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What will happen when sound wave hits the metals with very high frequency can it make the electrons to exited state. If it happens then what will be the state of that metal
Your question is very general, so I will give a general answer: Yes, sound waves at very high frequency can excite metals. It's called, "sonic welding," and I've personally seen machines which do it.
The speed of sound in a metal is dictated by the nuclear lattice, and vibrations thereof, which are referred to as phonons. The energy of the highest energy phonons is still at least an order of magnitude below the typical electron energy, but it is possible through electron phonon coupling that a phonon could excite an electron in a narrow region of energies around the Fermi energy.
As for the state of the metal - in this case I've discussed above, the metal is still a metal, and solid.


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Penn State Beaver alumnus James Janicki, of San Mateo, Calif., will be the speaker for Beaver's spring commencement at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 14, in the Student Union Building auditorium. Janicki graduated from Penn State University Park with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1986.
Since 2007, Janicki has been vice president and general manager of clinical diagnostics for Life Technologies Inc., a $3.5 billion company in Carlsbad, Calif. Clinical Diagnostics applies the newest molecular diagnostics (DNA testing) and the latest biomarker and antibody analysis technology to the transplant diagnostics market. The company's products are used by hospitals around the world to determine the best match for patients awaiting donated organs or bone marrow. In addition, the company is working on a new technology to detect early signs of organ rejection in order to allow early medical intervention.
Janicki joined Life Technologies Inc. in 2005 as vice president of global operations, Cell Systems Division. Prior to that, he was head of global operational excellence for Sun Microsystems Inc. (now Oracle). He also worked for GE Lighting Inc., GE Plastics Inc. (now Sabic), Pharmacia and Upjohn Inc. (now Pfizer), and Union Carbide Corporation (now Dow Chemical).
He attended the Strategic Marketing Executive Program at Stanford University in 2007. Janicki is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and has been a registered professional engineer since 1995. He holds a master of business administration degree from Western Michigan University and also studied at Marietta College.
The campus will host a reception in the Brodhead Bistro immediately following commencement ceremonies.
For information about commencement, contact Dee Mooney, staff assistant in the Office of Academic Affairs, at email@example.com or 724-773-3571.

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The worlds most beautiful and nicest you will never meet and it the best friend you will ever have
omg that girl is os nice, she is a chi
av wordbyword 27 mars 2010
gangter, one who is a gangter.
chis is gangter. | That chis is a gangter.
av duckedtapedemon 29 september 2004
A shortened way to call a chinese person, or someone who looks chinese.
A: Hey Chi
B: Hey dude, you okay?
B: Hey dude, you okay?
av younoobgofragurself 8 april 2009
chis can mean whatever you want it to mean really. we enjoy using it to say: spend time together, or make love etc
"ok, ill chis ya later sweets!"
"did you CHIS last night??!!"
"did you CHIS last night??!!"
av chis queen 19 maj 2004
The energy God gives us humans to live and walk around. With lots of practice, your chi can also be felt when emmiting an aura (no, not like the guys in Dragon Ball Z/GT do, but sort of like it).
You have a very weak Chi indeed (yes man, I'm callin you weak and slow).
av Steven 3 mars 2004
Abbreviation of 'Chichester' - a very special cathedral city in West Sussex, England. It has the only cathedral spire in England that can be seen from the sea.
I'm going into Chi today
Summertime in Chi
Summertime in Chi
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I only installed Ubuntu a couple of weeks ago but my friend showed me how to use aircrack.Anyways, he said that i needed to install a special driver for it and while i was trying to install it the instruction told me to uninstal the previous driver but the installation of the new driver didnt work, so now im stuck with no wireless drivers on my netbook.But, when i boot into windows it works fine,any tips? Btw,i'm using an ar2427 wireless adapter on an asus eee pc 1001pq,please reply.
Here are the step-by-step instructions:
What instructions have you followed...? If your friend has removed a kernel module in /lib/modules/.../kernel/drivers/...., a reinstallation of the kernel package as described below suffices.
The wireless drivers are contained in the kernel package, so reinstalling the linux-image-...-generic package (where ... is the kernel version) should be enough. The terminal command for reinstalling the current loaded kernel is:


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Finding Our History: African-American Names
Minting New Names
What's in a Name
African-Americans are not the only ones with a passion for fashioning unusual names. Many Mormons also do it, and quite possibly for the same reason: a desire to create a distinct identity for themselves. Another reason given for the popularity of this naming fashion among Mormons is the small number of surnames found in this particular population.
Name Dropping
Created names are currently very popular for both African-Americans and Mormons, and some people immediately equate the name fashion with these groups. This prejudice may turn you away from this fashion, but it really shouldn't. Newly fashioned names are part of every naming tradition, and you shouldn't shy away from creating one of your own if the idea appeals to you.
Names created by African-Americans began showing up on naming records soon after the Civil War came to an end. Some of the earliest followed a popular naming fashion of the day that added the -inda suffix to names that were commonly in use. Clara, for example, became Clarinda; Flora turned into Florinda; Lucretta or Lucretia into Lucinda. Names given to boys, however, followed the naming patterns favored by whites, with the most popular names continuing to be such old favorites as John, James, George, Henry, Samuel, Charles, Isaac, Robert, and Peter. The practice of creating names became more popular for both sexes in the years following World War II as the civil rights movement began to gain momentum and the African-American community was striving to create its own identity. There still wasn't much good information available on naming styles and fashions from the land of their forefathers, so growing numbers of African-Americans created their own cultural identity by combining popular names with sounds they found pleasing, including:
Suffixes such as -on, -won, -quon, -el, and -ell, which were used to create boys names such as Davon from David and Marquon from Mark. To give these names even a more distinctive twist, the suffix is stressed when pronounced.
- Prefixes including Chan-, Shan-, Ka-, and La-, as well as the suffixes -isha, -el, and -ell, which were used to create such names as Danell, LaTasha, Shandra, and Monisha.
- The prefixes De-, Ja-, Tri-, Ni-, Wa- and Sha-, which were used to create names for both sexes.
Combined names, often taking elements from the names of both parents, and creative spellings are also very much a part of this naming fashion.
A Heritage Reborn
What's in a Name
Legendary boxer Muhammad Ali was one of the first and most famous African-Americans to change his name, dropping Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in 1964 in favor of the name he now bears. The much-publicized name change was made, Ali said, because he felt that his given name was a slave name and he didn't want to be identified by it any longer.
As the civil rights movement continued to build, greater efforts were made to resurrect the cultural history that African-Americans had been deprived of for so long. As this heritage was reconstructed, some African-Americans were inspired to replace the names that had nothing to do with their culture with ones that did.
Traditional African names and names from the Muslim faith—which has played a strong role in Africa for centuries—started appearing with greater frequency on vital statistics records. This name fashion was also spurred on by the civil rights activists who underscored their actions by changing their names, including:
- Malcolm Little, who became Malcolm X and then El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
- Stokely Carmichael, who coined the phrase "black power," eventually changed his name to Kwame Touré. The two names are those of African-American leaders who had a great influence on his life: Sékou Touré, who served as the first head of state of Guinea when the country became independent, and Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana.
- Louis Eugene Walcott, now known as the Nation of Islam leader, Louis Abdul Farrakhan.
