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What is Registry?
Registry is a database where Windows stores all types of settings and option related information, in other word, it consists of all information regarding hardware, software, users etc. Now, in place of Win 95 or 98, registry was build up with two hidden files - USER.DAT & SYSTEM.DAT, but now it consists with another file. Named CLASSES.DAT
The structure of registry
Registry is a Hierarchical Structure, just like our disks directory tree or Windows explorer. Now if we run the registry editor (Start -> Run -> Regedit), then we will find six main braches, called HIVE. Each hives contains some keys, now every key contains some subkey or value. This value stores all the information in the Registry!
All The Six Hives Of Registry.
1. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT It contains all the information related to File Association, OLE and Windows Shorten.
2. HKEY_CURRENT_USER It consists of all the information for a particular active user who is in log on condition, e.g, logon names, desktop settings or start up menu etc.
3. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE This hive contains all hardware and software related information.
4. HKEY_USERS It contains all information related to users. For every user, there exists a SID subkey.
5. HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG It stores hardware configuration setting related information of current user related to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
6. HKEY_DYN_DATA It stores all information about plug-n-play devices.
Every registry value contains 5 ata types
REG_BINARY Here data gathered in Raw binary format, basically it contains binary data related to Hardware component.
REG_DWORD Here data stored in as byte number. It consists boolesn values e.g, 0 or Disable and 1 or Enable.
REG_MULTI_SZ Here data stores as multiple string and null character separates each other data.
REG_SZ Here data stored as simple readable text in standard string form.
If you open the registry editor you will find a simple ecplorer type window. Which consists of two parts, left side is called Navigation Pane, here we can find all the hives with + and signs. If we click + sign, the hive will expand and all the key and subkeys will be displayed. And at the right side we will find the values of the key.
To change any value of any key, just double click on it and if you want to delete it, simple right click on it and select delete.
Related to this thing, you can view my this previous article
Some Important Registry Editing!
1. How to know System BIOS information?
Find the key
Now, at the right side youll see some keys, among them, view specified keys-
SystemBiosDate, SystemBiosVersion, etc.
2. How to know full information of your processor?
Find the key
Under this hive, you will see many keys, check all these keys to know your processor information! But do not modify it! Some times youll find values in Hexadecimal system, in that case, simply switch to decimal mode!
3. How to disable Autorun feature on Windows?
Find the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutorun
Please follow the codes
Value Meaning 0x1 or 0x80 Disables AutoRun on drives of unknown type 0x4 Disables AutoRun on removable drives 0x8 Disables AutoRun on fixed drives 0x10 Disables AutoRun on network drives 0x20 Disables AutoRun on CD-ROM drives 0x40 Disables AutoRun on RAM disks 0Xff Disables AutoRun on all kinds of drives
Value Operating System 0x91 Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista 0x95 Windows Server 2003 0x91 Windows XP 0x95 Windows 2000
While editing the registry, dont forget to make restore point, because wrong editing of registry may crash your Windows!
Be Careful and Enjoy!


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I've asked this question of some physicist friends of mine and I've never gotten a satisfactory answer: What is topologically possible for a neighborhood of a black hole? To clarify, I'm curious about the topology as a 4-manifold, although I'd also be interested to hear about time-like and space-like slices as well. I've heard that a time-like slice of the event horizon can be a torus or sphere, but this isn't really what I'd like to know, although I imagine that there is a close connection between the topology of the event horizon (as a 3-manifold) and the topology of a neighborhood of the black hole. Please ask if any clarifications are needed.
So far J Verma and RBega provided two succint descriptions on topology of the apparent horizon itself (for any space-time admitted trapped regions), and so by association, the topology of the event horizon in a stationary asymptotically flat black-hole space-time.
I'll try to provide an answer to an interpretation of the question you asked for: namely that of the topology of a neighborhood of the event horizon. That I have to interpret the question is because you have not actually provide a description of what you mean by a neighborhood. Using the Hawking topology theorem you can easily manage that the topology of the event horizon is $\mathbb{S}^2\times \mathbb{R}$, and is an embedded null hypersurface. So a tubular neighborhood of it necessarily has the topology $\mathbb{S}^2\times \mathbb{R}^2$, which is, for one thing, simply connected. But there is absolutely nothing to prevent you from choosing a neighborhood to be some arbitrary open set containing the event horizon with complicated topology. Indeed, you can easily imagine removing a four dimensional tube disjoint from the event horizon from the $\mathbb{S}^2\times\mathbb{R}^2$ set to get something that is not simply connected.
Because of this freedom to choose subsets, the naive reading of you question leads to the answer that "pretty much as bad as you want".
But that answer is rather physically useless: it doesn't capture anything essential about black holes. In fact, the answer given above is identical to the answer to the following question: let $U$ be an open connected subset of $\mathbb{R}^4$, what kinds of topology can $U$ admit?
A more useful question to ask is: given an isolated gravitating body (such as a black hole), what is the topology of the space-time outside of it? And that question is one admitting a good answer. The content is the topological censorship theorem. In physicist's language, to quote Friedman, Schleich, and Witt,
An early version of this is due to Gannon, who showed that Cauchy hypersurface with non-trivial topology will necessarily generate a development which is null geodesically incomplete. The FSW paper showed that under some restrictions, all the non-trivial topology must be hidden behind the event horizon.
A stronger generalisation of the topological censorship theorem is due to Galloway, who later, with Schleich, Witt, and Woolgar, extended the result from asymptotically flat space-times to also asymptotically anti-deSitter ones. One interesting crucial assumption of these theorems is the requirement for null or time-like "Scri".
A somewhat related paper is this one by Schleich and Witt which I didn't read in detail so cannot say more about.
Hawking's Theorem of Black Hole topology asserts that the in case of $4$d asymptotically flat stationary black holes satisfying the suitable energy condition (dominant energy condition), the cross sections of the evernt horizon are spherical.
Galloway and Schoen extended this theorem to higher dimensions; they showed that the cross sections of event horizon (stationary case) and the outer (apparent) horizon (general case) are of positive Yamabe type. This paper can be found at Galloway's webpage www.math.miami.edu/~galloway/papers/220_2006_19_OnlinePDF.pdf
The previous answers dealt with the physically relevant case of $d=4$ spacetime dimensions. One of the surprising discoveries in recent years is that in higher dimensions the possible topologies are much richer. I believe this started with the discovery by Emparan and Reall of a black hole in $d=5$ with horizon topology $S^2 \times S^1$ (hep-th/0110260). The recent paper arXiv:1002.0490 by Hollands et. al. surveys the situation and discusses restrictions on the possible topologies of the horizon for $d=5$ black holes.
[While I was writing, J. Verma answered the question more succinctly but I already wrote most of my answer so figured I would post it]
First of all I am not a physicist nor do I work in GR, but I have taken a number of courses over the year so I will attempt to give some idea of an answer (I'm sure an expert can expand).
Basically one wants to restrict attention to asymptotically flat spacetimes (in 4d) i.e complete spacelike slices of the spacetime are asymptotically euclidean (i.e. in a neighborhood of infinity the metric looks like the euclidean metric in a definite way). This physically models an isolated gravitating system. I think one probably also wants a global non-vanishing timelike vectorfield (so no timelike closed loops) and also that the the dominant energy condition holds (this is too technical to state but physically means no energy enters the past light cone of a point from outside the past light cone).
Given this setup the event horizon is still not an easy concept to grasp (it depends on the global hyperbolic structure and so requires one to understand the entire spacetime all at once... I'm not sure what can be said about it honestly other than for highly symmetric spacetimes). An easier thing to grab hold of are MOTS (marginally outer trapped surfaces). To find these one takes a space-like complete slice and looks for surfaces whose area is unchanged under the flow by null vectors (this is marginally trapped) and that there is no surface strictly outside of this surface with this property (this is outermost). The existence of one of these implies the formation of a singularity (due to Penrose?) so are natural stand-ins for black holes (I'm not sure how much more is known about the full relationship between MOTS and black holes though I believe understanding it completely is about as hard as showing cosmic censorship). Anyway, it can be shown that these guys (since they are "stable") must be either spheres or tori (this is analogous to theorems about minimal surfaces) and the latter has a rigidity result attached to it which I believe makes it unphysical (due to Galloway and Schoen).
I hope this makes sense and I haven't made any glaring errors.

