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What is the Monkeysphere?
"So you're going to tell us that this Monkeysphere thing runs the whole world? Also, They Live sucked."
Go flip on the radio. Listen to the conservative talk about "The Government" as if it were some huge, lurking dragon ready to eat you and your paycheck whole. Never mind that the government is made up of people and that all of that money they take goes into the pockets of human beings. Talk radio's Rush Limbaugh is known to tip 50% at restaurants, but flies into a broadcast tirade if even half that dollar amount is deducted from his paycheck by "The Government." That's despite the fact that the money helps that very same single mom he had no problem tipping in her capacity as a waitress.
Now click over to a liberal show now, listen to them describe "Multinational Corporations" in the same diabolical terms, an evil black force that belches smoke and poisons water and enslaves humanity. Isn't it strange how, say, a lone man who carves and sells children's toys in his basement is a sweetheart who just loves bringing joy at Christmas, but a big-time toy corporation (which brings toys to millions of kids at Christmas) is an inhuman soul-grinding greed machine? Strangely enough, if the kindly lone toy making guy made enough toys and hired enough people and expanded to enough shops, we'd eventually stop seeing it as a toy-making shop and start seeing it as the fiery Orc factories of Mordor.
And if you've just thought, "Well, those talk show hosts are just a bunch of egomaniacal blowhards anyway," you've just done it again, turned real humans into two-word cartoon characters. It's no surprise, you do it with pretty much all six billion human beings outside the Monkeysphere.
"So I'm supposed to suddenly start worrying about six billion strangers? That's not even possible!"
That's right, it isn't possible. That's the point.
What is hard to understand is that it's also impossible for them to care about you.
That's why they don't mind stealing your stereo or vandalizing your house or cutting your wages or raising your taxes or bombing your office building or choking your computer with spam advertising diet and penis drugs they know don't work. You're outside their Monkeysphere. In their mind, you're just a vague shape with a pocket full of money for the taking.
Think of Osama Bin Laden. Did you just picture a camouflaged man hiding in a cave, drawing up suicide missions? Or are you thinking of a man who gets hungry and has a favorite food and who had a childhood crush on a girl and who has athlete's foot and chronic headaches and wakes up in the morning with a boner and loves volleyball?
Something in you, just now, probably was offended by that. You think there's an effort to build sympathy for the murderous fuck. Isn't it strange how simply knowing random human facts about him immediately tugs at your sympathy strings? He comes closer to your Monkeysphere, he takes on dimension.
Now, the cold truth is this Bin Laden is just as desperately in need of a bullet to the skull as the raving four-color caricature on some redneck's T-shirt. The key to understanding people like him, though, is realizing that we are the caricature on his T-shirt.
"So you're using monkeys to claim that we're all a bunch of Osama Bin Ladens?"
Sort of.
Listen to any 16 year-old kid with his first job, going on and on about how the boss is screwing him and the government is screwing him even more ("What's FICA?!?!" he screams as he looks at his first paycheck).
Then watch that same kid at work, as he drops a hamburger patty on the floor, picks it up, and slaps in on a bun and serves it to a customer.
In that one dropped burger he has everything he needs to understand those black-hearted politicians and corporate bosses. They see him in the exact same way he sees the customers lined up at the burger counter. Which is, just barely.
In both cases, for the guy making the burger and the guy running Exxon, getting through the workweek and collecting the paycheck are all that matters. No thought is given to the real human unhappiness being spread by doing it shittily (ever gotten so sick from food poisoning you thought your stomach lining was going to fly out of your mouth?) That many customers or employees just can't fit inside the Monkeysphere.
The kid will protest that he shouldn't have to care for the customers for minimum wage, but the truth is if a man doesn't feel sympathy for his fellow man at $6.00 an hour, he won't feel anything more at $600,000 a year.
Or, to look at it the other way, if we're allowed to be indifferent and even resentful to the masses for $6.00 an hour, just think of how angry the some Pakistani man is allowed to be when he's making the equivalent of six dollars a week.
"You've used the word 'monkey' more than 50 times, but the same principle hardly applies. Humans have been to the moon. Let's see the monkeys do that."
It doesn't matter. It's just an issue of degree.
There's a reason why legendary monkeytician Charles Darwin and his assistant, Jeje (pronounced "heyhey") Santiago deduced that humans and chimps were evolutionary cousins. As sophisticated as we are (compare our advanced sewage treatment plants to the chimps' primitive technique of hurling the feces with their bare hands), the inescapable truth is we are just as limited by our mental hardware.
The primary difference is that monkeys are happy to stay in small groups and rarely interact with others outside their monkey gang. This is why they rarely go to war, though when they do it is widely thought to be hilarious. Humans, however, require cars and oil and quality manufactured goods by the fine folks at 3M and Japanese video games and worldwide internets and, most importantly, governments. All of these things take groups larger than 150 people to maintain effectively. Thus, we routinely find ourselves functioning in bunches larger than our primate brains are able to cope with.
This is where the problems begin. Like a fragile naked human pyramid, we are simultaneously supporting and resenting each other. We bitch out loud about our soul-sucking job as an anonymous face on an assembly line, while at the exact same time riding in a car that only an assembly line could have produced. It's a constant contradiction that has left us pissed off and joining informal wrestling clubs in basements.
This is why I think it was with a great burden of sadness that Darwin turned to his assistant and lamented, "Jeje, we're the monkeys."
"Oh, no you didn't."
If you think about it, our entire society has evolved around the limitations of the Monkeysphere. There is a reason why all of the really phat-ass nations with the biggest SUV's with the shiniest 22-inch rims all have some kind of representative democracy (where you vote for people to do the governing for you) and all of them are, to some degree, capitalist (where people actually get to buy property and keep some of what they earn).
Above: Democracy
A representative democracy allows a small group of people to make all of the decisions, while letting us common people feel like we're doing something by going to a polling place every couple of years and pulling a lever that, in reality, has about the same effect as the darkness knob on your toaster. We can simultaneously feel like we're in charge while being contained enough that we can't cause any real monkey mayhem once we fly into one of our screeching, arm-flapping monkey frenzies ("A woman showed her boob at the Super Bowl! We want a boob and football ban immediately!")
Conversely, some people in the distant past naively thought they could sit all of the millions of monkeys down and say, "Okay, everybody go pick the bananas, then bring them here, and we'll distribute them with a complex formula determining banana need! Now go gather bananas for the good of society!" For the monkeys it was a confused, comical, tree-humping disaster.
Later, a far more realistic man sat the monkeys down and said, "You want bananas? Each of you go get your own. I'm taking a nap." That man, of course, was German philosopher Hans Capitalism.
As long as everybody gets their own bananas and shares with the few in their Monkeysphere, the system will thrive even though nobody is even trying to make the system thrive. This is perhaps how Ayn Rand would have put it, had she not been such a hateful bitch.
Then, some time in the Third Century, French philosopher Pierre "Frenchy" LaFrench invented racism.
Above: The French
This was a way of simplifying the too-complex-for-monkeys world by imagining all people of a certain race as being the same person, thinking they all have the same attitudes and mannerisms and tastes in food and clothes and music. It sort of works, as long as we think of that person as being a good person ("Those Asians are so hard-working and precise and well-mannered!") but when we start seeing them as being one, giant, gaping asshole (the French, ironically) our monkey happiness again breaks down.
It's not all the French's fault. The truth is, all of these monkey management schemes only go so far. For instance, today one in four Americans has some kind of mental illness, usually depression. One in four. Watch a basketball game. The odds are at least two of those people on the floor are mentally ill. Look around your house; if everybody else there seems okay, it's you.
Is it any surprise? You turn on the news and see a whole special on the Obesity Epidemic. You've had this worry laid on your shoulders about millions of other people eating too much. What exactly are you supposed to do about the eating habits of 80 million people you don't even know? You've taken on the pork-laden burden of all these people outside the Monkeysphere and you now carry that useless weight of worry like, you know, some kind of animal on your back.
"So what exactly are we supposed to do about all this?"
First, train yourself to get suspicious every time you see simplicity. Any claim that the root of a problem is simple should be treated the same as a claim that the root of a problem is Bigfoot. Simplicity and Bigfoot are found in the real world with about the same frequency.
So reject binary thinking of "good vs. bad" or "us vs. them." Know problems cannot be solved with clever slogans and over-simplified step-by-step programs.
You can do that by following these simple steps. We like to call this plan the T.R.Y. plan:
First, TOTAL MORON. That is, accept the fact THAT YOU ARE ONE. We all are.
That really annoying person you know, the one who's always spouting bullshit, the person who always thinks they're right? Well, the odds are that for somebody else, you're that person. So take the amount you think you know, reduce it by 99.999%, and then you'll have an idea of how much you actually know regarding things outside your Monkeysphere.
Second, UNDERSTAND that there are no Supermonkeys. Just monkeys. Those guys on TV you see, giving the inspirational seminars, teaching you how to reach your potential and become rich and successful like them? You know how they made their money? By giving seminars. For the most part, the only thing they do well is convince others they do everything well.
No, the universal moron principal established in No. 1 above applies here, too. Don't pretend politicians are somehow supposed to be immune to all the backhanded fuckery we all do in our daily lives and don't laugh and point when the preacher gets caught on video snorting cocaine off a prostitute's ass. A good exercise is to picture your hero--whoever it is--passed out on his lawn, naked from the waist down. The odds are it's happened at some point. Even Gandhi may have had hotel rooms and dead hookers in his past.
And don't even think about ignoring advice from a moral teacher just because the source enjoys the ol' Colombian Nose Candy from time to time. We're all members of varying species of hypocrite (or did you tell them at the job interview that you once called in sick to spend a day leveling up on World of Warcraft?) Don't use your heroes' vices as an excuse to let yours run wild.
And finally, DON'T LET ANYBODY simplify it for you. The world cannot be made simple. Anyone who tries to paint a picture of the world in basic comic book colors is most likely trying to use you as a pawn.
So just remember: T-R-Y. Go forth and do likewise, gents. Copies of our book are available in the lobby.
David Wong is the editor of Cracked.com and the author of the dong-filled horror novel John Dies at the End.


