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The vibrant colors. The terrifyingly aggressive plant life. The talking winged monkey dressed like a tiny bellhop.
This must be what it's like to get high with James Franco.
From the opening minutes of "Oz The Great and Powerful" …
Something's. Happening.
Can't. Continue.
Sarcasm powers. Not working.
Of all the illusions conjured up by Disney's "Wizard of Oz" prequel, which credits magician Lance Burton as a consultant, its greatest bit of magic is its ability to cut through years of jadedness and rot to tickle the 8-year-old inside you.
Or something that sounds less creepy.
Womanizing huckster Oscar Diggs (Franco) ekes out a living by conning yokels — with the help of his put-upon assistant, Frank (Zach Braff), who's good for some vaudeville-style yuks — as a magician with the charmingly low-rent Baum Bros. Circus.
When he's visited by his childhood sweetheart, Annie (Michelle Williams), who's come to tell him a good man has asked to marry her, Oz doesn't put up a fight. After all, he doesn't want to be a good man. He dreams of being a great man. "Harry Houdini and Thomas Edison, all rolled into one."
After Oz is nearly run out of town for seemingly refusing to heal a crippled farm girl (Joey King), he escapes the clutches of a jealous strongman by fleeing in a hot-air balloon and catches a ride on Kansas' most famous public transit system: the tornado.
When Oz the man finds himself in Oz the land, he's beset by wondrous landscapes, river fairies and the most magical creature of all: Mila Kunis.
Her young, floppy-hatted witch, Theodora — who looks as if she's about to board the Titanic en route to the Kentucky Derby — is convinced Oz is the long-prophesied wizard who'll save the kingdom from the Wicked Witch.
Since that position comes with the land's untold treasures — including the mountains of gold coins on which he goes all Scrooge McDuck — Oz, ever the con man, is more than happy to go along.
As Oz, Franco plays to the cheap seats throughout, mugging and hamming things up at every turn. He didn't even bother to shave off his pencil-thin goatee. But something about his sleepy-eyed charisma just feels spot-on.
It wouldn't be an "Oz" tale if Theodora were the only witch in town. Her sister, Evanora (Rachel Weisz), rules the Emerald City and is immediately distrustful of Oz's wizardly claims. And Williams is simply radiant in her other role as Glinda, the Good Witch.
Much like in "The Wizard of Oz," other actors exist in both worlds.
Braff voices Oz's sidekick, Finley, the bellhop monkey. (Not to be confused with the hideous flying baboons that could scare the bejeezus out of little ones). The two seem forever on the verge of breaking into an Abbott and Costello routine.
And the young actress King gives voice to the China Doll, a similarly broken character, who just may be the most achingly adorable creation you encounter all year.
Since the movie follows Oz's journey to becoming the wizard he claims to be, the outcome is never in doubt. But there are enough (s)witcheroos along the way to keep viewers guessing.
Working from a script by Mitchell Kapner ("The Whole Nine Yards") and David Lindsay-Abaire ("Rise of the Guardians"), director Sam Raimi does his best Tim Burton impression, down to the inventive opening credits and Danny Elfman's score. But, despite Raimi's experiences helming the "Spider-Man" and "Evil Dead" trilogies, the visuals sometimes get away from him. It's a little too easy, for instance, to imagine Franco jogging in place in front of a green screen.
"Oz The Great and Powerful" contains enough homages and callbacks to tie it to the original without seeming overly cute or heavy-handed.
But while it obviously can't live up to the 1939 classic, it's closer to a welcome companion piece than the desperate cash grab fans may have feared.
Still, it's a little troubling that with this movie — following its acquisitions of Marvel, The Muppets and "Star Wars," not to mention its own characters — Disney has laid claim to roughly 98 percent of your childhood memories.
It's likely only a matter of time before the company comes for your little dog, too.
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spoiler:following Visquis' message, the Exile is intercepted by the GenoHaradan, and then 'rescued' by either Mira or Hanharr.
spoiler:the cut-scenes about the bounty hunter truce being off, and the following mosh-fight.
spoiler:The player would be on their way to the Jekk'Jekk Tarr rendezvous with Visquis, when they would be intercepted by the GenoHaradan at the base in the Docks you currently have them in.
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While the microphone works just fine, the AVID software that came with it won't even load. I've looked all over and tried every fix for it I can come up with,, and still it doesn't work. Mic is OK, but I could have gotten any kind of el cheapo mic without software and spent a lot less.
The software is worthless. If you're using the MIC on windows, Audacity works just fine. On OSX, it's recognized by everything, just make sure you select it, rather than leaving the system mic, which is default. It works best if you record VERY close to the MIC. The stand is a bit wobbly, also. You will knock this thing over regularly. The recording quality is very good, though, when used properly.
How do these compare to the XML 990 mics?
Bought this from Woot and love it. Its very important to read Avid's install guide and DONT plug the mic into the computer, until after you install the Avid software. (otherwise it loads a different set of drivers/has to do with Avid) Sound is great. Mic, like most professional mics is meant to be close to the speaker for best response. Several minor drawbacks. As mentioned the stand is not the sturdiest, the mic does not fit a standard sized mic holder, and the USB B cable into the mic is not the most rugged connection (XLR still best in this regard). Positives: as long as you don't put it in a place it gets knocked over, and you don't disconnect it often, it is worth much more than the price. Has a blue led that comes on when mic is on. Stereo earphone connection on mic allows easy headphone connection.
@justafreak: It's not that different in quality from the MXL USB condenser mic. The build quality is better on the MXL, but the sound is not that much better.
For podcasting or adding a vocal to a Garage Band or Reason track, this mic will do the job.
I do wish they'd have made the mount compatible with a standard mic mount, though. If you want a really great USB mic, the Blue Spark USB is quite good. But none of them compare to the sound of a quality conventional condenser mic, plugged into a real Class A preamp (such as is found on a $150 USB audio adapter, say, from Prosonus or Focusrite or M-Audio, etc etc).
If you really want to get good sound from one of these babies, think about creating a makeshift isolating shield to put up on the opposite side of the mic from where you're addressing it. Even a couple of pillows propped up will do wonders. Then, stretch a pair of your old pantyhose over a bent coat hanger and create a pop filter.
Yeah I do voice over stuff so I've been using th 990 which is a balanced mic with a Tuscan USB 144 Audio\MIDI but was thinking I'f this did pretty well it would be less to deal with for traveling...it's a whole extra bag to take my XML setup....
Thanks for the info.
When you folks talk about Avid software, are you referring specifically to the drivers? Or are you referring to ProTools?
I'm specifically interested in the ProTools LE application that's bundled with this mic.
I'm used to Audacity, but it seems that many people use ProTools and I'm thinking maybe it's time I learn it myself. Does the ProTools application load and work OK?


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I'm not much of a designer (yet), and I'm still in the learning phases. I'm not bad with Photoshop, but when it comes to color theory and typography, I'm not sure I have any idea. So, I just create things and play around with colors till they are visually appealing to me. But there are rules to colors, and I never know if I'm breaking them. This is an iOS interface I cooked up, and I wanted to know if the colors work together, or if I'm breaking any rules? What else am I doing wrong?
Might be its partially not the answer but i want you to judge,self satisfaction is must in every work
In designing, everyone has their own perception regarding design and color; sometimes colors which I like, you won't like.
You must read these color guidelines:
I am not a color expert myself but I can try and give you a few tips maybe. The design looks "OK" to me. I'll try and give you some advice, it might not be the best one but... play around...
I think you are using to many colors and they look a bit "dirty" you might want to make them a little brighter and cleaner.
The brown in the background looks bright enough but maybe to bright, you could try and loose some saturation or add a little green into it maybe so it looses saturation...the best thing I would do, I would loose the brown in the background and replace it with some shade of desaturated grey, not to bright but not to dark...and I think this will help the other colors in the design aswell.