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In my experience, good programmers want to program with as few distractions as possible. Some of these are more relevant to big companies, and I'm not sure where you work, but here are some examples:
A quality chair
The opportunity to work alongside experienced programmers.
I always love going to conferences and training and consider that a perk. Not all companies pay to have their devs continue to learn. There's always more to learn. You benefit because they are learning more. They benefit from that too, but also have fun and get away from things for a couple of days and get to mingle with other devs.
Little things like these they will show their friends to the response of, "Cool - I wish my company did that!"
The type of people you'd like to hire tends to be a first-order concern when deciding what sort of perks to offer. For the programmer who's thinking about or in the process of raising a family, paternity leave, company matching of adoption funds up to $X/year, flexible vacation and working hours, and a sense of job security may be much more attractive than a soda machine and free Segways for all. You mention that you're looking for "junior" or "young" programmers, but many young folks do still fall into this category.
I sense, however, that by "young", you might mean "too young to be into that whole 'work-life balance' thing". Let's call this 'The Google Strategy'. The idea here is to make it so it just doesn't make sense to their analytical minds to ever leave work. Have on-site services like free food, drink, and laundry, provide gathering places for informal conversations. Make them feel like they're the rock stars of the company, and they'll repay you with long hours and hard work. The good news for you is that these types of perks don't cost you much at all relative to the increased hours they'll be willing to put in. The bad news is that this model tends not to be sustainable, and this dot-com era "irrational exuberance" no longer satisfies your programmers when they start to want to take vacations, get married and go on a long honeymoon, have kids, and so forth. At that point, they want flexibility, more vacation time, a 401k, etc. Besides the first one, these all cost significant coin.
Here's the most important point though: if you'd like to hire the absolute brightest people you can find, don't try to outsmart them. Odds are, the really sharp ones will be a little less interested in the size of the Free Red Bull Fridge and the number of air hockey tables at their disposal, than whether you'll value them as an asset to the company and as an individual (both in terms of compensation and employer/employee relations in general), whether you have a sustainable business model/plan, whether your work really excites them, and whether your work really excites you. I'd suggest reading a couple essays on Joel On Software, he treats the subject of hiring good programmers in a fair amount of detail ("Smart, and Gets Things Done", I think, is the name of one of the essays).
While your question certainly isn't without merit, and providing a work environment with some of the same perks as your competitors will make your sales pitch somewhat easier, the only people that will be truly swayed by these kinds of things are not the people you want the success of your small company to depend on. Good developers want to feel like they're making a contribution to something that matters, like their skills are valued and put to good use, like they are responsible to their peers and to themselves. Focus on having a truly great, dynamic company that does great work, and that treats its technical people with respect (things like private offices help here, too), and you'll really attract the type of people you're looking for.
(Thanks to Thomas Kammeyer for a tip on the last paragraph!)
Two flat-screen monitors, an optical mouse -- two things I don't currently have -- and each their own whiteboard with a few markers.
Being able to work remotely + flexible hours, Tech books give-a-way, and lots of love!
A boss who would ask this question.
Philip Greenspun wrote about this once. He suggested making the office a better place to be than home, which is easier for young programmers. For example, domestic hardware that someone living alone cannot justify: expensive coffee machine, pool table, huge TV with DVDs to watch.
Make the office more sociable: put beer in the fridge and have a drink together at the end of the day. Provide better food (easy for people who can't cook): get deli deliveries or a caterer.
Casual dress (for voting)
give them responsibilities and some degree of freedom.
make them feel like they are developing something for themselves, with passion
Work from home. (for voting)
Private offices (for voting)
be flexible about the starting hour.
I'm currently slightly experienced but I still call myself junior. Here is what I appreciate of my employer:
This is a sort of negative answer.
Don't give the office more entertainment than home. No TV, video games or beer. The office is for work and that is why I go to the office. I go home for video games and TV.
Don't bother with team outings. It's not relaxing. It's just more work. If I wanted to go somewhere to have fun, I'd go there with my own family or friends. Or I would stay home and sleep late. No doubt some people believe everyone else in the office wants to be friends and spend all their time hanging out. It isn't true. Sorry.
The same is true about company meals. I like to go out and away from the office for lunch and dinner. If there is a lunch meeting at the office, I will be making plans to leave work an hour early (with exceptions for crunch time, which had better not last more than a month or two out of each year.)
I'm surprised the cynics amongst us haven't said 'non brain-dead leadership'!
Attracting young people with toys is a bit patronising, better to say:
"Yeah so we could offer you lots of new shiny toys, but how about we guarantee you no PHBs instead?"
Invite your whole team to the restaurant of their choice every Friday for lunch. A former boss of mine used to do just that and it really helped team bonding.
If budget doesn't allow it, you can do it once every two weeks or once a month. But think of the value of having closer team members.
Programmers need vacation. Lots of it. Four weeks a year to start. Minimum.
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Confucius - Analects XV.24
A career path. Not that they necessarily have to follow it, but give them the thought that they don't have to be a junior forever, and show them that there are opportunities in the company. Give them an idea of what it takes to advance.
Good hardware: I'd be very interested if I was told that I would get a desktop system (WinXP is still my system of choice) and a Linux server box. Something I have root on and can run services on (local at a minimum, world visible would be nice.) A Virtual private server in the company data center instead of dedicated hardware would also work.
Another thing that would be nice would be access to good references: "We will buy you any books that are apropos to your job!" same with software to some point, "if it's under $60, we will just get it."
Edit: large screenS on pivot stands, good chairs, white boards, etc.
Lets them, on company time, do some private projects (things that could be useful for the company, but things they get to pick)
Actually, Joel Spolsky has a really good article on this subject that I refer to from time to time:
EDIT: I read Joel's book on hiring devs, Smart and Gets Things Done. In the book, he says that this article is an embarassing bubble-era relic and he has learned a lot since then. I don't think the blog post is all bad, but it's true that the book is a lot more sophisticated.
Treat them as peers
The access to training and mentors. The things that Junior developers want is pretty much what every programmer that I know wants. They want to work in a relaxed and flexible environment with people who are at least as smart as them if not smarter. They want to feel like they are a part of something. They want to constantly be learning.
Make sure that you have a training/book budget. Make sure that they are always learning and always have something interesting to work on. Make sure that you do team building or some kind of thing like that on a fairly regular bases. Lunch and learns are an increasingly popular tool these days.
One thing that Junior Developers might like more than more Senior developers is the use of cutting edge or even bleeding edge technology. Be careful about this one, cause it can byte you in the butt, but it always helps.
My company has purchased an O'Reilly Safari Online account for each of our developers. I have access to thousands of books online at any time.
We also have training videos available at online from CBT Nuggets but I find their content limited.
Also, some productivity tools, for Visual Studio, such as CodeRush/Refactor Pro or Resharper
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Firm says its new Next Generation Portable gaming device won't produce PlayStation 3-like graphics, but the graphics will be better than those of the current PlayStation Portable.
Sony's NGP console has been rebranded the PlayStation Vita, will be out by the end of the year, and will cost €250 for the Wi-Fi version and €300 for a console with 3G capabilities.
Sony's next-gen handheld games console may only be released in one part of the world this year, due to production problems in Japan.
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Sovkov spoke to us by email, and we reprint his answers to our questions, mostly unedited to retain his voice, below:
What is it like for you living in Russia today? Are you open about your sexuality and do you feel safe?
Russia today begins to slide to Soviet totalitarianism. Strict vertical of power, which was built by president, leaves less political space for democratic movement. This leads that public interest prevail over individual and civil rights. Corruption, impunity of society elites, controlled justice system, the degradation of education, all these factors will undoubtedly lead to the decline of the Russian society. Of course, I do not feel myself secure in such system. There is a fear of losing job, being subjected to vandalism. There is a fear for friends and relatives.
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A pair of Amanda Videmsek (Highland Heights, Ohio / Beaumont School) kills started the third set, but a 4-0 run by Temple, gave the Owls an early lead until the Niners forced a six-all tie. Ties were forced at 10 and 11, but the Owls ran up a 6-1 run at that point and kept the 49ers at bay for the match victory.
Rouse finished with the team-high total of 10 kills. Senior libero Jenna Litoborski (Lemont, Ill) ties for the match high with 15 digs. Freshman setter Britney Leigh Held (Brookfield, Wis. / Brookfield Central HS) had her second career double-double, both this weekend, with 23 assists and 10 digs.
Charlotte will return home for its final two matches next weekend, hosting league-leading and No. 15 Dayton Friday night before Sunday afternoon's senior day match against Xavier. The Friday night match will be free youth night, with all youth 17 and under receiving free admission. It will also be Faculty/Staff night, with members of the University's faculty and staff receiving free admission when showing their valid faculty/staff ID. For all other inquiries regarding admission or to purchase tickets, contact the 49ers ticket office at (704) 687-4949.


