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The 6 Most Epic Escapes Across Hostile Territory
If you aren't currently living in a country occupied by a hostile army, you can't really imagine what it's like knowing that trying to leave home means getting your head blown off. But when people want out badly enough, they find a way, across walls and borders and even massive armies.
And by the way, their stories are goddamned amazing.
#6. Escaping East Germany in a Big-Ass Balloon
Peter Strelzyk and Guenter Wetzel wanted to get their families out of East Germany, but between them and freedom was the most heavily guarded border in the world. So they decided they would just build themselves a damned flying machine. The original plan was to build a helicopter, but they couldn't find an engine powerful enough. So they settled on a hot air balloon.
"Inconspicuous. That's the word for this."
Granted, the two men had no prior ballooning experience, but hey, they found a few books on the subject and took it from there. They did the math, bought hardware and cloth ("it's for our camping club") in the nearest town and got busy building. The sewing machine they used for the hull was a 40-year-old foot-pedal dinosaur. They built a firing system out of a bike engine, a car muffler and a stovepipe that spat out "pure Hell-fire."
A few failed tests in the woods proved that the cloth was too porous to hold the air. The hull was cut up and burned in the furnace while new cloth ("it's for our sailing club") was procured from a more faraway city. Then they started over. When the old manual sewing machine threatened to wear them out physically, they just fitted it with an engine.
It could use some spinners, too.
The Strelzyk family launched the balloon (the Wetzels had gotten cold feet and opted out of the plan) after a total preparation time of 16 months. They sailed through the air, got within sight of the border ... and crashed. Six hundred feet short of freedom.
They had to walk back, leaving the balloon behind. Since the balloon was eventually found with evidence that indicated the identity of not just the Strelzyks but the Wetzels as well, the Wetzel family bought back in because with their friends as good as in jail, so were they. At this point it wasn't a question of if, but only when they'd be arrested, and they were out of stories to explain yet another purchase of a few thousand square feet of cloth.
"Trust us, sir, it's not for ballooning!" "Oh, that's all right then."
Any suspicious attempts would likely be reported, as the hunt was pushing forward nationwide. So they drove all over the country to buy raincoat cloth, bedsheets and anything else usable in small handfuls, traveling more than 2,000 miles. Meanwhile back at home, the sewing machine would run literally around the clock to assemble their largest balloon yet: one that had to carry eight people.
The result was 65 feet across, 82 feet high and 141,000 cubic feet in volume and was the biggest hot air balloon ever to fly in Europe. And it did fly -- they lifted off but at some point tilted the burner and accidentally set the hull on fire. Their only choice was to fire the engine full-throttle and make a dash for it. The gas bottles ran out fast, and once more they went down -- but the balloon was so huge it acted as a parachute, limiting the sinking speed. Yes, the thing had become too big to fail.
This time they were spotted, but by the time the border post got permission to fire, the balloon had gone. After another crash landing, the men went scouting where the hell they were and ran into West German cops, establishing that this time, they'd finally made it.
The best part might be that even though they knew every ounce of weight would increase the risk of another premature crash, they brought a champagne bottle that they then popped, because "we read that's what balloonists do after landing."
We're not sure if that's more impressive than the fact that they worked up the nuts to pilot this death-trap sober.
#5. Cornelius Rost Walked Across Stalinist Russia
A Soviet lead mine on Cape Dezhnev was probably about the worst place ever to have to spend any length of time, what with the constant threat of immediate cave-in death counterbalanced by the more subtle threat of drawn-out lead-poisoning death. As you would expect, the prisoners of war who were sent there immediately wanted to leave.
We can't imagine why.
The problem wasn't just security, but geography: Cape Dezhnev is closer to some Alaskan villages than it is to the nearest inhabited point in Russia. Hell, you might as well try walking home from the moon. But you couldn't tell that to German World War II POW Cornelius Rost. The former paratrooper got some supplies together (given to him by another inmate who himself was planning to escape) that included cross-country skis and a pistol. He then set off, heading west with four other escapees.The trip would be 8,700 miles. That's like going from New York to Los Angeles, then back. Then back to L.A. again. Then to Chicago.
With a stop at White Castle on the way.
There were some problems along the way. One of the prisoners betrayed and shot three others, then shoved Rost down a cliff and left him for dead. When an injured but alive Rost made it to a logging camp, he dragged his cantaloupe-size balls into the local Soviet distribution center, where he claimed to have been sent to "escort the timber" and managed to con the authorities out of not only a train ticket good for 400 miles of westerly travel, but a hot shower and a whole new worker's wardrobe.
Hitching lifts in trucks across Central Asia and just straight-up robbing a train station, Rost made it to the North Caucasus, where he used his money and a helpful guy known affectionately as "The Jew" to cross the border to Iran -- and safety. Where we like to think he immediately took a job in a lead mine.
Every man needs a passion.
#4. Communism-Hating Teens Murder Their Way to Freedom
What if there's not just one but two borders separating you from freedom? With a few hundred miles of enemy territory in between and police, state security and two goddamn armies trying to stop you?
You could ask the Masin brothers -- they walked right through that shit. Ctirad and Josef Masin started on the Czech government's "good kids" list at the ages of 13 and 15 by receiving medals for fighting the Nazis in World War II, just like their dad had done.
Get a mouthful of that, Eagle Scouts.
When they realized the ruling communists were little better than the Nazis, they started a resistance group. And we're not talking about the usual ways teenagers revolt, like getting a piercing or two: We're talking about twice violently raiding police stations to steal guns and ammo.
In 1953, the group decided it was time to get the hell out. Now, getting out of communist territory meant they had to get first across the Czech border, then across East Germany into West Germany.
They also raided a few hair gel factories along the way.
They started their push toward the border 150 miles away. Injuring or killing people who got in their way, the two brothers and three others sneaked across the border and hiked through the forests. When they tried to buy train tickets in Germany, the sales staff was suspicious and reported them to the police. The police raided the train station, which was only a minor speed bump in their plans -- the brothers and their band shot their way out.
The East German paramilitary soon realized they needed help from locally stationed Soviet troops to take the brothers down. Eventually, at least 5,000 men were involved, three of whom were gunned down during the chase west. The group was even encircled some 60 miles outside of Berlin. And once again, the ragtag group of Czechs broke out.
Eventually the three remaining fugitives made it to the West, one by suspending himself from a subway car's undercarriage.
Which was probably much cleaner than a subway car's interior.
Where did the brothers end up? The one place where their talents and violent hatred of communism were truly honored: Fort Bragg. That's right -- they joined the U.S. Special Forces.


