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To the editor: I lived in Steubenville for more than 30 years and was proud to call it home....
Princess MoFo, thank you for the additional information. This is the first time I heard of the police department had initally brushed off the complaint.
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Ms. Mo Fo, your list may go on and on, but it seems your evidence stops rather abruptly.
Did the prosecutor testify on behalf of the players before recusing herself? Highly impossible since she recused herself before any testimony was given in the case. This is a verifiable fact.
Now since you claim the coach told the players to destroy evidence, I'll assume that you interviewed these players and/or coaches? Or possibly were there when it thappened…Unlikely, but it does seem to show that you are highly knowledgeable when it comes to rumors going around.
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I like how you use the word "fact" in the last claim saying that the "town is corrupt and protects the team over a child has been raped." It appears you use "fact" very loosely and actually may not know what it truly means. Two players are charged, fact. There is absolutely ZERO evidence of a cover-up, fact. This case is being tried outside of the normal city officials, fact.
If you would like to have a discussion on this matter, please present some actual facts and save the gossip for blogs.
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Arnold - Probably the first time you have heard because it is untrue.
EXACTLY what is wrong with this situation.
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Princess your statement about the girl reporting and being told to come back is from an unrelated story. Now can you see the danger of running with someone elses information. Most of the innaccurate information stems from the irresponsible handling of Prinnified**** by Alexis Goddard the rumor queen and the persons who posted rumors and innuendo as if it were fact and now once again rumor gets posted as fact. Don't you people understand that you can't bring justice to a victim by victimizing others
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Maverick, did you see the pictures and tweets released by anonymous? More than 2 people were involved, why not more than 2 people charged?
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rpg, it could be the 3 boys who turned states evidence. I am not saying that there are not other suspects out there butI believe that tossing names around and speculating on actions of that night without hard evidence is wrong and can create more victims. I know it is hard to be patient and wait for the system to work but it is not fair to fill in the blanks with street talk and innuendo. Breaches of the law where people of influence may have some connection usually spawn speculation of cover-up and really do merit investigation but again speculation without the support of hard evidence can victimize innocense
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This is happening because our officials either failed or refused to get the job done.
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Maverick, you still there? Did you see the video online? How many people do you think were there? How many people charged witha crime? Did you see the police chief getting nervous on TV? This whole thing stinks bro. Someone let evidence disappear, or turned a blind eye toward it. They were star athletes, most likely they had done this before, they were not pursued as criminals because of the prominence of their families or their athletic abailities, end of story.
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For many, deceit holds the key to money, fame, revenge or power, and these prove all too tempting. In history, this has often resulted in elaborate hoaxes, perjuries, and forgeries that had enormous ripple effects. Anyone proven to have violated this young woman should be punished and made an example. Not a single person had disagreed with that. BUT, this "Knight Sec" group (most likely NOT anonymous) has brought the attention of the world on this young lady/victim and this case. If this does not play out according to the rumors that they have helped spread, genuine anonymous movements will never again be trusted. Making threats and committing crimes is no way to "support the victim!"
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This video sickened me. This piece of crap Nodianis and the punk filming this sick display of cowardice should never be allowed to walk among humans again. There may be a total of five people maybe a few more that hold the keys to what happened with first hand knowlege. I did hear some in the background criticizing Nodianis. But they are also guilty of not coming forward. I have always wanted justice for this young girl but at the same time I was against throwing a blanket of guilt over the entire community, school and football team. There must be upwards of 45 players on the team and I do know for certain that some of them couldn't and weren't at the party. It is shameful that the perps aren't being tried as adults and that those appearing in the video aren't yet charged. But again the majority of people in this community are appalled by this rape. As evidence is produced I will I will support the prosecuting of all guilty parties.
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This town is now infamous:***********dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256386/Steubenville-rape-case-Video-shows-group-high-school-students-laughing-girls-ordeal.html#comments
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This video is despicable and disgusting, our hearts go out to the young girl and her family.
Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, USA, 636-433-2511. snapjudy@gmail****, "SNAP (The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) is the world's oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 12,000 members. Despite the word priest in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, teachers, Protestant ministers and increasingly, victims who were assaulted in a wide range of institutional settings like orphanages, summer camps, athletic programs, Boy Scouts, etc."
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In the video you clearly hear that they had done this before at ________Palooza. Prinnie was already on this and the report in April came forward to police after the August rape came into view. Don't blame Prinnie for these young boys putting their own crimes on video. She didn't create innuendo, she followed the social media THEY PUT OUT THEMSELVES! She is not responsible for the thoughts of others. The April case was the case that was told to come back and file the report. That is not a rumor or innuendo--okay Maverick? But thank you for showing your support for the vic. Guilty parties should receive justice, innocent students should not be heckled at events or judged on their peers bad choices in life. The innocents should actually be cheered for louder and prouder!
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Smitty any information that is legit and ca be supported I will support because contrary to what some people have said and believe I want justice served. But this statement (Maverick these are not assumptions but facts:
When the girl went to report the rape your fine police department told her the Sgt was busy cleaning gutters and to come back Thursday.), is about another case so far not linked to this one and these are the dangers of not being fully informed before tossing around information without full knowlege of what one is talking about. As i get more validation for claims made about this case I willacknowledge them as fact. This video of Nodionis confirms that he is a piece of trash and I will admit the same about anyone mentioned in this entire affair when given proper evidence. But I will defend my community against the unfounded staements that are blanketing everyone just because they live here, go to school here, work in the school system or play football here. (cont)
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But I am open to any evidence that proves otherwise and will adjust my opinions accordingly. I am proud of my community and the friends I have here but will not be tolerant of those who bring shame on us. I will not defend anyone is proven to be a part of this ugly behavior or anyone proveen to be part of trying to sidetrack the truth. I have been accused of trying to sidetrack the truth but as reliable truth unfolds you will see that I also want justice for this young girl.
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Maverick, at first you said there were only two people involved. Now you say perhaps five. Who all was at the party where the rape happened, where the video was filmed? They all need charged. Who owned the house where the party took place, where the video was taped? They need charged too. Who provided the alcohol and drugs? They need charged too. Most of if not all of those that took part in this on one level or another are associated with SHS athletics. Best thing is that after they are all tried, jailed, resigned, or removed from office, they shut down their athletics for 5 years as a lesson to future would be offenders.
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Hopefully this will bring down the Gold ole boy club so prevalent in this town. Sorry, maybe if these schools would change their mindset from Athletic supporters to improving Academics, maybe Justice would have rolled around a bit quicker. This coach, school, sheriff, Prosecutor, and kids and anyone who lied or tried to hide info, need to be held accountable. Stay classy, Steubenville,.
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This link shows how corrupt High Ranking Officials on this town are. They all need to be arrested!
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Jimmy, That link certainly shows corruption in a town. The problem is that article is not based on any facts or evidence, but rather a made up story with an agenda that does not further the cause for justice for the victim.
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This crime is going to brand the city of Steubenville, the high school, and the school system the way that Jerry Sandusky now stands for Penn State. It has gone from a terrible crime to a civic symbol. Steubenville and the football team have become synonymous with rape.
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Good points
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Why are there so many assumptions? There was video evidence of these low lifes. They used social media to advertise their guilt and flaunt their crimes. The film released last week was horrible.