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While reading this thread Why 1 is not considered to be a prime number?, I recalled that The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (FTA) which says that every positive integer greater than $1$ can get written uniquely as a product of only primes except for order of the factors. What does "uniqueness" here mean?
I ask, because the way I interpret uniqueness, if uniqueness exists, it means that there exists only one way (except for notation) of writing such a product of primes. E. G. for $6$, we can only write $(2$#$3)$ or $(3$#$2)$, with "#" indicating multiplication. Those expressions only differ in the order of factors so the theorem applies there.
However, this doesn't always work. For example, say we consider $30$ as the integer to get written as a product of primes. Then we can write $30$ as $((2$#$3)$#$5)$ as well as writing $(2$#$(3$#$5))$ (note I don't see how $2$#$3$#$5$ is clear as a unique product, but only that the two meaningful choices which would make it as a shorthand for a product equal each other). The order of factors $((2$#$3)$#$5)$ does not change when passing to $(2$#$(3$#$5))$, nor do we change the notation, so we have two different ways of "writing" $30$, which perhaps becomes even more transparent to see if we require that all products get written in prefix or suffix notation (e.g. $30$ can get written as ##$235$, or #$2$#$35$, so long as we understand the numerals appropriately). So, does uniqueness fail for FTA, or what exactly does uniqueness mean here? If uniqueness fails, what does the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic try to say? Does it mean something along the lines that for any positive integer $c$ greater than $1$ there exists a unique bag or multiset $b$ such that no matter which way you take the product of two members of the bag to yield a result $r$, take the product of $r$ and a member of the bag not used so far, and repeat this process until you have no members of the bag left, you will obtain the integer $c$?
Addendum: What happens to the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic if you require that all products get written via either a prefix notation scheme ("Polish" notation), or a suffix notation scheme ("Reverse Polish" notation)?


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This week's #WayBackWednesday playlist was put together by Jonah Bayer who helped write Rolling Stone's article on the 40 Greatest Emo Albums Of All Time!
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NPR Music has chosen flor as one of 100 bands to watch at SXSW this year!
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To know the places I've been my whole lifeI watch the hours pass us
Another one burns to ashes
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UNCHARTED Greatest Hits Dual Pack (PS3) for $17.99
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For me, the link shows it at $23.99 + $3.99 Shipping. Not prime eligible.
If you click the "more buying options" you can select the correct $17.99 Prime eligible option!
I love this series. I hope they come out with a PS4 version.
@djpimpstick: This is weird. I had to link through that page to get to this one:
This has the $17.99 Prime eligible price. Hope this helps.
Edit: deals.woot is redirecting when you click out. Copy and past the above link to get to the $17.99 deal. It's currently showing shipping as 2-4 weeks, fyi.
One of the few games that make me want a PS3! Maybe I'll get one for cheap once it's 'last generation.'
Sweet, I'm going to pick this up. You can get part 3 for free off the PSN if you have Playstation Plus too, so all three games for under $20 is pretty good.


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Able to connect without QR System.


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Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
My cat has a peritoneal mesothelioma. My vet says that this pathology is very rare in cats and is studying a protocol for the chemotherapy (possibly intracavitary chemotherapy). My vet attended two dogs with cisplatin, with good results, but this drug is lethal for cats. Can you send me information about possible therapies for cats? And what do you think her prognosis is like?
Lili Duda, VMD, Editor of the OncoLink Veterinary Oncology Section, responds:
Dear A.S.
Mesothelioma is a rare tumor in cats, with very little in the veterinary literature. It is a diffuse tumor of the lining of the body cavity. The tumor cells produce fluid which accumulates, in the abdomen in this cat's case. Treatment efforts are aimed at palliation (controlling the clinical signs)there is no cure for this tumor. In dogs (and people) the chemotherapy drug cisplatin is placed into the body cavity to try and decrease fluid production. Cisplatin is fatal to cats. Carboplatin is a newer drug related to cisplatin and it is safe in cats. The intravenous dosages are well worked out; however, I am unaware of any reports describing intracavitary use in either dogs or cats.
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Adolescence is a time of transition, physically, socially, and emotionally. The adolescent brain is in transition as well. Although important structural and functional changes take place in the brain from childhood to adulthood (Giedd et al., 1999), during adolescence such changes are widespread. During adolescence, the brain undergoes a major remodeling involving the formation of new connections between nerve cells, as well as the pruning of existing synaptic connections. These changes affect the processes involved in planning and decisionmaking, impulse control, voluntary movement, memory, and speech production, among others (Rubia et al., 2000). Similar changes occur in those parts of the brain that seem to affect how a person responds to alcohol and other drugs (Spear, 2000; Teicher et al., 1995). As a result, alcohol appears to have different effects on adolescents than adults (Spear, 2000).
Animal studies suggest that alcohol may have a greater impact on adolescent than adult memory (Markweise et al., 1998; Pyapali et al., 1999) and that these effects may be long lasting. Preliminary studies suggest that rats exposed to high levels of alcohol during adolescence may be more sensitive to alcohol-induced memory impairments later in life (White et al., 2000). Human studies have detected cognitive impairments in adolescent alcohol abusers weeks after they stopped drinking (Brown et al., 2000).
Although the causes of these long-lasting changes are unclear, they may in some cases involve alcohol-induced injury to the nervous system. In rats, exposure to high amounts of alcohol produces more extensive brain damage in adolescents than adults (Crews et al., 2000). In humans, adolescent-onset alcohol abuse has been associated with a reduction in the size of the hippocampus (DeBellis et al., 2000).
Research also suggests that adolescents are less sensitive than adults to some of alcohol's effects. For example, adolescent rats, on their first exposure to alcohol, are less susceptible than adult rats to alcohol's sedative effects, as well as its effects on balance and motor coordination (Little et al., 1996; White et al., 2001). It is not known whether these differences occur in humans. However, the findings suggest that adolescents might be able to stay awake and mobile at higher blood alcohol levels than adults with an equivalent history of alcohol exposure while, at the same time, experiencing greater alcohol-induced cognitive impairments and, possibly, more injury to the brain following high alcohol exposure levels.
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Eye Health Center
Blocked Tear Ducts - Topic Overview
What is a blocked tear duct?
Tears normally drain from the eye through small tubes called tear ducts , which stretch from the eye into the nose. If a tear duct becomes blocked or fails to open, tears cannot drain from the eye properly. The duct may fill with fluid and become swollen, inflamed, and sometimes infected.
Blocked tear ducts happen most often in babies, though they may occur at any age. They affect about 6 out of 100 newborns.1
Most of the time, blocked tear ducts in babies clear up on their own during the baby's first year. They usually have no effect on the baby's vision or cause any lasting eye problems.
What causes a blocked tear duct?
Causes of blocked tear ducts in children include:
- Failure of the thin tissue at the end of the tear duct to open normally. This is the most common cause.
- Infections.
- Abnormal growth of the nasal bone that puts pressure on a tear duct and closes it off.
- Closed or undeveloped openings in the corners of the eyes where tears drain into the tear ducts.
Blocked tear ducts may run in families.
In adults, blocked tear ducts may be caused by an injury to the bones or tissues around the eyes or by another disorder, sometimes related to aging. For example, a blocked tear duct may result from a thickening of the tear duct lining, abnormal tissue or structures in the nose, or problems from surgery on or around the nose.