- Activist and writer Hubert Gerold "H. Rap" Brown, who is now known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. His name means "beautiful servant of Allah, the trustworthy one."
More on: Choosing a Name
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Baby Names © 1999 by Sonia Weiss. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
To order this book visit the Idiot's Guide web site or call 1-800-253-6476.


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There are no on-site hotels at Venice Marco Polo Airport but there are a number nearby. The majority of hotels, however, can be found in the city centre. A hotel reservation service is available in Arrivals.
The Courtyard Venice Airport hotel is 900m (1000 yards) from Venice Marco Polo Airport, and runs complimentary shuttles for guests to and from the terminal. The hotel has meeting rooms and a fitness suite. Via Triestina 170 Venice Tessera 30173 Italy Tel: 04 1541 6567. Web: www.marriott.com
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I can understand that on small scales (within an atom/molecule), the other forces are much stronger, but on larger scales, it seems that gravity is a far stronger force; e.g. planets are held to the sun by gravity. So what does it mean to say that "gravity is the weakest of the forces" when in some cases, it seems far stronger?
When we ask "how strong is this force?" what we mean in this context is "How much stuff do I need to get a significant amount of force?" Richard Feynman summarized this the best in comparing the strength of gravity - which is generated by the entire mass of the Earth - versus a relatively tiny amount of electric charge:
Another way to think about it is this: a proton has both charge and mass. If I hold another proton a centimeter away, how strong is the gravitational attraction? It's about $10^{-57}$ newtons. How strong is the electric repulsion? It's about $10^{-24}$ newtons. How much stronger is the electric force than the gravitational? We find that it's $10^{33}$ times stronger, as in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times more powerful!
When we say that gravity is much weaker then the other forces we mean that its coupling constant is much smaller than the coupling constants of other forces.
Think about a coupling constant as a parameter that says how much energy there will be in per "unit of interacting stuff". This is a very rough definition but it will serve our purpose.
If you determine the coupling constants of all different forces, you discover that, in decreasing order, strong, eletromagnetic and weak forces are much, much stronger than gravity.
You need around $10^{32}$ (that is 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) times more "stuff interacting" to get around the same energy scale with gravity if you compare it with the weak force. Moreover, the difference between strong, weak and electromagnetic forces among themselves isn't nearly as extreme as the difference between gravity and the other forces.
Gravity seems stronger because it's always attractive. Of the other 3 interactions:
The Randall-Sundrum model explains it. The other forces are confined to the brane which we consider to be our universe. The brane is embedded in higher dimensional space where some of the dimensions may be compactified, but others could be larger or even infinite (a 5 dimensional anti-de Sitter space in which a (3+1)dim brane is embedded.All particles except the graviton are bound to the brane.) Higher dimensional space is called the bulk. If gravity is not confined to our brane and can penetrate into the bulk, that would explain its weakness. The problem with the extreme difference in strengths of the forces is termed the hierarchy problem (weak force=$10^{32}$grav force). There are other explanations involving supersymmetry.
Gravity is weak because the masses of elementary particles are so small. Gravity has a natural mass unit, $m_p~=~\sqrt{\hbar c/G}$, the Planck mass, which is about $10^{-5}$ g. The proton is $22$ orders of magnitude less massive. So the stuff which makes up the world is elementary particle "styrofoam stuff" which gravity couples to.
This can be seen as well with IIA strings and their S-dual heterotic strings. Those heterotic strings just do not like to stay on our brane, which they have no end points to form Chan-Paton factors or Dirichlet boundary conditions on the brane with. They slip through our brane as if nothing is there. Their S-dual strings are open strings on the brane, but with puny masses --- far less than the Planck mass or the mass corresponding to the string tension.
This is indeed something one has to be careful about, because, after all, gravity scales with the mass of the particles in question, whereas the other forces scale with the electric charge or the magnetic moment. It appears that one compares apples with pears.
However, I believe the declaration that gravity is the "weakest" of the forces stems indeed solely from its irrelevancy on the scale of particle physics.
Gravity is the weakest force as its coupling constant is small in value. Gravity cannot be felt by us in daily life because of the huge universe surrounding us. Electromagnetic force is undoubtedly stronger as it deals with microscopic particles (electrons, protons). Gravity is always attractive in nature. It is a long range force among all other interactions in nature.
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11 Celebrities Who Were Secretly Total Badasses
One of the small comforts of watching a movie is knowing that, yeah, those guys might be idols up on the big screen, but off-camera they're probably just like the rest of us: 30 pounds overweight, living in an abandoned semi-truck cab and selling weed for denture money.
But every now and then, we come across actors whose real lives are even more incredible than their fake ones. Like ...
#11. Harrison Ford
If there's one thing that Han Solo is really good at, besides stupid ear-piercing decisions, it's being America's favorite aging action hero.
The assumption, of course, is that in real life, Harrison Ford is nothing like the smooth operator he plays in movies, especially after we get a gander at that screaming midlife crisis of an ear hole up there. And especiallyer after watching Ford high times it up on Conan a few weeks back. Clearly, the real-life Harrison Ford is one part crotchety fuddy-duddy, two parts on weird old people medicines and three parts in the grave.
Sure you've flown a blimp Harrison Ford.
The Badass:
Ford is the real-world Han Solo, if Han Solo piloted helicopters, worked for free and actually liked helping people.
"Look, Your Worshipfulness, a friend in need is a friend indeed."
Twice Ford has used his helicopter to come to the rescue of real-world hikers in distress, once by saving a woman on top of an Idaho mountain and once by joining a search and rescue mission for a 13-year-old Boy Scout lost in the woods. And out of all the people on the mission, Ford was the one who found the kid. In both cases, he volunteered his helicopter and piloting services free of charge, and also made himself available to the sheriff for future emergencies, undoubtedly prompting lonely middle-aged women all over the American Northwest to suddenly take up the sport of ill-planned hiking trips.
It turns out Ford has been piloting since the 90s, and just about every time he comes near an aircraft, glorious things happen, even the time he crashed his helicopter and then walked away without a scratch. He's personally flown Special Olympics athletes to their competitions, and he oversaw an airlift of volunteers and supplies to Haiti for Operation Smile.
Having Han Solo step out of the rescue chopper that just saved your life is not the most mind blowing helicopter related encounter you can have with Mr. Ford. If you throw a candy wrapper out your window while driving along the Hudson River, it's entirely possible that you will round the bend to find a pissed off Harrison Ford blocking traffic in his helicoptor. See, on top of those nice-guy jobs, Ford straight polices the Hudson River, using his helicopter to catch polluters. Beat that, Luke Groundwalker.
How that helicopter remains airborne while carrying Ford's testicles remains a mystery..
#10. Samuel L. Jackson
Being more pimp than the characters you play is easy when your most famous character is, say, a belligerent office worker. Not so much when you're best known as Jules Winnfield, paid assassin and B.A.M.F. Just the badassery it takes imagining the kind of life that would out-awesome Jules is a feat in itself. Your brain grows a Jherifro and starts threatening your other organs with violence in the effort. So for us to say that the real Samuel L. Jackson is more hardcore than Jules Winnfield, you know we've got to have some big guns to back it up.
Most men look foolish with a wallet like that. Jules just looks honest.
The Badass:
Jackson was a militant member of the Black Power movement. And kind of a terrorist.
