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We're stoked to have The Swellers be part of the Glamour Kills Winter Sampler! It also features songs by our friends in The Wonder Years, Set Your Goals, Fireworks, The Ready Set, We Are The In Crowd and many more. Click HERE to download it for FREE!
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Australia! Sublime With Rome just announced the dates for their 2012 tour. It kicks off in Coolangatta and ends in Perth with a special stop at Bluesfest in Byron Bay in the middle. Mat McHugh will join the band on the shows.
4.04 Coolangatta, AUS @ Coolangatta Hotel
4.05 Brisbane, AUS @ The HiFi
4.06 Byron Bay, AUS @ Bluesfest
4.07 Sydney, AUS @ UNSW Roundhouse
4.09 Melbourne, AUS @ Palace Theater
4.10 Adelaide, AUS @ HQ Complex
4.11 Perth, AUS @ Metro Fremantle
photo by Nate Siggard
|December 19, 2011
Here is the second video from This Providence's trip to Australia for the Counter Revolution tour with Panic! At The Disco, All Time Low, Yellowcard, Story Of The Year and others. Visit thisprovidence.com for more!
|December 18, 2011
Today is Sierra Kusterbeck from VersaEmerge's birthday. We hope it's a great one!
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|December 17, 2011
Gym Class Heroes have just announced the dates for the 2012 Snowstorm Music Tour with T-Pain! Check them out below and stay tuned for ticket info.
02.07 Battle Creek, MI @ Kellogg Arena
02.08 Green Bay, WI @ Brown County Arena
02.09 Springfield, IL @ Prairie Capitol Center
02.10 DeKalb, IL @ NIU Convocation
02.11 Lincoln, NE @ Pershing Auditorium
02.12 Sioux City, IA @ Gateway Arena at Tyson Center
02.14 Rapid City, SD @ Rushmore Plaza Civic Center
02.15 Brookings, SD @ Swiftel Center
02.16 Des Moines, IA @ Val Air Ballroom
02.17 Waterloo, IA @ McElroy Auditorium
02.18 Fargo, ND @ The Venue
02.20 Billings, MT @ Shrine Auditorium
02.21 Missoula, MT @ Adams Center
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|December 16, 2011
Click HERE to see a gallery of shots of Sublime With Rome at the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas in Los Angeles where they filled in for Incubus.
photo by Nate Siggard
|December 16, 2011
A few months back, Panic! At The Disco stopped by YouTube to play a special acoustic set for their staff. Now you can watch it, too! Here's their song 'Ready To Go' from the set and you can find links to the other songs below:
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
The Ballad Of Mona Lisa
Nine In The Afternoon
|December 16, 2011
This week for our contest we have a Paramore Singles Club 7" Box Set and 'Coffin' T-Shirt available. Those of you who preordered the Box Set and T-Shirt should start receiving them this week. If you haven't picked one up yet you can get one in The Fueled By Ramen Webstore.
Winner: Congratulations Kristen Cloyed for winning!
|December 16, 2011
Click HERE to check out Jono Diener of The Swellers being interviewed by William Beckett! The postcards above will be passed out at shows while the full interview is available for you to read online.
"I think a few "Best I Ever Hads" relate to food because when you're on tour, that's usually a highlight. I eat mainly vegan food and the BBQ Mock Duck Po'Boy at The Triple Rock in Minneapolis is my favorite sandwich. Red Bamboo in NYC has my favorite vegan buffalo wings of all time, which may be my absolute favorite food as well. As regarding to "WHO" was the best I ever had, I'd probably say my Boston Terrier puppy, Delilah. She's the best. "


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I've been looking for a word which is very close semantically to 'overpopulation'. Popular Internet dictionaries show words like 'overcrowding' or 'congestion', which are too general for me. I know that there is no such thing as 'the exact synonym', but if anybody can think of anything more adequate than my examples, I would be delighted if that person shared it with me.
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Maybe you can use the phrase exceedance of carrying capacity to describe an overpopulation?
Or simply, a teeming population.
Proliferation is a nice word that I would play with in the context you describe.
I know I'm a little late to the show. But, as a student of this issue, I would note that "overpopulation" has become a controversial phrase; many reflexively reject the concept out of hand. Maybe try: seeking "optimum population," a phrase that's more current and less apt to incite grow-the-economy-at-all-costs types.
An overabundance of cows in a barn may cause methane explosions.

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We've recently replaced our kitchen tiles. I'm happy with the results but have no idea what to do with the edge. How do I clean this edge up so that it looks more appealing?
If you don't want a visible transition strip, you could also put down a tack strip right at the transition point, attach the carpet to the strip and then trim/tuck the excess into the crevice between the tack strip and the tile edge.
Only real "difficult" bit is to ensure the carpet and tile height are even so the carpet fibers will effectively conceal the cut edge of the tile.
You'll want to install carpet to tile transition strips (sometimes known as edge trim). Here is a listing from home depot. Basically it's a decorative metal strip that goes over the carpet/tile gap and provides a nice, attractive transition between the two.
Here are some instructions from eHow on how to install the transition.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Some Wisconsinites traveling for Thanksgiving are trying to be thrifty due to the slow economic recovery.
There was a long line for the 8:15 a.m. train Wednesday to Chicago at a Milwaukee Amtrak station.
Among them were 46-year-old Kelly Roberts and her 7-year-old son Colin. They were spending Thanksgiving in Chicago as tourists.
She says she booked the hotel early for a good price, is getting in free to the museums and is skipping the $65 a person Thanksgiving dinner at the hotel.
Thirty-seven-year-old Daniel Blankenship was taking a day trip with his son and wife, but they were in Wisconsin from Seattle to see family for the holiday.
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Use your child's love of watching movies to encourage him to read. For example, your younger child could read (or listen to you read) Rapunzel and then see the movie Tangled, while your older child could read the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and then check out the films. Explore the concepts of character and plot by discussing who was in the movie — the "good guys" (protagonists) and "not-so-good guys" (antagonists) — and what they did. Talk about how the book and the movie differed. Check out these other books that have been turned into movies.
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WILMINGTON, NC April 11, 2013 – The 55th-ranked UNCW men's tennis team made history on Thursday when the Seahawks thumped Old Dominion, 6-1, to notch the first undefeated home season in the program's existence.
The streaking Seahawks won their seventh in a row to push their record to 15-4 heading into the regular season finale at East Carolina on Saturday. UNCW wound up with an unblemished 12-0 record at home, with nine wins coming by shutout.
The Seahawks tuned up for next week's CAA Championships by dominating the Monarchs, who recently left the Colonial Athletic Association for Conference USA. The Seahawks, who won their 21st consecutive home match, captured the doubles point and added five singles victories for the win.
