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The Visual Studio Documentary: Part One (In celebration of the 2010 Launch)
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Products and Milestones
1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen write a version of Basic for Altair 8080
1982 – IBM releases BASCOM 1.0 (developed by Microsoft)
1983 – Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.35 for MS-DOS release
1984 - Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.36 release
1985 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.0
1986 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.01, 1.02, 2.00
1987 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 2.01, 3.00, 4.00
1987 – Microsoft BASIC 6.0
1988 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.00, 4.00b, 4.50
1989 – Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.0
1990 - Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1
1991 – Microsoft Visual Basic released May 20-Windows World Convention –Atlanta
1992 – Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0
1993 – Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 in Standard and Professional versions
1995 – Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 released, supported the new Windows 95
1997 – Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 – introduction of IntelliSense
1998 – Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 that included Visual Basic 6.0 released (first VS)
2002 – Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.0
2002 – Visual Studio .NET
2003 – Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.1
2003 – Microsoft Visual Studio w/Intellisense
2003 – Visual Studio .NET
2004 – Announce Visual Studios 2005 – Code name Whidbey
2005 – Visual Studio 2005 release w/Extensibility
2005 – Visual Studio Express released
2006 - Expression Tool Set released - devs and designers work together
2006 – Visual Studio Team release – November 30th
2007 – Visual Studio 2008 (code name Orcas) ships November = Video Studio Shell
2010 - Visual Studios (code name Rosario)
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Very nice I liked alot! Keep the rest coming
seriously this documentary easily outclasses alot of stuff thats shown on the discovery channel (probobly with many times the budget)
informative, great pacing, funny.
Excelent work tina+team
"in a couple of weeks"? Be still my beating heart
Yes indeed, and with the comments in the scottGu video, it can't be long at all!!
This is AWESOME! The Channel 9 crew has really been stepping it up lately with the quality of its video content. I thought I was addicted before! You are all doing an amazing job, really loved the hardware labs videos too. Keep up the great work!
Very long time for a greatest product in the world, I like MS' history
One Word: INCREDIBLE!
BEST CHANNEL 9 VIDEO QUALITY, INTERVIEW, TOPIC, STORIES, HUMAN SIDE, etc, EVER.
No audio at my end
I downloaded WMV and there is no audio.
Please ignore my last comment. I was using VLC media player to watch the video.Windows Media Playeer can play video correclty.
No audio for me. Other channel9 videos have audio.
Yes the things i have read point to a VS 2010 update / beta coming out very soon... pobably right after the WIndows 7 launch on the 21st is my guess.
I downloaded the WMV and there is sound. Can you supply more details of what format you're downloading and what player you're playing it in?
Incredible job, Tina. I really enjoyed this and the quality, style, flow, story are all impressive. I think we have a new media format on Channel 9. Looking forward to more documentaries of this caliber.
Thank you,
Brilliant !
Visual Studio since its 6.0 release has been an important piece of software in my life and to see a well-done documentary about it is just brilliant.
High quality stuff, both production and content!
Just using the default IE 8 web browser with silverlight is not playing sound. WMV high in windows media player does have sound.
Brilliant, wow!!! Great video production... and my favorite line "winning and bitching..." I still use VS6 today. I learned pointers with it, and came to love the debugger. For all the complaining we do as a community, thanks for making such a wonderful tool, despite its shortcomings
That was great, thanks!
Great video, can't wait for the next one and the ones after, I like jow you focused on one application from Microsoft, it would be cool if the same could be done for Windows, Office and Xbox.
Great stuff...... I watched this on my TV using Windows 7 PlayTo Feature.
Right on! That's an awesome feature!
I sill have my BASCOM 1.0 manual
And Visual Basic for DOS is missing in the overview...
I've verified that there is an audio track in all file formats. Not sure what the problem could be.
No audio here either!
I played them all as well and have audio. Hmmm, I have no idea what the problem can be.
For those with no sound, can you tell us where you are located geographically? Just send mail to us with this info. ctorre at microsoft dot com
Keep it comming, this is - like the history of MS - a very informative and well put together series.
From a programmer who's been coding in the DOS days thru windows 3.x, down to now - this is very enjoyable to watch.
Thanks very much.
Hmm, wondering why the timeline leaves out the History of C and other programming langauages that eventually led to Visual Studio.
While Basic did basically make Microsoft,. C, C++, 0.Fortran, Foxpro, etc played roles in that timeline.
I think My first programming language package I bought was Quick C. Did get some of the early Microsoft Foxpro, both dos and windows version.
BTW Excellent video looking forward to the full interviews. brings back some fond and not so fond memories.
Scott "Um.. Ah.." Guthrie wrote a mock-up of Visual Studio in a weekend! Never mind Lake Bill; the campus needs a Fountain Scott!
two words: NO AUDIO !
downloaded the wmv and it has audio, but this seems to be pretty common on C9 videos these days.
wow, 20Kb/s download.
I wonder if you've ever considered just uploading the videos to youtube. I've heard they know how to stream video.
...that was my line... you'd love the stuff they edited out of there....
Tim, you had some fantastic one liners and stories. Which is exactly why your interview in full will be airing in two weeks.
El video no tiene sonido, ponganse media pila...
A tina la parto como un queso....
I am unable to hear the sound when this video plays in silverlight. I have the latest silverlight plugin installed. Only the video plays fine.
Update: It seems that only a few silverlight video has got this problem. For eg. I have no problem with this video (http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/matthijs/Scott-Guthrie-Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-40/). Everything is fine with this video.
I am using IE 8.0 to access this video from India.
Really nice! I couldn't help and watched part 2 already, sorry!
I have no audio, either.
I've seen the first part of this Visual Studio history videos and there are interesting things in it, but there is much more to history - people talk there like they act in a sealed vacuum without Java, Unix, Linux, Mac, Google and many other companies and products all influent Microsoft and Visual Studio.
If you make history film, make it on how history was, not how you wanted it to be.
Microsoft was the first one to create developers community? are you kidding me?
Also where does COM disappear? it is, till this very day, one of the most fundamental technologies that all of Microsoft product really on, .NET 4.0 has new features specifically for COM interop.
Thank you,
No audio here either
Awesome video! Great work on the production. I'm looking forward to the full interviews.
Let's see ... 11 interviews, one per week takes us up to right before Christmas. That would be a perfect lead-in to a year-end product launch (not likely, but ...)
Wow! Love that!
Very, very, very slow download ......
Awesome, keep em coming. Scott Gu is the man!
Very nice. Make more.
Is it just me or Alan Cooper is annoying?
Brings back some great memories.
This is the type of inspiration we need during these difficult economic times. Let's make America great again.
nice to see the video
an old and still needed til now
This is an awesome video. Keep it up. I love those history videos about Microsoft
Can you buy these on DVD or something?
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5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness
#2. Learn More While You Sleep
So say you haven't followed that first step up there and choose to continue sleeping like other mere mortals. A very minor change in your schedule can still let you use your sleep patterns to your advantage, by making you smarter.
Holy Shit, How Can I Do It?
No, we're not talking about those scams where they have you put a tape recorder under your pillow and let it teach you Spanish while you're asleep. What scientists have found out is if you need to remember a bunch of information (say, for a big exam), do NOT study right up until time for the exam. Study at least 24 hours before, and sleep on it.
Note: "Sleep on it" is simply an expression. You can sleep in a bed.
They did a study at Harvard that proved this technique works. Participants were separated into three different groups after being shown images that they were told to memorize. One of the groups was tested on the memorization after 20 minutes, the other after 12 hours and the last after 24 hours. You would expect that the ones who were tested just 20 minutes later would do best, but that would, of course, make a really shitty story.
No, the participants who slept on it and had 24 hours for the information to fester in their brain did the best on the test, while those who only had 20 minutes did the worst.
Wasting your time, nerds, go to sleep.
How Does It Work?
Scientists say the ability your brain has to retain information works in three different ways: acquisition, consolidation and recall. While the first and last occur while you're awake, it's the middle-man that is important during sleep.
When you sleep, your brain is constantly processing information that you couldn't have processed with everything going on up there during the day. This works to strengthen your neurological bonds in the brain. Think of it like downloading something on a computer. When you go to download something while your porn is up, it takes longer, right? Close up any applications that are running and you have a smoother, quicker download. Yeah, kind of like that... maybe.
So does this technique work with the "sleep two hours a day" system we mentioned earlier? We're not sure anyone has tried it, but by our calculations such a person would immediately gain mental superpowers, possibly including telekinesis. Somebody in the comments try it and let us know.
#1. Believe Something Happened (That Totally Didn't)
Stop for a moment and recall your fondest childhood memory. Or your worst. In either case, there's a really good chance that it's total bullshit.
Memory is a funny thing. Research has consistently found that our memories from when we were kids are either extremely inaccurate, or didn't happen at all. They are just elaborate constructions of a memory storage system that isn't very good at distinguishing real memories from fake ones.
Are you positive this didn't happen?
So what if we told you that there was a way to do this on purpose? To hack your brain into believing (and "seeing" vividly) a completely made-up event that never actually happened?
Holy Shit! How Do I Do It?
The trick is you need somebody else to do it for you (or to you). But it takes very little effort, and no Total Recall-style brain-hacking machines.
Or torso mutants.
For instance, in a study in 1995 researchers sat down a group of people and mentioned four incidents from their childhood (gathered from family members) and asked subjects how well they remembered them. What they didn't mention was that one of the stories (a tale of them being lost in a specific shopping mall) was utter bullshit.
It didn't matter. Twenty percent came back with sudden memories of the event that, in reality, never happened. The sheer act of asking them if it did, caused them to manufacture the memory, filling in details on the fly.
Remember when Bruce Campbell was President?
Researchers knew they could up that 20 percent figure. In another test, an unsuspecting group of people who had visited Disneyland in the past were placed in a room with a cardboard cutout of Bugs Bunny and/or were shown fake ads for Disneyland featuring Bugs. Afterwards, 40 percent claimed they vividly remembered seeing a guy in a Bugs Bunny costume when they were at Disneyland. They didn't, of course (Bugs isn't a Disney character).
Another study took it a step further, and actually Photoshopped a picture of each subject riding in a hot air balloon. When asked if they recalled this non-event, 50 percent said they did. Other experiments successfully convinced people they had at one time nearly drowned, been hospitalized or been attacked by a wild animal.
How Does It Work?
Your brain kind of plays it fast and loose when it stores memories, and for good reason: Usually the details don't matter. You remember your best friend's phone number but don't remember exactly where and when he told you. You remember that you hate zucchini, but don't remember what day of the week you tried it. Your brain breaks up memories into a stew of general lessons learned and important stuff you'll need later.
The problem is that same process makes it very difficult to distinguish real memories from fake ones since the source of a memory is so often discarded in the stew. A fact you think you read in a newspaper might in reality have been read in a fictional novel, or heard from a friend, or dreamed, or implanted by somebody who's fucking with you.
So not only could somebody do this for you (though it would have to be set up so that you don't know where and when) but it seems like you could run a pretty successful business just implanting happy childhoods for people.
You know, like that time you found out you were adopted, and that your real parents were the Thundercats.
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What is the meaning of the "Yetzer Harah" - יצר הרע? How does it compare to the סטן?
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I saw the following ideas in The Encyclopedia of Talmudic Disputes and Perspectives: R. Yochanan and Resh Lakish by R. Nachman Cohen, which attempts to apply a few "big ideas" which divide R"Y and R"L as the reasons behind their many disagreements:
Resh Lakish holds that the Yetzer Hara is a creation unto itself and enters the human causing him to sin. The source is:
The idea of an outside force causing sin is in line with another statement made by Resh Lakish:
R. Cohen posits that not everyone agrees with the idea of an outside force causing sin, but rather that the "Yetzer Hara" and Yetzer Tov" are manifestations of the human condition. While he brings many chachamim who agree to this (R' Avraham ben haRambam, Rabeinu Bachye and R' Yisrael Salanter), his sole Talmudic source is a Midrash Tanchuma (Breishis 7):
The Midrash continues to blame a persons inability to control his Yetzer hara on his apathy.
R. Cohen makes an assumption that R. Yochanan holds of the latter approach. He applies these different approaches to other differences between R"L and R'Y. For example, R"L held that a wicked person who repents is greater than he was before sinning, because his pure soul reached a higher level through love of G-d (Tanchuma- R"L on Yechezkel 18:27), whereas R"Y held that a soul that sins is no longer pure, but internally damaged and cannot return to its former state even through repentance (based on Breishis Rabba 21:8).
Summary: Some hold that the Yetzer haRa is an external force. Others hold it is a manifestation of the human condition.
אמר ר"ל הוא שטן הוא יצר הרע הוא מלאך המות
The Gemara Bava Basra 16. says that the Satan, the Yetzer Hara, and the Malach Hamaves are all one.
Rav Hirsch explains that it is the temptation toward the physical. As a result of this definition it is not categorically bad (nor is the yetzer tov necessarily good). Only the majority of the time does it lead people to negative/destructive things. However, when it overtook the yetzer tov, that was enough to seal the world's fate for annihilation by flood.


