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Everybody knows that after some time of stereotype work can become boring and productivity goes down. You can get even disgusted with your job. (Sometimes we see only the negative things, not that positive one.)
Every coin has two sides: there are positives and negatives of every job. Often it's sufficient to talk to somebody with a positive approach to life, or to read motivation books, and you can have better approach to your job again. It's an issue of approach: when I repeat to myself how bad my job is, I won't be in a good mood to go there and to be productive. But when I remember the reasons why I applied for that job, and what is positive about it, I can once again be in a good mood, satisfied and motivated to be more productive.
Some people can change jobs all the time and they won't be happy anywhere.
Sometimes it is because of things we repeat in our head, like:
- I hate my job
- 8 hours of sitting again
- everybody wants something from me all the time
- I have to try to solve that boring issue, it would waste my time...
Instead of:
- I like my job, I like computing - this is why I studied it, and I want to show my knowledge
- I can make my job comfortable, sitting down in a warm room, after work I'll go play a sport
- It is exciting, everybody comes to me to ask questions, I can help others, it is great
- I will definitely solve that issue today
- I look forward to talking with my colleagues, they have great ideas
But in some cases, I can have a job which really does not suit me. And the best thing would be to change my job, not just try to change my approach.
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When it is preferable to use Bernstein polynomials to approximate a continuous function instead of using the only following preliminary Numerical Analysis methods: "Lagrange Polynomials", "Simple finite differences operators". One aspect of my question is to see that is there any predominance to use this method instead of those were mentioned even at very especial case? BERNSTEIN Polynomials are nice themselves and have lots of properties, but are they better to use for example in computer program or other situations too?
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I've used the integration of R with QGIS, and found it a very uesful tool. Having taken a look at the R toolbox extension for 9 and the extension for 10 it appears they both offer only point clustering to demonstrate the proof of concept. The question becomes are there any analysis methods available in R that you would like to see implemented through a python script (for example, implementing specific parts of the spatstat package).


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Objective to find visual and accessible ways to remember this formula fast
I have used Sarrus' rule but it is slow, more here. Since it is slow, I have tried to find alternative ways such as binary-tree -visualization (but it is poor/slow until some clever ideas):
RobJohn's idea to "just cycle the permutation"
$$\begin{align}i&=j\times k\\j&=k\times i\\k&=i\times j\end{align}$$
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View the 3×3 matrix as the points of the affine plane over F3: then the terms in the determinant correspond to affine lines which are neither horizontal nor vertical --.
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Draw a triangle with vertices i, j, k with arrows i->j, j->k, k->i. Multiplying two of these units is done as follows: if they are the same, 0; if they go with the flow of the triangle, the third in the line; if the go opposite the flow, the third one as well but with a minus sign
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Mangga Dua – literally translated meaning: the Two Mangoes - is Jakarta's hotspot for bulk and bargain shopping. Located on the border between the Old and Modern Jakarta, Yahoo Travel has named Mangga Dua: the largest Shopping Area in Asia. This is indeed a shopping paradise, favorite destination, not only for domestic tourists but also those from neigbouring Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, where the gamut of imported and domestic products are available.
Located along Jalan Mangga Dua, an array of shops stretch all the way from Jakarta Kota or Old Batavia, to Jalan Gunung Sahari by the Canal, on the border between North and West Jakarta. Largest shopping complexes here are the Harco Mangga Dua, Mangga Dua Square, WTC Mangga Dua, ITC Mangga Dua, Pasar Pagi and the Mangga Dua Mall,and in between are many smaller shops, hotels and restaurants.
Mangga Dua offers everything and anything. The Harco Mangga Dua is the center for electronics where you will find the latest LED TV's, fridges, air conditionings to the latest range of mobile phones, while in the other malls you will find anything you many need from imported winter clothes, boots, to flimsy underwear, fashion wear, perfumes, baby's outfits to fridge magnets and other small souvenirs in bulk that you may want to give out to weddings guests. When you decide to visit Mangga Dua, better have ready your whole shopping list, preferably buy in bulk as this is in fact a wholesale area. You can also find Jakarta souvenirs here from T-shirts to fridge magnets.
Since the street is always crowded, parking is a headache. So unless you have a driver to park your car, your best alternative will be to get here by public transport either by taxi or by TransJakarta bus. Your problem, however, will of course be how to haul your heavy shopping bags home after wandering around for one whole day.
To quench your thirst and appease your rumbling stomach after a day of serious shopping, there are a galore of food and drinks outlets.
In the evening, Mangga Dua food courts come alive. Most favorite spot is the Pagoda Food City at Mangga Dua Square by Jalan Gunung Sahari that offers a wide variety of freshly prepared seafood dishes from sumptuous chilli crab to steamed fish, prawns and oysters. And while waiting for your meal, you should try the many local favorite tidbits, among which are kue Lopis, Klepon, arem-arem and plenty more.
