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Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, right, and Democratic challenger Tom Barrett participate in a televised debate Thursday, May 31, 2012, in Milwaukee.
MADISON, Wisconsin (CNN) -- Exit polls from the Wisconsin governor's recall election indicate a tight race that's too early to call and may be undecided until the last votes are counted.
Votes were just beginning to trickle in but exit polls showed Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican hero for pushing austerity measures that stripped collective bargaining rights from most public unions, leading Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, his 2010 opponent, by a 52-48 margin.
Public opinion polls leading up to the vote have shown Walker holding a narrowing lead and exit polls suggest the race will be tight, with 35% of those responding identifying themselves as Democrats, 33% saying they're Republicans and 32% saying they're independents.
A state official said on condition of not being identified that turnout appeared to be strong, with reports of some polling places running out of forms for same-day voter registration.
Both Walker and Barrett cast their ballots Tuesday morning in an election expected to hinge on which side does a better job of motivating its supporters to vote.
Exit polls indicated that both sides had succeeded in those efforts, with two key groups voting above 2010 levels -- 23% of those voting said they were 65 or older, voters who tend to be more Republican, and 32% said either they or someone in their household is a union member, who are usually more Democrat.
The vitriolic campaign has included tens of millions of dollars in funding from outside the state, mostly for the Republican governor.
"We can't spike the ball on the 10-yard line," Walker said Monday night in a Green Bay restaurant, within walking distance of the Packers' famed Lambeau Field. "We've got to take it all the way into the end zone."
The race is a rematch of the 2010 governor's contest, won by Walker with more than 52% of the vote. A victory by the first-term governor could give Republicans a major boost in efforts to make Wisconsin a battleground state in the November presidential election.
President Barack Obama easily won the state in 2008, but Walker's unyielding commitment to fiscal austerity in the face of chaotic protests last year made him the poster child for tea party conservatism. If Walker loses, he will be only the third governor in U.S. history ousted by a recall election.
Along with the gubernatorial recall, voters will decide whether Walker's lieutenant governor and four Republican state senators keep their jobs. Just one GOP loss among the four state senators facing recall races would flip control of the chamber back to Democrats, at least until the next election in November.
A former Republican state senator ousted in a Wisconsin recall vote last year said Tuesday that the political wound he suffered was worth it because of the fiscal austerity achieved.
"I lost my job standing for something, and I was standing for the people, fiscal responsibility and the future of this country and the state and its residents," Dan Kapanke said, adding that "the times dictate tough decisions, and we want our elected officials to do the right thing and worry about the future and not just about the next election."
Walker complains that repeated recall efforts over past years are stalling progress and costing the state needed money.
On Tuesday, Barrett said he agrees that voters are tired of recall politics, but he blamed Walker for creating a divisive political environment that inspired the effort to oust him.
"What Gov. Walker doesn't say is he was the one who, these are his words, dropped the bomb and attempted to divide and conquer. So he set out on a strategy to divide this state. He succeeded in dividing the state," Barrett said, adding that the proper course now is to "get rid of the instigator rather than to allow him to continue because I think this state will remain this bitterly divided if he continues in office."
About $64 million has been spent on the race since November, an analysis from the Center for Public Integrity found. That's a state record, shattering the record of $37.4 million spent during the 2010 governor's race.
Walker outraised his opponent by an almost 8-1 ratio, collecting $30.5 million to Barrett's $4 million. Roughly two-thirds of Walker's contributions came from out of state, the Center for Public Integrity reported, while only a quarter of Barrett's funds originated from outside Wisconsin. Barrett said Tuesday that such outside influence is a change for Wisconsin.
"What's happened is, Scott Walker has become the rock star of the far right and has been able to raise literally millions of dollars from out-of-state contributors," Barrett said.
The recall effort was spurred by a Walker-backed law, signed in March 2011, to limit the collective bargaining rights of state worker unions.
During a bitter fight over the law last year, Democratic legislators left the capital to prevent a quorum, and tens of thousands of protesters converged on the State Capitol building in what became an occupation.
After the law was signed, Democrats immediately began a recall effort that led to Tuesday's vote.
Walker has defended his budget actions as necessary for the fiscal health of his state and described his campaign as one of a strong leader who is making the necessary "tough decisions."
The campaign has been fierce, with campaigners complaining of keyed cars, verbal harassment and a general lack of tolerance for differing opinions.
"We have an example of Hatfields and McCoys going on in this state like we have never seen," said Brian Nemoir, a Milwaukee-based Republican strategist. "People are hyper-engaged, as much in support for their own candidate as in disgust for the opponent."
Handmade signs are nearly as prevalent as official ones. Some locals say they have resorted to lowering their voices in public when discussing the recall to avoid setting off arguments with strangers.
The Justice Department on Monday dispatched federal observers to monitor Milwaukee polling places Tuesday to ensure that no voter discrimination takes place.
A litany of Republican stars have campaigned for Walker, including fellow governors Chris Christie of New Jersey, Nikki Haley of South Carolina, Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Bob McDonnell of Virginia, as well as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio from Florida.
Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group built around many of the same principles as the tea party, has pumped more than $10 million into Wisconsin backing Walker's policies.
Barrett, meanwhile, got his own high-powered support from former President Clinton, as well as Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.


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GCC leaders conclude 30th summit
December 15, 2009
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz and other delegation heads held their second closed-door session at the 30th Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Kuwait today. Afterwards, the summit was concluded with the reading of the "Declaration of Kuwait" by Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The final communiqué touched on a broad range of regional issues, involving the security, economic, political, legal, cultural, educational, religious, scientific, and developmental fields.
The GCC leaders reaffirmed their absolute support for the Kingdom's right to defend its land and its people's safety, in the wake of last month's cross-border terrorist attacks emanating from Yemen. A hostile act against the security of any GCC country, they declared, is a threat to the stability of the entire region.
The Declaration welcomed the efforts of GCC states to mitigate the effects of the world financial crisis, expressing confidence in regional economies, which have been strengthened by sound governmental policies.
The GCC's Supreme Council underlined the significance of promoting inter-faith dialogue, as embodied by the initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. However, the communiqué noted, the Council was troubled by the results of a public referendum that banned the construction of minarets in Switzerland, calling it an "unacceptable" approach that discriminates against Islam. The Council called on Switzerland, as well as the international community, to intensify efforts to safeguard religious rights and protect places of worship.
The GCC reviewed practical steps taken in the area of military cooperation, ratifying a defensive strategy that involves upgrading the capabilities of the joint Peninsula Shield, undertaking more joint military projects and sustaining cooperation on the issue of regional arms smuggling.
In the domain of scientific and technological cooperation, the Supreme Council stressed the importance of continuing efforts by GCC states to harness nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

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Many, infact all the books on topology I have come across define open sets in the following way:
"A set $A$ is said to be open if by moving in small amounts in any direction about any point we land up at a point which belongs to the same set."
Is it so that an open set is always a collection of points only? OR does there exist a general definition of open sets, without taking points into consideration?


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I work for the IT department of a big company with lots of applications. Usually my day starts managing custom apps, most of which I barely know, and fixing single problems on them. The problem is: for each problem on a different application the startup time is high and my effectiveness in resolving the problem could be better if I knew better the application itself.
Are there techniques (better if established ones) to understand a big ecosystem of software and learn the most important parts of it both from an IT and operational point of view?
Side quest:
Is there some software which can help me in the process? (eg in the task of discovering, organizing information...)


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I am working on some
bash shell scripting for a local login script and it works fine on Leopard and Snow Leopard but fails on Lion. I was curious if there was a place that listed the differences in
bash on Lion?
Within bash, the command
If your machines are up-to-date, they'll be running the same version. Make sure all the external programs used in the script are up-to-date too: the script may behave differently because one of these programs produces different output.
You can watch what your script is doing more closely by running
Assuming a SnowLeopard or Lion installation that has the latest software updates, the version of Bash is the same.
On SnowLeopard you may have a 32bit compilation in some cases, whereas on Lion it is (by default) 64bit.
The command
(By the way sysadmins are almost never undead, despite the occasional appearance to the contrary. The description was added for dramatic effect, and no offence to sysadmins was intended. I offer my heartfelt apology to any actual undead sysadmins, and their families, and I urge them to grab a shotgun immediately and barricade the bedroom door, double tap to be sure.)