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A movie doesn't just plop out of a writer's or director's imagination fully formed. It is the end result of hundreds of changes and tweaks and revisions, which is why, for instance, many of your favorite movies started from utterly ridiculous scripts.
It's the same for movie monsters -- it's hard to imagine the Predator or Jabba the Hutt as anything other than the iconic beasts we know and love. But they and others evolved from ideas that at the concept stage were very, very different. And very, very stupid.
#6. Star Wars -- Jabba the Hutt Was an Irish Space Furry
It's hard to imagine it now, but for a long time Star Wars fans had no idea what Jabba the Hutt looked like. He's mentioned in the first two movies, but never shown -- all we knew was that he was some guy Han Solo owed money to. When George Lucas finally unveiled the character in Return of the Jedi, fans everywhere went "Yep, that looks like a Jabba all right."
"He's got the gravy-sweats and everything."
But what if they had included him in the first movie, which had a considerably smaller budget? Would Jabba have looked as imposing and intimidating as the giant slug monster he turned out to be?
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Jabba. Far right: Freshly shaved Chewbacca.
Yep, that's Northern Irish actor Declan Mulholland playing "Jabba the Hutt" in a deleted scene from A New Hope. This was never supposed to end up in the finished film, though: The plan was for Lucas to lay a stop-motion creature over Mulholland's performance ... keeping the thick Irish accent and all. This, of course, doesn't explain why the guy is dressed in that ridiculous costume -- maybe it was there to help Harrison Ford visualize the character, or maybe it's just what the actor came in wearing that day.
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We assume all Irish people dress like this all the time.
So what would the finished version of Jabba have looked like? Something like this:
Your eyes do not deceive you. That's a slug violating an Irishman.
According to Lucas, he originally saw Jabba as "a big furry character," as opposed to the lovable slug we all know. That's right: Jabba the Hutt was dangerously close to being some sort of mean, morbidly obese Ewok. What Lucas has never explained, as far as we know, is why he chose to make him sound like an Irish gangster. We could be witnessing the first steps on the road to Jar Jar Binks here.
As fans well know, Lucas eventually included the deleted scene in the special editions, awkwardly inserting a CGI version of the Return of the Jedi Jabba and redubbing the dialogue. We kind of wish he had gone the other direction and instead CGI'd the fat, furry Irish guy into Jedi. Seriously, imagine Slave Leia strangling him.
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#5. Predator -- The Predator Was Jean-Claude Van Damme in a Rubber Suit
The Predator is a slightly bizarre character, when you think about it: It's like a futuristic Rastafarian jungle commando with a dissected crab for a face, but the weirdest part is that this strange combination of elements actually works. Then again, its eclectic design was probably the product of a lot of careful study and consideration. Right?
Actually, it was sort of thrown together at the last moment -- and before that, this is what they were going with:
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Tatical Anubis.
It's a ... space duck warrior. The version you see here was a lot slimmer, shorter and generally less badass than the final one. It was also extremely clumsy -- if you still think it doesn't look too bad, that's because you haven't seen it prancing around the jungle like an idiot:
What you're looking at there is the red version of the suit that they used to shoot the camouflage scenes -- and that's actually Jean-Claude Van Damme in it. Yup, they hired a pre-Bloodsport JCVD to be the Predator because apparently they wanted it to have a ninjalike quality (which means they were just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what stuck). They were actually halfway through the movie when director John McTiernan fortunately realized this wasn't working out and tossed the costume in the trash.
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Also, the guy in it.
The Predator we know came about more or less by accident. Without a monster and feeling pressured by the studio, McTiernan desperately called special effects wizard Stan Winston (who had worked on the first Terminator film) and asked him to come up with a new version. Winston was literally sketching some ideas in the plane when the guy sitting next to him suggested that some mandibles might look cool. Sure, that dude happened to be James Cameron, but still -- that's some last-minute shit right there.
"... but I'm gonna pass on making it a blue cat person, Jim."
#4. Alien 3 -- The Chest-Burster Was Going to Be Adorable
The third Alien film had an incredibly long and expensive production history, having been put in suspended animation, killed and resurrected almost as many times as Sigourney Weaver herself. At one point the studio decided "the hell with it" and started shooting the movie with what they had, which didn't include a finished script. This might explain why, for a while, the alien chest-burster looked like this:
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That's not a starving whippet that wandered onto the set -- it's the freshly born alien creature with most of its costume on.
You see, the idea was that the aliens always acquire some characteristics from the organisms they burst out of. Up to this point, we'd only seen them come out of humans, and that's why they walked on two legs and had ... um, tails ... and stuff. Since this one was originally supposed to come out of an ox, they wanted it to walk on four legs, an effect they achieved by sticking a dog inside an alien costume. This did not look as terrifying as they hoped it would.
The problem was that, despite looking like an alien, the dog still moved like ... well, a dog. Also, they found it impossible to film the damned thing from the front, as any attempt to conceal its face resulted in one extremely angry whippet.
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"I'm only doing this for the exposure. My agent will hear about this."
Eventually they dropped the idea because "the dog's movements proved too comical," but what's impressive is that it even made it to this stage. That was a pretty close call, but it could have been even worse: An earlier draft of the script featured an entire farm of alien animals, including cats, pigs, chickens and a monstrous alien sheep covered with "gore-matted wool."
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And a human face coming out of its butt, for some reason.
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I would like to generate a 256-bit hash on a microcontroller that has a 128-bit (only) AES engine. How can I construct a 256-bit hash function from a 128-bit cipher?
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HMAC is a specific construction which aims at providing a message authentication code. HMAC is defined over a hash function, something which AES is not.
So if your question is really about having HMAC, not just any MAC, and using an AES primitive, then your question becomes: how can we build a hash function out of a block cipher ? This is not an easy question, especially if the block cipher uses blocks which are smaller than the intended hash function output size. You could investigate ECHO, a former SHA-3 candidate, which received a reasonably fair share of analysis by many cryptographers, who found no actual problem in it. ECHO is built upon some constitutive parts of AES, and can benefit from most hardware accelerators for AES.
On the other hand, if you just want a MAC (not specifically HMAC), and have an available AES primitive, then I recommend CBC-MAC (just don't use the exact same key to encrypt data !). This will yield a 128-bit MAC. A 256-bit MAC is a weird requirement, since 128 bits ought to be enough to provide adequate security (if 128 bits are not enough, then the attacker is way more powerful than the whole of Mankind, including all governments, agencies, private corporations and mafias -- and at that point you probably have more trouble than a possibly weak MAC: for all practical purposes, the attacker is God).
One could imagine defining a 256-bit block cipher with a Feistel network where the confusion function is an AES instance, with enough rounds and distinct round keys -- like what the DEAL block cipher did with DES, during the AES competition. Then CBC-MAC on that block cipher would yield a 256-bit MAC. But custom building of block ciphers or other cryptographic primitives is not recommended at all since it is hard to get right, and you cannot test for the security of the result.
Are you sure you need an HMAC (Hash based MAC)? CBC-MAC is probably a better construction for a keyed message authentication code using a block cipher. To get 256-bits, use two separate keys and compute 2 different MACs and concatenate them together.
If your AES engine is really a Rijndael implementation (which means it would support larger block sizes), just use Rijndael with a 256 bit block size in a CBC-MAC construction.
If you need HMAC in order to be compatible with an existing use of it (to speak to SSL, for example) then you cannot do this with AES: HMAC for SSL will use a specific underlying hash function (like SHA1 or MD5, typically).