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24 Nov 2008 11:00 AM #1
Session Handling
I had what I thought might be a good idea for session handling and wanted to get a response and see what people thought and how it might be best implemented.
1.) User logs in, this contacts the server, creates a session object on the server, and the server sends back a session ID and timeout-time.
2.) Ext.JS stores the session id and timeout(CookieProvider?). Every time a click on done on the page it checks against the timeout and every time a server call happens it always returns a new timeout time.
Then, you set a threshold time. If it's within that threshold time you pop open a window asking if they want to stay connected and it updates the server/client time. If it's past the time a modal login box asks them to re-login granting them a new session ID and updated session window.
Now, what i'm really asking is what would be the best way to do this? It seems like it would involve an override to the ajax calls and store loading calls (with a param like checkSession: true that will then always look in the return for a sessionTimeout value), and then attaching an event to the click.
Am I way off base or does this sound like a good way of dealing with the Session Handling problem? I'm not entirely new with Ext.JS but knowing the proper way to start on a project should help me get to the end faster.
24 Nov 2008 11:31 AM #2
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Some notes:
1. You could use the Ext.Ajax requestcomplete event to update the timeout (if your server sends a new timeout with every requests).
2. Use Ext.TaskMgr to schedule a timeout task. Remember that javascript timing is not really accurate!
24 Nov 2008 11:44 AM #3
I'm not sure what the normal session timeout time is in your application, but I think it is like 20 minutes on our application. So if the user does not load some page from our server for a time of 20 minutes, the users times out and needs to login again. UNLESS the user has checked for "remember me" which in that case just automagically (the new and popular word for automatically) logs the user in without any login-prompt.
Regardless, you have an interesting idea. My first reaction was to pass the current timeout value (server session timeout value) to the client and have the client register a timeoutevent (setTimeout(...)). This event could mask the entire UI and display a login-dialog when the session has timed out. I mean, we are probably talking about a user who has left the desktop (smoke? lunch? toilet?). His session is timed out and he/she MUST login again.
The way I see it, the user has deliberately chosen not to be "remembered", has left the desktop for several minutes without using the application and a new login is due.
Maybe this answer is "way off" ;-)Webdeveloper from Norway
24 Nov 2008 12:06 PM #4
I handle session timeout like this:
1. User logs into system; session is created. SessionID is stored in cookie; sessionTimeout is stored in JS variable; a 'timeout' is created to log the user out at the sessionTimeout duration.
2. An 'interval' is created to send a "RememberMe" message to the server every minute.
3. All activity (mouse-click or key-stroke) resets the 'timeout.'
4. After no activity for the duration of (sessionTimeout - 30 seconds), a modal dialog is displayed with a 30 second countdown. The user can click the "Keep Working" button or let the application close down.
Notice there is one 'timeout' and one 'interval.'
The interval is used to keep the server's session alive. This is necessary because the application is heavy on data-input. A user could easily spend more than 20 minutes on a single screen without hitting the server. So, it's important to keep the server's session alive. The user would be really ticked off if they just spent 30 minutes on a screen and when they pressed 'Submit,' they found out they had been logged out.
This works well for our applications. The bandwidth savings that ExtJS has given us is much greater than the extra "RememberMe" traffic. However, we are not creating applications with 1000's of concurrent users.
24 Nov 2008 12:10 PM #5
Be careful with how you store the session id on the client. A mistake I commonly see is treating the session id like it is a secure piece of information. It is not. You should protect it as carefully as you would protect the password.
24 Nov 2008 12:25 PM #6
I'm not really up on what all today's common web security practices are.
25 Nov 2008 12:30 AM #7
Obviously, if security is really important and you're afraid of session cookies getting "lost", I'd start off by applying SSL. Encrypted traffic between client and server, and encrypted cookies, will make it more difficult to spoof session cookies. Thats the easiest way to increase security.
I liked harleys approach. I liked it so much that if he'd be willing to share the clientside code, I'd offer my handsWebdeveloper from Norway
25 Nov 2008 8:03 AM #8
I think harley has a good approach for his application but it doesn't really work all that well for mine. One of the applications are expected to eventually roll out to over 1,000 people and then more looking to the future which could end up being multiple thousands of small packets hitting the server every minute.
For right now i've just set it up as Condor suggested (with a few tweaks). At application load I set a default session length of 10 minutes. I then send a request to the server to get the current session ending time minus 15 minutes (these are really long sessions, I can spare 15 minutes at the end to make sure server sync errors don't happen). I have an Ext.TaskMgr that checks every 10 seconds to see if the current time is past the end session time.
At 5 minutes before the user is going to timeout, I give a modal window allowing them to just click to keep their session. If they do I update the end timer, if they don't at the end I hide the modal window and pop-up a new one saying they've been logged out with the only option being going back to the login screen (this is an application that ties into something else, no direct user/pass combination).
It's not exactly optimal but it's how the company I work for makes me do things. Until they aren't paying the bills I have to do things the wrong way .
25 Nov 2008 9:37 AM #9
Don't have time to document the code better...
Here's the class:
var ONESECOND = 1000; var ONEMINUTE = ONESECOND * 60; InactivityMonitor = Ext.extend(Ext.util.Observable, { inactivityTimeout: ONEMINUTE * 3, pollActionParam: "a", pollAction: "StayAlive", pollInterval: ONEMINUTE, pollUrl: "Default.aspx", messageBoxConfig: {}, // allows developers to override the appearance of the messageBox messageBoxCountdown: 30, // how long should the messageBox wait? constructor: function(config) { this.addEvents({timeout: true}); Ext.apply(this, config); InactivityMonitor.superclass.constructor.apply(this, arguments); if (this.inactivityTimeout >= ONEMINUTE) { this.resetTimeout(); this._pollTask = Ext.TaskMgr.start({ run: function () { var params = {}; params[this.pollActionParam] = this.pollAction; Ext.Ajax.request({params: params, url: this.pollUrl}); }, interval: this.pollInterval, scope: this }); var body = Ext.get(document.body); body.on("click", this.resetTimeout, this); body.on("keypress", this.resetTimeout, this); } }, destroy: function() { var body = Ext.get(document.body); body.un("click", this.resetTimeout, this); body.un("keypress", this.resetTimeout, this); Ext.TaskMgr.stop(this._pollTask); this._inactivityTask.cancel(); Ext.TaskMgr.stop(this._countdownTask); }, resetTimeout: function () { if (!this._inactivityTask) { this._inactivityTask = new Ext.util.DelayedTask(this._beginCountdown, this); } this._inactivityTask.delay(this.inactivityTimeout); }, // private stuff _pollTask: null, // task to poll server _countdownTask: null, // ONESECOND interval for updating countdown MessageBox _countdownMessage: null, // countdown MessageBox _inactivityTask: null, // task to start countdown _beginCountdown: function () { var config = Ext.apply({ buttons: {ok: "Keep Working"}, closable: true, fn: function (btn) { Ext.TaskMgr.stop(this._countdownTask); this.resetTimeout(); }, msg: "Your session has been idle for too long. Click the button to keep working.", progress: true, scope: this, title: "Inactivity Warning" }, this.messageBoxConfig); if (!this._countdownMessage) { // only create the MessageBox once this._countdownMessage = Ext.MessageBox.show(config); } var win = this._countdownMessage; if (!win.isVisible()) { win.show(config); } win.updateProgress(0); win.seconds = 0; this._countdownTask = Ext.TaskMgr.start({ run: function () { win.seconds += 1; if (win.seconds > this.messageBoxCountdown) { Ext.TaskMgr.stop(this._countdownTask); this.fireEvent("timeout", this, win); } else { win.updateProgress(win.seconds / this.messageBoxCountdown); } }, scope: this, interval: ONESECOND }); } });
// log the user out after one minute of inactivity // give the user 5 seconds to reconsider new InactivityMonitor({ inactivityTimeout: 60000, // one minute (in milliseconds) messageBoxCountdown: 5, // in seconds listeners: { timeout: function() { window.location = "Logout.aspx"; } }, pollUrl: "Default.aspx" });
25 Nov 2008 10:05 AM #10
Do not reinvent the bicycle.
Use basex to catch HTTP errors.
When session was expired, simply out HTTP 401 Error on server side.P.S. Sorry my english.