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Every day, at least once, but usually twice, my head gets heavy, as if a weight sits on my skull, and I know, right then, that sleep is coming. If I don't put my head down immediately, the heaviness only gets heavier. My joints begin to ache and a wave of nausea comes over me. And if I still don't sleep, the back of my eyes begin to burn and I start losing contact with myself – where I am and what I'm doing. Eventually, this leads to sleep – not because I've reached a safe and appropriate resting spot, but because I had no choice. Sleep chose me.
These sleep attacks are a fundamental part of my daily routine – as automatic and compulsive as eating food and drinking water. Yet for many years, I believed I was better than sleep; I thought I could brush it off with a coffee or a red bull. One time in college, while studying late at night in the library, my sleepiness felt unusually powerful, but then came the flood of legitimate excuses. I was a varsity squash player with a strenuous practice schedule. I was either up late studying or out late partying. It all made sense. Perfect sense. Everyone feels tired at times, it's only natural, I thought.
Sleepiness is not problematic. Quite the opposite – it's a welcome calming, a joyful sign of dreams to come, a precious passing, a floating away from life's stresses, a first taste of the ultimate release- the sweet peace- of sleep.
For years, I believed that my sleepiness was harmless.I was just a good sleeper. No, I was a great sleeper - it was my special talent.I sat through lectures, drove cars, cooked meals, visited museums, watched movies, wrote papers, and took exams – all the time fighting a heaviness of excruciating depths that I thought I could will away.
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For students, what is the most accessible archaeological site (and/or museum) for a brief (two-day) study of Roman Londinium?
Without a doubt, the Museum of London.
For starters, it still has part of the old Roman walls standing outside the museum, unmoved over two millennia.
It also houses an impressive Roman gallery.
In addition, they have an exhibition "Our Londinium" running:
And...it's also free :)
Near the Museum of London is the City of London Guildhall Art Gallery... which happens to have a genuine Roman amphitheatre in its basement.
Requires some imagination - it's not exactly intact - but it's the real deal. Very occasionally it's used for events including theatre productions, but that's very rare.
Be aware that with building work in the area, a lot of archeology is being done on old Roman sites, and a lot of interesting stuff is being found, including whole streets - though naturally this isn't usually open to the public. Much of the archiving and analysis is done at the Museum of London, who may be able to answer questions on it.
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Early Marijuana Use Leads to Later Brain Problems
Nov. 16, 2010 (San Diego) -- Early marijuana use appears to take a toll on the brain, according to new research.
Young adults who began smoking marijuana before age 16 performed worse on cognitive tests compared to those who began smoking after age 16, says researcher Staci Ann Gruber, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, Boston. She presented her findings at a news conference Monday at Neuroscience 2010, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego.
Although several studies have already found that earlier use of marijuana can lead to cognitive problems, the new study directly compares the differences between early and late-onset users, Gruber says.
Gruber found that early-onset smokers, once she evaluated them as young adults, also smoked more -- and more often. "Early-onset smokers smoked twice as often and nearly three times as much," she says.
Early-onset smokers averaged 25 smokes a week, while the late-onset users averaged 12. Early-onset users averaged 14 grams a week, while the late-onset users averaged under 6 grams a week.
Focusing on Early Marijuana Use
For the study, Gruber evaluated 35 chronic marijuana smokers and compared them to 29 healthy people, including men and women. Twenty of the smokers started before age 16 and 15 started after age 16.
At the time of the evaluation, their average age was 22.
Gruber says 16 was chosen as the cutoff age between early- and late-onset smoking ''because that's when teens tend to [begin to] use drugs."
She gave them a card-sorting task commonly used to evaluate cognitive flexibility, known as the Wisconsin Card Sort Task. People are shown cards with different shapes on them. The shapes are in different colors, in different numbers, and in different forms. The person tested is told to sort the cards, without being told how, and then is told if the sorting is correct.
Next, the person giving the test changes the rule on how to sort, but doesn't tell the participant, who must figure out the new rule.
How the test taker responds to the rule change and how quickly he grasps the new rule reflects his cognitive flexibility.
The test is considered a measure of executive function, which involves such tasks as planning, abstract thinking, and moderating one's social behavior.


