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The 5 Most Hilariously Insane Secret Plots from History
You've heard the phrase "desperate times call for desperate measures." Or, to put it another way: "You gotta fight crazy with crazy." We've told you about the times when pigeon-guided missiles, fake oceans of fire, and deranged magicians ended up being deployed against the Nazis, but those were, if anything, the tamer plans -- the wacky ideas thrown out at the start of the brainstorm, before shit got desperate and weird. These schemes? These are the later ones from the tail end of the meeting, when Lucy from HR started drawing dicks on the notes and Ted from accounting wouldn't stop screaming.
#5. Secretly Dosing Hitler With Estrogen to Make Him More Girlish
Say it's World War II, you are the British secret service, and you've made contact with one of the gardeners who tends Adolf Hitler's personal vegetable patch. Not only that, but the gardener is willing to give you access to the Fuhrer's food supply. What do you do with this information? If you said "turn Hitler into a woman," then you're corr- wait, that can't be right.
Finally, the /r/titler section of Reddit justifies its existence.
Yep, the Allies hatched a plan to inject estrogen into Hitler's food and turn him from a devilish fuhrer into a delicate flower. To be fair, poisoning the food of a paranoid dictator with a legion of tasters would have been a waste of some perfectly good cyanide, plus quite a few Allied leaders thought that whacking Adolf would actually help the Germans, since his "strategic blundering made him more of an asset to the Allies alive than dead." And so the British and American agencies settled for a substance that wouldn't be detected right away, but would have devastating long-term effects: namely, female sex hormones. The idea was to make Hitler less aggressive and more like his timid younger sister Paula, because this was the 1940s: before we'd really cornered the market on genetics, but well after we'd mastered misogyny.
According to their intelligence, Hitler's sexual alignment was already pretty dubious, so the Allies felt he just needed a gentle nudge to embrace full womanhood. As an added bonus, the chemicals would cause Hitler's hair to fall out and make his voice go all high-pitched and feminine, thereby ruining all of his dramatic, screamo speeches.
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His 'stache would vanish, rendering him cute but unrecognizable.
Unfortunately, it seemed like the plan never had any visible effects, and the OSS agent in charge later came to believe that their mole had been ripping them off. It was probably for the best -- who can say how the war would have turned out had the Allied troops been forced to fight both the Wermacht and the sexy, forbidden thoughts instilled in them by the Fuhrer's new knockers?
#4. Unleashing Glowing Foxes to Make Japan Think They're Ghosts
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was less like an espionage agency and more like a crazy frat house constantly cooking up ridiculous schemes to mess with the Axis forces as one would mess with a stodgy old dean. Like that time they dropped a nuke on Berlin that turned out to be full of used panties, or when they convinced Mussolini his wife was secretly a dude, or, hey, remember when the OSS accidentally drowned a bunch of phosphorescent foxes while trying to spook the Japanese?
Unfortunately, only one of those anecdotes was real. Fortunately, it's the weirdest one.
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If you think luminous drowned ghost dogs aren't weird, you must be from the "fun" part of Japan.
It all began when OSS agents heard of a Japanese superstition surrounding fox spirits with shape-shifting abilities and assumed that this was, like, the most terrifying thing to the Japanese this side of upright chopsticks. This assumption would actually turn out to be incorrect, but obviously "faulty folklore" was not the biggest issue with Operation Drowned FoxGhost. The idea was that actual foxes, painted to glow in the dark, would be allowed to swim ashore right before U.S. landing forces made the Pacific, thus spreading panic among the Japanese defenders.
The OSS actually got as far as testing this off the coast of New York by releasing a bunch of foxes that had been dipped in phosphorous into the water -- where they all promptly swam in the wrong direction and drowned.
When in doubt, swim away from the country shooting you with glow juice.
The project was scrapped. However, at least one more test may have taken place, according to the New York Tribune, which later reported couples seeing glowing foxes in Central Park. Either it was another botched test or the vengeful spirits of some unjustly drowned foxes got their revenge on America by cockblocking our youth. We'll leave that up to history to decide.
#3. Dyeing One of the Largest Rivers in the World Yellow to Fulfill a Prophecy
While hanging out in Japanese-occupied Burma during World War II, legendary anthropologist Gregory Bateson learned of a prophecy that stated that when the waters of the country's largest river ran yellow, a foreign invader would be kicked out. Japan was a foreign invader. The OSS had a habitual drinking problem and issues with poor impulse control. You see where this is going.
A daring plot to drown the sun?
Bateson and his wife, Margaret Mead, were part of a ragtag team of OSS agents that included future celebrity chef Julia Child and alleged Soviet spy Jane Foster. They were one jive-talkin' black guy short of an A-Team and had a reputation for unorthodox schemes, such as Foster's former operation that placed propaganda messages inside thousands of inflated condoms and floated them onto the coast of Indonesia. So when Bateson suggested dyeing the Irrawaddy River bright yellow to make the Burmese think that they should rise up against Japan in support of the Allies, naturally the OSS jumped all over it.
They actually got as far as shipping barrels of yellow dye into the area, with planes ready to drop them into the headwaters ... until Bateson had the bright idea to test the dye in his bath and found out that it didn't work.
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He tried again, this time plugging the drain first. Still no luck.
We're not sure why "testing the dye" was last on the list of prep work to do for Operation Piss Prophecy, but we have to assume Bateson, Mead, Child, and Foster were a bit distracted -- perhaps with saving a Burmese rec center from evil Japanese land developers.


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Behavioral Intervention Leads to Weight Loss in Psychiatric Illnesses
21 March 2013. A behavioral intervention effectively reduces weight in people with severe mental illness, according to a March 21 New England Journal of Medicine article on the "ACHIEVE" trial. Led by Gail Daumit of Baltimores Johns Hopkins University, the study found that overweight and obese psychiatric participants participating in a diet and exercise program experienced moderate and progressive weight loss over the course of 18 months.
Obesity represents a serious problem in psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and is a likely contributor to the increased mortality rates in this population (see SRF related news story). Like the general population, heart disease is the number one cause of death in mental illness, but obesity rates are double the national average. Metabolic syndrome due to antipsychotic medication use is thought to be the major contributor to obesity in psychiatric illness, although some studies have also reported increased obesity in drug-naïve patients, suggesting other factors like diet and exercise levels also play a role (see SRF related news story; SRF news story; Allison et al., 2009).
In the ACHIEVE (Randomized Trial of Achieving Healthy Lifestyles in Psychiatric Rehabilitation) study, participants included 291 overweight or obese adults with severe mental illness who were participating in one of 10 different outpatient psychiatric rehabilitation programs. The behavioral intervention was based on lifestyle changes known to be effective in the general population and adjusted to address cognitive deficits present in mental illness.
The program focused on reducing total calorie consumption and increasing calorie expenditure through healthy eating and moderate exercise. Subjects attended weight-management sessions conducted both individually and in a group setting, participated in group exercise classes, and tracked their behaviors to monitor progress. In contrast, those in the control group were given standard nutritional and fitness information at the start of the study, but were not exposed to targeted behavioral intervention.
Participants were randomly assigned to the behavioral intervention or control groups. Subjects had an average age of 45 years and were considered obese with an average body mass index (BMI) of 36. The majority of participants (58 percent) had a diagnosis of schizophrenia, while 22 percent had bipolar disorder and 12 percent had major depression. Weight changes were assessed at six, 12, and 18 months.
Those in the behavioral intervention group lost progressively more weight throughout the study, while participants in the control group did not lose significant weight. At six months, the intervention group had lost an average of three more pounds than the control group, a difference that was statistically significant. By 18 months, this difference in weight loss between the groups increased to seven pounds. In addition, a greater percentage of subjects in the intervention group maintained or decreased their weight by the end of the study (64 percent vs. 49 percent), and a higher percentage lost at least 5 percent of their total weight (38 percent vs. 23 percent).
Although seven pounds represents only modest weight loss, the authors point out that small changes in weight can produce health benefits such as a reduction in blood pressure, although they did not observe any significant changes in blood pressure or fasting lipid and glucose levels in the current study (but it was underpowered to detect such changes).
The progressive weight loss trajectory of the current study compares favorably with the results of some lifestyle intervention trials in the general population, in which weight is regained over time or maximum weight loss is achieved at six months and remains steady thereafter (Stevens et al., 2001; Whelton et al., 1998). In addition, weight loss in the current study was achieved despite ongoing use of psychotropic medications and continued psychiatric symptoms, which the authors suggest demonstrates that overweight and obese adults with serious mental illnesses can make substantial lifestyle changes despite the myriad of challenges they face.Allison A. Curley.
Daumit GL, Dickerson FB, Wang N-Y, Dalcin A, Jerome GJ, Anderson CAM, Young DR, Frick KD, Yu A, Gennusa JV, Oefinger M, Crum RM, Charleston J, Casagrande SS, Guallar E, Goldberg RW, Campbell LM, Appel LJ. A behavioral weight-loss intervention in persons with serious mental illness. N Eng J Med 2013. Abstract