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(This is a reprint of a sermon from 2009. Though Thanksgiving is a couple weeks away, I thought it fitting to have it published again this week.)
In many of our schools today, a politicized version of the first Thanksgiving is taught. The story's intent is to cast the Pilgrims as oppressors and the Native Americans as victims. As usual, the liberal elite of academia feel the need to re-write history where it suits them! In a country where 'there is no absolute truth' and 'all beliefs are equal' is taught at every level of schooling, there is little understanding of the gospel message.
The natural result of preaching the gospel is the conversion of unbelievers. The Holy Spirit gives glory to Jesus and those who are drawn by God the Father are converted! For a professed Christian to say that 'there are many ways to heaven' is to deny the gospel and the core teachings of Jesus Himself! "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me." (John 14:6). If you have not been taught that, if your church denies that, you need to remove yourself from that church and its false teachers!
From Richard Johnson:
So that you can read for yourself what the Pilgrim Fathers believed and what they intended for their new colony, here is the entire text of the Mayflower Compact: "In the name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc. Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620."
One cannot read the Mayflower Compact without understanding the primary purpose of the colony. "For the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian Faith" Could the colonists' intentions be stated any plainer? I believe that it was the faith expressed by these 12 words that enabled the Pilgrims to survive and eventually thrive.
The words of the Mayflower Compact challenge those who would remove all traces of the faith that molded our nation and shaped its laws from our history books, and ban its expression from the public arena. The bold proclamation of faith found in this important document does not fit the narrative of the revisionists that would remove God and faith in God from our history books.
With the rule of law established through the ratification of the Compact, the Pilgrims began their search for a permanent home. Hoping to find a place with a fresh water stream, they found one with four streamsand land already cleared for planting. It was November when they landed at Plymouth. More than half the colonists died during the cold winter months. That anyone survived that first winter was a miracle. Another miracle walked out of the woods and into the lives of the Pilgrims in the spring of 1621. His name was Squanto.
(Richard Johnson is the executive director of Christian Formation Ministries. For information, e-mail email@example.com.)
Now, let us continue with the historical facts:
The Pilgrims reached Plymouth Rock on December 11th, 1620. Their first winter was harsh, bleak and devastating. At the beginning of the following fall, they had lost 46 of the original 102 who sailed on the Mayflower. But there was bounty of harvest in 1621. And the remaining colonists decided to celebrate with a feast - including 91 Indians who had helped the Pilgrims survive their first year in a way of teaching them cooking.
The (abridged!) Story of Squanto
Squanto was a Native American who learned the English language while working as a guide. He was later captured by Spanish slavers. He was freed by monks who bought him out of slavery. "Estas libre! You are free." Squanto looked into the clear eyes of this man of God. Though he knew no Spanish, he understood. Over the next few weeks he pieced it together. Their love for Jesus had prompted these Christian brothers to buy Indian slaves and teach them the Christian faith. As the monks nursed him back to health, Squanto began to love this Jesus, too.
Yet he longed for home. The Indian used his command of English to find a fishing boat headed for London, where he rejoined his explorer friends. Again, Squanto became a guide for explorations of the New World. Years passed. The day finally came when he saw the familiar coastlands of home. Once more he was granted permission to go ashore.
No one greeted Squanto at the beach. He ran to his village. The bark-covered round-houses were empty. Not even a dog barked. Graves outside the village told the story. Samoset, his friend from a neighboring tribe, could bring little comfort. "A white man's sickness struck your people. One week, all dead. Many villages lie silent like Patuxet."
Squanto's emptiness overwhelmed him. Parents, brothers, sisters, forever gone. He wandered the forests for weeks in his grief. Finally he went to live with his friend Samoset. One cold December morning, six months after he returned, Squanto watched the white sails of a ship grow on the stormy horizon. This time he hid as the men came ashore. Their clothes looked different from those worn by sailors and the fancy English officers he had seen on other ships. Broad hats and great black capes shielded them from the biting wind. He could glimpse white caps and long dresses of women aboard the ship anchored in the bay. Often he saw children playing on deck. As green leaves came to clothe barren trees, the settlers began to build houses on the very place where his village had stood. Day after day Squanto watched intently, never seen.
Samoset urged him to meet these settlers. A cry went up as the Indians strode into the settlement. Men grabbed for their muskets. The Native Americans lifted their hands in greeting. "My name is Squanto. This is Samoset. We come in peace." The settlers were astounded. An Indian who spoke clear English? The Pilgrims lowered their muskets and invited the Indians to share their meager food.
The sun had set by the time Samoset got up to leave, but Squanto hesitated. Many of the settlers had already died from disease and winter's bitter cold. There was little food. Yet they weren't giving up. He thought of his old village's battle with death. "You go," Squanto told his friend in their Indian tongue, "I'm staying. This is my home, my village. These will be my new people."
Squanto turned to the leaders. "May I stay with you? I can help you. I know where you can find foods in the forest."
The white men studied the Indian carefully. Could he be trusted? Still, the struggling colony was in no position to refuse help. "Yes. Please stay."
That spring and summer Squanto proved his worth many times over. He led them to brooks alive with herring beginning their spring migration upstream. He showed the settlers how to fish with traps. He taught them where to stalk game in the forest. The children learned what berries they could pick for their families. Twenty acres of corn grew tall after Squanto showed the Pilgrims how to plant fish with the native corn seeds from a local tribe.
Once, a hostile tribe captured Squanto. "If he is killed," shouted their chief, "the English have lost their tongue." A small Pilgrim force arrived just in time, firing their muskets in the air. The terrified chief released his captive and fled. Squanto repaid the Pilgrims' favor. His bargaining skills kept neighboring tribes from attacking the small Plymouth colony.
In the fall the Pilgrims planned a feast to celebrate God's merciful help. Squanto was sent to invite friendly Chief Massasoit and his braves. They gathered around tables spread with venison, roast duck and goose, turkeys, shellfish, bread, and vegetables, with woodland fruits and berries for dessert. Before they ate, the Pilgrim men removed their wide-brimmed hats and Indians stood reverently as the governor led them in solemn prayer.
"Thank You, great God, for the bounty You have supplied to us. Thank You for protecting us in hardship and meeting all our needs. . . ." Towards the end of the long prayer, Squanto was startled to hear his own name. "And thank You for bringing to us the Indian Squanto, your own special instrument to save us from hunger and help us to establish our colony in this new land." Squanto stood proudly. It was a day to remember.
Two years passed. Squanto lay mortally ill, struck by a raging fever while scouting east of Plymouth. He turned over in his mind the events of his strange life. It almost seemed that a plan had led him. The first time he was captured he learned English. The second time, he was freed by gentle Christians who taught him to trust in Jesus. And though his own people had died of sickness, God had sent him to a new people who built their colony where his old village once stood.
Pilgrim leader William Bradford knelt at his bedside. "Pray for me, Governor," the Indian whispered, "that I might go to the Englishmen's God in heaven." Squanto breathed his last November 1622, gone from the New World, but entering a heavenly one.
The feast was more of a traditional English Harvest Festival than a true "Thanksgiving." It lasted three days. Governor William Bradford sent "four men fowling" after wild ducks and geese. It is not certain that wild turkey was part of their feast. However, it is certain that they had venison. The term "turkey" was used by the Pilgrims to mean any sort of wild fowl. However, turkey became the traditional dish of Thanksgiving.
This autumn feast was never repeated, though, so it can't be called the beginning of a tradition, nor was it termed by the colonists or "Pilgrims" a Thanksgiving Feast. In fact, to these devoutly religious people, a day of thanksgiving was a day of prayer and fasting, and would have been held any time that they felt an extra day of thanks was called for. Nevertheless, the 1621 feast has become a model that we think of for our own Thanksgiving celebration. Ours is a great nation under Godand for that most of all, I am thankful. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
("From the Pulpit" is a weekly sermon provided by the clergy members of The Weirton Ministerial Association)


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You can see there two bezier curves that I want to connect together. How can I do that? My current area with the peak consists of many small bezier curves which is totally intolerable because it makes the processing of the picture much harder later.
Joining curves (in Inkscape called "Paths") is really simple:
either "join selected nodes with a straight segment" - which will retain the points, and join them with a segment:
I wanted to expand on Justinas's answer. You cannot join non-endnodes in Inkscape due to the SVG spec. So you cannot create a path that forms a T intersection, although you can simulate it by using Path-Combine or Group.