Pagoda Food City is immediately recognizable by its red and gold decorated street food stalls that you cannot miss.
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REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN -- (Marketwired) -- 07/20/14 -- After much anticipation, today marks the official opening of the 8th North American Indigenous Games in beautiful Regina, Saskatchewan.
Tonight, more than 4,300 Aboriginal athletes and artists will gather together to celebrate the opening of the largest multisport/cultural Aboriginal youth games in North America. The Games provide a unique opportunity for Aboriginal youth to compete in a variety of sport events and take part in cultural celebrations.
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I got these to replace my Scott Team Boa shoes which were stolen..long story. I was in a bind since I had a race a week later. I only got a 30 minute ride on them before The 12 Hours of Santos. I did the six hour solo without a single hot spot or cramp. Typically my toes cramp after a logn ride. I didn't have a single issue. Any shoes with straps tend to cause hot spots. The Boa lacing system eliminates that. Although I have a narrow foot these fit great with even a nice wide toe box. These are an absolute steal for the money. Thank you Nashbar!!!
Built solidly, boa tightening needs help
By Paul the Cyclist
from Prescott Arizona
The BOA tightening system broke on both shoes within about 2 months of use. the cable housing near the back of the tightening mechanism started to break, and it then started to bunch up, not allowing the shoes to open or close properly. I was (thankfully) able to get a replacement set, but am experiencing similar problems on the right shoe. I do admire the sleek design and lightweight design of the shoe, but this does not outweigh the apparent problems with the tightening system. The bottom of the shoes scratch very easily and parts of the tread wore off within about 1 month of riding. If the tightening system functioned properly, the shoes would be great!
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Wrong Size-They do run big!
By Al
from SoCal
I used Lakes website for sizing and came up with 42.5. I own Specialized and Shimano shoes and always wear a 43. Rolled the dice and went for the 43 and they are too big. I'm going to send these back for a 42. They are all leather so I think (hope) that even if they are a little small they will break in and be perfect. Looked very well built and the BOA feels really nice. Excited about getting the right size and leaving a better review.
Great fit shoes!
By WhidbeyBD
from Whidbey Is, WA
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Great fitting shoes that I had to send back because I went with one size bigger then normal. Fit very true to size! Light, comfortable, and looks great! Can not speak of durablity yet as they only have a few rides in them.
awesome shoes
By gentry
from bellevue, WA
I like them so much, they are my 4th pair of lake shoes. the boa is comfortable. The sizing on these are accurate, whereas the triathlon shoes were not accurate.
(5 of 6 customers found this review helpful)
Lake MX236 Carbon
By Tailwaters
from St Joseph MI
First off let me start out with saying in the last couple years I have purchased 5 different pairs of shoes to replace my worn out Diadora X-Trail Carbons. Thus far the Diadora's have been the best fit for my feet. Unfortunately they discontinued the style I have (nice leather uppers) and went the way of the masses with the synthetic material. In the last couple years I've had foot issues and my arches have dropped so finding a pair of shoes that fit without pain or discomfort has been a challenge. Out of the gate I liked the fact the Lake is nearly all leather. They appear to be a very nice quality shoe, which was a nice surprise being they don't seem to be as main stream as several of the other manufacturers. First ride with the shoes was not bad but did I experience some hot spots and numbness in my feet. That turned out to the bottom cleat location. 2nd ride with that adjustment everything went well and they performed as expected. The carbon sole is very firm with no flex or pressure points. I ride with crank brothers pedals and have learned these pedals are not a perfect match for all shoes. The BOA system seems to work well and to my surprise applies nice equal pressure across the top of my feet. I was a bit concerned it maybe too tight in some areas and not tight enough in other. On the down side the location of the adjustment knob is not so ideal when trying to adjust on the fly. Now I see why they have moved it to the top of the shoe. The BOA system does require a bit of adjustment as they tend to loosen up after a few minutes of riding. Not the BOA system itself is lessening but simply the foot settling into the shoe. I normally wear a 9.5-10 and ordered a size 44 which converts to a 10. Size is pretty darn close and I would say they run just a bit on the large side. Maybe a ¼ size larger. Also would note that they do run a little wide, which offers a bit more room in the toe box. Which for me works out great due to I ride in the winter and it allows for some thicker socks. I'm assuming after a month or so the leather uppers will begin to mold to my feet thus improving fit. I've owner Bontragers, Specialized, Giro, Sidi, Diadora and now Lake. I will say next go around Lake will be at the top of my list on my next set of shoes when needed. After a few months of riding I will revise my review but at this point it's the first pair of shoes that I have purchased that have fit correctly. But like anything else it comes done to personal preference.
