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6 Insane Conspiracy Theories (That Actually Happened)
As we've demonstrated before, the only things crazier than the stories concocted by the paranoid are the real conspiracies history's creepiest movers and shakers have pulled off right under our noses. Secret schemes that shaped the world around us are hiding in the footnotes of our history books, if you just know where to look. For instance ...
#6. Big Auto Killed the Electric Streetcar
The Conspiracy Theory:
Ask a crazy conspiracy theorist enough questions, and you'll eventually get to a dark boardroom full of evil billionaires secretly manipulating world events ... like puppeteers, but with money. They come in all shapes and sizes -- the New World Order, the Illuminati, Masons, Scientology, the Jews, the "gay mafia" that allegedly controls Hollywood. To get a nuanced understanding of how the average conspiracy theorist thinks the world runs, watch the scene in Trading Places in which two old guys ruin Dan Aykroyd's life over a one-dollar bet, and punch yourself in the part of your brain that contains a sense of humor.
Dan Aykroyd is the only man who can rant about conspiracies without sounding crazy. Because Ghostbusters.
Fortunately, modern societies reward companies that give people what they want, and we have laws designed to punish fat cats who try to gang up on the little guy. Unfortunately, breaking those laws pays extremely well in certain circumstances. While they may not be as smart or capable of weather control as we give them credit for, the extremely wealthy do occasionally meet up in dark boardrooms and make decisions that make themselves richer, and you more miserable. And that, boys and girls, is why you drove a car to work this morning.
The Illuminati's sacred goal is to make sure the world's public transit always smells like urine.
The Reality:
There was a time in America when even small towns hummed around on electric trains and trollies. Around the end of World War I, urban railways accounted for 90 percent of trips taken in vehicles, and there was no reason to believe they were going anywhere. Urban railways meant that the average workaday citizen didn't have to invest time and money in learning to drive, paying for gas and maintaining a car. At the time, driving a car was considered a novelty. A fun thing to do on a Sunday that allowed the moderately wealthy to feel fancy without having to buy a boat. Plus, the railways were so lucrative that the local government didn't have to pay a dime to maintain them, since small businesses did the work for them. Everyone was a winner, except for a handful of very rich people who had overestimated the demand for automobiles back when they were known as horseless carriages.
"Most expensive motor car"? Definitely onto a winner there with the poor people.
In 1921, only 10 percent of Americans owned cars, and after losing $65 million in a year, General Motors had to face the fact that cars just weren't worth it for the other 90 percent. Today, the ascendance of the automotive industry is a foregone conclusion, but at the time it seemed more like a bunch of rich guys had forgotten that not everyone was rich. Imagine if the wealthiest people in your city invested all their money in limousines, under the assumption that everyone would stop taking cabs because why take a taxi? Limos only cost a couple hundred dollars extra!
This is where less successful men would have come to terms with the fact that they'd backed the wrong horse. Capitalism had spoken, and its answer was: "We'll take the clearly superior alternative that doesn't cost half a year's paycheck up front." Instead, General Motors decided to find a way to make cars worth it to the average citizen. After waiting for the laughter in the room to die down when someone suggested that they lower car prices, the car industry looked at the people who rode electric rails to work and decided to make them what's known in the mafia as "an offer they can't refuse."
"That's some real nice infrastructure you got there, America. Pity if something happened to it."
According to a Senate report, in the 1930s, GM, Goodyear, Firestone Tire and a bunch of oil companies joined together to form a number of fake rail companies. They would buy up all the small companies that operated America's small town railway systems, then destroy the systems, and soon enough America would run on gasoline-powered tires. By the mid-1950s, the fake rail companies had replaced 900 of the 1,200 public railway systems with gas-powered buses and cars and were ready to take on the biggest electric railway system in the world: Los Angeles. Yes, the city that's famous for bumper-to-bumper traffic once hummed along on 1,500 miles of electric railways. GM bought out the local railway companies, and a few years later there wasn't a single electric streetcar operating in Los Angeles. Today, the smog over LA is so thick that most of the people who live there have no idea they that live at the foot of a beautiful snowcapped mountain range.
LA without smog.
Of course, you can't just form an illegal monopoly and get away with it. In 1947, the government convicted 10 of the biggest corporations in America of conspiracy, and fined GM $5,000. GM was able to survive the fine, since the illegal conspiracy had made it one of the most successful companies of the 20th century. And all they had to do was destroy the infrastructure of some of America's biggest cities and screw the next dozen or so generations who lived there out of clean, affordable transportation.
Sure, but it was probably all worth it to play streetcar Jenga.
#5. The Insane Government Scheme to Get Rid of MLK
The Conspiracy Theory:
You can usually tell an insane conspiracy theory by asking what the bad guy's motivation was. Woodward and Bernstein uncovered an actual conspiracy by knowing to "follow the money." Less sane conspiracies answer the question of motive by screaming "Everybody's lizards!" So you can be forgiven if you're a little skeptical when someone claims that there was a conspiracy to destroy the life and career of Martin Luther King Jr., one of the great heroes of the 20th century. It's like learning that Henry VIII sexually assaulted Martha Washington in order to sire a son, or that terrorists conspired with Karl Malone and John Stockton to poison Michael Jordan before the flu game. The good guy is too good. The bad guy's too pointlessly evil. Vast government conspiracies need a motive beyond just being villainous creeps, right?
The FBI just hasn't been as menacing since they installed those "No Smoking" signs.
The Reality:
For reasons that range from outright racism to paranoia in the face of a powerful revolutionary, the FBI secretly made Martin Luther King Jr. an unofficial enemy of the state. Reading the details of the FBI's response to King's famous rise to power makes you wonder why it hasn't been made into a movie, while making you simultaneously realize that it would be impossible to make the truth not seem like an over-the-top exaggeration.
We always rely on our perfect memory for life-changing events.
For instance, King's "I Have a Dream" speech was the defining moment of the civil rights movement. It brought the struggle of African-Americans into stark focus for white Americans while giving the oppressed black community a reason to hope. It is considered by many to be the most important speech given in the 20th century, but at FBI headquarters, it was considered a sign that King was the "most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country." That's from a memo that went around the FBI right after King's speech.