The No. 3 doubles team got things rolling when sophomore Kaue Pereira and freshman Santtu Leskinen teamed up for an easy 8-0 triumph against ODU's Wesley Barrett and Tim Schweig. The top combination of Kosta Blank and Chris Cooprider, ranked 20th nationally by the ITA, then nailed down the all-important point with an 8-4 decision over No. 88 Carlos Lopez Villa and Can Cetinel.
With the win in doubles, Blank tied Scott Curry for the most doubles wins in school history by collecting his 58th triumph. The Winnipeg, Canada, resident stands 58-17 lifetime in doubles action at UNCW.
In singles, UNCW won the first two matches off the court and after ODU rallied for an upset win at the top of the lineup, the Seahawks took the final three pairings to close out the match.
With the Seahawks leading, 1-0, UNCW sophomore Sam Williams increased the score with a straight-set victory, 6-0, 6-2, over Zvonimir Podvinski at No. 3 singles. Pereira then raised the score to 3-0 by trimming ODU's Dante Terenzio at No. 5 singles.
ODU's Carlos Lopez Villa picked up ODU's lone point by upsetting No. 54 Rafael Aita, 7-6 (5), 6-1 on Court 1 before Blank clinched the match by downing Jones Kuwert, 6-2, 7-5.
Cooprider, making his final home appearance, and sophomore Zach Hublitz then registered wins at No. 2 and No. 6 singles to close out the scoring. Cooprider now stands 51-21 in singles over the last four seasons.


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I wondered what is the origin of the decision to make
localhost's IP address
127.0.0.1. What is the "meaning" of
127? what is the "meaning" of
I wondered what is the origin of the decision to make
127 is the last network number in a class A network with a subnet mask of
Earliest mention I can find regarding 127's assignment as loopback is November 1986 RFC 990 authored by Reynolds and Postel:
Even as early as September 1981 RFC 790, 0 and 127 were already reserved:
000.rrr.rrr.rrr Reserved [JBP] ... 127.rrr.rrr.rrr Reserved [JBP]
0 and 127 were the only reserved Class A networks by 1981. 0 was used for pointing to a specific host, so that left 127 for loopback.
I know this doesn't answer the question, but this is as far back as I could dig. It might have made more sense to choose 188.8.131.52 for loopback but that was already given to BBN Packet Radio Network.
The designers of the Internet really knew how the hardware worked, and they designed with low level implementation in mind.
The values 0, 127 and 255 are special in 8 bit assembly and machine language programming because there are "tricks" you can use to test for these values and branch to different code using smaller instructions that execute faster than for other integers. 127 is the highest signed 8 bit integer, so incrementing it by 1 will cause a signed overflow. Similarly, incrementing 255 will cause unsigned overflow. Merely loading the value 0 into a register will usually set a zero flag on the chip. Imagine the networking program looks like this in pseudocode:
Although it depends on the chip, in those days most chips could encode these tests with 2 words, 3 words and 3 words respectively (total 8 words) and further those particular tests were all likely to execute in 1 clock cycle each. Using any other value would probably require 4 words each (total 12 words), a 50% increase in code size and likely a 50% increase in execution time as well.
If you think about what a localhost or loopback IP address means, you realize that you never want to see that address, or the network that that address belongs to, outside of a host. (Inside of a host, it's too dark to see it. Apologies to Mark Twain.)
So, someone had to pick an IP network to represent this localhost address. I don't recall who first chose it, but it's specified in the IETF Request for Comments that is periodically issued as "Host Requirements".
It was done so long ago, that the idea of "wasting" an entire class A address didn't enter anyone's mind at the time.
The utility of localhost is that you can talk to yourself using a hard-coded IP address. It was used long before there was the Domain Name System. You could actually use any of the 127.x.x.x valid addresses, but no one ever does. You can't sneak and use 127 as a real network because the "Router Requirements" RFC disallows ever routing that network on any internet.
First, the whole 127.x.x.x range points to your localhost.
Because when those standards were created, computers were slow and usually limited to 8 bit registers. Comparing numbers to numbers was very slow, expecially if those numbers had to be fetched from the back then REALLY slow memory. Registers, that is "CPU on board" storage were much faster.
Moreover those old computers had special, faster instructions to detect "equal to zero", "different than zero", "negative / positive integer" (where the sign was... guess what, the leftmost bit, now see a connection with 127, that is the number with all binary "1" except the leftmost = sign?).
Therefore those were special numbers, because they allowed programming trickery to save a lot of CPU cycles on frequently done operations.
You'd never see a "IF CallerIP = "0" but a "IF NotZero(CallerIP)" instruction.
You could go check ancient assembly instructions like "BEQ, BNE" (6502 CPUs) for longer explanations. Also check this page out.
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0, 255 and 127 could all be checked for with an one, fastest, instruction. Even more high level languages like C have "shortuct" comparison functions that the compiler may internally optimize into a one instruction.
Years 70 and 80 programmers really produced magnificent architectures with super-scarce resources, behind standards like IP numbering there's a lot of thought and genius.


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For example, Wikipedia states that etale cohomology was "introduced by Grothendieck in order to prove the Weil conjectures". Why are cohomologies and other topological ideas so helpful in understanding arithmetic questions?
Why are topological ideas so important in arithmetic? In some sense KConrad is of course spot on, but let me offer a completely different kind of answer.
Why are complex functions of one variable so important in arithmetic? (Zeta function, L-functions, Riemann hypothesis, Birch--Swinnerton-Dyer, modular forms, theta series, Eisenstein series...).
Why is geometry so important in arithmetic? (Faltings' theorem, applications of algebraic geometry, low-dimensional arithmetic of varieties (elliptic curves etc))
Why is K-theory so important in arithmetic? (Bloch-Kato, Voevodsky...)
Why is logic so important in arithmetic? (Julia Robinson, Matiyasevich, Ax-Kochen and then Hrusovski proving that "if it's true in char p for suff large p then it's true in char 0" in the context of some very deep statements)
Why is functional analysis so important in arithmetic? (L^2 functions on $\Gamma\backslash G$ with $G$ a semisimple Lie group being related to automorphic forms and hence to number theory via Langlands, with crucial analytic tools like the trace formula).
Why are dynamical systems so important in arithmetic? (3x+1 problem, work of Deninger, or of Lind/Ward and their school).
Here's the answer: it's because arithmetic is a very mature subject---it has been around literally thousands of years, and because it has been around so long, there is far more of a chance that someone will come along with an insight relating [insert arbitrary area of pure mathematics here] with arithmetic. So in some sense it's a historical fluke. If we were all born with continuum-many fingers which we could move only in real-analytic ways, and we didn't discover the positive integers until much later on, then arithmetic would be all new and we'd be waiting for Gauss, and real analysis would be as old as the hills, and people would be asking "why is [insert arbitrary thing] so important in real analysis"?
