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One of my group mates has been quite obsessed with creating a Chuck Norris inspired character. He's playing a martial arts heavy, assassin flavors of Rogue, in a DnD campaign, which works well enough if we do heavy role-playing. I'm wondering, though, has anyone attempted to build a player character class which closely emulates the Chuck Norris internet meme (and, I guess, modified the surrounding game world to make sure that the game remains balanced enough to be fun to play)?
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Chuck Norris player character - can I keep true to the internet meme while still running a balanced game?
If you follow Penny Arcade at all, one of them (Gabe/Mike I think?) had a character called Jim Darkmagic. The whole premise behind him was that he was all talk/show, very little substance. Everyone knew him, everywhere, and he was famous, but he wasn't that amazing in reality.
For D&D, think lots of points in Charisma, and taking Intimidate/Bluff/Diplomacy skills, and lots of "method acting" - i.e. pretending to be the bad-ass that internet-chuck is pretended to be.
Other systems have other ways of modeling this. In GURPS you have reputation that you can purchase, for instance.
Another option is a Samurai Jack style character, who does very well at combat (not infallible!), and is well known because of his (in)famous attempts to bring down Aku.
Taking the question seriously, there are a number of interesting options here. First is the diceless Amber system which quite literally allows characters to bid in order to be best in the universes at... something. One of the rather awesome benefits of Amber is that you can have all of Chuck Norris' movies as backstory, having gone into different shadows and experienced them yourself.
In a more theoretical sense, it is absolutely possible to have a balanced game with the Chuck Norris meme: specifically the game should explore conflict other than combat. Allowing the player to explore how awesome he is in combat while framing the conflict above and beyond simple combat. If the player is interested, the conflicts could explore the "Violence really doesn't solve everything" trope.
If the player is quintessentially gamist (power-fantasy/fulfillment) and wants to achieve victory over all conflict in the game via a roundhouse kick, you have a rather more limited number of options as your social contract "I want a balanced game where failure is possible" is explicitly conflicting with his social contract "I want a win button." Here, unfortunately, the only way to resolve the conflict is discussion, compromise, or just walking away. One game that may fit that is Feng Shui, as that's functionally the genre that Chuck Norris popularized in the states.
The Internet meme suggests that Chuck Norris is a paragon of "toughness, attitude, virility, sophistication, and masculinity." He's practically unstoppable unless his own talents get in his way — the only one who can beat Chuck Norris is, essentially, Chuck Norris. Since this isn't a D&D specific question according to the tags, I'd look to Exalted to capture him, particularly a Dawn or Night caste Solar.
The Chuck Norris meme is entirely about reputation.
Were I building a CN character, I'd go with something like a monk (since they use martial arts), and then hope for a few places where the character is able to use a "Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kick (tm)" to drop a bad-guy. I'm thinking in early levels, if it's against some commoner who stole the donations for the festival of [fill in deity], and has little skill to fight back, but is able to be dropped by a couple of good kicks. After that, if everyone else is in on the joke, it can be a pretty short-term fun game/subplot.
I know it was with my ranger nicknamed "Kenny" because he had an uncanny ability to go into death's door every single combat. But be prepared for the player to get tired of the joke after a while, and want to replace that character.
The easy way is, as jeffszusz suggests, just ramp up the powerlevel of everyone else to match (it's the Meme action hero squad!). Presuming you're looking to run something of a more... normal level, I see two ways to approach it.
In all cases, it comes down to the player - does he want to play Chuck because he thinks the concept is funny, or because he's angling for power-gamer?
It's all about letting the other players do something over-the-top and picking a system that will allow it.
If someone wants to be Chuck Norris, he's going to be in a world where other PC's are the action-hero-personas of Vin Diesel, Clint Eastwood, Arnold, Bruce Willis, etc.

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in Haskell.
With this simple construct, the language solves the issue of crashes or
Frankly, an optional presence checked at compile-time ? It's dreamlike...
I am perennially fond of
Lua has a built-in table that is most impressive. It has a built-in hashtable and a vector, and with the use of metatables can be the fundamental base for object-oriented programming in a procedural language.
Each index of a table can receive any of the basic language structures (number, boolean, string, function -yes, functions are types on lua -, and tables).
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Monads or Algebraic Datatypes yet.
Lisp has two interesting types:
SNOBOL: pattern (essentially a LL(1) parser tree, if I remember it correctly).
Fortran has common blocks; it's one of the least common data types in modern languages, or, rather an unusual way to efficiently share data.
Fortran 95 has interval types and built-in interval arithmetics.
The list would not be complete without monadic types found in Haskell. To understand them you need a bit of effort.
Delphi has sets (see also), which I don't believe are implemented the same way in other languages.
This makes storing multi-variable attributes in databases a breeze :D
I suppose it's really only strange coming from programming on a classical architecture, but certainly one of the hardest types for me to wrap my head around at first was the quantum register, which shows up in QCL.
PL/SQL lets you declare variables of type
And C# lets you declare objects as nullable or not, though I'm not sure that counts as a type.
I had a soft spot in my heart for Euphoria's data types when I was younger
It is structured as thus:
Note: "jon" is actually a short hand way of writing the sequence of ASCII values. For example
Felix has anonymous sum types. The type is written like:
as it would be in theory. The values are ugly:
except perhaps for a unit sum such as
which unfortunately uses zero origin counting for "C compatibility". Anonymous sums are necessary for structurally typed algebraic types, for example:
is a (singly linked) list of T. All other languages I know of required nominally typed sums, where both the type itself and the constructors must be given names.
The shorthand 3 used above is cute, the following is in the library:
and this notation:
is an array of static length 3 .. the 3 is not an integer but a sum of 3 units. What a pity + is not associative :)
q/kdb+ has tables built-in. Since it's a programming language and column-oriented database in one, there's no need for LINQ or ORMs.
For example, can create a table like this (assignment is distinquished by
Now I can look at my table:
And I can query it:
I found union's in C++ to be 'quirky' when I first heard about them. I still haven't hit a scenario where they're the obvious choice to implement.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around what a multi-parameter function becomes in F# and other functional languages. Basically int f(Foo, Bar) becomes func f(Foo)
That is the two parameter function that takes a Foo, and a Bar and returns an int is really a one parameter function that takes a Foo and returns a one parameter function that takes a bar and returns an int. But somehow you can call it with two parameters if you want. I wrote a post about it here
Regular Expressions:
They are extremely powerful yet compact objects.
A handful of languages in the functional family have a class of types known as Unity. The distinguishing feature of Unity types are that they contain no information, they are zero bit types. A unity type (in some variations) is also its only value, or (in most others) has only one value (that is not itself a type).
These are useful, though, because they are distinguished types. Since you can't implicitly convert from one unity type to another, you can put static type checking to work in a very efficient, and expressive way.
Unity is also the way most such languages describe Enums, by allowing a new type to be any of a defined set of other types, or to describe maybe types, values that may be either a value of a typical type (say, an integer), or have a value that represents no-value.