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West Tisbury Library's Winter Poetry Workshop -My Heart Was Like the Weather-
Every Friday in February from 3:30pm to 5pm West Tisbury Library will be hosting a free poetry workshop for intermediate & advanced writers. Focus will be primarily on critique. Writing prompts will be thrown in on occasion. The workshop will be limited to five participants. Please pre-register at the library or via e-mail email@example.com. West Tisbury location TBA. Refreshments served.
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I have installed xenomai 2.4.8 in Ubuntu 11.04 with this command:
apt-get install libxenomai-dev
Now I want test a simple vxWorks program, but when I compile my program, I receive this message:
Xenomai: vxworksskin or CONFIG_XENO_OPT_PERVASIVE disabled
(modprobe xeno_vxworks?)
...and the output of
modprobe xeno_vxworks is:
FATAL: Module xeno_vxworks not found
My question is, how can I eanble the xeno_vxworks module?
I am new to Xenomai so please forgive me if my question is silly.


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Saturday 30th July 2016
Wedding Trivia:WEARING A WEDDING RINGThe reason that the engagement ring and wedding band is worn on the fourth finger of the left hand is because the ancient Egyptians thought that the "vein of love' ran from this finger directly to the heart.
Wedding Venues - Wedding Cars
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Obama: The referendum in Crimea on Russian annexation violates international law
posted at 3:21 pm on March 6, 2014 by Allahpundit
If you thought U.S.-Russian relations were tense before, read this. I wonder if Vlad knows that he just crossed the ultimate "red line."
Skip to 1:30 for the key bit, in which O denounces the bogus annexation referendum as illegitimate unless and until the new Ukrainian government signs off on it. Fair enough, but shouldn't he also demand that Russian troops be removed before the vote takes place? I realize that's mostly a formality — a province that's just been occupied by a superpower probably won't dare vote no, even if invading forces are (temporarily) off the streets. But if the point is to get Russia to de-escalate before it goes rolling on through eastern Ukraine, getting those troops to cool off is a key priority. Crimea's probably lost no matter what. Giving Putin a reason to put his guns away now at least might keep the rest of the country intact.
Over at Breitbart, Joel Pollak hammers O for making democratic self-determination a core U.S. demand in all this. After all, the more we talk about letting the people decide, the easier it is for Putin to say that that's just what Crimea is doing. I wonder if that isn't the whole point, though: The U.S. knows that there's no military option to kick Russia off the peninsula, so the only way out of this for the west is to create some fig leaf of legal and orderly annexation. If the Ukrainian government can be convinced to let Crimea go and Putin can be convinced to send his tanks home so that the annexation vote kinda sorta looks "free and fair," then the province can be handed over and the crisis kinda sorta defused. The objection, in other words, is simply that Putin's making the surrender more difficult than it needs to be.
By the way, fairly or not, the Crimea standoff does appear to be hurting Obama at home. Note the trend from Fox News's new poll:
His approval rating is down to 38 percent, a new low for him in FNC polling. Meanwhile, at Gallup, Obama's disapproval has reached 55 percent after briefly touching a new high of 56 just this past weekend. Think having Harry Reid mumble about the Koch brothers on the Senate floor every day will make things right?
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5 Ridiculous Origins of Movie Sound Effects
#2. The Doctor Who TARDIS Noise Is Keys Scraping on Piano Wire
The Effect:
Doctor Who, the proud flagship of the BBC sci-fi department, is either a boring cheesefest or a grippingly engaging, witty drama, depending on how old you are when you watch it. Arguably the most recognizable element of the show to both fans and nonfans is the TARDIS, a blue police box that flies through space and time because in Britain that's called "imagination."
Eh, still better than crappy CGI.
Anyway, as you may have guessed by now, the TARDIS makes a unique and instantly recognizable sound that has solidified itself in the minds of nerds across the globe over the past half century. Take a listen here:
Again, it seems like far-out electronic space noises, something that could only be produced by computers or keyboards or some kind of tone-deaf robot.
The Reality:
That timestream-slipping sound is just house keys scraping along piano wire. Layer in some static for the buzzing, add some reverb and boom, it's TARDIS time.
Why don't we keep our police in boxes?
The effect was created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which in the 1960s was the foremost sound department in the world, pioneering new sci-fi sound effects that mixed organic and synthetic sources into a strangely awesome cacophonic blend.
The most awesome part of the TARDIS noise? They're still using variations of the original effect that the Radiophonic Workshop made 50 years ago.
#1. The Voices of LotR's Balrog and Ringwraiths Are a Concrete Block and Plastic Cups, Respectively
The Balrog Effect:
Even if you aren't a fan of The Lord of the Rings or only saw the first film, chances are you'll probably recognize the Balrog scene, if for no other reason than the now-famous phrase "You shall not pass!" inhabits the Internet in about a billion different memes that we assure you are only getting more hilarious:
The Balrog is pretty goddamned fearsome, in particular its hellacious bellowing roars. How did the sound of the Balrog take shape? By now you're probably thinking it was the same as with the Jurassic Park dinosaurs -- a bunch of dangerous animals and a microphone.
Or putting a microphone near Viggo Mortensen when he was being manly.
The Balrog Reality:
When David Farmer (sound designer on the LotR project) came up with the original template for the Balrog, he wanted it to sound like it was something that would live in the very bowels of the world, sort of like a big flaming turd with a sword and a whip. Or a giant horned tapeworm, if you will.
To that end, the Balrog's voice, and some of its movement, wound up being something ingenious in its simplicity: a cinder block scraping along a wooden floor at different speeds. That delightfully cracky, grinding sound that accompanies the demon is made of a mixture of rocks grinding together and the cinder block tearing over someone's parquet. Go and listen to it again and see if you can hear it.
Also listen out for "What the fuck are you doing to my floor?!" at 0:55.
The Ringwraith Effect:
And then you have the Nazgul, aka the Ringwraiths, aka the nine black-clad bad guys on horses who chase Frodo and company in pursuit of the ring. Part of the dread they inspire is their horrible eldritch screaming, like nails on a blackboard or fingertips on a balloon. Something about it sets your teeth on edge and sends even the mightiest pair of gonads retreating back into their body:
Surely there can be no other source for this sound than the hollow, demented screams of actual undead spirits.
The Ringwraith Reality:
As it turns out, the noise of fear itself is just a couple of plastic cups scraping together. No animals, no lunatic sound design interns screeching into a microphone -- just the cups, the kind you play beer pong with. To be fair, the sounds have been sweetened in the studio with some layering effects, but at their base it's just a guy with a microphone playing around with disposable party cups.
"Who's ready to PAR-TAY ... hey, where's everyone gone? Hello? I'm so lonely."
It's cool to know that in an industry dominated by CGI supercomputers and nine-figure budgets, there's still room for a creative guy and some shit he found in his kitchen cabinet.
For more help in making your crappy indie film, check out 8 Movie Special Effects You Won't Believe Aren't CGI and 5 Ways Hollywood Tricks You Into Seeing Bad Movies.