[PS (1) yeah I know, I was being facetious at the end, and (2) yeah I know, my list at the top is woefully incomplete]
May I suggest that we don't have to consider cohomology to see the influence of topology on arithmetic? Looking for rational points on curves leads to the question of which curves have rational parameterization, and Riemann found that the answer is topological -- the curves of genus zero. One also observes special behavior on curves of genus 1 (elliptic curves), etc.
If we think about Diophantine equations in general, the situation is "hopeless". That's a theorem. Nevertheless in number theory we want to study such equations, in special cases at least, so some ideas are required to sort out "Diophantine equation space" (DES) into parts that we might come to understand, and parts to leave alone.
Classically this was done by "degree of an equation". This takes you a certain way, but not really far enough, as genus already shows. There may also be simultaneous equations, for example, and all the insights of algebraic geometry then come in. The slogan of "Diophantine geometry", that the geometry of a set of equations affects the diophantine properties, by now has much credibility. The part of DES where the geometry is well understood seems to correspond quite well to the part fruitful to study by current methods. (For experts, I'm sliding from integer to rational points here.)
"Topological methods of algebraic geometry" explains what happened in the 1950s and 1960s in that subject. From the 1970s, and really with much more pain, related methods have been used in Diophantine geometry. Those working in number theory have always been grateful for any general methods they can get with traction on DES.
New lectures by Atiyah on physics-inspired questions in geometry mention some fascinating connections with number theory, e.g. the question about a "quantum analogue of the Weil conjectures"and an "infinite dimensional version" of them.


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I have a projects that needs a homepage similar to this one. I know there are many multi-language plugins out there. Here's exactly what I need:
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show the actual page content in the sleeted language.
show all the links and menus in the selected language.
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I've developed a Facebook page tab that doubles up as a website style app:
When you visit this app on Chrome, Firefox or Safari the iframe is rendered just fine. However in IE, you are displayed a blank page tab. If I remove all the content from the tab and replace it with some basic HTML, that displays IE and if I view the page tab independently from Facebook it works just fine.
When using IE8's developer tools, it seems load only half of the page tab is loading, almost like it loads the head and gives up. The javascript doesn't appear to have any errors when testing in Chrome and I don't seem to be able to see any errors in IE.
The only other thing that appears in Chrome when testing is this error:
Unsafe JavaScript attempt to access frame with URL http://www.facebook.com/risetoremain from frame with URL...
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FORT RILEY, Kan. (WIBW) -- Fort Riley soldiers showed off some of the Army's latest weapons and technology, including a bomb robot, Friday as they swapped war stories with veterans.
It was part of the annual Retiree Appreciation Day, held at Fort Riley's conference center. Fort Riley showed its appreciation Friday for military retirees from all branches of service. Veterans traveled to the home of the Big Red One for the event.
"It's a chance for the retirees to come together, talk about times and we have some young soldiers in there so they can visit with them. It's all just to let then know that we haven't forgotten their service to our country. We've got a couple of Korean War veterans in there, Vietnam veterans and many of them are now Desert Storm veterans. They're here to enjoy a day of remembrance and also for us to thank them," said retired Command Sergeant Major Richard Young, president of the Fort Riley Military Retiree Council.
Along with a health fair that offered information and immunizations as well as blood pressure, cholesterol and vision screenings , members of the command staff were also on hand to give retirees and their family members a status update on Fort Riley.
Speakers included Brig. Gen. Donald MacWillie, Senior Commander, Col. William J. Clark, garrison commander, Col. Barry Pockrandt, Irwin Army Community Hospital commander, Maryann Bishop, Fort Riley Post Exchange Manager and Peter Howell, the Commissary Store Director.
Clark says construction on the new Irwin Army Community Hospital is on track.
"We are committed to making sure that we take care of soldiers and their families, civilians and retirees. We will find a way to get you the services that you need even though we are in a new fiscal reality," he told the crowd.
Fort Riley had $1.6 billion in infrastructure development over the past several years but Clark says with cut backs, the next six years will go to the opposite end of the spectrum with "limited military construction on Fort Riley." The funds the installation does receive will be used to maintain existing facilities.
"As the Army moves to make some changes, we are in a very good position," he said, pointing out Fort Riley's ability to deploy forces rapidly, it new hospital, new school and other infrastructure projects.
MacWillie told the veterans: "You are our pride."
"As you come back to Fort Riley, don't hesitate to walk into an orderly room or into a dining facility or into a gymnasium and go talk to your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines- we've got them all here at Fort Riley- and tell them that you're proud of them and they'll return it tenfold," he said.
Officials said it was a day to recognize those who helped make our military the force that it is today.
The event was hosted by the Fort Riley Directorate of Human Resources and the Retirements Services Office.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE - Steubenville Central came to Belmont County with the idea of putting immediate pressure on the St. Clairsville Lady Red Devils Wednesday afternoon.
The Lady Crusaders accomplished that and never let up.
Scoring in six of the seven innings, and getting solid pitching from frosh Alex McComb, the Lady Crusaders are headed to the Division III regional tournament at Lancaster High School next Wednesday by virtue of an 8-2 victory against St. Clairsville.
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DISTRICT CHAMPS — Members of the Steubenville Catholic Central softball team celebrate after their 8-2 District Championship victory over St. Clairsville Wednesday.
-- Paul Krajnyak
"Our goals are always to make and win the OVAC and at least make it to the regional," said SCC head coach Jim DiCarlo. "We knew this district was tough and would be a battle, but as I've said before, some teams have more athleticism than we do, but none have more desire, heart and focus."
The Lady Crusaders will next face either defending state runnerup Bloom-Carroll or West Jefferson in the regional semifinal. Those two clubs battle at Pickerington Central Friday afternoon.
While Steubenville Central is making regional plans, St. Clairsville finishes its season at 12-11.
"I have give them credit because they really hit the ball," said St. C. head coach Rachael Duncan. "A lot of them were true base hits. Offense has been our strong point this season, but we just didn't come through today."
McComb went to the circle with a 1-0 lead and it could have been plenty more. St. Clairsville actually wiggled off the hook in the first two innings before Steubenville Central broke through in the fourth with a three spot.
"I really liked how we hit the ball early, but we left so many runners on," DiCarlo said. "I don't know how many we stranded, but it had to be terrible. Alex was sharp, but I thought our hitting was the difference tonight."