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Money and sport have always gone together but Scottish sport is handicapped by the small pool to which it is confined. We can see this most clearly in the economics of Scottish football.
Economists are fascinated by the laboratory of human action called sport. Studying sport gives us plenty of long run data on behaviour, sets of rules to test against outcomes and all kinds of other juicy goodies. We salivate. A key pioneer of this rapidly emerging sub-discipline is the Professor Peter Sloane, formerly of the University of Aberdeen.
The results can be very revealing and useful. As an example, the economics of crime as applied to US college basketball showed that a 50% increase in law enforcement (i.e. an extra umpire) led to a 33% drop in crime (i.e. fouls). And I cannot find a single sports economist who supports public funding of stadia for professional teams. There is apparently no such thing as the economic multiplier in such cases. In other words public money spent on sports stadia does not ripple through the economy creating lots of new permanent jobs. That is nothing but hocus-pocused thinking or voodoo economics.
These thoughts came to mind as I read "Scottish Football - It's a Funny Old Business" by the accountant Stephen Morrow of the University of Stirling in the brand new special issue of the Journal of Sports Economics which focuses on football or soccer as it is called in my home as my American kids follow the NFL. And yes the Journal of Sports Economics does exist - I promise I did not make that up. I have written for it myself on the property rights in lost golf balls. Finders keepers ?
Indeed Scottish football is a very very very funny old business. Debt is greater than annual turnover; profits are rarer than hen's teeth; a quarter of the industry is routinely in administration; two thirds of the firms (teams) are over 100 years old yet few have ever gone out of business. The Scottish leagues were basically designed to fit the late Victorian railway timetable - hence Berwick Rangers play out of England.
Oh, and since 1891 either Celtic or Rangers has won 90 out of 108 league titles. This is the absolutely crucial point because sports economists have repeatedly shown that long time dominance by a small group of teams of any sports league is dangerous to its long term economic health. The argument is simple: fans don't like walkovers. On any given day both sides have to have a realistic chance of winning or fan interest eventually wanes. Hearts recent good run has been a tonic - but an exception.
Another problem with any league in which one or two great clubs dominate is that the lack of weekly tough competition does not make the strong stronger but indeed might be said to weaken them. Who would want an easy ride into European level competition if the almost inevitable result is early exit? Battle hardened warriors tested week in and week out are what I would want at, or rather in, my side.
Reading Stephen Morrow's analysis leads one inexorably to conclude that the heart of the problem is the dominance of the Old Firm duo of Rangers and Celtic.
Either the Scottish Premier League needs a big revamp possibly using the kinds of techniques employed in the wealthy US sports leagues to level the playing field. Also all of the 30 teams not in the Premier division could become feeder teams to the elite ..... and owned by them. As Morrow alludes, 42 teams for a country of 5 million people is absurd and it is no wonder a Scottish team holds the record for lowest ever turnout in professional football. I recall 27 but maybe it was 28.
Or a way must be found to move Scotland's top teams to join those of Wales in the English leagues, hopefully top ones! The English would benefit; the Old Firm would benefit; and the rest of Scottish football would benefit.
The English league was after all created by that Scottish draper William McGregor from Maco, Perthshire who brought together Accrington, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderer, Burnley, Derby County, Everton, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1888.
It is interesting to note that McGregor's motivation in collecting the best teams together in that first league was to combat low attendances at one sided matches. He must be the patron saint of sports economists and is clearly a descendant of Adam Smith.
Today one later member of McGregor's league, the Salford City based team called Manchester United, is worth $1.20 billion which is $250 million more than the mighty Washington Redskins who also do not play in their eponymous city in America's NFL. Clearly McGregor did something right although in any league I ran you would have to be named after the place in which you play.
Given the size of Sven's promised payoff for peccadilloes and malapropisms, the football authorities can easily afford to hire Messrs. Blundell and Morrow to sort out this Funny Old Business.
Would it be better if Celtic and Rangers were playing in an adapted UK Premier League. It would be better business. It would be better sport.
John Blundell is Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs.


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I'd buy more than one!
I need binders for my vintage Disney DVD collection. I have a CASE of DVD pages bought from thing fling years ago. Just now searching for decent priced faux bookshelf binders. I wish these had slots on the front for inserting tags.
What's a CD?
@cavimike: Some kind of round thinga-thing-thing that you used to listen to Tupac with.
@namorama: Is a Tupac some sort of brand name for a man's wig?
Does this company also make decorative holders for my 8-tracks? Timely.
I'm tempted to get one of these handsome folders, hand-write in crayon "porn" on the little paper label, and put it up on my bookshelf with all my first-editions.