The teal looks a bit dirty and dark, it gets better on the edges, you can try and make it a little brighter or something.
The same for the green, it looks a bit dark and dirty, try and add some brightness to it.
The purple is too bright and saturated in comparasion with the other colors and it definetly stands out, probably because of the brown background also.
You might already know about this but a pretty handy tool I use when I choose colors is kuler
Good luck!
You can do a lot worse than to go to your local art supply store and buy a color wheel. It will include a basic introduction to color harmony, and it's a physical tool that you can play around with when looking for color ideas. There's a good introductory article on the color wheel and its use at the Liquisoft website.
Kuler is a good resource that's built right into Photoshop, as you've discovered, but it becomes a great deal more useful when you know what the terms "monochromatic," "complementary," "split" and "triadic" actually mean. Don't underestimate the power of getting the terminology under your belt. If you don't understand the words used to describe things, you'll never get the concepts.
My constant mantra to beginning designers is: Find things that you recognize as good, or particularly like, and figure out why they work. Try to duplicate them, so you develop your own personal "library" of techniques and ideas. With a bit of theory study and lots of practice, you will develop your own feel for color, and once you've practiced following the rules and are comfortable that you understand them, you will know when you can and need to break them.


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This RP is set in a completely different world to the one you know. Imagine, instead of the ppl you know so well, a whole different race of humans with different customs to the ones that you're used to. There are 3 different cultures in this RP, you can be one of either one, but there are rules to follow for each one.
The story starts in Philomene, which is ruled by King Vincent IV. He's a stern but powerful ruler; the Philomene ppl are warlike, but there haven't been any wars for a while. That doesn't mean that ppl have gotten complacent tho; they are always ready to fight. Philomene holds an uneasy truce with the country next to them, Vulpe, which is split into different parts, each one ruled by a separate tribe. These tribes however rarely fight among themselves, prefering to settle disputes the peaceful way. However, they are in their way just as warlike as the Philomenes, which is why despite being so close to Philomene, Vulpe remains independant. The Philomenes despise the Vulpines, seeing them as savages. However, their affairs are in turmoil. The rightful ruler of Philomene is actually Vincent's sister Anastasia, who is currently being held in prison. There is an underground movement to free her and restore her to her rightful place on the throne, however all plots must be kept secret as Vincent has spies everywhere.
There are different rules for each race, but also rules as far as the RP goes. They are as follows:
1. No special races. This is a strictly human RP, that means no elves, vampires, or any other race other than human.
2. No magic powers of any description. That means no psychic powers, no fire powers, no water powers, nothing cept for your skill at weaponry.
3. No Mary Sues or Marty Stus. Your character must be rounded, with weaknesses.
4. Stick to the rules I've laid down for each race.
5. No chatspeak and disregard for grammar and spelling.
6. I also reserve the right to throw you out of the RP if I don't want you there.
7. Romance is allowed, as long as you don't go into excruciating detail. Violence is too, again not too much detail.
Rules for the races. These will be dealt with per race, with customs etc explained in detail, along with other information. Please abide by these rules.
The Philomenes have a coming of age ceremony at age 15 where the 3 "Honour Scars" are cut into the right palm. These are 3 parallell cuts, just deep enough to draw blood, standing for Honour, Loyalty and Courage. This goes for both sexes. At their coming of age, Philomenes are presented with a longsword and a shortsword. Before that, they are not permitted to carry weapons.
Philomenes are obsessed with pureness of blood. In the beginning, they outcast anyone who didn't fit the ideal, so this means now that all pureblood Philomenes have black hair, pale white skin that doesn't tan, and violet eyes. Their blood only mixes with Vulpine blood, otherwise the child either resembles the Philomene parent or the other parent; in which case, it is cast out.
Philomenes see horses as equals, so their horses are kept solely for riding and are treated as equal to them. Their beasts of burden are mules, quaggas, donkeys and oxen.
Philomene names tend to be elaborate names, like Victoria or Angelo.
Tellmerines are the slave race; their country is forced to send slaves as tribute to the Philomenes every year. Slaves are 12-15 years old when they're sent to Philomene, and of both sexes. Slaves are not permitted to mount horses, or even to touch them without permission.
Slaves wear collars as identification and have general freedom, in other words they are only shut up at night in slave pens. Tho there are bad owners, many slaves are treated kindly by their owners, tho they are worked hard.
Slaves rarely escape, and if they do, they never remain at large. The penalty for helping a slave is to be fined 2000 gold coins and imprisoned for 1 year; conversely, handing in an escaped slave means a reward of 5000 gold coins so this means that no Philomene is going to choose helping a slave over handing them in. There is also a desert at one end and an ocean at the other, so slaves can't return to their country. Escaped and recaptures slaves are also beaten, then branded with a brand depicting 2 wings with a bar accross them. This lowers their value by 10 times, meaning that they are more likely to have a bad owner.
Slaves can only get out of their sitation two ways; if attractive, they may become Companions, meaning that they become the friend and lover of a Philomene in return for luxurious compartments with no work to do; or, they can be given the chance to become Citizens. They have to have been slaves for 7 years, and have to take a test of citizenship. There are just 2 chances to take this; if they pass, they become honoury Philomenes with all the rights thereof. Failure means back to slavery with no escape.
Tellmerine names are normal names, like Alex or Kate.
Vulpines are sometimes to be seen in Philomene, as they trade furs, leather and meat there. They don't have slaves, and they are seen as savages by the Philomenes. They are in fact civilised, just different. Their country has a severe climate of hot weather in summer and freezing cold weather in winter, with very little spring or autumn. They sometimes mix with Philomenes; Philomenes call the result of such mixes such disparaging names as "Half breed" or "Crossbreed", they also treat them as second class citizens.
Vulpine names are animal names, like Fox or Gazelle, sometimes with a colour or description preceding it.
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Anastasia stared at the walls of her prison. No matter how long she'd been in here, she never ceased to rage helplessly at the injustice of her situation. Robbed of her destiny as Queen of Philomene by her cruel and corrupt twin brother, she was doomed to spend the rest of her life, however short or long it might be, in this dungeon below the castle where her brother spent his time either supposedly ruling the country or, far more likely, indulging his various p*rversions. Anastasia had already heard from the idle gossip of the jailers who attended her rumours of slaves who'd been killed after Vincent had grown bored of them. She had once raged and battered the walls, now she was too accustomed to her imprisonment to do any such thing. She closed her eyes, preparing to sleep, tho whether it was day or night she couldn't tell.
Angel lay slumped against the wall of the slave pen. He ached all over from the beating he'd gotten when he'd been brought in. Just 2 days of freedom had been his; he'd been warned by the older slaves that escape was a foolish thing for him to do, however he'd ached for freedom ever since he'd arrived in Philomene as a slave just a month before. He'd taken the opportunity to escape, however he hadn't been at large for long before a farmer had beaten him senseless and handed him in. The farmer had left, 5000 gold coins the richer, and Angel had been given a beating. But, that wasn't all... Angel shivered as he thought of what awaited him the next day... the horror of the red hot brand laid against his skin, marking him forever.
A couple came into the slave pen, obviously buyers by the rich clothing. They were father and daughter judging by her affectionate hugs to him.
The girl was a good xample of a Philomene, with even more so deathly pale skin, sparky violet eyes and long straight black hair, tied into a messy updo. She was no more pretty then msot, but with a certain inane cheeriness about her.
"Can we get a friemd for me, pops? Please say do!"
"Without heroes we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go."
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Angel eyed both of them with the deepest suspicion. He'd been given no reason at all to trust Philomenes, even less so now cuz of the treatment he'd been given. Despite his hurts, he crawled away as far as his tethering chain would let him; attached to his collar, it was the end of even the partial freedom that slaves had. Slaves that had escaped were to be tethered for the rest of their lives, both sleeping and awake.