This wasn't just idle, water cooler racism, either. The heads of various departments met to "explore how best to carry on our investigation ... to produce the desired results." While that might sound sinister, later memos cleared up that they were only interested in "neutralizing King as an effective Negro leader." OK yeah, we're definitely getting a sinister vibe over here.
Our Hoover-sense is tingling.
The meetings produced a many-pronged approach involving all the basic stuff that bad guys are only supposed to do in movies, like bugging every room he stayed in and every phone conversation he had. Records reveal thousands of discussions inside the agency, tens of thousands of memos discussing his every action, and FBI head J. Edgar Hoover's raging hate-boner for one of the most important moral leaders of the 20th century. The FBI files give historians unique insight into Hoover's motivation, like the article about King receiving an award, on which Hoover personally scrawled "disgusting," or the article about King meeting with the Pope, on which he wrote "I am amazed the Pope gave an audience to such a degenerate," or the article about King being nominated for a Nobel Prize, on which he wrote "King could well qualify for the 'top alley cat' prize!"
In case you're not up on your casual 1960s-era racism, "alley cat" is a term for an urban street cat that has multiple sexual partners. The FBI's extensive wire-tapping had revealed that King, unlike any person in a position of power in the history of the United States, was carrying on an extramarital affair. We like to imagine that Hoover scrawled his disapproving references to King's embarrassing sexual indiscretions while dressed as a woman, and that his boss, Robert Kennedy, read them while having sex with one of the three women he and his brother bragged about needing to sleep with to prevent headaches.
Oh stop it, you terrible racist tease.
The culmination of the FBI's operation -- at least the part that made it into their official records -- was an anonymous letter to King in which they called him a fraud, compared him to Satan and told him that if he didn't want his affair to be revealed, he knew what he had to do. The celebrity hate mail was found in the FBI files long after an assassin had taken care of the FBI's problem for them, but analysts believe they were suggesting that King should kill himself if he didn't want to be disgraced.
MLK here, looking really disgraced at the signing of the Civil Rights Act.
So if you thought King was heroic before, try to imagine the balls it would take to continue going out in public after the FBI tried to blackmail you into offing yourself, and then realize that your mind's eye doesn't have the bandwidth to imagine balls that big.
#4. The Election Conspiracy That Might Have Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People
The Conspiracy Theory:
Election season is when conspiracy theorists really earn their paychecks. It's the one time when politicians don't run screaming from them, since even the most insane rumors about their opponent can sway public opinion. In 2000, Bush was able to win the primary after a rumor circulated that John McCain's adopted daughter was actually the love child from an illicit interracial affair. In 2004, Bush got hit with claims that he orchestrated the 9/11 attacks, or knew they were going to happen, or was secretly cool with it, while he in turn accused his opponent of having exaggerated his record in Vietnam, and also wind surfing.
Better known as "communist yachting."
And it's not just our sensationalist media. Crazy conspiracy theories have been affecting American elections for almost as long as we've had them.
Of course, you've probably heard about that one time the paranoid election conspiracy theories were true -- when the Nixon campaign bugged the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate Hotel. But you might not know about the first, far more evil election conspiracy Nixon orchestrated to get elected in the first place.
"Yes, children, follow my pipe music into the caves, where you shall be locked inside forever!"
The Reality:
The presidency went to Richard Nixon's head like a Four Loko chugged from a chalice of dissolvable PCP. Watergate wasn't the most sinister or even reckless thing Nixon did in office -- we'd humbly submit the time he openly discussed putting out a hit on a journalist he didn't like. It takes a messy brain to get busted for committing low level espionage while you're the president of the United States. It takes a Bond villain to commit treason and get away with it so hard that instead of being put to death like you're supposed to, you become the goddamn president. That's what Nixon pulled off in '68, and he only had to extend the Vietnam War by five years to do it.
"You'll want to wash that hand off right away."
The 1968 presidential election featured Nixon in the Republican corner, squaring off against sitting vice president Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey was running on what was known as the "peace plank" -- his assurance that the Johnson-Humphrey administration was in the process of negotiating an end to the increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam. For Humphrey, everything hinged on the Paris Peace Talks, where the Johnson administration had brought Vietnamese leaders from the North and South together, and claimed to be making progress. Most Americans weren't buying it, and Nixon was leading Humphrey by a large margin for most of the campaign.
But everything changed in the weeks before the election when Humphrey called for a bombing halt in Vietnam, and both the North Vietnamese and the Johnson administration agreed to it. Just three days before the election, peace seemed imminent in Vietnam, and Humphrey was starting to look like a total boss. He surged in the polls, making up an insane amount of ground just a week before the election. As October turned to November, the election was a tie, and Humphrey had all the momentum.
Meanwhile, Nixon was showing people a great trick to make a pencil disappear.
And then something weird happened. The day before the election, America's South Vietnamese allies suddenly withdrew from the peace negotiations. It seemed suspicious that America's own ally would pull out, and doubly suspicious that it happened on the eve of the presidential election. In taped phone conversations that would only be revealed later, Lyndon Johnson explained how things had broken so conveniently for the Republican candidate: Nixon's campaign had been telling "the [South Vietnamese] allies that 'You're going to get sold out'" if they agreed to the offer on the table. In an effort to screw Humphrey's election, Nixon had intentionally sabotaged the peace talks. As Johnson would later point out, this is technically treason, since it means Nixon directly sabotaged the interests of the United States for his own personal gain.
Hey, someone had to set the bar for Dick Cheney.
And it worked. Without the momentum of the peace talks, Humphrey lost the popular vote by an extremely narrow margin. Had the peace talks continued to succeed through election day, Humphrey almost certainly would have continued to surge past Nixon, and more importantly, the Vietnam War might have ended in 1968, saving tens of thousands of American lives. Instead, Nixon was elected president and let the war drag on for five more years before he and Henry Kissinger finally brokered peace. The agreement they did it with was almost identical to the one that had been on the table when Nixon's people had blown up the peace talks five years earlier, with one important distinction: Nixon and Kissinger got to take credit for it.
Nixon demonstrates the fisting technique he used on the free world in 1968.