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Citizens will have the chance to weigh in on a proposed parish ordinance to limit roadside signage when the Morehouse Parish Police Jury meets in August.
The new ordinance, introduced by juror Jason Crockett in Monday's regular meeting, was modeled on a similar law in Ouachita Parish and is intended to promote beautification in Morehouse Parish by reducing small signs on public property and right-of-ways.
Such signs are "detrimental to the environment" in unincorporated parts of the parish by "obstructing the view of motorists, impeding mowing and other public road mainenace, becoming litter, and being generally of an unsightly nature."
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In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and the relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic panel data setting, using a unique database comprising data from 17,462 firms, we estimate an augmented cost share equation whereby the wage bill share of skilled workers in a given firm is related to international exposure and technology adoption. Both at the sectoral and firm level, it emerged that R&D expenditures are positive and significantly related to skill upgrading. This result supports the skill biased technological change argument in the case of a middle-income country such as Turkey. Moreover, the sectoral analysis revealed that increasing export towards more industrialised countries (mainly the E.U.) tends to shift the production toward less skill-intensive activities. While this result is consistent with the HOSS theorem, on the other hand import penetration from more developed countries turns out to facilitate the adoption of new technologies embodied in capital and intermediate goods, thus shifting the production toward more skill-intensive technologies. This result is confirmed by the firm level analysis that finds a positive impact of technological transfer from abroad, foreign ownership and export on the demand for skills, highlighting the role of increasing globalisation in fostering skill upgrading within firms. Our microdata also allowed us to investigate the direct impact of import flows in shaping the relative demand for skills. The results showed that those firms belonging to the sectors that most raised their inputs from more developed countries also experienced a higher increase in their labour cost share of skilled workers. This finding is a further support to the hypothesis that imports from industrialised countries imply a transfer of new technologies, in turn leading to a higher demand for skilled labour.
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Given a partial order $R_{\leq}$ over a set $D$, the set of upper bounds under $R$ of a subset $S$ of $D$ is commonly defined as $\{ y \in D | \ \forall x\in S, x R y \}$.
(The set of lower bounds of $S$ may be defined as the set of upper bounds of $S$ under the converse relation $R^{-1}$)
Is there a common name for the generalization of this notion where $R$ is not a partial order, and is possibly a heterogenous relation between domain $D$ and codomain $D'$ (hence the $y$ would be elements of the codomain)? This would be a subset of the image of $S$ under $R$ (and conversely, the dual notion would be a subset of the preimage).


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People in Capitola are talking about a huge school of tiny anchovies spotted right off the shore.Video Transcript
THOUSANDS OF FISH OFF THE COASTLINE WEDNESDAY. WITNESSES SAY IT STRETCHED FROM THE CEMENT SHIP IN APTOS ALL THE WAY TO THE CAPITOLA WHARF. ACTION NEWS REPORTER PHIL GOMEZ, JOINS US LIVE FROM SANTA CRUZ WITH MORE .# THE HUGE NUMBERS OF FISH CAUSED QUITE A SPECTACLE THAT THEY'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT IT IN THE CAPITOLA VILLAGE...THIS WEEK THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS OF SMALL FISH SWAM CLOSE TO SHORE...SO CLOSE YOU DIDN'T NEED A FISHING POLE ...YOU COULD ACTUALLY PLUCK THEM OUT OF THE WATER. So, thick top to bottom hard to believe there's so many anchovies out there THIS IS VIDEO SHOT BY FISHERMAN MARK DAVIS THAT SHOWS A GIGANTIC 'BAIT BALL' MADE UP OF SMALL FISH STACKED ONE ON TOP OF THE OTHER AS THE SWAM CLOSE TO SEACLIFF AND CAPITOLA BEACHES. Yesterday I went down by the cement ship off seacliff beach and there was probably, 2 miles long, one mile wide and 35 feet deep a big ball of anchovies out there and there were little octipi, little fish coming up to the service to try to get air THE WATERS WERE SO FULL OF ANCHOVIES YOU COULD ACTUALLY SEE PREDATORS GOBBLING THEM UP. There were so many of them there would be black you'd see a hole where a big fish would be chasing them and then it seal back up . Yeah it's pretty interesting and sight to see. Pretty amazing birds fling everywhere. Dolphins swimming around. Just Beautiful THEY WERE SWIMMING SO CLOSE TO THE SHORELINE YOU COULD ACTUALLY SCOOP THEM UP. I saw somebody catch a fish with their hands. They were like ankle deep int he water. She just reached out and caught a little sardine. BIOLOGISTS ARE STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY THEY WERE SWIMMING SO CLOSE TO SHORE. ONE THEORY, THESE FISH ARE TRYING TO SWIM AWAY FROM PREDATORS. They're trying to stay alive be getting away from their predators but in the process of getting way from predators they're getting tossed up on the beach. WE TOOK A QUICK BOAT RIDE NEAR THE CAPITOLA WHARF. WE DIDN'T SEE AS MANY FISH OUT THE WATER AS THERE HAD BEEN IN PREVIOUS DAYS...BUT THERE'S STILL PLENT OF LIVE BAIT OUT THERE THAT IT'S TOUGH FOR FISHERMEN TO EVEN GET A SMALL NIBBLE. I haven't had a lot of bites out here maybe that's why because of the abundance of food but it didn't stop me from coming out. WE DID NOT FIND A LOT OF DEAD FISH ALONG THE SHORE LINE TODAY.... EITHER THE TIDE HAS CARRIED THEM OUT OR THEY WERE GOBBLED UP BY PREDATORS BACK IN THE MID EIGHTIES THERE WERE TONS OF ANCHOVIES THAT GOT CAUGHT IN THE SANTA CRUZ HARBOR...SO MANY OF THEM THAT THEY DIED AND CREATED A HUGE FOUL STENCH. IT COST FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS TO REMOVE THEM ALL... SINCE THEN THE HARBOR HAS INSTALLED AN AERATION SYSTEM. EIGHTIES THERE WERE TONS OF ANCHOVIES THAT GOT CAUGHT IN THE SANTA CRUZ HARBOR...SO MANY OF THEM THAT THEY DIED AND CREATED A HUGE FOUL STENCH. IT COST FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS TO REMOVE THEM ALL... SINCE THEN THE HARBOR HAS INSTALLED AN AERATION SYSTEM.
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6 Things You Didn't Know You Could Get Addicted To
#3. Exercise
Doesn't sound so bad ...
Imagine a world where every push-up tasted like a 1996 Dom Perignon, where every sweat droplet tickles your cheek like [Scarlett Johansson's denuded gazonga]*, where every bench press smells like a crisp $100 bill. If this is the world of the exercise addict, we want in.
* NOTE: Female readers, replace this phrase with [Antonio Banderas' Latin love lance].
The horrifying reality:
The compulsive exerciser gets no extraordinary high from working out. Rather, the addict is joylessly consumed by the minutiae of his or her routine and will often overtrain and eschew leisure time to feel the burn. These people work out until they create hormone imbalances, destroy their bones and, ironically, waste muscle.
We can blame the three P's for exercise addiction: Perfectionism, Poor body image and Phear of athletic Phailure.
Muscular dysmorphia (aka "bigorexia") is a similar problem. The bigorexic will be unsatisfied with his musculature until he is able to arm wrestle a mastodon, and will not stop until he is a veiny mass of trapezius. We can attribute bigorexia to the three G's: G.I. Joe body ideal, Gigantism and Gsteroids.
Warning Signs:
If anyone you know uses the word "orgasmic" to describe his workout, either he's an exercise addict or hitting on you. Contact a mental professional or prepare for some serious emotional searching.
#2. Water
Doesn't sound so bad ...
Seriously, water? Your body is mostly water. Water has leaked out of every orifice of your body at one time or another. There's no way a water addiction could actually be bad for you, is there?
The horrifying reality:
Water addicts have been known to flush their body with upwards of seven liters of typically high-grade H2O per day, which can lead to hyponatremia, a potentially fatal sodium deficiency.
Wait, didn't they always say salt was bad for you? Well, what we've learned here today is that you need a minimum of everything, even things like salt and fat. Like there's probably some measured amount of tequila that is just right for the body.
Warning Signs:
Water dependency is fairly uncommon, but probably impossible to spot these days when everybody has a damned bottle of Dasani or Evian in their hand. Maybe it's the dude whose house is piled with discarded plastic bottles.
Then again, that guy could just be addicted to ...
#1. Garbage
Doesn't sound so bad ...
Save money and reduce your carbon footprint by not throwing anything away! For instance, wash out those tuna tins and you've got some natty street hockey pucks! Look at all those empty beer cans under your bed--those are serviceable maracas for Cinco de Mayo! And the cellophane from that Otter Pop wrapper? That's a prophylactic if we ever saw one.
The horrifying reality:
No one embodied disposophobia (the compulsive refusal to throw anything away) like the Collyer Brothers of Harlem. Until their deaths in 1947, Homer and Langley Collyer lived with approximately 103 tons of garbage in their Fifth Avenue brownstone. The brothers were notoriously hermetic. Langley would only lurk the streets at night, preying on junk like some sort of hobo vampire. When urban myths sprang up that the Collyer brownstone was full of treasure, the brothers built booby traps to defend their worthless trash heap.
The Collyers met their maker when their crap collection turned on them. Langley died when tunneling through a stack of newspaper, activating one of their hidden booby traps, thus crushing Langley instead of any would-be moldy newspaper thief. Homer, who was blind and paralyzed, died of starvation. This newspaper tunnel was so damn big that it took police 18 days to find Langley, who died a mere 10 feet away from Homer.
In the end, the Collyers' demise resembled the climactic battle scene in Home Alone 2, if the Wet/Sticky Bandits were mentally ill and died in squalor.
Warning Signs:
We're going to continue with the "everything in moderation" theme we've got going here and say that in fact a human needs a certain amount of filth to survive. So if your friend continually refuses to throw away that pot roast from last Christmas, he's probably just lazy. But if you find him surrounding the fridge with tripwire, it's probably time to have a talk.
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Two 15-year-old teens have been caught on tape bullying 10-year-old, Cequan Haskins, on a school bus.
According to Roxanne Haskins, her son was a victim of extreme bullying and did not deserve it. She said in an interview about the incident, "He was entitled to a safe transportation just like any other child in the Appomattox County Public School System."
In the video, the two teen boys can be seen harming the special needs student both verbally and physically. The duo can be heard shouting expletives at Haskins, including sexual and racial remarks, while at one point even burning Haskins with a cigarette lighter.
The two teens were subsequently found guilty of assault and battery and disorderly conduct. The bus driver was also pursued on charges of neglect, but she was acquitted on all charges.
Roxanne Haskins released the video to inform other parents about bullying, In hopes that other's can learn from her son's incident.
She also says her son was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and had to undergo therapy in result of the incident.
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I have an abstract class that will have many implementors. There are, of course, many places to put abstract classes in a Java package structure. Should the abstract class be in the same package as the implementors, or should it be in an "abstract package" package, or somewhere else? Please explain why you would place it there - I'm looking for design discussion, not just what I should do in this particular case.
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I would put it (like any other class) in the package it belongs most from it's content. That mostly - but not everytime - means, that you put it in the same package as implementing classes. Sometimes you put an abstract class in the same package as some other class using this abstract class - it's part of the API of the other class. Implementing classes could be somewhere else in that case. I never use extra packages for abstract classes or other stuff like exception-classes or so.
Why so? I prefer to use package-structure as building a system for categorizing the content of the software, instead as using it for implementation details. The abstract-class may become later a valid non-abstract-class without breaking the API. But if I have to move it's package it would break again old code. Unnessecary I think.
I was just wondering about the same thing (but for interface classes). So lets add a post to this discussion.
I have a package
In the end, I guess I'll all type related devices in the same package (i.e. all type A in
So that's it. This is another case with another reasoning behind it.