Angel didn't answer. For one thing, he feared reprisals; particularly since his owner was glaring at him from behind the father and daughter. She was very angry at him, not at least cuz his branding would lower his value. She might not even get back what she'd paid for him.
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I have a little script that needs executing every time I open a wine program. The script is pretty simple:
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How do I get PlayOnLinux to run this script every time I open a certain program?
I have a little script that needs executing every time I open a wine program. The script is pretty simple:
How do I get PlayOnLinux to run this script every time I open a certain program?
I don't use PlayOnLinux, but maybe a generic approach will be of some use.
The basic idea is to replace the invoking script - the one that runs your program now - with a new one that runs your your new script before or after running the invoking script (whichever best suits what you want to accomplish - probably after, in your case).
If your script can run before your program, then all you have to do is find the script or program that invokes your program and replace it by another script (with a different name, if possible, so as not to cause confusion or worse).
The new script would run your setup script and then run the original script to invoke your program (using the full path to the invoking script if your new script has the same name as the original one - to avoid an infinite loop.)
If your script has to run after your program has started (as it might in your case), that's a lot trickier. I have no idea how to do that, but I'd start looking by getting the program's process number and seeing if I could look up the window from the process number. (I have not used xdotool, but looking at its description suggests that maybe using xdotool search or xdotool getactivewindow windowmove ... might be useful. It looks like you can do anything you want as long as you know the window's unique name.)
If you can get that to work, then invoking it would just involve invoking the original script and then your script. To do that, your new invoking script would invoke the original script then your new script. But, your invoking script probably won't relinquish control back to your script until your program is completely finished and it's too late to run your new script.
If you can run your invoking script with an & after it to let it run in background, then control will come right back to your script and you can immediately run your new script to modify the window. If this works, then $! will contain the process number of your invoking script, if that helps.
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Autorama Extreme 1953Written by Chuck Vranas on July 1, 2012 Through the looking glass
The celebration of the 60th Detroit Autorama brought with it an unparalleled level of excitement that filled the massive confines of Cobo Hall throughout the weekend. If you wanted to step back in time to catch a glimpse of how it might have looked when everything first came to be, you merely had to take a long escalator ride down to the basement where Autorama Extreme 1953 unfolded before your very eyes as you gazed through a wall of glass into the exhibition hall.
Once inside, it was clear that this room wasn't the polished and glamorous main floor with its massive displays and candy-colored dream rides. It was one with weathered concrete floors where you could feel the spirits of hot rodding's past come alive when a grouping of hot rods and customs came together to grace the show floor for the very first time in Detroit. Welcome to the basement, where time stands still in a world unaffected by the present day.
Walking the 100,000-square foot room, well over 200 bitchin' cars and motorcycles were displayed in simple rows in a wide-open format with minimal display barriers to allow visitors to absorb their design elements without distraction. It's a place where culture and tradition ruled with a vibe that was intoxicating enough to make you actually feel as if you were indeed transported back to 1953. Imagine row upon row of slick hop-ups with hammered lids mixing it up with devilish highboy roadsters, slammed sleds, bobbers, and choppers while a steady beat of thundering nitro-fueled live music filled the air from the Twistin' Tarantula's, Swingin' Demons, and Orbit Suns, and you're just catching the tip of the iceberg. With countless clubs in attendance showing their cars, there were also many notable builders showcasing some of their freshest creations, including cars from the Gas Axe Garage, Brothers Custom Automotive, JoKerr Fabrication, Allstar Hot Rods, Voodoo Larry Kustoms, and Bad Donkee Hot Rods, to name but a few. It was easy to spend hours strolling the floor as you caught up with old friends, made new ones, and had a chance to check out an endless array of cool swag for sale, meet up with well-known artists who were selling their wares, like Jeff Norwell, Keith Weesner, Max Grundy, Ed Tillrock, and Josh Shaw (to name but a few!), dig the classic pin-up model competition, and even get an old-school haircut. Saturday evening there was even a special award ceremony featuring an incredible array of handmade trophies awarded by many of the industry's leading names to recognize the amazing creativity gracing the show floor. This is definitely one facet of the event that keeps getting better and better with each passing year.
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In two short months, Derrick Pesko brought this original late-'50s custom '56 Ford pickup back to life with a fresh drivetrain, updated suspension, and vibrant white pearl interior.Originally built in 1947 at the Olive Hill Garage, Leslie Dreist's '39 Ford custom ran El Mirage in 1950 at 120.35 mph with a full-race Earl Evans–built '42 Merc Flathead.Traditional custom's like Art Misuraca '41 Ford convertible are timeless. Classic updates include a 3-1/2-inch chop, louvered hood, frenched headlights, and black cherry icing.As hard-core as they get, Jim Federspiel's '26 Ford modified was channeled deep over a Z'd frame, treated to cowl steering, and filled with a two-pot capped '49 Merc Flathead.As evil as they come, Junebug Stade's '29 Ford roadster was packed with "Ohio George" Montgomery's '61 NHRA winning small-block Chevy huffed, injected, and ready for action.Six twos feed the Buick Nailhead in Kevin Gill's '30 Ford. The roadster, out of Ooltewah, TN, is finished in black satin paint and cream yellow pinstripe—very nice!Randy Rosera's effervescent '55 Chevy knocked us over with its removable hardtop, subtle custom touches, white pearl interior, and polished orange suede and white body.
Brothers Custom Automotive wowed the crowds all weekend long with this '49 Ford coupe featuring a fully polished and glistening steel body . . . simply mind blowing.Looking like it's almost ready to blast across the dry lakes, Jerry Walker's '34 Chevy coupe was treated to a nasty chop, filled roof, low-slung headlights, and custom hood.Voodoo Larry is known for his impressive design and fabrication skills as evidenced by his '31 Ford coupe known as "Voodoo Psychosis," with its radical chop and channel, six-deuce fed small-block Chevy, and '39 Dodge wheels.STREET RODDER's Editorial Director Brian Brennan (left) presents Voodoo Larry with the Editor's Choice award for his wildly modified Model A coupe.One of the many neat features of the basement show is the handmade custom trophies and special awards given out, like this old-time hot rod shop scene by Don Pilkenton of Don's Hot Rods.If designed correctly, a car with good proportions will live forever, which is why STREET RODDER's Eric Geisert (right) was happy to give Jon Schuchart his pick award (made by artist Keith Coleman) for Schuchart's '26 Ford roadster. Besides sitting perfect, the dark brown roadster is outfitted with a '55 Merc 292 V-8 topped with three 97s that Jon grabbed out of an old wagon.


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As it is now, I have a gaming laptop (Dell XPS M1730, Build Dec 2008) with 2 GeForce 9800M GT with SLI activated running Ubuntu 12.04.
When I use any graphics river that is aware of acceleration features the system crashes after a short period of time.
After I removed and purged jockey my system runs stably but slowly, but I can use it for now (I have to choose recovery at startup and the resume boot, booting up normal results in a color flickering screen).
But since the system is runs slowly, I would like to try to work with only one graphics device.
I want to first test device A, if that doesn't work then test with device B.
A testing tool for Windows already told me, that one of the cards doesn't work properly, but it doesn't say which one (same crashes in Windows when programs or desktop uses acceleration).
Therefore I wanted to ask, if there is a way to reinstall any nVidia (or third party) driver, deactivate one of the two devices and test the stability?


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Late last week, singer, actor, author and now director, Tyrese Gibson, said something interesting. When asked by AllHipHop if he felt any kind of responsibility, as an entertainer, to inspire people to live healthier lifestyles, he responded with the following:
"No two situations are the same. If you are fat and nasty and you don't like the way you look, do something about it. It's simple.
When you take a shower and you put your fat, nasty body in the shower and by the time you get out, the mirrors are all steamed up so you don't look at what you did to yourself. That may sound offensive or insensitive but ultimately, you are big as hell because you have earned that sh*t. You worked your a** off to eat everything in sight to get big as hell.