If you really want HMAC out of AES, you'll have to first make a crypto hash function out of AES, as Thomas said.
If you have Rijndael (which is the algorithm that AES was made from), you can get a block-size of 256 bits easily enough if it's available on your engine. Then use a construction like Merkle-Damgaard to get a hash function.
If you only have 128-bit AES, you'll need to use a double-wide construction like MDC-2. MDC-2 isn't so well-tested, but it has at least a collision proof in the ideal-cipher model.
This paper: Building Hash Functions from Block Ciphers, Their Security and Implementation Properties may be useful. In particular, section 3.4 deals with "Double-Block-Length Compression Functions" which may be what you need.
It looks like you've changed your question. Anyway, as to the new question (about how to build a 256-bit hash function out of 128-bit AES), the simple answer is: you don't. Don't do that. There's no really good, well-vetted way to build a 256-bit cryptographic hash function out of AES. Instead, if you need a 256-bit hash function, you should be using a dedicated hash construction, such as SHA256.
I would question whether you truly need a 256-bit cryptographic hash function. Are you sure this is needed? My suspicion is that it is not.


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Graph $f(x)=\ln x+2$ And find all intercepts and asymptotes.
I know exactly how the graph looks and I have a sketch in front of me. Now, for the intercepts, $x$-int=$-1$ and $y$-int$=-\infty+2$ which I'm guessing is just $-\infty$ because adding $2$ wouldn't make much of a difference on that level. So, I have my intercepts (correct me if they are wrong please) now for the asymptotes. For vertical: $\log(x)+2 \rightarrow \infty$ as $x\rightarrow 0$ thus making the vertical asymptote $0$. And for horizontal, it has to do with when $y \rightarrow\pm\infty$. But how do I find this. (The inly reason I know that the vertical asymptote is $0$ is because it's a $\log x$ function moved up $2$ units).


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- Obesity affects more than 17% of all children and adolescents in the United States - triple the rate from just one generation ago. Those weight problems often carry over into adulthood.
Dr. Tanda Kidd, associate professor in human nutrition at Kansas State University and K-State Research and Extension nutrition specialist, along a team of researchers want to tackle the problem head on by looking at what kids are eating and why.
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Dr. Kidd and her team have been awarded a $2.5 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture's (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) to investigate 6th to 8th graders' eating habits over a period of 5 years. Researchers will immerse themselves in communities in Kansas, Ohio and South Dakota to look at some of the factors influencing kids' weight.
Kidd will serve as project coordinator for the five-year effort. K-State will take the leadership role in the project that is shared with The Ohio State University and South Dakota State University.
The goal of the study is to: 1) to identify barriers that stand between youth and healthy choices; 2) to develop strategies to overcome the barriers, and 3) to increase youth's consumption of health-promoting fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and physical activity.
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She proposed a community-based participatory research (CBPR) model in which two communities with similar populations in number, race, ethnicity and income will be selected from each of the three participating states.
The control community will be given $5,000 to implement current proven strategies to encourage healthy choices.
The "intervention" community will bring stakeholders, including youth, their parents, teachers, community organizers and volunteers who interact with youth, together to explore food choices, eating habits and potential barriers or other factors that make increasing fruits, vegetables and whole grains in the diet and adding health-promoting physical activity difficult, if not impossible.
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Barriers might include socio-economic level, the lack of neighborhood recreational facilities or school or after-school programs that encourage physical activity, closing of a local grocery store, limited choices in fresh produce, and lack of knowledge about nutrition and health, Kidd said.
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"We have identified some of the factors based on the literature but I would like to go a little bit deeper and find out exactly what it is that the child is saying. I would like to get those factors from the youth perspective because as we all know, many times, what we think may be the problem, it could be an underlying problem that no one has even thought about. So this will be an opportunity for the research team to go out and investigate some factors that may not have been identified at this point," Kidd added.


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The maximum field length that I can specify is 255 and because of that I'm having problems with the input attributes, which have a size greater than 255.
What alternatives are there for having longer field lengths?
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I have my work emails forwarded to my phone and I'd like to be able to give them precedence over emails to my gmail. Is this possible? Or can I setup my work email using POP and then use a different tone for those?
Not with the Gmail app that comes with the phone, no. But, if you really wanted this, you could do it like so:
Somewhat depends on what your work email server looks like, but I have a Gmail account, two Hotmail accounts, and an MS Exchange account on my Droid and there is an option within each Accounts settings to turn on/off "Email notifications" and to choose which ringtone is used for that notification. So, by that token, you could have your Gmail emails sound off with the default notification and have your work email play any crazy sound you like. Does that help or am I misunderstanding your question?


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6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America
When it comes to the birth of America, most of us are working from a stew of elementary school history lessons, Westerns and vague Thanksgiving mythology. And while it's not surprising those sources might biff a couple details, what's shocking is how much less interesting the version we learned was. It turns out our teachers, Hollywood and whoever we got our Thanksgiving mythology from (Big Turkey?) all made America's origin story far more boring than it actually was for some very disturbing reasons. For instance ...
#6. The Indians Weren't Defeated by White Settlers
The Myth:
Our history books don't really go into a ton of detail about how the Indians became an endangered species. Some warring, some smallpox blankets and ... death by broken heart?
When American Indians show up in movies made by conscientious white people like Oliver Stone, they usually lament having their land taken from them. The implication is that Native Americans died off like a species of tree-burrowing owl that couldn't hack it once their natural habitat was paved over.
But if we had to put the whole Cowboys and Indians battle in a Hollywood log line, we'd say the Indians put up a good fight, but were no match for the white man's superior technology. As surely as scissors cuts paper and rock smashes scissors, gun beats arrow. That's just how it works.
This is all the American history you'll ever need to know.
The Truth:
There's a pretty important detail our movies and textbooks left out of the handoff from Native Americans to white European settlers: It begins in the immediate aftermath of a full-blown apocalypse. In the decades between Columbus' discovery of America and the Mayflower landing at Plymouth Rock, the most devastating plague in human history raced up the East Coast of America. Just two years before the pilgrims started the tape recorder on New England's written history, the plague wiped out about 96 percent of the Indians in Massachusetts.
In the years before the plague turned America into The Stand, a sailor named Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed up the East Coast and described it as "densely populated" and so "smoky with Indian bonfires" that you could smell them burning hundreds of miles out at sea. Using your history books to understand what America was like in the 100 years after Columbus landed there is like trying to understand what modern day Manhattan is like based on the post-apocalyptic scenes from I Am Legend.
"They call it 'The city that never sleeps' because the only guy who lives there is a notoriously sarcastic rapper."
Historians estimate that before the plague, America's population was anywhere between 20 and 100 million (Europe's at the time was 70 million). The plague would eventually sweep West, killing at least 90 percent of the native population. For comparison's sake, the Black Plague killed off between 30 and 60 percent of Europe's population.
While this all might seem like some heavy shit to lay on a bunch of second graders, your high school and college history books weren't exactly in a hurry to tell you the full story. Which is strange, because many historians believe it is the single most important event in American history. But it's just more fun to believe that your ancestors won the land by being the superior culture.
Yay for apocalypse profiteering!