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Is there any reason that a home without any fuel burning devices would need a carbon-monoxide detector?
Considering the low cost of these devices and how deadly CO can be, why wouldn't you want one? That's like saying you don't want a smoke detector because you don't think anything will catch on fire.
Just because you don't have any of the items @Steve Jackson mentioned doesn't mean you can't be impacted by CO. For example, maybe a delivery truck is parked and running in your driveway putting off all sorts of CO that is being sucked into your house. Maybe your neighbours garage leaks near your air intakes.
One thing you can count on, if something ever did happen relating to CO, your insurance company would be the first one to find out you didn't have a detector!
If you don't have a:
...then I would say you don't need a carbon monoxide detector.
As @lqlarry points out, some states require detectors. Here's a list of carbon monoxide detector statutes.


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Is there still a point to use AdMob? Has it been or will it be banned by Apple? Is there an third-party interface solution that allows me to switch between the services later on server side?
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In fact it is very easy to use both even in the same application!
You can find a detailed explanation at this site: http://www.apptite.be/tutorial_mixing_ads.php
But in-short the idea behind it is to:
It even uses a sliding effect to hide and show the advertisements in the bottom of the screen.
So far I can't give a correct number on the revenue, but I can say that the fill rate for iAd is around 30% and for Admob around 95%
Hope this helps you out!
Regards, Luc
Better to go with iAds. No one knows, apple releases an update and your application starts breaking. They are very much into it and for wiping out their competitors, its high possibility that they do it very soon.
Ultimately its your choice, you can use any.
You can use both (not in the same app!) but be carefull in what you pick!
I do my homeworks, trying both (on different apps of course) and asking around to friends. There's not a final verdict of course. Sdk are pretty both easy, but of course iAD is completely integrated in itunesconnect, so you don't have to deal with different sites, registration and so on... but ok, is something you do once and forget, so not a big deal.
For my experience iAd give bit more money for banner shown, but AdMob have an incredible superior fill rate! I you're an "international" developer iAd is (till now, end of 2010) a poor option: my app have about 25% US customers and a forthy-somthing fill rate there. Add some more sparse filled impressions here and there, I net a 10% fill rate world-wide! The other app, with AdMob, Italian market only, have a 66% fill rate... in a country where iAd is still not available!
So 'till Apple don't go worldwide for ads i suggest to put your focus on WHERE you plan to distribuite your apps...
Just my 2 cents
An idea. What about using a combination of the two? So far, the story on iAds is that the fill rate is very low. Apple suggests moving the BannerView off-screen when the ad request is not filled (great idea). After moving the BannerView off-screen, why not move an AdMob ad into the void. Not sure if mixing ad platforms would cause poor user experience, but it might be worth considering.
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Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/YbfZG/4/ For some reason the toggleDiv/removeDiv functions aren't working (I haven't used jsfiddle much), but hopefully this will give you a better idea of what I'm trying to accomplish.
I've got a page where users can add items (divs) dynamically by making a selection from a dropdown. This is accomplished via .append(). They can also remove an item (.remove()) and potentially re-add it. Each div contains a hide/show area triggered by clicking on a link.
The first time a div is added to the page, the hide/show area works fine. If the same div is removed and then re-added, the hide/show no longer works. I believe this is because the div isn't being completely removed from the DOM, so the hide/show function - which operates based on ids - can't find the correct div to work on.
I've tried modifying my remove function to be $(this).empty().remove(); but that didn't work. I also tried using detach as well, but there was no change in the functionality. I did some reading and I potentially need to be using .on(), but I'm not sure how to structure that.
ETA: Append & toggle code and changed div name to not be solely numeric (typo on my part).


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However, if you are not successful, we will inform you to this effect.
Does this mean, if I failed I will still get informed(by a mail or phone-call) or if I failed, I will have no idea that I have failed already?