Some languages that don't employ the richness of user defined unity types still have unity in them, in some form or another. For instance, Python has at least three unity types,
Other interesting examples of unity include
COBOL. Essentially only two basic data types, strings and numbers, but you have to specify exactly how they're laid out in memory, e.g.
Clipper had 'Code Blocks', which were similar to anonymous methods. They could be passed around and evaluated as needed, usually as a form of a callback. You'd often use them for things like performing calculations on the fly when presenting tables of data.
VHDL has physical types. A literal of such type includes both a value and a unit. You can define subunits as well. For instance, a predefined physical type is
Together with operator overloading, you can define very interesting things.
Clojure is interesting because it has a meta-concept of "abstractions" that pervade the language. Examples:
To some extent, the abstractions take the "single responsibility principle" to the extreme. It's up to you to compose them to get the functionality that you want, but you can be extremely flexible about how you glue them together.
For example, if you want a class-based OOP system with inheritance, you could build one out of these core abstractions relatively quickly.
In practice, the abstractions themselves are designed in a way that multiple implementations are possible, e.g. through specific interfaces like clojure.lang.ISeq for sequences or clojure.lang.IFn for higher order functions.
There's an interesting video about this topic: The Art of Abstraction
If you want a language with a unique type then head for BCPL. This language only has one data type, the word, being a fixed number of bits for the language implementation.
Googles Go has a "Channel" type which is quite unique.


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Singaporean Long Term Pass visas (such as Training Employment Pass, Student Pass, etc that allow you to go through automated border control clearance) state that the biometric visa card must be surrendered when it expires or when a new one is issued; otherwise, it technically counts as an overstaying offence if you come back to Singapore. Is this rule enforced strictly? I will be flying out of Singapore before my long term pass expires, but I might come back in a few months for work or travelling.
There are 2 types Long Term Visa Pass:
In summary, there is no need to surrender your pass.
Note that Training Employment Pass (TEP), SVP (Special Visit Pass), LTVP (Long Term Visit Pass) and LOC (working pass for LTVP) are totally different.
In case you are flying out of Singapore before the term of a long term visa expires, you can surrender your card when going through the immigration checkpoint. Request a surrender of card form from the immigration officer and fill in cancellation request detail as 'leaving Singapore via flight/bus/boat X on Y'.
There are friends of mine who don't plan to come back to Singapore who were told by nice immigration officials that they may keep the LTP visa card as a souvenir. Technically, this is illegal although it doesn't affect you if you don't plan to come back to Singapore. If you do, then not surrendering your card the previously counts as an overstaying offence.
If your long term visa expires, then you have seven days to cancel the card. The exception is that if you are being issued another long term visa card within a fortnight of the previous one expiring, then you can surrender your existing card when the new one is issued. I did this, and thankfully I had retained my previous card as I was told by the officer that if I hadn't handed in my old card when I got the new one, that would've counted as an offence too.
EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm not talking about a Long Term Visit Pass, which is different. I was referring to the other passes mentioned in the question which also count as 'long term passes' when passing through automated clearance gates at Singaporean borders.
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It seems like whenever I choose to play TF2 at dead-ish times (when my favorites are all empty) all the servers I join are 90-100% bots. Is there some easy way to avoid joining those servers?
If you right click the header, you can unhide the 'Bots' column. A regular server with bots will then advertise its bot count (unless there are enough humans playing; then it's not an issue right that second):
Be aware that some servers do not advertise their bot count at all, which is what you might be experiencing. If you're playing on Egypt in stage 3, you'll be able to easily tell humans from bots running against the wall; otherwise it can be quite hard to tell those bots apart.
What you can try is logging in at an unusual time where hardly anybody is online, like European morning. Those servers with 23/24 players (or similar) are probably entirely bots; go ahead and blacklist those. They're typically 24/7 servers or idle "trading" servers.
Sometimes I wish servers weren't this moddable.
I'm not 100% sure if this transfers over to TF2, but I know for the Steam Servers for Counter-strike, if you preview the server you can see the number of players including their ping values. Bots always had a ping value of 5, if a server only has "players" with 5 ping it's full of bots.
Next to the word "Tags", select "do not include" from the dropdown and type "bots" into the text field. Any server using bots will be filtered from your search results.
I had the same problem you did when I was living in Germany...
Normally what I would do is the More Info (right click on the server) and then look at the player names.
Nine times out of ten they are similar or simple sounding names, and those could denote bots.
It happened to me too and this is annoying but there is not much you can do. The only thing I can suggest is to continue improving your favorite list of "nice" servers by attempts. I also blacklist a lot.
Finally, if you like, try to increase your friends' list by picking people that play TF2 a lot so that you can join their game when your current server become empty.
It's easy to recognize servers when it's filled with bots. Just look at the server and the "players" playing in the server and you'll recognize common bot names. Some examples are "The Cake is a Lie", "Screaming Eagles", "Mentlegen" among others. After a while you can tell just by the names that there are bots.
If you blacklist all the servers with bots and search for a game, every game you join wont have bots so just blacklist them. Take the time its worth.


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Father Joe leaves his beloved sister, Patricia Budnick and her husband, David, of Terryville. His other surviving relatives include his niece, Katrina, and his nephews, Brendan and Michael of Terryville, in whose lives he was actively involved. In addition, Father Joe leaves behind several cousins and friends, mostly in the United States and Poland.
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I'm looking for some good crafting recipes for TF2. I know the ones that give you stock, which isn't much, and I've looked in the TF2 wiki, but I wondered if anyone has found some good recipes and would like to share?
I believe the official tf2 wiki lists them all, and that page is updated very quickly when new items are added... so I have a feeling you'd have a very hard time finding a recipe which isn't there.
Also, in case you missed it, there's a very convenient "Cost summary table" on that page, which shows you the total cost for achiving a certain item (e.g. you can see that crafting a weapon "costs" 8 other weapons).
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Let $G$ be a group of order $2m$ where $m$ is odd. Prove that $G$ contains a normal subgroup of order $m$.
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Denote by $\rho$ the regular represetation of $G$: find an odd permutation in ${\rho}(G)$.
I don't know how to find an odd permutation in the regular representation. I am wondering whether all the elements of $G$ of odd order form this subgroup in this case.


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I was under the impression that gay always refers to a male homosexual, though sometimes I see this term used to describe female homosexuals (i.e. lesbians) as well. Is it correct usage? Does it depend on a dialect of English (American, Australian, etc.)?
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Gay can refer to men and women who are sexually attracted to people of the same sex, though lesbian only refers to women who are so.
I agree with Jasper: In Salt Lake City, Utah, it is not uncommon to hear a woman describing herself as gay. So it can be non gender specific, just like the word dude.
At least in North America the term seems to be "LGBT" which does imply that they are reserving Gay for men only.
Or it could just be the natural tendancy for any 'protest' group to split into smaller and smaller sub-groups to differentiate themselves from the other identical groups (especially the people's front of Judea!)