European settlers had a hard enough time defeating the Mad Max-style stragglers of the once huge Native American population, even with superior technology. You have to assume that the Native Americans at full strength would have made shit powerfully real for any pale faces trying to settle the country they had already settled. Of course, we don't really need to assume anything about how real the American Indians kept it, thanks to the many people who came before the pilgrims. For instance, if you liked playing cowboys and Indians as a kid, you should know that you could have been playing vikings and Indians, because that shit actually happened. But before we get to how they kicked Viking ass, you probably need to know that ...
#5. Native Culture Wasn't Primitive
The Myth:
American Indians lived in balance with mother earth, father moon, brother coyote and sister ... bear? Does that just sound right because of the Berenstain Bears? Whichever animal they thought was their sister, the point is, the Indians were leaving behind a small carbon footprint before elements were wearing shoes. If the government was taken over by hippies tomorrow, the directionless, ecologically friendly society they'd institute is about what we picture the Native Americans as having lived like.
"Our foreign policy can be summed up with one word: peyote."
The Truth:
The Indians were so good at killing trees that a team of Stanford environmental scientists think they caused a mini ice age in Europe. When all of the tree-clearing Indians died in the plague, so many trees grew back that it had a reverse global warming effect. More carbon dioxide was sucked from the air, the Earth's atmosphere held on to less heat, and Al Gore cried a single tear of joy.
One of the best examples of how we got Native Americans all wrong is Cahokia, a massive Native American city located in modern day East St. Louis. In 1250, it was bigger than London, and featured a sophisticated society with an urban center, satellite villages and thatched-roof houses lining the central plazas. While the city was abandoned by the time white people got to it, the evidence they left behind suggests a complex economy with trade routes from the Great Lakes all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Contrary to what museums told us, the loin cloth was not the most advanced Native American technology.
And that's not even mentioning America's version of the Great Pyramid: Monk's Mound. You know how people treat the very existence of the Great Pyramid in Egypt as one of history's most confounding mysteries? Well, Cahokia's pyramid dwarfs that one, both in size and in degree of difficulty. The mound contains more than 2.16 billion pounds of soil, some of which had to be carried from hundreds of miles away, to make sure the city's giant monument was vividly colored. To put that in perspective, all 13 million people who live in the state of Illinois today would have to carry three 50-pound baskets of soil from as far away as Indiana to construct another one.
"What if we built a middle finger large enough to flip off God?"
So why does Egypt get millions of dollars of tourism and Time Life documentaries dedicated to their boring old sand pyramids, while you didn't even know about the giant blue, red, white, black, gray, brown and orange testament to engineering and human willpower just outside of St. Louis? Well, because the Egyptians know how to treat one of the Eight Wonders of the World. America, on the other hand, appears to be trying to figure out how to turn it into a parking lot.
World Pyramids
But think of all the parking!
In the realm of personal hygiene, the Europeans out-hippied the Indians by a foul smelling mile. Europeans at the time thought baths attracted the black humors, or some such bullshit, because they never washed and were amazed by the Indians' interest in personal cleanliness. The natives, for their part, viewed Europeans as "just plain smelly" according to first hand records.
The Native Americans didn't hate Europeans just for the clouds of shit-smelling awfulness they dragged around behind them. Missionaries met Indians who thought Europeans were "physically weak, sexually untrustworthy, atrociously ugly" and "possessed little intelligence in comparison to themselves." The Europeans didn't do much to debunk the comparison in the physical beauty department. Verrazzano, the sailor who witnessed the densely populated East Coast, called a native who boarded his ship "as beautiful in stature and build as I can possibly describe," before presumably adding, "you know, for a dude." This man-crush wasn't an isolated incident. British fisherman William Wood described the Indians in New England as "more amiable to behold, though dressed only in Adam's finery, than ... an English dandy in the newest fashion." Or, with the bullshit removed, "Better looking than any of us, and they're not even fucking trying."
"Oh yeah, this is just my walkin' around paint."
OK, now that we got that out of the way, we can tell you about the historical slash-fiction your history teacher forgot to tell you actually freaking happened.
#4. Columbus Didn't Discover America: Vikings vs. Indians
The Myth:
America was discovered in 1492 because Europeans were starting to get curious about the outside world thanks to the Renaissance and Enlightenment and Europeans of the time just generally being the first smart people ever. Columbus named the people who already lived there Indians, presumably because he was being charmingly self-deprecating.
"I don't know what we'll call the people from actual India. That's the future's problem."
The Truth:
Here's what we know. A bunch of vikings set up a successful colony in Greenland that lasted for 518 years (982-1500). To put that into perspective, the white European settlement currently known as the United States will need to wait until the year 2125 to match that longevity. The vikings spent a good portion of that time sending expeditions down south to try to settle what they called Vineland -- which historians now believe was the East Coast of North America. Some place the vikings as far south as modern day North Carolina.
"The South will pillage again!"
After spending a couple decades sneaking ashore to raid Vineland of its ample wood pulp, the vikings made a go of settling North America in 1005. After landing there with livestock, supplies and between 100 and 300 settlers, they set up the first successful European American colony ... for two years. And then the Native Americans kicked their ass out of the country, shooting the head viking in the heart with an arrow.
So to recap, the vikings discovered America. They were camping off the coast of America, and had every reason to settle America for about 500 years. Despite being the biggest badasses in European history, one tangle with the natives was enough to convince the vikings that settling America wasn't worth the trouble. If you think the pilgrims would have fared any better than the vikings against an East Coast chock-full of Native Americans, you either don't know what a viking is or you're placing entirely too much stock in the strategic importance of having belt buckles on your shoes.
If the Indians had been at full strength in 1640, white people might still be sneaking onto the East Coast to steal wood pulp. That's as far as the vikings got in 500 years, and they were sailing from much closer than Europe and desperately needed the resources -- the two competing theories for why the viking settlements on Greenland eventually died out are lack of resources and getting killed by natives -- and, perhaps most importantly, they were goddamned vikings.
So why did your history teachers lie? This should have been history teachers' version of dinosaurs: a mostly unknown period of violent awesomeness they nevertheless told you about because they knew it would hook every male between the ages of 5 and 12 forever.
Consider this one a freebie, Hollywood.
It turns out that many of the awesomest stories had to be paved over by the bullshit you memorized in order to protect your teachers and parents from awkward conversations. Like the one about how ...


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The United States, England and Canada have a lot in common. The former, for example, used to own the other two!
Former here seems to me to be a noun. But according to m-w.com and wiktionary.org, this can't be true because it is just an adjective! How can this be?


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The Motor City's wheels fall off
July 21, 2013
HOW THE mighty have fallen. When the city of Detroit officially filed for bankruptcy Thursday, it was the exclamation point on decades of economic erosion in the Motor City....
Sadly, the leadership of Detroit if you would like to call it that failed over the past thirty years to plan ahead, look ahead, recognize the trends and obvious indicators which required difficult and challenging decisions. Rather, they marched along and did not make the difficult cuts, decisions, and aggressive steps to manage their fate.
I feel for the current residents as the future is very uncertain.
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Chicago will be next.....then likely Oakland and/or New Orleans....they all swallow the same poison: Affirmative Action, Union demands for PHD wages for GED workers, and an ignorant electorate that votes color or race over qualifications or ability....more to come in Obamerica!