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6 Insane Sports Stories That Will Make You Believe In Curses
Sports players and fans alike are a superstitious bunch. As a result, every team that's gone a few years without a title is declared to be under some kind of "curse" or other, despite the fact that, you know, only one team can win it all each year.
But then, there are the other curses, the real ones, the ones that are kind of hard to dismiss. Scoff if you want, but consider...
#6. The San Francisco Giants and the Curse of Coogan's Bluff
The Cause:
Once upon a time, the San Francisco Giants baseball team played in New York, at the Polo Grounds ballpark in Harlem, underneath a cliff face known as Coogan's Bluff. As one of three baseball teams playing in New York at the time, the Giants decided in 1957 to abandon their crumbling stadium and move to a less stifling (but more fabulous!) city, San Francisco.
The move was very sudden and incensed long time fans in New York who took it as a sign of outright betrayal, forcing them to make an impossible choice: continue rooting for their team that was now 3,000 miles away, or become Mets fans. As any rational person would do when faced with such a dilemma, Giants fans in New York placed a hex on the team they once loved, dictating that the Giants would never win a World Series again as long as they were based somewhere other than New York City.
The Effect:
When the Giants played at Coogan's Bluff, they were in the World Series 17 times in 65 years, even making it to the big game four times in a row during the early 20s. Their win in 1954 added a fifth title to their belts, just three years before deciding to move cities.
That would also be the very last time the Giants won the championship.
To put it in perspective, the last time the Giants touched the Commissioner's Trophy was the very first time a sporting event was broadcast in color. Or, for the geeks out there, when Lord of the Rings was first published. In the 51 years since the pox was placed on the Giants, the team has only managed a pitiful three championship appearances, losing in each one, despite acquiring such historical weapons as Willie Mays and later, the lethal duo of Barry Bonds and illegal steroids.
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Here's where it gets weird.
Two of the Giants' three appearances in the World Series since moving (1962 and 1989) were delayed by freak acts of nature's wrath. Heavy, monsoon-like rains delayed the 1962 championship and a massive earthquake during the 1989 World Series destroyed some of San Francisco, including damaging the Giants' home field. From this, we can scientifically deduce that instead of a robe, God wears an "I Heart N.Y." T-Shirt.
#5. The Detroit Lions and the Cruse of Bobby Layne
The Cause:
Bobby Layne was a Hall of Fame NFL quarterback who played for the Detroit Lions from 1950 to 1958. He's often credited with single-handedly leading the team to three league championships in his eight-year tenure with the team, including two back to back.
Despite this, in 1958 and fresh off their third NFL championship, the Lions traded Bobby to Pittsburgh, thinking he was past his prime. Bobby took the news of this perceived betrayal incredibly hard, and as he boarded the bus bound for Pittsburgh, publicly stated that Detroit "would not win for 50 years."
Bobbly Layne, Voodoo master.
The Effect:
Quite simply, the Lions of the last 50 years possess the worst winning percentage the NFL has ever seen, boasting only 16 winning seasons (most of which can be barely considered as such) out of the last 50. Your stoner buddy currently sleeping on your sofa can claim more successes than the Lions franchise at this point.
Three out of the four championships Detroit ever won were helmed by Bobby Layne and the year they traded him away was the last year they would ever play in a championship. In fact, since 1958, the Lions have only ever won one playoff game, way back in 1991.
Still Not Convinced?
If you've done the math, you know that Bobby's curse ran out after last year. In the curse's 50th and final year, the hex hit its macabre crescendo when the Lions managed to lose every single regular season game to finish 0-16, the first team in NFL history to ever do so.
We don't care how much you claim to not believe in curses, if the Lions win the Super Bowl next year, it's probably time to get superstitious.
#4. Canada and the Curse of Marty McSorley
The Cause:
During game two of the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals, the Los Angeles Kings held a 1-goal advantage over the Montreal Canadiens in the final minutes of the game which if left intact would give the Kings a two game lead in the series.
However, as the game was winding down, Montreal coach Jaques Demers suddenly became suspicious about the way Marty McSorley's stick looked. He had the referees get together and inspect the blade and they determined that it was more curved than what the rules would permit, allowing him to do things with the puck that no man should do.
McSorley was penalized for playing with illegal equipment and sent to the box for two minutes. Montreal capitalized on the one-man advantage, and Eric Desjarins scored a goal against the Kings to tie the game and force an overtime period. During this period, Desjardins scored again and won the game for the Canadiens. They then went on to win the next three games and the Stanley Cup, all because of Marty getting greedy on the stick-bend.
The Effect:
Since the Canadiens won that Stanely Cup, no other Canadian team in the NHL has won the championship. Four Canadian teams have reached the Stanley Cup Finals, only to lose every time against their American opponent.
Why would the sports curse gods punish all Canadian teams, just because the offending team was called "the Canadiens"? And why would the curse affect the guys who didn't cheat? Well, who said curses had to be fair? Or, you know, not retarded?
Not this guy, that's for sure.
As for the Canadiens, they have only managed to win four playoff games since 1993 despite winning 16 postseason games in the 10 seasons before the fateful curved stick incident. In fact, their current 15-year championship drought is the longest they've had in their 90-year history.
Still Not Convinced?
In 1995, a Canadian team, the Quebec Nordiques, pulled up roots and moved to the mountains of Denver to become the Colorado Avalanche. As soon as they left Canada and became an American team, the Avalanche won the Stanley Cup in 1996, and then again in 2001, not only proving the existence of a pox on all Canadian hockey teams, but also proving that even curses have loopholes.


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I have ran into this a few times where you get put on a project and you want to do unit testing of some type, but the project isn't setup right to allow for this and you might not have buy-in from everyone. The main issues tend to be code smells like issues with dependencies (especially the over use of statics) and seperation of concerns. New code that you write can be setup easily, but anything that operates with other legacy code or even those not drinking the cool aide can become an issue.
Some things that I have found are that isolation frameworks like TypeMock can make this easier. What are some other tools/tricks/best practices that you have found that ease this sort of pain?


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Unanswered: Problem with external pages in app - Search for many hours
Hello, I built a webapp, and for links to any external pages, I have them open in a new window, which works great. When I packaged it as an app and tested it on my ipod touch, it does not open in a new window. It opens the external page right in the app. In doing so, there is no way to go back to the actual app. The header with navigation is gone.
What I would like to do is have my header stay and have the external page load under the header. I searched for hours and have not found a good solution. Some solutions were to use iframes, but that does not work well at all, because you cannot scroll the page. Other solutions were to use Ajax.Request, but that only works for pages on the same domain. I need external pages on other domains to load in. For instance, Google Maps, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google +, pages on our main site, etc...
I'm sure there is a way to do this, right?
Any help with a solution would be appreciated.
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It's up to the native packager to allow opening links in the native browser.
And you are correct, you will loose interactions like scroll if you use an iframe. I have seen some people add an iframe to the document.body and size Ext.Viewport to a small height. I haven't seen if that allows for scrolling though.Mitchell Simoens @LikelyMitch
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I was looking in the App Gallery and found an App Store app that shows a list of social media sites. You click one of them and the social media site slides up and so does a bar with a Done button. When you click the Done button the social media and bar slide back down and you see the list again. Since that was done with Sencha Touch, somebody has to have an answer to how to do this. Do you have any idea?
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What do you mean by, It's up to the native packager to allow opening links in the native browser. Is this a setting you can make in the native packager?


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In my research I came across the following question.
Let $A$ be an integer non-negative matrix (every entry of $A$ is non-negative) and $x = (x_1,...,x_n)^T$ the probability Perron-Frobenius eigenvecor, i.e., $Ax = \lambda x$ and all $x_i \geq 0$. Denote by $H(x_1,...,x_n)$ the additive abelian group generated by $x_1,...,x_n$. Consider the set $\mathcal M(A)$ of all integer non-negative matrices $B$ such that $By = \lambda y$ where $y= (y_1,...,y_k)^T$ is the probability Perron-Frobenius eigenvecor. Suppose additionally that $H(x_1,...,x_n) =H(y_1,...,y_k)$. Is the set $\mathcal M(A)$ finite for every fixed $A$?
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Just installed 12.04 on my new Packard Bell laptop. Trying to set up media playing stuff, installed ubuntu-restricted-extras, libdvdread4 and vlc. But DVDs won't play. No error message with vlc - it just won't play. If I try totem, I get message:
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Could not read DVD. This may be because the DVD is encrypted and a DVD decryption library is not installed.


