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Christopher "Frank Ocean" Breaux is a poet. He's created an uncommon type of music that is nothing less than dope composition that is on some fly 'ish. It soars, literally, above the normal contemporary musical sound that traffic the airwaves.
And Ocean's "channel ORANGE" is a musical chapbook of thought colored in provocative and affecting hues. While he doesn't offer much vocal dynamism on his new album, he does offer something that is lacking in the overwhelmingly unimaginative fast-selling pop-rock-and-drop-it music-scape dominating radio today, namely, words that move the listener to dance and ponder. It should be no surprise that he is a talented lyricist, however. It was Ocean, after all, who wrote the moving and popular ballad, "I Miss You," for Beyoncé.
Ocean offers deeply emotional tracks that are staggering. Some of his songs move the body and others may stop listeners from snapping fingers and nodding heads altogether as they journey into the depths of tough beats laced with social commentary and symbolism.
"channel ORANGE" opens with a hurried 46-second opening appropriately titled, "Start." "Start" ends as quickly as it begins. Nothing overly brilliant occurs in the intro, but listeners are transported swiftly into Ocean's and Shea Taylor's "Thinkin Bout You," which is an R&B track that is Usher-esque. Ocean comfortably crescendos while singing the hook where he repeats the smart refrain, "Or do you not think so far ahead / Cause I been thinking 'bout forever, ooh."
Like "Start" and "Fertilizer," the two brief tracks which book-end "Thinkin Bout You," and the transitory "Sierra Leone," the first few tracks on the album feel more like a poet's pre-writing exercise. By track 4, Ocean has yet to come upon the right mix of blazing red and mellow yellow musical tints to produce his album's signature fire-orange aesthetic.
But Ocean's warm up prepares listeners for an encounter for the feel-good soul track, "Sweet Life" that ain't really about a life that is sweet. Ocean's "Sweet Life," which is more bitter than saccharine, explores the ironic interplay of perception and reality. "Sweet Life" centers on the contrast between one's class and geographical location and the realities of both when they happen to be everything but charming.
The best song wasn't the single, but you weren't either
Livin' in Ladera Heights, the Black Beverly Hills
Domesticated paradise, palm trees and pools
The water's blue, swallow the pill
Keepin' it surreal, whatever you like
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Ocean ends with a forewarning refrain that seems as if it were ripped from a page of Stevie Wonder's scrapbook (think "Living for the City") when he sings:
And the water, is exactly what I wanted
It's everything I thought it would be (Thought it would be)
But this neighborhood is gettin' trippier every day
The neighborhood is goin' ape sh*t crazy.
If you don't listen close enough you might not be able to discern Ocean from Musiq, whose sounds is conjured in this track. Unlike Musiq, who sings about quaint love and friendship, Ocean takes the listener in a direction other than the romantic neo-type of soul in "Super Rich Kids" and "Crack Rock." In "Super Rich Kids" Ocean sings:
The market's down like 60 stories
And some don't end the way they should
My silver spoon has fed me good
A million one, a million cash
Close my eyes and feel the crash
His critique of social and economic forces, lightly colored with metaphor, swerve throughout several of his songs. He uses repetition—of themes, words, and sounds—to make a point. For example, in "Crack Rock" listeners may not realize that we, too, are implicated in his charge that "no one hears the sound" of violence and violation happening in the USA when he sings:
My brother get popped
And don't no one hear the sound
Don't no one hear the rounds
Don't no one hear the shells
Don't no one hear a sound
Don't no one disturb the peace for riot
Don't no one disrupt nirvana
Don't no one wanna blow the high
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Customizing the look and feel of BPM Applications
By Mona Rakibe on May 17, 2013
One of the very common requirement for BPM customers is to have their corporate look and feel for BPM workspace. This requirement would usually extend to Human Task UI's too.
In PS4FP release we had added a lot of enhancement to the Workspace Customization at run-time. BPM user can not only change the branding logo , tittle etc but also the overall look of the workspace and task UI using ADF skin.
You can either select any one of the OOTB skins or create a custom skin.
If you have custom CSS requirements you can create your own custom skin and apply it to Workspace. In either case the workspace skin gets automatically inherited by your ADF application.
In 184.108.40.206.0 we have introduced an alternate UI technology, Web Forms. Adding a Skin(theme) or Custom CSS to Web Forms is slightly different. Your custom ADF skin will not be automatically inherited by Web Forms. However you can follow this Sample to add custom CSS for Web Form.
In general Web Form allow CSS are different levels,
You can add them for a specific control(inline) using the properties->style tab. The top commonly used styles are exposed by the tool for an easy intuitive style change. Any change here is applicable only to that form control.
You can specify a theme(skin) for entire page. Click on the Form,select Properties->Style->Theme. The theme selected will be applied to entire form unless overridden at control level
Example : Professional Blue Theme
You can apply Theme at applications level, this is the theme you select in your BPM workspace (preferences) and will be applied to all forms unless overridden using above 2 options.
Please refer our BPM Customization sample for details on creating and applying custom theme for Web Forms.
Note : The sample project zip has the .css files that can be updated(SampleSkin\SharedLib\custom.client.applib.jar\themes\mySkin.zip\)


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In many siddurim, the text indicates a position, toward the end of each normal paragraph of prayer, where the Chazzan is supposed to start reading aloud, so that everyone knows when it's time to go on to the next paragraph. Does anyone know where these positions come from? Are they from tradition, or just pragmatic choices by each siddur publisher?
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Rabbeinu Yehudah Hachasid writes in Sefer Chasidim (reish nun alef) that the job of the Shaliach Tzibbur is to wait until most of the kehal has finished one paragraph and then he starts the next. He says that what we do is a mistake that was propagated by arrogant mishoririm (chazzanim) who wanted to be heard. The correct hanhagah still exists by some groups of chasidim, particularly Karlin.
Not sure. The artscroll "diamond" is believed to be their modification of the crosses found in ... other groups' prayer books.
Printed after the Rambam's Halachot of Prayer are his text of the siddur, which includes some notes of his on what the chazzan says out loud in kedusha.
When it comes to Psukei D'Zimra, you really don't need a chazzan anyhow, it's just to keep pace, so it's less an issue. (I believe Chaim Berlin Yeshiva to this day has no chazzan for psukei d'zimra.) Also less of an issue for many Sephardi communities in which the chazzan reads everything out loud anyhow.
There are a few places where it "matters", but in most cases, it's just the custom (not even a minhag per se) that people follow. Some places where the order and timing actually matters:
This isn't exactly an answer, but there are places where the shali'ach tzibur, by all rights, should really NOT read aloud. For example, in the middle of the "paragraph" Vay'varech David, at the words ומצאת את לבבו נאמן לפניך, which is the middle of a pasuk and therefore not the end of anything.


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"I couldn't think of very much else. It had consumed all of my thoughts."
Emily Kovar is recovering from anorexia. She says the condition took its toll on her body and mind.
Kovar says, "As you get more sick, your thoughts only become more distorted. Your vision of yourself only becomes more distorted. Your self esteem just plummets."