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Bob wires up the navigation between the MainPage.xaml's ListBox and the ViewEdit.xaml page. In the process, we learn about the Tag property of the HyperlinkButton to store the filename of each item in the DataTemplate. Using this, a QueryString can be constructed and used to pass the file name of the desired file to the ViewEdit.xaml page.
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Good video, I like seeing your mistakes in these videos Bob, and what you do to fix them. It helps us learn too. Makes me laugh listening to you sometimes, like in the other video saying you didnt liek how people pronounced the "asmx" lol
Good stuff.
Bob, I made a directory called 'Pages' for my Add.xaml and viewEdit.xaml... how do I navigate to MainPage.xaml from them?
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Assuming a lack of signage indicating the legalities, is it legal to light a bonfire on a beach in the UK? I haven't been able to find an authoritative source on this either way, hence the question. In my experience it hasn't ever been an issue after dusk when beaches are mostly empty, but I was wondering if there was any specific legislation.
Fires are permitted, as is free camping provided it does not interfere with agriculture or nature.
The Scottish 'code' mentions specific rights on the 'foreshore'
However, it also says...
England and Wales are likely TOTALLY different. Lighting fires anywhere is pretty much frowned on, AFAIK.
Ok, first thing to note is who owns the coast.
The land between the high water mark and the low water mark is owned by the crown (crown reserves) in UK law. (ref) The land above he high water mark is owned by land owners, this may also be the crown if it's common land etc.
Any land owned by private land owners is subject to the land owners themselves. They could allow or disallow bonfires at their discretion. So if you want to build a bonfire here you should contact the landowner.
The law on bonfires on common land will be covered by the local by-laws of the council in question.
From the management of crown lands web site:
So the law is pretty gray in this area. Being as your talking about bonfires I'm guessing this is going to be pretty big, not just a camp fire.
I would suggest that this practice will at best be frowned upon by any land owners or crown employees (this will include Police) and at worst may result in you being forcibly ejected.
There is also the question of environmental damage to what could be a environmentally sensitive area.
That said if it's a quiet public beach, your not causing any nuisance or damage I'd be surprised if anyone interrupted you (or even noticed). Also fires on Bonfire night will generally be tolerated a lot more than on other nights.
Scottish law
Scottish law is the exception not the rule. Scottish law includes a "right to roam" that has not been implemented in England, Wales or Nothern Ireland. I think Roddy covers this point well.
Most of the time, if it's a public beach & you know how to build a bonfire & keep it under control, you should be fine.
For example, a music festival in Whitby has had an unofficial beach bonfire twice a year & has had 1 visit from the Police in 20 years. They took a quick look at the fire, saw that it was being looked after by people who knew what they were doing & wished us a good evening & have not been back since.


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6 Personality Quirks You Didn't Know Were Medical Conditions
Everyone has an odd quirk or two that they think applies only to them. We hate to break it to you but, according to science, you aren't special. Every small tic or strange habit or pet peeves that anyone has are actually scientifically documented conditions, with widespread sufferers and often devastating results. So read on, and have fun playing House as you diagnose yourself and your friends with these afflictions. Such as ...
#6. Paruresis
You're standing over a stall at a sporting event, about to open the pipes when you hear the horn that signals halftime. As you hear feet shuffling outside, the pipes are suddenly frozen. Someone swaggers in and decides to choose the urinal directly next to you. You know he can hear the deafening silence coming from your urinal, which just makes you panic more. Soon, the restroom is full of relaxed streams of urine. A line of men forms behind you while you begin coughing uncomfortably.
"Everyone's peeing but me. Everyone's peeing but me!"
Whether you're the guy at the urinal or the guy in line wondering why he's quietly pleading with his penis, if you're familiar with this scenario, you're far from the only one. It's called paruresis, the scientific term for pee-shyness (or "stage fright" or "stall stalling" or "pissterical dryness" or whatever it's called in your circle). People with this condition are unable to urinate in the presence of others, real or imaginary. Paruresis is more common in men, but it is not completely unheard of in women. Seven percent of the public, or roughly 17 million people, have claimed to feel the icy cold grip of paruresis clamp down on their junk at some point in their lives.
Not as terrible as the warm fuzzy grip of a spider down there -- but worse.
In the most severe cases, paruresis sufferers are only able to pee in their own homes when they know that they are completely alone -- and some even have to resort to the use of catheters to lure out the elusive stream. Paruresis becomes especially problematic in drug testing situations, which is why it has now become accepted as a valid reason not to participate in drug testing in the United Kingdom. Likewise, in the U.S., the recognition of paruresis as a legitimate medical condition has led to it becoming a valid reason for being excused from jury duty.
"Stand up and pee right now or justice cannot be done!"
People with paruresis often need to enlist the help of psychologists, therapists and support groups to help them get over their affliction. One of the most popular treatments is called graduated exposure therapy, which is said to help eight out of every 10 paruresis sufferers who try it. There are several steps to the treatment. The first is to enlist the help of a person whose friendship you don't mind losing, and having them gradually stand closer and closer to you every time you visit the restroom. When you either stop being friends or fall wildly in love (the only two options), you can then alternately make a ranked list of pee destinations -- ranging from easiest to pee at to most difficult -- and gradually working your way up the list.
Pictured: Hell.
#5. Onychophagia
Onychophagia, one of the most common medical conditions in the world, is the scientific term for nail biting, which, best-case-scenario, is a bad habit that you grow out of and, worst-case-scenario, will destroy your life if that one episode of Rocko's Modern Life is to be believed.
Cartoon wallabies aren't the only ones biting their nails to life-altering lengths. About 45 percent of people between the ages of 10 and 18 suffer (more men than women), as well as some of our biggest and sparkliest celebrities, including Britney Spears, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Eva Mendes. Also Phil Collins.
Nail-biting can have devastating and disgusting effects if it becomes too severe. Irreparable damage can be caused to the sufferer's cuticles if nothing is done about the condition. It can also harm teeth, and has been shown to transfer bacteria from around your body into your mouth. Cases have been reported of people transferring pinworms from the anus to the mouth by nail biting. Along with bad cuticles, gross teeth and ass worms in your mouth, nail biting also can affect a person's employability, self-esteem and social interactions. In effect, your harmless little habit could lead you to become homeless, alone and dead. And ass-worm mouthed. Or worse.
You could be Phil Collins.
Fortunately, there are dozens of treatments available to cure what ails you. Doctors may recommend aversion therapy to help stop your cuticle chomping ways, like a gross-tasting nail polish to discourage yourself from putting your nails in your mouth.
In the Netherlands, a former health industry and cosmetics promoter has invented a treatment for onychophagists. For the low, low price of $670, Alain-Raymond van Abbe will fashion his patients a protective mouth guard to help stop the biting.
"Society, here I come!"
When these measures are not enough, some doctors suggest either hypnotherapy or behavioral therapy. Behavioral therapy utilizes habit reversal training to help identify the urges (nail-biting), and replace them with something more constructive (literally anything). Another common treatment is wearing a rubber band around your wrist and snapping it every time you attempt to bite your nails.
Now if only there was a therapy to discourage wearing those stupid rubber bands.
#4. Involuntary Expression Disorder
Your dad is yelling at you for stealing the last Ho Ho or breaking a vase or kidnapping someone, when suddenly, you're overcome with an uncontrollable desire to laugh. You try to hold back, but soon your frown turns into a smirk, your smirk turns into a repressed chuckle and your chuckle turns into a full out fit of hysteric laughter. Of course, this only pisses your dad off more, and it's back to the basement for you.