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1) hacking or "cracking" someones hotmail is unethical. so no one will help you.
2) you cannot just go one a site like this and say teach me!!!! people will not help you unless you show that you have tried.
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The health professional drawing blood will:
- Wrap an elastic band around your upper arm to stop the flow of blood. This makes the veins below the band larger so it is easier to put a needle into the vein.
- Clean the needle site with alcohol.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Brian Minder, acting director of Belmont County 911, delivered a presentation at the commissioners' office Wednesday, wrapping up a series of events marking County Government Month....
The "all your eggs in one basket" approach of 911 central dispatch has NEVER been a good idea since during local disasters the limited inbound phone lines get clogged immediately leaving people at risk that have a REAL emergency
Also as witnessed before, cut lines due to digging or other events can easily leave call centers high and dry especially when they use PRI and T1 circuits to transport phone lines
This coupled with the fact that the massive cost of the 6 towers it now takes to cover the same area that ONE tower did BEFORE 911 not to mention the tremendous power usage, up keep and liability with those tower sites, and you have a VERY expensive system that performs WORSE and is easily rendered useless in a REAL local disaster
The days of LOCAL dispatchers who KNEW everybody in the community and simply picked up the microphone and dispatched their OWN people are sadly gone and replaced by an increasingly costly system that will NEVER be able to match their ability
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I have never seen a club spend this much on a player, i have spent 70 million myself (40 upfront and the rest in add ons). has anyone spent 100 million? or seen the computer do it?
is a player ever worth this much.
I have never seen a club spend this much on a player, i have spent 70 million myself (40 upfront and the rest in add ons). has anyone spent 100 million? or seen the computer do it?
is a player ever worth this much.
I once sold Christiano Ronaldo to his faviourite club Real Madrid for £1000,000,000. Obviously I was cheating and used the editor but others have bought and sold players for rediculous sums like the one you mentioned.
i spent £110m bringing sergio ramos to barcelona
why spend such ridiculous amounts, it is more interesting scouring the world for cheaper but amazing players, or bringing players through the ranks, plus its a lot cheaper
I once sold Joe Cole to Roma for 100 million up front which bankrupted them so i brought him back for only 30 million a year later
This topic made me thinking, since I couldnt really remember that I had seen any huge transfer fees. Therefore I went through every transfer since the start until current game date(25th September 2032)
Top Transfer Fees 2008 - 2032
Something funny though - City was ruling the transfer market for the first 10 years (apx), getting a lot of players for £20M+. Then Barcelona took over for apx 10 years, and for the last years its Arsenal that throws money all over the place.Code:47 000 000 Arsenal 45 000 000 Chelsea 43 000 000 Arsenal 41 000 000 Man Utd 39 500 000 City 39 500 000 Barcelona 35 500 000 Arsenal 33 500 000 Barcelona 33 000 000 Arsenal 32 500 000 Barcelona
My own record? £28M for Michael Lawrence - My top goalscorer for the last two seasons: 41 goals in 75 matches..
£37,500,000 is the current highest in my game (2014)
I once bought Wayne Rooney from Utd for Arsenal in FM06 for £80,000,000. Thats easily the highest I've spent on a player.
I can't remember seeing a transfer above £50m in any of my games. My highest spent is around £25m for a Russian regen striker.
I paid £130m for Leo Messi - £40m upfront and £70m over 24 months. Worth it though.
I apid £97 million for Fabregas in FM07 for Sunderland, obviously I had made them a bit bigger than real life by 2013 game time.
100 million for pato aged 23... we shall see :o
Benzema for man city 52 million hope it works out :{
I have bought two players in my first 6 seasons in charge of City:
Torres from Liverpool - £100m
Bojan - £122m
Had noone else to buy so why not
Have just bought C. Ronaldo in 3rd season in my Real Madrid save for £120m
I once spent £2k on a player ... i really pushed the boat out that year. He is my record signing :o
god i wish i had £100mil to blow on 1 player.
In my Millwall save Real Madrid paid 120 million for Carlos Tevez from Man utd.
FM08 I bought Daniel Alves for about 85m and lionel messi for about 95m just cuz I was gettin so much money each season with Arsenal it was ridiculous. FM09 my biggest buy has been Benzema for 50m (mad rush on the last day of the january window!), 15 games n only 4 goals in the first season, I did panic, but now he's scored about 40 goals in 30 games for my A.C Milan game
Most I have seen the computer do is Ronaldo to Real Madrid for £52mil.
Most I have spent so far on one player is £40mil for a regen.
I will never spend over £50mil, even then its too much. Once regens come into play it isnt hard to find future replacements.
i spent 52m on a regen as early as 2021 in my current game, then broke that again in 2029 when i spent 55m but it's been broken now by bayern who spent 62m in 2038 but i think mainly because the player was from dortmund. on my one the biggest deals most summers are 35-40m but the average player price for a powerhouse team is 20m for even squad players and youngsters.
Highest in my game is Cristiano to Real Madrid from United for 76 mil in July of 2011.
It has got a touch boring as I have found that I only need to think about rebuilding the team every three years so I am waiting for the parch so I can manage my first choice team - Aberdeen. That should be a touch harder.
I sold Rooney to City for £87m which is my highest transfer received although I did accept a bid of £108m for Ronaldo from Real but he then got injured so the deal got cancelled.
I once bought someone for £325. Great signing.
I once bought Buffon to United for around 50 million pounds. I was earning massive amounts of money and I didn't really splurge on previous transfer windows so I thought why not.
Sold bojan back to barca for 87mil after signing him on a bosman (great bug innit!?!) decent enough profit from 1 season!
I think my biggest signing was Benzema for like £25 million. I don't like spending mass amounts of money on players that might not work :P, Benzema did though...just to make that clear :P
I paid £107 mill for messi when he was 26. Played brilliant until i sold him back to barca for £46 mill when he was 30. I also bought Ronaldo for 70 mill and sold him for 30 mill at 32 years of age. I Bought benzema for 72 mill and sold him at 30 for 40 mill.
I got the best years out of them and then produced regens to cover their positions when they left. Well worth it
My highest was Radek Sirl for 11.5 Million,
Not a good investment since he was replaced mid-season by a FREE regen.
brought Christiano Ronaldo to arsenal for 100 in fm2008
£77million on Aguero
£71 for Rooney
£55 for Messi
87m on ronaldo, 93m on fabregas, 87 on Pjanic never over 100m though i refuse.
my biggest ever is 89mill for de rossi on 08
I'm currently in 2012 nearing the end of this season so far my biggest transfers have been;
2008/09 - £16,500,000 - Darijo Srna - Shakhter
2009/10 - £38,500,000 - Sergio Aguero - At. Madrid
2010/11 - £19,750,000 - Federico Laurito - Udinese
2011/12 - £18,500,000 - Lassana Diarra - Man City
2008/09 - £25,000,000 - Dirk Kuyt to Man City
2009/10 - £37,000,000 - Ryan Babel to Barcelona (regret very much )
2010/11 - £10,750,000 - Adrey Arshavin to Palermo
2011/12 - £16,500,000 - Xabi Alonso to Barcelona
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the most i've sold someone for was Benjani from City. didnt like him, so offered him around. a bidding war errupted, and Chelsea splashed out around 60M or something rediculous.
my biggest buy so far has been Gareth Bale, as i had the cash and needed a decent left back. so, for £32.5M, why not?
second highest non regen is Steven Taylor for £25M + Tal Ben Haim (highest regen being some chilean bloke for £28M)
I've played several games where I've been a few seasons in and been loaded, but I still can't bring myself to spend more than 35million....and that was on Messi. I normally will not break the bank for anyone, I much prefer a bargain signing.
Sergio Aguero £106 Million from my User controlled Inter Milan (Bought him for £50 Million) sold to the Computer controlled Man City.
They enquired and it was the day of Kaka's "move" to Man City and I did it as sort of a joke, but they made the offer of 100 Million and 6 Million over 12 months and you can't say no to that...because it's just stupid...
My record was about £62 million for Cesc in 08. Well worth it though but I tend to go for the top class youngsters and watch them turn into superstars.
i bought fernando torres for 100 mil and now he hasnt scored in 9 hours of football!!!!
i brought bojan for 82 million + add ons..
still trying to decide whether i should i splash 100mill + henry (in 10/11) for ramos.
100m for Richards,after city reject 2 bids worth 30 mill and 50.
Brought young for 46 million before.