Actually, I've been looking for something like this for a while now. I have a ton of DVD's, and they're on a rack that takes up too much space. We bought one of those CD/DVD binders, but there isn't any place to put the booklets, and there isn't really a good place for it to sit without looking out of place. These look like they could be a good alternative. In for two...
Ah yes, the Compact Disc. I believe it was a tool of some sort that was used by humans. These humans would put this "Compact Disc" in a machine to emit sound. It is really quite fascinating.
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Where Aren't They Now? 13 Overlooked Deaths of 2012
Every year, Cracked takes a few minutes to look back and reflect on the lives of the recently deceased whose deaths didn't necessarily make headlines, despite the fact that they each changed your life in some small way. So let's take a moment to remember ...
#13. February 12 -- Cracked Royalty
John Severin, one of the fathers of the original Cracked magazine, way back in the day.
From being 90.
The Legacy:
You're reading it. John Severin was one of the original creators of MAD Magazine, then helped launch Cracked, the granddaddy of the website you're reading right now. He continued as the lead artist there for 45 freaking years.
Born in 1921, Severin started selling comics at the age of 10 to The Hobo News -- a publication for, by, and about hobos. Hobos had their shit together back then. Severin went on to draw and ink for Marvel and EC Comics, and he gained a reputation as a stickler for historical detail. By the time Cracked the magazine was up and rolling, Severin was their go-to guy for covers and parodies, and he also invented their Alfred E. Neumanesque mascot, Sylvester P. Smythe. Among his last projects was reimagining the Rawhide Kid as a gay gunslinger -- that's what the guy was drawing in his 80s.
#12. February 19 -- Pinball (Creating) Wizard
Alex Garcia
Steve Kordek, inventor of pinball machines as you know them.
Natural causes: The dude was 100. (High score! MULTI-BALLLLLLLL!)
The Legacy:
One of the great innovations in gaming history would have never happened if it hadn't been for a fateful rainstorm in Chicago. Twenty-six-year-old Steve Kordek was walking around without an umbrella during a downpour and decided, "Fuck this" (paraphrased). He slipped into Genco, a pinball machine manufacturing company, to escape the wet. Because it was 1937, the assumption was that everyone was unemployed, so the receptionist asked Kordek if he was looking for a job. He wasn't, but hey! Why not!
Back in those days, pinball players were forced to literally shake the entire game table to manipulate the ball into the cup or the hole, kind of like when you're God and you play that game where you pick which humans fall into earthquake cracks. Steve Kordek is the guy who said "What?!" and introduced two simple flippers positioned at the end that would let a person, you know, play pinball.
#11. February 29 -- The Creator of Batman's (Non-Joker) Villains
Sheldon Moldoff, comic book artist, co-creator of Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, Clayface, and Bat-Mite.
DC Comics
We're just going to skip over Signalman.
Natural causes (dude was 91).
The Legacy:
You know the old story: A talent scout spots a young girl in a mall, and suddenly she's America's favorite covergirl supermodel. Moldoff's the comic book artist equivalent of that. We don't mean that his cold, dead eyes stare at you from a billboard selling face cream to spotty teenage girls. We mean that he was discovered as a teenager, while doodling with chalk on the sidewalk outside his apartment.
From there, he went on to become one of the most prolific artists of the Golden Age. Yep, if we keep typing away at Starbucks, eventually a publisher will look over our shoulder and give us a job. It's happened before, damn it!
#10. March 3 -- The Real Genius Behind Star Wars
Parkinson's disease, age 82.
The Legacy:
There is a 99.9999 percent chance that Star Wars would not exist if it wasn't for Ralph McQuarrie, which puts him right up there with George Lucas, Frank Herbert, and Joseph Campbell in that respect. Here's why: Back in the 1970s, McQuarrie was just a guy doing some technical art for Boeing, and George Lucas was just a guy who couldn't get his space opera financed, no matter how hard he tried. That is, until he commissioned McQuarrie to sketch some of the concepts he was trying to get across. McQuarrie said "Sure!" and went to work inventing the look of:
Darth Vader's breathing apparatus, helmet, and cape
Light sabers
TIE Fighters
Just ... all of it
Except for the prequels. Good man.
With McQuarrie's detailed, beautiful drawings in hand, Lucas had the big picture he needed to sell his story. And those designs became some of the most recognizable artistic creations in the history of human civilization.
#9. March 8 -- Austin's Weirdest
Austin Experience
Albert "Leslie" Cochran, cross-dressing street hero and Austin mayoral candidate.
Head trauma.