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Some cryptographic algorithms are as strong as the size of their key is, while other have some weaknesses that limit their strength (such as SHA-1). How strong is the ECDSA algorithm, and does that strength depend on anything (for example, the curve used and so forth)?
First of all, I'm no expert in this area. Generally $n$ bit ECC seems to have a security level of about $n/2$, but I found some claims that it's lower for certain types of curves.
RFC4492 - Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites contains the following table:
It doesn't seem to distinguish between different curve types.
I found an RFC draft (not a real standard RFC) that claims the following security levels:
This is consistent with other other sources that put the security level of ECC at $n/2$. Binary curves seem to be a bit worse than prime curves.
The blog entry Not every elliptic curve is the same: trough on ECC security elaborates:
For some curves (like supersingular ones) there are specific attacks, which make them significantly weaker.

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One frequently hears something being described as one of the most important XXX or one of the best XXX. Isn't most important or best (any superlative really) unique by definition? How can something be one of a set of most important things?
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Most important can be used to describe multiple objects simultaneously. Imagine a set of objects being classified into groups such that objects of similar (not necessarily identical) level of importance are placed in the same group. The group that is more important than all the others will then be the most important group.
English isn't mathematics. You can't apply set theory to it.
simply puts the referenced book into a range at the top of the speaker's rating system. This may include three or five or ten or a hundred books. But they're all in that top tier, however it may be defined.
Those who still get hinky about using best in this general sense ought to get over it. The world is full of lists of "The Ten Best Films of All Time," "The Best Techniques for Winning at Scrabble" and the like. When "best" refers to multiple items, assume a range, not a discrete entity.


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"The underlying notions of the problem" or "The problem underlying notions"? Please consider the brevity principle too.
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However, choosing notions is probably less than optimal. Without a larger context, it's not easy to see why you chose that word instead of, e.g., assumptions, axioms, biases, hypotheses, ideas, or postulates.
In the second case, you have the risk of implying "The problem underlying the notions", which obviously you do not mean. Anyway it is ungrammatical.
As for the first option "The underlying notions of the problem", it is grammatical and conveys the meaning correctly. However, a better phrasing might be:
which is much more direct and places the words in their natural order.


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I am writing a novel about someone being chased by the Russian Mafia. A hitman is sent to save her and that's where the books takes off. I have way too many titles floating in my brain - three to be exact. They are "Slap-Dash", "Tooth and Nail", and "Hang Fire". What is the most marketable title? Why do you think so?
I rather like "Hang Fire." Sounds mysterious and dangerous, it isn't quite grammatically correct as a phrase but it could be in the right context so it's got some tension pushing me towards exploring it, and it's visually evocative.
I also encourage you to find a phrase or proverb in Russian which makes sense when translated to English and see if that works.
NOT Slap-Dash! Can you imagine the reviews of someone who doesn't like the book?
I too like the notion of a phrase that feels like colloquial Russian, and captures the dualism of the hit man's role.
Find a phrase or topic that is relevant to your story. If any of these three pertains to something that happens or is stated in the story, then go with that. If none of them do, then try to think of something else. I like Lauren's suggestion to go with a Russian phrase that can be easily translated.
Personally, the first two sound more like titles for a comedy or a romance novel. Neither really sparks thoughts of murder and intrigue. Since the term "Hang Fire" refers to a failure on the part of a weapon, I could see it being relevant, considering that a hit man is usually associated with killing someone, not saving them.
Hit Man
Just kidding. Maybe "Guardian Angel" since the hitman is not exactly a saint.
I would definitely avoid Tooth and Nail - it's already heavily overused.
I confess, all three titles sounded very generic and indistinct to me. They tell me this is an action-packed thriller, but nothing more specific than that. I'd recommend you consider what you find to be the most interesting, important, and/or unusual elements of your book, and try to construct a title referring to one or two of those (even if the reference oblique, it's still individual!). Of the three, Hang Fire stands out most for me, but I would really consider it worthwhile to look for something a little less generic - a title that applies to your book, that wouldn't apply as easily to scads of others.
Without knowing more about your book - central themes, conflicts, characters, motivations, location - I'd have a tough time recommending anything suitably tailored to your particular work. Here's an article on title-choosing you might find helpful.
Often (not always) the publisher will suggest another title. They have a marketing group that does titles and covers etc. They may (or may not) give you a choice as to their suggestions. It is your synopsis and story that you have to sell. Agents understand this.
You are asking the wrong people. Ask a sample of people whom you have imagined would enjoy the book best. For eg. If you are targeting people who likes Tom Clancy type novels, find a few of them and ask them what grabs their attention the most.


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Lately, every watermelon I bring home form the organic section of the supermarket has not been sweet. Among the small, seedless varieties, I try to pick the densest. How do I know if it is ripe? Can I ripen them at home? Should I keep them in the fridge?
I don't believe there is a fool-proof way to determine 'ripeness' without taking a slice out of it. The best you can do is look for certain signs:
Unfortunately, melons don't continue to ripen once picked, unlike fruits such as apples, bananas etc. which contain ethylene. As a tip don't store melons with these kinds of fruit, they may well go 'soggy'.
As pulse said, colour is a good indicator and give them a tap and they'll have a nice hollow sound.
The other thing I do is pick them up... I don't know why, but ripe melons tend to feel "heavy" for their size.
Shake it. If you hear things moving inside, it's overly ripe.
Press it. If it squeaks a little, it's just OK. If it doesn't, it's either unripe or already wilting.
Knock on it with your finger, like if you'd be knocking on a door. It has to sound just a tiny little bit hollow. Too hollow means overly ripe, not hollow at all means unripe.
For melons other than watermelon, always smell them, they should have a good aroma. Unfortunately this does not usually work for watermelons. The color and weight are usually the best indicators.
I have found that if you look on the bottom of the watermelon, (where it sits on the ground), if it is yellow and the lines are straight and yellowish green then the watermelon is sweet and ripe. If the lines are a light green and wavy then the melon is not sweet or ripe.
Knock on it lightly. If someone answers, you've got a very special melon! Actually, if it sounds somewhat hollow, it is ripe. As a child we would "plug" the melons by cutting a 2" x 2" trianglebout of it. That's a fool proof way to see if your melon it ripe.
I just saw a post on rulesofthumb.com that says:
A watermelon is ripe when you hear "punk" rather than "pank" or "pink" when you tap it with your finger.