When we say "militant," we're not just talking about beret wearing and outstretched fist posing. We're talking about the definition of "militant" that involves weapons and violence. Like many others in the 1960s, Jackson started out on the Jedi/MLK side of the civil rights movement. But after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Jackson switched to the dark side -- the side that decided peaceful integration with whitey was off the table.
In 1969, Samuel Jackson and his angry buddies held members of the Morehouse College Board of Trustees hostage in exchange for changes in the college curriculum and school governance. Apparently, kidnapping people to get what you want is kind of effective, because Morehouse actually did initiate some of the captors' ideas.
You expected them to say "no"?
Jackson and crew were, of course, expelled. But that was OK, because Jackson used his time away from college to go to Black Panther University with Honorary Prime Minister Stokely Carmichael as his professor. And that was when the FBI started investigating Samuel L. Jackson and family, which thoroughly spooked Mr. Jackson, and motivated him to get back on the straight and narrow.
At least until he got addicted to crack, but that's another story for another day.
Specifically, the day corporate approves our "Better Living Through Crack" ad campaign.
#9. Christopher Lee
As the guy who played Dracula, Count Dooku and Saruman, Christopher Lee is undoubtedly the horror movie god of the 20th century. At 6 feet 4, he's fear in human form, yet he's probably old enough to have fathered your grandfather.
And your father.
The Badass:
Christopher Lee was once a member of Britain's Special Operations Executive, aka the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
The group was an A-Team-esque crack commando unit tasked by Winston Churchill himself to "set Europe ablaze." The team included Christopher Lee, Ian Fleming and no freaking joke, the entire James Bond universe. The full extent of Lee's "ungentlemanly" actions remain classified to this day, and perhaps for good reason.
As cool as it must be to have more than 260 films under your belt, a Guinness World Record for Tallest Leading Actor and proficiency in seven languages, not to mention a freaking knighthood, Christopher Lee's greatest real-life accomplishment is probably the metal album featuring himself as his great-great-ancestor Charlemagne ... which he recorded at age 87.
#8. Kurt Russell
Before making his mark as Snake Plissken and the Big Trouble in Little China guy, Kurt Russell was actually one of the most successful child stars ever. In fact, one Disney executive called Russell the studio's biggest star of the 70s. So, already Kurt has two strikes against his making this list: one, he's known as an action star, which is hard to beat in real life, and two, he was groomed to be a Disney pretty boy.
The Badass:
At the same time Russell was working through his 10 year contract with Disney studios, he was also working on becoming a real-world Chuck Norris. Let's compare Russell's resume with, say, Hannah Montana's.
He played some Minor League Baseball in his youth, where he somehow maintained a .586 batting average before he was retired because of injury.
He holds an unhealthy love of baseball to this day.
He was a race car driver and won six national championships and one world championship "as a kid," which we imagine is enough to register someone as "badass for life" according to any child's criteria.
Oh, and one last thing. His name was the last thing ever uttered by Walt Disney.
It turns out that one of, if not the last thing Disney did before dying in 1966 was scrawl the name "Kurt Russell" (then a child star who had already signed with Disney) on a scrap of paper. We're not sure what that means, other than that Russell clearly murdered Disney with his mind-wizard powers and that Disney tried to tell us.


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Starring: Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Jesse Eisenberg
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Eye in the Sky
Starring: Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman
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A military operation escalates into an international dispute when a young girl inadvertently steps into the kill zone.
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Michael Moore travels around the world exploring different practices and ideas that could help make America a better place.
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Starring: Bill Nighy, Michael Gambon, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Director: Oliver Parker
Languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Latin American, Russian
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Expect some classic caper as an all-star ensemble cast come together to give the much-loved British sitcom a big screen revival.
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Starring: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina Hall
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Calvin's barbershop crew decide to take drastic action to instigate change in their community and keep their kids safe.
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Unlucky in love Martha finally thinks she's found the man of her dreams, until it turns out he's a highly skilled hitman!
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Steam-punk inspired animation following the adventures of April as she embarks on an incredible journey to find her missing parents.
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Inspiring drama based on the life of Brazilian superstar footballer, Pelé.
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Eccentric farmer Swampy enlists the help of his dog Oddball to save a colony of endangered penguins.
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Voices of: Ryan Kwanten, Rufus Sewell, Toni Collette
Director: Deane Taylor
Genre: Animation, Family
Courageous koala Blinky Bill leaves the safety of his hometown and embarks on a perilous quest to find his missing father.
The Wannabe
Starring: Vincent Piazza, Patricia Arquette, Michael Imperioli
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Wannabe criminal Thomas attempts to earn the respect of a ruthless mob by fixing the trial of gangster John Gotti.
Everybody Wants Some
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Sensational comedy from the director of 'Dazed and Confused' following escapades of a group of freshman baseball players.
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When her marriage collapses, Romy decides to leave her old life behind and embark on a voyage of self-discovery across America.
Mothers and Daughters
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When she unexpectedly falls pregnant, photographer Rigby decides to turn her lens inwards and explore motherhood.
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Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Olsen star in this biopic of country and western singer, Hank Williams.
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Starring: Clémence Poésy, David Morrissey, Stephen Campbell Moore
Director: David Farr
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A couple expecting their first baby notice disturbing differences between themselves and their new neighbours.
Jane Wants a Boyfriend
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A Texas Ranger puts her life on the line when she re-opens a fifteen year old missing persons case.


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If I delete an imessage from someone in IOS6, the moment i send them a new text/message, the entire chain of previous messages reappears.
Go to the "Messages" screen where it shows all the contacts you texted and select edit, then delete the entire conversation
There is no way to clear the history at present.
Apple didn't release an interface or tool to purge the messages that are stored on iCloud. You can only control and delete from the local cache of messages once they have been downloaded. Presumably they eventually get discarded, but there is no web interface or way to ask that the actual messages be deleted at the source. Nor is there a way to mark a message as to be deleted across all devices or in the cloud servers. Each deletion just deletes that message from the local cache of the machine doing the delete as opposed to permanently deleting anything.
See these threads for more details on this behavior:
I've confirmed this behavior with direct discussions with Apple Support in the summer of 2014 that deleting a message from one device won't actually delete it anywhere else or from the cloud store for your account.


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Does anyone know of a Hebrew/Arabic online or in print?
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Judeo-Arabic edition: http://www.seforimonline.org/seforimdb/index.php?table_name=seforim_database&function=details&where_field=id&where_value=217
An Arabic edition is available for download (warning: 23 Megabytes) at http://sepehr.mohamadi.name/download/DelalatolHaerin.pdf
This was linked from Arabic Wikipedia: http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86
You mean an edition that has both the original Judeo-Arabic and a Hebrew translation?
I've seen Mosad HaRav Kook's edition of Rambam's Sefer HaMitzvos "mekor v'targum" -- with the Arabic and Hebrew side-by-side. I don't know if they have the Moreh also.
According to Wikipedia, the late R' Yosef Qafih (pronounced Kapach) published an edition of Moreh Nevuchim with the original Arabic and his Hebrew translation; this Qafih edition is probably your best bet, though I can't tell from the description if it has the Arabic too. Here's a different translation, again unclear if it contains the original Arabic.
A quick glance at hebrewbooks.org has only older, European editions.
Good luck!