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To be a smart patient, it's best to consolidate your medical care, health history and medical records into as few places as possible. Smart patients realize the advantages of having a medical home for their health care.
A patient-centered medical home provides an ongoing relationship and partnership with a personal physician who provides continuous and comprehensive primary care. This concept offers an alternative to the increasingly fragmented American health care system.
The following five videos illustrate the valuable role family physicians play as they help patients navigate a complex and confusing health care system. They highlight:
- What family physicians do (video titled "The Specialty of Family Medicine"),
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- The importance of the patient-centered medical home family physicians provide for patients (video titled "Fixing Health Care: What Women Want").
Please watch the videos and feel free to share them with your friends, family members and colleagues. Each one contains useful information that can help you become a better (and smarter) patient.
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This video describes family physicians' special training in preventive medicine and their ability to help patients improve and maintain good health. With guidance from a family physician, patients have the power to help influence their health care and its costs. Family physicians are trained to catch minor disorders before they develop into serious problems. An ongoing relationship with a family physician can help ensure you receive the most effective and efficient health care possible.
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This video describes family physicians' training in all major medical areas and their ability to diagnose and manage the treatment of the full range of problems patients present. Family physicians are not only experts in diabetes, heart disease, asthma and other chronic conditions, but they are also an expert in you. With special knowledge of how your chronic disease might influence other medical conditions, your family doctor can successfully manage your overall health.
Family Medicine and Health Information Technology
Family physicians across the country are adopting electronic health records (EHRs), beginning to communicate with their patients via e-mail, and are e-prescribing. When combined, these elements provide improved documentation of patients' medical histories and management of chronic diseases. Many practices have an Internet presence that features online scheduling, e-mail consultations, direct communications with other practices and a variety of other high-tech services. Ultimately you, the patient, benefit.
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A recent nationwide poll found that American women want a health care system in which they and their families can conveniently obtain preventive services, see their personal physicians the day they become sick, and receive coordinated follow-up care if they require hospitalization or care from other physicians. A patient-centered medical home provides all of these.
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This week, Xbox Live released their promotion thing that turns achievement points into direct benefits per tier. Each tier says you get a "A Special Gift* during your birthday month." Does anyone have any idea what this special gift is? My Birthday is next month so I'm fairly interested to know what will randomly show up on my account :P.
Just got my birthday reward email from Xbox Live. It said the following:
So it looks like they just give you 20 MSPs for your birthday. I guess it is better than nothing, lol.
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My 26" mountain bike currently has a 2x10 gear setup with SRAM components: a SRAM S-1250 crank with 38/24 chainrings, and a SRAM PG-1030, 10-speed, 11-36t cassette. I feel that when riding on non-technical dirt trails I am maxing out my drive-train, meaning that I am not able to accelerate beyond a certain speed when riding the 'hardest' gear. I have been reading about the Shimano 3x10 system which may allow me to reach higher speeds, due to higher possible transfer ratios. So, how much faster can I with a 3x10 setup? please elaborate on the math in your answer...
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Well, if you switch to 3 in front, and then make it a 52/38/24 set (equal steps) then your theoretical new maximum speed would be:
Currently at your top speed one revolution of your crank leads to 38/11th of a revolution of your rear wheel. This will become 52/11th or about 1.37 times as much.
This is not the whole story however. You probably know that wind resistant is much more of an issue at higher speeds than rolling resistance. So (unless you are really strong) your actual maximum will be quite a bit lower than the theoretical maximum calculated above. This tool allows you to set your speed or power output and calculate the other. If I assume your current max as 30kph, your bike weight at 9kg, your weight at 70kg (don't be offended, I'm just guessing), and you are on MTB tires and in the "hoods" position (whatever that is) then your power output at that speed would be about 220 Watt. With the extra chainring in front your theoretical maximum speed would be 41.1kph (all other variables being equal) but to attain it you would need to about 470 Watt! More than twice as much!
Obviously in your current situation you are not pedaling efficiently at your maximum speed because you are spinning your legs like crazy, but a 1.4 times speed gain is probably too much to hope for. As a test to see where you can get you could ask your friendly LBS owner if he'll lend you a bigger front chainring for a test ride and see if you can find out from that at what point you max out.
Assume your wheels have a circumference of l = 2 m. With a 38x11 gear you will cover
per crank revolution. Assume that you can pedal at a cadence of 90 rpm, that will give you a speed of
On a road which allows for such speed you should be able to pedal at a higher cadence if you have good riding technique, i.e. achieve even higher speeds.
The maths don't care about brand names, but take a Shimano XT triple with 42-32-24 teeth instead:
This results in
at 90 rpm, which is
faster. Actually, the ratio of the two different big rings will give you the same
If you keep your 11-36 cassette, the drive train will have a total capacity of
Apart from that it is often easier to maximize downhill speed by optimizing aerodynamics instead of pedaling.
I am going to skip the gear ratio discussion because others have covered it, and it really isn't the most important consideration.
If you're spinning out frequently, you'll want a higher top gear, but you can only go so high with those cranks-- probably 42, max, on the big chainring. That might be enough to keep your from spinning out while still retaining the capabilities of the bike.
If you decide to swap out the cranks/chainrings and get something more like a road-bike or cross bike, you will mess with the intended design of the "mountain" bike. There is nothing wrong with doing that but the gears are low on a mountain bike for very good reasons like negotiating stumps, ruts, rocks, mud/gravel and even very short 100% grades.


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I imagine a scenario where the original poster is compelled to roll back multiple edits to his post, causing it to become a community wiki, thereby losing any future rep points from that post.
Can this happen presently?
Should this happen?
I imagine a scenario where the original poster is compelled to roll back multiple edits to his post, causing it to become a community wiki, thereby losing any future rep points from that post.
Rollbacks do not currently count at all towards pushing a post to Community Wiki. This was tested way back in August 2010 and still holds true today. They certainly count as edits for the purpose of existing in the post's revision history, no matter how many you make, but for the intent of converting a post to Community Wiki, it is as if they never existed.
Revived the tests today just to confirm that nothing changed. And indeed, nothing changed. Thresholds still are the same, and the post remains completely unconverted no matter how many rollbacks happen.
As for whether or not they should, I'm fine with the status quo mostly from the perspective of "Don't need to fix what isn't broken" - it's been this way since the dawn of the system and there's been no widespread inclination to abuse it. Abusive use would thus be the outlier in the statistics and so that should be the "exception" that is handled by moderator intervention.
Yes, rollbacks will count as an edit, and add to the total required to auto-convert to Community Wiki.
I don't think they should work that way, but that's present behavior.
Yes rollbacks count as an edit.
Yes, it's important for it to stay this way. One of the main reasons for CW-ing a post that has been edited a lot is because editing a post bumps it to the top of the "active" list. Some people try to edit their own post a lot with trivial edits to keep it at the top of the list (to try to get more upvotes). If a rollback didn't count towards that then a user would be able to keep rolling back their post between two previous versions to bump it indefinitely without it ever becoming CW.
If a post of yours becomes CW as a result of a number of improper edits from other users, flag the post for moderator attention, explain that it became CW because of the inappropriate edits of others, and they may decide to un-CW the post (they can do that).


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King announces $100 million donation to UN Counterterrorism Center
August 8, 2013
On behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, Minister of Culture and Information Dr. Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja delivered a speech today on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr.
"I congratulate you on the blessed Eid Al-Fitr, successful fasting of the month of Ramadan, and performance of its related post-evening prayers," he said. "I herewith address you from the holy premises of this sacred land, the cradle of the mission of Islam and Muslims Kiblah (prayer and call direction) from which God's brightness has shined to show all mankind the way of good and peace and to form the most important tributary to human civilization and innovation, such goodness which was carried by the leader of the human kind Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) and whose sole objective is to come out with human beings from the thickness of darkness and ignorance to the illumination of rightness, equality and fairness as well as raising high the flag of tolerance, co-existence, wisdom and rationalization and calling for unity that takes humanity from the darkness of its ignorance and struggles to the light of its sole creator who guides to the correct path."
Addressing the "Muslim and Arab brothers," the King stated, "Of course every soul feels sad and painful about the painful situation and the unknown fate our Muslim and Arab nations are experiencing, a situation that embodies unbearable struggles and slogans carried by enemies and those who wait to see their historical chance to legalize the killing of innocents, terrorize the secure, violate the sanctities citing intellectual terrorism that justified this according to its factual principles and political greediness using all kinds of interpretation and fraud through interpreting the texts of the holy Sharia according to their wishes, demands and objectives." Fortunately, he continued, "We believe that God is going to conquer those who used their grievance as a tool for terrorism and its corruption in an endeavor to demolish the high values of Islam."
King Abdullah noted that people must work to counter those intent on violence and sedition. "Amid such great challenges which face our Islamic and Arab nation, in particular, and the world at large, in general, we are seriously required more than any time before to stand stiff before terror thought by activating the international center for combating terrorism through hiring anti-terror experts and specialists in this facility so that experiences and information could be exchanged at a speedy rate to either evade or cope with the incident in the beginning."
The King noted that Saudi Arabia initiated the creation of the United Nations Counterterrorism Center during a conference in Riyadh in February 2005, donating $10 million to the undertaking. However, he insisted, more must be done to empower this important institution. "In this context, I announce the donation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of $100 million to support this Center and work for its activation under the umbrella of the United Nations, calling on all other nations to take part in support of this Center to get rid of the forces of grudges, extremism and criminality, as this is the inevitable duty for whoever sees that terrorism is a demolishing tool that aims at threatening world security and peace."