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Sauteed Chicken Breasts with Creamy Chive Sauce
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Here's a sauce so delicious, it's missing only one thing: a little crunchy bread to dip in it. Make It a Meal: Serve with steamed asparagus or cauliflower, mashed potatoes or orzo pasta, and a glass of Vinho Verde.
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Absolutley a hit w/ the family, delicious. Didn't have chive so used scallion from my garden and I dipped the chicken in buttermilk prior to dredging in corn flour.
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It's easier to buy thinly sliced chicken breasts so you don't have to smack away at the chicken (altho it might be a nice way to take out aggression!!??!) When I went into my fridge I discovered that my chives had gone bad and I had no sour cream. I decided to do my own version.... I chopped up fresh Rosemary instead and added 2 slices of lemon to the sauce. Instead of sour cream, I had plain yogurt in the fridge (mixed 2 teaspoons of flour with it to make it thick like sour cream). My dad licked the plate clean and said it was the best chicken he had ever had in his life!!!! I have yet to do this real recipe, but I have to admit, I've made "my" chicken version 2 times this week, that's how good it is! Give it a try! You never know what magic you can come up with!
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This is an excellent recipe. I've made it with both chicken breast and pork tenderloin. Can't decide which one I prefer. I found this to be fairly quick and simple to make. My family loves it too.


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Elsie M. Schmidt, age 89, of LaGrange, Ind., went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, March 17, 2013. She passed at Lifecare Center of LaGrange.
She was born Jan. 13, 1924, in Montcolm County, to Viggo and Anna (Nielson) Jorgensen.
On July 22, 1961, she married Gerald J. Schmidt in Whitier, Calif. He preceded her in death.
She was owner/manager (mayor) of the Maple Ridge Mobile Home Park (formerly Lewis' Mobile Home) in LaGrange. She enjoyed bird-watching, recycling and maintaining, weeding and harvesting the gardens that Gerald planted. She was a generous person to the community and loved helping those in need.
She is survived by two sons, John and Cindy Schmidt and Keith and Michele Schmidt, both of LaGrange; a daughter, Jessica and Josh Smith of Long Beach, Miss,; and six grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; and a brother.
Visitation will be held 4-8 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, 2013. at Carney-Frost Funeral Home, Lagrange.
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I'm having an issue where I have a normal html form in a scrollable panel item (not a FormPanel, just form html), as I tab through the form fields, when I get past the last visible input field, the panel gets adjusted to bring the next field into view. This seems to conflict with the panel scroller, because after this happens, I can't scroll up anymore. Scrolling doesn't break if I tap each field and work my way down, but it I tab through the fields it breaks the scroller. The top half of the view is permanently un-reachable via the scroller.
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I have a very general question which bothers me but i want to add some details first. Im a core JAVA programmer.I have independently created some small games in Java for fun. Now, the more I'm looking into Professional Game development the more I'm getting confused. This is because, whenever i google about game development stuffs or visit any forums etc. I come across different suggestions.
Some will say C++ is good some will say JAVA others will say some other language.Then there are scripting languages like Puthon,Lua,UnrealScript etc.Also it is suggested to have knowledge of say game engines like Unreal,Torque,Blender,Panda etc.also knowledge of OpenGL, AI, Collision Detection is required. I have even created a game using Android SDK.
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- What is the basic skill set that a Professional Game Programmer needs to have? Is it any 1 Programming Language+1 Scripting language+1 Game engine knowledge+OpenGL? (Phew!!)
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Tucking Front Bumper - Nip & Tuck 101Written by Chuck Vranas on October 5, 2012 Simple Steps to Tucking the Front Bumper on Your Classic Truck
Regardless if you are strolling through a local cruise night or covering acres at huge events, you have a chance to see countless classic trucks, each one different from the next. Sometimes it's easy to note which ones have had major updates to their overall appearance especially when they have been chopped, channeled, or sectioned. The ones that have subtle revisions are the ones, however, that require a deeper look to determine just what might have been changed.
A mild shave here or a minor tweak there sometimes makes all the difference in the world when you look at the truck's overall aesthetics. On a recent visit to the Hot Rod Garage in Denton, Maryland, we caught up with the team as they prepared to undertake a simple bit of surgery on a '53 Ford F-100 to tuck its front bumper. Shop owner Ray Bartlett is a master at adding subtle changes to many of the vehicles rolling through his shop. This particular modification is one that cleans up the gap between the rear bumper face and that of the front valance, giving the truck a cleaner overall look from any angle.
As with any changes requiring fabrication it's a good idea to map out what you're hoping to achieve once the job is completed. Team member Beau Wilkins got things rolling by first confirming the overall stock measurements to the truck's bumper in relation to the body. Measurements from the rear face of the front bumper to the front valance were noted at 29⁄16 inches at the left and right bumper ends, confirming each front framehorn was equally balanced. Note that this measurement may vary slightly from truck to truck.
A second measurement between the two front framehorns was taken to locate the center of the bumper, which was at 13¼ inches. Wilkins then measured from the rear face of the bumper to the front valance, which was also 29⁄16 inches. A decision was made to tuck the bumper approximately 19⁄16 inches, which would have the updated unit at 1 inch from the front valance.
To proceed, the bumper was removed to prepare the framehorns for surgery. An angle finder was then used on each framehorn to determine its exact front face angle prior to marking the ends for cutting. Here, the measurement was at 86 degrees per side. A measurement of 19⁄16 inches was then taken from the front face on the left and right side of each framehorn rearward. A marking line was then scribed in place using a straight edge. The measurement was then carried to the side and bottom of each horn as well and marked with 1-inch masking tape to confirm the lines to be addressed. Note that the tape was also used as a guide line.
So as to protect the truck's finish from flying debris generated from the pending cutting and grinding, a section of cardboard was cut to fit and taped to the truck's front end. While wearing eye protection, a pneumatic cutoff wheel was used to carefully cut through the three sides of the framehorn to remove the noted section. Wilkins followed up by deburring the horn ends using a small circular grinder topped with a 36-grit disc.
Each framehorn top surface possessed a bit of an eyesore since they both had accessory holes in place. To clean up the overall area and give them a sanitary look, the holes were plug welded using a Miller Synchrowave 250 TIG welder and then ground smooth using a grinder and 36-grit disc.
At this time the bumper was test fit to be sure its mounting would be well-balanced and approximately 1 inch from the front valance. This gives you the opportunity to make any final tweaks prior to proceeding. With all measurements perfect, a black marker was used to outline the bolt-mounting holes on the top and bottom of the framehorns. The bumper was then removed and a 7⁄16-inch Roto-Kut drill bit was used to drill the required mounting holes into the horns. Once completed, the holes were deburred and the hardware was test fitted.
The area was then masked off and given a simple coating of SEM self-etching primer. Once dry, a final coating of Krylon satin black was applied. Once the paint dried, the bumper was secured in place and final measurements were taken to confirm its rear face was 1 inch from the front valance. Standing back and checking out the modification, it was easy to see that the subtle change made a big difference in the overall appearance to the front of the truck and to us that's just plain cool!
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He then measured each side of the bumper's rear face to the front valance to be sure the framerail horns were equal to the front valance measurement. Here both sides equaled 29⁄16 inches.A measurement was then taken from the inside of each framerail and then divided in half to locate the center reference point, which equaled 13 1/4 inches.An angle finder was used to determine the front face angle of the framerail horns to prepare them for trimming. Here both measurements were at 86 degrees.An angle finder was used to determine the front face angle of the framerail horns to prepare them for trimming. Here both measurements were at 86 degrees.A measurement was then taken from the front left and right side of the framehorn rearward at 19⁄16 inches, and a line was then scribed in place using a straight edge.
He followed with a small grinder topped with a 36-grit disc to smooth out the edges and remove any remaining burrs.To clean up the top of the trimmed framehorn a decision was made to plug weld the remaining accessory holes. The area was first ground smooth using a small grinder and 36-grit disc.An air-driven grinder topped with a 36-grit disc was then used to grind the top of the framehorn smooth and prepare it for the next step.The front bumper was then test fitted in place to check for evenness to the front valance and each bumper side plane.A measurement was then taken from the center reference point to the front valance to confirm it was now 1 inch from the rear face of the bumper to the valance.Once bumper placement was confirmed, the bumper was clamped in place and a black marker was used to mark the new upper and lower mounting holes to be drilled.
With a 7⁄16-inch Roto-Kut bit secured in a pneumatic drill, all required mounting holes were carefully drilled into the framehorns. The area was then deburred and blown clean.To protect the ends of the framehorns, the areas were first sprayed with SEM self-etching black primer. Once dry, a final coating of Krylon satin black was applied.A final measurement was taken to confirm the rear of the bumper was 1 inch from the front of the valance.