The Lady Crusaders produced up and down the order, but the heart of the order with senior Taylor Clark and junior Maddie Gulan delivered the big hits. Clark had a two-run single in the fourth and Gulan drove in three runs, including a laser shot solo home run that hugged the left-field line.
"This is the best feeling and I really had no doubts that we'd make it this far," Clark, who had two hits and two RBI, said. "Our offense is really hitting the ball well. As a senior, I am doing my best to lead them on."
While the Lady Crusaders' offense was doing its thing, McComb just kept trucking in the circle. She actually sat down the first 10 she faced in a row before senior Beanz Hummel singled.
"Even though we weren't scoring all the time, I thought we kept the pressure on at all times," DiCarlo said. "We executed our game plan well in all three phases. We didn't get a lot of clutch hits, but I knew sooner or later that if we kept hitting it hard, we could get things going."
As the Lady Crusaders tacked on insurance run after insurance run, it made it that much tougher on the Lady Red Devils' offense.
"It's hard to come back once they kept scoring more and more runs," Duncan allowed. "(McComb) kept us a little off balance with her rise and change up. We didn't give them our best. While it didn't happen for us today, we're still proud of a good season."
Along with Gulan and Clark, Steubenville Central's offense received solid production from junior lead-off hitter Micca Mirabella (single, RBI), Sammi Giannamore (two singles), Kelsey Grandinetti (double, single) and Megan Lloyd (single).
St. Clairsville's offense, which mustered six hits, was led by Alicia Avila's double and Mackenzi Otto's RBI.
Steubenville Central 8, St. Clairsville 2
Steubenville Central 101 311 1 - 8 12 1
St. Clairsville 000 001 1 - 2 6 1
STEUBENVILLE CENTRAL: McComb (WP) and Clark. Mirabella S, RBI; Giannamore 2S; Grandinetti D, S; Llloyd S; Clark 2S, 2RBI; Gulan HR, S, 3RBI.
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Falling for Me: How I Hung Curtains, Learned to Cook, Traveled to Seville, and Fell in Love (Paperback)
Like most women, whether theyve chosen the Fortune 500 career path or have had five kids by 35, Anna David wondered if shed made the right choices. Then she came upon the book Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmopolitans fearless leader from the mid-sixties to the late nineties. Immediately connecting with Gurley Browns unique message of self-empowerment combined with femininity, Anna vowed to use Sex as a lesson plan, venturing out of her comfort zone in the hope of overcoming the fears and insecurities that had haunted her for years. Embarking on a journey both intensely personal and undeniably universal, she becomes adventurous and spontaneousreviving her wardrobe and apartment, taking French lessons, dashing off to Seville, and whiling nights away with men she never would have considered before. In the process, she ends up meeting the person really worth changing for: herself.
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Anna David is the author of the novels Party Girl and Bought, and the editor of the anthology Reality Matters. She has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Redbook, Details, and many other publications. She has appeared on national television programs including Today, Hannity, and CNN s Showbiz Tonight.
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"Because every girl can use a best-friend-in-a-book, and this one is a winner: funny, smart, and brutally honest."
"A thoughtful chronicle with inspiring lessons in personal growth and building a life one loves from the inside out."
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"Anna David's journey is ripe with wry observation of situations ranging from poignant to hilarious, ending with the ultimate message that we create our own happy endings. In short? I fell for Anna David, and you will, too."
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"In this new form of reality lit, Anna David shows it's never too late to come of age and sometimes it takes an unexpected fairy godmother- say Helen Gurley Brown-to get us there. Anna had me falling for her, myself, and this book with every brave and vulnerable page."
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JONATHAN GOULD is a writer and a former professional musician who studied with the eminent jazz drummer Alan Dawson and spent many years working in bands and recording studios. In addition to writing and playing music, Gould has raised a family, served in local politics, and taken an active role in the life of the upstate New York community where he has lived for the past twenty-five years. He currently divides his time between New York City and Willow, New York.
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Warm, sun-filled days & cool breezy nights in the Tetons sounds like the place to be this Summer!
Even with all the crazy weather issues our nation has experienced over the past few years, I continue to be shocked, dismayed and totally in awe when I see what is happening again this summer across the country. Seriously. How does it ever get to be 106 degrees in Rapid City in June, and, will poor Florida even have the time to get back on its feet from recent catastrophic floods before their next wave of natural disasters hit, namely hurricane season?! Not to mention the brutal devastation occurring in Colorado. So much of the entire country is way out of whack for sure. Except for the Teton Mountain region, and for that, we are truly blessed.
The first few decades of my life was spent by the ocean. My grandparents owned a gracious home a mere block from the beach in South Jersey (thank goodness before Snooki and company permanently tarnished Jersey's rep). What a glorious way to spend one's entire summer vacation with my siblings and occasional stray cousin – covered in warm sand, riding waves and discovering the mysteries of the vast ocean landscape on my uncle's fishing boat. I just returned back from a trip to the shore, a special place where that first pungent smell of the bay seems to jostle every single memory of those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.
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Coming home to Teton Valley, I had the same flurry of anticipation and excitement as I landed in Jackson Hole and seeing those magnificent Tetons bathed in their evening light. Those jagged peaks rising into the cloudless sky always evoke an array of emotions in my heart as they seem to almost reach out and greet me like an old friend. As I touched down on Wyoming soil I also realized that I've celebrated an equal number of birthdays living both by the sea and in these glorious mountains – how did I ever get to be so darn lucky!
Yep, it's good to be home, and fortunately for us "locals" and guests visiting the area, it's easy to get here from virtually anywhere. Flying into Jackson Hole offers the traveler an incredible sense of arrival with the airport flanked by the iconic Tetons and the impressive Gros Ventre Mountains to the east. It's also the only airport in the entire country located in a national park, the spectacular Grand Teton National Park no less. That explains why when you exit this airport you immediately spot an elk or two wandering through a herd of Bison and a moose leisurely enjoying an evening snack in the Snake River (just look for a gaggle of humans holding cameras.) http://www.jacksonholeairport.com/
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6 Insane Uses of Animals in Wartime (That Actually Worked)
#3. Landmine-Hunting Rats
Just as in many war-torn parts of the world, decades of war in Mozambique have left land mines scattered across the country, making large expanses of land too dangerous to develop.
So a guy named Bart Weetjens, thinking about how shitty it would be to walk through a minefield with a metal detector and hope for the best, decided that sending rats to do the job would be way better for all parties involved.
Except the rats.
OK, they're not just sending the rats out to explode the mines. You should be ashamed for thinking that.