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Dr. John Husmann was awarded the prestigious Clarke Award for Teaching Excellence on Saturday during Dakota Wesleyan University's Commencement services.
Husmann, associate professor of history at DWU, joined the faculty in 2004.
"This year's award recipient was described by students as a demanding and challenging instructor who exemplifies sincere interest in helping students understand the complexities of our world," said DWU Provost Dr. Rocky VonEye. "Asking questions, connecting the text to current situations, challenging assumptions – each of these are hallmarks of this professor's teaching."
Husmann, who has served as the adviser to the campus club Oyate Ho Waste, was also described has a professor who has worked to help the campus community understand and appreciate the cultural diversity of the surrounding region.
"Since his arrival over 10 years ago, Dr. John Husmann's leadership of the history program led to growth of the major, explicit inclusion of new requirements for history education teachers, and a commitment to helping every student appreciate how the past informs our future," VonEye said.
Husmann serves as the chairman of the department of history at Dakota Wesleyan University, teaching United States history, South Dakota history, Native American history, American environmental history, British Empire history, and Asian and Latin American history. He has also served on general education and assessment committees at DWU and volunteered at Dakota Discovery Museum and served on its board of directors.
He graduated from Winona State University in 1996 with his Bachelor of Arts degree, and received his Master of Arts degree and Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1998 and 2004.