In my experience the term has increasingly been used only for men. It wouldn't be improper to use it to refer to women, but I've not heard the word used to refer to an individual woman in the last 10 years or so. (For a group of mixed gender it's probably more acceptable.)
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Police Capt. John Young said Marshall may have entered the mill along a path from state Route 7 Saturday night.
"A Strauss employee said they lost power between 11:30 p.m. and midnight Saturday. At this point we are not sure if that incident is connected to Mr. Marshall's death," noted Young.
Marshall was arrested by city police in March and charged with attempting to steel copper wire from the former steel mill property.
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There's a compass atop the "S"?
It's better than fork.
Guess that speaks for itself about the logo.
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The rouge, blanc et bleu logo of the Montreal Expos was more then just a catchy little image, there was actually meaning behind many aspects of the logo. Although its true meaning is widely debated the Montreal Expos have only ever offered one story behind the logo. It is an 'eMb', which stands for 'Expos de Montréal Baseball', the 'e' in red, the 'M' half in white and half in blue, and a 'b' in blue. This eMb logo remained in use by the club until their move to Washington in 2005.
Burn down the disco. Hang the blessed DJ. Because the music that he constantly plays, it says nothing to me about my life.
On a side note, I couldn't believe that my own brother, baseball fan that he is, never realized until last year that the old Milwaukee Brewers logo not only represented a mit catching a ball, but was also composed of the letters "m" and "b."
Burn down the disco. Hang the blessed DJ. Because the music that he constantly plays, it says nothing to me about my life.
I actually bought the batting helmet at a Reds game once when I was in Junior High and wore it quite a bit. It was more out of a desire to be "different and unique" than out of any fondness for the Expos. I was a newly minted teenager and could be following the flock now could I? :
Baseball caps to have new feel
By Gary Mihoces, USA TODAY
A pitcher stands on the mound in the August sun, tugging at the bill of his sweat-soaked cap, stained white with the salt of his labors.
That might be an image of the past if Major League Baseball's new caps work according to plan.
Big-league caps traditionally have been made of 100% wool. The new caps, debuting opening day, look just like the old ones despite being 100% polyester.
MLB and its cap manufacturer, New Era, say the new fabric is designed to "wick" away sweat and evaporate it while reducing the stains, odor, shrinkage and fading that come with wool.
Most players haven't donned the new caps, but opinions are forming.
"Some of the guys might want to keep the old ones," Chicago White Sox catcher Toby Hall says. "You see some guys out there with their sweat rings, some hats that have (faded and) turned pink. They don't want to get rid of them."
But White Sox outfielder Darin Erstad says, "I like the old school as much as everybody does, but technology has shown its face in every facet of life. So why not reap the benefit of it? ... We'll find out when it's 100 degrees and the sweat's wicking its way from my head onto the hat. Then we'll know how good it is."
Technology evolution
According to the National Baseball Hall of Fame website, flannel uniforms, made from a wool-cotton blend, were the norm in the big leagues well into the 1940s. Then came lighter blends of wool and synthetic fibers. In 1970, the Pittsburgh Pirates introduced double-knits, which became the standard.
There has been evolution in caps, too. In the 1950s, the tops of the caps went from eight panels stitched together to six. But caps remained wool — until now, with these new caps made at plants in the Buffalo suburb of Derby, and Demopolis and Jackson in western Alabama.
"Although it's going to look very similar on the field ... it really is the first time we've kind of taken the thing and completely re-engineered it," says John DeWaal, New Era's vice president of global marketing.
In the old caps, the bottom of the brim was light gray. In the new caps, it is black, aimed at reducing glare. The cloth headband inside the cap, also advertised as new and improved for removing moisture, has gone from white to black.
Wicking technology has been used in an array of sports apparel but "it's new for us, and it was unique for us in that it's headwear," DeWaal says. "But the properties are similar to some of the other products that you see out there."
Howard Smith, senior vice president/licensing for MLB Properties, says the change is in keeping with Commissioner Bud Selig's focus on "getting our athletes the best product we can." MLB also was careful not to change the look.
"The proof is in the pudding. ... If you look at two Yankee hats (old and new) or two Pittsburgh Pirates hats side by side, in the absence of looking at the brim, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference," Smith says.
Steve Vucinich, equipment manger of the Oakland A's, says the black bottom of the new brims might require some adjusting for players who like to write inspirational words in black ink.
But Vucinich, who saw about a half dozen A's test the new caps during games over the past two seasons, welcomes the switch. He says on hot days he would notice sweat "pouring" down the sides of players' faces, particularly pitchers, under the old caps.
"Where the bills connect to the hat on the right side and left side, it would mostly drip off there," Vucinich says. "With this wicking, you don't see that at all."
Vucinich says he did a demonstration of moisture management with some of the players who tested the caps. He spilled a few drops of water on the old and new caps.
The droplets tended to bead up on the old caps. With the new caps, the droplets spread out over the fabric.
"It draws the moisture away from your head, and it leads to evaporation a lot quicker," Smith says.
Batting practice 'do-rag'
The new hats won't be used until opening day. New Era, though, has a new line of batting practice caps, and they are being worn in spring training.
The batting practice caps are "stretch fit," not individually sized like the regular-season caps, and sell for $28. They are 62% polyester, 38% wool, also billed as having wicking properties. A stretch band is visible on each side of the cap above the ear.
"I'm not a big fan of them," Atlanta Braves pitcher Tim Hudson says of the new batting practice caps. "They have that little different color-flap (the stretch band) above the ear and it looks like everybody is running around with a do-rag under the hat."
That's the look until opening day. Once the season starts, Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Orlando Hudson says his focus will be on his performance, not his cap.
"As long as I catch the ball behind my pitchers, make plays and get the important outs, that's the big thing," Hudson says. "I don't think the hat is going to help the ball stay in the glove."
He jokingly adds, "If I boot it and it's the hat's fault, I'll tell you after the game, 'It had to be the hat.' "
I know Randy will be happy to hear this!"The proof is in the pudding. ... If you look at two Yankee hats (old and new) or two Pittsburgh Pirates hats side by side, in the absence of looking at the brim, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference," Smith says.
Here's the stretch band they're referring to. Check out the sides:The batting practice caps are "stretch fit," not individually sized like the regular-season caps, and sell for $28. They are 62% polyester, 38% wool, also billed as having wicking properties. A stretch band is visible on each side of the cap above the ear.
...and while we're on the subject of 2007-model batting practice caps, this one gets my vote for the best of the bunch. Does anyone else find this to be a tremendous improvement over what the Angels wear in games? It's new and modern with the new logo, yet honors the frachise's history of navy caps with red bills:
You can check out all the new batting practice caps here.
While I really like the wool caps, I am glad that they have not gone completely crazy with the new caps. The Reds actually wore polyester caps for a couple of seasons when they were wearing the white pinstriped caps with the red bills because the wool ones faded so badly. I have one of those and it isn't a bad cap. The white is much "whiter" than the wool caps. I'm not a big fan of the black undervisior and sweat band. I think major league baseball had an alterior motive with that as they didn't like the messages being written on the undervisors. They do make silver pens, Bud.