Another online Arabic version hosted at the National Library in Jerusalem:


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When using a bike on a road in the USA, is it ever legal not to have separate brakes on the front and back wheels?
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Many places have adopted the Uniform Vehicle Code language. It currently states:
12-706. Brake required Every bicycle shall be equipped with a brake or brakes which will enable its driver to stop the bicycle within 25 feet from a speed of 10 miles per hour on dry, level, clean pavement. (FORMER 11-1207(c)).The goal of the UVC is to have consistent laws between states, counties, and municipalities. It doesn't entirely work - often the process of changing the laws is too complicated, so many outdated variations exist.
In 2006, Portland, Oregon saw an interesting challenge a similarly-worded law. A cyclist was cited for failure to have two brakes, even though the fixed gear on their bicycle allowed them to meet the requirements of the statute. (Ridiculously, the previous UVC phrasing that the ORS statute is based on doesn't even require the ability to stop, only the ability to skid.) The judge and ticketing officer's contention was that a brake must be a separate device.
Meeting the UVC phrasing is your best bet for a US-wide policy, but definitely review the local statutes for the places you will be riding if you are concerned.
I don't recall anything in the Ohio Revised Code that requires bikes to have any brakes. I've never seen a single speed bike around here that had anything other than the standard rear coaster brake. While that doesn't prove legality, the shops around here tend to be really picky about all the details (such as not wanting to sell/service bikes without sound making devices back when those were required).
It depends on the state, and some states have bizarre wordings.
For example in Minnesota from https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=169.222
It's kind of hard to tell if this means one or two brakes is required. However, it is enforced that a single front brake is acceptable, yet skidding the front wheel is never a good thing, but not doing so doesn't mean the brake is not capable of safely stopping the bicycle.
The laws may differ from county to county and state to state, but as it stands for California:
By this interpretation, so long as you have a brake that allows you to skid your tires, it is legal for you to ride your bicycle. Some may even argue that riding fixed gear and skidding the rear tire technically makes for a legal brake equivalent.
I do however feel that this law is lacking, as it is near impossible to skid the front tire with a brake on a level, clean pavement, and a disgruntled officer may use it as an excuse to ticket you, even though it holds 80% of the braking power. But that's another tangent...
Although they are very rare, we even occasionally see "fixed gear" bikes with no brakes whatever. The panic-stop routine is either to try pedal-back-pressure or to press the soles of your feet against the tires.....
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Duel to the Death (Kung Fu Story)
(This is a Non - Star Wars. It is a Kung Fu story set during the Qing Dynasty. Those who have seen early Jackie Chan movies, like Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, or Shaw Brothers movies will be familiar with the plot. I use the old HK Kung Fu movies for inspiration, so some things, like how fast someone can learn Kung Fu, may be a bit unrealistic.)
Duel to the Death
Part 1:
It is 1724. China is under the control of the Qing Dynasty. The current ruler of China is the Emperor Yongzheng. He took his throne in 1722 and the next year, he decided to destroy the Shaolin Temple. The Shaolin Temple had given again and again refuge to Ming loyalists who wanted to free China from the rule of the Manchu Barbarians. So, Emperor Yongzheng decided to deal once and for all with the threat of the Shaolin. In 1723, on the 6th day of the first new moon of the lunar calendar, a former Shaolin disciple named Ma Ning-Yee aided Qing forces to launch a sneak attack on the southern Shaolin Temple.
They began the assault by bombarding the largely wooden monastery with a relentless deluge of burning arrows. Between the surprise attack, the fire, and the overwhelming number of Qing soldiers, 110 out of the 128 monks were killed that day. The Great Shaolin Purge took 70 days as Qing forces hunted down the 18 survivors. The surviving monks of Shaolin inflicted massive casualties on their Qing pursuers but, in the end, their numbers were too great. Only six of them survived.
However, despite this destruction, martial arts flourish in China and there are many martial arts schools. One of those is the Li School in Shandong. With 40 students, the Li School is very well known in the area. Master Li is also famous as a very skilled martial artist. Chan Le, the janitor of the school, is less famous. Chan is a young man, just 20 years old, with short hair, ponytail and green eyes. He is tall and strong, but he is not very muscular.
An orphan, he grew up in the Li school. However, he knowns almost nothing about Kung Fu. He just works as a janitor, cleaning the floors of the school. Chan always wanted to learn how to fight, but the closest experience he has of Kung Fu is being the punching bag of the school and being used by Master Li to demonstrate techniques to the students. Chan is living in a small room on the back side of the school. His only friends are a small white cat called "kitty" and his friend Huang, a tall and very muscular man, with long black hair and light beard.
Huang is not faring better than Chan. He works as a waiter in a local tavern, which is a few miles outside the city. He earns very little money and has as his only friend Chan. He knows a bit of martial arts, but he is not very skilled. Huang has now come to Chan's room, to talk with him. The room is small, with a bed and a small wooden table.
"Hey, Chan, today is the festival. Will you come to the festival with me? There will be a lot of fighters who will show their Kung Fu. Also, there will be many girls there, so...you never know, we may find some company today."
Huang says laughing
"So, will you come?"
"Of course I will come! However, I have to clean the school first. Shall we meet in--"
Before Chan can answer, a student of the school, dressed with white clothes, enters Chan's room.
"Hey, idiot, the teacher wants you."
"I am coming."
Chan then turns on Huang.
"Huang, wait here. I will be coming soon."
A few moments later, in Li school's training room
When Chan arrives in the training room, which is huge and crowded, a few moments later, he sees the students of the school, all dressed with white shirt and black trouser, perfoming several exercises. Others do push ups, others punch their fists onto punching bags, others do legwork and practise their kicks and others practise the forms on wooden dummies, which have three arms and one leg that represent an opponent's body in various positions and the lines of force the body can give out. Supervising the students is Master Li. Li is an old man, with long white hair and beard, blue eyes and dressed in black clothes. Despite being old, he is one of the best martial artists in the whole of China. Master Li is furious and his face has turned red with anger.
"Chan, you idiot, what took you so long?!"
"I am sorry Master Li. Next time, I will be coming faster."
"Next time, be faster!"
"I will. I will"
"Good. Now shut up!"
Li then claps and shouts at his students
"Stop training! Stop training!"
. Everyone knows that Master Li will now teach them a new technique, and Chan knows on who this technique will be tested.
"My students. I will teach you the Bai Mai Kai Sek technique. It's an easy one, but very powerful. In order that you will be able to understand it better, I will test it on Chan."
Master Li shouts. Then, calmly, and with a smile in his face, he calls Chan.
"Chan, can you please come here?"
Chan, who was thinking
"I knew it, dammit!!"
while Master Li was talking, replies with a soft voice and a smile in his face.
"I am coming, Master."
And so, Master Li begins his lesson. Once Chan comes close to him, Master Li shouts
"The Bai Mai Kai Sek technique has four moves. It may seem simple, but with practise and speed, it can have a lethal effect."
Chan waits with agony the first move, when Master Li turns on him. Shouting
"This is the first move!"
, Master Li punches with left fist on Chan's nose. Li's fist is powerful and fast, a deadly combination. The power of the fist can be seen by how Chan's nose is bleeding and the fact that Master Li was doing his best to make this fist weak in order to not kill Chan. One can easily understand what would happen if Master Li used this fist with all of his power.
"This is Bai."
