money from the cash register at Beauty Alliance hair salon, located in the 2900 block of Griffin Road in Dania Beach.
The most recent incident occurred about 12:30 Friday (December 28th) afternoon at the Discount Auto Parts store located at 1741 South State Road 7 near Fort Lauderdale. The suspect was captured on surveillance video struggling to disengage a cash register. Frustrated, he ordered a customer to pass him a screwdriver. The suspect escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The armed and dangerous suspect is about five feet nine inches tall, in his mid 20's, approximately 140 pounds, with black hair and a goatee. His get-away vehicle is an older model white Ford Aerostar van. Anyone with information on the identity and/or whereabouts of the suspect is urged to call BSO Robbery Det. Bob Kerr at (954) 321-4270 or call Broward Crime Stoppers at (954) 493-TIPS.
- INVESTIGATORS: Robbery Det. B. Kerr, CI
- THIS REPORT BY: Veda Coleman-Wright/PIO
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This was a question asked in a competitive exam:
$(300^{3000} -1 )$ is divisible by
a) $401$ b) $501$ c) $301$ d) $901$
The answer is $301$. Not sure how they arrived at the answer. Can somebody explain ?
This was a question asked in a competitive exam:
The answer is $301$. Not sure how they arrived at the answer. Can somebody explain ?
$300 \equiv -1 \pmod{301}$, and $(-1)^{2 \cdot k} \equiv 1 \pmod{301}$, so $300^{2 \cdot 1500} - 1 \equiv 0 \pmod{301}$.
Let us consider the polynomial $x^n-1$ where $n$ is even, then $-1$ is a root of the polynomial and so it is divisible by $x-(-1)=x+1$. Put $x=300,n=3000$ to get the answer.
An alternative to Dan's answer: $300 \equiv -1 \pmod{301}$, and $(-1)^{5 \cdot k} \equiv -1 \pmod{301}$. Now $$ 300^{3000} - 1 = (300^{1500}+1)(300^{1500}-1)=(300^{1500}+1)(300^{750}+1)(300^{375}+1)(300^{375}-1), $$ so $$ (300^{375}+1) \equiv (300^{5\cdot 75}+1) \equiv 0 \bmod 301 $$
This answer only expands on Dan Brumleve's.
What is a Congruence relation?
Given two integers $x, y$. The statement that $x − y$ is divisible by another integer $k$ is equivalent to saying that the $x$ is congruent to $y$ modulus $k$, and written in the congruence notation as $x \equiv y\ (\textrm{mod}\ k)$ or equivalently as $k | (x - y)$.
The congruence relation has the following properties:
It is not hard to show that Property 3 follows from Property 2, but we won't go there at this time.
Restatement in terms of congruence relation
Your original question can then be restated as follows:
Dan's Solution Expanded
$300^{3000} - 1 \equiv 0 (\textrm{mod}\ n)$ can be rewritten as
But each of the following two expressions is trivially true for $n=301$:
By Property 4, these two also follow:
Simplified the above becomes:
By the Property 2 (subtraction rule), we can put these two together to obtain:
300^3000-1=300^3000-1^3000=(300^1500-1^1500)(300^1500+1^1500)= =(300^750-1^750)(300^750+1^750)(300^1500+1^1500)= =((300^375-1^375)(300^375+1^375)(300^750+1^750)(300^1500+1^1500)= ... so 299 and 301 are definely divisors of (300^3000−1)
One relies on Fermats little theorem, which says if $p$ is a prime, then it divides $x^p-x$ for all integer $x$. Of course, it can divide for smaller values, where $p \not\mid x$, then $p \mid x^{p-1}-1$, and where $p \mid x^m-1$, then $m \mid p-1$.
The second instance is that for particular values of $x$, $p \mid x^s -1$, where $s \mid p-1$. For example, where p=37, x=10, one can have s=3, rather than s=36.
For $301 = 7 \cdot 43$, we see that $7-1 \mid 3000$, and $6$ is the largest number to divide both 42 and 3000. So all we have to see is whether 43 divides 299, 301, 27000001, or 26999999. It divides 301, so this one does divide.
For $401 = \mbox{prime}$, we see that $400 \not\mid 3000$, but we need to eliminate the possibilities. Gauss's law of quadratic residues tells us that there is no solution to $x=3 \pmod 401$, so whatever the period of $401$ is in base 300, it does not divide 3000. Therefore we exclude this.