The Legacy:
Albert, or "Leslie," as he preferred to be known, was a fixture of Austin streets, and was considered the poster boy of the "Keep Austin Weird" movement. Cochran was frequently seen in women's clothing, most often a leopard thong and heels.
He also ran for mayor three times. And came in second place in 2000, earning 7.75 percent of Austin's vote. So when Austin picked the flamboyant homeless person as the champion of the "Keep Austin Weird" movement, they weren't just whistling Dixie. Over 7 percent of them wanted to make him their king. And what a fancy king he would have been. Godspeed, Mr. Cochran.
#8. March 9 -- The First Ronald McDonald (Maybe)
Terry Teene, supposed inventor of Ronald McDonald.
Car accident.
The Legacy:
Teene led an unusual life. Things got off to a strange start even before he was born -- his father's name was Kermit. Teene soon became a rockabilly star, most famous for the vaguely terrifying songs "Curse of the Hearse" and "Just Wait Til I Get You Alone." So, what next for a strange young man so obviously obsessed with death and stalking? Why, he became a clown, of course, performing under the name "Clownzo." In the course of that gig, he may have created the second most recognizable character on planet earth behind Santa Claus. See, in the early days, Ronald McDonald looked like this:
GAH! But "Clownzo, son of Kermit" says he worked with another man named George Voorhees to create the world-famous Ronald McDonald character design as you and every other human knows it today, claiming that they threw it together for an appearance at an LA area McDonald's in 1963, presumably because they didn't want to traumatize children with the monstrosity above. McDonald's doesn't give them credit for the design, but we can say that A) Keene was working as a clown at the time and B) he did his makeup like this:
We'll let you be the judge.
#7. April 5 -- The Father of Loud
Jim Marshall, the inventor of Marshall amps, aka the things you see in the background of every concert and music video:
"When you see it ..."
Natural causes.
The Legacy:
In his youth, Marshall was a drummer in the English music scene. He also owned a London drum store. Musicians would come in and urge Marshall to stock guitars and amps, including the Who's Pete Townshend, who was "demanding a more powerful machine gun ... [to] blow people away all around the world ... I wanted it to be as big as the atomic bomb had been." Marshall came up with an innocent-looking black box with a speaker inside and controls on the top -- this was the prototype for the "Marshall stacks" that would become a mainstay of rock stages around the world.
Although the more expensive Fender amps had a more precise sound, scores of musicians wanted something bigger and louder. Marshall stacks were used by Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, "and almost every other major rock guitarist in the '60s and '70s."
On Twitter, Motley Crue bass player Nikki Sixx claimed that Marshall was "responsible for some of the greatest audio moments in music's history -- and 50 percent responsible of all our hearing loss."


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SALADO (January 23, 2013)--The second annual Robert Burns Supper will take place Saturday.
Burns Night, as it has become known, includes the "Piping in of the Haggis" and the "Address to a Haggis" in honor of Robert Burns' birthday on January 25, 1759.
The ceremony usually consists of the playing of bagpipes and giving a dramatic rendition of Burns' "Address to a Haggis."
Burns was a poet who wrote the piece "Auld Lang Syne" and still serves as a cultural icon to the people of Scotland and around the world.
The Central Texas Area Museum will hold Burns Night in the main dining room in the Stagecoach Inn from 7 p.m. until 10:30 p.m.
The cost is $55 and will include speeches from dignitaries and the meal.
Guests may dress informally but are encouraged to wear something tartan, Highland attire or a formal evening dress.
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An linear map $T: P_2 \to P_2$ is defined: $T(p(x)) = p(x+1)$. If $a = \operatorname{rank}T$ and $b = \operatorname{rank}(T- I)$ where $I$ denotes the identity transformation, then find $(a,b)$.
This is my problem in my textbook. In my thinking, $\operatorname{rank}T$ is equal to rank of $(p(x)) = 3$. But, I think it 's wrong, because I haven't used $p(x+1)$ yet. At b, I really don't know how to find.
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Would sticking stickers on a helmet or painting them etc make a helmet less useful in a crash? Not knowing the science of helmets but perhaps stickers in the wrong place might make it not behave how the manufacturer intended during a crash (not breaking apart correctly)?
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I agree with the others, it doesn't seem like stickers should be a problem. My helmet has stickers on the shell added by the manufacturer - clearly they were added make me ride faster.
Paint is a different story... Polystyrene (aka Styrofoam) and certain other plastics can be damaged by the solvents used in paints, like some spray paints. I believe petroleum solvents in particular can cause polystyrene to melt.
Polystyrene is sometimes used in crafts and model building, so a hobby store might stock some polystyrene safe paints or be able to recommend a brand of paint that'll be safe to use.
As long as the material in the paint doesn't cause the helmet material to degrade, it should be fine.