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GM1 gangliosidosis type 3
- Gangliosidosis GM1 type 3
- Beta-galactosidase deficiency type 3
- Adult GM1 gangliosidosis
- Gangliosidosis generalized GM1 chronic type
Your QuestionMy son has been diagnosed with GM1 gangliosidosis. Please tell me more about this condition.
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What are the signs and symptoms of GM1 gangliosidosis?
- Classic infantile (type 1) GM1 gangliosidosis is the most severe type, with onset shortly after birth (usually within 6 months of age).[2] Affected infants typically appear normal until onset, but developmental regression (loss of acquired milestones) eventually occurs.[2] Signs and symptoms may include neurodegeneration, seizures, liver and spleen enlargement, coarsening of facial features, skeletal irregularities, joint stiffness, a distended abdomen, muscle weakness, an exaggerated startle response to sound, and problems with gait (manner of walking). About half of people with this type develop cherry-red spots in the eye. Children may become deaf and blind by one year of age.[1][4][5] Affected children typically do not live past 2 years of age.[2]
- Juvenile (type 2) GM1 gangliosidosis is considered an intermediate form of the condition and may begin between the ages of 1 and 5. Features include ataxia, seizures, dementia, and difficulties with speech. This type progresses more slowly than type 1, but still causes decreased life expectancy (around mid-childhood or early adulthood).[2]
- Adult (type 3) GM1 gangliosidosis may cause signs and symptoms to develop anywhere between the ages of 3 and 30. Affected people may have muscle atrophy, corneal clouding and dystonia.[1][4][5] Non-cancerous skin blemishes may develop on the lower part of the trunk of the body.[1] Adult GM1 is usually less severe and progresses more slowly than other forms of the condition.[1][4][5]
What causes GM1 gangliosidosis?
Mutations in the GLB1 gene may lower or eliminate the activity of the β-galactosidase enzyme, keeping GM1 ganglioside from being broken down. As a result, it accumulates to toxic levels in tissues and organs, particularly in the brain. This accumulation leads to the destruction of nerve cells, causing the features of the condition. In general, people with higher enzyme activity levels usually have milder features than those with lower activity levels.[2]
How is GM1 gangliosidosis inherited?
- a 25% (1 in 4) chance to be affected
- a 50% (1 in 2) chance to be an unaffected carrier like each parent
- a 25% chance to be unaffected and not be a carrier
GM1 gangliosidosis is type-specific within families. This means that people with a family history of the condition are generally only at increased risk for the specific type of GM1 gangliosidosis in the family.[5]
How might GM1 gangliosidosis be treated?
Bone marrow transplantation was reportedly successful in an individual with infantile/juvenile GM1 gangliosidosis; however, no long-term benefit was reported. Presymptomatic cord-blood hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation has been advocated by some as a possible treatment due to its success in other lysosomal storage disorders.[6] Active research in the areas of enzyme replacement and gene therapy for the condition is ongoing but has not yet advanced to human trials.[4][7]
Neurologic and orthopedic sequelae may prevent adequate physical activity, but affected individuals may benefit from physical and occupational therapy.[6]
- NINDS Gangliosidoses Information Page. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). October 2011; http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/gangliosidoses/Gangliosidoses.htm. Accessed 4/3/2012.
- GM1 gangliosidosis. Genetics Home Reference. July 2010; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/gm1-gangliosidosis. Accessed 4/3/2012.
- Anna Caciotto, Maria Alice Donati, and Amelia Morrone. GM1 Gangliosidosis. Orphanet. May, 2012; http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?lng=en&Expert=354.
- Tegay D. GM1 Gangliosidosis. eMedicine. March 29, 2012; http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/951637-overview. Accessed 4/3/2012.
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Around this part of TX...if you've got a chainsaw and a pickup, you'd never have to pay for firewood. There's always one or two ads in the Free section of Craigslist. Just cut it and haul it away.
Our neighbor inherited a bunch of acreage near us - our driveway goes through the property - and she decided to nearly clear cut. Right now it looks awful, but I think we're going to like seeing the sun more. Here the pay for timber is pretty good. It went way down a few years ago, but is going back up now.
If your neighbor doesn't hunt (and you do), from what I remember from living in WA, clear cuts can make for some good deer hunting. Open for good shots, and the deer all the new growth is like a buffet for the deer.
As I understand it, with propane I will pay the same monthly price year around.
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London 2012: The Summer Olympics
Olympic Bodies: They Just Don't Make Them Like They Used To
The Olympic Games seem to celebrate the extremes of athletic physique — from tiny gymnasts to impossibly huge shot-putters. But why are they shaped that way?
We've put together an infographic that explores how athletes' bodies have changed over the last century, and the role physics plays in each event. Here on Shots, we're taking a look at some of the athletes featured in the graphic.
Men's 100-Meter Sprint
For decades, sprinters have been getting taller, propelled upward by a simple law of physics. Sprinting is basically a controlled forward fall. Runners with higher centers of gravity can fall forward faster — and the taller you are, the higher your center of gravity.
Athletes of West African descent have a center of gravity that is 3 percent higher than Europeans, and they tend to dominate sprinting events.
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Women's Marathon
The biggest problem for marathon runners is body heat. Having a small, thin body helps maximize heat dissipation. While some distance runners are shorter and some are taller, all are extremely light.
Men's Weightlifting
Weightlifters come in all sizes, but they tend to have one thing in common: short legs and short arms. Because of their shorter limbs, they don't have to lift their barbells quite so high, so they expend less energy.
Bantamweight champions can lift three times their body weight — heavyweights, less than two.
Women's Single Scull
Rowing favors tall athletes who can take long, powerful strokes for efficient sculling.
Men's 100-Meter Freestyle
The ideal swimmer's physique: short, powerful legs, a huge wingspan, large hands and feet and a long, tapered torso. Asians have the longest torsos relative to their body size, but they tend to be shorter, so swimming has long been dominated by Europeans.
Men's Gymnastics
If you are going to be twisting and turning rapidly through the air, it helps if there is less of you to turn. That's one reason gymnasts are so small. They have some of the lowest body fat percentages in sports, and the body mass index of gold medalists has been declining for the past 50 years.
There are a lot more details about the physics behind Olympic physiques in the full infographic, so be sure to check it out.
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On Thursday, May 19, I was a fly on the wall at the third Pentaho London User Group (PLUG) meeting hosted by Dan Keeley and Tom Barber. Here's Dan opening the meeting, spurred on by a little 'flower power':
The theme for this meeting was column-oriented databases.
Tom kicked off the proceedings with a short demo of WebDetails CDF (community dashboard framework), a Pentaho extension for making light work of building dashboards. You can read more about this in Tom's blog.
Next, we fastened our seatbelts for a lively presentation by special guest John Smedley of Ingres, who briefed us on VectorWise, an exciting open source community project originating from the University of Amsterdam, later acquired by Ingres, for processing data at 10X -75X faster over traditional databases. It achieves this by tapping into the power of modern commodity CPUs with a database engine that leverages vector-based processing and on-chip memory.
John's priceless quote of the evening: "de-normalizing can make your life easier". (Hey, I'm no database techie, but I can get down with that sentiment)
This was about the only time John stood still long enough for me to take his picture:
The evening concluded with an Academy Awards-style recorded video demonstration hosted by Nick Goodman, CEO of Seattle-based Pentaho partner DynamoDB. Nick walked us through LucidDB, billed as the only open source database purpose-built from day one for doing business intelligence. Among the interesting things Nick showed us was how DynamoDB allows users to perform 'back-in-time' queries based on data sets from an earlier time period, reminiscent of the Wayback Machine. LucidDB's columnar storage means data can be compressed into a much smaller space that with traditional database structures.
The meeting was generously hosted by Skills Matter, an organisation that supports the Agile and Open Source developer community through free events, training courses, conferences and publishing.
PLUG needs your support and involvement to flourish, so if you're in the Southeast and want to take part or recommend a theme for the next meeting, visit here or contact Dan Keeley.
The next meeting will be held in September or October – we hope to see you there!
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Republicans' 'YouCut' Gimmick Leads Them To Propose Ending Successful Jobs Program
Last week, House Republicans launched a gimmicky website called "YouCut," which asked visitors to vote on which item out of a pre-chosen set they would like to see axed from the federal budget. Republicans promised to bring a bill to the House floor nixing the item that received the most votes.
The problem with this is two-fold. For starters, eliminating every single one of the proposed YouCut items would amount to cutting 0.017 percent of the federal budget. This highlights the fundamental unseriousness of Republican claims that you can significantly reduce the federal budget deficit by targeting small-ball spending programs. But second, the ultimate "winner" of the contest is a successful jobs program that was fundamentally mischaracterized and misunderstood by the GOP.
With about 29 percent of the 280,000 votes cast, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Emergency Contingency Fund led the pack. House Republicans called the fund a "backdoor way to undo" welfare reform that "incentivizes states to increase their welfare caseloads." Of course, phrased that way, the program sounds absolutely awful!
But as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities pointed out, neither of those claims are actually true. While the Emergency Fund does provide payments to families facing financial emergencies, it does so with stringent work requirements. In addition, it's enabling states "to place 186,000 unemployed individuals in subsidized jobs by the end of the summer":
It's the largest subsidized employment effort states have ever taken under TANF, the national block grant created by the 1996 welfare reform law. A large share of the jobs are in the private sector…Individuals receiving TANF assistance funded through the Emergency Fund must meet the same stringent work requirements imposed on other TANF recipients. They have 12 weeks to find a job — an extremely difficult task in today's labor market — after which they must meet their work requirement through other work activities, such as unpaid work.
"The recession has caused unprecedented need for many struggling families with children and the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund helps states meet that demand but is also responsible for directly funding 185,000 jobs. I can think of few ideas Republicans have floated that have been as devoid of compassion and commonsense as this one," said Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA).
Even Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), no liberal darling, has said that the program provides "much-needed aid during this recession by enabling businesses to hire new workers, thus enhancing the economic engines of our local communities." But House Republicans are set to put it on the chopping block, because of an online gimmick.
Cross-posted at The Wonk Room.