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Are design patterns really essential nowadays?
Is it necessary have a knowledge and understanding of design patterns for someone to be a professional programmer? Why?
Is it necessary have a knowledge and understanding of design patterns for someone to be a professional programmer? Why?
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No. I only say that to be pedantic though. The term "professional programmer" really just means you get paid to program. I assure you that you can be paid to program without knowing any design patterns (I certainly did, for a few years).
However, knowing design patterns has some benefits:
If you're a good programmer, you will find out yourself some of the design patterns, and later on notices that these constructions have a name.
So strictly no, but they can help you improve your object-oriented skills and they can help to communicate with fellow programmers.
Design patterns serve a couple of purposes:
You don't have to know them to be a professional developer, but not knowing them will handicap you to a certain degree, because you will be unable to "speak the language." You will also be reinventing the wheel.
Algorithms, Design patterns, Application architecture types are building blocks for programmers.
They are the independent of most popular languages ( C#, Java etc ) and one of the positive sides of this fact is that they can be used to communicate your thoughts easier when it comes to explaining how something is coded.
While knowledge and understanding of design patterns is not a prerequisite to becoming a professional programmer, they are a useful tool to improve the reliability of your code, your ability to communicate with other programmers, and the ability for others to maintain the code you've written.
Just like learning additional programming languages and technologies, good understanding of design patterns improves your skill and value.
In other words, you don't need to know and understand design patterns, but the more you do understand, the better you will be professionally.
Patterns are not necessary to write code and get paid for it. The process of learning what types of pattens, algorithms, and architectural styles exist is a process of learning how to design and engineer software with higher internal quality and that meets more strict non functional requirements. Oh and it may be necessary if you don't want the other dev kids to laugh and point. ;)


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As described in this question I'm using the tocloft package to customize the table of contents.
We are putting a horizontal line under the whole section text up to the page number. Therefore we cannot just use
\underline for the section text (because this would only affect the text) but have to use
\rule to put the underlining.
However, the underlining for the chapter numbers can just be placed with
\underline because we want to have a gap btw. the underlining of the chapter number and the underlining of the chapter title+page.
As you can see in the following snippet, the line is currently positioned with
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\renewcommand{\cftchappresnum}{\underline} % chapter numbers are underlined
\renewcommand{\cftchapaftersnumb}{\rlap{\rule[-0.5mm]{0.96\textwidth}{.4pt}\hss}} % chapter entries are underlined as well
... however this does not correctly align with the previous underline.
I think the question is now: What would be the correct length (in
ex?) to move the line so that it aligns with an underline on the same line?
Also: What would be the correct thickness so it's the same as for the underline?


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Because other moderators agree with the exact opposite things of you. They would say that the woodworks is because I create a lot of CCC and try to fool the ME,nothing is said about the own goals and the only thing they agree about is the defense. Which they'd better agree with,because the defense of the PC controlled team is just crap,and no,it's not anyone tactics that the defenders will forget to play football at the worst times.
Injuries are bugged as well. The amount of injuries is not bugged,I agree,it's "close to real numbers",like other moderators would say. What's wrong is how much close those injuries are to each other. Instead of giving as sporadic injuries,the game just bombards the player with injuries every few months. Having 1-2 injuries is really rare. Players either find themselves with a clean sheet or with having 6 of their basic players injured. And there's nothing we can do about it. And please spare me the "it's my tactics or training",my training is medium on intensity and my players always start with 100% condition and end with around 60-70%. And I always give a 1 day rest after each match as well! And when playing below the top division it's even worse,since you will have players with lower physical stats.
My post is total nonsense? I got a ban because I told a moderator that something he was calling a "bug" is not,but no,I continuously had my posts deleted and myself censored. Then I get banned because I took it personal against him? I got banned because I reacted to being treated like sending letters from Alcatraz?
While I was banned I saw a post about a problem being reported and the exact same moderator said that "if you got any problems,report it to the bugs forum". The exact same problem was reported by me personally a week ago and he had no clue about it,yet the only excuse he had was "the bugs forums"? Yet I'm the one being illogical?


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Can I mount an ISO in Ubuntu 10.04 without requiring the use of sudo?
This is all I know how to do:
sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 image.iso /media/iso
A few answers mentioned using something called "Archive Mounter". I've never noticed this before, but I do see it listed in the "Open With" list when right-clicking ISO files.
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I was reading over this in my notes, but it doesnt make any sense to me:
However, suppose we fix an alphabet for writing our programs (e.g. 8- bit ASCII). Since each individual program is finite in length, we can put all possible programs into a (very long) ordered list. For any fixed character length k, there are only a finite set of possible programs. So, we can write down all programs by first first writing down all the 1-character programs, then all the 2-character programs, and so forth. In other words, there's a bijection between the integers and the total set of programs. But this means that the number of functions is uncountable, whereas the number of programs is only countably infinite. So there must be mathematical functions that we can't compute with any (finite-length) program.
What exactly is this saying? Why does it hold? It seems like it shouldn't. In some cases a program of only 30-40 characters can compute billions of numbers! Maybe with current hardware it may not be possible to computer some numbers, but theoretically, this shouldn't be a problem, right?


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I'm working through some exam problems, and I came across this one - the solution of which baffles me considerably.
A two-dimensional jet emerges from a narrow slit in a wall into fluid which is at rest. If the jet is thin, so that velocity $\vec u = (u, v)$ varies much more rapidly across the jet than along it, the fluid equation becomes:
$u\frac{\partial u}{\partial x} +v\frac{\partial u}{\partial y} = \nu \frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial y^2}$
where constant $\nu$ is the viscosity coefficient. The bounday conditions are that the velocity and its derivatives tend to zero as we leave the jet (that is as $|y|\rightarrow\infty$) and $\frac{\partial u}{\partial y}$ at $y = 0$, as the motion is symmetrical about the x-axis.
The first question involves integrating across the jet to show that $\int u^2 dy$ is $x$ independent. So you end up with three integrals (subscripts denoting derivatives),
1) $\int u u_x dy$
2) $\int v u_y dy$
3) $\nu\int u_{yy} dy$
Somehow, for 1), you can write $\int u u_x dy = \frac{1}{2}\partial_x\int u^2 dy$ - is this an identity?
Secondly for 2) the solution states that: $\int v u_y dy = -\int v_y u dy$ from which you use the incompressibility condition to give $\int u_x u dy = \frac{1}{2}\partial_x\int u^2 dy$. Where does $vu_y=-v_yu$ come from, and again, is there an identity used in the final step?
And thirdly, this is a smaller issue but again, one that confused me a bit, the second question supposes that the streamfunction is self-similar and takes the form: $\psi = x^a f(\eta)$, $\eta = yx^b$. Which is fine, sub in for $u^2 = \psi_y^2$ and equate the power of the factor of $x$ that comes out to be zero. However, in the solution, it comes out as $2a = -b$ and I don't see how that works.
Suppose you take: $\eta = yx^b$, differentiate to get $\frac{d}{d\eta}\eta = \frac{dy}{d\eta}x^b$ so that $dy = d\eta x^{-b}$. When that's substituted into the integral, the factor that comes out is $x^{2a-b}$.
I have noticed some errors in the solutions, so just checking it's me, not them!
I'm sure this is a simple problem once you see the trick, thanks very much!


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A site that I am developing works with the format
www.domain.com but when typing the domain without the www i.e
domain.com I receive a error 400 bad request. How can I enable non-www for my site.
A site that I am developing works with the format
To solve your problem, if you're using Apache, you can use mod_rewrite in this way:
First check the DNS records for your domain. You need to have an A Record for both the www. and non-www. versions of the domain. Some providers will use an @ for the non-www. version.
Then check your server's host.conf file. This is where (in Apache at least) you tell your webserver where to direct traffic for various domains. If you have a directive for
If you're using Apache, you can configure it in your control panel to always use the "www" prefix or make it to remove the "www" prefix, go to domain management and change the 'A" record to always use "www" prefix.normally this shouldn't even be a problem, because most web hosting has this already configured.