If you got a problem with the way you look, then you need to do something about it. Excuses sound best to the people that's making them up."
Silly me, for thinking the man who brought me such epic 140-character gems as "Ignore today…Ignore me tomorrow…My strong love and consistently [sic] will concur all walls of false realities… A gift should be opened!" would be profound or thought provoking or even considerate and sensitive when being asked a direct question about inspiring his fans, supporters, and the people who generally suffer through his foolishness and continue to let him prosper.
He's not the only one, though.
Boris Kodjoe pulled this same silliness – albeit, a bit more specific, this go-round - a couple years back, this time to his Twitter followers. He ended a shade-filled tweet about his nightmare of 300-pound women eating chicken wings and grinding on him with one word: "Scary."
And, because it wouldn't be a show without an acrobatic backpedaling routine, Kodjoe followed that up with his own weight loss tips and a reminder that there is a difference between "a healthy and sexy stacked goddess and an unhealthy obese one."
Thank him for that, ladies. Thank his wife, too, who released her glorified bandanas intended to "save your hairdo" during your gym visit. You know, because after a work-out, you also need to have your edges laid like canceled television shows if you're going to be that "healthy and sexy stacked goddess."
Fewer things make me smack my forehead than seeing otherwise intelligent people become belligerent when the topic of obesity arises. People say, "If we can shame smokers, why can't we shame fat people?" Because you can smoke at home, wash your clothes, and never have your smoking habit affect your career advancement or your ability to get money. A society that supports fat-shaming is a society that believes it is okay to devalue people and their abilities based on their appearance. As Black people, we're already at a disadvantage in wage earnings without our weight also being brought into consideration.
This devaluation brought on by fat-shaming also creates a space where people feel like because they are fat, they should both succumb to society's pressures and devalue themselves, too. That explains why fat-shamer defenders often start by talking about how they deserve to be talked down to this way because, well, they're fat--why should people have to use tact when speaking to them?
Fat-shaming ignores the reality of life that people can be comfortable with who they are and still desire to change; it tells people they must hate themselves until they are who or what society wants them to be. Assuming, of course, that fat people are fat because of a moral failing (you're breaking at least two of the seven deadly sins), they should give up the right to value their own opinion over that of people who don't give a damn about them personally. No one cares if you're happy at a size 16 with a clean bill of health. You're still fat. And, according to Tyrese, nasty. Oh, and you earned that title.
Where does it end? Fat-shaming is little more than "respectability politics," which basically allows people to put actual terms on whether or not you are deserving of respect--or even your humanity. Exactly how not-fat are you supposed to be? 2? 4? 6? What happens if, when you get to that size, someone pinches your ass and tells you – you know, since it's not rock-hard – that you're still fat? Is it then okay if your desperation pushes you towards an eating disorder? No worries. Black women don't get those.
When I look at the people I love, not once have I shamed them into achieving any end means. I've supported them in education and doing the hard work because that's what was done to me, in love. As often as celebrities talk about how they love their fans,


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I've been buying pre-packaged pierogi from Trader Joe's and local Polish delis. But I can't seem to get a straight or consistent answer on how you are supposed to cook them. Should you steam pierogi, boil them, or saute them with butter?
The most common way here in Poland to prepare them is to boil them. Put them into boiling and salted water, wait until they start floating on the surface and then boil for 2-3 minutes (longer if they are frozen).
My Polish mother-in-law boils them. The sweet ones are usually served with a bit of yogurt or sour cream, and the savory ones are often fried (after boiling) until golden, and served with onions and bacon.
We have a Polish & Greek place by us (don't ask), and theirs are always boiled. They are delicious that way (usually topped with bacon and sour cream)...
Personally I always grew up w/ them boiled then sauteed, which is my favorite.
My babcia (grandmother, she came to the states in '49) boils them after assembly. If she's serving them right away, she browns them in some butter. Otherwise, she packages them up in ziplock bags and freezes them.
Packaged pierogi are probably already boiled. I would thaw them and saute in a little butter until golden brown and warm through.


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It can be hard to keep your patience when you have a whining child on your hands, but losing your cool may only exacerbate the situation. Before you fly off the handle, take a deep breath and remind yourself that your child is likely whining because he needs your help. Respond to your child's need (for example, opening a cereal box for him) with patience, and it will likely rub off on him.
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22 killed in gas tanker accident in Riyadh
November 2, 2012
A gas tanker explosion caused by a traffic accident at the intersection of Khurais Road and Sheikh Jaber Street in Riyadh yesterday morning has resulted in the deaths of 22 people and the injury of 131 more. According to police reports, the tanker truck was speeding and, while attempting to avoid a road accident, hit a bridge and flipped over. Subsequently, a gas leak occurred, followed by an explosion and a fire.
The official spokesman of the Civil Defense in Riyadh, Capt. Mohamed Al-Hammadi, said in a statement that the accident led to "significant damages as a result of the fire and explosion, which occurred in the incident due to the spread of gas at the site, resulting in a number of traffic accidents and leading to a number of victims." Al-Hammadi noted that Civil Defense rescue teams, traffic police, security patrols, Red Crescent officials and other support services arrived at the scene immediately.
In remarks broadcast on Al-Ekhbariyah Channel yesterday, Director General of Civil Defense Lt. Gen. Saad Al-Tuwaijri said that the fire extended 300 meters from the site of the collision. He blamed the accident on the tanker truck driver, who was only identified as a national of an Asian country.
Meanwhile, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz has ordered the medical treatment of all those injured in the incident at the expense of the state. The victims, including 26 Saudis, 67 non-Saudis and 40 unidentified, were transported to hospitals across Riyadh. So far, 79 people have been released, while 54 remain in the hospital, including 12 in intensive care.
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5 Awesome Movie Robots with Inexcusable Design Flaws
Fictional technology is fascinating in the sense that on one hand, it's pure wish fulfillment -- the writers can create the most awesome devices imaginable and don't have to worry about technical limitations or feasibility. But on the other hand, so much of it is almost laughably flawed. Take movie robots, for instance. They can think and love and perform amazing feats, and every kid wants one. Yet if they were built and sold by a real company, they'd be yanked from the market within minutes due to their glaring design oversights. For instance ...
#5. The T-X in Terminator 3 Is a Serious Downgrade from the T-1000
The T-1000 in Terminator 2 truly has no weak point (in fact, we're not sure where its crucial circuitry even could be, let alone where it might be). This is because it tap dances between solid and liquid form at will, meaning that physical damage is something it hands out like Darfur fliers at a coffee shop but can never actually experience. The only reason Schwarzenegger is able to destroy it is because someone built a pit of lava next to the Los Angeles freeway, a scenario Skynet probably read through streaming tears of hilarity before dismissing it from the T-1000's contingency programming.
So in Terminator 3, the evil robot must be even more hardcore terror-awesome than the T-1000, right? They wouldn't bother to waste our time with a sequel 12 years later without coming up with a cyborg so tit-shatteringly badass that the T-1000 would hang posters of it on its wall, right?
"I'm here to kill John C- why are you laughing?"
What we got instead was the T-X, a machine utterly inferior to the T-1000 in every conceivable way. Both could change their appearance and deliver menacingly deadpan compliments about peoples' vehicles, but while the T-1000 could shape shift into literally anything it touched of equal mass (even a goddamned patch of floor), the T-X was strictly limited to different variations of the same hot woman. There's even a scene where it inflates its human female breasts to more effectively coerce someone, and while we agree that this can be a useful ability, it maybe isn't as universally effective as being able to dopplegang virtually any person on the planet.
But that's not even the most severe design regression. The T-X, like Schwarzenegger's moldy old T-800, has a physical endoskeleton. If Skynet can make a time traveling assassination machine out of liquid metal, why would it ever build one out of anything else? The T-1000 could not be harmed by anything -- it shrugs off bullets, grenades and explosions without a scratch. Arnold takes the same abuse, but comes out looking like he got raped by a Tyrannosaurus, because he has a permanent solid-state structure. So why would a sentient supercomputer overlord read the performance reviews of those two models and decide "Whoops, scrap that 'mimetic polyalloy' bullshit, clunky metal horror-bones are definitely the way to go"?