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Animal-Free Circuses
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages—are you ready for the latest show on Earth? Then step right up and treat your family, your friends, or just yourself (and your camera!) to a circus that features only willing human performers!
Animal-free circuses have all the thrills, chills, and fun that you expect from the big top—but none of the cruelty to animals. Prepare to be dazzled. Unlike depressed elephants and tigers who are forced to perform through beatings and shocks, talented human tightrope walkers, trapeze artists, jugglers, clowns, contortionists, acrobats, fire-eaters, musicians, dancers, and more put on a show for the love of performing.
There is an animal-free circus to suit every taste, from old-fashioned big tops to mini-shows in neighborhood parks to thoroughly modern productions in large venues.
Cirque Éloize, which is based in Québec, weaves traditional circus thrills—including awe-inspiring aerialists, precision juggling, and graceful acrobatics—into narratives, creating a dramatic, sophisticated blend of theater and circus.
Lazer Vaudeville dazzles audiences with high-tech black lights, lasers, and magic.
San Francisco's off-the-wall Circus Finelli—a "circus gone awry," in which four unruly female clowns court disaster—has audiences roaring with laughter.
For those seeking a more traditional circus experience, New Mexico's Circus Luminous features a flying trapeze, elaborate choreography, and a turn-of-the-century look.
These are just a handful of the dozens of animal-free circuses, most of which perform both at permanent venues in their home cities and on tour in locations around the globe. Check the circuses' Web sites to find out when and where you can catch a show. Click here for our full list of animal-friendly circuses.
In addition to being animal-friendly, many of these circuses are also community-friendly, putting on free shows in low-income areas, performing at fundraisers for charities, and offering circus camps for underprivileged children. In fact, the Russian American Kids Circus and the Circus of the Kids consist entirely of extremely talented kids!
The smashing success of these animal-free circuses proves that circuses don't need to use animals to wow crowds or make money. When you buy a ticket to one of these modern, humans-only productions, you're sending the message that cruel, outdated animal acts don't sell. So what are you waiting for? Why not treat yourself to an unforgettable show that everyone can enjoy!
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Circuses around the world should all become animal free, animals have just the same rights as us humans!
In Brazil, it is against the law to keep animals in circus. Yesterday (17/10/2013), a group of pro-animal activists invaded a laboratory and freed 178 Beagles from the place. They were protesting outside all afternoon and the bosses didn;t talk to them to make a deal and free the animails, so they had no choice. 😀
I am very surprised why governments don't introduce rules to stop that cruelty. Actually, governments do nothing to stop it. People talk about "RIGHTS" so much and animals are still tortured in this horrible way.
People probably don't know how animals are treated in the circuses. Children MUST know about it. And it seems to me that animal trainers really enjoy animal torturing. It gives them big pleasure.
Stop these unhumane behavior
This is ridiculous and needs too stop!! I would do whatever it took to do so! How can I help?
Cirque Firmin Bouglione (Belgique): comment laisser des cirques en libre circulation où les dompteurs du cirque membres de la direction ne font pas capables d'assumer le bien être des animaux, les mettent en danger mais aussi le public et les riverains: il y a deux ans ont laissé un lion s'échapper à Verviers (les gens du cirque et notamment le presentateur nous insultaient parce que on était sur le parking où se trouvait le cirque Firmin Bouglione et qu'ils ne voulaient pas qu'on filme ou qu'on photographie, … ils nous menaçaient de nous frapper si on restait pas loin de la scène … et toujours dans le même cirque à Mons le 12 février … toujours les mâles scènes de panique avec un lama qui a fuit sa condition … Que font les bourgmestres? Que font les autorités? C'est scandaleux de détenir ces animaux dans ces conditions, de se permettre avec l'argent de se "louer" des numéros clefs en mains comme on louerait une vulgaire automobile … le tout en mentant au public, aux autorités, … Il faut faire stopper ces tortionnaires et gangsters de grands chemins … Ces négriers hors la loi qui ont fuit leur pays d'origine tellement ils y ont et auraient des problèmes (fiscalement, humainement, … administrativement …). … Je suis extrêmement choquée et refuse d'être en tant que jeune maman d'être muette face à ces attitudes qui relèvent non seulement des associations de défense des animaux mais aussi d'Amnesty International !!! Mireille de Weme
I think the circuses that are animal free are a great idea circuses are so cruel to animals they use whips and harmful stuff to their skin and I saw a video where this guy will hit them and tell them to make these poor baby elephants to SCREAM and I couldn't surviv 1 minute into the video
The last time that I was at a zoo in 1962, what I saw what they did to male lion, the keepers had pull out his canines(their reason was cause he could bite people) and he was licking the floor because he had no water to drink and it was at night, right then I said I will never go to another zoo. And I haven't been since. I detest the way the zoos and circus are handling the animals. They are innocent and should be protected andbe free with no cages, bars, whips, or chains.
I haven't had the pleasure of seeing Cirque de Soleil and had no idea that they were an animal free circus! Wonderful!!
Teatro Zinzanni is in Seattle and San Francisco and they don't have animals either. I haven't been, but my parents have and they had an awesome time.
Circuses around the world should all become animal free, animals have just the same rights as us humans!
Boycott circuses using animals. The traines are sadistic,evil cowards, lacking compassion. I hope karma ensures what goes around comes around. Shame on everyone who believe animals are here for our entertainment and financial gain.
The circus need to stop using animals , it is totally unnatural what they make animals do and the abuse the get to that point the most wasted and, I thing circus would be more entertaining just showing what people are able to do w/ there bodies easier to go from place to place .
That's right. God did not intend for us to live this way with the animals. It says right in the bible that his plan was for us to live in harmony with the animals; they were never mean for food, clothing, or entertainment. It is up to us to lead by example and hope that others will follow. If they choose not to, that too will be judged.
please make the circuses animal free. that is the height of cruel and greed to hit them like that. they cant talk. what if the roles were reversed. how would they like being beat the stuffin out of and upon like that. that is just cruel and it hurt me much. i am praying for that to be outlawed. thats just cruel. no more.
i think that this is a really good idea. I am doing a research project about animal rights and this is what we need instead of practicaly killing the animals that are in them
i went to a cirque du soleil show in winter with my family once. it was beautiful and definatley better than any animal circus ive ever been to.
Breaks my heart to think of all those beautiful animals that have been abused and harmed.
My parents ALWAYS refused to take me and my siblings to the cirucs and they were vocal as to why..the cruel way that the animals were at times treated.
I will also refuse to any children I amy have to the circus in case it is a circus that is cruel to animals.
Thank you peta for getting the message out there….and educationg people : )
I love Cirque du Soleil! I've seen Dralion and Alegria live. I have only been to one circus with animals before. I didn't realize, because they didn't really mention them on any of the posters or pamphlets, or when we were buying tickets. They had a group of adorable ponies… But the whole time I was worrying about how they were treated. I didn't even know about Ringling or any of the animals who do get abused by circuses. You shouldn't go to a circus with animals, regardless of they are treated. They still have to live in trailers, and travel around the continent. It isn't fair to them.
Cicuses really need to stop beating the animals.. they wouldn't want someone else to beat them. And then when the animals go crazy, they wonder why!! Even from a young age, i was against animals at circuses.. but now that i see the images and pictures i really see and know how truly bad it is!! Wowww, IT NEEDS TO STOPP
do all the circuses treat there animals bad? like the ringling brothers? cuz i love the animals but unless i no how there treated for sure i dont wanna go i love the circus animals but if they had them were they were treated nice then i wouldnt mind…
Bravo!! Animals need our love and care. Let's educate all humans now and in the future in every way we can to treat ALL of God's creatures on earth with dignity, compassion, understanding and LOVE. We don't need them for nourishment or to entertain us. They enlighten us and show us strength and give our lives meaning. We are animal caretakers, guardians. Let God see us this way!!
I think circuses dont need use animals for theirs shows. the circuses are very very cruel please dont use animals only for enterteiment people