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All of the halachos in regards to lisha on Shabbos have always been difficult to understand. What do the poskim say in regards to making coleslaw (mixing together small pieces of cabbage and carrots together with mayonnaise and other ingredients) and potato salad (mixing together relatively bigger pieces of potato together with mayonnaise and other ingredients.) Seemingly the coleslaw (without making a shinui) would be a problem as by mixing in the mayonnaise it puts together the salad. However with the potato salad perhaps this would be muter (even without a shinui) since mixing together the potatoes with the mayonnaise doesn't actually stick them together like it does to the coleslaw or other mixtures. I'm looking for sources for this two questions with poskim that speak about them.
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The definition of the melocha of losh is that multiple ingredients are converted into one entity (Shmiras Shabbos Kehilchosa 8:1 citing Mishna Berura 321:50). Therefore a mixture of bits or chunks of food that cling together with a liquid or oil is not included in losh, because the pieces do not appear to melt into a single mass, but rather are clumped together by the liquid medium which acts somewhat as a glue. Since the individual segments visibly retain their separate identities, they cannot be classified as a solid, unified mass (the "39 Melochos" book by Rabbi Dovid Ribiat Volume 2 pg. 547 based on Taz 321:15 and Mishna Berura S"K 68). Based on this, Shmiras Shabbos Kehilchoso (8:4) permits preparing potato salad on Shabbos, and the "39 Melochos" book (pg. 548) writes that coleslaw is also permitted. Although the cabbage strips stick pretty well they still remain individually identifiably and not one mass of salad.