Yeah, that's much, much better.
The T-1000 essentially has no limitations as an infiltration unit -- as we've already mentioned, it can mime pretty much anything, but beyond that, it can get in and out of any place it wants simply by engaging "puddle mode" and sliding through whatever narrow entrance point is available. It wouldn't matter if the only way into a building was a tiny hole in a 10-foot concrete wall, it could just turn into liquid and drip the fuck in. But the T-X, which is supposed to be the T-1000's upgrade, has all of the physical limitations of a standard non-robot person. If there's no door, it has to either bust a window or gas up its breasts and try to jiggle its way through security. The T-1000 could come in through the damn water fountain.
Finally, when the T-X has its climactic battle against Arnold, this happens:
"Shit, I'm stuck!"
"Oh, wait, I forgot -- you're totally not invincible."
That's Arnold grabbing the T-X by its spine. He holds it in place long enough to detonate his own power core and destroy them both. It is literally the only reason the evil machine gets defeated -- Arnold is pinned by a door, so if the T-X didn't have a physical structure for him to wrap his meaty cyborg fingers around, he would have been helpless to stop it from killing his BFF John Connor. For comparison, here's what happened when he tried that same nonsense on the T-1000:
It totally didn't work, because you cannot punch liquid. If Skynet had improved upon the polyalloy design for the T-X (or just sent another fucking T-1000), it would've just poured through Arnold's fingers like rain and left him sitting underneath that door like a jackass. The only "improvements" the T-X seems to carry are a leather pantsuit and a built-in flamethrower, because if there was one problem with the previous two Terminators, it was their inability to kill human beings with their bare hands.
"Screw liquid metal, I totally need this flamethrower."
#4. The Transformers Have No Way of Detecting Each Other
In the three movies, we see the Transformers masquerade as cellphones, radios, cars, planes, construction gear and (somehow) slutty women. The point is, they adapt to their environment by blending in appropriately -- for example, Optimus Prime doesn't turn into a big rig when he's on Cybertron because nobody on Cybertron knows what the hell that is. They are also continuously at war, so regardless of where they are in the universe, Transformers should have a healthy suspicion of anything mechanical that isn't walking around on two legs and speaking with some hilariously racist affectation, or at the very least have some method of distinguishing which taxicab is a robot in disguise and which taxicab is just a taxicab. Their survival depends on it.
But they don't have either of those things. At all.
"Ooooooh, now I see that that car was more than meets the eye."
In fact, the Autobots go through most of those movies as if they've completely forgotten the fact that the Decepticons exist and constantly stumble blindly into ambushes that would be obvious even if the film wasn't about Transformers. Like here:
"I'm just a normal building-size truck. Also, this is the radio talking and not me. Shit."
That truck would be suspicious in a Lethal Weapon movie, let alone in a trilogy about giant camouflaged robo-monsters from beyond the stars. Yet the Autobots cruise right on into this construction zone, which is literally filled with Decepticons like Truckasaurus up there, and have no idea they're in trouble until the Decepticons start playing the theme from Road House.
These two factions have supposedly been at war for centuries, in a conflict spanning entire galaxies, and yet after all that time, they still have no way of spotting each other? They can't build some kind of scanner or even, like, tie a bell to any dubious machines? We're amazed that they aren't just destroying every car they see at this point, let alone allowing any to pull alongside them.
The best example comes early in the second film, when Alice (who is a Decepticon that has somehow managed to disguise itself as a girl that looks more unwashed than Megan Fox) hitches a ride with Sam inside Bumblebee, his Autobot protector. Bumblebee literally has a Decepticon inside his body that is actively trying to murder his friend and he is completely oblivious to its presence.
"Can I borrow some paint thinner and a washcloth? Soap just ain't doin' it this time."
What's most baffling is that there are definitely ways to detect Transformers, because the humans do it all the time. The Transformers have been on Earth for like two damn years and human beings have already figured out ways to track them using heat-seeking devices and scanners for the radiation that they apparently emit.
"Your testicles have literally melted from cancer. We can't tell if the cause is the robots, Megan Fox, your Strokes T-shirt or all of the above."
And that's just what the humans have figured out so far. The Autobots and Decepticons have been locked in their robo-clash for centuries and they have nothing. Technical institutes back on Cybertron really need to get on this shit.
#3. Various Androids Built for Service Have Inexplicable Super Strength
Androids are featured in the vast majority of science fiction movies. If the picture is set in space or in the future (or both), there's like an 82 percent chance of android. Generally, these are synthetic versions of people created for a very specific task -- Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation was designed to serve on a starship, David from A.I. was made for serial killers who wanted a child that never aged and Pris from Blade Runner was built for sex (in all likelihood, so were the previous two).
He's about to insert his thumb drive.
The androids are then given thoughts, feelings and emotions (even dreams, in some cases) and set loose in their various industries to behave pretty much like human beings, only without any pesky civil rights to get in the way. We are free to order them around and bend them to our every whim. They, meanwhile, are free to bend steel bars with their bare hands:
"OK, let's just go ahead and deactivate the handjob function."
Yes, the beings explicitly designed for occupational enslavement were made not only every bit as emotionally volatile as an actual person, but also 10 times stronger. This isn't just one or two cases, mind you -- androids have spider strength pretty much across the board.
It would be one thing to give rhinoceros might to a battle android or something like that, but why in the hell does Lieutenant Commander Data, the science officer on a starship, need to be able to twist metal into balloon animals? He was built to be close to humans at all times, and is on a never-ending quest to become more human and feel human emotions (this only results in him turning evil like half a dozen times). Why give him the ability to have his feelings hurt, as well as twirl a Mazda Protege on his index finger? Captain Picard might as well leave a stack of pre-signed incident reports on his desk.
"Okey-dokey, it's now time for me to pull your head completely off of your pussy little body."
In A.I., David gets scared and latches onto a kid at a pool party, nearly drowning him as his robot weight drags them both down. It takes three grown men to pry loose David's terror grip on the struggling child and pull him to safety. Again, David was ostensibly designed to be around young kids -- why in the bejeebus would they equip him with an alligator death clamp that could crush James Gandolfini's ribcage, let alone that of a first grader? Make him really good at checkers or something, don't give him the strength to tear the babysitter in half.
And Blade Runner's Pris, whose only purpose for existing is to have sex with people and then die after four years, was also given the ability to kill men with back flips and thigh clenches for some reason. Although in this case, we can sort of understand how the mistake was made.
"It's gone mad! Quick, somebody call Ric Flair!"
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To the editor:
American citizens are asking - What is happening to our country and what exactly are our elected representatives doing to prevent our liberties and prosperity from being taken from us? Well, in case of the federal government, the answer is nothing.
Do you want some examples? Here are a few. Are you wondering why your electric bill is higher? This is because the EPA made the emissions of carbon dioxide standard so high that power plants can't afford the cost of implementing the mandate so it is being passed on to the consumers, or in many cases many plants have closed. The federal government's environmental regulations now trump that of the states. This action, in sane times, would be contested by all 50 states as an infringement of state sovereignty protected by our Constitution.
The amnesty for illegals under the Obama administration has been pushed. The D.R.E.A.M. Act does give illegals rights afforded to American citizens, but this isn't enough so to open the door to citizenship, so Congress is now pushing an amnesty bill. The government estimates there are 12,000 illegals in the U.S. (double that) but to get the bill passed, according to lawmakers, the No. 1 priority is building of a fence. It's funny, because on Oct. 27, 2006, then-President George W. Bush signed into law the Secure Fence Act of 2006. Public Law 109-367 stated that 700 miles were set to be completed the end of 2008. In 2009 32 miles had been built, and the remaining 4.3 was under the Obama administration. A total of 36.3 miles has been completed. Isn't there someone in government who remembers this law? We do have some career politicians.