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Tim and Eric got f-ing Josh Groban to sing on their show. They didn't get him to sing a classical piece from one of his acclaimed albums, but instead: cops and robbers, horse and buggy rides, hamburgers and hot dogs.
How do these gentlemen do it? Josh Groban!
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Monday, July 20, 2009
CoverGirl TruShine Lipsticks: Fair Skin Tones
In an hour of insanity, I decided to do lip swatches of every single one of these shades, so in order to not bombard you with too many pictures, I'm breaking my post on the TruShine lipsticks up into three parts: the shades intended for fair skin, medium skin, and deep skin. Remember, though, that there's no rule saying you have to stay within some prescribed color spectrum!
CoverGirl TruShines retail for $5-7 each, depending on the store, and are available at almost all drugstores (though some stores have fewer than the full 24 shades available, unfortunately). I don't notice a scent with these. The wear is about average - I have to reapply after eating, drinking, etc., but not more than once every few hours otherwise - and, as I mentioned, they are exceptionally moisturizing. I think the fact that I was able to do lip swatches of 24 of these in an hour with no irritation is a great testament to A) how gentle the TruShines are on lips, and B) how totally awesome Neutrogena Night Calming makeup remover wipes, which I use for all my swatching endeavors, are. (More on those later - I plan to make a post on all my all-time favorite products at some point, and I assure you they'll make another appearance then!)
Finally, here are your CoverGirl TruShine lipsticks for fair skin tones. Blushberry Shine has become something of a cult favorite in makeup land, and while I do like that shade very much, I think Petal Shine is my favorite from this group:
TruShine Lipstick: Powderpink Shine, Lavender Shine, Coral Shine, Blushberry Shine, Wine Shine, Petal Shine, Fire Shine, Cinnamon Shine
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i used your wine shine swatch on my latest blog post and linked back. let me know if it's not okay! xoxoReplyDelete
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May 30, 2013
Kapstadt ist wunderbar!
Visitors flock from every part of the world to experience Cape Town, and everything it has to offer. And its picturesque beauty also makes for a great backdrop for capturing that visit in photos or on video.
German musical group Büro am Strand were recently in the Mother City, and documented their experience. They also very cleverly filmed a music video while they were here. The track is called Mit Der Welt Zufrieden, which translates as Satisfied with the World. Although the lyrics are in German, anyone who watches the video can get a sense of the carefree, lively and welcoming energy of Cape Town that the band capture so well here. Check it out below:


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When making this decision, consider your current career path, future job markets, timeline, and flexibility. Here are a few questions you need to answer before you select a degree:
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If you plan to stick to your current career path, you simply need to figure out which degree is most in line with your career. Since your military experience can be translated into college credit toward your degree, this option can also help you get your degree faster.
Information is available through many sources including your education service office, VA, and school admissions counselors.
Although factoring future job growth into your degree choice may mean taking more classes, which in turn will increase your time and expense, it is well worth the effort. In fact combining your personal interests with the forecasted job market is a sure way to make the most of your education benefits.
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If the focus of your degree is less important than the timing, consider a degree that allows you to use your military experience (free electives) and credit-by-exams (CLEP). Associate of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees are often the most liberal when it comes to using your military experience and CLEPs.
Some degrees are more flexible than others; for instance, Business Administration degrees are often the fastest and most flexible. In addition, a degree in Business Administration can be as narrow or broadly focused as you like, and nearly every college offers business degree programs.
It is important to select your degree level, but it's not critical. You don't have to have an associate's (lower level) degree before you go after your bachelor's. In fact, in most cases it saves you time and effort to focus on your bachelor's degree first.
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Copperas Cove (October 1, 2012)--Police are investigating a weekend tire-slashing spree at the Casa Apartments at 610 Casa Dr. in Copperas Cove.
Residents woke up Saturday to find a total of 11 slashed tires this weekend.
"It has been pretty quiet the last four months and then I woke up Saturday morning, and my tires were slashed," said resident Elizabeth Waldroup.
"It was a real shock, and it made us all kind of wonder what other stuff could happen."
"This is very upsetting and disappointing," said Elvis Negron, who had all four tires damaged.
"Some people are childish and have no idea what they're doing."
Residents have turned their frustration and disappointment into a way to help one another.
"When tires get slashed, it is money out of other people's pockets," said Rocky Alcorn, who wasn't a victim of the weekend vandalism.
"Just hope it doesn't happen to you and feel bad for who it does happen to," he said.
Several residents are now taking turns keeping an eye on the parking lot at night.
Those with tires still intact are helping those left with damaged tires get around.
According to police reports, the value of the damaged tires totaled about $1,500.
The owner of the complex said it was the first such incident in the five years she's owned the apartments.


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Gasoline prices in Massachusetts remain unchanged from last week, according to AAA Southern New England.
AAA's July 14 survey of prices in Massachusetts found self-serve, regular unleaded averaging $3.67 per gallon. Prices locally are 3 cents higher than a month ago.
The current price is 6 cents more than the national average for self-serve unleaded of $3.61. A year ago at this time, the Massachusetts average price was 5 cents lower at $3.62, according to AAA.
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Under what circumstances would it be appropriate to close a question as "too localised" on MSO? Unlike the other sites, the purpose of meta is to provide support rather than build a QA database, so I don't see how a meta question being localised is a problem.
What is meta?
- Any Stack Exchange user can ask a question
- The community provides support, votes on ideas, and reports bugs
- Your voice helps shape the way Stack Exchange operates
I'd love to have some data related to the close reasons, however it's not available yet. So, subjectively speaking, most of the time on Meta, questions are closed as duplicates (mostly), off-topic, or noise/pointless.
Too Localized is mostly used to clean up questions that are no longer relevant (invoking the "specific moment in time" clause of the close reason) -- see this question.
This is pretty much a housecleaning activity (with the ultimate goal of deletion most of the time). This would apply to posts such as:
Note: localized bug reports (where no one can repro) are the exception to this -- these should be mod-tagged
The first topic that jumps to mind is gay horses.
Other reasons are for questions about specific questions, users and answers on SO, rather than about the rules and policies of the system in general.
It's funny that there's a question in the sidebar claiming the opposite problem, that meta questions are more vulnerable to the effects of time.