No, the truth is actually weirder. Weetjens started a project that set about training the giant African pouched rat to smell explosives. The rats scamper across minefields, signaling when they find mines. Upon finding the mines, they scratch at the ground to alert their handlers, because as we all know, the best way to alert someone to the presence of a bomb is to slap at it with our hands. The handlers then reward the rat with food and remove the mine, and if all goes according to plan, nobody explodes.
Since they are native to Africa, the rats are less susceptible to local disease than, say, a bomb-sniffing dog. Also, the rats are in no danger because they don't weigh enough to trigger the mines. Their main drawback is that they are hard to control. Hell, how many of you even knew rats could be trained to do anything until just now?
Willard was more accurate than we ever dared dream.
But even trained, the rats don't run in a specific pattern, so their trainers had to develop a way to ensure that a rat sweeps an entire area. The rat wears a harness that's attached to a wire stretching across the minefield. When the rat has crossed from one side of the minefield to the other, the trainers move the wire over, and the rat crosses again: video of it here.
The rats are so effective that Weetjens' organization plans to clear 3.7 million square meters by 2014, after which it will be moving into Angola and the Congo. It has also shown that its rats can detect tuberculosis, which is just about the wackiest combination of jobs we at Cracked can imagine.
"I'm so sorry, sir ... you have tuberculosis. And a land mine hidden in your sternum."
#2. Mares in Heat Used to Distract War Horses
So we already have an instance of one side distracting its opponent's war animals by turning its own into huge balls of fire. What in the hell could be more effective in trying to distract your enemy's horses? Well, let's put it this way: They're male horses.
Which brings us to Pharaoh Thutmose III. He was a badass, made no less awesome by the fact that his name kind of looked like "titmouse." He led Egypt on 17 military campaigns, ruled over the largest Egyptian empire and is considered one of the greatest pharaohs of all time.
Second only to Mumm Ra.
He was such a military genius that his enemies had to develop creative tactics to use against him. For example, the king of Kadesh, an ancient city in what is now Syria, knew that the pharaoh rode on a chariot pulled by stallions.
He hatched an idea basically theorizing that no matter what level of wartime mayhem is exploding around in all directions, no penis in history can resist a vagina. Targeting the stallions pulling the Egyptian chariots, the king of Kadesh set loose a mare in heat to create a "distraction."
The result was a total disruption of the pharaoh's battle formation, as horses presumably ran wildly in every direction with raging, flapping boners. Detailed battlefield reports from ancient history are hard to come by, so it's impossible to tell how often this particular tactic was used. Although it seems to have been somewhat widespread, considering it made it into the Bible.
If there's one thing we've learned from the Bible, it's that God loves great, flapping horse-cocks.
Seriously. The Song of Solomon: "You are as exciting, my darling, as a mare among Pharaoh's stallions." Which, as we at Cracked have pointed out before, is a song about poontastic sex.
#1. Pigeons, and Pigeon-Hunting Falcons
In a time before wireless communication, when mail had to travel slowly on horseback, messenger pigeons were invaluable. For centuries, you could write up your note on a tiny piece of paper, and a trained pigeon would get it there -- this practice goes all the way back to the Persian Empire. Messenger pigeons were still common in World War I and were actually more reliable than telegrams.
"Can you read my pigeon-message now?
One bird, Cher Ami, delivered a message that saved almost 200 American soldiers who were cut off and under friendly artillery fire. Most impressive, it did so after being shot in the chest and losing a leg. We would have given up after we heard the first "bang." The story is kind of inspirational, if we just stopped there.
But during World War II, British intelligence discovered that their German counterparts were using pigeons to transmit messages across Europe. Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, hilariously declared himself head of the German National Pigeon Society without a single ounce of irony. He had pigeons dropped on Britain, where spies would attach messages to the pigeons' legs and send them to France.
The British needed an answer to this, and none of them had heard of Alka-Seltzer. They created the Army Pigeon Service Special Section. Despite the name, the special section contained zero pigeons.
The unit was actually made up of peregrine falcons. Peregrine falcons are the fastest birds in the world. They hunt by flying high above their prey and diving down at up to 200 mph, striking their victims in midair and stunning or killing them on impact.
These falcons were trained to hunt and kill Himmler's Nazi messenger pigeons, which must have been pretty easy to do, considering peregrine falcons do the exact same thing in the wild without any sort of encouragement. They were released over the British Channel, and the result was something like this really gross video:
War is hell.
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I am developing an Android application for Gujarat's farmers. So this app should be in Gujarati also.
Is there any way so that I can store my data in Gujarati in SQLite?
Yes. Just store those strings.
Sqlite always works with unicode strings. Java String is also unicode. So everything should work out of the box. If it does not, than say what that is.
Internally sqlite encodes all strings either in utf-8 or utf-16 (there is a per-database option), but since it always converts them as needed (to one or other for comparison and to/from java.lang.String in the API), you don't even need to care.


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Some days ago I've seen Cantor's diagonal argument, and it presented a table similar to the following one:
$$\begin{matrix} {\frac{1}{1}}&{\frac{1}{2}}&{\frac{1}{3}}&{\frac{1}{4}}&{\cdots}\\ {\frac{2}{1}}&{\frac{2}{2}}&{\frac{2}{3}}&{\frac{2}{4}}&{\cdots}\\ {\frac{3}{1}}&{\frac{3}{2}}&{\frac{3}{3}}&{\frac{3}{4}}&{\cdots}\\ {\vdots}&{\vdots}&{\vdots}&{\vdots}&{\ddots} \end{matrix}$$
If we follow some diagonals, we're going to meet repeated numbers such as $1/1,\; 2/2,\; \cdots$ so what are the conditions to find only non repeated numbers? I had a feeling that the set for such a task is the following one:
$$\{0,1\}\cup \{a/b: \, a,b\in\mathbb{Z}, \;b\neq 0, \; b \in primes, \; a\neq b \}\tag{1.0}$$
The first idea I had was only for the positive rationals:
$$\{0,1\}\cup \{a/b: \, a,b\in\mathbb{N}, \;b\neq 0, \; b \in primes, \; a\neq b \}\tag{1.1}$$
But I'm really not sure of what I'm doing nor have I the mental tools to prove that, I just had a feeling. I was quite certain (with some magical mystery in my head) that $(1.1)$ was right, but I extended it also to negative rationals in $(1.0)$ and I'm a little less certain that it would work for this specific case.
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For fun (relatively speaking), I'd like to do a little research on probabilities related to a pseudo-random number generator.
Specifically, how would I get started figuring out
"what is the probability that a prng will generate the same random number twice?"
This is part of an investigation into a larger issue, but I'm not sure where to begin (or if my question is even relevant).