The war on coal began when Obama was running for president, and it has started up again. Never mind that this source of energy supplies approximately 48 percent of America's electricity. Recently, Obama completely bypassed Congress and enacted policies against coal, instead of pushing green energy. This new industry has been embraced by Obama, and taxpayers are subsidizing it. This new energy hasn't had a good record and since Obama has been in office there have been 34 companies that have gone bankrupt or closed. Billions in taxpayer money has been spent. (illionisreview.typepad.com).
All of these things that Congress voted against because American citizens didn't want them, such as cap-and-trade and amnesty, are being given to us by the Obama administration in the form of executive orders. The United States is still a represented republic, and our representatives need to exercise their authority given to them by the Constitution and do the will of the people before we become a dictatorship.
Merica Petrella


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It seems to me that the
is operator is a bit inconsistent.
bool Test()
// Returns false, but should return true.
return null is string;
One expects that the
null value belongs to any reference (or nullable) type. And indeed, the C# language specification says something which supports this hypothesis, for example (6.1.6 Implicit reference conversions):
The implicit reference conversions are:
• From the null literal to any reference-type.
The description (7.10.10 The is operator) of the
is operator starts by saying that the expression
(E is T) will result in true when a reference conversion from
E to
T exists, but then the authors go on by explicitly excluding the case when
E is the
null literal or has a
null value.
Why do they do that? To me it seems counterintuitive.


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At the top of progressive mountain biking lies the Red Bull Rampage, and athletes competing at this level require the highest level of equipment for their safety. Fox Racing's rich motorsport history helps give them an upper hand when it comes to designing protective gear for cycling. And they've used that learn how to produce the Rampage Pro Carbon Helmet specifically for the demands of that event.
Like the name implies, the shell is constructed from lightweight carbon fiber that offers complete coverage. A lighter shell means less neck fatigue over the course of the day, along with freer movement to ensure excellent visibility of your lines. The interior features a liner and pads that are purpose designed to not only add impact absorption, but to work with the vents to keep you cool.
The 11 venting ports promote air flow to the inner liner and pad. This allows the technical, moisture wicking fabrics to disperse perspiration so you stay cool and comfortable. The pads are easily removed for washing so they stay funk free.
The Fox Racing Rampage Pro Carbon Helmet meets CPSC, ASTM, AS/NZS, and EN standards. It comes in Matte Black, Red/Yellow, Black/White, and White, and is available in sizes Small through XX-Large.
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super light weight
I like it so muche light weight , very kool design ,also the paint is really strong I already crash with floor , but the helmet is without scratch , foam is very confortable and easy to remove , one thing that I will apreciate will be a replace a cap as the troy lee helmets , but this one comes without it .
How much does it weigh?
Top-line helmet
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Managed to pick up one of these when they were on a killer deal and I am blown away by the quality and finish of this helmet - I would say this is on par with the high-end S**** motorcycle helmets I've been used to riding in for years. Weight & venting are both very good and it comes with it's own soft carry case.
I've not had to test this in a crash situation yet, fortunately, but would be confident that this would perform as well as any other full-face MTB helmet I've seen.
Fox Racing Rampage Pro Carbon Helmet
Is the fit on the Rampage Pro the same as...
Is the fit on the Rampage Pro the same as the standard rampage? I noticed that the standard Rampage had a narrow fit which didn't work well for me. Currently have a Troy Lee D3 xl and it fits good but really want this one to fit similar. Thansk!
I've tried on both and they feel different. The pro fits well vs. the standard which was tight front to back on my head. Hope that's helpful.


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6 Mind-Blowing Early Music Careers of Famous Musicians
#3. Vampire Weekend Used to Be a Rap Group
The Band You Know:
Vampire Weekend is one of those bands that people like to hold up as an example of why an entire segment of the American population sucks. In this case, let someone rant about trust fund hipsters for more than 30 seconds, and you will hear this band's name. You can attribute that to lead singer Ezra Koenig and company's conscious decision to appear in public looking like this ...
The sweater is the lead singer.
They also have a member whose name is basically Batman, and they named one of their albums Contra, inspired by the classic NES game that popularized the most famous cheat code in gaming history. So how bad can they really be?
Hint: The code will not make slightly puzzled women appear at your door.
Besides, if you think you hate them now, just wait until you see what kind of band they were before they set Paul Simon's music to a Tommy Hilfiger ad and found success.
The Band You Don't Know:
Vampire Weekend began as what could have developed into one of the worst rap groups of all time. They were called L'Homme Run and they made absurd songs like this one:
It's a song about ordering pizza. It's called "Pizza Party." The band members were enrolled in an Ivy League school when they recorded it.
Shockingly, the project stalled because people just flat out refused to believe that the entire thing wasn't one big joke. Koenig bemoaned this fact in an interview, saying, "It was hard for me to take seriously because no one else would take it seriously."
That's probably because they took "promotional" photos that looked like this:
If the Taliban shopped at J. Crew.
It's easy to see why, to this day, people still don't believe that L'Homme Run was an entirely ironic act. But the band has evidence on their side. In 2010, Vampire Weekend had a hit with a swinging tune called "Giving Up the Gun," a song they promoted with a slick video that awesomely featured the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA as a tennis umpire:
But fans with lower standards who have been following the band since their "rap" days will recognize that single as nothing more than a reworking of a song by L'Homme Run called "Giving Up Da Gun."
You can tell that's the rap version because they substituted "the" with "da." That's how you do it in the streets. Other than that, the songs are damn near identical. If Vampire Weekend cared enough about this holdover from the L'Homme Run days to rework it and release it as a single, how much of a joke could that shitty rap group have really been?
#2. Kenny Rogers Was a Hippie
The Artist You Know:
Kenny Rogers is kind of a walking punchline these days on account of his "plastic surgery gone horribly awry" good looks, but don't let the fact that his face is pulled way too tightly against the surface of his skull discount the man's legacy. Kenny Rogers is nothing short of a stone cold country legend. If you respect him for no other reason, you at least must respect "The Gambler."
Keep his music close to your heart, because it will soon be all we have left of this long-standing country music icon. We're not speaking of his inevitable mortality, mind you, but rather the fact that there is only one Kenny Rogers Roasters left in the nation ...
But it's bizarrely popular in East Asia.
Kenny Rogers' accomplishments in the fields of country music and healthier fast food options have left such an impact on people that nobody even remembers that Kenny Rogers was on a path that went nowhere near Nashville when his career started.
The Artist You Don't Know:
Kenny Rogers was a dirty hippie. Before he made cowgirl panties drop for a living, K-Rog was the lead singer of a psychedelic band called the First Edition. Here's a screenshot of a First Edition television performance that features Kenny Rogers sitting on a gigantic psychedelic silhouette of a cock and balls.
Like the man said, you gotta know when to hold 'em.
Clearly, the First Edition was a pretty groovy bunch. That screenshot is taken from a performance of a song called "Just Dropped In." It begins with a backward guitar loop and was used in a dream sequence in the movie The Big Lebowski.
And when Kenny Rogers isn't sitting on that tie-dyed schlong, he and the rest of the band are rocking out on a gigantic bed, because acid is the shit.
So what led Kenny Rogers to make the switch from Born on the Fourth of July to "God Bless the USA"? It was pretty simple. Guitarist Mike Settle wrote a country-ish tune called "But You Know I Love You" that turned out to be a hit for the band. They immediately made the switch to all country all the time, leaving Kenny Rogers with a massive country fan base at his disposal with which to pursue a solo career. And that's too bad, because going back to his roots and releasing his version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band upon going it alone is a twist in the Kenny Rogers saga that we're sad we never got to see.