Master Li then flying kicks, with his right leg, Chan's stomach, causing Chan to spit blood. The speed, force and agility of Master Li's kick was really impressive.
"This is Mai."
Chan, who had fallen on the ground, gets up only to fall again on the ground when Master Li kicks him on the face with a powerful twisting kick.
"This is Kai."
Master Li then turns his back on Chan.
he shouts.
"Attack me!"
Chan, who is bleeding, tries to reply.
Chan runs towards Master Li, but Li kicks him with a back kick on the face. Chan, spiting blood, with his nose broken and his face painted red with blood, falls on the ground.
"This is Sek. Do you want me to show you the four moves again?"
One of the students, with a smile in his face, shouts
"No, because the idiot will not be able to stand any other kick. Look at him!! He cannot even stand up! Hahahaha!!!"
The entire class laughs at the student's joke about how weak Chan is, until Master Li tells them to stop.
"You should not be joking about Chan. He is the best punching bag in all of Shandong. Hahahahaha."
One of the students, laughing, comes to help Chan to get up, but he refuses saying
"Thanks, but I will not need any help. I can walk on my own."
Chan walks, with great exertion, back to his room, in the back side of the school. Huang, seeing Chan bleeding, knows what happened.
"Chan, you were beaten again?"
Instead of a reply, Chan washes his face with some water.
"Chan, are you alright?"
"I will not come to the festival. I will stay here to clean again the school."
"Go alone. Do not miss the festival for me."
"Hey, Chan, come with me for a walk. If you breathe some clean air, you will be calm and you shall be able to think more logically."
"Ok. I will cone for a walk."
Part 2:
A few minutes later, a few miles outside the city
Chan and Huang are walking on a dirt road, a few miles outside the city. Chan is able to forget about his beating and relax a bit. With his mood fixed, Chan agrees to go with Huang to a tavern, to drink some wine, and then to the festival. But when they reach a small outdoors tavern, they see three students from the school, all dressed with white shirt and black trouser, shouting at an old man sitting on a table and drinking his wine.
The leader of the students is known to Chan. He is Wang Yu, a tall and very, very muscular man, with short black hair, black beard and green eyes. The other two students, Han and Zhoung, are also very muscular. The old man has long grey hair and beard and brown eyes. He is tall, slim and strong, but he is not very muscular.
"You bastard old man!"
Wang shouts.
"Don't you know that this is our table?!"
"How should I know?"
the old man calmly and politely asks.
"I am a newcomer here."
"You bastard!! Get up and bow before us, and we may spare you!"
"Why should I do this?"
Wang, clearly furious, hits his fist on the table and shouts
"Because I say so, and I am a student at the Li school!!!"
"So what?"
"I am going to kill you!!"
Wang kicks away the table and is ready to hit the old man, but Chan gets in front of him.
"Stop this. Find your own table."
"Oh, guys! Look who is coming to the rescue!!"
Wang says laughing.
"The punching bag. Oh, and there is his friend, the other punching bag. Hahaha."
Wang slaps Chan. Chan, angry, decides to fight back and tries to hit Wang with his right fist, but Wang blocks Chan's attack.
"Look guys!! The punching bag wants to be punched!!"
Wang kicks Chan on the face with a powerful twisting kick that causes Chan to spit blood. Huang tries to attack Wang, but he kicks him in the stomach twice and Huang falls on the ground.
"That's enough!"
the old man shouts.
"Guys! Attack him!!"
Han tries to kick the old man's face with his right leg, but the old man grabs his leg with his left hand and punches his right elbow on it, breaking it. Han, shouting in pain, falls on the ground. Zhoung runs towards the old man, but he kicks Zhoung's face twice and he then punches his fists nine times on his stomach. Zhoung, screaming in pain, runs away. Wang understands that he is no match for the old man and decides to do the same. With Wang and his friends running away, the old man turns on Chan and Huang.
"I thank you for your help. My name is Ma. What are your names?"
"I am Chan."
"And I am Huang."
"Good, do you want to drink some wine with me?"
Chan replies.
Chan's room, five hours later
After drinking some wine, Chan, Huang and Ma went to the festival. Once the festival was over, Chan decided to invite Huang and Ma to his room.
, Chan asks,
do you like my room?"
"Well, it is a bit small, but it is ok, I guess."
Ma replies.
As the three men sit and drink some tea, a student enters the room.
"Hey! Chan, you idiot!! Come here. The Master wants you."
"I am coming. Ma and Huang, I will be here soon."
Chan leaves for a few minutes, and Huang and Ma discuss about the festival and the performances of some martial artists. When Chan returns, his face is red with blood and he is bleeding.
"Chan, are you ok?"
Huang asks.
Instead of giving a reply, Chan washes his face with water. Huang, meanwhile, decides to inform Ma about Chan's situation.
"Mr. Ma, it is like this. Chan is the walking punching bag of the Li school."
"Punching bag?"
"Yes. It us unfair, but this is how his Master Li treats him though."
"Chan, if you want, I can learn you how to fight!"
Hearing those words, Chan bows before Ma.
"Please, teach me."
"However, there are some rules. First, never show your Kung Fu to strangers. Second, do not kill anyone unless you are on self defence. Third, never use your skills for aggression. Do you accept those rules?"
"I accept them, teacher."
Huang, laughing, says
"Well, Chan, it seems that today is your lucky day."
Governor's Palace, General's Hwang Jang Le's room
General Hwang Jang Le, Governor of Shandong, is practising his martial arts in his small dark room, which is filled with small candles. Hwang is a tall and muscular old man, with long white hair and beard. He wears the black Manchu uniform that General's wear. Hwang has many scars in his face, sign of the many times he took part in battles, and is blind, but he is a very good Kung Fu fighter, as he has developed his hearing so much that he can locate with ease the position of his opponent. Combined with his lethal 'Fists of Fury' and his 'Dragon Sword', one can understand why he is considered one of the best, if not the best, martial artists in China. Hwang is practising his fists on the candles, when he hears someone knocking the door.
"Come in!"
A Manchu officer, named Yehanar, enters the room. Yehanar, a short young man, wears black clothes that Manchu officials wear.
"Sir, after weeks of torture, the prisoner has spoken. One of the six Shaolin Monks, Ma, has escaped here in Shandong. Emperor Yongzheng would be very pleased if you could find out where this monk is."
"I will. And once I find him, I will kill him!!!!"
Part 3:
Three days later, in the back side of the Li school
Ma has come to the back of the Li school to train Chan is the art of Shaolin Kung Fu. He has brought with his several things, like bamboo sticks and vases.
"Chan, in order to learn Kung Fu, you must suffer."
"I am not afraid, teacher!"
"Good. Do you see this?"
Ma asks pointing a cup.
"It has boiled water in it. Put your hands into the cup."
As Chan puts his hands into the cup, he screams in pain as his hands are burning.
"Teacher!!! I....I...cannot stand it!!!"
"You must suffer in order to learn Kung Fu."
After a few minutes pass, Ma allows Chan to get his burned hands out of the water. He then points the wall of Chan's room.
"Chan, punch your fists, with as much power as possible, on the wall."
"I will...teacher."
Chan punches his fists on the wall again and again, despite of the pain of his hands. However, soon his hands start to bleed and after hitting the wall 100 times, his hands are painted red with blood.
"Teacher, I cannot take it any longer."