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I recently smoked a pork shoulder in a weber charcoal kettle grill and I had a lot of trouble maintaining the temperature. Are there any tricks to using a mix of charcoal briquettes and wood chunks for smoking like this?
A couple of suggestions to help maintain constant heat.
Overall the kettle is a nice grill; but leaves a little to be desired for smoking. The offset firebox style where you can refuel without disturbing the cook-box has a definite leg-up primarily for the refuelling reason; but with some practice you should still have wonderfully edible results with the kettle.
Happy Eating!
I'm assuming you're talking about hot smoking rather than cold smoking.
Thin steel is a good conductor of heat, but a poor reservoir. What this means is that the temperature inside is going to track very closely the amount of heat being produced by the briquettes at the time. This is fine for fast cooking, but for a long slow cook, you want stability.
One suggestion would be to add thermal mass to the system by putting heat reservoir objects into the grill, and letting them absorb and steadily re-emit the energy from the charcoal. Stone and ceramic are both options.
The other suggestion is getting the charcoal to burn at a steadier rate. Try adding smaller batches of charcoal more frequently.
A couple of things that I saw on some of the posts. Do not add unburnt fuel to a fire, when you are smoking. This imparts a bitter flavor, while pork hides it some, a experienced BBQ'er will taste it immediately. On brisket and beef ribs, it will ruin it outright and make it inedible. As well you should let the fire burn until the smoke is almost clear vapor and is not bellowing smoke before you put your meat on. You should see wiffs of blue and gray smoke in the vapor this will impart a smooth smokey flavor into the meat. If you have to add fuel during the process, burn the fuel down until it is white ashed on all of it surface in an external vessel such as one of the charcoal burners or a smaller grill.
The recommendation on putting a water pan over the fire, is good advice for direct heat where the meat sits directly above the fire. The reason being that once the grease starts to drip on the fire it is inevitably going to flare up and cause the temperature to skyrocket and meat to burn. Ensure that the pan is larger than the meat, so that it can catch all of the drippings and make sure that you keep water in it at all times. Adding some cider vinegar and apple juice will impart a nice flavor as well.
Ideally if you are going to do any amount of smoking on a regular basis, you should invest in a smoker that has on offset box, smoking on a grill is always a more difficult proposition.
Try the "Minion Method" (Google it) for maintaining your fuel. It's a method where you have a bed of unlit coals to which you add a few lit ones. The lit coals provide the heat, and the other coals slowly ignite throughout your cook. Once you get to your desired heat, it is easy to control with the vents on the bottom.
Don't worry about the unlit coals igniting. As long as you're not using match-light, you won't experience a problem with impurities being cooked into your food. The new Kingsford Blue has fewer and cleaner fillers. Even better, use lump or coconut charcoal.
For more information on the Minion Method, check out The Weber Virtual Bulletin Board (link text). They have a section devoted to the method on the site, and you can find plenty of help in the forums on maintaining temperatures.
The short answer is, you're always going to have trouble controlling heat in a weber kettle grill.
The longer answer: You can put out some great meat with it. As a practical suggestion on top of the posts above, I would suggest you
1) move all the meat to one side of the grill,
2) put coals on the other side of the grill
3) put a metal water pan above the coals to keep the heat even
4) make sure that the vent is situated above the meat, creating a flow of air from coals over across to the meat.
5) get a wireless thermometer setup for grilling
6) using that, adjust the air vents (start with the bottom vents at half open and top at full as a baseline, close them down as needed to lower temperature).
Enjoy your smoking!