Talent is God Given: be humble.
Fame is man given: be thankful.
Conceit is self given: be careful.
John Wooden
The BP cap is simply horrible. The jersey wouldn't be bad, but when you throw on the new font for the back it's awful as well.
Seriously, why not just wear the new uniforms for spring training?
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Recent and archived news articles by Sharon Waxman of The New York Times.
How Did That Vase Wind Up in the Metropolitan?
The new director at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a unique opportunity to shift the tone of a hostile debate: Who should own the treasures of antiquity?
December 1, 2008, Monday
Discontented, DreamWorks Is in Talks to Join NBC
Although NBC Universal is interested in striking a deal, it wants DreamWorks to find outside financing to make its movies, which Universal could then distribute.
November 17, 2007, Saturday
Man of the Flesh to Man of the Cloth
Ronald Boyer, who has been better known as a star of pornographic films as Rod Fontana, has searched his soul and chosen to seek a priesthood in the Episcopal Church.
July 15, 2007, Sunday
The Ready Return of a True Believer
One of the few African-American female directors working in Hollywood, Kasi Lemmons has now made "Talk to Me," the true story of Ralph Waldo Greene.
July 8, 2007, Sunday
Al Gore's Top-Secret Access for the Final 'Sopranos' Episode
Brad Grey, the chairman of Paramount whose studio distributed "An Inconvenient Truth," gave Al Gore an advance copy of the final episode of "The Sopranos."
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The American Film Institute, the country's leading organization for film history and preservation, yesterday named Bob Gazzale, a film historian and television producer, to be its president and chief executive. He will succeed Jean Picker...
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June 18, 2007, Monday
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When should I use "a" versus "an" in front of a word beginning with the letter h?
Why do we say an historical but a history? This question was originally posed by @shanselman on Twitter.
Why do we say an historical but a history? This question was originally posed by @shanselman on Twitter.
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I have a theory about this. In my speech, and I believe that of many other Americans, an "h" in an unstressed syllable is either not pronounced or barely pronounced, except when it follows a vowel sound or a pause. This is an adjustment that is made unconsciously; people often don't notice that they're not pronouncing the "h". I say "a historical", but "some istorical".
The rule for a/an is that you use "an" before words which start with a vowel sound, and "a" before words that start with a consonant sound.
Both "a historical" and "an (h)istorical" are consistent with these rules; here by (h), I mean the "h" is pronounced very lightly, if at all. Most people use the first, but some people use the second. I think nearly all Americans pronounce the "h" in "historical" when the word stands alone, but after an indefinite article, some drop the "h" and use "an".
In the word "history", the first syllable is stressed, so the "h" is always pronounced. So "an history" isn't allowed by these rules.
Here are the final words of the relevant article in 'The Cambridge Guide to English Usage':
I broadly go along with that, noting at the same time that h-dropping more widely is a feature of some regional and social accents, and that in such cases the indefinite pronoun may indeed be realised as /an/.
Some speakers drop the "h" sound in the word "historical", which means that the consonant "n" needs to be added to the article "a". However, it's been quite a while since I last heard this, everyone I know says "historic" with the sound "h" pronounced.
Background information: this word has been taken from Greek, but apparently it entered the English language via French. In French the letter "h" isn't pronounced, hence the English imitation which has now become outdated
I believe the main reason so many people say an historical is simply that they were taught that way. It's a special exception to the "use 'a' before a consonant sound" rule, and it seems older generations of English speakers were often specifically taught this special case.
The fact is that a historical is perfectly correct, more logical, and preferred by a large number of English experts. And it is overwhelmingly overtaking an historical in modern usage (see Ngram).
While I agree that the practice most likely originated as Peter Shor describes; namely, that many speakers do not (or only barely) pronounce the 'h' in historical, due to it being unstressed; I believe this phenomenon is not particularly strong in American English. I would guess it began in Britain (and probably continues more strongly there), with its h-dropping dialects.


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|n this image taken on Oct. 15, 2012, corn bread stuffing mushrooms are shown in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
But rather than simply spoon the stuffing into a casserole dish, we took it a step beyond. We spooned a delicious savory cornbread stuffing into portobello mushroom caps. The result is as attractive as it is delicious.
And for do-ahead ease, you could prep these up through the stage of stuffing the mushroom caps, then refrigerating them until closer to serving.
Start to finish: 30 minutes
Servings: 8
8 large portobello mushroom caps
Salt and ground black pepper
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 small yellow onion, chopped
1 medium leek, green and white parts, sliced
1 medium carrot, grated
1 celery stalk, finely diced
1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
2 teaspoons chopped fresh rosemary
2 cups diced cornbread
Vegetable broth, as needed
Heat the oven to 350 F.
Arrange the mushrooms on a rimmed baking sheet, gill sides up. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, then roast for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium-high heat, melt the butter. Add the onion and leek and saute until tender, about 7 to 8 minutes. Add the carrot, celery, thyme and rosemary and cook until tender, about another 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and gently fold in the cornbread.
When the mushrooms are done, pour any liquid that has collected on the rimmed baking sheet into the cornbread mixture. If the mixture is dry, sprinkle in a bit of vegetable broth. Gently mix. Spoon the mixture into the mushroom caps and return to the oven. Bake for 20 minutes, or until lightly browned on top.
Nutrition information per serving: 180 calories; 50 calories from fat (28 percent of total calories); 6 g fat (2.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 25 mg cholesterol; 27 g carbohydrate; 3 g fiber; 3 g sugar; 5 g protein; 430 mg sodium.
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Independent refiners appear in the driver's seat in the US as integrated oil companies increasingly shed refining assets.
By ANGEL GONZALEZ
Independent refiners are destined to be in the driver's seat
of the US refining industry as integrated oil companies
increasingly shed refining assets, according to analysts at
In a report released Wednesday, the consultancy said by the
end of 2013, over 70% of domestic refining capacity may be controlled
by independent refiners, a radical shift from 1990, when most
of the refining capacity in the US was in
the hands of integrated oil companies.
That likely means a reduction in the cyclical profit margin
swings normally seen by refiners, as independent companies are
less likely to be able to weather downturns and therefore
strive for more efficient and stable operations, Deloitte
consultant Roger Ihne said.
"Refiners operate on a very small margin," Ihne said.
If it shrinks, "the amount of impact is greater" for an
independent refiner than for an integrated oil company buoyed
by profitable oil-and-gas production, he added.
For consumers, however, the smoothing of these profitability
cycles is likely to have a relatively small impact, Ihne said,
as profit margins account for a minuscule portion of the price
at the pump.
Independent refiners, however, likely are going to be more
focused on the retail aspect, which has been neglected by the
oil majors.
"They're going to provide additional value to the consumer,"
Ihne said.
The restructuring of the US refining industry comes as there are
expectations for a long-term decline in domestic demand for
fuel, driven mainly by gains in efficiency.
That is triggering refinery sales and shutdowns, both
among majors and independents.