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But Chris B told me to mark it down, so I did.
Good thing Utah won its bowl game back in September.
- 11:52 p.m. Nov. 17, 2012
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Chris B,
Cheer up little guy. You can cheer on your second favorite team in their bowl game now that your utes can't go bowling this year.
- 12:08 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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Disappointing season but we should take care of the Buffs next week to get 'some' momentum going into the off-season. This team lacks toughness and speed. Hopefully both of those things are addressed.
- 12:12 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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Why would I even believe Utah at 2 - 5 in the PAC Twelve would have a chance
playing against the likes of Arizona? They couldn't beat Colorado last
year in SLC so why should they suddenly be able to beat Arizona? They may even
lose to the Buffs in Boulder this next week. Wouldn't that be enough to
make them natural rivals----the two bottom feeders and the last two picked to be
in the PAC 12 and the ones everyone else is in the conference asking "why
exactly were they invited?" If Colorado does win Utah will have to win the
next THREE to finally get over .500 against them. Serious stuff.
As far as bowling, they needed a rest. It was getting too much for their fans to brag about. Now they can just go back to "We have two BCS wins." That's much less complicated and easier to say and impresses folks just as much (hardly at all).
- 12:19 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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Utah 4-7. My only joy and consolation this football season. Keep up the good work. :)
- 12:36 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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Well Utes, at least you beat BYU- the season was not a complete loss.
- 12:41 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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PAC seems to be regaining its glory days. Oregon and Stanford look like they
are built to last. Give Washington two more years and Sark will challenge for
the North. Oregon State seems to be good every 3 or 4 years.
UCLA made a huge jump this year. AZ and ASU are much improved. Kiffin is already on the hot seat, because anything less than a big bowl is not acceptable at USC.
Not intended to be mean spirited, but I don't see too many winning seasons in the coming years. I think WSU, CO, Cal and Utah are doomed to be middle / bottom of an improved PAC for a while. Each may have a good year or two in the next decade. But there will be more years below 500 than above.
No need to bring the Cougs into the conversation. With next years schedule (that rivals many AQ schools), big losses on the D side and a new QB; a winning record will be a successful season.
- 12:49 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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Utes will play the Colorado Bowl next week;
Colorado 10
Utah 42
- 12:49 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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I am grateful to have Whittingham as Utah's coach, and I am a ways away for
wanting Utah to make a change at the top, but Whit has mismanaged the Utes in an
awful way this year.
Whittingham went to Travis Wilson too early when Hays would have won two more ball games. Utah's O line was terrible during the first month of the year. Whit IV was banged up at the same time. Then when the line got things clicking and White IV got healthy, Whit went with Wilson when Utah was only 0-2 in conference. Wilson opened up in Pasadena (not the right time for a freshman).
Utah played well at UCLA and Oregon State except for Wilson. Utah was the better team on both sides of the ball @OSU, but the Wilson turnovers were too much to overcome. Oregon State was up 14-0 and they didn't even have 20 yards of offense as Utah gave the ball away inside their own 10 twice. Then after cutting the lead 14-7 Utah had 1st and goal from the 3 when Christopher could have walked in for the tie and fumbled.
- 1:04 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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@Joe Schmoe:
20 - 14
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You can mark this down: ESPN will be calling Holmoe about getting its money back.
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Sad year for both the Utes and the Cougs! I hope it's not a prelude to what the future holds for both teams. On the other hand, how bout them Aggies? I guess we can all be proud there's at least one Utah school that's looking really good.
- 6:35 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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Utah needs to expand its recruiting outside of the Wasatch area. When over 60% of their recruits played within 50 miles of the school, they need to look beyond what little local talent there is.
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Yes, welcome to the Pac-12. For all your trash talking about the then Pac-10 and how your conference was stronger...........here you go........you got your wish.......1 win, 10 losses. Go Cats!
- 7:05 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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At least the Utes can look forward to an exciting season on the hard court.
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It sad to say, but this "no bowling" might be the trend for the next 3-5 years, unless Whitt goes.
- 8:24 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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@ChrisB - I sure hope you'll offer me that refund on my airfare/bowl tickets!
- 8:25 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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Aaaand it's gone!
So long to the glory seasons of Ute football. They went MIA when the Utes left the MWC.
So sad to see what greed and the pursuit of glamour does to a program.
Not too pretty is it and what will the money buy?
Some shiny things and more junk to hang off the light posts downtown SLC.
- 8:34 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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I only got to see the game from the time just before Utah took the 24-17 lead. From that time forward there was no defense played by the Utes much like the Washington game.
- 8:57 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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The gushing arrogance of the Ute fans in this valley has run dry.
Easy run to the Rose Bowl, undefeated season, all they had to do was beat USC at home!
I guess the Poinsetta Bowl would look pretty nice right about now, eh Utah fan?
- 9:09 a.m. Nov. 18, 2012
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Modern Japanese is very different from archaic Japanese (and some modern formal written Japanese, which is itself rather archaic) in regard to the topic at hand. Initially there were distinct conjugations of verbs and adjectives known as predicative and attributive. Predicative (also called conclusive) was used for the final verb in a sentence, and was finite. The attributive form was used nominally and for relative clauses (remember that technically "adjectives" in Japanese are relative clauses), and seems to be non-finite. Rather than the modern -い ending of adjectives, adjectives had the ending -し in predicative form and -き in attributive (for modern ない that would give なし and なき, respectively).
For an example of this, and an example that shows this is still in use in written Japanese, take the title 藍より青し. Here, 青し is the predicative form of the adjective, with the original -し suffix.
At one point Japanese underwent a radical morphology change, and actually lost the predicative form entirely, completely replacing it with the attributive (at least in form; the semantic distinction between finite and non-finite remained). At this point a large number of old verb suffixes disappeared. The old negative suffix, for example, mostly disappeared, replaced by -ない (at some point the attributive -き suffix of adjectives was reduced to -い, as well). Presumably the old suffixes required finite verb forms, and were lost when the morphologically finite forms disappeared, replaced by the morphologically non-finite forms that had the same meaning (i.e. -ない).
Now, I imagine when you heard that negative verbs were adjectives this was based on the fact that ない is the head of the verb phrase for negative verbs and it's an adjective. This is indeed a change that occurred at one point, and was not always the case, as I spent the majority of this post explaining. My hypothesis is that the old suffixes used with predicative verbs were themselves predicative (auxiliary) verbs, and the old attributive and modern suffixes are in fact adjectives or nouns (or derived from them).
Arguing about whether certain words "are" something or other is missing the point in this context, I think. We do not classify words based on some innate, a priori nature that we discern within them. We classify them based on behaviour. And there is no a priori set of standards for that classification either: we have to choose our own. It's completely arbitrary. But if we aim to be scientific, we will generally want to choose standards that are as simple as possible while explaining as much as possible (with as few inconsistencies and exceptions as possible).
So, take the polite nonpast negative ending -nai. It ends in -i, like an adjective. It takes endings like -katta and -kereba like an adjective. It can be used adnominally or conclusively, like an adjective ("shiranai hito" vs "ano hito wa shiranai"). Particles like "kedo" and "shi" attach to it like an adjective. (Both of these last two points apply to verbs too, of course.) On the other hand it can't be passivised like a verb.
In short, we can list many ways in which it acts like an adjective, and many ways in which it doesn't act like a verb. On that basis, we might decide that it is simpler to just call it an adjective than a verb-in-disguise. We would advance a theory in which we have a category called "adjective" that includes words like "akai", "hiroi", "kanashii" but also "ikanai" and "shiranai".
On the other hand, objections can be raised. In this thread, Ian has raised some. I find them unconvincing (for the reasons given in dainichi's comments), but we can find other differences. For example, the "-ide" ending does not seem to be available to "natural adjectives": we can say "ikanaide" but not "akaide" or even "akakunaide". So we have to adjust our theory to account for this. Maybe we say "There are two kinds of adjectives, one natural and one derived from verbs via the -nai ending; they behave very similarly but we observe these differences..." Or maybe we say "Verbs in the negative nonpast remain verbs; they exhibit some very adjectivelike behaviour but we can tell the difference because..." We have to decide which theory fits the facts best, ideally in the sense of "best" described above (simplest, most powerful, etc.)
Now, all of the above said, let's look at the -masen ending. It doesn't seem to behave much like an adjective at all, except in very trivial ways So even if we define our category of "adjective" such that it includes words with the -nai ending, we probably won't put words with the -masen ending in there too. We could -- it's arbitrary! -- but doing so wouldn't help us explain very much. It would just make our theory more complicated. So, we don't.
Thus, what I think the wiki editor whose description you read meant was "once the plain nonpast negative ending -nai is attached to a verb, the resulting word behaves so much like an adjective that it makes more sense to classify it as one (in the classification scheme I am implicitly adopting)." Not "any negative verb phrase is an adjective by definition," or anything extreme like that.
Dainichi's comment on your question is another example of the principle that we are free to set up our categories in any way we like. Adjectives and verbs are obviously different in many ways, but there is also a sense in which they are similar. Given the structure "Hana wa X", a verb like "saku" could fit in there, or an adjective like "akai". They fit into the same "slot" like that. This isn't true of English; we can say "the flower blooms" but not "the flower red"; we have to say "the flower is red" (and, incidentally, for this reason most linguists working on English will recognize a category that contains both "blooms" and "is red").
So in that high-level sense, Japanese adjectives and verbs form a unified superclass of words, one that can be distinguished easily from, say, nouns, or particles. That isn't any less true just because we can subdivide that superclass into "verbs" and "adjectives" based on morphology. There might be cases where using this superclass makes things easier for us (e.g. looking at high-level syntactic patterns), and there might be cases where it's easier to keep verbs and adjectives distinct (e.g. looking at word endings). Neither analysis is wrong; they're just different tools for different tasks.
No, they aren't adjectives.
They mostly follow the same basic grammatical rules (with a few exceptions) that い adjectives do.
However there are several grammatical constructs that only with either ~ない verbs or い adjectives.
More over in classical Japanese ~ない was things like ~ず ~ぬ ~ん most of the time. Those constructs have zero resemblance to い adjectives. So anyone attempting to argue that ~ない is effectively an adjective would have to argue that negative verbs became adjectives only in modern times.
Most importantly Japanese text books clearly classify them differently. 動詞の否定形 and い形容詞.
In addition ~ません has very little relevance to this question because ~ます is less of a verb form and more correctly the continuative(い ending) form of a verb + an irregular verb.
As others have argued, it's pretty much a question of definition. But it seems obvious that in form, there's overlap between i-adjectives and plain verb-negatives.
I'm going to try to be constructive about it by starting a list of forms that exist in either or both of the cases. Please add or comment (or fix my formatting) as you see fit.
The correspondence seems pretty good to me. And the slight problem with なくない, I consider inherited from ない, since 無くない itself is considered wrong by some.