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The 32nd Annual Research and Treatment Conference sponsored by the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers will be held at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers in Chicago, Illinois, October 30 through November 2, 2013. This conference will offer symposia, workshop presentations, poster sessions, discussion groups, and advanced clinics relating to issues in both victim and perpetrator research and treatment. All sessions, with the exception of posters, have been approved for Continuing Education credits. Each presentation will provide information and training based on cutting edge research development and clinical application. The format is designed to best facilitate interaction with and learning from some of the most advanced practitioners in the field of sexual abuse. In addition to the three-day Conference schedule, ATSA will offer a selection of intensive half- and/or full-day Pre-Conference Clinics. These Clinics are designed to provide participants with extensive training and skills enhancement. View full conference description and registration information.
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Holy '90s blast-from-the-past mashup, Batman! She's All That star Rachel Leigh Cook joins Saved By The Bell hottie, Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Growing Pains legend, Tracey Gold in a hilarious new Funny or Die video tackling the crimes of the craft world and the black market world of Etsy.com. In the intro to the video, the site is explained as follows: "To many, it's the website that women all over America turn to when their poetry careers don't take off. But beneath it's crafty veneer lies a teaming, unregulated black market and one person rules it all with an iron fist."
In the following video, we learn that Etsy is run by a maniacal queen named Ellie Harper (Rachel Leigh Cook). After Maggie Chester (Tracey Gold) is attacked by the Queen of Etsy, FBI Agent Michael Peck (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) investigates. Harper is one woman that you don't want to mess with. If you've seen Savages, she's essentially Elena, which was Salma Hayek's character (minus the accent and the drugs).
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I would really like to know whether the following famous conjecture has been solved. I've read in a few places that it has been solved, but I have been unable to find a reference. I do know that there was once a very credible proof which was believed for a while and then turned out to be false. The statement is:
If $f:\mathbb H/\Gamma(N)\to\mathbb R$ is of moderate growth in the cusps and satisfies $\Delta f+\frac 14f=0$, then the Hecke eigenvalues $\lambda_p(f)$ are algebraic.
There is of course a much stronger conjecture (still unsolved) that there is a Galois representation $\rho:\operatorname{Gal}(\bar{\mathbb Q}/\mathbb Q)\to GL(2,\mathbb C)$ such that $\lambda_p(f)=\operatorname{tr}\rho(\operatorname{Fr}_p)$. This would imply the weaker conjecture above.
It was once believed that this stronger conjecture was solved by Blasius and Ramakrishnan (and see a second paper), but their proof relied on a statement (which they could not prove, but which was widely believed to be true) which turned out to be false. I thought at some point, though, that, perhaps because of work of Richard Taylor, that the weaker boxed statement above had been proven later using different methods. I have been unable to locate a reference, though, and many papers actually refer to the claimed proof of B&R.
Is the boxed statement known to be true (and does someone know a good reference for the proof)?


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Goodguys Southwest Nationals - Cruising SeasonWritten by on April 20, 2011
It wasn't too long ago we were telling you about the Goodguys season opener in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Spring Nationals in March was a successful new show for Goodguys and the Southwest Nationals, the final event of the Goodguys season, was every bit as fun.
Arizona is truck country and Arizonans like showing 'em off. As always, the ratio of custom classic trucks to the rods, customs, and other varieties of performance vehicles packing WestWorld of Scottsdale was high. The two dozen trucks we're showing you here are just a small fraction of what spectators saw in person.
The Southwest Nationals also draws a huge number of aftermarket manufacturers—enough to overflow the 100,000-square-foot exhibitor building. If it's older merchandise you're looking for, the swap meet area at the opposite side of the show was where that kind of treasure was buried. And the car corral was the ideal spot for anyone looking for their next project.
The weather in Scottsdale at the end of the year is typically perfect. When we were there, it almost was. The forecasted wet stuff didn't show up until the Sunday afternoon awards ceremony was beginning. It didn't spoil the fun—it just sped it up a little bit.
By the time you read this article, it'll be time to head back to Scottsdale. The Spring Nationals will return to WestWorld March 11 to 13. Technically, that's still winter—but in Arizona, that's cruising season.
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With a '63 Merc grille and that custom-style silver and green paint, it's got to be Steve Szymanski's '63 F-100, from Industrial Chassis in Phoenix. Power comes from a dual turbo 427 with a Tremec TR-3550 trans behind it.Randy Thompson drove more than 800 miles to get his '57 Chevy from Northern California to Scottsdale and left the bugs on the bumper because "that's how you know it's not a trailer queen!"The not-at-all-blinding yellow paint on Mike Caviness' '55 Ford continues on the fuel rail covers of the Corvette LS1 engine hidden underneath the forward tilt hood.It was a pile of parts before Kyle Hart turned this homebuilt '55 Chevy into an award winner. It rides on a TCI chassis. The bright yellow paint is brightened even more by gold pearl clear.That purple paint reminded us of the Plum Crazy color on Dodge Challengers from the muscle car days—so the 392 Hemi under the hood of Lance Hawk's '56 Ford was only a slight surprise.The sun was going down when we got to Dan Boughter's '41 Ford, and the truck was practically glowing. A Chevy 350 powers this one."It's a driver and not a show truck," they told us, but Peggy & Bill Gauger's '39 Chevy got plenty of attention anyway. It's got the original frame and almost all the original sheetmetal, and a non-original GM 5.7L TPI engine.Lou Bradshaw drove all the way from Green Valley, Arizona, to show off his '57 Chevy. As you'd expect, the bed wood is as nice looking as the rest of the truck.
There is a classic car–style to Mike Gripp's '38 Dodge, which he's owned for 30 years. The chrome grille shell and headlights were factory options in 1938. The engine is a later Dodge six-cylinder flathead.GMC borrowed Pontiac's 316 engine to drop into its trucks in 1956. This ink black '56 GMC Suburban pickup is owned by John Olgin, from Gilbert, Arizona.Hard to believe this beauty started out as a real rough piece. Jim Malone built his '40 Ford as a shop truck and as publicity for Wild West Street Rods, in Farmington, New Mexico. The tuck 'n' roll inside is as red as the outside.Who doesn't love Chevy Apaches, especially when they're as eye-catching as Mitch Oler's gold specimen from Phoenix? The 350 Chevy engine is loaded with Edelbrock components and tied to a five-speed.It's been almost four years since Jim Hathaway's much-modified '38 Willys was featured in this magazine. It's still a knockout custom, with a ZZ430 for power and incredible tan leather interior.Lawrence Bray's ZZ4-powered Chevy, also known as POPS 63 (check the license plate), hails from Mesa.Finished just one month before the Southwest Nationals, Emilio Warwick's green and silver '67 Chevy C10, runs a 327. The unusual green is a 2011 Audi color.Spectators who peeked inside Jim Link's well-done '49 Ford F-1 were impressed by the flame-themed custom stitching, and by the red and black late-model bucket seats.
The drive from Lake Havasu City contributed to the 7,000 miles already clocked on Russ & Ruth Johnson's butter yellow '45 Chevy. It gets around courtesy of a 327 and four-speed.Mike Grimes, from Farmington, New Mexico, pulled the emblems off his '51 Chevy, dropped it to the ground, and covered the whole thing in apple red paint with beautiful tan upholstery on the inside.Nature and time are responsible for the distressed-leather-like patina on Sam Castronova's '58 Chevy Apache. A brown and white cowhide seat cover matches the exterior finish. A 6.0 LS engine makes it move.Mike Carpenter's '55 Chevy is another Wild West Street Rods creation, now loaded with a crate 350 and deep tan upholstery.


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Elizabeth Seitz received her Ph.D. in musicology from Boston University in 1995 with a dissertation on Manuel de Falla and the influence of Impressionism in his early works. She has presented many scholarly papers on music on a wide variety of subjects, from Schubert and Bach to Tito Puente and MTV.
Seitz is currently a full-time faculty member at The Boston Conservatory. She is also a frequent lecturer at the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO), The Museum of Fine Arts, Tanglewood and Exploritas. Her first murder mystery, Dissertation Most Deadly, was published in 2004 and she is currently working on the sequel, Murder Most Melodious. Seitz is also working on other writing projects, including a children's book entitled Mervin the Musical Mouse, set at The Boston Conservatory.
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