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Documenting a family mystery
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, November 2, 2012
A quietly brilliant study in cognitive dissonance, "The Flat" is a documentary look at Holocaust denial, but not the kind you might think.
It begins, blandly enough, as Israeli filmmaker Arnon Goldfinger is clearing out the Tel Aviv apartment of his 98-year-old grandmother, a Jewish immigrant from Berlin who has just died, leaving behind boxes containing a lifetime of newspapers, letters, photographs and other ephemera. As he and his family sift through the material, the documents reveal a story that forms the spine -- and the spine-tingling mystery -- at the heart of the film. What Goldfinger first discovers is only the tip of the iceberg: an unexpected friendship between his grandparents, who left Germany just before the war, and a Nazi S.S. officer by the name of Leopold von Mildenstein.
It's bizarre enough that Kurt and Gerda Tuchler, Goldfinger's maternal grandparents, could have been pals with the man who hired Adolf Eichmann, the monster in charge of administering Hitler's "Final Solution." But it's downright incomprehensible that the couple maintained the friendship not just through the war but beyond, continuing to visit von Mildenstein and his family in Germany well after 1945. It's especially incomprehensible considering a further piece of shocking evidence of the way in which the Holocaust touched the Tuchlers' lives.
It's a piece of evidence that none of the Tuchlers' surviving relatives knew about and that Goldfinger's grandparents never spoke of. It's also a piece of evidence that von Mildenstein's daughter Edda (whom the filmmaker tracks down for some of the most uncomfortable interviews in "The Flat") didn't know about, or is in deep denial about, even after Goldfinger presents her with proof of her father's wartime activities. What the evidence reveals is the way in which people psychologically compartmentalize evil -- not just the evildoers and those who have evil done to them, but their family members as well. In Goldfinger's meticulous, incremental presentation of the facts, which he lays out with the anguish of a crime victim, tempered by the masterful storytelling of a prosecuting attorney, the steady illumination of our minds' dark corners becomes subtly devastating.
How could a couple touched by the Holocaust fraternize with one of its apparent architects? And how could that architect continue to look into the eyes of those who had been persecuted as a result of his policies (or at least policies he tacitly acquiesced to)?
Then there's the generational ripple effect. Edda isn't the only one who seems willfully blind. Goldfinger's mother, Hannah, the Tuchlers' daughter, seems weirdly unmoved by the film's increasingly disturbing revelations.
Or maybe it's not so weird after all.
As Goldfinger's film suggests, perhaps we can't help but wall off the horrors we enact, and those that are enacted upon us. Maybe we have to lock them away in the vault, along with the rest of our forgotten pain, in order to avoid going slowly, inexorably mad.
Contains disturbing thematic material. In English, Hebrew and German with English subtitles.


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Android and mobile development is an exciting area of development. As it is a new discipline, what would be expected of an android developer to build commercially robust applications in terms of skills ? The problem that I and, i think, many other "noobs" into the technology would like to know are the areas of technical skills and the progression to the required advanced topics that goes beyond the the very basics provided by Google. There is a lot of information that's quite useful but its not organised into categories of discipline nor order.
Update : Look at it this way. If you're a senior dev, and needed to get a fellow colleague upto speed on Android for a particular project, (at your discretion for this question), what would you do ?


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Christine Daly's "Foxgrapes" is among Daly family paintings in the currnet Lockhart Gallery exhibition.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- The paintings of the Daly family of New York's Wyoming County - Christine, Thomas and Jonathon - are being featured through Oct. 6 at the State University of New York at Geneseo's Lockhart Gallery, 26 Main St.
The Dalys are a family of fine artists and long time residents of Wyoming County. They live the lives of painters and produce stunning landscapes and still life works. Thomas Acquinas Daly, an avid hunter and fisherman, portrays nature in a way that reveals his unique hand and eye. His work received the Grand Central Art Gallery Gold Medal from President Ford in 1987. His art is shown throughout the country in museums, galleries and universities.
Christine Daly produces beautiful still life paintings of flowers and fruit that are painstakingly done with attention to light and color. She exhibits her works nationally and her paintings have graced the cover of national magazines.
Jonathan Daly's paintings have a touch of the surreal that exhibits a moodier side of country living. He is the son of these two fine artists, studied at Syracuse University and later received his MFA from Boston University. Since completing his MFA, he has shown in Boston, Buffalo, New York, and Massachusetts.
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Has your random order shipped?
Part of mine did. I ordered LS tees, regular tees and some totes. The LS tees shipped and are expected to arrive on the 12th - yippee! It looks like I will have multiple days of opening up my random goodies, which just adds to the fun. This is only my second dip into the random pool, so I'm pretty excited to see what I come out with. I did pretty good last time.
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Since "random" started to mean "AA or Anvil" I lost interest.
@jsimsace: The long sleeve randoms were all AA shirts.
The last round, I skipped the t-shirts for myself (it was also mixed), but I did buy three for my SO. Alas, they were all Anvils this time, and there's no comparable size.
Some folks buy flowers to say "I love you"; I bought random AA Woot shirts instead. :)
I ordered 3 tees, 3 LS tees, a zip up hoodie, the random greeting cards and the random pocket prints. The long sleeve tees have shipped, I'm literally dancing in anticipation!
Long sleeve + hoodie shipped. Guess the short sleeves are more complicated.
@lonelypond: Yeah, my totes have shipped now too. I would have thought the regular shirts would have shipped first if things were shipping separately, since that is the norm for randoms - but either way I'm just excited to get them :)
Still no shipping for my random tee...
No shipped T for me yet.
I got the email for my random hoodie but it hasn't updated with an arrival date. Mine usually changes a few days in transit, anyways. Probably get it around the 17th or 18th here in Seattle with the infamous snail post.
I ordered regular T's and no shipping notification yet, but they did say orders would start shiping on the 5th so I fugure any day now
On my end, both orders of long sleeves, the pullovers, the zip-up, and the totes have shipped.
The pocket prints and posters have not.
Mine hasn't shipped yet. I'm getting antsy. Zippy hoodie.
@narfcake: "Both orders of"?!? When you saw that blurry yellow question mark appear on shirt.woot, you must have had a wonderful time!
I ordered posters, pullover hoodie plus one to trade, a zip-up hoodie, and a tote. The hoodies and tote have shipped but not left Texas yet; the posters haven't shipped yet. I'm getting excited already! Which probably just means that I'm going to be let down when they arrive. :(
@neuropsychosocial: My wallet was cringing, but to pass up AA Woot shirts? Yeah, not likely.


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Hi guys,
I have recently started looking at polynomials $q_n$ generated by initial choices $q_0=1$, $q_1=x$ with, for $n\geq 0$, some recurrence formula
$$q_{n+2}=xq_{n+1}+c_n q_n$$
where $c_n$ is some function in $n$. The first few of these are
$$q_2=x^2+c_0$$ $$q_3=x^3+(c_0+c_1)x$$ $$q_4=x^4+(c_0+c_1+c_2)x^2+c_2c_0$$ $$q_5=x^5+(c_0+c_1+c_2+c_3)x^3+(c_0c_2+c_0c_3+c_1c_3)x$$ $$q_6=x^6+(c_0+c_1+c_2+c_3+c_4)x^4+(c_0c_2+c_0c_3+c_0c_4+c_1c_3+c_1c_4+c_2c_4)x^2$$$$+c_0c_2c_4$$
My question is whether there is a name for the coefficients of the powers of $x$. I realise that they can be written as certain formulations of elementary symmetric polynomials but I am ideally looking for a reference where the specific expressions are studied
Any help would be great :)


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Stretches for Pregnant Women
During pregnancy your joints and ligaments are soft, making them prone to injury. You can help strengthen the muscles around these weak areas with gentle stretches every day.
- Lift your arms up over your head and stretch.
- Bend at the waist and rotate in big circles.
- Drop your chin to your chest and roll your head around in a big circle.
- Shrug your shoulders up, back, and down, making circles.
- Point your foot and then rotate your foot at the ankle 10 times (repeat with other foot). Point your foot and then pull it back up toward your knee 10 times (repeat with other foot). If you feel a muscle spasm starting, stop this exercise.
- Clasp your hands behind your back. Lift your arms up as high as you can. Hold a few seconds and then relax.
These few exercises will get you started, but don't stop here. There are several very good books and videos on the market today that will help you plan a healthy prenatal exercise program. Talk about your plans with your doctor and then do yourself and your baby a favor and get to work.
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Tornado drills at Moss Middle School are serious business.
Teacher, Mark Curry says, "When the drill sounds, we go to the wall, we get down on our knees, tuck our heads kind of between our knees, and stay down until the all-clear is sounded."
This time of year, we are especially susceptible to thunderstorms and tornados. That's why the National Weather Service conducts the drills.
Assistant Principal of Moss Middle School, Lisa Hood says, "We just went over with the students yesterday and this morning about the importance of doing drills in case something happens."
The sirens here are called COWS. That stands for Community Outdoor Warning Systems. There is also an indoor warning system called CALVES. School officials at Moss were satisfied with the students reaction.
Curry says, "When the drill actually took place, they got to the wall quickly and did the things we asked them to do. They were quick to get down. They didn't like staying there for so long. But I think if the real thing were to happen, they'd be prepared."
And they say that the drills are extremely vital in the instance of real emergencies.
Hood says, "Oh, they are effective and they are very important, so if any emergency occurs you want to go through these drills to make sure they know what to do, and I think that it will help."