While helmets do sometimes break apart in a crash, that's not a primary design requirement for them to keep your head protected. The two things a helmet does to keep your head safe during a crash are compress (to absorb the impact) and stay securely fastened to your head (so the foam stays between your head and the hard thing the helmet is hitting).
Breaking apart is very much a secondary thing that simply sometimes happens after the primary purpose (compressing) happens to destroy the bits holding the helmet together.
If the stickers are a hard raised item that will compromise the effectiveness of the helmet, however, since the protrusion could be driven through the foam in a crash.
I personally wouldn't worry about most stickers and decals. Paint can be more of a problem, or if you used the wrong clear coating over a sticker/decal. It's a question of whether the particular paint reacts with the plastic shell.
One of the concerns with stickers and paint to a lesser degree is that it may mask or hide damage to the shell. Manufacturers reccomend inspection prior to every use and damage prior to or after application of a sticker could be hidden.
Stickers are fine... paint is the danger as mentioned already.
Some helmets are constructed using a thin plastic shell that is stuck to the foam base. If you remove the shell and paint that seperately, then re-attach it you should be fine.
However, as you should get a new helemt every few years, to make the manufactures happy and to be safe because the materials break down over time due to UV light and other variables, I'd just go out and find a nice helmet in the colour that you want. The cost isn't extremely high and you'd look very chic ;-)
About stickers:
The Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute writes in an article:
But duct tape can compromise a helmet. Details are in the article.


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This is another image I found on Google+
All lines are absolutely straight, parallel and perpendicular but why does it appear to have a curvature?
Related: How does this illusion work?
This is another image I found on Google+
All lines are absolutely straight, parallel and perpendicular but why does it appear to have a curvature?
Like these questions :) Many of these illusions come from Prof. Akiyoshi Kitaoka, a japanese Psychologist and expert for Gestalt Psychology. On his website you'll find some more fascinating illusions and questions to ask here ;)
The illusion above is named Cafe Wall illusion and the newest model to explain those illusions is the contrast-polarity model. Short explanation from his webpage:
The paper explained it better to me:
This explains why you perceive a tilt. If you position the smaller squares now in distinct edges of the big squares, you can achieve 2- and 3-dimenional illusions. Here you see a increasing of the tilt due to more smaller squares:
Here you can see that the positioning of the smaller squares is critical to achieve the 3D effect of the orignial bulge effect in your question:
Notice that Gestalt Psychology is a non-reductionistic theory approach and investigates mainly the phenomenology and underlying Gestalt Laws of visual perception. How these Gestalt Laws developed on a deeper level is a question of neurobiological evolution similar to, "why have some species of apes color-vision and some not". The ellipses in the explaining picture above show you, that our cognitive visual machine somehow tries to group divided objects (square and line of same contrast/brightness) in one line and we see a tilt. I'm guessing here, but this is probably due to cognitive brain algorithm that saves things and objects we see and perceive mainly by countor and shapes, rather than pixel by pixel like a computer and digital camera do it, which of course don't perceive any tilt or 3D illusion in any of those trick images :)
Read the papers for more explanations and examples, not behind a paywall:
Apparent contraction of edge angles, A Kitaoks, Perception, 1998


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The 5 Shadiest Crimes Ever Pulled Off by Famous Corporations
#2. American Express Acts as Benefactor to an Ocean's Eleven-Style Heist That Nearly Topples the Stock Market
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As we've seen throughout this article, big business often operates on logic that's closer to street justice than the kind practiced in the courtroom. For instance, vouching for the wrong guy can't get you put in jail, but it often comes with a death penalty on the streets and in the boardroom.
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"If this deal falls through, you'll be leveraging your synergy through a straw."
Criminals can't look up the credit rating of a potential drug mule or the success rate of a prospective getaway driver. So when it comes to evaluating the quantity and quality of a shit that a potential partner is worth, they have to rely on the complex math of street cred. (Who vouches for you? Who vouches for the guy vouching for you? Wait, didn't they hear that YOU TURNED SISSY IN THE JOINT? Ha, the sissy thing was a test, and you passed. Now you just have to kill a guy and you've got a street credit rating of 740, which is pretty good.) It may not be a perfect science, but the point is, criminals know better than to just assume someone is trustworthy because they say they are.
There are of course more official, less convoluted ways to determine a company's Wall Street cred in the world of business, but the cost of backing the wrong guy can be just as deadly. Therefore, you'd think that the background checks run by major corporations would be at least as thorough as the ones used by mobsters. Especially credit card companies, who have the "cred" part right there in their job description. Unfortunately for anyone holding American Express stock in the 1960s, the process for evaluating potential American Express partners had very little in common with the brutally judicious mafia bosses in the Godfather and had more of a Nanny from Muppet Babies vibe, happy to absently mutter "You kids be good now" before leaving the room for an irresponsible period of time.