Luckily, Emily got help to break that cycle. If she hadn't, the long term effects could have been devastating, loss of menstruation, osteoporosis, and possible death.
Kovar says, "I remember he said to me my heart probably wouldn't have lasted another week."
Anorexia is just one way severe low self esteem can manifest itself. Bulimia is another. That's when a person eats normally, but then forces the food out of their system, again with serious side effects.
Dr. James Davis is a psychiatrist. He says, "If you ask dentists about bulimia … problems with enamel on the teeth. The acidity of the process of vomiting can actually be hard on the enamel on your teeth."
Betsy Pierce is an outreach counselor at Western Kentucky University. She says, "With bulimia you get into all the ruptures in the stomach and esophagus. And both disorders the electrolytes get out of balance causing heart damage and organ damage."
Another manifestation of low self esteem is cutting yourself to cause pain. These cuts can do serious long-term damage to the skin.
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WACO (January 9, 2013)--A Waco man and woman were charged in a child endangerment case in which four children were moved from a home after turning themselves in on Tuesday.
Brandon Mower and Veta Spears, both 24, appeared at Justice of the Peace Kristi DeCluitt's office on Tuesday and surrendered in connection with a incident last June in which the four children were taken from a home after police reported finding unlivable conditions there.
Both were charged with abandoning or endangering a child.
They were both booked into the McLennan County Jail and then immediately released on $3,000 personal recognizance bonds, jail records showed.
On June 15, 2012, Texas Child Protective Services removed four small children from the home where they were living in "deplorable" conditions, according to a sworn affidavit that was part of a court filing seeking temporary custody of the youngsters.
A court order issued at the time granted the Department of Family and Protective Services temporary conservatorship of the four children.
The affidavit said the yard of the home at 2117 Jefferson was cluttered with such objects as a mud-filled child's swimming pool, dog feces, a butcher knife, empty cat litter boxes and various household items.
Inside the house the caseworker found "piles of dirty clothing, dirty dishes, trash, dog feces, food crumbs, household items, toys and boxes that were filled with various items…which could easily have fallen over," the affidavit said.
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The children all appeared healthy, the affidavit said, but were wearing only diapers and "appeared to have dirt on their face, feet and under their fingernails," the affidavit said.
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The caseworker found one of the 4-year-old girls sitting on a sofa in a bedroom eating a hamburger, which she was sharing with a dog, the affidavit said.
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Originally posted by Ungeziefer:
Yes, absurd. No, I do not think someone "just up and decides to kill humans", but that is not the definition of either a psychopath or serial killer. The childhood abuse angle although prevalent is, not universal. You are presenting a simple psychology, yes, but one I would have to suggest is over simple. Common sense is a rather poor citation for exact figures.
If you're gonna try and put words into someone's mouth, at least make an effort to do it discreetly. I never said that, that was the definition of serial killers but a factor. Nor was I citing common sense for my figures, but rather for my point about the child abuse thing.
And yeah, the child abuse angle isn't universal but then again nothing is. Sometimes someone is just born this way and we can't do much to help them aside from drug therapy or psychosurgery. But the biological approach is very small in comparison to the psychoanalytic approach.
Originally posted by Ungeziefer:
Can't say I consider pointing out my 'laziness' is ignoring it, but look a citation. And upon closer review, it does not justify your statistic, awesome. I am glad we could do this. Beyond that this citation does not support your claim,
You obviously don't know much about how statistics work. So long as your simple random sample (SRS) is at least 10% of the population, your statistic will give you an accurate measure of the parameter.
If you think that the minimum # of convicts that were animal abusers is greater than 1530, I suggest you take a look at some additional studies and history for that matter.
Originally posted by Ungeziefer:
I also question that size of the data sample and the method of selection – but that would be quibbling. Further I would point out the psychological basis of the treatment of animals in your example as pretty text book cause and effect. As opposed to the muddled, factually unsound correlation is causation claim you made before.
You can quibble all you want or you can opt to search for the study yourself and read all the details that went on. Some things can fall under Occam's Razor.
Originally posted by Ungeziefer:
I'm skeptical again of your figures, but it does not really matter. But, worth considering that not all energy sources are accessible by us. A field of grass cannot be directly consumed, an animal grazing on said grass can.
True, but rather than have a field of grass be wasted on a cattle ranch, you could very well turn it into a vegetable farm wherein you then get primary access to the food. It should also be noted that most vegetables grow faster than it takes a cow to (vegetables range within 1-6 months while cows take most of a year). Unless we're talking about veal, but that's a whole other argument.
Originally posted by Ungeziefer:
Crimeny. You are dictating directly what every human used to feel now? Also this is a simple logical fallacy. You suggest society teaches people to do X, without considering how X became part of that society in the first place.
If we're using logic, the word every refers to greater than the majority. Of course it's impossible to make judgments about everyone in the world as there is a great chance that at least 1 of them doesn't follow the generalization.
Are you asking me how specieism became a part of society? That is a very long story to tell my friend. It would work better as a private message, but only if you insist.
Originally posted by Ungeziefer:
Nope, no you didn't. Is this a Math obstacle, or are you just too obstinate to even acknowledge that your own sources in no way back your pie in the sky numbers?
If you understood how statistics work, the first is more than cited. The second uses BRS #s and simple math, so I don't know how you don't consider it cited. But to each their own I guess.
Originally posted by dd790:
What is this 'empathy as a sense' you speak of?
Is it a belief you know what something else is feeling because you just push your mindset onto it and think how you would feel/act in that situation? That doesn't work with women let alone other species!
Lmfao, women.
It's kinda like a screwball version of a somatoform disorder where you can feel the pain being inflicted on another individual, even though it is not direct on yourself. I guess you could say that imagination is a key part of it.
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(This isn't my area of expertise so sure Vika can provide a better answer but:)
Not really. Yes there are still areas we are rather stretching our knowledge in but for the most part neurology has reached a point where we understand most physical and chemical workings of the mind. Some of the more 'abstract' workings are still more a matter of opinion than fact but we can now see relations between emotions, sensations even (I think) moods all by just looking at areas of brain activity and chemical balances.
I was talking more about the abstract thoughts, but this was a poor statement on my part. I'm no neurologist and shouldn't be claiming as such.
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We do…
Don't know about you but I take my dog for his booster once a year to protect him from some of the nastier canine infectious diseases out there, but I pay the bill.
Pets are vaccinated because owners pay for it
Pets are a different story. There are all these anthrozoologic emotions involved. Essentially, you get your dog vaccinated b/c you want him to live longer out of a personal obligation.
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some livestock will be vaccinated if the owner believes it is worth the cost to protect them from disease, we even vaccinate wild animals where funds exist and it is feasible
Right, that's why mad cow disease, swine flu, and avian influenza all still exist. Think of it like the Holocaust- was it worth it for the nazis to vaccinate the Jews? Sometimes, but for the most part no.
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The main problem is not that we don't care to vaccinate animals, it is that all the money is in human vaccination research, development and implementation.
Actually all the money is in weapons and war. Did you know that that the world, as a whole, spends $6 billion on weapons every 1.5 hours?
Originally posted by dd790:
Agreed. This should be everyone's answer when ever people say that giving animal feed to animals just to eat them in turn is a waste. That way of thinking is an oversimplified and downright ignorant concept of what 'food' is. Feeding grass to a human would likely be an even bigger waste than the energy loss in growing the cow simply because grasses and plants very high in cellulose have a very low nutritional value to humans as we lack the cellulosic bacteria to break down all that cellulose, livestock we feed them to however can break the cellulose down so gain more from it.
In terms of raw energy then yes there is a loss between trophic levels, but in terms of usable energy then there is a much smaller loss, if not a gain due to different digestive physiology of the animals in question.
Read my answer to Mr. Ungeziefer's claim.
Originally posted by vikaTae:
It is nice to know where you stand. Your dislike for the Tuskegee experiments was purely racism based. You have no problem using members of your own species as unwilling guineapigs in general, despite the fact that they are capable of informed consent
It is so nice to know where we stand, and also worth knowing that individuals with your code of ethics would be utterly unemployable by any reputable scientific institute today – your research would be widely condemned, and you would face criminal charges, precisely because you are denying the option of consent to lifeforms capable of making informed consent decisions.
Lol, your sarcasm is duly noted. But, Brave New World, aint it?
Look, the consent issue only applies when humans choose to embark on this quest for perfection. I advocate strongly to end all medical experiments of such nature. But if people are gonna do it either way, then the consent issue should be null/void with EVERY species including humans. Condemning someone for conducting unconsensual experiments on their own kind is speciest hypcocracy.
If your reputable scientific institute is capturing innocent non-humans and subjecting them to torture for the sake of humans, then it's lost all reputability in my book.
Originally posted by vikaTae:
The genes are not codified and absolute. They respond to environmental changes. There is a slowly building pile of evidence to suggest such expression changes are indeed hereditary in nature.
One more reason to end the 'family tree' of any creature exposed to a process that radically alters its gene expression, unless we fully understand the nature of the changes we have wrought.
I see, so essentially we have to conduct a Genome Project for every other species.
Originally posted by vikaTae:
This sentence is pure bullshit. You are saying here:
The individuals of any species are capable of imagination and codifying abstract thoughts internally, but only in regards to members of their own species – which even linguistically, makes absolutely no sense; it does not parse.
Bullshit indeed. What I was essentially saying was a rewording of the language barrier, can't believe I did. Understand that it would make sense if a foreign species was unable to understand the abstract thoughts of another species. Or perhaps that is a downfall of humans- unable to understand said thoughts of other species.
Originally posted by vikaTae:
As dd has already pointed out, you are projecting and anthromorphising your own internal desires onto others. You're making shit up to conform the world to how you imagine it should operate, nothing more. Mirror neurons do not function across great differences in cognition, so you cannot even associate it with that. They only function when both sides have a similar mental architecture.
You are assuming the mental achitecture will always be similar when this flies in the face of all the solid evidence we have collected thus far. You're using emotions instead of reason, in other words.
This was my own personal opinion. I wasn't trying to sell it as fact.
Originally posted by vikaTae:
If you are that against it, may I suggest you start blowing up hospitals? You can stop the 'ungodly' practice of curing the sick if you kill the sick in large numbers before they can be treated. You would however, have to give up this pretense of your acting in everyone's best interest if you do so.
Curing the sick at the cost of other species? No thank you. Technically I would be acting in everyone's best interests by controlling overpopulation.
Originally posted by vikaTae:
As dd has already explained quite well, we don't limit treatment to any one species, but try to innoculate and cure wherever possible. Have you heard of something called a vetenarian? It is a doctor who treats non-human sick creatures. Such a concept would not exist if we only cared about our own species.
BS. Funds for such practices are limited severely as it is at bottom of most countries budgeting. We do not try to do it wherever possible but whenever possible, and by whenever I mean whenever we're feeling generous and have some money leftover.
Tell me, how many animals exist compared to humans? Now answer me how many vet offices have you seen compared to hospitals? Now answer me how big these vet hospitals have been compared to human hospitals. Yeah, you care a lot.
Originally posted by vikaTae:
Well, understanding how the brain works, is clearly a great mystery to you. However, to the rest of us, it is anything but. Whilst we have far to go yet, much of the brain's function is already codified, and we are interfacing with it directly. Two-way communication between the brain's direct thoughts and subconscious impulses, and our machines, with both understanding one another. Such would simply not be possible if the brain really was 'a complete mystery'.
Specifically, we are aware that higher thoughts – abstract thoughts, imagination, sense of self, et al, only exists in the cortex of the brain. As the cortex grows larger and more complicated, with a greater number of specialised divisions, so the quality of such thought increases. Conversely, as the cortex simplifies and specialised processing regions disappear, so the abilities of the mind as a whole diminish greatly. Below the cortex, the mid-brain is mostly about memory storage, the encoding of the brain, syntax parsing and 'compilation' for lack of a better term, housekeeping and the like, whilst the hind-brain controls the body itself.
Whilst we cannot say what any given neuron does, yes we can tell exactly what the purpose of a given area is, and study it in real-time via fMRI, ECoG or EEG, as the neurons light up in sequence, processing a given task. We can monitor the existence (or lack thereof) of dreams and abstractions in real-time. We are fully aware of which brains are capable of such things, which are not, and why.
As to my employers, I cannot see why that is of any relevance whatsoever, but I will humor you. Touch Bionics, specialists in connecting smart prosthetic limbs to the body, which engage in two-way communication with the brain.
Knowing how something works is not the same as creating it. But you're right, I guess I am behind on neuroscience. I'm more concerned with using that brain to help the world rather than using it to learn how to recreate it.
Originally posted by vikaTae:
Why should I need to find 'solutions' for that? It will solve itself. Too many humans, means not enough food and drinkable water to go around, resulting in a natural cull. Don't try to fix what is not broken.
Lol, is that a joke? If nature were to fix human overpopulation we wouldn't have near 7 billion of us in the world still growing at an exponential rate.
You're right in the sense that nature will eventually win, but you're assuming that those humans that exceed the limit will just drop down dead. No, it will be a long painful process, one that could be easily avoided if we didn't cure all these diseases we're naturally inherent to and let several millions die yearly as opposed to the 2 billion to come.
I'd also be concerned with the massive environmental damage that is to come alongside this unhealthy growth, but to each their own.


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Historic nationwide campaign builds on the success of two earlier studies
|Michelle Wolf answers questions during the kickoff meeting for the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3) Tuesday at the Harold Leever Cancer Center in Waterbury. Jim Shannon / Republican American
The American Cancer Society on Tuesday kicked off its Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3) at Waterbury's Harold Leever Cancer Center. The meeting targeted community members willing to help enroll people in the program.
"It's a kickoff to let people in the Waterbury area know what the study entails and what the expectations will be," said Michelle Wolf, a state vice president for health initiatives who has worked with the American Cancer Society for 20 years. "And we hope they will encourage others to enroll."
CPS-3 is the third wide-ranging study done by the organization. Participation is open to men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer, excluding basal or squamous cell skin cancer.
For the study, the American Cancer Society needs 300,000 participants from 35 states. Connecticut and Massachusetts are the two states representing New England.
"We just hope that people will really want to be a part of it," Wolf said. "Right now we're around 183,500 for enrollment. We're also looking for 25 percent diversity and we're not quite there yet."
People interested in enrolling will be asked to fill out a survey on their health, diet, physical activity and family history and then make an appointment between Jan. 29 and Feb. 3 at one of the five sites: the Leever Cancer Center, the Naugatuck YMCA, the Waterbury YMCA, Saint Mary's Hospital or Waterbury Hospital.
During the appointment, volunteers will be asked to fill out a more time-sensitive survey. Quest Diagnostics will take a blood sample. And then your waist measurement will be taken.
"Don't worry. We will not shout it out," Wolf promised.
Participants are then required to fill out follow-up surveys every two years for the next 20 years.
Previous cancer prevention studies have revealed many of the facts that are considered secondhand knowledge today. In 1952, Cancer Prevention Study-1, along with the Hammond-Horn Study, revealed links between smoking and lung cancer, as well as secondhand smoke and lung cancer. CPS-2, done in the 1980s, found that an aspirin a day helps prevent colon cancer.
"Please let all your friends and family who are between the ages of 30 and 65 know," said Wolf, who is participating in the study herself. "We just hope that people will take part in this."
To know more
To make an appointment for enrollment or for details, visit cancer.org/cps3 or call 888-604-5888.
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COLUMBUS - Two women's groups are expected to present Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine a petition Monday containing more than 85,000 signatures demanding Michael Nodianos of Steubenville, who is seen in a YouTube video making comments about an alleged rape involving fellow students, be prosecuted.
Trent Mays, 16, of Bloomingdale and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville have been charged with rape in connection with an incident that allegedly happened Aug. 11-12. Mays also faces a charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material for allegedly having a picture of the victim in an outgoing text message on his cell phone. Attorneys for both defendants have denied the charges.
Their trial is scheduled to begin on March 13 in juvenile court in the Jefferson County Justice Center.
Nodianos is seen in a 12-minute YouTube video making comments about the alleged rape. His attorney, Dennis McNamara, in January said Nodianos wasn't at the house where the alleged rape occurred.
"There were three witnesses to the alleged rape at a third house and two of them came back to the house where Michael made the 12 minute video at around 2 or 2:30 a.m. People at the other house came back and talked about what happened. The kid shooting the video of Michael was not a witness to the alleged rape. The video was made at a friend's house and not at the house where the alleged incident occurred," said McNamara during the January press conference.
But the Ohio chapter of the National Organization for Women and UltraViolet, a women's right organization, said the Nodianos video "makes clear he not only knew but abetted the crime in the Steubenville rape case," according to a joint press release Friday from the organizations.
"To many, it feels like time is running out for action. The women's petition specifically demands that AG DeWine prosecute anyone who may have known about this crime and did nothing to stop it - including Michael Nodianos," the press release stated.
Last month, student members of Choice USA and UltraViolet met with DeWine. The press release stated they were "promised justice, but, so far, none has come. This has prompted women across the state to return Monday," the press release stated.
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Have you ever hunted for eggs in the dark? Candy filled eggs are waiting to be found and look really hard for the "Special" eggs that will earn you prizes. The Flashlight Egg Hunt is designed for kids ages 10-14 years. Meet at Pecan Grove West at 8:30pm on Friday, March 22. Please bring your own working flashlight. Pre-registration is required so sign-up at the Parks and Recreation office by Friday, March 15.
March 22 8:30pm $3
Hop on over and join Sherman Parks and Recreation for an Egg Hunt at Pecan Grove West Park. Enjoy a spring morning with candy-filled eggs, prizes and lots of fun.
March 23 10:00am Free
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Swim season is right around the corner. Registration for the Learn to Swim program at The Splash will begin on April 1 for Sherman residents. For those that live outside of the city limits of Sherman, registration will begin on April 15. We have classes for children as young as six months old all the way through adult. Cost is $35 for Sherman residents and $45 for non-residents.


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Why not? Might as well let Tolzien get reps, and try to make a serviceable back up out of him. It doesn't matter who they start, if it isn't Rodgers. They still have to trot that awful defense out there.
I don't understand making this call right after the game. If Wallace is injured, that's a different story. If Wallace is okay to play, how can you not give Wallace a chance since he had a week to practice with the first team? That is not a good sign of confidence by MM on Wallace.Hide replies
No, but it's an honest sign. He simply doesn't have confidence in Wallace--not that he's overflowing with confidence in either of them.
Big Mike had better start showing that he can be a successful head coach without God at QB.
If you're going to blame the coaches ... it all goes back to the failed Graham Harrell experiment.
One thing about Holmgren, he was good at having a promising quarterback as second string - almost for the entirety of Favre's career.
HE needs to have confidence in Tolzien so he can go to the next level, Wallace was not the answer and I think with a week to prep it will make a difference Scott didnt play half bad....and yes Seattle Holmgren alsways had good backups as they always ended up being starting QB's somewhere.
Like it really matters which of these two starts. Unless Tolzien is starting at Defensive Coordinator, I just don't see him making a difference.
This is the sort of defiant and petulant attitude I've come to expect from MM. I trail that GB has been dealing with some tough injuries, but this game confirmed the obvious: Rodgers is the franchise. Awful defense. Shaky special teams. Aaron hides a lot of ugly blemishes for this squadHide replies
Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay's "Proactive."
cstahl of course he does. Take Payton Manning off Denver and they are ordinary. Heck last year take the head coach from the Saints away and they are less then average. Take Drew Brees off their team they are average at best. Take Matthew Stafford off the Lions they are horrible. 90% of all NFL teams are worst with their backup QB. There is a reason those guys behind them are backup QB's.
How many games do the Colts win if Andrew Luck is out? Most NFL teams will not win with a backup QB but the funny thing is they could of won if they tackled better or if the D-Backs would actually watch the flight of the ball. Foles threw up some lame ducks and our secondary was watching the guy and not the ball. They were not getting to the edge on the runs today to stop the back. Matthews obviously is not good with a club on his hand. Tolzein did not play half bad. They were down there a couple of times. They easily left 20 points out there on offense but defense gave up 14 it shouldn't have
The bears best the packers with their backup qb in. They proved that they can win without their starter...packers haven't been able to prove it. That is reality. So is 3rd place and a record barely above 500. That is reality.
The bears had McNown in for quite a while to learn the offense our QBs no reps, no training just get out there and play but we need EDS and BArclay back in, Newhouse is terrible Sherrod might be better
I'd rather have ARodg with one arm tied behind his back than either one of those other 2 turds.
JMHO Wallace gets placed on IR or waived this week. Tolzien and Flynn(or another stiff) will be the QB's de jour.Hide replies
agree. i think they waive or ir wallace. think they might bring in vince young as backup. all reports say flynn is injured. can we bring a safety...HELLO SEAN RICHARDSON
what a disappointment this D turned out to be...man rogers is good to think this was a possible super bowl team just two weeks ago and now hard to see how they will win a game...
"I"m the head coach." If the Packers keep losing and won't be in play off this year. Mike- you'll be in HOT SEAT.Hide replies
He won't be in the hot seat you are just stupid. Do you know how many teams we be trying to hire him as a coach. NFL executives just picked him as one of the top 5 coaches in the NFL. It was just on yahoo last week. All the NFL execs asked which coach they think are the best. McCarthy, Belichek, and Payton were the only ones on every ballot.
Other teams may want him, but Packers don't keep LOSER.
I thought everyone was super excited like 3 weeks ago that the packers had amazing depth at CB and we're finally getting to the QB even without Matthews in there - where the heck did that go? It is like it evaporated overnight - and now we're left with a team that just cannot play defense. It's the suddenness of the decline that really shocks me.Hide replies
I agree. They have transgressed on defense. I am thinking this has to be Capers last year.
todd1971 - you're NOT smater than 3rd grade
TT is responsible the dreadful defense year after year, can't he teach the Db's how to break up passes? Which is why Packers will never win a Super Bowl while he is GM and while MM is head coach. This is a franchise in free fall and is now the worst franchise the history of the NFL!!! As well as a laughing stock to the World!Hide replies
They already have won one. Patriots should fire Belichek too he hasn't won one in 7 years. Crappy coach too.
todd1971 - my kid 5 years old thinks you're genius
Um, were you around in 2010?
Cause nobody is stupid enough to post a comment like that.
rbbmogran..no on is supid enough to take my post seriosly, except you.
Rote, sarcasm doesn't translate well to the printed word.
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Long gone are the days of banning 2 Live Crew CD's , lol. Great movie and great deal +1
Definately a a great deal, and this movie is awesome!
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In for 1... later - T. Boone Pickens just walked in.
I have to return some video tapes...
Store pickup at my Walmart usually takes 30-45 minutes. Not worth the hassle.
@bigelowb: Completely agree. I picked up Iron Man 2 on blu-ray for $4 from Walmart with in-store pickup, NEVER AGAIN. I would gladly pay double to never experience that again. It took easily over a half of an hour to get my blu-ray once I arrived, and there were only three people in line.. The Walmart workers I dealt with were the most inept, uncaring people I have ever encountered.
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Stocks Rattled by Ugly Jobs Report
Signs of an Economic Slowdown Are Testing the Conviction of Those Looking to Ride Recent Market Rallies
Friday's disappointing U.S. jobs report is the latest crack in a shaky global recovery—and a test of will for investors looking to climb aboard a rally that has pushed stock benchmarks to new highs.
For weeks, investors have been growing confident about global economic prospects and looking for a pullback as a chance to pile into the stock rally. But with just 88,000 new jobs added to the U.S. economy in March, investors on Friday instead faced a new debate over whether the global recovery can power through a season that has proved volatile in the past four years.
Even as the Federal Reserve and other central banks continue to support the economic recovery, signs of traction remain elusive. In the past week, manufacturing readings in the U.S. and the euro zone have disappointed investors, and preliminary takes on the U.S. labor market had been flashing warning signals coming into the last session of the week.
But Friday's trading suggested some investors are taking advantage of the weakness to pick up stocks. After falling as many as 172 points just after the opening bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average erased much of its losses to finish down 40.86 points, or 0.3%, at 14565.25.
Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Transportation Average, an index of 20 railroad, shipping and airline stocks that is closely watched as a bellwether of the economy, overcame a morning deficit of 2.2% to finish the day in positive territory, up 0.5%.
Signs of caution remained, however. In Europe, the broad Stoxx Europe 600 index gave up 2%, its biggest one-day decline since October.
Demand for the perceived safety of U.S. Treasurys, too, remained high, pushing the yield on the benchmark 10-year note down to 1.698%—the lowest level since mid-December. As recently as three weeks ago, the 10-year yield, which rises as prices fall, was above 2%, and many market watchers had expected it to push even higher as the economy healed.
More on Jobs Report
- VIX 'Fear Gauge' Shows Worries Creeping Back
- Economy Adds Just 88,000 Jobs
- Stocks See Broad Selloff
- Treasurys Get a Boost
- Gold Jumps on Weak Payrolls
- Report Reinforces Fed Wariness About Premature End to QE3
- Don't Blame Federal Budget Cuts for Weak Jobs – Yet
- Five Takeaways from Payrolls
- Jobs Report Winners and Losers
- Bad News: Broad Unemployment Rate Tumbles
- Audio: Wells Fargo Economist: Some Positive Trends in Jobs Report
The CBOE Market Volatility Index, the "fear gauge" known as the VIX, rose to a one-month high, in a reflection of the raised worries about the economy.
For the week, the Dow industrials finished roughly flat, while the Dow transports—in spite of their Friday reversal—finished the week down 3.5%, for their worst week since mid-September.
The mixed messages in the markets Friday underscore the dilemma facing investors as the Dow and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index hover near records. The S&P 500's decline Friday marked the 12th day in a row that the benchmark has finished in the opposite direction as the session before—the longest such streak ever.
The jobs report, together with a string of other unspectacular data points, "is going to stimulate a debate around whether we are going to have a soft patch. And ultimately, that debate is healthy," said Charles Kantor, portfolio manager and managing director at Neuberger Berman. "It'll be interesting to see whether the cash that's sitting there looking to get invested uses this as a reason to tiptoe back into the market, or if it's another reason to say, 'It's over,' again," he said.
Mr. Kantor himself has no plans to modify his bullish view on stocks. "Speak to me at the end of the year, and my sense is that we'll be higher than we are now," he says. "The economic data this week has definitely been weak, and that's fine. Things don't go in a straight line. It'll shake some of the weak money out, and that's healthy."
At Federated Investors, portfolio managers had already been shifting investments to more defensive positions, following the downbeat manufacturing and employment reports earlier this past week. Federated sold stocks that had already made strong gains and was more aggressive in trimming positions, said Lawrence Creatura, a portfolio manager at the firm, which oversees $380 billion.
Now, with new evidence of a slowdown in the recovery, Mr. Creatura said his firm was holding off on making any new stock investments.
"The jobs number was lower than even the worst of the worst forecasts," Mr. Creatura said. "There have been several things, both domestically and globally in recent weeks, that markets just seemed to ignore. [Friday] might be a day when investors start opening their eyes to these risks."
For Jim Russell, senior equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management, which manages about $130 billion, the jobs number is the latest evidence the economic recovery is slowing.
"We have detected, over the past two weeks, a cadence of [macroeconomic] numbers that is noticeably weaker than what most people would have thought just a month ago," said Mr. Russell, who is considering trimming exposure to stocks that tend to move with the economy.
In a sign of investors' dual focus on the recovery and the central banks that have helped keep markets buoyant, gold futures jumped 1.5% after the jobs report, the biggest one-day gain in five weeks, reflecting expectations that the weakness would keep the Fed's stimulus in place longer.
Gold prices tend to rise amid expectations of Fed support, and, in previous weeks, gold traders had been shedding holdings of the precious metal. Friday's report, though, "takes the wind out of people who are talking about the end of [the Fed's economic assistance]," said Charles Nedoss, a senior market strategist with Kingsview Financial.
While some were bracing for choppier U.S. growth ahead, the market's ability to pare its losses reflected a desire among some investors to stay the course, in a bet the latest headwinds will soon pass—and shake out traders and investors with less conviction in the global recovery.
Michael Strauss, chief investment strategist at Commonfund, in Wilton, Conn., said he was willing to shrug off the report as an anomaly in an otherwise-improving economic picture. He pointed to February's report, which was revised higher to 268,000 new jobs—the best monthly report in a year.
"You have to take the February number with a grain of salt and the March number with a grain of salt—put the two together and divide by two, and you wouldn't have too much excitement," Mr. Strauss says. "The 'perma-bears' are going to have a field day over this report, but if you go back and analyze the data, it's not as disturbing as the 88,000 [figure] suggests."
—Kaitlyn Kiernan, Chris Dieterich and Tatyana Shumsky contributed to this article.
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The Testing Center provides convenient opportunities for students to take essential standardized qualifying examinations. Saint Louis University is a national test center for the following computer-based tests: GRE, PRAXIS, TOEFL, CLEP, MoGEA and MAT. The center also provides opportunities to take a number of standardized tests in conventional paper format, including the ACT Residual.
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BOWLING GREEN, KY― Logan Aluminum in Russellville is saving electricity and money on its power bills at its production facility, through energy efficiency efforts in partnership with the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Logan refitted its lighting systems and upgraded equipment, including pumps and air dryers, through the EnergyRight Solutions for Industry Program, offered by TVA and Russellville Electric Plant Board.
The projects reduced the mill's annual power consumption by more than 2 million kilowatt-hours, enough energy to supply about 150 homes in the Russellville district for a year.
The energy saving effort also earned the company a cash incentive of about $182,400 from TVA, which was formally announced during a recent Earth Day celebration at the plant.
"We take our commitment to the environment very seriously," said Randy Schumaker, president of Logan Aluminum. "We want to impact individual behaviors both at home and at the plant to promote a culture of waste minimization and energy conservation."
TVA's EnergyRight Solutions for Industry offers 10 cents per kilowatt-hour on first-year savings or 70 percent of project cost, whichever is less, to program participants for approved energy efficiency projects.
"Energy efficiency helps keep rates low, reduces costs associated with meeting consumer demand, conserves natural resources and produces zero emissions," said Brent Powell, one of the managers of the TVA EnergyRight Solutions for Industry program in Kentucky. "We thank Logan Aluminum for their leadership and support of energy efficiency in Kentucky."
Powell said energy efficiency programs, which are supported by TVA's Integrated Resource Plan energy road map to 2020, are among the cleanest and lowest-cost, long-term expansion options to help TVA achieve its vision for more low-cost, clean energy.
TVA's EnergyRight Solutions offers a broad portfolio of new and innovative energy efficiency initiatives for homes, business and industry.
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The condition sheet for Ohio's Super Night (Saturday, Sept 7) at Scioto Downs Racino is now available. All told, the purses on the card will total around $1.5-million and attract the best horses in the state as well as some phenomenal horses from across the country.
Anchoring the card will be the eight divisional Ohio Sire Stakes Finals with purses of $150,000 each. Tied into these races will be a special $7,500 guaranteed Pick-8 bet where bettors can wager on who they think will win all eight of the OSS Finals for a minimum 20-cent bet.
Highlighting the undercard is the $125,000 Jim Ewart Memorial Invitational Pace. Being the largest overnight race purse in Scioto's racing history, the race office is hoping to attract some of the country's best older pacers. It will be tied into the late Pick-4 bet which will also include the last three OSS races.
The race office has also carded the Heart of Ohio Trot and Capitol City Pace finals, with estimated purses of $50,000 each. The events for 4-year-old and up winners over $60,000 have separate divisions for trotters and pacers.
The condition sheet is available on this page (http://www.sciotodowns.com/racing/condition-sheets/) of the Scioto Downs website as well as under the "Horsemen" tab of the USTA website. If anyone is interested in more information on entering the Jim Ewart Memorial Pace, contact the race office at (614) 295-4668.
Before the races start on Super Night there will be a meet-n-greet with some of Scioto's leading drivers as well as driver interviews and t-shirt tosses after each race. In cooperation with the Ohio Lottery, there will be a hat given away with the purchase of a live racing program.


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Steven Pollock's class is not quiet.
Professor Pollock, a 20-year veteran of the University of Colorado Boulder, does not spend the hour standing at the chalkboard imparting his physics wisdom, and his students do not, in turn, spend their class time silently taking notes on what he has to say.
His view of education is messier than that, and his class reflects a belief that learning physics is not a spectator sport. Pollock's lectures, if you can call them that, are punctuated with practice problems that students are encouraged to solve, often noisily, with their neighbors. As a matter of habit, Pollock is always asking questions.
"You can discuss with your friends and answer questions and then make sense of the physics while you're sitting in class," said Barbora Dolejsova, a senior physics major who is taking Principles of Electricity and Magnetism II from Pollock this semester. "When he tosses out a problem, it's always a nice way to check that we understand it, or if we don't understand, an opportunity to rethink things to develop that understanding."
Pollock's teaching methods are being nationally lauded this month. At a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 14, Pollock was named a 2013 U.S. Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
The awards recognize the most outstanding undergraduate educators in the country. Pollock is the second CU-Boulder professor to win a U.S. Professor of the Year Award. Nobel laureate Carl Wieman, also a physics professor, was honored with the designation in 2004.
"It's a real honor for me, but more importantly, I believe it reflects very strongly on the unique culture of support for education at CU-Boulder," Pollock said. "It's also remarkable to me that they are giving the award to another physicist in the same department. I think that really says something nice about the work we are all doing."
A culture of teaching
From the beginning of his CU-Boulder career, Pollock was drawn to teaching, but at first he didn't have the skills and confidence to match his enthusiasm. "In my second year, I taught an upper-division course with three students in it," he said. "I had three students in the class and I lectured. I look back on it now and say, 'What was I thinking?' But I didn't know any better."
But Pollock is in a field that has taken the lead in transforming the way science classes are taught, particularly at the introductory level, and he works in a department at CU-Boulder with a particularly rich history of valuing teaching.
"The people who created the culture that teaching is important were the legends in this department's history, like Al Bartlett, George Gamow, Jack Kraushaar and John Taylor," said Professor Paul Beale, chair of the physics department. "They conveyed to the young assistant professors that teaching is rewarding, valued and appreciated."
The support he received from the national and local physics community helped him hone teaching techniques that have been shown to work—those that engage students by involving them in projects, inviting them to collaborate with their classmates and helping them arrive at an understanding of physics concepts by solving problems. The result, when paired with his still-obvious passion for teaching, is a professor beloved by his students.
"He comes into class every day and he has so much enthusiasm. It's just like, 'Physics! Physics! Physics!' And it's hard not to be enthusiastic with him," said Julie Davis, who has taken multiple classes from Pollock.
Teaching science like a scientist
If you ask Pollock what his teaching secrets are, you'll get at least two answers. The first, he says, is simple: He cares about his students.
"I care a lot about every student in my class, from introductory non-majors to advanced students," Pollock said. "Some of them start out dreading physics, and it's a real pleasure watching them turn on to the topic. It's wonderful to help people see that physics is about their life, that physics is relevant to their future, that it's interesting, a powerful way of examining the world around them, and that they can do it."
The second is that he relies on evidence-based teaching practices, those methods that have been proven effective. "If we're scientists, we should think about teaching like scientists," Pollock said. "We can't just do it and assume we were successful. We need to assess that. We need to be able to reflect. We need to be able to test."
While many of the techniques and methods Pollock uses have been borrowed from other people's research, his own area of research is also physics education. In particular, Pollock studies teaching methods for upper-division physics courses, where less research has been focused in the past.
The results of Pollock's research make their way back into CU-Boulder's physics classrooms, and they do so through some of the robust channels that helped nurture Pollock's own teaching skills over the past 20 years. The physics department faculty frequently comes together for brown-bag lunches to share what's working and what isn't. Senior professors also team teach with new faculty members to share evidence-based practices and to lend support.
Physics professors at CU-Boulder are also frequently asked to teach courses they've never taught before—it's rare to teach the same class more than a handful of times—which often leads to faculty members searching out the best, most effective ways those classes have been taught in the past.
'Just keep thinking'
Pollock's evidence-based techniques seem to have won over his students, at least as judged by the evaluations they fill out about his class each semester. In the spring, the students in an upper-division class taught by Pollock gave him a perfect rating, a 6.0, for "instructor overall." And the praise isn't limited to students who like physics enough to take an upper-level course. Students in an introductory course taught by Pollock the year before gave him an average rating of 5.9.
For Davis, now a senior in Pollock's Principles of Electricity and Magnetism II class, Pollock's ability to teach well has been crucial to her continuing in physics. Davis has wanted to be an astrophysicist since she was 14. But the sheer difficulty of physics—the almost physical will it takes to do battle with the problem sets assigned each week—almost turned her away from her dream once she got to CU-Boulder. Taking a class from Pollock persuaded her to stay in the field.
"He doesn't look down on us for not understanding something, even when you're being incredibly dense. In a help session, he says, 'No. You can get this. Just keep thinking. Keep digesting," she said. "My sophomore year I thought of dropping the major because I was so demoralized, and then I took a class with him and I was like, 'Oh. I actually can understand physics and it's entirely due to him.' "


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We have Calphalon non-stick cookware and it seems, after 5 years, not to want to get clean. Even the best scrubbing leaves kind of a hazy look on them. Additionally, the exterior of our most used pan is darkly stained, kind of like a well-seasoned cast iron pan. Is that okay, or do I need to clean it better too?
I'm gonna assume you're talking about pans with a hard anodized exterior and non-stick interior...
The anodized exterior will pick up stains over time, and you probably shouldn't worry too much about trying to get them back to factory condition. That said, you can find some tips on How should I clean anodised cookware? - I use baking soda and elbow grease for routine jobs, and occasionally resort to Ajax (scouring powder) for touch-up around the handle.
The non-stick interior is probably just wearing out. AFAIK, some Calphalon non-stick pans have a texture to them that is supposed to improve browning, but over time even smooth non-stick surfaces develop pits and scratches that create opportunity for residue to hold on to. I use a bit of baking soda and a bit of salt to scrub these clean, but once something gets stuck on to the point where serious scouring is necessary to remove it you'll just have to give up (since that would take the non-stick coating with it). Non-stick pans - even well-made ones - do tend wear out faster than ordinary pans, and there's no getting around that.
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I used the Butterfly Migration embossing folder with this set to make an elegant greeting card. I popped up the butterflies.
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So, I have an important problem related with spin buttons in Python/GTK3. I'm trying to create a spin button in my project, Virtuam, and it seems to work... but with a bug which blocks the +/- toogles.
Also, strangely, I can manually change the spin box value... :/
I've installed it in a virtual machine, and it haves the same problem.
It worked well before, and if I try to remove the source and download a commit which worked, I still have problems. What should I do? Is it a GTK bug, or it's my fault? In the last case, what's wrong: the script (vui.py) or the interface (assistant.glade)?
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When purchasing tubes from some reputable dealers, I have noticed that you are given the option for balanced triodes--sometimes at a much higher price. How does a tube with balanced a triode effect the tone of the amplifier?
I can see why, in an esoteric, strictly technical, way it would help, because having the tubes pushing/pulling equally should create better sound. The question I have is, how far out of balance can the tubes be before the sound suffers?
When I started playing, way back when, we'd replace tubes by grabbing some from the electronics store shelf and stick them in. If the amp sounded good we were happy. It wasn't until boutique amps were starting to become popular that I remember hearing any mention of balanced tube sets. Maybe that came in from the high-end home-stereo world where they'd stress over things like that, but for regular playing it didn't seem to matter.
I figure, the guitarists who had the sound I wanted to imitate wouldn't have cared; Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Freddie King, early Clapton, Beck, Page, Hendrix... I can't imagine them freaking out because they couldn't get a set of balanced/matched tubes.
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November 7, 2006 | Wall Street JournalFor some time, pundits have been predicting the House majority will go to the Democrats and the Senate will remain in Republican hands after Election Day votes are cast. Prices on political markets run by the Iowa Electronic Markets -- a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA marketplace where people bet on election winners -- seemed to be pointing in this split direction. Until this past Friday, traders didn't believe it with great certainty. The exchange gave heavy odds to bets on a Democratic House. It also gave heavy odds on a Republican Senate. But it showed that the odds of both a Democratic House and a Republican Senate were a little less than 50%. In other words, traders were betting some sort of surprise would prevent the exact split the pundits expected. Over the weekend, however, some of the uncertainty about the election appears to have been cleared up. With the latest round of polls confirming the prospects of a divided Congress, the odds of the Democrats and Republicans splitting the House and Senate rose to about 60% on the Iowa market. As the picture about the final outcome has become clearer, investors have become happier.
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I have read that motives were designed to be the common part of the many homology theories, a way of unifying them. But as I understand it: homotopy is closely related to homology, there is only 1 homotopy theory, and homotopy groups contain more information than homology groups. Is there a relationship between motives and homotopies?
In algebraic topology, there is a close relationship between stable homotopy theory and the study of (generalized) cohomology theories. Basically, all the cohomology theories become representable on the stable category of spectra and so, from the point of view of stable homotopy theory, the study of cohomology theories can be viewed as the study of their representing spectra.
More recently it has been discovered (through the work of Voevodsky and others) that there is an analogous situation in algebraic geometry. Keywords to look up: motivic homotopy theory, $\mathbb{A}^1$-homotopy theory. Basically, we can construct a homotopy theory for algebraic varieties and a suitable homotopy category which plays a role analogous to the stable category of spectra in topology. One thing this gives us is that it enables us to define new cohomology theories for algebraic varieties by describing their representing spectra ("motivic spectra"). For example, motivic cohomology, algebraic K-theory, and algebraic cobordism can be constructed in this way. This whole circle of ideas is closely related to recent work on motives and motivic cohomology. For example, Voevodsky's construction of a "derived category of mixed motives" is closely related to this work.
The following is a very easy-going introduction to the idea of motivic homotopy theory and is understandable even by an undergraduate:
It is also worth reading Voevodsky's 1998 ICM address:
There is a lot more that could be said about this very interesting area of mathematics.


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STEUBENVILLE - West Virginia won the Girls' OVAC All-Star Game held Sunday at Harding Stadium, while the boys' game ended in a 3-3 tie.
The Mountaineers girls prevailed 3-0 behind a goal each from Wheeling Park's Meghan Horan and the Wheeling Central duo of Beth Stayduhar and Mary Stahl.
Wheeling Park's Ashley Grove was named West Virginia's Offensive Most Valuable Player, while Trinity's Katie Kenney was the squad's defensive MVP.
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Cambridge's Seth Warden gave the Buckeyes a 2-1 lead before West Virginia came back on a goal from Weir's Kenny Muhart. The Mountaineers pulled ahead on Morgantown's David Minehart's goal with 21:14 remaining. Less than a minute later, Steubenville Catholic's Brandon Llewellyn scored the game's final goal.
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6 Pieces of Music That Mean The Opposite of What You Think
If you're like some Cracked readers, you own an extensive collection of classical music that you listen to during one of your daily top hat parties or afternoon pipe appraisal sessions. This article isn't for you.
For the rest of you, while you may not be that familiar with all classical music, surely some pieces have reached you after becoming absorbed by pop culture. Some are used in movies, or TV shows, or really intense Super Bowl promos, but the point is, they're everywhere today. You can hum them on cue, you get them stuck in your head, and you have entirely mistaken ideas regarding their meanings. They almost certainly include:
#6. "Here Comes the Bride" (aka "Bridal Chorus" by Wagner)
(Listen here.)
Why You Know It:
The title "Bridal Chorus" might not stick in your head, but surely "Here Comes the Bride" does, unless you've never been to a wedding or seen one on television or have been completely removed from pop culture for your entire life. It's been played by everything from pipe organs to a full kazoo orchestra as the bride walks down the aisle. When you hear it, you know the bride is on her way, probably all dressed in white, and that a wonderful, loving wedding is about to take place.
Followed by a few hours in whichever motel is closest to the church.
The Original Context:
Mass murder.
The tune comes from the opera Lohengrin, where the "Bridal Chorus" is actually sung to the heroine Elsa and her new husband, Lohengrin, by her handmaidens after the wedding, not before! Hah! That's a pretty wacky misunderstanding. People have been getting that wrong for years! Oh, and after that song, Lohengrin murders the fuck out of five wedding guests before ditching Elsa.
So yeah. World War II makes a little more sense now.
Wait, What?
Lohengrin is not a happy opera, as you probably could have guessed from all that murdering Lohengrin did. The marriage lasts all of two songs, after which Lohengrin abandons Elsa, and opera being opera, Elsa dies of grief. So the organ music you hear at a wedding is less celebratory and more like an ominous, foreshadowy, shit's-bout-to-go-down sort of thing. They might as well play the theme from Jaws.
It's pretty much not a wedding until someone pulls a sword.
#5. The "Hallelujah Chorus" from Messiah by Handel
(Listen here.)
Why You Know It:
Like the "Wedding March," the associations of the "Hallelujah Chorus" are now the stuff of pop culture legend. It's that grand, epic, joyful song where what sounds like an assload of people scream-sing "HALLELUJAH" at the top of their lungs. It's used in joyful religious movies, it's used hyperbolically whenever something good happens in silly movies or cartoons, and you may have even hummed it to yourself after some minor personal victory. Hell, turn on your TV right now -- Oscar Mayer has been using it in a commercial for sliced turkey, and you can probably catch it right this second.
If this product takes off, Thanksgiving 2011 could see as much as a 40 percent drop in holiday-related knife fights.
Most people, of course, know that it's actually about Jesus (not turkey). It's probably Christmas music, or maybe Easter, right?
The Original Context:
Well, no, not exactly. The "Hallelujah Chorus" is all about Jesus -- it comes from Messiah, a choral work entirely about Jesus Christ -- but the "Hallelujah Chorus" is pretty much the soundtrack for his second visit to Earth.
This one.
It's the end of the world as Jesus knows it, and he feels like reigning from a monstrous black cloud while we all collapse below in various states of undress.
Wait, What?
There's a very explicit timeline to Messiah. Every piece of music is about part of Christ's life, from start to finish to ... after finish. The "Hallelujah Chorus" draws its lyrics from the Book of Revelations, widely acknowledged as the "Shit Goes Crazy" portion of the Bible. We're all cheering and scream-singing while Jesus ends the world around us. Hell, the section of the show after this song plays is called "The Aftermath."
Which is apparently when Jesus gets stabbed in the neck by Seattle's Space Needle.
It is said that when he'd completed "Hallelujah," Handel was found crying and clutching the music. When his assistant asked what was wrong, Handel held up the score and said, "I thought I saw the face of God." Yeah. That'd scare the shit out of us, too.
In fairness, Handel was kind of a drama queen.
#4. "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
(Listen here.)
Why You Know It:
Looking for terrifyingly dramatic music to score your vampire movie? Desperate to find a song that will induce pants-shitting to throw on top of your TV show about the end of the world? Did you find footage of a cute kitten and want to make a funny video by juxtaposing it with trumpets and nonsensical (Latin) screaming? Then "O Fortuna" is what you want. You recognize it from movies, commercials or shows that didn't want anyone to miss how motherfucking dramatic they were. It gets used in political ads so often that Rachel Maddow plays it for laughs on her MSNBC show. If "I am very serious" was a song, it would be "O Fortuna."
This is the original album art. We're not certain, but it looks like somebody's about to get laid.
The Original Context:
While the music was written in the 20th century, all of the lyrics of Carmina Burana are taken from over 200 medieval poems that are about a) unrequited love, b) how lame the church is, c) like, the government, man, or d) drinking. If that sounds like high school, emo poetry that's because it totally freaking is.
The last line is, "Everyone weep with me!"
Wait, What?
The hyperdramatic "O Fortuna" is just a totally badass song that got saddled with a kinda goofy poem written by some medieval student. The lyrics are about gambling and having bad luck and losing your shirt. It's sort of like setting "Achy-Breaky Heart" for the full orchestra and chorus. And it's all arranged and put together by a really weird German who wanted to celebrate "the triumph of the human spirit through sexual and holistic balance." (Pro Tip: German sexual and holistic balance in the 1930s was not something you wanted to get on you.)


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Trying to solve for the area enclosed by $x^4+y^4=1$. A friend posed this question to me today, but I have no clue what to do to solve this. Keep in mind, we don't even know if there is a straightforward solution. I think he just likes thinking up problems out of thin air.
Anyway, the question becomes more general, since we think that
$lim_{n\to\infty}\int_0^1{(1-x^n)^{1/n}} = {1\over4}$ (it approaches a square / becomes linear)
can anyone confirm that this is true or not?