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WASHINGTON — Madeline Stevens knows what it's like to be a military brat.
"The first week of school, it's really hard," said Stevens, a 17-year-old from Jacksonville, Fla., who has moved eight times with her naval aviator father and attended 10 different schools. "You sit by yourself at lunch; you try and make friends in classes. When you're younger it's easier because, you know, you just share crayons, and you're new best friends."
But in high school Stevens said she's had to integrate herself into sports and clubs to make friends, many of whom already have known each other most of their lives. The shuffle also has been a strain academically.
Moving can be tough for any child, but it can be even harder for children of military families, who, like Stevens, may relocate more frequently. They must leave friends behind and get acclimated to new schools that may have a different curriculum than the one they left behind. And the emotional impact of having a deployed parent can also include worry and anxiety, said Mary Ann Rafoth, dean of Robert Morris University's School of Education and Social Sciences.
"Most of us go through each day not realizing that we're a nation at war. But those kids do," she said. "They often feel like they're carrying that burden alone."
However, educators often don't have the tools to help military children cope.
A new initiative being launched Wednesday by first lady Michelle Obama and the vice president's wife, Jill Biden, is designed to better prepare educators instructing military-connected children. "Operation: Educate the Educator" already has a commitment from more than 100 colleges offering teaching degrees.
The Obama administration has partnered with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Military Child Education Coalition to help military children as they face social, emotional and learning challenges in the classroom while having an active-duty parent.
The colleges that have signed on have agreed to incorporate information about military children in the training curriculums for student teachers, push faculty and student teachers to do research on military children and require student teachers to work with military children as part of their final clinical experience or internship.
The guidelines also encourage the colleges to work with admissions offices to identify military children, offer workshops and seminars to faculty and student teachers, and partner with K-12 schools for joint development programs.
There are nearly 2 million students whose parents are either on active duty, members of the National Guard or Reserves or military veterans, according to the Military Child Education Coalition. Students often move six to nine times during their preschool through high school education. More than 80 percent of the 1.1 million-plus K-12 students attend public schools.
Biden said she was moved by a story of a little girl who burst into tears when "Ave Maria" played at her school's Christmas program because the song had also been played at the funeral of father, who died in Iraq.
"It was so shocking to me that that teacher really was unaware that this girl had a daddy who was in the military," she said. "We have to make sure that we can identify the military children and that we can do things to celebrate military families."
Biden said it was inevitable that the education of military children would become part of Joining Forces, the initiative she launched with Mrs. Obama in 2011 to support military families. The campaign also has helped formerly deployed soldiers seek employment stateside and has aided spouses.
"We say, when you have a family member who is in the military service, the families serve too," she said. "Think of the pressures on the families, and so they're all in this together."
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The GFWC/OH Wintersville Woman's Club officially welcomed three new members into the club during an installation ceremony held at its Nov. 15 meeting at St. Florian Hall in Wintersville attended by 55 members and one guest.
Judy Anastasio, membership committee chair, installed new members Robbie Young, sponsored by Barb Thermes; Kathleen Henry, sponsored by Jackie Davis; and Jeannie Barker, sponsored by Carole Montgomery.
The new members were presented with a yellow rose bouquet, the club flower.
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Membership Committee Chair Judy Anastasio, left, installed new club members, from left, Robbie Young, Kathleen Henry and Jeannie Barker.
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Natalie Doty, the club's second vice president, presented the program on "Let's Visit Morocco."
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The installation ceremony was part of the club's business meeting that followed a luncheon where Charlotte Shively offered a meditation on Thanksgiving, and Natalie Doty said grace.
Hostesses were Mary Beth Allan, Pat Daily, Ruth Carson, Nancy Smith, Barb Grimm and Lu Grimm.
With international affairs as the program theme, members heard from their peer, Natalie Doty, the club's second vice president, a retired physical education teacher who gave a presentation entitled "Let's Visit Morocco."
Doty was introduced by Marjean Sizemore, first vice president, and incidentally, it was pointed out, that Doty was the grand prize winner in the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times 2012 Holiday Cookbook contest with her recipe for Cranberry-Pear Clafouti. Congratulations for that.
Doty donned native attire to reflect on her impressions of a trip there many years ago that fostered one of her favorite stories - that being the only blonde woman in the tour group meant an exercise in safety precautions, her tour guide insisted. "Men will pull you aside, take you home and you'll never be seen again," she said she was cautioned.
Her presentation included a capsule look at places visited, food eaten, customs observed and experiences cemented, all of which combined for a special journey.
"I loved it," Doty said of her visit there in 1993.
During the business meeting where Barb Thermes, president, presided, reports were given by Linda Cipriani, corresponding secretary; CarolynLee Barrett, recording secretary; and Joyce Palmer, treasurer.
Committee reports included:
SPECIAL PROJECTS: Chairman Ella Jane Burns, reported that Jerry Boyd of Wintersville Good Neighbors would be providing the club with a family's name for Christmas.
ARTS: Donna Phillips, chairman, showed a shoe filled with items which are needed by the ALIVE Shelter. Linda Nolf explained the shelter needs tennis shoes, and the club will purchase them as well as fill them with toiletry items. Members will help stuff the shoes following the December business meeting.
WAYS AND MEANS: Judy Weaver, chairman, distributed Uncle Al's catalogs. She reported that 17 people ordered 55 bulb sets.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: Barb Whiteman, chairman, thanked everyone for the 108 food items for World Hunger brought to the October meeting. The food items were taken to the East Springfield Woman's Club, which furnishes food in that area. Its 15 club members operate a food bank that helps 65 families.
She also expressed appreciation for club members clipping and contributing coupons sent to military bases in the United Kingdom. The most recent batch was valued at $5,760. She also encouraged members to continue to collect toiletry items to be brought to the January meeting.
Under new business, it was announced that the executive board meeting produced the recommendation that the club donate $200 for the Memorial Shrine Bench project. It was approved.
The club's Dec. 20 luncheon and business meeting at St. Forian Hall will include a "Sing in the Season" program presented by Tom Graham, a Jefferson County commissioner.
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By DANIEL GILBERT
Recent pipeline
ruptures, including one at an ExxonMobil pipeline that
caused a major oil spill in Arkansas last month, are raising
fresh questions about the safety of pipes made decades ago
using obsolete welding techniques.
Though the industry stopped making what is known as
low-frequency, electric-resistance welded pipe by about 1970,
it still accounts for more than a quarter of the 182,500 miles
of liquid fuel pipelines across the US, according to federal
data for 2011, the latest available.
The accidents come as federal regulators are examining
whether state-of-the-art inspection methods are capable of
detecting flaws in these old pipe seams. A US regulator has
commissioned a study of old, substandard pipe that could help
shape new rules.
In the Exxon rupture and another on a Chevron pipeline in
Utah last month that spilled 600 bbl of diesel near the Great
Salt Lake, segments of the pipes were made about 60 years ago
by bending metal sheets to form a tube, then heating the edges
with a low-frequency electric current to weld them lengthwise.
Such welds can leave defects in seams that make them vulnerable
to corrosion and cracks, risks that have been known for
The Chevron pipeline appeared to split along the welded
seam, according to federal regulators. A Chevron spokesman said
while the investigation continues, "Initial indications are
that the release may have been the result of a longitudinal
seam failure in the pipeline."
The Exxon pipeline gushed about 5,000 bbl of crude into a
residential neighborhood through a 22-foot, incision-like
"It clearly looks like a seam-type failure," Rick Kuprewicz,
a pipeline-safety consultant, said after seeing photographs of
the Exxon rupture.
Exxon spokesman Alan Jeffers said the company hasn't reached
any conclusions on the cause of the pipeline failure and is
awaiting a third-party review of the ruptured section, which
was removed on Monday.
"If we felt there was a problem we would have done something
else, but in hindsight clearly there was an issue," Mr. Jeffers
said of the company's safety tests.
It isn't clear from federal records how often obsolete welds
play a role in accidents. Of the 1,151 accidents on liquids
pipelines since 2010 reported to federal regulators, 78% don't
show what kind of weld was involved, and 85% don't show when
the pipe was manufactured, according to a Wall Street
Journal review of government data.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration says
most of the accidents involved very small spills, or weren't
related to pipe welds, so operators weren't required to furnish
detailed information about them.
But the number of pipeline accidents has been rising; the
364 accidents on liquids pipelines last year were the most
since 2008, but fewer than in 2002, according to federal
The threat of substandard welding "seems to be rearing its
ugly head again," said Carl Weimer, a pipeline-safety advocate
and executive director of nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust. "The
issue is how well are companies mitigating for that risk?"
A spokesman for the Association of Oil Pipe Lines says old
pipe is safe as long as it is well-maintained, and that spills
are relatively rare.
Federal regulators have questioned the adequacy of
inspection methods that failed to reveal problems with these
pipes before major explosions, including a 2007 blast in
Mississippi that killed two people and injured seven.
The welds are such a concern that PHMSA, the pipeline
regulator, in 2011 commissioned a $4.2 million, multi-year
study of electric-welded pipes and how to prevent them from
failing while in use.
Battelle Memorial Institute, which is conducting the study,
has analyzed 280 cases in which electric-welded pipes failed
between 1950 and 2005, including 55 failures while the pipe was
in use. The nonprofit research group says the surest way to
identify a weld defect is to pump water through the pipe at
high pressure. Such tests are costly, requiring a company to
shut down the line, and in some cases apparently led to
failures when placed back in service, Battelle says.
The other chief testing method involves running a robotic
device through the interior of the pipe to detect any
anomalies. This device, commonly called a "smart pig," has at
times failed to catch flaws that later resulted in a
"Neither of them is foolproof," said Brian Leis, a
researcher leading Battelle's study. "Both are better than
Chevron last pressure-tested the pipeline that ruptured in
Utah in 1987, and inspected it internally in 2009. Exxon
conducted a pressure test on its Arkansas pipe in 2006,
according to regulators. It conducted an internal inspection in
2010 that didn't find any significant anomalies, and another
one in February, but hasn't received the results, regulators
By 1970, most pipe manufacturers began using a
high-frequency current to weld, which produced seams less prone
to fractures, according to a Battelle report submitted to
federal regulators in September.
Last July, a pipeline carrying gasoline in southeastern
Wisconsin split along an old electric-welded seam, spilling
about 1,000 barrels and prompting the evacuation of two
The operator, West Shore Pipeline, reported a second rupture
in August on an similarly antiquated seam. It pressure-tested
both pipelines more than a decade ago, and performed several
different internal inspections on them between 2009 and
"We are continuing to consistently re-evaluate our programs,
and consistently look to further test our lines to maintain
them safely and operate them safely," said Patrick D. Hodgins,
a spokesman for Buckeye Partners, which controls West Shore
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Pipeline companies may want to consider paying more up front for acoustic emissions (AE) testing of the pipeline. I have used AE on hazardous chemicals pipelines, so why not use it on other types of pipelines. Do a risk analysis and weigh the cost of the analysis versus the cost and liability from a major spill. When used in conjunction with the smart pigs at reasonable time intervals (More than once/decade), potential rupture points can be identified and repaired or replaced.
Kei th Bowers
It seems pretty likely (highly probable) the present 'inspection and testing' practices are not adequate. However, it is imperative the incidence of 'leaks' is grossly overstated in the presently available Federal Government data. Rupture (failure in service) incidences are by far the most important for pipeline safety evaluation. The vast majority of 'leaks' are not due to pipe failures, but people hitting the pipe with excavators. Also, very small leaks discovered and reported should be separately categorized by type of cause to identify 'failure in service' leaks that would have progressed to major failures.
John Bolenbaugh
I am the Whistle Blower for the 2010 Tar Sand oil spill in Michigan. Go to my web site HELPPA.org to see the video proof of cover ups, lies and sick residents.
Jagat Bandhu Sonar
Health survey employing Smart Intelligent Pig shall reveal the weak circumferential joints on analyzing for stress related rupture failure at welds or at HAZ or is a creep failure or fatigue failure and remaining life can be predicted to cal for predictive / prevented maintenance avoiding uncalled for rupture.Regards,J B Sonar09717966295
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Keystone habits were described in The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. The idea is that instead of a changing the big habits in life we should focus on small seemingly inconsequential habits and work towards changing them. The result will be an easier change in the bigger habits.
Does this approach work?
That book is pretty much the only popular reference to the concept of Keystone Habits. It does not seem to be present in any other popular books/sites.


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Hundreds of seniors received Christmas presents thanks to the Be a Santa to a Senior Program.
The program is part of the Foster Grandparent program at Community Action of Southern Kentucky.
Today the seniors were served a Christmas dinner, and gifts were passed out by Santa.
Organizers say they look forward to the moment each present is delivered.
"It's very wonderful, and it's just a blessing to us and our staff to be able to see the smiles on their faces and everything when they get their gifts," said Community Action of Southern Kentucky Public Information Coordinator Charity Parrish.
Parrish says more than a thousand gifts were donated by General Motors, Home Instead Senior Care, Fruit of the Loom, and many individuals in the community who did everything from selecting their seniors to shopping and wrapping gifts.


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A dirty and injured dog found wandering near a road in Port St. Lucie has been cleaned up and will be available for adoption.
But not until she has her leg amputated.
AUTUMN: Wish Her Well On Facebook
Autumn will undergo the procedure by Dr. Leonard Fox at the Animal Hospital of West Port St. Lucie on Wednesday, according to a statement released by the Humane Society of St. Lucie County.
The dog is estimated to be 2 years old, and after she was found by Port St. Lucie Animal Control officials, it was determined her gimpy back left leg had been broken as a puppy.
Fox is performing the operation at a "greatly reduced price," the release said. Afterward, Autumn will be available for adoption.