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What are some important examples of paradoxes in physics which are still currently unresolved?
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In quantum gravity, we have the black hole information paradox. If information is thrown into a black hole past the event horizon and is destroyed at the singularity inside, and the black hole subsequently decays away via Hawking radiation, where does the information go to? If information can't travel faster than light, it can't escape from inside the black hole to outside it. But if information is truly lost, this would lead to violations of unitarity in quantum mechanics, with terrible consequences.
Let me assure you that all paradoxes are false paradoxes if you understand the physics. There are many misunderstandings for naive mortals like us for a period which are called "paradoxes" until resolved. Some familiar examples are
The Vacuum Catastrophe. Quantum theory implies a vacuum or zero-point energy, and the Casimir effect tends to confirm this, but then general relativity tells us this should have a gravitational effect, which we don't observe. This is an unresolved paradox.
I will put in my two cents of the euro. Paradoxes arise when two axiomatic systems are mixed up. Paradoxes are resolved with the meta (often content versus context)concept in general cases.
Famous example: All Cretans are liars, said the Cretan. It is resolved by the meta language level concept, where one level is the Cretan speaking, and the other is the statements coming out of his/her mouth.
One cannot mix, for example, classical thermodynamics and quantum statistical mechanics concepts without a thorough investigation of underpinnings, because both are axiomatic systems valid in certain regions of phase space and one has to be very careful of overlaps in order not to double count, the energy, as an example. ( which happens in climate studies).
I think that this question has been little bit misunderstood. Paradox word came from ancient greek words para (beyond) and doxa (doctrine), so strictly speaking means "beyond the doctrine". Thus in not possible define as paradox something that simply is counterintuitive. Then a paradox is by definition "temporary". Said that, the true physical currents most famous paradoxes are:
Superluminal tunneling.
Quanta may travel faster than light via tunneling. This seems to violate special relativity, could this be counted as a paradox?


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I'm looking to buy a second bike and have found a really nice frame. The bike I cycle at the moment, which fits me perfectly (I am 5'11" (180cm)), has a 55cm top tube. The frame I'm looking at has a 51cm top tube. Is this difference too much?
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There are two lenghts on a bike that are crucial for bike fit:
Some time ago, almost all the bikes had an horizontal top-tube, and due to manufacturing constraints (lugged frames using lugs with fixed angles) they tended to have a certain proportion between frame "height" and "length" in order to fit the average rider with a certain height.
Today we have a widespread adoption of welded frames, sloped top-tubes, mirabolant geometry designs, and we should always consider variations in leg-torso proportion for people with the same height.
That's why I think is safer not to consider the relation between one of length/height of two frames to have a correspondent variation of the other measure. In other words, is perfectly plausible to have two frames with same seat tube lenght and significantly different effective top tube length, and vice versa.
So, to answer your question: Yes, you can ride a frame with a 51cm seat tube lenght, achieving a similar fit, IF the effective top tube length of the frame is similar to the corresponding measure of the former 54cm frame.
EDIT: Unfortunately, since the frame you are looking at is a 51cm top tube, it is unlikely to be a good fit.
(EDIT: I thank Zenbike for editing my question, because I had mistaken top tube for seat tube and didn't even notice. Usually only the seat tube length is informed, and end up being considered as "THE" frame size).
Depends on the bike geometry. I'd say that's a pretty big difference though. I would only vary a few cm in either direction from your ideal frame size. I'm sure you could ride it, but I think you'd feel kind of cramped on it. Different geometry may have an impact on top tube size though. I would hold out for a frame that suits you well and you'll be happy with for years.
Frankly, it's better for the bike to be a bit too small (within reason) than a bit too big. The main question is whether you can get the seat up high enough (without "cheating") to get full leg extension, and whether the "reach" of the bike and the handlebar height are then satisfactory.
Measurements only get you so far -- you need to ride the bike to be sure. (Which is a little hard to do with only a frame, sadly.)
Simply put, yes, a 51cm frame is too small, assuming it uses traditional geometries. Since you state that the top tube is 51cm, you can assume that it uses traditional geometries.
My wife, 5'2" and 118lbs, rides a 51cm top tube.
It's within the range where you can adjust the fit to work with things like longer stems and seatposts and have a comfortable ride, but it will handle differently. You should probably install a fork with longer rake than what you currently have to avoid overlap.


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Having bought R1 for more than a month, I find the documentation absolutely miserable and really needs improvement.
In the camera settings page on your website, there is a decent list of lenses listed, but the settings are mostly empty. Being a manufacturer, I think it is essential to provide a complete set of documentation, not something mostly empty.
There is so much guesswork involved, and nobody is sure what is the correct setting even with common lenses such as Sigma, Nikon, or Canon. There is also no proper explanation on the purpose of tilt and roll too. E.g. what is nadir and zenith? (I had to google for nadir/zenith) How will tilting affect nadir and zenith? Should I keep my camera horizontal, vertical or roll it to 60 deg? What is the output difference between horizontal vs vertical vs roll?
What is lacking is a _complete_ settings table that would look something like this:
Lens make & model; Camera Make; Format (FF/APS); No. of shots; Tilt; Roll; Setting
Each line in the table should cater specific format, instead of lumping it together as found in your documentation "3 shots around (on full frame sensor or APS sensor with 60 deg roll)"? So does the 60 deg roll refer to APS sensor only or both APS and FF?
The R1 is a very well-made product with great finishing, but too bad I had a hard time using it.