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Christian recaps the Sox 2-1 loss to the Twins. Eduardo Rodriguez had a good showing tonight but couldn't get the run support needed to secure a W. Thoughts on all of that as well as your calls on Red Sox Review.
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Culture Club to present murder-mystery dinner theater Feb. 16
CHESTER - The Oak Glen High School Culture Club will present the Valentine murder-mystery pasta dinner theater "Love Is a Many Splintered Thing" at 6 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Chester City Park Building.
Those attending will be served a homemade pasta dinner during the open acts of the play, and the actors will mingle with the guests, who will have the opportunity to ask questions and attempt to solve the crime. Those who successfully guess the murderer and weapon will receive a prize.
Tickets are $15. Reservations are suggested, but not required. Proceeds defray costs to fund student trips to cultural events. Make a reservation by calling (304) 387-1063 or (740) 264-7891.
Baseball association holding sign-ups
WEIRTON - The Weirton Baseball Association will hold baseball and softball sign-ups from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Feb. 16 at the Millsop Community Center.
The cost is $70 per player, with a maximum of $140 per family. Visit their website at www.weirtonbaseball.com.
Weirton museum announces events
WEIRTON - The Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center has announced several upcoming events.
They include:
10 a.m. March 9, "The Final Days of Weirton Steel" at the museum. Local Author Tom Zielinsky will discuss his book, "The Final Days of Weirton Steel: Could the Collapse Have Been Prevented?"
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 13, Fifth-Annual Festival of Nations at the Weirton Event Center. Dr. Juginder K. Luthra chairs the annual event celebrating Weirton's diverse cultural heritage.
2 p.m. to 4 p.m. July 27, "Afternoon Tea With Rosie the Riveter" at the museum. Pam Makricosta chairs the event that celebrates the contributions women made to the war effort during World War II, especially in industrial communities such as Weirton, and preserves the stories of those women who were there.
Club to host two concerts
NEW MANCHESTER - The Oak Glen Middle School Culture Club will sponsor two public concerts, including Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys March 19 and the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra April 16, both at the middle school.
Advance tickets for Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys is $5 for students and $8 for adults. All tickets are $10 at the door.
Advance tickets for the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra are $21 in advance and $19 per ticket for groups with a minimum of 10 members and maximum of 20. All tickets are $24 at the door.
Those purchasing tickets for both concerts will receive a $3 discount. Tickets go on sale Feb. 19. Checks should be made out to the OGMS Culture Club.
Tickets must be purchased through the middle school office from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday or by calling (304) 374-7474.