For $501 = 3 \cdot 167$. Two multiples of 3 can not be one apart, so if $3 \mid x$, then $3 \not\mid x-1$.
For $901 = 17 \cdot 53$, we need to test both 17 and 53. However, because the period of 1/17 in base 300 is 16, we see that $16 \not\mid 3000$, and hence $17$ does not divide the number. One can show also that If 53 divides the number, it must divide 90001, which yields negative results under simple arithmetic.


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ANDERSON, S.C. – After earning Female and Male Athlete of the Year honors at the AU Athletics Honors Night last month, seniors Abby Child and Chandler Hash along with junior Shannon Gillespie, were named to the Anderson Federal Credit Union Gold Standard for their outstanding performances during their respective 2013-14 seasons.
Hash capped his stellar career with Division II Bulletin Honorable Mention All-America accolades and an appearance in the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-Star Game. The Greer, S.C., native earned NABC First-Team All-District accolades and Daktronics First-Team All-Region honors after being named First-Team All-South Atlantic Conference for the second consecutive year. Hash, the 2014 South Atlantic Conference Tournament MVP, helped lead Anderson to its fourth NCAA Southeast Region Tournament appearance in five seasons, while leading the conference in scoring (24.3 ppg.) and ranking fifth in the nation.
His 778 total points was tops in NCAA Division II this season and marks the second-highest single-season total in league history. Hash concluded his career in third place on Anderson's all-time scoring list with 1,537 career points and his career-high 44 points in the Trojans' SAC Tournament semifinal appearance ranks seventh in the league all-time for points scored in a single game.
Gillespie, an outside hitter, helped lead the Trojans to their first-ever appearance in the South Atlantic Conference championship match and first NCAA Tournament victory in AU's second Southeast Region tourney appearance. She was named First-Team All-South Atlantic Conference and garnered First-Team Daktronics All-Region accolades while also being named to the 2013 NCAA Southeast Region All-Tournament Team.
A native of Fishers, Ind., Gillespie set a new school record for kills in a single season and is currently seventh in AU's record books with 1,193 career kills. The 5-foot-10 outside hitter led the SAC and ranked 15th in the nation with her 4.05 kills per set average and also paced the league in total kills, points and points per set. Gillespie ranked eighth in the SAC in digs (449) and 12th in digs per set (3.45). Off the court Gillespie earned Capital One First-Team Academic All-District honors.
Child, who was named Second-team All-Southeast Region, helped lead the Trojans to school-record win tallies in each of the last three seasons, while starting every contest during her impressive four-year career. The veteran shortstop posted a school-record 204 starts on the left side of the Trojan infield and tops the AU record books with 47 home runs, 136 walks and 197 RBI.
This season, Child slammed a league-leading and career-best 15 home runs and also led the SAC in RBI (62) and slugging percentage (.745), while ranking third in runs scored (55) and sixth in both hits (64) and doubles (14). The LaGrange, Ga., native collected second-team all-region honors following her sophomore campaign. She was named the 2014 Food Lion SAC Tournament MVP after recording seven hits in 12 at-bats (.583) during the four-game span, punctuated by three home runs, eight RBI, three walks and three runs during the tournament.
Each month, one male and one female student-athlete or teams are honored as the Anderson Federal Credit Union Gold Standard Performers of the Month for his or her performance in competition, in the classroom, or in the community.


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Cancer and Metabolism 2013
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Dates: June 24-25, 2013
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Web Page URL: http://www.abcam.com/cancermetabolism2013
Topics Covered:
- Introduction to metabolic pathways and metabolism -Metabolic alterations and adaptations of cancer cells
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Who Should Attend: Open to all!
Agenda: In the past few years the field of cancer metabolism has moved into the spotlight of cancer research and into the heart of the bio-industrial world. In this workshop we will cover the field of cancer metabolism extensively, and discuss the link between cell signalling and metabolism, as well as metabolic adaptations of cancer cells to autonomous proliferative demands and environmental stresses. We are bringing together leading researchers in the cancer metabolism field in hopes of generating a vibrant scientific and social atmosphere to allow for informal interactions among participants.
Registration Information: The registration fee is inclusive of: Attendance at sessions Conference materials, including book of abstracts Lunch and refreshments on June 24-25, 2013 Dedicated poster session Drinks reception
Fees: Early bird discount available
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