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A recent determination that the swinging bridge over South Table Creek in Steinahrt Park is not historic has cleared the way for work to begin on the pedestrian trail through Steinhart Park to Steamwagon Road near Arbor Lodge State Park.
Jill Dolberg, review and compliance coordinator with the Nebraska State Historical Society, said this particular bowstring arch bridge is a Nebraska rarity, but not qualified for historic preservation.
When the bridge was moved to Steinhart Park it was narrowed and its supports were modified.
"It has been changed so much, it's not even structurally sound. It has been basically sliced in half," she said.
Nebraska City announced a $500,000 grant in 2008 to extend the eight-foot concrete pedestrian trail about a mile, but the project was delayed when the bridge was a declared historic in 2011.
Dolberg said the bowstring arch makes a beautiful bridge, but it is a rare construction type because it is difficult to build.
She said the bridge at Steinhart Park was modified when moved to the park is no longer safe for pedestrians.
"It served that purpose for awhile, but, time has taken its toll on the strucuture. I think it is past that part of its lifetime," she said.
The existing half-mile trail starts at the street department offices on Fourth Corso, travels around the pond at Steinhart Park and ends on the south side of the creek.
The next mile-long phase will cross the creek and park, go north on the high school's side of Steinhart Park Road and cross Arbor Avenue west of the high school.
The trail will continue on Arbor Avenue around the state park to Steamwagon Road. Driveway entrances to the high school and parking lots will be reconstructed.
The project is expected to cost $699,000 and construction will begin in fall of 2013 or spring of 2014.
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Is there any evidence to suggest that cycling adversely affects male fertility?
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Most scientific studies on cycling and urogenital problems are written with clinicians in mind, to make them aware of possible symptoms that they will encounter. Often these studies get summarized into review articles. One such article (Leibovitch and Mor, 2005), reviewed 62 relevant studies. They say:
When examined individually, many of these studies have limitations (small number of study subjects, no followup, etc.), but when taken as a whole, they are pretty conclusive that an association exists between cycling and urogenital problems.
The only study that I could find that was population-based, i.e., included men with a range of cycling durations, was Marceau et al., 2001. Their data on 1,709 men come from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study. After controlling for potentially confounding factors ("age, energy expenditure, smoking, depression and chronic illness"), they found that men who cycled more than 3 hours per week were 72% more likely to have erectile disfunction than those who cycled less than 3 hours per week. They are cautious, however (emphasis mine):
The last sentence is key. Granted, there are drawbacks to population-based studies like this. One major problem is that the data are self-reported. Another drawback is they their sample probably does not include elite or high-level sport cyclists, who might have better equipment or better technique.
Does this mean that your experience may vary? Absolutely.
Yes, but only in fairly extreme cases.
According to this article, cyclists who regularly cover more than 186 miles (300km) per week are likely to have fertility problems.
If you're not doing that kind of mileage then I don't think you've got too much to worry about.
I've just found this essay - Great balls of fire and the vicious cycle: A study of the effects of cycling on male fertility
According to this essay there is some evidence that cycling long distances can cause fertility problems in men, however it is far from conclusive. Nerve entrapment, trauma or increased scrotal temperature are potential risks for the male cyclist.


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After watching the film Law Abiding Citizen, I drew some conclusions about the law on bargaining with the convicted person. They are as following. Mark me if I am wrong!
If we can not prove for sure that a convicted is guilty certainly, the prosecutor can bargain with the prisoner to relieve him from the case even before the court gives its verdict!
But this law seems too much impractical. We can easily understand various problems (I don't think I need to write them!) may arise related to this law, as limned in the movie.
So what am I missing? Is there something more to this law which is not correctly depicted in the movie? Maybe the details of the law which is not correctly portraied can make it clear!


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(AP) HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Matt Crafton waited a week to start his championship party.
It ended up being a subdued celebration.
Crafton won the NASCAR Truck Series title even before the green flag dropped Friday night at Homestead-Miami Speedway, but lost the owners' championship to Kyle Busch on a tiebreaker.
"It's kind of aggravating because we wanted the owners' championship as well, but it happens," Crafton said.
With a nearly insurmountable 46-point lead over Ty Dillon, all Crafton needed to do was start the 200-mile finale to secure his first series championship in 13 seasons.
So when his engine fired and he took the track, it became official.
All that was left was the owner's title, which Crafton badly wanted to secure for longtime boss Duke Thorson. But Crafton was involved in a late wreck, damaging the front end of his No. 88 Toyota and forcing the team to sweat out the final few laps.
In the end, Busch won the race _ his fifth of the season while driving a partial schedule _ and the owner's championship. The Sprint Cup regular's No. 51 car won the tiebreaker because it had more wins than Crafton this season.
"It means a lot," Busch said. "Man, this is so much fun to come out and race, for one, to win races, two, and to contend for owner's championships. It's big for us. ... I can't say enough about this team."
Ryan Blaney finished second, followed by Jeb Burton, Brendan Gaughan and Ron Hornaday Jr.
Crafton crossed the finish line 21st, one spot short of a clean sweep.
It was his lowest finish of the year.
Nonetheless, the 37-year-old Crafton become the first driver in the series' 19 years to complete every lap in a season.
Crafton essentially wrapped up the championship last week at Phoenix. He ended up 40 points ahead of second-place Dillon. James Buescher was third, followed by Johnny Sauter and Jeb Burton.
The only real shake-up came in the owners' points.
It also was the only downer in an otherwise solid season for Crafton, who extended his record for the most consecutive starts in the Truck Series to 316.
The title was the first for ThorSport Racing, which is based in Sandusky, Ohio.
"This has been such a blessing," Crafton said. "You don't have to be in North Carolina to do this. We've built this thing as a group. Each and every year we've gotten it better and better. Everyone who works there, I can't thank them enough."
Crafton had just one victory this season _ he won at Kansas in April _ but had a remarkable 19 top-10 finishes in 22 starts.
He was rewarded with a contract extension with ThorSport Racing on Thursday, ensuing he will be drive a 10th season for Thorson.
He spent the early part of Friday's race near the front of the field. But he found himself 17th on the first of three green-white-checkered restarts. Back in the pack, he got caught up in a multi-truck wreck.
Joey Coulter turned into Crafton shortly after the restart, setting off a melee Brennan Newberry shot across the track twice, hitting an inside wall and then the outside wall. Crafton's truck had significant front-end damage.
Another restart ended with another wreck, setting the stage for one final shot.
It wasn't incident free, but officials let the drivers race to the finish.
No one could catch Busch.
He has 21 victories this season in NASCAR's three national series, also winning four times in Cup and 12 in Nationwide. Overall, he has 126 victories _ 28 in Cup, a record 63 in Nationwide and 35 in Truck.
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I'm playing myself with two Avacyn Restored decks from a 6-booster sealed prerelease tournament, and wonder whether a 6/4 creature with trample blocked by a 4/1 creature would still allow damage through.
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Yes, that's what trample does - any damage beyond lethal can be assigned to the player or planeswalker the trampling creature is attacking.
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Combat damage is all dealt simultaneously (in two steps, the first of which is exclusive to creatures which have First Strike or Double Strike) - assuming the attacker and blocker both do not have First strike or Double strike, the four damage from the blocking 4/1 is dealt to the 6/4 trampler at the same time that the 6/4 with Trample deals one to the blocker and five to that creature's controller (assuming there are no other blocking creatures).
Thus, if you are at five or less life, and have a 4/1 without First Strike or Double Strike blocking a 6/4 with Trample, lethal damage will be assigned to you (and dealt, unless it is prevented somehow).
If your 4/1 blocker does have First Strike or Double Strike (and the 6/4 Trample does not), your blocker's combat damage will be dealt in a combat damage step earlier than the 6/4, and if the 6/4 is dealt lethal damage (which it would be, assuming no combat tricks), the 6/4 would be destroyed and would not be present for the second combat damage step, so you would avoid damage altogether.
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It isn't Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell who comes out swinging in his first TV ad of his 2014 re-election campaign. It's his wife, former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, who takes political opponents to task for mocking her ethnicity.
The ad that begins airing across Kentucky on Thursday is the McConnell campaign's response to what he calls a liberal group's "racial slurs" against Chao and to recent TV spots that criticized McConnell for his pro-gun position.
It's an example of how the 71-year-old McConnell, facing a prospective challenge from actress Ashley Judd, is taking no chances even though the general election is more than 18 months away. The early ad buy has caught the attention of Kentucky Democrats, who say McConnell must be worried about his chances.