"Ok. Stop the exercise and put your fists into this cup."
"No....I cannot stand any more boiled water, teacher."
"It is not boiled water. It is salt. Put your hands in the cup and the rub salt into your wound."
Chan follows Ma's order and screams in pain. Although he has been beaten many times, this is the first time he feels so much pain.
"Chan, my lesson is over. Rest, because tomorrow you will have an even harder day."
Governor's Palace, General's Hwang Jang Le's room
General Hwang trains again in his room, when Yehanar runs towards him.
"What is it?"
"I have managed to locate Ming rebels. They are members of a group called the "Ming Union" and plan to overthrow our Emperor and restore the Ming Dynasty. They are very good fighters and they have been trained by Shaolin Monks."
"Where are they!?"
"They are in the Tiger Village, a few days march from the city."
"Gather 100 men, 80 spearmen and 20 archers, for the attack. I shall wipe out the village from the face of the earth!!"
The next day, in the back side of the Li school
The next day, Chan continues his Kung Fu training under Ma. This time, Ma has brought with him some wooden poles.
Chan replies, with fear over what his master will have him to do.
"Use your fists to break the wooden poles. Punch your fists on the wooden poles again and again and again, until you manage to break them. Even if you bleed, you shall not stop practising."
"Yes, teacher."
Chan punches his fists again and again on the wooden poles, but the only thing he manages to do is to get his hands to hurt and to be bleeding. However, he knows that he must not stop practising. He knows that he
to break those wooden poles. He has to learn Kung Fu, so that he is no longer humiliated. And so, he hits the wooden poles for more than six hours, but in the end, he manages to break them.
"Teacher, I was able to break those wooden poles."
"Yes, but you needed so many hours. So, I will bring you new wooden poles and you shall practise until you either break them with your first attack or all bones in your hands are broken!"
And so Ma brings and other wooden poles. For more than four days, Chan practises day and night. His hands are bleeding, but he does not care. As time passes, his fists become more and more powerful. And so, after four days, Chan manages to break the wooden poles with just one hit.
Tiger Village
Meanwhile, after four days of marching, General Hwang and his small 100 men strong army has reached the Tiger Village. Hwang has his archers to bombard the small village with a relentless deluge of burning arrows. Once the village starts to burn, Hwang leads 80 Spearmen inside, to hunt down all rebels. The Qing soldiers are able to kill most villagers, but three rebels, equiped with axes, resist against the enemy and shout
"Death to the barbarians!! Freedom or death!!"
. They dismember Qing soldiers and sever their limbs, creating a mountain of dead bodies. As more and more of his men are killed, Hwang decides to deal himself with those three rebels. So, he runs towards them and pulls out his legendary 'Dragon Sword'.
"Rebel scums! I will slaughter you with my Dragon Sword!!"
The 'Dragon Sword' is one of the most famous swords in China, and it is considered that it gives great power to the one who holds it. It was created in 221 BC, during the Qin Dynasty, under orders of Qin Shi Huang Di, the first Emperor of a unified China. Hwang found the sword twelve years ago, and he has used it to kill thousands of anti-Qing rebels. The blade of the 'Dragon Sword' is roughly as long as a human forearm, which allows for greater maneuverability when spinning and rotating during close-quarters fighting. It also has a small crossguard to protect the hands of the wielder, which can also be used to block or hook an opponent's weapon. So, using this sword, Hwang is ready to face the rebels.
One of the rebels runs towards Hwang and tries to stab him with his axe, but Hwang, hearing him, is able to cut off his head. An other rebel attacks Hwang with his axe, but Hwang is able to block five times his enemy's attacks with his sword and then he stabs the rebel in the stomach. The third and final rebel hits with his axe Hwang's back, but the axe has no effect on him. Hwang then uses the crossguard of his sword to hook his enemy's axe, which he throws away.
"Why can't you be stabbed?!"
the surprised rebel asks.
"Because I have mastered the 'Iron Armor' technique."
Hwang replies.
"And, I do not even need a sword to kill you. I will finish you off with my Fists of Fury!"
Hwang throws away his sword and punches his right fist on the rebel's stomach. The fist is so strong, that it penetrates into the man's body, and Hwang pulls out his enemy's liver. He then punches his left fist on the rebel's face. The fist is so strong that the rebel's head is cut off and falls on the ground.
"Hahahaha!! Those are my Fists of Fury! Cough, cough."
Suddenly, Hwang starts coughing and falls on the ground. Yehenar runs to help him.
"Sir, are you ok?"
"I am...cough...cough..it..is...just that every time I use my Fists of Fury, I exhaust my energy."
The next day, in the back side of the Li school
Meanwhile, Chan practises his stance with Ma. Chan, in order to have a stable stance, is ordered by Ma to perfom 100 push ups with him in his back. Sweaty and exhausted, after 70 push ups, Chan cannot stand it any more.
"Teacher, I cannot do this any more. At least get off my back."
Ma, who is taking a nap on Chan's back and is smoking with his pipe, replies
"If you want to learn Kung Fu, you have to suffer. Now, shut up and continue with your exercise."
"Continue, lazy dog!!"
And so, Chan continues. When he finishes the push ups, he thinks that he will rest, but his teacher has other plans. He brings some bamboo sticks.
"Chan, it is time to practice the 'Kick of the Dragon'. I will throw bamboo sticks on the air and you will have to break them with a flying kick."
"I will try."
"There is not such thing as trying. You can either do it or not do it!"
Ma throws a bamboo stick in the air and Chan jumps. Chan indeed manages to perform a flying kick, but the kick hits the air instead of the bamboo stick.
"Try again!"
"I will, teacher."
Ma throws an other bamboo stick, but Chan once again fails to hit it. This is repeated again and again for many hours. Chan continues to practise with Ma, even in the darkness of night. During the night, it starts raining, but despite heavy raining, Chan continues his training and soon he is able to break bamboo sticks on the air with his flying kick.
Governor's Palace, General's Hwang Jang Le's room
General Hwang decides, after training in martial arts for three hours, to go to bed and sleep. Usually, Hwang sleeps only a few hours, very late in the night, but this time he wants to sleep early. As he is ready to lie down on his bed, he hears a weird noise. While most people would have not heard this noise, Hwang, being blind, depends on his hearing, and so he has developed his hearing so much that he can hear even the slightest noise and, because of that, he was able to hear the noise.
Suddenly, a masked man, wearing black clothes and a black mask, attacks Hwang with an axe. However, Hwang is able to hear the movements of the attacker and dodges the axe. He then kicks the man's stomach twice and runs away. As Hwang is ready to leave the room, the masked man jumps in front of him and punches his fists on Hwang's face. Hwang spits blood and falls on the ground, but he quickly gets up and kicks three times the assassin on the face.
Hearing the fighting, Yeharan rushes into the room, but as soon as he comes, the assassin kicks him in the face with a powerful kick and he loses his consciousness. Hwang tries to hit the man, but he is able to block all of Hwang's attacks. The man then goes on the offensive, grabbing Hwang from the hair with his left hand and punching his right elbow on his face. Hwang, bleeding, kicks the man on the stomach, forcing him to let him down.
Hwang shouts in pain and anger.
"I am going to use the Fists of Fury!!"