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A new talent agency has been started. You may be interested in its first advertisement:
Wanted: Athletes interested in guidance to become the best in the world. Get in touch with Ashley Judd Talent Agency, Hollywood (or Lexington during the college basketball season, especially during the NCAA Tournament.)
That's fantasy, of course, but Ashley would have more going for her than any other talent agency in the world.
Just think: The repeat winner of the Indianapolis 500 (and third championship in all) is Ashley's husband, Dario Franchitti.
The reigning national championship basketball team is the University of Kentucky, whose most famous graduate just happens to be one Ashley Judd. She also is the No. 1 fan of Coach Cal's Wildcats. When she's shooting a movie, she makes sure it doesn't interfere with the Wildcats' schedule.
Come on, 3rd Crown!
Thoroughbred racing desperately needs another Triple Crown. If I'll Have Another can win the Belmont and complete the first Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978, we will have our 12th Triple Crown champion.
All together now, let's recite the greatest of the greatest:
1919: Sir Barton
1930: Gallant Fox
1935: Omaha
1937: War Admiral
1941: Whirlaway
1943: Count Fleet
1946: Assault
1948: Citation
1973: Secretariat
1977: Seattle Slew
1978: Affirmed
Trainers: Boo!
Somehow it just doesn't seem right for Doug O'Neill's suspension to be delayed until after the Belmont. I have a great idea to end the "milkshake crisis" in racing.
When a trainer gets caught, his punishment should be to have a hose stuck down his throat – or nose – and a real milkshake poured down the hose.
I am an animal lover. Horses and tigers are Gods' most beautiful creatures on Earth. But horses also are among the dumbest. I learned long ago that when a horse and mule are pulling a load, the mule always will let the horse pull most of it.
I learned that from my uncle who always kept a beautiful riding horse. But the horse had to be harnessed with a mule during the plowing season. My uncle would tell his men, "Don't let that mule make my horse pull most of the load."
The UK Zarankas
The University of Kentucky has lost one of its most ardent football fans with the death of Betty Zaranka, 86. She was married for 61 years to Benny Zaranka, who was recruited by Paul "Bear" Bryant to play end for him.
Following his graduation, Benny stayed in Lexington. For years, the Zarankas and friends gathered in the parking lot at the stadium on Friday night. If the Cats were on the road, the Zarankas and friends drove in a procession of Big Blue RVs.
Benny also pitched for the Cats when UK's two coaching giants, Bryant and basketball's Adolph Rupp, let two of their top assistants take turns to make a little extra money by coaching the baseball Cats. Frank Moseley (football) and Harry Lancaster (basketball) were the two shared by the Bear and the Baron.
The Cats were taking a shellacking in one game pitched by Zaranka. Football player Allen Hamilton was playing right field. Finally, when so many balls were hit over his head, Hamilton, a Male High graduate, turned his back and got in a sprinter's stance so he could get a head start on the balls.
Moseley chastised Hamilton, telling him "you'll hurt Benny's feelings."


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Hunger for nourishment. Hunger for touch. Hunger to belong.
Half-human and half-faery, Ani is driven by her hungers. Those same cravings also attract powerful enemies and uncertain allies including Devlin, the assassin who is brother to the faeries' High Queen. Ani and Devlin are drawn together, but as they grow closer, a larger threat imperils the whole of Faerie. Will saving the faery realm mean losing each other?
Alluring romance, heart-stopping danger, and sinister intrigue combine in the penultimate volume of Melissa Marr's New York Times bestselling Wicked Lovely series.
About the Author
Melissa Marr is the author of the bestselling Wicked Lovely series as well as the adult fantasy novels Graveminder and The Arrivals. When not writing, editing, or traveling, Melissa is buried under a plethora of books, dogs, and children in Virginia or online at www.melissa-marr.com.
Praise For…
"Marr has done it again with this dark, beautifully woven story of love, magic, and belonging. She offers new insight on characters readers will fall in love with all over again. This is one of Marr's best." (a Top Pick)
-Romantic Times BOOKclub
PRAISE FOR THE WICKED LOVELY SERIES:Marr takes her faeries and makes them seem real in her latest breathtaking tale. This entertaining story twists as long-laid plot points come to fruition and readers are kept on their toes throughout. It's a keeper!"—
-Romantic Times BOOKclub
"Fans of the fey world will devour this sequel to Wicked Lovely. Marr has created a world both harsh and lush, at once urban and natural."
-School Library Journal
"Complex and involving."
-New York Times Book Review


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From Ralph Hipp
English lit majors know it, his faithful fans know it.. and hopefully millions more of us know it.
Today, February 7th, is the 200th anniversary of the birth of literary genius Charles Dickens. Far from being a forgotten writer who was only notable in his day, Charles Dickens has those millions of adoring fans even today. I am one of them. The guys books are just amazing, and read so well today. And millions of Oprah Winfrey's fans can't be wrong. They grabbed every copy of "Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations" in the double edition that was her Oprah Book Club selection in the last few months of her show. Great Expectations, what a fabulous tale of the lives of Pip and Estella, and I still have it my Kindle. Sales of the novel have skyrocketed with the lavish production done recently on the BBC. And I couldn't stop watching their production of "Little Dorrit," which I checked out on DVD from the library.
Every holiday, of course, we experience Scrooge and Tiny Tim on stage in "Christmas Carol," which has been made into several notable films. The list goes on from there with his stories on the famous boys "David Copperfield" and "Oliver Twist" -- and on to some of the really dark ones like "Bleak House' and "Hard Times."
His prolific writing made him a rock star during his two visits to the United States. Can you imagine being there to see him?
Today, at the Dickens Museum in London, they are marking his 200 years with free birthday cupcakes for the first 200 guests who arrive from noon to 5pm today. Don't think I will make it over for that.. and will also be missing the British Library's Dickens exhibit or the British Film Institute running film adaptations of his amazing stories.
I'm promising to read a lot more Charles Dickens this bicentennial year. Tell me if you're a C.D. fan too, and your favorite novels. If you haven't started on one, please read along and join us! rh