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The Hoops acquired the former Red Bulls defender in the re-entry draft, while Woodberry came through the club's youth systemFC Dallas has added two more names to its 2013 roster, agreeing terms with defenders Stephen Keel and London Woodberry.
The 29-year-old Keel signed with local club Colorado in 2005, but was largely a reserve in his four seasons with the Rapids. Moving to the now-defunct USL First Division, he featured more prominently with the Portland Timbers, with whom he has a solid two-year stint, earning him another MLS look, this time with the New York Red Bulls. After two seasons as a backup defender, New York declined his option, allowing Dallas to acquire his rights in the expansion draft.
Woodberry, a 21-year-old from McKinney, Texas, was given NSCAA third-team All-American honors for his senior year at the University of Maryland. He is Dallas' ninth homegrown player.


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Last year, Johnson's desire to tackle notable problems led her to Romania. As a human rights intern for Professor Jack Greenberg, she gathered information from nongovernmental organizations about the integration problems and successes experienced by the often-disenfranchised Roma population. "There was not a lot of collected data on the Roma," Johnson explains. "In Romania, whatever nationality you claim for yourself, you can be, so many people deny being Roma once they achieve a certain degree of success. Then that reinforces the notion that Roma are poor and uneducated." Greenberg is currently using Johnson's research in a seminar he's teaching.
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Do you sell your חמץ before פסח?
Why or why not?
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Do you sell your חמץ before פסח?
Why or why not?
This is meant, in part, as a form of a survey, but also as a collection for arguments both for and against.
Please cite your sources.
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R' Shneur Zalman of Liadi writes (Hilchos Mechiras Chametz, appended to his Shulchan Aruch):
Based on all of this, he goes on to explain how the sale should be executed in a way that is valid both halachically and (lehavdil) according to secular law.
I do sell it, simply because my rav says it is an ancient custom and we should keep it, even someone that get rid of all of his hames should have some to sell it so we don't loose the minhag
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The sale of chametz is based off a tosefta where it is clearly a real sale. The fact that the Jew buys it back afterwards doesn't cancel the sale. It became common in Europe for Jews in the whiskey business to sell their chametz before pesach and buy it back after pesach. It was clearly a full sale though, since often the gentile would drink some of it on pesach. One can sell his chametz as long as it is clearly a real sale. The gentile should know what he is buying, agree on a fair price, and be able to eat some of it if he wants to. If the whole sale is just done as ritual thing without actual intent by either party in the acquisition, then it will not work, and one may end up owning chametz over pesach.
Because I don't want to own it or throw it out.
Personal experience.
I have heard, and perhaps someone can find a source, that selling chametz is a kiyum of biur chametz.
Personally, about a month before pesach, we start living on leftover chametz and purim candy. By the time erev pesach rolls around our chametz is minimal, especially since almost all grain byproducts are made from corn because of allergies to gluten. So we just burn it or dump it- though we don't have liquor in the house.
We do make a sale for the possibility of chametz in toiletries, etc. which are not worth the hassle of investigating and the "just in case we missed something" factor.


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My friend's iPhone's sleep/wake button no longer works. Is there any way to turn off the screen besides setting up auto-lock and waiting a few minutes?
It appears that if you go into Settings > General > Accessibility and enable Assistive Touch, a new transparent button appears on your iPhone. This button can be accessed all the time. It is overlayed over anything appearing on your phone. If you tap it, and then tap Device, one of the options is Lock Screen.
Instead of having the icon always be visible, you can go to the Triple-click Home setting under the Accessibility page and choose AssistiveTouch. This way you can easily show or hide the button with a triple-click of the home button!
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It provides a transparent circle icon in which you can do many things, such as locking the screen, snapshots, home button, and much more! It worked great for me (my lock button broke as well).
ps - I never said it was an elegant solution :-) The OP asked "Is there any way" [emphasis added]. This works, I tested it myself.
if your phone is jailbroken, you can download and install activator which allows you to change any other buttons to the lock button. You can also set pressing the home button twice to lock or other finger gestures to lock too. Mine got jammed and I used the volume up button to lock because the assistive button is really painful to use I have to click 3-4 times before locking my phone.
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What is the best strategy when using the Ghost Armor? It is expensive, but is it best to create a "Predator-like" squad that can possibly dominate the game. Due to the fact that the stealth ability shuts down at the end of the turn, I was not sure how effective this armor can be other than spying (spotting) enemies.
The stealth ability doesn't shut down at the end of your turn, but the end of the enemy's turn. This makes it extremely effective in several ways.
This is all in addition to the other stuff armor comes with: the grappling hook (allowing your units to gain high elevation and tactical advantage), improved defense, and extra movement speeds. Overall this is my favorite armor in the game.
One more useful use of Ghost Armor that has been very handy for me is to stabilize fallen soldiers. I always give my support units Ghost Armor so they can cloak, get to exposed fallen units, and stabilize them. Stabilizing and using medkits doesn't end the cloaking. No matter how badly positioned a hurt or fallen unit is, a support unit can safely get to them.
Ghost armour makes room breaches trivial - just Ghost up and move all your troops into the room on one turn and get the aliens in a cross fire. Next turn they will uncloak after the aliens move and you have free shots.
If you ghost through any doors ensure non-cloaked soldiers won't been seen as you open the door
It's very handy for snipers that can't move a shoot in the same turn.
Ghost up your sniper then move to flank.
After the aliens turn your sniper gets to shoot first - or twice if you have Double Tap.
For newly discovered groups it helps to tab through to your sniper first at the start of the turn and let him have the first shot; after the snipers turn the aliens will react and often move into line of fire of other troops. If you let other troops move first they can alert the aliens and they could move out of line of sight of your sniper.


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I don't know much about using threads but I looked into pthreads for php and it seems very interesting and easy, or easier than I thought...
I searched for examples and looked through the documentation but I couldn't find any real-world examples of when it is actually beneficial to use threads, it sure is for long tasks that don't depend on each other like doing many http requests or maybe sending mails.
But what about Writing log entries? Inserts to databases? (like tracking user activity) Fetching from database (can I return data from a thread?)
Will this increase performance or is the overhead of creating threads too much? (although I could use a worker pool too get less overhead, I think... )
Any advice or examples are greatly appreciated!