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After reading the comments and answers I see that my question isn't clear. As an example: the rng outputs a
5 What is the probability that another
5 will be the next output? How many "rolls" of the RNG must I make before I see another
If we assume a good rng has uniform distribution, then is it 1 out of (2^32) (assuming 32bit integers)?
For a larger example, lets say I use the RNG to generate numbers that are used as an index into an array of characters. The array is 25 numbers long, so the output of the RNG is
mod 25 I will generate a sequence of 5 characters.
How would I determine the probability of generating the same 5 character sequence?
If we assume that we have a uniform distribution of output numbers from the RNG, then the RNG's output shouldn't factor into the probability of generating the same character sequence.
However, is my assumption valid?


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There is nothing like deciding to go on a bit of a road trip for a contest. We decided to make a bit of a hike to Pennsylvania this past weekend with our children to attend the Inaugural competition put on by our friend Brian Nevel from Huntingdon County Custom and his partner Ed Stoddard.
They did a good job informing teams coming in of what to expect and the location was top notch. We had a great time competing in both the grilling and the KCBS contest.
You know its always so wonderful to get the opportunity to travel and see the small towns on the way to a comp. There are so many beautiful communities with interesting quirks I would love to stop at. There just never seems to be enough time. The fall foliage was breathtaking as we approached our destination. Just beautiful. My blackberry pictures don't do it justice.
Lucky for us we had our good friends from Swamp Pit BBQ right next to us. Our kids love hanging out together and so do we!!
I also have to point out that I finally got to meet a very special little man. He is so snuggly and cute and adorable. Cooper belongs to Kristal and Josh Shade from Tiny's BBQ and well I was just really excited to cuddle him a bit
For the grilling contest I have to give some props to our good friends Dan Hixon and Chris Hall from 3 Eyz BBQ. Since they were not competing in the grilling part they ended up being our taste testers for the trials we did ahead of the competition. I was happy with our burger, pizza and chefs choice entires. I like having the ability to be creative. We ended up with a 1st in pizza and Reserve Grand Champion.
Here is a short video I took on the BB of the competition.
It was a lot of fun and it was great to see the other teams. I loved seeing the custom made firepits. I really enjoy sitting around the fire at a competition. I also seriously enjoyed a wicked good prime rib courtesy of the Grand Poobah himself Phil. It was awesome. The morning shot was courtesy of MABA & Aporkaclypse now. The shot glasses were a really nice souvenir from the event.
We had a great time and I would recommend this event highly. The awards were terrific. Medals from the BBQ-brethren and custom awards from Brian Nevel.
Congratulations to PA Midnight Smokers who received two 180's for the weekend. One in dessert and one in brisket.
Congrats to Chix, Swine and Bovine on their GC and 3Eyz BBQ on their Reserve GC for the KCBS competition. we came in 4th overall just missing a 180 in pork by less than 1/2 a point.
The reserve GC and the Grand Champion teams got to participate in a new tradition at Raystown Lake they both took a dip in the water and we all posed for a group picture:
It was great to be among friends for the weekend but its always nice to come home …..


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Towards the end of the New Testament writing, the heresy of gnosticism was one of the chief "false teachings" against which Paul and the other writers were contesting. Could someone present some of the chief teachings of the Gnostics that were "false teachings," and for extra credit, identify any of these beliefs that may be present in certain denominations today.
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Gnosticism was a movement that sprung up as an attempt to fill a major knowledge vacuum in the Scriptural record. The Gospels record that even the Apostles, Jesus's highest and most trusted disciples, were spiritually weak and deemed by the Lord as unready for the true doctrines of the Kingdom.
For example, witness Peter, who boasted of his fearlessness and readiness to follow the Lord to any tribulation, only hours before being reduced to fearful lying to disassociate himself from Christ when the actual tribulation came. The "fearless" apostle, the one who Jesus had named the Rock, was reduced to cowering before a serving girl, one of the lowest social positions in Jewish society!
But all that changed once they began their ministry. Acts describes Peter as a preacher of true fearlessness, ready to face prison and beatings and all manner of tribulations for the Lord's sake. And as for what happened to change him and the Apostles, we are left with a void. The Scriptural record glosses over the events that occurred after the resurrection.
We are told that the resurrected Christ talked with two disciples on the way to Emmaus,
but only the first few sentences of this wondrous sermon are preserved for our knowledge. Likewise, Luke records that "also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God." (Acts 1:3) but the record is silent on the contents of this teaching. Any understanding of Gnosticism has to take this into account, for it is the root of Gnosticism. Dr. Hugh Nibley wrote:
With this knowledge unavailable to the church in general, but its existence unquestioned, false teachers sprung up to fill the void, bringing a new doctrine inspired heavily by Greek philosophy. The idea was that physical matter was somehow corrupt and evil, and that God's plan involved freeing Mankind from the bonds of the flesh.
If you're looking for Gnostic influence in modern Christianity, you need look no further than this basic concept. A lot of the more "out there" Gnostic teachings have been stamped out, but shades of the core ideas can be found even today in the common understanding of God as a being of pure spirit, without any physical form. The Christ of the Bible, and of the early Christian church, was a resurrected being who went out of his way to prove and demonstrate that he had a fully real body of flesh and bones!
Perhaps the defining characteristic of gnosticism is the belief that salvation is attained through the realisation of gnosis, which Wikipedia defines as "esoteric or intuitive knowledge". This is at odds with much of Christianity, which teaches that salvation is attained by faith (or, in some cases by faith and works, where works might be a ritual such as baptism).
But it isn't a case of faith good, gnosis bad - depending what you include as gnosis. You might include the gifts of the Holy Spirit - prophecy, discernment, tongues, etc, which are to be encouraged. People who exercise these gifts do tend to be seen as "more spiritual" than others by some Christians, and leaders displaying this kind of gifting are often those who are labelled as having apostolic authority.
Whether there are degrees of spirituality - whether someone can be "more spiritual" than someone else - is probably a different question (and more of a discussion topic than something definitively answerable); but the main point is that even if someone has fully realised this kind of gifting, they are no more or less saved as a result of it. If gnosis is defined as a combination of knowledge of the Holy Spirit and gifts of the Holy Spirit, then it is something that follows salvation, might even be part of salvation, but is not the cause of salvation.
Probably the churches that come closest to gnosticism are the charismatic churches, where more emphasis tends to be placed on the manifestation of spiritual gifts than in other denominations; but charismatics still hold true to the fact that we are saved by faith, not by demonstrating spiritual gifts or spiritual knowledge.
There may well be groups that adhere to "full-blown" gnositicism and profess to be Christians, but they are unlikely to be recognised as such by the mainstream denominations.