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For aluminum miniblinds, try a damp microfiber cloth, or a mild soap solution and a lint-free towel. Turn the slats toward you, wipe down gently, then reverse the slats and wipe them from the other side. Don't use anything wet on wood blinds; they may warp or discolor. Wipe them down well with a dry microfiber or lint-free cloth, turning the slats as recommended for aluminum blinds.
Pleated cloth shades, fabric pleated shades, and cellular pleated shades require only a good sweep with a vacuum cleaner attachment. For stains, try a dry sponge (found in many hardware stores). Keep these types of shades in a closed position whenever possible, to keep the pleats well-defined.
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What is the difference between max, min and sup, inf?
The main difference is that the infimum and supremum always exists (if you allow the values $\pm \infty$) but the minimum and maximum doesn't.
If the set is finite then it is trivial, as a finite set always has a maximal and minimal element, but if you look at something like:
$A = \{x \in \mathbb{Q}: x > 0\}$.
Then you cannot find a smallest element in the set as when you find some candidate for the smallest element, the half of it is still smaller. And $0 \notin A$, therefore the Minimum doesn't exist. In contrast to this the Infimum is just the biggest lower bound and doesn't have to be in $A$ itself, (not even in $\mathbb{Q}$). You can easily see that $\text{inf}(A)=0$.
Another example is $B = \{x \in \mathbb{Q}: x>0,x^2 > 2\}$.
Certainly $\sqrt{2} \notin \mathbb{Q}$ therefore the minimum doesn't exist as for every candidate for your minimum you can go closer to $\sqrt{2}$ and find a smaller one ($\mathbb{Q}$ is dense in $\mathbb{R}$), but the infimum is $\text{inf}(B)=\sqrt{2}$.
Otherwise if the minimum or maximum does exist, it is surely equal to the infimum/supremum as it is the biggest lower / least upper bound in this case.
If we have a set $A$ and some partial ordering on $A$, for $B$ a subset of $A$ then we define the $\sup$ of $B$ (denoted $\sup B$) as the least element $a$ such that:
In the case that $a=\sup B$ and $a\in B$ we say that $a$ is the maximum of $B$ and denote it by $\max B$. Note that this is not always the case, as presented in other answers $1=\sup \{x\in\mathbb{Q} : x<1\}$ but it is not a maximal element of the set.
The definitions for $\inf$ and $\min$ are symmetric when replacing upper bound by lower bound, etc.
Note, however, that not every order relation has this property of having upper bounds, not even for bounded subsets. It is easy to construct an order in which there is a bounded set which has neither $\sup$ nor $\inf$ (and thus no $\max$ and $\min$ as well).
For example, consider $\{a,b,c\}$ and define $a<b$ and $a<c$ however $b$ and $c$ are incomparable, that is both $b<c$ and $c<b$ are false.
When discussing real numbers then we always have a supremum, this is a result of the Dedekind cuts construction of the real numbers, which guarantee that every bounded subset has a supremum and infimum.
For a bounded set $A \subset \mathbb{R}$ we have the following:
Every bounded subset $S$ of the reals has a supremum and an infimum. The supremum, for instance, is just the smallest number which is greater or equal to every element in $S$. This number, however, may not belong to $S$ -- this happens for example for $S=(0,1)$, as lhf noted. In this case, you would say that $S$ does not have a maximum/maximal element. The reason is that a maximum of $S$ is an element of $S$ which is greater or equal to every element in $S$. Such an element may or may not exist, but if it exists it is unique, which justifies the use of the definite article.


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"Chronicles the absurd, enlightening details within the unpredictable and passionate world of French political protest."--SEATTLE FILM FESTIVAL
Legendary French filmmaker Chris Marker follows Parisians and a graffiti cat into political demonstrations and the city's streets.
Starting in the wake of September 11, 2001, Chris Marker's The Case of the Grinning Cat (Chats perches) is a deceptively casual look at the events that brought Parisians into the streets over the next three years--political gatherings, public protests, even funerals. The tone is characteristically Marker's: light of touch and speculative, drawing out meaning from what's usually overlooked.
Here, Marker's inquiry is framed by his delight at the mysterious eruption of a grinning cat drawn on the roofs of Paris by an anonymous graffiti artist. Over time, the beguiling "Monsieur le Chat" appears in student demonstrations and even on national television--a happy apparition that provides another alter ego for the famously elusive director.
Globalization, immigration, the war in Iraq, workers and students standing up for their rights: the events Marker documents in this film remain those of the present. In 2007 the Wexner Center will exhibit Marker's latest photo project, a suite of resonant still images drawn from the massive student protests spreading over France this past spring. An informal epilogue to The Case of the Grinning Cat, the photos confirm Marker as a witness without peer to the struggle between hope and despair in the course of human events. (58 mins., video)
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A beautiful, relatively recent result is that,
Every simple arrangement $\cal{A}$ of $n$ lines in the plane is induced by a simple $n$-gon $P$.
In a simple arrangement, every pair of lines intersect in a point,
and no three lines intersect in a common point.
A polygon $P$ induces $\cal{A}$ if $\cal{A}$ is obtained by extending its
$n$ edges to lines. Thus $P$ "visits" each line of $\cal{A}$ exactly once;
it is a Hamiltonian-like cycle:
This is proved in the paper, "On Inducing Polygons and Related Problems." Eyal Ackerman, Rom Pinchasi, Ludmila Scharf, Marc Scherfenberg. Algorithms-ESA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5757, 2009, pp, 47-58. (PDF link )
Two natural question occur to me, neither of which is addressed in the paper:
Q1. Which arrangements $\cal{A}$, $n>3$, have a unique inducing polygon?
Q2. Does the theorem extend to $\mathbb{R}^3$, or higher dimensions? I.e., does every simple arrangement of $n$ planes have an inducing simple polyhedron of $n$ faces?
It could be the answers are relatively easy: none and no respectively...? If anyone sees quick arguments, I'd appreciate hearing them. Thanks!
Here is an attempt to illustrate Gjergji Zaimi's idea, as I interpret it.
The hexagon induces the arrangement of lines in the horizontal plane,
and the polyhedron "attached" to the hexagon would be the intersection of the two tetrahedra.


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I know they mean "rotate this way" and "rotate that way," respectively, but is there a standard name for "rotational direction?"
"omega" often measures the angle, but what variable name usually designates the direction of rotation?
(I'm naming variables for my program that will have to rotate things in a Cartesian plane)


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20 Nov 2006 4:40 PM #1
Basic Dialog and form submit
Hi Folks,
I am trying to wrap a form around a basic dialog so that when the user clicks the submit button the form is submitted as per it's defined action. The following is my code, I am pretty new to this stuff but I have a feeling I am being very optimistic thinking this code would work. What I was hoping is that the 'runprogram.php' would be called, but it doesn't appear to be.
var SubmitForm = function() { var tform = getEl('test'); tform.submit; // vardiaProgram.hide(); }; function init (){ vardiaProgram = new YAHOO.ext.BasicDialog("diaProgram", {modal:true,autoTabs:true,width:500,height:300,shadow:true,minWidth:300,minHeight:300 }); vardiaProgram.addButton('Submit', SubmitForm); vardiaProgram.show(); } YAHOO.util.Event.addListener(window, "load", init); </script>  <form id="test" method="POST" action="http://localhost/jc/php/runprogram.php">