Last year, integrated oil company Marathon Oil split into an
oil-and-gas exploration company, and an independent refiner,
Marathon Petroleum.
Energy company ConocoPhillips is in the process of
completing a similar move.
Meanwhile, UK-based oil major BP has put two of its US
refineries up for sale.
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Images courtesy of BP p.l.c.
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This article is typical of Oil Consultant firms pitching studies to Oil Co Executives and putting out what they think the herd has as understanding. Roger Inhe is touted as having 32 years in industry but my guess most is as Deloitte consultant and few years with one Major's in Oil & Gas ...... doesnt say what position he played but from gist ...... it couldnt be downstream position (or if it was as is case today it was as Upstreamer put in position over Downstream operations). I find nothing creditable in this article or its author - like lot others trying justify upstream push hive off downstream assets (as usual just before they become more profitable) and pitch a multi-client study on whose first on list for closure & how to avoid it ...... only dont go to this company or consultant because he doesnt really understand downstream refining economics. The statements of 70% shift to independents rely on idea that because Integrated Majors (COP, MAP, BP ect) separate Downstream segments that become "Pusedo-Independents" where Upstream segments trying sell crude arent going force downsteam segment to take thier crude when market turns against them or that whole company is going set itself up for lot more taxes because they cannot take profits back to lay against crude depletion tax allowances ...... doesnt fly. Additionally that is why "Downstream" margins are smalll - either they go taxes as in case Valero (that has no upsteam crude segments & no long term crude source contracts) or they have transfer price on crude that lets Upstream offset some margin/earnings against taxes/depeltion allowances. After period time all Integrated companies Upstream segments come to believe they make all profits & need get rid troublesome downstream assets ........ and they get killed in market because they dont have firm base taking crude at top market prices in down cycles. Contrary to what Inhe is trying sell the US is rapidly becoming Crude long due to both incoming P/L Canadian crude & development of its own huge Gas & Crude reserves despite fierce decades long roadblocks by Environmentalist. There are at least 3 sites of 500 Billion Barrel reserves (with 15-20% min recovery) like Bakken in Wyoming & Heavy crude in both Texas & California that will push back on fundamentals of crude price. Additionally the legal actions to take out speculators in Wallstreet playing crude commodities as well as Cushing glut induced paper losses are going become push against shortages and future price escalation. Not to mention that when US shuts off gasoline imports - rapid reduction in foreign export refineries demand for crude & the loss of thier product export demand will make critical regional domestic impacts to East Coast & West Coast closures.
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The Village of Mingo Junction has been devastated and reduced to a sorry status.
We have lost the mill, our main employer; we lost our bank; our water filtration plant has a huge mortgage we cannot afford; we had to raid our community complex fund to make our next payment; our overall village expenses exceed our income; we have layoffs and a reduction of services; and turning off the street lights is eminent. It appeared that things could not be worse, but Village Council has exacerbated that. Their latest attack was on our present property maintenance code designed to protect residential valuation for resale and community appearance.
What else can go wrong? Well, the village ordinance which disallows inoperable vehicles from being stored on residential property visible from the street has been changed. After a normal attempt to amend the code failed with no action from the three required readings, council resorted to emulating Chicago-style politics by having an unannounced emergency meeting to amend the ordinance.
Instead of enforcing the present code which protects against unsightly and offensive sights, they changed a long-standing good ordinance to legalize violations the code was trying to prevent. The fire chief was trying to correct illegal storage, but council delayed his actions by manipulating the code. It appears as though the changes were possibly made to legalize some member(s) of council who were in violation of the existing code. So, instead of enforcing the code, they changed it to benefit themselves, which is an obvious conflict of interest for some member(s).
Whereas, in the past, the ruling that certain vehicles could not be stored openly on residential property has not only been changed but they were brash enough to allow up to two vehicles for each house.
This was a huge mistake and it leaves all residential areas vulnerable to unlimited eyesores. It is now legal in Mingo Junction to store a boat and a camper or any two inoperable vehicles on both sides of each house between you and your neighbor in Sun Rise Terrace (Barone's Addition), Altamont, East View, etc. So if residents take advantage of this change, our residential areas could now take on the appearance of a huge parking lot or a trailer court. The members of council who approved of this change have reduced our village to a new low. John Bracone is the only councilman to reject this assault on a homeowners' potential optimum resale value. Our volunteer revitalization committee working to improve the appearance of Mingo Junction to attract new homeowners has been trumped by a council that is moving backward.
Who said it can't get worse? Residents of Mingo Junction deserve better, and the last thing we cannot afford to lose is our pride. It looks like our last hope is fading.
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This past weekend the Inaugural Sam's Club National BBQ Tour kicked off in Gilbert Arizona !
30 teams and 30 judges got down to business in rainy drizzly weather….Sanctioned by the KCBS!!
Here is an excellent video from:
One of the best things about BBQTV videos is to hear the judges commentary on the BBQ that was presented to them. You can learn a lot from watching their videos- all 577 of them!!
After the boxes were turned in & the results tallied the Grand Champion was … Darren & Sherry Warth from Iowa's Smokey D's BBQ !!
Reserve Grand Champion was Jennifer Duncan from Smoked to the Bone..
The Top 7 teams overall from this contest will be continuing on to the next tier in Las Vegas on May6th & 7th 2011:
1 Iowa's Smokey D's BBQ
2 Smoked to the Bone
3 Rhythm 'n Que
4 Slap Yo' Daddy BBQ
6 McFrankenboo BBQ
7 Loot N' Booty BBQ
Congratulations to all the teams that participated!


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One of the most annoying "features" of Mathematica is that the
Plot family does extrapolation on
InterpolatingFunctions without any warning. I'm sure it was discussed to hell previously, but I cannot seem to find any reference here in Mathematica.SE. While I know how to simply overcome the problem by defining a global variable for the domain of the interpolation, from time to time I forget to do this and then I spend days figuring out where does the numerical error originate. This can be avoided if
Plot was to give a warning.
Consider the following example. An ODE system is defined and integrated for two different time ranges:
odes = {
a'[t] == -a[t] - .2 a[t]^2 + 2. b[t],
b'[t] == a[t] + .1 a[t]^2 - 1.1 b[t], a[0] == 1, b[0] == 1
sol100 = First@NDSolve[odes, {a, b}, {t, 0, 100}];
sol500 = First@NDSolve[odes, {a, b}, {t, 0, 500}];
Now querying the function value for a point outside of the range gives a correct warning:
(a /. sol100)[500]
InterpolatingFunction::dmval: Input value {500} lies outside the range of data in the interpolating function. Extrapolation will be used. >> 651.034
The same is not done when we use the function in
Plot[{a[t], b[t]} /. sol100, {t, 0, 400}, PlotStyle -> {Thick, Red}],
Plot[{a[t], b[t]} /. sol500, {t, 0, 500}, PlotStyle -> {Thick, Blue}]
I've tried to force a warning, with no avail. The following example still does not drop a warning, and returns the same plot and not
Check[Plot[{a[t], b[t]} /. sol100, {t, 0, 500}], "Error",
Interestingly, one can be sure that
InterpolatingFunction::dmval is NOT turned off at all inside the
Plot family. In the following example,
LogLinearPlot is able to drop a warning about sampling from below the domain (that can be ignored being unrelated, see this post, also it seems to be fixed in v9), but it does not drop the same warning when sampling from above (> 100)!