Gnosticism was born out of an idea that secret knowledge will grant you some form of salvation, which in some ways can sound like how some Christians view the necessity of hearing of Jesus. However, the better question might be of what are they saved from? Classically Christianity has taught that humanity needs to be saved from its own hubris, oncoming destruction, selfishnes, etc.
HOWEVER, Christianity has never said that one needs to be saved from this material world. THAT is a heretical tenet of gnosticism that has been carried over into today's Christianity. It is heretical to say that Jesus saves us from this physical reality in order to abandon our bodies and live on some more spiritual plane.
Not only that, but gnosticism had a strong following of people who believed that there were two demigods, light and dark, or good and evil that were constantly at battle, but more than that, they were equal. Any form of Christianity that gives the devil or evil just as much power as God or good is influenced by this heretical tenet of gnosticism.


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The day-and-half conference will feature three general sessions and several breakout sessions highlighting different areas of the sector, including the community/small wind industry, biomass/biofuels, solar and wind farm development, and transportation, officials said.
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I'm interested in visiting the Great Wall of China, but don't want to face many tourists during my trip.
Are there such parts of it?
Are visitors allowed to walk on it?
I'm interested in visiting the Great Wall of China, but don't want to face many tourists during my trip.
As with everything else in China - if you go to a place that is opened for tourists, be prepared to see a lot of them. You can usually avoid the hordes by going on a weekday (as opposed to weekend), avoiding national holidays, going early in the morning and picking a place that is less-known (pick #3, #4, ... place as opposed to #1, #2 place). That being said, the great wall is a very popular destination and the virgin places are harder to find.
But - being that long (6500km?) - there is logically quite a lot of choice if you're looking for a more unique experience than the "Disneyland" you see at Badaling or Mutianyu.
Here are a few options:
As for the second question:
You are allowed to walk on the sections opened to the tourists. Besides that - walking or camping on the wall is technically illegal, but you will probably have no problem (worst case you get a fine). And hey, camping on the great wall is awesome!
There are a great many locations on the Great Wall that can be visited. Narrowing the choice to those within day trip or single overnight stay from Beijing, we get the following list. I've added my comments as to their merits.
Miyun County
Simatai ( 司马台; Sīmǎtái) a popular but remote. Quite far from Beijing. Currently (2011) this section is closed to tourists but should reopen shortly.
Gubeikou is good but a little least visited, sections of the wall. Less tourists because it is more remote and further from Beijing than other sections.
Jinshanling ( 金山岭; Jīnshānlǐng), you can walk from here to Simatai. Arrange to have your driver pick you up at the other end. You can't continue on to Simatai as that section is currently closed.
Huairou District
Mutianyu (慕田峪; Mùtiányù) popular and accessable section of the wall. Favourite of photographers.
Jiankou (Chinese: 箭口,箭扣; pinyin: jian kou) highly photogenic and atmospheric section of the wall.
Huanghuacheng - very remote and little visited but quite attractive. A very steep climb.
Yanqing County
Badaling (八达岭; Bādálǐng) This is a tourist trap. If you don't like crowds, don't go here.
Shuiguan - near to Badaling, again very touristy and busy in peak season.
Changping County
Juyongguan or Juyong Pass (居庸关; Jūyōng Guān) easy to get to though heavily restored.
Hebei Province
If you are willing to go a little further to really get away from the tourists and get a unique view of the wall, I can recommend Shanhaiguan (Shanhai Pass). This is located in Hebei Province about 300km east of Beijing. It will require an overnight trip to visit but you will get to see many interesting details of the wall without disturbance. This is traditionally the Eastern end of the wall, where it meats the sea. There is a large fortress here in addition to the Wall. A little further along the coast you can find the Dragon's Head where the Great Wall actually juts out into the sea. A unique sight.
The above information was sourced and edited from here.
You may find tours in Beijing offering to take you to "Secret" sections of the Great Wall. These may take you to areas that are not officially open to tourists. I would request that you avoid these tours. The Great Wall is fragile and easily damaged. The sections that are open to tourists are managed so as to prevent and repair damage. When visiting closed sections of the wall you are destroying the very thing you came to see.
Author Peter Hessler visited some of the most remote parts of the Great Wall and seemed to do an excellent job of avoiding other tourists. He took measures to avoid catching the attention of the local government, though. In planning your trip, you might do well to read his account of the journey: Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
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I have to store the IP address of all registered users in the database. I am wondering, how many characters should I declare for such a column?
Should I support IPv6 as well? If so, what is the maximum length of IP address?
I have to store the IP address of all registered users in the database. I am wondering, how many characters should I declare for such a column?
Should I support IPv6 as well? If so, what is the maximum length of IP address?
Don't store as a string. Use an
EDIT as per comment
Using built in function to converto IPs to/from integers (and so storing those integers in the database) has the side effect of automatically validate those IPs. Say you store an IP as a VARCHAR(16), you have to make sure not to store invalid IPs (like 999.999.999.999 as an example) with some custom validation. INET_* functions take care of that.
It is probably time to start considering IPv6. MySQL does not have methods to convert IPv6 addresses to binary format. A forty character string will handle any normal IPv6 addresses. There is a format that could exceed 40 characters, I would consider those unlikely to occur practice.
You can calculate the size from then information that there will be at most 8 four character groups with 7 separator characters. The abnormal format replaces the last two groups with an IPv4 format address. With no address compression it replaces the last 9 characters with up to 15 characters.
If you are storing blocks, the block size indication can take 4 characters rather than the 3 characters required for IPv4.
You should ensure the formatting you get is consistent, but all the software I have seen gives consistent formats for the addresses.
I'd suggest migration to PostgreSQL and use of INET or CIDR data types.
Here is the best answer made in one of the MySQL mailing lists. Read Best Fieldtype to store IP address....
Briefly it suggests, which I second, to use INT(10) UNSIGNED.
So, using 192.168.10.50:
(192 * 2^24) + (168 * 2^16) + (10 * 2^8) + 50 = 3232238130 (results in 192.168.10.50)
192 + (168 * 2^8) + (10 * 2^16) + (50 * 2^24) = 839559360 (Backwards, results in 22.214.171.124)
As of MySQL v5.6.3 they added support for
You can store up to 15 characaters. Please do not use VARCHAR(15) because that is 16 bytes (first byte manages string length and thus slower retrieval and storage). Use CHAR(15) always on something like an IP address.
Sorry, can't comment on answers. There is a question about it on stackoverflow. And I totally agree with selected answer: using 2xBIGINT is probably the best way for ipv6 currently.