#1. Parliament Funkadelic Was a Doo-Wop Group
The Band You Know:
If you've somehow made it this far in your life without hearing Parliament Funkadelic, the following video should tell you everything you need to know.
If our analysis of the technology depicted here is accurate ...
... this scene depicts the exact moment when the funk returned to the earth. That's what kind of band Parliament Funkadelic was. There was a guy in the band whose costume was nothing but an adult sized diaper, and he was the one who looked the most normal in the bunch.
"Hey, we got some giant novelty glasses from the dollar store, who wants--" "Ooh, me!"
What a pack of weirdos, right? Can you imagine what they must have looked like back when they were younger and even more prone to questionable fashion decisions?
The Band You Don't Know:
Whoa, guys! Dial it back a bit. Bow ties are the devil's necklaces.
Whoa, looks like somebody gave up the funk! Or more accurately, someone had not yet found the funk. Or the funk hadn't, like, descended from the skies or whatever. You get the gist. Anyway, what you're looking at is Parliament Funkadelic back when they were just a doo-wop group called the Parliaments. Back then, they were less about the funk and more about your right to live life on the straight and narrow.
That song is called "Poor Willie," and it tells the story of the band playing the "I told you so" role when some guy named Willie's hard living ways lead to a bad outcome. Man, that's just not funky at all. That's more like funk's less fun but more responsible cousin who won't stop telling funk that they can't party forever and need to just grow up already.
There isn't even a hint of the band that would eventually emerge, and it stayed that way for around a decade, until George Clinton realized that doo-wop was on its way out and the band needed to switch their sound. They adopted a funk persona and started adding musicians at a rate that would overwhelm even the likes of Earth, Wind and Fire or MC Hammer's traveling band of leeches from the early '90s.
"Collins, grab a tramp and throw some glitter on him. We need more tie-dye."
In no time at all, they were making songs like "Maggot Brain" and influencing scores of rappers for decades to come, most notably Flavor Flav, who adopted not only George Clinton's outlandish fashion sense, but also his mastery of the art of the arrest for crack cocaine possession.
The face of a man who has never touched a drug in his life.
But damn if those maniacs don't come from a couple of great bands.
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My first post on WordPress SE.
I'm bouncing around an idea of a new site. I want to allow for guest editing like wikipedia that someone can create articles if it doesn't exist already, existing articles can be edited, articles have edited history with IP address, allows for uploading of pictures from guest authors.
Can this be done in WordPress? I've tried searching online, but all seems to point to having to create a login account. I want true guest editing, without account creation. But of course someone could create an account and do the same thing, but will have edits and contributions linked to their account name.
Edit: I've decided against the complete guest editing option and going to opt to have them create an account. This seems to be the easiest route.


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Reading this documment: www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/preprints/compactness.pdf, I got interested in the following thing: "One can also use compactifications to view the continuous as the limit of the discrete; for instance, it is possible to compactify the sequence Z/2Z, Z/3Z, Z/4Z, etc. of cyclic groups, so that their limit is the circle group T = R/Z.". Could you give me a point of start to understand what idea of compactification is being used there? Where could I find an sketch of proof for that fact?
Let's use the abbreviation $\mathbb{Z}_n=\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$, and give it a metric $d(u,v)=n^{-1}\min\{|u-v-kn|\colon k\in\mathbb{Z}\}$. For each $n$ and $k$, multiplication by $k$ embeds $\mathbb{Z}_n$ isometrically into $\mathbb{Z}_{kn}$. The resulting inductive limit is a metric space whose completion is the circle $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$. I suspect this is what Tao had in mind, but I could of course be wrong.
I'd like to clear up something that came up in the comments. There are two natural ways to fit the finite cyclic groups together in a diagram. One is to take the morphisms $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z} \to \mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}, m | n$ given by sending $1$ to $1$. This gives a diagram (inverse system) whose limit (inverse limit) is the profinite completion $\hat{\mathbb{Z}}$ of $\mathbb{Z}$. This diagram also makes sense in the category of unital rings, since they also respect the ring structure, giving the profinite integers the structure of a commutative ring.
This is not the diagram relevant to understanding the circle group. Instead, one needs to take the morphisms $\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z} \to \mathbb{Z}/m\mathbb{Z}, n | m$ given by sending $1$ to $\frac{m}{n}$. This is the diagram relevant to understanding the cyclic groups as subgroups of their colimit (direct limit), which is, as I have said, $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$. And this group, in turn, compactifies to the circle group in whichever way you prefer.
(These two diagrams are "dual," though, something which I learned recently when I was asked to prove on an exam that $\text{Hom}(\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}, \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}) \simeq \hat{\mathbb{Z}}$. Just observe that $\text{Hom}(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}, \mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}) \simeq \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}$ and that contravariant Hom functors send colimits to limits!)
Edit: Let me also say something about the precise meaning of "compactification" here. A compactification of a space $T$ is an embedding $T \to X$ into a compact Hausdorff space $X$ with dense image. The embedding being considered here is the obvious one from $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$ to $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$, and the fact that it has dense image is essentially what the word "completion" also means. Compactifications are not unique, but it's possible that there is a sense in which as a topological group $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$ is the "most natural" compactification of $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$. But I don't know too much about topological groups.
I haven't looked at the link, but it seems likely that the author of said link is discussing convergence in the Hausdorff topology. In this context the idea of taking limits is due to Gromov, I believe. (There is a wikipedia entery on Gromov--Hausdorff convergence which seems to be the relevant one.) It is a common technique in parts of geometric topology and geometric group theory.
If you ask another question on Gromov--Hausdorff convergence, I'm sure it would draw the attention of the (at least) several experts on the topic who I know read MO.


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I know that the characters in Rayman Origins are inhabitants of a kind of dreamland but why do they swell up like balloons before they explode? Is there a precedent for this or is merely a stylistic thing? I don't recall this happening in the original Rayman.
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From a plot point of view, the world is affected by the dreams / nightmares of the Bubble Dreamer (the guy with the beard below), so I guess he dreams about bubbles a lot.
In terms of gameplay, this blog entry on the Rayman website describes the thinking behind bubbles:


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|Postcard circa 1915
of the Jersey Journal building
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|Reproduction circa 1891 of an image of the Evening Journal building located at 37 Montgomery Street. Source: McLean (1895)
Journal Building
of the Joseph A. Dear and sons
circa 1930 (?)
Courtesy, Jersey City Free Public Library
Journal Square takes its name from Jersey City's longtime daily newspaper,The Jersey Journal, just as Times Square in New York City is named after The New York Times. The bright red signage atop the five-story building at 30 "Journal" Square proudly identifies the headquarters of this mainstay of Jersey City's political and cultural life.
John T. Rowland, Jr., a native of Jersey City, designed the building in 1921 at the time of the renovation of the area for new bridges over the Pennsylvania Railroad cut and the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (now PATH) station at Summit Avenue. Facing north across the open plaza of Journal Square, the building was given a prominent location in the newly reconstructed district.
Before settling in 1925 at its namesake building, the newspaper offices relocated several times during its history. Originally published as the Evening Journal on May 2, 1867, the newspaper started out in a small office at 13 Exchange Place gradually expanding operations into other nearby buildings. As the newspaper flourished, the publishers, the Evening Journal Association, constructed a new office building in 1874. The new offices at 37 Montgomery Street remained home to the editorial offices and production facilities through the first decade of the twentieth century. In 1909, after almost forty years, the Evening Journal officially changed its name to the Jersey Journal and soon thereafter, in 1911, the paper relocated almost two miles west to a new office at the northeast corner of Bergen and Sip Avenues. The structure was demolished to create the large open plaza that forms the core of Journal Square today.
Robert Larkins, an editorial page editor, once called the Jersey Journal, "a paper with an independent political outlook with Democratic leaning." However, when the paper started as the Evening Journal, he describes the paper as "the pronounced and vigorous advocate of Republican principles and general policy of the Republican Party. It has supported and advocated the election of the national and state candidates of that party," wrote associate editor Alexander McLean in 1895"(Quoted in Weiss, 1992).