Add Dialog

  Enter this: <input id="fldField1" />

 </form>
20 Nov 2006 5:07 PM #2
tform.submit <- missing parens ???Tim Ryan
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20 Nov 2006 5:48 PM #3
Thanks for the reply,
but I already tried that and I get an "object does not support this property or method" error.
20 Nov 2006 8:21 PM #4
Well since you coded tform.submit, my first thought would have been that you read the docs/looked at the source code and found a (new) function that was added to the library. Since adding parens says that there is no function called submit, at least I know that I miss a new addition to the library.
I would suggest you search the forums for examples using UpdateManager which is one way to make a call to another page. Or, you could just use the base yui methods in the Connection class to do a request. I don't have the code in front of me know - I think the method is asyncRequestTim Ryan
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20 Nov 2006 10:43 PM #5
Thanks for your help Tim,
As you suggested I used the Yahoo connection class to get this working
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Having weird problems checking out. Trying to use paypal and it comes up with a completely different cart and someone else s shipping information. Not sure I want to try Credit Card and find a surprise on my next bill. Too bad, good deal.
Trying to check out and the website is terribly slow. After about 10 minutes I've got the code applied, and it appears to be working. Hopefully I can get checkout to complete.
their order entry system went offline, you will not be able to order online or on the phone.. until it is fixed.. the lady on the phone didnt expect it to be fix till this afternoon
@durham4556: lame:( (But thanks for sharing the info!)
Lame indeed. That website sucks.
I called and tried to order over the phone, she said their entire system is down, try again after 4:30. I asked about the redbull promo code, she said it's for redbull employees only and that they are verifying by calling customers before fulfilling orders. DOH!
I have a great connection and system and it won't even load the 1st page up for this site! Jeeze!
I called Skullcandy. Apparently, this code is for Redbull Employees only and when you place an order they will verify your employment with Redbull.
I got it to load in IE. but it says there are no Ipod docks at all.
sept I found that PIPE one. the little player thing, not really a dock and it has mixed reviews. I guess for 1/2 off though and free shipping I could try it. im going to give it a go I guess. brb
site is unavailable. appears to have no docks except the pipe from 2011 - which is still kinda cool for a stocking stuffer I guess. I am doubting the site will let me anything though at this point.
the coupon would be awesome if it allows it. if it doesn't the person that posted it should be pinched Really hard on the tricep area up close to their arm pit on the soft side with a Gerber multi tool.
@dpknudsen: UPDATE:
I still haven't got the order to process, and I called them as well. All their servers are still down.
Getting the same info on the Red Bull code too. Maybe they are bluffing, but it's not worth it to me at this point.
I am on the checkout page now but i need 2 so I tried to add another and now it's dragging again.
got two in the cart now - trying to get back to check out. LOL wow this is slow as can be. all this is going to tick me off if it doesn't complete.
as it stands - it appears to be working , it;s just so slow it's crazy. This reminds me of every single time I try to get a bag of crap. I said try because I get his far with that as well and it always ends up that I am not able to get one due to the fact that woot apparently hates me. Old Woot where are you ? :O(
GRR! timed out blank page, I am reloading. LOL I can't believe how long this process is. i hope it pays off.
I am polishing up my gerber.
Worked on an order all afternoon. Refresh, refresh, refresh. An error occurred, try again later.
Then, moments ago...success. We'll see if the confirmation makes it to my email shortly.
it's telling me half my order is out of stock now what the hell.
I went ahead and ordered what It said was in stock.. pay pal was my choice and it's hanging up no that I Pushed pay now. for about 10 min now, i haven't ever had a pay pal payment fail.
looks like it went through! Subtotal $99.80
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no joke, I am going to check pay pal in a sec and see but it appears to have worked. ya just gotta be patient.
Well, I got an order number and confirmation on their site. However, here we are a couple hours later and still no confirmation email in my inbox. So, I'm wondering if it really went through on their end completely or not. UGH!
mine went through !!!
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Just got a confirmation, took forever to get through the site but it worked.


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- Date: September 3, 2001
- Time: 12:49 AM
- Place of Occurrence: Chubb's Place, 104 NW 5th Avenue, Dania Beach (bar) NW 4th Street and NW 2nd Avenue, Dania Beach (crash location)
- deceased male
- deceased female
- 2 injured males (hospitalized)
- 1 injured female (hospitalized)
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Two people are dead and three others were injured in an overnight bar fight that led to a car crash in Dania Beach.
Shortly before 1:00 AM, a fight between two women broke out at Chubb's Place, a neighborhood bar. The fight escalated and one man was shot. He was transported to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, and is expected to survive.
A man, woman and at least two other passengers left the bar in a white Chevrolet, and headed down NW 4th Avenue. A maroon Jeep traveling east on NW 2nd Street rammed the Chevrolet at the intersection. Paramedics pronounced the Chevrolet's driver and front seat passenger dead at the scene. Two other passengers in the Chevrolet sustained non-life threatening injuries and were transported to Memorial Regional. The driver of the Jeep—the sole occupant of that vehicle—was not injured.
Broward Sheriff's Office detectives and traffic homicide investigators are questioning witnesses and survivors in both incidents to try to determine a motive. The Broward County Medical Examiner's Office is conducting autopsies on both deceased victims to determine the exact cause and manner of death. Charges have not yet been filed in either incident. The names of all those involved are expected to be released later today.
Detectives are interested in learning more about both incidents. Anyone with information is urged to call the Broward Sheriff's Office at (954) 765-4321 or CrimeStoppers, anonymously, at (954) 493-TIPS.
- THIS REPORT BY: Lt. R. Reilly, Sgt. R. O'Neil / CI Cheryl Stopnick / Media Relations 9/3/01 0800
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I'm developing a game with large obstacle and sprites(in cocos2d+box2d for iPhone), then after zooming out my sprites and layer (by increasing cameraZ), I make my game to play by user, which causes some problem in touch detection of dynamic objects.
Can it be said a good approach to work with? If No then what will be the solution to work properly(consider that I have traveled so far with this approach)?


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It's not the kind of thing most moviegoers are itching to see.
It's not in 3-D, and Sandra Bullock doesn't float around weightless in her underpants.
But "12 Years a Slave" is still one of the best movies of the year.
It's also one of the most unsettling.
The acclaimed drama from director Steve McQueen ( "Shame" ) is based on the true story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man and accomplished violinist in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., who's abducted and sold into slavery in 1841. He's told he's a runaway slave from Georgia named Platt before he's beaten with such ferocity that the paddle breaks. Then he's whipped for good measure.
That's just one of many degradations heaped upon Northup as he's passed from a slave trader (Paul Giamatti) to a decent-ish plantation owner (Benedict Cumberbatch) to a maniacal, dehumanizing one (Michael Fassbender) prone to waking his "property" in the middle of the night for impromptu dance parties.
We're still a long way from the heart of Oscar season, but "12 Years a Slave" is already poised to be a major contender. The inspirational tale is worthy of nominations for best picture and director as well as acting nods for the quietly sorrowful Ejiofor and Fassbender, who taps into his inner lunatic in fascinatingly hateful ways.
Making her film debut, Lupita Nyong'o may have walked away with the supporting actress trophy with her powerhouse performance as Patsey, the slave mistress of Fassbender's character. When he forces Northup to whip her mercilessly for the crime of procuring a bar of soap, it will simultaneously break your heart and make you throw up in your mouth.
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The driver was trapped in the truck and Gatesville fire Chief Billy Vaden said firefighters had to use the Jaws of Life to free him.
Rutherford was taken from the scene to Coryell Memorial Hospital by ambulance for treatment of undisclosed injuries.
The homeowner was at home at the time of the crash, but was in the backyard.
The driver was alone in the truck and no one else was injured, Gohlke said.
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If $A$, $B$, and $C$ are topological groups, and $f: A \to B$ and $g: B \to C$ are two continuous group homomorphisms, what does it usually mean for
$$1 \to A \stackrel{f}{\to} B \stackrel{g}{\to} C \to 1$$
to be exact?
I would expect that one at least expects exactness as abstract groups (as opposed to, say $g(B)$ just being dense in $C$).
Does one also expect $f$ to be a homeomorphism of $A$ onto $f(A)$? And if so, does one further expect $C$ to be homeomorphic to $B/f(A)$ with the quotient topology>?
Would one's expectations change if $A$, $B$, and $C$ were all abelian topological groups? (And what if they were all topological $G$-modules for some topological group $G$ -- that is, if each was an abelian topological group and additionally we had continuous group action maps $G \times A \to A$ and same for $B$ and $C$, and $f$ and $g$ were $G$-equivariant?)
This seems to just be a question of semantics. I definitely see at least some authors require $A$, $C$ to have the subspace, quotient topology. But then something I read somewhere else seems to suggest that the condition should only be on the topology of $A$ only, or maybe no additional topological condition at all --- I can't quite tell...
So, what do you expect when you read or hear that $1 \to A \to B \to C \to 1$ is an exact sequence of topological groups? Is there a consensus?
UPDATE: The question has been reduced to understanding what it means for a sequence to be exact in a category that is not abelian but has kernels and cokernels (and a zero object). There are some ideas in Matthew Daws's answer and the following comments below, but a reference would be great.


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When I try to add an IP rule for IPv6 on my Linux system, it errors out:
$ ip -6 rule add fwmark 0xfab lookup 0xf
RTNETLINK answers: Address family not supported by protocol
I checked out the IP rule code; it issues a netlink message to the kernel. Probably I need to load some module, but I don't know which. What do I need to do to fix this?
I am using linux 126.96.36.199 built from kernel sources
Solution: By default linux build doesn't support multiple routing tables for IPv6. You need to enable CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES for multiple IPv6 routing table support.


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My website has been in development for a long time and cost a lot of money. How do I go about securing an enforceable copyright on my website design and what is the proper way to post a copyright notice on the site so others know the work is copyrighted?
The US is a member of the Berne Convention which means users have the Copyright for their work and even have it without notice on the work itself (although I would recommend using it). (For a full list of countries who this also applies to see the list of other members.
You automatically have the copyright to any work you create. There isn't an official register of copyright. You can apply for trademarks and patents if you have anything that qualifies.
Put a copyright notice at the bottom and have proof you created the work but enforcement is kind of hard anyway. Even sites which copy you down to the slightest detail can escape it. There are rip-offs, down to the pixel, of stack overflow but they are in China and it's too hard to enforce. Don't fret too much about it.
If your really worried I would seek professional legal advice on how to protect your intellectual property which may well involve measures beyond copyright.
To register your website as legally copyrighted, assuming you are in the United States, you would visit the U.S. Copyright Office. From there, you could use their Electronic Copyright Office (eCO) to register your copyright. Their site also has a list of fees for performing this service.
Please note- you do not have to register your copyright to have your material copyrighted; it is legally copyrighted upon it's creation. Registering your copyright will add this as fact to the public record, and provides precedence in the event of theft of your work.
Once you have your site copyrighted, add a line somewhere in your site's design (usually found at the bottom of every page) which lists the year(s) in which the copyright was filed, and who the site is copyrighted to. Make sure you use the word "Copyright", or the copyright symbol (©, or © in HTML Entity form). "(C)" is not a legally recognized symbol for a copyright.
An example:
It is copyrighted automatically, but it is still good practice to put the copyright notice
You don't need to do anything. If your website is a work of creativity it is automatically copyrighted. However, your design might not be. The code (html/css) that entails your design is copyrighted automatically. However, the design itself might not be, since this would usually trademarked. This is in particular the case for Logos and similar. Trademarks need to be obtained by the Patent and Trademark Office and are limited to jurisdictions.
you could check out Myows Copyright Management Solution.


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Fred E. "Dixie" Walker (September 24, 1910 - May 17, 1982) was a right fielder who played for the New York Yankees (1931, 1933-36), Chicago White Sox (1936-37), Detroit Tigers (1938-39), Brooklyn Dodgers (1939-47) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1948-49). In an 18-season career, Walker posted a .306 batting average with 105 home runs and 1,023 RBI in 1,905 games.
A native of Villa Rica, Georgia, Walker was the scion of a baseball family. His father, Ewart (the original "Dixie Walker"), was a pitcher for the Washington Senators (1909-12); an uncle, Ernie, was an outfielder for the St. Louis Browns (1913-15); and his younger brother, Harry "the Hat", also an outfielder, played for four National League teams between 1940 and 1955 and managed the St. Louis Cardinals (1955), Pittsburgh Pirates (1965-67) and Houston Astros (1968-72). All four Walkers batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
Walker first attracted attention when he batted .401 for Class B Greenville of the South Atlantic League in 1930. That year, at age 17, Walker was signed by the Yankees for a then-record $25,000. Although he lacked smoothness, Walker was such an outstanding prospect that the organization envisioned him as Babe Ruth's successor after batting .350 in the International League. A pull hitter with some power, he was a fast runner and a competent outfielder with a strong throwing arm. In his 1931 rookie season he crashed into a fence and suffered a shoulder injury that impaired his throwing. The injury was corrected surgically and he missed the 1932 season but the injury recurred a year later after a slide into second base.
His first full season came in 1933 when he hit 15 home runs in 328 at-bats and batted .274. But the following season, injuries limited Walker to 17 games
with 17 at-bats and a .118 average. In 1935, the Yankees sent Walker to the minor leagues and in May 1936, Walker's past injuries and the arrival of the Yankees' new star, Joe DiMaggio, may have conspired to convince the Yankees Walker wouldn't be the player they envisioned. Despite a .350 average to that point in the season, the Yankees put him on waivers where he was picked up by the White Sox. In total, Walker played only 131 games for the Yankees in a span of six years.
Post Yankees
With the White Sox, Walker hit .302 and tied for the American League lead in triples in 1937, but re-injured his damaged shoulder so badly that he needed surgery again. That December, he was traded to the Detroit Tigers in a multi-player deal. He continued to hit more than .300 with the Tigers before tearing cartilage in a knee in 1939. Despite his consistently high batting average, it seemed injuries were going to prematurely end his career. Placed on waivers once again, Walker was obtained by the Dodgers on July 24, 1939 when they were in need of outfielders. Although Walker played regularly in the Brooklyn outfield for the rest of 1939, he batted only .280 with no power. Still, manager Leo Durocher liked Walker's stroke and penciled him in as a regular in 1940.
Walker Blossoms in Brooklyn
From the beginning, Walker became a celebrity in Brooklyn and his popularity with the Ebbets Field fans in the 1940s brought him the nickname "Da Peeple's Cheerce." In his first game for the 1940 Dodgers, he singled to right field in the 11th inning to beat the Boston Braves. In that campaign, he led his team in batting average (.308) and doubles. He also posted some of his best games against the New York Giants, batting .436 against the hated rivals, and as a result, endeared himself to the Brooklyn fans. Nevertheless, manager Leo Durocher opened the 1941 season with the newly acquired Paul Waner in Walker's right field spot. In consequence, Brooklyn fans were outraged but the veteran Waner faded fast and was sent to the Boston Braves. Walker returned becoming part of an all-.300-hitting outfield (along with center fielder Pete Reiser and left fielder Joe Medwick) that led the Dodgers to the 1941 National League pennant.
In the following years, Walker continued to produce. He hit .290 in 1942 and .302 in 1943. In 1944, he led the NL with a .357 batting average (ahead of Stan Musial's .347) and finished 3rd in NL MVP balloting behind winner, slick fielding Cardinals shortstop Marty Marion, and Cubs outfielder Bill Nicholson. Walker hit .300 and won the 1945 RBI title with 124. In 1946 he was second in RBI (116) and third in batting average (.319), finishing a distant second in the MVP vote behind Musial.
All told, his Brooklyn career included five consecutive all-star selections (1943-47), the 1944 National League batting champion, and four top ten finsishes in the MVP balloting.
Controversy over Integration
When the Dodgers broke baseball's color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson, Walker became a figure of some controversy. In 1947, during spring training, the club announced that it was bringing up Robinson from the minors. Walker thereupon wrote a letter to Branch Rickey, the club president, asking to be traded. The letter did not mention Robinson by name, but Walker acknowledged later that he had been under pressure from Alabama people not to play with Robinson. Several other Dodgers from the U.S. South who had also grown up in conditions of strict racial segregation made similar requests of Rickey. Walker denied, nevertheless, that he had been in the forefront of a move to block Robinson. Reportedly, Robinson would look the other way rather than try to shake Walker's hand on the field, to avoid mutual embarrassment. Walker was soon defending Robinson and giving him pointers, and added that he came to respect Robinson for the way he handled the abuse hurled at him, and called him "as outstanding an athlete as I never saw." Walker finished the year at .306 and 94 RBI.
Whatever his opinion might have been at the time about integration, Walker saluted Robinson the baseball player when the 1947 pennant was won: "He is everything Branch Rickey said he was when he came up from Montreal." And with time, and as baseball welcomed more black and Latin players into its ranks, Walker's position about integration surely evolved as well. After his career, Walker made clear to reporters that he was not the same person as he was in 1947. His support of Jim Crow during Robinson's rookie season sprang partly from concerns for his home and businesses in his native Alabama.
"I didn't know if people would spit on me or not [for playing with a black man]," he once said.
Finishing Up and Post Playing Career
Sent to the Pirates in 1948, Walker led his team with a .318 average (topping the .300 mark for the tenth time in 12 years) and ended his playing career the next season. Following his retirement as a player, he managed several minor league teams for most of the 1950s, including the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1957 to 1959, winning the International League pennant in his first season with the team. He served as a batting coach with the St. Louis Cardinals, and coached and scouted both for the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers.
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ANDERSON, S.C. – After completing his first season as the head coach of the Anderson University women's basketball team, Jimmy Garrity has announced the signing of Kaylee Koerperich to the 2014-15 roster, announced by the coach on Tuesday.
"I am excited to welcome Kaylee Koerperich to our women's basketball program," Garrity said. "She comes from a great high school program in West Craven and is teammates with Jasmine Raynor, who signed with us in the fall."
During her final season at West Craven High School in Vanceboro, N.C., Koerperich averaged 7.8 points per game, 1.1 assists per game and 8.4 rebounds per game, while defensively averaging 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks. The post player was named to the all-conference team three times, while being picked to the NCHSAA 3A Eastern all-regional team twice. Koerperich was a main component to West Craven's three conference championships and two state Final Four appearances.
"Kaylee has tremendous work ethic day in and day out," Garrity added. "She is a post player that not only brings a tremendous amount of athleticism but show great toughness on the court. She has the ability to hit the outside jumper and can drive it from the high post. She does a great job of rebounding out of her area, which says a lot about her desire and effort when playing. Coach David Fernandez has done a fantastic job of developing her game. I am really excited about her growth as a player during her four years at Anderson."
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When it comes to granting liquor licenses, what is appropriate for one community may not be the right approach for another. Gov. Deval Patrick now wants to leave the decision about lifting the current cap on the number of liquor licenses each community has available to the municipalities themselves. Legislation introduced by the governor would replace the current arrangement where local officials must have the Legislature sign off on such matters with one giving local officials more control in setting that number.
It's part of a welcome push the governor is making in the final year of his final term to streamline the state's regulatory climate to spur economic development and create more jobs. Some existing license holders don't like the legislation because they want to protect their investments in liquor licenses, which can be worth thousands of dollars in cities like Boston, where they are at a premium.
Under the existing system, the number of licenses allowed in each city and town is capped, set by a formula that is based partly on population numbers.
If communities want to grant licenses above that cap, the Legislature needs to pass legislation for each additional license. If local officials feel it is appropriate to lift the caps in their communities, they should have the power to do so without having to seek legislative approval. The Legislature has far more pressing issues.
Massachusetts Restaurant Association President Bob Luz said that while the commonwealth's restaurants generally support increasing license availability and streamlining the regulatory process, lifting the existing regulations could mean a loss for existing owners "who may have paid a far steeper price due to current market restrictions." While it is unfortunate that these owners might lose out on their investment, state government's interest should not be protecting businesses from competition.
The current cap on liquor licenses represents yet another unnecessary hurdle holding back economic development. As Patrick told the Associated Press, "If we are really serious about growing opportunity and accomplishing that by growing the economy, then we've just got to make it simpler to make their investment decisions and get on with it." Those in the best position to determine the number of licenses appropriate for each community are the local officials in city or town hall.
While the liquor license caps are just a small issue in the big maze of the commonwealth's burdensome regulatory structure that ought to be reformed to create a friendlier business climate, this is a common sense means of leaving local issues up to local officials.
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It was actually MSF for CMMI (which is also an Agile template based on MSF Agile). The MSF Agile template has User Stories instead of Requirement work items.
Fell like an idiot maneuvering around this posting mechanism... I am trying to make the post appear right below the original question, like Brian Keller reponses. I will try once more...
Tried a 3rd time. There doesn't seem to be a way to make my reply post appear right below a question like Brian Keller responses. Also, the "Edit" neves switches to "Save" in edit mode. Is this because I am using Windows 7/IE 8?
I have the same problem that I cannot quote the piece I want to reply on.
Anyways, my question to Siddarth is if you want folks to seriously consider using the requirements management feature of TFS, you should not always depend on third party integration. It is difficult to justify a full fledged requirements management tool together with TFS. It is great to see that you can have hierarchy of requirements and link them to tasks and testcases. The question I have is , Is there any support for modeling say an activity diagram and link an activity in the activity diagram to a requirement (say Feature). For example, I can create an activity diagram to capture a business process and link individual activities in the diagram to one or more features and then features to requirements.
I think the rich text editing withe TFS gives a good opportunity to enter requirement details within TFS itself.
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What is the LEGO Group's position on war toys? Other brands make tanks and army stuff. I noticed LEGO sets include more realistic guns in the Star Wars range than they used to. What's up with that?
Kind of.
From the LEGO Group's Corporate Responsibility report:
Page 26 of the 2010 report.
Their position has shifted over the years, in response to changing attitudes as well as commercial pressures, and the rising age of LEGO enthusiasts!
Originally LEGO bricks were only available in bright primary colours e.g. red blue and yellow, with the conspicuous absence of green, aside from baseplates. It seems quite likely that this was a deliberate attempt to prevent people from building tanks and military vehicles which in Europe were generally painted green. The creator of LEGO was known to be a pacifist and have strong opinions on the issue.
I remember that when the Pirates series came out in 1989 they were the first sets to include pieces that were explicitly firearms: muskets, pistols and canon. The Pirates series was also the first to include non smiling faces, allowing figures to show more emotion, including anger. Although LEGO castle sets had featured weapons a decade earlier, the wide smiles on faces of the knights and guards suggested a lack of aggression.
Space sets have always had some ambiguity between what is a weapon and what is a scientific instrument, though the same trend is observed toward more conflict in later sets. Competition with other brick toys which feature military sets as well as movie tie-ins have caused conflict/aggression to be a major feature of many LEGO sets made more recently, which is probably what triggered LEGO's shift in official message on the subject, as detailed in the corporate responsibility report linked to above.
I believe that war sets have not been allowed from day one at lego, with the oft-quoted reason that Ole Kirk Christiansen did not was to reduce war to a 'state of child's play.' He was also reportedly a pacifist, and I have found a source stating that while lego may produce generic gun pieces, they will never directly model a contemporary gun, or likewise produce a set of one.
As stated (I think) in the 'Ultimate Lego Book,' Christiansen made sure that bricks in 'army colours' (i.e. green, brown, and olive green) were not produced. This changed later on however, when various sets required these colours, of course.
Hope this helps!
LEGO has always been a bit iffy on it's stance towards war related sets, which might be part of the reason most custom part makers specialize in realistic guns.
Being primarily a children's toy, they had shied away from depicting tanks and battles in the beginning. It might be said that as popular culture in general had an easier stance with "playing war" (video games were probably a big part of this), LEGO also eased it's policy. I think the fist time LEGO sets included toy guns for mini-figures might be it's Western theme in the late '90s.
There might have been laser blaster type guns earlier than this with the Space and Star Wars themes. Now it seems that with Indiana Jones and other movie licenses they have obtained, Lego is again allowing their sets to be portrayed in a more violent manner.
While the current plastic Lego "guns" are generally more tame (blasters, pirate pistols), that was not the case with wooden toys from the 1940's including this machine gun from 1945. It's about 18" long and makes a rat-tat-tat sound when turning the crank.
Even some of the classic sets had castles/knights with weapons, though most minifigs were decided in the non-violent category (astronauts, etc.).
As other posters have noted, many of the new licensed sets (Star Wars & Indiana Jones) are more violent, though often in a fantasy setting.


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Posted 20 July 2005 - 01:28 PM
After a very fine start, I found the book a bit flat as a read, specifically -- and this is a warning to adult readers -- because it really did live up to its nickname of "Snogwarts." But I'm not the target audience for adolescent romance For the first five, if an East Coast friend had called me at midnight with 50 pages to go, I would have said, "Is this an emergency?" "No?" "Gotta go," but instead I spent an hour and a half chatting about the Tour de France before finishing the book, and it wasn't because I wanted to savor it.
I think this book at its core would make a really fine opera, though. Rowling has built in enough arias, duets, and revelation scenes to build to a great climax.
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Posted 21 July 2005 - 08:39 AM
I read the first half of the first book. I saw that first movie so I'd be Harry Potter-literate. I've skimmed through a couple of the other books just to check the writing style in hopes of being able to move through the first book to get to the others but it's SO not my cup of tea that I dread the thought of reading it.
Friends whose opinions I value have almost uniformly loved the series so I think my lack of interest - truly, my growing anathema to it - must indicate some kind of glitch in brain function....mine, not theirs.
Posted 21 July 2005 - 09:04 AM
These books are expensive!!
Posted 21 July 2005 - 09:19 AM
The "BIG SPOILER" was great. I knew it was going to happen but was amazed at how it did. This is a woman who has put a lot of thought and planning into her books. I really appreciate that.
I also thought the potion drinking scene was very well written.
My biggest qualm is that this is not a childrens book. I would not let elementary schoolers (maybe a mature fifth grader) read it. I feel very badly for the parents who are going to have to tell their children they can't read it yet because it is just to mature.
Posted 22 July 2005 - 09:49 AM
Posted 22 July 2005 - 10:24 AM
My biggest qualm is that this is not a childrens book. I would not let elementary schoolers (maybe a mature fifth grader) read it. I feel very badly for the parents who are going to have to tell their children they can't read it yet because it is just to mature.
I have to disagree. There are much worse things out there corrupting children than a harmless book. To me, it is still a children's novel that people of all ages can enjoy. Sure, there's romance, a bloodied nose, more bullying, death, and even a bit of "mead" drinking, but there's no cursing, sex, extreme violence, drunkenness, or drugs involved. I guess someone could dispute that there is violence, particularly at the climax of the novel, but what could it influence children to do? Throw around spells and hexes at each other? Better waving wands than waving guns. Besides, what I love most about the Potter series is that Rowling teaches us that the most magical and powerful thing in the world is love, not how one can yield a wand.
Posted 22 July 2005 - 10:53 AM
Many kids are already aware of the politics and psychology on some level, because children are the cruellest masters. I suspect more have been in Snape's category than they'd care to admit.
Posted 22 July 2005 - 01:17 PM
(Did Pippi Longstocking ever date?)
No, but then again I don't think too many 8 and 9 year olds are reading Pippi Longstocking anymore. When I was in elementary school, all the kids were reading Goosebumps ("dark" material) or Babysitters Club and the Sweet Valley series (which always dealt with relationships of that sort). Sure, some kids may go "eww, gross" at all the snogging involved, but it's nothing that they can't handle and they'll just get a good giggle out of it. It's not going to stop them from reading HP, either. Children these days are maturing a lot faster than we're used to thinking they do.
Posted 22 July 2005 - 05:10 PM
I also think it is just to dark for the youngest of the harry potter fans. I have heard a few parents who decided their rule of thumb was if the kid could read the book on their own, then they could read the book. Those who are still read-a-longers will have to wait. It would be up to parents to decide if they could handle it, but I know multiple children who have nightmares from Pokeman!
I don't have my own children so I couldn't make this decision. As a teacher I would not have this one or the previous one on my bookshelf because they are just a little to dark. I would be worried about parent complaints. (I ignore the ones about witchcraft in general for the first 4.)
Posted 22 July 2005 - 08:40 PM
the mead drinking would put me off it.
That suprised me a bit, too. But I doubt many kids under the age of 10 today, at least in America, would recognize what mead was, unless they were really good at reading context clues.
Editing to add: No matter what people think of the contents in the Potter novels, reading them is still a more suitable and healthier pastime than playing videogames (which, sadly, are taking over the toy industry) or watching the latest trash on television.
Posted 25 July 2005 - 04:29 AM
(I went to sleep the night I read HP 6 and kept having to wake myself up so my dreams wouldn't get scary. That is part of the reason I would worry about a young child reading the books. Most kids can't control their nightmares yet. But if the kid can handle it, and a parent would know, then let them read!)
Posted 01 August 2005 - 07:46 AM
PERHAPS SPOILERY - MODERATORS - PLEASE DELETE IF THIS IS TOO SPOILERY -I also wasn't as moved by the death in this book as the ones in Book 4 and 5. That means I wasn't dripping in tears at the end!! However, I think that has as much to do with the age and lifelong achievements of the person involved (compared to the very young death in Book 4 and Sirius Black's new found reason to live in Book 5) as anything else.
Regarding the suitability for children - I am unfamiliar with Valley High style books (I'm not even sure if that's the correct term), but Judy Blume's juvenile books are far more explicit. I actually thought the 'relationship' parts very sanitised and even coy in a way. The 'magic' scenes felt much more real to me than the 'relationship' scenes.
OTOH I appreciate the fact that for the large part, the series does develop. Unlike Enid Blyton's characters, and even the Narnia children, the children and adolescents in HP definitely develop and change. Again, I'm not familiar with most of the current young-adult literature, so maybe this isn't as significant as it seemed to me. Old Fashioned - you are much closer to that demographic. What say you?
Lastly, I'm not sure that the youngest fans are reading the books. I kow a couple of self-styled Star Wars fans aged 6 who haven't seen the latest movie, as their parents don't think it age appropriate. The kids just have all the merchandise. If you are reading the book to or even with a child, it would be possible to cut some passages.
Posted 01 August 2005 - 08:56 AM
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I agree with you -- I didn't find Dumbledore's death as moving as Black's for the very same reason: Black had found a reason to live.
There are a lot of theories on the Internet that Dumbledore didn't really die at the end. The big emphasis in magic teaching in this volume was on non-verbal spells. While Snape did say the Avada Kedavra curse, in one of the earlier books, it was explained that the curse only works if the recipient believes it -- kind of like the Evil Eye -- and all of the other victims had their eyes open, but Dumbledore had his closed. One theory goes that Snape was sending a different non-verbal curse, while speaking the Avada Kedavra out loud to be witnessed.
Also, all of the portraits of the dead headmasters line the office of the headmaster, and they have their say at will. So even if Dumbledore either died or had some mitigated alternate state -- like the Lilac Fairy's mitigation of Carabosse's curse -- I can't imagine that he'd be silent in his portrait. (That would be a sign of something different having happened.) The trick may be to get Harry to return to Hogwarts, since it isn't clear he'll be returning to school in Book 7.
It's amazing how carefully die-hard fans read the books and find clues. I never would have thought of any of this on my own.
My own theory of the books is that Snape may turn out to be the heroic character: a flawed and resentful man who is hated -- not always without cause -- mistrusted by both sides, and insulted, but who in spite of this, does the right thing in the end and gets qualified credit for it, like Roger Maris' asterisk.
Posted 01 August 2005 - 10:08 PM
My own theory of the books is that Snape may turn out to be the heroic character: a flawed and resentful man who is hated -- not always without cause -- mistrusted by both sides, and insulted, but who in spite of this, does the right thing in the end and gets qualified credit for it, like Roger Maris' asterisk.
I don't know about the baseball metaphor, but I do agree about Snape -- I think he's being set up either as a stellar turncoat or as a twisted hero.
Personally, I think Dumbledore is dead, but I've been wrong before. I was struck by his asking Snape for help at the end -- I think he didn't want Draco to have to kill him, that even at the end, he was trying to protect a child from the evil in the world.
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Heuristic arguments due to (I believe) Delauney predict that every prime divides the order of the Tate-Shafarevich group of infinitely many elliptic curves over $\mathbf{Q}$. However, is it even known that for every prime $p$, there's at least one elliptic curve over $\mathbf{Q}$ whose Tate-Shafarevich group is finite and has order divisible by $p$?
Just to record an answer: yes, it is believed to be true that for each prime $p$ there is an elliptic curve $E_{/\mathbb{Q}}$ whose Shafarevich-Tate group contains an element of order $p$. But this is wide open.
One can however prove the following:
Theorem (R. Kloosterman): If you fix a prime $p$, then there is a number field $K_p$ -- i.e., depending on $p$ -- and an elliptic curve $E/K_p$ whose Shafarevich-Tate group contains an element of order $p$.
As Kloosterman remarked (in his 2005 paper on the subject, and also just now in the above comments) via a simple "Weil restriction" argument, this implies that there exists an abelian variety $A_{/\mathbb{Q}}$ whose Shafarevich-Tate group contains an element of order $p$. But now the dimension of $A$ goes to infinity with $p$.
Others have since worked out various improvements of Kloosterman's Theorem. Here are three different directions:
1) What is the minimal degree $d_p = [K_p:\mathbb{Q}]$ of a number field $K_p$ in above theorem? Kloosterman's argument gave $d_p = O(p^4)$. In a 2005 paper I showed that one can take $d_p = 2p^3$. In a 2010 paper with Shahed Sharif, we showed that one can take $d_p = p$. (Note that whether $d_p = p$ is in fact best possible is an open question. At one point I thought I had an argument to show that it was, but this was wrong. I now suspect that this is only best possible by a method proceeding along the lines of our construction. For instance, I believe it is conceivable that $d_p = 2$ for all $p$, and this has something to do with how Sha behaves in quadratic twists...)
2) What kind of elliptic curves $E$ can be used to produce these elements in Sha? Sharif and I showed that in fact one can start with any elliptic curve $E_0$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ and take its base change to $K_p$ a degree $p$ number field. (Similarly, one can start with any elliptic curve $E$ over any number field and get order $p$ elements of Sha in an extension field of degree $p$.) And in fact $p$ does not need to be a prime number here: it holds for every integer $n$. And in fact you can get as many elements of order $n > 1$ as you want.
3) What kind of control can one get over the field extension $K_p/\mathbb{Q}$? Can one for instance choose it to be Galois, abelian, or cyclic? Matsuno proves that for any cyclic degree $p$ extension $K_p/\mathbb{Q}$ one can find elliptic curves $E_{\mathbb{Q}}$ such that the base change to $K_p$ has as many order $p$ elements in its Shafarevich-Tate group as one wants. There are similar results along these lines (with dihedral extensions and elements of the Selmer group) by Alex Bartel.
P.S.: As Tim Dokchitser points out, replacing $\mathbb{Q}$ by any fixed number field does not help to answer the OP's question, although the results of Sharif and myself hold equally well in this relative setting. (I was going to ask "In what way could an arbitrary but fixed number field be any better than $\mathbb{Q}$?" but then I remembered an amazing result about $2$-Selmer parity that only holds over certain imaginary number fields...due to Dokchitser and Dokchitser.)


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That makes sense, especially in Ohio, where state funding cutbacks and difficulty passing local levies have forced many school districts to lay off teachers.
But the massacre earlier this month at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school has brought the issue of resource officers back in front of the public.
No one can say with certainty what effect a resource officer at the Connecticut school would have had on Dec. 14. Almost beyond doubt, however, an armed officer would have prevented at least some of the carnage. And it may be that the killer would not even have entered the school, had he known someone with a gun was there to stop him.
Now there is discussion of whether use of resource officers should be expanded greatly, perhaps even to the elementary schools that, to date, have not been seen as good locations for such personnel.
We have advocated use of school resource officers for several years – but not necessarily to stop armed, murderous intruders. Because of cost, the idea has not caught on; one estimate is that fewer than one in 10 schools in West Virginia have resource officers. And not all of those are trained to work well with students.
Trained resource officers perform a variety of important functions, ranging from providing sympathetic ears to students with problems to intervening against bullies. Here in Ohio County, tips resources officers have been given by students have prevented problems outside schools.
Many of the resource officers who once worked in West Virginia schools were laid off after federal funding to help pay their salaries was cut. That's right, cut. During an era when school security should have been a priority, federal officials apparently saw little need for it.
But funding resource officers for every school in West Virginia during a year's time would cost less than even a single "bridge to nowhere" or other federal spending fiasco.
Local, state and federal officials should take a new look at the resource officer concept. Perhaps, using money from all levels of government, more "RO's" can be placed in our schools. It is an idea that ought to be considered as part of a strategy to safeguard our precious children in several ways.


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I'm not an American so someone from the US may be able to explain. Why does John Casey admire and keep photos of ex-President Ronald Reagan, I mean why that specific president, and not any other previous or current president?
Adam Baldwin was personally responsible for the development of the Casey character, a character with which he identifies strongly. The photo of Reagan is his own personal photo, he often tweets Reagan quotes, and he is due to play Reagan in an upcoming film. In an interview with Big Hollywood, he talks about being openly conservative in Hollywood:
It could be because Reagan was strongly anti-communist and lead a strong military policy during the cold war, two points which agree very well with John Casey.