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Richard Evans' '67 Ford Mustang - Persistence PaysWritten by Steven Rupp on March 12, 2008 Contributors: Johnny Hunkins After Many Changes, Richard Evans Finally Got His Budget Turbocharged '67 Mustang Just The Way He Wanted It.
Richard Evans was destined to be become a gearhead. He learned to drive in his parents' '69 Mach I Mustang with a 351 under the hood and a four-speed trans, so he had an early appreciation for American muscle. "My mom would take me out to practice driving and tell me it was better to spin the tires than to let the car stall," says Richard. "When we got back home, my dad would show me the ropes on maintenance and performance." Add to the mix an older brother with a slick '67 'Stang, and it's easy to see why Richard is where he's at.
Back in '86, Richard's brother, Roy, bought a tired '67 Mustang using a thousand bucks he'd saved up on his paper route. Over the years, Richard was there, while his brother fixed it up. "Driving around town with him was a great time. We would pull up to a light and see everyone looking for which car was making all that noise. Then they would notice us. At that time I realized I really wanted a Mustang of my own," says Richard. In '95, he finally got his chance when his brother decided to sell his Mustang. Two thousand bucks was the cost to fulfill that dream, and Richard was on top of the world at the tender age of 16. "It was a cool car for a high school kid. So much so, that my best friend in high school and now business partner, Dustin Gregory, had to get one too. We spent almost every weekend at the junkyard trying to find parts for our cars, from gear swaps to disc brake conversions." Everyone at the school knew them as the guys with the old Mustangs. Life was good.
Over the years, his ride started to show its age. The paint started to fade and the interior didn't quite look as fresh, so in '03 Richard decided to fix up the Mustang and make it stand out from the crowd. He started by grafting on some fiberglass parts and shaving the driprails for a cleaner look. Then he needed to find someone to paint it on his tight budget. "Trying to find a painter wasn't easy and when I did find one he asked me why I would want to paint a stripe on the car that big and in those colors. The answer was to do something different," recalls Richard.
With the looks addressed, it was now the drivetrain that needed some major TLC. The motor was tired, so a '90 roller 302 short-block with a Crower cam was put in place along with a set of stock ported cast-iron heads. Of course, the new high-power mill chewed up the C4 trans, so that had to be replaced. In fact, the Mustang has had four different engines before its current 349 stroker and three other C4 trannys before the AOD transmission it now runs. He didn't have any better luck with rearends either. Three of them bit the dust before he stepped up to the current Currie nine-inch. "All due to heavy foot/sticky tire syndrome," deadpanned Richard.
In '05, with the paint and drivetrain done just the way he wanted, Richard thought he was done. He was wrong. Richard: "My buddy Dustin comes up with the bright idea to start making and selling turbo kits for classics and that he's going to do one on his car. I went from thinking I was done modifying my car to not even close. All it took was one ride in his '67 Mustang to change my mind and a few more conversations with my wife, Amy, to get the approval." With the turbo kit bolted to the 349 stroker small-block, more changes were then needed. Subframe connectors went in to help tame the newly found chassis flex and a rollbar was added in preparation for faster e.t.'s. Since they were welding to the floor, they also figured it was a good time to replace the floor pans. It's the same deal we've all been though. One change ends up requiring something else to be addressed. Welcome to hot rodding 101.
The chassis was built like Richard was on a tight budget, mainly because he was. Running the front spindles from a '78 Ford Granada meant he could also run the Granada's front disc brakes, a move that saved him big bucks. Out back, he modified the rear disc brakes from a '98 Explorer. Again, it was a cheap solution to a big problem. The steering is stock, as are most of the other components. Money was saved, since Richard only replaced what needed replacing. What a concept.
The interior of the classic coupe is simple, functional, and comfortable. The rear seats, carpet, and headliner were redone by Classic Performance in Santee, California and the front seats are from Summit. Richard then dropped in a killer Kenwood audio system for cruising tunes. "I bought the Auto Meter gauges from Summit Racing and then had Classic Performance install them into the factory cluster. I also bought a rear seat from a 2000 GT Mustang and installed it so it folds down just like the new Mustangs," says Richard. Swing-out bars on the roll cage make getting in much easier, while an RJS harness system keeps the driver firmly anchored.
With the car together, it was time to start having some real fun with it. The first pull on the dyno netted 380 rear-wheel hp and 390 lb-ft of torque, but the air/fuel ratio was dropping to 9.9 at 4,200 rpm. After a few jet changes, they were rewarded with a much better pull of 477 rear-wheel hp and 462 lb-ft of torque. Even though the output was much improved, the air/fuel was still rich at around 10.9 and the mill quit making power at 5,600 rpm. Richard explained: "With the numbers going up fast with minor tuning, we opted to hold off leaning out the fuel curve and save the stock block by putting a smaller waste gate spring in. Dyno numbers were great, but we still didn't know what she ran. With the air/fuel as safe as it was, we headed up to the local eighth-mile, Barona Dragstrip, and after four passes it ran a best of 7.10 at 98.9 mph. (About 11.15 in the quarter.-ed) I'm very happy with the track numbers, but I still want the full quarter-mile timeslip!" Richard doesn't try to fool himself into thinking his car is done. He's already saving up for a stronger block and he knows that will lead to even more upgrades. But he wouldn't have it any other way.
The Numbers
'67 Ford Mustang
Richard Evans, 28 * La Mesa, CA
Total cost to build: approx. $25,000
Color: '04 Honda S2000 Silverstone Metallic
Chassis dyno: 477 hp at 5,600 rpm, 462 lb-ft at 4,200 rpm (91 octane and 12 psi boost)
Weight: 3,240 lbs with driver
|349ci stroker
|1990 vintage {{{Ford}}} 302
|Compression ratio:
|3.040 inches
|3.40 inches
|Milodon pan, Melling pump
|Rotating assembly:
|nodular-iron crank,
|CHP I-beam rods
|Cylinder heads:
|Canfield aluminum
|hydraulic roller, .542/.542-inch lift
|and 224/224 degrees
|duration at 0.050-inch
|Crane 1.6 rockers
|and COMP hardened pushrods
|Holley 750 blow-through,
|modified with Proform main body
|Power adder:
|T-70 Master Power turbo
|with .96 A/R exhaust housing
|off-the-shelf headers
|by CPR Street Machines,
|3-inch Dynatech muffler
|CPR Street Machines
|Machine work:
|Total Performance, Santee, CA
|'{{{90}}} Ford {{{Mustang}}} AOD
|by DRW Transmission, Santee, CA
|3,000 rpm stall speed 10-inch
|by Art Carr
|Hurst Z-gate
|Rear axle:
|Currie 9-inch, Richmond 3.50 gears,
|Ford Traction-Lok posi,
|narrowed 2.25 inches
|Front suspension:
|620-pound springs,
|roller perches, {{{Summit}}} adjustable shocks
|Rear suspension:
|five-leaf mid-eye leaf springs,
|Rancho {{{9000}}} shocks
|Front spindles:
|'78 Granada
|'78 Granada front disc brakes
|with slotted rotors,
|'98 {{{Ford Explorer}}} rear disc
|Boyds Genesis five spoke,
|17x11 rear, 17x7 front
|315/35R17 Nitto 555R drag radials rear
|(no mini-tub), and
|225/45R17 Nitto NT 450s front
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At the heart of Richard Evans' budget-beater '67, is this late-model roller cam 302. It's got a nodular-iron 3.400-inch stroke crank and a .040-overbore, which brings the cubes to 349. A non-intercooled T-70 turbo, blowing through a modified Holley 750 endows the budget plant with enough snot to run bottom 7s in the eighth-mile.Look closely at the speedometer and you'll notice it shows 20,355 miles. That's because Richard drives his Mustang between three and five days a week.