Joke's on him, you would have been devastated if it was Disneyworld.
If you've ever experienced a sensation like this, you may suffer from Involuntary Emotional Expression Disorder (IEED), also known as pseudobulbar affect. This condition is exactly what it sounds like: having the opposite reaction of what is expected, such as becoming depressed when you hear good news, or laughing at a tense or unpleasant place, such as when someone tries to start an argument with you.
"Oh man, you think the awesomeness of cake is up for debate! You're hilarious!"
IEED is a common condition that has been discussed by everyone from scientist Charles Darwin (in The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals), to beloved Canadian pop band, Barenaked Ladies (in that part of "One Week" where the guy talks about laughing at a funeral).
Very similar philosophies.
Similarly, laughing or finding joy in someone else's misfortune is a common and specific enough kind of expression disorder that it has its own clinical name: katagelasticism. It's defined as "a psychological condition where a person finds excessive pleasure in laughing at others." That's right. There is a scientific term for being a dick.
"It's as I've feared. You're a total, uncontrollable shithead. I'm sorry."
Oddly enough, drinking cough syrup and quinidine can be used to treat the disorder, but being the guy who chugs cough syrup whenever someone dies probably makes you look even crazier.


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It was a tale of two title hopefuls as Sebastian Vettel claimed the inaugural pole position at the Circuit of the Americas while Fernando Alonso was down in ninth
Vettel had been the driver to beat heading into qualifying having topped all three practice sessions. And it was more of the same on Saturday afternoon.
The reigning World Champion posted a 1:35.657 to beat Lewis Hamilton to the coveted grid slot by a less-than-expected 0.109s.
Mark Webber will line-up third while Romain Grosjean qualified fourth but will drop down the order after a gearbox change penalty.
Abu Dhabi winner Kimi Raikkonen and Michael Schumacher were fifth and sixth while Championship hopeful Alonso could only manage ninth.
Qualifying Report
The Texan sun was beating down on the Circuit of the Americas with a really encouraging crowd of around 80,000 in attendance, many from Mexico and Venezuela. The ambient temperature was 20C and the track at 31C.
Romain Grosjean went into the session knowing that he had a five-place grid penalty from a gearbox change from FP3. Cars went out set up to run multiple laps with the front-runners using the Pirelli hard tyre and some of the new teams going with the medium right from the start. Also using mediums were Romain Grosjean and Paul diResta, whose cousin Dario Franchitti was one of the many American drivers in attendance.
Kimi Raikkonen set the first meaningful P1 at 1:41.058. This was hacked into by team-mate Grosjean with a 1:39.078 which he subsequently reduced to a 1:37.865. Bruno Senna popped up at the top of the timesheets with a 1:37.850, but then Grosjean reclaimed his place back with a 1:37.486. Felipe Massa, who looked quicker than Alonso for most of qualifying, slotted into P2.
Sebastian Vettel, who had been fastest in all three practices then set the new benchmark at 1:37.165 with Mark Webber slotting into P2 and Pastor Maldonado taking P3. Such was the nature of the diminishing fuel load and the lack of wear on the tyres that cars could continually circulate - like a Formula Ford qualifying session - with the times getting quicker and quicker and few coming back down the pitlane.
Some drivers gave their tyres a slow lap breather while a few hammered on round. Coming into the final three minutes the danger positions were: 15.Perez, 16.Kobayashi, 17.Rosberg, 18. Ricciardo,19.Glock, 20.Pic, 21.Kovalainen, 22.de la Rosa, 23.Karthikeyan, 24.Petrov.
As times continued to fall, Narain Karthikeyan dumped his HRT off track at Turn 2 bringing out the yellow flags. This left Nico Rosberg in a tricky position because he'd slipped back to P18 and couldn't improve in the first sector. Round came the Mercedes and he eased off to go a tenth of a second slower in S1 and then set personal bests in S2 and S3, he scraped forward to P17. Daniel Ricciardo couldn't improve.
Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile was having fun with P1 and took it down to 1:37.058, before Vettel annihilated that with a 1:36.558.
Petrov improved to P21 beating his team-mate Kovalainen (who said he was blocked) but not the two Marussias. Despite their pre-qualifying worries, HRT were well inside the 107% time.
So as the Texan dust settled out went: 18.Ricciardo, 19.Glock, 20.Pic, 21.Petrov, 22.Kovalainen, 23.de la Rosa, 24.Karthikeyan.
It had been a tremendous result for the non-KERS using Marussia team who had beaten the KERS-equipped Caterhams. It was also a tremendous result for the spectators who had seen 8 laps from Vettel instead of the usual 3 or 4 and 12 laps from Grosjean.
Qualifying 2
The multiple lappery of Q1 was going to be repeated in Q2 but with everyone on the medium tyre. Kimi Raikkonen was out early again setting the benchmark time at 1:37.672. He came round again and lowered it to 1:37.457.
Lewis Hamilton then gave another indication that Vettel might have a real fight on his hands for pole with a 1:36.795 lap which Mark Webber could not beat. Vettel could, though, with a breathtaking 1:35.971.
Times were falling fast as the fuel loads came down again and at the four-minutes-to-go mark the danger zone was: 7.Raikkonen, 8.Button, 9.DiResta, 10.Schumacher, 11.Senna, 12.Grosjean, 13.Vergne, 14.Alonso, 15.Rosberg, 16.Kobayashi, 17.Perez
At least that was an order for a few seconds as drivers improved radically. One person who wasn't going to improve at all was Jenson Button who radioed that he had lost power and cruised back to the pits, his engine still running. Alonso jumped to P4 pushing Jenson to P9 and when Grosjean grabbed P6 he was down to P10. Then Michael Schumacher administered the coup de grace by claiming P5, pushing Button to P11, which became P12 seconds later when Hulkenberg jumped into the top ten.
Interestingly the two Ferraris circulated round and while Massa improved to P2, Alonso could only stay P7.
So out went: 11.Senna, 12.Button, 13.DiResta, 14.Vergne, 15.Perez, 16.Kobayashi, 17.Rosberg
It had been another miserable session for McLaren, let down by another mechanical failure. However the biggest contrast in fortunes had been with Nico Rosberg who could not get a lap out his Mercedes while his team-mate was a mighty 1.4 seconds quicker.
As for the South American contingent at Austin, the Mexicans were despondent, but the Venezuelans were still in the contest.
Qualifying 3
The advice to drivers must have been to put in a slow first lap before going for a time, and so Alonso, Massa and Hamilton all did 1:42s and 1:43s first time round the block. Nobody had told this to Romain Grosjean who took provisional pole with a 1:37.227.
It was the same for Red Bull's Mark Webber who went straight for a time and took P1 with a 1:36.845. Lewis Hamilton responded with a 1:36.209, while Vettel - not surprisingly - trumped them both with a 1:35.877.
With two minutes of the session to run the order was: 1.Vettel, 1.Hamilton, 3.Webber, 4.Grosjean, 5.Raikkonen, 6.Schumacher, 7.Alonso, 8, Maldonado, 9.Massa, 10.Hulkenberg
Schumacher was trying his hardest and in the process went off at the tricky Turn 19 which had caught out Maldonado earlier. Hulkenberg jumped to P6. Lewis set the fastest middle sector on his way to a 1:35.928 - closing in on Vettel, but not close enough. Yet.