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I am attempting to install 12.04 on my HP Mini netbook which runs their MI (mobile internet) operating system, based on Ubuntu 8.04. I've downloaded 12.04, inserted a USB stick, and am looking for the Startup Disk Creator but can find no such program. What should I do now?
You should be able to install the Startup Disk Creator in 8.04. Look in Synaptic Package Manager for usb-creator-gtk and usb-creator-common and install them.
Alternatively, you could download and install UNetbootin. See
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Last night while watching The Daily Show, where the first segment was on Gore's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize, I noticed a familiar image used in one of the graphics. Several of the websites we've created (I work at Special Collections at OSU Libraries) feature one or both of Linus Pauling's Nobel medals, and I've either created the images myself or prepared them for the web (I think Eric did the best one we have and I'm using it here). On the show they used an image of a Nobel medal along with Gore for one of the graphics, and I believe the Nobel medal image they used was ours (again).
It's hard to be 100% sure that they used our images, but they're one of the few high-quality Nobel medal images available online and we're also the 3rd result for a Google Image search of 'nobel prize'. None of the other images available really look like ours, and there's a few telltale signs (highlighting on the chin, slight leftward slant of 'Nobel'). And, at least this time around, they didn't use a Peace medal (which is quite different from the others). I wish I had higher quality images to compare, but these are the best I could find.
Here's our image of the medal, followed by screenshots of the two specific episodes (most recent first). See for yourself:
Exhibit A: Linus Pauling's Nobel Chemistry medal (1954) from our website, Linus Pauling and the Nature of the Chemical Bond: A Documentary History.
Exhibit B: The Daily Show, October 10, 2007
Exhibit C: The Daily Show, November 11, 2004
I'm very pleased that one of my favorite shows used something I had a part in. You never know what being highly ranked on Google will get you. Now I just have to get something on The Colbert Report…


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Kids who are involved in the arts are often more self-confident and self-reliant. Art helps kids improve fine-motor skills, follow directions better, and get along with peers. Various studies have shown that kids who are involved with the arts are more likely to excel academically, participate in math and science fairs, and win awards for writing. Here are some great sets that will help your child find his or her inner Picasso. So roll up your sleeves and get ready to have some fun.
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Melissa and Doug easels (www.melissaanddoug.com) come in two sizes. If you have a larger room or space, the Deluxe Standing Wooden Art Easel ($79.99) is ideal. It includes a dry-erase board, chalkboard, locking paper-roll holder, child-safe paper cutter, easy-to-use clips to keep the paper steady, and a good-sized plastic tray for holding supplies. The easel is adjustable, so it can keep growing right along with your child.
If you have less space or want something a bit more portable, try the Tabletop Art Easel ($39.99). Like its standing cousin, this one includes chalk- and dry-erase boards. But it's also magnetic and comes with markers, chalk, and magnets. There are two supplies trays, one of which has cup-sized holes to hold paint or brush-washing water. If your young artist is especially prolific, you can also buy a separate supply and accessory kit ($34.99) that works with either easel or on its own. Comes with poster paint, spill-proof paint cups, brushes, jumbo rainbow chalk, a roll of paper, and more. Ages 3 and up.
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An acclaimed actor and filmmaker, Lichtenstein told those in the audience with similar aspirations (a show of hands revealed there were many) to "hang in there" as the entertainment industry recovers from the recession and adapts to the changing landscape of film distribution.
"Distribution is very much in flux right now," Lichenstein reported, noting that emerging technologies such as video-on-demand mean that less movies are being viewed on the big screen.
Lichtenstein's most recent film, Happy Tears, starring Demi Moore and Parker Posey, premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2009, where it was nominated for a Golden Bear Award—the festival's highest prize. He also wrote, directed, and produced the acclaimed 2007 film Teeth, which "comments on the original male mysoginist myth," he says, "a concept I learned about in a 19th century literature course at Bennington."
Lichtenstein, whose acting credits include Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet and Robert Altman's Streamers, as well as various television shows, fielded questions from moderator Robert Ransick and several audience members before eventually posing a question of his own.
"What are some of your future plans?" he asked.
A few graduating seniors shared intentions of moving to New York City to get a foot in the door as actors or production assistants.
"That's a classic and solid way to get your start," Lichtenstein told them. "But when you get that opportunity, the real key is to find a way to make yourself invaluable."
Other recent "Beyond Bennington" speakers have included artist Fran Bull '60, filmmaker Daniel Grossman '04, and Bennington College Board members Carolyn Heimburger Gannon '67 and Aarti Rana '06.


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6 Animals Humanity Accidentally Made Way Scarier
On any given day, we might get food poisoning from the entire roast chicken we ate for lunch, catch bird flu from the bi-weekly cockfight we attend behind the Circle K, or crash our car while swerving to hit some smug-ass deer, taunting us from the roadside with his arrogant beauty. There are plenty of dangers that can befall humanity by virtue of our own asshole behaviors, but none that hold a candle to these:
#6. Jellyfish
Jellyfish are creepy looking, kind of dangerous, and unlike their fellow marine killer, the shark, they don't even taste that good. Which is why it's kind of a bummer that they're now poised to take over two-thirds of planet Earth.
H.P. Lovecraft wasn't all syphilis and racism.
In 2006 and 2010, huge swarms of jellyfish invaded the beaches of Spain, stinging tens of thousands of swimmers. In some places, these occupying jellyfish appeared in concentrations of up to ten per square meter. These swarms are called "jellyfish blooms," and they're popping up in oceans worldwide like cam chat-room ads on free porn sites. Hawaii and Ireland were similarly swarmed in 2007, Israel and France in 2008, and Tunisia and Italy in 2009.
Don't start screaming now. You'll be hoarse by the end of the article.
Japan has also been attacked by a (greater-than-usual) number of giant tentacle monsters, with the 6-feet-long venomous Nomura jellyfish showing up in increasing numbers in the surrounding waters.
Man-Sized Jellyfish: Nature's way of saying, "fuck right off, divers."
Oh, and did we mention that one of the species exploding in population is the box jellyfish, a variety previously found in the waters off northern Australia? And that many of these things possess 6-8 foot long tentacles covered in venom that can kill a human in three minutes?.
What the hell did we do?
Three things: First, we're dumping massive amounts of agricultural waste into the ocean. The fertilizers present in that waste are designed to increase plant growth, but they'll do their job on algae just fine instead. That algae, in turn, feeds microzooplankton, which, along with a glass of orange juice and an inspirational speech from Tony the Tiger, are a big part of any jellyfish's balanced breakfast.
One day they'll learn to fly, and mankind will reap a just harvest of pain.
Second, the ocean in general has gotten warmer. Whether you want to chalk that up to global warming or angry wizards, the temperature has risen recently, and for unknown reasons that makes jellyfish both reproduce more and swim closer to the beaches. This particularly applies to tropical jellyfish -- you know, like that three-minute-death tentacle kind from earlier? That's what's waiting for you out in those clear blue waters, just humping and murdering up a storm, waiting for your children to swim on out and join the poison-orgy.
It's...less fun than it sounds.
Finally, we ate too much Omega-3. Overfishing has triggered the jellyfish uprising by killing off huge amounts of the tuna, sharks and turtles that usually prey on jellyfish and their eggs. So, on the plus side: Those are some awesomely low triglycerides you've got up in your blood! On the downside: Gelatinous poison monsters from the deep. Hey, you knew staying healthy was going to require some sacrifices. It's just that in this case, those sacrifices happen to be of the human variety.
#5. Cougars
In the hundred years leading up to 1990, there were 53 recorded cougar attacks on humans in North America, only ten of which were fatal. From 1991 to 2004, there were 49 attacks and ten more deaths. That's almost a sevenfold increase in human death. Other mountain lion-related problems, like pet-killing, have also increased, even in heavily-populated city areas which one would hopefully assume are relatively free of giant man-eating cats.
We like nature and all, but trees are probably a better way to combat urban blight than hordes of ravening, killer kitties.
What the hell did we do?
The cougar's status in the species hierarchy has changed significantly over the years. Where once you could get a bounty for killing one, hunting is now strictly controlled, or in the case of California, outlawed altogether. California, coincidentally enough, is also the place that's experienced that sixteen-fold increase in attacks over the last 25 years. We don't want to pass judgment on complicated environmental issues or anything, California, but it's probably safe to assume the increased cougar maulings are not because they disapprove of your state's irresponsible handling of its recent budget issues.
According to some researchers, mankind's cessation of anti-cougar activities has caused the cats to lose their fear of humanity. And really, we shouldn't need researchers to tell us that, if we don't show large predators we pose at least some kind of threat, they're going to learn to think of us as soft, pink, vertical burritos ripe for the snacking.
Try not to look so damn appetizing.
Also not helping: The cougars that do get hunted these days are most likely to be adult males, since their size makes them the most impressive trophies. This leaves their vacated territory open to the equivalent of cougar teenagers, who are most into experimenting with human prey (and maybe the hard drugs too, depending on how sheltered their upbringing was).
Unfortunately, the solution to this problem is far from simple, since "Shoot more cats, and when you do, by god, aim for the kittens!" is not exactly a catchy rallying cry.
#4. Bees
In the last 50 years or so, a new type of bee has come onto the scene: The Africanized or "killer" bee has caused eight confirmed deaths since 1990 in the US, and around 1000 in all of North and South America. Incidents of non-fatal, but certainly very painful attacks have also been on the rise. While the number of "popsicles for owies" have virtually skyrocketed.
Never forget.
Killer bees are more aggressive towards humans, they inflict 10 times as many stings on average, their hives have a larger number of "guard" bees on alert for any perceived threat, and when they do perceive a threat, they'll send out ten thousand or so bees to swarm rather than the usual 100 or so. So, what? Just don't go out uppercutting beehives, no matter how boring the weekend gets, and you'll be fine, right? Nope: The swarms can be triggered by virtually anything, like walking too close to the hive, or even the buzzing of lawnmowers and leafblowers.
Great, now they're angry -and- horny.
And in case you're still not afraid, possibly charmed by their adorable little striped bodies -- like they're all wearing tiny Charlie Brown sweaters -- consider this: They're so bloodthirsty that, if you use the old "jump into water to escape" tactic, they will not leave, but instead simply hover at the surface, waiting for you to come up for air so they can sting your god damn face to death. As a great man once said: "How the hell do they know how to do that? They're fucking animals!" (Yes, Bill Paxton from Aliens does too count as a "great man.")
Where's his parade?
What the hell did we do?
In 1957, a beekeeper in Brazil bred domesticated European honey bees with their distant cousin, the African bee, which had developed in a wilder environment where brutal defense tactics were necessary. When these hybrids inevitably escaped, the Brazilian government actually labeled the beekeeper a "mad scientist" and insinuated that he deliberately released them, presumably so he could take over the world while shouting bee-based puns from atop his black and yellow-striped battle blimp.
Unfortunately, as is often the case, the truth is not nearly as interesting: The guy was just looking for a way to make European bees flourish in a warmer, tropical environment, and got careless. But regardless of motive, the bees escaped, and once released, began to mate with other native bee species. Despite massive efforts to stop them, the killer bee invasion spread up through Central America at a rate of 200 miles per year, and eventually made its way into the southern half of the United States. And they are still moving North because we just plain don't know how to fucking stop them.
Flamethrowers. How many times do we have to tell people?