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5 Ridiculous Myths You Probably Believe About the Dark Ages
From Stone Age to Space Age, every era in human history has ultimately been about progress. Well, almost every era. The Dark Ages are an exception to the rule -- everyone knows that after Rome fell, the world stumbled ass-backward into a figurative night that lasted for centuries. It was a period of intellectual and economic darkness where everyone was either a brutal warrior or a filth-encrusted victim.
Well, that's what they say, anyway. Although the Dark Ages were definitely darker than modern times (in the same way cellphone reception was significantly worse during the Bronze Age), they were by no means the bottomless pit of despair they're generally presented as. In the name of correcting some popular misconceptions about the period, let's take on myths you almost certainly have been led to believe.
(The Dark Ages aren't the only era you've been lied to about. Buy our De-Textbook and you'll learn that the Pyramids used to glow white at night, and that the ancient samurai "bushido" code was just made up in 1900. Your favorite book sellers are now accepting pre-orders!)
#5. Society Was Cruel and the Standard of Living Sucked
The Myth:
Look, they were called the goddamned Dark Ages for a reason. Society was barely a thing, and infrastructure was practically nonexistent. Warlords and barbarians roamed the land, every surface was covered by a layer of filth, and the general populace had the life expectancy of a three-legged gazelle in a lion's den. Meanwhile, the church was going around torturing people until they converted, and then probably kept torturing them anyway. Honestly, go find a movie or book about the era and we guarantee it's not going to have a bunch of smiling children on the cover.
Skulls smile, right?
The Reality:
Actually, the standard of living was pretty decent, even if you were poor as hell. In fact, humanity managed to hit new highs in charity, health care, and innovative philanthropy almost on a daily basis.
Hulton Archive / Getty
Welcome to the real Medieval Times.
For one thing, slavery went out of style during the Dark Ages. Romans had notoriously loved them some slaves, but improvements in farming technology and better-bred draft animals made forced human labor less necessary as time progressed. Instead, the classes that would probably have found themselves in slavery were mostly either free workers or, at worst, serfs. The latter were still technically not free (they couldn't leave the land without their lord's permission), but enjoyed a much greater freedom than slaves.
The rise of Christianity, while admittedly resulting in a lot of people being set on fire, also saw a dramatic increase in charities. Almost immediately after the church gained a foothold in Europe, they started introducing a widespread system of charity that distributed food, clothing, and money to those in need. Perhaps not by coincidence, the concepts of goodwill hospices, hospitals, and shelters for the poor were also invented during the "dark" ages, paving the way for the public health care system.
And, eventually, a health care system based on something besides incense and the Virgin Mary.
Don't get us wrong -- if you went back to the medieval era in a time machine, you would hate it for all of the five minutes it took the locals to murder you for witchcraft. But the term "Dark Ages" isn't even used by scholars because there isn't much evidence that life sucked any more than the periods before or after it (but more on that later). It's just that pop culture only remembers the violent parts, like where people would gather to watch dudes stab each other off of horses for fun. Speaking of which ...
#4. Entertainment in the Dark Ages Consisted of Jousting and Sword Fights
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The Myth:
You've been to a Medieval Times restaurant, you know the deal: When the people of the Dark Ages wanted to unwind after a hard day of shedding blood, their leisurely entertainment of choice was shedding even more blood.
Oli Scarff / Getty
"But this time, we're drunk!"
So whenever Europe wasn't in the throes of yet another war, the subjects of its various kingdoms found other ways to satiate their notorious bloodlust and hunger for combat. Naturally, they preferred games that mirrored war as much as possible -- jousting was obviously the king, but various combat events and "club the other guy's head in" sports were also popular.
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Suddenly, football seems markedly less interesting.
The Reality:
Jousting -- everyone's go-to mental image of a historical blood sport -- wasn't even really possible during this period; proper jousting stirrups had not yet been adopted in most of Europe, so the lack of foothold would have sent the combatants flying like sacks of potatoes at the tiniest impact. In fact, jousting was strictly a military drill until the late 11th century.
Daniel Berehulak / Getty
"... and then we suddenly realized, 'This is awesome!'"
The reality is less awesome: Even the "darkest" centuries of the Dark Ages were all about harmless family fun. Compared to the eras before and since, sports and games during the Dark Ages were decidedly less combative. A lot of the stuff people of the Dark Ages did for fun is very similar to what we still do today (when we're not wasting the day away on the Internet). In fact, archery competitions, boxing, and rugby were all either invented or refined during the Dark Ages.
Oh, and get this: Norse sagas from the ninth century describe fearsome Vikings merrily frolicking on ice skating rinks and in skiing competitions. And let's not forget the really popular pastimes such as bowling, dancing, tag, and horseshoe throwing. Yes, goddamn horseshoe throwing was all the rage during the Dark Ages. Compare that to the full-on gladiatorial carnage that went down during Roman times, or the tournaments that came during the later Middle Ages. So which age deserves the "dark" moniker?
Nigel Treblin / Stringer / Getty
Incredibly stylish bloodshed is still bloodshed.
#3. It Was Constant, Brutal Warfare
The Myth:
The reason the Dark Ages got their name was because they were supposedly the sad, shitty years after the fall of the glorious Roman Empire. When the Roman Empire was taken out of the picture by barbarian hordes in A.D. 476, there was suddenly a shocking lack of nations that could swing the World Police hammer. Upon noticing the sudden absence of a Big Brother, various chieftains all over Europe immediately went "Fuck yeah!" and started rabidly chaos-warring against each other.
Oli Scarff / Getty
Bill had the best chaos-warring helmet. Everyone said so.
Soon, the whole continent descended into a never-ending state of total war, princes and warlords fighting for control of each other's dirt farms.
The Reality:
Sure, there was fighting. That much is true. What people tend to forget is the scale of the fighting.
Oli Scarff / Getty
"Mark, one day I'll throw a war and everyone will come."
Comparing Dark Ages battles with, say, Roman warfare is like comparing a slap fight between two toddlers with the Rumble in the Jungle: They both technically qualify as fights, but one of them is a lot less likely to get millions of people excited.
Let's be clear: Rome was the tits when it came to large-scale warrin'. During their first war with Carthage, a Roman fleet with 100,000 men was lost in a single day. Rome responded to this catastrophic loss by calmly sending in more troops and continuing the war for another decade and a half. Over the course of the second Carthaginian War, Rome suffered nearly 400,000 casualties without batting an eye. The Roman Empire wasn't really interested in outwitting its opponents -- it just outlasted them. If Rome had a problem, it kept throwing troops at it until it stopped causing trouble.
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There's no political issue too intractable for a bunch of angry men with pointed sticks.
When the Roman Empire fractured, Europe's economy became increasingly localized. Without an intercontinental tax base and a healthy division of labor, giant standing armies became artifacts of a bygone era. This sudden lack of fiscal infrastructure also left the scores of kings and princes who filled the Roman power vacuum strapped for cash. Sure, they probably would have wanted to roar through the continent with a million men, legion style; they just didn't have the money to pay such huge armies.
Most leaders responded to this problem by introducing a feudal system; they divided and distributed their land holdings, dealing out plots for military service. Since very few of them had all that much land to begin with, this kept the armies relatively tiny -- even the most massive military forces of the latter stages of the era had well under 20,000 soldiers. Most armies were basically just large mobs. As such, warfare in the Dark Ages was defined by quick skirmishes fought between tiny forces. There were no campaigns, no decade-long struggles, no hellish living in a war-torn land; just two gangs of dudes clashing for a while, then wandering away to tend their fields.
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Why we use the symbol $\sqrt{}$ when we take square roots ? Anybody knows the history ?
We use "\sqrt" (in TeX) since Knuth chose that command for the square root symbol.
Square roots have been computed since the days of the Babyloneans, but they didn't use the symbol.
The symbol √ for the square root was first used in print in 1525 in Christoph Rudolff's Coss.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_root, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematical_notation
This question has already been completely answered, but here is a bit more on history.
The symbol has its origin in the Latin letter R as an abbreviation of radix (latin: root). It has been used by Leonardo de Pisa (Fibonacci) in his seminal book Liber Abaci (1202) where he treats square roots and cubic roots in chapter 14 and 15 (as well as in his later less well known Liber Quadratorum (1225)).
Fibonacci, like Euclid, did not invent all the mathematics he reports, but took much of it from the Arabian world, mainly from al-Khwarizmi and Omar Khayyam. The Arabian word for "root" had been used by al-Khwarizmi already; his word is rendered radix in translations from the Arabic to Latin by Robert of Chester, John of Seville, and Gerard of Cremona. It appears also in Alexandre de Villedieu's Carmen de Algorismo (1240) and in Sacrobosco's Algorismus (1250). By the way Fibonacci calculates approximations but considers roots as exact numbers, even if they cannot be expressed as integers or fractions.
Following the tradition of medieval writers, Nicolas Chuquet used the uppercase Latin letter R with a small stroke, looking very similar to Px when written close together. Both, R and R$^2$ indicate the square root, R$^3$ indicates the cubic root, R$^4$ the forth root and so on. Regiomontanus (1464), Luca Pacioli (1494), and Estienne de la Roche (1520) adopted this sign.
The hook-like symbol √ that resembles a small r was introduced by Christoff Rudolff in his book "Die Coß" (1525), the first German book on algebra. He used c√ for cubic root and √√ for fourths root. (By the way he introduced also the convention $x^0$ = 1). English, French and Italien writers were slow in adopting that German sign. Even in Germany the symbol "l" for latus (side of the square) was long in use. After Michael Stifel had published the second edition of Rudolff's Coß (1553) the symbol became more and more accepted.
René Descartes (1596 bis 1650) invented (or extended) the bar above the radicand (this word being first used in 1889) in order to indicate what symbols belong to the radicand.
Moritz Cantor: "Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik", Teubner, Leipzig (1894) http://archive.org/stream/vorlesungenber02cantuoft#page/n5/mode/2up
Florian Cajori: "A History of Mathematics" MacMillan, London (1909) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31061/31061-pdf.pdf
David Eugene Smith: "History of Mathematics, vol. 2", Dover Publications (1958) http://books.google.de/books/about/History_of_Mathematics.html?id=uTytJGnTf1kC&redir_esc=y
Edit As Paul Taylor said Florian Cajori favours another root of the root symbol, namely the generation of an upstroke from a row of points. In fact there may have been many sources playing together. Moritz Cantor points out that Alkasadi (or Alkasawi) an Arab living in Spain (died 1477 or 1486) wrote a book which is known under different titles like Lifting the veils of the science of the Gubar (Gubar means "dust" or "calculating with digits") where he not only abbreviated the Arab word for root dschidr by writing its first letter, but wrote it not right of the radicand (in Arabic, meaning in front of the radicand) but above. The jim can be seen in the column Initial in the table Arabic letters usage in Literary Arabic. This could also be a source for our root symbol.