Alonso improved to P7 and was then pushed down again when Massa took P4. Schumacher hurdled back past them into P5. Vettel then made his pole safer with a 1:35.657 and Lewis came up just short with a 1:35.766 - fractions away from a big upset.
So, a grid of Vettel, Hamilton, Webber, Raikkonen, Schumacher and Massa in the front three rows. Grosjean was P4, faster than his Lotus team-mate, but takes a penalty.
Fernando Alonso ended up in a pretty miserable P9, faster than just Maldonado, although with Grosjean moving back to P9 with his gearbox penalty that will leave him in P8 but on the dirty side of the grid. It is widely anticipated that those on even numbers, on the dirty side, will suffer with poor grip at the start tomorrow.
It might even cross Ferrari's mind to change Massa's gearbox and move him back five places, so that Alonso can start both higher and on the clean side of the grid. With Button qualifying disastrously their constructors' battle with McLaren is almost won.
Whatever the case it is going to be hard work for Alonso to keep the championship alive tomorrow starting behind Vettel, Hamilton, Webber and Raikkonen. But if anybody can do it…
Frank Hopkinson
01. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m35.657
02. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m35.766
03. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m36.174
04. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m36.587
05. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m36.708
06. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m36.794
07. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m36.937
08. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m37.141
09. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m37.300
10. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m37.842
11. Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1m37.604
12. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m37.616
13. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m37.665
14. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m37.879
15. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m38.206
16. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m38.437
17. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m38.501
18. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m39.114
19. Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1m40.056
20. Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1m40.664
21. Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1m40.809
22. Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1m41.166
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THE PHILIPPINES (CNN) -- A massive typhoon made landfall in the southern Philippines early Tuesday amid fears that it could be worse than a 2011 storm that killed more than 1,200 people.
Typhoon Bopha struck the southern island of Mindanao shortly before 4:45 a.m. (5:45 p.m. Monday ET), the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Center reported. The storm packed top winds of 175 kph (110 mph) as it came ashore over the city of Baganga, and millions of people -- many of whom live in remote and unprepared communities -- were in the storm's path, Philippine authorities and aid groups said.
The tightly packed but powerful storm threatened to bring devastating flash floods, landslides and flooding to coastal regions. High winds could blast some homes into sticks, uproot trees and cut power for days, government officials warned.
The storm had moved about 50 km inland by 8 a.m., the Phillipine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration reported.
The storm, dubbed "Pablo" in the Philippines, blew up into a super typhoon at one point Monday, with sustained winds greater than 240 kph -- the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center reported. That wind speed is two and a half times the top winds of Severe Tropical Storm Washi, known in the Philippines as Sendong, which wiped out entire villages in the same region a year ago.
"Many emotional people in (Mindanao) trying to prepare for Pablo with Sendong fresh in their minds," childrens' charity Plan International's Philippines director, Carin van der Hor, wrote Monday on Twitter.
In the fishing village of Hinatuan, officials had warned coastal and island residents to evacuate to government shelters in the final hours before the storm hit, CNN affiliate ABS-CBN reported.
"The weather is good right now but we keep advising local governments not to be complacent because this is going to get worse," ABS-CBN quoted regional civil defense director Olive Luces as saying earlier.
At sea near the storm, waves reached as high as 52 feet, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. On land, the outer bands of the storm had already begun to bring intense rain and high winds to coastal communities before landfall was made, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.
Government agencies had moved millions of dollars worth of relief supplies into position for quick delivery to storm-hit regions and put emergency crews, the military and hospitals on standby.
The threat to Mindanao comes just weeks ahead of the first anniversary of Washi, whose heavy rains set off flash floods in the middle of the night that swept away entire villages. More than 1,200 people died and hundreds of thousands were left homeless, prompting a humanitarian crisis.
Stormy weather in recent months also has caused death and destruction in other areas of the Philippines, where poor infrastructure leaves many communities highly vulnerable.
Severe flooding in the region of the capital, Manila, killed more than 80 people in August. And Tropical Cyclone Son-Tinh left at least 27 people dead after sweeping across the central Philippines in October.
Palau, a tiny island nation roughly 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) east of Mindanao, had a close shave with Bopha as the typhoon churned past, catching some outlying parts of the archipelago.
"It was headed right toward Palau," said Derek Williams, a meteorologist for the U.S. National Weather Service in Guam. But at the last minute, "it just turned to the west and fortunately went south of them," he said.
"I really think they escaped the brunt of the storm," Williams said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, noting that Palau doesn't usually get hit by strong typhoons.
Bopha nonetheless brought down a lot of trees and caused widespread power outages in Palau, according to Williams.
"The fast movement of the system really prevented a lot of flooding," he said. "I think probably only a few inches of rain fell, so that's certainly good news, because Palau itself is susceptible to mudslides."


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Patty Mills, a Second Degree Black Belt and instructor at Carmi Taekwondo Center, recently attended a tournament in Tinely Park, IL. The tournament was hosted by Frankfort Black Belt Academy.
Mills competed in the Women's Executive Second and Third Degree Black Belt division. She earned second place in forms and third place in sparring.
American Taekwondo Association tournaments are controlled competitive environments that allow practitioners to display and improve their skills in a safe environment. Although some may think it is all about "who is better", that is only a part of their purpose in Songahm Taekwondo.
Tournaments are not just for a trophy. They allow members to meet new people, make new friends, put nerves to the test, and display skills. By focusing on these purposes, it is very possible to be happy whether one wins or loses.
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The Heat Is Harsher Out West
In the NBA this season, as usual, the West is best. Yet the best of the East, the defending champion Miami Heat, perform better against Western Conference foes. Unfortunately for LeBron James and his teammates, that won't give Miami much of a boost if they advance to the finals.
In interconference games this year through Thursday, the West has a 57.8% winning percentage, according to Sports Reference LLC. That's not all that surprising: the West has won the regular-season series against the East in 25 of 44 seasons since the ABA-NBA merger, winning 52.6% of all games. Miami, though, has done well to buck the trend this season, going just 18-9 against East teams but an impressive 20-5 against the West. That's a sharp contrast with conference rivals Brooklyn and Milwaukee, which each have been about as good as Miami within the conference but have losing records against the West.
That might seem to bode well for Miami's chances if it wins its third straight conference title. However, evidence from previous finals shows no benefit for teams that did particularly well against nonconference opponents in the regular season. The 20 East champs to win finals since the merger were, on average, two percentage points worse against the West than against the East -- exactly the same margin as for the 22 East champs to lose finals. According to an analysis of data provided by Stats LLC. It turns out that last season, the Heat were far better against East opponents than against the West, and that didn't hold them back in their victory in the finals against Oklahoma City.
And West champs that went on to win finals had a slightly smaller preference for Eastern opponents than did West champs that lost finals. That, at least, could be good news for Miami, which could face San Antonio in the finals. The Spurs have the NBA's best record against the East. But interconference records aren't the best indicator of finals success. Every regular-season game matters in forecasting finals, not just those against the other conference.
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I was using a workflow to change file names to some text and the SP ID, but this has caused issues because the workflows can often take several minutes to complete. I would like to do this during ItemAdding, but I'm 99.999% sure this isn't possible since the ID probably isn't assigned until the document is uploaded. I think I might use ItemAdded, but I don't know how long that might take to kick off. Are either of these reasonable ideas?