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'Mash-up Archaeology'. Aggregating Web Content on Museum Archaeology and Archaeological Heritage' (2008-2015)
'Mash-up Archaeology' aggregated web content on museum archaeology and archaeological heritage. It took advantage of web feeds (such as RSS) and mash-up technology (Yahoo Pipes) to aggregate automatically web content on these topics.
Aggregated content included new journal articles, new publications, and relevant news items appearing in traditional mass media, as well as content from social media, such as blogs, podcasts, videocasts, social bookmarks and other social networking sites. The types, themes and sources of this content were selected through front-end evaluation and research and are constantly updated.
'Mash-up Archaeology' was part of a University of Manchester project that aimed to explore the use of web feeds and basic mash-up technology in postgraduate and third year undergraduate teaching and learning. A primary objective is to familiarise students with social media applications (such as blogs, social bookmarking etc) and develop transferrable skills in filtering and assessing the value and relevance of diverse web content to their own study. It also anticipated that the website would reduce substantially the time that students may spend in finding, filtering and revisiting websites to access new content. 'Mash-up Archaeology' contributed towards the e-learning element of teaching and learning at the University of Manchester. Additionally, the website intended to be a point of reference for a wide range of museum, archaeology and heritage studies courses throughout the UK and abroad.
The project was funded by the Higher Education Academy, Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology. Dr Kostas Arvanitis (Museology, University of Manchester) and Prof Siân Jones (Archaeology, University of Manchester) were the investigators of the project.
The Mash-up Archaeology platform offered a useful and rewarding experimentation with aggregation technologies in teaching and learning. It has now come to an end, as Yahoo Pipes have closed down and the project partners have moved to different digital practices and platforms of content aggregation.
To find out more, please contact Dr Kostas Arvanitis (firstname.lastname@example.com) or Prof Sian Jones (email@example.com).


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HOUSTON (October 14, 2012)—Carolos Corporan, Jr., the 16-month-old son of Houston Astros catcher Carlos Corporan, has died.
Corporan told the team of the death on Saturday.
The team said Corporan's son had undergone four heart surgeries since his birth in June 2011.
The team released a statement offering its condolences to the Corporan family, calling the boy's battle with serious health issues "an inspiration to so many of us."
Corporan, 28, agreed to a minor league deal with Houston in 2010.
He hit .269 in 27 games this season.


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Possible Duplicate:
When should "into" be used rather than "in to," and vice versa?
I am sorry if the question is silly, but I think I heard both options spoken by native speaker. So, which one is correct?
I am sorry if the question is silly, but I think I heard both options spoken by native speaker. So, which one is correct?
marked as duplicate by RegDwigнt♦ Apr 7 '11 at 21:13
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
I agree with Steve Melnikoff that put something in sounds more natural. Put something into puts the emphasis on the motion, put something in on the target.
Examples for use of put something into that portray that fact are:
There is a verb put in something, meaning to apply, plant, spend (time/money), introduce, (nautically) enter a harbor or port.
Both are correct, but "in" sounds more natural.
Incidentally, if you were in the UK, you would say, "Put it in the fridge". :-)
For me, "into" implies motion (or perhaps motion in a metaphorical domain). If you are using a verb which already has motion (such as "go" or "put") it is not necessary, and I think is slightly more formal, than "in".
There is rarely a difference in meaning, but where the "in" could be paraphrased as "from" or "out of", then "into" is definitely wrong. So "I got the toy in the box" and "I got the toy into the box" are both fine, but "I found the toy into the box" doesn't make sense, and "I read the story into the book" is definitely wrong (unless you mean somehow the technical computer sense of read, where you can "read" something into somewhere, as well as out of somewhere).
I think that we use into when we want to emphasize the fact that an object or a person changes their place. For example, we would say
instead of
instead of
But again, this is something I'm trying to remember properly, and I'm not absolutely sure.
Both usages are fine as per Wikitionary, based on the implied meaning:
in: into
into: going inside (of)


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I want to write a little script which sets up a socks proxy via ssh and then starts a browser using that proxy.
ssh -D 1234 user@host #&
chromium-browser --proxy-server="socks5://127.0.0.1:1234"
If I add the
&-sign at the end of the first line the script just asks for my password and then opens an
ssh terminal. The browser is started not before the ssh terminal is closed which is pretty useless. If I add the
&-sign the script doesn't wait until I typed in the password and I don't know how I can cleanly end the
ssh session.
I don't want to use automatic
ssh login via
Any suggestions how I could circumvent the problems described above?


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I think using an iPad or other tablet is very comfortable, but when you have to write long texts/emails/documents, then it becomes a serious annoyance. I wonder if anyone could suggest any good techniques or practices to write long texts on a tablet while laying down on a sofa or bed.
You just shouldn't do this. Couple of points:
I won't write long texts with my tablet (I have the Asus Transformer with the dock). But why not trying out a speech-to-text application? This might turn out very well.
I've never had a tablet, but I use a Laidback laptop stand for typing on my laptop in bed or on the couch and I can't recommend it enough.
Two links giving multiple similar solutions, some of which may work better for a tablet:
My problem is for some reason I get my best ideas when I am lying prone on my stomach, and have tried to figure out how to capture them. A keyboard is awkward because I have to lift my head too much and it strains my neck, and I can't maintain that position very long. – tcrosley Apr 6 at 20:53
@tcrosley, have you considered something like the headrest on a massage table? It has a hole in it through which you can see when you are lying face down. Also, on some massage tables you have a flat surface at the knee level (knee level of the person giving massage). Perhaps this can be used to keep your keyboard. Another possibility to consider is to use a massage chair where you sit with your chest against the back of the chair. You would be leaning forward against the chair and you can use another table with an appropriate height to keep your tablet. Just a few thoughts.
Get an external keyboard for your tablet.
Use voice input, and correct the mistakes afterwards, with the help of a keyboard and spell checker.
iPad solution
I have a bluetooth keyboard and it's kinda nice, but lately what I'm using is app called Fleksy keyboard (free, see on app store). You can just type and 99% of the time it will correct you perfectly. Get some good app that supports it (I use PlainText 2 - see all supported apps).
For me, this was the game changer of writing on iPad, because taking the external keyboard with me all the time was annoying, and positioning it correctly on my lap when lying didn't work very well.


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I'd like to stop specific search terms (such as "gaming", "newgrounds", and "knowyourmeme") from appearing in my Google Search suggestions, since these terms tend to distract me from what I'm actually searching for. Is it possible to filter out specific terms from Google's automatic search suggestions?
If you use Firefox, you can open about:config and edit the
Still in Firefox, you can create a bookmark to the URL
Add a dash (-) before a word to exclude all results that include that word.
I'm pretty sure Google doesn't give you access to or control over this kind of thing precisely because it would diminish the ability Google currently has to use targeted advertisements and other things on/with you, which is fundamental in pretty much everything Google does.
However, if you have a specific list of such terms that you know you will (usually) want omitted, I would suggest making a text document with "-term1 -term2 ..." listed out, for the entire list, and copy-pasting that to the end of any search you do.
Depending on your browser, there may be an option to automatically add text to searches (or have default search text to which you would simply add your query text), in which case use this feature instead of having a text document.


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