The man tries to kick Hwang, but Hwang blocks his attack and then he punches his right fist on the man's stomach. The fist is so strong, that it penetrates into the man's body, and Hwang pulls out the intestine of the man. Hwang then punches his left fist on the man's genetic organs and breaks them. The man, screaming, dies. Hwang, coughing, falls on the ground.
"Cough, cough....I should use less the Fists of Fury."
The next day, in the back side of the Li school
The day after the assassination attempt, Chan and Ma continue their training. This time, Ma has brought seven wooden poles and puts on top of each one of them a vase.
"Yes, teacher."
"Today you shall learn the 'Tail of the Dragon'. Using the skills you've learned in the past few days, you will break each one of the wooden poles with your fist and then break, while on the air, the vase on top of them using a twisting kick. For each vase that falls on the ground and for each pole that you fail to break with your first hit, you will do 400 push ups with me sitting on top of you!"
Chan begins his training. Thanks to the hard practising of the past days, he is able to break the wooden poles with ease and breaks the vases while on the air with his powerful twisting kicks. He has managed to become from a novice and a punching bag to a skilled fighter with lethal fists and kicks.
Part 4:
The next day, Li School, Chan's room
Huang and Ma have come to Chan's room to talk and drink some wine. However, soon the wine finishes.
"I have an idea!"
Huang says.
"Why don't we all go to the tavern where I work?"
"That's a good idea!"
Chan replies.
"Let's go to the tavern."
As the three men are ready to leave, a student comes in Chan's room.
"Hey, you idiot. The Master wants you."
"Ma and Huang, go to the tavern. I will become coming soon."
A few moments later, in Li school's training room
Once Chan arrives in the training room, which is crowded with students practising, Master Li claps and shouts at his students
"Stop training! Stop training!"
"Students, your fellow student, Wang Yu, will fight against Chan, using the Bai Mai Kai Sek technique."
The Master then turns on Chan.
"Chan, try to defend yourself. Not that you can do much except for sitting like a punching bag, but anyway. Hahahha."
Wang, angry and furious, wants revenge for his humiliation in the tavern. So, he plans to use this exercise to "accidently" kill Chan. Wang begins the battle with Bai. He tries to punch his left fist on Chan's face, but Chan uses his left hand to block Wang's attack and punches his right fist on Wang's face. Wang, spits blood and is pushed back.
After this, Wang tries Mai. He tries to hit Chan with a flying kick, but Chan dodges his enemy's kick. Wang, then, tries Kai. He attacks Chan with a twisting kick, but Chan grabs Wang's leg with his two hands and breaks it using his knee. Wang falls on the ground bleeding. A few seconds later, he tries to get up, but Chan kicks him on the face with a powerful kick. Wang's nose is broken and his face is red with blood.
"That's enough!"
Master Li shouts.
"Chan, come to my room!"
"Yes, Master Li."
Governor's Palace, General's Hwang Jang Le's room
While Chan heads to his master's room, Hwang trains in martial arts. Hwang knows that he was almost killed yesterday and in order to avoid getting again into such a situation, he trains even harder. However, Yeharan interrupts him and brings him news about the Shaolin Monk Ma.
"Sir, I am sorry to interrupt your training, but I want to inform you about the Shaolin Monk Ma."
"What is it? Did you find anything?"
"Some of our spies have told me that they have seen an old man, that meets the description of Ma, visiting many times the Li school during the past few days."
"Yeharan, gather a force of 200 men! We shall destroy the Li school!!"
"But, sir, we do not have enough evidence."
"I do not care if you are wrong. This bastard Li and his school have become too powerful and I always wanted to find an excuse to destroy the Li school. So, even if you are wrong, I do not care, since now I have an excuse to kill Li and destroy his school. Hahaha!"
"Ok, sir. I shall prepare the men."
A few minutes later, Li school, in Master Li's room
Li and Chan come to Li's room. The room is small, as it has only one chair, a wooden table and a small bed. Master Li sits on the chair and talks to Chan with a soft voice.
"You have improved Chan. Good. Maybe, I could accept you as my student."
"I thank you, Master Li."
Chan says with tears in his eyes.
"All those years, you have been kind to me and you have given me shelter. You have been like a father to me. Thank you."
"Chan, all those years, I humiliated you and had you as a punching bag in order to discourage you from learning Kung Fu. The reason of this is you father."
"But, you always said to me that you did not knew who my father was!"
Chan shouts, shocked with his Master's revelation.
"I knew him. He once was my student, one of my best. I learned to him Kung Fu, and he used it to steal, rape and kill."
"No! That can't be! That is not true!!"
"It is. In the end, he got himself and his wife killed. Once I learned this, I decided to find you and grow you up. However, as you grew up, you wanted to learn Kung Fu. I was fearing that Kung Fu would destroy you, like it destroyed your father. So, that's why I humiliated you again and again. I did this, so you could hate Kung Fu. But, now that you have learned Kung Fu from someone else, I cannot continue this anymore. I admit, it was a mistake to do all this to you in the first place. But, now, I hope that I will be able to make up for all those years. I shall accept you as my student."
"Master, you should not feel sorry! I am grateful to you and I will never be able to repay your kindness."
Suddenly, a student runs into the Master Li's room.
"Master....I have news."
"What is it?"
"Hwang, the Qing general, has come to our school and wants to talk to you."
Master Li and Chan run to meet General Hwang in the training room. There, they find him waiting along with two Qing spearmen.
"General Hwang."
Master Li calmly says.
"It is an honor to have you here."
"Shut up, old bastard!!"
Hwang shouts with fury.
"My spies have told me that you have connections with Ming rebels."
"Then your spies are lying! I have always been loyal to the Emperor and I have never got involved into politics! And I shall not accept insults from you!!"
Instead of giving a reply, Hwang kicks Li's face with his right leg. He then grabs Master Li from his beard with his left hand and punches his right fist again and again on Li's face, before Li kicks him on his genetic organs, forcing Hwang to let him down.
"Master Li!"
Chan shouts.
"Go back! I will fight him!"
"No!! Stay back!"
Li tries to kick Hwang, but he dodges all of Li's attacks and then he kicks him twice on the stomach. Seeing his teacher in danger, Wang Yu, despite being injured because of his previous fight with Chan, tries to hit Hwang, but he kicks with a powerful flying kick Wang's lung and then kicks Wang's face with a twisting kick.
Wang, spitting blood and being barely able to speak, says.
"I...I...I have disappointed you..."
After saying those words, Wang dies, while, at the same time, Hwang laughs at how easily he was able to kill one of Li's best students. Li, furious with the death of Wang, kicks three times Hwang's face and he then punches his fists more then thirty times on Hwang's stomach. Hwang, spitting blood, decides to use his Fists of Fury.
"Li! You will have a taste of my Fists of Fury!!"
However, Li is able to dodge both of Hwang's fists. Hwang, coughing and weak, falls on the ground. As Li is ready to attack Hwang, the two Qing spearmen try to stab Li with their spears. While Li is able to dodge the attack of the first spearman, the second is able to stab him with his spear on the stomach, before Li punches a powerful fist on his face, killing him. Seeing his Master injured and bleeding, Chan tuns towards him.
"Master! Are you ok?"
"Chan! Leave!"
"But I cannot leave you here to die!"
"Leave now! It is an order! Go away from the school! Leave in order to stay alive and be able to take revenge for me and my school!"
"I will, Master. I will!!"