LogLinearPlot[{a[t], b[t]} /. sol100, {t, 0.1, 500}]
InterpolatingFunction::dmval: Input value {-2.30241} lies outside the range of data in the interpolating function. Extrapolation will be used. >>
It is even more disturbing to see that
Plot checks the lower boundary but not the upper (thanks to J.M. for the comment):
Plot[{a[t], b[t]} /. sol100, {t, -1, 500}]
InterpolatingFunction::dmval: Input value {-0.989765} lies outside the range of data in the interpolating function. Extrapolation will be used. >>
As Oleksandr has pointed out, it is not about lower vs. upper bound but first point vs. the rest.
Plot[{a[t], b[t]} /. sol100, {t, 101, 500}]
InterpolatingFunction::dmval: Input value {101.008} lies outside the range of data in the interpolating function. Extrapolation will be used. >>
- Why
Plotdoes not give a warning when extrapolating an
InterpolatingFunction? Is there some higher-level consideration that justifies this behaviour, or is it a higly annoying feature that is surely unexpected in most cases (maybe a bug)?
- How can one force
Plotto give a warning? Is there any workaround that forces InterpolatingFunction::dmval not to be attenuated inside
Please note that I am not interested in solutions that make sure that I use the same value for integration and for plotting (i.e. defining a global
time variable). I want to make sure that
Plot NEVER extrapolates without giving a warning.


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Experience with open source systems is in installation and usage...most familiar with CentOS and Ubuntu, Apache, PHP and has a bit of knowledge in Qmail and MySQL. Virtualization experience is mostly in VMWare (the free version), Oracle VirtualBox and Parallels.
I don't hate Microsoft Windows but I just like a Unix-like system (and I run cygwin now by the way) so I'm kinda at home with the CLI regardless of OS.
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Quite a few mathematical constants are known to arise in several branches of mathematics (more here). I have no doubt that they are useful to the understanding of some mathematical structures and add to the whole body of knowledge of mathematics as a whole. Sometimes, however, I find myself looking at these constants and I feel unsatisfied. I suspect that more constants can be expressed in more 'fundamental' constants like $\pi, e$ and $\gamma$.
Although Euler probably came close to be a living one, mathematicians of the past did not have computers. We can now use computers to determine te value of the afore mentioned constants with great precision. We can also try to conjecture the exact value of these constants by finding the value of some arithmetic combination of $\pi, e$ and $\gamma$ and the real numbers that corresponds to one of the 'unevaluated' constants with high precision. My question is: have experimental mathematicians 'found' the value(s) of some of the constants I described (by the the method I described or a similar one)?
P.S. If someone knows of a reference to a paper/book that summarizes some results in this subield of a field, I would be grateful to him/her.


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I was wondering why my memory useage was so high, what is this thing that take a whopping 1.2GB of memory.
Please and thank you.
I was wondering why my memory useage was so high, what is this thing that take a whopping 1.2GB of memory.
Please and thank you.
nm-applet is the NetworkManager Applet:
It is not supposed to be using this much memory. There is currently an open bug report for this problem.
There was an issue with the version of network-manager-gnome included in an elementary-art ppa -- I'd rule out that you don't have that one, first.
I deleted mine manually from
For myself, at that point I actually removed the entire package and reinstalled it while I was connected to wireless (without dropping connectivity that I could tell).
This command will show you what versions you have available:
You can also see the installation preference with
From the bug report :
I experienced the same on my 12.04 installation. After a little research it appeared that it was just a GUI component (representing the icon in the status bar), and killing it will not affect the network connections.
SO I killed it and launched a new one from my terminal. Resource manager showed an immediate drop of 1.5 GB of RAM consumption.
It's the Network Manager applet. 1.2GB does seem a bit high, though.


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What's the "official" name of a connected planar graph consisting entirely of polygons (cycles), glued together at edges, e.g. - among other things - without "end vertices" (of degree 1) and without edges not belonging to an inner face. Maybe something like "planar foam graph"?
Has this concept been generalized to higher dimensions: "3D foam graphs" (entirely consisting of polyhedrons, glued together at faces) and so on?


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"We are quite proud of reaching this milestone," said Dennis Johnson, vice president of CRS. "This milestone is not only big for our organization, but for citizens and taxpayers in hundreds of Ohio counties, municipalities and villages."
CRS was founded in 1997 by Craig Klein, a Steubenville native, and has more than 90 employees at locations in Columbus and Steubenville. The focus of the company is on the collection of government debt, and more specifically, collecting outstanding fines, costs and fees for court clients at no cost to the client.
Johnson said CRS has returned huge sums of revenue to local governments at no cost to the taxpayer, their legislative authorities or from local court budgets, all due to an Ohio statute that allows courts to add the cost of collection to the defendant.
"That statute is a great example of our Legislature working with local governments to give them the tools to generate revenue without raising taxes, fees and court costs," Johnson said. "Although the law is not new it is seeing a large uptick in its use by local courts. Many of our clients have told us the money recovered has saved jobs, kept court costs down and in some cases was the difference in upgrading and building new facilities. Every court clerk using this program should be commended. Using outside debt collection is not always the popular thing to do and in most cases our clients are elected officials. The clerks using this statute are obviously dedicated to keeping costs down and budgets and revenues safe."
CRS currently has more than 500 government clients in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, West Virginia, Florida, New York and Missouri. CRS clients in the Steubenville area include Steubenville Municipal Court, Toronto city utilities and Weirton.


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A friend of mine was telling me about building a cloud chamber while he was in graduate school. As I understand it, this allows you to "see" interactions caused by high energy particles going through the cloud chamber. This has fascinated me, and I would like to build one with my daughter, but I want to make sure I am able to explain it to her when the eventual questions come. Can someone help me out please? How would I explain a cloud chamber to someone who is a freshman in high school?
Feynman used to say - if you can't explain something in simple words, such that a child could understand, then you don't understand it either. So here's my take:
A cloud chamber is nothing more than a box where mist is about to form, but not quite yet. There's vapors of stuff (either alcohol, or water, or something else) in it, and the temperature is such that the vapors are almost about to produce mist (or "clouds"). Imagine wetlands or marshes on a cold autumn morning, it's kind of like that - fill a box with that kind of "cold wet air".
Now a charged particle (such as Alpha radiation from a chunk of radioactive ore) zips through the chamber at high speed. It bumps into water (or alcohol) molecules and ionizes them - it creates a trail of ionized molecules marking its path.