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If there's one type of food people get passionate about, it's barbecue! Dan Kaercher headed into Hickory Park in Ames for big flavor and big portions.
Kaercher: If there is one type of food people get passionate about is barbecue. I am headed into Hickory Park for big flavor and big portions. From near and far the folks cozying to booths and tables for great barbeque here at Hickory Park know the real meaning of tried and true.
Krough: Every time we come to Ames we always eat here.
Kaercher: Why do you keep coming back?
Krough: We love it. He always has the pork tenderloin and I have the ribs and chicken.
Kaercher: Same thing huh?
Krough: Every time.
Readel: A lot of people tell us hey, you know we have been coming here for 20 plus years. We love that things haven't changed. We love that we know you. We ask for the same server and we have had her for 20 years. I think people like that consistency and they like to know that we know them.
Kaercher: From babies on up, patrons appreciate all the traditions at Hickory Park. From the seasoned staff to the seasoned specialties on the extensive menu. Pit Master Mike Damske smokes thousands of pounds of beef, pork, turkey and chicken each week. A huge job.
Damske: All right. This one is ready to be loaded up with some more wood. Open it up here and I usually adjust my wood a little bit that is already in here. Throw a couple in. Shut it back up.
Kaercher: As you may have guessed Mike uses hickory wood in his smokers. It lends a very distinctive taste and aroma.
Damske: It just gives it a really nice mellow flavor. Not really woody like an oak. An oak would be really a woody taste to it and we just don't like that. This gives it more of a mellow smoked flavor instead of so harsh like oak and other woods.
Kaercher: With hungry customers packing in to feast on barbeque, cooking is a constant for this pit master.
Damske: Well, we cook pork five times a week. We cook chickens five times a week. We usually cook beans three times a week. We do all these meats right here three times a week.
Kaercher: Mike has been smoking meats here for over 20 years. He credits his training to Hickory Park owner David Wheelock who recalls a time when these modern day smokers weren't around yet. Back then there were a couple of challenges.
Wheelock: Well, both that open pit and the old bakery ovens are quite prone to catch on fire, you know? The new ones you don't have that kind of trouble and one Sunday I was summoned out of church that the pit was on fire and fortunately it didn't do a whole lot of damage. But kind of scary anyway.
Kaercher: Now in its third location in over four decades, Hickory Park brings back fond memories for those who have come here for years.
Griffin: Most of us are Iowa State graduates and then we like coming to Hickory Park because it has got good meat, fast service.
Kaercher: It is also a place to make new memories. Kylie, what is your favorite thing to order here at Hickory Park? The baby back ribs? Get it? Baby back ribs? Hey, I am not going to let the babies have all the fun. I am hungry. By the way in case you haven't noticed portion sizes are a big deal here.
Tarter: They look down at the food and it is like oh, my gosh. You know this could feed my whole family. But we have to-go boxes. So it is all good.
Kaercher: Let me show you what I am having for lunch today. Pure carnivore heaven here. This is the combination dinner. So, we have chicken. Hickory Park's own kielbasa. Ribs, of course and then underneath all that are slices of smoked turkey, pork, and beef. And then I couldn't leave without having their famous Saucy Southerner which is a mixture of pulled turkey, pork, and beef in sauce. And it looks like a little macaroni salad on the side. Oh, I got to go for these ribs. That they are just taunting me. So good. I think I pretty much conquered the whole animal kingdom right on one platter. Ok, now I just want to jump over to the most popular sandwich here at Hickory Park, The Saucy Southerner. Oh, yeah. Besides the main menu which has over 100 items there is an added selection of temptations, ice cream. Behind an antique counter the ice cream fountain adds a charming centerpiece to the restaurant. The owner's roots as the former operator of the Dairy Queen carried over to his barbeque business and in my opinion ice cream and barbeque are a match made in heaven. Just let me show you this. This is the ice cream menu alone and that is all their ice cream creations. So, you try making up your mind. Huh? The perfect way to settle your stomach after over indulging on a barbequed pig out. I can't help but acknowledge that the food here certainly lives up to its delicious reputation. But there is another more subtle secret to Hickory Park's longevity and success.
Drury: I saw a line one day that said you need to earn your reputation each and every day and that is completely him. He is here every day, all day from morning to night, and making sure that everyone is earning the reputation of Hickory Park.


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IEEE Spectrum's annual U.S. patent scorecard analysis—2010 Patent Power—reviewed more than 1,000 world organizations to find out who owns the most influential patent portfolios. According to Spectrum, the analytic methodology "goes beyond patent counts to emphasize how frequently a company's patents are cited by other patents."
Researchers and inventors build on each other's work to promote the progress of science. In the category of Universities/Education/Training, the University of Colorado ranked 14th, immediately behind Stanford and MIT.
An example of a start-up company receiving proof-of-concept funding from the university is Tigon EnerTec Inc., which designs modular, energy efficient, and eco-friendly propulsion systems and is developing a more efficient aircraft engine.
CU-Boulder completed an option agreement with Tigon for CU technology enabling efficient management of hybrid engines in aircraft.
A team of researchers led by Professor Jean Koster with aerospace engineering sciences (AES) developed a method for switching between an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. The ability to transition seamlessly between the two motors maximizes overall efficiency and minimizes fuel consumption, while still meeting the high power needs of takeoff and climbing. The research group has also made a number of adjustments to the system, nicknamed HELIOS, to reduce the weight, complexity, and cost of their hybrid engine.
Tigon grew from an AES senior project called HELIOS and the HELIOS project is a graduate of the CU-Boulder Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) Market Assessment Program.
"Tigon represents CU and RASEI's strong focus on developing market relevant technologies that have immediate and broad real world applications," said Trent Yang, director of entrepreneurship and business development at RASEI.


text: Greetings, fellow artists! This is your loveable little art freak, Ultimate_SB_Master! With this tutorial I am one away from my tenth! WEEEE!! Ok to the point...today I will FINALLY be fulfilling a request that was made a couple of weeks ago in the live room by the funny guy that drops by from time to time. I believe their nickname was once JTizzle, or something like that. Dude, you know who you are; don't keep me in the dark o mysterious one! Any who, I didn't see nor have an intention to see this movie, but there's one line I'll never forget from the commercials. Everyone sing with me! "Spider Pig, Spider Pig, Does whatever a Spider Pig does." I dunno why that is so priceless, but it is. I drew this by hand and colored it in Manga Studio Debut 4 (curse that program!), so I hope that was a wise choice. Well, let's get started!


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Since the Norwegian siblings better known as Ylvis released their too-catchy hit song "The Fox" to much fanfare earlier this month, many Google-less individuals have been asking themselves, "so what does the fox say?"
Well, that question has at long last been answered, and, not to spoil it, but let's just say Bård and Vegard Ylvisåker weren't that far off when they claimed the fox says "hotee hotee hotee ho," "joff-tchoff-tchoff-tchoff," and "wa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow."
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many times i heard about function over head...What is all about? how it is related to pointers.... any help...please!!
function overhead
When you call a function there is an overhead of putting all the variables into stack, defining the return location, passing the parameter and they are all termed as function over head.
any detailed explanaiton over this??? please
Ranjan!!! Please you can find this story in available many places . Atleast search in google.
If you are getting doubt in that then rise the question???
If you are getting doubt in that then rise the question???
No need to expalin here because you have to read basic of fuction . You can get anywhere from sites.