It is also possible to store ipv4 on this bigints - either by marking one of them NULL or by using V4COMPAT format


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Where can I find the most direct and simplest presentation of what geodesics on a (complex) Grassmannian look like? I know how to do it from scratch, but, if I want to provide a reference to, say, a graduate student in EE who doesn't want to deal with any unnecessary abstract mathematical machinery, what should I point him to?
Grassmanians are symmetric spaces, and symmetric spaces are "geodesic orbit spaces", that is, their geodesics are orbits of their group of isometries. Your Grassmanians, in particular, are of the form $SU(p+q)/SU(p)\times SU(q)$. If $g$ is the Lie algebra of the big group and $h\subseteq g$ the Lie algebra of the subgroup, then there is a $SU(p)\times SU(q)$-invariant complement $p$ to $h$ in $g$. The geodesics are the orbits of the $1$-parameter subgroups of $SU(p+q)$ whose tangent vectors are in $p$.
So to compute the geodesics, you need only find that complement $p$ and compute exponentials...
This is a variation on the 1st answer, but I find it more straightforward and have explained it to EE students. Consider the map $U(n) \to Gr(k,n)$ from the unitary group to the Grassmannian by $g \mapsto gx_0$, with $x_0$ a chosen `base point'. Put the bi-invariant metric on the unitary group $U(n)$. The metric on $Gr(k,n)$ is defined so that this map is a Riemannian submersion: the orthogonal complement to the fiber is linearly isometric to the base tangent space. As such, geodesics in $U(n)$ which are ORTHOGONAL TO THE FIBER project onto geodesics in the Grassmannian. And all geodesics in the Grassmannian arise this way. Now use that geodesics in the Unitary group are all of the form $g_0 exp(t \xi)$ -- translates of one-parameter subgroups, and work out what it means , relative to $\xi$ for the geodesic to be tangent to the fiber in the case $g_0 = Id.$
This answer is a little bit redundant with the other two answers given so far, but here goes anyway.
It is easier to describe the real Grassmannian case. We can look at the Grassmannian $\text{Gr}(n,k)$, and suppose that $2k \le n$; if not then you can pass to the opposite Grassmannian. If $V$ and $W$ are two $k$-planes in $\mathbb{R}^n$, then there a set of $k$ 2-dimensional planes that are each perpendicular to each other and each intersect $V$ and $W$ in a line. Call the angles between these lines $\theta_1,\ldots,\theta_k$. Then in the connecting geodesic $V_t$ with $V_0 = W$ and $V_1 = V$, the angles are instead $t\theta_1,\ldots,t\theta_k$. This is an explicit description that is basically equivalent to Mariano's remark about invariant complements.
The complex version has the same system of angles, but complexified lines, 2-planes, and $k$-planes. The "angle" between two lines in a 2-plane can be defined as the geometric angle between their slopes plotted on the Riemann sphere. Actually these angles are twice as large as the angles in the real case in the previous paragraph, but that makes no difference.
I was vague on the positions of the planes. The orthogonal projection of $V$ onto $W$ has a singular value decomposition, and the singular values are $\cos \theta_1,\ldots,\cos \theta_n$. The orthogonal projection the other way is the transpose, or Hermitian transpose in the complex case, so it has the same singular values. The corresponding singular vectors are the lines $V \cap P_k$ and $W \cap P_k$. So the actual explicit work of finding the geodesic comes from solving a singular value problem, or equivalently an eigenvalue problem.
The complex Grassmannian SU(n)/S(U(k) * SU(n-k)) being a Hermitian symmetric space enjoys the property that its geodesics (in the standard Kaehler metric) are homogeneous, i.e., generated by action of a one parameter subgroup of SU(n). In the following reference there is an explicit construction of this map in the affine coordinates.
Another method for the computation of the geodesics on symmetric spaces is through the solution of the radial part of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. In the case of the complex Grassmannian, it depends on min(k, n-k) coordinates and depends only on the restricted roots of the symmetric space and their multiplicity (see, Helgason: Groups and geometric analysis for the definitions of the radial coordinates and the radial differential operators).
Have a look at the paper:
There are explicit formulas for geodesics and even for the geodesic distance on real Grassmannians. This ties in with Greg Kuperberg's answer.


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After triggering a long term calf-muscle injuring in my leg during a recent run, I went to my local pharmacy to get some deep heat to apply to it whilst waiting for the doctors to squeeze me in.
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I recently watched the documentary miniseries "How the Universe Works" and few things can't stop bothering me. I am not an astronomer nor a physicist so those may be dummy questions. what I get know from the movie is cluster's stars are not orbiting but they are bond by the gravity so:
- Does the stars in clusters rotate?
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Wright Words: Elderly woman sends message to the world: 'Everything happens for a reason'
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WOODSTOCK, Va. — It was a hot, muggy Monday afternoon in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The humid hours and minutes felt like fat dominos, too heavy to gather momentum and topple over onto one another. It was the kind of afternoon that just gives up and waits for dusk to arrive with a fan and an extra lemonade.
I stepped outside my office on Main Street in Woodstock for a thick walk to our small-town post office. It was time to clear my lousy head after punching through several lousy drafts of a lousy column that now sits in my digital trashcan.
I took the long way, despite the heat, and extended the stroll by several blocks. I watched cars and other pedestrians pass by, waved at a few strangers and wondered what I was missing.
Then, when I returned to my building — a quaint movie theater from another era — I met a remarkable woman who rewrote my afternoon, this very column, and maybe, just maybe, my outlook on life.
Betty Pelletier, 89, of Woodstock, Va., was sitting alone on a bench outside my office eating a snack when I sat down next to her to say, "Hello." I learned she was returning home from a doctor's appointment and an errand at the opposite end of Main Street. She'd walked from one end of town to the other and back again.
I'd barely taken a seat when she said confidently, "Everything happens for a reason."
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Sadly, soon after she uprooted and planted herself in town, the man developed Alzheimer's and was checked into a long-term care facility. The arrangement was no longer necessary, but here she was to stay.
I turned to face her. "You know, Betty, not many people would do that."
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Wright says it's not unlike a country to test its weapons.
He lived in South Korea during the Olympics in 1988 and '89.
He remembers the period as a more stable time between North and South Korea.
"They look at things differently than we do. If they say they are going to do something, then they are going to do it," Wright says.
Since the Korean War Peace Treaty was signed in 1953, conflict between the North and the South has been at a halt.
He says the border divides them geographically and on their outlook on life.
He remembers the South as a peaceful group of people, while the North was run by dictatorship.
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Korean War veteran Ret. Col. Robert Spiller remembers protecting the boarder in 1952.
He could always tell how safe the boarder was by how much noise was being made.
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Protecting the Korean border was Col. Spiller's first deployment when he was just 22 years old, and the same boarder has divided the North and South for 60 years.
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