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Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, Minister of Health and head of medical and surgical team conducting conjoined twins separation, announced today the death of conjoined Palestinian twin girls Rittal and Retag bint Yasser Abu Assi at 4:00 p.m. (local time) at the King Abdulaziz National Guard Medical City in Riyadh.
In a statement to the Saudi Press Agency announcing their deaths, Dr. Al-Rabeeah said their situation worsened as the medical team had expected." He said the two girls could not be separated surgically because they had a bacterial infection in their chests and because their hearts, livers and digestive systems were intertwined.
Dr. Al-Rabeeah expressed his deepest condolences to the parents of Rittal and Retag and the Palestinian people, and thanked the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz for directing their transfer from the Gaza Strip to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment.
Rittal and Retag arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday aboard a special Saudi Arabian medical evacuation plane from Egypt upon directives of King Abdullah for preliminary medical examinations at King Abdulaziz National Guard Medical City.


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What methods have been defined to be workable and to be forbidden as far as travel to and from the Dark Sun campaign world goes? Any edition's info will work; I'm running 2e but I can always modify what's out there.
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You can (sometimes) get in and out from Sigil.
From The Planeswalker's Handbook, page 32
There's also a psionically-powered Planar Gate in the boxed set adventure City by the Silt Sea. This is an artifact.
It was noted that Athas isn't reachable from the other game worlds during the AD&D 2E run. I don't recall if it was in the Dark Sun boxed set or the Spelljammer materials, or in a late 2E FAQ.
It was implied that this is because it's the far future of the Forgotten Realms, but that particular assertion wasn't explicit.
I don't know if that's still held true with the 4E version.


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I just installed Ubuntu at my HP Pavillion H8 computer with 8gb RAM and a Intel Core i7 CPU, and for some reason I can't boot into Ubuntu. When looking in the msconfig boot menu, the only OS listed is Windows 7. Also I can't seem to find the "OS selection screen" in my boot menu. When the HP logo appears, I press esc to interrupt normal boot, and I get this screen with a lot of options. I tried all of them, and none of them seems to have a "OS Selection Screen".
I installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 using a CD.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I read this article, which said that Ubuntu made itself the default OS when installed. That's not the case here. I can't even get into it. http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/bootmenu
EDIT2: I've just checked my remaining space in the C: drive in Windows. And yes, the partition were successfull, I have less space for Windows (which means more space for Ubuntu, I think). So from that I can conclude that my installation weren't cancelled.


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I've installed vmware player on my windows 7 in order to run ubuntu 12.10.. The ubuntu installation went well with no errors or display faults, but after restarting the vm at the end of the installation process i get the desktop with no visible sidebar or any menu bars at all.. They are active but the graphics is all black or corrupted.
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If $f_n=1_{(n,n+1)}(x)$, where $1_A(x)$ is the indicator function. Why is $f_n \rightarrow0$? Same is true for $f_n=1_{(n,\infty)}$.
i just dont get it.
i thought $f_n$ was always 0 for all n so i think $f_n\rightarrow1$ but its not the case. i try to reason it by the integral which is 1 for all n but then i dont go anyway.