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6 Tiny Mistakes That Almost Ended the World
For those of us who grew up in the '80s and '90s, it's difficult to fully understand just how close to annihilation we actually came in the 20th century. With the two most powerful nations on Earth threatening to detonate their entire nuclear arsenals at the slightest provocation, one would assume that the respective governments would have treated the situation with the care and respect it deserved (spoiler: they didn't).
#6. A 50-Cent Computer Chip Mistakenly Announces Nuclear War
At 2 a.m. on June 3, 1980, some poor Air Force staffer deep within the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was working the late night shift when he noticed that the screen readout that usually read "0 Incoming Missiles" suddenly read "2 Incoming Missiles." This was bad enough, but then, perhaps with an innocuous beep, it announced "220 Incoming Missiles."
"Sir, the 'FUCKED' button is lighting up. I'm just going to take my last few minutes to tell you how much of a dick you are."
Alarms sounded everywhere as the Air Force collectively freaked out all across America. Bombers carrying nuclear bombs began taking off throughout the country. Someone woke up National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and told him that the shit was hitting the fan.
Luckily, before anyone could actually fire a missile, someone realized that the hundreds of warheads weren't showing up on the radar screens. The alerts were canceled, bombers landed and everyone took a deep breath and poured a strong Scotch.
"Hey, Jim, why don't you go out and let the looters know they're not going to die?"
It took three days to figure out what happened. It turned out that a simple computer chip was malfunctioning inside the NORAD computers, causing the display to sometimes show 2s when it should have shown 0s. Allegedly, the chip that caused the crisis cost only 46 cents.
"I have the worst case of blue treads."
And that wasn't the only time a tiny glitch almost drove us back to the Stone Age ...
#5. A Blown Fuse Nearly Triggers Armageddon
In the 1950s, the U.S. Air Force built a network of early warning radar so they could detect a Soviet attack at some point before North America turned into a field of mushroom clouds. These radar stations were linked by communications lines to the Strategic Air Command headquarters in Nebraska, the Air Force bomber and missile bases and the underground Batcave-style NORAD command center in Wyoming.
So, understandably, quite a few pairs of underpants were soiled on November 24, 1961, when communications between SAC headquarters and the radar sites suddenly went dead. You know, as if they had been suddenly wiped off the map by a surprise attack. SAC tried calling the backup lines. When that didn't work, they tried calling NORAD on the regular civilian telephone, but they couldn't even bring up a dial tone.
"Ugh! I just keep getting that stupid singing message they left when they were all drunk."
At this point, the only conclusion was that the Soviet Union had just nuked all the radar sites, as well as NORAD, as the first wave of a massive, world-ending attack. All over the United States, nuclear-armed B-52s lined up on runways and started their engines. For the next 12 minutes, the United States Air Force nervously awaited the order to commence global annihilation.
Luckily for future generations, a B-52 that was already in the air happened to fly past one of the radar sites, noticed a distinct lack of smoking ruins and reported it in time to convince everyone to calm their shit down.
"I'm just gonna drop these bombs off before I come back, no sense letting 'em go to waste."
What actually happened? For some stupid reason, every single telephone line connecting NORAD, SAC headquarters and all the early warning radars, including the backup and civilian lines, ran through one single telephone relay station in Colorado. That night, a motor in the relay station had overheated, shutting down every possible line of communication between the nuclear bombers and the people who had to constantly tell them not to kill everyone.
Call us hippies, but we can't help thinking that "Kill everyone everywhere" should never be anyone's default.
But hey, these were technical errors, right? The machines were overruled by wise human operators. Level-headed, well-trained humans couldn't make a mistake that stupid, could they?
#4. NORAD Mistakenly Informs America That the World Is Ending
The Emergency Broadcast System, that voice on the radio that warns you about incoming tornadoes and stuff, was first created during the Cold War to warn American citizens of a Soviet nuclear strike so that they could take cover in their bomb shelters or dive under their school desks. Every Saturday, NORAD would test the system by sending a teletype message to every radio station in the United States to make sure it was working. Tests were routine, and no one paid much attention to them.
Until 9:33 a.m. Eastern on February 20, 1971, when lowly civilian teletype operator Wayland S. Eberhard grabbed the wrong tape and stuffed it into the alert system machine.
Instead of the message saying "This is only a test," NORAD sent out a chilling message to every radio station in America that said an emergency alert direct from the president was forthcoming.
To your average Cold War era American, there was only one reason why the president would interrupt the Partridge Family's latest hit with a nationwide emergency announcement, and it wasn't anything fun. According to DJ Bob Sievers of Fort Wayne, Indiana, "This meant one thing to me: The atomic bombs, the missiles, have left Russia, and they're on their way here."
Radio announcers around the country were compelled to broadcast confused and jittery announcements about a mystery emergency while deciding whether they should call home to say farewell to their loved ones. Another DJ at Fort Hood, Texas, who was also a soldier, said that he was stuck trying to decide whether to go back to base or "desert the military and spend the remaining few moments of the end of the world with my wife and 1-month-old daughter."
"Yep, love you and all that. Now lose the pants, because we're all gonna die."
The folks at NORAD realized their mistake almost immediately, but through their frantic scrambling to cancel the alert, they couldn't locate the correct code they needed to authenticate the message. So for about 45 minutes, the nation listened breathlessly for confirmation that the end was upon them.
Eventually, they sent out the correct cancel message and the country breathed a sigh of relief, or, in the words of one Virginia broadcaster, "We're considering billing NORAD for three sets of underwear."
And you also have to realize that the United States and Soviet Union were always obsessively monitoring each other for any sign of a nuclear surprise attack. One sign they looked for was a sudden civilian evacuation. If one country suddenly started putting its people in bomb shelters with no incoming attack, the obvious conclusion would be that they were about to launch an attack themselves and were getting their people to safety before the retaliation strike came in. And of course, if one side thought they were about to get nuked, the logical response would be to launch a pre-emptive strike while they still had the chance. So, if the panic had played out much longer, it would have looked to the Soviets like the USA was bracing itself for World War III, and their only choice would have been to try to quickly strike first.
Like that game where you try to slap someone's hand before they pull it away, only with missiles.


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I started a site a few years ago called 'It Was Built On Faith' http://rhmpano.org and had hopes of adding to it but life has slowed down my efforts. The original premiss is to show off MY work and limit it to places of worship, completely non denominational but now I see no reason to not have it a site to show off OUR work.
Originally it was to also give me experience in multi-user wordpress (separate wordpress installs under a master site) now I am going to redo it as a single wp install.
So if you have any thing you would like to have included I would be happy to include it. I will control the layout but all credit will be given to you. You can submit the copy and links, or I will host the files for you.
If you do the tour I will want it to be both flash and HTML5 or just HTML5. I will also want it tiled so the loading and zooming is quick. Or you can send me the panoramas and I will build the tour for you. Probably with either Krpano or Kolor's Panotour Pro.
I in NO way want to take credit for your work, I just want to continue my original project.
If you build the tour you are welcome to add a logo and link back to your own site, etc. I will also expect you to do a small write up regarding the tour. Take a look at how I have done it to get the idea.
As stated earlier, these are places built on faith, not just a Christian Church. I think it would be great to have every religion presented. In the ones I did do, I have pano tours as well as image galleries. Let your imagination and talent go for it.
You will retain all ownership and only be granting me a revokable license to display and host your work.


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- BSO Case Number: PB01-09-6959 (UPDATE)
- PIO Number: 01-9-27
- Date: Sept. 16 – 19, 2001
- Time: 10 a.m.
- Place of Occurrence: Atlantic Ocean, 2 miles off Pompano Beach
- Eric Alan Reichardt, 42, 3/7/59, 1007 Hawie St., Jupiter, FL (DECEASED)
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Description of Incident:
Broward Sheriff's Office detectives, working with the Broward Medical Examiner, have been able to positively identify a diver's body found floating in the ocean off Pompano Beach on Thursday.
The dead man is identified as Eric Alan Reichardt of Jupiter, Florida. The Medical Examiner performed an autopsy but has not yet determined the cause of death.
At about 10 a.m. Thursday, fishermen aboard a charter boat spotted Reichardt's body floating about a mile and a half offshore. The Broward Sheriff's Office was contacted and a BSO Marine Patrol unit responded to the area and retrieved the body, which was partially dismembered, presumably by marine life. Articles of diving gear were attached to the remains.
Reichardt was a SCUBA enthusiast who disappeared Sunday afternoon (9/16/01) in that same general area while diving with three friends. After descending to a depth of 265 feet, using specialized equipment in what is termed a "technical dive", Reichardt became separated from his friends while exploring a shipwreck. He was reported missing to the Coast Guard and several BSO Units, a BSO helicopter and other vessels searched for him until 9 p.m. Sunday.
- THIS REPORT BY: Det. F. Ilaraza, Homicide Jim Leljedal / PIO Dep. J. Sanderson, Marine Unit 9/21/01 1600
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If a creature has an enchantment, like Defang, and I cast Sheltering Word on that creature, would the other enchantment be removed? Or does it need to be cast in response to the enchantment being played?
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No, Auras do not target the creature they are attached to once they are in play. Auras only target a creature while they are a spell on the stack. Yes casting Sheltering Word in response to Defang would make your creature untargetable, and therefore Defang would be countered on resolution.