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"Don't drink any of the candy I keep under the sink."
This became a problem when a salad oil importer that American Express had been vouching for fooled them and the entire financial world with the oldest, most insultingly stupid trick in the petty criminal playbook. If you've ever watched a movie in which a drug transaction takes place, or paid $75 for an eighth of oregano, you're familiar with the trick. The reason drug dealers in movies always taste the bag of white powder is because they want to be sure the drug mule hasn't swapped it with baking soda. The drug mule will usually say something like "C'mon, Rico! What am I, an idiot? You think I'd scam you?" But Rico always, always tests the product, because the only thing deader than a drug mule trying to sell baking soda to a drug dealer is the drug dealer who actually manages to fall for that shit.
Dissolve fade back to the offices of American Express in the early '60s. A guy with a suspicious background selling mystery meat to the school lunch program with the suspiciously Italian name of Anthony "Tino" De Angelis is making the suspicious claim that he controls most of the nation's supply of vegetable oil and offering a suspiciously good deal to American Express if they vouch for him and let him keep his shit at their house. Background checks on his importing company reveal a credit rating of "punk-ass bitch who needs to get got." In the criminal underworld, this would be a clear cut verdict of "ass kicking for having wasted your time."
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"Our preliminary research indicates a face only a shiv could love."
Instead, American Express spent the next couple of years vouching for De Angelis to anyone who would listen. When this happens in the movies, it's usually because the voucher and vouchee come from the same neighborhood (Rounders) or the same ball sack (The Godfather) or did time together (Reservoir Dogs, Heat). It's unclear why American Express vouched for De Angelis. Maybe they just realized that if he wasn't a scumbag, they'd be way richer, and if he was a scumbag ... hey, let's start talking about the one where we get rich again. And so, American Express spent the next couple of years insisting that De Angelis was a real stand-up guy, and everyone assumed they knew what they were talking about and lent him money for the insane amounts of 100 percent pure, uncut salad oil he claimed to be storing in American Express-owned warehouses.
Even after they realized that De Angelis was storing more salad oil in their warehouse than existed in the entire rest of the country, and even when they heard rumors that De Angelis had installed pipes under the enormous tanks in their warehouse, they never strayed from their official judgment: The guy's a good shit.
"Or a dumbshit. Or a piece of shit. The point is, he's some type of shit."
Imagine that movie drug transaction, only when the guy tells Rico, "You can trust me," Rico was like "Oh, well in that case, I'll buy all of it, and sell it to the least fucking-around drug dealers I know for the price of 100 percent pure cocaine." And then before they've had a chance to hear back from any of the drug dealers, Rico realizes that they've sold more cocaine than technically exists in the world, and he starts to hear rumors that there are giant piles of powdered sugar and baking soda boxes scattered around his drug mule's car. Well, you can probably guess how many creative ways Rico would be murdered by the end of the movie. Unless you were working for American Express in the early 1960s, in which case you're waiting to find out what Rico spent all of his well-earned money on.
It turned out De Angelis was the worst kind of shit. The only difference between the hypothetical scenario that fooled Rico and the salad oil swindle is that De Angelis had realized that he could take the worthless decoy in the drug switcheroo, a grocery item, and turn it into $200 million. He just needed a gullible partner and something even more worthless than groceries. For the decoy, he settled on the most abundant and worthless liquid on the planet: seawater. The warehouse that was supposed to be full of most of the salad oil in America was actually mostly full of seawater. There was a little salad oil on the top, which fooled inspectors (oil rises, and people generally only check the surface of shipments when they're being imported by companies that American Express says are good for it). Once the oil was in the warehouse, they piped oil and seawater back and forth between containers, which worked as long as American Express only looked in the tanks De Angelis said to look in when he said to look in them. Which must have been exactly what they did, since they never discovered the scheme.
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"This is food, not underpants. Why waste time with thorough inspections?"
When salad oil began to plummet on the market and customers came to them for the salad oil they'd paid too much money for, the scheme was discovered, De Angelis disappeared with hundreds of millions of dollars, and American Express was on the hook for more money than they actually had at the time.
In fact, the only reason American Express is still a company today and not just a cautionary tale is because Warren Buffett decided that they'd learned their lesson and saved them from bankruptcy, although it's impossible to guess how many people he made them kill to prove they were good for it.
#1. Coal Companies -- Bringing Full-Scale War and the U.S. Army Against Unions
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The United States is what's known as a mixed economy, meaning the private sector (rich people and corporations) share control of the economy with the public sector (government programs and laborers), and it's estimated that over 90 percent of the country's most boring arguments are over which of those sides has too much influence. But the U.S. didn't arrive at its blend of regulation and mostly no regulation without a fight.