Now, the vapors are such that they really want to produce mist; any tiny disturbance is enough to push them over the edge. The trail of ionized molecules is enough to do that - the ions attract a bunch of molecules, the resulting clumps attract even more, and before you know it a droplet of water is formed, then another, and another. Voila, a trail of mist follows the particle.
I could try to describe the construction, but this Instructables page will do it much better:
Basically, you evaporate some alcohol and let it run over a very cold area (cooled by the Peltier elements). Like breath coming out of your mouth in the cold air of winter, the alcohol vapors will tend to produce mist, so some vapors will turn to mist anyway. But the process happens a lot faster when a charged particle zips through the chamber - so, if you place a tiny bit of radioactive material nearby, tiny white trails will seem to come from it and traverse the chamber, because mist tends to form that much better around the ionized trails left by the radiation in its wake.
More designs:
The cloud chamber works by producing a super-saturated vapor, as explained by florin. When a charged particle passes by, it ionizes the molecules of the liquid, and these ions become centers for droplets, which condense around the ionization trail. But why are ions such good seeds for droplet condensation?
The reason is just electrostatic-dipole interaction, the cloud-chamber fluids are all dipoles. Choosing unit of energy eV, unit of length 1A, and unit of charge 1e, the Coulomb constant k is 14.4 (eV A/e). The dipole moment of water and alcohol (two common vapors for a cloud chamber) are both about .4 eV A. That means that you have to go out a distance of 13 Angstroms before the thermal energy is comparable to the maximum dipole energy.
Within this region, the statistical equilibrium requires that the first dipole that enters sits on top of the ion, because the potential well is essentially infinitely deep. The ion plus polar molecule will attract another ion, and so on, until a droplet is formed.
Ignoring interaction between the dipoles, the radius of a droplet stabilizes electrostatically approximately when the energy gain from being on the surface of the droplet is equal to about 6kT, the factor of 6 is the approximate entropy gain of being in gas vs. liquid. This happens relatively quickly, so you get a microscopic droplet. But in a supersaturated liquid, there are strong forces already between dipoles which mean that there is very little cost to forming bigger drops. The energy gain just from the inter-molecular forces already balances the entropy loss from leaving the gas phase. The only thing that doesn't balance is the surface tension cost.
The radius of the drop is then approximately determined by the place where the average energy gain for a dipole on the surface is equal to the free energy difference between surface and bulk fluid. When this radius exceeds the critical droplet size for the supersaturated liquid, you get nucleation. Since it is going to be about 10 A, it is already pretty big. There is no chance of producing a 10A drop, containing hundred of molecules, by thermal fluctuations.


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The Roman Catholic Church, thrown into turmoil by Pope Benedict XVI's unexpected resignation announcement Monday, now must confront the circumstances of modernity that many other institutions, ancient and modern alike, have been grappling with in recent years. In essence, the church must draw a distinction between what it must change to survive, and what it must preserve to retain its integrity.
The church's response to its next stage is complicated by the very long tenure of deeply conservative leaders, dating to Pope John Paul II's ascension in 1978. He and Benedict surrounded themselves with a like-minded College of Cardinals, whose first choice may be the toughest: Will they select another conservative pope, or will they base their choice on matters outside of religious and political ideology? Knowing the church is growing vigorously in Africa and Asia, losing followers at an alarming pace in the Americas, and barely hanging on in the European nations, it would make sense to elect a pope from somewhere other than Europe. Such a pope likely would be more progressive on social issues — including condom use, same-sex marriage, stem-cell research, perhaps even abortion rights — than either of the two most recent long-serving pontiffs.
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The 6 Most Hilariously Inept Spies of All Time
Spies get blown all the time (and in Bond's case, that's both literal and figurative). Some are uncovered through careful research by an enemy agency, some are betrayed by defectors and some simply die and are discovered after the fact. Others wake up in the morning, stick their foot in a bucket and pratfall their way through espionage until they accidentally trip and somersault into prison.
#6. Aldrich Ames
If Aldrich Ames ever got his own Bond flick, it would be called The Spy Who Loved Whiskey. He was frequently reprimanded for sleeping on the job at the CIA, a gig he almost didn't get because of his -- no shit -- repeated drunken brawls with police officers. That's right: Getting hammered and taking a few flying jump-kicks at a cop does not disqualify you from intelligence work. Ames was also chastised for having three extramarital affairs, which doesn't sound like any of the CIA's business ... until you realize that one of them was with a Colombian agent. But somehow, despite (or hell -- possibly because of) his sloppy cop fights and spy-banging, the CIA promoted him to the elite Soviet team in D.C. Hey, if this whole "subtlety" thing wasn't working out for the spy game, why not throw a crack squad of stumbling boozehounds at the USSR? You know: Fight firewater with firewater.
And, apparently, spray tan with spray tan.
But astonishingly, the drunk guy with a track record of thinking with his dick didn't turn out to be a good choice to handle sensitive information. Ames contacted the Soviets in 1985 and turned traitor for money, which he handled with the usual stealthy grace we've come to expect from him. Instead of setting up a series of drops (standard practice for the spy community), Ames would just drive down to the Soviet Embassy, walk in with a box full of documents, have lunch with his contact, take his 50 grand and then walk right out the front door with the cash, presumably in a bag with a giant dollar sign on it.
And he kept this up for nine years.
Yelling on the way out, "Thank you for the money you just gave me for all that spying!"
The CIA finally caught on to Ames when somebody began to wonder why the guy snoring on his desk and using a bottle of Scotch for a pillow was driving to the office in a brand new Jaguar. Ames was being paid about $60,000 a year at the time, yet somehow managed to drop $540,000 for a house -- in cash! When they looked into his finances, the CIA found that even Ames' monthly phone bills exceeded $6,000. And when they finally did the math and figured out that donating plasma and recycling beer cans just doesn't pay that well, Ames suddenly left to attend a "conference" in Moscow in early 1994. But he didn't make it in time, and the agency moved on him. Now he's spending the rest of his life in prison, but only after making $4.6 million from selling CIA secrets.
Suckers. He would have taken 20 bucks and a case of Milwaukee's Best.
Which is chump change, really. Barely enough to keep the phone on.
#5. Edward Lee Howard
Edward Lee Howard began his career in the CIA in 1980, after working for the Peace Corps and USAID. He and his wife trained for two years and were all set to go to work at the American Embassy in Moscow and try their hand at spying until a polygraph test showed that Howard had been blatantly lying about prior drug use. Having learned something of a lesson from the whole Ames debacle, the CIA reluctantly let this promising addict go. Disgruntled, Howard hit the sauce, made some drunken phone calls to Washington and got arrested for fighting while intoxicated.
If you learn anything from this article, let it be that elite spies handle employment changes like teenagers handle a bad breakup.
Via Hanford.gov
It was like Burn Notice, but puffy.