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Crafts not only are fun for kids, but can be incredibly fun for teens and adults as well.
Whether you're using the crafts for decorations, to entertain at a party, or for simple fun, there is a variety to entice the young and young at heart!
Trick-or-Treat Buckets
What You Need:
- Clear Plastic Bucket (purchase at local craft or dollar store)
- Halloween inspired themed stickers
- String or wire (to make the handle)
How to Put it All Together:
1. Using your Halloween inspired stickers, place them on various places outside of the bucket, in whatever pattern you wish. Make sure you have a variety of stickers to choose from, including pumpkins, witches, black cats, candy, etc.
2. Cut an 8 to 12 inch piece of wire or string, and then attach to both sides of the bucket, to make a nifty handle to carry.
3. On the bottom of the bucket, write the trick-or-treater's name, to ensure he/she doesn't get their treats mixed up with someone else's!
4. Trick-or-Treat!
Shrunken Heads
Craft idea comes from Halloween is Here!
Special Note: This craft takes some prior preparation to ensure they're ready for Halloween. So be sure to read all the instructions to get the best result!
What You Need:
- Apples
- Whole Cloves
- A few grains of rice
- 1/2 C lemon juice
- 2 tsp. salt
How to Put it All Together:
1. Peel a large apple and coat with mixture of lemon juice and 2 teaspoons of salt to prevent browning.
2. With a potato peeler or small knife carve out eye sockets, a nose, mouth and ears.
3. Use whole cloves for eyes and raw rice grains for teeth, or just carve these details using a small potato peeler.
4. Sit apples on a wire rack in a warm, dry place for about two weeks.
5. Shape the faces as they shrink and harden. You can speed the drying process a little by drying in an oven set at the lowest temperature. However, the process will still take several days.
Napkin Ghosts
Craft idea comes from Halloween is Here!
What You Need:
- Paper napkin. You can use a cloth too or an old scrap of material.
- Rubber band
- String or yarn
- Small Styrofoam ball or another napkin crumpled into a ball
- Markers
How to Put it All Together:
1. Lay the napkin out flat.
2. Place the ball or crumpled paper in the middle of the napkin.
3. Take each end of the napkin and fold it up to the middle around the ball. Hold on to each end. With one hand, scrunch the napkin up around the ball and hold it tight. With your other hand, slip a rubber band over the ball to make the ghost's head.
4. Use markers to make a funny or scary face.
5. Take a long piece of string. Tie one end to the ghost's neck, the other end to your favorite hanging place.
Wreath of Leaves
Craft idea comes from Halloween is Here!
Special Note: Parental supervision is recommended for children when using scissors, sharp objects or glue.
What You Need:
- Plain white paper plate
- Black and orange construction paper
- Crayons or markers
- Scissors
- Glue or a glue stick
How to Put it All Together:
1. Cut the center out of a plain paper plate.
2. Cut out a lot of leaves from orange and black construction paper.
3. Glue the leaves all around the rim of the paper plate. It's simple and spooky! And you now have an eerie Halloween wreath for your door!
Hand Goblins
Craft idea comes from Craftown: Crafters Resource Center
What You Need:
- Markers
- Yarn scraps of different bright colors
- 2 old hankies
- Plain fabric scraps or felt, approximately 9" x 12", depending on the size of the hand
- Beads, buttons, and other trim
- Thread
- Glue
How to Put it All Together:
1. Draw or trace a mitt-like on a piece of paper that will fit the hand size of the person who will be using the goblin.
2. Transfer the pattern onto the material you have chosen and cut out two pieces for each puppet you wish to make.
3. Sew all around both pieces; leave the bottom of the mitt open so that a hand may be slipped inside.
4. Use markers, beads, buttons and other trim to make faces. You may also cut shapes from felt to make a witch's hat, bunny ears or any other creative characters you can think of. Glue or sew these pieces on.
4. Slip a hand inside and maneuver the goblin with your fingers as you would a sock puppet. Have fun!
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