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I've built quite a large old school HTML image map. When you mouseover an area tag, another image is loaded that replaces the entire map. In all there are 30 some mouseover images and to avoid the delay in loading I've preloaded them using jQuery.
Firebug Net panel shows all images are being loaded ok at pageload (no mouseover triggered yet). Now, when I mouseover an area, firebug shows this image is being request a second time. This despite the fact I clearly see the filename a few lines higher up in firebug.
Is this normal behavior? It seems preloading works ... but the mouseover still sends a request to the server to get the image resulting in a 1-2 sec delay before the images swap.
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TIFFIN, Ohio – After three Trojans advanced to the final day of competition at the Midwest Super Regionals, sophomore Zak Hale was the lone AU representative who found the podium with a fifth-place finish, earning his second trip to the NCAA Championships, Saturday at Tiffin's Heminger Arena.
Despite his 1-2 record for the day, Hale earned a victory in his final bout to advance to the NCAA Championships in Cleveland, beginning on March 14. Redshirt senior Cory Monteforte and graduate student Zane Newton both suffered setbacks in their respective opening bouts, ending their tournament campaigns.
Hale began the second day of the tournament with a rematch against Indianapolis' Josh Keiffer, who he lost to at the Super Region II Duals earlier this season. Hale was unable to avenge the setback, falling by decision, 5-4. In the wrestleback bracket, Hale squared off against Coker's Charlie Huff, who he defeated 8-7 at the Abney Athletic Center earlier this season.
Despite carrying the earlier season win over the Cobra, Huff earned the 4-2 overtime win over Hale, sending the sophomore to the fifth-place match against King's DeMarcus Spencer, with the winner earning the final spot to Cleveland.
Hale made the most of the opportunity and earned a 3-1 decision over Spencer for his second win over the Tornado grappler of the tournament. With the win, Hale earned the final spot at 133 from the Midwest region to advance to the NCAA Championships. The Shaftsbury, Vt. native will enter the two-day tournament with a 21-6 record.
"Our regional qualifying tournament was as challenging as we anticipated it to be," Anderson head coach Dock Kelly said. "We did not wrestle well, but fortunately, Zak was able to recover and win the placement match and thus qualify for the national tournament."
At 125, Monteforte was eliminated by familiar foe, Patrick Mestrez of Belmont Abbey, in sudden-victory. Monteforte closed his tournament run with a 2-2 record and finished his season with an 11-14 mark.
Newton was knocked from the tournament by Ashland's Kyle Burns, 4-2, ending his season. Newton closed out the 2013-14 campaign ranking second on the team in wins with 16.
"Overall, it was a disappointing day," Kelly said. "However, I am excited that Zak will have the opportunity to represent our wrestling program at the national tournament."
Hale will look to build off a 1-2 record from year's NCAA Championships, as the sophomore will be one of five wrestlers from the region at 133 that will take part in the annual national tournament.


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Let's assume I have 100 different web pages with original and good content.
But I want to publish on these pages same advert content (text video flash pictures)
If I decided to use ajax and jquery for loading that advertorial content after page load, would there be a penalty for that?
I know using hidden div's and hidden text can cause penalties but what if it's the opposite?


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I need some helpful advice for for an onsite shoot coming up. We are going to the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. We are going to be there for almost an entire day. What I need is advice on what to look for. Obviously the architecture is amazing. So I know to get some grounds and structure. There will be models but I'm not sure how they will be dressed or who will have access to them at what times. I will have 2 lenses. An 18-55 mm and a 75 - 300 mm. I have 3 filters for each lens. CPL, ND, and a polarizer. We are allowed to bring tripods and minimum accessories. Basically what we can carry and that's it. So if anyone has photographed any dilapidated historical buildings and has some advice, it will be very appreciated.
The basics will apply to pretty much any situation:
Old buildings falling apart tend to have a lot of texture, rust, paint peeling off, old furnature etc that can be used as props. Maybe focus on the contrast between the old and the new? I you know how to do HDR, try that?
Concentrate on: Texture, Strong Verticals/Horizontals, Shadows, Color, Framing etc and Consider B&W for high contrast scenes?
(I know its nothing new and vague, but sometimes you just have to run through these things in your head when you're in the situation to see what would work best?)
The simple answer is to photograph whatever catches your 'eye' of interest. Personally I wouldn't be swapping lenses back and forth, just use one for half the time and the other for the rest.
Old, dilapidated buildings tend to be unlit so a good flash with a diffuser would probably be more use than a tripod but that depends on your style of photography more than anything.
If you don't know the place you could do a quick image search for 'Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio' which gives an idea of the type of images that one could get from a visit there.


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Gov. Rick Perry on Wednesday called the President Obama-backed Affordable Care Act a "horrible piece of legislation."
Perry made the comment during a visit to San Angelo Wednesday while addressing flaws in the federal healthcare bill. Perry has been outspoken about his opposition to the healthcare law.
The fight over de-funding the healthcare has brought the government to a standstill and Perry is also still pushing to do away with the Affordable Care Act.
Texas is one of more than 25 states not implementing the new law and challenging its constitutionality.
"We haven't hidden our great concern about the implementation of it – that it's going to cost Texas huge amounts of money," Perry said. "Over the next 10 years $18 billion more Texas taxpayer dollars will have to go to fund this piece of legislation.
Perry stressed that Republicans and Texans aren't the problem.
"I was stunned a week ago when President Obama and Harry Reid stood up and said we are not going to negotiate," Perry said "It's our way or the highway."
However, not everyone agrees with the governor's decision.
"I am absolutely in favor of people being insured," Abilene resident Alana Maddox said. "I think we owe it to our children."
One man said he sees both sides of the argument.
"(It's good that) perquisites and any kind of conditions that people may have that would prevent them from getting healthcare (can be covered), but at the same time charges on people that don't have healthcare aren't good," Abilene Christian University student Tyler Roberts said.
Some people are concerned for everyone.
"Those that don't have it, how are they going to be able to make it?" military veteran Donald Kasten said.
"Maybe there's a message there across the country that although we'd like to see government be effective and efficient maybe we got too much of it in Washington D.C.," Perry said.
Texas has the highest rate in the country of uninsured people at 25 percent. Cost is the No. 1 reason people aren't insured. Texas ranks eighth in the country for people living in poverty at 17.4 percent.