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- Help my sister peel oranges.
- Help my sister to peel oranges.
- Help my sister peeling oranges.
- Help my sister with peeling oranges.
Which of the above is/are correct, and why are the others incorrect?
Which of the above is/are correct, and why are the others incorrect?
Grammatically, all the sentences are correct.
There are usually differences in implication depending on context. Subtle changes in meaning can be imparted by what is called the semantics.
Note also that some forms/ constructs may be idiomatic in some places but not in others. So what sounds natural to some people may be odd to others. It is important to know the target audience in selecting the form of the sentence that suits best.
In many languages, grammatically similar sentences with different word order/ construct can also have different meanings, defined by usage and custom rather than language per se.
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Shoppers in Iowa got an unusual glimpse of wildlife Monday morning when a doe and two fawns wandered into a department store.
Coralville Police Chief Barry Bedford says the deer used doors that open automatically to get into a Kohl's store.
He says the fawns stayed in the store's vestibule, but their mother made it into the store and headed toward the back.
Police say employees opened up some back doors and the doe exited. The two fawns turned around and used the automatic exit doors to leave the store.
No injuries or damage was reported.
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Not all tasks are easy to do. From some tasks mind tries to run somewhere else. How to avoid distractions during the task that I don't like?
I answered, then saw all of the related questions on the side and am not sure this is unique. Did you try reading any of these?
From your rep, I'm assuming this is your first question. It's highly encouraged to read other related posts before creating a new question. Hopefully you did so with the above (which probably auto-populated when you wrote your question).
Others have said much of this, but I thought it would be helpful if you gave more of a description. What, exactly, makes it boring? If it's mindless manual labor, then is there a reason to keep your mind from wandering? I often welcome repetitive tasks as I get to think about other things in my life that need attention.
If it's manual labor, but requires you don't make any mistakes (say stuffing envelopes and not missing any items or forgetting a stamp), perhaps that's not the case. Some ideas (several of which have been mentioned above):
As a personal example, I once was asked to go through some number of text files output from a device which contained gobbledygook codes. I was an intern and my supervisor showed me an example file. He opened it in word, told me to Ctrl+F (find) a specific code, look to see if the output showed it acquiring GPS status, and then copy the GPS code (if it was there) into the appropriate row in an Excel file.
I did this for a few files (horrible) and then realized that I had just finished learning how to open and read files with Java in college. I spent about a day and a half writing code instead of working on the files (was in super flow -- challenging, exciting, neat to use something I'd learned) and then ran my code on all the files to generate a .csv which Excel could import. It took about 30 sec to read all of those files vs. literally 2 weeks it would have taken of mindless horror with the Ctrl+F method.
Just thought I'd share that... if there's a more challenging way that still gets the job done, it might be worth considering?
I've also found the Pomodoro technique useful. You work for 25 minutes, take a 5 minute break, and every 4th break you make longer. For those 25 minutes, shut off all distractions (email, Twitter, phone, etc.).
You're pretty much describing a routine day for me. :) I have found that removing distractions, breaking up the project and taking small breaks to be the most effective way to eliminate procrastination on boring tasks.
I either go to a coffee shop where there's none of my OTHER projects stacked up on the table or wear headphones if I can't escape my surroundings. The change of scene sometimes helps a LOT for getting into a different mindset. I set up benchmarks at smaller pieces of the project. For instance, once I get this webform designed and all the fill-in fields properly aligned, I'm going to go get a cup of coffee. I reward myself with frequent small breaks to break up the monotony. I reward the list-making side of me by crossing "build webform" off my list. By subdividing the task into smaller chunks, I can cross off a lot more of my list, giving myself a psycholocial boost.
When I need to work at home or in the office, I often take all my OTHER project folders and put them in a drawer. This removes them from my peripheral vision, and I can't be distracted ~by~ them.
Boring, monotonous tasks are a fact of life, and ultimately it comes down to how well you can focus. Recognizing the problem is a first step. I've provided some simple techniques that work for me; you'll discover what works for you as you try different ideas from a lot of sources. The best method is the one that works for YOU. Explore, learn about yourself, and give yourself permission to fail along the way.
Eliminating distractions as @dwwilson66 says is a good first step. The next is to chunk up your task into 20-30 minute pieces so it doesn't feel so dreadful to do. You can even do 20 minutes of the boring task followed by 20 minutes of something more interesting and so on.
In other words, you have to trick your mind into making the task feel more approachable.


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What Are Compounding Pharmacies?
Oct. 10, 2012 -- How did a single pharmacy in Massachusetts put 13,000 people in 23 states at risk of deadly fungal meningitis?
New England Compounding Center (NECC) is a compounding pharmacy. It has now recalled the 2,410 different drugs it sold in all 50 states. Fungal contamination of at least one product -- single-shot syringes filled with a steroid preparation -- is responsible for the meningitis outbreak.
This raises serious questions about compounding pharmacies, which make some 3% of drugs dispensed in the U.S.
What is a compounding pharmacy?
The traditional role of compounding pharmacies is to make drugs prescribed by doctors for specific patients with needs that can't be met by commercially available drugs, says Linda D. Bentley, JD, chair of the FDA practice group at the Boston offices of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo P.C.
Bentley offers two examples:
- A young child may need a small, liquid dose of a drug made only in adult-dosage tablets.
- A person may be allergic to one of the ingredients in the commercial version of a drug.
In such cases, a compounding pharmacy would make the proper dosage and form of the drug without any offending ingredients.
In recent years, the role of compounding pharmacies has expanded, says David Miller, RPh, CEO of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP), the trade group representing the compounding industry.
"In the last two to three years there has been an upsurge in an old function of compounding pharmacies, to step in on a local basis to fulfill drug shortage issues," Miller says. "What we have seen is on a large scale, important drugs being in shortage and not for short periods as before. Now it's in the months-to-years range. So compounding pharmacies are being looked to on a larger scale as we try to address drug manufacturing problems."
How many compounding pharmacies are there?
According to the IACP, there are 56,000 community-based pharmacies in the U.S. About half of them directly serve local patients and doctors.
Some 7,500 compounding pharmacies specialize in what the IACP calls "advanced compounding services." Some 3,000 of these pharmacies make sterile products. The tainted steroid shots made by NECC were supposed to have been sterile.


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Congress' fiscal cliff deal won't just increase your taxes this year, it will make getting refunds from last year's returns take even longer than usual.
A later filing date means a later refund date. The IRS has pushed back the first day to file your tax returns to Jan. 30. Eight days later than usual.
This is because they have to make last-minute computer program adjustments after congress voted to increase taxes two-percent.
Those who file early because they depend on it to pay bills and other expenses will be the ones affected most by this delay.
"People who have been waiting 12 months to get a $2,500 income tax refund are prepared to spend that as quickly as they get it, and they're going to have to wait possibly until February 21st," said Pete Buser, Accountant and Owner of Tax Professional Service.
The IRS says you should get your refunds within ten to 21 days, but if you're concerned about the status of your refund, you can go to their web site and click on "Where's My Refund." You can also use their IRS2go mobile app.
Buser says last year this program created some controversy.
"In 2012 when people checked on where's my refund, they got nothing because refunds were delayed as they checked for fraud and errors," said Buser.
The IRS has changed that system to show you where your returns are in the process, much like tracking a shipment.
You'll see the date they received, approved, and sent your check.
Buser says this program won't change your delay time, but it can give taxpayers some peace of mind in planning.
Buser says the best thing you can do to ensure you get your refund as quickly as possible, is to file as soon as you can to avoid an even longer waiting period.