As Chan leaves the school, Li kicks the other spearman on the face, killing him. Meanwhile, Hwang has regained his strength and goes on the offensive. He pulls out his 'Dragon Sword' and attacks Li. While Li dodges five times Hwang's attacks, Hwang's sixth attack is a success. His 'Dragon Sword' cuts off the head of Master Li, killing him.
Hwang shouts.
Suddenly, more than 160 Qing spearmen, led by Yeharan, enter the school and start killing Li's students. The few brave and skilled students are able to cause huge casualties on the Qing. With their fists and legs as their only weapons, they fight against spears and swords. They break bones and dismember Qing soldiers. They fight on top of tens of bodies of dead Qing soldiers. But the numbers of the Qing prove to be too much for the few heroes to handle. And so, one after the other, the few heroic men die. The screaming of the dead is heard all over the place. Hwang, after killing all the students, has his archers to shoot flaming arrows at the Li school, which goes up in flames. The largest and most famous Kung Fu school in Shandong is no more.
Part 5:
Chan, after almost half an hour of running, reaches the Tavern where Ma and Huang are. He finds Huang and Ma sitting on a table, drinking wine and eating some rice. Huang, seeing Chan furious and running, understands that something went wrong.
Huang says.
"What has happened?!"
"General Hwang...destroyed the school and killed my Master!!!"
Chan, with fury and anger, shouts.
"They are searching for you, Ma!"
"I knew it."
Ma says, with tears in his eyes.
"I knew it that he would find me. I will leave for the Mount Emei in Sichuan Province. There, I will find refuge in one of the 70 monasteries and I will try to find out if any other Shaolin Monk has survived. As for you two, you better leave this town, and go on your separate way. If you follow me, Hwang will hunt you down and kill you."
Chan replies.
"I will follow you and make sure that you get alive to your destination. Also, I have a score to settle with this Manchu bastard!"
So, a few hours later, Chan, Huang and Ma begin their journey to Mount Emei in Sichuan Province. They only take with them three small bags, which contain a few clothes, and three bamboo sticks, which could be used for self defence. For more than a week, they travel on the dirt road that leads to Sichuan. They travel both day and night, hoping to escape Hwang. But general Hwang is not someone who would allow his enemy to escape.
In the tenth day of their journey, the three heroes can see two men running towards them. Soon, as the two men come close, their identity is revealed. They are general Hwang and Yeharan.
Hwnag laughs.
"I've found you at last!"
"You bastard!!"
Chan shouts.
"I shall take revenge for my Master's death!"
Ma says.
"Attack and kill Yeharan, while me and Chan fight Hwang."
"I shall kill the Qing dog!"
And so an epic duel begins. Ma tries to kick Hwang on the face, but Hwang dodges all of his opponent's kicks and he then punches his fists on Ma's stomach twice, pushing him back. Chan tries to help his teacher by kicking Hwang's back, only to fall on the ground after Hwang kicks him on the face with a back kick.
Meanwhile, Yeharan and Huang fight. Yeharan punches his right elbow on Huang's face, pushing him back. Huang, however, is able to dodge all other attacks of Yehanar and soon he goes on the offensive, kicking Yehanar's genetic organs and hitting with his fists Yehanar's stomach again and again.
At the same time, Ma kicks Hwang's face with a powerful flying kick, while Chan punches his fists on Hwang's stomach. However, Hwang counterattacks by kicking Chan with a twisting kick and then grabing Ma from his beard with his left hand and kicking his face on his right knee. Both Ma and Chan are bleeding.
"Hahaha. Now, I will finish you off both with my Fists of Fury!!!"
Chan shouts.
"Throw me a bag!!"
As Chan talks, he is kicked on the face by Hwang, who then tries to punch his right fist on Chan's stomach, but Chan dodges the fist, and manages to capture the bag thrown to him by Ma. Hwang then tries to hit Chan with his left fist, but Chan uses the bag as a shield, and Hwang's fist punches the bag instead of Chan. Hwang, having exhausted his energy, is coughing and weak. So, Chan and Ma are able to attack him. Ma punches his fist on Hwang's right ear while Chan hits Hwang's left ear. Hwang, with his ears bleeding, cannot hear anything. With his hearing gone, he is totally defenseless. So, Chan kicks with a powerful flying kick Hwang's face. Hwang, screaming in pain, dies. At the same time, Huang punches a very powerful fist on Yehanar's face, killing him.
With their enemies dead, the three heroes continue their journey to Mount Emei, which they reach after four weeks.
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Since you've improved, maybe you'll also follow my suggestion for a beta reader? You still tend to use phrasing that doesn't make sense at first glance, and that detracted from the pleasure of reading. Just a suggestion.
The only negative for the story itself I had with it was the treatment of the main character by his master. It wasn't until later that you had the old man explain why, which helped a bit. However his new master Ma is almost as bad, with even less reason for it. However having once watched a lot of the old Kung Fu movies, I did see you following the 'wimp becomes master' method of such stories.
'To argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason is as futile as to administer medicine to the dead.' Now who said that?
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Since you've improved, maybe you'll also follow my suggestion for a beta reader? You still tend to use phrasing that doesn't make sense at first glance, and that detracted from the pleasure of reading. Just a suggestion.
A friend has agreed to be my beta reader, so I will follow your suggestion for my next story.
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Good toys offer a world of possibilities and encourage the user to engage their sense of imagination. This is a fucking mailbox. It offers three slots in which to place fake pieces of mail over and over and over and over and over.
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RSA and ElGamal can be implemented using the technique of Elliptic curves. I am confused on why the it seems that Elliptic curves are not so popular in cryptographic applications since they provide the same security with smaller key sizes?
It is true that elliptic curves allow the same security with smaller key sizes. However, the size is not the only important aspect. Familiarity of algorithm, ease of implementation, performance, how many independent implementations exist, etc. affect how widely algorithm is implemented.
For Elliptic Curves, like many other technologies one factor slowing down the adoption has been patents. EC2m was previously considered "patent mine field" and there are also some patents on ECP techniques.
Elliptic Curves are still fairly new, and for security levels usually deployed, it is very common that in practice performance of RSA, DSA or DH exceeds ECC of similar security strength.
For larger security levels (around 192-bit or 256-bit security strength, i.e. 384-bit - 521-bit ECC curves), the required DSA/DH primes or RSA modulus grow so large that ECC usually wins in performance.
So, in my experience the reasons for smaller adoption are: difference in complexity, smaller speed on usual key lengths, patent risks, and the fact that there are less implementations than of, say RSA.
I have seen Elliptic Curves getting some attention and deployments and it seems to be growing. The drivers for that (which help with ECC adoption) seem to NIST's transition to higher key lengths (see SP 800-131A) and NSA Suite B. There are very few applications where the difference in key length is significant differentiator.


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I was wondering if (in C++) you can instantiate a class (class foo) then have said class return the already instantiated object. (foo::instance())
In other words, can I have a class return it's-self via it's own methods? I want to be able to create a class (i.e. class foo) early in my program so it is already setup and ready to go. Then, farther down the line, I want to be able to call functions from that class without having to pass that object as an argument to my calling function. Can I do something like so:
EDIT: I just realized this might be a little unclear. I want to be able to have another class call this "self-returning" method so it can use the already instantiated object's methods and members without creating a new object.