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What happened to the restaurant.com 80% off deals?
When I lived in Dallas I used to only buy restaurant.com vouchers when they had sales for an extra 80% off the price and thus would get $25 coupon for $2. I have not heard of this kind of a sale in a long time though. Have they wised up and lost money or am I not looking hard enough anymore?
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They are still around. They do them around once a month or so. The most recent one, EARTH, ended 3 days ago.
I was disappointed the last time I visited restaurant.com because they are moving from $25off a $35 meal to $25 off a $50 meal at most places in my area. It is usually just my friend and I, with sometimes a third person, and for our area an average meal is $7-8 and a very nice meal is around $12. It's very hard for two people to spend $50 on a meal and non-alcoholic beverages here. Plus, with $25 off a $35 meal, after tax and tip you end up getting the meal for about half price. With $25 off a $50 meal, with tax and tip you are getting maybe a third off. I was going to buy one for a local BBQ place last weekend until I saw the $50 minimum-- this is a very casual, no waiters, order at the counter, throw away the paper plates when you are done kind of place. The super large plate is $7, the regular plates are $5. I'd have to bring a half dozen people with me to spend $50 there. Are you having a similar problem or is it local?
@moondrake: I bought a couple of restaurant.com offers a couple of years ago, before I paid close attention to the restrictions for use. Never used them, and have never bought any others. I have the same problem you mentioned: virtually all of them in this area require a minimum of $35 purchase excluding alcohol. We seldom go to restaurants where a meal is $18+, and those we do patronize never show up on restaurant.com.
friend of mine says she is signed up to get the emails directly from restaurants.com. no waiting to see if/when they go on sale. don't know for myself because i live in an area with no accepting places within 25 miles, plus i'm too cheap to go someplace that has a minimum order.
I purchased $20 worth ($250 certificate value) a long time ago and I still have a substantial amount left. I never remember to log in at the first of the month to grab certificates to the good places. Wait what's the date? See.... it never works out for me. Remind me in 5 days :)
@magic cave: I don't mind the 35 minimum ones too much. My friend and I can split an appetizer, get meals and soft drinks, and split a dessert and that just about exactly hits the $35 goal. But $50 is just too much for two people.
@jimmyd103: I've accidentally found a way around that problem. I bought a lot of certificates to restaurants that have since closed, and they are in my accounts as credits. They don't credit the amount I paid for them, they credit that I have a $25 value certificate coming to me. So I can get another $25 certificate any time with them.
I really like r.com. The $25 for $35 certificates are better than Groupons, because they cut the price of the meal by half (after tips and taxes) but unlike Groupons they don't expire and you don't have to pay your share of the costs up front. But they are pricing themselves out of my market with their $50 minimums.
@moondrake: Those I bought did indeed have an expiration date; I think it was one year out. Perhaps that's changed now, however.
@magic cave: Yes, it has changed. And if you didn't use the ones you bought they should still be in your account. My really old ones for a town in a neighboring state I sometimes visit that once had an expiration date are in there still with no expiration date now.
@moondrake: Cool! I'll check my account. Thanks for the new info --it may make a returning customer out of me.
I think that some restaurants may have wanted the change to a higher minimum purchase price. If you keep looking, there should be ones with a lower minimum and different places join all the time. Some very popular restaurants don't allow any further discounting when there are Restaurant.com sales too, so keep an eye out for them too. It is true that certificates no longer expire. If you have old ones, check your Restaurant.com account. They should show up in your list of purchased certificates with a notation telling you to click on the link to 'exchange the certificate'. When you do that, it puts a credit in your 'e-certificates' and you can immediately do an exchange, or keep it there to exchange later. Check the 'e-certificates' link even if you don't find old ones needing exchange. You may have credits already moved and ready for exchange. Friends of mine who had old ones also told me that Restaurant.com customer service is very helpful if you call them. Enjoy!!
@kcvargo: correction - they call the exchange credits 'eGiftCards' NOT 'e-certificates'. Just wanted to clarify. You can also call Restaurant/com customer service, 800-979-8985. They are very helpful -kcv


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Steps away from the Hudson River, Silver Towers is the newest luxury rental building to rise on 42nd Street. The residences have been finished with the attention to detail and forward-thinking approach to design that one has come to expect from a condominium until now. These are rentals re-conceived for the 21st century and re-envisioned with an emphasis on amenities for the best kind of city living.
A 1.2-million-square-foot complex, Silver Towers covers an entire square block and includes a public park, an outdoor terrace, a peaceful inner courtyard, and spa-like amenities, including a 75-foot indoor pool, as well as parking and more than 20,000 square feet of retail.
Silver Towers' residences range from studios to 2-bedrooms, from lofts to penthouse apartments. The statuesque towers offer exceptional apartment layouts with multiple corner views. Corporate tenants are especially in luck: a daily shuttle service is offered to all who live in floor 2-7 of the north tower. This shuttle runs to multiple areas within Manhattan, simplifying the commute time from this modern complex.
Created by a collaboration of Costas Konddylis and Partners, James Carpenter Design Associates, Kondylis Design, Thomas Balsley Associates and Silverstein Properties, the land for Silver Towers was purchased in 1984. The sprawling 1.2 million square feet complex stretches for an entire city block between 11th and 12th street. Years were spent fervently trying to rezone this area from being an industrial property to a real estate property. Fortunately, Silverstein Properties was able to make headway with the neighboring River Place I tower that was designed by Costas Kondylis. This tower opened in 2001 and helped Silverstein Properties to lead the way in the area.
Following this start, Silver Towers was born. These luxurious apartments are complemented by a public park designed by Thomas Blasley Associated, which stretches for a quarter of an acre. Filled with a pavilion, bocce ball court, children's area, picnic areas and an interactive fountain, this park greatly enhances the serenity and beauty of the area.
The park is not the only source of greenery within the complex-Silver Towers also boasts of an urban courtyard designed by James Carpenter Design Associates. Wood paneled lobbies, glass sculptures by the likes of David Bennet and spa-like amenities round out the outer appeal of this rental building.
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With all of the amenities of a vacation oasis, and entertainment, dining and work all within easy reach, Silver Towers is an incomparable destination location. The public park, designed by Thomas Balsley Associates, is a quarter-acre park with numerous treed pavilions and includes a children's area that features a bronze playground sculpture by artist Tom Otterness, a bocce ball court, an interactive mist fountain, and an area for lounging and picnicking.
Located near the Times Square/Theatre district of Manhattan, Silver Towers offers residents the convenience of many restaurants and stores within a few blocks of the building. It is minutes away from the Jacob Javits Center, and Herald Square shopping. In addition, several major subway lines are situated two blocks from Silver Towers, as well as the cross-town bus to the East Side.
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Gamecube: Buy 2 Get 2 for $0
Buy 2 get 2 on any preowned Nintendo Gamecube games.
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What's a Gamecube?
Wish it were buy two Gamecubes get two Gamecubes for free.
Melee for $25? wut?
having bought from gamestop before online, i'd avoid this if you're anal about your game collection and packaging. majority of these will come as disc only, in a plain case with no artwork/instructions, etc.