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And not one of those boring, Congress-y word fights either.
When it suddenly emerged as the world's largest economy in the late 19th century, the U.S. was a mess of strikes, union busting, unsafe workplaces, and "company towns." Certain modern towns get called "company towns" because a bunch of the people there all work for the same company -- Atlanta and Coca-Cola, Orlando and Disney, Los Angeles and the gay propaganda machine that makes all of your movies and TV shows. The company towns in coal country were sort of like that, except there was literally only one company in town, and they owned your house, the school your kids went to, and the private detectives that threw your wife and kids out into the rain when you asked for reasonable wages. Of course, that didn't always happen. It wasn't always raining.
In 1912, the United Mine Workers of America were working on unionizing the coal mines in West Virginia, and it wasn't going well. That year, the coal miners of Paint and Cabin Creeks held themselves a strike. When unionizing miners were thrown out of their company-owned towns with their families, they set up tent towns on the outskirts. That's when the companies declared martial law, driving armored trains through the tent towns and machine gunning the men, women, and children staying there. In that one strike alone, 50 people were murdered, more starved to death, and everyone agreed that they probably shouldn't set up tents on the part of the outskirts with the machine gun train tracks running through the middle of it. And yet, through sheer tyranny of will, the miners in Paint and Cabin Creeks were able to unionize. In fact, all but a few of the company towns around the Blair Mountain mine were unionized by the time the 1920s roared in. If you're even a little bit good at pattern recognition, you can probably guess how the Blair Mountain coal bosses felt about unions. Hint: They had outlasted the coal bosses who machine-gun trained the coal miner pillow forts. But in 1921, the unions decided it was time to take on the real Final Boss.
"Wait till their heads glow, then shoot!"
The famed union activist and total killjoy Mother Jones led over 10,000 unionized miners down to Blair Mountain, where they faced down 2,000 sheriffs, state police, and company security representing the companies operating the mines. In case you're still picturing modern labor strikes with picket-sign-wielding, rock-throwing workers facing off against a billy-clubbing riot squad, this conflict was much closer to what the modern world calls "all-out war."
First of all, since this was 1920s rural West Virginia, everyone was armed.
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So not all that different from West Virginia today.
There were a few days of intermittent shooting before the two sides turned the back roads of West Virginia into the Spanish Civil War. The companies managed to keep it at a controlled simmer while they were outnumbered and waited on word from the president about reinforcements.
No, not the company president. U.S. President Warren G. Harding had a rooting interest in the coal bosses maintaining their stranglehold over their towns, since the country was still largely running on coal, and also because, hard as it might be for modern readers to imagine, politics at the time was heavily influenced by the interests of wealthy white guys. Once Harding let the companies know the Army was on its way, the coal bosses knew they had the miners right where they wanted them.
What happened next was like a mini-Gettysburg. The miners and company fought for days, with the miners doing their best to take advantage of their numbers, and the company doing their best to out-Snidely Whiplash the little guys. They had better weapons and more ammunition, and at one point, they even wrangled up a bunch of planes that had been used in World War I and bombed and gassed the miners. The U.S. Air Force supplied more modern bombers, who flew in from Maryland and took aerial photos of the miners' positions, making it one of the only times air power was used on U.S. citizens.
Like 1920s Google Maps, if Google was openly trying to kill you.
Despite their many disadvantages, the miners actually managed to get into the counties they wanted to unionize. However, they had to relent when the Army arrived with enough ground troops to paint the town with anyone the coal bosses pointed at. The miners retreated, hiding their guns and ammo on the way in case the battle sparked up again.
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"You two for treason and you two for dressing like newsies."
When the battle ended, 100 people were dead and over 1 million bullets had been fired. To this day, you can still find weapons and ammunition where the fleeing miners hid it inside old trees and crevices between rocks.
The government tried to keep it quiet that they'd supplied bombers, the military, and flat-out war against people who only wanted what the rest of the United States had. But the miners would ultimately be vindicated in the 1930s when the horrific working conditions in Appalachian coal mines were exposed. Fourteen years later, all of West Virginia was unionized, and American corporations never abused their power ever again.
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BELTON (December 31, 2012)--The City of Belton, along with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Rainbow Trout Program, is offering local families a chance to bait a hook or try their hand at fly fishing Thursday.
Nolan Creek will be stocked with rainbow trout and fishing licenses will not be necessary at the event site.
The fun kicks off from noon until 2 p.m. and prizes will be awarded.
Thursday's event will be the only exemption for those without a license.
Fishing poles will not be provided.
For more information, call the City of Belton at (254) 933-5861.