The paper began as
a four-page broadsheet edition with six columns to the page. Its founders,
William Dunning and Zebina K. Pangborn, were both Republicans and former
Union Army officers. They supported the party's overall Reconstruction
program of the Republican Party and its civil rights program of equal
rights for African-Americans, but they took an independent editorial stand
against the arrival of Irish Catholics into the city. Active in city politics,
Pangborn served as the chairman of the 1870 city charter commission.
Dear was succeeded as editor by his son Joseph A. Dear II. A graduate of the Hasbrouck Institute in 1889 and Princeton in 1893, he was appointed for three terms to the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals (1926-1944) under New Jersey's Constitution of 1844. Like his father, he supported Republican politics but also wrote editorials favoring the progressive reform ideas of Woodrow Wilson, such as the Walsh Act for municipal government reform and the formation of the League of Nations after World War I. Under Dear II's editorship, the Journal began to challenge Mayor Hague's tactics and referred to his supporters as "Hague's Hoodlums" in both words and political cartoons. Hague reacted by attempting to bring the presses to a halt with tactics that included interference with newspaper sales, advertising, and distribution, as well as raising its tax assessment in 1926 by $175,000. Hague even wanted to rename Journal Square "Veterans Square" in retaliation for the paper's endorsement of his political opponent in the mayoralty election of 1929, but the name was too entrenched in city's frame of reference. Dear II also supported the Case-McAllister Committee investigation of Hague in 1928 and 1929. It reported that Hague had interfered with a Republican primary for a state senate seat and questioned Hague's personal finances and use of public funds. His last editorial for the Jersey Journal was "Hang Hitler," written in 1939.
According to Jersey Journal reporter Peter Weiss, the paper's general support of Democratic politics came during the Depression era and its reform policies. After Hague's tenure, the Jersey Journal supported his nephew Frank Hague Eggers for mayor and opposed the successful candidate John V. Kenny. In 1950 the Jersey Journal campaigned against the commission form of government that brought Hague to power and advocated a return to the mayor-council form of government, which was adopted. When a return to the commission form of government was again suggested in 1982, the Jersey Journal defended the status quo.
In 1945, S.I. Newhouse, Sr., bought the Jersey Journal from the Dear family. Today it is one of the newspapers published by the Newhouse-owned Advance Publications that includes The Star-Ledger and numerous daily and weekly newspapers. Newhouse began his vast newspaper holdings with its purchase of the Staten Island Advance and Ledger of Essex County in 1935. The Jersey Journal then purchased the daily Jersey Observer in 1951 and the Bayonne Times in 1971. The Observer or "The Obie" began as a weekly in 1892 in Hoboken and was the Hudson Observer from 1911 to 1924. To reflect the merger, the masthead of the Jersey Journal was changed to the Jersey Journal and Jersey Observer in 1998. When the Hudson Dispatch closed in 1991, the Journal began a Hudson Dispatch edition.
The last ten years have brought changes to Jersey City's daily newspaper. The printing of the newspaper moved from 30 Journal Square to the Bergen Record's Commercial Printing facility in Rockaway, NJ, in 1996 to allow for color printing. It also began publishing a Spanish-language weekly newspaper, El Nuevo Hudson, in recognition of the city's growing Hispanic population to 28 per cent and today has a readership of approximately 60,000. The newspaper may also be accessed electronically on the Internet and began publication of the local weeklies, The Bayonne Journal, Kearny Journal, and Waterfront Journal in 2002.
More recently, however, the Jersey Journal's future has been threatened with problems related to a reduction in circulation from as many as 100,000 newspapers a day in 1970 to approximately 40,000 and a loss of advertising revenue. In March 2002 negotiations between Newhouse owners and unions representing the employees prevented a shut down of the newspaper's operations.
On April 25, 2005, the Jersey Journal published its first tabloid edition of the paper, abandoning its broadsheet format after 138 years and following the trend for tabloids in urban communities.
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The Hail Mary Cloud was a botnet that slowly and intelligently attempted to bruteforce SSH logins. Why was it dubbed the Hail Mary Cloud though?
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The name is just a reference to the Hail Mary Pass:
It's been used as a metaphor for anything desparate with little chance for success, which brute force attacks always are. If you read how it works it's sorta clever, for brute force, but each action is very low chance of working, which is why it needs a Cloud to work:
It turns out the page you linked to has the answer
Also, it is worth noting that the third google result for "Hail Mary" is The "Hail Mary" Pass, which is a football term along the same lines. A second, somewhat obvious way that gives you an answer.
This may explain why your question received a down vote.
But then again, "Hindsight is 20-20".


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Harborne Library: A Brief History
Before annexation to the City of Birmingham, access to a public library had been limited for the residents of Harborne. A proposal that the Public Libraries Acts should be adopted by the Harborne Local Board was rejected in 1875 by the ratepayers. A small lending library, consisting only of donated books, operated at the Harborne and Edgbaston Institute in Station Road.
However the provision of a free library was one of three concessions offered to the residents of Harborne as an encouragement to agree to annexation to the city in 1890. On this occasion the proposal was accepted, having been twice rejected in preceding years.
The Corporation then purchased the Masonic Hall in the High Street for 000 for the purpose of conversion to a Public library. The Hall had been built in 1879 and had housed the Harborne Lodge, Tudor 1792 of the Province of Staffordshire. The architect was A. E. Phipson, a local man living in Metchley Lane, who in partnership with his son, is credited with designing several buildings in Harborne of a similar date.
Some structural alterations were made, and meanwhile the librarian, Mr Herbert Shuttleworth, and his assistant were appointed. There was a newsroom with papers and periodicals, and it was decided that this would open ahead of the lending library on 27th August 1892. A small crowd made 'a determined rush to obtain the honour of being first' to enter, Police-Sergeant Willis ahead of them. (Harborne Herald).
The formal opening of the library was on 12th November 1892, and the ceremony was performed by the Mayor of Birmingham. Rather tactlessly, his speech referred to the greater benefits to Harborne by annexation, than of that to Birmingham! He also regretted 'the preponderance of works of fiction on the shelves' .
At this time there were just 2000 volumes available for loan. A year later, only 220 were children's books. There were 580 registered borrowers, borrowing an average of 153 books daily in the first year.
Both the lending library and the newsroom occupied the upper floor of the building, the ground floor being used for other purposes.
Not until 1925 were the public able to 'browse the shelves'. Until that time, they had been served with books on request at the counter.
2nd World War
During the Second World War the basement became an air-raid shelter, and until blackout provision could be made the library closed at sunset.
During the 1960s major alterations were made to the building. The adult library moved downstairs into what had, for many years, been the newsroom. A new children's library was constructed upstairs, described at the time in the Birmingham Mail as the Pride of the new Library. Sadly the new front door was received with less enthusiasm, and was the subject of several letters to the press!
The most significant alteration since then has been the expansion into the adjoining building, providing on the ground floor a new Help Desk, and space to house the People's Network computers providing free public internet access.
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The library closed in the autumn of 2005 for a major refurbishment which included the installation of a public lift, disabled person's toilet and baby changing facilities. The library opened again on July 10th 2006 with bright and attractive new furniture and fittings. The opening hours have been increased and a new music CD loan service has been introduced.
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I'm deploying an instant search on my windows app. At the first implementation, when the user type a key, the search engine make a query and return the results. I thought that that wasn't too much efficient, because when the user want to search for a long word, each char makes a query, so i made the search start a bit delayed, to let the user write the full word before it starts to query and load results at the table. More efficient, less glitch when the rows are reloaded.
Its a good practice anyway? There is any convention about it? I'm seeking for a case study about how much milliseconds that delay should be, but I dont find anything. Short one, and the application will make a lot of queries when the user type slowly. Long one, and the user will perceive like the application is slow loading data.


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