This sort of task is more suited to an event receiver. The itemAdded approach will certainly give you access to the ID. An event receiver does not have the typical delay you see with Workflows, it fires right away.
One issue you can experience with ItemAdded events is that they run asynchronously. What this means is that the control is returned to the UI while the Event Receiver is kicked off. This can cause situation where the event receiver is not quite done processing before the display returns to the user, and they won't see the updated values until they refresh the page.
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IS there even a remote chance that there will be another HP tablet fire sale?
Ebay killed me on the last sale because stupid FedEx has my address down as invalid so I couldn't get one. So so so close. Any chance or suggestion of how to get a 32 gig one for the $150 price?
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I wish I knew more. When they were talking about the ebay firesale, I had read that it would be the absolute last one since they are all refurbished. Someone posted a deal for Tiger Direct though.
@j3falcon: What did the tiger direct deal say?
The Tiger Direct deal was a 32GB bundle with some accessories for $249 (now sold out).
As for another HP firesale, I think it's safe to say - no. The ebay refurb firesale was the blaze of glory. Now you're looking at used or ebay/amazon if you want one and it will cost you somewhere in the $225-$275 range most likely.
Maybe there will be a firesale of the refurb of the refurb...
I would doubt it....it looks done.
Although I think if you hold out a little while and don't mind used then people will begin parting with them w/o trying to make a profit. Craigslist, ebay etc will probably be filling with them when the hype dies down.


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Senggigi is Lombok's oldest and most famous resort area.
A perfect place to relax, Senggigi boasts a series of white sandy beaches and safe swimming areas. The point at central Senggigi has good waves for surfers. This place has a colourful reef which provides shelter to a variety of marine life and exquisitely shapped coral and makes it a perfect place to snorkle.
In the dry season, there is an interesting variety of boats moored in the bay. The town of Senggigi spreads out along nearly 10 kilometers of coastal road. This road continues north to Bangsal, the port for the Gili Islands.
There a lot of diverse range of hotel accommodations that you can choose to stay in Senggigi, from deluxe four-star resort properties to simple home-stays, Such as Holiday Inn, the Oberoi, Sheraton Senggigi, Melati Dua Cottage, Pool Villa Club, Panorama Cottage, and many more. See our Travel Directory (West Nusa Tenggara --> Kab. Lombok Barat) for more options.
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Is the answer really sliding snowshoes?
|Karver Krash: Turns out that trying run through deep, untracked snow on sliding snowshoes may not be the best way go. Note the gray climbing skins permanently inset into the red ski base, (Tim Jones/EasternSlopes.com photo)
Sliding snowshoes bridge the gap between snowshoes, which can go almost anywhere in winter one plodding step at a time, and skis, which are faster but require more skill to use. Some people have called them "a solution looking for a problem." I call them another great excuse for having fun outdoors.
When the "Blizzard of '13" (let's hope it's not the only blizzard of '13!) dropped 32 inches of snow, my son Justin and I grabbed three pairs of sliding snowshoes and headed out to play. Justin took my trusty old Karhu Karvers, which I've had since the early '90's.
I had two new pairs of sliding snowshoes I wanted to test. Unlike the Karvers, these are still being manufactured and can be purchased easily online. The "Hok" from the Altai Ski Company (www.altaiskis.com) are very lightweight, 120 centimeters long with metal edges and inset climbing skins on the base. It's clear these are an evolutionary step from the Karhu originals.
The others are Marquette Backcountry Skis (www.marquette-backcountry.com). They are heavy, made of indestructible injection-molded reinforced plastic with fishscale bases. They are 140 centimeters long, 130 millimeters wide and have a tip that curves up like a water ski. I got these late in the winter of 2010-11, used them on spring corn snow and had been waiting ever since to try them in deep snow. Unlike the Karvers and the Hoks, they don't have metal edges, so hard snow is simply not an option.
With sliding snowshoes, you don't need to spend money on a lift ticket. All you need is snow. We headed for a local patch of woods that's popular with cross-country skiers and snowshoers and headed out. At first we followed a trail broken by snowshoers, and started out just kicking and gliding along as if we were on cross-country skis. Easy-peasy. Big smiles.
A short while later, we popped out into a slanted field, left the packed trail and started to explore. Justin decided to see how fast he could run through the deep snow. Pretty quickly, he tangled his tips and tumbled. I laughed, so did he. As long as you paid attention, though, you could move right along, and we took turns breaking trail. Though my Altais were shorter than the Karvers, they are also a little wider and seemed to float just as well and turn slightly more easily. I was impressed.
After an hour or so of playing on trail and off, we switched to another location where an old logging road climbs a short, steep hill. I switched to the Marquettes and tried to follow Justin up the hill, but the fishscale bases didn't stick as well on the steeps. So I had to break trail to keep from sliding backwards. Coming back down, however, the Marquettes floated magnificently on the deep fluff and I was able to carve sinuous S turns almost effortlessly. I wish that hill had gone on forever.
Now, admittedly, snowshoes would have gotten us everywhere we wanted to go on this day-step by slow step. And real backcountry skis would have, too, and we'd probably have had even more fun on the downhills. But the lightweight "sliding snowshoes" climbed the hills more easily that either skis or snowshoes, and were a hoot coming down. Life isn't a spectator sport. Get out and enjoy!
OK, so what ARE sliding snowshoes?
First, imagine a very short, very light, very wide ski designed for easy maneuverability and lots of flotation in soft snow. Add a little sidecut and steel edges. On the base it will have either fishscales (like a typical waxless cross-country ski) or permanently attached climbing "skins" (a directional synthetic hair which allows the ski to slide forward but grips and stops the ski if it starts to slide backward). Again, the goal is to split the difference between plodding along on snowshoes, and gliding along on skis.
Based on early resting, it looks to me like the Altai Hok is going to redefine the category, and become the standard by which all other cliding snowshoes are judged. I had originally received this pair for testing, but I'm going to have to buy them.
The Marquette Backcounty is fun, less expensive, but more limited.. It doesn't climb nearly as well as the Altais or Karvers and was much heavier.
But if you've got a slanted field anywhere near your house, and a pair of old 3-pin bindings and boots, these things are a hoot going downhill in deep snow.
If you'd like to read reviews of all sliding snowshoes, go to www..easternslopes.com and search "meta skis." The Altai's aren't there yet but they will be soon.
Tim Jones is the executive editor of the online magazine EasternSlopes.com and writes about outdoor sports and travel. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Shura, or consultation, embraces every facet of life and is easily adaptable to a variety of different situations. In Islam, it is encouraged not only in the political realm but on a social scale as well, involving families and professional entities. The Quran mentions shura when it refers to those "who (conduct) their


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I am looking for a (already-studied or interesting) class of Matroids such that - Class of Gammoids are contained in it
One example would be Strongly-base-orderable Matroids. I would also be grateful if someone knows a class of Matroids such that
- Class of Gammoids are contained in it AND
- It is contained in the class of "Strongly-base-orderable" Matroids.
By the way, strongly-base-orderable is a property such that : GIven any two bases I,J of the Matroid, there exists a bijection \pi between I-J and J-I such that given any subset H of I-J, I- H +\pi(H) and J - \pi(H) + H is a base in the Matroid. (In Oxley's "Matroid theory" pp410 )
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