In 1984, still angry at being fired, Howard met with a KGB agent in Austria and started supplying him with info. The CIA finally figured that the disgruntled former employee with the drug problem who was making slurred bipolar phone calls to them every night might have a hand in this and had the FBI monitor him. The Howards, by now living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, knew something was up from all the totally inconspicuous flower delivery vans and pizza trucks passing by, to the point that Howard himself went up to a member of the "covert" FBI monitoring team and told him that he was ready to talk. He just needed time to get a lawyer. Amazingly, the FBI let him go despite his flight risk, though presumably they did make him pinkie swear not to do any more treason. Amazingly, despite the sacred bond of the little finger, Howard skipped town the next day.
Via Wikipedia
"Wanted for breaking the digit-based honor system. Oh, and something about treason and betraying his country."
So how did Howard mastermind this escape? Simple: While he and his wife were returning from dinner, they made an impromptu dummy of Howard out of some rags and propped it up in the seat of their car. Then the real Howard leaped from the vehicle on a poorly lit back road and hightailed it to the airport. We swear to God we have seen that exact same plot deployed on Perfect Strangers, and we're pretty sure even Balki didn't get away with it. But Howard did: He flew to New York, then to Helsinki, where he finally slipped into the Soviet Embassy and defected. Howard eventually made it all the way to Russia, making him one of the elite few Western spies to manage the feat. He spent the last years of his life writing taunting books about his spy life, until he died in 2002 from a suspiciously broken neck.
Although given his track record, we kind of think it might have just been a pile of old laundry in the vague shape of an Edward Howard.
It's hard to tell -- he actually kind of looked like some laundry.
#4. Russian MIT Spy Ring
In the early 2000s, the SVR (the KGB's successor agency) planted a ring of spies across the United States and United Kingdom who were so bad at their jobs that the FBI intentionally didn't catch them for a while, because they were just too easy to monitor. It was the world's first case of pity espionage. These Russian agents, who were all given anglicized names and placed in computer-based jobs at universities in London, New York and MIT, operated under a central ringleader named Anna Chapman.
Via Huffingtonpost.com
At least she has the decency to look like a Bond girl.
Of their many, many stupid problems, the least of which was that the spies transferred data using highly unsecure PC-to-PC open wireless networking. This meant that information being sent to another computer could easily be intercepted and deciphered, as it later was. Slightly more significant a problem was that the spy programs kept freezing their laptops, so this elite team of Soviet agents -- who, remember, were posing as computer experts -- had to send them back to Moscow for troubleshooting. But perhaps the most ridiculously damning error was their logins. The team's laptops were protected by 27-character-long random passwords, which is good: They're harder to guess at, and harder to brute force, but sadly, also harder to remember. So the Russian spies just went ahead and slapped sticky notes with the passwords right there on the laptops. To paraphrase one of the most authoritative movies on spycraft in our generation, Spaceballs: "So the password is right there on the computer? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his MacBook!"
"Oh, that? That's just a little joke. Hahaha."
When the FBI began to get suspicious of the oddly well-off IT guys who knew nothing about computers but everything about borscht, they checked out their records and discovered they had listed cleverly falsified information. And by clever, we mean they put down addresses like "99 Fake Street." When the bureau finally moved on the spy ring, they found a treasure trove of top secret stolen information ... right there on the spies' desktops, as icons.
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Anybody have experience with this? I mainly want a device that streams video from my network server to my TV (like my PS3, which suddenly stopped recognizing my media server.) I read the reviews, and someone mentioned streaming from a PC, but this would be a network drive, or media server connection.
@tcayer: Follow the link to the user manual? Might find an answer there...
reviews are mixed. http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BD-E5400-Wi-Fi-Blu-ray-Player/product-reviews/B009YWN926/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
@bigexxon: Thanks! I was undecided about this but based on those reviews I think I'll pass and wait for a less restrictive unit.
Samsung's disc players are garbage.
Same price and better reviews... only no WiFi. (internet via ethernet only)
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What are must-have items in an emergency kit for a multi-day hiking trip?
Obviously, what you decide to pack depends on your trip and the environment, but these are the staples I always bring along:
Navigation: You always need to be able to figure out where you are and which way you need to head to get out. In my opinion, a map without topography isn't a map (unless you're on very flat land).
Warmth & Shelter: You need to be able to get warm and protected from the elements. I always bring a sleeping bag if I know it'll get cold at night, even on single-day hikes where I don't plan on sleeping in the backcountry. God forbid you get lost and have to spend the night, it's worth the extra few pounds for peace of mind.
Rescue & Signaling: If you fall and break both your legs or get your arm pinned under a rock, you need to be able to make a commotion and attract attention.
Food & Water: This isn't just so you can stand on a mountain eating a Nature Valley bar like they do in the commercials. If you need to survive for a few days, you'll appreciate the sustenance.
General Survival: If you have to make shelter, conduct first aid or perform any other basic camp tasks, you'll probably need this stuff anyways.
Edit: As Phil mentioned, you should always bring a cell phone. Keep it in a waterproof bag, and turn it off so you're not disturbed. But having one in a pinch is the difference between being able to summon help for yourself and sitting around hoping someone is out there looking for you.
There are different types of being stranded; there's "lost the trail an hour in" stranded, "lost the trail twenty miles in" stranded, and "broke a leg" stranded, just to name a few.
Considering your question
Your emergency kit should be gear that never leaves your person. If I get stranded away from my gear, I have this kit. People have died from going to take a leak in the middle of the night and getting lost. Your general hiking equipment is your "gear," moreso than your "emergency kit".
Why "never leaves your person"? You are at primary risk of two types of problems. For simplicity we will assume the worst case in both, that you have lost your group.
If you won't have your emergency gear with you, then it's not an emergency kit. With that in mind, I build my kit for three things
Any kit is nothing without knowledge. You need to know how to use all this stuff, how to make your own shelter, and preferably all the local edibles and how to find them. Before you go out on a day hike, I recommend you practice with this gear to make sure you can do the minimal of:
This stuff never leaves my emergency kit. For any of it that I also use regularly in camp, I have a second one. My emergency kit is for emergencies only and is separate from the rest of my gear. It has its own pouch that I keep with me (not with my pack).
I hike the Appalachians. It gets cold, but not Canada cold, and it's not desert. This would likely need to be tweaked for extreme cold or heat.
Hartley (and Phil) pretty much have it covered, but I'd add a couple of things.
Also, it's a little over the top, but we take emergency cards that you fill out with vital information like the nature of the emergency, how many people in the party, an emergency contact for your party, your location etc, and send someone with the card to get help.
For a multi-day hike obviously you'll have a tent which can be very useful in emergencies.
Just additional two cents, but don't underestimate the visibility of a green laser pointer at night. In survival situations and with light fog, a green laser pointer shooting up in the sky will make your position extremely clear.
For the exact same reason, don't use it with airplanes around. They hate that, and you will be found and prosecuted.
The other answers focus on general survival kits, but don't give much coverage to first aid kits.
Here's what you need in a first aid kit, in order of importance:
That's it. Everything else you might need can be improvised from regular hiking equipment and the ten essentials.
My list may not sound as sexy as some of the others, but it's been tested in the field. I'm a former EMT and climbing guide, and I've faced multiple life-or-death medical emergencies in the wilderness.