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How can I make my vector graphics anti-aliased in illustrator? My paths always turn out jagged. Is there an option like in Adobe Fireworks to smoothen[remove the jaged edges] my paths?
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In Edit > Preferences > General there is an option that toggles Anti-Aliasing for art as it is displayed on screen while you work.
Under Effect > Document Raster Effect Settings there is a checkbox for Anti-Aliasing that controls to some degree the outcome of the file once it is saved to a non-vector format (ie. jpg, gif, png).
Depending on which file type you save to there are often more options that can affect the appearance of jagged lines in your art. What you are saving can influence how you should use these settings, as you may want to do things that may seem counter intuitive. Small type for example may need no or very little anti-aliasing or it will become muddy. Also take into consideration the PPI of the file. Low resolution images will appear have jagged edges even with anti-aliasing—the human eye can detect up to 150 ppi, at 72 ppi the pixels will not resolve at a normal viewing distance.
This worked for me: If you are having aliasing problems in Illustrator CC 2015, ⌘+E toggles between GPU and CPU previewing. CPU's anti-aliasing is 1000% better.
Vector graphics do not have anti-aliasing as they are not raster graphics. If you have jagged edges, it might be your display performance setting. I've seen that in InDesign, not sure if it exists in Illustrator at all, actually.
If you are talking about when you import or paste your vector into Photoshop and it produces jagged edges there, that's a different question entirely.
Please provide a screenshot if you can.
To avoid jagged lines when you "Save for Web & Devices" in the tab "Image Size" set combo box at the bottom to "Art optimized" or "Type optimized" depending on the content of your image (by default this combo box is set to "None").
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I'm looking for a movie that I wanted to watch, but never got around to it and no longer remember much about the movie.
In the theater trailer there is a serial killer who carries some kind of mechanical device. He holds the small device in one hand, a cable or tube comes from the device and goes to a canister he holds in his other hand. To kill his victims he holds the device up to their foreheads. I've often wondered if this was something used to kill cattle?
The trailer never actually shows what happens, but the context is that his victims don't realize the danger of the device.
One victim shown might be a sales tenanted at a gas station in the country, and I think in one shot the killer is shown using the device to pop the lock on a door.
The time period seems to be in the present, in the country and there is either a sheriff or detective trying to catch this killer.
The killer has a calm and quiet demeanor.
This film came out a few years ago (I think).


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Act of Deceit: A Harlan Donnally Novel (Mass Market Paperbound)
Mt. Shasta is far from the San Franciscosidewalk on which Harlan Donnally's lifenearly ended in a crossfire--
But all too close to a decades-old secretthat will force him into another.
The former detective swore he'd never play anyone's postman. But a dying friend's plea takes Donnally bearing a letter alive with tragedy toward a sister long dead--the victim of the bizarre criminality of a counterculture that had lost its way.
Stunned to learn that her killer was never prosecuted, Donnally soon finds himself in battle against a broken justice system and on a trail of evil into a dangerous borderland in which the falsely pious and the wealthy abuse the young and the poor. And though each step takes him farther down a perilous path that wrenches him between his inner demons and his mission to redeem a brother's love, he won't stop until he knows the truth.
For Donnally made a promise to a dead man, and he'll keep it--or die trying.
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I'm cooking a bunch of spinach for making a spinach and ricotta filling. I need to get as much water as possible out of the spinach, and I'd prefer not to make a big mess in the process. In the past, I've wrapped a few handfuls at a time in a towel and squeezed out the liquid. This leaves me with a messy, green stained towel and requires a lot of twisting that doesn't seem maximally effective.
Use a potato ricer. Just fill it up with a big handful of spinach, and give it a good squeeze in the sink, or over a bowl if you like to drink spinach water. It extracts a ton of liquid quickly, and is a breeze to clean up when you are done.
The important part is to work in small batches. I just use my hands -- grab a handful, squeeze, set it aside, grab another handful, etc.
Most things that you'd be tempted to use just have too large of holes, and let lots of spinach bits through, (and I admit, I miss some spinach as I start getting towards the end and it's mostly water), or they've got too small of holes that it's serious effort to use, and you have to work in small batches anyway.
So, if nothing else, my way leaves you with only your hands to wash, and no extra gear to buy.
I learned this from Rachael Ray - use a clean (no fabric softener) cloth. Put spinach in small batches & squeeze. Works great. I use a never before used diaper. use it to squeeze moisture out of shredded zucchini too. After done, I soak the cloth in bleach water to remove the green stain then rinse the bleach out.
I use two identical plates. On one plate you can put the spinach and with the bottom of the other plate you can squeeze out the liquid.
I use a sieve that can hang over the sink.
Put the spinach in the sieve. On top of the spinach put a solid bowl, and in the bowl goes some weight. I generally use whatever dry stuff I have lying around, which is normally lentils. You can use blind baking thingies if you have them.
Wait for about 15 minutes.
I use cheesecloth to squeeze my spinach. I put all the cooled spinach in the cheesecloth and then I keep wringing it until all the water is gone. Then I discard the cheesecloth.
Salad spinner (centrifuge) for a non-destructive method?
I've most recently used a lemon juice squeezer and it worked perfectly! One of these http://www.cajuncookingtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/lemon-squeezer.jpg
Works a treat!
I use my vegetable steamer, open the steamer, put the defrosted spinach in and close the steamer. Press until drained.
I Think run it through a pasta machine, wrap in cheese cloth. Just came to me . haven't tried yet, on my way to the store to buy one.


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Below is One Law for All's Statement on High Court Beth Din Case:
A High Court judge in London last week approved the decision of a Beth Din Council in New York.
The anonymous couple were in dispute over access to children and asked the High Court judge to agree to allow them to refer their case to the Beth Din Council in New York. In agreeing to allow this, the judge referred to a speech by former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in which he described the adoption of sharia in family matters as "inevitable".
Mr Justice Baker said: "The outcome was in keeping with English law, whilst achieved by a process rooted in Jewish culture to which the families belong." He also stipulated that the husband must give his wife a Get – a Jewish divorce. The power to grant a Get is in the husband's hands only and represents yet another example of anti-woman gender discrimination inherent in religious legal systems. Given that the power of divorce rests with the husband only, Mr Justice Baker should have recognised that this is not in keeping with English law – it is entirely discriminatory. [Read more…]


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The layoffs of Fall River firefighters occur in mid-July will imperil the livelihoods of dozens of firefighters who have families to feed and bills to pay. Those firefighters might have been at a severe disadvantage when looking for new firefighting jobs in other communities because, unlike 70 percent of other Massachusetts communities, Fall River does not require firefighters to hold EMT certification.
However, employment prospects are looking better for about two dozen of those firefighters thanks to a unique public-private partnership that has emerged. Stat Southcoast EMS, with the help of some of the private ambulance company's employees who volunteered as instructors, has stepped in to offer that training course free of charge to firefighters expecting layoffs.
Meanwhile, the Fall River Firefighters Union Local 1314 provided $5,000 to cover the cost of training materials and books. The Fire Department facilitated scheduling that allowed the firefighters to take the three-day-a-week, five-week training class and also provided the classroom space in fire headquarters.
All firefighters facing layoffs were invited to take the EMT class; 24 decided to take it up. Those two dozen firefighters who completed the 150-hour course will be taking their exams in late June and then receive their certification. That will allow the displaced firefighters to be well positioned to get a new job. Under civil service regulations, laid-off firefighters are placed on a list and municipalities are required to hire off that list when positions open.
The FRFD staffing situation has been in flux, which must be a source of anxiety for those affected. The $14.4 million federal SAFER grant, which expires on July 11, had been funding the salaries of 79 firefighters.
Although the final number of layoffs resulting from the expiration of the grant is dependent on the City Council's approval of the Fiscal 2015 budget, the city's firefighting ranks are expected to drop to 175 from current staffing levels of 213, under an agreement between Mayor Will Flanagan and the firefighters union. Under the pact, more firefighters will be rehired or brought on incrementally in the coming years until staffing levels reach 200 in 2018.
While the layoffs of firefighters will be difficult for all involved, this training program represents a solid way to train these young firefighters and give them an edge as they look for new firefighting jobs. Without these classes, the displaced firefighters would likely have to take the $1,000 class on their own dime and miss the opportunity to find a job when opportunities open up at the beginning of the new fiscal year.
Beyond being able to land on their feet after a layoff, with the new EMT skills they've learned, these firefighters are now better trained first responders. These skills could even potentially help these firefighters save lives both on and off the clock. That's a winning proposition for everyone.
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This may be subjective, but does anyone have any insight into why this is the case? This struck me while considering that it's also the eigth Mersenne prime (2^31-1=2147483647).
I'm now wondering why this might be the case.
UPDATE: It's been pointed out that the relationship doesn't necessarily hold for larger storage classes, e.g., 2^63 - 1 is not prime.


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