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'Candy Crush Saga': Crushed by 'Candy'
|This undated screenshot shows Candy Crush Saga, the maddeningly addictive mobile game that involves matching bright-hued virtual candies in a row to have them disappear, only to be replaced by more. (AP Photo/Candy Crush)
I had spent nearly two weeks trying to complete that level over the holidays — on the plane, on the subway, in the car with my family. I was matching candies in bed when I first woke up and before falling asleep. I tried to conquer the sweets on the couch when I should have been wrapping presents. I even brought my phone, um, to the toilet. Don't you?
So it was a moment to remember when, walking up the stairs at the Columbus Circle subway stop during a slushy January commute, the words "sugar crush" appeared on my screen, signaling that I had passed Level 86. In my head, fellow commuters stopped in their path to cheer my accomplishment. I am not sure this was actually the case.
I'm on Level 95 now. There are currently 485 levels, but more are constantly being added. It recalls Sisyphus, the mythical Greek king forced by the deities to roll a stone up a mountain, only to see it fall back down. Forever.
I'm reading less and spending less time with friends and family, but I keep telling myself that I can quit any time. Really, I can. All it takes is holding a finger on the "Candy Crush" app for a few seconds until a black "x" appears on the top left corner. Then it's one tap to delete. Any time.
The other day, a friend and I spent a pleasant evening drinking wine and sharing empanadas at a cozy Chilean bar. Afterward, we boarded the subway and she declared it was "'Candy Crush' time!"
I felt a sense of relief and a tingling rush course through my body. We sat in silence, crushing candies until we got to our respective stops.
It started innocently enough. Preparing for a long bus ride from New York to Philadelphia in November, I downloaded "Candy Crush" after months of mocking people who play it. I'd encounter them on my morning commute, methodically tapping their phones while I occupied myself with more high-brow activities, such as scanning through the day's news or reading a book.
Not anymore. I'm on Team Candy now.
The other day, a guy sat next to me on the subway. There was no secret handshake. He simply glanced at my phone and exclaimed "Daaaaang, that `Candy Crush,' huh?" I said yes, no kidding.
I saw that I was ahead of him in the number of levels completed and therefore was a better and more successful human being. "Just wait `til you get to Level 86," I warned. I thought to myself after he left, wait until you get to the chocolate, which spreads like the plague until you run out of room to crush more candy.
The game is free. The first few levels are easy while you get the hang of things. Swipe with a finger to line up three, four or five candies in a row, and they disappear. There are ways to create special candies with special powers that do special things.
The best one comes after you line up five of the same color. It's often called the color bomb. It's a chocolate ball with sprinkles. Swipe it against any other candy, and it will shoot every other candy of that color into the netherworld. Poof.
You get five lives, five chances to fail. There are a few options to get more, including asking your Facebook friends (no, thanks), paying for more (no, thanks), or waiting. Wait 30 minutes and you get a new life.
I have not spent any money so far, tempted as I have been. You have to draw the line somewhere.
I play on my iPhone, though there are versions available for Android and Facebook. A Web version pits you against strangers online. I sometimes resort to that when I'm out of lives on the iPhone.
There are plenty of other addictive mobile games out there. There's "Tetris," of course, which I played on my brother's GameBoy back in the day. There's "Bejeweled," but the sparkly gems never held the same appeal for me as "Candy Crush." And I don't even like candy.
I'm not alone. "Candy Crush" was the most downloaded free app on both iPhones and iPads in 2013, beating Facebook, Google Maps and YouTube.
It's also the app that made the most money on both. Put another way, even with cheapskates like me, plenty of players are spending the 99 cents here and there to get more lives or other perks. It's also the No. 1 application on Facebook going by both monthly and daily users, according to research firm AppData.
There are thousands of guides, cheats and in-depth tips online by people who make my obsession with the game seem like child's play.
Good luck. Now if you'll excuse me, I am one quest away from Level 96.
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I play when I'm suppose to be asleep but I always say one more! I had to forward this article to my boyfriend. I think I did it so it can give me an excuse as to why I'm constantly playing! Here's a fun, fun tip put 2 color bombs together and make them blow!
I think that's level 208 where it makes it easy to do so! Wow! I played that level again and again just to see it blow the whole screen away! Has anyone ever spun the Jackpot ? NOT me! CC app cheat! The wheel miraculously finds energy to keep spinning. Not Fair "
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Is there a formal way to characterise strong convexity about the optimum value of a strictly convex function? I have an objective that looks something like this: $J(p,q) = \sum_{i=1}^{n}d(\pi_{i},q_{i}) + \alpha\sum_{i,j}w_{ij}d(p_{i},q_{j})$ where d is a jointly convex Bregman divergence (like KL or squared Euclidean) and $\pi_{i}$'s and $w_{ij}$'s and $\alpha$ are given parameter values. At the optimal value $(\bar{p}, \bar{q})$, neither the first term, nor the second term becomes zero (this comes from the practical usage of this objective). Is it possible to show strong convexity of this function around $(\bar{p}, \bar{q})$. My objective is to show positive definiteness of the Hessian around $(\bar{p}, \bar{q})$ and I think it is easier to prove strong convexity compared to proving positive definiteness of Hessian.
Well, not a full answer, but in general a strictly convex function does not need to be strongly convex around its minimizer. An obvious example is $f(x) = x^4$ in the real axis. While this is "locally strongly convex" away from $x=0$, its "local modulus of strong convexity" decreases to zero for $x\to 0$.
However, I am not sure if one can produce this situation in is your case of Bregman divergences but I would guess it could be possible.


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Irreducible polynomials are often introduced as the analog to prime numbers in polynomial rings. Prime numbers, of course, have a very rich theory, leading to the likes of the Riemann Zeta function and the Prime Number Theorem.
Do any analogs and/or generalizations of primes, such as irreducible polynomials and prime elements, have similarly rich theorems/conjectures?


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I would like a command that check the battery status through the terminal
The below command outputs a lot status and statistical information about the battery. The
Example output:
You could use tools like grep to get just the information you want from all that output.
One simple way: piping the above command into
If you would often like to run that command, then you could make a Bash alias for the whole command. Example:
Add that to the end of your .bashrc file, and you can type 'bat' any time, in the terminal.
There is also a
A friendly reminder: since Linux kernel 2.6.24 using
Now we are encouraged to use ->
UPDATE: Linux 3.19 and onwards, we should look at the following directory ->
For example
capacity ->
First install
Then run,
Every 5.0s: acpi -V Wed Jan 8 15:45:35 2014 Battery 0: Full, 100% Adapter 0: on-line Thermal 0: ok, 44.0 degrees C Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 127.0 degrees C Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode hot at temperature 127.0 degrees C Cooling 0: intel_powerclamp no state information available Cooling 1: pkg-temp-0 no state information available Cooling 2: LCD 100 of 100 Cooling 3: LCD 100 of 100 Cooling 4: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 5: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 6: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 7: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 8: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 9: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 10: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 11: Processor 0 of 10
Maybe you can try:
Thanks to @Wilf this works on my Ubuntu 14.04 on Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro:
Or just the numeric value with this one liner
It's enough to type the command
For detailed information you can type
I didn't have to install any packages before.
System: Debian 7.2 64bit
Run the following command in a terminal for getting detailed info:
If you just want the state do:
I'm a little late to the party but here's my little contribution. Based on the previous answers , I have made a simple script batpower:
The output for executing this ( ./batpower ) is going to be something like this:
N.B. : the batery number may be different for you, in my case it is BAT1, but you can always find it out by cd'ing to /sys/class/power_supply or as Lekensteyn mentioned through upower -e
My machine : Ubuntu 13.10 , 3.11.0
Replace BAT1 in the above bash code to BAT0 if you have older version Ubuntu i.e. 13.04 or later.
IMPROVED SCRIPT: Since my original post, I've made a small improvement to the script:
As always, pay attention to spaces with bash. This is all self explanatory. If battery is present, it will show up, if not - the script will tell you so. Now, go to your .bashrc file and add $(batpower) to your prompt. Here's mine promt:
Update your terminal or open new tab or window, and now you can monitor battery charge constantly in terminal ! including tty ! May the scripting be praised !
Install acpi, then use
will show the information such as below and will update every 5 seconds.
Question is why would someone do this? Well, I have a laptop with broken LCD screen that I am now using as my bittorrent box.
I was going to suggest
Please type this in your terminal:
If you get a "file or directory not found" then this isn't going to work.
But, if it lists files, then here's a script [paste it into /usr/games/ or other directory in $PATH, and run
(Note, if not already installed, install the program
I have tested this script on my laptop. I say estimate above because
**In my lenovo, the battery is listed as BAT1, try that too. (12.04 LTS)
This did the job for me in ubuntu 14.04:
Similar script without calc or apcalc:
This won't help everyone, but it did me - I use byobu whenever I am using a terminal, and battery is one of the options for the status notifications bar.
Here is what I use. It just looks at the diff between full charge and current charge as well as seeing if the charge is dropping in which case it uses notify to alert the user.
This works: